Marcus Deegan: Achilles Rupture Ended My Fight Before It Started | DSH #1757

What have you been thinking about politics lately? Do you stay out of it or do you talk about it?

You know what? I do. I try to stay out of it because it can get you, you know, you can lose half your fan base.

Yeah. However, it's just something that's in my face all the time. It's just the craziness of the left.

I'm just absolutely blown away by the mental illnesses in that party and just the policies that are thrown out.

How they're trying to say that, you know, everything that Trump's doing is bad when pretty much what he's done in nine months is drop the taxes and close the border

and pull men out of winter sports and all this transient.

So I think that he's done a great job. When it comes to that, do I just agree with everything?

No. However, I think he's doing a better job than the last administration do.

I agree. Yeah. When I was younger growing up, I never talked about it.

But now it seems inevitable to talk about politics.

All right, guys. Got someone I met three years ago at the first podcast that I ever started filming at.

A sticky pause. We got Marcus here.

Sean Kelly. It's about time. He's been promising me for years.

And finally it happened. Out of the blue.

Yeah. The first time I promised you you were limping, you got a nasty injury.

Yeah. I ruptured my Achilles.

Geez. Yeah. I'm still working.

I was still working. I was in a cast, but I was still doing my thing.

You know, I don't let little injuries mess with me.

That's more than a little injury.

Yeah. It was. It was actually devastating.

It's actually still gives me a bit of grief to this day.

Geez. Yeah. Yeah. How'd you ruptured?

Boxing. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. Boxing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was just training. I was getting ready for.

So David Feldman, who is the brother of, sorry, Damon Feldman is the brother of David Feldman.

David does BKFC. Damon does celebrity boxing.

They booked me to do a fight with the Jake Paul lookalike.

They wanted me to do the whole corner thing.

Yeah. So I was getting ready and camp.

And I just popped him. Holy shit.

So my boxing career was over before it started.

Wow. I know, right?

So you're done doing any sort of martial arts fight?

I mean, yeah. I mean, it was one of those stages that I went through.

You know, I interview all these guys.

And then I just wanted to do that walk and just try it once, you know what I mean?

But, you know, it's different.

Was it mad for you?

No, it wasn't me.

I just think to interviewing them, sit the podcast there.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I was a show doing that.

You know, shows been on pause a little bit.

But I'm still putting content out there.

You know, we're in the middle of, we're on the finish line of our new studio,

which is going to be opening up soon, double down studios.

No. A 6,000 square foot massive venue with you.

Oh, I saw you guys as one of the prizes.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Big sound stage.

And yeah. So we've had a little bit of a pause for about a year.

I mean, I've been doing my bits of content.

I've been doing some ring announcing and stuff like that.

So it was good to have a little break.

Good to have a little reset.

But I'm looking forward to get.

I think we're out of it in January.

Nice. Let's go, baby.

Yeah.

You've been gone to the UFC and Power Slap and all that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I cover power slap every event.

And, you know, I go to my UFC.

And of course, the BKFC, I was there with Connor a couple of months ago.

Nice.

And I was, I just ring announcing for my Perry's dirty boxing.

Oh, that's it. Yeah. It was good.

How was that compared to?

I dropped the ball a little bit.

Really?

It was a bit nervous.

It was a bit unprepared.

But it was a great experience.

And it was good to meet everyone.

John Jones and the whole crew was there.

I got to say, yeah, announcing is more difficult than it looks.

Because you got to memorize all the names, right?

And that's the thing.

And because I have dyslexia, sometimes I mix the names up.

So I said the wrong winner for one of the best fights of the night.

And just, I felt my blood drain out of my face when I did.

It was just like the worst mistake you can do in ring announcing

is announce the wrong winner.

And I was saying, and everyone kind of just looked at me.

And then the guy, the one looked at me and I was like, oh my god.

I ended up calling him after was I said, bro, I'm so sorry.

What happened? I mean, I still remember, I think it was Steve Harvey

at the Worlds.

Same thing.

But Bruce Buffett has done it as well.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? It's just one of those things that happened.

And when you have dyslexia, especially when you're under pressure,

it tends to, you know, it exuberates and expands.

And when I say dyslexia, like I'll swap the first letter

and the last letter around.

Or if there's a bunch of names down the front there,

I'll read this one on this side instead of this.

I do that too.

It's really, really bad.

And because my eyesight's not the best,

those, the names were so small when you're trying to read it off the card

and everyone's looking at you.

It was a little bit of pressure, but you know, it was a learning experience.

It was good.

You're not going to get Lisa.

I'm thinking about it.

My mom got it.

But the problem is it only lasts like 20 years.

