13-Jun-24
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[00:00:00.000 –> 00:00:26.660] What a day. I mean it’s a joy of spend time with you. We had a good time today. We had a good time today. Got a nice workout in. Went to some Egyptian barbecue. KG, it’s KG BBQ.
[00:00:26.660 –> 00:00:46.960] KG BBQ yeah. I’d seen YouTube videos about them. What an interesting story. Dudes living in Cairo. It’s a banker. It always starts off like that. I told you this, like architect this, that they always have these dreams of culinary, I don’t know, I don’t know what the
[00:00:46.960 –> 00:00:57.520] fuck to even call it but it’s like when, like me, I want to be an actor or I want to play ball or I want to be a fighter. I want to do what I do. We all have these dreams even
[00:00:57.520 –> 00:01:09.960] though, stay in the fucking lane. Don’t be just stay there. Stop being an idiot. That is a thing right? People always want to do a thing that they’re not doing. I like hard labor. Really?
[00:01:09.960 –> 00:01:18.840] I do because I do a lot of fun. Everyone thinks that my job is fun and it is. There’s no doubt. That’s why I like to get in the kitchen. Want some coffee?
[00:01:18.840 –> 00:01:32.120] No I’m good. I got this espresso. I’m fucking loose eat out. I’m doing things I’ve never done before. I’m like a little fucking floozy right now. We got you in a sauna, we got you in a coal plunge, got you a Lucy.
[00:01:32.120 –> 00:01:48.880] Let me tell you something. 200 degrees in the sauna my ribs are ready to be eaten. I don’t even know how long, the first time it was 10 minutes but the second time seemed longer. Well the second time was easier though right because you’re coming out of the cold. Yeah.
[00:01:48.880 –> 00:02:01.160] A little easier. I think we did another 10 after the cold just to bring you back to base. There’s a feeling that you get when you go from the cold to the hot that is like wonderful. It’s like psychedelic.
[00:02:01.160 –> 00:02:18.000] I was standing there in a towel for 30 minutes. Just the towel, no socks, no nothing just standing there looking like man. That was fucking sick. Yeah. No because I never did the coal plunge and I did it, hopped out and you were like
[00:02:18.000 –> 00:02:33.160] nah nah nah. Get back in. That’s what I needed. I needed the motivation to be put back in and that really gave me the benefits from everything I think. It is really all battling with this part of your brain that says get out now. That’s
[00:02:33.160 –> 00:02:45.080] all it is. You have to learn how to conquer that part of your brain. You don’t ever really conquer it, you just silence it. It’s always there. You know you’re only going to do three minutes even if you’re only going to do three minutes. It’s like your body
[00:02:45.080 –> 00:03:00.640] is like fuck how many minutes are we in now? One minute 20? Oh my god we’re not even halfway there. And if you let that anxiety spiral out, much like in life, much like when people have problems in life. You let that anxiety spiral out and
[00:03:00.640 –> 00:03:12.360] everything gets way worse. Like when you’re in that situation you just have to say this is what I’m doing. This is just what I’m doing and I’m going to do this for three minutes and there’s no ifs ands or buts and I’ve done it
[00:03:12.360 –> 00:03:22.160] before. I know I can do it again. I know it sucks. Just do it. But when I first did it the first time I got it I was like oh oh oh I made it a minute and
[00:03:22.160 –> 00:03:36.080] 20 seconds I think and I was like I gotta get the fuck out. I can’t handle it. Yeah it’s too much. Yeah but a lot of it is your mind. It’s not really the reaction that your body has to it. The reaction to your body has is really
[00:03:36.080 –> 00:03:51.080] only like a mild discomfort. It’s your brain freaking you out. You’ve got to get out now and it starts just like trying to move your body out. Your anxiety just kicks in like wow. Yeah at 55 seconds I was ready to fucking jump
[00:03:51.080 –> 00:04:03.040] out. There was no there was nothing left in me. Yeah but that was a good start I think. I think that was the start to a lot. Yeah it’s needs to take care of myself Joel. I’m not. Well you have in the past. You’ve
[00:04:03.040 –> 00:04:17.840] have in the past. You know you made a big jump when you know you had one of your babies one of your kids you just decided I am going to get fit now and you lost a ton of weight. You lost a ton of weight. You got real
[00:04:17.840 –> 00:04:28.920] health. You started working out all the time and you and I worked out together at the Onnet gym and I was like dude puts in work that was real. That was like a real workout. You weren’t you know you would obviously been working
[00:04:28.920 –> 00:04:44.760] out a lot because John Wolf who’s the master. Love him. The master like one of the best trainers on earth he put us through this workout. That’s a fucking serious workout man serious kettlebell shit mobility shit all these
[00:04:44.760 –> 00:04:56.800] different body weight things. I think we do bear crawls we did a lot of shit. I was drenched drenched during the fucking stretch during the warm up stretch. I was fucking it was harder than anything for me sometimes the
[00:04:56.800 –> 00:05:10.640] stretching and putting yourself in those like that’s well John’s car gets unique area like he’s big on hip strength and hip flexibility so he has you doing all these hip exercises of your legs up near and circles and all
[00:05:10.640 –> 00:05:22.600] this stuff and you’re like whoa I never do anything like this like this is hard to do. I haven’t done it since him. I need to get back on that because those are the types of things that I want to work with a core specialist like him.
