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00:00:00.000Ladies and gentlemen, this is an unprecedented occurrence here.
00:00:03.000Josh Barnett was on his way and not only did he run into ridiculous traffic, but Josh is so gangster he drives a 1969 automobile around and unfortunately got a flat tire.
00:00:19.000Yeah, I bought the thing to be a daily driver, you know, and I got kind of tired of how I mean, I don't drive anything passionless, but I just want to drive an old car.
00:02:00.000You're like the quintessential boy turned man, metal music, cage fighting, muscle cars.
00:02:09.000It's all of the quintessential manly type shit.
00:02:13.000If somebody ever asked me, so what are you really good at?
00:02:16.000Doing manly shit and making manly faces while I do manly shit.
00:02:21.000I can scowl, I can look inquisitive, and I can stare out from the distance, and I can hold a cigar in my mouth, and I can put grease in the right places.
00:04:10.000But as far as labels, I... I've been labeled all my life.
00:04:15.000I was a nerd and a dork and I was an outcast kid, you know, and I liked weird shit like foreign films and gore movies and anime and comic books and would go to the racetrack with my family and classic cars and just all kinds of weird, just fucked up shit where, you know, I'm captain of the football team, but...
00:04:33.000Nobody else knows what the fuck, what tip I'm on.
00:04:36.000They're just going, dude, you're a weirdo.
00:04:38.000But is this, were you always attracted to being into shit that was like away from the crowd, or is that just the stuff that you liked?
00:04:47.000I mean, I grew up in that weird era where cable came about, and so they would fill the airways full of whatever cheap shit they could get, and that ended up being a lot of weird shit.
00:04:58.000A lot of weird shit from Japan, from everywhere, and then I had a fixation with horror movies as a kid, and that went other places.
00:05:06.000All of a sudden it's like, Friday the 13th is cool, but I didn't really get to see that head get crushed, so where could I pick that up at?
00:05:16.000Faces of Death, did you get into all that?
00:05:17.000Actually, I was more into the Italian Fulci zombie movies and stuff, where they're horrible, and the dubbing is the worst ever, but people are vomiting out their insides.
00:05:30.000You know, vaginas start talking and eating things, whatever.
00:05:34.000If that's a movie, you should probably see it.
00:05:36.000Wasn't there, there was a whole series in like, I guess it was like the 60s and the 70s, of just what they were called gore movies, where movies were unbelievably gory.
00:05:46.000Like, I remember I picked up a magazine about it once.
00:05:49.000It just, you know, it was one of those, just looking through random magazines, like, what the fuck is this?
00:05:54.000Like, Fangoria, and it was all about one different type of gore film that this one dude used to make.
00:06:00.000Oh, that Herschel Gordon Lewis stuff, like the 10,000 Maniacs.
00:06:41.000Like, I understand a good zombie movie, a good vampire movie, you know, something fun, but who the fuck wants to watch people just get chopped up like this?
00:07:43.000You ever hear Heath Haring's description of going to the hospital in Russia?
00:07:46.000He said it looked like Dawn of the Dead.
00:07:48.000Yeah, he said there was, like, bodies laying out there, and they're just stitching people up in front of you, and you're like, what the fuck is going on, man?
00:07:55.000Bodies, like, laying on wheels the whole way.
00:08:01.000And that was during the dark age when the Soviet Union collapsed.
00:08:05.000So I think times were really fucking hard there for a long time.
00:08:08.000I'm sure there's still some of that to be found over in Russia because it's such a difference in class at this point.
00:08:14.000There's like the uber rich and then there's like not really a middle class to my understanding.
00:08:19.000Well that's why a movie like Hostile works because you know you look at like these pretty girls and you're like if they were really cold hearted killers from Russia they could sneak you in Pull your butt cheeks apart until you die.
00:08:32.000I wonder if there really are that, people that are willing to pay people to go grab someone...
00:09:29.000A bunch of banker type dudes and dignitaries from foreign countries and like skull and bones type dudes.
00:09:37.000They get together and who knows what the fuck is really going on, but they have this giant Molech, the Owl God, and they all dress up in robes.
00:12:14.000So what they should do is they should get mountain lions to be the ones to spread the gospel of Jesus around because then nobody would know that they were around.
00:12:22.000They could sneak up on you and like, hey, hey, you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior?
00:12:26.000You're like, fuck, where'd you come from?
00:12:27.000They would do it a little differently, though.
