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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1605 - Mark Smith

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

Mark Smith is an airline pilot, mixed martial arts referee, judge, and trainer, and corporate health and wellness advocate. Prior to his career in the private sector, Smith served his country as an Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, with tours at NASA, the White House, and the elite flying group the Thunderbirds. https://www.instagram.com/markdsmithmma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Joe Rogan

0:05.0

Rogan Experience

0:06.0

Train by day Joe Rogan

0:08.0

all day. Mark, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for doing this man. Appreciate it.

0:18.0

Drayton to be here. You have, first of all, as a referee, you have one of the most difficult jobs in

0:23.7

m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m complaints about you. Maybe there's somebody out there that's complained. I've never heard it, which is crazy.

0:35.1

It's weird. You want your name to be called one time. And that's what the announcer says,

0:41.5

Refereen this fight is such and such.

0:43.1

You don't want any complaints other than that.

0:44.4

Because we notice a lifetime opportunity

0:45.9

for these fighters.

0:47.6

We don't want to do anything negatively to affect them.

0:49.8

So that's a good thing.

0:51.2

Well, it's such a difficult job because in impulse, you have an impulse, like you don't know when to stop.

0:57.0

Like is it now? Is he okay? Is he going to be okay? Like, sometimes fights get stopped early and it is the worst feeling when a guy is kind of

1:04.9

rocked but then someone stops the fight and then the guy complains and that the crowd's like

1:10.4

boo and you're like shit it's you know it's weird because our philosophy and you know I primarily

1:17.2

work with two of the commissions Nevada State Athletic Commission in

1:19.5

California to the top commissions in the world you don't want to fight to go too long to risk long-term injury for the fighter.

1:26.4

So there's that philosophy of maybe stopping a fight one punch too early versus one punch too late.

1:30.4

Your goal is to stop it right on time. But it takes a lot of hard work to get to that

1:34.4

point. Depending upon the history of the fighter, you know, their ability to come back and, you know, you got to make that

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