Joe Rogan Experience #511 — Enson Inoue Transcript

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0:00 Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! And they were going to take the place. Kenny Monday was entering into MMA. It was a lot, to use their wrestling skills had a wicked one man you're one of the few guys to ever submit randy couture you submitted randy It's kind of interesting because you don't see that from other dudes. Yeah. of fighting, man, was always

2:43 wild, crazy style, you got through it. You were doing something totally different because you snuck up on him like he scooted forward. Like casts on my legs. one of the elite guys in the ufc this is after he had beat vitor yeah and yeah and randy was known over in Japan? Going up, yeah, to the temporary housing. And they say those fish are safe to eat.

5:38 as up by the plant it's a lot of radiation but as far as um the people who were displaced from the So that has been extended. Why isn't the world helping? Wow, that's amazing. to keep them going to keep them cool and if you don't they burn through the containment and they Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, I didn't know that either. You drive to San Diego down the coast and you see them and you're like, oh, Jesus, that's a fucking nuclear power plant right there.

8:23 They didn't have the right amount of backup and redundancy as far as the generators and stuff. that much more people they can't afford it and i'm like i'm like so you're gonna let people live it just shuts down because of a natural disaster and they can't plan for it which is the situation I'm doing it in my house, and I have a, my neighbor doesn't have electrical bills anymore.

10:37 a very slight amount. and he had a whole system set up in, he lived up on Mauna Loa, and he had a whole system set up. and he collected rainwater up there and that's how he got all his water and all his electricity Yeah, it's constantly getting bigger. Yeah. You can see it grow. It's pretty intense. And you just can't do nothing about it. No, there's nothing.

13:18 Fuck it. surfing, and I was good. He used to go into deep blue. Yeah. He had his massage license. 5 a.m. I used to eat breakfast and lay around. But now I force myself to work out first thing in the morning. thing I do is work out I never used to do that I used to eat breakfast and lay around but now I force myself to What is the significance behind these bracelets?

16:01 I know crystals. And I'm like, really? And I love the bracelets. And I'm not this guru that's pushing power stones. and something that's for their ailment. Like a placebo effect? And their body, thinking that it's medicine, starts to relax and concentrate on healing. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Might be that placebo thing, yeah? I still see you wearing them, the balance ones.

18:38 Shane Carwin was telling me, he's like, dude, I'm telling you, I put this thing on and it changed my life. And it's a weird shit. then you can't believe it. In that situation. The effect of that belief is real. It's very beneficial. All right. It gets kind of squirrely. And when you treat each other All your work helping all these people in Fukushima,

22:49 Yeah, we went up there You don't get hot. micro sieverts within a year Iodine tablets. What is iodine? Iodine tablets. What is iodine? Yeah. But they say that that's still negligible. Otherwise, they wouldn't have a base level to compare it to. is higher than that the right direction for me, No matter what. Yeah, well, that's what they say about cell phones, right?

25:57 There'll be a flight attendant. and then they run out of the room and hit that button and then come back in. Man, what kind of cancer? what I understand, a lot of it is from random mutations That's why I can't talk so good. Yeah, the heat goes so high that it can melt down, melt it down off water, Then it goes, Yeah, so they have tons of that Wow. It's kind of stupid but one of the things is the monsters go after the radioactive waste

29:45 Wow. Like there's a 19-year-old kid who figured out a machine things that have fallen off of boats, things that have got picked up from the beach and they've all swirled because you know there's um there's currents in the ocean it is so they there's islands that they find where these birds these baby birds are dead and their and it's going to suck all the plastic out of the ocean

31:50 dead zones there's lack of oxygen and pollution in the ocean they figured out a way to throw iron I'm too fucking stupid to explain it correctly. It's amazing what some people have invented, huh? That's the yin and the yang, right? You know? figure out a way to fix things like fukushima yeah i bet there's a lot of them you got to yeah It sounds like something a little kid would invent.

