[0:00]So, I'm in Florence right now heading
[0:02]home. It's pretty early in the morning.
[0:04]It's only 10:00 in the morning. Just had
[0:06]to run some errands
[0:10]and I have a busy day at the campground.
[0:11]I think that we're basically going to I
[0:14]think we're basically booked today. Tend
[0:16]to be on Thursdays and Mondays. So, I'm
[0:19]pretty busy in the periods and I'm the
[0:22]only volunteer working. So, I have to
[0:24]manage all campgrounds, check everything
[0:27]and stuff like that.
[0:29]Um, it's going to be a bit of a hectic
[0:31]day, but I have a lot going on.
[0:34]I love this bridge, by the way. I guess
[0:36]you can't really see in the camera, but
[0:38]going over the Florence, uh, the Susso
[0:40]River Florence Bridge is a little, uh,
[0:44]draw bridge. I've actually seen it go up
[0:46]once, which is pretty neat. So, anyways,
[0:49]uh, last night I recorded a video. It's
[0:52]1:30 in the morning. I was super stoned.
[0:54]I didn't say it on camera, but I was. I
[0:57]feel like that stuff's obvious, but I
[0:59]don't know if it is or not. But it was
[1:00]late. I was tired. I was stoned. And I
[1:03]didn't really communicate very well. So,
[1:06]I thought I would try again this
[1:07]morning. Cuz see, last night, everything
[1:10]just clicked into place. It was like I
[1:12]finally reached alignments in my life. I
[1:15]finally got all the pieces to work
[1:16]together. the thing that I've been
[1:18]trying to do for 18 months now. And it
[1:21]just clicked together because the work
[1:22]that I've been doing for myself, I
[1:24]realized I could sell as a service to
[1:26]others, to YouTube creators of all
[1:28]people, because they would find just as
[1:30]much value in what I'm creating.
[1:32]I mean, it all stemmed from me recording
[1:34]videos on this thing for 18 months and
[1:37]creating a website where where you could
[1:40]browse those videos
[1:43]in a much better way than you can on
[1:45]YouTube itself because YouTube just has
[1:47]this terrible. It's designed to flatten
[1:49]everything and to only keep you
[1:52]interested in what's current. Like a
[1:54]video that I made a year ago that never
[1:55]ever gets watched. But if you if you
[1:58]seed it correctly um on a website, you
[2:02]know, cross link it and um recursively
[2:05]process it um for like there's just a
[2:09]whole bunch of stuff you can do to
[2:11]resurface content that is actually
[2:13]valuable
[2:15]and people would want to see if they
[2:18]knew it existed. Like I'm not talking
[2:20]about my videos. I don't think people
[2:22]really give that much of a [ __ ] about
[2:23]me. But, you know, other other uh
[2:25]creators, right? So, I'm not a creator.
[2:27]I want to be clear about that. But, you
[2:30]know, I'm just saying other people who
[2:31]have YouTube channels who have actual
[2:33]audiences probably would get a whole lot
[2:35]more benefit out of what I created than
[2:36]I actually did myself because I only did
[2:38]this for myself. I didn't really do it
[2:40]for other people, but I can see how it
[2:42]will benefit them. And so, I'm going to
[2:44]be working on a new service for them.
[2:47]there's a whole bunch of stuff I'm going
[2:49]to be doing and when it's ready I'll
[2:52]I'll announce it, you know, um
[2:56]more formally than I am right now, but I
[2:58]just wanted to get on camera and talk
[3:00]about it because
[3:02]for 18 months I have been trying to
[3:04]figure out how to integrate work into my
[3:05]life and I just integrated it not by
[3:08]changing anything but by living my
[3:10]truth.
[3:11]All of this time, I knew my trust in
[3:14]myself that this is an important lesson
[3:16]for my audience because I have been
[3:18]telling you that if I just kept the
[3:20]course, things would work out. I trusted
[3:23]it. And just like that, it just clicked.
[3:26]The thing that you've been working on
[3:28]for yourself is a business.
[3:31]I don't have to change a thing. All I'm
[3:33]doing is it's generative. It's not
[3:36]extractive. I'm It's ethical. It's
[3:39]valuable.