[00:05:22.600 –> 00:05:36.880] I need the core work right yeah you see we got the pushing and this and that it’s very strong that stuff is kind of easy for us like the pushing and shit but for me I need more core work right I need to stabilize this
[00:05:36.880 –> 00:05:53.880] midsection. Have you done yoga? I’ve done yoga I’ve done yoga out of all those things like keeping your body balanced and having strength and flexibility yoga is the king. I can’t stay on that kick I don’t know I need I need some
[00:05:53.880 –> 00:06:03.200] animal shit yeah I also need I know what I need for my body is probably yoga but what I want to do is animal shit. Animal shit makes you feel better right?
[00:06:03.200 –> 00:06:14.560] It does it makes me feel more manly. I see when you like swinging that mace. Oh man I feel like such a fucking barbarian. It’s a 60 pound hammer for fuck’s sakes wrapped in leather yeah that feels
[00:06:14.560 –> 00:06:27.280] fucking sick to manhandle that. Yeah those are so hard to move around like we were talking today about those clubs that the club I use is only 20 pounds which just doesn’t seem like a lot of weight but when you’re got it out in
[00:06:27.320 –> 00:06:42.560] front of you and doing these things it’s fucking hard to do. Stabilizing 20 pounds is still stabilizing 20 pounds and you need those those front that that move that you were doing that just that that’s bulletproofing all those little muscles around
[00:06:42.560 –> 00:06:53.960] your shoulder area and your lat and everything yeah I was thinking too it’s really good for archery mm-hmm you know because like a lot of it is extending your arms straight out you know when you’re doing a shield cast
[00:06:54.040 –> 00:07:04.880] you’re going around your head and you’re extending your arm out it’s like it’s such a weird way to move your muscles that when you’re doing it you’re like whoa why don’t I do this more often like why am I bad at this how much
[00:07:04.880 –> 00:07:16.760] how am I so good at this so good at like lifting things up over my head but anything gets sideways and around I’m all squirrely with 20 pounds it’s that’s the worst feeling like when I do those little things oh yeah it’s
[00:07:16.760 –> 00:07:29.840] humbling you feel like such a bitch yes 15 pounds like ah what are we doing they laugh I laugh at myself I look like an idiot but those are the types of things I need to warm up to be able to push yeah some heavy shit well it’s just
[00:07:29.840 –> 00:07:41.920] just like also just to balance out your body you know we were talking about that Ben Patrick gentlemen who created that knees over toes stuff yep and we were doing the Nordic curls today and I was saying like when I first did that I
[00:07:41.920 –> 00:07:53.520] couldn’t even do one I couldn’t do one and I was shocked I was like I have pretty strong legs like from kicking and stuff like why can’t I lift myself up on my legs couldn’t even do one it’s a lot of pressure on the knee it just
[00:07:53.520 –> 00:08:01.160] felt weird why am I so weak this way it’s like I would have thought that I would be able to lift myself up easy just like I can lift myself up with my abs if
[00:08:01.160 –> 00:08:13.880] I’m sitting down I thought I thought this not gonna be hard I thought I was gonna do it easily too it’s so hard when I got into the apparatus I realized that I’m a fucking I’m very weak in that area yeah that’s like what
[00:08:13.880 –> 00:08:28.680] Ben Patrick talks about is strengthening all of these areas it’s not a sexy exercise to do like tip raises you know we got weight on your foot and you’re raising your toes up towards your knees but that’s if you’re a real motherfucker
[00:08:28.680 –> 00:08:44.320] you know that that’s what makes the leg look good that’s what makes the leg look strong is that tib big thick muscles down when you flex your toe up and that thing pops out in the front of the shin that looks fire that’s
[00:08:44.360 –> 00:08:58.760] like flex that’s like some muscle like muscular development that’s all I wanted was that tip work yeah there’s something super impressive about dudes with big ass calves natural ones too like I’m you can’t get them to a diamond if they
[00:08:58.760 –> 00:09:13.680] weren’t a diamond in the beginning they’ll get nice but they’ll never be naturally diamond right right right you know when you see like my boy Mikey Spears he works out he’s no he’s in decent shape now he’s got himself
