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00:00:34.000Every single time I clean it out, I tell myself I'm not going to put any more cards in there except for the ones I need, but it just attracts the cards.
00:02:00.000And carrying a bag actually helped me be more prepared than ever because, I mean, I would always be, one of them dudes can't carry enough stuff, and I'll always become things, wishing I had things that I didn't have, and I'm like, you know what?
00:04:00.000I guess I'm just trying to say how I think I would wear that one, but you're kind of convincing me, Joe, that maybe the front carry might be the...
00:05:43.000It's also like, if you think about it, if your body thinks, okay, I have to eat animals all the time because all this motherfucker eats is animals, right?
00:06:34.000So it was, it was, it was when I did a, uh, like when I had a really, really deep trip that just caused me to, to, uh, Have one of those ego deaths.
00:06:45.000And when I had the ego death, I was like in a state where this knowingness was coming to me.
00:06:51.000And it was like, you know, I was like, it was all day.
00:08:21.000that's a very underrated psychedelic oh my god it that that will yeah that's the the first really but i had done mushrooms before but i did a fairly small dose i mean fairly small in that i could walk around i was pretty whacked out but i could walk around a couple grams but the 5 meo dmt was the first one where i just ceased to exist
00:08:43.000i just stopped and it made me really aware of ego really aware of like even the way i express myself the way i would frame sentences and say things I was just, I was trying to sound cool, or I was trying to portray something in a way, like, not just trying to portray the information, but trying to impress people, and it made me, like, feel real gross.
00:10:03.000And through some things, you get a taste of what's under the surface through meditation and yoga and all these different methods that people use, holotropic breathing.
00:10:13.000You get a taste of what's underneath the surface.
00:11:08.000But I felt that kundalini experience where you see the light.
00:11:15.000It was like this really intense light.
00:11:18.000That happens in my head, and it was just, boom, you see the universe, you know?
00:11:25.000Well, you know, that thing about the center of your head, there's a lot of speculation on what the Egyptians were trying to draw when they were drawing certain images, but there's certain temples that seem to mimic certain shapes in these temples that seem to mimic the pineal gland.
00:11:42.000Like even the eye, there's that famous Egyptian eye that has that sort of dip down in that weird sort of Egyptian shape.
00:11:50.000There's been a bunch of different scholars that have tried to figure out what exactly that meant.
00:11:56.000And one of the theories is that that's a cross-section of the pineal gland.
00:12:00.000And they think that what they were emphasizing was that that is the area where the brain produces all the psychedelic chemicals.
00:12:06.000They speculated this for a long time, but Dr. Rick Strassman, he's the guy that wrote that book, DMT the Spirit Molecule, and there was actually a documentary on it that I hosted.
00:12:18.000He's done a bunch of work with this Cottonwood Research Foundation where they've shown now that it exists in live rats.
00:12:26.000And that it is actually produced by that gland, that DMT is actually produced in these animals by this one particular gland that they associated with spiritual awakening with the third eye.
00:12:38.000So it actually is a real thing, that feeling that you get.
00:12:41.000And the thing about mushrooms that's really interesting is mushrooms actually mimic natural human neurochemistry.
00:12:49.000There's 5-MeO-DMT, there's N-N-DMT, and then what mushrooms, what's processed, the way your body processes, it becomes something called 4-Fox-4-Aloxy-N-N-dimethyltryptamine.
00:13:19.000See, I like mushrooms because of mushrooms.
00:13:22.000So the 5-MeO is so powerful that you can't really get a handle on what happened.
00:13:27.000I came back from being away for like 17 minutes and I'm just like, whoa, that was intense.
00:13:33.000I felt as if I was everything all at the same time and it was so many different things that was just happening.
00:13:40.000But you really can't unpack it because it's incomprehensible to an extent.
00:13:45.000For the larger extent because you're dealing with concepts that the human mind can't even grasp because there's no vocabulary to speak about.
00:13:56.000When I did the mushrooms, the mushrooms were kind of like the rivers and the lakes that leads to the ocean.
00:14:04.000And it helps me understand how I am part of something so big and something so grand.
00:14:10.000So when I have my mushroom experiences, They were all different in some respect.
00:14:19.000Whenever I do go deep, because I like to go deep, I don't play around.
00:15:19.000I had two ACL surgeries on my right knee, and that completely just, it changed everything for me because, you know, being a smaller light heavyweight, all of my power was all in my legs, you know, and whatever I couldn't make up for in the size department up top, I was usually able to make up for with the power of my legs, you know.
00:15:39.000Is that related to the injury that you got when you were at Jackson's and Diego Sanchez crashed into you?
00:15:46.000So that was MCL, but it was on my left knee, so the right knee was the one who got...
00:15:51.000That always drove me crazy, because I'm like, why the fuck is a guy training for a world title fight in a regular class where everybody knows people collide into people in regular classes all the time with millions of dollars on the line?
00:16:12.000We would train crazy as hell and put ourselves in some crazy situations.
00:16:15.000And you try to put yourself in a situation because you're like, you know, I did it before and I've done it so many times and nothing has happened.
00:16:23.000But when you start to move up and there's more on the line, then you always have to take every single precaution because you can't afford to take a step back.
00:16:56.000My leg would get tired, you know, and it didn't have the same bounce, the same rhythm, and it kind of felt heavy, and I couldn't really feel it in the front, you know, the front part of my knee.
00:17:11.000So they cut the front open and then they take the piece of the bone, they take a slice of the patella tendon and a piece of the bone on the bottom and they replace your ACL with that?
00:18:04.000And I admire guys who can come back and look phenomenal and do it still because when you mess up your knee, for me, it just kind of mentally messed me up a bit.
00:18:17.000How much physical rehab did you have to do for that?
00:18:28.000I felt like I was bouncing back pretty easy.
