Joe Rogan - Tim Kennedy Trained to Be a Bullfighter

I don't know. Whose idea was this for this show? That was my idea. Jesus Christ, dude. You're an unusual human. It's fun though. And how many of these episodes have you done? We have finished six. And you gonna, is that the entire season? Yeah, that'll be season one. Comes out in July. You excited about it? Yeah, I'm pumped. So 50% of the time you almost died. Yeah, I mean that's gross math rounding around. Okay, so there's the water one. Well, you almost froze to death. Yep, that definitely. And then the avalanche one. Yeah. When you lasted 30 minutes. What was the other one? Oh man. Oh man. Yeah. Worse? Yeah, it was less pleasant. Like I was a bullfighter for an episode. Oh dude. And not a bull rider, because they're insane, but the bullfighter is the guy that's on the ground so when the bullfighter gets thrown, he's the bodyguard for the bull rider. His only job is to take the hit so the bull rider doesn't get trampled to death. Because the moment the bull rider comes off the bull's back, the bull is turning around to crush whatever was on its back. And that's where the bullfighter runs in to save him. And the PBR, the Professional Bull Riding Association, those guys are the most selfless, courageous guys trying to protect those bull riders. So I trained for a while and I went to the biggest rodeo in the nation and was bullfighter. And I mean this isn't one of those shows where people don't get hurt. You see the inside of my body. You see people get really, really, really jacked up and go to the hospital. And like, does he have a punctured lung? Is that guy gonna live? This is that type of show, because there's no other way to do it. The only thing, the only direction we had from Discovery was don't fake anything. That's a great direction. It's a great direction. I'm glad they came up with that. Now, what happened with the bull? I got owned, which is humiliating because they're not really smart animals. Is that you? I mean, you're fast over there. Jamie's a wizard. Yeah. I'd like to encourage all little boys and girls that follow me on any social media platform to stay in school, become engineers, architects, accountants, or anything that doesn't lead to permanent brain damage or need of an orthopedic surgeon. It's you, legs up, and a bull launching you through the air. That was the training week. So this was when you were trying to distract the bull? What kind of techniques do you use? Football running back stuff. Just juke them one way and turn the other way? The thing is, you actually have to sell that body movement. So your weight has to shift far enough where the bull is gonna really believe that you're gonna go to that direction. I wish bulls were so... I wish they were dumber than they are, because they're not, because if you fake them once one direction, they won't take it the next time. You try to fake to the right, they'll already start going running to the left. So then you fake to the right, you go back to the left, and you're like, oh no, I have done. And it's at that moment that Tim realized he had fucked up. Yeah, and then he just gets owned, then I got destroyed. And so when you get launched through the air by a bull? It's weird, because it's weightless. It's just a second, and you are completely inverted, no control over where your body is going, because you didn't generate that energy. But the other part of your brain is knowing that that bull is gonna try to turn as fast as it can and get you when you land on the ground, because that's when it's really good, is when you're down. So you're trying to keep track of where this bull is while you're hurling through the air. Like okay, I gotta tuck my chin so I don't break my neck. Hopefully I'm not close enough to the fence, because the fence doesn't move, the fence is metal. The ground is pretty soft, I'd rather land on the ground than land on the fence. The fence will mess you up. Anyway, so that's, anyways, fill it up. And how'd you get away from the bull? I'm an athlete, not sure if you know that. That's it? That's it? That's it. Just athleticism. Yeah, luck. A little luck. A little bit of luck that you didn't get stomped. No, so there are some real bull fighters in the ring with me that I think save my life every single time, because I suck. At the end of this show, people are gonna look at this and be like, one, Tim is an idiot. Two, everybody that does this job, these jobs, has the biggest balls and are so badass. Hopefully that's what they're gonna get, because this isn't like a Tim Kennedy look cool show. This is, that guy's an idiot and everybody else is pretty. Oh dude, it's that fucking picture. Oh my God. Oh my God, look at that picture. Notice that that's a different bull. So you did this more than once. So this, this bull is, he's got his feet up in the air and his head is inches from you and it's about to collide with you. And there's no fucking way you got away in this situation. There's no way. That thing's way too close. What is it like to just get launched at a 2000 pound fucking meat vehicle?