Joe Rogan Experience #1594 - Yannis Pappas

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. YPYannis Pappas0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays) Oh hello, Joe. Hello, Joe Rogan.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Good to see you here.

   5. YPYannis Pappas0:17

      Good to see you.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      Nice to, uh, have you in Texas.

   7. YPYannis Pappas0:20

      Yeah. N- well, it's been ... Yeah. This is nice. I'm trying to work on being a better New Yorker-

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      How's that?

   9. YPYannis Pappas0:26

      ... by not, like, comparing everything the first day to, like, New York. That's how New Yorkers are. Every time you, like, go to a new city they're like, "Ah, this is like the Brooklyn of ..." "This is like the Queens of ..."

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       Oh, yeah.

   11. YPYannis Pappas0:36

       "This is like the Brooklyn Bridge of ... "

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Yeah, this is a different animal down here.

   13. YPYannis Pappas0:40

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       It's uh-

   15. YPYannis Pappas0:42

       It's like hipsters who have guns. I like it. (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       (laughs) That's a good way of putting it.

   17. YPYannis Pappas0:45

       Yeah, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Hipsters with concealed carry permits.

   19. YPYannis Pappas0:47

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Yeah.

   21. YPYannis Pappas0:48

       I hung- I hung out, uh, last night with one of the dudes from the Drinking Bros podcast.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       Oh, okay.

   23. YPYannis Pappas0:53

       And, uh, yeah. He was like, "I'm gonna walk home in the park." And then he made a joke. He was like, "Yeah, if anyone talks to me I'll just shoot 'em." And he was like, "Don't worry, I haven't killed anyone st- stateside." And I was like, "Uh, he means that shit." Yeah. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       (laughs)

   25. YPYannis Pappas1:06

       Yeah, so it's, uh, I went to Terry's too.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:09

       Terry Black's?

   27. YPYannis Pappas1:09

       Is that, uh-

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       Yeah.

   29. YPYannis Pappas1:10

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       Terry Black's Barbecue.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   I would do Dangerfield's…

   1. YPYannis Pappas15:00

      and like you're just waiting for the check. And there's a few times I was just like, "You know what? Fucking keep the 25 bucks." Like... (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      I would do Dangerfield's just for their cheeseburgers. They had the best fucking cheeseburgers. They would have g- like ground steak cheeseburgers. I mean, they were phenomenal. They were so good. It was like literally the best cheeseburger in New York City-

   3. YPYannis Pappas15:19

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      ... was at Dangerfield's, at least in the '90s.

   5. YPYannis Pappas15:21

      Yeah, not anymore.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      No?

   7. YPYannis Pappas15:22

      Not a good... Yeah, I don't even think they have a kitchen anymore. I don't think-

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:24

      What?

   9. YPYannis Pappas15:24

      ... they were doing food for a while, yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       Oh, the burgers were so good.

   11. YPYannis Pappas15:28

       Yeah. They-

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       Like everyone knew.

   13. YPYannis Pappas15:29

       Wow.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       Everyone knew. You go to ch-... You go to Dangerfield's, get a cheeseburger.

   15. YPYannis Pappas15:32

       Yeah. Did you ever, uh... Do you k-... Do you know Charo, the, uh, the waiter? He was a Greek guy from Cyprus.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Yes. He was still there?

   17. YPYannis Pappas15:38

       He died. I think he died just recently. But he's still there. He was still there till, till before COVID. He's... You know, he's the guy who always comes over to you and just tells you the most racist joke.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       (laughs)

   19. YPYannis Pappas15:48

       He'd go, "How come..." And he says it with a Greek guy, like, "How come the pol-... How do you get a one-armed polack out of a tree?" He's like waving and then he laughs to himself. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       (laughs)

   21. YPYannis Pappas15:57

       He's like a 80-year-old Greek guy. Still one of the best.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       Did you ever meet Scotty?

