Million Dollar Days
Welcome to Million Dollar Days with Robby Choucair & George Passas. Your go-to podcast for a deep dive into the world of Life and Business Mastery.
Join hosts Robby Choucair and George Passas, a dynamic marketer and a seasoned Entrepreneur, as they navigate through an array of intriguing topics ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Robby brings his marketing expertise to the table, offering insights into the latest strategies and trends. George, with his extensive experience in business, provides a grounded, practical perspective. Together, they explore everything from the feasibility of alien existence to effective goal setting, and even the nuances of religion.
Million Dollar Days is not just about business acumen; it's an exploration of life's many facets, wrapped up in conversations that are as enlightening as they are entertaining.
Tune in and be part of our journey, where every day is a million-dollar day, filled with learning, laughter, and the pursuit of mastery.
Million Dollar Days
Lessons from Travel and Adversity
Consistency breeds results. In this episode, George and Robby dive deep into the journey of daily content creation and how one spontaneous jet ski video reached over a million views. They reflect on the importance of creating both educational and entertaining content while sharing practical tips to overcome the paralysis of perfectionism in content production.
Our chat takes a thought-provoking turn as we tackle cultural and societal shifts, scrutinizing literature focused on "the patriarchy" and discussing gender equality in sports. We share our skepticism about societal overcorrections and ponder the potential for achieving balance. Political figures like Trump and Peter Dutton come into the spotlight as we discuss the impact of political policies on personal and business lives, all while expressing a desire for a return to traditional values in the face of political correctness.
Whether you're a political junkie or someone trying to navigate societal shifts, this episode challenges you to think critically and consider the nuances often missed in mainstream conversations.
Talking to an influencer.
Robby:Right now you are. You are talking to an influencer, okay.
George:I float in different circles. Now, mate, oh yeah, sorry, can I get a photo? Without a doubt? Without a doubt, I'll give you only because I've known you for so long.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'll pay you.
George:You're floating in different circles. So a goal that I've put together for myself at the start of the year was to create at least one video every single day. I've seen that I like it, yeah, every single day, because we were talking about it late last year. And we're sitting there and we're going look at all these guys. You actually brought it up Like look at GC, look at Hormozy, look at Gary Vaynerchuk They've got 10,000 posts, yeah, 10,000 posts, yeah, 10,000 posts. And we're here doing two, three, four a week, yeah, and going we're crushing it, yeah.
Robby:And I was like dude, think about the thing I haven't even hit a thousand posts on my profile. Yeah, All in total and I'm like these guys are 10X where, like if I did, if I kept the same pace for the next 10 years, I still wouldn't reach where they are now.
George:Yeah, that's right.
Robby:Yeah, I was like, this doesn't make sense.
George:So what do we need to do? What do you have to do? And it's like you've got to play a bigger game. You've got to put in the reps. We're sitting there saying creating content and that was one of my goals last year. From where I was in the previous year to what we did last year in 24, big tick Podcast has been a huge contributor to that. Events have been a huge contributor to that Me just doing general content being contributed to that. So, yes, I had a really good year next last year.
George:This year I'm like, well, cool, what does it take to do two, three, four, five videos a day, or posts, or content creation or whatever it might be? And I went out with that goal to do that and I was doing that, getting some great feedback. People are messaging me hey, man, love your daily videos, loving this, loving this, loving this and then I'll put up one video in particular. So we often say that there's two ways of creating content which is engaging and that's either through entertainment or education. They're the two main forms of getting engagement and connecting with your audience, and the really good videos do both. So I put up a video. It was of me jet skiing. It had a Peter Griffin sound in the background and whatnot. Anyway, I posted it. It was a funny little video. It's like four seconds, isn't?
Robby:it.
George:Yeah, it goes for like four seconds, five seconds, something like that, and for those of you that haven't watched it, go and watch it. Get the algorithm going again it's pinned on the top of my page Anyway, so I posted it. It came back after an hour. I looked at it and it's like 7,000 views. I said, oh, that's all right.
George:There you go, that's done all right. I don't think. I looked at it again for the rest of the day. I woke up the next morning 128,000. Oh shit, this one's doing all right. I woke up the next morning, half a million Over. I woke up the next morning, half a million. And over the course of about five days reached a million views, one million views. That's my first million-view video that I've ever created. Congratulations, thanks, thanks. I told my wife. I called my dad. It was a very proud moment. We had a party, it was great Celebrations.
George:I never would have got that video, I never would have got that million view video had I not made it a goal at the start of the year to create more content. Never would have got it. It's the fact that I've got committed to saying, okay, I'm going to do something every single day. And here's the funny thing right, that was a silly video. It wasn't widely, it didn't educate, it entertained. And I've got other content out there that if you watch it, it will change your fucking life. But they get 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 views, but this one got a million.
George:Yeah, and sometimes, as I said, as we keep saying, you've got to create a thousand videos before you get the one that pops and that resulted in lots of new followers, a whole range of things. Even one guy said I randomly came across your jet ski video that was hilarious, by the way, I'm in construction, yeah, and he's like. And then we connected. I said cool man, I've got an event coming up, you should come to it. Oh yeah, that sounds great. So he's probably going to come to my next event. Maybe he becomes a paying client from that one silly video that I made. And that's not to say now. What about the next video I make tomorrow, today, the day after? Maybe that one is an educational one that gets a million views.
