Latest / Bussin' With The Boys / Michael Chandler
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now y'all really affed up, because now I got even
- 0:02Speaker 1: more confidence stepping into that, Like, I will knock out
- 0:05Speaker 1: Dustin Poortier, I will knock out Justin Gaegee, Charles Olivera,
- 0:08Speaker 1: I will knock out Charles. I will knock out any
- 0:11Speaker 1: of these guys in the first or second round. And
- 0:12Speaker 1: I will capture UFC Gold probably either my next fight
- 0:15Speaker 1: or the fight after Dide.
- 0:38Speaker 2: She's like, she needle cop everything. What happened up the coffee?
- 0:44Speaker 3: Yeah, don't come on the bus without coffees?
- 0:48Speaker 2: You got yours? Did you see it right? You got yours?
- 0:52Speaker 2: That tape, No, this is yours.
- 0:55Speaker 4: He just dropped his dry to do it for the
- 0:57Speaker 4: brand for under the Hood.
- 1:00Speaker 5: I said the coffee on top of yours. I was like,
- 1:02Speaker 5: I literally said, if I lose one, I put I
- 1:05Speaker 5: put yours on top of mine. And I was like,
- 1:08Speaker 5: because if I lose one. While trying to record the boy,
- 1:12Speaker 5: so I switched. I was like, it's got a bigger
- 1:14Speaker 5: base on the bony. So I sat, mon, that would
- 1:16Speaker 5: be good. I'm trying to come in the doors open
- 1:18Speaker 5: and I was like, and I'm like moving and I'm just.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Like I saw.
- 1:27Speaker 6: It really is like like this, and then jagre Gart's
- 1:36Speaker 6: photo of us holding the hand.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Why is your hand up so small? I don't know.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Oh, dude, you can have this.
- 1:48Speaker 2: This is five shots in it. That's that's that's the
- 1:52Speaker 2: crazy thing.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Like serious, I've been doing decat jet like serious, dude,
- 1:57Speaker 5: five shots shots.
- 1:59Speaker 2: I got six this morning.
- 2:01Speaker 1: But I uh, I woke up at two twenty seven
- 2:07Speaker 1: every night the last two nights.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's only two nights every night, two nights,
- 2:11Speaker 2: but and I just can't really fall back. I'm like
- 2:13Speaker 2: laying there and freaking just that would get hit the
- 2:16Speaker 2: dome a bunch. It's gotta be like a whole well
- 2:19Speaker 2: funny rough hit very much. It hit zero. That's first,
- 2:23Speaker 2: one of the first times in my career. Really, this
- 2:26Speaker 2: is the best. It was the best case scenario I have.
- 2:29Speaker 5: This.
- 2:29Speaker 6: I have the same where I run ray up it
- 2:30Speaker 6: during the week because I have a podcast by knee
- 2:33Speaker 6: and stuff.
- 2:33Speaker 2: I spent six hours of damn just on my knee. Yeah.
- 2:36Speaker 3: So during during the weekends, it's like I'm with my kids,
- 2:38Speaker 3: I'm not doing nothing.
- 2:39Speaker 2: So I was in bed at that night, like at
- 2:40Speaker 2: nine o'clock.
- 2:41Speaker 3: I woke up to Will's tweet about you, I saw everything, dude,
- 2:45Speaker 3: so happy for you.
- 2:46Speaker 2: So you're calling out people.
- 2:48Speaker 5: I have a zoom I have a zoom call that
- 2:50Speaker 5: gift ahead it was from when he just won.
- 2:52Speaker 2: I was like, oh, they already got the gift roll. Yeah,
- 2:54Speaker 2: I got a zoom.
- 2:54Speaker 4: Call with Rick Flair later. Do you really congratulate me?
- 2:57Speaker 4: That's let's go legend. Are you gonna wear a Rolex?
- 3:02Speaker 4: Rolex wearing is a decaf? Yeah, oh, I decaf Americano.
- 3:08Speaker 4: I thought that's what you're on. It's not in the morning, Will,
- 3:10Speaker 4: that's but I thought that's.
- 3:11Speaker 2: What you're on. Ship changes if it's sucking tune the afternoon.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I had a decaf in mind too. What's it? I said,
- 3:17Speaker 2: I had a deca min Hey, I'll switch you. You're
- 3:21Speaker 2: gonna have this one? No, no, no no, I'm just like
- 3:23Speaker 2: you want you and the other one. Will I like
- 3:25Speaker 2: to be than anything. He gets off to it. I
- 3:27Speaker 2: don't know what it is. It's part of the growth
- 3:29Speaker 2: we both. I think we both have a nice little
- 3:31Speaker 2: feel for it. For sure.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Will likes taking it. I like giving it. It's a
- 3:34Speaker 3: great relationship. No, no pause, no pause, I'll take it.
- 3:38Speaker 5: Hey, I was on we should probably be careful though.
- 3:41Speaker 5: We've been talking about Dick and we have have We've.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Had some questionable ship we have people are really start.
- 3:46Speaker 3: We've been pumping out, were pumping out pots.
- 3:49Speaker 2: You wear those you know where I like.
- 3:52Speaker 5: To wear it sometimes just because I like the Uh
- 3:54Speaker 5: you think you're more like the sound if you guys like.
- 3:56Speaker 3: Him put them off like the I was on Artist's podcast, yes,
- 4:00Speaker 3: and he never played musical headsets to hang on.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Hang on minute. This podcast is brought to you by
- 4:04Speaker 2: Barstool Sports. Oh yeah, there we go. Now we're get
- 4:06Speaker 2: no again. That's it. Yeah, that's it. That's unbelievable. I
- 4:09Speaker 2: got the I got the boys shirt on. But a
- 4:10Speaker 2: freaking look at that. Yeah, I don't know, Like he's
- 4:13Speaker 2: taking a photo of that right now. That's wild, dude,
- 4:19Speaker 2: what you were hearing?
- 4:19Speaker 5: Now? He was ago maybe twenty. I was on the
- 4:22Speaker 5: phone with him when he pulled in.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Listen, chan never later, right, that's a rule in our household,
- 4:29Speaker 2: and I knew that.
- 4:30Speaker 5: That is why I called you. I was like, I
- 4:31Speaker 5: know he's probably sitting on the bus right now.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Yeah, the ones are never on time. That's that's not
- 4:36Speaker 3: spoken rule in the family for sure.
- 4:37Speaker 2: That's crazy.
- 4:40Speaker 5: This yes, dude, whatever you want to just take like
- 4:46Speaker 5: it really doesn't matter to me.
- 4:47Speaker 2: I kind of like the fight that will share it. Okay,
- 4:52Speaker 2: you do it.
- 4:52Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, this is I I first off being a
- 4:56Speaker 3: guest before, but also being a friend watching you go
- 4:59Speaker 3: through the experience.
- 5:00Speaker 2: You damn being able to watch the vologs on YouTube.
- 5:03Speaker 3: You your situation coming over from Bellator like they and
- 5:06Speaker 3: then you seek to throw this kids you sink at
- 5:08Speaker 3: you if you come from somebody else, somewhere else. They're
- 5:10Speaker 3: basically saying, fuck this guy. Let's see if you can
- 5:12Speaker 3: sink or swim. Yeah, a lot of swimming. A lot
- 5:15Speaker 3: of swimming happened on Saturday.
- 5:16Speaker 1: A lot of swim I mean, yeah, there was. It
- 5:18Speaker 1: was a perfect storm. I think, uh because because I
- 5:20Speaker 1: asked for it as well. I mean, I know, man,
- 5:22Speaker 1: I'm not I'm no spring chicken.
- 5:24Speaker 2: I know, I know.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I I mean, I still got five years left if
- 5:26Speaker 1: I want to, and I didn't want to putts around
- 5:28Speaker 1: the top fifteen. Honestly, it's just like any It's just
- 5:31Speaker 1: like any day, like you got your teams off, you
- 5:33Speaker 1: somehow lose to a horrible team, right, you can go
- 5:35Speaker 1: out there slip on a banana peel, Top fifteen, top
- 5:38Speaker 1: twenty guy, I might as well go out there and
- 5:40Speaker 1: fight the top five guy and right away and put
- 5:41Speaker 1: yourself in the mix, which I did, which is what
- 5:43Speaker 1: it did.
- 5:43Speaker 5: So that's why I wandered right away. So yeah, dude,
- 5:45Speaker 5: I'm so hype man. Like I texted you this too.
- 5:47Speaker 5: I was like, I hadn't been that nervous since watching
- 5:49Speaker 5: Cody wrestle. Yeah, you know when you're watching those one
- 5:52Speaker 5: on ones and you're watching like your brother, your boy,
- 5:54Speaker 5: and they put in a lot of work and you're
- 5:55Speaker 5: just sitting there.
- 5:56Speaker 2: I was like, I looked at Charle and I was like,
- 5:57Speaker 2: I was like, yo, I'm nervous about this.
- 6:00Speaker 1: That's the That's the most beautiful thing about this, is
- 6:02Speaker 1: like because I'm the same way when I watch my
- 6:04Speaker 1: friends fight, I'm nervous as heck. But with me, I
- 6:07Speaker 1: was just like that this was a different experience completely.
- 6:10Speaker 1: This This was the most confident, most not worried about
- 6:14Speaker 1: anything of my entire twelve really, I don't know.
- 6:19Speaker 2: It was the biggest stage of all time.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Co main event on Economer Gregor pay per view, my
- 6:23Speaker 1: first fight in the UFC fighting a killer and Dan Hooker.
- 6:26Speaker 1: I don't know, honestly, I just say, like I said
- 6:28Speaker 1: in the post fight interview, like all roads have led
- 6:30Speaker 1: to this. I just feel like it was. It was
- 6:32Speaker 1: God's timing. It was it was the ups and the downs,
- 6:36Speaker 1: it was the battle tested, battle hardened veteran, Like I mean,
- 6:39Speaker 1: I've been doing this forever, and I also had nothing
- 6:43Speaker 1: to lose. I really did. Like truthfully, if I went
- 6:45Speaker 1: out there, fell flat on my face, got cut by
- 6:47Speaker 1: the UFC, I'd be one hundred percent fine with myself.
- 6:50Speaker 1: My God still loves me, my family still loves me,
- 6:51Speaker 1: and I still love me. I'm at that point in
- 6:53Speaker 1: my life. Turns out knocked him out in the first round,
- 6:56Speaker 1: so we might as well take this thing straight to
- 6:57Speaker 1: the gold. But yeah, but it's like I'm just I
- 7:01Speaker 1: feel like every every road has led me to this,
- 7:03Speaker 1: And it's almost like when you when you make a decision,
- 7:06Speaker 1: because I mean, I made a tough decision because I
- 7:08Speaker 1: had everything I ever needed in Belatour. They were gonna
- 7:10Speaker 1: pay me well for the rest of my career. I
- 7:12Speaker 1: was gonna have easier fights, I was gonna have an
- 7:14Speaker 1: easier path to to get the title back I was
- 7:16Speaker 1: gonna be the poster boy, the face of belatour. I
- 7:20Speaker 1: let got rid of all of that certainty and just
- 7:23Speaker 1: took the uncertain route bet on myself, took a leap
- 7:26Speaker 1: of faith. So it was also, I think, just the
- 7:28Speaker 1: calm of like I don't think I would have been
- 7:30Speaker 1: led in this direction or this door would not have
- 7:32Speaker 1: been opened and stayed open to sign with the UFC
- 7:36Speaker 1: had it not been the right decision.
- 7:37Speaker 3: So felt confident. Yeah, and it worked. The humility is unbelievable.
- 7:42Speaker 3: You sit here and say you got rid of everything
- 7:44Speaker 3: to take it, take a leap of faith. That's a
- 7:46Speaker 3: that's a very impressive thing.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Take me through. Like, uh, just I want to we obviously.
- 7:49Speaker 3: Go to go through all of it, but like getting
- 7:52Speaker 3: the call, what what what was a factor for you
- 7:54Speaker 3: to change to go over because it wasn't just like
- 7:56Speaker 3: well fuck this, I want to go yeah UFC, Like
- 7:59Speaker 3: like what transition and what made the transition happen?
- 8:02Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you just from a philosophical standpoint, like
- 8:06Speaker 1: I realized. I mean, I've had a great career, loved
- 8:08Speaker 1: it in Beltur, made a great living, But I truly
- 8:11Speaker 1: I think about that like forty.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Year old Michael. Think about that forty year old me.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Will I be able to sleep at night knowing that
- 8:20Speaker 1: I never tested myself in the UFC. Will that freaking
- 8:23Speaker 1: pillow I'm lay my head on feel like a forty
- 8:25Speaker 1: pound rough sandpaper cinder block for the rest of my life.
- 8:29Speaker 2: That's a long time.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, you know, it's a long time to stew
- 8:34Speaker 1: in the regret of maybe I didn't make the right decision.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Now if I go to the if I went to
- 8:40Speaker 1: the UFC fell flaut of my face, that would be better.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Than never going and always wondering, you know.
- 8:47Speaker 1: So I just always thought about that and then decided
- 8:50Speaker 1: to take a chance fight out my contract, which was
- 8:53Speaker 1: probably the most stressful scary scenario of my entire life
- 8:56Speaker 1: because it was a during a worldwide pandemic.
- 8:58Speaker 2: So I wasn't sure if I was ever going to
- 8:59Speaker 2: test positive for COVID.
- 9:00Speaker 1: Get talking about when you fought Henderson, Yeah, when I
- 9:02Speaker 1: fought Henderson on the last fight of a belatar contract belt, Yeah,
- 9:06Speaker 1: and Belatore was sitting on their hands. They didn't throw
- 9:08Speaker 1: a fight for five months, while the UFC only took
- 9:10Speaker 1: five weeks off, And so I I knew that too.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I was just like, man, the UFC is doing it right.
- 9:16Speaker 1: The UFC is is taking over and going and that
- 9:19Speaker 1: was that was known worldwide Anywayvan.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of sports that happened. If UFC didn't
- 9:24Speaker 2: do what they did.
- 9:25Speaker 3: When you see it and bought bought an island and
- 9:28Speaker 3: did that ship, It's like you look at the NFL,
- 9:30Speaker 3: we were we were worried about playing.
- 9:31Speaker 2: It's like, oh, we've got to play, like I think
- 9:33Speaker 2: even the NFL, the NBA figures it out, and it's
- 9:35Speaker 2: like we have to figure out.
- 9:37Speaker 3: If the UFC didn't figure it out that fast, I'm
- 9:39Speaker 3: not sure we have the sports we had this year
- 9:41Speaker 3: for sure, Like and the UFC had the best year
- 9:44Speaker 3: of their entire existence this year because every single sports
- 9:48Speaker 3: eyeball was on the UFC on set of times and the.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Only thing going on.
- 9:53Speaker 3: But also this is the situation if you do the
- 9:55Speaker 3: guy went out and got like he basically bought an arena,
- 9:58Speaker 3: but the arena.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Is an eye built. They built the arena. Isn't that
- 10:01Speaker 2: just wild?
- 10:02Speaker 3: It was like in no time, I've been building a
- 10:04Speaker 3: house for eighteen months.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Not to mention the millions of dollars that they pumped into.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I mean, you're there, like people are wearing hazmat suits,
- 10:14Speaker 1: non like face masks, all the staff everything, It's.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Exactly what it looks like.
- 10:19Speaker 1: They spent all that money doing that, the testing, the bubble,
- 10:22Speaker 1: they basically rented out. They basically rented out this hotel
- 10:25Speaker 1: in Vegas for all of us to quarantine before we fly.
- 10:27Speaker 1: They rented out the w Abu Dhabi on Yas Island,
- 10:31Speaker 1: so that's just a ton of expenses. So all of
- 10:34Speaker 1: that was going on, and I decided to you know,
- 10:36Speaker 1: obviously fight out the contract, which was crazy, scary, get
- 10:39Speaker 1: the first round knockout, which is perfect. Within two minutes,
- 10:42Speaker 1: the UFC matchmakers are texting my manager like hey, we're interested. Yes,
- 10:47Speaker 1: But I was still under an exclusive negotiation period, so
- 10:50Speaker 1: it was like, hey, excited to hear that. We'll talk
- 10:52Speaker 1: to you in two weeks or three weeks whenever. Exclusive negotiations.
- 10:55Speaker 3: So I was a restricted free agent in your guys'
- 10:57Speaker 3: world right then, And as soon as my time was up,
- 11:01Speaker 3: I went.
- 11:02Speaker 2: I flew to Vegas. Man.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I flew to Vegas without even having a meeting scheduled.
- 11:07Speaker 1: I willed it into existence. That's awesome. I flew there
- 11:10Speaker 1: and just because my manager lives out there, and I said,
- 11:13Speaker 1: screw this, man, I can't sit here anymore on my hands.
- 11:16Speaker 1: As if this, as if this is just going to
- 11:18Speaker 1: take care of itself, I'm rolling out there, hopped on
- 11:20Speaker 1: a plane, flew out there, no meeting scheduled, ended up
- 11:22Speaker 1: getting a meeting scheduled the next day.
