From Pranks to Politics: YouTuber Fidias Takes On the European Parliament

35:06You forget that you eat. And it was very weird because I didn't poop for 30 days. So it was like, I'm like, is there something wrong with me? Yeah, because there's no fuel. But it's the... But then immediately when I, when I drank juice, immediately after three minutes that I drank my first juice after 30 days, I went to the bathroom. When did it become difficult? How many days in? After 15, when you understand that you have another 15, it was very difficult. But also 10 to 15, after 10 it was very difficult. The last four fives I think was okay because you just think that it's near the end. But yeah, it was...

35:57Would you do it again? Never, never, never, never, ever. It depends on how much money and for what reason and for what. But in life, I like to experience everything, and now I'm excited about different things. At some point, I was excited to travel the world. So I traveled to 30, 40 countries, and now this thing is in me. I don't want to do it anymore. I wanted to do the Navy SEALs and then with guns and all this stuff, to then now i want now what is my challenge what i want is to be to do politics when you do your videos you say there's an element of trying to show the world and a good light i always say this but the world is a beautiful place there's beautiful people in it social media the news it's very damaging if you go on x you would think the world's fucking world war three but when you walk along the streets people are nice people are kind the majority of people just want to go on with their life with no fucking drama but why would you why did you always try and promote the message of all humans are good all race are good all religions are good no it's not trying to promote the message only it's like because what you said because when we go on social media we get the image that the world is going horrible and that there is no good in the world anymore and everyone is fighting and there is wars and all this stuff.

37:28That's true. But when you take it as a whole, of course, at every moment now, there's going to be something bad happening when you have 8 billion people in so many countries and territories around the world. But I felt that we're doing it justice with the kind of positivity online because we don't show this thing. So when I was doing this stuff, all the comments were like, when I see these videos, I restore my faith to humanity because I forget how good people and the media and all this. I was saying this also in the video. So yeah, that was the concept. Yeah. But some, I'm not going to play that.

38:09I was Mother Teresa because sometimes I was doing some illegal things to make, get views in a way. Like I was sneaking inside a train and not paying. or I was doing, I'm a politician, okay? No. I was sneaking under the bus luggage room to go to different countries. And sometimes the bus driver were opening the bus luggage room and see a person there hiding. They were confused. Then I started running. Also in Japan, like I did. But I was doing all this stuff because when I was younger, I thought that it's not a problem like if you sneak inside a train, who cares it's like a huge company or the government, but okay now I don't sneak in the trains and I don't do legal things when you're a YouTuber as well, when you're young you just want to have fun get views, it's important because it's not that deep, skipping on a train or hiding on a bus it's not that bad maybe you become a politician, maybe people start rallying on the streets get you out of politics because you skipped on a train you know but everybody's shooing but it got to where you are now which is in politics from a successful youtuber with millions of subscribers done amazing on the navy seals like why politics why did you gravitate towards politics you've clearly got a successful youtube career which is fun it's happy you're making money politics if i'm always honest i've never really met a good-hearted kind soul politician i think maybe they begin with the clean heart i'm only talking about britain uk they're all corrupt it's not really the politicians it's the people behind the politicians that i see and i question their motives and the destruction and the wars so what how did politics come into your sort of life?

40:09Well, you said it yourself. I was feeling the same thing. Fuck the politicians. Fuck the system. Fuck everyone. Nobody represents me. And I was thinking, like, I have, like, one of the biggest channels. I'm one of the most famous, one of the most famous people in Cyprus and Greece, and, like, in Cyprus especially. And if I am not going to step up and try to change things, like what Elon Musk is saying, I don't know if Elon Musk is saying, but he's saying, I don't know whose code is. If you want to change the world, start to be the change in the world yourself. So that's kind of the whole point.

41:00So because I had good incentives in a way, I started a campaign and it was the most weird campaign that a person did probably in human history. I said, guys, I don't know nothing about politics, but I will learn. So vote for me. And that's that? That's that. How many? What's the population of Cyprus? It's one million. And let's explain for everyone how it kind of works. So the European Parliament has 720 members of the European Parliament. And each country based of the population is sending some members of the European Parliament. So all the countries are kind of represented population-wise. So I was the most voted person in Cyprus.

41:50I had the most vote out of the six members that we sent to the European Parliament. And, but like I told you, it was very simple explanation, but I knew how to play the social media game. And I was trying to be useful in my campaign. Like I remember I ran a marathon from one side of the country to another side of the country, two marathons. It was 82 kilometers and it was just to promote people to go and register to vote. and I broke the world record in Cyprus of people registering to vote. So I was trying to be useful, try to be useful to the society and people, so okay, this is definitely not a completely stupid guy because he's committed, also he's very successful.

42:41I was very successful worldwide on YouTube. So they kind of believed in me and yeah, but, and I was elected and then it was a big change kind of because I didn't know anything and because I was the first ever independent, because I ran as an independent, I was the first ever independent to get elected because you always get elected with political parties. And out of the 720 members of the European Parliament in total, we have only three independent. So it was like I done the impossible in Cyprus And a lot of people because of this, like they first said a big fuck you to the system in Cyprus because they said, we, when another opportunity to rise, fuck you political parties that you are not representing as well, because there is somehow corruption and all this stuff.

43:39people were not very happy with the system. But I think this is a common trend in a lot of countries now and we can talk about the modern politics and how I'm trying to change them and all this stuff. How not to change them, put my block to change them. But yeah, so I was voted with this kind of method. But it was... Sierra has all the best active and outdoor brands for the super athletic stuff. Like running gear for cruising up the trail. Woo! And the super athlete-ish stuff. Like fishing gear for chilling by the creek. Nice cast. Fitness apparel to push for higher reps. You got this. And golf balls priced so you can afford to lose one.

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45:00Terms and more at AppleCard.com. This episode is brought to you by PayPal. You know how a mom's bag has everything? Sunscreen? Snacks? A stapler? The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money. Shop, pay, manage your account, and earn rewards all in one place. And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security, and pass keys, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started. See paypal.com slash protection terms. We did a lot of cool stuff in the campaign about social media. Whoever was saying bad things about us, I was just clipping it and uploading it in my social media.

45:40And because when you, like it was like a football game, you see the other person saying bad things about your favorite character or your favorite politician. You start all this drama and all this stuff. I'd never said anything, but I was just uploading the stuff that other people were saying bad things about me. So anyway, it was some cool things I would make. I used all like, you know, I show speed. Yeah. Yeah, I was doing all this stuff that he's doing, like going live stream to villages and like speaking with the people. I was doing all this cool, relevant content that we see now, but I was doing it in my country, Cyprus.

