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00:02:12.420And now, this is the moment you've all been waiting for.
00:17:00.440these things these thoughts these experiences will come into my head whether it's in professional or
00:17:04.540my private life and i was like wow really oh my god i forgot about that you know oh that's all
00:17:09.600that's awesome i've been i've wanted to get into it myself but i've hit like the those like uh
00:17:14.600initial guardrails or like obstacles and trying to actually get to a point where i'm in that state
00:17:19.660how long did it take you before you got to a point where you actually could experience like
00:17:23.060some sort of positive from it i it was relatively easy for me at first because i went to what they
00:17:27.340call an ashram and i studied under somebody oh nice and then they gave me my mantra which i've
00:17:31.540never told anybody what my mantra is you know the word you repeat to yourself awesome well0.96
00:17:35.720exclusive right here on uh impulsive today the mantra is can't tell you damn it can't tell you
00:17:42.180i mean he had a long line of people and he might have told every one of us the same word it doesn't
00:17:47.580matter it's my mantra yeah don't ever tell i don't want to violate that i've never told anybody
00:17:51.040and you do that every day do you wake up in the morning and do it you know it depends on what i
00:17:55.260feel it's a great stress relief if you're worn out or tired you know both of us are on the road
00:17:58.680we do a good uh 30 minutes of meditation is like taking a two-hour nap if you do it right speaking
00:18:05.000of two-hour nap i'm so sorry for being late i apologize no it's okay it was southwest okay
00:18:12.300it's not your fault georgie at all airline issues okay i was i was sweating about it because i have
00:18:18.180the worst problems with uh with planes it's all right your cool beer makes up for it thank you
00:18:22.920i feel kind of shaven today yeah you ever have one great for 65 thank you you're 65 yeah yeah
00:18:31.060so i got my six pack yeah yeah so i wanted to talk about that because you just mentioned
00:18:35.400meditating i know you've been mindful about meditation and and uh protecting your mental
00:18:41.020fortitude uh but physically as well you're like you're super active yes you have to be have to be
00:18:46.960is it is because of how intense you're going when you when you do your job no well you know it's
00:18:51.940it's that but i mean i was always listen i've always trained i grew up the the point break
00:18:56.300lifestyle i you know we train martial arts we surf we fought you know it's like that was the
00:19:01.380whole thing i never even lifted weights until my 20s to me it was 100 200 push-ups a day maybe
00:19:06.300some arm curls and surfing you know and um you know other things i like to do whether it's football
00:19:11.760i was a water pole player i was a swimmer you know on the swim team i graduated santa monica high
00:19:17.300so i was always into being athletic and i knew the importance of it so i maintained it to me it's
00:19:23.48075 what you eat and 25 how you train right and we all throw it off you know we all fall off the
00:19:28.880wagon on the food wagon but that's okay that's life you got to enjoy yourself but i used to train
00:19:33.020to compete now i train to get older and to travel last thing i want to be is an 80 year old man where
00:19:39.120i can't have a quality of life doing what i want to do the way i move around the octagon now i'm
00:19:44.560still moving around the same way i moved around 25 years ago and 10 years from now when i'm 75 i
00:19:49.600guarantee you barring any situation then i'm gonna be the same way and the moment that my passion
00:19:55.140wanes or i can't physically do what i want to do then it's time to say hey i'm done and are you
00:19:59.460willing to be honest with yourself should that moment happen absolutely i told myself that i
00:20:03.580have to be i have to have a number of areas like you we make our revenue out of but my passion
00:20:10.000wearing the ufc on my chest you know like a logo of pride i never want to give that up be honest
00:20:16.400with me has it ever waned for a second have you ever had a lull where you felt stagnant in what
00:20:23.420you were doing in the ufc or in my life in ufc uh the stagnant probably happened before the
00:20:30.580fortitas and dana white bought it i mean i realized that we could almost be out of business
00:20:34.560We went from having packed houses of 5,000, 10,000 or more people being the top 10 fastest growing pay-per-view on DirecTV and everything to Senator McCain calling us human cockfighting and all.
