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00:01:35.000What if you were on, like, your tenth lift of something, like an aggressive workout, and you're in the middle, you have all the, you know...
00:01:43.000All your energy is just moving forward and you're lifting the kettle thing and it's number 10 and someone just comes in and tells you your mom's stupid.
00:01:52.000I would be even less likely to do anything because I'm already exerted.
00:02:46.000I think all those things are correct, but I really think that your body has a certain amount of requirements.
00:02:51.000And I think, depending upon your stress level, those physical requirements might be higher.
00:02:56.000If you have a job, and your job is some high-level accountant at some big firm, and you're crunching numbers, and it's fucking stressful as shit, I feel like your body thinks that there is some physical danger involved in this.
00:03:10.000And I think your body amps up for that.
00:03:12.000And then when the physical danger doesn't come, Your body is just fucking primed and ready to go, but there's nothing.
00:03:26.000They get in their car and they're just, fuck you, fuck you!
00:03:29.000Because in your car, you're ramped up even more.
00:03:31.000Because in your car, you're aware that you have to be really acutely Be aware of everything that's around you.
00:03:39.000You have to make sure that no one's making any mistakes, because you're all going 65 miles an hour, and a little error can happen really quickly.
00:03:45.000So you're on edge already when you're in your car, even if you're calm.
00:03:49.000Even if you're calm when you're in your car, your sensors are tuned in.
00:03:52.000You're fucking paying attention if you're a healthy human being.
00:06:09.000Well, if they can, like, within a minute, make you understand something you didn't understand before, you're like, oh, shit, now I gotta pay attention.
00:07:01.000Because bees are sort of non-specific.
00:07:04.000Like, bees are just going over there and they're doing their thing and they just get shit on their body and it transfers over to the plants.
00:07:09.000It's really kind of fascinating how it works.
00:07:11.000But these people did it very specifically with a paintbrush.
00:08:50.000Like, are you allowed to just set up shop anywhere and put like one of those picnic stands and, you know, they have like one of those little plastic tables.
00:08:58.000They set down and they show you a picture of a baby with a bloated belly and they show you...
00:09:02.000Yeah, you hope it's Girl Scout cookies and it turns out to be just a horror show.
00:09:09.000I almost think like when I see someone like some kids selling lemonade or something like that, I'm like, oh, this is like you guys are doing like a throwback thing.
00:15:49.00050-50 comedians and then just mentally ill transients who are also comedians.
00:15:58.000You just wait and you go, alright, it's going to be my friend and then it's going to be that guy who has all of his belongings with him and then it's going to be my other friend and then it's going to be that crazy lady and then it'll be me.
00:16:26.000Like what was your initial goal when you first started doing stand-up?
00:16:30.000Really simply, I knew I liked writing a lot, even before I started doing stand-up.
00:16:36.000And I think stand-up, I've tried to figure it out.
00:16:39.000The easiest way to explain it, I think, is that I just wanted to see if what I was writing was funny.
00:16:45.000And so that's sort of why, even when I started, I mean, I'm still deadpan, obviously, but when I started, I was so dry because I was essentially just reading out loud these thoughts I had with no real performance background and I wasn't, you know,
00:17:18.000Is this joke, is it a good idea, but it's kind of, it's done wrong?
00:17:22.000Yeah, and then at that time, too, you don't have the ability to perform at a hundred different places, so you're not going, okay, it works in the alternative room, but doesn't work at the club, or it's just like, oh, well, it didn't work at the laundromat, but it worked at the coffeehouse.
00:17:37.000I wonder what that means about this joke.
00:18:09.000I'm not even that upset about it, but I feel like I'd be less upset if I was, like, involved in the school and realized that it's, oh, it's so kids can take classes at, like, a decent rate.
00:18:52.000I guess you could teach somebody to...
00:18:55.000You can mold their thoughts into jokes and help them and shove them on stage, but I don't know what kind of comedian that makes.
00:19:03.000Yeah, I feel like, boy, it's one of those things where I've learned a lot about it.
00:19:08.000So I always wonder, like, maybe you can teach something, because I've definitely learned some shit.
00:19:13.000Well, yeah, I mean, people, you know, I think there are...
00:19:16.000If you find out your favorite comedian, you know, sits down and writes an hour a day at a Starbucks or whatever, you go, oh, maybe I'll try that.
00:19:23.000Like, little tricks and things like that, but I don't know.
00:19:27.000I don't know anyone who's, you know...
00:19:30.000Who I deeply, deeply admire who would credit all their success to their comedy classes.
00:19:37.000That'd be like a real poor focus group.
00:19:40.000But I know Ari did an interesting thing a while back where he used to go to a town, like when he was doing stand-up, and like he was headlining for the weekend, he would go to a town and he would do like a free seminar for the local comics.
00:19:53.000Tell them, like, this is how you get a manager.
00:19:56.000Stop asking people to take you with them on the road when you're two months into comedy.
00:20:01.000Stop asking, you know, managers to handle you like you just got to get good first and give them all this advice about like getting an agent.
