Name: Joe Rogan Experience #933 - Julie Kedzie
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #933 - Julie Kedzie' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-03-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #933 - Julie Kedzie

uh three you start at three two ah tricky
and we're live how are you julie i'm doing well what's happening we were just
talking before this
podcast started you're working on your masters in non-fiction creative writing
creative non-fiction
yeah what is creative non-fiction how's that work um it's actually very
encompassing of a lot of
things think about like memoir or biography essays especially we're a bunch of
essayists we're a bunch
of nerds they pick about i think nine or ten of us out of a group of 150 for
this program and then um
we write a ton of essays and we read so much it's insane it's amazing how many
female mma fighters
not that this is a knock against male mma fighters are like really smart like
rosie sexton oh yeah you
know uh there's like there's a ton of them you can go down the list yeah peggy
morgan she's got yeah
yeah the really intelligent female fighters i think that um i think there's
something with mma and
creativity and i think whereas because the opportunities maybe haven't been out
there for
women as much when it comes to like i guess finding an avenue for that
creativity there you know they go
into other things like academics and arts and then they find mma and then they
try to do both i wonder
if it's that oh i mean i think there's probably a bunch of reasons roxanne matafari
that's another
one she's super smart i always wonder if it's like maybe it's such an odd thing
especially when you
started i mean you're a real pioneer in a lot of ways i mean you fought gina
carano in 2007 10 years
ago a long time ago it's a long time ago it's crazy when you think about it you
know the mma was like
non-existent in the public sphere back then it just wasn't something that
people talked about for women
but the women that did get into it and reached like a professional level you
have to be like
extremely dang daring you i mean it's a it's a kind of a crazy occupation it is
it's um and i think
that those of us who started back then of course i'm not knocking the people
who are doing it now
because they're tremendous athletes and you know the women going into it now
but the environment was
such that you had to be really obsessive and i'm sure that you know many other
female athletes at this
time have that kind of obsessive streak but i think at that time because we i
mean you'd scour
the internet like the mma underground that was i was always looking for fights
i was always trying
to find somebody to find me or the sure dog forums all that stuff before it got
kind of trolley
yeah exactly i know it's like always who wants to fight me who wants to fight
me and somebody say
i want to fight you like yes thank you i'm so i'm so grateful it was a weird
atmosphere back then
yeah it was uh well it was people doing it just for the pure passion of it yeah
you know like i talked
to jeremy horn about this you know jeremy i think has had 150 pro fights
something crazy like that
and he was like you have to realize like back then we were doing it because we
wanted to do it yeah
no one was thinking that this was going to be an avenue for you to be the next
conor mcgregor
or the next ronda rousey it didn't exist no no my yeah my very first fight um
they videotaped
me it was for jeff osborne and hook and shoot and they videotaped me and they
said what do you want
to do with this i was like oh i'm gonna be in the ufc and that was 2004 and you
know everybody laughed
at me i was like no i'm gonna be in the ufc just watch me i actually can't
believe i did but i mean
i can believe that was my goal that's what you know that's why i didn't do well
in the ufc but i got
there you know i checked that one off but um you know it wasn't about being
that superstar it was about
where you would get to fight you know what would you you would get to do and i
don't know just
getting to fight was such a pleasure you know just the absolute i have a fight
the excitement you would
have like i have a fight oh my god this is great that's a crazy feeling to try
to explain to someone
that has never done anything remotely as dangerous as competing in mma you know
try to explain that to
someone like if you were talking to some woman who's a doctor or a professor or
a just normal job you
know those aren't the most normal jobs but you know i'm just saying if you were
trying to explain to
someone what you want to fight like you want you're looking forward to
something that's going to make
you terribly nervous you're probably going to want to throw up right before you
go out there you're
going to be freaking out and then finally going to be in there doing it yeah
and it's yeah i mean it's
really it's difficult to to explain i guess maybe ultra marathon runners or
somebody of that kind of
different sphere of of expression would maybe understand it what you want to
run 100 miles in
the desert or whatever you know i think that there's there's an extremism in a
lot of people that um
lays pretty dormant but when you get into it when you find an avenue for it and
you get to it becomes
so addictive and you just want to keep doing it you can't stop doing it do you
also kind of take comfort
in the fact there's just a few of you out there like that because i've been
really getting it this
is a really strange thing to get obsessed with because i'm not really going to
do it but i'm
obsessed with these people that hike across the country oh yeah do you know
what i'm talking about
you know the appalachian trail yeah i'm having this guy on who has completed
the appalachian trail
and i'm just i'm i'm obsessed with these people they cut their toothbrushes in
half to save weight
like they wear one piece of clothing for like six months like it's nuts they
bring water filters so
they can find creeks and drink out of water and they these are educated people
college degrees and
they just want to see if they can walk from georgia to maine i think everybody
