 French daredevil Remy Enigma has just passed away after falling 30 floors down a Hong Kong skyscraper that he was free climbing, which is what he was known for. And David, a lot of people are talking about it. Yeah, RIP to Remy Lucidi. Definitely not making light of this, but it is sparking a ton of different discussions on the internet right now. Some are about social media, some are about clout, some are about daredevilism. And other people are basically asking the question, do you have the right to just do whatever you want with your life? As long as you don't hurt other people. And of course, a lot of people are saying you should just not play with your life because you only get one. All right, everybody, we're going to go through the comments section. Please hit that like button and let us know if you like the commentary in the news that we cover. I guess, you know, I don't want to make light of it, but David, but you know, I mean, Remy, this guy is taking a lot of risks. And I just feel like when you do something like free climbing, which is essentially climbing buildings or rocks or mountains without any sort of gear, without any sort of gear. You're just your hands and you're free climbing. You're doing it kind of because you want to be known for it and you're doing it for a legacy because you wouldn't risk your life like that for what? Nothing? Yeah. I mean, I think that a lot of people have a lot of different reasons. Maybe his name was Remy Enigma because he was like, people can't figure me out why I would take such tremendous risk exposure to do what I do. But this is who I am. So anyway, let's get in the comments section. Somebody said, bro went out doing what he loved. He lived his life fully. Not many can say that. The only people hating are either jealous or can't comprehend a life outside of the matrix, which they are stuck in. Better to live a short life of what you love than a long life in a miserable way. Somebody said he's probably smiling on his way out. Obviously, I pulled these comments from his Instagram page. A lot of people eulogizing him, but I can also see this perspective as well. Uh, yeah, I get it. No, and I do think that for himself in his own soul, I guess if we want to look at it this way, I don't think he's mad about the way he went out. No. Because if you're a daredevil, evil can evil. You're jumping over cars. You're doing crazy stuff. That's what you love to do. That's what brings you joy in life. However, he could have hurt other people doing this. That's what I don't like. Yeah. You know what I mean? On the fall down, he actually broke, uh, you know, not to get too much into the details. A gas pipe during his fall. That could have caused problems. He fell on someone's balcony. If there was a kid on that balcony, that kid is dead too. So he could have hurt other people. Obviously rock climbing. You're less likely to kill another person because it's just rock like who's how many people are down below at the rocks. You know what I mean? Right. You're just out in the middle of nowhere. So that's what I'm saying. Free climbing in the city. It's a little more dangerous. And so I don't like that he could have hurt other people. I don't like the potential disregard for falling on somebody because in the past, it's happened. Yeah. If you want to be a daredevil in a controlled environment, go so be it. Listen, it's a free world. You know, you could do whatever you want. Right. I guess people in the past in the 1920s, when they were building up New York, the Industrial Revolution, people took all types of really scary jobs working on the skyscrapers. Those were very high risk as well. Right. Somebody said this is just Darwin keeping the gene pool clean. Of course, Andrew, this got posted on so many different Reddit subreddits that are like Darwin Awards, which I guess basically, you know, call these people stupid, right? Right. Somebody said there's a very fine line between being brave and being stupid. Do you think that's true? Because a lot of people, especially when they're in high school, they do things that could be very brave and cool and legendary if they work out and very stupid if they go downside. Yeah, I just feel like bravery. And this is the difference to me between being brave and just like not caring is bravery. Generally, there's a connotation that what you're doing is something good. You're saying there's some sort of massively positive impact for the world or something? Yeah, like you're brave. You're an 18 year old, World War II. You're getting drafted to go to war. You run into a burning building to save an old woman. Yeah. Or you jump in front of a car to say or to push away someone you love. You're brave. You know, you're doing something generally good. Firefighters, policemen, brave. You know what I mean? I see what you're saying. You're putting your life at risk for the societal good, right? Usually, yes. Somebody says 30 is a ripe old age for a skyscraper climber, though. There's not that many that like keep doing it or still are still alive in their 30s. I'm not sure. I never really looked into that. What are the more details of the story? I guess he was he had climbed up the building already to the 68th floor and then he was on his way down, climbing down. Yeah. And then at the 64th floor, there was a mishap or he discovered it was too steep. The conditions, I don't know what I don't know anything about it. Like maybe the wind is got more dangerous and he knocked on the window of somebody on the 64th floor. There was a maid in there and she got scared and went to go call the police. And there was a lot of debate about like, could she have opened the window or maybe the windows don't really open. But maybe there was a little crack to get a handhold and then wait for the rescue crews. Nobody