JRE MMA Show #36 with Brendan Schaub & Bryan Callen
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In this episode, the boys talk about the Da Vinci Code, fluoride in the water, and whether or not fluoride is good for tooth decay. Also, a guy who thinks he knows what's wrong with da vincis and a guy that thinks he might be gay. Also, there's a new segment called Conspiracy Theories, hosted by John Rocha and Matt Knost, where they try to figure out what's going on in the minds of people around the world and try to make sense of it. If you like conspiracy theories, this episode is for you. This episode was produced by Riley Bray and edited by Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to our sponsor, Amazon Prime and VaynerSpeakers. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Art by Mackenzie Moore. Mix of Lee Rosevere and Hayden Coplen. Cover art by Ian Dorsch. The theme of our new album is Come Alone by Suneaters, courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Our ad music is by Haley Shaw. We are working on transcribing this episode of the podcast and putting it on SoundCloud. Please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your music choices. Please be sure to tag us in the comments section, and we'll get a shoutout. Thank you for listening to this episode! if you like it, rating, reviewing it and reviewing it on iTunes, and sharing it on your podcast, and/or sharing it with your friends, we'll consider it on social media or whatever else we're listening to it on the next episode of this podcast we do it :) and/ or sharing it in the next week's podcast, we're looking forward to your thoughts/tweet us a review/tweebay or whatever we post it on Insta story, etc. etc. etc., etc. Thank you! - your feedback is also appreciated. - Tom Hanks. Cheers, Sarah, Sarah and John Ralden, Sarah is . - Sarah, Caitlyn, & Sarah, Michael, , , and the evergreen ( ) of course, and Sarah, of course you can do more of this, and all of that, too, and much more.
Transcript
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So we get here, and young Jamie is obsessed with whether or not Leonardo da Vinci is gay.
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And so he says it to Callan, and then Callan says...
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The Mona Lisa has a mischievous smile on her face.
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And apparently, according to art historians, I believe that is a self-portrait.
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And that's why he is looking back at you with sort of a wry smirk.
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Young Jamie, please pull up a photograph of the masterpiece.
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At least Dan Brown, his book, The Da Vinci Code, actually talks about it.
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Dan Brown, I think, is a professor of theology at Harvard, or something like that.
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I see a chick who lives in a place where the food sucks and her teeth are probably all fucked up.
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Do you know that people did have bad teeth back then?
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But the majority of the teeth problems that we have in this country have to do with sugar.
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I thought it was the water, the fluoride in the water.
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That fluoride in the water thing is so sketchy.
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Have you ever looked into whether or not fluoride should be in the water?
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Well, I know that in the 50s, Colorado had a high concentration of fluoride in its water, and apparently...
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Apparently, Brad smokes weed and turns into the fucking professor.
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Apparently, if I could get my poker out, I'm going to poke at the board.
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But I think it came out of Colorado where there was high concentrations of fluoride in the water.
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And then what happened was they go, well, there's a cluster of people who are not getting cavities.
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And so apparently fluoride is effective at keeping cavities at bay.
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Not so much overseas, but I definitely didn't brush my teeth a lot and I didn't have fluoride.
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Well, let's Google whether or not there's evidence that fluoride is good for tooth decay.
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The problem is the hippie articles confuse you because it'll say naturalnewsletter.com.
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You don't know, man, because there's people that get all homeopathic on you and you're like, okay, is this guy right?
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Okay, now I've got to look up the actual studies.
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Okay, now I've got to read this three times because I'm stupid and I can't figure out how to decipher it.
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No evidence that fluoridated water causes cavities.
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Now, I've posted articles from Mercola.com, and people go, oh, that guy's amazing.
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And then other people go, oh, that guy's a fraud.
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Like he's a doctor, but that doesn't mean he's an expert on the gay or on looking at the hard evidence behind Florida.
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Go to the American Dental Association, Florida and Water.
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More than 70 years of scientific research has consistently shown that an optimal level of fluoride in community water is safe and effective in preventing tooth decay.
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By at least 25% of both children and adults, simply by drinking water, Americans can benefit from fluorides, cavity protection, without their homework or school.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named Community Water Fluoridation, one of ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.
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Now, go to the one that says there's no evidence.
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Remember what the food pyramid used to look like?
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A comprehensive review by the Cochrane Collaboration found water fluoridation may not prevent cavities.
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In a review of every fluoridation study they could find, only three since...
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I know you guys like to talk over each other, but let's try not to do that.
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Only three studies since 1975 looked at the effectiveness of water fluoridation at reducing tooth decay among the general population and had high enough quality to be included.
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The studies found fluoridation does not reduce cavities to a statistically significant degree in permanent teeth.
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In the two studies since 1975 that examined the effectiveness of fluoridation in reducing cavities in baby teeth, no significant reduction was noted there either.
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What's going on in my head right now is I go, I'm thinking, this is why Google is not a place to go for information a lot of times.
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This is why peer-reviewed papers are so important.
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This is why really valuable journalists, scientific journalists especially, are important.
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Fucking morons like us, we don't know who's right.
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We just said something and people are going, well, know what?
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So I feel like we have to get to the bottom of this.
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I said to my idol, I had all this metal in my teeth, right?
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And my dentist, I was like, look, man, I've got to get it out.
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And he said, I know, I was on that study panel.
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And if you look at the massive number of people that have metal in their mouth, you would be able to draw some pretty broad-based conclusions because you have such a huge human pool.
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Is this the same dentist who said your teeth are straight?
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No, this is a different one, and I'm wearing my Invisalign, so I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't go after my teeth, because they're going to be amazing.
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I'm wearing them right now, and you can't tell.
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Remember when Tom Cruise was like 50 and he got braces?
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Dude, I'll get us a three-for-one deal up in a four-for-one.
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If you look at the good ones, you're like, God damn, your teeth are fucking fantastic.
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See, I don't know if that is veneers or braces.
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And I think the one on the left is just, it could be photoshopped.
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Those front ones have been knocked out and those are fake.
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This is like 1986. Yeah, and I'm saying the rest of his teeth are the color yellow, and the middle ones are white.
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You're judging whether or not that's his teeth color.
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You literally can't see his right eye because he's in so much shadow.
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Today they can make those teeth perfect like that.
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Dude, if you had bad teeth back then, if you had fake teeth, they looked fake as fuck.
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His teeth, I will say this, his teeth were off-center.
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Like, you know, the middle teeth, they were kind of pushed over to the right.
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56, still doing action movies, still does his own stunts, jumps from building to building, breaks his ankle in filming.
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Apparently this Mission Impossible movie is a motherfucker.
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He jumps off this and breaks his fucking ankle.
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You ain't ready for that, B. You want to be a worldwide action hero?
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Homeboy slammed that concrete into his dick bone.
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That's why you have to have a stuntman, because you're going to get hurt.
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He might have a dark wish for the end of one of those movies.
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I feel like people discredit him because of the Scientology stuff.
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But listen, the Scientology thing is just how he gets by.
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There's a lot of people that have their own ideologies, whether they believe it or not.
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There's a lot of conservative former actors that are super conservative that are on Twitter.
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Everyone's wrapped up in this own little thing.
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His thing is just crazy as fuck by a guy who was a science fiction author who wore a fucking captain's coat on with a bunch of medals he gave himself.
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John Travolta's done some silly nonsense, but he's also done pulp fucking fiction.
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The one when they cut the face off and put it on the other person?
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The bone structure magically changes, and Nick Cage looks like John Travolta.
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Okay, what would it happen if Brian took his face off and put it on you?
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First of all, your head's way bigger, so your skin would be like some 60-year-old lady from Bel-Air.
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Those 60-year-old ladies where their mouth looks like it's so big it can eat your head?
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Because they've been pulling their skin back to their mouth as like a joker?
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Remember what you used to make fun of me for taking acting class?
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And I stayed in acting class for eight years longer than I needed to because I love a train wreck.
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And the curtain comes up and one guy's hanging from a chain and the other guy's torturing him.
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And then Jeffrey Tamber just takes a sip of his coffee and he goes, what was that scene?
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He goes, it's a movie, it's an action movie with John Travolta and Nick Cage and Jeffrey Zimmer goes, that scene is banned forever.
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God, his actual fucking I heard this Gotti movie's terrible.
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Dude, I heard it's like the worst movie of all time.
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Okay, let's just Google how bad is the Gotti movie.
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Did you see him in the O.J. Simpson on FX? Yeah.
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Tom Cruise has done, from End of Days even, like all those movies he didn't even do.
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We've talked about this before, they changed the name.
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Because the marketing, because it came out, because the original marketing was Edge of Tomorrow, whatever the fuck.
