Name: JRE MMA Show #127 with Mikey Musumeci
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #127 with Mikey Musumeci' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-20. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #127 with Mikey Musumeci

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
We're up.
Well, what a journey, Mikey.
We were supposed to be doing this.
First of all, thank you to Red Band for saving the day.
If it wasn't for you...
Once again.
Yeah, you saved the day with Kanye, and you saved the day with Mikey Musumechi.
So, Jamie got the cooties, ladies and gentlemen, again.
Again.
For the second time.
He looks great.
He doesn't seem like he's that sick.
So, we're stuffing him full of IV vitamins out there.
So, you've had COVID how many times?
I think two or three times now.
Two or three?
Did you get tested?
I got tested two of them, so for sure two, but I think I had it three.
The third time you think you had it?
Yeah.
Delta was the worst one, though.
Did you get it bad?
I could barely walk from Delta.
Really?
Like, my lungs and like a good month of like dying.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, you were probably training the whole time, weren't you?
I was training during the Omicron one, but the Delta one, like my muscles, I
couldn't lift
my arms and legs.
Like, it got really bad.
Wow.
That's crazy, because you're in really good shape, and you're young.
Yeah, I run six miles every morning, and I could barely walk a mile when I had
it.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, it got you hard.
Really messed me up.
Did you, do you think you were getting it, and then you kept working out, and
it got worse?
Was it one of those deals?
I think so, but I think the residual effects of it from after being sick are
what messed
me up, like with the muscles, felt like my body was like decomposing.
Wow.
Yeah.
How long did it take before you like fully got over it?
A few months, like completely, like where my body didn't feel messed up.
So, did you take any medication while you had it?
Were you on anything?
No, just.
Just your immune system?
Yeah, just drinking a lot of water, a lot of sauna.
Yeah.
And like.
Just dealing with it.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's, that's not the best strategy.
Yeah.
I think vitamins are very important to deal with it, but if you can get access
to monoclonal
antibodies, that's really the best way to handle it.
Yeah, because I had the vaccine three times, and I still got it really bad, so.
Wow.
Yeah.
Damn.
It was so bad.
It's a tricky disease.
So, anyway, Jamie, who has successfully avoided it for 21 months, he got it,
and he's had very
strong antibodies this entire time, but then we just got back from Vegas for
the UFC, and
we did a big show out there, and he got the cooties.
Yeah.
When I was in Singapore, I had to get tested like every week, because I was
going to Indonesia
a lot, and Malaysia, so I knew I didn't have it, at least during that time.
So, when you were, what are you doing in Singapore?
You were training in Singapore and living in Singapore?
Yeah.
So, the last four months, I've been living in Singapore.
I moved there to train at Evolve, which is the coolest gym I've ever been in in
my life.
Yeah?
It's huge, and, like, the facility is amazing, and I moved there because I
wanted to train
and see Shatri, the owner of one championship.
I met him one time, and he was, like, the most amazing person I've met, and,
like, he's a true
martial artist.
He loves jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, and what he stands for with martial arts.
Like, it really moved me, and it was, um, I moved to Singapore, changed
continents, and
I've been living there the last four years.
For four years?
No, four months.
Sorry.
Oh, okay, for four months.
Yeah, yeah.
So, for four months, like, how do you live out there?
Like, what are you doing?
So, I'm training every day there, and, um, just experiencing the Asian culture,
you know?
I love learning about cultures, and, um, I'm learning Indonesian also.
Are you really?
Yeah.
Is that the language that they speak in Singapore?
They speak Malay, but Indonesia is right there also.
Oh.
So,
How good?
Well, so, you speak Portuguese.
Yes.
Right?
Fluent, right?
Yeah, fluent.
I taught myself Portuguese.
How'd you do that?
So, I was around Brazilians my whole life, so, um, I just used Google Translate
for so
many years that I learned Portuguese that way.
Come on.
No one ever taught me.
No way.
Yeah.
Really?
Just using Google Translate.
That's insane.
And then Brazilians always correcting me when I made mistakes.
Wow.
That's nuts.
So, I even know, like, the slangs of the different parts of Brazil, because I
would just talk
in Portuguese on my phone, like, all day with Brazilians.
The how, I've never even heard of someone, like, learning from Google Translate.
How much time did you spend on Google Translate?
Lots of hours.
That's insanity.
Yeah, because you just, over time, just keep using it.
You start seeing the words, and you start remembering the words.
Did you train much in Brazil?
No, I've only, uh, I learned Portuguese completely out of Brazil.
Wow.
And so, just talking to Brazilians.
Every day, yeah.
And then words you didn't know or understand, going through Google Translate.
100%.
Wow.
But what about, like, the grammar and how things are structured?
Did you speak Spanish at all before?
No, I just, um, over time, I just kept learning it more and more and more.
Wow.
It was, like, just a long process.
Well, you started training when you were four, right?
So, 21 years.
I'm 25 now.
Yeah, so, 21 years of being around Brazilians.
Yeah.
And just, how long did it take before you actually could speak Portuguese?
Uh, like, like, fluent, like, to this level, or just, like, just, I knew some
words as a kid, you know, and then, um, I would, for fun, try to pretend I was
Brazilian at, like, tournaments, like, with the refs.
It would help if you're Brazilian with the refs, right?
So, I would go in as an undercover spy, and I would go up to the refs, say
something in Portuguese.
I didn't know any words, and the ref would think I'm Brazilian, so I would
finish the tournament, and then the ref would come up and talk to me.
I wouldn't know what he's saying, and then he would look at me with betrayal.
And then you eventually learned how to talk.
