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Sean O'Malley & Chito Vera's Fight Predictions for UFC 299 in EXCLUSIVE Interviews · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a bonus episode of Busting
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  Speaker 1: with the Boys. We are in Miami, Florida at this
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  Speaker 1: very moment, and we just sat down with the main
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  Speaker 1: cart event, Sugarshan Omalley versus Cheeto Vera. It is going
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  Speaker 1: down Saturday. It is Wednesday now when you're watching this
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, on Friday or Saturday before the fight. This
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  Speaker 1: is leading up to this fight. We sat down there.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get you guys to fight very cool or
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  Speaker 1: the interview very quickly. However, we're gonna tell you who
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  Speaker 1: we want to not, who we want to win, who
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  Speaker 1: we think is gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: Will We'll start with you well number one.
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  Speaker 3: We need to shout out to the UFC Dana Hunter
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  Speaker 3: for allowing us to be getting to sit down with
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  Speaker 3: like the main event. And you can like feel it too,
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  Speaker 3: like walking in the hallways and sitting down in here
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  Speaker 3: and sitting with each one, like when Cheeto sat down
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  Speaker 3: with us.
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  Speaker 2: Legitimately, my heart rate was like pumping.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, dude, these guys are about to they're about
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  Speaker 3: to go to war on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: But listen to both of them. Man, I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: It sucks because I kind of I'm like rooting for
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  Speaker 3: both of them. It's like I was telling you before
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  Speaker 3: we sat down to do this, I would enjoy watching
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  Speaker 3: kind of the reign of Sugar Shan O'Malley happen because
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  Speaker 3: of like the Connor McGregor's, the John Jones of the
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  Speaker 3: world who's had like their.
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  Speaker 2: Long reigns, and it would be cool.
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  Speaker 3: Does he Shan kind of do the same thing, especially
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  Speaker 3: since people have been like, oh, they've been feeding in
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  Speaker 3: fights and kind of setting him up, and he's coming
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  Speaker 3: off big wins with with a Yan and al Joe.
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  Speaker 3: But but yeah, man, and then you got Cheetoh, who
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  Speaker 3: we've hung around with at Shane Gillis's comedy in Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: so we know him a little bit. We know he's
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  Speaker 3: a fan of busting with the boys. He's very like
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  Speaker 3: grounded and rooted, and he just knows who he is
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  Speaker 3: and is confident in who he is. And you're just
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  Speaker 3: like fired up for both. So I'm like torn.
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  Speaker 2: But if I had to put my money.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere hashtag DK partner, hashtag DK partner, who do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Let me say this, the opinion I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: at this very moment is going to be based on
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  Speaker 1: the interviews we just tad, and to me, Sean was great.
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  Speaker 1: He sat down, he answered the questions, but it felt
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  Speaker 1: to me that he was doing this interview so he
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  Speaker 1: can go focus on his stuff. Cheetoh, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: seems like present in the moment, taking everything instride as
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  Speaker 1: it comes to him, and so it's really just a
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  Speaker 1: first impression on the mic. With these guys, I sit
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  Speaker 1: in the same boat as you when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: I want, like, if either one wins, I'm excited for
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what storyline happens. It'd be sick to see
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  Speaker 1: Sean do that, but it also starting a formal relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Cheeto. It'd be cool to like put that in
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  Speaker 1: your back pocket of being like, Okay, i'm gonna root
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  Speaker 1: this is the guy I'm gonna root from now on,
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  Speaker 1: kind of keeping them on the same playing field. Though
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  Speaker 1: I came in here thinking Sean O'Malley Arizona astring.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers, asting brothers.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm gonna go with Cheetoh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go with Cheeto, And I got like,
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  Speaker 1: if Sean wins, happy for Sean. I still hope it's
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  Speaker 1: an amazing fight. Yeah, and I'll just I will now
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  Speaker 1: go back to Sean, but I think I'm with you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, I know we had this conversation before, but
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  Speaker 1: I legit thought about just switching just now. That's how
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  Speaker 1: on the fence I am. That's how much I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like in Cheetoh though.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's tough to beat a good underdog story,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously Sean can have his. He has this kind
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  Speaker 3: of underdog mentality about it too. But knowing that this
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  Speaker 3: dude was coming in the UFC and talks about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just trying to win a fight so he can live
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  Speaker 3: another month in the US, so he can continue to
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  Speaker 3: train and kind of do his thing, and knowing he's
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  Speaker 3: got the three kids, he's got a he's gonna have
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  Speaker 3: a huge kind of crowd on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: He's just like, you can't help but to just root
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  Speaker 2: for that bro.
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  Speaker 1: And then just coming in hanging out and he is
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  Speaker 1: the underdog, scrappy hair, scrappy beard. Yeah, and Sean comes
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  Speaker 1: in the exact opposite, like hair got the perm going
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  Speaker 1: the blue and the pink, he got his trunks that
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  Speaker 1: he's super excited about. Multiple chains that don't really make
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  Speaker 1: sense now, They're not layered, they're just kind of there
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  Speaker 1: in the suit with no shirt on. It's like completely
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  Speaker 1: different parallels of personality that both excite me. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like this is gonna be It's just gonna be awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like fired up for Saturday, dude.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's it's it's sick that the relationship with
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  Speaker 3: Busting and the UFC has gotten to where we're at
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  Speaker 3: UFC two ninety nine and we will be fucking in
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  Speaker 3: the action. Hell yeah on Saturday. But I'm rolling with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm rolling Cheeto, going Cheato the.
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  Speaker 2: Dog, the scrappy dog grew up fighting.
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna roll with the boys, hashtag DK partner. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: DraftKings is the place to go for all that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: let you guys get in the interviews right now. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: I see us enough. Let's get right into these. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Please subscribe, unsubscribed, resubscribe all those things,
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  Speaker 1: big hugs and tiniest of kisses.
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  Speaker 2: How are we feeling, dude?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I've had about four or five ounce chicken without
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  Speaker 6: salt and a couple of handfuls of blueberry and about
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  Speaker 6: way too much water.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could work for the most.
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  Speaker 1: Part is this is this the biggest struggle now is
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  Speaker 1: just like the weight thing and knowing you have to cut.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's uh yeah, it sucks, it
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  Speaker 6: really does.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we have to do this?
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  Speaker 5: Dude?
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  Speaker 2: The pink shorts incredible? How fired up are you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I'm pumped. Uh. You know, I feel like I was
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  Speaker 6: able to get those pink shorts because of the performance
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  Speaker 6: I put on against Aljae. I feel like you can't
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  Speaker 6: ask for stuff like that if you're you know, if
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  Speaker 6: I win a decision. But the fact I went out
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  Speaker 6: there and put his lights out and asked for a
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  Speaker 6: little favor, I think they came in.
