Props to the guy who finessed a bunch of narcissists out of thousands of dollars.

"Its not free if it needs your phone number" That's some wise words from Asmon.

I like how he makes it a point that he doesn't like being referred to as a "Self-improvement guru." He knows exactly what it is. He knows how it can have a negative connotation. He knows that he is one lol

Asmon should go to this festival and just stream Dark Souls from a laptop right in the middle. Show them what a real millionaire is like.

I wanna say good job to the dude that made this happen, you're the only scammer I respect

Best part was the flute beat. That guy should be running the show.

I appreciate that he said 'assuming you don't have some disorder' when talking about making yourself happy. I'm schizoaffective, and part of that means I suffer from major depression; I recall hearing that all the time growing up - this idea that if I wasn't happy, it was somehow my own fault. I looked everywhere for happiness and couldn't find it, in an era when depression wasn't taken seriously by society and nobody ever thought to offer me antidepressants. Arthur Fleck had it right when he said "the worst part about being mentally ill, is everyone expecting you to behave like you're not" - it is devastating to one's self image to be unable to feel happiness and have everyone tell you that it's you're fault you're always miserable and you should just choose to feel better.

I feel like this woman is perfectly straddling the line between journalism and sarcasm, I just can't tell.

"You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves in to." - This statement is pure gold.... some would even call it asmongold.

Blows my mind the difference of the "Vision" guy talking at the start of the video and almost at the end, jumps from cheery lovely guy to almost insulted by every question and answering like a politician.

the dude beatboxing with the flute was amazing

If I was a successful millionaire, I wouldn’t need to pay for seminars that are going to tell me how successful I am, or I need to be.

I think that Asmongold should go and stream the entire experience. 10/10 content

That old saying "a fool and his money will soon be parted" is the definition of this festival. 😂

That walk on the bridge looked like something out of Three's Company

this talk with vision is really putting his character into perspective.

"I can see why he's successful and why people like him" "He sounds extremely confident" "He's not enough of an asshole to be dislikeable" "There is an unsettling nature about it" Asmon describing a psychopath*

Can we buy Asmon a ticket for next year's festival with a camera crew? I would love to see him there with all those looneys :D

Need to appreciate Asmongold, how he is able to watch whole thing with smile , I cant even for 2 min of this .

Dude, you're ability to remain grounded with your sucess is why people love you. Thanks for remaining a very cool dude.

The cult leader is basically Thiulsa Doom from Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Barbarian from 1982. Great movie. They actually based the villain on sect and cult leaders, and this dude speaks EXACTLY like James Earl Jones does in the movie. Exactly!

"No, you're just mad they have money and you don't" actually forced a near bark level laugh out of me in public, so thanks for that

Agreed. People think that they have to find happiness or peace out side of them self. I work as a therapist to help people see that they are already enough. Even in their worst day. My heart goes out for narcissists because they are so desperate for praise and adoration because they have none for themselves.

This is just an irl Hitman level lmao

The most alarming thing for me about this retreat is the breath-work part.. Because, there is actually some science behind it and the experience can be potentially quite dangerous for an individual. For those interested, i will explain a bit bellow. There is a technique, caled holotropic breathwork. Envisioned and by Stanislav Grof, Czech/American psychiatrist, a controversial figure in psychology. He created this technique after studying and experiencing "psychedelic" states of mind, both of himself, and others... The idea was to achieve similar "dreamlike" state while concious with more individual control over it, with a major contributing factor of set-seting diad. That's whats problematic here, which shall be later explained. Theory aside, now what actually happens to your body while breathing in a certain way for a longer period of time, wile also blindfolded, with powerful ambient music playing? You inhale, exhale, inflate and deflate, focusing on just one thing. 10 to 30 minutes like this. The level of oxygen in your bloodstream gets wild, your heartbeat above 150-180bpm, easily, veins open to the maximum, muscles shaking, exhausted, like you just ran for half an hour. But you're sitting down, or lying even. But thats just what happens to the body. The exces of oxygen, which such activity facilitates can mess with the brain as well, and maybe quite surprisingly, a person can actually achieve a state of mind in some ways quite similar to a psychedelic "trip". One of which, the extreme dependence of set and setting. In the case of the video, the set is just dissastrous in every possible way. And for the setting, that would depend on the individual, but based on the buzzword "connection", i think we can make an educated guess. Erases the whole individual, ironically so. It appears to be aproaching, almost of the border of hypnotic, which is another dreamlike state. Whoever says, this isnt cult, maybe, possibly. But the herd is there and so is the shepherd. If not a cult, definetelly culty.

Today I had the idea that Asmongold is actually the charisma of the former 90's blizzard and thats why I love him

I went to a business conference in Vegas for the first time in my career recently. The behavior and interactions of everyone I met and watched while there taught me one thing, Every person you meet, no matter how wealthy or successful, is literally the same person they were as a highschooler or child.

