Joe Rogan Experience #768 - Ian McCall, Brendan Schaub & Bryan Callen
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In this episode, we discuss the upcoming UFC Conor vs. Nate Diaz Jr. fight, the differences between the two fighters, and what to look out for in the fight. We also talk about the history of the Diaz vs. Dos Anjos fight, and who we think is going to come out on top. We also discuss the future of the UFC in the light heavyweight division, and whether or not we think Conor will be able to beat one of the best fighters in the division. We finish off the episode with our predictions for the UFC 200 main event between Conor and Donald "The Notorious" Cowboy Cerrone, and why we think it's going to be a good fight. We're live, ladies and gentlemen, this is a mess. Just prepare yourself. As usual, as usual, if you're an MMA journalist, get your chalk and your chalk on your hands. Get ready, bitches, I'm full of opinions. Get ready! -Your Hosts: , and Subscribe to our new podcast, The MMA Junkie, where we break down everything you need to know about UFC vs. Conor McGregor vs. Dana White: UFC 232, UFC 246 and UFC 246. Subscribe, rate, review, and tell us what you think of the fight! We'll see you in the next episode of The MMA Hour! -The MMA Hour, coming soon! Cheers, Cheers. -Jon Soriano, Jon & Ben, Jake, Ben, and Ben, from the MMA Junkies! -Jon & Ben & Ben of The Athletic.co.nz, ( ) -Jon and Ben and Ben is a proud proud proud of his work at The MMA Report. (featuring the MMA Report, The Athletic, The Irishman Podcast, and The MMA Journalist, The Fighting Life, and the MMA Manifesto Podcast, where they talk about UFC 246, UFC 232 & UFC 246 & UFC 232! (and the UFC Fight Club, UFC Fight Night, UFC 194, UFC 244, UFC 200, and much more! , UFC 246 (and much, much more) -Jon talks about the UFC's upcoming UFC 232 and UFC 244. , and much, MUCH MORE. -Jon gives his thoughts on UFC 246! . -BONUS CONTENT: UFC 246 AND UFC 246 - UFC 246 -Janae & UFC 244!
Transcript
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If you're an MMA journalist, get your weightlifting chalk on your hands.
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This is essentially sort of a preview of this weekend's fight, but really it's just a chance to get together and fuck around.
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Well, the way I look at it, and correct me if I'm wrong, Connors boxed the daylights at everybody who, for the most part, either has his reach or smallest.
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What he does is he hangs on the edge of the pocket.
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He hangs on the edge of the pocket, and he's a counterpuncher, waits until you commit, slips and hits.
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He's dealing with something very different with Nate, which is that Nate is longer and taller, and Nate doesn't have to do that.
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And I wonder what he's going to have to do is either one of two things.
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He's going to have to weave and get inside, or because Nate stands so flat, I mean sort of squares up with you, I guess he could back kick and front kick his body.
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It's not when you think, watch out for Conor's hard kicks.
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You also haven't seen much of him because he's smoking everyone.
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He spends a lot of time in those gyms with a lot of those Mexican boxers that stand in the hole and just bang.
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It's not, but I wonder how Conor's going to actually have to change a little bit of his boxing, and I'm curious to see how he does that.
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Well, he's only fought one guy that's tall, and that's Max Holloway, and he's coincidentally the one guy that went through a decision with him.
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During the fight, when he was passing the guard, he blew out his ACL. So, that definitely had a huge, huge effect.
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I think Dos Anjos showed a bit of the blueprint on how to beat Nate.
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And one of the big things is that Nate stands real heavy on that front leg.
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He comes in, he fires that hard right jab and stands real heavy on that front leg.
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And because of that boxing-centered style, I mean, Nate will throw the occasional kick, but primarily he fights boxing when he's fighting.
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Michael Johnson, his last fight was one of his best fights.
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Mike, Josh Thompson head-kicked him and knocked him out.
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That was a different, you know, that was Josh Thompson, man.
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That dude's had a series of injuries, but I still maintain he's one of the best lightweights in the world.
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But do you think that Conor's met anyone yet who's as good a boxer as Nate?
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Well, I don't know about that, but I don't think that Conor really wants that 145 weight class anymore.
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And I think at 55, fighting Dos Anjos, that's the fight at UFC 200, if he gets past Nate Diaz.
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It actually is kind of interesting if he gets past Nate Diaz, you know, because it makes that fight bigger.
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You know, Dos Anjos broke his foot in the last minute of the last round of sparring.
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We use the same masseuse, and of course, you know, I get a text message like, Fuck!
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But if we throw him that hard and a high-level kickboxer is checking it, it's tough, man.
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If you kick as hard as he does and you kick a tree, you're going to fucking break your foot.
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We know what Nate Diaz is going to bring to the table.
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I think everyone in this room knows what he's going to do.
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I think Diaz is the perfect matchup so he can showcase all his tools.
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Because Diaz, I don't think he's going to get murked in the first round.
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We're going to see a lot of Conor and what he brings to the table.
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Well, Conor's really good at lulling you with those kicks and then stepping in with that big left hand.
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That left hand is just a fucking monster punch.
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Oh, man, he just throws it so perfect and he's got so much power behind it.
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But I'll tell you, man, it's hard to hit Nate Diaz clean.
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I think, man, if Nate Diaz got to a serious Muay Thai camp and really learned how to kick correctly and made more distance and then threw the occasional fucking takedown attempt in there.
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I think with a lot of these guys, one of the issues is they got a great formula and that formula is winning fights and it can carry them very far.
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The best strategy is the guy you're fighting that doesn't have any idea what the fuck you're about to do.
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George would just mix it up so well, and it was like one of his best assets.
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He really didn't know what his attack was going to be.
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With these guys, you know what their attack's going to be.
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With Nate, you know what his attack's going to be.
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It's a good attack, but I think we're seeing a changing of the guard.
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You're seeing these athletes like Luke Rockhold, who's just a freak.
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I'm not hating on these guys, but I was one of the old guards.
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Didn't do a lot of kickboxing, didn't do a lot of kicks.
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You look at Rashad Evans, really not a kickboxer.
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But Crazy's got a big head kick knockout in Sean Salmon.
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That was one of his biggest highlight reel KOs.
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Long time ago, but you would have thought that that would have been a bigger part of his arsenal.
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You look at a guy like Ryan Bader, wrestler, boxer.
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The new guys coming up, man, if you don't have it all, good luck.
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And they're tossing these guys up who are phenomenal fighters.
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They have these huge fan base and stuff like that, and they're giving it to these young athletic guys, and good luck with that skill set, man.
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We're in the middle of it and we're watching it happen, but it's still all over the place.
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Your weight class, you cannot be one-dimensional.
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There's no one who's one-dimensional who's anywhere near the top ten.
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Maybe out of the top five, say, Formiga is the most one-dimensional, or Cejudo.
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You know, Formiga is this amazing ground guy, but he tries to kickbox with everybody.
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Cejudo is the wrestler, but he's trying to punch a hole in your head.
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A little slow for the weight class, but he's so strong, and he does negate the gap very well.
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He takes care of his lack of speed, but then you fight someone like Demetrius where everything is about speed.
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So that's where I think he's still too slow to beat Demetrius.
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I mean, you're talking about a guy who's an Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.
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All those Olympic athletes that come out of the UFC, they're all pretty successful, man.
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You've got Dan Henderson, DC, Cejudo, Ronda Rousey.
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The whole division is so lucky that he had a good wrestling teaching gig.
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They wouldn't let him fight in the UFC. Was he Brigham Young?
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And they were like, you can't fight in the UFC. You can't fight cage fighting while you're teaching wrestling.
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They're so lucky because if that motherfucker got in there, everybody's on their back.
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What's interesting about somebody like Yo Romero is that you've seen him get taken down.
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Cool luck holding me down with gay Jesus on my side.
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Oh, I don't mean to flip scripts there, but how about Bisbing Anderson Silva?
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First of all, Bisbing is one of the toughest fucking men on the planet.
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He got knocked out dead at the end of the third round.
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Because we were reading the teleprompter, and it's difficult.
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That eye is, I guess, at certain angles, he's got to hold his eye a certain way because it's kind of tunnel vision.
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Yeah, and that's to protect the retina, keep it in place.
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They can't attach it yet because if they attach it...
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Yeah, if they attach it again, it'll be more damaging.
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So he has to wait until after he's done fighting, they can reattach.
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The flying knee that Anderson landed was goddamn glorious.
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The way he did it, he jumps up with the front leg or with the right leg, and then there's almost like a pause in the air.
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He still had that ability to move, like just kind of stare at you right against the cage.
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It was weird when he was in the middle of the cage.
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You felt like he had Bisping, especially at the beginning of the fourth round, he could have capitalized and he was hesitant.
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And, you know, Bisping was giving him a ton of shit, saying, you've been on steroids your whole career.
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We just know the one time he was tested, he got caught.
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So it's not like outlandish for Bisping to say that.
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The one time out of competition testing, he got caught.
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What's hilarious is when you look at his trainer.
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I think he might be like 65, 66 years old or something like that.
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He looks like a cluster of horse cocks with feet so big.
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Okay, so if he's not natural, then Anderson knows about steroids.
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The guy who's teaching him how to lift weights and running him through his strength and conditioning program is obviously going through it.
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Oh, you know, all these years you've been fighting, this is stuff that I do.
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I know you're in a sport that's like, if your body moves better, you don't get brain damage, but that's not important.
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Dude, Jeff Novitski is a motherfucker, and he's not playing games.
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He's showing up at your house at 6 o'clock in the morning, and he's taking your piss.
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They got me the other day before I came up here, or no, when I went to do Daniele Bolelli's podcast.
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And they called me as I'm ten minutes away, five minutes away.
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They watched me do the podcast after they tested me.
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Super nice people, very professional, but they're not playing games.
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Yeah, but weed doesn't matter out of competition.
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So let's say he's smoking weed, he beats Connor.
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If I smoked weed today, the fight is in two days, or three days, right?
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If I smoked weed today, and the day of the fight, I ask them, would you test me?
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I think you literally have to get high the day before or the day of with the new parameters.
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They used to have trace amounts of THC. But I really believe that if I smoke weed today and I asked them to test me on Saturday, I'd be okay.
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Yeah, let's not smoke the day of the fight though, huh?
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Well, Nick Diaz, apparently when he fought Gomi, was tested so high that this motherfucker had to be high as FUCK when he fought Gomi.
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Who pulls off a go-go fucking platter in MMA, too?
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And after he got his cheek broken, he got hit with a bomb by Gomi.
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It was supposed to be five years and they made it at like a year and a half, I think.
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I'm surprised Nick isn't calling Robbie Lawler out.
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Well, I don't think Nick's calling out anybody.
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Nick's just chilling out and waiting for all this bullshit to settle.
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He got fucking railroaded, man, because Nick passed two WADA tests.
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The really deep, comprehensive blood screens that they use for the Olympics.
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What he didn't pass is some bullshit-ass Quest Diagnostics Lab test that the fucking Nevada State Athletic Commission uses.
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And these assholes wouldn't even pay attention to the other two tests And they tried to ban him for five years.
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What they did to Vanderlei, banned him for life.
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But having that fight in Japan could throw his whole Bellator deal in jeopardy because he's going to have to fight on Indian casinos.
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Once he fights, which at Wanderlei's age is probably not the worst thing in the world anyway, because...
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There's certain guys that only fight in certain places, and they look ridiculously muscular.
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Now, I don't know exactly how everything works.
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Look, the commission, look, it's a famous line that someone made up, I don't know who it was, but they said that passing one of those urine tests is an intelligence test, it's not a drug test.
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Well, first of all, I think they should fucking...
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Vandelay's suspension should be exactly as long as it would have been if he got popped, which I think is nine months at the time.
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Back then it was nine months, yeah, if you tested positive.
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I mean, you look at when he was fighting in Japan, but Japan didn't have tests.
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This is coming straight from Ensign Inouye, who said it was on his contract that said, we will not test you for steroids.
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He said he took a piss test and was like walking around.
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They're like, uh, just put it on the back there.
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He was like, I'm not going to set it on the table.
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You know, if you have a league where everybody knows that everybody else is doing whatever the fuck they want, that's a different thing.
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It's not really cheating, because it's not illegal over there.
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You just can't do that and be a legit sport, you know?
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Because you look at NBA, strict drug testing, NFL, MLB, now it's super strict.
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What would people look like if bodybuilding and powerlifting, if 100% it was legit, across the board, no steroids whatsoever, knocking on your door every morning at 4 a.m.
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In the 60s, bodybuilders and powerlifters, their legs, especially the bodybuilders, their legs are actually kind of small.
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They just all do this, and they're in their high-waisted tights, and they're just hot.
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There's certain guys from the bodybuilding era of Schwarzenegger, that to this day, they look small but yoked as fuck, like Frank Zane.
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Frank Zane never looked like Lee Haney or Dorian Yates or any of those freaks.
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But back in the day, like before they started doing a lot of steroids, like, well, who did Pumping Iron Gaines?
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The guy's last name is Gaines, and I knew him and I spoke to him.
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He said there was a black guy featured in Pumping Iron, and I can't remember his name, but- Albert Beckles?
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Yeah, he was eating 20 pounds of red meat a day.
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He was like, lions eat a lot of meat, so he was eating 20 pounds of...
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I guess a large quantity of rice and 20 pounds of red meat a day.
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Somebody needs to tell him that gorillas only eat broccoli.
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They're eating stalks of broccoli and bamboo shoots.
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Those were the days because it was Arnold and Venice Beach, Gold's Gym, bitches everywhere, smoking weed, slinging dick.
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Franco Columbo was in my friend's acting class.
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That Franco Columbo used to be able to take one of those hot water bottles and his lungs were so strong they would make it explode.
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He would do dips with two dudes hanging off his waist.
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Dude, those guys were doing it back then, though.
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Roids, lifting weights, hanging out on the beach, Venice, smoking weed.
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Letting guys blow them so they have money for steroids.
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Good chance Arnold was sucking weed in his dick.
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You ain't just going to lift and pay the bills.
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You want to hang out with your boys on the beach?
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Imagine if steroids didn't work, but sucking dick did.
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The only way to get swole, you gotta suck a dick.
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Callum would be the biggest motherfucker in the room.
00:23:10.000
Do you remember when guys would take brewer's yeast back in the day?
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I knew guys who would just always lift and they'd go, check this out.
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Apparently brewer's yeast makes you bigger or something.
