Valuetainment - April 27, 2020


Episode 460： The Happiest People In The World


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

212.3851

Word count

878

Sentence count

89


Summary

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Learn English with Bill Hicks. Bill Hicks is a standup comic, motivational speaker, and motivational speaker. He has been in the entertainment business for over 40 years and is a regular on Saturday Night Live. He is also a frequent guest on Comedy Central and has been featured on the Tonight Show with Seth Meyers.

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00:00:00.500 30 seconds.
00:00:01.860 Did you ever think you would make it?
00:00:04.560 I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.
00:00:07.660 I know this life meant for me.
00:00:10.940 Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
00:00:14.380 Value taming, giving, values contagious.
00:00:16.440 This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to haters.
00:00:19.200 I didn't run, homie, look what I've become.
00:00:21.460 I'm the one.
00:00:24.860 Life kind of feels like that right now, doesn't it?
00:00:27.460 You go on the roads with this whole social distancing thing.
00:00:30.040 No one's on the roads driving.
00:00:32.080 Restaurants closed.
00:00:33.780 Babe, you want to go to dinner?
00:00:35.720 It's Friday night.
00:00:36.640 Babe, we can't go to dinner.
00:00:37.620 Restaurants are closed.
00:00:38.540 Oh, that's right.
00:00:39.740 How about we go to movies?
00:00:41.280 No, no movies.
00:00:41.980 Movies are also closed.
00:00:43.480 Shoot.
00:00:45.300 How about kids?
00:00:46.220 Can we go pick up the kids from school?
00:00:48.060 Babe, the kids are home.
00:00:49.240 Oh, you're right.
00:00:50.560 It's Sunday.
00:00:51.060 Let's go to church.
00:00:52.000 Churches are closed.
00:00:53.260 Babe, what can we do?
00:00:54.480 Babe, it's called social distancing.
00:00:55.700 This thing is driving me nuts.
00:00:57.780 That's life.
00:00:59.340 You know, it's crazy.
00:00:59.920 Years ago, my dad sat me that when I started reading a lot of books.
00:01:03.520 I was 21.
00:01:04.140 I just had gotten out of the army and I was obsessed.
00:01:05.860 I was reading devouring books left and right.
00:01:08.360 And he said, Patrick, you've got to realize there's three different types of people in the
00:01:10.700 world.
00:01:11.040 I said, he says, you need to know this before you start really reading a lot of books.
00:01:14.400 I said, tell me.
00:01:15.800 He said, the happiest person I know in my life is oblivious with anything that's going on
00:01:21.800 in the world.
00:01:22.240 I said, what do you mean?
00:01:22.800 He doesn't follow the news, doesn't read any books, doesn't read the newspaper, doesn't
00:01:27.820 read anything, knows nothing.
00:01:30.180 But he's the happiest person I've ever met in my life.
00:01:32.620 And I know who this person is.
00:01:34.020 It's his best friend.
00:01:34.920 I look at him as an uncle.
00:01:35.880 He's in his late 70s today.
00:01:37.540 He's always happy.
00:01:39.100 By the way, he's never invented anything, never ran a company, never became a college
00:01:44.460 degree graduate.
00:01:45.360 Just a very simple man.
00:01:46.360 But always so happy to the point where everybody wants to be around him.
00:01:51.000 We used to watch Kings of Comedy with him.
00:01:52.680 He doesn't speak English.
00:01:54.320 But he would sit there and watch Kings of Comedy.
00:01:55.880 I've never seen anybody laugh this hard at what Cedric the Entertainer would say or what
00:02:03.800 DL Hughley would say.
00:02:05.780 Well, Bernie Mac, I said, do you know what Bernie Mac just said?
00:02:08.480 No, but I just love the way he tells his joke.
00:02:10.780 I said, do you know what he just said?
00:02:11.880 No clue.
00:02:12.600 So happy.
00:02:13.620 Never spoke English.
00:02:15.360 I said, how can this guy be so happy?
00:02:16.660 My dad would tell me that.
00:02:18.000 He said, the second kind of people are those that are not happy.
00:02:21.840 Quite frankly, they're sometimes miserable.
00:02:23.380 I said, why?
00:02:24.360 He said, these are the people that are controlled by what everybody tells them.
00:02:28.120 They're too lazy to go to the research, but everybody tells them what life's like.
00:02:31.420 They follow the news and they follow what's going on and they follow this and that, but
00:02:35.980 they only like to have people tell them what's going on.
00:02:39.300 They don't want to make the effort themselves.
00:02:40.640 And they're the ones that create so much havoc, so much trouble, so much anxiety, so
00:02:46.420 much panic into everyone's life because they're always talking about, do you hear about what
00:02:49.780 happened?
00:02:50.180 Do you hear about what happened?
00:02:50.980 Do you hear about what happened?
00:02:52.820 He said, that's the second type of people.
00:02:54.660 He said, the third type of people are those that decide to become informed.
00:02:58.460 When you become informed, it requires effort and energy.
00:03:01.720 If you become informed and you go do your own research, then you're fulfilled.
00:03:07.380 Then you got some clarity.
00:03:08.860 Then guess what happens?
00:03:09.960 Not a lot of people can control you.
00:03:11.600 You will know if an issue is a real crisis.
00:03:14.020 Okay?
00:03:14.440 You're going to know.
00:03:15.180 This is serious.
00:03:16.260 We ought to pay attention to this more because I'm doing research.
00:03:19.140 Because you're doing research.
00:03:20.500 Or you're going to know people are overreacting.
00:03:23.080 This is too much.
00:03:24.000 But no one's going to be able to control you because you make that additional effort.
00:03:27.420 So the first kind are the happy kind, oblivious.
00:03:30.500 They don't follow the news.
00:03:31.580 The second kind, they have a lot of opinions.
00:03:33.880 Did you hear about what happened?
00:03:35.060 Everybody tells them what to do.
00:03:36.400 The third kind goes and gets to research themselves.
00:03:40.000 They find out what's going on and they're fulfilled.
00:03:42.580 Which one are you?
00:03:43.660 Thanks everybody for listening.
00:03:45.020 And by the way, if you haven't already subscribed to Valuetainment on iTunes, please do so.
00:03:49.520 Give us a five star.
00:03:50.920 Write a review if you haven't already.
00:03:52.320 And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,
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00:03:58.480 Just search my name, Patrick Bid David.
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00:04:05.220 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:04:07.020 Take care everybody.
00:04:07.780 Bye-bye.