JRE MMA Show #139 with Bas Rutten

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Mr. Rutten, good to see you, sir.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Been a while.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

It's been a while.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Yeah, it was exciting running into you out here, Texas. You're a Texas resident.

Bas Rutten (0:21)

Texas, I got a hat and everything. I need a belt buckle.

I got the boots and I rode a Longhorn in this little village here somewhere, Banderas, like a big, big freaking Longhorn.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

You got on one of those things?

Bas Rutten (0:37)

Oh, I got one. Yeah, I rode one.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Did they let you ride them or they tried to buck you off?

Bas Rutten (0:40)

No, he said this guy is hanging out with kids, like six years old, he's very, very calm.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

So, yeah. Those Longhorns are wild, huh?

Bas Rutten (0:49)

Dude, it's crazy if you see it, giant. Giant, yeah.

Yeah, everybody, the whole street will stop.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

When did you come out here?

Bas Rutten (0:57)

July 4th, the 4th of July last year. Yeah. Fireworks and everything. I was in the top building, we had an apartment for a year.

So it was give us time a year to find a home, which we did. So we're probably going to move in next week.

But the top building, it was the park, Atlanta Park in New Braunfels where they have the fireworks. And man, it was nice. They welcomed me on the footage with the fireworks.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

That's nice. You finally get fed up with California, huh?

Bas Rutten (1:25)

Yeah, doesn't everybody? It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

Yeah, it's fucking, I would have never imagined five years ago that there'd be this mass exodus.

And then most of my friends would live out here now. It's crazy.

Bas Rutten (1:37)

But also Ventura County, where I'm from, it's like Orange County, still the laws are a little bit easier, right?

But once it starts getting there, my wife already said it for six years, here we gotta go. This is gonna go wrong.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Yeah. Well, I was always wanting to get out, but I was so connected to the comedy store that I always felt like, God, I can't leave that place behind. Yeah. But then when the pandemic hit, it's like, well, I guess we're not even doing comedy anymore, so fuck it.

Yeah.

Bas Rutten (2:07)

Do it here.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

And now you got one. Yeah, now I got one. Crazy.

Bas Rutten (2:10)

Yeah, life has been crazy for you.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Life has been crazy, yeah. Yeah. So you settling in out here and you enjoying it?

Bas Rutten (2:17)

We're loving it, you know? The people, every single person who comes to visit, you know, they're all, is a little bit preserved, you know, with the Texas mentality.

But when they come off the plane, it's the first thing they say. Until now, like eight out of eight, people are so nice here, it's the first thing they say. So I think they will love it. We have a daughter, the middle daughter that I have, she still lives in California, and she didn't really like Texas, but now she's been here, and her fiance, they were here last week, and I see it with him as well. He goes, it's really nice here.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

Yeah, it's different, and it's also less people. The less people thing is gigantic. I don't think you can underestimate that enough.

Because I think, or overestimate that enough, because overstate that enough. I think that people get too used to too many people, and then you view people as a nuisance.

And out here, that hasn't happened. Out here, when people just, they're friendly. They're just friendly to people. It's nice.

Bas Rutten (3:17)

They're different as well. Yeah, I think that...

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Well, they're armed.

Bas Rutten (3:22)

They'll help, right?

It's like on a plane, everybody should get a little baseball bat, you know, when they walk in.

I got a hygiene in the plane! Or a taser. Yeah, but a taser with me, and at the time when I was... Okay, so a friend of mine, Holbeke Aleni, you know, from Mindhunter, that actor, he gave me a taser. So at my birthday, I open it up, I grab the taser, I put the battery in, I'm looking up, and not a single person is in the room. Everybody ran out.

Joe Rogan (3:55)

You see? Cause they think you're gonna try it on.

Bas Rutten (3:59)

Any person I see, I'm gonna try it.