#2292 - Josh Waitzkin

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
0:03.9	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:12.1	Whenever someone is like an interesting person, and then I find out they do Jiu-Jitsu, too,
0:17.3	I can talk to that guy, for sure.
0:24.7	Yeah. You know? You know, I get excited when interesting people do jiu jitsu because I think for the outsider, to a lot of people that are,
0:31.0	you know, they haven't been exposed to what it's like to train and what it's like to be around
0:36.9	high-level jiu-jitsu people,
0:38.9	they don't know that vibe. They don't know what it's like. They don't know the beauty of
0:46.1	jiu-jitsu. I feel like, jiu-jitsu is beautiful for people who practice it. You know,
0:51.4	like you see, like, Marcello is a great example your your coach you know marcello
0:55.6	is probably one of the most beautiful guys to watch because he just takes advantage of these
1:01.8	scrambles in this like really beautiful way like fast and and slippery and when the opponents react
1:09.2	he reacts in the other way it's all just technique and flow it's
1:12.8	like ah like the first time i ever saw him i saw him live in 2003 in abu daby and uh it was when he
1:21.0	fought chow lynn that was the first time i'd ever seen him in the flesh i didn't even
1:25.6	out in like eight seconds oh my god this Oh my god, this is crazy scound.
1:28.0	But no one even knew him.
1:29.3	No one knew of him other than, you know, he was obviously, I think he was a brown belt at
1:33.3	the time.
1:34.3	I don't even think he was a black belt.
1:36.7	I think Marcelo might have been a brown belt.
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