Bitcoin's Boom, AI, Trump's ERS, Ceasefire, Conspiracy Theories and Your Questions | Tom Bilyeu Show

Welcome back to another riveting episode of Impact Theory! I'm Tom Bilyeu, and today we're diving deep into the volatile world of Bitcoin. We'll explore the tumultuous ups and downs of its market price and the controversial opinions that surround it. I'll be breaking down the thrill and the risks tied to cryptocurrency investments and highlighting some key insights for navigating this digital landscape. We'll also be examining the meteoric advancements in AI technology. Drew and I reflect on the latest strides in creating lifelike video content and its sensational potential to revolutionize industries. As tensions simmer in the Middle East, we'll break down the implications of the recent ceasefire in Gaza, with pundits like Ben Shapiro chiming in on what this means for global politics. In our jaw-dropping conspiracy corner, we'll unravel the mystery of the JFK assassination with some explosive new evidence. Plus, we'll share the bizarre yet hilarious story of an FBI agent spilling secrets to a date, showcasing the unusual lengths of political intrigue. Finally, I’ll be answering your burning questions, offering actionable advice, and reflecting on our latest interviews with Alex Hormozi. Buckle up for a wild ride as we tackle these dynamic topics and more. Let's roll! SHOWNOTES 00:00 Bitcoin: Volatility is the Point 06:28 Jamie Dimon Calls BTC Holders criminals 14:30 Anatomy of human sexual evolution 17:10 Emotional Consequences of 1057 men 25:20 AI's Video innovations 29:53 Trump's External Revenue Service 35:19 Can We Onshoring for "America First"? 44:00 JFK's Killer Revealed 51:16 Spy Hunter exposed by Tinder Date 54:44 Answering Your Questions! CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Range Rover: Range Rover: Explore the Range Rover Sport at https://landroverUSA.com https://landroverusa.com/ Audible: Sign up for a free 30 day trial at https://audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY https://audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY1 Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to https://www.vitalproteins.com https://www.vitalproteins.com/ and entering promo code IMPACT at check out. iTrust Capital: Use code IMPACT when you sign up and fund your account to get a $100 bonus at https://www.itrustcapital.com/tombilyeu Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact Butcher Box: Choose either 2 pounds of wild-caught salmon, 2 pounds of grass-fed ground beef, or 3 pounds of organic chicken breast to get free in every box for an entire year. Plus, get an extra $20 off your first box when you use code IMPACT at https://butcherbox.com/impact What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show SCALING a business: see if you qualify here. https://tombilyeu.com/call  Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here. https://tombilyeu.com/ If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast,Tom Bilyeu’s Mindset Playbook https://open.spotify.com/show/47VE90Cittmo6TGGFqg2xf —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. Join me live on myTwitch stream https://impacttheory.co/4fitmnJ. I'm live daily from 6:30 to 8:30 am PT athttps://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/0482bfe8-8502-11ed-af5d-3bdc320068d7/podcasts/0a41f61a-9ddf-11ed-9eb7-dbb3a40775f5/episodes/8ac68366-8a85-11ef-bb65-abca3ffdcf54/www.twitch.tv/tombilyeuwww.twitch.tv/tombilyeu https://impacttheory.co/4fitmnJ LISTEN TO IMPACT THEORY AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS:apple.co/impacttheory http://apple.co/impacttheory FOLLOW TOM: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok:https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter:https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices https://megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Tom Bilyeu?

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• 0:45Tom Bilyeu?

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• 1:26Tom Bilyeu?

  Plus, a ceasefire in Gaza, Trump shooting his shot to end federal income tax. Yes, please. And in conspiracy corner, Drew, it looks like we have finally cracked the JFK assassination. Oh, and did a hot woman just thwart a Trump coup by getting a hopeful guy to spill government secrets? Again. And best of all, everybody, it is community day, so we're going to be taking your questions. Buckle up, everybody. This one is wild. Drew, let's roll.

• 1:52Speaker 01

  I'm excited. I got the average cost down on my Bitcoin. It went down to, it started at 90 on Monday, went back up to 100K today. So I'm celebrating. If you would have caught me on Monday, I would have been crying. But let's jump right into that because I think we, we talked with Arthur Hayes last week. And you told, you said it best, the volatility is the key. People like that. So how can people go through these emotions as they're going to keep seeing this price go up, down, up, down, up, down?

• 2:16Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, so here is the funniest thing in the world that the best advice anyone is ever going to get about investing in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. Now, the reason that's become a cliche is because it's so obviously true that people just repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. Now, why is it still around? Because nobody does it. And this goes back to the elephant and the rider problem. People feel some kind of way because we can't see the future. And this is where everybody has got to get comfortable with the fact that investing, all of investing, I welcome you to join me in the comments. I will take the Pepsi challenge on this. I am waiting for somebody to really prove me wrong here. All of investing is gambling. Period. Full stop. Nobody has learned that lesson. Not more painfully, but I'm just surprised that that's the reality, but it is the reality as far as I can see.

• 3:01Tom Bilyeu?

  So you're, it is gambling because you cannot see the future. You are betting on a better future. And when the present drops, people have a hard time now believing that it will ever go up again. And so the emotion that you get is, oh, my God, I'm an idiot. I'm a fool. I've got to cut my losses. I've got to get out of this. Everybody that said that this was just for sex traffickers, they're right. Oh, my God, it's going to zero. And so people panic and they sell. If you remember the mantra, buy low, sell high, you ask yourself, well, if I bought at something that's lower than the price that it's at now, cool, go ahead and sell. But if you're instead trying to mitigate some of the gamble, have a thesis.

• 3:43Tom Bilyeu?

  As long as the thesis remains true, ignore your emotions. This is yet another reason why I tell people not to trust their emotions. Their emotion is not based on data. Their emotion is based on that one moment. They tell themselves a story about what it means in the future when the girlfriend looks at them and says, all you do is play Xbox and buy Bitcoin and you're a fool on both counts, right? So that emotion, because they have no clarity about what tomorrow brings, they're just like, I gotta get out of this. And the problem is that most people end up selling at a loss. So. I really want to orient people if you're trying to weather the ups and downs. Two things. One, remember the very thing that makes a whole bunch of people talk about Bitcoin is that it is volatile.

• 4:27Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, volatility is a feature, not a bug. Right now, I would love to see Bitcoin stabilize at some point. So that it becomes boring. So the people have a place where they can store their wealth. Where they know that I'm just protecting against inflation, the printing of money. And in the meantime, the reason people are so attracted to this is that because it swings up and down so much. The smart, patient, non-emotional people get to take your panic and turn it into their profit. Because if they can wait, when you panic sell and the price drops and then they buy more. And then they let it rise again. You panic, they buy more, it rises again.

• 5:11Tom Bilyeu?

  And so all the people that are able to do that, as long as they end up being right, then they make money. And that's exactly the nature of the stock market is, I'll give you my thesis on Bitcoin. So you can see how a thesis investor, how this plays out. And of course, if the thesis ends up being wrong, you lose everything and it's gambling. So my thesis is that the future will be more digital than today. And the most important, maybe one of the most important things that I will certainly stand by to digitize is money. So if we know that there is a whole host of benefits to money being digital, think of credit, right? You can buy things easily over long distances, instantaneously with a seller you've never met. Cool.

• 5:56Tom Bilyeu?

  We know that that's beneficial. Without getting into the architecture of money and what is money and all that stuff. Just know that, hey, that stuff can be digitized as well. It was, it's called Bitcoin. There's obviously a whole bunch more, but the whole idea of the blockchain. Okay, so now are we peak digitizing money? Are we peak digital transactions or is this going to go more? Uh, to give you an idea, right now, anyway, AI agents only exist in the ethereal world. That won't be. True for long, they're gonna get bodies and everything, but they are probably always going to deal in the realm of digital currencies that they can interact with extremely rapidly.

• 6:35Tom Bilyeu?

  So when AI is trying to do something, and again, I don't think people understand how many AI are going to come online. Robots alone will be measured in the millions in the near term, billions in the long term. Okay, so let's let that one sit there. So when, let's say, I'm like, bro, go get me a coffee. It's gotta buy that coffee. I don't want to have to give it money. I don't want to have to give it my credit card. I want to fund its account. And say, you have a certain amount Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, whatever. Now go buy that thing. So when I hear Jamie Dimon, who has the gulf, the man deals in money, like cash dollars. If I'm going to a drug dealer, they want cash money. They want something that's untraceable, right?

• 7:18Tom Bilyeu?

  So money has forever been used to do the shadiest shit ever, but because it has so much other utility, we don't get hung up on it. The same is true of a digital currency. On a long enough timeline, it's just gonna be money. It's gonna be exactly the same. It will be used for illicit things. It will be used for normal things. And if I'm a criminal, or if I'm advising criminals, my, to the criminals in my community.

• 7:42Tom Bilyeu?

