Digital Social Hour - From Penny Stocks to Philanthropy: Timothy Sykes' Inspiring Journey | Digital Social Hour #21

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

Hey there, social media enthusiasts! I have got an exciting episode of Digital Social Hour lined up for you. In this episode, the hosts Sean Kelly and Wayne Lewis are joined by Timothy Sykes, who is a true veteran in social media and has been focusing on penny stocks for years. Timothy Sykes talks about how many scammers exist in the penny stock market but also discusses the opportunities available for those who are meticulous. He also warns listeners about scammers in discord chat rooms, where there might be only three promoters chatting with each other under different usernames. Timothy is a big believer in charity and has donated over $5 million to over 100 charities. He shares his experiences opening schools in various third-world countries for underprivileged children and talks about the need for effective recycling to protect the planet. The conversation also includes discussions about crypto, short-term trades, and the dangers of poaching. This episode is packed with information about social media, charity, and environmental conservation. So don't wait and tune in now to this episode of Digital Social Hour. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalsocialhour/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

all right welcome to the digital social hour i'm your host sean kelly i'm here with my co-host wayne lewis what up what up and our guest, Timothy Sykes. How's it going? Good, man. Thanks for having me. The legend. Do we need an intro on this, man? I don't think so. Most people should know who you are. I feel like too many people know. Like, it's like, I, you know, I was really aggressive on social media, like, early on. And so people have, like, an idea of me. Yeah, he was, he was like the original. I had, like, the orange Lambo. I was the first, like, Lambo guy. And then everyone started getting Lambos. He was like the original Isis. Like, I told like I told you I used to like stock his Twitter just to beat up and I went hard right making so much money like and he was talking about penny stocks and everything like that so he's I guess not the originator but I think you brought it to the Forefront on from a social media standpoint

you was killing it on Twitter for sure because most people in penny stocks are just frauds and fakes. So they can't be real. I'm like, I just trade. I'm not like a promoter. I'm not like the Wolf of Wall Street. Let me just be real. So the more real I could be, the better. So how close or true is that concept from Wolf of Wall Street?

It's kind of the same thing? I mean, he was pre-internet. People don't even realize. He was just like a boiler room. And people didn't know. They couldn't use the internet to research So wolver wall street is gone I did an interview with him and he was like I was giving him updates on how the penny stock market evolved and he was

Like mind blown. It was actually pretty funny. How has it evolved actually? Um, I mean just you can research everything right? So like there's still a lot of scams There's still a lot of promos and the hype still rules and like a lot of newbies like they just believe anything that they read but at the same time like if you're meticulous like you should never get scammed it's all on the internet so like when i first started teaching i i trade penny stocks like i sometimes yeah i always stick with it it's a really like undiscovered niche because there are scams you have like promoters want to be promoters you have a lot of newbies who believe they're promoters but there's a lot of like opportunity if you're meticulous like i said like yeah but

they're scammers because you can't get to everybody correct i don't get to people usually most of my students come to me after they lost everything and then they google around and i they read a blog post that i wrote three months ago trying to warn their lazy asses so how do you so how did how do how do you how do they get in touch with you to prevent from being scammed? Because they're being scammed because you can't answer everybody. I mean, so I always try to, like, when I expose the scams, like, I have 3,000 blog posts. So I always say, like, share this. Try to get the word out. But promoters have massive budgets.

I don't have any budget. I just try to grow organically. So how are they scamming? I mean, they just pitch, like, look, we found a billion dollars worth of gold or oil or you know this new nanotechnology or china or ai or crypto i mean any kind of pipe dream they just sell and this is with not a lot of money hundred dollars two hundred dollars like buying a lotto ticket right their friend buys it like there's a lot of shady discord chat rooms they're all hyping it up you know there might be a discord chat room where you think there's a thousand people in in there but it's really just

like three promoters with like 300 usernames each and they're chatting back and forth wow so like there's so much bakery yeah i didn't even know that this is what happened so people are like everyone's talking about this stock it's going up but not necessarily everyone's talking about it and it's going up because the promoters behind the scenes are like trading back and forth with themselves. So you have, just expect the worst. I always say expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. So at your rate, do you even have a 401k? Does that even make sense to you?

