Name: Suga Sean O'Malley | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #282
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Suga Sean O'Malley | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #282' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-06-16. Transcript available.

Suga Sean O'Malley | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #282

Today's guest is undefeated in the MMA fighting.
He is a one-of-a-kind type of sensation.
He's here with his coach, Tim Welch,
who you'll also hear on the mic in the back.
It's exciting to sit down with him.
The Sugar Show himself, Mr. Sean O'Malley.
Shine that light on me
I'll sit and tell you my stories
Shine on me
And I will find a song
I'll be singing just for you
Yeah, but it started for us as having...
You know, I was a big Dustin Poirier fan.
I still am a big Dustin Poirier fan.
So he was the first dream guest we ever had.
I was like, "Dude, what if we could get Dustin Poirier on?"
So then eventually he came in and so then that's how I slowly even started
getting into
UFC and then Rogan knew I was a fan and so he took me to when Dustin and Max
Holloway fought.
That fight was sick.
You were there live?
Yeah, bro.
That was your first one?
That's what I've been to, yeah.
Who was the co-man?
Do you remember?
Israel and Gastelum.
Oh!
Which was crazy!
That might be one of the sickest fights ever.
But Dustin vs. Max might be up there too.
Oh, it was crazy, man.
That was a crazy night.
And I was like, "Bro, I don't even know what happened to me."
Something came out of me.
I think this inner part of me that always had been like afraid to fight just
like came
out of me as like a fan and so then slowly I've like really started to get into
the sport
more.
It's cool.
It's a fucking crazy sport.
Dude, I used to be afraid to watch it.
Dude, I literally told on my dad because my mom was watching, or I told on my
dad, I told
my mom because my dad was watching.
I was probably 13, 14.
Oh, like it was a bad thing?
I'm like, I thought it was fucked up.
I'm like, how do they take those shots to the ribs?
You're like, "Mom, Dad, look what Dad's doing."
I'm like, Dad's watching because I wanted to watch something and I was like
literally disgusted
by it.
They're bleeding and stuff and I'm just like this skinny little fucking kid,
never thought
about fighting at all.
Were you, what do your parents do?
Are we going?
Yeah.
We're good.
What do your parents do?
My mom, she's retired basically now, but she was a nurse and my dad was a
detective.
No.
Well, I growing up was terrified of marijuana and we lived in Helena, Montana,
tiny fucking
place.
And so if anybody was smoking weed, I looked at it like they were doing meth in
my head.
Like I was like associating it with the same, same stuff.
Yeah.
Plant milk.
So, so that, my dad was a detective.
I obviously fucking love marijuana now, but it was crazy cause I just looked at
it so bad.
And then when I moved to Phoenix, I kind of like, Tim's like, come on, try it,
try it.
So I tried it.
I'm like...
I'm like, what the?
Yeah, my coach.
Coach you into a...
Hey, let me coach you into a bag right here.
Yeah.
But it was cause he thought it would be good for me cause I'm a fucking spaz.
Oh, wow.
It'd be 10 PM.
We trained twice, five hours.
And I'm just like, let's go do something.
He's like, shut the fuck up.
Take a hit.
And I would just take a hit.
I'm like, whoa, that's pretty nice.
Be able to chill for a little bit.
So, uh, but yeah, my, my dad's a detective.
He's retired now too.
He does something.
I'm not even sure what the fuck he does now, but.
Did he ever do any murders and stuff like that even?
He, he did.
Yeah, he did.
He was in the, for about 20, I think 20 years.
And he, he told me some fucked up stories.
I love murder, bro.
Murdered.
Uh, like this guy got, he was in a helicopter and my dad was like first on the
scene.
He like completely was splattered all over the, the dash of the helicopter
cause
it ran into a mountain or some shit.
But he would tell me some fucked up shit about like him having to interview
guys that were
raping their daughters that were in wheelchairs.
Oh.
And that's the shit that he was like, I fucking hate this job.
That's too much.
That's too much.
And then, and that wasn't just like one time.
That was like numerous times, certain situation.
Like just having to face the devil like that.
Yeah.
Cause you're looking right at that.
When you're talking to somebody like that, you're looking at the devil.
Yeah.
And then they're having those conversations and then you, and then think like
after that
conversation later that day, you're probably running it through your mind and
thinking about
like, what the fuck?
There's people like this.
Yeah.
Sad.
Ooh.
And you, so your mom was a nurse.
That's a really loving job.
I feel like you have to be, it takes a special type of person to be a nurse.
Yeah.
She was, she was super like caring and loving toward growing up.
We had, I have three, there was three boys and then my sister.
So yeah, it was, she was super caring and loving.
She still is.
She still treats me like I'm fucking six.
Yeah.
Because the other day, like she still sees me in a certain way, which is really
weird.
Cause I moved to Phoenix about six years ago.
And, um, she still looks at me as like, I'm a, that little, I'm her Shawnee.
I'm a little boy because she, I told her, don't watch any of my podcasts.
Don't watch any of my vlogs.
And she watched our last vlog road, UFC two 50.
It was like, we put it out.
Um, it was before I got the call to fight Eddie and all that.
In the beginning episode is Tim was pretending to stand up and give $50,000
stimulus check
to everybody.
And I went die motherfucker.
And my mom watched the beginning of that.
And she called me crying.
I didn't raise you like that.
That's evil inside of you.
And I'm like reading the comments and everyone's like, Oh sugar, Tim, fucking
love you guys.
I'm like, this is her perspective of that.
Like she just sees it so much different.
She just still sees me as that little boy.
Right.
I'm like, this is just comedy.
