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00:02:36.000I know it's there, but I just bear down and really focus on breathing and bear down and focus on whatever I'm trying to do physically, whatever the posture is.
00:02:47.000I'm working so much and all I care about is work, and it's all I think about all the time, but when I go to yoga, it's so hard, it takes my mind off what's going on.
00:02:55.000So it's like a reset button, but it is a motherfucker.
00:04:09.000There's a place that I passed by in Santa Monica that has some yoga class, but it's like a factory that produces hot chicks with towels under their arm.
00:04:18.000You want to talk about mental toughness?
00:04:21.000Try not popping a boner in my yoga class.
00:09:18.000Like, why does someone become a one hit wonder?
00:09:21.000If you could put together like a banging song, like there's a series of one hit wonders, like if you go to websites, like the best ever one hit wonders.
00:09:29.000But if you could put together like one of those unbelievable banging songs, why can't you put together another one?
00:09:49.000It's also who wrote that song, like what kind of collaboration, you know, did the person who write that song, did they write the rest of the songs?
00:09:58.000But a lot of times too, like when a band gets big and they have like maybe one hit or one album and then, you know, fame comes, the tour comes, they're busy, some guy feels like he needs more notoriety, drugs kick into play.
00:10:23.000It gets to a point where I think they're overwhelmed.
00:10:28.000If you were a rock star and you're on stage and you're singing songs and there's 25,000 people out there and they're all screaming, it's probably overwhelming.
00:11:13.000Here's the thing about being a fat fuck.
00:11:15.000You can get famous being a fat fuck, and people will love you as a fat fuck, like Biggie, but you can't start out like Snoop Dogg and then look like Biggie.
00:12:21.000So when I watch them, what other job can you, like you see like Amy Winehouse, and these are terrible examples, but Kurt Cobain just fucked up getting on stage and just kill it.
00:12:38.000They just know how to do those songs, and they get in there, and they get in the groove, and the music hits them, and they just go with it.
00:13:45.000And that's when she goes on, I think it's Germany, where she's just so fucked up, falls off stage, and she, like, forgets the words, and they start booing her.
00:13:56.000We had Stevo on the podcast, and Stevo went through a pretty lengthy detoxification sort of thing.
00:14:03.000You know, he got sober, and then he went through this, like, lengthy rehab.
00:14:08.000And like at a live-in place and you know, he went into great detail about it and about How long it took him till he was like legitimately sober like confident had a good foundation He was like legitimately sober and now he tours and does all these kinds of things which is crazy still does that sober Yeah,
00:14:26.000like to inflict that pain when he's dead sober now to me is crazy.
00:15:35.000I think there's a—well, I think it most certainly is discipline, that he chooses not to, but it's also an ethic, but it's also I think we're talking about like a physical need, like a physical addiction, and he doesn't have that.
00:18:35.000Boxing has a way better viewing position than the UFC. Because the rings are low, and you can see every punch that lands to the face, like, super clear.
00:18:56.000I get up on the table and I'm like looking here to make sure like if I need to know if a camera's not showing me where a hand position is if someone's going for a guillotine I don't know if they have their hands clashed or something I have to physically get up and move sometimes and I'm fucking right there you know when you're at home there's you you're you're watching that shit clean and sometimes I feel like when you're at home you're getting those best angles it makes the fight even if it was a phenomenal fight that much more epic because you're seeing You know what I'm saying?
00:19:24.000Like when you're a person, it's kind of hard to kind of break down what you've actually seen.
00:19:29.000When you see it clear on camera and they're doing the replays, you're like, holy shit.
00:26:17.000This is like the boxing insiders that knew him from the gym would say these things.
00:26:22.000And that was one of the things that they brought up in this fight, that Tyson Fury believed from talking to people that trained with Klitschko, with Emanuel Stewart, that Klitschko could be broken.
00:27:12.000He's got a skillful delivery of punches that is unparalleled in that division.
00:27:16.000I think if you watch the way he delivers combinations, he can deliver a one-two vicious left hook to the body that there's not a lot of guys in that division could do.
00:27:28.000Corey Sanders, that's who it is, thank you.
00:27:31.000Pull up the last fight, Shannon Briggs' last fight.
00:27:35.000Dude, he's fighting a guy who does not deserve to be in the ring with him, right?
00:27:39.000He's a former world champion, and at one time he's like one of the biggest prospects in the heavyweight division.
00:27:43.000But he hits this dude with a one-two, like a gentle one-two, and then just pops him on the left hook, left hook to the liver, and the guy goes...
00:31:47.000He scares guys, because he doesn't throw a lot of half-speed stuff.