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When steroids hit, they didn't think it was as bad as it was, right?
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Lyle Alzado was kind of the first one who was like, oh, I'm going to die because I use steroids.
00:23:41.000
See, Lyle Alzado, I don't think it was because of that.
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I think what Lyle Alzado was doing, he was doing an early form of human growth hormone.
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I'm just saying Alzado was the first to say though.
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But the early form of human growth hormone was taken from cadavers.
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It wasn't made in a lab with bacteria, the way they make growth hormone today.
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In the early form of human growth hormone, you would take it and there was like crazy adverse side effects.
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I think Alvedo was saying that he was dying because of that, and then scientists came out and were like, nah, son.
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Well, you know, you also got to deal with the massive amount of trauma that guy took to the head.
00:24:37.000
There's all sorts of bad things that happen to your brain when you play football for 30 years.
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Not a lot of other guys that were doing what he did got brain tumors.
00:24:54.000
Because don't they say human growth hormone, from what I understand, is...
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So it's going to help grow everything that's good, but also if you have a tumor, it's going to help grow that.
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You know, that's why one of the things they say that's really important, and if you do do that, you gotta get yourself scanned.
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And if you're doing it like the way those guys are doing it, where you're taking like 10 units a day, you know, they're taking massive amounts.
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That's why the bodybuilders show big, and they have those power guts, where they have abs, but it's guts.
00:25:30.000
Like, if you have those gigantic, like, Lee Haney ab muscles, you've got to think of his whole body.
00:25:46.000
Apparently, if you do take massive amounts for long periods of time, it can grow your organs larger.
00:25:53.000
But I think what we're looking at and where you're looking at those guys, a lot of it is just massive muscle.
00:26:01.000
Even Arnold's like, it's a different game, man.
00:26:03.000
When I was doing it, it was basically just steroids.
00:26:06.000
And now they're doing all these designer drugs.
00:26:10.000
I don't know if you've hung out with a current bodybuilder.
00:26:14.000
Because their bodies are constantly like, fuck, man.
00:26:20.000
Dorian Yates was very tall from what I understand, wasn't he?
00:26:24.000
Well, if Lee Haney's six feet tall, it looks like Dorian's somewhere in the same mane.
00:26:41.000
So a white dude's like, dude, we gotta get black.
00:26:47.000
Yeah, they'll have a white face and then paint the rest of them so dark.
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Yeah, because they've got to compete with the black guys.
00:26:56.000
Yeah, just to show contrast, to show the muscles.
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Before that, well, it was Jake Cutler, but then you had Ronnie Coleman for all those years.
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I don't know how long you could do that for, to take that much steroids at that high a level.
00:27:22.000
Not long, because Arnie was doing it right, and then he just blew the fuck up and went full celebrity.
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I'm going to quit fucking lifting weights with you, meet him, and go make some money.
00:27:31.000
Phil Heath wants to get 10 titles and then quit.
00:27:38.000
The problem with those guys is what do they do when it's over?
00:27:40.000
They showed some of the guys from the old days that are still alive today and they get off the sauce and their body is just depressed.
00:27:50.000
Wouldn't they have to keep doing it to fill the gap in?
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They're going to have to do something, some form of testosterone, but the kidneys is from the weight cutting.
00:28:04.000
When you see those guys when they're standing on that scale or on that stage and they're posing, they're down to like 3% body fat.
00:28:18.000
If you try and talk to one when they're getting ready for that, their brain barely functions because they're just so depleted.
00:28:54.000
When we're talking gay for pay, the reason he doesn't win is there's videos out there of him fucking grapefruits for money.
00:29:01.000
It might be a cantaloupe, but he's doing some gay stuff.
00:29:04.000
He's stripping for men, and it's all over the internet.
00:29:14.000
He puts on a mask, a doll mask, and poses in subways.
00:29:19.000
One of the reasons why he doesn't win is because he has this history of doing some promiscuous stuff with men.
00:29:26.000
There's a video of him stripping and shoves his dick in front of the guy's face.
00:29:31.000
If they let him compete, they should let him win.
00:29:40.000
Maybe that's the offensive part they don't like, is the hair.
00:29:51.000
When it gets down to this, like these two guys, how the fuck do you decide who wins?
00:30:00.000
Well, you can because you're a good wine connoisseur.
00:30:15.000
Muscle development, but you're also looking at symmetry.
00:30:20.000
But these two guys, they're in different stages of the pose.
00:30:23.000
Like the guy on the left, his arms are further apart.
00:30:27.000
Yeah, but one chose that pose and the other chose...
00:30:32.000
Right, but see how Kai Greene forgot about his legs.
00:30:34.000
Phil said, I'm going to open my legs a little bit.
00:30:43.000
You know Phil played basketball in college and was 178 pounds, point guard.
00:30:58.000
Yeah, this is his fifth, he wants 10. So five more years, and his body's like, Jesus Christ.
00:31:18.000
He'll do all these big pro-ams and get paid bank.
00:31:21.000
Like, over in Europe and the Middle East, bodybuilding's huge.
00:31:32.000
But then in sponsors, he's making six, seven figures a year.
00:31:36.000
It's interesting how much it jumped up for 2015. It went from $250 to $275 to $400.
00:31:44.000
He's got his own supplement line that I think does pretty well.
00:31:47.000
Yeah, called Gifted Nutrition, but I don't think it's...
00:31:53.000
He gets on with Olympia, and literally two days later, he's flying to the Middle East, flying to England.
00:32:01.000
Well, seminars are a big way for a lot of athletes to make money, including MMA guys.
00:32:07.000
A lot of jujitsu guys make a lot of their money.
00:32:11.000
And jujitsu is one of the few seminars where you could really get something out of it.
00:32:14.000
You know, if you go to see a Muay Thai seminar, you might learn a little bit.
00:32:19.000
I mean, you could, but a lot of people know a lot about Muay Thai.
00:32:22.000
Muay Thai is like repetition, knowledge, sparring, great coaching over long periods of time.
00:32:27.000
But jiu-jitsu, a guy could show you one technique and you could tap a guy with it the next week.
00:32:45.000
He was doing this roll from controlling on top, side control, to the truck, to the back, to taking a collar choke from behind.
00:33:06.000
Well, that whole Eddie Bravo invitational when they're going to do the open weight, like anybody can compete, the absolute, that's going to be amazing.
00:33:15.000
I know Onnit's doing one of 165 and under at the Onnit Academy.
00:33:26.000
I was going to say, hopefully, because I'm going to be like...
00:33:28.000
You could probably do the jiu-jitsu play-by-play.
00:33:36.000
Do you know who the jiu-jitsu play-by-play guy is?
00:33:48.000
And I think one of the cool things about it, too, is that, you know, me can definitely get injured, definitely get, you know, broken bones and stuff, but you can compete in and not worry about head trauma.
00:34:00.000
So I think a lot of people that are interested in martial arts are gravitating towards that because they're realizing now, like, hey, this is probably...
00:34:09.000
There's not a lot of options if you want to learn how to fight where you're not going to get your brain rattled.
00:34:14.000
There's such a debate now, like in Europe especially, about kids playing rugby and any kind of contact sport.
00:34:22.000
I mean, it's a very real thing where doctors and academics are going, hold on, like, I know it's a great sport, but you are talking about head trauma to your 14-year-old.
00:34:33.000
What that's going to do to him later down the line, we don't know.
00:34:39.000
Well, you're talking about someone who's so young that they don't really understand the repercussions of their current actions.
00:34:45.000
And if you're doing something at 14 that might affect you when you're 44, that's kind of crazy.
00:34:50.000
Yeah, but then yet again, this country has a lot of people that play football and they're fine at 44. So, you know, a lot of people play for four years.
00:35:04.000
Dude, a lot of people that they've tested that are high school students have CTE. A lot of them.
00:35:10.000
I'm sure it causes damage, but what I'm saying is that it's not as though...
00:35:14.000
I don't think the epidemic of people who played football...
00:35:18.000
Like if you said, well, most people who played football, even in high school, have brain damage.
00:35:25.000
Yeah, not only that, here's the thing that there's things like you can be high-functioning, but you can also have like real impulse problems.
00:35:33.000
And a lot of those real impulse problems are created by head trauma.
00:35:35.000
Depression, anger, real lash out, anger issues.
00:35:39.000
As a matter of fact, one of the things that O.J. Simpson's doctor said, that if they were doing that same trial today when he was tried for murder, they would probably bring up CTE. Yeah.
00:35:51.000
If you're going to ban, and it's out there, but if you're going to ban combat sports for kids, you get a lot of benefit from sports that are rough as well, in a way.
00:36:03.000
In how it builds character, or it's just a sport you might be built for, and you're really good at it.
00:36:08.000
So if you're built like a Samoan, maybe soccer isn't going to be as good for you as football.
00:36:14.000
So in a way, you've got to be careful with this stuff.
00:36:18.000
Well, it's definitely good to toughen people up.
00:36:20.000
It's definitely, I mean, there's no better avenue to teach people discipline and how to be tough than combat sports.
00:36:29.000
I think combat sports is, you know, it's the one thing where you have to figure out how to actually get it done.
00:36:35.000
There's no maybes, there's no close, there's no you either get it done or you don't get it done.
00:36:45.000
You enter into that ring, he's a referee, and that guy's just there to save your life.
00:36:50.000
And then there's another dude, and he weighs the same as you.
00:36:54.000
Guys get knocked out and kicked and stuff, but you get a lot out of getting better at something, especially when the stakes are high.
00:37:02.000
But I think that if I had to do it all over again, like if I knew what I knew now, and I went back and I was involved in striking sports, I would be way more careful.
00:37:14.000
You know, I kind of got lucky and dodged a lot of trauma, but I know a lot of people who didn't.
00:37:19.000
A lot of kickboxers who just fought for nothing.
00:37:24.000
I remember I thought it was cool when they'd go 30 seconds left and the whole gym would turn and watch me and Shane Carwin plant our feet and just slug each other in the head.
00:37:35.000
And Shane would call me and go, dude, I forgot where I was going.
00:37:38.000
And at the time, we were like, God, see you tomorrow?
00:37:44.000
Then we'd get in our cars and do it again the next day.
00:37:46.000
I remember playing football in college, and there was a play called 96 Power.
00:37:53.000
I'd come in, and it was me versus this giant linebacker named Brian Ewu, who was a second round or third round draft pick.
00:37:59.000
And I'd take a running start, and we'd run into each other.
00:38:21.000
It makes you rethink things you've done, obviously, in your past.
00:38:25.000
I look at earlier parts of my career, all of my training.
00:38:30.000
Granted, I fight, you know, child-sized grown-ups, but...
00:38:33.000
You know, when the Lollipop Guild's attacking you, it's not that big of a deal.
00:38:47.000
And I remember everything in the ring going wonky, like back and forth.
00:38:56.000
I put myself in the hospital snowboarding, hitting my head, you know, I've...
00:39:14.000
Well, I think by the time you get old, they're going to have some shit worked out.
00:39:17.000
They're going to stick a fucking syringe in your brain, squirt some stem cells in there, and you're going to be good to go.
00:39:26.000
I mean, they're getting real close to re-engineering the entire human frame.
00:39:32.000
Within 20, 30 years, they're going to have some cures for all kinds of shit.
00:39:37.000
The problem is when you're already, like, at Muhammad Ali's stage or Freddie Roach.
00:39:41.000
Yeah, Freddie Roach has functional Parkinson's that's from trauma.
00:39:53.000
Because he goes, I wish my coach would have stopped the fight sooner.
00:39:59.000
You got one more ram and I'm going to stop this.
00:40:01.000
Well, the guy who fought Kovalev, what's his face?
00:40:08.000
Yes, Jean-Pascal, who was just getting boxed up.
00:40:15.000
You know, I think the first fight took a shitload out of him, and that's something that people do not want to admit.
00:40:21.000
When you take the kind of beating that he took in that first fight, and the first fight...
00:40:25.000
Arguably was called a hair soon, but it's a hair.
00:40:30.000
I mean, his argument was that it was called too soon.
00:40:37.000
He did tag him a few times, but he didn't tag him a few times in that second fight.
00:40:51.000
And you know what he likes to do for strength and conditioning?
00:41:02.000
If you look at his body, the fact that he hits that hard...
00:41:11.000
The body is one thing, but the skeleton is the big thing.
00:41:14.000
Skeleton is a giant part of how a guy can punch.
00:41:17.000
The size of the hands, the shape of the shoulders, it's a huge, huge factor.
00:41:33.000
He's cut weight to make 170. How about Chuck Liddell?
00:41:37.000
Chuck Liddell, he'd get measured and he'd hold his shoulders in, so it said he was 76 inches.
00:41:43.000
When he's really 79 and he was standing next to you and I was looking at the- Why would he do that?
00:41:47.000
Because he wanted- he didn't want you to know how long his reach was.
00:41:55.000
So that it says his reach is 76 and if all of a sudden he comes out with 79 inches and he's jabbing you or whatever he's doing.
00:42:01.000
But you know, I looked at him and how how wide his shoulders were and how big he- he walks around at 230 right now.
00:42:12.000
Chuck's big hands reaching across the table and wham!
00:42:17.000
He thinks he would give Jon Jones trouble right now.
00:42:30.000
I think his exact words, if I hit him right now, if I put my hands on him, I'd give him trouble.
00:42:39.000
Yeah, and he said that John wouldn't be able to out-wrestle him, which is like...
00:42:49.000
He's retired, and he's been in some crazy-ass wars, and it's over.
00:43:00.000
And, you know, John had to respond a little bit.
00:43:04.000
But even the way John responded was actually pretty kind.
00:43:07.000
You know, he said maybe if Chuck fought a little smarter, we'd have protected his chin.
00:43:34.000
No, it's the same guy, but that's the cop from Die Hard.
00:43:46.000
Holly Holm, first of all, is, she's first of all, without a doubt, the best striker in that fucking division.
00:43:56.000
Her athleticism, her footwork, her kicks, and the way she's conservative with that head kick, too.
00:44:03.000
She waits until she knows it's time, and then ba-booyah!
00:44:10.000
And when she lands it, that's fucking instep to neck.
00:44:15.000
And if you look at her highlight reel, it's all that, you know, in other smaller organizations.
00:44:23.000
She's tough as shit, and her grappling is really good.
00:44:35.000
What Rhonda did is play right into the strengths of Holly.
