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in attendance and boasting an impressive

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the music. Steve's commitment to mental

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regenerative medicine. Steve, Aoki, welcome to

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the show, dude. ["Aoki

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Foundation Theme Song"] That

2:26

was awesome. Oh, babe. So

2:30

my first question is, man, where are you about right

2:32

now, dude? Where in the parts of the world are

2:34

you recording from? Are you home right now or are

2:36

you traveling? Yeah, back home, Vegas. It's

2:38

been heavy, heavy touring. I

2:42

thought that after Europe, I'd be chilling,

2:45

but no, no, it's like we went

2:47

pretty hard. Like the last few weekends

2:50

was like five shows, four shows, three

2:52

shows, five shows, you know, and

2:54

then just got back from Chile and Brazil, but

2:57

back home this week, so it's nice. Oh

2:59

my God, bro. I have so many different questions.

3:02

First off, what's the longest

3:04

that you've toured for? Like toured

3:06

for straight? Technically, I'm on

3:09

tour all year. Dang. Yeah,

3:11

so. Oh, so you just don't stop

3:13

then. So I'm like. No, no, so

3:15

like since 2006 till now, besides

3:20

COVID, it's been every

3:22

year, like 200 shows plus. Oh

3:25

my God. So this is your passion. You

3:27

have to love this shit. Like literally. I

3:30

mean, it's like kind of like what you

3:32

do with, you know, gaming,

3:34

you know, like you might

3:36

like take a break here and there and

3:39

go travel and do that, but you got

3:41

to get back in your share

3:43

and you got to, you know, it's like.

3:45

Literally. You know what I mean? Like, and

3:48

it's not just not your responsibility to your

3:50

fans and, but you like it, right? So

3:52

it's the same kind of thing like for

3:54

me, like I, the way, the way it's

3:56

structured, my team, my agents, I

3:58

have multiple agents around. in the world, my

4:01

management, they like, I don't

4:03

even know where I'm playing half the time. Like,

4:06

I said, dude, that's the best though, dude. No,

4:08

literally, man. So for

4:10

me, I suffer from, I mean, I feel like every millennial

4:12

in the world and then some suffers

4:14

from like just some sort of anxiety. And

4:17

one of my, like when I was blowing up like back in 2018, 2017, 2019,

4:19

dude, I literally told

4:23

Jess and my team, like, so my wife, Jess,

4:25

I was like, guys, I was like, don't, don't,

4:27

I was like, literally, don't tell me anything. Like

4:30

besides like sponsors and stuff like that, when

4:32

I had to like do a stream, like if

4:34

I'm traveling, I was like, tell me the day

4:36

before, maybe in like the night, like the night

4:39

of like, and dude, it

4:41

was just so much easier. I was in just

4:44

autopilot mode. It was like, Tyler,

4:46

you're going here at this plane,

4:48

like at this time, right? You're

4:51

going to do this, you're in and out, then you're going

4:53

here. And I was like, let's go. Cool. Like

4:56

for press and interviews, I know

4:58

you gave me a sheet. I didn't look at it. So

5:01

I like, I don't even like,

5:03

I don't, I don't really prep

5:05

much. I just kind of same off,

5:08

I'm like, like off the hip, like

5:10

just hip fire. So

5:12

I guarantee our freaking PR teams are just

5:15

like, oh God, dude. I mean, like, it's

5:17

good that my teams have it

5:19

all set. I'm glad they do. But yeah, you know,

5:21

I've been doing it long enough where, you know, I

5:23

know at the end of the day, like even with

5:25

like this, it's like, it's just a

5:27

conversation about life. You know,

5:30

that's pretty, pretty easy for

5:32

me to, you know, I don't need no prep

5:34

on that. But like, yeah,

5:36

with like the only time my

5:38

team ever really says, okay, we're going

5:40

to talk to you about this because

5:43

it's pretty crazy. Yeah. And

5:45

like I was in China and then they're like,

5:48

okay, then you have a show in Philly and

5:51

I flew from Shanghai to Philly.

5:56

I did like three shows in China back to back.

5:58

Then I was straight, straight to Philly. And then they're

6:00

like, now this is the one that we need to

6:02

talk to you about the next day. You have three

6:04

shows Potentially Denver

6:06

Dallas and Vegas. Do you

6:09

want? To not do three.

6:11

I'm like we're 100 doing three We're

6:13

I mean, I mean if I can walk in

6:15

four i'll do four because I know I

6:18

just have the stamina like I i've built

6:20

my body and my mind and my spirit

6:22

to do it all like I love it

6:24

Like i'm like, you know, i'll just over

6:26

take it on so Dude I

6:29

Rare breed bro. Rare breed. I mean I feel

6:31

like I would again you you

6:33

said this like you've built it up and you've

6:35

been doing this for a while You're used to

6:37

it mentally emotionally physically all that stuff But

6:40

like for me when I dude when I back

6:42

in the day like my grinding was I would

6:44

go to tournaments and Like halo

6:46

tournaments and stuff like that And then I

6:48

would leave like the night of the final

6:50

day Like I would leave sunday night and

6:52

fly home and turn and then stream Like

6:55

that night and I would but I would

6:57

miss like after parties and stuff and like

7:00

That FOMO man would get it would get me sometimes

7:02

dude It's like after you play a show you want

7:04

to hang out with the people that are there but

7:07

bro, I he just you're on There's an one man.

7:09

You gotta keep going. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean

7:11

the thing is is like it's You

7:13

you know how to prioritize. I think that's the

7:15

other thing about um successful

7:17

people or people that find the love

7:19

and and hammer it in and

7:21

do it well is they know

7:23

how to prioritize and and keep

7:26

that and execute upon that, you

7:28

know A lot of times

7:30

there's so many different things that we there's so

7:32

many things that coming at us, right? And

7:34

it's really important that we're like, okay How

7:37

do we tie manage this properly? So

7:40

that we know where to allocate our

7:43

our best resources our best time and best,

7:45

you know That's us. So

7:48

I think that makes sense to me So you you traveled

7:50

all over the world. You've probably traveled more than anyone that

7:52

i've probably ever met I gotta ask.

7:54

I'm sure yes all the time, bro And you're gonna

7:56

probably let some people down if you answer it truthfully

7:58

dude favorite place to perform or

8:03

like most memorable show. My last

8:05

show in Chile,

8:08

I just played there. I

8:11

would say that that show, and usually

8:13

it's the summer shows that become like

8:15

my favorite shows of the year because

8:18

I'm playing back to back

8:20

festivals. Hell yeah, man. And

8:22

they're just so crazy that European festivals are,

8:25

main thing is, is that in Europe, people

8:28

have grown up with dance music. It's

8:30

part of the culture. It's not like

8:32

a subculture. I mean, although dance music

8:34

in America is not as like bigger

8:36

than subcultures, but you know, when

8:38

I think of America, what's popular in culture

8:40

is hip hop. And then electronic

8:43

music has its own world, but in Europe,

8:45

it is like, it's electronic

8:47

music. That's the main kind

8:49

of form of music people listen to. So

8:51

the festivals there are just off the wall,

8:54

but I was saying like Chile, I

8:57

just got back was the biggest

8:59

energy I've felt all year. That's

9:03

awesome. I had to like really boil it down

9:05

and go back through like Tomorrowland, which is absolutely

9:07

one of my favorites is definitely the

9:10

most pressure is Tomorrowland.