00:20:09.000Yeah, I went to Penn, you know, UPenn recently, and I was talking to some students and I don't like fancy myself like an instructor of any kind, but they were asking me, You know, about comedy, writing specifically and stuff.
00:20:25.000And the advice I gave was very practical and had nothing to do with the craft, which was just like, don't be annoying in the room.
00:20:33.000Don't, you know, like in a TV, like in the writing for like a TV show and like jokes don't work, don't go, that didn't work, that's not your job to say that, like that kind of shit.
00:20:42.000Just like how to get through the first year without annoying everybody.
00:21:00.000Well, writers oftentimes are very awkward, right?
00:21:03.000They can be it depends like the rooms are very split into when I got into like sitcom stuff like it's just very split into Very just internal Kind of what you would typically think of as like a writer and then there's a couple comedians sprinkled in there who kind of bounce more jokes around It's just a women people who are just good at structure Hmm Yeah,
00:21:26.000that's an interesting thing the people that are good at structure Because sometimes they try to be funny Sometimes.
00:21:33.000The thing I like about those rooms, obviously it's so much fun to be in a room with comedians, but once you realize, oh, that person can do a thing I can't and I can do a thing they can't, you start to realize, oh, we could go into a room and get a lot of work done together.
00:21:50.000No matter how much you want a square and a circle to line up, they just don't seem to.
00:21:55.000When you have a writer's room or anything like that, I think a big part of it depends on just the fortunate chemistry of all the people coming together.
00:22:04.000Yeah, and that first day where you show up, if it's not your room and you haven't hired anybody and you don't know who's there, is terrifying.
00:22:11.000Because you show up and you know within five minutes if...
00:22:15.000This is going to be a fun X number of months or if you're just going to be trudging through.
00:22:19.000What's the biggest shit show you ever had to work on?
00:22:24.000I've had really, like, tremendously good luck as far as, like, just working with friends and stuff on so many things.
00:22:30.000But I worked on an award show once, and the boss basically didn't let me write jokes.
00:22:37.000Like, they needed to hire a woman, and I guess I was recommended.
00:22:40.000And I was like, I'll take a stab at these jokes.
00:22:44.000And he was like, no, no, no, just write the banter where it says, like, coming up next is this person.
00:22:49.000And I was like, well, anyone can do that.
00:22:52.000He just literally wouldn't allow me to write jokes.
00:22:55.000So you got hired as a joke writer, and then once you got there, he just wanted you to write narrative?
00:22:59.000Just banter, just like, you know, like our next guest is, you know, from...
00:23:10.000They call it banter like when you're writing things?
00:23:12.000Yeah well no I mean like that in my 20s I wrote on a lot of award shows so there's like the jokes the monologue all that stuff and then there's just the going out to commercial and come back in all that stuff has to be written right and sometimes they try to make it funny and sometimes they don't but you can break it up you guys break it up in terms of like this is the these are the jokes this is the banter this is the narrative this is the structure Yeah,
00:24:00.000Then there's, you know, like I said, like the kind of a little more boring, like this next person is the, you know, two-time MVP. So why did this guy hire you?
00:24:09.000You really think he hired you just because he needed a woman?
00:26:05.000Obviously, Sarah Silverman kind of broke a lot of that down, where so much of her act was just straight dirty and hilarious.
00:26:11.000And then Amy Schumer, of course, and a lot of other people.
00:26:14.000But it's still, when you're developing, when you're starting out, it seems like it's more of a difficult world to navigate than a guy telling sex jokes.
00:26:26.000Yeah, it's a difficult world and it's also like socially it's...
00:26:33.000It's interesting because what I realized when I was, you know, 19, 20 was...
00:26:43.000That aspect of people dating in the scene and all that kind of stuff, all that happens too.
00:26:48.000And I found that if a woman who was new-ish, around my level at the time, was dating somebody else, they were automatically looked at as a comedy groupie.
00:27:00.000And that was the thing that didn't apply to men.
00:27:02.000That was the one part where I was like, I don't...
00:27:06.000Well, that's not totally true, because I've seen some guys that are dating famous women, and they're sort of like underlings, sort of men, stand-up comics, and everybody treats them like they're a comedy groupie.
00:27:40.000Because I was worried that if I showed up to a show with a guy who potentially was more successful than me, then the first thought would be, she's the girl who's with that guy, not she's the girl who's going up next.
00:27:56.000She thinks that's going to be the path.
00:27:58.000When, in fact, there's a lot of people with legitimate relationships where it's not the path, it's just you're attracted to somebody and, you know, eventually, you know, I made my way through a few people.
00:28:43.000Being a woman, as much as I didn't find it harder, I did find myself wanting to prove any stereotype that anyone might have about me wrong.
00:28:54.000I don't feel as much of that as a mission anymore.
00:28:57.000I just am who I am, but I think you have a lot wrapped in your head when you're...
00:29:02.000Especially when you really aren't stable, as far as financially.
00:29:06.000You're really not a real professional anymore.
