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Joe Rogan Experience #1837 - Gina Carano

Gina Carano is an actress and former mixed martial artist. Her new film, "Terror on the Prairie," is available now through www.dailywire.com

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  1. 0:000:06

    Intro

    1. NA

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

  2. 0:061:20

    Gina’s first podcast + why she’s an “OG” in women’s MMA

    1. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) And we're up for your first ever podcast, Gina Clough.

    2. GC

      Oh my goodness.

    3. JR

      (laughs)

    4. GC

      (laughs) What if I don't have anything to say?

    5. JR

      You do. I guarantee you do. D- how did you avoid doing podcasts for this long?

    6. GC

      Just saying no. I-

    7. JR

      Really?

    8. GC

      ... I just tell people, well, I'm, I'm kind of just don't know what's ever gonna come out of my mouth, so it's gonna get... I have, uh, no idea what we're gonna talk about today.

    9. JR

      Well, that's good. It's always better that way. I mean, we could talk about anything. We can talk about... Well, there was a moment, um, where you were gonna come back. You're the OG.

    10. GC

      Oh, (laughs) well, I mean, gosh, there was a-

    11. JR

      No, you're the OG.

    12. GC

      Thank you.

    13. JR

      Is, uh, d- in terms of women's MMA, who the fuck is more OG than you?

    14. GC

      I mean-

    15. JR

      You're the original star.

    16. GC

      ... well, like, not MMA, but like Lucia, Riker...

    17. JR

      Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

    18. GC

      Um...

    19. JR

      And Muay Thai, yeah, and in boxing, yeah, and then there's Christy Martin and-

    20. GC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... you know, a lot of other folks that, yeah.

    22. GC

      And then there was like the Debbie Purcells and Erin, um-

    23. JR

      Anne Wolf.

    24. GC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      There's, there's been a lot of, like, women combat sports athletes, but in terms of MMA, you're, you're the OG.

    26. GC

      Well, I, I appreciate that coming from you. That means a lot. I always-

    27. JR

      What was it like back then?

    28. GC

      Um... (laughs)

  3. 1:204:29

    Early gym culture: skepticism toward women fighting and earning respect

    1. JR

      Because, like, you were the OG when it was weird to be fighting, and it was weird to be fighting as a woman.

    2. GC

      Yeah. The, uh, it was just, um, you would go into the gym and it was just, uh, well, we started at Master Totty's, so there was a, a couple girls there that really liked to fight, but they liked to more look good and the attention that, that fighting came from.

    3. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    4. GC

      Um, it wasn't all about, like, the fights, so...

    5. JR

      There's a lot of that now, right?

    6. GC

      Now, it's like, like that, but, um, it was like that then, too. Um, I don't know, a lot of, like, the, what's her name? Erin... God. Is Debbie Purcell and Erin something...

    7. JR

      Erin Tohill.

    8. GC

      Tohill.

    9. JR

      Yes.

    10. GC

      So, they were actually the people I would say that started way bef-

    11. JR

      Yeah, Erin was-

    12. GC

      ... before us.

    13. JR

      ... r- she's been around a long time. She's very good. Yep.

    14. GC

      And Cyborg was doing it as well.

    15. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    16. GC

      Um, so...

    17. JR

      Tara LaRosa.

    18. GC

      Tara LaRosa. Um...

    19. JR

      Old school.

    20. GC

      Yeah. (laughs) I can't... I know. No, we're-

    21. JR

      The early days.

    22. GC

      ... we're old. (laughs)

    23. JR

      Yeah, we're old. But the early days were interesting because, like, you know, there was a lot of, uh, people disparaging women fighting.

    24. GC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      You know? Including Dana White.

    26. GC

      Yeah. Um-

    27. JR

      You know?

    28. GC

      Including most of the guys I trained with, which I love them, but, you know, even Mark Fichter, he was like, "No. Get out of here. I'm not gonna train any women. Okay, fine. I'll train you, Gina. It'll be cool, but..."

