JRE MMA Show #31 with Daniel Straus & Joe Schilling

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 13, 2018

Duration

1h 44m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Joe is joined by former Bellator Featherweight champion Daniel Straus & kickboxer/MMA fighter Joe Schilling.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Joe Schilling

  guest

• Daniel Straus

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Joe Schilling, JRE MMA Show #31 with Daniel Straus & Joe Schilling explores Fighters, Injuries, Weed, And Comebacks: Inside JRE’s MMA Hangout This episode centers on Bellator champion Daniel Straus’s near-paralysis motorcycle crash and his improbable recovery, contrasted with kickboxer Joe Schilling’s transition from elite kickboxing to MMA and his cannabis-fueled training lifestyle. Straus recounts waking under a guardrail unable to move, refusing immediate spinal fusion, and rebuilding movement through intensive rehab and neuro-focused training. The trio dive into medical culture’s rush to surgery, alternative recovery tools like CBD, lion’s mane mushrooms, cryotherapy, and hypnosis, while also debating marijuana and kratom as performance-affecting substances. They branch into the business of combat sports, the psychology of fighting, trash talk, and how modern fighters build careers—and exit plans—beyond the cage.

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