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TMCP Ep 14: Interview with Fight Promoter Emily Girten · The Mixed Company Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In this corner standing it six foot five weight class
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  Speaker 1: unknown hailing from Sin City, Las Vegas, Jamison Welch and
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  Speaker 1: with six wins, three.
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  Speaker 2: Losses, two arrests, four late.
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  Speaker 1: Payments on student loans and two total painkruptcies hits the
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  Speaker 1: Classy I'll go home.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to another edition of the Mixed Company Podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I'm one of your hosts, Jamison Welsh, and
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  Speaker 4: as always I am joined by the classy alcoholic Classy.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Jameson? I gotta be honest, I'm still writing high
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  Speaker 2: from our previous episode, number thirteen. If you haven't listened
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  Speaker 2: We interviewed professional fighter Trinio Choa, also known as the
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube. But today we are here recording episode fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and we have yet another special guest. She's the woman
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  Speaker 2: who actually made our last interview with Treeny possible. We
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  Speaker 2: meant to have her on as our first guest, but
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  Speaker 2: due to some technical difficulties let's call it, let's blame.
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  Speaker 2: said it before I give you our Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: hit record. Sorry. One of our your hosts is a professional.
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  Speaker 2: One is a drunken idiot just pushing button's like so,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, but we're making up for it for it today.
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  Speaker 2: So this woman works in pr and promotion for the
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  Speaker 2: boxing world. So let's not delay. Let's get her out here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's welcome to the ring. Emily Gerd please put your
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  Speaker 2: hands together. Everybody. Hi Emily. Yay.
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  Speaker 5: Guys.
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  Speaker 6: How's it going.
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  Speaker 2: Going great? Now that you're here and we're actually recording
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  Speaker 2: this time? So we apologize. I apologize sorry. I did
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  Speaker 2: feel better once Jamis and our producer both said that
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  Speaker 2: it happened to them before, so I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: so it happened. Happens yeah, and we won't make you
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  Speaker 2: repeat yourself too too much because we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of questions for you. But the first thing, please tell
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  Speaker 2: the folks out there what exactly do you do? I
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  Speaker 2: said PR promotion, but I don't know what it means
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Please tell us what is your job
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  Speaker 2: in the boxing world.
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  Speaker 6: I do a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 5: I do PR for David Benavidez, for Blue Debella and
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  Speaker 5: several Lakes small club promotions. And I also do event
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  Speaker 5: operational support, so things like licensing and medicals and getting
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  Speaker 5: the to the event, getting a doctor to the event,
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  Speaker 5: dealing with the commission, dealing with the venue, just all
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  Speaker 5: of those pieces that go into putting on an event.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of manage a lot of that. I do
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  Speaker 5: some matchmaking, though I try not to because it sucks.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, So at the end of March you had
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  Speaker 2: an event promoting called bralin the Barrio in Phoenix, and
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  Speaker 2: then a weekend or two ago there was one of
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  Speaker 2: your fighters, Genie at Iron Boy Boxing and Phoenix as well.
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  Speaker 2: So do you get a break in between these events
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  Speaker 2: or is it always go go go, Like what's your
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  Speaker 2: life like in between boxing events?
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  Speaker 5: No, it's very busy because so that fight when it
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  Speaker 5: was here in Phoenix, it takes a lot of time
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  Speaker 5: because I live here, so I invest a little more
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  Speaker 5: time in it just naturally, just because I'm here and
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  Speaker 5: I'm very close to the promotion. And so that show
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  Speaker 5: took a lot of time. And actually last Saturday or
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  Speaker 5: last week, I had a show that I was helping
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  Speaker 5: with PR for What's That Promotions in California on Thursday,
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  Speaker 5: and then on Saturday, I had an MMA show that
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  Speaker 5: I was running in Fargo and a boxing event in
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  Speaker 5: Chicago that I had done all the paperwork in medicals
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  Speaker 5: and budget and all of that for, and Trainy also
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  Speaker 5: fought that day. So the three week ben really really intense.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been kind of like recouping the last couple
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  Speaker 5: of days. Though I have another event May tenth in Seattle,
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  Speaker 5: and MMA event that I'm doing every you know, all
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  Speaker 5: the medicals and everything for, so I'm working on getting
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  Speaker 5: that stuff done and situated for that show and doing
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  Speaker 5: all of the you know, hiring the staff and vendors
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  Speaker 5: and all of that. And then I have a show
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  Speaker 5: two weeks later in Laughlin, same deal, another MMA show,
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  Speaker 5: and also we have PBC that day, which I do
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  Speaker 5: all of their shuttles and everything, so I'll be managing
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  Speaker 5: transportation for those for that event that same day and
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  Speaker 5: that same week just remotely and June, you know, same
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  Speaker 5: type of thing. I have shows the fourteenth and the
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  Speaker 5: twenty eighth right now, mm May and boxing, so just
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  Speaker 5: it's it doesn't really stop. So the last weeks for
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  Speaker 5: duper intense.
