Episode 34 - The “KO Kid”
Keith “KO Kid” Berry is a former MMA fighter and current Cannabis and Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur.
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Intro - 00:15
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Interview - 8:15
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Welcome back to Awakened Exchanges! I’m your host Jay Rich and we’ve got a great interview for you here this week. Keith “KO Kid” Berry joins us for a talk about his MMA Career as well as his current Cannabis and Cryptocurrency adventures. I think you’ll really enjoy it, but I also want to remind you that if you have any suggestions for topics or guests though, I do listen to the listeners, so please email me from our website or contact me on twitter @AwakenExchanges. I hope to have a full, diverse, and interesting schedule this year, so keep joining us here for the exchange.
I’ve noticed that I have less and less random political crap playing over and over, taking up space in my head each week since Big Orange has been out of office, but that doesn’t mean it has stopped by any means. This week I did want to mention something that we’ve been talking about on the podcast since the very beginning basically, and that’s Covid. I can’t remember which episode intro we mentioned it on, but I’ve been a proponent of Bret Weinstein and his assertion that we need to at least look into the Lab Leak Hypothesis since at least the middle of last year. It’s been a very interesting couple of weeks as the media has started to actually take notice and look into this subject. I’ve never said that it was an intentional leak, and that’s not the point. We just need to accurately know how and why this started so that we can put processes in place to prevent or at least identify potential disasters like this faster in the future. We’ve had over 590,000 deaths so far in the U.S. alone, and over 3.5 million total worldwide. That’s a lot of people to lose no matter what, despite whatever comorbidity factors may have existed, all because of an accident within a lab. I’m not saying that that’s for sure what happened, but there is definitely a preponderance of evidence stacking up in that direction and if we’d been actually been looking into it seriously for the last year instead of dismissing it as “conspiracy theory,” then maybe we’d be a lot closer to an answer. Now we just sit back and wait, hoping that it doesn’t mutate into a more virulent or deadly strain.
Enough on that rant for today though, I’m sure you’re only vaguely interested in my opinion, if that. I do want to give this week’s guest, Keith Berry, a bit more of an introduction though. Keith got his nickname, the “KO Kid,” very early in his career, scoring three knockouts in under a minute in just his first 6 fights. He continued his bruiser ways throughout his King of the Cage and Bellator career, scoring 17 wins, 12 by way of knockout and 3 more by submission. After Covid slowed down the fight scene, he took some time to follow another passion, the cannabis community. Then, as he had some more free time, he began to explore the world of cryptocurrency. He’s had a fascinating life thus far and I want to thank him for coming onto the exchange and sharing a great conversation with me. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
