Cody Johnston, better known as "The Weird Canadian", doesn’t just talk tech; he lives it. From quitting a cushy government job to building custom AI-driven business tools. Cody’s mission is clear: take technology out of the corporations’ hands and give it back to creators. We go deep into the truth behind AI, censorship, and the digital future no one’s ready for. Where small creators, not big media, will drive the next wave of innovation.

This conversation stretches from nuclear power to 9/11 conspiracies, and religion. Also, the rise of neurodivergent thinkers shaping our new reality. It’s a full-on dive into philosophy, code, and culture. Where art, science, and rebellion meet. Cody reminds us that conformity kills creativity. Seeing now, that our future belongs to the weird ones.

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Dave: Really, it really sucks. Right, because I was talking, I was thinking about this the other day, where, you know, a lot of times you don't wanna glorify celebrities, but there were pretty famous people within the industries, you know, like even somebody like David Bowie, where they really, really tried to push for the organic and underground scene when he was alive.

A lot of those people are dead, you know, and it kind of sucks because it's kind of nice to have somebody around that actually supports those artists and creators. But now like, you know, it's a good thing that that algorithm is changing, but now you're kind of left on your own. You don't really have that outlet or network to lean on anymore because it no longer exists.

So now you have to like work more heavily on technology to figure out how to be able to get it to work.

It's just. It's going away from, I need to have a viral moment to, Hey, let's your video in a way that's welcoming to everybody. That, that progresses kind of nicely so that it, it, it becomes something you want to watch as opposed to something that's just out there and yeah, like, Hey, I had this viral moment, so now I'm gonna follow this guy and never watch a single part of his content ever again,

Dave: No,

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Right. The, the vanity

Dave: know

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: it's getting away from that.

Dave: it's crazy.

Like, you know, how these channels are going, where you've got these bigger channels that.

But I was like thinking of this as if you're a content creator and you're making films, wouldn't AI be the replacement for CGI? that that sounds kind of realistic? Like you can have filmmakers use the AI instead of using CGI, instead of like having this whole fear mongering of people like, oh my God, AI is gonna destroy the film industry.

It's like, wait, hang on a minute, maybe is just gonna replace because we've already reached the point where I don't really think you can go any further with CGI anymore.

It's like, no, it's gonna progress over years. And you're, you're most likely not even gonna notice. Um, but right now the biggest constraint is the backlash on people. Um, because yeah, you're gonna lose your job. I'm not gonna, these millionaires and and billionaires in Hollywood are going to lose their jobs and lose money like crazy because it's now affordable.

Build out the script, build out the scenes, build out the, the actors, have them act. You spent all this time doing that, and then you slap on VFX for two weeks later and say, yeah, we, we have a good movie. And they're like, how are you not seeing that correlation? Um, but my gonna change that because not only do you no longer need, um, storyboarding story boarding's right out the door, you can do that with ai.

Dave: I think also what what gets kind of lost in the weeds is this idea of even being able to use practical effects because you do, you still have directors like Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, that still heavily rely on this now, you have that fearmongering again where it's like, Well, is gonna take away practical effects. I feel like it can give directors and executive producers. the, ability to almost be able to reach the levels of Stanley Kubrick because instead of being in Stanley Kubrick's head and figure out how he figured out all of this, you can be able to utilize those tools in order to literally put yourself in Stanley Kubrick's head so you can able to figure out different ways of being able to make these practical effects work. I think what the problem is is mindset. You [00:06:00] have a lot of fearmongering that's existing. I think a lot of this fearmongering is coming from, um, how do we put this Nicely? Media, large corporations. 'cause they're terrified. They've been, they've been having a choke hold for over 98 years. Do you think they wanna get rid of that?

Oh no. Oh no. They wanna hold on as long as they can.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Well, the, the thing around this that I can't get past, everybody, everybody out there is like, we need regulation. We need regulation. I'm like, how the fuck are you gonna regulate me? Who can build this same AI that's now existing on these big lms? How are you gonna regulate my L? Right? Like, I get it. We need, we need to have some sort of code of ethics and, and, and stuff.

Like, why are, why are the individual, you and me worried that this is gonna happen? It's, it's not. It's just being overblown so that they can protect their bottom line. And, and this, there's one fun topic I wanna get into. Uh, just before I let you go in. Um, Oh I have this concept of we're going to go in an age of superheroes and super villains, and we can dive into that in a little bit.