Yeah, that's what I heard.

So I guess if you get it, you should get it when you're old

and then you're good.

Let me just speak in a lacy.

I'm going to take these glasses off.

You're not going to get it?

I'm scared of it.

Also, I have a look with glasses.

Yeah.

I was going to say how do you look?

It matches my brain.

I personally think I look weird without glasses.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I don't think I've ever seen you with that glasses.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Like it's like neon.

Like have you seen him without glasses?

Oh, man.

Did you see what's going on in the latest with all that?

Those bunch of guys with, they're saying they're the island boys

or the ones that did the home robbery on 69's house?

No.

Yeah.

So they're getting all the footage together

and you can hear him say, hey, red,

which is his brother's now, obviously,

and they're like, they're comparing like body shapes

and the way they stand, the way they walk.

And it's looking like they were the guys that did it.

So they're done.

I mean, they've been done for a while in the public buy,

but you know what I mean?

But those guys, yeah, pretty bad, right?

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, I saw that robbery and big, I know money, right?

No, they didn't get anything.

But they held a gun to his 63-year-old mother's head,

which is just unimaginable, you know what I mean?

But, yeah, so, yeah, pretty messed up.

But those guys kind of been going down the wrong track

for a minute, right?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

What do you think of 69's come back on social media?

Listen, I think it's good,

I mean, you can't mess around with that.

You know, once you start doing the criminal element side of things,

especially when you're in that industry,

you know, there's only one way.

Well, there's two ways to go.

It's jail or dead.

And you know, that's why I don't mess with the criminal side

of anything.

I'm not a criminal.

But I didn't break the law.

You've never been a jail?

I did 17 hours at the Clark County detention center down here.

You were a runk?

No, I just, I hadn't paid a ticket.

And I was speeding and I got pulled over.

Really?

And he wouldn't let me off and he locked me up.

It was miserable.

How fast were you going?

I was not that fast.

I was doing like 80.

On the freeway.

He did not like you.

No, he didn't.

He didn't.

Yeah, I, I've been to unfortunately trespassing.

Clark County?

No, I was in Jersey.

I was dumb and I cut through a backyard.

How are we in there for at least eight hours?

Just suck.

I was by myself too.

So I made it worse.

No, I was in a holding cell.

This is a funny story about that.

I was in a holding cell with maybe 15 guys.

And there was no way to sit except right next to the toilet.

I had this little wall next to the toilet.

I was sitting down and this guy walks up,

pulled his pants down, drops a shit on the floor,

picks it up, picks it up with his hand,

and put it in the toilet.

And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing, bro?

Right in front of me.

Right in front of me.

Wow.

Pull these pants down, took a shit on the floor,

and then picked it up and threw it in.

And there's all had to wash your hands, though.

No, I was absolutely dumbfounded, bro.

What the fuck this guy was doing there?

Did you, you caught him out, though?

Absolutely.

I was like, dude, what the fuck are you doing right in front of me, man?

Yeah, it was bad.

That's enough.

But yeah, no.

The jail is not a place for me.

Yeah.

So you've behaved pretty well, though.

Yeah, I mean, listen, when I was young,

I was a bit of a dickhead and sold a bit of weed.

Everyone did that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I sold some weed and, you know,

but nothing that's going to get me locked up.

I value my freedom too much.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah, I sold weed.

I never got arrested for, I think,

statutory limitations.

We're good to say that.

Yeah, we could say that.

But it's legal now anyway.

It's legal.

Imagine the people that are in jail for like 25 years.

It's just something that's legal.

People got a lot of time for,

especially the ones that call with wheat.

Yeah, especially the ones that got prosecuted by Kamala Harris.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah.

What have you been thinking about politics lately?

Do you stay out of it or do you talk about it?

You know, I do.

I try to stay out of it because it can get you,

you know, you can lose half your fan base.

Yeah.

However, it's just something that's in my face all the time.

And just the craziness of the left is just,

yeah, I'm just absolutely blown away by the mental illness

that's carried on in that party.

And just the policies that are thrown out

and how they're trying to say that, you know,

everything that Trump's doing is bad when pretty much

what he's done in nine months is, you know,

obviously drop the taxes and close the border

and pull men out of winter sports

and all these transgender bullshit.

So I think that he's done a great job.

When it comes to that, do I just agree with everything?

No.

However, I think he's doing a better job

than the last administration deal.

I agree.

Yeah.

When I was younger growing up,

I never talked about it,

but now it seems inevitable to talk about politics.

It wasn't until I came to America.

Actually, you know what?

It wasn't until 2016 when I really started looking

into it.

Yeah, same.

Yeah, about that time when I was in college 10 years ago.

Yep.

I didn't give a shit before.

I couldn't care.

And you know what?

To be honest with you, it was better when I didn't give a shit

because it mentally affects you.

I'm like, what are these people?

Are these people crazy or what?

And that's what they want.

It is that the great divide, bro.

Yeah, it won't divide that, you know?

And then with everything that's going on

with the Muslim Brotherhood takeover rules through Europe

and then what's going on in Dearborn, Michigan right now.

And it's just crazy, you know?

Three-eye Atlas.

Yeah.

Everything else is going on there.

The second coming of Christ.

What's going on?

Right.

That's one of the downsides of social media.

We know what's going on everywhere.

Yeah.

Good and bad.

Yeah.

That's why it's funny.

I don't know if you know this,

but Conor McGregor deleted his Instagram.

Really?

45 million followers.

About three days ago.

You know, he went offline maybe about a month ago.

But yeah, he completely deleted his Instagram.

He's obviously locking in and getting focused

to the White House card next year.

Yeah.

You know?

But I'm sure that with 45 million followers,

he'd be making some money on Instagram.

Oh, right.

Yeah, a lot.

So yeah, he complete like,

it hasn't been paused.

It's gone.

It's gone.

That's kind of crazy.

Yeah.

What's the biggest takeaways you've learned

being around Conor McGregor?

That mindset is everything.

And that you have to completely believe in yourself.

And that you...

You have to...

And loyalty, I suppose.

He's big on that, right?

Huge on it.

And that's...

I suppose that's why I have a close relationship with him is

because during all the times of his, you know,

dips in popularity or whatever,

I've always stood by his side.

And he's known that.

And I've been around since pretty much day dot.

So yeah.

I think definitely your mindset is everything.

Yeah.

It's literally 90% of everything.

I've seen him talk about it recently

how you get to such a pinnacle.

And then there's these waves, right?

And dealing with that mentally is very difficult.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like...

People don't understand that he was a young kid

that went literally from zero money

to millionaire status in four years.

Yeah.

You can't mentally prepare for that.

Going from nothing to everything.

Yeah.

You know, and it's got to be a difficult thing.

I mean, can you imagine what you would have been like at 24

with, you know, $100 million?

Well, the same thing happened to me.

I didn't make a hundred million.

But I made millions and lost it at that age, you know.

Oh, you did.

Yeah.

Because you're not mature enough to handle that amount of money.

Did you just blow it?

Yeah, I'd do it.

I'd invest it in stupid shit, bought dumb stuff.

Yeah.

Physical goods and the other.

Yeah.

Spend it on your friends.

Yeah.

Blowin' hookers.

No hookers.

No hookers.

Just got married, bro.

No way to say that kind of stuff anymore.

But you just had to go on your podcast

to drink some menstrual blood.

Yeah.

But she's cool with that, but she's not cool with hookers.

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What about from the past though?

Are you allowed to talk about stuff from your past?

She's getting worried about that.

She's my first real girlfriend,

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Oh is that right?

Oh wow, that's awesome.

So I could talk about my past and she's cool though.

And what about her?

I won't disclose that for her bike sake.

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Or does that affect you?

No.

Not?

No.

Because as long as it's not in a crazy body,

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Like if I were single now, you'd have to be below five.

Yeah.

I think as you get all of that kind of stuff doesn't matter as much

but having a low body count shows like who you are as a person in your life.

It tells a lot about you.

It tells a lot about you.

I don't think any man wants to marry someone that's got a 20 or 30 body count.

I don't care what you say.

You can say it that bit.

It's never.

I mean, even for me when I'm friends with guys,

it might be a little gay to say this.

But if their body count is super high,

it's kind of like a turn off for me.

Yeah.

I mean, I wouldn't say how high mine is,

but I wasn't thundered from down under for nearly 30 years.

Well, that's not legitimate.

Mine was up there.

Like it was rock stars.

It's a show here, right?

Yeah, that's a show here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I retired in 2020.

But I toured all over the world with that.

So I literally, as a young single Australian guy,

touring the world for a predominantly 98% female audience.

Yeah.

You know, I'd recommend anyone to do it.

I went crazy.

However, now looking back on it,

I repent for those sins.

And I wouldn't, you know,

I've been with my girl for 12 years now.

I wouldn't have any other loss.

You actually do regret it.

Yeah.

I kind of do, to be honest with you,

because it kind of made my,

who I am as a person,

I'm just not that guy anymore.

And it's a little bit tacky and a little bit.

Yeah, I'm sure you've run into them.

And you're like,

No, actually, no, I've never really ran into any of them.

Oh, really?

No, I've never really ran into any of them.

But just as I suppose this Marcus looks down on that Marcus,

whereas if it was opposite,

yeah, I kind of just looked down on it.

I was a bit of a sleaze.

A bit sleazy, a bit tacky,

and a bit manory.

I feel that.

I think a lot of guys go through a similar phase, you know?

Yeah.

I wonder younger in college, partying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mine was a different level, though.

I've got sometimes two or three a night, you know?

All these shit.

Yeah.

And we would be in one town, one night,

and we'd pack the gear up,

we'd drive to the next town,

and the next town,

I'd be on the road for nine months.

Yeah.

So it was different kettle of fish.

And it wasn't as if it was hard to get women,

because it was so easy,

because you're on stage.

So we were forming and taking your clothes off.

You can literally do it non-verbally.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

But, yeah, looking back on it now,

you know, it was fun at the time,

but I wouldn't, I wouldn't never do it again.

Would you say you had a sex addiction back then?

I don't know if it was a sex addiction,

or it was just ego being able to get whatever you want,

because it's the same old story, right?

You work in a chocolate factory,

and for the first, you know, a couple of years,

you can eat all that chocolate we want, and it's great.

But then after a while,

it gets a little bit old.

So you just, instead of going, you know, picking up one gear,

you're like, let me do two or three,

or, well, let's have a competition,

and he can get the most.

So yeah, it kind of lost his novelty,

and you crave for what you don't have.

So you crave for the relationship,

you crave stability, and monogamy,

and that's what I craved in the end,

which kind of, you know, then I met Jenny,

and everything was wild.

Yeah, that's awesome.

It's all you do out the show.

Actually, I did meet her at this show.

She was there for her sister's bachelor rep party,

and she was going to the bathroom, and I saw her,

and I was like, oh, hello,

and we ended up chatting afterwards,

and a couple of other, then I went to China,

and did some shows over there,

came back, and we rekindled, and yeah,

it's been, yeah, ever since.

What about her, like stood out from the other girls

that made you want to?

Her beauty stood out to me first,

and her smile.

And then when we sat down and talked,

she was very kind of shy, but very sweet,

and you know, the red hair.

And yeah, obviously it was physical straightaway,

and then it just, I grew, you know,

once I kind of got to know her a little bit better,

she's just got the massive heart,

is a real sweetheart, not a liar, not a whore,

not no ego, and funny as hell,

and really, really takes care of her,

and it really takes care of me.

It sort of looks through you,

and in personality when you're over.

Absolutely.

Exactly.

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Yeah, old school energy is going great.

We've just opened up in a bunch of more stores

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Once again, we're still looking for

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The drinks great.

Everyone loves it.

Everyone I've given it to has spoken highly about it.

I mean, look, when it comes to energy drinks,

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It doesn't have the touring and all the syrups

and all the dyes and all the chemicals

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It only has, as you know, 12 chemicals,

12 ingredients in it,

which just puts it aside from all the rest.

A lot of these energy drink companies

don't even tell you what they're putting in.

Really?

Half the cell that they can

and half what they put in

is really bad for your brain and for your body,

whereas old school is a little bit different,

you know, with the thiamine and l thiamine

and the real cane sugar.

It's a clear liquid.

There's no dyes or colorings or syrups

or any other stuff.

So it's going really well

and it's just only a matter of time for that company

before it kicks off.

And the guys are great.

I love working with them.

Yeah, they're awesome.

You know, David and Mark

and yeah, it's been a passion of mine

that drink company.

So I love it.

I hope more drinks go to cane sugar.

I know Trump's trying to get Coca-Cola

to switch to cane sugar.

Well, it's like, if you have a drink

at Coke from Mexico,

compared to a Coke.

They sell it at Costco.

In the glass bottles, right?

Yeah, it's completely different.

It kind of tastes healthy.

It still tastes like Coke,

but not that thickness and not that syrupy, you know.

I can't drink the Coke here.

It's the same.

And I love Coke as well,

but yeah, the Coke's no way near as good it is

that you get from Mexico.

That's for real.

I know you're dealing with some health stuff.

We'd have to get too personal about it.

No, that's fine.

We can get into it.

So I went to get some stem cells

for my lower back.

And they took a blood test

because they, you know,

they have to see what's going on in your blood.

Then I literally got a phone call

from the doctor five days later

when my results came in.

I said, whatever you're doing,

whatever hormone replacement therapy

you're taking, you need to stop right now.

You're levels that are out of stage

where it's pre-cursor for prostate cancer.

And you're about to have a stroke.

What?

Yeah.

Your blood is like syrupy.

