SHNEAKO - November 20, 2025I Ran a Marathon with Casey Neistat...
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Summary
Casey Neistat is one of my biggest inspirations and one of the most influential people I've ever met. In this episode, we talk about how important it is to meet your heroes, and how to deal with the disappointment of realizing that the person you romanticize on social media is just like you.
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they say you should never meet your heroes to protect you from the ego-crushing reality that
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might occur when you smell the bad breath of your idol it's advice strictly for the people who are
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only ever capable of worshiping the people that they could learn from if you can't handle the
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disappointment of realizing the person you romanticize wipes and burps just like you
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You were never gonna make it anyway admittedly. I'm nervous because in just a few hours
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I'm supposed to meet the pioneer of New York City daily vlogs one of my favorite filmmakers of all times and one of the reasons
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I started YouTube 12 years ago if all goes well. There are no more living heroes of mine to me
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Casey Neistat just texted me saying he wants to go running at 620 at the Brooklyn Bridge
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I had a feeling he was gonna text you that so I set my alarm for five
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I fell asleep, but by some miracle. I woke up at six
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So I'm gonna run with one of the YouTube legends one of my biggest inspirations in life. I was supposed to wake up just now
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By the grace of God, I woke up in time. I've been trying to get in contact with Casey for the past couple days
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He's been busy with kids and he's flying out for the next three weeks today. He said 620 at the Brooklyn Bridge. It's 614
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see i don't think a lot of this new generation understands how much of an inspiration this guy
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was when we take field trips into manhattan back when i was 13 14 i'd look out the bus window
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wondering if he was gonna ride by on his electric skateboard when i dropped out of college and bought
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my first camera i got the one he had the jovi tripod the canon 80d with the road microphone on
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top walking around being like Casey Neistat when I was designing my new
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Manhattan studio guess what I use as a replica his studio 619 I don't see him
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Casey Casey Casey it's 620 I'm right here either I got scammed or I'm just
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You know what would really suck is if I just got knifed and there he is, how you doing?
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I thought you were going to start your run here.
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I used to train at New York City Cops and Kids in Flatbush.
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I've been wanting to meet this guy for a decade,
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but I'm too tired to do anything else but small talk about traveling.
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But down you get a breathe a little on the decline
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It's so cool is that by doing what I do going around with the camera making content putting myself out there
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Like I learned how to lift weights because Bradley Martin videos and now I talk to him all the time
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He's a good friend of mine. That is so cool to me
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getting belief from listening to kanye west and then getting to meet yay and work with him or like
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going in high school going to trump rallies and then then you get to to meet him eight years later
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that's what's so cool about this and uh some kid came up to me at the beach today and he's like
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like how do you meet cool people i told him like if you make cool shit cool people will be attracted
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to you if you put yourself out there you make something dope naturally you're gonna meet all
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those people people say don't meet your heroes i disagree completely i think you should meet them
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you realize that these are humans too and then you see like okay if they can do it why can't i
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i know it's really obvious motivational advice but when you meet these people it really hits like
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oh i can do this how about like a another video that i finished it took like three months to make
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it's about planned obsolescence what does obsolescence mean uh obsolescence it's like um
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for companies from companies design products to only last a short amount
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yeah so it's like you gotta write it and that's hard and my rule always is like
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If you couldn't see the video and you listened to it, it would still be compelling.
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It's more important now than, you know, when I was younger and didn't have family.
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how the fuck can this guy talk and run so much
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Fuck that was a long way not every morning if you want to do this. I'm down every I have to have the fight coming up
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So I'm ready. Yeah change those shoes though. Yeah, no more skateboard shoes
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We started the run from over here, right across this bridge, came all the way here.
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I used to live in an apartment when I was about two, three years old.
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Daily reminder that this is the best city on earth.
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I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom.
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There probably was a problem at the post office or something.
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Want to know what I do in fucking Manhattan?
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If I have a daughter, guess what I'ma call her?
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