I don't like diversification. I literally focus on one penny stock at a time. Like if there's a scam, I might buy it. I say, look, I have blog posts. I say like, why invest $50,000 into this scam? And people are like, what's wrong with you? But if it's a scam, if it's a pump and dump, the promoters are paid to pump it up for a week, two weeks, three months. Like they have little disclaimers where they say how long their advertising campaign is going. Obviously it's always a risk. You can get halted. It can

crash. So I don't bet big. Like I never, I don't even usually put in $50,000. I started with $12,000. My parents gave me that as my bar mitzvah gift money. Every year I go back to $12,000. I trade with a small account. And do you trust banks? What's your relationship with banks? Are you putting your money in banks or all out? Yeah, no.

I mean, I have banks. There's all these conspiracy theories, like all the banks and the politicians. I know a lot of penny stock promoters who embrace conspiracy theories just because it increases their engagement. I know a lot of gurus who embrace conspiracy embrace conspiracy theories just because it increases their engagement. I know a lot of gurus who embrace conspiracy theories, and they don't even believe in themselves. Offline, they're like, no, that's BS.

Only idiots believe this stuff. But they really love it because it gets everyone riled up on social media. So you just can't trust anybody on social media. Like, you really have to expect the worst. In fact, like 90% of traders lose money. So everyone's like, oh, I want to get into trading. in fact like 90 of traders lose money so everyone's like oh i want to get into trading i'm like why nine out of ten people lose what do you think you have that these other people don't right so i don't really think trading is for most people

but if you have time if you have a little bit of money if you're really willing to study like if you're just at home playing video games or watching netflix you should be a trader you can use your time you know wisely right wisely, right? Because again, with the internet, you can learn everything. Like it's crazy how far down the rabbit hole you can go on any crypto, any penny stock. And there's so much research online and this has all been built in the past decade or so. It's pretty amazing. I want to talk about your transition to charity. So you made over 7 million with penny stocks. You started buying a lot of material objects, cars watches and you didn't feel fulfilled correct is that when you got into charity so first lamborghini i got an orange lamborghini i was that douchebag in miami what'd

you get it's just a lamborghini gallardo just like a basic lambo it was like you know my childhood dream i grew up in connecticut i had all these posters of lambos and ferraris i like first day i got it first week first month first year i'm like yes yes and then i get like the second lamborghini i had a lot of other cars i had a ferrari mclaren rolls royce all this stuff i bought all of them because i was just unfulfilled second lambo gets delivered and i feel nothing i'm like what is wrong with me i did like a cancer test i'm like i'm not that cancer this is what cancer is but my priorities just change and i always travel like the beautiful got cancer this is what cancer is but my priorities just changed and i always travel like the beautiful thing about trading is you can do it from anywhere so i've

been to over 100 countries now but there's only so many like luxury pools and you're drinking a pina colada and you're like oh look at the sunset you know yeah i see because the first thing i actually was bro are you ever in the usa like so i'm always traveling right so i flew in from tokyo yesterday two days from now i'm flying flying back to Bali for Earth Day. We have a recycling center open. So I transitioned from luxury and material goods because I thought that's what I wanted. It made me happy for a little bit. I'm not going to lie.

People out there, you shouldn't want any luxury. Screw that. Get whatever you want. Have fun. Inspire yourself. Live. You have nothing. I moved my family down from Connecticut to Miami.

Best thing ever. I got them a place, got them two places, combined the places places they now live a dream life that's fantastic for them but for me it started getting boring and when i'm traveling like there's only so many beaches so one time in bali i asked my driver i was like you know what take me to your village and he was like what are you talking about like i'm the village is not nice i was staying at like the viceroy in ubud bali have you been to bali no should go to bali bali's beautiful beautiful but the locals don't have much and i was like you know there's a disconnect and most tropical places like the locals don't have much like the big hotel chains just like pay them very little and then tourists pay like a thousand dollars a night because they're just trying to impress their girlfriend or wife right

right so i was like let me go to the village and we started going to villages and I was like, wow, this is cool. Like his family like cook for me. I'm having like local food. I'm like, yo, I like this. I was like, what do you guys need? They needed a school that most of the kids don't know how to read or write that limits their options.