00:29:09.000And then once you become one, once you're established in the community, after a while it's like, what am I wasting my time even thinking about this shit for?
00:29:17.000So I think it's harder for chicks to develop.
00:29:20.000But I think once they become good, and once they get out there, there's a lower bar.
00:30:32.000And then, I don't know, I see comedy too in these, there's so many different factions to me.
00:30:36.000There's people who are so great at stand-up and then as a writer and somebody who tries to make projects and wrap them around people, I also see so many people who I go, that's not my favorite stand-up, that's not a great stand-up in my opinion, but that's somebody I would love to write for,
00:30:51.000that's somebody I'd love to put in a show.
00:30:53.000So I see all these columns of comedians and I judge people accordingly and I think there are legitimately comedians who are not like...
00:31:29.000It's got a gang of those guys that are always in those movies.
00:31:32.000And they might not necessarily be the best stand-ups or the kind of guys you want to see, but they're great in those movies.
00:31:37.000Yeah, I mean, and then, but it's, I mean, who's, I don't know, in that group, like, my favorite stand-up is probably Norm, who, I mean, I went to go see the, they did a Netflix movie, and they had, like, a tour with all the actors, you know, the comedians from it, and it couldn't have been a bit different group of comedians,
00:31:53.000and you go, okay, well, Norm's my favorite stand-up there.
00:32:11.000Yeah, it's one of those things, I guess, when you look at things in categories, like you know that Kevin Hart does his own stand-up, but you also know that he does movies where other people write the lines, and I'm sure he helps make them funnier and all that stuff, but he's reading a script,
00:32:51.000If I was to boil down the stand-up comedy that I love and respect the most, it has nothing to do with TV, and it has nothing to do with...
00:33:01.000It's just comedians and who they are on stage, and that's how I... Judge who I love and don't love as a comedian, but there's so many other factors in show business that you have to sort of take into consideration.
00:33:16.000I mean, we like a lot of people who are very famous who might not be The very best, but we know them the most, right?
00:33:24.000Well what I was gonna say is that when you're when you're doing stand-up though for whatever weird reason the people that we all love the most Are almost always people that like write for themselves.
00:33:34.000Yeah, and it's very difficult to get like say you're not gonna get Bill Burr to write for some CAA creation like say if CAA Something fucking comic.
00:33:45.000He's got perfect cheekbones, and he's got a great way of delivering jokes, but he's not capable of writing the right level of material.
00:33:54.000One of the problems is a guy like Burr writes for his own mind.
00:34:04.000Well, that's, yeah, I mean, I've never, I think we've all taken, like, a tag or a segue or something where a friend goes, dude, add this to your joke, and you feel like you already wrote it.
00:34:13.000I mean, I had, like, a three-year fight with somebody in my 20s over who wrote a joke, and I thought he did, and he said I did in a car.
00:34:19.000And I refused to do it until he convinced me that I came up with it, because I was so paranoid about doing a joke that I thought somebody else wrote.
00:34:26.000But, yeah, I mean, and that's the thing, too, is that There's some material that's so fucking great, and I watch it, and I go, I don't know how to make that a show.
00:34:36.000And maybe it's not even supposed to be a show.
00:35:23.000Like, say if you were going to do a Netflix special and they said, look, Morgan, we think you're hilarious.
00:35:27.000We'd love to do a Netflix special with you.
00:35:29.000But what we'd like to do is assign a team of executive producers and writers.
00:35:34.000And what they're going to do is they're going to change your look.
00:35:37.000Okay, we're going to go with a goth theme.
00:35:39.000We're going to put black lipstick on you and we're going to just, you know, they're going to come up with some fucking nutty thing that they decide to do and then change the way you deliver material.
00:35:49.000It would be like, what are we doing here?
00:35:51.000And I think that's kind of how Louis felt when he was doing his show.
00:36:29.000You know, as passionate as I get about stand-up, I get so fucking into the idea of, like, seeing somebody go up...
00:36:36.000Seeing the show that they could have and also wanting them to love it because I'm like no no no I get you I'm not gonna write anything that you would say that you wouldn't do like you want to be as the writer on the other side of that as a person who is sometimes hired to Take a comedian and like get a show out of them.
00:36:57.000Like I like to hope and think that Yeah.
00:37:17.000You know, I'm so, I mean, maybe it goes back to, like, wanting to impress or wanting, you know, to be seen as legitimate, but I would never hand somebody something if I thought that it was remotely embarrassing or against their, you know.
00:42:28.000It's, uh, it, it, it, there's, it ties into, uh, it's a, it's a, it feels good, and then there's momentum sort of involved, and then you get into a place where you're like, oh shit, I'm, you know, in one cigarette I wrote all those pages.
00:43:19.000Yeah, and they're trying to kill him because he's releasing all the information.
00:43:22.000Apparently there's like hundreds and hundreds of different chemicals that the FDA has approved cigarette companies to add to cigarettes just to get them more addictive.
00:43:31.000It's interesting, too, because I'll put out a cigarette and a glass of water or something, and then I get nervous if the water with tobacco and it touches my skin.