9:13

I call Tomorrowland my New Year's

9:15

Eve because it's the most important,

9:17

most influential, the most amount of

9:19

impact on my career, most

9:22

eyeballs, people watching it online, streaming,

9:24

live streaming and on the YouTube.

9:27

So it just represents like

9:30

Steve Aoki 2023. So Tomorrowland is

9:32

always going to be the most important, but

9:35

Chile was the biggest energy for sure. That's

9:37

fricking sick, man. And you're going to all these places, bro.

9:40

I'm a huge foodie. I have to ask bro.

9:42

Favorite, like what's your favorite, like favorite meal or

9:44

restaurant or whatever that you just love when you're

9:47

traveling, man, that people have to go try. So

9:50

best food period, Japanese

9:53

chicken skewers. Dude, are

9:55

we talking like from the gas station or

9:58

like just like, it doesn't matter. No, no,

10:00

no. So, so the

10:02

Japanese, the Japanese, like my

10:04

people have literally,

10:06

they've, they've like perfected

10:09

the chicken skewer. You're making me hungry, bro. Yeah.

10:11

If you go to Japan, so when

10:14

I, when I go to Japan, that's my favorite place

10:16

for food. Japan is also, if

10:18

I break, Japan's my favorite place to travel, but,

10:21

and, and, and the top of the list reasons

10:23

why Japan's my favorite place to travel, top of

10:25

the list is food. Okay. Yeah,

10:28

that's good. So, the top food of

10:30

that, so we're going up the, up the tree

10:32

chart is Yaki Tori,

10:34

which is chicken skewers. There's places that

10:36

only serve chicken. They don't serve anything

10:38

else or pork, they'll serve beef, they

10:41

don't serve anything. All you will get

10:43

is different parts of chicken and the

10:45

way they prepare it, the way they,

10:47

it tastes, it's just so good and

10:49

so tasty and so. I'm staring

10:51

at it right now, bro. It's so good, bro.

10:53

It's like, oh, you have

10:55

to, you have to go like anytime you

10:57

go to like a high level, high

11:00

end Japanese Yaki Tori spot,

11:03

just trust me and go. And then I

11:05

think you're going to, you're going to agree with me. It's

11:07

going to be top five for you. Like they have it

11:10

down. Like I think that food is literally one of the

11:12

most important things in life. I mean,

11:14

for, I mean, you know, it can, for, in, in,

11:16

in every aspect, right? I mean, it's, it could be

11:18

the reason that a dog lives, you know, seven

11:21

years or 20, right? And it can be

11:23

the reason that humans, like, I mean, it's Same with humans.

11:26

I mean, obviously I want to just start there

11:28

and then move over to humans too. Like, I

11:30

mean, you've, I've heard these crazy stories of people

11:33

being like, I went on an all plant diet

11:35

and it cured my cancer. Like I went on

11:37

all, you know, it doesn't matter what it is.

11:39

I think it's different for everybody, but dude, food

11:41

is such a massive, like it's life, dude. And

11:43

it's a hundred percent. And I absolutely love that.

11:45

Speaking of food, we've talked about this probably a

11:48

thousand times, you've answered this a million times. I

11:50

still don't know personally, and I've,

11:52

I've like not dug into this because I've wanted

11:55

to ask you personally, dude, let's talk about the

11:57

cake, bro. First off, do you love cake? Are

12:00

you a sugar tooth guy? I

12:03

have the biggest sweet tooth in the world. Okay,

12:07

so like you're better for me. I'm

12:09

more like the waiter. So like I'm

12:11

the delivery man. Like I- You deliver

12:13

the cake. I'll be the guy in

12:15

the crowd. I'm the ovary. Eating it.

12:19

And yeah, so it's perfect. Like we have a

12:21

pretty symbiotic relationship here

12:23

because if you love the cake, I

12:26

will deliver it to you in this

12:28

bibbiokey style. And

12:30

it's going to be a mess. And it's going

12:32

to be awesome. No, I don't eat too much

12:34

cake. Although I'm going to go back once again

12:36

to Japan. The best cake is

12:39

Japanese strawberry shortcake. That's

12:41

my absolute number one favorite cake.

12:43

Oh my God, dude. It's creamy.

12:45

It does not taste like cream.

12:47

It's fluffy and it's just so

12:50

good. My favorite

12:52

thing so far about, I feel like

12:54

just ever since I've started this podcast,

12:56

I feel like naturally with so many

12:58

different people I've connected like unnecessarily in

13:01

so many different ways, dude. For

13:03

example, the strawberry shortcake. Dude, see

13:05

like I had this strawberry shortcake.

13:07

So it's not from Japan, but

13:09

I was at like a five

13:11

star restaurant, beautiful restaurant. And I

13:14

was like, oh, they have a strawberry shortcake. Like it was

13:16

a special, right? So it wasn't like on the menu. It

13:18

was like one of their specials. It's like, dude, I love

13:20

strawberries, man. And like, I usually love how fluffy these things

13:22

are. Let me try this thing. I haven't had one in

13:24

years. And bro, I almost

13:28

like threw up, I ate so much. I

13:30

ordered like three for the table. I

13:33

destroyed one, ate half of the second one

13:35

and like brought the rest home. And

13:38

it was just the most dude. A strawberry

13:40

shortcake like baked the right way is

13:42

arguably one of the most delicious things

13:44

on the planet. And now that

13:46

you mentioned that, I'm assuming that first off Japan,

13:48

like they fucking kick ass and have their own

13:50

way of making everything. And like, I

13:53

feel like they have this like obsession with perfection. So

13:56

if you're ever going to want something, you know what I

13:58

mean? So if you want to, if I'm gonna, if I'm

14:00

gonna get the best strawberry shortcake dude. I got to find

14:02

the strawberry shortcake, you know, man or lady in

14:04

Japan and go to their place and just try it.

