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A Bussin' Christmas, Nebraska Talk, Raiders Talk, Michael Chandler · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: You had those conversations with Dana. Everybody's fired up signatures
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  Speaker 1: are on the dotted line. So what do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like is coming? What is on the horizon for you?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on in your world right now?
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  Speaker 2: So Ferguson is kind of off the table. Olivera has
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  Speaker 2: now put his name kind of in that top five mix.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Hooker's in the top five mix. But justin Gatsch's
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  Speaker 2: the fight that I.
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  Speaker 1: Then with the boys we are, it's the Christmas pod.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be back the boys back. I'm running
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  Speaker 1: this episode because number one. This episode of Busting with
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  Speaker 1: it in the last one and I about lost it,
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  Speaker 1: about lost it. I had to keep my composure, but
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  Speaker 1: exciting day, Christmas time. It's the end of the year. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: the boy Taylor he needed a vacation. He wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go what's it called, Breckinridge, Blackwater, BlackBerry farms. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get a little getaway, take a little vacation. I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's done two episodes, so he's very He needed
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  Speaker 1: to get away from, you know, doing a couple episodes
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  Speaker 1: and doing his als ACL rehab. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Merch gear up, gear up for the playoffs. The Boys
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  Speaker 1: Merch were restocking. We hear all of you guys say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: when you're gonna restock this, When you're gonna restock that.
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  Speaker 1: The Boys had a good Black Friday through Cyber Monday
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  Speaker 1: sale so we're out of a few things, but we
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  Speaker 1: are going to get restocked up and make sure you
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  Speaker 1: guys prepare for these playoffs because the boys were coming.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can't talk too much. I can't talk
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  Speaker 1: Titans too much like the boy Taylor, but but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be ready to go. And speaking of Cyber Monday,
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this and you haven't gotten your
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  Speaker 1: Cyber Monday video, I do not want to point the finger,
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  Speaker 1: but that's Taylor's fault. I've done all my videos two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty. I gave Taylor a cool one nine hundred.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a folder if you haven't gotten your video,
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  Speaker 1: because I've seen, Oh, I got my merchant, not the video,
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  Speaker 1: that's weird. I've done my videos. Now, if I can't
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  Speaker 1: get much more out of the boy, I will go
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  Speaker 1: in that folder and start doing them myself because we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna grind here, dude. But again, I'm not pointing the
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  Speaker 1: finger at all, Taylor. It's it's it's Taylor's fault. But
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna We're gonna move on. Uh, let's catch
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  Speaker 1: up on a few things, a few housekeeping things. We
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  Speaker 1: gotta we gotta get straight my week though. As I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting here talking, we just got done beating Jacksonville, so
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  Speaker 1: uh fired up. Obviously, when you drop a game against
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  Speaker 1: the Browns and you play like we did in the
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  Speaker 1: first half against the Browns and you have a good
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  Speaker 1: second half, it's all about recreating that second half against
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars and putting the other four quarters. The Boys
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  Speaker 1: did a good job putting together four quarters. Now we
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep We just gotta stay consistent. We gotta find
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  Speaker 1: a rhythm, get hot in December, because that's what it's
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  Speaker 1: about in the NFL. It's about getting hot and getting
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  Speaker 1: getting in your rhythm come December time, because you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be on a roll going into the playoffs. You see
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  Speaker 1: with the NFC East Uh, people want to make fun
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  Speaker 1: of them, calling the NFC least all that stuff, But
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, the Washington Football team, and the Giants, they're
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  Speaker 1: all kind of in it, and they're all catching a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a weird stride here at the end.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about getting hot in December and getting that
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  Speaker 1: steam rolling going into the playoffs. Arthur wan Kenobi had
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  Speaker 1: a big game. How did a phenomenal catch? He gave
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  Speaker 1: me a he gave me an all time meme. Now
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  Speaker 1: to have victory Monday lattes with his little with his
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  Speaker 1: little bobble catch look where he's got that crazy ass
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  Speaker 1: look going on. That's a hilarious picture. But Arthur wan
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  Speaker 1: Kenobi's crushing it. And I do want to say I
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  Speaker 1: noticed the Titans. They like to they like to piggyback
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  Speaker 1: on what the boys do. I personally love it. I
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  Speaker 1: love it because they shot us. You know, everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: where the ideas kind of come from. They just make
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  Speaker 1: the idea a little bit better. The graphic they made
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  Speaker 1: of Arthur wan Kenobi is phenomenal with the little blue lightsaber.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever drew that? Who drew that? I want to shout
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  Speaker 1: him out? So we don't we give some credit because
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  Speaker 1: I know they tagged him. Click on the click on
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  Speaker 1: the Instagram thing because I think they tagged him in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom left corner. What that bottom of the picture?
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  Speaker 1: Click on that? Who's that? What's that? Say? Haley Hailey
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  Speaker 1: M draws. Hailey M draws. Shout out Hailey M draws
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  Speaker 1: for the phenomenal drawing of Arthur wan Kenobi. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you guys, the Arthur one Kenobe. We need to get
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  Speaker 1: it to stick. I need I need Arthur One to
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  Speaker 1: do a couple more things. I need him to. I
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  Speaker 1: know he shied away from the force choke and push
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  Speaker 1: and the force push at the Indianapolis game because he
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  Speaker 1: did it but the camera didn't necessarily catch it. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to Darren. I talked to him and Darren Bates
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  Speaker 1: about it, about their execution. I thought Arthur One could
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  Speaker 1: have held the force choke a little longer before the push.
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  Speaker 1: And again, guys, I understand that Arthur One, Kenobi, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good guy. We wanted to play off Obi wan
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  Speaker 1: Kenobi and all that stuff. And oh the force choke,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a sign of the dark side. I
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  Speaker 1: get that. For me, it's about people understanding what's happening
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  Speaker 1: if you do a force choke. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: the most noticeable people for people in Star Wars fans
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  Speaker 1: around the world to understand, Oh, he's getting there, he's
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  Speaker 1: force choking them right now. So I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: what stands out. If you sit there and do like
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  Speaker 1: a lightsaber battle or something like, people don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's swords, they don't know what it is. I think
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  Speaker 1: if we're gonna hit the Star Wars lane. We have
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  Speaker 1: to do the Force choke. And I was telling him
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  Speaker 1: in dB that, dB, you gotta sell it longer. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta be you gotta get choked out a little longer.
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  Speaker 1: And Arthur Wan, you gotta do the Force push. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta hold it a little longer and then do the
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  Speaker 1: Force push. After that, dB, you gotta sell the Force
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  Speaker 1: Force push a little more. They got a little upset. Hopefully,
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: you know, we get that selling in the tank because again,
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  Speaker 1: I think if that Selly hits, I think if he
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  Speaker 1: hits that Selly, dude, it's gonna be big time. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be big time. He's gonna be Arthur on Kenobi
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  Speaker 1: for life. It says we have a note Titan stole it.
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  Speaker 1: I you know whatever, I don't care. I know Taylor
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  Speaker 1: gets on people for stealing our stuff. I enjoy it
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  Speaker 1: because it's extra little, it's extra branding and stuff, like
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  Speaker 1: people know where the source comes from. Now, do I
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  Speaker 1: think we deserve the paycheck that goes to the Titans
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  Speaker 1: PR and their media team a little bit and then
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  Speaker 1: we need we need a little bit of percentage. Nate Bain,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you because you use the obviously the boys.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the wolf being used before, wolf pack stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur and Kenoby. I get it. We're all working together.
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  Speaker 1: We are all one team. But I do think we
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  Speaker 1: need to see a little percentage of that money. Somebody's
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  Speaker 1: gotta somebody's gotta help give these boys bonuses for Christmas time,
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  Speaker 1: because it's not coming out of my pocket. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm sorry Garrett and Josh that you
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  Speaker 1: had to find out this way. What's this moved up
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  Speaker 1: to the one spot in number seven in the USA
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  Speaker 1: today Power Ring? Is that like the Titans?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I believe so. Oh we We're not. We don't. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we let the media do that stuff. Dude, We're It's
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  Speaker 1: all it's one game at a time. We get the
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  Speaker 1: Lions coming up, but by the time you hear this,
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  Speaker 1: we have already played the Lions. So hopefully I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: here slinging a victory Tuesday Monday, Latte again. Predictions, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna get in predictions. That's a no no. That's
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  Speaker 1: a no no. In the A Vraible world. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: stay the boys, gotta stay in his lane, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. I don't want to talk too much
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  Speaker 1: out of my ass. You say a few things that
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  Speaker 1: you might regret. There's no predictions here. I just I
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  Speaker 1: believe in the Boys. I believe in the grit, the grind,
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  Speaker 1: the determination, the resilience of this team that we have.
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  Speaker 1: Because when we do slip, the Boys bounce back. The
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  Speaker 1: Boys always respond well. The messages are always articulated very
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  Speaker 1: well throughout the week by the coaching staff. We paint
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  Speaker 1: a good picture of what we have to do, and
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  Speaker 1: the boys, you know, we find a way. We just
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to keep doing what we're doing and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just put our head down to work.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We're we were a tough football team, the Boys. I'm
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  Speaker 1: fired up. I'm fired up to see what ends up
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  Speaker 1: happening this year with the boys. Crazy Monday night football
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  Speaker 1: game last night. Again, by the time you listen to this,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I wish we could turn shit around asap.
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  Speaker 1: But the Monday night football game that I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: is the Lamar Jackson one where my man runs inside
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  Speaker 1: and takes a shit. I don't care that he says
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  Speaker 1: he was cramping. That's listen, We've all had the cramp
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  Speaker 1: world right now. You might've been cramping and like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go take a shit. I'm cramping. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: just jog, do my little limp jog while I go
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  Speaker 1: over to take a shit. No matter what, you ended
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  Speaker 1: up having to take a shit. You had the runs.
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  Speaker 1: People get and we understand what a baller my man
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  Speaker 1: wipes probably doesn't wipe that well, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So he he comes off the toilet into the game,
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  Speaker 1: throws a touchdown, Cleveland bounces back, and then Lamar drives
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  Speaker 1: him down the kickingfield go in the game. But my
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: man coat goes from the toilet to mak him plays
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  Speaker 1: And that's not even with the fully wiped that's not
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: even with the that's not even with a fully clean
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  Speaker 1: whispering eye. Dude, that's going out there with a little
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: mud butt. You're probably chafing a little bit. You're probably
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: he's probably got some kind of rash right now after
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  Speaker 1: doing pulling all that off. But my man went from
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  Speaker 1: the toilet to make him plays out in the game.
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  Speaker 1: That was crazy to see. And it was also crazy
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  Speaker 1: to see Baker bounce back, drive down and put together
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  Speaker 1: that drive. And then the thought is always there, too
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  Speaker 1: much time now for the Ravens. Ravens go down and
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  Speaker 1: kickingfield goal to win the game. I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 1: make that shit up, dude. And the way the production,
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  Speaker 1: the way the Monday Night Football crew production team set
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  Speaker 1: that up where Lamar was coming off the pot and
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: then they go to commercial right as Lamar Jackson's running out. Dude,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: it's like a w W You're on the edge of
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  Speaker 1: your seat. My god, it's Lamar Jackson. Holy shit, fire
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  Speaker 1: flames are coming out, you know what I mean? The
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: music you drop the stone cold music on that, dude.
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  Speaker 1: That's TV. And kudos to them for everything kind of
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  Speaker 1: worked out. Shout out to Lamar for having the runs.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a tough day. I get you want
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  Speaker 1: to say you were cramping. We've all kind of been
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: in the cramp game. So listen, we all saw the little,
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  Speaker 1: the little, the clinch butthole jog you had going to
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. It's all good. It makes it even better.