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  Speaker 2: How was that conversation with Dana Hunter?
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  Speaker 6: You know, Hunter made it happen. Hunter is the fucking man.
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  Speaker 6: So Hunter made that happen. Yeah, simple bro.
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  Speaker 3: I I was checking out earlier your most recent vlog
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  Speaker 3: famous coffee.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do? You just buy a little frauter
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  Speaker 2: for the for the heavy cream.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the fro that's a huge part of froth in
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  Speaker 6: the milk. But using that arrow press machine you got.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta have good quality organic beans, some good quality
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  Speaker 6: organic honey, some organic heavy whipping cream.
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  Speaker 5: It's all you really need.
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  Speaker 6: And add a little cinnamon on top if you want.
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  Speaker 6: But fuck, I missed that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine.
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  Speaker 6: I've been doing it for I have like six years,
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  Speaker 6: same way, aerow press every morning. It's fucking it's the
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  Speaker 6: most I use that as a pre workout. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's fucking I love that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do yourselfie? Have somebody else do it?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: No, I do it.
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  Speaker 6: I enjoy doing that myself, So I'll do that for
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  Speaker 6: myself probably forever. I enjoy that little bit of the
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  Speaker 6: morning routine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the morning routine, Like how long did it take
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  Speaker 1: you to establish it?
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  Speaker 5: How long you've been doing it for?
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  Speaker 6: I feel like that's been a build up about six
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  Speaker 6: seven years, adding a little something. You know. It used
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  Speaker 6: to be like, Okay, I'm gonna start a morning, I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna start a routine. I'm gonna fucking wake up hit
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  Speaker 6: a ten minute meditation. That's kind of like where I
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  Speaker 6: started a routine. It used to be, you know, when
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  Speaker 6: I first started, it was like just the three minute meditation.
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  Speaker 6: Learn kind of get into that, and then it went
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  Speaker 6: from three minutes to five minutes, five minutes to ten minutes,
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  Speaker 6: ten minutes. Okay, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 6: a red light. I'm gonna do the cold plunge. I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna do this that. I haven't been doing the cold
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  Speaker 6: punge right now. It's been doing fucking cold but in
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  Speaker 6: the summer in Arizona, it's like the cold punge in
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  Speaker 6: the morning's nice. But yeah, I built that over up
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  Speaker 6: over the last five six years.
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  Speaker 3: Proh the Sugar Era. How excited are do you about
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  Speaker 3: your first title defense.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 6: It's, you know, before I was champ, I felt like
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  Speaker 6: I was a champ. I was making the most money
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  Speaker 6: in the division. I had the biggest name in the division,
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  Speaker 6: so I felt like I was kind of champ, you know,
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  Speaker 6: for the last three four years. But now I'm officially
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  Speaker 6: the champ defending the belt. You know, now I'm the
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  Speaker 6: main event getting pay per viewpoints. It's it's the highest
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  Speaker 6: of levels you get, and it's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: With your opponent that you have taking technically the only
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  Speaker 1: loss and your career even I know, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, having it go down the way it did.
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  Speaker 1: Is this like not only like a you're defending a belt,
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  Speaker 1: but this is like a revenge tour as well for.
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  Speaker 5: You a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: It is kind of because of what happened in the
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  Speaker 6: first fight. But also, you know, I've never lost sleep
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  Speaker 6: over that fight. I've never been like that fight's never
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  Speaker 6: bothered me ever because I'm in the position I'm in
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  Speaker 6: right now because of that fight. I was a comin
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  Speaker 6: event on a massive pay per view that fight. If
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  Speaker 6: I were to go out there and beat him, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I maybe fought someone in the top five. Maybe I
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  Speaker 6: wasn't ready at the time, but you know, that fight
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  Speaker 6: played out the way it did. I come back fight
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  Speaker 6: Thomas Almeida knock him out what seven eight times at
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  Speaker 6: one fight. It was incredible. So I wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 6: able to have that performance if that didn't play out.
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  Speaker 6: So I've never really felt like it was revenge as
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  Speaker 6: far as like I need to get that one back.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't feel like it's it's not there to me.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I didn't lose because his skills were better
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  Speaker 6: than mine that night. It was a freak acent How
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  Speaker 6: many times has that happened since that fight, you know,
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  Speaker 6: three and a half few years later, not a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, with that nerve, Like take us into like what
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  Speaker 1: that feels like. It's like you shood on the toilet,
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  Speaker 1: score on the phone for too long, and now your
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  Speaker 1: legs are fallen asleep or is it one of those
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  Speaker 1: deals where it's like a shooting pain, like if you
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  Speaker 1: did something to your back, Like how does that feel?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's uh so years before that. In my second
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  Speaker 6: UFC fight, I tore my I had Liz Frank surgery.
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  Speaker 6: So in the middle of my of my fights, my
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  Speaker 6: foot snapped and uh that was that was a two
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  Speaker 6: year recovery. That was horrible in my head boom, I
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  Speaker 6: feel like it felt like that. So instantly I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 6: fuck my I wasn't thinking it's a nerve and my foot,
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  Speaker 6: my foot just couldn't you know. I needed to come back.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking my foot to steps and half again.
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  Speaker 6: But I also before I walked out, I had ankle
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  Speaker 6: wraps on and they were too tight, and I was
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  Speaker 6: telling them I was having one of my corners. I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: will you trying to loosen this up a little bit?
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  Speaker 6: Like there felt so tight, So I think when you
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  Speaker 6: hit the nerve and that shut off, I got dropped foot,
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  Speaker 6: so I couldn't lift my foot up, so I kept
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  Speaker 6: rolling it. I think that nerve would have came back,
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  Speaker 6: that rap wasn't so tight. You know that's bro science,
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  Speaker 6: but that's what I felt like. You know, it was
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  Speaker 6: kind of kind of happening. Would that have came back?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, you know it it happened in previous
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  Speaker 6: fights to other people where they get that nerve and
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  Speaker 6: they kind of roll their foot of come times, but
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  Speaker 6: it comes back. I think my raps were a little
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  Speaker 6: bit too tight that night.
