Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1008 - Cody Garbrandt & Urijah Faber
Uploaded: 2017-09-06T00:18:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1008 - Cody Garbrandt & Urijah Faber' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-09-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1008 - Cody Garbrandt & Urijah Faber' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-09-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1008 - Cody Garbrandt & Urijah Faber

all right gentlemen we're live with a freshly fed uriah faber no more dieting
no more weight
cutting is this up his mic on hello there we go there it is yeah just pull that
sucker up to you
got it and uh cody motherfucking garbrandt finally made it yeah here gentlemen
what's happening
just chilling we had a nice little beach run and i jumped in the ocean cody
kept his shoes
on all that good stuff you still got a mouthful of those green belly bars don't
you you're still
tucking in your mouth like a squirrel look at him chucked away these teeth are
special too that i
have like pockets in here i need to floss like twice a day this guy was making
fun of me he's like bro
you've been brushing your teeth for 20 minutes 20 minutes straight brushing his
teeth i brushed my
teeth came you know walked out and i was like man he's still brushing his teeth
made me have the second
guess that i brush my teeth long enough i have to go in there and do it again
just brushing away i got
big teeth i never had braces or anything so i've got like all these natural
little gaps it's like i'm
like a squirrel my food gets stored up in there i gotta get it out i understand
i understand how does it
feel to not have to worry about we were talking about this before the podcast
not have to worry about
weight cutting anymore to be able to eat healthy not not banged up anymore man
it's been really really
nice you know i was kind of envisioned after even wrestling in college like
having a break and then
you know went 14 years longer fighting people but i mean it is really nice to
be able to i mean you go
train i train when i want to but i don't do this stuff i don't want to i i get
in and do the grappling
rounds and whatnot but i just feel so much better yeah you do look healthier
but you made out of retirement
perfect you know what i mean like you had a long career but you didn't get too
banged up like you just and
you picked the right time you went out with a win with a quality opponent like
right off into the sunset
i know man i don't know i was a little luck a little bit of it just felt right
though you know
what i mean the last fight it went out to what five million people on big fox
it was the first fight
in my hometown in the new arena that's like the heart and like revived our town
you know we had cody
fighting for the belt like coming right up and and uh you know it was just
perfect man it was
yeah you got you timed it good you timed it good you know it's nice it's nice
to see someone do it the
right way and i hope other guys coming up can can learn from you in that regard
well one of the
things i thought about was first and foremost like i've been rocked more in the
last two and a half
years of my practice and live fights than i had in my entire career which is
you know a lot of different
factors probably you know how many times you're rolling the dice you know you
get hit in the head
a bunch of different times things are loosened up a little bit you're getting a
little bit older
guys are getting better i got cody garbrandt's in the gym and chad mendez's and
and you know lance
palmers these guys that hit heavy so you know i was just like that's one factor
then i lost two fights
in a row for the first time in my career ever even though it was a decision to
dominic and a decision
to uh what's his name uh uh oh riviera jimmy riviera jimmy riviera and it was
like kind of
lackluster losses but nonetheless it was like yeah just like you know what i'm
not going to i i'm gonna
i'm gonna call this one in a good time smart very smart man and i really do
hope more guys learn you
you know and pay attention to how you did it and do it the right way because
like how do you guys feel
about like uh you know you're seeing like a lot of these guys are going over to
bellator and i think
bellator signed some really good fighters you know like uh rory mcdonald lorenz
larkin and they've got
i mean gay guard mousasi they got some great talent over there but they also
have guys that are
you know late 40s 50s still back yeah freak show stuff for me we always talk
about this um i told
uriah i said hey if i start getting up and they're knocked out like i'm gonna
keep fighting like make
sure that you pull me away from it like be the homie that says hey sits me down
like hey let's do a
different career path you know if i always say that you know that's one thing i
always say you know we're
fighters we're always going to fight through it and obviously a lot of
different reasons you know
financially or sometimes it's just hard to walk away what do you do when you
know the next chapter of
your life people don't set that up you know luckily i'm fortunate i have a lot
of you know good
people around me so you know i'll have different avenues to go and i always
tell them hey if i
start getting fucked up in there stop me tell me it's also important to
understand that the kind of
intensity and focus that's required to be a great fighter you could do anything
i mean you really
absolutely just apply it yep just apply just figure out what that next thing is
going to be and go at it
the same way you went out your championship career yeah i always tell these
guys you know we do talks
before and after practice and it's like a feather in the cap mentality like
everything we've got guys
in there that won't see the ufc daylight i mean they'll never see step foot in
the octagon but they
get a little bit of pride whether it was one day it was 10 years or whatever of
being a part of that
team and that's something they they add to their life they take on them with
the next thing somebody
just comes in for a week some guys are are going to be you know make it to the
big show some guys are going
