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Jerrod Carmichael

lines on the record: 128
first: 2017-02-18
most recent: 2017-02-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I was doing face up the type of wealth for 30 years. Like, someone's going to stay on something. Find out is like in the Tal Teching.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's perfect. You plugged it for me. I really want to see if I created it or stole it from someone. I genuinely don't know.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can still tell you exactly how it was written on the page. It's like I skipped a few lines, HBO was written in big letters. And then I wrote just a couple sentences about how I wanted to look and feel. Documentary is written down. So I wanted it to be a documentary. Invasive. I wanted it. Invasive, I wanted it emotionally honest. I wanted it to go past just jokes. And I didn't want to just tell you jokes, you know, and I wanted it just to be real. And exploration, like these certain words that I think was captured. I mean, bold directed and it's like really, I think he's brilliant and he captured it so perfectly. But yeah, these really personal things.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, France is like really the two first career goals I remember, I wrote down that I wanted my first time doing stand up on television to be HBO and I wanted show on NBC and I remember writing like those are very broad goals but I wrote down specifically like the HBO thing and actually as I was like just doing stand up and going over like old thoughts like preparing for the first special I actually grabbed an old notebook and the one I didn't realize I'd written it in and the night before we taped and I kind of like open and turned the page and there it was like the goal like HBL special”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what my emotional response is like capture. I want to know because you see it. You look at it and if you write down a goal, like you have this image now in your head, it's not just this floating thought, it's an image that you have in your head.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really, anything that sticks out how I feel about. People how I feel about me, what I want, what I just like anything that's worth just kind of journaling essentially.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, my grandma would get me some for these little small pocket size ones a little, but really any notebook will dope. Just any like notebook. That and the bolognese that John and Venice are the two most impactful”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Probably ever like a notebook. Notebook and pens, like just write, and I don't even write out jokes, but I write out thoughts. Goals and thoughts.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yet, the distractions of life. Yeah, I mean, that's probably why I'm not, like, and also that is a personal thing because, for instance, we were talking about like social media, right? And certain people are great and a source of, you know, inspiration and a source of like great content on social media. For me, it doesn't contribute to my life in a meaningful way, so I don't do it.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it's both emotional and logical to me. Like, you know, emotionally is just like, well, if I don't think that I can think this is meaningful, then I'll cut it out of my life. And logically, if you look at history, you'll see the things that fall out and you'll see you can read this. That's why I like reading biography. You read about people's mistakes and read about the things that ultimately didn't matter. So it's like, I don't want to focus any energy on anything that doesn't matter or won't matter.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A good question. I mean, Yeah, I wonder what's unusual about it because I think I ignore a lot of things that people don't like meaning like industry stuff and things that I think things that matter to a lot of comedians don't necessarily matter to me. Or I realize that focus, it's kind of going back to what we said earlier, like focusing on just myself and the work gets that thing that, you know, so I think I ignore more things than a lot of comedians.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of being in tune with your feelings and your thoughts and your true feelings. I will say a lot of times. Be able to say a joke the first time and it's kind of a finished product. You know, like I'll say there was a thing that was like online of just me talking about Chick-fil-A. That was virtually my first time doing that joke. I think I had like maybe mentioned it the night before, but it was like the first time it just sounds like a finished product because it's like, oh no, I know how I feel about this. I know what I want to say and the points I want to hit. And then you say it and then that's it. So I think it is just like kind of being into if you're in tune, things come out a little bit easier.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And watch, it's going to hit me in the car later. I'm like, oh, wait. Oh, that's what he meant by that. I wondered if there's something else.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never thought I would have to clear that room or it's not that long. That's the other direction of what girl's going to want to sleep with me.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I haven't seen the film in all. Yeah, I don't know where that came from. I genuinely don't know. It may be a thing he may have said to me.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anything that starts with you, you gotta, you ain't got to do anything, man. I have to use bad grandmother. You ain't got to do nothing.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, like, and obviously that comes with the, obviously you'll collaborate with people and you'll be so inspired by others and there are people that you'll work with. But what I mean is just like anything that directs you away from you, ignore it.