  I would like to say, don't use anything that's on a digital ledger. Because while they might not be looking at you now, they will be able to track that down. It is the worst way if you want to remain invisible. So what the criminals are actually taking advantage of is the ease of digital money. Not the inherent nature of Bitcoin, for instance. So that's, that is that sort of convoluted thing. You've got the volatility. People want it because they want to bet and they want that big swing so they can capitalize on it. People that think that this is going to zero, it could. I mean, I can't see the future any better than anybody else.

• 8:21Tom Bilyeu?

  But I have a thesis in place. This is tomorrow's gonna be more digital today, therefore more money is gonna migrate into this kind of asset. Maybe it won't be Bitcoin and maybe I will lose, but I know it's going to be something. Like Bitcoin and since that's the front runner now, it makes a lot of sense to me. It matches my risk profile. And so when the number bounces up and down, I don't even think about it. I don't sell. I don't check the number very often because I'm like, do I still believe that tomorrow will be more digital than today? If yes, then I'm gonna hold. If no, then I'm gonna sell because my thesis no longer makes sense. But it's not an emotional decision. It's as close to a logical decision as I can get to.

• 9:00Speaker 01

  I love that. And let's kind of play that Jamie Dimon video so we can really dive into what he said.

• 9:04Speaker 02

  You've said that it's as useless as a pet rock. What do you really think?

• 9:09Speaker 03

  You're gonna have some kind of digital currency at one point. So I'm not against crypto. You know, Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value. It's used heavily by sex traffickers, money launderers, ransomware. So I, I just don't feel great about Bitcoin. I applaud your ability to want to buy or sell it. Just like, I think you have the right to smoke. But I don't think you should smoke.

• 9:31Speaker 01

  I, I think that was very disingenuous because he said, I like cryptocurrency. I just don't think Bitcoin has intrinsic value. So.

• 9:37Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't know how he squares that circle. So here's, here's what I want to ask him. What is the intrinsic value of a hundred dollar bill? The intrinsic value. There, there isn't one. He's going to say, um, well, it's backed by the US government. Okay, cool. But what's the intrinsic value of the hundred dollars? And ultimately, the only real answer is if you light it on fire, you can release the energy that's stored within the bill, literally. That's the only intrinsic value. Man, I'm not saying that's nothing, but it certainly isn't a lot. So now you can get people onto gold. You're gonna get people like Peter Schiff. Peter, shout out to you. Love you. Almost certainly gonna talk about you later.

• 10:18Tom Bilyeu?

  But even gold, if you try to tie it to its value in manufacturing, you're not gonna get very far. The reality is that people value it because it is tied to a store of wealth. And so they believe that it will have as much or more value in the future than it has today. And so they're willing to buy that as a way to store their wealth. It isn't that gold is some insanely intrinsically valuable thing. When I think about intrinsic value, you're gonna get down to food. You're gonna get down to shelter. Those are things that are intrinsically valued, valuable. They can stop you from dying, right? So shelter keeps you from being exposed to weather, uh, food, obviously. So those are things that have intrinsic keep me alive value. Everything else is subjective.

• 10:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, I I agree. It's a digital currency. That's the future. It might not happen now, but it's gonna happen later. So I just want to shout out to all my Bitcoin holders. If you are a Bitcoin holder, throw a dollar sign into the comments.

• 11:10Tom Bilyeu?

  They would never do that. They would never. You want them to flash that B symbol, baby.

• 11:15Speaker 01

  Oh, that B symbol. Do the B symbol.

• 11:16Tom Bilyeu?

  Drew just outed himself as as a noob. Alright, we gotta light Drew on fire for that one. That's crazy.

• 11:21Speaker 01

  I got a meme for you guys.

• 11:22Tom Bilyeu?

  The Bitcoin community is coming after Drew. And now Drew's trying to get us to look at, what, pig testicles? What is this?

• 11:28Speaker 01

  Play it. There it is.

• 11:29Tom Bilyeu?

  That is hysterical.

• 11:31Speaker 01

  This is for all my day ones who had Bitcoin in the in the dorm rooms when they said it was never gonna go higher.

• 11:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Oh, God.

• 11:37Speaker 01

  You know, we were here from day one.

• 11:38Tom Bilyeu?

  Drew, what have you done to me? I am never gonna be able to get that image out of my mind. We could so fractal. Do you know that the size of an animal's testicles compared to its body tell you something about the level of promiscuity of that species?

• 11:52Speaker 01

  So that's a hoe pic?

• 11:53Tom Bilyeu?

  That is a hoe. That homeboy gets around. Because you need gigantic testicles to produce all the sperm, because you're just gonna try to sleep with as many women as you can. Because it isn't a, like, a silverback gorilla can have testies the size of a raisin. Because it literally just beats the hell out of all the other males. And it's like, these are my women, only I'm gonna have sex. So it's like, you get a sperm, you get a sperm, because there's no competition. Now we can really fractal and get weird. If people want to trip out, in fact, oh, we're gonna talk about this later, but the fifteen, or the woman that slept with a thousand guys. The penis is shaped like, uh, it has like the mushroom tip to shovel out other male deposits. These are facts, dude. How distressing is that?

• 12:38Speaker 01

  You blew up the, you blew up the rundown, but I feel like, I feel like we need to jump into it now.

• 12:42Speaker 04

  The big one thousand was completely done. So it started off, I'll give you a bit of an overview. It was after to start with. It was just like, the room was absolutely full. Then we did groups of five, like, one after the other of fives. I wanted to give people more time, so then it went down to like one-on-ones, didn't it? So like, one person would watch whilst I was with somebody, and then it would literally just be like a rotating circle like that.

• 13:06Speaker 01

  A thousand men. I I feel okay.

• 13:08Tom Bilyeu?

  One thousand fifty-seven. When fifty-seven guys in a single day is the rounding error? It's like, bro, bro.

• 13:16Speaker 01

  That's what I was gonna go with. Everybody has a college story of like, oh, I know a girl who slept with fifty guys. Oh, twenty guys. Oh, ten guys.

• 13:22Tom Bilyeu?

  Wait, wait, wait. In a night?

• 13:24Speaker 01

  Like some type of-

• 13:25Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't have that story, I want to be very clear.

• 13:27Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 13:27Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm very sad now.

• 13:28Speaker 01

  You know of somebody who has a promiscuous past.

• 13:31Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, yes.

• 13:32Speaker 01

  But I feel like this is like the Mr. Beastification of like promiscuity.

• 13:36Tom Bilyeu?

  Oh my god.

• 13:37Speaker 01

  She like, she didn't say-

• 13:38Tom Bilyeu?

  Were there challenges?

• 13:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, I'm not gonna sleep with a hundred guys, I'm gonna sleep with a thousand guys. And it's like, do you want a thumbnail? She did a breakdown, there was a post-conference, what did we do, like-

• 13:47Tom Bilyeu?

  Everything about this terrifies me. Uh, okay, so, setting the jokes aside. Uh, I worry about the algorithms running in her brain are going to punish her on a long timeline for this behavior. So, during, I wasn't engaging with this kind of stuff culturally when it was happening, but when the whole, um, men and women are the same thing was happening, it was like, I heard the headline and I was like, fuck out of here. Like, that is the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life, because from an evolutionary standpoint, evolution's never gonna let that happen. So, it's planting algorithms in the male brain, and it's planting very different algorithms in the female brain.

• 14:29Tom Bilyeu?

  I encourage everybody with a stomach for lewd discussions to read the book A Billion Wicked Thoughts, which is Google engineers that sat down to look at all the searches that men do and women do, classify them, and then take psychological leaps as to what they mean. It was incredibly elucidating in terms of the way that men and women think about sex, utterly fascinating. The quick breakdown is, uh, men are looking for as many women as they can because they're able to, with very little investment, uh, populate the world with their children, right? So, take Genghis Khan, who was incredibly successful at this game, and some absurd, like 14% of all that,

• 15:08Tom Bilyeu?

  it's not quite that high, but 10%, something like that, of all people in the world are related to Genghis Khan, just insane. So, that's a male strategy. You're never gonna have a woman be able to do that, because the, um, investment that she has to make biologically is so gigantic. So, she's gonna spend nine months, uh, with that, that humans have evolved to the point where, if the head of a fetus got any bigger- Women would not be able to walk. So we're literally at that balance point where the hips have been widened as much as they can, tilted as much as they can anymore, and they're just not going to be able to move. So, or walk. So we're in this like weird dance of, okay, this woman is going to do this incredibly

• 15:51Tom Bilyeu?

  dangerous thing to try to squeeze this gigantic brain out of her birth canal. Super risky. Historically, it killed very distressingly high percentage of women. And so you're carrying it for nine months. You take a huge risk when it's born. And then you've got to make sure that you take care of that post-birth, essentially gestation period, where you've got to raise that thing for a lot of years before it gets to the point where it's actually going to be able to take care of itself. So the female brain has been likened to a detective agency. And so they talk about that in the book. So a guy is just looking for sex, which is why you look at male pornography and it's literally just close-up shots of genitals. That's what a guy's here for. Straight to action. Yep. Not even just straight to action, straight to the genitals.

• 16:37Tom Bilyeu?

