The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1324 - Ian Edwards
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150 min read · 30,018 words- 0:00 – 2:33
Fast-food fries wars, vegan loopholes, and Five Guys supremacy
- JRJoe Rogan
(humming) Boom! Ian Edwards, the ever, the contrarian, shows up with an Android phone, drinking tea.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs) Gangster son. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Crazy. He just followed no rules, man.
- IEIan Edwards
Still vegan, baby. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Sort of. You had some french fries with David Lee Roth that were made with clearly-
- IEIan Edwards
A legend. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... with some animal fat. Uh, Jamie, you were there. What did you see?
- NANarrator
I saw a french fry or two.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- NANarrator
Disappeared in my life.
- JRJoe Rogan
Listen, up at MGM Steakhouse, they ain't cooking that fucking... Those french fries in anything other than animal fat. Guaranteed. They're too delicious.
- IEIan Edwards
I didn't see it. I didn't see it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Even at McDonald's. If you get McDonald's fries, apparently they cook them in some fucking disgusting fat.
- IEIan Edwards
Well, that's what makes them taste so good.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs) What does make McDonald's fries taste good, they're pretty good, but they're not my favorite. I don't-
- IEIan Edwards
They're not?
- JRJoe Rogan
I get confused when people say they're better than In-N-Out fries.
- NANarrator
Oh, what? How?
- JRJoe Rogan
I like fries that taste like potatoes.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh yeah?
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
In-N-Out, In-N-Out fries are far superior.
- IEIan Edwards
I don't like fries that taste like potatoes.
- NANarrator
How dare you?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Look at... What? This is the most upset I've ever seen Jamie in all my years working with him.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- NANarrator
In-N-Out fries are better than McDonald's.
- JRJoe Rogan
I do personally feel like... You know who I, I had beef with that about?
- IEIan Edwards
Hilarious.
- JRJoe Rogan
Kandy Alexander from, uh, News Radio. She was the first person to... Like, we went and got In-N-Out, like, for the whole s- the whole group of us.
- 2:33 – 3:59
Starbucks, homelessness, and the weird rules of public space in LA
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll tell you what, man. Since, um, Starbucks got in trouble for being racist, um, there's a lot more homeless people at Starbucks. Like they understand now.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
They could just go there. It's really, it's really odd.
- IEIan Edwards
That's so funny.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's true.
- IEIan Edwards
They can't get kicked out.
- JRJoe Rogan
They can't get kicked out.
- IEIan Edwards
Everybody's afraid.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, it's, it's 100% different. 100% different in some spots.
- NANarrator
Like which ones are you going to? Because the ones in Hollywood, they know how to handle it for the most part, because they got locks and everything.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. I went to a shifty one in downtown where, uh, they, they don't even have a bathroom. I'm like, "How are you serving coffee and you don't have a bathroom?"
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Coffee makes you shit and piss.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
This is ridiculous. But I realized they didn't have a bathroom because of the homeless people. There was homeless people that had like... This guy had a port and he was charging all of his devices. He had everything. He had like a phone, a fucking iPad.
- IEIan Edwards
He's got a long night ahead of him.
- JRJoe Rogan
But they get free electricity there.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And they... So he's got like a bag of his stuff. Like he's got a little camp in the corner of the Starbucks. I'm like, "Wow." On one hand, like, hey, how's a guy supposed to get some electricity?
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
I want him to get back up on his feet. Maybe this is the way to do it. Maybe it's through that iPad.
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
On the other hand, I'm like, "Hey, don't give me a disease, you fucking..."
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- NANarrator
I got, uh, hip to this Instagram account yesterday. Street People of Los Angeles, which has got some very interesting content.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that a naked person?
- NANarrator
Yes, it is.
- JRJoe Rogan
A naked person just changing on the street?
- NANarrator
Just changing on the street. That was actually in San Francisco, I think. I remember checking that post, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- 3:59 – 5:34
Street fires, permits, and the “just cook in Griffith Park” logic
- IEIan Edwards
There's a Tommy's in Hollywood.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at that one. Sorry, go ahead. Tommy's on Holmes?
