Name: Dustin Poirier on the Jobs He Worked Before Making It | w/Theo Von
Uploaded: 2020-03-18T16:00:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dustin Poirier on the Jobs He Worked Before Making It | w/Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dustin Poirier on the Jobs He Worked Before Making It | w/Theo Von' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-18. Transcript available.

a lot of kids just fucking jetted just start working you know yeah yeah or just
get in like
especially if their family had a job or something like that what kind of work
did you get into i uh
did cement work i did uh building decks construction work and then i when i was
18 i got a decent job
with a buildings distribution company yeah and we would go to job sites and
like deliver doors and
just brand new houses everything they need trim doors windows i did that for a
couple years yeah
yeah and did and at what point did you were like man this isn't for me i was
fighting during those
you already fight yeah yeah i was fighting when i was 18 but i did that and i
had benefits at the
place so i didn't want to quit the job because you know i was you have your
lady with you yeah yeah
okay so you had to support that yeah yeah but i was making like such little
money that i i was just
working because i needed the benefits and i was fighting so you know damn i was
still working i
was still working when i was fighting in the wc i think even in the ufc i was
still working was there
not was it what was that moment like where you're like okay now i at least make
and have enough income
where i don't have to do a side job was that that was huge part of my of my
life because i was like
i'm finally but you know people run around and say they're a professional
fighter but they're not
really feeding their family and paying their bills being a professional fighter
yeah yeah technically
they are yeah right it's like you you see you kind of say you are for a long
time but until somebody
sees you looking on a real stage on television or something it's just like but
even then i was on
television i was still working you know wow yeah um but when i got to finally
walk away from my my work
and commit 100 to fighting it was it was a you know i felt like the sky opened
up and the sun was
shining on me like we made it you know we we really have a chance at this that's
crazy man and the
wildest thing about your profession like at least you know in so many
professions you can kind of be
anywhere you know there's a billion lawyers you know and there's a billion you
know there's and
there's tens of thousands of comedians but in your profession there's only like
it just keeps
getting smaller towards the top until you have the strap right yeah and there's
you know lots of
fighters nowadays it's such a popular sport yeah and it's not like we find out
who the best is you
know we fight each other and find out who the best is so that's that's pretty
cool way of uh you know
filtering out everything yeah when you look back at like a fight that you if
you could have a another
fighter do one over it could even be one that you won or it could be one that
you didn't uh do you
have any that pop in your head that you're like oh that one um one that sticks
out for sure is the
conor mcgregor fight i uh just way too emotional yeah i just cared too much
about everything going on
and read too much about what people thought and was he a celebrity at that
point really no not really i
mean he was he was right a lot of people he had a lot of hype around him but he
wasn't the guy he is
now you know right yeah now it's almost like he's uh yeah now he's more of a
celebrity oh huge than a
fighter yeah or not more than but it's like equal equal yeah and it's different
it's different when
people become that or i notice anyway like in stand-up like dave chappelle will
come into the comedy
club and he's like a celebrity you know when he gets on stage and he'll i mean
he's a funny guy
but he's but if bill burr comes in bill burr is a comedian like bill burr does
his fucking job
he murders every time like chappelle is a little bit more like oh look at me
where bill burr is like
sneaks in does his fucking work really good and leaves you know i feel that um
for the love of the
craft yeah yeah do you start to see that in your in your line of work too like
some guys when they
become celebrity like it seems different yeah people change for sure start
making money um people start
running up to him for autographs and and they start getting that you know
recognition in public and
stuff people change for sure yeah the ego is dangerous huh yeah man do you
worry about that
nah because i'm in it for the scrap you know i try to walk away from that type
of stuff you know
right if i think if i see a bunch of guys wearing ufc shirts i'll put the
hoodie on and kind of turn
you know yeah yeah you just want to win the belt yeah i just want to win the
belt man that's all i
want i just want to be the world champion and then i'll go back to delivering
windows so is that
is that really that goal i mean is that so that's the thing that's the you just
want to be the best
yeah of course i would i would love to stay in the sport for a long time and
make a shitload of money
but i just want to say that i did it i want to have the ufc championship around
my waist you know all
these years with my wife struggling and and taking food out of the out of the
grocery basket because we
couldn't afford it and making ends meet and and you know sacrificing a lot i
just want to say it was
all worth it because once you become the world champion you know that's forever
yeah and uh you
know that's that's what i'm trying to do honestly damn that's powerful man that's
really really cool
that's so inspiring you know what's crazy is my sister can't even read but what
does it have to do with us
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