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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #631 - Josh Barnett' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-03-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #631 - Josh Barnett

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Yeehaw, ladies and gentlemen, international man of leisure and the first ever,
the youngest
ever UFC heavyweight champion, Josh Barnett, ladies and gentlemen.
I highly stress leisure.
They can't take that from you.
No, they can't.
No, because I'm laying on top of it right now with a bag of Oreos and my feet
propped
up on a lovely lady.
Unless some Mike Tyson type character comes around and wins it at 20, you got
that shit
locked up.
I don't really see that happening.
It's weird, isn't it?
The heavyweight division is weird.
Well, ever since a lot of that drug testing came into play, you're not going to
see an
18-year-old roll up into the UFC at over 200 and some odd pounds and just start
laying into
people.
Isn't it possible though, like if he's one of those freak athletes that would
normally
make it into the NFL, maybe he's got a dad that has been a martial arts
instructor his
whole life, that kind of thing?
Sure.
I could see it, but then again, the pull is if you could make it into the NFL,
you're
almost, okay, I'm going to take all that money now and play in the NFL, and
then if
I feel like being a fighter, I'll do that.
Right.
Like Herschel Walker did.
Like Herschel Walker did.
Although, I mean, he is a freak of freak of freaks.
I mean, when you look at Herschel, he shouldn't be in the kind of shape he is
at his age.
Yeah.
And he says he eats like a bowl of soup and a salad every day.
And a Snickers bar or something.
Yeah.
He's got some weird thing going on too, though.
He has multiple personality disorder that's trauma induced.
Maybe one of those personalities eats while the other one doesn't know about it.
Or the other one's working out all the time.
Yeah.
And so you're getting all your caloric needs from one guy, and the other guy's
doing all
the working out.
The other dude jerks you off.
Then you have the one dude that does your taxes.
Right.
It could be a useful thing.
It would definitely be a useful thing for your mind.
If you compartmentalize like that, you could really pretend you don't jerk off
and really
pretend that you don't eat.
And you just have a bowl of salad and a soup and you're fucking Superman.
I barely even lift weights.
Meanwhile, you got fucking white powder all over your hand from chalk from
Olympic lifting.
You fucking calluses.
Where are you getting those calluses from, man?
I don't know what you're talking about, man.
That ain't me.
That's Mike.
A bunch of engine blocks out in the front yard all overturned.
Mike lives this part of my brain back here.
Mike did it.
Yeah.
He was unbelievable.
He was like 48 or 49 in his last fight in Strikeforce, and he just looks like a
fucking
Greek god.
Yeah, that's the kind of guy that I don't even think science could be that well.
You know what I mean?
Like, there are guys out there that, like, I have a buddy, Mike O'Hearn, right?
He's 40, I don't know, 46, something like that.
And he's a family friend from way back in the day.
He's from Juanita, Redmond, Washington, originally.
He's friends with my brother-in-law.
Everybody, we all know him.
We've known him for a long time.
Ridiculous shape.
He can get up to, I don't know, 285, still fairly lean, pull 700 pounds off the
floor, 800 pounds,
just ridiculous amount of strength.
Then he can go ahead and shred down to 244 or something because of 242 to do
some photo shoot.
Mr. Olympia, a little, here I'm here for this supplement company or that
supplement company
or guest thing here and still, in training, do, I don't know, 600 for reps
squatting.
And you're just looking at him going, you know, his whole thing is being a
natural bodybuilder his whole life.
And he's, but it's, I wouldn't, you couldn't, there's nothing you could say
that could ever diminish his,
what he's done because no, it's just like, there's nobody else out there.
I don't care what you shoved in him or what you didn't shove in him.
You can't be that guy.
Right.
He's just that sick, strong, and he still looks like he's like 30.
So you're just like, you won the genetic lottery.
Unless you have some sort of crazy, radical genetic engineering down the pipe,
which probably is going to happen within a lifetime, maybe.
But yeah, like there's some dudes, no matter how much steroids they take,
they just, then you're never going to compete with some ridiculous freak
athlete.
No, Mike is one of the most genetically gifted and hardworking, of course, too,
people I have ever seen.
He also has a world record for running through plate glass windows.
I know that.
It sounds like, yeah, no shit he does, right?
How many people were competing in that race?
But no, it's football gear and a helmet, and they line up these plate glass
windows
in this huge, long line, like a two-line or three-line deal.
Like dominoes?
No, no, no.
Each one is individually set up, and he smashes through the first, the second,
and he keeps going, you know?
And sometimes you run into him, it bounces you back, and you just got to keep
driving.
Oh, my God.
He's also got a black belt in judo.
Jesus Christ.
He was on the American Gladiators.
He was on Battledome.
Battledome.
Battledome.
I kind of remember that.
Yeah.
What was Battledome again?
I think lower rent American Gladiators.
It was meaner, and people got hurt more.
Oh, that's right.
Everybody had a very obnoxious or ostentatious, like very gregarious character,
very over the top.
And so he was Mike O'Dell, like the perfect Greek god.
Although, O'Dell, come on, that's not very Greek.
Yeah, O'Dell.
But then, you know who else was on there was, God, I can't remember his name.
He played in the NFL.
He's incredibly funny.
Terry Crews.
Terry Crews.
Terry Crews is on Battledome.
Was he really?
Yeah, he was.
I don't remember.
