Life Hacks, The Cecil Hotel Law Enforcement, Communication & Jiu Jitsu | Knocko Nolan
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna as he sits down with guest Detective Jim McSorely Aka "Knocko Nolan!" Knocko has been featured on the hit Netflix documentary, "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at The Cecil Hotel" that was the inspiration for a season of the show American Horror Story. He has been part of two of the largest and most prestigious police forces in the country NYPD and LAPD and has made his way to special assignments and crime units and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
He is the co-host of The Armbar Podcast, as well as a music enthusiast and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner under Rener Gracie, Ryron Gracie and Alex Stuart at the well respected Gracie Jiu Jitsu HQ in Torrance, CA. He is a well respected and liked figure in many circles and you can find him brushing shoulders with such icons as Jocko Willink, Dropkick Murphys and even Gary Busey!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ Training Yourself To Find The Positive In The Negative
✅ How To Strengthen Your Relationships with Active Listening
✅ Keys To Better Communication To Help In Life & Business
✅ The Importance Of Law Enforcement Training Jiu Jitsu
✅ The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel
✅ Changes in New York City Over the Years ➡️ More!
Text Nick today to do some real estate deals together whether you are new or experienced at (516)540-5733 and see the show notes to connect with Knocko!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-Game Podcast with Nick Lemanya, digging into the minds and experiences |
| 0:19.3 | of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, along with Hollywood |
| 0:24.4 | stars, UFC fighters and your favorite rock fans. People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, |
| 0:31.1 | take chances, live boldly, and no matter what they do, they always bring their A-Game. |
| 0:42.8 | All right, welcome to the A-Game Podcast for the second one of January. Our guest today is |
| 0:47.2 | Detective Jim McSorley, aka Knuckle Rolling. So you guys, if you're not familiar with him, |
| 0:53.0 | he's put around forever. He started that as a guy in New York City. He's now in LA, he's |
| 0:57.8 | LAPD. He's been on a, the featured on one of the most popular true crime documentaries on Netflix |
| 1:05.0 | about the Cecil Hotel, which was what the American Horror Story season with Lady Gaga when |
| 1:10.5 | they were in the hotel was based on. So a lot of really crazy stuff that happened in that hotel, |
| 1:14.6 | and there's a really cool documentary about the disappearance of the Cecil Hotel that you guys |
| 1:18.4 | can find on Netflix that we talk about. He's been part of the hardcore scene for a long time, |
| 1:22.4 | part of the Jiu-Jitsu scene. He trains with a hitter and heat on and Alex Stewart and Billy |
| 1:27.8 | Gratz, seeing all those guys at crazy torrents. He's the co-host of the on-bar podcast, which they've |
| 1:32.7 | had on Jocco, Jocco Wilink and a whole bunch of other people on there. So a big advocate of |
| 1:38.0 | Jiu-Jitsu, a big advocate of law enforcement, big advocate of music and entertainment and animals |
| 1:43.0 | and just and all around good guy. He's one of those dudes that just pops up in every circle. Every |
| 1:47.2 | time I'm looking at somebody else's Instagram or social media profile, he's in their pictures or |
| 1:51.9 | just at their concerts or kind of rubbing shoulders with her. So he's just one of those salt |
| 1:55.5 | of the earth guys that just very likable dude. Just easy-going, cool guy, just you know, just a kind |
| 2:01.6 | of guy that I was like, you know what? There's a bunch of similar words. He talks a little bit about |
| 2:05.2 | this, about there's there's certain things that you see it checks a couple of boxes with |
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