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  Speaker 2: Is there ever a lull? Because you know, me as
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  Speaker 2: a as a spectator, as a boxing fan, I see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these guys are fighting and then there's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, six months of non activity, but it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like there's always something to do in between events. Like
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  Speaker 2: do you ever a time where's just like, oh, there's
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  Speaker 2: two weeks with like no fights and nothing going on,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna put my feet up.
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  Speaker 5: Sure I used to, Yeah, I used to, for sure,
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  Speaker 5: But since I took on World Fighting Championships, they have
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  Speaker 5: so many shows that as soon as we're done with one,
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  Speaker 5: like we just got the show Saturday, like Sunday, I'm
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  Speaker 5: at the airport doing stuff for May tenth because it's
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  Speaker 5: three weeks away or less than three weeks away now, right,
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  Speaker 5: So with WFC getting added to my plate, not really,
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  Speaker 5: there's not really downtime.
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  Speaker 6: I'm also doing some like licensing for Top Rank for.
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  Speaker 5: A couple of their shows as well, So it's just
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  Speaker 5: there's always something so it which is great, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: And then we also recently took on Growdex, which is
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  Speaker 5: a custom bag company and they do they have some
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  Speaker 5: patented products like certain types of bags, and we've taken
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  Speaker 5: over their customer service. So my husband and my nephew
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  Speaker 5: are kind of focusing on that part of the business.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, we're just doing some different things. So
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  Speaker 5: it's always busy and you know, trying to stay as
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  Speaker 5: busy as possible while still meeting our customers expectations as
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  Speaker 5: our goals right now, So.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you mean heavy bags like punching bags and
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  Speaker 2: not like right yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So you
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  Speaker 2: do all these events, you do all this stuff for them,
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  Speaker 2: and you've been obviously doing this for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Is there Is it pretty by the numbers or is
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  Speaker 2: there always something coming up with Every event has its
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  Speaker 2: own difficulty or are you like, I know what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 2: it's like buy the book now, or am I totally off.
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  Speaker 5: The Markhe No, every event has its own insanity, Like
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  Speaker 5: every event, something happens that you're like, how is this
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  Speaker 5: even happening right now? Which last Saturday, we had a
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  Speaker 5: fighter that kept disappearing, like he checked.
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  Speaker 2: In fire a fire fighter, A fighter, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Like a MMA fighter he was.
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  Speaker 5: He just kept disappearing like he he checked in for
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  Speaker 5: the meeting at four and then disappeared. So where he's
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  Speaker 5: the third fight And I'm calling him and he's like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like where are He's like him in my room.
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  Speaker 5: I said, what are you doing? He's like, I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: a massage. I'm like, you're the third fight. He goes, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I thought I was third from the end.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, so you just left?
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  Speaker 5: Like so then he comes back and then he gives
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  Speaker 5: his girlfriend his phone, so we're like, he disappears again.
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  Speaker 5: So I call his phone and his girlfriend answered she
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  Speaker 5: has no idea where he is, and then there's like
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  Speaker 5: this mad search for his mouthpiece. It was just like
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  Speaker 5: really insane, like to the point where like when he's
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  Speaker 5: walked walking out to the ring, he disappeared again and
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  Speaker 5: they had to go find him. So just something happens
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  Speaker 5: every show. But I got to meet Caleb Truax for
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  Speaker 5: the first time at that show. So that was nice
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  Speaker 5: because we've been friends a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, cool, So well, now I got to ask
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  Speaker 2: specifically about issues with fighters like this. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: something happens and the fight's about to come on, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any leeguway or is it one of
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  Speaker 2: those like like a karate kid, like you got to
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  Speaker 2: get back to the mat in like five minutes or
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  Speaker 2: you're disqualified? Can you stretch that out? Do you have
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  Speaker 2: any tips of tricks or what happens?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what would have happened, Like if he
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  Speaker 5: hadn't shown up, would have obviously skipped his fight. I'd
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  Speaker 5: like to think that we would try to get him
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  Speaker 5: slotted back in. I don't know all the commission, like
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  Speaker 5: when they do their stuff, it's always all very particular.
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  Speaker 6: They all do it differently.