George:Maybe I go out there and put a controversial topic out there, something about I don't like owner builders or in my industry, or I could say something what's current relations at the moment with something I don't know gender neutral toilets? Okay, I spoke about that the other day at the Australian Open, which I think is a ridiculous thing. Maybe I could do a topic on that and then that'll pop. But the point is, you've got to, you've got to do the reps, you've got to go out there and actually put yourself out there to do the content. It does. You know what. It takes effort, but it's not as hard as you think, because I'm not there focused on how good my hair looks, what time of day it is, what the audio looks, what the audio sounds like, what the visual looks like.
George:I'm just getting the content out there. And will we do really good content from time to time, like this production here with the podcast? Yes, we will. Will I do other times where Iggy might follow me around for a day and I go cool, let's do a video in the life of George for a day and it's really good content? Yes, I'll do that too. But putting out the videos and the content like that, I think, is going to be massive.
Robby:Okay, two things. I think it's going to be massive. Okay, Two things One gender neutral toilets.
George:Let's talk about it.
Robby:Let's do it.
George:Let's get the million dollar view. Let's get a million views on this podcast.
Robby:Did you know that women tennis players get paid more than men do?
George:Do they really? I didn't know that that actually bothers me, does it really? Yeah, I'll tell you why I'll tell you why this is a great topic.
Robby:It's a fantastic topic, one that might get a million views, maybe, but I'll tell you why it bothers me, please. Only because, and only because, there is so much fuss the other way. Yeah, that's the only reason. Other than that, I couldn't give a fuck.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Robby:Like I don't care enough to Dude. The way I found out about it was so indirect and I was like why is no one talking about this? I found out about it like five years ago, six years ago, yeah, but it's so indirect. Is it all across the world, or is it just the Australian Open? I think it's all across the world. Yeah, I think. I'm not 100% sure. I don't even care enough to have looked into it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Robby:Just heard it confirmed that it was right and that's it. I've never, ever, looked into it again. Don't care that much, yeah, that much yeah. But it just bothers me because there is. I feel like you know what I'm learning about myself. You know what the patriarchy is, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Robby:Yeah, so the patriarchy, the whole thing around men, and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, man, civilization has gotten us to where we are today. Yeah, whenever and it's generally women, but not always. Sometimes it's generally women, but not always. Sometimes it's a man as well. Whenever they are anti-patriarchy, they lose me completely. I was reading a book once. I was I don't know, maybe you know 40, 50 percent of the way through the book and she said hashtag, fuck the patriarchy. And I closed the book on that page and put it back on the shelf because I just knew that anything they say from here, you lost your. Yeah, you've just lost me, because what was the book called?
George:Name and Shame. Do you remember the name of the book Fuckin' Oath?
Robby:It's something about relationships. I can't remember the exact name. It was a female writer. It's called something along the lines of something about being alone and how to not, or something. Yeah, okay, I can't remember the exact term. That's all right. She's a very. That's not all right. I can't remember the exact term. That's all right. She's a very. That's not a lie. I saw her on a diary of a CEO. That's where I found out about the book. Yeah, yeah, anyway, yeah, as soon as I read that dude, close the book and put it on the side, because I'm like you're brainwashed. The patriarchy what? The one that allows you to have the beautiful life you have today? The one that's gotten the world to the point where we almost have world peace? By the way, did you hear? Trump has stopped the war in the Middle East, did he?
George:What a sick man, what a guy. What a guy. Anyway, we should get him on the cast, call him.
Robby:Yeah, as soon as someone says that, as soon as someone does the whole gender neutral towards things, you lose me. Yeah, I'm very much the same.
George:It's not so much as you said, it's not to the point where I'm like going to write a letter or get a sign, a petition. I just don't care enough. But if I was there with my children, we're like no, no, we're not using those toilets.
Robby:Yeah.
George:You know what I mean.
Robby:Yeah A. To be completely honest, I don't even care that women get paid more. Yeah, yeah, I don't care at all, but it's the fact that. I've had my head done in about the other way around, which has been proven to be false, correct. It's just like I almost feel like if I cared enough, I would do something about it, but I don't. It does. It's like an annoying chair, like it's not that annoying that I'll stand up, but it's just, you know. It's like, yeah, these things annoy me. You remember, every now and again.
Robby:Yeah, and you're like that's an annoying fact.
George:Yeah, well, I mean, it happens even in other sports, I think in this one, in this instance, I think this might be the only sport that I think. In this instance, though, you're getting the crowds to the games as well. Do you know what I mean? So the revenue is there for women to be paid there.
Robby:Yeah, I guarantee you.
George:It's still entertaining to watch women's tennis. Yeah, it's not as quick. Fast, strong, fast-moving.
Robby:Let me ask you a question. Yeah, if they ran both events separately.
George:Which one makes more money? Yeah, that's a very good question.
Robby:Okay.
George:That's a very good question, and it's likely that the males will do that. I would bet anything on it. It's just yeah, you're completely right.
Robby:Tune into the, the women, the WNBA, no, no, I don't know why. I'm thinking of a whole different idea, but tune into the finals. Tune into no, no tennis. Let's talk tennis.
Speaker 3:Tennis Tune into the finals, yeah.
Robby:Compare the women's finals yeah, and see, dude, even TV ratings. And then how many people watch the men's finals? Yeah, right, you know what I mean. It's a whole different kettle of fish.
George:Yeah, you're probably right yeah.
Robby:But the women per minute or per game.
George:They get paid higher. Paid the same for less games.
Robby:Yeah, paid the same for less games, so they're actually getting paid higher per game. Correct, bizarre. But we, you know, left this world.
George:Yeah, I'm glad you brought this up. So do you feel it's going the other way, because it has been very far left for a very long time?