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  Speaker 3: How are how are your emotions different this fight compared
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  Speaker 3: to the Algo fight. I remember your your post fight
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  Speaker 3: you talked about that was the most nervous you've ever
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  Speaker 3: been for a fight. How what's the difference leading up
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  Speaker 3: to this weekend?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, going into a fight healthy compared to going to
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  Speaker 6: a fight, you know, compromised, is a big difference. I
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  Speaker 6: feel like I was able to get to that you know,
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  Speaker 6: confidence state of mind to where I was in there
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  Speaker 6: and I was you know, it wasn't bothering me. I
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  Speaker 6: wasn't thinking about it. It was you know, the game
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  Speaker 6: plans do not let this guy touch me anyway. It
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  Speaker 6: was just maxed out because I was dealing with a
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  Speaker 6: rib injury, so you know, it was it's definitely different.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going into this fight healthy and it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Aljoe to me was the hardest, the biggest test in
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  Speaker 6: the division. Obviously he was the champ, but not the
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  Speaker 6: champ's not always the hardest fight in the division. He
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  Speaker 6: was the hardest fight and the champ and going into
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  Speaker 6: there compromised. It was it was I had a lot
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  Speaker 6: of mental chatter back and forth that I was able
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  Speaker 6: to overcome every time, so that didn't really phase me then.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I feel really really good going into this fight.
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  Speaker 6: The thing about Cheetos, so he's so durable. That's what
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  Speaker 6: makes him so dangerous. This is a twenty five minute fight.
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  Speaker 6: If I don't put his lights out, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: I do a lot of damage, I could potentially gas
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  Speaker 6: myself out and then get finished or lose a decision.
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  Speaker 6: So it's, uh, you know, there's interesting challenges in this fight,
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  Speaker 6: but I feel good.
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  Speaker 1: And you when you were dealing with the uh going
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  Speaker 1: into fighting for your for the belt and you're having
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  Speaker 1: all these nerves that you had to break through, Like
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  Speaker 1: what is like your process that helps you break through?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of that you're because you can be enabled by
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  Speaker 1: fear or I just.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like it because yeah, I'm super curious, because yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as athletes, like people will be lying if you don't
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  Speaker 3: lay on the pillow and think about, Okay, what if
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  Speaker 3: I miss his tackle?
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  Speaker 2: What if I the night before game?
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  Speaker 3: But you envisioned success, but you also at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: you're like fighting those demons of like, Okay, don't doubt yourself,
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  Speaker 3: like you've put you've prepared, you put in the work.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like we all go through that
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  Speaker 2: yeah stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I think the biggest one of the biggest things is
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  Speaker 6: trusting the process and not just saying that, but truly
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  Speaker 6: truly trusting the process. Like I'm here for a reason.
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  Speaker 6: I've been knocking people out since I was sixteen. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I've been knocking people out for thirteen years now, so
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  Speaker 6: I know I'm capable of putting his lights out. And
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  Speaker 6: another thing is just accepting that if it doesn't go
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  Speaker 6: my way.
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  Speaker 5: Life's good.
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  Speaker 6: You know I have I'm you know, life's not over.
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  Speaker 6: If I go out there and lose, my life's still good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna get hated on the internet whatever, none that
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  Speaker 6: really bothers me. I feel like I've came to accept that,
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  Speaker 6: truly accept that, to where it's like I can let
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  Speaker 6: go of those thoughts because if it happens, you know,
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  Speaker 6: my life, I'm still super blessed, super grateful to be
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  Speaker 6: in the position I'm in. And I feel like I've
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  Speaker 6: been able to do that early early on in my
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  Speaker 6: career just accept whatever happens, life's gonna be good. So
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  Speaker 6: like allows me to be able to not constantly keep
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  Speaker 6: thinking about, oh, what if this happens. I'm like, what
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  Speaker 6: if anything happens, fuck it, Life's gonna be good onto
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  Speaker 6: the next And I feel like that's what really kind
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  Speaker 6: of allows me to let go of thinking and enter
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  Speaker 6: that flow state whatever you want to call it, by
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  Speaker 6: not being attach to those thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: What is something that you've like gravitated towards when kind
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  Speaker 3: of cultivating that mindset, because I feel like it's fascinating, right,
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  Speaker 3: Like you have the get up you have, but you're
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  Speaker 3: also very intentional, you know, the daily day, Like there's
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  Speaker 3: some type of stoic philosophy that you also have in
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  Speaker 3: there to counterbalance everything how do you stay intentional? How
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  Speaker 3: do you stay balanced when wanting to be the celebrity
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  Speaker 3: and then also wanting to be the grounded fighter of
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  Speaker 3: like accepting whatever outcome that there might be.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I would say routine is the biggest one,
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  Speaker 6: but also having a three year old princess, like that'll
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  Speaker 6: just fu Like what else is there to do? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm twenty nine, making a lot of money of status.
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  Speaker 6: I could go out and do whatever I want to do, party,
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  Speaker 6: do all that, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 6: it's like I just want to hang out with you know,
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  Speaker 6: hang out with Elena. So that keeps me very, very grounded.
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  Speaker 6: That's completely changed my life, and I feel like that's
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  Speaker 6: what I don't even know if I have. I like
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  Speaker 6: to think of myself as a very disciplined person, but like,
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  Speaker 6: man if I didn't have a little princess at home,
• 13:59
  Speaker 6: I might not be the position I'm in. So that
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: that keeps me grounded.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: I love that. And congrats on the three year old
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: by the.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Way, tossing the hat.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah we got yeah, yeah, we gotta get you right, So.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: We got on.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: But my girl would kill me right now.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: We got I got two girls. He's got a girl,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: so yeah, we know that life, dude, it definitely changes.
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: Two years old, six and three, six and three, man,
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't There's there's these two little girls at the
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: gym that Atlanta goes and plays with that are like
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: four and two, and I'm like, I it just melts.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: My age is like their full life man?
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: So fun more.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, is there that piece of you that like
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: wants that boy?
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: A boy would be cool?
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: I mean if I if you know, ten years down
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: the line, you're like, fuck, I got three girls. I
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: wouldn't be mad, you know, having a princess and it's
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: just I don't know, but a little boy would be
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: fun just to kind of get him into sports. I
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: would love I would love, you know if I I
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: would love him to be into sports, and I'm like,
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't want them the box. I wouldn't want the
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: m m a.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Jiu jitsu for sure.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: Football is probably at like my favorite sport to walk
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: and kind of was growing up my favorite sport, but
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: it's so brutal. I'm like, fuck, I don't know if
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: I would want to be able to I could watch
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: him do that, So I'd probably want to get into
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: like basketball or something.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: You know, some.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: White would be golf, Yeah, golf something I.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Don't know, dude, football is kind of tight football, I agree.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: I mean it's just sitting here with my low back
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: is just burning right now.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: He's trying to get.