- 11:24Speaker 2: So you finished, you finished this fight?
- 11:25Speaker 3: How long between finishing that that knockout and jumping on
- 11:29Speaker 3: a plane to Vegas?
- 11:29Speaker 2: August sixth? August sixth, I got the knockout.
- 11:32Speaker 1: There was this fifteen day exclusive negotiation period, So now
- 11:35Speaker 1: you're into the first week of September. Literally the day
- 11:39Speaker 1: after my negotiation period was over, I flew to Vegas. Wow,
- 11:42Speaker 1: because it like it was nothing else going on with
- 11:43Speaker 1: the Uxcy No, nothing, hadn't even talked.
- 11:45Speaker 3: You just knew that they were excited to talk probably
- 11:47Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks. Dana wasn't even Dana wasn't
- 11:49Speaker 3: even in town, I don't think. So I sit with
- 11:52Speaker 3: Hunter Campbell, who's like the number one in command after
- 11:55Speaker 3: after Dana, have a great meeting with him. Five minutes
- 11:58Speaker 3: after the meeting, he texts me and said, Hey, Dane,
- 12:01Speaker 3: want's talking you.
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- 12:07Speaker 3: When I was growing up and I wanted to get
- 12:09Speaker 3: a hard little workout and I want to go for
- 12:10Speaker 3: it was always the jog that was the hardest, right
- 12:13Speaker 3: when we used to have the chords growing up, I'd
- 12:15Speaker 3: run and I'd hit the thing and I'd fly everywhere,
- 12:18Speaker 3: and that's flopping and I'm still kind of trying to run,
- 12:19Speaker 3: but I'm chripping over the chords now putting in the
- 12:22Speaker 3: back of my head, and if I'm getting a good
- 12:23Speaker 3: work at it, we're talking an hour and a half,
- 12:25Speaker 3: two hour workout.
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- 12:54Speaker 3: your run, your height, your bar lifting, any of that,
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- 12:58Speaker 3: They're feeling great for hours on end. I put him
- 13:01Speaker 3: in Now. Personally, I'm jogging, I'm feeling good. I'm getting
- 13:04Speaker 3: the old ACL back and right. And what happens. A
- 13:06Speaker 3: couple hours go by and nothing in my body might hurt,
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- 14:23Speaker 3: and I kind of talked about.
- 14:25Speaker 2: Yeah on the pod that you that you was a boost. Yeah,
- 14:27Speaker 2: and it was just like a fight.
- 14:30Speaker 1: No for good reason, for good reason, you know, and
- 14:33Speaker 1: uh and we just have this great conversation and uh.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Well you me in the group chat.
- 14:41Speaker 5: In the group chat, I was giving him a certain
- 14:44Speaker 5: clip or anything you want to like. Boosy's like, you know,
- 14:46Speaker 5: we had a couple of conversations. I don't necessarily know
- 14:48Speaker 5: if I want everybody the hear. Yeah, I was like
- 14:50Speaker 5: Ibary should have said that, But anyways, I had to
- 14:52Speaker 5: throw his stones on the table basically, and before his win.
- 14:54Speaker 5: I'm sure you talk about it now, but before you're
- 14:57Speaker 5: probably like, you know, I don't want to stick my
- 14:58Speaker 5: head out far to.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Me, and you're like, I'm arrogant. No, Now we're in
- 15:02Speaker 2: a better spot. Yeah, I had this great conversation.
- 15:04Speaker 1: He ends up hanging up on literally pretty much hanging
- 15:06Speaker 1: up on me, calling Hunter saying, give this guy whatever
- 15:09Speaker 1: the f we got to give him so that no
- 15:10Speaker 1: one else matches, and the rest is history. Who signed
- 15:14Speaker 1: that He He announced it on Sports Center in September
- 15:16Speaker 1: nineteenth or something, and then had the October fight where
- 15:21Speaker 1: I didn't really fight, I just waited in and then
- 15:23Speaker 1: the rest is history.
- 15:25Speaker 5: Dude, I'm just so I'm so excited for you, Like,
- 15:29Speaker 5: do you feel like that the UFC even calls or
- 15:32Speaker 5: if you lose to Henderson, do you feel like you
- 15:34Speaker 5: even get a call from the UFC now, or do
- 15:36Speaker 5: you feel like you're kind of in more of a
- 15:38Speaker 5: you know, not downward spiral.
- 15:40Speaker 2: But I gotta win the next fighter. I could be
- 15:41Speaker 2: done hundred percent.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I mean even that that was also kind of the
- 15:45Speaker 1: deciding factor too, where he's like, man, if this is
- 15:47Speaker 1: supposed to happen, it's supposed to happen. If I go
- 15:49Speaker 1: out there and lose to Benson Henderson, maybe I'm just
- 15:51Speaker 1: not UFC caliber, right, or even if I have a
- 15:53Speaker 1: hard fight against Duston or Benson Henderson, it's it's still
- 15:58Speaker 1: the UFC.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Is not calling like that and wanting to, you know,
- 16:01Speaker 2: sign me that bad.
- 16:02Speaker 1: But getting the first round knockout, Okay, this guy still
- 16:04Speaker 1: got it power in his hands.
- 16:05Speaker 2: And you know, dude, a lot of.
- 16:08Speaker 5: A lot of respect to you too, just because just
- 16:11Speaker 5: sitting back and watching and you know, Taylor was alluding
- 16:15Speaker 5: to it earlier. The humility you have with it and
- 16:18Speaker 5: enough confidence in yourself to constantly post, not that social
- 16:23Speaker 5: media and all that stuff like plays such a huge
- 16:26Speaker 5: factor into looking into it from a pality standpoint.
- 16:29Speaker 2: It definitely does, though.
- 16:29Speaker 5: It's like putting yourself out there and constantly showing and
- 16:33Speaker 5: and building this so called persona to where the fight
- 16:36Speaker 5: you do have even myself personally, You're you're wanting to
- 16:39Speaker 5: know if he's were if like is he gonna put
- 16:43Speaker 5: his money or money where.
- 16:44Speaker 2: His mouth is? It's the most you're ready to see you.
- 16:46Speaker 5: Yeah, you want to see you show up, Like is
- 16:48Speaker 5: he really about what he's always constantly putting out there?
- 16:51Speaker 5: Not that you're putting anything out there in arrogance, but
- 16:53Speaker 5: I'm I'm thinking of it from from my own perspective. Now,
- 16:56Speaker 5: granted we play a team sport, we're part of something
- 16:58Speaker 5: that's not an individual. So you sit there and think, like,
- 17:01Speaker 5: if I'm sitting here doing all this stuff, you're kind
- 17:03Speaker 5: of like the moment you mess up or lose or anything, like,
- 17:06Speaker 5: you're you're out there for everybody to make fun of
- 17:09Speaker 5: them and everything.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Just look at McGregor, what happened to him the way
- 17:13Speaker 3: he was living his life, I mean four or five
- 17:15Speaker 3: years ago.
- 17:16Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a huge McGregor fan.
- 17:18Speaker 3: I love the cockiness, the arrogance, but like from a
- 17:21Speaker 3: sustainable way to approach your career, that's a high peak
- 17:25Speaker 3: and valley situation.
- 17:26Speaker 2: Yeah, it's with the way you do it is a
- 17:29Speaker 2: high throw to fall from.
- 17:30Speaker 3: But if he were to keep that same intensity the
- 17:33Speaker 3: whole time, maybe not branch off and do the lique,
- 17:35Speaker 3: he might have as much money. But like, I'm sure
- 17:37Speaker 3: he could have lasted a lot longer than it seems
- 17:40Speaker 3: like he's lasting at this point. Yeah, with you your approach,
- 17:42Speaker 3: it's I mean, you like, find a Hawaii baby, nice soul,
- 17:45Speaker 3: take off your cruiser at thirty thousand feet, and it's
- 17:49Speaker 3: it's a consistent way to approach your career because you
- 17:52Speaker 3: put yourself out there enough to make it interesting, because
- 17:55Speaker 3: you have to have a personality to sell yourself as
- 17:56Speaker 3: an individual. You have you watch the guy who doesn't
- 17:58Speaker 3: say anything and he's just like that rushing from Rocky
- 18:01Speaker 3: just like dah, and that's it, you know, I mean,
- 18:04Speaker 3: there's something to look at, but really it's like, Okay,
- 18:06Speaker 3: that guy who's the guy who's making a lot of noise.
- 18:08Speaker 2: You're out there, you put the work in.
- 18:10Speaker 3: You could see it physically, you could see it emotionally
- 18:12Speaker 3: and spiritually, but like you show it so often.
- 18:14Speaker 2: It's like how do you not how do you not
- 18:16Speaker 2: root for a guy?
- 18:17Speaker 5: Right? Especially when especially because it differs with like your
- 18:20Speaker 5: style and like a McGregor sall, you're not like a
- 18:22Speaker 5: trash talk You're you're showing the grind. You're showing like
- 18:25Speaker 5: the like you were saying on the last pot, like
- 18:27Speaker 5: the bringing the like.
- 18:28Speaker 2: A good guy perspective to it all.
- 18:30Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just I just get fired up
- 18:32Speaker 1: about I appreciate it, and I think, uh, I mean yeah,
- 18:34Speaker 1: I mean not to talk about me too much, but like, well.
- 18:37Speaker 2: This is a podcast. I guess.
- 18:40Speaker 3: We want Actually we'll go back to you know when
- 18:43Speaker 3: I have my mindset coach here on the bus with
- 18:45Speaker 3: me Jim Hensel, and it's all about reverse engineering and
- 18:48Speaker 3: deconstructing who is Michael Chandler mentally, physically, spiritually.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Who am I? And why am I the way I am?
- 18:55Speaker 2: How do I tick right?
- 18:56Speaker 1: And and we what we came up with was that
- 19:00Speaker 1: me being able to live on both ends of the spectrum,
- 19:03Speaker 1: being extremely joyful and happy and encouraging and loving and
- 19:11Speaker 1: just that guy, but then on the other side being
- 19:16Speaker 1: a ridiculously nasty, tenacious individual. And somewhere in between is
- 19:22Speaker 1: that happy medium that I guess is what people are drawn.
- 19:27Speaker 2: To, or what my wife was drawn to, or what my.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Friends were drawn to, right, And it's like that's why
- 19:33Speaker 1: I came up with this kind of moniker of like
- 19:34Speaker 1: stay dangerous, because if you want to get anything in life,
- 19:39Speaker 1: you can be nice and full of character, full of
- 19:41Speaker 1: integrity and happy and joyful, but you got to live
- 19:44Speaker 1: with a little bit of danger.
- 19:46Speaker 2: You got to be a little bit dangerous. You know.
- 19:48Speaker 1: You look at it from the Christian perspective, and people
- 19:51Speaker 1: are like, well, you you probably shouldn't fight people because
- 19:53Speaker 1: it didn't Jesus. Turn the other cheek. I'm like, yeah,
- 19:55Speaker 1: but Jesus was also a very dangerous person.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Jesus might have k not he was.
- 20:00Speaker 1: But like I mean Gandhi, I mean Gandhi Mohammad, like
- 20:04Speaker 1: any of these different like deities or like people that
- 20:08Speaker 1: are looked up to, like they they may live with
- 20:10Speaker 1: this extreme humility or or wisdom, right, but there was
- 20:14Speaker 1: also also this this aspect of dangerousness, you know, just
- 20:18Speaker 1: pursuits there's a scary amount of confidence slash dangerousness about them,
- 20:25Speaker 1: you know. So I've just always kind of been like that.
- 20:29Speaker 1: I was a you know, freaking just a mental midget
- 20:32Speaker 1: for many, many years. A lot of it had to
- 20:33Speaker 1: do with my upbringing small guy from a small town,
- 20:36Speaker 1: taught to be very small things. And then you know,
- 20:38Speaker 1: just realizing that, you know, eventually you got to grow
- 20:41Speaker 1: up and realize that God's best for you is uh,
- 20:45Speaker 1: maybe it's ridiculously successful, and be okay.
- 20:48Speaker 5: With that and beyond that superficial like that shallowness that
- 20:51Speaker 5: you probably see the world. That's because when you're like
- 20:53Speaker 5: a small town or I mean, we all come from
- 20:55Speaker 5: small places anyway, wherever you start, and when you start
- 20:57Speaker 5: getting into those bigger waters a lot of different perspectives,
- 21:00Speaker 5: you're learning a lot of new things. You get a
- 21:02Speaker 5: little bit more insecure because you're not sure how to
- 21:03Speaker 5: take it on.
- 21:04Speaker 2: And exactly that's self.
- 21:05Speaker 3: Awareness, like sometimes your integrity is challenged. Should I act
- 21:08Speaker 3: like this? Should act like that? It's understanding to.
- 21:10Speaker 5: Your true self right, and then realizing like in the
- 21:12Speaker 5: grand scheme of things, like it doesn't really matter as
- 21:15Speaker 5: much as you're thinking it matters, just like letting go
- 21:18Speaker 5: and being able to show that tenacious, enjoyful, encouraging person
- 21:22Speaker 5: and being able to put it into one and not
- 21:23Speaker 5: caring all the opinions that come with it.
- 21:25Speaker 1: And I turned a corner two when when I just
- 21:28Speaker 1: started thinking about the word authenticity, you know, and that's
- 21:30Speaker 1: what I worked a lot with Jim on too, is
- 21:33Speaker 1: the amount of times that we are inauthentic in a day,
- 21:37Speaker 1: if if we aren't true to ourselves. And it's not
- 21:39Speaker 1: and it's not in a in a in a nefarious
- 21:43Speaker 1: kind of way. You're not being you're not being a
- 21:45Speaker 1: liar or or trying to deceive people. You just like
- 21:48Speaker 1: in a conversation, I act inauthentic because of my insecurities
- 21:52Speaker 1: or because of the way that I see myself, for
- 21:54Speaker 1: the way that I your self interested. So you know,
- 21:56Speaker 1: and you and you start and you kind of look
- 21:57Speaker 1: back and you realize, like, man, that's a lot of wait,
- 22:00Speaker 1: a lot of weight to bear if you're constantly trying
- 22:03Speaker 1: to be a chameleon and not be authentic to just
- 22:05Speaker 1: exactly who you are and kind of like not really
- 22:07Speaker 1: giving an f what people think about you and you
- 22:09Speaker 1: kind of it comes with maturity, It comes with comes
- 22:12Speaker 1: with maybe some success or working on yourself or whatever
- 22:15Speaker 1: it may be.
- 22:15Speaker 2: So just trying to be more authentic as well.
- 22:18Speaker 3: Yeah, I love I love the phrase stay dangerous, And
- 22:21Speaker 3: you're referring to guys like Gandhi and Jesus and stuff
- 22:23Speaker 3: like that, because when you tell somebody stay dangerous, their
- 22:26Speaker 3: first thought is like, I gotta fight.
- 22:28Speaker 2: I gotta be a fighter, especially me, Like.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, people know what's staying staying dangerous is like
- 22:34Speaker 3: confidence is dangerous, Calm is dangerous.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Calm is chaos.
- 22:38Speaker 3: And if you see somebody and if you're the most
- 22:40Speaker 3: calm person in the room and someone's coming at you
- 22:42Speaker 3: over and over and over again, you know, violently with
- 22:45Speaker 3: words or something, and you're calm, that's a dangerous phrase
- 22:48Speaker 3: because you know you're centered to yourself and that's something
- 22:51Speaker 3: that like as a kid or you know, growing up
- 22:54Speaker 3: and seeing guys UFC and then the whole thing kind
- 22:56Speaker 3: of coming about you just think of, like and even
- 22:59Speaker 3: watching NFL football players or any sort of athletes that
- 23:02Speaker 3: causes physicality. You just think barbarians going out there and
- 23:06Speaker 3: toughing it out. Whoever is the biggest and strongest is
- 23:08Speaker 3: going to win that fight. And then you know, you
- 23:10Speaker 3: start to look more into it and you realize it's
- 23:11Speaker 3: it's you know, how centered can you be, how neutral
- 23:14Speaker 3: thinking can you be when you're going into that fight,
- 23:17Speaker 3: How you stay on what your game plan is as
- 23:19Speaker 3: opposed to giving into their game plan and maybe you
- 23:22Speaker 3: should keep your distance a little bit when they're trying.
- 23:24Speaker 2: To press you and back and forth. The same thing
- 23:26Speaker 2: for playing off its lin.
- 23:27Speaker 3: You you think, okay, I have to beat the shit
- 23:29Speaker 3: out of sky very single time. But the better you
- 23:31Speaker 3: get at football, the more you realize it doesn't have
- 23:33Speaker 3: to be running my head through a fullback every single time.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Right.
- 23:36Speaker 2: It could be long arming a dude. It could be
- 23:37Speaker 2: where's my hand placement?
- 23:38Speaker 3: And once you get once you get that placement, that's
- 23:41Speaker 3: when you can take over and make it look as
- 23:42Speaker 3: violent as you need to be.