00:12:29.000They would introduce you to them immediately.
00:12:33.000At least if you get killed by a cat, though, they kill you.
00:13:24.000They found a guy who beat the fuck out of them.
00:13:25.000Well, a lot of those chimps, first of all, I think they get mental illness.
00:13:30.000If you're naturally supposed to be in a wild situation where all your instincts are tuned into protecting yourself, looking around, making sure that nothing's sneaking up on you, and yet you live in front of a giant glass wall, Where every day these weird pink monkeys are staring at you, your senses are going off, and you don't know what the fuck to do.
00:13:48.000It just becomes normal, and you get used to it, but every day you probably go crazy.
00:15:14.000The idea of sticking us behind a cage and letting us act like the biggest assholes we could possibly think of, generally in New Jersey, then there you go.
00:16:54.000And then it started to grow, grow, grow, and then...
00:16:56.000Well, and, you know, at some point, okay, let's say you don't want a fucking earring anymore, you don't have to wear an earring, but if you just fucking mangled your ear into some weird, grown-out disc, like, once you get over that...
00:20:45.000So we started off, I'm from 77, so I remember when bell-bottoms were still kind of hanging around, you know, in those fucking Mork and Mindy vests with like the multicolors on them.
00:21:10.000The girls that looked like Nagel paintings...
00:21:12.000Okay, I've seen all that, and then you go to the 90s, and then it just got, okay, sagging pants, and like weird, odd colors, and shoulder pads, and whatever, and then the 2000s, and then you start, now we start combining fashion stuff from classic eras, and I mean, all sorts of stuff is making all kinds of comebacks, so you're seeing looks from all over the place, everywhere, every day, even right now.
00:21:35.000That The sagging jeans, I just can't get it.
00:21:42.000That's the bottom, that's the least understandable.
00:21:45.000If you're a rock star on stage and you're sagging your jeans a little bit and you're deliberately trying to look like you're a pile of shit, like some sort of thrown together, just sloppy son of a bitch on purpose, yes.
00:23:10.000If you were out in fucking Alaska and you were running away from bears all day, you would have your belt buckle cinched in, you'd have your fucking boots tight, and you would walk outside the door, and you would go, shh, shh, shh, the fuck is that?
00:23:22.000You wouldn't be like, yeah, man, you know, I'm just taking cough syrup and my pants sagging.
00:23:27.000Dudes are medicating themselves on purpose.
00:24:05.000The easier things get, the weaker we become, the more we start looking for new and other ways to try and express that which is not being used at all.
00:24:15.000Not that I'm saying everybody needs to go out and start getting in fist fights and drinking whiskey and being fucking heavy metal badass like myself, but do something.
00:24:23.000Do something difficult so you can test your character.
00:31:08.000The one thing is, okay, there's that or if I just had some serious piece of ass, the very next thing I want, the very next thing I want is a fucking ham.
00:31:20.000I have left apartments at odd hours of the night.
00:31:25.000Just tracking down any 24-hour Carl's Jr. Jack-in-the-box, anything, because I need a fucking hamburger immediately.
00:31:34.000Man, after I saw Food Inc., I'm done with the late-night hamburgers.
00:32:24.000Well, I heard, I did read about that because my buddy did the same thing in his gym, CrossFit Bread.
00:32:29.000He took the burger and just left it there, and it didn't, and then, so I read something about, well, it's got so much salt in it, so it's more of a salt thing.
00:33:50.000Okay, Penn and Teller, I love watching Penn and Teller bullshit, and they have their whole thing on organic food, and about how various chemicals also determine whether something can be called organic or not.
00:34:03.000Some certified, or things that can be considered organic in terms of pesticides are actually worse than the things that they've created since then.
00:34:10.000But there's that fine line where if you, like, you can take it to this point, okay, to a degree, but people take it back, you know, they want to save that extra, like, 30 cents on the dollar, or 3 cents on the dollar, or a half a cent on the dollar, and, like, Pink slime?
00:37:13.000That's exactly why I want to go there.
00:37:16.000How did you become a big death metal head?
00:37:18.000I started off just getting into metal from the classic rock side of things.
00:37:24.000My dad used to play guitar just for fun, played blues and classic rock, and grew up listening to Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and The Beatles and what have you.
00:37:33.000And then I found this kid That was the son of my babysitter.
00:37:40.000He introduced me basically to Iron Maiden.
