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00:01:52.000Well, I was always wanting to get out, but I was so connected to the comedy store that I always felt like, God, I can't leave that place behind.
00:02:01.000But then when the pandemic hit, it's like, well, I guess we're not even doing comedy anymore, so fuck it.
00:05:02.000Because that's one of the things that a friend of mine told me, and it's actually in a book, it's in one of the Grey Men books, that those tasers are like, especially the personal ones that people have, they vastly overestimate the stopping power of those things.
00:05:17.000Because girls think, I'm gonna get you with this taser.
00:05:20.000Don't get the wrong person, because they might fuck you up even with that.
00:07:04.000Yeah, also, but if bad people have it, I want to live in a gun-free society, yeah, as long as they have them, I have them.
00:07:10.000Yeah, although there was a very sad story out here where a guy, someone was trying to break into his yard or something like that, or someone climbed his fence, and he went out in his own, I guess someone called the police or he called the police, and he went out into his own yard with an AR. And when the cops saw him, the cops shot him.
00:10:04.000His wife's brother, who doesn't even speak English, said we should start a boxing event or something and maybe we should get these Olympic-level karate cars and do a full contact show.
00:13:29.000Because, like, old-school pride rules, there's something wild about...
00:13:33.000And then, obviously, 1FC has sort of followed those style of rules in a cage, which is different, because your head can get trapped in a cage, and you can get stomped, whereas in, you know, old-school pride, it was the ropes, and guys would, you know, get their head out of the ropes, and...
00:14:33.000Yeah, it's interesting, because the turtle position, when someone shoots in a failed shot and they just hang out there, because a person can't knee them in the head, boy, that's a very vulnerable position.
00:14:47.000You would never stay there in a street fight.
00:16:09.000And then winds up losing and then the UFC drops him because there was all sorts of conflict between the two of them and he's like, I'm going to go fight other places and then...
00:18:22.000And then he decided, because actually, George Palmer, my commentating partner in Karate Combat, he asked him about it, he says, Were you first about to throw a kick?
00:20:03.000And the guy is on the ground, and Dwayne walks up to him, and he points straight at his head, so the guy puts his guard up, one shot to the solar plexus.
00:21:44.000Long pants are okay as long as they're a little stretchy.
00:21:46.000Well, it's kind of cool because it shows you that it's karate, but, you know, I would prefer shorts because I feel like shorts, I can move my legs better.
00:24:22.000It's unfortunate that some of these guys who are mentally tough, they're great fighters, but they just have this one place that if you can take them to there, they'll crack.
00:25:24.000You can dislocate break any joint bone in the human body That's a big power to have for any guy can do that who's doing After a blue belt so to say well, it's just I mean boxing has amazing knockouts But it's just when a guy can control you on the ground and dominate you on the ground You don't have the same ability to defend yourself.
00:25:45.000You don't have the same options There's just so much going on.
00:25:49.000Yeah, it's like I mean, boxing is great to watch, but did you watch the Lomachenko-Devon Haney fight?
00:27:43.000Well, he had gotten very close to stopping him in one of the kickboxing fights and then dropped him with seconds to go, like one second to go in the first round of their MMA fight.
00:27:54.000So he kind of knew he could get to him, but it's that motherfucker so big.
00:29:37.000I was afraid it was going to go inside my head, and I want to make it 12, and then you start fighting not to lose, you start not taking risks anymore.
00:30:45.000I think also, we were talking about, Lewis Rocha actually was talking about, as the lightweight guy from Cardico, but he said, I'm going to win this fight because I fought, I've been in a lot of street fights.
00:30:55.000I have a different mentality than his opponent Bruno Souza had.
00:32:45.000Like, she's always been elite in the strawweight division, but to do that to Angela Hill, who is, by the way, Angela Hill is so fucking tough.
00:32:55.000The beating that she took in this fight never quit.
00:32:59.000She came very close to getting arm bars, and she just would not fucking give that arm up, and she's getting hammer-fisted in the face.
