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Speaker 1: the fourth of February twenty twenty one, and it is

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Speaker 1: time for episode sixty two of the promotional Malpractice. No,

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Speaker 1: that's what it used to be called. Now let's just

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Speaker 1: call it the Luke Thomas Live Chat. My name is

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Speaker 1: Luke Thomas. I'm from CBS and Showtime. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: joining me today. We'll get to whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: us do that? And what else? Yeah, just do that.

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Speaker 1: ah right, and there we are, so thank you for

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Speaker 1: old and tired, all right, all right? First question, with

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Speaker 1: approached the Colby fight. Boy, that is an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: If you think about where you've seen Kamaru Usman. Is

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Speaker 1: if you think about where you've seen Kamara Usman. I

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Speaker 1: Bama's at one seventy are huge. Does Brad Riddell have

428
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Speaker 1: more or less or equal success versus the upper echelund

429
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Speaker 1: one fifty five as hook Or We're gonna have to see.

430
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: I think he just had a kid, So congratulations to

431
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: uh mister Riddell. He certainly is a superb kickboxer. We're

432
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Speaker 1: gonna see, We're gonna see. I don't know, you know,

433
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't do a whole lot of prognostication if I

434
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Speaker 1: can avoid it in the fight game. I certainly feel

435
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: like he's got a lot of the tools, but I

436
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,239
Speaker 1: need to see some consistency and I need to see him. Uh,

437
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: he's got a fight coming up? To who is his

438
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: next fight against? I saw this announced. There's a bunch

439
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 1: of these. These guys have at least see the kickboxing guys.

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00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: Damn it. Ummmm, oh you know what? Maybe it was

441
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: on this page. Yeah, so you've got March six, You've

442
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: got blot of which out of Sonia. Then you've got

443
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: Kaikr France versus bond Turin thaty Bee March seventh, and

444
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: then you've got oh, maybe not, you've got oh, I

445
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:12,719
Speaker 1: guess we just had a kid he doesn't want to fight.

446
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: Then you have this dude. I can never pronounce his

447
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: last name. He trades it fortists. His farst name is

448
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: Kennedy and zech qu I please forgive me, I don't

449
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: how to pronounce it. Versus the guy who just came

450
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: off Contender series, Carlos Olberg. I guess not. I guess

451
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a fight coming up, but he does

452
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: have a significant ability. Sportsman writes Big Boody, latinas dropped

453
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: Luke's entire intellectual facade. Andy, he turns into a cave man. Yeah, listen,

454
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: we all have our weaknesses, my friends. That is mine,

455
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: all right. When fighters get the whole spelled wrong, power,

456
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: arm and leg tattooed like a Vettori or tavares, different

457
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: kinds get the Japanese versus the Polynesian. How much does

458
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: that work, meaning influence the vision of the opponent hiding

459
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 1: the power hand and leg. Well, usually that's a function

460
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: out of the hand of the shoulder being hidden. So

461
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 1: what you want to be able to do is see

462
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: Now you can't see the shoulder here. You want to

463
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: find an angle where you can see it. And if

464
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: you can see the shoulder, then you can begin to

465
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: make judgments about what's coming or not. I don't know

466
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: to what extent a darkened arm, so to speak, plays

467
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: into that, but that's what you're looking for. Less so

468
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: the hand. I mean you want to look for that too, obviously,

469
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: but really you're paying attention to what the shoulders are doing.

470
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: By and large. Let's see as Connor achieved everything within

471
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Speaker 1: the sport he set out to. He slowly toned down

472
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: his trash talk With that being said, do you think

473
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: if Colby was to ever win the Weltawey title he

474
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: would do the same. God, I doubt it. I doubt it.

475
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: Connor achieved a lot more than that. Connor didn't just

476
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Speaker 1: achieve like a title, He achieved two at once. He

477
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: achieved enormous fame and fortune. He's the most popular fighter

478
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: we've ever had. Like his I mean, his life. It

479
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: didn't just change, it completely transformed, and not overnight it was.

480
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: It was incremental. But you know, in major in four

481
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: years he went from something to nothing. I mean, it's

482
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: just such a whirlwind, you know. I tend to think,

483
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: I mean Colby just well before he sprayed the block

484
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: right where even Grandma was getting hit, when he was

485
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: doing like Star Wars spoilers and shit like that. And

486
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: now it's a little bit more directed with a political tone.

487
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen with that exactly.

488
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: You know, Trump is out of office, but trump Ism

489
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: is not, so to speak, so maybe there's a way

490
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: to keep that kind of thing up. I tend to

491
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: think another change is due where if there's anything he's

492
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: he's just a little bit more selective about how much

493
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: he speaks. You know, he doesn't do quite as much

494
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: media as he once did, so there's something to be

495
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: said for that. But the idea he would tone it

496
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: down and become like Connor has become almost like an

497
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: elder statesman. I don't. I have a hard time envisioning

498
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: Colby in that role. One never knows, but I, you know,

499
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: asking me to guess that seems off. Who leaked the

500
00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: Barcelona messy contract? I'm gonna guess Barcelona. Can we assign

501
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: b C the homework of having to give at least

502
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: one of the Deadpool movies ago this person rights? I

503
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: hate superhero movies too, but those are admittedly amazing reference

504
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: a girl who hates superhero movies. Yeah, I would love to.

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00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: I would love to. I'll bring it up. We haven't

506
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: done a homework assignment in a while. One homework assignment

507
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: I want to do is create a Spotify playlist and

508
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: have people vote on his versus mind to which people

509
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: like more, and then, you know, because they're gonna be

510
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: wildly divergent, and really it wouldn't even take which one

511
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: was better per se more than just you know, whose

512
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: tastes are we more aligned with in terms of the audience,

513
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: But I do want to do something that's a little

514
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:45,239
Speaker 1: bit more co mingled. Yeah, I'll bring that up with him.

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00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: I'll bring that up with him. Favorite Chris the Crippler

516
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: Liban moment. It's got to be when he had those

517
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: two fights in like a two week period and one

518
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: of them both and it was just, you know, fucking

519
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: balls out amazing. So when was that he had Let's

520
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: see that was Yeah, he had one against Aaron Simpson,

521
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: which he won via in June nineteenth, second round TKO

522
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Simpson, you know, decorated wrestler. And then July third,

523
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: so two and a half weeks maybe three weeks later

524
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: something like that. He uh, yeah, he triangle choked Yoshihiro

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00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: Akayama and he had a knockout of the night against

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Speaker 1: Aaron Simpson, and then he had fight of the night

527
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: against Akayama because if I recall correctly, Akayama had rocked

528
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: his shit and he still found a way to come

529
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: back and triangle choke him. Those two back to back

530
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: fights were fucking great. Another one was his fight with

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00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: Terry Martin, which was on the Thomas versus Florian card.

