The Iced Coffee Hour - Revealing How Much MONEY This Podcast Makes | Ep. 4

Episode Date: June 14, 2020

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Let's put this in the beginning. Okay. So, yeah, so I ended up going on Amazon. You know how people do thumbnails with, like, a whole bunch of, like, stacks of $10,000? You know, the stock trading guy is like, I made all this money before I took a poop in the morning. I got some prop money from Amazon. So I might end up using that in a thumbnail or something. You shouldn't have told them it was prop money.

Oh, yeah. You should have just, I'm just using $10,000 as a coaster. Oh, well, okay. Well, anyway, I'm going to be using $10,000 as a coaster. Well, welcome back, everyone. This is the fourth ever... Ramsey So with that said, you guys,

thank you so much for watching. So Ramsey was being a bad... I wish you could see what's going on off camera. Got this new... It's like this vegan leather. And it was a really nice couch. And of course, Ramsey decides to jump on the couch.

And you know how cats do the thing where they go on something with their paws? He started doing that on the couch. And it's going to leave these little holes in the couch. Like, no, anything like the couch. Let me tell you, that couch is so nice. And that's one of the, like, I said that was probably one of the nicest couches. The design is crazy.

It looks super good. But I might have some holes in the armrests now. I just can't have him destroy the couch. He could destroy the rug underneath. The Ottoman is something. I don't want to destroy that, too, but he's doing that. Oh, wait, here he is. Hello.

Yeah, I don't know if you see him on. No, you can't see him. We'll see. Okay, anyway. Yeah, you could kind of see him there. He's a troublemaker right now. Anyways, welcome back to the fourth ever episode of the iced coffee hour with Graham Stefan. Thanks.

And, yeah. And Ramsey. And Ramsey now, too, yeah. We just want to thank everyone for the first three episodes. Everyone's been really supportive of them. And we're over like 50,000 views between all three of them, which is pretty crazy. Nice. And we got monetized, too.

That means that you guys can watch ads in this video. Exactly. How exciting is that? So we should share how much we've made so far. Okay, so we've made $72. $72. Wow. And that's a few days.

Now, 72, but you have to consider how much work went into that. I would say, from actually filming the episodes, I would say 20 minutes of prep work, an hour of filming. Christine's one took, that was an entire night from like 8 p.m. to midnight. Yeah. Of doing that. Plus editing. Editing, that one probably took me like five hours to edit. It's less.

Yeah, we'll probably make it like $5 an hour. for doing this right now, realistically. So that's why you've got to get your two free stocks from Weebel. That's why you have to click on the ads, watch them all the way through. We can't tell them to do that. Why? You're not supposed to tell people to watch the ads and watch them all the way straight. Oh, okay.

So don't do that. No, don't do that, guys. Don't get your two free stocks down below in the description with Weebel. And everyone was saying there was issues with seeing it on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Spotify, and stuff like that. It'll be fixed. They're already all up there. This one will be up there regularly scheduled time. 9 a.m. Sunday.

Cool. I don't know which camera to look into, which do I look into this one? I would probably look into, I'm looking in that one. I'll look in this one. Okay. Okay, cool.

So yeah, that's really exciting. We got monetized $72 in the bank. Going to get reinvested soon. We're getting some new audio equipment. Yeah. So look out for that. It's going to sound way better. My philosophy, honestly,

when it comes to that, I know you want to go all out with audio. We should only spend the money that the podcast makes. I'm down for that. So the podcast makes a grand, spend $1,000. If it makes $2,000, spend to that. Just reinvest it. Keep reinvesting it back in the channel. But we should we should take a

line of credit out because I think I think it really just makes sense to get some good stuff right in the beginning. We could pay for it then in the future with the um with the podcast. All right. Fair enough. I can do that. But yeah, that's that's pretty exciting. Also, Graham, we didn't ever address this on the podcast, but two million subscribers on the main channel. Did we not? I thought we did. We didn't address that. Wow. Okay. 400,000 on the second channel. Yeah, wow. And, uh, like 9K on the podcast channel. It'll be 10. Maybe I don't know if it's gonna be 10 by the time this post. It'll probably be at like 85, 9. It's already at 9. Yeah, we're already at 9. Wow. Very exciting stuff. Thanks. Thanks guys. If you're watching this by the way and you're not

already subscribed, make sure to subscribe. Because the sad thing is this video is gonna get more views than we're gonna have subscribers. That's a problem. That means people are watching and they're not subscribed. But yeah, so. But yeah, pretty cool stuff right there. And then also, we also want to know what kind of content you guys want to see in here because that's been something that Graham and I have been really curious about. Do you want to see more finance and business-related conversation? Or do you want to see like every day just kind of talking about our lives, talking about what's going on, our plans for the future and stuff like that?

And then bits and pieces of finance, like if there's any news or anything, just really let us know. Any comments that criticism always welcome. Cool. And also, we've responded to every single comment on the podcast so far. We're all caught up and most comments in the future will get responded to. Cool. Yeah, Jack is going to be answering a lot of them.

