Name: Cory Sandhagen | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #324
Uploaded: 2021-02-26T19:30:48.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Cory Sandhagen | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #324' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-26. Transcript available.

Cory Sandhagen | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #324

Today's guest is a one-of-a-kind, he is a traveler and an adventurer in the
physical realms and in the mental realms as well.
You know, this is a man that is trying to divide himself and conquer the
different parts that make us up as humans.
He is the number two-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
We are honored to have Mr. Corey Sandhagen.
He is the number two-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number two-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number two-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter in the world.
He is the number three-ranked bantamweight fighter fighter fighter in the world.
Like in Death Mountain, bro?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Like in Mordor?
Yeah, that's true.
Mordor Mountain?
This shit could be from a questionable mountain, man.
I didn't think about that, man.
They don't really tell you what mountain.
This shit could be from West Virginia.
This shit could have illiteracy in it, man.
Is that where you're from?
Virginia?
I'm from Louisiana.
Louisiana.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
Yeah, man.
I'm from down in Louisiana, man.
Uh...
Good.
Got the kid in here today right there.
Oh.
There you go.
Oh, shit.
Sugar Sean gave me those.
Oh, nice.
You had him on, too?
He came on a while back before he hurt himself.
Yeah, nice.
Before he got...
Hurtened.
Hurtened up, man.
He's a cool dude.
I met him a couple times.
Yeah, he's a super nice dude.
He's a...
And now he's a family guy.
Mm-hmm.
You know?
He sprouted that kid out of nowhere, I think.
He's got like a gym in his garage and everything, yeah.
His house does look cool when you're kind of watching him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It seems like he's on like a...
He's either in witness protection program at a really nice place.
Yeah, it kind of does.
Or he just has like a really cool domicile, you know?
It's like a fantasy factory.
Yeah, it seems like he's got some real space to him.
Yeah.
Um, Corey Sanhagen, man.
Dude, thanks for being here, bro.
Yeah, man.
Absolutely.
It's crazy, dude.
It's crazy to be around, uh...
Because I feel like when I was a kid, I would be so afraid to be around
somebody that could
fight, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Like, unless they were my friend.
Like, otherwise it was...
Like, fighter dudes, you always like...
Like, if you were like in the hall at school and somebody could fight, you
always had to
like kind of keep a beam out of the side of your eye.
The side of your eye.
Yeah, yeah.
When you were in high school, was there like a fight?
Was there like a kid you remember growing up with like, "Oh, that dude can
fight."
Um...
Not really, man.
Like, uh...
I would say that...
So, I grew up in Aurora, Colorado.
Mm-hmm.
Which is like a...
You know, not like a rough area 'cause it's Colorado or whatever.
Right.
But like, as far as Colorado goes, it's maybe like one of the more, you know,
like rougher
areas or whatever.
But dude, I had this friend, Thomas Johnson.
Mm-hmm.
Who...
He was about my size.
I was really little growing up too.
Like, I was...
I was supposed to be five foot two, the doctor told me my whole life.
Yeah.
And you beat it?
I beat it, man.
Fuck yeah, dog.
Fuck.
Thank you.
That's awesome, bro.
Nick was premature baby, man.
He's doing great.
Damn, nice, Nick.
So, we got a lot of comeback kids up in here, baby.
That's what's up.
Um...
No, bro.
But this dude, Thomas Johnson, I never seen him throw a punch once in his life.
Because anytime he would get in an altercation with someone, the move he would
do, because
he was little also, is he would start looking around, bro.
Like, he would start looking around and it would freak people out because he'd
be like...
Oh, wow.
Because he'd think that, you know, the other person thought that he was gonna
smoke them
like because no teachers were watching or anything.
Oh, so it was a bit of a kind of pomp and circumstance kind of.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When you're little, man, you gotta have like little tactics.
Oh, you gotta have game plans.
If I would look on the ground for stuff, if I felt someone was gonna, you know,
go off
on me, I'd start to like, look at a stick or look at a cone or something, you
know.
So, what you can do is strategize a little bit or something or just have some
like, maybe,
oh, he's not looking at me right now, like he must be thinking something, like
just something.
Yeah.
Or like, uh, or yeah, just confusing, bro.
It's the art of war, you know.
Yeah.
Like, anytime you can create some chaos in the other person's mind, you do it.
Damn.
Yeah.
Do you use like, is that something that you still kind of go on today?
Like, cause some guys do a lot of like, um, peacock, you know, Sean's kind of a
peacock
kind of guy.
Um, Sugar Sean and, uh, Connor actually is one of the more famous ones.
Um, do you, that doesn't really seem to be your vibe as much.
Do you feel like there's stuff like that when you get right into the octagon
that you're
doing or is there subtle things that maybe that we wouldn't notice unless you
told us?
I think that, I think that people carry around energy, obviously.
And like pretty much the entire time I'm in fight week or I'm, uh, or
definitely when we're
facing off or anything in my head, I'm thinking I'm going to kill you, you know,
you know, next
time, next time we see each other, I'm going to try to kill you.