- IEIan Edwards
And, uh, there's always like a bunch of young homeless people cooking in front of it. Like, there's a bus stop. They have a lit fire, like cavemen, like, like, like Fear of the Walking Dead style campfire.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
Like outside of the Tommy's on Hollywood Boulevard, like on a daily basis.
- JRJoe Rogan
How weird.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just weird that that's okay. Like if you just wanted to start a fire on the side of the road, would that be okay?
- NANarrator
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
No. But can you start a fire to cook?
- IEIan Edwards
Apparently.
- JRJoe Rogan
Can you or did they just not get busted?
- NANarrator
You probably need a permit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I would think you'd need something.
- NANarrator
Like a... To be like a grill, street vendor type permit.
- JRJoe Rogan
If you wanted to sell. But what if you just wanted to give food away?
- NANarrator
You can't do that.
- JRJoe Rogan
You can't, but you could eat it yourself.
- NANarrator
Mm, I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Could you offer it to... (laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It seems like you could offer it to somebody. Like, you know, if they allow you to cook and you and I were sitting there and we're cooking-
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and I said, "Would you like some?" And you said, "Sure, that looks good."
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That should be okay.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, it's like a donation. You know how some places-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
... they don't charge you to get in, but they accept a donation?
- JRJoe Rogan
But what if you plan it in advance? You say, "Hey, all of us meet on the corner of 3rd and Santa Monica. I'm gonna have a cookout."
- 5:34 – 14:21
Griffith Park’s predator-prey reality: P22 mountain lion near joggers
- JRJoe Rogan
That is one of the nicest parts of LA, by the way.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And if people don't know, that is a fucking wildlife area. That's a legit wildlife area.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
There is a real predator prey fucking law of the jungle thing going down right now in Griffith Park. It's mountain lions and deer.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And it is going down every day.
- IEIan Edwards
And coyotes.
- JRJoe Rogan
And coyotes. You are doing all your stuff. It's a really amazing place, right? Because here we are, we got Pasadena and Glendale and Burbank and LA, you know, beautiful. Fucking BMWs driving by.
- IEIan Edwards
Teslas.
- JRJoe Rogan
Everything's cool. People are jogging. They got AirPods in.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
They're jogging in Griffith Park. They're jogging right near a war zone.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, I hear-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a war zone.
- IEIan Edwards
... bushes rustling sometimes-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- IEIan Edwards
... because I live around the corner and I'm like...
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck, dude.
- IEIan Edwards
Like, I'm, I'm on, I'm stay paying attention, 100%.
- JRJoe Rogan
We got a giant framed picture-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... headed to the studio of this mountain lion that was photographed by a camera trap. You know what a camera trap is?
- IEIan Edwards
Nah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, they set them up to, uh, monitor the numbers of wildlife and to just try to get an accurate assessment of what's in the area.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
So what it is, it's like a camera, that's the photo.
- IEIan Edwards
Damn.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a camera that operates-
- IEIan Edwards
Oh.
- 14:21 – 21:54
Bears stealing cougar kills and humans cartooning dangerous animals
- NANarrator
Before we get too far off of this, I just, there's pictures on the, uh, Google Images sent me down this. This is just north of the, uh, Los Angeles Zoo. So there's a, I think this might even be that same chap we just saw. So this-
- IEIan Edwards
Chap.
- NANarrator
... cougar has some food it's eating. And then next picture-
- IEIan Edwards
Wow.
- NANarrator
... the bears show up to take it.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- NANarrator
And now-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wait a minute.
- NANarrator
... they're eating the fucking food instead of the cougar.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God.
- IEIan Edwards
So this is near us too? (laughs)
- NANarrator
This is 30 miles away, or probably even closer, who knows?
- JRJoe Rogan
So bears steal deer from cougars. This is what happens when liberals run a state.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Listen, folks. I'm liberal. I'm with you. I know a lot of you think I'm not, but there's a lot of knuckleheads out there that think I'm a part of the alt-right or something.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I vote left on fucking everything. But you, you gotta stop f- anthropomorphizing animals. We gotta be careful. We, I'm on team people.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't want these animals to die, but I also don't wanna go out to my fucking swimming pool and see a bear in there. And they, they have that in Pasadena. Have you seen that shit in Pasadena? This family went outside and there was a fucking bear swimming around their pool.
