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Jon Jones | Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro · Delivering Happiness with Nick Turturro

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: What the fuck is up? Brand new place.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: You got delivery?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, big Nick. Where the hell have you been all day, bro?
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: John Jones?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, listen.
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  Speaker 3: We need to talk, but first... I work for you. Yeah,
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: you work for me. We got deliveries. You're 25 minutes late, Nick.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I had traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. No more of this late shit.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take the pizza. Families are waiting. Get out of here.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: You're my boss? Right now, I am. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this. Tell me what you think.
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  Speaker 1: French Street.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It looks delicious. It's the first pizza I've
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  Speaker 2: ever made.
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  Speaker 1: You made this?
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  Speaker 2: I made this pizza. What do you mean? I made
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  Speaker 2: it hands-on, everything. Really? The mozzarella, the sauce.
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  Speaker 1: Who trained you?
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  Speaker 2: I know a thing or two. You know a thing
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  Speaker 2: or two? I know a thing or two.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. What do you like, the corner? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not the biggest crust guy, so I'll take this
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  Speaker 3: inner piece right here.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Nick, I want you to be honest. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know how this goes.
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: One bite.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't do that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't do that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that shtick.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing against Portnoy. He's a good guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But he does this whole.
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  Speaker 4: Thing, you know, one bite, one bite. Then he takes
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  Speaker 4: like 14 bites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a shtick.
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  Speaker 2: You think you'll actually finish a slice? No.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see your reaction.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's that first bite, right?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. You know what I like?
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  Speaker 1: I like to take the pepperoni.
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  Speaker 2: The crust is soft. Huge portion. I mean, right here, man.
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  Speaker 4: I like that they cook the pepperoni like it looks
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  Speaker 4: almost like it's seared.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Absolutely delicious. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: one slice could feed two people. Yeah. You know? You're right.
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  Speaker 4: This is This is not like a traditional pizza pie
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  Speaker 4: where you could have two, three, four slices.
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  Speaker 1: This could feed a family.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And you're a big guy. So imagine you saying one
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  Speaker 4: slice could feed a, you know. Let's face it, like
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  Speaker 4: a family of four, right?
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  Speaker 2: I come from a pretty, pretty big family.
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  Speaker 1: How many in your family?
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  Speaker 3: The man in our family, I got two brothers and
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  Speaker 3: sister and mom and dad and Everybody in my family
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  Speaker 3: is 200 pounds plus.
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  Speaker 2: I think for sure this will have my family satisfied
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  Speaker 2: for a night, which says.
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  Speaker 3: A lot because we eat a lot of food. The
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  Speaker 3: Jones family eats a lot of food, absolutely.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: So you got to turn off your phone.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a break. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you're on set and we were doing a scene.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be a bad look.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be terrible.
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  Speaker 1: You see these actors that bring their cell phone to set?
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  Speaker 2: Right, leave it.
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  Speaker 1: Like Quentin Tarantino?
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  Speaker 2: Like me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, get rid of this thing. He doesn't allow cell phones.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a distraction. Did you come from a competitive family?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. My family was incredibly competitive. We would fight
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  Speaker 2: in the house. We lived in it. Where'd you grow up?
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in upstate New York. I grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Rochester, New York. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then I went to high school right outside of Binghamton,
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  Speaker 3: New York. But very big family, very athletic family, very
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  Speaker 3: competitive family.
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  Speaker 2: We would fight over absolutely everything.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you land? And the kids? You're in the middle?
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  Speaker 3: I am one of the middle children. My oldest sister
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  Speaker 3: had an older sister, older brother. They both passed away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. Life happens.
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  Speaker 3: They're good people, and I believe they're in a better place.
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  Speaker 3: So now I'm the older brother, and I have one
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  Speaker 3: little brother left.
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  Speaker 1: So there's just two of you left?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, two of us left.
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  Speaker 1: There was three boys?
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  Speaker 2: There used to be three of us, and now there's
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  Speaker 2: two brothers. And a girl, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And your parents still alive?
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  Speaker 2: My mom passed away as well, so now it's my...
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That was my father and my little brother. My little
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  Speaker 3: brother lives out in Arizona. Dad lives in Binghamton where
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: we grew up.
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  Speaker 2: But life is good, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're sweating, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little hot.
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  Speaker 1: Want me to pat you down?
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  Speaker 2: It's a little warm. Yeah. It's a little warm in
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  Speaker 2: here for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, not to get morbid, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you lose, you know, you lose your parents or
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  Speaker 4: you lose your brother, your sister.
