What do you want to be remembered for?

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Friday, and here we are welcome
to the show. Welcome. So

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this slightly morbid question comes from Keith
Honeycutt, a frequent questioner. What would

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you like your friends and family to
think or say about you once you're dead

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and gone? All right? In
other words, what do you what do

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you want to be remembered for?
Yeah, like what's your legacy? Yeah?

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I've had very morbid thoughts in my
short life here, but really yeah,

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but I don't I've never really thought
about what people think necessarily, just

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how you feel about looking back?
Yeah, or like who would care?

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Or like how long you would last, BECAUSEY even say that, you know,

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like I think there's data on it, you know, like six months

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after you die, most people have
forgotten. Yeah, ninety percent of people

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that you interact with couldn't recall your
face or your voice, yeah or whatever.

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Especially with the Internet age, it's
obviously just expanded because you touch slightly

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more people. But yeah, so
I don't really like think about it like

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that. I mean, and then
you know, you can dive into religion

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and stuff like does it matter.
I do try to, like, you

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know, the old thing you learn, like kindergarten, like leave some leave

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the place better than when you came. Yeah, and that's you know,

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something I yelled as a kid.
When you go to the park or you

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go camping or whatever, right,
so if there's extra trash, you're pick

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it up, like even if it's
something little like that. So I do

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try to kind of live and lead
like that with good impressions. But beyond

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that, I don't really know.
I mean, no, everyone wants to

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like everyone's answer should be the same, right, like, hopefully even if

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you're a piece of shit, don't. People aren't pieces of shit on purpose,

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That's just who they are. Right, that's like one percent of the

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world is actually a piece of shit. Because but even those people that go

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out of the way to be a
piece of shit, they probably think it's

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funny or they probably think it's making
a money or right like, or they

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think that they're entitled to maybe but
then yeah, but but then like that's

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entitledment, not negative like yeah,
no one ever like and that's you know,

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as you start to look at what's
happening in the world today with war

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and whatever, like it, evil's
purely based on perspective. Yeah, the

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amount of actual evil in the world, you know, I think is so

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low, and and that's why Avengers
was so great, right, Like,

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Theanos is one of the best evil
guys of all time because he's not evil,

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because he's sympathetic. And you understand
why he's he justifies in his brain

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that he thinks the world's too fucked
and so he needs to delete fifty percent,

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like it's just his mission. He
doesn't think that, you know,

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he just thinks that's the way to
actually cause peace. And that's kind of

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how this whole world works. There's
very few people, I think that go

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to the way wake up in the
morning, say I'm gonna go ruin every

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person's day in my path. Some
people, Yeah, that's just like I

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said, just who they are.
I I just actually finished a book on

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the MCU called mcu uh, and
that one of the fastest of thanos is

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that he's like sort of relatable and
sort of yeah, like he's not doing

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it because he's evil, right,
Like you're said, it's it's that he's

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got this other like other view,
other agenda. Yeah. I don't know

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if it's different cultures you're raised him, But when you're raised in like America,

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everything's so good guy versus bad guy. Right, everything's so super based.

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It's Superman's clearly good. He's all
good. Yeah, and then he's

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fighting this bad guy who wants to
ruin the world. Obviously, other cultures

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have different histories, traditions, myths
and legends, and you dig into some

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of the older older ones, you
know, the Romans and the Greeks,

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it's similar in some of their myths. But it's the life just doesn't work

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that way. Yeah, it really
isn't black and white, and these evil

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people or bad people are jerks even
or even just a dickhead let alone,

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you know, even like murderers in
the world, like there's something in their

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head that's justified. You know,
they probably don't look in the mirror and

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say I am evil. They say, oh, I need to do this

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because whatever, and that isn't right, but that doesn't necessarily Yeah, it's

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all perspective based. So I think
every person you ask this question will be

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like, well, I hope people
think like me. Right. No one

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wakes up and say, I don't
want to be liked, I don't want

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to be loved, I don't want
to be admired, I don't want to

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be honored, I don't want to
be respected, and everyone wants the same

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shit. Yeah, and I think
I've talked about this before more than one

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But you know, my my best
friend died in two thousand and eight when

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we were in our forties, and
his like memorial service and funeral and stuff

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were kind of like a like a
huge testament to who he was as a

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person. And like so many people
talked about the difference that he made,

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things he said, things he did
waste and interact with them, you know

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how they had it affected their lives, and you know very much at that

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time, I'm thinking, well,
what have I done like that, Like

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I don't I can't really point to
a whole lot of circumstances like that.

