JRE MMA Show #75 with Dan Hardy

... who'll might bring notes.

No. Sometimes you remember things. Boom, and we're live. Sometimes, like you, uh, y- I have to remember things.

Ah.

Duh. Like, if there's a thought that popped in my head or something I just forgot, I, I need to write things down. Too many ideas just slip away.

Yeah. Yeah.

They slip away.

But one thing you said a while ago, which I've tried to start using, are the voice memos on my phone, and I'm not very good at it. You say you record straight into your phone all the time.

Oh, yeah. It's really good. Yeah, it's really good.

I'm, I'm trying to make it fun. I've got, like, an old school Elvis microphone and, like, a 1950s style cord into an old recorder, and I'm trying to use that a bit more because we were talking about Hunter S. Thompson.

Mm-hmm.

I like the idea of recording stuff as I'm moving-

(laughs)

... but it's, it's a habit I'm not getting into right now.

Well, the, uh, I think recording anything, like, when you have an idea that you go, "Goddammit, this is a good idea." Like, grab it.

Mm-hmm.

Grab it.

There you go.

I think it was Neal Brennan said it best, that he looks at his notebook like a net for catching ideas.

I like that.

I love that.

Why am I always driving, though? I'm always driving.

Always. Always. 'Cause I think when you're in the zone, like, you're driving, there's something about th- like... You, you know how sometimes you could be, like, miles away and you're like, "How the fuck did I get here?"

(laughs)

Like, you're sober.

Yeah. That's terrifying.

And you're driving and you're like, "How did I drive miles? I, I, I evidently changed lanes."

(laughs)

"I, you know, I know where I'm going. Everything was in- inside the lanes, but I was- I'm barely there."

Mm-hmm.

"What is that?"

I don't know. I don't know.

You get in the zone 'cause you're so accustomed to doing it and you're tuning into everybody around you, and sometimes you're probably a better driver when you're doing that because you're not being conscious. You're just, just, just being aware and just being in the moment.

Mm-hmm. Feeling the road.

Yes.

Being present. It's very nice, but my best ideas come then, and-

Yes.

... I have no way to record them.

But I think it's 'cause you're in that weird mind state. A lot of people also get the same thing when they walk. Um, a lot of writers, what they like to do is they like to write and then they like to go on walks and think about the writing.

Mm-hmm.

And the idea is that when you're on the walk, you just get, you know, left, right, left, getting a little bit of cardio in going up hills, and y- all you're thinking about is you're, you're, like, breathing and you're moving, and those eyes just sort of bounce around the back of your head and get washed.