532
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: He h a bit of a back and forth with Terry.

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00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: Terry Martin was a tough motherfucker man. He had a

534
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: big bit of a back and forth with him, and

535
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: then he hit Terry Martin. I think it was a

536
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: right hook. It was a hooking punch, and Martin went like,

537
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: you know, totally spread wide open, Carl Boom Dunza when

538
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: he hit the mat, and you know, Leban's face is

539
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: all fucked up from the fight and he's walking around

540
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: all fucking mean bug. And it was great. It was really,

541
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: really great. It was a great moment by him. You know,

542
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: he had some great wins along the way, you know,

543
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: had some notable losses too, but that was a big one.

544
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: And of course he knocked out Vanderley in like twenty seconds,

545
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: so that was big. All right, what do we got?

546
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: What do we got? What do we got? Do you

547
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: think that Gilbert staying with the camp that trained Usban

548
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 1: for so long gives him a better advantage than usman

549
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: going to different camps and learning things that Gilbert would

550
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: never dream he would learn. This is such a great question,

551
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: and it's insanely difficult to answer. So let's think about this, right.

552
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: So I spoke to Rashad today and asked him why

553
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: he went to Trevor, and what he was telling me

554
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: was everyone knows. The story is that, you know, he

555
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: didn't want to be there at the same time as

556
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: Gilbert was. But the other story was for some time

557
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: he'd been looking for, you know, another gear to hit,

558
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: and he had taken everything that Henry had could teach

559
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: him and had taken it to you know, I mean,

560
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: he won a fucking world title with it. It wasn't

561
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: like Henry let him astray. I mean, Henry did a

562
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: great job. And of course that's all the work that

563
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: Comarda did. I just mean the partnership was, you know,

564
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: it was very fruitful, right, I think it's a pretty

565
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: fair way to put it, very very fruitful partnership. And

566
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: but the way Rashad explained to me was he was

567
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: still looking at that point afterwards for you know, how

568
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: do I level up? What are some ways I could

569
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: shake things up? And so the fight with Gilbert, I

570
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: guess was the catalyst to make the move, But apparently

571
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: there had been a desire to do that maybe beforehand,

572
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: which is to say he I think, has you know,

573
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: forever left that team. I don't know if that's the case.

574
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: But just to say that that it's not strictly a

575
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: function of of this fight and no more, no less.

576
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: And so you have to ask yourself, what does Trevor

577
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: Whitman bring to Camaro that would be really important? And

578
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: to me the answer is and I bought the I

579
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out, you know, I say

580
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: so to people ask me if I've trained, Yes, I

581
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: trained for about ten years overall, right, I do not

582
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: train now forty one and you know, with COVID and

583
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: in my age and everything else, there's just no real time.

584
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: But this is my this is my view on how

585
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: to understand how to fight. Obviously you have to do it.

586
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: But if you just want to train to get some

587
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: of the basics down there, there is no substitute for training.

588
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: There's no substitute for it. You have to do it

589
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: if you really want to under fighting. However, these kinds

590
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: of videos can always be a good compliment to other things.

591
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: It's not a substitute, but it can be a good compliment.

592
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: Especially and here's what's really valuable to get an insight

593
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: into a particular coach's way of doing things, or not

594
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: even a coach like you know, whoever the video is

595
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: Whoever's hold in the video? Oh, here's a guillotine series

596
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: by whoever the fuck this is. Uh, you know, footwork, drills,

597
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. You know whoever it's about. You

598
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: get a sort of insight into how their combative mind works.

599
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: So I got the Trevor Whitman one. And you know,

600
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: you could see this through justin Gaegee, but you just

601
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: don't realize how much. And you know, I watch so

602
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: many striking videos and so many striking tutorials, and I've

603
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: been to striking seminars and blah blah blah blah blah,

604
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: and all of them share the same ideas to an extent.

605
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: But the emphasis, and I cannot be clear about this,

606
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: the emphasis that Trevor Whitman puts on footwork and what

607
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: footwork does for your angles, what footwork does for your balance,

608
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: What footwork does for your ability to cover or distance

609
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: either forward to backwards or you know, or away from

610
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: the target or towards the target. I should say, not

611
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: really linear. What footwork does for essentially everything and setting

612
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: up your offense. I don't think I have personally witnessed

613
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: a coach who emphasizes this emphasizes it as much as

614
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: he does, which is to say that there aren't any

615
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: that's not the claim. But you know, I've seen a

616
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: dozen striking instructionals from strikers or coaches. None, none, none, none,

617
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: are as footwork intensive as him. And that doesn't mean

618
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: that their feet are always in motion like they're doing

619
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: dominant cruise drills. That's actually not the point. Although you know,

620
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: certainly your feet are going to be probably in motion,

621
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: in motion more than someone who's like a you know,

622
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: work on these five combinations kind of thing. But in

623
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: terms of anchor, stepping, slipping, rolling, stepovers, carrying the hip,

624
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: you know, switching, shifting, you know everything. Dude, he is

625
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: so big, so big on footwork, and he's got a

626
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 1: whole system built that I'm about halfway done with his instructional,

627
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: and again that's probably just a fraction of the shit

628
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: he teaches them and beyond. I mean, I'm the one percent.

629
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: But it does give you a sense. So you're asking

630
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: what kul Kamara pick up from that You've seen it

631
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: in Justin Geigee. In fact, Justin Gai Chee is his

632
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: training partner in this video, and so Gei Chee executes

633
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: everything that Trevor Whitman asks him to do, and you

634
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: can watch Geatechee do it. Dude, it's impressive. It's extremely impressive. Again,

635
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: watching that doesn't mean you know, you can be like

636
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: Neo and the Matrix and be like I know, kung Fu.

637
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: It's not the point, but it does give you a

638
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: window in if I watch another person's instructional on like

639
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: their foundations of striking. Footwork will play a role. To

640
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: be sure, they all know that, they all know, you know,

641
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: hit him at angles and you have to be balanced

642
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: underneath yourself and they know all of that. But the

643
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: way which he emphasizes footwork as a core foundation for everything,

644
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: it is significantly more pronounced with him. I don't know

645
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: how quickly Kumar who can absorb that. It took some

646
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: time for just Engagee to absorb that, including through losses.