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: Stressed a dad watching your your little one fuck get
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: cloked as a running back or something. Yeah, fucking hard
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: and knowing just how you know risky it is with
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: with brain injuries.
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: And all that.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting conversation when your son's like, hey, dad,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I really want to play football and you're like, yeah,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: but the head.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Injuries and he just like pulls up.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: You get smacked in the head like a compilation if
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: you just getting hit a bunch of times in the face.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll be a hopefully you know, if across that
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: it will cross it.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: How do you see uh how long do you see
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the rain going on? What does that look like for
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: like a fighter who you finally because you become the champion,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: obviously you don't want to get too far ahead, you
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: don't want to you know, do too much. But what
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: does the rain look like for uh Sean O'Malley.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's very very rare. A rain plays
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: out like an Israel Oita Sonia like I don't remember,
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: like a John Jones.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: I guess as well.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: You know, it's rare when when there's a champ that
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: stays there for multiple years. Uh in the fact, like
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Alexander Wolkonowski and Izzy we're great examples of that. So
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: I would love to have a rain like that. You know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: the pantamweight division is absolutely stacked. There's killers after killers
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: at they're killers. So you know, I would like to
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: have a long, nice rain. But also, you know, you
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: never know. I'm gonna go with the flow. I don't
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: want to say I want to do this and then
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: I wake up one morning I'm like, man, I really
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: don't want to do this, but I also said I did,
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: so I'm gonna I'm just gonna do it. I'm gonna
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: go with how I feel. And if I wake up
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: one morning and I'm ready to call it quits, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm so, I'm just gonna go with the flow.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You talked about your one of your inspirations getting into
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: the sport, and somebody you kind of want to emulate
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: was Connor McGregor. Have your interactions ever been with him.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: I've had one interaction with Connor uh the Dallas Cowboys
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: football game. He was off the proper twelve. I couldn't
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: understand him. His accent was a little thick and he
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: was a little buzzed up. So we had a little conversation.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: It was loud, hard to understand. He was thicker than
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: fuck at the time. Just on some shit, I think.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: But so I didn't.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I didn't really have you know, that was brief. But yeah,
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: I look up to Connor's He's done really well for himself.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I love what he's done. He's my favorite fighter to
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: watch out a press conference, interview, fight. Like, just love
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: everything about Connor. So it took huge inspiration from him.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: How do you look at uh, Probably you're a business
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: guy yourself, like all the business endeavors and everything, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: kind of seeing how Connor has he's in the situation
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: that he's in where he's thinking about coming back or
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: his comeback's coming at some point we have no clue when, uh,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: but like watching his kind of journey with it all
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and not I guess getting too caught up in all
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: the business and everything else and keeping yourself in check
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: if you want to stay in the fight game, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: at a high level, like you want to.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you definitely, you gotta be all in.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: You can't be in this sport if you want to
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: stay on top, you gotta be all in. And that's
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: where my head's at right now. I want to stay
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: on top. I want to be all in, and I
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: don't foresee in the near future that I'm not going
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: to think like that. I feel like, you know, you
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: learn from people that do certain things, and uh, you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: he went in all all and the thing is too
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: It's like it was the whiskey business. You know, you
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: gotta drink it to promote it. You can't just you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: promote it. So I think he was, you know, maybe
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: maybe drinking a little bit too much, a little you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: maybe not. I don't know, obviously I'm not him, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: uh yeah, you learn for lessons from people like that.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I want to you gotta stay in the gym and
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: stay dialed.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah again, the same supplements as him, dude, Yeah you lee,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think illegally it can.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: By the way, yeah, we got too. I'm sure two
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: people who failed for ostering. Taylor failed for oustering as well.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, I had a trace amount in my dusted Yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: are you serious? And so I don't don't know what
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: your situation was. Like, I'll give you the quick brief.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: One.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I was working with this nutritus in New York and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: he gave me whole bunch of supplements to take and
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: then April I took a drug test. May like you popped,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and like the way the judicial system in the NFL
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: works is like, unless you can find the batch, you're out.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: You just gave me anxiety.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Brother, I have that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Stuff to do a couple of days before a fight.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: But yeah, what was dude?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: I I it was I when I get drug tests now,
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I get so much anxiety every single time because the
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: same thing happened to me.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I tested.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: I was like three weeks out from a fight. They
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: called me that you failed the drug test, and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: thought I was getting I didn't think I was. It
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: was serious. I'm like, I don't take anything that Like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: there's no way. And it was the same thing. Trace
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: amount picograms, which is like what a trillionth of a gram?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like it was taking a pinch of salt
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and putting in an Olympic sized pool.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they said I tested for Austrian. I remember
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: just fucking crying. I'm like, there's I'm getting suspended for
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: taking something that I didn't take or at least intentionally,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: because it was trace amounts, so it had to have
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: been in something I took and we never found out
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: where it came from either. So I got suspended and
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: I was out for a while, and that fucking broke
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: my heart. And uh I got a lot of shit
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: online from it, people saying you all you failed, you
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: saw it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: I'm like, you do.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: I look like I'm on ship, dude, I'm like one
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: hundred and eight pounds soaking wet. So, uh, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Thankfully I don't really get that hate anymore, because I
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: thought maybe that would linger around. But I think for
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: the most part, when when if you if you look
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: into it and it's trace amounts and it's like you
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: saw it came out and said, yeah, I mean there's
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: it's such a small amount, that's it. They actually changed
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: the law, changed the rule because Nate Diaz tested for something.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: It wasn't austream, but it was something similar, and he
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: tested for under one hundred peacograms, So they changed the
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: after after my case it's which sucks because I still
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: got suspended. But after that they changed it that if
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: it's under a hundred peakograms, it's not as a failed test.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: But that's crazy. That shit blew my fucking mind.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: I was, Yeah, that's.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Why I wouldn't take a deep dive during the whole
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: austring thing, like trying to figure out what it's for.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It's for osteoporosis, Like it's like not even regular like approved,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it's a It was a crazy thing for me that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't what was like the appeal
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: process like with the UFC, how did.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That even work?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Honestly? Like UFC, I mean I had conversations with them
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: to where I was like, guys, listen, I didn't take anything.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: They're like, yeah, we know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: It's such a fuck.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: It's such a small amount that there's just no way
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: you you did. And so they were trust they trusted me,
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: they believed me, and they helped me just kind of
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: get through it, and they you know, how to still
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: you know, abide by the USADA rules and stuff and
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: still just get suspended and stuff. But it actually I
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: got suspended twice for it because it was still in
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: my because I got tested again and it was still
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: in my system, Like that's fucked.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: How far apart were the tests?