It's like the, the, the, the, [00:09:00] the Frankenstein hating its own creation. Like it exists. It's not, it's not fiction anymore, it's. This is the, the, the one thing that I want people to take away is it's not just open ai, right? Like, um, we need to stop thinking of AI as these companies because it's not like I have my own model. Several million people across the plant have their own models that are not hooked up to GPT at all. Um, you can create your own.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Um, I also use the all, every single one. Like I don't, I don't trust just one. I run everything through several different models to check and verify. Um, there is no trust in ai. Um, until we can boil it down to like the individual level, until everybody has their own version of an, an AI that they can control that they have, has their own private interest in mind, keeps them protected.

Dave: Yeah. because just a little bit of an understanding for like people that are listening, what AI today, it's not really artificial intelligence. We use that terminology in really simple form, And, correct me if I'm wrong, it's basically a language-based algorithm. uses a mixture of different programming languages in order to create what's called an input and output.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Yeah. And, and that it's, everybody sees it as like this entity. Uh, we're not at the entity stage yet. It, it does feel like it's a line. We're not there yet. I can guarantee that. Well, I can't guarantee that somebody might have a version that's more advanced and isn't showcasing us. That's a high probability.

Um, compute,

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Like, it, it, it's just a matter of time before it becomes powerful enough that you can run the most powerful model on your phone or on your desktop computer. Those types of things. Like we're not that far away. It's just we have to build the AI to teach us how to build the power capacities to scale back our power usage.

Um, and this is where like everybody also gets afraid. Yeah.

They're not large. They're today with advancement of safety. I, I promise you, you can do all this research like are some of the most safest nuclear plants on the planet. Like, they're not gonna blow up any single time, but that, that's what they do. It's this, this, this insane fearmongering of like, well, we need wind power and we need coal and da da.

I'm like, could literally build a nuclear pan plant. The thing will last thousands of years like you could power entire country off of two of these plants. What the hell are we doing?

Um, and I don't, I haven't heard from him since he built it, right? Like, these are the things that just go away and, and you don't hear about it. There were two guys building their own, um, AI device, being able to build an AI capable of proportions to be working on this. I haven't heard from people disappear when, when the agenda is questioned.

Um, and, and we have to stop questioning that that's happening. It is happening. We just don't wanna say it's happening. Um, and I don't wanna say like towards any conspiracy. It's not any one government. Like if you have somebody who has the ability to build these things, would you not be scared? Would you not try to take them out?

Um, especially seeing as fusion is becoming more of a, a breakthrough province. Uh, I believe there's a, a facility out in BC that is so close to the, uh, breaking of, uh, nuclear fission fusion. Um, and I think it's just a matter of we need more gas. This is, this is the fun part. Everybody's like, oh my god, climate change is gonna destroy.

We can't have more gas. We need more gas so we can get to the point where we don't need more gas. It's, it's not hard to see. I don't know why everybody's yelling at it.

And then in some cases, these planets that are going around stars. They happen to create an green, like this greenhouse environment where they can trap gases and they can trap certain things in the atmosphere so you can be able to create organic life. This is just a normal fact of our universe and this idea of like, yes, human beings have had an influence of climate change in all this.

I a hundred percent agree with that. However, our planet gives zero shits about human life. it.

himself into be, pushed himself really into becoming Prime Minister. Like that man is, got a dick so hard up his mouth, God, try to get that thing out, And I've got, I've got lots of things to say to him, but he, he has a value, he's a book called Values and it all talks about net zero, his climate agenda and like how it's, it's a value to us to [00:18:00] prepare our generation, like the next generations for the right? And it's all about the net zero. And I'm like, you, you know, net zero is bullshit.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: 'cause if you were actually funneling that money into climate change, we have no need for pipelines and gas. We have solar panels everywhere. We have all these technology that actually benefits and, and is clean all across our country, all across Canada. Where is it? No, it's just going into this global fund that nobody knows where the money goes, how it gets spent, and nobody can see why.

Dave: no, everybody's like, okay, we have climate change. How do we fix it? We fix it by building the shit that actually fixes the climate.