I pop on every now and then when a video posts, I'm always there. And lastly, some of the top comments had to do with my posture and me not having a beverage. This time I have two beverages to make up for my previous lack of beverages. And I will be working on my posture this entire podcast. What does that say about my posture? Was your posture really that bad? My posture's good, man. That's a good.

Yeah, it's really good. Mine just like my neck cranes because I think I have a long torso. That could be it. Yeah. So something that's really, really funny that I saw in the news, people are throwing away their stimulus checks on accident. Oh, on an accident. I was about to say, there's no way they're doing that on purpose.

No, it was an article posted in NBC News. People were literally throwing them out. Well, they just don't know. I've almost thrown away checks. Farmer's insurance has sometimes sent me like refund checks for things. And I just think it's spam. I just think it's like, oh, another one of these. I'm sure I'd probably thrown out checks at some point.

No, people are literally, so the recent round of stimulus has been provided in the form of prepaid debit cards. Yeah. And, like, the way that they issue them, they don't say anything of it being, like, from, like, you know, the government or anything. No, because then people steal them from mailbox. Yeah, exactly. So people have literally been throwing them away.

I mean, it's not surprising, but, yeah, there's been a lot of theft for stimulus checks. People have gone through mailboxes, stealing stimulus. Not the checks. debit cards, prepaid debit cards. It's just odd, though, that they would provide it in a form of debit cards because, like, there are so many things that you can't buy with debit. What about people trying to pay their rent and stuff like that? I mean, there's probably ways around it.

There are ways around it. There are ways around paying your rent with a debit card. You can go and use your debit card to, I believe, get a money order, and then you can use the money order. It's for people that don't either have social security numbers or have a bank accounts. That's really what it's meant for. What about the people that want to invest the money, too? Like, you said that there was this article about this person that invested their stimulus money.

Bring that up. Talk about it. It's a funny one. She was 22 from Louisville, Kentucky. She basically said her stimulus was free money. So she may as well just play around with it and said that investing is like the easiest money she's ever made. But she's been doing well so far. Like she's almost tripled her money.

And didn't she do like leveraged oil? Yeah. She invested in two-time leveraged oil ETFs and United. Of course. Between the two. she's almost tripled her money. Yeah. Props to her.

And she says you can make a lot of money with no effort whatsoever, just investing in double oil ETFs. Could be spent on, you know, very worse things. Honestly, I agree with that. I think if we look at the bigger picture here,

a lot of people, I don't want to say a lot of people because I don't know the statistics behind it, but I'm sure some of the stimulus money has been wasted on things that just people don't need. I'm sure a lot of it goes towards necessities and bills, but I'm sure there's a portion of people out there who's just like, let me get a TV

or let me get something like that. And in a way that, actually, I take that back, in a way, the stimulus was supposed to be for buying things like that. Yeah, but wasn't it from like small family ran businesses? Was that what they were trying to promote that stuff? Yes, yes and no. I mean, at the end of the day,

they want the money going back to the economy. And having the money circulate back into the economy in the form of consumer spending is better for the economy than going and investing the money. Yeah, that's fair. If I got my stimulus, which I didn't, because I'm a dependent and I'm in college. I would definitely invest it.

I mean, there's nothing that really... Well, I mean, you're dependent on people smashing like button. Exactly. So smashers and smash like for the YouTube out. But no, yeah. But in all seriously, I mean, if someone goes and buys a TV with that, it is good for the economy. It's better for the economy to buy a TV than to invest.

The smart thing would be to invest, I would say. Yeah. The smart thing would be to invest. So she did the smart thing she invested. It's funny if you watch the channel. Yeah. She saw the channel. because I made a video

on how to spend your $1,200 stimulus check. And I went through and I said, here's what you should do with it. If you have bills, you have necessities. Like, if this is extra money for you, two times leverage oil. Leveraged oil ETFs. No, United.

No, but for real. And I mentioned, like, investing is a good use of the stimulus check if you already have everything covered and this is just bonus money. So maybe she watched the channel. She's like, listen, two-time leverage oil ETFs.

It makes sense. Yeah. It will fuel the economy definitely more than buying stocks. The person, I just bought a guitar, I bought a Stratocaster. The person I bought the guitar from bought a new Stratocaster with their stimulus money. Wow. So there we go. There we go. It's going back to the economy. That's the most important thing. It's going back to the economy. Exactly. I just thought that was funny. People were literally throwing away like $1,200. Catching up on the week, is there anything that you wanted to discuss, anything cool happened in your life between, you know, the last podcast and now? Yeah, I think a lot of people didn't want me to talk strictly about investments. So I'll talk about non-investment things. Got two scooters. Yay! That was a cool thing. I've been waiting for a while on these scooters.

So I went on Amazon. You know the lime bird scooters? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazon sells another version of that. It's way cheaper. They're like 280 to 300 bucks. Yeah, like made in China. Something like that.