They're just begging or they have to work for like these evil hotel corporations that pay them very little. So you opened up a college. So we opened up just a basic school, basic school, right? One basic school, I think the first school had like 50 kids um took like three months it costs i think like fifteen thousand dollars yeah i don't know what i was doing i was like oh let me just do this went back to bali saw it like the kids are singing to me i'm visiting like i'm just crying

and i'm like i want more and more then we opened two schools in laos um laos is a beautiful country too climbing some mountains hiking hiking and everything was amazing. And then I was like, I want more, I was supposed to donate another $250,000 in Laos, but I was so pumped up by the community. And I was like, I'm going to donate a million. And the translator didn't even know what a million dollars was. It was funny. Like a video of the translations, and I posted it. And everyone's like, why are you saying you donated $1,000? Like the translator got it wrong. But a million dollars builds a lot of of schools and then it was just off to the races now we're 115 schools wow wow bali bali laos nepal guatemala ghana like mexico like all over we even have some projects

in america too i'm just not rich enough to build that much yeah it's a lot more expensive here and also like it's like frankly americans are spoiled like if you build a school the kids are like nah i'm in a ditch i'm gonna play video game like kids in these third world countries they would love just for like a cra like it's mind-blowing they have in bali for example when you go to these schools and you visit them we also get them toys new equipment like a new playground all this stuff you see a coloring book like we refurbish some of the schools too it's not just all brand new schools but i visited this school this was a month ago and they're showing me like this school has like a big hole in the ceiling if it rains no school not just for the day but for like a week or a month during the rainy season everything gets flooded they can't afford a new roof i'm looking at their coloring books you know

like a coloring book like you can color it once twice maybe three times but the coloring books the pages are all shiny because they've colored over it like 50 times. They only have one coloring book for the whole community. And it's just like, we don't realize that, right? Like we take it for granted. So Third World Countries now after, I mean, it's been five and a half years since we started this charity, now we actually have some graduates

and they're getting into school and they're getting jobs. And it's just amazing. Can you see yourself living over there permanently somewhere? You see, say like settle down in one place but like why like i have the schools in all these third world countries you know i was just in japan this is this new charity merch i just literally got this off the plane this is like um i like it yeah you like this right so this is recycled material feel it feel it it's recycled cotton it's soft yeah 100 this is the first one and this all goes to the victims of war so it's like you know make peace not war so we're helping kids in war-torn countries

like yemen ukraine afghanistan so it's not just schools now we're helping animals too we have a recycling center opening like we're trying to do a bunch of stuff do you believe in recycling yeah but there's a lot of problems with it so like we're doing a documentary on this too so we do documentaries because there's a lot of misinformation out there big picture recycling helps if you get into the nuanced stuff like there's a lot of problems like very little stuff is actually recycled a lot of the recycling just goes to third world countries like a lot of people say like oh bali philippines indonesia like these places are trash look at the trash everywhere we don't realize first world countries ship their trash to third world countries you know this no i didn't know that so this is in our documentaries it's work in

production but like literally the u.s has so much trash we used to send it to china china u.s at a trade war china was like we're not accepting your trash anymore so now we ship it to other third world countries and the third world countries are happy because they get paid but they have no way of disposing it so there's all these illegal landfills they're burning it it's like destroying our planet wow and people don't even realize that seems inefficient to just send yeah we send yeah we don't have enough room over the ocean yeah correct why not recycle and burn it here because it was illegal so we have laws here against that but we're we're bursting at the seams with so much trash so we're like what do you do because like the local government you

know they're embarrassed if there was all this trash like what are you going to do with it you can't burn it because there's laws against that here oh let's sell it to these third world countries that need any money whatsoever and they'll just we don't want to know anymore like they don't ask any questions yeah we have some crazy documents so you're setting up a recycling center over there so we're doing it the right way so actually we have these uh plastic barriers that catch all the plastic in the river so it's literally like barriers that float on top of the rivers and as plastic comes through it catches all this plastic and all this trash every day like there's so much and it skims it so like we actually have some like garbage men who basically go into these rivers every day with big nets and they take out the plastic but we're able

to turn the plastic now into furniture into merch um oh that's made out of plastic well not this so we have hats i should have brought a hat yeah so we have hats made out of uh plastic bottle caps and it's so soft so my partner on the charity like i donate the money i you know handle social media but my partner his name is bad boy mad at bad great photographer great designer and he comes up with all this stuff he's like i call him like filipino kanye without like the attitude or the issues right he's a genius so this is all his design and he's found ways like i'll give you a hat next time i see you this hat it literally feels like cashmere but it's made out of plastic plastic recycled some guys had a brand and their thing was shirts were made out of uh recycle that's cool and this is coming because

