Digital Social Hour - Memes, Money & Influence: The Secret Formula | Jack Jay DSH #1156
Episode Date: February 2, 2025Discover the ultimate secret formula behind memes, money, and influence in this mind-opening episode of the Digital Social Hour! Join host Sean Kelly and special guest Jack Jay as they explore the pow...er of memes, the rise of AI, and the deeper meaning of life itself. From "enlightened capitalism" to the transformative effects of psychedelics, Jack shares his unique insights and groundbreaking ideas you won’t hear anywhere else. Packed with valuable insights, this conversation dives into how AI is shaping our world, the future of education, and even the potential for a meme-driven religion. Plus, Jack reveals his innovative use of Giphy to control the meme universe and how billionaires are tapping into psychedelics for creativity and personal growth. Don’t miss out on this captivating discussion that will challenge your perspective and empower you to think outside the box. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! #spiritualempowermentaltar #spiritualempowermentkawuku #socialimpact #spiritualempowerment #joerogan #socialimpact #ai #artificialintelligence #socialchange #machinelearning CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - Jack's Story 02:29 - Religion & Spirituality 06:26 - Psychedelics and Consciousness 09:32 - Finding Meaning in Life 12:06 - Impact of AI on Education 14:25 - Monetizing Memes Online 16:25 - TikTok's Influence on Generations 21:00 - Strategies to Save the World 22:24 - Solutions to Fix Global Issues 24:06 - AI's Impact on Humanity 25:57 - Opposition to Neuralink Technology 30:26 - Critique of Video Games 32:11 - Awakening to AI Realities 32:54 - Analyzing "Don't Look Up": AI Themes APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com GUEST: Jack Jay https://www.instagram.com/jackjay.io SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
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General is to empower as many other people as possible.
I like this term that I call enlightened capitalism and I think this is something which will actually
become more of a truth over time is that the only eternal currency is let's say good karma
is one of the best ways to represent the empowerment of others.
All right welcome back to the digital social hour.
I'm your host, Sean Kelly here with a great guest today.
Jack J.
Thank you for having me.
How's it going, man?
So beautiful time.
Grateful to be here.
Grateful to be alive.
Yes, you're pretty low key.
So I'm going to need you to tell people your story.
It's an ever-evolving story.
Can kind of sum it up with never had a job,
just been building stuff since the beginning
and always thinking deeply about why I'm here,
what's the meaning of life,
really driven to think about life as a video game
and then thinking about how can I really play it well?
How can I become someone who all respect a thousand years in the future?
If I'm able to live that long, you know?
So you want to hit a thousand?
I want to live indefinitely.
I like to say.
Immortality.
Indefinitely.
Okay.
I think immortality is actually more scary to like have to live permanently,
but I definitely want optionality and I definitely want to alleviate a lot of have to live permanently.
you would want to still live or would you want to transfer your soul to another body? That scares me a little bit in terms of the transfer.
I'm unsure. We don't really know all about
consciousness. I think that's something we're just starting to explore. We looked
towards space through the 60s. Now we're really starting to look internally
and study ourselves, which is very, very interesting.
I'm not sure about the soul transfer,
a consciousness transfer.
I'd like just to maintain the health of my body for sure.
I do think we're programmed to die.
Evolutionarily, this was a effective model to
continue getting gene mutation forward to allow us to be
more adaptive to an environment.
Do you believe the world is losing sense of religion and spirituality? 100%. I mean, 100% on the decline. I like to think about it like this.
I have an interesting take on this front. Basically, the internet was a big push
of a decrease of people's faiths. Where people used to be zealots on certain topics,
I think they're more like sports fans now.
Or they're like, I grew up this, I believe this, I identify as this.
You may put it down on the card, but people are really not the same in terms of,
what they're asked to do is be full preachers, full devotion.
I think that has good values, but the bad value side and why what they're asked to do is be full preachers, full devotion.
I think that has good values, but the bad value side and why some people are moving away from it
is because also each one of these religions,
for the most part, is claiming
we are the only true religion.
And I think people are consciously aware that,
hey, this was just passed down to me from a familial aspect.
It's not like I had a coming to with God specifically here. I don't believe that
my friend who's of a different religion is wrong. I don't think mine's right.
