This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent, Billings.

Today I'm with Reed Dent to talk about envy.

So there's this movie called The Talented Mr. Ripley, young Matt Damon,

an all-star cast, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jude Law, came out 99.

And Matt Damon plays this young man, Tom Ripley. He's a mercurial figure, and he's kind of a con man, and he's pretending to be someone else

as he's traveling, like, around Europe.

And there are some people who know who he is and some people who think he's this someone else,

and there is murder involved eventually, and I don't want to spoil the whole movie.

But it kind of, all of the lies start to stack up, and he's in danger of being fully found out.

And at the end of the movie, there is this amazing, ominous scene where he is for once like having an honest vulnerable

conversation sort of with somebody right before he kills them but he has this line that sticks

with me that is kind of the essence, I think, of what envy is.

He's talking to this person in kind of a confession.

He says, I'm lost, and I've lied about who I am and where I am, and now no one will ever

find me.

And the line that he says is, I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody

than a real nobody.

And of course, now for our daily Beechner, who defines envy this way, he says,

envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else be as unsuccessful as

you are wow i got to say this conversation about envy envy is a tough one to talk about because

there's very little to like commend in envy.

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