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Something’s Burning: To Drink Or Not To Drink with Steve Furey and Craig Conant | S4 E15
10 Dec 2024
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No, that sounds pretty racist, though.
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Chapter 2: What are the yips and how do they affect comedians?
I mean, they moved into my neighborhood and... These yips are really right around the value of our property here.
Steve, Craig, thank you guys for doing this. This is fucking awesome. I love that I hit up Steve and he's like, you want Craig on? And I'd only, like we've run into each other a couple times, but mostly it's because Guy Fieri is fucking obsessed with you. That's awesome. It's the coolest thing anyone's ever told you. It's so cool. That is cool. It's so wild. He texted me one morning.
You get weird texts from Guy. He'll text me one morning. He's like, I fucking love this guy.
Yeah.
And I was like, and I sent it immediately to you. It's the coolest feeling. Yeah. If a celebrity likes you, what sucks is when a celebrity likes your friend and doesn't know you. Yeah. Right here. Steve Fury. How you guys doing? My favorite guy. Literally a hero of mine, Guy Fury. But it's great for more stuff's working out for Craig.
No, that was awesome. Freaking viral, bro. That's just such a good story. Thank you. It's such a good story. And this is, I love that the three of us are traditionally storytellers. Like, Steve's a fucking, I've toured with Steve a ton. He is a legit fucking storyteller.
Yeah. There's a lot learning from you, seeing you do it. I definitely was a shorter joke guy, and I just saw how you worked. Well, I think, I love shorter jokes, but at the same time. It's hard to remember 50 for an hour. I don't know how, like, Demetri Martin does it. Or, like, Jesselnik. Yeah. I could never do that. Yeah, I need stories to tell.
Yeah, I need to be, I want to take you on a trip. Yeah. It's funny, too, because storytelling, I feel, was at its height when Rogan started his podcast. That's when good storytellers could go on a podcast and just tell a story and it would go viral. And then now I feel like jokes are like where the fucking bills are getting paid. Yeah, or being like a weird character.
Either or. How do you get into stand-up living in L.A. ?
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind Craig's sobriety?
So I'm gonna get this rice on here and let it sit and just kind of chill. Pour this in there. Stacey, pour this in there. Yeah, pour this in there. And then throw the rice in. Not yet, not yet. Not yet? No, do you put the bay leaves in there too? Oh yeah, bay leaves. Then bring that up to a boil and then let it simmer for a few minutes or four hours. Okay. Yeah, I had to get sober recently.
Yeah, you did. I've heard this story. Keep going. I have heard rumors of this story.
Well, first my girl said I was developing a pattern of bad behavior. It's called a routine, number one. A lot of practice went into that. I'm mastering it. So I threw up in the living room. It's hard to argue that one. In your living room. You can't be like, Craig's wife lets him throw up in the living room. Why are you trying to staunch my shine?
It was one of those nights, like, you know, when you're in a long-term relationship, you... I kind of negotiate nights I'm allowed to go extremely hard.
Yeah.
Because I can't go like I was when I was by myself. So this was already preordained. It was to the point where I'm sleeping on the couch. Like, I'm like, I'm getting hammered tonight. So I get home, and the last, you ever, so I get home. The last thing I remember is I ate five packs of Welch's fruit snacks. My antioxidants are peaking at this point, right? Blacked out.
They're so good for you late night. Yeah. This is, I think Dr. Phil said it, I don't know, Oz, one of those guys. It was a doctor prescribed. Made with real fruit juice. And then I go to sleep on the couch, and I fucked up somewhere while sleeping that when I woke up, I was in bed, and my girl's slamming doors around the house.
And I don't know I fucked up, so I'm doing the thing that you do, you know? I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? What are you trying to do?
You're blaming her. Yeah, exactly. I'm all over here. Yeah. And then she goes, you know what you did last night. And I was freaking out. I was like, were those Welch's for her boss? Was this like a thing? I said, she told me not to do the Welch's. It was the Welch's. And then she goes, you threw up in the living room. And I go, that wasn't me.
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Chapter 4: How did Steve and Craig start their stand-up careers?
I smell like a man. Where the fuck are you talking about, how was your day? That's okay theft right there. You had to do that. Yeah, you have to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there's a lot of theft that's okay. Yeah. It's funny, like, the theft we greenlight in movies that would fucking enrage us if it happened in real life. He didn't know. What example are you talking about?
Like when a guy just jumps in a car and takes it off to go chase the villain, and you're like, yeah, he needed to do that. And you're like, but that was my fucking car. All my shit's in there, you fucking asshole. Every time I see that. I'm like, who do I call? Yeah. Yeah, there was a guy who got out, showed me a badge, took my Prius. Um, is this right?
He called the police. These yips are running wild. Yip came out. Oh. Okay, so what are we doing here now? I am putting these fish in bags. I kind of want a stapler. Do we have a stapler? I don't know if you're supposed to put staples in the oven. You're going to tell me you don't need staples? I mean, I have, but... Yeah? The, um... All right, these go in here. They steam inside the bag. Awesome.
Yeah, so like right now I feel rich, and then I come into your house, and I go, okay, I'm not. This is actually just a studio. I know, I know. Bigger than any house I've ever lived in, but this is just for cooking. You know. This is just to do. This is to store a bus and to cook it. What was the first time I ever made any money? It was $5,000 a week. That's a lot of fucking money.
for a TV show, and I did the math wrong, and I, me and my buddy Eddie, and I went. Eddie who? No, no, Eddie Fernandez. I said, he looked at me and he goes, $5,000 a week, 52 weeks a year, buddy, you're a millionaire. And I went, I am, and I believed I was a millionaire, and I remember that feeling of thinking I was a millionaire at 27 years old, 26 years old, I was like,
That's your best feeling in the world. It's better than being an actual millionaire is to believe you're a millionaire. To be dumb and young is better. Have you bought anything crazy yet? No. No? No. Just a little gold pendant. Yeah? Yeah, I'm pretty smart with my money. No shoes? No. Steve? I'm a Vans guy.
I'm easy. I got those Haritos. Oh, I have Haritos, too. Well, you got them, and then I saw them, and I was like, those are fucking amazing.
Yeah, I've almost gotten too many now I have to pull back because my house isn't big enough for the shoes. For the shoes? I have one wall. My girl, she's like, we don't need a shoe wall. He's like, I'm paying for this room too, so we don't need a wall of just your old dirty shoes. He's got a shoe wall in his studio apartment.
It's not great. I went to Cam Haynes' house, he broke his buddy, they go elk hunting, and I walked into his gym, and you literally have to walk through like this. There are so many elk on the walls that there's only a space like this big you can hang out in the center. It's fucking wild. It seems dangerous to get drunk there.
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