- IEIan Edwards
They got bears in Pasadena?
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro! Big ones.
- IEIan Edwards
Why does it feel like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Like a 200-pound bear swimming in this motherfucker's pool.
- IEIan Edwards
Do I live here?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
How do- how don't I know this shit?
- JRJoe Rogan
Not only that, you gotta take over, man. If they decide that this is their spot, look at this shit.
- IEIan Edwards
Hilarious.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look, there's a c- a few of them.
- 21:54 – 24:13
Emotional support animals, “micro pigs,” and scams built on wishful thinking
- IEIan Edwards
I think people that have... Like, I saw this girl in S- in San Diego, La Jolla. She came to the restaurant with her micro pig.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) That's not real, you know?
- IEIan Edwards
That's not real? They made, they made those?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Whitney Cummings explained it to me.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause she adopted a pig.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then kept it, and then fed it, and then drove some ungodly amount of time, like, two days to Texas-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... to drop it off at a pig sanctuary. That's how crazy for animals Whitney Cummings is.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
So, through Whitney, I learned-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that pigs are just pigs.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's no micro pig.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just a pig that they don't feed.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, for real?
- JRJoe Rogan
For real.
- IEIan Edwards
So, they just starved it and it just stayed small?
- JRJoe Rogan
It just keeps it from getting big by not giving it a lot of food.
- IEIan Edwards
That's not cool.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then they pawn it off on a sucker.
- IEIan Edwards
It's a pig.
- JRJoe Rogan
Exactly.
- IEIan Edwards
It's gotta eat.
- JRJoe Rogan
Exactly. It's-
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... a greedy little pig.
- 24:13 – 31:32
Mental illness, Adderall paranoia, and how uncertainty fuels vaccine debates
- JRJoe Rogan
There was a lot of people back then. You know, with, with looking at these homeless folks, and, like, for the most part, my opinion is you're looking at people who probably have an undiagnosed or untreated mental illness.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's... I think it's a lot. I don't know what the number is, but I would think it's a lot. And then, there's also people that make mistakes, down on their luck.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then people that, you know, had terrible childhoods, horrible abuse, sexual abuse, violence, p- the evil parents, you know?
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Parents die, leave them alone, foster care, all that kind of shit. Like-
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... it's not their fault a lot of times and there- as, as humans, we should do something to take care of it, but (clicks tongue) on the other hand.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah. And, and we just don't know who's who out there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Exactly.
- IEIan Edwards
It's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Who's mentally ill, who just needs help. And the mentally ill people-
- IEIan Edwards
And who just fucked up.
- JRJoe Rogan
... man, they need help too, but, like, how do you force them to... (sighs) You know, how do you force them into treatment?
- IEIan Edwards
Or how do you just get them real help so that... Because-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
... the way they do help people with pills and all that stuff, some, some of it works and some of it doesn't work.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
You know what I mean? And some of it's just, like, creates a dependency on something.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
So it's just, like, the, the system just from the beginning needs to be fixed.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- IEIan Edwards
And not just, like, pills and, like...
- JRJoe Rogan
Have you ever been on any kind of psych medication?
- IEIan Edwards
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Have you ever taken Adderall?
- IEIan Edwards
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Me neither. I want to, though.
- IEIan Edwards
You do?
- 31:32 – 34:00
Disease outbreaks downtown: typhus, sanitation, and the limits of city “cool”
- NANarrator
To bring that full circle back to downtown LA, that, where typhus outbreaks have happened-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, great. (laughs)
- NANarrator
... the last couple of times.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
Of course.
- NANarrator
It's not the exact same thing as typhoid fever, I think, but it's very close.
- JRJoe Rogan
Not typhoid. It's a new one.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a new one. It's a new typhoid that they don't have a fucking vaccine for. I was down there the other day just trying to buy donuts.
- IEIan Edwards
Downtown?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it's... The, the allure of downtown has escaped me. Everybody-
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Everybody thinks it's amazing, but Jamie and I talked, and we've been talking about this forever. We wanted to get a loft in downtown, like up-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... high and start filming podcasts up there.
