The Joe Rogan ExperienceJRE MMA Show #39 with Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone
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Catching up: weight class plans, UFC PI testing, and the sudden Mike Perry matchup
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(glass clinks) Yes, sir. (ice cubes clinking)
- JRJoe Rogan
Cheers.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Cheers. (glasses clink)
- JRJoe Rogan
And we're live.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And we're live. There's so much to talk about.
- JRJoe Rogan
Obviously. So much to talk about.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's been years.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's been a while. It's been a while.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's been a while.
- JRJoe Rogan
And, uh, one of the reasons why you're here is 'cause I was supposed to have Jackson Win- I mean, we should just get right into this. I was supposed to-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You think we should get into it or should we-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... let the...
- JRJoe Rogan
Let the Budweiser settle in?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Let the Budweiser kick. I haven't even eaten breakfast. I specif-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
...cally didn't eat breakfast. I'm like, "I'm gonna drink beer with Joe. I already know he's getting me beer, and that way it can hit me a lot faster and I'll loosen up my lips a lot sooner."
- JRJoe Rogan
We can do whatever you want, man.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It's up to you. You're looking thick, dude. How much do you weigh now?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Man, so I've been, um... So here's a crazy story. I go to, I go to, um, the PI to... 'Cause Dana tells me I can't go to 55, so I go to talk to the PI-
- JRJoe Rogan
He told you you can't go? Why?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Well, 'cause he says I'm, I'm getting old and older. Well, I should say he said old. I'm getting old. And he's worried-
- JRJoe Rogan
The weight cut's too hard.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... the weight cut, right? So I said, "All right. I'm gonna go to the, to the PI. You guys have this amazing facility with..."
- JRJoe Rogan
The PI stands for Performance Institute, if people don't know.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah. For some... There you go.
- JRJoe Rogan
UFC Performance Institute.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And, uh, they have trainers and dietician, nutrition, right? So I'm, I'm going there to meet with them to get a, a guideline and some kind of plan that we can attack so I can go to Dana, like, "Look, I met with your guys. They said it's okay." While I'm there, second day into all this, like, crazy testing you do, right? They have all kinds of tests that they run where you get on these bikes and... I mean, like, fuck, I was at like a Olympic training center (laughs) testing. Um, uh, I wanted to say Joe Silva walked in, but then that's not right 'cause he's not there anymore. So, uh...
- JRJoe Rogan
Nick Maynard?
- 2:58 – 8:19
The Jackson-Wink split: why Cowboy says he was pushed out over money and loyalty
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, what was, what was gonna happen was Jackson and Winkeljohn were supposed to be here today.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
But you had... I mean, you've been with them for how long?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Man, I wanna say before my WC days. So I went on the-
- JRJoe Rogan
More than 10 years.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah, easily.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Easily more than 10 years. I, I, I don't think there's another athlete there that's been there longer b- besides Diego Sanchez who's been there since the beginning, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
Diego left for a little while.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... left for a little while, came back, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So me, you know, Holly, but she was with Wink before he, they merged. So, but, like, with actually Jackson, Jackson, I'm, like, there. I'm like the one.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I'm like it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You know, everyone else kind of either left the gym or is retired.
