WEBVTT - Michael Chandler 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.160 Now y'all really affed up, because now I got even 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.280 more confidence stepping into that, Like, I will knock out 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.920 Dustin Poortier, I will knock out Justin Gaegee, Charles Olivera, 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.000 I will knock out Charles. I will knock out any 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:12.720 of these guys in the first or second round. And 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.480 I will capture UFC Gold probably either my next fight 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:38.800 or the fight after Dide. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:44.040 She's like, she needle cop everything. What happened up the coffee? 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.479 Yeah, don't come on the bus without coffees? 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.600 You got yours? Did you see it right? You got yours? 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.440 That tape, No, this is yours. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.800 He just dropped his dry to do it for the 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:58.800 brand for under the Hood. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.880 I said the coffee on top of yours. I was like, 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.520 I literally said, if I lose one, I put I 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.360 put yours on top of mine. And I was like, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.960 because if I lose one. While trying to record the boy, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.200 so I switched. I was like, it's got a bigger 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.040 base on the bony. So I sat, mon, that would 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.000 be good. I'm trying to come in the doors open 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.600 and I was like, and I'm like moving and I'm just. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.440 Like I saw. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:36.199 It really is like like this, and then jagre Gart's 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:37.920 photo of us holding the hand. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.160 Why is your hand up so small? I don't know. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.880 Oh, dude, you can have this. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.440 This is five shots in it. That's that's that's the 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:52.920 crazy thing. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.840 Like serious, I've been doing decat jet like serious, dude, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.840 five shots shots. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:00.880 I got six this morning. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:06.560 But I uh, I woke up at two twenty seven 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.560 every night the last two nights. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 Well, I guess it's only two nights every night, two nights, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.679 but and I just can't really fall back. I'm like 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.880 laying there and freaking just that would get hit the 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.880 dome a bunch. It's gotta be like a whole well 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.560 funny rough hit very much. It hit zero. That's first, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.160 one of the first times in my career. Really, this 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.000 is the best. It was the best case scenario I have. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:29.200 This. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.519 I have the same where I run ray up it 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.080 during the week because I have a podcast by knee 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:33.400 and stuff. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.639 I spent six hours of damn just on my knee. Yeah. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.760 So during during the weekends, it's like I'm with my kids, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:39.480 I'm not doing nothing. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.880 So I was in bed at that night, like at 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:41.480 nine o'clock. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.680 I woke up to Will's tweet about you, I saw everything, dude, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:46.200 so happy for you. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.040 So you're calling out people. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.480 I have a zoom I have a zoom call that 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.240 gift ahead it was from when he just won. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.000 I was like, oh, they already got the gift roll. Yeah, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:54.880 I got a zoom. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.640 Call with Rick Flair later. Do you really congratulate me? 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.680 That's let's go legend. Are you gonna wear a Rolex? 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:07.880 Rolex wearing is a decaf? Yeah, oh, I decaf Americano. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.200 I thought that's what you're on. It's not in the morning, Will, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.600 that's but I thought that's. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.480 What you're on. Ship changes if it's sucking tune the afternoon. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.960 I had a decaf in mind too. What's it? I said, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.160 I had a deca min Hey, I'll switch you. You're 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.919 gonna have this one? No, no, no no, I'm just like 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.000 you want you and the other one. Will I like 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.519 to be than anything. He gets off to it. I 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.200 don't know what it is. It's part of the growth 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.360 we both. I think we both have a nice little 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:32.399 feel for it. For sure. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.440 Will likes taking it. I like giving it. It's a 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.560 great relationship. No, no pause, no pause, I'll take it. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.160 Hey, I was on we should probably be careful though. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.280 We've been talking about Dick and we have have We've. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.840 Had some questionable ship we have people are really start. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.280 We've been pumping out, were pumping out pots. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.000 You wear those you know where I like. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.400 To wear it sometimes just because I like the Uh 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.960 you think you're more like the sound if you guys like. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.920 Him put them off like the I was on Artist's podcast, yes, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.000 and he never played musical headsets to hang on. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.280 Hang on minute. This podcast is brought to you by 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.320 Barstool Sports. Oh yeah, there we go. Now we're get 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.080 no again. That's it. Yeah, that's it. That's unbelievable. I 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.680 got the I got the boys shirt on. But a 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.960 freaking look at that. Yeah, I don't know, Like he's 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.840 taking a photo of that right now. That's wild, dude, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:19.880 what you were hearing? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.839 Now? He was ago maybe twenty. I was on the 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.000 phone with him when he pulled in. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.760 Listen, chan never later, right, that's a rule in our household, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.360 and I knew that. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.880 That is why I called you. I was like, I 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.720 know he's probably sitting on the bus right now. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.200 Yeah, the ones are never on time. That's that's not 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:37.720 spoken rule in the family for sure. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.400 That's crazy. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:46.560 This yes, dude, whatever you want to just take like 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:47.720 it really doesn't matter to me. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.479 I kind of like the fight that will share it. Okay, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:52.760 you do it. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.640 Hey, yeah, this is I I first off being a 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.599 guest before, but also being a friend watching you go 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:00.360 through the experience. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.800 You damn being able to watch the vologs on YouTube. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.640 You your situation coming over from Bellator like they and 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.359 then you seek to throw this kids you sink at 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.640 you if you come from somebody else, somewhere else. They're 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.960 basically saying, fuck this guy. Let's see if you can 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.360 sink or swim. Yeah, a lot of swimming. A lot 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.520 of swimming happened on Saturday. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.520 A lot of swim I mean, yeah, there was. It 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.680 was a perfect storm. I think, uh because because I 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.680 asked for it as well. I mean, I know, man, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:23.960 I'm not I'm no spring chicken. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:24.520 I know, I know. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.560 I I mean, I still got five years left if 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.440 I want to, and I didn't want to putts around 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.599 the top fifteen. Honestly, it's just like any It's just 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.839 like any day, like you got your teams off, you 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.960 somehow lose to a horrible team, right, you can go 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.240 out there slip on a banana peel, Top fifteen, top 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.000 twenty guy, I might as well go out there and 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.640 fight the top five guy and right away and put 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.039 yourself in the mix, which I did, which is what 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:43.320 it did. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.360 So that's why I wandered right away. So yeah, dude, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.920 I'm so hype man. Like I texted you this too. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.880 I was like, I hadn't been that nervous since watching 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.160 Cody wrestle. Yeah, you know when you're watching those one 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.080 on ones and you're watching like your brother, your boy, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.920 and they put in a lot of work and you're 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:56.359 just sitting there. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.680 I was like, I looked at Charle and I was like, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.720 I was like, yo, I'm nervous about this. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.599 That's the That's the most beautiful thing about this, is 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.279 like because I'm the same way when I watch my 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.599 friends fight, I'm nervous as heck. But with me, I 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.800 was just like that this was a different experience completely. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.640 This This was the most confident, most not worried about 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.960 anything of my entire twelve really, I don't know. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.719 It was the biggest stage of all time. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.479 Co main event on Economer Gregor pay per view, my 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.240 first fight in the UFC fighting a killer and Dan Hooker. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.680 I don't know, honestly, I just say, like I said 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.920 in the post fight interview, like all roads have led 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.880 to this. I just feel like it was. It was 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.640 God's timing. It was it was the ups and the downs, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.480 it was the battle tested, battle hardened veteran, Like I mean, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.520 I've been doing this forever, and I also had nothing 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.560 to lose. I really did. Like truthfully, if I went 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.760 out there, fell flat on my face, got cut by 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.040 the UFC, I'd be one hundred percent fine with myself. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.680 My God still loves me, my family still loves me, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.160 and I still love me. I'm at that point in 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.040 my life. Turns out knocked him out in the first round, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.440 so we might as well take this thing straight to 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.159 the gold. But yeah, but it's like I'm just I 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.440 feel like every every road has led me to this, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.039 And it's almost like when you when you make a decision, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.640 because I mean, I made a tough decision because I 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.880 had everything I ever needed in Belatour. They were gonna 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.400 pay me well for the rest of my career. I 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.080 was gonna have easier fights, I was gonna have an 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.520 easier path to to get the title back I was 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.520 gonna be the poster boy, the face of belatour. I 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.240 let got rid of all of that certainty and just 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.080 took the uncertain route bet on myself, took a leap 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.320 of faith. So it was also, I think, just the 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.560 calm of like I don't think I would have been 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.800 led in this direction or this door would not have 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.120 been opened and stayed open to sign with the UFC 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.320 had it not been the right decision. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:42.080 So felt confident. Yeah, and it worked. The humility is unbelievable. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.520 You sit here and say you got rid of everything 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.080 to take it, take a leap of faith. That's a 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.200 that's a very impressive thing. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.320 Take me through. Like, uh, just I want to we obviously. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.280 Go to go through all of it, but like getting 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.800 the call, what what what was a factor for you 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.640 to change to go over because it wasn't just like 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.160 well fuck this, I want to go yeah UFC, Like 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.760 like what transition and what made the transition happen? 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.400 Well, I'll tell you just from a philosophical standpoint, like 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.600 I realized. I mean, I've had a great career, loved 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.520 it in Beltur, made a great living, But I truly 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.320 I think about that like forty. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.720 Year old Michael. Think about that forty year old me. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.200 Will I be able to sleep at night knowing that 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.960 I never tested myself in the UFC. Will that freaking 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.520 pillow I'm lay my head on feel like a forty 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.520 pound rough sandpaper cinder block for the rest of my life. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:30.400 That's a long time. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.480 Yeah, Oh, you know, it's a long time to stew 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.600 in the regret of maybe I didn't make the right decision. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:40.920 Now if I go to the if I went to 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.320 the UFC fell flaut of my face, that would be better. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.520 Than never going and always wondering, you know. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.280 So I just always thought about that and then decided 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.400 to take a chance fight out my contract, which was 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.960 probably the most stressful scary scenario of my entire life 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.040 because it was a during a worldwide pandemic. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.679 So I wasn't sure if I was ever going to 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:00.600 test positive for COVID. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.520 Get talking about when you fought Henderson, Yeah, when I 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.560 fought Henderson on the last fight of a belatar contract belt, Yeah, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.480 and Belatore was sitting on their hands. They didn't throw 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.400 a fight for five months, while the UFC only took 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.559 five weeks off, And so I I knew that too. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.480 I was just like, man, the UFC is doing it right. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.200 The UFC is is taking over and going and that 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.240 was that was known worldwide Anywayvan. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.960 Yeah, a lot of sports that happened. If UFC didn't 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:25.400 do what they did. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.120 When you see it and bought bought an island and 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.439 did that ship, It's like you look at the NFL, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.679 we were we were worried about playing. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.640 It's like, oh, we've got to play, like I think 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.839 even the NFL, the NBA figures it out, and it's 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:36.880 like we have to figure out. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.320 If the UFC didn't figure it out that fast, I'm 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.840 not sure we have the sports we had this year 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.440 for sure, Like and the UFC had the best year 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.040 of their entire existence this year because every single sports 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.120 eyeball was on the UFC on set of times and the. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.720 Only thing going on. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.200 But also this is the situation if you do the 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.640 guy went out and got like he basically bought an arena, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.640 but the arena. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.680 Is an eye built. They built the arena. Isn't that 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:02.200 just wild? 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.079 It was like in no time, I've been building a 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.280 house for eighteen months. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:08.560 Yeah. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.560 Not to mention the millions of dollars that they pumped into. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.000 I mean, you're there, like people are wearing hazmat suits, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.560 non like face masks, all the staff everything, It's. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.440 Exactly what it looks like. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.120 They spent all that money doing that, the testing, the bubble, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.560 they basically rented out. They basically rented out this hotel 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.400 in Vegas for all of us to quarantine before we fly. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.960 They rented out the w Abu Dhabi on Yas Island, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.400 so that's just a ton of expenses. So all of 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.640 that was going on, and I decided to you know, 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.400 obviously fight out the contract, which was crazy, scary, get 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.240 the first round knockout, which is perfect. Within two minutes, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.040 the UFC matchmakers are texting my manager like hey, we're interested. Yes, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.160 But I was still under an exclusive negotiation period, so 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.760 it was like, hey, excited to hear that. We'll talk 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.320 to you in two weeks or three weeks whenever. Exclusive negotiations. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.760 So I was a restricted free agent in your guys' 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.560 world right then, And as soon as my time was up, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:02.040 I went. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.560 I flew to Vegas. Man. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.120 I flew to Vegas without even having a meeting scheduled. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.560 I willed it into existence. That's awesome. I flew there 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.000 and just because my manager lives out there, and I said, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.400 screw this, man, I can't sit here anymore on my hands. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.880 As if this, as if this is just going to 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.599 take care of itself, I'm rolling out there, hopped on 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.720 a plane, flew out there, no meeting scheduled, ended up 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.200 getting a meeting scheduled the next day. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:25.840 So you finished, you finished this fight? 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.040 How long between finishing that that knockout and jumping on 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:29.760 a plane to Vegas? 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.480 August sixth? August sixth, I got the knockout. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.280 There was this fifteen day exclusive negotiation period, So now 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.959 you're into the first week of September. Literally the day 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.000 after my negotiation period was over, I flew to Vegas. Wow, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.839 because it like it was nothing else going on with 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.760 the Uxcy No, nothing, hadn't even talked. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.400 You just knew that they were excited to talk probably 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.680 in a couple of weeks. Dana wasn't even Dana wasn't 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.599 even in town, I don't think. So I sit with 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.920 Hunter Campbell, who's like the number one in command after 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.800 after Dana, have a great meeting with him. Five minutes 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.040 after the meeting, he texts me and said, Hey, Dane, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:01.560 want's talking you. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.320 What's your number? Dana calls me. This episode is brought 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.240 to you by Bow's Headphones. Listen. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.120 When I was growing up and I wanted to get 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.800 a hard little workout and I want to go for 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.160 it was always the jog that was the hardest, right 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.440 when we used to have the chords growing up, I'd 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.079 run and I'd hit the thing and I'd fly everywhere, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.960 and that's flopping and I'm still kind of trying to run, 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.040 but I'm chripping over the chords now putting in the 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.720 back of my head, and if I'm getting a good 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.040 work at it, we're talking an hour and a half, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.000 two hour workout. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:27.600 Eventually my ears would start her. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.040 I don't know if anybody else has that, but that's 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.640 kind of a thing that I had going on, was 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.320 I would put. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.040 In my ears and it would be like just a 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.360 little OUCHI, little Auchi bro. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:41.600 With Bow's headphones, specifically the Bow's Sport earbuds. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.760 You don't have any of those issues anymore. Right, It's amazing. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.680 Audio cancels everything out and has the acoustics you think 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.400 you're in the studio with the boys getting things done. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.880 But you literally are just doing going for your jog, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.400 your run, your height, your bar lifting, any of that, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.520 any of that type of stuff. You got them in there. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.120 They're feeling great for hours on end. I put him 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.000 in Now. Personally, I'm jogging, I'm feeling good. I'm getting 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.520 the old ACL back and right. And what happens. 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I'm gonna go with the Chiefs, and I 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.439 think the first touchdown of this game is gonna be 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.120 Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelsey. Now you can bet that 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.840 if you want, I don't bet. I can't bet all right, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.640 someday I will bet, but right now I don't bet. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.880 And if you want, once you get out there, maybe 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.840 put a little couple bucks on that thing. I don't know, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.520 but don't get mad at me if it's wrong. I'm 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.640 just saying I think I got chiefs and it's lights 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.360 right now, right, it's gonna be a good game. That's a burp, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.000 not for bos. For me, that was my own digestive system. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.319 Make sure you go to bows dot com, slash barstool, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.920 get you some good audio fitting headbutt earbudds, excuse me, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.320 get after it, get your work on on it, and 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:15.720 get out and active in twenty twenty one. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.160 That's what we're doing right. Music is screept. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.880 We can bop and weave in the in the house 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.120 all we want. Let's go chase some dreams and let's 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.880 do together with Bose. Have that great conversation that you 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.160 and I kind of talked about. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.120 Yeah on the pod that you that you was a boost. Yeah, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.160 and it was just like a fight. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.120 No for good reason, for good reason, you know, and 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:42.520 uh and we just have this great conversation and uh. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:40.720 Well you me in the group chat. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.040 In the group chat, I was giving him a certain 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.280 clip or anything you want to like. Boosy's like, you know, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.760 we had a couple of conversations. I don't necessarily know 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.640 if I want everybody the hear. Yeah, I was like 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.240 Ibary should have said that, But anyways, I had to 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.840 throw his stones on the table basically, and before his win. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.000 I'm sure you talk about it now, but before you're 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.720 probably like, you know, I don't want to stick my 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.840 head out far to. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.320 Me, and you're like, I'm arrogant. No, Now we're in 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.600 a better spot. Yeah, I had this great conversation. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.680 He ends up hanging up on literally pretty much hanging 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.080 up on me, calling Hunter saying, give this guy whatever 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.480 the f we got to give him so that no 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.360 one else matches, and the rest is history. Who signed 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.520 that He He announced it on Sports Center in September 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.280 nineteenth or something, and then had the October fight where 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:22.880 I didn't really fight, I just waited in and then 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:24.240 the rest is history. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.400 Dude, I'm just so I'm so excited for you, Like, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.320 do you feel like that the UFC even calls or 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.440 if you lose to Henderson, do you feel like you 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.400 even get a call from the UFC now, or do 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:37.680 you feel like you're kind of in more of a 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.040 you know, not downward spiral. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.840 But I gotta win the next fighter. I could be 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:42.760 done hundred percent. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.760 I mean even that that was also kind of the 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.360 deciding factor too, where he's like, man, if this is 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:48.960 supposed to happen, it's supposed to happen. If I go 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.160 out there and lose to Benson Henderson, maybe I'm just 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.320 not UFC caliber, right, or even if I have a 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.960 hard fight against Duston or Benson Henderson, it's it's still 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:58.840 the UFC. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.480 Is not calling like that and wanting to, you know, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.040 sign me that bad. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.840 But getting the first round knockout, Okay, this guy still 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:05.920 got it power in his hands. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.880 And you know, dude, a lot of. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.360 A lot of respect to you too, just because just 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.200 sitting back and watching and you know, Taylor was alluding 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.160 to it earlier. The humility you have with it and 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.480 enough confidence in yourself to constantly post, not that social 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.640 media and all that stuff like plays such a huge 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.000 factor into looking into it from a pality standpoint. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:29.920 It definitely does, though. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.200 It's like putting yourself out there and constantly showing and 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.320 and building this so called persona to where the fight 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.720 you do have even myself personally, You're you're wanting to 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.560 know if he's were if like is he gonna put 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.880 his money or money where. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.680 His mouth is? It's the most you're ready to see you. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.680 Yeah, you want to see you show up, Like is 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.440 he really about what he's always constantly putting out there? 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.160 Not that you're putting anything out there in arrogance, but 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.000 I'm I'm thinking of it from from my own perspective. Now, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.040 granted we play a team sport, we're part of something 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.240 that's not an individual. So you sit there and think, like, 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.240 if I'm sitting here doing all this stuff, you're kind 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.520 of like the moment you mess up or lose or anything, like, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.440 you're you're out there for everybody to make fun of 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.919 them and everything. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.120 Just look at McGregor, what happened to him the way 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.320 he was living his life, I mean four or five 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:15.880 years ago. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:17.840 I mean, I'm a huge McGregor fan. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.480 I love the cockiness, the arrogance, but like from a 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.320 sustainable way to approach your career, that's a high peak 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:26.720 and valley situation. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.359 Yeah, it's with the way you do it is a 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.600 high throw to fall from. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.480 But if he were to keep that same intensity the 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.840 whole time, maybe not branch off and do the lique, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.960 he might have as much money. But like, I'm sure 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.119 he could have lasted a lot longer than it seems 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.840 like he's lasting at this point. Yeah, with you your approach, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.840 it's I mean, you like, find a Hawaii baby, nice soul, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.840 take off your cruiser at thirty thousand feet, and it's 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.800 it's a consistent way to approach your career because you 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.000 put yourself out there enough to make it interesting, because 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.439 you have to have a personality to sell yourself as 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.800 an individual. You have you watch the guy who doesn't 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.520 say anything and he's just like that rushing from Rocky 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.000 just like dah, and that's it, you know, I mean, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.920 there's something to look at, but really it's like, Okay, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.840 that guy who's the guy who's making a lot of noise. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:09.879 You're out there, you put the work in. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.280 You could see it physically, you could see it emotionally 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.679 and spiritually, but like you show it so often. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.680 It's like how do you not how do you not 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:17.239 root for a guy? 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.640 Right? Especially when especially because it differs with like your 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.439 style and like a McGregor sall, you're not like a 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.159 trash talk You're you're showing the grind. You're showing like 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.159 the like you were saying on the last pot, like 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:28.480 the bringing the like. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.120 A good guy perspective to it all. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:31.960 I don't know, I'm just I just get fired up 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.880 about I appreciate it, and I think, uh, I mean yeah, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.679 I mean not to talk about me too much, but like, well. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.120 This is a podcast. I guess. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.040 We want Actually we'll go back to you know when 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.159 I have my mindset coach here on the bus with 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.720 me Jim Hensel, and it's all about reverse engineering and 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.360 deconstructing who is Michael Chandler mentally, physically, spiritually. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.240 Who am I? And why am I the way I am? 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.320 How do I tick right? 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.920 And and we what we came up with was that 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.040 me being able to live on both ends of the spectrum, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:11.000 being extremely joyful and happy and encouraging and loving and 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.200 just that guy, but then on the other side being 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:22.480 a ridiculously nasty, tenacious individual. And somewhere in between is 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:27.879 that happy medium that I guess is what people are drawn. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.600 To, or what my wife was drawn to, or what my. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.000 Friends were drawn to, right, And it's like that's why 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:34.560 I came up with this kind of moniker of like 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.919 stay dangerous, because if you want to get anything in life, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.560 you can be nice and full of character, full of 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.200 integrity and happy and joyful, but you got to live 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.560 with a little bit of danger. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.439 You got to be a little bit dangerous. You know. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.320 You look at it from the Christian perspective, and people 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.520 are like, well, you you probably shouldn't fight people because 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.400 it didn't Jesus. Turn the other cheek. I'm like, yeah, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.280 but Jesus was also a very dangerous person. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.520 Jesus might have k not he was. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.040 But like I mean Gandhi, I mean Gandhi Mohammad, like 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.280 any of these different like deities or like people that 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.639 are looked up to, like they they may live with 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.240 this extreme humility or or wisdom, right, but there was 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:18.800 also also this this aspect of dangerousness, you know, just 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:25.520 pursuits there's a scary amount of confidence slash dangerousness about them, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.320 you know. So I've just always kind of been like that. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.320 I was a you know, freaking just a mental midget 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:33.920 for many, many years. A lot of it had to 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.960 do with my upbringing small guy from a small town, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.320 taught to be very small things. And then you know, 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.000 just realizing that, you know, eventually you got to grow 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.640 up and realize that God's best for you is uh, 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.640 maybe it's ridiculously successful, and be okay. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.479 With that and beyond that superficial like that shallowness that 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.600 you probably see the world. That's because when you're like 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.159 a small town or I mean, we all come from 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.600 small places anyway, wherever you start, and when you start 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.719 getting into those bigger waters a lot of different perspectives, 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.080 you're learning a lot of new things. You get a 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:03.879 little bit more insecure because you're not sure how to 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:04.240 take it on. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:05.520 And exactly that's self. 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.760 Awareness, like sometimes your integrity is challenged. Should I act 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.359 like this? Should act like that? It's understanding to. 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.479 Your true self right, and then realizing like in the 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.879 grand scheme of things, like it doesn't really matter as 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.399 much as you're thinking it matters, just like letting go 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:22.119 and being able to show that tenacious, enjoyful, encouraging person 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:23.800 and being able to put it into one and not 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:25.439 caring all the opinions that come with it. 