Greg Fitzsimmons

No, I was just in New York last week and all anybody talks about in New York is they talk about politics in a smart way. They talk about culture. They talk about writers. And then you go back to L.A. and they just all talk about showbiz. Like even your doctor. Your doctor wants to talk about his famous clients and he's got headshots on his wall. It's like you're a fucking doctor. Yeah.

I don't care that Leonard Nimoy used to come here. He's dead. You failed. All headshots. All over the wall. Yeah. It's so strange. My shrink said to me one time, he goes, I was telling him about how I was down. I don't know if you remember this, but I used to do Stern a lot. And Stern, I asked him to write the foreword to my book. And do you remember this story?

Yeah, so he basically ran me through the mill. And it was a bit. It was a radio bit. It wasn't mean-spirited. It was a little mean-spirited. Well, it came off way worse than the reality of it was.

Well, so I asked him to write the foreword to my book, and then he said on the air, there's a million things I'd rather do than sit down and write this foreword. And I think the intent was he didn't want people coming to him and asking him to do things like this, or he'd be doing it all the time.

So I asked him to do it, and he just starts busting my balls and calling me at home and saying, I don't want to do this and blah, blah, blah. So I go to my shrink, and I'm talking about I have depression. Let's let that sit for a second. And he says to me, he goes, it's so weird. He should have never fucking told me this.

He goes, I have a patient that came in, and he said he's having a hard time lately. And I said, well, what's going on? And he goes, well, my boss at work is a fucking douche. My wife keeps telling me that I'm not emotional enough. And then there's this guy named Greg Fitzsimmons on the Howard Stern Show, and they're just torturing him.

Uh-huh. But I'm better now. My depression has never been better. What'd you do different? I got way more disciplined about working out. You can probably see it. Look at that.

I get guns. I'm doing yoga.

Yeah. Regular exercise. I meditate. Just meditated before I came here every day.

And said school. Oh, yeah. You used to have a fucking locker and shower after third period because they just made you run like an army obstacle course and do push-ups and jumping jacks.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

But, dude, we used to run laps.

We used to fucking run laps. Sure. And then you felt good and you went back to class. I taught my kids their gym classes weren't shit. They didn't have to do anything.

There's no tougher training, man. Wrestling is brutal. But my son, he was having trouble when he was in college. I can know preschool. He was biting kids. He was like crazy. And so the teacher said, there's this place called Marina Taekwondo in Venice. Great program for kids. So he started in preschool and he went all the way through eighth grade.

He got his black belt, his junior black belt, and it changed him. Fucking changed him. He became disciplined. It calmed him down. He used to go like three or four days a week.

When he got his – I don't know if they always do this, but when he got his black belt, he had to do certain – what do they call them? Katas? Is that the –

Yeah, he was, I think, he did his katas, and then he had to break some boards, and then he had to do whatever. And then he had to fight two black belts. Like, at the same time. And he had to go, like, three rounds. At the same time? At the same time. They fucking sicked him on him. And Mr. Jones, Keith Jones, shout out. And it was tough. And he started crying.

And Mr. Jones sat him down and he goes, you're going to get back in there. You're going to finish this. And he went in and he wiped his tears and he fucking finished. And then he got his black belt. It was badass. Yeah. How old was he? We started in kindergarten. This would have been in like, I don't know, sixth or seventh grade.

But I do think there is something to giving a kid a goal. Like you're going to get your blue belt and you're trained for that. You're going to get your red belt.