In this episode, I catch up with my good friend Hannibal. Hannibal is a Muay Thai fighter living in Thailand. We talk about how he got started in the martial arts, what it's like to train in Thailand, and how to improve as a martial artist. We also talk a little bit about bowleggedness and how it can affect your kicking game. I hope you enjoy this episode and if you like it, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and I'll get back to you in a few weeks with a new episode. Peace, Blessings, Cheers, and Cheers. Cheers! -Jon Sorrentino and Hannibal Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with what's going on in the world of Karate and Muaythai! -J.J. The Karate Guy and Jon talk about what it takes to be a good Karate fighter and what it means to be good at it. -The importance of being a good martial artist and how important it is to take care of your body and mind -How to get the most out of your training and your training -What to do to improve your martial arts game -Muay Thai and Karate in Thailand -Karate in general -and much more! Thank you for listening and supporting the podcast! Jon and Hannibal! I appreciate you guys! -Jon and Hannibal, thank you so much for all the support and love, support, support and support, and keep you all the way through it all the years we've been through this journey. -Jon & Hannibal's journey to where we've come to where he's gotten to be who he is now where he is at now is at this point in his career and what he's got it's getting to be where he s at now and where he wants to be. . Thanks so much, Hannibal, I'm so grateful for you're at the next chapter in his journey. I can't wait to see what he is going to be... thank you, Hannibal and I can do what he s going to get to see where he gets to be at next! ...and we will see you in the next episode of the next one! . . -HAPPY MANY MORE! :D -Jon, Jon & Hannibal, Thank you Hannibal, much love, JB,
00:01:30.000I stayed on the camp for a little bit, so it was nice to just have that focus and live there and be there and just work out and lean into it.
00:03:50.000You want to learn, like, you got to resist the urge to try to hit things.
00:03:54.000What you really want to do is just go through the motion, just go through the motion, just slow, and do that for a long period of time, like many, many, many weeks.
00:04:03.000Before, these guys try to like, and then you wind up kicking up, and you put all the strain on your ligaments, your supporting leg, because you're not pivoting.
00:04:14.000See, when you learn something, if you learn it wrong, like when I used to teach, the worst students were students that learned something wrong.
00:04:23.000You would think like, oh, I already have five years of karate and this and that, and I'm like, oh great, this should be good.
00:04:47.000Seeing the kids, I went to some of the fights out there, and it's wild seeing the kids in the undercard where you're seeing seven-year-olds fighting.
00:04:58.000This is wrong, but I got to see the main event, too, so I can't leave.
00:12:32.000But they basically use all the techniques of Muay Thai, but they just take it to a totally different level.
00:12:37.000The second time I went, when I went to Koh Samoy last year, and this girl I was seeing, we go to a couple classes, and I didn't know she had done Muay Thai before,
00:15:42.000Speaking of living, I've been hearing some crazy shit about you.
00:15:47.000And I've been hearing that you are making a move, like a very, very unusual move To a very strange place that's very unusual for a man from Chicago to just...
00:16:30.000So, COVID and just kind of being cooped up, it really made me think about how, you know, the places that I've lived and what was keeping me from living elsewhere and moving internationally is because,
00:20:05.000Did I just create some type of situation where somebody could die from a fucking jam session just because I kind of got antsy about wanting to do something.
00:20:46.000Until they come up with some sort of a treatment or until herd immunity is kicked in to the point where, you know, the virus has dropped down to a very low level of viral load and people aren't getting real sick.
00:20:59.000It's just, if everybody was healthy, I would have no worry.
00:21:50.000Yeah, a new study that warned that potentially deadly brain disorders may be a symptom of COVID-19, even in people with otherwise mild disease.
00:21:59.000The research published today by the journal Brain looked at 40 adult patients with COVID-19 in the UK, finding that they showed symptoms of a wide range of serious brain diseases.
00:22:09.000Many of the patients had only mild, typical COVID-19 symptoms, such as fever or respiratory issues, and for some, their neurological symptoms were the only sign that they were sick.
00:22:19.000One 55-year-old woman with no known current or historical mental illness was admitted to a hospital with recognized COVID-19 symptoms including fever, cough, and muscle aches.
00:22:30.000She was discharged after two weeks, having been treated with oxygen, but four days later her husband reported she was confused and behaving strangely.
00:22:37.000She then experienced hallucinations, reporting that lions and monkeys!
00:22:41.000She was seeing lions and monkeys in her house and became delusional and aggressive with her family and hospital staff.
00:22:47.000She was treated with antipsychotic medication, and her symptoms improved over the course of three weeks, although the study does not confirm whether she made a full recovery.
00:24:44.000It's very annoying now, and it's going to be pretty annoying in November.