I think we have different pathways to get to the same truth. And so I think to some
degree, the internet was a connective nature of what you could call
our global brain.
Say we're all neurons, we're all sharing
information like axons and dendrites in a brain.
The internet changed the speed of our brain
from a horse to the speed of light.
Now we're interconnected at sharing information
at such a fast rate, it made us have to face these
truths and come together online and realize that no one truly has the truth. If there was one true
truth, the internet connecting everyone, we would have seen a ton of people moving towards one
certain religion. And really instead it was more, well, faith is good, these values are good, but it's just good that we have those
good values and we stick to that core. So the global brain almost realized, hey, I have so
many different belief systems and there's no belief system of the internet today. I do think
that will emerge. I do think that will be a positive emergence. I do think it will be an
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No, I'm not a metafiction is basically a story
Which claims to be false but represents itself as true? Okay, and so it's it's bet
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To that degree.
Got it, got it.
And so to that, it's like, okay,
we're gonna pick our own story.
We're gonna pick our own narrative.
We're gonna have some sort of narrative or creation story.
But as long as we represent that as, yeah, we made this up,
but it's positive that we believe in this,
I think that's gonna be great.
And I think that could going to be great.
And I think that could be a positive thing for humanity, to have that positive story.
I think we're lacking really big positive narratives that are deep and spiritual and connect people to their
highest selves and give people a purpose and reason and why to really dedicate themselves to becoming their highest self.
I love that. So there was an article in the Wall Street Journal today that dove into the lives of billionaires
and it was revealed that a lot of them take psychedelics.
You strike me as a guy that takes psychedelics.
What is your opinion on psychedelics?
Well, I do believe that
they completely changed my life when I was 18.
When I was searching for meaning, a little bit nihilistic.
And after taking mushrooms, I had a come to experience, it was spiritual, it was almost
like the closest I could really say to meeting God. But it was, you know, at its core, the total
diminishing of my ego, fully experiencing reality from a new plane.
I like to think of psychedelics as somewhat of,
your brain's always operating on a default mode network.
You can think of that like a ski resort.
You're normally going down the same lanes every day,
somewhat sort of changing it.
Psychedelics is like this temporary avalanche.
And then it's a clean slate.
You can now ski entirely new routes. You can think in new ways.
And the avalanche eventually goes away. The old routes are there,
but the new ones are too.
And the new ones can be so improved cause you can come at it from an entirely
new perspective. So yeah, I mean,
it inspired me when I read that Steve Jobs said that was one of the most five
important things that he ever did in his life in terms of me taking it at that time when I was 18.
Yeah.
With my friends.
And I do think it allows just that external creativity and thinking that's outside the box,
that allows people to innovate to a different degree and
see the world in a different way and think about where the future may be going.
And that helps these billionaires reach those heights and innovate and be creative about
the direction of their companies.
So I think it's beautiful.
I think there's a little bit of a revolution.
I was just at the psychedelic conference in Denver.
There's a conference? Yeah. Oh, that's sick little bit of a revolution.
I was just at the psychedelic conference in Denver.
It wasn't something like a festival where you see a bunch of very trippy people or hippies.
It was actually quite corporate.
I mean, the tickets were 800 bucks, so that probably had a barrier to the degree of person who could attend.
But yeah, it was a very intelligent crowd, a very open-minded crowd.
That sounds like my crowd, man.
Yeah.
Was it just a bunch of speakers or how was it laid out, the conference?
Yeah, so there's main conference and then obviously side events.
Lots of speakers, Paul Stamets, Aaron Rodgers.
Really? He takes psychedelics?
I would assume so.
I think a lot of NFL players are getting into it
because of all the PTSD and then degenerative brain diseases
that come with just slamming your head together
in a plastic helmet for so long.
Yeah, and there's studies coming out that it fixes anxiety
and depression now too, right?
Yes, yes.
And you mentioned you were depressed at a young age. Yeah, and there's studies coming out that it fixes anxiety and depression now too, right? Yes, yes.
And you mentioned you were depressed at a young age.
Walk me through that battle and what you realized afterwards.
I think there was a connection with the idea that everything was going to go away,
and that led me to this idea that this is meaningless.
