Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 275 Joe Rogan Experience Review of Aljamain Sterling Et al.

Episode Date: June 9, 2022

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Los enbases del verano Siempre van a la amarillo You are listening to the Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast. We find little nuggets, treasures, valuable pieces of gold in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and pass them on to you, perhaps expand a little bit. We are not associated with Joe Rogan in any way. Think of us as the talking dead to Joe's walking dead. Enjoy the show. Hey guys and welcome to another episode of the JRE review. This week we are reviewing Farhim and Wah Kristen Beck and Al Jermaine Sterling. him, Anwa is a frequent visitor to the comedy store. I've seen him perform there many times over the years from 2016 on, he's one of my favorites, Up and Comas.

Absolutely hilarious guy, he has a new special out. Christine Beck, former Navy Seal, gained a lot of public attention in 2013 when she came out as a trans woman and a very interesting person that's been through a lot. And also published her memoir which was called The Warrior Princess, a US Navy SEAL's journey to coming out transgender. And last but not least, Al Jameen Sterling. He's the UFC Phantom Weight Champion right now. Great guy. Awesome attitude for a fight of humble, funny, his conversation with Joe was excellent. And yeah, if you're a UFC fan, watch this guy. When he gets you on the ground, or get your back, you are in big trouble.

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And this is the first pod we're doing in the new studio. So thank you to the listeners for helping me be able to put a studio together for the Joe Rogan experience review and Todd Nyrim person doing it which is interesting because most of the podcasts I do are like remote calling like co-host is calling from somewhere else so kind of a fun little experiment nice to be in the room with you buddy. So for him, I'm what is a comedian I've seen at the comedy store many, many times over the years since like 2016 when I lived in LA. And, you know, I've seen a ton of improvement in this guy's comedy.

I don't know exactly when he started. I think he's been in it now over 10 years, but he is a go getter. Like he works hard. He's always in there plugging away. And I think it speaks to his kind of like engineering background in his mind. Like he's very kind of systematic

about his approach to developing his pieces, what it seems like. And I think that's why he's getting so good, so fast. Well, he's got this DIY approach, right? He really, he understands that comedians, you know, if you want to get your word out there and you want to do the right thing, you've got to do it yourself. It's this entrepreneurial spirit that he has that you can really feel when he's understanding of like what he needs to do to get out to the people. Sure, though I mean a big bit of advice that Joe gave him or recommended is that he kind of needs to be on the road a bit more is what it sounds like.

I think that's a big thing for a comedian. So like just to, you know, not only are you learning the country as you go and getting these different styles of audiences, but the practice is like you can't get that any other way. Like you could be the comedy store every night, but it's still mostly an LA crowd with a bunch of tourists. But if you're going around the country, I mean, you go to somebody's town, then you're getting that town's energy that you have to play towards. So it's, you know, constantly changing. I just think it makes you so much sharper to do comedy that way. Well, I'm hearing those other people hearing the crowd, right? That's the comedians way. If you know the crowd is loving it then you know what to do without that practice

You're gonna you don't know what people want to hear Mm-hmm and he was kind of shying away from that wasn't he he was trying to like pretend that it wasn't a big deal a little bit Yeah, I think so but you know Rogan has just done this for so long that he knows he knows what it takes for these up and Cullen comedians and what they should be doing and He knows what it takes for these up and coming comedians and what they should be doing. And Rogan also knows that becoming a writer potentially is a trap and it really gets in the way of your stand up, which he has been doing.

He did it during COVID. So I think Rogan was just testing that. Like, are you writing a bit too much and not getting out on the road? Maybe you should. Because that's gonna make that much more of a difference. I still haven't seen it here's stand-up special yet, but I really loved the format of how he was setting it up, like at the comedy store, using all of the rooms, and making it more of a day in the life of the

comedy store, rather than, oh oh look at my special which is all kind of glammed up. It's pretty interesting. Well he didn't tell anyone he was doing it that way too right so it was all it was almost a live showing. I don't think he told people that there was actually going to be that he was going to be recording it right. Well he did get permission from people Well, he did get permission from people when he was in there, like the host that brought him up knew that it was being filmed and the comedy store did. He needed permission there, but I don't think the audience did. Right, that's what I meant. The audience should not know.

Which makes a big difference, I think. Yeah. I've got a feeling if I was watching a show that I knew was becoming someone's comedy special, I'd even be inclined to laugh a little bit harder. I don't know if that's really a thing that happens in comedy shows. I mean, look, you're going to laugh if it's funny or not, right? But I think that it kind of could change the dynamic a little bit.

