Joe Rogan on Conor McGregor Sparring The Mountain from Game of Thrones (Hafthor Bjornsson)

So like polar bears are the biggest of the bears. Right. They live in the coldest fucking place. And those Caucasian Vikings are the biggest dudes. Iceland motherfuckers. Yeah. Icelandic just giant dudes. Yeah. Like that mountain from Game of Thrones. He's an Icelandic. Right. Yes. Yes. That's what that is. That's gnarly. That's gnarly. And he wanted to play basketball. Oh. And then he wanted to play basketball. Is he an MMA yet? Play basketball. No. OK. No. I don't think he knows how to fight. There was a video of him sparring with Conor McGregor. And Conor McGregor is fucking him up. What? Yeah. That guy? Yeah. And Conor, I mean, Conor's not weighing in. So he's probably weighing about 170. OK. And Game of Thrones guy is. Easy three. Three. Yeah. I would imagine he's in the 320, 340 range. Yeah. And he's like a bodybuilder too. So he's like. He's chasing Conor and Conor's cracking him in the stomach. It's kind of a crazy video to watch. I want to see it. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Because how tall is kind of a 5'9? This guy's what, 6'7? He's taller than 5'9, I think. Conor might be 5'9. Might be 5'10. I'm 5'8. He's a good leader. I will disrespect you, Conor McGregor. Oh, he's a beast. Yeah. You get the heart of an eight foot person. He doesn't give a fuck. Yeah. I mean, the guy fought Floyd Mayweather with zero professional boxing fights. Yeah. Just stop and think about that. No, he's zero. He took zero. So here it is. He's a legit savage. So here's Conor, who's probably about a buck 70. Look at the size difference here. And they're like sparring. And Conor's moving around. He's punched him in the stomach. And the guy's trying to grab him. I'm tagging him. Oh. He's trying to grab him. But Conor is not letting him grab. But he's not doing anything. He's controlling. The guy's trying to do. See? Oh, they're really sparring. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The guy's trying to grab him. But he doesn't know what he's doing. And then he's like high five. And Conor's like, no, no, no. We're going to keep going. Yeah. We're going to keep going. So now he starts kicking him. He starts kicking him in the stomach. See? He just punched him in the stomach. And the big guy doesn't know what to do. He's trying to grab him. But Conor's like, come on, lad. We're going to keep going. He's a fucking monster. Yeah. So Conor knows that this big motherfucker can't keep this up. He can't keep it up. He's not able to keep up this pace. So he's already hurting. I mean, he's already tired. I mean, come on. You're going back and forth here. No, no, no. First of all, he's not used to sparring. I mean, we just got to a minute. He's not used to sparring, right? OK. So everything he's doing is like these big movements. And he's not breathing well. So he's all tense and tight. So right now, once he can take a deep breath, see, all this is tension for him. He's very tense. So now he's got to hold the leg. But he doesn't know what to do. And Conor just, Conor hand fights with him. Conor has to do is keep him moving. And as he, oh, he's hitting Conor in the stomach. There we go. And then Conor's like, oh, OK. And so Conor's going to keep going. Now he's throwing kicks at him. Yeah, that guy's going to kick him, yeah. The big guy can't kick him. It'll be too awkward. Conor will trip him and throw him to the ground or something like that. He doesn't know how to kick. But Conor's just going to keep punching him in the stomach. But eventually, he just gets really, really tired. And he gives up. But it's kind of crazy to watch because Conor essentially made him fight. See, like he put a gun on his knees, just like that cop guy. That was the victim. Yeah, the victim with the cop. He got on his knees. And Conor didn't allow him either. Conor's kneeing him in the body. Look at this. Bro, he's gangster. He's kneeing him and punched him in the body. Jeez. I mean, those are real kicks. Those are real, like, knee. Wow. That guy is so much bigger than him. Yeah. He's a monster. So yeah, he's not doing an MMA training. Well, that's, I mean, he could. But he wasn't there. I mean, he just doesn't know what to do. But if he learned what to do, Conor would never do that. Yeah, that guy's a walking weapon. Like, like Nganu. Francis Nganu, who's probably one of the biggest heavyweights in the UFC. Conor would never do that with him. Yeah, because he's a train. Yeah, he's a train fighter. Giant striker. He'd fuck him up. But with that guy, that guy didn't know what he was doing. No. The mountain. Yeah, he was a basketball player. He wanted to play basketball. And then he broke his