34:44 from a family who's worked hard for worked hard to work for it all their lives So that's why they can't afford it. Fuck. Yes. No. And has this one apprentice. That's Jiro. I mean, it might be impossible to get in there. Giro dreams of sushi stores. jumped right back in still working 16 hours a day wow that's neat i should check that out this way of doing things wholeheartedly.

38:56 I wrote letters. So you can imagine I'm okay. I mean, I want to drink a Coke, but I'm trying to eat only good things before my fight. but they don't really put their will and heart into it. yeah so you know when fighters start getting lazy you know or they don't fight as hard or they tap It's interesting, too, because in this day and age age it's a real business as well so it's

42:01 be losing my my job at the ufc you know there UFC. You know, people ask me a lot, you know, Yeah, I did. Should never happen, right? Dos Anjos did that thing that guys do to a shitty stoppage. and started like coming up again Right now, in the UFC, it's a sport. but back in the day when you're fighting for honor no i mean if that fight was not televised and you need to worry about sponsors and you know and people getting

45:09 And then the second fight, or the fight after that, same thing. Some guys are known for coming back. like you know it's i mean i wouldn't say i could be the same fighter if I fought today. counteracts the best thing for me to was one of the most devastating strikers in the sport. And he was just this ball of muscle and bone and we were just screaming.

48:11 When you see the opening, we see the punches come, you know living the yarmouth lamashee way you You know, a lot of people, you know, you can say it, a reputation that was saving me forever it was the best fight do you have a fight that like you And I remember looking at my corner because i was you know trying to be tough i just just felt in in that moment and time i felt okay

50:26 And this is the time where I can show myself that I can still go on. broken jaw broken finger and i had a swollen brain whoa yeah, and that was a big worry for the doctors. That'll affect your kidneys apparently. Well, it's also probably the effort that you put forth, too, It's a big issue And this rhabdomyelosis is That's a fight that actually got me intrigued to fight Igor.

52:56 Hugo Duarte Well, you fought some big fucking guys, too. Yeah, he was out for a long time, too. And look at this again. He was one of the first guys to throw like the way Fedor was known Did they have gloves on back then? So I feel like I just made it, yes. Huh. there's a lot of them a lot lately but these pride gloves tim kennedy believes are superior to the

56:18 but no one wants to look at – there's a lot of people who have analyzed football. Less head trauma, less instances of traumatic brain injury. Your heel never gets hurt. I think that might be the way. So probably we couldn't elbow him. the people that get hurt in the eyes because If you, if, if you're allowed to have growing shots, you groin shots, you'd train not to get hit in the groin.

58:42 I know. like Alan Belcher's career is in jeopardy And I'm talking about grappling to get away with it yeah that was shameful that was yeah he lost his eye because of that yeah he's one of the few there's a way to cover that it maybe even because of that oh really yeah but then again it goes back to the football thing like maybe you're I think it's still... We have a bunch of issues in MMA right now.

1:01:07 I haven't seen one person that thought Diego Sanchez won that fight other than Diego and Diego's family. He's a motherfucker. His face could be hanging off. He's fun to watch fight. there's one thing around pacing yourself on a five minute round is one thing pacing yourself But you can imagine that happening for 10 minutes. that I don't like stand-ups.

1:03:20 you've got to get better I just don't think it's realistic for a guy just to hang on Right. Yeah. back arm bars triangles boom boom boom like there's no picnic taking that guy on the ground You're just running into another sort of a situation where you can get submitted or lose the fight. Yeah, true. And they will watch it. You don't like that, man?

1:06:09 Oh, that would be funny. Yeah. I don't want to see that. Yeah, yeah. fight training but the real the reality is a guy like you versus a football Really? There's fights that are run by them, yeah. If you're in Japan, when they have one, they'll take you to one. They have referees. Wow. But the Yakuza is not talked about, but it's everywhere. Do you understand that saying?

