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00:00:29.000I don't know that there's any proof or anything other than that.
00:00:31.000The thing is, like, we're getting the rumors from the internet, and the internet thinks that the Taliban took out that bridge in Baltimore.
00:01:37.000Also, there was always so much East Coast, West Coast shit that's still in the zeitgeist, you know, like with Biggie and Tupac, and they were all hating on each other, and they both got killed, and there was a lot going on.
00:01:51.000And then there's people that thought that Puffy was involved, and Suge Knight was involved.
00:01:56.000Speaking of, I think Suge Knight's the one who said the thing I just thought of.
00:02:57.000And living in L.A., you have all this shit that's going on around you.
00:03:00.000You have your life, and then you have all this shit that goes in and out of your ears all fucking day, and you're like, I just want to do stand-up.
00:03:08.000You also have those celebrity environments where celebrities all get together, and there's so many of them, and these wild parties.
00:03:17.000And if you've got a wild party, and P. Diddy puts on that wild party, and he sets everybody up, Like, if you were an intelligence agent, you know, like a Jeffrey Epstein type deal, that'd be the way to do it.
00:03:32.000Big ol' crazy party, get everybody loose, get them the yayo, get them the yayo, get them everything you need, get fired up, get those cameras rolling, and now you got everybody under wraps.
00:10:33.000Then they're watching you put together this thing That's really for them.
00:10:39.000It's for you because you create it and you know You get paid to say it and you get this great feeling that you did it But for a person like a fan like when I was watching you last night as a fan Like I had to see a bunch of new shit that you were doing that I was telling you was killing me but it's It's a beautiful feeling.
00:11:18.000They leave that place, they feel better.
00:11:20.000And so when you know that you can do that, then you get together in the green room afterwards, you're like, ah, this one bit is like something missing.
00:11:28.000It's fucking, there's something clunky about it.
00:13:20.000They basically empowered mental patients who are drug addicts to just live on the street and shit everywhere and harass people.
00:13:29.000And there's no sign that they're turning it around.
00:13:33.000They don't seem to be turning it around at all, except for when Xi Jinping came to town.
00:13:38.000I told him, if I was the mayor, I'd buy Xi Jinping a condo.
00:13:42.000Like, when he's in town, everything's clean.
00:13:45.000When he came to San Francisco, they moved all the tents, they put up fences so people couldn't put tents back up, they cleaned the streets, and Gavin Newsom was like, well, when you have guests come over, you clean up your house.
00:13:58.000What a crazy gaslighting spin on a fact that you could have fixed this the whole time and you chose not to until the dictator comes to town.
00:14:08.000You know, in my criminal hate day, I used to move around a lot.
00:20:18.000I find the worst shit that I see on Instagram.
00:20:21.000By the way, Instagram is wild right now.
00:20:24.000I mean buck wild with murder and animal attacks and bombs exploding on people and terrorist attacks and riots and it's like you can find everything on Instagram now.
00:20:37.000And these are accounts that I don't even follow.
00:22:07.000Then they got the other girls that flip the camera around and show their monkey and then show their face, and I can't figure out what the fuck that's about either.
00:22:58.000They get hundreds of thousands of dollars off these dopes.
00:23:02.000And the way Andrew Tate was doing it, he would have the girls sit in front of the keyboard typing with their tits out and then him and his friends would be over on the side and they would be typing all the shit because they knew what the guy wanted to hear.
00:23:15.000So they would type all the things for the guy and the guys would just donate money.
00:24:04.000This one guy was telling people that if they're broke, if they have no money, if they just send whatever they can, everything they have, God will bless them with 10 times more.
00:24:15.000So he was trying to get people that literally had nothing.
00:24:19.000And if you send me, the guy in the $5,000 suit with the big pinky ring, if you send me your money, whatever you have left, God will bless you 10 times over.
00:24:32.000I don't believe the banning of anybody who could take money out of your pocket.