I don't know where they're made. But anyway, so I got two scooters. So now instead of like driving somewhere, doing like a lot of. you know, 30 minute walk or some, you could scooter just anywhere you want. So that's been a lot of fun. It's just, uh, you ended up saving a lot of money on parking because sometimes like a lot of places to, because you don't want to walk like 30 minutes. Right.

But if you're going to drive, there's no free parking. Like free parking is hard to find or it's like, you know, a few dollars for parking. You could take these little scooters down there and it's free. You have to worry about parking. Yeah. I, uh, I've been in the market for a scooter recently and Graham buying this scooter. it really makes me want to buy one. So far, I've been really happy with it.

We'll see a lot of people have said the scooters are broken after a few weeks. So I want to give it a few weeks to give my final recommendation on the scooter, but so far so good. Well, if you guys see some guy driving like a lunatic, a scooter in the streets of L.A. A neon green scooter.

Just no, it's probably grand. Probably me. Because it's the only neon green one. Like it's literally, it's like a highlighter green. Why'd you pick that color, man? What's up? Why'd you pick that color? It matches the brake calipers of the Tesla.

Oh. Of course. Of course. So I thought that was just kind of cool. All righty. But yeah, so what else? Besides that, I think that's about it. Everything else is pretty boring.

That's exciting. Your furniture here. We're sitting in a new... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We got this setup here. Yeah. So this may or may not be the setup for the future podcast episodes. Let us know if you like it.

I like it. Yeah, yeah. I got to get something on this wall right here. Yeah. That's what I'd be looking for. Aquarius. I was thinking about it. It's unfortunately, there's an arch right behind this, so you end up losing the arch.

But I do think an aquarium might look really cool. The other issue is if we film a podcast here, you get a horrible reflection. And getting the lighting of the aquarium correct with us in front would be difficult, but it's a consideration. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flame thrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk. Habiniero? More like habanier, yes. Save the everyday with Amazon. Here, I actually think I need it.

Yeah, I need a can opener. Is there any... Can't do it. I think this is Imagine on the new table I just All right let me grab one for you here What do you think the future is going to be like Do you think people are going to be going to movies

Because AMC announced that they're going to reopen A lot of their theaters in this month Yeah I saw that So it's going to be half capacity And they're going to require people to wear face masks I don't know I think it would be fun to see the occasional movie I think if there's a big movie that's coming out

A Quiet Place, too. I would love to go and see that in a theater. Would love to. Which one is the Quiet Place? John Krasinski. Oh, that's what I thought. I just didn't want to sound stupid. Yeah, okay, that's what I thought.

Yeah, that's the one. Do you watch the first one? I did. I loved it. And I was actually really looking forward to the second one in the movie theater. Because it's like you don't get that same experience if you're watching it from a TV or from a computer. You have to be in a movie theater. Yeah, yeah.

So there is that experience to it that I think will always be there. I can't imagine them being as prevalent as they are now. Yeah, I don't think so. I think that YouTube's kind of taking over. And I think that's the same for like mainstream media and like television too. I think that people are just going to start watching YouTube. And that's where everything's going to come from. They already have.

And a lot of YouTube content is turning out like a movie. Like like people are really making these little films that are 20 to 40 minutes long that you could really just binge and they're really good. Shane Dawson did a great. All of Shane Dawson's series I think have been phenomenal. I really like them. and it is like watching a movie it's like watching a lord of the rings trilogy except that Shane Dawson and Jeffrey star it's like it's really good and I think as long as you have a good

TV good surround system it's like 50 60% of the same thing of a movie theater for no cost yeah yeah I'd agree it's it's interesting to think like where exactly we're headed in the future is TV and like you know movies because I don't go to the movies as is but is it just going to be completely obsolete no what's going to happen you know what movies maybe um at some point, I think it's going to shift online. But the issue that I'm seeing is that, like, years ago it used to be like you would have Netflix for anything you wanted to watch.

But then they had some licensing issues. And then, you know, some of the contents on Hulu. And then, you know, Disney started up their own thing. And then HBO is doing their own thing. And then you have YouTube. So what started off is, like, one centralized place for everything. Netflix. Now you have to subscribe to, like, multiple different things.

It's turning out to be, like, TV channels. again. Like they've got away from TV channels, Netflix, and now it's going back to like, you have to subscribe to all these different things if you want all the content. So, you know, and that's why I still like YouTube. It seems like a lot of stuff is still just YouTube based. Yeah. Yeah, I think YouTube's great. And I think that one of the reasons why it's so successful is because so many people are putting so much content out there that you can just pick like from a larger selection. Yeah. You know what I mean? I agree with that. I like the, the how-to-based nature of YouTube. Like,

Like all this stuff, like, how do I do something? I'll look it up on YouTube. Like, I had an issue with Photoshop the other day, and I just, I, I, YouTubeed it. And some dude was like, had the same issue and then posted it on YouTube. And I'm like, how did, how was this person? Like, I would never think to myself, oh, I had this issue. When you press, uh, command Y, it subdues the colors. And so, like, it typed in, like, how to make a color come back Photoshop.

