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Speaker 1: On the reading books, I mean, I have to really

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Speaker 1: the reading. I'll put them a post on Instagram about it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you get that from every page of

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Speaker 1: my Instagram page. You want to go look at my stories,

427
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: it's up there. It's just a really easy way to

428
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 1: understand what's happening, basically, being like the idea is that

429
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: here's what happens. These headfunge fucking criminals. They go out

430
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 1: and they find companies too artificially short, and this has

431
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: just all kinds of depressive effects on any number of

432
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,160
Speaker 1: just ordinary working class Americans and these businesses, and they

433
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,280
Speaker 1: do this as a way to like create moment him

434
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 1: for using other financial instruments to make money. Basically, and

435
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: these redditors who are whoever else, decided well, okay, if

436
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: we artificially inflate the stock of the ones that the

437
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,119
Speaker 1: hedge funds went in on, they're going to be on

438
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: the hook for all the money by virtue of ways

439
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: that shorting works. Right, So if you buy a stock

440
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Speaker 1: at ten, are you're you are If you're shorting it

441
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: at ten essentially, and it goes up to fifteen, you're

442
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 1: on the hook for the five by virtue of if

443
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 1: you short it it's at ten and then he goes

444
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: to seven, you get the three. Right, That's sort of

445
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 1: how it works. But by climbing the stock price to

446
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 1: the to the nth degree, they're putting these guys on

447
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,880
Speaker 1: the hook for billions of dollars. They're making these you know,

448
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: these are the most storied investment firms on Wall Street,

449
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: but some pretty big ones, and they're like vaporizing billions

450
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: of dollars overnight. So you know, in the end, that's

451
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 1: a bit of another pyramid scheme, because here's the thing

452
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,360
Speaker 1: like someone's gonna get left hold in the bag when

453
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: the game stop price depresses again. But a different story altogether.

454
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Speaker 1: You're asking about do I think there's gonna be a

455
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: criminal charges? Fuck? Now, I don't think there's gonna be

456
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: a criminal charges. Do you know what country you live in?

457
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: Is there ever any criminal charge for anyone in any

458
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: kind of position of prominence virtually ever in this country?

459
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jeffrey Epstein case is kind of interesting

460
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 1: in the sense that it's such an opposite of what

461
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: we are accustomed to. Yes, there was obviously the terrible

462
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: crimes he was accused of, and he rubbed shoulders with everyone,

463
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,239
Speaker 1: you know, on every kind of either political side, and

464
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 1: you know, everyone who was anyone he sort of tried

465
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: to put himself around. And then he commit always unspeakable

466
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Speaker 1: acts against these young women and blah blah blah. You

467
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: guys know the story. But you know, basically, why did

468
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: he think he could keep doing that? Because the class

469
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: in which he lives is more or less immune to

470
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: either prosecution generally or the more serious kinds of it.

471
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: I put up this piece. It was by David Serota.

472
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Speaker 1: You guys know David Serota. He's been in this sovestigative

473
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Speaker 1: reporter at times. For a while. He worked for Bernie Sanders,

474
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: but obviously he doesn't anymore. It was just part of

475
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Speaker 1: the Bernie campaign and he wrote this long article basically

476
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: arguing like, if you just look at every time there's

477
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Speaker 1: been elite either corruption or just even incompetence, sometimes malfeasons,

478
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: any of the three in this world, there's never anything

479
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Speaker 1: to pay for it. There's never any cost for the

480
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Speaker 1: elites to very rarely anyway to pay. Dude, David frum Is,

481
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: you know, the architect of the speech for the access

482
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Speaker 1: of evil, advocated heavily on behalf of invading Iraq? Or

483
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 1: how about the other ones? Who's going to organized the

484
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: policy around it? Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, all the neo cons. Dude,

485
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Speaker 1: these guys belong in the fucking hagu Man and they're

486
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Speaker 1: out there today. In the case of from who's totally

487
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: you know, reinvented his career, he is now sort of

488
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Speaker 1: seen as a sane member at least the folks on

489
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: the left. He's seen as a sane member to folks

490
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Speaker 1: on the right, or you know, one of the folks

491
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Speaker 1: in the right who's still, you know, however you want

492
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: to put it, a sort of a moderate guy who

493
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: is to be trusted for his very learned ways. There's

494
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 1: never any cost to pay too. Was that they did they?

495
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: Is there ever a cost to pay for the two

496
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight financial collapse. Who went to jail for that?

497
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Speaker 1: Any major institution who went to jail for defrauding? Uh?

498
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even want to begin with this.

499
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Speaker 1: Did you see anybody go to jail for that? Whether

500
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Speaker 1: was there any real massive regulation put around? I mean,

501
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Speaker 1: I guess there were some about changing some of these

502
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Speaker 1: financial instruments, but in general, the people who were the

503
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Speaker 1: architects of this, nothing happened to them. I brought this

504
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Speaker 1: up before, like with this whole capital insurrection thing, you know,

505
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Speaker 1: did I not say I got some of that wrong

506
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Speaker 1: because I didn't realize how much of them would be

507
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Speaker 1: either middle class or even higher. I thought a lot

508
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: of those would be sort of a little bit more,

509
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Speaker 1: you know, of the unemployed variety. But that turned out

510
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Speaker 1: to not quite be true at all. But one thing

511
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Speaker 1: that is turning out to be true that I did

512
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Speaker 1: say on that was that we're going to get the

513
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: Abu grab thing all over again, all over again. You're

514
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Speaker 1: going to punish the soldiers who enacted the policies. Okay, fine,

515
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: we're not going to go after the people who put

516
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Speaker 1: in the policies. No, No, I don't expect any fucking

517
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 1: thing to happen to these people. And listen, here's what's

518
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: amazing about it. You've got AOC Alexandria Cassio or Cortes

519
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: going after them, Ted Cruz being like, I agree. You've

520
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: got folks on the left pissed off. You've got who's

521
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Speaker 1: the guy David Portnoy, who's the head of barstool calling

522
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Speaker 1: this a crime. He's fucking right, They're all right. This

523
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,239
Speaker 1: is a country where there is if you are a

524
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Speaker 1: member of the sort of really truly elite class, very

525
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: rarely does the long arm of the law come hammering

526
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: down upon you. No, I don't expect a fucking thing

527
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: to happen, And if it does, great, pleasantly surprised. Wouldn't

528
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: that be awesome? I think we'd all agree on that.

529
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Speaker 1: That would be great. Do I expect it to happen

530
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: to fuck? No, I expect them to go before Congress,

531
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Speaker 1: pay some kind of hefty fine, get dressed down for

532
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: you know whatever, congressmen in some kind of committee meeting

533
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: or hearing. Rather, we'll say, you know, wag their fingers

534
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: at them, and then we'll go back to do whatever

535
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: the fuck they were doing. No, I don't this is

536
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: that This is not a society where that happens. With

537
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: McGregor's mystique all but gone. That's a little bit overstating.

