Name: Urijah Faber | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #146
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Urijah Faber | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #146' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-08. Transcript available.

Urijah Faber | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #146

Today's episode is brought to you by Gray Block Pizza, 1811 Pico Boulevard on
the way to the beach.
If you think you could do something with your life, that something could be
Gray Block.
Today's guest managed to plant the seeds of an entrepreneurial business mastermind,
all the while becoming a champion in the world of cage fighting.
He's no longer fighting, but he's got so many things going on in the business
world that his career just continues to climb.
Today's guest is Mr. Uriah Faber.
But no, I've never seen anybody. I mean, that's really just making the most out
of things.
Bro, when I was in the lobby and whatnot, I tried a napkin. I was trying a
couple different things.
So you really get in there.
Well, I just...
Because you just took an Aquafina wrapper off of a bottle and then used it
because it's thin enough to floss your teeth with.
Absolutely.
I love that.
Yeah.
It's effective.
It's a genetic thing, I think.
My dad, I remember driving around my dad's old beat-up truck and he always had
toothpicks or he had a little crappy toothbrush he'd keep in his center console
and he was constantly digging in his teeth.
So we must have genetic teeth gaps that store food.
It might have been a survival tactic back in the day.
Yeah.
It's useless now.
Right.
Yeah, pretty much.
Just to spend money on dental floss.
Do you keep floss around?
Do you...
I do.
You do?
I do usually.
Or I'll grab...
If I'm in a restaurant, I'll get a couple toothpicks and keep them for the day.
Yeah.
My girl's always making fun of me.
She's like, I've never seen somebody floss their teeth as much as I have.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
I have to.
I've got...
She makes fun of me for a couple of things.
One is being a mouth breather.
Mm-hmm.
And I'm like, I was in 44 professional fights.
I've been punched in the nose.
Look, I can breathe at all.
Yeah.
Look, I can breathe.
And look, yeah, I'm not more damaged than I already am.
Yeah, you're like I'm not a machine breather.
Yeah, exactly.
At this point.
And then the dental floss thing.
But I just can't handle having a bunch of crap stuck in my teeth.
Yeah.
Now, is it because you worry that other people see it or it's just a thing that
affects you?
No, it just gets...
Yeah, it just gets on my nerves.
I don't really care if...
Right.
Do you feel like it's an unorganized thing?
Like, I'm just trying to wonder if it goes back to a place in you that
resonates in other
areas of your life, you know?
You a psych major?
I don't know.
I just like to think about...
I think you are.
I think, like, you know...
I just think it's kind of fascinating, you know, because you, like...
You know, a lot of guys have, you know, gone through fighting and had an
experience
in that world.
But you, like, kind of seem to also attack, like, kind of the business world.
And, like, continue to, you know, just keep whatever your motivation was or
maybe to
fight.
I don't know.
But you keep that motivation just cruising right into whatever the next thing
is.
Absolutely.
So I guess I'm just wondering, like, if organization is one of your skills.
If there's, like...
Organization is not one of my skills.
I do...
I think if I take it back, I do remember my mom always saying, you know, she's
saying,
you're really lucky you got...
You're blessed with good teeth.
You better take care of them.
You better take, like, all that kind of stuff since I was little.
So maybe at some point that stuck in.
It just stuck in.
And your dad took care of them.
She also used to tell me if I wore too tight of underwear that my wiener wouldn't
grow.
Really?
Which, I don't know if that's true or not, but I think she was, you know, I was
a guy
that likes to keep old shit.
Yeah.
You know, my old shoes.
They try to get me to get rid of my shoes and my favorite shoes, throw them
away, and
I go back and get them.
Get them.
Wow.
Yeah, it's just a comfort thing.
This shirt's, like, nine years old or something like that.
So if something works, you stick with it.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, when you were fighting and stuff, did that change in your fighting style,
or do you
feel like the fighting style that you had when you started was kind of the same?
Because I know you've just kind of, you know, I don't ever want to say somebody's
finished
from something, but finished like a year ago.
I retired, yeah.
Retired.
Retired a year and a half ago.
Was your style always the same?
My intensity was always the same, but style changes, and especially in a sport
like ours.
And like you said, I don't know how much you do or don't know about the sport.
I know you love it.
Not super much.
I'm excited, though, and I admire the fact, like, you know, I've always been
kind of like,
I guess afraid to defend myself, or I grew up that way without like a lot of
like, you
know, somebody teaching me how to defend myself or letting me know when it was
okay to defend
myself or anything like that, you know?
What do you think that comes from?
So I think it probably just comes from, you know, we grew up in like kind of a
scary area
and we just not having like a father, you know, like that kind of overly strong
figure.
My brother moved away.
So kind of maybe some of that.
Yeah.
And being just probably afraid, you know, like, but anyway, so I admire that
you guys
can do that.
Like, to me, it's, it's like, it's fascinating.
Yeah.
When they say, they say that two of the most feared things in human beings,
period.
Yeah.
Is a physical confrontation and public speaking.
Yeah.
Which you got the public speaking down.
Right.
That's good.
I'm going to stay on this.
Yeah.
I'm going to stay on that side of it.
But yeah, it's a scary, and it's weird to think about that for me, for, you
know, 13 years
of my life and before that as a wrestler, my day was filled with fighting guys
that are
also some of the best guys on the planet.
Yeah.
So you get rid of that real quick, but it's also something that can be scary.