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Well, I ended up getting tested like fifty something times
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: that year, so they were there was times that they're
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: test me back to back days and they were all
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: such low levels that it that they were they were confused.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: They were like, I fucking know what to do, like
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: such a low amount, but it's technically still you gotta
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: we gotta test you and just yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So you ever figure out what supplement it was? No?
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Never did, And I fucking yeah, every time I get
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: tested now to this day, I get fucking this anxiety
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: because I don't know where it came from. I don't
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: know if someone was fucking with me, Like my head
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: was going there. I'm like, there's jealous people at the gym.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe someone's fucking with me.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Could you imagine that?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Does that? Yeah?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: You never know.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I mean even all NSF certified products, like if you
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: still test like it's still ultimately on the they're like, oh,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: it's still your responsibility because.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You could you get report these are supplements And they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: come to me and I'm in a wrestling meet watch
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and they're like, what supplements you take, and I take
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a ton of supplements right now.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: They're all NSF certified. I've been very very strict on
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: that ever since that happened. I'm like making sure everything's
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: third party tested. But I mean, you take, you just
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: got to write every single one down when you took it,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: how much you took.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: I'm like, fuck, it's.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Wild when you catch hate on the internet for Aean,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you suck, You're not that good. They gave you an
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: easy raw because they want to make you like a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: stuff like that that you can easily brush off. Yeah,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: but when it comes to failing for a drug test,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: now it's like, hey, you're a cheater.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: How is that mentally for you going through that?
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it was that was so long ago
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: now to where I you know, I only remember that
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: when I'm getting tested. It bugs me for a little bit,
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: but you know, it doesn't get brought up anymore. I
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: think that it kind of got It's just yeah, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: mean it's I'm sure now people are saying it again
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: that they get brought up here we go. Yeah, I
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: think it's it was such a small amount you sawt
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: of cleared me. I mean I still got suspended but
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: they changed the rule and it was it was looked
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: at as that was definitely a tainted supplement.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: How do you see this fight going on Saturday?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: You know, I keep saying I there, there's potential of
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: being a twenty five minute war. He's never been finished,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: he's never been dropped. This dude is tough. But I
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: also I put people's lights out, and uh, you know
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: we're in Miami. I got pink shorts when I you know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: my hair is gonna be looking good.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: It already is.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: I'm feeling good. It's it's just my time. So I
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: do believe I go out there and put his lights out?
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: What round?
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: A lot of people are telling me third? You know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I mean last fight, A lot of people when I
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: thought out Joe, I mean you start here, everyone tells you, hey,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I think so a lot of last fight was like, hey,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I think a second round knockout. Is hearing that from
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: a lot of people? Sure as shit put his lights
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: out in round two? Now I'm here in round three,
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: we'll see.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Bringing this interview full circle, you start the conversation talking
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: about Cheeto and how he's never been finished and it
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: could go twenty five minutes and all that and so
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you talk about you might get gassed out and that's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: how you get finished. How do you like go into
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: this fight? Do you take a little bit off, feel
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it out for a little bit, not as balancing, not
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: as twitchy, or you kind of like see where he's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: at and how he wants to approach it, or are
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you full aggressive, gonna be yourself no matter what.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gotta be myself. I can't go in there,
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: you know, and I just got to do what I've
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: been doing, and you know, trust the process. Whatever happened happens.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: But uh, I do believe I'll put his lights out.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: What is the uh visualization process for you?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Like when you get in the octagon, the cage closes,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like I've seen stuff. You're heavy into the
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: breath work, the nasal breathing and everything else. Is that
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: something you lean on, like while you're walking in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: ring to kind of keep your emotions at bay until
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: the fight starts.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: All day, all fight day, I mean I try to,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: you know, kind of be sit with your breath, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: throughout every day, but fight days is a very breath
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: heavy following day. It just kind of keeps you keeps
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: you in the moment, keeps you ground, that keeps those
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: thoughts slowed down. So yeah, very you know, breathing being
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: where I'm at, feeling my breath into my belly, you know.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: And if and I do think, which everyone does, it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: you know, too sharp, too fast, too focus. Is this
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: mantra over and over and over? Too sharp, too fast,
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: too focused? Following my breath. So it's a it's a
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: mixture between following my breath, saying that mantra, and uh,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: you know, just just going with the flow.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Do we appreciate you? Man? Do you have anything else? Now?
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I'm solidude. This is aweso unless you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Got a word? Man? Oh yeah, yeah? How how's your spelling?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Not good?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Good?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Okay good?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Because because I'm I'm basically hooked on PHONEX at this spell.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: How do we do this though, JP, If it's one word,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: it's not like they can both spell it out loud
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: that's at the same.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Time, unless unless you just don't say if he's right
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: or wrong? Well, I guess I don't know if that works.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: We both get two separate words.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: So we've been doing this thing at the shop where like, uh,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like horrendous at like my tweeting is always a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: spelling error. JP is always testing me on words and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I cannot spell. So we're kind of starting this thing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: where we're just gonna I'm competing against our guests now
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: in spelling bees.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just trying to be better.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Oh fuck, I love that you're nervous because I am.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: All right zero, So.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Your word is is accommodate, accommodate, accommodate.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: H no, sir, let's get scruples on.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Oh wait wait.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Oh d a, these are ticks?
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: No?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Right, oh like that?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Ah, yes, you're missing uh you're missing an.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: M two season two MS.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so we both lost.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Both lost. That's all right, I'll take another word. Let's go.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sure like on a Wednesday before you fight for
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: your ballad, You're like, I'd rather be doing so much
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: other ship right now?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: This is so gay my journal every day I read
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: him back when I'm in fight camp. I look back
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: on it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what the said?
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: I don't even know how you can read this ship.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Let's go charcotery.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I might just skip that one.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: I got zero, I got nothing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go and necessary.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Oh fuck, I.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Know I text that in a word. I'm like I
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: just played for just.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Every time I say fuck.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Necessary, this is embarrassing. That is not correct.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I are you gonna take down the bandamweight champion of
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: the world.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: How'd you spell it? No?
