The Confessionals - RELOADED | 395: The Mysterious Randonautica
Episode Date: August 3, 2026In Episode 395: The Mysterious Randonautica, we are joined by Josh Lengfelder, the CEO of the Randonautica app! Ever since the Randonautica app was released, we’ve received emails from listeners as...king for our thoughts and opinions about it. Some people love the app and enjoy the random adventures that it takes them on, while others feel there is something dark and sinister behind it. Some people have even accused the app makers of foul play. As the app’s founder, Josh discusses Randonautica with us with openness and sincerity, describing the process of the app’s creation by hooking it up to a quantum computer based in Australia, which spits out random locations for its users to investigate. But, because no one fully comprehends quantum physics, even the Randonautica team itself is still learning how to understand the creation they have built.Become a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinMAILING ADDRESS:STE 36188 Glocker Way,Pottstown, PA 19465WHO SAW THE MEN IN BLACKAmazon Prime: https://amzn.to/3oknNM6Other Playing Platforms: https://geni.us/WhoSawTheMenInBlackSPONSORSGET RAYCON: buyraycon.com/confessionalsGET Cerebral: getcerebral.com/tonyGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals14 Promo Code: "confessionals14" for 14 FREE MEALS!!!GET ACORN.TV: acorn.tv/ Promo Code: "tony" (Code must be applied in all lowercase letters!)Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comGet Beard Oil: bit.ly/2FbOhN5CONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: theconfessionalspodcast@gmail.comSubscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletterSOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaITikTok: @theconfessionalsDiscord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcastTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelJosh's book:The Official Guide to Randonautica: https://amzn.to/3pd4Uv8
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the CEO of Randonautica app. Shout out to Josh for coming on the show, making the time to talk to us.
Over the years, I've had people ask me about the Randonautica app. I am fascinated by this app.
I've always have been the idea of going out onto a random adventure. Like, this app is supposed
to give you random coordinates that you are supposed to go and find random things at these random
coordinates. Like you set an intention in your head, like I'm looking for treasure. Then it will
give you this spot to go check and you go there.
you're looking around to see if there's anything there.
Usually, he said within like one to three tries, you're finding something anomalous at these
locations.
It's really interesting.
And I was always interested in it.
Just the idea of the event you're going out and checking out new things, things that you normally
wouldn't go and do if you weren't using the app.
And over the years, though, there's been a lot of controversy about the Rano Naka app.
Some people suggest it's like a Ouija board and you're actually talking to spirits and
they're directing your path.
Josh comes on to dispel some of that stuff
and maybe even let some credibility in a sense to that stuff as well.
I had a great conversation with Josh
and he goes into a lot of different things,
but I will tell you friends that we are not here to tell you
what to think when it comes to using this app
or these kind of things in general.
I am not the host of this show
trying to dictate what people should think.
I just host conversation with interesting people,
whether it's their experiences or people like Josh.
And I let you guys decide.
And we live in a world right now where
you're not really taught how to think for yourselves.
We're living in a culture where everything's telling you what to think, how to think.
And I'm here to tell you for this kind of stuff.
I'm not trying to tell you what to think.
I am just presenting information, stories to you,
and it's up to you to make up your own decision as to what you think,
how you feel you want to pursue this app, if you want to pursue the app.
Those are the things that I want you guys to do as my listening audience.
And so with that said, I just want you to keep that in mind as we have this conversation
at no point in time, am I trying to convince people, or is Josh trying to convince people
to use the Randonautica app? I have it on my phone. I honestly, friends, am just very curious
about it, and we have a good conversation, and I want you guys to listen to this conversation.
So let's get to Josh and this fascinating conversation about the Randonautica app using
quantum physics, quantum computer, to find these random generated locations. Let's go.
All right. Today,
we got Josh on the show from Randonautica app. Josh, how you doing, man?
Good, Tony. Thanks for having me on. I know a lot of people are excited about this one.
So I'm ready to have some fun. Talks to some weird stuff. Maybe some secrets, maybe.
So that people don't know about yet. I dig it, man. Listen, if we can get, if we can get
into the hidden secrets and stuff behind the doors of Randonatica or whatever, I'm down for that action,
man. I absolutely am fascinated by this app and I have been for years. When I first came across,
Rastorandau natacab is when you guys first came out, I'm assuming.
I mean, this is probably like three years ago, four years ago.
Yeah, it was about three years ago, I think, at this point.
I have no conception of time, so it's hard for me to tell.
But yeah, I was, yeah, it was about two or three years ago.
We officially launched the app in February of 2020.
It was when we released the app.
But before that, we had a telegram bot going that was sending.
people to random places. So we caught a lot of mainstream movement and stuff before we even
release an app. And for the longest time, I was just like begging people to make apps to go
make you go to random places. And now there's like 50 real-off apps of ours. But like for a long
time, I was just trying to get people interested in the idea because people like just were so like
sketched out about it. And like the same things that we're seeing repeating now, which we'll get
to later, I'm sure. But like with the whole public perception and these fake YouTube videos and
stuff, it's been there since the beginning. And these same elements have been there since the
beginning. And it's like almost like this shadow projection. So when you're when you're random
nodding, you're literally what we call a random point is called an anomaly because we use this
my machine interaction algorithm. Right. So this supposedly our hypothesis is that
your brain influences this random number generator,
which can take you to a place that you are thinking about or talking about
or you set your intention towards finding this certain thing.
And so, like, we started this thing,
and it was, like, 25 to 30-year-old seekers, pretty much.
Like, and we were, like, really taking it seriously as an experiment,
and then it blew up on TikTok and went crazy.
And people started using it for reasons that,
the original members would never do like going out with the intention of looking for death like we would never use it that it wasn't intended for that but it became that because the collective unconscious especially being locked up in COVID lockdown and everything that's what was on people's minds and so you kind of saw the collective unconscious conjure this death and scariness and then that's what really took hold and um they found the dead body and that's what really like blast this i mean it was like
going on national TV, like the next day,
rearranging my girlfriend's apartment,
my now wife.
Like, it's crazy.
Like, how, how that happened?
Like, but we ended up being part of a story that solved like a crime, you know?
But people will see, oh, they just kind of did body.
It must be bad.
But that's really your shadow projection of what your intention is based on, yeah.
Really, it's like looking into a mirror.
because it's based on your intention.
So if you only see the bad parts,
that's really you're looking to yourself,
kind of, in my opinion.
Yeah. And that's interesting
that you say that with the whole collective consciousness
and how things were in 2020
and obviously 2021.
And the finding the dead bodies and things like that.
So the way this is,
this is happening then is so you,
you were trying to find somebody to build
this random generator app.
and where does the quantum level of a computing come in play here?
Because from what I understand, there's some kind of quantum computer in Australia that you guys are using.
Yeah, basically we're using a quantum number generator that's used in Australia.
And they offer an API that anyone can use.
You can go to the website.
It's QRNG.a-anu.edu.
Anyone can use it.
it's a reliable source of quantum random numbers.
And so like the idea is that quantum random numbers are truly random.
They're truly unpredictable.
Whereas pseudo random numbers,
which is what people generally generate like on their phones or it's using a lot of software for a lot of reasons.
But it's generated deterministically.
So like there's a seed.
And if you know that seed,
you can predict the entire string of random numbers.
However, with the quantum one,
there's no predicting it that that anyone is found so far anyway that so it's seen as being truly
random and so that's why we have the options of using pseudo randomness which hypothetically
could not be influenced by consciousness because it's already deterministic it's already set in stone
what the numbers are going to be whereas a quantum number generator could be
any number and there's no way to expect it.
It's a high level of entropy.
And so what entropy does is it makes this unexpected kind of like thing that your mind can influence.
That's the hypothesis.
And so once your mind influences the entropy, it becomes non-random.
So if you used to random number generator to find a location that you were thinking about finding, that's not a random event.
That's actually a causal event.
So that's the kind of paradox.
It's kind of interesting.
It's like it's all random nodding.
It's all random.
But if you truly did influence it, it wouldn't be random.
It would actually be causal.
So there are a lot of different ways to look at it.
A lot of people have their own pet theories.
and that's part of the
I think the fun of it
is a really kind of like
has a pet theory like
what we call
anomalies,
this is where I was going like this
now I remember.
What we call anomalies
are these like
close clusters
of random dots
put on a radius
and they're so densely clustered
that they are
so statistically different
from a normal random
distribution that we think there might be something interesting there.
But when we talk about anomalies, the brain sees an anomaly as a threat.
So we go about our daily lives and if something is out of place, we notice it and we,
you know, our brain is kind of telling us to protect ourselves from that.
And so what we found is people have a sense of despair or fear just at the prospect of going
to a random location.
Like there must be something behind it.
It must be human traffickers.
They must be collecting our data.
We don't.
We don't sell any data.
We don't do anything like that.
But it's not hackable.
People will come up with all these explanations.
Like, they're listening to our phones and then sending us to a place that has something to do with us.
And like that would be so much harder than what we're actually doing.
Like if we had the capacity to do that, we would be like billionaires probably.
Yeah.
But we were not doing.
that. We're doing experimental consciousness research. Unfortunately, isn't like the big money thing
right now. But I think it is kind of sort of going in that direction. No, I think it definitely is going
in that direction. And one word of advice is somebody who's been dealing with this type of community
for at least five years publicly, the moment you start collecting people's data, you lose your base.
Right.
These are the people who are really into the random nodding and this kind of stuff, they have a
general distrust of authority.
Absolutely.
As do I.
I mean, and we, our employees would quit if we started selling that data.
Like, yeah.
I mean, now you might as well just call yourself big tech.
I mean, that's, that's exactly.
Exactly.
And we said no to big tech.
We got an offer from a big investment firm.
And we said, no, we're going to bootstrap it.
And we're going to just take the money that we make and feed our developers and not
take the, because the first question they asked me was, how do we make this app more addictive?
And I was like, whoa, this isn't about being addictive. This is about being more connected to the
world. Finding places you didn't know about, you know, finding meaning, which is like the biggest
problem I think in like our generation is like people have meaning, this feeling of meaninglessness.
And when you find a synchronicity or a coincidence that's meaningful to you, you find meaning in that.