00:31:51.000Yeah, it's just it's an assault, you know, and you feel that like that pressure right off the beginning Like he puts his pressure on Cotto and that pressure is always there.
00:32:00.000It's a part of the fight It's like his power and his presence they are an added element that Cotto has to consider that he didn't have to consider with Cotto Like with Cotto he had a minus P's and Q's he had a huge good defense and you know,
00:32:16.000he had to stay on it But he's really only dealing with a left hook Cotto really never hurts guys that bad with his right hand.
00:32:22.000But he has a very nasty left hook, but he's really been fighting smaller guys, too.
00:32:26.000I was going to say, he's a lot smaller.
00:32:28.000Cotto's thing, even if he was landing, Canelo didn't respect.
00:34:52.000I mean, he looks like he'd just be the lead singer of a boy band right now.
00:34:56.000Somebody on the underground, I forget what the exact quote that he looks like.
00:34:59.000I'm going to butcher this because I don't have it in front of me, but they said something like, he looked like a boy band fucked an American Eagle.
00:35:07.000Whoever that is that said that, I'm sorry, I didn't give you credit.
00:37:29.000Well, we were waiting for these guys to start showing up these guys who's who have been a project by some overzealous father Who has a martial arts background and it takes the kids?
00:38:14.000And he's really good at transitioning between striking and grappling.
00:38:17.000But what I was going to say when we got on this long, circuitous route is that someone like a Holly Holm is not in a position like a Tyson Fury is.
00:38:27.000Where Tyson Fury can say, fuck it, I don't want to fight this Russian cat.
00:41:48.000She's very calm and she's got a great personality and she's sweet and people root for her.
00:41:54.000And in the face of all the craziness and the trash-talking, the media obligations and the pressure, she showed character and she never cracked.
00:42:01.000And when she got in there, she performed like a world-class fighter.
00:42:53.000If Holly Holm just goes on to dominate the way Ronda dominated, and we all know that she knocked Ronda out, if she gets in there and fights, fill in the blank, fill in whatever girl's name, And head kicks her into oblivion on television.
00:43:05.000Everybody's like, holy shit, we got a new one.
00:43:07.000Ronda didn't become Ronda immediately.
00:43:09.000She became Ronda with a series of spectacular victories.
00:43:13.000Holly Holm strings a few of those together, you got another gigantic dynamo.
00:43:17.000Then, when Ronda's ready to come back, and she's 100% healed and healthy, and has made some corrections, and really worked on fixing whatever holes were exposed during her game, then you have this monumental Fucking super fight.
00:43:32.000And if Misha wins, then you've got a crazy fucking love triangle here.
00:44:24.000I think the long game is if Holly gets even better, if she gets even more recognition, and Ronda fully heals up, And you also give a chance for Misha Tate to take that title.
00:44:37.000But I think even if Misha Tate beats Holly and they have a three-round rematch or a five-round main event rematch, non-title fight, if Misha's got the strap and Holly and Ronda go at it in a five-rounder, that shit would still be bananas.
00:45:38.000That's the only person that loses in this is Hawley.
00:45:40.000I think July is going to be tricky if Ronda's telling...
00:45:45.000If she's honest or if she's accurate rather about how long it's gonna take her to heal up She just got cleared She just got cleared, but she also did an interview where she said she's not gonna be able to eat an apple I know that's why I don't understand.
00:47:30.000But, theoretically, I mean, at least if you looked at the two of them in terms of just raw grappling, you would have to think that Ronda's got a much higher level of her game.
00:48:27.000Do you have the skill set to get great footwork, avoid Holly striking, get her down to the ground?
00:48:32.000And we know that there's only a couple ways to develop the kind of movement that she's gonna have to get, and one of those is sparring.
00:48:40.000100% Like you're gonna have to spar so you're gonna have to be able to get hit and if you have five six months Where you can't get I mean who knows she might have overestimated that they might like look at it again in a couple months might heal up quick Maybe there's some things they can do to help it heal up who knows who knows but if if she say if she was fine If she's fine now,
00:48:58.000like, didn't have any teeth problems, didn't have any of that, like, how long do you think she should wait before she starts getting hit?
00:49:04.000After a vicious, flatline, head kick knockout from one of the best kickboxers in the female bantamweight division, right?
00:49:17.000She's the, actually, let's call her the best.
00:49:19.000Between her and Jermaine Rondame, who's an outstanding Muay Thai champion, multiple I think that...
00:49:41.000Man, that level, the level of kickboxing is very dangerous.
