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From Hero to Villain
12 Plays1 month ago
It's quite a journey!
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Transcript
Becoming the Villain?
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Baker Plbg
Okay, here's some self-reflection for you ah in Living Color. Have I become the villain? Is that sort of what I portray, project, is nothing but um negativity and beratement?
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Baker Plbg
ah What's the line from Batman, like, what is it, The Dark Knight, I think, ah where Harvey Dent, who is also Two-Face, says, either you die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Do
Speaking Unapologetic Truths
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Baker Plbg
I need to die quickly?
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Baker Plbg
have no intentions of doing that. I've had some very interesting conversations over the last ah week with people within this space who have certainly said as much.
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Baker Plbg
and Which is fine. I'm not here to like sort of apologize. That's the best thing about my life.
Truth and Its Consequences
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Baker Plbg
is from about the age of 30 on, I learned the lesson, the hard lesson, that you need to speak the truth. What is, I don't like your truth, but certainly from what I see is the truth. And words matter, meanings have meanings, and we've certainly seen in the last decade or so, those things all become twisted and jumbled up until nobody knows what the hell anybody's talking about anymore.
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Baker Plbg
And my brashness, our brash approach to it certainly rubs lots of people the wrong way. And that's fine. I am not here. I'm not doing this to please anybody but myself. But I will say this.
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Baker Plbg
I have sat at the precipice. Not stood, but sat and contemplated.
Defining Moments and Self-Awareness
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Baker Plbg
What would happen if I sort of took that leap?
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Baker Plbg
Those practice precipices or have absolutely been... Complete and total financial disaster. The absolute abandonment and abolishment of any ah faith or spirituality and the complete and total mental breakdown of who I am.
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Baker Plbg
and my story doesn't matter to you. It matters to me about everybody goes through hard and difficult times. And those moments have been galvanizing experiences for me that I know who I am.
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Baker Plbg
I know what works for me. If you want me to put that disclaimer on it and people that live sort of in the fantasy world of everybody is can do the job. Everybody,
00:02:51
Baker Plbg
is equal, that is not true. There are people that are better at a great many things than I am. And I'm better at some things than others. That's just, that's the reality of the world that we live in.
Challenging Equality and Embracing Authenticity
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Baker Plbg
And when we decide that we're unable to stand up for those things and just sort of become a hodgepodge of the big tent, if you will, I think it loses credibility.
00:03:22
Baker Plbg
I know. yeah i know it loses credibility. And as stated, these are my thoughts, not yours. And, you know, there's a couple guys that will listen to this and go, oh, this is directed specifically at me. And that might be true.
00:03:41
Baker Plbg
ah Because every conversation that I have with anybody, I take a minute and think about it and figure out how and if and if it should affect my life, if it should change my opinion.
00:03:58
Baker Plbg
And sometimes it does, and most times it certainly has a little salt to what's going on, but you know it is what it is. And so my challenge to everyone, myself included,
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Baker Plbg
is to do better, to be better, and and to absolutely be your best self in every circumstance that you find yourself in, which is a great many circumstances.
Fatherhood and Passion Projects
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Baker Plbg
You can go look at my bio.
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Baker Plbg
I'm the father of five. That is the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life. And... and the most rewarding thing i've ever done in my life.
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Baker Plbg
the The barn, the ranch, the chickens, the bees, the goats, all the rest of it certainly add lots of zest and color and wonderful things to my life. Plumbing and the trade has just been so wonderful for me, to me.
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Baker Plbg
And I wish that everybody would get on board and do it. And the only thing that I am critical of is when people... either
The Villain Role and Twisted Truths
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Baker Plbg
straight up lie about who they are or twist the truth in such a way and that they position themselves to be, uh, to be the facade of what they are. They say one thing and do another, you know that.
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Baker Plbg
And if that comes across as a villain, then I'm the villain. Anyway, i and I, it's strange to me.
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Baker Plbg
And it's been like five or six of those of those conversations, which I'll say this. Every
Defending Faith and Beliefs
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Baker Plbg
single one of those conversations was initiated by others.
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Baker Plbg
They came to me and said, listen, Bob, I love what you're doing. I agree with what you're doing. i understand what you're saying. And then when we get into the weeds and say, sure, let's let's have a conversation about it, it becomes, i am not prepared to,
00:06:04
Baker Plbg
and I'll quote what he said what this particular individual says, I'm not prepared to, um I'm not going to quote, denigrate other people. I'm like, how am I denigrating people by calling people to do better?
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Baker Plbg
when you're the one that came to me upset about it. it's It's a weird, it's a weird world, man. And ah almost without fail, I've been quoted four or five Bible verses this week.
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Baker Plbg
You call yourself Christian. I absolutely am a Christian. And what that means to me is standing up for what you believe, being resolute in your motives and actions and words and all the rest of it. Anyway, I've gone on far too long.
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Baker Plbg
I am, ah in many people's eyes, a villain, and that is not going to change my perspective, the way I handle things.
Open Conversations on Religion
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Baker Plbg
um I'm here for it all.
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Baker Plbg
And i'll i'll I will send the invitation out again. And again, anyone at any time, anywhere, if you want to have a conversation about this stuff, about anything that's in the trade, in the world, I'll even throw in religion. You want to talk a religion? Let's talk about it.
00:07:23
Baker Plbg
and see where it goes. That is the only way that anything ever gets better is when we're willing to confront difficult things, difficult people, um and ah and and the problems that surround us. if we If we shun from those fights, then we continue to dilute and and weaken ourselves for the sake of others.
Owning Thoughts and Perceived Arrogance
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Baker Plbg
I will close with my hateful comment. Arrogant comment.
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Baker Plbg
My thoughts, not yours. That's it.