I'm a full-time YouTuber, and this is day 5,025 on YouTube for March 2nd, 2025. Here's what I did. I'm grateful I had another lovely day in my normal life. I got up with the kids at about 7 in the morning and had my two Larabar chocolate bars for breakfast, then cleaned up a bunch of stuff around the house.
I was thinking about whether I wanted to go to yoga or not, but I remembered what I had read the night before with my affirmations, the deadlines, even the hemorrhoids, and I thought, I want to get these lingering things done. The patio in my backyard was so close to being finished. So I went out back, got the rest of the edge blocks into position, and the patio is done. All I need to do now is pour some sand over the top. This is a project I've been thinking about and talking about doing for my wife for a year, and it's finally wrapped up, which is awesome.
A morning with the family
I made some kale chips early, grabbing a bunch of kale from the garden outside and a little from inside. My daughter had some. Then the three of us played a Monopoly game, and my son cleaned my daughter and me out. We played six or seven games of this. I have never once read the rule that says when every property gets bought, you just pay out the money from the bank and end the game. I've never read the rules that carefully. It's funny to see how you can miss things like that in life.
I helped my wife get a nice little rest before she dropped Madeline off at a birthday party with a friend from school, and then she took Jack on some adventures. I went to town filming videos, just filming all of these up in the studio here.
Filming eleven videos in a day
I filmed two music videos, two crypto main channel videos including a price prediction video that was primed to succeed and go off in the algorithm, which it did. I did crypto reviews, uploaded two new gaming videos I had filmed before, and two other videos on my Jerry Banfield Experience channel, and then recorded the autobiography for the day. That's 11 YouTube videos, and it takes about four hours or so to record the seven-plus, upload all seven, and upload the four more.
I enjoy going through some of my old gaming videos. I got the Top Gun video uploaded, and I uploaded the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 videos. I'm uploading them again to X because it's a free audience, so I might as well put them there as a mirror. You never know when some random person is going to be looking through Mortal Kombat 3 stuff on X and my video pops up and they watch it. You might as well put it up. Sometimes it kind of kills the algorithm, but I don't want to lock myself into being all crypto on X. It's nice even for people who follow me, even if they don't engage, to see that I do different things, that I'm not just a crypto guy. Games, music, vlogs, teaching videos, and crypto reviews together make it well-rounded.
The enemy of good is great
For me, often the enemy of good is great. I know the saying usually goes the other way, but in my experience, instead of just progressing and moving forward and constantly, slowly growing, in the past I've really screwed myself over by trying too hard, pushing, and going for great, trying to optimize the algorithm and push a certain kind of content up. If I just upload crypto videos on X, then I'll get more and more impressions, but then all I am is a crypto guy. When I look back at what I've learned so far, I don't want to be just a crypto guy or just a professional gamer or just a musician. What's special is that I do games, music, crypto, vlogs, and courses, all these different things.
The yoga looked fun this morning, but it felt like a time to spend with the family instead. I'm grateful that today I feel like I have enough time for everything. Once my daughter got home, she wanted to go play Barbies with my mom, which is wonderful. My mom didn't get a chance to play Barbies when she was a kid, so now she plays with my daughter and they can both be kids together. Madeline went over and played Barbies with my mom for about an hour and a half while Jack went down the street to hang out with Laura's family.
Shooting through the bricks on the basketball court
I had the chance to go shoot some basketball. I got there and I was bricking threes so hard. I haven't thrown up that many bricks since I put my patio in. But what I do now is count how many three-pointers I make in every shot. When I start, I count the shot I'm aiming to hit. So my first shot is one. If I miss the next shot, it's still one. If the shot goes in, it becomes two, and two is the next number of three-pointers I'm looking to reach. I'm happy that in less than 30 minutes I got to 34 three-pointers, even though for the first 10 minutes or so I barely hit three or four. After that, boom, boom. I started hitting two and three in a row, jumping off one leg and pounding one in. Sometimes you just have to take those shots and get through the bricks until you start taking it to the hole. Like that.
Connection at my AA meeting
After that, I went to my Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I stopped at the store first to grab some fruits, vegetables, and burritos for the family. Then I stopped over at my mom's house for a minute. Laura and Jack were over there, and we all spent a little time together. Then I went to my Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, my home group.
There's a woman there, and I love how I feel when I'm around her. The first time she ever said anything to me, she came up and said she'd been thinking of me every day since she heard me speak at a meeting. Not just share for three minutes, but speak for the whole thing. She said she wanted the level of joy I have in my life. Where I was that day, I had been sharing how my house got flooded from the hurricane, and I went to bed with water in my house thinking, what? This is fun. Thank you for this flood. This will be fun. And the next day, I cleaned all day. I've never cleaned that much in my whole life, and by the end of the day I felt so good.
I shared something like that, that this wasn't hard. I got annoyed when my house flooded, but only for a few minutes. Why did I get annoyed? Because I hadn't prepared for it. I wasn't so much annoyed that it happened. I was annoyed that I hadn't prepared. I could have stopped my house from flooding and I didn't. Next time I will, but this time I didn't. I got through the annoyance and said, thank you, this is fun, I appreciate the adventure, this is going to be a new experience. She was just blown away by that.
She hadn't seen me for a few weeks after that first time, and I really appreciated having someone who just tells you that simple truth. She said she wasn't trying to come on to me, but she'd been thinking of me every day since I said that. So I often sit next to her if there's a seat available. She's fun and playful. My wife tells me that sometimes, Jerry, you have a hard time when you like a girl dealing with it. And I'm like, what? I want to work on that, because I've often gotten frustrated about women only working with women and feeling excluded because I'm a man, with the AA women's meetings and women who won't be friends with me or be nice to me because I'm a man. But then it's like, I have a hard time too. Either I push and don't let women get close, or I get too close and get weird and scared and then push away. So I sat next to her last night.
She said that she and her sponsor had been listening to my music where I go through AA's 12 steps on Spotify. I'm just like, that is so cool. You're one of the only people in the world who's ever done that. That was really nice to hear. Then I talked to a guy about the same stuff I shared in my autobiography about my resentment toward a family member and letting that go. Then I talked with a guy and his wife, and mostly walked around with his wife for a while. She and I always have great conversations. It seemed like her husband wanted to talk to the guy I'd talked to before, just the two of them, so she had her son there with her and I caught up with her.
I went home feeling so grateful that I can have such great conversations with people at AA meetings and really connect with people, feel seen, and get an idea of what's really going on in other people's lives. I came home and had another great conversation with Laura, and then I took the dog for such a long walk that I didn't get to time it. It was after 11. To me, if it's after 11, it doesn't matter what I'm doing, it's time to go to bed so I can get my eight hours of sleep. So I skipped my shower last night, which is why I'm wearing the same shirt as the day before. I listened to a few YouTube videos about ICP while taking the walk with the dog. If you want to follow more of how I think about crypto, investing, and earning, you can explore my Money playlist. It was another lovely day.