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. GC

      Um, and now that's all he does, you know? Um, you know, even, uh, let's say the Diaz boys. Like, I remember s- fighting on the same car as Nick- card as Nick Diaz, and he was sitting next to me, and, of course, I was just nervous 'cause I absolutely adored him. Um, still do. I think he's amazing. I just haven't seen him in, like, a decade. But he was like... You know, we're sitting there before a fight, having our post, you know, weigh-in dinner, and he was like, "You know, I gotta tell you, I don't really like women fighting."

  4. 4:298:43

    Fight fandom, booing, and why MMA scoring doesn’t reflect reality

    1. JR

      It's just part of the game. It's... But, you know, if you, if you wanna say, like, here's a good example. Like, the, the last UFC, uh, where it was, uh, Zhang Weili versus Joanna Jedrzejczyk, and then, uh, Valentina Shevchenko, um, versus, uh... Jesus Christ. Why am I not remembering her name?

    2. NA

      Uh, Talia Santos.

    3. GC

      Is it the Chinese girl that-

    4. JR

      No, no, no. Valentina Shevchenko had a really tough fight-

    5. NA

      Talia Santos.

    6. JR

      Talia Santos. Wi- uh, which was an amazing fight. Uh, split decision, which could have gone either way. Um, and a lot of people are like, "Ugh, this card sucks." I'm like, because of those two fights? Like, you, you think the card sucks 'cause two, like, super ultra competitive women fights that were insane, and one of them was a spinning back fist knockout? Do, do you have-

    7. GC

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      ... a problem with that?

    9. GC

      Yeah, right? Like, I, I don't get, I don't understand where people get off on the internet, um, judging any... Like, when I'm in a building or at a fight when people are booing, it, like, it boils my blood.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. GC

      It's like, you get in there and do that, you know?

    12. JR

      W-

    13. GC

      Until you've done that, then you can, you know, talk about it.

    14. JR

      It's just, like, do you boo like that at baseball? 'Cause baseball, at its most exciting, is not as exciting as two people clinching. (laughs)

    15. GC

      Yeah, maybe the fight fans just need to, like, get a couple more, I don't know, hot dogs or beers and just sit back and enjoy a little bit.

    16. JR

      Well, it's, it's casuals, unfortunately, you know? And it's a lot of people that don't, they don't appreciate what's going on or how hard it is. Look, I can understand some fights where people get bored and they boo, especially in comparison to some other fights, you know?

    17. GC

      I'm, I'm never going to be the one booing. I mean-

    18. JR

      No. I'm w- I wouldn't boo either, but you know, there's some times where it's just like, "Oh, Jesus Christ."

    19. GC

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      You know?

    21. GC

      And you're at all of them, so... (laughs)

    22. JR

      (laughs) I'm at of a lot of them. This, this-

    23. GC

      What do you think-

    24. JR

      ... past one was the first one I did.

    25. GC

      ... what do you think happens there? Like, with like the ... you know, when they're just, you know, nobody's trying to even like make ... they're just stuttering and, and in front of each other?

    26. JR

      Like the Rose Namajunas fight? Like that last fight?

    27. GC

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      Yeah, that was-

    29. GC

      Which I'm a ... I'm ... I love her by the way.

    30. JR

      I do too. Yeah, uh, yeah, I do too. Oh, I, uh, I love Carla Esparza too. I don't u- I don't get it. I don't know. I, I've, uh ... sh- (clicks tongue) You know, I'm a big fan of Pat Barry. I love him, but he was saying something different than the rest of the corner were saying, you know?

  5. 8:4313:57

    How Gina found fighting: partying, Master Toddy, and “Thai-style” tough love

    1. JR

      It's, um, it's interesting though, like for you to watch these women become superstars now. Like when you watch Ronda, because Ronda was ... it was you and then it was Ronda, and you most certainly paved the way for someone like Ronda.

