Name: Joe Rogan Experience #644 - Brad Williams
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #644 - Brad Williams' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-05-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #644 - Brad Williams

Okay, we're live. What's up, dude? How are you?
I'm doing fantastic, my friend. Brad Williams, ladies and gentlemen. What the
fuck?
Yeah, a meeting. If you told me six, seven years ago that I was going to be on
the Joe Rogan podcast,
or the Joe Rogan show, I would have told you no way in hell.
Well, it didn't exist, so you'd have to go to Colorado. You'd have to find me.
You'd have to go, dude, I got an idea.
There's this thing called podcasting. You're going to love it.
But there's no way. I would have thought I would be doing this either six,
seven years ago.
Sure. We're in the same boat. Love it, man. There you go, man.
Yeah, and now, we were talking the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight before he came on
air.
Did you actually watch it? Yes. Yeah, I watched it.
And as a fight guy, what were your thoughts on it?
I'm sure you've covered this already, so I'm sorry if you're going to make me
repeat things.
You know, I'm in the minority. I actually enjoyed it. Really?
Yeah, I enjoyed it from a technical standpoint.
And, like, two guys who are the best in the world trying to figure each other
out.
Yeah. And now, do you think that as a guy that knows the fight game,
you can respect defense more than your average fight fan?
Well, definitely more than my wife.
Oh, my God. She was saying some retarded shit.
She was saying, you should have to get knocked down in order to win.
I go, what are you talking about?
She goes, that way it would at least be exciting.
So, like...
Make them go for it.
So, like, guaranteed concussion.
So, like...
Hearing shit like that, like, she's so ridiculous.
Like, hearing shit...
Like, some people...
Like, I kind of get it.
She's not a fight fan.
Sure.
Like, so for her, watching it is just boring as fuck.
It's just two dudes not hitting each other.
And then when one dude gets close, the other dude grabs them.
Yeah.
Yeah, like, I love watching hockey on TV.
That's, like, my favorite sport to watch on TV.
And hockey is notoriously awful on TV.
And people hate it on TV.
I love it because I played for, like, five years when I was a kid.
So, like, I recognize that they're setting up plays.
I recognize strategies and stuff like that.
So, when I'm trying to explain to people, they're just like,
this is stupid.
They're not scoring.
I can't follow the puck.
And I'm trying to tell them the ins and outs of it.
And I'm sure the fight game is like that for you.
Do they still have that thing where they follow the puck, like, with a circle?
Or did they try that for a while?
They tried that on Fox.
It was, like, and it turned slap shots into a comet.
Like, it just had this, like, red trail behind it.
Really?
Yeah.
And, like, it was supposed to get, like, the casual fan into it.
But it's, like, no one is going to hate hockey and then see a comet trail on
the puck
and go, well, now I'm in.
I got this now.
Well, they've done some weird shit like that with football, right?
With graphics and...
Well, the amazing part is that I was a huge fan of the XFL.
If people remember the XFL, that was Vince McMahon's thing.
And then a lot of the stuff that they did is now being implemented into the NFL.
Like, what kind of stuff?
Like, the overhead camera that is, like, on strings and that follows the game
from the
top, that was XFL.
That was XFL before trying to make...
I mean, they tried to make kickoffs more exciting until, like, all the concussion
stuff came out.
But, yeah, like, there's a few things.
And certainly making it more...
Vince at least recognized that it would be more fun if there was, like, complex
storylines
and, like, you knew, like, the soap opera of it.
Right.
Much like he did for wrestling.
So, now you see the NFL and it's the world's greatest reality show.
Like, they follow the guys off the field and, like, they get into their lives.
And now it's what the XFL was.
Like, they're trying to build up rivalries and you know what players actually
don't like
each other and who slept with whose wife and things like that.
You know, the problem with getting into the NFL's life, like, getting into the
player's
life, is, like, you're trying to pretend that these guys are not these savage
gladiators
who are just smashing people every day.
Yeah.
And you want them, like, off field to be, like, these sweeties who are, like,
baking pies
and hugging their kids.
No, it's, like, you don't get a guy like Ray Lewis without him, like, did you
see the
video of him pleading to the people of Baltimore going, violence is not the
answer.
And he's, like, he's so intense.
He's, like, yeah, okay, so if violence isn't the answer, move out of your
mansion because
that's what built that mansion was violence.
That's how people know who you are.
Yeah.
You're super violent.
Yeah, that's, like, that's, like, you and me saying, like, don't tell jokes.
Yeah.
Stop it.
Wasn't he on trial for murder?
I mean, that's pretty violent.
But he didn't really do it.
It was, like, one of his entourage.
He was an accessory.
Allegedly accessory to murder.
Allegedly.
It was kind of, like, the Snoop Dogg thing.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Either way, he's a football player.
Like, when you see, like, these fighters or these football players and you see
them doing
ridiculous shit and people get all surprised.
It's, like, you can't ask them to be anything other than what they really are.
Exactly.
And if you want that result, you want that Ray Rice result, you're going to get
a Ray Rice.
You're going to get that happening.
Which is, yeah, which is not saying we condone it.
No.
But it's just saying don't be surprised when it happens.
Well, you can't all of a sudden, in 2015, start putting cameras on these guys
and following
them around and expecting them to have exemplary behavior.
Yes.
What they're good at is when the fucking play starts, they're good at getting
shit done.
Right.
You know, and the way you do that is through violence, explosive athleticism.