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  Speaker 1: Forget the cramping. Run with the I was shooting run
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  Speaker 1: with you. I had the runs and I was shooting
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  Speaker 1: down my leg. I had to go get the rest
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  Speaker 1: out of it and half half assed wipe and go
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: out there and throw some touchdowns. That's what the people
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  Speaker 1: want to hear. What do we have after that, dude, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: we got we got gifts. Listen, we had a we
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: had a great episode. Obviously, it's a Christmas podcast. I'm
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: already on a rant right now. We have Michael Chandler on.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about all of his fights coming up, and
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I butchered. I can't believe I said the wrong name, Gaichie.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Is it Justin Justin Geighee? Yeah, gey Chee. I said Gaithey.
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  Speaker 1: What an idiot. But we talked to Michael Chandler about
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: what's going on, how he transitioned from Bellator to the UFC.
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  Speaker 1: The man's got an awesome journey and it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been incredible seeing him, seeing him blow up and get
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: his chance in the UFC because he's a three time
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  Speaker 1: Bellator champion. Just an insightful kat dude, really inspiring, really motivating,
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  Speaker 1: A great follow on social media because he's always posting
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: his workouts, his inspiring stuff. He's one of the good guys.
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  Speaker 1: He makes you want to be a better person. But
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: we have him on and he gives us all the
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: nitty gritty details of what goes on about him transitioning
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: to the UFC. Corey Levin also came by to help
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: to help be with the Boy and run the Christmas
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Christmas topics. We had a great time talking Christmas topics.
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  Speaker 1: I I didn't necessarily want to go about it all
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  Speaker 1: my own, because I feel like it's better having these conversations,
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  Speaker 1: like when we go top Christmas movies. I don't want
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: to sit here and be the only one that makes
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  Speaker 1: up the list. I need some banter. I need somebody
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  Speaker 1: to to go back and forth with me, go back
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  Speaker 1: and forth with me, bring up things that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: thinking about. So I had Corey on. Now, Corey came
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: on and the Boy I personally have to be careful
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: with all the COVID COVID rules and intensive protocols that
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: you've heard about in Taylor's podcast recently, but we didn't
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: take any chances. Corey sat on the couch, we were
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: six feet apart. We wore mass during the segment because again,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to do anything to get the team
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: fined or do any of that stuff, because you know
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: it's a very the NFL is very buttoned up about it,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: and you just don't want to take any chances. So
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: the boy, Yeah, I'm looking really a little ridiculous. I
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: look like sub Zero from Mortal Kombat. I got the
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  Speaker 1: little medical grade mask on. Sitting in Taylor seat, Corey's
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the couch. But we have a
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: great time talking about Christmas stuff. This was a great
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: pod and again we're gonna still talk about it because
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: we want to get to I did a hashtag bust
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  Speaker 1: some questions and we're gonna do some things Before we
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: do that, though, we got to read an ad read
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  Speaker 1: just want to wish a very merry Christmas from our
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  Speaker 1: busts and family to you. If you guys have a
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  Speaker 1: great week, spend a lot of good time with your family,
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  Speaker 1: open up some good gifts, enjoy the victory week, all
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  Speaker 1: that fun stuff. But I just wanted to wish you
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  Speaker 1: it's been an awesome year. You know. I'm careful to
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  Speaker 1: had COVID. Uh. But I'm a glass half full always
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy. I'm always optimistic. What I like to
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• 15:05
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• 15:08
  Speaker 1: to adapt and we've all had to kind of do
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: our own thing and figure out our own stuff, you
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: always want to look back and see the things you've overcome.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: If stuff work has worked out the way you wanted
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: it to. If it has, why do you think so
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you know, what was the good energy that was happening
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: around you that you want to continue to manifest? What
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: was the bad shit that you know that's made you
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: anxious or giving you anxiety that you don't necessarily want
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: your life, you know, for the next year. Those are
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: things I like to reflect in when thinking about my year.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: But I did this hashtag to let people ask us whatever,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: because again, it's been an incredible year when you're being optimistic,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I want to say before I get into the bus
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: and stuff, I do want to talk you know, this
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: year was a year of perseverance for sure for everybody.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I think before COVID starts, or as COVID is hitting
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: and we're locked down and you kind of had those
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: first several weeks of like being in your house and
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: being like, yo, what in the hell is happening? Everybody
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: started to be like you finally get that moment when
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: you're at work or when you're doing your every day
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to day and you're kind of caught up in the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: monotony of everything. You're like, man, I wish I just
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: had time off to do whatever I wanted and to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: take time and work on whatever is in the old
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: nogin that you've been wanting to work on. And everyone
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: pretty much got that opportunity when COVID hit, we all
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: had that pause in life to sit there and be like, Okay,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: now I do have time to do whatever it is
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: that I've complained about or whatever. So a lot of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: us hit those crossroads of being tested. Did you do
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: something with that time or did you just kind of
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: drag your feet? And then you kind of play into
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the victim of like having that bad year, because you
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: go through a lot of stuff, and I get it,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: some real shit happen. People have lost jobs, people have
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: been furloughed, People are going through a lot of shit.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: But when shit hit fan and your back is against
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the wall with your family or anything that goes on
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: that goes on with you, you get to that point
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: where you learn a lot about yourself. You learn how
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: you react in those situations. Are you somebody that you
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: know that's gonna find the good or figure out how
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: you're gonna bounce back, because that shit happens to us
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: all the time. Like I my life solid, Like I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: got cut earlier this year and it's worked out for
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: me now. But when I got that call, you know,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: obviously you're bummed. Or when you're not on a team,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: when I didn't get picked up and put on a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: team in in the springtime, like I was wanting to Yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you get you doubt yourself a lot, man, and you're
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: in like this vulnerable state because you put yourself out
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: there a lot. But when your back's against the wall
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and you're you have all those options to make. Man,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: are you going to to fold and succumb to what
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: people are saying about you? Or you're not this and
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you're not that, or you know you lost your job?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Are you out looking or are you just going to play,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: you know, become a victim of whatever environment you're in,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: or are you going to find the good in whatever
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: it is? Are you going to attack the next day?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Because no matter what, the sun sets, you can as
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: much as you want, and the sun is gonna rise
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the next day. And you have the choice to am
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I gonna get up and put into this next this
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: next transition or this next day, or am I just
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: gonna float along? Because the world goes no matter what
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: like I. You know, again, it's been a tough year,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: but you see companies and brands and everybody, you see
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of optimism. People are adapting, New jobs are
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: being made, New jobs are being created that you wouldn't
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: even think are being created. We're gonna spot to where
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the restaurant industry is like, yo, we never we never
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: even thought that this might happen. This wasn't even something
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: we thought of. But you see businesses adapting and trying
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to figure it out. Are you gonna be like one
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of those people? Are you gonna be people that continue
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to try to, you know, figure out or blame everything
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and say, this is why I'm where I'm at because
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of X, Y, and Z. A finger pointer, or you
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: can be a thumb pointer and be like, Yo, this
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is on me. I gotta bounce back, or if I
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: don't bounce back, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a victim
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to my mentality because I'm just gonna feed myself when
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I'm wanting what I'm wanting anyway, I'm just gonna tell myself, Oh,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that's not working because of him or her or anybody
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: or all of that stuff. Or you're gonna find something
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: new to do. But I went on a little ted
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: talk right there, and I apologize for that. But I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: get fired up at the end of every year because
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I like looking back on how far we've come. Podcast wise.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: We went up and down with COVID because of listenership
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and this that the other we're big or we're a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: big podcast that have people on the bus. You love
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to have that connection of people on the bus. We
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: got shut we got a wrench through in us because
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Taylor and I couldn't be around each other, so we
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: each got to run the pots solo. So you work
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: on zooming guys in or getting crafty on. You know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I brought Corey in. You got the masks and stuff.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: But again, it's like it's like figuring it out, dude.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It's like that's I enjoy those times because you learn
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a lot about yourself and you're hopefully you're sitting there
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, I did I didn't learn a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: lot of shit about myself. I ended up doing this
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: with all my free time. I created that I'm starting
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to dive into this new job. But I hope, I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I hope you look back on the year and you're
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: very optimistic about it and you're proud of yourself because
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: no matter what's happened, you got to give yourself credit
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: for getting through some shit like this because we're I mean,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: we're still in it, but uh, you know it fires me.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking back on stuff. Boys, I apologize that you know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: how's your guys as your been did I kind of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: did I miss anything? I know, I kind of went
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: everywhere with that little ted talk, but hopefully I was
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: hitting some kind of course. I mean, you guys, you
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: guys now have a job with us, whether or not
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you're fired up with that, Josh, I know you. In
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the beginning of March, we put out an internship opportunity
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and there were three hundred people that were inquiring about it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: You were one of them, and you you stood out
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: because you continued to write every day, even if it
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: sucked or it was raw, but you continued to be
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in front of my eyes, you know what I mean.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And I would look and be like, oh, this is shitty,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: but I do love that he's literally doing this every day.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: He's trying to make himself seen. And you're working at
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: another job, you're working from home, and you're thinking in
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: your mind, you saw this opportunity, here's what I'm gonna
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: try and go after. And you're a self taught kind
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of person. You've learned how to edit, You've learned how
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to get references. Josh, who I'm speaking about all the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: videos you see where the heads are on the bodies
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: after every victory we have. Josh is the one who's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: taught himself how to do that. He was somebody who
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: found an opportunity and wanted to make the most of it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: You were a free intern for how many months? Around
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: six six months before we actually started paying you, you
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, which is like, we should have
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: done it sooner. But all I'm saying is you were
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: looking at that opportunity, in that moment, in a shitty
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: year where shit is up in the air, working for free,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: busting your ass and I don't know, man like stuff
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like that. I feel like you got to look back
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: on and you got to think, like, yo, I'm a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: perseverance son of a bitch because I'm figuring this out,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, man Like you said, I mean, it's like,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, you get put in a pretty bad situation.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, I had a lot better than most people
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: because I was able to keep my job when everything happened.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: But I mean, you see an opportunity and you got
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to take it. I mean, if you're not happy in
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: your situation, you're the only one that can change it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I love that, and you you really do fire me
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: up man, I really applaud you in everything you do.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I know we bust your balls at times, but obviously
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that's what the boys do. We Oh yeah, we're all
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: busting balls. But I hope you do. I hope you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: take time to look back on your year, your visions
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and goals that you had, how they got up ended,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and how hopefully you had new visions and goals and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you've either attained those or you're on your way to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: attain those. And if you're somebody who's not you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: hasn't written stuff down or actually thought about that, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: would tell you to sit with yourself and look into
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and find the optimistic shit that you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: can be doing, and the good energy you can put
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: in your life, the good people you need to surround
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: yourself with. Eliminate the bad stuff. And when I mean eliminate,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you don't just you don't just eliminate distractions. We're adults,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: we're men. You deal with distractions, or you know, or
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: we're men, we're grown men and women. You don't just
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: want to eliminate distractions. You want to deal with them.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You want to figure out why they're bringing you down,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. You want to learn how to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: deal with them and then you eliminate them. But you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I would, I would, you know, ask and push off
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of you all to you know, do stuff because I'm
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a huge believer in that. You know, this is why
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I believe that we have the bus, that we have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the pod, just as somebody who sits down and journals
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a lot and writes a lot of shit down and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: tries to manifest a lot of things that I have
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: written down. I'm just a huge believer in that stuff.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: But all right, onto onto the bus and mail and
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you know the topics that we have Twitter and we
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: want people want answered. How's the wedding planning going. The
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: wedding planning is going well. We are wondering if you
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: know how this COVID stuff is going to continue to progress.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Hopefully all the vaccine stuff and everything it all goes
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: well because we're getting married in June, so we still
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: got time. But you're also st there like, man, I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: hope this doesn't drag out all the way to there,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: because if it does, you know, you're gonna have to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: adapt with that thing. But all in all, it's going good.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Right now, we have a question people were asking about
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Scott Frost and Nebraska. All right, I will die, I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: will dive a little bit in. I will dive a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: little bit into this. Now, me personally, I don't eat, sleep,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: breathe all the Nebraska football stuff like I know a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: lot of the fans do, just because I'm not in Nebraska,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like I have the stuff going on. I kind of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: watched the boys from Afar and I'm always rooting for
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: them because you know, Nebraska Cornhuser's black shirt, all that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: stuff you want your alma mater to to do awesome.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It does suck seeing the boys struggle and lose, but
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: there's a couple couple of ways you can shape it,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you know, Scott Frost. I am a fan of Scott Frost.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I think you know, people are like, you know, let's go,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: let's find somebody else. He couldn't do it, blah blah
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: blah blah. Number One, contractually you're married to him until
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I want to say, he was on a big deal.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He got extended in a second year. So Scott's gonna
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: be the guy no matter what. And I think Scott
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: is still the right guy for the job, because who
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: are you gonna go out there and find that understands
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the history, the background, you know, and what Nebraska is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: about other than somebody like Scott Frost. Scott Frost was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a quarterback for them. He won a national shaving with