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And sometimes when you do something like
like that for someone, they might not

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actually continue to be in your life. So that's another you know, that's

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the thing. Like you, it's
it's sometimes even hard to remember you've done

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those things. Sure, and it
was all very immediate for him and for

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those for those people, and like
oh, like like I said, I'm

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not going to be I'm not going
to be buried hole in a casket,

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but like, who would your pallbearers
be? Like, you know, you

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look around and you know your friends
are somewhat your legacy, you know,

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in a way the part of you
that they carry along with them. Yeah,

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and some of it's just to me, it's just like it's not a

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scoreboard either, because you can't measure
these things. Yeah, it's really hard.

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It's hard hard to measure. I
mean, you want people to think

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you were, that they liked you, and that you were a good person,

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sure that you did good things.
So like the older you get,

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I've been the way too many funerals
in my life. I've been too many,

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even just this goddamn year like the
older you get, the smaller the

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funerals tend to be. Yeah,
right, because a lot of their peers

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or whatever have also passed. Yeah, so you know, we went to

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my aunt's earlier this month or I
don't even know what it was, and

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it was pretty small my family and
then a couple of her friends. But

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she was you know, later seventies, maybe even eighties, so those start

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to shrink. Or like when my
dad died, you went, like,

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I feel that was one of three
fucking funerals for whatever reason. Oh good

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lord, I did not realize that. Yeah, so that was like the

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public one. Yeah, then we
did a private one Catholic only fan family

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only. Then we did one in
Cleveland because a lot of people couldn't come

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out from Cleveland. Yeah, but
that I mean that we filled a basketball

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stadium, right, And obviously I
do think my dad was amazing on every

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level. But like that impact doesn't
mean anything is a quantity versus quality.

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If you die and the ones at
your funeral, but you truly loved and

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helped like one person, Yeah right, it's not a scoreboard. That's just

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as good, right if you just
truly helped your son or truly helped your

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spouse or truly helped your whatever,
one random person in your community, that's

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just as valuable. Kind of you
know my beginning statement of leave somewhere better

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than you came. That doesn't mean
you have to be a YouTuber with eight

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million followers, right, You can
make an impact on one singular person and

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it'd be just as impactful because then
hopefully that person maybe impacts two people,

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et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera. Yeah, funerals are weird,

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man, funerals aren't weird. I
was on somebody Else's podcast yesterday for the

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longest period of time that I've been
on a podcast. Asked in a long

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time, like, we don't do
long episodes anymore for a variety of reasons.

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But the question came up because you
know, it was it was largely

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focused on the past, in the
past of you know, the last fifteen

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years or so, and the question
was would you do it all over again

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the same way? And I actually
I think I quoted you in saying,

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like number one, we wouldn't be
in the position that we're in now had

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we not done that. And more
relevant to this question is the people who

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who tell us that they benefited from
the things that we did before, things

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we do now whatever, they wouldn't
have had that had we had I not

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done it. Yeah, all that's
like so corny, but it's so true,

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Like you can't really change what you've
done if you've taken it as a

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lesson. Yeah, you know,
Like it is so corny, and everyone's

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preaching in on TikTok, Like all
I have is lessons. I don't have

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failures. But like if you do
kind of look it that way, and

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if you're self aware enough to learn
from what you've done or the interactions or

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then yeah, you can't really want
to change shit, Yeah, you know,

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because then like we would, Yeah, I wouldn't have the knowledge I

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have now of of business and lifting
and who to deal with in the network

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we have and the community we have
and we've built. It is just complicated.

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But yeah, why would you change
shit? You know? Yeah?