00:38:01.000And I remember then he had this Killers shirt for the album Killers and it's got Eddie's like holding like some limp woman in his hand with like a bloody hatchet in the other.
00:38:13.000And then I remember like from there was like Metallica and Slayer and Megadeth and Anthrax and and and then that progressed to I remember hearing Sepultura and that was harder and heavier and then I found this band Bolt Thrower, and I'm like, what the fuck is that?
00:38:32.000The covers are so amazing, and they're from these Games Workshop, like Rammer 40k stuff, so I'm like, I already like that, so let me check this out.
00:38:40.000Oh god, this is the heaviest, most crushing music I've ever heard in my life.
00:38:44.000It sounds like an entire army of guitars coming up over the top of a ridge, and then all fist-fucking you all at once.
00:40:00.000I love Hawaii, and they're very proud people, and I would understand if you got offended, and when I go to Hawaii, next time people are pissing me, but the reality is, you're there, you're at a perfect rock, you are in the perfect climate, the most beautiful place in the world, and you're playing a song like...
00:41:01.000What always cracked me up is you look through the magazine.
00:41:05.000I remember flying to Hawaii for the first time, fighting Super Bowl XIII, and I'm looking through the in-flight magazine, and it's got a little section for all the music.
00:41:17.000And you look, and there was like this gnarly, big, jacked up dude with a big handlebar, like the gnarly biker mustache, you know, whatever.
00:41:24.000It's like, oof-a-oof-a-moof-a-loof-a is his name.
00:41:28.000And then you go and you listen to his music.
00:41:43.000And I bet he just pulls him out of socket.
00:41:46.000Because he's like 470 pounds, 8 feet tall, and used to play, you know, center for the fucking NFL. It's just bad music for the greatest place on earth.
00:43:10.000I think part of it is because I'm from a place like Seattle and I have some country roots to me in terms of like I grew up hunting and race cars and just all kinds of redneck-y ass shit in addition to any of this high art bullshit that my mom got me sort of winged on.
00:43:25.000and love modern architecture and culture and the classics and reading.
00:43:31.000But fucking down there, they're like, oh no, you're really down to earth, dude.
00:44:26.000They need to get brought down to earth so they can calm the fuck down and just be a little nice.
00:44:33.000It tastes so much more than that nowadays.
00:44:35.000It really does because so many guys, especially on the West Coast now, you know, like the West Coast beach bag, They go to the gym every now and again.
00:45:36.000You've got your hipster douchebag that thinks they're so above you and they're so cultured and everything they say has so much fucking meaning behind it and so much deeper.
00:45:47.000In fact, more so because you don't even realize that the shit you say doesn't matter.
00:45:51.000Or, you know, then you've got the MMA douchebag who runs around and wants to make sure everybody knows that they train and that they can fight and all that kind of bullshit.
00:46:15.000That's how I want to spend the next 30 minutes sitting at a table with someone that's talking about how many, like, grains of rice they can have and every meal.
00:46:23.000And it's for, like, a fitness competition.
00:47:34.000Well, I've never understood people that are into, like, I can understand wanting to be in shape, but I can't understand, like, CrossFit competitions and stuff like that.
00:47:42.000To be the best in the world at working out?
00:47:43.000Yeah, to be the best in the world at doing cleans.
00:48:00.000Everybody has a way, you know, they're using the way that they're gonna lift for a specific purpose.
00:48:05.000Now, I'll say, I think bodybuilding is pointless.
00:48:06.000Like, what's the point of putting all that time and effort to look, to just look a certain way and never use it?
00:48:12.000And then you've got CrossFit, which is the same thing, Exact same thing, but just they're in actual better overall shape, and you know, they use it, but they only use it for more working out.
00:48:24.000So, they're just basically just jerking off the whole time.
00:48:31.000And, you know, okay, well, why don't you...
00:48:36.000Bodybuild because you gotta look better on the screen.
00:48:40.000Or do powerlifting because you want to be stronger and then do a CrossFit whatever workout for your anaerobic endurance and all this and then take it and then go play a game.
00:48:53.000Go play football with your friends or go hiking or climb a mountain or go do grappling or something.
00:49:00.000Take all of that and then apply it into a skilled deal.
00:49:04.000I saw this video where there was, it was like the gist of it was these two NFL dudes are boxers or they're NFL guys, former NFL. They just come from Boxing Packs and they did some CrossFit workouts and CrossFit gym.
00:49:17.000LA and then they did it an X amount of time and here's our CrossFit guys that are here all the time.
