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Lex Fridman Podcast

#328 – John Danaher: Submission Grappling, ADCC, Animal Combat, and Knives

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Lex Fridman

Society & Culture, Technology, Science, Philosophy

4.7 β€’ 13K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 296 minutes

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:51) – Road to ADCC
(26:23) – Danaher Death Squad
(35:07) – Mental preparation
(59:52) – Gordon Ryan
(1:56:50) – Giancarlo Bodoni
(2:21:57) – Garry Tonon
(2:35:54) – Nicholas Meregali
(2:51:21) – Ruotolo brothers
(3:01:00) – Takedowns
(3:05:19) – GSP
(3:13:48) – Renzo Gracie
(3:18:24) – Boris
(3:22:15) – Ali Abdelaziz
(3:24:41) – Khabib Nurmagomedov
(3:28:33) – Joe Rogan playing pool
(3:31:47) – Advice for grapplers
(3:41:43) – Day in the life
(3:48:25) – Bear vs Gorilla vs Lion vs Anaconda
(4:26:12) – Tom Hardy
(4:37:46) – Emojis
(4:40:15) – Love
(4:45:38) – Fighting to the death
(4:49:25) – Knives

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with John Donahar, his third time on this podcast.

0:05.2

He is widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in martial arts history.

0:11.7

And now a quick two second mention of each sponsor.

0:14.3

Check them out in the description as the best way to support this podcast.

0:17.9

We got audible for audiobooks, calm for meditation, indeed for hiring, masterclass for learning

0:24.7

and a sleep for napping.

0:28.1

Use wise to my friends.

0:29.7

And now onto the full ad reads, as always no ads in the middle.

0:32.8

I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors.

0:36.7

I enjoy their stuff.

0:38.2

Maybe you will too.

0:39.9

This episode is brought to you by Audible.

0:42.8

An audiobook service that has given me thousands of hours of education, enlightenment, inspiration,

0:52.2

wisdom.

0:53.4

I can keep going.

0:54.9

All of that, through listening to audiobooks.

0:57.8

It's becoming increasingly my favorite thing to do when I'm running.

1:01.1

I listen to audiobooks.

1:03.5

And given a lot of things that I'm doing in my life on the technical side, but also on

1:09.7

the podcasting, the people I'm interviewing, I actually prefer not to listen to the audiobooks

1:16.5

about the upcoming guests or from the upcoming guests or about the topic that's upcoming

1:22.2

guests are covering because what happens is I get so full of ideas and I want to stop

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