- JRJoe Rogan
So what the fuck happened? Like how, how did they decide that they were gonna corner Mike Perry? Who, by the way, I like a lot. Uh, there's noth-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And I got noth-... and I have nothing against to say-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... Perry either. I don't... This, this, this has nothing to do with, with Perry as a-
- JRJoe Rogan
He's fun dude. I like that guy a lot.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah. So I-
- JRJoe Rogan
I have no problem with him.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I mean, I took him on the boat, took him shooting with me and when he was down there part of, part of the action, you know, uh, Frank Lester, who's helping him with his pads, friend of mine, you know, so he comes out shooting with me, we go out in the boat and have fun, and, um... So this has nothing to do with them. I just asked when... I went to go to 55 and then Perry called me out and wants to fight. "Sure, no problem." But I went to talk to Greg and Wink and say, "Hey, this guy's brand new to the gym." Right? "He's only been here one camp, couple of months." I said, "I don't think that it's okay for him to come in and call me out." Like, that's not, not, not right. So if he is doing that, I don't think we should allow him to, to train here for this fight. And fucking Winkeljohn tells me, "Yeah, you know, I thought you called him out and, oh, he's just a, just a shit ass and lies, like, to your face." So to me he was like, "Yeah, sure, no problem. I'll clear it up and we won't have any issues." Um, and then the next day he calls me on the phone and says, "You know what? Uh, I thought about it. If we don't have Perry, then I don't get paid and I need to get paid for this fight and, uh, uh, 'cause you just pay Greg. I don't make any money through the gym, so we're just gonna go with him." And then basically he tells me I'm no longer welcome in the gym (laughs) and he is. He said the team had a meeting. Bullshit, the team didn't have a meeting. I talked to everybody. The, the... I mean, there was no meeting, there was no hab-... So to me it's like the loyalty of Wink taking over this gym is just, is just shit, man. Turned into, like, a puppy mill. It's all, it's all about money now and not the old Jackson. When, when I used to work out... We're just getting into this, I guess, huh? All right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Start chugging.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Start chugging. Shit. Back when I first moved down here and I went to Greg's when the Tapout guys picked me up and introduced me and all that, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Back when you were on the Tapout show. Remember that-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Show, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that, uh, reality show?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Well, Mask called Greg and got me. That's how I, I got involved with them, right? I... (laughs) All right.
- 8:19 – 16:51
“Puppy mill” gym culture: open-door sparring, unsafe intensity, and coaching quality complaints
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
to a pro class. Like, like, some guy couldn't just come here and knock on your door. Like you say, you get weirdos here all the time. Next thing you know, he has shin pads on and he's sparring. There's literally, at the new gym, bums coming off the street, I swear to God, and will fight these... And, will come in to put stuff on a fight. That's a true story. Random bums off the street. And, uh, that would never happen back in the day.
- JRJoe Rogan
So Greg doesn't run it anymore?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
No. He has... He's, like, so out of the loop. Winkle John runs the entire thing. And that's what-
- JRJoe Rogan
What is, what is Greg doing?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
He kinda stepped back for a couple of years, man. Like, kinda started doing other things and just kinda got burned out, I guess. Which is why I created the BMF Ranch. I needed somewhere to go and something to do, so I created my own place. Which is Wink's argument with me right now, saying, "You be at your old place. You don't ever come here," blah, blah, blah. I said, "Well, I don't ever come here because you just... The people you let in here is outlandish." Like, anybody... You pay $150, you can get on the mats and, and spar with Holly Holmes. You know what I mean? That's, that's what it's, it's come to down there. And back in the day, it was, like, private and just us and good pros, everyone there for the same mission, trying to, trying to get better, you know? But-
- JRJoe Rogan
I've talked to some other people that I, I don't wanna name.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
But they've said that, that when they go down there, new guys will come in and it's literally a fight.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It is a fight. It's... Uh, there's no, there's no, there's no A, B, C class anymore. It's like, literally, these guys come in, they wanna make a name on you. But sometimes when you're towards the end of a c- a fight camp, you don't need those new guy. You don't need that crazy sparring.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You need, you need the guys you trust. And-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Not some random guy I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So it's just, it's, it's asinine to me, man, what, what they've turned that place into.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, it's crazy that that still happens in MMA, because you're never gonna find that in boxing.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
In boxing, all sparring is controlled.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Controlled.
- JRJoe Rogan
You bring in the sparring partners. You know who you're working with.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So, I mean, we talk loyalty again. To me, with Greg, his name is on that building. It's not... It's Wink. Jackson Wink, right? Jackson fucking Wink. Your name's first even. When it came time to, to pick the decision and they said, "We wanna go with Perry," why the fuck didn't you stand... Because Greg's still with me. He's like, "Yeah, I'll just come to the ranch and we'll sort this out." And I'm like, "What the fuck are you talking about?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You tell me I can't come into the Jackson Wink gym, but you're gonna backdoor and come to my fucking house and we're gonna train to fight me while Perry is there at the gym. You see everything he does. And then you're gonna come and you're gonna train me. Not to mention you're holding classes there and he's watch... I mean, you might not be training him to beat me, but there's a lot of people there that have trained with me for fucking years. So to me, that was the, the point I was saying like, "Man, can we just not have him there for this camp?" I mean, there's a lot of secrets, um, that I... That, like, inner secrets that I have, like, you know, I'm f- I'm fucking scared to death to fight. Like, that's... That's the thing he can... That they can tell him. Like, or they tell him, "You know, go get Cowboy mad. You know, that's... He doesn't fight well when he's pissed off. So fucking piss him off. Poke at him, poke the bear, piss him off. Get him out of his element. Give him the..." You know? Shit like this, that-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So... And there's a lot of other things, small, dumb things that I do. And-
- JRJoe Rogan
Tendencies-
- 16:51 – 17:42
BMF Ranch training setup: building his own camp, needing direction, and living rural New Mexico
- JRJoe Rogan
So the way you were doing is that you have the BMF Ranch-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Correct.
