Jerry Banfield Day in My Life Vlogs: Crypto, Tennis, AA

These are my Day in My Life vlogs from January through March 2025, the numbered run of days that leads up to Day 5,025 on YouTube. Each one is a plain account of a day of filming, tennis, AA, board games with the kids and music. If you are looking for what I think about crypto, the short answer from these posts is that ICP has genuinely useful technology and most of the rest of the market is a meme-coin scramble. On January 7, 2025, I said that everything outside of ICP, even Bitcoin, had become disgusting to me, that the mining is grotesquely wasteful, and that the blockchain is unusable for the masses.

The view did not arrive whole. In A Day in My Life: ICP Crypto, AA, and Owning My Reality I explain that I used to be the Bitcoin guy. Viewers pushed back when I said most of my portfolio was in Bitcoin: I had been in crypto since 2014, and was stacking Bitcoin really the best I could do? That criticism is what sent me looking for ICP. Now, when you search for Internet Computer Protocol, my channel comes up, and I tell people to forget the other coins I used to make videos about.

The series also tracks how I changed the way I make content. In A Ton of Bricks, Tennis, and Rethinking YouTube, dated January 16, 2025, I decided to keep videos under ten minutes, make two crypto videos a day instead of one, and stop cramming a whole list of topics into one live stream. By February 16 the question had moved to money. In Day 5,011: Family Time, Board Games, and Charging for Crypto Videos I wrote that a paid video was $500 at that point, that it usually took me less than an hour, and that I was done praising projects for free. What I would give out for free was criticism.

Time is the other thread. On January 9, in A Day in My Life: Tennis, Crypto, Music, and Prison Stories, I said I was going to cancel a racket club membership that cost about $240 a month, because I wanted a sport that worked me harder and my wrist had been bothering me for months. On January 16 I still went to play, since I had already paid for the month. By March I was spending more of my time shooting threes, and in Day 5,025 I counted makes on every shot to get to 34 threes in under half an hour.

The January 9 vlog is also where I told my kids about my time as a juvenile correction officer, work I took after college for about $20,000 a year. I called it the craziest, most dangerous work environment I had been in. The money lesson I took from that life shows up in the same post: I used to stress about my gaming videos when they did not pay, and now I think if one thing pays the bills, you can relax about everything else as a content creator.

The family is the steady part. In Day 5,011 I describe teaching my son that a board game is for fun and that you accept your losses, and paying each of my kids $5 to clean algae out of the dog's water bowl, which left my daughter with about $40 that day. The patio I started building on January 16, after hauling around 400 bricks home in a Tacoma, was finished on March 2, when I set the last edge blocks in place and only had sand left to pour. The AA meetings run through the series too, and in Day 5,025 on YouTube: Patio, 11 Videos, and an AA Meeting I write about the connections I make there.

By March 2, 2025, the thread I keep coming back to is that the enemy of good is great. I wrote that chasing great and trying to optimize the algorithm had hurt me before, and that if I only uploaded crypto I would become just a crypto guy. I do games, music, crypto, vlogs and courses. That day I filmed or uploaded eleven YouTube videos across crypto, music, gaming and a second channel, and I recorded my autobiography.

Below this opening you will find the contents and every post in the series in full. If you own a coin and want a straight answer on it, you can get a personal video review from me at https://jerrybanfield.com/review/. For the wider ICP story, the ICP hub gathers what I have written about the project, and every coin I have called to zero covers the other side of the same argument.

A Day in My Life: Crypto Videos, Tennis, and Telepathy (June 17, 2026)
A Day in My Life: ICP Crypto, AA, and Owning My Reality (June 17, 2026)
A Day in My Life: Tennis, Crypto, Music, and Prison Stories (June 17, 2026)
A Ton of Bricks, Tennis, and Rethinking YouTube (June 17, 2026)
Day 5,011: Family Time, Board Games, and Charging for Crypto Videos (June 17, 2026)
Jerry Banfield Day in My Life Vlogs: Crypto, Tennis, AA (June 17, 2026)

A Day in My Life: Crypto Videos, Tennis, and Telepathy

From my video published June 17, 2026.

My friends, here is a day in my life: March 13th, 2025, a Thursday. I get up and take the kids to school as usual, and then I come straight home and dive into my live stream. The family and I are going to be taking some trips for spring break, so I am trying to crank out as many crypto videos as I possibly can ahead of time.

I managed to get two or three videos done for my main channel and another three or four crypto reviews done. By the time I wrapped up, I had live streamed for a little less than three hours and produced three videos for my main channel plus four crypto reviews, and I am filming them faster than ever. I am really excited about how my workflow has come together. I can review these altcoins in real time now, which saves ten or twenty minutes per video, and I am thrilled about that breakthrough. I have all of these channels' videos scheduled in advance. On top of that, I put out a new song and made progress on my autobiography.

A call worth $300 an hour

Once I wrapped that up, I had a call at 1 p.m. today, which I am not forgetting this time. So I sit down and have a call with a guy who was able to get six figures of his ICP off of Coinbase, which is awesome for the whole blockchain, and I get him set up. He bought a big account on ICGeek and he is all set up with it, with his crypto in it. The next time we talk, I am going to show him how to get his Bitcoin off and onto ICP as well.

I am really grateful that a few months ago I took a month off to rethink things like this. I really appreciate the way my life is set up. I do have a lot to do, but it is a pretty sweet deal to be able to make 300 bucks in a single hour talking about whatever it is we are going to talk about. I am grateful that people are willing to pay that much to talk with me, and it gives me time to do everything else in my life: take the kids to school, do yoga, play tennis, and make all kinds of videos not related to crypto.

Sampras, Agassi, and the game of consistency

After talking with him, I watched the rest of the Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi match from the year 2000. Wow. These guys can play tennis. I have watched several highlights from Sampras and Agassi matches by now, going back to 1995 and 2000, maybe three or four of them, and this is the first one where Andre actually wins. It was kind of hard to believe how bad some of Pete's shots were, until you consider that they had been playing tennis for three hours at this incredibly high level with these crazy serves. It was nice to see Andre actually win one, because Pete was kind of his nemesis, according to the book. I watched that to get ready for playing some tennis later, and I got some of these videos uploaded before Laura brought the kids home, including my niece.

Dishes, vegetables, and washing the dog

They got home and, as usual, I move into the kitchen to start washing dishes and getting them their stuff. I make some vegetables, some asparagus and zucchini. It always feels magical to get the kids to eat anything green. Laura recently told me that it is kind of stressful for her feeding the kids and trying to figure out what to get them to eat. I told her I could help more with that, because I naturally just think about eating all the time, so it is not much of an extension to also think about what I can make that the kids will eat. So I made all the vegetables for the kids and they ate them, and they had a nice time playing with each other.