00:49:45.000Her head kicks that she hides behind those punches, you go back and watch Holly's early fights, she gets those hands in front of you and then whack!
00:49:52.000That fucking left high kick comes out of nowhere.
00:49:54.000In a perfect world, I would say probably six months without any contact.
00:50:17.000Look, if Rhonda is going to perform at her best, you should have everything lined up so you know she's good to go before anything gets set up.
00:51:45.000The Travis Brown fight, I thought it was the uppercut that really fucked me up, but it was when I went for a takedown and he sprawled and I landed on my neck after watching it.
00:51:53.000I remember that's when I was really fucked up because it landed on my neck and it rattled me.
00:51:58.000That's how T.J. Grant got his concussion.
00:52:03.000Like, you know, when two guys are shooting, one guy's shooting for a takedown and the other guy's trying to defend, that hip to the face is super common.
00:52:13.000And then I watch this, the Trash Brown fight, probably like, I don't know, right after the fight.
00:52:19.000And I watch it and I'm like, oh, I'm not the same guy.
00:52:22.000So you got rattled, you got rattled with that, and then you got rattled again with the punch.
00:52:26.000Yeah, because after it rattled me, then I watch my movement, and I'm real slow, and our whole game plan was to avoid getting back to the cage.
00:52:35.000I go straight back to the cage, hands down.
00:52:43.000So in a perfect world with Rhonda, it's six months, and, you know, it's six months.
00:52:49.000Wonder what a neurologist would say me to you know Someone who really understands head trauma from like a physical like just Just breaking it down to the actual physical components of the brain And all the connective tissue and what kind of damage was done and look at it with an MRI and you find look for inflammation and what are the issues I agree I'll tell you this,
00:53:40.000It is interesting in the UFC, as opposed to other combat sports, where in other combat sports, the champion is in the driver's seat.
00:53:48.000Like, Roy Jones Jr., when Roy Jones Jr. was the champ of the world, there was a Roy Jones show, okay?
00:53:54.000He was in the goddamn driver's seat, and everybody else, you gotta wait with your fucking warm, wet towel to wash his balls, and someone else gotta be there with a towel to dry them off.
00:54:03.000Like, it's the Roy Jones Jr. show, okay?
00:54:37.000And I took all this heat because I said, I don't think there's any other girl who can carry a pay-per-view main event like Ronda right now.
00:56:06.000Is Ronda as big as she is because she's an antagonist?
00:56:09.000Is she as big as she is because she's the person who says all that crazy shit, fucks with girls at the Wayans, and she's got that fucking attitude about her and comes out to that Joan Jett song and was beating girls' asses and was pulling it off?
00:56:24.000But when a Holly Holm comes along and shows you an alternative approach, and an approach that ultimately is more successful against that one person.
00:56:33.000We have one fight, you know that white fight, one fight between the two of them, Holly's flawless, right?
01:00:05.000I hate to be the guy who talks about this, but for a girl like Rhonda, who's gonna go into movies and is gonna, you know, take off and become this...
01:00:18.000Because do people want to see those movies the same way they wanted to see those movies when she was smashing Alexis Davis and armbarring Misha Tate, knocking out Betch Cohea?
01:02:07.000Is he one of these guys saying, oh, you just need to fight her again, get healthy, and you're going to beat her?
01:02:12.000And then he's thinking the long game there, and then the third fight's going to be even bigger.
01:02:15.000Well, it could be that he has 100% faith in her, and he thinks that if Ronda cuts the distractions out of her life, comes back in focused...
01:02:24.000And attacks and does the fight the correct way that she'll win.
01:02:46.000If you're gonna look at a fight, and you're gonna look at a result, and you're gonna assess what went wrong, what went right, what could be changed, what could be different, there's no evidence that she could have done it better.
01:02:59.000What I mean is not that she couldn't have fought better.
01:03:02.000What I mean is that we don't have any evidence.
01:03:04.000Our only evidence is Rhonda's past fights and Holly's past fights.
01:04:12.000So do you just chalk it up to, you know what, we just need to get you healthy because you just got to do what you do, she does what she do, and hopefully it's good enough.
01:04:19.000If not, either way, it's a big payday.
01:04:42.000Freddie Roach has trauma-related Parkinson's from his career in boxing.
01:04:46.000I think what he did is smart, it's ethical, it's intelligent, and it's correct.
01:04:51.000And he did it because he's a guy who's experienced the effects of not doing that, of being rattled inside the cage, and he did it because he wanted the best result for Manny.
01:05:00.000So Manny comes back a year later, doesn't look like he's had any ill effects because of that knockout.
