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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #135 with Paul Felder' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-01. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #135 with Paul Felder

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Paul Felder ladies and gentlemen, how are you sir? I'm good man, thanks for
having me dude. My pleasure.
Yeah. You, I love what you've done because I think every professional athlete,
every fighter,
when you're done competition you need something to drive you and you decided to
go into triathlons,
which I think is fucking awesome. Yeah. And I kind of, I stumbled upon it. I
didn't have any idea what I was
going to do when it was all said and done. I thought, you know, I'll be like
everybody else. I'll do
grappling competitions. I'll hit pads. I'll, I'll stay active, but that's still
not the same as getting
to the cage and actually fighting somebody. And I stumbled upon this guy, Lionel
Sanders is who I
kind of found on YouTube, just looking up run workouts because I was getting
bored during the
pandemic. You know, I was going outside. I was going for these runs and they
were getting boring. You
just run miles. I was like, how do guys do this? You're just running to run all
the time. And
there's no, there's no structure or anything. And I found one of his workouts
in Arizona where he was
running. It was like 107 degrees and he's doing like crazy tempo workouts. And
I was like, oh my God,
what's a tempo workout. So like all your runs kind of break down in the, you
know, you have your easy
miles aerobic, right? And then you have where you kind of go a little bit, you're
not quite going as
hard as you're going to go for a race. And that's like tempo. So you're upping
your heart rate into
that kind of zone three area where you're keeping it right there. You're not
going threshold, which,
you know, kind of just below all out. Um, and he was doing that and it was like
a hundred and something
degrees. And I was like, this dude's out of his fucking mind. And I started
following all his
stuff. And then I started realizing how crazy this sport is. If you really
watch these guys,
I mean, they're freak athletes, these guys plus MMA, right? You wrestling, jujitsu,
kickboxing,
boxing, traditional martial arts. Well, now I found this other sport that's
totally new to me that I
know nothing about that I can dive into. And it's all these different
disciplines. So I can be an
idiot all over again and not just pick one sport. I can do all three of these
things.
And I didn't even know how to swim. Yeah. I grew up in South Philly.
Balal told me. Oh, bro. I've swam with Balal. If I don't know how to swim, Balal
super doesn't
know how to swim. He sucks, but he does it just like anything. He gets in there,
he does it. I've
swam with him. He's, he's done a triathlon. Oh, really? Yeah. He did it on like
a borrowed bike,
a borrowed wetsuit, which was like a surfing wetsuit. Like not, not what you
would go and swim in,
you know, cold water with for, you know, having any flexibility in your
shoulders. But
yeah. So these triathlons, like how, how long does it take to complete one of
those?
Well, it depends. There's sprint distance, which is a really short one. I mean,
you can do those,
the guys are doing those like, you know, under an hour, um, like 45 minutes, 30
minutes. You can do
some of them. It's like a quarter of a mile swim. It'll be like a, a 10 mile
bike. And then I think
a 5k. And you always, it's always swim, bike, run, swim, bike, run, unless you're
doing like
super league stuff, which is just this other organization that's now kind of
mixing up the
order of which they'll do things. A lot of these races, they'll do swim, bike,
run, swim,
bike, run, swim, bike, run. So these dudes are literally, and women are tucking
their caps and
their goggles and stuff while they're riding on the bike and stuff like that.
And then they pull
it back out as they're sprinting to the water, putting their cap back on their
goggles and diving
in after having just run, you know, probably like sub five minute miles, diving
back into the water
to not be able to breathe correctly. It's just the scariest thing of it all.
But the ones I do the most
are 70.3s. So it's like the half Ironman distance. So it's 70.3 miles. It's 1.2
mile
swim, 56 mile bike, and then a half marathon.
Jesus.
Yeah. And I started with that, like an absolute jabroni that I am. Everybody's
like, do a sprint,
do an Olympic. I was like, no, I want to do this one. And I did. And oh my God.
Well, I remember the first time I saw you when we were getting ready for a show,
we were in the green
room getting changed. I was like, what are you doing? I'm like, you look like
shit. I'm like,
are you on Adderall or something? You thought I looked like a crackhead. You
look like a crackhead.
You were so sucked in. Because I had just, I had just done that race. So when
you saw me,
I was still trying to even, like days ago, I had done that race. And it's like
cutting weight.
You must lose like fucking 20 pounds running one of those and doing the swim
and doing the bike.
You probably lose about 10. And that's with
hydration, hydrating the whole time. Yeah.
Whew. And so how far are you going to try to push this?
Well, to the absolute limits of being an amateur, because I'll never be, I mean,
these guys,
Joe, that do it pro. I mean, I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I would
love to do it.
You're a psycho. Yeah. That's what I don't even want to say that. I feel like
it's disrespectful
to the guys that I know that are pro and how, how fast they are to say that yet.
All I want to say
now is I want to do it and be, I want to win age groups. Right. And my age
group, you know, 35 to 39 is
these dudes are fast because they, a lot of them come from a collegiate
background of some sort of,
whether it be swimming, cross country track. And then same as me coming from
MMA, they,
they don't have that anymore. And they find triathlon, but they at least have
the base
of an endurance sport. Whereas MMA is not as much as we want to say, you have
to have great
endurance and you do, which most guys still seem to don't understand that, but
it's not the same.
Like 25 minutes is the longest fight that we could possibly have. Right. That's
the swim.
But when you have a guy who has great endurance, they have such an advantage.