Then my mom is home and she wants to wash the dog today. So all five of us, the three kids and Laura and I, go over to be there for my mom washing the dog. My mom is a veterinarian, so she is very thorough. Scooby is the dog's name, like Scooby-Doo. She squirts the stuff in his ears, then sprays him off, gets a sponge, and washes him off. The water is still cold because it is March, but it is Florida cold, not Michigan cold. It takes about 30 minutes to get the dog washed, and my niece gets picked up during this time.

Then all of us go into my mom's house and have some popcorn and a few golden double-stuffed Oreos. I think I had two, maybe Laura had three, and the kids have some snacks as well. We eat a bag of popcorn and then come back. Laura takes the kids to Madeline's piano lesson, and Jack goes to have snuggles. I get a lot of great snuggles with Jack on the couch, which is so nice.

In the zone at the tennis clinic

Then I get ready and go to my tennis clinic. There is the better players' court and then there is the court I am on with three of the other guys, and the girl coaching is back, and we are all laughing and having fun. For some reason, in the warm-up, I am really feeling these nice, hard, accurate shots, and I keep hitting them. They keep going right at the coach, and she has to do some matrix moves to dodge some of these tennis balls. I hit like three in a row hard right at her. I was feeling really in the zone, cranking out my shots. But then she comments about how I am hitting all these shots at her, and it throws me off, and then my shots just suck for like ten minutes afterward. They are barely clearing the net, going into the net, going wide. That is the game of tennis: getting consistent.

We do the clinic and play all different kinds of little games, which is helpful. There are only four of us on this court. Sometimes there are six or eight people on a court for a clinic, and there were six on the one next to us, but only four on ours, which means we get to play the whole time, which is nice. Watching Pete and Andre play, the main thing I want is a better serve. I know I can crank a serve hard, and if I can just aim that serve, I could have a hell of a first serve. I would be so much better of a tennis player if I could crank off a hard, accurate first serve. So maybe we will do something about that someday.

The telepathy tapes and a sixth sense

After the tennis clinic, I come home, back to washing dishes and getting the kids ready for bed. Once we put them to bed, I take a walk and listen to this podcast where the host is talking about the telepathy tapes, about these kids who do not talk but can read minds and see through somebody else's eyes. They have done all kinds of tests to prove that this stuff is real. It really helps break me out of my normal thinking routine, because I know some of these abilities that I have tapped into before too.

For example, playing Call of Duty, a lot of the best players cheated while streaming. I obviously refuse to cheat. But I have felt like I could use a kind of psychic ability sometimes to put me in a position to win, to feel out where things were on the map. I think a lot of the good players do these things unconsciously, where you do not consciously realize what you are doing. In some of the games I uploaded, including this awesome, hilarious video where I said my Warzone solos with dance commentary would make you laugh, with a thumbnail that says "eat that effing trophy for breakfast," you can just see how I am positioning myself in the right place. It is almost like I have this awareness of where everybody is, what they are doing, and how to put myself in position to win. Even though my reaction times often are not as fast as the other players', I just have this sixth sense that I know where to go. I have tapped into that a lot in my life, but I can easily forget about it on a day-to-day basis and just be totally materialistic. So it is really helpful to be reminded.

I downloaded all the telepathy tapes videos on YouTube. I see that the host, I think her name is Kai, is on Joe Rogan also, so I will listen to that as well. I love getting into these consciousness-expanding things. It makes me reflect that some of the issues we have are definitely ones rooted in our mind connection. Beyond whatever words have been said or behaviors we have shown, there is something going on in our minds directly. It is much more than just what we are saying or what we are doing. When we can resolve these things and own our own thoughts, then we can also change those bigger connections as well.

I have been thinking about this with my followers especially. I very much feel, when I am making videos, that you all collectively are happy with and enjoying them. When I took a month off, I very much felt all of the followers who wanted my crypto videos really wanting my crypto videos back. So I am intending to get more telepathically in touch with my audience as well, because as a YouTuber, that is a really important part of what I am doing. If you enjoy hearing how I think about earning and building a life around it, you might like my Crypto Reviews playlist.

A Day in My Life: ICP Crypto, AA, and Owning My Reality

From my video published June 17, 2026.

It's January 7th, 2025, and it's my 4,971st day on YouTube. I'm grateful that I'm a full-time YouTuber. My main subject is ICP crypto, and this is a behind-the-scenes, what-did-I-do-today kind of vlog meant to help you get to know the real, authentic side of me.

A fun AI workflow for video titles

I'm grateful that for yesterday's vlog I tried titling it something more interesting, and I used this cool workflow. I recorded the video in my studio like this. On one computer, I recorded it, put it on Dropbox, and sent it to another computer to upload it. At the same time, I used Adobe Premiere Pro to pull the transcript automatically out of the video. Then I took the transcript and stuck it in ChatGPT and said, give me 40 video ideas based on the most interesting thing I said in the video. It came up with "All Eyes on Me," a title that was pretty cool, so I went with that. It was a fun workflow.

It's amazing how AI can execute ideas that would take me a bit longer, but in my experience it's really pretty helpless without my creative direction at this point. I don't see AI doing any serious reasoning that's not basically copying test answers from somewhere else and then regurgitating them. I don't think we're anywhere close to real general intelligence, AI that can interact much in the real world, because you need a ton of processing power for that.

Massage, movement, and standing up to talk

I put today's symbol, an infinity-symbol coin, on top of a massage table. I got a massage today. I get a massage every week. Massage is really helpful to relax. I've been so relaxed since my massage I can barely function. I'm just sitting around, laying around. It's nice to relax because I get real amped up a lot of the time too. I'll go do three or four hours of physical activity in a day, like play tennis, go to a power yoga class, walk the dog, and be active and standing up.

In my studio I stand up when I talk, because one of the biggest things I see people struggle with on their videos is that they're too boring. You just talk and never really get into it. Be interesting, be animated. Some of y'all's videos put me to sleep. I found that my own videos, when I used to sit down, were much more like that too. But when I stand up, I naturally talk and orate better. Orate's a nice word, isn't it?

I'm grateful so many of you watched that vlog yesterday, because I just love attention. I was driving down the road today thinking, is it really considerate that I do whatever I can to get people to spend all this time on their phones listening to me talk? And often what I'm saying is just really repetitive. But then again, you have a band like AC/DC and everybody just wants them to play the same songs all the time. "Back in Black." "You Shook Me All Night Long." "She's Got the Jack." People just want the same people to sing the same songs over and over again.