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: with them. He was in the nineties with them. The
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: dude understands what it takes to be a winner because
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he did it in Oregon. He did it at a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Jonah Blank ucf usf uff. He was a winner there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: He turned that program around. And you know we talk
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: about all you got give him time. You gotta givehim time.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I know he's been under on the hot seat this
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: year because he's been three years and it just we
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: haven't came really close to a winning record or putting
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a great product on the field. But you do, man,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I think we have a good guy in the seat
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: at Nebraska because he understands it. If you go and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: get somebody else like number one, who are you gonna
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: get and are they going to turn the program around?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Because they understand what it takes At Nebraska, Scott does
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: because he's he's done it, he's breathed it. He's there now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Like you don't think that man doesn't want to turn
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: this program around. He's gonna. He's turning over every stoney
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: can to figure it out. He is, I do. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: think he's the right I think he's the right man
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: for the job to do that. If you look at it,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: if you dive into some of the stats, and I'm gonna,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull one up. But all sex with a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: couple buddies, and we were kind of talking about everything,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and he pulled up one of my boys. He pulled
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: up a good little stat. And let's talk about winning games, right.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: If you have Bo Polini, he had ninety five games
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska. Now me, I played for BO. I played
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: all my years with BO. I never thought that bow
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: should have got fired. I'm a I'm a bowl leaver,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: as some would say. But Bo had ninety five games
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska. He had the amount of one possession games
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: with eight points or less. The total was thirty. He
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: won fifty seven percent of those games where they were
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: eight points or less one possession games. He was seventeen
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and thirteen. You look at Mike Riley, he had thirty
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: eight games in Nebraska. He had a total of eighteen
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: one possession games, eight wins, ten losses. He won forty
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: four of those one score games. Scott Frost in thirty
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: one games in Nebraska, uh one possession games. It's came
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's came down. The one possess are less sixteen times
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: for him. He's only won four of the sixteen, so
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he has a winning percentage of twenty five percent compared
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to the others who have forty four Mike Rowley fifty seven,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Bo Polini. So if I'm being optimistic, right and you
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: got those games, I know I'm diving into these little
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: ass stats, But one possession there's only a couple of players
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you're sitting there coaching. I know as a coach because
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I've been in the meetings. But it's like, you turn
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: this around. It's a one possession game, you end up
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: winning the game. Right, So if you if you win
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: some of those close games, your record looks different. Everybody's
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: feeling different about Scott Frost, and I feel like that's
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: how close he is. I do think it is harder
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: enow for Nebraska, and I'm just now coming on board
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: with this because I was big in the US going
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: into the Big Ten. I do think going into the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Big Ten probably hurt Nebraska recruiting a little bit more
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and here's why I think so. And again, I was
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: talking with a buddy of mine, an X teammate who
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: played in Nebraska, and he was kind of explaining this
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to me, and I was like, that's actually that actually
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: makes it a lot of sense to me. He was
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: somebody that was in Texas. And when you're in the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Big Twelve, the farthest drive to a game is Nebraska.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: If you have your kid and you want to send
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: them to a school, and you send them to Nebraska
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: as a parent or a family in Texas, because Texas
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: is a huge state to recruit in, the farthest driver
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: travel you got is going to Nebraska. Basically, a lot
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of games playing in the Big Twelve are down around Texas.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: In Texas, Oklahoma, a lot of stadiums are within three
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: hours of the Dallas Airport, so you're fly in the Dallas.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: A lot of those games are right there, so families
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: are able to see their kids a lot. Now you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: move to the Big Ten and everywhere as far, your
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: closest game is damn near in Nebraska. All those kids
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that you're recruiting in Texas and you're pitching on those families, Hey,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you know, we can see you This goes that a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: lot of those families aren't going to be able to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: afford flying and watching their kids play, at least when
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: they're in the Big twelve. You had, you got to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: compete in Texas a lot more for those big star
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: recruits because you're able to see them play more. People
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: talk about talent a lot. I made a joke there's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: too many white guys on the field. Obviously that's a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: clear joke. But if if we feel like the talent
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: isn't up to speed to where we have four and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: five star recruits, any business company, brand, whatever, if you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: got a lot of three star players, a lot of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: three star talent in below, are you going to be
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a winner ninety percent of the time, You're not going
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to so to get these big dogs down in Texas
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: around the South, I do feel like that we were able.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: It hurt us going into the Big ten because of that,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: because now you're competing against the Northeast. When you're competing
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: against the Northeast, why would you travel farther and skip
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: over Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and all those schools
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that you can go to. I will now all the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Penn State, all these schools that you can stay in
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the Northeast for families can be closer. Nebras is now
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the farthest away, you know what I mean. And the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: tradition wasn't built in the Big ten. Our tradition was
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: built more with the Big Eight before the Big Twelve.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But in the Big Twelve, in those southern schools, we
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: always got a lot. We got a lot of California kids.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: We had a lot of Texas kids in Florida when
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I was on the team. I don't know what it
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: looks like now, but I would assume that it is
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: harder recruiting the spots like Texas to the South because
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: families aren't gonna want to send their kid up north.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I'm talking a lot about Nebraska, but I just want
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to kind of go on that rant because I know
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Nebraska fans listen to this podcast and a lot of
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: people are very curious about Scott Frost and what I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: think and what you know, what Nebraska can do this,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that and the other. I'm optimistic. We're married to Scott Frost.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I want him to be the guy. I think he
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: can be the guy because he understands what it takes
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and he's he has been a successful coach, coming all
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the way up to Nebraska. He's got a great resume.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I think he's the guy I'm sticking with the boys.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I'm optimistic we're gonna get it rolling again. We were
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: also in a pandemic. It's not like we're all professional.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: We're all not adults and professionals. We've been dealing with,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you know, college kids eighteen to twenty one that you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: got to worry about. So it's been a tough year
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: for everybody. You know, we got it again. I know
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you hate to hear it. We got to give it
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: more time and got to let that come moving on
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: because the boys, you know, we got to get into
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: our segments. We got a long, long pod. The Raiders
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: parted ways with Paul Gunther. A lot of people asked
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: about this. I played for Paul. I actually had a
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I got this question from Raider Cody. Shout out, Raider Cody.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: What's up? Comp it's your boy Raider Cody.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: And I got to know, bro, what was going on
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: with Paul Gunter in this Raiders team. It seemed to
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: never work, yet he got three seasons to try and
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: figure it out. Run fits were messy, blown coverages, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I believe we have some pretty good talent.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: On this roster.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Raider Nation wants to know man for the Boys. The
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Boys shout out Raider Cody. I love that little mess.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I a little the Boys at the end, you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: without going too much into certain stories or details or
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: anything like that, I ultimately think the Raiders made the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: right decision parting ways with Gunther. You know, my time
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: there was awesome. I had a great time there. I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like coach pg uh. But when you when you think
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: about the ups and downs that have been there, you
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: had to make a decision at some point you're either
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you know, you blame You're blaming players, You're and coaching
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. I will say, you know, it was
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it was interesting being there at times because that you
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: felt when I was taking ti Here's job, you felt
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: like they were throwing tie here under the bus a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: little bit. And being a player that was in those
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: meetings during the game, understanding how the headset works and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, there would be blame pushed around that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you just hate seeing because you don't want to be
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: playing the blame game in the middle of the year.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It's it's you know, it's take responsibility and accountability. And
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: when you look at and again, I'm not a coach,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: but I being around being around football for a very
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: long time. Uh, what you want to see in the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: coaches is somebody who can coach, who can teach, who
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: can teach game plans, who can who can help players
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: understand why you're building a scheme in the first place.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: For game planning, you want to be able to inspire
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: your athletes, like you want to be relatable to guys.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: You want to be optimistic. You want to be somebody
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you go in and you're like, you know is going
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to have a good attitude because you're all going to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: figure it out together, and you want to coach at
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: when bad stuff happened, somebody that you see take blame.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Now Again, I don't want to get into too much
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of stuff, but PG didn't he in my opinion, he
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: didn't check a lot of those boxes. He was. Uh,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you know, there would be times where the communication would
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: be off kilter. There would be there would be there'd
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: be a jam in the middle of communicating throughout the week.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of stuff you didn't understand
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: why we did things. An entire game plan was open
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: on game day, whether or not you worked on it
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in the week. I remember sitting there, I was in
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I was on FaceTime with Charro, my fiance, and I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was I was getting I was gearing up to play.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I want to say it was my first start. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: again I'm still trying to catch up to a lot
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: of stuff, and I'm sitting there, like going over a
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: third down plan and I'm like, yeah, we got about
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: twenty five thirty calls on just third down defense, which
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: is a lot for a defense because you only have
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: so many plays to run during the week, and when
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you're game planning and practicing, you have about thirty ish
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: plays that you run during practice, you know, fifteen oerse.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: You might be working on third down on Thursday, one
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: day week you're working specifically on the third down. You
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: tie it all together on Friday and Saturday you do
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of plays. But to get through a lot
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of the game planning it would be hard because you
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: run a lot of the new calls and stuff, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: then when you get in the game, the entire book
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was open. It's like a Madden It was like a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Madden playbook, which is hard because you're trying to remember
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of the communication and then when you'd win
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: lose the other you know, you just it would be
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: if you didn't play well, it would be you know, guys,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I can't you open up the entire playbook. When we're
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: winning and playing well, I can open up the entire playbook.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I have all these calls at my disposal, and it's like,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when we're playing well, it's because
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: players are executing well. It's not because the calls this, that,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and the other. You want guys to play fast, efficient
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and communicate. You want guys to be able to communicate
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: quick and understand what's happening and what the offense is
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: doing to them right out of the huddle. You don't
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: want a lot of this stuff in your head. Blah
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: blah blah. You know you're thinking, you're double thinking a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: little bit more like Joe, should we have this check
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: or is it that check? There was just a lot
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: going on. I will say he was on the hot
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: see a little bit. Last year. Defense ended up communicating
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and playing well toward the end of the year. I'm
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: not gonna too my own horn, you know, I'm kind
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of just doing it. But we played well towards the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: end of the year. I think it saved him a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: little bit because I do think he was on the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: hot seat last year. And again, I haven't been around
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a lot. I don't want to you hate talking about
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: because I'd liked being around the Raiders. I enjoyed my
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: time with the Raiders. I know PG. He was a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: he was all ticked. I didn't come in the summertime
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: because they had offered it was a minimum deal, and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I was like, look, I don't have to go anywhere
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: because it's a minimum deal. Like if I if I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: end up on a team, it's gonna be a minimum
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: deal anyway. So I could skip camp, not put all
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: this wear and tear on my body, and just wait
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: till somebody needs a linebacker. I don't have to I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: don't have to put my body through another training camp.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, he was trying to talk to me
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and this. But I I enjoyed my time there. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: like PG. That is just my take. I do think
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the Raiders made the right call. H We'll see what
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: goes on from here. I'm a big fan of Gruden
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of the Raiders. The boys
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: at the Raiders Uh, you know, I hope they get
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: back in the thicket things man, because I'm always rooting
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: for him and I love seeing the guys have success there.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But that's you know, it's kind of my take with Gunther.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to get into the Christmas pod A. Cory's
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: coming on in a second. We gotta get geareduck because
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: again we gotta put mass on social distance, don't don't
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: trip the boy too much. And then after that we
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: have Michael Chandler. So enjoy the rest of the episode.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. I hope you all get what you want.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I hope you're in the gift giving season due because
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: it's the best time of year. Puts you in a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: great attitude. Play that Christmas music, dude, have that hot chocolate,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: drink those hot lattes, and again, Marry Christmas. From the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Boys to you. Next week will be a best of
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: so we won't be doing an updated pod, but again,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: thank you for the year. It's been a phenomenal year
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: for the Bust with the Boys crew. We've went through
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows, the ups and downs. We've persevered
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a lot to look forward to. In twenty twenty one,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: we're doing a lot of cool stuff with barstool, but
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: again about to have Corey on hit these Christmas pod topics.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have Michael Chandler on. He was phenomenal, big hugs,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: tiny kissing. I have to be might have to be it,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: or we might we might vote and find another one.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: As you guys see, I'm now in a mask. We
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: had Corey come on the bus. We're just taking all
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: all precautions in the world. But let's get into it. Man. Christmas, Hey, Josh,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: ask your question that you asked me earlier Christmas or Spooptober.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Here's my answer. That's a tough that's a great question
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: because we the boys, we love Spooptober. I feel so
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: ridiculous with these masks. I'm looking at you. I feel
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: like you're just looking at me.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Like what I know.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: I see those eyes. I've seen him before. I know
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: that guy behind the mask. But is it really him?