Well, yeah, it's just like when they talk about the tonight show and how comedians used to be back in the day, right? There used to be this system of you gotta go, you gotta get on the show and then you have to get into a sitcom and you have to, there's these steps that you take. Right. And having that audience, you know, clap award. Like, hey, time to clap audience. Yeah. Like, let's do this.

Yeah. I mean, that seems like what a brutal time to do comedy. There's one way, one path to get forward in your career. It's like get on the tonight show and then slowly later it became also get an HBO special and they only made a few. Karlin always had one. You know it was only like the really top guys, maybe Dennis Miller at the Hmm. It must have been so much more difficult for comedians back there and Comedy's really is way bigger now because of the internet especially because of podcasting You've got so many more comedians that can get to these higher levels

Which I think is so much better for the art form, right? Absolutely absolutely. It's just getting more people out there. And people know what to search for too. It's like people want to search YouTube for that stuff. They want to explore, and it's like when you search YouTube and you find a comedian, you're going to find more comedians depending on who they're talking to, right? Or what shows up on YouTube? It's starting to happen too.

You talk about YouTube. I mean, it was always like get a special together and sell it to Netflix or get a special together and sell it to one of the networks. But then you realize, wait a minute, the network now in a sense owns it, which they do. And how many eyes are really gonna see this? Like how many eyes are you getting on it?

Because you have a limited audience as compared to just releasing it to YouTube for free. And I think for up and coming artists, and it sounds like Aries Shapir is doing it that way as well. He's saying, like his last one, he sold to Netflix. But how many eyes got on it? You know, I mean Netflix has a lot of subscribers But nothing like the viewership that you can get on YouTube and really all you're doing is promoting

Pete yourself so that people come and see you live because that's really where the money is for these guys Absolutely, but you're also you're not getting censored as much either right you're not you know You sell your show to somebody they're gonna change it up. I mean, that's the whole reason, uh, Chappelle left, right? He was getting too censored. And that there was a lot of talk about that. Yeah. And I mean, if you're one of the bigger guys like Chappelle now can sell his special, the Netflix and no one's given him any notes, right? But if you're a brand new comedian and this is your first special, I'm sure there are plenty of suggested notes that they're putting in because they don't want every comedian coming on being super controversial, you know, potentially closing issues.

But at the same time, you don't get to see that comedian's work if you're changing it. It's problematic. It's absolutely problematic. I mean, we need to be able to laugh at jokes. They're jokes. Rest the point of phone. I mean, censoring jokes to me is silly. It doesn't make sense to me. I feel and and Joe talks about this a lot of just like, we can't ruin comedy by censoring jokes because of hurting someone's feelings. To me, that's just, it's scary. Yeah, I don't think that we should at all.

And here's the thing, right? If you like comedy, but you don't like any risque comedy, there's plenty of comedians out there for you. You can go watch Jim Gaffigan. I mean, Joe lists these people all the time. There's a bunch of like family friendly ones. You don't have to watch the ones that are more shocking. But in a sense it's what are we supposed to do? Come up with like a movie R rating for comedians. Maybe we should, right? I mean they do it for movies and you know, these same carons that are complaining about how

shocking this comedy was and how this person should be canceled. They're not complaining that violent movies are being released. Right. Because they come with an R rating and you don't have to take your kids to it or you don't have to watch it. If you're not into those types of movies, don't watch it. You know, go watch a wrong calm and enjoy yourself. But to think that there's one standard for all comedians and you have to just stick to it otherwise People are gonna try and cancel you. It's madness Yeah, I mean having these these restrictions on people is just is just Making the creativity and stunting that creativity because 100% yeah imagine imagine talking to an artist that draws kind of like you know not necessarily graphic art but maybe slightly disturbing dark artwork right where it shows

people like struggling mentally or like in pain or like they're trying to get this message across that's like powerful to the artist and Then someone coming in and saying that's that's too depressing or it's a little bit scary Maybe put a rainbow in there. It's like what do you what? What are we doing here? I mean, I remember growing up and listening and watching Eddie Murphy raw when I was a young kid You know, I was maybe 12 years old, 10 years old, and those are some of the movies I would watch with my dad. I mean, thanks dad, they were hilarious.