00:25:03.000I'm talking about like when an African sends you a text message and says, fucking come bail me out.
00:25:08.000If you send me 500, you're going to inherit 80 million dollars.
00:25:12.000You know how many people get, every year 60 Minutes has a fucking expose about some African that's taking money from fucking people and they keep doing it.
00:25:20.000Speaking of which, I should probably bring this up.
00:25:22.000There's a lot of people that are getting emails from a scammer saying that they're being invited onto this podcast.
00:25:50.000We will never ask you for anything like that.
00:25:52.000And if we contact you, it'll be obvious.
00:25:54.000It's obvious also that whoever the person is writing these things, at least in the ones that have been sent to me, it seems like English is their second language.
00:26:01.000They don't seem to know exactly how to phrase things in a way that an American would phrase things.
00:26:07.000So it seems a little obvious to me that it was shifty and obvious to a lot of other people, but a bunch of people sent them to me.
00:26:14.000Okay, yeah, because I had one I was going to show you.
00:26:27.000You know, they reach out to you through Instagram or, you know, they find out you follow me or maybe I talked about you on the podcast or maybe something like that.
00:26:35.000And the next thing you know, you get a letter.
00:27:56.000The origins of the Nigerian print scam date back to 1910 when it went by another name, the Spanish Prisoner Swindle.
00:28:04.000Back then victims receive a message as a letter in the mail rather than on the internet but the same basic structure between the two scams remains between both scams remains scams remain the same the Spanish prisoner swindle centers around a wealthy foreign nobleman who's in prison for political reasons the nobleman claims no location of a lost treasure and that he's willing to share this treasure with the victim the problem is he's in prison and needs the victim to send him money so he can bribe his way out Wow Interesting.
00:28:35.000There's always been people like that, but you know what the problem is?
00:28:38.000The problem is, there are people in this country, what was the number that we Googled that have an IQ lower than 85?
00:29:06.000Because IQ doesn't necessarily mean intelligence, because it depends upon your education.
00:29:10.000Because some of the questions in IQ tests are predicated on a knowledge of math and understanding of how to do equations and certain things that you learn in school.
00:29:21.000But there's intelligence that is social intelligence, intelligence in terms of being able to see what the problems are in a certain choice you make or what the up benefits are of a different choice.
00:29:38.000There's people that are strategizers and they're really good at...
00:31:03.000I really am, deep down inside, because, you know, he was telling you all about all these job possibilities and college possibilities, but you know what he forgot to tell us?
00:31:12.000About New York being right across the river.
00:31:15.000And all the possibilities you had over there.
00:31:23.000The thing is, no one's ever gonna advise that you take the riskiest chance in show business.
00:31:30.000No one's ever going to advise that you...
00:31:31.000I didn't want to be a show business guy, but I wish you would have told me, you know, if you want to take acting lessons, you go to the city.
00:34:12.000How many kids are just at home playing video games all day, too?
00:34:14.000Oh, it drives me fucking crazy when my daughter goes knocking on people's doors, and they're like, no, well, they're inside playing video games.
00:37:02.000The problem is the same thing as the problem with drinking, the same thing as the problem with everything else, is that people lose their fucking minds.
00:37:56.000Because they don't get the fucking money either unless you donate to St. Jude or something like that to You know, some guy's driving a BMW, and the people I sent the money to, you know, and it's happened to us.
00:38:07.000We saw it, we gave money, and nothing happens.
00:38:52.000It's just – that happens with so many charities and so many charitable organizations.
00:39:00.000And then there's charitable organizations like – there's foundations that are set up just as tax breaks.
00:39:06.000So there's like tax breaks involved if you have a foundation.
00:39:09.000It's a charitable foundation that works towards good causes like maybe climate change or maybe something along those lines, health.
00:39:16.000You know, the global health, and then you get involved in that, and it's a nice way to avoid paying taxes, you move money around, you put money in the foundation, you kind of move it around.
00:39:28.000You know, it's these guys that are involved in charitable organizations.
