JRE MMA Show #31 with Daniel Straus & Joe Schilling

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Here we go, in five, four, three, two, one.

Boom! Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Schilling and Daniel Straus. In the fucking house.

Joe Schilling (0:11)

What up?

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Joe Schilling's just fucking up my kick machine out there, man. That thing ain't reading right, dude.

Joe Schilling (0:16)

I mean, I hope not, it really hurt my ego out there.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

You were lighting that fucker on fire. That thing is not, we gotta get that recalibrated.

Joe Schilling (0:22)

Joe's in here complaining about a sciatic pain in his hip and still out-kicked me, I'm like, what is going on out here? Yeah, I'm all sweaty.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Forget about sciatic pain, Daniel Straus. You've gone through some fucking pain, dude. You are defying science and doctors and that. David telling you it was over.

Daniel Straus (0:40)

Yeah, it was.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Tell everybody the whole story. Put this, bring this sucker up here.

Daniel Straus (0:44)

How the story goes, I was out one night, buddy of mine was having trouble, needed somebody to go out with him, so I was around the city that night and after taking him home, we were leaving the highway as it split off. I was coming around.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

You on a bike?

Daniel Straus (1:01)

Yeah, I was on a bike and I had a passenger. So what was called 826 is the highway. As it splits off to 95, I was going around 826

Now here's the tricky part. Don't really remember what's going on from there. So what me and the passenger remember, we were hit from either the side or from the back.

But coming around the bend, boom, coming around, got pushed into the wall. I wake up under the guardrail, can't move. You know, nobody else is there and the car is gone. There was not really a witness there until like later, pulling up behind us. So it fucked me up for a while. I mean, fucked me up right now, but you know, getting back to just what it is, the body's healing and.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

So what was the extent of your injuries?

Daniel Straus (1:50)

All right, so I had in my C4, five and six, I had contusions on my spinal cord and half of my, on the left side of my spinal cord, it was pressure so bad that it like shut down my whole nervous system, like all my body.

So in my, up in my neck and then my middle of my back was just compressed, a lot of the swelling. And that's what caused a lot of the, you know, not being able to walk, not being able to feel the nervous problems, nervous system that I have or the nervous issues that I had, so.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

What did they do to fix it?

Daniel Straus (2:27)

I've been rehabbing. They wanted to do surgery right away, but.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

How many months ago was this?

Daniel Straus (2:32)

This was in December, this was December 17th. So, they wanted to do, they wanted to do surgery immediately, you know, and I'm trying to tell them like, no, I'm trying to fight again, blah, blah, blah.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

What kind of surgery, fusing?

Daniel Straus (2:48)

That's what they wanted to do. They wanted to go in and take the, I think the, I want to say the three to the five, or four to the six or something, and fuse that all together, which obviously there's no brain, and it's a big spot. So, wasn't trying to have that looked for, we looked for, you know, a couple rehab places, and eventually got hooked up with a place called Nail Fit 360

So, I've been rehabbing there since the accident, and I mean, it's been really great.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Where is Nail Fit 360?

Daniel Straus (3:18)

It's in Pembroke Pines, Florida, close to Miami. Great crew, but yeah, they've been getting me back in the game. I've been, I was doing that extensively every day for like two days a week, two hours, or a couple hours a day, you know, two, three times a day.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

What kind of shit did they do for your neck?

Daniel Straus (3:36)

For me, first we had to start with, you know, just the fine motor stuff, touching, feeling, you know, I had problems with my sensitivities.

Joe Schilling (3:48)

So like you wake up under the guard rail, you guys don't remember what happened. When you wake up in the hospital, what did they tell you before they got to all this stuff? They were like, could you walk? Could you feel? Could you, like how were you when you woke up?