ITL120: Curious Questions on Time Travel, Wisdom, and My Career

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer listener questions about time-travel and my switch from comedy to whatever it is that I do now.

Would you rather go into the future to meet your great grandchildren, or travel backward and meet your great grandparents?

If I went into the future to meet my great grandchildren, I wouldn’t learn anything from them that will change my life and in turn allow me to change their lives.
The best I could do is try to convince them to do something or not do something.
If I went back into time, I think it would give me a lot of insight as to why my family dynamic came along the pathway that it did.

Wisdom is a little beyond knowledge.

I hear people say, “My grandparent was such a wise person,” and then turn around and ask where all the wise people are today.
Technology makes things so fast and allows for an amazing flow of knowledge and information.
However, I really believe wisdom requires quiet and time.

How did you know when it was time to change speaking platforms from comedy to what you do now?

I had always been interested in communicating something, but there was no way that I could be just a speaker in my twenties.
I’m not saying that people in their twenties can’t provide wisdom.
Comedy was just my way of being on stage.

I can remember when I was on tour with Kenny Rogers, and we started talking about Jones and the Seven Decisions.

He said that I should put some of the Seven Decisions talk in my show between jokes.
Slowly I kept adding in a little more, and eventually more people were talking about the “serious” bits that I did. It kind of shifted on its own.
It’s a strange platform but it’s fun and flexible.
If you want to see a blend of my comedic side with my serious side, you should check out my DVD Not Normal: The Power to Be Different. It’s a live presentation of some of my funniest and most inspirational material.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.2	Now here's your host.
0:11.8	Hello and welcome to another great episode of In The Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:16.6	I'm your host, David Loy, and with me, as always, Andy Andrews.
0:20.4	Andy, thanks for joining us. Hey, David, I'm glad to be here. Have you seen Robert today? Today, I have not seen him. No, not yet. Okay. I'm just, is he like faking the laryngitis now? Or has he decided that you're so good that you're going to do most of these. Unfortunately, yeah, that might be it.
0:37.7	He might have just passed the torch. I'm not sure what's going on, but, you know, I think it's fun. I don't know, you know, when I get on the phone with you guys, I don't know which one I'm going to get. And so I'm, I'm, I'm loving this. And I, and I'm loving, I love talking to you too, buddy. So, well, and I'm happy to be here.
0:35.8	And if he, if he doesn't want to be a part of this, that's fine. We'll go on without him. Yeah, we'll go. If he's just going to, you know, act like he's Mr. Business guy. Yeah. Which he actually is. Yeah, we need him doing something at some point. Yeah, all right.
1:11.9	What do we got today?
1:13.2	We have a couple of great questions, actually.
1:15.7	It's kind of funny to start off with, and I'm excited to hear your answer to this, but we'll jump right in.
1:21.5	The question is, would you rather go way back in time to meet your great, great, great grandparents or go forward in time to
1:31.1	meet your great, great, great grandchildren. And that comes from Ken in Phoenix, Andy. That's kind of a
1:37.1	funny question. I've never really thought about that. That's a great question. Oh, my gosh,
1:48.5	tell Ken to keep this up. Yeah, Ken, that is a great question oh my gosh tell ken to keep this up um yeah ken that is a great here's you know thinking about that just right uh immediately uh immediately you're remembering back
1:59.1	to the future when doc said you know marty we've got to go and we've got to go
2:04.8	into the future it's your it's your kids all the trouble they're causing um i i'm not sure i would
2:11.7	want to go see that um and and actually when i think about it, if I went into the future to meet my great-grandchildren,
2:24.3	there would be something that is already established.
2:28.1	If I get to choose one or the other, then if I go and meet my grandchildren in the future,
2:40.1	what I have done has already been done.
2:45.0	I can't learn anything from them that will change my life and allow what I have learned to change my life
2:58.1	to then change their lives. Does that make sense? Yeah. That if I go meet them, there are things
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