Ben Nemtin
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121 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Ben Nemtin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Dave was his guitar playing partner named Patagonia. He had a big jacket with tassels, another mustache, a wig. I was the publicist. So I was wearing like an earpiece and I was like, I was running alongside them because then we rented a big horse and chariot and we were going to just bum rush the music awards to try and get in. And we had at that point, it was season two.
And so we tweeted out and we had probably like one or 200 fans come out and we made fake country music. I forget what the magazine is, but like basically Duncan's face on as Boone McCaw on the cover of this magazine. We had I heart Boone t-shirts. We had all these. So like country music tells rewards that they're happening.
All of a sudden this white chariot in a horse with horses starts to just run towards the entrance of the awards. There's cops everywhere. And as soon as it happens, all the fans are around. the entrance and they start going crazy. And I'm running along with my earpiece on and my walkie talkie and cops let us through.
We go to the front of the red carpet, publicists, everyone's letting us through the producers. And then someone recognized us and they're like, no way buried life. You're out of here. because the Viacom owns MTV and the awards. And so they knew about us and someone tipped them off that we were coming or something. And that's why we had to wear fake mustaches and stuff like that.
Anyways, we didn't give up. I snuck in the back. By the way, if you ever want to sneak in anywhere, just wear all black and hold a walkie talkie. You basically look like a roadie. If you have a clipboard, that's even better. And you can pretty much walk in everywhere. So I walked in the back and I ended up nagging and having two passes. I said I was part of Kid Rock's crew. I got two passes.
I came out. I gave one to Duncan. He got in all black. He went in the back. He walked right up. to Taylor Swift, who was sitting in her seat, passed her a note. The note was asking her out. And then he ended up actually going out on a date with her. So that was a success.
Go to space, make a movie, right? I'd like to finish the Buried Life documentary that we started. We've been filming for all those years on the road, through the show and everything. So it's a really cool story to tell there. Tell a judge you want the truth, you can't handle the truth, but it has to be real. We've got invited to do it to judges, but I think that we got to be in a real courtroom.
And then I think Host Saturday Night Live is the last one, which would be probably the hardest. Yeah, go to space is going to be tough, but I think I'm going to do that in 2024. I'm talking with this company called Worldview, which is sending these capsules up to space and a big air balloon. And it's like eight people can go in it. That'll be probably 2024.
Now, write down your goals. It seems simple, but it's a very big step to write down your goals. It makes them real. They're not ideas anymore. Then they're a reminder that they exist. It also forces you to slow down to think about what's important to you.
And in a world where 76% of the population, their biggest regret on their deathbed is, I wish I would have lived for me, not what others expected of me or what I thought I should do. It's important that we slow down to think about what's important to us. Again, it's all coming back to being true to yourself.
And that's one step to being true to yourself is reflecting to understand what you really want and make sure that you're not subconsciously doing things because you think it's what's expected of you, right? So 76% of people on their deathbed, their number one regret in their entire life. And this comes out of research from Cornell.
Their number one regret, I wish I would have lived my ideal self, the life I wanted, not what others wanted for me. So no one should have that regret on their deathbed. And basically, the Bucket List Journal is hopefully designed to solve that problem for you so that you identify what your goals are.
And then you start to build accountability, build inspiration through action, and move through the fear so that you don't end up on your deathbed regretting the things that you didn't do.
thinking about your death and it sounds weird, but if you think about what's important in your life, you look at the top five regrets of the dying. Okay. And they don't have much to do with money. The top five regrets of the dying are, I wish I would have lived for me. I wish I would have told people how I really felt. I wish I would have worked less. I wish I would have let myself be happier.
And I wish I would have stayed in touch with my friends. Okay, so those are the top five regrets that people have at the end of their life. So you need to remember that your time is finite to put things in perspective. So yes, you want to make money. Yes, you want to be successful. But When you do a eulogy for a friend, you don't usually talk about how much money they had.
You don't usually talk about how successful they are. You talk about they were a good friend. They embodied these values. And so these types of things, and if you just look at the five regrets, You want to make sure that you can keep death close to you so it reminds you that your time is limited so that you live with intention. And you hear this all the time.
I had a near-death experience and everything changed. My dad died and everything changed. Why does it take a traumatic experience to wake us up? How can you keep that perspective without going through that trauma or without it being too late? And that is, I think, the big goal is to remind yourself every day that this could be your last. I mean, it sounds cliche, but that's the truth.
Best case scenario, you have another 50 years. But it's just interesting that if you see... A 90-year-old person with a cane hunched over shuffling down the street, you never think that that's going to be me. You don't even think about it. Well, the only thing you can count on is that will be you. Best case scenario, you might die in a week. And we just don't think about it.
We think we have all this time. don't have the time because when you look at the research, that's the biggest regret that people have in their life is they wish they would have done the things they didn't do. So start now. A year from now, you'll wish you started today. That's the truth.
You can get it on Amazon. If you search the Bucket List Journal, it should be the first thing that pops up. Or you can go to my Instagram, which is at Ben Nempton. And the link in the bio will send you to the Bucket List Journal website.
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