ankle or leg or something and then he'd heal properly. And then he just became a bodybuilder. And then they put him in the game of the round. Well, he's the world's strongest man. Right, exactly. Yeah, he wins those world's strongest man. He's not just like a participant. Sorry. Yeah, he's the champ. Right. He's crazy strong. And this guy is like Magnus Vermagasen, right? Like his mentor, Magnus? Is that his mentor? Yeah, Magnus Vermagasen. By the way, what a great name. Perfect name. Magnus Vermagasen. I fucking love that kid. Strong man, competitor. Magna Cum Laude, Magnus Vermagasen. Yeah, remember those shows used to be on like ABC, Y World of Sports and shit? It would be on TV. You'd be watching it. It would be the strongest man competition. They would throw barrels over the fucking bars and stuff. I mean, they're carrying trucks, 18 wheel semis. Yeah. Always ridiculous shit. Remember like the guys like they would lift, and they would have like a hemorrhage, and they'd just fucking go through the nose. Oh, yeah, you see blood splurging out. They're doing deadlifts. One of the guys, Robert Urburst, was on my podcast recently. He's one of those strongest man competitors. They're so big, they don't even look like real people. You're around them, you're like, oh, he's so big. They're so big. He's fucking gigantic humans. The human body is incredible. It is, man. There he is. This is the most he's ever lifted. What did he tick in his nose? Smelling salt. Isn't that nuts? They do smelling salts before they lift. Some dudes drink whiskey or something. Yeah, I heard that before. But why smelling salts? You know, I wouldn't drink the whiskey. I feel like that would make me too relaxed. I'd probably shit myself or something. Look at the signs of this fucking human. Yeah, that's what he's 425. One, two, three. Hoorah! How much weight is this? It's a ton? He just said it's the most he's ever done. Bro, look at the bar, man. Ugh! God! Jesus Christ. Look at the fucking bar bend. It's so safe. Ugh, doesn't really say there, no. Jesus. Good enough. We get it. But the smelling salts are so strange. Yeah, right? But NFL players do that too on the sideline. How much if you did that right before you went on stage? I might. Just some smelling salts. I might. Maybe that's the move. Right? Maybe we're missing out. I think for your next show, you gotta do that shit. Just fucking pound it real quick. Hitler to Mussolini just got that on the back of my head. I just go up there and just rant for five hours. Everybody's like, shut him up. Did you see Rogan's seven-hour set? Oh my God. He took smelling salts. All brilliant. His nose was bleeding. It didn't smell like it. Took the best angles. No, I don't know what it smells like. I've never smelled it. I was gonna ask if it would, how to compare it to a stink bomb or something like that. It's just like real strong. It's just like, the scent is strong. Oh my God. And it just, yeah, it pops your brain like a lot of weight. Yeah. Fuck it. Left. Ugh. Damn. Yeah, you become like Dan Cook on stage. You'd be like so physical. No one's that physical. Yeah. No one's smelling salts physically. No one's smelling salts physical? We should make sure my Watkins do it. Oh my God. Because he would. Get Watkins on smelling salts? Yeah. He would be the first guy to have like, what kind of physical comedy is he out of? Oh, like smelling salts physical. Yeah, exactly. The most physical level. Not cocaine. Yeah. Not kennison shit. You're talking about smelling salts. It'd be like, Dan Cook is one of the most physical. Jim Carrey was very physical. Physical, right. Robin Williams. Yeah, but Jim Carrey would like fall down and fucking do pratfalls and crazy. Right, he's an acrobat. Yeah, he could move weird too. He had like a real flexibility to the way he moved. Remember in Ace Ventura, Pet Detective? I mean, that was on display, right? Yeah, I mean that was part of his whole thing is how wacky he moved. So he's probably been a lot. Man with a thousand faces, right. But then you'd have smelling salts physical. Next level shit. Just like those kids in the day, they couldn't do the BMX flip three times. Yeah, they can, right. They can. That's the same thing with smelling salts. I gotta see this. I gotta fucking try this actually. It's just ammonia. Is it? Yeah, just at a release is ammonia when you break the thing or when I open the cap or whatever you're doing. Okay. Oh, there's nothing. That ain't shit. That's Windex. They used to make it from deer antlers and hooves. What? Oh. Yeah, it's a shit called Spirit of Heartshorn. Folks, this has been the most educational experience ever of this podcast, I would say, with both real and false information. Ha ha ha.