   23. YPYannis Pappas16:00

       Um-

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Scotty was the, the powerlifter guy who was the, uh, doorman.

   25. YPYannis Pappas16:05

       Not there anymore. Yeah, I don't know.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       Scotty used to make his own weights. He used to fill, uh, like, uh, a bucket, like, uh, like one of these, you know, those big white plastic buckets, fill it up with cement and he would, uh, he would lift them.

   27. YPYannis Pappas16:16

       Wow.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       He would put like a pole in between them and do like pr-... He was a tank of a man.

   29. YPYannis Pappas16:20

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:21

       And I remember one time during like w- w- some extra rowdy show, might've been one of those prom shows, I'm not real sure, but he... I remember he picked a guy up by his neck. He grabbed the guy, grabbed him by the back of the neck and put a hand on his belt buckle, or on his belt rather, and hoisted him in the air, and was carrying the guy out. And the guy was like, "Jesus."
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah, yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      He's the most dominant fighter in any weight class in the history of the sport. And he is as calm and as humble as can be, while also being incredibly confident.

   2. YPYannis Pappas30:08

      Yeah, yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:09

      And super religious.

   4. YPYannis Pappas30:11

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't party, doesn't do anything. He's just dedicated to smashing people. "I'm gonna smash your boy."

   6. YPYannis Pappas30:18

      Right. "I'm gonna smash your boy today." (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      When he said that-

   8. YPYannis Pappas30:21

      "Alhamdulillah." (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      (laughs) "I'm gonna smash your boy."

   10. YPYannis Pappas30:24

       Somebody said to me, "That's like Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction." You're like, "Ah, fuck."

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       It's greater because it's not fake.

   12. YPYannis Pappas30:29

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       And he did it.

   14. YPYannis Pappas30:30

       Yeah, he did.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       And he did smash him. And he, you know what the b- the best, the scariest thing that he ever said? He goes, "I want to change his face."

   16. YPYannis Pappas30:36

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       "I wanna change his face."

   18. YPYannis Pappas30:39

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:40

       Whoo.

   20. YPYannis Pappas30:40

       How much is the mental b- dude, like Conor, when he fought Conor, it was like...... opposites going against each other like that-

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       Mm-hmm.

   22. YPYannis Pappas30:47

       ... ultra humility versus that, like, you know, absolute boastful. Well, like, do you think Conor knew before?

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Mm-mm.

   24. YPYannis Pappas30:53

       Just ... No? Like, do you think he went in-

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       No. He thought he was gonna win.

   26. YPYannis Pappas30:56

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       And look, he, he, he won a round with Khabib. He won the third round, and that's probably the only round that Khabib lost in his entire career. Like, there's an argument that maybe he lost one or two rounds earlier that are real close. But I mean, he's, he's 29 and 0. You have to understand how insane that is, and then you have to understand the weight class he's in. He's in the 155-pound weight class, which is arguably the most competitive in the history of the sport.

   28. YPYannis Pappas31:17

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       Because, like, the arguments are like, 45, 55, and maybe 70 are the most competitive sp- uh, weight classes ever. And he's the, the most dominant guy ever in the most competitive weight class.

   30. YPYannis Pappas31:30

       Yeah.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   No, he wrote, he…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

   2. YPYannis Pappas45:00

      No, he wrote, he wrote a book, like a tell all book.

   3. Now, I mean, he fucking looks like Mark McGwire. I don't know if there's-

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      It was called Juiced, right?

   5. YPYannis Pappas45:03

      I don't know if there's a reason why... Yeah, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big.

   6. Did he get kicked out of baseball or something? Did something happen?

   7. No, he was still playing, even re- honestly, recently, I think.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      But, no, but not when he wrote-

   9. YPYannis Pappas45:18

      2018, he was playing.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       Yeah, but for who?

   11. YPYannis Pappas45:20

       Oh, yeah, yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:20

       But not when he wrote that book. When he wrote that book, was he still playing or was he suspended or something?

