RAWTALK - JOSH RICHARDS ON DATING DRAMA, BFF'S PODCAST, DAVE PORTNOY, & EATING SH*T

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

Some of you may or may not know our special guest who is a Canadian, entrepenuer, podcaster, YouTuber, & TikTok star JOSH RICHARDS. We speak about his continued growth & success in the world of business and social media. He speaks on the experiences he faces on his journey to future success: business moves, development of ANI Energy, podcasting, social media influencers, drama, relationships, growth, & public heartbreak. Josh Richards has accomplished these things all at the age of 20 and continues to push his limits with building his career. Let's see what he has planned next...SPONSORSPRIZE PICKS: Sign up for PrizePicks here: https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?invite_code=BRAD”BETTERHELP: Take charge of your mental health and get 10% off your first month with BetterHelp at https://betterhelp.com/RAWTALK SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/c/REALRAWTALK?sub_confirmation=1LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rawtalk/id1294154339FOLLOW RAWTALK PODCAST:INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/getrawtalkTIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/@askrawtalkFOLLOW BRADLEY:INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/bradleymartynSUBSCRIBE TO RAWTALK PODCAST CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvzSBNBOK599FqzrTZS8ScQ/?sub_confirmation=1SUBSCRIBE TO LIFE OF BRADLEY MARTYN: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTQG2aMDYKGDqYEGqJb1FA/?sub_confirmation=1SUBSCRIBE TO FITNESS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/bradleymartynonline?sub_confirmation=1RAWGEAR: https://www.rawgear.com (CODE:RAW)

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I also want to fuck the hair up too. All right. So international TikTok fuck boy Josh Ray. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding What an intro Yeah no Obviously not

You do so much more Because the thing I find interesting about you And what I want to get into today Is like how much you've accomplished And how much you actually work on At such a young age Like What are some of the things you do

I have an idea But I want you to kind of tell Because I don't think people really realize You know Like I said I made the joke about being a TikTok fuck boy Yeah Which you kind of started there

But you I think out of you and the rest of all the fuck boys i think it was sway at one point yep yep um you seem to have like gone in a a very business like direction and you've and you've done really well yeah thank you thank you i mean i always was pretty business-minded as a kid right like growing up i was always a kid that was like hustling buying gum at the convenience store they're bringing it to school and selling it like for how old are you right now i'm 20 you're still a kid yeah yeah i'm still a kid It's still a kid, but when I was a younger kid, like going to elementary school,

like I had a lacrosse business where I would dye the mesh and wax coat it, sell it to kids, string their sticks. I had a hockey shirt company with my buddy where we would put different slogans on it. And you were how old? The hockey shirt was grade four. So whatever age you are in grade four, I guess. But it was always just like I was trying to find different ways to make money. And then when I came across social media with my sister, I was like, wow, this is something I feel like I can really capitalize. on there's you're building a customer basis like right in your hand right right on your phone you

have the customer so from there went and started talent X which was the management company and everything and after that it was just how can I start owning equity instead of cash so we did the energy drink we started angel investing into like different companies in series a b c precede and then from there went and really jumped in and started a venture fund so we raised 18 million dollars to go and to invest into different companies and who's we uh me marshal salmon michael gruin uh griffin johnson and noa beck were the ones that did the fund together but okay it really started when i was angel investing and asking to angel invest like with my business partners just saying like how can i start using my money and making my money work for me and make more money

yeah did like your parents teach you about this shit when you were younger because this is the thing I think that's really interesting and we still don't do it like as a society we don't teach our kids about like taxes and money and like all the things that really matter where it's more focused on like I don't know getting a job yeah math and like history and shit yeah and then you and then like when you're 20 22 23 and you don't know shit about taxes and like money and you get fucked so did your parents get you on that route like what made you even think that um I mean I think I was always a numbers guy because my dad was a calculus teacher. So he was always like trained me as a kid just to love math.

And then from that, I just, that's why I fell in love with social media. It's a numbers game. But did you like math? I loved math. I fucking hate math. Oh, math was my favorite. Dude, I really hate math. Besides like lunch or gym, it was like math is right there.

Like, I'm good at counting fucking 45s and I swear, dude. Yeah, you can multiply 45s like that probably. Yep, yep. And then thousands and that's it, man. No, yeah, I love doing the math stuff. So I think, like, in a way, that kind of made me business-minded. So, yeah, credit to my dad for that. But it's not like I was getting taught how to do my taxes when I was seven years old or 10 years old or 12 years old, right?

It was just something. I think the business world was just something that always intrigued me. Yeah. But was it just like, where did that come? Like, your dad must have put it in you to think of that? Like, because they supported me, right? Like, my parents supported me, but I'm from a small town. Like, we're small town people.

It's like 15,000 people. outside of Toronto like yeah tiny town so it's my dad's a high school teacher at a school with 800 people my mom's a speech pathologist it's they don't really think about the business world they're not really involved in that right so um I think it was just they were supporting me as parents because they're great parents and they wanted me to believe in myself and have confidence but I don't know if they really thought at the start like holy shit this is going to be able to take off into a huge business just like I didn't like so what got you interested in business like out of because like that's the thing like I said out of all the other boys right like you you seem

to me to be doing like the most in that business world at least it's what it looks like from the outside yeah what got you what made what do you think made you like go that way like why did you go that direction was there someone who came into your life it was like hey you should think about this or like what made you take it serious yeah so two things one i grew up watching social media like i grew up watching people like i mean like the knelk boys when i was in high school or like Logan Paul, Jake Paul. And besides those three names I named, everyone else that I was watching

and social media would come up and then fall away in like a year, right? Maybe two years. So I knew that what I had when I blew up on TikTok was possibly fleeting and it was kind of like lightning in the bottle, right? So I had to capitalize on everything I possibly could. So that's creating different sources of revenue.

That's creating stuff that's going to cash out in seven years, not just like that instantaneous gratification of like going a lot, making a couple hundred bucks and putting it in your pocket, right? Yeah. So I think that's what really drove me. I'd seen so many people think, oh, well, I'm going to be different in social media. I'm going to last seven years, 10 years, but they don't.

So I just kind of lit a fire under my ass. And then I had people around me like Michael Gruen when I was first starting this. That would help me out with the business stuff and definitely helped me kind of figure out what I wanted to do. Yeah. So, but what made you realize like, because it's just crazy how young you are, What made you realize that it was fleeting? Like what, just because you saw people come up and then crash and burn? Yeah, 100%.

Just seeing the people go up and down, up and down. And I mean, once, once you've made it and then you kind of crash, it's a lot harder to get back up, right? Because people have already like seen you and know what you're about and they're kind of just like, oh, yeah. You're not new. You're not exciting. So yeah. I think also it brings me into a little bit of a different demo or at least it keeps me in the news when I'm doing all this business stuff as well, right? So people that aren't just in the TikTok world.

are getting to see Josh Richards, because there's people now in the venture capitalist world that know my name, right? Because of the venture funder. There's people that are in the startup world that know about me because I was angel investing or there's people in the movie industry, movie and TV industry that know me

because I have a production company, right? So it's like it's being able to build all these, I guess like build on all these different platforms, build on all these different areas and continue to kind of stay relevant. Yeah. So you have, I mean, You said these other companies, like the production company, the angel investing company,

like, are you, you're not necessarily the one operating in managing these things. You're more as a partner. Like, how is that working? Like, what's your dynamic within the companies? Yeah. So a lot of the time, it'll start off where it's like, I'm very heavy focused on it. And then once it's able to start running smoothly and we have it operating, that's when and usually we'd bring in an operator from the beginning or like the head of my venture fund,

for example, is Marshall Salmon. So shut up Marshall, he kills it. But what would happen is at the very beginning, it was like, me, Marshall, Michael, and we were going on calls all day, like, I mean six to eight hours a day, 30 minute calls, and we're calling different venture funds, we're calling different venture capitalists, angel investors, family offices, trying to raise the money, right, and learn about the space as well. And then once we really get a flow to the fund at the very beginning, it was all the companies came through, all of us. We were all doing due diligence on every single thing.

As time went on, now Marshall's, as the head of the fund, gets to do a lot of that kind of like nitty and gritty work and then he comes with the companies at the end and he's able to kind go through them with me and be like all right do we like this do we not let's go through you know here's the co-founders do we like the co-founders so it's not as hands-on as it was at the beginning but that's kind of how we set it up we bring in the right operators we bring in the right partners and they're able to go with it and then I'm able to be a part of six different things like almost like more as an advisory role it seems like yeah yeah yeah yeah definitely as an advisory but like for the fun like I'm I'm a GP for the fun like a general partner so

So it's just depending on the company and how much time I'm going to devote to that company is, is kind of like how we decide how big my role is. Yeah. What do you have the most fun doing, do you think? Definitely my podcast. Definitely my podcast. The podcast's the best, dude. It's so much fun.

And it's really where I get to kind of just be Josh Richards. Like I don't have to put on a business cap or I don't have to put on like the production cap. It's just like I get to just be like the 20 year old kid. Yeah. That's fucking, I have the most fun doing this shit. It's so much fun. So the production thing, what like products, what productions has it worked on?

Like what productions is it working on? Yeah. So I mean, brand new crosscheck started it about a year ago. So right now we have a couple different things in development. If that's like stuff that's going to be kind of in the sports world or sports realm, we announced, I believe, I hope I'm not fucking spoiling anything. But we announced a show called like Celebrb Bet, for example, where it's going to be celebrity. and influencers and they're going up against each other in a wager, right? So let's say you had like, you and Arnold Schwarzenegger go up against each other

and like some sort of fun like... Is this versus backed? No, no, no, no, no, it's not. I believe it's not, no, no, no. But it's kind of like just going on like that type of stuff. Or, for example, like we'll work on a lot of things in the dock space. So we'll talk to people like Wayne Gretz going to do in his Michael Jordan story, right? So it's like it's getting into a lot of the sports space because that stuff I love.

