the zurkie show - what if you stopped caring so much?

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

what would your life be like if you stopped caring so much?

What would my life be like if I didn't give a frig? A freak. A fuck. F-U-C-K. Such a beautiful word. But sadly, we give it out like we're a charity every single day. You walk down the street, you see a guy that is looks maxing, famously looks maxing. You look at him and you're like, man, this guy is magging me right now.

He's the jawline that could cut through 20 apples at Whole Foods. and me, I'm just not good looking enough because I haven't been on my diet. I haven't been eating right. Bro, it's not true. Self love is such a weird thing, such a weird thing to understand as a man. What is self-love? Because I hate everything about me. Rish-knap-nep-nip-wine that.

I feel like I need to hate everything about me, because how will I improve if I don't? That's the problem. That's the problem. Everything we've been taught to make progress, I feel like, is rooted in hating yourself. It's rooted in this feeling of like, I'm not good, I'm not worthy enough.

Think of your why's about for a lot of your life. Why did you get into going to the gym? It's because you thought you were ugly. It's because the girl that you wanted to impress looked at you and thought you were a twist. or said you were too fat. The reason I started working out was because my girlfriend

and my freshman year of high school that broke up with me, that was the popular cheerleader, she told everyone I was fat and ugly, and that she would never get back with me. And you know what I did? I went right into the gym, and I burned every gallery off my body. And guess where it got me?

Back to this. Daddy bod. So you're fucked bod. You're fucked. But, okay, let's actually unpack that because I think it's important. A lot of our self-improvement is rooted in the deep nature of hating what you see and trying to make something good. I don't think that's a bad thing. You need to burn, you got to burn some kind of fuel.

And hey, if your fuel is that your Tinder date stood you up or your grinder date stood you up or your hinge date stood you up or whatever, frigate, bro, like, use that fuel. I'm not telling you not to, you know, hey, if you know, you got the fuel, use it. But then when you use the fuel and you get to a certain point in your life, you're looking back at it and you're just like, damn, what do I do? Where's the good fuel? I've burned the 87, you know, the 87 fuel. Like, I want some premium.

I want some good fuel. And you don't really know what that is. And I'm at the point now where it's like, I had to start looking for good fuel and that's hard. It's not as easy because when you have a negative motive it is so easy to shut off your feelings and be like, this woman made me feel this way

or this person made me feel this way. I'm going to make sure I never feel like that again and literally like two years later you're going to feel like that again. So spoiler alert, that's what happens. But a lot of our improvement of who we are is rooted in negativity. And that's okay. You should burn off that fuel.

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And I should be so proud of myself. Regardless of what it does, I should be, and I am, this is the problem. it actually takes intention to get emotions out of you and be like, well, I actually do feel proud about this. But on the surface, like, I'm like,

well, it doesn't have X amount of views. So it's, I'm a failure. I failed. And I suck. And no one will love me. No one will respect me because I'm a failure.

Which isn't true. It's not true. It's all here. This is, this is your, your, best friend and worst enemy right here telling you you know you suck you suck dude uh you didn't you didn't do uh you suck so frankly you know what does it mean to have self love what does it mean

to love somebody else i don't know let's not even get into that because i ain't good with love yet i'm working on it but you know what is good i'll tell you guys something i'm a big fan famously of talking to strangers. I love talking to strangers. Anybody and everybody. I'll put you on game. If you're between the ages of zero to 99, you should talk to everybody if you want to.

Because strangers are goaded. They are goaded. Here's the new meta. This hasn't been patched. Fresh new meta dropped. hasn't been patched. Talking to strangers is good for your soul. It's very

good for your soul. Especially if you find a good stranger. Because guess what? A good stranger turns into a good friend. Famously. Famously. Man, I love talking to strangers. I love shooting the shit. I love finding things to be curious about.