And that's something that like, especially when you're cooped up in your household day and you literally can't go anywhere and you can't meet up with your friends, finding meaning in the outside world is like magic almost.
And so it just works.
And so I personally kind of like I was like a really true believer in the mind machine interaction stuff because I have seen some cool stuff or we can influence the odds of something like five to 10 percent above chance, which like was really exciting.
because like if you consider that like going to a casino or something and winning five to 10 percent above chance, you could make a lot of money.
Like for instance, that's a practical application of gaming randomness.
So we're not really interested in gaming the stock market or casinos.
But a lot of people who do this kind of research are going to casinos and they're using my machine interaction to influence.
slot machines.
This is something I should not be saying, probably, but I am.
And then once you can influence the slot machines,
you can go to the car table and influence the decks that are being shuffled.
So that's where I started going,
well, does it matter if it's pseudo-random or kludium random?
Is it or is it just awesome phenomenon that is going to happen regardless?
Because people go random-notting without the app.
it's like there was the derive like with a guide to board and all of those people the
letterists the situationists there's all these yogis who can make things manifest and like
it's like a city spiritual power like in a lot of traditions to be able to do this like
to kind of like know where you're going and know that you're going and know that you're going
it. And we just basically took a lot of steps out of it and just gave people a direction to go.
And then once they start looking, they find it. It's not in the app. It's in the brain.
Like even the like influencing of probabilities and influencing a random number generators,
it's using your brain as a biofeedback device.
We're not claiming that the random number generator is accessing the conscious field.
We're claiming or hypothesizing that your brain connects to the conscious field.
And the random number generator just acts as a biofeedback device.
So it goes, oh, I'm just kind of like looking at your brain where it's influencing the bias of this distribution of random numbers.
And then it kind of like will find a hit point.
And it doesn't work every time.
It doesn't work every time.
And people will give us like a one-star review like, oh, I just found a street or something.
It's like it's about the whole experience.
Like you need to go like where you're going and coming and you can deviate from the journey.
And some of the coolest stuff I found just as well I was random outing, but not at the point exactly.
Like just it's better.
The rule of fun, basically, is to tie three chains of points together.
You start off somewhere, go somewhere random, then go somewhere random from there, and then go there from there.
And once you hit three, you'll usually find something that's just kind of weird and out of place.
And like, unexplainable kind of, just like, wow, that was weird.
So that's what kind of tickled my fancy.
So what on what, all right, so if you're going to hit maybe something that's kind of out of place, one and three tries,
and in consecutive, not like today, tomorrow, and the next day.
What are the odds of that, out of that, what are the odds of having an intention and finding
that intention in one of those places, you know?
So that's something we're interested in and scientifically measuring.
So we, like we said, we didn't collect data at all at all for a long time.
And now we have anonymized data that people can, like, access.
In our company, that's all anonymized, but we can start measuring kind of like what where these anomalies are being generated.
And like if there are like more anomalies in certain places, then because it may be environmentally mediated.
So there's like one hypothesis.
There's a researcher who wants to do a collaboration with us that he's looking at,
places where there are magnetic anomalies.
And he's wondering if we could compare our data to see if there's more anomalies at magnetic anomaly zones.
Could be, I don't know.
But that's something interesting to look at that we're going to look at.
That's cool.
I mean, a lot of that kind of stuff is just like way above my head.
I'm just like talking about the data and collecting data.
And I'm just like, okay.
So tell me something.
I was like, but so let me ask you this.
And this is kind of maybe for me, but also the audience.
You're describing how this kind of works and generally how you're trying to understand it.
Because I just want to say to the audience, this is new technology.
We don't understand a quantum realm.
So like when we have an app that's using a quantum computer to do this kind of stuff,
it's so new that it's like you guys own the app, but you're still.
still trying to figure out how it all works.
And so if I can just maybe draw this picture, and you tell me if it's accurate or not,
so what you're saying is our brains are already making these intense every day.
They were always putting the stuff out.
And because we don't totally understand the quantum realm, these thoughts for the beginning
of time have been going into this quantum realm theoretically.
And the app that you guys have is basically like a landing spot for these intents that we have always been putting out.
And in my mind, I envision a car scenario.
So I don't know if you're a car guy.
I used to be a car guy.
I'm kind of like recovering where I'm trying to forget everything I knew.
But if you have a leak on your car, one thing that is an age-old trick is you take a piece.
a cardboard, you slide underneath your engine, and the next morning you come out and you see
the drips on the cardboard, and you can see exactly where that was coming from.
Is it kind of like that where your brain is leaking these intense, and the app is like
the cardboard just showing you where to go?
Yeah, that's what I mean by biofeedback.
So, like, when we have a blip of dots on this radius, it's like clustered to an improbable
degree. They use what's called a Z-score in consciousness research. So this is all research has been
done by the federal government. You can look up on CIA.gov Project Stargate, and I actually
talked to the guy who the CIA bought the random number generators from. And he said that there is
no working theory about how this works. And it has maybe something to do with.
how things are connected and some kind of quantum mechanics to do with how like everything
is connected, but we don't know. It's a quantum mechanics we don't understand yet. So yes,
to answer that question, we don't know. What we're doing is fiddling with little variables
to see if we can get a practical effect out of it. So we're not so much concerned with a lot of
like Dean Radin, Roger Nelson, those kind of people have done this research where they're like
bringing people into labs and they're like pressing buttons.
to like, you know, make a ball move or a graph move up if they're concentrating and they'll
bring in experience meditators and they'll do better on these tests than just regular people
that they'll bring in for controls. And those people are very, like, concerned with proving
some kind of statistical phenomenon. So that's not what we're doing at all. We're not measuring
statistical phenomenon. We're measuring, I guess, phenomenological.
data, which is people's stories.
We're really just interested.
That was really my spin on it, kind of.
I saw a random number generator and I said,
hey, you could be the hero, your own legend through your own story
if you just go out into the unknown.
And that was kind of my stamp on it.
And people are going to have lots of different takes on it.
And it's already happening.
People are using this kind of idea and branching off
and making cool stuff.
So I'm excited about like what maybe like gaming will look at will look like if we can consciously influence.
Like, you know, if you're like, you know, shot somebody in CSGO or whatever, a counterstrike or whatever.
And part of it had to do with your intention and how strong your intention was.
That could be like cool as a practical application or like, you know, thinking I want my lights to turn on.
and then your lights just turn on.
That would be a cool practical application.
And there have been people who do stuff like this
were allowed to make lights that light up in a circle.
So this is like the first study I could find on this
is they connected LED lights to a like radioactive decay isotope thing.
And that was their method of generating randomness.
and they would try and make the lights light up in a circle.
And that was like the first study.
And it was like in 1950 or 60 or something.
So like this research has been going on behind a veil, though.
Like we kind of pushed it more to the front and it's getting kind of obfuscated because like it's just this now a narrative about a scary act, which is I love being an urban legend.
Like I love that.
I think it's great.
But there is like some science behind it.
And so we're starting to work with real academics and like people who actually have PhDs who have spent 20 years in a lab studying this stuff.
And they're finally kind of like opening up to us.
And like, because we weren't strictly controlled, we were kind of punk rock about it.
Like they never would have just unleashed what we did onto the internet.
that they would be like, let's have two people in a lab and see, you know, and then it's like,
we have this amazing infrastructure for like mass experiments on like human consciousness.
And like I just felt like it was time for it to not be hidden anymore because it was already,
this research was already going on behind closed doors.
There's a marketing firm called Qualtricks, which you will find that they market to people,
but they also did a public QR-R-N-G quantum number generator test
where they had people look at a string of random numbers generated by a quantum number
generator.
And they said if the numbers were significant to them in some way.
And most of the time, they were significant to them in some way.
Like it was their address or if it was their phone number or their friend's phone number
or something.
but it's funny to me that this marketing firm is experimenting in this same thing.
So you could be marketed to based on intent.
So a lot of people, you know, with a Facebook like thing, like, oh, I just thought of that.
I didn't type it into Google.
I didn't say it.
But somehow I got this ad for whatever butt wipes.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But like whatever, you were just thinking about it, but you weren't going to type it in.
But it comes up.
I think they're using it. I think they're using it to market. I'm thinking they're using a market on people. I think they're using it on people. And I wanted people to use it for themselves. So that was kind of my mission. Well, it's the concept of, you know, you're thinking about a song on the radio, you turn on the radio in your car and all of a sense playing at that same spot in your head and stuff. There's something there. There's obviously something there because I just said something that you nod your head to because you've heard of it. You've probably experienced it. Everybody listening has experienced it. So there's literally something there. And,
they're trying to harness it. It just happened to me this past week in a way where I'm working
on developing a new way I'm going to do interviews. I'm trying to scrap Zoom and all that stuff.
I'm trying to do something. Basically step my game up. And I'm looking at different technologies.
And the next day, one of those technologies I hadn't found yet liked my show on Facebook.
Wow. And so like it's like some things.
It could be easily, you know, them collecting my data and then selling my data to the companies that want it kind of thing.
But it's going to get to the point where the consciousness, they are able to tap into the consciousness and they're like, this little cluster of dots over here is an anomaly.
Let's go get that because it's already looking for us.
You know, it's almost like reversing what we're doing here with random knot where it's like you're going to look for the anomaly.
All of a sudden, somebody else identifies you as the anomaly and they come to you.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
When coupled with machine learning, I think that you could really use some crazy stuff like that.
This is the only conjecture that I've heard, but I've heard that if you replace some machine learning algorithms random component with a more responsive piece of hardware,
because there's not all random generators are made the same.
I have one that uses electron tunneling technique, which is different than what randomonautica uses.
we use A&U's photon, so they're both bouncing a blazer off a mirror and counting the photons.
And what this electron tunneling technique does is the same thing,
what's in like a USB stick style thing.
So like there's different kinds of ways of generating this randomness.
And like I don't know if I was like super into like,
finding out those variables and like but now I kind of am thinking it's a broader thing and like it's
everywhere and it's not just with random number generators it's like it's just popping up everywhere
like it's bigger than I kind of expected and and I think that you you looking at coincidences and
stuff can be part of your spiritual journey but it's not the end of it it's just a little
reminder that there's something going on.