So I try to carry, I try to carry that energy with me all the time because, you
know, I
think that while it's subtle, I think like, you know, people pick up on that
for sure.
Oh, I can feel it right now, dude, even though you're just kind of like, you
know, putting
it in the air just to kind of show it.
It's kind of crazy because I really can feel like, not that you're trying to
kill me, but
just that you're putting that thing out there like this, like this force field
almost,
you know, this thing, like I'm going to let this sit in the air because it's an
ambiance
that I've built inside of me and it has fucking arms that can reach out into
the air.
That's crazy, bro.
Yep.
Yep.
It does.
Uh, I think one of the, you know, most interesting things that one of my
buddies said to me one
time is he goes, uh, he goes, man, like you're a really nice, like quiet guy,
you know, soft
spoken, but like, it wouldn't surprise me if you were out there like being a
serial killer
or something.
I was like, thank you, bro.
Thank you, man.
That's, that's what I'm trying to put out there.
You know?
Dang, man.
Um, did anybody, when you were growing up, was there anybody that had that,
like a vibe
that you didn't ever know how they were feeling?
Like they, I'm just trying to wonder where some of that comes from.
If that's just like a, just like a thing you, that you choose as a fighter or
where they're
growing up, was there ever like, I never knew how my mom felt growing up.
Like she was always just working real hard.
And if I never knew when she got home, if she was going to be like in a good
mood, I just
never knew really what was going on with her.
Did you have like, was there anybody in your life like that growing up where
you just kind
of, and there doesn't have to be, I'm just trying to, I don't think so.
I don't even really think that, you know, you can definitely pick up on energy
when you're
about to fight someone, you know, like where they are in their, in their headspace.
I think that your body goes through some type of like survival mechanism also
where like
it's, it's reading the other person a little bit closer than I think that, you
know, like
right now when we're just having a conversation, I think when you're about to
fight, you're
able to read body language a little bit easier.
And I think that they're able to read theirs a little bit easier.
So, um, as you know, I, I think that that's a big part of the sport though, is
like,
yeah, that like body language reading, you know, that energy type of reading.
And, uh, but now growing up, I definitely didn't have that skill.
So I don't really, yeah.
So it wasn't something.
So did you think of yourself as like a tough kid growing up?
I knew that I was tough.
Like I was a very like physical kid.
Like I was really aggressive.
But like I said, man, like I had to be humble because I was so little.
Right.
I think that the people in the smaller weight classes have to be humble because
look, man,
I'm a one thirty fiver.
And like, I noticed that there's a different way that thirty fivers act and
like the littler
weight classes act versus like the one 70 and up because like us, even though
we can be more
skilled than a lot of the other people, uh, or the heavier weight classes, like
those people, you know, like the law of nature is the bigger animal usually
beats the smaller animals.
So like, I think just growing up smaller, you have to be a little bit more
humble in those
ways.
Right.
Yeah.
I could see that.
Yeah.
It's just kind of like, um, yeah.
Even the wrestlers in school had a different energy than the foot had to have a
different
energy than the football team.
Like the football team kind of got all the, a lot of the looks and the, the,
the accolades
and like they got to really be boastful and wear the letterman jackets, but the
wrestlers
to have almost this more like quiet, uh, be hungry.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Literally a hungry vibe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And be more like a quiet commander of themselves.
Kind of, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you play anything?
You're a big dude, man.
I didn't expect you to be that.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You look like, um, like a, uh, gingerbread man.
When you pull up a gingerbread cookie, Nick, I'm definitely built like a gingerbread
cookie.
Uh, that hair looks way better in real person too.
Oh, thanks bro.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
I was going to try to grow one out, but you messaged me too late, bro.
You got to give me a couple months next time.
I have a rat tail next time.
Dude, I could see you maybe with a rat tail.
That's how I'm built.
See that?
I got that body physique like a gingerbread man without the, uh, the, the sugar
art on
it.
But, uh, yeah, I'm really just close knit, bro.
Not a ton of dexterity.
I'm built like a Conestoga wagon right there, right?
That's exactly how I'm built.
Narrow body, dude.
Not a like, you know, um, yeah, like I can go over some bumps, dude, but I'll
easily
go off a cliff, you know, if I get a little too close to the edge.
What'd you play, bro?
I play basketball.
Oh, nice.
I played basketball growing up too.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's right.
I read that somewhere.
Yep.
Yep.
Um, so I got to ask this man.
We'll bring it.
We'll show this picture that we show a lot of me playing some hoops right here.
Um, here we go right there.
That's me on the squad right there, bottom left.
And a lot of these men, dude, had children, had a lot of these men had jobs.
Is this like a college dude?
Is this like a D3?
No, this is fucking, this is seventh grade, baby, right there.
Dang, bro.
You were big back then too.
Dude, I was a fucking long guy, bro.
I was doing a good, carried a lot of weight in my ears back then, dude.
Ears and nose.
Bro, that's what my, yeah, my ears only got bigger after the cauliflower ear.
That's crazy.
So, how long 