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: No, you gotta go, you gotta go necessary.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: Cross it out. I just try to sound it out.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, n E C.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: E s s hy damn.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Undefeated is one.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: In twelve one in twelve.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Starts offt Willie Cheeto.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Man it is.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: We were just before the uh this episode talking about
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: how we were sitting in the green room before before
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Shane show, but fast forwarding until today. You got a
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: massive fight coming up Saturday. How how are the vibes?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: How you feeling right now? I feel like you got
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: a different look every time we see you. Kind of
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: got like the the hispanic Wolverine going on right now.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like to change them and I really tried
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: to done be the same every fight. And this is
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: a huge, massive moment for my life, for my career.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: On Saturday night is gonna be my first word title,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: which I'm fucking excited. Man, I'm ready and I've been
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: dreaming to this my whole life. And there's been ten
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: years with the UFC, and I work my way up
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: to the Wrangkins and I'm here now. So Saturday night,
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: we're kicking some ass.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: You said, you've said before that winning being a world
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: champion seems impossible once upon a time. What does it
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: feel like saying that now? Thinking about that comment, now
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: going into a title fight, your first one in your career.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: It feels like a dream. It feels like I used
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: to just think about this moment my whole lefe and
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: come on, keep winning, keep trying to figure it out,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: keep try to both. And now that I'm here, I'm
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: I'm just extremely grateful with the opportunity because not everybody
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: get to fight for a world title. There's so many
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: fighters that fought through the years. I never get to
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: break to the top ten, never get to break to
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: the top five. I'd even better never go to fight
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: for a world title. So I'm I'm just full of Joe,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: and I'm happy and I'm gonna make it happen.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: When when you sit here on Wednesday knowing that you're
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: finally fighting for a title, and you're fighting at somebody
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that you've technically beaten. Where are your nerves are compared
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to like your usual fights, Because this is the biggest
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: fight of your life right now.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: This is everything is more magnified. Like you go to
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: bed just thinking about it, you wake up thinking about it,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: you wake up in the middle of the night thinking
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: about it. And it's how you handle it. I mean,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: there's everything is just more it's bigger, it's more extreme.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: It's just this is the biggest moment of my life
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: and I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it happen,
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: and I'm gonna I'm just let it go by. I'm
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: enjoying the moment. I'm happy with what I am today
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: and on Saturday, I'm changing my life.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: How do you temper the expectation like like a like
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: week one in the NFL, it's always like you get
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: excited because you're out of camp and then you're so
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: excited to go play. It's a different opponent. They have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this phrase like you're gonna blow your load too early
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and then you're going hardest hell in practice on Wednesday.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: By the time of the Sunday, your legs are a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: little more tired. Like man, I kind of left lest
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: some rounds.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, ill feel you. This fight was announcing in November.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: So we plan camp really good. We start, we start slow,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: we start picking up the base and the Pretty much
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: the last two months, I've been in top shape. I've
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: been My running times were great, my sparings were great,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: and we just keep bringing new sporting partners every week,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: new sporting partners, new sporting partners. Like I had my
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: time to do my distance running from since November, so
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: I was running fifteen miles every Sunday. I was just
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: prepping my diet god down in early which I have
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: never had a problem in the past, but I just
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: tried to figure that how it can be better. My hyperbaric,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: my seabag protocols. Everything was just dial in and it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: gonna pay it off. It's gonna pay it off because
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: I did everything leading to this point that I'm looking
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: back and I'm cool with everything I did.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: How do you keep that that slow burn, as Taylor
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: was referring to, with like now we're just a few
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: days out, so you've had the time to train a
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: camp and being the week of it's like I'm sitting
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: here in my heart rate is sitting in ninety eight
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: right now, Like my heart's beating, just thinking like, yo,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: this fight's coming and we're still a few days out,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: but like knowing that, you know, I've listened to one
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: of your recent interviews to where you were talking about
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: when you first came in, you're just trying to win
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: a fight so you can pay another make it another
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: month in the US before going back, And now you're
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: sitting here and it's like, how do you resist the
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: earth to you know, not get over hyped by come
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: fight night.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: I feel like meditating. I'm visualizing a lot when I'm
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: on my own, when I'm on my solo time, when
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: no one's around me, I just that's my time to
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: like cool down, kind of like put all my emotions
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: togethers just close my eyes and just see the good,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: see really bad the scenarios to see how I can
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: react to it. And then I like to what I
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: really like to see is my feet on the campus
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: when I entering the catch the first time and just
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: be like that feeling makes me feel like very nervous,
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: and then I go, Okay, it's okay, it's okay, You've
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: been here before, just do it again. And I've feel
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: like this week is it's just slow. Like we train,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: but we don't train too much. We hit the meat,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: we grapple a little bit, but it's just to keep
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: the sweat going, the flood blowing, and like like you said,
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: like don't burn the candle too quick. You just gotta
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: like just relax because emotions, even if you don't train
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: and you're doing everything properly, your emotions can burn you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: So just just making sure I keep the same circle.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Not new energies, no new souls, this far from from
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: this close of fight. Just keeping the right people around me.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: That also helped me to stay nice and calm.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: When you're talking about your camp and protocols and how
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: all that stuff works earlier, what.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Is like your go to protocol?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Is there something you do on a day to day
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: basis regardless, there's no wavering from what I do well.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I do a nice but almost every morning as soon
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: as I wake up, and then there's all there's a
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: few ways to do with mix it up with eyes
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: and saua, depending on what you want, if you want recovery,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: if you wanna boost the station, if you want to
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: like release stems or whatever. So I do all that
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I have that at home. I just bought a hyperbolic
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: chamber for my home too, so I don't have to
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: drive to get in the chamber, so I can spa
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: and go straight to recovery and then the SIVA to
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: get my card better promote more red blood cells. All
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: that is like I do that year around with or
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: without fight. There's protocols that are from art of camp.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: There's protocols when you are in come to like go
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: to a top shape, and all that plays a big
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: influence on my life, like help me to recovery. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: for me, it's all about my brain. I want my
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: brain to be the best when I retire. I wanna
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: be able to take care of my family, to be
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: able to see my kids grow. So and the way
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I fight, I fight pretty fucking hard, so I need
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: to be I need to be good. So all that
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: really helped me just to add another gear to my game.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Hey, without everything not that too. Staying on top of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: that brain stuff.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: You take a lot of pride in that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: I take a lot of pride in my hard work
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: and everything I do leading to fights, and the way
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: I eat. Everything I put in my body is like
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: it's just everything comes from the from the earth. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: don't do nothing, process nothing with chem because I don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: really cheat and I don't even miss eating like ship.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I'm just ice cream.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Everybody misses ice cream like I, but believe it or not,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I don't really.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: I do like once every two months I eat like
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: like I give myself like one of those things like
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: if I if I eat a bag of dry mango, I'm.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Cool, solid like health Yeah, Blizzard bro like that's.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Dry pen apple. I can I can eat that every day.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I've never Yeah, he's just he's.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Drive food is the ship?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: When you were eating like ship it what was like
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: your go to? Like I got it this is I.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Would breakfast McDonald's almost every day when I was in
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: Mickey No, what was it was the muffins right, yeah,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: the that with fries nine in the morning in the
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: morning when I get it right.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: And you don't miss it.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: But checking this out, I didn't know that wasn't healthy
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: when I was when when I was growing up, I
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: thought that was that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Was just yeah. I was like, I'm let's go on
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the body.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go ten. You want to stop real quick,
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: let's go with joint McDonald's And thinking that's normal. But
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: now I'm like I passed by MacDonald's. I'm like, funck
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: you when I heard my life. Yeah, dude, going.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Back to where you talk about visualizing and stepping in
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the octagon, your feet hitting the canvas, the gate closing,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: how do you what.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Is the what is the protocol of the preparation?
