April 24, 2025 • 16 mins
In case you didn't know, JT became a crypto-millionaire overnight... or his account was hacked. We talk about the details of JT's stolen social media, and perhaps how it may have been an impromptu enlightening experience for him. If you are late to the party or were maybe fooled, JT did not gain millions on crypto overnight, and did not buy a white Mercedes. Thanks for tuning in!
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready, but it happened.
(00:40):
I wanted to talk about itbecause I learned some stuff
about this.
It's a more prevalent thing now, joe.
Getting hacked Happens all thetime.
Bro, you're just a statistic,I'm just another number, really,
and the reason why I want tobring it up it's great because
I'm pretty consistent.
My posting is very boring.
It's either lifting weights,eating food, doing jujitsu or
(01:03):
soda, or drinking soda ortalking shit with you.
Right, people know what I'mabout, yeah, so when Posts came
up and the funny thing is it wasright when we were podcasting I
literally my account got hacked.
We're talking to thatMotherfucker Greg Souders, yeah,
hates himself.
I liked it, but we love him.
We love him, but he hates him.
But it's a funny dichotomy.
No, greg's G-souders ecologicalking.
(01:28):
I had messages, people.
I got like 20 messages, bro,your account's been hacked,
you've been hacked.
But what was great is myfriends went into bat for me and
they were like oh yeah, youthink you're JT.
Tell me the best exercise forglutes.
Bro.
Oh yeah, where'd you grow up?
How many podcast episodes youdone?
What's your podcast?
What's your postcode?
Yeah, it was man.
And the funny thing was I thinkthey were screenshotting and
(01:50):
send them to or joe, was umscreenshotting them?
Yeah, people were sending themto me.
Like it became this likecarnival sideshow thing.
Like yo, bro, we're not gonnalet some motherfucker get away
with hacking jt.
Like that, look at this.
And they're like screenshottheir conversation.
And like one of them was likehey, jt, is your account been
hacked?
And then the response was noman, it's me or something.
(02:12):
Yeah, and then he was like,yeah, bullshit cunt, what's the
postcode of where you grew up?
And then like left him on red.
Oh man, it was fucking superfunny.
But then some people were likeyo, is everything, is everything
cool with JT?
Like a couple of people Likecause, you know, cause the dude
started, or the person, the bot,who fucking knows started
posting the Mercedes and thecrypto scams.
(02:33):
Yeah, get into my crypto account.
And it's always referencing oh,so grateful to some other
account for fucking making me amillionaire.
Yeah, yeah, amazing.
Look, I'll be honest, friends,if I had 250 grand in my bank
account and Mercedes-Benz, Iwouldn't be posting it on
Instagram.
I'll tell you what I wouldnever buy Mercedes-Benz anyway.
(02:53):
But it's so interesting to mebecause I had always thought
this is around personal security.
I never do the two-factorauthentication.
Oh, that's boring, you know, Igot like two passwords.
You know you go, cause I, Istruggled to remember my own
passwords.
I get locked out of my ownaccount all the time.
Um, so I was always thought tomyself why would anyone want to
(03:13):
steal my information or how isit valuable?
Let me tell you how it started,cause I think I, I, I worked
out how it happened.
Friend of mine is an artist.
I worked out how it happened.
A friend of mine is an artist,a musical artist, fucking
suspicious already.
No, no, no, but he's you know,I know him through jujitsu.
Nice guy, I won't name him, butI got a message from him which
(03:35):
was like hey, bro, I've beennominated for this award on
Spotify, would you vote for me?
And I was like, oh, yeah, like,go on, you know, like same
thing with us.
Like we got a podcast.
Sometimes I'll say to friendslike, oh, would you share it?
Or you know, but usually onlyin the context of talking about
it.
It was a bit out of the blue.
So straight away I was like Idon't know about this.
(03:56):
But I was like, no, I like him,why not the link?
And the link then takes me tosomething that looks like
Spotify, but it's not Spotify.
And straight away my defenseswere up and it said put in your
Spotify login details.
I was like, nah, like what?
I think it's my wife's account.
I think I'm on a family plananyway, I wouldn't know those
(04:16):
details.
But then it was like your name,date of birth, your email.
