Name: JRE MMA Show #91 with Radio Rahim
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #91 with Radio Rahim' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-02-13. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #91 with Radio Rahim

do do do yeah that is a guy named ross baines he painted that he's also painted
this uh there's a
picture in the green room of me and daniel cormier and there's uh another one
these i think he sent
me the one of masvidal this he did an amazing one of jorge masvidal when he
landed this knee
on ben askrin he's a great artist but that's richard prior he painted that for
me well clearly
my screensaver used to be a collection of mugshots like jim morrison i have morrison
out there yeah i have frank sinatra in the green room so but okay so the thing
is i'm not a criminal
right i don't aspire to be a criminal i don't know what are these like these
mug shots are so iconic
yeah what does it mean to you to see like your heroes essentially charged with
crimes and maybe
one of the worst nights there a lot well it didn't start off that way this is
what happened i was in
hawaii and they i'm a giant jimmy hendrix fan that's why i named the podcast joe
rogan experience
i ripped off the jimmy hendrix experience and i was in hawaii and um i went to
this art gallery
and they had all this uh rock and roll art and they had this really dope uh
collaboration of
hendrix his mug shot was like six nine nine images nine square images of hendrix's
mush i go that looks
cool as fuck and so i bought it and i also bought uh the rosa parks one and i
also bought the elvis one
they had three different uh collab like just nine squares on one piece of
artwork right and i thought
it looked cool so i said oh that'd be a good backdrop for the podcast so the
old podcast studio i had
those behind me and then i started picking up other ones like i got janice joplin
in the bathroom i got
johnny cash i got jim james brown i got prior on the wall here i got uh jim morrison
i got steven tyler
on the wall over there i just started collecting them and this there's no real
rhyme or reason to it i
just i got lenny bruce i got everybody but i just found mug shots and i just
started collecting them
i had like i said my screen server was that for like a year and i even had sinatra
in my room
big you know yeah a big one on the wall and whatnot and i'm like you know what
is this about
it occurred to me like everybody that became an icon became legend like you
have to break the rules
there's nobody who just like followed every rule and that's what they're famous
for like hey this guy
never stepped out of line he did everything that everyone said he was supposed
to do did it all the
ways that you're within the rules and that's the legend that you love no it's
almost like it's
you're it's illegal to be exceptional you have to break the law to make the to
make the imprint on
the society that you want to make well particularly in the time where these
guys were doing their art
i mean we're talking about morrison and hendrix this is the 70s the 60s it was
wild times there's a
transitionary period between the 50s where everything was like mom and pop and
diners and
fucking drive-through movies and shit and then all drive-in movies and then all
of a sudden you have
drugs and wild rock and roll and james brown and and chaos and whatever you're
not supposed to do
that's the thing you should be doing i mean within reason we're not talking
about like harming other
people whatnot but the society is like restrictions yeah that's the boundary to
keep you as a normal
person as a like i wish i had a better answer but if uh if i had to really put
my finger on it i would
say that those images represent these moments where society tried to contain
these wild people
exactly you know these people that were breaking the rules these people that
were trying to change culture
these people that were just doing their thing and it wasn't like they weren't
popular i mean when
i think jim morrison pulled his dick out right didn't he pull his dick out i
mean he was insanely
popular when he pulled his dick out and they're like enough yeah that way you
didn't say we probably
would he got arrested finally for pulling his dick out but when you get
arrested for pulling your dick
out it's never the first time no he's pulled his dick out i know a lot of
people who pulled their dick
out it's uh yeah it's it's a weird thing like that moment where you you know
where the the society
that's trying to contain these artists like lashes out and captures them
briefly and then but they don't
even realize they're just making them bigger yeah you know and they're making
them more accessible
hey i got a mug shot i mean like it turned out the one from hendrix was a mug
shot it wasn't a real
mug shot he never got arrested he did get arrested but the image that i had
some artist took liberties
and they decided well this is a cooler picture let's put his mug shot logo
under that so it was the actual
words from toronto where he got arrested for heroin underneath his image but
the image was incorrect so
then i went out and got the real image so now that big and i used to have them
in the squares but then
i changed the squares to these big metal ones see the one i had is the upper
right inside that's the
wrong one that's not the real it's a cooler one because if that one down there
yeah okay okay well
that's the real mug shot but don't do the one with the words behind it the the
one right next to it
jamie didn't know next to it net right above above right above right there that's
it that's the actual one
see that one on the right hand side that's the actual image of hendrix oh i
didn't know there's
a mick jagger oh yeah yeah well the yonkers one is stephen tyler i have that
one on the wall that's
the side shot but i didn't know stephen did you know that uh mick jagger got
arrested jamie
um ordered that hold on to those and start ordering we're gonna get some new
ones oh david bowie
we got the janis joplin in the bathroom i didn't know david bowie got arrested