00:20:47.320And we were taken off the air and kept alive by DirecTV and kept alive, thank God, by the internet and the fans on the internet.
00:20:54.420And then I remember doing an event in Louisiana and there was only 1,500 people in the audience.
00:21:00.700and kevin brandleman was the main event if you remember kevin brandleman who died a number of
00:21:05.540years ago a great wrestler and so he he was coming out and he slipped on a pole in the back and fell
00:21:11.420and knocked himself out right so we couldn't have a main event so i'm suddenly i'm getting ready to
00:21:15.480go and they go buff you got to tell them there's no main event why yeah kevin brandleman's knocked
00:21:20.460out he can't come out tell him tell him tell him told him it's like bottle and can flying time i
00:21:25.580realize we're at the lowest point ever um and it really it just seemed bleak i thought you know i
00:21:31.220was always into it always ready to do it but i think the machine was about to fall right then i
00:21:36.380get a call from the owner robert meyer was at the time and he says bruce i've got some good news and
00:21:40.720bad news and he said well the bad news is i sold the ufc the good news is i sold it to dana white
00:21:46.540and the fertita brothers and they want to keep you and big john mccarthy and i said oh it's really
00:21:50.680sad to see you go but and then i was at a boxing event um because i used to do undercards and
00:21:58.520boxing on hbo when i you know as a man my brother's manager i did him because i enjoyed doing it but i
00:22:03.020was also taking names and taking numbers and making deals you know on the side network that's
00:22:06.660where you got yeah network so uh they took us to a really nice restaurant and they put out opus one
00:22:11.780wine on the table and i'm like whoa i like this i like their style and i realized the passion and
00:22:16.720the Fertitta brothers and the passion and Dana White and I thought now my whole energy my whole
00:22:22.840passion was just relit so yes if I was stagnant it was back then since then we're working under
00:22:28.340Dana White and the whole UFC machine has been nothing but a great rocket ship just constantly
00:22:33.800going uphill and I've got a first class seat how can you not love that yeah it's been a crazy
00:22:38.380journey the travel the travel gets to me once in a while oh is that one of the things that does it
00:22:43.200i can imagine we we travel a lot it's hard but before before you bounce into the dana white
00:22:48.060era because i'm sure we won't talk a lot about it but just before you get that phone call about
00:22:53.260the purchase and you're in these like dark days louisiana 1500s people knocking themselves out
00:22:58.460out on poles is there something you were doing uh a message you were delivering to yourself
00:23:04.920something you were doing to keep your head in the game to keep showing up every night for the people
00:23:08.400watching this that might be in a dark place in their job in their profession in their career
00:23:11.920Is there something that you were doing to keep you in the game?
00:44:04.780And he just goes like this and plays it, okay?
00:44:08.900Now, this is called the big ball move.
00:44:12.180So I sent him through my attorney a copy of the lawsuit that I would file if he played it again, right?
00:44:19.280Michael calls me a few days later from New York.
00:44:22.780It's 6 in the morning, New York, 9 o'clock my time.
00:44:24.940and the usa today has a story how we're being sued by infinity broadcasting to free up the
00:44:30.260trademark which is which owned the don imus show right now we've got pockets this deep
00:44:36.240they've got pockets this deep for sure you can be ruined in a lawsuit sure and um i'm thinking what
00:44:42.740do i do i mean it's david and goliath time what do i do i sent my attorney and our attorney in
00:44:47.480that afternoon to file a lawsuit against him i threw the dice you know and we came out on top
00:44:52.720nice you guys are bulletproof it sounds like you know what i fight yeah you point i shoot i fight
00:45:00.040when you when you originally went to trademark that uh or copyright it um did did how how did
00:45:07.920that saying start and and is it is it let's get ready to rumble and only that or is there
00:45:13.360iterations of it i'm sure i know this is gonna get very tactical we don't have to get into all this
00:45:17.460But my only curiosity was, did HBO or did anyone else, like, that was a vehicle or propellant of that becoming such a mainstream slogan, want a piece?