538
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: It will be an existing star like Israel or a

539
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: far more unknown in the next fighter to reach his

540
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Speaker 1: star power. It's gonna be a long time before someone

541
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Speaker 1: reaches his star power. I mean is he's certainly on

542
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: his way, but he's even he's got a very long

543
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: way to go. And by the way, like not everyone's

544
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: going to top out at his level either. Connor's very

545
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: special in that regard. Connor's mystique is not gone. But

546
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: the Connor McGregor invincibility steak streak where this is how

547
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: you have to understand it. It wasn't that anyone thought

548
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Speaker 1: maybe you thought he was the best one forty five

549
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: after beat Jose, but even after he beat Eddie, it

550
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: wasn't like you necessarily some might have thought he was

551
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: the best fighter in the world. But let's assume for

552
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: a second you're like, Okay, he's really on a hot streak.

553
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: Is he the very best fighter pound for pound on Earth.

554
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: Let's say for a moment you didn't believe that, which

555
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: I think you'd be right not to. There was still

556
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Speaker 1: something special about it, which was that the guy was

557
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: just batting, you know, a thousand doors. Up to that point.

558
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: Really in the UFCA, he was on an incredible hot streak.

559
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't like you thought he was the best. You

560
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: just thought, for whatever reason, every time he comes out here,

561
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: he's got the wind at his back, he's got noble flaws,

562
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: but they just can't take advantage of them. Right now

563
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: that is gone, and so now he has regressed to

564
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: a more moderate level that all fighters kind of regressed

565
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: to over the totality of their career. Floyd kind of

566
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: kept it high. But even then, you know, some of

567
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: his performances weren't necessarily as good as other ones, especially

568
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 1: a little bit late. That's what has happened is that

569
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: this artificial bubble around the assessment of him, which is

570
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, somewhat understandable given what he had done, I

571
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: called a bubble like it's like this overly speculative thing,

572
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: but it was driven by this really unprecedented act. So

573
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: to be fair, I think, you know, it's not the

574
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: craziest thing in the want to imagine he was really

575
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: really good, and I think he is still really really good.

576
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: But that has been shattered. That illusion has been shattered

577
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: that he can just go in there and will his

578
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: way to victory. No, no, you got to go now.

579
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: He's at a stage race to go. And this was

580
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: always the case, but it just feels more like it now.

581
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: He has to go in there. He has to earn

582
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: his way to victory. No shortcuts, no mystic mac. No,

583
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in your head and over one, folks.

584
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: You know, I'm actually rethinking a little bit some of

585
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: the posture stuff he's done. I don't mean this as

586
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: in his posture. I mean as in his posture towards

587
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: the fight camp. I have to tell you, folks, when

588
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: he was doing the stuff where he was being a

589
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: gentleman and whatnot the last two camps. I'm not saying

590
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: he has to go back and it's like, oh, the

591
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: key to fixing this is he has to trash talk.

592
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: I don't think that's quite right, but I will say this,

593
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: the trash talk, it seems to me, emanated from a

594
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: worldview where he not only wanted to conquer, but he

595
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to prove something and he wanted to

596
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: show it to you. He had this real demonstrative personality

597
00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: and goal and a lot of that he already did,

598
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: and so he doesn't need to do that anymore. I

599
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: think internally he certainly feels that way. But what that's

600
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: done is it's not like going in trash talking would

601
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: fix the problem. The problem is actually the trash talking

602
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: came out of this deeper sense, and I wonder if

603
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: that deeper purpose has been somewhat fizzled out a little bit.

604
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,959
Speaker 1: And so this is why I bring it up. Some

605
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: of the weapons. I've made a whole video on my

606
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: personal channel about it. Some of the weapons are missing

607
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: from his game. I think people are over selling a

608
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: little bit the idea that his stance has completely changed. Well,

609
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: a lot of it was very circumstantial, So there are

610
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: some things that are missing. And the one thing that

611
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: really binds it all together was is a little bit

612
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: of just dynamism missing, like a little bit of zip

613
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: and pop and and hustle. Quite frankly, from that to me,

614
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: there's like a little bit. Yes, he was hustling against

615
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: Cowboy Serony, but Cowboy was just really overmatched. And you know,

616
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: we talked about before his fifth fight within less than

617
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days that was just a

618
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: really really rough run. He was on to me. It's like,

619
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: I don't need you to trash talk again, but that

620
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: place where you got the trash talking from in here,

621
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: this burning desire to show the world something, some part

622
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: of that maybe needs to be recaptured. I don't know

623
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: that for sure either. Again, you know, Dustin Poirier is

624
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: an all time fucking legend in this division now, so

625
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: let's give credit where credit is due. But I do

626
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: wonder about that. I wonder a little bit like, oh,

627
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, oh kind of needs to get in everyone's head.

628
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: Well it's not so much that, but if getting in

629
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: someone's head came from this life goal that you had

630
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: set out, and now that that goal's been taken away,

631
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: you haven't found a reset, and as a consequence, everything's

632
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: just it's not a super downgrade. It's just a little

633
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: bit lethargic. It's a little bit lacking in dynamism, it's

634
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: a little bit just, you know, not quite what it

635
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: once was. You got to re engineer that. I think

636
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: that might be something worth paying attention to see what

637
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: happens in his next fight, whenever that is, against who

638
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: that might be. You know, we'd ever want to overstate

639
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: one thing one way or the other, but at least

640
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: I will tell you I'm at least curious about that.

641
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: Who are you leaning towards Masvidal or Kolby should they fight?

642
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: Colby's a tough fucking fighter, man. Do you see the

643
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: matchup being similar to Uspan versus maz at all? Yes?

644
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: Or do you think it could be more of a

645
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: stand up fight because Colby does like to stay on

646
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: his feet more and use his volume to overwhelm his opponents.

647
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: There is a little bit of that that's true. But dude,

648
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: Jorge is dangerous man, and Kolby knows that shit too.

649
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: Jorge is dangerous. You cannot play with him very long

650
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: on the feet. And the worst part about it is, oh,

651
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: I want to play at range. His kicking game is excellent.

652
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: All right, I'll keep it in close, dude. His boxing

653
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: game is excellent. You know, everyone's talking about who's the

654
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: best boxer in the UFC? Is it is it Dustin?

655
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: Is it is it Max Holloway? Well, we can have

656
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: a debate about it, but you know who should be

657
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: on that list. Jorge Masvidal. He should be on that list.

658
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: That's just a fact that dude can box his ass off,

659
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: at least inside of the MMA world, you know. So

660
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: I'd probably favor Colby because I think he's got the

661
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: gas tank to do it for twenty five rounds, to

662
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: make the fight ugly and frankly unexciting. But you know,

663
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: I don't do predictions for a reason. I mean, CBS

664
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: Sports makes me the oom, and I fucking hate doing

665
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: them because they're just such a it's such a fraudulent

666
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,479
Speaker 1: you can do them, it's there's a there's a way

667
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: to do predictions that is good faith, you know, uh,

668
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: informed content, but you have to really specialize in that

669
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: kind of a thing. And if you don't do that,

670
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: just been like, yeah, I think soone's is gonna win.

671
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: You don't fucking know. You're just telling the audience it's

672
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna snow when it's not. I don't like doing that.

673
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: I honestly, I truly mean this. I really enjoy just

674
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: not taking a position on that and then seeing what

675
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: the universe feeds back to me. It's a lot easier

676
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: and frankly, you know, not that hard once the results

677
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: are in interpret them in a much more honest way.