  And women, on the other hand, like they want to understand, like, is this guy going to be a good provider? And so a lot of their fantasy is relational in nature. It's mental, it's situational. And so if you want to understand what female pornography is, it's Fifty Shades of Grey. It's a long novel about a relationship. It obviously has sexual elements in it, but it is all context dependent. It's the relationship with the person and what they mean and what it means about them and all this stuff. So they're trying to make sure that they identify this person is going to be able to take care of me when I'm at my most vulnerable and then be able to help me take care of the child. They're going to have a propensity to provide me and the child with

• 17:18Tom Bilyeu?

  resources. And so it's just a totally different game. So back to sleeping with 1,057 women. I don't have any moral judgment. That's just not how my value system works. But I look at that and I say, ooh, those algorithms are running in your mind. And so you have overridden those. Either with like a boss bitch mentality of I'm gonna control my own money. This is a ridiculously easy way for me to make money on OnlyFans and I want to control my destiny. I want to take care of my family, whatever. I haven't seen her talk, so I can't swear that these are the words she's saying. But I'm going to guess that that is what's overriding these algorithms that she has running. And this isn't the same girl that's up with a hundred, is it?

• 18:02Speaker 01

  No, this is like her homie though. They're in the same camp.

• 18:04Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, so when the girl cried after sleeping with the hundred guys, I saw a bit of that. I was like, yeah, this is the evolutionary algorithm kicking in going, okay, that wasn't what I thought it was gonna be. I had to disassociate because you're overriding all of this natural impulse to like, whoa, whoa, whoa, who are you? Are you safe? My mom giving me the the greatest insight into female sexuality when she said for a woman to orgasm with you, she has to trust you. And I was like, whoa, that was super eye opening for me. So anyway, she's overriding all of that.

• 18:38Tom Bilyeu?

  That wiring in her own brain. And so there's going, I mean, look, it's always possible that her algorithm just, they're not there. Very unlikely. And I think there will be an internal emotional price to pay. And then one last fractal. We are both the shout and the echo. So we are what we do and what other people think about what we do. And she won't be able to escape that one. So she'll have a very cloistered group of people that love her, care about her. And maybe you're like, you know what? I love you. You go, girl. It's empowering. No matter what, I'm here for you. And the larger world is not because the larger world has these algorithms running in their brain.

• 19:21Tom Bilyeu?

  And men want a virgin. I'm obviously skimming quickly on a very hot topic, but I am just gonna leave it there. Men want virgins. It's a thing. Because from an evolutionary standpoint, that's way better. You know the paternity. You know it's your child.

• 19:40Tom Bilyeu?

  And then women really scrutinize the men. So you now go out into the outside world and your face is everywhere as a woman that not only slept with 1,057 men, but slept with them in one night. You're triggering insecurities in guys, you're triggering shame, you're triggering disgust. And so you're going to get all of that back in spades. So the shout, I did this thing. I have built an internal value and belief system where I still feel good about myself. My friends echo back that it's all good. It's amazing. It's empowering, but the outside world is going to absolutely hit her with a tsunami of negativity. Not just now, literally for decades to come. And so that won't be pleasant.

• 20:24Tom Bilyeu?

  And as much as I like to really reinforce myself that I need to have a set of values that I live by, and no matter what other people think of me, as long as I'm living in accordance with those values, I'm good. I know that I am going to be influenced necessarily so as a social animal by what other people tell me about the things that I do. And so woof, man, she's just that, that's going to be, that's going to be tough.

• 20:50Speaker 01

  I got a yes or no question for you.

• 20:51Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Do you think you could find a thousand women to sleep with one man?

• 20:56Tom Bilyeu?

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• 23:09Tom Bilyeu?

  All right, we're back. Let's get into it.

• 23:11Speaker 01

  I got a yes or no question for you.

• 23:12Tom Bilyeu?

  Yep.

• 23:13Speaker 01

  Do you think you could find a thousand women to sleep with one man?

• 23:17Tom Bilyeu?

  Do I think I could find a thousand women that will sleep with one man?

• 23:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, so you know how she slept, she was a woman, slept with a thousand men. If it was inverse, do you think that scenario would happen?

• 23:27Tom Bilyeu?

  Well, the inverse would be um, one man sleeping with a thousand women.

• 23:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:32Tom Bilyeu?

  Is that what you mean?

• 23:33Speaker 01

  I said it backwards? Yeah, that, that's what I'm saying.

• 23:35Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, can you find a guy to sleep with a thousand women? Uh, not in a row. I mean, that would be pretty tough.

• 23:40Speaker 01

  I mean, it was like 42 seconds per dude. So it's not like he was making, it's not intimate lovemaking.

• 23:45Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, I'm gonna ask you a yes or no question. Can you maintain an erection for 12 hours, motherfucker? Like, cause if you can, you got to teach this man because, oh my God. I don't even think I want to. You get damage to the penile tissue at like hour four. They're like, you need to see a doctor. So, uh, unless you literally like one thrust per girl and even that logistically just sounds tough. Ah, man, I can't fathom. Uh, yeah, my neighbor once had a phlegmy cough that made me lose an erection, so I can't fathom. Going through a thousand, that just seems tough. Over a lifetime, I've got no beef. But if I got to rock it in a 12 hour period, I just don't think I can do it, man. I like to think I'm, I'm pretty tough, but whoa.

• 24:28Speaker 01

  Um, yeah.

• 24:29Tom Bilyeu?

  That's like the David Goggins of sex acts. That, that would be tough.

• 24:32Speaker 01

  Tense motherfucker right there.

• 24:33Tom Bilyeu?

  That'd be hard.

• 24:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, you did it, Bonnie. Congratulations. I don't, I don't. I wonder what it does for our OnlyFans subs. Maybe she broke the internet. Who knows? All right.

• 24:46Speaker 01

  Moving on, AI, we seen some crazy iterations with AI video later, um, lately. CES videos, we've been seeing a lot of the technologies, but AI has quietly become legitimate at making video. Like text to video has become insane and it's not just three seconds. We have the Will Smith spaghetti side by side. It's like two tabs over, G.

• 25:06Tom Bilyeu?

  I, guys, when you watch this, I know this is old news, so I'm sure you've all seen it. But this is, uh, what I want people to take away is the rate of change.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Like a year, it was missing the mouth. It was, and then now it's.

• 25:22Tom Bilyeu?

  It's crazy. When he start, I think he like ends up turning into a spaghetti monster, eating spaghetti. It, it is, cause at first I thought maybe we're just being trolled and this is actually him eating spaghetti because it looks so real. And then he becomes like a full blown spaghetti monster. And I was like, no, this really is AI. I mean, it's just absolutely insane.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  It's only a matter of time before TV, movies.

• 25:45Tom Bilyeu?

  Dude, uh, we have more clips. Show, show the next clips. There's one of, it's like, uh, almost sort of, and we'll get to, not, not that one yet. That one's like, so, yeah, this one. Uh, so speaking of movies, like, look at this. This feels, uh, very video gamey, but obviously they typed in, they wanted that stylistic, uh, piece of it. But like, watch how it dodges the explosion. So even to the point where the patterns that the AI is picking up on is that a ship would dodge this out of the other. Now, once the AI is generating off of physics. So it isn't just guessing the next frame. It's guessing the next frame based on what it knows about physics. Uh, wow. It, dude, this is happening so fast. I don't.

• 26:33Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't look out at the world and see people gasping as hard as I expect based on the rate of change. Because it's the rate of change that's gonna overwhelm people. So, uh, yeah, I mean, this is crazy. Now show the one from CES because this is like, once it starts outputting like really mundane videos, it was the one of the woman flying, you had it up just said, yeah, this one. So, um, this just feels like, yeah, like super average, you know, nothing super fancy. And like this one, you'd go, bro, that's AI. Because it's, it's just not realistic. You wouldn't have open flames and stuff like that. So people will write that one off, but some of the subsequent ones in the sequence.

• 27:13Speaker 01

  In the thread, yeah.

• 27:14Tom Bilyeu?

  Are just absolutely crazy. Like if you scroll down this one, dude, that just looks real.

• 27:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:22Tom Bilyeu?

  People just wandering, but that one guy looks, I mean, oh my goodness.

• 27:25Speaker 01

  The fact that everything in here is AI created. It's not just the one guy on the hoverboard. It's the background, it's the, it's the props, it's the sets, it's the, the fake booths in the background, the name tags.

• 27:36Tom Bilyeu?

  The name tags, that was what really got me. I was like, yep, that a hundred percent. But that it knows in the prompt, when you say CES, it knows what CES is it is as a category of thing. And it knows that in that category of thing, people are likely to wear badges, but not everybody. I mean, it's just nuts. This is all happening so fast. So, yeah, we are already at the point where you could do an individual shot in a movie for sure. Uh, using AI generation, but I really think where it's gonna get crazy. What Jensen Huang was talking about at CES is we now have these graphic processors that are cheaper and faster. And the reason they're cheaper and faster is we render one frame.

• 28:20Tom Bilyeu?

  So, okay, we know all the light bounce and all that stuff. It's calculation, it's not pattern recognition, it's calculation. Then, which is essentially physics for light.

• 28:28Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:29Tom Bilyeu?