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: There is a focus like focusing on breath work and
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: not getting too high in the moment because clearly it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: going to just the peak of every you know, every
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: match you've ever been in.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: I feel like you just have to like one that
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: when does God start fighting, you just have to use
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: that fire to almost warm you up instead of just
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: like feeling it here because on that moment we all
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: feel weak, and that moment will feel like, oh I'm
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: not ready, Oh I don't want to be here. But
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: as you your mind playing tricks and you and then
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: you go like, you know what, this is part of
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: the deal, this part of the what happened before I fight?
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: So and then when you start warming up, just like
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: I personally just get mean, I just go sweep the
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: sweep the fleet the was it switch?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: The switch there?
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: You rather? I lost my English for a second and
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: then I just go I'm mean, I'm red. I'm like,
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: I don't care. I mean, I know I'm ready to
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: do that. And that just comes like early, ten minutes
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: before I do the walk, i just go pop and
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: I'm cool. I'm like, right now, I don't give a
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: fuck about nothing. I'm just I'm just going.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: How are you able to achieve that, the ability to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: flip the switch? Like, was that a thing that you
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: had the minute you stepped in the octagon for the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: first time, the minute you found martial arts or was
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: that a deal that over time and learning.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: I feel that was fighting on the streets since a
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: very early age, Like I was the smallest guy in
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: the room, the skeennest one, and I used to no
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: one will pick on me, but I would be like
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: a little fucking monkey's poking everybody. And I will get
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: a slap sometimes and I will be like, ah, fuck you.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: And I used to learn how to fight early because
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: I would start fights for no reason and I got
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: my ass kids so many times, and I just kept coming.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: I kept coming, kept coming, kept coming, And probably that
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: really helps.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Do you even think about the first fight with with Sugar,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: knowing that it ended in the first round, the way
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: it did well.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: I rewatched it, and the things I remember from being
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: in there is just like there's one thing the world
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: can see, the coaches or people on TV. It's just
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: like you can. You can feel your opponents soul and
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: energy when you're in there. And the thing I can say,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: he don't have a heart energy, He don't have a heart,
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: so like you can see through him and he's a
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: great athlete, that doesn't mean he cannot beat you. That's
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: why people sometimes fall into like, oh, you're not that good,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: and boom they get punched. I'm not thinking like that,
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: but I'm also feeling you and you're not a hard motherfucker.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: You're the one that will crumble if you have to.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: And that's something I know you're saying.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: His foundation is not as solid as he seems, not
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: at all when you with his tactics as far as
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: being on the microphone, how do you mentally? Does that
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: phase you in any way, shape or form.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I don't. I'm not a big reader of opinions or comments,
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: and I'm not a guy that like to engage in
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: social media. Like I'm not the guy that will be like,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: for example, let's see two weeks from now, you guys
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: are hanging out with him, and I feel offended of that.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Most guys that feel like that there are pussies because
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: they get they get they get to they get too
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: quick on a on the like, oh I thought we
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: were cool, but you're hanging and they go on line
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: and like, fuck those guys. I don't do that. I like,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: I just don't do that. And when someone is talking
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: shit to me or like saying something about me, I'm
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: just like, cool dude. But I guarantee you this. If
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: we're in a clothes room and you took ship that close,
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna fight you. I don't care who
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: you are, what you do. But also, in the other hand,
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I've been cool to everybody. I'm not trying to start
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: nothing with no one. But if you took shit and
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: we're close enough, we're going.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: But if you so.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Social media is one thing, but Sean himself, how when
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: he's your opponent that you're gonna be going up against
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and he's he's saying some nasty things, how do you
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: compartmentalize that when you're going in the octagon with him?
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: I really ignore it all. I really don't. You will
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: never see him engaging with him online. I never reply
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: hit and there. I would throw a nice fucking body shirt.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: But I don't have time, Like I got cool things
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: to do, bro, Like I got a lot of fun
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: things around my life that I just don't have the
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: time to engage with anybody. And then when it's five time,
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter what you say, I want to kill your
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: regardless if you were nice, if you were a bad guy,
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter to me.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you ever feel the noise, like the external stuff,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: like when you are the underdog or like with Sean
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: winning the belt, it's gonna be the sugar air and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: everything else and you're the first title defense. Do you
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: ever hear any of that noise or feel any of that?
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: I try my best to say away from the nose,
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: aways from the cloud, because all this is temporary. All
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: these one day will be gone. There will be new guys,
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: new fighters, new champions. So I do my best and
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: enjoy the moment and making sure I invest my money right.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: The rest it will just pass by, like a few
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: years from now will be nice and hour.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: It seems like you got your head on straight, like
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: understanding that just because this is your time now, doesn't
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: mean in ten fifteen years, like unless you make a
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: big dan, you'll be essentially forgotten, like we all are
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: in our sport. How do you like being present? Is
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: that something you've always had the ability to possess or
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: is that something you've learned with success and failures?
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: A little bit of both. I was I wasn't the
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: guy that was too attached to like, oh that's pretty
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: for the club and that's pretty like to hung out
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: with these guys. Like somehow, for some reason, the cool
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: guys always called me out, he come join the group
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: or come to this party, come to And I also
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: grew up with other guys that were like willing to
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: do anything to be part of that. And I'm like,
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: that's probably the reason you will never be part of that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: And to me, it's just I just think like this,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: I want to win because I feel I'm a winner,
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: and I want to make a chill load of money
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: because I want to invest it, and then after that
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: I want to kick it. I I probably would do
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: something like this, join you guys, but like I'm not
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the boys. I'm not too worried about like I mean,
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: it's the word is fucking now with all the fame
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: and weird TikTok and everything is illegal and fuck that.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: So I'm not I'm not really trying to be part
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: of that group. I'm trying to be more in this group.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how's your how's your family feeling? When it becomes
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the weak of the fight.