00:44:40.000
And Rhonda just wanted to overwhelm her with pressure and power and take her out.
00:44:47.000
And by the end of the first round, she was seeing Tweety Birds and all kinds of shit.
00:44:52.000
She probably had no idea what the fuck was going on.
00:44:57.000
She's going to fight hands up high, and she's going to fight more conservative.
00:45:02.000
And I keep going to the Raquel Pennington fight, which was Holly's first fight in the UFC, where she won a very close split decision.
00:45:09.000
And this is not taking anything away from Raquel, because Raquel is a badass bitch.
00:45:21.000
But also, Raquel's just real tough and real smart and, you know, didn't rush in.
00:45:25.000
I think the rushing in factor was a big part of that fight.
00:45:29.000
Ronda just charging straight forward like a fucking wild animal, and then Holly moving and cracking her.
00:45:42.000
Well, she's got a clincher, and I don't know if she's going to win that clinch.
00:45:45.000
For her to shoot a double or a single, from that distance, she's going to get sprawled on.
00:45:50.000
People have done it before, though, B. No one's taking Holly down in the UFC. No one's taking her down, but you look at previous three fights in the UFC, people can get her to the cage.
00:45:59.000
Sure, but then you got her in a clinch, and I think Holly's stronger than Misha.
00:46:04.000
I don't know about the wrestling aspect stronger.
00:46:08.000
Well, I'll tell you, my friend Justin, Justin Milos, who's a brown belt, you know, a Division I wrestler, serious fucking athlete.
00:46:33.000
I don't think that she gets destroyed like Ronda did.
00:46:35.000
I don't think she gets outclassed like Ronda did.
00:46:37.000
I think it's a closer fight, but Holly still comes out on top.
00:46:40.000
Well, you know, the other thing is that Holly went through a camp for Ronda, like no camp she ever went through before.
00:46:45.000
And she said she trained so fucking hard for that, and you see the results of that.
00:46:48.000
I think she's going to do the exact same thing for this camp.
00:46:51.000
So if she goes into this fight with that same kind of training camp behind her, and is just in fucking phenomenal shape, like she was for the Ronda Rousey fight, she might box the shit out of me.
00:47:03.000
Because we expect her to be, you know, she's this, it's not a one-time thing.
00:47:10.000
I think for her, there's more pressure to perform now.
00:47:13.000
Because with Ronda, she's such a big underdog, he's like, ah, she doesn't get murked.
00:47:37.000
But another thing that's taking pressure off her is that most people are paying attention to Conor.
00:47:41.000
For this fight, they're talking to her a little bit.
00:47:53.000
It's not just a good card for those two fights.
00:47:55.000
It's the Conor show, but let's pull up this card, Jamie.
00:47:58.000
There's a fucking bunch of good fights on this card.
00:48:01.000
You know, here's one that everyone's sleeping on.
00:48:04.000
That is the dark horse of the division, friends.
00:48:07.000
I think Amanda Nunez is a fucking knockout machine.
00:48:12.000
And she's taking on this Valentina Shevchenko chick who is tough as fuck, too, and a multiple-time world Muay Thai champion.
00:48:21.000
Let's calm down on that posture, though, huh, Valentina?
00:48:28.000
Amanda Nunez is so athletic and her striking is amazing.
00:48:44.000
She might be the biggest one-punch striker in that division.
00:48:49.000
But, you know, you look at her and then you look at the entire division.
00:48:54.000
I think this fight is a big fight for her because Valentina, she also went through her UFC jitters.
00:49:00.000
She was like real stiff and awkward and she was telling herself that in between rounds in her first fight.
00:49:06.000
I don't think she's going to be like that coming into this fight.
00:49:19.000
I wouldn't give either one of these guys their walking papers.
00:49:37.000
And then Thatch has lost two in a row, but they're two short notice fights.
00:49:40.000
He had a change in Gunnar Nelson, and they had to fight Ben Henderson.
00:49:43.000
Yeah, well, he got clipped in the Nelson fight.
00:49:53.000
I'm telling you, if people could see him in the gym, it's like, dude, what the fuck?
00:50:00.000
It's always been a discipline issue for him, and it's always been, is he in the fight?
00:50:06.000
You just can't have a night off and beat Gunnar Nelson.
00:50:08.000
You can't not be focused and be in a striking range of a top 10 or top 15 guy and not get knocked out.
00:50:16.000
But in losing all that weight to get down to 170, what does he walk around at?
00:50:28.000
Yeah, because I look at him and he looks to me almost like a light heavyweight.
00:50:34.000
185. I'm telling you, he's not a light heavyweight.
00:50:37.000
Well, obviously, he's fighting at 170. He makes the weight.
00:50:41.000
The two times I've seen a fight, he does seem so relaxed before the fight.
00:50:44.000
Like, it might be the way he deals with nerves, but he's almost like talking to people, and he looks way more casual than most fighters.
00:51:09.000
And Diego Sanchez versus Jim Miller is a great way to get that done.
00:51:15.000
Ooh, Diego Sanchez is such a fucking barbarian.
00:51:19.000
If that guy was put on this earth, he'd do one thing.
00:51:31.000
That's a very good—Nordine Talib's a bad motherfucker.
00:51:40.000
Well, I don't want to talk about it, but he did lose his apple bottom, and he doesn't seem quite as shredded.
00:51:53.000
Yeah, at one point in time, he was ridiculously shredded.
00:52:01.000
He ate 20 pounds of red meat a day, and he realized it was clogging his colon.
00:52:05.000
He lives in a country where you can just get that stuff.
00:52:11.000
Acai, when you eat a lot of acai and a lot of beef.
00:52:14.000
It's interesting watching all this happen though, isn't it?
00:52:16.000
Watching guys' bodies change, watching their performances change.
00:52:19.000
I like it because it doesn't make me feel as bad about my body.
00:52:24.000
Yeah, like you're still comparing to UFC fighters?
00:52:55.000
Who is that guy that George St. Pierre brought in with him to train?
00:53:01.000
Yeah, the French Muay Thai guy who's a bad motherfucker.
00:53:06.000
I forget him too, but on The Ultimate Fighter, George told everyone, man, if you're smart with this guy, don't fucking hit him hard, man, because you piss him off, you're going to be in trouble.
00:53:29.000
This Muay Thai champion that George St. Pierre brought in.
00:53:42.000
Up all night, partying, going to, like a Thai fighter.
00:53:49.000
Just all night in Vegas, going to parties, having a good time.
00:53:53.000
And then fucking these young, tough kids up during the day.
00:53:59.000
All that crazy behavior that these guys used to engage in, you know.
00:54:05.000
Like, if these guys are trying to do that today, trying to go out and get crazy today.
00:54:09.000
The football player, he was the Heisman winner.
00:54:16.000
Cleveland Brown's like, yo, if you party, man, we're going to cut you.
00:54:19.000
This fucking guy goes to Vegas under a hidden name and wears a wig and a mustache.
00:54:48.000
Charlie Football reportedly partied in a blonde wig, fake mustache and glasses.
00:55:00.000
They can't tell you you can't go have a good time.
00:55:12.000
He's got a movement coach, and his movement coach wants him to fucking...
00:55:20.000
You fucking movement coach trolled the other day on Twitter.
00:55:26.000
I said, if you think Anderson Silva's going to beat Michael Bisping in a decision in the UK, then you obviously believe in dragons and movement coaches.
00:55:35.000
People got mad at you because they were like, Dragons existed, dude, there's plenty of evidence.
00:55:41.000
They think I'm hating on Conor, I'm not at all.
00:55:47.000
Conor's fans are the most fucking easily butthurt people ever.
00:55:50.000
I talk so much shit on everybody else, Ronda, all this stuff, and I get some stuff.
00:55:54.000
All I said about Conor, I said, hey, guess what?
00:56:02.000
I don't know what country they were from or what.
00:56:16.000
I've never had such an onslaught of just shit-talking because I said that you have a fight coming.
00:56:25.000
They're identifying with this guy in a way that...
00:56:28.000
You know, you remember when you were a kid, and I don't know how it was with you, but when I was a kid, I would identify with a fighter.
00:56:44.000
And Mike McCallum hit him with a left hook to the body and then a left hook up top and shut the lights out.
00:56:50.000
And he went fucking flat backwards, arms over the top of his head.
00:56:56.000
And I put on my running shoes, and I went out running.
00:56:58.000
And I ran a couple miles, and I remember when I came back home, I said, I am never getting upset over some fucking dude I don't even know losing ever again.
00:57:10.000
So to this day, when I call fights, unless it's like, you fucking...
00:57:22.000
If I watch Anderson and Bisping, I want to watch a fight.
00:57:30.000
And if Anderson knocks him out, or if Bisping knocks him out...
00:58:07.000
One is possibility, like self-belief, and the idea, the gall to say that I'm going to be a champion, coming out of nowhere and do it.
00:58:15.000
But also, like, you have to look at where, like, Ireland, they did a really interesting thing about, during the financial crisis, like, with the Greeks and people, like, taking to the streets and, you know, freaking out.
00:58:32.000
They don't make a big deal about their own issues and pain.
00:58:37.000
You get a guy like Conor McGregor all of a sudden to come, and they've had the shit end of the stick.
00:58:44.000
And so when you get a guy like Conor McGregor to come along and go, hey, by the way, I'm going to beat everybody and I'm fucking Irish.
00:58:52.000
For the first time in a long time, the Irish are like, holy fuck, this guy is speaking for us and, by the way, unifying us.
00:59:05.000
He's historically significant to the Irish and the Irish character.
00:59:13.000
There's a reason it's so loud in Boston and stuff.
00:59:20.000
And who says we have to be quiet and keep our heads down?
00:59:24.000
When I went to Ireland to fight, and this was Conor's, what, second, third fight in the UFC? Yeah, I think it was second.
00:59:32.000
They obviously, they had this show, he's headlining.
00:59:51.000
I'm like, yeah, and I'm fucking, you know, what's your name?
01:00:01.000
They thought I was a fucking leprechaun or something.
01:00:09.000
And this was just before he was a big, big thing.
01:00:13.000
They were already fucking behind him so much, and now he is who he is.
01:00:20.000
His second fight in the UFC, I believe, was in Boston.
01:00:32.000
Whatever the fight was that I called, I don't believe I called this first fight.
01:00:36.000
But I remember being there going, this is nuts, man.
01:00:43.000
And I think it's because also Boston is a giant Irish community, right?
01:00:50.000
The momentum had already started way more than anybody I'd ever seen fighting on the undercard.
01:00:56.000
But another thing that's going on with Connor is that everybody knows the stakes are much higher because of the shit-talking he does.
01:01:04.000
See, all this shit-talking is fantastic when you pull it off, but everybody knows that if he doesn't pull it off, if Nate fucking sleeps him, if Nate connects with a straight left-right hook and we see the fucking chicken dance out of Connor...
01:01:19.000
Not always is it not cute, but you better stay offline for a couple weeks.
01:01:27.000
I know you and Rhonda aren't close anymore, you don't talk to her, but I couldn't imagine, just what I saw when I was online, the barrage of hate.
01:01:38.000
I got hate for Rhonda, for telling people that she was great, for expressing my, being impressed with her performances.
01:01:54.000
But it might be different, though, because Rhonda was such a...
01:02:00.000
You know, if you look at her when she's climbing rocks in that competition in the Ultimate Fighter, and she's giving Misha the finger, it was so aggressive.
01:02:07.000
And then to not shake her hand, and then to say what she said about Holly, about being a fake-ass preacher's daughter and stuff, that kind of stuff wasn't witty.
01:02:24.000
People know that when she was doing that with Holly, there was a fear.
01:02:27.000
And she was trying to put that fear into Holly.
01:02:29.000
And the worst thing in the world is Holly just standing out there.
01:02:44.000
Here's a question to you guys who are fighters.
01:02:49.000
What if Misha Tate crawled on a three-point stance, literally crawled toward Holly Holm because she couldn't get kicked.
01:03:00.000
Right, and just grabbed her ankle-picked, single-double.
01:03:05.000
She's going to punch her in the face like this.
01:03:16.000
If you're on all fours and someone kicks your arms, that is horrific.
01:03:21.000
Then your dumb ass has to get up and fight with one arm.
01:03:31.000
What if Misha climbed on top of the octagon and leaped to the center of the...
01:03:43.000
Yeah, there's not a whole lot of things that haven't been tried.
01:03:47.000
Hey, what if Misha won and Conor got knocked down in like 15 seconds?
01:03:57.000
Conor's still the fucking featherweight champion.
01:04:01.000
You're batshit crazy if you think that aura is still there.
01:04:04.000
But, look, the Irish people are still going to support him.
01:04:08.000
He's fighting at 70. I agree, Joe, but it's not the same.
01:04:19.000
That little Russian guy who leg-locked him was a 25-er.
01:04:40.000
You know, there's guys that, like, it doesn't matter.
01:04:42.000
If they get you in certain positions, there's certain positions that some guys have, they catch you in it, like, Ronnie Yaya.
01:04:55.000
A team constrictor, you know, that's what they call themselves.
01:05:00.000
Because if that motherfucker gets a hold of your neck, man, you got some fucking problems, lad.
01:05:07.000
Well, you know, Paul Harris versus Gary Tonin in that submission-only match at Polaris.
01:05:17.000
Isn't Kerry Tone the guy who beat everybody at the Eddie Bravo?
01:05:28.000
I don't know if they have a weight limitation, which could be a giant issue, because Paul Harris gets way up into the 200s before he fights.
01:05:33.000
He fought at 185. It's the first fight in the UFC. Are they going to test him?
01:05:44.000
I want to do steroids and I want to do jiu-jitsu all day and be 55. First of all, how about first take a class?
01:05:50.000
No, just get on steroids and start entering competitions.
01:06:03.000
Fucking loose pajamas that come off in the middle of rolling.
01:06:26.000
Then he fucking falls and eats shit on the turf.
01:06:34.000
She's getting very excited about this guy's hog.
01:06:39.000
You gotta find the real deal out there, young Jamie.
01:06:43.000
Dude, it looks like a pterodactyl going down for prey.
01:06:49.000
It looks like he conjured a spirit out of the ground.
01:06:54.000
It's like on Jurassic Park where the pterodactyls are taking people.
01:07:09.000
He got that turf dick because he scraped that chocolate dick on that turf.
01:07:31.000
Do you know how many Instagram fucking pussy pictures he must have gotten?