  Then we have the AI go, oh, if it's like that, then this is what the next three frames look like. And so it AIs the next three frames, renders one, AIs the next three, renders one, AIs the next three. So now imagine I'm doing a movie, the next Marvel movie, and I want to do some crazy thing. I can go in, I can build, uh, my 3D models. And I can now just start doing keyframes and AI is gonna fill in all the gaps. And anybody that knows about how anime is done. That's exactly how they do animate, but so they'll have the really talented artist go in and draw like every whatever 10th frame or something. And then they have the cheap guys go in and fill everything in. It takes forever. It's extremely expensive.

• 29:12Tom Bilyeu?

  The industry is known for just abusing the life out of those poor people that do the in-betweens. And now it's just all gonna be done, just like that by AI. And that's, that's the thing, like right now, if you're getting filled with existential dread. For now, focus on be the one that does the key animation. That's already the pipeline. It's just now it's gonna be filled in by AI. And so it will be way better. It will be way faster. It will be way cheaper. So an individual person can go in and create tremendous works of art.

• 29:41Tom Bilyeu?

  For cheap and fast. It's just really, really crazy. I was streaming about this today on Twitch, which by the way, if anybody's into gaming, catch me streaming Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, 6:30 AM Pacific time. And there's, in the gaming community, there's so much like existential unease about what's gonna happen, man. What does this all look like? And it gets scary real fast. And so this is where you gotta get hold of those emotions, ground yourself. No one can see the future. It's possible we cap out rate of change, all that stuff. So just focus right now. What does this allow me to do? Focus on that. Get good at that. Don't allow yourself to stand still. That would be the only mistake.

• 30:21Speaker 01

  Hundred percent. I think it's empowering to know that, okay, AI is gonna do these things, it's gonna take over these industries. But right now, I can make a really cool 30 second video. Right now, I can now have an editor right in my computer. Right now, I can do those things that I was limited to, my limited capacity of animation, my limited capacity of rendering. So there is a, a, a level of opportunity there if you could just get over the existential threat and meaning crisis.

• 30:44Tom Bilyeu?

  For sure. And that is coming, but that's a whole nother video.

• 30:48Speaker 01

  All right. And you know what else is coming? Your man Trump. January 20th is right around the corner and he has already started rolling out his new regulations. This is kind of funny. Can we pull up that Trump tweet on Truth Social? He officially announced the external revenue service.

• 31:04Tom Bilyeu?

  Oh God. I would be lying if I said when I read this, I didn't like get sucked into a populist sugar rush.

• 31:14Tom Bilyeu?

  It did, how did you feel when you read that?

• 31:17Speaker 01

  This, to me, I laughed because I was like, he announced a new regulation under the guise of like fewer regulations. It's like a new agency.

• 31:24Tom Bilyeu?

  Agency, a new agency. We're gonna slash government, except for this one that we're gonna add.

• 31:29Speaker 01

  Technically, he added two, because now he added DOGE, now he's adding an external.

• 31:32Tom Bilyeu?

  Well, DOGE is just a, um, an advisory committee that has an end date. But this one really is a whole nother agency. Uh, but I really did have a populist sugar rush when I read this. It really, we're gonna talk about the realities of this because it's not as clean as Trump is gonna want you to believe. But the idea of, hold on, everybody, I'm really here fighting for you, for Americans. I am going to find a way to get the government off your back. Uh, the joke, since I was a little kid, is the only two certain things in life are death and taxes.

• 32:08Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 32:08Tom Bilyeu?

  And so what he's saying is, no, no, no. Maybe that's not a forever thing, and maybe we can get back to where, because I don't think many people know this, uh, we didn't have a federal income tax for a long time. And then it got put in, I think, around World War I. Don't quote me on that. But it was a war. It was like, yeah, we gotta get something in here. Uh, and so they put that in place. Um, and for a long time is very low, like 1% once they did introduce it. Uh, and it's really only in a relatively modern context. So I'm gonna say the last 100, 150 years.

• 32:43Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 32:43Tom Bilyeu?

  Um, probably closer to 150. But anyway, you get the idea that it wasn't a forever thing in our country. We went for a long time without it. Now, I think it's important to understand, Peter Schiff had some pushback. Did I send you that tweet?

• 32:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 32:57Tom Bilyeu?

  I think I did. It's in the doc. Pull that up. It's interesting. So the first thing I did was start, I, I had the populist sugar rush. And then I was like, all right, hold on a sec. I know better than to trust my emotions. This feels too good. The idea of not being taxed, uh, how realistic is this? And I think we're gonna see, uh, an absolute tsunami of people that are like, look, this is not gonna end the way you think. This is what Peter Schiff had to say if you're listening. I'll read it. Uh, instead of eliminating government agencies, Trump just promised to create a new one, the External Revenue Service, but all the revenue collected will be paid by Americans who buy imported products. If Trump actually believes what he is saying, the nation is in a lot of trouble. And so what Peter's getting at there is, uh, Trump doesn't understand the complexities of the economy. And if he really thinks this is going to work,

• 33:42Tom Bilyeu?

  he's a fool and this is going to backfire in everybody's face. All right, I'm going to walk us through the the steel man of his argument. Hold tight, we're going to take a quick break. You're probably paying two salespeople to do one salesperson's job. That's where today's sponsor Pipe Drive comes in. An intelligent AI-powered sales CRM loved by growing sales teams. Pipe Drive just launched meeting intelligence built right into the CRM. Before every call, it pulls deal history and past conversations into one brief. During the call, it records and takes notes. After it, it drafts your CRM updates to review and approve.

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• 35:28Tom Bilyeu?

  All right, we're back. Let's get into it. Marc Andreessen was recently, I think this was in his Hoover Institute interview, which if anytime you can listen to Marc Andreessen do, including the episode I did with him. But he is a phenomenal thinker and he said, look, what Trump understands is system level thinking. I will round that to, he gets the gist of it. He knows how the pieces connect. He's not going to be able to give you all the details, but he really is in the weeds. He gets how one thing connects to another. And so if you're turning to him for, you know, dates and precise measurements, no, he's not going to know that part of it. But, but the rough gist of how the system works, yes, he actually does get it. Now,

• 36:09Tom Bilyeu?

  The counter argument to what Trump is doing, because I get what he's trying to do. And I love the idea of being able to return America to where we either have very low federal income tax or no federal income tax would be great. We're certainly not getting there in four years. I literally can't imagine that world.

• 36:27Tom Bilyeu?

  But the steel man argument on the Peter Schiff side of why this isn't going to work with something like this. Yes, we have been there historically. Nobody's lying to you that says that there was a time in American history where we did not pay federal income tax. And yes, we ran the government largely off of tariffs that we were getting from other people. The problem was that America and the world was relatively isolationist already. So manufacturing was incredibly strong in the US. We farmed basically everything that we ate here in the US. And so back in that day, the government was very small.

• 37:04Tom Bilyeu?

  Governments were already more or less isolated. We could get everything that we needed here in the US. And so people that were trying to come into the US market going, whoa, you guys have a lot of people and I'd love to have access to them. We could tariff them at that point because Americans were used to buying American stuff anyway. And so the things that were going to come in maybe would undercut or whatever to reach that market. And so it just left parity. So the people that wanted to get into the market, they could get into the market. We made a fortune off of the, you know, the rate that we were charging them to come into the country. Technically, the way that it's paid is actually by the importer. Anyway, we don't need to get into that. I know it just to stop the comments from derailing. So yes, I understand how that works, but just to keep it nice and simple for argument's

• 37:47Tom Bilyeu?

  sake, a good tries to come into your country, you're able to collect off of that and then you're able to fund the government. Okay, now the government obviously is much larger. We have massive entitlements. And so what we would be able to collect from tariffs, I just cannot fathom. And I'm very open, hey, if there's an economist out there that that can show me how I'm wrong. I'm not a dogmatic thinker. I'm always interested in in things that update my thinking to something that's more accurate. But I don't think we could ever tax, sorry, it is a type of tax. I don't think we'd ever tariff goods enough such that we would be able to meet the level of crazy drunken absurd wanton spending that we currently do in the government.

• 38:30Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, uh, could we shrink government? Yes, hopefully Doge does a little bit, but nobody's gonna touch entitlements and and until you do that, you just you're not gonna make that kind of progress. Okay, so there's that part. Then there is um, the fact that we are very globalized at this point. And so we count on even our drones that the military uses, the vast majority of them are made in. China. China. So China, if I can uh, do do my China, uh, I gotta get better at that. Um, so that's crazy and we shouldn't do that because if we're in a cold war, as I think we are, and should that cold war ever get spicy.

• 39:13Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, you don't want the enemy making your weapons. So that's a little crazy. So we're an extremely globalized uh, economy now. And so if you go, all right, everybody that's trying to bring goods into this amazing American economy. Uh, we're gonna tariff you and then Americans are gonna be like, uh, timeout, bro. Because that's the only place I can get that thing is from China, Paraguay, El Salvador, whatever. And so I'm not left with an option. And so now you just told me that prices are gonna be coming down, but prices are going up like crazy. So uh, don't love this. So you are gonna get that. Okay, that's the steel man of that side.

