Name: JRE MMA Show #75 with Dan Hardy
Uploaded: 2019-08-16T01:58:29.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #75 with Dan Hardy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-16. Transcript available. Joe is joined by former welterweight fighter and UFC commentator, Dan Hardy.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #75 with Dan Hardy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-16. Transcript available. Joe is joined by former welterweight fighter and UFC commentator, Dan Hardy.

JRE MMA Show #75 with Dan Hardy

will make bring notes no sometimes you remember things boom and we're live
sometimes like you i
have to remember things like if there's a thought that popped in my head or
something i just forgot
i need to write things down too many ideas just slip away yeah they slip away
but one thing you
said a while ago which i've tried to start using it the voice memos on my phone
and i'm not very
good at it you say you record straight oh yeah it's really good time yeah it's
really good i'm
trying to make it fun i've got like an old school elvis microphone and like a
1950s style chord
into an old recorder and i'm trying to use that a bit more because we're
talking about hunter s
thompson i like the idea of recording stuff as i'm moving but it's a habit i'm
not getting into right
now well the i think recording anything like when you have an idea that you go
god damn it
this is a good idea like grab it grab it i think as neil brennan said it best
that he looks at his
notebook like a net for catching ideas i like that i love that why am i always
driving though i'm always
driving always because i think when you're in the zone like you're driving
there's something about
like you know how sometimes you could be like miles away and you're like how
the did i get here
like you're sober yeah you're driving and you're like how did i drive miles i i
evidently changed lanes
i you know i know where i'm going everything was in inside the lanes but i was
i'm barely there
what is that i don't know i don't know you get in the zone because you're so
accustomed to doing it
and you're tuning into everybody around you and sometimes you're probably a
better driver when
you're doing that because you're not being conscious you're just just just
being aware
and just being in the moment feeling the road yes being present it's very nice
but my best ideas
come then and yeah i have no way to record them but i think it's because you're
in that weird mind
state a lot of people also get the same thing when they walk um a lot of
writers what they like to do
is they like to write and then they like to go on walks and think about the
writing and the idea is
that when you're on the walk you just get you know left right left getting a
little bit of cardio in
going up hills and you all you're thinking about is you're you're like
breathing and you're moving
and those eyes just sort of bounce around the back of your head and get washed
yeah like they're in a
washing machine like what's in there like a filtration system just kind of
shaking them through yeah
because you're not doing anything else other than walking right so you're just
walking and
them ideas are just bouncing around in there yeah or running yeah same thing
again you must find that
yeah an idea pops in my head and i'm like i'm definitely going to be
remembering this yeah and
next thing i'm into balls to the wall and dead dead and it's gone it's gone
gone forever yeah mitch
heredberg had a funny joke about that he keeps a note by his notepad by his bed
because every now and then
like he'll have some sort of an idea that he needs to write down or if he don't
have a notepad i have
to pretend it wasn't a good idea i'm paraphrasing i did a terrible job paraphrasing
i couldn't remember
exactly how it was worded but it's like yeah that thing like ideas are strange
man i i entertained for
a while the idea that ideas were life forms that because uh we don't think of
them like look there's a lot
of different life forms right i mean there's squids and there's chimps and
there's barracudas and
there's hawks there's a lot of different life forms there's insects i mean it's
a lot of different ones
what if that's what ideas were and that what they're doing is just making their
way and the
more you nourish them the more they grow the more you pay attention to them the
more they they propagate
your uh your head with new ideas and and then you take action on those ideas
and it creates everything
the world's ever seen that humans have created all that stuff comes from ideas
everything from cars to
buildings to planes all that comes from ideas a hundred percent of it but yet
we don't even think
about what the ideas are like what the is that you just get some random new way
of looking at things
what is happening is this just pure calculation or are you interacting with
some sneaky little
influencer that wants to give you credit for it like god damn hardy you're so
smart with these ideas
you should you know what you should do you should build that building and then
you're like i'm gonna
build this building all right hardy right on the side of it god damn it and you
do it all in gold
like where is that coming from we go oh the ego oh you know men and the toxic
masculinity
and their desire for building things maybe or maybe ideas made that dude build
that thing maybe maybe
ideas were so clever the way they got you and talked to you like a siren
pulling you into the rocks come
on dan hardy build that building and you go and do it i'm into it are you a
subscriber to the idea that
ideas are collective so when you have an idea that the idea is available to
other people in the world if
they're tuned in to be able to collect that idea i think it's entirely possible
that a lot of people
are thinking exactly the same way you think when you're thinking it i think
that there's a lot of
fucking people thinking right now and there's a lot of sharing information
through podcasts and and
twitter and facebook and you know youtube videos and all the different things
that people are doing and
it it it's not outside the realm of possibility that we share some sort of
common thread psychically
you know that there's some connection that we have with each other we know we
