Name: JRE MMA Show #124 with Khalil Rountree
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #124 with Khalil Rountree' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-03. Transcript available. Joe is joined by UFC Light Heavyweight fighter Khalil Rountree Jr.

JRE MMA Show #124 with Khalil Rountree

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
So just tell me that again.
What were you doing in Finland in the first place?
I was there with an ex training, but aside from that, I was just there visiting.
I was just visiting Finland.
And so you decided to do a sauna in the motherland, because that's like the
home of sauna.
Yeah, it's the home of it.
So, yeah, the people that were hosting us, they were like, hey, have you guys
ever done sauna in Ice Lake?
Like, yeah, but never like in the Ice Lake after.
So they have like a shack that's the sauna that's next to the...
Yeah, it almost looks like a locker room, right?
Like, and you just see a bunch of people, like all age groups.
There's a locker room where you get undressed and there's this huge box.
Like I said, it fits like easily 50 to 100 people.
And everyone's in there just packed.
There was actually a line to get in.
So when somebody steps out, you step in and kind of replace them.
Oh, wow.
It's like bleacher seating.
So you're in there like packed tight in maybe three or four rows.
And it's hot as shit.
How hot?
I don't remember the exact temperature, but it was the hottest sauna that I've
ever been in.
Like my skin was on fire.
Whoa.
After maybe a minute, two minutes of being in there, I was like, this is almost
unbelievable.
That's probably the moisture.
They probably threw a lot of water on there.
A lot of water.
And then right after...
That's a fucking difference.
Right after you just walk downstairs or you walk outside and there's a set of
stairs where
you walk literally right into the ice lake at night.
We did it.
It was like 9 or 10 p.m.
Yeah.
And so they just cut a hole in the lake?
Mm-hmm.
And then you just walk.
There's like a metal like a walkway that you can't see.
So it looks like you're just walking into the water at night.
But there's like a little walkway, like a railway underwater and you can hold
on to the rail
and do your lap.
And I think I did it like maybe four times, like four sessions.
And it was the best, like one of the best things at the end of the night.
I slept like a baby.
Oh, you definitely do that.
When I do it at night, when I do the cold plunge and the sauna, like back to
back at night,
oh my God, you sleep so good.
It just drains you.
I love to do it before a podcast because it empties my brain.
You know, because the sauna, I put it at 189 degrees.
And today I did 15 minutes on and then I did three minutes in the ice bath and
then I had
a run here.
So that's all I did today.
But most days I do 20 and then I do the ice bath and then I'll do another 15.
Got you.
But in the morning is good, man.
I feel like if I do that in the morning, I feel like alive.
Yeah.
I don't have to do this crazy hard workout.
Just like sauna and ice tub in the morning.
I feel like really revitalized, rejuvenated.
Well, it's, you know, that's something that I think more athletes and more
fighters in
particular need to concentrate on is the recovery stuff.
There's a lot of guys who just train like animals and just hope their body is
going to
recover just naturally, you know, just from hard work and eating well.
But I think things like hardcore stretching, yoga, if you can get it in, hot
yoga, and particularly
sauna and ice bath, they're so beneficial.
Yeah.
My conditioning coach, who's like a gigantic fan of you, he...
What's his name?
His name's Lorenzo Pavlica.
Shout out to Lorenzo.
Shout out Lorenzo.
Lorenzo?
Lorenzo?
No, it's something that he has me do almost, I'd say like three to four times a
week is that's
a part of our training is sauna and ice and stretching and breathing.
What kind of breathing?
It's, I mean, I think what he calls it, tumo breathing?
Tumo.
Tumo.
I don't, I don't remember, that might be, I might be saying it wrong, but...
How's it go?
It's, it's a short inhale, long exhale, short inhale, long exhale, like a lot,
pretty rapidly.
And then...
Here it is.
How to do Wim Hof tumo breathing.
Fire pranayama.
Oh, activate your inner fire.
Ooh.
Okay.
So one of the cool things too is like doing sauna, ice bath, or, you know, like
cold plunge,
but also with this tumo breathing, I feel like something that really helped
elevate and like
activate everything in my body was I took a small little like a chocolate microdose
mushroom.
I ate a little piece of chocolate and then like kind of let that settle in.
We were like calming down and then got into this breathing exercise.
And when I tell you just there, like, I just felt so full, like my brain was
firing differently.
Just so many sensations that I felt that were just like, they felt like they
were very healthy
and like very powerful.
Like I needed those things.
It was a really cool experience to mix it with the mushrooms a little bit.
I think microdosing mushrooms is the future.
I think if people did that, first of all, it doesn't affect your cognitive
function like
in a negative way, like your ability to think or talk or do work or anything
like that.
But it puts you in such a good place.
It's like, oh, yeah, it's like this elevated place, but it's not medicated.
You don't feel bad when it's over.
Exactly.
I love microdosing mushrooms.
Yeah.
You don't really like trip out into this like crazy headspace.
Right.
Yeah, you're functional.
Yeah, very functional.
Yeah, if anything, clarity.
I feel like a bit more clarity in a different realm.
Like, not so much clarity like if I have caffeine and I'm like focused on my
project.
It kind of takes me away from a certain like aspect of my thinking and I'm more
like in a
little bit more in line with my body and clarity with like my body and my
senses.
You feel your body better, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Stretching is amazing.
Yes.
Yeah, it is.
You know, like stretching and breathing into stretches and, you know, if you
were to microdose
and do yoga or something like that, I'm sure it would be something that's.
I haven't done that.
I've done a lot of weed and do yoga and it's kind of the same thing.
I'm sure.