    2. GC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Like what was that like?

    4. GC

      Um, I don't know. For me, at the time, it was just, okay, so this ... I was going to a college for psychology (laughs) and I'd show up to c- you know, the college classes in full on pajamas. I didn't care. I wasn't paying attention. I didn't want to be there. I just ... I felt like this is the thing you do after high school, right? You go to college and, um, I don't really think that it did me any favors because I'm a type of person that, you know, like idle hands. If I'm not interested in doing this, then, um, I'll get into trouble.

    5. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    6. GC

      And so, um, then we started getting into trouble and, um, I guess what happened was Kevin, um, Ross, who you had on your show, um, and he's ... I've known him for 21 years now. We're like that couple that's always on and off and nobody ... everybody's like ... my family just stopped asking. (laughs) They're like, "Are you together? Now? This Christmas?" Um, so, so he decided one night to ... he'd always wanted to, um, do mixed martial arts and he always loved Bruce Lee. And we were drinking, of course, these 40 ounces of Olde English, which I don't know if you tried one lately.

    7. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    8. GC

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      Olde English makes you reckless. (laughs)

    10. GC

      This- (laughs) And it's just like this much of it hurts. Like-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. GC

      And we used to drink full ... we used to try to get ... I used to get to like a one and a half, like-

    13. JR

      That is strong stuff.

    14. GC

      Yeah. It's ... I tried it and I was like, "I cannot believe I used to drink this poison." Um, but his dad had asked him, you know, "Well, I'll, I'll sponsor you for your first couple lessons if you promise me to put that down." And that night he put it down and he went and started training with a guy get- called, uh, Master Totty. Um, he's this Thai man who of course came from Thailand, um, but he went over to the UK, taught over there, and then he came to the States and, you know, like, uh, taught people like Angela Parr and John Wayne Parr, um, who came before me as well, um, Kit Cope and all of them. So, um, Kevin walked into the right gym and learned Muay Thai from the very authentic Thai style. And then I would go in there (laughs) and, uh, Master Chan, who I think is still in Las Vegas, he ... I w- I would, I would walk in and I'm still drinking and partying and everything. He was like, "Oh baby, you're fat. You need to lose weight." (laughs)

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. GC

      And I was like, "Now that didn't come from my dad. That came from this Thai man that has nothing to gain in my life but to be like, 'Hey, you need to work out.'" (laughs) And so I immediately signed up for 20 lessons with him and, um-

    17. JR

      So he fat shamed you into training?

    18. GC

      Yeah. Yeah.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. GC

      Uh, I don't know if you know this. Thais are really good at that. And I-

    21. JR

      Are they really?

    22. GC

      Yeah. I probably need Master Chan back in my life right now. (laughs)

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. GC

      If I'm being really honest, like he's probably like, "Oh baby, baby, get back into training." (laughs) Um-

    25. JR

      They're so friendly though. I wouldn't think that Thai people would be that-

    26. GC

      Have you been to Thailand?

    27. JR

      Yes.

    28. GC

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      I enjoyed it over there.

    30. GC

      They're always like (laughs) they're like ... like the first two weeks of training suck so bad because they're like, "Oh, too big, too big." (laughs)

  6. 13:5717:31

    The internet vs real life: outrage, Twitter toxicity, and fan expos

    1. JR

      That's the internet.

    2. GC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      That's a lot of the internet.

    4. GC

      That's the entire Twitter, yeah.

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. GC

      Yeah. Uh-

    7. JR

      That's a lot of it. It's, it's super unhealthy for them, too. They don't even realize it. They're spitting out all this, like, emotional poison and they're doing it all day long.

    8. GC

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      That's like... That's not good.

    10. GC

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      It's not good for you either. You, like, you can't feel good about yourself-

    12. GC

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... if you're just being mean to people all day.

