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Speaker 3: Bro. Welcome to another episode of Busting with the Boys.
Speaker 3: I'm your host, Will Compton. The boy Taylor Lawan. He
Speaker 3: is out this week and the truth be told. It's
Speaker 3: kind of funny Michigan only when twenty eight eighteen he
Speaker 3: wants to be out this week. Look, we have an
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Speaker 3: Michael Chandler, our boys in the back they do a
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Speaker 3: Let's start off the episode check Mate, your boy has
Speaker 3: the key to the city Bonter, Missouri. You want you
Speaker 3: want to get a quick photo. Here, hang on just
Speaker 3: one second, everybody, Hey unlocked, Yeah, I'll get a little
Speaker 3: We activated bonterr. Over the weekend, my daughter Rue and
Speaker 3: I we took a road trip down to Missouri. Uh yes,
Speaker 3: I will move the mic. We took a trip down
Speaker 3: to Bonta, Missouri to will your boy, will your boy,
Speaker 3: Willie see. I had a little ceremony. I had a
Speaker 3: little ceremony. I thought it was just going to be
Speaker 3: like they said that they were doing unveiling, like a
Speaker 3: photo that's going to be behind the bleachers, is what
Speaker 3: my brother Wyatt said. And when I got there, they
Speaker 3: had these chairs sitting up in the middle of the
Speaker 3: fifty yard line on the track. Family was there, the
Speaker 3: mayor was there, and little to my knowledge, I got
Speaker 3: the key to the city. They retired your boys jersey
Speaker 3: and the unveiling of the photo up top it's hanging
Speaker 3: on the press box. Great photo, great photo. Jersey number
Speaker 3: twenty eight. Your boy got his number retired. And it
Speaker 3: was an all time night. And then the next day
Speaker 3: we went to the RJFL Fields, which is Raider Junior
Speaker 3: Football League, our community league that I grew up playing.
Speaker 3: They had their pump passing kicker. I think they call
Speaker 3: it pump passing field now because they do a lot
Speaker 3: of field activities. And it was all time because full
Speaker 3: circle moment. My number twenty eight came from. If you
Speaker 3: go back to that last photo. Sure, I'm talking to
Speaker 3: everybody that showed up, but to my left is Dave Gibson.
Speaker 3: He is the guy who runs the Raider Junior Football League.
Speaker 3: Dave Gibson was a stud running back in high school.
Speaker 3: He was my very first RJFL coach for the Patriots,
Speaker 3: the nineteen ninety nine Patriots. We went six and zero.
Speaker 3: We killed everybody, and he wanted me to wear his
Speaker 3: jersey number, which was twenty eight, and his number was
Speaker 3: twenty eight high school, and so I was twenty eight
Speaker 3: throughout my entire childhood, all the way uprough high school.
Speaker 3: That jersey's now that jersey number is now retired with
Speaker 3: the Raiders. Your boys fired up. I had an incredible weekend.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling
Speaker 3: pretty solid. It is really cool. Yes, that's you. Next,
Speaker 3: going back to listening to Dave speak to the RGFL.
Speaker 3: They raised over sixty thousand dollars. My very first year,
Speaker 3: I think I was in second grade flag football. We
Speaker 3: raised around four thousand dollars and that same fundraisers. Now
Speaker 3: they had the record year last year at forty thousand.
Speaker 3: Now jumped up to sixty thousand. A lot more kids
Speaker 3: are coming out in the Raider Junior Football League. It
Speaker 3: was really cool to kind of see everybody there because
Speaker 3: when I was playing, it was like there were four
Speaker 3: teams per grade. Now I want to say they're in
Speaker 3: between like six to eight. And all that money goes
Speaker 3: into all their equipment. They get all like the cool
Speaker 3: stuff and everything else. They have like NFL looking jerseys,
Speaker 3: not like the netted you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: when I was on the Patriots, it was just blue
Speaker 3: and it just said our JFL on the front. Now
Speaker 3: they have like Patriot uniforms. So it was really cool, man,
Speaker 3: it truly was. I had a really good time. They've
Speaker 3: put me on the spot. I had to give like
Speaker 3: a speech. When he introduced me. He's like, hey, do
Speaker 3: you mind talking kind of about you coming from here
Speaker 3: and say a few things at peels and you want
Speaker 3: me to give a speech, Dave, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: I'm not prepared, and so I got to talk. I
Speaker 3: got to speak a little bit and it was cool. Man.
Speaker 3: The kids loved it. I loved it. It was it
Speaker 3: was a fun time. I feel very uncomfortable kind of
Speaker 3: talking about myself on the mic without Taylor here. You
Speaker 3: bring up that I don't know. Is that the clip
Speaker 3: that I posted or is this the highlight film? So
Speaker 3: the night Friday night Lights before the game started, when
Speaker 3: they retired everything and I got the key to the city,
Speaker 3: they played this highlight tape. The very first clip. They
Speaker 3: had like one or two clips of me and the
Speaker 3: RGFL to start it off, and it was either it
Speaker 3: was my dad or Coach Jones, the head coach of
Speaker 3: the Raiders, like filming it on his TV. So we're
Speaker 3: just we're like geeking out the whole time watching this
Speaker 3: highlight tape. Pretty good highlight tape.
Speaker 5: Your pose has reached new new fame, bro, it really has.
Speaker 3: And it fires me up because I'll be like smiling
Speaker 3: our post. I'll like try to post for the photo
Speaker 3: and smile. Most of the time, I just do that.
Speaker 3: I just hit I just hit my pose, and people
Speaker 3: are like, hey, I want you to hit the post.
Speaker 3: We gotta hit the pose, which fires me up because
Speaker 3: that pose is simply so I don't have to smile
Speaker 3: or feel like I'm kind of like, you know, whether
Speaker 3: you're putting your arms around people or you want to
Speaker 3: do a thumbs up or number one too, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: it just helps kind of like have a goofy post
Speaker 3: so you don't have to worry about is my smile
Speaker 3: good in this photo? You kind of zoom in on
Speaker 3: your face, like I look kind of dumb in this photo.
Speaker 3: I need to figure out my post. No, we just
Speaker 3: hit the Willie C. I see Chiefs Kingdom Kansas City
Speaker 3: Chiefs fans tagging me hitting the pose. So hey, if
Speaker 3: you hit the if you hit that pose and you
Speaker 3: tag me and I come across it, I promise you
Speaker 3: I will share it with whether on my story or
Speaker 3: on Twitter. It's so fun. But it is bro. The
Speaker 3: kids wanted to come up. They're like, hey, uh, do
Speaker 3: you want to hit the do you want to do
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, yes, like everybody, everybody lene up, like,
Speaker 3: let's hit the post. We zoom out. We take an
Speaker 3: awesome photo. But it is cool that that pose is hit.
Speaker 3: When it killed.
Speaker 5: HiT's different too, I know, man, because they're like extra
Speaker 5: stokes because when you're older, it's like you're being funny
Speaker 5: and doing it. When you're a little kid, it's like
Speaker 5: it's super fun to have an excuse to flex.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: You can see it in.
Speaker 5: Their face or they're just like, like so exciting because
Speaker 5: as I would do it, like you know, in like
Speaker 5: recent years, you feel goofy doing it around a group
Speaker 5: of people that have no clue what you're even doing,
Speaker 5: and they kind of just like chuckle.
Speaker 3: But now since it's kind of known a little bit,
Speaker 3: everybody's like, oh yeah, let's go. But it does. It
Speaker 3: fires me up. It fires me up. Hitting that post
Speaker 3: the year ten playoff Willie Pose Yeah, rank the Poses. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that needs to be the trophy, like you just get
Speaker 3: hit the pose going. We give out that award will
Speaker 3: Confident Award, Yeah, the will Comfortent Award. But it was awesome, man.
Speaker 3: It was a really good weekend. We went back to
Speaker 3: the farm. We had like family and friends over to
Speaker 3: watch the Huskers. We watched ball all day Saturday. Shout
Speaker 3: out rue. She pooped in the potty twice. I have
Speaker 3: a little potty trainee in the making right now, and
Speaker 3: she's really only wetting herself at naptime and bedtime, just
Speaker 3: like her old man did up until he was about fourteen.
Speaker 3: But she crushed it. It was a great time. I
Speaker 3: didn't know how it would be since I was writing solo.
Speaker 3: The wife had to hang back for a Bar three
Speaker 3: event on Saturday that she had to be at. But
Speaker 3: it was an awesome weekend. Man, it was an awesome
Speaker 3: weekend rue getting to be at the old Zimbie Grounds.
Speaker 3: I try to tell her she has no clue what's
Speaker 3: going on. She just wants to play and jump around
Speaker 3: and dance around and stuff.
Speaker 6: Top five adorable video.
Speaker 5: Yeah girls. When they helped her up, yeah, they started
Speaker 5: going crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yo, I was. We had a long ride
Speaker 3: back home and I was trying to she she wanted music.
Speaker 3: She didn't want music, and then when we do listen
Speaker 3: to music, it's gotta be the same song on repeat
Speaker 3: essentially the entire time. Fortunately I got her on the
Speaker 3: Lonely Road with MGK and Jelly Roll, but I was
Speaker 3: on the Frozen soundtrack for the majority of the weekend,
Speaker 3: and so when she didn't want music, we were just
Speaker 3: sitting there and she was just talking, and you gotta
Speaker 3: like you're trying to she wants you to repeat what
Speaker 3: she says pretty much every time, and so I got
Speaker 3: her in to go big Red, Like, hey, Rue, we
Speaker 3: got to get you into this, go big red, Tan,
Speaker 3: go big red chance. So I tried teaching it to
Speaker 3: her over and over and over, and eventually she got it.
Speaker 3: She's got it down now. I was trying to get
Speaker 3: to where I'm saying, go big red, and then she
Speaker 3: says go big but she doesn't quite understand that yet,
Speaker 3: so she just does both of them together. But she's
Speaker 3: got to go big red. Chan On Lock. By the way,
Speaker 3: the Huskers, we took care of business defense. We did
Speaker 3: hold in the three points, but they were kind of
Speaker 3: running it. They were kind of moving the ball at will.
Speaker 3: At some point. We just did a good job of
Speaker 3: being like a ben don't break defense. But I'm sure
Speaker 3: it'll be one of those weeks of practice to where
Speaker 3: it's all about physicality because we got a tough fighting
Speaker 3: Alaini ball club coming to town, and Illinois is not
Speaker 3: a team to sleep on. Brett Bilma, as I say
Speaker 3: later in the episode with Mike Chandler, he is my
Speaker 3: number one enemy this week. I mean, they took everything
Speaker 3: from us in the big ten championship with Wisconsin. That's
Speaker 3: when they had like over seven hundred yards of offense
Speaker 3: on us.
Speaker 5: The buzz will be back too, because they're ranked.
Speaker 3: And this is the first ranked game where Nebraska's ranked
Speaker 3: and another team's ranked in over a decade, so it
Speaker 3: will be buzzing. And it's the four four one hundredth
Speaker 3: consecutive sellout, so it's gonna be a massive game Friday
Speaker 3: Night under the lights, and we beat their ass last year.
Speaker 3: It's Friday. We beat their ass last year because we
Speaker 3: were coming off of that. We just got stomped by
Speaker 3: Michigan and rule went full pass the next day on
Speaker 3: a Sunday, and we we mopped them last year. So
Speaker 3: I know they're gonna they're gonna come hungry, like we're
Speaker 3: gonna get Illinois best. So it's a big week. It's
Speaker 3: a big week for US. I feel like we've had
Speaker 3: a good three first games where you can kind of
Speaker 3: see it as like a preseason, and now you're facing
Speaker 3: a team that's not like a juggernaut, but like a
Speaker 3: salty ball club that's built in the trenches, run game
Speaker 3: and everything else. They have a competent quarterback, but like
Speaker 3: a good test for where we are at right now
Speaker 3: to see kind of who we who we really are,
Speaker 3: Because Illinois, I think is sneaky tough. I think Indiana
Speaker 3: is sneaky tough. They went out to UCLA and beat them.
Speaker 3: And the reason I say that is James Madison University
Speaker 3: had a really good team last year. That staff is
Speaker 3: now with Indiana, and they took a lot of their
Speaker 3: best They're better players from JMU. Not saying like they're
Speaker 3: world beaters, but still good, good football players. And so
Speaker 3: Indiana that's why they're undefeated right now. They're kind of
Speaker 3: a sneaky They're a good play in the gambling space,
Speaker 3: kind of like a dark corse the way Kansas was
Speaker 3: last year. Kansas lost again.
Speaker 5: Man Sharon put me on game it's I'll let him
Speaker 5: talk about it. Similar to the coach at Nebraska that's
Speaker 5: no longer calm plays, but he is there. I won't
Speaker 5: say his name. And when I told you, hey, your
Speaker 5: offense is in for it. Same situation is happening to Kansas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what what's going on with Kansas? And I know
Speaker 3: we have a massive Kansas fan base.
Speaker 7: Oft falls this podcast, here's a little bit of lore
Speaker 7: uh JP and I were both huge on Kansas going
Speaker 7: into the season. Unbeknnst to me, Kansas during this offseason
Speaker 7: hired a man by the name of Jeff Grimes as
Speaker 7: their offensive coordinator. Grimes comes from BYU the twenty twenty
Speaker 7: COVID season where Zach Wilson went off. They were still
Speaker 7: independent though, so they're playing nobody. Zach wills soonds a
Speaker 7: great season. Jeff Grimes gets hired by Baylor. Uh with
Speaker 7: David Randa's crew runs our offense into the ground. We
Speaker 7: have like five quarterbacks transfer, running backs transfer. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's terrible. Each year, our offensive numbers just got worse
Speaker 7: and worse. We fire him and Kansas hires them. But
Speaker 7: I have no idea why. And the same stuff that
Speaker 7: was happening at Baylor it's happening in Kansas now. It
Speaker 7: breaks my heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they have good players on that offense.
Speaker 7: Great players, And now everybody's coming for Jalen Daniel's head
Speaker 7: and I'm like, dum dog, it's not him that oc is.
Speaker 7: I call him Grimes against humanity because he is the vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's good information to know, because I know we
Speaker 3: were high on Kansas kind of coming into this year.
Speaker 3: Our boys yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe pivot, maybe pivot to Indiana. Yes,
Speaker 3: Arizona State coach Dailly down there getting those boys going Alabama, Garrett,
Speaker 3: Alabama looked tough. They just they look tough. Man. Obviously
Speaker 3: Wisconsin is not. Doesn't seem like they're that good of
Speaker 3: a team this year. They could turn around. I'm surprised
Speaker 3: that Fikel doesn't have like sort of a progression him
Speaker 3: coming out of Cincinnati. He was kind of a hot
Speaker 3: candidate to hire. I know he he was definitely on
Speaker 3: my short list with Nebraska hoping that we would hire him.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy we have for coach rule.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I beat the ass. Yeah, handle business in Madison.
Speaker 4: Madison is a great place to visit for a game.
Speaker 4: It does suck that Van Dyke went down early. Not
Speaker 4: saying that it would have changed much, but the morale
Speaker 4: in the stadium just dropped. I kind of expect a
Speaker 4: big cat to be up there. That whole situation was
Speaker 4: hilarious with the gun dying on him and him just
Speaker 4: chucking it. I want to know shoulder fields today. But
Speaker 4: the one thing that I wanted to see is less
Speaker 4: penalties on offense, which we did a week before against
Speaker 4: South Florida. We had like one hundred and thirty yards
Speaker 4: of penalties, so cut that back, got back to just
Speaker 4: discipline ball and it was disappointing. Jump around was cool,
Speaker 4: but the student section emptied immediately after.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you got Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: It's it's a tough situation.