00:43:39.000I have this paranoia, but I'll literally inhale every chemical deep into my lungs, into my veins, but I get nervous about touching tobacco-y water.
00:45:00.000I just, you know, I want to try, like, I can't even, I'm not even allowed to, like, you know, I'm on a lot of, like, antidepressants and stuff, so they don't want me to take the medication that helps you stop or any of the gums instead.
00:45:11.000It's all supposed to fuck up your brain chemicals.
00:46:05.000I mean, I've had a couple of instances of, I don't want to do this anymore, I don't want to be on it anymore, try to go off and realize I needed it, but, you know, high school was the biggest turnaround, 180. Just because of the stress of growing up?
00:47:01.000I lived with my mom until I was like...
00:47:04.00014, 15, and then I lived with her sister, and I lived with my dad's sister, and I lived with some family friends, and I lived with my dad for the first time when I was like 17, and I just bounced around LA, Connecticut, Oregon.
00:47:16.000And I was just brutally depressed and couldn't, you know, I mean, obviously there were big environmental factors, but at the end of the day, it was more than therapy and stuff.
00:47:29.000Dude, your life was the plot of the movie Twilight.
00:48:11.000What happened as a society where we decided that all of a sudden vampires allowed to go out in the day, werewolves have abs, they can change to a wolf whenever the fuck they want.
00:48:56.000There's an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie like that.
00:48:58.000Oh, that was always the saddest part of Walking Dead was when you realize someone had their daughter chained up in a room because he couldn't bring himself to put a spike through her head, so he just kept the zombie daughter.
00:49:49.000With all the horrible things that happened to all these different animals in terms of parasites getting in their system and forcing them to commit suicide.
00:50:06.000It develops in its body and then like the alien in the movie Alien that bursts out of the chest literally rips out of the thing's body in the water and then that's how it gets born.
00:50:17.000Like it gets into the grasshopper's body and then rewires the grasshopper's brain when it's time to hatch and convinces this fuck to jump into the water.
00:52:12.000But when you see guys who are exterminators or people who work with rats and they go down in the basement, it's like there is an underbelly to New York City and a lot of other cities too, Los Angeles for sure, where...
00:52:24.000Swarms of rodents are underneath the city.
00:52:37.000They've got cameras that are dipped into probes, and they're smart as shit, but one of them had this bot fly, and they pulled this bot fly out of its body.
00:52:44.000It's like if you were carrying a football in one of your tits.
00:52:47.000Like, literally, they pulled this thing out of its body.
00:52:50.000They pulled it out of its neck, actually.
00:54:01.000I know a dude who has a ranch and it's in South Texas and they find dead people on their ranch sometimes where people try to cross and they just die of dehydration.
00:54:26.000I mean, the other thing is, like, for him and his place, like, you don't know if this guy's gonna be a nice guy just trying to come over here and get a job, or if this guy's a drug runner and a murderer.
00:55:04.000And I think that there's going to come a day where people are just going to be able to travel anywhere they want.
00:55:09.000And we're not going to look at it like cities, and we're not going to look at it in terms of like, you know, if you live in Boston, you can move to Cleveland.
00:55:16.000If you live in Cleveland, you can move to Miami.
00:59:11.000I absolutely couldn't love her more, and she's very much become kind of a pseudo-mother figure of mine in LA. I don't have family here, really.
00:59:22.000But I also feel like that makes me sound like a pretentious white person who's taking care of a person of color.
00:59:31.000It's not a comfortable subject for me to talk about, and yet I couldn't be more earnestly grateful and thankful, and I couldn't adore her more, and really she helps me function in life,
01:00:10.000She's known me through apartments, so it's interesting when someone's just a part of your life and And seems to care about you more than you even think they should, if that makes sense.
01:00:57.000It's always a touchy subject because there's historically been people that have come from other places and they've immigrated into places and then they create neighborhoods and there are a certain class of people initially and then they move through society.
01:01:13.000And, I mean, my people have experienced it, the Italians.
01:01:16.000Like, when my grandfather came over here, there was all these, like, negative stereotypes for Italians.
01:05:14.000And I show up, and it's a, you know, a murderer's row on stage.
01:05:19.000And I get there and I have no, I have only feelings.
01:05:22.000I have no, nothing in my brain is working to connect pieces or really be, you know, remotely sort of eloquent.
01:05:28.000I just came out and I was like, this is bad for people and everyone's going to be racist and we, you know, people should be able to do what they want.
01:05:38.000And then you and Sarah Tiana started making out.
01:05:50.000I mean, he came back with, you know, basically, I felt there was like a lot of energy that I came in with the worst thing that's ever happened just happened.
01:07:28.000You just let a reality star just start firing the people that you need for critical intelligence, people that have been involved in the intelligence industry and the intelligence community for decade after decade after decade.
01:07:39.000You let this reality star just start firing people.
01:07:42.000It's nuts, but it was also the best place I could have ended up that night.
01:08:04.000It's been a bad system since people figured out how to make phone calls.