[3:41]And I did that by by being true to
[3:45]myself.
[3:47]So for those of you who doubted me or
[3:49]hoping for me to fail, I hope you
[3:52]learned something from this.
[3:56]Um
[4:00]things may still get very tough for me
[4:02]because I'm going to lose my RV. This is
[4:04]inevitable. I'm fine with it cuz you
[4:06]know the slide is broken and I just hate
[4:08]that thing. and um I'm ready to give up
[4:11]volunteering because I've been doing
[4:12]that for 6 months and I just don't
[4:16]um
[4:17]don't feel like it was really aligned
[4:19]with my path. I think that I was a lot
[4:20]happier when I was just exploring the
[4:22]coast
[4:23]and um just living my life as a free
[4:28]agent, not being tied down by
[4:30]institutions and things like that. Even
[4:31]though the one I'm with now is actually
[4:33]is really wonderful setup. I want to be
[4:35]clear about that. I just think that I
[4:38]want my autonomy back. So, um I'm
[4:42]committed for the summer
[4:45]and then I'm just going to start heading
[4:46]north and I'm going to go into
[4:47]Washington. I'm going to export some of
[4:49]Canada. I'm going to go back to Kentucky
[4:50]and visit my mom. I'm going to work on
[4:52]my bottom teeth, which is something I
[4:54]really want to work on cuz those things
[4:55]have kind of uncomfortable.
[4:57]And what I'm building now can fund all
[5:01]of that.
[5:03]I believe in this
[5:06]the second
[5:08]the thought it's so weird because I
[5:10]could trace the thought pattern and
[5:14]if I hadn't asked one question to AI it
[5:16]would have made I wouldn't have thought
[5:18]of this idea like this came out of an
[5:21]almost offhand
[5:24]thing that I almost didn't explore and
[5:27]it's really got me thinking about that
[5:28]how how easily I mean one little thought
[5:32]is going to change my life and how if I
[5:35]hadn't had that thought, I would have
[5:37]never seen what was right in front of
[5:39]me. I mean, that's kind of wild. But
[5:42]anyways, I am going to lose my RV. I
[5:44]don't know when. I've sent in a letter
[5:45]to the bank. I'm expecting to hear from
[5:47]them today to get an idea of the
[5:49]timeline, stuff like that. I'm hopeful
[5:51]because I need my desktop now because
[5:53]that thing processes stuff using AI
[5:56]using a local model and uh my laptop can
[6:00]probably do it cuz it's got a pretty
[6:01]good GPU in it too. I say Alienware also
[6:03]but um probably not as well. I really
[6:07]need my desktop and that means I really
[6:09]need a home and I need a home for a lot
[6:13]of reasons but
[6:16]um I had different ideas about what I
[6:18]might do if I lose my RV. Like I thought
[6:20]about I could just get a box trailer to
[6:22]store my stuff behind my Jeep and just
[6:24]live out of a tent for a while. And I
[6:26]might have to do that. That may happen.
[6:27]It depends on the timing. Um but
[6:30]ultimately what I'll do is get a small
[6:32]camper that I can tow behind my Jeep and
[6:36]I'm going to live that way no matter how
[6:38]much money I make from this project
[6:40]because that's the lifestyle I've been
[6:42]building and want to live. So I was
[6:44]never living in scarcity because I
[6:46]failed. People didn't understand this. I
[6:50]made a choice. I made $180,000 a year
[6:53]before I moved into my RV. I quit a job
[6:55]that paid me that much.
[6:58]I never looked back. I've never been
[7:00]happier. I've never had a life more
[7:02]aligned than I do right now.
[7:05]I created it. I built all of it. And I
[7:08]tried to bring my audience along, too,
[7:13]but they were not paying attention.
[7:16]And so I record these videos and you
[7:19]know they go up without
[7:22]without fanfare, without commentary.
[7:24]They get ingested into my system. That
[7:27]system does all kinds of things and a
[7:30]lot of the components in that system I
[7:31]can sell to other YouTube creators.
[7:33]Pretty [ __ ] incredible. And I did
[7:35]that.