Name: JRE MMA Show #14 with Matt Brown
Uploaded: 2018-02-08T00:22:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #14 with Matt Brown' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #14 with Matt Brown' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-02-08. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #14 with Matt Brown

four three two one boom and we're live what's up brother how are you very very
good thanks for
doing this man i'm very excited to have you in here i'm honored to be here man
i was just
thinking about this the other day actually i was like the fucking people that
have been on the show
man yeah i think about it sometimes too freaks me out sam harris james hetfield
uh man oh yeah
i was thinking about all the people man i was like how do i compete with these
guys just be matt brown
i know i mean i could beat all their asses well in certain situations that's
all that counts
the situations that i thrive in exactly so uh you were retired and now you're
not now you just signed
to fight carlos condit you got it damn that's a good fight i like that yeah i
think carlos needed
to fight back too that fight with neil magne he looked like he was suffering
through some ring rust
yeah man i've talked to a lot of people about that because that's the first
thing that always
comes up right is how he came back and looked in that fight and i've trained
with neil a lot man i'll
tell you neil can shut a fucking game down right away yeah you know he's very
good yeah we can't take
away from neil man um carlos didn't seem to show any sense of urgency either
though so you know i think
it's both sides but i think he's also going to be looking for redemption with
me yeah i think so too
yeah he wanted to come back right away actually they actually asked me to fight
it would have been
like six weeks notice what's the longest you've ever taken off
after i fought cowboy got knocked the fuck out and took a year off and fought
diego
so what is it like coming back after a year
it felt natural to me personally to you yeah so it's different for different
people right
yeah someone was talking to me about this the other day ring rust and i was
like you know
everybody's different man every single person is going to react a little
differently and i think also
when you have someone you know john danner was talking about like the different
types of fighters
right i think he just grouped three different types of fighters uh like a
violence guy a tactical guy and
something else well i think it's going to i think there's more types of
fighters than what he went
through but there's um i think it's going to affect every single type of person
differently
you know and i thought like i thought for instance like i fought a much more
tactical fight against
diego it wasn't i mean you could you could easily go in with diego and just go
to fucking war with
him right i mean he's melinda style exactly he's totally down for that like
that's what diego is
you know he will wake right up and go for that right yeah i was like man i'm
better than him
let's just be tactical and uh i think that was part of why it helped now now i
think uh someone that
goes in with a more violent style which i've done many times in my life i think
that's a bit more
complicated because there's a lot more timing and reaction in that whereas the
strategy you have a
very clear path to victory you know exactly what you got to do it's just you're
just going in there
and just um you know connecting the dots when you get in there and staying on
the plan
exactly yeah yeah now when you get a guy like diego though that temptation has
got to be always
there right because he's so willing well if uh if it's necessary because you
love that kind of fighting
yeah that's one of the reasons why you're so loved like there's never been a
matt brown fight ever
that's boring there's a lot of guys that have because of styles because of
whatever they've had
fights that weren't very crowd pleasing but your style has always been do or
die seek and destroy
that's one of the reasons why people love you yeah well i mean that's that just
goes back to my
mentality of why i'm fighting to start with right it's not really about just
winning i think that's sort of a
western culture thing sort of an american thing like i i kind of go back to the
original pride
and it's like look just fight man you know this is a fun thing this is a badass
thing we're doing
it's an amazing thing go in there and fight test yourself the bushido spirit
things like that
and not it doesn't have to be just win at all costs you know this is uh you
know to me it waters down the
sport i mean that's not what combat is about so this you know it's not me well
i mean that's what
makes it interesting is that there are different styles there's people that
have safety first styles
where they're just fighting to win and then there's other people like yourself
that just
whatever's inside you that comes out you know i always said this like there's
certain dudes like
uh because of your history because of uh i mean you had an overdose where you
literally died
and the same with court mcgee uh he had the same situation happened i always
said i talked to him
about it dudes that have gone to the other side are fucking terrifying inside
the cage there's like
there's there's a certain thing i don't know if it's just coincidentally that
both you guys have
that mindset or let's forget about even court but you have this mindset and i've
always said i wonder
if there's a correlation between such extreme lows in your life where you
bottomed out so hard
literally your body had shut down and you were ready to you ready to pass on
the doctor saved you
and you've got a mindset going into that cage that's just it's just another
notch more intense than most
people certainly and that's uh you know to be honest that's something i've sort
of struggled with a lot
too because it wasn't actually that specific moment um the overdose that kind
of affected me the way it
did it was more uh a long-term life of uh well i would say i've just been an
angry person honestly