- JRJoe Rogan
You have everything set up. You bring in all your sparring partners and you would be doing all your training out there. And how would Greg interact with that?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
He would, he would, he... We'd either show up down at Jackson's and spar, because they still have got... There's still bodies down there, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
There's still guys. We'd show up down at his bar, we'd bring all the guys down. Or Greg would come up, you know, three or four times a week to the ranch and we'd just-
- JRJoe Rogan
And how far is your ranch from-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
50 miles about.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah, a good hour. Solid hour drive (laughs) into the vast Nolans of New Mexico.
- JRJoe Rogan
New Mexico. Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you like living out there?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I do. I love it. I fucking love it. So I sold my house. I moved here. I fucking planted roots. Now, I could never, ever sell my place. I'm stuck in New Mexico. I'm moving back to Colorado. I'ma buy-
- JRJoe Rogan
Why would you never sell it?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Because I'd have to sell it to like a crazy cult leader. So if anybody out there-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... listening wants to operate a cult, I have the-
- JRJoe Rogan
Are you talking to one right now?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I have the, I have the perfect house.
- 17:42 – 21:48
Ranch life, wildlife talk, and the Copenhagen chew lesson
- JRJoe Rogan
Talk to me about what kind of acreage are you talking about?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah. Well, I got 40 acres.
- JRJoe Rogan
What do we got here?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
40 acres. Plenty of rooms, buildings.
- JRJoe Rogan
Go ahead. What kind of animals are in your vicinity?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Um... Oh, well.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah. You-
- JRJoe Rogan
This might be where we start.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
There's, there's... About an hour drive, you can run into some elk.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
We have, uh, we got antelope, um, everywhere. Which is crazy thing about antelope, but do you know they don't jump fences?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, they won't jump fences.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's crazy, right? You can just literally corner them into a-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... into a, into a, you know-
- JRJoe Rogan
They occasionally jump a fence. They've been known to jump a fence occasionally, but it's very, very rare.You know they evolved, um, before the Ice Age? They evolved to get away from cheetahs. Apparently-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
How are you so smart? That's what I want to know.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) I'm not smart. I just remember things.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Dude is fucking insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
There was a, uh, a mass extinction of, uh, giant land mammals, it was somewhere around 12,000 years ago in North America. And before then, there was cheetahs. There was actual North American cheetahs.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
There was a North American lion that's bigger than the African lion. How about that shit? Giant ass fucking lion. And that's where these fucking things evolved.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Did you want another chew of this? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I'm gonna try that shit. I swallowed it last time.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
That's the only... That's the main... Whenever I meet people for autographs, they're like, "Dude, I can't believe you got Rogan to fucking take a chew."
- JRJoe Rogan
I did not just take it. I swallowed it. I didn't know what I was doing.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Like a man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
All right. Round two. Here we go.
- 21:48 – 29:12
Loyalty lessons from family and the emotional fallout from the gym situation
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I fucking love it. So yeah, um, greatest dude, man. Taught me a lot. Taught me a lot about loyalty and respect, man. And, and I called my grandma on my way here today, and I said, "I'm gonna fucking set fire to this bridge to Jackson's," and she wrote me back and said, "Well, you need to, like... Are you attacking them logically, or are you out of anger? Which, which direction are we going here?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Powerful, Grandma.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right?
- JRJoe Rogan
On the ball.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Which direction are we going?