    14. GC

      We- Yeah, but that says more about them than it does about you, uh-

    15. JR

      Yeah. It does. And, you know, look, people talk like that all the time. The difference is, it seems different when it's written down.

    16. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      You know, like if you just had people alone in a barber shop, they would just be talking shit-

    18. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      ... insulting people.

    20. GC

      Yes, which is great.

    21. JR

      Uh, but now it's written down.

    22. GC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      That's the difference. Louis C.K. said that to me once, and when he said it, I was like, "Oh, uh, uh, now I thought about it differently." He goes, "It's just talk."

    24. GC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      Like, people always talk like that, but now it's written down. It looks different when you read, you read it.

    26. GC

      And it's so not how people really are-

    27. JR

      Right.

    28. GC

      ... in person. Like, I just did, um, a Dallas fan expo for three days, and there was not one person in that whole entire expo that said one thing negative, hateful. There was no-

    29. JR

      Yeah, isn't that weird?

    30. GC

      Yeah. I'm like-

  7. 17:3131:09

    Cancel culture, mandates, and constitutional-rights arguments (plus Patricia Arquette clash)

    1. GC

      I have Patricia Arquette, you know who that is?

    2. JR

      Sure.

    3. GC

      She's coming at me on Twitter right now. (laughs)

    4. JR

      She is?

    5. GC

      Yes. (laughs)

    6. JR

      For what? The, the actress?

    7. GC

      Yes. Um, who I absolutely, uh, look up to, you know. Um, she did a recent film, I think it was on Apple, called, uh, Severance, which is the microchip in the brain, really cool series. Um, and of course, True Romance was one of my favorite movies-

    8. JR

      Yeah.

    9. GC

      ... to this day, and she's coming after me. So I had posted an article about if there's any time to stand up, it's right now. Um, is there gonna... If there's any time to get canceled for something or stand up or have there be some con- sort of controversy, it's like right now standing up for our constitutional rights. I feel like that's a good time to stand.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. GC

      And she got on there and said (laughs) she said, "They wouldn't know about their constitutional rights or something if it s- it slapped them or smacked them in the face." And I was like, "What?" Like...

    12. JR

      Hmm.

    13. GC

      And so I responded to it and I said, "They," meaning, "are you saying they are stupid? Are you calling half or more than half the country stupid? They don't know about their constitutional rights because all's you read right here is Fox News?" And then she went into this massive spiel about, like, the January 6th and everything, which had nothing to do with the article.

    14. JR

      What was the article about?

    15. GC

      It was, um, it was just about me talking about the cancel culture and how, you know, it, the mob came after me and-It had nothing about- it ha- nothing to do about the election or nothing to do about January 6th.

    16. JR

      What, wh- how did constitutional rights get factored into that?

    17. GC

      Um, just how I've been, kind of, very, (inhales) I guess, uh, anti-lockdown, anti-forcing people to vaccinate and forcing people to mask. Um, I've been very vocal about that, I guess vocal by being on Twitter and sharing quotes and things like that. Just, I feel like, um, you know, I feel like we've lost a lot of our rights by, um, this fearmongering and, um, overreach of government. So I don't know. (laughs)

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. GC

      Yeah. So-

    20. JR

      Well, no, I think you're right about that and I, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that. I think it's an important thing to say.

    21. GC

      And I was saying it early.

    22. JR

      Yeah.

    23. GC

      So I was saying it-

    24. JR

      You were saying it boldly.

    25. GC

      Early.

    26. JR

      You were saying it when people were scared.

    27. GC

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      And that's one of the things that happened is that everybody got separated from everybody. It was an incredibly anxious time, everybody was a bit- so many people are so filled with anxiety already.

    29. GC

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      Right? And then you take something like a deadly disease where you have to be locked in your house and then they're going to keep you from working. So a lot of people are in full panic because they're going to lose their business. Like, how many people are out there check to check? Most of America? And then all of a sudden you can't go to work-

  8. 31:0942:20

    Lab-leak, Fauci, pharma influence, and why trust collapsed

    1. JR

      It's definitely different than the flu. It's a, this is an engineered virus.