14:06

I always, I always say this too. If, if you

14:08

walk by, if you walk in a restaurant and you

14:10

see that the pastry chef is

14:12

Japanese, you definitely get the

14:14

dessert. I'm just telling you, like

14:18

Japanese they've mastered the dessert as

14:20

well. And strawberry shortcake

14:22

is like the top of that list for me. So,

14:24

um, like when I go

14:26

to Japan, I go, there's a certain place I

14:28

go to, is the Grand Hyatt. There's a little

14:30

restaurant there and I don't get, I don't get

14:33

a slice. I get the whole cake, the whole,

14:36

I get the whole cake and I will take the whole

14:38

thing down. Like, and I'm not much of like a, like

14:41

a dessert person, but when it comes to strawberry

14:43

shortcake, it, that like just is the, it's on

14:45

bro. It's on. So

14:47

you live in Vegas, that's your home. Do

14:49

you have a residency there? Obviously I would

14:52

say no, right? Because you're

14:54

traveling so much and you perform so much elsewhere, correct? So I live here. I

14:56

live here. I moved here in 2013, built

15:00

a compound of a house. It's um, 16,000

15:03

square feet and it's like nice, nice dude, massive,

15:07

crazy, crazy, crazy. And

15:10

I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, and

15:13

it's like massive creative space,

15:16

but also a health retreat.

15:19

I have like two punches, reset, right?

15:21

Two saunas, two gyms, like, you know,

15:23

red light therapy bed, a hyperbaric chamber,

15:26

you know, so you're like fucking Goku

15:28

man. Like after, you know, before, before

15:30

the Frieza fight, you know what I

15:33

mean? Like, that's where you go. Like

15:35

your touring is Frieza and

15:37

you just, you go into that little hyperbolic

15:40

time chamber and that's where you reset. Super

15:42

Saiyan after that one for sure. So no,

15:44

no, it's, um, you know, like

15:46

that's like kind of the baseline

15:48

of how I'm able to do so

15:51

much is, is my

15:53

health. Is your recovery. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

15:55

It's like just understanding what my

15:58

organs, we have like what 70 something. something organs

16:00

in the body and we have our wonderful

16:02

brain that we need to protect and take

16:05

care of and just

16:07

understanding the body, getting blood work

16:09

done and understanding like what

16:11

they all need to work

16:14

at its peak to be optimal.

16:17

So I can like hit the road hard and

16:19

not get sick. You know, I

16:21

like this super important like, cause like when you're

16:23

running strong and running hard,

16:25

like you don't want to wake up

16:28

and just be like, Oh, I'm bogged down. Like I can't,

16:30

I have five more things I got to do. No,

16:32

for sure. You can't do it. So

16:35

it's like the mindset of an athlete kind of thing. You know,

16:37

I don't know. Absolutely, man. I

16:39

mean, there's, I mean, absolutely. Like where there is,

16:41

where there's physical distress on the body that athletes

16:44

have to go through, right? That physical pain that

16:46

they're dealing with being hit or like, whether it

16:48

be football, the aggressiveness, whatever, the absolutely like there's

16:50

still that internal, right? I feel like, you

16:52

know, the organs, like what are, what are, what are we

16:55

losing when we're traveling? What are we losing

16:57

when we're doing what we do at a high level, right?

16:59

We're losing, we're probably losing like sleep. We're probably eating things

17:01

that, you know, we're not supposed to be eating. We're staying up

17:03

late and we're supposed to be staying. So like a

17:06

hundred percent, you have to be, you

17:08

know, optimizing your recovery in different ways.

17:11

It's just like, um, it's like we, you

17:13

know, when you get healthier and you like

17:16

understand nutrition, you, you're like, okay, what, what's

17:18

in this food? Is it processed non-processed? Like

17:20

you want to know what's your, what's your

17:22

intake? Well, the same at the same moment,

17:25

the same exact ideology is, is I want

17:27

to know how like data metrics, I want

17:29

to know how much I'm sleeping, how, what's

17:31

the quality of sleep is, you know, I

17:34

want to understand like what areas of these

17:36

workouts are focusing on this body and like,

17:38

how do I strengthen this area? You know,

17:40

just like much of

17:42

the detail, um, and

17:45

the science behind it. So, um,

17:47

you know, I'm not just kind of in the

17:49

gray and just like running at all

17:51

cylinders, but,

17:53

uh, but

17:55

that's super

17:58

important. Wumble,

18:00

womble, womble questions here. So you talk about sleep a

18:02

lot, man. Are you, do you have the ability, like

18:04

I've seen people like in like the Marine Corps or

18:06

wherever, uh, they have to, you know, be able to

18:08

sleep under crazy duress and like get themselves to sleep

18:10

in like 30 seconds. Do you have that capability bro?

18:13

Are you like able to just hit the bed and

18:15

like meditate and boom, you're out in like 30 seconds.

18:17

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a problem. Like my

18:19

sleep retention, uh, which is basically

18:21

right when like the time it takes

18:23

for you to fall asleep is always

18:25

under three minutes. That's

18:28

gnarly bro. Yeah. But

18:30

that's like, like, you know, my, I was talking to a

18:32

sleep doctor about it and like, you know, I was just

18:34

saying, you know, one time I did, I

18:37

had a show, right? So like, let's say the show

18:39

was at four o'clock and, and my

18:41

tour manager, I'm, this is, I'm dead serious

18:43

about this too. This is crazy. My tour

18:45

manager is like, it's three 57 you're

18:47

on in three minutes. I'm like, okay, I'm going to take a nap. And

18:50

I literally fell asleep in a dream zone. I

18:52

swear on two breaths. And then

18:55

at four 59 and 30 seconds,

18:57

it's like, you're on in 30 seconds. I'm like, and then he

18:59

woke me up and then like, I just shook out of it

19:01

and jumped on stage. That

19:03

like two minutes or whatever it was of

19:06

like the quick REM or whatever I

19:08

was in immediately, like

19:10

that gave me better. It was better than

19:13

like three shots of espresso. I, it was,

19:16

but I was also so exhausted from

19:18

doing so many shows back to back.

19:20

So that's when like your sleep, your

19:22

sleep retention is like ridiculously short because

19:24

your body's craving to just get into,

19:27

to the REM. You know, there's so

19:29

many things that you're saying that resonated with me in so

19:31

many different ways that I can relate to. I mean, literally

19:33

this morning, not even this one this afternoon, I did some

19:35

recordings, game a little bit, went to had like a nail

19:37

appointment, getting ready to go to, you know, you got to

19:39

take care of the, you know, the physical health stuff. Like

19:42

that got to look good. And I

19:44

was like, dude, I'm freaking, I'm cutting out caffeine on

19:46

a high level. Like I'm not trying to have as

19:48

much. Yeah. So I was feeling, feeling a little sleepy

19:50

today. I was like, dude, I'm just going to take

19:52

a look. I'm very good as well at like passing

19:54

out. Usually, you know,

19:56

like I'm very good at like just

19:58

quick naps, things like that, falling asleep. And and

20:01

and I was literally having like I had like a quick

20:03

little power nap with Jess and like my wife and we're

20:05

just laying Down there and I felt like I I was

20:07

dude. I felt super exhausted Yeah,

20:09

lay there for like five minutes.