• 39:55Tom Bilyeu?

  It's far more complicated now. Our spending is way bigger. We're extremely globalized. So all the things that made it work in the past, we do not have the same setup. I do think that it's important to acknowledge over time, of course, we would begin to onshore things again. We would have to build back up our manufacturing base. Um, and doing that for people that really had an allergic reaction to the H1B visa. Uh, who is like, I've already talked about my thoughts on this, but if America first to you means you hire a Merriken workers. Um, then you're. gonna love this it you'll have a few years of like not so great because you're gonna need things to come back on shore

• 40:35Tom Bilyeu?

  and then also and I think this is the most important part of this is that I believe it is way better to let people decide what they want to spend essentially their tax dollars on so it would go like this yes goods are more expensive but my income taxes drop dramatically and so my income tax drops dramatically I'm now spending that saved money on to the things that I want to buy some of them because many things especially essentials you'll be able to get that are made here or they could even tariff selectively such that things like food and stuff like that they don't touch exactly so now you're basically making tax dollars discretionary

• 41:16Tom Bilyeu?

  I can spend them as I see fit what I love about that is autonomy and you know my hobby horse about you need to let the person who saves money win and that puts somebody in a position where if they're willing to forego all of those other goods and they want to live a really fire life F Y R E then let them do that I think it's F Y R E right the people that really limit their life I probably should have looked that up before I quoted that but it's fire no matter what the acronym stands for I can't remember now financial if it's independence oh god then it's fire F I R E anyway someone will put that in the comments which is the right one but people that really want to live a

• 42:00Tom Bilyeu?

  sort of monastic life but just save save save save save so you now give them an opportunity to get ahead and that to me like if if Trump can begin the process of putting America on that path where alright I get to keep a very substantive amount of my paycheck prices are gonna go up but on things that are discretionary spending not my essentials then I think people would start feeling really good about that really fast but I do want to acknowledge it's not like a simple thing like they're gonna have to be deft about it

• 42:33Speaker 01

  I I think it's where I see it's an oxymoron because yes you can remove our federal tax dollars but

• 42:43Speaker 01

  We're gonna have to subsidize the onshoring of a lot of these industries, which is gonna increase our government spending. So then they'll need those tax dollars. And so it's one of those things where it's like, the government will have to spend more to bring the factories back, to subsidize the first level of farmers who plant our almonds, so we don't go across the seas again. Like, we'll have to set those people up to make it America first, and America manufactured at least.

• 43:04Tom Bilyeu?

  Sort of. So, a lot of times, the way that subsidies work is through not collecting tax revenue versus actually outlaying raw dollars. Now, I haven't looked at this. I'm not close to this at all. I'm just saying there are levers that they can pull. So, for instance...

• 43:20Speaker 01

  I was thinking the solar thing, where it was like, the cash grab of, we're doing solar farms now. So then, it created a wave of people going into the solar industry because they knew they could get those federal subsidies for certain things.

• 43:31Tom Bilyeu?

  Correct, correct. And if Trump is able to pull this off, we could get ourselves to the point where we were selling energy to the rest of the world. So not only are we energy independent, but that we can now sell. So there are things that we could do that would, by deregulating a lot of this stuff, by mining minerals and ores that are, I forget how many of the, like, critical things have been discovered in America. But we have more resources than we have tapped that we're regulated away from doing. When you start to deregulate, you get innovations like fracking. And I know that's super controversial. But when you let people explore options like that, you're gonna see more and more stuff like that. I'm not super close to the problem,

• 44:16Tom Bilyeu?

  but my understanding is that we could become energy independent, have a surplus, and be able to sell it.

• 44:22Speaker 01

  That would be the good guy.

• 44:22Tom Bilyeu?

  But we would have to go back to coal. We would have to stay on fossil fuels. And so, I don't know about the coal thing. I could be wrong about that. Certainly fossil fuels. So, and then, seeing the nuclear plants being spun up by companies. There are a lot of options that if we get the regulatory environment correct, that we could really have potential there in terms of being able to not just tariff people, but generate by selling into other economies.

• 44:51Speaker 01

  Yeah. I'm hoping for it because I would love to not see that federal tax line on my paycheck.

• 44:57Tom Bilyeu?

  You and me both.

• 44:58Speaker 01

  So, yes.

• 45:01Speaker 01

  Something we're not going to see is fire in the Middle East, at least for the next couple of days. We celebrated the ceasefire, but Ben Shapiro gave us a sobering tweet of the reality of this situation. Let's break it down.

• 45:11Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, I think this is important to note. So, the hostage deal is not an end to the war. This is a temporary ceasefire. So, for anybody that is optimistic, I love that. Be optimistic.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, they were celebrating.

• 45:26Tom Bilyeu?

  This is worth celebrating. Shout out to everybody involved. Shout out to Biden. Shout out to Trump. Like, love it. Love to see it. I think this is absolutely fantastic news for all of us concerned. And let's also remember that this is not the end of the war. The odds that this goes hot again are very high. I'll be interested to see how this plays out. But they specifically would not agree to some of the things, like a, in fact, we can just read what he put. Where is it? He covered this well.

• 45:58Speaker 01

  On the third one, yeah.

• 45:59Tom Bilyeu?

  So, what does all of this mean? First, that some hostages will come home alive. This is an unmitigated good. It would have been excellent to get more hostages out, but that option was presumably unavailable, given Hamas's radical intransigence and the waning health of many of the hostages. Second, that the war will continue until Hamas has no control over Gaza. Trump's nominees have said as much. So has the Israeli government. The Trump team squared the circle. The Biden team undoubtedly wanted a permanent end to the conflict as a condition of the hostage release. Team Trump presumably told Hamas that wasn't going to happen and that this was the best deal they were likely to get. So, yeah, the odds that we're still back in that very uncomfortable situation,

• 46:42Tom Bilyeu?

  where Israel's not going to back down until Hamas is completely a non-entity in Gaza, and Gazans don't feel like they've got Israel basically in the open-air prison. So, it could still get very weird, but this is a super encouraging step. And I saw Trump's tweet about this. I don't know if we have it or not, but he said, basically, this is a really great indication. Hopefully, we can continue to make progress with the Abraham Accords. So, it's going to be interesting, man. It's going to be interesting. I really can't stop myself, but be hopeful. It's, I'm well aware that that's an emotion and I am.

• 47:19Tom Bilyeu?

  Very convinced that one should distrust their emotions. But I'm gonna enjoy this one at least for a few days before it becomes real.

• 47:26Speaker 01

  Exactly. Take the win, celebrate, let them people come home and we'll deal with the next step when we get to the next step. You ready for your tinfoil hat?

• 47:34Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm ready. Let's put it on. Conspiracy Corner, everybody.

• 47:36Speaker 01

  Alright, this is starting to become my favorite segment.

• 47:39Tom Bilyeu?

  I think that, yeah, we're gonna have a lot of fun with this in 25. So I never know if, how much credence to give these. I give them very little. I admittedly, this to me is an entertaining aspect. Though conspiracies have a crazy way of proving themselves to be true. But what do you have for us? What's up for us?

• 47:57Speaker 01

  Alright, so Alex Jones tweeted, so asterisk right there. That the historic JFK evidence dropped that he found who was behind it and it was LBJ.

• 48:09Tom Bilyeu?

  Did you listen to it?

• 48:10Speaker 01

  I got like 30 minutes in, but the grainy, old schooly like voice kinda got me out of it.

• 48:15Tom Bilyeu?

  Interesting. So we won't play the whole thing here, but basically it is a very clear tape. And it is audio of the former executive director of the DNC and close associate of LBJ. This is me reading the Alex Jones tweet. Clifton Carter admitting that LBJ hired Mac Wallace to assassinate JFK. It is not ambiguous at all. He just straight says, I didn't love it. But I'm an LBJ guy and so we did it and that's just that. And I was like, damn. Now admittedly, in the age of AI, I just assume all this stuff is fake. So I will wait for somebody to play. Had you ever seen that before? I'd never seen this ultra high def.

• 48:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, with the color on it, yeah.

• 48:56Tom Bilyeu?

  Of Kennedy getting shot. Pretty gruesome.

• 48:59Speaker 01

  Crazy.

• 49:00Tom Bilyeu?

  Makes it pretty clear where he got shot from, just by the way that the blood explodes. But again, it's been upres so much, I don't know how much it can be believed. But anyway, I am the world's headliniest reader on the JFK stuff. So I will leave you guys to check it out. But if Trump goes into office and starts declassifying this stuff and we just get a wave of this.

• 49:25Tom Bilyeu?

  Of just the raw answers, man, of of the man is political animal.

• 49:32Speaker 01

  Hey, I'm gonna go black pill for a second.

• 49:34Tom Bilyeu?

  Take it, sir.

