DUMB WHITE GUY 2 - THE BUCKET LIST.

A comedy travelogue reaction series.

THE PREMISE.

A travelogue comedy reaction series, where comedian Brendon Burns and friends travel the world ticking off his mum’s bucket list, just to piss her off and then films her priceless reactions.

Imagine if our mums had a say in shaping the future their grandkids will inherit?

We're putting the band back together with host of the sorely missed “Dumb White Guy” podcast as travelogue reaction video series. To raise awareness for ethical sustainable mining practices. All the while setting a positive example for “good AI” rewarded positive algorithms.

Instead of too much artificial intelligence it might be an idea to throw some reality stupidity in there for shits and giggles.

In other words – Go to your rooms and behave.

WORDS FROM YOUR HOST BRENDON BURNS. 

"Comedy has saved my life on more than one occasion. This time I’m asking for it back please. I've been to some very dark and worrying places these last few years in my absence. It’s time for me to come home to international traveling bespoke comedy, have a laugh and go outside again.

Included in our paywall and reward structure are some solutions, road maps for some simple business plans – genuine million dollar ideas. That, sadly, as so many industries are so married to “the way things are always done” and “how the real world works” supposedly, simply hasn’t occurred to them, despite their obviousness.

Speaking from experience, how the real world actually works. Is if you let your oceans get too hot a frikken stonefish travels 1200kms south of where they’re normally found, stings the shit out of you and pumps your full of the most painful neurotoxins known to man… It feels a hell of a lot like the rage of a boiling ocean.

I don’t recommend it.

My mum’s name is Vicki, she and I got handed a bit of a shit show with this – She’s a champion mum. A God mode level mum. 

See the sample video. She’s not acting – She genuinely has no idea what a reaction video and that no one would ever want to watch such a thing, let alone crowdfund it – It's had me in stitches.

I hope it makes you laugh and your day a little brighter the way it did mine"

THE HOW

We'll be documenting our travels in a hilarious and heartwarming YouTube travelogue series and across social media.

Each episode will feature:

Mum's Bucket Lists: We’ll be doing the wild and wonderful things our mums have always dreamed of but never got around to doing.

Comedic Adventures: With a rotating cast of international comedians, we'll be navigating through cultural quirks, language barriers and joining strangers on their own journeys too. Just to see where the world takes us.

Global Awareness: Along the way, we’ll meet activists, innovators, and everyday heroes who are fighting for ethical mining practices and a more sustainable future.

Heartfelt Reactions: We'll bring back mementos and video footage to my mum Victoria Mizen, capturing her reactions and incorporating them into each webisode and short.

WHY IT MATTERS. LIKE... REALLY MATTERS.

Unethical mining practices, especially in the extraction of cobalt, are devastating communities and the environment than all of fossil fuels combined. Meanwhile, AI algorithms are often skewed towards negativity, divisiveness and just a tad too binary. By combining comedy with a cause, we aim to shine a spotlight on these issues, inspire change, actually suggest and promote a solution or two and redefine the world our children inherit.

OUR GOAL.

To make this madcap vision a reality, we're aiming to raise $100,000 to get started before setting up a patreon paywall and the usual youtube ad revenue supporting the series. Here's how your contributions will be used:

Travel and Production Costs: Flights, accommodations, and gear for our globe-trotting crew.

Ethical Research and Partnerships: Collaborations with ethical mining companies to highlight their work, amplify their voices and to promote new technology and means for extraction with fewer new dig sites using ancient and disused mines.

Post-Production and Marketing: Editing, promoting, and distributing our web series to reach a global audience.

Rewards

We’ve got some cracking rewards lined up for our backers. Don’t let the first three intimidate you. They're actually worth way more. - but ideas are worthless, execution is everything. And some of them might need the narrative that some idiot sold them on a crowdfunding site for a song, for them to fully work. Some tech company or research centre would give their right arm for even the slightest chance at such canaries in literal coal mines. They're just initial consultancy fees. We just don't want to work in those fields full time - But we all need them to happen. Or in some cases, not happen the incredibly stupid way they're happening. Confusing ruthless efficiency with clever might be the Godfather of all stupidity.