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I'll probably do some weird artist stuff because be like Bob Dylan, start painting. You know what I mean? Record some songs in a nice basement. Release it under Analius, that type of stuff. Probably something creative or something like really specific or just substitute teach for a little bit. I don't know. I don't know.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which I would have been truly cool with for a little while. Thank God I didn't have to, but I would have been cool with that. I loved it. I loved doing comedy. So I would have just gone to New York and just stayed there.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, what's the, yeah, exactly? It's like, all right, well, because I was just here just doing stand up, and I was like, well, and that was purely a logistic thing where I was like, well, if I... I just literally can't sleep on the street, I guess”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but really that was even like a long shot to make. And I would have just gone to New York and done the exact same thing that I'm doing here Know, like, so it was kind of just another route to playing A for me.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No plan B for me. I mean, I had an aunt who, the closest I came to a plan B was in LA for a little bit and I have an aunt in New York that I was like, well, if it doesn't work for some reason here and I'm just homeless, then I'll go stay with her.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, that's why it's important, for me, that's why it was important. And to some people, I mean, it's good. I mean, I'm sure you could find immediately a story that was like, well, this guy was in Kansas and did all right for himself. But I really think that knowing where you fit in in context, like if, you know, doing a television show, I watch all the television shows doing film, I'm watching every film, especially current, like, because you want to know where you fit and cut. You want to know where you fit in in history and you want to know where you fit in the current landscape. So it's important to be informed. For me, again, for me, it is. I like to know.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“CES and all that type of stuff in the, you know, it's like Comic-Con every night. You know, like you're just seeing what everybody's doing, right? And so you get to know where you are in context of your world pretty quickly.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, not even feedback, but the competition type of thing. Like if you're in the maybe in a tech world, like some type of expo, you know, like where you get to see what other people are doing. With comedy that's every night. Every night there's a new, you know, it's.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That guy was, oh man, I went. Go on stage, and you see a lot. What's interesting about comedy is that you get to see a lot of immediate examples of what you're doing. It's like...”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listen to your Listen to what you want to do, and if you don't want to do it anymore, stop change, you know, like grow, change, evolve. You are unique, you know. The most unique thing you can do is be yourself. You know, this has got to sound like a real substitute teacher right now.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ignore anything that could be remotely like I would for me personally and I'm not because people have benefited from this and have turned it into lucrative amazing careers but for me personally like any I would never do any type of reality competition type no I wouldn't I just would I always refuse that and like the closest I came was like within my first year doing that”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I call that one of my biggest mistakes. Even going. I'm so thankful that I didn't make it to the final round of that because it would have ruined everything. Like seeking any shortcut or easy answer is always a mistake. The pyramid scheme of it all. The scheme of comedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm really happy I did that because it made me.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because they would have put me in a box. I'm the little diversity kid. Diversity champion. Yeah, the diversity champion. It's like in Miss America go around. That's how your bio. Yeah, that. It's immediately like a box that you're in. I'm so thankful I didn't. And it's really just a thing that people do to feel good about themselves. Like the corporations do to feel good about themselves. I'm so thankful.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did, they had this comedy showcase in San Diego years ago. I was just starting off. And it was the NBC diversity showcase. And I should have never done that. Should have never gone down. I went down to it. I didn't make it to the final round, mind you, thank God Oh my god, it could have ended horribly. Because had I made it to the final round, I would not have a show on NBC.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Movie theater. Yeah, yeah. I may be available for advice. I like to think I loiter the way Socrates does, but we all like to think the best of ourselves.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The person who just readily hands out advice is usually not where they want to be. You know, like busy people aren't just around in the back telling you what you got to do next.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And maybe that applies to you, you know, like as far as technical things. Like maybe that applies to you, maybe it doesn't. So even just like, I don't know, the worst thing is just like looking for it. It's probably like looking for like advice. Just don't listen to anybody.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know you're trying to figure it out, but nobody knows what they're doing. Nobody knows what they're talking about. Everyone's making it up. And it's a lot of times it's the source. People can only tell you what works for them.