00:39:36.000Like, wouldn't it be great if people donated all this money to charity and we could fix a lot of things, but what you're really doing in a lot of ways is you're pumping up the business of these charities.
00:39:46.000And then they pump up their advertising revenue.
00:39:48.000They pump up their social media profile, their campaigns, their this, their that.
00:40:22.000See if there's a good chart that shows various red cross, all these different ones.
00:40:27.000I bumped into a nun once when I was going to Catholic school.
00:40:29.000And she told me that when people are looking for you for help, like when they're on the side of the street and they're asking you for help, that that could be Jesus in disguise.
00:41:36.000So, this shows you all the money that comes in and how much of it actually goes to programs and how much of it goes to administration and how much of it goes to fundraising.
00:41:49.000So, Red Cross looks pretty fucking good.
00:41:52.000Red Cross shows it's like 90% of the money goes to programs.
00:41:56.000Only 3.5% goes to administrative and 6% goes to fundraising.
00:47:22.000When you have money that's being donated, like cash that's being donated, it's just, it's gonna get moved around.
00:47:28.000It's like, you gotta help these fucking people out, you know?
00:47:32.000And look at now, you go, when I came from Cuba, when I was a little kid, to learn how to do anything, the reason why I learned how to do anything was because the police athletically I swear to God.
00:49:18.000But also, wasn't the Red Cross one of the people that was helping people map out the way to illegally enter the U.S.? Wasn't that one of the things that the Red Cross was doing?
00:49:31.000But that could be also that the Red Cross is a legitimate charitable organization and it realizes that these people are going to do this no matter what and show them the way to do it that's safe.
00:49:43.000If they're going to do it, they're going to do it.
00:49:45.000Showing them the way that's safe to me seems like almost an ethical thing to do if you know that this is happening.
00:49:54.000And then providing them aid along the way so they don't die.
00:49:57.000That seems like, you know, the whole immigration thing is very complicated.
00:50:31.000Different versions have existed since at least 2018 and some have been distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
00:50:38.000The ICRC is a consortium of Red Cross agencies including the American Red Cross.
00:50:45.000The map is a part of an informational safety pamphlet provided by aid organizations including the National Red Cross Societies to Migrants Traveling to Central America.
00:50:54.000The pamphlet also includes resource information like where to find food, shelter, and medical assistance.
00:51:00.000While the map has been around since at least 2018, American Red Cross partnered with the Mexican Red Cross and others during the COVID-19 pandemic to promote these safety materials.
00:51:11.000The Red Cross logos appeared across the top of the map.
00:51:14.000The American Red Cross logo was removed in 2022 after the COVID-19 partnership expired.
00:51:20.000The current pamphlet containing the map shows the current partners are the National Red Cross Societies of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
00:51:29.000Does not seek to encourage or discourage migration, but rather to contribute to mitigating the vulnerability factors of this population during the migratory route.
00:55:23.000Department of Homeland Security memo first reported by the Daily Caller received as a part of the Freedom of Information Act request said that more than 270 unlicensed cannabis cultivation sites in Maine were operated by Chinese nationals.
00:55:37.000Who the fuck you think you're dealing with, Joy Bonacci?
00:56:20.000Adults 21 years of age or older can possess up to 2.5 ounces of a combination of cannabis, cannabis concentrate, and cannabis products, including no more than five grams of cannabis concentrate.
00:59:55.000Homeland Security's warning about terrorist attacks in America.
01:00:00.000That's what scares me about this fucking election, too.
01:00:03.000I'm not saying that they would do this, but I definitely think they have in the past.
01:00:10.000Like, allowed things to happen just so they can tighten up on restrictions and laws and scare people more and get people to vote one way or another.
01:00:28.000And ever in your life, could you ever imagine things be so bizarre as they are right now?
01:00:33.000They've been bizarre for about five years now, where you just can't believe the shit you're hearing, and you just say, you know what, I'm gonna stick to my camp.