I was like hang on a sec, no, Idon't want to do this.
I was like no, no, no, straightaway I was like no.
And then when I tried to likeback out of it, it wouldn't let
me and screen froze and I waslike what's going on right now?
And I was trying to like so youhad typed some shit in.
I hadn't typed anything in,right, I'd just been diverted to
(04:49):
that down, try to cancel it out.
You know when you get spam forcasinos on porn websites and
you're like, oh, they got me.
Guys, I'm not going to be herefor very long, I literally need
40 seconds.
Give me 40 seconds.
Steal all my information.
But don't spam me.
Just sell it to some black, youknow, dark web organization.
I've got a secret.
You know what that secret is?
It's this, my friends it'selectrolytes.
Now you might be drinking waterand you're like, but it's not
(05:12):
working.
Look, the key to hydration isactually electrolytes.
What are they?
They are salts that keep thewater in your muscles so you can
use them when you're rolling.
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(05:33):
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No, anyway, long story short.
I tried to get out.
It wouldn't let me.
I eventually had to like,restart my phone.
We're golden.
(05:54):
A day later, boom, they're inmy account and they are sending
people messages.
They're posting stuff on mystories.
They're not even using my bestphotos to put text across, as if
I'd buy a white mercedes-benz.
Come on, folks, get real withit.
So what was great?
Bulletproof kicking off man,yeah.
(06:14):
The boys, yeah.
How come you guys don't haveyour own.
All our, all our americanlisteners are like, fuck yeah,
business success for a coupleentrepreneurs.
Good on you guys.
All our aussie friends are likelook at these fucking tosses,
wankers.
The cultural perception is sodifferent, but I've got to give
a huge shout out to my wife,alexandra Juliana Tomlinson.
(06:37):
Oh, wow, wow, there's pride inthat.
Very nice.
Yes, yeah, it's a vet's go, butshe went to bat for me.
She went fucking full.
Liam neeson bro.
She used all of her adhd powersand medication to fucking lock
in right on.
She locked in.
She's like you're not takingthis very seriously and I'm like
.
I contacted meta.
(06:57):
I said it's going to take acouple days.
Jt, I can't take two hours outof today to make your lunch.
I'm going to instead get youback in your instagram.
Well, no, she was reallyconcerned because I have fuck,
okay, I have some bank cardsassociated with my meta account,
because I've paid foradvertising before.
Yeah, for my other businesses,right, yeah, she's like they're
gonna fucking steal all yourmoney and I'm like, babe, it's
not like that, like I don'tthink that's what's going on and
(07:19):
uh, anyway, I had done veryminimal efforts to get my
account back.
She was on the emails.
She was two-factorauthenticating.
She was trying to get in theaccount resetting shit.
He was blocking her, like itwas.
It was war, like a fuckingtrade war.
All of us like, yeah, yeah, youwant to tariff my shit?
(07:40):
I'm a fuck you up.
And she prevailed because shehad the original device, like
obviously, my phone.
I could get a code on my number.
Old mate couldn't do that.
And she also had my iPad, whichI'd logged into Instagram on
there, just so you think it wasconnected to that Spotify scam
link that you clicked on?
Yes, and in what way?
(08:02):
Like, do you think that theyclicked the link?
No, no, I don't know for sure.
And for those of you out therewho are more savvy and
understanding of how peopleusing bots and hackers work, the
fact that I clicked the linkthat was, that was the fucking
yeah.
That's what got me yeah righton.
So, yeah, I think it was.
Just the thing is Someone needsto go and visit your musician
(08:23):
mate.
What a dog, poor fella.
I mean, his account has clearlybeen hacked, right, and so I
just think the tough thing is weare distracted, and Joey and I
we've talked about this from aself-defense perspective.
Like in Bruce Lee's books.
He talks about awareness.
He's like the first step BruceLee was obsessed, but he was
(08:44):
always like scouting the room.
You know, is that guy's neckthick?
Could I break his neck?
What's that guy's ankles like?
Like where am I in the street?
Like Bruce Lee was obsessedwith anything could be a threat
and he always felt that was thefirst step in self-defense, was
awareness.
And you know, joe and I'vetalked about this before where
we're on our phones, people gotthe noise canceling earphones on
.