I didn't get to make any music yet today. I'm just trying to see if there's anything more fun I could mix it up with and put some sounds in. Doing something every day is important.

Friends, and a childhood always on the move

I talked to my friend from college today. It's nice to have friends who have known you for a couple of decades, because growing up with my mom in the military, I didn't have friends for a long period of time. You'd have friends for a few years, and then everybody in your life is new. Just when you start to make some good friends, just when I got to be popular in middle school, then we'd move. And I'm a nobody at some new junior high school, and it sucks. Just when I'm starting to feel comfortable in high school, we move again. And just when I'm getting comfortable in my new high school, then I graduate and go to college. But now I've been in the same place for quite a while.

The work: two crypto videos before lunch

This morning I helped get the kids off to school. Then I put three hours into my crypto videos and made two crypto videos in three hours, which is awesome. Considering the main thing I do for work is one ICP video a day and responding to messages, getting through the messages and doing two videos in three hours is great.

We're going to go to Disney this weekend because Laura's doing the marathon there, so I want to have a couple of extra videos scheduled. I was doing live streams, but the videos are so much more efficient. They get watched as much or more. Maybe I'll fit a live stream in somewhere, but nothing beats the consistency of cranking a video out every day at 6 a.m. on the crypto channel. I'm really happy to see how the viewership has done on that, and the minutes watched.

I finally caught up with a spreadsheet today. There are 14 projects that paid $100 this month to be in my coin marketing mastermind, and I've already shared at least 12 of them in there, some of them in four or five videos. So it's nice to be able to collaborate with the community.

At the same time, the ICP price dumped. Short term, I was looking at this as an income loss; if I were to sell, it'd be a couple hundred dollars down from yesterday. But whatever. I really appreciate that I've got enough money. I've got thousands of dollars in cash, and I have closer to $100,000 than zero in crypto, probably $50,000 or $60,000 worth. I get 15% APR on that, and I'm really happy with that. This is just my own experience, not financial advice.

AA, grace, and when "be positive all the time" breaks down

I went to my Alcoholics Anonymous meeting today. They didn't call on me again. I met my sponsor there. The topic was trying to treat everyone like they're in AA. To me, the idea of going to something like Alcoholics Anonymous is to learn to interact with the world, to not be such a jerk, to be able to interact and be friendly and considerate with people and give people some grace.

What I was going to share, if somebody had called on me, is that it's okay not to be super positive and nice to people all the time. This guy was talking about how he got in an argument with another guy because he was riding his bike and a guy in a car came blasting by and almost hit him. Then at the stoplight, the driver pulls up next to him on his bike and they're exchanging words. My take is, if you're really acting dangerous and scaring people, it might make sense that somebody needs to encourage you not to do that. You don't necessarily need to get punched in the face, but if you won't listen to somebody arguing with you or yelling at you, something more severe might need to happen to get you to stop. I personally would rather not be the person to deliver that message.

I was thinking at the meeting today, sometimes people need to get punched in the face to learn to behave a bit differently. My dad spanked me and hit me, and I got punched and smacked here and there, and it helped me learn that there are consequences for your behavior. Yes, you can have fun and play, but you also need to be aware of your surroundings. It's unreasonable to just go around and expect you can do whatever you want, wherever you want. You've got to pick the right place at the right time to do certain things. You wouldn't want to live in a world where everybody just goes around positive and nice and everything you're doing is always great. It'd drive you mad.

Why I find the rest of crypto disgusting

In crypto, people have this crazy world where they think you should just be able to create a coin and everybody should pat you on the back about it and say your project's great and it's going to 100x. No. People get so toxic about the rest of crypto, and honestly I find the rest of crypto disgusting. Everything outside of ICP, even Bitcoin, has become disgusting to me at this point. The mining is grotesquely wasteful. That blockchain is unusable for the masses. It's become nothing but basically a meme coin and a way for people to try to make money. ICP has some technology that's genuinely useful. Everything else in crypto, to me, is disgusting. That's my opinion. People being overly positive all the time just doesn't work.

What I was going to share at the meeting is that there's a time and a place to tell people, no, I don't want that, I don't like that, I'm not interested in that, I won't participate in that, and to walk away. Just because you're spiritual and trying to be sober, or whatever you're doing to make your life better, doesn't mean you just people-please and say yes to everything. You don't have to be a nice, positive person all the time. I'm not a nice, positive person all the time. You cross me, and I will take action on it. The people closest to me will be the first to tell you that. My kids get online when they shouldn't, I'll find them. I'll take stuff away. I'll throw out their toys. You are not going to play. We all play games. Okay, I play with you too. Say hello to my little friend.

This is my reality

That goes out to every level. The government, you want to play with me? I'm not the kind of person who goes peacefully and just does whatever I'm told. I'm going to do what I feel is best. I don't like the word "right," but I'm going to do what I want to do, and I'm going to do what I think is best for everyone, even if everyone else doesn't think that's best. I'm going to play my role in the game, or the movie, or whatever this reality is. I'm going to play my role and do my thing. I'm not just going to be an NPC and do what I'm told and put my head down and be a good boy and hope I'm on God's nice side. I've come to believe that I am God and this is my reality, and I'm going to create it how I want to create it.

I hope that encourages you to take ownership too: hey, this is my reality, and it's okay to say no, to push people away, to take some space. An abundance mindset is realizing this is a big planet. There are a lot of people. You don't have to put up with the crap from your spouse or your family or your friends or your job. There's another spouse. There are more friends. Now, if you're just attracted to that same kind of drama and crap, then you're going to dump one alcoholic spouse for another alcoholic spouse, or one bad job for another bad job. Sometimes, though, the only thing you can do is just leave.

How criticism pushed me to do better

To me, trying to treat people better, be nice, and do unto others means that sometimes people need to tell me when I'm screwing up, when I've got things wrong, or when there's another point of view I should consider. I originally got into ICP because people told me that, and I didn't like it at first. People were critical on my YouTube channels. I was telling everybody I had most of my portfolio in Bitcoin, and the response was, really? Sure, I made good money just holding Bitcoin. I could have tripled my money in a year, same as I have with ICP. But it annoyed me. People were saying, Jerry, really? You've been in crypto since 2014, nine years, and the best thing you can figure out to do is stack Bitcoin? Come on, you can do better than that. That's when I got motivated to look for ICP.

So I appreciate people who help me see opportunities to do better. A lot of people are critical of my "crypto is going to zero" videos, and while those videos were useful at the time, why bother doing those anymore? Why bother even talking about those other coins? I love that I've positioned myself so that now, if you search for Internet Computer Protocol, your boy is going to come up on Google, on YouTube, wherever you are. I'm going to come up. I just talk about what I'm excited about. Those other coins, forget them. I see somebody riding around town with the coin I hate and I think, forget you. Yeah, just forget them.

