#2238 - John McPhee
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Who is John McPhee and what is his background?
See you, brother. Yeah, how are you, man? Great, great. It was nice to meet you at F1, and I really loved your episode of Sean Ryan. I fucking love that dude.
Thanks, man. Yeah, Sean is... He's the man. He's awesome. I love Sean.
I'm so glad there's guys like him doing this, that there's more people like him that are finding new ways to... Media is so wide open now, and you don't have to get hired by a television station anymore. You can just start your own shit, and Sean shows. fucking great yeah he's great Sean's I love him as a person yeah I love him too he's great he's an awesome dude and I loved you on that show but god damn man that show was crazy like your childhood was so nuts dude hearing about you living in a brothel when you were 12 years old yeah me and my brother Fuck, dude. Your whole story was so nuts, man. I was listening to it in the sauna this morning, and I was like, oh, my God.
So I'm there cooking at 195 degrees listening to you struggle.
I was in there for half an hour, which I usually do 20 minutes, but I kept going. I'm like, this life is so fucked up. I feel like I shouldn't bail right now. I should keep listening.
I feel like, but I'm not the only one. You know what I mean? I feel like where I was in the Army is full of guys just like that. A hundred percent. Yeah.
A hundred percent. Yeah. And I think in some, well, fighters as well. You know, a lot of fighters that I know, like Sean Strickland, a lot of guys that I know had fights. fucked up childhoods. I think it gives you an extra gear. I think when you can get through a childhood like that, you got an extra place that you can go to that other dudes can't go to. And in your line of work, that comes in very handy.
Yeah. Well, I think it works like this. I never heard it as an extra gear, but here's the way I always equated it. You know you're going to get a beating, and it's coming at 5 o'clock. You know after dinner they're going to be hammered, and this is another argument and fight, and it's a pattern, right? And you know this as a kid, right? And what happens is you've got to take that beating and then put your church clothes on. We're going to church. You know what I mean? Yeah. And the truth is, is like a mom. Uh, I think my, my brother more than me, but, uh, I think my mom actually had him convinced that we were super bad kids. And like, you know, we were, I don't know, a couple of years ago I was like, you know, like you ever met an actual bad, like four or six or eight year old.
No, it's how they're raised.
Right. And then it was kind of like, yeah, I think it was an eye opener for him, but like it was always our fault.
Well, that's the thing. You can convince kids of almost anything. You can convince them that it's their fault. You can convince them that they're bad kids, and then they feel bad for the rest of their fucking life. They feel like a piece of shit. There's a lot of people out there that didn't do anything wrong. They're just raised by shitheads, and for their whole life, they feel like garbage, and they don't know why.
Yeah, I agree.
It's so hard to snap out of that, too. And it takes something for you to do that makes you feel valuable and worthwhile. Like you have to kind of like relearn who you are as a person.
Yeah.
And some people never do.
Yeah.
And then they, you know, find meth or heroin or something that takes the edge away. Yeah. They can just exist.
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, that was the army for me. Like the first time I ever felt like. like I fit in or I was with people like me was when I was in Ranger Battalion.
Yeah, I think fighting is the same way. A lot of those guys, the only time they ever feel normal is when they're in a gym with a bunch of other savages. It's like guys who want to do that for a living, generally something fucking terribly wrong happened when you were young that put this anger, this monster inside of you.
Well, I tell people all the time, jujitsu is my sanity.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is John McPhee and what is his background?
0:12–6:36
2
What are the challenges of growing up in a tough environment?
6:36–42:12
3
How does jiu-jitsu serve as a form of meditation?
42:12–42:52
4
What insights can be gained from childhood experiences?
42:52–1:11:57
5
Why is proper training essential for police officers?
1:11:57–1:23:31
6
How do personal experiences shape perspectives on violence?
1:23:31–2:56:27
7
How do cultural differences influence combat sports?
2:42:13–2:56:27