Name: JRE MMA Show #49 with Miriam Nakamoto
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #49 with Miriam Nakamoto' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-29. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #49 with Miriam Nakamoto

Here we go. Four, three, two, boom. And we're live. Hello, Miriam.
Hi, Joe.
Good to see you. Grab this mic and keep it like a fist from your face. That's a
good reference point.
Is this good?
Perfect.
Okay.
Perfect.
Just sit up like that.
Yeah. Good to see you.
It's so good to see you.
I'm sad that you can't sell these snacks everywhere because I know you're
working on making these mass-produced, but they're fucking fantastic.
Yeah.
They're very good.
When did you first give me some of these? Like five years ago or some shit?
2014.
Something like that?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, my knee blew out. I just had surgery and I needed something to do.
That was knee number one.
It was second one.
That was the second one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I've had two more since. So I've had four. Total.
The life of a world champion Muay Thai kickboxer is not an easy one.
No, it actually started when I started grappling.
That's when it started blowing your knee out?
Yeah.
Yeah, no, Muay Thai was fine.
I got cracked ribs.
I got cut.
I got maybe concussions.
Maybe concussions?
Really bad.
Like broke my elbow on somebody's head.
Oh.
Yeah, but no knee stuff. It was MMA. Jiu-jitsu.
Yeah, wrestling and jiu-jitsu are rough on the knees.
I think this motion, I'm not awesome on the cartilage. It's like a weird motion.
You mean like hip stuff?
Knees, when you do like that with your...
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So like on your back, like working your guard, that kind of thing? That's what
you think?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I just, yeah, and 20 years of use on this body.
Mm-hmm.
Well, it does put, it puts weight in weird ways on your knees, too.
Like someone's trying to pass your guard and they're moving your ankles around
stuff.
You have to swivel.
Yeah.
You have to swivel with their weight and their violence directed at you.
So, yeah.
I saw you getting a bunch of fluid on Instagram shot into there. What is that
all about?
I think it was like orthovisc.
What is that?
It did not help.
No?
That was a waste of money.
That was, yeah.
It was like a gooey fluid.
Yeah, it was like padding.
Oh, is that what the idea is?
But what was really nice was I got a straight shot of ibuprofen in there. That
felt amazing.
Yeah, like three months worth of ibuprofen just shot it right in there.
Really?
Yeah.
That shit is so bad for you, though.
Is it? It felt really good.
Yeah, I tell everybody to stay the fuck away from ibuprofen.
Really?
Yeah, Dr. Rhonda Patrick was the first person that alerted me to it.
The increased risk of strokes and heart attack.
And then my friend Cam Haynes, who's an ultramarathon runner.
God damn it.
He was taking 800 milligrams a day, every day.
Okay, for how long?
Forever.
That's a lot.
That's a lot.
That's different.
It is different.
I just got one super shot.
Well, he basically runs almost a marathon a day.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Yeah, because he runs these 240 mile races.
So he was having these serious pains.
He's like, I need it to get going.
So I told him about all the heart attack stuff and the stroke stuff.
He's like, fuck.
So he gets off of it.
All of his inflammation relaxes and calms down.
Turns out what was going on was the ibuprofen severely upsets your gut bacteria.
And so when that happens, it causes systemic inflammation, which you then treat
with ibuprofen.
So he takes out the ibuprofen.
All the gut problems go away.
All the inflammation goes away.
All his hip pains, knee pains, all that shit went away, which is crazy.
I think ibuprofen is great if you do it every, just rarely.
You know, something's going on.
You need.
What I noticed when he shot my knee, that into my knee, like within the next
week, you know, over the course of a couple of days,
I noticed that I had greater range of motion.
So what it made me realize was like, oh, I had a little inflammation in there.
Because I kept thinking, I was like, is it the tissue tight?
Is this homeboy shooting?
What is he shooting in here?
This video.
Orthopist.
This is that stuff that didn't work.
With no gloves on.
Yeah.
Everybody's all in his comments.
Yeah.
Aren't you supposed to have gloves on?
What kind of fucking doctor is this?
Where were you?
In a garage somewhere?
In a free clinic.
So what?
Oh, ho, ho, ho.
Yo, look at you.
So what is that orthovisc stuff supposed to do?
It's supposed to like, like give it padding.
Hmm.
Yeah.
It didn't really help.
It was a waste of money and time.
How much does that shit cost?
I think it was like 200 or 220 a shot.
And I just got three of them.
Maybe it's for like regular people.
Maybe it would work for regular people.
Not for people that are throwing a lot of kicks.
You know?
The kicks don't bother me.
I bet it is in the kicks, right?
I think about that like it is grappling, right?
That is the thing that puts the most wear on your...
If you talk...
Like you meet like old kickboxers.
I mean, some of them have brain damage for sure.
Yeah.
But their bodies aren't as broken down as old grapplers.
No, they might be hobbling a little bit.
Their toes might kind of...
You see Rob?
Rob Kaman, remember him?
Oh, yeah.
Rob's are all fucked up.
Yeah, his toes are like...
Rob's foot looked like he jumped into a pool that was empty.
And landed on his big toe.
Yeah.
All of them.
But when you're a guy like Rob who's been kicking shins and elbows...
Oh, he's a badass.
He's so badass.
...for so long, he's amazing.
It sucks.
It hurts my heart that he missed the curve.
He missed it, you know?
The fame wave.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because he's brilliant.
He's fucking brilliant.
He really is.
Yeah.
And he helped a lot of fighters too.
I mean, he was a big, big part of Brennan Vera's early success.
Yeah.
And that's when I was training with him.
Back in the old bomb squad days.