Why I make these vlogs

My mom is watching the kids right now, so I can record this, because I love recording these. I hope the joy I have for living comes through and is useful for you. After my AA meeting, I went to my massage and had a great talk with my therapist. I shared the most interesting things that have happened within the last month, all of which I've shared in previous vlogs, so I won't repeat them here. She shared what she's experiencing now. I love having friends I can talk with, and especially I love having girls for friends.

I've said this so many times. I was talking to a guy recently and he said, I don't think my girlfriend will let me have other girls as friends, especially if they're attractive. I told him that's one thing I love about my wife. My wife is confident, so confident in herself and in me, that she's comfortable with me having girlfriends. She even likes that they help me be a better husband. I was talking with my friend today and said I want to increase the romance in the relationship. She said, well, what I really like is for my boyfriend to buy me little thoughtful gifts. I said I almost never do that for Laura. She asked, do you know what she'd like? And I said no. I got maybe one idea, which I guess is enough for right now. Then if I get another idea after that, we'll be good to go.

Eating like a robot and doing the dishes

I came home and ate. I didn't have any hummus today, but I took essentially a can of beans, an organic little carton of beans from Whole Foods, dumped them into some hard taco shells, squirted some hot sauce on them, and just ate it like that. I eat like a robot sometimes. My wife made some shrimp and smashed potatoes. I had some of the smashed potatoes and a single bite of the shrimp. Then I washed a bunch of dishes, spent at least an hour washing them, and walked the dogs with my son.

I love how playful my son is. I love how much joy he has for living. And I know that if his joy and playfulness annoys me too much, it's because I've got something shoved far enough up my rear end that I'm not playing either. I do love to think about how my son would get along with my dad, because I had a whole different kind of relationship with my dad than my son has with me. But it's a wonderful life. I wish everybody would do a vlog like this, because it's really therapeutic for me to just share about my life and to have this out there so I can watch it later. I'd love to know what I was doing 20 years ago.

The audience watching all of us

When you look at your life that way, I think all of us have an audience much bigger than we realize. There are people watching your life. Maybe not people, but there are spirits. There's an audience. It's like the Truman Show. You have an audience watching all of you, regardless of whether you think you're in a boring, regular life that nobody cares about. There's an audience. You could look at it as spirits that are disembodied, or God, or angels, or demons, or whatever your thing is, or relatives that have passed on, or children that have yet to be born. There's a big audience, and they can look at any part of anyone's life at any time. Not just that, but people who are alive can remote view other places too. So to me, the world, as I think Shakespeare said, is a stage. I act as if I'm on stage all the time. I'm performing. I look at it as being watched at all times.

Now, from a security standpoint, with the NSA being able to automatically monitor everything you say at all times on all these devices, yeah, you are getting monitored in real time, which is sad. It's sad for disclosure too, because if some of these projects and secrets have certain keywords, you can't talk about them before they know immediately. I have a friend who was deep into the intelligence complex. I was thinking before I went to bed the other night that he could tell me some stuff that would blow my mind. And I wondered, well, why wouldn't he talk to me? Wouldn't he want somebody else to know this stuff? He always jokes, I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. I was thinking, that's not joking, is it? He's being serious. He's saying it in a joking, jovial way, but that's why he can't tell me anything. He can't.

So I started wondering, how are they monitoring him? Does he have a phone, or just a regular security complex around him? I think he's got some kind of higher level of monitoring. I've heard in some of these disclosure discussions about people having implants that monitor your thoughts, and some advanced AI that monitors your thoughts. If you start having disloyal, disobedient thoughts, it picks up on it and alerts your superior. I was thinking before bed, holy crap, I bet this guy has one of those implants, because there's no getting anything out of him about any of the stuff he knows. So I figure I do need to go visit him. He's one of the longest-standing people I've known in my life. He's got all this knowledge in his head, but however they're keeping it in there, they're doing a really good job with it.

You probably didn't think this was where we'd end up. That's what I love about my vlogs. You never know where we're going to go, and that's exciting to me. If you enjoy this kind of free-ranging conversation about crypto, life, and everything in between, you can find more of it across my Crypto Reviews playlist. Thank you for spending this time here with me. It was good for me, and I hope it was good for you.

I'm going to get ready to put the kids to bed. I'm interested to see what titles ChatGPT comes up with for this. I'll try to stick the most viral clickbait crap you can imagine on it. But I've realized I need to just talk and do it as a vlog before I put the title on it, because if I stick the title on first, it cramps my style. I don't want my style cramped.

A Day in My Life: Tennis, Crypto, Music, and Prison Stories

From my video published June 17, 2026.

Hey, it's Jerry Banfield. Let me whisper in your ear and tell you about my life, something you might like to hear. Let me show you my day and see if you like it. It's January 9th, 2025. I've been a YouTuber forever at this point, and I love talking about my life. I'm glad I took the time today to share what I did.

Cancelling the racket club membership

I just played tennis before this at the racket club near my house, and I think I'm going to cancel my racket club membership. I've been a member for about five or six months now, and I'm at the point with tennis where it's either do a lot more or quit. Maybe I'll go play casually at a court sometime if I have somebody to play with. I do these coaching camps every week at the racket club, and I did one tonight.

It's been hard to find people to play with at the racket club. Everybody is either way too good or not good enough. There are people who are so bad I beat them so badly it's hard to even play, or there are people who are way too good and they don't want to train me how to play tennis better. So then I feel like I need coaching all the time. I started playing tennis because I thought it'd be fun to learn something new and experience the racket club membership down the street.

I think it's time to cancel the membership and maybe play a little more basketball, do a little more running, and do some more stuff around the house. Something needs to go in my life. I want to play a sport that's also a good workout, and unless I'm playing singles against somebody better than me, tennis isn't that good of a workout. A lot of the people at the racket club are old guys playing doubles, which is basically just standing around, and that's what I was doing a lot of. But I'm really glad I did it.

The racket club membership is around $240 a month, so that's a significant expense, especially considering it's after-tax income. I basically have to do an hour-long call to pay for that membership every month after taxes. I think it's time to let it go and make some space for something new. I'm always analyzing the things in my life.

The little details at home

It's been so nice lately. You can see the counter my son built into a police station, and my daughter has her Lego that she's building. I'm always interested to see what the kitchen counter looks like in my house, so I took a picture of the background, because that's something I wish I had pictures of. I probably have a picture of the kitchen counter from years past that I don't look at anymore.