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  Speaker 1: Like, life is never the same.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: But, you know, our family, we're a Christian family. And
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  Speaker 3: I genuinely believe, genuinely believe that they're all in a
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  Speaker 3: better place. And that gives me great peace to know
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  Speaker 3: that I will see them again. And one of my,
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  Speaker 3: my great, my main mindset is to live a life
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  Speaker 3: worth of watching. You know, I feel like my family
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  Speaker 3: members get a front row seat to everything that I
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  Speaker 3: do now. And so I just make it worth watching,
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  Speaker 3: like just being the best person that I can be
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  Speaker 3: living a life, you know, seeking out cool experiences and
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  Speaker 3: And just saying yes to more opportunities, you know, traveling more,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just being more personable, being more warm and
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  Speaker 3: trying to connect more.
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  Speaker 4: Because- Do you think you showed that side of yourself
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  Speaker 4: when you were fighting?
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't. No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: When I was fighting, I tried to always stay real
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  Speaker 3: stoic and kind of mysterious and have that mystique about myself. Now,
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: since I've retired, you know, I'm hugging people, I'm meeting people,
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  Speaker 3: I'm shaking more hands.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the more true you?
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  Speaker 2: I would say so. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: When you're fighting, you have to kind of hold this
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  Speaker 3: intimidation at all times, you know, because some fighters are
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: watching every move you make, you know, where you're aligned
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: with what you eat, you know, what's your reason.
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  Speaker 2: Why, who's your family. And I tried to keep a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that. away from everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And now I'm a complete open book now that I've retired.
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  Speaker 3: And it just feels great to get back to the
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  Speaker 3: person I used to be before I focused on being
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  Speaker 3: a badass.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It feels good.
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  Speaker 1: When did you start fighting? How old were you?
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  Speaker 3: I started fighting back in 2000, around 2009.
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  Speaker 2: I started fighting. Yeah. I was a teenager.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: That's the time the Yankees won a championship.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I relate everything to baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yankee guy.
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  Speaker 4: So like you'll say a year and I'll, Think of
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  Speaker 4: a player, think of something specific.
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  Speaker 2: Why the Yankees for you? Why the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just fell in love with baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Like 1973, I went to the Yankee Stadium first time
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  Speaker 4: with the Boy Scouts of America. And it was like,
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  Speaker 4: I walked in the original Yankee Stadium. And you know
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: when you fall in love with something or somebody? It's
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  Speaker 4: like when I first saw my wife, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, wow, something happened. And I just, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know much about baseball. My family liked basketball and they
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  Speaker 4: liked boxing. But baseball just became... A love of mine.
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  Speaker 4: I picked it up late, too, and I just loved
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  Speaker 4: everything about the game. I became a student of the game.
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  Speaker 2: You never feel like it's too slow?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. Not at all.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I like that it's kind of a slower
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  Speaker 4: pace because you have time to, like, watch a ball
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  Speaker 4: game and actually talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, it's not too fast. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: fast food.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of sports, it's just, like, up
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  Speaker 1: and down.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball is, like, it's moment to moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's like good acting.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you act, you know, we're doing a
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  Speaker 4: scene and it's all about moments, your moment, my moment,
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  Speaker 4: back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I love about baseball, that cat and mouse game.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the count.
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  Speaker 4: When you're watching a game, you don't know if it's
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: a 3-1 count or a 1-2 count. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: it's 1-2, You know, the pitchers in the driver's seat
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  Speaker 4: and the hitters.
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  Speaker 1: Got to get back in the count. You get the
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  Speaker 1: count to like three, two, three balls, two strikes. You know, wow.
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  Speaker 1: It's like life in a way, you know, baseball, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to get the first base, right. As a fighter.
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  Speaker 4: Then you got to try to get the second and
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  Speaker 4: maybe you get the third and then, Hey, if you
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  Speaker 4: hit a home run, it's like acting, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: take singles.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And I think baseball in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: is a lot like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of a chess match, but it,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I always think the comparison of life
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  Speaker 4: and baseball, it's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Just for me, I don't know, but you know.
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  Speaker 2: Who would you say is your favorite player?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my favorite?
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  Speaker 2: NY.
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  Speaker 1: All-time player?
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  Speaker 2: All-time.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, baseball?
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  Speaker 2: Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was Thurman Munson. He was a catcher,
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  Speaker 1: he was a gritty guy, blue-collar guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yankee?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a Yankee, and he died in a
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: plane crash.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: In 1979.
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  Speaker 4: Um, And so, you know, it was just like the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees were never the same for a long time.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: And then in the nineties, they.