01:07:47.000
Before you run that comment, like, what's the worst that can happen?
01:07:50.000
It's not like your dick's gonna come out or anything.
01:07:52.000
The sheer volume of cock when he was getting up that you see.
01:07:57.000
I don't know if you guys ever had turf burn on your dick?
01:08:03.000
Why did he choose to fall dick first like that?
01:08:08.000
I definitely think he fell forward to cover his dick.
01:08:12.000
He knew if it came out of his shorts, it was going to the ground.
01:08:17.000
If I had a dick like that, I'd be fucking ripping my pants every day.
01:08:20.000
He falls down, he gets up, he tells the coach, he goes, my dick fell out.
01:08:33.000
That dude needs one of them diamond cups just to contain that.
01:08:39.000
He tells the coach, he goes, damn, my dick fell out.
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I'll tell you what, that's just reinforcing stereotypes.
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That's one of those stereotypes that people don't have a problem with.
01:08:56.000
If that was a white guy, I'd be like, oh shit, I would have jumped out of my fucking seat like Showtime kicked someone in the face off the cage.
01:09:21.000
Someone's listening to the show going, I thought it was a breakdown in the fights.
01:09:27.000
They're talking about a dragon in this guy's pants.
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That's what's really funny when people get angry at this podcast.
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What do you say when you're with your friends and you're drinking?
01:09:47.000
Because they got so angry that I mentioned fried chicken.
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Be mad he died fighting MMA. But here's the thing that's crazy.
01:09:53.000
They were upset at me that I mentioned fried chicken because they said that's racist.
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But they weren't upset that we're making fun of a guy who is still in the hospital.
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Like, this is how crazy people's priorities are.
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That, first of all, fried chicken is not racist.
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It's not necessarily the best food for you, but that's not racist.
01:10:14.000
What racist is, is claiming or pretending that one race is superior to another race.
01:10:24.000
And it was an example of a bad diet while he's overweight and cutting all this weight and look like shit fighting.
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There's so many people that are looking forward to being angry so quick.
01:10:36.000
If I was fat and someone was saying, you meatball-eating motherfucker, I'd be like, yeah, I like meatballs.
01:10:46.000
I remember one time, I actually remember asking you this, so interesting, because you came from Boston, kind of working class, kind of rough, and I never heard, and I'd known you for probably three years, this is way back, and I remember, I said, I'd never heard you say, you say bad things about people,
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Basically, he's a ball of hate, but I never heard you say anything off-color, not once.
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I never heard you say a prejudiced thing in any way.
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And I remember saying to you, I go, you know, you never, I've never heard you make an off-color joke about any race, black people, anything else.
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You said, I can show you a whole lot of really dumb white people where I grew up.
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And with Dada, if Dada was white and you went, ah, fucking fried chicken, Pepsi drinking, no one's going to say shit.
01:11:45.000
What I do feel bad about is that the guy's still in the hospital.
01:11:53.000
And genuinely, all we were doing was joking around and having fun, because that's what we do.
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And if people construed that as racism, because I mentioned chicken, please substitute it for pizza.
01:12:05.000
People are like, you were trying to be funny by saying fried chicken.
01:12:14.000
That whole situation, you know how when you do something crazy and people go, but did you die?
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And everyone's saying that we shouldn't have been making fun of his weight and his family was saying that he was only two or three pounds over the week of the fight.
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Because if you're that much, if you're only two or three pounds, you're only cutting two or three pounds away to fight, he's just unprepared.
01:12:45.000
Whoever did it, they were upset at us that we were making fun of his MMA training or strength and conditioning coach.
01:12:54.000
This is a co-main event, and there's something...
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Like, all due respect to Dada, this is my feelings on the Dada thing.
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He didn't have any endurance, but he still fought three fucking hard rounds, and he had nothing in the tank.
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There's a lot of opportunities for him to stay down.
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And if you walk into that magnitude of a fight and you have titties hanging, I'm gonna make a comment.
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But I make a comment like that about Roy Nelson, too, all the time.
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I've always said that Roy Nelson's gut is like he's wearing like 30 sweaters and that it's all like you're hitting cheeseburgers.
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You know, that's okay because I'm white and Roy's white, but those fights are not good for the sport.
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And this is why they're not good for the sport.
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Like when one time Kimbo took him down and just got on top of him and they're just laying on top of each other.
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It's just so, it's so bush leagues that there's no way that anybody who watches that, like say if you're a boxing fan and you watch like, did you see Terrence Crawford the other night?
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And you know what man, his switch, he'll fight you orthodox.
01:14:41.000
Yeah, so if you're a boxing fan and you watch that fight and then you say, well, let me check out what this MMA shit's all about and then you go and watch the Kimbo Dada fight.
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Look, the first day you enter into any sort of an MMA gym or dojo, whatever, we all start out as someone who doesn't know anything.
01:15:11.000
We all start out with whatever strength and conditioning you've gotten coming in.
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If you're a gymnast or whatever, you bring whatever base you have.
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Once you get to a co-main event, I demand that you are better than that.
01:15:32.000
This is where I respect the shit out of the UFC and Dana.
01:15:34.000
When Kimbo wanted to fight in the UFC, they were like, fight in the Ultimate Fighter.
01:15:38.000
You want to fight in the UFC? I know you're making a lot of money in Elite XC, and everybody's making it out that you're the biggest thing.
01:15:44.000
But look, when Seth Petruzzelli fought Kimbo, there's a video of me saying it.
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I was watching it from the fucking green room of the Atlanta punchline.
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And I'd just gotten off stage, and Ken Shamrock got injured when he was supposed to be fighting Kimbo.
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And I went backstage, and I saw Seth Petruzzelli.
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You can watch the video of me saying he's gonna get fucked up, and then he gets knocked out while we're watching the video.
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Because there's a giant difference between fighting guys who are awkward and clumsy, and you're a big, tough guy with good boxing.
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From what I've heard, they asked him and he was like, nah, I'm good.
01:16:54.000
I gotta think Seth Purchaselli's gonna fuck him up.
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I had to be that high to give that fucking breakdown on a television like that.
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If you want discipline, Kimbo, give him Justin.
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That fight Should not be a co-main event fight.
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I'm not saying those guys shouldn't be allowed to compete against each other.
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They certainly should, but they're not I mean I understand they want to get paid and I get all that and I know that Kimbo has some serious knee problems like Kimbo when he was on the Ultimate Fighter they diagnosed him with bone-on-bone cartilage I mean his cartilage is just devastating.
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And, you know, all the MMA training that he has done.
01:18:24.000
So I'm not hating on those guys to get paid, but what I am saying is, please, Bellator, cut the shit.
01:18:35.000
Bellator has a real chance of being a gigantic organization.
01:18:44.000
They might get a bunch of other really good fighters.
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They got Vanderlei Silva just fucking signed with him.
01:18:51.000
Right up there with the UFC. They're a fucking Viacom entity.
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They have a tremendous amount of money behind them.
01:19:01.000
If you're Bellator, we're going to look at the ratings, son.
01:19:04.000
Over two million views while Dada's titties are to the side and Kimbo's gas.
01:19:16.000
What if they have their own version of Fight Pass where UFC's pushing Fight Pass?
01:19:21.000
You can't put Kimball on Fight Pass when you get two million views on Spike TV. That's all they care about.
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Maybe it'll drive views to your content-based website.
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When a guy is in such bad shape that the fight itself almost kills him, And not damage.
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Because if you look at the damage that he took...
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Like, the people have played it back and forth.
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If he would've ate the same shots Bisping did against Anderson Silva...
01:19:57.000
But here, again, if anybody felt that I said something racist, I'm sorry that you felt that way.
01:20:05.000
I'm not sorry that I said chicken, because I think this is ridiculous.
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And I think in this day and age, there's nothing wrong with chicken.
01:20:19.000
Racism is trying to imply that one race is inferior.
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But there's a thing that people do, man, where they just look to be offended.
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Or they decide that this is something they should be offended at.
01:20:38.000
My intent was, I'm talking about a guy who, obviously, he didn't eat kale salads and fucking lean fish to get to that weight.
01:20:47.000
That's another point, is that when you say, it feels like we live in a time when you are fighting for one group of people.
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Like, say, people who have been oppressed in the past.
01:21:01.000
Instead of kind of having an intelligent debate and pointing your guns where they should be pointed at, which is usually a complex set of issues, what we're doing, I feel like, is we're demonizing one group to bolster another group that we call...
01:21:20.000
I think a lot of times, you know, if you look at, for example, I went to UPenn and I spoke to these kids in their theater department.
01:21:33.000
No, they wanted me to do it about the Goldbergs and stuff, and I was there.
01:21:36.000
And I went and I asked the kids, I said, how many of you feel like your comedy...
01:21:42.000
Is something you have to be careful of because you might offend somebody in your class or your school.
01:21:51.000
And by the way, most of those kids, because I looked at it, were mostly white.
01:21:58.000
That's such a bummer that your expression, and especially your comedy...
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Is being cowed by, you know, the fact that you're trying to be fair-minded.
01:22:09.000
You know, none of those kids, I don't think, were racist or anything else, but when you're actually having...
01:22:14.000
But we see this in our institutions of learning, especially our higher institutions of learning, where you're just not able to really and honestly express yourself.
01:22:27.000
You know, if you're not toeing the line, then you will be censored.
01:22:33.000
I don't think it's a matter of demonizing white people, because they're not demonizing white people without doing that.
01:22:46.000
Chris Rock took a lot of heat from other black people.
01:22:52.000
We're all very sensitive at a time when we are making big strides as well.
01:22:57.000
And I think part of that, I mean, the oversensitivity is because we sense that there is a lot of positive momentum.
01:23:06.000
And that people want to keep that going and they want to stop any racism.
01:23:10.000
Any racism that does come up, they want to nip that shit in the bud and let people know that it's not tolerated anymore.
01:23:15.000
Which is understandable, but we have to know when racism is real and when it's not real.
01:23:20.000
And there's also a lot of bandwagon bullshit jumping on where people just decide that this is something they should be offended by.
01:23:27.000
Where I'll sit down with you, motherfucker, you try to argue with me that that's racist.
01:23:34.000
It's a lynch mom who they just want to jump on.
01:23:42.000
You tell me that watermelon is racist, you're an idiot.
01:23:45.000
If you tell me grape juice, watermelon, chicken's racist, then I don't know what to tell you.
01:23:49.000
They're reacting, though, to what was used in the past.
01:23:53.000
I get it, but fried chicken has always been a delicious food.
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It's not something that poor people could only afford.
01:24:04.000
As a matter of fact, who was running for president?
01:24:10.000
Part of his campaign was a chicken in every pot.
01:24:14.000
And the reason why is because chicken was expensive back then.
01:24:18.000
So he was saying that he was going to offer prosperity to the American people and that every family would have a chicken.
01:24:28.000
It's racial in that it's always been in some way connected with black people.
01:24:41.000
You know, you say someone smells like curry, that's more racial if you're talking about an Indian person.
01:24:47.000
When Magic Johnson owned all his Starbucks, He opened Starbucks in black neighborhoods, and one of the first things he said is, you guys are selling food that black people that I grew up with are not going to eat, and here are the foods you should sell at my Starbucks.
01:25:03.000
And he made a lot of money by changing At least back in the time.
01:25:11.000
Believe it or not, I think one of the things, this is back when I read about it probably a long time, 10 years ago more than that, they were offering in the Starbucks in Harlem and places like that, they were offering things like sweet potato pie.
01:25:27.000
Those little sweet potato pies are goddamn delicious.
01:25:33.000
Back in the day, Magic Johnson said, the food that you have in these is not going to fly.
01:25:50.000
Another thing that people were trying to get upset at me was orange soda.
01:26:04.000
They cut out cheeseburgers and they wrote, Joe Rogan says that Dada ate fried chicken and orange soda.
01:26:10.000
Like, they didn't even say cheeseburger because I was trying to throw in a bunch of different things.
01:26:23.000
That's probably why I'm thicker than a Snickers, man.
01:26:30.000
Dude, those goddamn delicious mangoes with chili.
01:26:42.000
I got a bunch of different companies that I have back there.
01:26:51.000
The best ones that I've tried so far are Trader Joe's.
01:27:01.000
People are mad at me for talking too much about sugar, so I'm going to shut the fuck up.
01:27:15.000
I mean, we've got like 23 million downloads this month.
01:27:21.000
But whenever you stand for something or whenever you have an opinion...
01:27:26.000
Whenever you stand for something or you have an opinion, people aren't going to agree with everything, man.
01:27:30.000
But if people aren't disagreeing with you, you're a schmuck.
01:27:48.000
He's eating something super healthy, low sugar, and he handed that bag over to you.
01:27:52.000
Just because I'm Mexican doesn't mean I like fruit and fucking salt on it, okay?
01:28:03.000
I had a dream last night that I was eating bread.
01:28:06.000
And that someone called me out on it and someone was like, dude, you're eating bread.
01:28:12.000
I got too high and I ate the bread and I forgot.
01:28:20.000
I can't believe you're going to run with this diet for more than 60 days.
01:28:23.000
I'm definitely gonna run with it for more than 60 days.
01:28:42.000
My thing is, I'm good when I'm at home, but whenever Cal and I go on the road or anything like that, my diet goes to shit.
01:28:49.000
If I had to walk around with a 10-pound jacket on, I'd be uncomfortable.
01:28:53.000
I'd be like, God, get this fucking stupid jacket off.
01:28:55.000
I think that's how you have to look at your body.
01:28:58.000
If you're one of those people that goes, Oh, I could lose 20 pounds.
01:29:01.000
If you take that 20 pounds and put a 20-pound jacket on, how would you feel?
01:29:07.000
So that feeling like shit becomes your new normal.
01:29:10.000
I'll eat six Cadbury eggs and wear that jacket.
01:29:18.000
If you want to kidnap him, put some Cadbury eggs in a van, and put them in the back of the van, and then he'll just...
01:29:29.000
He'll just go in there like one of those fucking trap things to catch coyotes.
01:29:32.000
He'll put fucking food in there and take traps behind him.
01:29:39.000
We were in a meeting a couple days ago with Fox, all suits, and someone had a bag of red vines, like, shop, you want one?
01:29:49.000
Calum goes, holy shit, he ate all of them in front of everyone.
01:29:52.000
Well, I turned my head to look out the window, and then I turned back, and they were gone.
01:30:01.000
It doesn't seem like a drug because it doesn't get you high.