01:05:24.000You get to a certain point where you've taken enough damage where if you don't allow your body to fully recover from that damage, you're gonna have a diminished ability to absorb punishment.
01:05:34.000I'll tell you this, man, I don't envy Dana White.
01:05:38.000He doesn't have time to have a perspective like you and I do either.
01:05:44.000You gotta realize this fucking guy is 24-7 making calls, setting up meetings, doing this, flying here, doing this, press conference and that and this thing and that thing.
01:05:54.000Dana White's life is fucking overwhelming.
01:05:59.000You and I are not trying to make money.
01:06:01.000We're looking at it in terms of like, okay, what do you think is, if you had to move all the pieces on the board in order to achieve checkmate, in order to achieve the best result, what's the move?
01:06:17.000I think you have to be real careful, also you have to be real careful, You have a big superstar, right, like Rhonda, and your big superstar gets flatlined.
01:06:26.000Okay, that is probably the worst result.
01:06:28.000If you want women to get into MMA, you want women to, like, come up, like, you know, we want to have a lot more people that are really into fighting, a lot more women that are into it, and then you watch the number one woman get just fucking blasted into the middle of the universe.
01:07:00.000Yeah, and you know, and I think the story doesn't have to be over.
01:07:03.000I think this is obviously, there's some lessons to be learned from that fight, right?
01:07:09.000Technically, strategy-wise, like when you're chasing after a striker.
01:07:15.000Sure, in the reaction of the public's eye, absolutely.
01:07:17.000But when you're chasing after a striker, that shit is never a good idea, especially if you don't have good head movement.
01:07:22.000Chasing a striker like Holly, who's so agile, and you have knee problems, so you're not the most agile, so you've got knee problems.
01:07:29.000You've got a girl who does flips at the end of every fight.
01:07:31.000At the end of every fight, she stands on her trainer's hands, and Mike Winklejohn flips her through the air, and she goes flying like a fucking acrobat.
01:08:52.000You know, I had a buddy who wanted to do MMA and he's a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and he was doing very minimal striking training and we talked about it and I said, look dude, do you know like what you can do to a white belt?
01:09:04.000You know that feeling where you get in there and you roll with a guy and he's a white belt and you just fucking strangle him, just wrap him up, strangle him, you do whatever you want?
01:09:11.000Somebody's gonna do that to you with kickboxing.
01:09:18.000Because even though kickboxing, I don't think there's the same broadness that there is in jiu-jitsu, where I think jiu-jitsu is almost like never-ending as far as techniques.
01:09:30.000Kickboxing has so much depth like real high-level kickboxing has so much depth and there's so much there's so much so many variables with guys who are really good who have like very specific like styles and way to draw you in and they set traps for you and you think They're doing this and they're doing that and they're setting up kicks with punches and punches with kicks and they're trapping you and kneeing you and elbowing you in the face.
01:09:56.000There's so much going on, man, that if you think that you're just going to go in there with some bullshit guy who holds the pads and uses those pool floaties and taps your gloves.
01:10:13.000You better be some fucking stud, Phil Davis-type, all-American wrestler who could just pretty much take down anybody in the division so you get to dictate where the fight takes place.
01:12:48.000And that's the thing, like, Gonzaga, when he gets on the scale, you know, and Gonzaga steps on the platform when he weighs in, it's almost like he's made out of rock.
01:13:53.000Yeah, there's like, there's gonna be a wave of those guys, man.
01:13:57.000It's gonna take a few years maybe, you know, these elite wrestlers that are coming up that are learning how to strike when they're in high school, you know, and they're competing as wrestlers, and they're gonna make it into the UFC in the next couple of years, especially as the money gets bigger.
01:14:13.000You know, there's no doubt that Fabricio Verdum is like a super talented, super skillful guy, but the public's consciousness and the awareness of him is not nearly as high as it was when Kane beat Brock Lesnar.
01:14:25.000That was the height of the heavyweight division, right?
01:14:52.000You gotta get those football guys who are, you know, interested in giving it a shot.
01:14:55.000You know, I have a kid on the way, and if he's anything like Brock Lesnar, that little bastard's not fighting, you better go get that money in baseball or NFL. Yeah.
01:15:04.000Would you worry about NFL with head collisions and all that shit?
01:15:07.000Not as much, because the juice is worth the squeeze, not as much as fighting.
01:15:11.000Because fighting, I mean, like, I retired, I got an Instagram post that said, hey man, congrats, and then like an email.
01:15:19.000You know, you retire in the NFL, you retire in the NFL, you know, you got some shit coming your way.