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  Speaker 4: Had this special team and, uh, Derek cheater and all
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  Speaker 4: these guys, Paul O'Neill, A-Rod came later.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't part of that group.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A-Rod actually did win a championship with them 2009, but
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  Speaker 4: he didn't come up a Yankee.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: So, uh, uh, but he's a friend of mine now.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: I've become friends with some of these guys. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of weird because you know, I'm a fan.
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  Speaker 1: But they know I'm knowledgeable.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: So they go like, we respect how you come at them.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes I come out hard because I don't work
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  Speaker 1: for them. You know what I mean? And I just,
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  Speaker 1: I'm honest.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: People want to be treated normal.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want you to give them a bunch of fluff.
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  Speaker 3: If they're fucking up, let them know they're fucking up.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. And I mean, I was a
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  Speaker 1: boxing guy growing up. Loved boxing.
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  Speaker 4: Never thought I'd be a UFC guy until my son
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: over here, Conor McGregor, whatever it was that got me
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  Speaker 4: into the UFC. And I bought in. and became a
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: big UFC guy, you know? I mean, you should have
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: been on the White House call.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: What's that about?
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  Speaker 3: Man, you know, honestly, there was a little bit of
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: a contract negotiation that didn't go my way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know?
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  Speaker 1: And I love Dana.
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  Speaker 2: Dana's the absolute man.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: He's the boss. You know, sometimes you and the boss
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to always agree. Right. You know, business is business, but... Man,
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: I usually don't have regrets.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I stand with my decisions and it was
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  Speaker 3: my decision not to compete on that card. And the
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  Speaker 3: night of the fight, seeing all the boys walk out
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  Speaker 3: with our war heroes.
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  Speaker 1: That was your decision?
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  Speaker 2: It was my decision.
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  Speaker 1: You could have fought.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: I could have fought, yeah. We just couldn't come up
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: to an agreement. And, man, to watch the boys walk out.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: From the Oval Office and Trump be there and everything.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of the few times in my life
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  Speaker 3: where I just knew I should not be home on
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  Speaker 3: this night.
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  Speaker 2: I should have been out there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm such a proud American, and I'm such a fan
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  Speaker 3: of military and law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: And to salute our military and law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: On that night and me not be a part of
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  Speaker 3: it as one of the greatest American fighters in our
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  Speaker 3: sports history, it's one of my small regrets that I
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: have to live with forever.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But it's all right. I know.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we all have regrets.
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  Speaker 2: We do. We do. We do.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes you go, why wasn't I there? I should
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: have been there. I didn't go to game one in
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We had a big fight.
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  Speaker 1: Over a price, over money, and then I'm like, I'm
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: not going, I'm going, I'm not going.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a season ticket holder?
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: No, no, but I watch almost every game.
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: Why not? Are you still in New York? No, I'm
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: in LA. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So a lot of people assume that I'm in New
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: York because I'm so New York, but they never took
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: the New York.
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  Speaker 2: Out of me. Yeah, I can tell that the accent
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  Speaker 2: is rich for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So I sat down with one of your, he's also
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  Speaker 1: a pizza lover.
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  Speaker 2: Who's this?
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  Speaker 1: One of your, you know, main opponents.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Cormier. Oh, my goodness. I'm sure he is a
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  Speaker 2: pizza lover.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he loves pizza.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? He's a cool guy, and you're
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: a cool guy.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: What happened there? I mean, some people, was that personal?
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  Speaker 2: Passion.
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  Speaker 1: Passion?
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  Speaker 2: Passion, just absolute passion.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Daniel Cormier, I feel as if we weren't
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: a part of the same era, so I think he
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: would have been considered one of the greatest fighters, if
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: not the greatest fighter of all time.
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  Speaker 2: Initially.
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  Speaker 3: Initially it was, it was friendly banter and quickly became serious.
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  Speaker 3: The next thing, you know, a lot of Daniel Cormier's
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: friends were starting to write me online. Oh, you think this,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: you think that, and, uh, and I got to a
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: place where I was just like, instead of talking about it,
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: let's just see what happens when we get into the octagon. And, uh,
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: we got in the octagon and, you know, I won
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  Speaker 3: the fight, won the rematch. And we were both just,
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: we're competitors. We like to do excellent at everything that
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: we're a part of. We both like to win. And
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: as we all know, there can only be one.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: And so, you know, thank God that it was just
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: my time. And we got to put him to rest.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: But it's cool now because now we have business here
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: in Louisiana. I know he's from Lafayette. And my goal
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: is to make bygones be bygones. Invite him out for
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: a pizza.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can do a meet and greet for the
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: fans here in Baton Rouge together. And, you know, just
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: bury our past.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Life is too short.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like, is it really worth it? You know,
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: that animosity was good for then. But now you're older.
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Stay angry forever?
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Right? Yeah, we're older. We all like food. Yeah.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: We all like community and family. And I think that's
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: the way Prince Street can bring us together. So hopefully,
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: if you're watching Daniel Corman, I'll invite you out here
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: to Baton Rouge.
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: I'll fly you out. We can have pizza. We can talk.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: You can show me things about Louisiana. Yeah. and we
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: can bury the hatchet. How about that?
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: See that? That's an invitation, Daniel.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: That's an invitation.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: I take him up. He's a good guy.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on. I'm trying to be.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about Pereira? Do you like him?
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: Alex Pereira?
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: I think Alex Pereira is amazing. He's amazing for the sport.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: I wish he would say more. He's just trauma.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: He just says trauma. And for some reason, the fan
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: base absolutely eats it up, man.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's that aura that he has.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: And the fact that he doesn't speak and still has
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: charisma is kind of interesting, right?
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: It allows you to kind of create the person that
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: you want him to be.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes when you watch fighters do a bunch
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: of podcasts or they're live streaming, you kind of get
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: to know their personality, their character.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: And maybe you're not as big as a fan.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: But because he delivers in the ring, he always gives
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: you knockouts and he doesn't say much. In your imagination,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: you can have him be the guy you want him
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: to be, right?
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: And I think he just has the rub. He just
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: has it.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: Some guys are just likable. They have millions of followers.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: They do great in business. Whatever it may be, people
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: just want to buy their shirts. They want to buy
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: their product because they just have that it factor. Conor
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: McGregor is one of the guys where you can't really–
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: and he's the polar opposite. He has that gift of gab.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: where Shama says nothing and they're both absolutely adored.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Right. Some people just has it, you know? Yeah.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't think it's something you can create.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: You either have it or you don't.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: And Conor was just a different animal.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: And he was fun to watch.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: And it's a shame that, you know, he made all
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: that money and it kind of like took away from
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: his UFC career.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then. But it went to you too, though.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I guess fighting's a poor man's sport.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: I feel like you get too comfortable, you don't win
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the same way.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Would you agree?
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I agree. Because when you make too much money, you're
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: not that hungry anymore.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you see that happening with baseball players? I do.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: I think the money is too much. I think the
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: length of contracts takes away the hunger. You know, when
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: a guy is hungry... you know, is a different zest
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: about him. The money is sort of like gets in
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: the way, you know?
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's a distraction. Yeah.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Like this guy got paid last year, Vlad Guerrero. Great player.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Plays with a lot of his hunger and he got
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: like a 14 year deal.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Then he took a year off. It was a bad year,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: but he was like, you know, I got paid because
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: of what I... He's like, you don't need to justify.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: You got the money, fine.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Just suck it up. You had a bad year.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: It's like if you had an off night and say, hey,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: that was that wasn't my night. And it's how you
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: come back. You know, it's always how, when you lose,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: it's like, if you can come back, people love that.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: They love a fighter when they can come back. Most
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: fighters do lose. I mean, there's not too many like
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: you that are almost invincible, unbeatable.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Makes you more relatable. Yeah. When people see.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: I think like sometimes it's good to see a guy
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: take a loss because you want to say like, hey,
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: like we were hyped up on Poirier and Gaethje just
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: had him.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: And it was a weird feeling in that fight. To Poirier.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Poirier. Poirier. But everybody knows him. Poirier works, too.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: And I just think, I don't know if he was
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: off for a while. He went through some personal shit.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Just something wasn't right about him that night.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: To Poirier. Yeah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: To Poirier.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: To Poirier. Yeah, I got you. Right? Ilya to Poirier. Ilya. Yeah, yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You're on it. You're on it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's another interesting guy. He's a Louisiana guy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Poirier. Poirier. Oh, yeah. You know him? I do know
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Dustin Poirier. Yeah. He's going to be real bad.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: You like him?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I absolutely love him. I actually love him now more
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: than he's retired.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he had that little controversial incident at the airport. Yeah.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: And I think it showed a lot of his true
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: personality off-camera. Really? He was funny. Yeah, he was funny.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: He was funny.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't take it serious.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: He was pissed. Yeah. And he said things that any
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: of your boys would say.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Behind the scenes.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: It didn't bother you?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Not at all. Not at all. In life, I think
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: it's not what you say, it's how you say it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: That's true. And what you mean, you know? That's true.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: So, no, I took absolutely no offense. We're going to
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: be partners here with Prince Street Pizza.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the family.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: I'm absolutely excited. I absolutely love to win. I like
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to try to make a difference in anything I'm a
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: part of. I'm excited to bring a lot of excitement
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: to the Louisiana area. There's a lot of fans that.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Don't get to meet a lot of UFC fighters.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: And so outside of serving great pizza, I want to
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: serve as much love as I can to this community
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: and to this area. And just start a cool culture of,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: you know, fight fans having a place to go to
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: have pizza, see their favorite fighters.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. In the future, it would be nice to have
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: many fighters come and visit this area.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bring them down.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Get into doing some charity works and, you know, some
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: annual things with the kids out here.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Make it just so much more than a good meal.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You know, show that side of you. Show that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: personality more side.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, people, like you said, you were
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: too stoic and you were like, You know, always had
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: to keep that sort of anger.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Now that, you know, you're not fighting much anymore.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: You can chill now.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, now you're chilling. Enjoy the... What was your
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: final record?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: My record? Oh, my goodness.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I should know that off the top of my head.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I want to say 26 and all, or 26 and 1.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I had a disqualification. Right. But, you know, if
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I could do it, I would do it all over again.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: It was some of the best years of my life,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: being out there, fighting.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I felt so alive.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: There's nothing like being behind stage, peeking out the curtain,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: and seeing 20, 25, 30,000 people, you know, waiting to
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: see you perform.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It was the ultimate rush. And there's not a day
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that goes by that I won't miss it. Right.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: But now it's business, you know. It's business, and it's diversifying,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: doing things outside of being an athlete.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I tell you, being a part owner of a pizza
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: company is just, it's surreal to me. I grew up
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: in a place called IndyCot, New York. It's right outside
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: of Binghamton, New York. It's known to a lot of
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: people as Little Italy. A bunch of Italian families that
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: live out there. Moved out there when I was in
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: sixth grade, graduated from there. That community absolutely rallied around
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: me and my brothers. We had terrible grades in high school,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: and they made sure that the Jones family all graduated
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: and made it to college. So that was my first
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: experience with living in an Italian community, feeling that love.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: We had some of the best pizza in northern New York,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: places like Consul's, and we had a place called Oip's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: for original Italian pizza.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: We had Rossi's. We had Nurchi's.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Like, our area, where I went to high school and
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: middle school, We had families that had great, great pride
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: in their pizza.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's what makes me just so honored to be
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: a part of this company.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Isn't that great?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It's like me.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I grew up that way. I love pizza. I was
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: always around it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I had my pizza shops in Queens, Long Island that
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: were great like yours.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You know, wonderful places. So somehow it's like fitting that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'm involved in.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: How did it start for you?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I just met Lawrence and I met Dom and Frank.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I met the owners and we struck up a friendship.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: And then I used to come to the openings. Lawrence
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: would bring me out as like a good luck charm.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: And then I said, can I get more involved? And
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: he said, yeah, you could. What do you want to do?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: And I said, well, I said, I would like to
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: own something. He goes, well, we could do that. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: then I said, what about like a show or something?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: We were talking about like this became popular. It was
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: first an idea. I said, maybe I could just deliver
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: a pizza for fun. And then we took it a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: little further.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Now we've developed it into like a full-fledged.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Of a show. Of a show. Yeah, that's amazing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: So like, you know, like anything, it starts out as
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: an idea or a thought and then it becomes something.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: But I think it's the people that got me involved.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: If it wasn't for like Lawrence and Dom and whatever,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: it probably wouldn't have happened.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Like, we liked each other. You know, when you like people...
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It helps.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: It's even like when you're acting, sometimes you go to
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: war with people, you have a good relationship.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The camera picks that up.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: You know, it's not like, I'm not trying to, I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: not trying to outdo you. I'm not trying to outbeat you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: It's not a competition. It's more of a give and take,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: You're not beating me in anything, buddy. I'm just going
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to tell you that. Not in fighting. Not in fighting.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Eating pizza?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Eating pizza, no, probably. I don't know. Maybe something else.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Did you see me earlier?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I saw you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: How's your stuff? I'm feeling actually really good. Yeah? Believe
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: it or not, I feel more energy.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: All the grease and the carbohydrate is giving me more energy.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Now after than i did coming in absolutely all.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Right well when you go to the bedroom tonight i
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: know i hope you're okay i'm gonna have them bubble
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: guts oh somebody bear with me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I mean you know this is not easy pizza you
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: know i mean like you say this is.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Very filling it's very filling it's absolutely delicious very flavorful.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Quality that's that's what i'm all about.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Man it's just like i feel like If you know
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: anything about myself and the UFC, you know that we
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: like to win and do things at the highest level.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And that's what I feel with Prince Street Pizza.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: The legacy, the history behind it, the product, it's just
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: the best.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And to bring New York-style.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Pizza to Louisiana, it's just such a privilege to be
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: a part of it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You're a New York guy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Of course. I'm a northern New Yorker.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like a southern Canadian.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You're like a hillbilly.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not New York, New York.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a hillbilly New Yorker.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Shit, you want to say that again, Bozo? You want
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: to say that, fucking guy? Come on now.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I can throw down a little bit.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw you. I met your son earlier.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: How big are you? Oh, I'm 6'4, 260 pounds, big boy.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: A lot of it's fat, though. It's only going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: get bigger with the pizza.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: What'd you fight at, 210?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: I used to fight at 205 pounds, and when I retired,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I fought at the 265-pound weight class. But I was
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: about 240 at my absolute heaviest. Now I'm about 260.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I've been retired for two years. I've been enjoying life,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: eating great pizza, eating great food, traveling the world and
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the country, hence why.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: We're here in Louisiana now.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Let me see your hands. Big hands.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I got some big hands on me. Big mitts. You
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: know what they say about big hands?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I know about that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Big gloves. Yeah, all right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd make yourself proud. So who's on your
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You know I'm Italian from the waist down, right?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I can tell.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: You want to be Italian.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: You know, Brian's an Italian, so we have.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: A big bubble. We get along, huh?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: We get along.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's more love than hate.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I grew up in these areas.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Where you get these ignorant kind of neighborhoods where they
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: hop on the stereotypical stuff.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: But deep down, I think there's more love than anything.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Because I think we like each other's culture.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I think it's how well you guys wear the yellow gold.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that too.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Blacks and Italians. I know.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: No one questions us when we throw on a bunch
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: of yellow gold. It's just fitting.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of attraction.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: It's just right. You know what I mean?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to, you know, get into it,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: but look at me, you know? We have a few
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: people that snuck in, my family.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I bet. Yeah, you're pretty brown over there. I thought
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you'd been tanning.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, we're not white.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: We might check Caucasian, but I don't even check that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I checked, like, other. Yeah, because I mean, I used
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to tell my mother that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Like, Ma, look at me.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Do I look white?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. Even your hairstyle, too. Oh, my God, I had
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: an afro. You got the curls.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, you died laughing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Got the lineup. Yeah. Mickey, you walked in earlier. I said,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that guy got all the swagger right there. Thank you.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: He got all the swagger in the world.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You walked in with some swag. You did.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: We try, man. Real recognize real. That's why we're here together.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Who's on your Mount Rushmore? Fighters. Obviously, you're in there.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Fighters? In the UFC. Okay, because I was going to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: say all-time fighters.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Like, who would you put, like, five or, what is it, five?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: We'll say five guys, if you had to put, like.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I would say, I would put Conor McGregor on there,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: not for his skill, but for the businessman that he
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: is and the exposure that he brought to the sport.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I agree. Ronda Rousey, you know, same reasons. Right. She,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you know, she was absolutely invincible in her prime.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: But more importantly, she showed women around the world what
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: they are capable of.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: As fighters.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Anderson Silva, at the time when he first broke into
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the scene, he was much older, but his skill was
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: just outstanding. He looked like he was fighting in the Matrix.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Impossible to hit him. I would put myself in there.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I feel like I had my time of influencing the
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: fight culture in our country and around the world.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: You put Khabib in there?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Khabib and Meghamedov, he's amazing. I believe he stopped a
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: little bit too soon.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: A little too soon, right?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: A little too soon.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: The other guy is, I think, maybe more of a
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: complete fighter.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Makhachev.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, his protege. Islam has much greater striking. Islam would
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: have to go on there. He would have to go
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: on there. Today, he's making a huge impact.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Who excites you right now?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Ilya.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Ilya Topoya.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Ilya Topoya, yeah.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Before that White House card, man, I looked at him as.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I thought he was invincible.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Same, same.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: As bad as I want other fighters to come and
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: beat my records and become the next greatest, you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: there's another side of me that want to hold on
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: to that for my kid's sake and for my family's honor. Um,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and honestly, I thought that Ilya would be the first
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: threat to, to, to be in the, considered the greatest
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: of all time. And then we saw what happened to him.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: But I mean, when it comes to entertainment, his boxing
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: and his power and, uh, his confidence, everything about him, man. Yeah.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I like the way he carries himself