And I think what psychedelics did was it showed me
that I don't know shit,
that it is somewhat egotistical for me to claim
that there's no meaning.
And then farther than that,
look at all these amazing people
who have given you so much love.
What can you just do for them?
This is an opportunity.
This is an opportunity to be there and to become someone great for your family,
for your community, and then even farther than that, for the world.
Like if you really focus on living an amazing life path, imagine how much you can do.
Do you not want to do that?
That was sort of the new mindset it gave me.
It broke down these barriers and that was beautiful.
I love that.
I went through that phase too
where I didn't think there was a meaning to life.
I wonder how many people actually experienced that.
So have you found your meaning?
Yes.
I think in general,
it's to empower as many other people as possible.
I like this term that I call enlightened capitalism.
And I think this term that I call enlightened capitalism. And I think this is something which will actually become more of a truth over time
is that the only eternal currency is let's say good karma is one of the best
ways to represent the empowerment of others.
And it's really just the idea.
I mean, artificial intelligence talk is obviously heating up.
It's amazing just to watch and use GPT-4 and all these other things and be like,
wow, yeah, I mean, this intelligence is rapidly, rapidly increasing.
And even Elon Musk has gone on record and said in 20 years, we won't be able to
really like see reality the same way.
It's going to be so different.
He fully believes that.
There's lots of people online who believe this, which is why there's like billions of
dollars pouring into an AI safety field.
There's you know, spactions forming online.
One who's saying, effective accelerationism.
We need to accelerate. This is going to help save the world.
And then there's the deceleration people who are like, stop this.
This might destroy us. Terminator, Skynet level. Speaking of AI, how do you think AI will shape
the public education system? focus on the guiding light of the creation of value for the world. Because if you, if you look at chat GPT as a calculator for the English language,
you just unlock a lot of potential for these people.
You're going to be able to use this in the workforce.
So why not teach the kids, change the infrastructure of what needs to be taught?
Cause now the economic landscape has just changed.
Because now the economic landscape has just changed. So I 100% think it's changing education in a vast degree
that we're not even fully capable of realizing yet
how much that needs to change.
But I think the solution isn't too scary.
It's just a connection of the creation of value while in school.
You know, that's why I dropped out was it wasn't connecting me
and teaching me how to build a business right away.
Like, hey, this is four years.
That's a lot of time, as you know.
It is, and you're prime years too.
You've gone so far in four years.
Yeah, in your prime, right when you're sort of thinking
about who you are in the world,
and when you still have that idealistic nature and capability to have big dreams. Right. you're sort of thinking about who you are in the world
and when you still have that idealistic nature and capability to have big dreams.
Right. And you also gave up a D1 football offer because you wanted to protect your brain, right?
You did your research.
I did. Why did you decide to go that route? Because that could have been a whole different life path for you?
path and that was very direct. It was very solid. My coach was very upset for me saying no of course, but I knew that there was so much more potential in compound interest and
just learning to create things, learning to innovate. And that's why I took that path
and I'm happy I did.
Yeah. One of the things you specialize in is memes. How are you able to use memes to
make money?
So a recent thing that I had one of my teams figure out was on Giphy.
If you're familiar with Giphy itself. So they service Telegram,
iMessage, Discord, all of the dating apps like Bumble, Tinder,
just wherever you see a Giphy keyboard, the Instagram stickers, the TikTok stickers,
even Instagram comments now, that's all funneling from Giphy.
Wow.
And so I've used that for a while
and just uploaded the stickers and memes
and had my teams make these things
because it's cool if you search it up.
And then I was like, well, they must have a ranking system
as well.
I'm running SEO on Google.
Well, there must be SEO that's possible here. And so I just hired a few developers have a ranking system as well.
We did some work with Lucanets and Pudgy Penguins helping them get up and get big.
I did it for this new AI search engine called U.com.
They're getting more views than Google itself now
on their gifts of, you know,
that one was easy to make a ton of gifts for.
We automated a ton,
because we just took a list of 10,000
of popular search terms and then put it typing it
into the search asset.
Wow. So I got to make some for the show then.
