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Trevor Noah

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“I'm sure for some people, but I think it's, you know, I'm careful to say it's about race. And I think it's more, it's all the things that make you different. So me being different in my color to John Stewart probably makes a person feel like I'm more different to him when I'm sitting in the desk.”
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“comes with a moment where people don't like no one likes change you know so like when Johnny Carson handed over people weren't happy you know when when Leno handed over people weren't happy it always happens”
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“It was absolutely terrible. It was Man, it was you know, when they say be careful what you wish for, because I was like, oh, I'd love a challenge and this will be an interesting and oh, oh, it was a challenge. It was absolutely terrible. I stepped into a role that I quickly learned wasn't just a position, but it was almost. Don't know how, like, it was like a post in a way. It wasn't just like you're hosting a show. No, no, I very quickly learned like John Stewart to many people, he was the most trusted man in America and he was the voice of a generation and he, you know, the politicians who sort of looked to him and they're like, well, what would John Stewart think? Wow, I mean, that was, and even if you remove the legend that is John Stewart, just taking over any show.”
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“Instead of chasing like what seems like the exciting roller coastery thing, you spend your time with the people you love and you look forward to amazing things that you're going to do hopefully with them or maybe just for yourself. And then when you get there, you enjoy it. And then on the other side, you take a long walk and you commiserate and you share the experience with each other and you get to process what has happened to you so that when you do it again, it becomes novel and interesting and beautiful. And so that's like where I realize the downsides and the upsides and the, so I appreciate many of the things that have come with my life. Don't get me wrong. But I won't lie to you. I have as much fun in a comedy club with seventy people in it as I do in an arena with 12,000 people in it. In fact, I have more fun in the comedy club.”
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“And this felt like the most depressing theme park experience we'd ever had. And we got back to the house. And I guess because my friends and I like doing this, we sort of... Tried to understand and analyze what had gone wrong. We're like, why do we feel like this? And we came to the conclusion, we were like, oh, We assumed that the theme park, we love the theme park because of the roller coasters. What we didn't realize was we loved the theme parks because it forced us to stand in line for an hour as friends and just be. We just talk. Literally, you can't do anything else. You just have to stand there for an hour Just like talk to each other, and then you hear people screaming, and they've designed them now, like once I did that, I started like learning about theme parks and how brilliant ones do this.”
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“We heard that you're at theme park. We would like to take you around to all the rides. And there's like no skip. You skip the lines and you get to ride as many times as you want. And I was like, this, I was like, this is it. The Daily Show has paid off. Finally, finally, all the death threats are worth it. And we went and we rode on the rides and we were just manic. We did every, I mean, we did every ride that you couldn't do in a day. We finished a park that would probably take like, let's say eight to ten hours to finish. We did it all multiple times in like the span of like three hours. I had a headache my friends were dehydrated, we had had seldom a conversation amongst us and it was so strange getting back in the car.”
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“Yeah, well, no, not in the same ways, but in different ways. And I think that's the You know, do you talk about awareness? I'm very careful. And maybe it's because of how I was raised as well. Very careful to not make it like a woe is me thing. I'm not like famous hurt me and it's harmed me, you know. There are many things that have come with it. Every gift is a curse, you know. But many of the things that came with I did not want, nor did I need. I like waiting for a table at a restaurant. I genuinely do and I don't mind that. I don't care. I've never been somebody because my friends have always been the thing. In fact, One of the days I learned the lesson in one of those practical ways was I love roller coasters and I love going to theme parks. And I used to go with my friends and you do the usual thing. You stand in a line for an hour and then you ride for like 60 seconds and then you walk for like 30 minutes to the next one and then you do it all over again. And I loved it. And then one day I was going to a theme park and then the theme park knew I was coming and now I was the host of the daily show and they're like, hey, listen.”
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“Yeah, hotel room. A bathtub, you know, a hot tub, but it's always like such a solitary ending for somebody that the, and then the whole world cries for them and with them. It's like, oh, I can't believe this. Oh, this is so sad. And I'm like, yeah, because you'll be shocked at how lonely. Being well known can actually be because it means you can never be alone in many places. And that's where I think core friends are very important.”
