#1974 - Ric Flair

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

She's very tough. Tony Hinchcliffe and Ric motherfucking Flair. This is an honor, dude. This is like, to meet a guy like, you're like a human living legend walking through the streets. Even the way you look, man, you look like Ric Flair.

Ric Flair (0:32)

Thank you. Hope that's good.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

No, it's great, man. It's awesome. I love the suit.

Ric Flair (0:36)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

But the diamonds and everything, look at Tony. He's flabbergasted.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:40)

He's the man. He's literally the man. Like, that's like a, you have like some licensing on that or something, right?

Ric Flair (0:46)

I did, but somebody, the WWE borrowed it without asking me.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

They borrowed your licensing for calling yourself the man?

Ric Flair (0:54)

Really? They gave it to Becky Lynch.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Sons of bitches. This guy is a gigantic fan of yours, I mean, like beyond.

So he's, if he like seems like a little awestruck right now, that's what's going on.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:08)

Yeah.

Ric Flair (1:08)

He's very polite. Thank you.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:10)

I was raised on, raised on pro wrestling, and I didn't know what a Rolex or a Jet or anything was until you came out when I was eight years old. And I'm like, what the hell is this guy beating the good guys?

When I literally-

Ric Flair (1:23)

Just preposterous, that's what this guy was.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

Well, you took the art of the promo, like the interview, to a completely different level.

You really did. You made it so fun.

Ric Flair (1:35)

Yeah, thank you. I was having fun making them.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

How did you develop that sort of style? Like, was that something you always had? Is that something you cultivated for pro wrestling?

Ric Flair (1:47)

No, I loved pro wrestling as a kid. I watched it all the time. And then my dad would take me to a match on my birthday or something like that, right? And then I was going to play football at University of Minnesota, and academically ineligible after a semester.

Stayed in the fraternity house for two years. Told my parents I was still in school.

And then Ken Patera came to town, and I got a chance to break in with Vern. And I just kind of grew up on Joan Amoth, going back to where I got that. When I saw Joan Amoth in Miami in the men's coach with the chick and the lawn share, I said, that's me. And then that he had slept with 300 women at Alabama, I said, that's my game. I got to figure out how to get there.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

There's a video, I'm sure you've seen it, of these football players. You know what the team was?

Ric Flair (2:42)

The Colts, Sergio Brown.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Yes, and they're all...

Jamie, see if you can find it, because it's one of my absolute favorite clips on the internet. And these guys are reciting your lines word for word.

Ric Flair (2:56)

Yeah, Sergio Brown, God bless him.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Let's hear this, let's hear this, Sergio.

SPEAKER_4 (3:00)

Diamond ring, wham!

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Come on, man.

Ric Flair (3:22)

I couldn't show up on your show without the gators.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

You know, I've done this at a show before where you could just say, Ric Flair, and you point the microphone out and the whole crowd goes, whoo!

Ric Flair (3:31)

Thank God.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

It's amazing. I mean, that's an amazing thing. You're literally the only human being that's connected to a sound.

Ric Flair (3:38)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

You go, Ric Flair, and they go, whoo!

Tony Hinchcliffe (3:42)

How did that, was that something that just came out one day, one promo?

Ric Flair (3:46)

I'm telling you, we used to drive, you know, 3,000, 3,500 miles a week, sometimes four. I mean, at night, you're just listening to music and drinking beer and throwing cans at the sign, you know, in the old days, and driving 100 miles an hour.

And I heard Jerry Lewis go, goodness gracious, great balls of fire, woo. But the emphasis wasn't on the woo as much as the thing, and I went, shit, the next day on TV, I said, da-da-da-da-da, woo, and that's how it all started. 1974

Joe Rogan (4:20)

Jerry Lee Lewis, the killer.

Ric Flair (4:22)

Recognition, good balls of fire.

Joe Rogan (4:24)

Oh my God, that's amazing. That was another wild motherfucker. Jesus Christ, that guy was wild.

Some of them couldn't swim. That guy's a wild motherfucker.