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Muay Thai boxer, author, and TV commentator Matt Lucas and I sit down over a cup of over-brewed Chai tea to talk about the Muay Thai community's world of flying elbows. Matt shares his unique insights into the lives of local and foreign Muay Thai fighters – from their early days to the sunset of their careers.



Show Notes



* Karsten talks about his inability to brew tea (00:28)* Matt's work as a TV commentator (01:15)* The Boxer's Soliloquy (08:51)* Not owning a gym as a career path (11:05)* Muay Thai writing and blogging (12:00)* Fighting in your 30's (13:40)* Career, life and earnings of a typical Muay Thai fighter (15:57)* Matt's life and origins in the US (24:50)* Gyms, contracts, relationships and conflicts of interest (25:55)* Matt's journey to Muay Thai(land) (34:05)* Matt's stencil graffiti art (37:00)* Where and when to see Matt fight (and comment) (40:20)



Websites and People Mentioned



* The Boxer's Soliloquy is Matt's book that features short stories set in the Muay Thai world. I gave it a verified-purchase 5-stars on Amazon.* Matt Lucas is his personal website with links to his other writings and work.



Transcript



Welcome to Brewed in Bangkok, the podcast about the people you need in the city that makes a hard man crumble.



Karsten: Hey! It's brewed in Bangkok and I'm your host Karsten Aichholz. Today we have a very special guest; it's a bit of a television celebrity and a published author. We'll get to my interview with him very soon.



I'm a little bit hyped up today because I am a few cups of coffee into the very nice Blue Morning Coffee I picked up. So I got a food scale and I actually use it to measure food. I didn't know you would use it for anything else until I had a couch surfer of once see it, his eyes lighted up and it's like whooooa! I was like 'it's a food scale' he was like "you use it for food, I thought you are using it for something else we can consume in small quantities" and that's when it dawned on me like oh right drug dealers need to somehow measure the produce put it exactly.



Anyway I use it to measure the amount of ground of coffee I put into my coffees. So I hope that given some time that will actually result in determining the perfect amount of coffee that I have to put in, in order to get the best taste out of it.



However for this interview, we also went to drink coffee and taste wasn't the priority though I actually do like it there. Let's find out what we went.



Hi this is Karsten Aichholz from Brewed in Bangkok and I'm sitting in Star Bucks with Matt Lucas.



Matt: Cool



Karsten: Well we haven't drunken anything yet except for water and coffee and what is it that you have there?



Matt: I have a nice cup of cha over here, it's brewing.



Karsten: Did you leave the tea bag in?



Matt: Yeah, you're not supposed to?



Karsten: I think like you know I had a thing actually. When I started my business, I was living with my business partner and it was like a running joke that I had to make every cup of tea three times, because the first two times I would totally forget about it and it would lead like brew literally for 20 minutes at which point it just becomes this disgusting bitter mess an...