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INTERVIEW: Dana White Talks UFC Freedom 250, Relationship With Trump, WHCD Shooting, 'Power Slap,' Zuffa Boxing + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up every day a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: Click your ass up the breakfast club. You don't finish
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  Speaker 2: the y'all done?
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  Speaker 3: Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is dj n V jess hilarious, Charlemagne de goud.
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  Speaker 1: We are to breakfast club law. The rules is here
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  Speaker 1: as well. We got a special guest in the buildings.
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  Speaker 1: They're President and CEO of UFC. Ladies and gentlemen, day.
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  Speaker 3: To way, welcome, good morning again.
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  Speaker 1: How are you how you feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You ever get tired of running around and going from
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  Speaker 1: city to city and doing handling fight to fight?
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  Speaker 3: Do you have it?
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  Speaker 1: Does it ever get tired?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? It gets Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I'm busier this year than I've ever been with all
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  Speaker 4: the other things that I've taken on. But uh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: oh it's all good. Sometimes traveling gets you know, starts
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  Speaker 4: to yep, kick in the ass a little bit, but
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  Speaker 4: especially as you get older, it's all good.
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  Speaker 5: How long have you been around MMA?
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  Speaker 4: Twenty five years? Well, I mean, I guess you say
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight years, but I've been doing this for twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: Started taking jiu jitsu in like ninety seven and fell
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  Speaker 4: in love with the sport. That's how we ended up
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  Speaker 4: ended up buying the UFCA.
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  Speaker 1: What made you jump into martial arts? Was it protection board?
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  Speaker 4: And well, you know, I was always involved in boxing.
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  Speaker 4: And then my old partner, Frankfurtita, and I were out
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  Speaker 4: at the hard Rock one night in Vegas and we
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  Speaker 4: ran into a guy named John Lewis who fought in
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  Speaker 4: the UFC at that time, and he had a jiu
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  Speaker 4: jitsu school in Vegas. Frank's like, I've always wanted to
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  Speaker 4: try jiu jitsu, So we went over to him, We
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  Speaker 4: talked to him, we set up a lesson on Monday,
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  Speaker 4: and that was the beginning of all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see the UFC explow the weight that it is?
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  Speaker 1: I was at a Pizza Rea the other day yesterday actually,
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  Speaker 1: and he was so excited for the fight. This happened
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  Speaker 1: in NewYork this week. He was like, I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: first row, but I'm the third row. So I can see,
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  Speaker 1: like people are so hype about it. Did you ever
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  Speaker 1: see it exploding the way that it did?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think that when we got involved in it, we
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  Speaker 4: became so passionate about it was it was so different
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  Speaker 4: than boxing. The fighters were different than boxers, and we
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  Speaker 4: believed that it could be big and could work everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've always had this philosophy. No matter what
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  Speaker 4: color you are, what country you come from, what language
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  Speaker 4: you speak, we're all human beings and fightings in our DNA.
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  Speaker 4: We get it and we like it. I mean, even
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  Speaker 4: if you say you don't like fighting, if a fight
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  Speaker 4: broke out in that room right now, we'd all.
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  Speaker 3: Run over the glass watch the fight. It's just human nature.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know, somebody got a gun, so you got.
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  Speaker 3: In the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Course, but then.
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  Speaker 4: You're exactly like you would absolutely watch the fight over there.
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  Speaker 6: But people give you a lot of credit for building
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  Speaker 6: the UFC into a global empire, right, but they also
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  Speaker 6: critique you and say you still underpay fighters compared to
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  Speaker 6: like boxing or you know, NBA, NFL, even w w E.
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  Speaker 6: How do you justify being worth billions of dollars but
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  Speaker 6: some fighters still need second job?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, I mean I'm sure some some basketball players
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  Speaker 4: and baseball players still need second jobs too until they
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  Speaker 4: make it. What we do is we bring guys in
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  Speaker 4: and and and pay them. Uh, you know, guys make
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  Speaker 4: like ten and ten or fifteen and fifteen to come
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  Speaker 4: in and fight. You might last one fight, you might
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  Speaker 4: not be great, but as you start to prove yourself,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, listen, there's always going to be talk
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  Speaker 4: about fighter pay. I'm in boxing now and all these guys,
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  Speaker 4: all these boxers are signing with us now too. So
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  Speaker 4: I just think that's there's always going to be uh oh,
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  Speaker 4: You're always going to be criticized about something.
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  Speaker 6: But how come when the fighters talk about unions of
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  Speaker 6: collective bargaining, the UFC X like it's the enemy, Like
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  Speaker 6: why we.
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  Speaker 4: Don't knock like that's the enemy. I mean, if the
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  Speaker 4: if the fighters wanted to unionize, that's up to them.
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  Speaker 3: It's not up to me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, so you encourage it. Sure, I listen, we
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  Speaker 4: always have to deal with somebody. It could be a
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  Speaker 4: manager and agent. You know, everybody's gotten into this, some
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  Speaker 4: of the some of the biggest lawyers and you know
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  Speaker 4: in the world have gotten into this. Agents, Hollywood, I mean, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: We always have to deal with somebody, We have to
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  Speaker 4: negotiate with somebody.
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  Speaker 1: With UFC being so brutal at times, was there ever
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  Speaker 1: a concern with them not approving the fighting in certain
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  Speaker 1: states or certain places, because I mean, like boxing, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like, you know you can it's round, right, it's
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  Speaker 1: a referee to stop it. Sometimes UFC is like they
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  Speaker 1: gonna beat the issh out of him until he actually dies,
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  Speaker 1: because you actually what until he actually does it seems
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  Speaker 1: like sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Listen some of these fights. Believe me, there are fights
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  Speaker 4: that I sit there and watch. When it's over, I go,
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  Speaker 4: what do I do for a living? This is insane?
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  Speaker 4: But when you spend the right amount of money on
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  Speaker 4: health and safety before they get in there, during and after.
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  Speaker 4: In the thirty year history of the UFC, there's never
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  Speaker 4: been a death or serious injury, even after the craziest
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  Speaker 4: fight you've seen. Cheerleading can't say.
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  Speaker 1: That it's a cheerleading.
