Muay Thai

As a matter of fact, that's where we're going to start this show.

Is it boxing? Is it Muay Thai? Is it chess? Is it poker? Is it backgammon? Probably not backgammon.

No? You

think so?

Pretty good.

Something you might not know about him, just looking at him, is that he trained Muay Thai kickboxing.

Am I saying that right?

And he met our patron Will at Wild and Will Merritt Boston.

He joins us tonight.

Rafael Antonio Castaldo is a world-renowned researcher, born and called host of the Space Water podcast, owner of the Mystical Spiral Store, songwriter, and former professional Muay Thai fighter.

His groundbreaking research connects plasma physics with biblical archaeology, ancient writings, mythology, and megalithic sites.

Tonight, we're going to be decoding the Shamir of Solomon.

I never threw this out.

This is the sweatshirt that I used to cut weight in from Thailand.

The Muay Thai sweatshirt.

Look at how old school this is.

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Thai boxing jujitsu.

It's so good.

I love boxing.

I love jujitsu.

I love Thai boxing.

I'm just fat, dude, and old, and it's hard to...

But I love jujitsu.

He is a Kun Khmer teacher.

If you guys don't know what that is, it is the Khmer martial arts, which actually predates Muay Thai.

Like, Muay Thai takes all the glory for, you know, Southeast Asian martial arts, but Cambodia, uh, he's here to talk about, uh, his work there.

And then, uh, we have someone in digital fintech and real estate, Cheun Tun Sun.

And then we have restaurateur extraordinaire, Mary Prom as well.

Um, the first one is Lakroun Manninhak.

He was a student of the famous Kun Khmer fighter, Chin Savan.

He spent many years in the Thai refugee camp after escaping Cambodia, and in this period, Lakroun had numerous Muay Thai matches with Thai opponents.

Um, And then I kind of strangely went into an MMA phase for a couple of years where I kind of ditched powerlifting.

And then just, you know, went high intensity cardio, did a lot of Muay Thai type stuff and a little bit of jujitsu.

And then when I got married, I just didn't have time for it.

So, yeah.

But yeah, like I have to, you know, build back some of that athleticism that I've lost.

So, gotcha

that's really cool i mean you and i have a kind of a similar background i didn't get so much into like the power lifting but i also i mean i uh dabbled in the muay thai for a long time and i still actually teach a lot of kickboxing to this day i've been teaching it for 10 years now um and and i actually had a couple i didn't do the jiu-jitsu so i think my son does jiu-jitsu right now but um uh i got i was doing fighting and i had a couple fights and then uh i got hired on as a firefighter so i was like i can't afford to get hurt because i'll lose my job um so i stopped for a while but i still teach it and stuff like that now i like we talked before we started in the court it was like more that that functional yeah thing i just want to be able to move better as i get older

Yeah, yeah.

So I do martial arts as well.

Uh, Taekwondo and a mix of Taekwondo and jujitsu and Muay Thai.

And it's, we just have fun with it, but I love that because it is, we are training.

We go in when we feel bad, we feel we go in when we feel good.

But, you know, they've got their traditions too.

Or a Muay Thai school.

They definitely have their traditions.

I think tradition is great.