20:11

Yeah, and then woke up and

20:14

was like ready ready to go Literally, I was like

20:16

why I was like my heart's beating. I'm like I'm

20:19

awake now Like I literally rest my eyes

20:21

for five minutes and I'm ready

20:23

to go. It's it's crazy What like

20:25

a nap I think it's I forgot

20:27

what this there's like a there's a

20:29

period of time where if you go

20:31

a little Bit over you you could

20:34

feel more exhausted than if you didn't

20:36

But yeah in like a certain increment

20:38

or like before certain period of time

20:40

or your brains like not gonna get

20:42

into like Slog mode. It's

20:44

it's incredible, man it's like this is so

20:46

much better than trying to like like

20:49

power down a Red Bull or But

20:52

so or something like I try not to

20:54

do that actually before my shows to before I would like

20:57

Take a couple sips of Red Bull like, you know

20:59

I'm in a minimum amount if I can right before

21:01

a show and then and then hit

21:03

the stage with with that But like now I

21:06

avoid all caffeine before any show no matter

21:08

how tired I am and I either do

21:10

a nap or I just Like

21:12

you know, this the music just just

21:14

lifts me up man. I'm 100% I

21:16

imagine I imagine being a freaking, you

21:18

know EDM artists your it's gonna

21:21

be awake pretty quickly when you start the show It's

21:25

contagious the energy from the crowd you like

21:27

it hits you literally across the face Like

21:29

you just got hit by Mike Tyson or

21:31

something and I'm just like just

21:33

going in I'm like wow I am awake

21:36

because I remember like so many times people

21:38

would be like damn you look so tired

21:41

And I'm literally about his station like watch Give

21:44

me a minute it changes

21:46

it's like if the body just I

21:48

don't know the adrenaline the Testosterone

21:51

whatever it is happening inside of me like

21:53

when I hit that stage. It's like I'm

21:55

just alive no one I'm offstage When

21:58

all the adrenaline and the testosterone whatever

22:00

it is, I don't even know what I'm saying,

22:02

but all that just falls off the cliff. I

22:04

just get me to a bed so I can

22:07

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22:09

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moving over and slowing down. So

23:26

dude, what inspired you to take on starting the

23:28

Aoki Foundation and the Shift for Health? Was there

23:30

like a moment in your touring and when you

23:33

were just traveling so much and DJing where you

23:35

were just like, dude, like it's got it, like

23:37

something's got to change. I can't be doing it

23:39

this way. I got to do it this way.

23:41

Well, it started 11 years ago. And

23:45

originally it was, I was

23:48

trying to figure out like what we could

23:50

do with these shows that I was doing

23:52

where I can engage the crowd, have them,

23:54

I would call it a party with a

23:56

purpose. So like a dollar from

23:58

every ticket sold would go towards like

24:01

this pool of money. And then

24:04

I would crowdsource that money going

24:06

towards like, you know, a number

24:08

of different charitable organizations or efforts

24:10

that, you know, the fans,

24:12

you know, that were actually paying that

24:14

one dollar would, would go towards. And

24:16

that's how it started. And, and it

24:18

was going really, it was going really

24:20

well. And then I, my,

24:23

my whole mission, I started to realize, and,

24:25

you know, as an artist, like, you know,

24:27

you're defining your sound as a human. I

24:29

was defining like, what are the real

24:32

big tenets of my life that

24:35

I really want to focus on and,

24:37

and hope that we can achieve in our lifetime.

24:40

And, you know, one is, is

24:42

eradicating all brain degenerative disease,

24:44

like Alzheimer's dementia, all that stuff that

24:46

just, you know, that plagues a lot

24:49

of people where you forget your memory and you forget your

24:51

whole life. I mean, our, our life

24:53

is made of experiences and memories, you know, and like,

24:56

I think it's, it's like an area that really

24:58

needs more efforts and

25:00

more funding. So I positioned

25:02

Aoki Foundation probably 2015 ish

25:05

to focus

25:07

entirely on the human brain

25:10

and also like, you know, like the main thing is

25:12

like, let's find these cures, let's,

25:15

let's, let's like really help out researchers

25:17

and scientists find these cures, but

25:19

I'm also really like

25:21

a science fiction buff, you

25:23

know, and I've always been that way.

25:25

And the science fiction that really excites

25:28

me are the ones that turn

25:30

to science fact. So the, the, the

25:32

things like science fiction is basically our

25:34

imagination. It's like we're, we're coming

25:36

up with these stories and we write them

25:38

out and then boom, they, they become these

25:40

beautiful stories that, that everyone

25:42

watches and marvel and DC and whatever sci-fi

25:44

that just blows up. And we're just so

25:47

excited because this is what we

25:49

want to become. We want to become superheroes. We want to

25:51

do things that are impossible,

25:54

but some of these ideas are actually

25:56

happening. These scientists are

25:58

these, the superhero. But

26:00

they're not being really talked about or

26:03

discussed in these small circles. That's

26:06

where Aoki Foundation really sits. It

26:08

really sits, like I always say, Aoki Foundation

26:10

sits between science fiction and science fact. And

26:13

the scientists and researchers that are trying

26:15

to build these bridges between those two worlds

26:18

to really shape and impact my

26:20

lifetime, your lifetime. When

26:23

you see someone that's in a wheelchair and you can

26:26

help them walk or someone can't see

26:29

and they can see again, someone's blind or

26:31

someone can't hear and they can hear again.

26:34

There's certain things that are happening. That's

26:37

where I want Aoki Foundation to sit, to not

26:39

just raise money, but to

26:41

just direct attention to. Because

26:43

if you're so excited to see Iron

26:46

Man and there's billions of people watching

26:48

that and loving that, there's the

26:50

real Iron Man happening here. But

26:52

there's no awareness because it's

26:55

just in these small little science circles. So at

26:58

the end of the day, I'm trying to make

27:00

science cool. That's

27:02

another big focus for Aoki

27:05

Foundation and make it more

27:07

popular. Dude, so the modern

27:09

day Bill Nye, if you will,

27:11

man. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Bill Nye

27:13

is totally the dude that ushered

27:17

in a whole generation of

27:19

kids that are going, oh, this is actually pretty

27:21

cool. Yeah, this is dope. I

27:24

was a Bill Nye fan, bro. Me too. Hell

27:26

yeah, man. Dude, every time we

27:28

would come on, bro, Bill Nye,

27:30

dude, the whole chat, Jesus, I'm a

27:33

streamer. The whole freaking, the whole classroom

27:35

just, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. He's

27:38

an absolute legend, bro. An absolute

27:40

freaking legend, right? So I'm

27:42

all over. I guess you could say, in

27:44

between, I guess, the science fiction, science fact,

27:46

TikTok, dude. I have all

27:48

these nutritionists in these articles and things and

27:50

videos that come up about, you

27:53

know, scientists believe that this was linked

27:56

to dementia or this

27:58

was linked to Alzheimer's and like, can. can

28:00

prevent it or stop it. Right, right, right.

