John Delony

And then you can do that thing anywhere.

So if I look back on the thread of my life,

when I was at Burger King as a 16-year-old through a 20-year-old, I worked at Burger King forever, all the way till when I was a high school coach, all the way till when I was a dean of students, all the way till the job I have now, if I pull the thread all the way back, I can see my purpose in my life has always been to make a connection with somebody in a very short amount of time and let them know that I see you and I'm glad you're here.

And that is my purpose.

There will come a day when YouTube doesn't exist anymore or podcasting goes away, right?

Or when AI can take my, make me and I'm gone like overnight, right?

That will happen.

That will come.

And if I've put my identity in being famous, if I put my identity in having a show,

I will either A, miss the life of my wife and my kids and the hunting seasons and the winter and the summer.

I'll miss all the beauty around me pining away for what used to be.

Or I will chase the thing until the end of the earth.

And I'll find myself trying to get clicks and saying insane, crazy things and trying to keep myself relevant.

And I'll find myself further and further away from the guy that I have to look at in the mirror every day.

Yeah.

Right.

And I think I find myself doing some of those things like.

Um, for example, I'm still paying for a Patreon subscription to an industry specific, like a wildland fire newsletter.

And that's the same thing as you still following an ex on Facebook, even though you're married.

Dude, okay, so the whole reason I decided I probably should reach out to somebody about it and I wanted to talk to you about it is because I had a thought a couple of months ago that kind of made me chuckle at first, but then turned kind of scary, which is that what I'm doing, like following my old job on social media and tracking people down from videos that I see and stuff,