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.159 And I turned a corner two when when I just 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.960 started thinking about the word authenticity, you know, and that's 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.879 what I worked a lot with Jim on too, is 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.880 the amount of times that we are inauthentic in a day, 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.359 if if we aren't true to ourselves. And it's not 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:43.119 and it's not in a in a in a nefarious 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.040 kind of way. You're not being you're not being a 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.280 liar or or trying to deceive people. You just like 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:52.320 in a conversation, I act inauthentic because of my insecurities 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.159 or because of the way that I see myself, for 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.280 the way that I your self interested. So you know, 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:57.920 and you and you start and you kind of look 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.280 back and you realize, like, man, that's a lot of wait, 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.000 a lot of weight to bear if you're constantly trying 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.159 to be a chameleon and not be authentic to just 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.280 exactly who you are and kind of like not really 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.520 giving an f what people think about you and you 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.080 kind of it comes with maturity, It comes with comes 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.360 with maybe some success or working on yourself or whatever 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:15.760 it may be. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.360 So just trying to be more authentic as well. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.959 Yeah, I love I love the phrase stay dangerous, And 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.280 you're referring to guys like Gandhi and Jesus and stuff 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.800 like that, because when you tell somebody stay dangerous, their 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:28.160 first thought is like, I gotta fight. 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.000 I gotta be a fighter, especially me, Like. 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:34.600 Yeah, yes, people know what's staying staying dangerous is like 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:36.760 confidence is dangerous, Calm is dangerous. 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:38.200 Calm is chaos. 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.640 And if you see somebody and if you're the most 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.600 calm person in the room and someone's coming at you 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.119 over and over and over again, you know, violently with 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.320 words or something, and you're calm, that's a dangerous phrase 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.040 because you know you're centered to yourself and that's something 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.280 that like as a kid or you know, growing up 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:56.600 and seeing guys UFC and then the whole thing kind 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.080 of coming about you just think of, like and even 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.879 watching NFL football players or any sort of athletes that 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:05.920 causes physicality. You just think barbarians going out there and 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:08.040 toughing it out. Whoever is the biggest and strongest is 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:09.959 going to win that fight. And then you know, you 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:11.719 start to look more into it and you realize it's 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.560 it's you know, how centered can you be, how neutral 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.240 thinking can you be when you're going into that fight, 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:19.800 How you stay on what your game plan is as 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.040 opposed to giving into their game plan and maybe you 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.480 should keep your distance a little bit when they're trying. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.280 To press you and back and forth. The same thing 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:27.080 for playing off its lin. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:29.600 You you think, okay, I have to beat the shit 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:31.639 out of sky very single time. But the better you 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:33.480 get at football, the more you realize it doesn't have 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:35.640 to be running my head through a fullback every single time. 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:36.000 Right. 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:37.520 It could be long arming a dude. It could be 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:38.600 where's my hand placement? 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.400 And once you get once you get that placement, that's 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:42.879 when you can take over and make it look as 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:43.720 violent as you need to be. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.080 There's a time and a place always for violence, exactly. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.160 There's always going to be that spot that you need 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:51.160 you to have that kind of scratch in your life. 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:54.200 But having the ability to be a neutral thinker and 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:58.840 being emotional but not chaotic is something that has a 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.280 balance at very few people have. That's why not everybody 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:04.000 has a success that you do well, yeah, and that's 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:06.720 I mean and even that and obviously that's the default 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:08.359 that people go to, like, well, he's a fighter, so 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:10.520 of course whenever he says stay dangerous, that means like 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:11.960 you got to be dangerous and beat someone. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:16.400 Oh, but dangerous is Rosa Parks. Yeah, like that was dangerous, 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.560 but it wasn't an act of violence. You know, dangerous 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:24.280 is MLK, Like you know, it's like anybody who who 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.720 has this and it's so hard to explain, but it's 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.240 but it's so powerful exactly like what you just said, 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.760 like neutral in mind, you know, like that was. 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:35.879 Solid, like that was that was appreciate that? 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:43.680 Yeah you so, but yeah, man, just building it brick 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:46.240 by born brick. And it takes a long long time too. 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:47.880 It's not you're You're never an overnight. 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:49.120 It takes a long time. 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:51.720 And and it's mostly like your programming as an individual, 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:54.879 right like you, me, Will, everybody in here has a 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.480 software update that's happened to our entire lives. He said, 0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:00.280 small guy from small town talk to small things, right, 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:02.320 you wouldn't you know? I didn't have the best household 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:04.840 growing up. Will had his adversities growing up, And it's 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:07.640 like you grew up with these adversities and different things 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:09.320 that challenge you. And what's the easiest thing to do 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:13.080 when you're not mature enough from an emotional standpoint, from 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.600 a maturity level, is you put walls up and you're like, 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.760 I'm gonna I'm just gonna hold that back real quick, 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:21.040 and then you start getting into relationships, You start making friendships, 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.119 you start being around people, and then you start to realize, 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:24.919 for me to get the most out of this, I 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:26.680 got to break down that wall and deal with it. 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:29.600 And that's the hardest thing to do from a gross standpoint, 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.120 because you know, when I was in college, I partied 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:34.200 like crazy. My first couple of years in the NFL, 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:35.960 I partied like crazy. And then you start to peel 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:38.560 back the layers of what that is and why that 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:39.920 hurts there and stuff like that. 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:43.399 You start to really like, why, yeah, why it's. 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.040 Comfortable doing that because it's easier to go and get 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:47.919 drunk and do that instead of going to work on 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:50.199 that thing you want to. It's easier to you know, 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.040 talk about doing X, Y and Z talking about doing 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:52.760 a podcast and. 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:54.719 Not actually doing it, but how cool would it be 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:55.320 to do that? 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:55.719 Right? 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:57.680 Fun to talk about. Then we run the first ones 0:25:57.720 --> 0:25:59.000 and we're just like we kind of sit there and 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:01.919 we and Will are calling each other like, fud, You're 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:02.480 nervous that. 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:04.400 Yeah, putting yourself out there like, but you go and 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.359 you know, the minute you start peeling back layers, there's 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:12.879 an enlightenment you feel about yourself that translate to what 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:15.240 happens in your world. So, going from my second year 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.399 to third year, when I started with my wife and 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:20.639 she started peeling back layers, it was an emotional, chaotic, 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.360 crazy thing. But you know, my career went the way 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:25.920 I went after that because of that. Not necessarily because 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:28.119 anything physically, I'm maxed out. I can only do so 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.840 much physically, and you think, oh, I just train harder, 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:32.600 I just train harder. But if you don't you understand 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:34.440 how to do that anyway, because like I'm like you, 0:26:34.560 --> 0:26:36.800 if you're a grinder, you're a grinder. It's easy to do. 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:38.320 So you can pick up, I can pick up anyway. 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:40.920 Or you tell me to run any distance, I'm gonna 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:42.800 go do that. It's when you sit there and say, okay, 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:45.560 what about you? Who are you? Who's Michael Chandler, And 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:46.800 it's like, well, fuck, I don't know if I want 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:48.000 necessarily want to go you know what I'm saying. You 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:49.480 kind of sit back in there. You don't mean to 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:51.240 do that. Well, I don't just go eat healthy, And 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:53.800 it's like that is the stuff that really you start 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.040 playing like water in the other put if I have 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.200 difficulties with that still all of the time not being 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:01.560 ground over my feet are not like you know, always 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:03.320 looking in the future too much. Those are the types 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:06.679 of things that are very The more growth you have 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:08.879 as an individual, the more growth you have in like 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:12.359 the career you want, the more superficial things that don't matter. 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:14.560 Well, especially when you talk about a career, whether it's football, 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:17.400 whether it's fighting, whether it's business, no matter what location. 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:22.439 Talent or the hard work, those are usually givens honestly 0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:25.400 at the highest level, Like does most people work hard 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:27.440 in the NFL, or if they don't work that hard, 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:28.639 they have so much talent it does. 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:30.919 It doesn't matter. Yeah, and it catches up and it 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:31.399 catches up. 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.040 But it's the mindset, or it's the self belief, it's 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.960 the self awareness, it's it's those things you think, you know, 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:40.480 you just watched this last card you FC two fifty seven. 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:44.960 The difference in skill between Connor and Dustin is very, 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:46.600 very very slim. 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:49.080 But the fight went how it went. The difference between 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:51.280 me and Dan Hooker was very very different. Like these 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:54.560 top guys at the top level of mixed martial arts 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:58.080 inside of an octagon on a football field. It's that 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:01.159 degree of separations, not very much in a lot of ways, 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:03.680 but it's what did you do to get there? Mentally 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:08.080 and spiritually? You know, that's a physical partakes care of that. 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:12.119 I've always been so like curious and like obsessed with 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:15.600 why people are are successful while they stay successful, and 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:17.199 it's like the crazy thing that you guys have been 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:20.120 alluded to. And the wild part is it never stops, 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:23.680 Like you never you never figure it out to where 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:27.600 you're just just successful. Like you're constantly battling your mind. 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:30.399 You're constantly battling all these things, staying grounded, staying in 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:31.840 your shoes, being where your feet are. 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:33.679 The minute you try to stay comfortable, it checks you 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:34.680 right because. 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:36.439 You realise you're getting in a different You're getting in 0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:38.640 the habits that you know you had to check in 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:41.120 the first place. And that's the thing with like, like 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:44.640 people who end up getting and becoming successful and whatever avenue, 0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:49.480 they're always figuring out how to get uncomfortable and getting 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:52.000 behind that wall of learning about yourself. Who Taylor wan 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:53.880 is like, you do all these things, but when you 0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:56.560 started to peel back layers like figuring out which different 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.240 avenues are. I really got to look in the mirror 0:28:58.240 --> 0:29:01.160 and have so much self awareness, understanding how I tick, 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:03.440 how am I going to get myself to another level, 0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:06.360 and how vulnerable and uncomfortable is it going to make 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.360 you and still going after it and doing it to 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:11.840 get there. I've always been fascinated with that, and it 0:29:11.880 --> 0:29:15.320 never stops. It never stops, because everything's always changing. Like Taylor, 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:17.800 you'll probably be to be able to attest to having kids, 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.880 Like I never thought how how much my life would 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:22.400 change after I had a son, Like the amount of 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:26.320 guilt that I feel, the amount of like every single 0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:29.760 day you're a failure as a father in some way somehow, 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:32.920 and just so having that, and then obviously and then 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.640 getting married, getting married before that, or like moving in 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:39.520 together or moving across doing whatever, Like each new season 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:44.040 brings about each new challenges physically, you know, in your 0:29:44.080 --> 0:29:47.680 work and then mentally in your season of life, whatever 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.400 you're going through, so you're constantly just trying to figure 0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:52.880 it out. And then there's there's there's these weird you know, 0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:56.960 different definitions of say contentment or peace or satisfaction or 0:29:57.000 --> 0:29:59.200 whatever they are, and it's almost like kind of like 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.480 humble and hungry. You know, you want to stay hungry, 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:03.720 but you also want to be content with who you are, 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:06.480 but not content with where you're at, and what got 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:08.640 you here isn't going to get you to the next 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:11.040 level because you've got to continue to evolve, right, So 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:15.120 there's there's that weird and everyone's built differently in their mind. 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:16.880 Your your mind works different than his. 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:21.400 Motivate you start to sound like a schizophrenical I don't 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:22.720 want to be here, but I also to stay ground 0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:25.200 where I'm at and then there and it's like, cause 0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:27.640 you your mind going a little crazy because the easiest 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:28.840 thing to do is just kind of chill. 0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:30.840 The easiest thing to do is that. 0:30:30.840 --> 0:30:33.520 But you're not going to be like I'm not stimulated 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:35.160 if I don't go do this podcast or I don't 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:36.680 go get the workouts and or don't go to hand 0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:40.160 my kids, and the level of guilt is uh with 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:43.520 children that you've said it, dude, it's crazy. I was 0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:46.080 literally yesterday I feel like I told my I feel 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:49.200 like I'm spiraling right now because I'm doing so much 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:51.760 here and with my knee and all that that I 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:52.920 don't think you have a lot of time my kids. 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:54.480 So I'm racing home to go put them down, just 0:30:54.520 --> 0:30:56.040 to have a couple of minutes of them before I go. 0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:58.040 And we did Ernest's podcast, and then I have to 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.240 come home and put both of them down. And like, 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:03.720 especially when you grew up and you start to realize 0:31:03.720 --> 0:31:06.600 the faults you had, the tools you weren't given, You're like, 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:08.760 I really hope I can give my kids those tools 0:31:08.840 --> 0:31:10.520 so they don't have to go through X, Y and 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:12.360 Z that I had to go through to get to 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:14.400 this point, because a lot of people can't get to 0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:16.120 the point that you or I or will got to 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:19.720 because they might not be putting in an abversive situation 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:23.000 to challenge those those new tools and to try to 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:25.200 figure it out. They might not have a tailing to 0:31:25.920 --> 0:31:27.200 bring that out of them, you know what I'm saying, 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:28.800 or a career that they want to bring that out 0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:31.880 of them, So giving them the tools. I have never 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:35.120 yelled at my kids yet. I'm sure there's time, but 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:38.720 I'm saying, like whenever I am at my wits end 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:41.800 with right now, when she's three years old, and if 0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:44.800 she's you know, she's bonker, she's off the wall, she's 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:47.200 full of energy. She's an amazing kid, but she goes 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.760 on and I'm tired sometimes and I think to myself, like, Okay, 0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:53.400 how is this going to subconsciously affect her? Like to 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:55.360 have to put a walk? This is going to give 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:57.080 a daddy issue. This is going to be one of 0:31:57.120 --> 0:31:59.560 those problems. And it's like that helps ground you a 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.800 little bit more, putting it into If you something about 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.800 yourself so much, you help yourself more. 