And, you know, he was working with a lot of kickboxers.
And people were starting to catch on to his whole system.
I couldn't even...
When I got to work with him, and I couldn't...
At the time, I was so green as a fighter, or just as a martial artist, that I
couldn't comprehend what he was trying to show me and tell me.
And he's like, no, you're going to have programmed counters to the counters.
Yeah.
And he was like trying to dial me in, program me in, and I couldn't keep up
with him.
Right.
You know, at the time, I was just too...
I wasn't at that level.
Well, you know what the difference is?
Like, some people just use athleticism and timing, and they just try to be
creative.
What he does is he has a full system of, like, what to do in varying positions
and what to do depending upon your opponent's reaction.
But then on top of that, there's also creativity, which is...
And savagery.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
He's a savage motherfucker.
He's super...
Yeah, he's very savage.
Oh, his highlight reel.
Pull up Rob Kamen's highlight reel.
I mean, he knocked out...
And that porn stash.
Back in the Dizze, right?
Yeah, the porn stash.
That's thin Rob Kamen.
It's really incredible when you think about, like, how many great fighters came
out of Holland.
And kickboxers in particular.
It's just one small country.
And here it is right here.
You get to see some of it.
Look at Rob Kamen pulling up in a motorcycle.
Sexy bitch.
So stoic, too.
He looks so angry.
Well, back in the day, he was.
Yeah.
Which is really interesting if you know him now, because he's so friendly and...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Huggy and...
He's like a big, fluffy dog.
Yeah.
He's a fascinating guy.
He really is.
But his knowledge of kickboxing is just so fucking tremendous.
I love how he's sit down on his punches like a boxer.
And, like, shifting his weight.
Because I don't see a lot of kickboxers that do that well.
Yeah, well, he...
They're still here.
Right.
And then they rotate, rotate.
But they don't...
He's, like, really kind of getting in here.
You know, like a boxer more.
Do you think that's because when you do dig down, you're sort of compromising
your ability
to throw kicks for a brief moment?
Because you're really digging in?
But he's knowing...
He knows when to do it, too.
It's his fight IQ, right?
Yeah.
It's knowing when to do it.
And it's also...
It's my pet peeve with Muay Thai.
Look at him.
My pet peeve with Muay Thai is when they throw punches, they kind of come up.
It's, like, very triumphant looking, isn't it?
It's like...
Right.
And it's like, that doesn't make any fucking sense.
Yeah.
Because you won't punch with power.
Not the same power.
Yeah.
And you can't get out of the way.
Why do you think they do that?
I didn't think that.
I just think they weren't taught well.
Mm-hmm.
I wasn't.
Yeah.
I just recently started changing my style, you know?
But when you kick, you're up.
You kind of come up into the kick, you know?
Mm-hmm.
You, like, raise up.
And then they try to punch in that way.
And I really feel like just with mixed martial arts, when you are doing
wrestling, you have
to, like, be respectful that you're doing MMA fight, but kind of embody that.
Mm-hmm.
You know, that wrestling technique.
When you're punching, you got to embody that punching technique.
When you're kicking, you got to embody that kicking technique.
And same with jiu-jitsu.
Like, you wouldn't stand as a Muay Thai fighter if you're doing a wrestling
move in an MMA
fight.
Of course.
And I think with Muay Thai fighters, they don't understand that.
It's like when you're punching, you need to, like, kind of sit down and rotate.
You got to hotate, I like to say.
Hotate?
Hotation.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, you have good hotation.
And then when they kick, they got to come up.
When they knee, they got to come up.
Mm-hmm.
You know, it's different.
And they don't make that distinction.
And then they don't produce, they don't optimize on their body and the power
that they could produce.
That's always been a big issue with MMA is fighters trying to figure out
exactly how to position
themselves and how to move.
And then all the variables, right?
How many different ways there are to do it really successfully.
Like, you see how Conor McGregor stands, wide stands, kind of sideways.
He stands almost like a karate guy.
He's built in around his strong weapons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whereas different guys have, you know, different ways of doing, like, you know,
Daniel Cormier,
very different style.
Mm-hmm.
You know, hands up high, moves forward.
You know, a lot of bobbing and weaving.
He's much more like a boxer.
I don't really give a fuck if you get your hands on him, though.
No.
Where Conor does.
Right.
Where Conor's like, can you stay away from this?
Exactly.
Can you stay away?
And his is more like, come at me, bitch.
Yeah, grab me, bitch.
Like, I'm like, I'm going to come and get you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's different.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
But it's fascinating also how a lot of people that come from certain
backgrounds, like even
wrestlers who come from a wrestling background, they have to alter their own
wrestling
style for MMA, like a lot of wrestlers, specifically guys who stand in an orthodox
position when
they're boxing, but if they were a right-handed wrestler, a lot of times they'd
be standing
in softball.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they'd be shooting with the right leg forward.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
So it's a lot of like.
Judo, too.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a lot of weird, like MMA is such a different thing.
It's so different.
They're so, like, it's where all the pieces come together and some of them don't
line up that
good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think the best people are the ones that can make it line up.
Sure.
Yeah.
And with the most fluidity.
When you see, particularly you, because you're a world champion Muay Thai
fighter, and when
you see the level of stand-up in MMA, for sure now with women, it's the highest
it's ever
been, right?
Like right around now?
Mm-hmm.
But it's still not quite the level that you would see in like championship Muay
Thai, except
for girls like Valentina and Joanna.
She's amazing.
Yeah.
She's amazing.
Yeah.
Cyborg, of course, is very scary.
I take, yeah, she is.
She's so nice.
Super nice, right?
Grab this, pull that.
Sorry.
It's all right.