00:18:31.000But when it went the second time, then it was harder because not only was I healing from the ACL, but then my knee was healing in general just from the previous surgery and then plus this surgery.
00:19:16.000First of all, when I was out for two years healing from injury, I got to see what it was like when all the cameras stopped flashing, when people stopped caring to get your pictures.
00:19:29.000That whole feeling that happens when you hit that transitional point and stop becoming that guy.
00:19:39.000And it was a difficult transition at first because, you know, even though I always told myself I would never, you know, put myself in the mindset of being just that fighter, sooner or later you become just that fighter and that's what happened to me.
00:20:55.000When I was into my career and trying to figure out what's next for me, it was hard.
00:21:06.000It was just a hard place because I didn't really have anybody to talk to.
00:21:10.000I didn't really know what I was going to do next in my life.
00:21:14.000Then when I started fighting again, I still was in that place where I just wasn't totally back to fighting, my mentality.
00:21:22.000Because fighting is something mentally that it takes a certain mentality for.
00:21:28.000And for me, fighting was something that I did to exercise some demons a bit.
00:21:36.000You know, but but having some time away from the sport, it allowed me to figure out other ways to exercise.
00:21:41.000So demons and, you know, figure out some things around them, you know, the things that made me mad, the things that were my fuel before I kind of made peace with them.
00:21:50.000And then making peace with a lot of the things that I was using for my fuel, it just changed the way I fought and the way I seen fighting.
00:21:58.000So coming back to fight, I just wasn't that same fighter anymore.
00:22:03.000And then when I got to the point where I was like, man, I can't keep myself...
00:22:07.000I was like, man, I'm not fighting the way I want to fight.
00:22:55.000I think every fighter gets to a point where you fight enough, then fighting, you kind of get in a weird space about it.
00:23:03.000And, you know, I've seen fighters go through that period where they just kind of like figuring out that, why am I still doing this?
00:23:09.000You know, they've had great moments inside the cage, but then they have those down moments.
00:23:13.000And those down moments are the moments where it's harder to come back from.
00:23:18.000And I think those are the times where you, you know, a psychedelic or something like that could put things in perspective and allow the fighter to see the why behind the reason they're doing it.
00:24:20.000And just make sure we always have that connection.
00:24:24.000But it was through working with him, you know, I became, you know, part of this group, Unlimited Sciences.
00:24:33.000And Unlimited Sciences, what we're doing is, you know, we've been able to, we want to make psilocybin usage because Del Jolly was one of the guys who got, who's on the committee who got it approved for Denver.
00:24:50.000He was one of the guys who made that possible.
00:24:59.000I'm not really too sure exactly how it all works with that, but I think that they're still working out the details about how it's going to be, which you can possess on the legal side.
00:25:11.000But with Unlimited Sciences, we've been able to We want to take the psilocybin experience where it's one that people can go through for healing and help and get consistent information, consistent data on the full spectrum on how you can use it and the ways it's used.
00:25:35.000So we've teamed up, and this has never been done before, we teamed up with John Hopkins University, and we're going to be part of their study, and we're going to do like the first real-world study where we go out and, you know, take information from people, you know, people from 18 and up who can speak English can sign up for our study.
00:25:57.000And, you know, what you do is you go and you fill out a questionnaire and everything is It's HIPAA protected, so no one has to worry about getting in trouble for their usage of psilocybin.
00:26:08.000But John Hopkins has taken all this information and we're collecting it for him.
00:26:13.000And what we want to do is we want to be able to give this back to them so that they can see on which way they want to direct their clinical research.
00:26:23.000And what that can do is, you know, with the unlimited sciences, it comes from this group called Realm of Caring.
00:26:32.000And Realm of Caring is out in Denver, and Realm of Caring was for medical refugees during the whole, when there was a Medical refugees for cannabis who couldn't use it in their state came to Denver where they were able to use it,
00:26:52.000but when they first came there, there wasn't any information on how much to use because Heather Jackson and this other girl who started it named Paige They started the realm of caring and it was just them.
00:27:04.000They were treating their child and their children.
00:27:07.000They had seizures and epilepsy and stuff like that.
00:27:09.000So they tried everything in a medical field to help them, but they could not help them with that.
00:27:14.000So then they went to cannabis and there was only two of them doing it.
00:27:18.000So they didn't really have much information to go back from.
00:27:20.000So then they would share information amongst each other and then they would ask other people.
00:27:25.000And then through networking, they created this huge community of people With data and they started to come with more and more data and then they started working with John Hopkins University and made a protocol and everything else.
00:27:37.000Now the realm of caring helped thousands of families all over the world just with the information and data they didn't have been able to collect.
00:28:01.000They're very interested in diving into the mind aspect and everything.
00:28:05.000And I think that the real-world study would be good because what it does is it allows them to put their money and their resources into where people are actually using it and the things that are interesting to the people.
00:28:20.000So, I mean, it's one thing to have it in a clinical setting, but it's another thing to do it on your own and be able to get the results from it.
00:28:27.000Hopefully to study with John Hopkins University, it definitely changes games and puts things on a level where people can get the healing they need from the mushrooms.
00:29:20.000And this is a really controversial theory but fascinating that they believe that – at least Terrence had this idea that one of the catalysts for human evolution that changed us from – Lower primates to human beings was the consumption of psilocybin and that animals,
00:29:39.000you know, these pre-human primates would flip over cow patties and experiment by eating grubs and bugs and things they'd find out there and they would also eat the mushrooms that would grow on the cow patties.
00:29:52.000And the doubling of the human brain size over a period of two million years is gigantic mystery.
00:29:58.000Like, they have no idea what happened.
00:30:01.000I mean, it's apparently, according to biologists, it's the biggest mystery in the fossil record that the human brain doubled.
00:30:08.000And not just that any organ would double in size over a period of two million years, but that the organ responsible for the theory of evolution in the first place doubled over two million years.