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:04.880 You know what I'm saying. 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.520 Well, there's no game, there's no playbook. Like you guys 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:10.640 work your whole your whole lives about playbooks. Right, coach 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:13.520 on a playbook, it's pretty darn easy. You follow the play. 0:32:13.720 --> 0:32:16.640 Success happens like similar to me with my coaches. But well, hey, 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:17.960 let's not make it sound like it's that easy to 0:32:17.960 --> 0:32:24.320 play football. Yeah, you do the play it's gonna work. 0:32:24.360 --> 0:32:29.480 You're gonna do just like just push them farther like 0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:31.800 a tag coach. Like you know, I listened to my coach. 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:33.680 Good things are gonna happen. I'm probably gonna win. But 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:38.320 with parenting, there is no playbook because just like you're 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:40.600 different than your parents and I'm different than mine, your 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:42.400 kids are different than you were when they were kids, 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:45.320 and then now you have two kids, right, so they're 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.320 both different too, So you got parents, both of them different. 0:32:47.320 --> 0:32:50.120 It's just and everyone makes a playbook, but they're what 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:52.440 they experience and did they have different minds that there? 0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:54.320 Oh yeah, you could sit down with ten different people 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:58.920 with ten different ten different uh advice structures, and none of. 0:32:58.840 --> 0:33:02.080 Them could be correct. It's just the most beautiful yet 0:33:02.080 --> 0:33:03.040 most challenging. 0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:05.520 Thing is extremely It's extremely and sometimes too with people 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:09.120 who are very like driven and wanting to you know, 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.120 chase the next thing and do all this stuff, and 0:33:11.280 --> 0:33:13.360 they don't find time to just sit at where they're 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:14.560 at and look at where the're at. You can put 0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:20.160 so much pressure on yourself that that you lose perspective. 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:23.640 So it's always good to see like where you've came 0:33:23.720 --> 0:33:26.800 from and to where you're at now. Obviously you're writing 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:28.800 down new goals and new things and chasing new things, 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:30.520 but you can't get so caught up and all the 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:32.000 pressure you're putting on our stuff to be all these 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:34.920 different things without having the perspective of like, hey, you know, 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:37.280 I've came this far in my career, you know what 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:38.120 I'm saying there's gonna be. 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:40.040 A time hitting on the kids, saying there's gonna be 0:33:40.040 --> 0:33:41.360 a time where you say, Okay, it's not about my 0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:42.600 goals anymore about their goals. 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:45.000 Yeah, you guys are talking about a world that I 0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:45.440 haven't got. 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:49.480 That a whole new humility for me, because it's always 0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:51.120 been me, you know what I'm saying. As weird as 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:53.760 it is, like you're playing this movie in your head 0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:56.080 of your life and you've dealt with it since you 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:59.720 could remember anything, especially in our career, and you're gonna be, 0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:01.760 you know, in your thirties. I'm gonna be my thirties 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:03.480 and my kids and be like I wanted to go 0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:06.560 chase their thing. And now my movie plot, my movie 0:34:06.600 --> 0:34:09.000 scenery that I'm programming every single day is now going 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:11.439 to change to what are they gonna what do they need? 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:11.759 Right? 0:34:11.800 --> 0:34:14.080 Well, maybe not the best thing for me, but what's 0:34:14.080 --> 0:34:16.200 the best thing for them? And that's gonna be That'll 0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:18.799 be a difficult thing for me because I'm very in 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.480 a lot of ways selfishly driven, like I've always been 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:22.719 like everybody, how do. 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:23.040 I get on? 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:24.440 How do I get to where I need to go? 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:25.560 You know what I'm saying, because at the end of 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:27.040 the day, it's like no one else's life but mine, 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:29.239 you know, And that's that's the scary thing. 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.960 Well, if you have to deal with that someday, especially. 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.440 In our line of work, well you're like for being 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:36.880 like a I mean not diminishing any other lines of work. 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:39.319 I'm just talking about all this stuff that you feel 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:40.719 like you have to do stuffish it, like. 0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:42.759 For your knee, body work, you know what I mean. 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:43.600 Working out. 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:45.719 Hey, you know I got to work out today because 0:34:45.760 --> 0:34:47.960 you know, I play professional sports type of thing. 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:50.439 Yeah, well, that's you can't really take a day off, right, 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:53.040 And it sounds crazy because you see some people that are, 0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:55.520 you know, traveling all over the place, going and partying 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:57.439 and shit like that, and I'm like, I just can't. 0:34:58.160 --> 0:35:00.120 All the old linemen went on a private jet to 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:01.080 Miami this past week. 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:01.440 I can't be. 0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:06.880 My knee. I'm not going to risk But it's like 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:08.800 I sit there and you bet FOMO is hitting hard 0:35:09.120 --> 0:35:11.160 the entire weekend. I'm like, dude, but I'm going to 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:12.920 bed early. I'm getting up with my kids and I'm 0:35:13.239 --> 0:35:14.960 trying to check those boxes. And those are the things 0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:16.960 I hope I can. I can sit back on and 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:21.000 rely on to keep that future programming. I keep hitting programming. 0:35:21.000 --> 0:35:23.239 But it really is like you're buying your minds, you're 0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:25.080 putting and you're putting money. You're putting money in the 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:25.520 bank too. 0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:28.160 It's like maybe maybe it will maybe you'll never think 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:31.000 about that sacrifice that you just made again. But eventually, 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:33.799 when when the going gets tough in the fourth quarter, 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:37.560 when the team needs you, your your performance is going 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:40.319 to soar because of the money in the bank that 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:43.520 you put in, the discipline, the missing out, the FOMO, 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:46.879 all of that turns into athletic achievement. And it's also 0:35:47.600 --> 0:35:51.160 like trying to trying to figure it out, compartmentalize and 0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:53.680 and navigate all of that as well. Like you going 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:56.799 back to being selfish, Like I think about that as well. 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:58.480 I spent a lot of time away from my son 0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:00.920 the last couple of years, first couple of years of 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:03.960 his life now because of training camp. But I know 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:06.560 that in order to be the self less dad, the 0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:09.040 selfless dad that he needs, I need to be selfish 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.359 so that this like we talked about the forty year 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:13.279 old Michael, I think about him, who was gonna lay 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.080 his head on that center block every night if I 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:17.279 didn't go to the UFC, it's also gonna be that 0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:21.000 same guy who is very unhappy with himself if he 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:24.000 cut corners in his career, didn't spend time away from 0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:26.000 his family that I needed to to in order to 0:36:26.040 --> 0:36:28.200 get everything I possibly can out of this career and 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:32.160 this opportunity, because I know the regret of living that 0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:35.479 life is much worse than the little bit of missing 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:37.120 out on time together. 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:40.839 Right now, Yeah, because that that life's sooner rather than later. 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:42.279 For sure, we're gonna have a whole lot, whole nother 0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:46.000 life to live, which is similar parallel into our careers 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:47.840 is eventually I'm gonna wke up and be able to 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:48.320 play fooball. 0:36:48.360 --> 0:36:49.640 You're gonna wake up and be able to fight like 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:50.120 he used too. 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.160 And it's like what I didn't have been wrapped up, 0:36:53.239 --> 0:36:55.160 And that is that is the pendulum we always sit 0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:57.759 on of pros and cons of ways of what's what 0:36:57.800 --> 0:36:58.799 do I have to do right now? 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:01.719 You know it's funny too, and I think this, I 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:03.239 think this is important. Number one. 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:07.040 Visualization is extremely important at sport. But I think and 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:10.279 you guys, i'd like to hear your guys perspective. I think, 0:37:10.320 --> 0:37:12.640 and I can. I can visualize this guy perfectly. I 0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:14.719 know exactly kind of what it's going to look like, 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:18.360 what it's going to feel like, but I visualize. I 0:37:18.400 --> 0:37:21.359 can close my eyes and visualize my last fight. Whether 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:23.200 I win or lose, don't know. But I take my 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:24.759 gloves off for the last time, and I lay him 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:26.200 in the middle of an octagon, lay him in the 0:37:26.200 --> 0:37:28.600 middle of an arena somewhere, and I got to go 0:37:28.719 --> 0:37:32.320 back to a locker room somewhere, shower up for the 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:35.000 last time, start putting my clothes on. And I have 0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:36.919 this vision of me put my hands on a sink 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:41.120 and looking in a mirror and having to ask myself, honestly, Michael, 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:43.239 did you give everything that you possibly could with these 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:45.360 talents that God gave you? And I just pray that 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:48.360 I could answer that question honestly and without regret, because 0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:53.200 that the power in that moment of me realizing that 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:57.240 a chapter is closed and the next chapter is going 0:37:57.280 --> 0:38:00.600 on motivates me today because I know I'm much closer 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:03.560 to that moment than I would than I am the 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:05.560 beginning of my career back when it started in two 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:06.200 thousand and nine. 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:07.480 I'm much closer to that. 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:10.120 So now it just helps you live life with a 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:13.839 little bit more gratitude, realizing that this is a fleeting thing. 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.040 This is a fleeting thing that will eventually and. 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:17.560 Chase you after something that's faster than you. 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:22.440 Yeah, father time, father time is undefeated. 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:22.759 You know. 0:38:22.840 --> 0:38:26.600 It's like you, you will always lose that battle eventually. 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:32.480 So it's it's what can you do today to maximize 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:33.399 your potential to. 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:35.120 Feel empty at the end, to be like I left 0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:35.839 it all out there. 0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:38.160 What you said, too, is the answer is going to 0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:40.239 be an obvious yes, yeah, I mean there's I don't 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.319 think anybody has ever had a question of effort in this, 0:38:42.640 --> 0:38:44.800 in this these three mins, like out there. 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:48.440 But in this bus US three, US three. You know, 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:49.759 I'm just kidding, but. 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:52.960 Like there is a level of you know, I've always 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:54.319 said you can say what you want about like I 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:56.600 was always say what you want about my family and 0:38:56.719 --> 0:38:58.879 my dog, but over questioned my effort, you know, I said, 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:02.120 joke like that all time, But like that with my 0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:05.200 careers and the way you talk, the way you talk, 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:07.960 the way you fight, the way you act. The easy 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:11.400 answer in that visualization you had is yes, you've obviously 0:39:11.440 --> 0:39:14.360 given everything you have and that's awesome. And you we 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:17.360 talked about you, you know, your flight, your trajectory of 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:20.839 how you've taken your career is that's that's how you're 0:39:20.880 --> 0:39:23.600 so sustainable. That's how you can say, yes, you know, 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:26.400 you see a guy. I can I bring up McGregor 0:39:26.440 --> 0:39:27.680 again because I don't I don't know a whole lot 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:32.320 about the UFC, but I've watched him since what twenty 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:35.920 twelve it was just fighting first fight against DS, So I. 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:38.680 Went to that first. I went to that fight to 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:40.520 D and I see him. 0:39:40.680 --> 0:39:43.960 You know, he's the guy that does great, I feels good, 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:46.160 coasts a little bit, and then has to lose. 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:46.680 To get back up. 0:39:47.160 --> 0:39:49.680 And you've kept this it win or lose, you stay 0:39:49.680 --> 0:39:52.919 on that same same trajectory. And those are the types 0:39:52.920 --> 0:39:54.480 of things that it makes it easier to say I 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.440 gave everything I had because there was no valley, only 0:39:57.719 --> 0:39:59.600 the consistency of going. 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.719 And so I think you're gonna be I. 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:03.879 Feel huge, very happy with the way way you lay 0:40:03.880 --> 0:40:05.080 your head on that pillow for sure. 0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:07.959 Well, and that's yeah, and it's then it's just really 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:11.120 building it brick by boring brick, like you said, I mean, 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:13.239 that's kind of been the thing too. I've never never 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:15.920 tried to do anything outside of myself or outside of 0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:18.480 my character or outside of anything. Just stay in my 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.960 lane and focus on building this thing brick by boring brick, 0:40:22.120 --> 0:40:24.439 because I that's all I really could do, especially fighting 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:28.080 outside of the UFC for so long. And it's interesting 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:32.160 to hearing these guys talk now that I'm in the UFC, 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:34.920 and they talk about they want more respect, they want 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:36.200 more money, or they want more of this, or they 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:38.239 want more that. There's a trade off to more money. 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:40.239 There's a trade off to you know, being in a 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:42.320 different organization, maybe making more money. 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:45.719 Being a part of the UFC is a huge, huge thing. 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:47.600 I just won my first fight in the UFC, and 0:40:47.640 --> 0:40:49.839 now I just now feel like I finally actually won 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:52.520 a fight in the eight even though. 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:53.959 You've been a time belt or champ. 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:57.200 Yeah, like as well, I win one fight on this 0:40:57.280 --> 0:40:59.880 card and I have five five times the amount of 0:40:59.880 --> 0:41:02.919 time messages or Instagram lovel like all the other stuff. 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:05.400 That stuff that doesn't really necessarily matter, like the support 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:07.200 compared to winning a world title. 0:41:07.239 --> 0:41:10.480 Over in another way, that stuff doesn't matter necessarily to 0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:12.680 you as far as growth as a human, but you 0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:15.719 see the the level of it on the outside, how 0:41:15.760 --> 0:41:18.080 crazy that is ten times bigger while. 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:20.520 At least you know and it makes sense. I always 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:20.880 knew that. 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:22.879 So that was what they always always the hardest part 0:41:22.920 --> 0:41:25.480 about making the decision to continue to sign with belts 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:28.239 or over and over again until now and then then 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:29.919 people say old, Now you're too old. 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:32.560 It's too late. You're gonna get your freaking head knocked off, 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:34.560 and then you're you know, it's just like so there 0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:35.239 was a lot of uh. 0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:38.560 I mean, there's there's every opinion in doubt out there 0:41:38.600 --> 0:41:40.279 for you in this fight. You know, it's made it 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:43.600 more entertaining, you know, I mean, I do I do 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.759 want to ask do you do you look and see 0:41:45.840 --> 0:41:46.919 didn't read about that doubt. 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:48.719 Let's tick at the break from this beautiful episode with 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:50.359 Michael Chandler to talk about another thing. 