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The Joe Rogan Experience

#2468 - Luke Grimes

13 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 9.973 Joe Rogan

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day

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12.738 - 14.541 Unknown

This is a real deal.

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14.561 - 16.645 Luke Grimes

Is it? Yeah, I've been listening to the show for years.

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17.066 - 26.925 Unknown

Well, I've been watching your show for years. Yeah. Are we rolling, Jamie? All right, beautiful. I love your fucking show. It's great. Oh, thanks, man. It's really awesome, man. Well, I haven't watched Marshalls yet. Is it out now?

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27.265 - 35.921 Luke Grimes

It is. When did it come out? March 1st. Oh, okay. So they just had the second episode air. I like the binge, man. I like to wait. Wait a little bit.

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Stay offline. I like to sit down and binge them. For sure. Yeah, but Yellowstone is fucking awesome. It's such a great show. Did you have any idea it was going to be what it is?

46.114 - 64.378 Luke Grimes

Not, no. I don't think anybody did. I thought it would find an audience for sure. I mean, Taylor was really, you know, hot at the time. He'd been nominated for Oscars. And I was kind of like surprised he was even writing a television show. He was just like so hot in the film business. How the fuck does that guy even sleep at night?

Chapter 2: When did Luke Grimes start taking music seriously?

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I don't know, man. Where does he have the time? Every time I look in the news or there's a new show that he's doing, a new thing he's doing, it's like, how are you doing all this? It's impressive.

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75.899 - 94.999 Luke Grimes

It's insane. There's a lot of people I've worked with where they do things that are impressive, but his is impossible. Right. You know, like someone would be like, could you direct a movie as good as Unforgiven? I'm like, maybe, maybe if I tried real hard, but like, could you write 10 television shows single handedly? No, no way. Not possible. He directed Unforgiven?

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95.279 - 102.753 Luke Grimes

No, I'm just saying like people that I look up to that I'm impressed by. It's like his is a different level. Right. His is like, it's like impossible.

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Who did direct Unforgiven? Clint Eastwood. That's the fucking greatest Western movie of all time. It is. It's the best. Yeah. It's like, you know what it was like to me? It was like he was making up for all the silly Westerns and was like, let me show you what it was probably really like. Yeah. What was really like when a man was about to get shot?

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What was really like when a dude was a stone cold killer? Yeah. What was it really like the hardships of living back then?

129.682 - 130.143 Luke Grimes

Yeah.

Chapter 3: What challenges does Luke Grimes face while balancing music and acting?

130.163 - 147.481 Luke Grimes

And it's interesting, too, because he starts out kind of a loser. Yeah. Those first, you know, like the first three quarters of the movie, he's this sort of timid guy who's lost his power, you know, and then he takes that one sip of whiskey and it's all over for everybody else. It's a crazy premise.

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It's such a good movie, man. It's such a good fucking movie, man. But yeah, Taylor, he's a real freak. There's not a lot of humans like him. And his background story is so interesting. He was just kind of scrambling around until he was almost like 40. Yeah.

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163.394 - 167.701 Luke Grimes

It's like a real life Rocky. Yeah. Or something like rags to riches, the whole, the whole thing.

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I know, man. It's just, I just don't, I guess that's why he has so much ambition because he knows what it's like to be poor.

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174.391 - 174.592 Luke Grimes

Right.

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You know, he knows what it's like to like barely make it. Right. Then all of a sudden he's got a kid on the way and he's like, Oh shit, I got to. buckle down and really get moving. And he kept his foot on the gas. Absolutely. Do you guys keep in touch? Yeah. As buddies? Yeah, yeah, all the time. I love Taylor, man. I love him. He's an awesome dude. I just worry about him. You do so much.

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Don't have a fucking heart attack, man. Don't go crazy.

198.326 - 218.756 Luke Grimes

You know what's weird is he does have a good time, too. It's not like he doesn't hang out with his family or friends or, you know. That's the craziest thing to me is like the guy has a really fun life and is able to do all that. I guess like the moral of the story is don't play golf. I'll take up all your time. No shit, man.

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Tell that to Jamie.

Chapter 4: How does Luke Grimes view the impact of personal experiences on his music?

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We can try it. Try it out. No, I know all my friends who play fucking love it. Ron White and Tony Hinchcliffe, they go out every day. It's like it's too much, man. I can't do it. Yeah. Yeah, you can't play golf and do what Taylor's doing. That's for damn sure. No way. How the fuck is Trump doing it?

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279.624 - 289.145 Luke Grimes

He's in the middle of everything. He's always playing golf. But that's sort of the criticism, right? He's playing too much golf and not running the country enough. But don't they say that about every president? Yeah.

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I think it's almost like a prerequisite to be president. You have to play golf. You know, don't they all do it? I guess so. It's like one of those weird businessmen things. Like they make deals out there. They have a couple of cocktails. They talk a little shit. Right. Do a bump. Not my thing.

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304.291 - 311.282 Luke Grimes

Make some deals. I just don't. I don't know. Something about being on like a manicured lawn. I don't know. I don't want to be out in the middle of nowhere.

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311.763 - 324.087 Unknown

I'm sure I'd love it. I'm sure. Which is why I don't do it. But I play pool, and I'm addicted to pool. Like, I play pool all the time. It's a real problem. When I lived in New York, I was playing, like, eight hours a day.

324.468 - 324.628 Luke Grimes

Yeah.

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I was playing in tournaments. I was traveling around. It was like, I can't get another thing like that in my life. Are you done playing pool? No, I play all the time. Oh, okay. Yeah. But you can play pool for, like, a couple hours and stop. Maybe I'll try that. Pool's fun.

