Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman at UFC 279

00:00:00.000 | Is that a camera?

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00:00:01.500 | That's incredible.

00:00:02.500 | DJI, look at it.

00:00:03.500 | Is that better than your phone?

00:00:04.500 | Yeah.

00:00:05.000 | Maybe because you don't have a knife?

00:00:06.000 | It's incredible quality.

00:00:07.000 | Yeah.

00:00:07.500 | Here with Joe Rogan at the weigh-ins.

00:00:09.500 | Oh, hi.

00:00:10.000 | You get nervous before these things?

00:00:11.500 | No, I get excited, though.

00:00:13.000 | How do you prepare for all the names you have to read off?

00:00:16.500 | I have to get them written out phonetically.

00:00:19.000 | When you look at these guys, do you see excitement? Do you see fear?

00:00:22.000 | What do you usually see?

00:00:23.000 | The fighters?

00:00:24.000 | Yeah, when they stay up.

00:00:25.000 | You never see fear.

00:00:28.000 | You saw fear when Anderson Silva was in his prime.

00:00:32.000 | You saw some fear.

00:00:33.000 | When guys reach this unstoppable level, you see some fear.

00:00:37.000 | But you don't generally just see anxiety and tension.

00:00:42.000 | You see guys getting fired up for a fight.

00:00:45.000 | Intensity?

00:00:46.000 | Intensity, for sure.

00:00:47.000 | Who is the most intense guy you've seen at the weigh-ins?

00:00:50.000 | Ever?

00:00:51.000 | Conor gets pretty fucking intense, but so does Khabib.

00:00:56.000 | It all depends on whether or not they have real animosity towards each other.

00:01:01.000 | Nate Diaz is probably somebody that gets pretty intense.

00:01:04.000 | Oh, yeah, he's going to get intense. That's going to be a good one.

00:01:07.000 | I don't know how they're going to separate him from Hamza and him from everyone else.

00:01:12.000 | You think it's going to get crazy today?

00:01:13.000 | It could get crazy.

00:01:15.000 | And what are you going to do? Are you going to be all right?

00:01:17.000 | I'm going to get the fuck out of there.

00:01:18.000 | If shit gets wild, I'm not getting in the scrap.

00:01:21.000 | You're going to watch me look like a coward.

00:01:25.000 | Also here with Shane Gillis, you're going to step up if shit goes down?

00:01:28.000 | I'll get in there.

00:01:29.000 | I might have to get in and get knocked out by a 120-pounder.

00:01:33.000 | Do you ever lose your voice with these things?

00:01:36.000 | No.

00:01:37.000 | No, I yell all the time.

00:01:38.000 | You get it.

00:01:39.000 | Because of doing comedy, my voice is pretty strong.

00:01:42.000 | This is like such a surreal moment in human history, the war of combat.

00:01:48.000 | Like, more innovation has happened in combat in the past 20 years than maybe ever in human history.

00:01:54.000 | You're at the center of it.

00:01:55.000 | Yeah.

00:01:56.000 | Does that hit you? At which point does that hit you?

00:01:59.000 | Before big fights, it's always like goosebumps.

00:02:03.000 | It starts building up?

00:02:04.000 | Yeah.

00:02:05.000 | Like before Leon Edwards and Kamaru Usmano, it's like, "Whew, here we go."

00:02:10.000 | You know, your whole body just tingles. All your skin tingles.

00:02:14.000 | And then the shock might happen like it did in that fight.

00:02:17.000 | Oh, yeah.

00:02:18.000 | When something crazy happens, your whole body just jolts.

00:02:21.000 | It's so wild, you know?

00:02:23.000 | You see people standing up and screaming, "Oh, my God," behind you.

00:02:26.000 | And then you become a meme.

00:02:27.000 | Yeah, I'm a meme often.

00:02:29.000 | But the last one, when Leon Edwards knocked out Kamaru, you see me and DC freaking out behind us.

00:02:35.000 | Tony Hinchcliffe goes, "Oh, my God!"

00:02:39.000 | That's amazing. It was amazing.

00:02:43.000 | All right, brother. Thank you for giving us a behind-the-scenes look.

00:02:45.000 | My pleasure.

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00:02:53.000 | Here we go!

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00:03:00.000 | Give it up for Hunter!

00:03:02.000 | Sean Shelby and Nick Mayhem!

00:03:04.000 | Last night was extraordinary!

00:03:06.000 | We had a lot of changes in this car, but I think it's even better!

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00:04:03.000 | How do you feel after that?

00:04:04.000 | It was exciting! Very intense.

00:04:06.000 | It was, uh...

00:04:08.000 | It's gonna be one of those cards where it's like, no one prepared for that opponent.

00:04:12.000 | So you have three fights that have been completely reworked.

00:04:16.000 | And so these guys have to adjust, and, you know, there's very different opponents.

00:04:20.000 | Okay, well, what happened was Hamzat Shumayev didn't make weight, and he missed weight by eight and a half pounds,

00:04:25.000 | which is so crazy that they wouldn't let them fight each other.

00:04:28.000 | So they had to move that.

00:04:29.000 | So now you have Li Jinglian versus Daniel Rodriguez.