00:37:44.000Yeah, so do you think it was just psychological?
00:37:47.000Because that is a thing that happens to guys with CTE. Guys that have had a lot of hits to the head, they start getting very depressed because their serotonin levels are all fucked up, their endocrine system's all fucked up, their pituitary gland gets damaged.
00:38:01.000And they say it gets damaged even when you don't even get knocked out.
00:42:38.000I always been a big thing and then later on when I started understanding breathing better, you know, like the vagus nerve to stimulate that one, I was doing that.
00:42:51.000With nerves, I use it with a low tone.
00:42:53.000I go, hum, and I let my belly vibrate.
00:42:58.000Now, at the time, I didn't know what I was doing.
00:43:01.000Short inhales with longer exhales actually stimulating the vagus nerve.
00:43:04.000You know, and other ways to stimulate the vagus nerve are also by humming and singing, so I connected two of them somehow, but it made me very calm.
00:43:12.000If I had a headache, I'd do the same thing, but I'd go higher pitch sound because then my skull vibrates.
00:44:45.000I think the guys with too much talent, they don't have the stamina to back it up because they're always schooling everybody in the gym and nobody gives them pressure.
00:44:54.000But if you have the guys who are not really physically blessed but still become a freaking champ, like Tim Sylvia.
00:46:18.000When people talk about goats, I feel, unfortunately, they leave him out of the equation.
00:46:23.000But if you look at B.J. in his prime, when he beat Diego Sanchez in his prime, when he was just smashing people, Joe Stevenson, B.J. Penn was a motherfucker.
00:46:37.000I put that B.J. Penn against any 155-pounder that's ever lived.
00:47:21.000Let's give you the most insane gas tank, and then you go out there with so much confidence because you never have to worry about keeping your foot off the gas.
00:47:35.000But that's when he became BJ Penn, the motherfucker.
00:47:40.000I feel like if you could get time machines together, I would take Khabib when he beat Conor McGregor And face BJ Penn when BJ Penn fought Shawn Shirk.
00:49:47.000There's a bunch of those guys that, unfortunately, they get left out of the conversation because people see them when they should have quit.
00:52:07.000And I did it twice, and it was just this height that I just dropped, but I remember like two months later looking in the mirror and looking at my wife and going, is my arm getting smaller?
00:55:12.000But then after my third session, because she had four sessions in four days, I called my wife and go, oh, I know exactly what she's talking about.
00:55:20.000Every morning I would wake up out of my toes and out of my fingers for six months straight.
00:57:29.000Well, there's a definite reduction in inflammation that comes with that.
00:57:34.000There's a lot of things you could do to reduce inflammation, but the healing thing is just incredible.
00:57:39.000And I really wish, I mean, the problem is in this country, you know, without just blaming people, there's too much regulation when it regard to that kind of stuff.
00:57:49.000And it's not because there's a lot of evidence that people get injured by stem cells.
00:57:53.000I feel like there's a lot of pressure on them because there's a lot of drugs that people take when they're injured, and there's a tremendous industry in those drugs.
00:58:03.000Tremendous industry in anti-inflammatories, there's a tremendous industry in the pain pills, and a lot of that would be hit hard if stem cells were openly not just allowed, but allowed the way they're allowing them in other countries.
00:58:20.000It's everything, and they don't want that.
00:58:25.000I mean, if they could make it so that you have to take a pill once a month, and that pill is worth a lot of money, and they can profit off of it, they'd be like, all in.
00:58:59.000I mean, the intravenous stem cells help with all sorts of neurological conditions and all sorts of issues that people have, particularly when they go to, say, Columbia, the bioaccelerator place, or Neil Reardon's place, which is in Panama.
00:59:13.000Yeah, it's fucking, it's amazing what they can do now.
00:59:17.000So anyway, this shoulder, many years later, zero problems.
00:59:52.000The wildest thing that I one time had was that I had a really...
00:59:57.000The little pinky is thicker, because I hit somebody's hip, like the karate gi, hit the hip, and it was before a fight.