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  Speaker 5: They've always got their like that order is really important
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  Speaker 5: because they've got the officials assigned appropriately. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if they'd let us like swing it to the end.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to think they would. I mean, if they didn't,
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  Speaker 5: it would just be the bouts off. And if it
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  Speaker 5: were pro about the you know, the one guy would
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  Speaker 5: have to get paid, I would think, but this was
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  Speaker 5: an amateur about and thankfully the guy did show up
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  Speaker 5: at the last minute and went in and thought.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have to find an answer to that question.
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  Speaker 2: I guess this is a good no. I love stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I love behind the scenes stuff, especially for a sport
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  Speaker 2: I love, you know. I usually typically I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about what happens outside of the ring. With the show,
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  Speaker 2: I'm working a lot more and hearing from people involved
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  Speaker 2: is just just so cool. And yeah, maybe I say cool,
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  Speaker 2: it might not be cool to you. Maybe you're like son.
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  Speaker 5: Of a bitch, but no, part of the job, like
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  Speaker 5: sometimes it sucks, like sometimes things go wrong. It actually
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  Speaker 5: does suck, you know, like it's I don't know, like
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  Speaker 5: I've had some tough shows, of course, but I mean, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I just like cringing thinking of a few tough situations.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, most of this stuff, by the end
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  Speaker 5: of the night, you're like, just everything's just insane. So
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  Speaker 5: this is expect did in this game, and it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 5: There's always nutty.
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  Speaker 2: A follow up question on that, and I'll throw out
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  Speaker 2: the jamison to not monopolize the conversation, But what what
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  Speaker 2: makes you love it? What makes you keep going? What
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  Speaker 2: makes it worth it? Is it that you love the sport,
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  Speaker 2: you love working with the fighters, Like what about because
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  Speaker 2: I've had jobs where it's just like it's crazy, But
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I'm like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going back tomorrow because this that Like, what's what's
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  Speaker 2: your thing that keeps you going?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I love Okay, first and foremost, I love my lifestyle.
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  Speaker 5: I love that I have the freedom to do whatever
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  Speaker 5: I want, you know, like if I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: get up and work, I don't do that. I mean
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  Speaker 5: I have to, but you know what I mean like flexibility.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to take my kids with me on
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  Speaker 5: the road, and I get to take time off when
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  Speaker 5: I need to spend time with my kids, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: able to be at all my son's field trips and
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  Speaker 5: all that stuff. So that's those things and just being
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  Speaker 5: at home and again, just that freedom, that's to me,
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  Speaker 5: that is very motivating. And having a lifestyle that I
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  Speaker 5: want to live in terms of, you know, financially, is
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  Speaker 5: very motivating for me. So yes, the money, obviously that
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  Speaker 5: was a very long time coming.
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  Speaker 6: So there were many years where that wasn't the case.
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  Speaker 5: But sure and then honestly, like I love the people
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  Speaker 5: I work with, Like I really enjoy Like I worked
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  Speaker 5: with Bobby Hits last week.
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  Speaker 6: He's like my favorite.
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  Speaker 5: Like he's he's hilarious, he's he's fun, he's he takes
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  Speaker 5: good care of us, likes he's a good dude, and
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  Speaker 5: and he.
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  Speaker 6: Work with these people.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not an orthodox environment, right, like you're not.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it is a business, right, you have to
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  Speaker 5: treat it like a business. It's just a I can't
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  Speaker 5: I guess I can't explain it very well. I just
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  Speaker 5: really enjoy the people I work with. All the folks
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  Speaker 5: at PBC are amazing, all my clients, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I just I really enjoyed the people I work with,
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  Speaker 5: and I enjoy working with the fighters, and I enjoy
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  Speaker 5: being around.
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  Speaker 6: People who are They're motivating.
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  Speaker 5: It's motivating to be around pro athletes all the time
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  Speaker 5: because you see the sacrifices they make and it definitely,
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  Speaker 5: like you know, it's inspiring and getting to tell some
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  Speaker 5: of their stories.
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  Speaker 2: True, honor, No, you explained it perfectly. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what you mean. You don't know how to explained.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love what you're putting down. It all makes sense
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  Speaker 2: and it's great, So Jameson, toss it over to you please.
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  Speaker 3: No, definitely appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: And what advice would you give someone come into the
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  Speaker 4: promotion game if they have no experience? Like, what advice
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  Speaker 4: would you give someone if they were trying to kind
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  Speaker 4: of follow on your shoes in a way?
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  Speaker 5: I would. I'll tell you what I did, and I
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  Speaker 5: I mean I obviously was working with Jose Benavidez Junior
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  Speaker 5: at the beginning, so it was easy to start to
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  Speaker 5: make contacts because people wanted to talk to him.