In my opinion, she could have the same positiv experience with a good healty holiday in a nice hotel almost everywhere else. Just go out and chill at a pool with a drink in hand, a smile, a wave and a hi to strangers around you.

If you ever need coaching for an actor on how to express horror, look no further. Assmon shows the true horror expression, one that blends confusion, anxiety, horror, disdain, and so much more. Its a journey that he takes us as things develop on the screen and we can appreciate as he emotes. What a journey.

3:08 that sums it up perfectly

the flute beatboxing was insane

"Everyone is dirty except for me" says the guy who also said "After 12 days of not showering, you just stop getting dirtier" lmao

I like how the guy in the beginning, lays out the method to the scam. Going out of your way to make people feel good and communally accepted, while simultaniously lathering them in bullshit. Also the breathing ritual reminds me of certain churches. Perhaps both tap into the same thing.

Any chance you would be willing to try one of these and record it in a similar way to the video you are watching. That content would be GOLDEN.

didn't expect some of the comments you made, was thoroughly entertained

Must feel really special to pay 4 grand for a ticket to meet new friends.

"it's about bliss but it's also about the fist" got me so good lmfao

Honestly I think church and organized religion can to some people work the same way. Maybe people don't go there to hook up, but you can move to a new town, join a church, and instantly be part of a community and possibly kick start business etc. I've seen it work that way.

Surprised asmond didnt catch the "Invite Only" but 3 to 4k buy in ticket

"you don´t need to be inteligent to be rich" true and real.

damn dude. some great perspective here..............this is your best video even "simps" like most of us can take to heart. Amazing commentary at the end man. 11/10.

2:50 Mentions the grove. Asmon just boosted in cool.

Asmon is the low key inspirational speaker we all didnt realise we needed. Fuck my bro, you drop some pearls of wisdom sometimes dont ya!

15:10 holy shit, we need to call Arthas to purify this place!

Could be the funniest livestream of all time if Asmongold decides to go there and try to join them.

This reminds me of the scams that start once you start an LLC that call you telling your new business won an award and you just need to pay $3,000 to get the marketing materials to promote the award you won, "an exclusive invite-only event that you can join for $4,000"

I have the flu and felt like shit all week but you've managed to make me laugh like a lunatic Asmon...bravo

Not even a minute into the video and it already has big cult energy...

Asmon seems jelious he didn't think the party up himself

Its impressive how people can be light years apart belief and faith wise. What its true for one is ridiculous to others. And the strangest of habits can be common for some. You ll aways find somewhere or someone to relate and belong to. What is really bad tho is to have a festival labeled "only for" millionaires. Or to have to pay $4 grand only to have a "safe" place where you can be / or discover yourself. Indifferent of the kind of help, valid or not, this festival is providing, it should be available outside of the label of what kind of money the people makes.

I 100% agree with Asmon here. Being creative is a better way to put it though. Because creativity doesn't mean creating somthing. It could be finding a solution, problem solving. Refining a task. It could be anything that the person makes changes to a satisfactory standard for themselves or others. I like to build stuff in games, but I rarely keep any of it. I'm more interested in the workflow it took to get to it. You make a lot of mistakes. This is good, because you can learn from mistakes. Education is a key word for almost anything, since to do anything we usually have to learn it. So combine your creativity with your abilities to learn and you do you. From this it is very likly you'll find what you enjoy most in life and where you gain the most pride. You will start to be happy.

i fel like asmon missed the biggest reason why most of these would be here, (providing they really are millionaires) if you've spent your 20's and 30's telling yourself when you've made it everything will be all good then you finally get there and everything is not all good so they go looking for meaning and validation

finessing people out of money is an art. finessing millionaires out of it is perfection

'Touch a book guy' watched Allan Strange on Nickelodeon as a kid, and wished it was real.

Not the Fushigi @26:30 LMAO

"you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into" That is so perfectly said

Asmongold face of the year when they were all moaning that was priceless.

42:16 1000% this man, best advice you can get in life!

Dude, this video was awesome. Shame I didn't had any popcorn at the moment. x)

It's so funny they call it "A Fest". A clinical psychologist once told me, not every Arse hole is a Narcissist, but every Narcissist is an Arse hole! 🤣 Great and hilarious vid Asmon!

This festival is literally codependence development camp. Asmon hit the biggest take away imo, only you can foster your own happiness.

The real talent of the guy running that is managing not to smirk while he's speaking to them all

New video every 30min or so, thanks editors, this is a good day.

34:56 I think this sort of guilt or insecurity that comes from being very successful/wealthy has less to do with having done "evil" shit to achieve it and more to do with just how much of that success is also attributable to luck, circumstance, and all sorts of other factors that are entirely out of their control. A ton of extremely successful people are enamored with the idea of being self-made, it becomes part of their identity.

absolute banger coming from the guy blowin on the skin flute!