647
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: But if you're asking what he might provide a relative

648
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: to other coaches, the the emphasis of that and then

649
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: using that with his wrestling, to me is probably what

650
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to be looking for most to what extent,

651
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: because he's always been a bit of a step and slider,

652
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: which I think works for what Trevor Whitman teaches. He's

653
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: not the kind of you know, karate style, bounce, bounced,

654
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, blitz kind. That's really not what he is.

655
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: He is much more about bringing what works from boxing

656
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: in mma. And when you see the depth of detail

657
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: on footwork that that guy teaches, it's another level. It's

658
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: several other levels. Again. So if there are other coaches

659
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: who teach that level of detail with footwork, god bless them.

660
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: But I've not seen a whole lot of evidence of that.

661
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: I see a lot of you know, step this way

662
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: and step that way, and make sure your feet are

663
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: under you, and balance this way and balance that way,

664
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: all things that are very important, but it's a lot

665
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: of let's work on this combination. Let's work on this combination,

666
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: whereas Whitman is like, Okay, let's work on some combos,

667
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: but first let's work on what position you need to

668
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: be in for the combos to work, and where your

669
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: feet need to be and why your feet need to

670
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: be there, and how you can develop a footwork system

671
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: that enables you to never get out of position, to

672
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: have your weight under you, to be both offensive and

673
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: defensive when you need it, and to be in a

674
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: flow state the whole time. It's everything starts with the

675
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: feet and then works up, whereas a lot of times

676
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 1: everything works, you know, we're here's our end goal about

677
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: where we want to be in the feet play a role.

678
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: It's different. It's like it's like, you know, it's like

679
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: the feet are just sort of part of the equation,

680
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: which is in this case, they root everything with Trevor

681
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: Whitman h u und BC ever thought about doing a

682
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: watch along live stream during a UFC event. Yeah, we've

683
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: talked about that. We've talked about that. I don't want

684
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: to do that if we're not in person together because

685
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: I just feel like it'd be weird. That's something that

686
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: you should be like, there should be another person in

687
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: the room with you. You know, if and when we

688
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: can get these fucking vaccines and we can move on

689
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: with our lives that way, I'd like to have people

690
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: like in the DC area, like come to my house

691
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: or something and we could film that. I'd be much more,

692
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, and there's good people who you know, I

693
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: know who could do a good job with that. Prefer

694
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: to have BC if I had it. But if he's

695
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: gonna be a Connecticut I'm gonna be in DC. I'd

696
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: rather just have another person here. You know, you once

697
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: mentioned taking the world's biggest l on a military base.

698
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: Are you ever going to tell us that story? I

699
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: think the agreement was if I got to two hundred

700
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: K on my personal channel, So you guys put me

701
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: at two hundred K, and I think I'll tell that story.

702
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: What was your reaction when reading Connor's breakdown of his fight,

703
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: especially the part where he blatantly starts promoting his recovery

704
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: spray in the middle of it. It's just, even after

705
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: reading his breakdown of the Habib fight, this felt somehow

706
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: even more detached from reality, even when thinking from the

707
00:39:54,320 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: perspective of fighters needing to have that belief in themselves. Yeah. Yeah,

708
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of that. In some ways,

709
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: it almost felt like do you ever watch either on YouTube,

710
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: art Instagram, some like famous influencer and they're telling like

711
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: this this video is about you know, skincare or fucking

712
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: haircutting or whatever, and then the middle of it it's

713
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: like and this this, you know, is brought to you

714
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: by an ord VPN or something, and they go on

715
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: some long fucking tangent about the sponsor of the video.

716
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like, these are people who are

717
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: basically living completely vacuous lives, like their whole goal is

718
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: just celebrity for the sake of it. I don't think

719
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: it's what Connor's doing, but it reminded me of that

720
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: a little. It felt like an influencer just selling some

721
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: shit and using, you know, something that would otherwise grab

722
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: your attention to do it, which was obvious. But the

723
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: people who do that typically again is that they live

724
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: these vacuous lives. And I was like, Jesus, really, Connor, like,

725
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, what do I make of it? He has

726
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: a good attitude, you know about the loss, which I

727
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: guess is good. It's like, I don't know what to

728
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: make of it. On the one hand, do you want

729
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: to overreact or feel like you're overreacting and say that

730
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: because he's taking this almost influencer approach to you know,

731
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: a pretty serious moment in his career that he doesn't

732
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: have this burning desire to fix maybe some of the

733
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: problems that got him there. I think that's one interpretation.

734
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,959
Speaker 1: Another one is, listen, the guy's hustling, he's making cash,

735
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: don't overthink it. He still wants to go out there,

736
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: and put it on him. The only way to really

737
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: tell in this fight game is people will say whatever

738
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: they want, they will do whatever they want, and there

739
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: can be red flags. This one was a little red

740
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: flag ish. It's just what they show you in the fight.

741
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: I mean, everything else means nothing. All the shit they

742
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: say at press conferences, all the shit they say in interviews,

743
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: and sometimes they can be right in the interviews, which

744
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: we've been over before. It's why I'm hesitant to do

745
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: with them. I mean, to me, Poirier strike me as

746
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: an honest broker. You know, he's not going to say

747
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: things he doesn't believe, or he's not going to make

748
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: exaggerated claims for the sake of media attention, not in

749
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 1: a usually significant way. So I like talking to him.

750
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: But you know, in general, all that stuff means nothing.

751
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't, it means fuck all. The only thing that

752
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: tells you what is actually happening with them and whether

753
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: they take it seriously, is what happens when the gate

754
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: closes and then the bell rings and then they go.

755
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: So if you got a weird feeling from it where

756
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: you didn't detect a burning desire to fix what was wrong,

757
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: and that you know what you really came away with

758
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: was this guy was hawking a product. Yeah. I got

759
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: that feeling too. Does that tell you that, even though

760
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: there's a trilogy, he's automatically going to lose because he's

761
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: not his head's not in the game anymore. I don't

762
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: think that's a totally unfair I don't think that's a

763
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: totally unfair reading, to be honest with you. But there's

764
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: just no way to know. We have we have to see,

765
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: we have to see. But if he goes out there

766
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: and you know, he gets flattened again, yeah, I mean

767
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: at that point you can just say either the game's

768
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: passed him by or he's marched in being a salesman.