46:16And it was six months and the elections happened. After the elections, it was a big change because I was like, fuck, I don't know anything now about the European Union. And people have huge expectations for me. because it's different to be an influencer people love you like most people and you're not hated but when people vote for you they start having expectations and this I felt a bit bad about this like I felt that my relationship with the people kind of broke because they it changed from what I was used to whatever you do it's okay now it became an expectation the relationship we expect you to do a lot of things for Cyprus so yeah it was difficult one year.

46:59I didn't know it's been one and a half year. I didn't know anything about the European Parliament, about the European politics. But I slept every day on my office 24-7 in the European Parliament, reading books, speaking with everyone that I found smart there. And after one year, I understood how kind of the EU works. And now I started to become effective. Also, in the way, like I feel like what it was my attempt it was why for me to learn only and not to teach the world or take the word with me to see what the European Parliament really is so I got like since we got elected like I don't know four five billion views on fucking the most boring thing ever European politics.

47:51And it's like, I show them how is the day in the life of a member of the European party, what are the topics, how we vote, what are the big things that are happening. And because I consider the European politics like a close black box, I try to shine a light to it. So that was kind of my attempt the first year to learn among with, while I'm learning with millions of people together. So yeah, that's kind of, but now I'll be after four, five months, before four, five months now, I started becoming confident because it's not rocket science. Like if you want to learn something, you will learn it like with what I did with YouTube.

48:36I didn't know anything about YouTube and I became a good YouTuber. And with Navy SEALs, like you learn the guns and all this stuff. You learn each topic that you want. So, yeah, I will stop talking because it's been a long time and I allow you to speak a bit. So you were up against five other people? No, I was up against 65 people. 65 people? Because every party, it was, I don't know, like 10 parties in Cyprus, they put six candidates. And I was competing not with other candidates. I was competing because that's why never an independent won. I was competing with the entire political party that had six members.

49:21That was, so I got more votes. I was the third biggest political party, but as votes for a single member of the European Parliament, I got the most. So yes, I was competing with other Europe, with 65 people and I was the most voted. So what's the plans now that you're in Parliament for Cyprus? because obviously, listen, it's great doing new things and achieving new goals and coming into politics, but is there a genuine plan for you to try and help people of Cyprus? Well, fortunately, my friend, I cannot do anything as a member of the European Parliament, almost anything. Why? It's an illusion of power.

50:01There is no power. Because to do things in a parliament, you need to have the majority. So as a single member, you can only make noise. And that's the harsh truth. But being said what I said, being what I said now, doesn't stop me. I have this motivation to do anything that I can for Cyprus and Europe. Because I don't only see Cyprus. I see that I'm a member of the European Parliament for all European citizens. And so there is some things that I'm trying to do, for example, like, but we can talk also about this later, but I tried not to have goals in life. I don't have, I want to do this or this or this because the world is changing very fast now.

50:54So I just want, I just like to see opportunities and grab this opportunity, grab this opportunity. So like, for example, it's like I'm doing amendments and regulations and all this stuff, but it's like very small things. Like it's not going to change the world. So I think the only way to change and like, unfortunately, nobody except like big presidents of big countries like Germany, like France, only these people can like have major influence for the direction of Europe. Or the other thing that needs to happen for Europe to change, because we can talk about it. I think Europe is not in a good position right now.

51:42It's in a very bad kind of position, also internally, also with foreign policy and all this stuff. But the only way to really change European politics and because there is a lot of things that are undemocratic, Like for example, we can talk about a lot of the bad things, but I will give you an example. Like we have the leader of Ursula, is Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission. And that the 27, we don't vote for her. Like we don't vote as the European Parliament for her. They just put her there and we just say yes or no. And before she comes to get voted, which is important, she's the kind of leader of Europe.

52:27before she comes there, she goes and make agreements with the political groups. And then she says to them that I will do this or this and they vote for her. And now people like a lot of political groups. And now soon in the next month, we're going to have a vote to take her down because we're not happy with her and what she's doing. But anyways, the only way, as I understand, to change European politics, because most of the times, if you understand how Europe works, is most of the regulations come from Brussels, the European Parliament and the European Commission, and they go to the member states, the 27 countries of the EU.

53:07So the countries, like for example, my countries, Cyprus, Greece, or Portugal, have not as much say as the European Union has in their local rules and regulations. So it becomes ultimately a lot more important, the European Union, how to change things in the European Union. But if you ask people in the streets, in Portugal or in Cyprus or Greece, they have no idea about the European politics. They don't really understand. They don't really know. And it shouldn't be like that because 60 % of the decisions that are being taken is not by local governments. It's by the European Union on average, let's say.

53:49So anyways, the only way to change the European Union, as I understand, is to make a party that will be in a lot of countries like Spain, Italy, Cyprus and all these countries and elect a lot of members of the European Parliament. and it will be the same party. Like we have the party, I don't know if you heard about it, Volt. But it's a party that is in, I don't know, 15 countries, 14 countries out of the 27. So that's kind of, but it's difficult because I speak Greek, how I'm going to go in Italy and say, okay, let's make Greece, these are the policies and all this stuff, because it's very difficult.

54:36too. But I think now with dubbing and the globalization and the internet and all this stuff that you conduct your videos in different languages and all this stuff, I think it's possible. So kind of the key is to make a party to every country in Europe and send a lot of members in the European Parliament so we can decide and have the majority and stuff because now it's a bit of a mess. What are the perks then? What has the perks of being... Because if you're saying you've You're in but you don't really have a voice to it. It's like a fart with no smell. You're there but nothing can really happen until you get the majority.

55:16But what are the perks? Being a politician, is there any perks? Well, there is a lot of perks but I think the biggest perks of being a member of the European Parliament is the perception of power. This episode is brought to you by PayPal. You know how a mom's bag has everything? Sunscreen. Snacks. A stapler? The new PayPal app is like that, but for your money. Shop, pay, manage your account, and earn rewards all in one place. And with purchase protection on eligible items, biometric security, and pass keys, you're protected at every step. Download the new PayPal app to get started. See paypal.com slash protection terms.

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56:35And the new convenient pump makes cleaning even easier, so you can spend less time tackling dishes and more time together. Shop now at palmolive.com. People think that you have power. And when people think that you have power, you can act like you have power. And then you can get stuff with the perception of the other people that you have power. So you can negotiate stuff and do stuff with the perception of power. Because perception of power is real power if you can materialize it in a way. So like all these speeches that we do and all this stuff, I think is important because like, especially me with social media, spreading the word around the world, what is happening, what's the problems and all this stuff that we do.

57:23So other perks that you have, like, you mean, also there is some perks, like the salaries and all the driving cars, having drivers, and also business class tickets back and forth with airplanes in your country and all this stuff. But the biggest perks, I think, is the perception of power. Do you have diplomatic immunity? Yeah, I cannot go to jail, I think. So do you get diplomatic immunity then? Yes, I think I have diplomatic immunity. And the reason, as I understand, is because you want to be not afraid to speak your mind and other people to have legal cases about you on you and all this stuff.