Robby:Okay, I feel like we've overcorrected and people I think it's starting to correct itself now.
George:I really do, and I see it, and this is where I've seen it, particularly locally as well. So, first of all, you're getting Trump coming into power and doing what he's doing. He was very clear with his message on a lot of these key areas, right. Gender neutral there won't be that at schools, because I'm not going to let kids mutilate themselves, you know, to transition to another sex. We're not going to do this. We're not going to do that. He was very clear and very strong on some of these topics. This is what it is going to be like. That's it. And he got voted in for some of his very strong right views, and I'm seeing it here too. So you don't follow Australian politics much, do you?
Robby:Me no, really no.
George:So Peter Dutton, opposition leader for the Liberal Party and look, I don't follow it too much either I've always been a Liberal voter because it suits my agenda, my business, my life. So I've always been a liberal voter and I probably will continue to. In saying that, if they're duds, I would be a swing voter. It just depends on the person and the policies that the other party has. But in a two-party race, it's liberal Labor.
George:What I have noticed is Peter Dutton taking a Trump approach to the next election and if you see this, it'll be interesting for you to actually watch and see some of these. He came out the other day and he's like when I present to the nation and when I am prime minister, I will not have an Aboriginal flag behind me. And he goes. We are one country. We are the only country in the world that has two flags behind me. He goes. We are one country. We are the only country in the world that has two flags behind us. He goes. You go to any other country. You look at any other press conference. It's one flag, not two. He goes.
George:I'm not saying we shouldn't be celebrating our heritage, where we're from, who we're about, the Aboriginal community he goes? I'm not saying that at all. We're from who, we're about the Aboriginal communities. I'm not saying that at all. I am saying we need to be united as a nation, as a country, under one flag, which is why, when I'm in power, it'll be one flag flying behind me when I'm talking and addressing the nation or the world. That's it. I like that. So is he liberal.
George:He's liberal, so he's pushing the right agenda. Now, australia day. So there's all that talk around australia day and how it's invasion day and all this sort of shit. He's like no, he goes. This is the day that we are going to celebrate our country. This is the day that we're not, that we are going to celebrate being australian. All right, we're not going to make it invasion day. We're not going to make it about this and this and this and bring all the politics into it, because this is what it's going to be.
Robby:It's going to be that he came out.
George:He said other things too, along the lines of the gender neutral stuff and all that sort of stuff too. I can't remember that one. I didn't really see that clip, but I found it interesting because he's the first politician, not the first politician, not the first politician. There's another guy in Adelaide, senator Antic or something like that, alex Antic or something like that, and he's very right, like really right. He pulls people up on shit and it's funny. He's got like 100,000 followers on Instagram. The one person he follows Trump. So I thought that was pretty funny. He follows one person.
George:He follows one person, I actually- messaged him to come on the podcast. He hasn't responded. I might message him again Yet. Yet that's right. But what I'm finding is people like I was looking at the comments. I was looking at the likes again, looking at the engagement, because that's probably what I was more interested in at the time, and he's got a lot of support.
George:What he's saying makes a lot of sense and a lot of people will back that. I promise you. A lot of people are going to back that. And what you might find is the next election, it's going to swing his way, just like it did with Trump, because he's going to take a more right-wing approach and go. This is what we're about. This is what we need to do. We need to go back to our fundamentals. We're not going to celebrate this. We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. Okay, these are stupid things. This is not what being Australian is about. And you watch the voters flock to him because of his mindset and what he's saying, because that's what the politics lacks.
Robby:Yeah, look, if we're going to talk about Australian politics, let's talk about a real serious topic, and it's when are you going to run for Premier?
George:Good question, good question.
Speaker 3:Hold on, guys. Just one thing what was your source about the gender pay gap on the tennis thing?
Robby:Oh, dude, I don't know.
George:No, it's there yeah because I checked it, it's just one prize money for.
Robby:The prize money is the same, if you just Google prize money for Australian Open.
George:it's one prize for both.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is the same yeah that's right, but it became the same just recently, or was it just this?
Robby:year. Oh no, it's been like that for quite a while, quite a while. This came up in 2019, when I first that's only for Australian Open.
George:Is it really? Oh, okay, and American.
Speaker 3:I think the American Open the average percent is actually 20% higher for men's yeah right At the ATP and WTA tennis top 100 players the gap is around even 33%.
George:Yeah right, what's the prize money exactly.
Robby:We're talking prize money not like sponsorships and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so if they win, yeah, so Australian Open 2025 is 3.5 million as the winner.
Robby:Yeah, yeah each, but the women only have to play three sets I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm telling you yeah, so yeah yeah, I suggested australian open is like that.
George:But only australian open yeah I reckon there'd be more are there american one?
Robby:yeah, maybe or the french open.
George:There's four yeah, the us open french open and wimbledon it'd be surprised if they don't.
George:If they're not all the same, I don't know. It won't go back, but regardless, uh, what I'm seeing with those. Oh sorry, you said when am I running for premier? Well, I'm glad you brought that up, ladies and gentlemen, because I want to announce it here today on the podcast that I will be running for premier.