- 23:43Speaker 2: There's a time and a place always for violence, exactly.
- 23:46Speaker 3: There's always going to be that spot that you need
- 23:49Speaker 3: you to have that kind of scratch in your life.
- 23:51Speaker 3: But having the ability to be a neutral thinker and
- 23:54Speaker 3: being emotional but not chaotic is something that has a
- 23:58Speaker 3: balance at very few people have. That's why not everybody
- 24:01Speaker 3: has a success that you do well, yeah, and that's
- 24:04Speaker 3: I mean and even that and obviously that's the default
- 24:06Speaker 3: that people go to, like, well, he's a fighter, so
- 24:08Speaker 3: of course whenever he says stay dangerous, that means like
- 24:10Speaker 3: you got to be dangerous and beat someone.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Oh, but dangerous is Rosa Parks. Yeah, like that was dangerous,
- 24:16Speaker 1: but it wasn't an act of violence. You know, dangerous
- 24:19Speaker 1: is MLK, Like you know, it's like anybody who who
- 24:24Speaker 1: has this and it's so hard to explain, but it's
- 24:27Speaker 1: but it's so powerful exactly like what you just said,
- 24:30Speaker 1: like neutral in mind, you know, like that was.
- 24:32Speaker 5: Solid, like that was that was appreciate that?
- 24:36Speaker 1: Yeah you so, but yeah, man, just building it brick
- 24:43Speaker 1: by born brick. And it takes a long long time too.
- 24:46Speaker 1: It's not you're You're never an overnight.
- 24:48Speaker 2: It takes a long time.
- 24:49Speaker 3: And and it's mostly like your programming as an individual,
- 24:51Speaker 3: right like you, me, Will, everybody in here has a
- 24:54Speaker 3: software update that's happened to our entire lives. He said,
- 24:57Speaker 3: small guy from small town talk to small things, right,
- 25:00Speaker 3: you wouldn't you know? I didn't have the best household
- 25:02Speaker 3: growing up. Will had his adversities growing up, And it's
- 25:04Speaker 3: like you grew up with these adversities and different things
- 25:07Speaker 3: that challenge you. And what's the easiest thing to do
- 25:09Speaker 3: when you're not mature enough from an emotional standpoint, from
- 25:13Speaker 3: a maturity level, is you put walls up and you're like,
- 25:15Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm just gonna hold that back real quick,
- 25:17Speaker 3: and then you start getting into relationships, You start making friendships,
- 25:21Speaker 3: you start being around people, and then you start to realize,
- 25:23Speaker 3: for me to get the most out of this, I
- 25:24Speaker 3: got to break down that wall and deal with it.
- 25:26Speaker 3: And that's the hardest thing to do from a gross standpoint,
- 25:29Speaker 3: because you know, when I was in college, I partied
- 25:32Speaker 3: like crazy. My first couple of years in the NFL,
- 25:34Speaker 3: I partied like crazy. And then you start to peel
- 25:36Speaker 3: back the layers of what that is and why that
- 25:38Speaker 3: hurts there and stuff like that.
- 25:40Speaker 2: You start to really like, why, yeah, why it's.
- 25:43Speaker 3: Comfortable doing that because it's easier to go and get
- 25:46Speaker 3: drunk and do that instead of going to work on
- 25:47Speaker 3: that thing you want to. It's easier to you know,
- 25:50Speaker 3: talk about doing X, Y and Z talking about doing
- 25:52Speaker 3: a podcast and.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Not actually doing it, but how cool would it be
- 25:54Speaker 2: to do that?
- 25:55Speaker 3: Right?
- 25:55Speaker 2: Fun to talk about. Then we run the first ones
- 25:57Speaker 2: and we're just like we kind of sit there and
- 25:59Speaker 2: we and Will are calling each other like, fud, You're
- 26:01Speaker 2: nervous that.
- 26:02Speaker 3: Yeah, putting yourself out there like, but you go and
- 26:05Speaker 3: you know, the minute you start peeling back layers, there's
- 26:08Speaker 3: an enlightenment you feel about yourself that translate to what
- 26:12Speaker 3: happens in your world. So, going from my second year
- 26:15Speaker 3: to third year, when I started with my wife and
- 26:17Speaker 3: she started peeling back layers, it was an emotional, chaotic,
- 26:20Speaker 3: crazy thing. But you know, my career went the way
- 26:23Speaker 3: I went after that because of that. Not necessarily because
- 26:25Speaker 3: anything physically, I'm maxed out. I can only do so
- 26:28Speaker 3: much physically, and you think, oh, I just train harder,
- 26:30Speaker 3: I just train harder. But if you don't you understand
- 26:32Speaker 3: how to do that anyway, because like I'm like you,
- 26:34Speaker 3: if you're a grinder, you're a grinder. It's easy to do.
- 26:36Speaker 3: So you can pick up, I can pick up anyway.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Or you tell me to run any distance, I'm gonna
- 26:40Speaker 3: go do that. It's when you sit there and say, okay,
- 26:42Speaker 3: what about you? Who are you? Who's Michael Chandler, And
- 26:45Speaker 3: it's like, well, fuck, I don't know if I want
- 26:46Speaker 3: necessarily want to go you know what I'm saying. You
- 26:48Speaker 3: kind of sit back in there. You don't mean to
- 26:49Speaker 3: do that. Well, I don't just go eat healthy, And
- 26:51Speaker 3: it's like that is the stuff that really you start
- 26:53Speaker 3: playing like water in the other put if I have
- 26:56Speaker 3: difficulties with that still all of the time not being
- 26:59Speaker 3: ground over my feet are not like you know, always
- 27:01Speaker 3: looking in the future too much. Those are the types
- 27:03Speaker 3: of things that are very The more growth you have
- 27:06Speaker 3: as an individual, the more growth you have in like
- 27:08Speaker 3: the career you want, the more superficial things that don't matter.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Well, especially when you talk about a career, whether it's football,
- 27:14Speaker 1: whether it's fighting, whether it's business, no matter what location.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Talent or the hard work, those are usually givens honestly
- 27:22Speaker 1: at the highest level, Like does most people work hard
- 27:25Speaker 1: in the NFL, or if they don't work that hard,
- 27:27Speaker 1: they have so much talent it does.
- 27:28Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. Yeah, and it catches up and it
- 27:30Speaker 2: catches up.
- 27:31Speaker 3: But it's the mindset, or it's the self belief, it's
- 27:35Speaker 3: the self awareness, it's it's those things you think, you know,
- 27:38Speaker 3: you just watched this last card you FC two fifty seven.
- 27:40Speaker 3: The difference in skill between Connor and Dustin is very,
- 27:45Speaker 3: very very slim.
- 27:46Speaker 1: But the fight went how it went. The difference between
- 27:49Speaker 1: me and Dan Hooker was very very different. Like these
- 27:51Speaker 1: top guys at the top level of mixed martial arts
- 27:54Speaker 1: inside of an octagon on a football field. It's that
- 27:58Speaker 1: degree of separations, not very much in a lot of ways,
- 28:01Speaker 1: but it's what did you do to get there? Mentally
- 28:04Speaker 1: and spiritually? You know, that's a physical partakes care of that.
- 28:08Speaker 5: I've always been so like curious and like obsessed with
- 28:12Speaker 5: why people are are successful while they stay successful, and
- 28:15Speaker 5: it's like the crazy thing that you guys have been
- 28:17Speaker 5: alluded to. And the wild part is it never stops,
- 28:20Speaker 5: Like you never you never figure it out to where
- 28:23Speaker 5: you're just just successful. Like you're constantly battling your mind.
- 28:27Speaker 5: You're constantly battling all these things, staying grounded, staying in
- 28:30Speaker 5: your shoes, being where your feet are.
- 28:31Speaker 2: The minute you try to stay comfortable, it checks you
- 28:33Speaker 2: right because.
- 28:34Speaker 5: You realise you're getting in a different You're getting in
- 28:36Speaker 5: the habits that you know you had to check in
- 28:38Speaker 5: the first place. And that's the thing with like, like
- 28:41Speaker 5: people who end up getting and becoming successful and whatever avenue,
- 28:45Speaker 5: they're always figuring out how to get uncomfortable and getting
- 28:49Speaker 5: behind that wall of learning about yourself. Who Taylor wan
- 28:52Speaker 5: is like, you do all these things, but when you
- 28:53Speaker 5: started to peel back layers like figuring out which different
- 28:56Speaker 5: avenues are. I really got to look in the mirror
- 28:58Speaker 5: and have so much self awareness, understanding how I tick,
- 29:01Speaker 5: how am I going to get myself to another level,
- 29:03Speaker 5: and how vulnerable and uncomfortable is it going to make
- 29:06Speaker 5: you and still going after it and doing it to
- 29:09Speaker 5: get there. I've always been fascinated with that, and it
- 29:11Speaker 5: never stops. It never stops, because everything's always changing. Like Taylor,
- 29:15Speaker 5: you'll probably be to be able to attest to having kids,
- 29:17Speaker 5: Like I never thought how how much my life would
- 29:20Speaker 5: change after I had a son, Like the amount of
- 29:22Speaker 5: guilt that I feel, the amount of like every single
- 29:26Speaker 5: day you're a failure as a father in some way somehow,
- 29:30Speaker 5: and just so having that, and then obviously and then
- 29:32Speaker 5: getting married, getting married before that, or like moving in
- 29:35Speaker 5: together or moving across doing whatever, Like each new season
- 29:39Speaker 5: brings about each new challenges physically, you know, in your
- 29:44Speaker 5: work and then mentally in your season of life, whatever
- 29:47Speaker 5: you're going through, so you're constantly just trying to figure
- 29:50Speaker 5: it out. And then there's there's there's these weird you know,
- 29:52Speaker 5: different definitions of say contentment or peace or satisfaction or
- 29:57Speaker 5: whatever they are, and it's almost like kind of like
- 29:59Speaker 5: humble and hungry. You know, you want to stay hungry,
- 30:01Speaker 5: but you also want to be content with who you are,
- 30:04Speaker 5: but not content with where you're at, and what got
- 30:06Speaker 5: you here isn't going to get you to the next
- 30:08Speaker 5: level because you've got to continue to evolve, right, So
- 30:11Speaker 5: there's there's that weird and everyone's built differently in their mind.
- 30:15Speaker 2: Your your mind works different than his.
- 30:18Speaker 3: Motivate you start to sound like a schizophrenical I don't
- 30:21Speaker 3: want to be here, but I also to stay ground
- 30:22Speaker 3: where I'm at and then there and it's like, cause
- 30:25Speaker 3: you your mind going a little crazy because the easiest
- 30:27Speaker 3: thing to do is just kind of chill.
- 30:29Speaker 2: The easiest thing to do is that.
- 30:30Speaker 3: But you're not going to be like I'm not stimulated
- 30:33Speaker 3: if I don't go do this podcast or I don't
- 30:35Speaker 3: go get the workouts and or don't go to hand
- 30:36Speaker 3: my kids, and the level of guilt is uh with
- 30:40Speaker 3: children that you've said it, dude, it's crazy. I was
- 30:43Speaker 3: literally yesterday I feel like I told my I feel
- 30:46Speaker 3: like I'm spiraling right now because I'm doing so much
- 30:49Speaker 3: here and with my knee and all that that I
- 30:51Speaker 3: don't think you have a lot of time my kids.
- 30:52Speaker 3: So I'm racing home to go put them down, just
- 30:54Speaker 3: to have a couple of minutes of them before I go.
- 30:56Speaker 3: And we did Ernest's podcast, and then I have to
- 30:58Speaker 3: come home and put both of them down. And like,
- 31:01Speaker 3: especially when you grew up and you start to realize
- 31:03Speaker 3: the faults you had, the tools you weren't given, You're like,
- 31:06Speaker 3: I really hope I can give my kids those tools
- 31:08Speaker 3: so they don't have to go through X, Y and
- 31:10Speaker 3: Z that I had to go through to get to
- 31:12Speaker 3: this point, because a lot of people can't get to
- 31:14Speaker 3: the point that you or I or will got to
- 31:16Speaker 3: because they might not be putting in an abversive situation
- 31:20Speaker 3: to challenge those those new tools and to try to
- 31:23Speaker 3: figure it out. They might not have a tailing to
- 31:25Speaker 3: bring that out of them, you know what I'm saying,
- 31:27Speaker 3: or a career that they want to bring that out
- 31:28Speaker 3: of them, So giving them the tools. I have never
- 31:32Speaker 3: yelled at my kids yet. I'm sure there's time, but
- 31:35Speaker 3: I'm saying, like whenever I am at my wits end
- 31:38Speaker 3: with right now, when she's three years old, and if
- 31:41Speaker 3: she's you know, she's bonker, she's off the wall, she's
- 31:44Speaker 3: full of energy. She's an amazing kid, but she goes
- 31:47Speaker 3: on and I'm tired sometimes and I think to myself, like, Okay,
- 31:50Speaker 3: how is this going to subconsciously affect her? Like to
- 31:53Speaker 3: have to put a walk? This is going to give
- 31:55Speaker 3: a daddy issue. This is going to be one of
- 31:57Speaker 3: those problems. And it's like that helps ground you a
- 31:59Speaker 3: little bit more, putting it into If you something about
- 32:01Speaker 3: yourself so much, you help yourself more.
- 32:04Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Well, there's no game, there's no playbook. Like you guys
- 32:07Speaker 1: work your whole your whole lives about playbooks. Right, coach
- 32:11Speaker 1: on a playbook, it's pretty darn easy. You follow the play.
- 32:13Speaker 1: Success happens like similar to me with my coaches. But well, hey,
- 32:16Speaker 1: let's not make it sound like it's that easy to
- 32:17Speaker 1: play football. Yeah, you do the play it's gonna work.
- 32:24Speaker 1: You're gonna do just like just push them farther like
- 32:29Speaker 1: a tag coach. Like you know, I listened to my coach.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Good things are gonna happen. I'm probably gonna win. But
- 32:33Speaker 1: with parenting, there is no playbook because just like you're
- 32:38Speaker 1: different than your parents and I'm different than mine, your
- 32:40Speaker 1: kids are different than you were when they were kids,
- 32:42Speaker 1: and then now you have two kids, right, so they're
- 32:45Speaker 1: both different too, So you got parents, both of them different.
- 32:47Speaker 5: It's just and everyone makes a playbook, but they're what
- 32:50Speaker 5: they experience and did they have different minds that there?
- 32:52Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you could sit down with ten different people
- 32:54Speaker 1: with ten different ten different uh advice structures, and none of.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Them could be correct. It's just the most beautiful yet
- 33:02Speaker 2: most challenging.
- 33:02Speaker 5: Thing is extremely It's extremely and sometimes too with people
- 33:05Speaker 5: who are very like driven and wanting to you know,
- 33:09Speaker 5: chase the next thing and do all this stuff, and
- 33:11Speaker 5: they don't find time to just sit at where they're
- 33:13Speaker 5: at and look at where the're at. You can put
- 33:14Speaker 5: so much pressure on yourself that that you lose perspective.
- 33:21Speaker 5: So it's always good to see like where you've came
- 33:23Speaker 5: from and to where you're at now. Obviously you're writing
- 33:26Speaker 5: down new goals and new things and chasing new things,
- 33:28Speaker 5: but you can't get so caught up and all the
- 33:30Speaker 5: pressure you're putting on our stuff to be all these
- 33:32Speaker 5: different things without having the perspective of like, hey, you know,
- 33:35Speaker 5: I've came this far in my career, you know what
- 33:37Speaker 5: I'm saying there's gonna be.
- 33:38Speaker 3: A time hitting on the kids, saying there's gonna be
- 33:40Speaker 3: a time where you say, Okay, it's not about my
- 33:41Speaker 3: goals anymore about their goals.
- 33:42Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys are talking about a world that I
- 33:45Speaker 5: haven't got.
- 33:45Speaker 3: That a whole new humility for me, because it's always
- 33:49Speaker 3: been me, you know what I'm saying. As weird as
- 33:51Speaker 3: it is, like you're playing this movie in your head
- 33:53Speaker 3: of your life and you've dealt with it since you
- 33:56Speaker 3: could remember anything, especially in our career, and you're gonna be,
- 33:59Speaker 3: you know, in your thirties. I'm gonna be my thirties
- 34:01Speaker 3: and my kids and be like I wanted to go
- 34:03Speaker 3: chase their thing. And now my movie plot, my movie
- 34:06Speaker 3: scenery that I'm programming every single day is now going
- 34:09Speaker 3: to change to what are they gonna what do they need?
- 34:11Speaker 5: Right?
- 34:11Speaker 3: Well, maybe not the best thing for me, but what's
- 34:14Speaker 3: the best thing for them? And that's gonna be That'll
- 34:16Speaker 3: be a difficult thing for me because I'm very in
- 34:18Speaker 3: a lot of ways selfishly driven, like I've always been
- 34:21Speaker 3: like everybody, how do.
- 34:22Speaker 2: I get on?