769
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: And listen, man, I don't even say it like it's pejorative.

770
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: You know, if you don't want to do it anymore,

771
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: you don't want to do it anymore. You know, Uh,

772
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't. You can't make a guy want

773
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: to do something this fucking difficult, and it's not like

774
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: he didn't achieve a fuck ton doing it. I don't

775
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: anyway judge somebody who who if that's the place he's in,

776
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: we'll have to see. So I don't want to overlease.

777
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: You know all you know this, this is a fucking

778
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: end of Connor McGregor. Ah. I don't want to get

779
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: into that space, but I did read it being like, okay,

780
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: not the typical way somebody who wants to be a

781
00:43:54,600 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: champion takes a loss. You know, hey, Look, what are

782
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: some surprising, little known early career bouts that current and

783
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: former UFC fighters have. A good one that I know

784
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: of is that Jorge Masidol's first professional loss was to

785
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: high fi Al Sunsal at lightweight in two thousand and five. Well,

786
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: it's a great example. I haven't looked that up, but

787
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: that sounds right. Also, what are some recent within the

788
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: last few years fights that I've had outcomes which surprised you?

789
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: Not necessarily just upsets, although it can include those, but

790
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: maybe fights that played out stylistical in the way you

791
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate. It's a little harder because I've seen so many.

792
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: But you know a fight I watched the other day.

793
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: You guys know the AKA trainer, crazy Bob Cook. He

794
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: has no Crazy Bob Cook. I mean he's the bald

795
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 1: guy who's been in the corner for every AKA product,

796
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: Cosh check, Fitch Velasquez, Rock Hold, Fucking Cormier, all of them,

797
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: you know, any one of those guys. You see Crazy

798
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: Bob Cook out there. Bob Cook had one fight in

799
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: the UFC and it was against Tiki Ghosen. What's interesting

800
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: about that fight is Cook it was a Frank Shamrock

801
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: product at the time, and Ghoson was a Tito Ortiz product.

802
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: And this was, I think, after my memory is right,

803
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: this was after the Ortiz Frank Shamrock Ropodope fight where

804
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: Frank Shamrock kind of let Ortiz hammer him for a

805
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: little bit. Ortiz gassed and then Frank Shamrock came back

806
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: around to put it on him, and then Ghoson and Uh,

807
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: Crazy Bob Cook fought and Ghostson nearly stopped him, and

808
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: then they go the second round and then Bob Cook

809
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: got him down, passed him out, and then choked him out.

810
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: But what was interesting is they were they were playing

811
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: the sort of the next generation of talent angle the

812
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 1: UFC was, which I thought was pretty smart. But Ghoson

813
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: is now a manager and Bob Cook is now a trainer,

814
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, so the fight game comes full circle. Tito

815
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: is Uh is a fucking city councilor and the worst

816
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: version of it you can imagine. And Frank is doing

817
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: what the fuck Frank is doing? I hope not leaving

818
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: any more dogs in airports. All right, let's see. I

819
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: know this is a hypothetical stretch, but if killed you Horigucci,

820
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: Demetrius Johnson, and Henry Sehuda were to rejoin the UFC's

821
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: flyweight division, combined with the new talent of the division,

822
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 1: would the flyweight division be considered one of the UFC's

823
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: best well by observers in the know, probably, although they

824
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: got to mean, would it be better than bansamweight? Maybe

825
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: you'd have more established talent I think at the top

826
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: with that, but I don't know if it'd be as deep.

827
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Same with featherweight, fly or lightweight out so much walter

828
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: weight debatable, middle weight you know, not the best. Light

829
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: heavyweight's a mess, uh and then heavyweight, you know, sort

830
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: of top heavy. Yeah, it would certainly be in the

831
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: conversation at that point. I don't think it would change

832
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: the depth of the division, but it would mean you'd

833
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: have these like really revered accomplished figures and pound for

834
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: pound greats sitting at the top. Okay, it's a weird thing.

835
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read. Let's see, it's unlikely, but

836
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: if Izzy and Uspan were to ever meet at one

837
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: eighty five, how do you see that fight playing out?

838
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: Uspin is a huge welterweight with great wrestling, and Izzy

839
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: obviously has next level striking and great takedown defence. It's interesting.

840
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: I tend to think that Atasanya with stuff to take down,

841
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more easily than folks might imagine,

842
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: Which doesn't to say that Usbin wouldn't get him down. Eventually,

843
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: he might, but I feel like there'd be a lot

844
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: of stall positions, and I feel like in the interim

845
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: out of signing we be able to do a little

846
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: bit more damage, such that like Usbin might win some

847
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: of the control, but there would be a noticeable lack

848
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: of damage all the way around to help to dissuade

849
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: the judges from giving him rounds or overall the fight. Hey, look,

850
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: would you say that UFC champion styles are cyclic the

851
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: prevailing styles come in waves? Or are these purely coincidental?

852
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: I e. A wave of wrestlers become champions, then get

853
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: replaced by strikers, and then the cycle continues throughout the

854
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 1: weight divisions. Well, there's a lot of things happening. One

855
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: is that there's the sport is a little bit different

856
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: now where you had these wrestlers coming in at a

857
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: certain time, and then other wrestlers looking for an opportunity

858
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: to make some money. Word got around or they could

859
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: just witness on their own, and then there was this

860
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: major influx because you could see how well collegiate and

861
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: freestyle wrestling would translate. So there was that, and then

862
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: best practices caught up where wrestling became much more well

863
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: known across all of MA, which made striking reinforced and

864
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: sort of sublimated jiu jitsu to a degree. So there

865
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: was that, I don't want to call it a problem

866
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: with that reality, and yes, that changes over time as

867
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: each new set of best practices. You know, the fence

868
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as valuable a tool to hold someone up

869
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: against to get takedowns. Takedoms used to be pursued in

870
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: the open much more and now they're not so so

871
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: the games that people play with the individual styles then began.

872
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: It was sort of like at the at the skill

873
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: set level, and then the skill set became much more

874
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: a function of the particular tactical you know, choice that

875
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: someone was making in a fight surface area, and you

876
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: know that kind of a timing and that kind of

877
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: a thing. Where where was this particular skill set being

878
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: applied in what manner right that tends to be you know,

879
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: this sort of take turns kind of thing. But also

880
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: like there's just a lot of copycatism. You know, no

881
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 1: one did a front kick to the face until Silva

882
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: did it, and then boom, you're just seeing it, I

883
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: want to say, all the time, but it's not uncommon.