28:03

Dude, I love that stuff. And then one

28:05

of the things was, and I don't know

28:07

how recent this was, I've never called this,

28:09

it's actually a couple years ago that I

28:11

read it, it was like the scientists found

28:13

that gum disease was like a direct link

28:15

to, or like gum health was a direct

28:17

link to Alzheimer's. Yeah. And dude,

28:19

that's like- It's crazy. But it's just- Dude,

28:21

your mouth health and your gut health is well, your gut

28:24

health is directly into your brain as well. You're eating well,

28:26

your brain's gonna be like,

28:28

they literally share like a pathway. Yeah,

28:31

like the amyloid plaques

28:33

that cause the

28:35

memory loss that go between

28:37

your neurotransmitters, amyloid plaques,

28:40

it's like it's the plaques in between

28:42

your teeth. They go through your gums,

28:44

like they eventually like kind of go

28:46

through your gums and that's where it

28:49

has this linkage. Because it does

28:51

make sense, tau buildup and beta amyloid

28:54

plaque buildup are significant causes

28:56

for why we don't

28:58

forget our keys or why we eventually forget

29:01

ourselves. So it's wild, man. It's

29:05

wild. That's a massive jump for getting

29:07

keys and then forgetting ourselves. But dude,

29:09

I'm already, as I am

29:11

the male stereotype dude, that where it's like,

29:13

I just can't find my fucking wallet, dude.

29:17

I don't know what happens, bro. Like I just

29:20

come home, it's in my pocket, forget to take

29:22

it out, realize it's there, put it down somewhere.

29:25

That's why I've made a major

29:28

switch up for me because I

29:30

switch up in sleep. Because before

29:32

I'd say, I

29:35

made a documentary for Netflix called I'll Sleep When

29:38

I'm Dead. And I really

29:40

hated sleep, truly. I just

29:42

wanted to be awake and I just

29:44

love being alive and just experiencing life.

29:47

So I hated sleep and I always always like working to

29:49

the, I

29:51

literally would pass out, whether it's in the studio

29:54

or at my shows and stuff. And

29:57

now it's all flipped. It's completely

29:59

flipped. because eventually

30:01

if I continue doing this, the

30:03

lack of sleep is also a

30:05

big factor in

30:08

leading to brain disease. So

30:10

I am making major

30:12

efforts on making sure my

30:14

ramen deep or higher,

30:16

getting my metrics on that so

30:19

I know where I'm sitting and

30:21

just trying to get more sleep. It's like my

30:23

thing right now. I love that, absolutely. I know

30:25

how important sleep is to so many people. It's

30:28

if you're not getting good sleep, it's worth

30:30

the investment to go to a place, go

30:33

to a guy, go to a doctor's

30:36

office or a local place where you can get sleep tests

30:38

done because sleeping is the most important

30:40

thing in the world. And I think there are

30:42

ways to sleep less. It's all

30:44

about how well you're sleeping.

30:46

Yes, it's quality. It's quality

30:48

sleep is more, it's everything,

30:50

man. So I'm already, I'm drinking

30:52

way less than I used to. You

30:55

used to go super crazy, but there's

30:57

nothing worse than a binge

31:00

drink session and then you pass

31:02

out for six to eight hours and those six

31:05

to eight hours, you are literally

31:07

not resting at all. Your

31:09

liver's been working 24 seven. You probably wake

31:11

up, sometimes you wake up, you're still drunk. Yeah. And

31:14

you can get, oh dude, I slept 10

31:17

hours and you still feel like absolute donkey

31:19

shit. No, I know. I

31:22

mean, I used to party like that and

31:24

literally like when you're drunk sleep, you get

31:27

the worst sleep. Like

31:29

you're just, you feel worse when

31:31

you wake up. Yeah, it's horrible

31:33

sleep. I love that. You're

31:35

just freaking laying there, dude. It's

31:37

no, it's terrible, man. That's terrible. So if we're

31:39

talking so much about sleep, man, you just said

31:41

you even flipped your, you set out sleeping and

31:43

I'm dead. Boom, now we're on, now you're flipping

31:45

it around. It's the most important thing to give

31:47

me. What are some, what are some tippy canoes,

31:49

bro? What are some tips that you got for

31:52

to help to improve maybe people's sleep? Or

31:55

what do you use? What do you do? So the first thing,

31:57

the first thing that I think is important understanding

32:01

how well you sleep and you don't really know unless like

32:03

you just go when you wake up

32:05

next day, I feel pretty good. You know,

32:07

like, so that's, I mean, using your own

32:09

kind of emotional response to

32:11

how you slept. I mean, of

32:13

course that's what we use, but

32:15

I also tack on getting

32:18

real metrics. So I have a whoop band

32:20

I wear around my wrist so then I

32:23

can see like the two

32:25

areas of sleep that mean the most to

32:27

me, which is your REM sleep and your

32:29

deep sleep. So I just check that every

32:31

morning. A whoop band?

32:33

Is that like W-H-O-O-P? Yeah, exactly.

32:36

Exactly. So it's similar to, there's

32:38

another company called Aura. Aura. Aura

32:40

Ring. My wife swears by it,

32:43

bro. Yeah. So they're both

32:45

the same. They check your heart rate

32:47

and they also check your temperature, body

32:49

temp, because when you go into deeper

32:51

sleep, your body temp actually drops. So

32:53

it's able to detect how well you're

32:55

sleeping by following

32:57

your heart rate and all that stuff.

33:00

Understanding your metrics is really, really important.

33:02

That way you know where you're sitting.

33:04

And if you're suddenly getting great sleep,

33:07

then like you don't need to like worry. But

33:09

if you want to get better sleep, then

33:12

you try different things, whether

33:14

it's like, I don't like to take melatonin too

33:16

much, but like I might take a little, I

33:19

might take like a one

33:22

M-G, like a very

33:24

small amount. I was taking

33:27

Trazodone for a minute, which is like, it

33:30

helps you stay in

33:32

uninterrupted sleep. So like my

33:34

sleep, like when you look

33:36

at my chart, sometimes it's like my

33:39

brain wakes up for a period of time

33:41

and I go back to sleep. Even though

33:43

you're asleep, you don't feel that, but like

33:45

you could see it. Your brain does. Yeah,

33:47

yeah, yeah. That's crazy. And you want to

33:49

get like this, like a great interrupt, interrupted

33:51

sleep, uninterrupted sleep. So that helps there. So

33:54

I've tried that, like getting

33:56

heat, excessive heat exposure. So I do

33:58

sawness before I sleep. If

34:00

you have the capability to have a

34:02

sauna or get like really hot, like

34:04

a hot bath, that really like

34:07

rests your heart rate. When you lower your heart

34:09

rate, before you go to

34:11

sleep, you're gonna get better sleep. Not eating right

34:14

before sleep is also really helpful. That's really helpful.