58:18So free speech. Yeah, we don't have free speech in the UK no more. We've had over 13000 arrests since 2023 for people talking on social media. You know, so I'm massive for free speech. You should be able to say what you want. Hate speech. I don't like there's so much hate. There's left, there's right, there's black, there's white, there's Christian, there's Muslim, there's divide. It's divided and conquered. But this is an argument around hate speech, but where do you draw the line? What is hate speech? I think threats to kill, I think. Yeah, yeah. Racism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We agree on those things.

58:54But sometimes when you say you are bad, you are horrible because you did this and this and this, you should be allowed to say this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Say what you want, but I think when it's damaging, I think when it's threats to life, I think, well, that's not really free speech. That's more hate. So let's go a bit more in depth on this topic, because I know about Europe, how it works. The problem with free speech, because I don't know anything. I didn't know anything about politics. But one thing that I knew is fucking social media, because I was an influencer. So when I went to Brussels and became a member of the European Parliament, I wanted to be involved in social media and like making policies about social media.

59:37And all this censorship that happened and like Mark Zuckerberg said that and also Google now said that they were censoring stuff about on COVID vaccines. because when Mark Zuckerberg said that Biden tells him to whatever had the word that the vaccine have side effects, they were barring it. But that's true. The vaccine has side effects. Even if you like the vaccine, even if you don't like it, you shouldn't have been barring this. So I think the problem, the core problem is fact checkers. The fact checkers. who gets to decide what should be allowed in the platforms and what shouldn't be allowed.

1:00:29Now, how we do it in Europe is that we have agencies, kind of non-profit organizations, kind of, getting money from the EU. This is how they're fund. And they are deciding what should be allowed or not. And I don't like this, the person that can control you, to be paying you as well, because it will have a lot of influence in you. And if he cuts your money or threats you, you will be doing, you are reliable to him. So this structure that the European Commission, the European Union should decide with this, with their money, what should be allowed on social media and what should not. It's a problematic structure.

1:01:20So the thing is, but let's not avoid that. To say that is a problem. We need millions of posts in an hour and we need to somehow find a way that ones that are about rape and child abuse and I don't know something bad, like to take them down. So, but I don't trust the government to do this. So we need to find other mechanisms. So like, for example, what X is doing with community nodes or with AI now, it would be a lot easier to fact check and check all this stuff because humans are like easier to make errors or to be manipulated than an algorithm. So, but like, we need to make sure that this algorithm, so we need to invest more and encourage the companies to invest more in these types of things like community nodes, like AI, in a way, structure to manage content.

1:02:22But you look at Grok on X But if they can censor The vaccine stuff They can censor fucking child porn They can censor child abuse Instantly, they can stop it instantly But they don't The same as with the vaccine, if Zuckerberg knew He was getting paid by Biden To not promote something Or let people, I lost a Facebook account Because there's so much blood In these people's hands, the vaccine killed more people It's turbo cancers miscarriages heart attacks there's just so much destruction but yet people should be able to but there's a lot of people as well who are easily programmed, social media is programming people now, we've got left and right and there's so much information the brain is absorbing so many images, so many videos, our attention span is coming down so much so human beings we're easily manipulated if you don't really step back and ask the questions what, why or ask what's fucking going on people just go because when the world went into lockdown over 95 % of people they went with it they complied and the fucking platforms also comply which that's what makes me angry and if it was not for Elon Musk when Elon Musk came and said that I will not go and work with fact checkers in the EU and pay his organizations in the EU also to fact check my content.

1:03:59And he said that I would find other ways to do it with community notes and all this stuff. He was the first and he was attacked by mass attack with media when he did that. But that was a very bold move because then before everyone was afraid and they were going with the flowing and doing what the governments wanted them, what the commission wanted them, like Zuckerberg and YouTube and stuff. So I'm very happy that this happened for freedom of speech. And like now people are starting to wake up. What do you think of illegal immigrants? Oh, because refugees, all for legal immigrants, all for illegal immigrants.

1:04:39I think a lot of people are uneducated. it's not that illegal immigrants are racist illegal immigrants has nothing to do with skin colour you have Scottish illegal immigrants Irish, Polish, Russian there's nothing to do with people entering countries without the right paperwork I'm all for people wanting a better life working hard to provide whatever country they go to when I travel I have a passport I work hard, I spend money I come back home but we have a serious issue here in the UK with illegal immigrants I'm not saying all illegal immigrants are bad but when you're putting illegal immigrants next to schools and other things and childs are getting abused by illegal immigrants and it's getting swept under the carpet then we have a problem well there is two sides on this coin first of all and I will tell you also my opinion my opinion is similar to what's your opinion but I can see and understand the other side as well these countries are bad But also these countries that you get a lot of people from, the UK did colonies to them in the past.

1:05:46So it's like you were not that nice to them. So maybe you are responsible for their poorness in a way as well. So I'm not saying that you should allow open your borders now because what you did, but what is my core issue with this and why I agree with you is because when in a society, You take a bigger number of people that the ethnic group kind of will change, like for example Cyprus or Greek Cypriots. If you bring like 40, I don't know, 1 million Italians in Cyprus because we are 1 million population, stop being Cyprus, like half Italian. If you bring 3 million Italians, like it's Italy, it's not Cyprus.

1:06:32So like this is what, and then we'll have a lot of problems because these groups, I don't know about Italians in Cyprior because they have similar cultures in a way but if you take like I don't know someone different culture and you put them like it will have a lot of conflict ethnic conflict and that's not good for the country so for this I that's why I don't I think immigration illegal immigration is not good it needs to be controlled and only legal immigrants to come. Yeah, it's important, but like you said, the UK is invaded over 90 % of the world. It was a strong force. Maybe people are pissed off.

1:07:10They want some revenge. It's understandable, but there's just so many boats. There's so many illegal immigrants who are filling up hotels, especially when you have veterans on the street. That's not just the UK. It's worldwide and it's not just a case of stop everybody from the UK. It's just we need to know who you are. Of course, you need to control your borders to have a country. You need to know about the crime and all this stuff. You need to control these things. It's like a no-brainer. I don't know why. And like we see that majority of people think like this because like this is why the right-wing parties are more popular than the left-wing parties recently.

1:07:49And one big factor is the immigration. So policy because most people agree that you should close the borders. I think it's just common sense. I think it's just common sense. Be who you want to be. travel where you want but just have the right paperwork in case you do a crime it's registered who the fuck you are you know i interviewed a family whose young girl who was abused but the abuser couldn't be found because he had no there was no track of him there was no trace of him there was no dna here there was nothing so you can't expect people to come here abuse people then go home because it's not fair because those young girls then have a life sentence where they to sort of deal with that trauma.