00:49:22.000The two dudes, the two CrossFit kids did it faster than the other guys.
00:49:26.000And I'm like, but they can catch a fucking football.
00:50:48.000Or just do CrossFit, be in shape, And that'd be the way that you stay in shape, and then that'd be it.
00:50:54.000Don't go running around telling the whole world about it.
00:50:58.000Don't look at somebody else and be like, well, when I did that, when I did Francine, when I did Zelda, I did it in 17 minutes, and that's...
00:51:12.000They all have a righteous indignation when they order the green tea at Starbucks.
00:51:26.000I think the root of all that kind of stuff isn't doing CrossFit.
00:51:30.000You could substitute CrossFit with anything else.
00:51:34.000It's just that something comes along It gets to a certain level where people start jumping on it because one, whether it's good or it's bad, it's something that's new and it's different and it is a change from what the norm was so therefore everybody feels like they're improving who they are, they're growing and now they're a part of something that's more special.
00:51:55.000And therefore, that by a group gets taken way out of context.
00:52:00.000And then the after effects of that are people becoming douchebags.
00:53:57.000But you took you as you stood here today and became something better and more encompassing and have lived a life experience because you decided to do something and do it like you mean it.
00:54:08.000And that's hard for people to wrap their heads around that, you know, I go into the gym, I just want to be better when I step off the mat than I was when I stepped on it.
00:54:19.000And some days aren't so great, some days are amazing.
00:54:22.000And I also have like this huge mean streak, like I hate losing and whatever, but I also, and as much as that, It's always a part of who I am.
00:54:32.000I have to temper that and I'll have to look at all the data that comes from everything that I do when I'm in the gym and then break it down and then be more effective with it.
00:54:40.000I can't just think, that guy, he was out jabbing me today.
00:55:10.000Or how do I... Analyze that and see the patterns before they become a problem for me.
00:55:16.000That's very important, isn't it, in the development of a martial artist to see someone who's at an incredibly high level and realize that that is where the mark is set.
00:55:25.000There's somebody out there, there's probably plenty of people out there, that I can just annihilate and use as a toothpick, use their bones as toothpicks when I'm done with them.
00:55:37.000But chances are, out of that group of people that I'm talking about, there are people within that, there's things that they do better than I do.
00:55:45.000That may be that one thing, or maybe a couple things, but they're better at it than I am, by far.
00:55:51.000So I could look at them and take something from it.
00:55:53.000It doesn't matter how much better of a fighter I am, there's so much to be seen or taken in.
00:55:59.000There's a million ways that the body can move.
00:56:04.000One way, you know, and I realize that there's some things I'm never going to be great at because of physicality, physical limitations, injuries, whatever.
00:56:38.000I just have a very good feel for it and I know what I can get away with.
00:56:42.000I know a lot of leg locks to your ankle goes before your knees.
00:56:46.000All my ankles are not the greatest thing either.
00:56:50.000You just sort of understand what you're dealing with and then go from there.
00:56:54.000But I have, nonetheless, since I know that I'm never going to be someone that can effectively be a good rubber guard guy, I pay attention because like Shannon Baszler likes to use those setups.
00:57:08.000I can go to her and go, okay, look at you, you know, get the angle like this because look at the way that that puts your body weight and your pressure against their joint there.
00:57:17.000And this is where now you're creating a weakness in them at this angle.
00:57:20.000So you can defeat that That angle here.
00:57:22.000Or, hey, this guy's really good or upper guard.
00:57:25.000Now watch how he's going to try and get these angles and these positions on you because this is where it's going to take you out of position.
00:57:31.000So this is higher and you're going to have to defeat that because fulcrums and levers.
00:57:41.000It's hard to get there and I'm older and How much of a fighter's success do you think is a timing issue, like getting involved in a sport at the right age, the right time to get excellent at something?
00:57:53.000How much of it is bulldog determination and just the ability to learn from your mistakes and press on despite the bad feelings?
00:58:03.000The mental aspect takes the most of it because the mental aspect is the thing that's going to not only make you want to fight when you want to quit, But it'll also make you step back and realize that all these things, all these circumstances came about within these moments and how to take them, change them, understand them, and make the appropriate changes and additions and fashions from your game to be better.
00:58:31.000You have to be analytical like that and you have to remove emotion from those circumstances because once you get emotionally attached and worked up about it, then it will...
00:58:43.000Defeat your ability to be as useful as possible.
