SNEAKO - April 08, 2025


ALWAYS MEET YOUR HEROES.


Episode Stats

Length

7 minutes

Words per Minute

160.78192

Word Count

1,231

Sentence Count

3


Summary


Transcript

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
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
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
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
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
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
00:05:20.540 it's just a nasty nasty war on both sides what are you just posted on youtube
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
00:06:04.780 fuck yeah look where i left you too special right fuck that was a long way
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
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
00:07:35.980 guess what i'ma call her i'ma name a bonnie i read her