884
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: You're seeing it on the fucking Contender series. Who was that?

885
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: I think it was a Chilean kid who did it.

886
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, you're seeing it at that level, and he

887
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 1: did a great version of it. It's it's something that

888
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: is people just pick up on and then share and

889
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: so everyone begins to use it, or you know, it

890
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: becomes widespread enough, I should say, so that it becomes

891
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: effective for a while, and then people work around it

892
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 1: and they develop a new technique or a new strategy

893
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: or a new sort of style of fighting that works

894
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: around that problem and so forth. So it's sick, like,

895
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: you know, in the sense that the predominant styles tend

896
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: to have moments in the sun. That is true, But

897
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's like, you know, I don't

898
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: know that it's perfectly circular where everyone gets an equal

899
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: share over time. I tend to think what happened was

900
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: you have this onslaught of good athletes from a wrestling

901
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: base that changed the game. But at that point then

902
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: it became a series of practices, and once the practices changed,

903
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: you know you've got good athletes. Now. I mean it's

904
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: hard to be any it's hard to do well without

905
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: really good athleticism at the UFC level. What the differences

906
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: are now are these other more granular changes, you know,

907
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: with for Trevor Whitman and his footwork, or you know

908
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: Habib with his fence wrestling and working with risk control

909
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. It's it's about tactical decisions,

910
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: how scalable they are, how many people like can you

911
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: take what someone else does and reproduce it? And how

912
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: valuable is that as a consequence? And you know that

913
00:51:52,480 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: tends to I think turn the screw. Did you see

914
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: Rogan's podcast with MMA referee Mark Smith? I did not.

915
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: I saw that he was on there. I've not heard

916
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: it yet. When does the documentary come out? I think

917
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: next week maybe a week after that. Why is Habib

918
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 1: chasing the GSP fight? I don't give a fuck anymore.

919
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: I just don't give a fuck. I said it ard

920
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: yesterday's show. I understand why people want to fight. It'd

921
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: be great if they made it for do I need

922
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: to tell you why it'd be great. We've been over

923
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: this a million fucking times, but you know this constant

924
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe at some point it's like, dude, you know,

925
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: just let me know if it's real or not, and

926
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: and actually just let me know if it's real and

927
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: if it's just a maybe until then that I don't

928
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: care anymore, you know, I I get that. You know,

929
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: there's this idea of people want what they can have,

930
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: and there's this idea of that would be a crown jewel.

931
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand. I understand why people want it.

932
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: But if you're if you're a if you're a casual fan,

933
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: this is different. But if you're a fan who is

934
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: like really invested, if you're a hardcore even semi hardcore,

935
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: and you get UFC action week in week out, and

936
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: you understand the depth of what you're getting and now

937
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: Belatar looks like they're gonna start up here in what

938
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: April or something? You got LFA in motion. The sport

939
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 1: has never been better in terms of best practices. It's like, yes,

940
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: I would love to see the fight too, But dude,

941
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: what is what is missing in your life that you

942
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: just gotta have it? If you're one of those hardcore

943
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: fight fans, there are so many good fights, there are

944
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 1: so many good athletes, There's so much intrigue and interesting

945
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: things happening, the intense focus. If that is your that

946
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: is your sports fan profile, right, If you're a hardcore

947
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: sports fan, that's your profile. This absurd obsession over a

948
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: fight that still seems quite unlikely, I just don't get.

949
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: I really sorry, I don't, you know. And to me,

950
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: it's like a little bit it's a little bit novicey.

951
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: And I've noticed, by the way, this is not true

952
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 1: across the board, to be clear, but I have noticed

953
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,439
Speaker 1: that folks who are a little bit more in my camp,

954
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,439
Speaker 1: which is that, you know, some trash talk is nice,

955
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 1: can be fun, you know, But really what I'm watching

956
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: fights for is because I actually like watching fights. I

957
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: like the science of it, I like the brutality of it.

958
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: I like the marriage of the two. I get a

959
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: lot more fulfillment from watching fights such that whatever I

960
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: would get from GSP versus SABIB, which would be substantial.

961
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: And while it would be substantial, don't I don't need

962
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: that to be fulfilled. You could get so much fulfillment

963
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: from all of these other places. You just don't really

964
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: need that. You know, it'd be nice to have, But

965
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's like, it's like having a

966
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: fleet full of automobiles. It's like, wouldn't it be great

967
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: to have another tesla, a one that you know, you know,

968
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: I could go one hundred miles an hour and two

969
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: seconds and every time you drive you get RoadHead and

970
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, due, they'd be sick. They'd be sick.

971
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: It'd be awesome, right, I mean, it would make go

972
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: into the grocery store a very different experience. But do

973
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: I need that? No? I don't fucking need that. You know.

974
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: I noticed that UNBC push for likes and subs on

975
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: YouTube very hard, but tend not to mention Spotify or

976
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: Apple or other podcasting platforms. Are the streaming apps not

977
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: an important part of the business model? No, they are

978
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: they are. I'm intensely focused on YouTube, and frankly, I

979
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: understand the YouTube business model more than significantly more than

980
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: I understand just a pure audio podcasting world. So it

981
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: just comes a lot more naturally for me as a consequence.

982
00:55:54,680 --> 00:56:03,720
Speaker 1: But no, those are valuable as well more GSP questions.

983
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. Wasn't Venom supposed to be

984
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: the UFC's official outfitting partner starting in twenty twenty one?

985
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: The first three events of the year had regular old

986
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: he Bock. There are two replies to this. That's a

987
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: great question. I do not know the answer to that.

988
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: I thought so too. Now Rebok was still going to

989
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: make the shoes because Venom doesn't make the shoes. Boy,

990
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: that's a fucking great question. Let's see when is that

991
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: supposed to go into effect? Ah, April twenty twenty one.

992
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: There you go. That's why April twenty twenty one. They

993
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: need time to get that in order. It's like the

994
00:56:51,560 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: vaccine roll out. He came to do that shit, Willie Neily, Hey, Look,

995
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: did the Holloway Volkanovski rematch have any effect on how

996
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: you view possible rematches and the adjustments a fighter can make?

