What do you want to be remembered for?

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1:04 I've had very morbid thoughts in my short life here, but really yeah, but I don't I've never really thought about what people think necessarily, just how you feel about looking back? Yeah, or like who would care? Or like how long you would last, BECAUSEY even say that, you know, like I think there's data on it, you know, like six months after you die, most people have forgotten. Yeah, ninety percent of people that you interact with couldn't recall your face or your voice, yeah or whatever. Especially with the Internet age, it's obviously just expanded because you touch slightly more people. But yeah, so I don't really like think about it like that. I mean, and then you know, you can dive into religion and stuff like does it matter. I do try to, like, you know, the old thing you learn, like kindergarten, like leave some leave the place better than when you came. Yeah, and that's you know, something I yelled as a kid. When you go to the park or you go camping or whatever, right, so if there's extra trash, you're pick it up, like even if it's something little like that. So I do try to kind of live and lead like that with good impressions. But beyond that, I don't really know. I mean, no, everyone wants to like everyone's answer should be the same, right, like, hopefully even if you're a piece of shit, don't. People aren't pieces of shit on purpose, That's just who they are. Right, that's like one percent of the world is actually a piece of shit. Because but even those people that go out of the way to be a piece of shit, they probably think it's funny or they probably think it's making a money or right like, or they

2:36 think that they're entitled to maybe but then yeah, but but then like that's entitledment, not negative like yeah, no one ever like and that's you know, as you start to look at what's happening in the world today with war and whatever, like it, evil's purely based on perspective. Yeah, the amount of actual evil in the world, you know, I think is so low, and and that's why Avengers was so great, right, Like, Theanos is one of the best evil guys of all time because he's not evil, because he's sympathetic. And you understand why he's he justifies in his brain that he thinks the world's too fucked and so he needs to delete fifty percent, like it's just his mission. He doesn't think that, you know, he just thinks that's the way to actually cause peace. And that's kind of how this whole world works. There's very few people, I think that go to the way wake up in the morning, say I'm gonna go ruin every person's day in my path. Some people, Yeah, that's just like I said, just who they are. I I just actually finished a book on the MCU called mcu uh, and that one of the fastest of thanos is that he's like sort of relatable and sort of yeah, like he's not doing it because he's evil, right, Like you're said, it's it's that he's got this other like other view, other agenda. Yeah. I don't know if it's different cultures you're raised him, But when you're raised in like America, everything's so good guy versus bad guy. Right, everything's so super based.

4:00 It's Superman's clearly good. He's all good. Yeah, and then he's fighting this bad guy who wants to ruin the world. Obviously, other cultures have different histories, traditions, myths and legends, and you dig into some of the older older ones, you know, the Romans and the Greeks, it's similar in some of their myths. But it's the life just doesn't work that way. Yeah, it really isn't black and white, and these evil people or bad people are jerks even or even just a dickhead let alone, you know, even like murderers in the world, like there's something in their head that's justified. You know, they probably don't look in the mirror and say I am evil. They say, oh, I need to do this because whatever, and that isn't right, but that doesn't necessarily Yeah, it's all perspective based. So I think every person you ask this question will be like, well, I hope people think like me. Right. No one wakes up and say, I don't want to be liked, I don't want to be loved, I don't want to be admired, I don't want to be honored, I don't want to be respected, and everyone wants the same shit. Yeah, and I think I've talked about this before more than one But you know, my my best friend died in two thousand and eight when we were in our forties, and his like memorial service and funeral and stuff were kind of like a like a huge testament to who he was as a person. And like so many people talked about the difference that he made, things he said, things he did waste and interact with them, you know how they had it affected their lives, and you know very much at that time, I'm thinking, well, what have I done like that, Like

5:33 I don't I can't really point to a whole lot of circumstances like that. And sometimes when you do something like like that for someone, they might not actually continue to be in your life. So that's another you know, that's the thing. Like you, it's it's sometimes even hard to remember you've done those things. Sure, and it was all very immediate for him and for those for those people, and like oh, like like I said, I'm not going to be I'm not going to be buried hole in a casket, but like, who would your pallbearers be? Like, you know, you look around and you know your friends are somewhat your legacy, you know, in a way the part of you that they carry along with them. Yeah, and some of it's just to me, it's just like it's not a scoreboard either, because you can't measure these things. Yeah, it's really hard.

6:17 It's hard hard to measure. I mean, you want people to think you were, that they liked you, and that you were a good person, sure that you did good things. So like the older you get, I've been the way too many funerals in my life. I've been too many, even just this goddamn year like the older you get, the smaller the funerals tend to be. Yeah, right, because a lot of their peers or whatever have also passed. Yeah, so you know, we went to my aunt's earlier this month or I don't even know what it was, and it was pretty small my family and then a couple of her friends. But she was you know, later seventies, maybe even eighties, so those start to shrink. Or like when my dad died, you went, like, I feel that was one of three fucking funerals for whatever reason. Oh good lord, I did not realize that. Yeah, so that was like the public one. Yeah, then we did a private one Catholic only fan family only. Then we did one in Cleveland because a lot of people couldn't come out from Cleveland. Yeah, but that I mean that we filled a basketball stadium, right, And obviously I do think my dad was amazing on every level. But like that impact doesn't mean anything is a quantity versus quality.

7:15 If you die and the ones at your funeral, but you truly loved and helped like one person, Yeah right, it's not a scoreboard. That's just as good, right if you just truly helped your son or truly helped your spouse or truly helped your whatever, one random person in your community, that's just as valuable. Kind of you know my beginning statement of leave somewhere better than you came. That doesn't mean you have to be a YouTuber with eight million followers, right, You can make an impact on one singular person and it'd be just as impactful because then hopefully that person maybe impacts two people, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, funerals are weird, man, funerals aren't weird. I was on somebody Else's podcast yesterday for the longest period of time that I've been on a podcast. Asked in a long time, like, we don't do long episodes anymore for a variety of reasons.