And that's why it's probably so intriguing to people.
Yeah.
Same with the reason you can get up and be funny and, and not afraid to
introduce yourself.
Like for some people, that's a scary, scary thing.
Yeah.
It's very individual.
So when, when you talk about like, has things changed as a fighter, especially
when I first
started, I was coming from a wrestling background.
I wrestled in college at UC Davis and I had to, uh, you know, make ends meet.
I was busting tables and coaching kids wrestling and making a couple hundred
bucks to win and,
um, just having fun with it really.
And then following my passion.
So I definitely changed as a fighter skill wise.
I got better with things, but the same mentality is.
Is, is, is important.
You got to just believe in yourself and people get knocked down on that kind of
stuff.
Like you may think you're the, you're the funniest dude in the world and you
get up there and you
can't get anybody to laugh and you're like, oh crap.
Maybe I'm not the funniest guy.
Maybe that shakes your confidence or else you're just like, I am the funniest
guy, but you know,
blame it on something.
These guys aren't, they don't understand me.
Or I need to hit another, I need to practice my jokes better or whatever.
Right.
You got to keep that mentality that you've got something and then, and then
change it around.
So fighting style changed a lot throughout time, but same mentality, same, same
mentality.
Is it, is, is, is fighting the kind of sport where you're, you're most everyone
is, is humbled
pretty often usually.
Um, I think so.
Moments.
There's a ton of humbling moments every day.
There's humbling moments, but you have to be a little bit delusional also.
I think, uh, you know, you talked about Conor McGregor.
Yeah.
You got to be a little bit delusional.
I don't think, you know, people are like, oh, cause I know him.
I was on a TV show with the guy.
Yeah.
I remember seeing that.
Yeah.
And all that stuff.
And they're like, is he faking it for the, this and that?
I'm like, no, he, he's a, he's a funny guy.
Yeah.
He's a confident guy.
He's mouthy.
He's got a little bit of a temper and he really, really believes all the stuff.
He's saying, right.
You know, and I, and I've got to, he's almost delusional to a point.
Yeah.
Like to a next level, delusional of success, delusional to a point of success,
which is,
you know, you gotta be that.
When you look back and see him.
So like, even in these clips and he's, you know, uh, in the clips when you guys
run the
UFC show, um, and he's all, yeah, I mean, he shows up like Pee Wee fucking
Herman.
Oh, it's crazy.
He looks like a pimp, uh, in like in, uh, on Martha's vineyard, you know, but
do you think
that he, like, even at this time he had this kind of bigger vision or he was
just like maniacal
or do you think it was just, uh.
It's just like me or anyone else that's become a world champion on that level.
Right.
And, and, and had this type of success, you envision it, you believe it, you're
thinking
it's going to happen.
And, you know, it's just matter of fact, like it's going to happen.
And he had that from a young age.
There's a video of him.
Maybe you guys can find it when he's a kid saying, I'm going to be a champion
of the world.
I'm going to have more money than I know what to do with.
And he just, you know, got pimples and, and shaved head.
And, uh, it's cool to see, you know, that kind of stuff come true.
Cause I had the same visions.
Like, you know.
Yeah.
And you fought, I mean, did you fought, I mean, you were just always fighting.
Yeah.
44.5 was a world champion at, uh, uh, you know, at the highest level when, when
I was
20 something years old and I maintained it for a while.
I was the top contender my entire career, had a lot of title shots.
Uh, even when the UFC came, the UFC and the WC merged.
So I was the WC and the UFC, the UFC owned the WC and all the lightweight
fighters were in
the WC.
So when they merged, I went into the UFC.
I was 32 at the time.
And I kept going after that title and having title shots.
So, you know, 13 years, I was in the top three in the world and, and, uh, had a
lot of fun
doing it.
Yeah.
That's that clip.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Oh, that's Connor.
Yeah.
My dream is to be world champion, world lightweight champion in the UFC, have
more money than
I know what to deal with and have a great life for my, my kids, my grandkids,
everyone
in my, in my family, everyone that's, that's come up with me.
That's my dream.
My dream is to be number one, pretty much.
My goal is number one, MMA.
It just basically spells out what's happening right now.
Wow.
Which is cool.
Did you like whenever, so if you start to look at like success like that, like
really
envisioning it, and I think everybody probably hope has like an idea of success.
Yeah.
Do you think that in your own life that you saw like a vision of success?
Do you think that success is just something you've constantly, constantly seen
like come
to you through effort?
Like, what do you kind of feel like success is in your life?
Cause you've had success not only in fighting, but now in business as well.
That's a great question.
And I talk about this.
If I ever give a talk, a motivational speech or talk to a big company, I, you
know, I just
basically have a conversation with them.
And for me and for a lot of the successful people, the same common things come
up and it's a
thinking big process.
You can work hard, you can be smart, you can, you know, get up after you get
knocked down
and all this stuff.
That's all important, but how big is your vision?
Um, and I remember I was working at a wrestling camp in, in Tahoe.
Um, I worked there when I was a freshman in college all the way through into my
career
as a, as a champion in mixed martial arts and everything else.
And I was a freshman or a, I think a freshman or no, I was a, my first year out
of college.
So this is right after wrestling at Davis, right after wrestling at Davis.
Okay.
And I was up there coaching and I had traded a, uh, a pair of shoot shorts for
the CD that
this, this kid burned 