1:08:28What was it like? Do you see in Parliament the divide, the left and the right? Do you see people fighting and arguing and talking shit? I would say one big joke that is happening in the European Parliament, and it's like a circus, and I couldn't believe that this is happening. Most of the times, the left, with the far right, they call it, they agree on a topic. like for example now they agree that they will not vote for Ursula von der Leyen and they want her to come down but they will not vote with each other they will because they say that I own I don't cooperate with the right so they agree on a topic and they don't vote on it together that they will increase their votes because they don't want to cooperate with the right group.

1:09:27This is, for me, idiotic. This is badness and human stupidity. And you see, in a way, the smartest people in the world, because they are graduates at the best universities and all this stuff, doing this and coming up with the most elegant and clever angles to justify this, but it's fucking dumb. And like a lot of the times in the European Union, we don't pass staff because the right and the left agrees, but the far right groups and the left agrees, but they don't cooperate together to get the majority. They don't vote with each other. They do it. Yeah, it's fucking stupid because then nothing changes.

1:10:10People need to be working together. You could have different beliefs from me But I would still listen to you And I would come with an honest view and go I don't really agree with that I think this is right But it's okay to disagree That's why the world would be a safer place If people could communicate Communication is gone Everybody's your far left, your far right I don't fucking care So many fucking labels And that's kind of where By the way, I think this is a trend That I see that I don't like. Generally in politics, I don't know, maybe I'm new in politics and it was always like that, but I think since I started, there are increasingly and increasingly the politics all over the world more divided.

1:10:56They are divisive. They make people fight and they're angry. The communities are like, when you are right or left, like you don't talk to that one or the other. So I think this is a controversial take that I have, and I'm doing stuff towards this direction. I think we need to reinvent representative democracy and think more about this, more how to change in a way how the government system works.

1:11:36in like in Greece for example I don't know two and a half year thousand two and a half thousand years ago they worked more with direct democracy like okay it was only 10 percent of the population there is well it was of course no women and no slaves in the voting and they decided what they should do as a country in a way, what they should do, if they should go and fight this war or not. Some of these direct democracies sometimes can be problematic because you are not always a mass to decide for your future. But like what we have now in the European Parliament, with what we have now in the representative democracy in combination with direct democracy, I think it could become a better system.

1:12:36So like, for example, I don't want the leader of the party to decide which one is a good member to be elected or to put in the list and all this stuff. Why not the people to decide? So like this is what I'm trying to do as well. I'm letting what a lot of votes that I'm going to vote in the European Parliament. I have an app. It's called Agora because of the ancient Greek name of Agora. And people are deciding to vote. Hear this. I'm deciding to vote on stuff about the European Parliament. I put the vote that I have in the European Parliament and I make a video and I tell them, you vote and I will vote what you want.

1:13:20Not always. It's one time a month, but it's more closer to what Switzerland is doing. They are doing more referendums four or five times a year. So I think in combination between direct democracy, the people should speak not only once every five years, should speak more often and voice their opinion. And I think a combination of representative democracy and direct democracy can be a better system. And I'm trying to take baby steps towards this. And people in Cyprus love it because they vote what I will vote in the European Parliament. They have more voice and they understand for the first time what is happening.

1:13:59And of course, it needs a lot of education. It needs to be telling them the arguments. What is this? What is this? And I'm choosing topics mostly that they know about. So, yeah, that's... Yeah, I think it's important to give the people a voice. because people feel unheard now. That's why there's so much unrest in the UK where there is a potential civil, kind of civil war pending. I hope not. I hope that's a bit far-fetched. But we have so many protests on the street last week with Tommy Robinson. There was over a million people. And it's not just people with skinheads and tattoos who say they're football hooligans and racists.

1:14:37You've got women and children. You know, people just want change. I'm massive for free speech. Illegal immigrants, there needs to be more protection. cutting genitals off of kids i don't agree with the kind of trans stuff be who you want to be i don't believe a man who believes he's a woman should be getting to a woman's toilet there's just certain things in place that i think is common sense be who you fuck you want to be when you're 18 make those decisions i don't think kids should be getting puberty blockers i don't think kids should be identifying as anything other than themselves which is difficult because social media is playing a massive effect on people's minds you know people are trying to accept this madness and it's mental health in my eyes it's mental health issues with some people and there's no compromising there's no understanding like if you come in to me with a superman suit and says james i'm superman i go okay that's fine but i wouldn't want you then trying to teach my kids that you think you really are superman you know it's just like if someone really thinks they are a woman but they were born a man it must be difficult trapped in someone else's body i get it but that's more a mental thing that's you if you want to cut off your genitals at least be 18 plus we can't be giving kids puberty blockers and giving them books to read how to cut off your body parts not at 12 11 because they're too young their mind hasn't fully developed you know but people don't like when you try and speak from these certain things because they think you're homophobic or you think you're racist but it's not by the way this is one of the three four things that donald trump was elected on like because what he did was very smart uh with the elections he just spoke about three four topics like we're going to get women out of men out of women's sports we're going to solve the wars uh in in ukraine and russia you were saying we're going to get the economy back on track.

1:16:32Like, this is the two, three things about the immigration. Four things, he won the election. So this, it was winning things. Like, means that a lot of people agree with this stuff. So most of the people agree with this stuff. People can say they're going to do that to get the votes. He did say he was going to release the Epstein files or the Epstein flight logs, which he didn't. So... Also, there were. Now he... He dropped a couple of bombs. Now, now, he dropped the government bomb and now he said that, Donald Trump said that he will solve the problem, conflict with Ukraine and Russia. By the way, I think this is one of the biggest problems that we have in Europe now.

1:17:12We are at war, and also UK, we are at war with Russia. No joke about it. Like, we send money to Ukraine to arm them to fight Russia. and we can talk about Trump what he did but like what I was saying before I think this is one of the biggest problems that we have but we need to go one step back to say how did this happen 2013 2014 like the United States tried to provoke and like made a conflict in Ukraine and they They dropped the government and all this stuff. And then they wanted Ukraine to join NATO. And then Russia said, no, don't do this. I'm not justifying the invasion of Russia. I disagree with the invasion of Russia.

1:18:01Fuck Russia for invading Ukraine. But now we are at a point that we need to be realistic. United States wants us and now Trump is saying the UN and all this stuff, we need to stop stop buying a form of gas because we have big sanctions, but we are still buying in some way. Some countries are buying gas from Russia, which is cheaper. So now the United States wants us to be in conflict with Russia, Europe and Russia to be fighting. So we are both weaker at the end of the day, and we are buying weapons from the Americans. so they get richer. So they can focus more on China and they can become more powerful so they can be more dominant in a bipolar world with China rising to challenge them as the biggest power.