00:30:20.000But it coincides with climate change and coincides with these rainforests, and this is all Terence's work, I'm repeating.
00:30:28.000It coincides with these rainforests receding into grasslands and then these undulates, these cow-like animals that would live on these grasslands and eat the cow and take shits.
00:30:39.000And then the manure would grow, or the psilocybin, rather, would grow in the manure, and they would follow these cows around and then eat their mushrooms that would grow in their manure.
00:30:49.000And it also coincides with the earliest civilizations would all worship cattle, like Choctal Hiuk, which is one of the earliest known civilizations.
00:31:00.000They had these—it was a real cattle-worshipping thing.
00:31:05.000I don't want to say a cult, but the way their culture would operate.
00:31:38.000To this day, they're not exactly sure what Soma is, but it's some sort of a psychedelic sacrament, and it probably was a combination of many things, but a big one was most likely psilocybin, was a part of that.
00:31:51.000And that sort of corresponded with their relationship with cows.
00:32:35.000You feel the fact that it's like, oh, this is something ancient because there's something that happens when you go to that place where you lose the self.
00:32:48.000When you lose the self, then there's something that happens that's That's just magical.
00:32:55.000There really is no way to explain it or dress it up with words.
00:32:58.000It's just something magical that happens once you reach that level.
00:33:03.000Yeah, whenever I have these conversations with people, there's two types of people.
00:33:06.000There's people like you that have had the experiences that go, mm-hmm.
00:33:09.000And then there's people that have no experience at all that look at you like...
00:33:33.000If you do it, you'll realize, like, oh, well, if you do any real potent breakthrough psychedelic, any real breakthrough psychedelic experience is going to make you humble.
00:33:44.000It's going to make you realize, like, oh, there's more to this than everyday consciousness.
00:33:49.000There's more to this experience, this existence.
00:33:53.000And you only can tap into it through a variety of different methods, whether it's name your psychedelic or name your trance-like state that people can go into.
00:34:04.000There's a lot of different ways to tap into it, but once you do, you realize this is not...
00:34:09.000This little thin thing that we're touching right now, this is not everything.
00:34:13.000It really just cuts through the whole materialism of everything.
00:34:16.000It really shows that materialism is just a product of consciousness.
00:34:22.000And sometimes we tend to think that our consciousness is a product of the materialism, but at the end of the day, consciousness is everything.
00:34:31.000When I did my Toad experience, I almost felt as if like...
00:35:47.000It's like the limitations of your biology that we have...
00:35:52.000Kept from the time that we were small little mammals to the time that we were lower primates to the time that we're human beings.
00:35:58.000The limit, the biological instincts to survive and to preserve our DNA and to carry that DNA on, all of those instincts are the reason why we're here but also so limiting because they keep your consciousness bottled up in the location that you're at.
00:36:17.000It keeps your feeling of life Contained to wherever you're at at that moment and staying safe and then keeping people paying attention to you and making sure you got the coolest shit and all the things that seem so silly when you trip.
00:36:32.000When I fall away and the feeling of falling away and not being who I think I am, It's almost the most freeing feeling, but at the same time, it's one of the scariest.
00:36:45.000It's one of the scariest at the same time, but it's necessary, and it's necessary in order to reach a certain point of understanding.
00:36:57.000When you reach a certain point of understanding of going inside, then you don't need a guru.
00:37:03.000You don't need anyone to drop insight or knowledge, because all the knowledge and insight...
00:37:09.000It's there if you go deep enough and you know how to go deep enough, you know, and you understand the fact that, you know, there's this knowingness.
00:38:07.000And even in a state, I remember being in a state where I was on one of my deepest trips and I'm in the trip and my friend looks over at me and then I wave him over because I want to tell him the secret that I found about consciousness and about existence.
00:38:25.000But I couldn't tell him because the knowingness is telling me if I tell him, then I'm not going to be able to come back and live.
00:38:51.000Like, I was in his yard, and I just went and walked.
00:38:58.000And as I was walking, this knowingness told me, like, I was walking barefoot in this grass, and I kept getting my feet poked.
00:39:05.000And the knowingness told me, it was like, you know, it told me the path to walk.
00:39:08.000And it said, the reason why I'm stepping on these, getting pricked is because I'm stepping on live grass, stepping on dead spots where there's no...
00:39:15.000And it just came to me just that clear and I just started doing it and I wasn't getting pricked by any grass no more.
00:39:20.000Then it told me to sit down and then I sat down and then I just had like the most profound just realizations just hit me like it was like it was like it was coming out of the sun.
00:39:36.000I was outside and I went and I was looking at the sun and it was like the sun transitioned to something else.
00:39:43.000It just became very deep and it had layers of, it was very, very trippy.
00:39:50.000But during that experience, I remember looking around and seeing everyone that I was with and laughing to myself saying like, they would not believe this, but I'm actually every single one of them.
00:40:01.000And that was like a thought that I remember.
00:40:06.000Thinking and feeling like I'm feeling myself right now and it bugged me out.
00:41:17.000I can just go in and just train and you know and it doesn't it doesn't stay with me like I would before.
00:41:24.000Do you feel like though that to be an elite fighter maybe you need that burning desire to the point where mistakes burn they hurt and I know as a comedian I mean there's a there's a there's a parallel there like where when if I'm really working hard or really concentrating hard anything I say that Is stupid or comes off wrong or I try something that doesn't work.
00:43:33.000And, you know, he would fight that way and he would do some genius stuff in there just because of that, you know?
00:43:38.000But then when you have those experiences where you've been caught in a fight or you've made some mistakes in there, then you do know better.
00:45:15.000Most people that I've talked to that are experts, most people, few disagree, believe that Dominic Reyes won the first three.