- 34:23Speaker 3: How do I get to where I need to go?
- 34:24Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, because at the end of
- 34:25Speaker 3: the day, it's like no one else's life but mine,
- 34:27Speaker 3: you know, And that's that's the scary thing.
- 34:29Speaker 2: Well, if you have to deal with that someday, especially.
- 34:31Speaker 5: In our line of work, well you're like for being
- 34:34Speaker 5: like a I mean not diminishing any other lines of work.
- 34:36Speaker 5: I'm just talking about all this stuff that you feel
- 34:39Speaker 5: like you have to do stuffish it, like.
- 34:40Speaker 2: For your knee, body work, you know what I mean.
- 34:43Speaker 2: Working out.
- 34:43Speaker 5: Hey, you know I got to work out today because
- 34:45Speaker 5: you know, I play professional sports type of thing.
- 34:48Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's you can't really take a day off, right,
- 34:50Speaker 3: And it sounds crazy because you see some people that are,
- 34:53Speaker 3: you know, traveling all over the place, going and partying
- 34:55Speaker 3: and shit like that, and I'm like, I just can't.
- 34:58Speaker 3: All the old linemen went on a private jet to
- 35:00Speaker 3: Miami this past week.
- 35:01Speaker 2: I can't be.
- 35:05Speaker 3: My knee. I'm not going to risk But it's like
- 35:06Speaker 3: I sit there and you bet FOMO is hitting hard
- 35:09Speaker 3: the entire weekend. I'm like, dude, but I'm going to
- 35:11Speaker 3: bed early. I'm getting up with my kids and I'm
- 35:13Speaker 3: trying to check those boxes. And those are the things
- 35:15Speaker 3: I hope I can. I can sit back on and
- 35:17Speaker 3: rely on to keep that future programming. I keep hitting programming.
- 35:21Speaker 3: But it really is like you're buying your minds, you're
- 35:23Speaker 3: putting and you're putting money. You're putting money in the
- 35:25Speaker 3: bank too.
- 35:25Speaker 1: It's like maybe maybe it will maybe you'll never think
- 35:28Speaker 1: about that sacrifice that you just made again. But eventually,
- 35:31Speaker 1: when when the going gets tough in the fourth quarter,
- 35:33Speaker 1: when the team needs you, your your performance is going
- 35:37Speaker 1: to soar because of the money in the bank that
- 35:40Speaker 1: you put in, the discipline, the missing out, the FOMO,
- 35:43Speaker 1: all of that turns into athletic achievement. And it's also
- 35:47Speaker 1: like trying to trying to figure it out, compartmentalize and
- 35:51Speaker 1: and navigate all of that as well. Like you going
- 35:53Speaker 1: back to being selfish, Like I think about that as well.
- 35:56Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time away from my son
- 35:58Speaker 1: the last couple of years, first couple of years of
- 36:00Speaker 1: his life now because of training camp. But I know
- 36:04Speaker 1: that in order to be the self less dad, the
- 36:06Speaker 1: selfless dad that he needs, I need to be selfish
- 36:09Speaker 1: so that this like we talked about the forty year
- 36:11Speaker 1: old Michael, I think about him, who was gonna lay
- 36:13Speaker 1: his head on that center block every night if I
- 36:15Speaker 1: didn't go to the UFC, it's also gonna be that
- 36:17Speaker 1: same guy who is very unhappy with himself if he
- 36:21Speaker 1: cut corners in his career, didn't spend time away from
- 36:24Speaker 1: his family that I needed to to in order to
- 36:26Speaker 1: get everything I possibly can out of this career and
- 36:28Speaker 1: this opportunity, because I know the regret of living that
- 36:32Speaker 1: life is much worse than the little bit of missing
- 36:35Speaker 1: out on time together.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Right now, Yeah, because that that life's sooner rather than later.
- 36:40Speaker 3: For sure, we're gonna have a whole lot, whole nother
- 36:42Speaker 3: life to live, which is similar parallel into our careers
- 36:46Speaker 3: is eventually I'm gonna wke up and be able to
- 36:47Speaker 3: play fooball.
- 36:48Speaker 2: You're gonna wake up and be able to fight like
- 36:49Speaker 2: he used too.
- 36:50Speaker 3: And it's like what I didn't have been wrapped up,
- 36:53Speaker 3: And that is that is the pendulum we always sit
- 36:55Speaker 3: on of pros and cons of ways of what's what
- 36:57Speaker 3: do I have to do right now?
- 36:59Speaker 2: You know it's funny too, and I think this, I
- 37:01Speaker 2: think this is important. Number one.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Visualization is extremely important at sport. But I think and
- 37:08Speaker 1: you guys, i'd like to hear your guys perspective. I think,
- 37:10Speaker 1: and I can. I can visualize this guy perfectly. I
- 37:12Speaker 1: know exactly kind of what it's going to look like,
- 37:15Speaker 1: what it's going to feel like, but I visualize. I
- 37:18Speaker 1: can close my eyes and visualize my last fight. Whether
- 37:21Speaker 1: I win or lose, don't know. But I take my
- 37:23Speaker 1: gloves off for the last time, and I lay him
- 37:24Speaker 1: in the middle of an octagon, lay him in the
- 37:26Speaker 1: middle of an arena somewhere, and I got to go
- 37:28Speaker 1: back to a locker room somewhere, shower up for the
- 37:32Speaker 1: last time, start putting my clothes on. And I have
- 37:35Speaker 1: this vision of me put my hands on a sink
- 37:37Speaker 1: and looking in a mirror and having to ask myself, honestly, Michael,
- 37:41Speaker 1: did you give everything that you possibly could with these
- 37:43Speaker 1: talents that God gave you? And I just pray that
- 37:45Speaker 1: I could answer that question honestly and without regret, because
- 37:48Speaker 1: that the power in that moment of me realizing that
- 37:53Speaker 1: a chapter is closed and the next chapter is going
- 37:57Speaker 1: on motivates me today because I know I'm much closer
- 38:00Speaker 1: to that moment than I would than I am the
- 38:03Speaker 1: beginning of my career back when it started in two
- 38:05Speaker 1: thousand and nine.
- 38:06Speaker 2: I'm much closer to that.
- 38:07Speaker 1: So now it just helps you live life with a
- 38:10Speaker 1: little bit more gratitude, realizing that this is a fleeting thing.
- 38:14Speaker 1: This is a fleeting thing that will eventually and.
- 38:16Speaker 2: Chase you after something that's faster than you.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Yeah, father time, father time is undefeated.
- 38:22Speaker 5: You know.
- 38:22Speaker 1: It's like you, you will always lose that battle eventually.
- 38:26Speaker 1: So it's it's what can you do today to maximize
- 38:32Speaker 1: your potential to.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Feel empty at the end, to be like I left
- 38:35Speaker 2: it all out there.
- 38:36Speaker 3: What you said, too, is the answer is going to
- 38:38Speaker 3: be an obvious yes, yeah, I mean there's I don't
- 38:40Speaker 3: think anybody has ever had a question of effort in this,
- 38:42Speaker 3: in this these three mins, like out there.
- 38:44Speaker 2: But in this bus US three, US three. You know,
- 38:48Speaker 2: I'm just kidding, but.
- 38:49Speaker 3: Like there is a level of you know, I've always
- 38:52Speaker 3: said you can say what you want about like I
- 38:54Speaker 3: was always say what you want about my family and
- 38:56Speaker 3: my dog, but over questioned my effort, you know, I said,
- 38:59Speaker 3: joke like that all time, But like that with my
- 39:02Speaker 3: careers and the way you talk, the way you talk,
- 39:05Speaker 3: the way you fight, the way you act. The easy
- 39:08Speaker 3: answer in that visualization you had is yes, you've obviously
- 39:11Speaker 3: given everything you have and that's awesome. And you we
- 39:14Speaker 3: talked about you, you know, your flight, your trajectory of
- 39:17Speaker 3: how you've taken your career is that's that's how you're
- 39:20Speaker 3: so sustainable. That's how you can say, yes, you know,
- 39:23Speaker 3: you see a guy. I can I bring up McGregor
- 39:26Speaker 3: again because I don't I don't know a whole lot
- 39:27Speaker 3: about the UFC, but I've watched him since what twenty
- 39:32Speaker 3: twelve it was just fighting first fight against DS, So I.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Went to that first. I went to that fight to
- 39:38Speaker 2: D and I see him.
- 39:40Speaker 3: You know, he's the guy that does great, I feels good,
- 39:44Speaker 3: coasts a little bit, and then has to lose.
- 39:45Speaker 2: To get back up.
- 39:47Speaker 3: And you've kept this it win or lose, you stay
- 39:49Speaker 3: on that same same trajectory. And those are the types
- 39:52Speaker 3: of things that it makes it easier to say I
- 39:54Speaker 3: gave everything I had because there was no valley, only
- 39:57Speaker 3: the consistency of going.
- 39:59Speaker 2: And so I think you're gonna be I.
- 40:01Speaker 3: Feel huge, very happy with the way way you lay
- 40:03Speaker 3: your head on that pillow for sure.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Well, and that's yeah, and it's then it's just really
- 40:09Speaker 1: building it brick by boring brick, like you said, I mean,
- 40:11Speaker 1: that's kind of been the thing too. I've never never
- 40:13Speaker 1: tried to do anything outside of myself or outside of
- 40:15Speaker 1: my character or outside of anything. Just stay in my
- 40:18Speaker 1: lane and focus on building this thing brick by boring brick,
- 40:22Speaker 1: because I that's all I really could do, especially fighting
- 40:24Speaker 1: outside of the UFC for so long. And it's interesting
- 40:28Speaker 1: to hearing these guys talk now that I'm in the UFC,
- 40:32Speaker 1: and they talk about they want more respect, they want
- 40:34Speaker 1: more money, or they want more of this, or they
- 40:36Speaker 1: want more that. There's a trade off to more money.
- 40:38Speaker 1: There's a trade off to you know, being in a
- 40:40Speaker 1: different organization, maybe making more money.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Being a part of the UFC is a huge, huge thing.
- 40:45Speaker 1: I just won my first fight in the UFC, and
- 40:47Speaker 1: now I just now feel like I finally actually won
- 40:50Speaker 1: a fight in the eight even though.
- 40:52Speaker 2: You've been a time belt or champ.
- 40:54Speaker 1: Yeah, like as well, I win one fight on this
- 40:57Speaker 1: card and I have five five times the amount of
- 40:59Speaker 1: time messages or Instagram lovel like all the other stuff.
- 41:02Speaker 1: That stuff that doesn't really necessarily matter, like the support
- 41:05Speaker 1: compared to winning a world title.
- 41:07Speaker 3: Over in another way, that stuff doesn't matter necessarily to
- 41:10Speaker 3: you as far as growth as a human, but you
- 41:12Speaker 3: see the the level of it on the outside, how
- 41:15Speaker 3: crazy that is ten times bigger while.
- 41:18Speaker 2: At least you know and it makes sense. I always
- 41:20Speaker 2: knew that.
- 41:20Speaker 1: So that was what they always always the hardest part
- 41:22Speaker 1: about making the decision to continue to sign with belts
- 41:25Speaker 1: or over and over again until now and then then
- 41:28Speaker 1: people say old, Now you're too old.
- 41:29Speaker 2: It's too late. You're gonna get your freaking head knocked off,
- 41:32Speaker 2: and then you're you know, it's just like so there
- 41:34Speaker 2: was a lot of uh.
- 41:35Speaker 5: I mean, there's there's every opinion in doubt out there
- 41:38Speaker 5: for you in this fight. You know, it's made it
- 41:40Speaker 5: more entertaining, you know, I mean, I do I do
- 41:43Speaker 5: want to ask do you do you look and see
- 41:45Speaker 5: didn't read about that doubt.
- 41:47Speaker 3: Let's tick at the break from this beautiful episode with
- 41:48Speaker 3: Michael Chandler to talk about another thing.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Vehicles.
- 41:51Speaker 3: All right, we either want them or we got them.
- 41:54Speaker 3: And if you have a truck, you know you can
- 41:57Speaker 3: trust that guy. But do you have a dependable, hard working.
- 42:03Speaker 2: Truck.
- 42:04Speaker 3: You're thinking to yourself, it's a Chevy Silverado, right, it's advanced, dependable.
- 42:07Speaker 3: I've used those words before, but it keeps coming in
- 42:09Speaker 3: my head every time I say Chevy Silverado. I'm building
- 42:12Speaker 3: a house right now. When I go on there and
- 42:14Speaker 3: there's a concrctor that I'm dealing with, and I drive
- 42:17Speaker 3: into that parking lot to have a meeting with the guy,
- 42:19Speaker 3: and it says Chevy Silverado on his vehicle, and no,
- 42:23Speaker 3: I'm probably in good hands because they're good people.
- 42:26Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
- 42:26Speaker 3: Guy who has a truck, I got a truck. I
- 42:28Speaker 3: got a Chevy right now. I drive everywhere people, Hey,
- 42:31Speaker 3: can he help me move? The answer is either yesterda no,
- 42:33Speaker 3: depending on how well I know you. But you know
- 42:35Speaker 3: I can help you out in a pinch if you
- 42:37Speaker 3: really need it. Those are the things that we love
- 42:40Speaker 3: to do of being truck people helping helping people. That's
- 42:42Speaker 3: a beautiful, beautiful thing. Tailgating, hauling any of those types
- 42:46Speaker 3: of stuff and moving down. I'm gonna need help soon.
- 42:48Speaker 3: I know Joshi buoying the back. There's got a Chevy,
- 42:51Speaker 3: and I know he's gonna have his stuff at my
- 42:53Speaker 3: house ready to go because he cares about the boy
- 42:55Speaker 3: drive Chevy Chevy Silverado. It's the best making model they
- 42:59Speaker 3: possibly got. I have any vehicle out there on the road,
- 43:01Speaker 3: drive Chevy to get back to Michael Chandler.
- 43:04Speaker 2: I do.
- 43:05Speaker 5: And so you're telling me you were never nervous going
- 43:07Speaker 5: into this fight. You were that you felt that supremely confident,
- 43:10Speaker 5: where you don't. You're like, at the end of the day,
- 43:12Speaker 5: you're able to lower those voices walking into the ring.
- 43:14Speaker 2: But I'm I'm just I'm wondering if.
- 43:17Speaker 5: You do to have that curiosity to see all the
- 43:19Speaker 5: doubta out there, to kind of see fire.
- 43:21Speaker 1: So I will say, yeah, so I the walk, like
- 43:24Speaker 1: you said, calling the voices when I'm on the walk,
- 43:26Speaker 1: the walk zero zero tunnel vision zero fear, yeah, zero
- 43:30Speaker 1: fear zero insecurity zero. Uh, you know, fear of anything
- 43:34Speaker 1: bad happening.
- 43:35Speaker 2: Leading up to that. I mean I had nightmares. I
- 43:37Speaker 2: always have nightmares.
- 43:38Speaker 1: There's always usually one night about two weeks before the
- 43:41Speaker 1: fight where I wake up in the middle of the
- 43:43Speaker 1: night in a cold sweat because I just got knocked out,
- 43:46Speaker 1: choked out or broken by my opponent. And broken is
- 43:49Speaker 1: usually probably the scariest one. Anybody can get knocked outnyone
- 43:52Speaker 1: can get choked out, but just broken.
- 43:54Speaker 3: Broken as what like you make you wave the white flag,
- 43:57Speaker 3: or broken like broken bones no, no broke.
- 43:59Speaker 1: Now, I'm not scared of broken bones. It's more like
- 44:01Speaker 1: breaking my will. Yeah, so tired, so out of it,
- 44:05Speaker 1: so whatever. Getting swarmed the guy is just too good,
- 44:08Speaker 1: he's big. I break and it's just white flag dream
- 44:13Speaker 1: You is really weak too, Like you can't throw a punch, dude, exactly.
- 44:18Speaker 2: It'll treat you like everything come out. Always have one
- 44:21Speaker 2: of those, right. But and I think this has been
- 44:25Speaker 2: an interesting new experience.
- 44:27Speaker 1: The day that I signed with the UFC, you know,
- 44:30Speaker 1: everything started getting bigger and bigger and bigger, growing, And
- 44:33Speaker 1: that comes with a lot of negativity too, because then
- 44:35Speaker 1: you hear the doubters talk.
- 44:36Speaker 2: A lot of new.
- 44:37Speaker 5: Opinions come into your life that have no clue, who
- 44:40Speaker 5: haven't followed your journey, who don't know how actually humble
- 44:42Speaker 5: and how hard you've worked.
- 44:44Speaker 1: They're just new coming in and ready to ready to troll.
- 44:46Speaker 1: And truthfully, I'm I. I don't usually read the negative ones.
- 44:49Speaker 1: I'll try to read more of the positive ones. But
- 44:51Speaker 1: I do watch a lot of interviews. I've watched all
- 44:54Speaker 1: of my interviews back just to remind myself of what
- 44:57Speaker 1: I said listen to other people, because I think it
- 44:59Speaker 1: was is it Colin Cowhard or one of those those guys.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Remember this highlight on one of the shows. He said,
- 45:04Speaker 1: if you want to be interesting, you have to be interested,
- 45:07Speaker 1: you know, So you have to be interested in what's
- 45:09Speaker 1: going on.