678
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: It's actually not that hard once everything is in front

679
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: of you and laid bare. Okay, fair enough, but I'd

680
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 1: rather be. I'd rather have I will do my job,

681
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: which is, hey, give us a pick, all right, I'll

682
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: give you a fucking pick. But I'm telling you, guys

683
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: right now, please understand I don't know, so you should

684
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: never never, you should basically never ask me for picks.

685
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: Every once in a while I'll get some real insight

686
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: information about a guy who might have an injury in

687
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: a camp or you know something, something's going on, and

688
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: I'll use that to, you know, make some kind of assessment.

689
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: But short of that, I'm not the guy to go

690
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: to on that. Ever. How different is MMA fandom compared

691
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: to the other sports in terms of media consumption. I'm

692
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: also a big Reil Madrid fan, so I constantly read

693
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: articles and keep up with the news with football slash

694
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: soccer sites about Reale, La Liga, Premiere blah blah blah,

695
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: but rarely listen to podcasts or YouTube. Same with NBA.

696
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: I rarely read I don't know why about MMA, or

697
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: keep up with the news via MMA sites rather via Twitter,

698
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: podcast and YouTube. I can't say how representative the anecdote is,

699
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: but do you also see different media consumption habits in MMA. See,

700
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I use my consumption habits generally

701
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: across sports, So I'll just sort of shoehorn that in.

702
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: I will say BC and I have had a lot

703
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: of conversations about this. I don't know if they'rey equivalent,

704
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: but let's say for just a moment, for just a moment,

705
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 1: that the boxing and MMA audiences are roughly equivalent in size.

706
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: Let's assume that if that is true, the MMA fan

707
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: base is significantly more online, significantly more lined. Now, I

708
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: get it, BC and I are too forty something year

709
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: old white dads giving our opinions on young athletes. Like

710
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: It's like, I get there's gonna be a lot of

711
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: people who just you know, it's like, who the fuck

712
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: cares what deco idiots have to say. But if that

713
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: were true, it would be true across both boxing and MMA,

714
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: And it's not like an MM we've been able to

715
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: develop some kind of an audience in boxing has been

716
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: much much harder. Now. Obviously, those sports are going to

717
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: cross a lot more demographic lines and even frankly, language

718
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: lines in ways that even in the United States, you're

719
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: not going to get necessarily as much of like could

720
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: you do an all Spanish podcast or you know site

721
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: covering boxing and do well. I don't know, but I

722
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: bet you could do it a lot easier in boxing

723
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: than you could MMA. Obviously, Danis Siguro has uh amos MMA.

724
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: But that's something like new, Like he is the first

725
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: person not doing like Spanish and English language media, but

726
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: with a major English outlet trying to do Spanish language

727
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: focused content. That's very new. He's the first one to

728
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: really focus in on that, you know. I remember when

729
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: I went to what fight was it, I think it

730
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: was Midweather Canelo, and I remember going there, and this

731
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: is long before I worked for Showtime, but I remember

732
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: the Showtime folks were there, and I remember seeing that

733
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: they had PR people, you know, just a standard PR folks,

734
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: you know, handing out press releases and hey, I've got

735
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: this interview for you and blah blah, you know whatever

736
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: PR folks do in the daily course of their of

737
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: their routine. And I remember they they had a bunch

738
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: of it was a lot of girls, women, and I

739
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: think almost all of them at that time spoke Spanish.

740
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: Like I just couldn't believe they would just go back

741
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: and forth, and if you think about it, you had

742
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: to because you had so many parties coming through who

743
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: were either Spanish first or that's their best language, or

744
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: you know, how are you going to navigate through all

745
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: of these like hordes of people that need you to

746
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: communicate with him? Like MMA is not like that, and

747
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't know what that says that

748
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: about consumption habits through media and how that might change

749
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: between written and audio and video, which is more the

750
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: way you're asking. But I'm just sort of pointing out

751
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: BC and I have tried to noodle, you know, is

752
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: the is the boxing audience as heavily online as the

753
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: MMA audience, and if so in English or they divided

754
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: long language lines. It's actually been really hard for us

755
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: to figure out. I've found really good Frankly, I find

756
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: a lot of the written stuff on soccer to be

757
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: quite pedantic, you know, where they're going over tactics and

758
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: language and it doesn't make a lot of sense, or

759
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: they're just bloviating on about you know, I like said low,

760
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: he's all right, but I read some and he essentially

761
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: was making a point about you've seen this guy urderguard

762
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: who they got sent who got sent from Madrid to Arsenal. Basically,

763
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: the point is that this guy was signed at sixteen,

764
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be the next big thing. They sent

765
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: him to a smaller Spanish club where he turned out

766
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: to be one of the best players in all of

767
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: La Liga. Madrid didn't have money to sign a new player,

768
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: so like, let's just pull him up before he's frankly

769
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: kind of ready and before there was squad turnover. But

770
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: the problem is you got all these institutions, you know,

771
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: carve Hall and Modrich and Cruz and blah blah blah.

772
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: The dude's not going to get time in the position

773
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: he needs to play, and so he's just sitting on

774
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: the fucking bench. And that's true for a lot of players. Man,

775
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 1: you got Feede Valverde, he's just sitting on the bench.

776
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: She got Hadrigo and Vncias aren't getting a ton of time.

777
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: We got all these like superstars who would be like

778
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: getting shitloads of time on these other clubs, but in

779
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: Madrid's it's not that easy. And his point was there

780
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: was a lot of turnover. There need to be more

781
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: turnover for these guys to get time, and then it's

782
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: not happening, so it's stunt in their development. So they

783
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: want to go on a loan to other clubs, blah

784
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: blah blah. But the fucking piece could have argued that,

785
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, in half the amount of time. There's just

786
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: a lot of this going on. So I tend to

787
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: find that, like she, YouTube is really good for watching

788
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: game recaps or strategy or tactics that were used in

789
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: particular matches. I find it actually pretty good podcast too.

790
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: There's a podcast it's like this British dude. I've listened

791
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: to it in a while, but it's a British dude

792
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: and an American dude. It's like the US Total Soccer

793
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: Show something like that. They when I listened to it.

794
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: I've listened to it in a while, but back when

795
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: I was listening to it, they were doing really good work.

796
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: It was. I listened to it more when they do

797
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: like USA Men's coverage, but I've been kind of out

798
00:40:50,400 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: on that team because they suck the horn. I'm gonna

799
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: skip this Biden question just because we don't need to

800
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: get into it today. Jesus one has five twenty seven,

801
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: all right, I'll give it a run. Let me get

802
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: to this one first since Brendan Shaw has regularly thrown

803
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 1: some shade in the comments section, y'all love doing it. Apparently,

804
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: here's an opportunity to give him a little praise. Which

805
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: is Big Brown's most impressive athletic achievement making it onto

806
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills practice squad or his accomplishments in the UFC. Yeah,

807
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: it's goin to be I mean, you know, making it

808
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bill's practice squad is something I couldn't do,

809
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: but by itself is not necessarily something to hang your

810
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: hat on. Dude had some nice wins in the UFC.