34:16

Yeah, I've tried to do that a lot. It's,

34:18

I think, I would say that's actually one of

34:20

the reasons I usually don't have that big of

34:22

an issue. Like I hate snacking in the middle

34:24

of the night. Yeah. And big meals before bed

34:26

are like usually a no-go. Yeah, exactly.

34:29

So if you have a big meal before bed, like,

34:32

I mean, you're probably not gonna get great sleep.

34:34

So I try to like limit what I'm eating

34:36

at least two hours, at the very

34:38

least two hours, maybe four. My friend

34:40

does like 10 hours before he

34:43

sleeps. And he's like, the

34:45

way my friend, as we got Brian Johnson, the

34:48

way he treats sleep is like he has a

34:50

family of kids. He's like, the only reason why

34:52

you need to come in to

34:54

wake me up is if it's life-threatening. Because

34:56

he treats the sleep as non-agotable. And

34:59

this is the most important part of his whole day is

35:02

uninterrupted sleep. It's like, if you treat

35:04

it like that, it's also, I think

35:06

the mindset of treating sleep as like

35:08

this really, absolutely

35:11

integral part of

35:13

your day. And some people are like,

35:15

ah, well, I mean, I need to be out because like, that's

35:17

how I am. Like I do a time

35:19

that we sometimes are in the studio from like four

35:22

p.m. to four a.m. And then I

35:24

have to fly out at eight in the morning. And

35:26

that's just how life is for me. So sometimes I

35:28

just have to run and gun it like that. Oh,

35:31

no, dude, I absolutely love that, man.

35:33

I recently had, my wife and I recently had

35:35

like our DNA, like we took a bunch of

35:37

blood samples and sent it into this place. And

35:39

they like basically were able to tell us like

35:41

everything and anything about our DNA. And

35:45

like, dude, it was absolutely worth it. And

35:48

one of the things was like, was melatonin and like

35:50

how well our body processes it. And if we produce

35:52

enough naturally and things like that. And I believe

35:55

that both my wife and I had on

35:57

the list of melatonin and how. body

36:00

reacts to it. We were both on like the,

36:02

um, there was like a green arrow on it,

36:04

like with like upwards, which means like we could,

36:07

our bodies could use a little

36:09

bit of extra melatonin to like reach

36:11

the level that

36:14

like we should be at, if that makes sense. Um,

36:17

and I've never needed help sleeping, but like, it's

36:19

one of those things where like if you take,

36:21

I mean, you gotta take sleep seriously. And, and

36:23

I, I absolutely love it. And I don't think

36:25

I do enough. Like I still sleep with my

36:27

dogs and I, I hate

36:29

it, dude. Like there's, I hate it. I love,

36:31

there's nothing more me. There is nothing more amazing

36:33

than cuddling with your dogs, dude. Like

36:36

we have three of them and they're all, they're

36:38

all little, and we sleep with them every night.

36:40

One cloud, our youngest sleeps in between Jess and

36:42

I nice one sleeps on my side. And then

36:44

once it was by Jess, but like, dude, what

36:46

happens to me and it's, it's, it's happened

36:48

again, we've had them for like nine years.

36:50

Yeah. Like I can't, I can't move naturally

36:54

your body. I'm pinned. I got one on my left, one

36:56

on my right. And your body naturally, like for me, like

36:58

I wake up dude, probably like 10,

37:00

15 times a night, like legitimately, and just

37:02

to like roll over and then

37:04

fall back asleep. But naturally, I mean, we we've

37:06

had two nights in a row where our,

37:08

our mother-in-law's here and she's taking care of them and they like

37:11

go in her room when she's there and

37:13

we don't have them in our bed. And dude, I'm

37:15

telling you, I just, I'm, I just

37:17

pass out. I pass out right away. And

37:19

I, and I don't find myself rolling

37:22

back and forth over and over and over again. So like,

37:24

I think I'm just gonna, and I've been talking about it

37:26

with Jess a lot too. I think I'm just gonna, I

37:28

think it's time I just pulled the trigger on it. Yeah.

37:30

It's just like, we just kennel them up and just have

37:32

them like by our bedside, but not. I

37:34

think you have to like really think

37:36

about your sleep, your quality of sleep

37:38

as a high priority for your quality

37:41

of life because it's going to increase

37:43

your quality of life over time. So

37:45

I think that's a really good move. I

37:47

also want to mention to, for

37:49

people like if they're interested in,

37:51

in sleep study, to get better

37:54

sleep, there, there is a guy

37:56

that he's, he's awesome. To

37:58

me, he's like the God of sleep. His name

38:00

is Matthew Walker and

38:03

he wrote a book called Why

38:05

We Sleep and he's just so

38:07

knowledgeable on the area of sleep

38:09

and how to sleep better and

38:12

why sleep is so important. And

38:14

after I learned a lot from him, he

38:16

has a masterclass on sleep as well. No

38:18

way, that's nuts. It's

38:21

just incredible. It's so

38:23

incredible. Rem is,

38:25

he basically says, Rem is where you

38:28

press save on your memories. So

38:30

if you have shit Rem when you sleep, you're

38:33

basically like over time going to forget

38:35

those chunks of

38:38

your day, of your experiences that you don't

38:40

want to forget. Memories are

38:42

so important as I was saying, that's

38:44

how I feel. So yeah, I

38:47

highly recommend checking out Matthew Walker for sure.

38:49

No, man. I know how important it

38:51

is and I almost feel like these last five years of

38:53

my life, I can only imagine what it's

38:55

like for you, dude, because you've been doing this since what

38:57

you said, 2006, you started doing all these crazy tours, man.

38:59

But yeah, these last five years for me, dude, I

39:03

have to go out of my way to try to

39:05

pull back memories. Like

39:07

pull memories from my head. Sometimes

39:10

I don't even remember them at all. Like someone

39:12

will mention it and then it's like someone unlocks

39:14

a memory where they just say a keyword or

39:16

something and you're like, Oh shit. Yeah.

39:19

But like sometimes I forget what happened the day before. Tyler,

39:30

what about like this? So because I, you

39:32

know, when I game gaming at night is

39:34

fun, right? I don't know. I

39:36

don't know. Like for me, I've like during COVID

39:38

is I, when I really got into gaming, my

39:40

ex girlfriend at the time, she'd

39:43

go to bed. I'd be like, Oh, I'll see you in the morning. She's

39:47

like, she's like, you coming? It's like, no, no, no,

39:49

no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, it's my gaming

39:51

time from 10 PM to 2 AM. I'm

39:54

like, giving it night is like

39:56

always my thing, you know, cause like my

39:58

whole day is filled with. with stuff to

40:00

do, you go to bed and you just like, you

40:03

just like, you like see and feel

40:05

like the gunshots and

40:07

like, you know, like the action that

40:09

you, you. You just

40:12

know, you 100% that you just like witness. I

40:14

get that. For like, I don't game, believe

40:16

it or not, I don't game as much

40:18

at night as I used to. Always

40:20

smart, right? Yes and no. I

40:22

mean, for me, it was like, I mean,

40:24

I feel like I've gotten a lot closer

40:26

to my wife because we're going to sleep

40:28

at the same time. I can't even,

40:31

I don't even remember the last time. I literally like

40:33

legitimately right now, I don't remember the last time that

40:35

I went to bed without her. I love that. It's

40:37

connect, like even if I'm, by

40:40

the way, even if I'm playing on

40:42

my laptop in bed, like that's fine.