1:19:02So now it's not in our interest to fight and continue fighting. We need to find a way to cut and do diplomatic ties with solution now. But it's difficult. Like, it's difficult for this to happen. But the reality is that Ukraine is losing territory every day. And now is in the last months of a war, because I feel like we're getting closer to an end to this. We have the biggest casualties, like in close to the entire war. Like in the last months, we are going to have a lot more casualties. So we need to be very careful and end this now because we are only hurting ourselves. The Americans are getting richer and we are getting poorer because we cut down also Germany, cut the North Stream that we are getting gas from Russia and all this stuff.

1:19:58And now we cut every economic. We have the 19th package of economic sanctions against Russia. And it doesn't fucking work. Russia's GDP is growing. We're pushing them into the hands of the Chinese. and they are going to make an alliance with the Chinese and the Indians, and we are becoming poorer and weaker. So we need to now, we need to become smarter. United States is leaving slowly, slowly, as we understand, have focus from Europe, and they don't want to pay for our military and pay to babysit us anymore and all this stuff. So we need to make, be powerful. Like we are living in an anarchic world of countries.

1:20:43It's not like we're not living in democracy of countries and they have a vote and they decide. Whoever is more powerful, they do whatever they want. And there is nobody to stop them because they have the military power and the numbers. And how do you count more powerful is money, military, and also amount of soldiers that you have. Yeah, all war is business, though. It's been a big business for thousands and thousands of years. Russia has a good point, though. they did say NATO was getting closer they says no they was also trying to sign the peace agreement with Ukraine America told Ukraine no Britain are funding Ukraine with billions of pounds because I actually watched the interview with Putin with Tucker Carlson and he was saying listen I want to sign the peace agreement I don't want trouble Russia is a thriving nation the women are beautiful people are working the streets are clean there's no homelessness the paedophiles got locked up for life it's fucking pretty good i also understand ukraine's point with russia bombing ukraine but we don't have that power with palestine russia ukraine uh israel we don't really know the ins and outs because it's people funding both sides of war i believe if there are enough people who i have interviewed i understand there's people who fund both sides because it's good for oil prices, stock prices, money.

1:22:07Like it's such a big business. And we also need to... So we are... Just to your point, like if Russia, if let's say China or Canada, let's say, if Canada went and put, let's say, if Russia went and put military bases outside the border of Canada, what was going to do the United States. They were going to have a problem with this and maybe fight for this thing. So the same thing wanted to do the United States and NATO to the borders of Russia. So I kind of understand also the point, but that doesn't justify a military invasion. But, you know, the problem is in the way that things are happening, is the mechanics that things are happening.

1:22:58I don't like that money have so much power in the politics. Because, like, I will give you an example in Cyprus. I'm a friend with a billionaire in Cyprus, and he tells me, Fidia, we're going to the president in the elections, and I'm telling him, like, I will give you money, and this will be your top priority policy. Do you want the money? Yes or no? And of course the president or the politician will say yes, because they want to be elected, they want to play the power game, they think that they are the right people for the seat and all this stuff. But their policy that the person with a billionaire problem will be on the table.

1:23:46So the billionaires and people with money have a lot of influence in politics, and I don't think they should because they are controlling more behind the scenes. And also this military complex and all these companies with weapons and all this stuff. So I think they should have a lot less influence on this stuff because this is harming the normal people. Like I see like it's fucking basic stuff, but two, three are the biggest problems now that we're facing. First of all, is the housing thing in Europe. Like nobody can afford to buy and rent. And the other thing that we are facing is the fertilization.

1:24:35We're not growing the population. We're becoming less and less and less. so these these things are and also we are at war so now with other countries so when you are at war you are losing you are losing lives, you are losing money so we need to stop and focus on to stop the war focus on getting people to grow because the west is dying actually because we are like countries like Africa are having like growth. Five and six kids. And in 50, 100 years, like Africa will be the new West growth and all this stuff, the new dominant of the world because of the kids and all this stuff. So we need to pay attention to this stuff, but it's hard, it's hard problems to solve.

1:25:28Is it difficult trying to have a clean heart in politics with not really having a voice to create the changes that you want to make the world a better place? Is it like banging your head against a fucking brick wall? You know, I'm very optimistic, very optimistic because if I am elected like this and dependent with just the fucking microphone of my social media that I gain myself and nobody owns me, nobody controls me, I don't have a party, I don't have a person to fund this stuff. I got elected with only 5 ,000 euros budget in the Cyprus election. I was the most vulnerable person. So the world is changing.

1:26:13And like we see all this now, all these changes. And I'm very optimistic that things can change. So I'm not losing my hope that we can change a lot of things. It's very difficult, but with social media, also the power that the world is changing. I think it's possible with a lot of change. But now, like all this stuff, it's irrelevant to one word, artificial intelligence. When artificial intelligence gets in the conversation, everything else is like, seems a bit weird to discuss because we don't know how the future will be in the next 10 years. So that's why I chose to be in politics and I'm very happy because I want to be in the decision making on how we are going to regulate and direct this kind of social AI to be safe, AGI, or to be prosperous.

1:27:14And like after, like we're talking about like people will probably hear us and like make fun of me. But like we're talking about if we increase the productivity of the world, like 1 ,000, 100 ,000 X, what we are now with. Like just some small examples. We don't have taxi drivers. We have robot taxis driving everywhere. everywhere. So there is no jobs on that. Also truck drivers, also people that go and give food. Maybe we'll have a 3D printer and like we'll in the future will make probably very high quality food. And like when we drop the cost of everything and like we have a lot of productivity as humanity and the prices are so down, then you are asking questions of what do humans do in these scenarios and all this stuff.

1:28:11And I think this is near in the next 10 to 20 years. So we need to decide what we're going to be doing. Are we just going to, because we probably will not be needed to work and we're going to make only podcasting like, or maybe watch theater or watch movies or just do art or sing or I don't know. So we're like, well, all these are a problem that we discuss and freedom of speech and all this stuff but when you compare them with the threat in a way that we have and also have nuclear weapons and like nah yeah it's do you believe I interviewed a man Mo Goddard he was called yeah yeah yeah he was a Google exec but he says I read his book yeah happiness solve for happiness yeah he says AI is going to be one billion times smarter than any human But who says we're not the computers Who says we're not already AI Our brains It's the most powerful machine on the planet You know Everybody's programmed though The way you see the world is because you've been programmed The way I see it Different levels of trauma Different levels of religion Or whatever the fuck it is But it's such a powerful machine What do you think we are?