997
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: You were one of the few who saw Alex as

998
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: a big threat to Max in the first one and

999
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,840
Speaker 1: were proved right. But then it seemed in the rematch

1000
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: you didn't see a way Max could close the gap,

1001
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: and he did. Yeah, it's a fair characterization. That was

1002
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: a failure of my own imagination. And you know, part

1003
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: of the reasons I had praised holloway striking all the

1004
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: way back to the Monday Morning Analyst days were that

1005
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: as I me. I think I even said it on

1006
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: Monday Morning Analysts explicitly, because now I had done various

1007
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: episodes on Max. I'm not sure which one that it is,

1008
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: but I called him a very modular striker. You guys, ever,

1009
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: seeing an AR fifteen and AR fifteen is a very

1010
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: modular weapon because of the ways in which you can

1011
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: customize it for any number of things and sites, grip,

1012
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, whatever. There's just a lot you can add

1013
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: or subtract from it to make it whatever model that

1014
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: you would like. His striking was a lot like that.

1015
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: In fact, more recently, it just became clear to me

1016
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: through the it was hard to notice him after the

1017
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: first of all, it was hard for me to realize

1018
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: that this was how I say this. I lost sight

1019
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: of this after the first Volkanovski fight. The second Volkanowski

1020
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: fight was a reminder, and then the Cater fight was

1021
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: a was a sledgehammer over the head. I've called Max

1022
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: Holloway the heir to GSP in the following sense, and

1023
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: again I realized an mma. Anytime you make a comparison,

1024
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: people think every element of one comparison has to be

1025
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: identical in every way to the other thing you're comparing.

1026
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: It's not what I'm trying to say. It is not

1027
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: a totalizing comparison. But the thing I am trying to

1028
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: say is GSP had a skill set and it was

1029
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: wide ranging, and he would use more towards the end

1030
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: of his career. It was a lot of wrestling, But

1031
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: the point being was he would take what he had,

1032
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: he would sharpen it up overall every time, and then

1033
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: he would tailor it just so for each individual fight.

1034
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: A radical change. But I'm going to use this particular

1035
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: tactics and this particular setups and these particular you know,

1036
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: moments and fights to go for things. And it had

1037
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: this effect of having sort of his modular game plan.

1038
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: He could just build the right game plan even though

1039
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: you kind of knew what he was good and bad at.

1040
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: He would focus on just the right things. He would

1041
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: set things up just the way he needed to, and

1042
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 1: it was tailored each time for a different opponent. Max

1043
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: does that in a narrower sense in terms of, like

1044
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, he does mostly striking, if not almost exclusively striking,

1045
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: although there's some grind and pound to be had or

1046
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: even some clinch fighting on occasion, but he does that

1047
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: with his striking. Like you know, if you go back

1048
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: and look at the way he fought Audo the first

1049
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: and second time, you know, one of the major differences

1050
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: he circled one way into Aldo the first time, and

1051
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: then circled the very opposite way the next time, really

1052
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: changing up. I mean, that's a major difference that I

1053
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: think played a role in how he was able to

1054
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: do so well both times, and among other changes. Right,

1055
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: it was just one of them. But yeah, I lost

1056
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: sight of that after the first fight, because what Volkanovsky

1057
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: was doing was you know, again, so many people are

1058
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: so mad at his championship reign. I just think to myself, Okay,

1059
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: whoever you think won the fight, put it aside and

1060
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,959
Speaker 1: ask yourself, why is it Volkanowski gives Holloway problems. Maybe

1061
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: you think not enough to win, but he does give

1062
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: him problems. Like, no one's had fights at featherweight as

1063
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: close as Volkanovsky has had with Holloway, not not even

1064
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: Edgar a distant second. So why is that? What is

1065
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: this guy doing? And it's dude, it's the He is

1066
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: never still. He is changing looks constantly. You don't know

1067
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: when he's coming, you don't know when he's going. You

1068
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: don't know what he's coming with or going with. Uh.

1069
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: He's hard to get a beat on. He's changing his

1070
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: own rhythm. God, dude, it is very difficult. It's he

1071
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:58,919
Speaker 1: has basically weaponized like fundamentals. Oh, never be a sitting target. Okay,

1072
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: how do I do that? Like, you know, how do

1073
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: I bring that principle to life? You know, you know,

1074
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: use faints to change angles or set up another shot. Okay,

1075
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: He'll do that to the nth fucking degree, you know.

1076
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: And and and I realized that the two fights with

1077
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: Max are controversial, and there wasn't like a thunderous knockout.

1078
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: You know, it's ten rounds of very close action, by

1079
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 1: and large, And and I think a lot of people

1080
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: have kind of used it as a way to be like, oh, well,

1081
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: you know how great of a fighter is Alloway Doll,

1082
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: I'm not a Halloway. Sorry, Bolkowski, dud fucking Volkanowsky is due.

1083
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: His style is a he's a bad matchup for everyone,

1084
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: for everyone, because what he does is just pull the

1085
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: fight game, the striking game apart, and he takes everything

1086
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: that gives you oxygen, not literally, but it gives you

1087
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: oxygen to do what you do, and he SAPs it

1088
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: out of the room. Right. He is never still. He

1089
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: is constantly setting shit up. He is in range, he

1090
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: is out of range, but you never know when he's

1091
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: doing that. Oh is this a look to go one way?

1092
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: Or is this a look to go the other ways?

1093
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: It's a look to hit me to the bodies. Is

1094
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: a look to hit me to the head? Oh, here

1095
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: I'm coming. And it's a leg kick. I'm backing up.

1096
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: It's a lek kick. I'm changing angle. Oh and now

1097
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: it's a different kind of leg kick. And now he

1098
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 1: goes this direction. It's just he's just a not really

1099
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: a perpetual motion machine. But there is just no One

1100
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: of the worst things you can do in striking is

1101
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: to have a pattern, because if they can pick up

1102
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: on it, then they can trick you, and then if

1103
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: they can trick you, they can do really bad things

1104
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, but here's a guy where there's almost

1105
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: no pattern. You ever seen those. One of the stories

1106
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: about how the Americans won the Second World War and

1107
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: the Japanese theater was they were able to they were

1108
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: able to use the Native Americans I think it was

1109
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: the Navajo Native Americans, and the Japanese could not figure out,

1110
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: like they knew they were speaking some other language, but

1111
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: they could not break it. They had no idea like

1112
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: how the fuck do we break this language? And they

1113
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: use their best linguists and you know, codebreakers to do it,

1114
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: and they couldn't do it. Now at this point, you

1115
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: can go back and look at what Holloway and Bolkanovski

1116
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 1: have done, and you can get a read on what

1117
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: Bolkanovski tends to prefer and whatever. I don't mean it's

1118
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:20,479
Speaker 1: like indecipherable in that sense, but in real time Max

1119
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: was able to make some changes. That's true, so it's

1120
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: not utterly indecipherable. But that's how it feels to me

1121
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: when I watch him against someone he's just you know,

1122
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 1: having a good round against you just fucking don't know which,

1123
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: like what way is up, whether what he's going to

1124
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,479
Speaker 1: do next. It is really, really, really hard to read,

1125
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: and so that helped. That made me lose sight of

1126
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: the fact that max Is and his team are incredibly capable,

1127
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: and you know, these are literate guys in the striking game.