01:00:03.000So I'm arriving at the Pancras for fighting, and the judge, who was the judge, was a really good freaking body mechanic guy.
01:00:14.000I mean, everybody from around the world would go to that guy to have him look at him, because he was just really good with Tai Chi and whatever he did, what is it, acupressure, all that kind of stuff.
01:00:26.000And he went to me and he says, okay, give me a hand.
01:02:21.000It's a real problem because that's what I think the people that control the world...
01:02:25.000They would genuinely like to have a one world government, one economy that the entire world shares, a digital currency that goes with the social credit system.
01:02:37.000And they can do whatever the fuck they want with you.
01:02:39.000BJ Penn just made some post about that.
01:02:42.000If you have an electric car and you get arrested, or if they're looking for you, they could literally tell your electric car to drive to the police station.
01:10:16.000He could take a shot in the chin so good that he would just fucking wade forward, almost daring you to hit him and just fucking He made the UFC in 2005 when the UFC became popular it was popular because of the Forrest Griffin that did that the big final between Stefan Bonner and Forrest Griffin and the ultimate fighter made the UFC Everybody watched on TV. They're like, what is this?
01:10:43.000This is wild, but then you got to see the champion and You got to see Chuck Liddell when he was a fucking...
01:12:35.000When guys would fight with wrestling shoes on, which is very interesting because you could do so much more with movement and with that grip from the wrestling shoes.
01:12:46.000I just had an event that was asked me for a student of his for Karate Combat.
01:12:51.000So I'm at the show and he's already there.
01:13:15.000I always told my students, I go, if somebody has a single leg on you, imagine you jump up with the same leg that you jump in, knee him in the face, and then land on that same foot again.
01:13:59.000I was with Eve at an underground fight somewhere.
01:14:05.000You know, the athletic commission would come in first, and they said, okay, there's not going to be...
01:14:11.000They made up this story that it's going to be just wrestling.
01:14:13.000Two guys are going to roll against each other.
01:14:15.000As soon as they left the building, they closed the doors, they said, okay, everything is on, and then the real fighting started.
01:14:20.000And I remember I'm standing next to the cage, and he's on somebody, and he said, because I'm in his corner, I trained him, and he starts, he's hitting the guy, he just crosses, crosses, crosses.
01:14:46.000We go to Yves Edwards in Houston, and there's this cup.
01:14:49.000I'm drinking a Heineken outside, and this little cop is there with shades on in the middle of the night, you know, exactly, with the pumped-up arms.
01:14:58.000And he's telling me to get rid of my beer.
01:15:27.000And the cop now comes over, he's sitting shotgun, he has his arm hanging out the window, still with the shades on, his partner's driving, and he's just deadlocking me in the eyes.
01:15:42.000And Marco Hua stands next to me, and I go, because they start running after us, and she's like, now we gotta run.
01:15:48.000And then it's just, we be like, the next day I wake up and Marco has his whole finger, it's like all bandaged up, and still to this day I don't know what happened, but then I said, I said to him, I said, What did you do?
01:17:57.000But Sean Gannon, who was an MMA fighter, was also a cop and was just fucking incredibly tough and had wild cardio and really knew how to, like, extend himself in, like, a real war.
01:18:40.000Yeah, weren't you watching Who Pass TV? So this guy goes in, look at this, Kimbo's people, they're trying to separate this, because there's some dispute as to whether or not a standing guillotine constitutes grappling.
01:28:09.000Yeah, instrumental also in bringing credibility to the UFC because here you have this guy who's this Olympic wrestler, this elite wrestler, who is embracing MMA and talking about how important it is.
01:30:20.000It was a strange time, and obviously there was a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on right now if you go and try to think about what should have been done or shouldn't have been done.
01:30:30.000But most people that were healthy should have been left alone.
01:30:35.000That's it, especially with the ventilator stuff.
01:30:38.000Oh, that was another report that just came out.