1:29:28I don't know But they've been saying for a lot of years, the Turing test. The Turing test is like the thing that you call someone and you don't understand that you are talking to a robot or a human. Like, pass the Turing test. This is how they call it. And I think we're at this level right now. When you speak with Grok, for example, most of the times you don't understand that you're talking to a robot and not a human. And I think it's proven very fast, maybe in one, two. So how do we know that we are, like this is the philosophical question, who we are and how do we know that we have consciousness and what is consciousness anyways?

1:30:14And like you get to a lot of theories and all this stuff. But by the way, this was my passion for a long year to just hear podcasts about this stuff and try to understand the universe and the nature of the universe. But yeah, why we are superior to machines? Why we're better? How biological, they are silicon. Do you ever think we are machines? I don't know. Like avatars? I don't know. Maybe on a bigger game. But I also, like, I don't know is the question, but I also, a lot of the times, because my father is a priest and I grew up in religion, I kind of think that a lot of the times I speak with God sometimes and I have a conversation and I say, oh.

1:31:06So it feels also to me that there is something above that we don't understand. Maybe it's God, maybe it's something that we don't know. Higher power? Higher power, yeah. So I don't know. I don't know about this stuff. I don't, there's so many, so many, so many unanswered questions. So much smarter people than me that they studied this stuff in their entire life, which I'm not qualified to talk about. I think these topics. Yeah, no, I think you're smarter than what you look, bro. I think you're very in tune, very switched on. you know and everything you set your mind to you kind of go after it and you get it well i think like i i see what naval uh ravi can say so what is smart now like what is iq does iq matter like how will we consider someone that is smart i think the ultimate test if you are smart do you get what you want out of life or not because if you have the biggest iq and you want to make money and you can't, fuck your IQ.

1:32:13So it's like, I think the more, if you get what you want, I think it's a proof that you're smart, I think. What's been the hardest the Navy SEALs YouTuber have been in government? Well,

1:32:41it's a difficult question actually well because i think the navy seals was the hardest one i think mentally being in the european parliament mentally i mean the game uh that you need to understand yourself and improve and learn and all this stuff and there is nobody to put you to do things and all this stuff is your own program. And also there is a lot of negativity and there is like now every topic that you are saying, you're dividing people because some people agree with this, some people disagree with this. So, yeah, I think politics is very hard.

1:33:21But you know, it's a beautiful thing, politics. The question of how do we govern ourselves, for me, is very intriguing and very sexy and very beautiful. So before I became a politician, when I was campaigning, it's like a very beautiful place to be and for learning. Because my goal for me, first of all, with combination to be useful to society and to do productive things that are useful to others. but it's for me to learn and gain knowledge and like being a member of the European Parliament and also doing YouTube before like you get a lot of knowledge about like for example I'm voting about something that honey has inside and is it good for this honey to have these things or like some biohacking that is doing on very weird things that we put in the medicine and all this so it's like uh you're voting about everything you are forced to learn so many things so for me i'm i feel very blessed to be in politics because i learned a lot of things and my goal i was saying also before is to not have goals just to to learn and understand the the world and maybe i will say this because it's kind of a a philosophy that helped me a lot in life.

1:34:55Because if you have a goal, and let's say is to become the biggest YouTuber in the world, if you have this goal, I think you are limiting your potential. Because maybe you can achieve this goal, but on the way, maybe you stop from going to other paths that they will take you in better and your beautiful destinations. And you don't know what is beautiful because you may be some unknown destinations that humans never went before. So I had this in mind and that's why every decision to take with my instinct in a way to take with what is interesting at the moment for me to do. Is it interesting to do a video about politics and run for politics?

1:35:44Yes. Is it interesting not to go do politics? Yes. So I'm taking decisions basically on what is interesting at the moment. And I'm waiting for life to take me to places in order for me to have it reversed, to have goals. And I don't know if that makes sense. I think this was very helpful for me because I think I was not going to achieve as many things if I was not having this philosophy. If you became Prime Minister or President and you could change three things in the world, what would you change? Well, in the world, we'll talk about Cyprus now. By the way, it's a pity, ladies and gentlemen. So sad because I cannot become a Prime Minister or President of my country because I'm 35.

1:36:36I'm not 35. You need to be 35 years old to become President of your country, of my country. So I'm 25 right now, 25 years old. So anyways, maybe in the future. Or maybe I can change the constitution with some other people in Cyprus and then we can become presidents. But anyways, first I think is the population. I think we need to solve this problem because we need to give incentives. I don't know, imagine some incentives like why a woman not to get 200 euros for each kid that she gets. Why not? They're going to contribute to the country after they're born and they're going to give the GDP and it's going to be an investment for the country.

1:37:33You're going to grow the population. This is what you want. So some hardcore big incentives for population growth. The other thing is kind of the housing thing, like I said before, because I speak a lot with a lot of people and that's their major problem. The young people cannot do anything about this. so maybe some in a way some structures incentives to drop the prices of the building homes and all this stuff imagine if you are the government and you come up with some incentives for the companies that make houses some tax breaks some incentives for them to make more houses that will make more money so if you give them incentives, it will increase the supply and then it will with the demand because it will be if the prices will be dropped.

1:38:40So it needs some kind of coordination involvement of the government to drop the prices on this thing. And the third one I was going to for my country because this is the first one actually because Cyprus is occupied. 38 % of the territory of Cyprus is occupied by Turkey. So we need to solve the problem and have a solution with, we'll have also Turkish Cypriots and live united. Because if you were such a small island, like only 30, only one million population, how a country, and we'll have a capital that is the last capital in Europe that is divided, where I grew up, and we'll have a checkpoint to pass on the other side.

1:39:26So it's like, it's madness. and it's been since 1974 after the Turkish invasion and we need to solve this problem now but you know the problem is like also we need to get out the military bases that the UK has in Cyprus because we don't want them there I don't think any other country should be in any other countries you know I genuinely feel that I think like we spoke earlier Britain has colonized a lot of the world but I think every country should have their whole culture their own beliefs and when you go to these countries you've got to respect their religion you've got to respect their culture their people and i think that's what makes the world a great place scotland is scotland because it's got fucking scottish people india is in the big india because it's indian people i think when people try and change cultures and try and change their religion and try and force their own beliefs that's not a way because it's great that there's so many different cultures it's great that i can go to italy or sweden or cyprus or america and they've got their own country and their own.

1:40:27Also the world is changing though. Like what it was Italy before it was like the world is changing. People are changed. Countries are changing and evolving and all this stuff. So it's like, so like United States before 400 years, what it was, there was some other people so changing and all this stuff. So I am with you. We need to, countries should, uh, strive for this, but it's inevitable after like 1 ,000, 2 ,000 years, we don't know if UK will exist, we don't know if Cyprus will exist, like, and the culture will exist. But we, because we should, because culture is beautiful, like how we grew up and the history and all this stuff, we should try to preserve it as much as we can.

