Name: JRE MMA Show #84 with Brendan Schaub
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #84 with Brendan Schaub' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-04. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #84 with Brendan Schaub

A lot of shit on this table.
Yeah, this table's ridiculous.
I'm a mess, and this table's reflecting of the busyness of my life right now.
I need to take some time and clean this fucking table.
But the thing is, man, people keep bringing me shit.
But it's all cool shit.
Paul, I love you, buddy, but you gave me a mushroom hat.
Please put that on.
Yes, I'll put this on.
I don't know.
Is this the way to wear it?
Like this way?
Yeah, I think so.
Let me...
That's fucking good.
So people keep giving me cool shit.
He also gave me this mushroom.
It's a dried mushroom.
People give me all this cool shit, and so I go, oh, thank you.
And then I don't know where to put it.
He set it down.
I got Dan Aykroyd's vodka in the corner there.
Cool skull vodka thing.
God, I've never seen someone push vodka so hard on a podcast.
Bro, he goes hard in the paint with his vodka sales.
Great promotion.
It's very smooth, and it's Dan Aykroyd.
So you're like, I'll buy it just to let...
I want to hear you talk.
The Blues Brother?
I'm in, dude.
Dude, come on, man.
I bought it.
He was a conehead.
I mean, he's one of the original Saturday Night Live Slayers.
Like, the real OG.
One of the Blues Brothers!
Blues Brother.
Yeah.
Hey, man, we started this podcast off talking off the record, and I thought it
was probably
good for everybody to hear.
when I'm so happy you're not fighting, you know?
And what we were saying was, I know that I was a dick to you to get you to stop
doing it,
but I felt like there was almost no other way that you were going to live.
I felt like...
I felt scared.
I've seen too many people that are just...
There's a moment where it changes, where they stop being that person, and they
keep fighting.
And you see it.
You see the deterioration, and no one steps in, and no one stops them.
And then you'll talk to them alone, man.
Maybe you run into them in Vegas.
Maybe you both have a couple of drinks, and you see each other at the bar, and
you're like,
Hey, how's things?
And you have these conversations, and then the reality sets in.
Things are not good for a lot of these guys.
A lot of these guys that have taken punishment for too long, there's no
bringing them back, man.
They get to this spot where everyone knows there's something wrong, and no one
says anything to them.
And I was real scared that that was going to happen to you.
I was real scared, you know?
Like, I didn't anticipate...
When we did that crazy podcast that wound up being this intervention, I didn't
even know I was going to do it.
But while it was happening, I was like, you've got to stop.
That's all I was thinking is, you've got to get out.
I was...
We were a little high.
I don't even remember if we were drinking, but we probably were.
But I remember being so sensitive to it.
Like, there's something has to be done.
Like, now.
You had so many other possibilities that there's...
Like, most guys that are all in on fighting, they don't have anything on the
side.
Like, there's almost nothing else there.
There's almost just fighting and maybe a family, right?
But you were starting to flourish.
You're hilarious on podcasts.
You know, that can go away.
Yeah, and guys become shells and...
Man, I...
We see it, right?
Yeah.
Now that you're out, you see it, right?
Yeah, thank God or whoever's up there, man, for you and Brian Kellen.
Thank fucking God.
I know it came out Dickie.
I know it did.
And I know I apologized then and I apologize now.
But I think that's the only way you could do it.
I knew you weren't going to listen.
I knew you had this pride.
Like, you were...
Like we were talking about before the show.
You were a top 10 professional heavyweight in the biggest organization in the
world.
That's an identity thing, too, man.
Like, people get strapped into that identity.
It's one of the harder things about fighters is when you quit, you have to find
meaning in your life.
Like, what are you good at now?
Dude, for me, I know I never did anything professionally, but it was the formative
stages of my life where the only thing that gave me any feelings of good was
martial arts.
You didn't feel like a loser.
The only thing.
The only thing.
Everything else I felt...
Even the...
I was kind of good at drawing.
But even then, I was like...
My drawing teacher didn't like me.
I had friends that I was close with in the class.
We all drew and we liked our stuff.
But, man, I felt like a fucking loser except for martial arts.
So when I quit, and then I'm just doing comedy and I suck at comedy.
I was eating shit.
And I was like, what am I quitting for?
Like, I'm quitting something that I was good at to be something that I suck at
that I maybe think I have this pipe dream.
That I could eventually make a living out of.
I remember that feeling of not having an identity.
And obviously, when you're 21, no one has an identity anyway.
You're always so fucking confused.
You're in your head.
You're trying to figure it out.
I was super fortunate where I was surrounded by guys like you, Callan, Bert,
Tom.
And it's just like where I wanted to be in that party.
I was so fortunate.
The stars aligned for me where I was at this party over here and guys were
getting CT.
And, you know, you're fighting and it's a fucking grind.
And then you guys were over here.
I'm like, well, I want to be one of them.
I'm good, man.
I'm good.
I want to do that.
And I think it took that bridge and that gap.
And to be honest, I think that's the only way that you could have done it.
Because the ego that I had at the time, especially fighting, man, getting to
that level, it was like that ego is insane.
The narcissist and the dream of, oh, I can beat Kane or Stipe, these guys.
And I think the only way that I could have bridged that gap is by you going so
hard in the paint.
Dude, I was so scared about Ngannou.
I was so scared they were going to fight you with Ngannou or someone like that.
You know what I mean?