Yeah.
So, now you talk to the refs in Portuguese.
Yeah, now I talk to everyone in Portuguese, you know.
Can you read it, too?
Read, write, speak.
Wow.
No formal training.
No formal training.
That's very impressive.
It's just, I love learning languages and cultures, you know, so, um, for me, Jiu-Jitsu
came, uh, Jiu-Jitsu I do came from Brazil, so the Brazilian culture is so big
in Jiu-Jitsu.
So, I really wanted to learn Portuguese, um, and even to communicate with all
the Brazilians, it's so interesting.
It is interesting.
It's a beautiful language, the way it sounds.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like a poetic, flowing language.
It's more emotional.
Like, um, I feel like in Portuguese, I'm almost a different person than in
English.
Ah.
Like, you're, it's all feeling-based, you know.
Yeah.
I'm more, like, confrontational in Portuguese.
I'm a whole different personality.
It's weird.
That's hilarious.
That's hilarious.
Though, do you know any other languages?
Right now, I'm learning Indonesian.
And that's it?
Yeah, I'm getting better with that.
Spanish is so similar to Portuguese that I can understand it and, um, read it.
Do you, um, learn Indonesian from just the same way you learn, um, Portuguese
from just, like, Google Translate?
Actually, you can't because, because Indonesian is, has a formal and informal,
and nobody talks informal.
But Google Translate's only formal for Indonesian.
Oh.
So, I have to learn it from friends, and, um, I'm just learning it like that.
So, the, the process of you going over to Singapore.
So, you meet Chahri.
Yes.
And then you just, just decide to go to Singapore?
Just decide.
And just decide to move there?
Yep.
It was, um, so, my whole life, I lived very close to my parents, you know, and,
um, 25 years.
And then I leave and just change continents, you know, um, again, with Chahri's
vision with martial arts.
And, um, I saw, like, the future of Jiu-Jitsu when I was talking to him, and it
was something I wanted to be a part of.
Mm.
You know, so, I got my stuff, my four short-year-old shirts, and, like, two geese,
and moved to Singapore.
That's it?
Yeah.
So, did they get an apartment for you or something?
Yeah, I have an apartment there.
Right now I'm staying in a hotel, but, um, yeah, I'm spending time here in
Vegas still, and there, you know.
And so, are you planning on making this a long-term thing, or is it?
Yes.
Yeah, really?
Yes.
Wow.
You know, because what One Championship is doing, um, now they're getting into
Jiu-Jitsu.
Yeah.
Which is so interesting.
Um, they're gonna have belts and divisions.
I actually have my, uh, I'm fighting for the belt in One Championship September
30th, um, and it's gonna be on Amazon Prime in the U.S.
Because now they're getting into the U.S.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, and what's really cool about them is how they're spreading martial arts
all over.
With kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA, and Jiu-Jitsu on the same card.
Yeah, I think that's really interesting.
So, fans will, like, learn about all the martial arts.
You know, like, I could watch Muay Thai and kickboxing as well as Jiu-Jitsu.
Yeah.
So, the viewership for it just increases so much, you know.
Well, it's, it's, it's also interesting, right, because they're showing all the
different styles.
By showing grappling only and striking only, you're, you get to see, like, the
purest version of each individual style.
Yeah, and they could appreciate it, right?
Yeah, and they're getting guys in there like Nikki Holtzkin, like, you know,
world-class kickboxers, and, you know, Giorgio Petrosian, and all, all these,
like, elite fighters.
And to have the, the elite strikers, and then guys like you, and I know they
signed Gordon Ryan, and Gary Tonin, so there's, uh, the Rotolo brothers.
Yeah.
So, there's all these, like, elite, uh, grapplers as well.
And then they're putting on these amazing shows.
Very interesting.
I love the fact they're doing that.
I love the fact that they've, by doing that, they've really separated
themselves from all these other organizations as well.
Yeah, it's incredible, and, um, again, the exposure, it's giving jiu-jitsu,
which is growing so much.
Um, my last match with Iminari was the most viewed match in jiu-jitsu history.
Um, it was over 25 million views.
Wow.
So, it just shows how their platform, which is huge, could help jiu-jitsu
expand so much, you know, and that's why I want to be a part of it.
And the growth of jiu-jitsu.
We played that match on the show.
We were talking about your back take.
That back take you did was so slick.
Is that a thing you do all the time, the way you did that?
Yeah.
So, um, it's just a move I've been working a lot, and the week of the
tournament, I was just doing it over and over and over.
And then when I went into the match, like, it was, um, I was able to do it.
Well, it was very swift.
I've seen a lot of back takes, but that was a slick one.
That was very slick.
You're known for being a guy who trains a ridiculous amount of hours a day.
Yeah.
Has that always been the case with you?
Yeah.
Um, well, when I was in college, like, obviously my hours were limited with
training.
But, um, since I've been out of college, like, I have so much more time now.
So, I'm just studying jiu-jitsu so many hours and drilling, you know.
So, you, I heard you drill sometimes 12 hours a day.
Yeah.
Sometimes I'll end up drilling, like, all day.
You know, um, if I'm studying a move or a position and I want to find an answer
for it, like, sometimes it takes a long time.
You know, and, um, the puzzle of it is what makes me so interested in jiu-jitsu.
Well, that's what's fascinating to me.
It's one of the things that I really like to try to let people know about.
Yeah.
Is that jiu-jitsu, in many people's minds that don't train jiu-jitsu, they
think of it as, like, a, we were talking about it before, like, a brutish, very
physical, aggressive thing.
But it's not.
It's super technical.
It's really intelligent.
And