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:51.520 Vehicles. 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:54.160 All right, we either want them or we got them. 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:57.080 And if you have a truck, you know you can 0:41:57.120 --> 0:42:02.120 trust that guy. But do you have a dependable, hard working. 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:03.600 Truck. 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:07.880 You're thinking to yourself, it's a Chevy Silverado, right, it's advanced, dependable. 0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:09.440 I've used those words before, but it keeps coming in 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:12.320 my head every time I say Chevy Silverado. I'm building 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.160 a house right now. When I go on there and 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:17.359 there's a concrctor that I'm dealing with, and I drive 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:19.080 into that parking lot to have a meeting with the guy, 0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:23.480 and it says Chevy Silverado on his vehicle, and no, 0:42:23.560 --> 0:42:26.360 I'm probably in good hands because they're good people. 0:42:26.400 --> 0:42:26.959 You know what I'm saying. 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:28.759 Guy who has a truck, I got a truck. I 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:31.399 got a Chevy right now. I drive everywhere people, Hey, 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:33.400 can he help me move? The answer is either yesterda no, 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:35.480 depending on how well I know you. But you know 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:37.080 I can help you out in a pinch if you 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:40.359 really need it. Those are the things that we love 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:42.560 to do of being truck people helping helping people. That's 0:42:42.560 --> 0:42:46.520 a beautiful, beautiful thing. Tailgating, hauling any of those types 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:48.359 of stuff and moving down. I'm gonna need help soon. 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:50.920 I know Joshi buoying the back. There's got a Chevy, 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:52.920 and I know he's gonna have his stuff at my 0:42:53.040 --> 0:42:55.000 house ready to go because he cares about the boy 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:59.239 drive Chevy Chevy Silverado. It's the best making model they 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.560 possibly got. I have any vehicle out there on the road, 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:04.360 drive Chevy to get back to Michael Chandler. 0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:05.279 I do. 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:07.839 And so you're telling me you were never nervous going 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:10.080 into this fight. You were that you felt that supremely confident, 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:12.400 where you don't. You're like, at the end of the day, 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:14.719 you're able to lower those voices walking into the ring. 0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:17.320 But I'm I'm just I'm wondering if. 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:19.319 You do to have that curiosity to see all the 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:21.320 doubta out there, to kind of see fire. 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:24.680 So I will say, yeah, so I the walk, like 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:26.840 you said, calling the voices when I'm on the walk, 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:30.759 the walk zero zero tunnel vision zero fear, yeah, zero 0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:34.760 fear zero insecurity zero. Uh, you know, fear of anything 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:35.480 bad happening. 0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:37.360 Leading up to that. I mean I had nightmares. I 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:38.280 always have nightmares. 0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:41.640 There's always usually one night about two weeks before the 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:43.600 fight where I wake up in the middle of the 0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:46.600 night in a cold sweat because I just got knocked out, 0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:49.680 choked out or broken by my opponent. And broken is 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:52.360 usually probably the scariest one. Anybody can get knocked outnyone 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.200 can get choked out, but just broken. 0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:56.920 Broken as what like you make you wave the white flag, 0:43:57.000 --> 0:43:59.239 or broken like broken bones no, no broke. 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:01.120 Now, I'm not scared of broken bones. It's more like 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:04.839 breaking my will. Yeah, so tired, so out of it, 0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:08.080 so whatever. Getting swarmed the guy is just too good, 0:44:08.120 --> 0:44:13.000 he's big. I break and it's just white flag dream 0:44:13.040 --> 0:44:18.120 You is really weak too, Like you can't throw a punch, dude, exactly. 0:44:18.160 --> 0:44:21.960 It'll treat you like everything come out. Always have one 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:25.879 of those, right. But and I think this has been 0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:27.640 an interesting new experience. 0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:30.080 The day that I signed with the UFC, you know, 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:32.800 everything started getting bigger and bigger and bigger, growing, And 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:35.319 that comes with a lot of negativity too, because then 0:44:35.320 --> 0:44:36.680 you hear the doubters talk. 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:37.520 A lot of new. 0:44:37.360 --> 0:44:40.000 Opinions come into your life that have no clue, who 0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:42.800 haven't followed your journey, who don't know how actually humble 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:43.920 and how hard you've worked. 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:46.560 They're just new coming in and ready to ready to troll. 0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:49.600 And truthfully, I'm I. I don't usually read the negative ones. 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:51.440 I'll try to read more of the positive ones. But 0:44:51.520 --> 0:44:54.520 I do watch a lot of interviews. I've watched all 0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:57.400 of my interviews back just to remind myself of what 0:44:57.480 --> 0:44:59.799 I said listen to other people, because I think it 0:44:59.840 --> 0:45:02.120 was is it Colin Cowhard or one of those those guys. 0:45:02.200 --> 0:45:04.279 Remember this highlight on one of the shows. He said, 0:45:04.440 --> 0:45:07.000 if you want to be interesting, you have to be interested, 0:45:07.640 --> 0:45:09.799 you know, So you have to be interested in what's 0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:10.279 going on. 0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:10.840 You have to. 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:13.680 And I think that's the reason why Connor McGregor is 0:45:13.680 --> 0:45:16.719 a global superstar is I think he is interested. I 0:45:16.760 --> 0:45:20.040 think he sits at home, he researches, or his team 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.040 around him researches. He knows what his next move is 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:25.960 going to be from a marketing standpoint on social media, 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:29.239 every word that he says, how it's going to play out. 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:33.560 He knows a lot about his opponents mentally and outside 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:36.160 of or like inside the cage. Outside of the cage, 0:45:36.160 --> 0:45:38.359 he is interested in what is going on, and that's 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:40.040 why people are drawn to him because when he's on 0:45:40.080 --> 0:45:42.120 the mic, people think he's just going off the cuff, 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:43.200 but he's not going off the cuff. 0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:43.360 You know. 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:48.640 He is a researched, very meticulous, meticulous and intelligent individual. 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:52.279 So I just want to be more like that because 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:54.640 I think overall it will play it will bode well 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:58.040 in my career. So with that social media and all 0:45:58.040 --> 0:45:59.520 that kind of stuff, the age of social media, it 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:02.400 is that whole world for me has grown, So I 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:04.239 want to I want to be interested in what's going on. 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.200 Maybe here a little bit of doubt, but learning how 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:06.759 to utilize it. 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:08.560 Learning how to use is really just like, oh, this 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:10.600 guy's a loser, he's be leagues and he's gonna get 0:46:10.640 --> 0:46:11.000 knocked out. 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:12.160 Like that's those are the three things. 0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:14.480 So it's like, Okay, it's just regurgitated the same stuff, 0:46:14.680 --> 0:46:18.040 just kind of base level doubt. That's cool whatever, there's 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:22.279 no there's no validity to it. But hearing other people talk, 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:25.520 like hearing the Daniel Cormier's, the Ariel Hawane's. 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:28.080 The respected people, people that have credibility. 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:31.000 Kind of media or people who study the sport listening 0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:33.880 to that kind of stuff are usually good as well. 0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:36.920 So yeah, because it was a huge I mean, the 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:41.160 way everyone seemed to have spoke about it, who's had credibility, 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:45.120 like you know, like you said, the Cormier's, uh shobs, 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:47.480 those kind of guys. It seemed like you were in 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:50.080 as much of a mismatch as you could have been 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:52.200 in out of the choice of fighters, that you were 0:46:52.280 --> 0:46:54.320 lying on the last guy on the because he was 0:46:54.440 --> 0:46:58.680 long really incredible take down defense, and you're heavy. You're 0:46:58.719 --> 0:47:00.680 heavy handed in a wrestler, So it's kind of like, 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:02.600 you know, you see you out there, you like that 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:05.680 pissed off a little honey badger dude, just get getting after him. 0:47:05.680 --> 0:47:06.319 So I had to. 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:08.520 I mean, that was a fight where I mean you 0:47:08.840 --> 0:47:11.800 talk about names like like right now, the the rankings 0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:15.320 or before this, the rankings were Justin Gaechee, Dustin Poorrier, 0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:17.880 Connor McGregor, Charles Oliver, Tony Ferguson. 0:47:17.960 --> 0:47:19.799 All those guys are much easier matchups than the guy 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:20.359 that I just thought. 0:47:20.400 --> 0:47:23.080 I believe even I think everyone else believed that to 0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:26.719 with Shaw, and he was like anybody inside the top five, 0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:28.560 I would have felt better of him, anybody inside the 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:30.520 top five versus Dan hook. 0:47:30.320 --> 0:47:32.799 Everybody said non Hooker was the only guy that said 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:33.680 you was no chance. 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.520 He said they threw him in. They threw him into 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:37.279 a fire. That's what it is, what you're saying. It 0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:37.680 works out. 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:39.560 The one person you don't want to fight other people 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:41.120 you'd rather fight, said no, I'll tell you. 0:47:41.040 --> 0:47:43.360 What now, honestly, and this is no knock against the 0:47:43.400 --> 0:47:46.120 other guys, but and I could very well lose to 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:47.279 any of those guys, I get it. 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:49.560 You know, no insurance here, no exactly. 0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:54.400 Well, we heard hang, I was gonna say, keep the 0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:56.320 same energy you had on the mic post fight. 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:00.800 If you can't. 0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:04.440 Was I was prefacing it because I was saying, I 0:48:04.480 --> 0:48:06.319 feel like I already beat the guy who was the 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:09.759 toughest matchup for me. So now I have even Now 0:48:09.840 --> 0:48:11.799 y'all really affed up, because now I got even more 0:48:11.840 --> 0:48:15.440 confidence stepping into that, like I will knock out Dustin Pourtier, 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:19.400 I will knock out Justin Gaigie I, Charles Olivera, I 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:21.480 will knock out Charles. I will knock out any of 0:48:21.480 --> 0:48:23.200 these guys in the first or second round. And I 0:48:23.200 --> 0:48:26.040 will capture UFC Gold probably either my next fight or 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:27.920 the fight after, and then I'm gonna come back on 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:30.200 the bus and We're gonna bring the belt on the 0:48:30.200 --> 0:48:30.600 bus hell. 0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:37.080 That's what we're doing, dude. I love what about knockause 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:40.520 that's out who Kabiba. I don't know if Kabib's ever 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:42.600 coming back, but yes, I do think so. 0:48:42.719 --> 0:48:44.560 You know, I thought he was coming back. I thought 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:45.919 recently he's talked about coming back. 0:48:45.960 --> 0:48:47.759 He did, and he said if he saw something spectacular, 0:48:47.760 --> 0:48:49.520 but he didn't see something spectacular enough. 0:48:49.520 --> 0:48:51.000 I guess, well, that sounds like a bit of a 0:48:51.000 --> 0:48:54.600 cop out, because it's like it's in your it's in your. 0:48:54.960 --> 0:48:55.839 Like you can. He's playing. 0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:59.600 He's playing against the hardest fighter you had to fight, 0:48:59.640 --> 0:49:00.920 and that was particular to him. 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:04.080 Could be being interested, he's playing the game. He's setting 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:04.839 up his next movie. 0:49:05.080 --> 0:49:06.879 I mean the thing about could be he's tactical too. 0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:10.440 He's that calm that you look at when he was fighting. 0:49:10.440 --> 0:49:13.239 He's the Russian type ship. Yeah, he's the Russian type ship. 0:49:13.280 --> 0:49:15.160 But he's that's like Calomus chaos, right. 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:16.440 You can see he's there. 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:20.080 And he when he speaks the words way more because 0:49:20.400 --> 0:49:23.000 he fucking like he doesn't talk very often. 0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:25.680 Because he chirped McGregor after his fight up but everyone 0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:28.600 him after saying, you treat you changed your you change 0:49:28.640 --> 0:49:30.640 all these people, You change your environment. 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:31.759 An adjustment around him. 0:49:32.120 --> 0:49:34.239 Yeah, I hate that though, man like, because I mean, 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:37.080 obviously I'm just a little bit just set up with 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:39.400 the Kabib thing at this point. It's like, you know, 0:49:39.480 --> 0:49:41.160 bounce out if you want to bounce out, but don't 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:43.880 don't be kind of lukewarm. Don't be don't be I 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:45.719 might come back, I might not, but I will say, well, 0:49:45.719 --> 0:49:47.879 he knows he's the champ. He knows he's undefeated, for sure. 0:49:47.880 --> 0:49:50.400 But in his defense, I think Dana also wanted to 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:53.040 keep that dream alive, you know, which rightfully so he should. 0:49:53.120 --> 0:49:54.799 I think he cares about Kabib, but I think he 0:49:54.840 --> 0:49:58.000 cares about his promotion. I think could be being in 0:49:58.040 --> 0:50:01.440 the promotion is is in the best interest of all 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:02.240 parties involved. 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:04.600 But well, Danna cares about the dollar signs for sure. Dan, 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:08.000 he's he's the he's the guy. Oh yeah, he's a 0:50:08.120 --> 0:50:11.080 huge draw. He's what it is. You are becoming that draw. 0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:13.480 You became that draw, the mint you had that. Yeah, 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:14.279 you win another one. 0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:15.919 You go do what you just said here and knock 0:50:15.920 --> 0:50:16.879 one of those guys out you. 0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:20.360 Just said and the bella is actually on the bus. Yeah, yeah, 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:23.040 now you're that guy. Yeah, well belts on the bus 0:50:23.160 --> 0:50:25.640 or not. You do what you have to do for you. Yeah, 0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:28.520 it's over. Like, well, you you run your plate, you 0:50:28.560 --> 0:50:30.240 start saying yes and no to fights. 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:32.640 Yeah, and I think, uh, I mean the good thing 0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.359 is the good thing is now that it was kind 0:50:35.360 --> 0:50:38.160 of like what the problem before I signed, Like I 0:50:38.160 --> 0:50:41.120 said in September, I've known all of this stuff. I 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:42.320 knew I was gonna go out there and win. I 0:50:42.400 --> 0:50:44.239 knew I was going to get a great opportunity. I 0:50:44.320 --> 0:50:47.839 knew I didn't know at this level how big this 0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:50.719 thing was going to blow up and just overnight me 0:50:50.840 --> 0:50:53.959 becoming overnight success, like really a wave of success. Twelve years. 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:57.000 Took me twelve years to becoming over success. But I 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:58.560 didn't know the level at which it was going to 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:01.640 grow this big this quick. But I knew this was 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:03.880 going to happen, but I couldn't really say it. I 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:06.279 was the outside guy, the B league guy. In a 0:51:06.280 --> 0:51:08.920 lot of people's eyes, I was the dark horse. I 0:51:09.080 --> 0:51:11.000 said too much. In a lot of people's eyes. I 0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:13.040 had too much confidence. People don't like confidence. They don't 0:51:13.080 --> 0:51:14.480 like they don't like you coming and act like you're 0:51:14.480 --> 0:51:17.080 gonna beat people for some reason, like y'all are y'all 0:51:17.120 --> 0:51:18.359 are just you need to have. 0:51:18.400 --> 0:51:19.640 New It's okay. 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:22.920 But so I knew all that, but I couldn't really 0:51:22.960 --> 0:51:24.360 say it because I didn't have a number next to 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:26.160 my name. Now I'm ranked number four in the world, 0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:29.000 so it's like, so you're four, Now number four, So 0:51:29.040 --> 0:51:32.920 it's so now, but now it's now one of the guys, right, yeah, 0:51:33.280 --> 0:51:35.040 now one of the guys. Now it's like, okay, there's 0:51:35.040 --> 0:51:37.319 only there's only four guys here. Who should be fighting 0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:39.279 for the title. Who's it going to be? You know, 0:51:39.280 --> 0:51:44.080 it's either me, Gae Chee Pourier or Charles Olavera. So 0:51:44.440 --> 0:51:46.680 essentially we thought we had a four man tournament leading 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:48.439 to the title. Now we might have another four man 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:50.920 tournament leading to the title. Who who knows what it is. 0:51:50.960 --> 0:51:54.000 But either way, I'm two fights away at most to 0:51:54.000 --> 0:51:54.480 hopefully fight. 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:56.640 So I apologize for being dumb, like who who does 0:51:56.680 --> 0:51:59.520 have the title? So Kabiev still has the title, but 0:51:59.600 --> 0:52:01.880 essentially it will just be vacated. I believe. 0:52:02.719 --> 0:52:04.279 I always hate that man because then they make a 0:52:04.280 --> 0:52:07.759 what an interim championship or something like that or something. Well, 0:52:07.800 --> 0:52:09.799 so if but then if kid could be come back, 0:52:09.800 --> 0:52:11.080 it's like, oh, belt versus belt. 0:52:11.440 --> 0:52:14.320 No, they won't do it. It'll be him fighting. It'll 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:17.840 be an uncrowned. Like everyone knows, kuld Be was undefeated 0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:20.880 and still the champion. He relinquished the belt and retired. 0:52:20.920 --> 0:52:25.480 He didn't lose the belt, so kind of like George. Yeah, 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:30.040 so they'll relink, he'll relinquish it, and they will have 0:52:30.080 --> 0:52:33.880 a title fight. And I wish they would have just 0:52:34.000 --> 0:52:36.360 made the McGregor versus Pooria a title fight, because if 0:52:36.400 --> 0:52:37.759 they would have done that, it would have been easy 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:39.879 for me to say, Okay, hey, I'm the only guy. 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:42.560 I just did it on the co main event of 0:52:42.560 --> 0:52:45.080 that card. In a couple of weeks. You know, I 0:52:45.080 --> 0:52:46.759 think they'll make you fight again before you fight for 0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:47.200 the title. 