01:02:08.000Because it was like, I told you, when I got out of jail, I was supposed to have a job selling siding and doors and saddles and electrical equipment, an indoor salesman in Jersey.
01:02:19.000And when I got out of prison, I go, I'm out.
01:05:56.000Every job in New York, you know, it's well known that when the little guy from Arizona who was over there with Gotti, he controlled construction.
01:06:04.000Like, that was his fucking thing, you know?
01:06:06.000You couldn't get anything built without that fucking dude.
01:06:08.000Can you imagine if you live in New York City at that time and you're trying to build buildings and you gotta do deals with the mob?
01:06:15.000And you gotta do deals with Sammy the Bull?
01:07:18.000I know companies that are still waiting for a license from L.A. They just thought they were going to come and apply in New Jersey or in New York City.
01:10:13.000Now, some people, they get a bad roll of the dice, they get a bad hand of cards, they get a bad situation in life, they get a bad place that they live, and they're fucked.
01:10:55.000There's only one way to get people to follow the rules of communism and socialism, and it's always a dictatorship.
01:11:02.000It's always one group has all the money and all the power and they tell you what the fuck you're gonna do.
01:11:07.000And if you don't do it, they kill you or they lock you up in jail.
01:11:10.000And they threaten people and they scare people and they make people disappear so everybody stays in line.
01:11:15.000And that is what people always do whenever you get a communist country.
01:11:19.000If you ask any of these wacky kids in colleges, give me an example of socialism that works.
01:11:25.000They'll give you like socialist programs or countries like some Norwegian countries that have a lot of socialist programs that are really good countries.
01:11:34.000They have really good healthcare, really good education.
01:11:36.000You pay a lot in taxes, but it goes a long way.
01:11:39.000And they have a better society because of it.
01:11:55.000The problem is people want a quality of outcome when they don't have anything.
01:11:59.000But you're never gonna have that because, first of all, it's impossible.
01:12:03.000But second of all, because you're never gonna have a quality of effort And one of the things that a competitive environment or a place like America where you have freedom is, some people put more into life.
01:12:15.000They put more into the things they do.
01:12:48.000That's the beauty, you know, as somebody who knew that of the side, not from living it, but just from hearing the stories, it makes you appreciate this so much more.
01:15:53.000That kind of money, even a small amount of money can imprison you.
01:15:56.000That's what scares me about universal basic income.
01:15:59.000You know, people say if they gave everybody X amount of money, people could just pursue their dreams and they wouldn't have to worry about food.
01:16:49.000We still had to go out there and crack fucking stupid jokes outside, getting attacked by fucking spiders and shit, thinking there's a leopard in the fucking thing.
01:20:53.000We have a gun safety class we put on every other Saturday, and if you take that, you'll shoot a lot better, and hopefully you'll save taxpayers money.
01:21:23.000Took her away in handcuffs because squatters were in her own house.
01:21:27.000And then there's this guy on TikTok that started making videos explaining to people what the laws are and how you can get into people's houses and how you can squat.
01:21:36.000And so it's a genuine problem because in Georgia, there's a thousand houses right now that people are squatting in.
01:21:44.000That's a giant number of houses that squatters have just taken over these people's houses.
01:22:23.000You know, nobody wants their fucking...
01:22:25.000Look, if you work really hard, you get a house, and you have a second house, you can use it as a rental property or whatever, you're trying to make some money, and then someone takes over that, and the system works for them and not for you, there's a big difference between tenants and squatters.
01:22:40.000And if you can't make that differentiation, we got a real problem.
01:24:16.000It's always one guy that makes an example, makes a big, deep example, and then people go, well, I won't think twice about doing that.
01:24:22.000It seems like the only way to really change is the law.
01:24:26.000It's just I don't understand why there's so many laws that have been around for so long that when you see common sense solutions like Ron DeSantis saying, no, you can't do that.