People aren't even fuckinglooking when they're crossing
(09:05):
the road Like people's.
We live in such a safe society,at least here in Australia, and
you know, if you live in afirst world Western society, you
might take for granted thatyou're not necessarily going to
get kidnapped or run over orwhatever, whereas in other parts
of the world that's more, morethe threat.
Well, bro, as far as theinternet goes, I was walking
(09:27):
around with noise-cancelingearphones staring at my fucking
phone, crossing the fuckinghighway, bro, and I got smashed.
But do you know anyone who'sbeen hacked, joe?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's happened toa few people I know over the
years.
Uh, they always seem to comeback from it, you know generally
.
But yeah, like, I had one matewho, like, had really built up
quite a online, like a, like anaccount on instagram coaching,
(09:52):
uh, snc for golfers, right, andI think he had like, like, he'd
really put a lot of time into itover like 18, 24 months
cultivated, and I think he wasat like 20 000 and he's like,
wow, like it was really kickingoff.
And then he got booted and thenwas like, and he was fucking
spewing and then I think it tookhim about a week and he got
back in right, and you know, inthe end it wasn't anything right
(10:12):
, kind of similar to yours, yes,but I think in the initial
moment you're very vulnerablebecause you're like, oh my god,
like you haven't.
Even though, like your account,similar to my personal account,
we don't put a huge amount oftime and effort into them.
No, you still put a minimalamount of effort for like a
decade, yeah, just to maintainit.
Yeah, and you got a lot ofpeople that you talk to,
contacts, messaging and so yeah.
(10:32):
So when it's taken away, you'relike, oh my god, fuck, like I
wasn't ready for that.
Um, yeah, it's, it's fuckingreally disruptive.
It's crazy to think of thedependency we have on it because
I I would say I use instagramprobably too much for messaging
like, whether it's jujitsufriends, workout friends, like
you know.
You see someone's story, hey,congratulations on that comp.
You know, it's just like asocial thing.
(10:54):
Mate, I'm pretty fortunate.
I have my jugo account and Ialso have uh, another account,
uh, like just, and so I I wasable to kind of mess people say,
hey, I have been hacked.
Really sorry, you're gettingspammed with crypto nonsense,
but please feel free to send themoney directly to me.
Let's just skip all that.
I'll invest for you.
So what I?
(11:15):
I guess the reason why I wantto have this chat is if you've
been hacked and you've gonethrough this bullshit, you may
not have a.
An obsessive wife will go intobat for you to fix it for you.
If that hadn't happened, Ithink this could have been a
much more delayed process.
Maybe I could have lost myaccount.
But here is something which iskind of crazy, even though it
was a relief that Ola did thething.
(11:36):
She's got a specific set ofskills.
She will find you and she willblock you.
She did amazing work, work, gotmy account back.
I'm very grateful.
I actually felt some interesting, weird sense of relief that I
might completely lose my account.
(11:57):
There was something about it,man.
I was like maybe I would startagain, maybe I wouldn't even you
know what I mean like maybe Idon't have to keep up this whole
fucking treadmill of fuckingsocial appearances of sorts.
Yeah, maybe, yeah, like it was.
There was a moment where I waslike, well, if I lose it, fuck
you know, I became a Buddhist inthat moment.
A Buddha, you might say.
(12:18):
I gave it all away, my my smallniche amount of friends and
family circle.
They wouldn't even know who Iwas anymore.
Wow, I would have been reborn.
But yet here we are.
The cycle continues.
Thank fucking God I'm back inthe rat race.
Yeah, yeah, you know that fellowthat's been in the media quite
a bit Jonathan Haidt, I think,is his name done a lot of the
(12:39):
studies around kids and socialmedia use Okay, I don't, kids
and kids and social media use,kids and devices, and has, you
know, some very alarming sort ofstatistics and and, um, some
interesting kind of insights onit all.
One of the things he said therewas a large group of, uh,
school age, high school age kidswho were surveyed about social
media use.
Yes, and I think, likeunanimously, all of them, when
(13:05):
asked, uh, would you like stopusing social media, said no,
right, um, follow-up questionwas what?
Uh, what if nobody was allowedto use social media, so none of
your friends had social media,would you be happy to also not
use it?