40:44

Like I'll take that, but like, when

40:46

I'm actually like my fricking dojo, my

40:48

gaming center, bro, like I almost never

40:50

do that anymore. But

40:52

no, dude, yeah, I mean, during COVID, like

40:54

when I was grinding, grinding, grinding, that

40:57

was when I was on Mixer too for like a year.

40:59

And then even after that on Twitch, I was just playing

41:02

nothing but video games, dude. I was just thinking about League

41:04

of Legends, Valorant, like whatever game I was playing and grinding

41:06

that day, I just couldn't get those situations

41:09

out of my head. It was all the same game. Yeah,

41:11

you always like, you like dream about it. Like if you,

41:13

especially you play and then you go to sleep, it's like,

41:16

that's like those scenarios start happening in your

41:18

dream. Yeah, bro. Hey man, that's hardcore gaming,

41:20

dude. Even when you go to sleep, it

41:22

doesn't turn off. Yeah, exactly. No, man.

41:25

So what are you, I mean, listen, of course I'm

41:27

a fucking gamer. You just mentioned it and gotta ask,

41:29

bro, what was your guilty pleasure during the COVID days,

41:31

bro? Or just recently, like, what do you... Oh, God.

41:34

Cod. Of course, of course, dude. Warzone,

41:36

I mean, I'm still playing Warzone. You still

41:38

like it, yeah? Yeah, I just, I just

41:40

stopped, I just played a quick game before

41:43

this interview. Ha ha ha, let's go,

41:45

dude. I just dropped in,

41:47

like, I did a quick, I'm like, yo, I

41:49

gotta get on this thing in like five minutes,

41:51

I gotta go. I'm just... My man, dude. Aw.

41:54

But I just come to League too. Like, League is 2023 a

41:57

new game for me. I mean, I played

41:59

Cod for the last three years. And now I

42:01

play some TFT and yeah,

42:03

TFT is cool, man. I

42:05

love chess. I love playing chess. So I think that's

42:07

like kind of a different form of chess. But

42:10

definitely is man. What do you think about chess

42:12

is like resurgency these

42:15

last couple of years? Because I don't

42:17

know about, I don't know if it's just me like,

42:19

but what do you think? Like I feel like dude,

42:21

it's been all over my feet. I've seen it way

42:23

more on TikTok. Like it's

42:26

everywhere. Like I think with Queen's

42:28

Gambit, that was definitely a force.

42:30

Like, I mean, everyone saw Queen's

42:32

Gambit on Netflix. I don't know

42:34

if you saw that. Like that

42:36

really like made chess cool for sure.

42:39

And now I play chess all the

42:41

time. I mean, I'm playing chess. Like

42:44

I have a chess.com account.

42:46

So I play every time. Yeah, you're climbing

42:48

the leaderboard, huh? Yeah. Oh my God. I'm

42:50

like, I climb and I get killed. I

42:52

just get destroyed. There's definitely

42:55

levels to that shit. I can only imagine where

42:57

like, I imagine where it's like you only have

42:59

such an understanding of chess. And then like you

43:01

literally plateau unless you go a layer further, right?

43:03

You peel back another layer of chess and

43:06

then start diving into actual like maneuvers

43:09

and openings and things like that. And

43:11

really understanding the game on a high

43:13

level. The main thing for me,

43:16

I realized is that I can only think

43:18

two, two steps ahead. And

43:21

I can't assume to think five when

43:23

I can't even think three. So

43:26

when I'm playing certain players, it's like if

43:29

they can think three, then I'm already. Then

43:31

you lose. Yeah. Oh, that's such

43:33

an interesting way of putting it, dude. Yeah.

43:35

So I'm like still like at this level.

43:37

So one thing I

43:39

recommend with chess is like, to

43:41

get a coach, God, every time I

43:43

had a coach just talked to me for 30 minutes,

43:47

even 30 minutes, like my

43:49

game improved drastically. It's

43:52

incredible what a coach is able to, because they

43:54

give you like this bird's eye view. And

43:57

they show you like, you know, you play a

43:59

very. similar game your

44:01

brain like wants to play this very

44:04

similar game because it only knows to

44:06

this level right so like once they

44:08

once you start like uncovering

44:10

the the field of war a field of

44:13

the fog of war yeah you know so

44:15

you can gamer gamer terms but I love

44:17

it then yeah then you then you really

44:19

then you really can like go wow I

44:22

did not see that and then and

44:24

then you could start applying that it's it's um I don't

44:27

know I every time I like I'm lucky because

44:29

of who I am and I'm

44:31

a big chess head and a chess fan so

44:34

that the the chess like the you

44:36

know the grandmasters I've met a few

44:38

of them and they come to

44:40

my shows and they bring a board and we play

44:42

after my show I've done a couple times so that's

44:45

pretty sick yeah oh man that's so fucking dope bro

44:47

I love that man I love that dude first off

44:49

I feel like DJ's you guys are just so like

44:51

in the just in the moment in

44:54

the like come on down come on

44:56

out like dude I don't think I've ever met a DJ like

44:58

I and I you know I'm in the scene a little bit

45:00

right like I feel like gaming in EDM it's almost like hand

45:02

in hand like in my opinion and I

45:04

feel like there's so many times where I'll like I'll

45:06

get hooked up with one of them and they're just

45:08

like come through like it's literally like I've never

45:11

I don't think I've ever had met

45:13

an artist or artists that are always

45:15

just like down for fucking anything so

45:18

like just the fact that you're into

45:20

chess and all these chests good GM's or grandmasters

45:22

are like yeah they'll come to show it's like

45:25

do let's play and then you guys play after

45:27

like bring the board let's do it bring on

45:29

Lord oh that's so sick it's it's um it's

45:31

it's pretty awesome yeah you're right because I think

45:34

with like DJ culture it's it's

45:36

super chill you know like you

45:38

know I love I mean

45:40

personally you know because I get to travel so much

45:43

you know I'm always surrounded with my crew I

45:45

want to meet new people I want to see

45:47

like people like you know if

45:49

you're in town like I definitely want to link up

45:52

you know like there's it's just like that's

45:55

that's the highlights you know that's like the highlights

45:57

it's like beat up with new

45:59

people do fun different activities than what

46:01

I normally do. And yeah,

46:04

obviously with chess I'm like, sweet. I get

46:07

to learn at the same time. This is

46:09

pretty awesome. The win-win did massive, love you.

