What Khali Rountree Thinks About Conor McGregor's Trash Talking | Joe Rogan

Do you have guys trash talk you? Mmm. Like... You're a pretty easy going guy. Easy going. It's nothing to my face. It's always subtle. If I ever hear about anybody saying something, it's just through word of mouth. And I'm just like, yeah, well... But you never had like a Conor McGregor type incident where a fighter is... Only in the beginning with Paul Craig, but... Oh yeah. I think it was just... It was just like his thing. We've... Like... We smash that beef, you know? That's good. Yeah, but... What do you think about trash talking in this day and age? Because in many ways... Look, Conor's an amazing fighter. And his fighting skills, what's made him such an international superstar. But he also talks some mad shit. And that helped him too. Because he was so good at it. It was funny. He would say funny, mean, insulting shit. It was fucking great. 100%. Yeah. But... I think what people forget, Joe, is that like that's always been Conor. Even when you go and... And... Look at the interviews from before he was in the UFC. And he was just like, I'm gonna make a bunch of money. And I'm gonna be all this. And... So like he created that for himself. And yeah, he made a bunch of money from talking trash. Because he always had a plan that that's what he was gonna do. Yeah. And so I think people try to hop on it just to sell tickets or get money. And sometimes it works. It gets people wanting to watch. And it gets your name up and stuff like that. But that's not the time of name I want to make for myself. Like I don't like people talking trash to me. So I'm not really going to talk trash to anybody. Unless there's something that's really personal. But if I don't know you and I don't care about you, then I don't really consider it. Like why would I talk trash? I don't even care about you. It's a waste of energy. It's a waste of... There's like... I got so much other stuff to care about. Yeah, it's a very healthy look, man. I mean, the way you're seeing it. I like how you said healthy. Like I'd like to maintain a healthy heart and mind as much as possible. Dude, it's... Man, like mental health is a real thing. It is. You know what I mean? And especially just having certain obligations and just using social media and having people reach out. They say like, oh, ignore this, ignore that. But it's like, man, it's hard to just ignore certain things. You know, like you still see things. And so just that and condition of the world and just everything, man. Being in multiple different countries and hearing this news and that news and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like for a person who like who wants to care about the world or just genuinely cares, like a lot can go on in my mind. So I'm just like, I don't even want that in my heart. I'm just going to do my best to kind of keep my own peace and come fight time. I'll let it loose.