And then also doing a lot of unscripted and like Gen Z content focus for sure. Yeah. So you're, are you doing with NHL? You're in the sports, obviously. I was the advisor to pretty much like the advisor to Gary Bettman and just like what we could do with the league, what we could kind of add to the league to make it a little bit more exciting or just get the youth really into hockey. Because it is such an expensive sport to start off, right? It's fucking crazy expensive to play.

like and so how do we get like ball hockey tournaments going on in these like smaller communities right like that's what I'm looking to do how do we go and like build a cool like outdoor like outdoor ball hockey tournament have a huge tournament like a pro am tournament get a bunch of influencers there get a bunch of NHL players out there and then be able to supply these these kids that live in the town with like sticks and balls and then they can go out and play ball hockey and become a fan of the game right like everyone should be able to have the chance to play hockey if they want to so that's just kind of what you know i've played hockey once oh really yeah how to go um so actually it's a really cool story no it's a really cool story i didn't actually play hockey for real for real but i i play goalie

in backyard hockey against austin matthews in arizona and the guy who's the actual goalie and i don't know his name excuse me i apologize to hockey fans um i think the guy who's the actual goalie for that same team which is oh for Toronto for Toronto for Matthews yeah yeah so and guess what maybe it was I did this with the boys yeah and we never put this content out because something was going on and they didn't want to release it or some shit at the timing for for Austin was this was this pre-any show was this before he got no he drafted or was he already drafted he was in it

he was okay okay so and they didn't want to release this I forgot who was there filming me this was before Jacob but anyways I've never put on anything like ever gear all this i put all this stuff on probably looks so big yeah so here's the deal i was i was playing goalie and i was just blocking just little shots it wasn't with a real puck it was a some like i don't know like practice thing or something okay was it like a little orange one or something yes light ones yeah so they're like see if you could we did it was for a bit they're like see if you could block these okay so guess what i blocked them all really yes bro and i still i want to release that footage so bad that's a like huge flex i know it's a massive flex and i'm so sad that i never

got to release it because like literally i'm talking about austin matthews and and they're goalie like i kind of dogged them both i so essentially and i've never played hockey in my life so that means essentially i'm the greatest hockey goalie of all time of all exactly wow and we'll never get to know because you'll never step into the pads again never i remember they lace me up there's something on the story way back in a day they're like lacing up these big ass like shingard things like what did you play you know i don't know what the fuck they're called i didn't play any of that Yeah, goalie pads. No, I played center.

I played center in hockey, so. So was that me, was that like a fast? I don't know shit about hockey. I feel bad. I take the face offs, you know? Take the face off. I'm forward. Who gets to fight?

Who? I mean, anyone gets to fight. But it's usually like the enforcers that are going to be fighting. So just guys that are bigger on the team, right? Like, if you have first line sentiment, he's probably not going to ever fight because he's probably a really quick guy. He's probably a little bit smaller. He's probably your goal score or like he's getting a lot of points for your team.

So you don't want him to get hurt. no so what it will often happen is like you're going to have defense on that line that there's going to be one d that's like a little bit a little bit tougher right and he's going to make sure if that guy gets hit too hard i'm in there fucking up whoever hit my guy so how does it fighting in hockey work because i feel naive asking this question i'm to be honest but they like the reps are like oh we'll let this go for a little bit oh yeah they don't like how does it go as soon as someone hits the ice they stop it so it's like if someone's on the ice you're not allowed to keep punching them like that's kind of hockey etiquette right because their head can whiplash into the ice

hockey is so cool that they allow people to fight it's so awesome it's like they like I mean there's like there's moments where when like playoff hockey for example is right now right and it starts to get really heated there'll be three or four fights on the ice happening at the same time and it's just the whole line pretty much everyone that's out on the ice is all just fighting the rest just standing there just like it's just a cool concept to me because it's like it you know sports in general or such like a competitive thing to get be able to allow like people to get to that level and like fist fighting is so Big knuckles on blades

It's the most nuts thing Yeah man Have you ever been at a hockey fight? Yeah yeah I mean like when I was younger We would get into like fights once in a while Because I didn't play like super level or high level hockey So if anyone like is from Canada And they know what A hockey is or A hockey

There's so much fighting Because at that point when you get to a certain age You kind of know like I feel like kids are just doing it I'm not making it to the NHL anymore You know what I mean? I feel like they're doing it just to fight Exactly they're like okay I'm not going to play competitive hockey so I can just go and blow kids up.

Like it's just people are looking for someone with their head down with the puck and seeing how big of a hit. Like how do you know when you could hit someone in hockey? I don't, how does it? They have the puck and they aren't like, you know, there's like boarding and charging. So it's like you can't take like,

you can't just like if I see you all the way down the ice, I can't just take stride after stride after stride and head hunt you and then blow you up, right? Like you're only allowed to think like it's on like two strides kind of thing before you go and hit a guy. Or so you're supposed to kind of glide, right? Your feet aren't supposed to leave the ground and then you can, like, go hit them.

Oh, okay. And then, like, you can't jump and hit. You got to make sure, like, your elbow doesn't go up into the face. Like, there's a couple different rules. So, like, if someone does something. Can't hit them from behind if they're, like, standing right next to the boards because then their head's going to like... So if someone hits you from behind, then you can swing on them?

Like, what's the... I mean, someone's probably going to come in and swing on them. Probably not you because you're on the ground. Like, you know what I mean? Because I'm like, imagine me playing hockey. At what point can I fight? Really? It's like, if someone touches your goalie, you're fighting.

someone hits your goalie right you're fighting instantly like no one's allowed to touch the not at all and then I mean it's like sometimes you're just chirping a guy and you're just like you know what I'm fucking done with this let's drop the gloves boom you both decide like the middle of the play can be going on drop the gloves grab each other oh my god so but it's usually after like a big hit or like someone like hurts your captain or there's usually like a reason for it but a lot of times like if there's just two enforcers on like one on each team and they're just going at it all game they'll eventually just drop the gloves. So would you, would you, would you, would you, um, would you

fight any influencer? What about Noah Beck? I think that'd be like a good fight. Yo, that guy is so much bigger than me. He, he is like a big guy. Sometimes I see videos of him like benching and I'm like, wow, all right. He's 45, like 10 reps. He thinks he's tough, though.

I don't know if he's tough, though. He's strong, he's strong, but is he tough? I don't know. I don't know. He played soccer. He also did TikTok and dance on camera. That's true. I did that too.

Yeah. Are you ever, do you ever like, are you ever like, are you ever like, Fuck, man. Why did I do that? Oh, all the time. All the time. All the time. Like, I mean, my podcast, it just brings up videos. I mean, when I was like 14, which are like the worst videos on the internet. And it's just like, I'm sitting there pretty much just like calling it my 13th reason at that point. Yeah, but it's a part of you though. I mean, it's like. Yeah, that's the other thing, right? It's like, if I didn't do that, I wouldn't have the opportunities I did. Yeah. So at the end of the day, it's like, I'm glad I did it. I wouldn't do anything differently, right? Yeah. You don't regret anything. No, no, no. Yeah. And like, I did. And like, I did. I did. with my family too like my sister my brother were a big reason why I was able to blow up because they would come in all my videos like when I was younger my sister was the one like helping me navigate through TikTok and lively and she would like we kind of used to have this like weird like hack thing we used to do where it was like I'd go live she'd go through the top gifters because they used to give you the leaderboard of like the top spender yeah and she just go through

on my account follow them all like all their videos so they'd all come in my live stream when I had like 100 150 followers and then they'd all come in and donate and right so you're hacking a system yeah i'm saying there sliding my sister a 15% commission off of everything that she like brings on to my live stream right and like we were wait at what age was this 14 and 13 yeah you're smart bro i just want i just want to know where did that come from i i really don't know i mean like like like i said like my parents were like my dad was a math guy so he was always training me in the math and then i just like i think the numbers just made me kind of love money in a way because i just loved saving money like that was my favorite thing to do is

could add a jar and it would be like buffalo sabers tickets or like buffalo bills tickets because they were cheaper than Toronto tickets. Oh, you know what I mean? Of course. So it would always be like a jar with like hockey tape around it with Sharpie written like a goal for what I wanted to say for and I end up filling the jar and then like maybe I'd hit my goal and I would just kind of be like, eh, let's see how much higher I can build it.

It would just like drove me to keep going and going. You know it's, you know what made me like that way with money is like not so much that I like money because I like want to have money but I like that it's almost like competitive and like it just reminds me of a video game right because i play video games my whole life like the leveling up or like the getting the inventory because every game i ever played it was like get gold in your account or whatever and i just like doing that yeah it's like it's like a demonstration of your work ethic right yeah because it's like you're hustling you're working to make your money so however much you have is kind of like yeah kind of equals how hard you've

worked for that yeah what kind of goals do you have finance do you have like really big goals are you like you want to be like a billionaire like you wanted some crazy shit like that i think when I was younger that I was like they're like I'm still young so when I was like 17 I keep saying that shit but it's like yeah I'm still in 20 um when I was 17 like you're literally not 21 yet no yeah what the fuck it's fucking wild but when I was like 17 I think I was like I need to be a billionaire and like I think that was an awesome mentality I have because it like drove me but now it's more just like I just want to be like in a comfortable and happy position right so it's like I want to make sure I can like pay off like or like buy my parents a home I want to make sure I can

like pay my sister's student loans I want to be able to make sure my brother can go through school and be fine I want to be able to buy probably like a house out here and then have another place like where I'm from back home right I like just like have that type of lifestyle where it's like I know I'm going to be comfortable I'm going to like be in a place where I can always put food on the table all that shit like that's that's all I really need what do you think what do you think made that change like you you originally started thinking that would be great and then it seems like you probably got some money and then it changed a little bit like the focus or the emphasis of why what do you think changed that I think I saw people in

a lay who were so driven by money and that was the only thing they were driven by it just consumes them right it becomes like it takes over part of their personality and I think they start having their morals change because of how driven they are to like achieve their goals with money and they'll start slowly being like, you know what, actually I can, nah, it's not that bad if I do that to this person, or it's not that bad if I, like, cut this person out of the deal because then I get more, and it's like slowly, they start just becoming, like, I think, a product of evil.