Speaker 3: It's a tough early they got up for it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and Big Cat too. What's funny about the Big Cat
Speaker 3: stuff is he gave me shit for going on the
Speaker 3: T shirt cannon Michigan last year. They're like, hey, I
Speaker 3: was like, first series of the second quarter, do you
Speaker 3: want to do the T shirt canon? Just before the
Speaker 3: Michigan game started, and so I'm like, oh yeah, and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking early enough, we'll be solid. We're down like
Speaker 3: twenty one oh when Jack and I are standing kind
Speaker 3: of in the back waiting for this gun cannon and
Speaker 3: you just feel ridiculous that you're about to go out
Speaker 3: there getting your ass whooped, and Big Cat texted me like, hey,
Speaker 3: are we in the trust tree. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: what's up. He's like, they're asking me to do the
Speaker 3: T shirt cannon. And they were down like either twenty
Speaker 3: one three or fourteen three at the time, He's like,
Speaker 3: I know how you feel, but we're just kind of
Speaker 3: like laughing back and forth. And then they have the
Speaker 3: audacity to bring them out to the K T shirt
Speaker 3: cannon doesn't work. It malfunctions like the Wisconsin football is
Speaker 3: doing right now, and he's just throwing T shirts. So
Speaker 3: heads off to BC going out there, do what you need.
Speaker 3: I did tell him. I'm like, hey, that's it's just
Speaker 3: part of the process that was us last year. Look
Speaker 3: at us now. You got to get in the trenches.
Speaker 3: You gotta eat quarterback. Yeah, yeah, gotta get a quarterback, bro.
Speaker 3: You have to have a quarterback just at at all levels,
Speaker 3: all levels, at all levels of ball. I will say
Speaker 3: a surprising one over the weekend was uh in North
Speaker 3: County High School, Deshaun Watson and the Browns beating Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: I thought Jacksonville was gonna be solid this year, but
Speaker 3: then you see Miami get their ass beat by the
Speaker 3: Bills at home. So it's like, Okay, was Miami even
Speaker 3: a tough team and beat tough situation there? But you
Speaker 3: think about how Jacksonville was in it and they had
Speaker 3: a great first half against Miami. Miami kind of just
Speaker 3: turned it on in the second half, you think Jacksonville,
Speaker 3: Trevor looks better, like he's gonna go up and they're
Speaker 3: gonna dust the Browns. But it's truly like any given Sunday.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Raiders nine and a half point underdogs
Speaker 3: going across the country with their first round draft pick
Speaker 3: last year out and Max Minshew looked fucking awesome. We
Speaker 3: tried getting them on the pod today for a call in.
Speaker 3: We did get turned down, so that was tough, but
Speaker 3: he was like thirty to thirty five. I mean, they
Speaker 3: look the Raiders look tough. Man are the two.
Speaker 4: Best quarterbacks in the league, Sam Darnold and Derek Carr.
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Speaker 3: sure I give Davin Oakland. The year is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Derek Carr is statistically the best passer in the league.
Speaker 3: Gardner Minshew has the highest completion percentage. The longest touchdown
Speaker 3: of the season is thrown by Sam Darnold. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 3: is undefeated and just barely behind car Kyler m Kyler
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Speaker 3: I mean that's nuts. Man. A Cardinals do look tough.
Speaker 3: I mean they demolish to very beaten down Rams team
Speaker 3: who have who are without like four of their starting
Speaker 3: offensive linemen. They lost Pooka Nukua Cooper Cup gets hurt
Speaker 3: in the middle of the game. I mean, they're just
Speaker 3: basically a band aid team out there right now, which
Speaker 3: sucks because the Rams could have been a good football
Speaker 3: team this year. They still can be because again, any
Speaker 3: given Sunday, you still gotta line it up, bro, just
Speaker 3: to touch on the local the local team, the Titans. Man.
Speaker 3: And here here because I was watching that game. And
Speaker 3: here's what sucks about it is without and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: sound a little bit Nebraska stylish in years past, but
Speaker 3: this is true. If you don't give up a blocked punt,
Speaker 3: like when you when a team blocks a punt, their
Speaker 3: chances of winning the game is like north of eighty percent.
Speaker 3: But if you don't get a blocked punt and Willie
Speaker 3: Mayo just takes care of the football, they're fine. They
Speaker 3: are they are. They were moving the ball well, Calvin
Speaker 3: Ridley looks good. They ran the ball, They ran the
Speaker 3: ball solid, their defense gets after it, man. And it's
Speaker 3: truly what sucks is that it was repeat things. Obviously
Speaker 3: different situations, but repeat things from week one to week two.
Speaker 3: And the wild thing about that punk block because your
Speaker 3: boy put a special team seat on and watch that
Speaker 3: punt get blocked, like losing on an up and under
Speaker 3: to a five man box, really four because one guy
Speaker 3: was just kind of standing up. You knew he wasn't
Speaker 3: coming after it. But a four man box is crazy.
Speaker 3: You got seven in there blocking. You're sitting here when
Speaker 3: you got a four or five man protection. You're all
Speaker 3: thinking about getting out and covering the ball and covering
Speaker 3: the return. That is what that wing was thinking, is like,
Speaker 3: all right, it's a four man box that the punt block.
Speaker 3: Though the punk return team is building a return, they're
Speaker 3: not coming after you when you're getting When a punk
Speaker 3: return team is coming after you to block a kick,
Speaker 3: it's a seven or eight, seven or eight man box
Speaker 3: every time unless they overload one side in a six
Speaker 3: man box. But you he just had two guys on
Speaker 3: that surface on that right side, two guys on the
Speaker 3: left side, like the guard and tackler looking at chipping
Speaker 3: to kind of get out, help each other get out
Speaker 3: so you can cover the punt. But a wings card number,
Speaker 3: the worst thing you can do is get beat on
Speaker 3: an up and under in any situation, but a four
Speaker 3: man box.
Speaker 4: He didn't even touch him.
Speaker 3: He didn't even touch him. You can see he's like
Speaker 3: looking to get out, which I get that that is
Speaker 3: what you're doing. But your number one thing is protecting
Speaker 3: the inside. And getting beat on an ump and under
Speaker 3: in a four man box is so brutal. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be surprised. I don't know where he is on the roster.
Speaker 4: It's like our number three running back.
Speaker 3: He could be somebody that has to turn into playbook
Speaker 3: this week. That like, those are things that happen We've talked,
Speaker 3: I've talked about before my time on Washington. We had
Speaker 3: a Thursday night game to where we're just doing walkthrough, so, uh,
Speaker 3: my man on the wing didn't really get a good
Speaker 3: look at everything. But he gets beat on it up
Speaker 3: and under and he's cut the next day. And what
Speaker 3: was disheartening is watching I forget his name is Chestnut
Speaker 3: is his last name. But he's in this the postgame
Speaker 3: interview with Paul Kaharski, and obviously Paul's scene as kind
Speaker 3: of like a villain in the locker room. No, guys
Speaker 3: don't really want to mess with him or talk to him,
Speaker 3: but he just didn't the answers. He was giving the
Speaker 3: body language kind of like smiling, like knowing that p
Speaker 3: K's asking him question tough, hard questions about it, I guess,
Speaker 3: but to not like me, Bro, if I gave up
Speaker 3: a pump block, I would be on suicide watch. I
Speaker 3: would be feeling not only am I letting not only
Speaker 3: did I let my team down and not do my job,
Speaker 3: but I'm thinking my career is now in jeopardy because
Speaker 3: you are what you put on film. Like now, if
Speaker 3: you're any team watching that, you're any team, any opponent
Speaker 3: watching that film. Every Special Teams unit is dialing up
Speaker 3: how they can get you in and up and under
Speaker 3: or how they can pick on you. That's ultimately that.
Speaker 3: But that kid's gonna be facing the rest of the
Speaker 3: year if he's still on the roster. But that is, like,
Speaker 3: that is the worst thing that could have happened in
Speaker 3: that situation. And the way he kind of handled that
Speaker 3: interview is like, you know, if I'm a team kind
Speaker 3: of watching that, you understand that you're trying to get
Speaker 3: out and it's on you and everything else, but you're
Speaker 3: kind of thinking, like, Bro, you have to show a
Speaker 3: little bit more emotion than that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: If you're a captain on that Special Teams unit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, or you don't know, or you're the.
Speaker 4: Guy behind him thinking, Okay, now here's my chance.
Speaker 3: For sure, for sure, Like I don't know how those
Speaker 3: shuffled around again. Who knows if he's gonna get cut
Speaker 3: or not. But that is one of those that's the
Speaker 3: type of an offense that you have to where that
Speaker 3: is deemed cuttable and if he's still on it, he
Speaker 3: gets another shot at redemption. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: your assholes should be so tight, bro, Like I like,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to talk to the media, but you would.
Speaker 3: You'd be able to read in most people's faces that
Speaker 3: you gave up such a massive play. Obviously, will Levis
Speaker 3: had his turnover. They had their own issues just across
Speaker 3: the board throughout the game, because no one player like
Speaker 3: loses a game. But I'm feeling like I just lost
Speaker 3: that entire game because you give up a block punt.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's I mean, the defense looks consistent, like they
Speaker 4: look good, they get to the quarterback, they play with
Speaker 4: their hair on fire, so that part there's confidence there.
Speaker 4: I think CALLI said it best. What the fuck are
Speaker 4: you doing? Like that's tough?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it sucks.
Speaker 4: You're inside the tin, so just go down. There's three points.
Speaker 3: Leaven the week. Yeah, so close in the week before,
Speaker 3: Like Bill Belichick broke it down on one of those
Speaker 3: shows he was on it. Maybe it was McAfee. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he's just saying how him and Tom kind of
Speaker 3: talked through situations like that and say that's like a
Speaker 3: learning thing for the next week. You're sitting there talking
Speaker 3: about it in the film where I'm like, hey, I understand,
Speaker 3: you're trying to make a play. You're trying to be
Speaker 3: superman here and keep it in the game. But let's
Speaker 3: just say this doesn't happen and we punt the ball
Speaker 3: like we're still alive and still playing, like we're in
Speaker 3: the game. We're not giving up nothing, Like right there
Speaker 3: when he gave it up there, it's like, hey, even
Speaker 3: if you eat that, I know again you're trying to Will,
Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to play his game because
Speaker 3: he has great ability. But you just eat that and
Speaker 3: go down, Like we have three points on the board. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not changing them.
Speaker 4: It's back to back weeks of that.
Speaker 3: I know, man, I know a pick six the other way, I.
Speaker 4: Think I don't know if it was that play specifically,
Speaker 4: but also Taj gets hurt. So if it is on
Speaker 4: that play, then it's like turn the ball over. Your
Speaker 4: running back gets hurt, could have had three points, like
Speaker 4: Belichick the quote about that is the main point is
Speaker 4: Tom Brady took care of the football no matter what
Speaker 4: if it was a bad series, take care.
Speaker 3: Of the football.
Speaker 4: And because he sucks because Will was on here, like yeah,
Speaker 4: of course I look at Tom Brady, it's.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, But like in Will Levis defense, when you
Speaker 5: really look at his career, he has probably started how
Speaker 5: many games did he start last year? So he's probably
Speaker 5: played twenty five games as a starting quarterback in his
Speaker 5: from college NFL, which is like not a lot, right, And.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. He's like figuring out how he
Speaker 3: can he can balance his ability because you can't get
Speaker 3: away with stuff like I'm sure he can get away
Speaker 3: with stuff like that in college, you're not. Defenses in
Speaker 3: this league are gonna make you pay when you make
Speaker 3: bad decisions like that, And everybody's in if you just
Speaker 3: take care of the football. Every team in the league
Speaker 3: is in the game in the fourth quarter. Yeah, Carolina.
Speaker 8: Also, I guess to Will's defense because I feel like
Speaker 8: I might be the reason that Titans are losing because
Speaker 8: if I was publicly hating Will Levis, I think we
Speaker 8: continue to win, and now that I have, I might
Speaker 8: have to be a hater, but I'm not. But to
Speaker 8: Will's defense, the Titans oh line collectively is giving up
Speaker 8: the most pressures through two weeks in the entire NFL.
Speaker 8: So I bet he's furious about it. But I mean,
Speaker 8: we've We've got we got young guys out there right now,
Speaker 8: you know, a couple of rookies to three year guys,
Speaker 8: so in.
Speaker 3: A completely new staff, like, there's gonna be growing pains.
Speaker 3: I kind of hate how everybody's you know, you see
Speaker 3: people saying like Will levi Is, he's not the guy,
Speaker 3: blah blah, like it now is not the time to
Speaker 3: hit a panted butt Like he's he's got time. He's
Speaker 3: just got to figure out, like, hey, man, just take
Speaker 3: care of the football, because again, if he doesn't do that,
Speaker 3: they're putting at least three points on the board and
Speaker 3: you don't block a punt Like those are two insane
Speaker 3: momentum shifts for a team.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Also, Malik Willis revenge game next week, Packers come
Speaker 8: to town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if Malik Willis got to win.
Speaker 8: If Malik Willis beats us in Nissan, I'll kill myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's gonna be Josh Jacobs suching the rock
Speaker 3: thirty times, like the guy that show up to stop
Speaker 3: the run.
Speaker 8: I didn't catch a lot of the Packers game, but
Speaker 8: he looked sound in the highlight, so it looked way
Speaker 8: more sound than he ever did with the Titans.
Speaker 3: You know, well, and you I was gonna say, you know,
Speaker 3: lafleur is gonna have him right. They're gonna have a
Speaker 3: simple game play like they fed the rock to Josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs like over thirty times and he had a good
Speaker 3: day on the ground. But they, you know, Lafleur is
Speaker 3: gonna do a good job of kind of like having
Speaker 3: his confidence there, playing within the playbook that he's given.
Speaker 3: And I mean they will battle.
Speaker 8: The Titans defense is nice right now. We are that
Speaker 8: D line is is solid.
Speaker 3: But D line is gonna be a problem for everybody.
Speaker 8: Yeah it was, but that yeah, it was tough man tough.
Speaker 3: That was a tough loss for the boys. And in Blue, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Malik Willis, you saw where the sinner threw up on
Speaker 3: the ball wild hed he played, Yeah, puke and rally,
Speaker 3: puke and rally.
Speaker 5: But disaster.
Speaker 3: Snap it. Yeah, South Carolina, we obviously get into it
Speaker 3: with during the Chaindler interview. But South Carolina, man, I,
Speaker 3: I man, my heart goes out.
Speaker 5: To your No, you just broke my heart again. What
Speaker 5: was the stat you said, when you block a punt.
Speaker 3: It goes up north of eighty percent. Yes, and epic
Speaker 3: I said, two pick six is called back? Two pick
Speaker 3: six is called back in an OPI that should not
Speaker 3: have been an OPI. Oh, how do they bailing out Lsu?
Speaker 3: Very similar to the way the rest bail out the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: We need to start seeing prop bets on the DraftKings
Speaker 3: sportsbook for referees.
Speaker 5: Referees need to start doing press conferences after the game,
Speaker 5: and the fans need to be the ones asking the questions.
Speaker 5: They can put all the security you want, but I
Speaker 5: gotta be in their front row. They took they took
Speaker 5: something away from our program.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that you were saying it too like that.
Speaker 3: It sets a tone for the program for not only
Speaker 3: the season, but what's to come next year the years
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 5: We would have been if we beat Acron, never sleep
Speaker 5: on any teams. We would have been four and oh
Speaker 5: coming off of bye week and going into number five
Speaker 5: ole Miss at home. Juice wells it back in our stadium.
Speaker 5: Both teams ranked opportunity to take down a number five team.
Speaker 5: Ole Miss was the first top five team we beat back,
Speaker 5: like with maybe it was even Garcia. We beat him
Speaker 5: when they were number four and they had Bo Wallace
Speaker 5: in Columbia. They could come back.
Speaker 3: They would have come back.
Speaker 5: Freaking Brian Kelly, Bryce swear, I'm pulling up the baton
Speaker 5: rouge they coach Kelly. Never mind we had him on
Speaker 5: the podcast. Your team doesn't rep you, man, so don't
Speaker 5: even try your your row ross beaches.
Speaker 3: They don't care. They want you out to.
Speaker 5: The Southern accent.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 3: I mean that truly at heartbreaker. People watching this right now,
Speaker 3: you're seeing real time a true heartbreaking loss. They have
Speaker 3: to know the most diehard South Carolina.