there's so much excess plastic and trash but it's expensive like this like even to make this i mean this cost us like what like 85 it's not fast fashion it's not worth it right now but it's it's heading in the right direction you can't just rely on fast fashion like these companies like you know h&m and like aloe and shein. Do you know Shein? A hundred billion dollar Chinese company out of the blue. And they're coming up with like a thousand new designs a day. And girls are loving it. Like, oh, $20 for a dress, $15 for a dress. So it costs the consumer less, but what does it cost our planet? What does it cost future generations? People don't think about that. So this is what we're trying to do. Yeah. That's awesome. You've also donated over

$5 million to over 100 charities. My question is, how do you find the right charities to partner with? Because I've donated to charities and all I get is a letter in a mail to donate more. That's all you're going to get. No, 100%. But I don't see any proof of where the money goes. Well, that's the thing, right? I mean, I'm actually going to Turkey too because we donated $300,000 to the earthquake victims.

So we're going to go there. We're going to see. We're getting them tents, mattresses, food packages, just basic stuff. You got to go with small charities. Like big charities, so inefficient. Whenever there's an emergency, everyone donates to Red Cross. Red Cross donates less than 2% of your money. The rest of it goes to the machine that is Red Cross.

Are you serious? Commercials, lawyers, managers. Yeah. Whoa. And it stinks. And Red Cross is actually in trouble right now in Turkey because they did something even worse. Red Cross Turkey sold the tents to other charities. You're such a, that's just an evil thing to do. It went viral. You can search this. Red Cross Turkey charity selling

tents. They sold them, I think for like $60 and it should have been like $20. They're making like a profit. It's so messed up. There's so many messed up charities out there. So small charities We look at every single cost we get really dig into it. Like that's why you know, it's like, okay We've only donated a few million but it's I you know, we micromanage it We have to see where all this goes cuz I don't want to just you know Throw money into the void which is what a lot of people do they donate to Red Cross in these big charities and they're like Oh, I donated I feel better. Yeah About the crypto market currently. I love the the technology i think there's huge you know

potential like with the blockchain the problem is so much scamming like i'm i come from penny stocks so i know scams there's probably like 10 to 1 or 50 to 1 crypto scammers versus penny stock scammers penny stock scammers aren't that smart so they usually go out of business they burn their email list crypto there's no real rules right now so it's like the wild west right like if you picture the wild west like there used to be like cocaine and coca-cola like if you murdered somebody yeah it's like gray area obviously you know things change but crypto needs rules needs laws i don't know you know people say like they need regulation how are you going to regulate that i don't know but i do know that they need more rules i wish that some of these big crypto companies instead of buying like

stadium naming rights would create like a crypto police force like there's so many imposters and so many scams and it's just again taking advantage of people with small amounts so people have to be very very careful and then even like seemingly legit companies like ftx with all the you know all the recognition in the world nope not at all right so it's like who do you trust if you can't trust ftx so like when you ask that question about banks i don't necessarily trust all the banks but at least there's there's a infrastructure there especially up to like 250 000 you're insured they just raised it i think fantastic you know but if if the FDIC goes, like all the US goes, and then like good luck, then it's gonna be a mess.

So I think I know that crypto has a point, like they're riding this whole bank panic, like congrats on reclaiming 30K, even reclaiming 20K for Bitcoin is fantastic. I just trade volatility. I don't try to make like blanket statements and like, this is what's gonna happen, this is what's gonna happen.