Yeah, I mean, like, yeah, exactly, a piece of fucking shit. So I think that's probably why I started caring a little bit less about making all this money and just having good times with my friends and, like, the people that are out here. Yeah, I mean, that's what really matters. I mean, ultimately at the end of the day is like, Yeah, even when you make all the money, and I'm sure you have tons of money, it's like, you get to a point. And I know you, I'm sure you know this, you're just kind of like, all right, yeah, you can make more.

You could get more. You could have more. And then you could like, look around. You're like, all right, what else? It's like, who am I enjoying this with? Exactly. There's no point of money if you're not going to be able to enjoy it with people, right? Like that's money brings you happiness when you spend money on people you love.

Yeah, that's a fact, man. So how did you meet Dave Portnoy? Yeah. It was, it was because. Do you know who little huddy is? I've seen him. I don't know him. No, but like, you know, like of him or whatnot.

Sadly, no, no, I didn't. Not sadly, sorry, no disrespect. I seen the name. Someone was like, this is a popular. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah, he, yeah, he's pretty big on TikTok. He's really popular. Yeah, popping.

Um, I made a disc track on him. He tried to get with one of my ex-girlfriends. Like, he was like my homie. And then, like, I was dating a girl at the time, Ness Barrett. And he was, like, going for her, um, at an event. And I was like, yo, It's kind of fucked up.

We were like, boys, we just went on tour together, all that. So then I was like, I'm going to make a disc track on him. Maybe you should fight him. Yeah. No, I think we already tried to do that like when the social media influencer thing was like popping for boxing, but he didn't want to fight. You know, that kid didn't want to fight anyone. No, no, no, no, no, one person. But yeah, so it made a disc track on him and stuff.

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Dave saw it on his feet and was tweeted out why the fuck of these wiggle dickers showing up on my feet. Right? I remember seeing some of this too. Yeah, yeah. So then I was like, yo, that's fucking sick. Like the bar, the head of barstool is like seeing my stuff. So we reached out to him, ended up getting on an Instagram live together where we pretty much did like almost like a mini BFS podcast. without even having the idea at the time.

But I just explained to him all the stuff, all the drama in the social media world that he was like giving his reaction and talking about it. And the live stream was like, did really, really well. I think we had like 50, 70,000 viewers on the Instagram line.

Oh shit. Yeah, like fucking went crazy. What the fuck? Was he on his account or bar school? It was on my account and then he was on his account and I guessed him in, right? Okay.

And so like notifications are sent out to both parties and people were all like, why the fuck is Dave Portnoy Live with Josh Richards, right? Yeah. No one expected to see that. So got a really good reaction and then after we got on a call with him and we were just saying to him this this worked really well. Would you want to start doing something together? And he was like, yeah. And that's when we came up with the idea of just continuing to talk about drama and making a podcast. Yeah. And now you have another one on different podcasts. It's just you, right? T talk. No, that's not really like a pod. It's just kind of like it's a YouTube series I've had since I started sway or since we started sway. It was back. Yeah. As soon as I moved to L.A.

I was trying to think of what a series could be in my YouTube because then I wouldn't need to do like three vlogs a week. I could easily just do a sit-down video banging out in 30 minutes. And, yeah, landed on T-Talk. I was like people on social media take a drama way too fucking seriously. All of this doesn't matter. And everyone in the world does what people get canceled for in social media. You know what I mean?

Like every single human being is doing that shit. Like off-camera. That isn't a social media influencer. So I was like let's bring light to the situation. Let's make fun of it. So all the boys would sit down on the couch talk about the drama and just make fun of people. Yeah, it is it is interesting how like the internet is a place where like for example Dave got a bunch of shit for this like some shit with some girl and that what was that shit about? So essentially a girl tried to make these fake claims on Dave just saying like it was something to do with being rough at sex or or something like. that and then Dave goes through and like has all the DMs with the girl the girl still hitting him up after she came to his house all of that and just kind of was like not just girls trying to like take money from me here you go yeah and he went and battled it it seems to be a very common thing on the internet where like whether it's coming from that side like you know the opposite

sex or like someone else on the internet like using something to try to tear someone else down to almost like either get something for themselves like financially or like social following wise Have you dealt with anything like that personally? I've been pretty like in the clear with people trying to, I guess, out me for like money or acclaim or anything. Dave beats up girls or something. Yeah. No, it's crazy when I think about it. I saw the clips and I'm like, you know, I saw him talking to the boys about it.

And it's like it's just really common for people to just, I don't know, it's like, well, I mean, when you see someone like Dave pornoid too, that's super successful, right? And he also has that polarizing kind of image. You think to yourself, it's like, oh, this is going to be an easy grab. Yeah. It's just like they think they're going to be able to go and make claim get paid, a bunch of money to shut up and then they'll get away with it. But Dave does not fuck with that shit. He will fight it to the end of the day.

Yeah. Like he said in the video, he was like, my lawyers are telling me not to do this, but I always just am an upfront guy, so I'm going to continue to be an upfront guy and he made a whole video about it. It's just crazy, man. We just live in a, it's, it just gets crazy and crazy with the internet. I just find it such a... It's because people believe the first headline they see too, right?

It's who's going to start the narrative? Once you've started the narrative, it's you can't do much to erase it. Yeah. That's the thing and that's the frustrating part is because I'll find myself in certain situations where it's like, man, I'd love to speak directly about something that was said, whatever about me or something that I've seen. And I'm like, it's like, it's almost like fighting fire with fire is worth. You just make the fire bigger.

And at the same time, no matter what, even no matter what you say next, it's like can already be spun. and at the same time, just the way the internet works, let's say X amount of people saw this, even if I said this, only X amount of those people are going to see this and they still run with the original narrative. Exactly, exactly.

It's a frustrating thing because, super frustrating thing, like, 99% of the time, you never get the whole story. You just get the side and you're making a judgment, and it's just, it's fuck because, like, specific things like this, like someone like Dave, is like, you're now going to affect that person's reputation, negative life.

Yeah, and it's like, You should be like fucking, I don't know. I mean, you should be, yeah, exactly. I should be able to hurt someone for that. It's like if you're going to damage someone's career, then, and it was all a lie, they should have to somehow pay like that same consequence. Yeah, or worse, honestly. Yeah.

But, I mean, I just, I feel like some people just owe me some equity, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should just go beat it out of them. I feel owed. Yeah, yeah. You should start just like being like company's kind of security guard and just every time you need to beat someone's ass. It's just like, yeah, give me point one percent. Yeah, I'm just going to be an enforcer.

Yeah, an equity enforcer. You're like, dude, you guys really fucked me for a little bit? Like, I'm coming for that. Uh-huh, uh-huh. So you haven't dealt with anything personally, like really damning like that. I've had situations in the beginning of social media where people have taken advantage on me like money-wise or hidden stuff from me or told me a representation that's been saying things like, this is a $10,000 deal.

Really, it was $15,000. They took $5,000 off the top. Then also would commission me the $20,000. percent from the 10,000. So then it's like, I'm left with eight thousand. Remember I said you get those receipts? Yeah, I'm left with 8,000 and they've taken 7,000. So instead of it being an 80, 20 split, it's now become like a 60, 40 split, right?

Which is like stupid. So just things like that, I figured out, just people kind of taking advantage of a kid that has money. It's fucking crazy, man. It's like, I mean, I don't know what it is. It just bothers me because it's people just because they think you don't know. better and you're young or maybe you're you're inexperience of the game I mean just this happens in general with a lot of social media influences like I started working and managing and helping like a lot of people in this industry specifically like the fitness industry

yep and you realize like most companies or most people reach out and they'll just like bottom barrel you with like offers and like we'll try to give you I'll give you so like some t-shirts or like some product and like post us a thousand times like there's a company that reached out I'm trying to work with these two girls that I'm managing. And it was literally like, this is what you get. It was like you have to do this many shoots. You have to do this many posts. And then it was like you get to put our tag in your bio, basically.

That's all they got from a company. It's like what kind of, they're like imagine this. I can't say the company. That's a worst deal I've ever heard in my life. No, it's, it's. Yeah, they're saying to post like multiple things like over 12 for dog shit. Yeah, no, not like terrible. Like the craziest shit.

And then it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, interesting industry because no free brand deals fuck you pay me no yeah never but it's also just like the let me take advantage of people who you know when people are first starting out they just don't know yeah right so yep yep they go for like after the micro influencer and try to be like oh they don't have experience yet they don't have a rep you exactly let's go take advantage of this yeah because they run it up until like oh the person finally realizes it you know yeah yeah they keep waiting and waiting as you're growing and growing and they're like oh more free call out more free cloud yeah it's fucking crazy I have a question yeah go ahead no I wanted I had a

question because you're 20 years old so how hard was it or did you go through any trouble which i could only imagine you being a business person going up to people who are 30 40 like and them to take you seriously like how long did it take to build that up that's a good question ticoker to now yeah uh definitely took a while in each space i think that's what really happened so when i was starting to angel invest or go into the venture capitalist space it wasn't the first day or second day or third day or fourth or fifth or six when people started thinking okay this kid has like a smart head on his shoulders it was probably two months into it when i'd started to talk to probably over 50 different angel investors and then they started talking to other investors and they were like have you

talk to this josh richard's kid oh yeah he seemed like a pretty good guy like he seemed like he knew what he was doing um and then i would be sending them you know uh different deals that came through my way they'd be sending them deals that came through their way so then we started communicating with them they were like oh he's actually brought me this really really cool company and they're showing other investors that so it was kind of just like for each space it took a little bit of time for the like for the tv and film space it was talking to different heads of productions to different casting directors to people like thomas tall or mary parent or um joe feldtime or any of these people that i could kind of get in contact with and as i was talking to them more and more and more

they started talking to more and more people about me so i think it's just kind of like that like it's a small world in all those little entertainment spaces and once you're able to really get in there and get a couple people believing in you uh or that will go to bat for you that's when they start taking you seriously yeah how long had you how long had you wanted to work with mark walberg because i know you're doing whole life like grew up loving mark walberg just all his movies um and i also kind of looked at his career in a way as kind of uh like a back in the day version of the modern day career that I'm trying to pursue he started off marky mark in the funky bunch yeah he was kind of like he one hit wonder and I feel like that's really

