Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1044 - C.T. Fletcher
Uploaded: 2017-11-29T01:38:43.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1044 - C.T. Fletcher' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-11-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1044 - C.T. Fletcher

all right CT we live what's up hey finally finally across the table from Joe
Rogan himself
my pleasure man I watched your Netflix documentary did you it's great man it's
intense thank you very
much I appreciate it you know when I first saw it I was like what is this going
to be about but
you get into it you're like whoa there's a lot going on in this documentary
that guy says more
than fuck huh it's not just that it's like they just went they went deep into
your life and to
everything the struggles the the heart condition the whole deal man yeah it's
heavy they did a pretty
good job yeah so where are you standing now like health wise oh okay um yeah I
fought my way back
and just recently this June uh had another setback had another major setback
had a heart attack out of
the blue and I thought I was a goner again Joe but I'm still here so you had a
heart attack they fixed
your heart they put in an artificial valve and then what happened with the
second okay uh that lasted
for 12 years I had 05 I had to surge open heart surgery actually passed away or
flat line three
times during that surgery and then this past June out of the blue I'm thinking
well it's not really out of
blue I kind of had a few signs but I thought I you know I didn't think it was
that serious I mean I had
another heart attack sitting on the couch at home and uh I thought I was gone
for sure man well what's
confusing to a lot of people is you're obviously this like intense healthy guy
and you're you're fit and
you're lifting weights and you're looking jacked like is it a condition that
you were born with a genetic
condition it is most definitely hereditary my mother and all nine of her
siblings all passed away from heart
related problems and my mom had the CHF and lungs and you know so none of them
live past 72 they are my
mom died at 63 they all passed away how old do you know I'm 58 and so you've
gotten through two of them so far
yeah so far and what did they do after the second heart attack well they the
the next thing I had a
pacemaker installed and I got the already had metal valve and I think they've
done just about
all they can do to this or this one I got whipped me down so they tell me the
next step is a transplant
man that's intense yeah but you know what Joe uh it's not so intense for me I
think I have a
um uh an advantage to somebody else who might be getting the news uh and that
advantage is I've been
through so much already man until you know it's just and when you flatline
three times it ain't too much
so much else can you know throw you for too many loops I got a lot of faith
yeah now um so you are
you in line for a transplant now is that how that works yeah well it's a a
really long process to even
get on the list so I'm going you know through that process now I'm almost
through the end uh but it's a
really long process they presented my case to the doctors who perform the
actual transplant and they said
that I'm a good candidate and everything's looking up uh right now except I may
have a
little throwback that I had a cancer biopsy yesterday and if that's positive
then that's
going to hold me up a little bit oh Jesus Christ man yeah
fuck yeah it's just crazy because when you look at a guy like you and you know
you look at you when
you especially when you're in your prime you think there's nothing that's going
to stop this guy
shit I didn't think so yeah I mean I feel like your muscles are strong your
heart's a muscle
shit his heart's got to be ridiculous yeah I thought so I thought it was indestructible
Joe but obviously I was wrong well you pretty much I mean correct me if I'm
wrong but you pretty much
became famous from the internet right and that's really what launched you right
definitely now I
ain't nobody knew who I was so I got 50 when I was 53 until I was 53 years old
when I was world champion
nobody knew or gave a fuck about who so that's pretty much when I found out
about you yeah and
you like when you first started making youtube videos that's when I found out
about you I think
someone on twitter sent me uh and you know like people send me cool shit on
twitter all the time
you know I can retweet it or I'll find out about it and send it to other people
and someone sent me
some uh well I've seen a bunch of your videos but one of them was you working
out with uh Tyron Woodley
UFC welterweight champion and I was like Jesus Christ he's gonna break him like
he got Tyron doing all
these crazy super sets and all this different shit and so have you worked with
a lot of MMA fighters not a
lot but a few and uh oh man are we gonna talk about the uh fake feud that oh
that wasn't yeah we could
talk about it but it didn't it wasn't a fake yeah oh man it really your light
is killing me oh yeah
keeps lighting your face up we gotta talk about it we gotta talk about it well
people thought that we
were really upset at each other but I I was the debate was and this is a
constant debate in MMA whether big
muscles uh enhance you or hurt you and my my take on it is they do both my take
on it is the bigger the
muscle the more power you have and I think Tyron is a perfect example of a guy
who's figured out how
to use them perfectly like what he does is he conserves his energy and when he
sprints you can't stop him
so like when he's in the in the cage and he has these moments of explosion the
amount of horsepower
that he can generate in a short period of time is just above and beyond
everybody else in the division
and it's a terrifying thing for everybody in the division but he can't operate
at the same pace
constantly like some of the guys can some of the guys who have less muscle they're
carrying around
less mass they have uh less oxygen uh requirements they they can go longer but
they just can't generate
the same kind of power but what Tyron's figured out how to do pretty brilliantly