811
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: Let's pull up his resume here. You know, he had

812
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: some notable losses. You know, the Roy Nelson loss was

813
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: bad and at the end there obviously you know it

814
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: was time for him to go. But you know, I'm

815
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 1: no Garo was a bad one. But like here's who

816
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: he beat. Chase Gormley, he tkot him inside of a

817
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: round instead of a fucking minute. Christa Cherr tk otim

818
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: inside of a basically a minute. Gabriel Gonzaga, he decisioned,

819
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: and then he went eight to one and knocked out

820
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: Miraco cro Cop, you know, and he did it in

821
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: the third round and got knockout of the night at

822
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: UFC one twenty eight, and now he had the two

823
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: losses to Rothwell and Nogeia. He rebounds against LaVar Johnson,

824
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: who I'm certain was using peds at the time. Don't

825
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: know that just a guess. Say I'm certain, I'm not

826
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: certain in that sense, but I'm confident, let's say. And

827
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: then he beat Matt. He choked out Matt Mitrion, so

828
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: he went to ten and three. But then you know,

829
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: they had their Rolovski split, which was not a good look.

830
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: And then he had the terrible fight against Travis Brown

831
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: which he got memed into, you know, living death. But

832
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: you know, like, is this the most accomplished I've ever

833
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: seen anyone's career. No, but dude, you got knockout of

834
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: the night when you viciously chaoed essentially with one punch

835
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: Mirco crow Cop. Dude, that's fucking awesome. That's really really awesome,

836
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: especially since like since that time, that was twenty eleven.

837
00:42:48,760 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: Since that fight, since that fight, he's had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

838
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen fights and in that time he beat Satoshi

839
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: Ishi twice Gabriel Gonzaga, Mohammed Lawal, Amir Ali Akbari, who's

840
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: a good fighter, Toyoshi Kosaka who's also old, and then

841
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: Roy Nelson he decisioned in twenty nineteen. Dude still out

842
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: there putting it on him, and that's after Brendan knocked

843
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: him the fuck out, Like, Okay, you know that's really

844
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: really impressive. Actually, so you know, did he have the

845
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: most accomplished career at heavyweight you've ever seen in your life? No,

846
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: but he did good shit and had beat some solid

847
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: guys along the way. I tipped my hat to him.

848
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: I've told him that, and I'm telling you that. How

849
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: about that pay per view stream they charged extra four dude,

850
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,439
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus. Man, The thing is, it's like I want

851
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: it to be better than it is. I really do,

852
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: because I'm on it. I have to use ESPN Plus

853
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: all the time, if for no other reason, and just

854
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: for work, you know, aside from the fact that like I,

855
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: as a sports fan, consume a lot of their content.

856
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: It is such a bad service. It's such a bad service.

857
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: It works. Everyone's like, oh, I've got it. Here's what

858
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: I always get whenever I say it's bad On Twitter,

859
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: I always get these responses when people being like, oh

860
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: it works for me, and if you actually go through

861
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: and say how they look they work, it's there's almost

862
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: never congruity with it. Like someone would be like, oh,

863
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: I run it through my PS four or I use

864
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: it Amazon Fire, or works great on my laptop or

865
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: not so great on my laptop, great on my TV

866
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: through my smartphone or my smart TV apps. Like it's

867
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: everyone's got a different version of why it works. And

868
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: I was like, well, check with your internet, motherfucker. I

869
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: got gigabit speeds up in here. This is a I'm

870
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: sitting in a room that is a business. This is

871
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: a business expense for me. I don't play around with Internet.

872
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's a shit service. It's so not good.

873
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: The new interface is better with the ten second rewind.

874
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: I've really benefited from that with tape study. Okay, so

875
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. That's better. But the search functionality

876
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,479
Speaker 1: is not great. The when you load would you click

877
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: on thumbnails to populate something new, it is not great.

878
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: When you're trying to find something just by scrolling, it's

879
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: not great. I mean, and you know, there's buffering issues

880
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: and lag issues, and like I said, this before. It's like, dude,

881
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: y'all knew y'all had an issue in twenty seventeen with

882
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: Mayweather McGregor, not through ESPN Plus, but that there can

883
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: be these challenges last minute, you know, with these massive

884
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: orders that come through. What the fuck is your excuse?

885
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, there is none. It's no excuse.

886
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: Oh but we got overwhelmed and love, but there's no excuse.

887
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 1: Doesn't exist anymore. Those days are over done. Zip don't

888
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: want to hear it anymore. And this is the fucking

889
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: billion dollar business with Disney, you know, and Disney Plus's interface.

890
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: It's like, well, why don't you have these complaint about

891
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Disney Plus. Well, one, I don't use Disney Plus all

892
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: that often. Two, there's not the same library of content, Like, Okay,

893
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: there's Pixar, there's Geographic, Marvel, Star Wars. I just go

894
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: to the vertical I want and then I'm usually I

895
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 1: know exactly what I want. My daughter wants to watch

896
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: Coco for the fiftieth time. You know, it's not that

897
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: hard for me to find. But with the constant glut

898
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: of brand new content, just the wave of content crashing

899
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: into the shore of ESPN Plus every single day do

900
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: they do a bit. It's like, it's so not good.

901
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: I don't take any Believe me, I would love to

902
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: take pleasure in say ESPN Plus is not good. I

903
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: fucking pay for it. I say this as a customer.

904
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: It's shit. It's terrible. It works for me for me

905
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: better on my phone and better as through my browser,

906
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: but on my ESPN Plus app on my iPad there

907
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: are issues, constant buffering issues. Oh my lord, it's a problem.

908
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 1: Forget even trying to get to work on your television.

909
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: That is just never gonna happen. Oh, by the way,

910
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: where you logged in last time you were on, Well

911
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: they logged you out. Oh were you logged in just

912
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: a second ago? Well they logged you out. Hey did

913
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: you buy a pay per view and then try to

914
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 1: stream it and say you had to buy it again,

915
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,479
Speaker 1: so then you had to log out and then log

916
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: in again, and only then it worked after the fiftieth

917
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: time of trying that. Dude, it's a bad service. It's

918
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: not good. No one ever works with ESPN plus as

919
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: on the consumer end of things and goes, dude, they

920
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: fucking killed it. They killed it, Like fight Pass isn't

921
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: that great. Either. The search functionality is really not up

922
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: to speed, but it's not the primary mover. They're not

923
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: under the same kind of obligation that ESPN Plus is

924
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: to me. Oh and by the way, the connectivity there

925
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 1: between the two. You know where some of the content

926
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: is on fight Pass, some of it isn't some of

927
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: it I have to go to YouTube TV than God,

928
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: they have unlimited DVR, but I have to go through

929
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: YouTube TV sometimes I had to go right to back

930
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: to ESPN Plus. And then, by the way, they don't

931
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: have it like listed where it is on the video

932
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 1: within the like clickable link. I have to like scroll

933
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: through to find you know where the I mean, it's

934
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: a fucking mess. It's a mess. It's a complete mess.

935
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: And you know they want to charge out the ass

936
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: for this. Like where's all the money going, y'all? What

937
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: are y' all doing with all the extra money? Y'all?

938
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: Cut out the middleman there, the pay per view money

939
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: goes right to you. What are you doing with it?

940
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: Because oh, you put a ten second forward and backward

941
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: button on the interface. Yay, great, isn't that awesome? Now,

942
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: what are you doing with the rest of the money?

943
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: Because it sure is fucking improven the quality of this thing.