It's been cold today. I actually played in a hoodie this morning, which is unusual in Florida, but it warmed up enough and I played enough that I ended up in a t-shirt and some pants. I'm doing laundry right now.

Filming crypto videos and how compromised the space is

Did I film two ICP videos today? Yeah, I filmed a really long one this morning: "Top 24 Altcoins Ready for a Crypto Bull Run in 2025," covering 24 different ICP altcoins. That took a lot of research to put together. After that, I realized I need to make a whole video about one point in particular, which is how compromised crypto is. There are all these backhand deals and payments going around that viewers are almost completely unaware of, and that's what's dictating which coins people put in their portfolios and which coins these content creators hype up. People latch onto certain content creators and certain coins, and they're just getting fooled and shilled all the way down. At least I can be transparent about it.

Making my 293rd song

I also made my 293rd song today. I just showed up, button-mashed again in my studio, and had fun. I'm so glad I did, because I was thinking, oh, I should make dance music. Deadmau5 says that if he wants to get paid, he has to put a kick drum in his music. Well, I don't need to get paid off my music. There's enough dance music out there already, and there's all of Deadmau5's music, so just listen to that. You don't need my dance music.

But what can I offer? I like to think about what I can offer uniquely to the world. I'm one of the few people in the world who just gets around, fools around, button-mashes, and then puts that out as a video, which makes for interesting, experimental, unusual music. You can hear some new sounds, and it's fun to do.

Why I don't treat everything like work

I'm a big believer that it's okay if some days my crypto stuff is work, because that pays the bills. But I shouldn't be doing my music channel and my vlogs like they're work, because they're not paying the bills. In my experience, I'm not a believer in doing work like it's work unless you're getting paid for it or unless it's fun.

That's been an interesting journey for me, because as a content creator I felt like I needed to approach everything I do as though it should pay. I stressed so much over my video gaming stuff in the past when it didn't pay, even though I was making plenty of money in crypto and plenty of money on Udemy. I'd stress out about my video gaming stuff like it needed to pay the bills. What I've come to believe is that if you've got something that pays the bills, then you can relax about everything else as a content creator.

What I ate and how I move

I had another bean taco thing for lunch today, another bean taco lunch. I also had a couple of packets of oatmeal from Whole Foods, organic maple-flavored oatmeal, which is tasty. I just dump it down dry. I don't even microwave it. I just rip the top off the bag and dump it in there to get that sugar. The sugar tastes better before it's all in water. I dump the dry oats down because I'm not interested in using my time on the microwave. I do have the time, I'm just not interested in spending it that way.

I played tennis twice today, and that's probably why I'm at the point of needing to cancel the racket club membership. I played this morning with a guy in his 70s and had a nice talk with him. At the same time, I beat him at every single thing we did. I let him have one game, but I won both sets and all the ground games we played. It's nice for him to hit with me, but I'm sure there's another old guy on his level he could hit with. Meanwhile I'm thinking, man, this isn't even that good of a workout, I'm just standing around. If I'd played basketball for an hour and a half, I'd have been worked out.

I had fun playing basketball the other day. Probably four months from now I'll be saying basketball sucks and I'm playing ultimate frisbee now or whatever, but that's good. It's nice to learn new things. I'm really enjoying shooting three-pointers in basketball. It's surprisingly satisfying.

My body and playing tennis don't fully agree. My wrist has been jacked up for a few months, and it's a little better now. I'm not going to the doctor to have them screw around putting stuff on my wrist. It seems like the main thing I've done to aggravate my wrist over the last few months has been playing tennis, and the starting and stopping on the tennis court has made my knees a little tight too. So basketball is good. I play basketball all kinds of times. You might sprain an ankle here and there, but my ankles are about as strong as they've been thanks to doing yoga, relative to my body size.

Telling the kids about working in prison

I picked the kids up from school today, which was great. I picked my niece up too, so I had three kids, and I told them about being a correction officer, what it was like working in prison with the kids in there who had done the worst crimes imaginable. I was in there as a correction officer. The youngest kid was like 10 or 11 or 12, a short kid; my daughter is taller than him already at nine years old. And the oldest kids in there were 18. These were real thugs off the street: murderers, big boys too. You had to be careful. One of my coworkers got beaten nearly to death in the eight months I worked there. If you said the wrong thing at the wrong time or put yourself in the wrong situation, your life was in danger.

I got close to some of those situations, and I'm grateful. My empathic readings would tell me things. There was this one day, I still remember the kid's name, but for privacy I won't say it, though it's a generic name anyway. I walked into his room. I worked night shift, so you got more time, while during the day you had to be on your game more. But it sucked being in there all night. The kids would have all kinds of shenanigans, sometimes while sleeping. Then I'm there having to wake them up and get them out to go eat breakfast at the cafeteria. I had to get them on a school bus or a van and drive them across the prison, just hoping they didn't beat each other up the whole time or beat me up. They'd be talking junk the whole morning and not cooperating, just like regular kids do, except these kids might punch your face in or stab you with a shank they carved out of a fork in the cafeteria.

I enjoyed it, though. This was after college, and I figured the last thing I wanted was a boring job, and this was not boring. You say the wrong thing or make the wrong move and you might get disabled, beaten up pretty bad, disabled for life, or killed in there. And if you lost your temper, you might end up going to prison yourself.

One of my coworkers proved that point. Two guys were working together. One night, a whole bunch of the kids jumped one of them and beat him nearly to death. The next night, the same coworker came back, a guy who'd been in my training class, and he beat up on one of these kids. Then the police came in, arrested him, and took him out of work in a police car for child abuse. You've got juveniles in there, so if you beat up on a juvenile, all of a sudden it's child abuse. It was the craziest, most dangerous work environment.

Most of the white guys in there didn't last a single night, from what I saw during my time working there. There was this big, tough-looking white guy who came in one night and quit the next morning. He had some kid held up against a wall, and then he quit. They tried to get me to quit too.

My response back then was basically, "Nah, this is fine. I'm not leaving until I get a job as a police officer." I don't know why I get so set on getting exactly what I want. Sometimes the better move is to change what you want. I had decided I wanted to be a police officer back in college, and then I smoked weed senior year, which slowed down my police officer applications quite a bit. They ask you straight out, "Have you done any illegal drugs?" Well, sure. Six months ago, I smoked weed. And they say, "You need to wait until it's been three years." Waiting until junior and senior year to try marijuana for the first time when I wanted to be a police officer was a bad idea. I should have gotten that out of the way in high school, or freshman or sophomore year. But there you go.