Like Nick Diaz in his prime
would put a pace on people that they could not fucking keep up with.
I remember when Nick Diaz was at his peak when he was in strike force, when he
was a champ over there.
You remember those days? Dude, he was putting a fucking pace on people.
And he would get his ass beat for the first five, 10 minutes of a fight.
Well, he would, he would force a slugfest. So someone would try to go all out.
Yeah. And he would be hitting them like 50, 60%. And then every now and then he'd
dig,
every now and then he'd dig. To the body in particular.
Yeah. Yeah. Like the Paul Daly, I think, fight. I'll never freak that one. What
a fight.
I'm like, oh, he's dead. He's done. There's no chance.
Paul Daly has the most ridiculous left hand I think I've ever seen in the
business. Yeah.
He is so, and he's so skillful. Yeah. So, so slick in his maneuvering and like
the way
he sets up uppercuts and hooks. Yeah. His fucking left hand is a weapon, man.
And he
bombed on Nick Diaz. He crushed him. Woo. Crushed him. I thought he was done.
And he just did what the Diaz brothers do. They take that shit. It's crazy.
Come on.
Yeah. Crazy how they take it. And that's got a, like that demoralizes you, man.
Like you're in a,
you're in a cage fight with all these people watching and you got this crazy
son of a bitch
going, come on, man. That's all you got. Yeah. Come on. Hit me again. Yeah. And
you're known for knocking
dudes out like that. You just, in your heart immediately, you just shit, you
shit it out. You're like, oh my God.
Yeah. I don't know what I'm. Which is a credit to Josh Thompson. Cause Josh
Thompson is the only
guy to ever stop. Put his shin right upside that head. That's what he did. Legitimately
stopped
Nate Diaz. Yeah. Legitimately stopped him. That fuck, I mean, but that's like,
the way he landed
it too, it was so perfect. Yeah. It was like the perfect head kick. And he was
like bent
over. Yeah. He was still an out-out. Still wasn't out-out. Crazy how tough
those guys are.
Yeah. I mean, but I think a factor, a giant factor in, uh, especially Nick's
early success
was- The cardio. The cardio. Yeah. And he's known for doing a lot of like long
runs and-
It does. It does. Triathlons. And they do, I know even just recently, a guy, uh,
this kid,
Justin, that I trained with did Xterra. He did an Xterra race with him. What is
an Xterra?
Yeah. So it's more like, um, mountain biking, trail running, as opposed to, you
know, the TT bike out
on, on, on a highway type, you know, the, the, the waters are a little bit more
rugged. It'll be a
little bit colder, crazier areas that you're racing in. So it's a little more
like wilderness type
racing, but it's still triathlon, still swim, bike, run, but the, you know, you'll
be up and down,
you'll be running through trails and like through trees and over stuff like
that.
Running from bears, swimming away from sharks. Yeah. Don't, don't talk about, I
was just in Rio and I
was swimming in the ocean every day and I know everybody's like, oh, there's no
sharks there,
but you can't help it when you're swimming in the open water, you kind of, I
had like a can of soda
brush by me at one point and I almost pooped myself. I swear to God. My friend,
Peter Atiyah,
he swam, um, he swam all the Hawaiian islands. Yeah. He did this crazy swim and
he was training for
this in San Diego. And I think the week he was training, some guy got eaten by
a great white shark.
So he's out there in the very waters where a guy got bit in half. Yeah. And
apparently they were all
training for a triathlon. These people that were doing it. Yeah. So there was
like a run of them.
There was like, you know, like 10, 15 guys swimming and just one of them.
My first race this year is in Oceanside. So where's Oceanside? It's like
outside of San Diego.
Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus. Oh God. April, April 1st. Oh my goodness. April 1st. It's
an ocean, ocean swim.
Fuck all that. I was in Maui, um, last November and, um, a buddy of mine was
just there this past,
uh, like Duncan was there like when? Like two months ago? And some lady was snorkeling
with her husband
and the guy pops his head up and they're screaming at him from the shore. Get
back in shore. And he looks over and
there's all this blood in the water and thrashing and he gets to the shore and
he realizes it's his wife.
Oh. They never even found her. Yeah. Well, cause she gone. Yeah. Dry. Oh God. Diver
decapitated by 19-foot
great white shark in the Gulf of California, report says. Local divers have
been warned about the presence of sharks in the area. Fuck that.
that. Does this just happen? Yeah. Uh, January 5th. Oh. They paid him extra
money to go down because no one
would go get the mollusks. So he went and didn't make it back out. Oh my mollusks.
Like what kind of
mollusks? They're like, and also I guess they're, uh, 20 meters down or so, 10
to 20 meters down. So he was
down a pretty specific. So he's down really low and a 19-foot shark decapitated
him? 36 to 59 feet actually. Oh my god. Oh my god. Crazy.
Fuck that, Paul Felder. Can't wait for that swim. And the best part is we wear
black wetsuits that
make us look like big old seals flopping around. Do you have to wear a black
one? Can you wear like
a neon green one? If you can find a, yeah, a bright, I don't know, do sharks
see and do they see color
though? They probably don't see shit. Black and white. So that pink one is
white, I guess, to them. Yeah,
it's like the underbelly of something delicious. Well, there's, there's
thousands of us out there,
so you just gotta be lucky. Oh boy. You just gotta be lucky. Fuck, man. Well, I
was, I did a race in
Florida and there was 100% a gator, um, off on the side that somebody sent me a
picture, thank god,
after