equivalent to TikTok stars these days right they blow up really quickly all these girls love them it's like a lust thing yeah and then he went and did the Calvin Klein shoot right he went and did all that and then after that he starts to go into movies and then from the movies he starts to really become a you know I would say someone that was looked at very seriously in the space and then he started to become an entrepreneur as well right so the order for me is a little bit different where I did the social media kind of the one hit wonder thing went into the entrepreneurship and then now with the production company I really want to get into producing and acting myself so it's kind of following in the footsteps of Mark Wahlberg a lot so to be able to get his stamp of approval and

him believe in me was probably the the coolest thing that's ever happened in my life yeah it's that's amazing, man. Thank you. What you said is it's so true. Like he definitely he had that pop up and then, but he was able to sustain it. Yeah. And that's the thing that's, I think it's, it's, it's just one of the harder things to be able to have, especially nowadays, right? I mean, then it probably was like even 10 times harder because there wasn't all these like added platforms that you can leverage. So he had to really be in at least the network with people that he can make it work. Because on social, I mean, now it's like you can continue to have your audience and, you know, you can continue to leverage that he just did it at a time where it didn't even like all that shit

didn't even exist yeah yeah you really just had to make a big song or get in a movie right like get casted go to new york go to l a like live the life of a starving actor for years usually right crazy shit man totally different so so what's it like with girls because since since you're like young successful you know you got like you know perceived all the money um and then And then, you know, they're, they can get some clout from you. What is it, what's it like now? And who's on the, who's on the, is there anyone special right now? I mean.

Yeah, I put you on the spot. I hate, oh, my man. Sorry, maybe I shouldn't say that because, like, I hate when people ask me that fucking question. I mean, like, you know, the girl shit, going good. Going good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been, it's been like a good past few months, I guess. But, no, there's like, there's, there's this.

one girl I was talking to at stage coach she was pretty cool oh she's pretty cool yeah yeah she's like a d1 basketball player too really yeah which is like she your height no she's shorter than me still so that's like you know so she's so now we match the point guard d1 and like you know like I was just like saying I was watching like the Memphis uh uh golden state game and then I was like talking about John Moran just like I was like this kid is like insane this is a second game like plus 45 points he's the third person ever to do it like at the age 22 or younger and then she's stepping in and dropping stats and i was just like you're like oh wait you like that whoa what's going on here but yeah no so yeah she was cool she was cool yeah um it's so funny to me but i feel like is it is it hard for you to like balance everything like is it hard for you

to balance the the work the direction you want to go in the women all this stuff like do you find yourself having a hard time trying to balance it all yeah for sure i mean i think that's like i that's why i've had like girl problems before or whatever just because i am gotten so wrapped into my work or like just been so busy and stuff and then they're like i want to hang out and i'm just like hey i'm going to a dinner you know what i mean yeah not enough time yeah it's just like i wouldn't like be there enough i guess so i think that there's definitely some of it where it's like right now i feel like i'm young so maybe it's like not the smartest idea to get into a relationship because I'm doing all this shit but yeah work definitely kind of like comes in and out yeah I mean

it's about finding someone that understands what you're doing that's the thing too right like yeah they got to be someone that like can understand it's like yeah let's go to work for the day and then it's like come back and hang out at nighttime yeah yeah but what other like 20 year old has the same mindset as this kid like what the fuck I did like yeah I didn't have as much going on in my life with social but like that's a lot like I just feel like I just feel like I look at good relationships like I look at my parents relationship and everything and they used to be like yeah the key to our relationship is like we don't see each other all day right like we both go to work we get up my mom gets up at like five of the morning she'd go work out my dad gets up at six

he'd go hit the gym and then go to school and teach and my mom would be going to do her speech path stuff and it's like they got home at five six o'clock at the at the end of the day that's when they finally see each other right and then they get to talk about their day together they get to go through the stuff that happened they get to cook dinner together eat together then like put us to bed when we were kids and then they go to bed themselves right it's like but you don't see each other for that 12 hours like I feel like these this generation like people are moving in with each other when they're like 17 yeah I mean you need the separation you need to have something that you're you're like doing and focus I mean well it's good to miss them too right like if you're

with them all the time you're never going to miss them which means like you're going to get annoyed at them there's going to be bickering and shit and it's like yeah yeah you spend all the day with them it's like someone's like you know or if there's like the power dynamic is like you have everything going on and the other person doesn't have much going on they're just kind of like bumming around your house yeah this is no matter this is social media this doesn't matter regardless in life it's just if you have people who are like you know living through you in a sense because like they don't have their own passion their own purpose their own focus that kind of shit never almost last because like then you feel like you have to balance someone else's like time with the thing that you're

really trying to chase and the person will never understand that you have to do all these things because they don't have the things that they need to do and that's a that's a real like that's a tough thing for a lot of people I think it's important to like explain this kind of shit though because like there's probably a lot of people in relationships out there that are in relationships in which like either they're the one who is like walking this road and like they have all these goals

and then they have someone who's like why are you not come spending more time with me or or flip flop or like someone else is doing that and they're like why why are you not going to like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah 100% so you're balancing this and you balance it pretty well but do you ever be like do you ever think like about your future

Like if you're gonna I mean you're so young though too It's almost like you can it you you could fuck it up but yeah, you could all fuck it up I guess yeah You ever worry like that You're gonna fuck things up like not just relationships just in general yeah for sure I mean I think there's definitely been times where I've been like scared or just like have thought like man if if if I don't know What would happen if social media ends up drying up? What would happen if like a company fails? So I've had those thoughts before but I feel like it's just there's no point in really like letting that eat me up, right? Because if it's going to happen, it's going to fucking happen.

Like, might as well just keep trying to crush and crush and crush until it happens. Yeah. It's a good mindset. Yeah. It's just like, hey, guy, shit happens, shit happens. Yeah. So let me ask you a question now about back to your podcast. Who's your favorite guest that you've ever had?

Ooh. And I know it's not Tanna because Tana doesn't show up to fucking podcast half the time. Hard to be the favorite guest when you never fucking come. Yeah. Fuck you, Tanna, by the way. I answer my fucking text. She doesn't, she didn't. She did.

And then she said like, yes and then like, bro, let it slide for like three weeks. I said this on one upon, I think, yeah, it was with Jeff. And she was like, oh my God, she did this bullshit text. I'm not going to reiterate it again because he probably saw it. But, uh, yeah, just major flake, man. Yep. Yeah, it's like, I think I think I'm going to have to. Dave went off on her.

I don't know if you saw that clip, but he went fucking off on her. It was crazy. It was like a minute and 30 seconds of him. Just like, it was actually longer than that. That's just what we like cut it down to. Yeah. But like it was a 15 minute rant of like me and Brianna just sitting there like. Okay.

You're like, who hurt you? We're like, God damn, man. This cut, throw to shit. Who hurt you, Dave? But Dave was going crazy. I would say, I mean, when we were in Miami, I guess this isn't like one guess. It would just be like, I would say like a day of film in the podcast. That was my favorite.

But when we had on like Austin McBroom, Jake Paul, Logan Paul all in the same day, And they were coming in one after another. That was mayhem. Just because, like, we had Jake slashing Austin McBrooms, Lambo's tires after the podcast. Like, Jake walked out, Austin walked in. Oh, that was that. Yeah. They started beaking at each other going back and forth, like saying how they were going to fight each other and shit.

And then eventually it got broken up. Me and Dave are just, like, standing there, just looking at each other like, hey, yo. And then Dave's like, can you guys, like, take this off my front lawn maybe? Like, just do it on the street or something. And so eventually they leave Austin leaves Jake comes in to do the pod And Austin's group drives like

Just down the street and they're like Why the fuck do we have no tire pressure right now They go out and check and he's slashed the tires And like his back the back of the Lambo's tires So then it was just like Jake himself did that? Yeah yeah yeah I'm assuming maybe he got like one of his security guards To do or something but it was it was their group And then I would just say yeah that day was just kind of like

What the fuck is going? on you know i mean so was a fun day did you ever think that you like as you as you were growing up i mean obviously you're still a kid like we talked about but did you ever think that you'd be doing all this stuff i mean obviously you must have in a really like in a really weird way like before you popped off i mean like since i was like as long as i can remember honestly like i used to like pray or meditate whatever you want to call it before i would go to bed every night and what do you call it i mean like i would call it pray okay i'd call it praying yeah um i would like pray to god and and just be like, yo, the name Josh Richards is going to be known.

Like, as long as I can remember, I mean, five years old. And like when I was, you know, five, four years old, I thought I was going to be Ben 10, right? And that's why my name was going to be known. I thought I was going to be a fucking superhero. I thought I was going to be, like, I actually used to fall asleep with my wrist above my blanket, right? Because I was like, yo, those little mini aliens, they're coming and working on this shit in the middle of the night. I know it for a fact. So it was like, it started off just being like, I'm going to be a superhero.

My name's going to be known. And then it was like, all right, I'm going to be an NHL superstar. My name's going to be known, right? Always, though, Josh Richards, that name's going to be known. That name's going to be known. And then I was like, okay, I'm going to become, like, after the hockey didn't, I knew kind of like, okay, I'm probably not going to be an NHL player anymore. It went into, all right, my name's going to be known for business.

It's like, I'm going to be a huge business in Canada with like either involving like sports hockey somehow. I'm going to figure it out. And then I found social media. And it was like, oh, shit, this makes sense. I've always wanted my name to be known. I've always wanted Josh Richards to be out there. I love creating. I was always the kid that was kind of the class clowning class,

like always looking for that reaction from people. It like gave me that kind of like satisfaction when I saw other people laughing. So from that point on when I was 14 and I found social media, it was just like I just knew that was what I was meant to do. Yeah. Like I knew that was my calling kind of thing. So I thought what I find really interesting, two things. First off, my name, my name's going to be known, this concept.