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And then people were like, no one showed up to it, but the people that went were like, that's like the greatest movie ever.
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They're like, hold up, we need to relabel this thing.
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Then they relabeled it, and that movie's fucking, that might be his best movie.
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It is one of the most underrated science fiction movies ever.
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And if you're a sci-fi fan and you avoided it just because, oh, it's a Tom Cruise movie, you fucked up.
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I did a reading with him one time, and in the reading, it was literally me, him, Eric Stoltz, Amy Smart.
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And I was reading all the parts opposite him and they were trying to get Owen Wilson.
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So I was right next to him and I spent, I don't know, maybe three hours with him.
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Like just Todd Phillips and a couple of actors.
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He, in the reading, like in the reading as you're just doing it, Acting full out.
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And almost like his eyes were watery at one point where everything's like all the chips are down the scene.
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And I was just like, this fucking dude is amazing.
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Five pieces of sashimi with a tiny little pepper on each one and some penta water.
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And then he wanted to hear what all of us thought of the script, what our suggestions were.
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His mouth moves in an O. You can be like, I think I was a little confused in the beginning.
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He can put you in the new Mission Impossible or some shit.
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But I wouldn't show up and I'd be like, yeah, of course I will.
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Yeah, they would get mad that you weren't showing up.
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But if you did show up and you charmed people there and just rubbed backs and tell everybody that you loved them.
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I was in the class for 10 years that is cited in the book by Going Clear.
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We were in like a neighboring dimension watching reality through a dirty mirror.
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I drove by the one in, it's kind of like the Silver Lake area, Hollywood.
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What's good about crazy and about being, like, if you have a fucking purpose in life, man, it doesn't have to be rational.
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But if you have a purpose, if you have a clear directive in terms of L. Ron Hubbard says this, so I'm just going to listen, and I'm going to push forward, and I'm going to stay positive, and I'm going to avoid the negative people, and I'm going to use all these tools in order to maximize my performance.
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And by the way, if you read anything about- By the way, when Callan's around, I started saying, by the way.
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If you read anything about L. Ron Hubbard, they essentially think that he was self-healing.
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Yeah, he was having real- He took an inventory of how his brain works.
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He took a detailed inventory over many years of how the minutia of his brain worked.
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So that's why some of it, he borrowed a lot of old wisdoms and stuff, but some of it works.
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I love you made everyone wear like navy fucking outfits.
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Like the commanders were like in navy fucking outfits.
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But if you think about it, Christianity focused the European and American mind for a long time.
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Everybody was on the same page, and it was very easy to kind of move things forward as a uniform body.
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Nobody kind of disputed what the truth was until that's a recent invention.
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With Hubbard, I feel like with Scientology, I'm pretty sure their sign-ups are going down because of research and with everyone coming out now.
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Apparently that little dude there will whoop your ass, too.
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Yeah, like if you're like, oh, sorry, sir, your ham sandwich is fucked up today, you beat your ass in front of everyone.
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His dad and also on the documentary talk about how abusive he is.
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That's the thing that made me the most sad, that the dad and the son don't talk to each other over some nonsense.
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The best thing I ever heard was a guy I knew who was a teacher and he was a Scientologist and had been for 23 years.
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I've taken classes there for 20 years, and I've found enormous benefit from some of them, and some of them I've paid money for.
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And I put into practice some of the courses and stuff.
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So if that makes me a Scientologist, I guess I am.
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There's a lot of things that are like that that have some nonsense in them.
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But I think people operate really well when they have a scaffolding, like a structure that they have to follow.
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They think there's a positive action to their directive and that there's going to be some grand plan that they fit into perfectly because of their work.
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I mean, Leah Remini, she is the worst fucking person to do this to.
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She doesn't give a fuck, and she likes being that girl.
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It's almost like she was designed, because it didn't make sense that she was in Scientology to begin with when I met her.
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Because when I met her, she's like this take-no-bullshit East Coast chick who's also beautiful.
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I had such a crush on her in Saved by the Bell.
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Like, she's got all this, like, brass and the way...
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She got sold a bill of goods, and so she was like, wait a minute.
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Well, I think people want something that makes it.
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I was at home, chilling in my apartment in North Hollywood, and I was like, damn, this sounds like they're making a lot of sense here.
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You gotta think, you don't really remember before the internet.
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I was here as a grown man when the internet hit in 1994. But before that, you would get late night infomercials.
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Yeah, when I met Brian, he didn't have a phone.
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But I'm just telling you, this is, Dianetics was something you'd see on late night television.
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No, but it's just, with all of us, no one really knew.
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We never thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone or any of those people were doing steroids.
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When I saw Rambo 2, I just thought that was from weightlifting.
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No, I knew a dude who did steroids when I was in high school.
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I was like, dude, how did they get so fucking cut?
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Maybe because I wasn't in the workout world, but I mean...
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Here's the thing is, man, you could find out, like, okay, what is Scientology based on?
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You could find in, okay, does chiropractic medicine work?
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You could Google stuff now, and you could look, okay, does fluoride cure cavities?
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We didn't get an answer, but we might be able to at least get a sense.
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And you also get a sense of, like, here's the critics of Mercola.
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Here's the critics of this naturopathic site that might say some unfounded things about vaccinations or about something.
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In 94, dude, when I came out, we didn't have a chance.
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I had a fucking vinyl thing, and you open it up, and you have all these different cassettes, and I would listen to those by the pool in my shitty apartment in Revere.
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Now there's a bunch of people trying to do this shit.
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It's the same thing as with musicians or with carpenters or with comedians.
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There's people that are just kind of bumbling through it, and there's people that kill it.
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And when it comes to the self-help, personal growth type shit, he kills it.
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People are so goofy that, you know, he does those cold walk things.
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These dumb motherfuckers are trying to take selfies while they're cold walking and they're burning their feet off.
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Because these stupid fucks actually believe that the power of their will is keeping them from...
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It's like a really hot pan will fuck you up way quicker than Kohl's.
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If you have some calluses on your feet and you move quick enough, you won't get burnt.
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They just stood there and said, And they're like, oh shit.
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By the way, that's so inconvenient because you can't walk anywhere.
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He was hiking at night and jumped off of like a cliff and landed on his feet and broke both of his feet.
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Fucking A. He jumped and landed like 10 feet below.
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There was another person I know that fell at night and they...
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I'm thinking of a second guy who also fell on cliffs.
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I think he was in crutches for like six months.
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And he talks about, and this apparently was a practice.
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Sometimes there was a tribe this cowboy gets captured by these Native Americans and the Americans killed his whole posse And then they take him and they take his feet his shoes off and they just cut the first layer of his Feet off they kind of give a nice shaving so that just the soles of his feet are taken off and And so he would have to crawl back into town to explain to them who the fuck was out there.
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He says, the second I landed, I knew I broke both my heels.
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So with the help of my friend who had to hike around the other way after we decided the jump may not be the best idea, I had to spend the next two hours scooting down the mountain on my butt, hands, and right toes until we got to a flat enough surface where he and some strangers could carry me to his car.
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He and his wife then had to go a couple of hospitals until we found an ER that was not too busy to see me.
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My favorite part is, you know, it was my birthday, quick hike, have some sushi, catch a movie, pretty low-key night.
00:28:25.000
Okay, so he, look at this, the shortcut I'd want to try involved jumping off a cliff that was about 11 feet.
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I was wearing some barefoot running shoes that were not appropriate for landing, and I thought it would be too high of a jump.
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We looked into it for a few minutes and talked about it, and then we decided to go for it because we were dumb guys, and that's the sort of thing that dumb guys do.
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So he jumped 11 feet onto fucking rock in barefoot shoes and smashed his feet.
00:29:04.000
We're going to have to try to set your ankle because that's not a complicated joint.
00:29:11.000
Think about how tall 11 feet is and then jumping from that down to rocks.
00:29:16.000
Dude, I don't even like running in those barefoot shoes.
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I run on them, but I got to be careful where I step.
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You can't step on a jagged rock because it goes...
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Whereas if you're wearing something like these, these are trail running shoes, I run these, I can step on anything with these fucking things.
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So I alternate when I trail run, I alternate with shoes like this, that I can just run on anything, and then those Vibrams or the Vivo barefoot ones, but you gotta be careful with those things.
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Breaking your feet or your ankles or your legs.
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Man, you break your elbow, you're like, shit, it broke my elbow.
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But you can get a blister, apparently, in the wrong place when you're hiking way up in the mountains, and it can kill you.
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John Wayne Parr got a blister on his foot, or in his heel.