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Because I think that would be the coolest backdrop.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, it, for, for YouTube, like you and me sitting here and behind us, you just all s- building, like-
- IEIan Edwards
Like some Times Square-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
... MTV shit, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Lights and shit.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, that would be an amazing backdrop for a podcast.
- NANarrator
Just green screen that now and be safe. (laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. I can't do that. If I was gonna green screen something, it would be, like, current events shit. It would be like Melania Trump slapping Donald's hand away. I'd be like, "Did you see that shit?" Like, that would, would be what I would-
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- 34:00 – 40:06
Coyotes everywhere (even New York), camera traps, and why killing them multiplies them
- JRJoe Rogan
There's a great book called Coyote America by D- uh, Dan Flores. Um, he, I learned about him through my friend, Steve Rinella. I think he was his, his professor in one of his, um, one of his courses. Um, but he is a, a guy who spent an extreme amount of time studying the history and the science behind coyotes.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, for real?
- JRJoe Rogan
Really, really interesting book. But one of the things they found out is that when you kill a coyote, they just make more coyotes. That's why there's so many of them-
- IEIan Edwards
That's why coyotes do?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
Like, they know?
- JRJoe Rogan
They spread out. Yeah, they, when they yell out-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
They yell out, they communicate in a lot of different ways. They yell out when they kill something sometimes.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
They yell out when they're trying to figure out where each others are. They also yell out, like, a roll call. Like, 'cause you know-
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, get the fuck outta here.
- JRJoe Rogan
... it's hard out there, so they're like, "Yay, what's up, Ian?"
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"Hey, Jamie. Where are you, Jamie?" They do that. That's part of-
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, shit.
- JRJoe Rogan
... what they're doing. And, uh, when one is missing, they, the female, there's some sort of a chemical or biological reaction, and her body makes more puppies.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, she's like, "We're fucking tonight."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. They ma-
- IEIan Edwards
"I, I didn't hear Jamie. We're fucking tonight."
- JRJoe Rogan
They make larger litters.
- IEIan Edwards
Damn.
- JRJoe Rogan
So if like, a normal litter would be like four pups-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... if someone's missing, they'll make six or eight.
- IEIan Edwards
So it's just-
- JRJoe Rogan
Something along those lines.
- IEIan Edwards
So now we can't kill them.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, they spread out, too. In the 1700s and the 1800s, you know, when peoples first started going through the West-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- 40:06 – 46:28
Android vs iPhone tribalism, planned slowdowns, and Apple’s cash mountain
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) He was saying this weekend he takes more shit for using an Android phone than for being a vegan.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
For being a Black, vegan...
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs) And what, what else is it?
- JRJoe Rogan
Comedian.
- IEIan Edwards
Co- could be... Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you get more grief-
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... for having an Android phone.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a weird little battle, right?
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like Republican, Democrat type shit.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, it is.
- JRJoe Rogan
It is.
- IEIan Edwards
Like, people with iPhones really ain't trying to have it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, it's not just that. It's, like, there's teams. It's like the fucking Orioles are playing the Yankees.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs) Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? Like, people get on a goddamn team.
- IEIan Edwards
And the iPhones are the Yankees right now.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's weird, man.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Phone, the phone thing is a weird thing. It's weird that people are so... They're, they're really, like, so tribal-
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that they're tribal with their phones.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, they made a tribe out of phones. People can make a tribe out of anything.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm. And what's really crazy is the biggest company, the ones that's the most desirable-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- 46:28 – 52:43
Football vs soccer naming, rugby confusion, and why cricket takes days
- JRJoe Rogan
I say football for people like yourself that are, uh, aficionados.
- IEIan Edwards
Thank you. Thank you, sir.
- JRJoe Rogan
I didn't say soccer.
- IEIan Edwards
I appreciate that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do they say soccer, um, where you're from, like, originally?
- IEIan Edwards
Uh, in England?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- IEIan Edwards
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
No, not in England. In, in England it's-
- IEIan Edwards
They, they-
- JRJoe Rogan
... football.
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, only in America they say soccer.
- JRJoe Rogan
But before the, like... Where did it, where did it become football? Was it always football in Europe?
- IEIan Edwards
It was always football.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, why, why when it came over here did it switch over?