    2. GC

      Right.

    3. JR

      This is a virus that was created-

    4. GC

      That they didn't purposefully-

    5. JR

      ... in a fucking lab.

    6. GC

      Did they-

    7. JR

      I don't think they did it on purpose. I really don't. No, I think, I think the Chinese lab in which they did it in Wuhan was so bad-... it would, they, they were cited for safety violations as recently as, I think, 2018. I think the real question is, why were they doing this kind of research?

    8. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    9. JR

      And the people that understand the research that they were doing, like, uh, uh, Barack Obama stopped that stuff from happening in 2014.

    10. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      He put the kibosh on that back then. When the Trump Administration was kind of chaotic, that's when they started it all up again.

    12. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    13. JR

      And they were lying about funding it. They were lying about funding it. They were saying, "We don't fund it." But you do fund EcoHealth Alliance, and EcoHealth Alliance funds the Wuhan lab. So, shut the fuck up-

    14. GC

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      ... this is all crazy. Like, these guys, the, the emails alone that were transferred back and forth from Peter Daszak and, and, uh, Anthony Fauci, and, and all these people that were involved in the funding of this research-

    16. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      ... just the way they were framing it, and the way they were disparaging legitimate scientists and legitimate doctors that were not in lockstep in, in agreement with them, it's fucking shameful.

    18. GC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      It's not scientific.

    20. GC

      Shameful as in people need to be in prison, maybe?

    21. JR

      It's political, it's big. Fuck yeah.

    22. GC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      And not only that, they, they, they should, it, this should be a thing. Like, Rand Paul's the only one who calls them out on it.

    24. GC

      Yeah. S-

    25. JR

      And he does it on a regular basis, and he's 100% correct-

    26. GC

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      ... in the things that he's saying about the funding of this-

    28. GC

      He's been a rock star.

    29. JR

      ... particular type of research. 'Cause when you see Fauci say that it's not gain of function research, but that's not true, 'cause the NIH says it's gain of function research.

    30. GC

      Yeah. Yeah.

  9. 42:201:04:32

    Health, obesity, and “one-size-fits-all” medicine skepticism

    1. JR

      Delta's rough. Some people get bad from Omicron, but, you know, a lot of people that really... I've... I have friends that got really sick from Omicron, and they're vaccinated. And they got really sick from it. And there's, uh, there's some concern that Omicron might be what's called a vaccine escape variant. What a vaccine escape variant is, is when you have variants that are what they call le- uh, uh, excuse me, vaccines that are leaky vaccines, vaccines that offer protection but don't provide you immunity, right?

    2. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      Like, so you... It offers you some, some...... antibodies, and it protects you from getting really seriously ill, but it doesn't stop you from getting it. Well, then the virus figures out a way to get around those antibodies. So, what it does is it kind of mutates and favors the, the vaccine variants which can get through your antibodies. So, like say if, if you're vaccinated for the original strain, right? The original strain of COVID. Well, that's not around anymore.

    4. GC

      Right.

    5. JR

      So, you have B cell and T cell memory that protect you somewhat, but when your body tries to react and produce antibodies for that original strain, that original strain is not around anymore.

    6. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      And then, this Omicron just, brrt, sneaks in through the door 'cause you were, you were like, "Where is COVID? I don't, where is it? We're looking for it out here." And this Omicron COVID just, vrrat, sneaks right in the back door and people get really sick.

    8. GC

      Right.

    9. JR

      So, this is the speculation why some people get really sick that are vaccinated with Omicron. Whereas a lot of people that are not vaccinated that get Omicron aren't getting as sick.

    10. GC

      Right, right.

    11. JR

      But that's also anecdotal.

    12. GC

      It's kind of weird though, like-

    13. JR

      It could be those people that aren't getting as sick, were healthier, they take better care of themselves. There's so many variables.