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And unless unless you in hindsight you
can see like, oh I was a

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piece of shit, I can't understand
that, Or you made a horrendous decision

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that affected other people in a disproportionate
way. Yeah, And I don't think

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I have any of those. Yeah, Butterfly affected a little negative. Yeah,

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yeah, I think that's that's really
what it comes down to. And

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yeah, I mean shit, I
would love to sell out and be right

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and ararri and stroid it out of
my brains, but yeah, I probably

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wouldn't go back and do that either. Uh yeah, you know, yeah,

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yeah, it it really comes down
to how like how good can you

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feel about yourself based on what you've
done so far? And that's kind of

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the whole There's like a legacy thing. We might even talking here because we

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did an episode on like parenting and
shit, not that I'm a parent or

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any plans of it right now,
but I do like read into psychology type

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stuff, and there's something they talk
about, like I don't even know where

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I heard it might have been you, might have been read, it might

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have been whatever. But they talk
about kids and rather than saying like I'm

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so proud of you Timmy for playing
a basketball game, like Timmy, are

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you proud of you? Yeah?
You know, like teaching kids to have

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that like inner voice rather than the
world, because then you do you turn

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into a fucking TikToker that'll do anything
to get people's approval, yea, rather

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than just saying like, no,
I'm pretty cool with like, oh I

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think I did find it, And
obviously that could probably go south to to

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participation award if you go too drastic
the other way, right, like,

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yeah, I'm proud I got out
of my bed. Like we need a

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little bit more standards than that.
But because I've seen people that are,

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you know, raised multiple ways,
and some people are like that like yeah

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yeah, like like yeah, man, you made your bed. No one

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gets a fuck like, go do
something. But yeah, the same way

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that I don't care if anybody's up
at four to thirty in the morning at

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Yeah, I don't give a single
shit about that. Yeah, that's already

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turning on its head too. The
whole world is just so predictable, how

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things go back and forth. Because
that was like the biggest thing over the

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last six years, and then now
there's a bunch of billionaires on TikTok saying

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like I wake up at eight yeah, like like I don't. I've never

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taken a cold plunge in my life. Yeah, yeah, it's so silly.

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Everyone's just silly. Yeah, I
don't know the answer. Yeah,

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I would love to be remembered,
but I mean, who's really fucking remembered,

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And then like are they remember the
right way? You know, you

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got the fucking what are you gonna
put a statue in me? Yeah?

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Like I don't give a shit.
I mean I think that there's a here's

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a good example of someone who died
recently, Paul Rupin's Pee Wee Herman,

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Like, yeah, some people just
remember him as the guy who was jerking

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off in a porn theater. Yeah, although I will say, like what

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else are you gonna do in a
porn theater? Like porn theater is just

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weird? Yeah that's orgy or yeah, or just the creepy show like he

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was just creepy. Yeah, this
show. Yeah it's like trippy. Yeah,

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it's trippy man childie. Yeah,
isn't like the lazy boy couch talking

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to you and shit? Yeah yeah
it's weird. But then yeah, like

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what is the ultimate answer? Because
in Western culture it's like a museum or

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like a statue or something, But
that's never because of like who they are.

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It's always what they did. And
I would rather be remembered for like

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who I am. Right, Like
Michael Jordan love him, but like he

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doesn't have a statue in front of
Chicago because he was the kindest person in

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the world. No, Napoleon,
fucking George Washington, like all these people.

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It's not because like, wow,
they're so kind and so good to

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everyone, right, it's because they
like won this war, won that championship.

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I can't think of a single museum
same thing. Like maybe there's a

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couple right where you dig into like
Muhammad Ali in history rather than Muhammad Ali

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in sports, but that's one in
a quadrillion, and then no one remembers

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them like that, right, most
people talk about Mohammed Lee knocking the fuckers

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out. Yeah, yeah, you
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really good point, and it comes
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obituary. Yeah, you know,
most first lines of obituary don't say this

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was a good guy, right you
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Star father right Yeah, yeah,
which is like fine too, but all

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of it is just weird. And
whether we have an afterlife or not,

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yes, after life. Yeah,
that's where like that taps into religion.

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Yeah right, because like none of
this matters if you believe in that,

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and then all that matters is if
I'm at them gates or if I'm in

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some lava. That's all that's really
gonna determine what happened here. Yeah for

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sure. All right, that's all
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