00:58:46.000Especially in the case of a lot of people, most people, are never going to be really successful with fighting, especially if they choose it as their occupation.
00:58:57.000It's not going to make the money for them that they want.
00:58:59.000But it should deter somebody and they should just do it because they love it.
00:59:02.000I was watching a lecture by Alan DeBain, I think his name is, something like that, on pessimism.
00:59:08.000It's a philosophical lecture on pessimism and about how one of the reasons why you get so upset about things and you get so worked up is because you have these expectations that things are always going to work out well.
00:59:19.000But the reality of it is most things don't work out at all.
00:59:22.000In fact, there's almost always more failure than there is success.
01:02:48.000The closest I've ever been to a comedian was sitting with a friend who was a comedian, and they were going to go on, and I'm just hanging in there, and it's this pre-show, and a bunch of us are all just hanging out in the aisle way, and I'm just Being me, and cracking stupid jokes, and doing wordplay, and whatever.
01:03:05.000Someone's like, you know, you working tonight?
01:04:34.000One of the most important parts of being a man is getting to a point where you genuinely, truly don't give a fuck if someone doesn't like what you like.
01:06:04.000It's hard enough for me to even have a conversation with you with my thumbs.
01:06:07.000Let alone have to think about the idea of putting aside a block of time to run into you to work you up to the point of trying just to have sex with you.
01:06:18.000Yeah, it gets to a weird point where some people just want to chat all day.
01:07:08.000But I gotta tell you, the difference between being a real bad motherfucker and being an outwardly seemingly bad motherfucker is night and day.
01:07:16.000If you're an outwardly, if you seem like you're a bad motherfucker...
01:08:11.000Or if someone's being a dick deliberately in my presence or to a woman that's around or whatever and I step up and I say something and they're like, I go, people don't want to fight me.
01:08:21.000And they go, well, because you're big.
01:11:39.000It was like fumingly, raging, violent, like flames and daggers.
01:11:44.000I wonder if that's connected between your health at birth, you know, being in poor health at birth and being like brought into this world in a bad situation where you're uncomfortable, yellow and jaundiced.
01:11:54.000I wonder if that like set the stage for an angry, or maybe you got some Viking genes too.
01:13:56.000Even getting hit, hitting back, just the whole thing.
01:13:59.000I know for me, fighting is the time I feel most alive and free in the entire world because I can go out there and do just about anything I can do with who I am and no one's going to try and stop me.
01:16:08.000What was it like being, you were there in the golden era, man.
01:16:11.000I mean, you were there during the time when Pride was, in my opinion, like, put on some of the greatest shows in mixed martial arts history.
01:17:15.000Hulk Hogan wrestled Chono and 55,000 people and I fought Yoshiki Takahashi and defended my King of Pancras belt in the Tokyo Dome.
01:17:24.000Those shows were on such a different level than what we see here in the States and the feeling, of course the feeling is going to be different in terms of culturally it's going to be way different because you have Japan, this incredible homogeneous society with their ways and Very specific versus America, so try and compare that sort of thing is not really fair.
01:17:50.000You go hold those fights in Uganda or you hold them in Transylvania or whatever, they're always going to be different because people's cultures are different.
01:18:33.000You were so jazzed up in the beginning, but looking back, man, when everybody would line up, you know, and they would introduce fighters one at a time and they would all line up, you're like, wow, this is going to be a fucking epic night.
01:19:15.000Yeah, he was a big fan of Michael Jackson's, and he thought it would be, you know, real cool to set himself on fire before he went out and fought.
01:22:34.000What a weird guy to have hanging around.
01:22:36.000That's about as bad as it can be, but I don't know.
01:22:38.000I would think that, in his mind, he probably set his bar even higher than that.
01:22:44.000Did you ever try any of these compression shorts, cup things that a lot, you know, like videos of them, like Jaco has one and Diamond MMA have one?
01:23:37.000Just a plain old jock strap with one of those flexible cups because my thighs are so big that a normal cup it just starts digging into the Those flexible cups are good, but I've tried recently.
01:23:50.000The reason why I ask is Diamond MMA has this really intense compression shorts set up with all these straps.
01:23:57.000Are you sure it's for training and not for like...
01:24:00.000Well, he's got a ball gag, but that's optional.
01:24:03.000The idea is that this guy has eliminated the movement, which is where the cup fails.
01:24:08.000You know, the cup moves to the side, and then you get kicked in the balls, and the cup actually hits the balls, which obviously can happen if you just have a loose jockstrap.