How I Ended Up in Corrections

So I ended up being a correction officer because none of the police departments would hire me. But being a correction officer is exactly what led to me getting hired by a police department that wasn't quite as picky. They were happy to take me. Their attitude was, "This guy survived in juvenile corrections for half a year. We'll hire him. We're confident he can get through the police academy." And that's how I got into being a police officer.

I told the kids about being a correction officer. It was brutal in there. They would beat each other up. They would beat you up. You'd see a kid in the morning with his whole face swollen up because he got punched in the face. It was rough. It could certainly have been worse, but it was rough. There was crazy stuff going on too. There were correction officers bringing contraband in. The kids would tell me they'd give me a hundred dollars for a pack of cigarettes. I never took them up on it, because I knew once they got you to do that, they'd have leverage over you. I didn't want any of those kids to have leverage over me. But I had a coworker who I think was bringing them cigarettes, because they treated him a lot better, and he didn't seem to have the ethical dilemma that I did. He was willing to risk it to make the extra money and to have that better relationship with them.

I had coworkers who would turn the radio on to music I couldn't stand and crank it up loud while I was trying to read my book. Then they'd fall asleep. We'd have battles over it. I'd turn the radio off, and they'd get back up and turn it on us. And I remember, while I was working in there, I wrote a plan on a piece of paper one night to be President of the United States. I guess that's what makes me a little special. I've never let my outside circumstances dictate my dreams. If you take anything from this, take that: don't let your outside circumstances dictate your dreams.

A Minority Behind the Walls

I was making twenty thousand dollars a year and risking my life. I was a minority in race, gender, and age. Most of the officers were older black females, and here I was, this 22-year-old white guy. Most of the inmates were young black men, though they did have a couple of girls' units too. I'll admit the girls in there would holler at me when I walked by. You'd get some catcalls walking past the girls' units, and I always tried to time my walks by to catch them if I could. I still remember those catcalls. They'd yell some dirty stuff out, because they were locked up just like the boys. So it was a good time. You should see how they celebrate Christmas in there. It's just what you'd think it is. But I didn't go into too graphic detail with my kids on the way home today.

I had fun picking the kids up from school. And on a lighter note, I searched for "ICP crypto" top videos on YouTube, and it's like some other guy who just did a video for it, and then it's my video, and my video again. We really have this niche locked down. If anybody searches ICP crypto, your boy has search results coming up. I love doing these vlogs. I'm wondering what I'll put for the title on this one. Those correction officer catcalls, though, those are good.

The stories you'd hear around that place were crazy, so crazy. I'm glad I made it out of there. It seems like another life now, so different from the life I have today. It's like that was somebody else's life. At this point it just feels like some story I'm telling. Did that even happen? It was almost 20 years ago at this point. Can you even picture me as a correction officer?

The Kid and the Light

I didn't finish that story about one kid, though. There was this kid, 18 years old. I went in to wake him up one morning. I turned his light on, which was the standard way you'd wake the kids up. You'd turn their lights on, and that was their sign to get up. The cooperative ones would get up and get ready to go. And there'd often be a kid or two, or five, who were like, "F you," but you still had to get your entire unit ready, get them on the bus or in the van, and get them to breakfast on time. I'm amazed I was able to do that.

This one day, this one kid was bigger than me. He had thick arms. He could have beaten me to death pretty easily. And I was about 70 pounds heavier than him, with bigger muscles and a lot of fat. I could take a punch back then better than I can take one now, that's for sure. My face was ready to take punches back then. Sometimes I'd get hit in the face and fall on my face. But this kid, I turned his light on a couple of times, and I went to turn it on a third time, and he said, "Banfield, you touch my light again and you're going to regret it." He said it in a cold, completely normal tone of voice. I don't know how, but I could just tell: this morning, this kid is going to absolutely lose it. Lots of mornings he wasn't any trouble at all. But for some reason I could read that today was not the day. Leave his light off, hope he gets up, and if he won't come out, it's not worth getting beat up over.

But I had a moment with him in line later, where he tied his shoes up. When they tied their shoes up while standing in line outside the cafeteria, that meant they were ready for action, because usually they'd have their shoes untied all the time. You'd see one bend down and tie his shoes, and you knew he was getting ready to run on somebody. So I did the same thing to him I'd done that morning. I said, "I saw you lace your shoes up. If you run on this kid, I'm going to tackle you in the middle of all these other kids out here." Because if he'd done that, I wasn't going to have my line looking all jacked up, with my line starting the riot. They would have riots in there. Things would go off and get nuts, and they'd have to call in backup from outside the facility. There were nowhere near enough officers to keep all those kids in check. I say kids, but at least half of them were grown men who had done the worst stuff possible. And we didn't have any weapons. We had nothing but a radio. You'd better pray you could get on that radio if you needed help. The cameras weren't watched too closely a lot of the time, but at least they recorded.

Feeling Invincible

It's crazy. I felt very invincible. I still feel invincible now. I just also recognize that if you mess this body up, it could take some work to transition out of it and get a fresh one. Back in my 20s, I wasn't worried about that at all. This thing could die and it's not a big deal, I'll just get another one. I felt invincible because on some level I knew my own immortality. I know I live forever, so I'm not worried about it. I could go do whatever I wanted. I was very fearless. The only thing I hated was being bored. I liked danger. I liked to fight.

Some days in corrections were really satisfying. You'd get on a bus first thing in the morning and everybody's punching each other, and you'd break the fight up by grabbing kids. You had to try not to hurt anybody, but you'd have to swing and hit the kid who was on top of the other kid to get him off. It was satisfying. I'd go home thinking, "Well, I don't know how many kids I hit today." It was wild. I liked the wildness.

But now I like the calm too. Thinking back on making twenty thousand dollars a year to risk my life like that, my whole relationship with money has completely changed since those days, and that's a big part of what I share over on my Crypto Reviews playlist. My son wants to fight all the time, and I try to play with him sometimes. He slapped me on the stomach so many times tonight that my stomach turned red. It's so funny to look at how he acts with me versus how I acted with my dad. I cannot picture slapping my dad on the stomach. I would have gotten cracked upside the head immediately. My dad wouldn't even have thought about it. There wouldn't have been an interval of "maybe I should react." It would have been instant. My son just hauls off and whacks me because he knows I'm not going to do anything. But that's a good thing, isn't it?

A Ton of Bricks, Tennis, and Rethinking YouTube

From my video published June 17, 2026.