I really focus on short-term trades. Like I'm really good at holding stocks I just trade volatility. I don't try to make like blanket statements and like, this is what's gonna happen, this is what's gonna happen. I really focus on short-term trades. Like I'm really good at holding stocks for like a few hours or a few days, because I know like if there's a new promotion, the promoters spew all their hype in Discord, on WhatsApp, on Telegram, and you can literally track like the hype

for several hours or days. So you're looking to turn a profit most of the time? Yeah, I mean- And how much of a profit is it? So win i win roughly 70 of the time so i lose 30 right so 70 is high it's pretty good because again i'm i don't want to trade so like this is what's crazy about me i think of myself as a retired trader even is it and you're winning 70 daily yeah you're still well so i say i'm a retired trader but i come out of retirement daily when there's a play that's so good i would feel guilty missing it and you're like why do you have to have this mouthful trading is addictive right i know i have an addictive personality

if i wanted to if i wanted to just like be a degenerate i could trade this trade this trade this my winning percentage would go down my losses would go up and i would have no edge that's most gamblers that's people here in Vegas. Do you gamble? No, I don't like it. But you do gamble. Research gambling. I like it when odds are in my favor. If you play any game here at any casino, unless you're a math genius.

You don't sports bet or anything. You've never gambled before. I've gambled before. I don't like it. You don't like it. My friends force me here, and they're like, put a number. And I'm like, ah, randomness. It's terrible, right? If look at like the venetian

and you have the canals i say like the canals like the tears of all the betters here yeah and they just collect the tears i don't like low odds games and i'm not that smart i'm not that good at math you have to know what you're good at if i was good at math and i'm like counting cards and i'm like you know rain man fantastic maybe i would but i'm not i really understand promotion i understand how many suckers there are out there i'm trying to educate the suckers but then i know that i can't reach everybody yeah i saw you recently rescued an endangered white rhino while trading stocks on your laptop so what the hell is a white running animal how the hell do you know that so this was this is crazy and this went viral for the right rhino. Yeah. Rhino in South Africa. But it's white.

There's different kinds. So we did a documentary saving the rhino. It's called the war against poachers. This is what I hate about misinformation. Misinformation with penny stocks, with crypto rhino. I don't know if you know they're in danger now because of their horns. The poachers are chopping their heads off, chopping their horns off because they think the horns have medicine. They say it's an aphrodisiac, c cancer cures covid it doesn't do anything if you actually look at the ingredient

of rhino horns you know what's in them what keratin it's our fingernails wow a rhino horn is the fingernail of a rhino it has no medicinal purposes whatsoever so what are they doing with the with the horns so in the black market like i was holding up a horn literally a horn like this that you can hold like like the size of you know this what is that funko pop the size of that that would be like 75 to 80 thousand dollars for a rhino horn correct because they grind it up they put it into powders you can like eat it like you digest it and there are these myths that say like this is you know good and it's all misinformation so we did a documentary trying to cure the misinformation you know we can't really reach like the people that need it like a lot of asian people believe this this is like asian culture um and it sucks but this one video

so i'm trading wherever i go i'm always trading and traveling i usually separate it usually i'm like trading like at night or something um and then i do like the charity during the day i don't sleep much unfortunately with this rhino operation we had to sedate this rhino it's basically there's a way to remove the horn without hurting the animals like cutting your fingernails but you have to sedate the animal because the animal doesn't know that your does the horn grow back yeah it does it's literally a fingernail oh so that's not killing around when you cut it the poachers so the poachers have to kill the animal because the animal is not just going to give up their horn easily we sedated the rhino in this video and the reason why it conflicted with my trading is because it was actually too hot out so when it's too hot out you can't sedate

an animal it's dangerous so we had to wait for it to cool down so we had to wait it was supposed to be like an 11 a.m mission it turned into like a 4 p.m mission and i had an overnight position and i'm trading every day and i'm like i can't like i'm sponsoring this rhino rescue we're sedating like they literally have to shoot the rhino with a sedative from a helicopter just to pierce the skin it's it's an intense operation but you sedate it you cut off the horn the the rhino wakes up hornless but it's fine rhino have no predators where humans are the worst predators and it grows back within three months but at least now that rhino poachers won't go after a rhino with no horn because there's no reason to try to attack that's why you did it yeah they don't want to attack a multi-ton animal when there's no prize wow so we have to do like a safe operation it's

not the oh so you guys are cutting the horns off so that the poachers don't care about the rhino for three months yeah so that was the rhino rescue and then i was in a trade and i was like how does peter feel about even still doing what you guys are doing although it's to save the animal are they are you guys getting any backlash from me well i got backlash because i'm doing the trade while the rhino is sedated next to me and i filmed it man but i am i filmed it i'm like this is not good but i have to. I show it. I have to be real.

