#2286 - Antonio Brown

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_1 (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

What's going on, man?

Jamie (0:14)

Good to see you, baby.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Papa, look at that ring. Yeah. Holy shit.

Jamie (0:19)

Pleasure to meet you.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

The most fun follow on Twitter by far. Excuse me, X, whatever they want to call it. You're the most fun.

Antonio Brown (0:26)

Thank you, man. You made my job easy, you know.

All the entertainment you give me.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

How did you decide to start doing this? How did you, first of all, were you always this funny?

Antonio Brown (0:37)

I would like to think so.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

But like your social media presence, like I forget, I think Tony Hinchcliffe told me about you. He's like, dude, you have to follow Antonio Brown. You must follow, he's the most must follow on the Internet. I'm like, really? And then I go to your page and I'm fucking dying laughing.

We're sharing it around the green room with the comedy star like ah! And then when I won Cracker of the Day, I was like, yes!

Antonio Brown (1:04)

Yes, of the year.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

Cracker of the year, that's right. Yeah.

Antonio Brown (1:08)

I try to use X as a good platform to bring laughter and making, you know, bringing humor back and comedy. Making people feel good.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Well, you can get wild.

Antonio Brown (1:16)

Yeah, I get a little wild sometimes.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

You can get wild on X.

Antonio Brown (1:19)

Yeah, you can get a little wild on X, but I try to...

Jamie (1:21)

Twitter, they would have got rid of you a long time ago.

Antonio Brown (1:23)

Yeah, you would have been canceled.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

They probably would have got rid of me, too, if Elon didn't buy Twitter.

Antonio Brown (1:27)

Yeah, we thanks to Elon Musk for giving us that platform to be able to be expressive, you know, to bring a comedy back, bring in entertainment. Yeah.

Jamie (1:35)

Just ridiculous shit.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Have some fun again.

Antonio Brown (1:37)

Have some fun again, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

What happened?

Jamie (1:40)

Everybody tightened up for like five years.

Antonio Brown (1:42)

It was really tight.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Yeah.

Antonio Brown (1:43)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

So how did you come up with the hashtag Ctesbn, because that's my favorite.

Antonio Brown (1:51)

I feel like when I stopped playing football and I walked off the field, people was like, this guy's crazy. He's retarded.

He's illiterate. So I was like, you know what? Maybe I could rebrand Ctesbn with giving people a perspective of different challenges people face and great individuals, how they overcome adversity and just kind of share and tune perspective of how people was getting through trauma. No matter if you're a football player, I mean, what is it like for you? You started damn UFC. Yeah. UFC.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

The reality of head trauma is something that we're like, as a society, we're just embracing over the last 10, 20 years. Like, it wasn't for that concussion movie. I think that opened up a lot of people's eyes. That Will Smith movie.

Antonio Brown (2:42)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

And the story that doctor of him finding how many people have like significant brain trauma from football.

Antonio Brown (2:50)

Yes. So for me, I try to use it because this is a serious standpoint. A lot of ex players and players have actually has been diagnosed and, you know, passed away from CT. So for me, you know, on a serious point of, you know, bringing record awareness and bringing, you know, a reality standpoint of what athletes and people fighting or anyone in their daily lives facing from head trauma of just people writing them off, you know, and encouraging therapy, encouraging how do you get through tough situation and then making it funny, you know what I'm saying? Because I feel like nowadays, if you do something crazy, people are like, oh yeah, that guy's crazy. So I was like, let's just show why they're crazy in CTSBN.

Show them the cause of the craziness.

Jamie (3:38)

You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan (3:39)

Yeah, I mean, there's a real cause to the craziness. And we're ignoring it as a society because we love football, we love MMA, we love boxing. So we just kind of like...

Antonio Brown (3:51)

Overlooking with the entertainment.

Jamie (3:53)

Keep moving.

Antonio Brown (3:54)

Keep hitting.