0:52:47.800 --> 0:52:48.000 Yeah. 0:52:48.040 --> 0:52:50.520 Maybe, Dana said in the post fight conference it was 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:52.080 me and Pooria for the title next. 0:52:52.800 --> 0:52:55.360 That awesome. That's good. And he loves being on the 0:52:55.400 --> 0:52:55.759 phone with you. 0:52:55.800 --> 0:52:57.600 I heard his little comment, talking like, you get it 0:52:57.680 --> 0:52:59.479 on the phone two minutes with this guy, you love him? 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:00.840 Yeah, I mean that's got to make you. 0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:04.640 I got a good relationship is a seller, bro, I. 0:53:03.600 --> 0:53:04.640 Got I mean he is. 0:53:04.960 --> 0:53:08.120 That's why this thing is what it is like that 0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:09.960 I got a good I got a good relationship with him. 0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:12.400 I mean, it's it's pretty darn easy, though, man, Like 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:14.719 I just I see these guys. I see the way 0:53:14.719 --> 0:53:16.759 they operate. I see the entitlement in which they they 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:20.400 they operate in. They don't understand what they have and 0:53:20.440 --> 0:53:22.120 they and they and they don't understand what they have 0:53:22.200 --> 0:53:25.200 because they're spoiled me fighting outside of the UFC for 0:53:25.239 --> 0:53:27.480 so long, me coming in now, I'm like a kid 0:53:27.520 --> 0:53:29.399 at the candy store. Yet I'm a thirty four year 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:32.160 old veteran of the sport. It's not like I'm some young, 0:53:32.280 --> 0:53:34.640 starry eyed kid who's just so happy to be a 0:53:34.640 --> 0:53:36.160 part of the UFC. It's like, I'm happy to be 0:53:36.200 --> 0:53:38.320 a part of the UFC because I've been outside of 0:53:38.320 --> 0:53:41.919 the UFC seeing the alternative to the UFC for so long. 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:45.320 How everything operates compared to how well the UFC operates, 0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:48.520 Also compared to how well your life can change overnight 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:49.080 in the UFC. 0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:50.640 You can't do that anywhere else. What are the big 0:53:50.640 --> 0:53:53.319 glaring differences between Beltour and UFC. Like you say, I've 0:53:53.320 --> 0:53:56.320 been on the outside. Belltour is the biggest competitor to UFC. 0:53:56.800 --> 0:53:59.000 What makes UFC so much different? Just it has that 0:53:59.080 --> 0:54:01.120 much more of a raw that was more marketing, that 0:54:01.160 --> 0:54:02.520 was that's that much more money. 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:02.879 Yeah. 0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:05.000 So what I would say without I mean, and it 0:54:05.120 --> 0:54:11.040 just for a in a completely subjective stance, is Bellatour. Bellator, 0:54:11.120 --> 0:54:13.759 I think is just content doing what they're doing being 0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:17.920 the number two, never ever growing or taking ground from 0:54:17.920 --> 0:54:20.840 the UFC, whereas the UFC Dana White stays up at 0:54:20.920 --> 0:54:23.799 night trying to figure out how he makes this thing 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:27.600 bigger than the NFL, bigger than F one, bigger than 0:54:28.200 --> 0:54:31.759 freaking cricket, bigger than all these other sports, bigger than 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:35.840 WWE pre soccer, Premiere Premier soccer. I believe that he 0:54:35.960 --> 0:54:39.520 truly operates. He is pissed off every time he sees 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:44.719 the NFL, F one, cricket, soccer, that these sports franchises 0:54:44.719 --> 0:54:45.480 are bigger. 0:54:45.200 --> 0:54:45.719 Than the UFC. 0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:49.840 I think he is a freaking shark. I think he wants. 0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:53.160 He wants to build this thing into the biggest sports 0:54:53.160 --> 0:54:55.640 franchise in the entire world, and that, to me is 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:59.280 exciting because I operate similar to that, much more similar 0:54:59.280 --> 0:54:59.920 to that than I do. 0:55:00.760 --> 0:55:03.120 Status quo. I'm okay true. 0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:07.000 Yeah, Like you know, Bellator Man, I would my last 0:55:07.040 --> 0:55:09.320 six fights in Bellator I got. I had a camera 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:11.480 on me one time. I was like one of the 0:55:11.480 --> 0:55:14.640 faces of Belacher. I almost feel like I do. I 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:17.279 did my own promotion like I spend. I spend a 0:55:17.320 --> 0:55:20.320 lot of money per year on my own video stuff, 0:55:20.800 --> 0:55:27.040 my own content. Creating my own content, running ads, different 0:55:27.040 --> 0:55:28.000 marketing things for. 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:29.880 Me to build. What I had to build, I was 0:55:29.920 --> 0:55:31.200 my own to get in front of everybody. 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:34.120 Yes, I was my own media company, when really it 0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:36.440 should be it should have been Bellator building me so 0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:37.920 that they could build a star, so they could make 0:55:37.960 --> 0:55:39.719 money off the star. They don't want to. They didn't 0:55:39.719 --> 0:55:41.719 want to spend the money. The UFC has probably spent 0:55:41.800 --> 0:55:44.439 more money on me right now in my first four 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:46.440 months than Bellatour has in the last four years. And 0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:49.480 that's nothing against them. It's just that's the way that 0:55:49.480 --> 0:55:50.200 they operate their. 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:51.480 Bi Some people are happy being where they're at. 0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:53.480 I got to the point where they, I think they 0:55:53.600 --> 0:55:55.600 looked at me and said, well, Chandler's big enough, so 0:55:55.719 --> 0:55:59.239 let's go build you know, Pico and Page and this 0:55:59.280 --> 0:56:01.200 guy and Kimbo's lices, Son and this and this, and 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:03.239 let's go build these other people, which is completely. 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:04.840 Because you're bringing military up a little more because of 0:56:04.880 --> 0:56:05.880 who where you got to. 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:08.480 So I but I've always just thought differently. I've always 0:56:08.480 --> 0:56:10.279 looked at it like a business much more than just 0:56:10.280 --> 0:56:10.760 a sport. 0:56:10.880 --> 0:56:12.279 I you know. 0:56:12.680 --> 0:56:15.520 So that's how I always operated it, and I always 0:56:15.520 --> 0:56:17.840 said social media is what is going to be the 0:56:17.880 --> 0:56:20.279 measuring stick for how well you do and how much 0:56:20.280 --> 0:56:20.839 money you make. 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:22.799 I talked, I talked to my managers about it, like 0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:24.440 eight years ago. They thought I was crazy. 0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:25.960 Was talking to other people who are like, no, it's 0:56:25.960 --> 0:56:27.600 always just going to be like Facebook where you got 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:28.920 friends and you got this, And I'm like, no, I'm 0:56:28.960 --> 0:56:31.319 telling you right now, that is your resume, that is 0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:33.560 your worth, That is your look at the followers, that 0:56:33.640 --> 0:56:37.200 is your yeah. Yeah, and then the followers, but then 0:56:37.239 --> 0:56:41.000 also bringing and adding value and then the relationship, like 0:56:41.000 --> 0:56:42.520 I don't have a sponsor right now that I don't 0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:46.640 have a really great relationship with outside of the business relationship, 0:56:46.680 --> 0:56:51.680 you know, because that's longevity, that's that's impact, and that's 0:56:51.800 --> 0:56:53.600 significance within the organization. 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:56.040 So some of the young athletes out there listening, what 0:56:56.200 --> 0:56:58.520 is uh, could you give us a ballpark? How much 0:56:58.520 --> 0:57:01.800 you spend per year on your own you're on social stuff? 0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:06.719 Thirty thousand? Probably? What about your body, which isn't a ton? Yeah? No, 0:57:06.920 --> 0:57:09.440 what about your body? You probably, oh god, way more 0:57:09.480 --> 0:57:10.400 than that. Yeah. 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:13.960 Yeah, I mean when it comes to supplementation, body work, 0:57:14.680 --> 0:57:18.520 all the other stuff, like the freaking yeah, Like whether 0:57:18.560 --> 0:57:21.280 it be Pilate's, whether it be Yoga, whether it be 0:57:22.880 --> 0:57:26.760 I mean I the company that I am sponsored by 0:57:26.760 --> 0:57:29.160 now to so right, like obviously all of their products 0:57:29.200 --> 0:57:31.360 I get for free now, but man, before I was 0:57:31.360 --> 0:57:35.040 buying all of those products using the time, the energy, 0:57:35.200 --> 0:57:38.320 and the money spent on just making sure this body lasts. 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:39.080 As long as possible. 0:57:39.160 --> 0:57:41.400 Yeah, because even like right now or yesterday, I was 0:57:41.480 --> 0:57:43.320 driving in the car with my wife and it's just like, 0:57:44.000 --> 0:57:46.800 you don't quite you don't, you can't quite put a 0:57:46.920 --> 0:57:50.520 number or dollars sign on it. But me getting the 0:57:50.600 --> 0:57:53.160 Comain Events slot on the Conomcgregor pay per view, knocking 0:57:53.240 --> 0:57:55.040 that guy on the first round, doing the backflip, doing 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:57.760 the Rick Flair promo, doing all this crazy stuff. But 0:57:58.120 --> 0:58:00.440 the greatest thing about it was I didn't take one 0:58:00.880 --> 0:58:03.959 shot to the head. So that essentially means this fight 0:58:04.040 --> 0:58:06.320 can be taken off the record and I get one 0:58:06.360 --> 0:58:08.840 more extra at the end of the career, one more 0:58:08.880 --> 0:58:12.840 extra paycheck, one more extra platform, one more extra opportunity 0:58:12.880 --> 0:58:14.640 because I took no damage in this fight. That is 0:58:14.680 --> 0:58:17.840 the greatest thing, greatest possible scenario. So you think because 0:58:17.880 --> 0:58:19.320 you didn't take any shots like that. 0:58:19.560 --> 0:58:21.360 Could you turn around and fight a lot sooner or 0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:23.640 is there way more of a process that goes into 0:58:23.640 --> 0:58:25.920 that as far as like you gotta watch film on 0:58:25.960 --> 0:58:27.440 a dude, you got to do your homework, or if 0:58:27.480 --> 0:58:27.760 you're like. 0:58:27.760 --> 0:58:28.920 Hey, we need you to fight in six weeks, you 0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:29.320 can go fight. 0:58:29.360 --> 0:58:31.800 No, I definitely could do. I want to absolutely not. 0:58:31.840 --> 0:58:34.080 I mean I was actually freaking talking to my wife 0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:35.640 about this morning. I was like, well, what if Dana 0:58:35.720 --> 0:58:38.480 called right now is like, hey, you and whoever for 0:58:38.560 --> 0:58:41.240 the title in March. She's like, well, I would kill you, 0:58:41.400 --> 0:58:43.040 but I would love you and I would love another 0:58:43.080 --> 0:58:45.400 paycheck and I love for you to to you get 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:47.840 to get that title to get you know, So could 0:58:47.840 --> 0:58:50.440 I could? I physically absolutely because I didn't have a 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:53.320 suspension basically mandatory rest for seven days just because that's 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:56.800 mandatory that everybody does after a fight. But I could 0:58:56.800 --> 0:58:58.920 absolutely do it, and it would almost be even better. 0:58:59.200 --> 0:59:01.520 Mind is, sharp hands are where they need to be 0:59:01.520 --> 0:59:02.960 because you kind of lose it a little bit. 0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:04.840 Just like you guys probably need you take time off, 0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:08.360 and you need the time. You need the time off. 0:59:08.440 --> 0:59:09.960 You know it's gonna suck when you come back and 0:59:10.000 --> 0:59:11.960 you're a little bit slower here, You're a little bit 0:59:12.000 --> 0:59:12.520 slower there. 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:15.040 Things don't feel shape. 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:16.560 And then then it takes you a couple of weeks 0:59:16.560 --> 0:59:18.120 to come back. But you know that you needed that 0:59:18.160 --> 0:59:21.240 time off. Your body needed to you know, maybe whatever, 0:59:21.280 --> 0:59:22.960 whether it gain a little bit of weight, swell it, 0:59:22.960 --> 0:59:26.000 because like, especially for me, making weight, I put my 0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:29.200 body into starvation mode and like the body does not 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:32.000 operate well there for for long periods of time. So 0:59:32.040 --> 0:59:33.760 you need I need to you know, we had pizza. 0:59:33.800 --> 0:59:35.680 We had taco night last night at the Chandler household. 0:59:35.680 --> 0:59:37.440 The night before that, we made homemade pizzas. So like 0:59:37.440 --> 0:59:40.800 we're I want my body out, but let my body 0:59:40.800 --> 0:59:43.000 get a little a little bit fluffy. Like I'm always 0:59:43.000 --> 0:59:44.720 gonna stay in shape and I'm gonna continue to work out, 0:59:44.720 --> 0:59:47.240 but I need like a little bit of fluff in 0:59:47.280 --> 0:59:49.400 the joints. These joints have been freaking getting crushed for 0:59:49.440 --> 0:59:50.240 the last eight month. 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:52.600 String. You know, it's left the body. 0:59:54.040 --> 0:59:56.480 Injury. There's a reason why you're the area gets inflamed, 0:59:56.520 --> 0:59:58.600 is that the body's protecting itself. And let's take the 0:59:58.640 --> 0:59:59.400 pain away a little bit. 0:59:59.560 --> 1:00:01.040 I see what you you know, so like let the body, 1:00:01.120 --> 1:00:03.480 let the body just you know, go back to a 1:00:03.560 --> 1:00:05.600 normal person for a little bit, you know, and then 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:08.560 then go back right back into it. But physically, I would, 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:11.000 you know, as an athlete, if if I didn't have 1:00:11.360 --> 1:00:13.480 wife and son that I wanted to like serve and 1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:16.080 be with right now, as an athlete, going right back 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:18.400 into a training camp and fighting in four weeks would 1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:19.960 probably be best case scenario. 1:00:20.240 --> 1:00:22.520 So best case scenario with all obviously with the family 1:00:22.560 --> 1:00:25.919 and all that, right now, if Danna called you, what's 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:26.880 the best time for you to fight? 1:00:26.960 --> 1:00:27.880 Right now? April May? 1:00:28.400 --> 1:00:31.480 Yeah, late April May. L that puts me in training camp. 1:00:31.520 --> 1:00:32.400 I got a couple of trips. 1:00:32.480 --> 1:00:32.680 Uh. 1:00:33.080 --> 1:00:35.440 My wife planning four trips in the next like six week, 1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:36.840 which is great. We're going to Florida this weekend, and 1:00:36.920 --> 1:00:39.400 we go to Scottsdale. Then we go to uh Park City, 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:43.080 shoutout Scottsdale, scot shoutouts Gottsdale, azy baby, uh and then 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:45.160 uh and then we're gonna go to go to Cabo. 1:00:45.720 --> 1:00:48.040 Okay, first off, two of those fuck hard when you 1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:50.120 when are you? When are you going to Cabo? I 1:00:50.200 --> 1:00:52.200 don't know I could do without Florida, But I think March, 1:00:52.240 --> 1:00:53.160 the first week of March. 1:00:54.360 --> 1:00:54.680 We're going to. 1:00:57.720 --> 1:00:59.480 We'll be there. We'll be there eleventh to the fifteen. 1:01:01.040 --> 1:01:04.000 That'd be awesome. Scott we go to Scotstale for we 1:01:04.040 --> 1:01:06.120 just love Scottsdale. We're probably gonna get a house out 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:06.440 there too. 1:01:06.560 --> 1:01:09.320 Really, Yeah, go from Nashville Scottsdale. 1:01:09.440 --> 1:01:12.840 Yeah, so we we're so we are our best friends, 1:01:12.840 --> 1:01:15.800 the Randolph's. Uh they have a little daughter and about 1:01:15.800 --> 1:01:17.960 my son's age. So we we rented a house. 1:01:18.000 --> 1:01:18.480 We've rented a. 1:01:18.440 --> 1:01:20.640 House in scotts Stale twice now in the last two years. 1:01:22.000 --> 1:01:24.640 I forget. I'm really actually not good because we literally 1:01:24.680 --> 1:01:27.080 rent the house. We stay at the house. It's the 1:01:27.160 --> 1:01:29.160 last time we got a six bedroom compound because we 1:01:29.200 --> 1:01:34.400 have my family and stuff. Come out pool freaking volleyball court. 1:01:34.440 --> 1:01:36.320 So we literally did not leave the place. Yeah, we 1:01:36.640 --> 1:01:39.120 went and grabbed food one day, like a mile away. 1:01:39.120 --> 1:01:41.160 But so I don't really know Scottsdale that well. I 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:44.000 just know I like the desert. It's very close to California, 1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:46.320 but it's not California, and I you know, it's a 1:01:46.360 --> 1:01:46.840 West coast. 1:01:46.880 --> 1:01:47.439 Yeah, it's tough. 1:01:47.440 --> 1:01:49.800 I always thought like Arizona California would be my my 1:01:49.880 --> 1:01:51.680 ending spot. And I'm a huge I'm a huge scenery 1:01:51.680 --> 1:01:53.280 guy told me if I'm in California, i gotta be 1:01:53.320 --> 1:01:55.960 in the ocean because it doesn't matter, Like if you're 1:01:55.960 --> 1:01:59.080 not on the ocean, all the other bullshit doesn't really. 1:01:59.360 --> 1:02:01.200 It's kind of a in the ass like sh It's like, 1:02:01.600 --> 1:02:03.680 you know, there's obviously a pandemic, but and stuff shutting 1:02:03.720 --> 1:02:05.560 down all the time, you can't really do what you 1:02:05.520 --> 1:02:06.800 need to do. You go down an area, you right 1:02:06.800 --> 1:02:10.520 down in Arizona. Yeah, it's beautiful, scenery, beautiful people like 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:12.880 it's a it's amazing. I mean, growing up there, obviously 1:02:12.960 --> 1:02:15.080 I'm super biased, but I love it there. 1:02:15.320 --> 1:02:17.400 Do you grew up in Scottsdale. Not in Scottsdale, grew 1:02:17.440 --> 1:02:18.080 up in Cave Creek. 1:02:18.080 --> 1:02:21.040 It's just about forty five minutes north, much more western Vibeka. 1:02:21.200 --> 1:02:23.400 It's a it's a place you'll find, uh, if you 1:02:23.440 --> 1:02:25.560 go to a bar there, you'll find a horse, an 1:02:25.600 --> 1:02:27.520 old truck, and a ferrari all part in the same park. 1:02:27.800 --> 1:02:29.760 It's it's got to a little. 1:02:29.560 --> 1:02:32.440 Bit of a variety, but small town just north of Scottsdale. 1:02:32.480 --> 1:02:34.400 I went my senior year of school. I went to Scottsdale, 1:02:34.440 --> 1:02:37.560 and you know, very lot of money obviously, but it's 1:02:37.560 --> 1:02:40.200 a really nice area and it's it's just it's just nice. 1:02:40.560 --> 1:02:44.200 Everything's nice. It is nice. And mountains around mountains. I love, 1:02:44.360 --> 1:02:46.200 like even just being in Vegas because we landed back 1:02:46.200 --> 1:02:48.560 in Vegas. I do. I love being around the mountains. Yeah, 1:02:48.600 --> 1:02:50.600 I love it, like it's such a cool vibe. It 1:02:50.680 --> 1:02:51.080 is cool. 1:02:51.400 --> 1:02:54.240 But the funny we love Nashville too, like we love 1:02:54.520 --> 1:02:56.280 we love this city now. I mean it was it 1:02:56.320 --> 1:02:59.120 was a rough transition. We came from San Diego. You know, 1:02:59.320 --> 1:03:01.320 we have some friends, you're really tough. Yeah, we had 1:03:01.320 --> 1:03:03.360 some friends here, but not a ton of friends. And 1:03:03.400 --> 1:03:06.600 then we adopted my son literally two months into being here. 1:03:06.600 --> 1:03:08.560 And then I went right into training camp, came back 1:03:08.600 --> 1:03:11.120 for two weeks, came right went but went right back 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:12.320 into another training camp. 1:03:12.840 --> 1:03:13.360 Uh. 1:03:13.440 --> 1:03:15.320 So we just had a really rough go at it, 1:03:15.320 --> 1:03:17.400 like the whole first year we were here, you know. 1:03:18.440 --> 1:03:21.480 And now building a community, building a friend group, building 1:03:21.560 --> 1:03:24.400 you know, is uh, sinking our teeth into this city 1:03:24.480 --> 1:03:25.560 is is awesome as well. 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:28.720 So it's thinking me like seven eight years to really 1:03:28.720 --> 1:03:30.120 sink into this community. 1:03:29.760 --> 1:03:32.439 Especial business and when you're as busy as you are, 1:03:32.480 --> 1:03:34.320 and then not to mention all the people that you 1:03:34.360 --> 1:03:36.479 would be friends with are busy as well. 1:03:36.560 --> 1:03:38.760 Yeah, well I'm busy, then I leave, I'm busy, then 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:41.280 I leave, I go the whole season here and I'm busy, busy, busy, 1:03:41.640 --> 1:03:42.880 And then the soon a season ends, I'm like, well, 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:44.360 let me go someone and hang out for a little bit. 1:03:44.360 --> 1:03:46.040 And then it ends up saying being from like January 1:03:46.120 --> 1:03:46.880 to April. 1:03:46.880 --> 1:03:48.240 Well, not to mention the fact that if you do 1:03:48.320 --> 1:03:49.720 have a little bit of you do have a little 1:03:49.720 --> 1:03:51.959 bit of downtime, Like if you do have a little 1:03:51.960 --> 1:03:53.880 bit of downtime, you're now you're done with season or 1:03:53.880 --> 1:03:56.200 you're or you're done with this or that. It's like, okay, 1:03:56.240 --> 1:03:57.800 well maybe I actually want to spend time with the 1:03:57.800 --> 1:03:59.920 family as well, because I have given them half of 1:04:00.080 --> 1:04:03.040 myself for the last season, training camp, whatever it may be. 1:04:03.760 --> 1:04:06.080 So it's uh, it ain't easy. 1:04:06.480 --> 1:04:09.480 But so April, if going back to I Love this show, 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:11.000 on to skot Sale and hopefully you go to Cobble 1:04:11.200 --> 1:04:14.400 shout Out Shoutouts Sale, if you go to Cobbo in 1:04:14.440 --> 1:04:16.080 Marks where we definitely got to get together because it's 1:04:16.120 --> 1:04:17.080 just a fun time, no question. 1:04:17.120 --> 1:04:18.360 We have favorite trips. Yeah. 1:04:18.560 --> 1:04:20.560 But so if then a college you said, hey, we're 1:04:20.600 --> 1:04:23.200 fighting April, what is the process like to get. 1:04:23.000 --> 1:04:25.880 Back to all the way out to? Yeah? How long? 1:04:25.960 --> 1:04:26.280 How long? 1:04:26.320 --> 1:04:28.640 How long do you usually take a training camp? 1:04:28.760 --> 1:04:31.160 So if I knew this far in advance, right now, 1:04:31.280 --> 1:04:32.960 I would I would do a twelve week block. I 1:04:32.960 --> 1:04:34.919 would do a four week, four week pre camp where 1:04:34.920 --> 1:04:38.880 I just start doing strength and conditioning, mobility and cardio 1:04:39.880 --> 1:04:40.720 here in town. 1:04:41.040 --> 1:04:43.160 Then I would go to Florida for eight straight weeks. 