that's axel rose right here actual world was a little cutie pie when he was
younger look at him
the david bowie one is pretty dope that actually looks like it could be the
cover of an album
scroll back down again to that please yeah look at that and jim morrison looks
like chris stapleton
look how odd he looks there 1976. he's guilty whatever whatever he got arrested
for that night
arrested for being beautiful look at him
so dude let's get into this man we had this conversation at the comedy store i'm
like you
got to come on the podcast we got to talk about this because you are a part of
probably the most iconic
boxing interview of our day you with dionte wilder when dionte wilder freaked
out on you
it became this huge huge thing to this day to this day to this day he puts it
on his
instagram he puts it in hashtags till this day he sells sweatshirts with till
this day on them
there's a store that's adjacent to the barclay center it's connected to the barclay
center and
it's full of it it says to this day on it he had a grand opening there i was
invited to it like
so that's an iconic meme this is now a major part of my identity do people
associate you with it though
do they like automatically or do they just so because it's your you see the
side of your face
but you see him angry as fuck arguably the scariest heavyweight of all time i
mean mike tyson's
right up there mike see off state off ring outside the ring dionte is a
sweetheart he's a really nice
guy so to see him angry outside the ring is kind of weird because i had him on
the podcast he couldn't
be a nicer guy yeah he's true he's a really nice guy look and so to see him
angry at you to this day
and like giving you crazy eyes that was like oh and when you explained it it's
like yeah that's
what you do in an interview you you you want someone to expand and say what do
you mean by that
yeah and listen man this is not like the first day we met it's not like i just
happened upon this uh
heavyweight champion of the world screaming and decided to piss him off we've
had multiple conversations
sat down for hours at a time in fact in belfast in germany he uh ireland i'm
sorry we sat down for an
hour and i don't know i mean so i'm gonna give you the i'm gonna give you the
context of what i was
thinking in the moment okay all right he's on stage tell it because some people
might not be aware of
exactly what happened so just try to okay so there it is right there in a
couple weeks we're gonna see
it again i don't know we're gonna see the exact same thing happen it comes up
it's seasonal
deontay wilder is facing tyson fury tyson fury is a british gypsy okay he is a
boisterous very animated
uh showman in boxing heavyweights mind you these guys are giants first time
they they met this is
december 18. so uh i travel the world covering boxing everywhere like i said i
sat down with this guy in
ireland i've covered tyson fury in uh england i've covered him in america i've
covered boxing literally
everywhere so i'm familiar with what you also know that fighting even combat
sports boxing mma
there is a regional aspect to it like everybody's culture brings something to
it the irish fighter
feels like he's got a certain style he's got a certain history he's got a claim
to the warrior legacy
same for the british fighter of course the american fighter but both of these
guys come from what's like
an underclass of their society uh travelers gypsies in england are looked down
upon these people are
cultural fighters and i don't mean necessarily just the oppression of being an
underclass but fighting
is part of their tradition almost like it is to mexicans in mexico it's
something that they do that
bonds the clan they believe in the history of it obviously deontay waters from
alabama you know he's
as dark as midnight he is a descendant of slaves for sure okay he's got a
history coming to any fight
bringing what he experiences in this country to this element of the face-off
one man one man versus one
man so when tyson fury is on stage during the press conference and something uh
possessed him to say
you know i'm coming from a fighting people my people have been fighting for 200
years
well in context he means that the culture of travelers of gypsies is one of we're
fighting
men i'm a fighting man that's something that they say about themselves and each
other so that's what
he's bringing to this argument that's how he's challenging wilder but wilder
takes that and says
200 years of fight my people have been fighting for 400 years of course he's
talking about the black
experience in america slavery all all alike but mind you he's talking to a british
fighter he's talking
to a world audience it's not like he's fighting dominic brazil you understand
where it's two americans
probably not going to get that much international uh attention the world's
watching particularly
communities that don't necessarily know when a black man says 400 years you
know i know you know because we
grew up in america you know what we're talking about the world doesn't know
that i travel the world
they're not just they're not steeped in black american history i've had
conversations with him he loves to
talk about the plight of the black man in america and how it relates to his
career how he feels you know
disadvantaged in certain ways and he carries the mantle in other ways he's a
champion of black america in
certain ways and he's a victim of white america in other ways so when i see
this argument happening
i'm like oh okay well this is definitely a moment but i'm not a pool reporter
right so in this
particular instance it's unusual for me to be part of the scrum is what they
call it collection of uh
reporters uh everybody's kind of shouting questions out just trying to evoke
responses usually i'm a one-on-one
guy i'll wait my turn right but on this particular day oh yeah i didn't have a
haircut i wasn't really
i was coming i just got back from dubai i went in dubai with like you know dave
chappelle i'm hanging
out it's after thanksgiving i'm just like you know what i'm gonna kind of mail
this one in to be honest
i'm thinking let me