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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2286 - Antonio Brown' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2286 - Antonio Brown

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
What's going on, man?
How you doing, man?
Good to see you, baby.
Papa, look at that ring.
Yeah.
Holy shit.
Good to see you.
Pleasure to meet you.
The most fun follow on Twitter by far.
Excuse me, X.
Thank you.
Whatever they want to call it.
You're the most fun.
Thank you, man.
You made my job easy, you know.
All the entertainment you give me.
How did you decide to start doing this?
How did you, first of all, were you always this funny?
I would like to think so.
But like, your social media presence, like, I forget, I think Tony Hinchcliffe
told me about you.
He's like, dude, you have to follow Antonio Brown.
You must follow, he's the most must follow on the internet.
I'm like, really?
And then I go to your page and I'm fucking dying laughing.
And we're sharing it around the green room with the comedy stuff.
Like, ah.
And then when I won crack of the day, I was like, yes.
Yes.
Of the year.
Cracker of the year.
That's right.
Yeah.
I try to use X as a good platform to bring laughter and making, you know,
bringing humor back.
Yeah.
Making people feel good.
Well, you can get wild.
Yeah, I get a little wild sometimes.
You can get wild on X.
Yeah, you can get a little wild on X, but I'll try to.
Twitter, they would have got rid of you a long time ago.
Yeah, you would have been canceled.
Probably would have got rid of me, too, if Elon didn't buy Twitter.
Yeah, we thanks to Elon Musk for giving us that platform to be able to be
expressive.
You know, to bring in comedy back, bring in entertainment.
Fun.
Yeah.
Just ridiculous shit.
Yeah, yeah.
Have some fun again.
Have some fun again, yeah.
What happened?
Everybody tightened up for like five years.
It was really tight.
Yeah, so how did you come up with the hashtag CTESPN?
Because that's my favorite.
I feel like when I stopped playing football and I walked off the field, people
was like,
this guy is crazy.
Like, he's retarded.
He's illiterate.
So, you know, I was like, you know what?
Maybe I could, you know, rebrand CTESPN with, you know, giving people
perspective of different
challenges people face and great individuals, how they overcome adversity and
just kind of
share and tune perspective of, you know, how people was getting through trauma.
No matter if you're a football player, I mean, what it's like for you?
You started damn UFC, UFC, yeah.
Yeah.
UFC.
The reality of head trauma is something that we're like, as a society, we're
just embracing
over the last 10, 20 years.
Like, it wasn't for that concussion movie.
I think that opened up a lot of people's eyes.
That Will Smith movie.
Yes.
And the story, that doctor, of him finding how many people have, like,
significant brain
trauma from football.
Yes.
So for me, I try to use it because this is a serious standpoint.
A lot of ex-players and players have actually has been diagnosed and, you know,
passed away
from CT, so for me, you know, on a serious point of, you know, bringing record
awareness
and bringing, you know, a reality standpoint of what athletes and people
fighting or anyone
in their daily lives facing from head trauma of just people writing them off,
you know,
and encouraging therapy, encouraging how do you get through tough situation and
then making
it funny.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I feel like nowadays, if you do something crazy, people are like, oh,
yeah, that guy's
crazy.
So it's like, let's just show why they're crazy in CTSPN and show the cause of
the craziness.
Yeah, I mean, there's a real cause, the craziness, and we're ignoring it as a
society because
we love football, we love MMA, we love boxing, you know, so we just kind of
like...
Overlook it with the entertainment.
Keep moving.
Keep hitting.
You know, I'm friends with a lot of dudes, so I get to see what they're like
after fights,
you know, like everybody watches the fight, the fight's amazing, and then, you
know, you
run into them after fights and have a conversation with them, like, oh, man,
their whole
head's swollen, can't move their hands, you know, can't walk, calves are blown
out, knees
fucked up, ice here, this there, this...
Oh, it's a challenge.
It's a challenge, man.
Yeah.
It's a real challenge.
And when you started playing football, nobody even thought about it.
Yeah, because you just, you know, you never think about the repercussions, you
just think,
how to make a better life?
Well, back then, nobody even really knew that that was going to happen to
football players.
It was kind of a thing that they thought about with boxers.
Rarely people talked about football players who aren't doing so good.
Yeah, so I feel like CTSP was brought back to recognize the awareness of high-level
people
experiencing trauma and not being able to overcome that trauma, because, you
know, life's changing
on you in a second.
You're playing football, you know it's going to come to an end, and then what
do you do
next?
Yeah.
That's the hardest thing, right?
Like, for pro athletes, you go from being a kid to all of a sudden, you are
making millions
of dollars.
Yes.
And you're young, and you're wild, and you're not thinking it's going to go
away, and then
all your friends are buying jewelry, and all your friends are buying Mercedes-Benz
and Bentleys
and all this shit, and you're like, fuck.
And I think the number was something like 85% of NFL players go bankrupt within
X amount
of years after retirement.
Exactly, because the lifestyle, you know, and making so much money and being
able to transition
in regards of having a new career and not making that much money all at once
like you used
to.
Yeah.
And I think sometimes bankroll could be used to protect assets in regards of
people coming
after you, too, knowing you're a big target when you're in position.
Of course.