knows. Right, right, right. And I guess, I mean, most people, I feel like are not blaming the maid because the maid is doing her job protecting that household, which if she let some crazy guy in who's climbing up a wall, she doesn't know what's going on. Who's to say the window even opens though? Yeah, you're right. Maybe the window doesn't even open and maybe this guy is there to rob her to be honest. You see a guy climbing your building. It's kind of weird. Like you do your your first instinct is not like, oh, this is this. Oh, that's the French Daredevil. I know you can't just he can't have that assumption that everybody's just going to react to that. Like, oh, my God, let me like, yeah, shatter the window. And it's probably unfortunate that the environment did change and made his climb harder and more dangerous. Yeah. I mean, I can honestly be seeing people like seeing it from the side being like, whoa, the guy could climb to come go. I don't see going to go. Oh, my God. All right, Dave, I got to laugh at this comment because this is a racial comment or a stereotypical comment. Someone said a black guy said black people ain't ever doing any kind of this crap man. Yeah. I mean, it's true that all the Daredevil's majority wise, if we were able to plot charted out and get the statistics and, you know, crunch the numbers, I would say that they, you know, the people who swim with sharks and stuff. I want to say they're like 90 to 95% said, yo, this is a white way to die. And I was like, it is true. Even Asians man, there's definitely listen, I see all types of people maybe jumping from one or two stories up, doing a backflip running down, maybe jumping into a pool 20 feet high. You know, those things are definitely dangerous. But on this level, like purposely swimming with sharks and doing this crazy stuff like climbing, free climbing buildings, I just don't see other types of people do them aside from white people or Russian people. To be fair, there was a Chinese Daredevil that I want to say that passed away three or four years ago doing the same thing. It happens. It happens. But you know, I would say that that is a overall macro stereotype that the overwhelming majority of Daredevil's whether it ends up good for them or bad for them are white. Let me know in the comments down below why you think that is. Why does it seem like most Daredevil's are white? Well, there was some explanation. Somebody said only white people need to do this to get their adrenaline pumping. Us black people got enough adventure in our everyday life. Somebody said white people are seeking a rush to their nervous system because they're bored. Being black keeps our adrenaline heightened every day just to exist and survive. Honestly, you guys really know the life is are very different, man. And there could be some absolute truth to that. Somebody said, SMH, if God wanted you up in the air like that, he would have made you a seagull or something. Why play with your life? Somebody said, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. You die the way that you live. You cannot keep cheating death like that repeatedly time and time again. Like I said, man, it really depends. Like some people, they need to swim with sharks, right? And or some people need to go do high risk exposure activities to feel something. You know, there was a time in my life where I did some higher risk activity and I got hurt one time or there was like a close call. And I just decided, you know what? That life is not for me. I'm not going to do that dumb crap anymore result in you. I remember I don't want to give them to my head, but did you end up getting a cat scan? No, I ended up going to the ER. I'm fine. Nothing really happened. Thankfully, but it could have been a lot worse. Right. Right. So just be, you know what? It depends on what legacy you want to leave, man. Somebody said, I'm not going to crack a joke. It honestly seemed like something he's doing. There was a lot of people, especially nowadays like him, that are adrenaline driven. They love the risk. They know the risks. It is what it is. And I still consider it tragic. May he rest in peace. But it is what it is. Somebody said this is not a video game where you die and you get another life. All I can say is he died doing what he enjoyed. But he did also have a GoPro with him. So clearly he is filming it and he was planning on posting it. I'm not saying that he was going to get a million followers from it, but he clearly was going to show people what he was doing. No, for sure. I mean, he always travels with the GoPro. Somebody said if it wasn't for social media, he'd still be alive. People doing way too much nowadays for likes and comments. This goes back to the cloud driven culture. How much dopamine you get from likes, engagements, comments, your photo going viral. My thing is, is like people nowadays, they do have to fight against social media a little bit harder. That urge to post something just for the likes. It's not something that our ancestors had to deal with. People even 20 years ago really had to deal with, right? Where you could just post something on the internet and get a bunch of dopamine back. So you got to fight that urge a little bit more and it's even harder nowadays. But regardless, it is on you. I noticed a lot more people are doing the street style of being a daredevil. Maybe in the past, and I'm sure there was street level ones that were not as popular, but you kind of had Houdini, you know, Evil Knievel, where they were way more calculated and commercialized with it. Nowadays, it feels like everything's been brought to just like, yo, I'm just wild doing obviously because it was illegal for him to be on the top of that building at all. Security guards were chasing him. Yeah. To be honest, any time somebody can film something crazy