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“So it's like a social experiment. You know, he puts us in these crazy situations where money is involved, challenges and stuff, and it kind of, like, is a way to see, like, how people react to these different situations. Like, for example, Captain Shryb. You're up there. A million dollars is on the board. All you have to do is press a button, and that's yours. And seeing that four out of the five people didn't do that.”

“Like, I could go on to my Instagram and look at, like, thousands of messages of people just asking for money. It's wild. And some of them are just straight up, like, direct with it. Like, hey. Give me $50,000. Not even, like, a hello or anything like that. Like, it was funny. I remember one message I got. This one guy was asking me to pay for his frat dues.”

“Exactly, man. It's a it's a good question. Fortunate enough to have Texas as my state, so I don't have to worry too much about that, but, gotta mitigate the federal taxes. So right now, I've got a legal and financial team that I'm working with, and we're coming up with with good strategies to, move forward and try to mitigate as much as we can, man.”

“I've been tempted just to post some rage bait out there and have it be insanely inaccurate but, like, harmless inaccurate. But, you know, it gets engagement. Like, the more ridiculous you say something or the harsher of the stance you take that's really unpopular, the more views you get. And and you're paid directly with the amount of views that you get.”

“We don't wanna expose our kids to, like, a lavish, extravagant lifestyle. We don't want them to, you know, grow up spoiled and feel entitled. We want them to know what hard work means so they can, you know, work hard and achieve what they can. We don't wanna give out free handouts and stuff. So we really wanna instill those core values into them so they know, like, if you wanna do something, you have to work hard to get that.”

“But just as an example, it it was it was crazy to see that people turned down life changing money. It's so it's it's very much so like a social experiment. No. No. That early in the game. Even though your wife said, hey. If we get a 150, we're happy. Yeah. She she would have been mad seeing that for sure. But for me, it was too early in the game, and I was willing to bet on myself and risk it to make it further, because I knew that there would be other opportunities to make money.”

“Yeah. I think, last time I checked, I had $1,200,000 left. I spent it on a Lamborghini, and then I bought a new house, two new houses. I'm just kidding. I I still got it all. I still got it all.”

“I was I was very stressed because I think, like, maybe week six or seven, I had people, like, sending me screenshots of the prediction markets. They're like, hey. Have you seen this? Like, did you win? I was like, dude, I I I think they're just voting for me because it's like a six, seven trend going on, like that meme or, like, I I don't know how accurate this is.”

“If if I like, I hate to say it, but, like, a lot of this is in hindsight too. But, like, a lot of the real estate investments I made were good for YouTube content. But, my gosh, when I look at the hassle factor of it, the amount of money that I made from it, all the mental stress that they put me through, it's not worth it. There is just, like, this anti landlord sentiment right now, especially with housing. And landlords are the scapegoat of, like, oh, they're the bad guys.”

“I reposted an AI video. And it was so realistic. I took it down, though. As soon as I confirm and what's even crazier is that I kept asking Grok before posting it. Is this real? Confirm this is real. Show the source of this image. And it and it showed all of it. I was like, this is real. And then someone commented, this is a fake video. This is from this. And, of course, then I reask Grock in a new prompt, is this from this video game? And then, sure enough, it says, yes. It's from FFT.”