It's not the end of it.
You never go, oh, I had a coincidence and now I'm enlightened.
You know, like it's not going to happen.
I may be to somebody, but I have yet to see it happen.
I, you know, I think I've yet to see an enlightened individual truly.
So, you know, I'm not claiming that it'll change your life.
And in fact, I would warn people because people do use it as a divinatory technique where
they're like, well, does this person love me?
And then they'll go to some random spot and try and, like, decipher what that place is telling them, just called geomancy, which I think is very dangerous.
Because you're putting the choice in the hands of just randomness or some kind of influence that you have no idea what it is.
What I like is using randomness to explore possibilities you would not have considered before and opening new potentials and new possible timelines, new possible.
It's new possible probability tunnels.
So, like, if you are in a neighborhood and all there are our houses, and you set your intent for, like, fairyland castle, unless there's an actual fairyland castle, like, bounce house there, you're not going to find a fairyland castle.
Like, it only increases the probability of you finding what is already there.
It's not going to just, like, manifest a completely new dimension or something.
But if you set your intent for a red door in a neighborhood,
chances are you'll probably find a red door faster using randomautica
than if you were just using your deterministic kind of like however you drive around that neighborhood,
which you think is random, but it's not really random.
So that makes sense.
And that I almost feel like I shouldn't bring it back up because you said you were kind of cautious about saying it.
But it makes sense with the whole going to casinos and stuff.
I mean, people walking into a casino, there's money already there,
there's already games to win money there.
So now you're setting intense as to what slot machine, take me to a slot machine prime to dish out money.
The gamblers have this language already, though, like, oh, I'm feeling hot, or I'm feeling cold.
People experimenting with randomness go through the same kind of, oh, I feel hot, I can influence it,
oh, I feel cold. I can't influence it.
So like there's the same kind of like gamblers is a good.
Gambling is good for like teaching statistics and for explaining this kind of phenomenon,
I guess, because like it's such a, people understand gambling, I guess.
And they understand like money.
And it's easier to think of it in terms of money because it's like valuable, you know.
And so like, yeah, if you had a 10% edge on the house,
which people know it's crazy.
Like people will play blackjack just to get a 1% edge.
They'll like nerd out forever to get a 1% edge from the casino.
If you had a 10 to 30% edge, I know people who have been banned from casinos for using this stuff.
So like that to me is like proof is that they got banned from a casino because the casino
didn't want them taking any more of their money.
Wow.
And that was because they were using the.
Randenot app. Well, not necessarily, but they were training to influence probabilities using
randomness, which is what using the randomness. It trains, it literally is training you to influence
probabilities. It's literally teaching you how to be lucky. So like at a certain point, you don't need
that out. So, all right. My mind's getting, my mind is going a million miles an hour right now.
after you and I are done talking,
I need to talk to you about some things off air for me personally.
And it's just for people listening.
I'm not trying to make out money-wise.
There's something totally different I'm thinking about.
But so the way you're describing this stuff
kind of dispels, at least from your perspective,
how things work, the idea that many people,
that have heard me talk about Randonaut and they know about you guys, they suggest that it's a giant Ouija board.
Yeah.
And so, like, what you're saying is from your perspective that there isn't, like, you're not, you're not reaching out into the unknown to have an entity, then point at the map as to where to go.
there's no that angle of things with a Ouija board where you're like asking questions to the unknown entity.
This from your perspective is a very much unknown science angle that we're learning as we go.
And you guys just simply have to happen to be one of the first practical tools that people can have to try to experiment with new technology or new science that isn't really well known yet.
Yeah. Well, I see why people would compare to a Ouija port. But to me, it's,
something so much bigger. But maybe that's because I've seen the sausage being made behind the scene.
It's not just, I've seen people use a, I don't even like saying that word, a spirit board.
Really? But it is similar to the spiritualists, like we're in a sort of spiritual revival period,
similar to when the spiritualists got their hands on the spirit board. So like, yeah, I don't really mock it.
like Ouija is a trademark by Hasbro or something, I'm pretty sure.
Like, I don't really mind being the Ouija of quantum divination if randomautica is that,
you know, just for branding purposes.
Cool.
Right.
Whatever.
Like, you could use it as that if you wanted to.
I wouldn't suggest it.
I wouldn't suggest it.
But yeah, you could totally appeal to.
And then this gets it, this is weird because, like, people ask me all the time, like,
is this against my religion?
And I have to tell them.
I am not a spiritual leader.
I cannot answer this question for you.
This is for you and your spiritual guidance counselor.
That's why I went by comrade for so long because I didn't want people thinking I had some kind of answer.
I don't have an answer.
I only have more questions and more mystery and curiosity.
That's it.
So like in the Catholic Church, divination is strictly forbidden.
Right.
You cannot like try and tell the future.
However, you can petition saints.
you can pray to saints and you can ask saints for stuff.
So in my mind, I'm thinking if you use random nautica to contact some goateic demon or something,
that would be definitely against the Catholic Church.
But if you used it to talk to St. Anthony to find your lost dog,
I don't think that would be against the Catholic Church's rules, honestly.
And the Catholic Church, well, the Vatican, does a lot of this kind of research, actually, as I found, like, as you get deeper and deeper into it, they are way into consciousness studies and they want to be on top of all that kind of stuff.
So someone actually suggested I go to the Vatican for funding.
You know what? Maybe, right?
There's a lot of, I could go down the conspiracy rabbit hole when it comes to the Catholic Church, but also just different organized.
religion. Now, you know, I know you're kind of new. You're not, you don't really follow the show,
per se. I'm a Christian. And, um, and I, I don't really pretend to not be, right? Uh, right.
Right. But that when it comes to the idea of organized religion, there's a lot of issues and
beef that I have with a lot of it. Uh, and, and so anybody who is out there that would go to you
and ask it, is this against my religion? It's more of a question that the question's phrased wrong.
And it's also directed wrong.
So there should not be a question that goes to you,
but it should be an introspective question that says,
does this go against what I believe in my heart is right or wrong?
And if you have a gut feeling that it is something that is wrong for you to be doing against your beliefs,
Josh isn't here to tell you to do it anyways.
I'm not here to tell you to do it anyways.
No way, yeah.
Like that's the beauty of America with freedom of religion.
You're allowed to believe what you want to believe and follow what you want to
believe. And that's a beautiful thing. So it's misguided questioning because we are in a culture
where we so desperately want people to tell us, just tell me what to do and I'll do it. Just tell me
what to think and I'll think it because that's the way we've been conditioned for so many decades now
through mainstream propaganda and things like that. It's like just, I'm so used to everybody just
telling me this is what it is. This is how do you do it? The idea of being introspective and saying,
what do I think? What do I believe? That's a foreign thing. So, uh,
I would encourage everybody who is listening right now who maybe is thinking those kind of things
to pause on that and just think, what do I think?
You know, and just follow your own gut.
If you pray, pray about it.
Yeah, exactly.
There's your answer right there.
And I would say that my spiritual beliefs are based in, like, probably I would call it esoteric Christianity.
I would definitely say my beliefs are rooted in Christianity.
be. But of course, there's like organized religion and all these things that go terribly wrong.
You know, when any group, you know, starts just doing major things, horrible atrocities happen.
So yeah, this, that's neither here nor there. But yeah, it is interesting that like I can
consider myself a Christian and still use Rinaanautica, but other people are like, oh, he's talking
to demons when it's only positively affected my life, like, and only actually affirmed my faith
actually, because I was less spiritual and I was more like atheistic and this actually is confirmed
my face. So that's kind of interesting. It's all based on like a matter of perspective.
And what you just said there is so interesting too because that's the same kind of the way
I look at it is with the flat earth stuff. When the flat earth stuff was really popular, I mean,
I don't know if it's still popular or not anymore. I don't know. But when it was really popular
like a year or two ago, there was so many people who were saying they came to Jesus Christ as their
Lord and Savior through
riding the flat earth theory.
And so it's like,
for you,
like you actually strengthen your spiritual life
because of this where you feel
like you were further away from your creator at
one point. And so I find it
really interesting. And even with this show,
I mean, it's a paranormal show. Yes, I'm a
Christian and we have just different kind of
vibes going on around here because it's like a
it's like a potluck. It's like a mix of
everything, you know? But
I've had people email me saying,
because of the show, they are now going to church or they became a Christian, all this stuff.
And it's just like a paranormal show did that. That's pretty amazing. And so it's about perspectives.
And everybody comes from their own different path and place in life. And you just never know what stone you're going to unturn that's going to change your life, you know, for you and ran on.
I have a good story about that, actually. Like someone went ran or notting. This is a post you could probably find on the subreddit by searching demon.
So someone went ran or notting with the intention of demon, which I would never advise.
Like, why would you want to invite things that you want into your life.
I don't think a mentally well person wants a demon in their life.
But they found a piece of graffiti that said, demon.
And what did they do?
Called their mom crying.
And their mom prayed with them.
and they got closer to Jesus because of this experience.
So it's kind of a roundabout way, you know,
but it is interesting that like this secure circuitous path.
Like this is what we are doing is like people always think of things
from their logical predecessors.
We're going, no, we're going outside of our logical predecessors.
You know, and that's how all of science is built.
all of science is a house of cards built on a bunch of logical assumptions from tests they did,
you know, and they were objectively said, okay, we can objectively measure this.
Therefore, we can objectively do this. And we're going, no, we're going to use randomness
to start studying things that we couldn't have logically have landed on using the huge structure
of science as it is now. And that's one of the main things we really, really want to encourage
people to do is citizen science and to maybe like get together with some friends who are interested
in a topic and really start researching this and like join the rhizome basically there's a million
nodes out there of people doing research i'm sure like you know you're one of them you have a group
people and they're amassing this information and it's like this like distributed network of like
people processing this information and it ends up all helping us in the end when we share the
information. So I would definitely suggest to people, this is what we call noveltism is we want to get,
we want to get like science out of the hands of the few and into the hands of the many. And so what this
takes is decentralized open source kind of networking. So like I would never hide any papers I found on
this kind of subject.
