JRE MMA Show #52 with Michael Bisping

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Five, four, three, two, one.

Boom, and we're live. Mr. Bisping, how are you, sir?

Michael Bisping (0:10)

What's up, Joe? I'm good.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

We finally did this, man.

Michael Bisping (0:12)

I know, we've been talking about it for...

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Years.

Michael Bisping (0:14)

Feels like a lifetime, you know?

Joe Rogan (0:16)

It's been quite a while, man.

Michael Bisping (0:17)

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, happy to be here. Quite the setup you have.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

As an Englishman, please explain to me the Hawaiian flag.

What the fuck is that? The Hawaiian flag seems to me...

Michael Bisping (0:27)

Straight off the bat, I'm like...

Joe Rogan (0:28)

I was confused. I was looking at it the other day when Max Holloway won. I was like, if you didn't know any better, and you looked at that, you're like, this is some strange British flag.

Michael Bisping (0:36)

Right off the bat, I'm like, Joe's a smart guy. I've seen the podcast. He goes deep on things. I'm like, do I need to read some encyclopedias before I come on here? And the first thing you say is explain the British flag, sorry, the Hawaiian flag.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

What is that?

Michael Bisping (0:49)

Well, I can't claim to be an expert on the history of Hawaii.

I failed that class, funnily enough. But I would say that we colonized it at one point, much like America. I don't know if you know this. Much like Australia, India.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Yeah, Australia's got a funky flag too, right?

Michael Bisping (1:10)

Yeah, you know, we like to insert the Union Jack in lots of things.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

And you think about the size of England, how much of the world you guys kicked ass on, it's pretty goddamn impressive.

Michael Bisping (1:20)

It really is, but again, I'm no historian.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

No.

Michael Bisping (1:23)

But no, it is. I'm a proud Englishman. I guess our ancestors, well, not my ancestors, my ancestors are Polish and Irish.

But yeah, the British, they did OK.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Did a lot of shit. Got a lot done.

Michael Bisping (1:35)

They did, they did. You know, I was at a...

They did a lot of terrible things, I'm sure, over the years.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

A little bit.

Michael Bisping (1:40)

Yeah, I remember once I was in Canada at a party of all things about 3 o'clock in the morning, as one does. And I walk in and some guy starts going crazy at me.

The things that the British have done over the years, you should be ashamed of yourself. And he was causing a huge scene, really screaming at me, right? And I mean, going crazy.

And I'm like, dude, what the fuck? Nothing to do with me. He's like, you should be ashamed. So in the end, I said, well, where's your family from? And you're not going to believe this. He said...

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Mongolian.

Michael Bisping (2:09)

Germany.

I'm like, fucking... You're a German! You're a German and you're giving me shit about my heritage. Okay, buddy, I suggest you shut the fuck up.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

That's pretty hilarious because when you think about the history, like, the Germans way more recent.

Michael Bisping (2:23)

Oh, yeah, just a little bit. Just a little bit.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

The English stuff is in the past.

Michael Bisping (2:26)

It's nothing.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

That's like with swords and arrows and shit.

Michael Bisping (2:30)

Robin Hood times. Come on, come on.

You know?

Joe Rogan (2:34)

Do you like living over here?

Michael Bisping (2:35)

Yeah, very much so. You know what I mean? Of course, you know, you miss home, you miss friends and family.

Certainly, you know, as you get older and your parents get older, you do think about those things. But yeah, it's great. It's a great place to live.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Your accent has tamed itself a bit. When you go back home, do they give you shit about it?

Michael Bisping (2:55)

I get shit all the time, yeah.

All the time. And they're like, what's this weird accent, Mike?

And it's like this, I'm intelligent enough to adapt to the surroundings that I'm in. You know, I'll now say tomatoes instead of tomatoes, because I don't want a cute little back and forth for five minutes with the fucking waitress. Do you know what I mean?

I just want to order my breakfast and go about my day. Oh my God, you're English. You know what I mean? So I'll say tomato, I'll say coffee. But when I go back home, it kind of, you know, and then working on Fox, they worked on me for a while. They're like, Mike, we like, well, we think we like what you're saying. The problem is we can't understand what you're saying. It seems like it's good stuff. There's lots of energy there, but you got to slow down, overpronounce your words. So yeah, it is a little bastardized.