01:08:08.000As soon as people figured out how to make phone calls, you didn't have to get a guy on a fucking horse that carries your vote and your request for sovereignty in your personal state by a messenger that has to take it to some fucking representative, that has to take it to Congress on this fucking boat.
01:08:25.000Like, you don't have to do that anymore.
01:08:26.000So since we don't have to do this anymore, this idea of one person running the whole shebang through a representative of each individual state...
01:09:21.000So then you have to do that in a way that doesn't, you know, make everybody implode.
01:09:26.000But the system, the design of the system, and this is more than I've...
01:09:29.000I've paid attention more to the political system in the last two years than I think I have in my entire life.
01:09:35.000But there's all these checks and balances that are in place to sort of prevent someone who's...
01:09:42.000An irreputable person getting into a position of power and then changing everything.
01:09:46.000There's enough checks and balances to keep that in place.
01:09:49.000And I think that's important and that's a beautiful thing.
01:09:52.000And having all these representatives that represent both conservative and liberal attitudes kind of keeps things in balance to a certain extent.
01:10:03.000The best way to do it would be to get a guy like Elon Musk and say, hey man, the way you figured out how to put fucking tunnels under the earth where the cars go on sleds and that eliminates all the traffic in LA... And the way they figured out how to make a solar box that sits in a garage on the wall and it powers your whole house from the roof,
01:10:23.000and the way they figured out how to make roof shingles that are actually solar powered, and the way they figured out how to make an electric car that can go 350 miles, tell us how to run this thing.
01:10:35.000Yeah, I mean, but also, then, does he make the decisions that, like, because I always think about, like, when they change rules in Major League Sports, I always find it, like, interesting, like, that a group of people got together, and, like, now, what is it?
01:12:08.000Mountain hikers are just going to run the world.
01:12:10.000Alex Honnold is going to be our president.
01:12:12.000That rock climber dude, he's going to be number one.
01:12:15.000I just think that if we just come up with an alternative system that somebody designs, and we slowly implement it, like in stages, But every time someone doesn't like something, everyone is so aggressively angry now, and everyone is kind of on the precipice of snapping,
01:12:34.000and I feel like any kind of suggested change to a lot of people is terrifying.
01:12:40.000It is terrifying, and it should be, because if somebody fucks it up, and Putin's this whole thing, that could be a big goddamn disaster, too.
01:12:50.000This is as close as it's come to something where he's got a 33% approval rate or something like that.
01:12:56.000Except the poll that he found says 50%.
01:12:58.000Isn't that hilarious that you can put up a picture that says 50% of the people like me and then you'd be like, wow, he's really doing a great job.
01:13:08.000Like, you're never going to see a president with a 100% approval rate.
01:13:47.000Well, that's because there's alternatives and there's some people that believe that you can do more work to cure or to halt cancer in its tracks by altering your diet and improving your immune system.
01:14:01.000I believe that more than like, you know, the Lord will provide my medicine.
01:14:08.000But I think more and more doctors are acutely aware of the factor that nutrition plays now.
01:14:12.000I think they make changes to people, not just like give them drugs and give them, you know, anti-cancer medication, but there's doctors now more, increasingly more and more, that want you to, hey, you drink too much, stop drinking.
01:15:49.000But I try, you know, it's that thing where I'm not like you.
01:15:52.000I don't have a healthy lifestyle, so I find myself hitting walls and then reaching, kind of grasping for activities that seem healthy and enjoyable, which is why I've, like...
01:16:05.000Oh, I'll go to boxing, surfing, I'll go play basketball.
01:16:09.000But I don't do it as consistently as I ought to.
01:16:12.000That's why it's always impressive to see you in peak form, constantly.
01:18:11.000Like I wrote down my schedule for the week.
01:18:13.000I wrote down like this week, I'm gonna lift weights three days a week, I'm gonna run two days a week, and I'm gonna do yoga two days a week.
01:20:48.000Like, if I'm at a job, you know, writing something all day, I look at the sports schedule that night and I get excited that, oh, I have a thing to do at eight, you know, after my work is done.
01:20:59.000Like, I just, I wrap my days around it.
01:21:01.000So I'm trying to go out and do more shit as opposed to being locked in.
01:21:05.000Locked into a schedule that's determined by what boxing matches on.
01:21:11.000And I used to stay home to watch everything, and I didn't for that one.
01:22:35.000So everyone, it was like, I couldn't, every round I wanted to be exciting because I wanted people to not get mad at me for ruining their night.
01:22:44.000But instead I was responsible for a boring night.
01:22:47.000Well, I enjoyed it, even though it was boring.
01:22:52.000I just wanted to see who was going to fight Golovkin, and that was my sort of, you know, my horse in the race was whoever was going to win was going to fight my favorite fighter.
01:23:02.000But most people thought Canelo was going to win pretty handily.
01:26:00.000It's fun being next to Ian because he knows everything.
01:26:03.000He knows as much about soccer as I know about MMA. He's just rattling off who this guy is and what this team's about and what their score is.