00:24:49.000So if I can get out of here October, at least for two, three months, just as an exploratory trip, and get a different perspective to live from, write from, work from, and just a whole different zone for a bit,
00:25:06.000and really dive in out there, I think now is the time to just shift.
00:32:09.000If you and I have been partying together and I flew you to some island and we fucked kids together, and then you came over to my house and there's a painting of you in a dress, you'd be like, what have I done?
00:34:10.000They also have crazy libel laws in the UK. They can get away with a lot over there, because they could sue you for all kinds of shit, and the royal family, I'm sure, is extremely litigious.
00:38:07.000You know, NBA announcers, they veer off this weekend.
00:38:12.000No, the marble guy, he holds the concept together by just like, yeah, you know, the marble races, da-da-da-da, the 12, and, you know, last week, he's talking about other races.
00:38:22.000Last week, they beat them by.3 seconds.
00:39:28.000It just shows the importance of execution over...
00:39:34.000Ideas are important, but execution is really important, because that's top-notch execution of what could be a terrible idea in the wrong hands.
00:43:33.000So, my songs that I started coming up with, They were only about vapes because that's what was happening in the studio.
00:43:43.000I would bring a vape, somebody stole a vape from the studio or I was smoking on nicotine vape and then it was a bad vape so it gave me the itches.
00:43:51.000And so I got about four or five songs that are just about vaping because my experiences have been really limited right now and I haven't been digging in the past.
00:44:03.000Maybe I need to do songs about Muay Thai.
00:45:05.000Because a lot of places are quarantined.
00:45:07.000I know some people that tried to go to Italy and they found out even though they're letting people back in Italy, they won't let Americans.
00:45:14.000I think by September, I feel like, but who knows?
00:54:24.000No, the one in New York, they had that laugh factory that was in Times Square, was on the game, and Cat Williams was on there, and I think Patrice was in the comedy club.
00:54:37.000And you could just go in there and watch them do stand-up.
00:54:39.000Or Patrice was on the radio, but Patrice was definitely on there.
00:54:42.000Yeah, you could just go in there and watch them perform.
00:58:27.000I was thinking, I'm putting my body through all this crazy stress.
00:58:30.000When you're playing, and you're locked onto that screen, and it's like this heavy, intense combat, and your hands are sweating, and you're so adrenaline jacked that when you get out of there, it's almost like you're drunk, or you just got off a drug, or you drank too much coffee or something.
00:59:29.000But then it takes a while if you're not great at the game.
00:59:32.000So I found out that there is a service where people just will play the game and they'll just upgrade your character.
00:59:42.000I've heard about that for those role-playing games, those gigantic multiplayer games where you'll hire people and they have like sweatshops where people just play your game constantly and then upgrade your character.
00:59:56.000Yeah, because I was trying to upgrade the character and it was taking too long.
00:59:59.000And I just knew there was a better way.
01:00:02.000And then somebody told me, you don't have to do that.
01:00:05.000You can just pay somebody 80 bucks and they'll do it over a week.
01:00:08.000And I paid somebody and I was like, oh yeah, this is much better.
01:00:10.000And so you paid this guy and then you came back with refreshed skills.
01:02:08.000There is on PC and PC is where there's hackers.
01:02:13.000I don't play on PC, but I watch videos of some PC YouTubers.
01:02:17.000And so sometimes they'll just have a player that is 40 feet tall.
01:02:26.000And you'll see, it's this one guy, Trey, I think his name, and his videos is him watching hacker videos, and it'll be somebody, their arms are going across the whole park.
01:02:37.000A hacker can just kind of change the dynamic of the entire park, because I guess, yeah, you know, it's not as secure as the Xbox server.
01:03:51.000It's something about it that it hits a different part of the brain where you get hyped and it really shows who people are under pressure and it's intense.
01:04:02.000They start yelling at each other, get the tomatoes!
01:05:58.000Made it kind of weird just because there's a lot of movement that's usually associated with a release, you know, going to do TV. Usually you in New York and L.A., you probably pop up at the comedy club a couple times that week.
01:06:15.000And so that was that was kind of a very weird, foreign feeling to have a big drop.
01:06:24.000And I think that's what kind of led to me throwing a little jam on my roof.
01:09:23.000It was, you know, my first traveling, I went to...
01:09:30.000The whole situation kind of had me feeling stuck, even though I could have been making moves or doing, you know, in March and April, where I could have been doing stuff, but I kind of, because of media and just everything, I just kind of felt trapped in the crib, even though there was still options.
01:09:47.000And so towards the end of May, My sister lives in Phoenix.
01:09:51.000I'm going to go visit them and stay in Phoenix.
01:09:55.000And just getting prepped for the trip was so...
01:10:00.000Because I hadn't used my book bag in months.
01:10:03.000And just all the little stuff that came with traveling...
01:10:06.000When I found my book bag, it felt like, you know, a warrior picking up his sword.
