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Casey Neistat

lines on the record: 121
first: 2020-03-02
most recent: 2020-03-02
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“It may have come up, but I think that she was pregnant within weeks of us meeting one another and she's a tremendous person. But I don't think that the way I don't think that what drove our relationship was that she and I had particularly extraordinary feelings for one another. I think what drove our relationship was a shared desire to give this little boy the best life we could give him. I was not much of a boyfriend at all. I definitely didn't give her much attention. And she was patient with that.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, because look, my parents didn't step in with money or anything. Not that they had anything to step in with. Robin didn't really have any parents. So we didn't have anyone to turn to. We were all on our own. And I was making $8 an hour. And it felt like we were at sort of the bottom rung of a gigantic ladder. And then it really felt like, okay, great. The only place we have to go is up. And that's really exciting because I didn't think you could go down any further. You literally couldn't be paid less in the state of Connecticut. And I just didn't see things getting worse. I only saw things getting better.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The minute she got pregnant, I was like, okay, great. Now it's about proving to this little baby, proving to this kiddo that I made that, you know, that is dad's not a loser. And that he can have the life that I wish I could have had. And my mission was just to accomplish that. Like, all I had to do was do it.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Emotionally, just what's going to happen in life with you know, with the fact that she's, you know, she's with this 16-year-old who's supposed to be her caretaker of her and her unborn child and I was washing dishes and she had a very natural freak out and I remember my reaction to that is like one of total kind of bewilderment. I couldn't understand why she was freaking out. And this is not something that I acknowledge in retrospect. This is something that I was. How I felt then and how I felt then was this is great. Finally, I have a reason to be responsible, and finally, I have a reason to get life started.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't. And I remember not feeling that way. I remember it was nothing but excitement for me and enthusiasm from me. And I remember Robin freaking out. She was stable as a rock, but I remember late in the pregnancy her having a really tough time.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I remember driving the 10 hour drive back to Virginia. And for the first time, she and I were talking about like, okay, we're going to have a baby. You know, we packed up our things and we said goodbye to this really fun life that we had built for ourselves in Williamsburg, Virginia, and we moved back to Connecticut and into the basement of that cousin who was almost like a mother figure to her.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, I think that she and I both knew that she was pregnant but really didn't were not willing to confront that. We knew something was happening. Her body was changing. She was feeling different. We had been wildly irresponsible with sex as teenagers tend to be. And we went back to Connecticut for a visit, and it was on that trip that her cousin, who was this older woman who looked after us. And she could just tell at a glance you're pregnant. And that was the first time somebody else acknowledged what we knew. And it was less of a gotcha moment and more of a moment where she and I both were forced to confront this reality.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think we were just so naive and she was a waitress and had a couple of really good waitressing jobs, so she had no trouble at all finding a job, waiting tables. You know, anywhere there's restaurants, there's somebody willing to hire a kid for eight or ten bucks under the table to wash dishes. And I knew that would happen. And that's exactly what we did.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One thing leads to another guy. And yeah, she and I started dating and it was a fun couple of weeks ultimately school finished up and her lease was up and she didn't know where to go next. And she and I decided to leave Connecticut altogether and move to Virginia where my big brother Van was in college at the College of William and Mary.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That first night I stayed at the one friend's house that I could walk to, and I slept in his basement. And then I spent the next couple of days in various friends' houses until their parents would be like, that kid Casey is actually sleeping here. Why is he here? And then I'd move on. And then ultimately, there are these two kind of cool girls. And they live not too far from the high school in this apartment complex. And they were cool because they had just graduated and they had their own apartment. They both had jobs and they paid rent. And I just got in a real job washing dishes. And I was making like, you know, $100 a week washing dishes on Saturdays. And the cool girls invited me to move in with them as long as I chipped in on rent. And I was like, sweet. So I had a permanent place to stay on their couch. And I think I had to chip in like 200 bucks a month or something like that.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I left. I was 15 years old. It was a Tuesday night and a school night and it was cold. And I left. I took a backpack and I left my parents' house and never went back.