1:04:43.920 --> 1:04:45.040 And in Florida's where you do all. 1:04:45.080 --> 1:04:46.680 This is where I do all myself. So yeah, so 1:04:46.720 --> 1:04:48.840 I'm now I'm finally doing it right. I'm buying a 1:04:48.840 --> 1:04:52.600 bout a Ton town home. It'll be finished construction in May. 1:04:53.000 --> 1:04:55.200 So technically I wouldn't have it for this training camp. 1:04:55.240 --> 1:04:57.680 But from now on, so I take my car, I 1:04:57.720 --> 1:05:00.520 throw everything in it, drive down twelve hours, thirteen hours 1:05:00.520 --> 1:05:00.880 straight down. 1:05:03.440 --> 1:05:06.640 Yeah. I have my fun. Yeah, I have my fun. Fun. 1:05:06.720 --> 1:05:08.800 I had my son with me. I had my son 1:05:08.840 --> 1:05:10.880 with me, I had my fun son with me. We 1:05:10.920 --> 1:05:13.000 had fun for four weeks this last training camp. He 1:05:13.040 --> 1:05:15.480 was there, so we brought our nanny down, got her 1:05:15.600 --> 1:05:18.000 house in kind of like the same neighborhood, had my 1:05:18.040 --> 1:05:20.320 son down there for like four weeks of the eight weeks, 1:05:20.360 --> 1:05:24.000 which was actually really nice, you know, but Breeze here. 1:05:24.120 --> 1:05:27.440 She she works full time and loves her job and 1:05:27.480 --> 1:05:29.920 loves what she does, so she does that. And then 1:05:30.360 --> 1:05:32.720 we've been long distance for eight years, so it works 1:05:32.840 --> 1:05:35.640 works for us. We're used to it. And then I 1:05:35.880 --> 1:05:39.360 grab a VRBO you know, vacation rental Airbnb whatever, Yeah, 1:05:39.640 --> 1:05:42.280 for X amount of weeks. This last training camp was 1:05:42.400 --> 1:05:44.640 just I moved three different times because it was it 1:05:44.720 --> 1:05:48.760 was Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's down in. So booked 1:05:48.760 --> 1:05:50.920 the first place for like four weeks, second place for 1:05:50.960 --> 1:05:52.880 two weeks, and then like the last place for like 1:05:52.880 --> 1:05:54.920 the last ten days. And I had to move move 1:05:54.960 --> 1:05:57.400 all my stuff three different times. 1:05:57.560 --> 1:06:00.720 Such opinion, dude, and I'm like, what am I doing? Well, truthfully, 1:06:00.800 --> 1:06:02.960 it was because the gym that I train at moved 1:06:03.000 --> 1:06:04.520 like four times in the last five years. 1:06:04.560 --> 1:06:07.800 Also, so now that we're in Deerfield Beach, which is 1:06:07.840 --> 1:06:11.240 right near del Rey Boca area, we're there and we 1:06:11.280 --> 1:06:13.320 get there on a three year lease, probably going to 1:06:13.440 --> 1:06:15.280 sign for another five, Like, we're not moving now. 1:06:15.320 --> 1:06:19.320 I bought a place two miles from the gym, got. 1:06:19.280 --> 1:06:21.240 Enough space, got a two car garage, got everything. I'll 1:06:21.240 --> 1:06:23.600 probably buy another vehicle to leave down there. Just make 1:06:23.600 --> 1:06:26.480 it as seamless as possible. Buy one plane ticket, pack 1:06:26.520 --> 1:06:28.640 one bag of stuff, go down there, be in training camp. 1:06:28.880 --> 1:06:29.120 Nice. 1:06:29.120 --> 1:06:31.000 So best case scenario for you is you'd like to 1:06:31.040 --> 1:06:33.000 probably fight in April if you were in control of 1:06:33.000 --> 1:06:33.520 the situation. 1:06:34.200 --> 1:06:36.439 I mean, really, I don't. I wouldn't mind a little 1:06:36.440 --> 1:06:37.960 bit more time off because I mean, if if I'm 1:06:37.960 --> 1:06:40.200 not fighting right away, I might as well I wouldn't be. 1:06:40.480 --> 1:06:42.800 It also depends to get back a new group anyway. 1:06:42.920 --> 1:06:45.360 Yeah, it also depends on like the reason we want 1:06:45.440 --> 1:06:47.320 the reason we fought January twenty third was it was. 1:06:47.320 --> 1:06:49.800 The co main event of a counter Oh absolutely pay 1:06:49.800 --> 1:06:50.160 per view. 1:06:51.200 --> 1:06:53.240 It always it's always trying to figure out, like if 1:06:53.240 --> 1:06:55.120 this is a title fight, will be the main event 1:06:55.440 --> 1:06:57.920 or the coming event if there's another title fight on 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:00.480 the card, because it's all about eyeballs and it exposure 1:07:00.480 --> 1:07:01.560 as well, you know, so. 1:07:03.080 --> 1:07:05.280 You can take the you could take the the. 1:07:05.360 --> 1:07:07.760 Choice of being a main event on like an ESPN 1:07:08.120 --> 1:07:10.840 Fight Night or you could wait an extra month and 1:07:10.880 --> 1:07:12.919 be the co main event on another big pay per. 1:07:12.880 --> 1:07:15.880 View, you know, become that new little shiny toy. Yeah, exactly. 1:07:16.680 --> 1:07:19.760 So for me, like I said, I want the maximum 1:07:19.760 --> 1:07:22.200 amount of exposure, exposure to make the maximum amount of 1:07:22.200 --> 1:07:24.800 impact in the shortest amount of time. So I would 1:07:24.800 --> 1:07:27.200 wait till July if it meant being on the co 1:07:27.360 --> 1:07:29.800 main event or the main event of another counter card 1:07:29.880 --> 1:07:30.760 or whatever it may be. 1:07:31.000 --> 1:07:34.120 M they're on the Pat McAfee show yesterday, shut out 1:07:34.120 --> 1:07:35.040 Pat McAfee. 1:07:35.160 --> 1:07:37.920 A big fan of his stuff, and you were you 1:07:37.920 --> 1:07:39.800 were talking about your style, you're not a big kicker 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:42.080 and stuff like that. When you go down and train 1:07:42.240 --> 1:07:44.680 in Florida and stuff, is this something where you start 1:07:44.680 --> 1:07:46.840 implementing new skills or you work on what you're great 1:07:46.920 --> 1:07:49.200 at or how how do you how does your mind 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:50.200 shift from fight to fight? 1:07:50.320 --> 1:07:54.880 For me, honestly, I I realize and you know, I 1:07:55.560 --> 1:07:58.080 have the best kickboxing coach in the entire world, I believe, 1:07:58.080 --> 1:08:00.160 in my opinion. His name is Henry hooft Uh. He's 1:08:00.160 --> 1:08:01.840 a Dutch She's a guy from Holland. He's a Dutch 1:08:01.920 --> 1:08:06.240 kickboxing guy. He has has trained, trained with and beaten 1:08:06.320 --> 1:08:09.200 a lot of some of the best Dutch kickboxers, a 1:08:09.360 --> 1:08:13.120 kickboxers in the entire world. But he's also six foot 1:08:13.160 --> 1:08:15.840 six and or six foot four and I'm you know, 1:08:16.479 --> 1:08:19.920 pushing five eight and a half five nine max, so 1:08:20.120 --> 1:08:22.799 short legs. I'm not going to be the best kicker, 1:08:22.920 --> 1:08:26.280 so I'm not working on necessarily kicks or that stuff 1:08:26.600 --> 1:08:29.160 all the time. I know I got I feel like 1:08:29.200 --> 1:08:32.080 I have power on both my hands. I'm going to 1:08:32.120 --> 1:08:36.760 continue to do my basic striking techniques, my basic boxing, 1:08:36.840 --> 1:08:41.920 basic hard hand techniques, focused ninety percent of the stuff, 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:44.160 ninety percent of my training on what I can do 1:08:44.680 --> 1:08:48.879 even more, even better and more efficient and in a easiest, 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:52.920 easiest path to victory type of scenario, and then focus 1:08:53.000 --> 1:08:56.320 that last twenty to ten percent on what my opponent's 1:08:56.360 --> 1:08:59.200 habits are or what he brings to the table. 1:08:59.400 --> 1:09:03.799 Gotcha what I can exploit? I got you. That's impressive. Yeah, 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:06.760 this has been what as UFC. I know, I know 1:09:06.800 --> 1:09:09.800 you got to go soon. Well, but that's what I 1:09:09.800 --> 1:09:11.320 was trying to do with happens right now? 1:09:11.640 --> 1:09:14.760 No, we're good, we got fourteen minutes, okay, will I 1:09:14.800 --> 1:09:16.280 know you got to go well, I was just thinking like, 1:09:16.400 --> 1:09:18.360 I had nothing in my brain to follow up. I 1:09:18.400 --> 1:09:20.200 was like drawn in the listening to him, and I 1:09:20.200 --> 1:09:22.240 was like, what, maybe I'll wait a second see if 1:09:22.280 --> 1:09:24.800 Taylor heads soon followed, then I was like, oh, well, 1:09:24.800 --> 1:09:26.120 this was I. 1:09:26.080 --> 1:09:26.599 Want to know about. 1:09:26.600 --> 1:09:28.479 I want to by flying that, all that flying, the 1:09:28.560 --> 1:09:30.760 jet lag and everything, and as the UFC, have you 1:09:30.840 --> 1:09:33.400 heard any memories about maybe them, you know, if this 1:09:33.439 --> 1:09:36.040 stuff slows down going back to a regular setup in 1:09:36.360 --> 1:09:38.479 Vegas and you know they used to travel and stuff 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:38.680 like that. 1:09:38.720 --> 1:09:40.840 Do you think that'll happen in July? 1:09:41.000 --> 1:09:42.800 Do you think we're headed towards that or is that 1:09:42.840 --> 1:09:44.719 going to be kind of the stationary spot. 1:09:44.520 --> 1:09:46.479 For a while. I think so. 1:09:46.560 --> 1:09:49.800 I don't have any like really information on that necessarily, 1:09:49.840 --> 1:09:52.040 but I will say, I mean, you guys know, Canelo 1:09:52.080 --> 1:09:54.479 Alvarez fought with fifteen thousand people at the Alamo Dome 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:55.760 like a month or two ago. 1:09:55.920 --> 1:09:59.559 Really, yeah, fifteen thousand people. So I'm assuming that's in Texas. 1:09:59.640 --> 1:10:01.719 Yeah. Yeah, Texas run different. 1:10:01.800 --> 1:10:05.519 Yeah, but if they do well, there's a reason why 1:10:05.720 --> 1:10:07.320 for a while, Yeah, everyone's moving to Texas. 1:10:07.360 --> 1:10:09.360 Joe Rogan moved to Texas, Tesla and moved to Texas 1:10:09.360 --> 1:10:12.880 like that's where people Texas get on that Joe. 1:10:12.960 --> 1:10:15.800 Well, for sure that's where Okay, yeah, for sure that's where. 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:17.760 But that's where the UFC started when they came back 1:10:17.800 --> 1:10:22.519 from the pandemic. They they used a Jacksonville, Florida venue, 1:10:22.920 --> 1:10:26.720 the Something Star Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, because Florida was 1:10:26.760 --> 1:10:30.040 so lax with it. But yeah, I mean, I don't 1:10:30.080 --> 1:10:32.120 I really don't know why we keep going back to 1:10:32.120 --> 1:10:34.720 Abu Dabi aside from the fact that it's they need 1:10:34.760 --> 1:10:37.639 it for the international fighters. And then right now with 1:10:37.720 --> 1:10:41.400 the the changing of the administrations here in the US, 1:10:41.439 --> 1:10:44.120 I don't know what our quarantine travel stuff. 1:10:44.160 --> 1:10:46.920 Situation like it's gonna be after the twenty well after 1:10:47.000 --> 1:10:50.200 now now it is you have to like have a 1:10:50.240 --> 1:10:51.800 test to get back in the country. 1:10:51.640 --> 1:10:54.400 See that that kind of stuff, like yeah, which which 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:56.479 will will always work out fine for the UFC because 1:10:56.520 --> 1:11:00.280 we we got tested like nine times and eleven or twelve. 1:11:00.080 --> 1:11:02.120 They chartered they charted those flights to the Vegas like 1:11:02.120 --> 1:11:04.000 to is it all just UFC people that plane? 1:11:04.000 --> 1:11:07.479 So it's at the at the Hide Airways and yeah, 1:11:07.479 --> 1:11:09.599 we had like a very full flat on the way back. 1:11:10.560 --> 1:11:13.439 But yeah, just a huge plane and we left out 1:11:13.439 --> 1:11:16.880 a left out a Vegas to get there, and then 1:11:16.920 --> 1:11:18.200 obviously they're back. 1:11:18.280 --> 1:11:19.320 We landed at three am. 1:11:19.360 --> 1:11:20.720 You can talk about the jet lag, like, yeah, I 1:11:20.720 --> 1:11:22.559 woke up this morning at two twenty seven to twenty 1:11:22.560 --> 1:11:23.280 seven am. 1:11:23.720 --> 1:11:25.639 Woke up at two twenty seven am the night before 1:11:25.680 --> 1:11:27.479 that for some reason. Yeah, I don't know what's up 1:11:27.479 --> 1:11:32.360 at two twenty seven. Wrote those numbers down. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 1:11:32.600 --> 1:11:34.479 And uh so it's been Yeah. 1:11:34.479 --> 1:11:38.840 I get really tired at like six pm, you know, 1:11:39.080 --> 1:11:40.280 And I tried to stay up last night. 1:11:40.280 --> 1:11:40.559 I didn't. 1:11:40.600 --> 1:11:42.960 I was in bed by like seven forty five, which 1:11:42.960 --> 1:11:44.920 I probably should. I need to stay up later so 1:11:45.000 --> 1:11:47.120 I hopefully sleep longer. But I was like, forget it. 1:11:47.160 --> 1:11:49.400 That's probably when you texted and you were starting to drift. Yeah, 1:11:49.760 --> 1:11:57.200 so I was like, hey, man, shut it down soon us. Yeah, 1:11:57.560 --> 1:11:59.360 I look at the chair. I was tired. 1:11:59.360 --> 1:12:04.519 I was time just fun, man, that's wild. What do 1:12:04.520 --> 1:12:07.120 you what do you go ahead? No, that's fucking for it. 1:12:07.240 --> 1:12:09.880 I was gonna ask about McGregor. Are you get a 1:12:09.880 --> 1:12:11.000 little sick of McGregor's talk? 1:12:11.920 --> 1:12:14.880 Uh, what do you mean? You like? It's it's been 1:12:14.960 --> 1:12:19.240 McGregor's show since twenty fifteen. No, I was gonna ask 1:12:19.280 --> 1:12:21.040 what he thinks next for McGregor. Well, yeah, no, I 1:12:21.080 --> 1:12:25.720 want to know that's going down. I know it. He's warranted. Man, 1:12:25.840 --> 1:12:30.000 the guy is. He's a superstar. He's a superstar, and 1:12:30.000 --> 1:12:30.840 and good for him. 1:12:30.960 --> 1:12:33.680 Like I would never like just because I think I 1:12:33.680 --> 1:12:35.439 would beat him, or just because i think I'm better 1:12:35.479 --> 1:12:37.120 than him, just like I've said, I've said these things. 1:12:37.120 --> 1:12:39.000 But that's not a knock on him. What he has 1:12:39.080 --> 1:12:42.559 done is nothing short of amazing what he has built. 1:12:42.680 --> 1:12:47.040 I mean, the guy was literally, truthfully on welfare just 1:12:47.120 --> 1:12:48.080 six seven years. 1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:48.519 Ago or whatever. 1:12:48.640 --> 1:12:50.920 Right, he's like a plumber, right, he was a plumber. 1:12:50.960 --> 1:12:53.200 He was on welfare, he was collecting that kind of 1:12:53.280 --> 1:12:58.000 check or the government subsidy, whatever you call it. And uh, 1:12:58.600 --> 1:13:00.880 then he became a global superstar and now he's a 1:13:00.960 --> 1:13:04.960 hundred millionaire. And I will say it was, uh, it 1:13:05.040 --> 1:13:09.400 was very interesting being around him, you know, because you 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:10.920 always want to size people up, like what do they 1:13:10.960 --> 1:13:12.720 look like? I mean, he's he's much smaller in real 1:13:12.760 --> 1:13:14.800 life than he is on on the internet and on 1:13:14.880 --> 1:13:15.599 TV and whatnot. 1:13:15.640 --> 1:13:18.840 He's not a small person, but he's smaller. 1:13:18.560 --> 1:13:20.240 Than I am, you know, I really, I mean, you 1:13:20.280 --> 1:13:22.240 so him just like everybody else did behind the camera 1:13:22.280 --> 1:13:23.559 and the lens, and you're like, oh, I'm about to 1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:24.280 be in person with. 1:13:24.200 --> 1:13:25.679 And he's listed at five to nine. 1:13:25.720 --> 1:13:28.160 I don't quite know if he's five five eight maybe 1:13:28.160 --> 1:13:30.559 maybe pushing. Yeah, he's five he's five eight, you know, 1:13:30.680 --> 1:13:32.960 but he's but he's a more of a slender build. 1:13:33.439 --> 1:13:35.519 But that's the thing about you look at my body 1:13:35.560 --> 1:13:37.920 type and his body type. He automatically looks taller because 1:13:37.920 --> 1:13:40.600 he's a slimmer as me. I'm just thicker and I 1:13:42.920 --> 1:13:45.000 and yeah, going back to my my, my coach. It's 1:13:45.080 --> 1:13:47.240 it's so funny, man, because my coach, like I said, 1:13:47.320 --> 1:13:49.599 is six four, So I'm hitting past with everybody's like, god, 1:13:49.640 --> 1:13:51.800 dang Tandler is a midget. People think I'm like five 1:13:51.920 --> 1:13:56.080 five because my coach is so dang tall. But back 1:13:56.120 --> 1:14:00.360 to McGregor, Like, the guy has built a persona brand, 1:14:00.439 --> 1:14:02.840 he honestly has built. We are all getting paid more 1:14:02.880 --> 1:14:07.360 money because of Conor McGregor. We're all what I've seen 1:14:07.400 --> 1:14:09.080 in the last couple of days since my fight, how 1:14:09.160 --> 1:14:13.400 much my kind of brand or persona or the notoriety 1:14:13.400 --> 1:14:15.800 has built a lot of that stuff is yeah, what 1:14:15.840 --> 1:14:18.280 I've done, but it's also the notoriety that Conna McGregor 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:22.000 has brought to the sport, both as a byproduct of 1:14:22.080 --> 1:14:24.200 him coming into the sport over the last x amount 1:14:24.200 --> 1:14:25.960 of years, but also me fighting on the same card 1:14:25.960 --> 1:14:28.240 as him. I mean, the impact that I have made 1:14:28.240 --> 1:14:31.120 over the last couple of days since my fight would 1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:34.320 be tenfold smaller if it wasn't on econom McGregor. 1:14:34.479 --> 1:14:38.080 Hold review. The guy's got the whole country on his back. 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:43.600 He he is, He's I truly think I've gone up 1:14:43.640 --> 1:14:45.120 and down with it. But it's kind of like what 1:14:45.160 --> 1:14:48.240 we said, Man, you got to respect the guy. He's 1:14:48.280 --> 1:14:51.680 got more pressure on him than anybody else. You know, 1:14:51.880 --> 1:14:54.639 he doesn't have to fight either, Like why is he fighting? 1:14:54.680 --> 1:14:56.400 We got to ask ourselves that why is it fighting? 1:14:56.439 --> 1:14:59.200 He's got hundreds of millions in the bed blood exactly. 1:14:59.200 --> 1:15:03.919 He's got this Opper twelve whiskey that he's selling cases 1:15:04.040 --> 1:15:05.960 that they're flying off the shoves. The guy's gonna make 1:15:06.000 --> 1:15:07.960 more money in whiskey than he probably will in fighting 1:15:08.160 --> 1:15:11.519 in the next couple of years. So, but it is, 1:15:11.720 --> 1:15:13.760 it's in his DNA, and I think you look at 1:15:13.760 --> 1:15:15.360 a see you know, you look at all the rest 1:15:15.400 --> 1:15:17.400 of us. We have to do it for our careers, 1:15:17.439 --> 1:15:20.680 right I'm not set for life yet, you know. I 1:15:20.720 --> 1:15:22.320 love what I do, but I gotta I gotta go 1:15:22.360 --> 1:15:26.200 make a paycheck as well. So what's next for him? 1:15:27.280 --> 1:15:30.040 I think the Daz trilogy. Here's here's what I would like. 1:15:31.840 --> 1:15:36.280 I win the title, Connor fights Diaz, gets a win, 1:15:36.520 --> 1:15:38.320 and then he fights me for the title at the 1:15:38.400 --> 1:15:40.240 end of the year, you know, because. 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:41.000 Connor goes back and gets it. 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:43.840 But so so right now, Connor's got a trilogy fight 1:15:43.880 --> 1:15:47.120 with with Dustin Poorie, which may happen, but it's not 1:15:47.160 --> 1:15:52.120 gonna be for the title, I don't think so. Yeah, 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:53.920 Poorier has to choose do I get the money fight 1:15:53.960 --> 1:15:56.599 trilogy with Connor or do I fight for the title next. 1:15:56.800 --> 1:15:57.960 He's got to make that decision. 1:15:58.479 --> 1:16:01.000 And then Connor's also got the trilogy with DZ, which 1:16:01.040 --> 1:16:04.040 everybody wants to see. Di has is a star. Diz 1:16:04.120 --> 1:16:05.880 is not a not a hard fight. He has is 1:16:05.920 --> 1:16:08.840 an easy fight. Quite frankly, for Connor, I think, why. 1:16:08.680 --> 1:16:09.160 Do you think that? 1:16:09.800 --> 1:16:11.640 I just think the iron chint did he takes so 1:16:11.680 --> 1:16:16.240 many shots. He takes a he he doesn't take every fight. Yeah, 1:16:16.520 --> 1:16:18.400 guy talks like he's had cerebral. 1:16:19.280 --> 1:16:19.840 And he doesn't. 1:16:19.880 --> 1:16:20.599 He don't give a fight. 1:16:22.160 --> 1:16:24.880 And but we're two or three years removed from that 1:16:24.960 --> 1:16:27.200 last fight now, you know, so he's gotten you know, 1:16:27.240 --> 1:16:29.559 with every year. It's kind of like you talked about, 1:16:29.560 --> 1:16:30.760 like taking care of your body. I don't know how 1:16:30.760 --> 1:16:32.519 well the guy takes care of his body either, Like 1:16:32.880 --> 1:16:35.080 you know, I think he's probably he's. 1:16:34.960 --> 1:16:37.519 Probably declining a lot more than than other people are. 1:16:37.560 --> 1:16:40.400 He's pushing thirty seven, I think at this point thirty 1:16:40.439 --> 1:16:43.080 six thirty seven, which still isn't old in the sport 1:16:43.120 --> 1:16:45.960 if you've taken care of yourself. But so, I think 1:16:45.960 --> 1:16:48.320 the easiest and best path to victory for Connor is 1:16:48.360 --> 1:16:51.000 get that trilogy fight with Z and then come back 1:16:51.040 --> 1:16:53.240 and then get a title fight after that. And everybody 1:16:53.240 --> 1:16:54.880 will say he doesn't deserve it, but it doesn't matter. 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:57.400 It's Connor McGregor. If it makes money, it makes sense. 1:16:57.439 --> 1:16:58.800 You don't think they don't think there's a way he 1:16:58.840 --> 1:17:02.360 goes Diaz from the pooer. 1:17:02.600 --> 1:17:04.760 Yeah, he could. I said that, right, Poy, And then 1:17:04.800 --> 1:17:06.360 do you or is that us to. 1:17:07.040 --> 1:17:08.720 No, I think he could, but because I think that 1:17:08.960 --> 1:17:11.280 the space in between those two trips probably like that 1:17:11.320 --> 1:17:17.000 happened is, yeah, you Connors and then some call outs, 1:17:17.000 --> 1:17:18.599 all the fun happens, and then you guys are set 1:17:18.640 --> 1:17:20.759 up at the end of your and Connors is a lost. 1:17:20.880 --> 1:17:22.280 Yeah, that would be great. And make sure that thing 1:17:22.280 --> 1:17:23.680 in February so May and Will can go. 1:17:29.320 --> 1:17:30.960 That would be But I think I think just on 1:17:31.000 --> 1:17:33.040 the camera, like the boy the boys are in the 1:17:33.040 --> 1:17:35.439 the boys are in Vegas. Yeah, we just we do 1:17:35.520 --> 1:17:37.920 the little, the little cool thing that everybody does. Just 1:17:38.000 --> 1:17:39.439 throw a fist up and look at the camera. 1:17:39.720 --> 1:17:44.760 Yeah, give him the two fists like these, and we 1:17:44.920 --> 1:17:47.680 just do the handhold just like. 1:17:49.280 --> 1:17:49.400 Right. 1:17:52.360 --> 1:17:53.640 No, I drink all of yours. 1:17:54.120 --> 1:17:56.200 But I think I think those those two trilogies are 1:17:56.240 --> 1:17:59.400 a big fights that the fans want to see, big 1:17:59.439 --> 1:18:01.559 fights that the UFC would like to make. And then 1:18:01.640 --> 1:18:05.599 they're also not easy but winnable fights for for Connor. 1:18:05.640 --> 1:18:08.080 Not that Connor could be anybody in the division, I believe, 1:18:08.160 --> 1:18:11.360 but besides me, but just not as easy. 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:13.080 I think it's easier, easier path to. 1:18:13.080 --> 1:18:15.840 Victor for like a DS fighting DZ and even I 1:18:15.840 --> 1:18:17.320 mean he was doing well against Pourier. 1:18:17.840 --> 1:18:20.879 I think, you know, I'd love to see you McGregor 1:18:21.000 --> 1:18:23.519 due because you both command the center of the ring. Yeah, 1:18:23.560 --> 1:18:25.439 you both you both kind of pressure and keep the 1:18:25.479 --> 1:18:26.200 guys on the outside. 1:18:26.280 --> 1:18:27.519 Yeah, that's and I like that. 1:18:27.640 --> 1:18:31.160 I like that clash of okay instead of like, I mean, 1:18:31.200 --> 1:18:33.800 you saw my last fight the way Hooker was evading me, 1:18:34.479 --> 1:18:36.800 and I loove man shout out to Daniel Cormier because 1:18:36.840 --> 1:18:39.080 like that dude's you know, shut up a couple of people, 1:18:39.120 --> 1:18:41.120 because everybody's like, oh, well, hooker didn't look the same. 1:18:41.200 --> 1:18:44.519 Hooker looked timid. Hooker looks scared hooker. Hooker had a 1:18:44.560 --> 1:18:45.000 bad night. 1:18:45.040 --> 1:18:47.120 And it's like, well, it's all fun and games until 1:18:47.120 --> 1:18:50.400 you got a guy walking you down in your face, 1:18:50.520 --> 1:18:52.960 throwing leather at you and putting pressure on you. 1:18:53.000 --> 1:18:55.360 Of course you're gonna run away, you know, Like did 1:18:55.360 --> 1:18:56.800 you have that chest too? 1:18:56.840 --> 1:18:58.640 Yeah, I'm not just gonna go right into that. 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But with the boys helping you 1:20:57.760 --> 1:21:00.000 out by using the code busting on bare bottom clothing 1:21:00.200 --> 1:21:01.439 dot Com. 1:21:01.439 --> 1:21:04.160 We've got your back. Big hugs, tiny kisses. Let's get 1:21:04.160 --> 1:21:04.799 back to the show. 1:21:05.040 --> 1:21:06.880 We looked so dumb if we did that, but I'll 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:11.519 tell you if it. Yeah, dude, absolutely no, that's awesome. 1:21:11.560 --> 1:21:13.240 That'd be I I love for that to go down. 1:21:13.400 --> 1:21:14.439 Connor beat Diaz. 1:21:15.200 --> 1:21:16.960 I mean, dude, I. 1:21:16.960 --> 1:21:19.280 Likedeas because he's just such a he's such a grinder, 1:21:19.320 --> 1:21:21.080 like he's just like you tell he just doesn't give 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:21.400 a ship. 1:21:22.240 --> 1:21:23.800 Like, man, this guy looks like and you know what 1:21:23.840 --> 1:21:26.479 he's done. He's just on in the car whatever. He's 1:21:26.520 --> 1:21:32.120 smoking a vape. No, he's smoking. I think they just 1:21:32.240 --> 1:21:33.760 changed it. I gotta I gotta go read the use 1:21:33.760 --> 1:21:36.920 side of guidelines whatever. But I'm pretty sure you can 1:21:36.960 --> 1:21:41.120 smoke marijuana now in competition. And it's either the metabolite 1:21:41.160 --> 1:21:43.640 slash threshold either went way way way up where it's 1:21:43.640 --> 1:21:45.799 almost like you would literally have to smoke a huge 1:21:45.960 --> 1:21:48.200 joint right before. 