01:24:21.000But Kenny Florian says that a tie cup is the best.
01:24:23.000He says that you could, if you, it's uncomfortable as fuck, because it has to go up your ass like a G-string, but if you do it that way, it's not movement.
01:27:02.000I knew exactly when it was all going to go downhill.
01:27:05.000There was a point, because I used to spar Maurice all the time, and he's standing out in front of the guy and he kind of gets this little grin.
01:28:39.000So anyways, he's driving around in his Porsche and I think somebody I don't remember how he ended up getting in contact with this guy, but he was fighting, he was doing extreme fighting, and he was fighting UFC, and this guy, at a bus stop, somehow, he's sitting, he goes, hey, hey, I want to buy something off of you.
01:28:55.000And Maurice is like, okay, he's like, let me buy your jockstrap.
01:29:00.000And Maurice had his stuff on him, and he goes, like, 300 bucks.
01:29:06.000Guy pulls out 300 bucks, sells his jockstrap and takes off.
01:29:50.000I'm not saying that you should fake this, but if you did have plastic bags where a jock from the Randy Couture fight is in a Ziploc bag for medically sealed...
01:30:22.000Unsanctioned included, over 50. Could you imagine if you had 50 plastic bags filled with every jockstrap from every fight that you'd ever been in, including some with blood on them, some smeared, you know, some with quick knockouts where you didn't even really get them stinky.
01:30:42.000They would have to be hermetically sealed because the smell is radiating for said jockstraps for like a 15 mile radius would pull in every woman.
01:32:03.000A lot of people that have plates in their arm, the plate is the problem, right?
01:32:06.000Right, and if it does break, if you break the hardware, now you've got that crap stuck in the bone, it makes it even worse to try and put it all back together.
01:34:29.000In a way, I just don't want it to happen to me.
01:34:32.000But then, once you leave the strip, right?
01:34:34.000Leave all the opulence and all the cool shit, you know, all the fucking things that they're dangling out there to pull you in.
01:34:41.000And you get just outside the strip, like, every service industry thing around there is filled full of all the lost, gray-tee, fucking prison-tatted, like, wrangled-up, fucking-used condoms of people that all, like, lost everything in Vegas and they can't leave.
01:34:56.000And, you know, you go and you order your Sonic Burger and you're like...
01:37:15.000Leave me to have the chest tattoos and the handlebar mustaches.
01:37:19.000While you brought this up, I have to write something down because I can't forget that I have to make fun of my friend Bill Burr for using a Thomas guide in 2012. He's one of those dudes.
01:38:14.000About the whole, you know, oh, now you're going to go back to, you know, when you were living in some fucking dirt hole and you discovered you had a bathtub.
01:40:02.000See, I never got any at recs until I got to California.
01:40:05.000I'm on the 605. We get past this fucked up traffic, and I start driving by, and I see a fucked up car on the right, which is why we're all...
01:41:30.000Doing all this fighting shit that I've been doing, high-stress situations, I know I have way better facilities than your average person.
01:41:37.000Even today, I'm driving in the fast lane at 75 miles an hour, and there's that wall on the 110 on the left-hand side of the concrete divider, and I heard, boom!
01:43:03.000That's one thing about those old cars, man.
01:43:05.000They could take a fucking hell of a wallop.
01:43:07.000You can smash into stuff and you know when I finally lose it and I just start going berserk on the freeway and hitting people then this is going to be the vehicle to do it.
01:43:15.000It's definitely better than like a Prius.
01:43:18.000Oh, everything's better than a fucking Prius.
01:43:38.000Can't fuck with the rumble of a V8. No, no you can't.
01:43:41.000And here's the thing, if you want to drive that, go for it.
01:43:45.000You think you're saving the environment by creating a bunch of fucking shitty batteries that are going to pollute something somewhere, then alright, whatever.
01:44:00.000There's been ways, I'm sure, that you could have the most fuel-efficient gasoline-powered car that we have no idea because every one of those things has been shelved on purpose by the oil companies themselves.
01:46:08.000You didn't have to create little emblems that some little fucker had to paint himself and then put them on the inside of the interior.
01:46:14.000Like no one's ever going to pay attention to half of that shit, but they did it anyways, you know, and they're like sinking the lights in in a certain way and having to put chrome around that bezel and going the extra mile, like the extra 30th mile that You're not going to get in a car nowadays and be in that kind of...
