Hey, everyone. I'm super excited about my new
podcast called Overeducated and Underemployed.
Shout out to Lee Baines for inspiring the title.
My launch lineup includes J. Roddy Walston, Cole
Taylor of Classic City Wrestling, comedian Levi
Crumley, Sloane Simpson of the Sloane Brothers,
and Jay Gonzalez of the Drive -By Truckers. Here's
a little preview of what's coming up in the first
five, six weeks. Neil Brennan describes it as
putting yourself in a car accident every night.
And I think that the price of being original
is that you're going to bomb more than the people
that are going to do the stuff that's right down
the middle. I struggle communicating on so many
levels with people that I think that's, it's
just an easier way to communicate. But like anytime
you see somebody going apeshit for something,
obviously makes you stop and be like, what is
so exciting about that? Once I joined the truckers
and was doing that, it was harder to be in other
bands. It was just like, this is so dangerous.
Like we were going to get in trouble. Just the
way it sounded. I do think a lot of artists like
to have those jobs that are not super labor intensive.
So you can always just think about what you're
doing or write songs in your head. I think real
music fans typically want to hear. The most organic
version of that song they can. Wrestling is a
larger -than -life presentation of something
great and something phenomenal. And rock and
roll is that, too. It was like, this is to get
some money to go over here and actually do the
thing that I do. The road destroys people. That's
crazy. Some people, it's six months, and some
people, it's ten years. A lot of people don't
get better until they're tired of their own shit.
I've been rejected by a lot of my heroes. When
I'm in the ring and the whole audience is chanting
CCW to me, it's bigger than me. It's bigger than
them. It's something that is happening in that
moment that we're all in together, that we're
creating, that nobody can take from us. I wanted
to flow like Jerry Garcia and Trey from Phish,
but was not willing to put in the practice and
effort to pull that off. Three random people
I'd met on the internet picked me up and drove
me there. I think the idea that someone gets
up and goes like, I know what's funny. I'll say
it. And then people will laugh is like the wildest,
scariest thing. I jumped off the subs and tore
out, tore my ACL, my meniscus and broke my knee.
I think most really good songwriters are pretty
fucking funny. When I find people I connect with,
I'm just like, whatever it takes. I'll murder
for you or whatever. The stuff that we always
gravitate back to is stuff we usually got into
when we were younger. I was breaking state records
by age 10. By age 12, I was the number one swimmer
in America. I write these songs that really matter
to me. Hopefully they matter to you. And then
I want to put on or be a part of a show where
everyone's entranced and you have to shut up.
great art grows with you. I don't think I ever
particularly enjoy playing live. I used to joke
that I was going to write down a list of all
the reasons that I wasn't going to play live
because there are so many of them. Older siblings
are responsible for so many people just getting
record collections, being turned on to all kinds
of stuff that they never would have heard. I
understand that Every one of my peers is full
of shit. And if they weren't full of shit, it
was an anomaly. I was like, dude, that is not
what I want. Screw it. I'm going to sell everything.
Throw things at the screen. It gave me a vision
of what an actual wrestling company could be.
We're just really lucky to be part of something
so special. What if the world was completely
wild and weird? I think it's really good that...
Any kid can just go on YouTube now and listen
to anything and be into something from the other
side of the world. Something super obscure. When
you get frustrated as an artist, it's not when
you're not as good as other people. It's when
you stop making progress. So I would actually
skip a little bit of school on a couple days.
At high school, at the end of the day, not come
back from lunch and go off to the college jazz
band rehearsal. I think the worst thing a song
can be is forgettable. If I can get it stuck
in my head, that means maybe I can get it stuck
in somebody else's head. Constraint can be a
really important thing for creativity. It feels
like I just woke up one day and didn't enjoy
jam bands anymore. Every time I get on stage,
I want to have something new. Every time. We've
all had plenty of songs where we misheard the
lyric for years. We don't use set lists and stuff,
so there was a lot of weird shit about it. But
in the end, it really, I think, it's safe to
say, everyone really loved the experience. In
1999, the only bands that would let you record
their live shows were jam bands. By 2007, nobody
gave a shit. I have to experience life, and then
things are going to come to me. I can't really
sit down and force it like that with my stand
-up. I started getting into bands, rock bands,
more than sort of top 40 radio, like a lot of
people do. I just remember thinking that was
really interesting and being a little kid and
wanting to do funny stuff like that. Not really
knowing how, but like just having that desire
to be silly and funny. I wrote a new song last
night. All comedians are wannabe rock stars.
I'm having 17 conversations in my head at the
same time where I messed up last night on this
part. Why is that guy over there? you know look
like he's sniffing a fart like why is it this
person dancing i love watching other people bomb
because i'm like oh god like i just know the
feeling so well i'm listening to music constantly
sometimes it sucks being a comedian or a musician
because it feels like you never really turn your
brain off because you're always like scanning
the world for meaning how do i interpret this
into comedy or music you bring something to the
sorority house and if it was like the wrong delivery
you get screamed at but none of the teachers
knew nirvana songs so everybody played nirvana
songs and just said that they wrote them one
kid smashed a brand new guitar and he was as
soon as he did he's like my dad's gonna kill
me and he like ran away for a week i have a vivid
memory of being in bed thinking about the song
and asking my mom singing the chorus to the song
and asking her if it was a beatle song she didn't
know i was doing from the start a lot of comedians
are really damaged up people what's funny to
them is sometimes really dark You know, if you
have a bad drummer, then you have a bad band.
I think there was like a narcissism that every
comedian has for sure. I always found laughter
was the quickest way to get people's attention
and to really hold it. The more offensive a joke
is, the funnier it has to be. It's an equally
bad video of me, but it's at least not wearing
spandex. Finding those little wins is so key.
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And I'm like, holy shit, this is where I belong.