01:30:40.000The people that died in the ventilators died from the ventilators, a giant percentage of them.
01:30:46.000They shouldn't have been put on the ventilators, and this doctor was saying that they put people on the ventilators to protect the hospital staff and the doctors and the nurses, because these people had COVID, and they figured, well, let's just put them on a ventilator, and they didn't realize they were, like, destroying their lungs.
01:31:01.000But how—I still, till this day, I can't get it, so there's a lot of people need to be in on it now, right?
01:31:05.000Even the doctors— I don't think they were in on it.
01:31:08.000I just think that they didn't know what was going on.
01:31:12.000And then there was also people telling, you know, there was Fauci and all these people that were telling people that this was this horrible, devastating illness that was going to destroy everyone and no one was safe.
01:33:01.000And then we have the vice president, Kovac, who used to be a gold medal winner in the Olympics, not the Olympics, on the World Championships in 2009, I believe.
01:33:11.000But then you see that fight, you know, the Rafael Agaev, you know, for Raymond Daniels, it would suck, but it put freaking karate on the map.
01:33:52.000Their ability to blitz and leap forward, like those guys are so accustomed to doing that against other elite black belts, like fainting, fainting, fainting, and they dive in.
01:34:04.000For a regular fighter, an MMA fighter, maybe a plotting kind of a guy, like they're sitting ducks.
01:34:10.000But you can see, Wonderboy, Ryota Machina.
01:35:53.000So the first, we're in the fight and the first thing he does is slapping his thigh, like kick me.
01:35:58.000And I go like, wait, wait, wait, wait, you just sat.
01:36:03.000So my plan must not go and kick anyway.
01:36:06.000Because against a wrestler like that, if I kick, he's going to grab my kick and that's it, right?
01:36:09.000So as soon as he'd be invited, I thought, oh, I got you.
01:36:13.000I'm going to act like I did a roundhouse kick and I'm going to turn it into a front kick.
01:36:17.000So if he thinks it's a roundhouse kick and he's going to shoot in, I'm going to kick him straight on the face with the front kick, with my heel, fight's over, bada bing, bada boom, I won.
01:37:49.000I mean, obviously you can't do MMA math, but if you look at what Francis Ngannou had a long fight with Cyril Gann, and Jon Jones just took him apart instantaneously.
01:40:50.000You know, but listening to instructions immediately does everything you say.
01:40:53.000So he's on a movie set for 10 weeks and he calls me and says, hey, I'm gonna be home in between before I start shooting the movie, the Netflix show.
01:41:27.000I said, listen, man, the guy is a freak, but I don't know how he's going to perform under pressure, but that's always the big question mark.
01:41:33.000But it looks to me, since he's an actor and since he's dealing with pressure the whole time, I think it's going to be okay.
01:42:16.000This is just, this is the very first time that he fought, right?
01:42:19.000So I... I stand and want you to throw a left hook to the head, who's undefeated, 7-0, left hook, and then he throws a left hook with a cross to the body.
01:44:42.000It's an interesting thing about life, though.
01:44:44.000You would never imagine, you know, you'd never imagine that certain people have certain skills or that certain people just, they have an ability to learn things.
01:46:49.000We would go to other people on the outside, you know, they're watching TV and we would change the channel and we thought it was hilarious and I just started hitting the TV. And then the phones and the cell phones.
01:47:01.000I remember the first time there was an answering machine.
01:47:03.000I was like, this is the craziest thing.
01:47:05.000You can call someone and leave a message.
01:47:30.000What we're experiencing now is probably the biggest change in human civilization that the world has ever seen.
01:47:36.000And it's happening right in front of us, just with the internet and then with social media and smartphones and all these things that have happened since the early 1990s to what we're experiencing now.
01:47:48.000I remember when I first came to Hollywood in 1994, I got a computer.
01:48:26.000You know, I remember in also 94, 95, I was, Murray Smith was fighting for Pancras and we came in his hotel room and he had speakers in every corner and he had a computer.