01:25:04.000We have to have a set of laws that we all abide by if we're going to have a peaceful society where you don't create victims and you don't empower criminals.
01:25:14.000And the fact that that is complicated in 2024 is so strange to me.
01:25:21.000Almost like it's on purpose, like it's meant to keep things chaotic, keep us, you know, on our heels, keep us at each other's throats, keep us just trying to figure out what's the next problem they have to deal with.
01:25:36.000And all the while, There's all this shit going on in Ukraine.
01:25:40.000There's all this shit going on with green energy.
01:29:01.000He's a big, I mean, solid, beefy 185, former champion.
01:29:09.000Both guys started at 170, but it was too hard to make the 170. That's a real 185-er, as opposed to like, you know, they gave him Kamaru Usman, and Kamaru didn't have a chance to prepare for that.
01:29:31.000Famously, Kamaru has bad knees, like real bad knees.
01:29:34.000So I don't know how hard he was training and whether or not he prepares the way, like maybe he only like sacrifices his knees during training and then when he's not training for a fight, he takes it easy so he doesn't stay in the same kind of shape.
01:31:36.000Pretty wild that he's even willing to do this while he's competing.
01:31:40.000I mean, I think he's the champion over at 1FC still.
01:31:45.000So he's still doing MMA, still doing, like, high-level championship fights, and he's fighting in the Gi, in the Gi tournament, which is just nuts.
01:33:50.000And it's like with this art, jujitsu, you get in there, you get beat up for a year.
01:33:54.000And then one day you start doing little things and you're like, oh shit, this ain't that bad, you know?
01:34:00.000And it's the same thing, but once you put it all together, like when we were talking about Dave Battelle's special, it's a thing of beauty, man.
01:34:47.000When I went to a UFC fight and saw, on a hit of acid, and saw Anderson kick that dude in the face, I went right up to my room and wrote a joke.
01:39:23.000And I know a lot of people that have had a problem with carbohydrates, they start to...
01:39:26.000Look, I had those guys do it for World Carnivore Month, the comics that I've got working out at the gym.
01:39:31.000I'm like, who wants to commit to this?
01:39:32.000The entire month of January, nothing but meat.
01:39:34.000And they did it and they're like, dude, I feel so much more energetic.
01:39:39.000I'm not tired in the middle of the day.
01:39:40.000I'm like, yeah, that's like a carb crash.
01:39:43.000You're getting like an insulin crash in the middle of your day because you're eating carbs and sweets and sugar and bread and pasta and rice and all this stuff.
01:39:50.000If you eliminate that stuff from your diet, it takes a while for your body to adjust.
01:39:54.000It took me like a couple of weeks when I first did it.
01:39:56.000But then once your body adjusts, you just feel like you have an extra gear.
01:41:22.000A group of six people got together in Norway and fucking blueberries for a month.
01:41:27.000The thing about that though is you have to look at healthy subject bias or healthy statistics bias because the people that are in that group that are eating blueberries in the beginning or to begin with are probably healthier people.
01:41:42.000Healthier people might be a little smarter.
01:41:45.000You know, like, more aware of what, like, the effects of eating good food does to your body.
01:41:57.000But a lot of those studies are, they're weird.
01:42:00.000It's just, you get a sense of what's true and what's not, but also people manipulate those studies, and they make studies designed to get the result that they're trying to achieve because they're trying to sell you something.
01:42:23.000Listen, from all the experience we have of everything that's come out the last couple fucking days, the last couple years...
01:42:32.000Here it says, Dr. Rhonda Patrick, blueberry concentrate increased brain blood flow, brain activation, and working memory in adults compared to placebo.
01:45:02.000If you get wet snow and you got a whole driveway full of that shit, and, you know, you're digging in and lifting it up and digging in and lifting it up, your legs, your back, your arms.
01:46:21.000So if you're out of shape and you burn off 1,000 calories like my boy Tommy, and then you get behind the wheel, you fucking black out, you know?
01:46:29.000Let's see if Whoop's got a snow shovel.