36:44 🤣🤣🤣 I use the same line, and I love it cause it's true.

This marketplace is enormous. People don't realize just how big. Many don't even realize that it is primarily a market place, just like with popular science. PS: Funniest shit I've seen in quite some time. Asmon's face was priceless. My sentiments exactly.

The intro of the video reminds me of Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.

9:45 that guy right there is me going first time to a bar and trying to socialize and being like dafuq imma doing here 🤣

They need a place to make people humble and chill. This feels like a place where people heighten their narcissism and develop spiritual egos.

asmon doing a live stream at this fest would be gold content xD

14:39 Pausing to say, lets observe this room full of people that dont care about how they make others feel. Its hard to tell whether theyre soon going to eagerly seek out and terminate the source of this girls anxiety attack, or if theyre going to point blame and call her an “energy well”. Only Time Will Tell

8:46 As far as I know, the friend thing doesn't work like that xD

27:00 Thats not an ocean, thats the dead sea.

It made me less negative alright, because I can’t stop laughing

6:32 Dude Asmon nails this shit every time. I hate the first question someone asks you is what you do for a living. “Oh I’m an (insert job title)” “You must really like dogs then haha” Everyone I meet these days identifies as their fucking job title and it immediately turns me off of them. I know their input will be very limited and stale the moment they identify as a substance abuse therapist or a welder.

I think when they say it's lonely at the top, it's in reference to the (often real) idea that when you have "made it" to the top, you will suddenly have people clamoring to bring you down and/or get what you have so you have to be more careful who you let into your close company. That's the spirit of the phrase anyway. Example would be athletes who go pro, get millions of dollars, then suddenly their long lost father or childhood friends come knocking and more often than not either try to cheat them or drag them into some stuff they shouldn't be involved in.

She started getting into the vibe after that first glass of wine cheers lady!

I had to restart this video several times... cuz i found myself laughing hysterically out loud!!! lolol... but eventually, i just put my hand on the computer screen, and sensed what the rest of this video was! So, I'm all good now!

I am yearning for an Asmon & Destiny discussion. Would be so interesting and fun to watch!

I have friends that are worth millions and I can understand them feeling lonely. It's hard for them to know if a person is interested in them or their money. It's amazing how many buzzards come out of the woodwork when you have money.

All that shaking, crying and howling reminds me of a scene I experienced one night when I was invited to what I can only assume was a cult meditation ritual rite. They were shaking and talking in tongues and crawling on the ground. This was not that far off what I saw lol.

Idk about that crazy fest... but that beat boxing wood flute guy was dope af.

The book thing had me crying from laughter. Where did you find this gem? Lol

This....is....interesting....it really looks like a huge ego stroke for people who have enough money for it, but don't have enough money to feel successfull or they sell a load of bull and know it and they NEED someone to tell them they're smart and deserve it.

I was listening to this on my phone without watching. A better help ad started to play and for about 20-30 seconds I just thought it was another segment of the video.

This feels like a Hitman Scenario Setting.

How creatively bankrupt do you have to be to actually name the festival, "Awesomeness Festival" 🤣

i have a plethora of mental issues and an awful past that's forced me to think deeply about many things, and i've spent the past several years just, trying to learn how to be happy and be in control of my own life, and it's very difficult, i think things like this can make a lot more sense through a certain lense many people i know have, which is belief that thoughts have power. it's something i think lots of people latch on to because life fluffin sucks, but your thoughts on things like this are always very interesting to me and you have a very cool perspective on life, hearing you talk about topics i have to think about constantly. i think unknown to a lot of people, mental illness plays a huge part in it. anxiety and depression can really mess you up and force you to have to look beyond the physical for a glimpse of happiness sometimes.

39:58 That was the most relatable things I've seen in awhile

Lol at the breathing thing, cos I've done a similar thing at my meditation class. And a room full of people doin that would be kinda intense

Seems like a good place to "trim armour" or double gold

Holy fuck this is the most entertaining thing I've seen in a while, even better than metaverse news P.S. I love every report she ever done, such a good journalist

Love your reactions at 15 mins! Brilliant!😂

It took me four months to cave to finally watch this cause I didnt want to based on the title of the video Asmon is reacting to alone I am 1 minute and 48 seconds in and I already regret having caved

Man Asmongold sure had a lot of girls laughing and loving this video

Can relate a lot to the part of being creative, and creating something is part of expressing yourself. also with being happy with yourself and missing some part that makes you unhappy. that was an amazing video to see your perspective, honestly... more than the other videos. thank you

"If you want to throw away $4000, waste time, Lose the time where you could have earned money, do dumb useless things and go to a resort which you could have been in at a separate time for a cheaper price, this is the perfect event for you" is what I got from that event

Hands down this eventually becomes a bunch of different rooms with orgies in each.

This festival is perfect for Asmond. He can live stream it 😅