00:04:33.000 | Rodriguez was supposed to be fighting Kevin Holland.

00:04:36.000 | And then Hamzat was supposed to be fighting Nate Diaz, missed weight by a ton.

00:04:40.000 | But honestly, Tony Ferguson versus Nate Diaz is a much better fight.

00:04:44.000 | Much more competitive fight.

00:04:46.000 | And Hamzat versus Kevin Holland is a real test for Hamzat.

00:04:49.000 | Kevin Holland is a big guy.

00:04:51.000 | He fought at 185 pounds before.

00:04:53.000 | He was very successful, knocked people out, including Joaquin Buckley at 185.

00:04:57.000 | You think Holland is ready for the fight?

00:04:59.000 | That's a real test.

00:05:00.000 | It's chaos. It's a surprise.

00:05:02.000 | It's a totally different kind of fight.

00:05:04.000 | He's a chaos kind of guy, though.

00:05:06.000 | I mean, I think it's an exciting fight.

00:05:08.000 | I'm excited about it.

00:05:09.000 | You think Hamzat is ready?

00:05:11.000 | Well, I don't like the fact that he missed weight.

00:05:13.000 | That's a lot to miss weight by.

00:05:15.000 | So there's, like, two things could happen.

00:05:16.000 | He missed weight because he didn't prepare properly, which usually indicates either that he was sick or injured,

00:05:22.000 | or he didn't want to make the weight.

00:05:25.000 | You know, maybe he was, like, so worked up by all this Nate Diaz stuff that he didn't want to get in the sauna.

00:05:29.000 | He didn't want to cut the weight.

00:05:31.000 | Who knows what's going on.

00:05:32.000 | We don't know.

00:05:33.000 | We really don't know.

00:05:34.000 | You'd have to get friends with him where he could confide in you and he'd tell you the truth.

00:05:38.000 | It was amazing to see you do this in person and amazing to see the fighters in person.

00:05:42.000 | It's intense. Tomorrow's going to be even crazier.

00:05:44.000 | So you have to know what the angles are.

00:05:55.000 | So, like, this shot right here, this is a perfect example.

00:05:57.000 | This seems like an easy shot.

00:05:59.000 | But you know what's not an easy shot?

00:06:01.000 | It's getting to that ball down there.

00:06:05.000 | Yeah.

00:06:06.000 | So that ball, when the ball's down there like that, like kind of in the middle, but not in front of that hole or that hole.

00:06:12.000 | There's only two places to be on that hole.

00:06:14.000 | You have to be on the right side of the ball or the left side of the ball.

00:06:17.000 | Now, when you have something like this that's right in front of the hole, it seems like, well, that's an easy shot.

00:06:21.000 | But you have to make sure that you have the right speed to hit this here.

00:06:26.000 | And then it's got to go like this and then all the way down to here.

00:06:30.000 | Oh, so two walls. It's got to bounce on this one, that one.

00:06:34.000 | All right.

00:06:35.000 | Basically three rails, maybe.

00:06:37.000 | Three rails.

00:06:38.000 | And that little, like, a tap on the other one.

00:06:40.000 | But it's all like a gentle touch.

00:06:42.000 | Yeah.

00:06:43.000 | Got it.

00:06:48.000 | Wow, that's strong. That's strong.

00:06:52.000 | See the difference?

00:06:53.000 | Yeah.

00:06:54.000 | It looks like that's easy, but that's not easy at all.

00:06:57.000 | That's like one of the harder shots is to get yourself where you're in a perfect position to make the next ball.

00:07:04.000 | How'd you get into oping, Anthony?

00:07:06.000 | I was in bands with my brother, and I would write song parodies about everything that was happening in the news.

00:07:13.000 | And the OJ thing, you might have heard of that, happened, and I wrote a song parody about it.

00:07:18.000 | Opie played it on his show, WBAB on Long Island, and people loved it.

00:07:23.000 | And he goes, "Hey, can you come in and do it live?"

00:07:26.000 | And me and my brother were like, "Yeah, I came in, did it live."

00:07:28.000 | And I thought this was my shot.

00:07:30.000 | I just poured everything out. I started doing impressions.

00:07:33.000 | I was commenting on the news.

00:07:35.000 | And Opie goes, "Dude, that was really good. Why don't you come in next week again?"

00:07:38.000 | And it just snowballed from there.

00:07:40.000 | We got an offer to go to Boston, and I never looked back.

00:07:43.000 | I threw my sheet metal worker tools out on '95 on my way up to Boston.

00:07:48.000 | It's all about knowing the cue ball speed and knowing how a ball is going to come off the ball when it contacts it at an angle.

00:07:57.000 | And you get completely obsessive because it's so hard to predict.

00:08:02.000 | And then the more you do it, the more you get muscle memory, and the more you kind of understand where the ball is going.

00:08:08.000 | So you're not even thinking too much. You're using intuition.

00:08:11.000 | There's a lot of thinking and a lot of intuition.

00:08:13.000 | It's like both things are happening at the same time.

00:08:16.000 | It's super complicated.

00:08:18.000 | It's fascinating.

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