On this episode of Bathroom Break Podcast, the boys are joined by long-time friend and rock and roll artist, Steve Friesen, to talk about his new T-shirt with the 1969 Nova with Camaro. We talk about the creation of the shirt, the car, and the process of turning it into a piece of art. We also discuss the evolution of the car over the years, including the addition of a new grille on the front, and some of the changes that went into making it the best Nova the world has ever seen. And, of course, we talk about some other stuff too. If you haven t checked out the shirt yet, you should definitely do so. It's pretty dope! And if you haven't yet, make sure to check out the rest of Steve's work on the new shirt! You won't want to miss it! And as always, thank you so much for your support and stay tuned for future episodes! Love ya'll! -Jon & Jon Jon & Jon & the boys - Jason & the crew Steve & the guys Mike & Dave Rick & Jason Tim Jason's Dad Matt Chad Dan Danny Chris Sam Jack Jamie Jordan Jake Josh Joe Paul Kelsy Sarah Chelsie Natalie Justin Megan Will Tyler Alex Chacho Adam Emily Matthew Shane Evan Alyss Julian Ben Cass Christian Emma Victoria John Music: Bobby Michael Rachel Amy Conor Daniel Thank you! Can you make it? Can I have a song with you join us in the podcast? Thanks for coming to the show? Can we have you join me in the show next week? We'll see you in the next episode? Thank Me Outtrope and I'll send you out on the podcast next week?? . Thanks, Jon & Jen , & I'll be back next week with a new song from the show I'll see y'all next week!
00:01:55.000And then the sun thing was just in like every other 70s artwork I could find, you know?
00:02:00.000And then of course the prerequisite small UFO. And I wasn't going to take your Joe Rogan experience, and being that my other life was in rock and roll, of course, I leaned towards the Hendrix of R.U. experience.
00:02:34.000I went a little softer on the spring in the front and believe it or not, a little stiffer on the rear and played with it quite a few times before I delivered it to you.
00:05:08.000And I think it's one of those muscle cars that really never got its due because it kind of started out as more of an economy kind of a car.
00:05:48.000But there was like this thing where like some of those older cars were less desirable.
00:05:54.000So I'm in high school and so I graduated in 85. So we're talking about, I think, I think my friend had this car in like 84. So, you know, it really was only 14 years old, which is kind of crazy.
00:06:43.000You know, if you have a 2005 Camry, it looks like a 2020 Camry, right?
00:06:47.000It's interesting how time marches on, how perception of length of time, like you were saying when we sat down with our friendship, let alone everything else, it's like, how is that 20 minutes?
00:08:46.000Probably within a couple years, people can live to be 120, 150 years old, if not longer than that.
00:08:52.000It's not just bed-bound, non-communicating individuals, but really active individuals who participate in social life, professional life, and have a quality of life, because that's the goal.
00:09:08.000And my friends that are older, that are having, like, health problems, it really makes me realize, like, man, you've got to stay on top of everything.
00:09:18.000Because if you don't, if it slides off and then you have to try to bring it back up, it's way harder than maintaining.
00:11:24.000I think you should come back and talk to our other doctor so-and-so and have him do some tests because I saw some stuff, don't know, but I think it'd be wise if you blah, blah, blah.
00:11:33.000So I go in, we do the test, and the guy goes, and this is, wow, this is a while ago.
00:13:20.000About a year passes and I'm at PRI, which is the race, real serious race version of SEMA. It's in Indianapolis, so there's no fuzzy dice there.
00:13:31.000It's all race car parts and stuff like that.
00:13:34.000And I'm walking around, and I just, I don't know how to describe it, but it actually moved in stages, like a curtain coming down, just gray.
00:15:13.000I'm not gonna save your sight because and he did it this way, which I thought was cool.
00:15:19.000He went and did a little research to speak in my language and he goes when you're trying to weld metal If both the pieces are kind of rusty and beat up or whatever, it won't weld very good, right?
00:19:36.000Your normal eyes run, like your eyes probably run at like 20, 22, you know, maybe even a little bit higher, but right around there for pressure inside.
00:19:55.000So when, after the second cataract surgery, the one on the one working eye, They had dropped the pressure so low, I coughed, and it blew out blood vessels inside my eye.
00:20:11.000Which, when you wake up and you look, it looks like it's snowing inside your...
00:21:35.000And he actually met me at his office at like, I don't even know when it was, three in the morning or whatever.
00:21:43.000And I'm throwing up in his bushes out front, right?