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It infected, and he missed his daughter's fight and had to stay in a hospital in Thailand and get IV antibiotics.
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It must have been so bad, because John's a knight.
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I mean, you know, and he basically, he started his whole career in Thailand, practically.
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Like, you gotta be careful with your feet, man.
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My brothers were so bad when he was in high school.
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They had to take needles, numb his fucking, underneath his toenail, and then yank his toenails off.
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And then singe the top so the toenail doesn't grow back.
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So it just looks like the bottom of your, his foot looks like the bottom of your foot.
00:31:09.000
But that was because they were ingrown, or was there a fungus?
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My dad's got some nails, and under those nails is about 78 years of fungus.
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He's got nails, I mean, about as thick as the lid of this table right here.
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And their ashy ass heels that are all cracking.
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So I opened up for Brian in Chicago and I do like this dirty bit right in the back and his mom and his dad, I'm like, oh, it hit me right when they walked in.
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I just did that in front of Brian's mom, dad, his two kids and his wife.
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So when you do this now, is this a self-funded thing?
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But they did such a good job, and I captured everything I wanted to, so I'm pumped.
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Such a history of events where improv was invented.
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It's got a bit of Midwest politeness and it's got a big city mentality all together.
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It's a weird spot because it's like a little bit of both.
00:33:30.000
I mean, they looked at pizza when they went, this is not unhealthy enough.
00:33:41.000
Oh my god, Chicago's now America's rat capital.
00:33:44.000
Chicago beats out New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C. as America's rat capital.
00:33:59.000
How do they really know how many rats there are in New York?
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Chicago, known for being bitches more than here.
00:34:27.000
Dude, my buddy bought a building in New York and he had to clean it out in the basement.
00:34:32.000
Jimmy Burke told me, my buddy Steve Shucker, was coming out when they were killing them.
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They were coming out with garbage bags, the industrial-sized garbage bags full of rats, and they did it for three days.
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Yeah, a little cutie that someone's got as a pet.
00:35:05.000
I think they decided that it was actually the fleas that were on the rats that carried the plague.
00:35:13.000
Right, but that's like we carried the bubonic plague.
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You know, we always look to like, oh, it's swine flu, bro.
00:35:24.000
Giant rat bigger than a dog near the playground.
00:35:38.000
You know, they're starting to see those in Texas now.
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They're spreading across the lower part of this country.
00:36:06.000
Once they're there, it's real difficult to shake them off.
00:36:09.000
Ranella actually had an episode of his podcast about a place where they were killing off the nutria and how they figured out how to do it.
00:36:29.000
We went to one of those tiger sanctuary things.
00:36:33.000
Oh, were they on, like, night crew or some shit?
00:36:40.000
Well, first of all, because the babies, they'll let you touch the babies first.
00:36:46.000
You can package the baby package or the young lion package or the giant lion package.
00:36:54.000
These little cute things, but they're super like playful and active and big.
00:36:59.000
And then you get to like a little bigger and they seem to be behaving normal and they have a bunch of trainers in there with them.
00:37:05.000
And then you get to the big ones and the big ones are fucking doped out of their mind.
00:37:12.000
So they're just laying there like this, like looking at you.
00:37:18.000
And people lay next to them and hug them and take pictures with them.
00:37:35.000
But when we were there, the oldest we got to was a nine-month cat.
00:37:40.000
And that cat does not seem like it's drugged up at all.
00:37:52.000
But it's like a seven-month, eight-month, nine-month cat, and they're big like a dog.
00:38:00.000
Right, like, you ever see a mastiff at six months?
00:38:05.000
So this thing is bigger than that, you know, probably 175 pounds, something like that, 200 pounds, and it's just hanging around, and they have all these trainers that are just, like, around the cat all the time.
00:38:15.000
We're like, what in the fuck are we doing here?
00:38:17.000
What are they going to do if that cat's like, you know what?
00:38:23.000
The cats are listening to them for the most part.
00:38:29.000
Yeah, and they have these things in these cages.
00:38:31.000
And then there was other ones that clearly weren't drugged up.
00:38:34.000
Like you pass by one cage, and this one's just walking back and forth and pacing and looking at you and looking at everybody.
00:38:45.000
Yeah, and these other ones are just dragged down like this.
00:39:06.000
Yeah, the bear gallbladder is apparently such an issue that some Asian countries want bear gallbladder.
00:39:14.000
It's supposed to have some weird properties to it.
00:39:20.000
But it's so bad that in British Columbia, if you hunt bear, like say if you hunt a black bear, you're not allowed to open up the body cavity.
00:39:26.000
Okay, you have to take the meat off the outside.
00:39:30.000
Yeah, they have a law against it because they don't want people harvesting bear gallbladders and they don't want people killing them.
00:39:37.000
Bare bile does have medicinal uses, but there are cruelty-free alternatives.
00:39:41.000
Bare bile has been used in traditional Asian medicine for thousands of years.
00:39:45.000
It contains high levels of, good luck with this word, ursodeoxycholic acid, known to be useful for treating liver and gallbladder conditions.
00:39:59.000
But I had friends that were bear hunting, and people were asking them for the gallbladders, and they were like, it's illegal.
00:40:12.000
If you get caught with it, it's like you're getting caught with something.
00:40:16.000
It's not legal to possess a part of an animal that it's legal for you to kill it.
00:40:38.000
Because so many people want it that they made it illegal to have it.
00:40:44.000
It's one of the compounds or whatever it is that's used.
00:40:50.000
Nobody will want to have anything to do with you.
00:40:58.000
Bile was always a traditional medicine that actually worked.
00:41:04.000
The elephant was a really positive experience because the elephants are in a rehab center where they actually reintroduce them back to the wild.
00:41:11.000
And we see the way these people, first of all, they're not contained.
00:41:23.000
Yeah, the people are all there with them, taking care of them, feeding them.
00:41:28.000
They're constantly giving them sugarcane, washing them, cleaning them.
00:41:31.000
And when you're there, they document, they're trying to explain how all the money that you pay for to experience hanging out with these elephants for a day goes to rehabilitation.
00:41:43.000
It goes to food, and they've reintroduced seven elephants into the wild through this one facility, which is giant.
00:41:55.000
And so where these people are, the forest is like super dense, man.
00:41:59.000
And the elephants just wander through the forest eating whatever the fuck they want.
00:42:13.000
Look, they're basically living like they would in the wild.
00:42:16.000
So it's not a giant stretch to take them and reintroduce them to a place as long as there's food.
00:42:30.000
There's 600 muscles in their trunk alone and no bones.
00:42:41.000
When you're around them and you realize, like, oh, God.
00:42:47.000
Like, it's sketchy because you worry, well, what if they fall?
00:42:50.000
Like, one of them slipped a little bit and caught itself.
00:42:56.000
But it's a possibility that you could fall off of a fucking elephant, which you're ten feet up.
00:43:02.000
I mean, these are, some of them, this one lady had a, I had a female that I was riding.
00:43:08.000
This one lady, and you're only riding it for like 20 minutes.
00:43:15.000
They put a rope around the waist and you hold onto the rope.
00:43:19.000
It's like loosely around the, you're barely on, man.
00:43:23.000
And if they wanted you off, you're off instantly.
00:43:30.000
The one I had was giant, and the one this lady had next to me was literally 30%, 40% larger than hers.
00:43:40.000
And when it trumpets, when it just decided to...
00:43:42.000
Like right next to everybody, everybody went...
00:43:53.000
And this elephant is moving through the mist in the forest and just eating whatever it wants with these giant white tusks.
00:44:09.000
Have you seen the video where there's a bull elephant hitting a Mack truck?
00:44:17.000
They've had a bunch of them in India where they get tired of being abused and they just go nuts.
00:44:26.000
First of all, you're feeding them with your hands.
00:44:28.000
You know, when we give them a sugar cane, you're so scared because his mouth is giant.
00:44:33.000
But you put it in there and they're just super gentle, man.
00:44:45.000
They just grab shit with that thing and rip it out of the roots.
00:44:49.000
Snap things like logs and shit with their trunks.
00:44:53.000
And they say they can feel like what humans feel.
00:44:57.000
Yeah, well, they definitely have incredible memories because there was one video of an elephant meeting an elephant that had been separated from for 20 years.
00:45:05.000
And they met each other and they run to each other and they're bouncing around.
00:45:11.000
They're like this really calm, weird animal that eats everything, dude.
00:45:16.000
You realize, like, one of the things I was thinking, I was like, imagine if you had one of these that lived in your yard.
00:45:22.000
And this is the problem that people have in Africa.
00:45:25.000
Okay, I'm a giant fan of elephants, but if you're a poor farmer and you live in this...