1:41:14Yeah, history changes and I think the people who win the wars can rewrite history. Yeah. If you look at Gaddafi, what he done for these people, he wasn't a bad man. if you look what it done for pregnant women if you look what it done for healthcare and education and people who wanted to grow their own crops people need to do their own research and it's, all dictators are bad to a degree, we had Tony Blair, Obama, look at the destruction they caused and the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan like her soldiers shouldn't be there but and we need to start imposing our values to fucking everyone, let them be how they want to be Don't go to Afghanistan and try to make it a democracy.

1:41:56It never works. Tell me when in the past they tried to overthrow the government and to change, make it more democratic and it worked. Never. So like why they fucking still doing it? They just dividing the war. They just making wars and they're not actually benefiting from it as well in the long run. That's all your poppy fields, gold. It's all money. It's all corruption. and that's why I struggle to see anyone in politics except from yourself brother so you didn't do a lot of politicians but yeah I've interviewed politicians yeah it's just all fucking hate and choose a side and believe in me and I think I don't believe in any of them because nothing's changed they don't care about the people they only care about how much money they're making how many votes they can get so they just try and manipulate people that they're good people but once they get in they don't fucking change anything Yeah, but also like, if you think about it, I think we made systems impossible to change.

1:43:00Like the bureaucratic system is bigger than the faces that you see on top. Like you maybe think that there is a president and members of the European Parliament, but But the structure that we made, the bureaucracy, it makes it impossible. In the beginning, it was easy for things to change. But after rules and regulation and bureaucracy, after a lot of years, it becomes like a monster that is impossible to change, even if you're on the top sometimes. Or it needs a lot of guts and it needs a lot of stuff. But I think that's the problem. We created monsters, systems that rule countries and the politicians are just the puppets in a way of the bureaucratic systems.

1:43:52Yeah. Do you think the world will ever be a great place? It's a great place. I think it is a great place. I'm very optimistic. I love the world. Like if you go by your day, you're going to see so many people going by their day being peaceful. Maybe you are going to see one person shouting once a day. Like that's the most that can happen. The world is an amazing place. Like I truly believe that the world is so beautiful. And like I'm very blessed to be in this beautiful world. Like I love it. It's the fucking best coolest experience ever. I believe so, bro. What's your plans for the future? Oh, I don't know.

1:44:36I told you I'm not making a lot of plans. but it's mostly in the next five to 10 years to learn and try to change politics, not for the sake of changing, try to make some innovations in politics, not only in Cyprus, but in Europe. And with this direct democracy, test and learn some things, how it works. Also, try to enlighten the people with how the system works and what are the problems and all these things. But I spoke to you before about the European Parliament, and I want to explain to you about this bureaucratic system that I explained how it kind of takes decision by its own. It became bigger than the people running it.

1:45:22I want to explain you a bit the mechanism, because now that I'm from the inside,

1:45:29and it's very unique information that I have, and I want to share it.

1:45:37So there is members of the European Parliament, let's say, that they get elected from their countries with a political party in their countries. And they go and they enter inside a political group in the European Parliament, which they're kind of similar, not the same. They're friends with their political party. And here, the political party, they have like, I don't know, EPP is the biggest political group. But let's take, for example, another group that has like 70 members out of the 720, ECR. ECR has 70 members. And like they vote, most of the times the groups, the political group vote 96, 98 % the same.

1:46:28all the members that they have. So I will give you an example. When someone, for example, from the group ECR went to Russia, they kicked him out of the political group because they didn't want him to go to Russia. So there is so much fear in a way for you to follow their agenda. And if you don't vote how they vote, how some people behind the scenes, behind closed doors are deciding. Because some people behind closed doors are deciding and making the real decision. If you don't vote, they will kick you out. And then they will kick you out of the party. And then they will kick you out of the local party as well.

1:47:13And you don't want this. And as a politician, you obey and you just vote whatever they want you to vote. So even against the will of the people that voted you on even what you promised, because you want your job to be there and you don't want to lose your polygraph career for them to kick you out because you don't have the independence that I have that I'm independent and I got elected myself, you obey all the people. So this is kind of what I mean, but it's a huge master that forces and and bullies everyone to behave inside the system. So that's, I think, how it works. I wanted to just give an example from the inside because I have this unique experience for you guys to understand.

1:48:02What does your fans say, your followers? Are they happy for you or are they kind of shocked that you're in parliament? Oh, depends on the video. One day if I speak about that, I think that I love everyone in the world, even gay people, even Russian people, even Turkish people, even Iran people, they get mad at me. So it depends on what I'm saying. But for me, I stop these funds. I'm just trying to be useful and everything else is irrelevant for me. I'm trying to be useful to the world. So I don't really think about how they think, but I get a lot of love. And like for me, when you go to Cyprus, for example, because the relationship that they have is a very unique one, because now I am their influencer that they are connected with and now I'm their politician as well.

1:49:07So they tell me their problems and also they feel that I'm their friend as well. So they say, oh, they took my house. I want some help. Please. Or they say, please continue to say what you are saying. You are a light in this darkness of politics. So it's a lot of cool things, a lot of bad things as well. Like a lot of hate comments, a lot of this stuff. Also sometimes because my fiance is in the room now, sitting in the corner, she gets a lot of hate as well because of me. so

1:49:46but it's fair play to you for what you're doing you've got a very old head on a young man's shoulders you know you're very wise so yeah for 25 you're very in like I've said earlier very in tune but I think it's generally with the new generation because we grew up with the internet having a lot of information being able to try a lot of things from earlier age like for example Mr Beast he was making videos from 12 years old and he's been doing it for 15 years and now he's a billionaire with YouTube. Like I think it's just a new, because we were exposed to the real world earlier, not after university, because I never went to the university.

1:50:28But people like 20, 30 years ago, they were waiting to go to the university and then to get their first job and then to start reading and learning. So, yeah, I think it's a byproduct. And I think people, the younger generation, is martyr in general. What have you learned most being in politics? I learned how the system works. I learned how countries behave and why they behave. And the power games and the alliance that they're doing. And now I put kind of the puzzle of how it works and I can understand when someone says this, like for example, when Trump gives a speech and says, like for example, that they want to support Israel.

1:51:18I understand the mechanisms kind of that behind this, say, why they are supporting it. What is the problem with supporting it? Why maybe the Israel lobby that in United States? Or I understand the mechanisms kind of, not everything, but this is very cool to understand this stuff. It's politics are so fun. they say this, politics is like a micro virus. Once you get it, it's like you are so excited about politics and it consumes you. Who has the most votes inside European Parliament? Who's the biggest country? It's Germany. So basically Germany does whatever it wants. Most of the times, if they agree with france and italy these are the what about spain uh i think less uh spain but spain is up there as well germany as a strong country yeah germany does because also they have like a whatever 85 members of the european parliament so if you have so many like you can influence you can do a lot of stuff because most about the majority when you have the majority you can pass stuff so if you make one alliance with Germany and you find some common grounds, like, you get what you want.