Speaker 5: For one of the reasons I disliked Tennessee so much
Speaker 5: is because they gave me the same pain. Like back
Speaker 5: when I was in elementary school, I was at home
Speaker 5: by myself and either we missed a field goal or
Speaker 5: they blocked it and we lost the game. And I
Speaker 5: was like ten years old, punching my parents' bed, and
Speaker 5: I just said, why does this always happen to us?
Speaker 6: And I leave back.
Speaker 5: I say, I don't know if we'll ever go to win.
Speaker 5: And that's how I felt after LSU. And now I'm
Speaker 5: twenty eight. I felt the same way when I was eleven.
Speaker 3: So I'm sick.
Speaker 5: But the last thing I'll say, I was telling Shirm
Speaker 5: on the phone, I look at our schedule. It's hard, yeah,
Speaker 5: but I see old miss Alabama, Missouri? Who at Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: What's the first word that comes to your mind when
Speaker 5: you see that opportunity?
Speaker 3: Because we can.
Speaker 5: Get it right back after this LSU, whatever we want
Speaker 5: to call that, we can get it right back with
Speaker 5: a win over you guys have the cats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean why you're up there at you heartbreaking loss?
Speaker 3: But you watch the film like you can't tell me
Speaker 3: we can't play with anybody.
Speaker 5: We finally have back, and if you're a South Carolina fan,
Speaker 5: it will make sense. We have back in undisciplined, disciplined
Speaker 5: defense where like DJ swearingers are running around out there
Speaker 5: popping dudes in the head.
Speaker 3: Not sorry about swag.
Speaker 5: And we're built from the D line out which is
Speaker 5: so key you'll always have a chance in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad we have a space and a platform.
Speaker 3: Yeah that felt good.
Speaker 5: I was just scrolling Twitter looking for validation all weekend.
Speaker 5: Luckily I was getting it.
Speaker 3: Because I didn't.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Also, to go back to the Titans game. I
Speaker 8: know I mentioned this earlier in the preseason, but we're
Speaker 8: making a difference. The O G paintrain video is back.
Speaker 3: But literally, I just gonna say we're making a difference
Speaker 3: in the community. We are.
Speaker 8: But they've played it and I stood up out of
Speaker 8: my seat and I'm going nuts. And there's like a
Speaker 8: guy who sits his name Sam two down for me,
Speaker 8: and he's like a fan of the show and cool.
Speaker 8: And they didn't play it right the fourth quarter, which
Speaker 8: they always have traditionally, they played it on the first
Speaker 8: defensive drive. And so they start playing it and I
Speaker 8: get on my seat going nuts. You could hear a
Speaker 8: pin drop in this fucking stadium, no one standing, almost
Speaker 8: like people got quieter when they turned it on. So
Speaker 8: this is a call to action the city of Nashville.
Speaker 8: Next week, in the fourth quarter, when Malik Willis is
Speaker 8: getting Donkey kicked in the nuts, I need everyone on
Speaker 8: their fucking feet and we need to get loud for
Speaker 8: the boys or else I'm gonna have to start hating
Speaker 8: Will Levis again.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, you'll be dead. Yeah, hey, you'll
Speaker 3: you'll be dead. You gotta kill yourself.
Speaker 8: So we get loud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, start getting them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, shout just in case, shout out in Nabane. I
Speaker 8: know he made this possible. He was really whispering in
Speaker 8: some people's ears, and I don't think it was the
Speaker 8: best showing for the front of or the front office,
Speaker 8: seeing how quiet it was during that video when they
Speaker 8: were like, dude, y'all gott to bring it back. It's
Speaker 8: gonna be awesome. And then they were like, this is
Speaker 8: why we don't do this stuff. But they also had
Speaker 8: a couple of weird videos, but doesn't everybody.
Speaker 3: How was how was Vegas? Do you come out profitable?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Vegas was good. I don't know if you want
Speaker 8: me to wait for Taylor to tell you about his weekend,
Speaker 8: but I mean, it'll make you sick. Best one ever
Speaker 8: by far.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I.
Speaker 3: Let's talk something because it'll be like two weeks before back.
Speaker 3: Because again, everybody listening on next week, we're gonna be
Speaker 3: at Surviving Barsoo, we're trying to figure out what the
Speaker 3: episode situation is going to be, like, uh, but we
Speaker 3: will be in the middle of Surviving next week, so
Speaker 3: we're we're kind of figuring out we're what we're gonna
Speaker 3: be doing uh with as it pertains a bust with
Speaker 3: the boys in the locker room, but it could be
Speaker 3: two weeks for we're all back together. Yeah, we got it.
Speaker 3: We need to have something because it sucks too that
Speaker 3: Michigan twenty eight eighteen. That was a tough game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: watch the game, didn't watch the.
Speaker 8: Game, didn't watch a single second of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 8: Taylor's not a fan. We know that. We told him
Speaker 8: last week. The reason that you're a fan is because
Speaker 8: what JP's talking about, it's heartbreak. It's That's what being
Speaker 8: a fan is is letting a team dictate your mental
Speaker 8: health week in and week out and not changing anything
Speaker 8: about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, my wife's trying to put together a birthday
Speaker 3: party on Friday, and I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: go back and forth, like, hey, the Huskers play on Friday,
Speaker 3: And she has the audacity to say, they don't need
Speaker 3: you to watch the game, And I'm thinking it's not
Speaker 3: even fucking about that, it's I want to watch the game,
Speaker 3: like this is my favorite time of the year with
Speaker 3: my favorite team and it's Husker football, and it just
Speaker 3: blows my mind that, Okay, we're planning my birthday party
Speaker 3: and it sounds like I want to watch Husker football. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I say, hey, that's fine. I just know I'm going
Speaker 3: to be on my phone. It's not I'm watching the
Speaker 3: Huskers in the fighting alni because we got a tough
Speaker 3: team coming to Lincoln.
Speaker 8: That's a beast of a team.
Speaker 3: But sorry, Jack, I apologize for interrupting.
Speaker 8: Oh, you're good, I get it. I don't ever schedule
Speaker 8: a birthday party with.
Speaker 3: Everything's good at home. Everything's great at home. She's eight
Speaker 3: eight months pregnant, Like we're figuring out Yeah.
Speaker 8: Uh, but Vegas. Taylor got in there Thursday. I flew
Speaker 8: in Friday morning. When I show up on Friday, he's like, yeah,
Speaker 8: I was, I'm up three hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 8: on one night and I was like what he was
Speaker 8: just playing bakara with this dude Cody, who's uh. I
Speaker 8: forget his Like, yeah, is it is it exposed? Yeah?
Speaker 8: So they really profitable. First night Friday, we gambled in
Speaker 8: the morning, and he's still doing very well. Friday night
Speaker 8: rolls around and Robbie Fox from Barstool, he's in town.
Speaker 8: He broke that Connor news, which was awesome for him.
Speaker 8: He comes with the Red Rock and Dana had told him,
Speaker 8: I'm going to pay for your wedding, but you.
Speaker 3: Just kind of I saw that video.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we go in there and you can check
Speaker 8: out the vog. It's gonna come out here in the
Speaker 8: next few weeks. But I'm getting all the like inside
Speaker 8: scoop from Robbie. I'm like, how you feeling. Have you
Speaker 8: ever gambled? He's never gambled before in his life. He
Speaker 8: says the most he's ever bet on a sports game
Speaker 8: is five dollars. So he's like, this already is making
Speaker 8: me nervous being in here, and I was like, I
Speaker 8: was like, you know, best case scenario, Dana gets in here,
Speaker 8: wins like three hands, hands you a bunch of chips,
Speaker 8: and you're good and you walk. Four hours later, we're
Speaker 8: sitting there still and it's it's four am. I'm so upset.
Speaker 8: I'm like, I just want to go to bed, but
Speaker 8: I'm not allowed to go to bed ever until Taylor
Speaker 8: walks out. So, but Dana is down the two point
Speaker 8: three million dollars two point three million, and I'm sitting
Speaker 8: there like I I'm gonna die in this room, truly,
Speaker 8: I'm never gonna leave. What does he do? Dana comes
Speaker 8: back from two point three million, so and the reason
Speaker 8: and I'm like giving this away from the VAUG because
Speaker 8: Robbie already posted the clip. Dana gives him money for
Speaker 8: the wedding. It's awesome, But Taylor has two hundred thousand
Speaker 8: dollars in markers on the table and every like the
Speaker 8: dust settles and we're about to leave, and Taylor's like, Dana, yeah,
Speaker 8: I got I got these things, like I gotta play
Speaker 8: some more. So Dana goes back in two point eight million.
Speaker 8: In the next hour, he's down.
Speaker 3: Taylor or Dana, so he went so Dana's trying to
Speaker 3: play to get Taylor out. Dana ends up going down
Speaker 3: two point eight million dout.
Speaker 8: After he was just down two point three and then
Speaker 8: paid Robbie and then he's completely clean and then goes
Speaker 8: in and then from zero dollars not only anything, goes
Speaker 8: back down to two point eight million, and then it
Speaker 8: was like four thirty am and Dana just like I've
Speaker 8: never even seen it happen. He just walks out like
Speaker 8: with his boys, like we're going because I mean this
Speaker 8: was Friday night before the spear, so it's late and
Speaker 8: he's got to be up.
Speaker 3: And I mean Saturday, Saturday morning, Saturday.
Speaker 8: Saturday morning, and so he he goes out, and because
Speaker 8: he's Dane, why the day want to In fact, he
Speaker 8: can just leave his markers there legally, if you're not Dana,
Speaker 8: why you have to sign a check that says I
Speaker 8: am liable for paying this money. So the chips were
Speaker 8: there the rest of the weekend. He hadn't come back,
Speaker 8: so like Saturday, they were still there and all of
Speaker 8: his markers. So I don't know exactly what happened there,
Speaker 8: but it is the vlog will be crazy. There's a
Speaker 8: lot of ups and downs, and then all the sphere
Speaker 8: content will be awesome. It's just one of the coolest
Speaker 8: fights just experiences ever and UFC everyone's just so nice.
Speaker 8: I just don't understand, like why we are getting placed
Speaker 8: like in the seats we are when there's like a
Speaker 8: plus list celebrities like sitting three rows behind us, and
Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: He takes care of the boys.
Speaker 8: They really do, and Dana does an awesome job. But
Speaker 8: if we could do it for anything, and not even
Speaker 8: just a fight, we should try and go to the
Speaker 8: sphere for something they have like interactive movies, or they'll
Speaker 8: have like like what Michael was saying, like a Safari
Speaker 8: or it's like a journey through the Cosmos type thing,
Speaker 8: and it's like an hour and a half movie. It
Speaker 8: is well worth going. I know Garretts were there for
Speaker 8: Dead and Co. But I mean it's just like I
Speaker 8: feel like it is truly the eighth Wonder of the world.
Speaker 8: Like you go in there and you're like this, this
Speaker 8: is God's house. So it's cool. I love it.
Speaker 3: So hang on, hang on, hang on. Taylor's down a
Speaker 3: couple hundred thousand. Dana takes over for Taylor down two
Speaker 3: point eight.
Speaker 8: Yes, but yeah, I mean, we can talk about more,
Speaker 8: or I can tell you it.
Speaker 3: Should should should we not? Say? Some people watch the blog.
Speaker 8: I say, watched the blog because there is some storylines
Speaker 8: in there that okay, all right, I can tell you
Speaker 8: off the bus.
Speaker 3: Okay, because now I am insanely curious how you get
Speaker 3: out of a hole like that.
Speaker 8: And Robbie's sitting there when he was on two point three,
Speaker 8: and I kept going back up to him with the
Speaker 8: camera because I wanted to get like his perspective, and
Speaker 8: you can just see it in his face that he's
Speaker 8: like he feels like he's losing this money because it's
Speaker 8: like kind of like him and he's just like pacing
Speaker 8: and like ghost white and like you can just feel it,
Speaker 8: like stress in the air. It sucks being in those rooms.
Speaker 8: No one's having fun. Taylor's like, hey, let's get some
Speaker 8: collaps in your ear, like, come on, let's get the
Speaker 8: vibes up. And it's like, dude, that that's like, you know,
Speaker 8: one hundred people's salaries right there on the table in
Speaker 8: four chips.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Vegas, well yeah, watch the vlog.
Speaker 8: Yeah, watch the vlog, Watch the vlog.
Speaker 3: Anything else? Boys talk to Husker football the main thing
Speaker 3: save Will's birthday party. Yeah, that'll that'll get figured out.
Speaker 3: Your boy's gonna be watching the Huskers on Friday, whether
Speaker 3: with people without people locked in a room so low.
Speaker 8: That I have a question for you go because I
Speaker 8: saw this on Twitter and I want to answer from
Speaker 8: everybody do you prefer to watch your sports team alone?
Speaker 3: Yes, A thousand, Yeah, because even when we were watching
Speaker 3: it on Saturday, like there we have people over and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, and it's awesome, but I can't like
Speaker 3: hear the TV very well. I like to just be
Speaker 3: locked in and dialed in. I want to I want
Speaker 3: to understand everything going on. I want to hear what's
Speaker 3: being said. I love the commentating, and I just like
Speaker 3: to be alone, you know what I mean, because then
Speaker 3: you're you can't get off track on any side conversations
Speaker 3: anywhere else.
Speaker 8: I feel like all those two were like all perpetually
Speaker 8: on Twitter, and I love being like dialed into the
Speaker 8: narratives there, whether it's.
Speaker 3: Saying yeah yeah, and to be watching the game scrolling
Speaker 3: my phone like I want to be in it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, make watching football alone cool again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just great. Maybe maybe that's yeah. Yeah, if
Speaker 3: you can go to the game, Yeah, yeah, you can
Speaker 3: go to the game. Yeah, absolutely, all right, sounds good fellas.
Speaker 3: Hey shut up Bonte Missouri again. The Key to the
Speaker 3: City Spectacular retired Jersey. They said they were taking it
Speaker 3: out of the rotation after this year. Your Boy was
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Speaker 3: Enjoy this Michael Chandler episode. All right, Michael Chandler, we
Speaker 3: are fucking back brow. How are you feeling since the announcement?
Speaker 3: Good man?
Speaker 6: I feel like I made this decision like four weeks ago,
Speaker 6: so I've known for a while, and it's always hard
Speaker 6: because you know, you know what you're training for, you know,
Speaker 6: you know, my management new, my wife knew, a couple
Speaker 6: of the select the boys knew. But like now that
Speaker 6: the whole world knows, it's it's good because now we
Speaker 6: can finally this one, especially because it's not just announcing
Speaker 6: a fight, it is foregoing the Connor fight for now.
Speaker 3: At least from that for yeah, for now.
Speaker 6: Moving on from that from now, and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm happy with my decision. I'm happy with the opponent,
Speaker 6: number one contender fight five round comane event underneath John
Speaker 6: Jones versus Stipe at MSG, which will be my fourth
Speaker 6: time at the world's most iconic arena.
Speaker 3: I mean that, Yeah, it's gonna be insane. John Jones
Speaker 3: coming back, Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be big.
Speaker 6: I and I actually because we were waffling back and forth,
Speaker 6: like I knew the Connor Sorry, I knew we were
Speaker 6: moving on from Connor for now, and I knew we
Speaker 6: were gonna fight Charles, but I was trying to get
Speaker 6: it at MSG, and my my text to uh to
Speaker 6: Hunter Campbell whenever he was like waffling back and forth
Speaker 6: or was, I was like, hey, twenty twenty one Chandler
Speaker 6: versus Gechee Fight of the Night and Fight of the
Speaker 6: Year at Madison Square Guarden, twenty twenty two Chandler versus Pourier,
Speaker 6: candidate for Fight of the Year, Fight of the night.
Speaker 6: Every single time I step inside of MSG, I blow
Speaker 6: the roof off the place. And it was actually funny.
Speaker 6: I saw John Jones at the fight since last week
Speaker 6: and he's like, hey, I know you're the comain, but
Speaker 6: could you save some excitement for me, and in the
Speaker 6: main event, I was like, Nah, probably not, man, I'm
Speaker 6: going to try to steal the show.
Speaker 3: Are you fighting up that it's at MSG? I am,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 6: I Actually it's bittersweet because I've kept saying this. I fought,
Speaker 6: and I've now fought in the UFC. This would be
Speaker 6: my sixth fight, and I have never fought in Vegas.
Speaker 6: So I've always wanted to fight in Vegas. That was
Speaker 6: one of the stings of this Connor.
Speaker 3: Fight falling through.
Speaker 6: It was going to be at Vegas in Vegas, and
Speaker 6: I'll fight in Vegas eventually, but I'm just the boys
Speaker 6: are ready to fight in Vegas. Man. I want I
Speaker 6: want to enjoy a a and take in a Vegas
Speaker 6: fight week, you.
Speaker 3: Know, outside of just sitting in the stands watching it happen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've watched a ton of fights in Vegas, and
Speaker 6: so it's just different because you know, the uf the
Speaker 6: UFC takes over the entire city, which if you have,
Speaker 6: if you had a second best city like MSG, New York,
Speaker 6: the media ESPN, like all all of the barstool, like
Speaker 6: all of the big media companies are there with a
Speaker 6: huge presence in New York. So you always end up
Speaker 6: with a ton of X ton of extra media, which
Speaker 6: is a ton of extra exposure. So that's a good thing,
Speaker 6: and it's MSG. Someday I'll be speaking from a stage
Speaker 6: or writing a book or something and be able to
Speaker 6: talk about how I fought at MSG, the world's most
Speaker 6: iconic arena four times, which to me, I just told
Speaker 6: you I'd rather fight in Vegas. But someday, when it's
Speaker 6: a story and where you're creating, you know, making people
Speaker 6: feel something, they're like, dang, this dude fought in the
Speaker 6: same vicinity as Muhammad Ali freaking Tyson and Dale Hooya
Speaker 6: and and all those.
Speaker 3: Madison Square guards got like that historic pull to it.
Speaker 3: Or like Vegas it's like any us if you're a
Speaker 3: UFC fighter, like you want you want the big pay
Speaker 3: per view in Vegas, Yeah, because it's city.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but MSU's Yeah, MSG is iconic.
Speaker 3: It's when you said you made the decision four weeks ago.
Speaker 3: How long had that offer been on the table or
Speaker 3: did it all did it all come into fruition really quickly,
Speaker 3: because obviously you've had everyone knows it's been the two
Speaker 3: years in the making with Connor, that kind of falls through.
Speaker 3: Walk us through that about how that offer kind of
Speaker 3: came to you. So we when the fight fell through
Speaker 3: two weeks before June twenty ninth, it was like, you know,
Speaker 3: June fifteenth or whatever it was.
Speaker 6: Immediately you start thinking, okay, it's a broken pinky toe.
Speaker 6: We found out that, so it's like, hey, broken pinky toe,
Speaker 6: we should be able to fight in six weeks, eight weeks.
Speaker 6: So immediately we're like, hey, no big deal, and Connor's
Speaker 6: camp was saying, it's gonna be quick. We're gonna hopefully
Speaker 6: schedule it for August September. You know, then you start
Speaker 6: talking about the sphere, you start talking about you know,
Speaker 6: Salt Lake City was thrown out there.
Speaker 3: Let me let me interrupt you before you learn that
Speaker 3: it was like a broken pinky toe, and then like, hey,
Speaker 3: this could be quick and everything else. Wasn't there a
Speaker 3: moment where you still might have fought on that June
Speaker 3: twenty ninth weekend?
Speaker 6: There was, So they actually offered it to Max Holloway,
Speaker 6: which he was on vacation and he wasn't in camp.
Speaker 6: I mean to go to put your BMF belt up,
Speaker 6: you know, with having no training camp short notice UFC
Speaker 6: will throw a lot of money you, but is it
Speaker 6: the smartest thing for your career In the position that
Speaker 6: Max is in, Max is already the BMF champ, and
Speaker 6: he's already number one contender to go fight for the
Speaker 6: one forty five title, and he was steadfast and focused
Speaker 6: on going to win the one forty five title. And
Speaker 6: in this sport, the sport moves fast in a very
Speaker 6: good way and sometimes in a very bad way. So
Speaker 6: if you're ever in a position where you can become
Speaker 6: the number one contender, you don't want to pass that
Speaker 6: up because you know, just like justin Gaigie situation, justin
Speaker 6: Gai Chee probably would have been talking about fighting for
Speaker 6: the lightweight title, but now he lost to Max, So
Speaker 6: now he doesn't have the steam to go fight for
Speaker 6: the title.
Speaker 3: He's got to go get another win. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then also obviously that was June twenty ninth, and
Speaker 6: now we just had this past weekend UFC three zero
Speaker 6: six at the Sphere. Morob versus O'Malley hadn't been announced yet,
Speaker 6: and there was talks of me and Max. They actually
Speaker 6: offered it to Max fighting me for the BMF belt
Speaker 6: at the Sphere, and rightfully so he turned it down
Speaker 6: because he wants to go win the title and he
Speaker 6: can go defend the BMF belt whenever. So there was
Speaker 6: a lot of different moving art's going, but Charles Olivera's
Speaker 6: name had gotten brought in up, and it's a fight
Speaker 6: I want to run back. It's a vengeance fight, it's
Speaker 6: a number one contender fight. It puts me right back
Speaker 6: into the title contention. Obviously, the last year and a half,
Speaker 6: I've focused on doing The Ultimate Fighter, which is really
Speaker 6: really awesome promotion on ESPN twelve weeks, and then fighting
Speaker 6: the sport's biggest star, which doesn't exactly do great things
Speaker 6: for you athletically to move toward the title. So now
Speaker 6: I'm going to get back to my main thing, which
Speaker 6: is coming into the UFC, and I've always been wanting
Speaker 6: to be the number one guy in the world and
Speaker 6: fight for the world title, win the world title.
Speaker 3: So now that's where we're at.
Speaker 6: Fight Charles Olivera, Madison Square Garden, beat him, become the
Speaker 6: number one contender, and then I have an option to
Speaker 6: go fight Islam, who I think is going to be
Speaker 6: still the champ by then, or Connor.
Speaker 3: If Connor can get his house in order yeah. Man,
Speaker 3: it's been the photome mic right there. Yeah, it's been
Speaker 3: such a roller coaster with the mcgregors. When did Olivera's
Speaker 3: name come up to you? Because I would assume that,
Speaker 3: all right, whenever you realize that the Connor fights getting punted,
Speaker 3: maybe hopefully just a few extra weeks, you're looking at September,
Speaker 3: and then you start to feel that, okay, he might
Speaker 3: not be prepared for way longer than that, because I'm
Speaker 3: almost assuming that when Olivera's name gets brought up, it's
Speaker 3: almost like a no, like, how do we get this
Speaker 3: Connor one? Going?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely you want to exhaust. We wanted to
Speaker 6: exhaust all the options to fight Connor at a realistic
Speaker 6: date before we made a pivot. But then it just
Speaker 6: seemed as though it was going to keep getting pushed off.
Speaker 6: I mean it was like, hey, okay, if we could fight,
Speaker 6: if I could fight Connor in December, I'm not going
Speaker 6: to say yes to Olivera. But as soon as that
Speaker 6: became a no for whatever reason, I'm like, man, boys,
Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 3: Waiting any longer. Let's let me go bet on myself.
Speaker 6: And this is what I it's been my brand obviously,
Speaker 6: you know the walk on mentality, betting on yourself, because
Speaker 6: back in two thousand and four, a young kid from
Speaker 6: Saint Louis, Missouri bet on himself to go walk on
Speaker 6: to missou when everybody around me said, don't do it,
Speaker 6: You're crazy.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 6: And you're just going to be a punching bag for
Speaker 6: five years, end up becoming in all of my and
Speaker 6: a four year national qualifier and a three year team captain.
Speaker 3: Let's go, you know.
Speaker 6: And then so I bet on myself and it worked out.
Speaker 6: And then I also the thirty four year old me
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty, the thirty four year old me in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty bet on himself to say, you know what,
Speaker 6: I love what I've done in Belatour. I'm the biggest
Speaker 6: name in Bellatour. I know it's a smaller organization, but
Speaker 6: I have financial security, I have a career security. But
Speaker 6: I want to go bet on myself. And I told
Speaker 6: Hunter Campbell that I said, hey, throw me into the
Speaker 6: fire right away. I'm going to come over to UFC.
Speaker 6: I want to be a good thing for your organization.
Speaker 6: I want to fight the toughest guys right away. And
Speaker 6: if I go zero and two and you guys cut me.
Speaker 6: I can at least know that I tried to bet
Speaker 6: on myself and take the biggest risk possible. And now
Speaker 6: obviously coming into the UFC here, I am fighting for
Speaker 6: the number one contender spot again, Fights of the Year,
Speaker 6: fought for a world title, going to end up fighting
Speaker 6: for a world title in twenty twenty five with this win.
Speaker 3: Betting on myself has always worked out.
Speaker 6: So in this scenario where I have a contract with
Speaker 6: Connor that was already signed, all the fighters in the
Speaker 6: world who of crapped on me and said I'm waiting
Speaker 6: and wasting my time and all the different things that
Speaker 6: they've said behind closed doors, in their heart of hearts,
Speaker 6: they know that they would not have bet on themselves
Speaker 6: and left this this matching up with Connor. They would
Speaker 6: have waited as long as possible. But I'm done waiting
Speaker 6: and I'm ready to go out there, take a chance
Speaker 6: to let it fly, and by to myself.
Speaker 3: How weird was it for you? Because obviously the last
Speaker 3: year and a half has been kind of a new
Speaker 3: process where you talk about like betting on yourself. Like
Speaker 3: even when you came into the UFC, you're you're flying
Speaker 3: and making sure you're prepared, making wait in case you're
Speaker 3: a backup fight. Hey, throw me against whoever you face
Speaker 3: Hooker coming out, have a big win there. You're facing
Speaker 3: all these all these badasses along the way as fast
Speaker 3: as possible. How new was it for you to kind
Speaker 3: of like sit, be patient and the world speculates and talks.
Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about Connor being the biggest name.
Speaker 3: He's also like a like a public like favorite too,
Speaker 3: So anything that comes up and gets pushed back, you
Speaker 3: try to call him out, you get you got people
Speaker 3: pushing every which way on, Like why you know Mike's
Speaker 3: gonna wait for Connor, He's gonna do all this stuff.
Speaker 3: How hard was it for you to kind of wait
Speaker 3: this last year and a half, especially what you knew
Speaker 3: behind closed doors. Yeah, because you're thinking, you're thinking that
Speaker 3: it's going to make right at some point, but for
Speaker 3: whatever reason, it didn't come into fruition right now. How
Speaker 3: tough was it for you to kind of sit in
Speaker 3: the batter's box this last year and a half and
Speaker 3: not go out there and do what you normally do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. I had my days where I struggled.
Speaker 6: You know, we've had conversations where it's like everything's good,
Speaker 6: and then the next time it's like, dude, I don't
Speaker 6: know what's happening. Connor tweeted this. The whole world ran
Speaker 6: with it. This guy's talking.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: There was the whole drug testing thing at the very beginning,
Speaker 6: had to be inside the usadapool and all that kind
Speaker 6: of stuff. There was just so many different layers, and
Speaker 6: that's what.
Speaker 3: Hunter Campbell said. To the very beginning.
Speaker 6: It was like, Hey, we're gonna do this ultimate fighter thing,
Speaker 6: but just I want you to be prepared. Booking a
Speaker 6: fight with Connor Gregor is like nothing you've ever done before.
Speaker 3: It's not normal. And I, you know, I held on,
Speaker 3: you know, held on tight.
Speaker 6: And I also enjoyed the time off. Excuse me, I
Speaker 6: also enjoyed the time off. Honestly, I think I no
Speaker 6: matter how much you love a sport, it can cheer
Speaker 6: you up and spit you out and chip away at
Speaker 6: your spirit and your soul, as you know, like today
Speaker 6: I leave and go to Florida.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave my family for the next.
Speaker 6: Eight weeks, right, and doing that every couple of months
Speaker 6: non stop, watching my sons grow, missing, missing, bedtimes and
Speaker 6: missing missing dinners with them, and missing sporting events and
Speaker 6: missing all these things. You do it so much and
Speaker 6: you're constantly going and you're very happy because you know
Speaker 6: God has called you to do something, but you also
Speaker 6: are constantly dealing with the am I always making the
Speaker 6: right decision, dealing with the dad guilt, dealing with the
Speaker 6: husband guilt.
Speaker 3: So I needed a little bit of time off.
Speaker 6: So I spent the last year and a half serving
Speaker 6: my family, loving all my family, working on my business
Speaker 6: businesses outside of just fighting, setting myself up for after.
Speaker 6: I laid the gloves down eventually, and it was good
Speaker 6: for my soul. And obviously I had a litmus test
Speaker 6: May and or April, May and June to go train
Speaker 6: for Connor and it fell through. But it was the
Speaker 6: best training camp of my life because I fell back
Speaker 6: in love with the sport.
Speaker 3: You know, as cliche as it.
Speaker 6: Sounds, you know, you don't know how much you love
Speaker 6: something until it's taken away from you. So being away
Speaker 6: from the sport for a year and a half, I
Speaker 6: was happy. I needed a little bit of time off,
Speaker 6: but it also made me love the sport more, made
Speaker 6: me love my coaches more, made me love the process more,
Speaker 6: made me love what I get to do more. So
Speaker 6: I grew as an individual in that time. And then
Speaker 6: now now I get to go let it fly and
Speaker 6: fight one of the scariest dudes on the planet and
Speaker 6: Charles olivera most submission wins in the UFC history. And
Speaker 6: it was an interesting process like nobody else would have
Speaker 6: gone through, you know. Even speaking to my manager, he's like, Dude,
Speaker 6: I've been doing this for twenty something years and I've
Speaker 6: never been in a situation like this. I sometimes don't
Speaker 6: even know how to advise you because I don't know
Speaker 6: what the right answer is, you know, So you kind
Speaker 6: of get stuck in a scenario where you don't know
Speaker 6: what the right answer is. But sometimes if you have patients,
Speaker 6: the right answer will reveal itself to you in due time.
Speaker 6: And here we are and now November sixteenth, we get
Speaker 6: after it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have so many different rasago, but you just
Speaker 3: mentioned OLIVERA. What do you feel like you've learned since
Speaker 3: the last time you fought him, because that was a
Speaker 3: you know, it'll be essentially a few years ago since you.
Speaker 6: For Yeah, and also just the maturation process of who
Speaker 6: I am as an individual.
Speaker 3: And fighter.
Speaker 6: You know, I for for better or worse. You know,
Speaker 6: I needed to come into the UFC and stake my
Speaker 6: claim and prove myself right. And now I have proven myself.
Speaker 6: So Chandler one point oh was come into the UFC
Speaker 6: prove the doubters wrong that this bellator dude can't come
Speaker 6: in and compete with the best guys in the world. Right,
Speaker 6: Obviously I have done that, win loser draw. It's a
Speaker 6: great fight, win loser draw. I've hurt everybody that I fought,
Speaker 6: win loser draw, I'm getting fight of the night, wind
Speaker 6: loser draw. You're on the edge of your seat when
Speaker 6: Michael Chandler steps inside the octagon, right and now Chandler
Speaker 6: two point oh is okay. I had I had an
Speaker 6: opportunity to step back, fall back in love with the sport,
Speaker 6: and now I truly believe now more than ever, that
Speaker 6: it's time for me to go win the title. So
Speaker 6: fighting OLIVERA puts me in that position, and then Islam
Speaker 6: is next, then maybe Max or if Connor at any
Speaker 6: given time I can get his stuff together, I'll fight him.
