It's February 15th here with Jerry Banfield, 2025, my 5,010th day on YouTube. I'm really grateful that I'm here again, and I hope this little report of my day will be useful for you. It's so therapeutic for me. I think everybody should do this, and I'm glad I'm not trying to make stupid clickbait titles on it anymore.
The crypto videos and the daily work
So what did I do today? Well, I made four crypto videos, four of those "toxic, going to zero" videos, and I feel like I did something useful. People's minds are opening. They're rethinking their crappy investments. There are at least two and a half million coins out there now, and probably all but five of them, maybe fifty, are garbage. So I'm out here doing the work.
I also listened to some freestyles by Fungi Flows. This guy is amazing. He's doing a 50-hour freestyle challenge, and some of his flows are so funny. He's like "spreading ashes like Pompeii," and I'm thinking, oh my God, that's so good. It gets me wondering, do I want to be a freestyle rapper? Do I want to do more freestyles? Sometimes you just have to take action. I can't figure out the rest of eternity, but today I wanted to get ahead on my crypto videos because I want to do longer Twitch streams. Once I get Twitch going and have people there, it makes sense to do longer streams when I have the time, and then do shorter streams or just record videos when I don't have as much time.
I've also got this crypto game going. I keep getting all these free referral rewards from the sponsored thing I did yesterday, so I just hold this thing down in the background and make money. It's pretty funny, isn't it?
Hot yoga, guacamole, and a midday nap
Today I had a lot of time. The family was out doing stuff, so I could have done a really long stream, but I didn't. They went out, and I went to hot yoga at noon at Body Electric. I haven't been to hot yoga in a while. One of the little blood vessels in my left eye looked like it broke a bit, which was rude, but I'm really glad I could do hot yoga. It's about 100 degrees in there and you're doing a yoga flow, just sweat flying everywhere. To me, that's kind of like a stress test. I should be able to handle hot yoga.
Then I went to Whole Foods afterward and bought some guacamole and beans for lunch. I threw down some tortilla chips and taco shells and polished off an $11 thing of fresh-made, in-house guacamole, along with a whole can of beans, although I technically get the little cartons that are about the same size. I took a shower, and I was so tired after that. I don't usually nap, but I just laid in bed for an hour.
While I was in bed, I ended up wondering what Amaranth is doing lately, which is pretty random. I followed her like six or seven years ago, before she blew up as much, and I was just wondering what she's been up to. I saw that her YouTube channel got banned a while ago. My first thought was to say that sucks, but then again, some days my one crypto channel got terminated, and some days I wish my channels would just get banned, because then I could stop doing this YouTube stuff and move on with my life. I can definitely see why in the past, I was so toxic on Udemy until they banned me. There's some relief in getting banned. It's like, okay, I can go do something else with my life now. That said, I don't see anything better I could be doing than trashing cryptos today, trying to help people make better investments, because nobody else wants to do that.
Then Laura and Jack came home, and I told Laura she was going to be so jealous. She walks in, sees me napping, and immediately gets in bed and lies there for like an hour. She'd been out with Jack at the pier, hot and sweaty, while I was getting hot and sweaty too.
MIDI tools and music on stream
I also bought these new MIDI tools from a guy named Philip Meyer. I wish I could remember off the top of my head, but I'll show them off on Twitch. This guy makes some incredible MIDI tools, and I played around with those earlier. I want to do most of my music playing directly on stream, but I paid like 65 bucks and got all these MIDI tools for Ableton. I like just generating loops instead of trying to write them, but then I also like freestyling loops, or just freestyle playing in my studio here. I enjoy just freestyle hitting all the keys and stuff, so it is kind of a conflict of whether I want to use loops or not in the music. I listened to some of my dance music today too, which was cool.
The rain barrel puzzle
After Laura got up from her nap, I set out trying to figure out my water situation. I have two 250-gallon rain barrels in the backyard and two 200-gallon ones in the front yard, and I kept wondering how I can get all the water. Right now I have a pump in the backyard, but nothing in the front yard. So I spent like 30 minutes to an hour trying to figure out how to make my hoses and my pump all work better. The thing is, for some of the rain barrels it goes uphill toward the house versus where the barrels are, so you really have to have everything planned out just right.
I figured it out: if I use the pump out front and get an extension cord, I can drain two of the rain barrels from the backyard if I connect them and run the hose to the front, and then drain one of the front rain barrels at a time. So I got that set up, which was nice. It's amazing how these little problems sometimes eat at you. I have trees, like my mango tree in the front yard that's fruiting, and an avocado tree that nearly died in the hurricane, and I want to make sure I'm watering my trees more often. But a simple thing like walking all the way to the back of the backyard, turning the water pump on, walking all the way to the front, watering, then walking all the way back to turn it off, it's amazing how sometimes a little bit of resistance is just enough to stop you from doing something.
Ice cream, fear, and not missing out
I went to get ice cream with Laura and Jack tonight while Madeline was still out with Laura's family. I don't usually eat at night. I generally cut my eating off around three or four, and this was like six. Laura asked if I wanted to go get ice cream with them, and I said okay. At first I thought I should just stay home because I don't want to get fat. I'm not fat, though. If anything, people are more likely to say that I'm skinny and too thin, especially when I used to wear those tube tops, people said I was too skinny and too thin, more than fat.
It's also amazing how a bad example can really be helpful. There was a lady I went to dinner with before who brought vegetables in her purse to the restaurant. I asked her why she was doing that, and she said she was hoping to stay plant-based and vegan, which I am too, but she said she didn't want to get fat eating stuff out at the restaurant. From my view, she's a bit too thin, her skin's all messed up, and it doesn't look like she's getting great nutrition. And then to have that fear all the time, that fear of getting fat. So tonight I thought, am I going to miss out on going out for ice cream with my wife and son because I'm afraid of getting fat? I wasn't going to just go and watch them get it, but I could get one scoop instead of two or three. You can't be taking actions in your life based on fear all the time, or even ideally most of the time. I'd love to go out with my family, and I'd love to have a scoop of ice cream. So I went out and enjoyed the ice cream.
Then I visited my mom for a little bit. Laura read Harry Potter 6 to the kids tonight, and I'm going to walk the dog.
Asking for what I want
I asked six of these SNS DAO teams about sponsorship. I kept thinking I hadn't heard back from any of them, but Odd Tracks replied that they'll take a look at it. So I guess that's one. It's funny how the stories you tell yourself are inaccurate sometimes when you fact-check them. But I'm glad I've got plenty of money right now, and I'm glad I'm out there asking. To me, it's my responsibility to ask for the stuff I'd like to have.
I keep thinking, do I want to be a music streamer? I like streaming music. Do I want to do video games? I have all these gaming videos, and I think it might be nice to put some of them up. But to me, there's no way I'd want to make gaming videos again unless I had an audience that wanted new ones, so I'd need to make the old gaming videos first. These are the kinds of questions I keep working through out loud, and if you enjoy that sort of behind-the-scenes thinking, you might like my YouTube Coaching playlist.
I'm excited because in this game we're about to get to 666,666 tiles. Let's go. We'll wrap up on that note.