00:21:49.000And he did this three times, head in the thing, hands on the handle, took a blade, lifted my eye and let the pressure out, let the fluid out.
00:22:33.000Yeah, it's, you know, but it's like anything else.
00:22:37.000When someone has something, when something is always over your shoulder, you can either focus on it and worry about it, or just go to the shop and build some cool cars, you know?
00:27:00.000Yeah, the quick search shows that there's definitely studies on bladder regeneration, but there's a difference between them getting a functional urinary tract, kind of like functional bladder.
00:28:33.000So anyway, I'm going to revisit and ask them if we have to go in like they did before to scrape off the scar tissue because I did have a vertical slot of sight because this eye has a new cataract lens,
00:30:16.000There's another story, too, where a kid had a very specific eye injury that was called a stem cell.
00:30:20.000See, my problem, it's not my problem, well, it is my problem, but my situation is there's stuff they do on the outside, like cadaver stuff, but the inside, like the retina, what I've been told is like no man's land.
00:31:26.000He was like this crazy, wild power lifter dude who was real motivational and aggressive, and now he's like this real peaceful, interesting, wise person who's enjoying his last moments alive.
00:32:10.000Yeah, and the first ones won't be able to feel real pleasure, and so you have to sign off on that, but then the next ones, the better ones will.
00:33:02.000Yeah, that's a great equalizer, is it not?
00:33:05.000I wonder if that's like, you know, if Satan was real, that would be the ultimate temptation, to trick you into transferring your consciousness into something immortal so that you can never experience heaven.
00:34:42.000And they were basically working out jurisdictions, properties.
00:34:50.000I think I was researching some stuff one time and I stumbled across this meeting happened after a failed meeting in Cleveland because the Cleveland family fucked up the meeting and they got mad.
00:34:59.000It's like, fuck it, we're doing it in New York.
00:36:15.000Who was recovering from a heart attack.
00:36:17.000When all was said and done, the troopers had apprehended mafia leaders from New York, New Jersey, Tampa, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and other locations.
00:36:43.000The whole thing made national news and finally forced the FBI to acknowledge that organized crime was a matter worthy of notice.
00:36:50.000Some believe that J. Edgar Hoover's reluctance to acknowledge the mob's existence can be ascribed to the mafia somehow acquiring photographs of Hoover in drag.
00:39:06.000And he had, I'm not kidding, he had a scar from here down through his jaw to here, a chainsaw, jumped back and went, cut him right through the face.
00:40:32.000We were just talking about this the other night.
00:40:33.000I said that if the president said, God is with our troops, we would say, awesome.
00:40:38.000But if the president said, we've located the devil, he's in Afghanistan, and we're beginning bombing, He'd be like, what the fuck did you just say?
00:40:47.000And you're right about genius because if you're ridiculed or look like a loon for believing in Satan, then by default you're a loon for believing in God.
00:40:55.000So he's done his job by negating everything.
00:42:52.000But there's also some people that believe that one of the things that we're experiencing when people have gluten intolerance is an intolerance to wheat is actually...
00:43:00.000You might be getting glyphosate from it.
00:43:03.000This is a highly speculative theory, but they've tested people and they found that, what was it, Jamie, like 94% of people?
00:43:10.00094% of people have glyphosate in their body, and glyphosate is toxic.
00:47:31.000I didn't, I was trying, there's too many questions I have before I could give you a good guess because it's already a strange, like how are they going to measure that in 1950 and even now how would you know how many fucking fish there are?
00:48:38.000Clover populizes the work of fishery scientists such as Daniel Pauly, a marine biologist, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who have pieced together a picture of imminent catastrophe in the global ocean.
00:48:49.000Among the first to recognize that fisheries catch rates were in decline worldwide, Pauly discovered in 2001 that the phenomenon had previously gone unnoticed owing to systematic distortions in catch trends that were skewed by incorrect reports from countries of big fisheries.
00:49:06.000In 2003, Boris Worm and Ransom Myers of Dalhoyse University in Halifax, Nova Scotia reported that 90% of all large fish, including tuna, swordfish, and marlin and cod,
00:49:22.000had been removed from the ocean since 1950. Holy shit!
00:49:38.000Clover's reporting reveals that bluefin tuna, the endangered species with perhaps the most alarming plight in the ocean, is allegedly being bought and frozen in bulk by major corporations.
00:49:50.000Once ocean supplies run dry, the frozen fish can be sold at sky-high prices.