01:52:58.000This is in the time when the Nazis came and the propaganda, and this was in New York.
01:53:02.000And there's this article about him, a newspaper article that the police says, we came there to save the crowd from him, not to save him from the crowd, because he was tearing those Nazis a new one.
01:54:54.000You go like, there's no way this is possible.
01:54:56.000And they go to a dentist and he checks out his teeth and while he's doing it, he bites the metal thing that is in his mouth, bites it in half.
01:56:00.000You saw that guy who goes dressed up as the maintenance guy to these big gyms, and he's like a world champion powerlifting, but he dresses up like he's a guy who just works there.
01:58:32.000When you see a guy like that, you wonder, like, he was so young when he fought in the UFC. I wonder, like, maybe if he got One of the problems with joining something like the UFC is that you are in with the elite of the elite, and if you keep winning, you can only win so many times before you're going to fight someone who's a motherfucker.
01:59:01.000And if you're 20 years old, unless you're Jon Jones, who fights Shogun for his, you know, he's 22 years old, he wins the world title, becomes the youngest ever UFC champion.
01:59:14.000So many guys get ruined because they weren't really quite ready for that level.
01:59:19.000And unlike boxing, where they'll get you ready for that by exposing you to different styles, exposing you to, you know, this guy's long and lanky, this guy's a body puncher.
02:00:00.000If you want him to fight in other organizations, boy, there's some murderers in these other organizations that people don't even know about.
02:01:31.000Did you learn any of it from other people?
02:01:33.000Well, I absolutely didn't have it in Thai boxing.
02:01:37.000Like, they always thought, oh, this is a great kickboxer from Holland.
02:01:39.000Yeah, I knocked a lot of people out, but it wasn't pretty.
02:01:42.000I was just very blessed with genetics, but I was the dojo fighter, so I was really good in the dojo, but I couldn't put that same game under pressure yet.
02:01:52.000And that changed the first fight in Japan.
02:07:05.000The transition is very hard for almost everybody because fighting requires so much of you.
02:07:13.000I mean, especially when you're fighting the UFC, you're training probably at least twice a day, you're involved in recovery, you're monitoring your food, you're doing all sorts of different things to try to keep your body healthy, massage and saunas and all that jazz.
02:13:51.000That's why the thighs are doing that, because the thighs, their livelihood, and if they don't do it, they're freaking gonna break their shin, and that's it.
02:13:57.000It's interesting, because you don't think about that when you think of your shin, but if you think of your shin, the part that you really kind of have to turn it over, because the part, if you have it, if your leg is pointed straight, Your shin, the flat part is on the inside.
02:15:34.000Because this is the karate rules that they have over there, and it keeps the fight a little bit more separated.
02:15:39.000But this is the great thing, you know, because they were actually telling me, because you talked about this before in the show, About Karate Combat not having the ties.
02:17:22.000So they listen to the fans, they get 10% of the fighters, and if a lot of people are betting, that could be really good for the fighters as well to get a little bit of extra dough.
02:17:30.000I really like the idea of a token that's attached to an organization.
02:17:33.000That makes me excited about crypto tokens, because look at this.
02:17:36.000Okay, all new Karate Combat app is now live, so this is how it works.
02:17:41.000Grow your, so it's a dollar sign and then karate token.
02:18:00.000Probably one of the most unique ideas that I've heard in a long time in implementation of crypto token that I think is fantastic.
02:18:07.000The Wall Street guys who started this organization and then you know in the beginning they are just study groups to find out who's the most and they realized that the Conor McGregor like two out of ten people would know him instead of ten out of ten then they realized Dragon Ball Z ten out of ten would know that in that age group and they go like wait a minute if we start combining the two this is how they literally did that stuff And then they say, hey, what if we do cryptocurrency and we can engage him on the app?
02:21:12.000I got a really bad dick injury once from jiu-jitsu from someone passing my guard He is passing my guard and he tried to slam his knee through to pass my guard and I didn't I wasn't wearing a cup and he hit me right on the dick not on my balls on my dick and It hurt like hell, but I just kept going and then afterwards I went into the locker room and my jockstrap had blood in it there's a bunch of blood in my jockstrap and I was like, oh Jesus.