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: But Spooptber. Spootober sets the stage for later in the year. Oh,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Spectober sets the stage for the late the latter part
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: of the year. It sets the scene for the weather changing.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: It gets a little dark sooner, you know what I mean.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Leaves are changing. You're starting to get into a different
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: vibe because it's not all bikinis and swim trunks and
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: beach bodies. And I'm trying to you know, I'm trying
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to get my summer body and barbecues and shit that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: it's kind of done. Now. You're getting in the tailgate season.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: You're getting into Spooktober. It is a great time of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: year because you know, football is in full effect. But
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the reason I think Christmas beats Spooktober is because you
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: just can't help but just being a great mood come
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Christmas time when you start putting your decorations up, dude,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and your tree is up then and you're in the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: giving season. So when you're giving the people and thinking about,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: oh how am I going to wow my wife, my girlfriend, whatever,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: my boy, like my family. You start getting in that
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: giving mentality and you're just in a better mood because
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: you got you got cookies, you got some comfort food coming.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: There's a different glow about it, yeah, a different a different.
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: Aura or whatever. It's just like a happy, happy, fucking feeling,
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: you know. Like, like you said, that Christmas tree just
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: fucking lights your house up. Just the perfect shade of
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: white or whatever.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: You decorate your house. Oh dude, it's been decorated forever.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: My tree's about to fucking die. Dude, we got it
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: so long.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: When'd you start decorating?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: Man, this is a hot topic. This is a hot topic. Yeah,
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: it's for Thanksgiving. We started putting some things out. I
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: showed you that village. That's how I sent you a picture.
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: I gotta take one of these and Brad.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: The joke's over. I gotta take one of these off.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me, me and my wife.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: We started, uh decorating before Thanksgiving.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: So same, same, I started decorating the second week of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: thanks second week of thanks Give.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: People get fired up about that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: They do.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Were like, yo, you gotta respect Thanksgiving and I'm like, yeah,
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: yeah yeah, but it's just a meal in the in
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: the lions play like, yeah, yeah, Christmas is. Christmas took
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: precedent this year a little bit. We went before Thanksgiving.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is necessary, though.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: It is necessary, because you can't you.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Can't just sell out Christmas for two months long. I
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: get the decorating because it puts you in a good mood,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: but Thanksgiving is necessary between the two because Number one,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: here's why, I decorate second week of November. You got
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to give yourself a week to mourn it. Spootober being
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: over right, you know what I mean. Like Wifey, she's like, hey,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: we got to take the decorations down. You don't want to.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: It's tough, dude.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to take off the blood stuff that I
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: am scraping with the wind decks and stuff off the windows,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: and it's like a sad day right time when we're
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: going to put the stuff up, and I'm just like, hey,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: not now, I don't want to hear it, Like I
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it, like this just happened,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Like let's give it some time.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: Just took some stuff down. I can't even right right,
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: can't even stomach something.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But the but around that second week and you
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: start you hear that first Christmas song like that Mariah Carey.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: What's that When something like that gets in your ear, dude,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and it's like those little those little jingle bells, those
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: little piano notes, they start playing in your ear and
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: You're like, it's time you want to start getting in
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the spirit. I'm talking lights everywhere Christmas tree. Are you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: a real tree guy or fake tree guy? Real tree,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: real tree. I respect that.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: There's something about it. I mean, growing up always had
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: a real tree. It's not like we fucking went and
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: chopped it down or anything and got it like home depot.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: But still bad ass to have a real tree. Nonetheless,
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: So you're gonna you're gonna lose a little respect for me.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: We have a fake tree.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: It's okay because I understand that, though.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: It is like, please don't judge me by that sentence.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Everybody growing up, my parents set a great example. We
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: would go out every year to a little uh little uh,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: what what do you call little Christmas tree? Yeah, tree farm.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: We go out, my little brothers and I. We we
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: we pretend like we're playing deer hunter. So to two
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: of the brothers.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Your dad shoot your ass or something.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: No, it's just the three of the brothers, you know
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: what I mean, because we kind of you don't want
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to go. You're like, gosh, damn it, Mom and dad like,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: we don't want to do this. We want to sit
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: at home and play video games, you know what I mean.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: It's like, you gotta go do the family thing. So,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: but our parents we go to a tree farm. The
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: brothers and I were out we're playing deer hunter four
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: on each other. Somebody's the hunter, the other two are deer,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: and you're kind of running to.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: How do you go shot? What's your what's your like?
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah? You just make the noise and you just you
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: basically argue I got you, like definitely no, like, no,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you didn't know you did you hit that tree? And
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: then it's finally boys get over here. Like the boys, uh,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the parents. They find a tree. My dad's down, you know,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: on an he's got the little plumber ass. He's got
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: his jeans going a little you know, the little damn
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the yeah, the bant butt crack showing a little bit
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: he saw in the tree. So we grew up sawing trees,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: getting the family tree, getting the hot chocolate, the candy
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: canes and stuff at the the you know, up at
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the little shed. When they net it, what do they
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: call it? They put it in a little they put
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: it in a little like condom deal.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: It's like a fish net, but for the tree on
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: the top.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: You go home, Yeah, exactly. You carry it up. You
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: carried up the stairs to get in your house. You
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: got all the h you got all the sticky stuff
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: from the pine and things like that. Yeah, the sap
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: you put the tree on. You decorated, my mom, So
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you spend a lot of time on decorating then putting
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the little nativity sets around it. We did that growing up.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: My mom was a multi colored light gal. Me personally,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a white light guy, but I grew up on
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the different color lights. My mom always handled it. My
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: mom should climb up on the roof. She's like the grizzwollls.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'm gonna get it done. My dad he's chilling,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Doesn't he goes to work,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? He brings some of the checks.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: My mom does every other mainly responsibility that there is.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: She fixes cars, she's on the roof, she's putting up lights,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: she's she's making the whole machine go right. But that's
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: what I grew up on. So don't judge me for
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the fake tree. I like to I like to say
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: my background in my resume, right.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: I've grew up on the fucking home depot tree.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Oh so you've always been a home depot guy. You've
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: been you've been. Let me go buy it, you know,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: it's get ready to go.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: It's we've my family. When I was younger was home
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: depot and now I want to say it, for like
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: two years, two three years, I can remember a fake one,
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: but it was like a badass one that had a
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: remote that could switch from like white to multicolor, had
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: a timer on it, shit like that.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Oh that's that privileged tree, dude. Yeah, the tree was
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: not stud that's that privileged tree.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Tree was like a Cadillac. It was fucking dope. But
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: then we went back to like a fake or a
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: real tree because uh, I want to say it, just
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: over time got like Dusty fucked up a little bit,
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: and then me and my wife when we started living together,
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: we've always done a real tree.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your voice is so funny to me. I'm like, yo,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: is he banged up right now? Talking to me? You're
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: like leaning back in the couch like and your sins
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: is really low like fake tree. I just love Christmas.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. You know what what, Hey Taylor, Taylor
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: fucked around with me and threw a uh no pause,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: came by my house and just threw a Christmas tree
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: in the back of my truck.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Fuck yeah, man, it might fit on this.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I apologize for cussing. Bleep that one out, bleep, the
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: second one out, not the first one bleeped, the second
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: one out.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: We're not cussing anymore.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get better. I'm trying to get better. Yeah,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I know, we definitely want to cuss. You know, shit,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I got a pot. Hey, that tree might fit on
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the bus.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: You want to try it out?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to try it out. Let's go get
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the camera, Garrett. Yes, we're really gonna go get it.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Just just five minutes, dude, women, ladies, wife's girlfriends. Look
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: how good that tree looks. If you are a girl
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: that are for the boys, look at that tree. It
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: does not You do not need to plan an all
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: day thing with your significant other. You can get this
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: done in five minutes, So call the boy.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: So we took a quick break. I realized Taylor threw
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a Christmas tree in the back of my truck as
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: like a little prank, like, hey, I have an extra tree.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Th I was in the back, weird flex like I
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: have an extra tree whatever. I was like, Yo, I'm
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: not gonna use it too. Just realize, mid pod, I
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: got this tree in the back. It might fit on
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the bus. Boys had to take a quick break, go
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: get the tree. We put it in here. If you're
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: watching the video pod or anything else, I'm sure we're
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: gonna post pictures. We got the tree up. It looks beautiful.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: We have it sitting in uh, we have it sitting
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: in one of our bus and helmets. Is the stand
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: on the bottom. We got a little bus on the
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: boys tree topper. We got a little mask as an ornament.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: We got a bow is an ornament, some socks. The
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: gifts that we got with the cigars, we got some
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: cigar ornaments as ornaments up there. I'll tell you what
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: we are in this spirit. This is a this is pod, Josh.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: What do we have next? Dude? What do we get
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about next?
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Is that a ten days until Christmas?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Best gift? Best and worst gift? Yeah? Best, best and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: worst gift you got on dude, I'll tell you what.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I'll call my mom out right now. Every year, you know,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: you put a little list together, you start figuring out
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: that your parents, you know your parents. I don't want
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: to spoil anything out there we go. Do you remember
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: when you found out found out Santa wasn't real? Hopefully
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: no young years are listening to this, we're for the
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: little boys. But hopefully the little boys aren't listening to
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: the pod. But you figure out that your parents, right,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: So you're putting together these lists. You know, you're I'm
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: like a white kid growing up in high school. You
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: want to get the You want to get the I
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: want to say back in that time us he was hot.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: You want to get the Affliction shirts, you know what
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. From Buckle. You want to walk in the buckle.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: You feel like that's what the kids who you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: who have some money they get. They always get shot.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: You have your friends, they got the shop there all
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the time. So I'd have a list of stuff from Buckle,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: you know, same, a little simple, simple white boy, Hollister.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It never went Abercrombie always
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a little pricey, but dude, we get the Christmas. We
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: get the Christmas and my mom got me wearing Aeropostle and.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Shit eighty four or eighty seven.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Dog.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: When you walking around an arrowpostle, you walking around like
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: everybody's got their host or their buckle, their Affliction, their Abercrombie.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: You're walking around like the great value. This is like
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the great value brand of clothes. You know what I'm saying,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Mom hit the four for twenty dog, Yeah, she's only
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: a four for twenty deal.
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: You got every color bro We would go on uh
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: oh man, you know how you go on field trips
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: and you'd hit the mall, like in the middle of
• 48:59
  Speaker 7: the field trip, like the school would stop in them
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: all you go shopping. My mom would give me like
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: he said, I ever did that, But that sounds fucking dope.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: It was dope. And unless your parents give you like
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: thirty bucks, you know what I'm saying, Like everybody's going
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: nuts and you're trying to fight. You're an air apasta.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Look at them four for twenty deals. You know what
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You get one slice of borrow for lunch. Yeah,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Like I gotta walk out of like the nice branded
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: stuff with like one pant leg or something of jeans.
