- What are the charities you're doing?
You're opening up schools.
How many schools have you got so far?
- So we have 52 school open.
- Pencils of Promise, Cambodian Village Fun, Build On.
- Bali's Children Society. - Are you addicted to charity?
- Yes.
And sharing it.
- And sharing it.
- And sharing it and seeing how it gets other.
So we have 52 schools with my charity,
The Timothy Sykes Foundation,
I actually changed the name to Karmagawa.
- Why'd you change it?
- So it's not about me anymore.
- It's not about you.
- Correct.
I had enough schools named after me.
I started naming schools after my top students,
then about friends.
And I'm like I just don't need it.
Like I know people, like, usually get their names
like on buildings.
I'm just weirded out by it now.
Now I'm just like,
it was nice in the beginning,
but it gets old.
So Karmagawa,
I have this whole charity community now on Instagram.
And we share everything.
And they're really interested in the ideas.
And we built 52 schools.
The followers have built 14 schools
'cause we post about it
and they start donating to charities too.
So it's spreading.
And it's pretty cool.
You can build a school
for like 30, 40, 50 thousand dollars
depending on the community.
- And now you're making movies as well.
- Making documentaries.
- About rhinos, about the coral reefs.
- So our rhino video,
by Sam Kolder, I bring like influencers
and creators on these trips to
like document it with photos and videos.
I'm not that good at
you know photography or anything like that.
So I bring them.
Sam Kolder did this video,
spent months on this.
We visited South Africa twice.
We did this rhino video.
It has 30 plus million views.
Raised a tonne of money.
I donated $250,000 to the rhino charity Vetpaw
which helps save the rhinos.
But other people donated over $500,000
to a bunch of different rhino charities.
So it's cool to see what we can do
by sharing this stuff publicly.
- Let me ask you a question.
I had Ty Lopez on here years ago.
And he said,
"Brian, you gotta cut checks to charity."
And he said,
"Look, I'm not exactly the most generous guy."
And it's probably true, Ty isn't.
But he said,
"It always comes back to me like 5x, 10x."
Have you found that?
- So Karmagawa, our logo is an infinity sign.
Because it's amazing when we give to a community,
they open up to us.
Other people open up.
Like I don't pay any of the filmers or the influencers
to come with us.
These people get like 20, 50, 100 thousand dollars
for Instagram posts.
And they're posting about this charity for free
because in a kind of a meaningless world,
like they're feeling useful.
And they see this stuff.
Like we were down in South Africa, a few days ago,
at Drakenstein Lion Park.
And they save these lions
that are basically just slaughtered
for their meat or their bones.
Like a lot of Asian medicine
think that lion bones are gonna cure you.
There's no medicinal properties whatsoever.
So they save these lions
and they're basically
just a retirement home for these lions.
And it's so sad.
And we brought all these influencers
and they're crying, right?
These people with millions of followers,
'cause they had no idea.
'Cause they thought that they were coming to Africa
to take pictures with like lion cubs.
Like, you know, you take photos with that.
You don't realise that
the lion cubs that you're taking photos with,
they're, they're, yes.
They're useful when they're cubs for photos
but when they grow up,
they're ferocious beasts.
So they get slaughtered, they get hunted, they get killed.
So if you actually pet or take photos with a lion cub,
like you're complicit in this whole thing
that people don't know about.
So we're gonna do a documentary on that.
With a rhino horn,
rhinos are gonna become extinct.
There's only a few thousand left.
This wasn't even a problem a decade ago
but they're getting killed for their horns.
'Cause people think,
especially in Asian medicine,
that these rhino horns are gonna help them.
Like help cure cancer, they're gonna be an aphrodisiac.
They're nothing.
There's literally just the keratin in your fingernails.
That's what rhino horn is made up of.
So it's a myth,
and we're gonna destroy an entire creature.
So again, with penny stocks,
I see misinformation.
With rhino horns in charity,
I see misinformation.
So I want to correct that.
That's what I think the potential
of the Internet,
and you know we're filming here.
Like we can get the message out
to millions if not billions of people
faster than ever before possible.
If you look at like,
what is the most popular photo on Instagram?
It's a freakin' egg.
Did you see that? - I did.
- It was actually a good cause.
Eventually it was for mental health,
like the egg was cracking.
But it just shows you like,
that thing spread like wildfire.
So what if we spread something
that actually matters like wildfire?
Like together we can change the world.
Like people don't think like,
"Oh, why are you trying to save the coral reefs?"
"I don't even like putting my head underwater."
"Right?
I can barely swim."
But coral reefs,
did you know that they're responsible
for the majority of the oxygen that we breathe?
Marine life, people think that it's all trees.
Trees are actually the minority.
The majority comes from
marine life. - Algae and all that stuff.
- And that's all dying.
So in 50, 60, 70 years,
maybe even by 2050, in the next 30 years.
We're gonna have a tougher time breathing
unless we start changing our ways right now.
Misinformation.
- So you're like the Robin Hood of information,
is what you are.
- Yes, yes, I would go with that.
- It used to be of penny stocks,
but now of information.
- I would go with that
because Robin Hood, you know,
makes me look more generous than I am.
For me, this is correcting misinformation.
And I can, I can get that out there quicker than ever.
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