It helped me grow as a child. And I remember hearing him young too, and there were some like shocking bits in there. But you know, you're a kid you could you be able to deal with it and it just it still was just hilariously funny and watching I always what I've always loved about comedy is just when you're sat you know with your family or your friends or whatever and the whole room is just dying laughing from what this one person is saying it's just such a powerful what this one person is saying, it's just such a powerful thing to witness. I absolutely love it. They talk a little bit about what it's like in Austin, Austin life, obviously a lot of comedians have kind of moved over there after COVID from LA. Joe is talking about

his new club and putting that together. I mean, I'm really pumped for that and see kind of what that does for comedy down there. And also just to see how he sets it up. I mean, he's got so much experience in clubs. Obviously that doesn't always translate into building your own one, but I've got a feeling that he's really taking his time with us and it's it's maybe going to be like the new mecca of Comedy and the fact that he said What is he calling it the mother ship or something? Yeah, well, and he's gonna he was saying that he's gonna give people Health insurance, too, right? Like hook all these new guys up some of these younger guys that are up and coming That's beautiful.

Love that. Yeah. Why not? I mean, if he can figure out a way to afford it, I don't really know how that would work, because like comedians don't necessarily work for the club full time. I guess there's some incentive for them to perform, you know, a certain amount of times in the month in order to qualify for that Yeah, I don't really know how he's gonna set that up, but either way, I mean

Rogan's amount of his words. So if he says he's gonna do this He definitely will and I'll tell you what that's gonna do is gonna attract a lot of young comedians because They're broke for a long time His comedy comedy is a young profession, but yeah, it's a young man's score for sure Though they did talk about all the guys getting in the comedy. I really wonder how those people do it I mean it can be done, but my God you would need to be I mean you need to be all in to be able to do it, you know older Just that open mics alone at like 40 to be all in to be able to do it, you know, older Just that open mics alone at like 40 to be brutal Yeah, he was since somebody started at 37 who was he talking about there?

I can't remember I didn't recognize his name. I've probably seen him perform, but I don't know Oh, they finally brought up the new top gun movie. I have to say that movie is dope. If you've seen this shit up Still haven't seen everybody. I'm waiting on the mountain. They're when my kids in school. It is it is America USA all the way and and honestly like Think what you want of Tom Cruise, but as sequels go Especially if you were a fan of the first one But even if I've watched it with people that didn't even watch the first one, they're a lot younger and they were really impressed by the movie. Like it's just a fun movie from start to

finish. It's really good. I mean you told me that the soundtrack was just as good as the first one and I still don't believe that. There's no way. It's pretty much the same songs though, that's why. Okay. Yeah, they just did a lot of the same songs. Right. Put it in there. Oh, they finished up with Louis coming back. And I wanted to touch on this because, you know, there was the me two thing with Louis and he took some time out, maybe a year, two years, I don't know, it took a while off.

And then when he came back, somebody filmed a little bit of his stand-up at what he was working on. And like Joe was saying, since it wasn't a finished piece, you know, there was some clunky bits, and it just sounded outrageous, and people gave him a lot of shit for it. And it's such bullshit because this was always how he did his comedy. Like what because of these accusations he has to now come back with clean comedy. That doesn't make any sense. If anything I think he's going to double down and get more outrageous. I feel like that might work. Why not? Look, these creative types, man, you gotta let out what's inside of you, right? It's something that has to happen. I mean, as artists, if we don't let out what's inside of us, we're going to feel like

crap most days. We have to get that energy out. We have to get those jokes out, man. Yeah. And do it the way that you did it before. Like, it shouldn't have to change just because of this whole thing. Like, he can come back the way that Louis needs to come back. Or, you know, he chooses not to, but he's not going to change the way he does comedy.

Well, in arts, in its subjective, they talk about how it's subjective it's subjective like some people are gonna think it's hilarious and others aren't so don't watch it Yeah, don't watch it if you weren't a fan of Louis before Yeah, you probably won't be afterwards. You're not gonna be now But if you liked him before you I don't know he he's had enough time off it. This is probably gonna be some of his best stuff I mean rick had your vase just released his special and it's the best Rick had your vase I've ever seen. It's excellent and he's doing it in the face of like all this cancel culture and all this new shit that's going on and he hits it hard and I thought it was just brilliant. I mean the way he put it together, unreal. All right, let's jump over to Kristen back.

What an interesting person. Kristen back. I mean, I don't know if there's any other trans retired Navy Seals that I've ever heard of. So already, what a journey. Told me that ass, really. Of course. I mean, you became a Navy SEAL. You kidding me?