And unanimously, they said yes,right, and it's that same thing
(13:29):
.
Right, it's that fear of missingout.
That's where everyone is.
Yeah, it's like fuck you gotta,you gotta be there here,
wherever you're seeing this.
It's like the human need to fitin.
Yeah, whereas, like, we allrecognize that it is not good.
No, yeah, and honestly, I mean,obviously you're this.
You might be watching this onyour mobile device or listening
(13:52):
to this on your mobile device.
The greatest challenge is, thereis a lot of inherent benefit to
being connected to this, theinternet, but does the benefit
outweigh the cost?
And the actual thing is, wedon't know what the cost is
right now, other than, yeah, westruggle to connect in person
(14:13):
and we are fucking distractedand we are vulnerable in a lot
of ways.
Uh, you know, and I mate, I, Iit's definitely made me think I
would.
I need to just spend less timeon Instagram.
I shouldn't care this muchabout this thing.
I've built a dependency Not asmuch as caffeine, but it's
(14:36):
fucking close, which is veryconfronting, you know, and so
many people, when they don'thave their phone because it's
broken or lost, people areactually just happier.
They feel less stressedProbably the same thing as me.
Like, if I have a few lesscoffees, I'm just, I'm calmer.
(14:57):
There's just a thing where Idon't feel as compelled to do
anything, which is kind of it'sa relief in a lot of ways.
So, anyway, that's it, folks.
I want to share it with you.
Yeah, if you're getting hit bymy account for crypto, it's not
me and I've probably been hackedagain, but hey, bitcoin's
(15:18):
plunging.
So now's the time to get in andjust hold on.
Bye, bye, bye.
What is it?
Do your own research.
Yeah, d-y-o-r, d-y-o-r, h-o-d-l.
Hold on for dear life.
Yeah, all of that, all of that.
That's a joke.
By the way, this is not afinancial podcast.
Please Don't buy it.
(15:38):
I mean, do whatever the fuckyou want security details, but,
um, thanks for making it thisfar, folks.
We appreciate y'all.
And, last but not least, pleasegive us a like and a subscribe.
It helps more good people likeyou get the good stuff like this
shoo.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but
ready.
Essentially, at this point thefight is over, so you pretty
much flow with the goal.
Who is worthy to be trustedwith the secret to limitless
power?
I'm ready, but it happened.
(00:40):
I wanted to talk about itbecause I learned some stuff
about this.
It's a more prevalent thing now, joe.
Getting hacked Happens all thetime.
Bro, you're just a statistic,I'm just another number, really,
and the reason why I want tobring it up it's great because
I'm pretty consistent.
My posting is very boring.
It's either lifting weights,eating food, doing jujitsu or
(01:03):
soda, or drinking soda ortalking shit with you.
Right, people know what I'mabout, yeah, so when Posts came
up and the funny thing is it wasright when we were podcasting I
literally my account got hacked.
We're talking to thatMotherfucker Greg Souders, yeah,
hates himself.
I liked it, but we love him.
We love him, but he hates him.
But it's a funny dichotomy.
No, greg's G-souders ecologicalking.
(01:28):
I had messages, people.
I got like 20 messages, bro,your account's been hacked,
you've been hacked.
But what was great is myfriends went into bat for me and
they were like oh yeah, youthink you're JT.
Tell me the best exercise forglutes.
Bro.
Oh yeah, where'd you grow up?
How many podcast episodes youdone?
What's your podcast?
What's your postcode?
Yeah, it was man.
And the funny thing was I thinkthey were screenshotting and
(01:50):
send them to or joe, was umscreenshotting them?
Yeah, people were sending themto me.
Like it became this likecarnival sideshow thing.
Like yo, bro, we're not gonnalet some motherfucker get away
with hacking jt.
Like that, look at this.
And they're like screenshottheir conversation.
And like one of them was likehey, jt, is your account been
hacked?
And then the response was noman, it's me or something.
(02:12):
Yeah, and then he was like,yeah, bullshit cunt, what's the
postcode of where you grew up?
And then like left him on red.
Oh man, it was fucking superfunny.
But then some people were likeyo, is everything, is everything
cool with JT?