So they actually work. Hang on a minute. You create a technology and you have no idea how it works or functions or operates or how to make it, yet you put it in machinery and equipment every single day. That's a little weird. [00:20:00] That's a little weird.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: We, we don't question a lot of things to be honest with you. And I, I worry, I worry a lot about that. Um, one of the biggest piss off of my government career is the lying. It's always been that way. It pisses me off to no end. I don't like to not know, like even if we make a strive to see if we can change it and it says, Hey, this is the best way, then that's great.

But just to have that line, to tout that line, like that's not, that's not how you progress. That's not how you change. That's not how you learn.

You don't have to tarnish the poor little earth. But is anybody really heavily investing in building that docking and space station except maybe like three or four people like Elon Musk? No, because they don't really see any benefit in that. I'm like, okay, so you're trying to fix climate change, but yet you have a solution right here that's actually financially feasible.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Do you know what I mean? Yeah. yeah.

Yeah. AI really, really fucked his plan up because he was really happy. About what he was doing, and then AI came in and he's like, oh shit, if I leave, the AI is still based on whatever politics are based on this planet. So whatever I bring over to me is gonna be the same. I need to start fresh.

I need my own.

And you could go back and forth and every single time it tells you statistically possible, a human's chance of passing that belt is like five to 10%. But so. I am trying to put it in perspective. So right now, I would say we're at the point in space travel. Have you ever seen the original? Not the original, the 2000 Star Trek with, um, Archer. I, I'd say we're about 20 years away from that moment, right? Where we we're, we're space capable. Right now, we are space capable, but it's too, Yeah. too expensive for us to like make that a [00:24:00] renewable thing that we do, uh, daily even.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Right. Um, I think we're about 20 years away from that just because of where AI has put us Now. We're about 20 years away from having the ability to, to really start exploring space. And that means actually we're going to have suicide mission. We're gonna have to, or maybe we don't, maybe we send out robots.

Dave: You still need humans. I mean, you look at what happened with Voyager. The fact that again, you need, even in space, you need human input on these machines. You know, But

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: But then between. 2000 and like 2010, we had the phone revolution, and now we've been living in this phone revolution for so long. We're now at the, this age of an, uh, of ai and we've had these tenure spans for technology with what we are capable today with AI and how it, how fast it's expanding. We're now seeing 10 years probably condensed down to two months

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: I put it in perspective of, of my excitement today. 'cause when I started my programming career at 16, I was so amazed of what video game I could create with just putting in some words into the computer. Now I don't even need to put words into the computer. I can literally just have a conversation and build out an entire application from that conversation That is mind blowing the, the level of progression that I can do now.

Finally, uh, Sam Altman actually said this, uh, and I, I really resounded with this statement. For all of life. You thought there was an adult in the room who always knew what was going on, had a plan, awarded any things, and then as we grew up, we, we eventually learned that there, there is no fucking adult any in any room.

And, and we can say we do not know. And, and we, but every single one of them. Excited is optimistic. Does that not tell you that what we're building, like if we're optimistic for our future, the people building it are optimistic? Should, why are, why is everybody going negative?

Dave: Yeah. I, it's also like, you know, we touched on this earlier, especially in the automotive industry, where the. The generation of parts changers and mechanics has died. So a lot of the older generation that are used to just looking at leaks and things that start, they have no jobs anymore. And they know that and they're bitter.

You're like, holy shit.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: the part you need to replace. That's it.

allows you to work more seamless. allows that, you know, instead of making mistakes and then really suffering from your consequences, you don't have to really deal with that anymore. AB testing's a a beautiful thing with ai. Um, It's amazing. but I do wanna give some hope because like, if you think about it now, everybody knows they're gonna lose their job. Start looking for ways to not, like, I don't understand. Like you Yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna go through a change, find out what you love and get in it now.

All you have to do, you have the knowledge. All you have to do is put in the time and energy right now, while the market is, is looking for options. Everybody's looking for what's gonna be up there. All you have to say is, this is the next thing. I'm gonna go do it. I'm gonna go build it. Um, this is where I don't understand the fears coming from.

You can literally go to Tet and say, here are all my skills. Can you come up with a job or a business that I can create out of this?