01:21:48.000It moved to CNBC instead of primetime TV. It's still being produced all the time.
01:21:53.000Who wants to be a millionaire is still on TV. See, I don't think I've quite sold you on who said that, so let's really dive into the concept.
01:23:06.000That actually is not a bad idea for a show.
01:23:09.000As long as they didn't, like, you could guess.
01:23:12.000And especially if it's like they said things that were like closely related to what they did, like maybe you can ask them what they did and then figure out who would say what.
01:23:27.000I think keeping it simple and quick for these short attention spans.
01:23:33.000And then maybe that's somebody that becomes a legend on the show.
01:25:04.000I think when this was happening, or starting, Tyler Perry's production team was saying that they were going to lock the whole team down in quarantine together in one hotel, and then they all go to the set.
01:30:17.000That's the real thing is the pressure parking when the people behind you, they're giving you room, but then you got to kind of block out that noise.
01:31:20.000Like, if you go to a Conor McGregor fight, and it's in a packed T-Mobile arena, and Sinead O'Connor's screaming, singing, and the fucking green mist is on the air and everything, it's wild.
01:31:33.000But there's something about the Apex Center where it's just me and Daniel Cormier and John Anik and fucking Bruce Buffer screaming to nobody.
01:35:37.000You know what I heard they're working on?
01:35:38.000They're working on a thing where there's going to be an app on your phone and you'll be able to make noise and that noise will be piped into the arena.
01:35:49.000So like each individual person, you'll have a seat and your seat will be making noise.
01:35:55.000Oh, now how you feel about the Moose soundboard idea.
01:37:23.000Yeah, it just, you know, for me, it helped me kind of, it helped me think about the other people in my life and who I work with and just how to highlight and produce for them better since I was able to sit.
01:37:37.000Oh, I was thinking about my uncle, Kelvin.
01:37:41.000He used to deal at casinos in the Chicago area from mid to late 90s, early, probably 10 years or so.
01:38:19.000But it was just if you're, you know, betting on stuff every other day or whatever, then that means you're kind of on tilt and not able to function most of the time.
01:38:29.000And this is when you were drinking a lot, too.
01:38:30.000This is when I was drinking a lot of tula.
01:39:38.000And people, they were really hyped about it and wrote big checks.
01:39:42.000So it was realizing that and just realizing that, you know, When I was looking at a game, it would take up time because I would get really into it and research the history with teams and look at all these other matchups.
01:39:57.000And so I could spend that time and mental energy on something else that's more productive.
01:40:06.000Well, that's a wise way of looking at it, but a lot of people don't...
01:40:09.000When they get sucked into something, it's very hard to get...
01:40:12.000We were just talking about video games, about my addiction to video games.
01:43:39.000So you're not putting up five each time.
01:43:41.000Because if I was putting up five with my physical each time, I probably would.
01:43:47.000But because it was like five and five and I had a hot streak, I was betting on a lot of hockey at this time.
01:43:54.000And I was getting, I had a hot streak on hockey so much and my gambling buddies, Bozeman and CJ, they started calling me Hockey Hannibal because I just was betting on, Vegas Golden Knights were doing really well.
01:44:04.000That was their first season and Blackhawks were hitting some stuff.
01:45:57.000We had an agreement to do PayPal on some stuff, but he, of course, he didn't want to do PayPal for no 90. He didn't want to do PayPal for, you know, it was two, three.
01:46:09.000But I was in a zone of, I can't deal with giving this cash back.
01:48:59.000Early 2000s, but the early 2000s, it was stealing money, right?
01:49:03.000Because there was a bunch of guys coming in like Anderson Silva, and I would look at the odds with Anderson Silva over Chris Leib, and I'm like, are you out of your fucking mind?
01:49:16.000And I did it for a while, and then I stopped, but my business partner in Onnit, he was gambling all the time, so I would just sit down with him before the fights.
01:49:23.000And so I was like, this way my conscience is clear, but we were like 85, 87%.
01:49:29.000Like, he was stealing money, because I know all these fighters.
01:49:35.000Like, there's fights where a guy would be like slightly favored, and I'm like, slightly?
01:49:38.000Like this is a hundred percent fight or there's a guy that was the underdog that like this is totally lopsided This is and still to this day sometimes they get it wrong still to this day I'll look at someone like I'm like how is that guy the underdog doesn't make any sense and then the fight will be like a Domination by the guy was the underdog.
01:49:55.000I'm like, okay I should have bet that yeah, but I don't bet on them But my business partner at on it man.
01:50:01.000We made all he made You know, I made it for him, but we called a lot.
01:50:49.000It's a fascinating perspective just to watch from that side where you're facilitating people losing lots of money and you get paid $10, $15 an hour and you're just kind of the messenger or you're helping.