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47:33

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48:00

time I'm on the road. So to our life.

48:02

Okay. Okay. Okay. Cold plunge or hot sauna?

48:04

Oh, cold

48:07

plunge. Let's live in the cold

48:09

baby. I gotta pull the trigger

48:11

on that too, dude. I, I do

48:13

like, I'll do after like a crazy workout. I'll

48:16

like, I'll, I'll like hop in a cold

48:18

shower. Yeah. Okay. All right.

48:20

Tyler, like this is, this is

48:22

the opportunity to come to my

48:24

house and do it together because

48:27

there it's a different experience when

48:29

you, when you're doing it with someone

48:32

that's less like got your back. Like you're

48:35

in there with me, bro. We're like,

48:37

we do it together. It's,

48:39

it's like, it's, it's going to be the best

48:42

cold plunge experience. So like, you know, I'm

48:44

in, I'm in Vegas. Yeah. So

48:46

like, if we can find time, anytime

48:48

like you're in Vegas and we have time,

48:51

even for an hour, you can just drop you

48:53

the cold plunge and I got my sauna

48:55

cooking up. So it's just like, boom,

48:57

boom, you know? Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.

48:59

Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. All right, man. Literally

49:01

say less. I'm in. Okay. Okay. Vinyl

49:03

or digital DJing? Oh,

49:05

um, you know, I mean, I lit

49:08

in this day and age and technology is going

49:10

to be digital. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Punk

49:13

or EDM? Ah, this

49:15

is good. Yeah. Come on. My core is

49:17

EDM, you know, but my roots are punk.

49:20

Okay. All right. Love it. It's

49:23

a great, great answer. Great answer. Um, being your

49:25

twenties, thirties or forties? Oh, I'm, I'm

49:27

reveling right now in my forties. Thank

49:30

God. Somebody to look forward to as

49:32

I'm 32 myself, man. Um, are you a

49:35

homebody or social butterfly? I did a bit

49:37

of both to be honest with you, but I'm going

49:39

to, I'm going to go with social because

49:42

this is just like, you know, like the

49:44

first Steve Aoki on stage is social. You

49:46

know, you just turn it on. What

49:52

is your favorite punk band? Gorilla biscuits,

49:54

but they're more hardcore. Yeah. I would,

49:57

you know, I'm like, it's part of the culture.

50:00

What is an embarrassing song that you love

50:02

to belt? God, it's not embarrassing

50:04

if you love to belt it. Yeah,

50:07

I guess. I don't know. Unless, unless, you know,

50:09

I don't know. It's a cringe song. Maybe it's

50:12

Rick, Rick, Rick Astley. He's never going to give

50:14

you up. Evanescence. I don't know if that's like

50:16

a, if that's an embarrassing one, but like, I

50:18

love Evanescence. How do you

50:20

know when your work is finished? Okay.

50:23

So when my work is finished is,

50:26

God, how do I know? You just know. I

50:28

get a lot of mixed answers. I get a

50:30

lot of mixed answers. You know what it is? It's

50:32

like, it's like when I finish a track and sometimes

50:35

it's like two weeks and sometimes it's two years,

50:37

like it's crazy. Some of these tracks I have that

50:39

have been sitting there at the 25 to the 26k

50:41

mile, marathon

50:43

mile mark. Like I know at the

50:45

26, like right when it gets there.

50:48

Yeah. After, after like the, you know, you

50:51

know, once you listen to it in

50:53

all like, so I listened to my

50:56

music in all different kinds of speaking

50:58

speaker situations, whether it's iPhone, laptop,

51:01

my speakers, my studio car, everything. Once

51:03

I do the full check and the

51:05

studio check, once I do all of that,

51:08

then I know, then I know for sure. I love

51:10

that dude. That's dope. I'm, by the way, no one's

51:12

ever answered it like that. I've had a couple of

51:15

artists ask, I've asked that question too. And I love

51:17

that you like, you put it through the ringer. Do

51:19

you be like, all right, six, six, six, six, six.

51:21

All right, dude. If you had to delete all

51:24

but three applications from your phone, which ones

51:26

would you keep? And they have to be

51:28

downloaded from the app store. So not what

51:30

comes with it. Okay. So I can't, I

51:32

can't delete Instagram. Okay. Sure.

51:34

It's just my go-to and tick

51:36

tock. Yes. Those two for sure.

51:38

Panfully addicted. Let me, let me look at my

51:41

phone. Let's

51:43

see what apps I have on here that like,

51:45

I just can't delete. Literally you and everyone else

51:47

do that. Everyone's like, let me get my phone,

51:49

dude. I'm going to save my

51:51

whoop. I can't, because I'm obsessed with that.

51:53

I like literally look at that data

51:56

every day. All right, bro. Last

51:58

final question. We're

52:00

obviously on the AFK with Ninja podcast

52:03

sensor away from keyboard. Some

52:05

people know what it means. Some people don't,

52:07

but dude, in your own words, Steve, define

52:09

AFK. What do you do when you're AFK? Oh,

52:12

what do I do when I'm AFK? I'm

52:15

usually grabbing a

52:17

smoothie. That's it, dude.

52:19

Just grab a quick smoothie. Any

52:22

particular one that's just like your go to, like,

52:24

I gotta have it. Yeah. So

52:26

I have my smoothies always got collagen. Dude,

52:30

I'm literally poor. I have a freaking I

52:32

have a scoop of collagen in my

52:34

morning coffee every morning. Yeah. Yeah. I got to

52:37

get my collagen in. I like I kind

52:39

of obsessed with collagen. I just like definitely do

52:41

every day. So I got my collagen. I

52:44

put my cocoa flavonoids in there. I

52:46

add some cinnamon. I know it's kind of weird

52:48

in a smoothie. And then I get

52:51

my protein powder. My way I slip

52:53

protein powder. So I throw some

52:55

ice in there. So it's a little bit crunchy.

52:57

Just a little. And then I and I put

52:59

in some, you know, what kind

53:01

of milk do I do? It's better be oat

53:03

milk, man. Oat milk or cocoa. Anything. Anything. OK,

53:05

OK, OK. Actually, I think I believe in it.

53:07

I think coconut milk would actually think it would

53:09

go better in a smoothie. Yeah. Yeah. All right,

53:11

dude, Steve, first off, I'm going to

53:13

try that. It sounds incredible. Thank you so much for taking the

53:16

time to come on here, man. Should chat with me. Shoot the

53:18

shit. Appreciate you, dude.

53:20

Yeah. And thank you, dude. Thank you.

53:22

Thank you. Thanks, Tyler. And

53:28

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53:31

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