Dave: No, it's, again, it, it comes down to this idea and I, I realize this also, especially like being able to have a career where you have to be able to be progressive in your idea of thinking like, am I gonna waste my time.

with General Motors or Ford or Stellantis? No, ruthless companies that give zero shits.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: I feel like the last decade has been a real shift in mindset. Like it's really been about pushing people down to think they're not capable of things. The the one biggest insight that I've learned, so, so to give a little context, I quit my job, everything to start my, my small business, my, my content creation, everything.

But figure out what you like and then build a business around it. And, and look at the industry. Like you could literally tap into, type into chat, DPT, um, here's an industry I wanna build. Where does it best work? And then move there. Like, I moved from Ontario to, uh, Newfoundland and I have so much more opportunity because small businesses out here don't have websites, they don't have technology, and they can benefit from me.

So you can also move to areas where you can get benefit. It's all about my mindset and, and learning that you're capable of more than you think you are.

And it's like, well, Ontario is right next to New York. I'm like, you cross the border, you're in fucking Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, some of the most poorest, impoverished areas in the United States. Whereas where you live, it's like right smack dab in like Northeast proper. Like, you know, being able to, again, we're talking about being able to work virtually where giving yourself the opportunity to be able to be successful. You know, this applies anyway. You don't have to be in a small place. You know, you could be in, for example, a big city, but like again, think about the skills and the things in the, I'll give you a great example for me. I'm like originally from New York and I'm planning on moving back to New York City.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Like novel business ideas, things people don't wanna do. Service, um, service is gonna get big. Uh, especially when it becomes more AI oriented. When everybody's like, I don't wanna deal with an AI anymore. The human interaction's gonna be big benefit. So if you like to converse with people, figure out something that only you can do that's, that has conversed to like, maybe you start a podcast, maybe you start a coaching service, that kind of thing.

Maybe you start actually in Japan, there's a guy who makes a hundred KA year and all he does is walk with you. He's a silent, uh, companion. Doesn't speak, doesn't say anything. He just shows up to your parties or wherever, just sits there and quietly sits with you. He is making a hundred KA year. Like these are novel ideas that are, are making money.

Dave: Here we are now. Here we are now it It's really weird.

it, is really weird and it, it's really strange in regards to how. Most individuals and most people, when you see things clearly and actually talk to individuals, you see a very different and reality than what's paved by media and corporations. You know, is gonna sound strange.

I'm one of those that genuinely believes we live in a virtual reality. I think we live in more in the realm of an organic virtual reality more than anything else. But there's a lot of things that points to that where if you just look at the coincidences, the way that uni, the universe, like veers your life around the people you're interacting.

If you re, and I've seen this, you pay attention. You're like, is this real? Am I, am I in like

Dave: It's just, it's cra because here's the thing, people kind of forget, right? It's where I see the world through my own eyes and you see the world through your own eyes, but we don't see the world the same. Like you see colors completely different than icy colors. You see, you know, you taste things or experience things completely different than I am.

no. So then the question is then why was it made up?

Why was it told as a story to people? Was it possibly because of lack of knowledge? I think so.

it gets tricky because I'm being honest with this. If you look at even ancient history and ancient civilizations, had an understanding of our universe with the lack of technology that we have today. So So, I've been really contemplating that one lately. No. So, yes, I've actually been really contemplating that lately. And it's really, I think it comes from the, the whole, um, Roman Empire. How long the, like Roman Empire, apparently it's always on men's minds and got me thinking about the Roman Empire and things like that.

This is gonna sound bad. And I'm not basing this on any reality. This is my own objective opinion. Um, I see there are two different groups of people and it really is neurodivergent neurotypical. Um, I've come to to understand that when neurodivergent people aren't understood, they normally have like a good understanding of what's going on, how it's happening, and, and have a good idea of how it affects it.

I think it's different now because we're in an age of base intellect in terms of everybody kind of understands that smarts is the way to go over bronze the majority of the time. Yeah. Um, and I kind of boiled it down to, you know, the, the, the quote, the meek shell inherit mirror.

Yeah. Oh boy. Oh boy. It is. So you hit the nail on the fucking coffin. It, it, it's strange because things get so political with people so easily, you know, I open up my mouth and I say, I'm libertarian. It's like, oh, you're maga you're, you're a crazy traditional conservative. I'm like. All I said was I was libertarian and like, oh, like first of all, I'm a, I'm apolitical.