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“And if someone takes that picture and goes, Trevor, noah fighting with his like, no, and that becomes a thing in your world, and now friends, where are you fighting and other people? You'll be shocked at how pervasive it is. And I think it's why so many celebrities or famous people or people in the public eye have lived very depressed lives, have lived lives where they're isolated, have lived lives where they don't leave their homes, and then you find them passed out in their bathtub, overdosed on something. Think about how many times you've heard that story. Really famous person has died. You never hear that they've died in public. You never hear that they've died while with their friends. No, it's always them alone in like.”
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“People have this idea that no matter what day you're having, you should engage with them, no matter who you're with, you should afford them the time. And I understand it from their perspective because for them they're seeing you and they're encountering you. What a beautiful experience. But it's hard for us to imagine that that person is just having a day I remember once joking with an ex of mine and I was saying it's amazing how when we're having like dinner or lunch in public, we can't even tell like an animated story to each other because if someone just sees us from far, it'll look like we're fighting, you know? So now we're sitting there and I can't be like,”
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“Your anonymity is gone. People have a different idea of what privacy you deserve or don't deserve. I've had many friends who won't go out with me in public because they go, hey, man, I want to have a meal and not be disturbed. I want to wear whatever clothes I want to wear without worrying that they'll take a picture of me standing next to you and then I'll look terrible. I don't want to think about these things. And I get it. I get where they're coming from. I think many of the downsides of fame. All the facts that, as my mom even puts it, you are now owned by the world.”
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“And you think about this like I think of it through the lens of like characters, characters sometimes. I go like if Luke Skywalker met you before Luke meets, you know, Yoda, what is Luke? Luke is just like some random dude who lives on like a dusty planet. Hi, my name's Luke. I live in a dusty planet. You meet Luke many years later's like, hi, I'm a Jedi. What a different way to live as Luke and what a different way to be, you know, and I think that's the beauty sometimes that we have that we take for granted as people is the ability to rewrite a story or to write it from a different perspective because we've moved on and we've gone somewhere else when you are now known.”
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“Oh, I mean, I'm sure you're starting to experience this in many ways in your life. But it's People will never appreciate The beauty and the And the tranquility that comes with anonymity, the ability to write your story whenever you meet someone You know, when you meet a stranger, let's say you're at a bar at a restaurant in a train station wherever, you can look at somebody and you can say, hello, my name is, and you can tell them who you are. And what we never seem to realize as people is every time we meet a new person, we are writing our story from the beginning and from that moment in time”
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“That's the curse of what I do. I often say to people, I I'm unlucky that a part of my job comes with fame. I don't like that part of my job. Because I don't need it, nor do I want it.”
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“So the puzzle was can somebody host the daily show when they're like not from America and all these things. Can you even do it? Can you go host a show in America? Like, this is a crazy puzzle. Seems impossible. So let's try it.”
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“Yeah, that's my success now. Before, it was just because I loved solving any puzzle that somebody would put in front of me. That's all that drove me, and that's a lot of what still drives me now. I just love puzzles.”
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“Because you chose a city where my friends are, I can, I'll say yes to you. And it didn't used to be the case. So now I have made one of the determining factors of how I live my life. I think of it through the lens of friends first because I think that community is literally the most important thing in everybody's life, not just my life, everybody's life. I know some people be like, my family. I'm like, yeah, you think that. And it is true. But as you said on the graphs, you'll see. At some point, you're going to get old and your kids are going to go off and live their own lives and do their own thing. And then you're going to be shocked at how it's you and your spouse if you're lucky. And you all of a sudden you're alone. And you're like, where are all my friends? Where are all these people? But friendships are, you know, they're little piggy banks. You're putting money in and they're putting money in yours and every now and again you get to break them open and enjoy what's inside. But that's the most important thing. That's how that's literally that's my success now.”
