Name: For Gillian Robertson Social Situations Are Harder Than Fighting
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'For Gillian Robertson Social Situations Are Harder Than Fighting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'For Gillian Robertson Social Situations Are Harder Than Fighting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-31. Transcript available.

Everything is weird about this for me. It's just like, I'm just like, I guess a
socially awkward kind of don't really put myself out there. Well, I do with
fighting, but it's like I've never really put myself out there in life. So it's
like to be in these kind of positions. It's just, it's all a lot for me.
Wow. Well, it's amazing that the way you handle fighting, you could handle this
the same way you handle fighting. You just get comfortable with it.
I think that, I don't know, for me, social situations are a lot harder than
like fighting situations.
Wow. That's crazy.
Oh, yeah.
Has it always been like that?
A hundred percent.
Since you were a child?
Yeah. I feel like I've always been like the socially awkward kid in the back of
the class, like the nerds. Well, I still am at the gym, but I volunteered with
animals my whole life. I volunteered at like the Humane Society,
a horse rescue, wildlife rehab, but just like animals were my thing. And then
it was just kind of left field. I started kickboxing when I was 16.
Just for fun?
Yeah. I really don't know where it came, like what the idea was, but-
Where'd you start? What gym?
At Dean's gym.
Oh, okay. Wow. You got lucky.
So, exactly. One of Dean's pro fighters worked for my dad. So, I wanted to
start kickboxing and then my dad found out that this guy was a pro fighter for
Dean. So, he ended up finding his gym and that was the first gym I started at.
Wow. Wow. Wow. What a great place to start. And so, then you start kickboxing
and how long before you decide, well, what about this MMA stuff? How long was
that?
I think it was probably like four or five months before I started taking the
MMA class there, but I wasn't like thinking about fighting. It was just, there
was a kid who was on the wrestling team at my high school who started training
at Dean's gym. And he was like, oh, why don't you take the MMA class? And I
thought, okay, I'll have a partner. Why don't I try it? And I just kept on
doing it. And then I was training like every day for like three hours a night,
you know? And they're like, all right, well, why don't we just get you a fight
at this point?
Wow. What was it about fighting and martial arts that you became so obsessed
with?
I really think it was a one, I don't know what it was at first, because I didn't
start jujitsu, especially in the gi until like a year after I started training.
But when I started gi jujitsu, I fell in love with that 100%, where it's just
the technique of it and the little tiny details of jujitsu that matter so much.
Like if you put your thumb on this side of the hand or on this side of the hand,
it makes a huge difference. It's like the little tiny techniques that can make
the difference where now 115 pound girl at the time could do whatever she
wanted to a 200 pound guy. You know, I was manhandling these guys around the
room. And I'm like, just because of these techniques that I learned. And I
thought that was awesome.
Yeah, that is an amazing thing. It's jujitsu is the one martial art that
delivers as promised, where the smaller trained person can defeat the larger
untrained person.
Whereas a lot of other martial arts, I mean, you have a better chance. But when
they're really big, you know, and some guys swinging, if he knows how to punch
a little bit, and you get clubbed with one of those giant hams, you get fucked
up.
But if you get into a struggle, like some sort of a scramble, and you knock
into some chairs, and all of a sudden you get a hold of this person, now he's
fucked. That's what's crazy. It's like that a small person can physically
control and submit a much stronger person regularly. It happens all the time.
It happens with black belts.
Even in striking, it's like, a person cannot know anything. But if they're big
enough, they throw their hand the right way, they can knock you out.
Yeah, if you get hit with Francis Ngannou's pinky, you're in trouble.
Exactly.
There's certain people that are so powerful, like the idea that you're going to
stand and trade with them, they're going to hit you once, and you're dead. It
just doesn't work that well.
Jiu-Jitsu, it's just there's not the variant of space. So there's not that
element of guessing, where it's like, I can control and I can feel what you're
going to do by touching you.
It's like, it makes it a lot easier. You're not guessing with that space of
striking.
You're also not guessing the variables, like how fast is this person? How fast
am I accustomed to people punching me? Is this person much faster? Do I have to
anticipate that?
Because if you ever see like street fight videos, the most horrific ones are
some poor asshole who wants to start a fight with someone who's a trained
fighter, and the trained fighter fucks them up.
But you could see, like, they have no idea how fast things can happen. Like, I'm
sure you've seen the Joe Schilling one.
Yes.
The Joe Schilling one's ridiculous. But there's no way that guy could have
known that that could happen that quickly. There's no way.
And people don't expect like, like, for someone like me, a lot of times I get,
oh, I would never guess that you're a fighter. For someone like Joe Schilling
is still even like, oh, yeah, you wouldn't like just see him.
Looks like an ex-murderer.
You just see him walking around. Like, most people you don't expect that they're-
Joe Schilling you don't expect it?
I don't know, with him there I probably-
He looks like a psycho to me.
Yeah, yeah.
But say like Ryan Hall.
Ryan Hall is a great example.
Yeah.
You don't expect him to be a fighter, but it's like, you never know what
somebody is capable of when it comes to sports like this.
Oh, for sure, with jiu-jitsu, Mikey Musumechi.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's the best example.
Yeah.
Mikey is a stone-cold killer. And he looks like a guy who comes over to fix
your computer.