[00:09:13.720 –> 00:09:30.240] together with my fucking lord this calf the calf on this fucking kid is unbelievable yeah it’s like a horse calf yeah Mark Hunt used to fight in the UFC he has calves like shoulders like two shoulders like your whole body that’s a
[00:09:30.240 –> 00:09:44.720] different species of human being those Samoas oh my god Mark Hunt he was one of the baddest motherfuckers to ever do it you ever watch him in K1 back in the kickbox course that dude won the K1 Grand Prix pretty nice that is an
[00:09:44.720 –> 00:09:58.480] accomplishment over everything else in stand-up combat sports you’re not a little bit like MMA championships K1 Grand Prix was like Alistair Overeem won that you think about the guys are fighting back to like Peter Erste and
[00:09:58.480 –> 00:10:14.760] Nesta Loost mr. Perfect like damn and Mark Hunt won that like that’s how good Mark Hunt was Mark Hunt just beat some undefeated boxer in Australia he won the match knocked the dude out of course it was a fight where he was like it was
[00:10:14.760 –> 00:10:27.960] Mark Hunt has this big name this guy’s this undefeated up-and-coming boxer and he’s really young and Mark Hunt’s like 40 something he’s 50 bro you got to see this fight it’s crazy this is how good Mark Hunt now was recent free six
[00:10:27.960 –> 00:10:38.920] I saw him talking about it within a year yeah within a year so right Jamie something like that I think that’s it so yeah so within the year and bro it was a
[00:10:38.920 –> 00:10:51.840] crazy fight and the guy was good too the guy is good he’s a good fighter and they were building this guy up and I think you know when boxing is like they’re very careful about how they match fighters up you know and it’s really
[00:10:51.840 –> 00:11:04.640] intelligent I think if it’s done correctly if you test them correctly along the way and you give them fights they can win and they keep getting better but the UFC does not do that feed you to wolves UFC is like this
[00:11:04.640 –> 00:11:12.560] is dog this is a wolf farm all right if you’re not a wolf we don’t build you into a wolf like tell me when you’re ready to be a wolf you know like you
[00:11:12.560 –> 00:11:27.360] could get a guy like John Jones right off the bat you know 21 years old just smoking people like that’s your first fight in the UFC his fight your fight fuck I watched that first fight while I was working in a kitchen on Spike TV
[00:11:27.720 –> 00:11:43.480] I watched from the debut of John Jones yeah till now yeah man if you run into a special talent like that you know John’s the youngest ever UFC champion that’s right and he beat a legend Mauricio Shogun who are in in Jersey demolished and
[00:11:43.480 –> 00:11:58.320] by the way captured a burglar the day of the fight that day yeah that day chase some dude down to lay I think snatched some ladies purse or something tackle the dude yeah so we’ll get to that but this is Mark Hunt he looks good
[00:11:58.320 –> 00:12:14.720] and this young kid is like this bro that right hand come on son bro Mark Hunt’s been put in on people since the 90s he stopped his dude a lot of my boys are from from New Zealand and they used to tell me their stories of Mark Hunt
[00:12:14.720 –> 00:12:32.920] being a fucking menace on K Road oh bro the menace of K Road mark hunt you get a street fight with Mark Hunt now man definitely not you just my bad guy bro he ate a merco cro-cop head kick it was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen was
[00:12:32.920 –> 00:12:46.800] a left to right left left high kick nobody eats a merco cro-cop head kick and was back when Merco was allowed to wear shoes this is the pride of face with shoes kicked him in the face with wrestling shoes on son no he didn’t
[00:12:46.840 –> 00:12:58.880] have the wrestling shoes on I lied didn’t he have one fight with no I made that up I don’t think he had one fight with I think he always went barefoot but like you got to see when he eats one of these high kicks and merco has the
[00:12:58.880 –> 00:13:11.560] best left high kick other than Leon Edwards like of all time yeah it may be better than Leon Edwards because he’s so big he’s massive look at that fucking high kick he eats it he ate a couple of them to eat one square on the
[00:13:11.600 –> 00:13:26.080] noggin mark looks fast to the transitions to the knee a nice yeah you know my heart always carried around a lot of body fat but he moved very well and he has like lethal combinations like his combinations are very complex he goes
[00:13:26.080 –> 00:13:38.680] under your ribs over the top look at that David tour and his legs are a massive his legs are massive and it just had not just an iron chin but a warrior’s mentality he got dropped here
