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Off The Record: Asking Your Future Self One Thing

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0:00 your future self is going to be like I remember that JK video but I'm My Future Self now and I can't even keep track of how I would have thought 2 years ago that's what I'm saying absolutely that's true cuz if I showed up to my 13-year-old self my 13-year-old and gave him advice my 13-year-old self would be like what the fu are you talking about N word that's what he would I'm like I'm trying to give you real advice you stupid listen to me welcome back to a very uh philosophical wow careful Boys episode right now we are very thankful to have Christen finina back in the house and Steve terata as always Steve uh the question is if you could ask your future self one thing what

0:50 would it be take it away Nick if I could ask my future self one thing I know you got to think about that for a second I know mine we said take away sure you're not gay you could make that choice today though you're sure a good one it's a reassuring question it's a really good one do we turn out gay or I know what yours is what why didn't you move to Vegas you idiot oh that's good wow somehow always brings it back in there real nice that's actually a little birdie told me that he's not going to have much of a choice soon yeah so it's I'm going to be pushed out eventually see what happens oh yeah is our Bel felt still black did you go back to purple I like the plural version like yeah cuz you'd be talking to them right man that's a good question um what you go yeah oh oh

1:42 you're kind of fun how would you feel if like when you got face to face with your fut yourself he had like movie ears like really like like a celebrity I'd fall to my knees and look at the sky no who have I become what' you do why' you do that that's the question you used your you know what's funny is like the problem most Nick thing is like I'm just like ah I'm not going to ask him anything and I'd walk away yeah you're like I kind of don't want to know you guys would both he seems busy he's eating yeah yeah yeah he's he's busy dude he's eating is going to ████ up with the time continuum yeah yeah yeah I'd probably think like that be like ah ████ I think this is going to ruin my life if I talk to my future self yeah I don't know if I'd want to know uh too bad you have to ask a question that's the prompt I would want to know how much money I have that's what you want to know would you want to know like you're like zero like zero that's why

2:33 I'm here I need money Str and I got to figure out that's why I'm here future self kills you goes back to your time zone oh future self is like come on I'll eat your ████ ████ give me 50 [Laughter] bucks come on I really need it come on I'm stra for cash I need it I need it come on it's me it's me it's you it's me come on life has not been good to me you ████ me over you ████ me over you owe me this and you thought about it before that would be the weirdest situation what the ████ definitely don't want to know it's 50 this is jacking off then I guess it's different it's totally different it's way different yeah is it gay if you hook up with your future self

3:23 a little bit it might be worse than gay if Nick doesn't now you're going to know like ████ when I'm 65 I ████ wh back in time and ████ ate my own ████ that's weird and not do it again one time hell of a story yeah that's the part of the trama but the crazy thing is that like you knew for 65 years that you did it in your past future self but you know it's upcoming cuz you got to do it again soon it's true yeah true true yeah cuz you have to do it again oh yeah cuz it matches the timeline you're like oh sorry I can't that week I have to go do a time machine so that I can eat my own ████ it's a vicious cycle I did it when does it end I knew this was philosophical this is a deep topic for sure yeah go ahead cleen I would be like I don't know mine would be probably like

4:13 is it all worth it all the decisions I had made up until that point and should I do something different and just don't tell me what that thing is but who hurts you myself you know what it would be so easy for me is just I already know me and future me would would immediately lock in the the same thing it's like all right what crypto are you buying he's like you buying this one it was a ████ great yeah I'd ask about sports bets for sure it'll be the Run of a lifetime my brother thank you thank you yeah you could probably uh damn that is true some like information that you can end up getting a lot of money in I'm looking at Future me I'm like which crypto does Steve tell you about sick sick sick eliminating all Financial stuff because that's it's too easy it's too obvious too obvious I got nothing left what would you want to know

5:04 about yourself fure my question to myself if I met him would be like no not B yet okay okay okay Bart you can go he was waiting the whole time he's like I know what I ask he's waiting like a good kid too here's here's the one the thing I would ask it's not Financial it's just I would just say who's going soon for my life that I need to spend more time oh that's really good that's a good one that's the best one I don't believe I don't want to know I don't believe he's ████ F so I can make it faster that's why he say so I could expedite it so I could plug up my calendar Bart come on mine would be are you happy okay we're going to go back to Bart we're going to remove all happiness move all happiness no Financial what's wrong with that I want to know if everything that I'm doing now if it got the result that I was looking for dude

5:56 you're talking to a guy in a floating on a jetpack with ████ cool ass specs he's like what do you think he go ████ yeah what look like ████ B he's check out my new back tatto here what do you marble slabs everywhere but if he says no I'mma change my life right now he's got fear everyone tattooed right here he looks all futuristic if he says yes then I'm going to keep doing everything how I'm doing it if he says no I'm going to change everything okay for philosophy sake are you happy right now huh are you happy right now who are you asking I'm asking you I thought you were asking my my I just said right now that dictates right now who are you asking you know J guy I don't know who you're asking Bart 3000 or Bart now you know I think realistically if you were to ask your older like 65-year-old self or