00:45:40.000
You have your little boy, and your little boy's going to go hungry now because these elephants just want to eat whatever the fuck...
00:45:48.000
Well, this is the argument for controlling some of the population.
00:45:53.000
Because we always think, we say, oh, elephants are endangered.
00:45:59.000
But in other places, in certain areas, they have large populations.
00:46:04.000
I mean, have you ever seen the map where they take America and they put it inside of Africa?
00:46:20.000
Because you maybe could grab them and capture them and move them.
00:46:25.000
But that's how they do it when they put them in a zoo.
00:46:28.000
I mean, there has to be some capturing and moving.
00:46:29.000
You go a very short distance with that and you have to tranquilize them.
00:46:45.000
It has all of China in it, all of the United States.
00:47:11.000
Imagine if we are over here in California, and we're like, yeah, I don't see any fucking elephants.
00:47:17.000
Meanwhile, in New York, they're just getting trampled to death through Manhattan.
00:47:31.000
Meanwhile, your granny's getting stomped to death.
00:47:34.000
But there's very little continuous habitat for the migrations, apparently.
00:47:41.000
I think there's a lot of problems with the places where they're underpopulated, the places where they're overpopulated.
00:47:51.000
It would be really nice if people could figure out a way to live in peace with it.
00:48:00.000
I was watching this on Animal Planet or some shit, but you know how they take out the bull elephants and people are cool with it?
00:48:05.000
Like, oh, because they kill the smaller ones or they fuck things up.
00:48:09.000
They were saying the problem with that with elephants is those older ones know the path to water and where to go.
00:48:17.000
The other ones don't know where the fuck to go.
00:48:18.000
They also teach the younger ones how to behave.
00:48:20.000
So they watch their, like, pass once you take out the bull, and they're fucked.
00:48:24.000
Because they're saying the older ones have so much knowledge to drop on these little bastards.
00:48:28.000
We have certain animals that we get super mad if someone kills.
00:48:30.000
An elephant is one of them, and a giraffe is another one.
00:48:33.000
Fuck yeah, because they're not, you know, they're not predators.
00:48:36.000
You know what I read about that giraffe that that lady killed and she got in trouble?
00:48:47.000
So that's how they get a person like that to do it.
00:48:49.000
The only other option is they could take it and put it in some sort of a zoo, but it was a non-viable male.
00:48:55.000
And when non-viable males are around young males, apparently they kill them.
00:48:58.000
They also don't mention that that revenue, you pay a lot of money to kill those.
00:49:04.000
That revenue goes back into the community there.
00:49:08.000
And I guess there's no such thing as a black giraffe.
00:49:14.000
But it's really rare that an animal in the wild gets to 18 years old.
00:49:20.000
But again, when you kill off that big male, he had a lot of knowledge to drop on these other little dumb ass rats.
00:49:29.000
That's the reason why that Corey Knowlton, I think that was his name, he got in trouble for shooting that rhino.
00:49:40.000
They were going to have to kill it because it had killed a male and it had killed a female.
00:49:45.000
Killed a male breeding her and it killed a young, no, killed a female breeding her and it killed a young male.
00:49:51.000
This thing was so old he paid I think $391,000.
00:50:05.000
Not what you think when you think of a guy who does something like that.
00:50:10.000
But is nature not going to take care of itself with these rhinos and the giraffes?
00:50:15.000
The rhinos are so endangered that it's very dangerous to just let nature play its course out.
00:50:21.000
If you really go over the list of animals that have been extinct just while we've been alive, you don't think about it, but there's been a lot.
00:50:29.000
And then if you look over the course of human history, fuck, man, a lot of animals have gone extinct while we've been alive.
00:50:36.000
They're not living in a natural habitat anyway.
00:50:38.000
Their habitat has been so fucked with to begin with.
00:50:43.000
Back in the day, yes, nature would have found its way, but when you have...
00:50:46.000
The thing is, this guy's 300 grand or whatever it is, that's going to go directly into keeping those other ones alive.
00:50:52.000
They're going to have money for the scientists, they're going to have money for anti-poaching efforts.
00:50:59.000
Your natural instinct when they post on the gram, like, oh, just fucking kill this black giraffe, it's like, god damn, bitch.
00:51:05.000
Right, and why would you want to shoot a giraffe?
00:51:11.000
But it's more complicated than you think it is.
00:51:17.000
You know those poachers that were killed by those lions?
00:51:25.000
I think they got shot by poachers, and the poachers were like, it's a lot easier just to say that they got eaten by lions.
00:51:31.000
Well, I will tell you as a fact, I know people that have gone over there to hunt, and they just shoot at poachers.
00:51:46.000
So you know for a fact there are certain hunters that go there and kill poachers.
00:51:53.000
But I'm saying that the people that are the professionals that work on those giant ranches, like there's a lot of these private hunting ranches that are hundreds of thousands of acres even and they're all fenced in and people get inside and they poach.
00:52:09.000
You know, it means they're starving a lot of times, and they're trying to do whatever the fuck they can to make money.
00:52:13.000
Whether they can make money by chopping off a rhino horn, or they make money by selling meat from some antelope that they shot they weren't supposed to shoot.
00:52:20.000
But my point is that people have told me that they know of...
00:52:29.000
Like you would shoot at a rat or a coyote or something that was trying to eat your chickens or something like that.
00:52:35.000
Then of course you shoot them and the lion's going to come along.
00:52:40.000
My friend who was over there said he couldn't believe it.
00:52:49.000
They're also part of, some of them are organized gangs.
00:52:53.000
You know, it's one of those things where you're like, what would you do if you were in that village?
00:53:05.000
Well, how about malaria, which has killed half of the people that have ever died ever?
00:53:27.000
Like, as far as, like, getting in between you in a line.
00:53:31.000
You're walking through a thing, and there's, like, a merging thing.
00:53:35.000
They're going to go right into your kids, right into you, your wife, like whoever.
00:53:49.000
They're not impolite people, but they get misconstrued as being impolite because we're not used to navigating that kind of numbers like they are.
00:53:58.000
Even if you're just watching them do it with other people, just walk right in front of people and smush into each other.
00:54:03.000
If you do that here, though, you'd be like, what the fuck?
00:54:06.000
Well, because when I went to Australia, a lot of Chinese and Japanese and Koreans were on holiday in Australia.
00:54:12.000
And I was with Chin, who's Korean, my producer.
00:54:15.000
And they kept, they were super, we'd be in line, they'd bump into me or something.
00:54:22.000
That's literally just how, that's how they, that's how they grew up.
00:54:24.000
They just got used to stupid numbers of people where you get used to people bumping into each other.
00:54:32.000
Yeah, India is kind of similar where people stack behind you really closely.
00:54:38.000
The argument is that you get too many people and then the people lose their value because they become a hindrance.
00:54:52.000
It also makes you think, like, if there was an end-of-the-world type scenario and you were trying to get back to your family, in L.A., you got zero chance.
00:55:01.000
You're going to walk way quicker than 20 miles to your house.
00:55:10.000
Well, he doesn't have his own, but he took lessons.
00:55:17.000
He flew down to San Diego for a gig and flew back.
00:55:23.000
I flew from San Diego to LA. Don't ask me how and why, but my plane had to stop over in San Diego.
00:55:40.000
Dude, I was at the comedy store at La Jolla at a Thursday night show, 8 o'clock.
00:55:43.000
I was like, oh, dude, if I leave by 2, we got this all day.
00:56:05.000
You go there and just the density of people in Orange County.
00:56:11.000
But then there's some dope spots like Laguna Niguel.
00:56:18.000
Chicago, worst traffic I've ever seen in my life.
00:56:20.000
It can't be worse than going through Orange County at 5 o'clock.
00:56:29.000
And they said, it's like this because of the construction right now.
00:56:32.000
In 2015, 3.17 million people just in Orange County.
00:56:44.000
And when I say Mexicans, I should say, people, we'll let you in.
00:56:52.000
But the point is, all these numbers are inflated.
00:56:56.000
How many more illegal aliens are here on top of that number?
00:57:00.000
If I'd have to work in LA, I'd live in Orange County.
00:57:08.000
How many illegal aliens do you think are in Orange County?
00:57:16.000
How many people do you think are illegal aliens?
00:57:35.000
If you're not actually monitoring, how the fuck do you know?
00:57:39.000
Do we know how many they think or they estimate sneak across every year?
00:57:48.000
You imagine if you were living in some shit country and you realized that you could actually get a great job if you could just get across a river?
00:57:59.000
But meanwhile, there's some sweet spots down there.
00:58:06.000
Yeah, Mexico City's economy's doing pretty well from what I hear.