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: Damn four for twenty man, did you say one slice
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: of borrows?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: On the court.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Walking around like, hey, you gonna have to find a
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: way to eat. You're eating all them little Chinese samples
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: around the spot like hey.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Hey there it goes well again, taking a laugh, taking news.
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: Sure you can see it a mile away because it's
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: orange as fuck.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: You got the kids that go and change into their
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: new shirt right away, like in the bathroom, to have.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: That logo, dude his new shirt taking a laugh.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: A logo with a dog. I swear it. Wait who
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: air Apostle.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: It was like a little bulldog and instead of the
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: fourth leg, it looked it looked like a fucking penis.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: You gotta pull take what man?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Air Apostle. Oh damn, you just didn't feel calm.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: I swear to God.
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: In the mall at Georgia, they've been going out of
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: business for for fucking ten years. For ten years that
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: been just said clearance going out, going out of the
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: fucking business.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: They've been hanging on bro hanging.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: They've been finding away, they've been scrapping. I'd be standing there,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you'd have the air Apostle tea on. You'd have them
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: big ass cargo shorts on with the with the hey
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: with the material belt Corey, you remember the material bet
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: it ones like, but it was like the one that
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: kind of like freight at the end. Yeah, yeah, at
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the end. I had the two buckles and come a
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: little shell necklace on.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: Dude, tell me that's not as waffle with a dick, bro,
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: that's hilarious.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, Ship, you know that is that is hilarious.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: But that would that would be my fit, dude. And
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: then your little it's like pikashell. Hookah, hookah.
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: I think we talked about that before last you look
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: and bleach tipped your hair.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Bleach tipped my hair? Oh my god, what was I doing?
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Dude?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: You always look back on some ship and you're just like,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: what are we doing?
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: God damn it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Then you go to the phase where you grow your
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: hair out long and then the blonde tips are like state.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: So then the blonde tips kind of you just see
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: the roots. And Ship always.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Did that.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Oh back to back to Christmas. So that mom, I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: apologized for calling you out, but it always sucked.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: When you had a list of like actual clothes, Like
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: when you finally came around to the idea of wearing
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: clothes as a gift, you start buying in You're all right,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: here's what I want if you're gonna get me clothes,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: And when you just give me the J.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: C Pennies and Ship of the World's say, that's about
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: eighth grade.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: Seventh eighth grade is when I probably started Karen like
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: seventh grade. Yeah, yeah, great, I still rocked, like jerseys
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: of school and ship.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: What was your uh picture day?
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I wore my football jersey.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: What was your best and worst gift? I don't know
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: about my best yet. I gotta think about that.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Like I don't want to.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: Like worst gifts is obviously like if you get like
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: boxers or something like if you get them in the
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: stocking cool socks, boxers, whatever, but if you wrap that ship,
• 52:22
  Speaker 6: like why would you wrap fucking socks and boxers?
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, my parents, my parents do they still do?
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: They still played as a running joke, I get a
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: pair of socks and Haines underwear from Walmart or Haines
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: boxers at Walmart. I still get that as like a
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: gift every year.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: Terrible. I mean, I'm not gonna lie.
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: I mean I always got pretty decent gifts other than
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: like socks and boxers best gifts.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: So you had it. You were like the man, You
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: were the friend that everybody wanted to be friends.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: I was the youngest child dude, like they always I
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: was always yeah, but like, I don't know, it wasn't
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: I'd say the best gift it was pretty sick in
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: my first cell phone.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah when did you get your first cell phones?
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: And like seventh grade?
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when I was too.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: I mean when I first Xbox was pretty dope.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: The first PlayStation when I was a kid, When when
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: I got the PlayStation two, I remember that being a
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: big deal.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Hey that was yeah, not you say that that was
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: a huge deal. When you got the PlayStation two and
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: you got the little memory card to go with it.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: I had a blue one.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bro, and you take your memory card around like
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: your core. You coming over the memory card.
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: The PlayStation two is a huge deal because that's when
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: games started getting real.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, you get to go to Blockbuster. Yeah, Friday,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: you get to go on the weekend. Hey it's Friday.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Mom's gonna take us to Blockbuster. You're wandering around the
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: aisles pissed off and you don't see a certain game behind.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Games did you keep just forever?
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: Nah?
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: We always returned them. I feel like I have one
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: or two that just never got returned. Really smart move.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I mean you do think about it, like, what are
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: they going to do? They're out of business, they keep
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: charging you.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know what happened was in charge of me.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, PlayStation two was probably a big one. PlayStation two
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: is big. Sega was huge. I do remember when Cody
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: and I got our our parents cast. I never had
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: a Dreamcast. We got the Sega Genesis when it first
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: came out, so we're playing Sonic and Ship. We got
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the first PlayStation. My parents did solid early in the
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: early in my career.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I always got cool shit too, Like my
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: dad got me like a golf set when I was
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: like seven.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: That was pretty sleepy. Yeah, dude, I got a full
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: golf set. Your privileged due.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: I mean not really.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I mean you got a golf set in seventh grade.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: That was seven.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, that's what I'm saying, you're seven.
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: But the golf, he's just like to play golf. You
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: want to play golf. Of the song, I'll probably do
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: the same thing. I'm not going to push it on.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: It's like, hey, if you want, you got it, man,
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: go push some golf.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: When did you get your first golf set? I know
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: you played golf? Yeah, I had one at like five. Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Gary, your parents are divorced, so you had two Christmases.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Damn, just come right out.
• 55:13
  Speaker 9: They're divorced holidays is pretty stressful honestly for you.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, they're both still in Nashville.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're both.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Still in Nashville.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, you got to you gotta play the game, right.
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: Both people have to have enough time, and it's just
• 55:32
  Speaker 9: no feelings can be hurt here in the holidays, but
• 55:34
  Speaker 9: you get double the gifts.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I almost not really married.
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: I almost feel that way of being married, Like I
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: don't want to hurt her family's feelings or my family's feelings.
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: So like we're going down to Georgia this weekend and
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: then we're gonna do Christmas, actual Christmas up here.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you feel bad. I don't want to hurt
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: anyone's feelings. I got you, I got you. I gotta
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: see both.
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I gotta like pack up my kid,
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: thinking about packing up my dog and taking him to
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: Georgia too.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like he's pretty easy. He can stay outside.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Just got electric fence. Yeah. I want to get back
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: to Garrett traveling for the Christmas Garrett, So, did it
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: become stressful when you got older? When you were younger,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: it was probably love.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Right, Uh?
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: So when I was younger, it was a little better
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: because my younger siblings still believed, and so it was easy.
• 56:29
  Speaker 9: The planning was easy. I would stay at my dad's
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: so we could wake up at the krack of dawn,
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: and then in the afternoon I would go to my
• 56:36
  Speaker 9: mom's house because all my older siblings would sleep in,
• 56:40
  Speaker 9: so that was easy. But as I've gotten older and
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: everyone's sleep in, it's just kind of got to pick
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: your poison.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when did you? When did you finally figure it out?
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: When did you stop believing?
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: I feel like it was pretty soon for me with
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: them being split, because I would hear conversation of like,
• 56:58
  Speaker 9: all right, I'll do this that.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: How old do you think you were?
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Ship?
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably that makes a lot of sense now.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: So like, so you lost the Chris. Uh it never
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: really grew within? Yeah exactly.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: That sucks, dude.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: So do you like Christmas? I like Christmas. It's just
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: all the.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: So me up here, it comes with it, me up here,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: going on and on. You just think I'm full of ship.
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: No, I love Christmas. I can't wait to do Christmas
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: like myself.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: When I'm older and like my create your own traditions. Yeah,
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: you are older, are you gonna are you gonna Are
• 57:45
  Speaker 8: you gonna make sure your kids believe as long as possible?
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think I found out until it's eleven.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: I was in sixth grade. I was eleven, dude, I
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: was eleven and six. I think it was I think
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: it was fifth man. I think fifth grade is when
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: I found out.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: Like a nerd, I I would be ready to go.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: To the dirt with kids who said that it was fake.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Here's why give me your.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: Give me this say.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: I know you have it in your mind, the same
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: exact reasoning argument everything as everybody.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So at initially growing up my parents, we all
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: lived with my grandparents at first when my dad when
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: we were shifting jobs and stuff like that, so we
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: would be at my we would live at my grandparents'
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: house and Christmas would come around and my Grandpa would
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: be Santa. So when I was young, like four and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: five and shit, my mom would wake me up in
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the middle of the night and be like, hey, you
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: have to stay quiet, you have to stay quiet. He's here,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what scary as fuck? Yeah, but it's Christmas,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like, yeah, it's not
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: like it's not like, Hey, we got to get out
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: of here. This someone's in the house. But she's like,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: she's like, hey, you gotta be quiet. Sanda is here.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: And I'd be like, oh my god, are you serious?
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: And you know, I kind of get up out of
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: bed and we be tiptoeing. You know, I'm a little kid,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: so I'm like really trying to tiptoe and like you're trying,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: like to not breathe. And she would crack the door
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: and my grandpa would be dressed up as Santa putting
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: presents down. And I was young, you know what I mean.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: She's like, all right, we gotta shut the door.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Get a glimpse. Yeah, And I'm like, okay, okay, okay,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Well that's the est suit you've ever seen.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Wasn't the dude, it was. It was Santa. In my eyes,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Sannah came to my house. So when I got to
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: witness that, and then I went to bed, and the
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: next day you're opening presents like you just believed that
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: you saw Santa. So when people you're arguing at school
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and kids are ruthless, man, the kids who know they're
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: trying to shit on your Christmas bro, And I'd be like,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: I'd be arguing that. You know, I would be pulling
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: out all the swears, you know what I mean, Like
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: when you're a kid and you're just swearing on everything.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: I have seen him ready to go to the dirt
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: with anybody that Santa is real. And then we would
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: growing up in the Catholic family, you go to a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: midnight Mass. Every year, we go to midnight Mass. A
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: couple of years we come back, Presence would be under
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the tree, and I wouldn't know how to explain it,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: even when my friends are like doubting, like getting putting
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: doubt in my head, like letting doubt creep in the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Devil's like all my shoulders, like hey San, it's not
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: real SA. And a little doubt creeps in your head.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: You're like trying to figure out, Okay, I'm gonna find
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: out this year if sant is real or not. We
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: come on from midnight Mass. I got the whole family
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: with me at midnight Mass. Ain't nobody leaving. So I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: didn't know how we did it or how my parents
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: did it. Because we also had a mixed pit bull
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: like a rescue, So he was aggressive toward anybody, you
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, unless it was us. He was aggressive.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: His name was Buck. My dad found him hunting on Thanksgiving.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: He had duck tape around his collar. He was you know,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: he was abandoned. So he found him turkey hunting. They
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: played with him a little bit and they're like, all right,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: we got to go go to our stand. And him
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and my dad and my brother they drive to the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: spot to where they're going to set up to hunt,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: and they're they're sitting waiting on turkey.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: The dog.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Buck follows him the whole way for like two miles,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: finds them and comes up to him in the tree
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: and kind of runs the turkey hunding. But they take
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Buck home, so we take Buck in. But he was
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: a nice though. But anyway, he.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: Put the presence there.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: That's what you're you're fucking did mind is thinking put
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: these dude? I'm and at this point I'm eight nine,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: like I got you know, you're starting to try and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: figure some stuff out. Ten years old. You're coming home
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: from from midnight mask midnight mass, and your parents are
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 10: Midnight Yeah, I'll come back from get some midnight ass, dude,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 10: but midnight mass, yes, And you come home and you're
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 10: just thinking, how in the hell did they did?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Did Santa swing this Sana police? Because buckets in the house.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: My fan was with me, I had my woes with me.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We can't we come back.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Cookies are gone, presents are under the tree. You can't.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: I couldn't explain it. How close to the church walking
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: distance growing up we went? We went, Uh, we went
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to Calls School first through fourth grade. So we'd walk
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: three blocks and we'd walk every day.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Night and took a break from during mass and walked
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: home and did everything.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: No. Now, when I was nine and ten, the good
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: my dad's good buddy would come over during midnight Mass
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: and he would.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: Just good as he would have treats.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: And stuff like because he knew Buck, like he knew
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: he was aggressive, that he might have to you know,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: swing on him, but uh he was he was able
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: to evade Buck and put presents down. It just threw
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: me for the biggest loop.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Dude, Dad's out there, need to take that.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what my parents, My parents had a
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: good temple.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like if you got a friend in need, like
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: they're they got kids eight nine years old, they might
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: not believe anymore. And you want to keep it, you know,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: do you want to give them, buy them some more time, believe,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 6: help your friend out. Man, that's a good story. That
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 6: was wholesome, that was a good.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Christ My parents did that stuff right. I mean obviously
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I found out late that it wasn't happening. Then it
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: was kind of like you just had to come to grips.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: There's no time for tears because you're becoming a man,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You're at eleven, You're becoming
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: a man a little bit, so you can't there's no
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: like damn. Then you got to kind of keep it
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: a secret for Wyatt who was young.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: And also you don't know how long girls have stopped believing,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: so like you don't want to look like a little bit.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, dude, you believe it's saying it and like
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: you get I was around like no, I'm like ten,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: and you're kind of like, I don't know. I have
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: my stories, I have my truth.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah you know what I mean.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I don't want somebody to ruin my truth. But that's
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: when I stopped. When'd you stop believing?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: I don't have I'd have to say I was like
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: eight or nine, So there's no specific deal that I remember, but.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: You know, you don't have a tail like me.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: No, man.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 6: I did believe hard though, because of the cookies and
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 6: my mom and dad would set out fucking carrots for
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: the reindeer in the yard and those would be eaten
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: in the morning, and there would be like flour with
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: like bootsteps going down on like front porch and you
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: can see like boot and prints and stuff.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: So I believe pretty good.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: And then I've even heard of people, you know, like
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: throwing basketballs up on top of the roof above where
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: the kids room is, yeah, and crazy shit like that.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 6: But I I mean, I'm sure some fucking dickhead in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: elementary school ruined it for me or something.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's usually how it happens. Yeah, what
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: else we got, so we're good. It seems like we
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: we killed we killed the Christmas topics, dude. Some good storytelling, Corey.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming. If if there's when it comes
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: to that point, if we're all still in Nashville and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I need a Santa, I'm gonna need you to be
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: my Santa.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: I could be a Santa, Dude.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: I can come over to West to uh where you're
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 6: at Westy Nashville and be your Santa.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Dude, you gotta would you die the beard? Would you
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: die the beard?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: No?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Bro?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: So it's crazy.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 6: I have a fool Santa suit because I thought I
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: was gonna have to be.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Do you have like the wig and the beard and shit?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it all.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: I thought I was gonna have to be Santa for
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: my kid to take pictures this year. Yeah, it's his
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: first Christmas. But we found the Santa for him to
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: take a picture with. So I mean, I got it, man,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 6: I can be your Santa. I can be over there
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: in fifteen minutes.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the best. Man. Appreciate you coming. Appreciate you
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: coming by the bus, dude.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, appreciate you inviting me to the bus.