01:27:02.000I guess I'm excited about it, but I feel like it's going to be another big notch in Mayweather's belt, and I don't think he needs another one.
01:27:10.000I respect Floyd Mayweather as a boxer, but it's not the kind of boxing I get excited about watching, even though I know it's technically...
01:27:22.000It's going to be a boxing match, for sure.
01:27:26.000It's going to be an actual 12-round boxing match.
01:27:28.000So we're going to get to see some sort of an athletic competition.
01:29:01.000Okay, well, Connor's not going to have a hard time making a 154. Now this says Canelo weighed in at 168. No, that was his last fight with Chavez Jr. Chavez Jr., he fought above his weight class, actually.
01:29:12.000Chavez Jr., I think he was fighting 175, wasn't he?
01:30:44.000I think that that's the only, but that's not how Connor normally fights.
01:30:48.000He's not like a swarming, face-first brawler type dude.
01:30:51.000He's a guy who's cautious about getting hit.
01:30:54.000I'm thrilled about it, but I'm also, I wish I knew more about your side of the tracks.
01:31:02.000Well, we don't know enough about Conor, because Conor has never had a professional boxing match.
01:31:07.000You know, and the thing is, you see his striking, but you only see his striking when he's working on kicks and wrestling and all that other shit, too.
01:31:38.000If they got in close, if they got in close, and Floyd was like sucking and juking on the outside, and he threw a jab to cover up or a left high kick, and that left high kick necks him, just DANG! And you see Floyd go limp, and he would go limp.
01:31:52.000He'd never been high kicked like that.
01:32:02.000If you hid a kick behind a punch, like a lot of fighters do, they like throw a punch literally to cover your face so the kick is behind it already and then BOOM! The kick comes like while your vision is already, you're thinking about the next punch and bang the kick lands and you get KO'd.
01:34:19.000Connor's gonna be farther away from Mayweather than anyone has ever hit him, and he's gonna be kicking him.
01:34:23.000In the stomach, in the legs, and he'll soften him up, and the rounds are five minutes long, and eventually he gets a clinch.
01:34:29.000And when he gets a clinch, Mayweather is fucked.
01:34:32.000He's going to the ground, he's not gonna be able to stop it, he's gonna get mounted, and he's gonna get elbows force-fed into his eye socket, his nose, his mouth, his jaw, the sides of his head, his ears.
01:34:45.000He's gonna get elbowed in the ear, He's going to get punches dropped down on him when he's totally pinned down and defenseless.
01:34:52.000He's going to have a knee on one of his biceps while the guy's literally on top of him, pounding him in the face.
01:35:09.000So in that sense, the odds would be insane.
01:35:13.000If Mayweather decided in the next two months, because the fight's going to take place in August, if he decided in the next two months— Which, by the way, I feel like it's soon.
01:36:38.000Tyson was the best example of, in a lot of ways, what was wrong...
01:36:43.000With people liking boxing because I just want to see someone get slaughtered, you know, and then Arturo Gotti and Mickey Ward is like the other side of it It's like neither guy can slaughter the other guy and they keep slaughtering each other and coming back Like that's that to me is always been my favorite kind of fight and torn personally because I know how dangerous it is for them,
01:37:08.000Just exchanging punch after punch after punch.
01:37:10.000A guy named Tim Haig just died this past weekend and he was a former UFC fighter who lost in the UFC and then went over and was fighting a bunch of other organizations and he sustained a series of pretty brutal knockouts.
01:37:30.000So he fought a bunch of MMA fights, had gotten knocked out many times, and then went in just two months after a big knockout that he just had in April, fought a boxing match.
01:37:59.000And this guy just fucked him up and bad and the KO was brutal.
01:38:04.000He apparently got knocked down several times in the first round and he got hit with some big bombs and dropped and his head bounced off the ground and he died.
01:38:14.000It is a very rare thing to for someone to die in boxing in the heavyweight division It's usually the guys who dehydrate themselves and then come into a fight like really light Those are the ones that usually die.
01:38:29.000There was like a serious beating in a fight between That really badass Cuban guy Southpaw big Something Louise He's a top contender right now in boxing in the heavyweight division,
01:38:47.000but he beat up this Russian cat and fucked him up and the guy wound up being in the hospital for quite a long time and I believe his career is over.
01:38:54.000He had some swelling and bleeding on the brain, but he survived.
01:38:58.000But Tim has unfortunately passed away.
01:41:17.000How about maybe a guy sitting down with his girlfriend and she's like, I don't want to watch this fight unless we watch Morgan's commentary.
01:42:06.000This was 12 years ago or something like that.
01:42:10.000And I would just work out and then occasionally do a little, like Freddie would have to do a little sparring, but it was very, you know, a couple points here and then done.
01:42:33.000I just nailed some kid in the head when I was 12. The coolest thing about the wildcard was Pacquiao was training there every day pretty much and Freddie would let me stay when they closed the gym for Pacquiao.
