Why Ben Askren Calls Kamaru Usman "Marty From Nebraska" | Joe Rogan

CBD is fantastic. Yeah, so no psychoactive effects too. Yeah, cuz that's it. That's it. That's the freaking stigma behind It's marijuana. It's weed. Yeah, we're talking about marijuana before the podcast Like I do it I'm like I'm coming on Joe Royce. I smoke no No, we watch you watch you lucid here Don't want you going in the hole The problem is like when people don't get high and then they get high in a pressure situation like this You're just like yeah, you go into that tunnel. He like yeah. Oh my god. Yeah I've tried I've smoked four times in my life. Yeah, how did it go? The first time is my 24th birthday 24th birthday, uh, I smoked with Who was it a couple friends of mine at the Olympic Train Center? And they didn't do anything cuz I don't know how to hit the plant Yeah, so it's like man this stuff don't affect me don't So I didn't say screw that if you want to do it again and then the next time was the year after With Jason Miller mayhem Miller. Oh mayhem knows how to hit that. We yeah, I wasn't we were doing it was doing an ultimate fighter we were doing that and um One thing we do at night is a lot of people expect like ma'am when he's not On is a man super cool guy. This is very good. I mean, there's always like kind of like being around Mike Tyson There's always like edge. Yeah, there's always that edge to where you're in the room with the with the freaking lion like yeah He's been the coolest lion ever but you still know what the fucking lion right, you know and mayhem's like that You're in a room. Everything's cool, but he still has he can snap at any moment. So We're sitting on the balcony at night and we'll just talk and he would just talk about these The weird thing about mayhem is he always watched like he'd watch nothing but like Smart shit like the news like the Colbert report like things like that, you know, he wouldn't watch I would think he'd watch like 90210 Or make it shows like that like no man, he you know, he was very intelligent guy then we just sit there and talk at night and and He gave me the nickname that night too and freakin he's like bro your first name starts with a K Your last name is bush man Usman, I'm gonna freakin call you Kush. I'm calling you coach. Hahaha Freakin the next day on set everyone calls me Kush to this day People call me Kush. You're like, I'm the Nigerian And at that time it wasn't born yeah, you know The name wasn't right because I didn't start fighting yet But so I've had nicknames all through all throughout my life my career Which is that whole been asking shit that he's trying to run with? What is he calling you? Marty from Nebraska Marty from Nebraska Causing Marty from Nebraska. See this is the thing is when I started wrestling I started in high school My coach is this big marine dude, you know, who's in shape buzz cut why dude and it comes up to me I'm five foot two a hundred pounds silken wet and he's like, oh, he's like, what's your name kid? I tell him buddy. I don't even think he paid attention and he's like, what you tried wrestling? I never heard of wrestling All I've heard is WWE like now man. I try and get hit with chairs and stuff. I'm trying to do that shit Okay Well, give it a shot and our assistant wrestling coach was the assistant football coach so they kind of would poke at me Yeah, you come try wrestling come try wrestling. I'll do the football season then the next year I freaking I nut it up and I freakin just signed up for wrestling I went in and He looks at these reason role sheet calling names and he goes Come on And I like as me coach. He's like that's your name He's like I'm not saying that cuz my whole full name is Camardine Camaro Dean Camaro Dean He's like, I'm not gonna say that like Camara Camardian and Camara Mark. I'm gonna call you Marty and I'm just like Yeah, sure coach. I'm fucking five foot three hundred pounds. I'm just kidding this guy. I'm like sure I mean your kid you don't care you're gonna have nicknames all grown up So why does the UFC shorten your name? To come out. No, I that's that's what you just called me. It's come. Oh, yeah My parents call me Kamaru, but the full it was like my my name's Joseph. My parents call me Joe Joe. Exactly Yeah, so the you know, so that it's it's Kamaru. That's what my parents was calling me. That's what I call myself Okay, you know, but my full name is like Joseph is a you know, it's Camara Dean. So Marty yeah, he's like I'm call you Marty. So fucking all right. Now the whole team is calling me Marty and you know Man I love those names. I love that coach man He essentially changed essentially changed my life changed the course of my life. That is such a funny thing though to do Yeah, and I call you Marty. That's not even close It's totally different letter. I know but it it seemed to work. It works so well to wear This is the thing about nicknames if you fucking if you're a guy that just a regular average guy you suck Your name dies with you you move on on cares, right, you know, but if you're doing something incredible something spectacular that name lives on Right. So now Marty went from just now everyone on the team Call me Marty to where people know about the wrestling around the wrestling circuit, you know in high school We're calling me Marty. Oh that Marty guy that did kids good And then our college coaches are calling like I want to recruit this kid, you know This Camaro Dean kid and he's like Oh Marty, so now they all know me as Marty So now I go to college and the coach is calling me Marty and now the college team is calling me Marty Now here's the situation with this whole Ben Aspen thing is Like I just mentioned if I was just a regular guy who sucked no one cares. No one knows your name you die out, right? But because I made waves like I was that Marty kid that wrestled at Nebraska that's beating the shit out of everyone division One two three and a I a Jew code doesn't matter Ben knows of me So, you know, he's trying to cling on to something to bring it back like oh, this is funny I'm trying to hide from it. No, I really was Marty from Nebraska I really was that guy