It's a choice. Because you learn so much. If you treat, you know, I treat my conversations with people and with strangers as just like collecting XP like in a video game and collecting knowledge. Like you know like in fallout where you can kind of build out your character, you have different traits. I look at that with with strangers and the knowledge that I can collect from different strangers because let's be real. Like the truth of the matter is I'm not really

going to go out of my way to collect a lot of information other than the things that I'm really passionate about or I need to collect information about. So when I meet somebody who has like a different has lived a different experience and they can pull from their life experience and give me some you know, a little nugget here or there, I'm going to take that nugget and use it in another conversation, and then I'll be able to build a bunch of, you know, nuggets of information, and then I'm going to die, and then I will be dead. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower.

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Play. Post. Taste. View and enjoy. Via Rail, love the way. But anyways, like it makes you it makes you actually really appreciate people because people are sick dude you know who's also like actually goaded all right tap into old people because old people are like yappaholics all of

them they just they don't stop talking and they've lived ask them literally ask an old person about any historical event and they'd be like oh yeah like man i remember yeah it was Kennedy getting shot was crazy. I was like 15. I was in front of the, you know, television. It was black and white and it was crazy. Or, you know, ask any, like, unc, status, unc adjacent person, like, where they were on 9-11.

Wow. You can get hashtag deep with someone about that kind of topic. For us, that's going to be COVID. Like, you're going to ask, your kids are going to be like, Daddy, where were you during COVID-19? Then we'd be like, son. What do you know about COVID? I'll tell you something about COVID.

So, utilize that because old people are the goats, man. They really are. And there's going to, I know people are going to be like, well, they messed it up. That's why a house is $750,000 when it should be $150,000. But really, that's like, I mean, that's, is that really their, if it is their faults, let's at least like, let's use them, man. Let's get, let's get ours. You took the houses away.

So let's, you know, put us on game. Tell us about, you know, moon boots or some shit from the 90s because we're entitled to it. No, but you got to talk to strangers seriously. At the grocery, anywhere you can, which in the United States is a limited amount of spaces because you don't have a lot of third spaces. You probably don't live by a lot of old people. If you do, it's rare. But you go to a store, make it a mission to talk to like one or two old people or young people.

or young people, just talk to people. It will change your life. It has changed my life so profoundly. And I don't even like really do it now cognitively. Cognitively, Jesus, I'm a college educated person. This is what it gets you. Cognitive. I don't do it.

I'm not aware of me doing it. I just do it. Like if I see somebody and I think they're cool, I just go, I just say what's up. And you don't have, you don't have to have an in. You just go up. and say something. Excuse me. Sorry.

That's a bad habit. I shouldn't be doing that. But go up and talk to people. Okay. When I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice. I want to help my kids, and I want to give back to the community.

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You got to practice that muscle. That is like one of the only things we have left that's human is talking to people. Because everything else is becoming robotic and if you master the art of just like having a conversation with anyone, geez, bro, you will be unstoppable. I hate it when like you talk to someone. and it feels like you're talking to like a GPT. Well, the weather is great today. Like, no.

And don't be one of those people that's like, I want to get deep with everyone. Because you don't. Frankly, you don't. Because honestly, I don't care. I don't care about getting deep with you. I don't really know you. I just want to shoot the shit for five minutes and then we'll never see each other again. And that's fine.

What is wrong with that? I want to go on a date and get deep with someone. How about you just go on a date and they have a good time? and enjoy yourself and hang out and pay $60 at Chili's for two appetizers and two drinks, which is ludicrous, that that is a good deal. You know what $60 was a video game? That was GTA in like 2013. That was GTA.

That was me asking and begging my dad to go to the store and buy me GTA, my Polish dad, and having the GameStop employee be like, well, do you like to sign up for a rewards, My dad's like, what? What? What? What? I want GTA, Grand Theft Auto. I want Grand Theft Auto right now. Okay. You have a, you have an ID? What do you need for? What do you need for? This game. I understand. It's also mature. You have to be mature to have. Memories, bro. Now that shit's a date, bro. You go on a date for $60. Sheesh. I love you guys. Zerki Show, episode one.

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