And the honesty there was so huge for me. Just like listening to her, just tell her story and be honest about how she was feeling and really just, I guess the courage that she had to just do what she did. Yeah. I mean, you can tell what she'd been searching, right? There was like the spiritual aspect of it

and with the planets. Yeah, yeah. She's searching for meaning, right? In a world that she was born into that didn't make a lot of sense to her. So it was confusing. And good for her for seeking out those answers, however she needed to. I mean, what really, whatever kind of helps on a journey like that, I think is important

to discover. I did like her curiosity with history and like trying to figure out, you know, I mean, she had that kind of, I've gone down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories online. Been there. Totally been there. I think we've all been there. Like when Rogan says he just wants it to be aliens. Wants that.

Who does that? Who sits there and says, I don't want it to be aaves. I think you've just got to be careful that you're not looking too hard for them because then you'll find them in everything. Right. You know what I mean? It's like getting super like really superstitious. And what was Christen saying about this project blue beam? Was she saying that the governments are going to want to trick us, right? Like put these lights in the air and pretend like they're UFOs even though they're not. Was that what you got out of it?

Huh. I don't even remember her talking about that. It was right near the beginning. Oh. What they're just talking about, like what most people are seeing and it's like a way to make his think his UFOs when it's really probably just drones? Yeah, I mean it was it was it was showing lights in the sky to prep us basically For what's to come next right again a conspiracy theory right but same. Hey, yeah, right like We're gonna prep you guys by showing some

lights and then maybe what like what's the next step I don't know dude I feel like we are super close to the government just be like oh yeah by the way his aliens I hope so that'd be wild what do you think you would do you think we I look definitely not gonna be a shocked is all this cover-up shit was trying to make us think that we would be like you know oh if if they've known like if the government has known but they've kept it under wraps and done it well but didn't want to tell us because we would panic it's like I don't think we're at the point now where we're all going to panic. It's going to be wild exciting I don't think that it's going point now where we're all going to panic. It's going to be wild, exciting. I don't think that it's going to create any sort of mass hysteria.

If we can survive COVID, we can survive. And there are aliens announcement. Do you think it's a half and half? Is it a 50-50, like Republicans and Democrats, of people who believe and don't believe in aliens? I have no idea. I don't know if it's a political thing. Yeah. I really can't even figure out, I have no idea. I don't know if it's a political thing. Yeah.

I really can't even figure out what the motivation would be. Other than if we say they're there, maybe we be requiring the government to tell us more about it, and they just don't want to deal with it at all. Right. They just want to sit on this technology, figure out how it works, not let any other countries know that we have it, and try and make a ship.

But you've also got to think, hey, if we did find a ship, a bunch of other countries probably did too. It's not like aliens would only be visiting America. Right. I mean, it's a dope country, but they'd be all over the place crashing and doing all the stuff. So you'd imagine all of different countries would be able to have these crafts.

And that kind of makes me think, well, all the countries that good, cover it up, because they would have to be for, like, it's not like any one country has come out and been like, yeah, we found the ship just so you know, we got it. Well, and seeing these old, you know, all these different old cultures from like 5,000,

6,000 years ago that have these pyramids and have, you know, this, what is that echo that he was talking about? Like when they would clap, like, did you even understand what was going on there with the frequencies? Yeah, so it's like this Mayan. I think it's like a Mayan, like South American pyramid. Yeah, chichinita.

It's right. Chichinita, that's what it was. Yeah, so that has this effect where if you stand in front of it, you clap. And I've seen a video of this. I think the one that they showed, but I saw it previously. If you clap or make any kind of loud noise, by the time it hits the top of the pyramid,

there, unlike the pyramids in Egypt that are just a point, they have like a building on top, like a small little, you know, it looks like a, I don't know what you would call it. Like a pillar or something? Something, a pillid thing with a roof, and it creates, it changes the sound, and it comes back, sounding just like this particular bird that's there that the temple was named after. How in God's name did they figure that out? The acoustic technology, I'd be curious to know, could we, how could you do it now?

I wonder if we can. I wonder if our sound engineers and computer can figure out how to do that and turn it into a buildable design. Because if we don't even have that technology now, that raises some questions. And not only that, they talked about how in the Egyptian hieroglyphics,

they have hieroglyphics showing all the planets in our solar system as we know them. And you wouldn't even be able to... like there's no way they could have seen those. So how did they know that was that? Clearly they were in advanced civilization. Yeah, all, you know. All you could say that it was just a random hieroglyphic and maybe they guessed with those numbers. I mean, that's kind of harder to say, but I mean, it also kind of plausible, right?