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, um, you know, I don't know if this is fair or not, but I think all four of us kids directed the blame at my mother. And I was always the most vocal about that. So throughout the divorce, I really vilified her for, you know, for bringing us to that place. And then ultimately, you know, I brought that frustration to school. And ultimately, I was, I think, suspended from school for using my pager in detention. I had a beeper back then. Nobody had cell phones. And my friend texted me and I wanted to call him back. So I walked out of detention. It was a huge deal. My mother that night, you know, she screamed at me and she said, you know, give me that beeper, get out of this house. And I didn't want to seen weak in her eyes. I didn't want to back down or relent to that.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I took it really hard. You know, I don't think, I don't criticize them for this. I can only imagine what it was like for my parents. But my mother... Whether it was on purpose or not, it really made felt like it was our fault. And then my father was just so caught off guard by it that he sort of pulled back. He withdrew. And that left us sort of confused. And it was not just wasn't a very happy household at that time.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's tough. I don't know if anybody's ever asked me that before, guy, but I think that. I know that I almost only spoke in the most sardonic of ways. I was always joking. I was never serious. But I think that that shell, that superficial shell, was very fragile. And I think it could have been broken very easily. I remember vividly Luke Aborty, who was my 10th grade English teacher. I remember causing so much trouble in the class and having the whole class laughing and all at his expense he couldn't teach and he pulled me out into the into the hallway. Instead of throwing me out of class, he pulled me into the hallway and he just like, you know, he looked at me dead in the eye and he said, what's wrong? And I just burst into tears, burst into tears. I had a very earnest conversation with him about my parents splitting up and all this sort of tumult in my life. And, you know, he was able to, the reason maybe why I remember his name among all of my teachers is he was able to break through that shell very, very easily.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, look, I spend so much time now, guy, thinking about this because my parents and my teachers and all of that, it affected me. But the thing that stands out the most now when I look back on it are the parents of my friends. I remember them calling me a loser, like literally using that word. Remember, you know, I remember my friend from seventh grade asking his mom if I could go on a ski trip with them and her explaining why I couldn't and I could hear her give that explanation. I remember those things vividly and that affected me. It struck me deep.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And because of that, I remember being really little, and my older brother and I accidentally burning down the tree forward. I remember my parents throwing the Christmas tree sort of over a cliff in the backyard after Christmas because it was easier than trying to throw it away. And my big brother Van and I thought it'd be hysterical to set it up on the train track so the train would have to crash into a vertical perfectly mounted six foot tall Christmas tree. You know, I remember getting, it may have even been suspended, but I think it was detention in school because I was skateboarding in the hallways. So it was that sort of thing. And I think that I was absolutely a problematic kid.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it was awful. That was awful. Looking back at it, and I do spend a lot of time reflecting on it, I think that I would describe my parents parenting style as one of absence. Like they were never around and I always felt like we were on our own. It was a very Lord of the Flies mentality in our household.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That economy, and I remember him coming home later and later, I remember his stress. I remember hearing my parents have to discuss how my dad was going to have to ask his mother and my grandmother for some sort of loan to help him keep his company from going bankrupt. But how that, you know, how that manifests in the household was, you know, we didn't have much, but I don't remember us wanting much either. There's always enough food in the house with never anything fancy. We got that cereal that came in a big bag and was called like tastios instead of cheerios. But my parents' financial burdens, I think, were largely fielded from us, but it was by no means sort of an affluent childhood. It was not, we were not a household of means.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Omnipresent financial stress that was in my household that was never not there. Majority of my parents' fights. I remember being about money. And, you know, this was the 80s where there was a lot of tumult in the economy. And I just remember my dad's business being so tied to that.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was incomprehensible to us. We shot this video on a $200 camera. We bought it at Walmart. We edited this in iMovie. You know, this is when HBO was, you know, sex in the city, sopranos, six feet under the wire. The Nistat brothers.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I were spending every waking moment together making videos. And we ended up calling it the Nistap brothers and calling it a TV show.”
2020-03-02 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Video Artist: Casey Neistat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT