JRE MMA Show #179 with Josh Thompson & "Big" John McCarthy
5/27/20262 hr 51 min
Joe sits down with Josh Thompson, a retired champion mixed martial artist and fight analyst, and Big John McCarthy, a veteran mixed martial arts referee, Professional Fighters League commentator, and founder of Big John McCarthy’s C.O.M.M.A.N.D., an internationally recognized training school for referees and judges in mixed martial arts. Josh and John host the “Weighing In” podcast.www.youtube.com/@WeighingInhttps://linktr.ee/weighinginpodcastwww.mmareferee.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. 50% off your first box at https://thefarmersdog.com/rogan! Use code ROGAN at https://BlueChew.com to get 10% OFF + Free Overnight Shipping on your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsBig John McCarthy· Guest0:00
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Joe Rogan· Host0:09
[upbeat music] Gentlemen.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:12
We're live.
Joe Rogan· Host0:13
What's happening?
Josh Thomson· Guest0:15
My man.
Joe Rogan· Host0:15
Good to see you.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:15
My man, my man.
Joe Rogan· Host0:17
What is up? I enjoy your show. Your show's excellent. You guys have a really good MMA show. It's really solid.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:20
Thank you.
Big John McCarthy· Guest0:21
[laughs] [laughs] Thank you. I, I kind of blew that.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:23
Yeah.
Big John McCarthy· Guest0:23
[laughs] So it's- How'd you blow it? We can, we can talk about that. [laughs] You know what? I gotta talk to him about that episode.
Joe Rogan· Host0:27
You guys are not doing it anymore?
Big John McCarthy· Guest0:28
I, I, I stepped back away when I went, I started, uh, refereeing again, so.
Joe Rogan· Host0:32
Goddammit, you gotta go back to doing it.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:34
Ah.
Joe Rogan· Host0:34
You guys are great. You guys are a great combination.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:36
I think I might.
Big John McCarthy· Guest0:37
So- What we did is we, what we- You have to ...
Josh Thomson· Guest0:38
what we did is we started doing, uh, McCarthy Mondays, because when he went back to refereeing, he's not allowed to talk about promotions, not allowed to talk about fighters- Right ... and what's wrong, and, and the things that possibly, you know, can make some changes. And so we just started McCarthy Monday, where we just talk about, like, the Joe Schilling situation. That's something we can talk about, right?
Joe Rogan· Host0:55
Right.
Josh Thomson· Guest0:55
Like, it's ... So I just, I created a show for him to just only do on Mondays.
Joe Rogan· Host0:59
He created.
Big John McCarthy· Guest1:00
Nice.
Josh Thomson· Guest1:00
Well- No, you did ... it's his, obviously it's his input.
Joe Rogan· Host1:02
It was. Yeah, you created it, so it's your- It's his input.
Josh Thomson· Guest1:04
[laughs] I was just trying to k- find ways to keep him involved.
Joe Rogan· Host1:06
I love that you're refereeing again. We need great referees. But I wish you were out there doing both. It doesn't make sense to me that you can't do both. Like, it's not like you're not gonna be a great referee while also still being able to comment objectively about promotions. It's important.
Josh Thomson· Guest1:20
Yeah.
Big John McCarthy· Guest1:21
It is important.
Joe Rogan· Host1:21
It's important.
Big John McCarthy· Guest1:22
Trans- like, transparency, where, where's ever the problem with that?
Joe Rogan· Host1:25
Exactly.
Big John McCarthy· Guest1:26
But you get these people that, oh, no, because you might say something that