has that in them to a
certain extent where they just have to push themselves in some direction
although you know when it comes to
those long hikes i've also heard from people who have failed at the appalachian
trail you know after a
a certain point you're just putting one foot in front of the other and doesn't
mean anything anymore
right so i think that there's also that that sense of burnout but those people
with that that drive to
do something well passion i think is the perfect word for it that just want to
push beyond what they
know into a different sphere um the problem is it does become addictive and
your body or your mind can't
always keep up with it yeah and there's a thing that happens to people when
they become addicted to things
where it it overwhelms them it becomes all consuming you know so your all-consuming
thing is trying to
run you did 100 miles now you got to run 200 miles yeah exactly you have to be
faster this time yeah now
you got to win like you know it's it's a strange compulsion to push yourself to
almost like experience
yourself it's almost like regular life in its placid vibration is frustrating
it's just it's there's not
enough there's not enough tension there's not enough excitement there's not
enough you need
like i mean that's that's how we settle the new world right that's how yeah
like that's i mean that's
how mountains are are are climbed are summited that's how we get to space is
because you just there's
something in human nature that's so precious that you just have to keep pushing
yeah it's a collective
feeling but then you know there's some individuals out there who just stand a
little bit apart or just in
a maybe a different playground and they just want to keep pushing and pushing
and pushing and they want
to be the ones and that's that's how we achieve the thing about mma though it's
like you have to
i guess balance that pushing with preserving your physical health especially
someone who's as smart
as you it's got to be an interesting sort of an act a balancing act because
yeah i yeah excuse me for
talking i always get all excited and talk no um i my body's a wreck now like i'm
there's no way i could
ever compete in mma again what's going on oh my neck is out um i had shoulder
surgery in 2012 and
something happened with my neck and it never healed correctly so what is it do
you know no i've never
i hate getting mris i hate i hate all of that i don't like being in a tube like
that it makes me
really nervous so you just yeah so i just deal with it i mean just massage and
and stuff but um
my knees are are pretty bad i get sciatica like i i understand that i don't i
retired kind of young
i guess but i understood that it was the time i needed to because things were
not going to function
in my body on the level that they needed to and my mind wasn't in a place where
it would push beyond
that well you competed professionally for what 10 years more yeah nine years
yeah i mean i was i've
been doing martial arts since i was four so that's a lot of years that's a lot
of years that's 32 years
um but you know i like actually competing like i knew that that wasn't giving
me i knew it at my last
fight like before i walked out there i told greg jackson i said this is it i'm
done and he was like
okay which and i was like is he right before you went out there oh i was so
sick i got yeah i had food
poisoning it was weird it was when i fought betch gohea and um um anyway in
australia is that about
betch rolling your eyes yeah a little bit a little bit a little bit you know
there's always that you
always have that thing where i won that fight come on right throw me a bone i
won that fight and stop
wiggling your butt but you know she does her thing whatever she does her thing
she's been very successful
with the betch brand um but uh no i i had food poisoning i don't know back then
you know you were
still you're still like to do ivs and stuff so i had ivs and i thought they
worked well and i think i
ate something wrong or something weird but i woke up the next day well i have a
history of a lot of
shitting myself a lot i don't know during fights um well yes that has happened
yes that's what i'm
known for is shitting myself in russia but oh boy um yeah it was a good one
right in front of putin
really you shit yourself in front of putin well okay i'll i'll backtrack to
that story okay it's
it's my favorite it's your favorite it's my mma story story yeah no um it was
my first
fight under greg jackson it was in 2007 it was after the carano fight and i um
i'd met him at that
fight he and joey vies and you're in keith jardine and some of these people and
they're really kind to
me and i had another fight for in st petersburg with bodog a couple months
later and my corner man
couldn't make it i was in indiana at the time was that the undercard of fedor
and matt linland yes
yes yeah um so i uh i called up this nice guy i didn't know he was famous all i
cared about was
women competing in the sport i didn't care about the guys very much you know i
liked tough was
interesting but it really didn't do anything for me i would watch fights if i
could but i couldn't
afford people couldn't relate either yeah yeah i was like well they're not
letting me in that show
but bodog did you know these other shows that were you know internet based and
um i call up this
nice guy greg jackson and i'm just like hey uh would you be interested in
cornering me for a fight
and he's like well why don't you come here and train and i was like oh one of
those no and it
turned out no he's this really nice guy who gave me a job and a place to live
when i moved there but
um no but um so i i drove out to albuquerque and i was there for three days and
i realized i was never
gonna leave like this is it this is my team this is my home like left
everything behind me wow which
wasn't maybe very nice to my boyfriend but well you know it's other boyfriends
yeah i mean it was my
fight career like yeah that's what counted that's where where were you living
indiana yeah just outside
of indianapolis indiana albuqu