JRE MMA Show #103 with Max Holloway

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. MHMax Holloway0:00

      (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) And we're rolling with the Blessed Express. What's up?

   4. MHMax Holloway0:16

      My man.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      (laughs) Good to see you, my friend.

   6. MHMax Holloway0:18

      My man. What's up? Good seeing you out there.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      How's- how's things?

   8. MHMax Holloway0:20

      Things are good, you know. I just ... How's things with you? I heard like pipes are busting in heat and all that kind of stuff. You guys good?

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:25

      Yeah. It's pretty ... It was pretty wild out here a week ago. And then it was 80 two days ago. Doesn't make any sense.

   10. MHMax Holloway0:30

       Ah, just-

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       So a week ago it was frozen solid, and then a week later, 80 degrees.

   12. MHMax Holloway0:36

       Ah, Mother Nature, she's- she's cruel at sometimes. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Yeah. But well, Texas gets weather, you know. It's very different in California with- California never rains and basically like once a year you get a little bit of rain and that's it. Here you get thunderstorms and you get lightning and, you know, and it gets cold as fuck sometimes. But this was real unusual.

   14. MHMax Holloway0:56

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Like once every 120 years or something.

   16. MHMax Holloway0:59

       Yeah. I know. It just ... I know. I was- I was tripping out. I was like ... When I saw everything happening and then my- my agent ... 'Cause last week we were supposed to come through.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Yeah.

   18. MHMax Holloway1:06

       And he said like, "Oh, it's getting pushed back. It's getting pushed back." And I was like ... I was ... And then he- I was like ... I look at the weather shit and I was like, "Texas don't ever get this kinda weather. What the hell is going on?"

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       (laughs)

   20. MHMax Holloway1:15

       I thought I was wrong. (laughs) I was like, "Do I not follow up with the weather in Texas?" Like-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       Dude, it was crazy. The roads, it ... First of all, it was 32 degrees and raining, so it's just at the time where it freezes, but not quite.

   22. MHMax Holloway1:27

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       It didn't quite freeze, so ... And then it got really cold at night, so all the roads were covered in ice.

   24. MHMax Holloway1:32

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:32

       Everywhere.

   26. MHMax Holloway1:33

       Black, black ice. Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:33

       Yes.

   28. MHMax Holloway1:33

       That one that, uh ... I saw that one that, uh, got, uh, 100, like had a 100 car pileup-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:38

       Mm-hmm.

   30. MHMax Holloway1:38

       ... somewhere over here.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Right. …

   1. MHMax Holloway15:00

      silverbacks and chimps and whatever.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Right.

   3. MHMax Holloway15:02

      And then you make them, like ... I don't know, you make a chip that makes them somewhat human. They can talk and this and that and you send them-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Or you-

   5. MHMax Holloway15:09

      ... off to war.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      Put some kind of helmet on them that has some interface, like some computer interface with a chimp's brain, and you have some helmet where they could see things-

   7. MHMax Holloway15:18

      What's going on.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      Like they can see-

   9. MHMax Holloway15:19

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       ... like infrared and night vision-

   11. MHMax Holloway15:21

       Or you can control, yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       ... and shit. Yeah. Elon Musk says his startup Neuralink ... Ah, fucking, they got us with this goddamn ... You gotta shut that ad blocker off, son. You gotta just give in to the w- to the network. (laughs) Elon Musk says his startup Neuralink has wired up a monkey to play video games using its mind.

   13. MHMax Holloway15:36

       Exactly.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       See? He's, he's gonna start-

   15. MHMax Holloway15:38

       He's, he's already ahead. He's already ahead.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:39

       He's gonna start the war. (laughs)

   17. MHMax Holloway15:40

       He's already ahead. He's already ... Hey, you fucking watch Iron Man?

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       Yeah.

   19. MHMax Holloway15:45

       You watch Iron Man?

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Yeah.

   21. MHMax Holloway15:45

       Iron Man played both sides too at one point, you know?

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       Oh.

   23. MHMax Holloway15:48

       And fucking Elon was in the fucking Iron Man, one of 'em, so I don't know.

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       Well, he's creating this Neuralink thing where-

   25. MHMax Holloway15:55

       Yeah, I, I saw. I heard, yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       ... you know that? They're gonna put wires into people's brains and he told me they're ... You're gonna be able to talk with no words.

   27. MHMax Holloway16:02

       To your mind?

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       He's gonna be able ... Like you and I could sit here.