00:58:26.000
That's off by a factor of 10. Probably 2.3 million in Orange County.
00:58:34.000
Well, they make up a lot of the economy, though.
00:58:45.000
It's heartbreaking when they have to pass the rivers and the body of water, and it's like kids and women, they die, and they take them with the tides.
00:58:54.000
And they've got to put together, you know, the average is $3,000.
00:58:58.000
$3,000 to them, they come from nothing, so they save all this money, it's per person.
00:59:02.000
So you've got kids, you've got the family, so you get together, they get robbed, they go, they get robbed of all their shit, some of it's fake, they don't know who to deal with.
00:59:10.000
Well, I'm sure you've seen videos of Syrian refugees washing up on shore.
00:59:20.000
It's so easy to look at them and they speak a different language, they follow a different religion.
00:59:46.000
But not to let them in because we're scared that the terrorist stuff like that, that's like not letting talent in because the mafia.
00:59:55.000
It's not necessarily, but You know what I'm saying, though.
00:59:57.000
To assume that all Mexicans are in the cartel or all Italians are in the mafia, it's fucking insane.
01:00:05.000
But especially, like, the difference between Syrians and Mexicans is Mexicans, a lot of people would accept them easier because they practice the same religion.
01:00:17.000
Like, if you found a guy who was a Mexican businessman in Mexico City and he speaks English and Spanish and his children are well-educated and he wanted to move next door to you.
01:00:47.000
They're threatened by radical Islamic terrorists.
01:00:50.000
They're threatened by the idea of people trying to be like some Manchurian candidate and get into office.
01:00:56.000
A lot of these school shooters, the mass shooters, a lot of them are white, too, man.
01:01:03.000
Well, do you remember when people were absolutely convinced that Obama was somehow some sort of a Mexican plant, or excuse me, an Islamic plant?
01:01:26.000
But it also might have been that Trump liked fucking with Obama because Obama liked fucking with Trump.
01:01:31.000
And that's one of the things like at that press corps dinner where he got up and said, here's one thing that I am that you'll never be as president of the United States.
01:01:48.000
So when he said something about Obama, it more than likely was because of a personal feud.
01:01:56.000
And less likely that he actually thought Obama was from Kenya.
01:02:02.000
Yeah, because he's a powerful guy, and if they treat him like he's not a powerful guy, it's like, oh, really?
01:02:08.000
This is my problem with anti-Trump, like, when people go too far with it.
01:02:17.000
It's not that he's not—like, just the idea that he lies all the time.
01:02:27.000
My issue has to do with it's a terrible way to interact with someone whose ideas you don't like.
01:02:33.000
Because it just makes the people that support him more aggressive.
01:02:37.000
You get more aggressive at them and you're like, this is what we're gonna do.
01:02:44.000
We're gonna show up at their restaurants and yell at them.
01:02:50.000
This is not helping because they're going to bolster their resources, build up their defenses.
01:02:57.000
You're scaring people and you're going to make people arm themselves and you're going to make people escalate their rhetoric and it's going to escalate on both sides and it's also evidence that you're unhinged.
01:03:06.000
So they can point to the fact that they're right, because you're harassing them in the parking lot of a restaurant, and you won't let them get to their car without you yelling at them.
01:03:13.000
They're now saying you're unhinged, and there's evidence to prove that they've got a point.
01:03:19.000
We're a part of the movement, and we got together.
01:03:21.000
You're harassing a person, and you're making them angry, and they're going to harass liberals now, and now we have this giant conflict, instead of just communicating about important issues, instead of just trying to figure out how we all get along.
01:03:36.000
Digging your heels into one team or the other, you've got to try to solve problems.
01:03:45.000
If they get him out of office, here's the thing.
01:03:47.000
If they do succeed in getting him out of office, they'll be even more emboldened.
01:03:51.000
My point is, they'll be even more emboldened that this is the correct way to behave.
01:03:57.000
I think all of the things that are coming out, whether it's I don't understand the Russian stuff.
01:04:05.000
I feel like if there was clear enough evidence that he had committed a crime, they would have already done something.
01:04:13.000
There's too much resource and time going into that.
01:04:16.000
So there's other people around him that have done something that was illegal.
01:04:27.000
But that is a very different thing than all of the hatred and the fucking going after people.
01:04:34.000
You have to figure out where the line gets drawn, where you're causing internal conflict that can literally lead to civil war.
01:04:42.000
But it's trickled down into our economy, everyone's lives now, like on Twitter or entertainment or with the Me Too movement.
01:04:52.000
Well, you know, George Washington said one of the most important qualities for a society to have is civility.
01:05:00.000
The Founding Fathers did not agree on a lot of stuff.
01:05:03.000
I mean Madison didn't agree with Hamilton and Jefferson.
01:05:08.000
They were very much at odds about how to go forward with this republic.
01:05:15.000
Nobody got violent besides Aaron Burr and fucking Hamilton.
01:05:22.000
And George Washington said, civility, the ability to listen to the other side, even when you don't agree with them, and put your ideas together, that's how you move things forward.
01:05:34.000
I think that's a really good point, and that's what bothers me the most about this, is not that they're not correct, that there's some real problems.
01:05:40.000
It's the way everybody's going about it that makes me say, like, do you understand what happens when you yell at people?
01:05:47.000
There's people that don't understand violent consequences.
01:05:51.000
There's people that don't understand conflict, and they don't know how to mitigate it, and they don't know how to, like, be calm and how to figure their way through a situation.
01:05:58.000
There's dangerous levels of aggression that get reached.
01:06:04.000
Antifa feuding with these people that are trying to do some sort of a speech somewhere and there's the supporters of the speech and then there's Antifa and everybody's getting together and screaming and there's fire and bike locks and people beating the shit out of each other.
01:06:25.000
That this could escalate in five years to be significantly worse than it is now.
01:06:35.000
I see that shit coming and I go, oh, these guys are fighting.
01:06:40.000
You don't want to go get close to them and hope you catch a stray bullet.
01:06:54.000
It's not how we should communicate with each other.
01:06:56.000
You know, and I think there's also people that are emboldened by movements, right?
01:07:00.000
They become a part of a movement, and then they want to do something to commit to that movement.
01:07:04.000
It's very similar to joining a fucking militia.
01:07:07.000
It's very similar to joining a resistance movement.
01:07:10.000
Social media has made it easier to find your tribe, surround yourself with people who see the world exactly like you do, and organize and attack the other side.
01:07:17.000
You know, they say with social media, that's what makes ISIS kind of so violent and also so scary, is because social media, the first ones kind of mastered social media.
01:07:27.000
My bigger worry is also the fact that people can't even agree on the validity of their sources.
01:07:33.000
So if I say, well, you know, according to the United Nations or the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, and you go, that's bullshit.
01:07:45.000
So if I go through mainstream sources, you go, that's mainstream and that's bullshit and they're bought off by corporations.
01:07:53.000
Well, here's something that I'm trying to get better at, and I've worked on it a lot.
01:07:57.000
I try really hard to not be connected to whatever I believe in.
01:08:09.000
Yes, but I'm trying harder than I've ever tried in my life and I've been on a path trying to do this for years now and getting better at it because of just listening to podcasts and having podcasts and having conflicts with people and trying to figure out why I had those conflicts and how much of it was my fault, how much of it could have prevented, how much of I could have done a better job as a host or as a person who's trying to relay the information and through time I have tried my hardest, and it's something I concentrate on all the time, to not be connected to my ideas.
01:08:38.000
To argue them if I feel like there's merit, but argue the merit, not argue my connection.
01:08:44.000
So when someone does that, I get exhausted now.
01:08:49.000
I'm like, we're going to waste a lot of time with this because you're not willing to even think about the possibility.
01:08:54.000
Well, I said the last podcast with Jordan Peterson, I said, do you feel like you're winning this debate?
01:08:59.000
Because at this point he'd become so famous and he said, I don't want to win this because I'm going to create resentful people who feel like resentful losers.
01:09:10.000
The point is to figure out a way to present ideas so that they are accessible to the people whose minds I'm trying to change.
01:09:18.000
This is exactly what he said about Trump supporters.
01:09:20.000
He said, if you disagree with Trump supporters, don't insult them.
01:09:29.000
He also said, how do you think they're going to react to that?
01:09:32.000
Do you think they're just going to give in to you?
01:09:33.000
And he's a clinical psychologist, so he understands how human brains work.
01:09:41.000
They go, they're racists, they're sexist, they're Mexican haters and all this stuff.
01:09:48.000
Whereas maybe the left presented an alternative that was unacceptable to them.