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  Speaker 6: So but I also offer to work.
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  Speaker 5: For free for a lot of people for a long
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  Speaker 5: time to make contacts and get my feet wet and
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  Speaker 5: you know, get to know people in the business. So
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  Speaker 5: I was able, I mean because of that, I was
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  Speaker 5: able to like meet people like Cameron Duncan, who mentored
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  Speaker 5: me for years and had you know, thirty five world
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  Speaker 5: champions and guys that are still going to become world champions,
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  Speaker 5: you know, or are there you know, in making contacts
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  Speaker 5: in the PR world where I could call it like
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  Speaker 5: Rachel Charles and say, hey, Rachel, how do I deal
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  Speaker 5: with this kind of situation? You know? And spending that
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  Speaker 5: time and just delivering what I could for people so
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  Speaker 5: that I could learn from them and the situations would
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  Speaker 5: be equitable. Right, So I would say that that was
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  Speaker 5: that's what I did. It worked, I mean, but I
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  Speaker 5: mean we struggled mightily for a long, long, long time.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, and there were some limitations I had
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  Speaker 5: that I didn't want to travel a lot, and now
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  Speaker 5: I travel a lot. But so I may have, you know,
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  Speaker 5: been able to be more solvent more quickly if I
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  Speaker 5: were in a position I just enjoyed being home with
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  Speaker 5: my family.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, okay, absolutely, So we invited you on back
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  Speaker 2: in March was Women's History month, and I was curious
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  Speaker 2: about it. We didn't ask this back then, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were a big fan of women's boxing here. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about it a lot. But there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of dudes out there who think boxing combat sports are
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  Speaker 2: just very macho, very manly, just for dudes, which ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: We're calling it out right now. We don't agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: But what's it like for you being a woman in
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  Speaker 2: this world? You know, you ever have people who come
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  Speaker 2: up with the hell are you who? Why are you
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  Speaker 2: talking to me? Where are you in charge? Of anything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is that your experience.
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's been a couple of times, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like, but it's so limited, Like most people
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  Speaker 5: are very respectful, and I mean once it's more of
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  Speaker 5: a familiar anything. Once people see you over and over
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  Speaker 5: and over again, and they they see okay, they're they're
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  Speaker 5: around here working and they're not you know, bothering anybody,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, people are pretty pretty open. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like more doors early on, especially open because of a moment.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't I don't think it's been living for me, thankfully.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I I there's only been like one or two, like
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  Speaker 5: two super inappropriate comments. I mean, I feel for the
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  Speaker 5: girls that are like, you know, really pretty and all
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 6: So it's hard. I think it's hard in a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Of ways to be taken seriously as a woman if
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  Speaker 5: you put effort into your appearance and you look beautiful,
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  Speaker 5: and I think people automatically like shit on you as
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  Speaker 5: a woman, and I think that's that's really garbage. So
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  Speaker 5: I've seen it, you know, I've seen it happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and that's that's disappointing. But I don't know for me
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  Speaker 5: personally though, I haven't really dot with any adversity in
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  Speaker 5: that regard. I've been really lucky.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's good, and really remember where we're coming from.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're living this in this world backstage, I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at Facebook and Instagram comments, which are if they
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  Speaker 2: made those illegal, I'd be fine with it. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even be sad. So so it's good to know that
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't necessarily go.