00:45:23.000And the third round is the one that seems to be, you go, well, Dominic scored more, but it was close enough where you could see someone giving it to John, particularly since John was pressing the action.
00:45:52.000I believe Luke Thomas is talking about this.
00:45:55.000I'm sorry if I'm wrong because I'm not saying the judge's name because I'm not sure if I'm correct.
00:45:58.000But I believe it's the same judge that...
00:46:01.000Trevin Giles, who fought James Krause.
00:46:06.000Giles and Krause was an amazing fight.
00:46:08.000Giles wound up winning the decision, but the first round, Krause had his back for four minutes, and the judge gave that round to Giles, which is insane.
00:46:21.000I mean, for four minutes, Krause had his back.
00:46:28.000Real close to submitting him a couple times during those four minutes.
00:46:31.000And the judge, the same judge who gave four rounds to John Jones, gave that first round to Giles, where there was a dude on his back for four fucking minutes!
00:47:39.000Just almost like people who don't know what they're seeing.
00:47:42.000Yeah, and that's crazy too, especially when we reach the point that we have in mixed martial arts.
00:47:47.000I think that we've turned a corner in that, meaning the fact that there's so much out there, so much knowledge out there in the sport and everything else like that.
00:47:57.000And if you're going to be judging it, you've got to at least know when somebody is winning a round.
00:48:03.000You know, there's aspects of John's game that was, you know, scored some points.
00:48:07.000You know, he was always moving forward with the action.
00:48:10.000But, you know, even when he was moving forward with the action, he wasn't terribly too offensive.
00:48:15.000He would come with his legs, but, you know, a lot of times he would allow Dominic to kind of be the first one initiating and then moving off.
00:48:24.000And sometimes it seemed like he was just kind of chasing him.
00:48:27.000But, you know, I think that it was that third round.
00:48:33.000That third round was that hard round to score.
00:48:36.000But, you know, I think that Dom had the edge, but if you're going to be the champ, then you got to be the champ.
00:48:47.000Jon Jones impressed me so much with the shots that he was able to take, but more or less the mindset that Jon had.
00:48:54.000That mindset that Jon had in those championship rounds, to me, that showed that this guy is...
00:49:02.000He is a total package, and when it comes to fighting, just mentally speaking, he's somebody who I thought was frustrated, and working through his own frustration in the fight is difficult.
00:49:18.000He didn't succumb to his own frustration, and he just kept that pressure going.
00:49:22.000He took some big shots from a heavy hitter, but Dominic Reyes is a problem for anybody.
00:49:39.000But John Cavanaugh said something on his Twitter page, I believe it was John Cavanaugh, and it reflects exactly how I feel.
00:49:45.000That if this fight was going to go on another five rounds, it's pretty fucking clear to me who's going to win.
00:49:51.000This is to the death, Jon Jones is going to win that fight.
00:49:54.000If it's to the death, there's no doubt about it in my mind that Jon Jones is eventually going to get him.
00:49:59.000Those last two rounds, Dominic Reyes was hurting.
00:50:01.000You could see him taking big, deep breaths and trying to move, and his arms were labored, and Jon just kept pressing, kept pressing, kept kicking him, kept punching him, kept trying for the takedown.
00:50:14.000It should mean more towards the end of the fight.
00:50:16.000At the end of the fight, if you win a decision, but you just got your ass kicked for the last four minutes, that seems crazy to me that you won the fight.
00:50:24.000Because, I mean, I know this is a dumb way to think about it, but if we were in a schoolyard, right?
00:50:29.000We were in high school, and some dude and another dude fought, the dude who's getting the shit beat out of them at the end of the fight is the guy who lost.
00:50:38.000When the teachers come and they pull you off that guy, that's who won.
00:50:43.000And I know that you can't score a professional sport the way you look, but it is the rarest of rare professional sports because it's the sport of fighting.
00:50:53.000And in fighting, when you're getting your ass kicked, You're supposed to lose.
00:51:00.000If you're getting your ass kicked, you lost.
00:51:02.000And if you're kicking the guy's ass, you win.
00:51:04.000Sounds crazy, but at the end of that fight, Jon Jones was kicking Dominic Ray's ass.
00:52:30.000And the most impressive thing about it for me is the fact that, you know, on a physical scale, he's phenomenal.
00:52:36.000But just mentally speaking, to be able to go through everything that he's gone through, you know, the ups and downs and what that does to your mind.
00:54:31.000Out of any fight in John's future, I want to see a rematch.
00:54:36.000I really want to see what Dominic Reyes looks like now with this rub, understanding how close he was, and then the amount of conditioning that he's going to have to put himself through to be able to do that again in five rounds.
00:54:49.000And it's not like either guy got Fucked up in that fight where they're going to be severely damaged.
00:54:55.000It's not like one of those crazy wars where, like, Adesanya-Kelvin Gastelum, at the end of that fight, I was like, oh my god, you know, I hope Kelvin takes some time off after that one.
00:55:07.000It was a grueling, difficult, hard fight, but it wasn't a fight where there was so much damage that both Jon and Dominic needed to take a long time off.
00:55:17.000I feel like you could make that fight in eight months.
00:55:44.000But I think that this is exactly what John needed in that light heavyweight weight class because it was getting kind of stagnant, and I think it needed some time to mature.
00:55:53.000But I think Dominic Ray has just said, you better stay here for a little bit.
00:55:58.000And here's another guy, Corey Anderson.
00:59:27.000He'll stay up to like 2, 3 o'clock in the morning watching film.
00:59:30.000And then he'll go to sleep for a couple hours and he'll wake up at like 7 in the morning to go do his first pizza shop because he owns a pizza shop.
00:59:40.000And he has this crazy work schedule, but he loves fighting.
00:59:44.000It's so weird that a guy runs a successful pizza business and he's also one of the best trainers in the world.