I mean, if there's enough hieroglyphics in front of you, we're talking tens of thousands. There's a lot of interpretation that you can play with it. And I don't know, that one just seems pretty difficult to dismiss. And I don't know that one just seems pretty difficult to dismiss Well, I mean Kristen was also talking about having subways underneath the pyramids. Did you hear that? Like there was some some tunnels or something, but again, I you know, I haven't looked into that, but I I remember thinking Was it ancient aliens? You know, oh great show love that but Have you heard of this where the actual the old pyramids are actually power plants? Oh yeah. That's a fun theory. It is a cool theory to look into.

Dive into that guys because it is crazy to think that they had free energy back then. I mean, it's not that crazy really, but it's amazing. If that if that was actually happening back then. The only issue I have with that is let's say it kind of mechanically would all make sense. Where were they, how are they storing any of the energy? And how were they, I don't think there was like any sort of historical reports of them having lights or vehicles that drove themselves. I mean, what would they even be using all that power for? Especially if it was designed to be a power plant that size, you would assume that they had a massive need for a ton of power. What were they using it on?

I don't know, but I thought it was wireless. I thought it was wireless energy. Like the top of the pyramid was actually creating this wireless energy that was being transmitted out. It only went so far, right? Right. But like I'm just wondering where are the machines. Yeah. Like what did they need it for? What do you would think that there would be some left. I mean if it's electricity then there's metal components in these Devices that they're using that need to be powered and Okay, it's what pyramids are like four thousand years ago five. I think it's five. Yeah. Okay, so five thousand You'd think that there will be some bits of things. I mean if there's like pots left in the

some bits of things. I mean, if there's like pots left in the, you know, tombs, you'd imagine there would be like an iPod in there or whatever technology they had just like, oh yeah, I need my smartphone when I go to the next world. We're just not finding it. So I'm like, huh? It's one of those things. It's the same thing with aliens. You want it to be true. It's probably not. But it's just like, it's like, yes, I want this. Why do we want it to be true, it's probably not. But it's just like, it's like, yes, I want this to be true. Why do we want it to be true? Maybe I just want it to be true. No, no, but I mean, what, I think we all do. I think it's silly to pretend that we're the only

civilized and advanced society. I mean, in my mind, we're maybe we're not. I mean, there's been other civilizations, I think, that have come before us. I mean mean we can't make the pyramids now We probably shouldn't go off on this tangent, but no, it's a good point. I mean look, but here's the problem I have if If we just stop today like we forgot everything the next generation we all get wiped out There's a bunch of kids laugh they grow up into this world surrounded by these skyscrapers and all this technology but they don't know how it works, so they're just living more feral but they've got bits of technology around

them that maybe within their lifetime they kind of figure out how to use. Do you think in 5,000 years there would be enough evidence of the change that we made? I mean obviously most of the buildings would crumble away a lot of the change that we made. I mean, obviously most of the buildings would crumble away a lot of the houses' wood. Like, a lot of this shit would get lost. But there would still be enough archeological stuff. You would think, you would think, but with that many years, I mean,

with the small pieces of technology that we do have, wouldn't that just get turned into sand? Probably. We are the last people to know. I mean, we can't even fathom that amount of time. It's way long. We can't fathom it. Yeah.

Even just 5,000 years. I mean, you can fathom 5,000 years, I guess. But within 5,000 years, anything that they had, you would think would just turn into dust. Well, look at it this way, right? So one thing that we definitely have is those from the Pharaohs, those cool head things they wore that were all gold, right?

They're buried with. Well, if they had all this power, when you think there would be some sort of Bluetooth headset in there or a button that you push for shades to come down. Or they have power, right? So what are they using it for? Yeah, those, all the artifacts that we find, none of them look like they've run on any power.

There's some loose references to them having light. And you see that in the high order. Or batteries, right? Yeah, they have some sort of basic battery with a pole and then there's kind of like a light on the end. That could make sense, but you don't need a pyramid's worth of power to charge that thing. I mean, you can kind of do it with like some sort of acid-base reaction. I really don't know how batteries work, but you don't need a lot for it.