Like some dude already did that. Yeah, but it probably had like thousands of views too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it just goes to show you, like, little tiny things like that. I'm sure he's making money from this. It's good. Yeah. Find a problem and solve it.

Do you think, do you know the movie? Obviously, you know it, but have you seen the movie Wally? A while ago, yeah. Do you remember how in the movie everyone was in like these pods and everyone was like super obese and they were like going around? They didn't have like real human connections and stuff like that? Kind of, yeah. Do you think that like in the future, I'm talking like a hundred years from now that we're going to kind of go into like a completely like we're going to like in for a massive change? I don't know. It's very much like the matrix where they can plug you in. I think a lot of people would do that. I think a lot of people are, like, I think a lot of people are just suffering. They're not happy with their lives. There's no way to change it for them. They've lost hope. And I think for a lot of people to be able to plug themselves into something and have an entirely new reality, new experience, they would do it. I think a lot of people would do it. I think that's also a reason why not everybody, but I think video games could be very addicting.

people want to immerse themselves in this other reality where they could be whatever they want. So I do think that if something like that were to come about, it would be a real thing. The issue comes to them with sustaining your lifestyle. Like where do you live? Where does the money come from? How do you pay for that? So there's got to be some sort of existence in reality. But assuming that someone could save up enough money and basically say, I'm going to live

in a shack somewhere. I'm going to park my RV in the desert. I got enough to live They could plug themselves in For like you know six days out of seven You know I don't think it's gonna be indefinite Because there's there's got to be someone watching over you To make sure like you eat and stuff like that

I don't think that's going to I don't think you could plug yourself into a system And then have like a drip thing for your food and just be like for years on end without like waking up from that So yeah But I do think the experience will be eventually so immersive That you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between reality and, you know, an illusion. That's crazy. I think that stuff's going to get pretty popular, too.

Yeah. Like, do you think if you had the opportunity to virtually live the best possible life that you could live, would you want to do that? No, because I would be, first of all, I feel like I'm living my best reality currently. And I would be too afraid of doing it. I just wouldn't want to get, like, everything's going really well. I wouldn't want to, no, I wouldn't do it. Huh.

since you say that you think you're living your best reality, I was wondering, do you have, like, obviously, it's a stupid question, but like, do you have any long-term goals that you still haven't fulfilled? Because you've been so successful this past 10 years that I feel like you've probably assigned yourself plenty of goals, and then you just keep on achieving them. It's just things they want to do. The aquarium is a big one.

I want to set up the aquarium. That's like a short-term thing. Like, I'm sure that you could, like, give yourself short-term goals, like, oh, get a video that performance. travel travel is something i want to do um van life i think would be fun i don't know about boat boat life might be kind of fun too but i think van life traveling is something that's a long-term goal of mine i don't know if we'll ever a lot of people ask if i'll write a book i don't know if i'll write a book at some point it just seems like a tedious thing to do at this point yeah so since you don't i mean

you have goals but what do you think my goal should be if you were in my shoes right now what's the course of action you would take? I think everyone's different, you know? I can't answer that for you. What do you want? What do you want? Because a lot of people don't want what I want. Right, but I'm just curious.

If you were in my shoes, would you drop out of college? Yes. Immediately. Yes. And then what would you do? I would work for the Graham Steffin Show. That's what I would do. For real.

I think there's way more potential going out on your own. Like what I see is that there's just, there's not that much upside for school and I think there's an opportunity that you have the advantage to take it you could go for. The worst case scenario is not really that bad. I think a lot of employers are now realizing that the value of a college education is not what it used to be. And I think a lot of employers would value the fact that you took a risk and you went off and pursued your own thing and did not finish school because you saw an opportunity and you went for it. I think that says a lot about someone. I think your 20s are the best time

that you could just hone in on work and make a name for yourself I just think in your 20s best time you got everything going on So hone in on the Graham-Stefhan show I think so And everything I'm biased, obviously I'm saying that

Because I mean it benefits me too Right But I think you in the same way Can ride that same wave But just continue editing the videos And coming up with... I think yeah Coming up with other ideas

Like the The what I'll call it The mentorship? The mentorship. That was your running. I mean, you really built that up. I could not have done that without you. So that was a good example of something where you had an idea and that idea turned into a reality within like two months. Yeah. So just come up with more stuff like that. I think more ideas like that and then it's figuring out how to grow it. It's not so much like the mentorship group. By the way, link down below in the description for anyone who wants to do that. We got a really good start. But then it became this bottle. lack of growing it and how do we expand it and that's the point where I feel like needs some improvement and I'm leaving this up to you so I'm really trying my best not to get involved now I'm focusing on the main channel like you know everything else this is you right um so I feel like you had this idea you grew it and now it's about taking it to the next step but I feel like it's it's confined

because there's something holding him back and I'm not sure if it's if it's if it's if it's the promotion of the I'm not sure what it is but there's something that's limiting the growth What is that? I would place more of your effort on that. What's holding it back? How can that be better? And I love the podcast. Right.

