SNEAKO - ALWAYS MEET YOUR HEROES.

Casey Neistat is one of my biggest inspirations in life and one of the most influential people I've ever met in my life. I've been wanting to meet him for a decade, but he's been busy with kids and he's flying out for the next 3 weeks, so I thought it'd be a good idea to talk to him before he left for a few days. In a few hours, I'm supposed to meet the pioneer of New York City daily vlogs, one my favorite filmmakers of all times, and the man who inspired me to become a filmmaker.

00:00:00.000 they say you should never meet your heroes to protect you from the ego-crushing reality that

00:00:13.020 might occur when you smell the bad breath of your idol it's advice strictly for the people who are 0.99

00:00:17.560 only ever capable of worshiping the people that they could learn from if you can't handle the

00:00:22.100 disappointment of realizing the person you romanticize wipes and burps just like you 0.60

00:00:26.360 you were never gonna make it anyway admittedly I'm nervous because in just a few hours I'm

00:00:30.800 supposed to meet the pioneer of New York City daily vlogs one of my favorite filmmakers of all times

00:00:35.720 and one of the reasons I started YouTube 12 years ago if all goes well there are no more living

00:00:40.820 heroes of mine to meet good morning Casey Neistat just texted me saying he wants to go running at

00:00:46.580 6 20 at the Brooklyn Bridge I had a feeling he was gonna text you that so I set my alarm for five

00:00:51.120 I fell asleep but by some miracle I woke up at six so I'm gonna run with one of the YouTube

00:00:57.600 legends one of my biggest inspirations in life I was supposed to wake up just now

00:01:02.100 by the grace of God I woke up in time I've been trying to get in contact with Casey for the past

00:01:10.260 couple days he's been busy with kids and he's flying out for the next three weeks today he said 6 20 at

00:01:16.580 the Brooklyn Bridge it's 6 14 see I don't think a lot of this new generation understands how much of

00:01:26.400 an inspiration this guy was when we take field trips into Manhattan back when I was 13 14 I'd look

00:01:31.420 out the bus window wondering if he was gonna ride by on his electric skateboard when I dropped out of

00:01:36.020 college about my first camera I got the one he had the Joby tripod the Canon 80d with the road

00:01:41.660 microphone on top walking around being like Casey Neistat when I was designing my new Manhattan studio

00:01:47.720 guess what I use as a replica his studio 619 I don't see him Casey Casey that's not him Casey

00:01:57.740 it's 6 20 I'm right here either I got scammed or I'm just here before him

00:02:03.740 you know what would really suck is if I just got knifed there he is how you doing

00:02:14.860 let's go are you good to run yeah I have a fight coming up I thought you were gonna start your run 0.89

00:02:23.680 right here yeah right here boxing I used to train on New York City cops and kids in Flatbush

00:02:36.800 it's a free gym for people under 21 I was 23 so I just lied I've never seen any boxing content from

00:02:47.880 you I've been wanting to meet this guy for a decade but I'm too tired to do anything else but small

00:02:55.380 talk about traveling constant back and forth now you get a breather little on the down you get a

00:03:04.080 breathe a little on the decline it's all downhill from here it's so cool is that by doing what I do

00:03:16.740 going around with the camera making content putting myself out there I've had so many full circle

00:03:20.680 moments like I learned how to lift weights because of Bradley Martin videos and now I talk to him all

00:03:24.600 the time he's a good friend of mine that is so cool to me you know growing up when 11 years old

00:03:29.200 getting belief from listening to Kanye West and then getting to meet Ye and work with him or like

00:03:34.020 going in high school going to Trump rallies and then then you get to to meet him eight years later

00:03:38.120 that's what's so cool about this and uh some kid came up to me at the beach today and he's like 0.75

00:03:42.660 like how do you meet cool people I told him like if you make cool shit cool people will be attracted

00:03:47.620 to you if you put yourself out there you make something dope naturally you're going to meet

00:03:51.380 all those people people say don't meet your heroes I disagree completely I think you should meet them

00:03:55.320 you realize these are humans too and then you see like okay if they can do it why can't I I know

00:03:59.800 it's really obvious motivational advice but when you meet these people it really hits like oh

00:04:04.940 I can do this how about like a another video that I finished it took like three months to make

00:04:12.900 it's about planned obsolescence what does obsolescence mean uh obsolescence it's like um

00:04:20.540 when companies when companies design products to only last a short amount

00:04:29.180 they don't appreciate that right yeah

00:04:36.140 gotta stop my shoe it's not an excuse to stop it yeah so it's like

00:04:43.180 you gotta write it and that's hard and my rule always is like if you couldn't see the video

00:04:51.180 that you listen to for to still become cello that's a hard yeah that's a high ball

00:04:55.900 and i just value this more now the family time then yeah this and family it's more important now

00:05:05.020 than uh you know when i was younger and didn't have family and it goes from uh from the french 0.92

00:05:13.740 so you know like post-world war ii anti-colonialism how the fuck can this guy talk and run so much 0.69

00:05:20.540 it's just a nasty nasty war on both sides what are you just posted on youtube 0.70

00:05:32.300 yeah three years now what did you do covid misinformation election misinformation

00:05:39.420 i didn't get the vaccine

00:05:41.660 i don't believe it can you get content about that yeah that's just covid died down

00:05:50.380 hey i'm gonna call him and he's given

00:05:56.460 safe flight bro you want me to double back no go ahead man you're done

00:06:01.100 dude you did well you did well you better than you thought 1.00

00:06:04.780 fuck yeah look where i left you too special right fuck that was a long way 0.99

00:06:08.700 i'm not every morning if you want to do this i'm down every i have to have the fight coming up so 0.99

00:06:13.500 i'm ready you gotta change those shoes though yeah no more skateboard shoes

00:06:16.700 all right good run i'll see you soon have a safe flight casey

00:06:20.700 we started the run from

00:06:41.660 over here right across this bridge came all the way here i wasn't lying to him either

00:06:49.820 i really do have a knee brace on that was a light two and a half mile run also we're in

00:06:56.060 brooklyn heights right now i used to live in an apartment when i was about two three years old

00:07:00.700 maybe four blocks from right here

00:07:06.060 daily reminder that this is the best city on earth don't ever forget it

00:07:11.180 i left my cell my pager and my home phone at the bottom i sent two letters back in autumn

00:07:15.900 you must not have got them there probably was a problem at the post office or something for

00:07:20.060 example casey neistat i see a vlog brooklyn bridge 6 20 a.m want to know what i do in

00:07:24.940 manhattan brooklyn bridge 6 20 a.m want to know how i know i studied bro but anyways what's been up

00:07:31.260 man how's your daughter my girlfriend's pregnant too i'm about to be your father if i have a daughter 1.00

00:07:35.980 guess what i'ma call her i'ma name a bonnie i read her 0.94

SNEAKO - April 08, 2025

ALWAYS MEET YOUR HEROES.

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