944
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: Who has a better tattoo tiger tattoo? Michael Kissa or

945
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor. I've not looked at Kisa's up close. The

946
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: guy who did this made a good point, and you know,

947
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: I think this tattoo is excellent. Again, I've got really

948
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: bad ones, but this ain't one of them. He made

949
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: a point because this is Japanese traditional, which is going

950
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: to be like American traditional. And what he was saying was,

951
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: you actually look at the chess piece that Connor got.

952
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's really really, really really well done. If

953
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: you like traditional stuff. Now if you don't like traditional,

954
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: then who cares. But he got a traditional sort of

955
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: chess piece got blasted here and then on his stomach

956
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: he's got the tiger but which is almost like portrait realism.

957
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 1: And so you have this sort of incongruity between tattoo styles,

958
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: which to me is not the biggest deal, but they

959
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: seem to think that it was something. I will say,

960
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: do you know who they spotlighted is having like maybe

961
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: the best tattoos in Mma. And it pains me to

962
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: say this, but it is certainly true. At least for

963
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 1: one part of it. Dylan Dannis's Japanese sleeve like all

964
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: the tattles. So I went to this place again shouts

965
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: to the civilization tattoo. John Setzer is the guy who

966
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: did who did? Who did my piece? But they were

967
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: telling me these are this place place specializes in traditional

968
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: and then Japanese traditional, so they can do American tradition,

969
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 1: they can do Japanese as well. And they were telling

970
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: me that his sleeve, his whole sleeve, the Japanese one

971
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: is like the highest quality, like the very Maybe like

972
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: if you went to Japan and went to like one

973
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: of the very special what do they call it, Subori tattoos,

974
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: maybe that might be better. And even then that's pushing it.

975
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: Like whoever did his sleeve? Apparently it's like immaculate. Apparently

976
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: Marvin Vttori has a very good sleeve as well. I'm

977
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: not really paid attention, but I've seen it a couple times.

978
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 1: Actually I was really good. But they were saying Dylan

979
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: Dannis's sleeve is like primo quality, you know, although Michael

980
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: Bisping dunked on him yesterday on Twitter, which I readweet

981
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: because I thought it was funny. What happens first Jay

982
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: gets fired or you an aerial collaborate JA would get

983
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: fired first. Would you think about releasing a podcast on

984
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: your own channel once a week to talk about other

985
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: topics besides MMA, There's a lot I want to do.

986
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: I think I've realized that as much as I, uh,

987
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: morning combat is my ninety five percent focus, maybe ninety

988
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: percent focus, you know. In other words, like when I

989
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: think about my my creative pursuits, I've got to put

990
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: ninety percent of my energy into this, which is why

991
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,959
Speaker 1: I move this chat to this channel and everything else.

992
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: But I have to have my own outlet for creative

993
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: expression as well, just for my own sanity. And so

994
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: the answer is, I'm open to a lot of different things,

995
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: but I only want something I can really commit to,

996
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: And right now I don't think that's something I could

997
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: really commit to. I think I could do it, but

998
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: not in the current way, which like I do. We

999
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: got to get we gotta get. Like the only thing

1000
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: I think about every day is we got to get

1001
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: MK too one hundred k, and once we hit one

1002
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: hundred k on subs, it's going to be two hundred k.

1003
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: Like I'm just laser focused on what we can do

1004
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: for that, and everything else takes a back seat to

1005
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: that for now. You know, maybe if we hit the

1006
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: you know, somehow got lucky and we hit two hundred

1007
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 1: k subs within the next year, maybe I might dial

1008
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: it back in terms of my intensity. But right now

1009
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,959
Speaker 1: I'm dialing back my intensity, and frankly, the only reason

1010
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: that like, you know, well, I'll get to that later,

1011
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: but you guys know the drill. I know you've spoken

1012
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: about this before, but you're ever going to make a

1013
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 1: video about just how prevalent steroids are across all professional sports?

1014
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: Would that do a lot of damage your career? Well,

1015
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: it depends what I would say in the video. I

1016
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: mean I put that on the list, But you have

1017
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: to This is the part you have to. Yes, I

1018
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: think it's worth having a video or worre do that,

1019
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: but I have to figure out exactly how to do that.

1020
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: But you know, when I see all these folks out here,

1021
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: this is what really kills me. The reason why you

1022
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to make a video like that is because one,

1023
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: I think, well, let me say two things. One is

1024
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: the reason why you wouldn't want to make a video

1025
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: like that is because I see all these athletes who

1026
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: are like, oh, they're competing into their late thirties and

1027
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: forties and they're better than ever, Like, well, yeah, what

1028
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: did you do to like stay healthy? You know? And

1029
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: it's always like, oh, they ate asparagus and they have

1030
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 1: a masseuse who lives in and you know, in their house,

1031
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. It's like that. Ain't that ain't

1032
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: the reason why their career has been extended. I hope

1033
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: everyone understands that there's a there's just a total fraudulence

1034
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: about it that drives me nuts. But the other part

1035
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: about that makes all of this, you know, a little

1036
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: bit difficult, is that I don't like people are not

1037
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: ready to accept the reality of what has happened. They're

1038
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: not even they're not even close to ready. I talk

1039
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: about this before. They just passed the Rodchenkov Act, which

1040
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: will not throw athletes who use in jail, but the

1041
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: people who enable them. But folks, these are only artificial limits,

1042
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: designed for you know, pallability to get them passed. Like,

1043
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: if you think that it is somehow off limits that

1044
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: they would ever throw athletes in prison for using, you

1045
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: are dreaming. You are lying to yourself. We're not there yet,

1046
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: but that this measure, by the way, to throw these

1047
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: folks in jail. This also won't work because prohibition doesn't work.

1048
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: And so when this fails to do the job, matter

1049
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: of fact, Lee and the people who have a zelotry

1050
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: about this cause decide that we need more tools to

1051
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: fix this problem. How many times have you heard that

1052
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: since the beginning of this fucking war on drugs? Oh,

1053
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,479
Speaker 1: we need more tools, we need more we need more

1054
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: assets to get this done. I don't know if throwing

1055
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: them in jail is necessarily next the athletes that is,

1056
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: but it is not in any way inconceivable in my lifetime.

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00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: And frankly, I think that only then when you see

1058
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 1: just how over dramatized and all of the resources that

1059
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: go towards criminalizing this behavior that basically can be limited

1060
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: but not really stopped in any kind of meaningful way.

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00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: And by the way, once genetic manipulation begins to happen,

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00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: I think that this whole thing is just going to

1063
00:54:55,280 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: blow up in everyone's face. Only until the onerous effects

1064
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: of turning doping into the war on drugs. Only when

1065
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: that really comes crashing down on people, are they ever

1066
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: going to be receptive to this message, because what you

1067
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: have is you have a series of sports stars who

1068
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: have made their teams and personal careers, but absolutely off

1069
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 1: the back of peds, nobody cared, didn't bother anyone. You

1070
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: had injury loads, as I've talked about before, including brain

1071
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: damage far in excess at whatever happens in combat sports.

1072
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 1: And these people had these grand public identities because they

1073
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: were just able to sweep it under the rug and

1074
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: be total hypocrites about it, you know, until that their

1075
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: curtain is pulled back on that, and then things get worse.

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00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: And then after things get worse, only then do things

1077
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: get better. Are we ever going to come to any

1078
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: kind of sane policy? So I can put out all

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00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: the videos I want? And there is a case we

1080
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: made about, you know, arguing your position and putting it

1081
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: out there whether people are ready to accept it or not.