It's like a potato clock. Once again, it's just me wanting to believe that there was this amazing civilization. I just like, I like to be a little skeptical because, of course, you know, Kristen was also talking about those giants. Giant skeleton bodies, 15 feet tall that the Smithsonian smashed. And I'd seen references to these types of articles before, but it just doesn't make any sense to me that they would destroy that and yeah, what's the reasoning behind that? And we don't really have even in legend a lot of stories of Giants, right? There was Andre. stories of giants right there was uh... andre

uh... okay there's andre i mean you have uh... cyclops in the odyssey by home uh... so that's a big story you know from the past then you have i guess david and galaeth but i don't think galaeth was like fifteen feet tall. He was just like a big ass dude.

You know, there's just not a lot of mythical stories of like us coming up against, you know, an entire race of people that were 15 feet tall. Well, and why would we hide that? That's what I didn't understand. Yeah, I think it would be, that would be like the coolest shit you could ever have in your museum. I don't imagine you would smash it. But people believe in all sorts of crazy stuff, right?

I mean, like Rogum was saying, he believed in those worms in the video. Like, it's easy to get roped into these things. You gotta be careful and you gotta take a step back sometimes, but they are really fun to play with and think about. Lastly, I want to discuss her working on the Iron Man project. How dope is that that we're actually trying to put those suits together?

I mean, ultimately, that's pretty scary because then what do we have? Like a bunch of different countries military, just have invincible suits? Yeah, scary. But think of the practical uses for a lot of other things, right? It's like disabled people that can't like move well. Now they have a suit and they'll be potentially fully functional. Or, I mean, you could go across the board with it, right? You're

in like you snowboard and you have to have your avalanche equipment on with you for like your transport. Yeah, right. So if they were some sort of suit that could like melt you out of the snow, or I don't know, fly you away from it out of the line. Well, look, if you have those things, they're always going to get used for, they could potentially get used for warfare. Obviously, that's what the main reason, which is a little scary, but the autonomy in warfare that they were talking about is what got me thinking, like, holy cow. People might not even go into war anymore. It's just gonna be this autonomous thing

that they have drones for and they have, which we already have. Right. Yeah, it's pretty automated. Like most of the world now. It's like a video game. Yeah, it's like robots, do you wanna? That's scary.

The war of the robots, that'd be quite an interesting movie. I don't know. It's kind of scary stuff, really. It's almost like the more you learn, the scarier it gets. Like you really probably don't want to know what the military are up to at any given time. I know it. I don't want to know.

No, it's a bit... I'd rather stay away. I would rather be engaged in human life rather than, on my day-to-day things in my small town. As silly as that sounds, you know. Yeah, too much news is not good for your health and possibly too much information. I know that sounds like the most ignorant thing

you could say, but that's certain information information that is gonna make you panic, right? You're gonna you're gonna think of the worst things out of it and go nah, I don't want any of this. I'm staying away All right, let's jump over to Al Jameen sterling Well, you have see a banter weight champion. I really like this guy's attitude I actually thought he was quite funny too. Humble guy from what it sounded like. I always like to hear that in the champions. You know, even if they're like talking shit before they fight, so they talk a lot of shit to the opponent to like psych him out. Does he though? No, he does. No, he doesn't. But I'm just saying as a

general rule, I don't mind when they do that, but when you come in for an interview You know when you sit down and you just being you That's when you get to hear who they are, you know, I mean Kobe Covenant is known for like talking a lot of shit But he's supposed to be a super nice guy in real life. So he pushes the envelope of the entertainment portion of in real life. So he pushes the envelope of the entertainment portion of Mix March Lots, which I'm sure they stole from

WWE Wrestling, you know. But at the end of the day they can be cool, humble, nice people too. So this guy seems like he's more like that. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if you are not familiar with him as a fighter, he's the kind of guy that if he gets you down and gets on your back, you all fucked. I mean his control on the ground and ability to re-enact your chocated death is like, it's are all muscle. It's just insane to see how strong these people are and they weigh next to nothing. Yeah. And they would absolutely wreck you too. Like it would be so hideous. Like you wouldn't even know what was happening.

And I always hate hearing that when you see some like big guy that looks security somewhere at a bar. Maybe he's like, you know, way into like 200 pounds, like big, big dude. But his training is going to be nothing like these sorts of champions. And they want to say things like, oh, well, yeah, 135 pound guy, though, I'd be at a smash him. No chance. No, I don't believe it at all. Yeah, they'd crawl up your back like a spider monkey and straddle you to death. at all. Yeah, they crawl up your back like a spider monkey and strike me that we are after

punching you 50 times in the face before you even moved. It's just such a ridiculous type of talking. Like, yeah, I don't know, it bugs the hell out of me. They discussed a lot of the previous champions and how they're still fighting and I did not realize the dominant crew has been fighting as long as he had. Now, I know you're not super familiar the previous champions and how they're still fighting. And I did not realize the dominant crews had been fighting as long as he had. Now, I know you're not super familiar with MMA, but dominant crews has been around for 15 years at least, fighting at the highest level that you can.