And that's how I was able to
find a bunch of people smarter
than me to help develop
what I could see
was a possible
like angle into mainstream culture.
And, you know,
that happened through being open,
you know, not being closed off.
And that is very
unintuitive to a lot of people
because we're taught,
oh, you've got to hoard it.
It has to be yours.
mine, mine, mine.
This is my information, my research.
It's like, no, it's a paper you found on the internet.
Share it with someone, you know,
and then they'll give you some feedback that you wouldn't have thought of.
And this is like how Randonautica was initially built, basically.
It was just from people just experimenting with different things.
And we eventually found like methods that we can't explain how it works.
but practically we can say we're using randomautica,
it increases attention response.
It increases focus.
We can say these things.
We can say that there's a scientific study that says going to novel places makes you happier.
There's a, you know, honesty God, academic study that shows peer-reviewed that people going to just
novel places, just new places, it creates new neural pathways and it makes you actually happier.
So like there's some things we can say for sure for Mandonotica like that we have found.
And this is like we're not the only ones doing this. Like there's all sorts of people, you know,
investigating coincidences and randomness. And this was just kind of like our team's been on it.
Yeah. You know, it's every new level of science has a doorway that everybody has.
to walk through. And it's like random notica is that doormat that everybody has to step on as they
go through that doorway. And it's, it's really something that it takes a special type of
mindset to, to be that. Because what you're describing is stuff, nobody wants to be the platform
where everybody just kind of steps on to get to the next level, but nobody really appreciates
kind of thing in the end of the day. But you're just like, for the betterment of the future of this,
this new science, this new, whatever you want to call it, it's somebody has to be that
dormant, you know, of just people, just being willing to share with, with everybody who
approaches that, that doorway. And I find that really cool. Now, let me ask you about,
so we talked about maybe more of the spiritual side of like you personally and how it's
helped and me, the show, this, that, and the other. And the idea of Christian values and
things like that. And you mentioned about more esoteric Christian. Maybe if you want, and you don't
have to, if you want, maybe elaborate more on what you mean specifically by the esoteric Christianity,
because the next question I would have is a conspiracy theory that I've seen about your app,
which is the logo, the owl, because people are talking about, you know, this is, this is
evil Ouija board, this, that, and the other. Then they have the owl. So now we're saying it's a cultic,
It's an occultic organization and you're willingly participating in occultism and all that stuff.
So take it away.
I just gave you a load of chamber.
Okay.
I would love to address this.
So yes, we are absolutely dabbling in the occult.
Because what is the occult?
The occult is what is hidden.
And when you go random nodding, you are shining a light and what is hidden.
So you are literally diving into the occult, the hidden.
And so that's what the owl represents because the owl sees and the owl sees,
the dark. And a randot learns their entire geographic landscape by going to random places. And
through that, they can see in the dark. So people have all these conspiracies like,
oh, the owl is mulloch, it's child sacrifice. It's like, no, it's the wisdom you gained on
your journey and the owl can see in the dark and twists its head in all directions. You know,
it's like people can't quite see that many layers deep, but I experienced it. A bunch of other people
experienced it. Like, owls just started popping up. When you deal with randomness,
owls pop up. When you deal with a phenomenon, owls pop up. I mean, when I was like 19 years old,
a huge owl flew into my truck and was flapping around its wings. Like just, if that wasn't an
omen, I don't know what was. Just like, it was the biggest owl I've ever seen. It was huge.
And like, yeah. So to say we're dabbling in the occult, it's like, it's kind of a guy.
a question because it's like, yes, we are dealing in hidden stuff. But are we doing like satanic
rituals? Fuck, no. Like nobody is. So people, people, when they are thinking that you're dabbling
in the occult and stuff, they're thinking you're Satanist and that you guys are trying to
unleash demons on the world and through this app and things like that. So you're saying quite the
opposite, you know? I'm saying the demons are right now. I'm saying that's your show. And that's your
shadow projection of what you think randonautica is and that's coming from you and that is something
for you to deal with in your perspective and if you still think that us going to random places to
find novelty is satanic be my guest like i don't have a problem with it because i know what i am
you know i've been peace and love all my life and i knew i would be mislabeled i remember telling my
my wife, this, before we got married, we were camping.
I was like, it was right before we blew up.
And I was like, I know I'm going to be mislabel.
But you know that I've always been peace in love, always been peace and love.
And when they found the dead body, it was like, this guy's a murderer.
Even though he lives in Texas and they found a body in Seattle, he's somehow a murderer.
And it's like, I'm like Dexter or something, some evil genius you can pull off this murder.
But I knew I would be misrepresented and miss, you know.
And I don't mind it.
I kind of encourage it, the mystery.
If someone wants to call me an Illuminati lizard person,
I will never deny that.
I will never deny that because it gives me so much power.
Like, yeah, okay, I'm a crazy occulted magician
who made 18 million people, you know,
do a ritual that change Earth, like forever.
Okay, fine.
I will never deny that.
Like, yeah, and I kind of get similar things throwing at me.
I recently just started taking YouTube series.
I've been a podcast for five years and just this year, I think in March or something.
I started taking YouTube serious and it's been growing and things like that.
But because it's growing on YouTube, there are new people coming to the show that never knew about the show.
So they don't have the long history that the listening audience has of knowing who their host is.
And so they tune in to, they know it's paranormal.
for the title's sake or whatever.
And they see the logo, the one that's been on the wall behind me.
And they're like, this guy's clearly an occultist because he's showing...
Alistaird, or something.
Yeah.
He looks like...
He looks like Anton LeVay.
He's covering one eye.
He has the black and white logo.
And I'm just like, actually, the truth of the matter is the very first logo we had is
very similar to that, only I slapped it together from images off Google because I didn't
think the show was going to last.
And then when I decided to make the logo, my artist said,
so many pictures of your face,
doing what we were doing on the logo originally,
which was the Shush logo.
And he took my face and did that.
And I was like, it looks cool to me.
Sounds good.
Not much thought process went into it.
Just give me a cool looking logo, Lika.
And he came up with it.
Yeah.
It's, I mean,
the mislabeling is rampant.
It's because it's kind of circles back to what you were talking about earlier
in the show, which, you know, the app giving people, maybe meaning in a sense where it's like,
you know, you're locked up in that house, you're bored, maybe you're a depressed person,
you have no hobbies, your life just seems like I go to work, I barely pay my bills and this is
my life is.
And all of a sudden you find this free app or whatever it is, maybe it's a few bucks down on
I don't remember, but you download it and all of a sudden you're using it and it gives you
a hobby, gives you something to do, you think is cool, you feel like you're tapping into
something that is just unknown.
And it gives you that meaning of stuff.
And so there's that angle of it.
But then there's also the angle of the mislabeling.
And people are like, nope, it's just completely evil.
I guarantee you that I'm going to have people emailing me telling me that this is,
this is an evil app.
And here's why I should have asked this question because it would have been the question to expose everything.
I know.
Yeah.
Which I welcome, by the way.
I welcome those emails.
Yeah.
I mean, I welcome skepticism in general.
But I think shadow projection is a very real thing.
And we're dealing with a coincidence.
Cole Bustoff Young has to come up.
And he talks about the shadow in length.
And the shadow is like when you're projecting all of these bad things,
they're basically yourself onto something else.
And so you haven't kind of integrated this sort of like being able to dive into the mystery
because you just go, no, the mystery is demons.
I don't want to learn the nuances of
because I do believe there is good and evil
and I do believe there are demons
and I do believe that if you really wanted to
you could probably get a demon to influence you
using random nautica.
That would be totally up to you though.
We don't would not suggest that at all.
I wouldn't warn people against that.
And here's the thing with that concept though,
which you just said is that, yeah,
so you just said
that you could use it for that kind of purpose.
But it's not just random notica that you can use for that purpose.
I literally can make a Ouija board in my office that I've crumbled up piece of paper and do the same thing.
I can literally sit here with a necklace and hold it in the air with a yes and no underneath it and start asking questions.
Like you don't need Randonautica.
You don't need a Ouija board from the toy store.
Like you can literally use anything because like now the circle's a full circle.
It's about intent.
and what are you intense.
And so it's one of those things where you brought that up,
and I just wanted to interject there because I want to people understand
that you literally don't need Randonautica to summon a demon.
I can start trying to summon a demon right now by just asking for it.
I don't even need a tool.
I can just start asking and inviting these things in my life.
Right.
Kind of like what you were talking about earlier and stuff,
about how you feel like this, there's a lot,
this is, there's a lot more going on here and it's always been here kind of thing. It's,
it's similar in my thought process of the paranormal where it's like, I believe that there's
spiritual activity going on around us right now all the time. And I, and I just think that there
are, there are some people who maybe are more open to having those experiences than other people.
And so it's not a matter of, uh, of me using something to call a demon from a mile away down the road.
I believe that stuff's happening right now around me.
If I want to access it, I can.
Right.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, in many ways.
And I would say, don't do it.
Yeah.
Like, you don't want to do that.
And it is actually probably much harder to get an angel to deal with you because you probably are not like on their wavelength, you know?
Like, you know, like, it's just like they have certain rules.
And a lot of people probably, even if they think they think they,
can, couldn't line up to that kind of like agenda or whatever.
Like it's the spiritual path is,
is a difficult one,
you know?
And being a righteous person and living by moral principles is difficult.
It's not an easy thing to do.
And people want to put the responsibility on us for other people's,
like,
using it as like,
oh my God,
I find a scary baby doll in the woods.
this is like we didn't do that we never encouraged that behavior we said that's bullshit stop that this is
not what this is about doesn't matter it's going to take off on youtube but like as soon as we hit
blew up on ticot david met cap from the anomalous was like expect to find a scary hidden footage
or whatever found found footage horror film in the next 24 hours and indeed i had already found that
Like someone already had made it by the time he predicted it would be made.
Like as soon as we blew up on TikTok, people were like, okay, this will be perfect for the creepy kind of.
And I had people telling me that I should go down that route years before we blew up on TikTok.
They were like, this is what you want because it's going to just blow up your trajectory.