Libertarian is just, you know, a set of mindset where like, I, I just like to, you know, don't tread on me. I live in my space. You live on my, you live in your space like that. That's plain and simple. That in itself, like kind of touches on that weird, you can either be that individual that lives in that environment and bubble where you listen to everybody around you.

Oh, yes. and they arrest people in the uk if they say things on social media and throw them in

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: and

Dave: pedophiles and murderers. Canada's actually on the steps to having that same legislature? Are you serious? Yeah, I I, I've been freaking out about it because Yeah, I know they're gonna come after me. I.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: You wanna get into that?

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: 'cause you just have to show up. You don't actually have to do work to get the money. Um, and, and that was my experience, a a big majority of government workers just sit there, collect their paycheck. I can still remember the of solitaire every day across somebody's desktop in a cubicle. Like there are workers who sit there and do nothing and collect the paycheck a hundred percent.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Um, so we hire consulting firms that cost us billions and give us millions in return. Yeah. Billions to millions. Um, then we, on top of that, have, um, people at the top, like we have structures where anybody in power that can actually change things are set in convictions where they can be fireable. Um, yeah.

So they could just lose everything. And then on top of that, you have so many levels of approval that by ti, by the time you've submitted something, it's six months to a year before you've been approved. This could be for an application that we had, an application needed for, for, for COVID. We needed to develop in four months.

Well, why can't we just have a process that allows us to hit that timeline?

Dave: Because they don't want it. Because they're spending money in ways, on and on, on top of that, people higher up. Have positions in these, uh, government. So to give a little bit more context, two years I was working from home during COVID, we were told over those two years it was the most productive we have ever been as, uh, a service to the Ontario people.

And then only to find out that the government pays for a hundred year leases on buildings. And they had just renewed that lease before COVID happened. So they needed to justify why they had a hundred year lease, right? These are the stupidities that go on in our government and this is why Doge came in and said like, Hey, look, we're, we're gonna wreck shit.

Because it, it, it needs to be dismantled. It needs to be looked at from at a, in a fine tooth comb and say, this is fucking nuts. Let's fix it. But we refuse to do that. We just build more. We build more thinking. It's gonna fix it instead of just actually looking at the problem and fixing it.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Same, same thing. Have a man who has never been in political office in his entire life, just became the, the head chief in charge of the entire nation. I, I'm not concerned. Uh, I'm interested to see how far he goes on his end. Like, so, you know, Trump came in and he, he went full. Full, right. And now you've got, uh, I don't even know his name coming in and he's [00:51:00] gonna go full left.

Let's see how far full left he goes. Momani. Yeah. Momani

Yeah.

Dave: Omar. Now you, you, you wanna hear the sick. Okay. Here's, here's the sickest part. Okay. I'm Arab. I'm an Arab Jew, and I'm, I'm Moroccan. He's an Arab, also in New York City. We have Arab Jews, we have Arab Christians, we have all sorts of types of Arabs. He only cares about the Arab Muslims. I'm like, okay. You're trying to represent yourself in a place where then you discriminate against the rest of your entire people. Because we don't fit your agenda. We don't fit your narrative. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. I, I don't go to the mosque, you know? And I don't celebrate Ramadan. Excuse me. Yeah.

Dave: Oh yes. Like firm, no, stop. Like that is it. If we didn't have organized religion, I'm not saying be faithful, go, go out and support your God. Do do some things. But if we didn't have organized religion, people would get along Oh, because it wouldn't, it wouldn't be, oh, I believe this. I believe that. It's like, okay, how do we work to make this better?

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Like stop fighting over each other's differences. Um, one other, uh, thought I had on that is like, um, we have all these mosques, churches and all these things. Why are they the default soup kitchens and homeless shelters and like, they get all these tax breaks and benefits for helping, uh, society. And then in Canada, they shut the doors.

Dave: I, what you're touching on is actually very true. And for me personally, like I grew up in a j like I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community that was a cult. It still is a cult to this day, and it's the prime example. They abuse the living crap out of the government. They, they lie about getting section eight.

They control the courts. They know who the judges are. They make sure to get them elected. They pay police officers under the table so they get a separate salary from the community to. Shove things away, and they get away with all of this stuff. And what happens, especially like places in New York, they make sure that whoever gets elected them.