01:09:52.000
They didn't like this con man or this guy was an egotist, but they were like, let's give it a shot.
01:10:09.000
That's part of the problem, is that you run into enough of those, those hurt your feelings, and you think, oh, all Trump supporters are assholes.
01:10:19.000
Negativity bias, too, is also something where our brains...
01:10:23.000
If I get caught on the left hook, yeah, I'm not going to...
01:10:26.000
Let's say on Instagram, if you have 1,000 comments and 900 of them are positive, you'll see the one negative.
01:10:32.000
No, if you have 900 and you have 100 that are negative, you're fucked.
01:10:42.000
But think about how amazing that is, that you have 90% positive.
01:10:52.000
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that the numbers, as they expand, they get more and more ridiculous.
01:10:56.000
So if you have a podcast, and the podcast gets a million downloads, and you get 100,000 negative comments and 900,000 positive ones, like, oh, this is exhausting.
01:11:07.000
Have you looked at how many people alcohol kills versus guns, for example?
01:11:16.000
You could really go into all these details, right?
01:11:28.000
We were talking about this recently about Chicago, the violence in Chicago.
01:11:32.000
The numbers are so crazy and no one seems to be flinching.
01:11:40.000
If Beverly Hills, not the South Side of Chicago, if Beverly Hills had a thousand people kill their shot in a year, we'd be like, what in the fuck are you talking about?
01:11:54.000
If a girl accuses Charlie Sheen of spitting on her and doing coke off her asshole, you're like, yeah.
01:12:03.000
So if you hear, oh, there's violence in Chicago, like, yep, that's what they do.
01:12:08.000
We just, like, we like the map to be discernible.
01:12:15.000
Especially, like, though, if it's something horrific.
01:12:20.000
Holy fuck, everybody's like, I'm locking my doors!
01:12:23.000
You know the chances of a serial killer getting to you?
01:12:27.000
I will not go into the ocean and swim where I can't touch the ground.
01:12:53.000
And he's got his hands, like, tucked to the side.
01:13:01.000
You look like a giant, smooth, delicious seal right now.
01:13:06.000
I mean, if there's one badass way to go, that's pretty sick.
01:13:11.000
There's a guy in Brazil who got his dick bitten off.
01:13:31.000
This bitch just skimmed the fighter and the kid.
01:13:33.000
When it comes back, we're going to talk about actual fights.
01:13:40.000
You got to pee, too, but I'm going to leave you by yourself.
01:13:50.000
You know, the history of the Ottoman Empire is very interesting, actually.
01:13:54.000
Can you imagine if you just started fucking reading out of a book?
01:14:02.000
Is there anything worse when someone does that?
01:14:03.000
Now that Joe's gone, hey, first week of August.
01:14:13.000
Now that you're taking a break from the road, you should come.
01:14:29.000
I'm shooting some of the Goldbergs, I think, August, September.
01:14:37.000
I shoot one episode of School, then August, then the rest in October.
01:14:50.000
And then when do you think you go back on the road for stand-up?
01:15:19.000
Well, you're going to be doing the same thing because Callan shot his special, right?
01:15:22.000
So now he's going to take a break from the road to shooting a show.
01:15:24.000
And I was saying there's sometimes like a month going this month coming up.
01:15:40.000
But when you were, let's say, at my level in comedy, you were grinding.
01:15:46.000
You gotta do what you gotta do in the moment, you know?
01:15:49.000
You're on that stage where you're just trying to get those reps in, too.
01:15:58.000
And I get back, and I'm like, I need to get back out.
01:16:03.000
This is the first time I've had a break, and I haven't thought about it at all.
01:16:20.000
If you want to do big shows, you want to go on the road, you want to...
01:16:24.000
You also, I don't think there's an alternative in terms of creating material.
01:16:34.000
Occasionally, you need to be like, oh, there's some people that just don't pay attention to anything.
01:16:40.000
You've got to fill that day, but I fucking love it because I'm just thinking and stuff.
01:16:47.000
It's the most annoying muscle to pull because it doesn't heal because you're always on it.
01:16:56.000
About two months ago, I heard it, and it's never gotten better.
01:17:12.000
And I wonder what the science is behind it, that I have a recurring injury, right?
01:17:16.000
So I'll pull my lower back on my right side, or I'll pull my neck.
01:17:19.000
There's a neck muscle from wrestling probably from years ago.
01:17:23.000
Sometimes I'll do something, whether it's play tennis or box or whatever, and I'm like, ah, fuck, I'm done for a week.
01:17:38.000
And I bet you probably at some point in time had a bulging disc, and it's probably still a little fucked up, and you never got an MRI on it, so you don't really know, right?
01:17:46.000
And I think that's one of the areas that a lot of people don't strengthen, is their spine.
01:17:53.000
A lot of time over the last few years using a bunch of different exercises and machines just specifically to strengthen my spine and my core after having some bulging back issues.
01:18:04.000
I cured my lower back because of Lauren Landau and my buddy Leo who helped me kind of because my lower back hurt for 20 years.
01:18:11.000
And they give me just some exercise that I do every day.
01:18:18.000
Your glutes and stuff, I got no problems with my lower back.
01:18:21.000
I mean, I cured my lower back, which is kind of a miracle to consider that I did it later on in my life.
01:18:26.000
But my neck is, you know, and I do neck exercises now.
01:18:29.000
You gotta try this iron neck thing that I have out here.
01:18:33.000
Yeah, you put a halo on your head, you screw it on, you like pull it on, and then you pump it, like a Reebok pump, and it like fits tight to your head, and then you got a bungee cord that's attached to it that's 50 pounds, and you back up with this thing, and then you do rotations, like...
01:18:49.000
But the most important thing is that it's not dangerous.
01:18:52.000
It's strengthening your neck in a way where you're giving it a full range of motion.
01:18:58.000
But look, necks don't get worked out that much.
01:19:00.000
Your lower back doesn't get worked out that much.
01:19:01.000
You've got to think like all the other things are getting all these loads.
01:19:04.000
So when you put a load on the lower back and it's not strong enough, that's when things go out.
01:19:09.000
If you strengthen it, you can prevent a lot of that stuff from happening.
01:19:17.000
It's like one of those things you realize when you're doing it.
01:19:19.000
Like, oh, these are muscles that I hardly ever work.
01:19:50.000
Dude, how about frickin' Nick Newell lost to get into the contenders?
01:19:57.000
I don't watch the contenders series, but I saw that he lost, which is a bummer.
01:20:03.000
It's interesting that was the big story, was that he lost, not that the other guy won.
01:20:19.000
My thought was, how much bigger can you be with the rest of your body?
01:20:35.000
I think he belongs in the UFC. I don't think the contender stage is right for him.
01:20:40.000
A lot of the guys that are in the contender series, contender series is fucking excellent.
01:20:44.000
And a lot of guys that are in that series are going to wind up in the UFC anyway.
01:20:47.000
If you lose to one of them, it doesn't mean that you're not good.
01:20:52.000
I would say contender series is better than tough.
01:21:03.000
The style of coaching and all the reality parts.
01:21:06.000
I can't believe they're doing it again, but I think they have to contractually with Kelvin and Whitaker, right?
01:21:11.000
Yeah, I mean, still the fights are worth watching.
01:21:15.000
Some people like that reality TV. Some people still watch Big Brother, bro.
01:21:23.000
The ratings, I mean, very few people are watching Tough these days.
01:21:38.000
No, I just think, you know, with the Contenders series, it's obviously making this push.
01:21:41.000
Like, that's where you're getting your new young talent.
01:21:46.000
I don't want to see all the reality TV show stuff.
01:21:49.000
But the thing is, people that like reality shows like it.
01:21:53.000
Because it allows you to have the reality show part.
01:22:03.000
I think that there's some people that don't even know what's on the air anymore.
01:22:06.000
When the fuck do you hear about an ad for that show?
01:22:15.000
Just put two fucking guys who will agree to do it.
01:22:19.000
But how much promotion do you see for Dana White's Contender Series?
01:22:29.000
They're going through a divorce with Fox, and they're like, alright, we're just going to live here until December, then we'll take our stuff, get the fuck out.
01:22:36.000
You can keep the dogs, and then we'll figure it out.
01:22:41.000
And even Fox is posting stuff to the WWE because they're coming over.
01:22:50.000
How many carryover audience members are there from UFC to WWE? Who cross?
01:22:59.000
What they know for sure is you can control the narrative.
01:23:01.000
WWE on those Friday night or Wednesday night smackdowns, whatever the fuck they call it, bring in 3 million viewers every single night.
01:23:13.000
They can control the superstars and control everyone's destiny.