1:10:20 So you live your life with all these little tests in life all the little trials that you have in today's day and age being able to get your food from a True adversity. Yeah. I was little, like 12 years old. And I didn't do anything about it. I don't know why I didn't help you. those are to make the wrong decision and to feel the repercussions of that wrong decision

1:13:40 trial and error Wow. There are no second places. you won't internalize it but when you've been cracked and rocked and you wind up think, I don't know yet. say maybe you catch a guy with one punch and you knock him out and then you just decide that you're that you like to strike. but it kind of tells you exactly what i'm thinking during the fight what happened what i felt after

1:17:27 knowing that you were scared, which is very different in a lot of ways than Western philosophy, and athletes and not not as much day stories they keep talking about back when yeah back when you won the olympic trials for are just a vehicle for developing your human potential. I believe martial arts for me was a stair in my life, to try to scare people off because you're insecure which is we're always gonna have those though no

1:21:09 if you're about to fight Mark Kerr, for example, And then we'd set our training in correspondence to the game plan. About 207, 208 maybe. Muscle, yeah. I don't remember that fight. But he was good enough that I couldn't arm-by-arm. this we were in the beginning of mma when people would watch the various styles and the various strategies that people would uh be successful with inside the octagon they would try to figure out

1:23:53 wrestler who didn't have like a lot of skills as far as like submissions like he submitted a guy Yeah, he's one of the strongest guys I've met, yeah. And he was real successful No, no. world because mark had a significant problem with painkillers and with drugs and showed it all I know. Very addicting. No. From Royce Alger fight? That's historical shit, man.

1:26:56 Well, I was hoping he did beat that guy up because I was thinking that guy shouldn't be calling out a heavyweight class. Put him to sleep with a head and arm choke. He was a guest, and he's huge. He's enormous's enormous yeah it's hard to believe he even makes 205 when you look at how Oh, that's weird, huh? saw that weight and pressure and just submitted him pretty quickly look at the difference in the

1:28:45 And Tito sort of became the Huntington Beach bad boy somewhere along the line. You know, just go in there and kick somebody's fucking ass. Drunk. Yeah, there he is. He's an American classic, that guy. Yeah, he fought in 2013. King of the Cage fighting legends. profile before that he fought uh kimbo slice in 2008 yeah yeah in miami that was before kimbo went

1:31:09 I mean, if you look at his career, there's a lot of losses in there, but god damn, there's His very first fight. Legends. Mine was in Chuteau. Chuteau shoot oh yeah did you fight in Super Bowl was that I liked those rules. Even soccer ball kicks I think is okay. But the fact that you're trapped and you can get kicked and stomped when you're trapped up against the cage,

1:33:11 People would be keeping their head away from the cage a little more. Really? and the high-level guys, the pound-for-pound best guys of today, man. Your fighter was either a striker, a wrestler, or a karate guy yeah back in the day it was always like that your fighter was either a striker a wrestler or a ground guy and it was always a real straight up strategy to fight

1:34:45 It seems to me that it's getting better. What was that? Runs a clinic on him. Crazy. Well, there's a lot of great fights at 135. They're going to have a straw weight. It's exciting. the world has ever seen. Yeah, unbelievable how fast it grew. I mean, my life is made by MMA. When I first was working on a sitcom, I was on a sitcom news radio, Was it Augusta, Georgia or something like that?

1:37:56 Like I was involved in porn or something like that. because from my position i feel very lucky but obviously I'm like an outsider watching I think the position that you were at he was like 205 at ufc shredded. Strong, explosive. Fast as fuck. Yeah, yeah. Not only around today, I just... I guess I wouldn't know if to do it. I thought that was very admirable.

1:41:20 He's just a tough motherfucker, a hard-nosed wrestler post the Randy Couture fight, after Randy Couture beat him, And then he fought in the UFC, had some good fights, is the weigh-ins photos by the way these guys are completely dehydrated they don't look good Is it the testosterone that allows him to work hard? Exactly. and stuff but when they go to watch bodybuilding they're they ooh and ah at the muscle tone and

1:43:56 None of those guys are clean. And they said, test that motherfucker. They had a clause that said what they test for. Jason Chambers, I was like, yeah. Just do steroids. They were telling him to fight at 185. And he was like, but I weigh 170. And I was like, yeah, you can just do steroids. and fight at 185. Really? they told him something Like, maybe you're not getting the full story from them?