02:21:41.000Then I pissed and blood was coming out of my dick.
02:26:57.000But, you know, when you look back on your career, Boss, like, you were, in my opinion, you were the first guy that I ever saw that was, like, a very high-level striker that was entering into MMA. Because a lot of MMA striking in the early, early, early days was kind of—or the Orlando Veet was good, but he was very small.
02:28:50.000He was a very very good guy, but this fucking this final right here this final barrage When you won your UFC debut.
02:28:59.000I mean, that to me as an MMA fan and as a martial artist was very exciting.
02:29:06.000I had so much because John put it in his book as well.
02:29:09.000I walked back to the corner after the first round and I knew I was getting behind because I couldn't do any take down the fence because the ground was hard for me because of my neck.
02:29:19.000And while I'm walking up, I see the weird look on the guys' faces, and I go, I said, don't worry about it.
02:31:12.000And it was also the time where you're sorting all this out.
02:31:16.000You have to realize, if you go back to UFC 18, people were still sorting out what's effective, what's not effective.
02:31:25.000Mark Coleman came along, and all of a sudden, everybody wanted to be 265 pounds, because he was taking everybody down and smashing everybody.
02:31:48.000They just taped up the base of the hand to keep your hand together if it broke.
02:31:53.000The story that I heard, because I talked to Ken, of course, because the first time when I was fighting in Japan, it was September, and Ken was talking to me that he was going to do this crazy thing.
02:32:04.000I go, dude, because it was in November, and this was in September, and he went, did his thing, and then afterwards I talked to him, he said it was hilarious, there was a moment in time that everybody was sitting backstage and they were watching the fights, and everybody was expecting that any moment now the promoter could come in and they would say, okay, you're gonna lose, you're gonna win, you know, because they still thought it could be fixed because otherwise it's too crazy.
02:32:28.000And then they saw Shiraz Cadot kicking the teeth out from the sumo guy.
02:33:08.000Yeah, I was going through all my magazines because I wanted to clean out, take out of the magazines, make pictures of it, because otherwise you have way too many magazines, like these Japanese badass magazines where you have a fight, you have like eight pages of pictures, and they have the best pictures.
02:33:23.000And one of the magazines was hoist on the cover, You know, and he's lifting his arm.
02:33:29.000And the look in his eyes, I actually made a picture and I sent it to him.
02:34:48.000And then when I tied it together, he said, you should just check it.
02:34:51.000I go, you won't, because I keep you busy.
02:34:53.000And then I start nailing him with it and he goes, we're going to add low kicks.
02:34:58.000Yeah, for me it was 1988. My friend Dana Rosenblatt, his buddy from Richie Vasopoli's Karate Studio was, this guy was a very adventurous guy who, I forget his name, but he went over to Thailand and he trained in Thailand for quite a long time and he came back all caught up because he had a bunch of Thai fights and he got cut with elbows.
02:35:19.000And this guy was living in Thailand and training in Thailand in 1988. And I was like, whoa, what is going on?
02:35:26.000And that's when I first started incorporating that and started learning low kicks.
02:35:30.000But I was like, oh my god, I'm so vulnerable.
02:35:32.000You didn't realize how vulnerable your legs were.
02:35:34.000And especially because you never did it, so it's all tender.
02:36:07.000If I give you a clothesline, it will loop around, it will still hit the back of your head, the legal part, you know, you just stay outside of the Mohawk.
02:40:15.000So watching these guys that have these extraordinary kicking skills, as long as they learn the other stuff, but the thing is about learning the other stuff.
02:42:18.000So what I would do, I would put a measuring...
02:42:23.000Tape around it, so I knew the exact place, the spot, and I would kick that for like the next 10 days only there.
02:42:29.000And then only when I felt it's okay, I would do it one line below it, like literally this, and I would start kicking that.