It gives you, you almost like feel the fibers stretching out.
That's how I feel.
That's, I think that's one thing for me.
I'm not like a heavy weed smoker, but I love to smoke before I train or before
I do
any type of running or stretching or because I feel the fibers.
It might sound weird, but I feel like I feel more of my muscle fibers and I'm
able to pay
attention to those little things.
And I don't think it's weird at all.
I think, I think the whole thing is like the, it's dose dependent.
Like if you get too high, you're like, oh, I can't even function.
Like I've, I've overdosed before and then try to go to do jujitsu.
I, I, I, I was trying to explain an omoplata to someone like this variation on
an omoplata.
And I was in, I couldn't figure out how to set up the omoplata.
I was like so high.
I was like, what am I doing?
Your leg, hold on.
I was just too gone.
That was, that was too much.
You want to just, just to, just to, just to touch, just to separate you from
normal consciousness.
I totally agree.
I totally agree.
It's been, yeah, it's been, it's been cool to be able to, uh, yeah, just kind
of bring new, new, um, instruments and, and, and techniques and into training
and, and make it more exciting and more about fighting and, you know, focusing
more on just like my overall health.
And yeah, ability, you know, just like ability mentally, physically,
emotionally, right?
Like, yeah, but that's one of the things that mushrooms and, and, and, and low
dose psychedelics and low dose marijuana can do for you.
It just like, it makes you, you, you concentrate on like your overall being
when you're training, like you feel things that you don't ordinarily feel.
And I, I, sometimes I dismiss it when I train sober for a long time.
Yeah.
I'm like, this is all, who gives a fuck?
Just go get the work done.
But then I'll get high.
I'll go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I forgot about this.
I forgot about this.
Like, it's like, you just, it makes you realize that like there's levels of
sensitivity.
Mm-hmm.
100%.
Yeah.
Have you ever, uh, uh, tried doing like cardio or airdyne bike?
Yes.
Yeah.
I like it.
Yeah.
Same.
I like it.
Yeah.
Same thing.
Yeah.
It's, it's great for a lot of things.
You know, I think, uh, it's not the best for learning for whatever reason.
Like, I don't like it before learning techniques.
I think I learned, it's way better for me when I'm rolling.
Got you.
You know, or like hitting the bag is the best.
Getting high and hitting the bag is amazing.
I just put on some good tunes.
That's all you need.
Yeah.
That's all you need.
And just feel it.
Yeah.
You don't need a partner.
You don't need anybody like yelling at you.
Just put on some music and, and let it flow.
I bet.
Usually I have, I use my round timer and I have a Wu-Tang playlist and I put Wu-Tang
Clan
on and just fucking gravel pit.
Get into that.
You know, I, that, that makes that, it actually brings me into that.
I feel like I totally connect with you because there's a whole nother level of
training to
Wu-Tang.
Like if you specifically put Wu-Tang on to train, like I kind of get your
mentality and that, that, that internal, you know, feeling that you get.
Cause yeah, that's one of my, not my last fight, but the fight before I walked
out to
Protect Your Neck.
Yes.
And like that, just that mentality, like the beat and the drums.
Oh yeah.
You just feel like this, this, I don't know, like a bad-ass martial artist,
like a street
martial artist.
When we drive to shows, like when we leave the hotel and then we go to the
arena, when,
whenever I'm doing comedy, we listen to Protect Your Neck.
That's the first thing we listen to.
We get in the car, either gravel pit or Protect Your Neck.
A gravel pit's crazy, right?
Oh, that's great.
They're like, ding, ding, ding.
Check out my gravel pit.
It's just, I get it.
Man, that era of hip-hop to me is just like, I mean, obviously I'm old.
So like that era was when I was young and it was like when I was really getting
into hip-hop,
but there's something about that era of hip-hop because it was, hip-hop was
only a couple
of decades old then.
Yep.
You know, really didn't, I mean, Sugar Hill Gang was like what, 1979, 78?
Like when, when was Rapper's Delight?
I mean, way before my time.
I was born 90.
So like, I think it was like 78 or 79.
It could have been.
I don't remember.
It could have been.
Do you know?
1980.
1980.
1980.
Okay.
So yeah.
So that's, that's when rap was essentially, modern rap was essentially born.
And then, you know, 10 years later, 15 years later, you know, you got Cool G
rap and DJ
Polo.
You got all those 90s hip-hop guys.
Yep.
You know?
Correct.
That's officially released on September 16th, 1979.
Ah, there you go.
Did you get to see the Wu-Tang Saga at all on Hulu?
No.
Joe Rogan.
Yeah?
You got to watch it.
Oh my God.
Yeah?
Okay.
I hadn't been excited about a show in a long time.
I saw the Wu-Tang Saga and some people have certain, you know, whatever their
opinions on
it.
But I think to be able to see the background of every single member of Wu-Tang,
right?
So it follows like each character individually and how they all came together.
And Ashton Sanders, Saunders, who plays the RZA.
And just, there is a scene in season two where he's sampling the music and it
takes him into
this like all black room where the, I can't even remember the group that he was
sampling,
but they pop up and they're each playing their instruments.
And then like, as he turns it down on the keyboard or on, you know, as he turns
it down on the
board, then like the guy's still singing, but like you can't hear him anymore.
Oh, this is here?
This scene, this is like one of the best scenes in, in, in film history.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
That makes me crazy.
Watched him.
Your love is for me.
Turn the voice up.
Oh, wow.
Let me hear the drums.
Oh, the guitar.
Yeah, right there.
That's probably the way a person sampling and creating music like that would
see things,
right?
You think about