    14. GC

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      I just don't like when people tell me there's a one-size-fits-all approach to health.

    16. GC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      'Cause I know there's, I know there's people that are doing way more for their health.

    18. GC

      Right.

    19. JR

      They're taking vitamins, they're resting and exercising, and there's other people that are drinking and doing heroin.

    20. GC

      Right.

    21. JR

      We can't say that these people are, they both need the same treatment for a fucking disease.

    22. GC

      Right. Or there's like people who are like, you know, 350 pounds-

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. GC

      ... that are like, "Well, I'm fat, so you have to take this for me for my health."

    25. JR

      Exactly.

    26. GC

      Um, you know, like me and Kevin are good examples. Like, you know, I love food. I love drink. You know, uh, you know, I love to hang out. Um, he loves to get up and run his six miles (laughs) , you know? He loves to, uh-

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. GC

      Well, for ... He doesn't do very good with whiskey (laughs) so he's, he's not really allowed to, for whiskey. But, you know, he doesn't, very rarely, um, pollute his body.

    29. JR

      Right.

    30. GC

      And in my head, you know, it's like I can't, until I'm doing everything I possibly can to take care of myself, um, and be responsible for my health, who am I going to be to be like, "Hey, you have to take ... This is what I would take. I would take these antibiotics, you have to take these antibiotics," you know?

  10. 1:04:321:17:24

    Everyday medicine risks + comic relief detours (Tylenol, cake, Dana White parodies)

    1. JR

      I read a terrible story about a woman who got COVID and died from Tylenol.

    2. GC

      (laughs) Well, jeez. (laughs)

    3. JR

      No, really, you can die from Tylenol.

    4. GC

      So-

    5. JR

      Yeah. So this is what it was.

    6. GC

      We need to-

    7. JR

      This woman got COVID-

    8. GC

      ... we kind of need to break it down, right? We need to kind of, like, go back to, um, you know, water, healthy eating, you know, kind of break our- ourselves back down, put away, you know, put away the things that we're using that are, is hurting us and, um, try to kind of get our systems clean. And then we can really see what the big problems are, you know? And then we can kind of figure out how to get healthier from there, I think.

    9. JR

      Yeah. I should be clear about this. I'm not saying you shouldn't take Tylenol. What I'm saying is that there is a dose that's lethal for Tylenol, and it's not really that high.

    10. GC

      Really?

    11. JR

      No, it's not. This woman, she had COVID and she was in, you know, she was in pain. She had the horrible body aches and she took Tylenol and it wasn't helping, and so she took more and that wasn't helping, and she took more and she wound up in the hospital and she had liver failure.

    12. GC

      I think that's important to know. (laughs)

    13. JR

      Um, it is important to know-

    14. GC

      Mm-hmm.

    15. JR

      ... because a lot of people don't know that Tylenol will fucking kill you.

    16. GC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Like, what is the lethal dose of Tylenol? Let's find that out.

    18. GC

      I was all, I was using Tylenol Rapid Release when I was sick. Um, I was like (laughs) topping that thing-

    19. JR

      Tylenol, Tylenol will fuck you up.

    20. GC

      So-

    21. JR

      It will fuck you up.

    22. GC

      So you don't-

    23. JR

      Well, I didn't take anything. When I had my knee surgery-

    24. GC

      I was do-

    25. JR

      ... I didn't take shit.

    26. GC

      Really?

    27. JR

      Yeah. I was like, "I'm not taking nothing." When I had my first, when I had my first knee surgery, I think... I can't remember if they gave me Percocets or Vicodins. I can't remember what it was. But I do remember I sold it to my friend Jeff.

    28. GC

      (laughs) How did you know that guy?

    29. JR

      Who was the, the local drug dealer at the pool hall.He was ... (laughs) This guy, he looked like-

    30. GC

      We all have that friend.

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