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the jurgen experience how was it uh working with brian ortega uh to be honest mate he doesn't say much he doesn't say much look here i don't know like yeah we're we're i'm i'm a bit over him to be honest yeah just uh a couple of things you know what i mean like i just think he's fake i think he's uh he's fake and i don't believe you [ __ ] so that's just sort of how it is with me that's what i think when you say fake like in what way is he fake oh man just uh yeah i just think you know he plays plays a nice guy and some of the [ __ ] he says like i just think it's all [ __ ] but uh yeah i guess you can watch the show and like sort of see you like with little things but i know just even with a couple of things like i don't think he's that bad of a guy maybe i'm just looking for things to hate on him i'm sure you're maybe yeah probably you know what i mean so i'm just sitting there be like nah [ __ ] brian will take you know i mean i'm gonna find something to hate him for but uh you know maybe that's what it was but i mean like still yeah uh little things i was just like yeah but i mean like i said it's not hard to get under his skin even me just saying that i guarantee he's boiling up so maybe that's going to be strategy for my next fight because i know how easily he's triggered so i'm just going to be like hey brian [ __ ] you that's it when are you when are you guys scheduled to fight at the end of the series well yeah yeah so when it is yeah so uh from what i'm told i don't know if i'm going to get in trouble saying this i'm not sure but i think it is like september early september so you'll be fighting him sometime in september and that will be in the united states uh yeah i'm guessing yeah yeah nice interesting it's um it's a great fight like if you look at the fight on paper especially after his fight with the korean zombie it's fun fight to watch yeah he definitely uh definitely looked
good in that fight he surprised me in that fight too he definitely uh changed his game a little bit and then fought a a different fight that i wasn't expecting but uh but again you know you know i'm confident in my abilities i just i just believe i'll be too much and the beauty the beautiful thing about it i can say what i want but i get to prove it soon so you know i i wish i got to prove it march when i was scheduled to fight but obviously that didn't happen but you know i'll i'll prove that very uh soon anyway so it's all good it's a special division man that 145 is a really special division because there's so much talent there it's uh i think it's hard to say what the it's between i think it's between 55 and 45 like the most amount of like real top level talent but yeah 45 is just so filled so filled with guys yeah there is there's a lot of guys that come and even some of the guys that are higher in the rankings like just starting to come up like there's a lot of dangerous guys and that's what that's the beautiful thing about it like that motivate motivates me i'm looking forward to it you know these are the guys i want i want these guys that are people i love being the underdog as well yeah even though i'm champ you're still gonna have the doubters and all that and i love that you know what i mean i want to be down to the underdog and you know i want them doubters and i love proving people wrong you like being the underdog yeah i don't know i do i do mean that it's gotta be hard to be the underdog when you're the [ __ ] champ yeah yeah it's true i know but i mean i guess i wouldn't say underdog but i mean the doubters maybe right maybe yeah and i use the doubters as fuel right so i love it again i love proving them wrong and my if i was a underdog for this fight you know i don't know if i would be but i mean if i was i would not care one bit i'd be like all right at least i get to make my my boys or whoever's betting on me more money let's go you know i mean i'm more
good now you guys were supposed to you were scheduled to fight but then you got coveted and when you got coveted when you got tested initially when you got tested you didn't feel sick right uh i mean before because we'll get tested a fair bit so i'm guessing before we went into the bubble i must have got it from someone or whatever and then uh you know a few days later we got tested a couple of times it didn't pop up but then we got tested yeah one of the days and that was like right at the end of my camp like because i went there a bit early to for brad riddell to corner or be with him because he fought the week before me so i did my last week of training hard training in vegas after traveling and doing all that and then i got covered uh must have had it uh trained like hard you know we get stuck into it so i did back to back because the schedule got tightened up because we arrived a bit later in the week so uh back to back really really solid sessions while i probably had covered uh so but i mean i sort of had started again headaches and that before i was like i'm getting headaches that's vegas maybe you know just dehydrated and whatnot but but yeah then i tested positive and then i started getting the symptoms after that and when you say like your schedule tightened up so you guys have a very rigid program that you follow no matter what like at this day you're doing this yeah exactly so we got you know we got a few hard sessions and when i say hard sessions they're you know they're you know they're mind-blowing type of sessions off for some people that that will the watcher buddy you know that's just our schedule and uh usually you have good rest in between them and like that's you know you need to have the rest you want good recovery so you're able to do them you know and this camp was beautiful we we did it