like just since i grew up so it was all about channeling that anger um a lot of
fighters like
that right i think so i think it's one of the beauties of martial arts right
that helps you channel
that yeah i mean we all have to find an outlet um i i didn't discover martial
arts uh until
what 22 23 21 22 something like that and uh you know so before my outlet was
drugs and alcohol
you know that was my my way to say fuck everybody right and uh you know just
went too far
but uh like i said you know when it is expressed in the cage that's more of a
long-term uh thing
growing up an angry person and then um you know i always give a lot of credit
to uh jamie joss the
hate breed you know that's who i walk out to nowadays it's a dream come true to
have a walkout song by them
and uh um that was like the first time that i was able to find a positive
outlet for that energy you
know i didn't know what what heavy metal was and growing up you know i mean i
grew up in a small
farm town and uh i didn't know what that was but heavy metal gave me an outlet
and hate breed was the
first one that gave me a positive outlet before it was it was negative pantera
um slayer like stuff
like this it's all negativity you know so this rage is is coming out in a
negative sense and gets
expressed through drugs alcohol hanging with the wrong people things like that
and then there's a
turning point where i'm like man this can be a positive thing and i can use
this energy directed
towards something positive what were you angry about growing up ah good
question
um man that that goes deep man because uh you know i grew up in a very very
very small town 200
people population i didn't see a a skyscraper until i was i mean like up in
person like we drove by it
in dayton ohio which is in a big town in itself um until i was like over 18
years old you know so i was
i always felt like there was so much more out there for me and i was kind of i
grew up in a machine
shop my dad was a machinist so i was doing that from like five years old i was
sweeping the fucking
floor and i was like i was like man this is not what i'm meant to be like i'm
supposed to be
something great but uh but everybody around me is i know this is what you do
you live in this little
town and you do you follow the rules you're gonna be a machinist or a farmer or
you know whatever
and uh you know that shit pissed me off you know and i never really found my
niche and so i was
homeschooled actually for i think two years in uh junior high so i think that
was sort of actually
the start because i went back to school and when i went back to school i was
now the outsider i didn't
have any friends um and then going up uh all of a sudden i'm in high school and
i have no friends
i have no uh i i can't get laid for shit um i think that's what causes anger
and a lot of people
in the world right oh yeah and depression yeah yeah yeah factor yeah and at the
exact same time
i'm starting to experiment with drugs and alcohol so you put the two together
you know um i was supposed
to be um the prodigal son you know i mean like i was very intelligent i was um
you know i like i was
doing things by the time i was 15 years old in the machine shop that that guys
you know they've been
working for my father for 10 15 years couldn't do you know i mean so i was sort
of this prodigal son
i was good at athletics and everything had no problem with all that stuff so i
think uh it was
just sort of a backlash you know and then i let that anger get the best of me
so now when you were
doing drugs and alcohol what were the drugs like what was the drug that caused
you to overdose
heroin an injection yeah damn that's deep when you're injecting it that's that's
when you're all
in baby yeah and you know i didn't actually do it a whole lot it's kind of the
funny thing a lot of
people thought that i was addicted to heroin and i wasn't that i think that was
probably the fifth
time that i did it maybe six something like i didn't count but um you know that
was sort of my
that was my step into the dark side you know and a blessing and a curse man you
know it immediately
i was like oh okay that's what can happen right it's the step back uh and you
know i was
very naive very uh man i was a fool really like because what i did i remember
leaving uh
uh the hospital i was like okay well i'm never doing heroin again but let's go
do some coke
right so i was just a dummy man how old were you um i think i was 21 22 uh one
of those i mean it's
like 15 years ago there's a lot of stuff i i i was actually kind of thinking
about like so again
you know on this podcast i was like uh i was like you know it's probably going
to come up on it it's
a pretty uh intense story um i was like damn i can't remember all the details
of that shit it was
like a long time ago but anyway yeah so i was like 21 22 and um it wasn't too
much long later
you know i lived with this girl and you know she was a drug addict too and she
had a couple kids and
it was like it was like all right well now i got a place to live like let's get
fucked up
you know and it was i never did um heroin again after that obviously um i think
i did oxy's though
percocet stuff like that which is basically the same thing right yeah which i
mean i didn't realize
it at the time but really my drug of choice was meth back in that day that was
what i really liked
that was actually what i was addicted to at one point and i ended up going to
jail and that was what
got me uh out of addiction i didn't realize i was addicted until i was in jail
so what made you realize it when you were in jail i just you know just couldn't
stop thinking about
it and just wanting it and just i mean i didn't get have like like um like cold
sweats or anything i
don't think that happens with uppers but um i mean i was just you know like
like i couldn't stop
thinking about it man i was like dude like just a lot of that anger was coming
out i was just like
god like what the fuck like i want to fight everybody i was like somebody give
me something
you know and wow yeah it was just a really terrible experience but probably
only lasted three four days
not even maybe not even that and then you came out of it yeah i m