Like what made you think like that? So what made you want that to be reality? And I'm asking this because I know a lot of people just pretty much I would say everyone Not necessarily wants to be some famous or rich person, but they I feel like most people in the world want to leave some sort of legacy behind. Yeah. I mean, I think I think it was really because like you said, I wanted to I wanted to be able to leave some legacy of Josh Richards behind. Like I lived in a small town and I. saw so many people that go through and like no no dis on it obviously but they go through kind

of their regular life in a way of like working a nine to five like they went to college they acquired student debt they went and paid off that debt after 20 years they had kids they got the white picket fence house they got a dog they started their family it's like everyone is living the same pattern of a lifestyle and i just looked at that and i was like i want to break out of that like i don't want to i don't want to do what everyone else is doing i don't want to do what people are expecting me to do or telling me to do right that's not what's fun to me so i kind of just wanted to be different like break break out of it like i loved my parents and loved how much how hard they work to support and like make sure there's food on the table make sure we're playing sports

make sure we had good christmases all of that but i just i don't know i just i was like i can't be a teacher okay every single this is so interesting i talked to brian call and brian callan said the same exact thing he's like a comedian he's like 50 plus years old every single successful and this was like two days ago every single successful person that i've ever met felt the same exact way and but then yes the thing you said the same thing i said i felt the same way where you know i grew up my town and it's it's no disrespect for the people living that life not at all living in that town and like growing up and then working in that town like where i came from but i remember thinking very very young being like looking at and being like i don't want this to be my life no and every single

that I've ever met at every like crazy level of success literally says the same shit like Steve my buddy Steve will do it same thing he's like I just felt like in something inside me like it needed to be different yeah like I wanted there to be more and I and I really want this to be like I just really want this to be heard that it there's two things now it is as simple as like every person listening could think like damn I know what that feels like right I oh I feel that the difference is and you said it you said it about yourself and I know know this for all the people who I'm even talking about or even trying to reference in my mind about actually achieving success is that you said, okay, I wanted to do NHL and that was your goal and that

was your dream. And then you're like, okay, maybe I'm not cut out for that. And then you went to this and then you go, okay, maybe this is it. This is not it. And then you found social it's like, okay, now it's starting to make sense. The key here is like if you feel that in the person listening, it might not be the first thing. And normally it's not the first thing. But as long as you keep fucking going and hold on to that belief, you can find it. And you did it. 100% you will find I think that's that's the coolest part about like wanting to find what you love or like doing what you love is like you're never going to find it right off the bat you're going to have this story of like I had to overcome this or I had to go through this work for two years to really find what I loved right it's like you're kind of building your own story arc in a way of like how you're going to achieve that happiness so yeah I 100% agree with that yeah it's just it's just I like hearing you talk about it even at such a young age is just it's it's kind of just mind fucking with me because every person man i'm not playing when i say it's every person i know successful i have these conversations with

and i ask me similar questions all say the same thing yeah it's just like a feeling you need to get out you know what i mean like you got to get out of that town you got to break out of there yeah and i feel like most people have that sense of that sense of that feeling where it's like i don't want to have this normal thing but then people start to become complacent and they go like well like you know my mom thinks this or my dad thinks that so like you know that's kind of hard to or maybe they tried the first thing and then it kind of knocked them down they're like all right well that didn't work

so I'll just go back to this instead of being like okay that didn't work let me try something else let me try something else and I think that's like you said building your story and like the truth is with all successful people like the reason why even I could sit here and talk about things in this sense

is because I've gone through so many different levels and so many different points in my life where I got fucked over or I fucked myself over or I made a mistake and it's all just about trying to come back to that that original feeling and I was like I want more in my life I want more from myself I expect more from myself and like I said that the people who are truly successful would always find it are the people who just fucking keep going yeah I mean you're never gonna if you let your failures like hold you

down you're never going to make you that really anything right like it's learning from your mistakes no one doesn't make a fucking mistake right and so learning from your mistakes is how you're going to continue to grow yeah how you're going to continue to become a stronger and better person i mean it's it's people shouldn't judge people on how they fall they should judge them on how they pick themselves back up yeah that's a fact why do you think it's so easy especially nowadays on the internet to to just judge someone you know without real any real understanding and like also i think people on the internet tend to like hold people into positions like you know like i joke jokingly about you being a ticotker like even though you've done so much more now and you're

you're so much more than just a ticotker people should be like oh it's that fucking ticot kid right which is why i started this whole podcast with that dumb joke anyway yeah yeah yeah yeah so do you ever do you ever feel like you know i don't know like uh unjustly like this unwarranted trying to people trying to pigeonhold you into a thing like do you ever think about that or do you ever does it ever frustrate you um i mean yeah i guess there's been times where it's like it's kind of annoying or whatever if people like are walking down the soon they're like oh ticotalker right because it's just like you hear it all the time but at the same dude's really yell at you yeah yeah just all the time that's but i mean like it's gotten so much better

now because the bar stool shit like with barstool now there's a bunch of guys that are just like yo what's up man like i love your podcast yeah so that's sick like that was the coolest thing to me when i started actually having like a male demographic a little bit it was just yeah it was definitely rewarding but um it's annoying but at the same time it's like i've kind of just gotten used to it like it's what am i going to do they i have ticot i do ticot people are going to call me a ticotter right so it's it's kind of the same as when i feel like an act is starting off on Nickelodeon or Disney right and then they slowly start eventually getting to those more serious roles serious roles people still remember them as like oh remember that like

when they did that cute like Zendaya and shake it up like oh remember like her on Disney right so it's like sure she might get a little like in it like poke fun but like she's also fucking zendaya so she's making millions right so who gives a fuck at the other day so that's just kind of like my mentality it's like yeah sure you can call me a ticotker and shit but it's like eh I'm doing all right. So you, you, instead of making it like,

okay, this, you feel an attack or whatever, you just, you focus on the positives that are coming out of it. Yeah, it's like if I wasn't a TikTok or if I wasn't getting that hate, I also wouldn't be getting all the love I get,

right? I wouldn't have all the opportunities I have. So yeah, call me a TikToker and run it up. Yeah, I love it. I mean, it's,

it's, it's, dude, it's crazy. I just, how many times I've had conversations with people who are crushing it. It's always like the same lines. And I just,

I just kind of want to, I know I made that point earlier, but I didn't think it's so important for the people listening is it's always along the same lines of, you know, like you said, you did something, you know, whether or not is exactly what you wanted to do or not. People could attack you, hate you, but you're able to keep going towards where you really want to go. Yeah. And I just, just saying, I'm not trying to be like to make this about some inspiring shit or not, but I just think it's important for people to hear the fact that you, like, no matter what you do, no matter how you do it, people are going to shit on you. And it's just a matter of being like, fuck it and keep going and trying to figure it out. Even for yourself where you go, okay, I'm getting shit on.

And then, you know, let's say the next thing you want to do that you're uncertain of. It's like it almost just doesn't matter what someone else is going to say or what someone else thinks about you, what you want to do. You just have to fucking do it. Yeah. I mean, the other thing too is like you don't need to be famous to have haters, right? Everyone has them in their life. If it's that shitty fucking boss at your like summer job,

that's like holding you back or if it's that you're your uh some kid in your classroom that like puts you down or if it's like a bullet like anyone in this world can pick out someone that is a hater right and is kind of trying to hold them back or trying to tear them down so you got to learn to get over those things that's just life like in a big sense right you got to learn to be able to overcome that and once you do you're going to realize that you are unstoppable like it's kind of that feeling like yo i can do whatever I want now I overcame this so I'm not overcame the next guy I'm going to overcome the next person that's trying to hold me back yeah I just think it's important like and I'm glad you said that whether it's like on social media or celebrity or whatever I just think

it's important for people like individually to know that it can it's going to happen in your own circle of three people five people 10 people that like don't let it stop you from doing what you really actually give a fuck about yeah it could be a friend that's jealous of you right it could be someone that cares about you I mean that's the thing I think people think like when we talk about like haters are like you know I dealt with this with social media to think oh only celebrities are going to have that it's like not everybody has haters no matter how like if you have three follow if you don't even have a fucking Instagram you're gonna have probably people that are hating on you in your life for sure for sure for sure I mean and that's that's so

important like I think too like people you know you see these people on the internet that you might look up to or you call celebrities or this and that whatever which is such a crazy thing now because there's so many of them yeah this is like niche audiences but like you look at people and you're like yeah okay they're not the only people with haters I guarantee these motherfuckers are in your life as well it's just it's just coming from a different perspective but um I guess what do you think is like the number one thing you've learned through your successes on social media excuse me social media and and how could you apply that to like you know someone listening yeah I would say the biggest thing I've learned is you don't need a million friends you don't

You need four friends, three friends, two friends. That's all you need. You need a tight circle because when you have a family like that, when you have people around you that are always bringing you up that care about you and you care about them, that is what I believe happiness is. Like when you are surrounded by all the people you love, it don't really matter what you're doing anymore. It's like you've achieved everything you've wanted. You have the people you want to see every single day around you.

So I just think when you have too many people in your life, you're going to get too many people in your ear. You're going to start, like, feeling bad about things you're doing. You're going to have people telling you should be doing this. And then your other friend telling you should be doing that, people using you, people taking advantage of you. And I know maybe it's a little bit different because we live in a little bit of like a cut throat society in L.A. and like where people do just use each other.

But that's been the biggest thing for me. And like the key to me being, I think at peace of mind is like I have my two boys that I live with, like Anthony and Gavin. And it's like those are my fucking dogs. That's like that was it for probably like a good eight months of this year. And then like I started hanging out with a couple of my other friends like more often like Bryce or Cooper. But those two are really like my guys. And that's like it.