Like a couple of people Likecause, you know, cause the dude
started, or the person, the bot,who fucking knows started
posting the Mercedes and thecrypto scams.
(02:33):
Yeah, get into my crypto account.
And it's always referencing oh,so grateful to some other
account for fucking making me amillionaire.
Yeah, yeah, amazing.
Look, I'll be honest, friends,if I had 250 grand in my bank
account and Mercedes-Benz, Iwouldn't be posting it on
Instagram.
I'll tell you what I wouldnever buy Mercedes-Benz anyway.
(02:53):
But it's so interesting to mebecause I had always thought
this is around personal security.
I never do the two-factorauthentication.
Oh, that's boring, you know, Igot like two passwords.
You know you go, cause I, Istruggled to remember my own
passwords.
I get locked out of my ownaccount all the time.
Um, so I was always thought tomyself why would anyone want to
(03:13):
steal my information or how isit valuable?
Let me tell you how it started,cause I think I, I, I worked
out how it happened.
Friend of mine is an artist.
I worked out how it happened.
A friend of mine is an artist,a musical artist, fucking
suspicious already.
No, no, no, but he's you know,I know him through jujitsu.
Nice guy, I won't name him, butI got a message from him which
(03:35):
was like hey, bro, I've beennominated for this award on
Spotify, would you vote for me?
And I was like, oh, yeah, like,go on, you know, like same
thing with us.
Like we got a podcast.
Sometimes I'll say to friendslike, oh, would you share it?
Or you know, but usually onlyin the context of talking about
it.
It was a bit out of the blue.
So straight away I was like Idon't know about this.
(03:56):
But I was like, no, I like him,why not the link?
And the link then takes me tosomething that looks like
Spotify, but it's not Spotify.
And straight away my defenseswere up and it said put in your
Spotify login details.
I was like, nah, like what?
I think it's my wife's account.
I think I'm on a family plananyway, I wouldn't know those
(04:16):
details.
But then it was like your name,date of birth, your email.
I was like hang on a sec, no, Idon't want to do this.
I was like no, no, no, straightaway I was like no.
And then when I tried to likeback out of it, it wouldn't let
me and screen froze and I waslike what's going on right now?
And I was trying to like so youhad typed some shit in.
I hadn't typed anything in,right, I'd just been diverted to
(04:49):
that down, try to cancel it out.
You know when you get spam forcasinos on porn websites and
you're like, oh, they got me.
Guys, I'm not going to be herefor very long, I literally need
40 seconds.
Give me 40 seconds.
Steal all my information.
But don't spam me.
Just sell it to some black, youknow, dark web organization.
I've got a secret.
You know what that secret is?
It's this, my friends it'selectrolytes.
Now you might be drinking waterand you're like, but it's not
(05:12):
working.
Look, the key to hydration isactually electrolytes.
What are they?
They are salts that keep thewater in your muscles so you can
use them when you're rolling.
You know who's got electrolytes?
Sodium, the sponsor of today'sshow, sodiicomau.
This is the spot where you canget the most delicious drinking
salts, the perfect blend ofsodium, potassium and magnesium.
(05:33):
And you know what?
If you use the codebulletproof15, you get 15% off.
That way, you can actually behydrated, you can roll better
and feel better.
Get some today.
No, anyway, long story short.
I tried to get out.
It wouldn't let me.
I eventually had to like,restart my phone.
We're golden.
(05:54):
A day later, boom, they're inmy account and they are sending
people messages.
They're posting stuff on mystories.
They're not even using my bestphotos to put text across, as if
I'd buy a white mercedes-benz.
Come on, folks, get real withit.
So what was great?
Bulletproof kicking off man,yeah.
(06:14):
The boys, yeah.
How come you guys don't haveyour own.
All our, all our americanlisteners are like, fuck yeah,
business success for a coupleentrepreneurs.
Good on you guys.
All our aussie friends are likelook at these fucking tosses,
wankers.
The cultural perception is sodifferent, but I've got to give
a huge shout out to my wife,alexandra Juliana Tomlinson.
(06:37):
Oh, wow, wow, there's pride inthat.
Very nice.
Yes, yeah, it's a vet's go, butshe went to bat for me.
She went fucking full.
Liam neeson bro.