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  Speaker 5: People don't bother me. But again, I'm not. I don't
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  Speaker 5: stand out, and I try not to stand out. I
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  Speaker 5: kind of stay behind the scenes as much as possible. Now,
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  Speaker 5: some of the women that are not as behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 5: I think they get a lot of bullshit and deal
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  Speaker 5: with a lot of bullshit, and I think that's unfortunate
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  Speaker 5: because they're trying to do their job and they're trying
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: to succeed, just like the men are, and the men
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: don't have to deal with that. So I definitely see
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: it happening and it sucks, and you know.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, especially the sports commentators. I'm assuming you know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: women that out there and guys are like, you know,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: bo blah blah blah, shut up idiots.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, No, people are really respectful towards me. I
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: think it's just because, I mean, especially here in Arizona.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: You know, he knows me from various activities and stuff,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: so people are really nice to me.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: For now on that type place.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Guy, quick question, you mentioned Arizona. It's almost like a
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: hitting gym when it comes to the boxing. When people
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: think about boxing on the West coast, they think of Vegas, La,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: even sometimes Noracal, But Arizona's almost like a sleeping giant
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: that's starting to rise a little bit.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Can you go in about that? Where do you see
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: that going in the future.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: We got some amazing clubs, and just recently, I feel
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: like there's been a big uptick in the number of
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: amateur events happening, So I think we're gonna see a
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: lot more kids coming out of the system here and
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: getting into tournaments and stuff. We we got new you
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: know folks overseeing USA boxing in Arizona in the last
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: couple of years, and I think that that change was
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: probably a good thing for the state and for boxing
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: in Arizona because again, you see a lot more kids
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: are competing you know, locally, nationally, regionally, So I'd love
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: to see that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: I think that's you know, moving.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Forward, that's just gonna really put us on the map
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: because we've got some good, good fighters, good gyms, good teams,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: good people running things out here, and you know, everybody
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: is pretty good about working together and putting on these shows.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: And I just think there's a lot more opportunity all
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: of a sudden in the last few years with amateurs,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: and I'm so happy for that. And then on the
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: pro side, you know, you still have a few promoters
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: here doing pro shows. You know, it's tough here to
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: do pro events. You know, the ticket sales are hard,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: so because you are competing with some of the big
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: you know sports, all of the big sports. Right in hockey,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: we lost hockey, but we have everything else and so
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: but you know, I think there, I think we're definitely
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: headed in the right direction. I think you're going to
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: continue to see good talent. I think people are starting
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: to come here because there's good coaches here, good gym
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: and you know, I think I think you'll be seeing
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: more and more out of here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Now, what is it going to take for Phoenix, parts
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: of other parts of Arizona, et cetera, et cetera, to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: become one of the bigger markets in boxing going forward.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think already we're seeing a lot of
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: events coming here and they're doing well even when the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: guys aren't from here. So I think if these big
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: promoters continue to come here and continue to showcase some
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: of the same names and getting the locals behind them
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: and then giving opportunities to locals on the card, I
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: think would be instrumental. I'd like to see much more
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: of that, Like, you know, depending on the promoters, some
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: put you know, local guys on, some don't, and I
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: think it's just a nice it's a nice way to
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: grow these prospects here in Arizona, or do a smaller show,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: you know, I don't know.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: There's different there's different things you can do, but that's
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: one thing. And you know, the media, I'd love to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: see the media covering the local media covering boxing a
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: little better. I mean, they do it a little bit,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: but it's you know, it's there's a lot here and
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: they don't cover a lot of it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: So got you Is.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It just that there's not enough of it? Sorry Jamison,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: but what's the issue with the local media coverage.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Is just well they don't know, like they don't know
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: when it's topped, Like you know, you have PR people,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: so only one of the local promoters as a PR
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: person or doesn't anymore because I just left. So it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: partially a matter of just not having the people to
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: pitch the stories and get word out and develop those relationships.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Jameson, Sorry, I was just gonna ask.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: When it comes to the locations, obviously you live in Arizona,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you're very comfortable with that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Is there another place you like covering events or.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Throwing events at when it comes to promoting and you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: putting on events and uh, other events are easy work with.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I know someplaces are difficult due to taxes, due to
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: rules and all that.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Other places that are better or easier, like Arizona is.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I mean Illinois is pretty similar in terms of what
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: they require.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: They have one difference.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: It's kind of significant that your e exam has to
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: be by an optalmologist, which complicates getting them.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: But that's a whole little thing.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: But in general, Illinois kind of similar in how they
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: approve abouts and everything. So and I've worked there for
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: like seven years with with Bobby Hits, so I really
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: enjoy working with those fighters. I've got to know a
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: lot of them over the years, and.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: I like seeing them.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Like one Gara's fighting, you know, he was a Chicago fighter,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: is a Chicago fighter. He's gonna fight on a top
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: break show coming up here, and you know, just stuff
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: like that. So I enjoy working in Chicago. That was
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: That's probably my favorite place. And I'm getting to know
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: some of these places with WFC where we're going back again.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: So we're going to Portland again. Just went in February.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: We're going in June or June, So I'm going to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: see some of the same people on a you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: probably developed some of those same types of relationships, but