I just think it's so important to just have that cool. Yeah. You know, it's interesting too because if we even talk about success and seeing success in this sense, like how you talk about having those guys, it's crazy because like that is the core of it. right like you know if it's not like when you get there then you then oh you need those those people right it's almost like if you could find those people in which is very hard to find right who are the people who are really riding with you from like the beginning yeah but if you could find those people and like no matter how far you go or how far you grow like they're always kind of solid that's like the base you know like there's some people in my life who's worked with me that um you know

without them i wouldn't be where i'm at like straight up i mean i have so i have like people who are in my circle that I've been with me from like pretty much the beginning of me trying to create all this stuff. And I think it's just important to say that to the person listening, it's not like you get there, you get to that like fucking, you know, Josh Richards level or like whatever entrepreneurial level you're trying to get to. And then you try to have that. It's almost like you can try to create that now with whoever you have and try to like refine your circle because that's what's going to help you get there too. Oh, I mean, my boy Gavin, I've known since I was nine years old like I met he he moved to my town came into my school and like first day I met him

I was like yo you want to be on my soccer team at recess you know what I mean so it's like I've been boys with that kid since we were young and so it's like I know he's caring about me I know he's supporting what I'm doing because we've done that with each other since that day when we first met like our families are best friends we do Christmas together and Christmas Eve right so it's like you got to have those people around you that are going to be happy for your success because there's a lot of people that like say their friends and they're friends with you and stuff but they don't want to see you succeed

they want to see you stay their friend and then they succeed and you're there for them they don't necessarily be there for you they want to be friends when it's convenient for them yeah so that's a thing in this industry I realize I mean even a lot of people that I know is like it's always like what could I get from you and who's benefiting me now

and then if you're not benefiting them then they're like kind of not trying to help you yeah bro there's so much shit I wish I could really say about motherfuckers in this industry yeah but it's like it's you know I don't want to because I don't like hurting feelings and shit yeah but man it is really that's probably one of the toughest things when it comes to this industry specifically like in people who if you want to do this fully support you trying to do this but understand that you are probably getting one of the most toxic industries possible which obviously is

entertainment um because yeah people really will use and abuse you for the whole benefit oh yeah it was such a like mind fuck or just like a culture shock for me when I moved from my town to here because when you're from a small town it's like all you really got is your word right yeah like that's that's kind of like what you have to represent who you are as a person or what your morals are so when you come out to one of these big ass cities where people just lie all the time oh my god i was kind of like i was a 17 year old young young kid coming out here taking people's word for things because i was like i know i'm telling the truth so i'm going to expect them to be telling the truth they're telling me they're going to do this deal with me so i'm going to expect they're

gonna do it how they say they are and then it's like oh 10% was actually taken off or blah this that oh sorry when we look through the deal so it's just like yeah there's just yeah it's just culture shock mind fuck are there any are there any um any of the sway boys that fucked you over that we have to beat up um I mean like I guess there was one that like fuck my girlfriend or whatever yeah that was tough and we're all like living together like actually fuck like they started dating drama on the internet they started like dating after like for like real I didn't I like I haven't talked to the kids since really yeah yeah oh shit yeah I just kind of like cut people out though

they're gonna fault with me it's just like oh piece part of see this is how nice this is like how the internet works right part of me was like oh that's just for the internet I know I think people think that a lot a lot of people are just like uh probably just an internet thing but yeah no I don't really like do that for social media I feel like I just like will show like real shit that happens in my life and then people like that's got to be fake yeah so so so so yeah I don't I mean Yeah, it was like a year and a half ago, so it's like, it's not like it's like a sensitive subject that like hurts me or anything anymore, but it was just like shitty thing that happened. Wish it didn't. And it's young. It's young dumb kids too, right? Like we're all at the time, I think we were probably 18 and maybe maybe like 19. But so it was like yeah, year and a half ago. So probably like 18. And it was six, seven, 18 year olds all living in a house together. Like it's like you're destined for something bad to happen. Yeah. It's not like you're dating.

this girl for eight years or something. No, no, I was like dating her for like a year or something. Because if you were dating her for eight years and like you might have to kill that kid. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know? Wow, right? That's like a straight up like. Yeah. It's like that's super disrespectful. Well, that's almost like eight years. That's almost like a marriage, man.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I know. Why did you like? Yeah, why eight years? You specifically said eight years. You know, eight years was such a specific number. I was going to say like, you know what? Like a year with someone is like a pretty long time to me. Me. So eight years. That's half my life, man. Yeah.

What are you, what? Yo, who hurts you? Who, who had you for eight years and then fucked you over? No one, no, it didn't fuck me over. I fucked myself over. I was, I dated a girl for eight years. I, I fucked myself over. Because you dated her for too long or just?

No, uh, I mean, that's built into it, but it was, it was a simple thing. Like, you know, when I got into the relationship, I was young and dumb, you know, I guess not so much like yourself, but, but yeah, I was young and dumb and, and I made mistakes moving into it. okay like at the start of the relationship yeah okay i was hurt prior so i get into that no i totally and then yeah i stayed in it for too long because you know i probably knew at some point i shouldn't but i wanted it and i like live for that what it could be it's a comfortability too right when you're in a relationship like you just are like i don't leave this stuff and free sex right whoop yeah it was yeah oh yeah it was yeah i was like you know that was i didn't try i'm not trying to make this about me in my past you know transgressions

or relationships but no i learned a lot from obviously that situation yeah so i'm grateful for it regardless but yeah I was just it would have been different if someone fucked you over and it was like a lot longer and this no one fucked me over in that sense again it was my own personal like I fucked that up yeah have you ever have you ever been in any relationships you're like damn

I fucked that up I mean yeah yeah I definitely think there's been like moments in relationships where I've been like dude that was not cool or like or it's just like like you said like starting a relationship poorly right like yeah like yeah just just things situations like that I would say I love it's so funny because you answer it the same way I'd answer because I don't want to get too deep. Yeah, it's like, it's like you don't want to, yeah, I don't want to get like specific or nothing. But yeah, definitely have been a douchebag before.

Yeah. It's, it's kind of. You're a child. Yeah. You're 20. Like 20, but when you're 21, though, then you're not a child anymore. You're growing up. I know, then I'm going to have to not be.

I'll have to wear like a suit tie or something. Yeah, everywhere you go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Then it's like. Walk around. Yeah. Yeah. 18. you know, it's like, all right, he can make mistakes. You don't doubt people up anymore.

You just, like, wave high. But 18, no, even, it's like you can go die for the country, right? So you're still a growing up. You know what's crazy to me, by the way, talking about that? In the States, like, yeah, maybe. Just, nah, I'm going to say it anyways. In the States, when you're 18, you can go, like, get a gun, go kill people in the war, but you can't sip a fucking beer.

It's weird. That's crazy. Yeah, it's weird. That's crazy. At least in Canada, it's like 18, 19. So it's like, a little weird on the 19 part because, you know, what, I can go kill people for a year then sip a beer to like deal with the PTSD but like right off the bat at 18 it's like if you're gonna give someone a gun and say they can go fight for their country they probably should

be able to drink a beer yeah well I mean I think back in war like any any wars it was like everyone fought because they had to and then like you probably had a beer definitely needed to relax yeah no way so it's weird how they separated those by like so much time too right like three years it's like a good amount of time to be like yeah you can go but you can't drink it's a it's an interesting thing man I don't know we do a lot of funny stuff here It's been getting funnier. Okay. In the States here, it's getting a little more interesting.

Hopefully it'll turn around here. They changed like nicotine laws here too, right? It used to be like 18 and now it's 21, I think, in the States, right? That makes sense, I guess, a little bit, but. Yeah, we're looking for a turnaround here pretty soon. Are you making the decisions, Brad? Because you're over here like, yeah, we're looking for it. Yeah, no, everyone's, are you running?

Are you the one that doesn't? Eventually, I think I will run. I think we're all kind of looking for a little bit of a turnaround in this country. Okay. With, you know, current situation is just kind of interesting. um to say the least you know not trying to make it this is not a political podcast but yeah not at all but but but no not gonna do that see i have like a little bit of a safety net because like i'm from canada so it's like anytime i'm ass like polity like anytime it's like you know like the voting's

going on or like it's like campaigning time and people like we'll try to slide that in on interviews or something right like a business yeah yeah oh who you voting for who you voting for i'm like i'm can't vote here sorry guys yeah you can just like throw in like some canadian you can't Yeah and just be like okay okay clearly he doesn't know about this American show It doesn't know what he's talking about it's a mess over here right now man it's I'll just say the least It's a fucking mess I mean it's a mess in Canada too right now Wait have you used like the Canadian thing as like I don't know a way to get out of something or get at girl I don't know something random like I mean I think I've like I think maybe it's it will be funny if I'll say like sometimes I'll be like I'm from Canada and then it like starts a conversation with the girl or something

I'll be like yeah I know French and then they know French and then I don't you know French I know French I know like enough words To make it sound like I do Yo I mean no I did I did French immersion

For like 10 years in my life So like that's like Full-blown French Like I was learning math in French Geography in French History in French All of it So then

Once I got to high school though I was like Dude fuck this shit This guy's that stage coach Being like Yeah I'm at stage coach Like Vulee vous Ccheveck Monster Swaf

That's a song Oh my God No, it just means do you want to sleep with me tonight? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just need to know a couple of lines, right? No, I know, but like, it's in a song too. Oh, really? I don't know that song either.

What song is that? By Christina Aguilera. Oh, that's an old fucking song. Yeah, we're old. That's what's up. That's what I'm talking about. Holy shit, that's an old song. Yeah, it's surprising because I watch BFFs every now and then.

Some of the shit you don't know kind of like shocks me. Yeah, well, some of the shit he don't know? He's young and Canadian. That's why. It's kind of interesting. That's what I'm like, do you ever use the Canadian card to get yourself out of trouble? I mean, clearly you use it for girls, but like, do you ever just, you know? Yeah, I mean, I think.