1:21:49.240 --> 1:21:51.360 At least that's what someone said. And I have no idea. 1:21:51.479 --> 1:21:52.880 I don't even know if that gets to you. Because 1:21:52.880 --> 1:21:55.760 ours race too, really, yeah, ours race too, And yeah, 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:56.360 I think they're. 1:21:56.160 --> 1:21:57.840 Starting to realize, like, hey, man, like why are we 1:21:57.920 --> 1:22:00.519 doing this it's not a it's not a PE, it's 1:22:00.560 --> 1:22:02.720 not a performance enhancer. So yeah, why don't why don't 1:22:02.760 --> 1:22:04.120 we just let them let everybody see. 1:22:05.200 --> 1:22:07.680 As a PEDS it, I mean it can't. I mean 1:22:07.680 --> 1:22:10.920 it helps with information, helps with anxiety stress. A lot 1:22:10.960 --> 1:22:13.080 of guys might take that around. I mean, it doesn't 1:22:13.120 --> 1:22:15.559 take away stress for anxiety, but it curves it for sure. 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:18.479 You're all worried instead of having that mental coach that 1:22:18.560 --> 1:22:20.720 could calm me down before fight, better sleep. You know 1:22:21.000 --> 1:22:23.920 your reaction. I mean that's a big domino effect. I 1:22:24.040 --> 1:22:26.800 just said, it's a big ing too, because it's you 1:22:26.840 --> 1:22:28.800 know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think, I think see, 1:22:28.840 --> 1:22:32.320 I think CBD and uh obviously, but marijuana especially is 1:22:32.880 --> 1:22:33.839 I think it's ridiculous. 1:22:33.880 --> 1:22:36.360 That's illegal, right because it's not like a chemical that's 1:22:36.439 --> 1:22:38.439 made to directly try. 1:22:38.520 --> 1:22:42.320 And the minute, the minute you say you can't have something, 1:22:42.400 --> 1:22:45.080 you know, half of everybody's like, well why not? 1:22:45.200 --> 1:22:45.360 Yeah? 1:22:45.400 --> 1:22:46.759 Yeah, but why not? What's this about? 1:22:47.520 --> 1:22:49.120 That's how I wasn't in middle school. You told me 1:22:49.120 --> 1:22:51.800 I couldn't do something just to find out what it's 1:22:51.800 --> 1:22:52.120 all about. 1:22:52.960 --> 1:22:54.840 So did you have anything else on there? Alex? 1:22:55.360 --> 1:22:58.360 I saw the the Jake Paul stuff asking I don't 1:22:58.360 --> 1:23:00.599 even I'm gonna be honest, I'm even want to talk 1:23:00.600 --> 1:23:02.360 about it. Ben. 1:23:02.439 --> 1:23:04.160 Yeah, Ben's your guy. That's why I had it on there. 1:23:04.439 --> 1:23:08.400 Oh yeah Missouri boy. Yeah bro yeah, yeah, yeah that's true. Sorry, 1:23:08.560 --> 1:23:11.759 no disrespect the missoo dude brothers. 1:23:11.880 --> 1:23:15.760 They do a great job. Just like mcgreg that's much 1:23:15.760 --> 1:23:16.559 smaller level right now. 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:20.120 But yeah, well not necessarily much small I know, truthfully, 1:23:20.160 --> 1:23:21.760 they might be bigger than McGregor when it comes to 1:23:21.760 --> 1:23:25.639 that YouTube following, but on a much more illegitimate level 1:23:25.680 --> 1:23:30.479 when it comes to competition or actual sport, like is 1:23:30.520 --> 1:23:33.439 an actual world class athlete. These guys are YouTube stars. 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:36.240 You think they they They look good you look at it. 1:23:36.320 --> 1:23:38.559 Decent they're doing. They look like athletes decent. I mean 1:23:38.560 --> 1:23:40.000 they'rey're decently athletic. 1:23:40.200 --> 1:23:42.559 Yeah, you know, but I mean the fights that they 1:23:42.600 --> 1:23:45.400 have won thus far have been other YouTube fights, other 1:23:45.439 --> 1:23:46.120 YouTube fights. 1:23:46.280 --> 1:23:50.000 Or Nate was a Nate Robinson the best face planted 1:23:50.120 --> 1:23:54.479 like dude, he was a man. Yeah, I mean find 1:23:54.479 --> 1:23:59.880 out say it sounds good asses beat to throw a punch. 1:24:00.160 --> 1:24:02.280 It's great though, because he picked the right guy. And 1:24:02.520 --> 1:24:04.400 kudos to Ben Man. I love that Ben got that fight. 1:24:04.439 --> 1:24:06.160 I hope Ben's getting paid a grip. I hope it's 1:24:06.680 --> 1:24:09.240 it is tune in. I actually talked to him. I 1:24:09.280 --> 1:24:10.320 was like, dude, let me know how I can get 1:24:10.320 --> 1:24:12.280 to that fight. I'll be your cowboy, I'll be your 1:24:12.360 --> 1:24:12.760 water boy. 1:24:12.800 --> 1:24:17.120 Whatever. Awesome. I uh, you think Ben beats his ass though, 1:24:18.920 --> 1:24:19.160 I do. 1:24:19.680 --> 1:24:21.360 I mean I was where I was going with it 1:24:21.520 --> 1:24:23.120 was he made the right decision when it came to 1:24:23.200 --> 1:24:24.639 if you were going to fight a mixed martial artist. 1:24:25.280 --> 1:24:28.280 Ben is known as a ground fighter, so Ben never 1:24:28.400 --> 1:24:32.559 one fights boxing anybody, but I think Ben is one 1:24:32.600 --> 1:24:35.280 of those mentally tough and one of the just I 1:24:35.360 --> 1:24:38.280 think there's an aspect of boxing that is that is 1:24:38.360 --> 1:24:41.479 a little bit of like upper upper body grappling as well, 1:24:41.520 --> 1:24:43.080 because you can you know, you can grab, you can 1:24:43.280 --> 1:24:45.000 grab the head a little bit under hook, and you 1:24:45.040 --> 1:24:49.880 can punch punch, punch. Depending on how well refereed this fight, 1:24:49.960 --> 1:24:52.040 I'm sure the rules will be a little loose. Yeah, 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:54.639 I mean exactly, because it's also a YouTube star versus 1:24:54.880 --> 1:24:56.960 a retired fighter who just had a hip replacement a 1:24:57.000 --> 1:24:57.760 couple just. 1:24:58.160 --> 1:25:01.160 A couple of months ago to just loves a lot better. 1:25:01.439 --> 1:25:03.320 It's not like I mean, it's not like it's this 1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:06.800 is like Golden Boy promotions or or in Vegas or whatever. 1:25:06.800 --> 1:25:08.160 I actually don't know. I think he said it was 1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:09.920 going to be. I don't know where it's at, but 1:25:10.000 --> 1:25:11.519 I don't know what the promotion is or what it is. 1:25:11.640 --> 1:25:13.360 But so it could be a little bit lax, which 1:25:13.400 --> 1:25:15.479 could be a bad thing for Ben. They might really 1:25:15.520 --> 1:25:17.720 pull them away and make sure they really put Paul 1:25:17.920 --> 1:25:19.640 Jake Paul in a in a position to win. But 1:25:20.080 --> 1:25:22.040 I think Ben wins the fight for sure. Yeah, one 1:25:22.120 --> 1:25:24.960 hundred percent. He's the he's the better athlete, pull hard 1:25:25.000 --> 1:25:26.720 for If Ben wins that fight, it's kind of like 1:25:26.760 --> 1:25:29.120 over for the Paul brothers. Like they can still promoting. 1:25:29.200 --> 1:25:30.759 I mean, people are still going to buy their fights, 1:25:30.800 --> 1:25:33.800 but that takes amount of any legitimacy of. 1:25:34.479 --> 1:25:35.240 Right the moment. 1:25:36.520 --> 1:25:38.759 The ship talking like saying, hey, Connor, I'm only offering 1:25:38.760 --> 1:25:39.519 you ten thousand dollars. 1:25:39.560 --> 1:25:41.080 Now, it's like, yeah, that was messed up. 1:25:41.280 --> 1:25:43.599 But then again, I guess if you if you really 1:25:43.640 --> 1:25:46.080 think about it, from the casual stand sorry, from the 1:25:46.160 --> 1:25:50.080 casual stand fans standpoint, people are only going to see 1:25:51.040 --> 1:25:55.479 mixed martial Arts world champion and UFC fighter Ben Askron 1:25:55.680 --> 1:25:58.720 beats Jake Paul, well, of course he lost to that guy. Look, 1:25:58.800 --> 1:26:01.880 he was a world champion, not realizing that Ben, they 1:26:01.920 --> 1:26:04.440 were fighting in a boxing match, and Ben's worst attribute 1:26:04.560 --> 1:26:07.920 of his career, of his of his arsenal is boxing. 1:26:08.800 --> 1:26:11.280 So it's almost kind of a win win situation for 1:26:11.400 --> 1:26:13.080 Jake Paul. If he loses, he lost to an mm 1:26:13.120 --> 1:26:14.479 A world champion, for sure. 1:26:14.680 --> 1:26:17.839 That's why he has nothing to lose insurance. 1:26:18.320 --> 1:26:20.200 But if he wins, if he wins, he beat an 1:26:20.320 --> 1:26:22.639 mm A world champion, you know, and he's still trending 1:26:22.760 --> 1:26:23.120 this way. 1:26:23.200 --> 1:26:25.120 Yeah, exactly. So they're I mean, they're they're smart, man. 1:26:25.160 --> 1:26:26.360 They know how about this title? 1:26:26.439 --> 1:26:29.719 Dude getting paid more money than he's ever been paid before. 1:26:31.240 --> 1:26:35.320 That's awesome. They build that platform making a bunch of money. 1:26:35.360 --> 1:26:37.080 I'll see if I can get some inside scoop for 1:26:37.120 --> 1:26:40.760 you guys. Ben doesn't because Ben doesn't care. He shut 1:26:40.800 --> 1:26:43.880 on Missoo, shut on Mizoo for you. He didn't get 1:26:43.920 --> 1:26:46.800 Cody to commit there, but I was able to pull 1:26:46.840 --> 1:26:47.519 them Nebraska. 1:26:47.800 --> 1:26:48.320 I know, bro. 1:26:48.880 --> 1:26:50.879 Then when they were at UH, they were all Americans 1:26:50.920 --> 1:26:52.880 at Miszoo and my brother was a stud wrestler coming 1:26:52.920 --> 1:26:54.840 out of high school. I know Cody was down to 1:26:54.920 --> 1:26:58.080 Missoo in Nebraska and he always came to the camps. Yeah, 1:26:58.080 --> 1:27:00.160 he always came to the camps. And however, you as 1:27:00.200 --> 1:27:02.519 he wrestler, you guys are different breeds. Man, You guys 1:27:02.560 --> 1:27:03.200 are different breeds. 1:27:03.840 --> 1:27:05.000 Showed me if you ever get in a fight, if 1:27:05.400 --> 1:27:07.240 you fight anybody you want, just don't fight a wrestling dude. 1:27:07.280 --> 1:27:08.040 I would tell guys. 1:27:08.080 --> 1:27:10.360 So football players in my roommates and full players would 1:27:10.360 --> 1:27:11.920 be at a wrestler's party, and you know, at a 1:27:11.920 --> 1:27:14.000 wrestler party, it's it's the whole wrestling team. 1:27:14.000 --> 1:27:14.559 It's all dudes. 1:27:14.560 --> 1:27:17.400 They're wearing bandanas, their their shirts are off, and they're 1:27:17.400 --> 1:27:19.120 going to go wrestling ship out in the front yard. 1:27:19.280 --> 1:27:21.880 Like that's like how it is the football players and 1:27:22.000 --> 1:27:25.360 you know it's true too. The fullball players are always curious, like, oh, 1:27:25.439 --> 1:27:27.600 let's go wrestle. And I would try and tell I 1:27:27.600 --> 1:27:29.800 would try and tell my boys. I'd be like, listen, 1:27:30.120 --> 1:27:32.400 I know he only wrestles one twenty five or something 1:27:32.520 --> 1:27:34.600 and he's small, but I promise you he's going to 1:27:34.640 --> 1:27:36.360 beat you. Now, all let's go figure it out and 1:27:36.520 --> 1:27:38.200 those dudes who go out there and just get whooped 1:27:38.200 --> 1:27:38.840 in the front yard. 1:27:39.320 --> 1:27:41.439 I'm just saying, hey, come get in there, and no, 1:27:41.640 --> 1:27:43.280 man got it. Listen. 1:27:43.520 --> 1:27:45.280 And I was not this kind of guy, like because 1:27:45.320 --> 1:27:47.360 I I was not this kind of guy. But so 1:27:47.479 --> 1:27:48.960 you weren't the wrestler style partier. 1:27:49.360 --> 1:27:53.240 No, but but what there was but there was one 1:27:53.360 --> 1:27:56.160 time very relevant right now because next week when this 1:27:56.240 --> 1:27:58.760 thing comes out, there will be a player who is 1:27:58.800 --> 1:28:01.640 playing in the Super Bowl. They got picked up and 1:28:02.320 --> 1:28:05.840 slammed on his back flat at a missoo at a 1:28:05.880 --> 1:28:07.000 bazoo wrestling party. 1:28:07.680 --> 1:28:12.719 Did you really was it you? Let's go. The story 1:28:12.880 --> 1:28:18.840 is Blaine Gabbard. Sol Blaine came down the one time. 1:28:18.880 --> 1:28:19.000 Bro. 1:28:19.240 --> 1:28:24.439 I know, man, so shout out to Blaine Gabbert. It 1:28:24.560 --> 1:28:26.600 wasn't it was. It was a very playful thing. 1:28:26.680 --> 1:28:28.680 You guys know, there ain't no playing when you were 1:28:28.720 --> 1:28:31.639 actually getting known the football player. 1:28:31.920 --> 1:28:34.400 The football player is trying no playing. 1:28:34.479 --> 1:28:36.360 Oh he was joking around, We were joking, but he was, 1:28:36.920 --> 1:28:38.919 uh you know the name Gissinger, John Gissinger. 1:28:39.960 --> 1:28:41.559 I don't think so at the same time you did. 1:28:41.640 --> 1:28:41.880 But he was. 1:28:41.920 --> 1:28:43.360 He was a kid from San Diego. His dad played 1:28:43.360 --> 1:28:43.800 in the NFL. 1:28:44.240 --> 1:28:46.479 But we were at a party at his house and 1:28:46.600 --> 1:28:49.160 he was like it might have been Blaine Gabbert's recruiting 1:28:49.240 --> 1:28:52.960 trip actually, so he was like eighteen eighteen years old, 1:28:53.280 --> 1:28:56.479 so like, but we start like just like guess was 1:28:56.560 --> 1:28:58.240 like trying to, like, hey, wrestle with this guy because 1:28:58.240 --> 1:29:00.240 I'm one hundred fifty seven pounder and Blaine's like two 1:29:00.320 --> 1:29:01.080 hundred pounds. 1:29:01.160 --> 1:29:02.919 Yeah, but it was like one of those things. 1:29:02.680 --> 1:29:05.679 Where I I grabbed a single leg and like lifted 1:29:05.760 --> 1:29:09.600 him up and didn't mean to make anything happen, but 1:29:09.640 --> 1:29:10.200 what happened. 1:29:10.240 --> 1:29:13.880 But you know how top heavy he was. But he 1:29:14.000 --> 1:29:14.559 was top heavy. 1:29:14.640 --> 1:29:16.280 So it wasn't like I, I don't want to make 1:29:16.320 --> 1:29:18.519 it sound like I beat up Blaine gaber or anything 1:29:18.560 --> 1:29:23.880 like that, but it was more like's the boy, dude, 1:29:23.880 --> 1:29:26.160 he's the man, dude, and dude, it's just awesome to 1:29:26.200 --> 1:29:28.760 see like the success obviously, and now he's freaking playing in. 1:29:28.720 --> 1:29:30.719 The now he's going for a Super Bowl, backing up Brady. 1:29:30.800 --> 1:29:31.040 Dude. 1:29:31.080 --> 1:29:31.559 He Blaine. 1:29:31.560 --> 1:29:33.800 Always when Blaine was playing for the Titans, he goes, hey, Lavan, 1:29:34.360 --> 1:29:36.120 give me your best ten and steal as many as 1:29:36.160 --> 1:29:39.320 you can. That was all give me your best ten years. 1:29:39.200 --> 1:29:39.799 And he steals. 1:29:41.000 --> 1:29:43.360 He's a beautysting pictures of him and Brady walking out 1:29:43.400 --> 1:29:45.080 and gangsters moving silent. 1:29:47.720 --> 1:29:51.280 Super bowls next to you. Blank compoun dude, I love 1:29:52.560 --> 1:29:53.880 it was awesome when he was here too. 1:29:54.160 --> 1:29:57.040 He come into games and we always I got a 1:29:57.040 --> 1:29:59.040 good laugh at this because like Marcus should go out 1:29:59.120 --> 1:30:00.840 or something like that and blame I'm being all right, boys, 1:30:01.400 --> 1:30:06.280 watch Daddy spin it. Yeah, So he goes we're playing 1:30:06.320 --> 1:30:07.720 the Colts one time, he goes, all right, boys, comes 1:30:07.760 --> 1:30:09.280 in and watch Daddy spin this ship. 1:30:09.400 --> 1:30:10.920 This is the middle of the game. Middle of the game. 1:30:11.400 --> 1:30:14.960 Marcus goes down we're playing the Colts at Indianapolis, walks 1:30:15.000 --> 1:30:17.080 in and it was like we're like five players, and 1:30:17.160 --> 1:30:18.559 I'm like, got a little breath on me, and he's. 1:30:18.439 --> 1:30:19.960 Like, boys watched Daddy spin it. 1:30:20.040 --> 1:30:21.840 And me and like ben Jos looking at each other 1:30:22.000 --> 1:30:24.559 like all right, dude, call like a quick three step pass, 1:30:24.640 --> 1:30:26.040 like we have to go cut, so I go cut. 1:30:26.200 --> 1:30:28.320 Totally missed my cut. So I'm like laying all my 1:30:28.360 --> 1:30:30.280 stuff on my on my butt, looking at it. 1:30:30.360 --> 1:30:31.800 Blaine like you're gonna get that ball out before I 1:30:31.840 --> 1:30:34.320 give up A sat. Yeah, he rips the ball right 1:30:34.400 --> 1:30:36.520 into the chest of Darius Leonard. 1:30:36.840 --> 1:30:40.639 The first play back there, and we're laughing. 1:30:40.760 --> 1:30:40.960 Dude. 1:30:41.280 --> 1:30:44.320 After wins, we would put up like these posters of like, 1:30:44.479 --> 1:30:46.479 you know, picture of the game. I like Will had 1:30:46.560 --> 1:30:49.240 one against Detroit when he him and Bates are getting hype. 1:30:49.680 --> 1:30:50.519 Well, Blaine had one. 1:30:50.520 --> 1:30:52.599 He has like two fingers out calling it at the line, 1:30:53.040 --> 1:30:54.519 and we put like a little air bowl. 1:30:54.680 --> 1:30:58.639 Watch Daddy spin they had to walk past ship. 1:30:58.720 --> 1:30:59.400 He did that again. 1:30:59.560 --> 1:31:02.360 We played the Colts again and we're losing. It was 1:31:02.439 --> 1:31:04.120 like four it was to go to the playoffs. 1:31:04.120 --> 1:31:06.479 Whoever won that playing again, I remember that it was 1:31:07.080 --> 1:31:10.760 the season and uh, Blaine comes in and goes, hey, 1:31:10.800 --> 1:31:12.800 you boys, hold up, I'm gonna dice the ship out 1:31:12.800 --> 1:31:13.240 of him. 1:31:19.880 --> 1:31:20.960 Four plays in duty. 1:31:21.880 --> 1:31:26.760 I love the confidence brot daddy. I love like me 1:31:26.920 --> 1:31:29.880 as an outsider, like watching a game. I can't believe 1:31:29.920 --> 1:31:32.960 that those things are actually said inside of a game, 1:31:33.040 --> 1:31:36.200 inside of a huddle, inside of the game where professional 1:31:36.680 --> 1:31:37.840 football players are playing. 1:31:38.040 --> 1:31:43.240 Watch daddy and come in and the guys you're just like, okay, dude, 1:31:43.320 --> 1:31:45.280 he is funny. He's good, dude. 1:31:45.320 --> 1:31:47.560 YEA go spin that same and and I had, like, 1:31:47.640 --> 1:31:51.120 here we go, I n T. You're jogging back to 1:31:51.200 --> 1:31:52.520 the side, Like, so, daddy. 1:31:54.120 --> 1:31:59.800 Was shut up? Man happened daddy? Really? Hey, Blaine's legend though. 1:32:00.400 --> 1:32:02.320 He was a good teammate, really good teammate. But oh 1:32:02.360 --> 1:32:03.479 he's a he's a beauty man. 1:32:03.560 --> 1:32:05.760 People doing that stuff is so funny. Yeah, a lot 1:32:05.760 --> 1:32:08.040 of stuff happens between players, a lot of talking. 1:32:08.120 --> 1:32:10.559 Can't like. Yeah, for sure, it's like it's super fast paced, 1:32:11.479 --> 1:32:12.880 but you can get a lot of words in. You 1:32:13.000 --> 1:32:14.800 have some fun words, and it's a good time out there. 1:32:15.120 --> 1:32:16.360 I like the good chirps. 1:32:16.960 --> 1:32:18.080 I want to say, like when I was on the 1:32:18.120 --> 1:32:20.360 Redskins and it was your rookie year, you remember how 1:32:20.560 --> 1:32:22.840 we had some exchange about like being white or something 1:32:22.920 --> 1:32:23.040 like that. 1:32:24.439 --> 1:32:25.600 Did you guys know each other? No, we didn't know. 1:32:25.680 --> 1:32:26.360 We didn't know each other. 1:32:26.560 --> 1:32:29.600 But I played against him and Nebraska and Tompting is 1:32:29.640 --> 1:32:31.360 a name you don't forget. I'm the back of a 1:32:31.400 --> 1:32:34.680 white guy, you know what I saw, And I like 1:32:34.800 --> 1:32:36.640 bumped into him, and you know, Will and I are 1:32:36.640 --> 1:32:38.840 playing the tough guy act, right, and I'm like, I 1:32:38.880 --> 1:32:40.960 think we put a good against each other Nebraska. 1:32:40.560 --> 1:32:42.559 And like, yeah, we did, and that that was our exchange. 1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:44.080 That might have been in the exchange that we're like 1:32:44.160 --> 1:32:46.200 Boone he was on the Vikings. That's his name, right, 1:32:46.680 --> 1:32:47.200 Alex Boone. 1:32:47.240 --> 1:32:49.800 Yeah, Alex Boom. He come up. He'said, hey, I see 1:32:49.840 --> 1:32:53.559 you out here, white boy. Yeah. 1:32:53.600 --> 1:32:54.960 Yeah, there's only a few of us out here. Now, 1:32:55.400 --> 1:32:57.599 there's only a few a few of us out here. 1:32:58.640 --> 1:33:00.400 Will When Will played for the Raiders, we got I 1:33:00.479 --> 1:33:00.960 know you gotta go. 1:33:01.080 --> 1:33:05.599 Yeah, I got it. Well, we'll play for the Raiders. Well, 1:33:05.720 --> 1:33:07.680 we like, so we will have to call each other 1:33:07.760 --> 1:33:08.120 during the week. 1:33:08.160 --> 1:33:10.679 We're excited to play each other, and then like before 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:13.240 the game, Will swarming up. 1:33:13.240 --> 1:33:15.080 I'm warming up, like Will, we could have easily gone 1:33:15.120 --> 1:33:19.040 and talk to each other words. I don't know why either. 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:22.240 I'm literally hugging everyone else. Yeah, but the boy, we're 1:33:22.240 --> 1:33:24.800 facetiming like every day, excited. 1:33:26.400 --> 1:33:27.720 And then we see it on the field and like 1:33:27.800 --> 1:33:30.320 it's like we're in it now, like you're back into 1:33:30.439 --> 1:33:31.680 and so it's like we fu that guy. 1:33:31.760 --> 1:33:33.160 So I go to jog Off he like. 1:33:33.479 --> 1:33:35.200 And the way the Raiders had their stadium setup is 1:33:35.240 --> 1:33:37.360 there's one way in, one way out. So the Raiders 1:33:37.439 --> 1:33:38.760 go to the right to go. They're walking room and 1:33:38.840 --> 1:33:40.479 going through the same tunnel. So Will and I could 1:33:40.520 --> 1:33:42.000 have been walking like this and just kind of went 1:33:42.080 --> 1:33:45.000 off in our distance. And during the game, I wanted 1:33:45.040 --> 1:33:47.200 to block Will the entire game, and I only got 1:33:47.200 --> 1:33:49.400 the block Will once, and it was like it was 1:33:49.479 --> 1:33:51.559 just like some dumb play. It was a gap scheme 1:33:51.640 --> 1:33:53.080 on the left we got you get the double and 1:33:53.200 --> 1:33:56.840 come up and and you'd Will out and it was 1:33:56.960 --> 1:33:57.200 it was. 1:33:57.200 --> 1:33:59.240 Like I won the block, but he stayed in his 1:33:59.280 --> 1:34:01.280 But I'm thinking that I was doing my thing. Yeah, 1:34:01.360 --> 1:34:02.960 but I still Will thebout a hit behind me and 1:34:03.040 --> 1:34:09.200 I just go one for one and I John's I 1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:11.120 want to said that bitch ass By was like, oh 1:34:11.160 --> 1:34:14.559 that bitch ass by you And that was the only 1:34:14.680 --> 1:34:17.519 time we talked the whole game. It was like, it's 1:34:17.600 --> 1:34:19.280 funny how you kind of just get into it again, 1:34:19.400 --> 1:34:21.040 like me and Will talk every day. 1:34:21.080 --> 1:34:23.080 Oh yeah, yeah, that is that is funny. I like 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:31.599 the morning of the game, like can't really see it. Yeah, yeah, 1:34:31.680 --> 1:34:33.400 I do have to believe here, I'll fight you. You 1:34:33.439 --> 1:34:35.280 gotta gotta go. But hey, so when Will was playing 1:34:35.320 --> 1:34:36.479 for the Raiders, Yeah. 1:34:37.640 --> 1:34:39.880 You guys can still talk talk as much as you, man, 1:34:42.400 --> 1:34:46.800 I'll see what boys. Hey, you want to go frothy monkey, Yeah, 1:34:46.920 --> 1:34:50.760 twelve thirty. Yeah, I'll be there. Hey, put it, put 1:34:50.760 --> 1:34:53.679 it in the group chat. Yeah, I'll make it. Yeah, 1:34:54.200 --> 1:34:55.519 I'll make sure it text back this time. 1:34:57.080 --> 1:35:01.519 Godler, I think, I mean, we're pretty much done, but 1:35:01.640 --> 1:35:09.400 I'll tell you, but just got all weird ned walk out. Well, 1:35:09.520 --> 1:35:13.160 we'll will vacated. The podcast is great to have you on, dude. Honestly, 1:35:13.320 --> 1:35:15.920 we're rooting for you. Hopefully everything you just said we'll 1:35:15.960 --> 1:35:18.040 be spoken into existence because I would love to see 1:35:18.080 --> 1:35:20.400 you at the end of the year fighting McGregor and 1:35:20.560 --> 1:35:21.120 win in that day. 1:35:21.920 --> 1:35:23.240 That'd be awesome either either way. 1:35:23.280 --> 1:35:25.880 Hopefully it's just a title fight this year, you know 1:35:26.200 --> 1:35:28.160 everything happening, and get a belt around you. 1:35:28.320 --> 1:35:30.439 Bring the belt back to the bus. That'd be awesome. 1:35:31.240 --> 1:35:34.280 We'll get a we'll get an extra replica too. We 1:35:34.320 --> 1:35:36.920 can't cover up the Budwiser. We'll find, we'll find, we'll find. Well, 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:38.200 I'll tell you, I think I think we'll make a 1:35:38.240 --> 1:35:39.800 place for it. Put it around the steering wheel or 1:35:39.840 --> 1:35:42.639 something like that. I appreciate you, man. 1:35:42.640 --> 1:35:45.360 Thank you. Big shout out to you guys. 1:35:45.800 --> 1:35:49.880 If you enjoyed this episode and love and support Bus 1:35:50.040 --> 1:35:53.560 with the Boys, go to whatever podcast platform you're on 1:35:53.880 --> 1:35:57.240 and subscribe to us. Leave a review rate five stars. 1:35:57.640 --> 1:36:01.760 If you're already subscribe, unsubscribed, and resubscribe again. 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