01:01:05.000Like, I watch them after training, and these guys do this, like, it's like a Randori type of sparring afterwards, and they just do, like, jumping off the walls, all these kind of, like, these acrobatic crazy moves that you don't think will ever work, and you see them like, oh, my God, where do you get that from?
01:01:24.000They practice it all the time, and they just do all these kind of crazy moves at the end of training.
01:02:06.000He's really good with his mixture of traditional martial arts techniques, you know, because he has that kung fu background.
01:02:12.000So he throws a lot of like round kicks and spinning kicks and all that kind of crazy shit.
01:02:17.000But then he'll hit you with like some judo shit, a lot of tosses and trips.
01:02:21.000Yeah, and he's got great submissions to I mean he's got great wrestling.
01:02:25.000He's got great boxing I mean, he's a weird combination of a bunch of different styles and he's tall to not that tall length is really Something that helps him out to this Frankie Edgar whenever he goes on him He's like man.
01:02:38.000I feel like I can get him down But then I look down and then his feet are still touching the ground.
01:02:42.000I swear I have them up - And his feet are still touching.
01:02:45.000He's so tall for 145. Yeah, he's so tall for 145. I'll tell you what, though.
01:02:48.000He had a hard time in his last fight with Calvin Cater.
01:03:25.000When you go against a guy who has a bunch of different tricks, You find yourself putting yourself in his trick bag just by being aware of all the things that he can do.
01:03:35.000You find yourself like, oh, he's going to set that up.
01:04:41.000And with Calvin's boxing and Jeremy's savagery, the two of them together, and Jeremy has ridiculous power, the two of them together, that's going to be amazing.
01:05:16.000Sometimes it is a tall order, but sometimes when you just came from a big fight, that's the kind of fight it's easier to get up for.
01:05:25.000He just came from challenging for the title, right?
01:05:29.000It'd be hard for him to take too far of a step down in competition because then it's going to be hard to get himself up for it.
01:05:35.000But if he's taking a step kind of like in an upward motion, then it's like, okay, I can get up for this fight, and then he can train for it, you know?
01:05:44.000Yeah, because Zabit is, I don't know what the official ranking is.
01:07:45.000It's different when you've got to crack somebody's leg.
01:07:49.000I think, honestly, when it comes to the state of mixed martial arts, I think that once a lot of these fighters start to We were speaking about it earlier.
01:08:04.000We were in the dark ages when it came to training and that transition of how to become more professional with your training.
01:08:11.000I think nowadays fighters are starting to understand that more with the Performance Institute.
01:08:17.000It's helping to educate these fighters a lot more on what proper training should be and what it truly could encompass.
01:08:25.000And now there's more professionalism added to martial arts, but there's still an aspect that needs to be covering and that's on the equipment side.
01:08:36.000The company that I work with, Onyx, Have you heard of Onyx before?
01:08:45.000So we have a whole line, and the line that we have with Onyx, it's really the first MMA brand, like an MMA company that's made for all the way we move in MMA, you know, everything that happens in MMA,
01:09:00.000because now the equipment that we use now, we borrow it from kickboxing or boxing, and there's that gap of just efficiency when it comes to manufacturing Yeah, Trevor Whitman sent them to me.
01:09:34.000So he started, so what happened is when we were trained, if anything happened to our equipment, we would just give it to Trevor and Trevor would go and he would tweak it and he would make some adjustments.
01:09:45.000So then Trevor's like, man, the more he started to do that, the more he started to realize there's a huge gap.
01:09:52.000The equipment that we're using is not efficient.
01:09:55.000Some gloves that should be 16 ounces are actually 11 ounces.
01:10:00.000And there's no integrity when it comes to...
01:10:03.000So Trevor did a lot of research and he was like, man, there really hasn't been any improving on equipment since the thumb was put on the boxing glove.
01:10:34.000At first, I didn't realize how in-depth it was until I went to his basement and seen the little shop that he had, but it's pretty high-tech.
01:10:41.000So we have the glove, the X-Factor glove, but we have a knee brace and we have a headgear, too.
01:10:51.000knee sleeve it's like it's like a niece it's a it's a shin guard but it slides into a knee brace you can slide you can slide it's like a knee brace at the same time as well as an ankle brace it secures a whole like whole leg pretty much and it's it feels like you have nothing on and you can kick with like anything and it feels feel it doesn't feel like it feels amazing and he has a really really thin headgear and uh i want to show you these gloves i
01:15:24.000Well, see, I mean, and that's where we are at Onyx, you know.
01:15:27.000We just want to be able to get a product out there for the athletes and that they can use, but it protects them because a lot of the injuries, like 75% of them happen in training.
01:17:00.000It worked for a while, but it's a hard thing to maintain because that's a very, very expensive thing.
01:17:07.000Well, Glenn, the guy who put up the cash, I mean, I had heard some outlandish figures that he was in the hole for that place for by the time everything was up and running.
01:17:19.000Yeah, it was a pretty hefty ticket, man.
01:17:23.000It was an expense that did get out of hand.
01:17:36.000Even his situation, he got himself in a situation where he was doing so much for people, it just became a thing that people expected out of him.
01:17:44.000And then when he wasn't able to do it anymore, then it was kind of like people were like, oh man, this guy isn't this and he wasn't that.
01:17:51.000He just wanted to do so much and had an idea to want to do things on another level, but at the same time, the finances of doing it was a massive undertaking.
01:18:58.000And I just inherited this beef and I was like, you know, it's silly.
01:19:02.000And especially since the fact that ATT is like literally right down the street from my house, it would be closer to go there than anywhere else.
01:19:08.000But it was weird for a while, but actually talking to Dan and actually getting to know him and, you know, it was a good thing because, you know, I got to get a lot of respect for him and just for what he's done with American Top Team and ATT in general.
01:19:30.000I just love that a person like that, like Dan Lambert, can literally change the course of MMA by setting an example and by having a gym that sets an example that's such an insanely high level.