But I feel like it became a thing and you're like, okay, let's go to this over here, the podcast. The issues that we got this thing that's growing. It's doing really well. Link down below in the description. But we could grow that. We could five time that in six months. I mean, literally we could take that five times what it is now. Which, by the way, is a good excuse.

It's in the description, guys. Yeah, it's in the description. But it's a good idea to get in now. Because right now, I mean, our Zoom calls maybe have 20 people in them. So you get one-on-one time. Whereas in the future, you know, obviously as it grows, you know, we'll still make time for everybody. But still, that's the advantage of now. But that's what I'm saying.

It's like there's a way to grow these things to the next level. Like when I first started the channel, it was going to three videos a week instead of two. And upping the production quality, spending more time on it. I feel like it's there. But it's just you got to grow it. I love the podcast, but put more effort into that. I think it's about growing those ideas. Interesting.

Yeah. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Link down below in the description. One more thing I want to mention. Complacency. It's really bad.

I think with the mentorship group, gotten a little complacent with that. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree too, because I have tons of spreadsheeting and stuff I need to do, and sometimes I just fall back on that. Yeah. But I hired someone else out to do it. But complacency.

That's the worst spot to be in because the issue that I feel is that you have no pressing factor on anything. So you don't think that I have the drive or the... I think you have the drive, but there is no push. Like for me, a lot of my drive, like when I bought one of my properties, I had no money in the bank after buying it and renovating it. Like, nothing. And I did that multiple times. But that was the best motivation for me to be like, okay, now I got to make money. How am I going to make money?

I'm going to work even harder as a real estate agent. And then the end of the year would come around I'd buy another property, spend every dollar I had. Like, I would have a few thousand dollars sitting in a checking account. That was it. Everything else was in a property, but that was really good motivation. You do get a bit complacent. When you have more money in the bank account,

you kind of lose that motivation. No, that makes sense. I would hate, like, I don't want to redirect or, like, blame the fact of being a student and working, you know, with you at the same time. But I'm going to be completely honest. Like, I do take relaxation time. like at night, I don't really like working right before I go to bed. So right before I go to, like, I don't like editing a video and then closing my laptop

and going to bed. I do it all the time. Like, that's something like, especially if I've been working all day, it's hard to just like close it. Like I want at least like, or maybe not at least, but like around an hour or so of just like, you know, unwind and just like relax. That's fair. It doesn't mean you can't wake up even earlier and start the next day.

That's true. I will tell you though, if you drop out of school, that is that's your motivation right there probably yeah you're gonna be so nervous you're gonna be so scared about screwing it up that you're gonna make sure you don't screw it up yeah but also at the same time I just took my last final yesterday so I won't be juggling school and work at the same time we'll see how it goes review but you're not gonna have that you're not gonna have that that that that fear of just like I'll prove you wrong if this next podcast okay fair enough we'll see yeah fair enough um let's see here Did you know that Carol Baskins just acquired Joe Exotic Zoo?

I saw that. What do you think about that, man? I saw that. 16 acres. Yeah, you know what? The thing is she got a better lawyer. That's all that comes down to, I think, with stuff like that. Well, in my opinion, I mean, Joe basically admitted to copying her and redirecting traffic and confusing its visitors.

You know, I get where she's coming from. she had a good lawyer go and fight for this and she won. So as unfortunate as I feel for Joe, because I mean, the entire series really, it seems like sympathize with Joe. Like, you feel bad for him. You're part of his journey. You're not part of Carol's journey. It's his journey.

I bet if they made it from the point of view of Carol, by asking people, would hate Joe Zonic. We'd hate him. But they made it from his person. He's a really likable guy. But at the end of the day, he was caught in the wrong. Do you think The cat

Listen The cat over here It keeps Scratching at the furniture And it's got to stop Yeah And it's like Gotta get him to stop

He can't do that Are you team Joe? I would say I'm team Joe But It's hard to say Between the two Because they both got a point They both got a side

I watched the first Like three episodes I couldn't watch anymore I liked it I don't know man It just didn't really captivate me. The first three episodes were good and it was a little crazy and stuff, but it just

wasn't my kind of show. Fair enough. And yeah, I was Team Joe. I was totally Team Joe. And it frustrated me when I learned she had gotten his whole thing, his whole zoo. I know. Yeah, but I'm curious to see what she'll do with it, and they'll leave it

maybe season two. It seems like a lot of, there's a season two? Maybe. I don't know. It seems like a lot of people are on Joe's side. Like a vast majority of the people are on you. But the show was made from Joe's perspective. But why if there's, but still, if there's so many people like 80% are on Joe's side, how is nothing being done about it? I don't do it, man. Don't go to jail. Since we're on the topic of animals, what's up with these bachelors?