This is funny stuff.
Right.
They don't know.
Yeah.
They don't know.
Sometimes like, uh, yeah.
Like things that we're joking around about.
Yeah.
Like they'll think it's super serious.
I like to like comedy is fun because you can push the buttons and make jokes
about stuff
that you can't necessarily, you shouldn't almost.
Yeah.
Well, that's the funnest part.
Dude.
I'm obviously not a comedian, but when Tim and I and JX are hanging out, we say
some fucked
up shit.
That's like, well, sugar's into fat chicks.
If you didn't know.
I'm not into fat chicks.
I don't mind a little thickness.
You got to have a thing, especially with the look, with the end of times coming,
dude,
I don't want to be laying there next to a bone bag, dog.
That's true.
Next to some girl that doesn't have any skills, bro.
Yeah, that's true.
That is the last thing I want.
That's true.
The end of times coming, bro, and you have to freaking hunt for two.
No shit.
Might as well get one and two for sure.
Yeah.
We're trying to fucking see if there's any way we can score some chicks down
here in
LA.
I'm sure.
Bro, I've definitely, I've disappointed a lot of women in this town.
I'm sure we can help.
I'm down to disappoint someone tonight.
Someone tonight.
Even if we got to pay $150.
That's what I'm saying.
Like if it comes down to it, it's like, okay, this chick doing it for an hour.
Not to fuck.
Of course.
Just to hang out.
I would hang out.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
You could find somebody definitely to hang out for sure, man.
Especially during these times.
Yeah.
They're desperate.
It's extra to have the mask off though.
That's the only thing.
Yeah.
I might keep going on just in case.
Yeah.
It's 50.
I know that it's, I'm not joking.
For a lot of women, it's $50 more for no mask.
Wow.
So that's where we're at here.
Yeah.
When you look at like, I was listening to one of your interviews with Ariel,
Ariel Helwani,
and you talked about, instead of, you said performing instead of fighting, just
in a sentence you were using.
Do you think of it as performing?
Do you think of it as like?
I do.
I think of it as pure entertainment.
I've never thought of fighting.
I've never been able to like articulate it, how to say it.
I've never thought of fighting as fighting.
I've always thought of it as a sport plus entertainment.
And I'm just going to get really good at this skill, which happens to be
fighting, punching, kicking, choking, all the skills, and then go and perform.
And I always in my head have better skill set than this guy.
So it's like a performance for me, but it's still fighting.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard to explain it.
But yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I feel like I'm performing.
Oh, I could imagine it's hard.
Yeah.
But yeah, because I'm watching some of your fights and I'm like, yeah, it seems
like, like some guys you're watching them fight and it's, it's a fight.
Yours has this different element where it's like, like I would watch you.
Sometimes it seems like whenever you get in the clinch, like it's almost like
it bothers you a little because, and this is just my perspective, you know,
because it's like, oh, this almost feels, looks tacky.
Like I want to do the, like it doesn't, you can't be as artistic when you're in
some of those environments.
Does it feel like that?
Or is that?
That comes down to strategy.
For me, I'm usually like longer, almost every single time I fight someone,
especially in my weight class, I'm going to be longer.
I'm going to have the reach advantage.
So getting in close and being in the clinch is going to be not necessarily a
disadvantage for me, but it's not necessarily where I want to be.
I want to be at range where I can hit people and they can't hit me.
If I'm teeping somebody, which is like a front kick to their sternum, if I'm
landing that, they can't hit me.
And if you watch my fights, I throw a lot of fucking teep kicks.
Oh, your legs like seem like they got arms in them, dude.
I'm like, dude, does he have fucking arms in his legs?
I throw them just as much as my hands.
Like I throw just many kicks.
So once we're in the clinch, it gives them an opportunity to grab my hips, get
a body lock, take me down.
But we've been working on so much jujitsu and I'm getting called out by these
wrestlers.
And I don't usually, I don't read comments and get offended.
Like, oh, you need to fucking fight a wrestler to prove you're real.
But I do a lot of jujitsu, a lot of ground training.
I do way more grappling than I do anything.
So I'm going to fucking choke these motherfuckers.
Like once I get someone that can actually take me down, like I guarantee Jose,
the kid I fought before Eddie, his goal, he had jujitsu tattooed across his
chest.
His goal was to take me down.
He was trying to take me down.
Yeah, dude.
If you write it on your chest forever, you better really mean it, dude.
The thing is, is like these guys think, oh, they're just, we got to take them
down, grab.
Good luck grabbing a hold of me.
My distance and my footwork and my speed is, you know, that's something we work
on and understanding where I'm at on the cage.
It's not easy to take me down.
It's not easy to grab me without getting fucking punched in the jaw or kneed or
hit in the stomach.
So, so these people that think that the way to beat me is, hey, let's just take
them down.
Right.
That's not a good game plan.
Right.
And it's because it's not easy.
Yeah, you're like a dangerous water man.
When I'm watching you out there, I'm like, damn, this guy, it's almost like
somebody like you have a puppeteer almost.
And the person who's doing it is like definitely been on some speed balls.
They've been up for a couple of days, you know.
That's how I feel like when I'm in there and I've said this in other interviews,
like I feel like I just let go of all thought and everything.
And I feel like my higher self takes control of me in there.
So I do.
I am like a fucking puppet to my higher self and just doing everything that I'm
just doing whatever that puppets making me do.
That's probably what you feel coachable.
Like, do you feel is it do you find it's harder to be like take like pointers
from coaches and stuff as you grow?
Because I mean, you're like on a you're literally on like a rocket ship right
now.
Like this is a unique time in you