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I'm just now kind of getting to know the different
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: casinos and communities that he works with. But certainly like
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: the big shows, like working with some of the same people,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: like the same teams is awesome. Like I love seeing
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: you know, every show, every PBC and TGB show, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: see some of the same folks, you know teams, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: you know, even if the fighters are different, the teams
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: are the same. So that's that's really nice. Just getting
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: to know everybody cool.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Right, So you introduced us to Trenio show, who was amazing,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: and we're really thank you for that. We're so happy
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to have him on the on the show. Are there
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: any other names that you want people to know, Like
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: keep an eye on this young guy, this guy, even
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: if they're not Arizona based, Like who do we need
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to see the up and rising talent that we're that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: we're going to see on pay per view in five years.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: I just signed I just signed Brian Miranda.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Uh. He goes by red or Rojo. Uh. He's from
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: here in Phoenix. He's four oh with four knocked out.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I believe he's gonna fight July fifth in Phoenix as well.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: He's a very.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Heavy handed, talented kid. He's kind of short, but he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: he's so strong. I mean, he's so heavy handed. I'll
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: send you guys his video so you have it. But
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: he's he's very, very talented and I'm very excited to
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: see how he does now that he's going to be
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: active on a regular basis because he was off for
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: a year or two with his contract. Let's see. That's
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: that's definitely one to watch. And then you know, Jose
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Senior has got a couple of fighters. Daniel Blancos, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: don't know if you are familiar with him, but he's
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: been fighting on the PBC events and he's he's uh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: he's definitely you know, good to watch at sixty eight.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I believe it's sixty eight. I'm blinking right now. We
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: have Danny Barrios, who's kind of the main attraction at
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Del Soul Boxing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Uh, he's one twenty two.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: He had he was on a The Zone show with
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Matt Trum and had had a really good outing but
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: lost a close decision. And so we're hoping he gets,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: you know, an opportunity at the higher level again because
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: he came out in his last fight and just really
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: put it on his opponent who was a tough kid.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Best Star was his last name, Alexis bass Star, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: he stopped him, I think in the fourth round, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: it was just a really incredible performance. He just you
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: can see him improving every fight.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So one L is not going to ruin the careers
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: at least I don't think so. Maybe some of these
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: fans act like it, but no, really, yeah, don't worry
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: about blanking like We'll be honest, really just asking so
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: that we can say, if I years from now, that
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: name you heard on the Mixed Company podcast first, right,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: and shoving faces. No, No, of course that we really
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. So speaking out of fighters that you work with,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you know, of course you work with David Benavitez. A
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago the news came out that he
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: got the WBC belt that won seventy five because he
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: was turned out for a fight for Dimitribvo. I'm sure
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: having the belt is like an honor. It's awesome, but
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: what's the Do you have any sense of the feeling
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: in the Benavides camp, like, is he bummed about it?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Is a bittersweet? Do you you know? Is there anything
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: that you can tell us without you know, speaking out
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: of school.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: I haven't spoken with him on it specifically, but I
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: know that he's expressed that, you know, of course it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: an honor, and of course he's he's earned that, you know, opportunity,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: and you know, he earned that belt in the fight
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: against Morrell and the fight you know previous to that,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: and he's and of course it's not the way he
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: wanted to get it. And I think that he still
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: wants to fight people. I don't think that, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I think he wants to prove that he's the best, just.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Like he has.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: He really is confident, we are confident that he's the best,
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: and he just wants the opportunity to prove it. And
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: these guys just don't want to give him the opportunity.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: And I mean, I think I know.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Why, but you know, it's it's a risk, and you know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: he's he's willing to take that risk. And it's really
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: you know, refreshing as a fan and as his friend,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: and you know, I really hope he gets the opportunity
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: to show the world that he deserves you know, undisputed.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: We we Jamison, I agree, we talked about it. You know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: we're we're fans as well, and yeah, I think he
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: does deserve a chance. If it takes a little bit longer,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, my man has earned the chance. So
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I definitely am with you on that. Do you do
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: you get any sense of like anybody else he might
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: fight in the meantime or is that not your your area?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Do you just kind of like promote whatever are.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's sorry, not my above my pay grade.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not your Bailey wick as the as as
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: College of US College Boys say, No, we appreciate the inside.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Like I said, love behind the scenes stuff, James, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I got something else, Jamison, you want to.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Jump in or you get yes, I do so. You
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: mentioned you also put on MMA events you as well.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Is there any distinct differences between the boxing events and
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: the MMA events by Champ? Just out of curiosity, certainly.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to events,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Like I'm still kind of getting the hang of like
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: the different like because there's when you do an MMA show,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: it's not often just MMA. It's way time kickboxing too,
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: So I'm always like, okay, the weight classes are a
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: little different, you know, the rounds are three two minutes
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: or three three minute and it could be different. It
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: could be five minutes. Like I don't really I haven't
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: gotten all that down yet. It's just really I feel
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: so adequate because of my knowledge of boxing is so
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: thorough in that regard, and then an MMA I'm just
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: like an idiot. Same with like the gloves, I'm like, okay,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: do they need shin guards?
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Don't they need you know?