I, know, I know, know. It's crazy. It's like, how many excuses of

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: I

Dave: past it. possibly use? I get it. We need to understand that our, our past happened. One of my, I just don't understand why it becomes this needed thing to say all the time. Yeah. We like, this is gonna sound bad. I don't want, I don't mean it in a bad, and this. like,

By the way, this antisemitism narrative, I want tell you, is like the biggest bullshit crap I've ever heard of in my entire life. I'm just gonna throw it out right there.

Why? Right. we had your chance, like we had, your grandparents did benefit from it. They, any of them that survived, got affordable housing, got education, got to do whatever, and live a great life. They got, they got afforded that. So why are you still getting the benefits? Why do you still get to use that card?

Dave: I know. I know. And it comes, it's not just Jewish community, it's every community. no. Why do you get to use the card? Like, I, I was bullied as a kid. I'm a geek. And, and, um, like, I don't use that as a crutch. Like, oh, I was bullied all my life, so this is what I'm doing. No. Like, No, who gives a shit? I'm, I'm, I'm this person. Like, I am the person that's gonna talk back to you because I, I think I have my own ideas and I think they oppose yours.

Dave: It's it, it's, it's basically a playing of the cards because this idea of, know, prime example, right? I'm African. And you have people that walk around. For example, a lot of black Americans, which most of their ancestry and history is from the Caribbean, or many of them are not even from Africa. They're from other parts of the world. you know, I open up my mouth and I'm say, I'm African American. They're like, well, you're not black. And I'm like, I'm actually from the freaking continent. Your family is from Haiti. Okay. And it's been in Haiti for probably hundreds of years. know, like, don't use this whole, this whole [00:57:00] color and race crap to justify your, your, your thinking. We're all in this together. It's like, regardless if you're white, it's regardless if you're Asian. It's like disrespecting somebody. And I'm gonna say this straight up, disrespecting somebody just because they're white is just so horrible. It's like,

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: It's the same thing that they, it's the same thing that they've been, I, I get it to a certain extent 'cause like there was a period after I was bullied where I did bullied. Right. Because you feel like you, you've gone through it like somebody else has to go through this. Like, I, I really, I get that, but you, you do need to rise above it.

Like you need, do need to understand that like you're setting yourself up for failure. If you keep on thinking that way. Like if, if you are honestly thinking that every white man is out to like lynch your ass. It's not true. You're not going to go very far. And like I, I swear to God, I don't give a shit what, who you look like or what you look like.

Um, but I had, when I was younger, walked down the street and I was just like, oh, somebody's coming towards me. Didn't even notice who they were. And I just like, I crossed the street and I got bitched at because it was happened to be a black dude. And he's just like, oh yeah, man, walking across the street 'cause you're afraid of me.

And I'm like, I don't even know who the fuck you are, man. I don't like people. I get afraid of everybody. Like I'm just crossing the street. And it's like, are you, is every, if you think everybody's out to get you, then everybody's out to get you. Like it's all your own head. And getting out of that, that mentality will take you places, like have a conversation with me and I, I guarantee you it's not gonna go anywhere in terms of race.

Dave: The issue is that we forget that in instead of being able to sit by the table and be able to hold hand in hand and realize that a lot of the differences that we have between us minor. You know, even levels of even our sexuality is extremely minor. It really just plays to your own personal life. That when you actually look past all those things, we, we pretty much want the same thing. Even as artists and content creators, we pretty much want the same things. We, we want to be heard, we want other people to excited and passionate about the work that [01:00:00] we're doing. It doesn't matter if you're white, if you're black, if you're gay, if you're liberal, if you're conservative, it doesn't, it doesn't really change anything.

It doesn't really benefit in any way. That's, that's you personally. That's your, Prospects, you're

I know. doesn't, doesn't live in Canada. I've had resources in, in London and, and the us like I even, in terms of friends, like you're limiting yourself to such a tiny pool. There's so many people out there that

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: build you up and help you out. And if you're stuck in this little pool, you're not gonna find.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: They don't want to. That's, that's the whole thing. They don't want us thinking differently. That's the whole reason these algorithms are set up. Um, the good part is they're changing.

Dave: Hopefully faster than they are. Hopefully faster. 'cause it feels like it's really slow. I, I, I hate to say there's something going on. There's a,

Um, I really like suggest watching that one because it's very interesting on how. Propaganda is POIs to poison your mind.