01:18:10.000I mean, what if this fight takes place, and in the first round, Holly just fucking slams a shin right into Ronda's jaw, and she stiffens up and just falls straight back like Terry Edom?
01:18:22.000Remember when Terry Edom caught him with that wheel kick?
01:18:25.000And he just stiffened and fell straight back?
01:21:37.000See, I think that he is definitely one of the all-time greats, and I think he's definitely one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, but he doesn't fight The same sort of dominance that Mighty Mouse does.
01:23:07.000You know, that happens to people when they become like real technical and they're, you know, they're strong but in a grappling sense and then they start lifting weights.
01:23:16.000Because now they have all this ability to do things from technique that's backed up by all this horsepower.
01:23:22.000Eddie Bravo's game changed so hard when he started lifting weights.
01:23:28.000There's Eddie Bravo pre-weights and there's Eddie Bravo post-weights.
01:23:47.000He's like, I'm just battling in the gym constantly with these guys who are bigger and stronger than me.
01:23:52.000And then as soon as he started putting mass on, and he started getting really strong to go with that technique, he was just smashing people.
01:24:11.000I'm like, well, you're huge as fuck as it is.
01:24:13.000I don't think we're going to get any better squatting all the time.
01:24:15.000Especially if you fight a guy like Junior Dos Santos.
01:24:18.000Like, Junior couldn't lift nearly as much as Shane, but when they got in the cage together, Junior was lighting him up because of just boxing technique.
01:26:28.000He's like, I didn't even know what I was taking.
01:26:29.000This guy was just giving me injects in my ass.
01:26:30.000He told me his vitamin C. It is possible that if you were at a bad gym, and you're hanging around with a bunch of fucking morons, and they want you to fail, and there's dudes that are doing juice, they'll put some juice in your protein drink.
01:26:49.000But there has to be a guy out there that actually did have someone drop a steroid in his protein drink, and he pissed positive, and he probably tells everybody, and they're like, yeah, yeah, sure.
01:26:58.000He's like, no, fucking it actually did happen!
01:27:36.000But the one big fight that's on tomorrow, well, there's a couple big fights besides Frankie Edgar and Chad Mendes, but Barboza and Tony Ferguson's son.
01:28:56.000You know, like you watch those Muay Thai champions, those flyweight dudes that are just like lightning bolts.
01:29:00.000That's like what kind of speed he was dropping that switch kick in.
01:29:04.000I remember, like, literally, I had to, like, readjust my metric when I was judging it, like, watching, like, what's a fast kick and what's not a fast kick.
01:29:12.000His kick was so much faster than anybody else's that I had to readjust, like, what I thought was a fast kick.
01:29:28.000Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe Barboza was traveling back and forth from Florida to New Jersey to train with Mark Henry while that was going on.
01:31:35.000What do you think about his style as opposed to the style that Bang is showing TJ Dillashaw, which is a lot of switching of the stances, a lot of variations in the approach and the attack, where you're constantly overloading the mind.
01:33:36.000Rockhold thinks he's gonna be able to stay on the outside and have success the way Anderson did in the first round of the first fight and Vitor did in that opening flurry of the fight that they had.
01:33:47.000And he thinks he's gonna be able to do some damage there.
01:33:49.000If you look at that fight, the Vitor fight where Vitor had Weidman stunned, he nailed him a couple times, and then Vitor moved in for the kill, but Vitor just didn't have the stamina.
01:33:58.000He just couldn't sustain it, and then he didn't have the defense in the ground.
01:34:02.000Weidman took him down and just fucked him up.
01:34:04.000As soon as Weidman shot that double, got to hold those legs tight, dropped him down, total control of the ground, and just beat the shit out of him.
01:34:11.000I don't think he'll be able to do that the same way to Rockhold.
01:34:15.000I think Rockhold's going to be a much harder guy to take down, and a much harder guy to keep down.
01:34:19.000I think Rockhold's got a way better wrestling camp with DC and Kane, and Rockhold's just shown really good takedown defense in the past.
01:35:18.000I think they're worried about the striking, they're worried about the pressure and all that, and they think Rockhold thinks he's going to take you down and pop up.
01:38:15.000And then he'll throw like a disdainful roundhouse kick, almost like daring you to try to counter it so he can look to drop that left hand in on you.
01:38:21.000He does a lot of interesting shit as far as like varying his rhythm and his approach and his movement, his long wide stance, just a lot of shit that's hard to judge.
01:38:31.000But if Aldo immediately initiates grappling, This is something that I don't think people have been thinking of.
01:38:40.000That's exactly what I was going to say.