1128
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: These are experts in the striking game, and they're not done.

1129
01:03:54,880 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: They're not done making changes. So you know, the Japanese

1130
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: can never figure out what the Navajo were saying. It

1131
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: looks like Max and his team might get it after

1132
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: a third crack, but even then it's no given because

1133
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: that's what dude Volkanovsky is fucking amazing. I know you

1134
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: can't talk about it for what I can only assume

1135
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: is legal reasons, But can you tell us whether the

1136
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: dissector will ever be back on the MK, Well, it

1137
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: definitely doesn't legal reasons for crying out loud or is

1138
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: it gone for good with technical difficulties being the permanent replacement.

1139
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: I don't know it was the answer. It's definitely the

1140
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: in I'll put it this way. I don't know if

1141
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 1: Dissected is done, but I can tell you it's indefinitely suspended.

1142
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: How about that? So we'll see. How do you see

1143
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 1: Fury versus Joshua going? I see Fury beating the living

1144
01:04:49,040 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: fuck out of him. Thoughts on the new Cannibal Corpse track.

1145
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: It is good, It is good. Say what now? Do

1146
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: you think the UFC is promoting Chandler and releasing fighters

1147
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: early almost helping other promotions because recruiting people like Chandler

1148
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: and Gae Chee is a safer bet than regional scenes.

1149
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if I understand what you're asking me. Yeah,

1150
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:48,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck you're saying. On the

1151
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: Weighing In podcast that was released today, Josh Thompson and

1152
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: Big John talk about the evolution of women's MMA skill

1153
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 1: of best practices strategy. They thought the currency of women's

1154
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: MMA was somewhere around the Chuck Ladell GSP era when

1155
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: compared to the level of men's MMA. I don't think

1156
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: that's crazy. I think there might be some noteworthy examples

1157
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: that you have current fighters who are pretty current on

1158
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: overall best practices, even on the men's side, like you know,

1159
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,919
Speaker 1: Yoani and j Check has got a really modern game.

1160
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: Of course, GSP has a game that is, you know,

1161
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: was future proof to a degree. So maybe that's what

1162
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: they mean. I'd have to go back and listen to

1163
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: what they said, but listen, there is a gap between

1164
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: the modernity and the depth of the men's game and

1165
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: the depth and the overall skill development on the women's side,

1166
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: particularly on the wrestling, but that's getting a lot better

1167
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: and you're seeing a lot You're seeing a lot more

1168
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: double legs, singles, body locks, you know, versus just fucking

1169
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: head tosses. The wrestling has really advanced on the women's side,

1170
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: just as an example, you know of how far that's come.

1171
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 1: And then you had that French woman whose name I forget,

1172
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: she was on the on the inauguration show. She was

1173
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: one of the first fighters who was out. I mean,

1174
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: her striking looked PSH just as modern as any guys

1175
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, really really good. So, you know, would

1176
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 1: I put it there, I don't know if that's necessarily

1177
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: the way I would go. But if they're arguing that

1178
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 1: there is a gap and that that gap deserves to

1179
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: be acknowledged, I don't think that's crazy at all. It

1180
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: tends to get you in trouble sometimes, but I think

1181
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: the evidence bears it out. Who would you favor to

1182
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: win in a Connor versus Tony Ferguson fight. Yeah, this

1183
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: is the fight that I think should be next for Connor,

1184
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: because if you're Tony, this is a great opportunity. I

1185
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: think it's a winnable fight for him, especially if he

1186
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: mixes up his offense. If you're Connor, that's a guy

1187
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: who with your striking if it's still on and if

1188
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: you're moving around a lot, that is a guy who

1189
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: And by the way, he's got a great chin, right,

1190
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: That is a guy who you should be able to

1191
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: land on effectively. So to me, it's like Tony's got

1192
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: much more diverse offense. He hits hard, he's got a

1193
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 1: great chin, he's got an unrelenting gas tank. If he

1194
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 1: can push that fight a little bit later, as is

1195
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: the case with many Connor's fights, you know, you have

1196
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: to like his chances early on. It's a fight that

1197
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 1: I think favors Connor in the early going. But you know,

1198
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: Connor has to be dialed in, he has to take

1199
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,600
Speaker 1: it absolutely seriously. He has to understand what he's up

1200
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: against and how unorthodox Tony is. And if that fight

1201
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 1: gets late dude, Tony is going to put it on him.

1202
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 1: So to me, I like that fight. If next for Connor,

1203
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: I think it's an appropriate challenge. I think it's both

1204
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: guys are coming off of losses. They're looking for a reset.

1205
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: Here they match up in interesting ways. It's winnable for

1206
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: either guy. I like that fight next. I like it

1207
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: a lot more than just going back to fighting dustin

1208
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: a third time right away. Have you reached out to

1209
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: Phoenix CARNIVALI to host alongside you when BC inevitably gets

1210
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: locked in this factory town's local gas station cooler? I

1211
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: have not, but I'm certainly I would love to work

1212
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: with her again. I'll put it that way. Jesus, that's

1213
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: a great question. I don't know if I had to

1214
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: have a good answer for it right up front, Lord,

1215
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,600
Speaker 1: I never thought of it that way. Early twenties, the

1216
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: question is, what are some books you would recommend for

1217
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: men in their early twenties? Are there any books that

1218
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:54,559
Speaker 1: change your perspective on life or work? Candidly, I think

1219
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:57,560
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are looking for some sort of

1220
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: Jocko will Nick. That's a he pronounce his name. I've

1221
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,560
Speaker 1: got nothing against him, but you know, he's got this

1222
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 1: to me, I'm not as ready to be a consumer

1223
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: of his work, in part because I, you know, I

1224
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: was not a Navy cl certainly far from it. But

1225
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, you get a lot of those types in

1226
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: the military, and they're you know, they're high speed, low

1227
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 1: drag man. They're very successful, and I've benefited a lot