George:Um, if I was to run for premier, I would definitely be more right-winged for sure, with a lot of the stuff, and I'd be very much like this it's this way or fuck off, or don't vote for me. I don't care. Uh, that's just how I am. I'm just. It's not about being right-winged, I'm just logical. Yeah, that's all it is. Am it's not about being right wing, I'm just logical. Yeah, that's all it is. I'm just logical. Kill me with logic in anything if you could show me that. You know doing something left was the way to do it and it's the best thing for people, for myself, for my family, for whatever it is. Yeah, let's do it. There's no issues with that. That's why I say I'm a swing voter, I voter, I would vote for Labor. I generally never have, purely because of the policies always suit my business, for Liberal and my lifestyle, so I'll always vote for them. But yeah, I found it interesting that he has started to do and implement that, and I reckon they did that strategically.
Robby:So you reckon he only did it post-election?
George:No, he's just coming into the election now. No, no post-American election. Well, that's the only time I've seen it. That's the only time I've seen it now just recently Him actually like a genuine person going for prime minister. This isn't a premier, this is prime, this is top dog. We've also always said like.
Robby:And here's the thing when I think something, I always think I can't be the only person thinking this. There's got to be someone else who's perceived the same information in the same way. And we've spoken about this and we said Australia needs Trump. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know what I mean. And it's like Australia needs Trump, and that's how the whole conversation came about you running for premier, yeah. And then it's like which is? Going to happen, by the way, and it's one of my goals for 2025.
George:It's one of my goals to get me to run, to get George to run, guys, put in the comments if you would vote. Yes, please, and I promise you when I'm Premier we will still do this podcast weekly.
Robby:That'd be sick.
George:I'll put policies in place that will make everyone million dollar days. So you're going to subscribe, but you have to be subscribed, otherwise we'll tax you more.
Robby:Get a tax benefit for subscribing to the podcast. Get tax benefits. That's it. What was I saying? Oh yeah, because we said you know, australian, it's from post. I can't remember if it was post or around the election time or whatever it was. But it was like, yeah, cool, like that would be good here, because no one everyone here is too PC, yes, pc. I was going to say rule following.
George:There was this girl I can't remember, she said it best and I think it was on a TV show or a radio show. She was on there and she was talking and she goes. What I've realised is because we've got a poor quality, we've got a poor standard of politicians in this country and she goes. What I've realised, and what I've seen, particularly after COVID, is we are people, that we are sheep. We want to be told what to do and how to do it.
Robby:Australia. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
George:Yeah, and she goes. This is what I've noticed. And he goes. The reason we keep getting shit politicians is because we keep wanting to be governed. We need to remind politicians that they work for us, not us for them. And that's where and she made a ripper point, and I think it was quite a viral video along that line.
Robby:Yeah, I think that is she's bang on. Oh, she was bang on.
George:I couldn't agree more with the words that were coming out of her mouth. And she's like we're sitting here and you're bitching and moaning about this, this, this and this, and she goes, but you're the ones that voted these people into power and now you're making it out as in. You know, we work for them. They need to be reminded that they work for us. They're here to serve the community, the country, not the other way around, and they've lost their way, and that's why we just love to be governed. We want to be safe, we want to be told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and I couldn't agree more with what she said. I personally don't, and I'm sure there's lots of people that don't as well.
Robby:However, man COVID showed that a lot of people also do, because they voted that fuckwit in more than once.
George:And for those of you that don't know who I'm referring to, it is Daniel Andrews. You are a fuckwit of the highest accord. Put it on record once again.
Robby:In saying that Australia is a sick country. Love it, Ah, so good. You know every time I go overseas I get reminded and I'm like yeah fuck, we've got it good.
George:And how cool would it be when we go to the States to have a look at that and compare. I can't wait, I've heard like LAX. It's not LAX. La is a fucking disaster at the moment, obviously, with all the fires and everything that's happening there. But before that the homelessness, the economic, like it would be interesting to talk because we're going to speak to people. It'd be interesting to talk to them and say, well, hey, what's life like here? You know how are you guys traveling? Is it hard? Are you killing it?
Robby:or are you like going shit?
George:petrol's this much a gallon.
Robby:There's two sides to it, though, right, even if you look at Europe as well. Yeah, like I think Australia's bottom line is quite high.
George:Yeah, comparatively. Do you get what I'm saying?
Robby:Yeah, absolutely, in the sense of Absolutely, If you look at. Let's just say, if you were to break it up into tiers, right and like the lowest tier in Australia, like even if you are Minimum wage, Minimum wage yeah. You still have food.
George:You still have food you still have a clean water.
Robby:You still have a roof over your head, still safe. Yeah, you're still safe, like yeah, whereas I think it's hard over there like dude people in europe like there's. I saw some shit in europe when I went, man and I was like absolutely, I was like I didn't know that europe was like that, you know what I mean.
Robby:Like I was like man, like italy, places in Italy. I went to Naples. There's people living in ways Dude I spoke to, this is going to go sideways. I got picked up when I went to Bali. I got picked up by a driver and I was talking to him Didn't know him, but someone I know knows him and just talking to him, yeah, how you doing blah, blah, blah. Thanks for sorting this out. And I was like how much are you paying rent? Just curious, because I've had people always say to me like man, like what you do is mobile, why don't you go live in Bali? And I'm like I don't know if I want to. I've never been there before when they said that to me, so I've never been there. I don't know. Yeah, maybe if I like it, I'll consider it.
George:I would never do it. You've got a podcast there. Yeah, just come back weekly.
Robby:Yeah, I just wouldn't. That would not be the. I'm much the same. I'm not going to live in a. It's a third world country.
George:Yeah.
Robby:Anyway, talking to him and I said, dude, curious, what's your rent? Like Like how much are you paying rent? Do you mind if I ask? And he's like, yeah, I live in. So he lives in Denpasar, which is like the main part of Bali, like a big city or like kind of where the airport stuff is near there. And I was like how much are you paying rent? And he's like 1.7 million, which is $170 Australian Week.