And I was just kind of like, no, it took me a lot of energy to make it positive in the first place.
and like there's still people around today who remember the old days where it wasn't like
there's people who emailed our customer service and they were like how do I get stopped
I want to make a YouTube video about being stopped wow it's like obviously this person is like a minor
or just accident prone or something I don't know but like when you have to take responsibility
for 18 million people's actions yeah there's some fucked up shit that happens you know so
go on rail yards, they'll break into houses, and like all this stuff gets pushed on to us.
And it's like, we never told you to break into a house to look for a ghost?
The 18 million users, that's a lot of people.
And of 18 million people, how often, because I'm sure it's happened, how often have you
had somebody saying that they want to sue you because of something that's happened on the app?
No, never.
We had one person.
who was like, they didn't quite understand that it was just randomly generated.
They thought it was like a Pokemon spot where we keep coming up there.
But it was just like, the police are going to go to the person who perpetrated the crime,
not the person who just generated a random point.
Like, yeah, we have connections with the FBI cybercrime unit.
Like, we would definitely, like, report anyone who is doing, like, illegal shit or bad shit.
Like, we have those connections.
Where did those connections come from?
Are those connections coming from because the app is so popular?
Or is it that you guys?
Well, yeah, people started fucking around on railways.
And we got the railroad commissioner personally emailed me.
Wow.
He was like, yeah.
And then I have to report you guys to the FBI since I made this.
And we actually cozyed up to them because we were like,
we have a big thing going and we have a small team.
and it's like a big force going on, like we might need some help.
So we reached out to those resources.
And yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm being targeted.
People like, people like are crazy, man.
Like, and I was warned if this would happen, huh?
How are they targeting you?
Just in a lot of ways, man, like just getting like my email accounts hacked and my
Twitter like packed and shit like that.
Like just for stupid reasons, you know, probably just for like bragging rights or
something, but like I am getting targeted. And it's like just insane to me. Like I just wanted people
to go on a walk like my mom used to take me a walk and say, let's go see what we can see. That's
what she would say. See what let's go see what we can see. And we would just go walk around. And
and that's all I really wanted. And ended up making this like 40 graffiti across the entire
earth. But it was a fun ride. It's still interesting. We're really buckling down now and becoming
more scientific with our research.
So we're really going to make the best effort to like deal with academics and have like real
tangible data.
And I think that will bring us more back to our roots because I think people just didn't
really understand what was going on with Granitonautica.
They just heard these spectacular videos and got all creeped out.
And, you know, it went from that 25 to 30 year old demographic to probably like under 18.
to 18 and then it's like you can't trust teenagers with anything you know so jans he scares the
shit out of me i mean right like yeah crazy so i i don't know it's it's it's it's it's been a
beautiful thing and it's been an ugly thing at the same time and that's just life you know if it and if
it wasn't truly random you wouldn't see you wouldn't see the only good things you know if it was
It was, you know, like, it's random.
So you're going to find, and when you have 18 million people searching the earth for
random stuff going into places people have never been or haven't been in a long time,
you're going to find some weird stuff, like the probability of you finding anything in existence
once you have enough people searching is like 100%, like once you get enough people.
So that's kind of like what we're kind of like heading towards is.
like kind of maybe defining our technology a little bit better and maybe like find some sunken
sea treasure or something get that on film that would be cool I would really like that um we're going
to do um another I want to use it for healing um that's basically all I can say at this point but
we have some like hard heating scientists who are helping with us and we're going to use it for
healing. And that may sound surprising, but I, yeah, that's all I can say about that. It sounds,
it sounds like you're an occultic Satanist.
People. What do you think you are? Jesus? Oh, man. Okay. Well, I mean, that's all you can say.
That's all you can say. Listen, I'm trying to make many notes because I'm fascinated by just this
whole conversation. Let me ask you about the YouTube. You mentioned about YouTube videos.
And I talked to you about it briefly before we started. I am somebody who really enjoys
watching paranormal YouTube videos. I get the sense on some channels that they are putting on.
And just because it's like, because as somebody who deals with the paranormal in a sense,
and I hear people's experiences and the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the.
efficient turnover rate that these guys are putting out videos.
I'm just like at one point, I mean, like just one of these videos, it would be a home run
story on my show, let alone every video they put out every week or whatever.
Some of these guys have been tapping into the Randonaut app.
And like I said to you, I still watch it.
I don't care if it, like, I don't know if it's fake until, like maybe it would ruin it for
me if they came out and said, yeah, we're faking it.
But until they hear that, I find it so entertaining that I just got to watch.
I love it. I loved it until I found out people were just like, why are you stalking people?
And I was like, you aren't in on the joke? Like, that kind of made me kind of go, oh, no,
humanity's kind of going down a dark path a little bit. Like, I really did kind of trust that people
would have the discernment to be able to tell if the creepy baby doll was placed there 10 minutes ago
or not.
Like, or if someone was just like having their friend following them in the car and then
they were like, whoa!
So like, I mean, I'm not bashing those people because I grew up in the theater.
I made my performance debut at 10 years old.
Renanin and Onica is my great creative masterpiece.
I am not going to bash someone for their art.
Period.
even if I think they're bastardizing what I did, that's their art.
And art is subjective.
And, you know, people want to say that it, like, the YouTube is what, like, got us
famous or whatever.
We had over a billion hits on TikTok before any of that YouTube stuff even happened.
So, yeah.
So, I mean, and that was during the height of the pandemic.
So I'm interested now that things are starting to, thank God, like level out, people are getting vaccinated.
Hopefully we're returning to the new normal.
How do you return to a new normal?
Don't get me started, okay?
Let's just leave that there because I don't need my show getting canceled because I'm about, like, you just said something.
I'm just like, I'm going to, my head's going to burst.
So, no, I agree.
This new landscape of what, of what, because I mean, I'm on record on a podcast saying, oh, I think next year there's going to be a big economic thing and people are going to have more time in their hands to do this.
That's why I'm investing in this app.
I'm on record saying that in 2019.
And it was like before, like right before that stuff happened.
And like, just crazy, crazy.
and yeah, I knew the day that I was going to quit my job, like when I started that job.
And I didn't know I was going to quit because of the pandemic, but I knew the date for some reason.
How'd you know the date?
I just knew.
I just knew.
It just came to me.
And that was the day I met my life.
Wow.
All right, listen, I got to tell you this.
So by the time this air, people are already going to know what I'm talking about.
But Josh, I'm telling you right now, what you're talking.
about. You might really enjoy the show that I'm dropping on Thursday this week. It's November 11th
is when it's dropping. And it's about Jamantria and the guy I have on, all these numbers started
coming to him. And he and he started like, it was like he was chosen to decipher these numbers
and he's going down to this crazy hole. And his conclusions are out. That is very interesting to me because
that is not something that comes to me
intuitively. So I would be very interested in learning about that.
I love doing this show because my favorite shows are ones where I learned something.
And I definitely learned something on this show. So thank you for bringing me on.
Absolutely, man. Listen, before we roll, though, I have to ask you.
Anything. I got all day. Okay, cool.
You brought up the dead body in Seattle.
Yes.
Now is the unfortunate incident in Seattle.
Right. So first, this is a two-part question. One, I want you to just kind of lay out to the people who maybe don't know what the story is behind that. And also, do you have any of your like, your top like two or three or even just one bizarre stories that happen through people that have been using Rana? And it doesn't have to be something that like you, you like necessarily agree with. Like maybe those people were trying to find dead body and they found anybody. I don't know. But what are some of the bizarre things?
that you guys have experienced with the app too.
There's so many, man.
Like, like, okay, so the first one,
I had my first time I generated an anomaly.
I went in the woods in Dallas, and I found this drum.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
That was, like, the first thing I found.
And that, I mean, if you talk about, like,
shamanry and stuff.
The drum is like
so central to all that.
And just recently, actually,
I found on Craigslist,
someone selling a drum just like this
right where I found it,
except it had a snake on it.
Now, where I found this drum,
I took my best friend because I didn't touch the drum
for like three months.
I brought my best friend and right at eye level,
there was a snake earring right
at his eye.
Like, I have the snake earring, but it's not in here, but I would show you it.
But it was right on a vine, right in his eye, like four feet away from the drum.
I go back another time, and I almost step on a Texas pygmy rattlesnake, which is like a red
rattlesnake, rust-colored rattlesnake.
I didn't even know there was red rattlesnakes, but when I heard the rattle of that rattle
snake's tail, it permanently heightened my awareness.
I was seeing snakes out of the corner of my eye for like weeks.
Like, yeah, I mean, I'm sure people could spin that into some occult experience.
And, you know, it kind of was.
It creeped me out.
It sure did.
And, like, do I have an explanation for that?
I do not.
So, like, yeah, you are diving into the mystery.
You need to be cognizant of that.
And I don't necessarily think it's bad, though,
because like, but you need to be cognizant that you are affecting your timeline and these waves
that you're affecting could not manifest for years down the line. Like in that same forest,
I found a crowbar. And then like a year or two later, I lock myself out of the house and
how am I going to be in my house? I remember I found that crowbar and I had it in my truck and I just
pop my door open with the crowbar and I was in my house. So it's like,
I found this crowbar while I was ran or not running and it saved me from like being locked out of my house and not having my keys and trying to go to work or something like that. Yeah. So it can affect things down the line and you are you're messing with your fate. If there is such a thing, you are. And personally, like, I like that. I like that idea. Oh, yeah. Other people may not. And that's fine. And I have people that I work with.
who are like, yeah, I wouldn't use randonautica, but they're in the same kind of space and we're working together.
So it's interesting how that works.
But like it's not for everyone.
I'm not trying to say it is for everyone.
But we have had a lot of cool stories.
Like I'm very interested, like I said, in healing using randomness.
So we have a lot of really good evidence towards people dealing with grief using randomitis.
using randomatica.
They'll like find
like where their grandma died or something
and they'll be like,
it helped me come terms of that loss.