- 45:10Speaker 2: You have to.
- 45:10Speaker 1: And I think that's the reason why Connor McGregor is
- 45:13Speaker 1: a global superstar is I think he is interested. I
- 45:16Speaker 1: think he sits at home, he researches, or his team
- 45:20Speaker 1: around him researches. He knows what his next move is
- 45:23Speaker 1: going to be from a marketing standpoint on social media,
- 45:26Speaker 1: every word that he says, how it's going to play out.
- 45:29Speaker 1: He knows a lot about his opponents mentally and outside
- 45:33Speaker 1: of or like inside the cage. Outside of the cage,
- 45:36Speaker 1: he is interested in what is going on, and that's
- 45:38Speaker 1: why people are drawn to him because when he's on
- 45:40Speaker 1: the mic, people think he's just going off the cuff,
- 45:42Speaker 1: but he's not going off the cuff.
- 45:43Speaker 3: You know.
- 45:43Speaker 2: He is a researched, very meticulous, meticulous and intelligent individual.
- 45:49Speaker 1: So I just want to be more like that because
- 45:52Speaker 1: I think overall it will play it will bode well
- 45:54Speaker 1: in my career. So with that social media and all
- 45:58Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, the age of social media, it
- 45:59Speaker 1: is that whole world for me has grown, So I
- 46:02Speaker 1: want to I want to be interested in what's going on.
- 46:04Speaker 2: Maybe here a little bit of doubt, but learning how
- 46:06Speaker 2: to utilize it.
- 46:07Speaker 1: Learning how to use is really just like, oh, this
- 46:08Speaker 1: guy's a loser, he's be leagues and he's gonna get
- 46:10Speaker 1: knocked out.
- 46:11Speaker 2: Like that's those are the three things.
- 46:12Speaker 1: So it's like, Okay, it's just regurgitated the same stuff,
- 46:14Speaker 1: just kind of base level doubt. That's cool whatever, there's
- 46:18Speaker 1: no there's no validity to it. But hearing other people talk,
- 46:22Speaker 1: like hearing the Daniel Cormier's, the Ariel Hawane's.
- 46:25Speaker 2: The respected people, people that have credibility.
- 46:27Speaker 1: Kind of media or people who study the sport listening
- 46:31Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff are usually good as well.
- 46:34Speaker 5: So yeah, because it was a huge I mean, the
- 46:36Speaker 5: way everyone seemed to have spoke about it, who's had credibility,
- 46:41Speaker 5: like you know, like you said, the Cormier's, uh shobs,
- 46:45Speaker 5: those kind of guys. It seemed like you were in
- 46:48Speaker 5: as much of a mismatch as you could have been
- 46:50Speaker 5: in out of the choice of fighters, that you were
- 46:52Speaker 5: lying on the last guy on the because he was
- 46:54Speaker 5: long really incredible take down defense, and you're heavy. You're
- 46:58Speaker 5: heavy handed in a wrestler, So it's kind of like,
- 47:01Speaker 5: you know, you see you out there, you like that
- 47:02Speaker 5: pissed off a little honey badger dude, just get getting after him.
- 47:05Speaker 2: So I had to.
- 47:06Speaker 1: I mean, that was a fight where I mean you
- 47:08Speaker 1: talk about names like like right now, the the rankings
- 47:11Speaker 1: or before this, the rankings were Justin Gaechee, Dustin Poorrier,
- 47:15Speaker 1: Connor McGregor, Charles Oliver, Tony Ferguson.
- 47:17Speaker 2: All those guys are much easier matchups than the guy
- 47:19Speaker 2: that I just thought.
- 47:20Speaker 5: I believe even I think everyone else believed that to
- 47:24Speaker 5: with Shaw, and he was like anybody inside the top five,
- 47:26Speaker 5: I would have felt better of him, anybody inside the
- 47:28Speaker 5: top five versus Dan hook.
- 47:30Speaker 1: Everybody said non Hooker was the only guy that said
- 47:32Speaker 1: you was no chance.
- 47:33Speaker 2: He said they threw him in. They threw him into
- 47:35Speaker 2: a fire. That's what it is, what you're saying. It
- 47:37Speaker 2: works out.
- 47:37Speaker 3: The one person you don't want to fight other people
- 47:39Speaker 3: you'd rather fight, said no, I'll tell you.
- 47:41Speaker 1: What now, honestly, and this is no knock against the
- 47:43Speaker 1: other guys, but and I could very well lose to
- 47:46Speaker 1: any of those guys, I get it.
- 47:47Speaker 2: You know, no insurance here, no exactly.
- 47:50Speaker 5: Well, we heard hang, I was gonna say, keep the
- 47:54Speaker 5: same energy you had on the mic post fight.
- 48:00Speaker 2: If you can't.
- 48:02Speaker 1: Was I was prefacing it because I was saying, I
- 48:04Speaker 1: feel like I already beat the guy who was the
- 48:06Speaker 1: toughest matchup for me. So now I have even Now
- 48:09Speaker 1: y'all really affed up, because now I got even more
- 48:11Speaker 1: confidence stepping into that, like I will knock out Dustin Pourtier,
- 48:15Speaker 1: I will knock out Justin Gaigie I, Charles Olivera, I
- 48:19Speaker 1: will knock out Charles. I will knock out any of
- 48:21Speaker 1: these guys in the first or second round. And I
- 48:23Speaker 1: will capture UFC Gold probably either my next fight or
- 48:26Speaker 1: the fight after, and then I'm gonna come back on
- 48:27Speaker 1: the bus and We're gonna bring the belt on the
- 48:30Speaker 1: bus hell.
- 48:31Speaker 2: That's what we're doing, dude. I love what about knockause
- 48:37Speaker 2: that's out who Kabiba. I don't know if Kabib's ever
- 48:40Speaker 2: coming back, but yes, I do think so.
- 48:42Speaker 5: You know, I thought he was coming back. I thought
- 48:44Speaker 5: recently he's talked about coming back.
- 48:45Speaker 1: He did, and he said if he saw something spectacular,
- 48:47Speaker 1: but he didn't see something spectacular enough.
- 48:49Speaker 3: I guess, well, that sounds like a bit of a
- 48:51Speaker 3: cop out, because it's like it's in your it's in your.
- 48:54Speaker 2: Like you can. He's playing.
- 48:56Speaker 3: He's playing against the hardest fighter you had to fight,
- 48:59Speaker 3: and that was particular to him.
- 49:00Speaker 5: Could be being interested, he's playing the game. He's setting
- 49:04Speaker 5: up his next movie.
- 49:05Speaker 3: I mean the thing about could be he's tactical too.
- 49:07Speaker 3: He's that calm that you look at when he was fighting.
- 49:10Speaker 3: He's the Russian type ship. Yeah, he's the Russian type ship.
- 49:13Speaker 3: But he's that's like Calomus chaos, right.
- 49:15Speaker 2: You can see he's there.
- 49:16Speaker 3: And he when he speaks the words way more because
- 49:20Speaker 3: he fucking like he doesn't talk very often.
- 49:23Speaker 5: Because he chirped McGregor after his fight up but everyone
- 49:26Speaker 5: him after saying, you treat you changed your you change
- 49:28Speaker 5: all these people, You change your environment.
- 49:30Speaker 2: An adjustment around him.
- 49:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate that though, man like, because I mean,
- 49:34Speaker 1: obviously I'm just a little bit just set up with
- 49:37Speaker 1: the Kabib thing at this point. It's like, you know,
- 49:39Speaker 1: bounce out if you want to bounce out, but don't
- 49:41Speaker 1: don't be kind of lukewarm. Don't be don't be I
- 49:43Speaker 1: might come back, I might not, but I will say, well,
- 49:45Speaker 1: he knows he's the champ. He knows he's undefeated, for sure.
- 49:47Speaker 1: But in his defense, I think Dana also wanted to
- 49:50Speaker 1: keep that dream alive, you know, which rightfully so he should.
- 49:53Speaker 1: I think he cares about Kabib, but I think he
- 49:54Speaker 1: cares about his promotion. I think could be being in
- 49:58Speaker 1: the promotion is is in the best interest of all
- 50:01Speaker 1: parties involved.
- 50:02Speaker 3: But well, Danna cares about the dollar signs for sure. Dan,
- 50:04Speaker 3: he's he's the he's the guy. Oh yeah, he's a
- 50:08Speaker 3: huge draw. He's what it is. You are becoming that draw.
- 50:11Speaker 3: You became that draw, the mint you had that. Yeah,
- 50:13Speaker 3: you win another one.
- 50:14Speaker 2: You go do what you just said here and knock
- 50:15Speaker 2: one of those guys out you.
- 50:16Speaker 3: Just said and the bella is actually on the bus. Yeah, yeah,
- 50:20Speaker 3: now you're that guy. Yeah, well belts on the bus
- 50:23Speaker 3: or not. You do what you have to do for you. Yeah,
- 50:25Speaker 3: it's over. Like, well, you you run your plate, you
- 50:28Speaker 3: start saying yes and no to fights.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think, uh, I mean the good thing
- 50:32Speaker 1: is the good thing is now that it was kind
- 50:35Speaker 1: of like what the problem before I signed, Like I
- 50:38Speaker 1: said in September, I've known all of this stuff. I
- 50:41Speaker 1: knew I was gonna go out there and win. I
- 50:42Speaker 1: knew I was going to get a great opportunity. I
- 50:44Speaker 1: knew I didn't know at this level how big this
- 50:47Speaker 1: thing was going to blow up and just overnight me
- 50:50Speaker 1: becoming overnight success, like really a wave of success. Twelve years.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Took me twelve years to becoming over success. But I
- 50:57Speaker 1: didn't know the level at which it was going to
- 50:58Speaker 1: grow this big this quick. But I knew this was
- 51:01Speaker 1: going to happen, but I couldn't really say it. I
- 51:03Speaker 1: was the outside guy, the B league guy. In a
- 51:06Speaker 1: lot of people's eyes, I was the dark horse. I
- 51:09Speaker 1: said too much. In a lot of people's eyes. I
- 51:11Speaker 1: had too much confidence. People don't like confidence. They don't
- 51:13Speaker 1: like they don't like you coming and act like you're
- 51:14Speaker 1: gonna beat people for some reason, like y'all are y'all
- 51:17Speaker 1: are just you need to have.
- 51:18Speaker 2: New It's okay.
- 51:19Speaker 1: But so I knew all that, but I couldn't really
- 51:22Speaker 1: say it because I didn't have a number next to
- 51:24Speaker 1: my name. Now I'm ranked number four in the world,
- 51:26Speaker 1: so it's like, so you're four, Now number four, So
- 51:29Speaker 1: it's so now, but now it's now one of the guys, right, yeah,
- 51:33Speaker 1: now one of the guys. Now it's like, okay, there's
- 51:35Speaker 1: only there's only four guys here. Who should be fighting
- 51:37Speaker 1: for the title. Who's it going to be? You know,
- 51:39Speaker 1: it's either me, Gae Chee Pourier or Charles Olavera. So
- 51:44Speaker 1: essentially we thought we had a four man tournament leading
- 51:46Speaker 1: to the title. Now we might have another four man
- 51:48Speaker 1: tournament leading to the title. Who who knows what it is.
- 51:50Speaker 1: But either way, I'm two fights away at most to
- 51:54Speaker 1: hopefully fight.
- 51:54Speaker 2: So I apologize for being dumb, like who who does
- 51:56Speaker 2: have the title? So Kabiev still has the title, but
- 51:59Speaker 2: essentially it will just be vacated. I believe.
- 52:02Speaker 5: I always hate that man because then they make a
- 52:04Speaker 5: what an interim championship or something like that or something. Well,
- 52:07Speaker 5: so if but then if kid could be come back,
- 52:09Speaker 5: it's like, oh, belt versus belt.
- 52:11Speaker 1: No, they won't do it. It'll be him fighting. It'll
- 52:14Speaker 1: be an uncrowned. Like everyone knows, kuld Be was undefeated
- 52:17Speaker 1: and still the champion. He relinquished the belt and retired.
- 52:20Speaker 1: He didn't lose the belt, so kind of like George. Yeah,
- 52:25Speaker 1: so they'll relink, he'll relinquish it, and they will have
- 52:30Speaker 1: a title fight. And I wish they would have just
- 52:34Speaker 1: made the McGregor versus Pooria a title fight, because if
- 52:36Speaker 1: they would have done that, it would have been easy
- 52:37Speaker 1: for me to say, Okay, hey, I'm the only guy.
- 52:40Speaker 1: I just did it on the co main event of
- 52:42Speaker 1: that card. In a couple of weeks. You know, I
- 52:45Speaker 1: think they'll make you fight again before you fight for
- 52:46Speaker 1: the title.
- 52:47Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 52:48Speaker 1: Maybe, Dana said in the post fight conference it was
- 52:50Speaker 1: me and Pooria for the title next.
- 52:52Speaker 2: That awesome. That's good. And he loves being on the
- 52:55Speaker 2: phone with you.
- 52:55Speaker 5: I heard his little comment, talking like, you get it
- 52:57Speaker 5: on the phone two minutes with this guy, you love him?
- 52:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's got to make you.
- 53:00Speaker 3: I got a good relationship is a seller, bro, I.
- 53:03Speaker 2: Got I mean he is.
- 53:04Speaker 1: That's why this thing is what it is like that
- 53:08Speaker 1: I got a good I got a good relationship with him.
- 53:09Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's pretty darn easy, though, man, Like
- 53:13Speaker 1: I just I see these guys. I see the way
- 53:14Speaker 1: they operate. I see the entitlement in which they they
- 53:17Speaker 1: they operate in. They don't understand what they have and
- 53:20Speaker 1: they and they and they don't understand what they have
- 53:22Speaker 1: because they're spoiled me fighting outside of the UFC for
- 53:25Speaker 1: so long, me coming in now, I'm like a kid
- 53:27Speaker 1: at the candy store. Yet I'm a thirty four year
- 53:29Speaker 1: old veteran of the sport. It's not like I'm some young,
- 53:32Speaker 1: starry eyed kid who's just so happy to be a
- 53:34Speaker 1: part of the UFC. It's like, I'm happy to be
- 53:36Speaker 1: a part of the UFC because I've been outside of
- 53:38Speaker 1: the UFC seeing the alternative to the UFC for so long.
- 53:42Speaker 1: How everything operates compared to how well the UFC operates,
- 53:45Speaker 1: Also compared to how well your life can change overnight
- 53:48Speaker 1: in the UFC.
- 53:49Speaker 3: You can't do that anywhere else. What are the big
- 53:50Speaker 3: glaring differences between Beltour and UFC. Like you say, I've
- 53:53Speaker 3: been on the outside. Belltour is the biggest competitor to UFC.
- 53:56Speaker 3: What makes UFC so much different? Just it has that
- 53:59Speaker 3: much more of a raw that was more marketing, that
- 54:01Speaker 3: was that's that much more money.
- 54:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 54:02Speaker 1: So what I would say without I mean, and it
- 54:05Speaker 1: just for a in a completely subjective stance, is Bellatour. Bellator,
- 54:11Speaker 1: I think is just content doing what they're doing being
- 54:13Speaker 1: the number two, never ever growing or taking ground from
- 54:17Speaker 1: the UFC, whereas the UFC Dana White stays up at
- 54:20Speaker 1: night trying to figure out how he makes this thing
- 54:24Speaker 1: bigger than the NFL, bigger than F one, bigger than
- 54:28Speaker 1: freaking cricket, bigger than all these other sports, bigger than
- 54:31Speaker 1: WWE pre soccer, Premiere Premier soccer. I believe that he
- 54:35Speaker 1: truly operates. He is pissed off every time he sees
- 54:39Speaker 1: the NFL, F one, cricket, soccer, that these sports franchises
- 54:44Speaker 1: are bigger.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Than the UFC.
- 54:45Speaker 1: I think he is a freaking shark. I think he wants.
- 54:50Speaker 1: He wants to build this thing into the biggest sports
- 54:53Speaker 1: franchise in the entire world, and that, to me is
- 54:55Speaker 1: exciting because I operate similar to that, much more similar
- 54:59Speaker 1: to that than I do.
- 55:00Speaker 2: Status quo. I'm okay true.
- 55:03Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you know, Bellator Man, I would my last
- 55:07Speaker 1: six fights in Bellator I got. I had a camera
- 55:09Speaker 1: on me one time. I was like one of the
- 55:11Speaker 1: faces of Belacher. I almost feel like I do. I
- 55:14Speaker 1: did my own promotion like I spend. I spend a
- 55:17Speaker 1: lot of money per year on my own video stuff,
- 55:20Speaker 1: my own content. Creating my own content, running ads, different
- 55:27Speaker 1: marketing things for.