1:52:51Yeah, with politics, there is a lot of corruption, there is a lot of tarnishing. Have they tried to tarnish your name? Have they tried to bring you down yet in the media? Oh my god. This, but not in Europe. Some people in Europe, but like, they don't have that big motivation to take me down in Europe, I think. But in Cyprus, because I'm threatening that I was just by myself, I'm like bigger than the third biggest political party. And the first political party was 24%. The other one was 20.5. And then I got 19.4. So they are afraid that they're going to lose their positions in the next elections, in the next years.

1:53:36so I anything I do the parties go make statements and say bad things about me and he's just a kid a stupid guy and it's just so weird to be in my shoes like I'm just a 25 year old kid and then I have all the parties whatever I make make statements against me and like a lot of people believe in them so because but this is the privilege of social media. If it was before a hundred years, before 50 years, they could control the narrative. They can go to the TV, they can pay, they can do a lot of this stuff. But now I get, I have a podcast in Cyprus that is the biggest podcast in Cyprus. We get 50 to 100 ,000 views every podcast and we make shorts and all this stuff.

1:54:28I have people watch my podcast more than they see the news in the night live in all the stations, the TV stations. So it's like the new world of decentralization of media is fucking cool because it gives you all the power back. It gives you a voice, definitely. That's one great thing about social media that you're not just tarnished in media, the newspapers, the news and everyone believes that. Now you can actually fight back. You can fight back. They all say bad statements And then I just make a video and I just say, oh guys, by the way, that was not exactly what I said. Let me explain to you.

1:55:11And like people are okay. Okay, cool. And the video gets like 500 ,000 views. Everyone in Cyprus watches it. So it's like, yeah, it's very beautiful to control the narrative, your narrative. And like to be able to, yeah, social, but you know, understood how important is controlling the narrative in politics. One fight is the media fight always, also in a war, also everywhere. They're all paid. It's a media fight. They're all paid though. What about, what does your family say? Are they proud of you?

1:55:46I consume a bit too much that energy, I think. But my family, I have great relationship with me and my family. and also my fiance is like the only thing that kind of keeps me in a way sometimes grounded because they treat me like I'm shit. They treat me like... Is that if you don't have the power? Yeah. I have twin brothers that are 18 years old and they treat me like, oh, you came again, fuck you. It's like I'm so excited to see this behavior from some people. We have great relationship with a big family and we have a great bond. It's cool. But now as I'm getting older, now I'm going to get married in a few months and I'm going to start my own family.

1:56:43So yeah, it's another exciting day. But that's what I'm saying. Life is amazing. So there is so much stuff to do in life. So, and maybe we are going to be the last, the humans that we maybe decide to live forever or not, because now with all this technology and all this stuff, maybe you are, how old are you? 41. Yeah. You are too old. Maybe, I don't know. I'm joking, but like. No, you're not. Selfie joking. But when you, when we are 70, 80, 60, maybe there is some way to reverse aging. or to, I don't know, you never know, upload our brains, all the data, all the memories somewhere, and then you can live in a robot.

1:57:32I don't know. I don't know how it works, but maybe we're going to have the decision to live forever. If you had the decision to live longer and forever, will you take it? I think so. I think so as well. Life is so beautiful. Yeah. I think someone has the sort of, the blueprint how to live longer. I think water fast is important I think not eating as much I think we're greedy bastards I think we like to eat I listen I'm a big man I like to eat but hopefully we can all figure it out and everyone can live in peace and harmony but it's also good to have a bit of madness you know brother how are you feeling today?

1:58:09Yeah very good I enjoyed our conversation I'm very grateful to be here and like you know when these podcast we never met before so it's an opportunity to meet new people make an interesting conversation learn from each other so yeah podcasts are the coolest thing that's what it's all about for anybody watching brother for anybody that's maybe struggling in life just now mentally or financially or don't feel as if they can't go on anymore what advice would you have for them I'm not good with advice. I never try. I try to avoid giving advice to people because when you cannot, everyone has different circumstances.

1:58:58So one advisor will give with like, I'm so fortunate with these jeans, for example, and like, I feel 24 seven that I'm so happy and excited and how I'm going to give advice to someone that has different contacts and I can only share my experiences. But like, for example, one experience that I can share that helped me with struggling when I was like 17, 18 years old and I discovered some, I started to listen some books. I said The book was asking a question, when was the best day of your life? Do you remember it? And I was like, no. And the book said, well, if you don't remember the best day of your life and your life kind of passes and you don't even remember the best day of your life, it's like you don't live.

2:00:02You don't live to the fullest. So I said, it's interesting. Imagine living all the life and not even remembering your favorite day or the best day of your life. It's a pity to not remember the best day of your life. And I took the decision when I was 17 to say every day that is the best day of my life and convince myself that is the best day of my life and find reasons that it was the best day of my life. Maybe I was crying and I was sad because something happened, but I was convincing myself. I was so beautiful because I feel strong emotions and I'm enjoying this. Or when I was in the Navy SEAL, they were drowning me and I was like, oh, it was the best day of my life because I felt how it's not to breathe.

2:00:51And I appreciated the air and like I always convinced myself. And since then, in the beginning of the podcast, I said this is the best day of my life. So I feel maybe it would have been like probably 30, 40 days that I said a lie. That was not my best day. But I convinced myself that every day is the best day of my life. And it gets better and better every day because I grow up, I learn more and all this stuff. So I don't know. This is kind of what's an experience that I can share about Strangman. But everyone is different circumstances. I cannot give advice that's okay my brother for anybody who's want to maybe contact you what is your social media link what's your YouTube your X your Instagram no they shouldn't contact me but they can book me to make a speech in their company and teach the company maybe about social media or other things as well okay pdyas at keynote.com would you like to finish up on anything else brother?

2:01:59no thank you so much you know it's very hard in life

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2:03:51You don't have this experience. So this is a very interesting dynamic in a podcast because you just listen and you don't interact and you let me speak. So it's a very beautiful thing. Like, it's a beautiful experience for everyone as well to be listening for 10 minutes and not be interacting. I enjoyed it so much. I had a great conversation. I wish you nothing but the best for the future and I look forward to see what you do. Listen, keep up the great work you've achieved so much at such a young age, but I believe you're going to achieve even bigger in the future. So stay blessed and God bless.

2:04:24Love you, have a great day guys, bye bye.