She used all of her adhd powersand medication to fucking lock
in right on.
She locked in.
She's like you're not takingthis very seriously and I'm like
.
I contacted meta.
(06:57):
I said it's going to take acouple days.
Jt, I can't take two hours outof today to make your lunch.
I'm going to instead get youback in your instagram.
Well, no, she was reallyconcerned because I have fuck,
okay, I have some bank cardsassociated with my meta account,
because I've paid foradvertising before.
Yeah, for my other businesses,right, yeah, she's like they're
gonna fucking steal all yourmoney and I'm like, babe, it's
not like that, like I don'tthink that's what's going on and
(07:19):
uh, anyway, I had done veryminimal efforts to get my
account back.
She was on the emails.
She was two-factorauthenticating.
She was trying to get in theaccount resetting shit.
He was blocking her, like itwas.
It was war, like a fuckingtrade war.
All of us like, yeah, yeah, youwant to tariff my shit?
(07:40):
I'm a fuck you up.
And she prevailed because shehad the original device, like
obviously, my phone.
I could get a code on my number.
Old mate couldn't do that.
And she also had my iPad, whichI'd logged into Instagram on
there, just so you think it wasconnected to that Spotify scam
link that you clicked on?
Yes, and in what way?
(08:02):
Like, do you think that theyclicked the link?
No, no, I don't know for sure.
And for those of you out therewho are more savvy and
understanding of how peopleusing bots and hackers work, the
fact that I clicked the linkthat was, that was the fucking
yeah.
That's what got me yeah righton.
So, yeah, I think it was.
Just the thing is Someone needsto go and visit your musician
(08:23):
mate.
What a dog, poor fella.
I mean, his account has clearlybeen hacked, right, and so I
just think the tough thing is weare distracted, and Joey and I
we've talked about this from aself-defense perspective.
Like in Bruce Lee's books.
He talks about awareness.
He's like the first step BruceLee was obsessed, but he was
(08:44):
always like scouting the room.
You know, is that guy's neckthick?
Could I break his neck?
What's that guy's ankles like?
Like where am I in the street?
Like Bruce Lee was obsessedwith anything could be a threat
and he always felt that was thefirst step in self-defense, was
awareness.
And you know, joe and I'vetalked about this before where
we're on our phones, people gotthe noise canceling earphones on
.
People aren't even fuckinglooking when they're crossing
(09:05):
the road Like people's.
We live in such a safe society,at least here in Australia, and
you know, if you live in afirst world Western society, you
might take for granted thatyou're not necessarily going to
get kidnapped or run over orwhatever, whereas in other parts
of the world that's more, morethe threat.
Well, bro, as far as theinternet goes, I was walking
(09:27):
around with noise-cancelingearphones staring at my fucking
phone, crossing the fuckinghighway, bro, and I got smashed.
But do you know anyone who'sbeen hacked, joe?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's happened toa few people I know over the
years.
Uh, they always seem to comeback from it, you know generally
.
But yeah, like, I had one matewho, like, had really built up
quite a online, like a, like anaccount on instagram coaching,
(09:52):
uh, snc for golfers, right, andI think he had like, like, he'd
really put a lot of time into itover like 18, 24 months
cultivated, and I think he wasat like 20 000 and he's like,
wow, like it was really kickingoff.
And then he got booted and thenwas like, and he was fucking
spewing and then I think it tookhim about a week and he got
back in right, and you know, inthe end it wasn't anything right
(10:12):
, kind of similar to yours, yes,but I think in the initial
moment you're very vulnerablebecause you're like, oh my god,
like you haven't.
Even though, like your account,similar to my personal account,
we don't put a huge amount oftime and effort into them.
No, you still put a minimalamount of effort for like a
decade, yeah, just to maintainit.
Yeah, and you got a lot ofpeople that you talk to,
contacts, messaging and so yeah.
(10:32):
So when it's taken away, you'relike, oh my god, fuck, like I
wasn't ready for that.
Um, yeah, it's, it's fuckingreally disruptive.
It's crazy to think of thedependency we have on it because
I I would say I use instagramprobably too much for messaging
like, whether it's jujitsufriends, workout friends, like
you know.
You see someone's story, hey,congratulations on that comp.