01:39:45.000He can get ahold of you and drags you to the ground and all of a sudden, you know, he's got your back and he's fucking blasting you with punches and elbows.
01:39:53.000Because if I'm watching the Mendez fight, especially that first round when Mendez kept taking him down, Jose Camp is going, alright, this is what we're going to do.
01:40:04.000And then let's get it, stay in the third, fourth, fifth round.
01:43:12.000I like this fight as a martial artist because...
01:43:15.000As someone who looks at the problems that both guys present, I like this fight because the physicality of Dos Anjos is something that guys have to deal with.
01:43:24.000He's worked real hard on his conditioning and his strength and conditioning routine.
01:43:28.000He trains with that Nick Kurson guy, who's Marv Marinovich's disciple.
01:43:32.000They do some wild, crazy, explosive, plyometric shit.
01:43:36.000And a lot of it about just reducing the amount of time it takes you to act and to perform your actions.
01:43:43.000Just getting it down, just fractions of a second, just fractions of a second, constantly exploding, constantly moving.
01:43:49.000There's all sprints and box jumps and that kind of shit.
01:43:52.000If you watch some of his training modalities, it's really fascinating to watch all these different techniques they apply, all these weird flexibility things he does.
01:45:34.000And Donald had a hard time with Nate in their first fight, or their fight, rather, because Nate put a lot of pressure on him in the first round, and there was a lot of shit-talking.
01:46:20.000And if Conor is in that position, he's in the strong leg back position, and Jose's opened in that orthodox position.
01:46:28.000So what I'm saying, folks, if you don't know what we're talking about, if someone fights a southpaw means they have their right foot forward.
01:46:33.000Orthodox, the way most boxers fight, they have their left leg forward.
01:46:36.000When Conor has his right leg forward, the inside of his leg, which is a very sensitive, soft, tender area, he gets opened up for those inside leg kicks.
01:53:22.000He knocked out Dos Anjos at 55 and then dropped down to 45. Feels like he's got a better shot at 45. I wonder how many guys are gonna continue to try to compete at 45 with this IV ban.
01:54:22.000But Ireland has a long history of combat sports athletes, and right now Conor McGregor is as big as anyone that's ever been.
01:54:31.000And if he beats Aldo and he smashes Aldo, the way he talks and his charisma, the way he dresses, his whole package, the whole thing, there's no one like him.
01:54:40.000They will have a goddamn parade for him in Ireland and he will be the biggest star MMA has ever seen.
01:54:46.000He will eclipse Brock Lesnar and Ronda Rousey together.
01:57:36.000Are we absolutely sure that that shot was landed because of TRT? I mean, that's the thing with TRT. If I can throw a spinning back kick a hundred times naturally, I take TRT, I can throw it a thousand times.
01:57:47.000100% it's helped me throw that back kick.
01:57:50.000Especially if you can achieve hyperhuman levels and maintain them.
01:57:53.000So that's what people, I don't think, totally understand about this argument about TRT. So all you have to do, when they're talking about the dosage, dosage varies for every athlete that takes it.
01:58:04.000But what they want to do is maintain a high normal, right?
01:58:08.000So high normal is like 800. This would be the number that they would look for in your blood test.
01:59:03.000So when you're in camp, like this is one of the things that Weidman was yelling at Vitor, because when Vitor's blood work came back from camp, there's a guy that had been...
01:59:13.000Taken off of TRT. Got on TRT because his testosterone was low.
01:59:17.000But when he's in camp training for Weidman, they test his testosterone and it's three times higher than Weidman's.
01:59:23.000Weidman's at three, he's at 12. And everyone's like, what the fuck?
01:59:35.000Whatever it is, either he figured out a way to get his testosterone up naturally, or he figured out a way to do it and not get caught.
01:59:42.000But when you're a guy like Weidman, who's a young guy who's doing it by the book and doing it totally, your body gets broken down by training and it takes some serious mental power, some serious willpower to keep pushing through.
01:59:55.000When you're a guy who's taking that TRT, all you have to do is maintain that high normal.
02:00:00.000So you might, if your workouts are brutal and they're breaking your body down, you gotta...
02:05:41.000Watching the difference between these guys and what they can pull off when they're on it and when they're not.
02:05:46.000I'm sure you can see a difference in football players, but the difference is you're not seeing them to a finish in a particular contest against another human being.
02:05:56.000We get to see their movements like you see a guy sprinting on the field You could see a guy making good plays you could see a guy being energetic and pulling off But you're not seeing them in a sustained environment for five minutes at a time Three five minute rounds and watching their movements and analyzing them against another human being I agree.