And then there was another guy.
You know, Eric Paulson used to train them.
And Eric even did the psycho guy gimmick, the Hannibal Lecter deal.
And they had an event on there where you'd have to get a guy off this platform
over the lines.
And Eric used to just murder everybody in that event.
And then one of our guys who is one of our CSW dudes, he actually went on to
Battledome at one point, Jay Martinez, way back in the day.
And he wrecked all the dudes that he saw who got onto the platform, the push-out
one.
He just fucked them all up.
And they hated him so bad because there was like another event where it was
football-esque.
You know, Terry Crews and Mike would just practically take people's heads
completely off their body.
It was really bad.
I'm surprised that when they redid that, they redid not this one, but the other
one, Gladiators.
Why didn't that take off?
It seems like that would take off.
They had Hulk Hogan, Leila Ali, Gina Carano was one of the ass kickers.
What channel was that, though?
It was NBC, I think.
It was during the writer's strike.
Was it during the writer's strike?
That's right.
Writer's strike.
Yeah, but it's still a reality show.
Like, that seems like it would be an easy one to do.
Like, you know, that Wipeout is kind of similar, but no one kicks your ass.
Right.
You know, people love that kind of shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's another one.
I don't know why it didn't actually continue as well.
I figured, well, you know, it has a little bit of distance in it and two
seasons, and that shit was done.
Well, whenever you have, like, people that you have hired, like you hire a Josh
Barnett,
and you have to smash some dude who's competing, it gets kind of weird.
It's like you're not competing against another person.
You're competing against a hired guy.
So if the guy gets hurt, if someone gets hurt, and, like, you hurt him, like,
it could be pretty easy to sue the company that makes that show.
Like, you're an employee.
If, you know, some dude makes a run at you and you fucking clothesline him and
he's paralyzed, yeah, but waivers, man, they fight those things.
And when you fight them, if a lawsuit is strong enough, it's got enough power
behind it, enough legal power behind it.
I wonder if that was it.
Probably not.
It's probably just ratings.
I think it was just ratings.
Yeah.
I think it was just ratings.
It's interesting when you think about what guys are capable of, like,
physically, with maximizing your genetic potential.
Like, there's a certain level that you can't get past.
And it's one of the reasons, like, when everyone talks about, like, steroids
and performance-enhancing drugs and what's fair and what's not fair, the one
thing that's 100% not fair is nature.
That's true.
It's not fair at all.
Nature's a bitch.
Nature will murder you, will drown you, will set you on fire, and will also
just let you show up, you know, the proverbial gene pool that's been pissed in
with, you know, get born with stubby fingers or half a leg or, like, Down
syndrome.
Like, well, good luck.
Yeah, good luck.
See how that works.
Yeah, and if you're an athlete, no matter what you do, like, there's certain
guys, you know, the Herschel Walkers, there's certain types of dudes that just
are always going to have that giant advantage, no matter what you do.
Herschel was a fan.
He was a really well-versed, you know, he had a good career in the NFL, but he
never was the guy more than anyone else.
I mean, he had some years, and you always knew he was solid, but he never was
the top dude.
Really?
I didn't know that.
No, he was never the number one guy, and often towards later on in his career,
he was usually the backup guy or the dude who got brought in for all the all-purpose
yardage or, well, because Herschel,
Herschel could run and catch and possibly, I bet if he threw the ball to him,
he could, you know, he could throw a pass downfield.
He could probably play defensive end.
It's just, right.
And then they would do those NFL off-season competition things, right, where
they'd take all these different players on NBC or something, and they would all
compete against each other in little events, throwing the football through hoops
and through tires and sumo and the beach sand, all this different stuff, right?
The Battle of the Network Stars, right?
Something basic.
It was like that kind of thing, but just for NFL players.
The NFL would do it, and Herschel Walker won every single one of them.
Really?
Every time.
But he was not the best running back in the NFL during his entire career.
He was not the best fullback.
But he could play fullback, running back, quarterback.
He didn't get fucked up either.
It's like Bo Jackson's out there crushing everybody, just eating yards up.
Boom, his hip goes out, right?
Or Steve Itman taking interceptions and running him back 90-some yards as a
defensive tackle or D-end, and boom, his knee gets blown out.
You know, stuff like that.
Not Herschel Walker.
He doesn't get hurt.
Yeah, it's weird, right?
Yeah, he's a specimen.
But he never was, like I said, he was never the number one guy.
Right.
Did you see that thing recently about Jeremy Horn?
Jeremy Horn.
He said zero injuries?
Zero injuries.
Over 117 fights or something?
That's insane.
I have no idea.
He must be made out of fucking flubber or rubbermaid or whatever.
You know, he just bounces back out.
Yeah, they call him Gumby.
That's always been his nickname.
Right.
But, you know, he just says he focuses only on technique, and he's never a
strong guy.
Well, he's got a point, and it's something that I've stressed a lot when we
talk about fighting,
and that is so many guys have learned how to be stronger and faster with or
without drugs
and learn how to defend certain positions and hit hard, but they don't have a
full, well-rounded skill set.
They've all got these plan A's, and their plan B sucks, and their plan C isn't
even a thing.
And then when they slow down a step, they lose a little bit.
They come up across the guy who's either stronger and faster or just a little
better striker or too good at something that will derail their plan A.
They start losing.
When they start losing, they just