Yeah.
Smashing into things.
Fucking diving through mounds of enormous steroided up dudes.
Yeah.
And then with so much testosterone boiling over.
And then when Richard Sherman gives an interview last year or two years ago
when he's like,
Why do they think Crabtree can be put on me?
Crabtree's a punk.
Then they start getting mad at him.
Like, how dare you talk to Aaron Andrews like that?
A petite white woman.
And you're just getting angry.
Why are you so angry?
Because he just played football for an hour.
That's why he's angry.
And that's why he's good at what he does.
Yeah, the idea that you wanted him to take it from 10 all the way down to 1
again.
Right.
And then just like come off like he's an Oscar Wilde player.
Like, well, as we were on the field of battle, might I tell you, it was quite
an interesting route, that one.
No, it's not going to happen.
Those guys are going to be too intense.
It's not fair.
I mean, everybody wants everything sanitized.
I mean, we want the purity of the sport, but then we also want it to be fan-friendly.
We also want it to be easily absorbed by the casual person who's watching it.
Yeah, and you know this because you've had to interview guys right after they
fight.
Yeah, they're fired up.
After they've just been punched in the face.
And that's literally the most testosterone probably that can run through your
body in a three-minute period of just like getting revved up.
And then Joe Rogan comes in and puts a microphone in.
Explain what happened out there.
And then they expect these guys to get like a complex thing.
People wonder why athletes, they get mad that they always have those textbook
answers like one game at a time.
I was just doing a play at a time.
We're going to go back and we're going to examine.
They have those scripted answers so they don't have to think about giving those
answers because they can't in those moments.
Well, not only that, a lot of people are just not that good talking on camera.
Like that's something you've got to get relaxed at.
We forget because we talk for a living.
Yeah.
And like that's what our normal is.
Our normal is talking in front of a bunch of strangers and being funny on a
moment's notice.
Rather be in an interview or a radio show or a podcast, whatever.
Just, hey, flip the switch, go.
Right.
The average person does not do that.
Like when they have an actor give a speech at an award show and it's like
something crazy happens and they have to be spontaneous.
It's like, no, they're actors.
Yeah.
Lots of times they can't do that.
Yeah, a lot of them can.
And some of them can.
Like one of the best interviews ever was Mickey Rourke when he won some like
Golden Globe or one of those fucking, whatever the name of the, I think all
awards are stupid.
I don't pay attention to any of that shit.
Awards for art.
You faked it better than this faker.
But I mean, you know, people do great performances.
Absolutely.
But his, he did this amazing speech where he was just so loose and relaxed and
he was talking all kinds of crazy shit.
It was like one of the best speeches ever.
And it was, it was fun because he seemed like real comfortable in his own skin.
Yeah.
Despite all the craziness that that guy's been through.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's always, and that can go either way.
Like people either freak out with the honesty of that person or, or, or it's
really refreshing.
Uh, is, is, is, is this the one right here?
Yeah, this is it.
It was a spirit award.
It was a spirit award.
That's what it was.
I mean, it was really, what's really crazy too is like you see him in this
video.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we'll play a little bit of it.
And then you see him now, like now he looks like an old gypsy woman.
He's gone crazy and doctored his face up.
And there's actually an image that says gypsy, Mickey Rourke, old gypsy woman.
And that's exactly what he looks like.
Listen to some of this.
Thank you all very much.
Like, look, he's so happy.
I just want to say one thing about Eric Roberts.
Eric Roberts is probably the best actor I ever worked with.
And I don't, I don't know why in the last 15 years ain't nobody give him a
chance to show his shit again.
Because whatever he did 15, 20 years ago should be forgiven.
And I wish there was, no, I'm goddamn serious about that.
Eric Roberts is the fucking man.
Love it.
That's just one part of it.
Then he gets loose.
Like I have, he did, like I, like I got, he deserves a second chance.
And I wish there'd be one goddamn filmmaker in this room that would, would let
him fly because the man, he, he is something else.
Thank you, Eric.
Okay, it's enough on Eric.
Eric will probably be arrested by the end of the day, but, uh, anyway.
Um, and that little blonde dude that did that thing, I'm going to beat your ass
when I get out of here.
But you're right, he's very loose.
He's just like, whatever.
Nice to be presented.
But it gets, it gets better.
Like, he gets.
I don't know what you do, honey, but these two are really good.
Uh, you know, uh, I, I've just gotten thousands of letters and shit from my, my,
my, uh, people, strangers and people that know me about, about my dog that died
six days ago.
Loki.
Loki.
This is what people who don't have kids do.
Uh, this is for you, baby.
They get all torn up about their dogs.
Right.
Uh, and I just got done talking to the Santa Monica Police Department.
They gave me a bed to sleep in 10 years ago.
And, uh, I thanked them for, I asked them for two pillows.
They told me to fuck off.
But anyway, uh.
It's like this kind of a speech.
Yeah.
You're believing in me.
This is right after he did The Wrestler.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Which, damn, that was a good movie.
I, I told people in the past, directors like Darren Aronofsky come around every
25 years the same way, like, Chimino, Coppola, Parker, Adrian Lyon, all the
rest of them.
And I said 25 years, and he whispered in my ear, 30.
Uh, and, uh, the only thing I want to say to any young actor.
Or any actor who gets an opportunity to work with Darren, you better be in
shape because he will break you down.
He is one tough son of a bitch, and he d