6:47 something I think your 65-year-old self would just hit you with some like stupid philosophical ████ right back at you like the journey is the answer or something yeah like oh go ████ yourself ████ you dude yeah yeah he probably say something yeah because my future self would be like all of them man spend time with all of them it's all worth it oh ████ okay how about this how about this how about this okay let's flip it though right let's say you go home right now 13-year-old Nick shows up in at your house oh that's dumb don't do that this is getting dark guys this getting dark and the 13-year-old Nick is like um am I doing things the right way Nick's like you're hot I'm like yo you're kind of I didn't know how cute I was when I was 13 damn you kind of cute hey can you

7:37 keep a secret oh this will be worth it bro this will be worth it my dick give you 50 bucks in this Dimension he has no parents so oh that's true oh ████ and he asked me like he asked me a question yeah 13-year-old Nick I probably would hit him with some stupid like it's it's just it's all about the journey you just take one fo forward why you you don't even talk like that now yeah you don't talk to anybody like that dude Nick would tell 1 he's like I don't know man I don't know you put on a character just yeah he all gosh I'm enlightened and you just keep going down your P I would pay to watch Bart talk to his future self though cuz I know that BART to his future self his future self would be like wait are you asking like am I happy right now like in this moment or like is this about about how I got to be this

8:28 happy they said they spend like 20 minutes setting up the parameters for what's your definition of happy wait but what would you really change now if your future self said no I'm not happy then I would ask him what what parts you only got one question no that's it he goes he goes I'm not happy and then he just and then he leaves and so what would you change that's the thing and as he's leaving his back tattoo says unhappy it's up to you to like kind of pinpoint what if his back tattoo says unhappy right now that's not go with that premise that one I'm going to fill up my whole back with just smiley faces so I can't even get that tattoo that's not even in the carts but the coverups getting really good in the future dude that's not even in the carts first of all two have smiley faces just individually though not imagine that's

9:18 so what you change for well I didn't get a back tattoo that's the thing and then I would probably start trying to figure out cuz I feel like I really enjoy family time so probably try to figure out how to work less and less and less way more uh accelerated does that make sense or no yeah so just burn Jacob news to the ground and then you're going to be no no no that's I'm not going to do I'm not going to do that but like figure out more ways to spend more time with FZ I feel like a lot of the people that I that I talk to most people are always like yeah I hustle too hard I didn't spend enough time with my kid and so I'm like oh that's probably if I if if I only had one question and that full left I'm like oh another question they always be like oh ████ I probably probably work too much or something reality check bar

10:09 we're now and you can make decisions right now that change your future damn yeah but I don't know what the result is I feel like I'm on the path to happiness could be the domino effect to sadness what's up guys if you do not know we have a patreon I want you to click in our description and go over there and check out all the beautiful stuff we have for you you it's super duper access for only our super duper exclusive lovers like yourselves you're going to be getting one never been released director's Cup every week but not only that you get another fresh too hot for YouTube video we say some crazy ████ on there two videos a week but not only that you get to join our Discord and come chat with us direct access we're in

11:00 there the whole careful boy in there jumping in dog piling on people laughing playing joking whatever and you can come talk to us directly so if you like what we do and what we've been doing for the past 10 years please support our patreon and click the link below to get all the details there's so many different tiers you can see it when you click that no but I feel like by asking your future self if you were happy then you would and he's unhappy then you would start changing things and you'd become unhappy so you just got keep going with what you're doing that's why we don't ask our future that's why it would change because you asked him if he's happy and you found out no so you changed everything about your life that meart would do that too he gets in his ████ head and it's over but what if I don't change and then my old self comes back and he's like I ████ give you a hint I told you why did you not listen to me

11:52 he's like for this yeah he doesn't even say any words cuz he's like ████ God only give me ████ one chance to say line he just go and he goes away shakes his fist at you and he still had a special note for you on the back just to make sure you got it I guess there's always the the margin of error of like overcorrecting right like you might make yourself unhappier that's what I'm saying that's why you you you got to just um take cuz if that guy sees out your life turn out he's like damn that's worse you could to add this he's I didn't say get rid of your real estate portfolio what would you guys ask her your future self I would just ask if Nikki's okay if he's okay if Nikki's okay yeah 100% M will be like when did my wife leave me that what what how would you feel how

12:43 would you feel what would you do if he said yes and what if he said no yeah then I would take steps to make sure that no doesn't happen I want to know if I'll have kids that'd be cool to know how many little rug rats you want to have a lot of kids I don't know I would oh you oh you're undecided now you want to find out I mean I think I'll for sure have like one kid maybe a couple I want to have kids one day I think that's a part of life but I'd be curious of like how all that works out maybe I'd ask my future self what she would change in her life right now so I can maybe like Bulletproof the future future M that's a good question and get smiley face tattoos on your back yeah oh that's actually weird yeah that's a good work around that's true because you could change that for four them yeah yeah true do you guys ever ask your parents that like what would you