01:52:37.000When Vegas was wide open, all the hundreds of thousands and millions of people coming in there, and how many of them are just blowing insane chunks of cash?
01:52:45.000They don't pay for those places on the buffet.
01:52:48.000That's not what pays for those big buildings.
01:52:53.000I watched this documentary on Amazon that something on the edge, gambling on the edge or something, where he's a card counting guy.
01:53:06.000And it's just, you know, it's just mostly just him getting kicked out of casinos and hitting camera footage because they just come up to him, hey, we don't want your action anymore.
01:54:32.000You can't make a business model based on something that's never happened before, so everybody thought the money was going to keep flowing in.
01:57:59.000Greased and smooth and just every words in place and the experience of doing stand-up is so deeply ingrained in me It's just a nightly thing every night two three shows bang [...
02:02:58.000A lot of ego-based policing on the super petty side, you know?
02:03:05.000Where there's obviously the issues on the extreme...
02:03:09.000With the killings, those are terrible.
02:03:11.000But then, there's a lot of motherfuckers that are ruining lives with petty arrests because somebody got to go, they got to miss work or something.
02:03:19.000You don't motherfuckers get mad because they got looked at the wrong way.
02:05:21.000Get the piece out, get the special out.
02:05:24.000Even just putting it out Friday was like a huge weight like none of the other specials because the other special was kind of done on a two-year clock, too.
02:05:34.000And this one filmed it twice, out of pocket.
02:05:38.000It has so many other elements that made it.
02:09:15.000I was hyped to not be sitting in my computer.
02:09:19.000And I was just, you know, like, look at me, I'm outside.
02:09:23.000But because I had been off of social media, I didn't even know the Joyce Floyd thing had happened until I was driving later, and my friend told me, and she was like, Joyce Floyd in the Minneapolis.
02:09:36.000And so this had been, I think it had been 48 hours or something at this point, but I was on some interview like, Hey, what's going on?
02:09:50.000Just completely oblivious and just happy to be traveling and shit and not knowing what I was like maybe 45 minutes away from knowing what was happening in the world and shit.
02:13:20.000To look at it from their perspective, to look at it with the rosiest of rose-colored glasses, I can't imagine.
02:13:27.000That you're walking up on suicide victims, murder victims, you're walking up on robbery victims, you're constantly around violence and death and crime.
02:14:15.000But the people that get that job, we've got to figure out a way to make it Safer for them, better for them, better training, and safer for everybody else.
02:14:24.000And I don't know what the fucking solution is.
02:17:25.000There's like 1,800 people, I think, that have some sort of charge that haven't been fully charged because the courts are in, you know, lockdown chaos because of the COVID. Chaos!
02:17:35.0001,000 people have been indicted with a gun possession charge where the cases are open and they are walking around the streets of New York City today.
02:19:41.000And then some politicians like Trump, he's upset that the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians are going to change their name now.
02:20:13.000There's a bunch of names, but a lot of the professional soccer teams, or football and Premier League, they could just be the Washington FC football club, literally, and just be the city team.
02:20:26.000Do you know how valuable those Redskins jerseys are going to be?
02:20:29.000They'll make new ones without Redskins on it now.
02:20:34.000I know, but the old Redskins jerseys are going to be so valuable.
02:20:37.000Yeah, well, they're not selling them anywhere now.
02:21:20.000It's weird where this is all gonna end.
02:21:22.000Because there's gonna be an adjustment, right?
02:21:24.000There's an overcorrection, and then there's an adjustment, and things come forward and back, and, you know, we want to get to a place where people are just cool with each other.
02:22:43.000It's just if I performed in Pigeon, that would have went well.
02:22:47.000But I did a set—it's just one of those things, too, where, you know, they want to— Well, I don't know what they wanted, but when you talk about outsider perspective on stuff, then they, you know, oh, okay.
02:22:59.000He's talking about, oh, yeah, he dealt with our traffic.
02:26:36.000China has been investing in buying up a lot of...
02:26:42.000They've been investing all over Africa, kind of building infrastructure everywhere, they say.
02:26:48.000Yeah, they're doing a lot in the Congo as well.
02:26:50.000There's a lot of mineral rights and stuff they're taking there, a lot of precious elements and stuff, things that they use for cell phones and all kinds of stuff like that.
02:29:55.000China is even worse in some cities, man.
02:29:58.000There was one city that I saw in China where there was so much pollution in this video that it looked like the sky, like it was nighttime, and it was during the day, and it was just coal, just burning coal in the air, just particulates.
02:33:13.000Talking to them they essentially wanted me to take my stand up at one point in time just transcribe it and I was like I'm not doing that and like their idea of what it wanted to be Or what they wanted it to be versus my idea.
02:33:23.000I just gave them the money back I'm like I'm not doing it.