Yeah. I do believe it's very, very powerful at just influencing culture. It's more searches than
Google images itself. It's like over 10 billion GIFs served daily.
look on our generation, people our age, we get a lot of hate, our attention spans are going down because of TikTok and stuff. Where do you see us? Do you see us in a good light or how do you view it?
I think you have to see it in a good light. I love thinking that way.
I think we need to look at everything that brought us here to this moment
as divine. I like to say everything happened for a good reason. And if it didn't, it's better to think that it did.
Now that being said, we need to understand that TikTok, Instagram
reels and YouTube shorts are soul sucking demons that are maximizing,
disempowering you and keeping you in bed all day.
They're building a voodoo doll with 10 to 20,000 data points of who you are
with the top engineers and billions of dollars to just keep you doing
nothing but using that app.
It is an engagement algorithm.
It is maximize as much value from you as possible.
And I think what's really funny to me is all these groups which have had billions of dollars
go into ethical AI or aligning AI, they're saying, you know, AI may affect us in the future really negatively.
We need to do theoretical research about the future to get there.
What's so silly is that, no, it's very misaligned
today. That means that a majority
of all information that we upload and download has
a middleman, which is a soul sucking demon,
pushing whatever content that we see towards the
bottom of our brainstem, towards the stuff which
extracts from us that makes us, you know, one could
say in a lower vibrational frequency if that
resonates with someone.
Right.
But in general, just lower to the brainstem,
the limbic system.
Yeah.
The stuff that doesn't bring out
your higher self.
And I think what's really interesting is that
we haven't aligned AI to humans.
We haven't made a feed which maximizes the value
that it gives to you, which would be a feed
that just recommends videos based on what gets people
to leave the app.
So you try to leave the app.
So you try to minimize the amount of time it takes to inspire or empower someone.
That's how you sort the feed. I'd say it's pretty good content for what I'm trying to achieve, but I understand what you're saying about the mindless stuff.
So yeah, the engagement algorithm at the end of the day is not just going to give you pure crap,
but what it's going to do is to give you stuff which is just going to maximize the amount of time
you're spending on it. servicing your sort of wants and needs.
videos that are inspiring people and empowering people. And if you look at the engagement numbers on those relative to other videos,
so the likes, the shares, the comments, etc., they are
way more engaged, but they're not getting pushed as much in terms of views.
Well, these are videos that get someone probably
so excited that they exit the app. Maybe they go call their mom or work on
their dreams and everything.
Yeah.
And so those are getting diminished.
They're getting hampered in terms of how far.
If you imagine the perfect video that when someone watches it,
anyone goes, wow, this is amazing.
I'm going to go work on my hopes and dreams.
And they exit the app.
That is going to get killed pretty quickly in the current algo state.
And that's exactly what the world needs is to share that information
Yeah, an engagement algorithm
Wants to push controversy. That's what keeps people on the apps
That's what keeps people on Twitter is fighting about things controversy and comments. Yeah, so it's driving more
Polarity and you know building opposing sides more than I think we realize
I mean, I like to think of media as like the nervous system of our global organism.
And right now, our nervous system has co-opted to want to
drive controversy. And it's like, okay, why
is there so much fighting online? Well, we have misaligned AI.
We don't have platforms that try to unify us.
We are being controlled by AI to a large degree.
I'll agree, because I will say my most viewed videos are all people debating in the comments and dividing.
Yes.
How would you save the world based off the path we're going right now?
Good question. I think about that a lot.
I just filed a foundation called systemic altruism.
There was one group that came together called effective altruism that somewhat
became the Silicon Valley religion, like do the most good possible.
What they didn't do was storytelling.
What they didn't do was like show the impact and focus on the masses.
I actually did my Giphy service for them out of love.
I was like, more people need to see this.
I guess they'd existed since 2012.
And I'm like, how I have I not found this sooner.
This seems like my people.
Right.
So I blasted that out, posted about,
oh, it got you 10 million views in the past week.
And then I got a call scheduled from the Center
for Effective Altruism, their head of risk management.
They tell me, take that down.
You know, we don't, we don't want to reach out to the masses.
We don't want to like pollute our water.
They're recruiting from Harvard, Oxford.
And it just was so elitist.
Wow.