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: outside of the ring.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: You know, he comes from a successful family and he's
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: a guy who doesn't have to fight. He doesn't need
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the money, but he does it out of the love.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: And these are some of the reasons that, that made
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: me a big Ilya fan.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see how he comes back, you know?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: We have the same agent and we're from, you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: same management company. And I get to hear a lot
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: about what's going on with him behind the scenes. And
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: he's doing all the right things, you know, his recovery,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you know, all of it. Like he, He's a guy
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: who deserves to win. Sometimes when you lose, we just
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: had one of our fighters, our buddy Gable, just got
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: knocked out in 12 seconds.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Sometimes losing can be the greatest thing to.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Happen to an athlete. A person who has the right mentors,
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: a person who can keep their head straight. The mind
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: is most important right after a loss. Who's rallying around you?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: What are you feeding yourself? Is it negativity? Is it alcohol?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Is it doubt?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Or is it vengeance, you know, or you're building that
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: chip on your shoulder.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: That night just, it was weird, but he looked good,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: but it also looked like it wasn't him.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Something wasn't right about him.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, fighting on the lawn of the White House
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: could do it. Yeah. It could do it. Maybe. Gaethje, America,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: all this stuff.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Lights don't get much brighter than a night like that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: There had to be a couple of nights where you
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: thought I might not win tonight. There might've been one
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: or two nights where you had to dig deep. And
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: did you feel that like something isn't right tonight? And
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: did the fear come in of like losing?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I had a fight. I had a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: fight where I fought a guy named Dominic Reyes.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: He was a young kid. He was a multi-sport athlete.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Came from baseball and football and played all these different sports.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: And round one in the fight, I felt like I
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: was losing. I felt like I could have lost the fight.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: And he was doing things that no one had done before.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: He had knocked me down. He was incredibly confident. He
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: was pressing forward nonstop. He was landing a lot of
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: shots that most people couldn't land on me. And there
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: was a moment where I realized, OK, I'm meeting my match.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: This kid is incredibly talented and strong. And he just
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: really wants to win.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I could feel it.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Even before the fight started, the way he was looking
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: me in the eyes, I felt such a presence on
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: him where I was just like, wow, this kid has
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: something to him. And I felt a voice in the
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: middle of the fight that said, John, you have done
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: a great job for many years.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And if this is the guy to take you out,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: it happens to all of us. Right.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: And I was sitting there with my hands up and
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: just thinking, am I about to lose this?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And then what happened?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I felt like, I felt like another voice spoke to
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: me and he just said, screw that.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: He said, screw that. He said, I brought you this
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: far and I'm not going to leave you now.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: And if you want to, if you want to win
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: this fight, we can win this fight together. And I
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: decided to listen to that other voice. And sure enough,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it was a close fight. And to this day, a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: lot of people believe that I lost the fight.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: What do you feel?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like I won the fight.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I felt like I didn't give up on myself where
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: the average fighter would have.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Was it a decision? It was a decision, yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I think I remember him.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I believe I won by unanimous decision.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Unanimous?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I believe I won by unanimous decision. 3-2. Was it? 3-2. 3-2, yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: What was his name? Dominic Reyes.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: What became of him? Not a lot?
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Not a lot. It's funny.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Was he just maybe a tough match for you?
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: I think sometimes with athletes, they prepare for the Grand Slam,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, the biggest match.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And they have that night.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And they have that night where they step up to
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the challenge. But if you come up short, I feel
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: like every prayer, every ounce of training, everything.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: When you fail at a level like that, they can.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Really take the win out of a man.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Since that fight, I think he had one out of
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: seven good performances. Right. And everything else was, yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: He was on.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: He was on that night. Yeah. You know, I think
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: he put all of his focus into beating me. Right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Instead of developing a style that could be just top
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: in the world. Yeah. He had a style that matched
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: me very well, but against all the other guys that
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: were top in the world, he just kind of dwindled away.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You see that sometimes.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: A guy rises to the occasion.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And then he never gets there again. He never has
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that kind of night again. He had that one spectacular night.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: A little change of course. Yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What's your vision for selling some of the best pizza
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: in the country? What's your hope for the company, vision
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: for the company? What would you like to see? Maybe
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: it's a different state for us to be in. Could
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: you see us competing with the Domino's out there, being
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: across the country?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Beyond that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Beyond.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: We want to be the best.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Much higher quality.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Much higher.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: The best quality pizza. across the country, top of the line,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: like you. You wanna be a champion, right? You were
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the best, right? Prince Street is trying to be the best.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: We wanna be the best, we are the best. So
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: that's what you gotta believe, you know? If you don't
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: believe in the product, what good is it, right? John Jones,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: what makes you happy?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: What makes me happy? What makes me happy is, is growth,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: is growth.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Becoming a man that I didn't used to be, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: making my family proud, being a great provider, winning, you know,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not really ashamed to say that a lot of
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: people in the world just likes to participate and be
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: a part of, I like to be number one and everything.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: That makes me happy.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Family.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Family. You have kids? I do have kids. I got
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: a whole army of kids.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: So what's the one fight? that never came to a,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: that you wish would have happened? You know, if they
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: came to you today and said, we can make this fight, John,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: as one, you know, send off, what would that be?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: What would it be?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Would it be like Francis Zungano or something like that?
