"the following is a conversation with ryan hall one of the most insightful minds and systems thinkers in the martial arts world he's a black belt in jiu jitsu accomplished competitor an mma fighter und..."

"please skip the episodes that don't interest you you don't have to listen to all of them trust me as someone who is a bit or a lot ocd that idea is quite unpleasant but life friends is full of unpleas..."

"warrior in history ancient or modern that's a tough question and again i'm no historian by any measure so i'll probably do the worst like what are your best bands ever i'm like metallica and you know ..."

"what do you make of the kind of very difficult idea that some of these conquerors like alexander the great and somebody that uh if you listen to hardcore history oh dan carlin uh who apparently elon m..."

"it is what it is yeah if you look at like the instagram channel nature's metal it hurts my heart to watch to remind me a comfortable descendant of ape how vicious nature is just unapologetically uh ju..."

"that's the thing we're struggling now as a society maybe it'd be nice to get your quick comment on that which is um the people who have traditionally been powerless are now you know seeking a fairer s..."

"because you brought it up i uh tweeted recently but also just i'm one of the things i'm really ashamed of in my life is i haven't really read almost any of the sci-fi classics really yeah so like i my..."

"uh so the audience of this podcast may not know much about jiu jitsu or they do because it's really part of the culture now but they don't really know much they see that so many people have fallen in ..."

"might be a fun exercise of saying like what are the main positions and submissions in the art of jiu jitsu you don't have to be complete that's a ridiculously i apologize for putting you on the spot l..."

"talked about it a little bit but uh once again a lot of people that listen to this have never been on the mat have never tried jiu jitsu but are really curious about it everybody at all positions like..."

"beautiful about martial arts like exactly as you said as the coach like in wrestling and at least collegiate like high level wrestling it's like there's a dictatorship aspect to a coach that is very i..."

"and there's layers there too i remember training with you it's kind of funny there's like there's well you didn't know who i was i mean you still like i have a really good strength a lot by the way th..."

"on top of all that there's moods okay i mean especially lately uh i think two days ago maybe yesterday no two days ago i've never been that cranky in my life i think i i don't know what it was but i w..."

"there's going to be like one of the things that hurts my heart a little bit is like some level of toxicity around joe rogan for example there's like communities of people that now like talk about him ..."

"like hosting this podcast i sometimes think about like who should i talk to and not in terms of like it's the the old hitler question now hitler i would definitely talk to because post world war ii be..."

"my hope with donald trump was is that he would shake up the the people who wear suits usually the like if you're from dc i remember like showing up i actually didn't wear what i usually wear in dc bec..."

"about america the second amendment uh is uh we also like individual freedom that's one of the one of the unique aspects at the founding of this country and still and for me is the beacon of hope that ..."

"you're amongst many things a jujitsu black belt one of the things that people are really curious about white belts and blue belts and jiu jitsu but also people haven't tried the art is what does it ta..."

"totally new to be invented in jiu jitsu still not totally new but like the you know flying isn't new right uh but airplanes nevertheless made that much more efficient is there like new ideas to be dis..."

"so maybe to look at the the fighting world there's a million questions i can ask here like one you mentioned bj penn you uh first of all you are undefeated in the ufc and one of the fights you've had ..."

"one that stands out to me maybe you can comment is i don't understand well maybe i do why conor mcgregor gets as much hate as he does uh he probably revels in it but i think he doesn't get enough cred..."

"the hardest puzzles to solve in in all of mixed martial arts if you were to face khabib do you think how would you go about solving that puzzle like almost the question is almost from a jiu jitsu pers..."

"i'm one to ask ridiculous questions and we've been talking about sci-fi and all that kind of stuff let me ask the kind of big question that everybody disagrees about certainly with me is uh who are th..."

"last time or no on reddit you said that last time too that you don't experience much fear uh before fights i'd like to ask you a couple mike tyson things if it's okay it's just interesting to me i'm j..."

"more reasonable insane than we're saying than or then i then sometimes i might and i might argue so i guess what i mean is like oh man i walked to 7-11 and i didn't get stabbed i'm like oh well that's..."

"going home powerful words i don't think there's a better way to end it let me just say uh we've spoke maybe five six years ago i don't even remember when but i'm not exaggerating saying like you had a..."

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