1082
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: And I suppose that in that sense, I certainly will.

1083
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 1: But man, the appetite for prohibition is strong, despite its

1084
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: historical failures in recreational or non recreational use of anything,

1085
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: it's strong. And until people will begin to recognize that

1086
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: this is not really a path to anywhere other than

1087
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: you know, maintaining an illusion Nothing I say will really

1088
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: convince them Otherwise, It's just good to be on the

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00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: record for your views. What is the dynamic between you

1090
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: and Dan Hardy conversation wise? I would love to see

1091
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: you two chatting about m A, techniques, et cetera, and

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00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: a chance you can interview him for MK. Yeah. Dan

1093
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: and I have a great relationship. Dan Is We hosted

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00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: so that last live event I did with Sirius XM

1095
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: where we had Dominic Reyes come through. We had Atosignia

1096
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: come through, Jake Shields, the Chef Chenko Sisters, Laura Senko

1097
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: came through, Angela Hill came through. Everyone came through. It

1098
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: was a great night. This was before the das Masdoll fight.

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00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: It was at Legends Bar in New York City and

1100
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: we had the whole upstairs and all these folks came through.

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00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Uh, Dan and I co hosted. Dan

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00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: and I were the co hosts of that broadcast and

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00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: it was great. Dan's awesome. Dan's the man, so uh

1104
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 1: and I interviewed him. I've been even have a bunch

1105
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: of times on my radio show. But I also did

1106
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: a Mayweather McGregor preview with him, which was really cool.

1107
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: So you can check that out on the MMA Fighting

1108
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. But yeah, dud Dan like I have a

1109
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: great relationship with Dan. You know, you got to be

1110
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: a real cocksucker to get sideways with Dan, don't you.

1111
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting somebody who was like cool and also

1112
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: got sideways with him. I don't think so. Right? Have

1113
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: you seen Danis physique lately? Does he have the same

1114
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: supplier as out of sign? I don't know what that

1115
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: we mean, Like, is he growing a single boob or something?

1116
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means? What friendship? Do you

1117
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: not understand? The most? Shab and the Paul Brothers are

1118
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: Rogan and Jokes. I sort of understand Rogan and Jones

1119
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: because I think Rogan has known him for a long

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Speaker 1: time and is intensely loyal to people. The Paul brothers,

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'll say this. Of the two, Logan

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00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: appears to be you know, reasonable the current stage he's

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00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: in now in his life, you know, reasonably normal ish.

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00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: You know, certainly if I was his age and I

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00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: was on YouTube, I'd be doing real fuck boys shit too.

1126
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: You know, I'm probably a total hypocrite in that way. Hiss.

1127
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: I guess my daughter is there. I guess Logan is

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00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: the older of the two. I think that's right. Jake

1129
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: is a real dirt bag. I don't know anything about

1130
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: him personally, but you know, he does not appear to

1131
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: be the world's you know, they say the unexamined life

1132
00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: is not worth living. Well, then what is he doing living?

1133
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: Is really the question I have to ask. But I

1134
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: don't know their dynamic, you know, I don't know. I

1135
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: don't know much about how they interact behind the scenes.

1136
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: And I, you know, as odious as I find Jones,

1137
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: I can understand on some level. I suppose, you know,

1138
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: if you've known a guy for a really long time,

1139
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna just sort of looked past a lot of things.

1140
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: And I don't think, by the way, I don't think

1141
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: the Jones has done as much harm in the world

1142
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: as the Paul. The Paul brothers are just annoying. You know.

1143
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: It's like, why are they successful? Oh they were Vine

1144
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: stars or whatever the fuck. It's like, oh, Jesus, you

1145
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: ever seen Vine comedy? You know, It's like it's like shaha,

1146
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: BC sent me something and it was like like it

1147
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:53,439
Speaker 1: was like Vine Comedy, which these new reels on Instagram

1148
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: sort of mimic and it was like this dude had

1149
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: been like it's like white guys who date Latinas and

1150
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: it was like, this is what happens to him. And

1151
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: then you see him just dancing to merengue. It's like,

1152
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: what is the joke here? Like they dance more merengue? Okay, Well,

1153
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: if you're you know, if you're a uh, if you're

1154
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: brain damaged, boy, that's funny. It's like vine comedy perfect

1155
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: for people who are brain damaged. That's really that should

1156
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: be the sales pitch. Are you an immature dumbass and

1157
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: or were you in a severe car accident? Well, boy,

1158
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: do we have the comedy for you. You know, it's

1159
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: like did your mom drink when you were in utero?

1160
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: I've got some comedy that is perfect for you. Hi, Luke.

1161
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Speaker 1: Do you think the UFC should go down the further

1162
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: into the path of making itself a legitimate Tier one

1163
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: sport where there are guaranteed minimums and the roster is

1164
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: trimmed down significantly from five to six hundred, where only

1165
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: truly elite fighters can make the roster and try to

1166
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: be more like the NFL in the NBA. Who do

1167
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: you think it should go the opposite way. I think

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01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: he's been the clearly a straits where they want to

1169
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: go on where they want to go as an organization, Well,

1170
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: where is that? I don't know where that is. I

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01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: would like to see them trim down a bit. I

1172
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: tend to think there's a bit too much of it

1173
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: in the way that it's been treated, which is to

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01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: say I want less MMA. It's to say I want

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01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: the UFC product to be a little bit more streamlined.

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01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: But you have to understand again, dude, like this is

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Speaker 1: all driven by the market dynamics. Having this much content

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01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: if you're the UFC enables you to have a certain

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01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: amount of market control, access to pipelines for you know,

1180
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: fresh talent blah blah blah, and if you can sell

1181
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: either ads against it or you can get a larger

1182
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: deal with a broadcaster who needs inventory to fill up

1183
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: a service. You know, you don't really have much of

1184
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 1: an incentive to do anything other than what you're doing

1185
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: because you still have that tier one product, the UFC

1186
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: two fifty seven main events of the world. Now you

1187
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: can add in all the rest of it. So it's

1188
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: not like I want less MMA. I don't think that's true.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see portions of the sort of

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01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: the bottom part of the UFC more widely dispersed around

1191
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: a healthier constellation of organizations rather than such market concentration.

1192
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Speaker 1: This is why I always don't get about like, oh,

1193
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: if you're criticized in UFC, why do you hate the sport?

1194
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: Since when is since one of those the same thing.

1195
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: Two guys fist are two ladies whatever fist fighting in

1196
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: a cage. That's great, But the UFC is not that.

1197
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: They're one promoter of that, certainly the most dominant promoter

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Speaker 1: of that, and in many ways, in many ways, they

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Speaker 1: do it better than anyone else. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: they are free from blame or approbrium or criticism of

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01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: the good faith kind. And just because you are criticizing

1202
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: them doesn't mean you like Since when did I stop

1203
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: liking cage fights? I didn't like that at all. I

1204
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: think you'd have a healthier industry if you had a

1205
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: broader constellation of organization. I think fight or pay would

1206
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: be higher. I think it'd be a lot of problems

1207
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: that could be solved. But that's just my personal opinion,

1208
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: and again it's a bit of a total pipe dream.