- IEIan Edwards
No idea.
- JRJoe Rogan
Why didn't they come up with another name for football?
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, because-
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause you hardly ever kick a football.
- IEIan Edwards
I think, I think they were playing football, like, the soccer football.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- IEIan Edwards
And then somebody picked up the ball and started running with it, and they started tackling each other. Like, I heard some story like that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Huh.
- IEIan Edwards
And then they kinda created football and it evolved from there, but then they never changed the name.
- JRJoe Rogan
Isn't that weird that, like, football is called football when the only person who kicks it is a guy who can't even play the game?
- IEIan Edwards
It's the least significant person on the team as far as getting pussy when there's a championship.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- IEIan Edwards
Yes. That is weird. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah!
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah.
- 52:43 – 59:27
Dagestan’s no-dribble basketball: wrestling baked into a game
- JRJoe Rogan
When W- Will Harris was in here... Will Harris has this, uh, show called Anatomy of a Fighter.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh, he's, uh, a videographer, and he went to Dagestan to watch Khabib Nurmagomedov, who is the UFC lightweight champion-
- IEIan Edwards
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
... who's a fucking animal, man.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
He just don- he's t- uh, one of the rare undefeated top-of-the-food-chain fighters in MMA.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
They play a game of basketball in Dagestan where they don't dribble the ball at all. They just, like, wrestle each other to the ground. And they even choke each other and get each other in arm bars and shit.
- IEIan Edwards
So that- this is-
- JRJoe Rogan
This is it. Like, they-
- IEIan Edwards
... they're just practicing jujitsu.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, they're... Well, look, they don't, they don't dribble at all. They're basically playing, like-
- IEIan Edwards
That's football.
- JRJoe Rogan
... a football type, but they're shooting at the basketball hoop. But they throw each other to the ground. And Khabib will fucking hip toss dudes, 'cause they, they have it right next to the wrestling mats.
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, part of what they filmed was he was in a wrestling match with this dude when they were trying to take a player out. So he's- grabs ahold of this dude, and when he grabs ahold of this dude, he drags him to the ground...
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And gets him in a back, gets him in an arm bar, gets him in a rear naked choke.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It's crazy. He makes the guy tap, and then he doesn't let him up. Like, here it goes. Look.
- IEIan Edwards
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look, he grabs him.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, they're allowed to do this. The guy slips through, he gets him und- They're sort of, they're grappling... First of all, they're grappling on the fucking hardwood floor.
- IEIan Edwards
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Full blast gra- grappling. And then he takes him to the ground. Like, this is serious.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
This isn't playing around.
- IEIan Edwards
All right.
- 59:27 – 1:14:23
Wrestling strength, ‘levels to this,’ and the Askren–Masvidal aftermath
- JRJoe Rogan
We had this dude on our team, his name was Bob Baker. He weighed a good solid 300 pounds.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, for real?
- JRJoe Rogan
He was so big. Maybe not. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but he was 250. He was our heavyweight. And I was like, "How, how is he and me?"
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"How are we gonna play the same game where he could just run me over? Get the fuck out of here."
- IEIan Edwards
What, what did he want you to play?
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't know. We didn't even just ... It didn't get that far.
- IEIan Edwards
Oh, okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
I went crazy.
- IEIan Edwards
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I was already fighting too. I was doing martial arts.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And wrestling at the same time. Like, "Look, man, I ca- ... I don't ... No, I'm not doing that." I'm already doing shit that freaks me out.
- IEIan Edwards
Physical shit, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And scares the shit out of me all the time. I don't wanna get scared by even bigger people. At least-
- IEIan Edwards
So hilarious.
- JRJoe Rogan
... martial arts and wrestling was confined to your own weight class.
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? If I had to wrestle some badass dude, at least, uh, it was my own weight class.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- IEIan Edwards
Yeah, this is like the weight scale is all over the place on a football field.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, man. It's all over the place. And the athleticism is all over the place too, you know?
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
You get a guy like Herschel Walker in, you know, if you're in high school and there's a Herschel Walker in high school-
- IEIan Edwards
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and he's on some team that you're opposing.
- IEIan Edwards
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Good luck, fuck face.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
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