Mike Collins
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465 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
Mike Collins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think a lot of times if you choose to look at it a certain way, you really have a blank check. And you can choose to, you can write, you can literally write it for whatever you want. And you can wake up every day and try to cash that check. And I think sometimes it's easier if you're in positions like I was where you have nothing left to lose, that the only way to go is up.
It can be really hard, but it can also be, in a way, a bit easy because there's... If you're in a place where you're so low in life... there is only one option. It's to go up or stay where you're at. Those are your choices, right?
And so it's, if you're going to choose to try to do something different with your life, if you're not happy, if you want to do something else, if you want to take a chance and pursue something you're passionate about, whether it is ancient history or something completely different, just don't quit. just try.
It's better than if you're that low, if you're in a place where you're that low, it's better than where you're at. And, um, sometimes that's all it is, is just not giving up, you know, not quitting. And I, I, I do, I do hope that, that, uh, what I'm doing hopefully inspires people to maybe, you know, go out there and see things like we were talking about just a minute ago.
It does, it does make a difference to see these places in person. And if you have an opportunity to do that, then you should, you should do, I, I, I so recommend that. And I think, um, I think that there's a lot of ways that people can contribute, especially in America. There's all sorts of interesting things around the country that people are completely unaware of.
There's a huge amount of history here in this country and all sorts of wonderful oddities to explore and look at. I mean, there's massive geoglyphs here in the States and mound cultures with literally thousands upon tens of thousands of mounds all over the nation and things like dolmens and all sorts of things worth exploring.
And people can go just in your own area if you can't travel and do things. You can take pictures of stuff Yeah, I mean, these are geoglyphs in California that I filmed. You can go in your backyard, get plugged into a community, get yourself tapped into Twitter, and take pictures and share it. Get some new eyes and perspective on things. You never know what someone might notice that you didn't.
Just contribute. Take pictures of stuff. Share it with people. Ask people what they think. Ask me what I think. Another thing you can do, as I just started, is this... If you want to follow me on Twitter, I just posted a thing asking for suggestions on places to visit in America. I want to start focusing on America with intent.
And as people are giving me suggestions, once I have enough suggestions, I'll run a poll, pick the top three places that have been suggested. I'm gonna run a poll here in the next few days. And whoever wins that, I'm gonna immediately go to that place, whatever the winner of that poll is, immediately go to that place and film it, document it, and put out a video.
And I'm hoping to do that quarterly this year. but at least several times this year and i think that's a great way for people to get involved so if there's something that you've always wanted to see filmed or you think's worth of note follow me on twitter recommend the place on there share a picture with me if you have one And I'll try to check it out and film it. I'll go there.
I'll go there and do it. Yeah. And so people can get involved even if you can't be a full-time content creator. You can be a part of the process for sure in some way.
These quarterly wanderings. Yeah, these quarterly... You got to... My output needs to exceed my... I'm going to have to figure out what the percentage, the ratio there is of output versus input content and get that down. So math has never been my strong suit, but we'll figure it out.
I started having to put the big watermark on there, yeah, because... Everybody's using your stuff. Yeah, it took me a couple of years. I'm slow to the... I'm slow to the realization, but yeah, it took me a couple of years, but I started realizing like everybody was just straight ripping all my content and nobody knew who I was. I wasn't getting credit for stuff for having filmed so many places.
But yeah, not that I mind. Just give me a shout out. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. it took a lot of work and energy to get to these places around the world and film them sometime at personal expense, you know, not just monetarily. And so, yeah, you know, and there's been some bigger channels that have done that and you know, huge shout out to Jimmy.
Jimmy's always been a huge, huge help and supporter and put me on blast. Love him to death. He's a good friend. He's a good dude. Good dude. And yeah,
Great guy. Yeah.
Yeah. I, you know, my thought process on it has always been, you know, eventually people will kind of wreck, where's all this new stuff, content coming from, you know, and then, you know, eventually, but then I was like, no, you need to do your due diligence. I'm like,
you know just put the watermark put just put a watermark on there right but then a lot of these guys that cut the watermark they cut the frame down and take out the watermark so it's like so you gotta put it right in the middle yeah right in the middle put it all four seventy percent opacity yeah yeah right right it's just a logo for five minute drums right right
But yeah, I am very happy to contribute. Like I mentioned before, getting my stuff on Ancient Aliens or having my stuff pop up on Rogan all the time. And it's always clipped from... somebody else to clip of my content to like some like really trendy TikTok video.
Which I just haven't gotten on the big bandwagon yet with. But, but yeah, I definitely feel really, really thankful and grateful being able to, 10 years ago I would have been like,
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