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: The one fight that never happened, um, that I think
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: would have been really awesome for the fans. Uh, there
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: was a guy named Anthony Rumble Johnson.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. He actually ended up, uh, passing away. Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: We were friends with him. Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Big black guy. He was an unbelievable athlete. He was
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: the nicest guy in the world.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Great guy.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: He never really got the wrestling down, but his striking
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: was very intimidating. He had punches, punching power on the
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: left and the right. He had wonderful kicks. He was
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: coached by a really good team, the Black Zines out
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: of Florida. And that guy intimidated me a lot. When
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I'm operating under intimidation, that brings out the absolute best
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: in me. I take every ounce of training as seriously
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: as I can. So that one, that would have been
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: a great fight for the fans. There's a high chance
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: that I would have outclassed them, but there's also a
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: high chance that he.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Would have knocked me the fuck out. Yeah. So, excuse
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: my language.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: That's all right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: So that's a fight that I feel like the fans really,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: really missed out. Wow. I got a last question for you. Yeah.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: In business, who are some of your inspirations?
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Like, who are guys out there that are just doing
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: it right, whether it's in the food business or in acting?
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: or just as a father, like who are, who are
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: people who inspire big Nick at this?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you who like kind of blows me away.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Cause he was kind of like a street kid from Boston.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: And not only is he a superstar movie star, but
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: he's also like a producer. He's also involved in businesses is, uh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Mark Wahlberg. Uh, and he's like, he's transformed himself into
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: like this, like, He has.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Clothing, he has burgers, movies, producer.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: The guy gets up at 2 in the morning, 3
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: in the morning, does cold plunges.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: He's praying at night. I hear him on, my wife.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Is always praying on this app. Is he Catholic or Christian?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Catholic.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: And, I mean, the guy just doesn't stop. He's just,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: he's really like, I'm like, where does he get the energy?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Where does he get the drive? I mean, it's more
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: than just money.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of admire him.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Because it's like, you know, there are people that are successful,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: but he's beyond that. He's like, and then when I
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: met the guy, you could feel his, uh, he's his,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: his aura. You could feel like his, there are certain
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: people that you meet them. Like my brother, John was
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: like that. He's just like, the guy isn't our brothers,
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: but he's like, he's a savage overachiever.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Right. Right. You know?
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I always like, and he always had
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: that even when I was a little kid.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I was always like, wow. I used to look up
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to him for a reason.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, he is who he is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, we're related. Sometimes I'm like, am I a moron?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not, I'm not stupid, but I'm just saying,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: you know, I just like, I admire like people that
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: are well-rounded and.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Can, you know, not one, one note, not.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: One, you know, just on it. Yeah. Just on it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: And I think Wahlberg is, uh, he kind of has it,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, He gets it.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He gets it.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: You know, and then when you meet him, you're like, oh,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I see why he's successful. I could tell.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Because I got a good eye. That's one thing. I
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: got good instinct. I don't listen to myself. But I
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: got good instinct.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: That's what's always helped me with acting is because instinctively
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like kind of like with it.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you still got to develop that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: But sometimes I'm like, and I wish, you know, you
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: always wish you could have more of that.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: But.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I admire, I do admire people that can do it all.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: And it gives us something, not that we idolize other humans,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: but it gives us something to kind of inspire.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a good question. Right.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: You should do the interview.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: No, no. I thought it was a conversation.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It's actually, it is a conversation. I'm just kidding.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying it's a good question. Cause it's like,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I had to think for a second and go, cause
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm like, who comes to mind? It's like,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: sometimes the first thing that comes to mind, but I'm like, look, I.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Look at him and I go, wow, this guy is,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he deserves it. He's got the kids, this, that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, and he was like a street
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: kid that was like a punk kid that had like,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Could we see Prince Street Pizza Mark Wahlberg edition?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You never know.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Never know.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: If it happens.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Wahlberg, Mark, we could do a collab.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: That's right. It's open.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: We're here.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Hey. Big Nick.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: That was a lot of fun. It was, it was.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: A lot of fun. Sorry. I hope you enjoyed the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: pizza that I made.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Of course. I think you did a great job.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: You know the Prince Street standard. Tell me what you think.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: My bad?
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I think the quality is great.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: And I think this is actually, whoever cooked this, if
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: you cooked it, I cooked this.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: You said you cooked it.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I promise you.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: You did us proud.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: You might have even done better than some of the experts.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's go. You did good, Joe. Let's go.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah!
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: All right!