01:43:13.000I fought a, it was more of a bit, but for Vice magazine, when it was just a magazine, we did a, I fought a heavyweight, a female heavyweight.
01:43:47.000You know, the plan was for her to try, and my plan was for me to allow her to try, and then her manager was like, nah, she's not allowed to...
01:43:58.000It's like, legally, she wasn't allowed to hurt me.
01:46:55.000And then there was a couple of them that are questionable, like on the belt line.
01:46:58.000Apparently they were saying Kovalev's belt was pretty high.
01:47:02.000It's funny because there tends to somehow in boxing, something happens, be it a horrific judgment, which I think happens a lot, to...
01:47:15.000Allow there to be another fight like it just seems to be like right something always fucking how that's why When I have a lot of people over to watch boxing like I hate I hate The parts of the sport that seemed like it's fixed because I can appreciate the fight as a whole,
01:47:57.000Just guys getting knocked down, get back up, and knocking the other guy down, and holy shit!
01:48:02.000Then a kind of a controversial ending, let me stop it!
01:48:04.000He looked like he was defending himself!
01:48:05.000But do you think there's more controversial endings in boxing than there are in MMA? I think people make split-second decisions when they're referees in the heat of the moment, and when you're gonna have that, you're gonna have mistakes.
01:48:22.000Not by any stretch of the imagination.
01:48:24.000I think, especially with respected fighters, I think people do have biases for certain styles, and there's certain referees that will let a fighter defend himself further than some will, especially in MMA. Sure, and judges are always sitting somewhere we're not,
01:48:40.000but I always find it hard to explain to friends who come over who never watch that stuff, and I'm like, I love having people over and having, like I said, the social aspect of sports to me is really fun, but...
01:48:52.000When friends come over and they constantly see results that they don't understand, they're done with the sport.
01:48:57.000Whereas if you like it more, you can be like, ah, it happens.
01:49:01.000The problem is you're a people pleaser and you're trying to get these people to like something that you like.
01:49:05.000You should just let them think it's fixed.
01:49:07.000I've had so many conversations with guys like, MMA's fixed, man.
01:49:16.000And you're trying to pretend like you know something, so that right from the beginning we're fucked.
01:49:20.000Like, we can't have this conversation.
01:49:22.000You're pretending that you've seen enough fights, you understand fighting enough, you've competed enough, you've been hit enough, you've seen people get hit.
01:49:28.000You know enough to know when something's real and something's not.
01:50:00.000But my point is, there are going to be fixed fights.
01:50:03.000There's going to be people that do things.
01:50:06.000Just like there's referees in NBA, apparently they get busted trying to stretch games out and trying to call fouls on certain teams and they work for people that bet money and they try to shave points.
01:50:36.000I bet it's much more people making mistakes, much more people in the heat of the moment, much more just the nature of the chaos of combat sport competition.
01:53:12.000Yeah, and I, you know, I, it's, you know, I'm, I'm my, uh, I'm, I'm totally driven entirely by being, like, you know, mentally stimulated, so it's just, then, then I'm, then I'm in, like, sexually, but if it's not fun, the banter's not fun,
01:53:28.000then I'm, then I, you know, I'm no interest in fucking someone.
01:54:48.000If someone's great at their thing and I have no understanding of it, I find that to be attractive.
01:54:54.000So it doesn't necessarily always have to be a comedian and someone who is brilliantly hilarious.
01:55:00.000I've been attracted to guys who are just brilliant at a thing that I have zero comprehension on how you even get good at it, let alone great at it and something fun about it.
01:55:11.000Yeah, I'm always fascinated by those people for sure, but I don't find them attractive.
01:55:19.000Believe me, there are things I wish I was more attracted to.
01:55:22.000I wish I was attracted to money and looks and all the things.
01:55:33.000It seems like there'd be more options.
01:55:37.000And then it would be easier, as opposed to waiting three years to find someone who just hits the right button and you're like, oh god, I'm in.
01:55:48.000To be able to be tuned into someone in a mental way, like your minds are tuned into each other, where you can speak on the same terms, where you can both recognize the humor in things, you both have opinions on things,
01:56:04.000you both enhance the conversations that you have, like you throw in something that makes me laugh, and I throw in something that makes you laugh.
01:58:47.000I've seen what happens when guys date a comic and then they break up with each other and then she comes around with some new dude and the guy's all bummed out.
01:59:10.000The problem is that you're in the same scene as someone, so you gotta work through all of your shit around the person that hurt you, and that's, you know, that's the hardest.
01:59:20.000But you might come out of it a better person.
01:59:22.000You might come out of it more open-minded, more easygoing, more forgiving.
02:04:11.000Like, he has a real, you know, I'd be like, guys who, I mean, like you do, like, who have really fucking done, put in the road work across the country, across the fucking world.
02:04:21.000Like, I am admittedly not that person.
02:04:24.000And the places that I think are sort of, you know, out there, middle of nowhere, like, he'll put me in my place so fast of like, this is nothing.
02:04:34.000What's the darkest place you've been in terms of exposure to the light of enlightenment?