- 55:28Speaker 2: Me to build. What I had to build, I was
- 55:29Speaker 2: my own to get in front of everybody.
- 55:31Speaker 1: Yes, I was my own media company, when really it
- 55:34Speaker 1: should be it should have been Bellator building me so
- 55:36Speaker 1: that they could build a star, so they could make
- 55:37Speaker 1: money off the star. They don't want to. They didn't
- 55:39Speaker 1: want to spend the money. The UFC has probably spent
- 55:41Speaker 1: more money on me right now in my first four
- 55:44Speaker 1: months than Bellatour has in the last four years. And
- 55:46Speaker 1: that's nothing against them. It's just that's the way that
- 55:49Speaker 1: they operate their.
- 55:50Speaker 2: Bi Some people are happy being where they're at.
- 55:51Speaker 1: I got to the point where they, I think they
- 55:53Speaker 1: looked at me and said, well, Chandler's big enough, so
- 55:55Speaker 1: let's go build you know, Pico and Page and this
- 55:59Speaker 1: guy and Kimbo's lices, Son and this and this, and
- 56:01Speaker 1: let's go build these other people, which is completely.
- 56:02Speaker 2: Because you're bringing military up a little more because of
- 56:04Speaker 2: who where you got to.
- 56:06Speaker 1: So I but I've always just thought differently. I've always
- 56:08Speaker 1: looked at it like a business much more than just
- 56:10Speaker 1: a sport.
- 56:10Speaker 2: I you know.
- 56:12Speaker 1: So that's how I always operated it, and I always
- 56:15Speaker 1: said social media is what is going to be the
- 56:17Speaker 1: measuring stick for how well you do and how much
- 56:20Speaker 1: money you make.
- 56:21Speaker 2: I talked, I talked to my managers about it, like
- 56:22Speaker 2: eight years ago. They thought I was crazy.
- 56:24Speaker 1: Was talking to other people who are like, no, it's
- 56:25Speaker 1: always just going to be like Facebook where you got
- 56:27Speaker 1: friends and you got this, And I'm like, no, I'm
- 56:28Speaker 1: telling you right now, that is your resume, that is
- 56:31Speaker 1: your worth, That is your look at the followers, that
- 56:33Speaker 1: is your yeah. Yeah, and then the followers, but then
- 56:37Speaker 1: also bringing and adding value and then the relationship, like
- 56:41Speaker 1: I don't have a sponsor right now that I don't
- 56:42Speaker 1: have a really great relationship with outside of the business relationship,
- 56:46Speaker 1: you know, because that's longevity, that's that's impact, and that's
- 56:51Speaker 1: significance within the organization.
- 56:53Speaker 5: So some of the young athletes out there listening, what
- 56:56Speaker 5: is uh, could you give us a ballpark? How much
- 56:58Speaker 5: you spend per year on your own you're on social stuff?
- 57:02Speaker 2: Thirty thousand? Probably? What about your body, which isn't a ton? Yeah? No,
- 57:06Speaker 2: what about your body? You probably, oh god, way more
- 57:09Speaker 2: than that. Yeah.
- 57:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when it comes to supplementation, body work,
- 57:14Speaker 1: all the other stuff, like the freaking yeah, Like whether
- 57:18Speaker 1: it be Pilate's, whether it be Yoga, whether it be
- 57:22Speaker 1: I mean I the company that I am sponsored by
- 57:26Speaker 1: now to so right, like obviously all of their products
- 57:29Speaker 1: I get for free now, but man, before I was
- 57:31Speaker 1: buying all of those products using the time, the energy,
- 57:35Speaker 1: and the money spent on just making sure this body lasts.
- 57:38Speaker 2: As long as possible.
- 57:39Speaker 1: Yeah, because even like right now or yesterday, I was
- 57:41Speaker 1: driving in the car with my wife and it's just like,
- 57:44Speaker 1: you don't quite you don't, you can't quite put a
- 57:46Speaker 1: number or dollars sign on it. But me getting the
- 57:50Speaker 1: Comain Events slot on the Conomcgregor pay per view, knocking
- 57:53Speaker 1: that guy on the first round, doing the backflip, doing
- 57:55Speaker 1: the Rick Flair promo, doing all this crazy stuff. But
- 57:58Speaker 1: the greatest thing about it was I didn't take one
- 58:00Speaker 1: shot to the head. So that essentially means this fight
- 58:04Speaker 1: can be taken off the record and I get one
- 58:06Speaker 1: more extra at the end of the career, one more
- 58:08Speaker 1: extra paycheck, one more extra platform, one more extra opportunity
- 58:12Speaker 1: because I took no damage in this fight. That is
- 58:14Speaker 1: the greatest thing, greatest possible scenario. So you think because
- 58:17Speaker 1: you didn't take any shots like that.
- 58:19Speaker 3: Could you turn around and fight a lot sooner or
- 58:21Speaker 3: is there way more of a process that goes into
- 58:23Speaker 3: that as far as like you gotta watch film on
- 58:25Speaker 3: a dude, you got to do your homework, or if
- 58:27Speaker 3: you're like.
- 58:27Speaker 2: Hey, we need you to fight in six weeks, you
- 58:28Speaker 2: can go fight.
- 58:29Speaker 1: No, I definitely could do. I want to absolutely not.
- 58:31Speaker 1: I mean I was actually freaking talking to my wife
- 58:34Speaker 1: about this morning. I was like, well, what if Dana
- 58:35Speaker 1: called right now is like, hey, you and whoever for
- 58:38Speaker 1: the title in March. She's like, well, I would kill you,
- 58:41Speaker 1: but I would love you and I would love another
- 58:43Speaker 1: paycheck and I love for you to to you get
- 58:45Speaker 1: to get that title to get you know, So could
- 58:47Speaker 1: I could? I physically absolutely because I didn't have a
- 58:50Speaker 1: suspension basically mandatory rest for seven days just because that's
- 58:53Speaker 1: mandatory that everybody does after a fight. But I could
- 58:56Speaker 1: absolutely do it, and it would almost be even better.
- 58:59Speaker 1: Mind is, sharp hands are where they need to be
- 59:01Speaker 1: because you kind of lose it a little bit.
- 59:03Speaker 2: Just like you guys probably need you take time off,
- 59:04Speaker 2: and you need the time. You need the time off.
- 59:08Speaker 1: You know it's gonna suck when you come back and
- 59:10Speaker 1: you're a little bit slower here, You're a little bit
- 59:12Speaker 1: slower there.
- 59:12Speaker 2: Things don't feel shape.
- 59:15Speaker 1: And then then it takes you a couple of weeks
- 59:16Speaker 1: to come back. But you know that you needed that
- 59:18Speaker 1: time off. Your body needed to you know, maybe whatever,
- 59:21Speaker 1: whether it gain a little bit of weight, swell it,
- 59:22Speaker 1: because like, especially for me, making weight, I put my
- 59:26Speaker 1: body into starvation mode and like the body does not
- 59:29Speaker 1: operate well there for for long periods of time. So
- 59:32Speaker 1: you need I need to you know, we had pizza.
- 59:33Speaker 1: We had taco night last night at the Chandler household.
- 59:35Speaker 1: The night before that, we made homemade pizzas. So like
- 59:37Speaker 1: we're I want my body out, but let my body
- 59:40Speaker 1: get a little a little bit fluffy. Like I'm always
- 59:43Speaker 1: gonna stay in shape and I'm gonna continue to work out,
- 59:44Speaker 1: but I need like a little bit of fluff in
- 59:47Speaker 1: the joints. These joints have been freaking getting crushed for
- 59:49Speaker 1: the last eight month.
- 59:50Speaker 2: String. You know, it's left the body.
- 59:54Speaker 3: Injury. There's a reason why you're the area gets inflamed,
- 59:56Speaker 3: is that the body's protecting itself. And let's take the
- 59:58Speaker 3: pain away a little bit.
- 59:59Speaker 1: I see what you you know, so like let the body,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: let the body just you know, go back to a
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: normal person for a little bit, you know, and then
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: then go back right back into it. But physically, I would,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: you know, as an athlete, if if I didn't have
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: wife and son that I wanted to like serve and
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: be with right now, as an athlete, going right back
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: into a training camp and fighting in four weeks would
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: probably be best case scenario.
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: So best case scenario with all obviously with the family
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: and all that, right now, if Danna called you, what's
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: the best time for you to fight?
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: Right now? April May?
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: Yeah, late April May. L that puts me in training camp.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: I got a couple of trips.
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: My wife planning four trips in the next like six week,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: which is great. We're going to Florida this weekend, and
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: we go to Scottsdale. Then we go to uh Park City,
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: shoutout Scottsdale, scot shoutouts Gottsdale, azy baby, uh and then
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: uh and then we're gonna go to go to Cabo.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: Okay, first off, two of those fuck hard when you
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: when are you? When are you going to Cabo? I
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: don't know I could do without Florida, But I think March,
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: the first week of March.
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: We're going to.
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: We'll be there. We'll be there eleventh to the fifteen.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. Scott we go to Scotstale for we
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: just love Scottsdale. We're probably gonna get a house out
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: there too.
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, go from Nashville Scottsdale.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Yeah, so we we're so we are our best friends,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: the Randolph's. Uh they have a little daughter and about
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: my son's age. So we we rented a house.
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: We've rented a.
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: House in scotts Stale twice now in the last two years.
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: I forget. I'm really actually not good because we literally
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: rent the house. We stay at the house. It's the
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: last time we got a six bedroom compound because we
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: have my family and stuff. Come out pool freaking volleyball court.
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: So we literally did not leave the place. Yeah, we
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: went and grabbed food one day, like a mile away.
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: But so I don't really know Scottsdale that well. I
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: just know I like the desert. It's very close to California,
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: but it's not California, and I you know, it's a
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: West coast.
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough.
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: I always thought like Arizona California would be my my
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: ending spot. And I'm a huge I'm a huge scenery
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: guy told me if I'm in California, i gotta be
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: in the ocean because it doesn't matter, Like if you're
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: not on the ocean, all the other bullshit doesn't really.
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: It's kind of a in the ass like sh It's like,
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: you know, there's obviously a pandemic, but and stuff shutting
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: down all the time, you can't really do what you
- 1:02:05Speaker 3: need to do. You go down an area, you right
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: down in Arizona. Yeah, it's beautiful, scenery, beautiful people like
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: it's a it's amazing. I mean, growing up there, obviously
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: I'm super biased, but I love it there.
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: Do you grew up in Scottsdale. Not in Scottsdale, grew
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: up in Cave Creek.
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: It's just about forty five minutes north, much more western Vibeka.
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: It's a it's a place you'll find, uh, if you
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: go to a bar there, you'll find a horse, an
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: old truck, and a ferrari all part in the same park.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: It's it's got to a little.
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: Bit of a variety, but small town just north of Scottsdale.
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: I went my senior year of school. I went to Scottsdale,
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: and you know, very lot of money obviously, but it's
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: a really nice area and it's it's just it's just nice.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: Everything's nice. It is nice. And mountains around mountains. I love,
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: like even just being in Vegas because we landed back
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: in Vegas. I do. I love being around the mountains. Yeah,
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: I love it, like it's such a cool vibe. It
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: is cool.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: But the funny we love Nashville too, like we love
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: we love this city now. I mean it was it
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: was a rough transition. We came from San Diego. You know,
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: we have some friends, you're really tough. Yeah, we had
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: some friends here, but not a ton of friends. And
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: then we adopted my son literally two months into being here.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: And then I went right into training camp, came back
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: for two weeks, came right went but went right back
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: into another training camp.
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: So we just had a really rough go at it,
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: like the whole first year we were here, you know.
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: And now building a community, building a friend group, building
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: you know, is uh, sinking our teeth into this city
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: is is awesome as well.
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: So it's thinking me like seven eight years to really
- 1:03:28Speaker 3: sink into this community.
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: Especial business and when you're as busy as you are,
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: and then not to mention all the people that you
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: would be friends with are busy as well.
- 1:03:36Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm busy, then I leave, I'm busy, then
- 1:03:38Speaker 3: I leave, I go the whole season here and I'm busy, busy, busy,
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: And then the soon a season ends, I'm like, well,
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: let me go someone and hang out for a little bit.
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: And then it ends up saying being from like January
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: to April.
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: Well, not to mention the fact that if you do
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: have a little bit of you do have a little
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: bit of downtime, Like if you do have a little
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: bit of downtime, you're now you're done with season or
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: you're or you're done with this or that. It's like, okay,
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: well maybe I actually want to spend time with the
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: family as well, because I have given them half of
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: myself for the last season, training camp, whatever it may be.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: So it's uh, it ain't easy.
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: But so April, if going back to I Love this show,
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: on to skot Sale and hopefully you go to Cobble
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: shout Out Shoutouts Sale, if you go to Cobbo in
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: Marks where we definitely got to get together because it's
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: just a fun time, no question.
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: We have favorite trips. Yeah.
- 1:04:18Speaker 3: But so if then a college you said, hey, we're
- 1:04:20Speaker 3: fighting April, what is the process like to get.
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: Back to all the way out to? Yeah? How long?
- 1:04:25Speaker 3: How long?
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: How long do you usually take a training camp?
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: So if I knew this far in advance, right now,
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: I would I would do a twelve week block. I
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: would do a four week, four week pre camp where
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: I just start doing strength and conditioning, mobility and cardio
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: here in town.
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: Then I would go to Florida for eight straight weeks.
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: And in Florida's where you do all.
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: This is where I do all myself. So yeah, so
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: I'm now I'm finally doing it right. I'm buying a
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: bout a Ton town home. It'll be finished construction in May.
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: So technically I wouldn't have it for this training camp.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: But from now on, so I take my car, I
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: throw everything in it, drive down twelve hours, thirteen hours
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: straight down.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Yeah. I have my fun. Yeah, I have my fun. Fun.
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: I had my son with me. I had my son
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: with me, I had my fun son with me. We
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: had fun for four weeks this last training camp. He
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: was there, so we brought our nanny down, got her
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: house in kind of like the same neighborhood, had my
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: son down there for like four weeks of the eight weeks,
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: which was actually really nice, you know, but Breeze here.
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: She she works full time and loves her job and
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: loves what she does, so she does that. And then
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: we've been long distance for eight years, so it works
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: works for us. We're used to it. And then I
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: grab a VRBO you know, vacation rental Airbnb whatever, Yeah,
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: for X amount of weeks. This last training camp was
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: just I moved three different times because it was it
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: was Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's down in. So booked
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: the first place for like four weeks, second place for
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: two weeks, and then like the last place for like
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: the last ten days. And I had to move move
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: all my stuff three different times.
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: Such opinion, dude, and I'm like, what am I doing? Well, truthfully,
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: it was because the gym that I train at moved
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: like four times in the last five years.
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: Also, so now that we're in Deerfield Beach, which is
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: right near del Rey Boca area, we're there and we
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: get there on a three year lease, probably going to
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: sign for another five, Like, we're not moving now.
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: I bought a place two miles from the gym, got.
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: Enough space, got a two car garage, got everything. I'll
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: probably buy another vehicle to leave down there. Just make
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: it as seamless as possible. Buy one plane ticket, pack
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: one bag of stuff, go down there, be in training camp.
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: Nice.
- 1:06:29Speaker 5: So best case scenario for you is you'd like to
- 1:06:31Speaker 5: probably fight in April if you were in control of
- 1:06:33Speaker 5: the situation.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: I mean, really, I don't. I wouldn't mind a little
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: bit more time off because I mean, if if I'm
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: not fighting right away, I might as well I wouldn't be.
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: It also depends to get back a new group anyway.
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: Yeah, it also depends on like the reason we want
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: the reason we fought January twenty third was it was.
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: The co main event of a counter Oh absolutely pay
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: per view.
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: It always it's always trying to figure out, like if
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: this is a title fight, will be the main event
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: or the coming event if there's another title fight on
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: the card, because it's all about eyeballs and it exposure
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: as well, you know, so.
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: You can take the you could take the the.
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: Choice of being a main event on like an ESPN
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: Fight Night or you could wait an extra month and
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: be the co main event on another big pay per.
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: View, you know, become that new little shiny toy. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: So for me, like I said, I want the maximum
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: amount of exposure, exposure to make the maximum amount of
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: impact in the shortest amount of time. So I would
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: wait till July if it meant being on the co
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: main event or the main event of another counter card
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: or whatever it may be.
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: M they're on the Pat McAfee show yesterday, shut out
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: Pat McAfee.
- 1:07:35Speaker 5: A big fan of his stuff, and you were you
- 1:07:37Speaker 5: were talking about your style, you're not a big kicker
- 1:07:39Speaker 5: and stuff like that. When you go down and train
- 1:07:42Speaker 5: in Florida and stuff, is this something where you start
- 1:07:44Speaker 5: implementing new skills or you work on what you're great
- 1:07:46Speaker 5: at or how how do you how does your mind
- 1:07:49Speaker 5: shift from fight to fight?