Robby:Month 170 dollars, australian week, month, yeah. So I was like fuck, that's not bad, but how much are they?
George:how much are they making? Let me finish the story.
Robby:I didn't even ask him how much he was making but, for context, the thing from the thing to the airport was a three hour drive and it cost me 50 bucks or 500,000. So he made 30% of his rent just from my trip. And I was like, okay, I said, do you mind if I ask like, how do you live? Like what's it? Cause he guy's married three kids oldest son is 18 years old and I was like, do you mind if I ask how do you live? Is it a house? Is it a apartment? He's like oh, no, no, it's a small house. And I was like, okay, cool, like you know one bedroom, like how does it work? He's like, oh, there's just two rooms. And I was like, what do you mean?
George:And then he's like yeah one room.
Robby:we sleep in the same room and he's like, yeah, and I just looked at him and I thought there's not many people in Australia who would accept that. Yeah an 18-year-old kid Dude three kids. How did you have the second two kids? Do you know what I mean? I just couldn't fathom it I was like man. It's like we take this shit so for granted, man.
Speaker 3:Do you?
George:know what I mean. Yeah, get upset when each bedroom doesn't have an ensuite.
Robby:Yeah, you're like you don't eat, and it's like and then these people are like all sharing a room, and it's not just Bali or just this person, it's lots of countries around the world. Yeah, for sure.
George:That's what I'm saying. You've got to go out there and see the world and travel and actually have experiences that will make you, will give you some gratitude with where you're at in your life, but also go okay, need to make some moves. Make sure that we're never in a position like this as well.
Robby:Yeah, I think that's one of the greatest things about Australia. It's a bit of a safety net.
George:Yeah, yeah, but, as I said, people get sucked into that too, you know, yeah, yeah, people get sucked in and they just accept. But they even go like you, even go from the other avenue of it, like look at the Dole right, literally opposite our office, you've got commissioned homes, uninterrupted bay views in Albert Park, you know what I mean people that have been given homes and, yes, I completely understand there's a lot of people in there that probably do need the assistance. Alright, and that's great.
Robby:I think you're always going to have that though. Yeah, yeah, and I think that's better, but there's also.
George:I guarantee you in that building there's also a lot of people brought in the system. I had my brother-in-law. My sister-in-law's brother-in-law has a cafe and he had a worker in there my sister-in-law's brother-in-law?
Robby:Yeah, okay.
George:He has a cafe in Port Melbourne.
Robby:Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just worked out who you're talking about.
George:He had a chef working for him. It doesn't work there now, but he had a chef there working for him. Listen, interesting.
Robby:I was about to mention the cafe.
George:Had a chef working for him. Not there anymore, but he goes like they're busy. He goes to the guy, he goes listen, I need you to. He was a really good chef, like really good at his job.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
George:He goes listen, I want you to come work for me. Like, come and work full time because he only wanted to work two, three days a week for me, come and work full-time, because he only wanted to work two, three days a week. He's like no, no, come and work full-time, I'll give you this much money. Blah, blah, blah. I can give you what you want, good wicket. Do you know what his answer was? He goes, oh, and he goes. I want he also. He goes to him, he goes. You need to pay me cash. So the two, three days I can pay you a bit of cash here and there he goes, but I can't sustain that. As the business grows, I'm going to have to put you on the books. That's probably why he stopped working. Do you know the reason why? He wanted A, cash and B, not to work more. He's on the dole. He's on the dole. He goes. I don't want to lose my benefits, your benefits.
George:He's living at home with his mum and he was probably in his mid to late 40s. He goes. I don't want to lose my money. I can't be shown to be getting an income. And he was skillful. He was very good. Apparently he made some good food.
Robby:Yeah, okay, he goes.
George:I don't want to lose my.
Robby:That's just a closed mindset. Dude, Dude, I just wanted to slap this guy.
George:Yeah, that's just like a you don't want to make 100 grand a year because you're going to lose your $25,000 benefit from the government every year.
Robby:Yeah. Yeah, do you know what I mean. Yes, and there would be I believe that guy's a leech on society.
Speaker 3:That guy is a leech, the.
Robby:That guy is a leech Society is going to have leeches.
George:Yeah, it rewards it, though this is what we're saying. The way our society is set up, it does reward people like that and sometimes punishes the hardworking people.
Robby:Yeah, I don't know I don't know if I agree with you. Yeah, well, look I.
George:I get what you're saying. It doesn't reward them.
Robby:It creates a better space. Would it be better if we walked down the street and there was 100 homeless people pulled up in tents? Have you seen some of the tents and shit set up in the US Like have?
George:you seen the homeless people set up tents? Yeah, it's like a whole community of tents. It's horrible, yeah it's like you walk down the street and there's all tents pulled up and it's like I've heard somewhere else, like someone was saying it you literally walked out our building and just smelt like piss and shit because people were just yeah.
Robby:Just a bunch of homeless people.
George:Because they were just going at it on the street, on the sidewalk.
Robby:Yeah, the sidewalk, yeah, I would prefer to have. And, for the record, australia, yes, we do have high tax, but we don't have the highest tax in the world. Have you seen, like the tax in Sweden and Germany? They've got a higher tax rate. In general, we're still top 10, but there's some countries that are topping us slightly and countries that also have, like Germany would be a great country to live in I know you've lived in Germany, iggy, but Sweden would be another great country to live in. I feel like we are a combination of a little bit of that in Australia and a little bit of US and a little bit of UK. You know what I mean, and it's like we've got some factors and there's some things that we do that aren't great, like the followingness, sheepness, whatever you want to call it. The need to be governed, yeah, but I think, all in all, great?