• 49:34Speaker 01

  FBI came out and said that they killed Martin Luther King, Michael Max. They gave us all the alien documentaries and all that. They were like, yeah, Area 51, we got aliens right now. They told us everything, but the JFK files for some reason are double sealed in a safe, like locked up. And for me, it seems that they have been willing to back up and backtrack. Even the weapons of mass destruction, like there have been so many times where government was like, my bad, we were lying. Like, we didn't really mean that. This is what actually happened. And this is the one thing from the longest timeframe that is still like, no, you'll never, you'll never know what happened. So to me, it's like, maybe it wasn't inside job that it came from somebody who then took the position of the White House. And maybe that's why he didn't want it unsealed.

• 50:14Tom Bilyeu?

  Here's the really bad news. I'm like, oh, okay. That's, dude, I don't even know what to do with that.

• 50:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:22Tom Bilyeu?

  So it, it, let's just thought, thought experiment, I'm not saying this is what happened, I'm saying thought experiment. Uh, let's say there really is real tape. It's really what happened. LBJ, the vice president, had the president murdered so that he could step into the White House. Uh, that is unimaginably dark.

• 50:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:44Tom Bilyeu?

  And yet, because it happened so long ago, and I've just seen so many crazy things that you just go, okay. It, it literally didn't even change my day. I wasn't even like, oh, my God, this is crazy. I was just like, oh, that's what happened? Like, it's almost way more boring than some of the books about the assassination, which are way more like CIA goes and gets. And maybe it's just because the only things I've ever read about it are like the downstream.

• 51:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:13Tom Bilyeu?

  And so you hear all the like, they went and got this guy and he was trained here and they had to lie about this and take him to the DMV. And, and so it just seems so coordinated, whereas this is just like, yeah, we just had him killed. It is what it is. Like, there's something about the banality of it all that is just,

• 51:30Tom Bilyeu?

  it's in keeping with what I already believe about humans. That's the terrifying part. Like, if you read history, this is like not that big of a deal, man. Like, this is just what humans do.

• 51:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, Genghis Khan is laughing right now.

• 51:44Tom Bilyeu?

  Dude, honestly, honestly, if you're in my community, um, and you're not already, you would love reading about history.

• 51:52Tom Bilyeu?

  So fascinating. There is a book I'm reading right now. In fact, I need to check on this tweet because I tweeted about this yesterday. I'm reading a book called Blood and Thunder. And it's about uh the conquest of America. There's no easy way to say it. So we fucking took Mexico. Uh which went all the way up through California. We're just like, we'll take that bitch. Uh obviously, Native Americans wiped out crazy. And you read about those times and you're like, hold on, wait a minute. Like, that's how people treated each other? Dude, it is the most brutal, gruesome litany of murders. In the coldest blood you can imagine. E- every page is an episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive.

• 52:36Tom Bilyeu?

  And half the pages are, everybody's dead. I mean, it's just, but like, dead in like really horrible nasty ways. And you're just like, yo, humans are capable of insane shit. So the only thing that makes this kind of crazy is that it's so high level and that they hit it for so long. But it isn't like more gruesome, it's not more evil, it's just like, humans do a lot, a lot of evil shit. Like up close, evil shit. I mean, kill the woman, cut open the womb, take out the baby evil shit.

• 53:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:16Tom Bilyeu?

  It's nuts. So anyway, that was my take on LBJ. Uh just running the thought experiment of, it's all proved, yep, it's it. Uh I'm, I'm gonna shrug and just like move on.

• 53:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:27Tom Bilyeu?

  That's weird. I don't know that I like that, but that is true.

• 53:32Speaker 01

  I respect him. Alright, so we went back in the day. So I'm gonna give you a current one and maybe this kind of changes it up a little bit.

• 53:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Alright, another conspiracy.

• 53:38Speaker 01

  So investigative journalist James O'Keefe, who is

• 53:42Tom Bilyeu?

  Oh my god.

• 53:42Speaker 01

  Who is swipe exposing people. I'm never going on a date with anybody in DC. This is crazy.

• 53:47Tom Bilyeu?

  Don't, don't do it. Don't do it.

• 53:49Speaker 01

  He exposes a guy named Jamie Marina, who prides himself

• 53:53Tom Bilyeu?

  Jamie Manina? Manina or Marina? It's like Manina from

• 53:56Speaker 01

  That's how I've read it, but James said he added a R in there. So I'm gonna say Jamie, uh exposed himself As a former FBI agent called himself a spy hunter. And meanwhile, was just telling all the tea to his date. Um, he talked about how he is working with one, two, and three star generals. How he ghost wrote a bunch of op eds to try to smear Donald Trump in order to defeat him. He ghost wrote for things that went to the Wall Street Journal, the National Journal. It he's it. This is literally what the deep state is like. It's somebody who's working for the government, actively lying, manipulating, trying to stop a political person from winning. All because if Kamala would have won, he would have gotten a bigger job like this is at least it's more than a year.

• 54:37Tom Bilyeu?

  Yeah, well, okay, so here's here's how I read this one.

• 54:41Speaker 01

  Oh, for two.

• 54:41Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, no, no, no, uh, this one I love in the weirdest way possible. Uh, so. One.

• 54:51Tom Bilyeu?

  I think you had somebody here that started out as a true believer. Like he really believed that the government was manipulated by the Russian government. Our election was manipulated by the Russian government, so he joins the FBI so that he can fight that. And so there's like this noble impulse, right? So this guy is like such a mixed bag. So you've got maybe noble impulse. Okay, will the power is always mixed in there, but I'm going to grant him noble impulse to make the country better. But then gets caught up in the, well, this isn't my guy. Tribe of it all. I don't care if I have to lie slander. Um, you know, do sort of back channel nefarious things to try to get this guy taken out. I'm going to do them.

• 55:36Tom Bilyeu?

  They're calling this an attempted coup. Do I believe it's an attempted coup?

• 55:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, attempted coup is a stretch.

• 55:41Tom Bilyeu?

  Extraordinary claims are are going to require extraordinary evidence. So, no, okay, so that's that's point one. That to me is sort of the surface level like, yep. That's what I expect. Humans can a human, it's power plays and all that. The thing that makes me laugh, and it makes me laugh because I'm one of them. Okay, I want to be very clear. But you can manipulate men with sex in a way that I find absolutely hilarious. And this guy is literally spilling secrets to impress a girl. And that it's so predictable that this is like a time-tested spy thing. This is a time-tested business thing, right? Get a guy laid and you're more likely to get the sale.

• 56:26Tom Bilyeu?

  This is just a hilarious fact about men. Like if they think they can win over a pretty girl, they will just tell them things that they obviously shouldn't be telling them. It's so crazy. Like she's giving off signals so hard. At one point in the interview, he actually says, "Are you a spy?" Or whatever word he uses. And she's like, "No, I'm not, but that'd be cool." It's like, "Bro, what is happening? These guys are so easy to trap." People have made videos, like, I can't remember if it was Dave Chappelle, but somebody did like a whole comedy thing about, "Dude, if you're an average-looking guy and a hot girl wants to take you out, it is James O'Keefe, like he is trying to get you." Oh my God, and they still, and when I say "they",

• 57:11Tom Bilyeu?

  I'm saying, "Look, man, there's something about an attractive woman reaches in and it just squeezes your brain in this really weird way." Now, I want to be very clear. My value system is such that I'm with my wife and will be forever. That's my shtick. But I'd be lying if I said I don't get what's happening to the male brain. I get it. And so, oh man, do people get suckered in by it. It is hysterical.

• 57:33Speaker 01

  Man, well, he has since been fired. So he was doing all that to impress a girl and then he lost his job.

• 57:38Tom Bilyeu?

  Bro.

• 57:38Speaker 01

  So.

• 57:39Tom Bilyeu?

  Bro. Brutal.

• 57:41Speaker 01

  Brutal. All right, now for the best part of the week. We're answering your questions. We're gonna hop into the community corner. Let's pull some stuff up. All right, now these are from our Tom Booey Show episodes, as well as our full-length interviews that drop on Tuesday. So we have some from our Alex Hormozi episode that just dropped.

• 57:56Tom Bilyeu?

  Let's go.

• 57:57Speaker 01

  Be sure to check it out. Uh, okay, our first one. "Out of curiosity, what Myers-Briggs personality type are you?" I am INTJ.

• 58:06Tom Bilyeu?

  Very strangely, I am also an INTJ.

• 58:08Speaker 01

  Oh, nice, twinsies.

• 58:10Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, I don't remember what that all means, but I remember that those were the four letters. INTJ.

• 58:16Speaker 01

  I'm an ENFJ.

• 58:18Tom Bilyeu?

  Now, we were talking about this off camera and we have, I can see it right now. She's literally looking at us. She's like, that's all bullshit.

• 58:24Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:25Tom Bilyeu?

  She would never say those words, but that was the punchline. So our Stanford grad is like, nah.

• 58:30Speaker 01

  Nah.

• 58:30Tom Bilyeu?

  Nah.

• 58:31Speaker 01

  Get it, guys, what are you doing?

• 58:32Tom Bilyeu?

  It's all fake. But in, in the, uh, I think Will called it male horoscopes. So in the male horoscope, I'm an INTJ. Take it, take it for what you will.

• 58:40Speaker 01

  What's your actual horoscope?

• 58:41Tom Bilyeu?

  I have no, oh, uh, Aries.