[00:13:38.680 –> 00:13:56.920] bro on the chin gets up though oh this is what’s crazy that’s the difference between K1 and MMA right laughing look at that he’s like fuck it well he got clean caught clean caught by one of the and he got hit again by one of the most
[00:13:56.920 –> 00:14:13.160] dangerous strikers of all time but you know who put him out which is even crazy Melvin manhove mmm Melvin manhove who weighed like 190 pounds put him out with one punch Melvin was you want to talk about like the scariest striker ever
[00:14:13.160 –> 00:14:26.000] in MMA I think it’s Melvin ever might not have been the best he might not be like the best technical like Pejeda is probably the most technical but Melvin was so terrifying because he would come at you guns blazing with them
[00:14:26.000 –> 00:14:40.240] gladiator shorts on look at this boom oh man I mean a step drop mark hunt and put him out like who the fuck does that yes kryptonite in that fucking hand look at that bro he’s so fast going backwards boom boom oh see if you can
[00:14:40.240 –> 00:14:56.560] find a Melvin manhove highlight reel oh my this dude man this dude was like a demon he would come at first of all super skillful he’s from Mike’s gym and Amsterdam legendary kickboxing Jim Badawari came from that gym so just
[00:14:56.560 –> 00:15:16.750] super skillful but so fucking ferocious man I mean just such an awesome kick boxer and just do or die he either got knocked out or he knocked you out oh and that style was just so fan-friendly but he’s chasing people down he was so
[00:15:16.750 –> 00:15:31.230] dangerous so dangerous but you know got KO too because his fights were so reckless not reckless skillful skillful but like he lives with aggressive he lives within the zone yeah he’s in the he’s in that danger zone and he drags
[00:15:31.230 –> 00:15:44.470] everybody into that and you might get him Joe Shilling got him Robbie Lawler got him Robbie Lawler got him in a crazy fight where Robbie Law was getting this shit kicked out of his legs and he just uncorked a hammer just one punch
[00:15:44.470 –> 00:15:56.870] just one wild right hand just clip Melvin the lights go out Robbie Lawler’s the next level man he’s such a gentle like when you meet him also he’s very sweet he’s just like yo how are you man did you did you hear what happened
[00:15:56.870 –> 00:16:11.750] during the free Palestine marches in New York City did you hear what happened so there was a bus and the bus was filled with UFC fighters and there was the free Palestine thing that was going on they stopped the street and apparently the
[00:16:11.750 –> 00:16:24.190] bus was trying to make it through before they closed everything off and the bus didn’t so then they got in front of the bus and then they started slashing the tires and the bus was filled with Robbie Lawler and a bunch of
[00:16:24.190 –> 00:16:36.950] other killers and everybody’s like should we go out with the bus and every Robbie goes everybody can serve your energy because we’re probably gonna need it just come just like a so you have to fight these people you’re gonna need
[00:16:36.950 –> 00:16:48.830] your editor Robbie Lawler’s like just sit there like he’s ready to go to a championship fight just like serving all energy just fucking yeah getting a narrow ready he was just telling everybody just conserve your energy like
[00:16:48.830 –> 00:17:01.470] you imagine if those fucking knuckleheads opened up that door so this is the Melvin manhove Robbie Lawler fight so Melvin is just chopping at Robbie’s I mean look at that only that one right hand boom and then a left behind it
[00:17:01.470 –> 00:17:14.470] just look at that’s what I was throwing at the bag today that was big over right right those big overhand rights I mean wide open out cold but they was that why do you breathe like that when you’re knocked out well you’re
[00:17:14.470 –> 00:17:27.070] almost dead okay you know you’re almost make sense makes sense yeah you’re getting knocked unconscious like someone can then kill you like you know it’s like they’ve already put you away now you’re at their mercy and if
[00:17:27.070 –> 00:17:43.710] someone’s just are you doing this before and twitching but like those deep crazy breaths with the eyes open is fucking scary scary those kind of knockouts are fucking terrifying and how many of them can your body endure and
[00:17:43.710 –> 00:17:58.150] at what age this is the real questions like maybe you can bounce back from one when you’re 18 but when you’re 35 you can’t you know it’s it’s there’s a scary to also take beatings for five rounds they must get micro whatever