01:57:59.000When you got arrested, you had to take a GED? Well, when you get arrested, you know, when they were thinking about me, I had to show the judge I was trying to get my life together.
02:05:26.000It's the worst, because you're convincing kids that this is the only way they're going to be successful in life, and a lot of them don't even wind up using it, and then they're saddled down with debt.
02:05:33.000For the rest of their fucking life and there's not a lot of good options other than that It's not like there's a lot of other things you could look to like this is a better way to go Like no like college for a lot of people is like the only path it seems reasonably lit Like that path I could see where that path is I'm gonna walk down that path and then all of a sudden you're a hundred thousand debt 150,000 in debt you're like And then you get a job out of college and it's for $52,000 a year.
02:07:43.000First time I walked into the University of Colorado and signed those fucking loan papers and that Pell-Gram paperwork, I think two days later I had a credit card.
02:09:43.000AOL may have had the most prevalent mail-in magazine-based marketing campaign of the 90s, but a close second goes to both Columbia House, which was owned by Sony, and BMG, which was owned by RCA. It was a common sight in magazines of all shapes and sizes to see ads like the one above, which promoted extremely cheap collections of music in exchange for signing up for a membership.
02:10:02.000It even single-handedly helped some CDs become hits.
02:10:05.000Hootie and the Blowfish, for example, is said to have sold over 3 million copies of Crack Rearview through this service.
02:10:12.000I was just going to try to skim through to find what it was.
02:10:16.000I think what they did is that you would sign up for a credit card bill with this and then all of a sudden you'd start getting billed like 20 bucks a month.
02:10:36.000In 94, Stereophile Magazine published a feature analyzing whether the quality of Columbia House or BMG CDs was actually much lower than one could find in a traditional record store.
02:10:48.000The belief, which hasn't been confirmed, was that the service was using lower quality master tapes and on high quality equipment One could tell the difference.
02:11:31.000So the model the company used relied on customers essentially forgetting that they had subscribed to the service and then sending random CDs or cassette tapes to people that haven't asked for them along with a bill.
02:12:20.000Consumer Affairs and rip-off record of each report pages on the service and its collection agency, Trident Asset Management, that go back for miles.
02:12:29.000If you haven't paid for those CDs you got back in the 90s, they're probably still looking to shake you down for your money, Joey.
02:13:38.000They have the new commercial with a bunch of black people, Mexicans in a bar, jumping up and down, and I'm like, black people, Mexicans will never jump up.
02:14:53.000Where a whole crowd is willing to stay to listen to the guy talk?
02:14:57.000Watch what happens at a UFC main event.
02:14:59.000When, say, someone wins, there's a few people who stick around, they want to see the post-fight speech, but most people are headed to the fucking door.
02:15:06.000If Leon Edwards starts singing Sweet Caroline...
02:18:25.000And he's 40. So that's essentially a career ender, you know?
02:18:30.000But when you're 40, dude, in your fighting, in your training every day, you're doing two-a-days and three-a-days, like, bro, your fucking, your testosterone gets beat down.
02:19:52.000And it took them 12 weeks to get into kind of peak physical condition just to be able to do that.
02:19:59.000I mean, it's a crazy way to make a living, man.
02:20:02.000And you're depending on all these things that break so easy.
02:20:07.000All this stuff, you're going to use this to make your living and feed your family?
02:20:11.000You have a wife and kids, and you're going to depend on your tissue and your bones to stay in place while you're smashing people in the face, and you're getting smashed, and you're getting your arm barred, and you're getting your leg ripped.
02:21:27.000You know, but then look, Islam Makachev, you know, when he had the rematch with Volkanovski, he's preparing for Charles Oliveira, Charles Oliveira gets cut, Makachev steps in, or Alexander steps in with fucking 11 days notice, and he rematches with a guy who's gone through a full camp?
02:21:50.000If Tyson Fury gets cut 10 days before he's supposed to fight Anthony Joshua, they don't just call Usyk up and go, what are you doing in 10 days?