And like, to me, that's the main thing that the elite fail to do is to
build a populist movement or to storytell, or to actually like focus on empowering people
and culture to like rise us all up. Isn't that the best opportunity we have to be the most
resilient to all the things we'll face? And so that at the core is what my differences were
with effective altruism was that it was not systemic.
A lot of the funding they were doing, you know, it was great.
I really appreciate the fact that people are thinking about this and talking about this.
But also, we need to understand that focusing on symptoms rather than causes is never going to solve the core driving problem.
So I started thinking about that. What are those core driving problems?
And that's what led me to think about misaligned AI today,
how that's driving controversy between people.
It's platforming clowns.
If you're crazy enough, if you do wild enough things,
you're gonna get a ton of views.
And so not only does that give people
a false view of reality,
where they think the world's more crazy than it is, people in a false view of reality,
where they think the world's more crazy than it is.
But it also gives people an incentive to be crazy.
Correct. Rather than them becoming full of strength and courage and virtue and rewarding just them empowering other people and getting other people to like,
go be your best self, get off this app, you know? And I think Tate was the first person to break that mold.
Yes.
He was able to go viral without doing crazy shit, you know?
Yes, he was very controversial.
He did have that edge, but I think he did realize
that the thing that was most important
about what he was spreading was the strength aspect
for males was like, try to be an exemplar
of positive masculinity. We shouldn't push down, we should always seek to push up. was the strength aspect for males.
Try to be an exemplar of positive masculinity.
We shouldn't push down, we should always seek to push up.
We should find the exemplars of positive masculinity, platform them, support them, talk about why they're so great.
Absolutely. Do you ever see AI getting out of hand like Terminator style? Does that worry you at all?
What worries me is that we don't take this engagement algorithm today and fix it now.
Is that we keep spending theoretically on that happening in the future and we don't align AI to the sense of taking people's like souls and just trying to maximize
the extraction of them because these systems are getting more powerful.
They're getting more persuasive.
They are going to and already have lots of people who have AI girlfriends.
That's going to get stronger.
They're going to get more lifelike. And so the worry with AI is that it takes people away
from like base reality, from connection,
that it ruins the interconnectedness that we have as humans.
In my super far thinking, I like to say
there's a few things I'll be zealots about
or I'll be a zealot about, which is like,
no AI should ever be made indistinguishable from a human. be zealots about, or I'll be a zealot about.
Which is like, no AI should ever be made indistinguishable from a human.
I never want to be able to not tell.
Because we eventually will have great technology and great power to do that.
And I never, never want to talk to an AI, think that that's a human, and then it's not.
Because that's going to make me meet other humans and be like, I don't know.
That kind of ruins your connection to base reality, one could say.
Same thing, Inception was a good movie about this.
We should never have a VR reality that's indistinguishable from our reality with Neuralink and all that crazy stuff that's coming.
Because then when you come back to base reality,
you don't know if it's actually base reality.
That's true.
So you're not about Neuralink, you wouldn't get it?
I definitely would not be the first.
And I definitely think we are going to start
to have to think about where the limit is.
I think there is a limit to how much we should tap into, you know, merging our
brains with super intelligence.
Yeah.
You know, one deep thing I could say is I don't think that we should be men here
who try to become gods because I think we're God trying to become man.
Hmm.
That's, that's, hold on.
I got to think about that. What? So we're God trying to become man. Hold on, I gotta think about that, what?
So we're God trying to become man.
So everyone's God you're saying.
Yeah.
I've heard that theory before.
We all have that energy, right?
We're all part of the greater cause.
If we all try to seek to maximize our power together,
that's destructive.
But if we all look towards each other and say,
wow, this is like a beautiful thing that we're here together.
Let's just try to like continue this forward.
To me, that's somewhat of like Buddha was on to. So you don't believe in war, you believe in uniting everyone. For sure.
What that looks like, you know, I don't think there's some perfect solution.
It sounds very hard just because of all the dividing factors, like religion,
just racism and stuff like that.
I think that we live in a late stage capitalism society, which means we've
done a lot of extraction.
We've done a lot of things which doesn't actually focus on maximizing
the health and mindsets of people.
We've just been destroying that.