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: For me, honestly, I I realize and you know, I
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: have the best kickboxing coach in the entire world, I believe,
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: in my opinion. His name is Henry hooft Uh. He's
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: a Dutch She's a guy from Holland. He's a Dutch
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: kickboxing guy. He has has trained, trained with and beaten
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: a lot of some of the best Dutch kickboxers, a
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: kickboxers in the entire world. But he's also six foot
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: six and or six foot four and I'm you know,
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: pushing five eight and a half five nine max, so
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: short legs. I'm not going to be the best kicker,
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: so I'm not working on necessarily kicks or that stuff
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: all the time. I know I got I feel like
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: I have power on both my hands. I'm going to
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: continue to do my basic striking techniques, my basic boxing,
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: basic hard hand techniques, focused ninety percent of the stuff,
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: ninety percent of my training on what I can do
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: even more, even better and more efficient and in a easiest,
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: easiest path to victory type of scenario, and then focus
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: that last twenty to ten percent on what my opponent's
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: habits are or what he brings to the table.
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: Gotcha what I can exploit? I got you. That's impressive. Yeah,
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: this has been what as UFC. I know, I know
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: you got to go soon. Well, but that's what I
- 1:09:09Speaker 2: was trying to do with happens right now?
- 1:09:11Speaker 5: No, we're good, we got fourteen minutes, okay, will I
- 1:09:14Speaker 5: know you got to go well, I was just thinking like,
- 1:09:16Speaker 5: I had nothing in my brain to follow up. I
- 1:09:18Speaker 5: was like drawn in the listening to him, and I
- 1:09:20Speaker 5: was like, what, maybe I'll wait a second see if
- 1:09:22Speaker 5: Taylor heads soon followed, then I was like, oh, well,
- 1:09:24Speaker 5: this was I.
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: Want to know about.
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: I want to by flying that, all that flying, the
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: jet lag and everything, and as the UFC, have you
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: heard any memories about maybe them, you know, if this
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: stuff slows down going back to a regular setup in
- 1:09:36Speaker 3: Vegas and you know they used to travel and stuff
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: like that.
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: Do you think that'll happen in July?
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: Do you think we're headed towards that or is that
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: going to be kind of the stationary spot.
- 1:09:44Speaker 2: For a while. I think so.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: I don't have any like really information on that necessarily,
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: but I will say, I mean, you guys know, Canelo
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: Alvarez fought with fifteen thousand people at the Alamo Dome
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: like a month or two ago.
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: Really, yeah, fifteen thousand people. So I'm assuming that's in Texas.
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Texas run different.
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: Yeah, but if they do well, there's a reason why
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: for a while, Yeah, everyone's moving to Texas.
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: Joe Rogan moved to Texas, Tesla and moved to Texas
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: like that's where people Texas get on that Joe.
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: Well, for sure that's where Okay, yeah, for sure that's where.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: But that's where the UFC started when they came back
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: from the pandemic. They they used a Jacksonville, Florida venue,
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: the Something Star Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, because Florida was
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: so lax with it. But yeah, I mean, I don't
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: I really don't know why we keep going back to
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: Abu Dabi aside from the fact that it's they need
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: it for the international fighters. And then right now with
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: the the changing of the administrations here in the US,
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: I don't know what our quarantine travel stuff.
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: Situation like it's gonna be after the twenty well after
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: now now it is you have to like have a
- 1:10:50Speaker 3: test to get back in the country.
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: See that that kind of stuff, like yeah, which which
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: will will always work out fine for the UFC because
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: we we got tested like nine times and eleven or twelve.
- 1:11:00Speaker 3: They chartered they charted those flights to the Vegas like
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: to is it all just UFC people that plane?
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: So it's at the at the Hide Airways and yeah,
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: we had like a very full flat on the way back.
- 1:11:10Speaker 1: But yeah, just a huge plane and we left out
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: a left out a Vegas to get there, and then
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: obviously they're back.
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: We landed at three am.
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: You can talk about the jet lag, like, yeah, I
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: woke up this morning at two twenty seven to twenty
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: seven am.
- 1:11:23Speaker 3: Woke up at two twenty seven am the night before
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: that for some reason. Yeah, I don't know what's up
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: at two twenty seven. Wrote those numbers down. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: And uh so it's been Yeah.
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: I get really tired at like six pm, you know,
- 1:11:39Speaker 1: And I tried to stay up last night.
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: I didn't.
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: I was in bed by like seven forty five, which
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: I probably should. I need to stay up later so
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: I hopefully sleep longer. But I was like, forget it.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: That's probably when you texted and you were starting to drift. Yeah,
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: so I was like, hey, man, shut it down soon us. Yeah,
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: I look at the chair. I was tired.
- 1:11:59Speaker 5: I was time just fun, man, that's wild. What do
- 1:12:04Speaker 5: you what do you go ahead? No, that's fucking for it.
- 1:12:07Speaker 5: I was gonna ask about McGregor. Are you get a
- 1:12:09Speaker 5: little sick of McGregor's talk?
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: Uh, what do you mean? You like? It's it's been
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: McGregor's show since twenty fifteen. No, I was gonna ask
- 1:12:19Speaker 2: what he thinks next for McGregor. Well, yeah, no, I
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: want to know that's going down. I know it. He's warranted. Man,
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: the guy is. He's a superstar. He's a superstar, and
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: and good for him.
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: Like I would never like just because I think I
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: would beat him, or just because i think I'm better
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: than him, just like I've said, I've said these things.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: But that's not a knock on him. What he has
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: done is nothing short of amazing what he has built.
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: I mean, the guy was literally, truthfully on welfare just
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: six seven years.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: Ago or whatever.
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: Right, he's like a plumber, right, he was a plumber.
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: He was on welfare, he was collecting that kind of
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: check or the government subsidy, whatever you call it. And uh,
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: then he became a global superstar and now he's a
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: hundred millionaire. And I will say it was, uh, it
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: was very interesting being around him, you know, because you
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: always want to size people up, like what do they
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: look like? I mean, he's he's much smaller in real
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: life than he is on on the internet and on
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: TV and whatnot.
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: He's not a small person, but he's smaller.
- 1:13:18Speaker 5: Than I am, you know, I really, I mean, you
- 1:13:20Speaker 5: so him just like everybody else did behind the camera
- 1:13:22Speaker 5: and the lens, and you're like, oh, I'm about to
- 1:13:23Speaker 5: be in person with.
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: And he's listed at five to nine.
- 1:13:25Speaker 3: I don't quite know if he's five five eight maybe
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: maybe pushing. Yeah, he's five he's five eight, you know,
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: but he's but he's a more of a slender build.
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: But that's the thing about you look at my body
- 1:13:35Speaker 3: type and his body type. He automatically looks taller because
- 1:13:37Speaker 3: he's a slimmer as me. I'm just thicker and I
- 1:13:42Speaker 3: and yeah, going back to my my, my coach. It's
- 1:13:45Speaker 3: it's so funny, man, because my coach, like I said,
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: is six four, So I'm hitting past with everybody's like, god,
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: dang Tandler is a midget. People think I'm like five
- 1:13:51Speaker 3: five because my coach is so dang tall. But back
- 1:13:56Speaker 3: to McGregor, Like, the guy has built a persona brand,
- 1:14:00Speaker 3: he honestly has built. We are all getting paid more
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: money because of Conor McGregor. We're all what I've seen
- 1:14:07Speaker 3: in the last couple of days since my fight, how
- 1:14:09Speaker 3: much my kind of brand or persona or the notoriety
- 1:14:13Speaker 3: has built a lot of that stuff is yeah, what
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: I've done, but it's also the notoriety that Conna McGregor
- 1:14:18Speaker 3: has brought to the sport, both as a byproduct of
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: him coming into the sport over the last x amount
- 1:14:24Speaker 3: of years, but also me fighting on the same card
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: as him. I mean, the impact that I have made
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: over the last couple of days since my fight would
- 1:14:31Speaker 3: be tenfold smaller if it wasn't on econom McGregor.
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: Hold review. The guy's got the whole country on his back.
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: He he is, He's I truly think I've gone up
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: and down with it. But it's kind of like what
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: we said, Man, you got to respect the guy. He's
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: got more pressure on him than anybody else. You know,
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: he doesn't have to fight either, Like why is he fighting?
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: We got to ask ourselves that why is it fighting?
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: He's got hundreds of millions in the bed blood exactly.
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: He's got this Opper twelve whiskey that he's selling cases
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: that they're flying off the shoves. The guy's gonna make
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: more money in whiskey than he probably will in fighting
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. So, but it is,
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: it's in his DNA, and I think you look at
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: a see you know, you look at all the rest
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: of us. We have to do it for our careers,
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: right I'm not set for life yet, you know. I
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: love what I do, but I gotta I gotta go
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: make a paycheck as well. So what's next for him?
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: I think the Daz trilogy. Here's here's what I would like.
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: I win the title, Connor fights Diaz, gets a win,
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: and then he fights me for the title at the
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: end of the year, you know, because.
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: Connor goes back and gets it.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: But so so right now, Connor's got a trilogy fight
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: with with Dustin Poorie, which may happen, but it's not
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: gonna be for the title, I don't think so. Yeah,
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: Poorier has to choose do I get the money fight
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: trilogy with Connor or do I fight for the title next.
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: He's got to make that decision.
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: And then Connor's also got the trilogy with DZ, which
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: everybody wants to see. Di has is a star. Diz
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: is not a not a hard fight. He has is
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: an easy fight. Quite frankly, for Connor, I think, why.
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: Do you think that?
- 1:16:09Speaker 3: I just think the iron chint did he takes so
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: many shots. He takes a he he doesn't take every fight. Yeah,
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: guy talks like he's had cerebral.
- 1:16:19Speaker 5: And he doesn't.
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: He don't give a fight.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: And but we're two or three years removed from that
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: last fight now, you know, so he's gotten you know,
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: with every year. It's kind of like you talked about,
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: like taking care of your body. I don't know how
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: well the guy takes care of his body either, Like
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: you know, I think he's probably he's.
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: Probably declining a lot more than than other people are.
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: He's pushing thirty seven, I think at this point thirty
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: six thirty seven, which still isn't old in the sport
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: if you've taken care of yourself. But so, I think
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: the easiest and best path to victory for Connor is
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: get that trilogy fight with Z and then come back
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: and then get a title fight after that. And everybody
- 1:16:53Speaker 1: will say he doesn't deserve it, but it doesn't matter.
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: It's Connor McGregor. If it makes money, it makes sense.
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: You don't think they don't think there's a way he
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: goes Diaz from the pooer.
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: Yeah, he could. I said that, right, Poy, And then
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: do you or is that us to.
- 1:17:07Speaker 5: No, I think he could, but because I think that
- 1:17:08Speaker 5: the space in between those two trips probably like that
- 1:17:11Speaker 5: happened is, yeah, you Connors and then some call outs,
- 1:17:17Speaker 5: all the fun happens, and then you guys are set
- 1:17:18Speaker 5: up at the end of your and Connors is a lost.
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great. And make sure that thing
- 1:17:22Speaker 3: in February so May and Will can go.
- 1:17:29Speaker 5: That would be But I think I think just on
- 1:17:31Speaker 5: the camera, like the boy the boys are in the
- 1:17:33Speaker 5: the boys are in Vegas. Yeah, we just we do
- 1:17:35Speaker 5: the little, the little cool thing that everybody does. Just
- 1:17:38Speaker 5: throw a fist up and look at the camera.
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: Yeah, give him the two fists like these, and we
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: just do the handhold just like.
- 1:17:49Speaker 5: Right.
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: No, I drink all of yours.
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: But I think I think those those two trilogies are
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: a big fights that the fans want to see, big
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: fights that the UFC would like to make. And then
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: they're also not easy but winnable fights for for Connor.
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: Not that Connor could be anybody in the division, I believe,
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: but besides me, but just not as easy.
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: I think it's easier, easier path to.
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: Victor for like a DS fighting DZ and even I
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: mean he was doing well against Pourier.
- 1:18:17Speaker 5: I think, you know, I'd love to see you McGregor
- 1:18:21Speaker 5: due because you both command the center of the ring. Yeah,
- 1:18:23Speaker 5: you both you both kind of pressure and keep the
- 1:18:25Speaker 5: guys on the outside.
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and I like that.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: I like that clash of okay instead of like, I mean,
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: you saw my last fight the way Hooker was evading me,
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: and I loove man shout out to Daniel Cormier because
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: like that dude's you know, shut up a couple of people,
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: because everybody's like, oh, well, hooker didn't look the same.
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: Hooker looked timid. Hooker looks scared hooker. Hooker had a
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: bad night.
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: And it's like, well, it's all fun and games until
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: you got a guy walking you down in your face,
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: throwing leather at you and putting pressure on you.
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: Of course you're gonna run away, you know, Like did
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: you have that chest too?
- 1:18:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not just gonna go right into that. You
- 1:18:58Speaker 3: want to back up, you want to feel it out.
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: Especially he was able to.
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: He was always he thought he was gonna be able
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: to keep me at bay for all night, and he
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- 1:19:14Speaker 5: but he did and didn't.
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- 1:21:05Speaker 3: We looked so dumb if we did that, but I'll
- 1:21:06Speaker 3: tell you if it. Yeah, dude, absolutely no, that's awesome.
- 1:21:11Speaker 3: That'd be I I love for that to go down.
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: Connor beat Diaz.
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: I mean, dude, I.
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: Likedeas because he's just such a he's such a grinder,
- 1:21:19Speaker 3: like he's just like you tell he just doesn't give
- 1:21:21Speaker 3: a ship.
- 1:21:22Speaker 5: Like, man, this guy looks like and you know what
- 1:21:23Speaker 5: he's done. He's just on in the car whatever. He's
- 1:21:26Speaker 5: smoking a vape. No, he's smoking. I think they just
- 1:21:32Speaker 5: changed it. I gotta I gotta go read the use
- 1:21:33Speaker 5: side of guidelines whatever. But I'm pretty sure you can
- 1:21:36Speaker 5: smoke marijuana now in competition. And it's either the metabolite
- 1:21:41Speaker 5: slash threshold either went way way way up where it's
- 1:21:43Speaker 5: almost like you would literally have to smoke a huge
- 1:21:45Speaker 5: joint right before.
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: At least that's what someone said. And I have no idea.
- 1:21:51Speaker 5: I don't even know if that gets to you. Because
- 1:21:52Speaker 5: ours race too, really, yeah, ours race too, And yeah,
- 1:21:55Speaker 5: I think they're.
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: Starting to realize, like, hey, man, like why are we
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: doing this it's not a it's not a PE, it's
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: not a performance enhancer. So yeah, why don't why don't
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: we just let them let everybody see.
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: As a PEDS it, I mean it can't. I mean
- 1:22:07Speaker 3: it helps with information, helps with anxiety stress. A lot
- 1:22:10Speaker 3: of guys might take that around. I mean, it doesn't
- 1:22:13Speaker 3: take away stress for anxiety, but it curves it for sure.
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: You're all worried instead of having that mental coach that
- 1:22:18Speaker 3: could calm me down before fight, better sleep. You know
- 1:22:21Speaker 3: your reaction. I mean that's a big domino effect. I
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: just said, it's a big ing too, because it's you
- 1:22:26Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think, I think see,
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: I think CBD and uh obviously, but marijuana especially is
- 1:22:32Speaker 3: I think it's ridiculous.
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: That's illegal, right because it's not like a chemical that's
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: made to directly try.
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: And the minute, the minute you say you can't have something,
- 1:22:42Speaker 3: you know, half of everybody's like, well why not?
- 1:22:45Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: Yeah, but why not? What's this about?
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: That's how I wasn't in middle school. You told me
- 1:22:49Speaker 3: I couldn't do something just to find out what it's
- 1:22:51Speaker 3: all about.
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: So did you have anything else on there? Alex?
- 1:22:55Speaker 5: I saw the the Jake Paul stuff asking I don't
- 1:22:58Speaker 5: even I'm gonna be honest, I'm even want to talk
- 1:23:00Speaker 5: about it. Ben.
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben's your guy. That's why I had it on there.
- 1:23:04Speaker 5: Oh yeah Missouri boy. Yeah bro yeah, yeah, yeah that's true. Sorry,
- 1:23:08Speaker 5: no disrespect the missoo dude brothers.
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: They do a great job. Just like mcgreg that's much
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: smaller level right now.
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: But yeah, well not necessarily much small I know, truthfully,
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: they might be bigger than McGregor when it comes to
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: that YouTube following, but on a much more illegitimate level
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: when it comes to competition or actual sport, like is
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: an actual world class athlete. These guys are YouTube stars.
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: You think they they They look good you look at it.
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: Decent they're doing. They look like athletes decent. I mean
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: they'rey're decently athletic.
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but I mean the fights that they
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: have won thus far have been other YouTube fights, other
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: YouTube fights.
- 1:23:46Speaker 2: Or Nate was a Nate Robinson the best face planted
- 1:23:50Speaker 2: like dude, he was a man. Yeah, I mean find
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: out say it sounds good asses beat to throw a punch.
