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all right guys i got a real treat for you on Renegade radio today. I am here with

the legend Frank Schaprock, the mangues. Revolutionized the sport of mixed martial arts and is considered one of the greatest ever.

Frank, welcome to the show, thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely, it's a pleasure.

So let's start off a little bit by just talking about your early life and some of the struggles you had to overcome.

And then my follow-up question to that is, do you still kind of deal with that a little bit today? if so how what you know what are some of the maybe rituals and daily practices you go through to kind of you know keep that all in check?

Sure. Yeah well you know I grew up in a pretty broken, messed up, abusive home and I was taken out of there when I was 11 and became a war of the state.

And then from 11 until about... 11 and became a war of the state.

And then from 11 until about 22,

I was a war of the state in various institutions

all the way up from group homes to work camps and then finally went to prison and youth prison.

And yeah, it was all weirdly by accident, I mean it wasn't by accident, I learned that you know when you're a

youth in California and you commit petty crimes they really can't hurt you they just

kind of move you along the system but I found myself at 22 years old you know

in prison and sort of stuck and trying to, you know, needing

to figure my life out and that's when, yeah, I came across martial arts and, you know, it always worked out and been crazy athletic and you know had a good

physique but it wasn't until I had you know sort of a focused goal and and you know a

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