1209
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: And kind of irrelevant frankly, because the UFC's market position

1210
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: is pretty secure at this point, and they make a

1211
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: ton of money with this particular kind of arrangement with

1212
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: this current broadcast partner and all of their other deals globally,

1213
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: Like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube

1214
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: at this point is kind of silly. There was a

1215
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: time where you could have held onto that a little

1216
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: bit more, you know, fifteen years ago or something, but

1217
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: that window has closed, so it's not really even realistic,

1218
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: and you know, it's not even really what I want

1219
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: right now. Like in a perfect world, I would I

1220
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: like to change some things. Okay maybe, but you're asking me, like,

1221
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: let's just engage with reality as it exists. This is

1222
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: the question you have to ask yourself. This is what

1223
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: I've been really wrestling with. Man, It's like, what do

1224
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 1: you want a union? Or do you want the Ali Act?

1225
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, the more I have

1226
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: to cover boxing, the less inclined I am to believe

1227
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: that that is the thing that's going to fix MMA.

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01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it would definitely fix a lot of the

1229
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: things that put the fighters on the back foot, that

1230
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: is true, But I don't know how good it would

1231
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: be for MMA as a consumer to have to have

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01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 1: that as the remedy for fighters versus some kind of

1233
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: a union to bump pay and then put into place protections.

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01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: I don't think the fighters would get the same level

1235
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: of treatment or fairness with the union as they would

1236
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: the ALI Act, which makes going in that direction a

1237
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: little bit hard for me to endorse. But there's a

1238
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: lot of problems that come with Boxing's model a lot,

1239
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: and I don't know that recreating those in MMA is

1240
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: really what we want. The week of content has been

1241
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 1: pretty good in terms of EMM subscriptions, as almost three

1242
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: k in like ten days or something, But in general,

1243
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: could you tell us what type of content drives the

1244
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: most subscriptions? So go to the video page and then

1245
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: you can sort the content by oldest, newest, or most viewed.

1246
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:22,439
Speaker 1: Click on most viewed and you'll see you mentioned you've

1247
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,439
Speaker 1: gone back and watched Ali McGregor's fights in the UFC,

1248
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: which is very easy to do. It doesn't take very

1249
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: long at all. Are there any of the fires you

1250
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 1: could recommend to do this for? Well, as I mentioned,

1251
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: you couldn't really do it. I mean you could do

1252
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: it for Saint Pierre and John Jones, but it would

1253
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: take a long time. There's so many five round fights

1254
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: you could do it for that both das brothers to

1255
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: a degree, you could do that a little bit harder

1256
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: for Nate, there's not many man. Connor's kind of unique

1257
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: in that way. I don't think about that. That's a

1258
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: good question. Did Jay get fired? When the new documentary

1259
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: comes out, you will get an answer to that question. Again,

1260
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: some questions about tech issues you will get some answers

1261
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: on the new documentary. Long ask questions. John Cavanaugh went

1262
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: on Aeriel's podcast two days after the fight and talked

1263
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: about how it's almost impossible to simulate calfkicks in practice.

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Speaker 1: Really now, he doesn't see the point in switching stances

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Speaker 1: if one leg is compromised. Connor talked about how he's

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Speaker 1: never experienced those kicks before and didn't know what they

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Speaker 1: could do. Doesn't it seem odd that a high level

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Speaker 1: martial artist that's been in the game for years hasn't

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Speaker 1: been training for something as a big part of an

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Speaker 1: opponent's game. Yes, it does, is it me? Or does

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Speaker 1: it seem like Connor's team drop the ball on this

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Speaker 1: one and let their athlete go out there with no

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Speaker 1: real game plan other than knocking this thing out within

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Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes. Well, I don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: what the game plan was. They don't share those details.

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Speaker 1: It might be a little bit unfair to oversimplify things

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Speaker 1: that way, but I will say, you know, there's no

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Speaker 1: way to simulate it well in going full bore. That's true.

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Speaker 1: But I've actually I've seen practices where they do it.

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Speaker 1: They'll take some pads and they'll put it on the

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Speaker 1: side of the back of their leg and they'll just

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01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: drill combinations over and over, or you know, distances you

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Speaker 1: need to keep when someone is throwing at the end

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Speaker 1: of combinations, or I mean, yes, can you go hard

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Speaker 1: sparring with it? No, you could not do that, at

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Speaker 1: least not very much. You get into some trouble. But

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Speaker 1: can you arrange very valuable training scenarios to anticipate distances

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Speaker 1: and combinations and looks and how you need to potentially

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Speaker 1: deal with that by you know, just getting out of

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Speaker 1: the way or really working on your checking in terms

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Speaker 1: of you know, how far out your your foot needs

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Speaker 1: to be turned to really get into it. Yeah, those

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Speaker 1: are I mean, I've literally seen that before, so that's

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Speaker 1: a very surprising thing to hear. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: to make of the switching of the stance thing. It

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Speaker 1: could be that there's just a major downgrade to what

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Speaker 1: he could show with his other hand forward versus like

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Speaker 1: if his left hand was forward and his right leg

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Speaker 1: was back. What that would do to his game? Is

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01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: he really the same kind of fighter that way? And

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Speaker 1: is there a major downgrade? I'm less inclined to really

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Speaker 1: take issue with that, But the one about like, again,

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Speaker 1: I've not heard of the interview, so I want to

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01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 1: be clear, like I'm going off what you're telling me

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Speaker 1: he said in the interview versus what he made. I've

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Speaker 1: not heard it firsthand. But have I seen training around

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Speaker 1: the calfkick at elite teams in a variety of scenarios

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01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:49,799
Speaker 1: that enable them to deal with how to measure distance, combos, looks, checking,

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01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: and a variety of things in there that you know

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Speaker 1: then brought to Baron fights. Yeah, I've literally I've witnessed it.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what that's about. I don't have

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say. Maybybe there's some

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Speaker 1: other detailed that I'm not understanding about that that I'm missing.

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Speaker 1: It's find a couple of these, then will go what

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01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,599
Speaker 1: happened to the old Romero supplement payout? That story has

1316
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: just been left behind. Well, here's the problem with suing

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01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: those fly by night companies. You'll put them into bankruptcy

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01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: and then they won't have to pay a dime because

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01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: they have no money to pay. So I have to

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Speaker 1: look this up. But this is like, I mean, I've

1321
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: seen this a thousand times. You sue these guys and

1322
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: they cry poor and then the courts will bail them

1323
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: out because they cannot pay their debt obligations, and so

1324
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: they have to restructure how they make money or have

1325
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:42,639
Speaker 1: the restructure they're well, they have to liquidate the business basically,

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01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: and then they get essentially relieved of having to pay

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Speaker 1: the bulk of any of that kind of stuff, and

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Speaker 1: then they just go away. So what you're doing is

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01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,879
Speaker 1: you're essentially suing them into not being able to operate anymore.

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01:09:53,320 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: You're not suing them into collecting anything. Why'd you delete

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01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: that video mocking Dana's dislike of reading, Well, it's still

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01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: on demand for serious XM. Dana was like doing that,

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01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: he was Aaron bron said or asked him. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we're doing the quarantine, favorite favorite movie

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01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: or TV show, He's like, favorite book, and Dana's like,

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01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 1: I don't like books. I don't read, you know, which

1337
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: is like, okay, I couldn't imagine that. It's like I'm

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01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: saying I don't like oxygen, I don't breathe. But we

1339
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: just having fun at his expense. But my wife, who

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01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: like never pays attention to my content, when I put

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01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: it up, she saw it. She was like, people aren't

1342
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: going to get that. You're really kind of taking a

1343
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 1: lot harder approach to this. You should take it down.

