#1117 - Tim Kennedy

Tim Kennedy (0:05)

I don't know if I can handle that.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

What, the clock's wrong?

Tim Kennedy (0:08)

I mean, just subtly, subtly.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Are we live? Yeah, one of them's wrong. Which one is it? I think they're both wrong.

That's all, that says 12, 11 One says 12, 15

Tim Kennedy (0:21)

12, 13 on my phone.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

12, 13 Yeah, so they're both wrong.

This one says 12, 14, that one says 12, 11

Tim Kennedy (0:27)

I wanna strap C4 to this, and this one I wanna spike against the wall.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Are you OCD with time or with everything?

Tim Kennedy (0:35)

With everything.

Yeah, like my reloading room is disgustingly perfect, and if I load the dishwasher, all the forks have to be symmetrical on one side, and the spoons have to be in the other. Like all the mugs, the tall ones have to be on one side, and then I'm like, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

What's that all about?

Tim Kennedy (0:48)

I don't know, I think it came back to...

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Pull the sucker up to your face.

Tim Kennedy (0:55)

When everything's the same, and something's not the same, it's easiest to see that way. Right, so like counterfeiting, like if you're buying a chick in a 13-year-old girl in Tijuana, and you're gonna wanna get the guy for counterfeit money, and you wanna get him for human trafficking, and he starts handing you crappy bills, the easiest way to spot the bills is to be able to see, have all of your proper bills all in the right order, so the one that's fake is gonna stick out, and they're like, oh man.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Only you would use that example when you're going to Tijuana, and someone's trafficking human slavery with counterfeit money. Counterfeit money, it is a good example.

Tim Kennedy (1:34)

And if you have a 13-year-old girl with a bunch of 18-year-old girls, you can see the 13-year-old get a little bit easier.

So it applies to everything. You know, and if you have like a bunch of, if you reload, and you have a bunch of grain bullets and you're gonna measure and then lot them all, 0.5 separation in grains, so it's like 175, 175.5, 176, 174.5 and so on. When you stack them all together, the easiest way to group them instead of measuring every single one is to look at them and just put the ones that are similarly sized all together, smallest to largest, and then you can weigh them in batches.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

Have you always been like this?

Tim Kennedy (2:11)

I think so.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

With everything?

Tim Kennedy (2:13)

Yeah, mostly.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

What about with when you were fighting, your training, did you map out everything to the wrap, to the detail, training notes?

Tim Kennedy (2:24)

Greg, if you watch some of our fights, you're a cage side for almost all of mine in the UFC, you'd hear Greg be like, okay, so that went according to plan, or, all right, so let's go ahead and change things up a little bit, because you just got your ass kicked. You know, and then we'd have to adjust.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

He's one of the more interesting corner guys.

Tim Kennedy (2:41)

He's so much fun.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

Yeah, he enjoys it, and he seems to want you to enjoy it too.

He's like, all right, that went amazing. You know, he's like, come on, let's get some deep breaths, you're doing fantastic.

Tim Kennedy (2:54)

Yeah, in between rounds with Michael Bisbing, it was a five round fight.

He comes in and tells me a joke. He told me like a knock knock joke, and then why a chicken crossed the road joke. And I was sitting there, and there's a picture of me like quizzically looking at him. I'm like, I'm gonna kill you after this. You know, like, what are you doing? And he just wanted me to relax. He just wanted me to breathe, because I was doing everything I was supposed to be doing.

And I just needed to, you know.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

He just thought you were too tense?

Tim Kennedy (3:19)

Yeah, apparently.

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Huh.

Tim Kennedy (3:21)

What a dick, playing mind games in the middle of a fight.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Well, you have one minute to figure out what to do and what to say to a guy who just was throwing bombs for five minutes.

Tim Kennedy (3:31)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:32)

Yeah.

Some people have a little more. Do you know that I discussed that yesterday with Big John after, I had Big John on the podcast yesterday. We fucked up, and he forgot to talk about it during the podcast, but after the podcast, he explained what happened. He says that it was the UFC cut man's fault, because he left a giant glob of Vaseline on Yoel's eye. He didn't want to touch it, because he felt like if he touched it, it could open the cut up again.