02:42:36.000First of all, great for my aiming, you know, and second of all, you know, every time it gets harder, the lower I kick, it gets harder.
02:42:44.000By the way, aiming for people, it's so important, you know, and then you go like, oh, dude, It's not normal.
02:42:51.000You see a lot of guys just hit the head, just hit the body.
02:42:53.000They don't really aim for their shots.
02:42:55.000If I'm Thai boxing you and you're wearing shorts, whatever logo is on there, I'll pick out one little piece on it, spot on it, and I will deliver my low kick, every low kick on the same spot.
02:43:08.000Once you start training yourself like that, you know you automatically start doing it.
02:43:13.000If you have the power to knock somebody out with three low kicks, But you spread them out over three spaces, now you're gonna need nine low kicks in order to do it.
02:43:21.000So you see, so this is how, if you kick me here in the gut, you can kick me.
02:43:26.000But you can't punch me here in the solar plexus.
02:43:28.000Okay, so why do not start hitting the solar plexus, the jaw, the spleen, the liver.
02:43:33.000You know, really aiming for your shots and that automatically puts you also better in the zone.
02:43:38.000Because my first fights, I was hitting a silhouette.
02:49:06.000Like you see pictures of me, like last week I started on Saturday because normally I always throw these challenges out, people say with steroids.
02:49:13.000I started TRT on Saturday last week because they realized that my free testosterone was lower and it was affecting me mentally.
02:50:14.000So it is something doing doing something to your mental state as well.
02:50:18.000I had no clue for sure That's a big thing with guys that have pituitary gland injuries when they get depression That's a lot of it is your body's not producing testosterone anymore You see so I'm very happy I started with that everything also I had this wound on my That I cut myself with a knife, like really weird.
02:50:36.000It opened up in my pocket while I was pulling my pants up.
02:50:39.000It's something stupid, but it was a cut.
02:51:10.000And anybody that's listening, listen to the podcast that I did with Brigham Bueller.
02:51:15.000It's an amazing podcast where he breaks down all the problems in the medical system and all the problems with the insurance system and And there's so many different things that can benefit you that are fantastic for your health that are not covered by your insurance.
02:52:00.000So imagine you come out of a hard fought round and you got one minute to recoup instead of 40 times raising your shoulders, you can do the same amount of air by 10 times.
02:52:08.000Not only that, if you're raising your shoulders, your necks, your traps, your neck muscles, everything needs oxygen, right?
02:53:34.000Then, of course, boys, girls, oh, you start to get interested in the different sex, and then suddenly you realize, wait a minute, if I keep breathing through my belly, they think I'm fat.
02:53:43.000This is literally the reason that people start breathing the wrong.
02:53:47.000You know we're the only animal, the only mammal that breathes wrong?
02:54:40.000And with breathing muscles, I say the mover for inhaling is your diaphragm, and your intercostals, which are the muscles in between your ribs, the external intercostals are for inhaling, expands your chest.
02:54:52.000I'm gonna go in a little bit how that works.
02:54:55.000Because that's why I brought this weird thing here with me.
02:55:49.000And suddenly it feels like you hit the wall.
02:55:52.000What happens at that moment is that your body starts redirecting oxygenated blood and it takes it away from your legs because it sends it to your number one priority in the body, which are your breathing muscles.
02:56:03.000Because if your breathing muscles don't work, you die.
02:56:06.000If you can't expand your chest, you die.
02:56:08.000Okay, so endurance works, muscle training over and over again gets more endurance.
02:56:12.000Okay, but my freaking intercostals and my diaphragm, they steal the blood stealings, literally a medical term, away from my limbs as soon as I'm getting tired.
02:56:22.000Okay, what if I update those 11 pounds of breathing muscles?
03:04:19.000You don't want to do 30 repetitions like this because tomorrow felt like you did a very hard back workout that you're going to walk around.
03:04:25.000Listen, boss, I'm going to use this every day.
03:04:27.000I'm going to check in with you in a month.