- JRJoe Rogan
Good way of thinking.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And, uh, she said-
- JRJoe Rogan
I should probably start spitting soon, huh?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(laughs) Yeah, you gotta, you definitely gotta spit.
- JRJoe Rogan
I didn't spit all last time.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
She said, "Make sure... You know, always in life, don't ever paint yourself into a corner." Like, these are major lessons she always gave me. "Don't burn bridges you can't cross."
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
But she told me today, "Fucking let it go. Let them have it." They, they, they want to step across the line. They drew the line in the sand. Let them want to burn their own... Make them feel so bad they want to burn their own fucking gym to the ground, you know?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's like, to me, having the moment for Greg to say, "You know what, Wink? My name's on this fucking gym. Cowboy's been with me from the start." There's been times two or three camps ago where I've trained Greg maybe one or two times, and I still write him a check. I still write him a check, and I pay him because he got me into this motherfucker, and loyalty to me is the, the top, top of the line thing, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
It's top of the m- line to me too. That's why you're here.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's why they're not.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And, you know, and it's unfortunate because I liked Greg a lot, and I, and I respect-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I love Greg.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't know much about Winkeljohn other than his work-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
... what he's done with Holly and a lot of other people. And, uh, I was real torn up about this. That's why I contacted you.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Sure, sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, when y- when you told me that they were gonna-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
This is, like, a crazy scenario all around for everybody across the board. Like, wait, what are you... Like, what? What the fuck you mean? What's happening here?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You know, and... It's, it's, it's crazy. It's wild. I appreciate you sticking by my side. Um-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, it was a, it was a situation where I didn't know what to do.
- 29:12 – 34:33
Vegas, Monster conference, and Cowboy’s surprise breakdancing battle
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Man. Fucking Vegas, man. Vegas is definitely a two night town, man. It's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. It's rough on the liver.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's rough on everything. Just... It just takes you-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) The soul.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It takes you the fuck in, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I was just there last night. I was out there for a big Monster conference and it's just like, you, you sit in your room and you're like, "Well, I could just go down and, uh, gamble, I guess." And then you start gambling. Have you ever played Baccarat?
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't play shit.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I have never either and I decided we, we tried Baccarat. Like 007. I was like, "We'll be like 007. We'll go in there." I played with, with one of the higher ups in Monster and he took us down there and we played this game and, uh... Fuck, we won a shitload of money. A shitload of money. There was like five-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's the trick.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You want some of this?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah, I'll take some of that. I don't really smoke much pot, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
Let's see.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... I'll do it just so I'm with you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Take care with that.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That stuff is... That they grew that on the moon.
- NANarrator
I saw a video of him breakdancing the other night.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You breakdance?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I do. I used to. I used to really breakdance.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So I'm at the Monster conference...
- NANarrator
Did we lose the glass top?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I'm at the Monster conference and, um, Monster now has a breakdancing team.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) They're what?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Monster got me some badass bags, man.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah.
- 34:33 – 35:28
Social media negativity and why online criticism gets under Cowboy’s skin
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Crazy (laughs) t... And not only, not only do we get to watch, but we also get the shit-ass guy in his basement that gets to talk shit about that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, there's a little bit of that.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
A lot... There's a lot of it, that-
- JRJoe Rogan
You can't pay attention to that, cowboy.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I, I... It, it burns my soul.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, but you're too good to pay attention to that.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I, I hate... I wish I was too good to say that. But I, I get... It's just like if I was coming here, and someone out in the parking lot said something to me, I'd say, "What the fuck?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
"What the fuck are you talking to like that?" You know? Like, we'd have-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... it'd be a moment there, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah, so-
- JRJoe Rogan
For sure.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... that's, that's how I still feel today. But, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's why you're a cowboy.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah, true.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's why you're who you are.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
True.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what'll help you a little bit with this?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
A little of that new mood?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
New mood, the- the super new mood.
- JRJoe Rogan
Get you some of this super new mood.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
The super new mood. The super new mood.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Get you some of the real new mood.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
That's it. That's a gift from me to you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Thanks, sir. Appreciate it, brother.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I'm, I'm glad you enjoyed that. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, man.