It's January 16th, 2025, and I'm getting close to my 5,000th day on YouTube. Only 20 more days to go. Today I keep asking myself the same maddening question: how do I keep forgetting all the things I've already learned on YouTube? I did a live stream yesterday and I was all hyped up about it, and then I caught myself thinking, live streams are not the way. Hardly anybody wants to watch an hour or two-hour rambling video with me in it. What works, in my experience, is just cranking out shorter videos.

Shorter videos, more of them

It's time to keep my videos under 10 minutes. They've been getting too long, so I'm going to cap them at less than 10 minutes. I did a quick little crypto video, and I'll do two crypto videos a day instead of one. I'll do four videos a day instead of three, but I'm going to shorten all of them, because I only need an hour or two to film about 40 minutes of video a day. Yesterday I blew all my creative energy on that one live stream, and it was so inefficient. I put all these topics into one stream when I could have made five separate videos out of it. Five crypto videos, two a day for two and a half days.

This connected to something else I was listening to. I listened to hours and hours of content at double speed today, including DFINITY's newest video on Service Nervous System projects, which was great. It got me thinking: sure, it makes sense for DFINITY to do an hour-long call, but for me it's better to take two shots a day at getting people to watch something rather than one. And to be really specific in my videos instead of repeating the same thing over and over again.

2,000 pounds of bricks

Today I bought 2,000 pounds of bricks, a literal ton of bricks, from Home Depot. I'd taken my car in because the liftgate hydraulics on the back of my RAV4 weren't lifting. They'd been broken for months, probably four or five months at least, and I finally said, let's get this fixed. It was $2,000 to fix it, plus an oil change and repairing some slip bar or something that was messed up underneath it. But I had fun, because I rented a Toyota Tundra for only five bucks an hour. Actually it was a Tacoma. I took a new Tacoma to Home Depot.

I'm building a brick patio in my backyard. I got around 400 bricks today, 68 cents a brick plus tax. I brought home some plastic base pieces to put under it, and I already had sand and gravel. I'm going to dig it myself. I could just pay somebody to do it, but here's the thing: all the work I do on YouTube is so esoteric that I can't really see whether it makes a difference in anybody's life, outside of reading my open chat comments. So it really helps to do something physical, to get my hands dirty, to wear gloves while handling all these bricks. I took cart load after cart load, 32 and then 54 bricks at a time, out of Home Depot and loaded them into the back of my truck while the kids were at school.

The first load took hours. I even Googled the maximum capacity for a Toyota Tacoma, because I was about to put another 100 bricks in. I figured we were getting toward the 1,750 pounds or whatever the maximum hauling capacity is, so I stopped. I had fun doing that today.

Secret space programs and trying to find clarity

I also listened to hours of Dr. Michael Salla's interviews today. I spent about two hours at double speed, so three or four hours of raw video footage, watching this guy named George Kavassilas on Dr. Michael Salla's channel. I watched a new interview with him first, then an older one. He says he was in a secret space program, and that there are these Navy admirals who are like Jedi Knights. I'm into all of this stuff. He was saying things like, using your pineal gland to have these experiences is just a trick, it's technology, it's not consciousness.

My mind was all over the place. What's challenging is getting some clarity, because there's so much confusion on this planet. You listen to one secret space program guy, and then another one says something completely different with just a little bit of overlap. I really don't know what the heck is going on with this whole reality thing right now. But I am excited for the future, and I am grateful for what I have now.

Home Depot with my son

I picked the kids up from school in the Toyota Tacoma, which was fun. After I dropped my daughter off at home, I took my son to Home Depot and we got 108 more bricks. He's six and a half years old and he loves building stuff. He climbed up into the back of the truck, and he pushed the cart full of bricks uphill in the parking lot and pushed it around inside the store too. He had so much fun, and I love seeing his joy.

When we got home, I'd put the bricks in the truck and he loaded them into the middle because it was hard for me to reach. He asked me all these questions, and he and my daughter threw the bricks out of the back of the truck into the grass, which was actually easier than me climbing back there, which I'd done the first time with three times as many of them. We carried them in. There are still some out in the front yard right now.

A roller coaster of emotions

This has been such a roller coaster of emotions today. Right now I've recently hit the sad part of the day. I felt so sad earlier that I didn't even want to talk, so I made a little music video instead. My mind is so toxic about my music, and so are a lot of the people who listen to it once, say it sucks, and never come back. But it just feels so good to make it. At some point, when something feels good and it doesn't hurt anybody else, and maybe it even helps, isn't that enough? Maybe some of the songs did hurt people's ears, but sometimes it's got to be enough in life. Sometimes something is full of joy, and that's enough.

Why I'm grateful I could just fix it

Then I went to pick the car up. They had it from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and I went back and got the RAV4, dropping a couple thousand on the credit card. I think I spent about $2,600 today total: a couple thousand at the car dealership, and a bit less than $500 at Home Depot on bricks and those plastic pieces. I'm really grateful today. Some people complain about spending like this, but I'm glad I have money and can just pay to get something fixed, because it's often these little things that eat away at your life, like the back gate of the car not closing. Often you feel like your whole life is bad when really there's just a series of small things you can fix to turn it around. This is something I'd put off for a long time, and I'm glad I finally did it today.

On the way back I went to tennis. I've been thinking about dropping the racket club membership, but I figured I already paid $240 for it this month, so I might as well go use it. I was going to go straight home and film videos, and I asked myself: is it going to be more fun to film videos or to go play tennis? I got there 10 minutes late, so I had 50 minutes, and it was definitely more fun to play tennis. The most memorable shot: I often hit these weird shots inconsistently, but when we were playing king of the court and needed just one more point, the coach hit it to me and I smashed a hard return straight down the middle. They asked, "What was that?" and I said I'd just been holding onto that one, keeping it secret until we needed it. I had more fun doing that than filming videos.

But then I get home and I still want to film a bunch of videos. No pressure or anything, but make a video. I'm such a servant. Creating videos is a new nine-to-five for me. And then I listen to all this secret space program material and wonder: am I just contributing to technological slavery by putting these videos up and trying to get people to watch them? There's such a weird balance. It's good for me to reflect on my life and share it, and maybe that helps somebody. It's a delicate balance, and sometimes you tip right over the edge of it. If you want to follow more of how I think about earning, spending, and building a life around all of this, you can find a lot of it in my Crypto Reviews playlist.

Day 5,011: Family Time, Board Games, and Charging for Crypto Videos

From my video published June 17, 2026.

I'm a YouTuber, and it's day 5,011, February 16th, 2025, here with Jerry Banfield. I spent a lot of the day with my family today, and it was really nice. All I did for work so far was film a couple of crypto videos, one about something going to zero and then an ICP hype video. I posted that if people want to pay me for a video, it's $500, which is well worth it. It usually takes me less than an hour, so it's good for them and good for me. I do my best to make sure it's good for the audience too.