1344
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: And she never interjects, She never says a word about

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01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: anything I put up. So for her to come down

1346
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: and be like, people are not going to get this

1347
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: the right way, I was like, all right, So I

1348
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: deferred to her. I still have it somewhere, I think,

1349
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: but you can get you can find it on Serious

1350
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 1: XM on demand. But you know, she was like, I

1351
01:10:58,400 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: people aren't going to get the joke. Don't post it

1352
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: this Like all right, whatever, You're probably right. Have you

1353
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:12,040
Speaker 1: in BC ever thought of doing a segment where you

1354
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: guys played Mortal Kombat or UFC for the ultimate bragging rights.

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01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 1: I don't mind doing some kind of like frivolous game

1356
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: with that Mortal combat in particular, but I don't want

1357
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: to play UFC video game, Like I told you guys this,

1358
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: when I don't have to like be involved in, I

1359
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:40,799
Speaker 1: want to have as much diverse interests as possible. Biggest

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01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: fight or occasion you've ever been in attendance for what

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01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: made the difference to others. I was at may Pack,

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01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: I was at may Mack, and I was at Mayweather Canelo,

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01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 1: and I was at HBI versus Connor. May Mack had

1364
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: the big circusy atmosphere, may Pack had the most celebrities

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01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: I'd seen pre fight. I don't think on fight and

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01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 1: I think fight night may mac ad more. But pre

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01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: fight that week was fucking bananas. Mayweather Canelo was a

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01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 1: real cross section of different kinds of people. And then

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01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't remember much from Mayweather, excuse me from Kobe

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01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: versus Connor, because I was so busy working. I just

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01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: wasn't even paying attention and I didn't get to go

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01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 1: into the arena. I had to sit in the back,

1373
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 1: but I was there when when after the brawl, when

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01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: Habib came through. I was there for that shit. I

1375
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 1: was like, what camera and lighting do you use? So

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01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: I have a I have a what I mean, what

1377
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: is the name of that brand, GVM. Yeah, so I

1378
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: have a GV set of RGB lights. I have three

1379
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 1: of them, and then I need to get a I

1380
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: need to get some I forget what you call it,

1381
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: but to bounce the light off on this side of

1382
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: my face. But I have a man frodo stand. I'm

1383
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: not sure the making model. It's a fluid it's a

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01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: fluid drag system. And then I have the Sony A

1385
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: seven to three. And then I have a Sigma twenty

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01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: eight to seventy F two point eight lens that I'm

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01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: filming this on. So there you go. All right, let's

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01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: do maybe one or two more and then I swear

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Speaker 1: I'll call today Luke. Did you watch menon Fro's Flyway

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01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: debut to open the Ks and Magne card, Yes? I did.

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01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: She looked fucking awesome. She might be a real player

1392
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: in the featherway to the flyweight division. Yeah, dude, you

1393
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:51,720
Speaker 1: guys didn't see that. Go back and look. I was like,

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01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, there are sometimes these fighters they

1395
01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: just jump off the screen. You're like, this one is

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01:13:57,120 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: not like the others. They're worth paying attention to. Both

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 1: Cody and TJ have called for the Aldo fight. Which

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01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:08,679
Speaker 1: matchup do you prefer? TJ? I think it's a much

1399
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: better sense of where he is upon returning. It's a

1400
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: funny question. I'm not going to read, but it is funny.

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01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: Backstage post UFC two fifty seven, Poarier told Connor, I

1402
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 1: can't forget, but I can forgive, referring to their first fight.

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01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: What did party mean by that? He was talking about himself,

1404
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: He goes, your coach is right. I can't forget what happened,

1405
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: but I can forgive myself. Is what he said for losing,

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01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: You know, don't lose sight of the things that went

1407
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 1: wrong to motivate you, but don't beat yourself up so

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01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 1: much that you can ever get past it. I think

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01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: that's what he meant last one, Luke, thanks for all

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Speaker 1: the work thoughts on Wes Watson. I've noticed you liked

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01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 1: some of his IG posts, and I'm guessing that many

1412
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 1: shows ago you're saying let's stack some wins to BC

1413
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,640
Speaker 1: was in reference to him. Yes, it was. Do you

1414
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: guys know Wes Watson. This guy did like ten years

1415
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:06,480
Speaker 1: in California penitentiary. He's got out and has this incredible

1416
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: He initially made some YouTube videos about like what life

1417
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: is like in the in in jail, a prison, and

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01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: he certainly knows he's got he's super bricked up and

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: he's got all these tats. But I gotta tell you, like,

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01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,799
Speaker 1: if you really sort of you know, distill the message,

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01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 1: it's like this super empowering message. You know, he's got

1422
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: a real, you know, kind of in your face way

1423
01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: of delivering it. That's true, and I think that's the

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01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 1: way he knows to motivate. But he did. You can

1425
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: tell an enormous amount of reflection on his life about

1426
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: the things that went wrong, about the things that went

1427
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: right to fix it, and what the journey is about

1428
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:46,719
Speaker 1: and about motivation and about habits as virtue, about getting

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01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: right with the world, about you know, accountability, and it's

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01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:55,680
Speaker 1: super super motivational. Man. It's great. It's a very unusual

1431
01:15:55,760 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: marriage of like this sort of prison sensibility of of

1432
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 1: reality mixed with this self help. But it's real and

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Speaker 1: he's living proof of it, and he posts all the

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01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: people who he has this He does flexible dieting, which

1435
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: is counting macros like your proteins, your carbs and and fats.

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01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 1: And he has this whole system around doing it and

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01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 1: about getting up and you know, accountability for working out

1438
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,679
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and all the people who lose weight

1439
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: on his method he posts them all on Instagram. Dude,

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01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: he's an impressive guy. He's a very very impressive guy.

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01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, you know, you watch it at first,

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01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit jarring how kind of

1443
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: in your face it is. But then when you really

1444
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: pay attention to it, there's a there's a whole method

1445
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: to it that all makes sense. He's living proof of

1446
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:43,639
Speaker 1: its success and he's killing it on YouTube. So God

1447
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: bless him. Right, he's living he's living life the right way.

1448
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: He's got a kid, he's got a wife, and I

1449
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 1: wish him nothing but success. He's an awesome guy. All right.

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Speaker 1: With that being said, subscribe like the video do the

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01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,720
Speaker 1: whole bit back tomorrow with an MK to gets you

1452
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: ready for the weekend. You guys know the drill Morning

1453
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: combat at gmail dot com for dead wrong. Please make

1454
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: sure that they are correct. I had someone messaged me

1455
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: yesterday being like you said Blockbuster stock was up it

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01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: was game stock. And I literally responded to him, I'm like,

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01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:21,200
Speaker 1: please google Blockbuster stock it was up seven. All I'm

1458
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 1: saying is, you know, comb through it there a little bit. Okay,

1459
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: So that's for me and BC when we get stuff wrong.

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01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, fan submissions you can put in there

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Speaker 1: Morning Combat at gmail dot com and uh yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Back tomorrow, BC will be here. Thanks for