01:19:42.000So big, so many world-class fighters there, so much strength and conditioning, everything under one roof, dorms, everything.
01:19:49.000I think that was the thing that kind of pushed things in that position for Glenn.
01:20:18.000You have TriStar in Montreal, you have Duke Rufus in Milwaukee, you have Jackson Winklejohn in Albuquerque, you got AKA. When you first started, there was not that many places.
01:20:32.000And to even get what we wanted out of it, you know, there's three gyms that we can go through.
01:20:38.000We'll go to either Jackson's in Albuquerque, we'll go to TriStar in Montreal, or we'll go to Denver, and we'll work with Trevor Whitman in Denver.
01:20:45.000So we had the three camps that we bounced around from, and that's where we'll go to get the most work.
01:20:52.000And it worked for a while, you know, it worked for a while for the most part, but just all that traveling, it just became hard to do.
01:20:58.000That has to wear on you when you're in the middle of a camp and you're...
01:21:05.000When I was in camp, I really wouldn't travel too much.
01:21:09.000So what we would do is that if Nate Marquardt was in camp and he wanted to stay at home most of the time, so we'll stagger it where he'll have a tough guy in camp every single time.
01:21:20.000time so I'll be a couple weeks when George wasn't there or when Keith wasn't there you know and then sometimes we'll all come together but for the most part we'll just all rotate into these gyms depending on who was fighting who needed to work he's a guy that I feel is underappreciated Nate Marquardt, when he was at the very top of his game, was a fucking assassin.
01:21:43.000That knockout of Tyron Woodley in Strikeforce to this day is one of the nastiest in tight elbow combination knockouts I think of ever, like a video game knockout.
01:21:53.000See, Nate Marquardt was one of those guys, I'm like, oh man, you'll get anxiety before training and practice because you knew it was going to be a hard goal.
01:22:00.000Like, my training growing up in the sport was just...
01:22:07.000You know, training with GSP, Keith Jardine, Nate Marcord, Joey Villasenor, Mike Van Arsdale, and, you know, even Ali Abdelaziz was even up in the mix, too.
01:22:18.000But it was, you know, it was training with guys who, like, it was a hard go all the time, you know.
01:22:26.000And Nate was one of those guys that I'm just like, oh, my gosh.
01:26:16.000When you first started fighting, how much striking training had you done before you decided to compete in MMA? Because you had this wrestling base.
01:26:25.000Did you have any striking training growing up?
01:29:00.000That when I caught Chuck the day before, I was hitting that move because I was super nervous.
01:29:05.000And I was hitting the overhand right and a left hook combination.
01:29:09.000And then you say, oh yeah, that's going to be the punch.
01:29:12.000You're going to hit him with that, and you're going to knock him out, and I'm not going to be able to get into the cage and congratulate you.
01:29:17.000That's what he said to me, word for word.
01:33:18.000It's kind of hard to describe without looking crazy.
01:33:23.000Well, you're obviously, by following this vegan diet, I'm seeing all these supplements.
01:33:27.000You're taking spirulina and all these different things.
01:33:29.000You're obviously doing it right, which is, you know, there's a lot of people that they're vegan, but they're eating, like, pasta and pizza and shit like that.
01:33:38.000They're just not doing it correctly in terms of taking in the proper amount of nutrients.
01:34:16.000And this book is talking about pretty much, you know, the role of food in your body and what it does and what causes mucus and what doesn't cause mucus.
01:34:26.000And, you know, through understanding the mucus of the diet and just reading it, It just gave me a different hold on understanding, like a different understanding of why I'm doing this, you know.
01:34:39.000And it became to me deeper than just like, oh, I can't have this because, you know, the diet says I shouldn't have it.
01:34:46.000It says I can't have it because, you know, this is going to cause inflammation, you know.
01:34:50.000I know the deeper reason of why, so it's easier for me to avoid the pitfalls of bad food, you know?
01:34:56.000There's also a situation with people where there's biological variability, where some people, some diets just sync up well for them.
01:35:08.000them like i know i know a lot of people that they don't feel good when they eat red meat when they fish they feel great yeah when they eat light foods you know their their body whatever for whatever it is their digestion favors certain type of diet yeah and that's what i found too because um uh i don't i don't know if this will work for everybody to It probably won't work for everybody.
01:35:29.000I mean, most likely it won't work for everybody.
01:35:31.000But for me, it was something that my body just was like, ah, it's about time you started to treat us the right way.
01:36:42.000And then once I eat, I usually eat like...
01:36:47.000I'll come home and I'll eat maybe a hearty shake that I make of fruit, and then I'll put some mushrooms and stuff in it, just like the cordyceps, the lion's mane, and from this brand Lifecycle.
01:37:04.000You heard of LifeCycle with a K? So that brand right there makes a really good tincture that you just drop it in there and you don't got to worry about changing the flavor of too much of your shake.
01:37:14.000So I drop that in there with my shakes and stuff like that.
01:38:17.000The supplement thing gets strange with vegans.
01:38:20.000There's a lot of folks that they're mixing a lot of different dietary yeasts and a lot of different powders and different things and blending these different things.
01:38:31.000Some people don't like the way that feels when you're eating like that, but it sounds like what you're eating is much more whole food based.
01:39:35.000And I like a lot of Indian food just because of that, you know.
01:39:39.000And that whole food diet, it just works for me.
01:39:42.000But like you said, these supplements like this, This makes me, like, I feel like when I drink this, like spirulina, and just eat a lot of greens, and even, like, the mushrooms, you know, the cordyceps mushrooms and stuff like that, like, I just have energy to just go and go and go.
01:40:04.000They send, like, they have, like, a really nice tincture set that they send out.