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: It's great though, because he picked the right guy. And
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: kudos to Ben Man. I love that Ben got that fight.
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: I hope Ben's getting paid a grip. I hope it's
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: it is tune in. I actually talked to him. I
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: was like, dude, let me know how I can get
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: to that fight. I'll be your cowboy, I'll be your
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: water boy.
- 1:24:12Speaker 2: Whatever. Awesome. I uh, you think Ben beats his ass though,
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: I do.
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: I mean I was where I was going with it
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: was he made the right decision when it came to
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: if you were going to fight a mixed martial artist.
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: Ben is known as a ground fighter, so Ben never
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: one fights boxing anybody, but I think Ben is one
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: of those mentally tough and one of the just I
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: think there's an aspect of boxing that is that is
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: a little bit of like upper upper body grappling as well,
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: because you can you know, you can grab, you can
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: grab the head a little bit under hook, and you
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: can punch punch, punch. Depending on how well refereed this fight,
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: I'm sure the rules will be a little loose. Yeah,
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: I mean exactly, because it's also a YouTube star versus
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: a retired fighter who just had a hip replacement a
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: couple just.
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: A couple of months ago to just loves a lot better.
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: It's not like I mean, it's not like it's this
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: is like Golden Boy promotions or or in Vegas or whatever.
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: I actually don't know. I think he said it was
- 1:25:08Speaker 1: going to be. I don't know where it's at, but
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: I don't know what the promotion is or what it is.
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: But so it could be a little bit lax, which
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: could be a bad thing for Ben. They might really
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: pull them away and make sure they really put Paul
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: Jake Paul in a in a position to win. But
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: I think Ben wins the fight for sure. Yeah, one
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: hundred percent. He's the he's the better athlete, pull hard
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: for If Ben wins that fight, it's kind of like
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: over for the Paul brothers. Like they can still promoting.
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: I mean, people are still going to buy their fights,
- 1:25:30Speaker 3: but that takes amount of any legitimacy of.
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: Right the moment.
- 1:25:36Speaker 5: The ship talking like saying, hey, Connor, I'm only offering
- 1:25:38Speaker 5: you ten thousand dollars.
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: Now, it's like, yeah, that was messed up.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: But then again, I guess if you if you really
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: think about it, from the casual stand sorry, from the
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: casual stand fans standpoint, people are only going to see
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: mixed martial Arts world champion and UFC fighter Ben Askron
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: beats Jake Paul, well, of course he lost to that guy. Look,
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: he was a world champion, not realizing that Ben, they
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: were fighting in a boxing match, and Ben's worst attribute
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: of his career, of his of his arsenal is boxing.
- 1:26:08Speaker 1: So it's almost kind of a win win situation for
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: Jake Paul. If he loses, he lost to an mm
- 1:26:13Speaker 1: A world champion, for sure.
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: That's why he has nothing to lose insurance.
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: But if he wins, if he wins, he beat an
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: mm A world champion, you know, and he's still trending
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: this way.
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So they're I mean, they're they're smart, man.
- 1:26:25Speaker 2: They know how about this title?
- 1:26:26Speaker 3: Dude getting paid more money than he's ever been paid before.
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: That's awesome. They build that platform making a bunch of money.
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: I'll see if I can get some inside scoop for
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: you guys. Ben doesn't because Ben doesn't care. He shut
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: on Missoo, shut on Mizoo for you. He didn't get
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: Cody to commit there, but I was able to pull
- 1:26:46Speaker 1: them Nebraska.
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: I know, bro.
- 1:26:48Speaker 5: Then when they were at UH, they were all Americans
- 1:26:50Speaker 5: at Miszoo and my brother was a stud wrestler coming
- 1:26:52Speaker 5: out of high school. I know Cody was down to
- 1:26:54Speaker 5: Missoo in Nebraska and he always came to the camps. Yeah,
- 1:26:58Speaker 5: he always came to the camps. And however, you as
- 1:27:00Speaker 5: he wrestler, you guys are different breeds. Man, You guys
- 1:27:02Speaker 5: are different breeds.
- 1:27:03Speaker 3: Showed me if you ever get in a fight, if
- 1:27:05Speaker 3: you fight anybody you want, just don't fight a wrestling dude.
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: I would tell guys.
- 1:27:08Speaker 5: So football players in my roommates and full players would
- 1:27:10Speaker 5: be at a wrestler's party, and you know, at a
- 1:27:11Speaker 5: wrestler party, it's it's the whole wrestling team.
- 1:27:14Speaker 2: It's all dudes.
- 1:27:14Speaker 5: They're wearing bandanas, their their shirts are off, and they're
- 1:27:17Speaker 5: going to go wrestling ship out in the front yard.
- 1:27:19Speaker 5: Like that's like how it is the football players and
- 1:27:22Speaker 5: you know it's true too. The fullball players are always curious, like, oh,
- 1:27:25Speaker 5: let's go wrestle. And I would try and tell I
- 1:27:27Speaker 5: would try and tell my boys. I'd be like, listen,
- 1:27:30Speaker 5: I know he only wrestles one twenty five or something
- 1:27:32Speaker 5: and he's small, but I promise you he's going to
- 1:27:34Speaker 5: beat you. Now, all let's go figure it out and
- 1:27:36Speaker 5: those dudes who go out there and just get whooped
- 1:27:38Speaker 5: in the front yard.
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: I'm just saying, hey, come get in there, and no,
- 1:27:41Speaker 2: man got it. Listen.
- 1:27:43Speaker 5: And I was not this kind of guy, like because
- 1:27:45Speaker 5: I I was not this kind of guy. But so
- 1:27:47Speaker 5: you weren't the wrestler style partier.
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: No, but but what there was but there was one
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: time very relevant right now because next week when this
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: thing comes out, there will be a player who is
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: playing in the Super Bowl. They got picked up and
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: slammed on his back flat at a missoo at a
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: bazoo wrestling party.
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: Did you really was it you? Let's go. The story
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: is Blaine Gabbard. Sol Blaine came down the one time.
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: Bro.
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: I know, man, so shout out to Blaine Gabbert. It
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: wasn't it was. It was a very playful thing.
- 1:28:26Speaker 5: You guys know, there ain't no playing when you were
- 1:28:28Speaker 5: actually getting known the football player.
- 1:28:31Speaker 2: The football player is trying no playing.
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: Oh he was joking around, We were joking, but he was,
- 1:28:36Speaker 1: uh you know the name Gissinger, John Gissinger.
- 1:28:39Speaker 2: I don't think so at the same time you did.
- 1:28:41Speaker 5: But he was.
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: He was a kid from San Diego. His dad played
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: in the NFL.
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: But we were at a party at his house and
- 1:28:46Speaker 1: he was like it might have been Blaine Gabbert's recruiting
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: trip actually, so he was like eighteen eighteen years old,
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: so like, but we start like just like guess was
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: like trying to, like, hey, wrestle with this guy because
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: I'm one hundred fifty seven pounder and Blaine's like two
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: hundred pounds.
- 1:29:01Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was like one of those things.
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: Where I I grabbed a single leg and like lifted
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: him up and didn't mean to make anything happen, but
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: what happened.
- 1:29:10Speaker 2: But you know how top heavy he was. But he
- 1:29:14Speaker 2: was top heavy.
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: So it wasn't like I, I don't want to make
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: it sound like I beat up Blaine gaber or anything
- 1:29:18Speaker 1: like that, but it was more like's the boy, dude,
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: he's the man, dude, and dude, it's just awesome to
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: see like the success obviously, and now he's freaking playing in.
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: The now he's going for a Super Bowl, backing up Brady.
- 1:29:30Speaker 5: Dude.
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: He Blaine.
- 1:29:31Speaker 3: Always when Blaine was playing for the Titans, he goes, hey, Lavan,
- 1:29:34Speaker 3: give me your best ten and steal as many as
- 1:29:36Speaker 3: you can. That was all give me your best ten years.
- 1:29:39Speaker 2: And he steals.
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: He's a beautysting pictures of him and Brady walking out
- 1:29:43Speaker 3: and gangsters moving silent.
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: Super bowls next to you. Blank compoun dude, I love
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: it was awesome when he was here too.
- 1:29:54Speaker 3: He come into games and we always I got a
- 1:29:57Speaker 3: good laugh at this because like Marcus should go out
- 1:29:59Speaker 3: or something like that and blame I'm being all right, boys,
- 1:30:01Speaker 3: watch Daddy spin it. Yeah, So he goes we're playing
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: the Colts one time, he goes, all right, boys, comes
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: in and watch Daddy spin this ship.
- 1:30:09Speaker 2: This is the middle of the game. Middle of the game.
- 1:30:11Speaker 3: Marcus goes down we're playing the Colts at Indianapolis, walks
- 1:30:15Speaker 3: in and it was like we're like five players, and
- 1:30:17Speaker 3: I'm like, got a little breath on me, and he's.
- 1:30:18Speaker 2: Like, boys watched Daddy spin it.
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: And me and like ben Jos looking at each other
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: like all right, dude, call like a quick three step pass,
- 1:30:24Speaker 3: like we have to go cut, so I go cut.
- 1:30:26Speaker 2: Totally missed my cut. So I'm like laying all my
- 1:30:28Speaker 2: stuff on my on my butt, looking at it.
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: Blaine like you're gonna get that ball out before I
- 1:30:31Speaker 3: give up A sat. Yeah, he rips the ball right
- 1:30:34Speaker 3: into the chest of Darius Leonard.
- 1:30:36Speaker 2: The first play back there, and we're laughing.
- 1:30:40Speaker 5: Dude.
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: After wins, we would put up like these posters of like,
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: you know, picture of the game. I like Will had
- 1:30:46Speaker 3: one against Detroit when he him and Bates are getting hype.
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: Well, Blaine had one.
- 1:30:50Speaker 3: He has like two fingers out calling it at the line,
- 1:30:53Speaker 3: and we put like a little air bowl.
- 1:30:54Speaker 2: Watch Daddy spin they had to walk past ship.
- 1:30:58Speaker 3: He did that again.
- 1:30:59Speaker 2: We played the Colts again and we're losing. It was
- 1:31:02Speaker 2: like four it was to go to the playoffs.
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: Whoever won that playing again, I remember that it was
- 1:31:07Speaker 3: the season and uh, Blaine comes in and goes, hey,
- 1:31:10Speaker 3: you boys, hold up, I'm gonna dice the ship out
- 1:31:12Speaker 3: of him.
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: Four plays in duty.
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: I love the confidence brot daddy. I love like me
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: as an outsider, like watching a game. I can't believe
- 1:31:29Speaker 1: that those things are actually said inside of a game,
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: inside of a huddle, inside of the game where professional
- 1:31:36Speaker 1: football players are playing.
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: Watch daddy and come in and the guys you're just like, okay, dude,
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: he is funny. He's good, dude.
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: YEA go spin that same and and I had, like,
- 1:31:47Speaker 1: here we go, I n T. You're jogging back to
- 1:31:51Speaker 1: the side, Like, so, daddy.
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: Was shut up? Man happened daddy? Really? Hey, Blaine's legend though.
- 1:32:00Speaker 2: He was a good teammate, really good teammate. But oh
- 1:32:02Speaker 2: he's a he's a beauty man.
- 1:32:03Speaker 3: People doing that stuff is so funny. Yeah, a lot
- 1:32:05Speaker 3: of stuff happens between players, a lot of talking.
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: Can't like. Yeah, for sure, it's like it's super fast paced,
- 1:32:11Speaker 2: but you can get a lot of words in. You
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: have some fun words, and it's a good time out there.
- 1:32:15Speaker 2: I like the good chirps.
- 1:32:16Speaker 5: I want to say, like when I was on the
- 1:32:18Speaker 5: Redskins and it was your rookie year, you remember how
- 1:32:20Speaker 5: we had some exchange about like being white or something
- 1:32:22Speaker 5: like that.
- 1:32:24Speaker 2: Did you guys know each other? No, we didn't know.
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: We didn't know each other.
- 1:32:26Speaker 3: But I played against him and Nebraska and Tompting is
- 1:32:29Speaker 3: a name you don't forget. I'm the back of a
- 1:32:31Speaker 3: white guy, you know what I saw, And I like
- 1:32:34Speaker 3: bumped into him, and you know, Will and I are
- 1:32:36Speaker 3: playing the tough guy act, right, and I'm like, I
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: think we put a good against each other Nebraska.
- 1:32:40Speaker 5: And like, yeah, we did, and that that was our exchange.
- 1:32:42Speaker 5: That might have been in the exchange that we're like
- 1:32:44Speaker 5: Boone he was on the Vikings. That's his name, right,
- 1:32:46Speaker 5: Alex Boone.
- 1:32:47Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex Boom. He come up. He'said, hey, I see
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: you out here, white boy. Yeah.
- 1:32:53Speaker 3: Yeah, there's only a few of us out here. Now,
- 1:32:55Speaker 3: there's only a few a few of us out here.
- 1:32:58Speaker 3: Will When Will played for the Raiders, we got I
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: know you gotta go.
- 1:33:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. Well, we'll play for the Raiders. Well,
- 1:33:05Speaker 2: we like, so we will have to call each other
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: during the week.
- 1:33:08Speaker 3: We're excited to play each other, and then like before
- 1:33:10Speaker 3: the game, Will swarming up.
- 1:33:13Speaker 2: I'm warming up, like Will, we could have easily gone
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: and talk to each other words. I don't know why either.
- 1:33:19Speaker 2: I'm literally hugging everyone else. Yeah, but the boy, we're
- 1:33:22Speaker 2: facetiming like every day, excited.
- 1:33:26Speaker 3: And then we see it on the field and like
- 1:33:27Speaker 3: it's like we're in it now, like you're back into
- 1:33:30Speaker 3: and so it's like we fu that guy.
- 1:33:31Speaker 2: So I go to jog Off he like.
- 1:33:33Speaker 3: And the way the Raiders had their stadium setup is
- 1:33:35Speaker 3: there's one way in, one way out. So the Raiders
- 1:33:37Speaker 3: go to the right to go. They're walking room and
- 1:33:38Speaker 3: going through the same tunnel. So Will and I could
- 1:33:40Speaker 3: have been walking like this and just kind of went
- 1:33:42Speaker 3: off in our distance. And during the game, I wanted
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: to block Will the entire game, and I only got
- 1:33:47Speaker 3: the block Will once, and it was like it was
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: just like some dumb play. It was a gap scheme
- 1:33:51Speaker 3: on the left we got you get the double and
- 1:33:53Speaker 3: come up and and you'd Will out and it was
- 1:33:56Speaker 3: it was.
- 1:33:57Speaker 2: Like I won the block, but he stayed in his
- 1:33:59Speaker 2: But I'm thinking that I was doing my thing. Yeah,
- 1:34:01Speaker 2: but I still Will thebout a hit behind me and
- 1:34:03Speaker 2: I just go one for one and I John's I
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: want to said that bitch ass By was like, oh
- 1:34:11Speaker 2: that bitch ass by you And that was the only
- 1:34:14Speaker 2: time we talked the whole game. It was like, it's
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: funny how you kind of just get into it again,
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: like me and Will talk every day.
- 1:34:21Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that is that is funny. I like
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: the morning of the game, like can't really see it. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: I do have to believe here, I'll fight you. You
- 1:34:33Speaker 1: gotta gotta go. But hey, so when Will was playing
- 1:34:35Speaker 1: for the Raiders, Yeah.
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: You guys can still talk talk as much as you, man,
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: I'll see what boys. Hey, you want to go frothy monkey, Yeah,
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: twelve thirty. Yeah, I'll be there. Hey, put it, put
- 1:34:50Speaker 2: it in the group chat. Yeah, I'll make it. Yeah,
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: I'll make sure it text back this time.
- 1:34:57Speaker 3: Godler, I think, I mean, we're pretty much done, but
- 1:35:01Speaker 3: I'll tell you, but just got all weird ned walk out. Well,
- 1:35:09Speaker 3: we'll will vacated. The podcast is great to have you on, dude. Honestly,
- 1:35:13Speaker 3: we're rooting for you. Hopefully everything you just said we'll
- 1:35:15Speaker 3: be spoken into existence because I would love to see
- 1:35:18Speaker 3: you at the end of the year fighting McGregor and
- 1:35:20Speaker 3: win in that day.
- 1:35:21Speaker 2: That'd be awesome either either way.
- 1:35:23Speaker 1: Hopefully it's just a title fight this year, you know
- 1:35:26Speaker 1: everything happening, and get a belt around you.
- 1:35:28Speaker 2: Bring the belt back to the bus. That'd be awesome.
- 1:35:31Speaker 1: We'll get a we'll get an extra replica too. We
- 1:35:34Speaker 1: can't cover up the Budwiser. We'll find, we'll find, we'll find. Well,
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think I think we'll make a
- 1:35:38Speaker 1: place for it. Put it around the steering wheel or
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: something like that. I appreciate you, man.
- 1:35:42Speaker 2: Thank you. Big shout out to you guys.
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