01:30:04.000
But there's a physical reaction that your body has to sugar where when I would eat, I'd eat a full meal and then after the meal I would still be hungry for something.
01:30:13.000
And what I was craving was like either carbs or I was craving cookies.
01:30:18.000
Like I'd see like a bag of cookies and I'd go, oh, cookies and milk.
01:30:34.000
Yeah, but if you stopped eating it, if you took time off, I guarantee you your gut bacteria would change and that craving would go away.
01:30:55.000
I mean, sugar, sugar, but it's not terrible for you.
01:30:57.000
Look, it's not terrible for you if you don't get too much of it.
01:30:59.000
The problem is, you're only really supposed to have about 25 grams of sugar a day if you live a healthy diet.
01:31:19.000
This diet, this Mark Sisson's primal blueprint diet is no grains.
01:31:26.000
I've done gluten-free before where I had rice noodles and stuff like that.
01:31:30.000
This is the first time I've ever had no grains at all.
01:31:35.000
I'm not doing it to prepare for anything, but listen to this guy, Mark Sisson, who was a very smart guy and very interesting guy to talk to.
01:31:45.000
And I'm listening to what he had to say about inflammation and all the issues that he had dealt with, like acid reflux or what was it?
01:31:58.000
I'm telling you, that is the interesting thing.
01:32:00.000
I think I talked about this before the podcast, but when I get out of bed, I don't have any aches and pains anymore.
01:32:05.000
I would get out of bed and I'd be like, oh, my fucking back.
01:32:08.000
And I'd have to loosen up, and I would do all these exercises and shit before my body started feeling loose again.
01:32:14.000
I'd have to get my back moving, I'd get blood circulation.
01:32:17.000
And then once things started circulating, the aches would kind of slowly go away.
01:32:37.000
My workout is like 10 o'clock in the morning, and then I work out, and then I eat after my workout.
01:32:42.000
So for, you know, 11 hours or 12 hours or so, I'm not eating shit.
01:32:50.000
I stop eating Saturday night at usually 7. I won't eat until the next day to 7. 24 hours.
01:33:00.000
You finish somewhere around 10. And then you let all that shit digest and then take that time off.
01:33:06.000
And then when you wake up at 9 or 10, do a hard cardio workout.
01:33:38.000
You don't have any issues as far as your appearance, but as far as the overall performance of your body, if you just wanted to give it a goof for your show, just to guide people through it for fun.
01:33:52.000
I've gotten all these tweets and Facebook messages from all these people that are trying to do it now.
01:34:08.000
Look, man, I'm telling you, I bought 10 bags of those fucking chili mango things back there and boxes of those sugary bars because I love them, you know, but I don't like them right now.
01:34:20.000
That's what's the most fascinating thing about this.
01:34:24.000
I went to dinner the other day, and we're at this Italian restaurant with my family, and bread comes out, and it didn't mean shit to me.
01:34:30.000
Do you know what they find that this, from what I've read and heard, epigeneticists got people who study how you can turn genes on and off, right?
01:34:39.000
Do you know what one of the leading causes of inflammation is, which I thought was fascinating?
01:34:45.000
And the food that gets stuck between your gums will break down as bacteria and apparently goes into the bloodstream.
01:34:55.000
First of all, they know that that kind of bacteria has a lot to do with your heart health.
01:34:59.000
But it also has a great deal to do with inflammation in the body, which is fascinating.
01:35:05.000
So that's why they say one of the most important things you can do is freeze.
01:35:21.000
Now that I've heard that since the past week, I do it twice a day.
01:35:25.000
I flossed a dozen times in my entire life on this planet.
01:35:39.000
As you sleep, it breaks down and goes into the bloodstream.
01:35:43.000
And that bacteria apparently has a great deal to do with information.
01:35:47.000
That's why it's good to have a little gap tooth.
01:35:54.000
I used to have a thing for girls with gap teeth.
01:36:05.000
And it's it's not you know, I'm just she was fucking gorgeous, but I think it's hot.
01:36:12.000
I'm trying to think of the hottest girl that she was a Bellator girl Jay Bryce.
01:36:26.000
She's possibly the nicest person on the planet.
01:36:29.000
She's also one of the hottest people on the planet.
01:36:35.000
Yeah, there's a lot of pretty women with gap tooth.
01:36:46.000
There's some new girl now I see on billboards with just a fucking field golfy teeth.
01:37:15.000
Did you guys pay attention to the controversy that these models were complaining about this oversized model or plus-sized model?
01:37:32.000
Well, they were saying these models were bitching.
01:38:04.000
Well, she's the one, by the way, that is not wearing fucking body paint.
01:38:30.000
All this young lady needs to do is a rigorous strength and conditioning program for a couple weeks.
01:38:36.000
Okay, well, we just got a little ridiculous here.
01:38:57.000
I bet she has no problem dealing with the shob.
01:39:25.000
Like, some of her where she looks perfect, and some of her where she's obviously a little indulgent.
01:39:32.000
When she's 40, I don't know if that's a fun scene.
01:39:34.000
Well, there's no such thing as one of these models that's in any...
01:39:44.000
There's no such thing as these models when they're 40. They don't exist.
01:39:59.000
She's on it all day with creams and antioxidant lotions and rubbing fucking...
01:40:08.000
She's rubbing sand over her face, smoothing it out.
01:40:35.000
Well, not only that, she had that balloon, that drunk face where something happens to your nose.
01:40:43.000
Okay, first of all, look at where when she was upper left corner, please.
01:40:49.000
That Body Heat movie, that was 1981, by the way.
01:41:11.000
I'm just upset that I've been talking to people.
01:41:17.000
How was brushing your teeth this morning with dog shit?
01:41:23.000
This is a really hot girl from 1981. If you saw her at the gym today, you'd be like, how about be here more often?
01:41:37.000
Well, the bodies that women have today are just better.
01:41:56.000
And women are like, that's what a real woman looks like, you fucking asshole!
01:42:24.000
That's her when she was in that movie Body Heat.
01:42:33.000
And cigarettes, because with that voice, she smokes a lot of cigarettes.
01:42:40.000
Maybe she had a blast, got some money, started smoking, got fat as fuck, eating catberry eggs.
01:43:02.000
And by fuck you up, I mean he's gonna fuck you, yeah.
01:43:11.000
I mean, I think also the pressure of being a hot chick, I think it's overwhelming.
01:43:18.000
I mean, speaking from personal experience, my days as a hot chick...
01:43:22.000
I just think it's overwhelming for those girls.
01:43:24.000
Like, to imagine your entire existence is based entirely on people wanting to fuck you.
01:43:30.000
Guys just sending mental dick missiles at your face all day long.
01:43:42.000
A famous female celebrity would work out there, and she would go in the shower before me, But the paparazzi was waiting for her outside.
01:43:50.000
She was in there for maybe damn near two hours.
01:43:56.000
Because people were just taking pictures all the time.
01:44:00.000
Renee Zellweger said that she moved to New York because when she'd get out to put gas in her car, if she brushed her nose, they'd take a picture and it looked like she was picking her nose.
01:44:13.000
She was like, I'm going to New York to live there.
01:44:16.000
And by the way, for a girl like that, whenever I'm around him, I have to say by the way.
01:44:27.000
It's just exhausting to be one of those ladies.
01:44:32.000
And she also had to get a fuckload of plastic surgery.
01:44:49.000
Well, Patty Jenkins, you know, our friend who directed Wonder Woman now...
01:44:52.000
She said, if you want to be humiliated, be a woman, a female actor in her late 30s, early 40s.
01:44:59.000
You know, when you start to lose, quote unquote, your delicious, as Katharine Hepburn said, you become invisible.
01:45:10.000
She said she was the young girl getting the parts and now she's not getting them.
01:45:19.000
I can't get a job playing a black basketball player because I'm not a black basketball player.
01:45:28.000
I can't get a job playing Jackie Chan's brother because I don't look like I'd be Jackie Chan's brother.
01:45:39.000
When you are no longer a hot chick, you're going to have to get a job as a hot chick's mom.
01:45:47.000
What the fuck did you do to get famous in the first place?
01:46:00.000
It's pretty fucking easy for you to slip in the door.
01:46:14.000
Well, we're going to find someone we want to fuck.
01:46:16.000
I lost the part because my manager called me and he goes, you want me to be honest?
01:46:19.000
He goes, they just said you weren't TV good looking enough.
01:46:30.000
Well, if they're trying to cast you as the 30-something single guy, yeah, probably not.
01:46:34.000
If you were like a guy on Lost with a plane crashed and you were fairly rugged and you took care of some older women and they wanted to fuck you.
01:46:47.000
My buddy Frank Grillo, the greatest guy in the world, called me up.
01:46:49.000
He'd be like, dude, you've got to get on this audition.
01:46:53.000
And finally my agent, David Letterman, goes, Brian, he just stopped me.
01:46:57.000
He goes, Brian, you have to stop calling me about the auditions Frank Grillo goes on.
01:47:03.000
He goes, because you don't look like Frank Grillo.
01:47:07.000
You could play his friend, but you don't have his hair or his look.
01:47:16.000
And you can't get upset at that because that's, you got in just as easy.
01:47:20.000
You didn't get a goddamn PhD to be a hot chick.
01:47:22.000
You know, it's not like you fucking scoured the world and busted your ass 16 hours a day going through doctorate...
01:47:34.000
You're just a pretty girl who knows how to pretend.
01:47:36.000
For you to be upset that people don't care about you because you turned 40. Well, guess what?
01:47:43.000
They're not going to care about you when you're dead either.
01:47:46.000
So there's a certain reality to the expiration date of the occupation that you've chosen.
01:47:54.000
And this is not the fucking business's responsibility.
01:47:57.000
You know, I mean, I was friends with a guy who was Asian, who was always complaining.
01:48:06.000
But they don't have to write a movie about Asian people.
01:48:13.000
You've got to figure out a way through the system.
01:48:16.000
There's a certain way that has to be available to someone to get a gig.
01:48:22.000
And they shouldn't have to cast you just because there's no Asian people in their movie.
01:48:29.000
For example, like the black issue in Hollywood.
01:48:32.000
Look, black people take up, what, 12% of the population in this country.
01:48:36.000
There are a lot of very talented black people, as there are a lot of very talented white people.
01:48:39.000
But the bottom line is, money-wise, you know, there's more money in making sort of movies that are geared maybe toward a white populace only because that's the economics.
01:48:51.000
There are a whole lot more audience members that are white who And the infrastructure, yes, is already fairly white, so it's going to take some time.
01:49:00.000
But to mandate or to kind of scold Hollywood because there aren't enough vehicles or roles for black people or Asian people, it seems to me to be a little bit disingenuous.
01:49:14.000
I understand the frustration, but come on, man.
01:49:17.000
At the end of the day, it's reflective of demographics.
01:49:21.000
Isn't it reflective of the fact that 12% of the population are African American?
01:49:33.000
It was between me and one other guy, and the other guy was African American.
01:49:36.000
My agent called me and goes, man, you did great.
01:49:45.000
They think you're better, but they're gonna go with African American for this.
01:49:48.000
Because they don't want to get people upset at them.
01:49:53.000
If you're casting a movie, I mean a TV show now, it is a fact, and I just know this, that you have to cast a certain number of people of quote-unquote color.
01:50:08.000
But if you want to avoid criticism, and that's one of the reasons why this criticism exists.
01:50:14.000
It's essentially like an affirmative action for acting.
01:50:18.000
You know if you're hiring a head coach in the NFL, you have to interview a black coach?
01:50:22.000
It's required you have to interview a black coach.
01:50:25.000
So you might have six white guys, and you're like, fuck, the sixth one's really good.
01:50:29.000
I know, but you've got to put in this inferior black guy.
01:50:32.000
They're trying to equalize the playing field and create equality of opportunity, which is a good thing.
01:50:37.000
I just don't know if that's the best way to do it.
01:50:41.000
The best way to do it is to meritocracy and create opportunities for people of all ilks and all colors earlier.
01:50:52.000
Nurture the idea that, hey, instead of taking this path, maybe there's another path.
01:50:57.000
I'd love to see more black scientists and doctors over more black actors and things like that.
01:51:08.000
Yeah, but you can't encourage people to do what they want to do.
01:51:11.000
The way you do it is you nurture those communities when they're still young and create possibilities there.
01:51:16.000
I'm under the line, the best guys should get the job.
01:51:20.000
Yeah, I think that's true too, but I also think we've got to figure out why those people aren't getting opportunities.
01:51:32.000
Yeah, they're not born with the same opportunity.
01:51:34.000
They're given a shitty deal as far as like their hand...
01:51:42.000
Yes, but also, keep in mind, first of all, you talk about black people, gay people, white people, it's so ridiculous.
01:51:49.000
A black person from Nigeria- Did you mix black people and gay people?
01:51:52.000
A black person from Nigeria is very different than a black guy who grew up in South Carolina.
01:51:56.000
It's just a completely different culture and everything.
01:51:58.000
The African immigrant experience in this country Is not so different from a lot of other immigrant experiences.
01:52:08.000
So culture plays a factor in where people start and end as well.
01:52:16.000
It's very taboo to suggest maybe your culture, if you're a white guy from the Appalachian Mountains, Isn't as effective for this marketplace as the culture of a Northeastern white guy.
01:52:29.000
Maybe your culture, if you come from a black Mississippi, a black Mississippi neighborhood, or where Dada 5000 is from, in that documentary.
01:52:44.000
But that culture, you have to say, what are the deficits in that culture compared to the advantages of being a black Kenyan or a black Nigerian that seems to work in this marketplace?
01:52:55.000
If you don't want to have a discussion about that, maybe you don't care enough about the problems.
01:52:58.000
I don't know what you just said, so I can't really agree.
01:52:59.000
What I'm saying is that culture plays a factor.
01:53:03.000
The way you solve the problem is look at how kids are raised.
01:53:07.000
Well, I think for sure we have a problem in this country where there's communities where people are growing up where it's just despair.
01:53:20.000
I mean, you can keep going down the list of terrible...
01:53:37.000
People are, but you're also dealing with a legacy.
01:53:45.000
Well, I had this guy Michael Wood on, who was a cop in Baltimore.
01:53:52.000
He's actually running for the head of police of Chicago right now.
01:53:58.000
Well, I hope he wins, because he's got the right idea, and he was a cop, and he's a fucking super honest guy.
01:54:03.000
But he said that the way Baltimore was set up, you literally couldn't sell black people houses in white neighborhoods.
