"Learn From Your Mistakes & Pay It Forward" · Eric on Life Lessons | Part 5

0:10I like living my life and you know uh not having to worry about [bleeped] I guess, you know, it’s No, it’s weird because I think my brother was so much older than me and and both my sisters were too, you know, and uh

0:36So, you’re the youngest? Yeah. But uh is anybody else in your family still alive? Yeah, I’m sure they are. I got poor nephews. I’m pretty sure they’re all kicking it somewhere. I hope so. Anyway,

0:53oh yeah. Hell yeah. But um uh when you’re going through life and something significant happens in it, at least try to learn from it. So you know you don’t make the same mistake you know twice you know you know that that’s if I had to give advice for you know all right I try to learn from your mistakes and you know try to see it always from the other person’s point of view and you know don’t um and pay it forward, you know, if you can.

2:01Yeah. Well, that’s the simplest and easiest thing really, you know, is just um you know, being decent towards somebody else and helping them out. I mean, you know, what the hell, man? That’s got to be what it’s about. But I also got to go cuz that cop will come back.

2:33What do you think about the cops here in Denver? All right. Here’s the best cop story I got. Okay. I just got done getting my toes cut off, amputated. All right. And uh I ran into my friend and we was out in the middle of [bleeped] uh we was right there on Colfax and River sitting on this side of the park. All right. Right there. And we were dunk

3:11right as many. Yeah, I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. We was just right cut. All right. Right there. I was like two weeks after I had my toes cut off and a motorcycle cop come up and kicked me in the feet.

3:39Mhm. And I hopped up the water. Thank you. And I’m not really sure how I hopped up because I, you know, it took me 25 30 minutes in the morning to get up and stand, you know, on the help of the side of a building [bleeped] you know. But this motorcycle cop [bleeped] kicked me in the goddamn foot. I I was up.

4:08I’d be pissed. I’d be living. I had four of them on me. I had one on each arm and they had me down on the ground concrete

4:19and I started yelling, “Stop resisting. Stop resisting.” And the cops is all looking at each other. And they said, “You stop resisting.” I said, “I’m not talking to you, you dumb sons of [bleeped] I’m talking to the concrete.” I can I can I buy a secret or would you like a my lemon weed? It’s lemon weed. It’s so good.

4:45I’ll buy. Thank you. I appreciate it. You’re okay. You can have a puff, too. All you do is she’s puffing pushing. Barter is always the best bet. Oh, you know, I mean, you know, not everybody can always afford to pay, but some people find a way to make do and be, you know,

5:16Hell yeah. He’s been letting me shoot a video with him. We walk around shooting like a vlog for the last like hour or so. Oh, yeah.

5:28Yeah. So, I told him I got on the water in the smokes. Not from Philly. You can feel your skin. Put your film together. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

5:34Everywhere, huh? I mean, this is this this where I started and I’m here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m okay. I’m okay. I appreciate it. Look. Okay. I’ll go wash it. I’ll

5:43Yeah. All good. I promise. This is le and it’s Huh. It’s lemon flavored, huh? That shit’s good, huh? Yeah. Thank you. You guys have a good

5:54Yeah. You take care. Be safe. That [bleeped] got I got you. I got you. All right. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. Most definitely, sir. All right. Here’s something. All right. the night, man. I got thrown in prison for the first time. Uh, I was over by my friend’s house and I did a shot of dope and he was watching porno and it already smelt like lotion. I said, “I got to get the [bleeped] out of here.” So, I leave and I was out there. I And it was raining like hell. I And I pulled up on uh Bartlesville on Highway 66 going on the Highway 10

7:02out towards Tulsa. All right. And uh I had to pee and I stopped and I pulled over off the [bleeped] road and I taken my seat belt off and I was [bleeped] put the car in neutral. All right. and Oage County Sheriff pulled up behind me and turned on his lights. All right.

7:30Mhm. Now, I was I was looking across the back seat at the [bleeped] lights reflected in this [bleeped] All right. I had two cases of [bleeped] Budweiser. One of them open, you know what I mean? There’s no way I’m not getting arrested. Yeah.

7:50I mean, you know. All right. So, I I was sitting there listening to 102.3 and breaking the law. Breaking the law. All right. I I I The cop was walking up to the side of my car and breaking the law. Breaking the law. And I just stuck a [bleeped] in low and took off putting my seat belt back on. And I thought I’ll get far enough ahead of him. I just stop and pretend like somebody stole the car, you know.

8:28Mhm. And uh they No, they uh they pitted my ass. I Here’s the crazy part. I rolled. Okay. But when it came to a stop, I was on the top of the car and the front bumper slid down and then the airbag went off. So I like rolled like four or five times, you know, and then the airbag, right? And then I [bleeped] I got out of this son of a [bleeped] and I was crawling out of the top of the [bleeped] car and there was a highway patrolman scrambling down the side with the 357 Magnum and he said, “If you [bleeped] move, I’ll blow your god damn hell off.”

9:14Imagine. And I said, “Hey man, it’s cool you got me.” Hell yeah. That’s crazy. That’s a hell of a story. I made it 78 miles and 32 minutes. It was on the clink training [bleeped] deal.

9:29Can you imagine that? No. When the when the when the officers came back from their click training, they saw my high speed pursuit. They was like, “You crazy son of a bitch.”

9:44Hell yeah. Anything? Any last words for the world? Um, try to find the goodness in it and think about the people that are in it. always pay it forward and look towards a better tomorrow, you know. Um uh I don’t want to be sounding like that chick all [bleeped] gone to win, but uh more like Steve McQueen. What did Steve McQueen used to say? Give me some of that double up buck and that 12 gauge pump. Hell yeah.