It's good content. And one of the rhino rescuers, actually, I used her hotspot. Because you don't know where the rhino lands. This is a free rhino in the weird grounds of South Africa. South Africa. This is Africa. And luckily, where the rhino landed, and then we tried the hotspot, and I did it, and I did it and i sold i made like 500 okay not good i i could have made more but like again because i'm trading and i alert every trade i show every single trade that i do so i can't like just skip it are you

doing any development in africa i heard this it's a growing place yeah 100 i mean we have schools there we have libraries now we're doing computer labs so i just got back from brazil i was talking with uh what's his name paul yeah and he has some projects out there so like we have computer labs now in brazil um this this bracelet this is made out of acai seeds this is our all natural stuff coming soon too that's cool so this is made in like the amazon jungle so we try to like help the communities we build schools libraries computer labs and then we're also making merch there. Why do you care so much about rescuing endangered animals? So again, this comes down to traveling. At first it was like luxury gets boring. Building schools. Fantastic. It's not boring anymore. I love it. But education takes years or decades. A lot of these animals like

rhino don't have years or decades left. Like at the current rate, rhinos are going to be extinct in the next decade, unless we start to do something and start to change and the fact that it's based on misinformation this taps into my whole penny stock crypto like i hate promoters i hate these frauds like anybody who buys rhino for medicine it's a fraud there's no medicine in rhino horns and the same thing with like elephant tusks now uh giraffes are endangered they're chopping off their tails for good luck like it's any beautiful animal chopping off their tails for good luck yeah it's any body part of these wild animals people have like little mementos i'll tell you a worse thing with rhino before it was just powders and like medicine now again rhinos weren't even endangered two decades

ago now that all these myths are spread and people believe them, there's a myth that on the deathbed of an elder in a lot of Asian cultures, to show that you love the elder, if the elder is like dying and like saying goodbye to the family, the family purchases a rhino horn. And the bigger the rhino horn, they give this to the elder. On their deathbed, the elder looks at the rhino horn and then dies. And then they bury the elder with the rhino horn. And so it's a sign of respect, a twisted sign of respect. So now the biggest horns are going for even more because now any family with money is now trying to purchase this. This is only on the black market, though.

Black market, but, you know, it's all grayer. It's not even black and white anymore. Yeah, that's terrible. Like even in South Africa, a lot of like the government uh you know they have like uh banks basically with vaults that have rhino horns in them that were taken you know in a good manner the way that we did it but if you open up the security deposit boxes only like half of them are there so you got government officials are on the take too it's it's everywhere because there's just so much money and you can't even blame like the poachers in africa you know like they're they're just trying to feed their village like a lot of the villages are

starving what if like your wife dies of starvation your mom is dying of disease you have no money you have a rhino just eating grass outside the village it's not doing anything and you're just like you know they don't even want to do it right they have to and they only get paid a few hundred dollars like there's a whole criminal market where the actual like they get they do all that for a couple i mean i guess it's a lot of it it's a lot but it's like again this comes down to education so if we build schools now computer labs if we give them new skills so they can get into the new tech world right but right now there's no like most of these communities most of the third world they don't have the skill set for the next generation they're just begging like turning to crime turning

to gangs right and unfortunately rhino are disappearing a lot of these animals are disappearing 5 10 15 years from now i don't know what they're gonna do their animals are gonna be extinct and then they're gonna turn to crime even more right and these animals like rhino they're beautiful creatures but they're not like urgent urgently needed there's also pangolins i don't know if you've heard of this it's not penguins pangolins so they look like a little anteater they're like old dinosaur looking things they curl up in a ball they can protect themselves from uh you know predators but they have a tongue that like goes flying out they eat up to 10 000 insects a day right this is very useful for forests because

forests have a lot of insects if there's too many insects eating all the leaves and all the trees, the forest disappears. Unfortunately, pangolins are the number one most killed mammal right now. Again, they have scales. People eat the scales. They grind them up. Same kind of thing. The scales are made out of keratin.

I can make a whole documentary just called Keratin where all these animals that people think are medicinal and there's just- Or just has no use. So they're killing the pangolins. They're eating them. A million supposedly are killed killed we don't even know the exact numbers but we know that they're greatly reduced and they're probably endangered that's killing our forests so not only are we like chopping down the trees with lumber and like new developments now we're killing

the animals that protect the forest pangolins are known as protectors of the forest so you're doing a lot of philanthropist work right now i mean i, I'm just, like, even talking about this, like, my blood is boiling. I just hate fakes. I hate frauds. And when the frauds are destroying the planet, like, none of this ends well. We did a documentary on coral reefs.