02:22:34.000And then he goes and fights DePora and he gets knocked out.
02:22:36.000So the whole world that you live in, you go from being the best pound-for-pound fighter on earth, the fucking man, to just months later, you're not even the best in your division anymore.
02:22:48.000The best guy in your division just knocked you unconscious.
02:22:50.000And now he has your belt and he's 10 years younger than you.
02:23:55.000And walk-off KO. He's an animal, dude.
02:23:59.000He's a real problem because he's intelligent, he's dedicated, he's driven, he's got that kind of confidence that those championship guys have where they know they're the best even before they're the best.
02:24:35.000And then they were also talking about...
02:24:39.000Sugar Sean said he wanted to go up and fight Toporia.
02:24:42.000But Teporia said, no, I want you to fight Marab, who's also from Georgia, just like Ilya is born in Georgia.
02:24:49.000And Marab's the rightful guy that should be fighting at 35, so that's going to happen there.
02:24:54.000But if Sean gets past Marab, you could see a world where they can make a champion versus championship fight at 145. But Ilya Tepori essentially has kind of cleaned out the division already.
02:25:07.000The real dangerous guys, like Josh Emmett, he pieced that dude up.
02:31:47.000He's probably close to like 260. Okay, so he definitely looks slimmer in that picture than he did in the other picture where he was lifting weights.
02:31:54.000But that was also right off, you know, right out of, in the gym.
02:31:58.000It says that he appears to have lost 10 to 12 pounds, it said in that photo.
02:32:02.000So yeah, you see that photo in the gym.
02:32:34.000Is just, you know, I go to basketball games, and I told you, I see those athletes, that Jason kid from fucking Boston, dog, when he goes to the basket, you're not stopping him.
02:33:43.000You see these people that are fighting on the undercards of these fight cards, like the UFC fight cards, the fight night cards, the smaller cards they do at the Apex Center.
02:33:53.000You're seeing world championship caliber fighters from 10 years ago.
02:33:57.000They would probably beat a lot of world champions, and this is their UFC debut.
02:34:15.000In the undercard, this kid, Cameron Simon, who's like one of the best guys at 135, very slick striker, South African kid, like very tough, very good kid.
02:34:28.000He fought this dude, Peyton Talbot, and I'd never seen this guy fight before.
02:36:55.000Also, you're dealing with personality issues, and if you run a business, you have to deal with people that are arguing with other people there, and you're like, oh, God.
02:37:03.000And then this guy might be stealing money, or this guy might be doing something he's not supposed to be doing.
02:37:08.000He said he was doing this, but he's doing that.
02:48:22.000It also makes you feel like you're not lazy and stagnant.
02:48:27.000Like there's been times where I get up and for whatever reason I'm just not feeling it and I fuck off and I look at my phone and I make some phone calls and then the next thing you know I'm not getting in the cold plunge the next you know I'm not going to work and the day or I'm not going to work out before work and the days that I realize I'm doing that like stop put your phone down get in the water were the days that I was happier I always felt better if I did what I needed to do.
02:48:57.000Because then I felt like I've already done the thing that was the hardest thing to do today.
02:49:18.000Get that really physically difficult thing done early and then it sets up the rest of your day.
02:49:24.000But the thing is, like, what I'm trying to say is, like, I'm not immune to those feelings of laziness and those feelings of procrastination.
02:49:32.000You know, and there's a handful of days over the last few years that I've done nothing and should have, should have worked out, and I just fucked off too much, and I just did wind up doing it.
02:49:42.000And in my mind, I was like, eh, you work out basically every day.
02:54:07.000Especially the sundae sauce, when you'd see the oils bubbling up on the surface of the pot, and the grandmother would be stirring it with a wooden spoon.
02:54:21.000She'd make homemade pasta, she'd have the kitchen table, flour out there, rolling everything, making it with a roller, cranking the pasta through the machine.