01:40:08.000I should have bring it, but it has, like, it has, like, Reishi, it has turkey tail, lion's mane, the cordyceps, and it even gives you, you know, a schedule on when you should take it and when it's best for.
01:40:24.000But it's a really, really good, good mushrooms because, you know, they put, they infuse theirs with this cockatoo plum.
01:42:27.000I would go and get a big bag of spinach.
01:42:30.000Yeah, that's exactly what I was doing.
01:42:31.000I'd get a big bag of spinach and I'd just put it in a blender and just grind it up and then throw some apples in it to make it a little bit sweeter to change the taste so it wouldn't be so greenish like I'm eating grass.
01:42:42.000And then I would just drink those all the time, but it just made me feel so strong.
01:43:55.000And another thing too, this is another reason why, because when I wasn't fighting, that was the problem because I would get into these bad eating habits because I would always know that when I had training camp, I can just cut the weight and just lose it like that.
01:44:15.000But after a while, that just becomes your habit.
01:44:18.000Anything you do over time, that becomes your habit.
01:45:13.000The problem is people could take it too far and then really it's about getting other people to comply with your idea of wokeness.
01:45:19.000And then it becomes almost like a religion.
01:45:22.000You just want people to comply with your ideas about how to speak and how to talk and how to live.
01:45:28.000Exactly You just become a dictator A little woke dictator Exactly That's what it is But the idea of like being woke Meaning aware You're spiritually cognizant Of your effect on people The life that you live And that's all beautiful That's great The problem is it gets abused I'm a dictator.
01:47:58.000And that's why I even give a nod to the psychedelics in that respect.
01:48:02.000If you don't have the ability to have that mental space, there is something that can help have you have that insight that somebody who was...
01:48:12.000Who was doing all the meditation because all you really need to do is feel it to understand why you need to do it.
01:48:18.000And that's why I'm lucky that I was able to feel it.
01:48:22.000So now it's nothing for me to meditate and go through all these spiritual practices because I know that is something real.
01:48:29.000But beforehand, I was like, man, that shit is not real.
01:50:00.000It really is a problem when any one person has that much influence over so many people, particularly a male having so much influence over females that worship him, especially if you're a scumbag.
01:50:26.000Take him out of the equation, because there's so many people that practice it, and they've had incredible benefits from it.
01:50:32.000It's really unfortunate that it's connected to this very controversial individual because then people associate Bikram Yoga with this guy that's been accused of multiple sexual assaults and rapes and all these different things.
01:50:46.000But you take that away from him as a human being and the people that practice it, what they get from it.
01:50:52.000First of all, you know exactly what you're going to do every day.
01:50:56.000There's 26 postures and two breathing exercises.
01:50:58.000One breathing exercise in the beginning, 26 postures, one breathing exercise at the end.
01:51:21.000But that hot yoga for me is the way to go.
01:51:24.000Because first of all, I know the postures.
01:51:27.000They all serve a purpose in terms of helping my body, helping my balance, keeping my flexibility, strengthening my joints.
01:51:36.000There's so many really positive physical benefits from it.
01:51:40.000And then two, the meditation aspect of it.
01:51:43.000Because no matter what kind of bullshit I have going on in my life, if I just...
01:51:47.000Breathe and think about the exercise and then you know my brain starts racing and I'll forget what I'm doing and I'll start thinking about other shit But I bring it back bring it back bring it back breathe just breathe You're not going anywhere for 90 minutes.
01:51:59.000You're locked in this room literally the doors locked when the class starts So I am just breathing and going through these and I know that I can get through it because I've done a thousand times before just breathe and get through it and There's a cleansing Of like all the, your brain, there's like residual, there's residue of like shitty thoughts bouncing around inside your brain.
01:52:20.000Anxieties and fears and regrets and anger and frustration and all this shit that's in your head that just gets in the way of clear thinking.
01:52:29.000It gets in the way of being able to see things in an objective, beneficial way.
01:52:35.000And to be able to see things the way other people see them as well.
01:52:37.000Like sometimes, you know, I have an issue, and I think a lot of people do, that I don't see how other people are seeing things.
01:54:15.000I awake and I'm in a place and I'm just with these three massive beings like tall as a building and they were like half human and they were half snake.
01:54:26.000And I got a snake from the waist down and that had a human from the waist up but had like a snake face.
01:54:33.000Yeah, and that was one of the visions that I had.
01:54:38.000I don't know, but it was weird because during that experience, all three of them were staring at me and they were looking down.
01:54:48.000And then one of them reached for me and then I started going up and then I started going around their body.
01:54:53.000And then I went around the body and then...
01:54:56.000As I was going around the body, every once in a while, I would see the face of it, and it would open up like a cobra, and then it would close.
01:55:07.000And I went all the way up the body, and it was like I was able to see from another angle me up in the body, and then it opened me up like a flower or something like that.
01:57:48.000People say that a lot of these people that are making it, either they're not making it correctly or they're making a light dose because they're worried about gringos going crazy and They don't want to be responsible for that shit.
01:58:02.000So I know people that have gone and they've had these experiences where they've done it with someone in America or someone who's done through a more commercial sort of organization and it wasn't really that strong or profound and then they went and did it with someone who was real.
01:58:17.000Someone who's making some fucking super high grade, you know, 97 octane shit.
01:58:53.000I didn't get what I wanted, but I definitely got what I needed, you know, because whenever you sit in a circle and stuff like that, it's always an amazing cathartic thing where you just kind of just like shed and just go through those emotions.
01:59:05.000Just watching other people just be so raw with their emotions and just kind of feeling that, you know, just through symbiosis, you kind of like start to feel like the work come through you.
01:59:23.000Are you doing it in any official capacity, or are you just doing it because you're at the gym?
01:59:28.000I just train because I'm at the gym, but I like to train with the guys when I'm in there because I can go at a good pace, and I don't mind if they hit me up a little bit, and I will give them a look that some of the training partners won't give them.
