LIVESTREAM FRIDAY, 12.09.22 9AM PST
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About This Video
A December 2022 session to close out the year. Van takes patron questions and reflects on the channel's year. End-of-year energy.
Transcript
good morning Good Friday uh starting off keeping with tradition
starting off with the weather report uh I wore a heavyweight sweatshirt
and no sweatpants just running shorts on my run today and for the first six
minutes of the run I had the hood on tied tight and tied around my head and
then I undid that and it was comfortable but pretty cold for LA
um all right so I didn't I posted a little bit late I posted the uh the live
stream thing here so I'm gonna look at these questions in real time normally I look at them ahead
of time and have a little bit of time to prepare my brain to answer them
uh okay so let's see I got 30. and I'm looking on the patreon uh uh
comments I guess there's YouTube ones over there on the right but we'll see if we get to those okay
all right are these in chronological order yeah okay so from Raphael I have van on the Rich
Roll podcast you you participated and you mentioned the existence of another variant of the ten bullets video
targeted at managers called The Fear bullets one of the bullets was never yell if I'm not mistaken I looked around and
couldn't find the fear bullets okay please share with us as archival video oh okay that one's called
we didn't make the video yet but some of the content of that it was put together by Alex cholas Woods
or wood who was probably Tom sacks's smartest um Studio personal Personnel member uh Studio team he's probably the smartest guy ever on Tom's team he was incredibly
intelligent and uh he worked a lot on the space program and before he left he wrote those fear
bullets and they were for sacks they were like sort of they weren't advice but they were like insights into management for sacks and one of them was
like never ever yell so we adapted those into Paradox bullets
um so I would have to dig up the fear bullets and get permission from sax and then publish them maybe I will who knows but there's no video of the fearable
it's the the video we made from the fear bullets is called Paradox bullets and it's narrated by
Werner Herzog and Ed roushay is in it and it's like a it's pretty good I like it a lot it's like it's like Cinema with
a little story um okay so Colin asks have you ever considered doing more vigilante fixing out there in
the world like you did with the playground slider that feels like it could be the perfect mixture of your ability to fix anything wanting to make a world that's suspenseful in your
appetite for an adventure I fantasize about it I I really should start doing that just
keep the tool keep a tool kit in my car and a camera and drive around and do it
and I probably will do it more and then I just do sort of little tiny things off you know that are off camera or whatever
but yeah that's a that's a great idea that's a great idea Colin um Joshua asks uh what makes someone a friend and
how does it that differ from a close friend how is a close friend Bond formed for you
oh my gosh okay so my definition of a friend is someone
I mean obviously it's someone who's not in your family obviously it's not you know it's a friend if someone is not related to you first of all
so uh a friend is someone in whom you can place your life
it's someone who you trust with your life and there are very very few people like that and with your life means like the
password to your bank account that has all your money in it and you'll your life will end if something happens to it or the password to your like YouTube
channel which is your career or whatever something like that or your life life you're dying
that's what I think uh and what was the rest of the question and a close friend I think is someone
who's been through the a lot is someone who's a long been around a long time like uh I did that video last week but
then I posted just this morning for you guys and then it goes up at 2 p.m La time for the rest of the world
and that Scott Myers and he's my oldest friend we met when we were five for a very long time we were best best
friends and um we moved to New York and you know he's much a much better friend than I am
and um you know we had different careers different sets of friends and he was sort of like
I I don't I don't have the privilege of calling him my best I mean he's probably my best friend but I'm not his best friend I don't think
because I'm not a very good friend I wish I was better but I really am not I'm not good at following up I'm not good at like phone calls and checking in
and and and birthdays and show even showing up to things and stuff the major stuff weddings and stuff I went to his
wedding and you know laying and uh and is waiting at City Hall because he had to do an official one here and then
he did um but I mean he's my ride or die and um yeah I think that's the
difference and the close Bond friend you know it's the kind of like a relationship with like a woman or something it's like you click kind of
right away or you have a little adversarial thing right away and then you know mutual respect and then you know sadly you grow out of friends some
friends just they turn out to be real skunks or they stab you in the back or they drift away or they move away or they have their thing
or you have your thing it's hard it's really hard um yeah I mean I guess that but
um thanks for encouraging me oh this is from Felix thanks for encouraging me to go to New York for Tom's exhibit it was
cramped but I had a great time uh going again any non-touristy suggestions I
always have I you have to go see the the the it's called Museum and it's capital M lower it's two M's
no it's an m the word Museum in m.com and it's this tiny Museum it's I think 80 square feet
and it's on I think Cortland alley I think that's the name of it but something tells me that's not the right
name of it anyway it's like behind 368 Broadway and or to this north of it's like uh
it's this little Street that's uh yeah it's behind 368 Broadway between
Broadway and uh Center and then between um and then also between uh church and no I'm sorry not Church oh my god neistat
get it together okay it's a little alley I'm pretty sure it's called Cortland alley it's between
Franklin and I want to say Worth Street and then Broadway and center but it's behind 368
Broadway just do a lap around the block that 368 is Broadway is on and it's on you know if you go whole
counterclockwise it's on your left and there's two steel black doors with a little window in it and there's and it's a tiny Museum and
sometimes it's open like on the weekends sometimes I guess you look up the schedule anyway go see that it's really cool it's
my friend Alex calman's Museum and he started it with I'm pretty sure he started with Josh safti and it was
funded by Kate and Andy Spade and I just saw Alex speaking of old friends and close friends I just saw
Alex and his wife Alex uh yesterday they came and visited me in Topanga and you
have to go see that it's very cool and it's a tiny little thing non-touristy things I people write me comments and ask me
this question and I've written like huge long things but like walk over the Brooklyn Bridge um
you want to remain on foot basically below 23rd Street and I would start on the west side of Manhattan like with The
High Line maybe start at the top of the high line which is somewhere in the 30s walk south until you get uh
uh okay first of all if you go to New York All That Time Square stuff just skip it
People Referenced
Rich Roll, Werner Herzog, Ed Ruscha, Alex Kalman, Josh Safdie, Kate Spade, Andy Spade
Films & Media Referenced
- Tom Sachs/Van Neistat — Van's short film for Tom Sachs studio
- Van Neistat/Tom Sachs — Van's short film narrated by Werner Herzog