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: So it's just kind of getting that stuff. I'm still
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: working on it. The fighters and the teens are really
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: different than boxing.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I don't know how I wish I could give you
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: some specifics.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: I feel like MMA fighters, like there's certain expectations that
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: boxers have out of an event, and certain expectations and
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: MMA fighters have at an event. Like an MA fighter
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: wouldn't take it for granted that they'd have a hotel room,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: whereas a boxer would. So there's some differences like that
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: that I'm learning, you know, like, of course they're going
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: to want a hotel because I'm used to boxing, you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: and then they're not expecting it because it's not part
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: of the culture of MMA. So there's a lot of
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: little things like that that I'm still kind of getting
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: the hang of. The people are a little different.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Like they're.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Like, going to get medicals is super easy to get
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: them to do.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: I don't know why.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: It's it's much easier than boxing really same tests. It's
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: just easy, Like you just like go get these tests
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: and then go do them, and they're like, you just
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: gave them to me.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: You just did them and gave them to me. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: didn't have to harass you.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: From the fighter. So you mean not like in to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the doctor. Okay, interesting?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: In some of the sanctioning's quite a bit different, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: because they use like sanctioning organizations that may or may
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: not be a state commission. So I'm used to dealing
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: with a little more regulated process, but they're just as stringdent.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: It's just different. So yeah, it's just different kind of
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: everywhere to go.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: And what about you as a as a viewer, are
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you a fan of MMA? There's something that you would watch?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Forget about like you know, working with them, you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: it's not really your thing.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to watch it unless i'm working almost
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: for sure, Like like Chris Cydeborg I work with her occasionally,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: like I would watch her fight because I know her right,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: But in general, I don't have any desire to watch it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I watch it when i'm working and I'm starting to
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: you know, I certainly appreciate it. I certainly appreciate the
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: athleticism and the fact that they have to train and
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: be proficient in all these different disciplines and they take
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: a lot of abuse to their bodies and training and competing.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: So much respect for those guys.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: It's just not a sport that I enjoy watching in
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: the same way that I enjoy boxing.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: That's so interesting because I feel the exact same way.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I feel like maybe
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I should go back to grad school so I could
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: keep ignoring my student loans and do some kind of
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: research on the difference between the mindset of a boxing
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: fan and an m A fan. Some people just say, like,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I like fights and whatever. That's cool, that's awesome, But
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's Jamison and I we don't watch
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: We've talked about how we don't watch MMA, and I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: can't tell you what it is. I will say part
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: of me is jealousy because I've taken boxing lessons, but
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not flexible, so I can't kick. So I'm like,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: damn you, I hate that they can kick it. I
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: can't do that for shit.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So there's that there's a big time crossover with boxing
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: fans and you know pro wrestling fans too, right, And
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's true for MMA fans too.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: That's yeah, it's it's such a phenomenon. Maybe we'll do
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: like a whole show where we just discuss and talk
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to MMA fans and go out there and get interviews.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's something something I've been thinking about
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: for like years now. Is why you if I'm out
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: at a bar and it's playing like great, I'll watch it,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: but I'm not even invested. I don't. I don't feel
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: it in my heart, like when I'm watching boxers, you
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: know what I mean.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, I could watch any boxing and find something
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: to annoy about it. But I'll enjoy an MMA fight
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: if I know the people fighting. So I kind of
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: enjoy our fights with WFC. But I'm okay to sit
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: out and do tickets as well. I don't get sad
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: about missing the fights.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: That's so interesting. Yeah, well we'll have to explore that
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: some more, but okay, cool pivoting a little bit. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: you mentioned you know you have kids, You're a family woman.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I think boxing is the coolest thing in the world,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and if I had a relative or somebody that was
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: involved in the boxing world, I'd be thrilled. But also,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: we know kids never think their parents are cool. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: was curious, like, your kids think that you're awesome because
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: you work in comment sports that they're like, yeah, whatever,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: my mom does their you know, laid stuff whatever, not
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: They're not. No, I don't think that's impressive to them
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: at all.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: They'd probably be impressed if I had a regular job
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: because I'd be like, you know, we're stable, but uh yeah, no,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: they're and and they've all worked in the business from
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: one way or another. So including Nikola, I hadn't My
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: printer doesn't doesn't have the little catcher like for the
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: pages when they come out, and when I'm printing on
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: card stock, it falls out, So I have them stand
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: over there when I'm doing tickets and hold the card
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: stock and do stuff on my computer. So every kid
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: has worked in the business, so they're probably kind of
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: over it. But you know, they're great kids, and they
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: you know, they they are good with whatever I'm doing.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: But no, they're not like, oh cool, not at all.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: They're like, oh, mom, take me to the fights so
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I can see it, like they're just you know, that's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: not it's unlike quiet.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Like my son came on his own with his friend's
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: kind of the same del soul. I saw you at
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: am I allowed to say that, Yeah, absolutely absolutely. He
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: came to that show and that was like the first
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: show he'd been in since he was like fourteen. When
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I used to have them working with me. So my
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: one daughter would go with me a little more often,
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: like just she just enjoyed going, but she lives in Greece,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: so I never did to see her.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, though, I gotta I gotta say, Uh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: if you had to choose between going to your mom
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to really cool events or living in Greece, I know
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: which one I take.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: But yeah, exactly, I'm kidding, right.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: So, speaking of the Del Soul events, you know, like
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: we said, it's a brawl in the bose. I think
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: you do four times a year, is that correct? M?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Four times or so? Under Decil promotions? Do you ever
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: have women boxing? You know, I've I've been to one
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: and I've seen the adverts. It seems to be a
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: lot of men. Do you women fighters in these?