That's why I think it's crazy. I think sometimes I definitely use it to like, if I just, like, sounded dumb, I'll be like, oh, we don't, that's not how we say it in Canada. That's why. Like, if I pronounce a word wrong, I'll be like, oh, we just pronounce it differently in Canada. Completely different in Canada. Yeah, yeah, I'll just, I'll just use one of those ones. So what, what is your most, like, what is your most focused, like, what are you most focused on right now?

um right now probably the production company and just getting projects started like it's it's such a slow process right because you don't really anyone from the outside doesn't see all the calls you're doing talking to other uh production companies talking to people like amazon netflix uh pitching the idea to them waiting to hear back getting the deal done then having to go into like production services then like getting to the green light of the show like there's just so many steps right film it takes like two fucking years so it's like we just started really rolling or starting so people probably won't see results for another year year and a half for some stuff and so i think it's like it's gonna be so rewarding when we finally can show like other people get to see it but that's definitely

like my biggest focus that in acting like i'm doing acting class and just trying to really focus on that damn dude i always thought i could be a really good actor no i think i could still be a good actor I feel like yeah I feel like I've done a lot of acting like like in like YouTube videos yeah okay you know yeah yeah yeah like he like could be better than Mark Wahlberg wow that's he claimed he's the best hockey player now he's claiming that he could yeah this is yeah couple hundred brags yeah yeah just you know just because I was in a YouTube video once that makes sense and I was like everyone was like yo that was really good so I was like you know it's like Mark Wahlberg level I mean pretty much right right close I guess

Maybe. Not at all, dude. Like literally not at all. Oh, my God. So the production thing is it, is like, how involved are you guys together? With Mark and stuff? Yeah. So, yeah, when we were first starting.

Like, did he get up at 4 in the morning and work out with you? Because I feel like that's his thing. No, no. No, he probably gets up at 4 in the morning and works out. I don't. I am still sleeping. But, no, yeah, we do a lot of calls. Like, we'll talk just about projects that are coming up.

run ideas by him if we need help getting into contact with people or if he wants to like let's say he has an idea on the on the film or project if it's we should bring in this casting director these writers or I want this star right so I think it's it's really getting to kind of get some of the knowledge from kind of the guy that knows all yeah and being able to use that ourselves and apply it to our work or just like getting him to make the inshows for us calls for us so yeah i met him about the uc's yeah yeah yeah yeah super nice guy i'm just like this guy does everything though too like he's got the the burger thing he's got so many f45 yeah he has like a drain like it's just like you go down the line it's clothing everything

municipal yep he yeah he is diverse that's for sure so is it is a goal to like you want to be doing stuff like that to have it all like that yeah yeah i'd say that's kind of like the end goal Damn, so the fucking 20, 25, Mark Wahlberg. Is Mark Wahlberg one of the bigger celebrities that you met that kind of like, I don't know, a pivotal moment for you? Like you were a starstruck or like I made it. Yeah. Or like who were the people that you've encountered throughout like, you know, your career that like you're like, oh shit.

You know what I mean? I mean, obviously Bradley Martin. Yeah, yeah, that Bradley Martin guy. I heard he was like the best goalie of the all time too. And he's an actor. Yeah. And he lifts like girls or some shit. He's like, yeah, he's like try talented.

Yeah, it's crazy. But besides him, I would say when I was like 16 and I was working on an independent film, you guys know who Lawrence Fishburn is? Of course, yeah. Okay, okay, good, good. Yeah, met him on set. He was on film I was doing. And I think that was probably the first time when I just like, holy fuck, I want to act. Like, this is what I, like, I want to act when I'm older.

It was just such a cool experience getting to do a scene with someone. Someone that is so good at acting like Lawrence Fishburne is, right? You just really see him come into that character. Him, I would say Rob Lowe was another one, getting to meet Rob Lowe, talked to him. Got to talk to him a lot to like during sway kind of or just like around the sway time when we had just been like partying a lot, just got arrested, like all that stuff going on. Like kind of got to talk to him and have him a little bit as like a mentor and just be like, yeah, dude, like I know where you're coming from. And, like, or Roblo being able to say that to me, like, yo, I know where you are in life. And he was even deeper than I was, like, when he was at his own point.

So, um, him and, uh, yeah, I guess like Mark, too. Like, it would be, it would be those three that would probably like. Not a single hockey player. I mean, Gretzky was sick as far, right? Like, legendary. So sick, but he's a great one. But that was more of like, that, like, that, like, little kid, like, that was, like, running around the house when he was younger playing mini sticks,

pretending to be Gretzky in the basement like was jumping around you know what I mean like it was more that than like oh I've made it kind of thing it was just more of like a pure like holy fuck my hero is sitting right in front of me that must be crazy so you're talking about the sway times like how did that shit end because it seems like it's done for no yeah it's definitely done for um it ended actually like with with kind of that Texas arrest that happened when we were down in Texas and got busted for weed um after that me and the kid jaden actually uh we took a hiatus from sway a hiatus went and moved into an apartment together we were pretty much like moving ourselves out of sway just because of branding he was doing music and then yeah i was uh doing a lot of the

business stuff so it just wasn't smart to continue to associate like on that side or else everything would have probably like fallen through um because bryce was such a shithead a brice yeah fucking Fucking Bryce, dude. No, but, I love Bryce, but, was in the apartment, kind of, like, stayed out of sway for a while, and then slowly, eventually, like, we kind of started, like, coming back, like,

me and Jaden into the fold. We ended up having, like, the two houses for a while where it was, like, some of us lived in Lunderry. Some of us lived Vestown, and then it just kind of slowly started, like, separating. Like, I know, like, at Bryce's house, it was, like, Blake and Noah had their girlfriend,

so they were always just, like, with their girlfriends. Noah wasn't really going to the house. So Bryce was there kind of alone all the time and he was throwing parties and doing the party animal shit. So that's why Noah and Blake would be like, I don't really want to be here every night when there's a party. Like I want to be able to go to bed. And then it was like me at the house with Jaden and Quentin

and Anthony and Griffin. And then Griffin moved to Miami. Then like the Jaden shit happened with me and him. So that kind of split shit up. And like I was just like, all right i'll live with anthony and we kind of went and moved on our own and then i was like that was kind of it after that there was really no sway i think the podcasting was the best move for you best fucking thing i've ever done yeah best that's what it looked like from the outside too

just so you know i saw that and i was like oh this is a good move for that oh thank you man thank you yeah i was like the dopest shit i think it was it yeah it was just able to bring me like i said like earlier that different demo yeah how was it adding brianna to the mix such a good idea she's i love Brianna. I know. I saw you did the no sleep thing with her. Yeah. And then you ate shit. ate shit so hard. It was it was so embarrassing. I'm missing something here. Not like actually like with a spoon and forth, but like I slipped. Would you though? If someone paid you a lot of money, would you eat shit? Huh. That's a crazy question. Let's say like if someone was like a million dollars. I mean it's like a million dollars. Yeah. Okay cool. Yeah. Right. I feel like I'd do it for

100kk. Wait, you're telling me you guys. If someone put a hundred thousand dollars cash in front of yeah. And like I'm not going to get sick from the shit or something. Whoa, how do you know that? Well, because they... Is that a part of the hypothetical? Maybe they tested it. Okay. Who shit is it?

I don't know. Is it like someone that's like kind of bad? What did they eat? Oh, what? Oh, okay. What they eat last, you know? Right, right, right, right. It's what, it's like a taco bag.

That was a go, wait, hold on. I got you, I got you. Hold on. That was a really kind of weird. I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie, man. When you said, are they hot? Kind of like fucked me up a little bit because it sounded like you'd be more apt to eat someone's shit if they were hot. A hot girl.

like you would be right yeah you want like a disgusting person shit i feel like i hate that i feel like the hot person that kind of like cleans their butt hole and shit you know what i'm saying so it's like it's not like you're getting old booty flakes mixed in with the new ones oh what no yeah no i get it i get it that's that's what my yeah okay no i mean listen i i would not gonna lie like when you said it i thought and i was like damn he's kind of right that's what i'm saying so what if she's a hot girl she had talk about oh now you're throwing what if she was like yo i want her shit on you now we're talking I would talk about, like, O'Dell Beckham Jr. over here.

Oh, my God. Come on. Oh, my God. Like, are we still getting money? Or is this just now purely a enjoyment for me and her to thing? Yeah, like, would you? No, I wouldn't enjoy that at all. Okay.

I'd be like, why is there feces on me? All right. So, lowest amount. Lowest amount. 50K? Look, yeah, I feel like I would do. Like, how much do I got to eat? That's a nut.

Like, is it one bite? Yeah. Everyone knows the rules. Do I have to finish a bowl? Then I'm like, mm. Yeah, like cereal? Are we rating it? way is it like

yeah why would you read it Brad you're thinking about it way too much I'm saying I just yeah this is nuts what a turn we went from like being super inspirational like hey guys go achieve your dreams would you eat shit yeah yeah well it's the way you said it

fuck me up I have my mind just goes crazy yeah because like I was talking about how he fell and then you're like eat shit he's like no not like with the spooned a fork or whatever the fuck yeah you're like wait would you though as soon as he was like well how is she like is she hot that's what got me going dude Because then I thought sexually like, oh, are we just picking like, this is like a, I'll eat shit that someone shit's off of it.

Yeah. Dude, listen, no. No one's judging you. Whoever does that, it's fine. Sobie was telling me how he's into that. Brad brought it up. He asked me if I had each shit. Soby is into that.

So we'll clip that. Okay. It's all good, dude. So you, so, uh, yeah, so what's the bottom number? I still need to know. Oh, um, you know, this is crazy. Super hot chick. She was like one, once one bite.

You could rate it out of 10. I mean, I feel like I'd need like. a good amount of money like like at least 100k yeah at least i feel like that might be too small though really yeah yeah because you already eating shit at the end of the day but but now we can get inspirational aren't we always eating shit yeah god just like we're just kind of always not like physically i'm saying like in life people make us eat shit you know right right we've got to overcome that that's true see we're bringing it back now do okay okay okay okay i like this i like this i like this i like this follow me here we're bringing it back we're not going to end it on like a what how much

shit would you eat for how much because that would be weird that would be a weird end well the original question was just like how was it like adding brianna to the mix and you know because i saw you went to the no sleep thing and yeah that's what right no it's amazing i love and then i was just thinking like have you ever like has she ever like shit and then you came by the uh the thing and you're like whoa it was like did it smell good or not like didn't haven't thought that don't ever thought that no no okay no yeah that's gonna get me in some Dave Port and are in trouble here. Yeah.

