Bryan Callen

But I do it because it's hard, and I don't want to, and I have to warm my frame up, and then I have to go wrestle around with these fucking monsters.

But there's something about it, getting better at it, kind of slowly the incremental getting better at something, and I do it because it's hard.

That grounds me.

No matter what, I know I did that today.

And that's a really good starting point.

No, I always say that.

Especially, I can't speak to women, but if you're a young man, you want to find yourself, just get really good at something.

Like, just get good at fucking the piano.

I don't care what it is.

I always use jujitsu or something like that just because it's hard, but it's a placeholder for a lot of other things.

Yeah, or they'll mask it with, like, you know, part of, like, everybody wants to be an individual, right?

You want to be a little mysterious.

You want to have a little, like, a skill set.

And one of the great things about stand-up is, you know, no matter where I am, I know I got that.

Like, put me in front of a group, a crowd of 100, 200, 300 people, doesn't matter.

I don't care who they are.

I'm going to make them laugh.

I know how to navigate that space for an hour.

That's a nice thing to know.

But if you don't have that, you don't have a skill set, if you don't have something...