   29. MHMax Holloway16:04

       Yeah. And just have a con-

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       And we're gonna have a conversation with no words.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Oh. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      version of Half-Life. So it doesn't have all the monsters and the different dimensions and stuff, but it has all the conventional weapons.

   2. NANarrator30:06

      Oh.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      Yeah.

   4. MHMax Holloway30:07

      That's cool.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      Yeah. Quake is like a different game. It's like much more f-

   6. MHMax Holloway30:11

      Yeah, you play Quake. It was hard.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      Yeah.

   8. MHMax Holloway30:11

      It was hard. I remember the first time-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      Oh.

   10. MHMax Holloway30:13

       ... I came here, you was telling me like, yeah, you had to turn it off or you was gonna be like single and stuff. (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:18

       (laughs) Well, when we, uh, set up at the old studio-

   12. MHMax Holloway30:21

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:21

       ... in LA, uh, Jamie and I and Geoff, uh, we, uh, we started playing every day.

   14. MHMax Holloway30:26

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       And we were playing five hours, fucking day.

   16. MHMax Holloway30:29

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:29

       It became a real problem.

   18. MHMax Holloway30:30

       And he'd be like, "Hey, uh, hey, babe, um, today we're going in. We got this, uh, person coming in and it's his last minute." "You don't fucking work on Saturdays." "No, no, no, no, no."

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       "There's a thing I gotta take care of, it's a network issue."

   20. MHMax Holloway30:41

       There's a thing, there's a thing we had to go through that.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       ... I gotta go down there.

   22. MHMax Holloway30:43

       (coughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       We were playing so much, but I started getting good again. That's when it gets dangerous.

   24. MHMax Holloway30:46

       That's when it gets dangerous-

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Yeah.

   26. MHMax Holloway30:47

       ... because you start winning.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Yeah.

   28. MHMax Holloway30:48

       And you start kicking ass and you, like-

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       Exactly.

   30. MHMax Holloway30:50

       Yeah, and then you start... I don't know. Um, the, the funniest thing about, um, about Call of Duty is, uh-
4. 45:00 – 58:48

   Now when you did…

   1. MHMax Holloway45:00

      before my fight." This is some crazy shit. So we did, we did that. I did spar, I felt great.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Now when you did that though, how do you do Zoom workouts? Like how, how did you organize that?

   3. MHMax Holloway45:09

      I had, I had mats at home, and then we'd Zoom and then like, uh, one of my coaches would ... we'd get online and do stuff. And I had a bag at home and I would hit the bag and stuff, do drills and this and that, and add weights and stuff. I was lifting weights.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:20

      So no grappling at all?

   5. MHMax Holloway45:21

      No, no grappling into fight week.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:23

      No grappling, no, no pads?

   7. MHMax Holloway45:26

      No nothing. No nothing until fight week, at all.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:28

      Just hitting the bag?

   9. MHMax Holloway45:29

      Yeah. So I-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       So what did you do for conditioning?

   11. MHMax Holloway45:31

       And, and, and le- I would say I got to lift weights. I went to, I went to a friend's house that had weights and stuff or my ... not a friend's, my strike- my strength and conditioning coach's house. He actually have, uh, some place that he had a little spot for us in his garage, and that's what I would go. You know, everybody else, uh, everybody else had like kids and stuff and they was like worried words. So I was like, "You know, I ain't gonna be mad about everything going on." So we, we figured out a way.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       It's interesting the way people look at COVID then versus the way they look at it now.

   13. MHMax Holloway45:56

       It's a bit easier.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       Back then they ... everybody thought we were all gonna die.

   15. MHMax Holloway45:58

       (laughs) Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       Like, you know?

   17. MHMax Holloway46:00

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:00

       Like everybody was worried like a lot of us were gonna die, and now everybody's like, "I don't wanna get sick."

   19. MHMax Holloway46:04

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:04

       But that's it.

   21. MHMax Holloway46:05

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just don't want to get sick 'cause the ... I heard it's just like flu-like symptoms, you know, and then-

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       Depends on who it is.

   23. MHMax Holloway46:10

       And now it's ... Yeah, and now-

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       You know, Dustin had it and he didn't even know he had it?

   25. MHMax Holloway46:13

       Oh, for real?

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:14

       Dustin ... I tested him yesterday. He was here yesterday.

   27. MHMax Holloway46:16

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       He didn't even know he had it.

   29. MHMax Holloway46:18

       Oh, he had it when he came here?

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       No, he had gotten over it.

Episode duration: 2:39:36