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March 14, 2018 15 mins

Greg T asks a question about "redoing life" and we get caught in 'Inception'

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
first minute morning show. All right, here we go. We
got a big crowd in the room today for the
fifteen minute morning show podcast. Around the table, they're scary,
they're scary. There's a Dave Brody, Hello, there's a great tea.

(00:26):
There's Garrett, Danielle, and there's Nate and there's me. So
it's a bunch of guys and Danielle and Max the
dog is here. He's running around over here. So so
Max's carrying case has been in chairs all throughout the studio.
It's funny to watch people look at the chair where
the bag is to see if Max is in there,
because they want to lift it up. So Scary just

(00:47):
moved the bag thinking Max was in there, so we
cautiously lifted it up. He's not in there that once
he saw and he chucked it. Um. All right, let's
get some housekeeping done before we get to great tease
question of the day. Cool uh uh. It's very interesting.
This morning we played the My Cat is Going phone
tap and the timing was awful. First of all, it's

(01:08):
one of the best phone taps ever ever done. But
as you know yesterday there's a story breaking about a
flight attendant who put a passenger's dog above in the
overhead compartment and the dog passed away, And so as
we went to hit the button, everyone was like, this
is bad timing. We shouldn't be playing this phone tap,
but we let it play, and of course it's a

(01:30):
great phone tap. The timing could not have been worse.
So does anyone want to apologize for choosing that phone
tap today? Okay, scary, scary, I picked that phone tap yesterday.
But I'm going to make an admission right here on
this podcast. I didn't want to get into this morning,
and I'm being going to be completely honest with you guys,
and nobody knows what I'm gonna say, but truth the
matter is, I'm a bad broadcaster because and here's why,

(01:52):
Because I'll tell you only fift it's probably the biggest story,
one of the biggest stories of the day yesterday I
missed it. I had no idea that happened, and I
didn't want to tell you that, and that's why it
was not not an issue to me. And then when
everyone was talking about the story and I'm like, oh
my god, how did I not know? I'm more embarrassed
than I didn't know about this, this this awful United

(02:12):
air Line story. Okay, let me it meant something. Yes,
I sat here and talked about it for twenty seconds
before we hit the play button. I totally forgot. I
read the story yesterday and I was shocked by the story.
And I didn't even put two and two together. So
I've I've I've funked up too. It was a total
when I fed up by not even seen the news yesterday.
I should have known that story coming into the morning.

(02:33):
But what I'm saying I did worse. I knew the
story and I and I pushed the button. I did
worse because I recorded that phone tap and I shouldn't
have said those things. Yeah, look, it was a whole.
It was hilarious until that story broke. It's just and
you know, and as sad as that story is, it
will always be. In about two or three months, it'd

(02:56):
be okay to play it. Just Today was just the
wrong day. So my apologies. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry the story. But I'm saying I knew the
story and I still The crazy thing is we have
probably what close to two thousand phone taps to choose
from right, and so Scary had two thousand phone taps
to play on way back Wednesday. He chose that one

(03:16):
the day after the United the airline. That was a fluke. Okay,
we're gonna move on, don't you know what? Sometimes I
believe that in passing your subconscious, here's something and then
it kind of like stays there. So he may not
really in his brain, he doesn't really think he heard
the story or he knew, but there was something that
Scary was around where his subconscious picked it, and then

(03:38):
that provoked him because of the story you chose that.
He didn't realize he was choosing it, So that's actually
word you chose it on purpose because of the realized
he was choosing. Reed, did you sleep with the news
on last night? Could you fall asleep? You know what?
Maybe quick right? What if this was not? Okay, he's not.

(04:00):
It was a mistake. It was a mistake, and we
make mistakes. So the point of the story and we're
gonna move on, is we make mistakes. And if if
we had several people say shame on you, I'm never
listening again. Okay, fine, goodbye. We made a mistake and
you know I have a problem, and I don't want
to get too negative, but we live in a society
these days where you're not allowed to make mistakes. You're

(04:21):
not you know what, You're not allowed to ask for forgiveness.
People have forgotten about forgiveness. So we hope that you
forgive me for making a bad mistake. Scary made a mistake.
But let us off the hook. You're exactly right. Somebody
texted in shame on you. I can't believe you played that,
and I wrote back. I texted them and I said,

(04:42):
we're terribly sorry. It was an unintentional coincidence. We picked
it yesterday. We weren't aware the story when we put
it into the system, and we feel terrible about it.
We won't be airing it again. Please accept our apologies.
And they wrote back, well, that may have been an accident,
but I'm deliberately deleting you from my precept. Well good,
well good. I don't want them to listening. There are people,
look there, there was It doesn't matter, but there was
a tsunami years ago, and it was a morning show