01:54:11.000
In every community, why is there a black ghetto in almost every community?
01:54:17.000
You couldn't get a loan for a house unless it was in within these lines.
01:54:25.000
And the people that were living there, they didn't own those houses.
01:54:29.000
You know what's weird is there's really no, if you think about it, just to go back to what we're originally supposed to be talking about, if you go back to it, there's really no black female fighters.
01:54:47.000
She made a Twitter post, says this is what she hears, and she had a clip of me from my 2005 Showtime special where I said there's three magic words.
01:55:03.000
And the last one, you can't even say it out loud.
01:55:08.000
If you say it out loud, people could beat the fuck out of you.
01:55:12.000
So she took an excerpt of that and she said, this is what I hear when he says that.
01:55:21.000
I'm saying, at 135, like, there's not a lot of African Americans fighting in the UFC in the female division.
01:55:29.000
But if you think about it, there's some beast African-American women.
01:55:35.000
Wait till you have two little Serena Williams sisters who are like, maybe you guys should fight.
01:55:54.000
She's 15. And hey, we should play tennis together.
01:56:00.000
She goes, oh, like a little over 100. I'm like, why the fuck would I want you serving a ball at me in 100 miles?
01:56:32.000
Yeah, but wait till African-American girls go, you know what?
01:56:38.000
A lot of Russian and a lot of Polish, like, you know, Ioana, Jacek, and there's a lot of Muay Thai in Europe and in Russia, and I think a lot of those athletes are going to leak into MMA. You know, Ioana's going to Muscle Farm.
01:56:58.000
I would also suggest that black being a super whatever athlete is a black...
01:57:04.000
There's only one black champion right now, right?
01:57:15.000
And then you've got, really, let's say, Jon Jones.
01:57:17.000
Then you've got, in the heavyweight division, it's Fabrizio Verdum.
01:57:21.000
Then you've got Robbie Lawler, who's Filipino and white.
01:57:43.000
Daniel Cormier is the light heavyweight champion.
01:57:48.000
Because I watched Jon Jones beat the fuck out of him.
01:57:52.000
Well, he didn't beat the fuck out of him, but he beat him.
01:58:04.000
John Jones motivated and in shape power lifting is a dangerous motherfucker, but how much of this is BS? We don't know.
01:58:12.000
So he's bigger, stronger, faster with time off, and he already beat him before?
01:58:17.000
Well, also, it seems like he's on the straight and narrow, and he's training all the time.
01:58:24.000
I don't know, because Arlovsky, this is the only reason why I question it all, Arlovsky said he's never in the gym.
01:58:38.000
Or Arlowski might have been quoted, but it might have been an older quote.
01:58:41.000
You know, he might have been, you know, talking about six months ago or four months ago.
01:58:45.000
Well, all I know is John with no camp, camp doesn't fucking matter.
01:58:53.000
One of the things that he said that I think was really honest and intense, he said he used to always give himself an excuse for losing.
01:59:02.000
So, like, if I lost, I'd be like, well, I didn't even really train.
01:59:08.000
You know, he was saying that this fight, he's not doing that.
01:59:12.000
And this fight, he is, like, in some serious shape.
01:59:17.000
When you're watching him do all that powerlifting...
01:59:22.000
But the point is, his body has obviously changed.
01:59:35.000
I just don't see DC having the skills to beat him.
02:00:22.000
You don't have to do that because I can see you there.
02:00:31.000
Or you pivot on that foot when you go up on your heel and you can get a lot of power.
02:00:44.000
He definitely could do this better, but what's important is that...
02:00:54.000
We know what DC brings, that crazy, relentless pace, boxing, wrestling.
02:01:05.000
We don't know how much of all the shit-talking and the emotions and all that stuff played a factor in his preparation and his execution during the fight.
02:01:14.000
We won't know until we see them go at it again.
02:01:17.000
We don't know how much of a factor Kane would play Because Kane's not in his camp right now because Kane got injured training for...
02:01:26.000
And Kane had fucking back surgery, which is some serious shit.
02:01:34.000
Well, it's also not necessarily necessary because Matt Brown went through the same injury and Matt Brown didn't bother getting a surgery and CM Punk went and got surgery too and I... I've been through it, and I didn't get surgery.
02:01:46.000
But that's where I got that machine, that reverse hyper that's in the back, all the yoga that I did, all the other different...
02:01:52.000
There's a bunch of different treatments that you could do to take care of a bulging disc, and they involve lengthening your body, stretching and decompressing your spine, and it heals.
02:02:06.000
You take away that chunk of disc, that chunk of disc is gone now, man.
02:02:14.000
What Kane went through, what he's got is a bulge, right?
02:02:21.000
So here's his spinal column, and then he's got his discs right next to it.
02:02:25.000
Well, one of his bulging discs is pushing against his spine.
02:02:42.000
I had a little bit of a sciatica at one point in time, and then I had it in my fingers.
02:02:45.000
The fingers was real bad, though, but that was cervical.
02:02:48.000
When it happens, they just go in there, they open you up, they cut that piece out, and then go back.
02:02:56.000
And so now it's not pressing up against you, but you've cut a chunk of your disc out, and you have less cushioning there.
02:03:05.000
Either way, that motherfucker's not back for DC. Exactly.
02:03:10.000
He's not back for DC. Matt Brown fixed it, and Matt Brown fixed it with Louie Simmons, the same guy who created that reverse hyper.
02:03:18.000
I mean, he went through a bunch of exercises and a bunch of different things to fix it.
02:03:21.000
There's ways to fix it, depending upon, of course, how bad the injury is.
02:03:26.000
With some people, it's herniated to the point where they have to remove the disc tissue and either put a spacer in there or fuse the two discs together.
02:03:42.000
Because if they did a spacer, he's out for a long time.
02:03:44.000
Because there's no wrestling going on for a long ass time.
02:04:03.000
Like Frank Mir said, he's wrestling with Jon Jones.
02:04:28.000
Didn't beat the shit out of the way Rumble did.
02:04:37.000
It's whether or not Rumble can continue that sort of attack.
02:04:47.000
You avoid the big punch, drag him in the later rounds.
02:04:51.000
Can a guy like him, can a guy like Rumble change?
02:04:55.000
He's obviously changed and gotten way better in avoiding the weight cut and becoming a real natural 205 pounder.
02:05:01.000
Can he change in as far as not being able to be broken the way DC broke him, the way Josh Koscheck broke him, the way Vitor Belfort broke him?
02:05:10.000
I don't think you're born with it, but it's a part of your personality.
02:05:13.000
So whether or not you allow your mind to go down those paths.
02:05:42.000
Why couldn't a man adjust the way he looks at the world?
02:05:46.000
Isn't it possible that you could, through a rigorous, disciplined Like very focused attempt to change the way you approach various scenarios and dilemmas.
02:05:57.000
Isn't it possible that you could change your thinking and wouldn't that be more likely that you could become more mentally tough than it would be that you would be like this physical freak?
02:06:07.000
Because it's a physical thing and cardio brings out the weakness in people.
02:06:12.000
Are you going to put him through these crazy cardio challenges and have a mental coach there?
02:06:19.000
First of all, I don't think he did nearly enough grappling before.
02:06:24.000
He was getting mad-dogged by a guy who was an Olympic-caliber wrestler in Daniel Cormier.
02:06:35.000
Now, he's got Neil Melanson, who's a fucking giant.
02:06:47.000
He's really knowledgeable about catch wrestling.
02:06:55.000
And if you're rolling with that guy, I guarantee you're spending some time on your back.
02:07:07.000
They said, Neil, you're going to have to be off the mats for six months.
02:07:13.000
Dude, he had his toe cut off so he could keep rolling.
02:07:24.000
Going back to the mental thing, with a mental coach, man, I think sometimes there's just...
02:07:30.000
I think some people, it's just in their DNA. They just break easier than others.
02:07:35.000
What I think it is, is it being a big, strong, tough guy and being used to being the hammer.
02:07:40.000
And then when you're the nail, you can't handle it and you fall apart because you're unaccustomed to it.
02:07:46.000
Rather than a guy like, here's a good example, Darren Elkins.
02:07:50.000
You can hit that motherfucker with a baseball bat and he keeps coming forward.
02:08:01.000
Well, John Jones has two big brothers, and his bigger brother beat his ass all through his life, and I think he's accustomed to getting his ass beat by his big brother.
02:08:08.000
I think his brother Arthur did him a fantastic service in being bigger and kicking his ass all throughout his life.
02:08:16.000
Either you're born with it, like you said, or some traumatic event in your life that maybe has something to do that maybe it doesn't, but it switches on that quit in your mind and your body.
02:08:29.000
Some of it's just mental, some of it's physical, your body gives out, or your brain gives out.
02:08:46.000
I think it can definitely be a learned behavior.
02:08:50.000
Whether it's you got taught that, or you got that imposed on you, or someone made you break when you were young.
02:08:59.000
I'm not saying something bad happened in his life.
02:09:02.000
Maybe it was something good that made him say, well, fuck this, I'm out.
02:09:05.000
You boys don't think at his level he's gotten a mental coach?
02:09:09.000
You don't think he's ever talked to a mental coach?
02:09:10.000
There's a lot of fighters that have never gotten a mental coach.
02:09:29.000
Ian, when you're kind of against the ropes here, how do you talk to yourself?
02:09:43.000
Sometimes I'm going in and I feel great, and some days I just sit there and I'm like, wow, I'm fucked.
02:09:49.000
Sitting there, backstage, and just slumps in a chair.
02:10:00.000
With me, it's always, like, women problems and shit like that.
02:10:12.000
It's the same as any other job, and I'm sure with stand-up.
02:10:14.000
Some nights, and I felt this way, there's probably three fights.
02:10:19.000
I just don't feel like fucking fighting tonight.
02:10:21.000
For whatever reason, I just don't feel like it.
02:10:28.000
I'm sure there's nights when you're performing for a thousand people, you're like, damn, I really don't feel like doing that.
02:10:35.000
Like, you get in a fight with your girlfriend or something like that, and you go out there, you just don't feel funny.
02:10:42.000
This is gonna sound crazy, but sometimes when you have an audition, like think about this, and it's three pages.
02:11:02.000
I will make one million dollars for the year and I won't have to work for it.
02:11:16.000
See, when I went out for news radio, there was two auditions for news radio.
02:11:25.000
And I had a development deal with NBC, and I just didn't know that I was going to be a part of a cattle call.
02:11:35.000
They had decided to write it where they were going to weed out all the hams.
02:11:50.000
So I went in, I read it, and I remember I talked to my manager.
02:11:57.000
I mean, I just, I pretended it was really happening.
02:12:03.000
There was only a few people that apparently made the cut and then I went in there for the second audition It was me and three other dudes who looked like they were about to fucking ship off to Vietnam They were sweating and they were pale and you know, I was 26 at the time So I was only like four years removed from my last fight or something like that And I looked at all these guys all nervous and sweaty and I sat on the couch and And I put my feet up and I didn't even read the script.
02:12:33.000
I just sat back and I did it like in front of them.
02:12:39.000
You guys don't know how to perform under pressure.
02:12:43.000
And I sat there and I like looked at the script a little bit.
02:12:49.000
And I had prepared so I knew that it was funny.
02:12:54.000
But when I saw these guys all sweaty, it was like there was three or four guys I think, but they looked like they were just fucking terrified.
02:13:11.000
The other guy looked like he was about to get shot.
02:13:23.000
Because I'm like, if it's between me and these pussies, I'm like, I got it for sure.
02:13:32.000
It was like I was competing against these guys.
02:13:36.000
But I never get, I don't get, I'm not nervous by nature.
02:13:39.000
I don't get nervous when I have to perform ever.
02:13:41.000
And that's the only time because my mind is telling myself it's so ridiculous to be nervous that I'm literally sabotaging myself.
02:14:06.000
I've never once gotten in the fight being like, God, the money I'm going to make or if I win.
02:14:09.000
I've never once ever in my life thought about it.
02:14:12.000
I think it's because I'm lying to myself when I go into those auditions.
02:14:19.000
And then I get in there, and now I just do this, and I think it's because I'm being a liar.
02:14:27.000
Right, because I've never done an acting job where I didn't want it to end.
02:14:30.000
You say you don't, but at one point in time, you Deeply wanted to be on a sitcom.
02:14:40.000
You weren't even doing stand-up for a big part of our friendship.
02:14:45.000
I was doing a lot of TV. You were also pretending to be an actor.
02:14:58.000
When he's around executives, he was talking about a woman.
02:15:01.000
Any time someone would bring up a woman, he would immediately be super progressive and overemphasize how good she is.
02:15:17.000
I can't believe you guys were friends from the jump.
02:15:32.000
The worst environment, in my opinion, is those sketch shows.
02:15:35.000
Because everybody's scrambling and being competitive.
02:15:43.000
And it was him and Artie Lang were the only ones, and me and Artie had a scene together, and I had a scene with Brian, but then there was all these other people that were on the set that were brutal.
02:15:58.000
If you look back at those videos, I think I sent you the picture.
02:16:18.000
The great Mary Shearer, who to this day is the funniest female actor.
02:16:23.000
She's probably the most talented person I've ever worked with.
02:16:29.000
I'm going to take my shirt off after this podcast.
02:16:31.000
He had this great character that would dance around.
02:16:36.000
I got a lot of gay fan mail and a lot of fan mail from jail.
02:16:44.000
That woman, she used to wear like leather skin makeup to make herself look like she was over tanned and she had this crazy character.
02:16:53.000
We had Jennifer Aspinall who is a multi Emmy award winning makeup artist and she did like magical shit.
02:17:00.000
Joe, when did you decide acting, just fuck acting?
02:17:06.000
And I loved it because it was just the best case scenario.
02:17:11.000
Fantastic writing, great, talented actors, you know, all the above.
02:17:18.000
Because everybody had to keep trying and nobody ever got a big head.
02:17:23.000
It barely putt, putt, putt, barely stayed alive.
02:17:25.000
It was a perfect environment with some really talented people.
02:17:29.000
Still one of the greatest sitcoms ever in my opinion.
02:17:33.000
I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed stand-up, but I enjoyed it immensely.
02:17:37.000
And way more than I enjoyed any other things after that.
02:17:41.000
After that, I had development deals for like a year or two.
02:17:47.000
They give you some money and they try to put together a sitcom.
02:17:56.000
Actors are like the worst comedians without punchlines.