338.847 - 339.267 Luke Grimes

Yeah.

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Yeah. Like, real pool, like, tournament pool, you know, like, competitive, like, real tournament pool. It's legit. But it's like... It's another thing. It'll get in your blood, and then you'll be thinking about it all the time and watching videos and taking lessons. I'm ready for something, though. Yeah? Yeah. Not golf. Pool sounds like. Well, you have music and you have acting.

Chapter 5: What unique aspects of UFC events does Luke Grimes highlight?

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But then when something would happen, even something really technical, like somebody passing the guard, they would go, Oh, and they would all clap. Like, I was like, Whoa, this is interesting. Yeah. You could hear each corner yelling instructions. You didn't hear the crowd at all. There's 16,000 people in there. It was wild. It was a completely different kind of audience.

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Very respectful, very appreciative, and very knowledgeable. It was cool.

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Chapter 6: What are the benefits of watching UFC live versus at home?

4603.237 - 4609.525 Luke Grimes

Do you think if you didn't do what you did, would you rather watch UFC in person or would you watch it at home?

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In person's the best. You want to be there. You want to feel the crowd. But I would want to be there where I sit. Like, I'm super spoiled. Yeah, you've got the best seat in the house. Yeah, I'm like, I could reach up and grab a cage. It's right there. Like, I'm so spoiled.

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4625.496 - 4641.621 Unknown

But, you know, if you're in the bleeders, if you're in, like, the nosebleeds, you're probably better off watching it at home, honestly. Because then you get the commentary. You get to see replays. You get to see, you know, like, close up. If you've got a big TV at home, you get to see everything.

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4642.107 - 4647.339 Luke Grimes

I just sat close for the first time. I went to the Patty Gaethje fight. Oh, did you? It was amazing. That was a good one.

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Chapter 7: How do injuries affect fighters in the UFC?

4647.36 - 4653.795 Luke Grimes

It was amazing, dude. But yeah, it's definitely different hearing the sound. Oh, yeah. It's like a whole, when you hear like bone on bone, you're like, whoa.

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4654.096 - 4677.499 Unknown

Well, my favorite was during the pandemic, we had fights at the UFC Apex with no crowd. It was insane. Because we had world championship fights with no crowd. That's crazy. There was maybe like 50, 100 people in the room. Wow. It was mostly just staff of the UFC, the trainers of the fighters, and some of the other fighters in the audience, and some friends in the audience. And that's it.

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4678 - 4686.694 Unknown

And the UFC apex has a smaller ring too, a smaller cage. So I think it's like, I want to say it's 40% smaller. It's a lot smaller.

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4686.674 - 4692.82 Luke Grimes

Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's smaller. How would that affect a fight? A lot. Practically, really? You can't move as much.

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There's not as much distance to get away. So a guy who likes to move around a lot and get away from people. Like I saw Francis Ngannou versus Stipe Miocic. When Francis won the title in the apex with no crowd. That's crazy. And when Francis hits things, it's like hearing a baseball bat hitting a pumpkin. It's just whomp. And you're right there. You hear them breathing.

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You hear the grunts when they get hit. You hear the coaches yelling out, hands up, hands up, move, move, move. Hit them with the one, one, two. They're yelling out instructions, and it's like there's no one else there. It's silent. Wow.

4730.875 - 4732.138 Luke Grimes

It's amazing. So that's the way.

4732.659 - 4751.798 Unknown

Oh, that's my favorite. Cool. But there's something about an amazing crowd, you know, like when you're watching a big world title fight, you know, like in Vegas or in the Madison Square Garden. It's an incredible place just because the history of the place. You feel it when you're in Madison Square Garden. But my favorite is the Apex.

4752.2 - 4755.105 Luke Grimes

How are you feeling about this White House card? That's insane.

Chapter 8: What insights do they share about the creative process in songwriting?

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Very rarely is anyone going into the octagon 100%. Sure. There's always something going on. Guys are dealing with staph infections in camp, and they're taking antibiotics, and it fucks with your endurance, and maybe they've got a muscle pull or a knee that's fucked up. And when Francis Ngannou fought Cyril Ghosn, he blew his ACL out, so he had to wrap his leg up, and he had one leg broken.

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And he beat him with one leg. That's crazy. Crazy. Guys have fought with broken hands, you know. Alex Pereira, he's beaten guys with a broken foot. He fights with a broken foot. Just stoic standing there. Knows his foot's broken, doesn't give a fuck. He fought with a bad knee. His knee needed surgery. Like, there's a fight that he fought, Yuri Prohaska, where he's on top of Yuri.

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They stop the fight, and he does a forward roll to get off of him after he knocked him out because he couldn't stand on his left leg.

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4844.793 - 4848.779 Luke Grimes

I didn't know that. Was that like a known thing while the fight was happening? No. Oh.

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No. He had surgery after the fight.

4849.841 - 4851.623 Luke Grimes

I remember that fight. That's crazy.

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Yeah, he had surgery after the fight.

4853.166 - 4864.303 Luke Grimes

Pereira's really big in our house because Brazil, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Those Brazilians, man, they love each other. It's crazy. They do. My wife, she doesn't even care about MMA that much, but if there's a Brazilian fight, she's all about it.

4864.483 - 4888.603 Unknown

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Very, very proud people. Yeah. And it's also like Brazil's where it all started. They were having MMA fights in Brazil in the 1930s. Really? Oh yeah. Elio Gracie, who's really the founder of all this shit, he's the father of like, the Gracie clan, the Gracie family is like the greatest story in the history of martial arts. That one family has changed martial arts forever.

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