00:49:55.000So they're freezing tuna in bulk because they anticipate they're going to run dry?
00:50:13.000Although current fisheries policy is inadequate, much of it's based on science.
00:50:18.000Clover suggests, for example, that the practice of discarding by which some seven million tons of caught fish are thrown back into the sea each year has arisen because fishermen Simply do not want the species they have caught, but wasteful discarding is more often the consequence of a fisheries policy that is designed to prevent fishermen targeting juveniles and species outside of their allotted quota.
00:50:42.000Well, that makes sense, because they killed fish and then they have to throw some of them back in the water because they killed fish that were too small.
00:50:48.000But that's because it's indiscriminate.
00:50:50.000They're still killing them, if that's what they're saying.
00:50:53.000Clover's quick to point out the culprits of the fisheries crisis, slippery politicians, greedy fishermen, and thoughtless consumers in big businesses while making activists and scientists the stars of this show.
00:51:03.000But in adopting a tone of advocacy with its inherent moralism, Clover isolates viewers and misses an opportunity to place this problem in context.
00:51:19.000Is one part of the huge dilemma that humans face in an increasingly resource-limited world.
00:51:24.000We can seek sustainability, but we will not be able to diversify our consumption indefinitely, and climate change will decrease marine resources further.
00:51:32.000They always have to bring it back to climate change.
00:51:35.000If you don't, people won't take you seriously.
00:51:36.000Those most affected will be the fisherfolk of developing countries who...
00:53:33.000So, how I came to be here with you, backtracking to shop, backtracking from California, starting in New York, in our pre-mentioned Appalachian, By the way,
00:54:32.000At night, backstage, I'd be reading my new issue of Hot Rod and my little glass of ice water.
00:54:38.000You know, couldn't wait for my new issue, and I'd go to as many car shows as I could go to during the summer.
00:54:44.000And the quick version is a real good friend of mine, Sean Davis from Canada, said, hey, we're going to go to the show up in Rhinebeck, New York, and there's going to be a guy there we're going to meet.
00:54:57.000I met him at a big show in Indy, and he's going to make me a billet steering wheel to match my Boyd wheels.
00:55:02.000This is where all the car guys can pay attention.
00:55:04.000And so we went to the said show, met this guy, Jim, wound up going to dinner with him.
00:55:10.000And the guy's like, you know, I'm a machinist.
00:55:13.000I got a place in Riverside, California.
00:56:07.000They're walking around with clipboards and looking at what I thought, because I stayed away from it, I thought they were checking serial numbers on the CNC machines.
00:56:57.000We're going to go into the LA Roadster show, Father's Day show, in Pomona, and we're going to sell our stuff.
00:57:02.000So I'm setting up on Thursday, and this guy, the only guy I know, besides the two other machinists, goes, hey man, you going to come to our annual open house tonight?
00:58:10.000So we talked, set up for a job, uh, Talk about having a job on Monday.
00:58:16.000So Sunday night we're back at shows over with.
00:58:19.000I'm putting parts back on the shelf and I still remember because the place had like half the lights working dimly lit.
00:58:25.000I see Jim come around the corner going, you might start looking for some work.
00:58:31.000So now I don't have to ask off for Monday.
00:58:34.000I went and had the meeting with Gary, got hired, and so I timed it.
00:58:39.000I flew home, got my 67 El Camino that I built in my dad's barn in my aunt's garage, and timed it that I stopped at the Hot Rod Magazine Super Nationals in Ohio, and editor Jeff Smith And Rob Canan approached me and said,
00:58:54.000we'd like to feature your car in Hot Rod Magazine.
01:02:46.000So, I get here, and I wind up staying, working for Gary Daigle, and the car gets in a bunch of magazines.
01:02:53.000I wind up moving from the Orange County area up to Studio City, join a new band, start recording an album, and I sell my El Camino to a kid in Japan, and I'm like, I gotta do a cool car.
01:03:23.000So on the corner of Laurel Canyon and Ventura Boulevard down in Studio City, right now it's still a FedEx office, but it was at Kinko's.
01:03:33.000The Kinko's was where Pure Vision begat.
01:03:37.000I was there photocopying my magazine features, and I had my friend Matt Willoughby in Ohio draw this idea of the 66 Charger that was called Scully.
01:04:19.000So I mailed these packets of color photocopies of my El Camino that's been in the prior magazines proving like, hey, I've done it once.
01:04:28.000And going, hey, my proposal is I'm going to build this car and I'm going to take it on the power tour that you are sponsoring.