[00:17:58.150 –> 00:18:12.230] that this means micro concussions there’s no micro about it yes I’m saying they getting concussed every fucking time most like how do you recover like that dropped well the first of all they’re in an insane shape like every guy
[00:18:12.230 –> 00:18:25.590] who gets to a five-round championship level like did you watch that Sean Strickland Paulo Costa fight sure did but you got a beating bunker shape to put that pace on a person for three rounds unbelievable just Striklin just
[00:18:25.590 –> 00:18:37.390] stays on you just stays on you and stays in the gym that’s why he doesn’t fight all he does is fight all he does is spar he’s just constantly sparring that’s the only way you get that cardio correct I don’t know man but he has a
[00:18:37.390 –> 00:18:49.150] different than anybody else he has a different than anybody other than Dreckus man because Dreckus as big as that it swallows that motherfucker that guy’s got cardio he does especially now that he got his nose yeah the first
[00:18:49.150 –> 00:19:02.910] couple of fights he looked like he was gassing but then he had that nose situation and he looks like a brand new man brand new man dude the nose thing did you have him beating sure no it was fucking very sure I thought one I
[00:19:02.910 –> 00:19:14.230] thought one by like a round but I didn’t I didn’t hate it it wasn’t like the worst decision I’ve ever seen but it wasn’t like if you’re gonna beat the champion you know that’s always the thing like if you’re gonna be the
[00:19:14.230 –> 00:19:27.670] champion it should like a be a clear decisive win and I think I would have edged it to show him but it was a great fucking fight credible it was a great and Rick is this tough as shit man that guy’s so big he barely makes
[00:19:27.670 –> 00:19:40.550] sense that he’s a hundred and eighty five pounds like how the fuck do you get down to 185 dude you’re huge 230 225 he probably walks big thick fucker but he does it just like Alex Behead had did it like these there’s guys that are
[00:19:40.550 –> 00:19:55.670] willing to like really really torture themselves recently I was in the airport I was leaving Cheetos fight in Miami when he fought Sean O’Malley and fucking I seen Alex Potato and Polinio Cruz there Polinio is fucking
[00:19:55.670 –> 00:20:10.310] massive first off he says that he’s as big as Alex but man I’ve never seen a man that looks like fucking sagat from Street Fighter before exactly he’s a scary individual bro Alex is built different holy shit built different in
[00:20:10.310 –> 00:20:22.790] his mind’s different it’s when you see him out and he’s dressed mm-hmm he’s wearing the tight ass pants it’s like some Jean-Claude van den shit he’s looking good he’s a champ he’s the champ he’s the champ division champ bro two
[00:20:22.790 –> 00:20:34.510] division champ and just a handful of fights in the u.s. instant Hall of Famer in my mind instant all same it’s unbelievable and you know he’s just different than everybody else and that he’s such a specialist he’s such a
[00:20:34.510 –> 00:20:45.870] spout he’s not taking nobody down like you never have to worry about him trying to take you down he’s not even interested he’s such a specialist but that specialist is one of the best specialists ever at that game like you
[00:20:45.910 –> 00:20:56.230] watch him at his peak in glory but dude Alex Pajeda was he at his peak or is he peeking now oh I think he’s peeking now as a fighter but when he has his peak as
[00:20:56.230 –> 00:21:10.710] a kickboxer he was putting people into orbit pull up pull up Alex Pajeda versus Jason Willnis that left hook is out of control bro everything’s out of control it’s scary the power is just so extraordinary it’s the torque man
[00:21:10.750 –> 00:21:26.390] it’s that that body style yeah he’s just thick and fucking huge bastard yeah so Jason Willnis who’s also a legit world champion one of the best kickboxers in the world and Pajeda and him fought early I know dude he literally looks like
[00:21:26.390 –> 00:21:40.470] fuckers to get he looks like just he’s right I did like he’s born to do this oh but he’s he’s such a menace because his style is different than anybody you’re gonna get to imitate in the gym it’s very awkward you look
[00:21:40.510 –> 00:21:53.990] like you wouldn’t teach that style but the way he’s holding his hands like out like this everything strange but it’s so effective and the it’s just the power is just extraordinary even when you block things like Jason Will