Speaker 6: So I'm just excited to fight differently. I know the
Speaker 6: mistakes I made. I was still it was my second
Speaker 6: fight in the UFC, just had a crazy knockout of
Speaker 6: Dan Hooker a couple months before that, I got thrown
Speaker 6: into that training camp. I essentially had three weeks off
Speaker 6: between training camps when Hunter called me and said, hey,
Speaker 6: you're fighting OLIVERA in Houston for the title. So I
Speaker 6: went right back into training camp, and I was just
Speaker 6: going and going and going, and I didn't have a
Speaker 6: lot of time to fill up my cup enough and
Speaker 6: fill up my mental enough to really fight the way
Speaker 6: that I needed to fight to win. I needed to
Speaker 6: go out there and just try to put a beating
Speaker 6: on somebody. And that's been a lot of fun thus far.
Speaker 6: But Chandler two point oh was coming for not just
Speaker 6: for blood, but coming for the title.
Speaker 3: And so is there a different Chandler two point zero,
Speaker 3: a different kind of maybe strategy. I guess about it
Speaker 3: because if you look at like a Chandler Getchee, you
Speaker 3: know it's going to be explosive, Chandler Pourier, you know
Speaker 3: it's gonna be explosive on their feet, Chandler McGregor, you
Speaker 3: know it's gonna probably be on the feet and explosive
Speaker 3: like Olivera's kind of an unorthodox, kind of a weirder fighter,
Speaker 3: like is are you you know you've been on the
Speaker 3: bus before and we've talked about, Hey, you know you're
Speaker 3: pretty good at wrestling too. Are the whole world more
Speaker 3: of a heady yeah? More yeah, more of a heady chandler.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean, but it's still, even even at my most strategic,
Speaker 6: and even at my most veteran, and even at my
Speaker 6: most smart, I'm still going to be I'm still going
Speaker 6: to be the.
Speaker 3: Most violent guy who does.
Speaker 6: It that way, right, Yeah, Because I love the violence.
Speaker 6: I have the explosiveness, I have the skills, and I
Speaker 6: know I can go out there and finish anybody in
Speaker 6: the first round so immediately, just like I always do,
Speaker 6: I'm still going to put pressure right away. I'm still
Speaker 6: going to be in your face for twenty five minutes.
Speaker 6: I'm still going to make you second guess yourself and
Speaker 6: fight off of your back foot because I want to
Speaker 6: be in control.
Speaker 3: I'm always going to be in control.
Speaker 6: But I think there's just been a different set of
Speaker 6: decision making and a different set of of a game
Speaker 6: plan that I looked at on this in this last
Speaker 6: training camp because I realized the opportunity. I'm the best
Speaker 6: position in the sport of mixed martial arts right now
Speaker 6: if you look at it, the fighting, this number one
Speaker 6: contender fight, having a contract already signed and connected to
Speaker 6: with Connor McGregor for the Ultimate Fighter, So I've got
Speaker 6: these I have nothing but huge fights coming up. So yeah,
Speaker 6: that it gets me excited to go out there and entertain,
Speaker 6: but it also gets me excited to show, go out
Speaker 6: and show and prove that I'm the best fighter in
Speaker 6: the world at one hundred and fifty five pounds, So
Speaker 6: I'm gonna show that on November sixteenth. But it's still
Speaker 6: gonna be violent and it's still gonna be fun, so
Speaker 6: you guys better buy the pay per viewer.
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Speaker 3: ever think about the roster being pissed off that you
Speaker 3: get a number one contender? Yep, Like you get this fight,
Speaker 3: you win, you're the number one contender. Yeah, then you
Speaker 3: could essentially either go for the belt, going for connor
Speaker 3: do you ever think about the roster kind of being
Speaker 3: getting pissed off about stuff like that? The fighters think
Speaker 3: about that stuff.
Speaker 6: I don't, because people can have their opinions all they
Speaker 6: want and everybody can everybody can play the O Woe
Speaker 6: is Me game? But just why don't you show up
Speaker 6: and become a person of value? And when you show
Speaker 6: up and become person of value and not worry about
Speaker 6: the people trying to pull people down and just try
Speaker 6: to elevate yourself, it doesn't really doesn't really bother me
Speaker 6: because I know I'm in the position that I'm in,
Speaker 6: whether it be happenstance, luck, good relationships, good favor, whatever
Speaker 6: it may be. But it's funny, the harder I work,
Speaker 6: and the better of a human being I am, the.
Speaker 3: Luckier I get. You know.
Speaker 6: It's funny how it always works out that way. And yeah,
Speaker 6: now we're in this position and the UFC doesn't care either.
Speaker 6: It's like, hey, this this fight makes sense for us.
Speaker 6: This is a rematch, This is a vengeance fight. Charles
Speaker 6: Olivera versus Chandler one was a huge fight, a lot
Speaker 6: of parody. Almost finished him in the first round. He
Speaker 6: comes back and beats me in the second round because
Speaker 6: I made some mistakes that I will not make again.
Speaker 6: And uh, it's a fight that everyone wants to see.
Speaker 6: And it's a dangerous fight. It scares the hell out
Speaker 6: of me. Man Like Charles Alavera can choke all seven
Speaker 6: of us out right now.
Speaker 3: Uh, if you make the wrong decision, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's like it's a scary fight. And those are
Speaker 6: the type of uh, those are the type of circumstances
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 6: I like opportunities in which the likelihood of failure is
Speaker 6: higher than I am comfortable with and those are the
Speaker 6: type of Those are the type of fights I want,
Speaker 6: not just in the octagon, but in life because I
Speaker 6: like to throw myself into the fire. And you know
Speaker 6: that's a that's the difference between me and a lot
Speaker 6: of fighters, and that's why I keep getting rewarded because
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 3: When backing up, and you're alluding to falling out of
Speaker 3: love like with the sport, with the game and everything else,
Speaker 3: like what what plays in that? Obviously you talked about
Speaker 3: your dad guilt, husband guilt earlier on. Do you think
Speaker 3: about the wear and tereri just with your age too, Like,
Speaker 3: what are the things that goes on to kind of
Speaker 3: make you fall out of love with the with the sport.
Speaker 6: I think it's just the time, It's just the you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's such a funny thing too write well football
Speaker 6: and just in sports in general, every sport, like people
Speaker 6: will just crap on you, not realizing that you're a
Speaker 6: human being, not realizing the sacrifices that you make day
Speaker 6: in and day out, and you have the same doubts
Speaker 6: and fears and insecurities as everybody else, right, So we're
Speaker 6: human beings. But with me, I take I take it
Speaker 6: so seriously and I pour myself so fully into it
Speaker 6: that I become a different human being for a couple
Speaker 6: month period. And I love being that person. I love
Speaker 6: that that God created me that way, and then I
Speaker 6: have also created myself into that type of man.
Speaker 3: But it takes a toll.
Speaker 6: On you because you're you're you feel like you're missing
Speaker 6: out on life sometimes, and then when you bring children
Speaker 6: into it, and a wife and and all these things,
Speaker 6: you feel like it's the constant tug and pool between
Speaker 6: doing what you need to do but also doing what
Speaker 6: you want to do. And I feel like when you're
Speaker 6: constantly grinding. I mean, in a twenty five month period,
Speaker 6: I had six training camps, five fights. Every single fight
Speaker 6: was do or die, every single fight was huge, every
Speaker 6: single fight was a main event or a co main event.
Speaker 6: And you're fighting the toughest, scariest guys in the world.
Speaker 3: So get you can get.
Speaker 6: You can become jaded by it because you look back
Speaker 6: and you think, man, it's been two years and all
Speaker 6: I've done is pour myself into this, so it can
Speaker 6: just chip away at your passion for the sport, and
Speaker 6: you know, just constantly being away from my family down
Speaker 6: in Florida. I love my team and I know it's
Speaker 6: the best team ever.
Speaker 3: And thank god.
Speaker 6: I love my coaches, I love my training partners, I
Speaker 6: love our facility.
Speaker 3: But that two.
Speaker 6: Training camps ago, when I walked in there, I was like, Man,
Speaker 6: here we go again, these four walls and these guys
Speaker 6: and this, and I got four hours of training today
Speaker 6: and then I got to do it six days this week.
Speaker 3: And do you ever think too I appreciate you, sure,
Speaker 3: do you ever think too like I don't want it
Speaker 3: as bad as I used to? And I asked that,
Speaker 3: And I'm not putting you in a spot like to
Speaker 3: you saying like, no, I don't want it, but even
Speaker 3: perspective for myself, like going through it like when we
Speaker 3: were you know, it was like year eight, year nine,
Speaker 3: year ten, like having the fun with it that I
Speaker 3: was having, but just showing up into again those same
Speaker 3: four walls and just kind of knowing in the back
Speaker 3: of my mind, I really just don't want this as
Speaker 3: bad as as my young self did. And I know,
Speaker 3: sacrificing for this sport, sacrificing for like the character and
Speaker 3: the individual and the person that I wanted to create
Speaker 3: in this sport. You almost feel like you're doing yourself
Speaker 3: a disservice by feeling that way. You feel a little
Speaker 3: I felt a little guilt when I would go about
Speaker 3: it like that, knowing that I was you know, I
Speaker 3: still like love playing the game, but I didn't love
Speaker 3: it the same way. I didn't want to, like grip
Speaker 3: my teeth. I didn't want to have to like make
Speaker 3: a fifty three man roster, like throw myself at the
Speaker 3: bottom of a depth chart try to become a starter.
Speaker 3: I just I kind of like lost that mentality. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, I was also able to relieve
Speaker 3: myself of all that expectation and pressure because I was
Speaker 3: getting these chances later in my career, and so I
Speaker 3: to like just enjoy playing the game that I grew
Speaker 3: up loving, versus all that business on top of it.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of like while I was asking you,
Speaker 3: like you show up and you're like, do I really
Speaker 3: want this?
Speaker 6: Is like I used to, Yeah, Well, and that's where
Speaker 6: And I think for me now, having the clarity of
Speaker 6: having a year away from it and enjoying things outside
Speaker 6: of just fighting, spending more time with friends and family
Speaker 6: and loved ones, but also still always staying in shape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can start the question.
Speaker 6: I think like, man, Well, when I was twenty five,
Speaker 6: I used to come into a training camp and be
Speaker 6: all pumped up, and I am pumped up still, like yeah,
Speaker 6: crazy good pumped up at thirty.
Speaker 3: Eight years old. I leave for Florida today. Crazy.
Speaker 6: I don't tell anybody, but I feel like I'm twenty eight.
Speaker 6: That's the thing. I definitely feel like I still have it.
Speaker 6: I definitely feel like I'm the best guy in the world.
Speaker 6: I definitely feel like I'm gonna beat Charles olivera because
Speaker 6: this is a game of millimeters, man, and any of
Speaker 6: us can beat each other on any given night, and.
Speaker 3: You can't step in that octagon second guessing or half
Speaker 3: passing anything because it's you versus somebody else. Any fucking yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, And that's the good thing that I always am
Speaker 6: able to rely upon is I know I do the
Speaker 6: right things. I leave no stone unturned. I have I
Speaker 6: flex my discipline muscle every single day, and I do
Speaker 6: things by the book and do it as perfectly as
Speaker 6: I possibly can. So I know when it's time to
Speaker 6: show up and start training camp, I know I'm going
Speaker 6: to show up. So there was moments where I questioned
Speaker 6: it and thought, man, you used to love this more
Speaker 6: than you did. But really, I think it was just
Speaker 6: the wear and tear of the non stop, the mental
Speaker 6: wear and terror of non stoffeah and just the non
Speaker 6: stop every like, man, I just need a break.
Speaker 3: I need a break. And then finally I was almost
Speaker 3: forced to get a break.
Speaker 6: Which is really funny because Brian Smith, our head coach
Speaker 6: at Miszoo, tells a story about how I was. I
Speaker 6: was one of the one of the first guys that
Speaker 6: he finally had to actually pull out of practice and
Speaker 6: kick out a practice and say no, you can't train
Speaker 6: today and we need you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was like, man, he would notice that my my
Speaker 6: performances would suffer, but it was because I was overtraining,
Speaker 6: or I was going too hard, or I would show
Speaker 6: up and do extra things that I was not asked
Speaker 6: to do. But I'm like, hey, coach, I was a
Speaker 6: walk on kid. I'm still that walk on kid. I
Speaker 6: still I have to do more or else I'm not
Speaker 6: going to be able to beat these guys. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm wrestling against Jordan Burrows and Mike Poeta and Jordan Leean,
Speaker 6: these top top guys. I have to do extra or else,
Speaker 6: and he's like, no, man, you are. You're taking two
Speaker 6: days off this week. And I'm like, wait, so that
Speaker 6: everyone's going to be at practice and I'm not going
Speaker 6: to be at practice and he's like, no, yes, you're
Speaker 6: going to be off Wednesday and Thursday because we need
Speaker 6: you to rest up. So it's kind of awesome how
Speaker 6: the sport pulled me out of it. The court the sport,
Speaker 6: Brian Smith me pulled me out to make me love
Speaker 6: the sport even more. And I've got a new lease
Speaker 6: on life and i have a new passion. So I'm
Speaker 6: excited to go into this training camp. As much as
Speaker 6: it sucks the first week where you it's a new
Speaker 6: transition and you're missing the family and I cried this
Speaker 6: morning freaking dropping half off at school. It's just like,
Speaker 6: you know, it's just a part of it all.
Speaker 3: You were talking about, like getting back into it. Was
Speaker 3: there like a moment where you started to gain more
Speaker 3: clarity in falling back in love with the sport, Like
Speaker 3: the process, was it the people you're around. Was this
Speaker 3: something maybe your wife said, Was it something that allowed
Speaker 3: you It's like the Rocky two moment where he's there
Speaker 3: having the baby, he's he's kind of half assed training,
Speaker 3: but they have the baby, and his wife looks at him,
Speaker 3: She's like, go do it, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the Rocky montage goes off. Yeah, was there like a
Speaker 3: moment for you of that clarity of like falling back
Speaker 3: in love with the grind and the sport.
Speaker 6: I think I think it was just when I got
Speaker 6: back to this, this last training camp that ended ended
Speaker 6: in not the reward I did. I did all the
Speaker 6: work but didn't get the reward. Yet I still look
Speaker 6: back and think, man, every single day, I couldn't wait
Speaker 6: to wake up. I was getting to practice an hour early,
Speaker 6: to just work on little things or just to be
Speaker 6: there and watch other guys. You know, It's like, it's
Speaker 6: funny how as a thirty eight year old veteran and
Speaker 6: team captain down in Florida, I'm the guy who's looked
Speaker 6: at as I'm the highest, the highest ranked guy, the
Speaker 6: biggest name on our team roster.
Speaker 3: Right, so I'm looked at like that guy.
Speaker 6: So the last couple of training camps, it was just like, hey,
Speaker 6: everybody looked at me that way, but I didn't look
Speaker 6: at other guys that way. And excited about watching this
Speaker 6: twenty two year old kid chasing his dream and watching
Speaker 6: this twenty five year old kid fighting for the title
Speaker 6: in this other organization and this so I got. I
Speaker 6: was just so focused on myself because I had to
Speaker 6: go do it, and do it and do it. But
Speaker 6: then this last training camp, I found myself getting to
Speaker 6: practice early watching the younger guys helping out the younger
Speaker 6: guys being a part of the PENI feeling that hung yeah,
Speaker 6: being a part of more, being a part of more,
Speaker 6: and they're thinking, man lost the I lost a little
Speaker 6: bit of the passion for all of that and the
Speaker 6: love of the sport, and then just pouring into people
Speaker 6: more too.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Zig Zigler says, you can have everything you want in
Speaker 6: life if you're helping enough other people get what they
Speaker 6: want in life. So I was of service more this
Speaker 6: last training camp. But I'm excited to go down there
Speaker 6: and do that this week and then get back to
Speaker 6: it and be the guy there and continue to show
Speaker 6: the young guys that hey, yes, I have accomplished more
Speaker 6: than maybe you'll ever accomplish in your entire career. But
Speaker 6: it still always goes back to the hard work and
Speaker 6: the discipline and doing things right and showing up early
Speaker 6: and doing more than it was asked of you and
Speaker 6: being of service. So I think it was just this
Speaker 6: last training camp, the entire process every single day, Yeah,
Speaker 6: working out three times a day and uh, working on
Speaker 6: things more, watching more film and fully immersing myself.