01:04:35.000So basically, they sponsored me with some parts and they ran the artwork of my car.
01:04:41.000And I built it in my shared tandem parking garage, underground parking garage at my apartment on Whitsitt Avenue, which is where Whitsitt crashes into Ventura Boulevard.
01:07:53.000What begat from that is Hot Rod Magazine featured it, Mopar Muscle featured it, put it on the cover, Daytona Magazine in Japan featured it.
01:11:35.000And then on that power tour, I met a kid named Martin Weinreb who had a black...
01:11:40.000Challenger and I go I got an idea for your car and then we built the car in his driveway and it was called Challenger X and that was that big I was the first guys doing any pro touring Mopars and this Challenger X was the first car to have that I knew of street driven carbon fiber drive shaft it was like the second set of Big 18-inch torque thrusts.
01:12:03.000We worked with a guy named Craig Rails back at BDS for an 8-stack EFI injection on a small-block Chrysler.
01:12:10.000And that'll be on that thumb drive I gave you.
01:12:13.000It's called Challenger X. It's a black Challenger.
01:13:10.000I finally get a place and build a couple of other stuff, and I started on a duster, which we call Dustia, which I kept the duster lettering but made it Dustia.
01:13:19.000Put that on the Power Tour, and that car exploded.
01:13:24.000Let me see that, because we were talking about it earlier.
01:14:51.000So, at that point, I was living in the shop.
01:14:54.000I didn't have money for an apartment, so my bed was next to my lift, and I had a piece of plastic that I threw over the bed so the rust and oil and everything else wouldn't get on my bed, and then I joined a 24-hour fitness so I had somewhere to shower.
01:15:46.000So, anyway, the guy that I built that car for, Romeo Furio, that's his real name, he wanted to do another car.
01:15:56.000And I just came back from showering with 30 strangers at 24 Hour Fitness, and I'm having my bowl of Cheerios, and my phone rings, and it's this gentleman named David Hakeem and a couple of other bigwig gentlemen from Mopar Performance from Chrysler.
01:16:15.000And they're like, we've been watching what you've been doing.
01:16:17.000We want to be synonymous with Pure Vision.
01:16:25.000And we built a car, or I built a car, I was still basically alone, called GTXR. I had a fantastic painter named Russ Stevenson that put up with me at that time.
01:16:38.000Now I have Mick Jenkins, who is just beyond incredible.
01:16:42.000We'll get to that in a second, but on GTXR... I wanted to use the big body satellite that nobody ever uses and nobody likes.
01:17:34.000I'm thrashing to get the thing done to go to SEMA. I've never been to SEMA before, and I'm unveiling the car in Chrysler's Berruth on a turntable.
01:19:09.000At the time, there was the brand new truck 518 four-speed overdrive that was in the brand new pickup trucks for 2002, 2003. Overdrive was becoming a new thing.
01:21:04.000But it was fully functioning and working and worked fantastic, and it was actually foolproof because even if you ran out of CO2, you'd just grab a shifter, put it in drive, and drive it around.
01:22:17.000Built Hammer, and that was, you know, I had an interior guy who didn't show up the night before SEMA, and a whole bunch of disaster, and showed up to SEMA a day late, which was also fantastic, because everybody, the rumor was around that this car being filmed was late,
01:22:35.000and it may or may not show up, and we got there, and...
01:23:55.000And I copied across the back on those cars, they have the individual letters, Plymouth, P-L-Y-M. So I copied the font and had letters made that spelled hammer.
01:28:52.000And before, when I was building Scully, the silver car, 97-ish, I left the job I was working and went working for a gentleman named Bruce Schultz.
01:29:04.000And he did sublet work for Mattel and Action Diecast.
01:29:19.000Or we'd get some and go, here we need these 25 stripped and painted a different color and different graphics for Toy Fair.
01:29:26.000So when I worked for Bruce, I met a guy named Kelly Cox.
01:29:31.000Mr. Kelly Cox, who as of right now is going on his 18th or 19th year as an employee for me.
01:29:38.000We became really good friends working together.
01:29:40.000We found out we loved the same music, we had the same sense of humor.
01:29:44.000So I met Kelly working for Bruce, and I was building that.
01:29:49.000When I built that Charger, I drove it over to Bruce's house because I'd met him like a year before and I said, hey, look what I did because he saw the car I started with.
01:30:29.00098, going into 99. Fast forward 2005. My shop is now up and running.