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  Speaker 5: They're nervous, man, there, I can feel it, but usually
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: it is what it is. You get into a fist fight, dude.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: You know, the family get nervous. But by now they're
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: kind of experience with it. They know how to handle it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: But I get it. It's still hard for them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's for the belt.
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  Speaker 5: It's big, bro, it's big. And my kids are excited,
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: My wife is excited, my my family from sometimes they
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: don't really travel for a fight because it's expensive. This time, family,
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: the whole fi. You should have a good crowd, is
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I believe if I will have a crazy crowd, dude,
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: like just in immediate forty eight credentials that never happened
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: in the past. So it's gonna be a big, a
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: big day. It's gonna be a big day.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: How many kids you got? It?
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Had three, three boys, girls, boy in the middle of
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: two girls and decide two girls.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: We got a girl dad on our hands. Folks, before
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: having kids the mindset of the brain and everything, and
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: then now, like, is there a different feeling going into
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: the octagon. I know you flip the switch, but knowing that, like, hey,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I got kids, that I worry about my head and
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: making sure everything's all good, I never crossed your mind.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: I feel like having kids, what really what brought me
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: to where I am today? Like I feel if I
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have kids, I would probably be drinking beer right
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: now and smoking cigarettes. But like, yeah, but like my
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: kids really brought me. Sometimes they say the kid came
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: with the bread underneath the arm. I feel they, especially
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: my daughter, my first daughder, I feel when I had
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: heard my whole life is I just put my head
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: down and just work until today. I don't want left,
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: I don't want right. I don't lose focus. It's just
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: I just feel like it's hard to let down your kid.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: You don't want to be a loser. When you have kids,
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: you gonna be a loser on your own and no
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: one will say nothing. But I don't want my kids
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: to have a sh did that or a loser that.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: So I believe. That's really my That is my main reason.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: That's that's my real reason why they do things.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Man, We appreciate you. Do you have any other got
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: one more?
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: I love ye? Yeah?
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: We actually we have this one as well if you
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: want that, if you if you want.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: To, well that my song. I got upset.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: That's all right.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is dope. Thank you guys, You're very welcome.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: The daughters are the daughters, I'm sure are ranked ahead
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: of your son like he's got he's Yeah, it.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Looks solid on you, b Yeah.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: With with the hair obviously, last time I saw you,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: you have the shaved head, clean cut. We keeping like
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: this for the fight.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go just like that.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Bro. Really, I'm not gonna break it, not gonna.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: Do nothing you can. Yeah, I'm gonna go loose in there.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got a guy with the hair kind of
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: all over the place. It gives that like psychotic look
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that you kind of want.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I look crazy with my hair, his old weird
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: going and all that.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hypothetical. Sean walks in here right now, How do
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: you how are you operating? Just kind of keep yourself.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: I will have sent up just in case you will
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: do what I will have stunned up case bringing Sean.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: You gotta make sure you can't slipping.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: You something something. You know what happened with Leonelle was
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: and mysveield. Leonelle was just walk to misfield thinking that
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: when I give it, give you to a hug. He
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: went boom.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: That's not happening to you, dude. You're watching history making
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: sure you don't repeat it.
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't like that type of history of
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: my end. Yeah that's what if I have.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Due Yeah, moving that thing around.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: Some put like coins on my socks on the street fights, and.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Would that be your move? You got to get the
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: coins in.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: The socks, like fifty cents if you if.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: You knew the next day you're about to get in
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: the street fight, like you knew, like I'm going after
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: this cat right here.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: I make sure I have I don't have big shoes,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: like like those barefoot shoes. Yeah, I will have something
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: like that. I will make sure you have a short shortage, not.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Tea any kind of weapon close by.
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: I'm not a big weapon guy, but if I see balls,
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: I might fucking throw it.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like if you're at a bar and someone's
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: talking ship, you go to the bathroom real quick, take
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: your sock off.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, probably just suck you're right there. Yeah, like sometimes
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: you gotta just go quick. Do you feel the runner?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I know we're running at a time, But if you
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: when you were fighting all the time as a kid,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: when at one point where you're like, oh, I.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: Could do this professionally, I didn't know. One of my
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: my neighbor which is still my friend today, he was
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: trying you and he was like a white belt with
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: forest stripes. Back then, if you have forest stripes and
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: a wie beal, you were already a fucking killer because
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: you youtu was was really big. But also we're like
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: twenty blue belts in the whole country, fifteen purple belts,
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: no brown belts, and just one black belt. So back then,
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: if you have a blue belt, dude, you were a weapon.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: And this guy went like, dude, stop getting in trouble.
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: Dude.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: You've been in yel like three times already for no reason.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: Stop drinking a business. Stupid. Also, I grew up trying
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: to act like I was part of the Jackas movie,
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: so I we will film myself and stupid shit. I
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: hope we could find those biders because I have some
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: crazy footage to there, but whatever, I don't have that.
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: My homemaie game is like, yo, dude, come with me.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: One day, it was a Thursday and it's like, I'm like,
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: how much is the month for It's like, no, you
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: do the first the first free class and see if
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: you're like, say sixty bucks. I'm like that, can you
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: give me sixty give me a check for sixty bucks?
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: I get there, give you a check for the whole month.
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: He was like, do you You probably won't come back anymore.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: I never stopped coming until today. I turned my whole
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: life that When I started training there, slowly started hanging
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: out with my friends. They were like, dude, what the
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: fuck we have a huge party to and I was like, no, doe,
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: I got your you tomorrow. They used to call me
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: pussy gay everything. I was like, dude, this is cool
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: because when I find you, I was like, oh my god,
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: I can be something with this. And then I started
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: watching UFC Strike. I was like, I'm going to fucking
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: do something. And people used to laugh about me back
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: in the day because I was a crazy domas.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: What was the first time he came to the States.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: First time I came as a kid with my dad
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: when I didn't get in trouble when you're in school.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: So he gave me like as a present, he sent
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: me to a cruise with my family, with the wealthy
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: side of the family, Disney Cruise. Yeah, and I thought
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: I was fucking out. I was the coolest man on earth.
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: But I didn't speak in the English, so I was
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: just like like speaking in Spanish to people were like, huh,
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: but like that was my first time, but I don't.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: I don't really have many memories. I was like ten
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: years old, so I don't really remember much. And then
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: my actual first time was when I came for training.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: I left, uh, I was already married and I had
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: a kid, and then us sent me to a Bukurkee
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: to train for to like the tryouts before the Ultimate Fighter.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: And that was it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: No, that's awesome.
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: We appreciate you, man, Thank you guys. Yeah you guys.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Good luck man, thank you, appreciate it for you, Thank
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: you bro.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: That for the hard boy. Absolutely