8:05 But the question came up because you know, it was it was largely focused on the past, in the past of you know, the last fifteen years or so, and the question was would you do it all over again the same way? And I actually I think I quoted you in saying, like number one, we wouldn't be in the position that we're in now had we not done that. And more relevant to this question is the people who who tell us that they benefited from the things that we did before, things we do now whatever, they wouldn't have had that had we had I not done it. Yeah, all that's like so corny, but it's so true, Like you can't really change what you've done if you've taken it as a lesson. Yeah, you know, Like it is so corny, and everyone's preaching in on TikTok, Like all I have is lessons. I don't have failures. But like if you do kind of look it that way, and if you're self aware enough to learn from what you've done or the interactions or then yeah, you can't really want to change shit, Yeah, you know, because then like we would, Yeah, I wouldn't have the knowledge I have now of of business and lifting and who to deal with in the network we have and the community we have and we've built. It is just complicated.

9:18 But yeah, why would you change shit? You know? Yeah? And unless unless you in hindsight you can see like, oh I was a piece of shit, I can't understand that, Or you made a horrendous decision that affected other people in a disproportionate way. Yeah, And I don't think I have any of those. Yeah, Butterfly affected a little negative. Yeah, yeah, I think that's that's really what it comes down to. And yeah, I mean shit, I would love to sell out and be right and ararri and stroid it out of my brains, but yeah, I probably wouldn't go back and do that either. Uh yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, it it really comes down to how like how good can you feel about yourself based on what you've done so far? And that's kind of the whole There's like a legacy thing. We might even talking here because we did an episode on like parenting and shit, not that I'm a parent or any plans of it right now, but I do like read into psychology type stuff, and there's something they talk about, like I don't even know where I heard it might have been you, might have been read, it might have been whatever. But they talk about kids and rather than saying like I'm so proud of you Timmy for playing a basketball game, like Timmy, are you proud of you? Yeah? You know, like teaching kids to have that like inner voice rather than the world, because then you do you turn into a fucking TikToker that'll do anything to get people's approval, yea, rather than just saying like, no, I'm pretty cool with like, oh I think I did find it, And obviously that could probably go south to to participation award if you go too drastic the other way, right, like, yeah, I'm proud I got out of my bed. Like we need a little bit more standards than that. But because I've seen people that are,

10:48 you know, raised multiple ways, and some people are like that like yeah yeah, like like yeah, man, you made your bed. No one gets a fuck like, go do something. But yeah, the same way that I don't care if anybody's up at four to thirty in the morning at Yeah, I don't give a single shit about that. Yeah, that's already turning on its head too. The whole world is just so predictable, how things go back and forth. Because that was like the biggest thing over the last six years, and then now there's a bunch of billionaires on TikTok saying like I wake up at eight yeah, like like I don't. I've never taken a cold plunge in my life. Yeah, yeah, it's so silly. Everyone's just silly. Yeah, I don't know the answer. Yeah, I would love to be remembered, but I mean, who's really fucking remembered, And then like are they remember the right way? You know, you got the fucking what are you gonna put a statue in me? Yeah?

11:28 Like I don't give a shit. I mean I think that there's a here's a good example of someone who died recently, Paul Rupin's Pee Wee Herman, Like, yeah, some people just remember him as the guy who was jerking off in a porn theater. Yeah, although I will say, like what else are you gonna do in a porn theater? Like porn theater is just weird? Yeah that's orgy or yeah, or just the creepy show like he was just creepy. Yeah, this show. Yeah it's like trippy. Yeah, it's trippy man childie. Yeah, isn't like the lazy boy couch talking to you and shit? Yeah yeah it's weird. But then yeah, like what is the ultimate answer? Because in Western culture it's like a museum or like a statue or something, But that's never because of like who they are.

12:13 It's always what they did. And I would rather be remembered for like who I am. Right, Like Michael Jordan love him, but like he doesn't have a statue in front of Chicago because he was the kindest person in the world. No, Napoleon, fucking George Washington, like all these people. It's not because like, wow, they're so kind and so good to everyone, right, it's because they like won this war, won that championship. I can't think of a single museum same thing. Like maybe there's a couple right where you dig into like Muhammad Ali in history rather than Muhammad Ali in sports, but that's one in a quadrillion, and then no one remembers them like that, right, most people talk about Mohammed Lee knocking the fuckers out. Yeah, yeah, you know, absolutely that is Actually that's a really good point, and it comes down to like the first line of your obituary. Yeah, you know, most first lines of obituary don't say this was a good guy, right you know. Yeah, it's like NBA All Star father right Yeah, yeah, which is like fine too, but all of it is just weird. And whether we have an afterlife or not, yes, after life. Yeah, that's where like that taps into religion.

13:15 Yeah right, because like none of this matters if you believe in that, and then all that matters is if I'm at them gates or if I'm in some lava. That's all that's really gonna determine what happened here. Yeah for sure. All right, that's all I got on this one. All right, Ladies and gentlemen, good company. Discord dot com join us. There a very secret things coming out tomorrow. So I suggest if you're listening this today Friday to join it. Discord Uh. I'm Selo Mike. Where you want to find a new episodes Wednesday Friday. I'm at the j M Dana the social media. This show is fifty percent Facts. For percent is a word and fifty is just numbers. Fifty percent Facts is a speaker, Prime podcast and association with like our media on the Scare Celebrity Network. And we'll talk to you next time. Six sixt