Speaker 3: In it and doing the media and you know, having.
Speaker 6: Time to still FaceTime the family and doing stuff so well,
Speaker 6: you were also flying.
Speaker 3: You guys were flying out there too. Like one thing
Speaker 3: that you were doing in the last training camp not
Speaker 3: to flex with also flex it's flying private. So that
Speaker 3: way you you gain those hours in time with the
Speaker 3: family when you were present with.
Speaker 6: The forty seven extra waking hours I got last camp
Speaker 6: with my family, so almost two full days with my
Speaker 6: family to get there, a couple extra hours home on
Speaker 6: Friday and be able to leave a couple extra hours
Speaker 6: late on Sunday, and uh yeah, just because those are
Speaker 6: times you can ever get back, man. And yeah, and
Speaker 6: it's and it's a it's a it's a weird tug
Speaker 6: and pool of if I can do it, I want
Speaker 6: to do it. If I can make it happen, I
Speaker 6: want to make it happen because I know that I
Speaker 6: will perform better if I know I did as much
Speaker 6: as I possibly could as.
Speaker 3: With the family, Yeah, yeah, I know I will perform better.
Speaker 6: And it's almost just like, Okay, all I gotta do
Speaker 6: Monday morning, I wake up, I hit the ground running,
Speaker 6: go hard Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. By Thursday, I'm excited
Speaker 6: that I get to one more practice, train really hard,
Speaker 6: get home, see the family. Maybe do one session on
Speaker 6: the weekends or a recovery session. But yeah, not not
Speaker 6: the flex, but the flex that was That was a
Speaker 6: good That was a good situation. But we got the
Speaker 6: peak a couple of weeks ago with the Nebraska. It's
Speaker 6: a time machine, man, you know, and it's time in
Speaker 6: this season of my life. It's it's it's time that
Speaker 6: I won't ever be able to get back. And uh
Speaker 6: it made me love the sport even more so this uh,
Speaker 6: this camp will be no different.
Speaker 3: Let's play the game. You win this fight, which one
Speaker 3: would you rather say? Say? They're both there for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we sat on the bus and I sat right there.
Speaker 6: We had this same question title.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, because there's there's clearly and just to like
Speaker 9: call the elephant in the room as well, it's like
Speaker 9: you face somebody like like, that's different style of that's
Speaker 9: a different type of money that you can that you
Speaker 9: can go after.
Speaker 3: The title is a different time. You know, all of
Speaker 3: those factors play in your mind. But you beat Ali Vera.
Speaker 3: Now Connor now realizes the machine goes on without him.
Speaker 3: So whatever he's got to get going on in his
Speaker 3: house that the game's not gonna wait on him, he's
Speaker 3: got to figure out so hopefully force his hand to
Speaker 3: fight you. Yeah, but which one.
Speaker 6: He's definitely realized that the sport will continue to move
Speaker 6: on without him, And I think he never thought I
Speaker 6: would move on. I think he always thought while challenge.
Speaker 3: You could tell by his presser the other night, by
Speaker 3: him saying, I'm kind of out of the loop. It's
Speaker 3: like in my mind the stuff that just I know
Speaker 3: and have watched him afar as well, It's almost like, no, bro,
Speaker 3: you are in the loop. You do know, like if anything,
Speaker 3: you hold the key, You've held the key the whole
Speaker 3: time to do it. Everybody knows that. And you kind
Speaker 3: of see that he felt some type of way that
Speaker 3: you are taking this fight and that he's kind of
Speaker 3: watching it. Him trying to say that the UFC kind
Speaker 3: of left him out of the loop. It's like, no,
Speaker 3: you're just upset to see that it's going to go on,
Speaker 3: no matter if you want to or not. You want
Speaker 3: it to or not.
Speaker 6: The UFC needs nobody. The UFC will continue to build stars,
Speaker 6: continue to put on shows every single week, and continue
Speaker 6: to keep pushing the envelope and growing, whether they have
Speaker 6: Connor me or anybody else. And there's a freedom in
Speaker 6: knowing that you're you're a you're disposable. You know, there's
Speaker 6: a freedom in that knowing that you don't get too
Speaker 6: high on yourself because success is rented every single day,
Speaker 6: and that rent is due every single day. Talk to him, man,
Speaker 6: and that's that's that's in our industry, your industry, or
Speaker 6: everybody else's industry.
Speaker 3: That's listening.
Speaker 6: But I think I think the funny thing is I
Speaker 6: don't He definitely did not know, because ultimately he's not
Speaker 6: a trusted individual with information. If if if they called
Speaker 6: him two weeks ago and said, hey, just so you know,
Speaker 6: we're going to announce Chaander versus ala Vera, he's moving on.
Speaker 3: It would have leaked.
Speaker 6: He would have done his own video, you know, like
Speaker 6: the swirling of the wine whenever he announced that me
Speaker 6: and him we're gonna fight June twenty ninth, and I
Speaker 6: called Hunter and I was like, hey, dude, do you
Speaker 6: want me to corroborate this and like go come out
Speaker 6: and say you know this is true? And he's like, no, dude,
Speaker 6: that's it's just Connor being Connor. I effin told this
Speaker 6: guy to shut his mouth and not say anything, So
Speaker 6: you know, it's and Connor has earned that position. If
Speaker 6: that's the way Connor wants to be and how he
Speaker 6: wants to do it, that's fine. I'm completely different. I've
Speaker 6: known for four weeks and haven't said anything because that's
Speaker 6: I would do my job. I have a job to
Speaker 6: do and if I my word is my bond, and
Speaker 6: if your word is no good, then eventually you are
Speaker 6: no good. So I think, like you said, Connor is
Speaker 6: now a breast to the situation. I'm fighting OLIVERA if
Speaker 6: I had the option, I do have that unfinished business
Speaker 6: with Connor. It's it's the fight that I want. It's
Speaker 6: a fight that needs to happen. Chandler versus Connor happens
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty five, whether you know it's the first
Speaker 6: quarter of twenty twenty five, and if it's if it
Speaker 6: gets pushed off any further, I'm definitely fighting for the
Speaker 6: title next.
Speaker 3: That's what I want anyway.
Speaker 6: The way I look at it is, I'm not gonna
Speaker 6: say the Connor fight is always going to be there,
Speaker 6: but the Connor fight is always in limbo. So even
Speaker 6: if they would have said, hey, you can fight Connor
Speaker 6: in February or January or whatever, I probably still would
Speaker 6: have just fought Olive Air because the last thing I
Speaker 6: want is twelve weeks before they call me and say, hey,
Speaker 6: never mind, we're pushing at the international fight. We're pushing
Speaker 6: it into this. We're pushing because that's how it was
Speaker 6: over the last year and a half. So I deserve security,
Speaker 6: or I deserve concrete, concrete dates and a concrete opponent.
Speaker 6: That's what Charles Oliver is. That's what most of the
Speaker 6: other guys are.
Speaker 3: On the roster. Connor is not that right now.
Speaker 6: He's a little bit too unreliable when it comes to
Speaker 6: when he's coming back, and maybe that's the position he
Speaker 6: wants to be in. That's fine, but I got a
Speaker 6: job to do, and I got a title to win,
Speaker 6: and I do believe I beat Islam Mahachev first quarter
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty five, and I'll probably make that decision
Speaker 6: to go make that fight happen unless Connor can show
Speaker 6: that he's got his house over.
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Speaker 3: the crown is yours, gentlemen. Back to this episode, so
Speaker 3: even you taken the olive verified too, it sounds like
Speaker 3: nothing was still even close to end of the year
Speaker 3: with Connor early in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: I don't think so well they said early twenty twenty five,
Speaker 6: was you know the the target and to me on.
Speaker 3: My man, for what reasoning? Like what's the especially like
Speaker 3: in the beginning when you hear like when the June
Speaker 3: twenty ninth they gets punted to, hey, this could be
Speaker 3: like a six to ten week thing, like this could
Speaker 3: be a quick recovery. Like what is taking in your brain?
Speaker 3: Obviously you don't know all the perfect information on that end,
Speaker 3: but in your brain, like what is taking so long?
Speaker 3: Is it finding some certain date with the UFC on
Speaker 3: a big pay per view? Is it him trying to
Speaker 3: leverage something business wise? Money wise?
Speaker 6: All of that stuff is in play, I think. And yes,
Speaker 6: it's widely known. There's only twelve months in a year,
Speaker 6: which is twelve to maybe thirteen pay per views they
Speaker 6: do per year of those thirteen, only five or six
Speaker 6: of them are in Vegas, maybe eight of them are
Speaker 6: in Vegas. He needs to fight in Vegas or Madison
Speaker 6: Square Garden. Those are usually the two kind of locations
Speaker 6: that he fights at. So you just whittle it all
Speaker 6: down to the options that you have, and all of
Speaker 6: a sudden things get pushed. So that's part of it.
Speaker 6: The other big question is is Connor ever going to
Speaker 6: come back? Is he ever going to come back? Does
Speaker 6: he still have it? Does he believe that he can
Speaker 6: still do it? I think he does, But does he
Speaker 6: actually care enough and love the sport enough. It's one
Speaker 6: thing to sign a contract. It's one thing to say
Speaker 6: you're coming back, the greatest comeback in combat sports history.
Speaker 6: It's another thing to go through the grind. It's another
Speaker 6: thing to put a twelve week training camp together. It's
Speaker 6: another thing to actually show up to practice every single day.
Speaker 6: And then even if you do, then you got to
Speaker 6: look at you know, checking the blocks, the boxes, the
Speaker 6: pros and cons of man, how well did I do today?
Speaker 3: Are my legs working well? Am I still fast?
Speaker 1: Am I?
Speaker 6: I stand firm in my conviction that if Connor McGregor
Speaker 6: was lined up against anybody else June twenty ninth not
Speaker 6: named Michael Chandler, he would have fought with a broken
Speaker 6: pinky toe. I think I bring something different to the octagon.
Speaker 6: I think he signed a check in January of twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three that his ass couldn't cash because he's I
Speaker 6: think he just thought, I don't want to fight this guy.
Speaker 6: He might beat me, but you're gonna come. You're gonna
Speaker 6: you're gonna leave the octagon hurt.
Speaker 3: No matter what. That's the thing.
Speaker 6: You fight me. You might beat me, but it's gonna
Speaker 6: be a hard, hard fought battle, and you are going
Speaker 6: to leave limping, and you're gonna leave with a busted
Speaker 6: lip and a black eye and some stitches. Yeah, you
Speaker 6: know you're gonna get hurt. So that's uh, that's my
Speaker 6: take on it. But I think it's a couple of
Speaker 6: those things. The lack of the lack of dates that
Speaker 6: Connor can actually fight, and his propensity and willingness to
Speaker 6: actually show that he wants to put together a training camp.
Speaker 3: And over all the other things that he has going
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 6: UFC, and the UFC losing a ton of money on
Speaker 6: that last fight and we broke the gate record and
Speaker 6: then they had to issue refunds and probably got sued
Speaker 6: a couple of times because of hotels and this and
Speaker 6: that and all these other things, you know, like the UFC,
Speaker 6: who is a publican trading company, t.
Speaker 3: KO Group, endeavor, all these guys.
Speaker 6: It's like, hey, we have a we got to look
Speaker 6: at this. Yes, Connor brings a lot of eyeballs and
Speaker 6: probably make we make a lot of money when Connor fights,
Speaker 6: but we'll do just fine without him, So he better
Speaker 6: show us that he's gonna show up. And same thing
Speaker 6: with me when you ask who you want to fight Islam.
Speaker 6: Islam will always show up. OLIVERA will always show up,
Speaker 6: Poorier will always show up. Gates, you will always show up.
Speaker 6: Unless these guys cannot physically walk to the octagon. They
Speaker 6: are fighters. We are fighters. We will show up. Is
Speaker 6: Connor that guy anymore?
Speaker 3: We don't know. Yeah, have you ever had a broken
Speaker 3: peaky toe? I'm not having I shattered my big toe
Speaker 3: not too long.
Speaker 6: Oh we got to talk about that, dude, is did it?
Speaker 3: Was it broken? I mean it was something.
Speaker 6: It was black and blue within a day.
Speaker 3: And I would say if Connor had anything like that,
Speaker 3: I can understand and empathize a little bit with that.
Speaker 3: I still showed up the next day and performed at
Speaker 3: a very high level level. But yeah, that was that
Speaker 3: was a that was a painful one. I just walked
Speaker 3: in a shout out ethan roast, by the way, no
Speaker 3: free shout out.
Speaker 6: Shout out ethan roast, and a c's that go back
Speaker 6: to the bus. At the very beginning, we had no
Speaker 6: a C.
Speaker 3: That's right, No, nothing, dude, was there. We ripped the
Speaker 3: shooter right before we came on the bus. You remember
Speaker 3: that the truck. We ripped the shooter. Yeah, I want
Speaker 3: to say that was seanp. I want to say that
Speaker 3: was Shop. Oh yeah, it was fire balls.
Speaker 6: Right before we got on the bus, I shout out,
Speaker 6: no free, shot out, I got Shop on the bus.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, shot out.
Speaker 6: Oh but yeah, that was back in the That was
Speaker 6: back in the gritty days. Back dude, just a couple
Speaker 6: of kids with the dream.
Speaker 3: Man. Now you guys are all sitting pretty man. You
Speaker 3: guy should see out here.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: It looks like a mansion.
Speaker 3: Man, it looks like a.
Speaker 6: Beautiful, grow awesome sick.
Speaker 3: That set is sick, bro, but you guys deserve it. Man,
Speaker 3: You guys are freaking kicking. I appreciate that, man. You know,
Speaker 3: how sick was how sick was the sphere. The Sphere
Speaker 3: was cool.
Speaker 6: It was different, you know, I'm not going to say
Speaker 6: it was like it was really really cool being inside
Speaker 6: of it. The you know, Mexican Independence Day. I was
Speaker 6: almost too close to the screen, like if you were in.
Speaker 3: Everybody pretty much too close. Well, that thing's just well
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: I was sitting here looking at the octagon and behind
Speaker 6: the screen was behind me, so the scream was on
Speaker 6: like fifteen feet behind me, so I had to like
Speaker 6: turn around and look all the way up. I almost
Speaker 6: fell backwards off the railing one day, or one part
Speaker 6: of it, when I was trying to get a full
Speaker 6: glimpse of the promos that they were doing.
Speaker 3: It was really cool.
Speaker 6: It was very light in there, so it felt different.
Speaker 6: But it was a really really freaking cool show.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: There's no way Dan's not going back to the Sphere.
Speaker 6: He'll probably go back to the Sphere.
Speaker 3: You think it will kind of be like an annual thing.
Speaker 3: I would think so if.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's all based on dates and stuff. You know,
Speaker 6: there was a big, big dispute this last time because
Speaker 6: Canelo fought the same night right down the road, and
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: It's did he win? Canelo win?
Speaker 6: He had to and he had to have won or
Speaker 6: else we probably all would have heard about it, because
Speaker 6: Canelo is the most ridiculous boxer on the planet. But
Speaker 6: it was it was fun, man, it was cool.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I think Sean O'Malley losing was was very interesting what
Speaker 6: happened there s.
Speaker 3: I mean, I wish I could have want the Huskers
Speaker 3: play now your boys on dead duty. I was asleep
Speaker 3: after the Husker game was over shot at the Skirts. Yeah,
Speaker 3: uh so uh.
Speaker 6: I think O'Malley just couldn't get anything done man. As
Speaker 6: I said before we started recording, I think Morob's style
Speaker 6: is hardest to fight in the entire world, unlimited gas tank.
Speaker 6: He's not a great striker, he's not a really really
Speaker 6: great grappler from a getting submissions type of guy. But
Speaker 6: he will he will pick you up and put you down.
Speaker 3: He will wear you out.