They even said that he's only lost fights during title. They had title fights, which are ones where you win the championship. So that's the only time he's lost. He's made it all the way to the top. Against the very best people that the only people he lose to. And he's also an excellent commentator. Because he knows so much of the sport. He knows how to break it down so well.

He's an excellent shit talker. I mean, it's quite phenomenal what some of these fighters are able to do. And this isn't the sort of sport that you can stay in for very long. I mean, the damage to your system, the window of fighting that you have is not that big, especially if you don't start till later. You just can't go for long. Like you get into it in your 30s, like good luck. You might have five, six years. I mean, this is why people like Nate Diaz and Nick Diaz, you've heard of them, right?

Oh yeah, absolutely. They, they, they got in in like their late teens. So they've just been able to They got in in like their late teens. So they've just been able to Really I just fight a long time, which is incredible. I mean I Just love the discipline in it, you know, they Rogan talks a lot about discipline and Whether it's for fighting or comedy or just life in general like just you know Whether you young or not, having that discipline for every day to be training and doing jujitsu and doing MMA is like That's inspiring man, no matter who you are or what sport you're in, it is inspiring To see that in a fighter, you know, he's talking about his neck pain and how he's going through all these different

You know rehabilitation for that and how he only drinks, you know Solomely, but when he does he he gets a little crazy, right? We can all relate to that Well, you need to release. Yeah, I mean imagine if you're working that hard all the time Like you need to have some fun too, but you definitely can't have too much fun if that's your If that's your primary goal. It's like you have to be basically a super athlete training all the time. And this is what's nuts about it.

I mean, he talked about, I think he was a 10th planet training some Jiu-Jitsu. And he's just rolling with a guy like warming up. It's like a flow roll, which is supposed to be the calm roll just to get a warm up in. And this guy dives in for like a heavy gear team and cranks his neck and really messes him up. That's like the ultimate danger is like it's not that these guys just have to get in the gym and be the best and ready to fight but potentially they're

gonna hurt themselves all the time while they're training. Any given day you just don't know, you move wrong, you twist wrong. I mean, I guess that's the same as a lot of sports, you know, a lot of athletes training all the time and can hurt themselves, but I mean, these guys are getting punched and kicked and strangled. Right. So the danger of fact is so much higher. Yeah, I mean, that's why you have to train every day though, too. I mean, you can't not train every day. Mm-hmm. It has to happen. That's why I'm liking hearing more of this like light sparring that people are doing and

you know training that's not taking so much heavy impacts. I don't think you can start off that way because you got to prepare yourself for the cage but if you are that way because you've got to prepare yourself for the cage. But if you are a veteran of the sport and you've been in the cage a bunch of times, you've had a bunch of fights, you know, you know, how to strike, you know, and you're just making little adjustments to your own game, it's probably a much smarter move to kind of minimize the dangerous impact that you take before fights. Because if you're doing a training camp which is I don't know how long they do it for like six to eight weeks something like that. If you injure yourself during that time you get you're

getting no money right and you've still got to pay for the camp and you've put all that time in it's it's like the the balance between being really careful to keep your body strong and get ready for the fight and also making sure that you get the best training. That must be so nerve-wracking. Making sure you don't get hurt. Of course. Yeah. I wouldn't want to do it. I couldn't commit to that. I don't have enough discipline for it, buddy. No way. I'll just talk about it. I just talk about it and it's inspiring though, which is nice. And that's okay too.

You can be inspired by people that you, like, you know, you watch Cameron Haynes run 240 miles or whatever he does in the Moab 240. It's like, yeah, I'm super inspired by that, but you know what I'm inspired by? For me to run maybe 10 miles twice a week. That's enough. That's not what you can get to. Yeah, so you see what's possible, and then you just ask yourself, can I push a little bit more within the means and comfort of my own life, right? We don't all have to become a Gogans with this, because it's too much, but it's nice to just be a little bit inspired.