George:Yeah, absolutely Absolutely. But I still think there's a lot of I don't want to rest on that. Do you know what I mean? You don't have to. No, but even as a society, we shouldn't. We shouldn't be like oh yeah, but what a great country we live in. It can get fucking better, but you've got to want that change. You've got to put the pressure on these politicians and all these guys to say no, no, no, hang on, mate. This, this, this and this, because at the moment, it's the other way around. It's the other way around. They are dictating to us how everything is going to be.
Robby:Yeah, so you only put the pressure on them by playing their game?
George:Which most people don't. They can't be bothered, they're not. Oh, I can't make a change. Oh, I can't do this, I can't do this and I don't think it's going to.
Robby:In all honesty, I really don't. I have no issue with the whole Commission Homes.
George:Oh no, no, I'm not picking on them. Yeah, I'm not saying that at all.
Robby:I'm just saying a whole range of things.
George:I think there's a lot Like there's this guy On. He got decents following on.
Robby:I think we do that well. The Commission Homes thing.
George:And I think, the punters.
Robby:Have you heard of him? The punters politics.
George:Yeah, whatever it is You've told me about.
Robby:And I think the punters have you heard of? Him.
Speaker 3:The punters politics? Yeah, whatever it is. You've told me about him. Yeah, I'm going to hey, if you're listening, bro, he does some good content. What's his name? I don't remember.
George:He's got great content, punters politics, punters politics or something like that. We're giving a away. They make billions and billions of dollars profit a year and they pay 0.0002% tax Shit like that. I'd say there's a lot of refinement that needs to happen, I think, in our country to make it great to have all these money, to get money that can be invested here. There's just idiots that are sellouts. I believe, from what I've seen and what I've read and what I've heard, there's a lot of people that are pocketing personally and profiting personally as opposed to doing what's best for the country in that political space. So I think there's a level of that that needs to be cleaned up.
Robby:I think there is a level of that that needs to be cleaned up. I think there is a level of corruption wherever you go?
George:Yeah, I agree. Have you guys read the book called?
Speaker 3:Stolen Focus no, it's actually quite good book. So on Stolen Focus, the author writes about why we can't keep politicians accountable is because we have a way too short of an attention spam because of social media and everything. So to create like any change to get them like accountable, yeah, people have to have long attention spams to see and focus on things that are not working and take action to it. But nowadays it's so bad it's it's just not working anymore. If you compare, uh, who's the president? Lincoln, american president.
Speaker 3:That was like lincoln lincoln, yeah so his speech was three hours long and people could watch that. That was before TV and the competitor, whoever it was, he also had a three-hour speech and people could watch that, but after the TV generation it dropped to one hour, so the whole debate went for one hour. Nowadays it's like seconds. Yeah, people are losing their attention spans and they can't uh be, they can't even give the uh, the politicians to be accountable yeah it's a problem I don't know if I completely buy into the whole short attention span thing.
George:You'll watch if you're interested.
Robby:Yeah, people binge Game of.
George:Thrones for eight hours.
Speaker 3:But, that's entertainment. Yeah, so what Politics is not entertainment?
Robby:Yeah, but so do you think they had the same measuring capabilities when President Lincoln was around that they do now? It's like when people say, oh, oh, people are more autistic now than ever and it's like you, you get that we got better at working it out too yeah yeah, there's probably people that never got diagnosed I think there's people today that don't get diagnosed, do you know?
Robby:I mean? I think there's people walking around right now living life and they're on some level on the spectrum that aren't diagnosed. Do you know what I mean? I think I yeah, this should like if someone's got such a short attention span, dude. I watched a four hour video on sales the other day because I was trying to put together a sales strategy and and I sometimes can't watch a 30-second reel. So is it a short attention span or is it Shit's boring? Did you watch my jet ski reel? Not the whole thing, it was four seconds, not the whole thing. Oh yeah, but do you know what I mean? Like that's why I don't. It could be true, but I just don't buy into it. As much as everyone seems to like, we try and demonize screens and social media.
George:Oh, without a doubt, I couldn't agree more. We do demonize that a lot.
Robby:We demonize the hell out of it, dude. Yeah, I was watching Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan's podcast. He just came on.
George:Just recently. Yeah, I didn't see it. No, I haven't seen it at all, but did you see?
Robby:the announcement he made on Instagram. Yes, About how they're not soliciting content I don't know what the term is anymore, but they're not blocking out content anymore. They're not filtering out as much content, so they're allowing things that would normally get banned are now going to get through. They're turning more into like X, x, yeah, yeah, and, by the way, and things that would normally get banned are now going to get through. They're turning more into like X, x, yeah, yeah, and, by the way, have you noticed people?
George:start calling it X now and Twitter's starting to fall off. Yeah, yeah, I did that yesterday, funny enough.
Robby:Called it Twitter.
George:The first time. No, I called it X.
Robby:Yeah, and so he was talking about that. And then Joe Rogan was talking to him about you know, do you do anything with your kids and screen time and that, and he's like I don't want my kids to live on the iPad. He's like I think that's just bad habits. You know what I mean. He's like but he goes. If my daughter's he talks about one of his daughters he's like my youngest daughter is very creative, he goes. Now he goes. She does like Legos and that he goes. And she also plays Minecraft, he goes. Minecraft is a great visualization, creative. I don't even know what Minecraft is, by the way, it sounds sick, but he's like it's a great visualization, creative game. He goes.