And one thing you realize the most is right, in order pull something off like that, you know, you need to have some type of military experience. on top of that too, need to understand chemicals. So one thing that we do know today is the fact that, like, even with, we were talking about this earlier with electric cars, use li, a lot of 'em use lithium ion batteries.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: If you think about like next week, a Waymo could just drive into any random city and decide to like blow up a building.

Yeah. It's, I feel like up until AI was created, like up until like the last three years, I would say we were focused very much on destruction.

Um, it, it's just. ago. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I, I worry that something big's gonna happen, um, and that it's gonna jump into that, but I, I, I seriously doubt the level of people that will jump into that as opposed to 24 years ago, right? I can't see. There's, there's a lot more risks. There's a lot less people willing to do it.

Um, there's a lot more like people who are willing to like, just be like, why the fuck would I do this? Like, there, there's no way a government can have conscription nowadays without mass by, from the, from citizens, right?

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: And it's even, it's even harder to, to discredit people nowadays too. 'cause there's proof. Yep. But now we've got ai,

Dave: Oh yeah. right? So that, I think that's the government play. I think that they're just gonna say, well, these are AI videos, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's gonna be their narrative. But again, anybody can go search that. Anybody can look deeper if they want to, but there is no, there is no covering. And that's, that's the, this is the whole thing.

If you wanna know, just look it up. Like it's, it's really, I think, gonna be like less, I think we're gonna have less bad actors because it's gonna be harder to get away with shit in public. Um, I but that, that kind of goes to my superhero, super villain era that I think we're gonna get into.

I'm not gonna give them discredit, but we now know a lot of the, the, the cancer and the treatments, it's all a scam. They're all trying to make money off people. In many cases, there's been cases where doctors have lied and purposely put patients on chemotherapy when they didn't even have cancer to begin with. That's all shifting, and eventually, we'll probably be entering a world where people will probably have less cancer, better treatments and plans, because you'd be surprised of, I, I've seen this on TikTok in many videos, where there are people, they're refusing chemo. They're just flat out they're, Nope, nope, doing it. Nope. Got a second opinion, figured out a different treatment plan. They went into.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: I, I'm very forefront in technology and medical breakthroughs. We are so close to solving cancer. It is ridiculous. Like I wouldn't be surprised if there are trials on humans in the next few. For brand new revolutionary cancer for like, killing, killing, not just putting it away. It will get rid of it in the next year,

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Go look. It's, it's out there. You could literally just say, Hey, ai, take this transcript from this YouTube and go look up the valid, verify all these points. That, that's how easy it is to look up information like. It, it used to be you had to go do hours and hours of research, and I used to do that. I used to do hours and hours of research to figure out what the fuck was going on.

Dave: What? Um, getting a little geeky over here. Like even, for example, we're touching on Star Trek. You know, obviously Gene Ron Barry was a little bit of ahead of its time and probably Star Trek is not as realistic as, you know. We, we hope it to be. one idea which interesting is this, like, how on earth do you pull idea of building these insane spacecrafts? They're able to whisk through light years in space. I think one of the solutions, and you can kind of see that even in the early seasons, I get it's from the sixties and it's a little hard to watch, especially they have carpet flooring space. I get it. It's okay. I'm on, I'm on the same boat with you. But what is really fascinating is they, it's the idea of being able to have that artificial intelligence onboard on those spacecrafts. It's like they don't have smartphones because it's in their mind, they're constantly [01:13:00] connected with those computers. How exactly are their surviving space? probably where they either have like neither nano robots or nano processors or either something that. with their suits. Again, this is very like sci-fi and crazy, but able for them to survive in those extreme, harsh environments. You say it's, it's sci-fi but it's not. We have this deck, we don't have it to the scale of, of Star Trek yet, but we do have nanobots, uh, we have, uh, thermo, Thermo, uh, negative, uh, um, material now. Like actually the more heat you, you put on this material, the cooler it gets. Um, like we, we, we have the technology, we are just, it's at the base stages of these levels.

Um, because it's just cementing his vision.

So forces people to stay down and things are not floating. He figured this out in the sixties.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: These, these things. This is the, the, this is the crux of what I, I don't understand. So Yeah. the, the twenties and the seventies, I would say we have some of the smartest minds in working on the hardest problems in public. Like you could go back and, and see like the lecture notes that Einstein gave and, and the detail he gave it to what he believed we get towards.