To remind yourself, I could do a little bit more. I'll tell you that right now, I could run a little bit more. You said you ran a mile yesterday. Occasionally I'll get on the treadmill run a mile, but I'm not pushing myself really. Like I'm not running further than that. It's one of those things though, if you do it every day, right, it's that discipline. It'd be easier. Yeah, and just seeing, you know, the effects of, you know, being able to run a seven minute mile,

and then if you take a few months off, all of a sudden that extra minute is happening. Like you're running a nine minute mile or an eight minute mile instead of that seven minute mile, if you take even a few weeks off, at least for me. Oh, 100%. Yeah. And so doing it every day though, you're going to feel like a champion, even if it is only one mile.

It doesn't take much, man. That's what's insane about the 240 miles that Cameron Hays was doing, or some of these guys, obviously Goggins is incredible, but I wonder how many miles most of these fighters are doing a day. You know, running is in the regimen. Running is a big part of it. A lot of them do a lot of bike work as well because it's less impact on your knees over time but a ton of them run and you've got to. Running is like the sheer guaranteed way of keeping your endurance up. Like it's just one of those things that you want to have in your regiment to keep your endurance

at like that type of level of high. I mean, it's super important. And the intervals, right? Like having the sprint and then the pause, the sprint and the pause. Oh, yeah, the high intensity workouts, of course, they're doing those as well. And they're very important as well. And they're doing five minutes rounds. So they get in the cage. And maybe it's just like sprawling and take down the fence and but it's kind of getting your timing and energy up, keeping moving for that whole five minutes. I mean since 92 when the UFC came out, the training regiments compared to today have changed so much, it's unbelievable.

I mean they've really got this stuff down. And also this sport has changed so much. I mean, Rogan talks about it. It's so much better now. Even the worst fighters today would probably be the best fighters of almost anywhere in the 90s, just because of the standard of training. It's just so far.

Exactly, there's been so many changes. Obviously, that will start to slowly plateau, because there's only so far that you get, but there's always going to be improvements. There's always going to figure out newer, better ways to feed them, nutrition, health. The surgeries are going to be a big thing. The better the surgeries get, the quicker people

can jump back and recover and get back fighting again. You know, it's just these like slow injuries over time that take out most of the fighters, especially like back and neck problems. It's brutal. I mean, this guy's already having neck problems. I mean, they kind of say that even if you just go to get your black balance you get to, and you were never like a competitive tournament guy, but you were just in their training. There's almost no way to get away with not having neck injuries,

because your head has to get pulled on, I don't know, 10,000 times before you get close to your black belt. It's probably more than that. It's like, neck's are just not strong. It's like a flimsy bit. Like there's no way around it. No matter what you do. no matter what you do. I wanted to end up with Joe's encouragement starting a podcast. So Al Jamein has one and he's not sure like how he can fit it in his time or make it work and Joe just so keep it simple. Do it one hour a week. If you've got time

to play a video game or watch a movie or YouTube for an hour a week, which almost everyone finds time to do it, you've got time to do a podcast. For example, I've done this one now for five probably coming on six years. I think it's around 5 years, but a little over. But I've just kept it as simple as possible. I don't do 5 a week like Rogan. I just do 1, sometimes do 2, 45 minutes. I keep the planning and editing to a minimum. And I don't necessarily do that because I'm lazy or I don't want to give it a good show.

I just do it because I need to one always enjoy it and two make it really comfortable in my life. So I can do all the other things that I'm exploring. And that's the important thing. People just want you to talk. Like they want Al Jermaine to come on and discuss what he knows about fighting and give it breakdowns. I mean, he's a UFC champion. What better person to do it? He doesn't necessarily have to take a bunch of notes and over, produce it and do all these other things. I mean, it's a nice touch, but not if it makes it so that he doesn't want to do it at all, which is pretty common. People overthink what it takes, I think,

sometimes to do a podcast. Absolutely. Well, you always said consistency is really the thing and he knows what consistency is like with his training. So if he could just get into that regimen, just like anything, he'll be fine. He already has that in him. Yeah, it's not like he's not already a super disciplined person. But when I talk about the consistency, it's not like that was my idea. That's always been Rogan's. When he talks about podcasts and what made his, you know, in a lot of ways really popular from the start, is he super consistent and creates a shit ton of content. And on top of how he interested it, it is to listen to. to I mean he set the bar in a way that I don't know if anyone's gonna be at a touch for many years he's so far

ahead of anyone else in the podcasting space and that's why I don't shut up about him so there we go all right guys that is it for this week thank you for joining in thank you Todd for being here. Appreciate it. Thanks for being here buddy. Yeah, that's all. Cheers folks, later.