Joe Rogan - Henry Cejudo on Narrowly Surviving California Wildfire

Yeah, yeah, I guess you could see the transformation that he had from the eight weeks from the beginning to the end There's a documentary these guys film the whole entire thing. He goes amazing you put in the documentary out Yeah, we're gonna put you yeah I think we're gonna put it out some time and I think in the spring But it's gonna come out and it's gonna be it's gonna be not I think we're gonna try to pitch it to to Netflix nice Yeah And don't forget as not only was he fighting for the title this guy was fighting for his life only eight months before in the Santa Rosa fires, so his story is very inspiration. That's a crazy fucking story in itself You actually burned the bottom of your feet run an escaping a fire that snuck up on you like lightning speed, huh? Yeah, it was it was it was a craziest thing that's probably ever happened to me and I've done some crazy things Yeah, they documented it in the UFC pre-show like when they showed like all the damage to the area where you were living Fucking terrifying. Yeah, it was crazy. I Anyways, I mean, I guess I guess I guess this is where people kind of share their stories, right? Sure, but it's uh Yeah, so this was about a year ago now So this was yeah about a year ago now and I got invited to this event with you know raising raising raising money for kids and cancer and everybody in there every big celebrity gets invited like Jerry Rice like Barry Bonds like the like the big a list celebrities and everybody was there and We had a fundraiser that night and you know wine country in Santa Rosa, California You know and everybody know everybody had their drinks or whatnot, you know, I had I had a couple glasses Maybe had a few glasses went but I don't I don't drink wine But I had a few glasses and I remember I told everybody hey, I'm gonna sleep guys and it was close to about midnight I was like I ain't trying to stay up with these people and I'm trying I'm trying to sleep because I was I never drink wine so I go to my room and and then I shower get into bed and and I remember right before I went to bed I remember I saw like the flickering of lights and I just thought that it was weird This is roughly by the time I got to my hotel. I showered I saw the flickering of lights. I didn't think anything of it and I pass out 230 hits 230 in the morning hits and I'm just I'm just you know, I wake up because I hear the alarm, you know kind of pop off at the at the hotel So now I'm hearing these alarms starting to go off and I've you know, I checked out I checked out in front I checked out through the window and I checked out at the lobby. Nobody was moving so I was like, it's a false alarm So I got the pillow put over my head and I freaking slept the alarm And that happened about 230 now 430 comes about and this time I don't wake I don't wake up because the alarm I wake up because of the smoke I'm like coffee. No, I'm like coffee on the smoke and at first I thought I was dreaming So I wake up and at that time I had I had you know, I slept in my towel I talked tired I was and I got up and I'm gonna turn the lights and the lights ain't turning on and Then I go through the window and I check the window and actually know and I see the car right in front of me on fire Three-fourths of the hotels like I was probably about five rooms away from like getting hit hard Like I'm talking about like like fire coming out the window Like that I'm waking up to this like thinking I'm dreaming, you know in a towel and The lights everything was dark But I could see everything like it like the room started getting hot and I couldn't I couldn't hold my breath No more. I started looking for my shoes I couldn't find my shoes and I I bumped into my slack said I let them on ironing board that the night before and I Put them on and I I grab I grab the I grabbed my phone and I jumped out the window I just got the one as I jumped out the window my right foot catches on fire All right foot catches on fire fast and I'm looking at kind of I'm kind of you know, trying to put it out And it's crazy how I can see how people could catch on fire real quick Cuz my right leg was like boom. It was crazy Wow So I jump out and I start walking as I'm walking them seen like this the hotel in front of us was all in Sticks to like the whole thing was just in sticks like the fire had just ate that thing up There's a building in front of me on fire. Like I'm just walking through the streets going up the hill I'm just thinking like God It'd be a horrible way to die horrible way to die and I got a I got a bird's eye view when I was on top of the When I was on top of the hill and then I saw there's a cop down there There's a cop down in the middle of the free one just so you know, that's where I got to go So now I'm running fast and I've seen out this brush fire kind of come along and just I'm seeing like California like just catch on fire like completely like through my eyes. I Jump over the first fence to get to the freeway, you know, no problem I jump over the second fence and then the third fence it was I was a very like a flimsy kind of fence and I remember as I as I jumped out and read snagged like part of my snacks to keep in mind I Was I had the only thing I had on was slacks. I was commando slacks no shirt no shoes like out in the cold in California and As I that flimsy fence as I as I jumped off that last fence it like cut And like a part of the fence I grabbed my butt and it just it cut me open hard and it tore like half the legs So now I'm full of I'm full of smoke And my right foots burn and I'm pretty much half naked So I see the cop car and I go up to the cop car and as I'm going up to it I'm sorry the freaking cop car leaves like fucking just scrambles I'm just like oh my god and as soon as that cop car left I remember seeing like this big-ass diesel like coming towards me And never get into the middle of the freeway and kind of you know waving my hands like you know Take me I ain't dying like this like hit me, dude and As it got closer, so I was a fire truck and I and I get rescued I get rescued by the fireman They put me in the fire truck and they're just kind of like looking at me like down. Do you just you just survived death? Wow, you just survived that cuz I was black dude. I already smell like a marshmallow Did anybody die in the hotel 50 50 people died in? And I'm sorry the whole time. No, I'm not sure if anybody died at the hotel. I hope not but I could see how 50 people died in the it was it was a worse. No. Yeah, 50 people died 50 families Like it was it was it was sad to hear but it just happened quick those fires come so quick People don't realize it's before it's too late and then there's no escape route and and I think the reason why I think people had time to get out I think the reason why 50 people died is because they didn't take the the alarm like me serious And actually know that it's too late because that that smoke will blind you So you think you're going to into the right direction and actually know you're walking into the biggest fire in history Jesus Christ So so that had happened like two months before I fought Sergio Betis and I and I and I still fought him Like I trained with two socks. It might just with the with the wrestling shoe And I just stuck it out because I pulled out the first fight with them I says I gotta make it up to you and I told them I says hey I said I owe you one and then he kind of called me out on it I was like, dude, I'm gonna fight you regardless now, man With with with with first degree burns on my footer. I'm sorry third degree burns on my foot Wow Well, I'm glad you made it man. Yeah, here I am 2018 UC chance I'm glad you made it and I'm glad we could do this podcast. Thanks for doing this man I really appreciate it. Yeah, no for sure. Thank you. Thank you. I've been a been a big fan of your show and Hope you guys got some good insight on the messenger and captain America