Speaker 6: And there's nothing harder to fight than a guy, you know,
Speaker 6: wrestling or fighting where a guy just won't will not
Speaker 6: stop coming forward, will not stop putting pressure on you.
Speaker 6: And O'Malley just wasn't able to get things done, whether
Speaker 6: he had a bad night or it was flat or
Speaker 6: he was flat, or it was just Morob not ever
Speaker 6: letting him plant his feet, not ever be able to
Speaker 6: see stuff. You could you could see that that Sean
Speaker 6: was was visibly rattled. But Morob's a hard style.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it was a boring fight because I
Speaker 3: saw the boy Dana come out on the presser talking
Speaker 3: like it seemed like every fan had a great time.
Speaker 3: But I hope everybody watching they got new fans up
Speaker 3: until that CO made event. He's like, oh, up until
Speaker 3: the coming Yeah, I think everybody had a great time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I hope they turn their tea tough.
Speaker 6: The co main event, yeah, I mean chef Chenko, which
Speaker 6: I had her.
Speaker 3: I had her winning.
Speaker 6: She's one of my favorite girl fighters. Alexa Grosso didn't
Speaker 6: didn't look bad. I think chef Chenko just it was
Speaker 6: time for her to get.
Speaker 3: That belt back.
Speaker 6: She's she's a woman possessed. And then the rest of
Speaker 6: the car is really I mean Ortega versus Diego Lopez.
Speaker 6: Diego Lopez now has cemented himself inside the top five,
Speaker 6: top three, probably get end up fighting for the title
Speaker 6: in the next two fights, so it was.
Speaker 1: It was fun good.
Speaker 3: As a fighter. You hear your you hear Dana say
Speaker 3: something like that, does anything go through your mind. Dana's
Speaker 3: kind of just like fuck, like you know, it is
Speaker 3: what it is. I kind of just I kind of
Speaker 3: performed with what I was given. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Luckily, Dana has never said anything like that about
Speaker 6: my fights. If anything, he's like Chandler's the arturro Gotti
Speaker 6: of UFC. He's crazy. I've got some good ones, but
Speaker 6: I earned it. But also, yeah, I mean that's that's
Speaker 6: a tough spot, you know, because Dana's opinion is not
Speaker 6: the end all be all necessarily, but it's no different
Speaker 6: than if it was freaking you know, your head coach
Speaker 6: comes out and says something about the defense or the
Speaker 6: offense or whatever. You're like, well, damn coach, Like I'm
Speaker 6: trying the best I can. But still we're all fallible
Speaker 6: human beings and we have bad nights, we have bad performances.
Speaker 6: As long as you as long as you look like
Speaker 6: you fight fought hard. You can have a bad performance
Speaker 6: but still fight hard, still lose. You know, It's all
Speaker 6: about effort, just like anything in life, because the entertainment
Speaker 6: value and just the the effort is so much more
Speaker 6: important than the x's and the o's sometimes, But yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean it was still fun for me. I thought
Speaker 6: it was still a great card. I think the fans
Speaker 6: got what they what they paid for, whether you were
Speaker 6: inside the sphere or outside the sphere. Inside the sphere
Speaker 6: was ridiculous walking in from our perspective, I think you know,
Speaker 6: you guys saw the video that Taylor posted as he
Speaker 6: like walked out and it just it's almost like it
Speaker 6: just engulfs you, you know.
Speaker 3: So the sphere is cool.
Speaker 6: And I've also heard you can bring kids there and
Speaker 6: do like they do, like cool Safari looking you know,
Speaker 6: outer space thing. I was like, oh, I didn't know
Speaker 6: you could do that because my kids would love that.
Speaker 6: Rue would freaking eat it up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as long as she can handle the sensory overload.
Speaker 6: I don't know if right it might be too much,
Speaker 6: you know, like and.
Speaker 3: It feels like it's too much walking in there. I
Speaker 3: would have loved to been a Jack Jack was there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what was it like your experience walking into the sphere
Speaker 3: From a fan experience standpoint, I'm sure it's awesome. Like
Speaker 3: I talk about how different it is watching a fight
Speaker 3: in Vegas versus like having the sphere just on top
Speaker 3: of you the whole time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't know exactly how it was going to
Speaker 8: pan out while the fights were going on, like if
Speaker 8: there's gonna be activations going on, but they did a
Speaker 8: really good job between each fight. It was almost like
Speaker 8: a Mortal Kombat style like background. Each fight had its
Speaker 8: own different backdrop, and it was obviously on Mexican theme,
Speaker 8: so like some would be in the jungle and then
Speaker 8: others would be like ruined cities. But what, like Mike said,
Speaker 8: when you just walk in onto the floor, it's just
Speaker 8: like everything is all around you and it's hard to
Speaker 8: take in at first, but it's it's be beautiful. That's
Speaker 8: the only way to describe it. It is beautiful.
Speaker 6: The clarity, Yeah, I mean the clarity that you can
Speaker 6: have those screens that are a thousand foot tall and
Speaker 6: freaking it looks like it's your LCD screen in your
Speaker 6: living room.
Speaker 3: It's it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 8: And before they jumped into the full activations of like
Speaker 8: the backgrounds, they had this kind of like cage style
Speaker 8: like view where it almost looked real. It was like
Speaker 8: these uh, steel bars and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 8: it all opened up into like the actual atmosphere of
Speaker 8: it all. But yeah, I guess from a Vegas fight
Speaker 8: a T Mobile arena to the sphere, it's so big
Speaker 8: and open that maybe some of that noise gets pumped
Speaker 8: out of it or it just kind of travels it.
Speaker 6: Did It did audibly sound a lot quieter.
Speaker 8: Yeah, especially in that Sean Fi and uh chef Chenko
Speaker 8: fight when they were on the ground, it was just like,
Speaker 8: for a few minutes, it just felt like you could
Speaker 8: hear a pin drop. But yeah, compared to T Mobile,
Speaker 8: yeah definitely. But yeah, I mean in any time we
Speaker 8: have an opportunity to go back to the sphere, I
Speaker 8: will drop everything I can to be there.
Speaker 3: Were you on the side where the spheres behind the
Speaker 3: octagon or where.
Speaker 8: It was, Yeah, I was like those screen dead on
Speaker 8: the center of the ring or the octagon, Like I
Speaker 8: had the best seat I could have possibly had. So
Speaker 8: it was cool. I thought they did every You never
Speaker 8: know what those kind of things. You know, Dana wants
Speaker 8: to be the greatest promoter on Earth, and he very
Speaker 8: well is, but you don't know if it's going to
Speaker 8: be a flop or not. And from an entertainment perspective.
Speaker 8: I thought that I fans got all their money's worth
Speaker 8: just from the experience of all the Mexican independent stuff,
Speaker 8: and so I thought it was an awesome thing to experience.
Speaker 8: I don't know if they'll do another one, just because
Speaker 8: I know how much money it costs. I think Dana
Speaker 8: said it was like twenty million dollars and who knows
Speaker 8: if they broke over that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just say I wonder how the hopefully the
Speaker 3: bottom line worked out for him to where they feel
Speaker 3: good about that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they said they were trying to hit like twenty
Speaker 8: two five, but I don't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that picture was where I was sitting. I
Speaker 6: was up on that that first little rafter, which was probably,
Speaker 6: in my opinion, the best fight because I was probably
Speaker 6: a little bit further away than you guys were, but
Speaker 6: I was elevated, so I was like eye level with
Speaker 6: the fighter. So it was it was it was cool,
Speaker 6: but I was also so close to the screen that
Speaker 6: it was kind of like the screen wasn't as much
Speaker 6: in play for me because I was just it was
Speaker 6: behind me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Working with working with Hunter and Dana
Speaker 3: throughout the entire process, how were they with you throughout
Speaker 3: McGregor Chan are going to poor art, not for you, OLIVERA.
Speaker 6: They were awesome, man, I mean they I still.
Speaker 3: Took it just as frustrated as you were at times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And and there's and we have such a good
Speaker 6: relationship where it's like, hey, listen, I wish we could
Speaker 6: do this, but we can't, or that this is not
Speaker 6: just doesn't make sense for us as a company.
Speaker 3: You know, you're my guy.
Speaker 6: I want to make this happen, but we can't do this.
Speaker 6: But then when I asked for something and then they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: you know what, forget it, man, We'll make it happen.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make it happen for you.
Speaker 6: You know, Like we we've had a really good relationship
Speaker 6: and I think it's a testament to they know they
Speaker 6: can trust me to be a good dude. You know,
Speaker 6: they know they can trust me to show up, and
Speaker 6: they know they can trust me to show up when
Speaker 6: the lights come on and put on a great fight.
Speaker 6: So when you have that kind of relationship, that kind
Speaker 6: of asset inside of the company, then it's very easy
Speaker 6: to get things done. It's not always the right, it's
Speaker 6: not always the answer you want to hear, but it's
Speaker 6: it's portrayed in a way like, hey, if we can,
Speaker 6: if we can make it something happened for you, We're
Speaker 6: going to make it happen. And they were always in
Speaker 6: constant contact. As you alluded to earlier, I had enough
Speaker 6: reassurances behind the scenes that the fight was going to
Speaker 6: eventually get booked up until finally it got booked, and
Speaker 6: then obviously it ultimately fell through. But they they were
Speaker 6: always in constant contact with me, and we always made
Speaker 6: it happen, even though you know, sometimes it'd be weeks,
Speaker 6: weeks that would go by without us talking, and I
Speaker 6: just got my job to do, which is stay in
Speaker 6: shape and get ready for the fight whenever it did happen.
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Speaker 3: This twisted question for you is number one? Do you
Speaker 3: have do you have enemies? Like? Do you have somebody
Speaker 3: you hate? If I say do you have somebody who hate?
Speaker 3: Did somebody flash in your mind? You have to say who? Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right? You receive The twisted question is you receive
Speaker 3: one million dollars but your worst enemy would receive five
Speaker 3: million dollars. Do you take the money? Yes? Let's say
Speaker 3: it's you receive five hundred thousand dollars and they receive
Speaker 3: five million. Because I'm with you on the one million dollars,
Speaker 3: I think you get a chance to get a million
Speaker 3: domes you take a million.
Speaker 6: Dollars because it's it's free money, and it's free money.
Speaker 6: And one of the craziest things about money too, you
Speaker 6: got to put your mindset around it is like there's
Speaker 6: enough to go around, and just because you make money
Speaker 6: doesn't mean that I can't make money unless we're directly
Speaker 6: competing for one certain thing. Right, So I'm like, I'll
Speaker 6: take money all day long because I don't care first
Speaker 6: of all, that person if I if I don't like
Speaker 6: them that much, they're probably not that great. They're probably
Speaker 6: gonna squander it and have bad luck before them anyway.
Speaker 6: And I'm a good dude, so good things are gonna
Speaker 6: keep happening to me. So I'll take the one million
Speaker 6: dollars and let them have five and probably end up
Speaker 6: losing it all.
Speaker 3: What about the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 6: Oh shoot, yeah, I'll probably still take it. Hundred one
Speaker 6: hundred bucks, one hundred thousand, Yes, might as well.
Speaker 3: Too, Yeah, fiftyk they get two hunder k. Well, he's
Speaker 3: he's saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah with I think I say yeah, no matter what,
Speaker 6: because I'm like, I think it's a good it's a
Speaker 6: good exercise in confident expectancy and like the law of
Speaker 6: attraction or whatever to be like, hey, I'll take what
Speaker 6: I can get, and I'll take something good even if
Speaker 6: it means someone else gets something, because I'm not worried
Speaker 6: about anything else anybody else has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it would be tough, and if your enemy
Speaker 3: was listening, it's more one of those things, like they
Speaker 3: probably need it more than I do. Yeah, I've Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't tell you what are y'all doing. Everybody's taking it.
Speaker 3: I assume mitched you get ten thousand dollars, your worst
Speaker 3: enemy gets one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I hate anybody that.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying when Taylor was asking me, I
Speaker 3: think we did this question too, or something similar, like
Speaker 3: on the plane when we did our twisted adventure with
Speaker 3: Nebraska Michigan. But I was like, I don't really have
Speaker 3: anybody I hate like that to where I wouldn't.
Speaker 6: That's kind of how I wouldn't necessarily care.
Speaker 8: Who is your biggest enemy I don't know and say
Speaker 8: their full name.
Speaker 3: Brett BioMA, head coach of Illinois. Yeah, it changes every week, man. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Brett Brett Beoma is enemy number one, not only is
Speaker 3: he playing the Huskers, but he and he not only
Speaker 3: took the Big Ten title from us, he shoved it
Speaker 3: up our asses when he took that Big Ten title
Speaker 3: from today because he's the head coach of Wisconsin when
Speaker 3: we played the Big Ten.
Speaker 5: Will you get a million dollars but Nebraska loses the
Speaker 5: national championship? Do you take the million dollars?
Speaker 3: This is like the live stream during Michigan. There's always
Speaker 3: next time. I'd pass on the million dollars because you
Speaker 3: could look at it as you're paying a million dollars
Speaker 3: for national title, but I'm not paying for it. This
Speaker 3: is like this is just a like, hey, we'll give
Speaker 3: you a million dollars, but Nebraska loses the national championship,
Speaker 3: Like we're solid, Like I'm in a good spot to
Speaker 3: where I would say I'll forego the a million dollars
Speaker 3: for Nebraska ab a national title, dud. What would your
Speaker 3: number be to take? Yeah, I mean five jumps in
Speaker 3: my head, but I'm sure I would take less than.
Speaker 6: Five one point one and then anybody and then anybody
Speaker 6: who was mad at you, you just give him, give
Speaker 6: him an n IL deal in Nebraska. Yeah, with the
Speaker 6: money you didn't win a million. You didn't, you didn't
Speaker 6: win the national title, but I got five mil.
Speaker 3: I can you know? I love spin. I love that spin.
Speaker 3: And then then it's like two.
Speaker 6: The bus and then then Nebraska wears the bus logo
Speaker 6: and a bunch of a bunch of different things.
Speaker 3: Yes, go take two million by Dylan Stewart from US.
Speaker 6: Yeah start, yeah, yeah, number six.
Speaker 3: I saw that. We got correct on that. He's number six,
Speaker 3: not number five from South Carolina. Crazy monster, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: That's like when when they asked Taylor, he's like, hey,
Speaker 6: Michigan wins tonight, but Chandler gets knocked out by McGregor.
Speaker 6: He's like, we're taking that national title, buddy, Sorry, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm right here, bro, yeah, live on live stream.
Speaker 3: Right, Taylor. I think his fandom should be in a
Speaker 3: little bit of question. We're gonna have to call him
Speaker 3: to the stand. I think we got to call him
Speaker 3: to the stand. He should be I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I'll just wait to say that.
Speaker 6: How was that though, you guys went to Nebra Was
Speaker 6: it Michigan first then Nebraska?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so in the same day left at like six am.
Speaker 3: We flew out at six am from Nashville to go
Speaker 3: to ann Arbor, do Anne Arbor, and then to make
Speaker 3: the Nebraska game to land at four thirty. We had
Speaker 3: to leave right after like a series or two after
Speaker 3: halftime from the Michigan game. Then we get to the
Speaker 3: plane fly to Lincoln.
Speaker 6: Greatest day, greatest day ever, greatest day ever, greatest day
Speaker 6: of my life.
Speaker 3: Tough man. That's thinking about both the way to beat
Speaker 3: his birth, tough to beat. We had mcflurry's waiting on us.
Speaker 3: That the land in Nebraska clutch. I mean, they truly
Speaker 3: could not have gone any better. For myself and if
Speaker 3: I'm thinking me personally personally, that day went as good
Speaker 3: as it could have for sure.
Speaker 10: Well, and it's just a gross secretly, don't tell anybody
Speaker 10: the entire day could not have win any better.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you see what we're saying. No, the
Speaker 3: whole what what was the bad part of the day, Yeah,
Speaker 3: if something, if something you Michigan lost, Yeah, badly it
Speaker 3: was at day. It was a great day. It's a
Speaker 3: day for you. It was a great day for you.