So like it'll constantly
is one that I hear
very commonly. And as much
as I get accused of being a Nazi
shape shifter, by the way
600 of my people died in the Holocaust
so that's not possible. But
as much as I
get that accusation, I get
people in my Instagram inbox every single day saying, you change my perspective on reality in one
single random not trip. And that is what keeps me going. And that's why I do it. And if a thousand people
use it and don't get it, but one person gets something out of it, I will keep doing this and dig my heels
into the dirt and keep doing it for as long as I possibly can. And it is not cheap to rent servers
for millions of people.
That's something I found out real quick
when I got a six grand server bill
and I was like, whoa!
We got to like tighten up ship a little bit.
All of a sudden, you're selling a car
moving back in with mom just to keep the lights on it.
What's funny actually is I,
when Randanautica
was introduced to the world, basically,
the telegram bot,
my father had a stroke.
like maybe that day or maybe the next day or the day before.
Like I can't quite remember, but it was like the same week.
My dad had a stroke.
And so I had a lot of time on my hands because I was his sole caretaker.
And at a house, because then my father and my mother were divorced at the time.
They're still divorced where they live together now.
But I was caring for my dad because a stroke patient, they are, they could be very difficult to deal with.
And my dad was a boxer.
He was a bad dude.
like, I mean, he's a good dad, but he was a bad motherfucker.
And when you got somebody out of stroke, they're not all the way there, you know?
So I was kind of like living in a crazy house almost.
And I had a lot of time to go random on him because, like, I was caring for my dad at the time.
And I had a lot of, like, time to deal with my dad.
And so, like, I forgot where I was going on with this.
But when I started random nods, there was.
there was there was this feeling that I was like opening like a huge like tunnel or something,
floodgate or something.
And it just spread like wildfire.
I mean, it just, it wasn't me.
I just happened to make a subreddit and post a few pictures on it and host a telegram.
Oh, that's what I want to tell you.
Okay, so it was living with my dad.
And then as soon as I'm putting this telegram bot up, thunderstorm hits takes my internet down.
So I call the company.
They come out and fix it.
Happens again.
Thunderstorm hits.
Tree brings my internet down.
And both times I put my computer back at my mom's house and just kept it going.
So like the stasis field, it really does push back kind of.
Like there really is a pushback there.
And so I think it is only for like the adventurous and the curious and like, and it will give
you the chills.
It will give you the creeps.
And that's part of it.
And like if you're not into that, then yeah, don't do it.
But if you're, it doesn't have to give you the chills.
It really is only creeped me out when I saw a snake, when I took me to somewhere where
I saw someone got shot previously.
I didn't want to explore that area. It was scary.
That's really the only time has been really creeped out.
Like, I have not been that creeped out. I used it at night, though, and I got really
creeped out. So I think a lot of people are, like, using it at night and getting creeped out.
And, like, you really can't see all this stuff at night. So there's a creep factor with
night in general. And so, I mean, listen, I got to tell you, this interview.
almost got canceled today because when I woke up in the entire Philadelphia area, apparently,
Comcast was out.
Comcast is out.
I heard about that.
And so I was like, well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do my interview.
And so there's the third time that's something to deal with you and this app and the internet.
Oh, it's, yeah, more than the third time.
It seemed to happen a lot.
Like when I went to go meet my business partner, she bought me a plane ticket and it immediately
canceled it and refunded her the money.
and she was just like, what?
This is, I buy plenty of tickets for people all the time.
Like, this has never happened to me.
I was like, welcome to my world.
Like, I often do things like three times because it's like pushing back.
Like, no, go back to the normal.
Get back on your path.
You're pre-presenting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I see it as like blasting with your intention through all these like stickers
that got you connected.
and your desires and your, you know, just just your memories and everything that keeps you,
like, in that space.
And I see random nodding as just blasting through that using intention and putting you
into a new kind of, like, just scoches your reality tunnel.
So it goes, yeah.
And new things become possible.
Let me tell you something.
So back in the 90s, Steve Jobs,
God rest his soul.
Apple's never been the same since he died.
Steve Jobs was doing interview.
I always butcher this quote.
So if anybody's listening,
just go on YouTube and try finding it.
It's very inspirational.
But he kind of talks along this mindset
of altering your reality.
And he said,
he talked about how so often people get caught up
in the everyday life,
the motions and going to a job,
taking care of the kids and stuff,
that they lose perspective of what life can be.
They lose,
they forget how to dream about life.
And then there's always that one random person
that decides that they're in this bubble.
Call yourself the bubble.
You're living in this bubble of life.
Everything's kind of the same every day.
And they just start pushing through that bubble.
And they just start pushing, pushing, pushing.
And then they find out there's a whole other reality
on the other side of that bubble that they never would have experienced
if they didn't push through that bubble.
Right.
And you have to do it.
You have to do it.
You have to go and do the adventure.
You can't just like generate the random point and go,
oh, there's a random point.
You know, this is probably...
You can experience it.
This is probably why I'm so fascinated by your app
because you started talking about
a little bit ago about the randomness
and taking your life onto a different path
than you would have been originally.
And that is what drew me
with the Randonaut app back in the day.
When I heard that, I was like,
that's fascinating because that's kind of my makeup.
I constantly am doing things
that take my life on a different path.
I mean, for instance, podcasting.
Before I was a podcaster,
I was a truck driver.
And I just knew that there was another path in my life I wanted to tap into.
And I just started pushing through that bubble.
And the idea of Randomot app,
taking people and putting them in a place is that they never would have even been before.
It's impossible.
It was completely 100% on the quantum level random.
Right.
I find it so fascinating.
It probably speaks to me.
Yeah.
I mean, I wish I knew and like had a list of like every new thought.
that was formed, that wouldn't have been formed, if the person hadn't gone random or not.
Like, I wish I had that data.
Like, yeah, I'm not going to get that data. You'll have it one day, I'm sure.
Yeah, it was just print out itself.
And it's like, yeah, that's what we deviated from this timeline.
And it really is exploring the multiverse because the multiverse is causal.
So it is literally inspired by Rex Poral gun from Rick and Morty.
So, like, if you want to call it anything, it's that.
It's not a cult.
It's stupid.
cartoon.
Once you guys nerding out and going, hey, we can, you know, get past or normal frame of
reference by using this technology.
And like the fate or determinism breaking isn't even like scientifically disputable.
People want to dispute us for a lot of things, but that is not disputable.
If you're using randomness in your life, you are deviating from your normal patterns.
That's not despicable.
I mean, there's multiple people who do that.
Max Hawkins is a guy who was doing it before I was.
He made a thing where his computer made all of his choices for two or three years.
He just lived his life completely randomly.
So I've talked to him a couple times, and it was like talking to a monk from a different sect or something.
It was so interesting because he's not interested in the quantum.
at all. He's just like, I'll choose a pseudo generator. And he still experiences like he and his
business partner were breaking up. And they were like, okay, I guess we'll go to a random place to have
this breakup conversation. And it took him to a pet cemetery. So it's kind of like, there's like a
humor to it. But even he has experienced he's kind of serendipitous. And so I don't know if it's an
artifact of the quantum realm. I am not going to say I know anything about quantum physics. I will never
say that. I don't know. I've Googled the, you know, eraser experiments or whatever and
quantum eraser experiment, the Asher Paris paradox. Just Scott Wilbur in general, his research is
really good. I forget this. Comsire is the, if you want to Google it, Comsire,
he sells random number generators. He has papers published where he want to,
lottery ticket using this kind of technology.
Just a three ball.
My audience just got rich.
You're welcome.
Yeah.
Apparently he has a basket just full of him.
He doesn't cash him out.
He just wins them and just puts him in a basket.
And there's just a basket.
Are you serious?
That's what I've heard.
Can't me that guy's address.
I need to break in.
Lost Alamos Labs.
Well, there you go.
I need somebody smart to help me break in now.
I'm just kidding.
everybody who's listening, the algorithm,
Facebook, YouTube. I'm just kidding.
I am just kidding.
Let me talk to you.
You mentioned about this a couple of times
and you said you can't go into great detail,
but I do want to bring this up again, the healing aspect
of the app. Now,
when you first said it, my first
thought, and probably because of my Pentecostal
upbringing, I thought healing as
as in, you know,
I broke my arm in half and
Randon app, not app, app, is going to heal my arm.
Right.
But what you're talking about,
is more psychological and emotional healing.
Is that what you're saying?
Or are you saying you're going to heal?
Right now it is.
I will say that I believe we will begin to gather data
that will help doctors who do actual healing
using retrocausal techniques.
So you basically go to a doctor
and get healed for a disease you never have.
geez, which is weird to think about, but yeah.
So like, so like almost like futuristic like, wow, that's, so we're talking about your Tom Cruise now and you're predicting the next crime kind of thing.
You're predicting who's going to get sick next and we're going to get sick next and we're going to.
Yeah, the government, I bet, uses it for that reason. I was told by someone with the security clearance that they do.
And so, yeah, the government's been experimenting with this stuff forever. And, you know, the United States government has.
a large fundamentalist Christian base who pushes back on this kind of research.
Whereas in like Russia in places like that,
like Sony had its own My Machine interaction department.
Japan had no problem with it.
They have way more research than we do because they were just open-minded to it.
So like we have to get past like it's demons.
Like there are demons,
but we can't be calling good things demons.
Like that's, you know,
that's just ignorance.
And that's not what God would want for us.
You know, like we want to see clearly, have discernment, have wisdom.
And, you know.
Well, it's like with any new technology, science throughout the, the generations.
I mean, initially, like, there's, like I said, you're the doormat right now.
Like, there's always that dormant where everybody, like, to step into that new way of thinking,
everybody's stepping on that doormat to get in there, you know?
And so it's like, it's like, it's like, you're just like,
Like, it's like my job is to apologize. I love it.
Yeah. I mean, you think about, I've never been able to apologize. But now I'm just like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. With modern medicine at one time, that was, that was witchcraft.
Yeah. So he got sent to jail for telling people to wash their hands. Yes. And so it's just, it's one of those things where anybody who maybe is trying to have a hard, maybe having a hard time framing their perspective around this and stuff. Think about somebody who has PTSD. Right. Somebody who needs.
mental,
psychological healing.
Let's just go
with that aspect of
things.
Right.
Like, we have
tools for that
and they're called
psychologists.
