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The Joe Rogan Experience way back when before I got sober I had this tour the it was called the don't try this at home tour and I would promote every show by saying I will be drunk and on drugs or your money back and I'm in it and and you you watched me what year was this that it started in 2001 and and I ran that until like 2005. and um and and uh I mean you just watch me get completely hammered on stage like pounding tequila and [ __ ] when I came out on stage I would walk out with like a suitcase of Budweiser cans and I'd toss them out of the crowd and I would take the can I'd start out with one and and I would just bash my head with it until the can exploded and I'd be particularly proud if the can broke into two separate pieces and after I broke the one can then I would take out two cans of one in each hand and go back and forth and and break both of them um so I would every show I would break three beers over my head and uh I would do that like every night oh my God and and and and and that like what what I understand about the CTE phenomenon is that you're absolutely right it's not about how hard you get hit it's it's the the accumulation of lots of little hits and that's why my ball is the biggest one did you suffer anything from that the worst part was then then like after I got sober started doing stand up like initially there there was a period where I would do it with sparkling water cans and you were doing it still you started eating yourself in the head I did it for a little while and uh how many times you think you've beaten yourself in the head how many shows if you had to count them all up uh hundreds oh my God right and I mean as far as I can tell I I I'm in pretty good shape maybe Tony Hawk told me one time he had he says that um that he found out with regard to CTE that there's a gene which which will make you predisposed to Alzheimer's disease apoe4 yeah yeah and if you have that Gene then you're you're very much at risk for CTE but if you don't have that Gene you're considerably less at risk and he said that when he found that out he went and got the test and and determined that he did not have that Gene and and and when I heard that like kind of chewed on it for a while I ended
up like like it was It was kind of kind of nagging at me and I ended up like reaching back out to Tony I said hey Tony about that test like what was your what was your plan if you did have the gene okay you can't understand yourself in the head right you know and he's like oh well I didn't have a plan I'm like well how can you have a plan after the fact right exactly but so I'm like I I don't want to [ __ ] go take that test I don't want to know if I have that goddamn gene or not well if it's been this many years afterwards you're not suffering you probably don't have that Gene I also went to like and now of course famously the the whole CTE phenomenon you can't find out if you have it until you've died and they've like I think they can tell now oh yeah yeah I think there's a new way that they can tell before you die but it used to be the head of weight and do an autopsy on you right well I went to some like brain specialist kind of guy were you having problems no know I just went because I was interested and uh doc Dr Drew sent me to this guy it was actually when I was uh the the and I was trying to get cauliflower here as like as part of part of uh my multimedia comedy and I remember telling you too that I was like I'm gonna do a crazy bit and I tried to get cauliflower here and I remember you telling me that uh you were like nope I don't support that he said I think the cauliflower ear is something that should be earned you know like and uh I remember thinking oh well like I I I became buddies with Chuck Liddell and uh Chuck Liddell and I got together we made the [ __ ] funniest craziest video like uh of him trying to get like I I I I I got I made this helmet that like I designed this helmet that left my ears sticking out so it would protect my head from like head shots a little bit and my ears sticking out and and I got Chuck Liddell [ __ ] sets uh a golf ball on my ear and [ __ ] Wax It Off did you get cauliflower here that no that then um that we'd spent two days with Chuck trying to do it and and it just didn't work then I got together with Ronda Rousey and and was on the mats with her and she's like her hand and Travis just like roughing a mirror all day long and and and and uh and they're looking at my
ear they're like dude we got it that's it you know we got it and then it just went away then I got together with Jorge masvedol he put his uh his uh BMF belt over my ear and he's just like punching it against it a door and uh and he's like dude that's it right there man that's cauliflower we got it it didn't and then then I got together with Jon Jones oh my God I had like the who's who you're such a glutton for punishment who's who of the UFC Hall of Fame like give their best shot and everybody said dude we got it and then it didn't work dude Jon Jones blasted my ear into Oblivion like oh where the phone he took uh what at the time was his current light heavyweight belt and like oh yeah Jesus Christ and he's hammering your ear dude oh my God he's so upsettingly overdid it that my ear got got blasted apart and you still didn't get cauliflower oh God it's so bloody oh my god dude what the [ __ ] we're not putting that up get that you just chipped it off you didn't get stitched up ah just cut that little piece off dropped it off oh no yeah so you have like the Evander Holyfield right when Tyson bit Holyfield's here right okay that was that was an idea that I pitched for Jackass like uh multiple times I was like do I want like Mike Tyson to buy the chocolate oh no oh my God