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“I can, but I don't think that's been my case If you spoke to me Four years ago, and you said, Trevor, you went to Portugal, you went to Seattle, you went to Vegas, and now you're in New York. And it would be, yes, because I went to work here, I went to work here, I went to work there, and I went to work there. Now, I was in Portugal with my friends. That's why I was in Portugal. You know, I was in Seattle because I was working, I work with Microsoft, but it's like a passion project. I get to work on tech. I get to explore technology and ideas and work with engineers. enhance my mind. And then I was in Vegas doing work. And then in New York, I'm having a conversation with you. But this is not like in a work world. So I go like, oh, I'm going to have a great conversation with you. And I also love being New York because my friends are here. And this is technically where I live. So if you said to me, let's do this interview not in New York, I would have said no.”
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“We like it or not, the people around us are affecting how we see ourselves and how we wish to be seen. And that stuck with me. I don't think I took it immediately, but it definitely stuck in my brain. And the friends that I have today are still, I have new friends, you know, as I grow in life, but the friends that I have today, my core group of friends, you'll see them with me at the Grammys. You'll see them sometimes like when I'd be like, you know, backstage at the Daily Show. You'll see them with me at random events in the world. You'll see them backstage at my comedy shows. These people have literally been with me on a journey where they've got their own lives, but our journeys have been intertwined because they always make me want to be more and do more and grow more and change. And I think I do the same thing for them. And we're constantly challenging each other and encouraging each other and playing with each other. And that has been, I mean, that's been immeasurable for me.”
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“And then I went home one day, and my mom was beaming. I walked in with my cousin and my mom was like, oh, how are you, Buddha? And she's so happy. And she's like, oh, nice to see you. And she said, oh, I'm so happy. I'm so happy that you guys are spending this time together. And I said, why are you so happy? And my mom said, because you spend all your time at the university. And I said to my mom, I was like, mom, I don't go to university. I just hang around and I do nothing. And she said, yes, but the people you're hanging around and doing nothing with will inspire you to do more with your life because they're doing something with it. I was like, what? And she said to me. She was like, you cannot be around people who are moving and not wish to move.”
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“Because they could be a great friend to somebody else. So I wouldn't even define them as being a good or bad friend. I just go, this is a bad friendship for you. And what I learned very early on was the value of good friendships. And I learned because of my mom. I remember once I was nineteen twenty, I just finished high school. So I was 19. Just finished high school and I spent all my time hanging out with like friends of mine in the hood, you know. And we just did nothing the whole day and we got up to mischief and was like, how do we make money? How do we hustle? How do we do these things And then my cousin went to university And then I, because his university had this openish policy, you could just hang out on campus all day. And so I started hanging out with him on campus pretty much the whole day when he wasn't in lectures.”
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“I don't think you spot them. I think you feel it. And I think it's a lot easier for us to spot than we think it is. One of the easiest ones is can you be yourself? You know, sometimes they're not a bad friend, they're a bad friend for you because you are not revealing yourself to them. And so they are being friends with the idea of you, but they're not being friends with you. And then you leave thinking, I don't feel good, but they don't even know you. So you can't blame them for being a bad friend. I almost don't think there's such a thing as a bad friend. I think you're just in a bad friendship.”
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“Exactly, exactly. And it's amazing how that happens to us, but it's because they hold us in a moment. And some people hold you in a negative moment, and some people hold you in a positive moment. There are some friends I can think of where no matter what is happening in my life, if I meet them, I'm smiling, I'm thinking, I'm being creative, I'm laughing, I'm loving, I'm sharing, I'm feeling, I can't control it. You know, it's not something that I'm actively trying to do because they are constantly seeing that part of me that I wish to encourage.”
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“I bet you met them today. I don't care how successful you are on this podcast. There's a little bit of that kid that got bullied that they still have.”