02:07:24.000I totally get that it should be illegal, and I totally agree that it should be illegal, but part of me makes me go, wow, it's just so interesting to see something that allows you to do your sport way better, and they won't let you do it.
02:07:43.000I mean, like, we'll talk about, like, you know, different supplements, like different companies that sell stuff, like these testosterone boosters and all these different weight gain.
02:08:11.000Well, what about HGH? So if a guy injures his knee, there's studies now that HGH is proven to really help aid in the process of recovery, where before, guys were kind of fucked.
02:08:38.000It's certain athletes and it's certain the UFC. Right.
02:08:41.000Because now that athlete that maybe you could, let's say it's Anderson Silva, you could have taken half of his time away from the sport and he could be fighting sooner.
02:08:50.000Do you think there should be different standards, though?
02:08:53.000I mean, between combat sports and other sports.
02:08:58.000Different standards of like what you can and can't do as far as enhancing your body because of the fact that what you're trying to do ultimately is do damage.
02:11:56.000Who the fuck has ever done that before?
02:11:58.000Gone from being, like, really fat and overweight forever and just dominating girls in jujitsu, doing really well, to all of a sudden being shredded.
02:13:03.000Jiu-jitsu is the only martial art where a small, talented guy really can beat a bigger, stronger, faster guy just by knowing the techniques.
02:13:12.000Like a guy like Marcelo Garcia when he fought Rico Rodriguez in that grappling match.
02:15:44.000They get in there, they're all discombobulated by the time they get in there with him.
02:15:47.000And I think other fighters respect that because the amount of shit that he's talked and he puts so much pressure on himself, it's like, damn, and he still pulls it off.
02:19:32.000I'm going to get my fucking camo tap-out shirt out of the box, too, and put that shit on and go back to 2002. Do you have one with the yellow collar?
02:20:48.000It's like someone inside the company is trying to sabotage it or something.
02:20:51.000Yeah, I feel like there's someone in there just like, God, how can I fuck this up?
02:20:53.000I think there's some dude who works for the company that he's on the underground, and he's like a secret saboteur, and he's going into the database and changing things after hours.
02:21:38.000Like, would you guys spend 20 minutes?
02:21:41.000It's just like there's some guy who's like, you think I can make these dumbasses wear this?
02:21:45.000You think someone's gonna sign off on it?
02:21:46.000I mean, if you just put that out on the internet and you said, come up with a design idea and, you know, we'll give you 50 grand or something like that, which is jack shit for Reebok.
02:21:57.000Just get fans who are fans of the sport with Photoshop and you open yourself up to this just gigantic pool of people that come up with ideas.
02:26:46.000It also seems that jujitsu is the seminar that people want to go to.
02:26:50.000It's very hard to get people to go to an MMA seminar, or very hard to get people to go to a Muay Thai seminar, or harder, but jiu-jitsu seminars are typically pretty fucking giant.
02:26:59.000Well, I feel like jiu-jitsu is more lucrative, right?
02:27:01.000Like, people who sign up for jiu-jitsu, especially in California, if you're going through that whole belt system, you gotta have some bank.
02:27:07.000So they're gonna sign up for a jiu-jitsu seminar.
02:27:09.000Machida does a shitload of seminars in Brazil, karate seminars.
02:27:47.000Yeah, he's a bad motherfucker, the guy who runs that gym.
02:27:49.000He knows what he's doing, and he's got a giant gym.
02:27:52.000He's got a lot of members, and he puts on seminars and teaches people how to run gyms, how to successfully run gyms, and set up training programs, stuff like that.
02:28:11.000I'm just saying they do a thing how you can qualify to be a trainer from Onnit Academy.
02:28:16.000Right, but this is the difference being that it's training protocol, like John Wolfe does a lot of things, but it's all like kettlebells and steel maces and things like that.
02:28:26.000You know, there's a difference between teaching someone how to perform exercises correctly, like kettlebell certifications are pretty common, you know, like Pavel does a bunch of them, a bunch of different kettlebells.
02:28:44.000I think Mahler, Mike Mahler does as well.
02:28:46.000The real big name guys have these certification protocols because they figure out what's the best way to implement their training regimen, and then they teach it to people so they can teach it to other people.
02:28:55.000And once you get the technique down, the movements down, stuff like that, but I think it's way more complex to get a bunch of people to sign up for your gym.
02:30:20.000Like Dan Lambert who doesn't give a fuck yeah who puts together some just I mean, I don't know I don't ever ask Dan, but I can't imagine how long it took him before ATT was Profitable takes a long ass time.