• 58:44Speaker 01

  Aries, nice.

• 58:45Tom Bilyeu?

  I don't buy into that.

• 58:46Speaker 01

  I know.

• 58:46Tom Bilyeu?

  Way less than I believe in INTJ. It's so funny because just off over that way, I know Eunice is rolling over right now because she is like a big believer. I'm like, nah, I don't buy it.

• 58:56Speaker 01

  Doing a simple search of leaked Andrew Tate videos on YouTube would promptly dissuade anybody from pulling him in a leadership position. I watched how he and the other two, two others who were sitting with him gave advice on manipulating and isolating females so they serve you and put up with crap. I was physically nauseated over it.

• 59:14Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, is there a question though? What's the, none of that seems bad, uh, in terms of, yeah.

• 59:20Speaker 01

  This is in response to him starting the bro party and his run for UK. She's, I guess this person is saying that it should be disqualifying that they have that history.

• 59:28Tom Bilyeu?

  I see. Uh, do I agree that it should be disqualifying? Uh, I don't agree that it should be disqualifying. I think people should be able to run for office unless they, there's a rule in your country that if they've been convicted of a crime, whatever. Um, morals should be what the people are voting on. So if you think that Andrew Tate does not represent the values that you want your country to represent, then absolutely do not vote for that person.

• 59:50Speaker 01

  Period.

• 59:50Tom Bilyeu?

  Campaign against him. Uh, convince other people that those are not the values that you want at the center of your country. Uh, but again, going back to this idea of there are some people that are allowed in polite society and there are some that are not, that to me is so dangerous because you're, again, you're adjudicating thoughts, values, beliefs, um...

• 1:00:11Tom Bilyeu?

  That's gonna get turned on you for sure. So you wanna set up your rules. So hey, if he gets convicted of a crime and you wanna say anybody that's been convicted of a crime. The way I think about this in a company is do everything at the level of policy. Once you're doing it to one person, now you've got a problem. So how do you take Andrew Tate and his disgusting morals? And how do you make that a policy? If you can make it a policy that applies equally to everybody, okay, cool. That's, that's exactly what laws are. But when you're like, nah, I don't like this guy and I don't like him because of the way that he treats women. Now you create this really weird thing where it's like, well, where's the hard binary line of treat women okay? Treat women poorly. Beyond that, it should be a battle of ideas.

• 1:00:50Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 1:00:53Speaker 01

  You got a billion dollars. Go move in near Tony Robbins and Pat Bedd David.

• 1:00:56Tom Bilyeu?

  I took this as- About Florida?

• 1:00:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, I took this as like, what's your? I know you, you're not originally from California, but a lot of millionaires do get rich and they flee and they say, I get away from here. What's keeping you in this, in the state, you think?

• 1:01:08Tom Bilyeu?

  What's keeping me in the state is that I've been here for over 30 years. California is amazing. Incredible geography, incredible weather, terrible policies. That's the right way to think about California. I've got a business here. So the thought of having to convince all of you guys to move to Florida? That sounds horrible. The even worse thought of you guys saying you're not moving with me to Florida and then I have to replace everybody. I'm not saying it's impossible, but that really doesn't sound fun. So I won't say never, but that's always been the thing that stops me is I love it here. It's moving in the wrong direction. So I really wanna see it move back in the other direction.

• 1:01:53Tom Bilyeu?

  But there is a line that if they crossed, I would leave. And they're, they're really getting close. Like every time I deal with something stupid on company regulations. I'm like, okay, I just moved a step closer. I moved a step closer, a step closer. So I will say this, if I had kids, I would have already left.

• 1:02:10Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 1:02:11Tom Bilyeu?

  So I don't think, hmm, let me not be bombastic. Okay. Because I don't have kids, I haven't thought a ton about this. But I really believe right now that it is-

• 1:02:25Tom Bilyeu?

  It is very high risk to raise a child in California. Because anybody that can say, we are not going to tell you that your kid is identifying as a different gender at school. And we're going to keep that from the parents. That's, that's a hard pass. That's saying that this child is the government's child and the parents can't be trusted with the child. So my base value system, belief system is you absolutely trust that parent with that child. Now, unfortunately, I'm all too aware that there will be a percentage of kids that will be absolutely destroyed by their parents, destroyed. But I will take that trade over letting the government destroy those children.

• 1:03:05Tom Bilyeu?

  Absolutely not hard pass. So for me, I would have left. The second they were like, and now it's, I'm pretty sure it's in law that you don't have to tell parents if the kid is living a different life at school. That, that's a hard pass because of what it signals. So, but I don't have kids, so.

• 1:03:27Speaker 01

  That's real. That's real. Tom, is it too late to become set up to absorb the cultural and economic impact AI will have on our society?

• 1:03:35Tom Bilyeu?

  Uh, is it too late to become set up to absorb? Uh, we're going to absorb it whether we want to or not. So if they're saying too late to get set up to profit? From the cultural and economic impact.

• 1:03:51Speaker 01

  Set themselves up for success. Let's put it that way.

• 1:03:53Tom Bilyeu?

  Hundred percent. Yeah, get after it. The, the people that wield AI, the best are going to win. And then, this is interesting. I've never thought about this before. I love these questions. Uh, people need to understand the gambling game of finance. Because there is a very possible future in which one of the things that people end up doing is really getting good at gambling. Meaning that they're treating, I don't want to betray myself and call it investing, but that's what I'm talking about. That they, they will suddenly have a lot of free time. They will be looking for ways to get ahead because remember, all that matters is do you have more than the next person? And. The human psyche is weird like that. Gini coefficient, I, I, I won't go down that road right now.

• 1:04:35Tom Bilyeu?

  But I think people will, a, a huge portion of people will spend an inordinate amount of time like was happening during COVID, where they could basically get away with not working. And they just all turn to the stock market, crypto, all that stuff. Uh, and so I think a lot of people are really going to turn to that as a way to get ahead. I think it's ultra high risk. I do not recommend it. But that prediction seems like it has a high likelihood of coming true. So that would be get good at using AI in the short term.

• 1:05:10Tom Bilyeu?

  Really think about what brings meaning and purpose to your life. That, nothing will matter but that, no matter how much money you accumulate, if you don't feel like you matter to somebody, you're going to have a real problem. So figure that out. And then I think a lot of people are going to begin to try to win at the game of finance, because they will finally understand the average person is so busy, they don't have time to think about this. They're finally going to understand that they can generate freakish amounts of wealth by playing the financial game. You can just, you can bet on whether a stock goes up or down. That's real. And like the, the traditional finance market, not, not like polymarket. Yeah. Like you can go to the US stock market and be like, uh, I think Tesla's going to go down, fuck them. And bet and win.

• 1:05:54Tom Bilyeu?

  Or bet and lose is the case usually happens with people betting against Elon. But like, that's so fascinating. So you're going to see a huge rash of that. But I will take the time to say, remember, because I think you said prosper, I forget what word to use.

• 1:06:09Tom Bilyeu?

  The ultimate thing in life is fulfillment. That's it. That's the best thing that you're ever going to get. It's the only mental state that survives even grief. Uh, and that's work hard, gain a set of skills that matter to you, that allow you to make progress towards a goal that allows you to uplift yourself and others. Find that formula, no matter what AI is doing and you're gonna be great. Uh, and I heard somebody today say have cheap hobbies. I thought that was brilliant. One of my favorite things to do is read manga. Manga costs like nine dollars for uh, an entire volume. So find a cheap hobby.

• 1:06:43Speaker 01

  Nice. Love it.

• 1:06:44Tom Bilyeu?

  And fall in love, if I can really put a cherry on top.

• 1:06:47Speaker 01

  But not with AI.

• 1:06:49Tom Bilyeu?

  Not with AI. And by the way, can we get to my default? The default answer is fulfillment. Required love, meaning somebody that loves you back. Have kids. I don't have kids. I understand that. But I still think it's the default path. I won't give my whole spiel right now as to why, but um, don't violate that. Don't deviate from that path unless you have a very compelling reason.

• 1:07:13Speaker 01

  Copy. Okay, when you are not getting, oh, this was on our Alex Hermosy episode. When you are not getting results, how do you know why? If you're stuck, it doesn't work, you did not perfect the process enough, need more time or need to get more volume. It seems like this person is stuck. He tried something, it didn't work. How do you recommend people kind of figure it out and problem solve?

• 1:07:33Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, I'm gonna go as fast as I can on this one, because I talk about this a lot. Uh, it's something called the physics of progress. There's only one way to make progress in life. It's essentially the scientific method recontextualized for business. You're gonna start with, uh, where's your goal? Where do you want to end up? The big problem is most people just don't know where they want to go. Uh, they have a vague idea, uh, but they don't like real specifics.

• 1:07:55Speaker 01

  Five thousand in sales, ten million views, whatever the.

• 1:07:58Tom Bilyeu?