1:46:11 I think it's the same thing. eddie was a punk and because eddie was scared of him and he could feel it so he decided i've been I think I'm running shit here. These guys would... this is what he and but I knew nothing about it so I'm here i go into the ring after egan loses and i'm just going you know He goes, I got to do it. he kind of went and he said uh something about yeah the better fight would have been with his

1:49:15 And they wouldn't bring him. You threw him on the ground? the president just can't come in. If he beat Egan in. I remember him telling me that. It didn't seem like. He did the wrong. aspect to it what was that like it was good good for me yeah yeah because of who i was and the Well, back in our day, there was some more Sakuraba, very obvious fixed fight his fight with mark coleman yeah like pull up that pull up takata

1:52:13 I was like, no, I don't want to tap. Really? What happened? in his punches, Grand Prix, right? Yeah, even if he did punch the leg, it'd be heavy punches. And look at this. He wasn't even turning it. What was that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true. You know, just like, hi, what's up? Someone, what's going on? I knew who they are. And he's running down the street,

1:56:14 I'm like, whoa, shit, something. Yeah. So I click in my head thinking I can, you know, I can kill two birds with one stone. up the street put in prison and nothing from Takata not a thank you he does some acting so I have no respect like, I think. You remember when he fought Hickson? Yeah. I would have loved to have seen Hickson versus Mark Kerr. and Funaki just went to sleep.

1:59:28 That was an intense fight, and that was a real fucking fight. when Fedor was the champ of pride. and his wife didn't want him to do it. Yeah, he was, yeah. Got that rear naked on, and boom. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. you know with top guys they're doing wrong So he kind of just rolled with us and just beat us up. Yeah, even if I did, it might as well be me being a white belt.

2:02:09 Marcelo Garcia all the black belts but back in the day, He's got back problems now, though. train anymore. That's the issue with jiu-jitsu guys. He did? He's a fucking beast. Yeah, and. And this was 2001, he had that fight. Ricardo Laborio versus Manoa. So, you know, he's always there on a regular basis. even despite his back problems. So I don't know where he is now.

2:05:23 girlfriend sit in his guard, Yeah. Yeah. like going into MMA. But it never quite panned out, you know. He was like a gold medalist. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he trained in Vegas, huh? Which guy? What's his name? He was like a gold medalist. Let me see. I don't know. That was, in Japan, that was like, he was going to be the next huge MMA guy, but never

2:07:55 Yoshida was a pretty good striker. He came to the States. He beat Phil DeFries. And before that, he beat Jeff Monson. He's won aeh card. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before that, won't take him back. Jeff Monson, Too much of a jump. they graduate with those tests. Well, it's like that I think the talent pool is kind of dry in a lot of ways That guy was good, huh?

2:10:47 But for every one of those guys, there's like 10 guys Like we said, Vitor Belfort, 97, so it's a little bit older than that. It exploded out of nowhere. the book also is available say that again destiny forever destiny forever.com yeah um yeah making or to come and be involved in something, Yeah, it's a fighting. You know, I always offer him for sure

2:13:30 I've been doing seminars. But, yeah, my life's exciting, man. real basic techniques, stuff that worked. Yeah. you know you know arm burn doesn't really hurt i mean you can feel like oh you know yeah fuck my I've seen some of that. yeah that's like my claim to fame kind of you know that kind of that kind of put you know what but your openness in discussing that approach.

2:17:32 Who am I as a man? Why didn't you do this? that people like i had so many fears too but you're open about that and like we we talked about before you I'm not exaggerating. And it's live as a man, die as a man, become a man. I'll be texting you whenever I let you know whenever I'm in town. That's it. And then we're at the Orpheum in Vancouver And thanks to LegalZoom.

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