Board games and teaching the kids to play fair

I just played the Harry Potter Monopoly game with the kids three times today. I love board games. I'm so glad my daughter's nine and my son's six. They're old enough now. I did tell my son beforehand, "This is a board game. This is to have fun. We're not going to throw a fit and whine and cry when stuff doesn't go our way." That ruins the fun of it for me. Play the game, accept your loss. That helped out a lot, because some of the other times they played board games they've cried and fussed and thrown pieces. I told them we're not doing that. So we played and had fun. My son won one game, then my daughter won another game, then my son won the last game. Laura put a spot in for the first game, but I ended up playing for her, and Madeline lost. Then Madeline played for her and lost again on her spot. My son got the houses and the house crests on, and we had fun. It was nice.

Cleaning up and paying the kids to work

I also cleaned up a lot of stuff around the house. It felt good to clean up a lot of little details, like cleaning out and refilling the dog water bowls. I paid my kids $5 each to clean the algae out of the three-gallon dog water bowl, because I can't really get my hand in there very well. But they have little hands, so they got up in there and did great. They each earned some money working today. I also used the water pump to drain the two new rain barrels, which was fun. My daughter must have earned about 40 bucks today. They went and spent some at Target. One thing they got was that Harry Potter Monopoly game. My son got a new soccer ball, and they were kicking it around with that.

When people keep canceling

They were going to go do something with Laura's family, but then the same person who always cancels, probably 50-plus percent of the time, made plans and canceled again. This event was for this person, and they cancel again. My thought is, if you cancel about half the time, I'm just not going to make plans with you anymore. Laura's very understanding, though. The kids were hurt over it. I think if you cancel, you should be transparent about the reason. What are you doing? Are you having a fight today? Are you in the middle of your alcoholism or addiction? What's going on? Why are you canceling?

It reminds me of my friend who canceled. I guess it's been just a week now. My friend canceled and then didn't get to say goodbye to me, after a year, after probably close to 100 hours together in the last year, which is a lot of time to spend with somebody. He just cancels, moves away, nothing. Well, everybody's going to leave you one way or another. To some degree, all the people in this life are just faces that pass. It's kind of morbid, but at the same time there's truth to it. They're just temporary forms that come and go. What's eternal is me, the part of me that keeps creating stuff for all of eternity. I just create and destroy and create. I let it fall apart and create again. That's what I do. That's who I am. In my belief, I'm the creator. I create stuff so that I may know myself. But none of these bodies I create, none of these bridges I build, none of these are me.

Thinking about longer music streams

I didn't make any music today or yesterday, which has me thinking I'd like to do longer music streams and really make a lot during a few longer streams each day instead of doing an hour-long music stream every day. Once you've already got the people there, it's really nice to just stay live for longer. If you want to be a professional streamer on most platforms like Twitch, it's like you stream four to eight hours, maybe even 12. Often the hardest time to even get people into the stream is the first 30 minutes or so. Once you get in the flow, it's cool. I watched Funky Flow do his 50-hour rap Guinness World Record live stream. I watched his highlight video on YouTube. Once you really get in the zone on something like making music or freestyling, it can be a lot easier. For me, just warming up is the hardest part. Sometimes it takes five or ten freestyles to even warm up good. Once again I'm thinking, do I want to do freestyles, or dance music, or background music? I don't know yet.

Why I'm done covering crypto projects for free

I was in a bad mood about the crypto videos again. The thing is, though, the crypto videos pay the bills, and it seems like they do some real good, because I'm saying what most people aren't saying. I'm saying projects are terrible that most people are hyping up, and that's useful. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger's book, Be Useful. To me, being useful is where it's at.

Now, sometimes I think, well, I could make a lot more money if I would just sell out. So starting with ICP, I'm going to limit covering projects that don't pay me from now on. If I'm going to talk nice about a project, I think you should have paid me. If you don't pay me, I'm going to go dump on some other project, which is much more useful in my opinion. If you want somebody to talk nice about you in these cryptos, there are so many people willing to do that, so you should pay for it. You've got to know your own worth in life. I keep giving out all my valuable marketing to all these projects for free, and then they don't want to pay for it, because I'm giving it out for free. So I'm going to stop giving it out for free. What I'm going to give out for free is criticism. You want me to do something for free? I'm going to criticize how crappy your project is, and I'll try to pick the biggest projects to do that with, the ones that have the most traffic. If you want me to talk nice, then you can pay something. That's how the world goes.

Now, obviously, the best things in life aren't all about money. A lot of the best things in life you don't pay for directly. But raising kids, you definitely pay for that.

Time with your loved ones is what's valuable

I watched a little bit of one of DMX's last videos. I didn't watch the whole thing. He was talking about how what's really valuable in life is time with your loved ones. I'm glad today I took the time with mine. In previous years, today's the day where I probably would have made sure I took an hour to several hours livestreaming or making more videos or putting more time into content creation. But what's really important is time with your loved ones. I've got crypto videos filmed, three a day, all the way through tomorrow night, so I'm good. I wanted to make sure I got that time with my loved ones and had the windows open. It was nice to get some cool, fresh air through the house. I feel like the house is cleaner.

We're going to get the baseboards and the ceiling fixed for $6,000. We looked at some different houses around the neighborhood and looked back at our old house we lived in. It's fun to just play around thinking, what if we lived in a brand-new million-dollar house right across the street? What would that be like? It would be a lot of cleaning and a lot more expenses. We could make that work if we really wanted to. But I'm so happy and cozy in this house. I asked the kids if they wanted to buy the house across the street that's got more bedrooms and more bathrooms, and they said no, they like this house. I love this house. I don't want to move, even if it is just across the street. I'm happy where I'm at. That's a magical thing in life, to be happy with where you're at.

I feel like one of the hardest things I've had with my YouTube content is just to be happy where I'm at. I'm averaging 10-plus thousand views a day on my crypto channel. A few people watch this one. A few more people watch my music videos. For me, this is a good enough day on YouTube, and it's a great day for my family. I think I'll have spent maybe seven hours with the family today. I woke up at 7:30, and let's call it 4:30 now, so that's about nine hours awake, and maybe seven of them with the family. That's more than usual for me. If you want to see more of how I think about earning, spending, and building a life around what matters, I put a lot of it into my Crypto Reviews playlist.

Then I'm going to go to my Alcoholics Anonymous meeting later and try to help some people not piss their lives away to drinking. So many traps in this life, one after another. But there are opportunities to have fun and joy as well. So I'm grateful you actually read this. See you tomorrow.