Randy Blythe
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They have to look and look around their own neighborhood and see, what can I do to make this place better? Who can I help? Even if just by walking over and talking to someone. Like old people, man. Old people are lonely. If you are able to go and go to an old person's home and volunteer and talk to old people...
who are spending the last of their lives alone you may a learn something from these people there's a lot of wisdom and b you will be being of service and that costs nothing it costs nothing to you to to engage with this other human being on a person-to-person level and and i think
who are spending the last of their lives alone you may a learn something from these people there's a lot of wisdom and b you will be being of service and that costs nothing it costs nothing to you to to engage with this other human being on a person-to-person level and and i think
who are spending the last of their lives alone you may a learn something from these people there's a lot of wisdom and b you will be being of service and that costs nothing it costs nothing to you to to engage with this other human being on a person-to-person level and and i think
for all the supposed connectivity that the internet and social media provides, it's really in many ways causing us to separate from ourselves more and more. When my grandmother, I interviewed my grandmother right before, not right before, eight years before she died. She lived to be a hundred and a half years old and I was right by her side when she died. But I interviewed her, maybe she was 94.
for all the supposed connectivity that the internet and social media provides, it's really in many ways causing us to separate from ourselves more and more. When my grandmother, I interviewed my grandmother right before, not right before, eight years before she died. She lived to be a hundred and a half years old and I was right by her side when she died. But I interviewed her, maybe she was 94.
for all the supposed connectivity that the internet and social media provides, it's really in many ways causing us to separate from ourselves more and more. When my grandmother, I interviewed my grandmother right before, not right before, eight years before she died. She lived to be a hundred and a half years old and I was right by her side when she died. But I interviewed her, maybe she was 94.
I can't remember when I interviewed her. And I asked her this question. I said, grandma, What do you think is the biggest difference between now and when you grew up? She grew up in the depression, so there's massive differences. But she didn't talk about computers or technology or self-driving cars or whatever. She said, I think people aren't as close as they used to be.
I can't remember when I interviewed her. And I asked her this question. I said, grandma, What do you think is the biggest difference between now and when you grew up? She grew up in the depression, so there's massive differences. But she didn't talk about computers or technology or self-driving cars or whatever. She said, I think people aren't as close as they used to be.
I can't remember when I interviewed her. And I asked her this question. I said, grandma, What do you think is the biggest difference between now and when you grew up? She grew up in the depression, so there's massive differences. But she didn't talk about computers or technology or self-driving cars or whatever. She said, I think people aren't as close as they used to be.
I think they don't come and visit as much as they used to. Nobody knows their neighbors.
I think they don't come and visit as much as they used to. Nobody knows their neighbors.
I think they don't come and visit as much as they used to. Nobody knows their neighbors.
and i think our society is feeling that and i think that lack of real person-to-person human contact is manifesting itself in these feelings of anxiety and not belonging and feeling alone and not knowing our purpose because we don't know the people around us we don't know our community um and therefore we don't have anyone to bounce these feelings off of so we're just stuck with ourselves
and i think our society is feeling that and i think that lack of real person-to-person human contact is manifesting itself in these feelings of anxiety and not belonging and feeling alone and not knowing our purpose because we don't know the people around us we don't know our community um and therefore we don't have anyone to bounce these feelings off of so we're just stuck with ourselves
and i think our society is feeling that and i think that lack of real person-to-person human contact is manifesting itself in these feelings of anxiety and not belonging and feeling alone and not knowing our purpose because we don't know the people around us we don't know our community um and therefore we don't have anyone to bounce these feelings off of so we're just stuck with ourselves
That opens up the book. It's a chapter called The Duke.
That opens up the book. It's a chapter called The Duke.
That opens up the book. It's a chapter called The Duke.
which is a lamb of god song i wrote about this young man wayne ford and i've talked about this before wayne was a young man i'd met outside a show in phoenix arizona and he had been diagnosed with leukemia recently and was starting his chemo treatments and radiation and all this stuff and i had a talk with him and his wife outside the show and wished him the best of luck and i thought