I. But I know for a fact like we're gonna have poly decks, we're gonna have clean energy, we're gonna have, um, replic, uh, like, uh, Replicators. replicators. And you know why we have that base technology right now with 3D printers. Currently we're working on building 3D printers into food and organic printers as well.

On top of that clean energy, um, we're working on fusion and, and all these other solutions. We're we're, I can say that those creations are most likely going to be in our future because we have the base technology and even, even back in the sixties, we had the base technology to go to space, so we knew what space would be like.

It was all on our human minds to pro pontificate on what it could be.

is freaking legend. um, but like, I, I just don't think we celebrate them enough, and that's where the negativity is coming from, is we don't have these great thinkers out on the stage saying, this is what's possible. This is what we're gonna have. And, and really like saying like, the future's gonna be great. Um, I hope to be one of those.

Awe and inspiration of seeing rockets going to space and, and having a VR buddy that I can have my imaginary friend is now a real thing that I can see without my imagination and talk to, and that I can go back to when I'm older and ask like how I was and how I changed. Like these are things we need to be implanting in kids right now so that the next generation can build the fantastical that we envisioned today.

Um.

You create nine to fives, you create these, is it awful and terrible? Yes. But then the next generation will come along and have a completely new different structure in order to combat this. So instead of them being in that philosophy of the nine to five and treating people like machines, it might be that seamless integration with machines so people can feel more human instead of feeling lost and [01:21:00] disgusting about themselves.

They're just sitting in front of the computer, hi. You know, they're on their phone and they're so more of, like you said, to an environment of where you can be working in these positions, where you can be either interacting with. AI or software able to really hone into your skills more effectively? We have to stop blaming the, your generations. Yes.

Sometimes they bring us wreck and havoc, but sometimes they really do bring a lot of advancements. Like the generation before the boomers, the generation before the boomers, they, they changed their world. They allowed people that were starving and, and could barely get by to actually be able to we we have this, this planet of abundance. We just need to start trading it like such.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Um. And yeah, just think I wanna leave people, everybody wondering, or with this thought, we have spent [01:23:00] the past 20 years trying to conform, um, the nineties were us trying not to conform. I don't know what happened those days, but uniformity is what kills us, and you just gotta stay weird.

Dave: You gotta stay weird. and you know what? We gotta be able to, and this is something I really try to utilize very heavily. You know, having people such as yourself on really opens up the doors. Where're, we're not alone in this. You know, we have that have better understanding of these technologies.

For example, yourself being able to start your career even as young as 16, that's really honed into these things that can really benefit for those people that are, you know, unfamiliar. You have those independent businesses that are trying to get their roots and figure out on how to get these things done.

I mean, hey, that, that, that is just a reality of today's world. You know, like. You could stay home base. It's good to get outta home base a little bit. Especially like there's honestly, there's not a lot of people that are doing the things that you're doing. Like you do have people. Yeah, a lot of it is kind of a little scammy, you know, they're like, gimme your money.

It's like, hello. You know, you send a few me emails like, hello? Hey, I've been like waiting a few weeks, like hold up. Still waiting for Srilanka to get by, and I'm like, Srilanka?

I just wanna help more than anything else. Like I, I really, I come from the background of corporate and I fucking hate corporate. It's not how the world should work. Um, Oh, I hate and

Dave: two, even though I'm a Jew working for the Germans. Yeah. nobody needs corporate and, and small businesses especially. Why are you buying this software? That's only, only for corporate? Uh, buy, buy, build a software that works for you.

Cody Johnston - The Weird Canadian: Um, and I am going to do it within your budget. I'm gonna do it the way you want it, the way that's oriented to your system. Um, and it's more tailored. Like we need to stop the uniformity. You have your own business. It has its own constraints. I can build those for you. Um, even, even my own software, like if I buy a software I don't like, I'm now just copying that software and building in the features I want.

This is what we can do at evidence. If you don't like something, build it yourself or find somebody who will build fortune.

And you have your social media as just the same name across the board. Weird Canadian. Not hard to find, just do a little typing. Won't kill you, take you even talk to it. I even have it set up so that if you talk into an LLM, it'll come out.

Alright, peace out. Okay.