02:18:00.000
Like, the worst comedians meaning not like the worst, like not funny, but mean the most crazy, the most neurotic.
02:18:08.000
And the actual act itself of auditioning and trying to get gigs, it enforces that.
02:18:16.000
You're always trying to get people to love you.
02:18:25.000
You're always worried that you have to say the right thing.
02:18:31.000
If you're not liberal, if you are a Republican, you better be fucking uber successful before you come out as a Republican.
02:18:44.000
And you also, you gotta play this bullshit political game where everybody's fake.
02:18:51.000
They're all saying fake things and it feels so gross.
02:18:55.000
And coming from comedy from the East Coast, doing stand-up, from going from fighting and then stand-up to this.
02:19:07.000
I get my throat gets tight when we start talking about it.
02:19:11.000
Nothing drives me more nuts when guys pose, especially if they're not fighters.
02:19:17.000
It's the thing, but when they put their fist up for a picture.
02:19:23.000
It's a picture of him and his friend with their fist up.
02:19:42.000
They always want to square off with me and fucking get in my leg.
02:19:47.000
I'm not going to say who the guy is, but he's a big guy in the pictures on Instagram.
02:19:52.000
I told Brian, why the fuck you think he does that?
02:20:06.000
That's fun, but I'm saying it's like that's one of those things.
02:20:11.000
It's like the Will Ferrell thing in Talladega Nights.
02:20:19.000
He's like, you know, I don't know what to do with my head.
02:20:30.000
I like how they put the view right in his face too and he's running around.
02:20:33.000
I love how his buddy's in his house and he can't figure out how to work his system because his buddy's banging his wife now.
02:20:39.000
He calls him and he goes, hey, how do you turn on the radio?
02:20:43.000
What do you want to listen to the radio and the TV at the same time?
02:20:46.000
He's in his house and he fucking cut out his picture and put his head on his family's picture.
02:20:54.000
When he's paralyzed, they're like, you're not paralyzed.
02:21:15.000
I have friends who played golf with him, and they're like, he's a competitive guy.
02:21:24.000
And that girl, Leslie Bibb, that was in that movie.
02:21:28.000
She played my girlfriend in that movie Zookeeper.
02:21:30.000
And there's a movie that I did, but I only did because Kevin James, my buddy, and he asked me to do it.
02:21:39.000
You're acting, but you're not like a character.
02:21:45.000
That was when he was going to be an MMA fighter.
02:21:54.000
Well, this is a buddy of mine asking me to do something.
02:22:01.000
And I was like, that'd be cool for my kids to see.
02:22:06.000
Cal and I have been doing this thing with Firing the Kid for Fox, these episodes.
02:22:31.000
And they think it's so special when people do so well.
02:22:34.000
Chris Rock had a great line that he was preparing before he was doing the Oscars.
02:22:38.000
He was like, if you go to see the Grammys, they're singing.
02:22:52.000
How crunk were people that Leonardo DiCaprio won?
02:22:54.000
You probably don't even watch it, but people were so crunk that this guy with 275 million won.
02:23:10.000
I like movies, but the award shows to me are so nonsensical.
02:23:15.000
Whether it's award shows for comedy or award shows for music, I don't fucking care.
02:23:31.000
It's like this idea that there's one better movie than all the other movies is stupid.
02:24:20.000
See, that was a movie I thought was pretty good.
02:24:31.000
Ex Machina, I did not know what the fuck was going to happen, and I was wrong at the end.
02:24:38.000
They were nominated for a bunch of special effects awards.
02:24:42.000
I think they won something for special effects.
02:24:56.000
Dude, you know what I can't get enough of, and I highly doubt anyone here is watching, but it's the O.J. Simpson thing on FX. Everybody keeps telling me that!
02:25:02.000
I was at the store the other night, and they had it in the back comics bar.
02:25:07.000
They were watching it, and Cuba Gunning Jr. plays OJ, which I did not know.
02:25:11.000
Dude, Johnny Cochran in that movie, when a guy gives a racist thing, it is...
02:25:39.000
Is that what it's called, AI? It's not the same.
02:25:58.000
People right now scream, you fucking piece of shit!
02:26:06.000
But there's something about it also to me because this is a subject that I am engrossed in.
02:26:14.000
Almost every day I read about artificial intelligence.
02:26:18.000
Every day, I get up, I go to Scientific American, I go to all these different websites, and I search.
02:26:23.000
I will look up artificial intelligence, go to news, read the latest shit, and is one of the main subjects that repeats in my mind like a metronome all day long.
02:26:39.000
I think it's going to be the future of government.
02:26:42.000
I think we're going to have rules that are established by artificial intelligence, and that's going to be how we decide and act and how we decide and make choices.
02:26:51.000
Damn, the robots are going to start running shit?
02:26:54.000
I think that's going to be the solution to the cult of personality that we're dealing with right now with Donald Trump being the frontrunner for president.
02:27:00.000
I've got to tell you right now, Hillary Clinton is not going to beat Donald Trump.
02:27:10.000
The numbers, any political opponent, the numbers just don't add up for Trump.
02:27:15.000
They were saying the numbers didn't add up for him six months ago when they said he didn't have a chance.
02:27:22.000
He's got to say this in order to get acting gigs.
02:27:31.000
Hey Brian, I don't have a dog in the following.
02:27:35.000
Before you make the statement, Jamie, look up the numbers.
02:27:38.000
Hillary Clinton's support approval rating versus Donald Trump.
02:27:45.000
Let's just look at this and then you comment before you go.
02:27:48.000
First of all, she has huge problems in that she's involved in a criminal investigation.
02:28:00.000
I had Mike Baker on, formerly CIA operative, and he was on yesterday and he was saying, anybody else, he said if it was me that did the same thing she did, I'd be in jail.
02:28:34.000
She's way ahead in African Americans and in Latino votes, and there's no way he's going to close that gap.
02:28:42.000
She's also got the majority of the Democrats, from what I understand.
02:28:49.000
Who's going to be with her and who's going to be with him?
02:29:13.000
That guy got his stomach stapled and he's still fat.
02:29:27.000
But I'm saying if you're going to have a leader, you cannot have a leader who's, by the way, hugely anti-marijuana.
02:29:33.000
He said, marijuana, if I'm the president, we're going to outlaw all this stuff.
02:29:38.000
You don't even understand what you're talking about.
02:29:40.000
You're doing something that's way worse for your body than marijuana ever will be.
02:29:46.000
I just don't understand who he's going to be running with.
02:29:54.000
Super Tuesday could do him the GOPS poll show both Clinton and Sanders smoking Trump.
02:30:01.000
Sorry, Donald Trump's not gonna be the president unless something crazy happens.
02:30:20.000
They were so off that they haven't been accurate.
02:30:24.000
I mean, most of the political opponents who really are in the know.
02:30:27.000
When Brian's bullshitting, he does this thing where he calms down, and instead of getting emotional, he's just like, well, there's more.
02:30:36.000
He gets, like, I think his dad used to, like, chastise him, and he would say something stupid.
02:31:28.000
He says foolish things that aren't backed by science.
02:31:31.000
He's very discriminatory when it comes to my beloved marijuana.
02:31:44.000
Winston Churchill drank and had a weight problem.
02:31:51.000
The idea that somebody has a weight problem and they wouldn't be an effective leader to me doesn't hold water at all.
02:32:05.000
Winston Churchill was from a long time ago, and alcohol was celebrated then as a manly thing to consume.
02:32:11.000
If you took the fat ratio, if you took whatever it is, the body fat test on some of the CEOs or great inventors or scientists or whatever they were, I don't know that you would find...
02:32:28.000
Yeah, but you don't have any numbers right now.
02:32:31.000
But I mean the idea that because somebody's fat means that they are...
02:32:39.000
He's a fat guy who's undergone an operation to not be fat anymore and he's still fat.
02:32:43.000
Well, I'm saying that you can be not disciplined in one area of our life, but have a huge brain and a huge intellect.
02:32:54.000
I'm just saying in general, when you generalize and say I could not vote for somebody or take somebody seriously as a leader because they're fat, for me, I disagree.
02:33:09.000
But it's also judging someone based on their own personal choices.
02:33:12.000
The choices that you make to be an addict and to not seek out healthy food and to seek out body harmony.
02:33:20.000
He's, like, grossly overweight, and he went through going under.
02:33:24.000
Like, he gave in saying that, like, I don't have the discipline to deal with my issue, so what I'm going to do is go to a doctor and get cut open so my stomach is smaller.
02:33:41.000
The major alcohol problem that he had was a part of his creative process and that he recognized was a giant- He also wrote books!
02:33:51.000
So I read that book too and what did he say in the book?
02:33:53.000
He talked about how he used to drink and do coke and he would find these fucking- It was a part of his process.
02:34:07.000
He's not a leader of the fucking United States.
02:34:09.000
I understand if you don't want to vote for your leader because he's heavy.
02:34:12.000
What I'm saying is that the idea that somebody wouldn't be effective because they have a weight problem is erroneous.
02:34:18.000
And I'm saying just tell me the biggest president we've ever had and go.
02:34:23.000
That's not a good argument though, Brennan, because we don't have a bald president with the exception of Ford.
02:34:41.000
And Taft was only in power for a very short period of time.
02:34:44.000
It was also back when people were starving to death.
02:34:48.000
When people like that were just eating, exactly, eating and eating and eating and being rich.
02:34:53.000
I think I'm reacting to the fact that we live in a culture now where, you know...
02:35:04.000
He's also got this, like, upper cock fat that is so unappetizing.
02:35:36.000
Obviously, there's some sort of discipline issue.
02:35:38.000
But you can be indisciplined on one side of your life and very disciplined in others.
02:35:44.000
And sometimes you do have an issue, and clearly that is a food issue.
02:35:49.000
I'm saying I don't want the President of the United States struggling with his diet when he has to make these huge decisions.
02:35:55.000
When that's the biggest fight in his life and his health is in danger.
02:35:58.000
King makes an interesting distinction just when we brought him up and he said, I was a very talented guy with a substance abuse problem.
02:36:05.000
And he said a lot of people make the mistake of saying that my substance abuse was the reason I was so talented.
02:36:11.000
What he said was that the creative process was enhanced by his substance abuse problem.
02:36:20.000
His shit that he wrote when he was fucked up was better.
02:36:29.000
I wouldn't want Stephen King when he was coked up balancing my checkbook.
02:36:33.000
But expanding your mind, he's got to get in there.
02:36:36.000
You need to have fucking discipline to be a president.
02:36:42.000
It's a figurehead for the United States of America.
02:36:53.000
It's a different thing, first of all, and we didn't know.
02:37:03.000
But you could also say it was a breakdown in self-control, right?
02:37:07.000
Maybe, or it was just standard operational procedure.
02:37:10.000
You also don't become a leader by just dating one chick.
02:37:18.000
His dick-slinging might be food, though, is what I'm saying.
02:37:21.000
Well, it's a different thing, though, because it wasn't interfering with his health.
02:37:25.000
Like, Christie's physical body is massively falling apart.
02:37:31.000
And the guy got a fucking operation, and it didn't do much.
02:37:41.000
I feel like you're kind of being a contrarian here.
02:37:56.000
They have to go through all those health checks.
02:37:57.000
That's why Trump came out and they said, fuck, they said, I'm in great shape.
02:38:07.000
I understand and respect somebody's point of view where they say, you know what?
02:38:14.000
Therefore, I wonder what your judgment would be like as a leader.
02:38:18.000
Well, you're judging a person when they're running for president.
02:38:21.000
And he falls massively short in the department of taking care of his own physical being.
02:38:28.000
Most of us, and we know that most of us when we hire somebody, if one guy's in shape, the other guy's not, we're going to just instinctively go, we're going to make those conclusions.
02:38:37.000
In a way, it's fair in terms of how you look at the world, where you say, you know what?
02:38:42.000
If you can't control your own biology, I wonder what else you can't control.
02:38:45.000
And as a fat person, you know you're walking into that or at least have to take responsibility for whatever the world judges you as.
02:39:02.000
You're saying even if he's overweight, you can still make good decisions.
02:39:07.000
I think some people, for example, have a predilection not only to put on weight because their endocrine system is just whacked, but also some people do have addictions, and addictions are very powerful.
02:39:20.000
I don't want an addict as my president, though, is what I'm telling you, Callan.
02:39:27.000
What I'm saying is that we live in a culture now that just puts so much emphasis on the physical.
02:39:34.000
And I think there are a lot of people who have been overweight and who have eaten too much or had a thing for sugar who still are incredibly beneficial to society and have invented things and done things that, you know, they were huge intellects.
02:39:55.000
Yeah, well, there's a lot of smart people that are fat, for sure.
02:40:01.000
There's a difference between someone who's a really smart, fat person who's a great singer or a smart, fat person who's really good at telling jokes.
02:40:09.000
There's a big difference between that and a fucking president.
02:40:12.000
A president is not just a guy who can talk to this guy and make good decisions.
02:40:17.000
He's a fucking figurehead for the United States of America, the greatest superpower the world has ever known.
02:40:23.000
For us to say Chris Christie's the best we could do is a disgrace.
02:40:35.000
You're talking specifically about Chris Christie.
02:40:37.000
I'm talking about somebody with a weight problem.
02:40:43.000
I reacted to, I don't know if I could, I don't want to vote for somebody who looks like that.
02:40:52.000
And for me, it wouldn't make as much difference.
02:40:53.000
Well, he's the only one in the race who's obese.
02:40:55.000
Yeah, but Brian, you're arguing semantics now, because that's the one guy who looks like that.
02:41:03.000
If you saw Trump without his clothes on, you'd throw up.
02:41:09.000
Welcome to my nightmare, all those guys together.
02:41:37.000
Even people in Ohio aren't voting for that guy.
02:41:42.000
How is this guy still in there, that Kay Shishish guy?
02:41:47.000
Is he hoping his photos come out of all those guys?
02:41:57.000
All I'm thinking about is the MMA fan going, what the fuck, man?
02:42:15.000
Ian, what do you think about who's going to win that fight?
02:42:18.000
Jamie just put the fucking fight thing back on.
02:42:22.000
Because I fucking hate this Chris Christie talk.
02:42:34.000
It reminds you of all the shit that he did with the bridge, the shutting down that bridge.
02:42:38.000
Dude, that political decision to do that is so...
02:42:43.000
It's criminal to shut down a bridge to try to...