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anything that begins with you gotta. Gotta do anything. Where do I begin? It's mostly 99.9% bad advice. And it's such a new scary world, like, especially entering into comedy or television or film, and you're looking for answers”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally loitering outside of a movie theater. Like it was years ago, I was like, I left the movie and I was just sitting outside of it loitering, just kind of thinking.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Visually hardwired. You see it. If you do that, I was outside a movie theater and I was doing it once and just everyone looked, everyone was glowing. You know, like everyone was just like, Oh man, you thank you, thank God for you. I'm so happy you're here.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I could have read this somewhere. I'm not even saying that I've made this up. I think I did, but I may have read it somewhere. So my apologies. But it's like I pretend I'm at the bottom of a well and every face that I see. I imagine them being the face that peers over inside and has the ability to help me and like rescue me from something. And it makes you look at everyone looks, first of all, amazing when you're at the bottom of a world. When you're at the bottom of well and everyone looks in and that's like just an exercise with just people in general, but it really means that everyone does have an ability to give something to you and just kind of looking for that and searching for that first.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't disregard, don't dismiss anyone, right? Actually look, this is going to sound so cheesy, right? We've already given them.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Choosing the right friends. I think that like Choosing the right people to be around that will spark certain things within you and knowing how You can use each other Know and how you can contribute to each other's lives. I think I could.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, if you think about it. Things that your fourth grade teacher told you. Kind of true Oh, wait, I can be anything? Yeah. It's hard to accept because the world just jades you. It makes you. What is the world doing us”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are no unanswered questions in that title But I sent it to everybody. I mean, atheist friends got that book. You know what I like about that book? I notice what people, the people who got it and the people who didn't, it was like accepting certain truths sound really cheesy. And if you can get people won't allow themselves to accept it, like certain Know that you are what you think and you are what you believe types of things and like that you do need to affirm certain principles that sound super cheap and don't get me wrong like because I analyze everything and I've like pick on everything and I get that if you can get beyond. And just accept it and don't make yourself feel guilty about it. I really think a lot of principles in it can change your life.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's the last book that I sent to everybody? There was this book by Eric Butterworth, Discover the Power Within You that kind of interpreted the Bible in an interesting way to me and the way that I feel like I always knew and understood it, you know, or the way I wanted to understand it and it articulated it in such a great way that I was like everybody, religious not religious. It's really good about discovering self about answers being within, about that.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If I'm excited about anything, then I try and share it with everybody in my life immediately. If I go to a new restaurant and I love it, all of my friends have gone there with me at some point. I'm bringing everybody. I need you to share it. And I also want to talk about it with you. I want to have an exchange. I want to analyze it. I love that. That's what I live for. So if I love a book, then I send it. I send it to everybody.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honesty, they are themselves. They're very unapologetic about being themselves. That's pretty much it. And they've found a way to let that come out in an artful way. Through their work or their art and their careers, they found a way to build a career around them As opposed to going”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because this is someone that you're going to work with a lot. You know, like you're going to have a lot of interactions with. And if something is off, if it's just not right, then Then something's going to go wrong. You know, like it's going to hit that feeling is going to be addressed either immediately or it's going to be delayed. And I'd rather address it now Avoid, yeah.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sit alone, be alone, sit in silence. You know what I mean? Not just saying shaman esque experience where someone just sit like sit and think like get to know yourself and be honest with your like the responses that you have you know em to things like know what you're good at having honest assessment of yourself honest assessment of your life and know what you're good at and know where you can contribute the most Find out where you can contribute because it's not always through work, you know, like a lot of people sometimes people make the mistake of like thinking it's always through what you won't always have necessarily that career but you your life can be fulfilled and you can contribute in a meaningful way you know to those around you to you know your environment so just try and contribute”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and his story is so interesting, and just like him kind of starting so late, you know, like, or getting the recognition so late. But like any good thing, like we found a man who knew who he was by the time he achieved Stardom, he knew exactly who he was. So it was so.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The book of Price. Yeah. But a friend of mine recommended it to me and the language in it is, I mean, the language excites me, you know, because it's so... It's so well written So well craft Is these lines that you just, I wish I could think of.”
2017-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #222: Jerrod Carmichael - Uber-Productivity and Dangerous Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT