Episode Transcript: #649 - Jonathan Gottschall
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Okay, good good good. All right, man John got shawl. What's up, buddy? I say right got shawl got shawl. You got it
It's not that difficult. It just looks difficult right right right the fighter in the cage
So a professor rather in the cage
I got your book right here, and I was fascinated when I heard the concept and
even more fascinated to talk to you about this you
decided to
Write a book about taking up mixed martial arts and competing. Yeah, what what caused this this bug?
Well, I was working as a English instructor at a small liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania just outside Pittsburgh
And I was pushing up on middle-age. I was I think I was 38 and a half at the time and I was sort of
It's like five-year-old talk. I know I don't know why I did that. Yeah, I have some little kids in my house
Maybe that's why you do so I was 38 and a half at the time and I was sort of I don't know was
Career wasn't going that well
I had never made it and under the tenure track and it looked like I was never going to so I sort of needed something new in life
and
one day I'm at my office hours and I happened to look out the front window and there used to be this auto parts store across the street about as far away as a
I could hit it with a snowball if I threw it and
And this new business had moved in and it was called mark schrader's Academy of mixed martial arts
and I
Said stood there at the window and I could see the guys in the cage. I see him dancing hitting tackling rolling
And I had this unexpected emotion and the emotion was envy. I envied them. They seemed so alive over there