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Alas at Valerio, Yeah, Alisa at Valerio is signed with
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Dulsel and she's I think she's like one hundred and
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: five or a hundred eight pounds maybe maybe maybe one twelve.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: I'm not really sure off him, but she's lovely. She's
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I did her pro debut, or did a lot of
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: pr for her pro debut. She's nineteen and she's actually
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: a carpenter and she works like on a construction site
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: and controls. He's like super expensive robots and she's like
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: in the Wall Street Journal for this and yeah, super cool.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: And then she's also in school for construction man and
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: then she's a pro boxer, so really cool. You know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: she's really awesome. She's a great interview If you ever
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: want to talk to her too, Oh.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: We would love to absolutely. Yeah cool. So I got
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: one more Jamison, anything else you want to jump on?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I am good. She's been amazing.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So last thing before we let you go. You're
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: very busy woman. What about some young guy? It was like,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you know, eighteen nineteen, maybe younger fifteen, but who wants
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: to be a professional fighter? On your side of it
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: is someone that you know seeing people become professionals, Like,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: what advice would you give that they want to see
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: themselves on a pay per view someday on HBO or.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: If that's what you want to do, you need to
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: just make sure you dedicate yourself to it fully.
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: You can't. You can't mess around.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: So this is life and death, Like you could literally
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: die if you're not properly prepared. So if you love
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: your mom and you love your sisters and your brothers
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: and your friends, don't get into it unless you're willing
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: to dedicate yourself properly, both on the dieting and training end,
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: because if you don't dedicate yourself properly, you could get
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: hurt and nobody else that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: So and protect yourself at all times inside and outside
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: the way.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now that is a fabulous answer. We can't thank
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you enough for doing this for us. Thank you for
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: not hating us, for pitting me for me.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: Like, couldn't get myself together over multiple days.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: So actually my son like had an allergic reaction and
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: broke out in hives and we had to take into
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: urgent care today.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, these guys are gonna kill me if
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: you don't get back in time.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: No.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Also, is this fair to say you sound like you
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: live a crazy life. I believe your job your life
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: to see that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: It's a little mona.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, so.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: But hey, you know what, you know what at least
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: it's not right. Yeah, let's rob Emily. Please tell people
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: where they can find you social media, any events that
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: you want to uh to plug. The next brawl in
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the bodio, you know when is that happening. It's in
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Phoenix for.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: All you that's gonna be July fifth, July fifth is
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: the next brawl in the barrio.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: That'll be I'm assuming the same. Yeah, can you hear me?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: No, I said, I see, I'll see you there.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: As Oh, okay, you'll see me there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: So that's July fifth, and I have made ten. We
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: have m m A in Seattle.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: May thirty first, we have MMA in Laughlin, and also
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: obviously we have PBC with Jamal Charlow versus Cornflake and
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Caleb Plant versus somebody whose names escape for me right now, no,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: and then and then June fourteenth we have boxing back
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: in Seattle and June twenty eighth MMA in Portland. So
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: follow me on at Emily Boxing on Instagram or Twitter
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: or Facebook, and you know, I keep your boody updated
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: on what we're doing.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: So awesome. Great. Well, to wrap up, Jamison, where can
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: people follow you on social media?
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: At Twitter at the Jamison always there. I love boxing,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: love when we all watch as a family on social media.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: It's great. Even though we don't have those moments anymore,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: I used to, but we still have a few, so
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: it's always good to have.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Gotcha. Well, please follow me at the Classy Alcoholic on
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• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Company Podcast. Thank you so much, Emily Gerdon, thanks you
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: so much for listening and salute