01:30:35.000I've had a bunch of magazine features.
01:30:37.000I'm at an airport and one of the guys that worked at Mattel was in the airport too.
01:30:42.000I recognize him because I used to be down there all the time bringing in prototypes.
01:30:46.000And I'm joking with him and I'm like, hey man, how many super cool features do I got to have before I can get a Hot Wheels made of one of my cars?
01:30:53.000And he goes, you know what, that's a good idea.
01:33:27.000And the thing is, is I'm friends with him, too, so off-camera, you know, he'll tell me, good, bad, ugly, you know, and he just loved being in the car.
01:45:22.000Yeah, but when you're not driving to work?
01:45:24.000Oh, I've got a really fun little, which again, I- Ooh, did I put on the thumb drive- I have a 64 Olds little Cutlass that I built for cross-country driving.
01:45:34.000So it's got modern air conditioning, like vintage air and dynamite sound deadening.
01:45:39.000And I have these really wonderful seats from a Porsche Panamera, cut seven inches off of it.
01:45:45.000And it's got, they're like 18-way powered.
01:49:06.000I'm so lucky that I got all these people putting up with me because I literally wake up at 3 in the morning and come up with these ideas and start sketching the ideas and, oh my gosh, we've got to do this!
01:50:02.000I really believe that everywhere in Southern California, just the overall vibration of the area I'm not criticizing the people that are doing it,
01:50:43.000If you were a kid and you had a dream, you wanted to be a movie star, you came to L.A. And along the way, these people realized, like, the only way to get chosen for roles...
01:50:53.000You have to have this Daniel Day-Lewis, like, super mysterious, ultra-talented person who everybody worships.
01:51:10.000You couldn't think outside the box at all.
01:51:12.000And there's a way of communicating that people have in L.A. that it's like signaling that they're a part of this tribe, signaling that they're a part of this very progressive, ultra-left-wing ideology, and everybody has to subscribe to it regardless of the conversation.
01:51:27.000Consequences that it has on the city or the crime or chaos or all the other stuff and It's just I think it's tempered by this desire that people have that lived to fit in Because they want to be cast in things like you think about someone who's an actor you're probably already fucked up You're probably already insecure,
01:51:46.000which is why you want this exorbitant amount of attention You probably had a bad childhood or whatever it was whatever whatever Whatever it was, you were not stable and you go so far that you desire this exorbitant amount of attention.
01:51:57.000Then what you have to do is you have to get in front of casting agents.
01:53:04.000Let's go back at the beginning of the conversation, I'm from Appalachian, you know, that's a handshake is your word, you know, it's real simple, real simple background.
01:53:17.000So, Simi, again, not for a game of name-dropping, but I know, like my friend Ezio that has Bomb Hoagie, my favorite little place to get Philly cheesesteaks, which you can't find for shit out in California, does yummy stuff.
01:53:34.000I know, like, Donish, the manager at my bank.
01:53:37.000I know Neil, who has, well, of course, East Coast Pizza.
01:54:01.000It's a normal community that's sort of divorced from a lot of what ails L.A. And I know you had gone there from past times of just telling me.
01:55:06.000It's like he trains people literally from the very beginning how to correctly hold the pistol, how to brace it correctly, what amount of pressure you put with your left hand versus your right hand, how to line the sights up.
01:55:19.000He teaches you how to do everything correctly.
01:55:22.000That's awesome that Keanu Reeves has that, so when he's filming it, he's looking like he actually is shooting a gun.
01:59:36.000Did all these things to work on my aim, work on my precision with my shooting, and just work on all the things, the cardio, all the things that you have to do to do it.
01:59:46.000So it's just a very different connection than just...
01:59:48.000I'll still eat a steak at a restaurant.
02:00:06.000Especially if you're getting some factory-farmed shit.
02:00:10.000There's a lot of weird karma that comes with that.
02:00:14.000It's so easy to get a chicken sandwich.
02:00:16.000It's so easy to pull into a drive-thru and get a chicken sandwich.
02:00:19.000If you had to see the life that chicken lived, you'd probably be pretty fucking horrified.
02:00:25.000You know, there's a lot of the chickens we buy, I'm sure you've seen those chicken trucks that are driving down the street on the highway, and they're just stuffed with chickens, and you're like, yo, that's a fucked up life.
02:00:37.000Did you ever see the one where the pigs...
02:00:39.000There was a car accident, I think, and the pigs jumped out of the fucking truck and they were splattered all over the highway.