• 1:05:31
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  Speaker 1: future today. Mike yo, can you see me?
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  Speaker 2: I can.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. I apologize for my producer, Oh.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: The world of Zoom.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: I was just screaming at him while he was trying
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: to figure it out.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: I just kidding, how you.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Been, good man? Just down here getting after it all right?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: I know you got uh you got body work coming
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: up in thirty minutes. Huh?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: I do it's I can? I can push it a
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: little bit?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I should be okay, are they coming to you or
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: you gotta go to them?
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: No, I gotta go to them.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Shit, how far for drive twenty? So I gotta get rolling?
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: That's what you're telling me. That's what you're telling me
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: pretty much. All Right, here we go. I'm gonna introduce
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: you on bus with the boys, ladies and gentlemen. We
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: have Michael Chandler in the lightweight division in the UFC.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: New UFC fighter came from BELLATORI. He's a three time
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Belator champ. He was also an NCAA All American coming
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: out of the University of Missouri, not Nebraska. But that's okay.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: But Mike, welcome back to the pod. We've had you
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: on a couple of times. It is good to see
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: your beautiful face, dude.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: Good to see you too.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: I wish I was there on the bus with you.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: I know here we are, the miles between us won't
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: stop us from having.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: A conversation exactly. You're like, it looks like, by the
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: looks of your spot, number one grungey looking spot. I
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: love it. It looks like you're in a bit of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: a trailer, like you're in Russia, Rocky four and you're
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: preparing for the for the battle.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: Dude.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: That's what I did, Dude. I've been been triading, trodding
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: through the snow in Russia, and I got myself a
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: nice little camper out here in the middle of the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Russian wilderness. Now I did. I got a little VRBO
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: here in Florida. Uh, nothing spectacular, man. I got a bed,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: I got a another in and refrigerator. It's all I need.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I love it. So I want to I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: want to dive right in. You went recently from Bellator.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: You had a you uh it was Henderson you knocked out,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: and right after that fight, your final fight in Bellator,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: you were a free agent. You set yourself up very
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: nicely in free agency, and you had a decision to
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: make take us through walk your boy through that process.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Because we talked, we texted about it a little bit.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: But I would love to know how all of that works,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: because you got to be excited going into free agency
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: after a knockout and getting set up for you know,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: now you're in the UFC. But walk me through how
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: that works.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the uh you know about a year
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: ago when I was on the bus, we were talking
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: about I only had you know, two fights left on
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: my contract, three fights left on my contract, and you
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: want to you want to get through them, just just
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: like in football, just like any other sport. You want
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: to you want to have a good showing inside of
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: your contract the confines of your contract, but you always
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: want to end on a high note. Each time that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: my contract was about to be up with Bellatour, they
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: always made me an offer that was that was hard
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: to refuse. And I also always looked at the landscape
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: in the UFC. Each time that my contract was coming
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: up with Belltour, there was always something kind of weird
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: going on, or there was a log jam going on,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: or Connor was going off to fight in Floyd Mayweather,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: or there was some kind of weird, weird thing happening.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: This time, everything worked out perfectly for me to go
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: into my last fight and essentially bet on myself. Yeah,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: so I went out there knocked out Benca Henderson in
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: the first round. Then I became a restricted free agent,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: as as you guys call it in football, where the
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: current promotion I was with had right of first refusal,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: they had matching rights. The UFC could have made me
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: an offer and Bellatour could have matched it, and I
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: would have henceforth been kind of stuck with Belatore, if
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: you will. But Bellatore didn't match the UFC offer, which
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: worked out really well, but it was you know, a
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: couple of week process where I was fielding offers from
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: all the major promotions in the in the in the world. Obviously,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: the UFC was where I always wanted to end up.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: I just didn't know if it was going to present
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: itself in the most advantageous position for a essentially being
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: a good offer and the offer was great. Sat down
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: with with Dana White and Hunter Campbell, the UFC brass,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: and I laid it out to them what I thought
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: I could do in the UFC lightweight division. They laid
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: it out how badly they wanted me, and here we are.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Damn that is crazy. So did you have anxiety through
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: that process at all? Thinking like because I didn't know
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you were restricted free agent? But did you have a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: little bit like damn, you know, I hope the UFC
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: offers something that Bellatore doesn't match.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, you know, and it wasn't It wasn't
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: anything against Bellator, but I mean, it's it's probably similar
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: to to all kinds of different you know, sports, sports franchises.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: You know, I was with Belatour for so long and
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I fought some of the same guys, you know, twice,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: some guys three times I held all the you know,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: most of the major records in Bellatoor, mainly because of
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: my tenure with the with the organization was there for
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: nine years. There wasn't a ton left to accomplish in Bellotour.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I still feel like I'm the best lightweight in the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: world at that time when I was making that decision,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: so I decided to better myself, you know, And you know,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: for me, the biggest thing was, Okay, I want to
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: get offers from all the major organizations, of course because
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: it raises your stock, but mainly from the UFC. And
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: you know, I'll be honest, the UFC wasn't the biggest offer.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: There was a lot more money being thrown around by
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: a lot more a couple of different other organizations around
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: the world, but the UFC seemed like the best place
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: for me to a go compete against the best guys
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: in the world. Be know that that someday when I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: retired I'm going to be able to put my head
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: on my pillow at night, sleeping soundly, knowing that I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: gave gave everything that I possibly could, and I took
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: a chance on myself, just like that little young eighteen
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: year old Michael Chandler, who was getting offers from the
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: smaller schools. But I decided to walk on to the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: University of Missouri because I wanted to bet on myself.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: I wanted the opportunity to go Division one, ride the bench.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: If I have to be a training dummy, if I
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: have to end up quitting and puttering out taking the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: chance of all of those possible scenarios happening. But if
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't make that leap, if I didn't take that
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: leap of faith, then I would have never known what
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: could I have accomplished. Same thing here with the UFC.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: If I never went to the UFC, how would I
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: sleep at night someday saying I was a pretty good
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: at fighting, but I never fought the best guys in
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: the world. I never fought in the mat in the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: biggest organization in the world. And the offer came in,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: I was ecstatic. I said, give me a pen, it's
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: time to sign. And here we are.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, let's go. Did you're get in the blood fall?
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: And you're getting me hype right now? So you so
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: you are saying that UFC has the best fighters? Is
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: that what you're saying?