Robby:Now if I want to enhance my daughter's creativity skills, he goes. She's going to learn more from Minecraft than she is from building Legos he goes. So when she wants to play Minecraft, I don't stop her. He goes, but he goes. So when she wants to play minecraft, I don't stop her, he goes, but he goes. When she was waking up early to start playing minecraft and not sleeping properly, I stopped her and said, hey, no, ipad before x, he goes. But do I say, hey, don't play the ipad, go play with the legos. No, he goes if she wants to play minecraft for three hours I completely, I completely agree with that yeah, and I was like that's a really logical explanation.
Robby:You know what I mean? And yeah, I don't know. I just I don't like how we demonize everything that we're doing as humans. Do you know what?
Robby:I mean yeah, we got people off the streets. There's people living in houses like, oh no, they're taking our tax money. You know, people can't watch stuff. Our social media is ruining everyone. Uh, uh, we got more autistic people. Oh, it's the fucking vaccines. Do you know what I mean? Like everything, dude, we're always so quick, very quick, to like trying no, no, no, it's. You know we're doing this wrong, we're doing that wrong we're're doing, and it's like, dude, life has only gotten better continuously. It's not like we lived better 50 years ago. We didn't.
Robby:We live better today than we've ever lived in our whole fucking However long you think humans have been alive for.
Speaker 3:It's actually a little bit degrading at the moment, in 2024 and 2025.
Robby:Why.
Speaker 3:Because there's more wars compared to 10 years ago Is it 10 years ago.
Robby:So you're thinking you have short-term attention span. You're thinking Don't you remember Trump stopped all the wars? You're thinking in a short span. Dude, you're thinking in a short-term span. You know what else happened? No, you're thinking in a short-term span.
Speaker 3:You know what else happened? No, it's not just the Middle East. There's a lot of wars that we don't even care about in our media.
Robby:Yeah.
Speaker 3:There's a whole video about how many wars happened compared to 10 years ago. That's happening today.
Robby:Okay, but what about comparing? Wars are fought not in months or years, they're fought over like it's a big decade, yes, yes. So why don't you look at it over a longer time horizon?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, that that's the whole video essay about. If you watch it, you'll understand. There is more wars.
Robby:There's civil wars and wars between countries so do you think the world is in a worse place now than it was 10 years ago?
Speaker 3:Compared to on death tolls, on wars. Yes, it is a little bit Financial crisis wise. I wouldn't know because I've never checked it out, but just overall that's kind of better, I guess.
Robby:Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Like, I think we continually make advancements. You can see anything as bad if you pick a certain time horizon. Do you know what I mean? If you look at the stock market in a certain window, you can see a cliff fall off and say we're fucked. Or you can look at Bitcoin for the last three months and say crypto is going to take over the world. You know what I mean. Or you can zoom out a little bit and say, okay, cool, let's look at this over a bigger time horizon. You know there's everything runs in cycles.
Robby:Is this happening now for a particular reason, because of what was happening 10 years ago? Is this happening now If we look at it in a 25 year time span or a hundred year time span? Are we still worse? I would doubt it. I don't know because I don't know the numbers that you're talking about, but I would just say it's highly unlikely that more people are dying now from those things than they were. And and here's another thing there's more people on the planet. Like, we have bigger armies. We have. You know what I mean. Factor that in and talk percentages. Are more percentages dying? Like? You know what I mean?
George:You can there's a lot of factors that come in.
Robby:You can manipulate data to make anything look good or bad. You very much like heavily. You know what I mean, and I just think we're so hardwired to focus on the fuck shit.
George:Yeah, well, people are inherently negative people.
Robby:Yeah, it's survival behavior.
George:Yeah, exactly it are inherently negative people. Yeah, it's survival behavior, that's right. Yeah, exactly, it's to protect themselves For sure.
Speaker 3:I actually have an interesting topic for you guys. So testosterone levels have been dropping in the last 40, 50 years. Are we less of a man now compared to our previous generation?
Robby:Me or the average man. Good rebuttal.
George:Well, I mean, if it's dropping, what are the reasons? When you say less of a man, what does?
Robby:that mean. I'm just throwing it out. Yeah, like lower testosterone levels.
George:I did hear a podcast on this in part, not in full, so I don't have enough understanding on the topic, but it is definitely a topic you can talk about.
Robby:I'm sure there's factors. I reckon yes.
Speaker 3:Might that be also a cause of all the gender problems. Whatever it is, I reckon yes.
Robby:Potentially. I reckon, yes, we are less, but why is so what? I reckon, yes, we are less.
George:A level of comfort, though, like it probably comes from, that it could be.
Robby:Dude, hey, look at fucking, go take a bunch of what was the okay, take a bunch of baby boomers in their prime and put them in war against a bunch of Gen Zs. Who's winning?
George:Yeah, but it's also which Gen Zs?
Robby:Hey.
George:How do you the Gen Zs, the stereotypical ones? Yeah, the stereotypical ones. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Robby:Do you know what I mean? And who's going to win? Take them both same amount of people, take all the attributes and make them standard, like you know what I mean. So a here, 100 people there, all the same age, same height, same strengths, whatever. Who's going to win? They grew up in a harder environment, dude. You know what I mean. They are tougher by default due to natural adversity. That's right, right, yeah. So, yes, do I think that men are becoming less manly? But there's also the whole war on masculinity.
George:Yes. Yeah, and no toxic masculinity, no, that's only Do you feel that I don't feel that's been going for that long, do you?