like to be around each
other right like logically i'm not talking woo woo people like to be around
each other when you hear
someone talk about oh i'm just alone or i want to be by myself like that's a up
person like most people
i mean not for a little bit of time for a reset miss your friends yeah that's
wonderful that's a good
idea that's probably really healthy but like those people that like them ted kaczynski
type dudes who
just want to just move to the middle of nowhere and buy themselves and be a nomad
like hmm why yeah
most of us don't want that most of us want to be around each other well how
come well we feel good
it's like a little drug we feel good around our friends and our loved ones we
could we feel good like
there's something happening here right there's an exchange of information yes
but i i have to manage
that because i it exhausts me you know what i mean you did a two of the
podcasts that you've done with
henry rollins that i've listened to have just blown my mind he's awesome and
there are so many things
that he says that that's he's my spirit animal i think there's a voice inside
my head that is henry
rollins and some of the things he says it just resonates with me and the idea
of being around people a lot of
the time is just exhausting i like to be able to pull away and that's when i
feel i'm at my best for
like four hours a day i can give like a lot of energy yeah no you definitely
need a balance of it
but you don't want to be completely absent of it what it is is it's some in
some way or another
we feed off of each other good and bad right and good people people that you
enjoy being around
you feed off them in a very positive way and it's very fulfilling and addicting
and you want to do what
they do and you want to help each other and you all want to like feed off of
each other you all want to
have this powerful community where you love each other and then there's people
that are super negative
too you know and you if it's all about what kind of what kind of circles do you
travel in if you get
fucked over as a child and you just get tossed into a bad circle really early
on that's one of the
primary causes for life sucking right you're a kid and you're born in a
situation with abusive people
abusive neighborhood danger crime it's man right from the jump just over change
your perspective
for life changes the way that you interact with people all the way through your
life because of you
know yeah those early beliefs it's crazy that so little is done to stop that so
little is done to
mitigate that in terms of like how much effort is put into trying to ensure
that people are educated or
or or somehow or another we there's no real what to explain to someone what it's
like to be a parent
until you're a parent yeah you talk about it to your blue in the face but if
you're talking to crazy
people you're never going to know how good they are at it anyway like how like
if you take someone
who's like a crazy abusive person what words could you ever say to that person
stop them from being
crazy or abusive are there is there a string of words that you can say where
you could convey the way
you feel about it in a way that would cause them to go wow i should probably
stop being a piece of
shit i don't know i i think it's you know it's zero to six and it's those first
six years is when you
when you develop patterns that influence you for the rest of your life it's
like the programming
that's embedded in you and like from that point on all of the decisions you
make all of the
relationships you develop they're put through that filtration system of those
first three first six
years of your life yeah and i mean this is where psychedelics have helped me
you know be able to go
back and like unpack some of that stuff and try and figure out what influenced
me and like
you know memories that you like you bury down that you don't you don't remember
for the rest of your
life they'll they'll influence decision making all the way through your life
yeah you know yeah like
those there and there's little memories that little pit stops like they they
they exist no matter what
you do you be in the middle of doing something you go back to some weird regret
you have when you're
18 you go what are you doing there do you ever have those moments now though
where you there's a moment
where you stop and you think that that was a significant moment like i've just
experienced
a significant moment in my life that's now going to change the way that i think
moving forward like
you must have a lot of those with conversations that you have yeah sometimes in
the conversations yeah
um but i feel like if you if you think like that like it's nice to think like
that for a second
like take that in wow that's pretty cool but ultimately it doesn't do you any
good
it's like recognizing that you're in this a crazy moment it's like you in many
ways it's like
paralysis by analysis like you're like oh my god this is happening and then you're
just talking
about it happening but now it's not happening anymore because now you're just
talking and now
you've fallen into this you know it's past yeah it's the moment you got to
appreciate it talk talk
it through so you're all you all get it whatever it was whatever cool thing it
was but yeah um
in terms of like the number of events that you see in your life that shape you
and and impact you
in a way that make you reassess where you're at like as a person like and what
life is like
those uh those are so critical if you don't have those if you just have like
this flat plane of
nothing happening going to the same job i think that's what makes people go
crazy
more than almost any other aspect of this life it's just monotony and boredom
and no no thrills
and no challenges and nothing makes you scared yeah and i think it's difficult
to see that when you're
in it though right i think you know i think we're both fortunate enough to be
in a place and i was i was
with a good friend yesterday tim hendrix getting tattooed and we were having
the same the same
conversation he's in a place where he's he's in control of his life you know he's
living in the
place that he wants to live he said he can walk his kids to school for the next
10 years yo