The suicide rates and depression rates have been on the rise
since the smartphone was released.
You think it's tied to that?
100%.
I mean, it's directly correlated to iPhone release date.
Some very prominent figures like Paul Graham,
who started Y Combinator, have been tweeting about this.
And basically he tweeted, you know, we all know what the problem is. Paul Graham, who started Y Combinator,
is supposed to literally destroy your vices. It has become the vice.
But I think that it can destroy our vices
if we just properly align the recommender system
to maximizing value for the user.
Which is if someone is watching a feed of videos
and they say, this video is great,
now I'm going to exit because of this video.
We can then rank the videos on what got people to exit.
Right.
And I think that's a powerful solution.
But that doesn't align with the platform because then they're losing money.
So how would you argue that that's good for them?
I think that's where things like Web3 can come into the picture,
which really just monetize community and it monetizes value. And you know, currency itself is faith-based assets.
And so, you know, that's, that's an interesting
format of pushing this out there that I've been
trying and thinking of is, okay, I have this app
Empowerverse and that has a bunch of these different
empowering apps, one called White Pill.
And then I made one called Holy Vibel. I have this app Empowerverse and that has a bunch of these different empowering apps,
one called White Pill.
And then I made one called Holy Vibal.
Cause really like the idea is to search for the holiest of vibes and what pushes people.
Yeah.
And I also did some writing about how I do think the next sort of global
philosophy or religion will form.
And since I do think it's sort of just open-ended, just fun, just spreading good
vibes, like pointing towards people's highest selves, but not claiming to be
divine truth, I think it will be a meme religion.
And so Holy Vibal fits that stack and it fits with the idea of having a token
related to this app, because look, we're not going to monetize with ads.
We're trying to not have people use the app as much as possible. of having a token related to this app,
because look, we're not going to monetize with ads.
We're trying just to feed you value and create a community
of people who want to become their highest selves.
And I think from that perspective, look, the core to serve video.
Take on your Twitter. You said video games are a waste of time one of the worst things you could do
Why do you feel so strongly about that? I say it's one of the worst things you can do. Yeah
Nice, I like that
It was a year ago, so I don't know if your opinion has changed, but why did you tweet that out at the time? I
think that life is
The best video game that there is I think it's a beautiful gift.
Like, I understand late at night, relaxing,
playing a game with friends, that type of thing.
But I think video games, for the most part,
for most people, become an escape.
Become a distraction.
And at the end of the day, these are getting better as well
at hacking your reward system.
That's all of where all this depression comes from,
is that we're using artificial sources of deriving and getting dopamine.
And then it's like, why is it hard to go after your goals?
Well, you've just been overstimulating yourself.
Your body, evolutionarily, wants to maximize its capability.
To get dopamine with the least amount of effort,
and sort of think about that as like dopamine divided by calories.
And so video games where you can sit in a chair and achieve things and get
rewards, it's faking gratification.
That same energy that your brain is outputting has the potential to be It's faking gratification.
That same energy that your brain is outputting has the potential to be gratifying in the real world, in your life path, in helping other people.
And so I think there's lots of games that you can play in the real world.
And you've got to create these games. You can play them with friends that create a ton of value. And I think we do somewhat need to wake up to the fact that AI is
moving very, very quickly. And to that degree, there's somewhat of a limited
amount of time for us to play this game where it really matters.
Yeah.
You know, there will be a certain point when we have such powerful AI systems that either we align it to humanity and everything is really amazing.
And then there is the fear-based state where people are like, this is going to be Skynet.
And at the end of the day, if that's our thoughts, and if we have the richest person in the world,
Elon Musk saying this is happening in the next two decades and that's supported thoughts, and if we have the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, saying this is happening in the next two decades,
and that's supported by top researchers,
it's almost like the movie, Don't Look Up.
Have you seen that?
It's almost metaphorical to the top researchers
are talking about the comet.
The comet is AI.
And if true, playing video games
seems kind of silly to me right now.
It does.
Jack, it's been a pleasure, man.
Where can people find you?
JackJ.io on Instagram, JackJ.io on Twitter.
There we go, guys.
Thanks for tuning in.
That was a blast.
I'll see you next time.
Cheers.
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