02:30:31.000I'm sure it's probably profitable now because it's so big and so famous so popular I might be wrong.
02:30:38.000He might just be doing it for the money.
02:30:41.000He might be doing it for the fun rather than the money.
02:30:44.000It's also, when you think about how many different schools and colleges produce professional football players, right?
02:30:54.000They go from the high school system to the college system.
02:30:56.000They go from the college system into the NFL. You know, I mean, there's the wealth of talent, nationwide, established These systems as these kids come up in.
02:31:20.000So what he's going to do is he's going to have someone fucking hold mitts for them and do some boxing work and then work out with, like, the Oklahoma State wrestling team and, like, whoa.
02:31:41.000I think they had some sort of a problem because the Team Takedown thing, if I'm talking out of my ass here, because it's all just stuff I've read on the internet, but I believe what they did is they give the fighters a salary.
02:31:52.000And they give them, you know, they set them up.
02:32:14.00050 is a ton, but also at the same time...
02:32:17.000Was Johnny a guy that didn't have anything?
02:32:19.000He's coming from Oklahoma from college and like, listen, we're going to invest all this money into you hoping you become the champ and then we'll get our money back on the investment.
02:32:34.000And then there's the argument that could be made where if you have a high-level champion like a Johnny Hendricks, it makes the whole gym better.
02:32:42.000It's worth a lot of money to the gym just to have him training there.
02:35:43.000The possibilities of the future and he goes look you got to take what you can take You got to take what's there.
02:35:48.000You don't put it aside to try to pursue like this Potentially lucrative Career as a UFC champion.
02:35:56.000You know what the difference is though is he's what 19?
02:35:59.000Yeah, he's 19. He's a freak athlete He's already getting notoriety He's not he's not gonna Be able to take that step into movies like Rhonda did or George St. Pierre unless he's super successful.
02:36:12.000So if he already has one foot out the door now, you're about to get eight the fuck up in that division at 155. Yeah, maybe.
02:36:20.000Or maybe he doesn't really have one foot out the door.
02:36:23.000Maybe these are just things that come his way.
02:37:17.000When I hear that, I'm like this motherfucker.
02:37:20.000Because if Ronda didn't do all those things, if she put all those things aside and just went to a Spartan-like existence from the jump and never varied from her course and had outstanding training every step of the way, you're talking about a truly unusual athlete.
02:41:26.000Most of the guys in The Ultimate Fighter, I appreciate the fact that they're learning and they're getting better, but when guys get gassed out in the middle of the first round...
02:42:06.000Like last night or whatever, early, not last night, two days or whatever, they asked me on The Ultimate Fighter, who do you think can be successful in the UFC? Who would you pay money to see?
02:42:21.000Actually, to get to the UFC, they have a long ways to go.
02:42:24.000The answer is the guy who's the youngest, who's the most focused, who has the most attention you could put to it, who's the best athlete, who's in the best camp.
02:42:39.000It's a great farm system The problem is you're taking like people that you know, they might not be fully grown.
02:42:45.000They haven't sprouted yet They're not they're not and you're throwing them right into the the mixed martial arts Super Bowl.
02:42:51.000It's interesting because yeah exactly because the alternate fighters used to be guys where you You know, 2-0, 3-0, and then, you know, you're on that show, and then you kind of have a huge following, and then you're in the UFC and can have a couple of build-up fights, but at least you have a fan base.
02:43:04.000Well, now, it's like these guys, they get launched right into the mix.
02:43:08.000Like, I think, you know, I fought Roy Nelson, which I had no business fighting at the time, and then, like, six months later, I was fighting Gabriel Gonzaga.
02:43:15.000I went from fighting a guy in the Ultimate Fighter with two fights to Gabriel Gonzaga.
02:47:32.000But if you want to go see a really fucking exciting jujitsu competition and you're interested in martial arts, you're interested in jujitsu, even if you've never competed, you've never trained, This is the one to go to.
02:47:44.000Because, first of all, it's like a great bunch of killers that are inside the brackets, including Gary Tonin, who's one of the best in the world in no-gi grappling.
02:47:58.000And Danny Propagos, who as a brown belt, he was a world champion.
02:48:05.000Nathan Orchard is in this, who's also one of Eddie's black belts, who's elite.
02:48:08.000There's a whole bunch of really good, high-level talent.
02:48:11.000And the system that Eddie's created, the way they reset the fights, they battle it out, they have a certain time limit, and then after that time limit, if no one has finished anybody, Then they put them in positions, like they'll start off with you on a guy's back,
02:48:27.000with an over-under hook, with both hooks in.