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“Because I spent so much time alone as a kid, I loved other people. Know what I mean? I love being alone. I love spending time by myself, but man, when I can dig a hole under that gate and connect with other kids, I'm in heaven. When I became a young adult and I was starting to work, I really appreciated the people who would come into my life and what they would teach me and what they would remind me of myself, which is like an important thing to me. Somebody who sees a part of you that you wish to grow more of, and then every time you meeting with them, they're encouraging it and they're reminding you of it. And that's why I warn people about bad friends, because a bad friend can do the same thing. If I say to you, like, think of the kid who bullied you in school. Of that kid who was really mean to you”
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“So I haven't. I haven't. I just find places and moments where I feel comfortable and I feel like warm is the best way to describe it. And this is a lesson that I've learned, actually, if you're struggling with this. It may not apply to everybody, but I think it can help. Sometimes The feeling of being alone is exacerbated by the fact that you are trying to connect with people based only on you and yourself. So you go, I'm alone. I don't feel like I belong. And then you want to go meet somebody and you just like, hello, I'm me. Do I belong to you? Do you belong to me? And they're like, what? Who are you? What are you doing here? You're weird. And we don't know how to belong. But what I found works wonders is finding things you enjoy. Focus on finding things you enjoy like things that you like doing.”
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“When you feel like you most belong, okay, let's take it away from alone. I'm saying with other people or even in a place. Is there a city you go to? Is there a group that you're amongst? You're telling me there's no way that you go to where you think to yourself, wow, I belong here.”
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“Oh, yeah, definitely. I think it's the biggest thing that's limiting men It truly is. It's one of the biggest things that's limiting men in society is that we don't have an outlet for our emotions. So if we're not fighting or competing, then we're just bottling.”
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“It's one of the most beautiful communities I've ever seen where a guy can get on Reddit, you can write a post, and you can say anything. You can say, I'm struggling with this, I'm having suicidal thoughts, I feel like I don't have a purpose. And you'll be shocked at how many other guys will jump on and go, hey, man, I'm in the same boat. Hey, I'm also struggling. I'm also sad. My parents, I don't have a good relationship with them. You'll be shocked at how that community comes around you because there is the safety of knowing that you're not exposing like your name and your face, but you are exposing the thing that's inside you.”
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“When, like, when the pandemic hits, I was like, oh, everyone was playing Warson. I was like, I'll jump on. Not really like an FPS guy. And I jumped on and I was decent at it, but I made friends playing this game and would talk to people and you'd regularly meet with them. And some people were assholes, but a lot of them weren't. And the ones who weren't I would relink up with and we'd play. And then it goes from talking about the game and talking about your loadouts. And then all of a sudden, you're talking about your family and your life and how are things and how's your week been and how's work been and what's going on with your boss and that promotion and that and to this day one of my friends, one of my closest friends, a person who I consider like a brother to me is from that video game. I never knew what he looked like. All I knew was what he sounded like. And we like know each other because we explored a world that was full intents and purposes fake. And yet the most real experience that we could have. And I think, you know, I look at like Reddit, for instance.”
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“Again, gifts and curses, the curse of the online world is that it affords everybody anonymity, and so they can be the worst of themselves. I think the gift is also the anonymity. You know, I think a lot of people will be shocked at how you can connect to a person online in a really honest and beautiful way. You're safer in a way. I've made some of my best friends playing Warzone.”
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“Yeah, so you don't want to be there. And then sometimes it would even turn into a fight. You know, all of a sudden people are slapping you or hitting you or punching you because you've admitted that you're vulnerable. And so I think that's another place where young men struggle is like, we have to maintain this bravado. And then we see all these influences online who keep telling us like, yeah, you're a tough guy. That's all you got. You got to be a tough man. You've got to be a tough man. That's what you've got to do. Never once are they saying to you like, yo, what do you feel? How do you get rid of those feelings or how do you deal with them? How do you process them? Who's your friend that you can like literally sit with and cry with? Do you have one? But I do think we have tools.”
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“I think it is difficult, but I also think we have tools to make it easy. I'm very hesitant to very quickly just say to every man, hey, go out there and be vulnerable and whatever, because the sad truth is a lot of guys have punished a lot of guys for being vulnerable and being themselves. And we have to acknowledge that as well. You know, there's so many times when a guy will go to their friends and say, man, I'm sad. People are sad always.”
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“Does it come naturally? Just look into my eyes and let's just take a moment. Well, here's the thing, funny enough, I spent most of my life with women So I spent most of my time with my mom, with my grandmother, with my grandmother and my grandmother's friends, because I was in the house with them. I'm just sitting around with these women just like talking and sharing. I spent very little time with the men in that way.”