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent? And for a long time, for a
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: long time. You uh, you know, you want to be
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: you want to be honest about the divisions, you want
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: to be honest about the organizations, but you also, you know,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: you want to pander to your current employer as well.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: So the last thing I was going to do is say, yeah,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: I fight in Belatour, but I really want to fight
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: those yess right right right there, much better than Beltour guys.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: But that's not to say that there's not some standout
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: guys in the Bellatoor organization. I believe that some of
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: the champions in Bellator could very much give the UFC
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: champions a run for their money. A few select guys,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: but as far as depth of roster, as far as
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: worldwide recognition of the major sports organization that the UFC is,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: they are a well oiled machine. And that has been
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: very apparent since day one. Since day one that I
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: signed with them, I got twenty five new contacts in
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: my phone of people who are high functioning individuals that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: are getting stuff done from day and White all the
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: way down to you know, the Gophers who are just
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: kind of coming on to the UFC staff. They are
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: a well oiled machine. You know, probably similar to it,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: probably somewhat rivals what a NFL organization team looks like.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: They have set it up that way and it is
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: So you're saying that that's one of the big differences
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: you've seen from Belatoor in the UFC is the organization
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: in the way that their machine kind of functions, and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Taylor Tours, Taylor's Taylor's towards guys like you are Taylor's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: towards their fighters.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I think, you know,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: And that's not to downplay what Beloatore has accomplished. Belotore
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: has accomplished a that legitimate number two spot with some
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: really great standout fighters. They put on great shows. Scott
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Coker is a great promoter. But they run more of
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: a skeleton crew compared to the UFC. You know, I
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: was over in Abu Dhabi in October and they had
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: one hundred something people there on staff, and that's just
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: absolutely the exact opposite of Bellotore. They don't have a
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: huge staff, but they do a really good job with
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: the staff that they have. But the UFC is just
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: a well oiled machine, and there's a lot of pros
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: and there's a couple of cons to that. Probably I'm
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: sure that that some guys have kind of gone through.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: But for me thus far, signing with the UFC has
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: been a huge, eye opening experience. It's been it's been
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: nothing but amazing. The platform is huge. Immediately, the growth
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: of my platform, the growth of my name, the growth
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of everything happened overnight, and it's somewhat has worked to
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: my you know, I guess detriment in certain regards because
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: there was so much hype that has been me signing
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: with the UFC and then becoming the backup fighter for
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: that October twenty fourth world title fight that people feel
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: like I've been signed with the organization for six months,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: eight months a year because they've heard so much about me.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: But it's only been a little over three months now,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: and in that short period of time, we've got a
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff done, built a big platform, and I
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: can't wait to step into that octagon.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: It has been truly amazing to watch because I obviously
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: we got to know each other over the last year
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: year and a half and it's been awesome to see
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: kind of you transcend into the UFC and stuff like that.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Correct me, if I'm wrong, but it seems like the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: timing has worked out very well for you on now
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: being the right time to sign into the UFC. Because
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: you signed, you've been with Bellator so Bellatore so long
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: that you kind of turned into their poster boy, and
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: now the timing just seems right to go into the UFC.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like guys who are deeper on like
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: the UFC roster, do you think guys who aren't in
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: line for title fights and stuff like that should maybe
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: look at the road that you've kind of taken to
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: get to the UFC. Because you've got to accomplish so
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: much and become one of the poster boys for Bellator,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: you can kind of get spotlighted a little more since
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: you're not in the running for all these title fights
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: in the UFC.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent, you know, and everybody's got their
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: own path and their own, you know, their own way
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: that they want to go. As I've said, the UFC
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: is the premier mixed martial arts sports organization in the world.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: They are not losing any ground. If anything, they are
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: doubling and tripling in size, so they will continue to dominate.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: But so every young guy that I'm training with at
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: Sanford MMA down here, or every young guy had come across.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: All they want to do is get those uf gloves
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: and they want to get that UFC fight kid on.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: They want to go out there. We don't want to
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: fight in front of that in front of Dana White
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: and fighting that octagon. Trust me, I haven't done it yet,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: but it's going to be the highlight of my career
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the first time I stepped into that cage, and then
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: and then so on whenever I win that world title.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: But there there is something to be said about the
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: patient route that you're building brick by boring brick, and
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: trust me, I've had to swallow my pride thousands of times.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: I've taken pictures for fans with my UFC fighter friends.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: I've been around my people like hey man, you trained
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: him a I'm like, yeah, I'm actually the belto world champion.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: But whatever, man, yeah here, let me take a picture
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: of Ryan Bader. It's and I've had to swallow my pride.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Now I've also been rewarded for that patience. You know,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm now I've gotten a great now, I've gotten a
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: great contract with the UFC. I've been thrust it into
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: a top five opponent right away is what we're looking
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: at and what I'm not settling for any less than
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: and I made a great living with beltour the goal.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: And then this goes with any industry, your industry, you know, football,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: any sports industry, any corporate industry. Make yourself an indispensable asset.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: And once you've made yourself an indispensable as set, your
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: stock has risen so high that you can either continue
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: in your course of action with your current company or
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: be the hottest free agent on the market and it
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: works out extremely well for you. And that's kind of
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: where I was, and I was one of the biggest
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: free agent signings of in mixed martial arts history. And
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: that's what we've kind of seen over the last couple
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: of months. And it's it's been a great ride. And
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: I owe a debt of gratitude to Bellatore and those
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: guys who there who gave me a chance, gave me
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: the platform. But then I also owe it to my
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: coaches and my training partners, the guys who have helped
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: build me up and now here I am. I still
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: feel like the best version of myself. My last performance
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: was arguably the best performance of my career. So how
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: do you argue that I can't go out there and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: compete with the best guys in the world.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Was that your pitch when you're sitting down with the UFC,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: and because you mentioned earlier, were kind of like telling
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: your story about how you you can make you know,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: how you would make waves in the UFC. Put me
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: in that conversation. Is that how you're kind of pitching
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: yourself to Dana White? What's the strategy behind it? Like,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: what is going on in your in your mind? What
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: makes the most sense if I'm the UFC talking to
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: you about this negotiation?
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: You know, for me, it was And it was funny too.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: I was so nervous because you're nervous. It's like, oh,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: hell yeah, bro, you know you know it's it's Dana White,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: It's the UFC. It's this is what the culmination of
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: all the hard work that I put in. I knew
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: eventually I was going to get to this point and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: get this opportunity, So don't screw it up, right, So right,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: you know, I texted my father in law and I
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: was just like, hey, you know, say a prayer for me.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: I'm heading to the meeting. He sent me John one
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: to five, He who lacks wisdom asked for it, and
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: God will give it to you. Uh and and that's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: really what it was. Man. And I just said, God,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: give me the wisdom, give me the wisdom of walking
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: into this meeting, chess chest proud, chin up, letting these
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: guys know that I'm going to be their, their, their
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: world champion in the next twelve months. We had a
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: great I had a great conversation with Hunter Campbell, who's
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: the number two and command in the UFC, the legal counsel, right,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Dana White's legal counsel. He goes to him on everything,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: the one other guy in the organization who can make
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: the big decisions aside from Dana White. We had a
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: great conversation. I told him I was going to be
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: world champion. I told him what I wanted to do.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: I want to be the good guy. I want to
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: I want to be a good guy for the brand.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: I want to I know you got all these guys
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: who are who are paying painting in the rears to
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: deal with the heels. Trust me, I want to be
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: a good thing for your organization. Ten minutes later, Dana
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: White calls me we have a five minute conversation. He
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: essentially hangs up on me because of our conversation was
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: going so well and he got so pumped up. He
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: hangs up on me, calls me back two minutes later,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: and he said, listen, I just talked to Hunter. I said,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: give him whatever, whatever the f we got to give you.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Uh so you did you say that?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: You said that, That's what he said.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Oh that's what he said. I was gonna say.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: I was called.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: No he did, No, he did, and uh, you know,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: and really it was for me. I'll tell you what
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: my It wasn't a sales pitch. It came from the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: heart I told. I told Dana, I said, listen, listen, Dana,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: you don't you don't need me. You know, you have
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: built the greatest mixed martial arts sports franchise in the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: history of the sport, the culmination of this sport, and
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: you haven't paid me one dime. And your name hasn't
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: been on one of my checks over the last ten years,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: but indirectly, your name has been on every single one
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: of the checks that I've casted because of you bootstrapping
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: and quarterbacking and building this whole sport of mixed martial arts.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: I owe it to I owe it to you. All
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: of the money, all of the all of the success
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: that I've had is all off the coattails of what
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: you've done. And he's like, oh, that's awesome, and he
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: hung He basically hangs out on me, you know.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: And agent when you get down.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: But the funny thing is like, it wasn't a sales pitch.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: It wasn't tell this guy what he wants to hear.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: Like I, before I knew Dana White, I admired him
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: for what he has done before I ever even signed
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: with the UFC. I truly, I truly believe that there
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: are these there are these thought leaders and the shakers
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: and movers in your industry that are paving the way
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: and building sports, building organizations, building pathways, building tech building
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: whatever industry that you're in. And that's what we talked about,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: you know, because he was like, I think you can
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: do this here, I think you can do that here.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: I think we can do this for you. It's just different.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: Trust me, It's bigger than all these other organizations that
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Trust me, I believe it. I haven't not
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: fought for you because I didn't want to. It just
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: never worked out that way and worked out perfectly. Now
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: he's my ball, So now I can't wait to go
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: out there and fight for him.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. I love hearing that story. So you go
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: from that conversation. Now you're with the UFC, You've been posting,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: your brand's been growing, like you're Michael Chandler. People are
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: ready to see you fight. Now where you at right now,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: you're in Florida, You're in the middle of a training camp.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: You're grinding basically, but you don't exactly know who you're
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: going to be fighting. You had those conversations with Dana.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: Everybody's fired up signatures are on the dotted line. Now
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a training camp and you're
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: not necessarily knowing what's next. What do you think what
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: is next? What is coming up for you? Is it GAYTHEE,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: is it Ferguson? Is it What do you feel in
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: your gut? Because you haven't really heard anything yet, So
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: what do you feel like is coming? What is on
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: the horizon for you? What's going on in your world
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So originally when I signed, we had that that
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: fight October twenty fourth in Abu Dhabi Kabebe was gonna
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: fight Gaichie for the world title. They wanted me to
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: fight in the Komane event against Tony Ferguson or Dustin Poorie.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: I said yes to both of those names. They both
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: said no. Turns out it worked out perfect for Dustin Poirier.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: He now he gets the counter fight, a nice, big
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: money fight, big high profile fight for him. Tony Ferguson
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: not so much. He just had had to be kind
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: of pushed into that December twelfth card, which I guess
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: was what he wanted. He lost to Olivera. Now, so
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: Ferguson's kind of off the table. Olivera has now put
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: his name kind of in that top five mix. Dan
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: Hooker's in the top five mix. But Justin Gaigie's the
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: fight that I want. Justin Gaigie, when he came over
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: from World Series of Fighting a couple of years ago,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: he got a top five opponent right away. Justin Gaigie
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: is the most highly ranked guy in the top five.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: We match up really well against each other. We're actually
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: cut from the same cloth. He's cut from our cloth. Man.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: He's a he's a he's a wolf. Yeah, a small, small,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: town wrestler. Like also like I got to meet his
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: mom and dad. They both came out. They're both humble beginnings.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: You know, his dad works in the copper mines in Arizona.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: You know, we run with the same crowds. We're very similar,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: and then our fight styles are similar. We want to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: bite down on our mouthpiece, come across that octagon and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: get into a fistfight. I think it's a perfect way
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: to introduce myself to the UFC fans, finally give them
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: what they want, which is me actually stepping inside that octagon.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: And I haven't not stepped into the octagon because I
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: didn't want to. I wanted to fight October twenty fourth.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: I wanted to fight ferguson or Poria. It just didn't
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: work out. Justin Gatgese's my number one My number one
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: goal right now is to fight him, and I would
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: love it to be January twenty third, on that Connor
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: Poorier card. They might as well have another lightweight fight
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: on that card, another high profile lightweight fight on that
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: card in case anything weird happens with injuries or COVID
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: or whatnot. You always got to have a backup plan.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: In the era of COVID right now. So that's best
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: case scenario for me, and I'm training like that's what
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: I'm fighting, So we'll see.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Is it difficult training not knowing exactly what's about to
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: happen because you're obviously in the middle of a training
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: camp preparing like you're gonna fight in January? Is it weird?
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: Does it make it difficult when you don't exactly know
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: who your opponent is when you're going about your training.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: The funny thing is, if you would have asked me
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: that three months ago, I would say, yeah, it's hard,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: But I've actually had an even harder scenario. Was me
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: training six weeks down here, away from my family to
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: be the backup fighter for Kabeeb and Gaichee. So I'm
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: training for both of those but knowing there's probably a
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: less than twenty percent chance that I'm actually going to
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: fight one of these guys. So I signed on the
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: dotted line to go to go to Abu Dhabi and
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: be the backup fighter. You know, I don't get my
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: full purse and there was a very small chance that
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna fight one of those guys. So I kind
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: of felt like, man, this sucks. I'm away from my
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: family and I'm probably not gonna fight this time. I
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm actually gonna fight. I'm down here training
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: for in a training camp that will culminate in a fight.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Geechee. I don't know if
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: it's Hooker. I don't know if it's Olivera. I don't
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: know if it's Connor Orporie. If one of those fights,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: you know, falls through in the next week or so,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: who knows. But either way, my body, my mind, my
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: spirit needs to be ready January twenty third. So that's
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: what I'm laying the groundwork for, laying the foundation for.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: So I have a goal in mind, and that's going
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: to be a fight January twenty third. The opponent doesn't
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: really matter too much, you know. There are one hundred
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: and fifty five pounds. They got two arms, they got
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: two legs. They have certain different attributes and idiosyncrasies and
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: habits that they that they all possess. Game plan is
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: always going to be pretty much similar for all three
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: of those. It's they're all five six of those opponents
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: in the top five and just train and be the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: best me I can be when I show up in
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: the cage inside that octagon January twenty third, hopefully.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: When you eventually become the lightweight champion of the UFC?
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: Are you bummed? Were you bummed the c kobeb retire?