Why have you been, what's up with them? I don't know. It came up front page of Reddit. I read it. I thought it was funny. So I mentioned. There's nothing that just sounds more terrible than order and hornets put together. I don't know if you could say the M word on YouTube. I don't know. Really? Yeah, YouTube transcribes everything in the video.

So they know every single word that you're saying. Okay, well. Hornets. Hornets. Yeah, M. Hornets. Yeah, M. Hornets. Just sounds absolutely terrible. They have made 50 people per year in Japan become deceased.

Wow. And they're two inches long. See how I avoided the K word? Yeah. Look at that. Two inches. And they have officially entered the United States. Officially.

I love that. Officially. So watch out. free. It's like, okay, they officially, they're in the United States. Watch out everyone for these hornets. Wow. All right, so we're going to move on to the Gmail question segment.

Hi, Graeme. I'm Jasper. I'm 15. I'm from Australia. I've been watching your videos for ages. They're super interesting. I was just wondering, when you're a child, what did you want to be when you're older? I want to be a vet.

Oh, I want to be a doctor. Yeah, what did you want to be? Cheers. Cool. Yeah, so at first, I wanted to be a marine biome. I'd say that was big when I was like seventh, eighth grade marine biologist. And then after that, I wanted to be a drummer, like a professional drummer in a band or a session drummer. And then I thought, wait a second, they don't make a lot of money. So then I wanted to be an investment banker. But then I realized, well, you know, there's a lot of schooling involved in that, a lot of hours. And then right after that, I became real estate agent. I became what I wanted to be. But it wasn't what I originally wanted to be. But it wasn't what I originally wanted to be. as a kid. A marine biologist was first. Yeah, okay. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a firefighter. And then when I grew older, I wanted to be a real estate appraiser. And that's pretty much it.

Yeah. But your dad does real estate appraiser. My dad's a real estate appraiser. Otherwise, for a kid to be like, I'm going to be a real estate. No, yeah, I would tell like my teachers that and something like, where did you get that? Yeah. Anyways, that guy was 15. Yeah, I know. He said he was 15. I did. I did not sound like that when I was 15. Yeah. I didn't mean either. He sounded like it was 25. I don't sound like that. Yeah, I know. Same, even I don't. Well, props to him. Here, let me...

He's got a good narration voice. Yeah, he really does. He's got a cool accent, too. He's from Tasmania. Hey, Graham and Jack. This is Chris here. I had a quick question about Amazon affiliate commissions. I know recently Amazon cut their affiliate rate,

and I was wondering how it's affecting Graham with his own Amazon store that he has. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Yeah, really. Just have that on loop in the back. Yeah, good question. Really, not at all.

Amazon affiliates, for me, makes up such a small percentage. I mean, it really, compared to everything else, it's so, it's small. You know, even I remember my first entire year doing Amazon affiliates, I think, was like, I made $100 a month on that total, my first year of doing it. So it wasn't much. So, no, it's not affecting. it's not affecting me whatsoever. I've always wondered, what if you just set up an Amazon affiliate store,

and then whenever you're planning on already buying something on Amazon, just adding it to your store and then buying it off of your store? I don't think it applies to yourself, but I'm sure if you had someone else buy it through your link, maybe, I don't know. It seems like a pain to do that because it's such a small percentage. Sometimes it's like 50 cents you'll get on something, or sometimes it could be like a few dollars.

I don't know how much of that's, really worth it. But if you're buying something really nice off of Amazon, like a MacBook or a camera, but then you're also taxed on that money that you're getting from Amazon. So it's like, even though you might make like six bucks, paying tax on that, after tax it's like three, is it really worth, you know, I don't know, maybe it is. Would you ever get a tattoo? No. No? Why not? I just, uh, I just don't want to put something permanent on me like that. You know, as a kid, I really wanted, like, I thought it was so cool. like I wanted a pirate tattoo

when I was like eight Like an anchor or something No like a skull and crossbones I thought that would be like a really cool thing to do And I used to have these like you know Big tattoos Otherwise no I'm just personally I'm not a fan of tattoos on me

Yeah neither am I I'm not a huge fan of tattoos I couldn't see myself ever getting a tattoo And then people always say But what if something like super significant In your life happens You know would you get a tattoo of that I'm like not

You know what that was that was what I kind of thought to If something really significant happens Would I get a tattoo? Maybe I don't know Sapphire reserve raises the POS could get like ripped Sapphire Exactly You know I

I just wish that tattoos were like removable Like easily removable Because I think they look cool Like I think having like a full on sleeve Looks cool But I would love the ability to be like Okay I'm tired of this Snap my fingers and it's gone

So you do it If it weren't permanent I think I would do it If it were not permanent If I could just decide like okay tomorrow all of this is going to be over and I'll go back to normal I would be highly likely to do it

so only for a day maybe a few years or something I think like a full on sleeve yeah but whenever you get tired of it it just snap your fingers is gone but that's that's not the point of the tattoo is it's because it's permanent and I just don't like putting anything permanent on me and if something significant

happens like I would rather like I would rather buy a watch like 30th birthday I thought maybe like it might be a good idea to buy a Rolex. Just being symbolic, I've always wanted a Rolex, and I thought that would be really cool to get the watch with a Rolex Daytona. I really wanted one of those.