02:42:51.000
So, we have the size difference when we're to their heights.
02:42:59.000
He's three inches taller, and he has a two-inch reach advantage.
02:43:05.000
That's going to play a big factor, because obviously Connor moves in so much, isn't used to fighting the bigger guy, but now he is.
02:43:12.000
But the thing is, if you've seen pictures of him and video of him, he's fucking huge right now.
02:43:22.000
He uses them real well and really well at distance.
02:43:24.000
It's not like me where I just want to step in and club your legs.
02:43:27.000
He's trying to negate that gap between him and you.
02:43:30.000
And he likes to throw a lot of front kicks to the body like he did with Chad Mendez.
02:43:41.000
With Connor, he's always been the bully, right?
02:43:50.000
So I think it's the first time we're really going to see him where his size isn't going to be that advantage anymore.
02:43:57.000
He was training for a fight at 155, which means he ate like a pig, fought at 155 in the UK. So he's fought at 155 before and starched guys with one shot.
02:44:07.000
I absolutely believe his power carries over to 155. And this fight is essentially at 170, but these are 155ers that don't have to cut weight.
02:44:17.000
They don't have to cut weight because it was part of the agreement when Nate took the fight.
02:44:22.000
Well, you know, Diaz was down to go to, I think, 165 or 160, and Conor goes, no, no, no, man, I want you to have the advantage here in the weight.
02:44:30.000
We're going to make it 170. Don't kill yourself, Conor.
02:44:35.000
I think, listen, I think this is the future, and I really, truly hope that people decide to fight at a much more reasonable weight class.
02:44:42.000
I think they decide to do this, where they fight where they actually...
02:44:50.000
It's the worst aspect of MMA, the most dangerous aspect of MMA, the scariest now because there's no IV rehydration.
02:44:58.000
So these people are going in there with dehydrated brains and they're taking shots of the fucking dome.
02:45:05.000
It ruins your ability to fight at the best level.
02:45:10.000
Also, you got a huge X factor, too, is Nate Diaz.
02:45:14.000
They go, well, he's getting ready for a triathlon.
02:45:17.000
That's not five rounds of fighting the UFC. I don't care what you're doing.
02:45:22.000
Well, I don't know, because I don't know what else he was doing other than training for the triathlon.
02:45:27.000
I know he was definitely training for a triathlon, though, which means it's not like you caught him sitting on the couch doing bong hits and eating Cheetos.
02:45:38.000
It is a different shape, but there's also no wear and tear from a fight camp, and that could be a big factor in his favor.
02:45:44.000
Well, Diaz did say, he goes, you know what, to me, there's no pressure on me.
02:45:47.000
He goes, I've had camps where I've had full camps and I went in there and got my ass whooped.
02:45:50.000
Then I've had times where I was sitting on the couch for three weeks, went into the gym, beat everybody up.
02:45:59.000
A really big factor is the fact that he doesn't have to cut weight.
02:46:04.000
I mean, we might see the best Conor we've ever seen.
02:46:06.000
Because seeing him at 145 pounds, that guy was on death's door the day before the fight.
02:46:11.000
The Chad Mendes fight, he looked like utter dog shit at the weigh-ins.
02:46:15.000
And then the next day, he's full and thick and probably 20-plus pounds heavier than he was at the weigh-ins.
02:46:22.000
I'll tell you what gets scary is if Diaz does get McGregor down.
02:46:30.000
You're talking about a high-level jiu-jitsu guy with lots of submissions in the UFC. Diaz has got some serious fucking skills.
02:46:38.000
But see, George Lockhart has been working with Conor for the last fight or two.
02:46:43.000
So you know that he's not just eating a bunch of shit.
02:46:49.000
I mean, on a cellular level, he's energizing his body with really, really good, high energy fuel stuff.
02:46:55.000
So him putting on that much weight, which is just more natural for him, he's going to be fucking so strong.
02:47:04.000
If he gets by this, I think you have to do UFC 200 if Dos Anjos is ready.
02:47:08.000
If he gets by him, but what if Nate Diaz lights him up?
02:47:14.000
Then we don't have to deal with this shit anymore.
02:47:21.000
I get nervous because I don't want the Conor show to end.
02:47:27.000
It's magical because he's got the guts to talk so big and then just to go up to 70. You've got to love it.
02:47:36.000
I don't think Nate Diaz, if he beats him, I don't think he ends the Conor train.
02:47:46.000
I just don't think losing to Nate Diaz stops everything.
02:47:53.000
There's no more of that undefeated aura anymore.
02:47:57.000
He fought Juan Manuel Marquez and got knocked dead.
02:48:02.000
Not the same, but he came back and is still just as huge as he's ever been before.
02:48:11.000
Even though his fights were boring, we still tune in.
02:48:24.000
Yeah, but he also refused to fight some guys in their prime like Manny Pacquiao.
02:48:28.000
Five years ago, six years ago, he was a fighter.
02:48:30.000
But stop right there, because he had a real good argument that Manny Pacquiao was most likely on performance-enhancing drugs.
02:48:36.000
He refused to take the drug test, so there's a reason why he didn't fight.
02:48:45.000
Look, I don't know whether or not Manny did anything, but that Alex Ariza guy that was with him, that guy...
02:49:01.000
That's like me having Jose Canseco in my corner and then be like, I don't know, man!
02:49:08.000
He went up eight weight classes and Jose Canseco's his fucking best friend.
02:49:14.000
Anderson Silva's strength and conditioning coach.
02:49:19.000
I guess it's like blood rushing to your skin or something.
02:49:27.000
Well, also, I think when you take a lot of testosterone like that, from what I understand, you have more blood.
02:49:36.000
Yeah, like this dude I knew who was on heavy doses of testosterone, his doctor, he's doing some endurance thing, and his doctor told him you should give blood.
02:49:47.000
You should take some blood out of your body before he was going to do some crazy bike ride.
02:49:59.000
There's a theory that says that the reason women don't die of heart problems, they don't have the kind of cholesterol issues, is because they bleed once a month.
02:50:06.000
And this guy said, if you give blood once a year, it might be the best thing you can do for your heart.
02:50:13.000
Because apparently it keeps your blood thinner.
02:50:19.000
I'm paraphrasing this guy, so please don't kill me.
02:50:22.000
But essentially he said, you can lower your lipid levels and all this other stuff by giving blood once a year, and it makes a huge difference.
02:50:41.000
So I guess, apparently, like you said, you get thick.
02:50:45.000
Your blood gets thick, and it kind of acts as, I suppose, like aspirin would, where your blood gets thin.
02:50:52.000
And then your body has to rejuvenate and make more blood.
02:50:54.000
That is interesting that women don't get the kind of heart attacks that men do.
02:51:01.000
It's estrogen, and it's also, according to a couple of these doctors, that they bleed once a month.
02:51:16.000
I remember when I was a kid, I'd cut myself and suck on it.
02:51:18.000
Like, I thought, like, you know, I'd cut, like, oh, shit!
02:51:21.000
Do you ever do that or do you think we didn't cut yourself on purpose?
02:51:23.000
No, I'd, like, fall down and scrape myself and suck the blood.
02:51:36.000
I want to go do a full screening of vitamins, hormones, everything.
02:51:44.000
Dude, I got into a really cold pool and almost panicked.
02:52:00.000
Well, that's what Iceman Hoff, Wim Hoff, he said for your soul, your resiliency and being able to overcome the ice bath is better.
02:52:11.000
Yeah, because you're pouring bags of fucking ice in that water and you get in there and you're brutalized for 20 minutes.
02:52:20.000
My last camp I did it four times a week and I didn't see much of a difference.
02:52:27.000
Maybe it's like what you felt versus the actual anti-inflammation markers in your blood.
02:52:34.000
Because they've definitely shown that it reduces inflammation pretty radically.
02:52:42.000
I don't know about better because I don't know.
02:52:44.000
I don't know how much has been shown that ice baths do.
02:52:50.000
I'm more aware of what they've shown from cryotherapy.
02:52:53.000
But where it's really effective is for people with arthritis.
02:52:56.000
There's this lady that goes to the place that I go to, and this poor lady, her hands are jacked, man.
02:53:01.000
Like her whole life, her hands have been like this, just like gnarled up claws.
02:53:05.000
And she now, for the first time in a decade, can straighten her fingers out.
02:53:10.000
And she never thought about just filling up buckets of ice and putting her hands in them?
02:53:18.000
I'm actually partnering her up with a cryo place in Lake Forest.
02:53:34.000
The lady I used to go to, Monica, in Newport, our Costa Mesa.
02:53:39.000
Well, it sparked my interest, and then I realized that it fucking works.
02:53:45.000
Talking about how deep it penetrates, I heard it penetrates deeper than an ice bath.
02:53:53.000
They hurt my toes and feet, so I'm always, like, trying to stick them out of the water.
02:54:03.000
There's a Korean bathhouse by my gym right next to it.
02:54:19.000
You've never seen a small dick until you've gone to a Korean bathhouse.
02:54:39.000
But before you put your daughter in the cryotherapy chamber, did you ever just have her take ice bath and did it help?
02:54:45.000
We put ice on her before, but she was two and a half when she got diagnosed.
02:54:49.000
So she didn't like ice, but then we're also getting things like the hyperbaric chambers.
02:54:54.000
So, you know, with her ailment or disease, you know, if she hasn't had a flare-up in a long time, it's because we feed her the right food.
02:55:06.000
But the adjustments that you've made in the diet, they've had a pretty big impact.
02:55:17.000
I mean, she's ahead of the curve, really smart.
02:55:23.000
Having brain fog that comes with RA. I mean, I was a mess.
02:55:30.000
You know, and seeing her trying to butt scoot, and then finally we started to do all the food.
02:55:52.000
So we're both limping around the house and limping around Disneyland and limping around everywhere, but I think it maybe kind of made her feel better.
02:56:06.000
And how long did it take before you saw an impact?
02:56:21.000
Do you give her any supplements, fish oil or anything along those lines?
02:56:25.000
Yeah, I mean, we mix in things like, you know, MCT oil or all this healthy stuff.
02:56:31.000
My dad is the one that has kept this diet from falling apart, realistically.
02:56:36.000
I call him a food Nazi, but he's, you know, it's me and him raising my daughter together.
02:56:45.000
Now they live together, and I live there, and I'm like, oh, cool.
02:57:03.000
So the food in my house is all geared around my daughter.
02:57:08.000
If I want to cheat on my diet, I have to leave my house.
02:57:12.000
And I have to just sit in my car and cry while I eat my gummy bears, you know?
02:57:18.000
It's great that you could find something that quick that can make that big of an impact.
02:57:23.000
And like I said, with this diet that I'm on, it makes you really consider the impact that food has on your body.
02:57:30.000
And this is one of the reasons why I'm so harsh on that Chris Christie guys, because I don't want anybody that's a representative of the United States or of us or a leader that It shows this willingness to give in.
02:57:48.000
It's also having some discipline and understanding that there's some severe consequences to not having that discipline.
02:57:55.000
And when you're a massively overweight guy like that, the amount of aches and pains that guy is going through.
02:58:01.000
So when kids look up to you and they see this fat ass being the leader, they're like, well...
02:58:06.000
It's just amazing that a young girl who develops this horrible ailment can get relief so quickly just by adjusting your food.
02:58:19.000
It makes me want to cut all that stuff out of my life forever.
02:58:22.000
I think if Americans learned how to eat, we wouldn't have...
02:58:25.000
One of the biggest issues is always healthcare and stuff like that.
02:58:28.000
I wonder how many ailments would not be a factor if people ate...
02:58:32.000
Well, you know, I watched this documentary with my kids on corn syrup or on syrup and sugar.
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And we went through the supermarket and you start grabbing things and looking at how much sugar is in everything.
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And it's so deeply ingrained in everything we do, everything we eat.
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It's, you know, Fed Up, that other documentary.
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You turn around to anything and there's fucking sugar in it.
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Well, I haven't had anything anywhere near it in a month.
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I had to go back and look at the clock, or the calendar, rather.
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February 1st was the first day that I started the diet.
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I ate at Cat's Deli when I was in New York, and I decided after I ate that, that was going to be my last blowout meals.
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I like a fat, fucking juicy elk steak that I cook on the grill.
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When I sit down and I eat a nice elk steak with some fucking kale...
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How long did it get you to take out carbs before you felt like that?
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Because I'd cut out sugar before and I got a headache.
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When I write, when I write, like if I really sit down, I'm trying to finish something, I drink way too much caffeine.
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And I took some time off after last time I did it.
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And last time I went on like a real binge where I was just drinking coffee all day, every day for like a month.
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Like, just one or two days off, and my head was killing me.
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That was worse, well, it was probably like right up there with the sugar thing.
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The sugar thing was, like for three days, two or three days, I was foggy.
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When you convert from your body eating mostly carbs and...
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Like, using that for fuel to trying to go into ketosis and burn fat for fuel, you feel like a bitch.
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Like, when I go to the gym, I'm lifting weights, I'm trying to push, like, oh my god.
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You still feel that way, or you did it initially?
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I didn't write this down because I knew I wasn't going to cheat.
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But if you don't have that mindset or you're not used to doing that kind of thing, just write it down.
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If you just leave it to the ether, just put it out there and you're all wishy-washy with it, you're not going to be disciplined.
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I told you I had that dream when I was eating bread.
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I had a dream I was eating two different kinds of bread.
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There was another one that was like cheesy rolls that you get at like Fogo de Chao.
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How about those cheddar biscuits that I'm having?
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Just hanging out in Brazil, walking around and grabbing those little bags of cheese balls.
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I give myself ten years, I'll look like Chris Christie.
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By the way, he's way, way, way lighter than he used to be.
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Yeah, because you can't get your stomach stapled unless you're, like, fucking so fat.
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Well, there was one picture where he's just morbidly obese.
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It's just like there's a position that is the most highly valued position in the world.
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There's no one like that that's running right now.
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No one fits that bill, and that's why it's so weird.
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Because whoever fits that bill knows damn well they don't want to be president.
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Well, also the fact that everything about your past gets raked over with a fine-tooth comb.
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Looks like somebody just put a bunch of warm cheese in a sack.
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Greg Fitzsimmons, Jenny Johnson, Tony Hinchcliffe.
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And then Friday night at the Carr Theater at the MGM with Joey Diaz and Tony Hinchcliffe in Vegas.
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Oh, see you tomorrow with Bert Kreischer and Brian Redband.