(All in $AUD – ALL ideas and solutions come with no guarantees nor forward looking statements and are in no way legally binding – They’re pretty simple but the field’s tackling them aren't professional joke writers and used to making huge lateral leaps in logic)

$25'000 – NP- COMPLETELY/INCOMPLETELY DUMB. The possible paradigm shift required for the holy grail of maths and quantummy everything – the PvNP solution – Using comedy writing methods. The millennium maths prize is worth a million dollars but it really shouldn’t be NP-completed or solved with any sort of finality. "Fastest solution with as little information as possible" is a truly terrifying train of thought for any A.I. to be having - Very "Final Solutiony" in fact -  As any idiot should be able to plainly see once you get all the big words, clumsy jargon and clever rules to clever, clouding the blatantly obviousness of it all, out of the way. If you've got a scientific and/or mathematical background, I can get you there in three sessions - the rest is up to you and whomever else shows up.

$25'000 – Dumb Tech Startup – Centralised net zero sustainable raw materials road map for a business start up. No new digs with new tech - We'll help you promote your progress with the least sexy of all the existential threats - unethical mining infrastructure (No one’s thought of it yet – kind of crazy and stupid that they haven’t)

$25000 – Dumb Turing test. A possible alternative to the Turing test for true cognisance involving comedy writing. (Same goes for this one too)

$5000 - Dumb non fungible moment in real life - Top tier. For you and up to two friends to come to locations and spend a day with BB trying dumb shit for yourselves. Wanna be there when BB tries to swap one bullet with an armed guard in Cairo for a picture of him as a kid looking like a monkey? To take home to his mum Victoria?

You got it.

Want to be there when he returns to City Kickboxing home of UFC champions and find out why he was really there dressed in a dragon outfit in the first place?

Done. Hopefully NP-COMPLETING that currently incomplete "bit" of this dumb story. BUT NOT THE WHOLE STORY... That would be really stupid.

(See what we did there!)

Very limited spaces per moment. (Travel and accomodation not included)

$3000 Home Grown Non-Fungeable Idiocy. Come with BB to the Australian Outback just to retrace his family's footsteps before he was born - from Exmouth to Kununurra.  - Includes signed copy of Victoria’s book “The Green Velvet Dress. (Limited spaces. Travel and accomodation not included)

$500: Dumb Credit – Your name will be immortalised in the credits of full episodes.

$250: Dumb white Guy’s mum’s book. A published author in her own right. Signed copies of Vicki’s memoir debut novel “The Green Velvet Dress” (Only 200 avail)

$100: Dumb Personalised thank you – A personalised thank you video from Brendon and his mum.

$50: Dumb Extra content. Access to full unedited versions of the Geneva trip and the first series in the Outback. With extended scenes and extra content.

$20: Dumb Shout out – A big, loud thank you on the social media site of your choosing. Every little helps and this is about so much more than just the return of your favorite podcast. (Subject to random coincidence and vicinity – travel and accommodation not included)

We get it - What does such stupidity have to do with artificial INTELLIGENCE and ethical mining?

Travel to remote sites and insert some reality stupidity into the internet. It's an equal and opposite reaction. Yin and Yang/Setup and punchline stuff. With countless random elements thrown in.

Only idiocy of these epic proportions is capable of setting up and spotting those kind of "axiomatic gates" (Fancy/unfunny word for comedy callbacks)

Tying together multiple Boolean algebra "bits" (fancy/unfunny word for comedy bits)

Making them not NP-COMPLETED after all!

See what we did there? 

And you thought you didn't understand the first perk one bit now didn't ya?

You do, just some just some stupidly clever idiots changed what those words meant just to feel clever about it - which is dumb.

Join us!

Join us on this epic journey of laughter, love, and change. Let’s make our mums proud and leave a better and less bloody morally and intellectually sure of itself world for the next generation.

Click that "Back This Project" button and let's kick this Dumb White Guy Bucket list right in the nuts.