And you go to a
psychologist, which is a
tool to help
you mentally heal,
emotionally heal.
And without that tool,
you would be hard,
it would be a lot harder
for you to heal
from that damage.
And so,
so in a sense,
you're,
you're hoping
that random knot app
can be that,
that kind of a tool.
Yeah,
I can't speak on it
too much
because we haven't really fleshed the idea out too much.
And I know when I, like, you know, throw people's names up there without having accomplished it first.
But I do think this would be that the highest level for me of using this technology is to heal people.
Like, not, I'm not cheap, cheap drills and deep hope, you know?
Like, and yeah, there are techniques.
People can use psychologically heal from stuff.
And a lot of the time, people don't want to.
And you can't get them to.
Wow.
And you have to love them anyway.
And you find that just by loving them, they get a little better.
But you kind of have to put your guard up because they want to be sick and they choose to be sick.
And that's kind of what happens.
Like with this retrocausal healing stuff where you like go back to your past self and send love to your past self.
I mean, I'm sure people have heard these kind of meditations, you know.
And we want to start kind of like objectifying something.
of this. So like, but you can't make everyone do that. And PTSD, the nature of PTSD splits your
imaginal memory. So you literally are misjudging people's intentions. You're misjudging
things. So you would think maybe that the healing is the thing that's bothering you. And it's like,
no. Like, it's crazy, but that's how it is. And the answer isn't like, oh, well, if they don't
want it, then you can do this. It's just like, you just got to love them anyway, and they're
choosing to be that. And it really is crazy that it always kind of like winds down like a psychedelic
acid trip where you were out of your body and then you go back and you're like, oh, I'm me.
I'm this. I'm doing this. I'm, oh, and you're happy about it. And you're like, that I'm doing
what I chose to do and all these decisions in my life.
that made me me like they were for a reason and they were intentional even if you didn't know
that you know being a trucker would lead to you being a paranormal investigator like or something
you know even if you didn't know you had a feeling you pushed towards that you know
yeah i've been an actor i've been a circus performer i've been a window washer i've been a
a H-FAT guy.
I've been a CEO of a corporation,
international corporation,
and you know,
and,
you know,
I never felt like any of those things
were really me,
really,
you know,
like now I do,
because like,
this is me,
like this owl is me.
That's me.
That's how I see it anyway.
I can see it in the eyes.
The devil horns.
But,
yeah.
No,
I get what you're saying,
though,
because,
I had a deep, I had a deep desire to be an impactful person in this world.
And by just pursuing that path and through what I would call prayer, you know, it was,
it brought me to podcasting. And I didn't see myself as a podcaster when I felt like this
was what I was supposed to do. I just pursued it. And it developed. And here I am. And I tapped into
another parallel universe with it where there, there is this Tony somewhere out there that I didn't
know existed. And, and I went.
and I pushed through that little bubble and I found this other existence of me that I never
knew as possible.
It's amazing.
And I appreciate that nimbleness.
Not everyone's that nimble.
Like, and you don't have to be nimble for sure.
Like, it's fine to work a factory job for 40 years.
And, you know, it's fine.
That's good if that's what you want.
But if that's not what you want, you should push through and you should at least try.
And usually, like you said with the podcasting thing, I started podcasting.
a year before I started Rano Nods,
just me and my friend talking shit in my room.
I had no idea that I would be doing a podcast every day
for like the next three years, you know?
But I had an inclination that this was going to happen.
Like I picked my college major randomly from a list.
Like, just weird coincidences like that.
Like, you know, when I was 15 in our computer class,
we had to print out business cards and mine said existential investigator.
And that's still what my Twitter says and stuff.
Wow.
I ended up being what I put on my business card when I was 15 basically.
All of a sudden, random life isn't so random.
It seems almost preordained.
It is crazy, right?
Yeah.
The randomness can conjure non-random.
That's so paradoxical.
and like from what I've heard from a few quantum physicists who go to all these like
there was one in Australia who's telling me like that they're saying that even the quantum
random number generators are deterministic we just don't understand the variables that are
influencing them yet so there may not be such a thing as randomness and maybe we'll have to
change our name at that point someone someone suggested that early on and I was like
no, we'll go with randomness.
But like, yeah, I am totally about intention.
And I think that is probably more important than the randomness is the intention.
And that intention and desires and stuff, because I think a lot of like what randomness is
was part of my spiritual journey and my self-developer.
development. And like, the fact that, you know, I'm an inexperienced CEO, maybe has to do with the fact that YouTube is full of a bunch of BS videos. Maybe, maybe that would have happened on its own. I don't know. I didn't even know what a CEO does, did when I became one. You know, like, how the hell does that happen? Answer that. You know, like, so, you know, I wasn't an author, but now I have a book. So, you know, like,
That's so crazy.
Like, and, and, you know, like, even the New York Times slammed us.
They still, like, interviewed me, and they were, like, they had a thing that was, like,
sit your kids down and talk to them about random not.
And they told them not to play this dangerous game.
It was, like, the biggest backhanded compliment in the world.
And, like, we gave this reporter access to this Los Alamos labs guy, Scott Wilbur, who invented
the pulse oxymeter if you want to look it up
is a piece of laboratory equipment using every hospital
every day and he has patents
on this stuff and we gave
him and she interviewed him and she had not
put any of his stuff in
because it didn't go towards her narrative
where she interviewed an
associate professor who has never looked
into this
you know and it's just like
that's where you start to go
okay there's a force field here
there's the boundary
yeah it's called
jehornalism
because it's not journalism.
I love that.
I love that.
I love it when I run into good journalists.
I mean, good journalists, I love them.
Guy and they read.
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
But good journalists are amazing.
And what they do is so important.
And like, yeah, there needs to be like classes or something about old school journalism or something
because the new gotcha journalism is so just.
like,
well,
it's the clickbait,
it's the clickbait world that we lived in and we,
that we created ourselves that made this monster because now it's all
about getting paid off of clicks.
And so it's,
it's not about the story.
It's about developing a story around an idea.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
And I never really wanted the clicks,
man.
I never wanted to be famous.
I never wanted to be a C-list celebrity or whatever,
you know,
but here I am.
You know,
I wanted to cover my face.
you found me comrade, but I got shoved out of the nest because somebody chopped up a few people
and put them in suitcases and I had to go on public TV.
I mean, I was on Russian national TV.
Like, they actually gave us a fair shake, the Russian military TV.
And, uh, wow.
Yeah, just like NPR and like just crazy stuff where it was just like, like my dad was like,
you're not a loser
son
you know
like
thanks for the positive
reinforcement dad
I was never a loser
but thanks
yeah
you know
such a dad thing
like I'm finally proud of you
now that you got
interviewed by New York Times
but I got that
you know
like a lot of people
never get that
right
I got it
you know
and there's no
when it comes to
that kind of stuff
so like
yeah it serves
their purpose and stuff, but at the same time, you benefit from it.
So whether they say, tell your kids never play with this app and here's why the problem
and stuff, they're still giving it the attention that you're seeking.
And so you win in the end.
It was like an Andy Kaufman, what wet dream for me.
I mean, just to be toying with the media like that.
Yeah.
Was dying.
I loved it.
It's just, I love it.
I love the mystery that surrounds Rananautica.
I don't dislike it.
I like the videos.
I enjoy the videos.
I like cheesy horror movies, you know?
But we need to maybe rethink how we're teaching our younger generation discernment.
Because a lot of them, whatever they see on the screen, is reality.
And that's hyper-reality in semiotics and stuff.
And that is when things become a little weird.
And like, if you can't tell the reel from the fake, yeah, that's scary.
Like, it's really scary.
And I don't know how to fix that.
But one way was we created our own social media feed.
So you can go on Randonatica and get on the Discover feed.
And you can post your own trip boards.
And we have like our own little space now.
Because before we had this decentralized model or he's just used everything on the internet.
and be able to post anywhere.
We're still doing that,
but we also have a centralized feed now.
And it's going to, like, have options for users to show their location if they want to,
because we have people who are like, they're tracking us.
And then we also have people who are like, hey, can I show my location to my friends?
And it's like, yeah, sure, you know.
We want it to be able to like, if you don't want to be tracked, you can turn that off.
And if you want to be able to have your little boom, I'm random nodding.
Yeah, we want that.
And then have people be able to say, well,
here's maybe not a random spot, but a really cool spot you should check out.
And like, we're going to have that and like just like a legendary page.
And like, yeah, the discovery feed is really interesting because it's an international phenomenon.
This whole conversation has been sort of ethnocentric because like I said previously,
the United States is a little bit behind in a lot of these matters because of the
religious beliefs and stuff.
And like, I'm not saying that religion is bad.
I'm not saying that Christianity is bad, but I am saying that it has hindered us
from some psychic research.
Definitely.
And there are people out there who, whose job it is to basically fuck up and use
counterintelligence techniques and to fuck up consciousness research.
That's a fact.
Right.
An unfortunate one.
Like, even if you're at the smallest level, they're going to get on there and start helping you until they don't, you know?
And that's just like a fact.
And like, why is that?
Why?
You know?
And that's the interesting question.
It's like, if we're just going to random places, why are we getting fucked with, you know?
Right.
And if it's nothing, well, why am I getting targeted?
Why are we getting harassed?
Why are we getting, you know, stolen from?
Why are we, you know, getting, you know, agent for romocateurs, like trying to make us out to be something we aren't?
It shows the power of the real thing.
So you've really experienced a more conspiratorial angle towards you from being the guy running the ship.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, and a lot of it has to do with just like regular jealousy and, you know, people wanting to be the captain of the ship, but not wanting any of the responsibility.
you know and then they get mad that they're not the captain of the ship and it's like well dude
you didn't do any of the things that you know everybody had the chance to make a company
that made a random app everybody had the same chance and i'm the one who did it right but
nobody wanted to have the had the gust go to do it nobody wants to show out a few hundred bucks
for a company name and have to deal with an accountant lawyers like i certainly didn't
and I thank God for my business partner, Auburn, who's amazing, and she's gotten us, like, so much stuff.
Like, she got us the book, and she got us, like, a lot of stuff that's coming up.
It should be really interesting.