I was so scared you were going to get murked by some, when you weren't all in
anymore.
You know?
Those big fucking, when you watch like when Francis murked Overeem with that
left hook.
That uppercut?
Jesus Christ.
Like if that was you, and I was calling that fight, man.
Oh, dude.
It would be, and I love Alistair.
He's a great guy.
I have a deep appreciation for him as a fighter.
I mean, yeah, and my feeling was when he came over as K-1 Grand Prix champion,
I'm like, this is the most celebrated striker we've ever had in MMA.
And you saw it in his fight with Brock Lesnar.
Phenomenal.
Dude, he, people, man, that, one of the things that makes that Francis KO so
fucking crazy.
Insane.
I mean, he did the same thing to Junior Dos Santos, remember?
Overeem did it.
Yep.
He hit him with a beautiful left hook.
Very similar punch.
Super worried about that with you, man.
But I also think, too, for me, it was like this quick ascension into this UFC,
and I'm fighting these top 10, top 15 guys.
I'm in this world.
But it's like I was almost like a cheat code because I was really athletic.
I was really, really athletic with my background.
And so I got, I passed a lot of guys fast in my athleticism.
But then you get to a certain point where you're fighting these vets where they've,
they fought big, powerful, athletic guys before.
But then it comes down to experience and technique.
And that's always, always going to win.
Nine times out of 10, that's always going to win.
The thing is about striking, too, is like striking when you mix in with
wrestling, you can kind of get away with a lot more.
A lot more crazy shit happens.
People knock people out that maybe wouldn't knock people out normally.
You know, like Kevin Randleman was an amazing example of that.
He knocked out Mirko Krokop with a left hook.
Remember that?
Yep.
Now, if they were in a straight kickboxing match, it's definitely possible that
Kevin could do that.
Kevin was an incredible athlete.
But you would favor heavily that Mirko would be able to stuff that.
All day.
All day, most likely, because he was so elite in that realm.
But you add striking to MMA and, you know, there's like, there's so much craziness
going on that sometimes it's hard for people to clearly establish, like, who's
actually better on their feet until someone can stop the craziness.
Yeah, there's blurred lines.
Yeah.
And then you get to this level.
There's this level where you get like Amaz Vidal.
He's a perfect example because he's so goddamn good.
He's so smart.
He's so technical.
And he finds these openings that maybe other people don't see or maybe they can't
get to where those openings are.
And he finds those.
So you think you're doing good.
You think you're doing good.
But he's waiting.
He's waiting for the moment where he sees this spot that he's been looking at.
And boom!
Yeah.
He cracks Darren Till with that step in left hook and puts him out.
You put a fucking animal like Darren Till out cold.
Come on, man.
I think John's one of those guys, too.
Like, we kind of, because of his last few opponents, everyone's like, God,
maybe he's older.
He's lost a step.
I watch and I go, oh, he's playing with his food.
He's playing with his food.
And I'm not disrespecting those guys who he's fought or Dominic Reyes, who he's
going to fight.
But for John, you look at his legacy and the legends that he's fought.
It's tough for him to get up for the challenge.
So he's playing with his food right now.
Wait till he fights.
I'm telling you, wait till he goes to heavyweight.
You're going to see the old John.
When there's actual, where he thinks it's a challenge.
Wait till you see him fight a Steve Bear Francis.
You're going to see the monster come out.
Right now, he's just picking with his food.
Yeah, I'll do that.
All right.
Yeah, let's do it.
I think he's in cruise control.
I think you're entirely correct.
And I think when you are at that elite level, when you've never been defeated,
you have one loss.
It's a bullshit loss.
Everybody knows it's a bullshit loss.
He really should get his record cleaned.
I should eat something that you, I mean, they cleared him with this whole picogram
shit.
They found out that this is, we just have this new ability to measure
substances in the most minuscule amounts.
That it's so ridiculous that just some random sort of vitamin that has some
contaminant, one millionth of a fucking gram or whatever the water is.
Water or dick pill or protein.
All kinds of shit test positive that's not a drug.
It's not like someone's cheating.
It's just, so they cleared him on that, right?
USADA makes this whole statement about the new way they're viewing this stuff
because the fact their equipment's just amazing.
You can't hide from them anymore, man.
Shout out to USADA, though.
Yeah, shout out.
I like that USADA went, yeah, it's so good.
It's ridiculous.
You guys were flagging.
Yes.
We're going to back off.
Yep.
I like that they learned from it.
I love it.
I love that they did the same with marijuana.
They realized, like, we're not dealing with a performance enhancer.
As long as these guys aren't fighting high, it's just like helping them sleep
and relax.
It's not hurting, it's not helping anybody in terms of, like, not making them
stronger or faster.
So, and it might help them with anxiety and a lot of other things.
So, they released that, right?
They're doing good things.
But with John, it's cleared that he wasn't taking anything.
This is just some shit that's a residual, like a residue that's on something
else, some contaminated supplement.
Same thing would happen with Tim Means.
Tim Means got busted the same way.
I mean, they dragged it out with him for months.
There's a lot of guys.
When he was at his peak, really.
I know, man.
When he was peaking in the UFC.
He's fucked up.
And he's one of the most interesting welterweights.
All of a sudden, boom, he gets a suspension from tainted supplements.
You look at the guy.
He's not a fucking steroid user.
Dude, how about Tom Waller?
Yes.
He kind of lost his career.
Josh Barnett.
I know.
Same thing.
And people are upset, bu