   13. YPYannis Pappas45:26

       Oh, no, no. Um-

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       We're like-

   15. YPYannis Pappas45:27

       No, he was-

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:27

       Real baseball fans are like, "You don't know shit."

   17. YPYannis Pappas45:29

       Yeah. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       "You fucking pussies."

   19. YPYannis Pappas45:30

       He was done in MLB in 2001.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:33

       Mm.

   21. YPYannis Pappas45:33

       And so, the book came out a couple years after. It must be okay.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:35

       Okay. So, they probably kicked him out of baseball or his career was over for whatever reason.

   23. YPYannis Pappas45:40

       He-

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       He fought for a while, you know?

   25. YPYannis Pappas45:42

       Did he really?

   26. JRJoe Rogan45:43

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. He fought, um, a gigantic man. Goddammit, I'm trying to remember.

   27. YPYannis Pappas45:47

       Was it MMA?

   28. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       Hong Man Choi. Yeah, he fought Hong Man Choi. No, I think it was a... Yeah, I think it was MMA. He fought Hong Man Choi in Japan. And, uh, 'cause Jose Canseco had an actual background in karate. He was a, a martial artist and he tried throwing some kicks and I think he popped his knee-

   29. YPYannis Pappas46:04

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:04

       ... and fell down. Then Hong Man Choi beat the shit out of him. But it was one of those deals where, like, you know, he, he needed money and-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:44

   I don't know. I…

   1. YPYannis Pappas1:00:00

      one in a stadium?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      I don't know. I don't think they did. I don't think they did. I w- I wa- I wanna say, if that was the case, it was, like, way late in his career. They think, like, the... Even, like, when he lost, like, lost later in his career, they think he took a dive 'cause there's a, there's a video of it where it look... Doesn't really look like he's hurt. He just kinda-

   3. YPYannis Pappas1:00:21

      Right.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

      ... lays down, like they might've threatened him or, you know, he might've got a big payday to take a dive. There's always a lot of speculation in boxing-

   5. YPYannis Pappas1:00:29

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

      ... about guys taking dives.

   7. YPYannis Pappas1:00:31

      Especially the mob was heavily involved in it.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

      Oh, yeah. My God, and you ima- imagine the amount of money you could win betting on a white guy-

   9. YPYannis Pappas1:00:38

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       ... against Jack Johnson.

   11. YPYannis Pappas1:00:39

       Yeah, a lot of money. (laughs) Like-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Ooh.

   13. YPYannis Pappas1:00:41

       Yeah, a lot of money.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

       Ooh.

   15. YPYannis Pappas1:00:43

       One of his quotes, I remember, like, he was so wild. I think he got a... He used to l-... like, drive a fast car. He made some money and, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       And what was fast back then? 35?

   17. YPYannis Pappas1:00:51

       35 miles an hour.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       (laughs)

   19. YPYannis Pappas1:00:52

       (laughs) Yeah. Like, wow. He, uh, he got a ticket and the guy... He was like, "Hey, don't give me a ticket now." He was like, "'Cause I'm gonna drive back."

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:00

       Yeah.

   21. YPYannis Pappas1:01:01

       "You give me two tickets."

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       Well, he... No. What it was is that they gave him a ticket for $50. He goes, "Here's 100 because I'm gonna be going the same speed the way back." (laughs)

   23. YPYannis Pappas1:01:08

       Wow. Yeah. That's not giving a fu-... I mean, he had no fucks to give.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:13

       Yeah.

   25. YPYannis Pappas1:01:13

       Yeah. I mean, what are you gonna do?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       Guys like him almost, like, uh, when you look at history, like, um, you know, is this sort of just a natural evolution thing? Like, no. Certain guys move history forward.

   27. YPYannis Pappas1:01:23

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:23

       Oh, yeah.

   29. YPYannis Pappas1:01:24

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:24

       Yeah. Yeah.

Episode duration: 3:49:29