Joe Rogan on Doing Commentary for UFC #249 with Coronavirus Guidelines

I don't want to get off me, but like how was that spacing at this venue for you during the fight? Because it sounded like y'all were next to each other and then I heard like in a story y'all were separated. We were about as far as Jamie is about as far as John Anick was and then DC was like a little further than that because there was a separation. There's a like the Octagon post and so for him to get a better angle he couldn't be sitting right in front of the post. So they moved his table like another he was probably 15, 20 feet from me somewhere around that. Where people do you feel that I feel like fighter you know fighters are tough you know and I feel like the audience is tough too and the people associated with it is tough. Did they move around freely or was it really like oh I need to stay away from you or? Here's the deal. Every woman's tested. Everyone. In fact one guy tested positive. He was asymptomatic. Shaka Reisosa who was on the card and he had an inkling that he might test positive because he had a family member that had it and he was super healthy ready to fight but had it in his system. And so they removed him from the card and he had been wearing a mask and gloves the entire time he was there and everyone else had wristbands on. The wristbands showed that you'd been tested. They had temperature monitors. They had all these different things but everybody had been tested thoroughly. Tested for antibodies tested for the swag of the swab up the nose. I got everything done. So and then when I got home I immediately got swabbed again. I got a swab yesterday and then I got the vitamin drip and everything like that. But I didn't get much sleep Saturday night because I was flying back eight o'clock in the morning. Fights were done. I was back in my hotel around two thirty. So I crashed. Woke up early. Got to the airport. Took off. Landed. And then just kind of took it easy yesterday. But until I got the vitamin drip I was dragging. I was feeling. But and that's what happens when you fly and you had flown a couple of times in a short period of time and then that drive to Vegas. All that stuff. You have to think of your immune system like troops. You know you really do. If there's a battle to be fought. You're you're it. Look if your body was like your mom's where you you know you had a good night sleep every night. No traveling. You can fight off a lot more shit. But when you do those trips especially this is one thing that I'm getting out of this quarantine is man I feel so much better when I don't travel. Oh yeah. So much better. When I wasn't dying I feel great. I feel great now. I feel great now. Yeah. Rest is a big thing. It's everything. It's everything. And you know I'm going to change my travel schedule in the future because even this trip this trip I want to just get in and get the fuck out of Florida and get back home. And you know but then after I did it I was like it would been wiser if I left at like 6 p.m. or something like that. Like just kind of chill out. Give myself plenty of time to sleep sleep some fully recovered and then you know have some breakfast then go to the airport. You know take a 3 p.m. flight or some shit. How was it. Would nobody in there. Did you enjoy the experience. I wanted to do it because I've never done that before. And I watched the one card from Brazil. They had Kevin Lee versus Charles Olivera fought in Brazil and I watched on TV and I was like God that's so strange because like Gilbert Burns he knocked out Damien Maya and then he yells out a poja you know something Brazilian said. And he yells out poja and you hear it like echo in this empty arena. And while I was watching I'm like that's so strange. He's screaming and there's no one there. There's no no audience reaction. I'm like wow. So I decided like I got to do one. So when Dana White asked me if I wanted to do it I was like yeah I want to do one. I definitely want to do. Do you feel like the fighters were listening to you know. The 100 percent were. They made adjustments because things that DC said said Cormier you know we're all right. So you were that close. Oh yeah. We're we're at the Octagon. OK. We're still at the Octagon. We're right in front of the Octagon. OK. I could reach up and touch the Octagon. So when it's actually a little bit further than we usually are but still close enough like like where that wall is. That's where the Octagon is pretty close. And you know DC's given them points. He's like pointers. He's saying you know he's got to check those leg kicks and make an adjustment. Like he was talking about Carlos Barza and Carlos Barza backstage gave DC credit for like what what the advice that he was saying in the commentary was the adjustments that she'd made. That's great. Yeah it was weird. I loved watching like I watched the prelims but I loved it because you could hear everything because normally so loud. Yeah. But when somebody hit somebody it's in the face you could hear it but especially to the body. Yeah. Oh it was like a thump. And then you hear the other person. Yeah. It changed the game for me on UFC where you I think a lot of people appreciated more with not having a crowd yell where you really get to feel the pain because when it's loud you don't you see somebody fall but you don't really. OK. But when you hear it. Yeah. There's different things going on right. It's like there's the energy of the crowd. That that's a factor. That's a real thing. Like there's something magical about a wild finish in front of a packed house at the T-Mobile arena. Yeah. Everybody's screaming and cheering like wow. Or like when Conor McGregor walks to the Octagon and everybody's going crazy. There's something to that. It's valuable.