- 35:28 – 52:48
Cowboy’s first psychedelic: Aubrey Marcus DMT ceremony and the vivid two-trip experience
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So you speaking about DMT. I'm... Okay, let, let me... Let's back it up one more.
- JRJoe Rogan
One more. Beep.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I've never done any drugs in my entire life, ever.
- JRJoe Rogan
You did a lot of drugs in here already. I did nicotine, you did alcohol.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I did... We're back, uh, we're backed up. Remember, we're backed up.
- JRJoe Rogan
Scooch.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I've never done any drug ever. Never, ever.
- JRJoe Rogan
What year was this?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Two years ago.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, you did booze.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Well, I don't... That's a... That's legal.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, legal.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Legal drugs.
- JRJoe Rogan
The law.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Oh, duh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, it's under the law.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Um...
- JRJoe Rogan
You're a product of drugs.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I am a product of drugs. Very-
- JRJoe Rogan
This is not a bad drug.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... pharmaceutical drugs, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Budweiser's a fantastic drug. It's made for great jokes, fun times, right?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
How many fucking good times-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Hey.
- JRJoe Rogan
... have people had because of Budweiser?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
God bless you, Budweiser. Salud. So-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a good drug.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I've never, I've never-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well-regulated. You know, you know what one bottle does. That's what I like.
- 52:48 – 1:03:48
Parenthood and competitiveness: raising ‘Danger’ and rejecting participation-trophy culture
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And I just had a baby boy and I can't wait to stand on the sidelines of these soccer games and-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... football games. And I can't wait to show up to fucking track day and I'm bringing fucking medals and trophies because my kid's not getting a fucking participation ribbon.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
He's here to win. Right? We're, we... When do we draw the line back of, of... You don't just, just because you are weaker, you, you get a participation ribbon? There's no more competition and, and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, there's no understanding of psychology. You can't protect people from bad feelings like losing. Those... That's what propels you.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
And-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's what makes you better.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... that's what we're... that's what they're doing. So-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... you're telling me if my kid's an awesome, awesome football player and he's on the team running touchdowns, he has to sit the bench because Tommy didn't get enough time to play? And not only that, Tommy, you're his weak ass dad who fucking secretly emails the coach behind my back?
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Oh. You know what I mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Like that shit to me... What the fuck?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
So, I, I can't-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I'm so excited to, to, to join this new, new journey of-
- JRJoe Rogan
Parenthood.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... parenthood. It's so-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... crazy, man, these kids. And-
- JRJoe Rogan
This is not all parents though. You know, some parents realize how stupid it is. There's parents out there just like you.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
They're just like, "This is ridiculous."
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Ridiculous.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like kids have gotta... This is a guy that's, uh, his, his daughter goes to school with, uh, my daughter and, uh, I always gravitate towards him 'cause he got a neck tattoo.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like immediately I'm like, "Anybody-
- 1:03:48 – 1:08:09
The ‘high’ of fighting and the fantasy of future medicine that erases permanent damage
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what I mean? And learn about yourself that you can overcome, that you can make mistakes and fail, and then try it again and succeed. And then what ... The, the bad feelings that you get, like, when you're worried about losing, you know?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And these, these, these fears. It's because winning is so high, man. I've seen you win so many times. I've called so many of your fights. And, you know, I look right in your eyes whenever you win, and there's-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... this psycho... Like, "This dude's on fire right now."
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
I love it.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's just like-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
There's no other ... I c- I couldn't even explain to you that feeling, because-
- JRJoe Rogan
No one can.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... nobody can.
- JRJoe Rogan
No one can.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It is like-
- JRJoe Rogan
You have to do it.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Other than, "Fuck! Fuck yeah!" Right? Like, that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. (laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
... the, "Fuck yeah!" That's the feeling.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You know what I mean? Like, that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
But it's "fuck yeah" times like a million.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Woo.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
You know? And, and, God, it's, it's the highest highs, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
It's just insane how, how cool it feels. Um-
- JRJoe Rogan
I've seen, like ... W- with you particularly, like, KOs.
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, there's something about KOs when you just crack someone and then it's over, and then you're, you're walking around and like-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(sighs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You're, you're like glowing. Like-
- DCDonald "Cowboy" Cerrone
(laughs)
Episode duration: 2:35:08
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