Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman of the UFC joins Commander Mark Divine in this podcast
The Mark Divine Show
Mark Divine
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Spaniard, Charlie Brenneman, straight out of Pennsylvania gives it to us straight on his wrestling background that led him from a teaching career into the MMA world of fighting. As one of the best fighters in the world, you will learn how much money he made as a novice,his training rituals, and even the surprise and awe he encountered when some fans turned on him. Mark and Charlie talk about the mental game involved and how Charlie entered the ring an empty vessel of power.
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| 0:00.0 | I give it up for a change a bunch of bad asses if you know what I mean. |
| 0:18.0 | They're coming out of the sky out of the city and on land gonna take it to the get of me. |
| 0:23.0 | Ooh yah, yah, yah, yah, |
| 0:25.0 | ooh yah, boohyah, |
| 0:28.0 | time to explode boys. |
| 0:30.0 | Make sure you get home boys. |
| 0:32.0 | They got your back, the pride of the fleets, the pipe swinging frogmen of the U.D.T. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey folks, this is Commander Mark de Mind coming from sunny, very sunny |
| 0:47.0 | in Cenities, California for the Unboodle Mind podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm super stoked to have another fantastic guest is Charlie Brenneman |
| 0:56.7 | aka the Spaniard who's a lover and a fighter and a, no I'm sorry that's that's a |
| 1:03.7 | teacher, author, and professional MMA fighter. |
| 1:08.3 | That's so we're gonna talk about how you went from the classroom to the mat and talk about your book. He's an author of Driven, my unlikely journey from classroom to cage. |
| 1:22.0 | How cool is that? |
| 1:22.8 | So it sounds like we're going to hear a little of that story. |
| 1:24.8 | Welcome, nice to meet you. |
| 1:26.7 | I appreciate it, Mark. |
| 1:27.7 | And I have to say, you know, I'm a hypothetical warrior. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, I've been a wrestler and a fighter my whole life and there are there is no one I respect more than Navy SEALs. So it's it's really an honor to you know to want to be introduced your podcast in your book I'm in the middle of it you know so this is a really neat thing for me so I appreciate you having me on |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, it's our pleasure. You know we're near and dear to any warrior tradition here and to mind you know as you saw from |
| 1:53.4 | or you're seeing the book I have a 25-year martial arts history myself and I'm |
| 1:57.8 | happy and a Navy SEAL and it's an unusual combination just really allowed me to |
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