I thought 30th birthday is a good, it's a milestone, and that's something you pass down to the next generation. But then I thought, yeah, you know, that's kind of silly. I'll just invest. Like, it's better to invest. I'd rather invest, so I did that instead. But, you know, anything big like that?

How is your birthday present to yourself investing? Just invest it, yeah. What am I going to do with a Rolex? I mean, that's a thing. It's like, what am I? It's, the Zet. Where on your other hand? Imagine that.

Imagine that. Just two hands, all my videos. Put one on your ankle. Yeah, seriously. I know what's going to happen with that. I would never wear it because it's too nice. I'd much rather just invest it. But I see this as an investment.

Like, you'll spend $30,000 in a watch that over time might be worth 40 or 50. Like, I could have bought the same watch, by the way, four years ago. The same watch, the Zenith, Rolex, Daytona, stainless steel. for like 13 grand. And now they're 30. I don't think you should view watches as investments. Like, I wouldn't say that, like, it just doesn't make sense because it's too gambly. Rans, he's jumping on furniture.

I just got a spray bottle here. See how quickly you stop when you put the spray bottle here? You can't be doing that. So you would call it an investment? I feel like you can justify the purchase of a watch just because you like it. And then maybe preferring a watch that could maybe retain its value. a little bit more contrary to watch that just depreciates a ton. Like, that makes sense.

But saying that, like, I could buy it as an investment. Maybe it's the same thing. Maybe it isn't. Something with art. You could buy a lot of art as an investment. That's quick. It works. I don't know.

When you meet people for the first time and they ask you, what do you do? What do you say to them? I never tell them YouTube. You don't. I never tell them YouTube. No. Because then what happens is they're like, oh, let me go. What's your YouTube?

channel what it was about and then I have to explain the whole thing and then they look at it oh wow you have two million subscribers and then all the videos are how much money it's it's it's it's I would rather than find it organically so I always tell people what do you do I'm in real estate you just say in real estate I'm in real estate yeah I don't because then if I tell them I'm a real estate agent the first thing they ask then is oh how's the market I don't want to explain to everybody how the market is going it's like any parties you go to real estate agent oh how's the market I explain how the market is the next person what do you do I'm I'm in real estate.

How is the market? I explain how the market is. I'm in real estate. I'm in real estate. It's like the wealthiest response. It's like, vague, but also like, oh, like, you know, this guy. I guess so. I'd like to leave it back because I don't, like, contrary to YouTube, I don't like talking

about myself, I was getting all hyper. I don't like talking about myself that much. And if someone's asking me a whole bunch of questions, like, I just, I don't feel like, I hate small talk. is really what it comes down to. And it's like the formalities of like, oh, what do you do? Oh, that's interesting.

What made you get into that? Oh, cool. How long have you been doing that for? Oh, cool. How's the market going? Oh, yes. Let me tell you about, you know, my far long lost cousin who bought a house

and his whole experience buying a house. I'm just sitting there. I'd rather just, you know, not, not get into that. That's all. Yeah. It's super difficult for me to do the same because people always say like, I'll be like, oh, I got work or whatever. They're like, what do you do?

And then I'll be like, well, I, I, created like this program. I edit videos. Like I, I mean, now I probably wouldn't mention the podcast or anything. It's $72. But yeah, it's really, really difficult for me the same. So I just say like, oh, I do like marketing. Exactly. I do marketing. And plus for me, real estate, it's like most of my money goes back into real estate anyway. At the end of the day, you know, YouTube, real estate. It all goes into real estate. So real estate is, you know, really the backbone of everything. I wouldn't have the YouTube channel if it wasn't for real estate. Yeah. So, Real estate is really what I, you know, kind of got brought up from, I would say.

Do you think you're more of a real estate expert or a YouTube expert now? Ooh, gosh. I want to say that's 50-50. So if someone's going to ask for consulting on one of those two, you would say like, that's a tough one. Right now I have more fun talking about YouTube. I would say. Because you're making more money on it.

I mean, yes, but it's also, it's like it's new and it's exciting. and a lot of it's changing. And real estate, I think the investing principles of real estate really seem to be consistent. It's the same thing. YouTube, I feel like, is constantly evolving, and I'm really excited about talking about it because it's something new.

