Joe Rogan Experience - Fight Companion - December 3, 2016
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On this week's episode, the boys discuss the recent Supreme Court confirmation of Jeff Sessions, the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, Pizzagate, and much, much more. Also, the guys talk about marijuana and the future of the economy, and why they think it's a good idea to be a billionaire and still want to fix the economy. Don't miss it! Episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date on all things politics, pop culture, and everything else going on in and around the world of New York City. Enjoy & spread the word to your friends about this podcast! Cheers, EJ, Brian, Eddie, and Brendan. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art: Mackenzie Moore. Music: Hayden Coplen. Editor: Patrick Muldowney. Cover art by Ian Dorsch. We are working on transcribing this episode of the podcast and putting it on SoundCloud. Please do not edit it on your own servers. Thank you so much for any amount you can manage, review, and send us your thoughts/suggestions. If you have a question or suggestion for the next episode, we'll be listening to it on Anchor.fm/Pizzagate. or any other podcast you want us to feature it on a future episode of this podcast. Thank you! -- Thank you for your support us on the podcast. -- we'll get a shoutout on the next one! Thanks again! Brian and Brendan, Eddie Bravo. Eddie Bravo, Brian Callen, Brendan Schaub, and the rest of the boys at . Eddie, Eddie and the guys at Thanks, Brian and the crew at , Eddie Bravo Brian, and the gang at ! @ & the boys @ , , and Eddie Bravo @ . Thank you all the guys who helped make it happen. Thanks so much, Brian & Eddie Bravo and the boys who helped us make it all happen. Thanks for all the love you guys love it so much love you all so much thanks so much all the support we got it out there. and thanks for the support and support you guys so much.
Transcript
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Eddie Bravo, Brian Callen, Brendan Schaub, Eddie Bravo, the man who introduced me to marijuana.
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You have to be 18 or 21. I think you have to be 21. But now with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, if he gets confirmed, can he override the federal power?
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I do not think that he would go against the will of Trump.
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And I think that Trump, for all of his faults that you might find in him, he's a populist.
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And I think the best argument is that a guy like him...
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You can sort of influence him with the opinion of the country, you know?
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And so it's kind of an interesting thing because it might be one of the first times ever, like, the opinion of the country might significantly influence some guy who's just completely foreign to the idea of politics.
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But it might ultimately be a good thing to completely shake up the system.
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The thing that troubles people that oppose that idea is all the Wall Street guys he's bringing in.
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He's bringing in all these billionaires and Goldman Sachs.
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He's bringing in a lot of business people, too, who are practical as well, who understand the economy.
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That might be what they need to honestly figure out the economy.
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But isn't it possible that you could be a billionaire and still want to fix the fucked up economy?
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Especially if you have everything you've ever wanted.
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A lot of these guys, they do operate on that infinite growth idea.
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They constantly want to get bigger yachts, bigger mansions, bigger houses.
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But it's also possible that a guy could be just an intelligent guy that did really well in business.
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He said, yeah, I took advantage of these loopholes.
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Think about what he did for a long time, which was he owned hotels, buildings, and wanted to give you the best experience possible.
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A guy like that, who has a massive ego, of course, he wants a legacy he can point to.
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My worry is that a guy like that is used to getting his way all the time.
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The nature of the presidency is one in which you don't get your way, where you have to compromise.
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A lot of times you get very frustrated with the power you don't have.
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Like, he's filed for Chapter 11 multiple times.
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I'm just saying, I wonder what's going to happen when he can't convince companies to do his bidding, when a lot of his policies maybe don't give his voter base the jobs they wanted.
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Because he can't implement the policies he wants, that's when it's going to be interesting.
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Do you think we'll see an assassination attempt?
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People have tried to kill the president many times.
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Most of America because Hillary won the popular vote.
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Actually, she only won it by, what, 50, 500,000?
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The debate between Hillary and Trump, yeah, Trump's done some D-bag things or whatever, but when...
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I'm not even going to get to it, but all I'm going to say...
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Eddie, before you go into it, it's been debunked.
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So the power structure in the Democratic Party are pedophiles, and they all communicate with each other with those secret paddles?
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Are we going to kick the community off like this?
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Are you saying that the power structure are pedophiles?
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He's been saying all that Pizzagate shit for 20 years.
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You couldn't believe anything he said because of the things he's saying.
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Now, when you look at Pizzagate, all that shit he was saying that everyone thought he was crazy for, that shit's real now.
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Every credible news organization's editorial board, it's all bullshit.
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So Eddie, the power structure are all pedophiles?
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Have you seen the documentary Conspiracy of Silence?
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Incredible news organization from independent lines of inquiry.
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There's a guy who worked for Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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And apparently they have art that's like this kind of famous pedophile-like bizarre art.
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Well, it's two ping pong paddles, which is close to the Man Love organizations.
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He's just saying it's just also happened to be two ping pong paddles.
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But Brian, what are the paintings that they're being accused of having?
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There's some paintings that we're connected to.
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It disturbed the shit out of me so much, I said, I don't want to spend any time looking at this.
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That Speaker of the House guy, Dennis Hassert, that got put away for like 15 months for being an admitted child molester.
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The idea that this guy was the Speaker of the House.
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He was the Speaker of the House, and he was fucking kids when he was a wrestling coach.
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I don't know if it was because he's old and he's very sick and ill, but it means nothing to me.
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The idea that you could get an admitted kid fucker and you only give him 15 months.
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I'm sure there is more to the story, but the facts remain that that guy got a very short sentence and was the Speaker of the House and was a child molester.
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There are always going to be pedophiles in that group.
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Right, but instead of having this gigantic blanket attitude that what he's saying is ridiculous and then getting super emotional about it, let's just look at the actual fact that a guy who was a pedophile was the Speaker of the House.
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But to mock the idea that people who are pedophiles can't get to high positions of power was exactly what you were doing.
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I was getting emotional because this story was proven through many independent lines of inquiry to be literally a hoax.
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And when you give it a voice, when it's a hoax, and these people look at it way closer than anybody at this table.
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What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to say, guys, guys, hold on.
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This was kind of a big hoax, and so many different people who looked at it, they don't have an agenda.
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They looked into it, and they went, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
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So it's a fake story by one of those fake news sites.
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Do we really want to spend time on fake stories?
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I know the very brief outline of what it's all about.
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I know that a lot of people think they're pedophiles and crazy and Satan worshippers, and there was that some spirit cooking thing, some bizarre thing that was released in an email about something that Podesta was going to get into.
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Yeah, apparently that's true, but it's like some bizarre...
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The guy who knows all of it won't speak up over here.
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You know what, I've looked into it deeply, and all conspiracy theories make sense to me now.
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Can a guy speak in general terms without being checked every goddamn time?
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When a guy says, oh, he beat him every goddamn time.
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Eddie, would you admit- In speaking in general terms, do I have to give you actual numbers?
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Hey, would you admit that human beings, you and me, all of us, tend to get a feeling, and then we have what's called confirmation bias, which is we'll find, we'll find, we all do it.
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Listen, all you have to do is hear an argument between me and my wife, and I'll fucking justify it any way I can, because I find facts to get to pile on my side.
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So let's all be careful about confirmation bias.
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All I'm saying is to get super emotional and say it's impossible.
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Like, I don't necessarily think it is impossible if that Speaker of the House guy was in place.
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But let me, from where I am, I looked into it very little.
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I'm like, I'm gonna just let this scuffle go on and then look into it when the dust settles in a couple weeks.
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Figure out exactly what it is, whether it's bullshit or real.
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It made me, me looking into it, made me want to shut the fuck up about conspiracy theories.
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When you actually look into it, and I'm like Brian Cowan, when you actually look into it, with an open fucking mind, you should trust the government on everything.
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You know, I think everybody picks a position, and I bet it's probably not nearly as fucked up as everybody's making it out to be.
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First of all, that Podesta guy's, like, really into UFOs, too.
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You might be into UFOs and you just stormtrooped over that.
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You're telling me the truth to something in the middle.
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What I'm saying is I'm reacting to what I had read from credible sources as being a fake.
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I wish you could cite what it said and what the issue was.
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Yeah, all I gotta say is, I don't even want to get into it, but all you need to do is go to YouTube and watch the Conspiracy of Silence.
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It was supposed to be on the BBC, but they never aired it.
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Just tell him what it is and he'll get it online.
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It's interesting because the two of you guys are so on the opposite end of the whole conspiracy thing.
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You tend to immediately go towards conspiracies.
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He tends to immediately go towards the mainstream.
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What it is is I tend to not trust shit they say.
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Dude, you're always on the official story side, dude.
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No, I read The Economist, which is the second oldest magazine in the world.
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Eddie, do you know how those editorial boards work?
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Do you really think that the entire editorial board of the New York Times or the Economist or the Wall Street Journal, where people who run the country and the world get their information, do you think all those people are lying, getting together, and being conspiratorial to give us fake news?
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So everything that the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist reports, is a lie?
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Because you think a small group of people are controlling everything?
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So it really depends on how much is available in that given day.
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So for an example, you may have an oil tanker that's on its way to a country, and then somebody in the marketplace bids on that oil and wants that oil.
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And that ship will turn back around and go to that market.
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It all depends on what the marketplace and what all the different players who need oil and the amount of oil that's available, whether it's crude or raw, whatever it might be.
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There's so many different factors that go into pricing oil.
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Look at what happened when we came up with ways to get the oil out of the shale sands, right?
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The price of oil went down because the United States became an exporter of oil.
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And that's why Russia is having a major problem because their oil used to be $100 a barrel.
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So what I'm saying is that that's how oil is priced.
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So to say that one group of seven men, or whoever they might be, or 21 men, controls things, is holding the strings, is Hollywood movie stuff.
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Isn't it possible that the truth's in the middle there somewhere?
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No, but I mean, people of influence, people like the people that run the World Bank, people that have massive influence over just enormous sums of money.
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Don't you think it's possible they can have some influence due to the relationships that they have with people?
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I think there has to be some sort of control and manipulation involved.
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So let's take the division, let's take the Latin American Bank, which is, I think it's a subsidiary of the World Bank, I believe.
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And I sat next to this guy on the plane and talked to him.
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And he said that so much of the sort of projects and the money, what they were there for was to essentially give money to investments in the Latin American economy, to build up the Latin American economy in one way or another.
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What happens sometimes is that that bank no longer becomes necessary because the economy of Latin America, whatever that country is, is running on its own.
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So now, here's a conspiracy for you, which makes sense.
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But now they go, well, we've got 3,500 people who are working at the Latin American bank.
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If there's nothing left for them to do, we've got to come up with something for them to do.
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And now they have a vested interest in staying in business because you've got 3,500 people whose jobs are at stake.
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Now you can come up with projects that are fake or you'll be like, you guys still need us, you know, because we should do this and that.
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That would be, if you want to call that conspiracy theory, I would call that people who just want to hold onto their jobs and come up with reasons to exist.
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Because if you did, you wouldn't be saying all that shit.
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Why do you believe in all these conspiracy theories that got...
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Operation Mockingbird is not a conspiracy theory?
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But why do you believe a documentary on YouTube over...
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Why would you believe, and you don't even know who made it, but you believe in a documentary versus...
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You're talking about some shit you've never seen.
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Just because it's on YouTube, it's like, it's not real, it's on YouTube.
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You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about.
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We've gotten so crazy here that you guys are arguing and we didn't even discuss what this movie's about.
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Like, it hasn't even been whether or not it is a Operation Mockingbird, whether it was a conspiracy theory or whether it was a real event.
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We didn't even discuss what it is and you guys are at each other's throats.
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I mean, we literally didn't even bring up what the subject is and Brian, you jumped on him.
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You did, because this seems to be a real thing.
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Excuse me, you started talking about Pizzagate.
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You can't say it's a real thing because of Wikipedia.
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I'm pointing my finger at you, motherfucker.
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Why did I think Eddie brought it up the whole time?
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I'm like, I can't believe they're fighting over something called Pizzagate.
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He said Pizzagate, and I was like, holy shit, that sounds interesting.
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But I just wanted to say, because a lot of people on the internet want me to bring that shit up, and I'm like, I really don't want to bring it up.
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When you really look into it, shit that you've never done, when you actually look into it, when you look into it, doesn't even know...
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Operation Mockingbird is a CIA operation where they were to prevent and control communism, infiltration.
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They thought it would be best to buy up as many different broadcasting companies.
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He actually worked for them when he was in college.