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  Speaker 3: Cheerleading can't say that.
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  Speaker 2: The competitive cheerleader. They get hurt a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Fall of my daughter in high school was part of
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  Speaker 4: the you know, the hardcore competitive cheerleading, and she was
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  Speaker 4: so busted up in high school.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, But thirty years, no death or serious injury in
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  Speaker 4: the UFC.
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  Speaker 8: Many sports serious energy, I mean serious injury, Yeah, damn.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe beating the ship out of each other.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's so true, so true.
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  Speaker 6: Now, were talking about the White House cost board has
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  Speaker 6: then a little bit. You said it was fucking awesome,
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  Speaker 6: a unique experience, and everybody was laying how you didn't
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  Speaker 6: get down when the gun shots, you know, went off?
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  Speaker 6: Why because you know it was stage.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't know how you're going to react
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  Speaker 4: in those type of situations until you're in them. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, being a guy, first of all, we're sitting
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  Speaker 4: there and they just set the whole thing up, and
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  Speaker 4: they said, we're gonna eat and then this thing is
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  Speaker 4: gonna start, and.
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  Speaker 2: With the shooting, the show gonna start.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to serve dinner first, and literally they
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  Speaker 4: just brought the salads out. And uh, I was sitting
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  Speaker 4: there talking to Pete. Hegxi's and and and I don't
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  Speaker 4: hear well and my left ear. I'm one hundred percent
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  Speaker 4: deaf in my left ear, so I didn't hear the shots.
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  Speaker 4: All I heard was plate smashing and glasses and and
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  Speaker 4: and these guys. I turn around and literally fifty guys
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  Speaker 4: are coming through the room and they got their guns out.
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  Speaker 4: They get the president, the vice president, all the media
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  Speaker 4: people off the stage, and now the stage is filled
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  Speaker 4: with people with guns pointed at us, with the lights
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  Speaker 4: on the end of them, and everybody's yelling, get the
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  Speaker 4: fuck on the ground. And I just was like, holy shit,
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  Speaker 4: this is incredible. If you think about like the greatest
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  Speaker 4: movie you've ever seen, and you watch the way that
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  Speaker 4: these Secret Service guys came into the room and how
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  Speaker 4: they were I was just like this and to be
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  Speaker 4: in a situation like that and.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody gets hurt.
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  Speaker 4: And then and even think about this, the media that
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  Speaker 4: were in the room that night were mostly women. No screaming,
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  Speaker 4: no yelling. Everybody just got on the ground, and it
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  Speaker 4: was just such a crazy unique hopefully one of one
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  Speaker 4: experienced that.
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  Speaker 5: That one woman scream at all at all.
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  Speaker 4: And then when it was your left side, that's fucking brilliant, brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: You might be right.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hear any screaming for many women.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was uh And then after it was over,
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  Speaker 4: and and and the other thing is when this is happening,
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  Speaker 4: we don't know what's going on. Is there a shooter
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  Speaker 4: in there are bullets about to start flying, is there
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  Speaker 4: a bomb? You know, we don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just, uh, my my adrenaline was, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I I don't even I can't even explain it. For
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  Speaker 4: the next four hours, I was bouncing off the walls.
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  Speaker 4: It was just, uh, yeah, it was pretty It was
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  Speaker 4: pretty bad.
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  Speaker 6: As you used to fight USC you like that type
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  Speaker 6: of adrenaline. Probably never used the condom in your life.
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  Speaker 4: I do, and I've obviously never been in any type
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  Speaker 4: of situation like that in my life. It was it
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  Speaker 4: was a really unique experience. You know, I know a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people it sounded twisted, but let me tell
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  Speaker 4: you what. As a guy and and uh, that's never
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  Speaker 4: been in something like that, it's just it's it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to explain, but it was pretty bad ass.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, whose idea was it to have
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  Speaker 1: a UFC fight on the White House lawn? How did
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  Speaker 1: that come about?
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  Speaker 4: So the President was at one of the fights, I
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  Speaker 4: can't remember if it was in New Jersey or Miami,
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  Speaker 4: and he leans over to me and goes, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: we should do a fight at the White House.
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  Speaker 3: I said, yes, yes, we should. I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Literally how it started, Oh, he doesn't bullshit, So when
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  Speaker 4: he says he's going to do something, he does it.
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  Speaker 4: Literally Monday, people started calling and trying to set it up.
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  Speaker 4: And that was Saturday and Monday they called and started
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  Speaker 4: setting it up. Yeah, I'm not going to say no
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  Speaker 4: to doing a fight at the White.
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  Speaker 1: How does that work? Who gets invited? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: to go through protocol?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How does that work? As far as you know celebrities
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  Speaker 1: and people coming? And yeah, some of the fighters.
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  Speaker 4: I have two hundred tickets, Ari Emmanuel has two hundred tickets,
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  Speaker 4: and the president has a thousand tickets. There's four there'll
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  Speaker 4: be like a little over four thousand people there. Most
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  Speaker 4: will be military, every branch of the military will be there.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, you know there's fourteen hundred tickets between me,
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  Speaker 4: are and the president.
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  Speaker 6: Do you understand why some people see that as sports
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  Speaker 6: history while others see it is just like state sponsored
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  Speaker 6: political theaters.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the people are you know, everybody's going to
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  Speaker 4: have an opinion about something like this. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: why would I not If you're offered to do something
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  Speaker 4: at the White House, why would you not do it?
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  Speaker 4: Especially on America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Pretty incredible,
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  Speaker 4: great opportunity.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just gonna say it. Just there's just so much
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  Speaker 7: going on right now that it just seems like, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the energy, the focus, the resources, that everything could just
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  Speaker 7: go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Well point just for the so we're clear, the US
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  Speaker 4: taxpayers aren't paying anything. We're flipping the whole bill for
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  Speaker 4: this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And he told us about the ballroom too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is a fact. I don't know about
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  Speaker 3: the ball room. I'm not involved.
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  Speaker 4: That we're paying for everything, literally everything, and we can't
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  Speaker 4: sell a hot dog, a T shirt, a ticket, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: We're flipping the bill for everything. And my thing is always, uh,
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  Speaker 4: there's always something going on. There's always gonna be something else,
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  Speaker 4: always something bad. Plus we're a global business. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when the Ukraine Russia war started and people were saying,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, you can't have Russians fight. I have
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  Speaker 4: Russians under contract. They have to feed their families. I
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  Speaker 4: have Palestinians, I have Jewish fighters, I have You know,
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  Speaker 4: there's always gonna be something bad going on in this world,
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  Speaker 4: and I run a global business.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you own a Katie Miller podcast and you said,
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  Speaker 6: in regards to your relationship with Trump and has it
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  Speaker 6: cost the UFC business, you said, I don't give a shit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 6: I've gotten to a point in my life especially after
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  Speaker 6: COVID and all that nutty shit that went on during
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  Speaker 6: that time, that I only want to be in business
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  Speaker 6: with and talk to people that I'm aligned with.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about talk to people that I'm
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  Speaker 4: aligned but I want to do business with people that
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  Speaker 4: I'm aligned with.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, You're aligned with Trump on what exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Trump is a good friend of mine. I mean
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  Speaker 4: I've been friends with him for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 3: Friends.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he just happened to become the President of
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  Speaker 4: the United States and he and I have never had
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  Speaker 4: a He had us at the at the Trump doj
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  Speaker 4: Mahal when we first bought this company. The stigma that
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: was attached to this thing. You can imagine think about this.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't allowed on pay per view, You as a
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: grown adult, didn't have the option to buy it on
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: pay per view. Porn was on pay per view, the
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  Speaker 4: UFC was not allowed on. That was the uphill battle
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  Speaker 4: we had. So you can imagine venues didn't want us
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: because you know, these guys were like, what kind of
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  Speaker 4: people will show up to watch this kind of an event.
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  Speaker 4: And he had us at the Trump to Mahal for
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  Speaker 4: the first two fights. You know, thirty and thirty one,
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  Speaker 4: UFC thirty and thirty one, and then after wed those
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  Speaker 4: two first you showed up for the first fight of
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  Speaker 4: the night and stayed till the end for both events.
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  Speaker 4: And you think the Trump brand then, and the UFC
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  Speaker 4: brand and every good thing that ever happened to me,
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  Speaker 4: uh in my career after that. He was always the
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  Speaker 4: first guy to reach out. So then when he was
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  Speaker 4: running and in sixteen he called me and asked me,
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  Speaker 4: would you speak for me at the at the Republican Convention.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody told me not to do it, don't do it.
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  Speaker 4: This is going to be bad and he's never gonna
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  Speaker 4: win and all that kind of stuff. But this was
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  Speaker 4: a guy that was always good to me and you know,
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  Speaker 4: always treated me well, and I did it.
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  Speaker 2: I can understand that. You know, that's your friend.
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  Speaker 6: But when your friend had a disapproval rating of sixty
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  Speaker 6: two percent, right record high. People say they don't like
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  Speaker 6: his handling of Diran war, the economy, shitty cost of
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  Speaker 6: living for people, who's fucked up. Why can't you tell
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  Speaker 6: your friend he's failing to people as a friend.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's the president of the United States, And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I know, but you know for me to get involved
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  Speaker 4: in It's like if your friend had to be I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure people disagree with you and that that are
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  Speaker 4: friends with you, and everybody has friends that you just
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean you're not friends with him anymore.
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  Speaker 3: It's doesn't mean that you're well.
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  Speaker 2: And I just say you shouldn't be friends with him.
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  Speaker 6: I just said, why can't you tell you a friend,
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  Speaker 6: he's failing the people because you are the same people
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  Speaker 6: who make you see a success.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I don't know if I agree that
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  Speaker 4: he's failing the people. I think that when the when
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  Speaker 4: the president is done in three years, people will look
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  Speaker 4: back on and realize a lot of the good things.
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  Speaker 3: See.
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  Speaker 4: I'm closer to him too, and I see all the
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  Speaker 4: good things that he does that a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: you know, either don't see or don't want to see.
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  Speaker 6: But tariff inflation has increased the price of household goods,
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  Speaker 6: increased utility bills because household electricity costs have gone up
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  Speaker 6: nine percent. Failure, the failure to Extending Affordable Care ACTAU
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  Speaker 6: is fuck the people's health care. Every day working class
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  Speaker 6: people who support your sport.
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  Speaker 4: You're never gonna have a president that that sits in
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  Speaker 4: the White House that ever buddy approves one hundred percent
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  Speaker 4: of everything they do, and not everything is always going
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  Speaker 4: to be perfect. You're gonna have some things that work
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  Speaker 4: out great and a lot of things that don't. It's
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  Speaker 4: just it's no different than than than running a business
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  Speaker 4: or or or any other thing. Nobody's ever going to
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  Speaker 4: be absolutely perfect when they're the president of the area.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell your friend when he's Yeah, we talk
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  Speaker 4: about a lot of things, but I don't try to
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  Speaker 4: get into everything he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like I just said, you're never going to agree
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  Speaker 4: with everything. But you know, as a friend, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going out there and he and I have never other
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  Speaker 4: than the first two UFC events that nothing with us
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  Speaker 4: is transactional. I'm not trying. He doesn't call me and like,
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you an example of the White House fight.
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  Speaker 4: Other than Derek Lewis the black beast, other than him,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't tell me, Hey, put this guy do this.
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  Speaker 4: We're sitting at the fight in Miami a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, and he says, why is the black beast
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  Speaker 4: Derek Lewis?
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  Speaker 2: Don doesn't make.
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  Speaker 4: That's he's the president. One of the President's favorite fighters. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so he says to me, why is he not on
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  Speaker 4: the card. I literally got up and walked over to
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: my matchmaker, Mick. I said, get Derek on the phone.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Called Derek and I said, hey, the President wants to
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: know why you're not on the White House card. He said, politics,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm not. Derek Lewis is incredible and I said,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: he wants you on the card. You want to fight
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: in the card? He said, tell him, thank you, I'd
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: love to. We get him on. We put him on
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: the card. Now we got to find him opponent in
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: this crazy fight plays out that night between Curtis Blades
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: and Hoke It and it was an incredible fight. They're
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: literally putting Hoke It in the ambulance and uh, Mick
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: goes back and says, you want to fight Derek Lewis
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: on the White House card? And he said yeah. The
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: fight was literally made that night during the fight. But
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: my point in the story was, you know he doesn't.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: It's just we don't have we don't do that.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Your relationship with Trump is bigger than business, is actually personal.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, we have a real friendship, not some type of
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: you know, he has lots of friends, especially now that
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: he's the president. We don't have that. We've had a
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: twenty five year real friendship in real relation.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: But you'll be a glazer, don't be what a glazer like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: just somebody that just tells him he's great. A yes
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: man basically.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody's ever accused me of being a
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: yes man, and I think that's that that's part of it.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: But listen, I'm not an overly political person either, you
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: know what I mean?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: And so are you part of the MAGA movement culturally?
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: What do you mean culturally?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Are you part of the Maga movement? Culturally? Do you
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: align with their ideologies and their values?
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: You know, I consider myself right down the middle or
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: leaning a little liberal, to be honest with you. Everybody
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: thinks I'm some far right guy because of our relationship.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm more about common sense. I'm a common
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: sense guy, and if it makes sense to me, then
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: I'm probably in.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: So when you see the Joe Rogue, the THEOVA Andrew
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Schultz is actually you know, calling out Trump and what
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: they don't like, what do you what do you think
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: of it?
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I think that everybody's entitled to their own opinions and
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: and uh you know, uh yeah, it's if you if
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: there's things that you see that you don't like and
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: you want to be political, call him out.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's interesting.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Most CEOs try to stay politically neutral to protect the brand.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: You almost seem kind of like proud to be.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Proud to be political. I guess, not proud to be political.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just saying that this guy is my friend,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: and nothing is perfect, and you know, whoever is the
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: next president, right or left, is it going to be
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: perfect either. I just think that, Uh, I don't base
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: my relationship with him on politics.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Well what about when people say that you're the reason
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: why a lot of young male voters because of you know,
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: you have seen everything that you have voted for Trump
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: and that was something that like, even if you didn't
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: mean to do, it was wide he talked about and
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: you still leaned into helping his popularity in the space.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm okay with that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: But that gets political then Yeah, yes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: So you're responsible for the high tariffs and the high
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: inflation costs and.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I guess so, I guess that's the way you want
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: to look at.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: People's healthcare, getting cut. I'm just saying, like, that's what
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: you're essentially saying.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Okay, Jesus, I mean I don't that's not the way
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I look at it, But I guess I could see
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: why you would look at it that way, and you could,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you know, frame it like that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: I've even seeing people go as far as like, because
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: I know we people say that like Baron put Trump
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: onto like a lot of the podcasts. But I've seen
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: people say that you and your relationships also were the
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: reason why he sat down with certain people during the campaign,
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: which was really successful.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: That's definitely true. I told him if you stay on Fox,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: you're never gonna win.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: You know, most of the people that are on Fox
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: already for every other network says you're, you know, a
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: fascist and a racist and you know all these other
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: horrible things. And yeah, I definitely was the one that
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: leaned him into doing podcasts and things like that. And
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: the other thing that I knew is that you can
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: put Trump on a five hour podcast and and he
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: will do just fine. You know, he's good. Kamala could
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: not could not do a five hour podcast?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Did you ask what else did you tell him to do?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: A not to do? Did you say, hey, Trump, you
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: should stay away from this, or maybe you should do
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: this more?
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: What?
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: None of that.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: So, so what originally happened was he was picking me
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: up in Vegas and we were flying to a rally
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: down in Arizona. And this when he was still the president,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: and I called Jared Kushner and I said, hey, there's
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: this there's a group of kids called the Nelk Boys
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: that they're influencers. I want to bring them with us
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: to Arizona on the plane. And Jared goes, yeah, you're
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: asking him that, I'm not so so I called him
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: and he said, yeah, yeah, whatever you want to do.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: And so we flew down there and we were in
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: the back. There's a conference room in the back of
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Air Force one. And then he called us up to
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: his office and we went in there and you know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys know who the Milk
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Boys are, if you've ever seen him, but and we're
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: in there taking pictures and stuff, and you know, at
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: some point it gives me this look like you gotta
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: be fucking kidding me right now. And we get to
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: the rally. He does his rally and again, you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: to his brilliance he sees Steve will do it out
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: in the crowd, he calls Steve up on stage when
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: he's walking out and leaving, you know, doing the YMCA thing,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and the whole crowd erupted when Steve got up on
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: stage with him, and he felt it and he did
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: their podcast right after that. I was, you know, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: that was when it did like eight million views and
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: two or three three hours, and then YouTube pulled it down,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: and then that started that whole social media thing that
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: started to happen, uh with them pulling him off social media.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Would you feel the same way if if your political
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: allegiance started costing fighters, like opportunities internationally are impacted the
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: business of the USC.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I ask that again.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Would you feel the same way about, you know, your
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: friendship if that political allegiance started to cost fighters opportunities
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: internationally are impacted the business of the USC.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: And in what way how would it cost fighters opportunities?
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Like I don't know if people just was like, you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I don't want you all over here because y'all are
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: feel ad.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: With the USC.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know, I don't know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I guess i'd have to I'd have to Uh, I'd
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: have to face it would have to happen for me
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: to think of how to deal with it and what
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: would be the what would.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Be the reasons? And uh yeah, I don't know.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: I guess when you just look around at everything that's
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: going on in society and you noticed working class people
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: that support the US see and Trump is your friend,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: you got to direct line to him some point. You
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: got to tell him a lot of the stuff that
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: he's doing wrong that's hard working class people.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not involved in in I'm not part of his cabinet.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I'm just one of his friends. But I don't but
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: I don't have cabinet, But I don't necessarily agree uh
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: politically that you know, all these bad things are happening.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, and I'm not inside enough to sit down
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: and and get political with him and talk about this stuff. Uh.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: It'd be like, uh, you know, if you if you
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: had a buddy that ran a business and you know
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: you're going and you're you're giving him a bunch of
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: advice how to run his business and think he's doing
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: this wrong or that wrong. It's just I'm just not
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: that guy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: You know what I do.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I have my little world and my bubble that I
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: deal with, my employees that I have to take care of.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Like during COVID, you know, we were looking at at
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: a position where we might have to lay people off,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: people that have been with me fifth twenty years. Me as
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: the leader of what I do. I have to take
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: care of my people, my family, my friends, and my
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: own little world and my own little bluff. I'm not
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: flying out the Washington to sit down with the president
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: and you know, walk through all the things that I
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: think are right and wrong with.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: With with the country.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Sure, but you got to get out that bubble and
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: look at the people who support ufcah. Those are the
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: working class people that are hurting. Like, That's who I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: talking about, Like you've got to be concerned about.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I can tell you this.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: No UFC fans have ever come to me and said, hey, listen,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: we're hurting. We need you to talk to the president.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: You know, nobody's ever It's the complete opposite. I mean
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I just went to the Derby on Saturday and literally
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: everybody was coming up to me saying thank you for
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: supporting the president and thank you for you know, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: never get the opposite, never, never, not once on my
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: children's life has somebody come up to me and said,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you know, your buddy's blowing it, he's doing this, you
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: know you need to do this, or that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I've never ever had.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: On one side. If you stayed on one side, you
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: never happened. It's never happened. If it did happen, I'd
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: say it. I wouldn't, I wouldn't lie about it. I'd say, listen,
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: I get you know. Some people come up and say
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: that it's never happened to me ever.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And I would say, the irony of you being deaf
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: on the left side. But it's not just the left.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It's a lot brilliant to there's a lot of everybody
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: you know that's well.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I guess criticize you guys and say that a lot
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of times you pick fights based off popularity and not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: necessarily the fight, his experience or his the fact that
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the fighter is that great. Is there any reason for that?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Is that true?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It's definitely not true. That's definitely not true. Plus, my
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: job is to put on the fights that people want
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: to see. Like your buddy that you were talking to
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: that can't wait and he's in the second or third
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: row or whatever. This fight this weekend. There's a ton
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: of bad blood between these guys, a lot of ship
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: talking going back and forth, and uh, you know, this
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: is a fight that people want to say, that's my job.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: What's relationship with Ronda Rousey lover? She has some horse
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: words for the UFC at one time. Ye, what's your
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: thoughts on her words? What she said?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Not paying again?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I think that everybody is entitled to their opinion, including Ronda.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Ronda is one of the greatest athletes that I've ever
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: worked with in my entire career, and and her rise
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: and run was was one of the most h Yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: the most fun I've had in my career.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: What's the craziest thing a fighter has asked you for?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Besides money? Is there anything on decided a fighter said
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: this is weird or this is strange.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: No, nobody's ever asked me for co he heard that
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: one should?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean a lot of it. Well
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: to go to go with Charlotmagne here, I got a
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: fighter right now, who's uh?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Who's who's uh? A wife got got grabbed by ice?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So did you reach out the Trump and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: did you reach out?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Well? Admitted.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: He also admitted that it was their fault that that
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: this happened to you know, it wasn't you know, Ice
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: just popped up and grabbed his wife. They they they
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: made a lot of mistakes leading up to that happening.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: And asked me to help.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: With that, did you I don't think, I don't. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: don't know what I can do to help with that. Well,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: there's policies. There are policies if you are not an
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: American citizen, and especially if you've done something illegal, you're
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: you're you're probably gonna be yeah, yeah, yeah, so you're probably.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Going to be in trouble.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: They admitted they did a lot of things wrong leading
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: up to you know that this happening. But I mean,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: that's right up there with.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Did you reach it at least asked him like, hey, bro,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I got a fighter. Did you each the not bro,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that's bro.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: They don't call each other bro. Ask him what you called.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You, mister president?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Did you reach out to mister president and even ask
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: him about it? Or you said you're gonna fall back
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: on that one.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Well, he's not the one that you would ask. There
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: are other people in the cabinet think that that could
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: help with that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's the one that can fix it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Well, when you say he, it's his administration too, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: mean that the people that are around him.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: How bad can her husband fight?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: How bad?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: I mean like, how great can Well he's tired.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Now, he's retired, but he's a great kid. He's a
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: great kay. I like him as well.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: If if let's just say, hypothetically, Kamala Harris was president,
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: right or even Barack Obama and they wanted a UFC
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: card on the White House lawn, would your audience embrace
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: it the same way?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, here's my thing. It's like that whole Uh. You know,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Biden is not my president. Trump is not my president.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I got some bad news for you. If you are an American,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that is your president. And that's how I am. Whoever
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: the President of the United States is. I am an
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: American citizen and that is my president. And you know, yeah,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: I would definitely if especially and it's the two hundred
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: and fiftieth anniversary of America and the President of the
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: United States calls me and asks me to do anything,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: let alone an event at the Whites And.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: So what if what if Kamala wasn't president just wanted
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: to do it, just wanted to have it an event,
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: a UFC event somewhere.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Would you still do it?
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Well, depend on it. I mean it depends on a
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: lot of things. You know, this this event on the
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: White House lawn. I'm paying for everything, you know. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: again it's aligned with America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: So I don't know it would depend but yeah. So
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I was at the inauguration and my seats were right
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: behind all the express and while it was playing out live,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: people were posting look at Dana mad Dog and Obama
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: and and and all this you know, crazy shit that
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: people say on the internet, when in reality, Obama was
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: the only one that turned around to me shook my
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: hand and said congratulations and all your success. I'm really
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: happy for you. And I said thank you, mister president. Yeah,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: nobody else that was our interaction. You know, there's nothing negative, nothing,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: you know, none of that ship.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: No other president spoke to you at all, didn't even
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: look at you, look at your way.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Well I mean they looked and whatever, but no, the
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: only one that that acknowledged yeah, was President Obama.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: So when you when you say you only want to
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: do business, with people you're aligned with. For you're talking
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: about values policy.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about loyalty. I'm talking about sponsorship. I had.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I had some fucking crazy shit go on with some
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: sponsors during COVID and uh and when I was supporting
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Trump uh uh, you know, for election. And my thing is,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I get it you're spending, but don't don't don't ever
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: fucking tell me personally who to vote for and who
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: not to vote for. As an American, that's your right
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: to vote for whoever you want to vote for. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to be uh you know, uh, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: put in a position where I got some sponsor calling
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: me telling me who I can and can't vote for
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: and who I can and can't support.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, it happened.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, But that's what I mean when I say political
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: alignment impacting your business. But you don't care. No, you
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: said you don't give us it. If all your sponsors.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Pulled up, that sponsors gone, Oh yeah, all they don't
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: have enough money to do business with me, gone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: But what if all of them pulled up? Would you
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: then tell your friend that you got to change some things?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: You if if you look at how you are in
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: the way that you think and imagine somebody coming in
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: because they sponsor your show and start telling you who
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: to be and how to acted, who to vote for
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: and who to No, no, I can't do what happened
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: exactly exactly not the question I said it, But but
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: what if it impacts your business and what if it
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: impacts you? Was There's not much to think about. You
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: either want to be that person or you're not that person.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I don't think you're that person, but you know, somebody
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: starts there are there are lots of sponsors out there.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Right when you get somebody that comes in and starts
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: trying to do that to you, ye.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Got to go.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Was there a conversation with your sponsors or anybody on
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: the business side when that video went viral view and
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: your wife and the club the slapping slapping her slapping
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: you when they reached out to you, What did they like?
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: How did that conversation?
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I didn't. We didn't have any sponsor problems. Uh during
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: that I think that that that you know, my wife
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and I jumped on that immediately, and and again that
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: was more of a we had to deal with our
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: kids with that one. When you embarrass your children on
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: a global level. You know, that's one of the worst
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: things that can ever happen to He might din't have
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: any sponsorship problems with that.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: I was at TMZ at the time when that video
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: went up, and like the whole debacle and like, you
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: know whatever. And one thing I will say is your
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: relationships have afforded you a lot of like empathy and grace,
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: Like the way that they handled that situation with you
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: and allowing you to speak out for yourself, like as
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: it was published. I had never seen that in my
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: time being in the newsroom. Oh that was like a
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: that was my first time ever realizing like relationships can
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: change a narrative one hundred percent. And they reported it honestly,
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: but they allowed you to at the same time that
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: the video is going up, you're speaking for yourself and apologizing.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: And I was just like wow. I always told myself,
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: I ever got a chance to meet you, I would
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: really want to talk to you about that, because I
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: never seen that before.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I and and we were apologizing to our children,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: my wife and I when that happened. I think that
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of the people that I've been in business
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: with and that I'm friends with no know me really well,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's just one of those you know, it
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: was bad and we jumped right on it and and
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: and and and dealt with it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: And I don't think that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: When I got back from Mexico, it was like it
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: was sixty four days of just you know, people getting hammered. Yeah,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, and I had to. I live in Vegas,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: so I was waking up at like three in the
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: morning every morning because the East Coast is cracking off
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: at six o'clock with all the you know, talk shows
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: and sports shows, and you know, I had I had
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: to make the rounds and and and and do all
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: the interviews. And you know, I say this all the time.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: You find out who's who and what's what when the
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: ship hits the fan. And I learned a lot about
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of people during that time, and mostly a
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: positive way, not negative.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: If a UFC fighter was caught on camera.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: It's happened, that's have been treated. You know what's funny
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: is that it's not funny. But I used to say
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: that you don't recover from those those are those are
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: those are ones you don't recover from.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Do you think being the boss protected you from consequences
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: that employees of athlete.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Definitely not. No, definitely data come on, definitely not.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: You've made the choice publicly not to excuse yourself from
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: the brand.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: You chose publicly to not what.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: To excuse yourself or give yourself.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Well, listen that there's a board of directors, there's you
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: know that there's other people that that are involved that
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: that uh could have pushed for that. But yeah, I
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: think that and I obviously they think too. It would
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: have it would have hurt the company more if I
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: if I did step away and.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: You've disciplined fighters for public behavior that was unbecoming to
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: the company before.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Right, Well, I mean I'm I'm probably the most lenient, uh,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: you know, the most lenient guy in sports when it
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: comes to dealing with uh, you know, whether it's free
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: speech or bad things that happened. And you know, I'm
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: gonna fight business, not like I run Microsoft, you know
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: what I mean?
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: So, so what standard did you hold yourself to.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: In that moment?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, obviously that's not that's not what uh it was. Yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: I mean it's as bad as I could get. I mean,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I I I hold myself to I would never in
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: a million years think that that was going to happen.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: And I say this all the time, nobody knows you
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: better than you kids do. And you know, your kids,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: whoever you really are, your kids see it. They hearing
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: everything that that goes on at home. And uh, you know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: how did he react to that incident? Because my oldest
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: son didn't talk to us for like four days. We
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: had to you know, And.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Uh was he at the time? How old was he
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: your oldest son at the time?
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: He was he was in college, so you know he was,
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: uh nineteen probably, yeah, nineteen twenty. And uh, you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: we we The first thing that that her and I
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: did was handle the situation with the kids. And then
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: obviously I had to handle the business side of the
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: of the whole thing. But yeah, we we we handled
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: the kids first.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: How did power slaps get started?
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That's a terrible but inflicted right now.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: It was great though, it was probably I think it
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: was great.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I think it was great.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: Power is in the ring. I'm like, yo, the fuck
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: just like not y'all just be out here. Power.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I think that was good.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you so.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: In seventeen eighteen, I was on Instagram. I saw these
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: guys slapping and uh. It was coming out of Russia
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: and Poland, and I was like, holy shit, this is crazy.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: But what fascinated me is that I would stay till
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: the end to see who won. And I started to
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: get into it, and and uh I called my old
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: partners to for Tita Brothers, and I said, have you
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: seen this slap and stuff? I'm into it. I think
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I think I could do this and and and I
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: think this could be big. And literally I said how
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: much money you need? I said, I need a million
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: bucks from from both of you. So all three of
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: us put in a million dollars and here we are.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You know, we kind of started that. This is about
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: thirty i'll say twenty five years ago. We see this
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: thing called slapfest and people would slap each other for tickets, damn.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: And we did it for like a good year tickets
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to where a concert like so you'd stand there and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it would There was no referees. It was just us
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: doing it and it was huge. And then we got
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a letter from I guess what it would FCC, one
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of the sponsors. You can't have like this is like
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: battling fighting, no refs, but it was. It was huge.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: So when I seen that, I was like, wow, damn,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: people get hurt with that though.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, people get knocked out, knocked that fas
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Uh it does a billion views a month. Geez, power
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: slap does a billion views a month and it is
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: a sponsorship machine. Kills it. We're doing uh, we're doing
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: our first fight in Serbia this summer. We'll be doing
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: power slopes.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: So how does that work? Slap each other? Somebody gets
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: knocked out?
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Well, you go back and forth. It's three rounds. Title
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: fights are five rounds, and uh, there's judges. Just like
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: in the fights, they have a standing eight count if
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: you if you get dropped, and and and therough determines
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: whether you can. It's regulated just like boxing in the
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: UFC by the Athletic Commissions.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Damn, I know.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: I just got a couple of questions cause I don't want,
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: I do want to go back to this lab daing.
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: What responsibility do you feel knowing that you're a person
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: who a lot of young men idolized as a leader,
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: and for the young men that saw that footage, what
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: responsibility do you feel?
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: No, it's bad and and and uh, you know, not
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: my finest moment, and uh I, I don't want to
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: blame anything other than the fact that it happened. I
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: did it, and you know, now from probably the worst
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: thing that that can happen is somebody, oh, this guy's
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: a wife beater or you know. But that's that's that's
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: the the kind of things that I have to hear,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: you know, for the rest of my life and my
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: kids have to hear that. So yes, it's it's it's
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: a big deal to me. And uh I take it
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: very serious that that video exists and that young men
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: see that happening.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and a lot of.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Men only truly face accountability when they're a financial consequences
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: like men in your position rather so, so since there
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: really weren't any major financial consequences for you, do you
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: feel like you truly experienced Again, I don't.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know if if if financial consequences are I mean,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: how does that How does that affect me in any way,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: shape or form financially? If you know how it affects
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: me is that I if you.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Lose sponsorships mean business.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: I don't care about that kind of ship that I
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: don't care about that stuff that literally means nothing. To me,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: it's not even that I I I've been broke, I've
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: had money, I've done it all. Life is there's so
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: much more to life than just that, oh, you know,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: the money or the finances, the sponsors of this, or that,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: the fact that you know, I embarrassed my kids and
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: that that hangs on my name and on my head forever.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: It's just, you know, if you are a young a
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: young man, you don't ever want to do that to you, don't.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: You just don't want to do that to yourself. And
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: you get in these positions where I would tell you
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: before that happened, I would have told you there's never
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: that would never happen to me, and there will never
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: be a scenario that could ever play out where I
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: would be a part of that. It would just never happen.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: And it did, you know, and and and you know
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: you have to. I mean, if that's who you are
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: and that's what you do, and that's what you've done
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: and that's normal to you, then you don't feel the
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: way that I feel about it. I'm trying to explain
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: this to you and the best way possible.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: You know, So.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: As a young man or an older man, if you
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: start to feel yourself in a position where something like
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: that starts to escalate, get the hell out of there.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Literally run run, get out of there, and and take
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: yourself out of that situation immediately.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask, you know, another thing that's been
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: in the news when it came to Dana White is
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: how much you in the casino and how much a
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: gambling people go into your gambling. Is that a problem
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: for you gambling? Do you still go to the casino heavy?
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Because I do?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: I do, I do. Uh yeah, I love to gamble.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: I gamble multiple nights a week in Vegas, and uh yeah,
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: What's your game?
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: It's baccarat. Now, that was a blackjack guy for a
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: long time. I don't sports bet I hate sports betting,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: but I love. Baccara is my thing now. So Baccara
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: is a very Chinese game. So every night at Caesar's Palace,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: at seven o'clock, you go to the high limit room
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: and all the Chinese come in and start playing. They
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: played at ten o'clock in the morning. So when I
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: first started to learn, I always thought bakaat was boring
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: and stupid. I submerged myself with the Chinese. They took
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: me in and let me play with them, and I
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: learned more from the women actually, because the women have
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: more patience than the men do, and to watch them
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: play was fascinating. And now I'm a back guy.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Is it true that they said that you sometimes pay
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: your friends to come gamble with you because you gamble
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: all the time by itself?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Is that true? No, my friends are with me twenty
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: four to seven.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: So look, that's crazy because that's how I learned how
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: to play back to from a bunch of the Chinese women,
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: because the guys they get upset and me moved from
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: table to table there, Like you said, they're very patient,
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: the women are more patient, Like that is my game
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: right there.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: So you do you play, dude?
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I play background. I don't know, like high limit, but
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: What's the most you ever won?
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Well, you have to understand that I live in Vegas,
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: so I play every night. You know, some people come
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: in like like where do you play? You play in
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: like the Indian Reservation.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm from Baltimore, so I play like the Horseshoe
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: or like if I'm traveling anywhere, like I played backer
• 44:16
  Speaker 8: rocking in Vegas as well. Like but I'm a I'm
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: a traveling stand up comedian.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So I play wherever I go.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you know you'll have a board, right, and uh,
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: instead of just sitting there for you know, eight hours,
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: I'll come in and so my this is my game.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Let me bet as much as I can possibly bet, right,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: and I'll clip you for two hands and I'll go home. Right,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: I play four hundred thousand a hen, they just gave
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: me a million. Come on, they just gave me a
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: million bucks.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I though a casino said you were you owe them money?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Still is that true?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Or though?
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: Don't believe any of the ship that you hear. First
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: of all, no casino ever came out and said that
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: I'm in debt and I owe them money?
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: Ever ever ever evered it like a deep dove.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: That's some bullshit thing that came out.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: They do the same thing to Bruno, Bruno Mars, you
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: know twenty five million?
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Did you owe twenty million?
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Fifty fifty fifty million?
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: But had the casino come out and said that you
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: don't owe them that?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: It's Red Rock, right of course? Yeah, Red Rock. Those
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: are my partners.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Those are the guys I grew up with the on
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: the UFC with and yeah, So anyway, the answer to
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: your story is I'll come in and Clippy for two
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: hands and then I leave him at home, right, And
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: that's anywhere from eight hundred to a million, and then
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: I'll come back and play the same board and play
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: the whole board out, you know, over a month.
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: The most I've ever won Dana is thirteen thousand dollars.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: Incredible, whatever, that's incredible.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Playing back, yeah, playing.
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: Backrock Boy twenty.
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: I came in with twenty five hundred, got down, came up,
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: you know, because I bet like the side do the
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: side bets too. I don't just do player or a banker.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: I do the side bets. Caught a dragon, you know
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: what I mean? And I got out. But thirteen thousand
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: is the most. You're talking about, eight hundred thousand millions,
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: And shit, I ain't there yet.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Ain't there yet.
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: And I will say to be fair, an anonymous source
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: did tell Casino dot or exactly.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: Probably exactly that's right, yeah, yeah, real quick.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: An anonymous source.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: First of all, when I play, I play in private
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: rooms at the Blajio, at Caesar's and at the Venetian.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Those are the only three that will really take my action,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, we're playing private rooms.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: And the same thing with Bruno Mars Bruno.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Bruno just got out of dead though.
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: He said that, Yeah, he literally just got he that
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: was that was true, if I'm not mistaken, right, he
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: just got out of debt.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I think last week he was performing his dead but
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: he could have been joking. He said he just got
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: out of dead though. Okay, He'm singing this song and said.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: He he's totally joking. He's totally joking. And I see
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: him all the time in Vegas. And so sometimes when
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I'm playing at Blago, I'll be in the room here
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: and Bruno's in the room over here, and we're friends.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Nobody goes in fucking his room while he's playing. I
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: don't go in his room and he's playing, you know
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: what I mean. So any of that stuff, but any
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: of that stuff you hear coming out of Vegas as bullshit,
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: just like Vegas is dying right now and and and
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: all the casinos are empty and ghost towns and all
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: that bullshit, all bullshit.
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: Which fighters excite you today? Tap five give mean Tap.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Five top by Pereira who's fighting on the White House
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Iliotoporia who's fighting in the White House and this weekend
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: Hamza chamaiav and and Strickling. That's why everybody's so fired
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: up about this. Tons of bad blood between these guys. Uh,
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: Sugar Shan O'Malley as a fun fighter to watch.
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I wish favorite era of UFC. Is it the
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: Connor era?
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Like what would have to Yeah? Great, great, great question.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: It has to be the Connor area.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the Mayweather McGregor world tour that we
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: went on was so much fun and and uh, you know,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: both of those guys were hilarious and and and every
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: stop we did was different. It was the same guys,
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: but everyone was different and it was it was a
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  Speaker 4: really special time in my career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the fight goes down this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And I just want to say, Danny, it was a
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: great conversation. I do believe though, that powerful men like
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: yourself don't really see what's going on in this country,
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: especially with your own fan base of USC.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: And I'm realizing there's a bubble.
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  Speaker 6: That like, you know, you all existing, and I want
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: you to come out of that bubble sometimes and see
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: the pain that you're your own people are going through.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: That's why.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: That's why when you look at when I look at
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: all of the things that have happened to tack the tariff,
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: inflation and the snap and if it's being cut in
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: Affordable Care Act not being extended, the tax inequality exists
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  Speaker 6: in this country. You think about all the federal workers
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: that you know got fired because the dogs. That's why
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: Trump got booed in Miami when y'all walked out.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't get booted in Miami.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 3: He did not get.
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  Speaker 7: Booted in It happened on your other AI too, was
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: what happened.
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  Speaker 3: He did not get booed in Miami. Yeh yeah, the
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: place erupted in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Now video of him getting booed maybe it.
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  Speaker 3: Was a I don't know, Yeah, he definitely didn't get booded.
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: Next time you walk out and you walk out on
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: your right side, if you hear any boobs, just know
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: the reason he's getting booed is because of what's happening
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: in this country. And you're his friend, so I just
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: want you to be aware that. So you could maybe
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: tell him like, hey man, maybe you need to listen
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: to your constituent.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: If I had, you know, my fan base, I'm pretty
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: dialed in with my fan base. When you said that
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: I live in my bubble, I live in my UFC bubble.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: But nobody, no fans and people that I interact with
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: all the time, has ever come up to me and said,
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: I'm hurting man that you know the president isn't isn't
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: doing this, or isn't doing that. It's never happening.
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  Speaker 3: Never happened.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: We had this conversation. Absolutely, I would and and I'll
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: tell you this. If it does happen, I'll get with Linay,
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: We'll reach out and I'll tell you this is what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: You know last week before we get up, you guys
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: signed Edgar Baloga now Zuofer Boxing, right uffer boxing. Explain
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to people zepher boxing is and why are you jump
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: into the boxing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: So, uh, you know, I've been talking about boxing for
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: a long time. It's where I came from. I wouldn't
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: be here today if it wasn't for boxing. And uh,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: timing is everything in life, and and and it all
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: sort of came together last year and I decided to
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: pull the trigger. We got involved in basically like like
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: we were saying earlier. My job is to put on
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: the fights that people want to see, and I feel
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: like boxing hasn't had middle class in a very long time.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: You know, you hear about the handful of guys that
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: make all the money, and then there's tons of guys
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: to starve. So what I want to do is try
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: to build it again from the ground up, create new
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: up and coming young stars, give everybody the opportunity to fight,
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: but the best fight the best. The one thing that's
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: happened in boxing has become everybody is undefeated because nobody
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: fights anybody until they, you know, get to a world title.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: We're gonna you know, we're putting on Bull Chuck versus
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: the Mosley Jr. Fight This this Sunday and on Paramount Plus.
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  Speaker 2: That's dope. You know who won't have a middle class America? Okay,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: so you need to start.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: That very clear a right, Well, thank you for joining
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: us this weekend. You can check out the fight in
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Newark this weekend, is a fight in Vegas this weekend.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you for joining us, Thanks.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: For having me.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: Congrats on all your success guys.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: I would love to come back. If you'll have me,
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: I'll come back.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: It's Dana White. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, every day.
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  Speaker 1: A week ago.
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  Speaker 3: Breakfast Club