SHNEAKO - December 22, 2025
NEVER LIVE WITH REGRET.
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the lessons I learned from a near-death experience in my 20s, and how it changed my perspective on life and the things I want to do in the future. I also talk about how I was able to get over $30,000 in medical bills after a motorcycle accident, and why I don t regret it.
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cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with
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noodles wild geese that fly with a moon on their wings these are a few of my favorite things
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i absolutely despise this tattoo it was the last one i got when i was 21 years old it's really not
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that bad of a tattoo and it has a cool story i could tell people these are a few of my favorite
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I had to get surgery on my broken elbow and ruptured tricep tendon and it created this
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So the tail of this Japanese dragon connects from the bottom of this scar.
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I hate this tattoo because I was on Percocet when I got it because it took eight hours long.
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Every time I look at it, I'm reminded of how I cheated to get it done.
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I used to joke around and tell girls that I got in a motorcycle accident,
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but the truth is I was wasted on Halloween night freshman year of college
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but it is a reminder to never live with regret.
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There's just no reason that exists to justify living with regret.
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Not only does regret solve nothing, but I'm fearful of it because it's the state of living
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Without being dramatic, this broken elbow was one of the most devastating blows of my
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life. Because at the time, I was taking the gym more seriously than I ever had in my life. I weighed
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185 pounds and was deadlifting 415. I was going out with my friends four nights a week and doing
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better with women than I ever have in life. But after my elbow hit the grass like a WWE wrestler,
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I was out of commission for months. I lost 20 pounds immediately and I didn't have health
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insurance. So for four weeks, I went to class with an arm that couldn't bend stuck inside my hoodie
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pocket like a do-it-yourself sling praying that it was just a sprain later on the pain got so bad
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my right hand literally couldn't use a pencil i'm very lucky i live in the age
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yeah i should have went to the doctor but it was the breaking bad situation where i didn't want to
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pay for hospital bills without insurance on top of my student loans being unable to go to the gym
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and lift for that long had me lose so much weight i remember my film professor made a comment about
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how skinny i was in front of the whole auditorium i was so upset after class i went up to him and
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said, don't talk about my weight. But I hit the lottery when a month later while playing for the
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school soccer team, somebody slide tackled me and guess where I landed? I was rushed to the hospital
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and they did an MRI scan finding a ruptured tricep tendon and a broken elbow that happened
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during the school soccer game. Take a wild guess who was now liable for the $30,000 of hospital
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bills, surgery, and physical therapy. That story helps cement the idea that everything does happen
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for a reason. A six-year-old boy needs to first put his fingertip on the hot stove before he never
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does it again. Now, I never get so drunk that I jump over a fence and have to pay $30,000 in
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hospital bills. But also, in every crisis, there's opportunity. I don't just look at his arm and see
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stupidity. It's a reminder that in a way, I was able to get back the $30,000 the school system
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I make a date for golf, and you can bet your life it rains.
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Funny thing about Picasso is you think sometimes that he was alive thousands of years ago,
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but 50 years ago, Papa Picasso was still alive.
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i think the ultimate challenge for my 20s is going to be shifting away from social media and
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all the politics that i've got myself involved in to be able to make what i really want to make
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i think we've yet to see an artist come directly out of the social media world and i want to be
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the one to do it. When I was streaming the other night, my community started saying that art is
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liberal and gay. In streaming, I've cultivated an audience that shares little to no interest with
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me besides UFC and all the dude activities that are popular in media. Most of the people that
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watch my streams only like movies like The Joker, Fight Club, The Matrix. I spend so much time in
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galleries and museums because nothing else instantly gives me so much inspiration. As I
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get older I come to realize that there's really nothing more uninteresting than talking about
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than money business. Many men are afraid to discuss anything else or step foot in a place like this
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because art is supposed to expose and highlight our vulnerabilities. I love streaming but part
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of the reason I hate it is because you end up becoming a jukebox for people who want to hear
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the same talking points over and over again. Especially when your audience is 98% male,
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they want to hear discussions about women and self-improvement so that listening to you feels
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like they're progressing but most of them never apply any of it they just like hearing the greatest
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hits sometimes streaming now feels like being a seven-year-old rock star who's playing hits from
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the 80s i'm beginning to understand why bands like radiohead refused to play their most famous songs
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like creep i'm a widow yeah maybe in 1993 but it's time to grow up
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The first one was really good, but you need to weigh your options.
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I feel like Agent Harvey Weinstein without the allegations.
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Just spoke with a PR lady here and good meeting, very intense lady.
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She said exactly what I knew, to get uncancelled, all the people in entertainment who have dodgy
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whatever allegations, the only way to be reintroduced to society is to make something so dope that
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I unironically also think that the suit is going to help me get uncancelled.