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You don't have to go to the CIA college to be a CIA agent.
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He worked for the CIA. Look, CIA had Operation Mockingbird.
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That's why you don't know about Operation Mockingbird.
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Not for smallpox, diphtheria, measles, and all the things, and mumps, and all the things.
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That's all fake shit, B. All vaccines aren't the same.
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So when you talk about vaccines, they're not all the same.
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Ronald Reagan signed a bill that made Big Pharma immune to lawsuits.
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Because Big Pharma was about to say, fuck making vaccines.
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So Ronald Reagan had to come in and say, keep making them.
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If you want to sue anybody for vaccines, your kid gets fucked up from vaccines, you go to the vaccine court.
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It's a federal agency where they give out I don't know how many fucking billions of goddamn dollars.
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But since 1986, what happened is since 1986, since Big Pharma said, shit, we can't get sued, that's when if you actually look at vaccines and not just go, polio, what about polio?
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When you look at what happened, they fucking greenlit.
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They're like, each vaccine's worth like a trillion dollars.
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So if you said to me, hey, Bri, once the pharmaceutical companies saw that there was a lot of money in giving preventative vaccines, and it goes up to 64 when it used to be 6 or 10 or whatever when I was a kid, now...
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Now you go, oh, well that makes sense, because what does Big Pharma do?
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They manipulate the FDA, they manipulate government.
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They own the CDC. Right, so that they can then make money.
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Brian, what you're saying sounds very much like a conspiracy.
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You don't even know what Operation Mockingbird is.
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You don't know that you're caught in a CIA operation.
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That makes sense from a business point of view, which I can understand is insidious when you have huge corporations in cahoots with government.
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Major points for using in cahoots in a sentence correctly.
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You don't think the fucking people that run shit own the media?
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The people that run shit own the media, own entertainment, own everything!
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People that run this shit don't own the fucking media!
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It doesn't mean that you can't get credible information On a lot of topics, like the economy, like the war, whatever it is, if you know where to look, it doesn't mean you can't get credible information on the truth of what's going on.
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But to Eddie's point, that shit Washington Post is all...
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It's all slowly, inch by inch, take away the guns, and let's fucking, let's control everybody and implode economies, fucking start civil wars.
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If you said to me that the mainstream media And whether it's on the right or the left, has agendas and has been corrupted and has allowed their own personal points of view to infiltrate the news and so report unfairly and so report in a biased fashion and the news is no longer as objective as it was or should be.
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If you say, for example, that GTE or GE owns certain news organizations, then that's a conflict or could be a conflict of interest.
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And we have to be very careful because they may not report on GE's practices if they're irresponsible.
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Now I can have a conversation because that would make sense to me.
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That would make sense because – but when you say that everybody in the New York Times, the Washington Post is a CIA pawn.
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There's an operation that the CIA – this is not a conspiracy theory.
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There's Operation Paperclip taking all the Nazis after World War II, Operation Paperclip taking thousands of Nazi scientists into the government and creating NASA, NASA Nazi scientists, and you believe...
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They put out films just to get people, just to get people, the people to get used to killing people like if they were a certain condition.
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They put out propaganda films, and you can watch this shit, Deranged people on the street killing people.
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People thought they would watch these newsreels, and they thought there was demented people on the streets killing people, and that was never happening.
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They just wanted the people to agree that we can kill those people, right?
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No one's killing anybody, but it was all part of a propaganda agenda.
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So Einstein came from Germany, and a lot of the Jewish scientists in the 30s, when there was this rise of anti-Semitism, migrated, immigrated, To the United States.
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What about the Nazis forming NASA? NASA. What about that?
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When we realized that the Nazis were very close to creating a nuclear bomb, that they had some really amazing scientists.
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In fact, the anti-Semitism that rose up in the 30s is why a lot of historians have credited the United States' ability to create a nuclear bomb before the Nazis because of that immigration.
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So anti-Semitism in Germany actually pushed a lot of these brilliant scientists toward the U.K., toward the United States.
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Didn't a bunch of the Nazi guys go to Russia as well?
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Half of them went to Russia, half of them went to the States.
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Probably when Russia took half of Germany, remember?
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So when they took East Germany, nobody was getting out of East Germany.
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Look, if you're going to be intelligent and pragmatic and the war is essentially over, right?
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It's understandable to want to get their brightest minds and bring them over.
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This is post-World War II. To let them linger and become used by the establishment that you just defeated, that's crazy.
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Dude, these guys are fucking torturing people and experimenting on people.
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But I do know that the Simon Wiesenthal Center said that if Wernher von Braun, who was the head of NASA, if Wernher von Braun was alive today, they would prosecute him for crimes against humanity.
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Because he was instrumental in coming up with weaponry that killed a lot of, you know, the Allies.
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It was also that they hung the five slowest Jews every day in front of his rocket factory in Berlin.
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The guys who lived in Miami that were in the concentration camps, they interviewed them for this documentary on the moon landings and NASA and all the scientists behind it, and they were saying that they would see those guys come in, they would see those scientists come in, and they would hang the five slowest Jews in front of the building.
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Those are the guys that were running NASA. That's the least of what went on in Nazi Germany.
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Maybe you're right about the Nazis and I'm wrong, but they seemed like they were fucking sick, twisted motherfuckers.
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Eddie, Eddie, the scientists involved in the nuclear program.
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There's different scientists that are the medical scientists versus different scientists that are engineers versus different scientists that are working towards nuclear weapons.
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No, Eddie, many of the scientists were Jews.
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And they weren't killed because they were instrumental.
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Well, a lot of the inventions that were made by the Haber method, That was made by a guy who was a Jewish guy, which is a crazy story.
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He also created something called Zyklon A, which was a gas that had a smell added to it so it would warn you that the gas was present.
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And the Nazis took it and they switched it to Zyklon B. They took the smell out of it so that you wouldn't smell it, and then they used it in the gas chamber.
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So this guy who invented the Haber Method, where 50% of the nitrogen that's in most of the human beings on the planet Earth comes from.
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And this guy figured out how to draw nitrogen out from the atmosphere.
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And while he was winning the Nobel Prize for the Haber Method, he was also being wanted for crimes against humanity because he figured out how to gas people, too.
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They were using gas warfare for the first time on the Allies.
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So at the same time that he created this method that's going to double the population of the world like that.
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It saved a lot of people from starvation during the winter.
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There's so much more food available now because most people don't know.
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You've got to throw something into the ground in order for the soil to...
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Those things get absorbed into the cycle of the soil.
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The soil is nutrient-rich, powerful, healthy plants grow from it.
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But when you just keep putting corn in the same spot over and over and over again, you've got to throw some shit into the soil.
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And Fritz Haber figured out how to get it out of the air itself, because the air is like 80% nitrogen.
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Did you read that on the library or the internet?
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I heard it on the radio lab, but then I read it all over the place.
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Forget about politics and nonsense for a second.
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Just think about what a genius you have to be to figure out how to pull nitrogen out of the air and put it in the soil, and all of a sudden everything grows better.
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But what's also amazing is how complicated human beings are because it raises some really interesting questions.
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The guy invents the gas that was used on the Jews, his own people.
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However, he invented chemical weaponry because he was a German patriot and wanted Germany to win World War I and said, I have a better way to do this.
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And like many geniuses, many like really fucking smart people like that are fucking very complicated.
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Why would they buy the gas and then they gotta drag them out?
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Put them in a room, they gas them, and then they all die.
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Oh wait, you're saying that- No, I'm just saying, why not just shoot them?
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A lot of times when they gas them, they didn't know they were getting gassed, too, right?
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They dig a big-ass fucking hole with a big-ass...
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They dug massive graves and they'd make them dig their own graves.
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You've got to drag them out of the shower and they've got chemicals all over them.
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But listen, what they would do is when they would bring them on the trains to Auschwitz, Tripolinka, and Dachau and all the different death camps, they couldn't...
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If they started lining people up, what would happen?
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So what they said is they'd get off the train after this horrible train ride and they'd say, here's a bar of soap.
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They'd be in these showers, quote-unquote showers.
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Some actually would take showers, and some would be killed.
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The ones that looked strong, they could use for work, they would work...
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And the ones who were children went right away.
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That's NASA! You guys are saying they're all anti-Nazi.
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There's always going to be a difference between concentration camp guards and scientists.
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It's like saying that you, as a martial artist, you train people at a fight, you probably have some connection with someone who's a corrections officer.
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You know, but how much do you have an effect over what they do with their life?
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The people who are working as corrections officers are probably, or the guards, rather, at Auschwitz, are probably so far removed from the fucking scientists.
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It's not like they all get together and go, we're all evil, right?
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I'm going to go with the Nazis are evil, all of them.
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100% anybody who's subscribed to that ideology is evil.
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You couldn't say to the Hitler, the Nazi regime, hey, guys, I'm not going to work on your super bomb.
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You don't think of a scientist with a white fucking coat on just in front of a beaker like all day.
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Those dudes went into twisted, occultist shit.
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It wasn't just like, oh, I got a white coat and I got a beaker all day.
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There was a lot of people that were trying to get rid of Hitler.
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There were regular dudes who wanted to fuck.
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But there was people that were trying to get rid of Hitler that thought he was crazy.
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There was failed assassination attempts, failed coup attempts.
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It's just he had massive amounts of power, and he was a fucking terrifying individual.
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But when you listen to that guy talk, he's got it.
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But guys, if you see my stand up, my stand up is pretty amazing.
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He just did a thing for CISO. He just did this stand-up comedy special.
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Where were we at, B? Hey, my special's available on Monday.
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And I'll tell you what's really good news- That post you made today- I want to punch you in the face.
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No, it'll be on iTunes and it'll be on Google Play.
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I don't think we've made one comment about the fight.
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But the rugged handsomeness of Brett Favre just distracted me for a brief moment.
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But it could have been photoshopped and I'm always willing to hold out hope.
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If that came out before the Hall of Fame, you ain't in.
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It might be an inside joke that just no one's telling you about.
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Uh, Brett Vaughn, he didn't even comment on it.
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Anthony Wiener, go ahead and address that shit.
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Holloway, nine in a row, fucking Connor had to be like, all right, I'm not going.
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They had to strip him off a belt, and then finally he gets a title shot.
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If that gets Max or Anthony Pettis a belt, let's fucking ride.
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The only thing I wonder about that fight is I wonder how well Pettis' body adapted to 145. Here's the real question, Joe.
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Now, we've seen them adapt all right with two to three rounds at 45. Imagine round four and five, the championship rounds.
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But do you feel that those, like, when you get in shape to go a hard three, how much of a difference is there between the hard three and the hard five?
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At a certain point in time, how much more training, how much in better shape could you really get?
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And is it one of those things where it's just harder?
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Or does it require more time to prepare for five rounds?
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And the difference is between you just having to fight 15 minutes and the potential of 25. Correct.
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But to your point, I think it's the pacing in the early rounds.
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When he came out, I went, oh, he's not fighting to go 5 rounds.
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Because everyone in the world knows at that level, you can't go for a five-round fight.
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By the way, let me just say, Sarah McMahon's about to fight.
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And is there any woman that you've ever rolled with that gave you any kind of fits or any problem?
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I'm sure if I rolled with Gabby Garcia, she'd fuck me up.
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Let me queue up the time here so we'll actually try to watch this.
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Do you think that that stoppage when she fought Ronda and got kneed?
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Ronda cracked her with the right hand, then cracked her with the knee, and then put the mitts to her.
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What if McMahon developed some serious stand-up?
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She just ran into the freight train that is Ronda Rousey.
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Dude, how much of a bummer is that DC's out against Rumble?
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Oh, that's a good move with that elbow right there.
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There's some serious shit going on right there.
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And you gotta react to it, too, when they throw elbows like that.
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Anytime Pele Landy back in the day in the late Landys in Brazil.
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Instead of her being in a good position, she's trapped getting elbowed.
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He was like one of the first guys to figure out how to do that from the rubber guard.
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Start throwing elbows right now with the left elbow.
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Because if Alexis Davis really knew how to play some high-level rubber guard, She would have never let Sarah McMahon have her hand on the mat and then have the hand on the chest, have the hand on the mat.
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Once the hand's on the mat, boom, it stays there.
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See, on this side, on her right side, see where Sarah McMahon's right arm is?
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When your right arm is pinned to the ground like that, and you have someone with a strong rubber guard, especially someone who's already taken mission control with that left leg up, the first thing to do is to trap that arm.
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So once that arm is down on the ground like that, you never want to give it back.
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And she keeps giving it back over and over and over again.
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But what I'm saying is there's a lot of opportunities for Alexis Davis off her back.
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Every time Sarah McMahon puts her hand onto the ground like that, she's extremely vulnerable.
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A person with a very good rubber guard, as soon as you put your arm down on the mat, they're going to immediately overhook that arm, try to trap it in place, and then try to go to mission control.
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She just didn't exactly know what to do once she got there.
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But first of all, if you just want to elbow someone, if you watch the Alan Belcher-Jason Day fight, Jason Day was, you know, he beat Alan Belcher...
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Really, early on, when Belcher's a fantastic fighter, and since then...
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Went leg-locked with him and dominated the position and beat the shit out of him.
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But Jason Day showed how effective that position could be in holding that spot and blasting elbows in place.
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So there's a lot of people that use the first couple of steps of the position, but they don't know high-level shit from then out.
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It's like trying to shoot doubles, but you don't really practice wrestling.
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It's like, okay, I see you're trying to shoot a double.
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Man, she's so close to finishing this fight.
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She should cinch it up because hitting her is going to bash her out.
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Alexis Davis got A lot of potential off her back.
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My high level rubber guard players, they wouldn't last like 30 seconds there.
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That would have all just been a wrap around it.
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When punches come into play, obviously there's a big difference.
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Unless Crow Cop elbows you in the fucking mug.
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You can't get elbowed in rubber guard, so if you get elbowed, you're not in rubber guard.
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It's really tough to get a guy in rubber guard if he's aware of rubber guard, yes?
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I mean, there's counters, but then you just keep playing the game.
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It's like saying, if you try to throw that head kick, dudes will get out of the way, right?
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Yeah, they'll get out of the way, but you still fucking throw it.
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High-level guys come through all the time, and I see it.
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No, you go down that rabbit hole, you're in trouble.
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Imagine how crazy I would be pushing some shit that I don't even play.
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There were some guys that had did some interesting guards in the past, and Nino Shambri had a lot of really cool stuff, but what Eddie did was he put together a system, especially a system that's really effective no-gi.
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And then he came up with the Eddie Bravo Invitational, which I've heard you guys say is way more exciting to watch.
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Aren't we doing one Saturday, Eddie, in Austin?
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She was in a position where she could have totally done it.
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Being an Olympic-level wrestler, she'd be tough to deal with.
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What Sarah McMahon needs to do is free her right knee and then go to three-quarter mount.
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Yeah, it doesn't look like he's doing much, but he's on top of you.
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It's no jibber-chabber, it's just cutting through the bullshit.
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He's just cutting right through all your bullshit and putting the smoosh down on you.
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When you watch really high-level wrestlers, it's the same thing.
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They're doing arm drags, single legs, but they're so flawless with it.
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Well, you know, when he did it to Carlos Condit, I was shaking my head like, God damn.
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You don't really need she could take her time out here She could just wear her out right here and eventually pull that right knee out.
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Yeah, just go to three-quarters You don't really even need a mount.
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She needs to use her left foot to free that leg.
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If she would have just held on to that leg, it's over now.
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It was the 17 steps before that, how she set it all up.
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Because Shane Carwin, he barely knew jiu-jitsu.
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If he got that on you and he was a fucking Cridesdale, he'd crush your fucking neck.
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If you guys want to see grappling and what it looks like, literally it's fine.
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Kale Sanderson's gold medal match I think against this Korean guy watch what he looks like he's like going for a walk in the park like he's doing ankle pics and weird shit where it looks like he's literally kind of like you know kind of moving at half speed.
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All she had to do was hold onto the leg and it was done.
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Hold on the leg and turn away from the choking pressure.
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At that point, you're just like that until they let go of the grip.
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As soon as they let go of the grip, you're gone.
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Because the arm that's in the choke, you don't want it like this.
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If it's like this from the elbow here, you're good.
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If someone does that, do you go to the impaler if they try that defense?
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I never let them have the opportunity to grab their leg.
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Because if I leave them out, they're going to do that.
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If you know that defense, it stops all arm triangles.
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Yeah, but from that impaler, I remember trying that defense on you.
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That knee is going to be in the way of this, right?
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So really, the best thing to do is just do a mount where it's kind of like knee on the belly, but your knee is on the ground, so it's like a deep knee on the belly.
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But instead of having the knee actually on the belly, it's actually all the way through.
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Because if you had your knee on your belly and they knew the defense, they would fucking pop that motherfucker up and grab their leg.
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So you have the left knee on the right side of their body and the shin across the top.
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You might as well mount, but that is actually better than a mount.
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Well, I know when you would do it, a lot of times you would do it, we would call it the impaler.
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So you put the side choke in, and then the knee is on the sternum.
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I mean, it doesn't work on everybody, but that's the best way to stop that defense where you're grabbing the leg.
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The impaler always stopped that because you wanted so bad to get that knee off your chest.
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You were willing to let your legs go, just try to push that knee aside, and then you just fall right into the chest.
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The regular shit ain't working and he's got like a little angle.
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Let's just hold this and drive a knee right in his neck.
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Dude, you did the impaler on me one time and I really thought my chest was going to crack.
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It's a terrible feeling because like someone's cranking down on your neck.
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And then they got their knee on your chest.
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When did you realize, when you started rolling in jiu-jitsu, when did you, one, realize this was it?
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But I did learn the twister there, which is actually the wrestler's guillotine.
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Oh, you weren't laughing about my shitty wrestling?
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One takedown in two years is what I was laughing at.
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But I didn't get shit out of takedowns or anything.
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I was actually pretty good at arm drags, but you know how they say it's like a bike?
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I think after like 30 years, it's not like a bike no more.
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Your body completely forgot it, and you are a fucking white belt, because I suck at arm drags.
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But what was also my shit was, I was a leg rider, because I was weak.
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While everybody was supposed to be lifting weights, I was on the side of the fucking building, just like...
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In all my wrestling, my whole life, I never once threw legs in.
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Nicko Chia was the guy who showed me the Twister.
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What do you think's next for your boy, Tony Ferguson?
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Dude, I'm not, I'm 46. I'm not 80. I'm just saying!
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And then when I went to jiu-jitsu, I was like, shit, I already got one move.
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I couldn't fucking do it on jiu-jitsu players because in wrestling, you could do it because you give up backs.
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You know, when you give up a back, you stick a leg hook in, it's really easy, but in jiu-jitsu, giving the back is the ultimate sin.
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So I was like, damn it, no one's even giving me their fucking back.
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And then so slowly, I had to figure out how to get to the wrestler's guillotine, which later became the twister because Higgin and John Jacques named it that shit.
00:59:37.000
It seems like it's Aldo gets the title now because he won the interim title with Frankie and now they're showing Pettis highlights the Showtime kick.
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It's a little weird he's fighting for a title, yeah?
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Look, he's still Anthony motherfucking Pettis, dude.
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You're going to lose some, you're going to win some.
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I'm saying it's a little strange that he's getting a title shot.
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Yeah, so 45 is like, yeah, he's going to be right there in the mix.
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Okay, well, Max Holloway won nine in a row, and he's just getting a title shot.
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He's one of my favorite people in the UFC. I'm scared of what's going on.
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I'm scared of the direction the UFC's going for some reason.
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It used to be that it was Dana and Lorenzo and Frank was right there.
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You could actually get to them and make a change.
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It was like doing the right thing for the sport.
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Dude, those guys don't even fucking own the UFC no more.
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There's Ari Emanuel, Dana White, Conan O'Brien.
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He really wants to do the best thing they can for the sport.
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Who knows what kind of changes they'll make once they settle in.
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But these guys are masters of entertainment business.
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But also, on the fighter side, that Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association is the first time where it's a serious issue for them to address.
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Tim Kennedy, so there's four board members, right, and they just announced it.
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They have over 200 fighters right now on board with it.
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Now, what does that entail, like, when you're on board?
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So that means, like, if you go to fight for, you know, you have a UFC fight coming up.
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Correct, but it's mainly made up, especially right now, of major UFC players.
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Does that hold true for Ryzen and stuff like that?
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I know their focus is UFC because it's the top dog.
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So if you start at the top, it's going to trickle down.
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So the idea is that they're going to have a set...
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A set amount of money we're going to make per fight.
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And they're modeling after the baseball union, which is like the best in the world as far as compensation and equal rights.
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Yeah, well, a bunch of UFC fighters, which is interesting.
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Tim Kennedy, Donald Cerrone, which is a big one, GSP, TJ Dillashaw.
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What's really weird is what Tim Kennedy said about Bjorn.
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He's basically like, who's your boy from Balco?
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So you know how Victor Conte was on the dark side?
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And then he came out and was like, I know how this shit works.
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I'm going to tell you what they're trying to do.
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He's like, when they say this, this is what he means by this.
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I was like, I can't be, you know, I've heard stories about him, so I'm like, I don't want to be part eight.
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And then when I talked to Tim Kennedy, that motherfucker talked me into running through a wall.
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Mike Goldberg's not part of the MMA Association.
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That's the one where you're like a high school...
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I'm not only am I the coach, but they're doing a spin-off on ABC of the characters.
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You may be lost in politics and shit, but dude, I'll never forget that New Year's fucking Eve, dude.
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Dude, you crushed my soul when you were doing that.
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By the way, if you like laughing, this weekend, Fort Lauderdale Improv.
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We're going to bring the fighter and kid there.
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My greatest shows are at the Fort Lauderdale Improv.
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And I'm listening to Eddie cackle in the wings.
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Are you guys doing some kind of New Year's show at the Orpheum?
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I was his first guest yesterday at the comic store.
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And I was just looking for a place to do New Year's, and when the agents look for theaters that are available, that's the one they came to me with.
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Oh, I know the place from EBI. I love that place.
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Steve Needleman is the baddest motherfucker on the planet.
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It's the Orpheum in downtown LA. How many does it seat, Joe?
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No, I'm just saying the Orpheum, when I was there for Eddie, I didn't know it sat that many people.
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I think it's, no, no, no, 19. I think it's 18 or 19. Something like that.
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That's one of those places where you look at it and you go, wow.
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When Steve first asked me to do EBIs there, because we were doing them at the Florentine Gardens initially in Hollywood, I looked at the website and I'm like, oh man, this guy doesn't, he obviously doesn't know what jiu-jitsu is.
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And then he, again, he said, just come down and check it out.
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I'm like, dude, this is like, you do like the Oscars and shit here.
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The guy that owns Orpheum, he's, dude, man, he's doing privates with Compella.
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And he, dude, when we show up, he's got his EBI shirt on, he's got his 10th Planet shirt on.
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The guy who owns that whole fucking thing loves EBI. He seemed like it when I talked to him.
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So when they brought to me the options of places to go, that was one of the first ones.
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Because UFC didn't want to compete with New Year's Eve.
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Max Holloway and Anthony Pest is December 10th.
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The other fight is Cowboy Cerrone and Matt Brown.
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See, I have those both in the same level of expectation.
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I look at Pettis Holloway, and then I look at...
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Whenever they tell me something, I don't know about it.
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But listen, everybody knows I'm a big Matt Brown fan.
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He's doing something different now because he's not fucking his body up to make 155. We're seeing 100% Cowboy.
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He's got so much don't give a fuck in him that to take a guy like that and extract all the water out of his body and drain him and deplete him, you deplete some of that spirit that makes him exceptional.
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A lot of what he carries into the octagon with him is like this zest for life, and it comes out when he's fighting.
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He should have Aldo come up to 55 for a let's just get this done fight.
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All he goes, let me beat the winner of Max and Pettis.
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But doesn't Jose have trouble losing that weight, too?
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Doesn't he have a motherfucker of a time getting a 45?
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What if he just gets knocked out and a vicious head kick in five seconds after that?
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You can't do that after you do the other thing.
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Powerful reincarnation of Michael Clark ducking.
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You don't do a throat slash and not fucking come out of booming.
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I mean, it's a psychological good move, but it's kind of negated by the fist bump.
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The fist bump brings the confidence level back up a solid 10%.
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Well, Cannoneer has got to get over the fact the guy's face looks so intimidating.
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Yeah, Brian, I don't think he's looking at his face anymore.
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There's a lot of unity going on here, a lot of brothership.
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I've always told you guys, it's about fundamentals.
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You know, my problem lately with MMA is that I've been watching too much Muay Thai.
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Well, I just recognize there's another level to be achieved that you're seeing, especially with striking.
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With a lot of guys, you're seeing a certain level of technique on a consistent basis because they have to concentrate on a lot of different things.
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But it's hard when you have a few guys that have achieved this Rory McDonald sort of spectrum where they can kind of do everything really good at a very high level.
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Like, you remember when Rory McDonald fought JT Torres and Metamoras?
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Rory hung in with him, almost got Kimura, didn't tap, almost got his arm broke, but ultimately went to a draw.
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Watching him fight, what's his name, the really high-level French striker...
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But Joe, isn't that the evolution of the sport?
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Like Roy started MMA when he was 12. MMA! He didn't specialize in anything.
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So you're gonna see, like you look at fucking homeboy, uh, uh, what's his name?
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With the spikey hair, looks like, uh, Zach Morris.
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So you're gonna get this wave of guys who Well, Sage started with karate, and he's way more of a karate guy than he is a jiu-jitsu guy.
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It's not that he's not better at jiu-jitsu now.
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I mean, he definitely showed that in his last fight, and he's submitted guys in the past.
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Who's a young kid who's got a lot of life to learn.
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Is he on the December 10th card against Mickey Gall?
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Why do I feel like that fight is somewhere else?
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Mickey Gall versus Sage Northcutt is a fun fight.
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I think he's more talented than Sage Northcutt.
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Like, we've seen two real good fights from him, and of course one of them was against a guy.
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I'm in the I-just-want-to-live-life phase of my life.
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If you can get them, you gotta, but, you know, there's certain places where you can get them.
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In a few years, there's going to be places where they have these spots where you could vape up at the airport.
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And right next to those, there'll be counselors.
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People go deep and just start fucking crying and thinking about their dad.
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I just use it to calm down and turn my brain off.
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Yeah, you're looking too much at the white guy.
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Don't ever walk up through the slash and then touch gloves.
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Well, unless you're the motherfucker of motherfuckers and it doesn't matter.
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You come out and Conor McGregor run with a straight left and just put him away.
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And it doesn't matter if you touch gloves with him.
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Do you remember when Conor McGregor talked a freight train full of shit against Dennis Seaver and then beat his ass?
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But when they got into the octagon before the fight, he went to shake hands with Dennis Seaver and Dennis Seaver wouldn't put his hand on it.
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Dennis Seaver was in there like stiff as fuck, only had that spinning back heel kick in his wheelhouse.
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Dennis Seaver's like, I'm from Germany, you fuck.
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The world is a better place because of Conor McGregor.
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Did you see Oscar De La Hoya drunk as fuck talking about Canelo Alvarez?
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He was talking about Conor McGregor fighting Canelo Alvarez.
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People forget how fucking talented the gold is.
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When he lit up Julio Cesar Chavez, I said, I don't give a fuck what anybody says.
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I saw that closed circuit TV at the LA where the Clippers used to play.
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Not the LA Forum, but the LA... The Great Western Forum?
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You'd go to an arena and watch the screens of the boxing.
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I was a big Oscar fan, a big Julio Cesar Chavez fan.
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I had to go with the one who was more Mexican.
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You know what, the real Mexicans are like, Julio can't even speak English.
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I'm going to tell you how legit Oscar De La Hoya is.
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He fought Julio Cesar Chavez and Bernard Hopkins.
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Bernard Hopkins, who was the 175 pound world champion.
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Ask your boy Aubrey about Hush Hush up on all that.
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what's really cool about MMA is that you can't really be the very best at everything.
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You could be the best at putting it all together for your specific body, the best at handling pressure in your division, but you can't be the best jujitsu guy, the best kickboxer, the best wrestler.
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It's almost impossible for one person to be the very best at everything.
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That's one of the things that makes MMA so exciting, is because you see this collision of different strategies.
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And you'll see one strategy work for a long time, and you go, hey, ground and pound is where it's at.
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Remember when Vitor Belfort got up to 240 pounds?
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Because that was the motherfucking Mark Coleman era.
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Mark Coleman was just tackling dudes and smashing their fucking faces, and everybody panicked.
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Joe interviewed him one time, and this was like literally 15, 16 years ago, and Joe interviewed him, and Mark goes, Joe goes, so what's your strategy?
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And Mark goes, I'm going to beat the fucking shit out of him.
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So even though I was scared, I was reasonably sure he wasn't going to hurt me.
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I remember you said to me, I said, Joe, you were stammering.
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He goes, I'm gonna pick him up, throw him on the ground and beat the fucking shit out of him.
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He goes, I'm gonna take him down, I'm gonna ground and pound the fucking shit out of him.
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I'll never forget when I met him, the first time I met him, it was after he got beat by Maury Smith.
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And if you remember, he was supposed to crush Maury Smith.
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Because remember, Mark Coleman kept taking him down.
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Frank Shamrock worked a lot with Maury Smith before that fight.
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One of the things they developed is a really good butterfly guard for Maury's.
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What Maurice Smith had that most guys didn't have in the early days is you couldn't pass his guard.
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He had a very good butterfly guard and he knew how to retain.
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So Mark Coleman kept taking him down at will, but he couldn't finish him off.
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If you are an outstanding world-class kickboxer like he is, the same principles of defense apply on the ground, with ground and pound.
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It's harder to move your head backwards, but a guy like that is significantly harder to hit than a guy who's not used to taking punches in front of someone.
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So when he sees these big bombs coming, he's doing a lot of this, he's grabbing you, he's not going to sit there and...
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Of course, there are guys that are overwhelming.
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There's guys like, I keep bringing up Krokop vs.
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The second fight, when Krokop got revenge, when he got on top of Gonzaga, I'm like, when you see a world-class striker drop elbows on your head from the guard, he doesn't need to be in the mount.
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Krokop just needs that amount of space, and he is opening your head like a fucking coconut.
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I was so impressed by that elbow he dropped on Gonzaga.
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If you could get an Ernesto Hoost on top of you on your mount, do you know what kind of devastation that guy could do to you?
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On top of that, didn't you say he was the strongest guy you'd ever...
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You know Mirko was supposed to fight Wanderlei soon in Ryzen?
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I don't know why, but if Mirko was saying all kinds of crazy shit about him, he might get injured.
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I would love to see the camp back then, by the way.
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When Maury Smith fought Mark Coleman, his pre-fight footage was hidden running upstairs.
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It was either that fight or his fight with Conan Silviero, but I remember him, he'd be interviewed, I'm Maury Smith, I've been kickboxing, I'm a world champion, and they'd show him running upstairs and shit in a football stadium.
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And Maury Smith just started fucking kicking him and beating the shit out of his legs.
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Maury Smith was probably the first guy to ever talk shit in the middle of a world championship fight.
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This is back when I was the post-fight interviewer.
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By the way, people forget, Maury Smith was every bit of 230 pounds.
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Maury Smith was the first guy to incorporate high kick in a world championship fight when he fought Conan Silviera.
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He fought Conan Silviera in World Extreme Cage Fighting.
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That was back when John Peretti was the interviewer.
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That guy sent me a fucking direct message on Twitter one day.
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I know everybody gets busy, but I'm not shitting on him.
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He sent me a direct message like, I always had respect for you.
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I can't believe that you wouldn't have me on your podcast.
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I said, dude, I'd love to have you on my podcast.
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But if I did hear back from him, but if he hears this, I got nothing but respect for John Peretti.
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I thought he was fun and honest, and he knew the fuck, he knew a lot of shit about fighting.
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But like, John Paredes doesn't get the respect he deserves.
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You have to understand, this guy was like literally one of the very first guys who was a high-level mixed martial artist, did jujitsu, kickbox, and was doing commentary for MMA. He was like one of the very first guys.
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And they owned the show, that battle cage show or something.
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Exactly, which had some great fucking fights.
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A lot of promoters have personalities and they're like, you've got to have a certain personality to deal with the fighters, the staff.
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John, I had many conversations with him on the set and that guy was not interested in being a diplomat or your friend.
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He was just very direct and very honest and had the confidence.
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By the way, built like a brick shithouse, by the way.
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Yeah, we had good conversations back when I used to work for the UFC back in 97. I never got to know him well, you know?
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And then I took a break, and then the UFC, they sold it, and then Peretti wasn't there anymore.
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I go down there with Ricky Rocket, drummer from Poison.
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We're like, let's go see a UFC. It's in a small 3,000-seat arena.
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Just a bunch of crazy motherfuckers in Kemper, Louisiana.
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Double-legged Igor Zinoviev and broke his calavicle, and that was the end of the fight.
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That was when Mikey Burnett beat up fucking Eugenio Taddeo.
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Most y'all don't remember that shit, but that's old school shit.
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But anyway, so I run into Mark Coleman at that show.
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I'm like, so this is after the Maurice Smith fight where he gasped.
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I got tennis shoes on and we're at the UFC. I should be having some fucking boots on or something.
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He's going to run sprints after the press conference.
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I sat next to him at a live belt where I went to and he had some of the best stories of all time.
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You enjoy time with one of the fucking Hall of Famers.
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You have an opportunity to sit right next to Mark Coleman while he's hammered.
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And you should have been buying him beer and leaning your ear in his direction.
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He was like, dude, he was fucking yoke as shit.
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I remember when he choked out Dan Henderson with that scarf hold.
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He had him like a side headlock scarf hold type situation.
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I remember when he had- Not Dan Henderson, excuse me.
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When you're that strong, and that's the last thing you said, hey, brother, let me tell you something.
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He's 175 pounds, and he was really good at just taking that side headlock and just fucking balancing and squeezing.
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Oh, Shane Carr would have popped his head like a zit doing that.
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It's actually a real move that people just don't explore.
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But there's a guy named Duda, and he fucking tapped me with that shit.
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And you just do a bicep crusher with your legs.
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I remember it, but I don't remember how to do it.
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That guy has a whole system around her and there's nobody on the planet like that motherfucker with that shit.
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I've never seen anybody from the guard setting up wrist fucking bicep smashers and flipping and rolling people.
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Yeah, well, it's always interesting when one guy gives the fucking...
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Yeah, he definitely was way more calm on his feet when he stood in front of him.
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And it was like, well, you also realize this dude was kind of gassed out.
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You know, you're either a killer or you want everybody to think you're a killer.
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And the killers are like Fedor, who never did any of that stupid shit.
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Cain Velasquez is my all-time favorite weigh-in face.
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I'm going to have a full tank of gas, and I'm going to rain bombs down on you until it's all over, bitch.
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He's fighting December 30th, but man, there was just some...
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It's like his 12th surgery since he's been in the UFC. But you can't say you've got a fight coming up and then afterwards you're going to get surgery.
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I understand, but to say it publicly seems pretty ridiculous if there's insurance involved.
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From a business move, but as a fan, you gotta appreciate the honesty.
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But I want to beat this motherfucker so bad and get to the title shot, I'm going to wait and do it after.
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Do you think that insurance should cover all of the injuries sustained during training, which of course all of them are?
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Does it only cover things that happen in a fight?
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I'm almost positive you'd have to ask when you're UFC boys, but I'm pretty sure it covers when you're in training camp for that fight.
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Like a certain amount of weeks outside of training camp as you're preparing for the bout.
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But if, let's say, I have nothing scheduled and I get hurt, it doesn't cover that.
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So if that's the case, then what he said was actually kind of gangster.
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Because he's already covered by insurance, and he's going to come in and say, look, I know I'm kind of injured here, but I'll deal with it and beat your ass.
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Apparently, Frankie Edgar had a fucking pretty significant knee injury leading up to the fight with Jeremy Stephens.
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They said he went into the fight against Travis Brown with a broken foot.
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Meanwhile, he jumped and sidekicked him in the face.
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Well, fighting's hard enough, let alone with broken foot, neck.
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Travis Brown had two crazy things happen to him in that fight.
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There's that kick that he opens up with like, where the fuck is this coming from?
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And then when Verdum threw that punch and hit his finger.
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It's a weird thing, man, because if he says, excuse me, I'm done, it's over, my finger's broken, then they stop the fight, then you're correct to not attack him.
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But he went, just give me a second, let me fix my finger.
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I mean, but here's the thing, I didn't want that fight to end right there, did you?
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But do you want to leave room for an emotional mistake in a time of duress?
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Like, there's moments where something can go wrong where you don't even realize, like, is there a malfunction in my glove?
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There is moments, but where do you draw the line?
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Because this is why I'm gonna shit on both of these.
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The reason why that doesn't count is because it didn't happen from him going for a takedown against his cage.
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It happened because Verdum threw a punch aimed at his hand and it broke his No, no, no.
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Travis had his hands up, and Verdum threw one of them crazy Chuck Liddell-style overhands, and it landed on the fingers.
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A function of that injury is, you could argue, is poor technique, right?
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That might work with MMA or with boxing gloves, rather, or Muay Thai gloves, you know, to have your hands over there.
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Sure, but you could say the same thing about a guy who's got his hands up.
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But to have your hands open like this, and to have a kick coming at you and your hands open this way.
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But, at the same time, how often do you practice punching fingers?
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How often do you practice punching fingers in the gym?
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I don't practice snapping arms or knocking guys out either.
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Now, if he did it and his finger caught in his shorts and you're like, fuck, give him a second limb to figure out if he wants to continue.
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Which is why you can say timeout for that, but you can't say timeout if you get hit in the nose.
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Well, you can't if you're Verdum, because Verdum went, there's no fucking timeouts in one afternoon.
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And I brought that up in the post-fight interview.
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Like, you were well within your rights to go after him.
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But for the audience, and for let's just be cool about it, okay, your finger got caught.
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And for that one guy, it only makes sense for the guy that threw the punch.
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He inflicted damage where he couldn't continue.
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But nobody's trying to break fingers with punches.
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If that was part of the sport, like, you've got to practice breaking fingers.
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It's absolutely an injury caused by someone executing a technique, but wouldn't you like the fight to keep going?
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Cain Velasquez, or excuse me, Fabricio Verdum to win on technical knockout due to a finger break.
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I agree with you, but I'm not saying within the rules.
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Quote something from the Washington Post for us.
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But also, you don't know what happened to your finger.
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He might have thought his finger, because it wasn't working right, was tied up in his glove.
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It's not like Travis got head kicked and was confused because he got almost knocked out.
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I think when his finger was fucked up, he didn't necessarily know what was going on.
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I think whether or not that's true, I don't know.
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I'm saying, even if he was like, oh, shit, my finger's broke.
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Because we have millions of dollars on the line here.
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I'm literally not even arguing with you because I see your point 100%.
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But I also, as a person who's greedy, when I'm at home, I want to see them keep fighting.
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I'm a fan of Fabricio, and I would like to see him win, but there's a feeling that I get from someone winning by a broken finger that I don't like.
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Brendan's like, yeah, he won, but he should have won by broken finger.
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Here's a better question, because it's an illegal move.
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I think not only does it change the game, like Mitrione versus Travis Brown.
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Here's a case where the foul went in Travis's favor.
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And then Mitrione, who was winning the fight, then goes to losing the fight.
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It's almost so significant that if you're marginally impaired from it, you might want to stop the fight.
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So it's just crazy because in the moment, it's such a difficult, like, rational decision to make.
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But if you're fucked up and you can barely see out of one eye, you're like, no, I want to keep going, I want to keep going.
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How long does it take before that bitch recovers?
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But yeah, any eye injury could be, like, semi-fucked.
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When you get to scratch in the eye, is there a possibility that they're...
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They could design some kind of fighting goggle thing?
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The only way you could do it is if you came up with some sort of adhesive, like some crazy, crazy glue shit that you could stick this fucking thing to your face where it's impossible to pull it off.
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It would have to literally almost be like cups that covered your eyes, but were glued into your head, and then afterwards they put some solvent on.
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But then we would find out five years later that fucking people are dying from cancer or brain cancer.
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Well, you know, four guys are soaking them in testosterone and shit in their eyes.
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Well, in Planet of the Apes, when they make you dirty, they used to have a chemical that they would make your costume dirty.
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In Planet of the Apes, the movie with Mark Wahlberg.
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No, they found the stuff that they used was a chemical that doesn't leave your lungs.
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Hey, can we please, as all fellow MMA fans, can we actually watch this fight?
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But I gotta tell you man, Jake Ellenberger, coming off of that KO of Matt Brown, like he was on the death's doorstop.
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And he went out there and stopped Matt Brown in one round.
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His manager went, come on Joe, give someone else.
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By the way, the narrative just got significantly weakened by your interjection of gossip and innuendo.
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There's going to be a left-wing MMA and then a right-wing MMA. And they're going to get into their personalities and their lives.
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And all the guys who have money that win a lot are going to be right-wing.
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Ellenberg doesn't support NAFTA. All rights can invade MMA. That would be hilarious.
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Masvidal had a hashtag, I'm with her, on his Twitter account for four hours.
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Masvidal will get knocked out if he plays this game with Jake.
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Jake can knock him out on left hook, they play this game.
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He's the first guy to knock out Eve Edwards at MMA. True.
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I would have never pegged Masvidal for a Republican.
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He went ass towards him, hips towards him.
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When you see the ass, Masvidal is such a monster.
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That shows you right there how good Herb Dean is.
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But Masvidal has got him pinned up against the cage.
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Well, Jake still possesses that crazy fast twitch muscle fiber.
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But when you get hurt, you always start reaching for that because you know you're not going to play a points game from here on out.
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So you've got a few significant rounds in your chamber.
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It's just a matter of how long it's going to take Jake Ellenberger right now to recover.
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If he's been trained with Kurson, I think he has for this fight.
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I know he has for this fight, as a matter of fact.
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Nick Kurson, who's that Marv Marinovich disciple, that guy's a wizard, man.
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He knows a fuckload about strength and conditioning and getting guys ready for fights, both physically and mentally.
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And I think he helped Ellenberger a lot with giving him the confidence with being in that insane shape to get ready for Matt Brown.
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There's no coach on the planet that can go, hey, you're going to get fucked up the first minute, and then we can work on that.
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But it's also like Ellenberger is a real veteran now and he's experienced those disappointing defeats and those super highlight knockouts.
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Like the Matt Brown fight, like the Jake Shields fight.
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Do you know that Ellenberger knocked out Pele Landy with one punch?
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I think he broke his foot or ankle in the cage.
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And Joe's going to say, hey, give the guy a little fucking chance!
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But what you did before when we were talking about the finger break.
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I said, at this point, he was getting fucked up.
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Toe goes BOOM! Oh my god, his foot went right into the cage.
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If I'm Masvidal, I wail away exactly like he did and win the fight exactly like he did.
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This is a great fight, a fun fight that ended with a freak accident.
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But if you had to go to a decision off of the injury, you had got to give it to Masvidal.
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His toe went right in there and then he snapped it.
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As people that love the sport, maybe we should redesign the bottom of the cage.
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You move to the left and he fucking slides in and he gets his foot caught.
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Let me ask you this, as a person who's fought in the octagon.
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Is there an argument for extending the lip a little bit?
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So instead of tucking it in like that, extending it up and putting it in part of the cage, you could only have to go up a few inches and it would remove the problem of the edge.
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But you wouldn't be able to use that takedown offense of those guys against the cage?
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Having a little bit of fabric, pulled it through and up and connected to the cage.
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Look, he's getting punched in the head and he's still trying to get his foot out.
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He just knocked out Matt Brown that he has this controversial injury.
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Here's the problem with the controversial injury.
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Because Masvidal was putting it to him before that.
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I mean, Ellenberger got robbed of a potential for a comeback.
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But justice was done because Masvidal, who was winning, and he still gets his win bonus and Jay got you.
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It's not a justice that makes Whoville cheer and sing.
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When you and Eddie were going at it back and forth, I'm on both of your sides.
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Look, honestly, any time you feel like you maybe should stop the fight, you should stop the fight.
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Like almost every time for something like that.
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Should you let a guy go if he can't see at all out of his right eye?
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It's a good question because sometimes guys go out and they win that fight.
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I'm saying as a fighter and you're in there and you know what the magnitude of that win will do for your career and get you to the next level and your punch guy goes, damn, dawg, you got me in the eye.
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And that, you know, that might be part of the problem, right?
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Like, it's not just the ethics of winning or losing.
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Because you're like, God, let me get out of here and get a win and fucking get out.
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And did they ever exist in boxing before MMA started adopting them?
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Typically a flat fee and then you got your pay-per-view bonus.
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But is there an argument that win bonuses make the fights more exciting?
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Because people, I mean obviously they're aware of wind bonus, but no one's like, God, I've got to make this a siding and I'm going to go do this because hopefully I get the wind bonus.
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Hey Eddie, I hate to tell you, whether it was wind bonus or not, he's going to fight like that.
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You know when people say, oh, I train eight hours straight, I train seven hours, and you're like, okay, you're taking all these breaks.
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He was training all goddamn day in Big Bear in altitude.
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Dude, hanging out with Tony Ferguson and Big Bear.
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They thought it was going to be in Anaheim, but they were like, ah, we're good in Anaheim.
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Remember, they pulled the pay-per-view from Anaheim?
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It was supposed to be on the Anaheim card, from my understanding.
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You keep saying that, and it sounds like a goddamn mantra.
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It's like, Donald Trump, KKK. How good is that fight going to be?
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Conor McGregor's real fight is with Ari Emanuel.
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Well, even if they're in a good place, that's the fight.
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But I'm not wrong, because when Conor goes, and I also have some inside info, but when Conor goes, I need a portion of the company now.
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Well, here's why it's foolish to get a portion of the company.
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Because he, by very nature of his dynamic being and presence, makes the pay-per-views that he's on spectacular.
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So when he's there, is he saying, should he get a percentage of the pay-per-views?
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You would have to prove that you're making the company bigger.
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You're making yourself bigger, and he is, in my opinion, the most famous, but the fights that he draws for, he will get compensated for in an extraordinary manner.
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The idea of him being an owner of the entire company based on what he's able to do in his own individual pay-per-views, that would be foolhardy.
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That the UFC without gigantic stars like Conor McGregor or Ronda Rousey or Jon Jones or Pettison Holloway, without the killers, nobody wants to watch.
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Yeah, you can have some fights that are pay-per-view fights.
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You can have some fights that are pay-per-view fights without world champions on it.
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If you had a bunch of cowboy, Matt Brown-type fights on, and just a bunch of them, and none of them for the world title, you tell me you wouldn't watch?
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I'm not talking to you, you goddamn communists!
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The guy admitted he's in the fucking union before the show!
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Jordan Meehan on Cyborg, the male Cyborg, in Strike Force, landed one of the most devastating fucking elbow combinations to put out Cyborg.
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He knocked out Toquino when he first got kicked out of the UFC. When Jusmar Pojarez got kicked out of the UFC, he fought this mad Viking, Emil Meek.
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But is he ripping bitches' legs off in jiu-jitsu?
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He fought Gary Tonin in a straight-up jiu-jitsu match.
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It went to a draw, but Gary Tonin was dominating.
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Gary Tonin was attacking him way more than he was attacking him.
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Yeah, but here's the thing, Gary Tonin is maybe 30 pounds lighter than him.
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I'm just saying, as far as MMA, remember when Tokino was, when it was Paul Ahari's?
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You know why I was fascinated about that fight?
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It was not just that Gary Tonin is a motherfucker, but that John Donaher and I had this conversation about the entrances.
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How he establishes the entrance into his techniques.
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He's kind of basic in the way he approaches leg locks.
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His take was that they would always be one step ahead of him and eventually the strength would run out.
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That's how high level and sophisticated that whole Eddie Cummings Henzo's?
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Dean Lister contributed to that in a big way because he came over there.
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There's a lot of leg-locked knowledge that came out of there.
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Eddie Cummings is the most feared leglocker of all time.
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I've reffed most of Eddie Cummings' fights in EBI, and just me as just the jiu-jitsu guy, watching him right there on top of it.
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Eddie Cummings is just mowing through fucking everybody.
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The whole Danaher crew, Gary Tonin, Gordon Ryan, they're fucking everybody up with those leg locks.
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Man, they got a super sophisticated, highly complex leg lock system and, you know, once EBI came out, that's when it was exposed.
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And me as a teacher, I thought, fuck, I thought I was already leg lock friendly enough.
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I had a bunch of leg lock wizards all over the association.
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Me personally, I'm not heavy into heel hooks, but man, I love the fact that every class I have like three heel hook fucking just dudes that are obsessed with it.
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Once EBI came out, I'm like, that wasn't enough.
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When you obsess with leg locks in the system and every possibility and every counter, and the way Dana Hurst put that system together, man, I realized right away, I gotta get fucking mid-Evo with this shit.
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Do you feel like you're competing a little bit with John or anybody?
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So there's an IBJJF crew, you know, like the people, the fans and the competitors.
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There's the Danaher crew, and they're like Conor McGregor, you know, because Gordon Ryan's kind of outspoken, and, you know, he's like wearing a crown everywhere he goes, and Gary Tonin, he's like...
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And then Eddie Cummings was like the coolest motherfucker ever.
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Eddie Cummings is like an astrophysicist, cool ass dude.
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And what Danaher's done with that leg lock system, dude, he just so...
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Dean Lister came down in the late 90s at Henzo School and dropped some heel hook knowledge on Danaher.
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And Danaher just systemized that shit, blew it the fuck up.
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And if you're not paying attention to the jiu-jitsu world and the sub-only movement, the Danaher death squad, Eddie Cummings...
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Gordon Ryan, Gary Tonin, and even Gordon Ryan's brother, Nicky Ryan, they got this leg lock system that no one can fuck with.
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At what point when you were rolling jiu-jitsu did you feel like it became more art than sport in that you were improvising as you went along, in that everything was a reaction, everything was sort of predicated by your mindset, your mood of that day,
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It had nothing to do with the mood of the day that I could tell.
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It just had to do with how many times can you do a movement and train your body.
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Whether it's jiu-jitsu, tennis, basketball, whatever you do, if you do it over and over and over again, if you're working in a factory and you got a job or you're doing something, the more you do it, whatever it is, putting this contraption here, you're going to be so fucking good at it,
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Your body will master anything you tell it to do a thousand times.
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So it becomes a language you're fluent in that you know physically, that you know...
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It's like any piano, guitar, building fucking blocks, factory working, whatever.
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The more you do it, your body will end up doing it magically, and you'd have to just kind of executive produce things, and your body just does it magically.
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When you're shredding on violin or piano or whatever...
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But when I type, when I'm in the groove, I'm just looking at the screen and thinking.
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And then the words just start, my fingers start moving.
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It's weird you say that because I was typing and my father said, Jesus Christ, you type fast.
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Well, that's what Dan Hurst done with the leg locks.
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They've gotten a system down and they understand practice makes perfect.
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I love that about the idea that you can master something that you do.
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You know, I mean, you get better at anything you put your time to.
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Even if you don't get perfect, it's so worthwhile endeavoring down that road.
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The reaching for it is the whole lesson, right?
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But through those milestones, the most important thing is you're just enjoying the process.
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And then one day you wake up and you realize, whoa, look what I could do.
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Are you always learning with jiu-jitsu or do you feel like you're kind of over it all day?
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What we're talking about right now, what Danaher has done with the leg lock system and what they've done with EBI just completely dominate.
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That, bringing it back, the Gio Martinez win last night, he beat Eddie Cummings in the finals at EBI 10 last night.
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We're about to get turned up in Austin this weekend, me and you, buddy.
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People think we hate each other, but we're commentating together.
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This conversation that happened at the beginning of this podcast when everybody went crazy, we're like the best friends.
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It's that thing that people have to understand.
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You're allowed to disagree about shit and still be cool.
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But you don't have to disagree with something and go, because you're a fucking retard.
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The way I look at it is, Eddie wants to solve a problem, and Eddie...
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Don't let's not get specific, because we're going to go deep into the rabbit hole.
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What I'm saying is that when somebody's passionate and cares about the world and wants the world to be a better place like he does, that's where it's coming from.
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So when you know that, when you know that he's genuinely a good person through his fucking core, which I know that about him, like...
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There's no way I'm going to look at Eddie as, like, I can't do that.
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The bottom line is, this is the bottom line, is I think they are fucking us.
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And you mean everyone, everyone's all the best.
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Listen, man, I've known him more than you've known him.
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You don't know fucking him, but I know him better than you know him.
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So if I thought you were fucking me, I would hate you.
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Brian Callen, how many times you trained with Eddie Bravo?
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Maybe I know him better than you, and I was trying to lead you out of the dark lands.
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I take his online jiu-jitsu class, which is secret, double secret.
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Eddie Bravo, how many times I trained with you?
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Eddie gives me private fucking underground cyber jiu-jitsu lessons.
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He'd be right there in Tel Aviv just laying it down.
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Donald, while you're in office, I want you to abandon the Republican Party and join the freak party.
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Hey, if they offered you $100,000 a year, Brian Callen would you take it?
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Brendan's brother, one of my favorite people in the world, is sending me all kinds of articles on how fake the pizza gate is.
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Hey, listen, let's not talk about Pizzagate, you fucker!
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Listen, a guy who gets really good at killing people, like jujitsu style, gets really good at playing games, gets really good at arguments, he doesn't want to get involved.
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He gave you an out, and you want to keep going, and you're like the little pesky fucker.
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All I'm saying is, before the night's over, I need to know what Pizzagate is.
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You'll get murdered if you talk about this shit.
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Try to maneuver around them and try to keep your family.
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I'm gonna end it with if you watch Conspiracy of Silence on YouTube before you get into Pizzagate.
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First the Conspiracy of Silence, then get into Pizzagate and it all makes sense.
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Alright, how about dinner in Austin, for God's sakes?
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I just want everyone to know that I'm not betting on anybody, that I'm merely a backer for my friend.
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Brennan, why do you have so much confidence in Eddie?
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Henry's a friend of mine, so of course I'm going to go for him, man.
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Well, Joe Benavidez is a friend of mine as well.
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That's a bad thing when you see a guy know he kicked a dude in the nuts and then go after him.
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That's a little bit, I'm gonna be honest, a little bit more taint than balls.
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Now, Eve Levine will let you get your ass whooped now.
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Well, he's no Steve Mazzagatti, but yeah, he'll let you tap for a little bit.
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Horace was digging his fingers into Jake Shield's eyes and Mazzagatti just sat there.
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Well, how about when Mazzagotti was reffing Brock Lesnar versus Frank Mir and Frank Mir almost separated his hips from his legs.
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Tapping like, Tammy, hit him in the dick again.
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All bullshit aside, joking around, I love Eve.
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If he thinks that that is two in a row, he will take a point.
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If it was unintentional, should you take a point?
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The damage done to Benavidez is legit as far as it diminishes him.
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So that is worth more than a point on his potential performance.
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I think eye poke right away should be a point taken away.
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He's gotten so drunk, he's just holding his glass out.
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Hey, Brendan's like, he does my dog right there.
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Hey man, you can't throw those kicks like that.
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If you're not disciplined enough, you can't throw the kicks.
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I'm just picturing guys named Chad with no fucking facial hair.
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Bouncing around, switches stances with no fucking plan.
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So who knows pissed because his last fight obviously was Demetrius Johnson got annihilated.
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He's also probably pissed because he's lost one point already in his first round.
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This round will be a draw because if he loses one point, he's been winning the whole fight.
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Unless Benavidez does something strong in which he'll win it.
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Sometimes when people take a point away, they automatically say, well, that guy is losing the fight now.
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What did you think of the Tyron Woodley Wonderboy fight?
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Before they came out with the- But here's my thinking.
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I think it's only a draw because we look at fights wrong.
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I think Woodley won because he did way more damage.
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And he had moments of total dominance, like that first round when he got on top of him.
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There was never a point where Wonderboy was running the fight.
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There's moments where maybe you land a jab, and he lands a leg kick, and what's better and what's worse?
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But when Woodley took him down and beat him up in the first round and smashed his nose open, that was a significant advantage.
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And how about the punches that led to the guillotine that had him hurt?
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I thought he made a mistake going for the guillotine.
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You guys just heard about some shit that happened two weeks ago.
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Brian Callen and Eddie Brown were the voice of reason.
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They weigh in at 125. They really weigh 130. They're amazing.
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You have white privilege, male privilege, and giant privilege.
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He was on a marquee at the Laugh Factory with his son of a bitch.
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He's like, hey, guys, thanks for all your ten years.
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There's going to be that one night, Brian, where you can't follow him.
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He's figured out how to be funnier than me, you son of a bitch.
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With your fat garden hose dangling out of the inside of your jeans.
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Did you guys see the Roadrunner kill the rattlesnake?
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Roadrunners fucking kill and eat rattlesnakes.
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You look at a roadrunner and a rattlesnake, you would say, well, for sure the rattlesnakes are eating the roadrunners.
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I would say the roadrunner runs from the rattlesnake.
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This is- I looked it up after I saw this video.
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He just bapped him by the face, and now look at this.
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He's just smashing that fucking head on the rocks.
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He just beat Nurmagomedov that fucking snake on a rock!
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Some would say he deep-throated that rattlesnake.
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I've never seen him fight with this much bad intentions.
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Well, they worked alongside each other for a long time and talked a lot of shit to each other.
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Well, Joe keeps swaying for that right hand counter.
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Well, he's probably been tagged a few times in that first round.
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You know, he's looking for that big right hand to get things back.
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The reason I thought Joe would win this fight, and I'm not saying he's not going to, he does everything really well, and Cejudo does a few things great.
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So I thought Joe would kind of edge it out with just mixing it up, but he's not doing that.
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Well, Cejudo has nowhere near the level of experience, other than the Johnson fight.
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Yeah, I mean, and Benavidez has fought Johnson a couple of times.
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You know, and then what he did to Cejudo was pretty goddamn impressive, too.
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And the technical kicks, or knees rather, to the body, the Muay Thai from the clinch, it was perfect.
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Did you hear what Mighty Mouse said before that fight?
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Well, he is an Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.
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There's one, you know, fucking world champion like this.
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I've been singing Mighty Mouse's praises forever.
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He's not my pound for pound number one, but he's amazing.
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See, but you can't say that, but here's what I think.
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When you look at Jon Jones, I think Jon Jones ultimately absolutely has the potential to be number one, but he's been too inactive, and the fight with Ovin St. Preux, although Ovin St. Preux, I feel, is a very good fighter, and it's a very tough fight.
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If you look at who has beaten Ovin St. Preux, and how Jon Jones looked against him.
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You're right, you can't entirely buy it, but as of late, he's been incredibly inactive.
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I see a little- I see a little- Mighty Mouse has been not just- Hey, fuck face!
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When Mighty Mouse has been active, he's been spectacular.
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He's been spectacular, but the thing is, is we've seen Mighty Mouse lose.
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And also, what Mighty Mouse is, he can make a mistake, get punched with the right hand.
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Because of their weight classes, I don't have them pound for pound number one.
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That is a good argument, except for guys like John Lineker, who knocked guys out with one punch, and Mighty Mouse, who knocked out Benavidez with one punch.
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Have you forgotten about a guy named Anderson Silva?
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Brian Callen coming in and fucking shut that shit down.
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Right now, it's entirely possible to make the case of either Fedor, Anderson Silva, or Mighty Mouse.
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It's arguable that Verdum's the best heavyweight of all time.
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Don't you think he's the number one fighter of all time as far as finishing everybody?
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I don't know shit about striking, but I can visibly see Conor countering with his left hand.
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I can see that, and I don't really see it with a lot of fighters.
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Because I'm seeing as soon as someone throws, he goes BOOM! He's just waiting for that shot.
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As soon as you throw, he's going to fuck you up.
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Well, what Connor has is this ability to slide back and counter with such incredible precision.
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Don't you think his strength is, too, is he's...
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He has some sort of skill where he can predetermine what you're going to do.
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A lot of understanding of striking and movement.
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If a guy comes to you and says, Joe, I'm going to dedicate my life to you.
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I want you to turn me into the ultimate counter fighter.
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I would say go to that fucking dude on his knees in front of Joseph Benavidez.
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Dude, Dwayne Ludwig, how about the fuck he's get the fastest ever fucking KO of in the UFC from a counter?
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Actual, not sending me to Dwayne Ludwig, but what would, like, a drill you would come up with that you would say, okay, you gotta do this shit every day.
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Well, it would depend on where you're at, like, skill-wise.
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Like, if you took a guy who had, like, almost no kicks whatsoever, you'd say, okay, let's forget the kicks.
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There's a lot of different things you would think of, but when you see Connor's counters, his counters are so precise.
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You only get that through that 10,000-hour principle.
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I would say you have five years to work with someone.
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They have to be obsessed and they have to be genetically gifted.
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Because there's certain punchers, they just did not have that kind of snap to be counter guys.
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Like a guy like Matt Hamill, who was a really powerful wrestler and a good puncher and a good striker ultimately later in his career.
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He never had that BUTT! There's that fucking, there's that fucking SPAP! Damn, you said Matt Hamill.
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It's a good example because he's a tough guy and a strong, powerful wrestler.
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But he was an explosive and didn't have that kind of accuracy.
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There's a bunch of guys you could say that you could put in that category who were like really powerful grapplers who just weren't the most lightning-like strikers.
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There's striking where you know that the guy has good technique and you know that the guy pretty much understands where to be and where not to be and when to be defensive and when to be offensive.
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And then there's guys like Roy Jones Jr. There's every now and then you have these freaks.
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But Roy Jones Jr. was a weird one because Roy Jones Jr. abandoned all of the orthodoxy of boxing.
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And he had ridiculous speed and power to the point where nobody could fuck with it.
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And I wanted to see if I was biased because I thought that Kovalev won and I still think he won.
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Yeah, so do I. I don't think he won by much, and I think Andre Ward did a really good job of holding his own, but I just don't think there was enough convincing rounds where Ward won in the way that I think the rounds that Kovalev won.
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So I was like, man, I was watching, I'm like, I feel like Kovalev definitely won, but it was close.
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And then when Lenderman was like, oh, it's a complete blowout, I'm like, well, I don't agree with that.
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I don't think Andre Ward won, but I don't think he got blown out.
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And I think the reason why you could make that is because I think that Andre Ward sort of clawed his way back.
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Like later in the fight, it seemed like he had got that jab established more.
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I mean, you could see a one-point fight for Kovalov.
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But again, it depends entirely on how you score fights, too, right?
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The numbers of significant punches and stuff like that favors Kovalov.
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But, Joe, your number one fighter is Mighty Mouse.
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Because I judge him on what I see from him right now.
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And when I see, like, I understand that he's fighting smaller guys.
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However, what I factor in is the greatness of movement.
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And what I see in Mighty Mouse is pure efficiency.
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Like when he got Cejudo in the clinch and he's throwing these precision knees to the body that come with no wind-up.
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I'm seeing the Mighty Mouse that saw Joseph Benavidez leaving his chin out there and caught him with one punch and KO'd him when the knock on him was that he wasn't a one-punch striker.
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I saw him when he fought Hayoki where he dominated Hayoki for all five rounds and with a second to go.
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He always catches him with You know who he don't include in Pound for Pound?
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But if you look at his record, it's ridiculous.
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Him and Cody No Love is going to be quite interesting.
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Because Cody catches anyone that's going to sleep.
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He's my favorite fighter of that weight class by far.
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And that's a good point, because what we're talking about is about guys who are really good at certain things.
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Like, Cody Nolove is way better at striking than what you're seeing right now.
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He's the Chuck Liddell of 135. He does creepy, scary shit to people.
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Like, when he murked Thomas Almeida with that combination, his striking is like, these guys make no mistake about it.
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Benavidez and Cejudo are both very good strikers.
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The thing is, though, is with Don McCruise and Garbrandt, Don McCruise isn't a knockout.
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But we've never seen Garbrandt four and five rounds in.
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It's going to be interesting because he's a very explosive guy.
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But he's never been a guy that shows any sort of a slowdown in his style.
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Yeah, I feel bad for TJ. And they went, oh, TJ, here's fucking Lineker, too.
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And Lineker seems to have an iron chin, too, which is scary.
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I remember seeing the decision thinking it was correct.
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I've been talking to you about pound for pound.
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Because Cejudo kept throwing, but Joey was weathering the storm and not getting hit.
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And then the main event, is anyone taking Tim Elliott?
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I don't want pizza players to know where we are.
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We could just say it's Brian T. No, you could do it next door and just have him text you.
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We'll probably be out of here by the time they come.
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You won't even let people talk about themselves.
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Try to tell people some shit that's happening tonight.
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The two of you guys together, you fight over each other so much.
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Here's the difference between Eddie Bravo and I. We get high when you guys aren't around.
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When you guys are together, you're not getting high.
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His style's changed since he's working with- Roadrunners kill rattlesnakes with their face, you fuck.
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And Joey Benavides uses Bang Ludwig's technique.
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His technique has changed and he looks amazing.
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He looked very different in this fight than any of his other fights.
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Just from the little I saw, it looked like he lost.
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Yeah, I absolutely wasn't paying enough attention.
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Plus, I have marijuana in my system, which impairs my judgment.
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Yeah, I only got off of it because I went on vacation.
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I did it for the holidays, and I told you I had the worst headaches, brother, when I went back on.
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I do an abbreviated version where I allow myself to have some desserts and shit, but I don't go fucking full hog.
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But if I make a grilled cheese sandwich for my kids...
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I'll put a tomato slice in there too and mix it up.
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Like how the fuck does BLT get the tomato and the cheese sandwich?
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It really should be standard because it makes it juicy.
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You gotta use white bread because you're not eating anything nutritious.
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Give me that old-fashioned wonder bread white boy.
02:37:29.000
But I wouldn't be mad at you if you made me a grilled cheese sandwich with Ezekiel bread and alfalfa sprouts and Gouda.
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And some grass-fed butter on the outside of the Ezekiel batter when you fry.
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You're not doing this in a fucking George Foreman grill.
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Damn, cast iron frying pan like a fucking pioneer!
02:38:07.000
Dude, you make a grilled cheese or anything George Foreman, chicken, fuck you!
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I made a hundred chicken meals on a George Foreman grill all my life.
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You grill the top and the bottom at the same time.
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Most of the people eat on George Foreman grills.
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You're getting shit cuts anyway because you're poor as fuck.
02:38:37.000
Meanwhile, Mexicans figured out how to make skirt steak one of my favorite steaks.
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Do you guys ever have an era in your 20s where you're not living at home and you're fucking broke as fuck and you have $17 and you gotta somehow make that last a week and you're like, okay, I got top ramen, a loaf of bread,
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I just call my dad's secretary, and I say, Dad, I need some fucking money.
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I go, well, I don't know, $500 or $1,000, and he'd send me two grand.
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That's why you believe in Fox News, because you'd be sucking on the dick of the government.
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Listen, you guys will ultimately never be in my inner circle because you're poor.
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I'm like, I got, okay, three boxes of macaroni and cheese, a jar of peanut butter.
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When I was a kid, when I left my parents' house, ramen was big.
02:40:02.000
When I was real broke, at my brokest, I was like 1920 was my brokest.
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I was going to college, but even when I say I'm going to college, there should be like an asterisk next to that statement.
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I was taking classes, but I wasn't even ever thinking I was going to get a job.
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I just didn't want anybody thinking I was a loser.
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And I'd run into people in my town, and they'd be like, what are you doing?
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So after a year, I'm like, I can't keep feeling that every time I talk to somebody.
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So I started going to college, but it was barely paying attention.
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I was paying more attention because that was at the time that I was considering doing stand-up comedy.
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And when I started doing it, that's when I quit college.
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But I was considering doing it, so it was really more paying attention to people and how weird we all are in this struggle between being a child and being an adult.
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There's this weird transitionary period where people are feeling their oats and flexing their intellectual muscles.
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In front of a teacher and trying to catch the teacher when it's wrong and trying to debate the teacher.
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I was fascinated by that because when I was fighting especially, that was all when I was still competing.
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I was always really interested in conflict, any kind of conflict, verbal conflict, physical conflict, games.
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Like, why is this kid protesting what the teacher's saying?
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Is he protesting because he's made a really solid assessment of the facts at hand and he finds a flaw in the logic?
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Has he looked at it from, if he's had step 1 through 10 to really verify what your thoughts are?
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Or did you go up to like 3 and you feel your oats and you think you're smart as fuck and you dive in?
02:41:45.000
So what I was more interested in when I was in college, honestly, was just people interacting with each other.
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My favorite moment from college had to do with this Puerto Rican girl that I was trying to fuck.
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This girl kept inviting me to go to these things with her.
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She was thick, and she was juicy, and she had glasses.
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Like, this girl's giving me all kinds of vibe, right?
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I didn't want to tell her that I was going to fight in a tournament.
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So then I went back to school after the tournament.
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And ironically enough, it was a Trump airplane.
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I was at the lunchroom, and we were about to eat.
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And the Trump airline that day, the fucking landing gear didn't come down, but the jet skid into the runway and splashed.
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And they put fucking flame retardant foam all over the runway.
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And I sat down with them at lunch and I said, did you guys hear about the jet that just crash landed?
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And I said, apparently the front landing gear didn't engage, didn't lock down.
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They go, oh, praise God, praise God, praise God.
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And then I realized I was standing there over the table because they're all going, praise God, praise God.
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So then I sat down with so much sadness, but also happy because I love conflict.
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So I'm sitting down, I'm like this little demon that sits down at the table.
02:44:40.000
This was when I was 19. I knew you when you were 27. Yeah, when I was 19, I was straight feral.
02:44:45.000
So I sat down at this table, and they're going like, praise God.
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My mother's a beautiful person, and my stepdad's a beautiful man, and I love them to death, but they worked.
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From whatever time, to when they get out of school, they're fucking wild.
02:45:04.000
Wild and loose in the streets and that's how I grew up.
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Trying to make sense of the world and your own instincts.
02:45:08.000
I was a latchkey kid from a divorced family and I grew up hanging out with other kids.
02:45:19.000
So I had a very distorted version of things as it is.
02:45:22.000
So then I sat down and I said, so this thing that you wanted me to do when you were asking me to go hang out with your friends At the Cape, and I have like a big smile on my face.
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And they were like, it's really important that you know Jesus.
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And we have this creepy fucking weirdo conversation.
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Where I was just such a- And you knew you were never going to get- Game over.
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I wasn't- I was, at the time, like for me, I was as nice as I could have been while I was feral.
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I was like, look, I grew up around- I was in Catholic school in the first grade.
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By the time I was like in, you know, my high school days and past my high school days, I was like, I see what the fuck's going on.
02:46:33.000
My experience has been really religious girls fuck immediately.
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In my dating history, the girls have talked about their- There's a warmth to the way they approach you.
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When they say they love the Lord, they will be sucking your cock.
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That guy knows as much about MMA. Might be the best coach, eh?
02:47:01.000
There's like him, Duke Rufus, Faraz Ahabi.
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There's a few, yeah, Bang for striking for sure.
02:47:10.000
Man, it's tough to not give the nod to Matt Hume.
02:47:19.000
And a guy like GSP, obviously, he developed under the tutelage of Firas Ahabi, but he would have developed under the tutelage of Matt Hume too.
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I think he would have if he could learn French.
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They grew up, so there's this bond and connection.
02:47:38.000
Now, if you're Tim Elliott, it's guns, bombs away, right?
02:47:45.000
You think you just gotta go balls to the wall, Brunson style?
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Yeah, I mean, almost like the only way to out-technique this guy.
02:47:57.000
Demetrius is like Geo beating Cummings, you know what I mean?
02:48:01.000
Most people thought Cummings was, and rightfully so, he's mowing through everybody with his heel hooks.
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MMA is like Wednesday on the Mickey Mouse Club.
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What do you mean anything can happen can happen?
02:48:38.000
He just said anything can happen and you say I disagree.
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And the opposite end of the spectrum is a decision can happen.
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Can I just stop this before this fight and say this is my favorite thing to do in my whole life?
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I love this more than anything I do in my life.
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Me driving here, I'm like, I don't want to be late!
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I don't think Mighty Mouse gets enough respect.
02:49:50.000
I don't think he gets the respect that he deserves.
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I said your name right, so you say his name right.
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Forget about all the weight and all that stuff.
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But as far as an expression of martial arts talent, that's the finest I've ever seen in my life.
02:50:08.000
As far as expression of martial arts talent, that's the finest I've ever seen.
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So if Tim Elliott can beat him, which he absolutely can because it's Wednesday and Wednesdays.
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Because if you just did that to Demetrius just get side control in top position You're high level.
02:51:19.000
Can you imagine he submitted Mighty Mouse right now?
02:51:27.000
Mighty Mouse is throwing those legs up, but it's kind of loose.
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It's very deep, but DJ's not going to prematurely tap.
02:52:31.000
The fact that he got that deep so quick means that he knows it takes a while sometimes.
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Look at him, he's going to try to submit to Melian now.
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What if he gets him with the exact same technique?
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He's baiting him for the underhook on the left side.
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You're just sprawled out and you've got a head or an arm.
02:53:26.000
Dude, you know the amount of game that's required?
02:53:35.000
He can get him with the exact same technique if he punches that fucking right arm under.
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Unless you're fucking around and you want the dude to think you're tired.
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Elliot is on top of the world at this division right now.
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Hey listen, it has nothing to do with whites.
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Every day in MMA is Wednesday on the Mickey Mouse Club.
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Demetrius just woke up and said, what the fuck am I doing?
02:55:06.000
He's trying to get back up to his feet, but he's getting guillotined here.
02:55:08.000
He's got to be real careful with that left arm.
02:55:11.000
He's really good at closing the show from here.
02:55:21.000
Well, it depends on how this plays out, but I see your point now.
02:55:24.000
You've never seen John in trouble like this, ever.
02:55:34.000
No, but Vitor Belfort did catch him in an armbar.
02:55:51.000
Mighty Mouse is probably like four or five for me because of his weight class.
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Because he was like seven or eight last time we did.
02:56:08.000
Here's what I think about top ten pound for pound.
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Those kind of bricks where he's just waiting for you.
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This is how I feel about when you start talking about top ten pound for pound.
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And that the reality is you don't really know whether it's number one or number two or number three.
02:56:29.000
Because there's an argument for the girl cyborg.
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You've got to look at somebody who was on top for so long who beat up.
02:56:51.000
Well, he dominated in several moments of that round.
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But he was doing it in the first round, too, before he was really...
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Man, wow, the more relaxed he can stay like that, if he can really avoid shots and turn things into a grappling machine again.
02:57:22.000
You see Henry Cejudo, you're like, he's so relaxed.
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Yo, dude, people say that about me all the time.
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His elbow, you look where his bicep is in the ear, it's not going up, it's going down.
02:58:00.000
See how his elbow, like, you look where his bicep placement is, his bicep is getting closer and closer to the other.
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It doesn't matter because he's on the opposite side.
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But if a guy's really good at that empty half position...
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Oh, Mighty Mouse can take it back like a motherfucker.
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It keeps him from getting in that crucifix, fucking striking crucifix.
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Because he needs his arm on the other side of his head for that.
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Elliott's left arm was on the other side of his head.
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You can't put your arm on the other side because you're going to get fucked.
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Right there, I'd go inverted arm bar right away.
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Look at all this shit that's going on right here.
02:59:37.000
Dude, Elliott beat every champion and every weight class in his division.
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The path of wars before the submission even comes out.
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He needs to get his left hand on the other side of his head right there.
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But not that much over there because then you give up a side choke.
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It looks like he's gonna go for that Kimura.
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He's trying to go for that inverted arm bar from the half guard.
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That's one move that you really can get from the half guard, right?
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If you want an inverted Kimura, you have to be in half guard.
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If you want the regular Kimura, you could pass and be in side control.
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But if you're gonna do that inverted one, you can't do it from side control.
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That's the first time I've ever thought about that.
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In the inverted arm bar, it's all about the angle.
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And even if I was passed, if I went for the inverted arm bar, I would jump in the half guard just to control the hips.
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Elliot on top here, DJ, trying to control position.
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With the grease and the sweat, that makes it even harder to stay tight and stay controlled shit.
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To keep position and keep dominant positions and all that grease and sweat and all that Vaseline all over your fucking eyes and all over your back and all over your fucking arms.
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We said Vaseline, and I'm like, this party's live.
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And when I train six, it's about fucking sprints.
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That's where the cardio's coming, not the rounds you're sparring in.
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If this guy wins and Trump is president, America has gone crazy.
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He's turning it into a grappling match and he looks like he's getting the better of these positions.
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He rolled him and Elliot stayed on top the entire time.
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I've never seen Johnson kind of like, God, what the hell do I do here?
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The stereotype of white people getting their guard pass, I'm sick of it.
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And I'm gonna fucking stand up, and right here on the Joe Rogan Experience, I'm not gonna stand for it, okay?
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White people, Mexicans get passed, what about that?
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It's tough because Elliot was winning earlier this round.
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He's very good off of his back, I'll tell you that.
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But look at this shit he does right in front of side control.
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Triangles his own arm, traps Mighty Mouse, makes it so Mighty Mouse can't do shit.
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And Mighty Mouse is almost kind of complaining.
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I'm going to let you loose so you can hit me?
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I haven't seen someone do that effectively in a world championship fight.
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If he would've just had a nice fuckin' Brendan Schraub, little fuckin'...
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They thought that Tim Elliott was out of his league.
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So, all bullshit aside, we're joking around here, and if you listen to anything that we say tonight, and you think, oh my god, their opinions are so fucked up, we're intoxicated, and we're not serious.
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So, you need to know, like, if you're looking at the actual fight itself, this is a great, great fight, and Tim Elliott deserves all the respect in the world.
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Even if he loses this fight, I'm not saying he's gonna lose, but if he does, you have to rank him in the top five.
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You can't change your stance now, it's too late.
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You can't change your stance in the middle of the fight.
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I'm just saying, my mouse isn't pound for pound number one anyway.
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Well, you are based on what you've seen, like the results inside the octagon.
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And in this fight, he's getting dominated in ground exchanges by Tim Mellion.
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If you want to be objective, you have to add that in.
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You'd have to, like, who are the other guys besides Dominick Cruz?
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And Dominick Cruz, of course, you're really only doing it based on his past record, the TJ victory, and then the domination over Uriah Faber, right?
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Other than them, who else is in the running other than John?
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That's the new great white hope right there.
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The highest white guys in MMA. Michael Bisping.
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The highest ranked white guys in the UFC. You should fucking know.
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Number one white guy in the UFC. American white guy.
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I'm talking about the highest white guy in the UFC. He's not the highest white guy.
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Look, classically, the heavyweight has always been the guy who could beat everybody below him.
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Is there any other white guy, American white guy, who holds a belt?
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They don't have white weight classes because the small guy is too fast for the big guy.
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They have weight classes because the big guy is too big for the small guy.
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Is there another white guy that holds a belt in the UFC? Answer me that.
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He's a good niece to the shoulders in the back, man.
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I like how you guys went silent when you couldn't name another American white guy with a belt.
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Like, if you could describe it, if you could break down that position.
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His left arm needs to be on Demetrius Johnson's left shoulder, on the left side of his neck.
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If his left arm is on the other side of Demetrius head, That's a bad spot.
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Do you ever hit that darts from when guys pass into your side control?
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Do you ever let guys out of half guard into side control to catch that darts?
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What I would do, I can't just say what I would do.
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I'm not asking right here, but I'm asking, do you like, guys?
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Do you know that Jeff Glover, he loves that position?
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Here's one that no one talks about, but they should.
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He's the most wins in the UFC. He's great, but he's also been fighting a long time, but he's also lost handedly, whereas Anderson Silva's lost once.
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People deny it based on bad experiences that he had inside the Octagon.
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But his best experience inside the Octagon was the Luke Rockhold fight, which is goddamn spectacular.
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But he also got completely demolished the first fight.
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Kellen, in your boy's defense, he just said the most brilliant thing ever.
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Can you imagine how hard it would be to be the champ right now at one fucking 85?
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He shot in for the takedown and he got him down!
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I'm literally so unprejudiced I can't tell who's black or white.
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I don't care if no one's green or purple or orange.
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You should've thought about that before you get a mouth off.
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It looks like he just wants to watch TV right now, right?
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Doesn't it look like he wants to watch Netflix?
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Demetrius has dominated, has controlled him, Elliot.
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I think it's more of like he's just trying to be who he wants to be.
03:16:59.000
We've got to find out what's the amount that turns you into a gremlin.
03:17:14.000
No, when this fight's over, I want you to release the fucking gremlins.
0.85
03:17:26.000
I think to all of us, it seems like all of us are talking over everybody.
03:17:34.000
Let's just watch the last two and a half minutes of this fight.
0.94
03:17:48.000
We got, what the fuck is, this is like Romero Duran versus Aaron Pryor.
03:17:53.000
Look at these, passing on the left, hops over, Mighty Mouse.
03:18:00.000
Demelia gets that knee back in play again.
0.97
03:18:06.000
People are like, oh, they're just trying to buttfuck each other.
03:18:17.000
It's going to be interesting because for Mighty Mouse, you know, he was putting Elliot in danger more than Elliot was putting him in danger other than that one time.
03:18:42.000
If he just really puts all this weight on his hand instead of the wrist, that's even better.
03:18:50.000
In that position, when you pin that hand down, a lot of people like to pin that wrist down.
03:18:56.000
Because when you grab that hand and you pin it down, they can't move that arm at all.
03:19:14.000
Dude, how about to find Mighty Mouse's opponent?
03:19:52.000
You get energy when you know there's only a minute left, though.
03:20:05.000
It's gonna go over with him with double X-lock here.
03:20:09.000
If he would've went to the Damien Maia strategy, just straight up, forget the Kimura, forget the armbar, let's just get the top half, and then get knee free, and then go to three-point world.
03:20:20.000
Elliot, win or lose is a winner in that fight, because now fans are like, holy shit, this guy's legit.
03:20:28.000
You gotta rank him in the top five, Cheeto Fingers.
03:20:57.000
I was talking a lot of shit during that fight and barely paying attention to 80% of it.
03:21:03.000
He was in trouble in the early rounds, but he definitely controlled the fight.
03:21:06.000
Well, if I looked at moments where it looked like he was getting the better of it, I would give him the advantage, but there was definitely a few moments.
03:21:17.000
Whether he won or lost or whoever, whatever, Was that the toughest challenge for Demetrius Johnson?
03:21:41.000
It's four rounds to one, though, in this fight.
03:22:03.000
At this stage in a guy's career, how many challenges does he have other than Elliott?
03:22:17.000
I think Cejudo would be different the second time.
03:22:21.000
But you can't do Cejudo now because Benavidez just won.
03:22:27.000
Cejudo's always going to be the mix because that was a close fight.
03:22:31.000
That was no domination with Benavidez and Cejudo.
03:22:39.000
I know, but I know for a fact, 100% for a fact, Cejudo, he is improving on a daily basis, and that's what he's about.
03:23:06.000
However, I did not want to speak because I know I wasn't paying attention to at least 30% of that fight.
03:23:15.000
Elliot fought a hell of a fight, and Elliot is as tough as a human being gets.
03:24:17.000
If that would have been Geo, should Geo put that in?
03:24:57.000
Man, I'm just ready to get back to the next one.
03:24:59.000
For that first round, how close do you think you were to realize when you got to the flyweight title?
03:25:06.000
Even this fight, even though I was down when the time ran out.
03:25:31.000
The play-by-play guys, John, always would do, overall, would crush.
03:25:36.000
Can you remember if there was a competition, who's going to do post-fight interviews?
03:25:47.000
The color guys, when it comes to thinking on your goddamn feet, play-by-play guys, you need those guys.
03:25:53.000
Because the post-fight interviews, it got all fucked up because of you.
03:25:58.000
Because you were so good at, you were the color guy, and you could do the play-by-play shit.
03:26:05.000
Other promoters thought that you get the color guy to go into the cage and do the post-fight interviews.
03:26:12.000
And they all are terrible because that's the hardest thing to do, the post-fight interviews.
03:26:16.000
You've got 30 seconds to come up with a question that's going to be on TV and it's got to be the best question ever.
03:26:22.000
The play-by-play guy is always going to crush the color guy.
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03:26:25.000
Those dudes are professional broadcasters, traffic cops.
03:26:37.000
I was a guest commentator and he was a play-by-play guy.
03:26:41.000
I looked over at TJ and I'm like, you want to fucking work for EBI? Holy shit.
03:26:57.000
He'll just grab a mic and go, let's do a piece right now.
03:27:01.000
He goes out of his way to do pieces in front of the camera.
03:27:14.000
Shout out to TJ. I like TJ. I love TJ to death.
03:27:26.000
I feel like I had a good story that I totally forgot now.
03:27:36.000
Meanwhile, she probably just got to senior year.
03:27:44.000
Who has been getting such important people on his podcast, like Jordan B. Peterson.
03:27:49.000
Is he one of the mainstream guys that you're into?
03:27:56.000
If it's scientific and you're into it, Eddie, he voted for Hillary.
03:28:15.000
Brian Callan with a Y, B-R-Y-A-N Callan, Brendan Schaub.
03:28:21.000
Don't call him Brandon like Eddie Bravo, even though he's known him for a fucking decade.
03:28:31.000
T-Fact K is now free of the Fox and Billupel cords.
03:28:43.000
EBI, best grappling fucking tournaments on the planet Earth.