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“Yeah, my friends treat me like that. I still do that now. I think they've softened to it. My friends have sort of indulge me And I think they enjoy it for the most part. But I do that with my guy friends. Just be like, man, just take a moment.”
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“Know what I mean? But when I was growing up, it was quite common. You just went and you hung out with other kids, and that was just what you did. It didn't involve money. And I think we're starting to experience that domino affecting society now. Do you have money for a video game console? No? Oh, well, then you can't meet up with your friends on Fortnite. Do you have money to go to a movie? No, you don't. Or movies have gone up. Yeah, you can't hang out with your friends at the movies. Can you afford an Uber ride? No, you can't. Can you? All these things now have meant that I think we're experiencing a generation of men in particular who are not just isolated, but not practiced in the arts of just like connecting with another male for no other purpose than to just like share hearts and be human beings.”
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“What's happening in my heart, or let me tell you what's going on. Women can do that. And some may argue that it's, you know, maybe they've been genetically coded, but I also think they've been forced to practice that because men were like, you can't come to the factory, the office, everything for so long. And then women are like, all right. And I think that's another thing that men are struggling with. But it's not like their fault. It's the dominoes. When I was young, we used to go to the mall. We used to go to the mall and we'd hang out with other kids and then now malls aren't really a thing and then kids don't really hang out anywhere and everything's become about money and transactions. Think about how few places you can go to connect with people without money now.”
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“And then you won't talk, and then you laugh, and then you won't laugh. And I don't know about you, but I feel like guys are, we're not as good at that. I read something the other day that was great and was talking about how guys always need the third thing. Always the third thing. There's you, there's me, and there's the third thing. Hey, what are you doing on Saturday? Why don't we, you want to go fishing? Like, why do we need the fishing? Why can't we just sit like this and be like, hey, what's happening in your heart, Stephen? What's going on?”
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“And then, guys, I think we haven't practiced that. I don't know many guys. I don't know about you. I don't know about, I don't know many guys who know how to just sit with their male friends and just be. Not do a thing be, like just be. And I find, and I'll be careful in saying this, but I have found that the degree of comfort in just being is different depending on where you're from in the world. So my friends who are from third world countries, developing nations, you know, whether it's South Africa and we're in the township or whether it's my friends from Trinidad or it's my, like in Trinidad, they even have a word for it, lyming, they say. They say, let's lime. And lyming means spending time together with no purpose whatsoever. That's literally what my Trinity friend said. They're like, yo, we're going to lime on Saturday. That means we're doing nothing. It doesn't mean we're going to go see a game. It doesn't mean we're going to watch a movie. We're going to lime. It means your friend is going to come. They're going to sit on the couch. And you're just going to be.”
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“And it drives you forward. It makes you feel like you're supposed to be somewhere. You're supposed to be doing something. And then when the workplace opened up Women are like, oh, we can go and work as well. And I don't know about you, but in school, all the girls were smarter than we were in class anyway. And so now they're comfortably working, especially in an office environment, which is sort of like designed perfectly for them in that way.”
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“This is purely anecdotal in my life. It's not research, but I'm willing to bet on this and I'm willing to stand by it. One of the curses of That's women experience because of being pushed out of the workplace and being like forced to stay at home and for such a long time was they learned how to find purpose. In what most people would consider mundane and maybe even meaningless? You know, women have found ways to fill their time with community and with connecting and they found ways to look after their bodies and work out and do things. And it's different in different communities, like knitting clubs, book clubs, and just think about that. It's like it takes up your time. It gives you a purpose. We're going to read this book and then we're going to discuss it. I mean, fundamentally, it's nothing, but it's something.”
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“Between the rich and the poor, then there's another domino that falls, and it's like the consolidation of wealth, you know, these mega corporations around the world that find ways to not pay taxes, that find ways to pay like slave wages to some people and then sell you a cheap product and then give you credit that you shouldn't get and then put you in a debt cycle that you shouldn't be in. And that's one domino, you know, and then politics becomes more polarized and more extreme because of algorithms and the way we say that's another domino. That's another domino. That's another domino. That's another domino. Companies find ways, as you said, to hire fewer people to get more out of them or hire different people. That's another domino. And in a strange way, I think of this sometimes. I go, you see gifts and curses.”