(05:05):
that did a deliberate comic bit about a tsunami. We've
got a lot of trouble for they did it deliberately.
I understand why people were angry. This was an accident.
We didn't realize it until the button was pushed, and
then in the room we were like, oh my god.
You know, people were like, I just realized this phone
tap was old. No one remembers the context of what
was every word that was said, and then we realized
it right away. We feel really bad about it, all right,
so we move on. But like I said, let's let's

(05:27):
make a little more room in our lives for forgiveness.
And if someone says I'm sorry, you know, without like
the treating them like murderers or something, let's let them,
let them be sorry and move on. I forget and
we move on. But I'm at fault. I mean, it's
not a scary thing, it's it's everything. I'm sorry for
listening tap. I'm sorry that you enjoyed the phone tap. Anyway,

(05:51):
moving on, great t has a deep philosophical question. Yeah,
you know, I was just tooling around on the on
the internet, and uh is a bunch of little questions,
and like one was like, would you rather be a
ninja or a pirate? And then I spent about a
couple of seconds. You know the answer there? Do you
want to be a ninja or a pilot or a pirate?
I don't know. I think a pirate would be kind

(06:12):
of cool if I really wanted to. Yeah, of course,
I mean, can you really debate that? I mean, ninjatuck
on a ship to pay anything, like, the pirates are
pretty cool? Like and he got a whole fleet with you,
you know, and you assailed the sea. He's looking for goal.
I'm not going to take part in this conversation. I
couldn't you ask the question? But no, no, he had
a better question. You're right, and that's what I get.

(06:32):
And I passed over on that one. But then I
stopped at this one and I said, this is a
question that I think Elvis would absolutely love. So think
about this and be serious about it. If you could.
Would you choose to continue to live your life the
way it is into the future or would you like
to have a reset and start all over again from

(06:56):
day one? Like being born? Like being born day one,
you start all over again, so you don't you know
you're gonna be brought up again, but then you don't remember. Well,
as you get older, you'll make different decisions and go
along and change your life as you you'll live a
new life totally oblivious to them when you're living now
and you can choose and change your ways, have done
as anyone would when they're born. Yeah, but I think, obviously,

(07:18):
I think the question was written to for you to
know that you have might you might have made some
mistakes or something that you've done you don't really like
or decision ask The question asked the questions, So, would
you like to go back and change your life to
where you are today, has change it all and do
something different? Or would you like to continue to live
your life into the future on the same path that
you're living now? Danielle Um, I probably would stay where

(07:40):
I am and I'll come Well, my family, my career
path has been pretty good, you know, I'm not I'm
not unhappy, So it's like if I was unhappy, I mean,
are there are other things I'd like to do as well? Probably,
But I still like what I'm doing, and I like
where I am, and I like my family. If you
believe in reincarnation, you're coming back anyway, So I think

(08:01):
I would stick with it. I like, I'm pretty pretty happy.
Do you believe in reincarnation. Um, not really, who does
I do? Well, welcome back. I believe in reincarnation, and
that's why you have desja vou, because you've already been
there before over again. That's why I believe. Doesn't mean
you lived before me. It's the exact thing you just

(08:22):
saw happen and then right, and I think you've been reincarnated.
And that's why that would only happen if you were reincarnated,
like in the last ten minutes, somehow, some way, you
were there already, And that's why I would stick with
your question. Let's let's try to stay focused, Derek, what
would you do? No? I think I would stay as is,
especially right now. Yeah, well, life's great. I have no complaint. Yeah,

(08:45):
it's all good. Brody. What did you think I come
back as a ninja a pirate? I kind of like
that idea. I guess you could. It could be worse too,
if you come back is it couldn't possibly be? No? No, No,
I agree with Danielle, like I wouldn't give up my
kids and my wife and my dogs. No. I love
my life. You're asking happy people. Most of us like
our lives scary. I could definitely no way. Scary scary?

(09:09):
Would you want to just give up where you are
now and start over a life? Just keep going, chugging
along into life, you know, because if I restarted somewhere,
I might end up worse off than I am now.
I'm seeing a pretty good place right now. I measured
my life and I look around, and I say, I'm
in a pretty good spot. So do I want to

(09:30):
get it? It's like it's like deal or no deal.
I don't want to. I don't want to see what
the banker's offering me. I want the briefcase. What would
you do? I think I'd go back. I think i'd
go back. I've often thought of when I was eighteen,
I wanted to be a doctor. I always wonder what
would have happened if I went to school and became
a doctor. I like that, I have an aptitude for that.