01:59:45.000Yeah, I enjoy that aspect of it, but I haven't been like, oh, you know, I'm going to come in here.
01:59:51.000I haven't dedicated myself to someone's full camp, you know?
01:59:54.000you know one of the reasons why i say is because a lot of people that i talk to that have trained with you and work with you one of the things they really like about you is your guidance is that you're a guy that they could sit down and talk to about things and you have a very learned and wise perspective and that could be especially with you know you consider your successful career that could be like very beneficial for young fighters coming up and i just wanted to know like had you ever thought about becoming a trainer yeah i i think about all the time and I work with some fighters now.
02:02:57.000There's another one, maybe an even more egregious one, because at least Conor McGregor was a world champion, combat sports athlete, and a wicked fighter.
02:03:04.000There was a lion fight where they had Lerdzilla.
02:03:34.000I think maybe he had another opponent and that opponent got injured and dropped out and then this MMA fighter decided to try his hand at Muay Thai so he jumped in there in a Muay Thai fight against arguably one of the greatest Muay Thai fighters alive.
02:03:48.000You should watch Lerdzilla's highlight reel.
02:03:55.000But he hit this motherfucker with a left high kick just off the front leg, just whipped it up off the front leg and caught him on the chin and folded him.
02:04:02.000And I was like, whoever said yes to that fight, whatever commission allowed that fight to take place, you guys should have to go to trial.
02:04:12.000Someone should sit down with you and go, how the fuck did you allow this to take place?
02:10:52.000They're weird though because if you graze off, it leaves you in a weird place because your foot's turned outward and you can get hit with punches.
02:11:02.000You're in a weird punching range where you're not in a good stance to fire back because your foot is sort of pronated outside.
02:14:54.000Him and Glenn didn't work out when it came time to it and all the work and chemistry together, you know, because that was the hardest thing because, you know, having all those different coaches and trying to not only have them get along with the fighters, but then have them get along with each other and not try to fight for that, you know, who's the main coach and who's the main guy, you know, and that's...
02:15:14.000You know, coaches sometimes have bigger egos than the fighters.
02:15:17.000And sometimes it's more deadly because they they they're they're not accomplished.
02:15:22.000And a lot of times they're they're coaching because they don't feel that accomplishment, you know, so that coaching becomes that thing that they they want to be validated for.
02:17:50.000I would just sit there and I would just kind of like, I would go through moves in my mind and I would go through techniques and I would just kind of go over and over again to techniques in my mind.
02:17:59.000I would also do scenarios where I fight in almost every single situation.
02:18:04.000Like I find myself, you know, losing and then finding a way to come back after I've been rocked, you know, and just trying to find myself just mentally working through it, mentally working a lot through it.
02:18:16.000Almost every single fight, like I'll go round by round.
02:19:18.000Just think about executing your technique.
02:19:20.000And just only think about executing your technique and how it feels to...
02:19:24.000Complete the perfect execution of the technique.
02:19:27.000When you hit the pad and it hits that, and it sounds that, you know, they hear that pop, you know, how does that feel?
02:19:32.000You know, become attached to how you feel when you execute something.
02:19:37.000And then that's what you start to base your fight off of, you know, how you feel when you execute versus all the things that can happen if something goes wrong.
02:19:47.000Yeah, it's really interesting to see the different strategies that people employ in order to, like, focus the mind.
02:19:54.000You know, so many different fighters have different ways of doing it.
02:20:13.000I'll, like, yell out the fear, like, come on!
02:20:16.000I would get into it because a lot of times I would get so nervous that I would be like, oh my God, I just don't want to freeze out there.
02:20:28.000I just don't want to freeze, you know?
02:20:29.000So that's part of the reason why I started twisting my nipples.
02:20:33.000I'd go out there and I'd twist my nipples before the fight, and that was just to kind of do something stupid and silly, but then it would allow me to just kind of relax, because I'm like, well, I'm not going to embarrass myself any worse than that.
02:22:10.000I know you're doing a lot of analyst work.
02:22:12.000Yeah, so I still do the analyst work, but I also try to do as much as I can with Onyx, and I still do my training and things like that.
02:22:22.000But I also work with CBS a little bit, doing analyst stuff for them.
02:22:30.000But I'm still in that space, just trying to figure out that next thing, that That I align with, you know, and that's why I'm so excited to work with unlimited sciences, you know, and doing something I'm passionate about, because I'm passionate about psychedelics.
02:22:44.000You know, that's what I really like, and I think that that can help people.
02:22:50.000You know, now I'm to the point where I just want to help people.
02:22:53.000You know, that's where I'm at in my life.
02:22:56.000I feel as if, like, you know, I lived a lot of my life for myself at this point, you know, and I've accomplished some great things, but now I'm to the point where I just want to Be able to help other people achieve what they want to in life and just be a part of that.
02:23:11.000That's what really resonates in me more than anything right now.
02:23:29.000It's definitely something, you know, I've watched you for a long time on your show and honestly speaking, you know, when I first started to, you know, awaken and wanted to understand a lot about these entheogens, you know, I would listen to Joe Rogan and I would listen to your podcast and just, you know, the amount of information you shared and, you know, the people, the guests that you had on, you know, you always have a great experience.
02:23:50.000People who speak with some knowledge that I can't even comprehend sometimes.
02:24:06.000Oh, if people want to get a hold of you, social media, give us your social media, your Instagram, Twitter.
02:24:12.000Yeah, you can check me out at Shigarashad Evans at Instagram.
02:24:19.000And if anybody wants to be involved in that study, it's unlimitedsciences.org.
02:24:24.000And, you know, they can go in and sign up and everything will be, you know, it's HIPAA. So that HIPAA protected so that no one's information would get out.
02:24:33.000And, you know, after they send an email, the information would be destroyed.