  On this platform by this date. Yeah, so uh, what, how much, by when? So you're gonna have a goal, what by, uh, what, how much, by when? And then you're gonna come up with your um, clear vision of why you won't get there automatically. And that's another way of saying you're gonna identify the obstacle that stands between where you are now and the goal you're trying to achieve. Once you know what stands between you and your goal, you're gonna say, okay, what's my best guess at overcoming that obstacle? And then you're gonna turn that into a thing that you can do. And before you do that thing, you're going to say, I expect when I do this thing, that it's going to move this key performance indicator. For instance, I'm gonna go get my. MBA and I think that it's going to allow me to get a raise at my job of a hundred thousand dollars,

• 1:08:43Tom Bilyeu?

  whatever. Okay, cool. Get the MBA, see if it works, right? That's the long term, so probably a terrible example, but you get the idea. I'm gonna do this thing and I expected to have this result. Now, if when you do that thing, it doesn't yield that result, then you were wrong. Your assumption was incorrect. This is where everybody lies to themselves. They make it about somebody else, somebody else is to blame. But you just say, okay, uh, by doing this thing, I expect this result. You do the thing, you don't get that result and you say, why didn't I get that result? Did I fundamentally misunderstand the problem? Did I go about this wrong way? What? You get a little bit smarter, not a lot smarter, but you're gonna get a little bit smarter. You're going to then come up with a better guess on how you're going to overcome that obstacle based on the new thing you learned by your recent failure. And you just literally live in that loop. And to do that, though, you have to believe that failure is the most information-rich data stream on planet Earth.

• 1:09:27Tom Bilyeu?

  Because when you fail, you're gonna get an echo back from the world that you're a loser. And given that, you are both a shout, the thing that you did, and the echo, people telling you that you're a moron. Uh, most people break and they just give up because emotionally, they can't handle being embarrassed. And so they try once, they fail and they stop. But if people could understand, the very nature of progress is failing and getting a little bit smarter. That's the nature of progress. That's why I call it the physics of progress. There's nothing else, nothing below that. There's no other thing. There's not like a guy out there that's smarter than me that's doing something different. That's, that's all anyone ever is doing anytime they make progress, period, end of story. Best guess, try it out, see what you think's gonna happen, say it ahead of time.

• 1:10:09Tom Bilyeu?

  It either does or doesn't, get a little bit smarter and you just repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. Uh, but you have to survive the emotional difficulties of failure. Most people don't, which is why most people never achieve their goals.

• 1:10:19Speaker 01

  Love it. Your job used to be creating useful, high-value self-improvement content. Then that's what I subscribe for, but I guess you got a new job. No longer be legendary, now it's be afraid.

• 1:10:30Tom Bilyeu?

  That is, uh, that is very clear, their feeling. Okay, so here is my take on that.

• 1:10:38Tom Bilyeu?

  So I am deathly afraid of spending my time creating spiritual entertainment. So what do I mean by spiritual entertainment?

• 1:10:48Tom Bilyeu?

  In the beginning, when I was doing just the empowering content, I was giving people my best ideas as fast as I could talk. Things that I had turned into tremendous wealth, success, accolades, blah, blah, blah. A successful marriage, if all you care about is the intangible things in life. So money may not be able to buy you love, but a set of ideas will help you find and maintain love, I will tell you that. So I was giving everybody those ideas as fast as I could talk and virtually nobody was doing anything with them. And I realized that people were entertained, they felt better, but they weren't actually making progress. Okay, so fair enough, but I was getting bored. So I was like, I've said these sayings like a thousand times, they're all out there. Anybody that wants that content, by all means, go avail yourself of it. And I certainly do not begrudge anybody who's like, this isn't what I signed up for.

• 1:11:33Tom Bilyeu?

  You've taken the content somewhere I'm not interested, I want to unsubscribe. Cool, no worries.

• 1:11:38Tom Bilyeu?

  When COVID hit, I realized, oh, wait a second, the world isn't what I thought it was. And so because the whole point of me doing that content was to actually help people, not to be spiritual entertainment, but rubber meets the road, am I helping you make your life better? Because that I can show up and fight for, to repeat the same things over and over, to give you a slight high and then everything returns back to normal, not interesting to me. So it's like, no matter how much money I could have made doing that, it's just not interesting. So I realized, whoa, the world isn't what I thought it was. I had to rapidly update my mental model of what is really going on. And I realized the only reason that I built a mindset for me was to be able to alter the world in a way that was better for myself and for others.

• 1:12:19Tom Bilyeu?

  Okay, cool. Well, now I'm realizing that there is a level of fuckery that really bothers me and is people are getting slapped around by. And so I want to take an effective mindset, again, going back to the physics of progress, and just apply it to the most important issues of our day. One is extremely intellectually engaging for me. I have found it extremely useful in my real life. And I hope that if people treat me like an AI, they don't treat me as a person who knows everything. They treat me as a person who gives them a very strong, sincere take on something. That's wrong in some way. I certainly don't know in what way it's wrong, which is why I'm saying it. But they will hopefully very wisely get a whole bunch of people that give them that look.

• 1:13:04Tom Bilyeu?

  They look at all these different people giving them a take and they're like, cool, I think I have a better idea of what this is. And then they go off and do their thing.

• 1:13:12Tom Bilyeu?

  One, it allows me to learn about the things that really matter to me in life and then I can share the things that I'm learning. So it felt like the application of mindset in the real world. That's engaging to me. Mindset as an abstract content of spiritual entertainment just got really dull.

• 1:13:29Speaker 01

  Love it. I just thought this was interesting. He said, "I'm good on this dude, but I hate listening to him." You replied in a comment, "Any particular reason?" And he says, "He makes me feel resentment for things I value, like having a family and prioritizing non-financial goals." And I think it was important to highlight this because just because some people want to get rich, that doesn't mean everybody wants to get rich.

• 1:13:49Tom Bilyeu?

  Yes. So, okay. Heard. I understand. I get why somebody would have that emotional reaction. This is now why I want people to distrust their emotional reaction. So whether it was me or Alex that made him feel some kind of way about that. If you believe because somebody else lives a certain way, that you either have to convince them of your way, or that because they believe it, then you have to adopt and you're like, "Oh, but man, this feels so icky. I don't want to adopt this." Then yeah, you're gonna emotionally rebel against the stuff, you're gonna push back. If, on the other hand, you just look

• 1:14:30Tom Bilyeu?

  out at the world and you say, "All these people are..." When you're engaging with somebody at the level of, "I'm listening to a podcast." Don't look at your wife this way or your kids this way. But like, you're engaging with ideas. These are people that are offering me a lens on the way that they think to achieve the things that they want to achieve. And I've always told people, "Be careful you take advice from. If you want to be a great parent, then don't take advice from me. I don't have kids." So I'm giving you a lens on life, and you can just take that as like, "Oh, cool. I want to for a minute, look at life through Tom's eyes. Oh, wow, that's interesting. Nah, I don't like that. That's interesting. Oh, that's useful." In my life, it's useful in my life. So you're gonna take

• 1:15:11Tom Bilyeu?

  it and use it. Bruce has a phenomenal quote. He didn't want there to be karate, judo. He wanted to be like, "You're in a street fight, certain things work and certain things don't." So he always said, "Take what works, discard the rest, but learn from anybody." And so I would hope that somebody would approach Alex Hormozi, myself, anybody else and say, "Oh, 99% of what Tom says is totally useless in my life for the things that I value. Oh, but that 1%, cool, I'm gonna take that and use it." And as long as I or anybody else maintains a threshold of utility per second, per minute, however you want to think about it, then engage. And the second it drops below a threshold that you decide of utility per minute, then unsubscribe and go watch somebody else's content. I totally get that.

• 1:15:54Tom Bilyeu?

  There, I reject the vast majority of the content that's out there because I've just decided that these are the, you know, whatever, 75 people that I'm gonna listen to. And every now and then I'll find somebody new. But I'm just looking for what has utility in my life. So I want people, like, dude, if you value your relationship and having children and you don't care about getting rich, then it doesn't make sense to go watch content about getting rich, right? So to put a funny spin on this.

• 1:16:26Tom Bilyeu?

  Oh, God, what's his name? The guy that did the original Office?

• 1:16:29Speaker 01

  Oh, Ricky Gervais.

• 1:16:30Tom Bilyeu?

  Ricky Gervais, thank you. So he was like, "Uh, if you don't like my comedy, then don't watch it." He goes yelling at me because I did a comedy special that you didn't have to watch in the first place, is like walking by and seeing that somebody's offering guitar lessons and grabbing the phone number off the thing and going, "I don't want guitar lessons." So it's like, you don't need to watch an episode about how wealth really works, which is, I think, what the episode was titled. You don't need to watch that. I'm not judging you. Like, I don't have a moral judgment on anybody, man. I want people to live the life they want to live. So, yeah, take what works, ignore the rest.

• 1:17:07Speaker 01

  Love it, love it. I think that's the it, that's the last one.

• 1:17:11Tom Bilyeu?

  All right.

• 1:17:12Speaker 01

  That's all I got.

• 1:17:13Tom Bilyeu?

  There it is, everybody. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe. And until next time, my friends, be legendary. Take care, peace.

• 1:17:28Tom Bilyeu?

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• 1:18:13Tom Bilyeu?

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