01:46:32.000It's like going into those old buildings and seeing all those touches that they put into the flooring, into the mantles and...
01:46:38.000You're getting that, but in a vehicle.
01:46:40.000You can tell the difference between a factory just churning out some four-wheeled mobile to get you wherever and somebody, even a factory line, where people are putting these things together.
01:46:53.000Do you appreciate technologically advanced cars like a Nissan GT-R, for instance?
01:47:14.000And then it'll do it in such a way that what my racer friends will tell me, that almost any idiot can get behind the wheel of that car and learn to be fast.
01:47:45.000Yeah, it does everything and it does it all well and it takes all the efforts and a lot of the skills out of learning and adapting to a vehicle and it takes it away.
01:48:09.000I think it's one of the coolest cars on the road.
01:48:11.000It's almost ridiculous to get anything else.
01:48:13.000If you wanted to get a car that goes fast, that car, not only does it go fast, it's like the most advanced technological achievement as far as what we can do today to get you to go fast and safe.
01:48:27.000It's the most technologically efficient.
01:48:33.000But then, I was talking to somebody about the difference there is, okay, that GT-R will do it, but when you get in that GT-R and you look around and it is comfortable and it's got everything you need, but if you get in that Ferrari, all of a sudden things, it's not, okay, the Ferrari isn't maybe quite as fast, or maybe it's as fast, but you look at the way it was put together and the way the leather is.
01:48:53.000Oh, I mean, there's a huge difference there, and I would The trouble with a Ferrari is I would love to get behind the wheel, which I've never done, and drive the shit out of one and treat it like the thoroughbred that it is.
01:49:16.000You do that and all of a sudden the bill shows up for changing oil breaks and if you don't have the nomenclature that says you had it all done then the value starts going down.
01:49:41.000Well, that's one of the things I've always said.
01:49:43.000There's something to be said for, like, a Corvette ZR1. It's like, what they've done is just blown everything out of the water as far as, like, performance, as far as zero to 60. It's right up there with every other car that's ever been made.
01:52:32.000I put these amazing Recaro seats in the front.
01:52:36.000It's super comfy, and I've got this Magnaflow exhaust all through it, these three-inch pipes, and every time I turn the car over, I mean, I know that my neighbors are just like fucking rattling.
01:53:40.000I think it'll cruise at 140, flat as fuck, and if you go into a 55 mile an hour corner at 120, it just rolls right through it and comes right back out.
01:53:49.000I mean, this suspension from KW and all the chassis and bracing shit from BMR just has this thing rocked on the ground, and I took it to this guy out in West LA, and this guy Tom.
01:54:01.000I can't remember the name of his shop, but at any moment you could have like $11 million worth of cars all sitting around this place.
01:54:07.000It looks like a dump and you don't even know it's there.
01:54:09.000But he's fantastic with doing suspension and tweaking these cars out.
01:54:14.000And they set it up for my weight and everything and dropped it and lowered it and set all the suspension geometry.
01:54:40.000You know how to basically just have your fat ass sit in there and then fucking adjust it.
01:54:44.000And they take the measurements and then do the adjustments as need be.
01:54:48.000And my cat, my buddy Chris from KW, and he works with all the drift guys like Daya Shahara and all them and sets their suspensions up and everything.
01:54:57.000Comes up with tricks, different ways of doing it.
01:55:26.000And get as close and as tight and to emulate the guy's run in front of you as tight as possible without hitting him, hitting the wall, hitting anything else, and doing it as fast and as skillful as possible.
01:55:37.000So I look at it and I'm like, it's just like a violent auto ballet.
01:55:59.000Now they have these clipping point things.
01:56:00.000So they've got these lights that'll monitor up if you get within a foot of them.
01:56:03.000So they measure how close you get to these clipping points.
01:56:07.000They also measure how closely you hit the right apexes and lines for the drifts, but also how closely and tightly you follow the guy ahead of you, the lead car, as the follow car.
01:56:55.000So they've sort of, like, altered them to deal with the constant collisions.
01:57:01.000And, like, there are some amazing moments where...
01:57:07.000Someone's coming up against a wall, and they're getting that back end out, and they get so close that the back end hits the wall just enough to fold it in, and when they come off, it pops back out.
01:57:19.000You literally ran your car into the wall, but just enough that it was still okay.
01:57:23.000Well, one day, every car is going to be like a GTR, where everything is calculated.
01:57:28.000They're going to see things coming and break.