01:23:15.000
They know that fan base brings that no matter what.
01:23:23.000
It works for both parties, Fox and ESPN. Look at it, if you're just trying to make money, it's the way to go.
01:23:28.000
Yeah, if you're Fox, that's why you care about ratings.
01:23:33.000
I think the thing about the Contender Series, though, is that it's a Fight Pass thing.
01:23:38.000
So it's all just good for the UFC. They own it, right?
01:23:45.000
I think Fight Pass is 200,000 to 300,000 subscribers.
01:23:50.000
And Tuesday Night Contender Series is only on Fight Pass.
01:23:57.000
I think some highlights they blast out and stuff.
01:24:03.000
That whole world of up-and-coming talent has gotten so different.
01:24:10.000
I see guys coming into the UFC for the first time, and I'm watching him fight, and I'm like, wow, this guy's fighting like he's been here for five years.
01:24:18.000
Some of it, I look at it, holy, how many fights do you have?
01:24:23.000
And then sometimes, like you look at this Germany card, which lasted seven hours, which is a whole other topic we should discuss.
01:24:29.000
But I look at some, and the difference between, like, say, a Robert Whitaker versus Joe Romero versus some different cards where it's an opening main card fight...
01:24:45.000
Sometimes you get a card in the talent pool, and that card is just not the highest level.
01:24:49.000
And then you get other cards where you don't even know who the fighters are.
01:24:55.000
My point is, when you watch other main professional sports, you don't get that.
01:25:02.000
Think about the volume of boxing matches versus the volume of UFC cards.
01:25:09.000
The number of fights that people are paying attention to.
01:25:21.000
These young badasses that want to prove they're the best.
01:25:24.000
You're saying it's popular as far as contestants, people signing up.
01:25:28.000
Because what's not popular is people tuning into all these fights.
01:25:37.000
Even if you just have a small number that are tuning in every week, say if you have fights every week and 300,000 people watch, like, oh, this is a commercial disaster, you still are building 300,000 people, and it's going to be a different 300,000 people quite possibly next week, at least some of them are.
01:25:56.000
You're going to have different fighters who shine, and then they're going to go off into pay-per-view events.
01:26:02.000
They're going to become household names, and that's where the money's going to be made.
01:26:04.000
And so, our argument is, the more fights you have, even if some fights aren't doing well, you are still allowing a really high level of competition.
01:26:16.000
These Darren Tills, and these Yoel Romeros, and all these fucking killers come through.
01:26:39.000
But Joe, to your point, back to your point where you're saturation in the market and you're hoping that these superstars come out of there.
01:26:49.000
And I think there's a cycle the same where there's a cycle of predators and prey.
01:26:53.000
Do you know if they have like snowshoe hares and lynx?
01:26:56.000
There's a cycle where the snowshoe hares get to a very high number and the lynx eat them all.
01:27:01.000
And then the lynx get to a very high number and they run out of snowshoe hares.
01:27:11.000
And you're saying the cycle is going to be like a Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, or Brock Lesnar.
01:27:18.000
Who's the biggest draw right now in the UFC? Conor McGregor.
01:27:23.000
Besides him, George St. Pierre, if he wants to fight.
01:27:31.000
Brock would not beat Conor at this stage of his life.
01:27:40.000
I mean, if we were at the stage where Brock was, say, before he beat Frank Mir...
01:27:45.000
When he was the heavyweight champion, when Brock was just smashing, he could sell What was like the highest pay-per-view with Brock in it?
01:28:00.000
And the UFC wasn't as popular then, I don't think, as it is now.
01:28:03.000
But they did the WWE. He had the WWE fan base crossover.
01:28:06.000
But what's interesting, too, and a lot of people don't...
01:28:10.000
But the demand for Nate Diaz, too, because remember, he's part of the biggest pay-per-view of all time with Conor McGregor.
01:28:32.000
Conor McGregor, which is number 1. That's pretty crazy.
01:28:43.000
Well, that's UFC 200, so you had Brock Lesnar in that card.
01:28:48.000
So Brock has one, two, three out of the top seven.
01:28:53.000
Yeah, and Ron Derrick comes in at number eight.
01:29:04.000
Amanda Nunez, Ronda Rousey got a million, million, one hundred thousand.
01:29:08.000
Nate Diaz, that's arguably because he was fighting Conor McGregor, right?
01:29:11.000
Well, and that's why Nate hasn't taken a fight because that trilogy is the biggest, one of the biggest that hasn't...
01:29:23.000
If Conor comes back and decides to fight Khabib, that's a fight where it's gonna be a gigantic, enormous, biggest pay-per-view of all time.
01:29:32.000
And if they decide to do it in Russia, it would be fucking insane.
01:29:40.000
And that'll be our biggest companion ever, by the way.
01:29:44.000
Dude, we're going to do some big things in Russia.
01:30:09.000
It's more fun watching the fights with you guys.
01:30:17.000
Pissing people off because you're chewing on the microphone.
01:30:40.000
What other fight did they announce, the big fight?
01:30:55.000
Plus, his last fight against Paul Felder, he mixed it up.
01:31:03.000
Jackson on Jackson crying with him in the cowboy.
01:31:05.000
He said he was essentially running his own camp, training himself before.
01:31:09.000
And when you're watching him fight now, you're seeing...
01:31:14.000
But you're seeing him now in his last fight against Paul Felder.
01:31:37.000
He would have done way better in that fight if he didn't break his arm in the first round.
01:31:40.000
But I saw it and I was like, dude, I don't like that one.
01:31:42.000
When it bounced off his head, when it bounced off Perry's head, I was like, dude, that might be a broken arm.
01:31:47.000
There's a lot of people, like Paige Van Sanchez had a second surgery on her arm because of that.
01:32:06.000
The bone, it's not easy to hit something, especially a forehead.
01:32:16.000
I'm really surprised we don't have more guys getting their forearms broken and blocking kicks.
01:32:21.000
Because there's some guys that just fucking hit you so hard to break your arm.
01:32:37.000
Mike Perry's a way more scary one-strike artist.
01:32:39.000
Even though Felder's really scary at 55, you lose a little bit of that when you go up against the bigger guys.
01:32:44.000
Still stood his ground toe-to-toe with that guy.
01:32:58.000
That version of Perry against one of his most technical opponents.
01:33:04.000
Like, okay, here's the fight with the Alan Joban fight.
01:33:07.000
Alan Joban, who's fought a smart, technical fight, out-pointed Perry.
01:33:11.000
And the way he out-pointed Perry, he out-pointed Perry that was more obvious.
01:33:21.000
But now you see a guy who's trying to do that, but with some Winklejohn strategy.
01:33:41.000
Colby goes, and I spoke to someone very close to Colby.
01:34:00.000
Be a problem for anybody that's considering taking an interim title fight in the future.
01:34:09.000
And he was like, listen, they're offering him before when his fight got canceled because Max Holloway has run into all those medical issues.
01:34:19.000
I think it was against Jeremy Stevens' fight this weekend.
01:34:44.000
45. So they offered him Ortega a fight with Jeremy, because Jeremy's already cutting weight for this fight, or training for this fight, which is only a few weeks later.
01:34:57.000
And he says, well, this interim title doesn't mean anything.
01:35:08.000
Now, this is us assuming that we know the whole story, right?
01:35:16.000
I am not a fan of the idea of an interim title, unless there's extenuating circumstances.
01:35:23.000
Like someone's got a broken leg, they have to be out for six months or a year.
01:35:27.000
If they're out a year, you've got to do something.
01:35:33.000
And also, just to play, if I'm Dana, hey Woodley, we need you to fight, and you want these super fights, turn down fights, what can we do?
01:35:39.000
Let's force his hand, create this interim belt.
01:35:47.000
I was talking about Brian Ortega because Max Holloway is defended fairly recently and he was getting ready to fight Khabib.
01:35:54.000
He tried to cut weight for it and he might have fucked himself that way.
01:36:00.000
They're still trying to figure out what happened.
01:36:02.000
Well, one of the pieces of speculation is that his body started shutting down because he went through a real bad cut when he was trying to make the Khabib fight at 55 on super short notice.
01:36:12.000
It's a hard thing for him to make, 55. He's huge.
01:36:31.000
They need a lot of time to get down to this weight, right?
01:36:34.000
So Holloway trying to do that, this is pure speculation.
01:36:37.000
Holloway trying to do that, it was very hard for him.
01:36:42.000
And then in cutting weight for this fight, once his body started the water load, his body knew what was going on and started shutting down.
01:36:51.000
You can't make, I mean, until you know that he's going to be out for a certain amount of time, it seems like an interim title belt is almost disrespectful.
