JRE MMA Show #118 with Julianna Peña

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

It's dope, right? I don't think that's technically an NFT. It's like a digital representation of the NFT. He gave me an NFT too, but you have to put that in like an NFT wallet.

Julianna Peña (0:25)

I don't know.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Roll with that, yeah. Well, what does that mean? Like what is an NFT wallet? That's how you store it.

Exactly, what does that mean?

Julianna Peña (0:34)

I was right there with you when you were talking about like, you have no idea what this stuff is, and it's really complicated and everything.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

It's weird that they're so valuable. That's what's weird.

Julianna Peña (0:43)

Well, but I'm actually gonna like try to start one. You should.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

It seems like a scam that like people were willingly participating in. So like, okay.

But this guy, Beeple, like he's an amazing artist. He does art every day. He puts a new piece of digital art out every day and he's done it for 12 years.

Julianna Peña (1:02)

I saw it, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

And he's got a gallery that they're building of all these kind of things, like this Elon thing of these giant digital artwork pieces.

So that's like, he's a different thing. Some people are just making NFTs of like an image of them like at the park or something like that.

Julianna Peña (1:20)

I'm trying to figure out like what I can give to like the super fans, right? So like, I'm like, do they want like an old, like fight bra or something? Like, do they want like tickets to the fight? Like, what do these guys want? Like, what do you mean?

Joe Rogan (1:33)

They definitely want a fight bra.

Julianna Peña (1:35)

Yeah. So I think I was gonna like stick some of that stuff, like some weird stuff in there, you know? And like, be like, these are my old hand wraps. Do you guys want that? Like, is this an NFT? Is it hand wrap NFT?

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Jeremy Stevens gave me his wraps and his shorts from one of his fights, one of his victories, and it's up in my studio in LA.

Julianna Peña (1:52)

Oh, nice.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

I gotta bring that over here.

Julianna Peña (1:53)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

So in the beginning, like when I first met you, today, rather, when I ran into you, first thing I was saying was like, are you still on Cloud9? Like, what is this like?

Like, you know, it was Matt, Sarah, and GSP that was like the biggest upset ever in the history of sport. But this is like, I think this is there or bigger. It might be bigger.

Julianna Peña (2:13)

Yeah, I mean, that wasn't my era. I'm in the new generation. This is my era, so of course, to me, it's the biggest.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

But it was huge because Amanda was terrifying. Like, everybody was scared of her, and you were the one that wasn't scared of her.

Julianna Peña (2:28)

Yeah, no, you can't be. You're fighting.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

I know, but it's still, it's like, it's the way you did it was so wild. Like, wild was that, like...

Julianna Peña (2:41)

Are you laughing because you were counting me out the whole time?

Joe Rogan (2:43)

No, I'm laughing because DC sent me a text. And in the video, look at you, you're very excited.

Julianna Peña (2:49)

I'm ready.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

DC sent me a text, and it was a video of me and him doing commentary on your fight. He goes, bro, he goes, listen to us, we're just making weird noises. Because during the fight, he's like, ah, ah, ah.

Julianna Peña (3:01)

He's screaming like a little girl.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

It was wild. It was fucking wild. When you were standing toe to toe with her and smashing her with a jab in the middle of the octagon, we were gripping each other. We were like, oh shit, oh shit.

You can't describe what that's like to watch, because it's hard to believe that it's happening.

I felt like if you had a chance to beat her, it would be in a scramble. You would catch her and submit her. A grapple exchange, wear her down and submit her. But to see you standing in the middle of the octagon and smashing her with a jab, it was like, ah, ah, ah. It was crazy. It was so wild to see. It was almost like the world changed. The whole world changed. What is not possible is now possible.