Yeah, but that is another problem with getting wealthy, is that you become
vulnerable to scoundrels
and dirty hoes.
Yeah, dirty hoes, dirt bag.
Dirty money-grabbing, like calculated hoes.
Yeah.
You know, ones that, it's not just like, well, the relationship didn't work out,
the lawyer
told you you can get some money from them, maybe you should go for it.
Yeah, fuck him.
No, it's like from the jump, they're calculated.
These ladies these days, they're going to have a nigga baby because they
homeless.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, you got to hit them in back to the streets where you belong, bitch.
You know what I'm saying?
Did you ever have situations where you thought like girls were trying to get
over on you?
I just feel like nowadays, girls just want the BBD, like the BBD, the biggest
and better deal.
Right.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
That's built into human nature.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, human nature is like, what's the next best thing?
Yeah.
It's called hypergamy.
Yeah.
It's like a natural state that women-
Stay in, right?
Well, they look for, like if you're doing okay, but then all of a sudden she
starts working
for a billionaire and he gets divorced and he's real friendly to her.
Next thing you know, she starts picturing that closet.
Seeing the op, right?
She starts picturing that closet, seeing all those shoes and purses and all
that jewelry.
She starts licking chops going to the movie theater.
He's actually nicer to me than my boyfriend.
Yeah.
And then they start justifying it and next thing you know, old Jessamy there.
She's going.
She's going to the movie theater.
It's hypergamy.
Yeah.
It's a natural state that some women, I mean, obviously there's great women out
there with
character and morals and they don't do that, but it's a natural thing that
women do.
They try to find a better, better suitor.
Bigger and better deal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When, you know, when you talk about CTE, when did you first start noticing the
effects
of football?
I feel like to me, I always knew like the game was going to come to an end and
I feel like
to me, I always played the game smart as a receiver, not putting myself in bad
positions,
getting hit.
But I did have a chance to, you know, rest in peace to Marius Thomas, one of
the ex receivers
who came in the NFL around the time I came in.
I had a chance to see him experience, you know what I'm saying?
Some of that CTE trauma and intimacy.
How did he pass?
From CTE.
Yeah?
Yeah.
He passed from CTE?
Yeah.
When they studied his brain, yeah, because I don't want to speak about the
problems that
he really had, but, you know, being a close friend to him, you know, we've seen
some
of the experience that he was going through.
And playing for Temple my last year when we won the Super Bowl, I think it had
a player,
Vincent Jackson, rest in peace, also passed from CTE.
So for me, you know, it's a real thing.
It's a real thing.
And not only just from the hits you take, but like you said, aftermath of your
career or,
you know, having a moment in your career where some guys can't get over it or,
you know,
you've not seen fighters have a fight or it may not go the way that they wanted
to go
and it may not possibly affect the outcome of how they look at it.
And I feel like we all have traumas in our lives from all, no matter if you
play sports
or not.
Yeah.
So just raising awareness of getting mental therapy and being able to, you know,
work on
yourself so you can have a better life.
That's an important point you brought up, like the psychology of an athlete.
You have to learn how to, like, put losses behind you and failures behind you
and regain
your confidence and then excel and move forward, right?
Yeah, you just got to not let one moment overtake the overall moments of your
career.
Right.
Because some moments are big moments and, you know, if you get cut, a lot of
the things
that happen in your career, just take it with a grain of salt and be able to
cope with the
situation you're in, you know?
Yeah.
When did you, I mean, you talk pretty openly about CTE, but when did you start
feeling the
effects of that?
I feel like for me, I feel like for me, I don't really, I feel like I always
was in
tune and, you know, aware of my situation and where I'm at in life.
You know, I've been pretty blessed in my regards of being a football player, to
be able to come
from Central Michigan as a walk on to Central Michigan, leave three years, go
to the Steelers
being the second receiver pick in that year.
And then, you know, I always had a high belief in myself and never was deteriorated
about
the position or where I had to start from or where I was going.
So for me, I always had the intuitive trust and the belief in myself regarding
any situation
I've been in because, you know, I came from Liberty City, from nothing.
So to me, everything's a blessing.
So I never let football or any position I was in in life deteriorate my
perspective and
my outlook or how I looked at.
Did you feel the way your brain work changed at all, though?
No, I feel like the older you get playing sport, you realize deteriorate.
You know what I'm saying?
What the game entails on your body.
I feel like in my 20s, I was just ripping through, you know, dominating the
game.
Right, right.
Then when you get 30, you know what I'm saying?
Obviously, it's a business.
They're looking for younger players to excel at the game.
And then when you leave one of the best teams and put yourself in a position to,
you know,
to do what's important for you other than important for the NFL.
So, you know, what's going to come with that?
So to me, I always made a calculated decision, you know what I mean, to put
myself in the
best position, i.e., like playing with Tom Brady, you know, going to the Pacers
or leaving
the Steelers.
You know, I always try to just, I knew I wasn't going to play for a long time,
just maximize
the moment in the meantime, playing so when I'm done playing, I can live a
healthy life.
So you played smart.
Got to play smart.
And as a receiver, man, they're coming for you.
Yeah, you got to play smart.
I mean, that's target numero uno.
Yeah.
You know, yeah.
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