01:57:30.000Except it's not going to go that fast, and the government's going to tell you where to drive.
01:57:33.000That's going to be a real problem, isn't it?
01:57:35.000You know, I had heard something about, I don't know if this is a true story, I never really researched it, but someone was driving really fast on the highway, and the cops called, what is it, OnStar, and they shut the car off.
01:58:15.000I'd rather have to deal with cops chasing somebody down, even if it ended up in my house getting ruined because of it, than having...
01:58:22.000A big brother able to make everybody do everything the way they want to every time.
01:58:27.000Yeah, absolute power corrupts, absolute power.
01:58:29.000And I was talking to this gal and she's going, oh, I would love it if cars started driving themselves.
01:58:33.000They were talking about that magnetic system where they had the cars following in traffic and stopping and slowing down and reducing accidents.
01:59:21.000Getting into the ring and fighting somebody with no consequence of injury or death or whatever wouldn't It wouldn't hold nearly as much interest.
01:59:30.000It wouldn't have the same meaning behind it.
01:59:32.000MMA has to be very careful because if samurai fighting starts becoming really popular and dudes start actually sword fighting, then people aren't going to watch MMA as much as they're going to watch sword fighting.
01:59:41.000I think there's a whole collection of sword fighting videos right now.
02:00:26.000How radical tastes may change in terms of what content you'll see on television versus what you would see, let's say, even in the most risque part of the 20s or 30s.
02:00:38.000Technology, of course, always has a lot to do with that.
02:00:40.000You have cameras that anybody can use to shoot.
02:00:43.000Of course, it's much easier to make porn than it was back when you had an Edison machine or whatever.
02:00:50.000Yeah, you got to have a good strong arm and you got to have coordination to jerk off and wind a wheel all at the same time.
02:00:58.000But if you just turn into regular advertising, it's amazing that there aren't just men jerking off on corners everywhere they go because there's so much sex being thrown at you all the time.
02:05:25.000Well, in the middle of that, it's got to be the most intense feeling of all time.
02:05:28.000When you're in the middle of a cage, like in your last fight, the most recent one with Cormier, and you guys are both throwing down and you both had broken hands at that point in time.
02:05:37.000It's got to be one of the most intense and realistic forms of struggle on earth.
02:05:41.000It is, but unfortunately, that's where it's great, where your corner man can give you that input to aim your direction.
02:05:50.000Because I got in there, broke my hand, made a couple, fucked up a couple times in there, and then all of a sudden I went into fight to the death mode.
02:06:07.000I mean, yeah, people look at you like, oh, you're like blowing blood out of your nose and just, you know, you're coming at people and never stop coming forward and trying to murder.
02:07:33.000And you can, you know, everything doesn't have to always be to the level of, I'm the Walking Dead and I don't have any emotion or feeling anymore.
02:07:43.000I had a girl I was in love with break the living shit out of my heart as soon as I had to go off over to Japan.
02:07:48.000I had pro wrestling matches to do and stuff and I'm destroyed inside.
02:07:52.000I'm totally ruined and I'm giving press conferences and shit like that.
02:07:57.000They need to see a hero, but inside I just feel like a piece of shit.
02:08:37.000There is only the result, and only whether you do it or you don't.
02:08:42.000What's it like for you to see guys that you came up with, guys like Pedro Hizzo, that have reached pretty much the end?
02:08:49.000And you see the end, and do you take a mental account?
02:08:56.000I'm going to start wearing headgear in training even, because I'm tired of getting hit in the head by fucking some of the monsters that are in there, and I know that...
02:09:06.000Part of the reason I try to read as much as I do and I do want to be a more well every day that I have a chance to be a better person and learn more and be have a broader sense of this world at large is necessary it's important I think that's part of my not just right as a person to do so but I think it's a necessity like you should have to do that It's also to stave away the effects of that kind of shit,
02:10:09.000Just save that brain so that I can use more of it.
02:10:12.000I'm still going to be getting hit in the head no matter what headgear I have on me, but I don't want to take things to the point where I've made...
02:10:22.000A disability for myself mentally or physically with fighting.
02:10:26.000Do you think you'll be able to discern that?
02:10:41.000Where they're at now compared to where they used to be.
02:10:44.000But I'm also more so happy that they are here on this earth, loving their life, still being able to exert themselves in the ring and be a part of this.
02:10:58.000And if they decide to retire, or when it comes to that point they need to retire, that they did it.