Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A review of Episode 1168 with Mareko Maumasi

Episode Date: September 20, 2018

Week 42 Episode 1168 Mareko Maumasi   He's a knife maker and metal forger. Such an incredibly talented guy. Check out some of his work on Google.   Enjoy my review..   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello guys and welcome to another episode of the JRE review podcast. This is episode 19 and that's really cool. I didn't think that I would ever get to making 19 and I appreciate you guys for tuning in. Basically all I do is I discuss the Rogan podcast of the week. I used to do it in groups of podcasts like two or three days worth but now he has so many that are coming out so quickly I just do a quick brief you know review of the individual one and then I can focus a bit more on that and people can listen and decide you know ask their questions and those sorts of things and the reason I, again, and I won't always mention this,

but since it's new, I do, is just to pay a bit of a tribute to what Joe does, how inspiring it is to listen to his podcast, and, you know, how it changes people's lives for the best. I mean, it's not just entertainment, there's something more going on and it needs to be discussed and I love to get into it with the guests and and like think of my own questions and you know just get a real feel for like who these people are because you can learn so much from it it's cool I love it. I often will have guests on but not all the time. I like the guest ones. They're just friends of mine. People I know, people that like Joe Rogan, people that want to talk about their experiences with it. And I will be having more guests on but

sometimes I do them on my own. It's like a chill out thing for me. So anyway, enjoy this week enjoy this week and podcast 1168 Mariko, Mamasi. Now this was a cool podcast because Joe has been into knives for some time. Love Samurai Swords is always posting pictures of his guests with Samurai Swords which is really cool and you know he likes knives, he likes hunting, he likes these things and there's just something really cool and masculine about making your own knives. I've never done it, I would love to. I've been watching some videos online of Marika Momassi's like techniques, how it like crushes all this metal together

and then you know wax it with the hammer and doze with that and I just think it's incredible. If you get some time and you and you like this podcast I mean Joe's one with him and you want to learn more you know check that guy out online watch some of the videos and more importantly just pull up some of the pictures of the knives that he's made. Some of them are unbelievable. There's one he has on this website. It's a Mammasi Fire Arts. And what he's done with the pattern of the metal on the blade, it just blows my mind. It's so fucking cool. I'm sure these things are super expensive, but you know, fuck it, probably worth it. I get them if I add the money and I needed a sweet knife. One cool thing that he started his podcast with while talking to Joe is he uses some parts

from meteorites. I guess they have a lot of iron or something, steel in parts and he can use those to make knives so they're incredibly rare and probably really cool materials to work with. And just to think, like, I guess everything's a fucking meteor, right? Even everything on this planet, but it's not as cool as it's already here. But just thinking that that thing was flying around space forever, and then it just smashed onto this planet and some monkeys hammered it into a knife, keys hammered it into a knife, that's fucking cool. That's really freaking cool. He, one of his early stories and when Joe was getting into it, like how did he get started and all this and, you know, as a young kid, Maroky said he didn't have a lot of direction,

right, like everybody I guess, but he really didn't know where he was going to go and he went along to well a friend of his was like a knife craft and and and said you know go check this out so he went along and he saw this stuff happening and obviously knew nothing about it but there was just something there there was like a love there was like some passion created where he just started working at this thing and to think that you know when he was 20 something he had no idea how to do this at all. No natural talent for like making knives. But by practicing and working with great people and being passionate, he now can do some of the most incredible knife designs I've ever seen. So if you listen to this and you're young, you don't know what to do, start something. Start something as soon as you can. And one direction will lead to another, doing nothing is what's terrifying, but pick something because you do it long

enough, you'll get good at it, guaranteed, and that's fucking cool. Who knows what you'd be able to do? and that's fucking cool. Who knows what you'd be able to do? You know? It talks a lot about the shop that it works, being very loud, having to wear, you know, noise protection in the shop, saying that he has super sensitive ears. I'm sure that whole environment is not great.

I was thinking honestly, imagine the pollution, right? You're breathing in all that like carbon and steel. You know, he's folding steel, which is what he says, strengthens it. So you like fold it over, strengthens it up. And then I think you add carbon to it, and that hardens the steel.

And then separately to that, he was saying, no carbon makes steel tougher in the sense of like it's more flexible so that's what you'll use for buildings so like building structures they don't have a lot of carbon in their steel because they're designed to move a little bit you know they've got to have a bit of sway whereas knives and swords and things don't they just need to be sharp as fuck and I guess that's why swords and knives and things can snap So in a sense they're more brittle, but they're

The better for stabbing stuff. It sounded cool I don't know how they remove the carbon or or do that but watching some of the videos You know, I always thought that they put it in the fire and then they hit it, then they put it in the water. But the videos that I'm watching, they're not really like cooling it down or that much that I saw. So it's just kind of heating it to different degrees of temperature and then smashing it. But man, I want to try it. It looks so fun. He has highly crafted knives. He talks a lot about the tactile experience, like the actual feeling of touching the knife, really being connected to it, like holding something like that

and getting a feel for the weight and just like it has this like handmade quality that's just really truly magical. Joe connected it to like what they do with pool cues. So they do this thing they have, these handmade pool cues and the weightless form is years. And they actually are getting them out of like bog wood. So they like drain a swamp or something

or they just pull the wood out of the swamp. And something's happened to it. It's like petrified over hundreds of years or whatever. And it just makes the wood different and that's something that so that is like highly sold out or in highly crafted and Joe was like comparing it to because I guess there's a super long wait list for these knives as well and yeah it was just really fascinating to to hear all that and of course like, somehow they end with stories of hunting and animals getting eaten as first. It's just a joke thing. He can't fucking get that shit off his mind,

loves talking about it, it's hilarious. This is another really motivating podcast. If you're young, and you pick in a direction, and people are saying it's stupid or whatever, I mean, I'm sure when he started making knives this guy, Marie-Goo Mimasi. People were like what are you doing? Making knives? You want to get a real job? I mean you know there's a lot of that out there and that's a lot of the noise we hear that stops us but fuck it. Don't listen to that. Go start doing something you love, find it and get good at it. Like this guy.

Just figure it out. One little bit at a time. It was awesome. I really liked it. Listen to the podcast. You're enjoyed a lot. And again, hit me up with any questions. The Joe Rogan Experience Review at gmail.com,

hit me up. And yeah, thank you again for listening. I love you guys. Talk soon. Peace. gmail.com, hit me up. And yeah, thank you again for listening. I love you guys, talk soon.

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