So I have Karma Gala, which is the name of the charity. Karma, you know, good karma. Gala, my partner, Matabad, is Filipino. So Tagala Gala means to do or to make so it's like we're making good karma but we also started an offshoot called save the reef we went around the world to seven different places looking at coral reefs coral reefs are disappearing at record paces wow and it's it's terrible because coral reefs have underwater trees you don't realize this we're like oh save the trees there's more trees underwater and the trees underwater help our

atmosphere more than the overwater trees and we're underwater and the trees underwater help our atmosphere more than the overwater trees. And we're destroying all the coral reefs too. Wow. Why are they being destroyed? So the chemicals in the suntan lotion, chemicals in golf courses, golf courses are actually pretty terrible. I don't want to piss off the golfers, but how do you think they make those greens so good? There's a lot of chemicals. Then when it rains, those chemicals go into the water, kills everything. All the marine life, all the coral reefs, all the coral reefs around Hawaii, gone because of golf courses. So you're basically, what's your, I mean, people got to wear sunscreen. Well, so there's new sunscreen. So this is the cool thing. We interviewed a scientist

and he actually came up with this stat where he said like one drop of, I think it's like oxybenzano. There's complicated complicated chemical names I'm not a scientist yeah disclaimer right but there's a chemical one drop of that chemical in a body of water the size of an olympic-sized swimming pool kills the coral reefs damn and if you think and that's in sunscreen that's in sunscreen wow so they're phasing it out like Hawaii put a ban on these chemicals but it doesn't go into effect for like two years like nothing is happening overnight and we're killing it more and more overnight is it true sunscreen causes cancer so that's another thing right so if the chemicals are killing the coral reefs they're in like probably not very good for your skin either

like oh let me put this chemical on yeah i don't know they taught us growing up it was good for you yeah i don't wear it so there's yeah so there's a debate about everything like a lot of what you like think is just due to like proper marketing like i don't know if you've seen the movie idiocracy you should see idiocracy this is a mike judge film it bombed because he made fun of starbucks he said like in the future starbucks is going to give like lap dances and hand jobs so starbucks like squash the film but it's like the future and it's what happens when like you have the dumbing down of society and in the future in this movie um who is it luke wilson owen wilson no luke wilson i think he like gets into like this um you know time machine and

he accidentally goes into the future and everyone's dumb right everyone's playing video games everyone believes corporate marketing and there's a worldwide drought because no crops will grow why because a company that's very similar to gatorade has convinced everybody that you can't drink normal water you need to drink water with electrolytes. So like Luke Wilson, I think it's Luke Wilson. He's asking for a water and he's like just drinking plain water. And they're like, oh, that's terrible. That's like toilet water because they've been convinced by this evil company. And so there's a worldwide drought because they're feeding all the plants Gatorade. And Luke Wilson basically saves the world. Spoiler alert. He saves the world by giving the plants like just water and they're like you're the smartest man ever but the whole world is in this car

idiocracy it was a funny movie it bombed because he made fun of like corporations and the corporations squashed it but like that's reality that's what's going on you think like suntan lotion you need it it's due to corporate marketing and i there's probably like a thousand other examples where you think this is the case yeah so. So unfortunately, that's the world. There's a whole world of misinformation, not even just conspiracy theories, not political or anything, just like marketing with corporations.

Yeah, I agree. It's sad. It's been a pleasure, man. Any closing comments where people can find you? This, I don't know. I just talked about charity, but you know. Yeah, I mean, I'm just Timothy Sykes everywhere. Karmagawa, we have one and a half million Instagram followers followers that's growing faster because we just try to like cut through the bs and

you know we don't have like corporate donors as you might be able to tell the way i talked um with our average donor donates like 24 but you know thousands of young people and not even just donors like spreading awareness just getting the word out about this stuff so we're doing a documentary on pangolins we We have a documentary on recycling. All this stuff is coming out. Amazing. Wayne? You can follow me on Instagram at The Creator.

Sean Mike Kelly, Digital Social Hour. Thanks for tuning in, guys. See you next week.