Speaker 6: I mean it also just the testament, even in his sorrow,
Speaker 6: you know, even in the sorrow of maybe losing a game.
Speaker 3: It's still the bus is winning, man, the bus, the.
Speaker 6: Buses, the boys, the boys are winning. And in the
Speaker 6: moments that game, and.
Speaker 3: He's starting to he's starting to process what it feels
Speaker 3: like to lose, especially they got whooped by Texas pretty bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah bad, And so you know you start to like, hey,
Speaker 3: this is fandom. But then you get this. Last weekend,
Speaker 3: I saw him tweet talking about he missed the game.
Speaker 3: He slept through the Michigan game. And to me, that
Speaker 3: calls in the question like how big of a fan
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 8: Bro?
Speaker 3: That's true, you know what I mean. But got away
Speaker 3: till we all get back on the bus.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you got Sometimes you gotta feel that though, you know,
Speaker 6: you gotta feel the sting, you know, and maybe even
Speaker 6: fall out of love with it a little bit, and
Speaker 6: to come back as the best fan.
Speaker 3: He can't afford that because his fanom just started last
Speaker 3: year and just should just be a fan. Win the
Speaker 3: national title and then just off you.
Speaker 6: Set up for failure right away. Man, you want to
Speaker 6: win the national titles.
Speaker 3: The fans in general, like, I hated seeing that from
Speaker 3: the boy Taylor, but I sent out a tweet a
Speaker 3: little bit after kind of like, hey, their fans are
Speaker 3: kind of just in question, like they won a national title.
Speaker 3: Like half the stadium left at halftime. How about port
Speaker 3: what's Portnoy doing these days? He was at pizza fest,
Speaker 3: so he wasn't catching the game.
Speaker 6: Oh man, see this and this is why, this is
Speaker 6: why it's gonna be Missoo versus the Huskers in the
Speaker 6: national title.
Speaker 3: That she might both be in the collegetwall playoff this year.
Speaker 3: See it's not. You know, we got a tough one
Speaker 3: this week against Illinois. You met Matthew McConaughey too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did he say he was coming on the bus.
Speaker 3: No, he has not, but Jack identified him. We didn't
Speaker 3: ask him, but Jack identified him as the next guy
Speaker 3: to He's gotta be days until he comes on the bus.
Speaker 3: Tweeting a photo of him until he comes on the bus.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: He would be awesome, though. I think McConaughey would be
Speaker 3: all time.
Speaker 6: There's enough pictures and screenshots to him out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all his movies he's been in. That'll work in Michigan.
Speaker 3: Also twenty eight eighteen against Arkansas State, thirty picks the
Speaker 3: quarterbacks picks Man.
Speaker 6: Twenty eight to eighteen Arkansas State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how Michigan does this
Speaker 3: year after, you know, after winning the Natty last year.
Speaker 3: Real high on themselves, aren't they. Yeah, they are high
Speaker 3: on themselves. Alabama looked really good, Tennessee. But also you
Speaker 3: guys put who Kent State.
Speaker 6: I mean, shout out Jillian Edelman, no doubt the first.
Speaker 3: You guys put thirty throughout an onside kick, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, But apparently I've been hearing because my my cousin
Speaker 8: was a GA jack and apparently that onside kick was
Speaker 8: to give them better field position. So we were like
Speaker 8: trying to give them a handout because in the second
Speaker 8: half we also they offered to make it a running
Speaker 8: clock for the second half and Kent State denied and
Speaker 8: they were like, I saw that so apparently, which regardless,
Speaker 8: even if I honestly love that we did an onside
Speaker 8: kick and I wanted to be because we were just
Speaker 8: like foot on the throat type mentality, but apparently it
Speaker 8: was to try and give them better field position.
Speaker 3: That's also and mass disrespect. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 8: But here we are this week though, is the test
Speaker 8: kick off just stands there. It's Tennessee Oklahoma, and they
Speaker 8: said it's game day, so it's at Oklahoma. So this
Speaker 8: would be our big first test.
Speaker 3: Do we know what the opening line is? I know,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure, bro, I think Tennessee could whip their ass.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: I'm I just hope everyone.
Speaker 3: I always love college football. It's all good. Missoo's got
Speaker 3: a little bit of a squad. Now. I will say
Speaker 3: I did call Boston College plus sixteen and a half,
Speaker 3: but Missoo's got a tough team.
Speaker 8: Tennessee opened his six and a half point favorite.
Speaker 3: I'm hammering that. I gotta get on that right now
Speaker 3: because you know it's gonna move. Yeah. Brady Cook first
Speaker 3: form athlete, dude, do what Brady Cook? First? He's a
Speaker 3: first form athlete. Oh good for him, dude. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to be a first form athlete, dude, you gotta be
Speaker 3: a first form athlete. Come on up, hook the Saint
Speaker 3: Louis boy up, dude. Yeah, I went on because what
Speaker 3: is what is it called? Now? What's this podcast called? Now?
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Speaker 6: Maybe yeah, I need to do that yeah again now
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Speaker 3: No free shot out this week, Mike, I hope you
Speaker 3: have one. Is going to go to flickering when people
Speaker 3: flicker their lights, no letting you know that there's a
Speaker 3: cop waiting down the highway. Happened a couple of times
Speaker 3: on the drive to Missouri and back. I got to
Speaker 3: do one as well. I'm just letting the whole other
Speaker 3: side of the highway know. Hey, you got there were
Speaker 3: two sitting there was one you go over hill and
Speaker 3: then there was another one. So they were out to
Speaker 3: get people's speed. But when people are flickering their lights
Speaker 3: tell letting you know that they hey there's a cop
Speaker 3: down here. Make sure you control your speed, get your
Speaker 3: shit in order. But that's my shout out, no free
Speaker 3: shout out.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think you're yeah, you might be able
Speaker 6: to get in trouble with you.
Speaker 3: I think you do, actually, but you should. Maybe I
Speaker 3: didn't do it. People would go help for me.
Speaker 6: People helping people, man, So we believe, we believe in humanity, right,
Speaker 6: So my shout out for no free shoutouts goes to
Speaker 6: people who put their shopping cart away.
Speaker 3: Nice in a world where.
Speaker 6: Laziness continues to win. The people who will walk to
Speaker 6: their car and then walk it all the way back
Speaker 6: through receptacle and not leave.
Speaker 3: It on a curb. Try And that's my shout out.
Speaker 3: Does anybody here put their card away? Sure? I can
Speaker 3: see you being a guy who doesn't put their card away.
Speaker 7: There's a guy actually the cart ark cart narks Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: the Cartnark completely changed the game. Ever since I saw
Speaker 7: carton Arks on TikTok. He goes around the country, he
Speaker 7: finds people that don't put their carts away. It scared
Speaker 7: the shit out of me, so I always put.
Speaker 6: My follow I follow cart Narks. It's actually hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he wears GoPro. He'll put a sticker on your car
Speaker 6: that says I'm the lazy Bones. So like, he made
Speaker 6: a really cool brand out of it. But even when
Speaker 6: people aren't looking, it's the things that you do right
Speaker 6: when people aren't looking you don't get any credit for
Speaker 6: that will then release the positive karma that good things
Speaker 6: that will happen to you.
Speaker 3: Because I truly believe that.
Speaker 6: You can't be successful in life if you're one of
Speaker 6: those people who just doesn't put their shopping card away.
Speaker 3: It's the little things. It's a little bit of details,
Speaker 3: it's a little thing.
Speaker 6: So shout out to all those people who do it,
Speaker 6: and they stand firm in their convictions that they just
Speaker 6: because it's someone else's job to do it doesn't mean
Speaker 6: that you can be lazy and not put it away.
Speaker 3: One thing that I like to do because usually the
Speaker 3: parking spot right next to the uh right next to
Speaker 3: putting your carts always open because people are like, why
Speaker 3: would you park next to it? Because you risk it
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 6: But I'll just park right next now, see this that way,
Speaker 6: whenever I get done, I just see it now. Some
Speaker 6: people would say, oh, well, that's really easy to do that.
Speaker 6: But it's like, it's okay to make decisions that make
Speaker 6: doing the right thing easier. It's okay to make you know,
Speaker 6: I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm any better because
Speaker 6: I will push it a thousand yards and all that,
Speaker 6: but like, yeah, if I park next one, no matter what,
Speaker 6: it just it's a non negotiable that needs to be done.
Speaker 6: So there's nothing wrong with parking next.
Speaker 3: You got to as long as you.
Speaker 6: Put it away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to build around your laziness. I'm like
Speaker 3: the most I'm like the laziest person that I know,
Speaker 3: So I got to set myself up. That's efficient, that's
Speaker 3: just efficiency, little successes, that's efficiency.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: As long as you do the right thing, whether doing
Speaker 6: the right thing was harder for you than it was
Speaker 6: for me, as long as you do the right thing,
Speaker 6: that's all that matters.
Speaker 3: Amen to go back to yours.
Speaker 5: There is like a rumor conspiracy out there, and this
Speaker 5: is why I have stopped flashing people going the opposite way.
Speaker 5: If I see a cop is in gangs, it's alleged
Speaker 5: to be an initiation when you they have to kill
Speaker 5: somebody that flashes their lights at them.
Speaker 1: On the road.
Speaker 3: Dude, I see gang. I've heard that. I can't believe
Speaker 3: that's freaking.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 3: They got to go kill you.
Speaker 6: I've heard that since like high school.
Speaker 3: I had to stop. I don't know if it was
Speaker 3: on the highway, Like, let's just keep it clean on
Speaker 3: the highway out there. Boys. You guys are listening to
Speaker 3: this and that rumor is Drew. Be careful in cities
Speaker 3: and towns. Yes, flash at your own risks. Yeah, flash
Speaker 3: at your own risk. And I was thinking too, I
Speaker 3: was like, I wonder if that's like an illegal thing
Speaker 3: to like tip people off. Okay, there's a copack, but
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, we're all trying to
Speaker 3: get each other, right, yeah man, Oh yeah. Somebody said
Speaker 3: that my brides weren't working, so I was just trying
Speaker 3: to feel them out, like oh it's one in the afternoon,
Speaker 3: or I try to try see the light on the end,
Speaker 3: try to put my blinker on and you actually flip it.
Speaker 3: Flipp it.
Speaker 6: You always said that because I've done that before. You
Speaker 6: actually flip it, and you're like.
Speaker 3: Oh, shoot, that's a good call too. It's like, sir,
Speaker 3: you can't prove that I did not accidentally. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: I know you were sitting there any more shoutouts in
Speaker 3: the back.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mitch, I moved this weekend and that feeling of
Speaker 1: finally getting everything like in your house and sort of settled.
Speaker 3: Haven't you already said this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just I need to do it again
Speaker 1: because he said.
Speaker 3: This one like a couple so important.
Speaker 6: It's so important that every time you move.
Speaker 1: I moved like three months ago, and I just did
Speaker 1: it again and it sucked.
Speaker 11: But like we the new house has like a it
Speaker 11: has like a projector, and me and me and my
Speaker 11: roommate Foul were just literally like your stereotypical pick you
Speaker 11: and Foul.
Speaker 3: It's you guys every time too. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just moving everywhere. Shout out the boys, man shout out
Speaker 3: one month leases.
Speaker 11: Yeah no, and we were doing we were doing our
Speaker 11: other buddies a solid to kind of match up our leases.
Speaker 11: So we can all move in together. But like it
Speaker 11: was literally your stereotypicals, like what guys need to be happy.
Speaker 11: It was a chair, two chairs, a little foot rest,
Speaker 11: and like we had red zone going and like just
Speaker 11: sitting there and me and him maybe said it like
Speaker 11: six times, like bro, this.
Speaker 3: Is so sick.
Speaker 1: We are so happy to be here.
Speaker 11: And like once it's over, settled and done with all
Speaker 11: of that ship but again, shout out that feeling.
Speaker 1: It's a good feeling.
Speaker 3: It's a good feeling, Mitch, Like I got one. I
Speaker 3: got a great one.
Speaker 6: You guys have never heard this before.
Speaker 3: By shout out.
Speaker 7: Every shout out goes to birthday weeks. When I was
Speaker 7: growing up, it was just the birthday. You'd celebrate the birthday.
Speaker 3: Birthday weeks because it's my birthday week.
Speaker 7: Hey, birthday weeks are awesome and birthday.
Speaker 3: Special.
Speaker 7: Dude, Will's is nineteenth, my wife's is eighteenth. She grew
Speaker 7: up doing birthday weeks, and they would make like a
Speaker 7: big deal, just like starting on that Monday or Sunday.
Speaker 7: You just like celebrate every single day. It's been fun.
Speaker 7: She does it for me, it's going to do it.
Speaker 7: What's up with all the l's what's up with all
Speaker 7: the eye rolls?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 7: All right, let's hear let's hear it.
Speaker 5: For me personally, my birthday is on Christmas, so just
Speaker 5: forget that. My birthday is barely celebrated anyway. So when
Speaker 5: people are talking about, oh, it's my birthday month, it's
Speaker 5: my birthday week, Like, hey, honestly, nobody cares so except
Speaker 5: for Jill. Jill shares the same birthday as my brother. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so we'll let this birthday, this can be the birthday week.
Speaker 1: I'll celebrate.
Speaker 6: Birthday weeks birthday week.
Speaker 3: I can know. I'm not going to shout out. Finally
Speaker 3: get into my apartment.
Speaker 5: I will the last thing I'll do is give them praise,
Speaker 5: but I'll shout out. As sad as it was, I
Speaker 5: have to shout out the fans at South Carolina and
Speaker 5: Williams Brice. We went through one of the worst feelings,
Speaker 5: worst experiences you could ever have. But game day and
Speaker 5: in the stadium, they showed out. We have not seen
Speaker 5: a crowd like that.
Speaker 3: Man, I don't even know.
Speaker 5: Like the Tennessee game was epic, but there was something
Speaker 5: different where like we had some swagger about us, and
Speaker 5: the fans just like they truly made a difference in
Speaker 5: the game. And nothing fires me up more as a
Speaker 5: fan than seeing other fans make a difference. I bought
Speaker 5: my ticket to the Old Miss game. During the LSU game,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I have to be there for our next war. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because I promise you if I'm there that's not happening.
Speaker 3: I will go on the field I had I would have.
Speaker 5: Maybe we'll get into all this stuff later. But shout
Speaker 5: out to the fans in Columbia, South Carolina.
Speaker 3: Y'all showed up. Keep showing up in my game. Cocks Chandler. Bro, Hey, Jack,
Speaker 3: I hate to cut you off. We got to get
Speaker 3: boy rolling. I gotta get rolling. No, no, we'll get it.
Speaker 3: We'll get you one when we do the intro, when
Speaker 3: we do the intro. But Bro, thank you for coming on,
Speaker 3: Thank you for talking about everything. Good luck in your camp. Boys.
Speaker 3: We're going to camp dude.
Speaker 6: Back to war, back to war today, back in the foxhole,
Speaker 6: back in the fox hole.
Speaker 3: And I can tell, like, you know, Mike's a good
Speaker 3: friend of mine. Clearly he doesn't feel the same about
Speaker 3: me because he's leaving before my birthday. He's going to
Speaker 3: be gone, and his fight is on November seventeenth, like
Speaker 3: our second one is due in mid November, so he
Speaker 3: clearly doesn't think about being able to get to the fight.
Speaker 6: I didn't plan my entire career around here. You're right,
Speaker 6: you're right, But I am here on the bus for
Speaker 6: your birthday week, so I mean that's right.
Speaker 3: That does mean something. I appreciate you, man, because they did.
Speaker 3: I know it leaked over the weekend. We kind of
Speaker 3: texted about and talked about it. And you're on the bus.
Speaker 3: You're a literally always you always come on when something
Speaker 3: pops off with you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: And Monday after the fight, November eighteenth, I'll be here
Speaker 6: on the bus, win loser, no matter what.
Speaker 3: I'm here on the bus. So let's do it. I
Speaker 3: appreciate you, bro. Let's go, baby, be a wolf, Be
Speaker 3: a wolf. Love you guys.
Speaker 6: Shout out to the boys.