02:02:36.000A long time ago I met a couple of Indians.
02:02:40.000Native American that tried to follow basically their lineage and The discussion was that the same vein of the respect of That you described it.
02:02:53.000Well that realm it is it is like a realm You know they were the real what that's why it's so disappointing when you find garbage It's the saddest thing when you're on some public trail and you see a water bottle that someone just discarded.
02:03:06.000Like, oh no, you're bringing our bullshit into this incredible realm.
02:09:37.000And this documentary shows how intelligent they are.
02:09:40.000And one of the things they do, if you leave poison in, like, a rat tunnel where the rats go, the rats will get a young, stupid rat to go eat the poison.
02:09:49.000It's like, hey, man, look at that food.
02:11:22.000It might be for the cliques, or it might be a legit video of how fucking smart rats were.
02:11:27.000Like he was trying to figure out how are these motherfuckers not dying?
02:11:30.000Maybe he just kept a rat trap in the same spot over and over and over again, and eventually they realized, oh, every time it snaps, then a rat gets killed, but the food's still there.
02:11:38.000Yeah, well, this account, he's got Mouse Trap Monday, so he must have...
02:11:42.000Oh, so he's, like, running experiments.
02:12:51.000I mean, it's obviously that we have a distaste for rats and mice because they carry these bugs, they carry the plague, and they carry diseases, and they document that in the Netflix special, too.
02:13:03.000The Netflix special shows, like, some of them have plague.
02:13:40.000He had a book called Hot Rod Magazine, All the Covers, which covered up to, no pun, all the way up to 2009. Hot Rod started in 1947. So all the way up to 2009, every cover ever printed.
02:13:53.000And then he just released a new book, like The History of Hot Rod Magazine, which begat every automotive magazine.
02:14:04.000And Mr. Peterson, I mean, he had everything.
02:14:07.000He had Hot Rod, he had Field and Stream, Better Homes and Gardens, like every popular science, every book you could think of was him, if I remember right.
02:14:15.000Anyway, so I, because of your latest cover, asked Drew, hey man, how many cars...
02:14:28.000Have ever been on the Hot Rod magazine twice.
02:14:31.000And I have every issue of Hot Rod from 47 to now.
02:14:35.000But it's easier to ask someone who's like written a book about the covers than go through every one of them.
02:14:41.000And we found 14 cars that had been on the cover twice.
02:14:46.000But I said, hey, how many cars have been on the cover?
02:19:18.000And it's interesting because obviously you have a lot of dexterity from hunting, you know, learning and utilizing firearms and, say, bow like we were talking.
02:19:30.000Do you have an outlet that is artistic?
02:20:24.000When I was a kid growing up, the fucking coolest thing in the world were hot rods.
02:20:29.000When I was 15, 16, when I was getting my learner's permit and about to get a driver's license, all of us in the town that I grew up in, in Newton, Massachusetts, all my friends, everyone was obsessed with cars.
02:20:41.000We were all obsessed with Camaros and Firebirds and everyone was obsessed with cars.
02:21:38.000Those cars to me are like how someone wants to buy a Van Gogh.
02:21:42.000They want to put this, you know, this fucking Jackson Pollock painting in their wall and they'll sit there and I'll have a glass of wine and they'll stare at that.
02:22:36.000Yeah, unbelievably fortunate that I, or as a joke, they put up with me, you know, and help forge this stuff that I... No, they're cool people too.
02:25:04.000I remember going to visit you and seeing the process from the very beginning, the bare frame, and we sat in it to measure my height and make sure the windshield is the perfect size.
02:27:16.000You know, that informs you on the way different people think and the way different people express themselves, the way different people, what they like and what they don't like.
02:27:24.000And then, with MMA, it's like, what's possible?
02:27:27.000Like, talking about Michael Bisping, fighting ten fights with one fucking eye and winning the world title.
02:27:33.000As a huge underdog in a last-minute replacement fight, you see the human spirit in this very raw and just unfiltered form that I don't think very many people get to see.
02:27:46.000It's a wild type of human being that participates in that.
02:27:51.000And the risks they take and the rewards that they get, the highs that they get, this is an amazing speech.
02:29:00.000You will never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life when they knock you down, when they try and on you, when they talk about you, and they try and put their foot on your neck.
02:29:12.000If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve, fortify your mind, and feel this level of happiness as you rise one time in your life.
02:29:21.000But I'm blessed to be able to feel this again and again and again and again and again.