John Popper
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Joe Frazier's dad was a sharecropper.
If his dad was an investment banker and he grew up playing Miss Pac-Man, would he be smoking Joe?
Would he be duking it out in the ring?
The generation after the people that struggled and made it are always going to be spoiled brat kids in some way.
Who, with YouTube and YouPorn and every movie under the sun that you could watch, you could watch The Grinch Who Stole Christmas in August.
Would you master that instrument?
Ultimately, yes.
It would take longer.
I think it would be – I'd be a lot more distracted.
It would be less focused.
But eventually there would be an empty feeling of I've done this already.
Oh, I know this porn.
I've got them all memorized.
That's the problem.
I'm into the free porn.
So I don't want to subscribe to anything because I want you to put your credit card number in there.
So as much free stuff and then you start memorizing.
Oh, yeah, this is the one.
Okay, I'll start paying attention.