You need to get in here

and we need to do a blood dump.

So I went in there.

They took out a whole bunch of blood.

Felt bad.

I went and did some more tests.

Found out it was cancer.

So then they sent me to an MRI.

And my prostate came back out.

That's like, yeah, it's eight millimeters

on the bottom left hand.

So out of your prostate,

my prostate was enlarged

by like four times.

So I was pissing like 40,

50 times a day.

Oh my god.

My brain headaches,

super tired,

achy back,

achy hips, achy knees.

So I go in on the 10th of next month

to do a biopsy where they go in.

They scrape the cancer cell.

They tell you what stage you're at.

How aggressive it is.

And then they determine the treatment for it.

So if you catch it early,

it is very treatable.

If it metastasized,

you're in a little bit of a different ballpark.

However, I'm not worried.

I'm not scared.

I'm not crying about it.

I'm not, I'm not,

I'm not even bothered.

To be honest with you,

when I first, no.

When I first heard the news,

it was just like blank.

It was nothing.

It was just like, I don't know.

I brain went into protection,

but I did not feel in a shock.

No.

I wasn't shocked.

I wasn't scared.

I wasn't anything.

It was literally no emotion.

Now when you sit down and get in your own head a little bit

and you think about it,

yeah, kind of messes you up.

I'm more concerned before my girl than myself.

I believe I'll beat it.

My mindset is so strong.

I believe that.

It's just going to be inconvenience to me

and that I'll get through it.

It is a warning for guys that are in my age group

when you hit 50.

Definitely going to get a, you know, your PSA

and your PSI levels check

because prostate cancer is a, you know,

it kills a lot of men here in America.

500,000 a year.

Hold it.

So they need to get checked

because early detection is the key.

Well, I hope that they've caught it rather early.

And yeah, so I'll see how I go.

But yeah, man, I, you know,

when you hear the word cancer,

automatically everything kind of changes for you.

Like things that kind of worried me before

don't really know.

And I'm kind of looking at it as a reset.

Yeah.

It's kind of reset myself

and reset my priorities

and my personality and my moods

and things that were important to me

before aren't so important now.

You realize that your health is pretty much everything.

So fingers crossed everything goes all well.

And you know what?

If it doesn't,

not saying that it will.

But if, then that's just what I have to deal with

and that's the way it is

and that's what God's put in front of me

and I'll deal with it head on.

Respect, man.

Yeah, I actually had a near death experience a month ago.

What?

Yeah, it was crazy.

I was texting people like,

this is it?

Like, what happened?

Dude, I don't know.

I got this like,

the sharpest pain I've ever felt like in my stomach.

And it just felt like my appendix burst or something.

I don't know what the fuck it was.

But all stones or something maybe?

Dude, I still don't know what it was.

And it was really bad.

And I was telling my girl like,

this could be it.

Wow.

Yeah, it's a scary thought, right?

Yeah, it fucked me up though

because like,

if I were to die there,

I don't know if she would have been all right.

Yeah, and that's exactly my sentiments with Jenny.

It's like, I know how much she,

not only depends on me as a man

and as a partner,

but emotionally,

and we're just best friends

and we're just so connected

that I feel more for her.

Like, it worries me

about what she would do.

And you know,

we'll discuss it and talk about it.

And she's like,

I hope everything's going to be all right.

I can't lose you.

It's just this can't be the end for you.

And I firmly believe in my mind

that it won't be here.

But you never know.

And you know,

I have my faith in the Lord

and I believe in God.

And I talk to God all the time.

And as it says in the Bible,

God doesn't give you things

that you can't handle.

You know what I mean?

This is maybe going to be a reset

and this all,

it's here to teach me something.

And it's just another chapter

in the Marcus Dig and story, bro.

Yeah.

In the Marcus Dig and movie,

which has been an epic one so far,

it's just one of those things.

I love them, man.

Yeah.

Where can people find a studio,

find you and keep up with your mind?

Listen, man.

You can just find me on all my socials,

Marcus Dig and D-E-E-G-A-N.

Double Down Studios opening in January, man.

We're right across the road

from the UFC Apex.

We're taking, you know,

we're taking this to the next level.

I'm looking forward to getting in there

in the meantime.

I've been filming at a absolutely fantastic studio,

origin studios where you shoot

and I've been down there with David Coleman.

And I love the people down there.

And they're a great bunch of guys.

And yeah, it's kind of been going in there once a week.

So it's been kind of, you know,

you know, helping me with that earth

to get back behind the mic.

And I love it.

And yeah, man, that's it.

I love it, bro.

Good seeing you, man.

Good seeing you, brother.

I will.

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