with their phone and get more views than a TV show. Yeah. I remember and remember punked that show with Ashton Kutcher. Everybody does that, but even more intense nowadays, but just for social media. Yeah, yeah. Twitch streamers would do it or pranksters would do it. It's more it's more often and more intense. Somebody said, if you want to gauge the state of society, read the comments on a dead man's post. It'll tell you how evil and disgusting people have become. I don't know if I really believe this. Yes and no. But I mean, I don't think there's anybody glad that this happened, but a lot of people have a lot of different takeaways from it happening. I mean, a lot of people don't feel bad. And I don't think you're wrong for not feeling bad because, yeah. Yeah. Because you know, I just made a choice with their life and it's like, what are you going to do? Feel bad about the line from not feeling bad, which is fine to going on his page and disrespecting him and spitting on his grave, which is wrong and you don't cross that line, but you don't have to be sad for him because there's a lot of people to be sad for. Anyway, let's just get into our takeaways, man. Yeah. I just think that in 2023, if you feel like everything's been accomplished by either your group or people you relate to, you may go seek and say, you know, all these other people, they've already done such great things in our history, but I need to push forward in the way that I can. And if I take the risk, then I take the risk. And that's why I don't really feel bad or good about it. I'm just like, yo, man, somebody made a decision based off the life that they've lived and the perception of themselves of how they felt like they were going to push forward and push the envelope and be historical and have a Wikipedia, et cetera, et cetera. And there is risk associated with that. Yeah. And I think that you can one on one aspect, you can sit back and say, you know what? He died. He didn't hurt anybody else doing what he loved. That's great. I wish that upon more people, I wish more people could, if they were going to pass away anyways, could pass away doing something they love, or at least I just wish more people could just do more of what they love. But the only thing about this is if he had hurt somebody on the way down or damaged, truly damaged somebody's property, then literally you're messing with other people's lives now. You know what I mean? And I'm just saying like for that, I guess it's a selfish thing for him to do is selfish. It's selfish for him. Yeah, it is. I'm not saying he's a bad guy. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but that is selfish. Yeah, maybe very one-track minded. Yeah. Had the blinders on, the horse blinders. Do you think there's anything to say like, you know, some people, a lot of people, even famous people, they overdose on drugs. But some people saying that dopamine or social media validation should be categorized as a drug. Yeah. And he potentially overdid from that. I don't think he's only doing this for social media cloud. I don't think, I mean, there's been free climbers throughout history. There's been a couple that have died in America. Globally, right? Yeah, a couple notable ones. Globally, there are people. Yeah, you said there was a Chinese guy who died free climbing. So it's not just for cloud. It's just these thrill seekers. But you know, you risk, you have, there's always a risk, man. And I think some of these people, maybe they didn't have full-fledged families that they had to care about because if you had a family you had to take care of, let's be honest, you're probably not doing this. Or there's only very, very few like partners who would marry you knowing that you're putting your life at an unnecessary risk. Yeah. You know what I always notice, man? And I'll end with this guy's RIP, like I said to Remy Lucidi. YOLO means such different things to do different people. You know, like YOLO, like you only live once. Some people are like, oh, I only live once. That must mean I have to like protect my life and like be more conservative. But other people are like, oh, YOLO, I got to go all out balls to the wall, you know, 11 out of 10. Last question, David, I'm just going to throw it out there. What's up with white daredevil? Does it feel like white people? And he's French, but you know, whatever. He's like, I guess white, but maybe not. But does it feel like they like have conquered everything so they want to conquer buildings and nature? Yeah, I mean, I would say, and no disrespect or anything, that's the general sentiment amongst a lot of minorities who have internal discussions about this theory. They would say that, you know, most of the world speaks a Western language or, you know, the colonies or just the last 400 years have been very Western Europeans. So the only thing left to conquer is nature. So if you swim with sharks, are you doing things? Is there some deep culture that kind of like always likes, like a masochistic where that means you like pain, but I guess like where you toe the line between like life and death and that is like, what gives you meaning in life? I guess, I mean, you can say it's a Spartan mindset, 300, whatever. I'm not sure, you know, let us know what you think in the comment section below. I'm sure there's somebody who's read a lot more books and a lot more posts on this topic than we have. Like I said, again, keep it civil. This was not to throw dirt on any man's name. If anything, I'm sure that he would have been glad that we made this video to have this discussion. Yeah, listen, we're talking about him, man. I mean, this is part of his legacy, to be honest. But anyways, guys, yeah, just be careful with your lives. But, all right, thank you for watching The Hop Hop Boys and until next time, we out. Peace.