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Were you? Did you see that coming knowing the negotiations
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: you were having, Like, did Kabib keep that so close
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: to the vest that he didn't announce it until that moment?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: Or was that something you were prepared for or understood
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: going into this contract with the UFC.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: No, I did not know that. And and truthfully, you know,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: you never quite know, you know, what what is true
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: or whatnot. But I mean talking to the UFC brass
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: that night right after, right after it could be retired,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: they didn't even know it was coming, you know. So
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was just an in the
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: moment thing, you know, to lay the ground or to
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: lay like kind of the groundwork. Backstory, He had just
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: lost his father a couple months before, and it wasn't
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: just his father, it was his mentor, his hero, his coach,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: his everything to COVID too, Yeah, exactly, so you know
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: he I think he was just carrying the pressure and
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: the weight of all of that and wanted to step away.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: He is absolutely the best lightweight of all time, possibly
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: pound for pound, best fighter on earth in the history
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: of mixed martial arts. He's ever he has failed to
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: ever look even close to beatable in any of his fights.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think the first moment being there cage side,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: and it worked out perfectly too. I had a mic on,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: I had a camera on me to get my reaction
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: and kind of break down the fight as it was happening. Yeah,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: and then it was just it was we were all
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: kind of just in awe to be honest, that that
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: he was making this speech that he was talking about
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: walking away. He had just got done finishing Justin Gaechee,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: you know, one of the baddest dudes on the planet,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: in the early in the second round and starts retiring,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: and it was almost like the pressure in the weight
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: that was on his heart, on his soul was getting
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: sucked out of that octagon and he was just letting it,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: letting it off because he has been carrying that burden
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: and the pain and the pressure for you know, six
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: eight months leading up to that fight, and so part
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: of me my first thought was, man, this stinks. Man,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: I want to I want to beat that guy. That's
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: the guy. If that's the number one guy in the world,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: if that's the number one guy in the history of
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: the lightweight division, that's the guy that I want to
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: compete against. But also I was also in awe of
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: the spectacular career that he had had, and I kind
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: of took my competitor hat off and I put my
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: fan my fan had on and just enjoyed the moment.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: So I I think kuld be because a man of
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: his word, he has also said he can come back
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: with his mother's blessing.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: I think we'll see he could be compete again inside
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: the octagon. And I hope I'm holding that belt when
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: I when when he does, or I hope you know
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: I'm fighting him for his belt when when he does.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be Uh. So you think he'll be back.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: It's it's hard, man, because I he doesn't need that,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: he doesn't need the money. You know, he was this
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: is this is the guy who rubs elbows with with
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin. He is he is like a He is
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: the biggest sports superstar over there in that country, and
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: he is the biggest he is the biggest Muslim athlete
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: on the war in the world right now, he's starting
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: his own fight promotions, he's starting online training. He's the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: guy is set for life. He's even said and and
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: I truly believe in when he says it. You know,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: some of us guys, also us as fighters, can say, oh,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna fight Connor. He he doesn't deserve to
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: fight me, when really, you know, behind closed doors, we're saying, hey,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: I'm taking that money fight. But I truly believe when
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: he says he doesn't want to fight Connor for the
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: money because he doesn't think that Connor deserves it, I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: truly leave it. Because the guy's set for life. He
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: doesn't need to fight. He doesn't and if he doesn't
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: want to fight, he doesn't have to. So we'll see.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: But I think I think twenty nine to zero is
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: just an interesting, almost just weird number to end on
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: your mind. Will make it even thirty, you know, I
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: think that's what we all thought. We all thought he
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: would make it to thirty and oh and then retire.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: So I think he's got one fight left in him,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: if any. But then again, you never know this this
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: sport when it's taken away from you, you know, for
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: a short amount of time or a long period of time,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: you get that itch pretty quick and you don't know
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: it until you get there.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: Right when we're talking about all this real fighting happening,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: and when you look out into the mainstream of social
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: media and everything else and you see the likes of
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: Logan Paul calling out Connor McGregor yesterday we're talking right now.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that yesterday, but just
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: an obnoxious video calling out ConA McGregor and stuff like that.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: When you see that kind of stuff going on, what
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: is uh, what goes through your mind? What goes through
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: your mind when you kind of see these influence or
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: like you know the I mean really it's the Paul
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: brothers trying to put these fighting promotions and all this
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: stuff together. Like from a real fighter's perspective, Like, what
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: is going through your mind? Did you see Nate Diaz react?
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, I saw that for free. Yeah, that
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: would be that would be a good fight. I wouldn't
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: be surprised if that happens. So Number one, I will
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: always say I will never hate on another man for
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: making a living, for doing his thing, doing it. How
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: do it do? I does do my does my moral
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: fabric lineup with with you know, Jake Paul? Absolutely not.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Would we be friends, absolutely not. But I'm not gonna
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: hate on the man for what he's doing as a
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: real fighter in a real sports organization and a real
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: competitive bracket where we're all trying to just become world champions.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: It it scares me a little bit because the eyeballs
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: are there, the the hype is there, the pay per
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: view buys is there. Right there's you know, Connor goes
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: out beats Poorier. I go out there beat Hi olivera whoever.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: And he's got a you know, one hundred million dollar
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: fight against Jake Paul. He's probably taking a hundred million
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: to fight it out against Jake Paul. I'm not going
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: to fault him for it. As a as a guy
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: who wants to provide for his family, I would fault
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: him for it. As as a legitimate athlete. You know,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: as a legitimate athlete, you don't take those you don't
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: take those fights whenever you have good fights on the table.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: But then again, like I said, if you and me
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: are having a conversation, you know, if I got a
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: hundred million dollar fight on the table, probably gonna go
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: ahead and take that, you know. So, Uh, it's it's
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: scary because just like I said, I didn't sign with
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: the UFC years you know, two years ago, four years
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: ago when my contracts were up because there was log
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: jams and there was weird stuff happening, and Connor going
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: over to fight fight floor. Now now Connor talking about
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: fighting Manny Pacio, and then now you're adding some YouTube
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: stars who can sell, you know, millions of pay per views.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: You're just like, dang man, it's it's hard out here
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: for the legit athletes.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and walking on a walking on the University
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: of Missouri, scrapping the way you've scrapped all the way
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: to get finally get to this point. You got so
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: you got some influencers, and you're right, like, it's hard
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: to hate on somebody trying to doing what they they're
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: able to accomplish and do. They've obviously built those platforms
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: for themselves, but it does got to sting and suck, Like, ay,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: I fucking clawed for this ship, dude. Yeah, just for cursing.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: I know you're not a big cursor. I got to
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: get better.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: You're good, No, you're good man. Uh, no, the uh,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: but it's funny too. Like think about if they started
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: NFL Blitz that, you know, like the same rules as
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: that game NFL Blitz we used to play with kids. Yeah,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: be able to supplex people and punch it. Like, if
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: they started a league like that, you'd be like, well,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: that's not legitimate, but people are watching that because that's sensationalism.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah, it's the same exact thing. You're like,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: we're legit, we're legitimate football players over here trying to
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: make a living doing what we're doing. And it's uh,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's uh, it's it's it's a little
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: bit scary, like I said, because the call out was real.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: He brought his wife into it. He you know, he.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Dude, I know that's what I did. I wasn't like again,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: like I wasn't necessarily hating on the Paul, Like like
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: Jake Paul, he beat Nate Robinson, he looked good doing it, YadA, YadA, YadA.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: He's he's doing good, Like that's awesome that he's able
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: to do that. But when the whole the white stuff
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: came out and everything else, I was like, man, what
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: what are we doing?
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: Like know, that funny thing is that's exactly that is
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: exactly what I said, Like, what what are what are
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: we doing? Like? What is what is sports? What is
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: what is the fight world? What is you know? But
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: then the pay per view numbers come out and you
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: realize they're selling pay per views and it and it
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: goes back to you know, I'll go back to my
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: past a little bit. When I was with Belatour, you'd
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: have you know, if you remember this guy named Da
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: Da five thousand fought Kimbo Slice. Da Da five thousand
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: was like in an underground fight club league and and
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: was on YouTube and Kimbo Slice was a YouTube star
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: and they fought each other, and you had Ken Shamok
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: coming back and fighting Horse Gracy, all these like freak
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: show fights they called it, but they got the most views,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: you know, and I benefit from it because I was
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: always usually usually the co main event, and I got
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of eyeballs. But you're like, man, what are
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: these freak show fights? And then now you got you know,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: Connor versus Floyd was. You know, they're both legitimate athletes,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: but there was no way in a million years that
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: Connor was ever going to even come close to beating
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: Floyd Mayweather unless he carried the fight, unless Floyd carried
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: the fight, like kind of like you did. There's no
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: way in a million years that Jake Paul beats Connor McGregor.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: But people are going to watch, if I know.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: I know, dude, I'm hoping, Like obviously Connor he's fighting again,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: so I hope he gets back in the mix and
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: the UFC and stuff. But obviously there's money everywhere to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: be made these days. These guys have huge names and
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: eyeballs and stuff like that. When you become the champ,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: the good guy needs to call it the bad guy,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: and you need to try to get Jake Paul into
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: the octagon with Michael Chandler.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: I'm down with that man. So we'll see, you know,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to We'll talk to Dano about it. Like
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: he had some choice words for Dana, you know, so
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to Daniel about it.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's true. He did have some choice sources
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: that I forgot about that he.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: Did, you know, And just like, dude, just just sit
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: back in your YouTube mansion and just I mean it
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: makes it like why why cont though, why you gotta
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: go all the way straight? To the biggest global you know, uh,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: combat sports superstar. Yeah, you know, I get you know,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: you couldn't fight someone else like a Diaz would be
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: a good, good option, maybe a little bit more on
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: the skill level, right, if you will. But then again,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: if you're Jake Paul, go to the top, because the
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: chances of you getting what you want are are highly
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: a lot more likely than a lot of the rest
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: of us.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I think it'd be cool if like Connor literally
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: paid him no mind, like literally did not does not
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: ever speak his name or talk about it or anything.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen a response, so.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's is he in a camp right
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: now in counter he's probably gearing up to fight, so
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: I hope nothing. It'd be cool if he just says nothing,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like pay him zero attention.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: I was thinking it'd be hilarious if you're like the
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: neighbor of Jake Paul and you're like sitting up on
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: the floor and you kind of look out the blind
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: and you just kind of see that video and promotion
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: going on. You're just saying, what the fuck is going
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: on out here?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: Well, no, if you're if you're Jake Paul's nabor. You're like, oh,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: Jake's being Jake right now, Like that's what you're used
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: to at list, it's showing up and and uh raiding
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: your place. At least it's at least he's just doing
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: stupid right.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, dude, no doubt. Well, I know you
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: gotta go. You got to get some body work here
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: in the middle of camp right now. Thank you so
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: much for joining the boys. A lot of good ship, dude.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: You know your boy is always rooting for you. What
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: do we gotta do to get a little team bus
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: and a little team bus and logo on the on
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: them shorts. I'm trying to get on them trunks team
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: busting or just put the boy, the Wolf, whatever you
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: want to put on there. But if we get a
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: little little busting thing on there.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: What do we think? Yeah, you know what stinks now
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: is is now that I'm with the UFC, we can't
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: put anything on our shorts. Yeah. Oh really you should
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: have done it for the last far. Yeah, can't do
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: it shorts. So the shorts are essentially I'll have monster
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: because monster. I'll have monster on my shorts because I'm
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: a monster athlete and Monster is one of the main
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: sponsors of the UFC, and then I'll have my name
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: Chandler on them and that's that's it. That's all they do.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: But we could, uh, you gotta, yeah, you gotta send
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: me some merch I'll wear. I'll wear it. Fight.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you man, that'll that'll be dope. You're
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: definitely you're definitely our fighter for Busting with the Boys.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: So we're rooting for you. Bro. Go get your body work.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: But thanks so much for coming on.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you man. Love all the success that you guys
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: are having, and it's awesome, it's well deserved, and the
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: boys are headed into the top. Let's go.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, And when you get done winning that
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: next fight, you'll have to come on in January or
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: early February. You'll be right here next to me.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: I'm ready, I'm ready. Let's do it, all right, brother,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: gay see ye.
• 1:39:17
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• 1:39:20
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  Speaker 1: the Boys. We're also on social media at Busting WTB.
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  Speaker 1: guys know that whole deal, But thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: We are forever grateful for you. The biggest to hugs
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  Speaker 1: and tiniest of kisses for the boys, always and forever