Like, he's, he looks like the friendliest super nerd.
Look at this video.
Oh, this video's horrible. This is a street fight in a parking garage. Have you
seen this?
No.
These guys start fucking with this dude in a parking garage. The guy's trying
to get away.
No, he fucked the other guy up before this.
This is the shorter version.
Okay, this is the shorter version.
So this guy, he's trying, he's like, "Come on, you want some?" And he moves
forward. This guy leg kicks him.
And then this is where it gets ugly. Punches him. Bam.
He's out.
Yeah, you don't want that. Like, what? Like, it's, it's, it's awesome to see
that stuff works, right? For people. Like, hey, this is real.
Someone tries to attack you, you have an upper hand. But also, like, what are
you doing?
Yeah.
These fucking people.
I've never been in a street fight in my life.
Good for you.
Like, I don't intend to ever, but it's just, I don't get it. Like, yeah, there's,
I don't see a use for fighting outside the cage for me.
There's a lot of people with anger management issues. And then there's
criminals, too. And, you know, bad folks.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. There's a lot of weird stuff in the world. But I just, for me, I think it's
fascinating that you are more afraid of social interaction than you're afraid
of cage fighting.
That might be one of the greatest lines that anyone has ever said. I think that's
going to get you a lot of fans. For real.
For me, it's just like, literally, I never really did any kind of interviews or
media or anything like that until I got in the tough house.
So that's going from absolutely zero to 100%.
What was that like? You were like 22 at the time?
Yeah, I was 22. And I was having interviews every day, cameras on you 24/7.
Literally after every single interview, I had to go and change my shirt because
I'd be dripping sweat like I just got out the sauna.
Whoa. Just so nervous after every single interview.
Do you think they brought you into the house knowing that you were nervous, too?
That, like, that you're a little socially awkward in that regard? And, like,
that maybe that would make good television?
I guess I never thought of it in that way.
Obviously, they brought you in because you're skillful.
Yeah.
But they also cast that show as a reality show. It's a very cleverly done show.
You know, like, it's smart the way they do it.
Like, even with what they're doing now with Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler,
it's great, but perfect shit-talking when Conor tells them, "You'll do as you're
told."
It's amazing.
Okay, I hope that fight takes place. But it's such a show, right? So it's not
just an athletic competition. It's also they want to make sure the people are
fun.
Oh, yeah. Our season seemed pretty, like, tame, though, I feel like, in general.
We had a lot of – there was me and Montana De La Rosa were the two, like,
younger girls.
And then everybody else, I feel like, was, like, older and more mature. Like,
around, like, at least, like, 30s. And, like, they were, like – I don't know
– nobody was trying to start drama.
Nobody was trying to, like, get in each other's faces or we didn't have any
altercations. It was, like – it was a pretty chill season.
That's great. So no one ever encourages, like, any bickering or anything like
that? They don't ever tell you, "Hey, you know, this bitch has been saying some
shit."
Does anybody ever do that?
No, nobody ever really does anything like that. But it's just, like, the boredom
gets to you, if anything else. It's, like – I feel like –
No phones, right?
No phones, no TV, no music, no books, no – nothing.
No books?
Nothing at all.
Oh, my God. Nothing?
So it's, like –
Can you have a notebook?
You're allowed to get a notebook and then they gave us – we asked for
coloring books and they gave us sketch pads.
Oh, my God. I think I would go nuts. That sounds like one of those, like, anti-tech
retreats, you know?
Exactly.
Where they try to weed people off their tech – tech addictions.
I was just talking to one of the boys who's actually on the Conor McGregor
season over the weekend and he said the exact same thing as me. He was, like, "It
was the best and worst experience of my life."
Because it's, like, when you're in the gym there's so many highs, it's so great,
but then when you go back to the house you're just sitting there for hours and
you're bored and it sucks.
What do you guys do to kill time? Can you play games? Do they have, like –
they used to have pool, right?
Yeah, they'll – I think they had a pool table and a chess table and then they
have, like, the list where you can order anything.
Oh, so you could order, like, Monopoly?
Yeah, so we would order a bunch of bullshit. Just try and entertain ourselves.
Just to play.
God. Did you – did you have good conversations?
Or was it weird because you're all competitors?
It's weird – well, not because we're competitors, because I'm weird.
That's awesome.
Like, I felt like I – especially back then I wasn't able to just, like, I don't
know, acclimate to that, going into a house with 16 different girls that I don't
really know.
Right. Like, yeah, that – a completely alien experience. And you're so –
you're feeling a little bit awkward and you're also 22. And then also, bam, now
you're on TV.
And it's my first time, like, really, like, leaving home, I would say, you know,
for a long period of time. So it was – it was definitely a big experience,
like, a lot to dig on.
How long ago was that now?
Um, six years?
Six years.
Six years.
So would you say that now you're entering into your fighting prime? Do you
think that's happening right now?
Oh, yeah. I think this is, like, just the beginning of my prime. I'm just
getting into where I've really found the right combination for everything. And
I feel like I'm just getting better every fight.
Are you ranked right now in the – where are you at?
Uh, my next fight is against the number 15 girl, Tabitha Rickey.
Interesting.
She's tough.
That'll be fun.
That'll be a good one.
Yeah, I'm like, it's coming up quick, June 24th.
Oh, wow. That is quick.