1228
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: in my life by being around them. But you know,

1229
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: it's like oo's been looking for something different. I got

1230
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,800
Speaker 1: my benefit from that. I'm looking for another gear, you know,

1231
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: And I was looking for another gear after I got

1232
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: out of the military, so like I thought that I

1233
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 1: benefited as much from that as I could, and so

1234
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: I was looking for something else. So I see a

1235
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: lot of guys who are looking for what I was

1236
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: looking for back at that time, like kind of like

1237
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: a self help worldview. Kick you into gear, let me

1238
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 1: make it all easy for you. I don't know that

1239
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: I have a book in that sense. My my recommendation,

1240
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 1: if you're a guy in your early twenties, so let's

1241
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: say twenty two, maybe you're fresh out of college, maybe

1242
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: you're you know, fresh out of your four year stint

1243
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: in the military. Maybe you're just twenty two. When you're

1244
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: figuring things out. Who knows. I'm not trying to distill

1245
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 1: life's meaning and give you direction at twenty two because

1246
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that easy. I mean, there are

1247
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: definite paths you can take that make it easier if

1248
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: you just stick to that path to reach the next

1249
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 1: destination of your life. I think that is true. But

1250
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: here's my point. You know what I'm reading. If I'm

1251
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:30,680
Speaker 1: at twenty two, it's a little bit less the case now.

1252
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: Now I have a little bit more of a focused approach.

1253
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,920
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to just learn more about the world

1254
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:38,759
Speaker 1: more generally. And that doesn't sound like the right answer,

1255
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure to a lot of you, you're like, no,

1256
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: I want the secrets of life help me at twenty

1257
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:47,759
Speaker 1: two because you feel either lost or confused or something.

1258
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:54,759
Speaker 1: But nothing gave me clarity in this world. And if

1259
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: you watch this chat for a long time, this is

1260
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: not the first time you've heard me say this, but

1261
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: it is true. It is undeniably, unquestionably true. Nothing gave

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Speaker 1: me clarity, less so of purpose, but in terms of

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Speaker 1: the tools to understand what I wanted and who I

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Speaker 1: was and how I was going to think about the world.

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Speaker 1: Than a philosophy degree. Now that's not necessarily attainable to

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Speaker 1: everybody else. But what I mean to say is, if

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Speaker 1: you want to start with books that outlined, you know,

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Speaker 1: different forms of thought or you know, different concepts, you

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Speaker 1: could do that. Who were logical positivists? What is uh?

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Speaker 1: You know what what are epistemic studies, phenomenology? You know? Uh,

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Speaker 1: you could do symbolic logic games. But even aside from that,

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Speaker 1: just reading about history, reading about any kind of book

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Speaker 1: on literature, any any of these things. Dude, smart people

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Speaker 1: who have developed ideas and things to say, you can

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Speaker 1: find moments of inspiration and frankly understand your world better

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Speaker 1: by absorbing that, rather than someone who's like, I've got

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Speaker 1: you know, here's a way to make your bed every

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Speaker 1: morning and kick you into gear and listen. I know

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Speaker 1: I sound like a bit of a hypocrite because I

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Speaker 1: went and I lived a little bit of that life

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Speaker 1: at that particular stage in my life, like I got

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Speaker 1: benefit from it. So maybe, if you know, maybe if

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Speaker 1: that kind of self help, if you if you really

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Speaker 1: feel like you need to go get that too. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to only confuse people by having them read

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Speaker 1: you know, Steinbeck when they're looking for something a little

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Speaker 1: bit more applicable to their life. Okay, fine, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to tell you that, like, over the long term,

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Speaker 1: the things that will guide your your moral compass, your reasoning,

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Speaker 1: your understanding of systems of the world, they're not going

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Speaker 1: to come from a self help book almost certainly not

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Speaker 1: going to They're not going to come from, you know,

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Speaker 1: some guy who's trying to whip you into gear. Probably

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Speaker 1: you know, exceptions abound. They're going to come from listening

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Speaker 1: to a wide range of experts tell you what they

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Speaker 1: know about the world and the way in which they

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Speaker 1: know it. So just dive in, dive in and start going.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll try to come up with a more

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Speaker 1: concise list of things that might be a little bit

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Speaker 1: more helpful for this particular stage of people's life. I'll

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Speaker 1: see if I can put something together. But just as

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Speaker 1: a general rule, you know, because the way you framed

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Speaker 1: the question was this stage of my life right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not Yeah, just wrap it up. I'm not telling

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Speaker 1: you that, like you know, somebody who is pointing a

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Speaker 1: finger at you and telling you like you need to

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Speaker 1: go and do pull ups every morning is wrong. Might

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Speaker 1: be quite right. You know, there's and and by the way,

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Speaker 1: there's lot to be said about like your own habits

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Speaker 1: as practices, right, you are some of your habits. There's

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Speaker 1: another thing to be said about that. Yeah, there probably

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Speaker 1: are some lessons you can learn. But please believe me,

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Speaker 1: Please believe me. What you don't want is someone to

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Speaker 1: tell you what the path is. What you want are

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Speaker 1: the cognitive skills that you can develop that will enable

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Speaker 1: you to decide for yourself what the suitable path is

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Speaker 1: and then how to incrementally take steps along the way.

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Speaker 1: What is truth? What is false? How do I know? Right?

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Speaker 1: If someone's just telling you what it is, it's a

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Speaker 1: little sound convincing because it will be motivational and you

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Speaker 1: might get some benefit from it because it will take

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Speaker 1: you from a better place than where you were. But

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Speaker 1: to really do this over the long haul, to really

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Speaker 1: make the most out of yourself, the you know, the

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Speaker 1: unexamined life is not worth living, right, we say it

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Speaker 1: all the time. Find somebody who knows a lot about something, right,

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Speaker 1: and listen to what they have to say. And you

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Speaker 1: may not agree with all of it, but you may

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Speaker 1: agree with part of it. And then do that over

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Speaker 1: and over and over and over and over again forever,

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Speaker 1: and that will enable you to begin to figure out

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Speaker 1: what's true and what's false. Who am I? How do

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Speaker 1: I think about the world? How do I know what's true?

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Speaker 1: How can I approve it? How can I demonstrate that

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Speaker 1: to myself to others? And how does that lead me

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Speaker 1: down a path of fulfillment and understanding. That's the way

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Speaker 1: I would go. Okay, please get the video thumbs up

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, thank you guys, as always so much for watching.

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