LoFi Chaotic

Tony
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LoFi Chaotic is a podcast about everything I was supposed to keep to myself. It’s where creative burnout meets midlife curiosity, where dumb ideas accidentally turn sincere, and where I talk about art, music, YouTube, and all the ways we try (and fail) to feel original. It’s not motivational. It’s not productive. It’s just... me, in a room, trying to figure out how I got here — and why I can’t stop making things anyway. New episodes whenever I remember I have a microphone.

  1. 30/12/2025

    An Unhelpful Meditation About My Inner Critic

    People say you should challenge your inner critic.Ask where it came from.Question its authority.I didn’t.I just let it talk. No interruptions.This isn't a meditation. It's just the running commentary in my head when I upload a video. All the confidence of a guy who's never been right once.The voice is still there at the end.It didn't learn anything. I didn't either.But if this sounds familiar, congratulations.

    12 min
  2. What Happens When You Finally Listen to the Thing You’re Meant To Do

    09/12/2025

    What Happens When You Finally Listen to the Thing You’re Meant To Do

    We all have gifts we dismiss or forget. In this conversation, Mike Mendez and I unpack how we finally heard our own callings again, why we ignored them for so long, and what happens when you follow the thing that lights you up.

    1h 4m

  3. 09/11/2025

    Separating Work and Art Saved My Creativity

    I used to believe a full-time job meant the end of creative freedom.That once you traded your time for a paycheck, you’d have nothing left to give your art.But two weeks into my new job, I finally feel free to create again.Because when your creativity doesn’t have to pay your bills you stop optimizing it.You stop begging the algorithm for validation.You start making the weird stuff again.In this video, I talk about what it really means to protect your passion— why I’m keeping both my career and my creative work, and why I think “work for money, create for yourself” might be the most honest version of creative freedom we have.This is about the three questions I think a lot of us avoid asking. About why I keep both a 25-year career and a YouTube channel. And about what creative freedom actually means when you stop trying to monetize everything.If you've ever wondered whether you should quit your job to create full-time, or felt guilty for keeping both—this one's for you.

    17 min

  4. 09/11/2025

    🧘‍♂️ A Meditation for People Who Hate Me (Roast Edition)

    Five days ago, I made a terrible decision.I asked everyone to insult me in the comments. Roast me, I said. Destroy me. Tell me everything you've been holding back.Then I read them out loud in a calming, meditative voice — like I was guiding you through a forest made entirely of my own inadequacy.This is what happens when burnout meets content strategy. Featuring:🙏🏻 Comparisons to discount Chad Kroeger🙏🏻 Brutal honesty about my aggressively average rapping🙏🏻 Philosophical questions about pots, pans, and grooming habitsYou tried to hurt me, but you'll never come close to the damage done by my own internal dialogue.NamaStay

    8 min

  5. 09/11/2025

    I'm Better Looking in Person, So I'm Switching to Audio-Only Meditation on YouTube

    For 20 years people told me I have a calming voice. For 20 years I did nothing with it. Then I got laid off twice, started a YouTube channel with no plan, and let the comments section run my life. Now they're telling me to make meditation videos. So here we are.This is the story of how I'm finally using my voice (after wasting two decades), why I had to make a joke meditation first (K-pop photocard addicts, you know who you are), and how a single compliment about being "handsome in real life" has sent me into an existential spiral about monetizing my face.Also: I'm blaming all of you when this fails.CHAPTERS:0:00 - Intro: Taking Career Advice from YouTube Comments1:00 - How This Channel Started (Two Layoffs, Zero Plan)1:50 - Comment #1: "You Have a Calming Voice" (20 Years Ignored)2:57 - Why I Had to Make the Joke Version First4:40 - Comment #2: "You're Handsome in Real Life!!" (Thanks, Miss Poofball)6:01 - Discussing Liability (I'm Blaming You When This Fails)7:38 - What Should I Make? (Tell Me in Comments)9:06 - Final Thoughts: Let's Start This Dumpster FireTHE MEDITATION TROJAN HORSE VIDEOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sAfYUnene4THE BIG QUESTION:What's more valuable: a meditation that relaxes you, or a meditation that makes you feel seen?Drop your answer in the comments AND tell me what kind of meditation content I should actually make:- Box Breathing?- Sleep Meditations?- Anxiety Validation Meditations?- Guided Visualizations?- Something else entirely?You've been running this channel so far. Let's see where you take it next.Special thanks to MsPoofball for the compliment.

    10 min

  6. 09/11/2025

    Guided Meditation for K-pop Photocard Addicts Who Won't Get Help

    Welcome to your emotional support session for collectors in denial.This is a guided meditation for people who just bought their eighth version of the same album "for manifesting purposes." It will not cure your photocard addiction. It will not help you explain to your family why you own 37 identical rectangles of the same face.But for approximately 6 minutes, you may feel slightly less insane about it.🧘‍♀️ In this 28-minute session, we’ll:– Breathe in acceptance and exhale financial responsibility– Perform a soothing "body scan" for thumb cramps and eye strain from scrolling resale sites– Visualize your "mind palace," which, unfortunately, is just a floor covered in photocards– Practice saying: "I have a problem. I have no intention of fixing it."This meditation is not about healing.It’s about acceptance — specifically, accepting that you’re too far gone and honestly? That’s beautiful.💬 Comment below with your photocard confession.🪷 Breathe in delusion.🪷 Breathe out logic.🪷 And remember: acknowledging it is step one.(There is no step two.)DISCLAIMER: This is comedy/satire mixed with actual meditation techniques (according to the 4 seconds of googling I did). If you genuinely feel your collecting has become unmanageable, that's valid and there are real resources available... I assume 🤷‍♂️.

    7 min

  7. 09/11/2025

    This Episode Isn’t Original. And That’s the Point

    But somewhere between subscribers 15 and 14,000, I realized it didn't feel like I was creating.And anytime I tried to make something original? I froze.Then I rewatched three videos — Mark Ronson’s TED Talk, Everything Is a Remix, and The Great Art of Interpretation — and it felt like someone had quietly removed the wall I’d been smashing my head against for a year.This video is the result.It’s not original.But it is mine.Includes literal references to:→ Mark Ronson’s TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TF-hI7zKc→ Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA→ The Great Art of Interpretation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hQLp2Cl49QIf you make music, movies, videos, art, blogs, code, comics, shirts, zines, or literally anything creative... this is for you.And yes — this video is a remix of those 3 videos.Call it a video essay. Call it a creative confession.Either way, this is me showing up.

    12 min

  8. 09/11/2025

    7 Types of YouTube Reaction Fans That Will Emotionally Ruin You

    🚨 FINAL WARNING 🚨 If you’re thinking about starting a music reaction channel… don’t. Unless you enjoy emotional whiplash, unsolicited dissertations, and being held hostage by people with Spotify playlists and zero chill.Yes - I've only been a music reactor for 9 short months, but I’ve read more YouTube comments than anyone should — and after filtering out the all caps praise, death threats and weird flirting, I’ve identified an unhinged cast of 7 personality disasters who the poor reactors have to ignore, avoid and hide from.This is NOT a guide. It’s a psychological crime scene.

    11 min
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LoFi Chaotic is a podcast about everything I was supposed to keep to myself. It’s where creative burnout meets midlife curiosity, where dumb ideas accidentally turn sincere, and where I talk about art, music, YouTube, and all the ways we try (and fail) to feel original. It’s not motivational. It’s not productive. It’s just... me, in a room, trying to figure out how I got here — and why I can’t stop making things anyway. New episodes whenever I remember I have a microphone.

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  • Creator
    Tony
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
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    © Tony
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