Like, there is a possibility for a Random Notica Horror Thriller movie.
Oh, yeah.
Super duper cool.
So I'm not holding out too much on that because, you know, everybody has a script that they're trying to flip.
but I think that would be really cool.
I do appreciate the horror thriller genre and, you know,
but it's,
we do have the creative control sort of to,
I wanted to show the breadth of human experience,
not just bad stuff.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like,
being exposed to the darkness of the world
is part of growing up and like,
you're not always just going to be in the womb,
you know?
And a lot of people,
are in the womb, kind of.
And they're in their little matrix goo.
And they love it.
And they're comfortable there.
And that's fine, I guess.
For them, it's not for me.
It's never been for me.
I've always just had an urge and an itch
to look behind that little rock over there
because I think I saw something.
Oh, your look.
I was doing this the other day at a flea market.
I saw this pot and I went and looked in the pot,
and it was like something
and it looked like an amulet or something
and I was like, ooh, I better not touch that.
And then I met this woman named Snowbird
who makes indigenous weapons
for her tribe.
So usually a man fulfills this role,
but she makes like all these different weapons
that show like the evolution of indigenous weaponry
in North America.
And she showed me and it was this turtle amulet
and the turtle is actually my sigil.
And so I just randomly using my,
it's funny how we use that word randomly.
We use that you word randomly for intuition a lot, I think.
It's like, oh, my friend randomly called me.
Did they randomly or did they kind of get your ping
that you were thinking about it or whatever, you know?
But I randomly looked in this jar and found,
basically the symbol of my freedom and my protection and my home.
And like this lady blessed it for me and sold it to me for seven bucks.
And it's on my shelf.
And yet you betray that and use an owl as a logo.
I'm disgusted.
You should have you had a turtle as a logo.
Yeah.
And we wouldn't have nearly as many problems, probably.
But I didn't discover the turtle until later.
So, yeah.
I mean, I'm still the owl, too.
I have owls on every entry of my house.
I have an owl.
So, like, every door of my house has an owl looking at you.
It's like a kind of like mid-south thing.
I've seen it a lot in, like, Kentucky and stuff.
People have owls on their doors.
And I do think there is, like, this sort of owl consciousness that humans can tap into or something,
like just like I think there's a rock consciousness or a turtle consciousness that we could kind of maybe it's just the archetypal symbology and then when you go rando nodding you start playing in this archetypal symbology and your adventure becomes flavored by the archetypal symbology you see like a piece of trash that says Thor because it's like the name of a oil brand or something then you start thinking about Thor on
your trip, you know, and how Thor could relate, the symbolism of Thor could relate to your life or
whatever, you know, to symbol, so symbology nerds like me, like, that's pretty cool.
So, yeah, there's a lot of things you can do with Renanautica.
I would suggest going on there and looking at the Discover feed because it's really interesting
right now because it's from people from all different countries and, like, people from Mexico
City, just get it.
People from Pakistan, they just get it.
You know, they may have certain hangups about it.
but they just get it.
They understand it.
It's not foreign.
And I feel like here, when I started random odds, I had one person.
I could be like, hey, I have this thing that sends you to a random place.
And he was just like, how can I use it?
You know, like that I had one person.
And now there's just, you know, people making their own apps.
And I think it's absolutely wonderful.
Yeah.
And, and I, but, but I don't think that the coincidence, like I said, is the be all and all.
It's, it's got to be love.
It has to be love and healing and stuff like that.
It has to be.
I, I think so anyway.
No, I agree.
And so I would say to the listening audience then, be, do some your own homework and stuff, even on, on Randonautica, but these.
other apps that are coming out and stuff, because in the beginning of this conversation, Josh did say
that he was approached by a big tech company that wanted to use it and make it more addictive.
And this is Tony's words, but I'm about to say not Josh's, but we do know that Facebook did go
down that path in its early days of building the apps and everything in the red bubble that pops
up when you have a notification, the adopamine hits. Listen, you got to be careful with some of this stuff
because Josh told you here first.
Big Tech is already looking into trying to create.
They're going to, listen, if they wanted to purchase random noticap and you said no, that's fine.
They'll just go create their own.
Right.
They were just strangles us from the inside out somehow or make us not show up in search results or, yeah, not allowed to be on an app store or something or just put it in Google Maps or.
What they can do, really, is just they have an infinite.
budget, they can create a better app than yours with the addictive properties they're looking
for. So once they get users on it, they never leave. And eventually they just squeeze you out that way.
Right. I wonder what I did not. I mean, people are doing a pretty good job of making interesting
stuff right now. But I think they are so busy copying us that they aren't thinking next.
We're always going to have like that next thing that would have been working on for six months.
And then they're going to be like, fuck.
Now we have to make a whole social media feed.
God damn it.
Yeah.
Just got to finish with ripping off their old app.
So, I mean, I got invited to a pretty prestigious tech conference yesterday.
So that's really exciting.
And what we're talking about, like, the future of gaming and the future.
and the future of like what business might look like and stuff like that.
I'll tell you what.
You got a lot of stuff going on for you guys.
I'm really interested in it.
And I had this thought earlier.
I just wanted to tell you before I forget,
don't be surprised if within the next year or two,
you guys are contacted by NeurLink Elon Musk.
Right.
If what you guys are doing and what he's doing on the scientific end,
I see a marriage there that
maybe that you don't want
but I imagine he would want that marriage definitely
he would want the community for sure
the BCI thing yeah
I totally believe that an implant
is not necessary
and why would you need an implant
if it's not necessary
so that's my tidbit
that I'm not going to get more into that.
On that no, bring the ship in
for some docking, bring the
plane in for a landing because
you just said something that I
I'm just going to let
go.
Yeah, if you want to put the tail out a little too much
and turn the ship too far.
Yeah, yeah.
We're running a little of fuel so we got to make sure
we don't get lost at sea.
Listen, Josh,
I appreciate you being here.
Funny, it's brilliant, man.
I hope I'm going to get to be a regular, man.
Oh, for sure, dude. This has been just a pleasure.
And anybody listening, if you're
interested, check out Randonautica.
and if you're a little nervous about it for your own convictions or something like that,
if you're just feeling like, hey, listen, I would say err on the side of caution then for
yourself.
Yeah.
For me, I find it very fascinating.
I've had so many people talk to me about it from different angles.
I've had people say that it's not a good app for people to be using.
It's bad and all that stuff.
And over the time, I really started thinking, you know what?
I just need to talk to somebody at Randonautica.
Right.
And I'm glad we did because I'm walking away from this saying,
you guys are tapping into a science that is very new.
People who study quantum physics don't know how it works completely.
And therefore, you guys, as the ones having this app, you're learning as you go.
And that's okay.
And I agree that caution is very wise at this point.
Yes.
and I obviously was cautious
like when I found that drum
I didn't touch it
I didn't take it home
I didn't know what was attached to it
or what happened
but it ended up being like
the thing that kind of like
propelled
Randeronica in the early days
because people were kind of just watching
and seeing what was going to happen
and then I found that drum
and people were like oh there's stuff out there
let's go find it
and then after that it was just like
people finding weird
structures built in the desert and UFOs. I mean, three different UFOs on video. Yeah. So, yeah,
check out the official guide to Randonautica if you want to get into like the real, like, heavy duty
kind of, it's written for the masses, but I do go into a lot of really deep kind of scientific stuff
in one of the chapters. So if you're really interested in like the technical stuff,
The guide randomnetica is out.
Just check out her Discover Feed.
It's free to use the app.
The anomalies, which are the ones that use a lot of randomness.
They use more processing power.
So unfortunately, those are limited.
You can only do like 20 a day or something.
I'm not sure what the number is now.
But if you go to the pseudo-random and just do a blind spot location,
you can do unlimited random points for free.
All you need is an email to sign up.
You can use a throwaway email if you want.
Yeah, and just if you want, experiment with it.
And I would definitely recommend bringing a friend.
Don't do it at night.
Use situational awareness.
If your body is telling you,
I should not be going to this kind of shady area of town.
Don't go because the app told you to go.
People are like, I got stuck in a riot because of your app.
This is something I've heard.
I was like, yeah, but you weren't really paying attention.
You were walking into a riot, were you?
Like, I don't get that.
Yeah.
So be careful.
Have fun.
Thanks, guys.
Absolutely.
And I'll just say this.
I know the audience is listening right now.
And they're like, Tony hears this.
And he's thinking, okay, don't go alone.
Don't go at night.
I'm definitely going to do that.
So that's just the way I remember.
I went exploring an entire abandoned industrial complex by myself.
You were like, you were insane for doing it alone.
I'm like, I didn't even think about it being insane to do it alone.
But all right, Josh, I'm going to let you go.
Thanks a lot, man.
All right, man.
Thanks, Tony.
That was a good one.
Thanks, ma'am.
Well, that's the show, everybody.
I really hope you enjoyed it.
If you did enjoy it, please share the show with your friends.
I don't care where or how you share the show.
Just share the show if you enjoyed it.
If you've ever listened to any kind of content revolving around Randonautica,
maybe this was more enlightening for you because we actually got to talk to the guy who started the whole thing, the CEO of Rano Notica app.
And I really hope you guys maybe learn something from it.
Curious. I don't know. I just hope you guys enjoyed this conversation.
And until next week, friends, stay safe. Take care and remember.
The truth will set you free. But first, they'll piss you off.
Bye.
Awaken from the forest in the depths of the abyss.
This creature is a paradigm of time lost and time itself.
It fears no one.
It adheres to no rule that man can create.
It forges its own path, and yet its path remains hidden from the world.
The sphere of his existence is beyond most comprehension, as it exudes its power quietly, but transcendent.
It needs no one's approval to exist, but yet its very existence it's sought after by many.
It watches.
It learns.
Adapt to the ever-changing environment around it,
even as the environment is wrought with corruption.
It battles the corruption only when pressed
or for the protection of others like it.
It is a mirage that few will ever understand.
It's a cornucopia of knowledge from an era, long, past.
It's free.
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My fantasies always consisted of making it big.
My soul was nothing more than a bargain.
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sitting aside everything is medicalized politicians selling the ride a bed of die where the relevance lies
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