Jimmy Smith on Being Mistaken for Joe Rogan

I got a couple different color suits. Nice. Like three or four different ones. So they don't allow that black shirt anymore? Well, I have black shirts, but now I have like real clothes. Real black shirts. Real adult. Expensive black shirts. Like an adult. I never wear black shirts. Why? Ever. Oh, because everybody, I get so much shit every time. I told somebody, I throw away, I have black shirts because they go with everything. I fucking throw them away. People at home, by the way, Eddie Bravo outside as I pulled up, thought I was Joe. He took me for walked up to me like I had. Oh, hey, Jimmy. I was like, he fucking thought I was Joe. And he goes, thought you were Joe, dude. And I was like, no, he came in with an old ass car. I thought I was a car. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I don't wear fucking black shirts. I'm so sorry. What's fucked up is that you were bald before me. I was. You had before I fucking freaked out. I shopped out later. Yeah. But it's cool, man. It's all good. I apologize. It's all right. No, no, it's just an illustration of the natural. My mom got us confused one time. I'm not even fucking joking. Oh, no. I told you that story. Oh, that's right. That's right. I was at my mom's house. She was making me dinner and I was going to watch UFC. So a lot of times we go to my mom's house. She's amazing cook. She's Greek. You guys will have to come over and have dinner sometime. All right. So we came. I went to her house. She's making me dinner. We're watching the UFC. She turns around. She goes, oh, this is one of yours. No, mom, that's Joe Rogan. And she goes, she fucking pause. She goes, man, he looks like you. I was like, thanks, mom. I get this shit fucking 50 times a day on the Internet. I'm going to get this from my own mother, but I still ate the food. I forget her. You got shit on the Internet. But one of the things about you, dude, you don't toot your own horn. It's like you're generally like universally respected. Thank you very much. And with people that know the sport, you know, which is why I was campaigning to get you hired by the UFC years ago. I'm like, I'm not going to get you hired. I'm not going to get you hired. I'm not going to get you hired. I'm not going to get you hired. I'm not going to get you hired. This guy's the shit. He knows his stuff. Finally works. I'm excited, man. And I'm excited, too, for Big John. I love John. And I'm excited he got that gig. I hope that really works out well for him. And I think it's going to be interesting. I understand completely kind of the step. And then I don't recall a referee ever doing comments. I mean, he did affliction. He did the first affliction show. But it's a different perspective. He's seeing it from an angle that no fighter or coach is really going to see. And so I think it's great because any fighter is going to be compared to all the other fighters that do it. A referee, he's just going to have a different perspective. And I think that's a good choice. If he does it with John or if John does it with Mike Goldberg and John are real good friends. First show is Mike. That's perfect. I believe. I believe. They're real good friends. So that should just be real easy. Mike's easy to work with. He's great. Mike's easy to work with. Maro was too. Both guys were easy to work with. They're very different. But both guys were easy to work with, man. I was impressed with both of them. Yeah. Mike's a sweetheart. Look, we need more work for a lot of guys. But for what we do, there's not a lot of guys that do it. You know, there's Paul Felder, who I think does a fucking phenomenal job. And I would have loved to listen to him tonight if we weren't yapping. But he does a great job. He's a smooth, smooth guy. Very smooth. I think Dan Hardy does a great job. You know, Brian Stan was one of my favorites. I was bummed out when Brian left. He prepared better than anybody. Brian Stan would pull out shit about training and all these different weird things that you didn't know about preparation and things that fighters did that this guy did that was unusual. And you're like, whoa, his preparation was top of the food chain. It's a full-time job. People don't get that. In terms of like, you know, when I'm not doing commentary, I'm studying fights all the time because I'm not just watching them. I got to sit there and study them, which is a totally different job. What's funny is Joe never prepared for shit. He didn't prepare for anything. I'm speaking for myself. Joe would just walk on and just crush with no preparation, maybe a couple of thoughts, a couple of notes, but he wasn't preparing at all. That's what it was. It was hilarious. It was too easy for you. Well, it's all the things I do live. If you think about how much stand up I do live, then how much podcasts I do live. This is before the podcast. That is true. Yeah. Well, you know, the thing was they wanted to have like some sort of planned out interaction between like, that's one of the things that people would freak out about. Like when we would do the beginning of the fight and Goldberg would say like, Matt Hughes fights Frank Trigg for the UFC welterweight title, you know, and this is an important fight. He would, I didn't know what the fuck I was going to say. I didn't know what he was going to say. I didn't know what I was going to say. I had no idea, but I knew about the fight. So my point was like, it was better to be in the moment and really care about this fight and care about what I think is going to happen and not have anything planned out. I just wanted to be able to go, this is what's critical in this fight. And we're going to know early on whether or not, you know, the fight's going to go one way or other based on a couple of parameters. And I would just go into those things and then after it would be over, I'd be like, whoa, worked out. Yeah, but I tell new people. It's too easy for you, man. Too goddamn easy. I tell new people. He's the godfather of color. Yeah. Terry, for, and I'm a man, are you kidding me? A hundred percent. But what I tell people, don't write down, you'll think about what did I write down rather than the, I tell people, I go never play by play do, of course. But I go color, don't write down notes or don't write down here's what I'm going to say because you'll start thinking about what you wrote down. And you'll sound fake. And you'll sound fake. It doesn't work.