is how to conserve his
energy into these bursts and and then now like his big criticism earlier in his
career was that he would
gas out as he got into the later rounds but now he's able to fight five rounds
no problem he just fights
it at his pace exactly uh but that's not exactly i want to start it with this
joke okay now uh for all the
people uh all the people who said that i would never be able to sit down across
the table from joe rogan
i want to take a special moment to say fuck y'all right now uh i i'm here and
uh and i attacked
joe rogan on the internet i attacked him and i want to explain i got the
opportunity to explain to you
it's true i did attack joe rogan on and and i want to i have the opportunity to
explain to you why
exactly i did that okay and i want to do that because i don't want you to think
i'm just an
asshole no i didn't think you're an asshole at all it didn't bother me at all
oh okay didn't change my
feelings i never attacked you back no you sure you sure didn't you but you know
what you did do joe
what that i couldn't get you to do before that was you actually talked to me
you're trying to talk to me i wanted to talk to you joe i didn't know that i
had people uh you know
because i'm really cool with a lot of ufc fighters and uh i i said wow i wonder
if even even knows
but i had people that was especially set out to keep uh tagging you until you
we're going to get
you on the podcast people try to do that that shit does not work yeah this is
the best way to not
get on the podcast is to get a bunch of people to try to get you oh my god it's
a ctc
ct we're gonna we're gonna get hey joe hey joey want to have cto and i you know
my my response is
always you know joe he probably don't even know who the fuck i am man just you
know quit tag him he
don't he don't even know who the fuck i am just quit tag him don't bother the
man that was my uh
you know response to them all the time all the time i just said look don't
bother joe he's busy
don't know who the fuck i am i'm not you know not in that league so don't even
bother him then
then i said well you know what i got these fighters i know all these fighters
and they
friendly with me i said maybe joe do know who i am uh and i'm like you know
after a while maybe joe
just don't like my ass you know so i said you know so when the tyron woody
thing came up and joe's
talking about the muscular guy i said well you know here's my opportunity i
said hey joe you don't
know what the fuck you're talking about and as soon as i i said hey joe that
motherfucker don't know what the fuck you're talking about then you responded
to me well i
responded to you because i like you oh wow that's why i responded to you yeah
it didn't that's why i
didn't attack you back yeah i get why people here's the thing i get why people
would think that i don't
respond because i don't like you i just can't keep up oh man i understand the
hell i have so i found
out i have 1.6 million fake followers though oh or at least if apparently that's
not a real uh good
measurement you know the twitter audit it's just people who don't use their
account to tweet maybe
they just check twitter i don't know i don't know whether or not but i've never
paid for any of the
fake ones whatever they might be russian bots i don't i don't know what it is
but um there's too many
people yeah if i look at my mentions and and then at least one percent of them
are assholes so you
read one assholes things like fuck this you put your phone down so it's it's
not a matter of like
me not liking people it's a matter of me in it being in an impossible situation
there's no way i can
keep up with all those people you're only one guy i understand i am the only
one guy i don't let
anybody fuck with my twitter nobody's nobody's doing that that's all me so yeah
so this if you get a
tweet from me it's from me and i don't i there's no way i can keep up with all
of them so people that
try to talk to me and get a hold of me if you think i'm ignoring you it's just
i'm ignoring
everything yeah well now now i don't feel so bad but anyway yeah that that was
it i wanted to get
your attention uh i was trying to get that that's what so that's why i came out
with the attack and
and uh well it worked yeah it did at least you got i was trying to be nice for
all this time so i'm
an asshole then i said oh man i said hey okay joe you're absolutely right i
jumped on you i shouldn't
have jumped on you like that but we do um we do possess a little difference of
opinion on the muscle
guys right yeah you do so let's tell me what you think okay uh i was trying to
explain that yeah i know
i know you have to have known guys like this that are naturally naturally just
more muscular yes more
built and they look like they lift weights and work out but they don't right
guys like you know i
know this guy uh hersha walker sure outstanding athlete you know and uh bo jackson
for example these
guys fantastic athletes muscular very muscle guys but i think if you were born
born muscular there's a
difference in a guy that goes in the gym and works out three four hours a day
and adds muscle on he
started out you know normal guy but these if you were born with that muscle
then you were born with the
cardiovascular system the lungs and whatnot to support that muscle and it's
yeah you take it way way back
to guys like jim thorpe okay uh head and shoulders above all the other athletes
of his era because he
was born that way so he was born the good lord give us the cardiopathic
syndrome lungs and everything
to uh you know to go along with that extra muscle that we were born with in
some cases in some cases now
i thought that you were making a blanket statement and they covered a lot of
you know that all muscular
guys are gonna tire out because of the extra muscle and i disagree because i
think if they were born with that
muscle then they were born with the support system to support them i think
there's a lot of logic to
that i think it makes sense but i do think that if you have a certain amount of
muscle like there's
just no way you are going to be you're going to have the th