absolutely we nailed the camp man i was doing some of the harder sessions but i was recovering on point my recovery was on point i was like man like you know i'm getting older but i feel like the camp's getting easier like how's that happening right now but uh that that week got tightened up so i end up doing a couple of these really really high loaded sessions uh they end up being like back to back where usually i would have like high low session high low ceiling what was the decision what made the decision to do high back-to-back uh just just again it was just more the fact that uh you know we just need to do a couple i still don't think it was that but i felt fine like while i was doing that like i didn't think nothing of it but i'm just because i end up getting pretty rattled from from the the covet that's why i was like man like maybe my immune system was down you know at the end of the at the end of camp obviously dieting and all that type of stuff but i felt fine but you know i'm pretty sure i started feeling some of the symptoms uh before i was getting into them hard sessions as well yeah all the fighters that i know that got it bad it was all the same sort of situation when they were in camp really beaten up like cody garbrandt same thing with cody had coveted for probably weeks and was training with it yeah before he even got tested and and then they're like bro you got covet and he's like oh well that explains a lot and then you know he was pretty [ __ ] up for a few months but yeah he had trained like real hard like well that's that's obviously gonna you know play a big factor and you and the thing is like you're here and then you hear like the hazmat uh you know sort of situations cody garbrandt so like we wanted to keep an eye on it but you know what i mean and that's why we got it and then if i know you've got the pneumonia and then uh you know then the symptoms are you felt the symptoms a fair bit
but then uh then i got that pneumonia and then like the sort of the infection just started getting a little bit worser so i end up getting you know pink coughing up like pinky bloody sort of stuff and then the blood just got more and more so then we went back and that's when they they got me on the medication and and yeah because i was like coughing up blood and all told how sick like how long were you sick for uh probably would have been maybe ten days or something maybe luckiest sundays like seven or ten days did they do iv vitamins or anything like that uh yeah once once i was in the hospital they were doing that yeah but i mean as soon as i got on the medication um you know for dexamethasone i like made like just improvements like straight away but right now obviously i've got an ortega to worry about and watch this season and watch everyone come watch me stir him up and give him [ __ ] what is the pressure like of hanging out with a guy that you're to fight for five weeks you're just hanging out day in and day out seeing each other all the time well we talked about it i was talking about how i adjust and adapt to things that in front of me even in the fight i'm just like that 24 7. you know i mean i'm the type of guy that whatever i'm doing that's it on me you know i forget i'm a [ __ ] ufc champ i forget i'm a i'm even a fighter half the time you know me because once i'm home i'm daddy that's it and that's a lot you know but that's how i am but i went in there and i just knew i ever won a reality tv show he's going to be there whatever but it was funny because again you're trying to get reads on him and and things like that but again i just think he's [ __ ] awkward he's an awkward dude what do you reckon what did you get out of here that's for sure he definitely wasn't a fan of me by the end of the show really actually almost got fired for one of the pranks i played on him but we weren't allowed to uh what was that you almost got fired or he almost got i almost got fired for it was that
that was the code we had to take five covert tests a week so obviously there's pranks on the show this won't make the tv show anyway but i did pretend to put his cover test on my ass the mouth the heart the mouth was it was a dream it didn't really happen but uh so we're pretending to piss on his uh like you know his signs and all that we've got photos of us like just throwing up again a bit of laugh you know a bit of banter but we know how he carries on there was a photo that he put um you put it up didn't you of the keys yeah we pretended to take his car attending pretending we just had a photo of the keys and uh supposedly he had the [ __ ] the [ __ ] and like he was like oh [ __ ] [ __ ] craig i'm like i'm in the photo too why aren't you saying you'll [ __ ] fight me yeah he's like if he touches the car or we'll fight him but i mean again like whether whether he was just like you know going along with it or whatever it was but or he's just easily triggered i i don't know but like we so we started realizing that so we just we just started like playing on that a fair bit and hey knowing that he's easily triggered there might be a route to this next fight as well what happened with the covid test swap like you took a photo pretending that you were sticking up come on can we get this up yeah yeah um air drop it to jamie get the get the photo of us out as well you guys are grown man get the photo of us pissing yeah and the thing with me with the thing up my ass yeah i get that mac pro jamie yep uh mvp oh oh there it is something happened uh right okay but again just have a bit of a laugh you know what i mean we will uh that one it's on the wrong computer i mean it's pretty light-hearted you know like i wouldn't really stick his oral cover to about my ass how could you even get a hold of it i mean isn't that stuff controlled that's what i don't understand like where the [ __ ] is the nurse well i just waited to the nurse
uh had to go to the bathroom you know swab there it goes oh my god yeah that's actually that cheeky smirk too late they actually almost fired me for this one so i didn't i probably probably crossed the line a little too much but remember this is a different swap just in case you do still yeah this is fake ladies and gentlemen it's just a joke allegedly it might have been a flavored test you never know l-o-l um so what did they say to you well i mean and i did have some ideas for some covert pranks because obviously we're trying to get them but they did tell me because they spent so much money on cobra testing they were like that's that's a line we can't cross but i just couldn't resist craig did it anyway it was just sitting right here that's probably not on the film pull-out test was sitting in the same section yeah i get it listen makes sense to me you got to do what you got to do but that's part of the fun of the show right it's [ __ ] with everybody exactly and the more conflict there is the better the ratings are the better the show does better it is for everybody when you guys have a big fight catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience