On this episode of the podcast, we have a special guest on the show, Michael Chiavello. Michael is a mixed martial arts commentator for the UFC and has been with the organization for a long time. We talk about how he got into the sport, what it's like to be on the road with the UFC, and how he prepares for a fight night. We also talk about some of the things he does to prepare for his role as a commentator for UFC Fight Night in Saitama, Japan. Finally, we talk about the new Fleshlight, and what it s like to work at Sengoku, Japan's largest sex shop. We end the show with a Q&A with the guys at the end of the show. This episode is sponsored by The Fleshlight. It's the only sponsor I have for the show and it's a good one. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and leave us a rating and review! We appreciate all the support we get from you! Thank you so much for all the love and support, we really appreciate it. XOXO. -The Voice. Michael and The Voice Mike Chiaveski - The Voice Podcast The Voice is a production of The Voice, LLC. Music: "The Voice" by The Voice (feat. The Voice) and The Message (The Message) - "The Message" by & The Message Music by The Message, LLC (featuring The Message Network, Inc. and the Message Network ( ) Logo by , , and . is a work of The Message Podcast, LLC., and The Message and , with , featuring The Message , LLC., and & , is a proud supporter of the Voice, Inc., in partnership with The Message. , Inc., Inc., LLC., is produced by . . , LLC, , & etc., , in partnership, with the Message, Inc, LLC, and . , , etc., and all other , from , we are a proud partner in the Voice Podcast, and all of our sponsors, . Thank you for all of your support, Thank You, Thank You for all your continued support, and all your support is appreciated!
00:02:17.000And the seat warms and the seat tilts from side to side.
00:02:19.000But if you shift back a little bit more, it goes from your ass and shoots onto your balls.
00:02:24.000So the Japanese toilets can fondle your balls while you're lonely nights on the road and get your balls fondled and get the moisturized out.
00:08:10.000When you say, these Japs are fucking badass, they make some cool shit.
00:08:13.000Or do you say, these Japs, these little tiny cocky yellow motherfuckers coming over here to fuck all the white women and take all the land and you start getting angry?
00:08:56.000Well, even the ones who are, there's a lot of websites out there.
00:08:59.000There's a lot of bloggers, in my opinion, that aren't nearly as good as some of the commentary guys who post on like mixedmartialarts.com.
00:09:06.000There's some fucking intelligent guys that I've been reading their posts for years, and I know that if there's a post about anything serious, well, this guy, if he posts something about it, this is going to be an interesting opinion.
00:09:21.000I think there's more talented people on forums.
00:09:23.000No, the other thing with MMA writers is they are blinded to anything outside of the UFC. And I love the UFC because I'm a fucking huge MMA fan.
00:09:47.000But a lot of them don't even know anything about martial arts, bro.
00:09:49.000You could not sit down and have a conversation about martial arts with them.
00:09:54.000Dana is so competitive that he does have this environment where he feels like they should pay attention to the UFC first, and then if they don't, he's not very happy with that.
00:10:31.000Sometimes he's a little hypercritical.
00:10:32.000Sometimes guys get critical about dudes' abilities and characters, and they try to say something bitchy, because if someone puts in a bad performance, they feel like it's their job to be critical and to be shitty and bitter.
00:10:45.000But it's like you've got nothing better to fucking write about.
00:10:51.000What do you say about a Krokop and a Muir fight?
00:10:54.000When Krokop and Muir fight, man, there's not a lot of positive things to say.
00:10:57.000The positive thing to say is the end of the fight, of course, Frank Muir landed a perfect knee and put Krokop away and then finished him, jumped all over him.
00:11:06.000But for everything up before that, what could a writer say?
00:11:09.000So they just start going off about just the worst...
00:11:13.000Possible shit that they could think of, you know, what's wrong with Frank Mir and how, you know, he's got this attitude and Crow Cop should hang it up and they'll just write the most bitter fucked up shit.
00:11:23.000I think the human drama is far more compelling than the real drama of that fight.
00:11:29.000The thing along with that fight, though, it's like they liked each other or something.
00:11:33.000Mirko came out and he said, even if I lose, I'm not going to get cut from UFC. So when I read that, I'm like, I don't want to fucking see this fight.
00:12:06.000I read some shit that I supposedly said, and I was like, I didn't say it like that.
00:12:09.000You know, you're missing what I'm saying.
00:12:11.000That has been the big difference, bro, between commentating outside of America and then recently coming onto the American scene.
00:12:17.000It's like you get people that sit there and watch the broadcast and analyze every fucking word and pause and breath you take and then dissect it down to the nitty gritty of mine.
00:12:28.000It's bad and it's negative, but I also think it's good.
00:12:47.000And if they do have a point, then you can snatch victory from all their negative bullshit by using whatever they're saying and improving it.
00:12:55.000In a way, if you use it positively, it acts as a watchdog for your own abilities and your own appearances on air.
00:13:00.000I love to do that to total cunts, though.
00:13:02.000I get personal freedom out of reading the shittiest, nastiest things that I know just some desperate, angry fuckhead says.
00:13:09.000And turning it into a positive thing for me.
00:13:11.000Like, I have this little game that I play with.
00:13:50.000There's going to be douchebags no matter what.
00:13:52.000When you have anonymous screen names and people can say anything they want, whenever you have that situation, there's going to be douchebags.
00:13:59.000Sure Dog, which has got some great posts, but also some ludicrally fucking ridiculous bullfuckers on there.
00:14:04.000And so many pro fighters that I know and so many media guys just won't post on sites like that anymore because of the reason that people just attack and attack like fucking...
00:16:03.000And other guarded communities I've seen here in the States, because we don't have guarded communities in Oz, the houses look all the same, though.
00:16:24.000It's like there's a rule, man, in the world, like those Coca-Cola inventors that had to be at least 50 feet apart from each other at all times.
00:16:38.000Like the inventors of Coca-Cola or the inventors of KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, with the secret recipe that they carry around on them all the time must at least be 50 feet apart.
00:16:47.000So if one of them dies, the other one survives.
00:16:48.000So if one of them dies, the other one survives.
00:16:56.000LAUGHTER Nothing will fuck up your KFC appetite like watching one of those PETA videos.
00:17:02.000I love fucking children's urban legends, man.
00:17:05.000That's what I told you about, about being a black belt when the kid said to me in grade five, we're talking about martial arts, and he's like, you can't be any more than a third damn black belt in Australia, or you've got to get out of the country because you're then a lethal weapon and have a license to kill.
00:17:57.000I didn't want to know about this, but I knew about my buddy Steve Graham, who is a friend of mine from back when I was like 15 years old and still good friends.
00:18:05.000He's a doctor, and he did his residency in Miami, and he got to see everything.
00:18:10.000And this dude used to tell me about gunshot wounds, and every day they'd be pulling some new thing out of a dude's ass.
00:20:30.000So he had to get the fucking pliers, the tongs, and go in this girl's fucking cavern, right?
00:20:34.000She got through all the fat in her thighs, and pull out her tampon.
00:20:38.000She came back the next month with the very same problem.
00:20:41.000And she was coming back for four months in a row with the same problem of sticking her tampon too far up her cunt to be able to pull it out.
00:20:48.000So eventually Dr. Nick realised that when he was...
00:20:51.000Because he'd never looked her in the face.
00:20:52.000Because you don't look her in the face when you're pulling shit out of her tampon.
00:22:28.000Bring in the hole in the wall where guys can just go and stick their junk in a fucking glory hole and get tossed off by some chick on the other side of the hole.
00:24:36.000And Gore was actually the guy that won it, but Bush got in.
00:24:39.000And Fox News had something to do with the way that they told voters that Bush had already won, but some votes somewhere hadn't been done or counted.
00:24:45.000I don't fucking know how it works here in America.
00:25:34.000There's a DC madam who was running some chain in Washington, D.C., And she, you know, had all these high powered senators and congressmen, all these people on her On her list of, you know, Johns.
00:26:09.000You're telling me that this woman right now, getting more attention than ever, possibly set to make a million dollars, she's deciding to hang herself.
00:26:41.000I wish I could remember the full details of the story, but that's what the coroner's report was, that he shot himself, which I guess is possible.
00:26:48.000You could shoot yourself in the head and have fucked up, and you're still alive, but you're jacked.
00:29:11.000All the times I've been here to the US, I've never been to New York.
00:29:13.000So tomorrow I go to New York for five nights, man.
00:29:15.000When you drive up the West Side Highway and you just see the enormity of the city as it starts to rise in front of you, play Star Wars music while you're doing it.
00:30:53.000You've got Shibuya Crossing, the busiest crossing in the world, and fucking thousands upon thousands of people, but in Japan, no one jaywalks.
00:31:02.000I've been walking to breakfast at 4 o'clock in the morning when I'm jet-lagged, 4, 4.30 in the morning, there's not a car in sight for fucking miles, and I'll be standing next to a businessman, and he still will not jaywalk.
00:31:15.000Even at 4.30 in the morning, we'll wait for the little man to turn green.
00:32:54.000For those people that are just like, they just want to watch some violence, what the fuck is more violent than K1? And who the fuck is more violent than Alistair Overy, man?
00:35:01.000There's no one even that compares to the level of K1 that he's achieved and the level of MMA. Because we've always had guys who say, oh, he's a really good striker.
00:35:09.000And they are for MMA. But Alistar's a really good striker for K1. Exactly.
00:35:16.000Dude, when he put it to Brett Rogers, I was like...
00:36:47.000The problem is the UFC is such a much bigger name and they're worth so much more money and it would lend respectability to Strikeforce, which would build up the enemy.
00:36:56.000You couldn't really do it, unfortunately, business-wise.
00:37:37.000And Alistair said to me, because I said to him, I go, dude, do you ever feel any remorse for just fucking smashing people's faces and brains with those knees?
00:39:07.000And he was getting bombed on by, other than him, the biggest, strongest fucking guy in the division, who's definitely the best puncher in the division.
00:42:43.000And if you haven't felt that level, if you're not in there all the time training with that, you know, you can get overconfident.
00:42:49.000Like, I bet anybody that Fedor puts in his guard or they get in, you know, when Fedor gets in someone's guard in his camp, I bet he just runs through them.
00:42:56.000I bet he just postures up, breaks through.
00:42:59.000Nobody probably taps him with triangles.
00:43:22.000Fedor, he's a bad motherfucker, but he just made a mistake.
00:43:26.000Everybody needs to work with the best guys.
00:43:29.000It used to be that you could be able to have this little camp, and it was just you and a couple other guys that you train with, but I don't think you can rock it like that anymore.
00:43:37.000I think the level's just gotten too high.
00:43:39.000Everyone's got to train with the best guys.
00:43:41.000Well, this is the reason why Golden Glory in Holland have so much success in K1 and also mixed martial arts because the best guys are there.
00:46:42.000You go to the show there in Amsterdam, at Amsterdam Arena, and midway through when they have intermission, you go outside to the smoke section, and it is just fucking weed central.
00:46:52.000Like, you're moving through the mist of all this marijuana smoke.
00:47:28.000I think fighting's getting in the way of my weed smoking.
00:47:32.000When you see that video that Diaz put on YouTube after I did The Voice vs Mayhem, and he's driving, and he does that video, and he puts the camera down and does this.
00:47:42.000I'm like, how much fucking pot do you actually fucking smoke, man?
00:48:47.000A big chalkboard, like one of those dry erase boards, filled with different strains, and this is how much it is an ounce, as much as an eighth.
00:50:03.000Right, you couldn't see it, it's invisible!
00:50:05.000For people who don't know, what a vaporizer does is it heats the THC to a point where it doesn't burn the plant material, but it burns off the THC and makes a vapor out of it.
00:50:37.000There's something in the burning of the plant, too.
00:50:39.000I wonder if that has a psychoactive effect.
00:50:41.000I wonder if there's a psychoactive effect from the actual burning of the leaves.
00:50:45.000Maybe together, those things, maybe it calms you a bit or something.
00:50:50.000Because there's hundreds of different Do you think there are leaves out there, though, and shit out there that no one has thought to smoke that is yet to be discovered as smokeable?
00:51:00.000Do you think there's mud or dirt out there that someone could maybe roll into a fucking piece of paper and smoke it, and no one's smoked that mud or that fucking seashell or that fucking sea urchin that you can smoke it?
00:51:14.000There's got to be shit out there that no one has discovered you can smoke it.
00:52:00.000All I know is when I did that vaporized bong...
00:52:03.00020 minutes later, I was in a place called Banana Bar and some fucking dirty hooker was shooting these giant dildos out of her pussy and hitting me in the chest.
00:52:11.000And I would keep backing up five paces and she was shooting these giant dildos like thick fucking things out of her pussy and hitting me always smack on the chest.
00:52:29.000So she had a postcard, and she sticks the marker in her pussy, hovers over the postcard, and dude, with perfect penmanship, in perfect fucking cursive writing, right?
00:52:41.000She writes, to Michael, love, banana bar.
00:52:45.000Like, on the fucking postcard from her pussy.
00:54:26.000But I've seen some dirty-ass sex shows in Macau where this one chick had the darts in her pussy, and there were balloons up on the ceiling, and with pinpoint fucking sniper precision, she would lean back, fire a dart, pop the...
00:54:45.000Another chick had razor blades, right, strung together, and she reaches into her vag and pulls out this line of razor blades one after the other.
00:55:08.000Yeah, you know, that's funny that you just brought that up because there was a conversation we had on here last week about the hookers in Vietnam, whether or not they really did put razor blades up their pussy.
00:55:52.000There's some evil shit going on down there.
00:55:54.000Girls say the guy's balls look disgusting and wrinkled and shit, but man, some girls sometimes need to get a mirror and stand over it and look down and see how fucked up their vagus look.
00:56:05.000Because some girls have got some fucked up pussies happening, man.
00:57:46.000Well, there are some girls, though, that start out really pretty, and then some monkey wrench goes along the way, and then the design of the universe decides to take it back when you're not hot anymore.
00:57:57.000Girls were really pretty when they were like 13 or 14, and then you graduate high school, and you run into them when they're like 22, 23, and you're like, what happened?
00:58:05.000I saw the girl that I used to fantasize over in high school, Lisa, right?
00:58:10.000And she was like the girl that everyone wanted to fuck in high school.
01:01:26.000But the girls right now are just like confused.
01:01:29.000They're like, well, he's up there and he's singing and I think I want to fuck them or something.
01:01:33.000And dude, the scary thing is that this scared me.
01:01:36.000The other day, Irene's telling me about her little cousin.
01:01:38.000Her little cousin, she's 12 years old and she's in love with Justin Bieber.
01:01:42.000And so she says to Irene, Justin Bieber is a friend of mine on Facebook.
01:01:47.000And Irene's like, okay, thinking it's a group or whatever that she likes, Justin Bieber.
01:01:51.000She goes, oh yeah, and Justin and I talk every other night and he's a really nice guy.
01:01:56.000And I'm going to go, Irene, do you realize there's some dude posing as Justin Bieber on Facebook who your 12-year-old niece or cousin has accepted as a friend that he's talking to her and buttering up a 12-year-old every night?
01:02:10.000Like fucking stalkers out there, pedophile motherfuckers who are disguising themselves as Justin Bieber talking to 12-year-old Aussie girls on Facebook.
01:04:28.000You grow up, you're born in Melbourne, you grow up in Melbourne, you work in Melbourne, have a family in Melbourne, went to university in Melbourne, you'll die in Melbourne.
01:04:36.000No one ever goes to much of the university's interstate and moves around.
01:04:40.000Everyone is pretty much where they're from, and there's not really that feel of, I've got to go out and conquer the world and become a politician or change the world in any way.
01:04:48.000It's like, oh, fuck it, I finished high school, I'm going to relax and drink.
01:04:51.000Well, it's not even so much go out and conquer the world as don't be a fucking loser.
01:06:11.000Is there an argument for whether idiots are always going to be idiots, losers are always going to be losers?
01:06:14.000Just if you give them a little bit of money, you know, who cares?
01:06:17.000This way at least they have something.
01:06:19.000You hope that they're going to invest it back into the economy, but no, it's usually invested, well, unless you're a drug dealer or purchasing of alcohol.
01:06:41.000The Dole didn't come in until, like, 1975 when there was a Labor government.
01:06:45.000But if you don't have it, then people are forced to catch up, right?
01:06:47.000People are forced to pay their own way and, you know...
01:06:50.000Yeah, and the bad thing is, though, I know a guy who's on the Dole, and...
01:06:54.000He will not get off his ass to get a job.
01:06:56.000He will not even go for job interviews.
01:06:58.000He claims that he's got some disability or whatever, which he hasn't.
01:07:01.000And it's like, dude, my fucking taxes that I work hard for my money and I've got to give money to the government, pay fucking taxes, then go in your pocket to pay you to drink alcohol and sit at home all day.
01:07:13.000But I would rather give my tax money to losers and drunks and idiots and people with no ambition whatsoever than to war.
01:08:15.000Well, that's because there's a lot of insane people.
01:08:16.000You know, one of the reasons why the homeless population rocketed in the 1980s is because Ronald Reagan and his administration, they changed the definition of Of insanity.
01:08:25.000So there's a lot of people that were in fucking asylums, man.
01:08:37.000My only exposure to people being homeless when I was a kid growing up and watching American TV was watching the Brady Bunch and how they used to run away from home when you were a kid.
01:08:46.000I used to think that's how people ended up homeless, by running away from home.
01:09:15.000You want to see the most fucked up site in the world, brother, and this is sad?
01:09:19.000You go to the Vatican, the most opulent place on the planet.
01:09:23.000You have no idea the money that is fucking dripping off every building in the Vatican and the Vatican and the Catholic Church as an institution.
01:09:31.000But immediately before you set foot in the door of the Vatican on the street, there are the most disgusting, disfigured, nailed-up beggars you will ever see.
01:09:41.000Arms missing, fingers curled around, eyes missing and shit.
01:09:46.000On the fucking streets outside the Vatican door, it makes me fucking sick.
01:09:55.000There is some nailed up disfigured gypsy woman who is 80 years old and has to sleep on a sturdy cobblestone Roman street every night while the church is right fucking there.
01:10:57.000The thing is that apparently someone told me that since I've been there, Berlusconi has cleaned up all the beggars and the gypsies and moved them.
01:11:52.000After going to the Olympic Games and spending three weeks in Beijing, I came back and I told everyone, if the fucking Chinese ever want to take over the world, they will do it in the space of a fucking month.
01:12:04.000The amount of people they have, and the organization they have, and the manpower, and the ability, and the technology, and...
01:12:13.000Having seen that in Japan as well, that whole region, Korea, Japan, China, they will fucking take over the world easily in a month and we may as well just bend over, take the fucking rice up the ass and go, okay, we are your slaves.
01:12:27.000Because seriously, the Olympic Games was phenomenal.
01:12:56.000Just on our level that we can relate to, you go to one of those K1 shows in Japan, and the amount of people they employ to set up the arena and set up the ring and the cameras, it is insane.
01:13:06.000People that I see set up jobs for Fox Sports back home that'll take two guys to set up a particular camera, they'll use ten guys to set up a camera.
01:13:14.000And they'll get it done in like a quarter of the time.
01:13:18.000And the ring is taken apart, not by, let's say, a group of 15 people like a show in Australia, but you'll get 300 guys.
01:13:24.000And as soon as the show ends, they're coming in helmets and little cars, and that ring is taken down in 10 minutes.
01:13:30.000It's like vultures going in and stripping the flesh off a dead animal.
01:13:36.000So do you think that it's because they have so many people there that they work harder?
01:14:51.000Yeah, I've seen some of the guys' apartments when they show those clips for K1 and for Dream and they used to do for Pride where they show the guys' apartment and show where they're training.
01:15:48.000You can go and rent a cat or a dog for an hour.
01:15:51.000She can take it to the park, throw a little fucking park, throw a little frisbee, feed it, take it for a walk, and then you return it to the shop.
01:17:22.000Yeah, that would take a long-ass time.
01:17:23.000You'd have to get it to the tribes and the African forests.
01:17:26.000It would take generations because you'd have to school generations, three or four generations to get it down pat and inculcated among the masses.
01:17:32.000Yeah, most countries in the world, you know, a good percentage of the people are bilingual.
01:17:37.000In America, people are, you know, just English or Spanish.
01:17:43.000I mean, of course, there's immigrants in here that speak all kinds of languages, but as far as, like, people learning things, very Dude, I didn't know how bad the immigration problem here was until I was driving to do a King of the Cage show in New Mexico and the driver was telling me about it because we were driving along the border there from El Paso to Mescalero and he's pointing it out and Mayhem was in the van with me and the guy's like, this is where the Mexicans run the border.
01:18:26.000I think it's kind of fucked up that there's spots in the world that suck and you can't leave them.
01:18:30.000I think it's kind of fucked up that you can't just travel from one place to another and just go wherever the fuck you want and live where you want.
01:20:06.000I feel like if you have the means and the willpower to get somewhere that's better than where you're at, we should all allow that, you know?
01:20:13.000What kind of fucking hippie, commie, socialist, and talk nonsense is this, boy?