(09:51):
I like taking care of I like taking care of people.
I think it comes naturally to me. I've often I
think I would go back. It's not too late, and
I don't want you to go to medical school. That's
actually what I wanted to transition to, is that I'm
not unhappy with my life up until this point, but
I often think back to what would have happened. So

(10:12):
I think after I'm done with this career, I think
I may go back and and become a doctor. I
don't know why doe is too short today I could
What if I said I would pay for your medical school,
then I would go ago. Well I didn't say that.
But what about you, Elvis? Would you go back? Or
would you continue to live your life you're living now? No,
I've got unfinished business. I love my life, and I

(10:36):
got a post off. I'm telling you I've never ever
love life more than I I'm loving it these days.
I mean, we've had troubling days, and we all will
off and on, but I love life. These are the days.
And No, I've got unfinished business. I've got things to do.
I'm so happy where I am. I would not do that.

(10:57):
So what's your answer for myself? You know, I love
my kids, love them, and I love my wife and
love my family and and and there's times that I
even love my job and my career. But I gotta
be honest. If I really had to do a deep
dark thought about my life and where I am and
I have, I would choose the redo I really would.
I would want choose the redo and just kind of

(11:20):
maybe do something different. I don't know thevies. You're giving
up everything from this point. I'm not saying you have
to listen to what I'm saying to you. I'm not
saying I don't love them. I'm not saying that I
don't love my life, my family. I still would choose
a redo. It would be a brave decision, but I
would do that. I would choose the saying a lot

(11:41):
more than you're really saying. No, no, no no, May I
paint a picture for you? None of that. Let's say, okay,
let's say if you choose to have a redo, it's
as if this life never existed. That means there's no parents. No,
there's no kids that will miss you. I mean, the
thing is, it would make me sad because our lives
wouldn't be as great had we not had you in

(12:02):
our lives. This is sort of like, but we wouldn't
have known because you wouldn't have been here. This is
like winning the really nice car and the jet ski.
But then, like, do you want what's behind the curtain
to me? That says you don't really like the jet ski?
In the car enough versus the risk of what might
be behind the curtain. You might end up what he
used supply a tuna, you know what I mean, versus
you have a you have a jet ski in a car.

(12:22):
My point is I think, like for me, there's things
I would do over I wish I had done differently
in school. I was gonna go to law school. But
the option of losing the good things in my life
to me, for me, isn't worth the risk of the unknown.
Like I couldn't be bad, I couldn't imagine better. I
you know, I wouldn't risk the better first half of

(12:44):
my life for the part of my life where I
am now. Like you said, where you are in your life,
you wouldn't it's the best part, Okay. But the question
I added to the question, Actually the scenario is if
you decide to redo, you never existed, So you know
what I'm saying, You're not gonna miss anything because it
never happened. But there's no sense. There's also no guarantee
that your life would get better because yeah, you could

(13:07):
come back and still not go to law school, right,
And I could come back, but if I whatever I have,
I'll never know what was better, and then it will
be like inception that we'll be sitting in the studio
asking the same question about doing life over. So you
came back as an art vark, don't I would? I
was sitting snort ants. Actually, Garrett brought up a good point.
What if we've already had this conversation, we went back,

(13:30):
redid it, and we're redoing this same conversation. But maybe
but maybe someone's missing, Like that chair next to Danielle.
Maybe there was someone in it last time we did
this conversation, but we would never know because they never existed.
I was a Disney princess at one point. I just
don't remember that person chose to redo. Yeah, what if
we've had this conversation before, but there was someone else

(13:52):
in the room several times? Oh my god, But what
if you chose to redo, but you did it exactly
the same way. I think that brings brings us back
to breeding corn were we reincarnated? We already here had
this conversation, died, been recarnated, and then we're back having
this conversation again, you know, and we just have this
conversation we did podcast fifty years ago. Another planet they
did What if somebody we play on the podcast today

(14:16):
when tomorrow they we played the same podcast what are
you listening to? We just had that conversation exactly. I
don't think I existed before this moment. I said, I
didn't believe in reincarnation. I kind of. I think I
kind of did to a point because my sister was
looking at a picture when she was a little kid

(14:38):
of my grandmother or great grandmother holding my mom, and
my sister said, look, Mom, I'm holding you, so my
Mom's like, oh my god, maybe you were reincarnated. There
are some things we cannot handle. We can't handle the truth.
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