Real estate for me is something I've just done now for 12 years. It's been 12 years. And YouTube is something for a few years. I'm really excited about talking about something that's new. That's exciting. I almost just choked on the... Oh, this is lemonade, by the way,

for anyone who's wondering. This is a lemonade. I almost just choked. on my lemonade and spat it all over myself. And that reminds me, the first time I ever met you in person, I've told you this before, but no one, they don't know about it. All right. We met at the O group, and then we walked across the street to this burger place, or this

restaurant, I ordered a burger and a water. And the first sip I took my water, I spilled it all over myself. And this is the first time I've ever met Graham, and I spilled it all over, like, my crotch area, region and Graham saw and we both looked at each other in the eyes and then just like didn't say a word about it like I just like dumped probably like a pint of water right there and we just look at each other and then we just moved on just ignore it yeah it's so funny to me that that happened when you were a kid did you ever do those things were like you'd be in a room with an animal and you just like come on you can it's just me and you here we could talk all the time

I try to talk to animals all the time I still I still talk to Ramsey Still talk to him. Like he knows what I'm like, you don't, don't, you know, put your paws, like, the scratch the count. You still talk to him, but like, that's like commanding. Like, if you were just alone in a room with Ramsey, would you ever still just be like, come on, if you're going to say something, you just say it now. I've done that before it. Not with, not with Ramsey. I've given up.

I've given up on cats. Cats are two. They've got a mind of their own. I know he's plotting to take over the world at something. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to mess with that. I'm just going to hope he spares me at the point where cats are. one day rule everything like I will be spared okay but uh not anymore

what about like other stuff like trying to use the force it sounds so stupid but like on occasion like if I were sitting here there's a chance small chance but there's a chance I would still look at that candle and I would think I can I can put those flames out I did I try doing that after the movie Matilda did you ever see that you were probably 12 at that time something probably younger than that. When Matilda came out, which is a classic with Danny DeVito, she was able to move things with her mind and could go and move that up and down and she had this magic power.

I thought, like, I could do that. I thought that was real. Never happened. I don't do that anymore. So now since stores are starting to open up, what do you think is going to be the future of our economy with this whole thing? I mean, it's not at an end, but we're rearing near the end. Yeah, it seems like employers are taking advantage of their employers.

coming back, it seems to be commonplace now that a lot of the furloughed employees are being asked to come back, but with a pay cut. And employers kind of know that, like, listen, they got you because they're guaranteeing you a job to come back, but it's at a 25% discount. Do you take it, or do you risk yourself in the job market going back into the unknown working for someone else that you're not sure if they're hiring or not or how long you'll be unemployed? So it seems as though people are being asked to come back, but with a pay cut. That is a bit concerning. In a way, as far as business is concerned, it saves business as money. It's not good for people. So I think we're going to see a comeback, but I just think it's a good excuse for people not to pay

employees as much and not hire as many to come back. I think it's going to be a major restructuring that a lot of employers can have one person do the job of two. And that one person is doing the work of would be happy to come back because they got a job to come back to. So I think that's going to be the biggest impact. I'm just scared, like, will this ever happen again since we've already set precedent that like, like, what if we get another disease? I think it's not a disease illness. I don't know.

I really don't know. I think if it's severe enough and it warrants another shutdown, we'll be prepared to know how to handle that. So I think we'll be a better position the next time. But, you know, Bill Gates has said something along the lines of it's going to be more common. that stuff like this would happen, but we have the opportunity now to at least understand it a little bit better, and we know how to prepare for the next time.

So I think we'll be in a better position the next time. We'll see. Also, I'm sorry, I've been thinking about this, this entire podcast. How do I stand straight when this is going to be like this? I don't know. I feel like my posture is probably bad. It's probably the camera angle that's making my posture look better than it is. Do I sit like this?

Because then I'm like talking down. Yeah, no. Just slouch. Who cares? Who cares? The final or the only gag question that I have on this one is What was the first person that milked a cow trying to do? I would say, that's a good question, I would say that probably seeing calves nursing

And thinking, wait a second, if I need some sort of sustenance, maybe there's something to this. and if it's safe for a calf, it's probably safe for a human. That's what I probably think. I don't think anyone's sitting there looking at the udders be like, oh, I can milk that. I think something visually,

someone sees that happen. That's such a good answer. So for anyone who's made it this far, we do accept the audio submissions that we can answer. Feel free to send those to Graham-Steffen Podcast at gmail.com,

and we'll answer your questions there. Also, regarding what kind of content you all want to see here, just make sure you let us know. We'll keep doing whatever we're doing right now. But if we see that people want to see something else, feel free to let us know and by all means we'll be willing to make any change, even when it comes to the physical setting of this podcast.

Oh yeah. A lot's going to be changing. I would say over the next maybe like a month or so, two months. And we're taking all of your advice and critiques into consideration. Everything from what we do with guests to our audio, everything. We're working to improve it. So just bear with us in the beginning. and it's all going to get better.

Every episode should hopefully get better than the previous one. We're still learning. This is only the fourth episode, but we should be getting better and really appreciative of you guys for listening this far. Anything else you wanted to say?

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