But Brianna's cool, though. I like Brianna. She's really dope. She's really cool. I can't wait for her to move to L.A. So she's going to move to L.A., but how did you guys even add her to it? Because I know she had her own podcast with Barstool. But now, like, how did she get chimed into it?

Yeah, so she wasn't actually on at the beginning, but we had, like, other, like, another guy from Barstool on. And it just didn't really flow well. It, like, didn't really work. Because we were just trying to add, like, some more, like, point of views. like something else besides just me and Dave running with it um and then i think they were just kind of like rotating through the roster a little bit and like oh briana could be kind of cool she does stuff on tic talk um so she came slid and and it just like made a lot of sense i think a lot of people like it too because now it's not just a guy's perspective which i think is cool as well like

we're getting the female's perspective on the situations a lot of time and then also me and dave's perspective like an older dude and then a younger dude and then a female so uh yeah i think i think it works out really well. Yeah, you hit it all. Yeah. So the question is, when the fuck am I coming on BFFs?

You want to come on BFS? It's like, Brad, you're not that. Well, if you guys are asking me, you know, if I'm invited,

maybe if I pitch it as, maybe if I pitch it as like, yo, best goaling in the world, better actor than Mark Wahlberg. Yep. May or may not like to eat shit. Yeah.

Can we bring them on the pot? They'll probably say yeah. Yeah, I think so. After we put the clips out of you being on here, maybe they'll consider it. Yeah,

yeah, because like you guys are talking about eating shit It clips out for sure. Yeah, get those. TikTok snackables. That'll be the money maker. I'm going to take a pitch real quick. And then we're going to do audience questions, right?

Okay. Sweet. Okay. All right. So at the end of every episode, we do AskRotalk at gmail.com. If you guys want your questions to answer about myself and the guest, then send those bitches in. Also go to the IG at Get Raw Talk.

If you could shoot us DMs, we get them there as well. Natalie, go ahead. Take it away. So this person says, I recently fractured. two of my vertebraes in four places and can't go to the gym for anywhere from three to six months the gym plays a big role in my mental state and I was wondering if you guys have any advice that could make me stay happy and healthy like as far as like working out and stuff like that because they won't be able to uh fuck um so shit I don't let you answer first you're the gym guy

yeah I got this yeah I thought you were going to take over I was like fuck so um no here's my thing is like you don't I don't know the extent of the injuries I don't know exactly what you can or can't do in the gym like what your limitations are so that's something it'd be hard for me to really answer this question but I will say if you can do something then do it um you could also focus on like your diet learn more about nutrition to take this time in your downtime to learn more about the things that you can do when you come back so you could be more efficient in like your approach back at the same time like I said your your nutrition your diet you could focus on all that stuff because obviously you have the power to control what you're eating, which will still

affect the way you look, the way you feel. Basically what I'm saying is focus on the things right now that you can control, right? So if you could train to a degree without continuing to hurt yourself, then do what you can because you can control that. Obviously, you can't push yourself in a lane that you know it's going to affect your neck, right? So we're not going to focus on that. I could focus on all the other things that you can control, like your diet, the training that you can do. And focus on those things instead of the shit that you can't do. otherwise it's going to drive you fucking insane right yeah yeah yeah i mean i like i work out of them or like try to do something

physical just to get my mind clear so i totally get what they're saying i mean like the only other thing i'd say might sound a little bit like weird or or just like depending on who you are you just spoonful of shit no not where i was going okay now might be might be weird though depending on like because when i first was like told to do this i was like there's no fucking way i'm doing that shit but like meditation just like that shit actually clears your mind so much if you really just like 15 minutes and kind of just like be with yourself and like sit down clears the hell out of your mind and you feel hell energized after too yeah so i'll say that this is another thing that a lot of successful people talk about is meditation i swear yeah it's like

i mean like you're like you can be manifesting the whole time right like meditating so then it's like you'll come out of it and you're like yeah i'm gonna get my fucking day going like just gets you kind of hyped yeah for sure and like i was saying too based on what he's saying as well is like you can't control these things that obviously happened to you now it's like those your circumstances just like how can you grow and get better from it and even the practice of meditation you know like I was talking about the diet and all this other stuff that you could focus on it's just another thing you can focus on to refine yourself so when you can fully do the things you want to do again you're just better at them you're more focused

100% fuck yeah it's run the next one so this person says what advice would you give to someone who is hungry for success I'll let you go all right all right yeah um I would say just it's simply like it's not going to come right away like I think people look at today's society specifically with social media and you see the highlights of everyone's life right because that's what social media is it's a highlight reel of the best parts of your life and you're not going to notice the people either until they're big so everyone has this thought in their head that it's like it's right away it's right away it happens so quick it happens so quick but just keep fucking fighting because that's how you're going to be the one that makes it is if you just

overcome everyone else's drive and work ethic. I think that's really what I did. It was starting when I was like 13, 14, and I didn't really get any name until I was like 18. So it was like four years of posting these stupid videos online until I finally started getting recognition, right? So it's just don't give up, like never give up. Yeah. And I'll add to that. So what he's saying everything is 100% true. I think to take it to the next level is, you know, in looking at other people you know they say comparison you know is the is a thief of happiness yep and in every time you look at other people don't don't necessarily take this as a way as like okay you can't look at someone to get motivation but the point is like you should look at something take it as

motivation but the root somewhere in your like heart should be why you really want to do the thing not just i want to do the thing because joss richards did it or i want to do the thing because bradley martin did or whoever you love or however you enjoy you need to figure out why the fuck that matters to you to get there instead of just like oh i want the money i want the popularity i want the fame whatever you should have some sort of going with the right intentions right it's so big yeah and that it's hard because like i said there's so much comparison nowadays that people just get on the internet and they're like oh that guy's doing this i want to be successful and his life looks cool so i want to do that without understanding that the person likely got there from some

sort of like you know something innate inside of them and some sort of line they're like i need this I want this, this is important to me. So my point is this, like, don't, don't be hard on yourself if you're using someone else for motivation, but remember that that person probably got there, not just because they were looking at someone else, but they really got there because all the trying times is like, you can't just look at, you know, Josh or Bradley or whoever and be like, oh, okay, I would do that. And then you get halfway and you get punched in the face and it doesn't work.

And then you're likely going to quit if it's not something that is really substantially meaning to you. So focus on that. that part of whatever you're, whatever it is and what you're trying to do it and how you're trying to do it. And yeah, use inspiration, but you really got to, you got to dig deep into like, why does it really matter to you? And then when all the obstacles come to punch you in a fucking face and fuck you up, it's never going to stop you. So, yeah, yeah. You got another one, another special one over there? Yes, I do. Thank you. So it says, what are some mental strategies

you use to stay focused on your goals and block out all the distractions that life may bring, including stress relationships all that stuff yeah i mean i kind of already said it a little bit like meditation like meditation is a big one um think it it allows you to like clear anxiety or just be kind of more certain in yourself like you are really sitting down and visualizing how you want your day to go or how you want your week to go or how you want your life to go and i think that's just a really powerful thing to to be able to do so yeah yeah and then obviously i'm going to say working out And working out is just another form of meditation. It's obviously a more physical, more active form of it.

But for me and my life has always been the thing that I've done that's like, helped me work through mentally things that are challenging. And it also helped inspire me to think of new things just through the act of it and being like, oh, wow, my brain feels so much more alive. It feels so much better. So don't skip working out. It'll fucking change your life. Stimulates your brain.

Like I just get so like clear headed after. You know what I mean? Like when I go out like hockey is a big thing for me too. that like I just need to keep playing. Every Monday night, I go out and play hockey. It's not just, yeah, I want to make this, it's important you said that. It's not just go be a gym bro because you might look at me saying it like,

oh, that means I have to go do sets and reps, but just do something physically active, whether it's hockey, hiking, fucking basketball, it doesn't matter. Something that allows you to like use your body, use your mind in some sort of kind of challenging fashion. It's a form of meditation that's just, it's a little more active.

And I think everyone should do that. Period. I think it'll make your life better. It'll also make your sex life better. It'll also make you, you know, sharper. Yep. All those. And then you won't end up eating spoonsfuls of shit

and trying to rate it for money. That's true. That's true. You don't want to be doing that. Don't do that. That's it. I love you guys. Unless you, wait,

you have any questions for me? I love, I want to do this at the end of every podcast too. So are you the dad? Dad of who? Lana Rhodes baby. Oh, no, no. That's not me. I can't say who the dad is.

Do you know who it is, though? I know who it is, yeah. And you swear it's not you? I cannot, I cannot confirm nor deny the existence. Well, it's not me. Okay. Yeah, it's not me. Did you say you please it?

Yeah, it's not me. I really, I really thought maybe, maybe it was. Why? I don't know. The way you were cuddling the baby? Yeah, it just looked like so natural. Yeah, I love, the baby is very sweet, man. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Interesting. You would love with the baby. That was a great conversation. I really, I really want to say that. I appreciate that. with Lana and with you today oh thanks yeah it was amazing and we did a podcast how old were you was a long time ago i was 18 i think yeah i don't think i was still 17 you were you were you were

you were legit you might have been 17 i think maybe on the podcast we said that yeah it could have been could have been fuck that was years ago yeah i was like a young and came on with bryce right yeah yeah yeah yeah fuck that was yeah i feel like we were such like little douchers back then dude yeah but not really you guys I mean, you just had success, right? It's like, so you're on, but you're never really like douchebags. Oh, okay. Thank you.

Bryce really plays that up on the internet, but he's not like really a piece of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He definitely like plays into the character. Yeah, and I don't believe him for it because it, you know, it works. Yeah. It's funny, though, when people like actually mean, they're like, oh, he's actually pretty nice. Yeah, they're like, oh, it kind of seems kind of chill. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I appreciate you coming on, man. Thank you, man. Thank you for having me. Being so candid and showing so much love. 100. And yeah, thank you guys.

for fucking subscribing to you guys for all the recent love. And I'm just fucking grateful. Happy to be here. Happy to be a part of all this. Subscribe to the channel, all that good shit. We're out of here. That's it. Doses.

Yeah. Hell you, dude.