13:35 what that's exhausting like what would you guys change or is there anything that you guys would do different or anything like that you guys ever T your I'm afraid my dad be too real and be like have no children yeah say that oh ████ he just says nothing and just a long stare at you that's classic Hunter I don't think I can get an like if when in the past if I've ever asked my Dad or Mom I can't get an answer that isn't them trying to relate what I should change in me you know what I mean it's like it starts out like well here's what I would do and i' probably start with get a new job maybe yeah like I like are you talking you talking about me maybe work at the hospital maybe don't live at the brewery I don't know not drive big van yeah exactly that's how my mom is everything

14:25 turns into a lesson that's like right it's like they'll be something so obviously like no you wouldn't they'd be like I for sure the first thing it' be like I would probably have finished more school I'm like no you nobody dies and says they wish they would have gotten more school maybe wear my hat ball work I'd start with this there's also something to be said about you know sometimes you end up where you are like I have like if I was if somebody said hey you have to do this again and get to where you got to like doing tuber stuff and all other ████ I would be like I don't even know how I how I did it the first time I just kept so so if you're talking to your future self do they really know more than you like or or so like for example if your future self if you go up to your future self and he's immediately the first thing he says he's

15:15 like you got to stop dancing you got to stop right ████ now imagine I knew it but imagine right you so you wake up tomorrow and you're like okay so now I'm in a world where I can't do my income my thing that I'm doing because this guy gave me advice does he really know that that's what that's what ████ his life up does he really know that exactly yeah he doesn't there's no way and are you the type of person to respond correctly to that like if if my future self was saying like uh like oh uh don't do this and do that I don't know if I would just take it literal but your future self would know how to talk to you but but then my present self like I feel like people changed so much that I might I might believe it even better a year ago or worse a year later but your future self knows that about you and knows where you are in this exact World your future is keep track your future self is

16:06 going to be like I remember that JK video but I'm My Future Self now and I can't even keep track of how I would have thought two years ago that's what I'm saying absolutely that's true cuz if I showed up to my 13-year-old self my 13-year-old and gave him advice my 13-year-old self would be like what the ████ are you talking about exact N word that's what he would I'm like I'm trying to give you real advice you stupid ████ listen to me God damn it you idiot but that's that's the whole Paradox of premise right it's like I hate that you could say that simple it's not as simple as like hey if you have a if you have a credit card pay it off right that's easy advice everybody knows that ████ right and we can't do Financial stuff no no but it's the idea of that right cuz you know exactly where you went wrong if your credit score sucks yeah cuz it's OB yeah yeah but whereas like all this other ████ that we've done businesses we built

16:57 stuff like that it's so hard to retrace exactly how you got there and exactly how you executed it seriously unless that person's with you every step of the way but then if they tell you cryptically like don't do this thing it's like don't do it when exactly but that's also why we're the ones who are in charge of the question the one question we ask it's not like they're just giving like what's the one thing I can tell my young yourself no it's the what's the one thing that we can ask our future s it's in your like understand so we're more receptive already yeah see we would all ████ it up cuz it's such a trip to see your future self I would just be like yo what the how are you doing and then that's it I'm like oh ████ that was my question what's up man oh he disappears oh ████ like when Homer sees that Guru remember that Simpsons they're like you can ask three questions and he's like are you really the guy yes he's like really

17:50 yes really it's so funny oh for the sake of the fun of the question I might be on her page and also asked like how many kids were in the cards you know what I mean because as as depressing as it could be and he just like none then you would also just be like well ████ it bro you know it be you you know would be a ████ up answer if you asked your future self how many kids am I going to have and he goes three and then two and then he goes oh oh but you didn't ask the question of like how can I prevent that you're fut yourself a Jer yourself turns around it's like ████ damn that's the wrong question man okay well thank you for ████ up the scenario yeah dude wow it's pretty tight

18:42 yeah hey how many kids we have well uh first ones are still born but keep keep going keep pushing see you later you should have asked for specific your your future self doesn't know how to deliver bad news time is up just way more insensitive 3000 but with your gay partner in the future you adopt three yeah you your your future self ████ with you they're like you're gay and so now you think you have to be gay that's so tight that's sick you're ████ gay dude you're like what our future SS trolling us would make sense no dude that's Anthony's future self he's basically like hey you're gay and then um you leave and then future Steve has his gun around the corner he's like okay good job good

19:32 job you're in charge it's another dimension of that's way funnier dude that's so ████ funny through it all I guess we're still friends huh I guess so still there Anthony just in here going oh my God got to make some pivots then it's all worth it future Anthony's probably still like that was kind of funny that guy's ████ up is this where I come out damn that would be a really tricky thing and then I kiss you what get interesting quick what backf I won that video [Music]

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