Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And his bar for talent and for art is incredibly high. But I can tell you how I met him. So I put my dream out into the universe that I want to meet Bill Murray. And someday it would happen. And I visualized it. And I said, and when I meet him, I'm going to get to ask him a question. Just one question. That's the most important question to me.
If you do this, I guarantee you most of these things will come true. Not in the exact way that you imagine they'll come true because the universe works in its own mysterious ways. When I set out to meet Bill Murray, I did not have money. When I met him, I did. One day I was sitting on my couch. My favorite site to shop on for gifts for friends is Charity Buzz.
And I was on Charity Buzz and all of a sudden this thing popped up that said, spend a day of golf with Bill Murray. And I was like, what on earth? No way. And I was like, I'm in a position where I could buy this. do I do it? And so I said, yes, I do. This is my chance. This, the universe has just handed me an opportunity and I get to support charity at the same time. Like how beautiful is that?
So I reached out to the organizers. I didn't know how to golf. That's the funniest part about this. I had never gone out to golf in my life. I actually had a pretty negative opinion of golf. I thought it was hoity-toity and only for wealthy people. And it just was not for me.
And so I reached out to them and I said, I know this is a very strange request, but would it be possible if I just ride along with him while he plays and I could be his caddy? And so they wrote back and they said, well, he's willing to have lunch with you. And I was like, oh no, I heard golf is like a full day affair. Like, I really want to know this man. Can I please just come along?
And to his credit, he said, sure. He said, absolutely. So- The day that I showed up, he paired me with his partner, Scott Simpson, who is an amazing man, just absolutely amazing man. For the first 10 holes I spent with Scott Simpson, I brought my friend, Emily Gillette, who's an amazing golfer because I figured one of us has got to be able to play.
So I brought Emily and she was paired up with Bill. And a little over half of the day later, he comes over me and taps me on the shoulder and he's like, didn't you buy this whole thing? And I was like, yeah. And he goes, don't you want to meet me or come for a ride? Right. playing golf with me because I was having the time of my life with Scott Simpson.
So I go out and golf with Bill and he was teaching me how to chip and how to putt and how to everything. And he was just so gracious and didn't care if I knew how. And he took us out to Clint Eastwood's golf course. And I got to ask him my question. And my question was, how do you stay present? When I asked him, he stopped the golf cart and he gave me the stair and he
You could tell it just took him by surprise. It was not what he was expecting out of this whole ordeal. All of a sudden he points to the hill and he goes, Turkey. And I go, what? And he points to the hill and he goes, Turkey. And I was like, okay, Turkey. All right. I looked at him and we start talking about this turkey. And he's like, he called it a he.
And so I joked and I'm like, you don't know the pronoun of the turkey. And so then we got talking about that and joking with him. So then I came back to it again and start talking about it again. And he goes, tree. He points over to tree, tree. And I was like, yeah, that's a tree. And it became very clear he wasn't going to answer this question.
What I didn't realize in that moment was I got my first lesson from Bill Murray, which is how do you stay present? Notice what's around you.
marvel in it there's a freaking turkey in front of us like how often do you get to see a turkey not every day why do we take the turkey for granted why do we take the tree for granted at first I was like I'm not getting the answer and this is frustrating but later on when I reflected on the day I realized he did answer me I got my answer. It was just an incredible, valuable lesson.
And it definitely helped me on my spiritual journey in a way that is just so profound.
So this goes back to just following your curiosity. I have a friend named Michael Tiffany. He's a wonderful entrepreneur and somebody I've known for a long time. And we go to DEF CON. So I've been going to DEF CON since DEF CON 4, since I was 18 years old. We were fantasizing a few years ago that wouldn't it be cool if we hired a violinist to follow us around and just sort of play a soundtrack?
wherever we went, because I'm really into performance art in general. And I thought it would just be really funny if you just show up to a meeting and you're like, hold on, my violin players here, have them play. It'd just be eccentric and odd, just kind of a funny thing. And so we daydreamed about it, joked about it and put it away.
We're walking through DEF CON and there's a young man, boy, he was 16 years old, 15 maybe, playing a violin. And it's so beautiful. And he's busking in the middle of this conference. And in front of his violin case, it says, raising money for a certification course. I asked him, I said, how much do you need? And he's like, I need $2,000 to take this class. And I said, oh, okay. And I said, huh?
And then I turned to Michael Tiffany and we started walking. He goes, are you thinking what I'm thinking? And I said, I'm thinking personal violin player for the day. What are you thinking? And he said, I'm with you. And I said, he goes, you want to go have these? And I said, yeah.
So we walked back to him just as the conference was about to shut him down and tell him to close his violin and get the heck out and said, we're going to pay for your class. But here's the deal. Are you willing to follow us around all day and just play music for everyone wherever we go? Because the conference didn't care that he was playing violin.
They cared that he was asking for money is really what it came down. They didn't want that to become a thing. But they absolutely loved that he was playing violin. And he asked his dad and his dad was like, sure. So he and his dad just ended up going with us all day long. We went into the conference hall. He would just sit there and play music.
When we were walking down the hallway, he would play like the Imperial Death March or he would play Game of Thrones. It was just really fantastic. It changed his life. He was able to take that class and he changed our life. And it was just miraculous and beautiful. And it just goes to show you can do these things.
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