You know, it's just like asocial thing.
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Mate, I'm pretty fortunate.
I have my jugo account and Ialso have uh, another account,
uh, like just, and so I I wasable to kind of mess people say,
hey, I have been hacked.
Really sorry, you're gettingspammed with crypto nonsense,
but please feel free to send themoney directly to me.
Let's just skip all that.
I'll invest for you.
So what I?
(11:15):
I guess the reason why I wantto have this chat is if you've
been hacked and you've gonethrough this bullshit, you may
not have a.
An obsessive wife will go intobat for you to fix it for you.
If that hadn't happened, Ithink this could have been a
much more delayed process.
Maybe I could have lost myaccount.
But here is something which iskind of crazy, even though it
was a relief that Ola did thething.
(11:36):
She's got a specific set ofskills.
She will find you and she willblock you.
She did amazing work, work, gotmy account back.
I'm very grateful.
I actually felt some interesting, weird sense of relief that I
might completely lose my account.
(11:57):
There was something about it,man.
I was like maybe I would startagain, maybe I wouldn't even you
know what I mean like maybe Idon't have to keep up this whole
fucking treadmill of fuckingsocial appearances of sorts.
Yeah, maybe, yeah, like it was.
There was a moment where I waslike, well, if I lose it, fuck
you know, I became a Buddhist inthat moment.
A Buddha, you might say.
(12:18):
I gave it all away, my my smallniche amount of friends and
family circle.
They wouldn't even know who Iwas anymore.
Wow, I would have been reborn.
But yet here we are.
The cycle continues.
Thank fucking God I'm back inthe rat race.
Yeah, yeah, you know that fellowthat's been in the media quite
a bit Jonathan Haidt, I think,is his name done a lot of the
(12:39):
studies around kids and socialmedia use Okay, I don't, kids
and kids and social media use,kids and devices, and has, you
know, some very alarming sort ofstatistics and and, um, some
interesting kind of insights onit all.
One of the things he said therewas a large group of, uh,
school age, high school age kidswho were surveyed about social
media use.
Yes, and I think, likeunanimously, all of them, when
(13:05):
asked, uh, would you like stopusing social media, said no,
right, um, follow-up questionwas what?
Uh, what if nobody was allowedto use social media, so none of
your friends had social media,would you be happy to also not
use it?
And unanimously, they said yes,right, and it's that same thing
(13:29):
.
Right, it's that fear of missingout.
That's where everyone is.
Yeah, it's like fuck you gotta,you gotta be there here,
wherever you're seeing this.
It's like the human need to fitin.
Yeah, whereas, like, we allrecognize that it is not good.
No, yeah, and honestly, I mean,obviously you're this.
You might be watching this onyour mobile device or listening
(13:52):
to this on your mobile device.
The greatest challenge is, thereis a lot of inherent benefit to
being connected to this, theinternet, but does the benefit
outweigh the cost?
And the actual thing is, wedon't know what the cost is
right now, other than, yeah, westruggle to connect in person
(14:13):
and we are fucking distractedand we are vulnerable in a lot
of ways.
Uh, you know, and I mate, I, Iit's definitely made me think I
would.
I need to just spend less timeon Instagram.
I shouldn't care this muchabout this thing.
I've built a dependency Not asmuch as caffeine, but it's
(14:36):
fucking close, which is veryconfronting, you know, and so
many people, when they don'thave their phone because it's
broken or lost, people areactually just happier.
They feel less stressedProbably the same thing as me.
Like, if I have a few lesscoffees, I'm just, I'm calmer.
(14:57):
There's just a thing where Idon't feel as compelled to do
anything, which is kind of it'sa relief in a lot of ways.
So, anyway, that's it, folks.
I want to share it with you.
Yeah, if you're getting hit bymy account for crypto, it's not
me and I've probably been hackedagain, but hey, bitcoin's
(15:18):
plunging.
So now's the time to get in andjust hold on.
Bye, bye, bye.
What is it?
Do your own research.
Yeah, d-y-o-r, d-y-o-r, h-o-d-l.
Hold on for dear life.
Yeah, all of that, all of that.
That's a joke.
By the way, this is not afinancial podcast.
Please Don't buy it.
(15:38):
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