Interview · moment 7 of 30
Tim's Swimming Career vs. Brendan's Tap Dancing
from #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show · #174
2 min
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Tim brags about his childhood competitive swimming (third-fastest butterfly on Long Island) while Brendan reveals he was a child actor who had to learn tap dancing, and they discuss the discipline of childhood athletics.
- Tim's best feeling ever was being thrown in a freezing pool Saturday mornings as a kid, swimming for two hours, then eating McDonald's breakfast afterward.
- Those pool sessions gave him discipline and the knowledge that no matter what, his parents would scoop him out of bed and throw him in—four times a week.
- Brendan compares Tim's current stand-up and podcasting schedule to that childhood athletic discipline, suggesting the structure isn't quite the same.
- Athletics has a clear blueprint—football, MMA, swimming—with specific steps to follow, unlike comedy and podcasting.