02:04:42.000One gig I did with Henry Phillips once was in my 20s.
02:04:47.000Chris Fairbanks and Henry Phillips and I went...
02:04:51.000I don't do the drugs that would lead to better stories than the ones I have.
02:04:57.000But I... You know, just like where you're just...
02:05:01.000Sleeping on a twin bed with another comedian in a kid's room, because his parents own the pizza place that you drove up to perform at, and there's like a 14-year-old vomiting drunk outside the window.
02:05:12.000That kind of shit where you're just...
02:05:15.000You're in your 20s, and you're just going, what am I... What am I here for?
02:05:19.000$50 and a six-hour car ride and free pizza and a kid's twin bed and, like, people are having contests to see who can piss the highest outside?
02:05:29.000Like, just that kind of shit where I'm just...
02:05:34.000Now, I think the friends that I have who go out and occasionally take me or go with them, I have so much fun now doing stuff that I got tired of, I think, in my 20s.
02:05:50.000Well, you realize that those things can be fun once you become a real professional, first of all.
02:05:55.000In the beginning, you're so looking forward to working at the comedy store or the improv or...
02:06:01.000Headlining, seeing your name on the, oh, the billboard, look.
02:06:04.000But once you've done that, then you realize there's actually fun in these places.
02:06:08.000The problem is me freaking out about this two hours I have to spend in this shithole bar.
02:06:14.000I should be enjoying the fuck out of it.
02:06:16.000I should be coming in here with a relaxed attitude, having a good time, and experiencing this for what it is instead of experiencing like, oh my god, I'm so frustrated because I really want to climb my way up to being a professional Right.
02:08:28.000Why do you have to have that interest?
02:08:30.000Well, no, I mean, I think there are certain people who are like, well, you're taking the easy way out, you're not headlining this week, you're going out, you're doing a nice 30-35 max, and it's like, yeah, well, that's what I'm doing this week.
02:09:51.000You'd have to pay for the flight and pay for the hotel room, but I'm like, I would rather be out a few hundred bucks here and there and have a good time.
02:09:59.000It made the experience infinitely better.
02:10:01.000I went to do Phoenix recently, just for a night, to get some time in that I couldn't get in LA. So I went out there for the night to do a long set, and I said, I'm bringing my friend.
02:11:17.000You know, when someone doesn't like surprises like that.
02:11:20.000So it's on the shuttle, but it's just like constant jokes about...
02:11:24.000Like, we're going to Auschwitz, but, like, loud Auschwitz jokes on, like, the, you know, American Airlines shuttle with, like, people around you.
02:11:32.000And, like, I'm a little more sensitive to, like, I'll look around and go, like, oh, we're not liked here.
02:11:37.000But there's nothing better than being around other people who, like, speak your language and you don't have to explain anything.
02:12:04.000I was telling him, like, if everything goes wrong, he could clearly organize some sort of a village in Bisbee and all the comics move to him.
02:12:38.000The second I get there, it's a sense of calm, it's a sense of...
02:12:42.000Reprioritizing your day around things that have nothing to do with show business and you know being around people who aren't in the business I mean most of my friends weirdly are not comedians like that I hang out with every day but I don't know I mean the other day like I was there and we had a little like pickup basketball game plan for like 9 a.m.
02:13:01.000and like eight people showed up to watch me play this dude Kenny like it's just small-town kind of shit But with people who seem to have figured out why they're there, too, and I just really dig it.
02:13:20.000How long is the drive from L.A.? No, I haven't driven from L.A. I'd fly into Tucson, drive like an hour and a half, but I always was obsessed with getting a place in Costa Rica or Nicaragua.
02:13:30.000Anytime I go to another country, and I'm like, oh, this is it.
02:14:34.000I love Boulder, which is much bigger than Bisbee, but still for the same reasons.
02:14:39.000I think what we do specifically also, like you're in front of crowds all the time, I think there's a real benefit to being away from crowds.
02:14:51.000And it's also, you know, I think you go somewhere a certain number of times, you meet kind of the people that are there.
02:14:56.000I mean, obviously I've met a lot of Doug's friends and stuff, and You know, once you're not bothered, you go from a place of like, ah, I wonder if anyone's going to annoy me.
02:15:22.000But I am thinking about having something consistent that like...
02:15:29.000I will probably have to be here the majority of the time for the foreseeable future, but I'm curious about what it'd be like to have my own little spot that I could go to when I want to.
02:15:41.000In doing it enough now, I realize you can go for a weekend and it feels like a good decompress.
02:20:20.000I think it gets cold at night sometimes, but you gotta say, the weather's amazing in that, like I've talked to, my dad called me, he's like, I hear it's real hot there, and I'm like, it's so breezy constantly in Bisbee.
02:20:31.000It gets really hot, but not as hot as it does in other areas because of the elevation.
02:20:35.000Yeah, 5,500 feet is fucking high, I would imagine.
02:21:04.000I mean, it's almost, like I remember talking to Doug about liking it, and I almost felt like I had to ask him, like, hey, I think I'm going to come out.