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“Yeah, but I think about this all the time and I try and spend as much time reading, thinking, and discussing with people who are far more brilliant than I'll ever be. And what I've come to realize is we may now be experiencing a culmination of the dominoes. We're experiencing the dominoes of a declining middle class and governments around the world no longer.”
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“Think we've exacerbated the problem, gone all the time when being a painter, a philosopher, some sort of artisan is like celebrated in that way, you know, gone are the days where skills are passed down from generation to generation. And it seems like that's less and less becoming a thing. And from what I've been told, a lot of it can be tracked back to industrialization and this consolidation of manufacturing.”
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“Know if your parents are like, Oh, get a job, you could, it was almost harder to not get a job back in the day than it is now in a strange way. Because it was just like this thing you do. You know, it was doing. I sweep, I clean, I collect, I fix, it was so simple. And I think now we're living in a world where many young men Are experiencing Purposelessness. Because it's sort of like not laid out in any way, shape or form. And I think we've created such a narrow scope of what people can do or can't do. We've rewarded so few things.”
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“You have a purpose, and that purpose is powerful and it propels nations for it, you know? And then you enter into a period of what we would argue is relative peace. And I say relative because there are many parts of the world where there are just like these constant chronic wars that are waging. But for most people, what are you doing? Sitting in a world where there is no draft and there is no imminent war and it's a choice now. Do you want to go to the military or do you not? And you don't have to. And then also... Things aren't just given to you. You know, Before, when your parents were like, Go get a job, it meant there was a job to get”
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“You need to go and fight, young man. You need to protect this country. And you like, I need to protect this country. Now, even if you don't want to dodge the draft, you've been given a purpose in a strange way. Even if you're like, I'm anti-war, now you have a purpose. Your purpose is to be against the war. Your purpose is to oppose the war. Your purpose is to spread love and peace. The other person's purpose is to survive the war. Another person's purpose is to win at the war.”
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“But then being an outsider is a different you know, it's a different type of torture. And I think that's maybe what a lot of men are experiencing that I can relate to. I think for a long time we've lived in a world where we've told people what they're supposed to do, how they're supposed to do it. And it was sort of easily realized, right? And now I'm not a historian. I don't know every history that we've gone through. But from the little that I've read and from the historians that I have spoken to, society goes in these waves and we move through these waves. And I think we shouldn't take for granted now that there was a whole generation of young men who were given a purpose by war, a lot of war. And war is one of the most powerful thrusts of purpose that a nation will ever experience. Young men are told what they're supposed to be doing.”
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“I think I can empathize with a lot of it, and I think I can relate to some of it. But on my side, other than the anger, let's say, I wasn't isolated. I didn't feel isolated at all. Because I got to play with other kids and because I was with other kids and because I had my cousins and everybody, I never felt isolated. Even when I was talking to you about my grandmother, I think you used isolated, but I didn't because I genuinely never perceived it as that because I was in the home with people. It's just they were grannies. So do you get what I'm saying? So I didn't feel like isolated in that way. Definitely felt like an outsider, though, which is a different feeling that's adjacent. I think it occupies the same lexical field, but it isn't the exact same thing, you know, because isolation, I think, can come with a certain solitude and a certain, you know, a feeling of like knowing that you are in this thing alone because you are in this thing alone.”
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“But yeah, as I've sat and explored myself and my brain and my mind in therapy, I've realized that some of the things that you think will affect you the most might not, they might stay in that world. And then there's all these other things that affect you way more than you would ever think they even have the right to. So I wouldn't know, to be honest with you. I wouldn't be able to say to you, oh, I'm like this because of that, or I'm like that because of that. No, I do think I appreciate people more. I'm very present when I'm with my loved ones. Yeah, but other than that, I couldn't give you a concrete answer that would be genuine.”
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