Robby:feel it's really been going for that long, Dude. The whole feminist movement's been happening since like the 80s, 90s.
George:Yeah, I get that, but it hasn't Me Too was the early 2000s, when I was in high school. There was never this conversation. Yeah, but you just weren't aware of it.
Robby:No, it wasn't happening, man. So you don't reckon. In the 2000s that was happening, that was happening.
George:I'm sure it was happening, but not to the extent where it is now. Like I never, ever once in my life ever heard of someone. Gender-neutral toilets, like we said before, there was never a conversation about that, ever.
Robby:Oh that's just the it's gotten more and more and more.
George:That's what I mean. I think it's just become extreme in the last few years. Like when I say last few years five I don't think it's been as prominent in society or in life or anything like that.
George:And then also social media probably has had that effect on it, because now it's so much easier to communicate something, an opinion, which then gets let like. You know got a video that had a million views. I go out there and say, hey, everyone, it's okay to be a boy if you're a girl and then if you're the first person to say that but if you're the first person to say that, do you know what I mean?
George:you're, You're the first person to say that. Do you know what I mean? You're going to go viral. Oh, this person said this and this person said this, and then they get on TV shows, and then they get on this, and then they do this. It blows out and then it probably seems bigger than what it is. The vast majority of people still think the way we think. But yeah, you're probably right. It's the natural adversity that they had to deal with which will make them even let's assume they're physically the same strength.
Robby:Okay, that's what I'm saying.
George:Make sure that, yeah, physical attributes are exactly the same. The mental attributes of the baby boomers, yeah, I think, will definitely surpass that of the Gen Z or Y or whatever the hell they are.
Robby:Yeah, taking into account, like if you try and even out the playing field as much as possible, you'd think.
George:Yeah, if you're a betting man.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Robby:I'd be paying like $1.40.
George:I'd be paying a million dollars the Gen Z. I'm playing small.
Robby:Oh, the Gen Z, okay, yeah, interesting.
George:It is, it is, it is, it is. But do you know what each of those groups would be doing? So the gen z's, so the baby boomers, and the gen z's before they actually went to war? What?
Robby:would they do?
George:they'd subscribe, they'd stop what they're doing. Hey guys, before we get out of hand and, you know, potentially kill ourselves, we need to make sure that we're subscribed to this podcast and you guys can do the same. You can do the same before you go to war today, whether it's with a baby boomer, or whether it's just your war at work, in business, in life, whatever it is. Subscribe to this channel because it's going to help you in your journey to achieve greatness and to achieve all the things that you want to do, and it helps us grow the channel and helps us bring new people, more people, and create more positive change in this world.
Robby:And vote one for George.
George:Premier 2025 or whenever that next election is. I don't even know who the premier is. It's some lady at the moment, I don't know. I'll probably know her name if she said it Julia Gillard. That's the one. Is it the only politician? The female politician you know?
Robby:And what's the racist lady's name?
George:Oh, pauline Hanson, yeah, that's it, yeah.
Robby:Good on her. Is she racist? I've never even looked into it. She appears through the media to be.
George:That could be the perception. That could be the perception. Yeah, but she was on some reality TV show a few years back. I think it was I'm a Celebrity, get Me Out of here, something like that. I remember seeing it, I remember watching it and she was actually quite a nice person. I think, like when you got to see what she was like, and then it's not until you see the perception of her going through, but she's also a person. Yeah, but she's also a person that has a very strong view on certain topics.
Robby:Yeah.
George:So then when you come out like you say with Trump, everyone demonises him for something that he says, but then that 30-second clip is what gets played, but it gets taken out of context. So you like her, I don't dislike her.
George:I don't dislike her, I like her. Uh, I don't dislike her, I don't dislike I think. She has said things in the past that aren't great. So is trump. Yeah, exactly, but yeah, I think, overall, like good on her for having a crack and sticking to her guns and what she believes. I think she's getting out of politics. Actually is she, I think so, I think she's retiring, but, um, yeah, she's very, she's very, yeah, but she also.
George:She's very patriotic too, she's very all yeah, but she also. She's very patriotic too. She's very all about Australia and Australians, but I do think she's said stuff against ethnic people and immigrants in the past as well.
Robby:Yeah, I'm pretty sure she has. And like yeah, she's talking about, you know Chinese and Indians. Yeah, what's it called when people come here? Immigration, yeah, immigration.
George:That's why I think she's got a strong point. Iggy would definitely not have got in Me and you, none of us. We'd all be fucked. Yeah, if she was in power, this would be million-dollar days Lebanon, and that's why, hey, can we do an episode in French? Can we do an episode in… French? Can we do an episode in Mongolia? We come to Mongolia and we'll do an episode.
Robby:Yeah, you can. You have to weatherproof the mics.
George:Do they have mics in Mongolia? Do you reckon you can organize some for us? We'll ship them over to you. We'll ship them over to you. We'll do. A million-dollar days, mongolia. When are you leaving? Iggy May May, so still got a little bit of time.
Robby:So if you don't want anything bad to happen to the country, make sure you vote one. George passes.
George:Or to Iggy Premier in Victoria, If you don't want anything bad to happen to Iggy vote one because I will keep him here. He will keep. I'll keep him here. Make sure he's creating sick content for us for a really long time and for you and for you. Thanks for tuning in, guys, Appreciate it as always.
Robby:Tune in next week where we're going to talk about some pretty amazing stuff.
George:We are Boom.
Robby:Bye everybody.
George:See you.