to be world champions some guys are going to be hall of famers you know and and
that's that's
whatever your journey is that's a proud thing you can put in the feather in the
cap and move on to
whatever you're doing next but but it's it's a bigger picture and it's like
journey's never over
it's just always changing what do you do for a guy like lance palmer who's a
real world-class guy but
he's fighting in what do they call it now it's not world series of fighting
anymore they have a new name
for it right what do they change the name yeah real pro fighters or something
like that yeah yeah
but the problem is nobody's watching a few very few people are watching but he's
a real world-class
professional fighter like you see when justin gaethje came over to the ufc you
realize like
hey this kid is world class right and he's been fighting in an organization
that no one's watching
right well i mean the hard part about that is like you said you got a gaethje
and you've got a
lance palmer they're still fighting tough ass dudes over there yeah so it's the
same level competition
sometimes sometimes even even worse you know when they get all the russians
over in bellator like
those russians are tough dude yeah you know so like for lance we just have to
exit him at the right
opportunity right he has to get on a little winning streak and be at the right
time in his
in his in his contract and be able to jump out and go to the big show but uh it's
hard because he's
fighting these tough guys like the last guy he lost to he broke his hand in the
first round
and then he's fighting a tough guy and it's like oh he lost in this show he
lost against a world-class
dude and he's a world-class fighter so you know it's it's it's hopefully just
something where he can
make that transition over how do you guys feel about uh win lose like paydays
like one thing that bothers
me about mma is that mma if you win you get a certain amount and if you lose
you get less
i feel like contractual i think i feel like you should have a contractual
amount that you get paid
and i feel like when you're leaving it up to the judges sometimes and the
judges i mean i'm sure both of
you guys have been involved in you know at least teammates getting terrible
calls tall and you've
seen it and you go what in the you know like look even in boxing the conor mcgregor
floyd mayweather fight two of those judges had connor only winning one round
yeah
they're smoking crack they're crazy i was looking around at those judges too
they were very familiar
some of them were uh mma uh judges also right there's a lot of them that did
that they started with
boxing and then they learned a little bit about mma and then they came over and
started judging mma
but there's a lot of them that literally don't know what they're judging or
know very little about
it and your career could be you mean you could you might have a hundred and a
hundred so a hundred
thousand dollar swing right on someone who doesn't know jack right oh it's
terrible that's crazy yeah
yeah it's crazy i guess for me as a fighter i look at it like it's rewarding
you know right but then in
the opposite scale of it you can be on that losing call and horrible call the
ref screw you but i don't
know for me it's mma so pure like it's yeah pure thing to do so you got to go
in there and fight
for two checks there's more you're training you come out with two checks you
lose it's for me i honestly
and i always remember getting a check afterwards especially when i first
started i was like oh yeah
i got paid for this like literally like it had nothing to do with the money at
all and then you got that
check and then you're like oh man so if you're doing it for the right reasons
it should be yeah just get your your set amount i think that is to warrant
against the guys that
are doing it for the wrong reasons i think it was a good motivation at first or
exactly when they're
trying to build it but now it's not we're not building it anymore now it's a
world-class
professional sport and you know i remember uriah when you were fighting in king
of the cage dude
outside yeah i remember yeah that's the first time i saw you fight i think you're
fighting 55 too
yeah i well i had to start i mean there was no weight class for me at that time
yeah now i remember
talking i remember i was all pumped because rogan knew who i was because he
followed all the underground
shit i was super self-aware of like how how much my notoriety was and like the
bigger show because i
you know youtube i started looking on there and i'd be like i only have like
1500 people watching my
shit i'm here and then kid yamamoto has like 250 000 i'm like yeah you know but
yeah well i was
fighting i mean i fought tyson my first loss was against tyson griffin in kanocti
casino and that in the
parking lot and i hit him like kneed him inside tripped him and did a head dive
into the steel pole
and just gashed my head open like eight seconds into the fight and i'm just
pouring down blood i
remember that they didn't even have padding on the pole well they were supposed
to do it but the the
the crew was running out of time so they didn't even take the time to put the
padding on the bottom
level they just put the the clear like fake uh leather on the top of it and i'm
just fucking gushing
blood man i think we talked about this last time i was on your show i think we
did pave the way man
yeah for real paved the way that was a terrible way to pave the way
fuck that but you know like i said a lot of guys can learn from you and i think
it's good man
what's it what's it like you know training in his gym and like when did you
come here you came there
like three years ago yeah about going on four going on four now almost four
years i came out i was
off an injury i had um symptom of vertigo from like small concussions and i
broke my hand in my pro
debut so i had like a whole year layoff and i always reached out to uriah lance
was out there so i knew
lance uh you know wrestling him and his brother throughout you know our
wrestling careers um he's
like always came and you know wanted me to come out there finally hit faber up
when i was 18
about hey i'm gonna come out check the gym out see if it's a good date he had
to put me back it
wasn'