01:37:01.000
But I think, I feel like it was a corporate decision.
01:37:04.000
But I feel like it was a corporate decision where they went, okay, we have to fight.
01:37:12.000
So you're talking about something different, though.
01:37:14.000
Yeah, but I'm saying, I'm saying, they go, there's got to be a title fight.
01:37:19.000
How about you give, that Colby retains his interim title because there's extenuating circumstances with him medically.
01:37:30.000
Whoever the fuck wins this fight, Colby fights next.
01:37:49.000
And he's like, let's do this for the real number one contender spot.
01:37:51.000
Because Usman is a guy who has quietly been beating everybody they put in front of him.
01:38:00.000
But if you go through who Maia has fought, you look at the way Colby did it, you look prior to that, Usman would have the worst argument.
01:38:13.000
But before the Damian Maia fight, I wouldn't agree with you.
01:38:24.000
I meant before the Damien Maia fight with Colby.
01:38:26.000
Colby didn't have a lot of big names on his resume.
01:38:36.000
Although, there was a thing about that fight that bothered me.
01:38:39.000
One, the referee chose to separate Damien Maia from Usman when he had him from behind.
01:38:55.000
I severely disagreed and agreed with Matt Serra, who was talking about, the guy takes the fight on short notice.
01:39:04.000
You've got to be careful not to lose a position.
01:39:06.000
You're talking about a super high-level wrestler in Usman.
01:39:10.000
And for a world-class grappler like Damian Mai, he needs one nanosecond for Usman to make a wrong turn and it's game over.
01:39:20.000
There's a situation that's happening where this guy has the best chance of winning and he's at the door.
01:39:26.000
He's at like step 8 out of 10. He's got the back.
01:39:29.000
He might go to 9, and then Usman might try to defend, and he might go to 10 and get the tap.
01:39:33.000
It's entirely possible this is happening right now.
01:39:35.000
I don't know how Usman gets down to 70, by the way.
01:39:39.000
But even with this, Usman's so goddamn good, but you look at 170, where's the fireman?
01:39:45.000
Why does everyone have to fight for the title right away?
01:39:49.000
Well, I think one of the things is because they want that.
01:39:52.000
Yeah, they want that pay-per-view card to have a big headliner, and Woodley's ready.
01:39:58.000
You can create that with trilogies, with great fights.
01:40:02.000
There seems to be a better strategy than to feed your young.
01:40:05.000
But that's if you didn't have a schedule that you had to fill.
01:40:09.000
Boxing doesn't have a schedule they have to fill that way.
01:40:17.000
Well, they have to commit to a certain amount of fights, right?
01:40:21.000
Did you see that picture of Vitor standing with Dana in front of their fucking board of fighters and trying to figure out who fights who?
01:40:28.000
I almost blacked out just looking at the board.
01:40:31.000
Thinking about 500 fighters you're responsible for putting into fights and how many different people and Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard and they're running around and Joe Silva's in his underwear rolling around with his buddies and Joe Silva did it right.
01:40:50.000
Mick Maynard and Sean Shelby and Joe Silva, the three of them have one thing in common.
01:40:59.000
Those matchmakers are not like, oh, let's do this.
01:41:03.000
I've learned about a lot of books from Joe Silva.
01:41:08.000
Bro, that's the top 15. That still gives me a headache.
01:41:19.000
Between the four of us, we could figure out the match-ups.
01:41:46.000
How many of those people have his phone number and text him all the time.
01:41:54.000
See, what's crazy, if you think this is easy, 1 through 15, 15 through fucking 100 is the complicated part.
01:42:02.000
The number 50 guy's gonna fight 43. Where do they fight?
01:42:08.000
So until you crack that top 15, nobody gives a shit.
01:42:11.000
Yeah, but you still gotta get matchups for them.
01:42:20.000
It's weird on the left they have the pound for pound rankings.
01:42:28.000
It almost mirrors completely the website, though.
01:42:32.000
Hey, is Amanda Nunez fighting Chris Cyborg soon?
01:42:43.000
Well, she probably wants to put some weight on.
01:42:45.000
She said she needs time, but she's gonna fight her, and Cyborg's not happy about it.
01:42:54.000
But she also goes, all right, well, if you're not giving me that, give me someone else.
01:43:04.000
To leave the UFC. Are they going to be able to get her fights somewhere else?
01:43:12.000
It's not going to be easy for wherever she goes.
01:43:20.000
I mean, you saw how big Megan Anderson looked when she fought Holly Holm.
01:43:28.000
You could have gave her a warm-up and then had her fight Cyborg.
01:43:33.000
I wouldn't kill her off with Holly Holm, who's this animal.
01:43:36.000
Because now you don't have a competitor for Cyborg.
01:43:38.000
Where Megan Anderson would have been a fun one for Cyborg.
01:43:40.000
We did think that, you know, Megan is physically very big, very strong, likes to stand up and bang.
01:43:46.000
But now, at least a part of her game for that fight's been pretty exposed.
01:43:52.000
Yeah, but also your first fight in the UFC fight in Holly Holm?
01:43:55.000
But she did get kind of wrestled and dominated on the ground by Holly, which is not...
01:44:07.000
But Cyborg needs more stars and competitors, like stories.
01:44:12.000
But the thing is, at least that's a fight where there's a name and a name.
01:44:16.000
So I can sell some pay-per-views with that fight.
01:44:21.000
Megan Anderson at least has some hype behind her.
01:44:25.000
But Holly took a big risk taking that fight, too.
01:44:30.000
And going up to 45, staying at 45, and she's a legit 35er.
01:44:36.000
She goes, no, you just don't beat that girl and get a rematch with me.
01:44:41.000
So now you're in this situation where you're like, alright, let's call up Amanda Nunes.
01:44:45.000
Amanda Nunes fighting Chris Cyborg is very intriguing to me.
01:44:53.000
Way more dangerous than anybody that Cyborg's ever fought.
01:45:03.000
But Sharina Barge, you know, she knocked her down with a front kick to the face.
01:45:20.000
I agree Holly is awesome and super highly skilled.
01:45:22.000
And a counter-striker who stylistically is more dangerous for Cyborg and Cyborg beat her pretty candidly.
01:45:32.000
Amanda Nunez is coming forward and Cyborg coming forward.
01:45:41.000
That's a really good point because I didn't know.
01:45:42.000
I feel like Amanda Nunez is, shoulders-wise, she just looks every bit as big.
01:45:50.000
She's smaller, and she does press forward, like, relentlessly.
01:45:53.000
Here's the thing, she doesn't have to fight that way.
01:45:59.000
You're telling me she can use footwork like Holly?
01:46:00.000
Well, she used a lot of footwork in the last fight.
01:46:11.000
You know who has longer arms and punches harder?
01:46:20.000
I think Amanda Nunes has more technique, but I think when you come up like that, and you have this animal cyborg, it's scary if you get Claressa Shields to learn how to sprawl.
01:46:36.000
Jamie, bring up Claressa Shields in Cyborg Spawn.
01:46:49.000
Sometimes I say Brian and I really mean to see Brendan.
01:46:56.000
Now imagine, name another professional female fighter who can get down like this.
01:47:08.000
I would pay money for you to jump in there with either one of these girls.
01:47:16.000
Like the way she's able to counter with straight shots and use that jab and go to the body and then up to the head.
01:47:27.000
And Claressa, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe she fights at a heavier weight class.
01:47:32.000
I think she fights at 65. Is that what her weight class is?
01:47:35.000
And she's the best female box in the world right now.
01:47:47.000
Yeah, she's winning the rounds, but Cyborg's holding her own is my point.
01:47:50.000
And by By the way, if Cyborg could kick her legs, Claressa would be fucked.
01:47:54.000
I'm just saying, when we talk about Amanda Nunes' fight, we talk about her stand-up, it's like, I get that, but Cyborg's very big, man, and deals with high-level boxers.
01:48:09.000
Claress is standing right in front of her and pressing her and she's trying to put it on her.
01:48:14.000
I don't think Amanda Nunes' smart strategy would be to fight this way.
01:48:17.000
I think her best strategy would be to use the aggression of Cyborg and try to counter and get out.
01:48:28.000
She fought real slick against Raquel Pennington.
01:48:42.000
The only guy he lost to was Jose Aldo in his prime.
01:48:46.000
Dan Lambert put a lot of money in the American Top Team.
01:48:48.000
That motherfucker, if it wasn't for him, if it wasn't for Dan Lambert and his contributions, the state of MMA would be a percentage or two lower than it is now.
01:49:00.000
He took them under their wing and brought them up.
01:49:03.000
He put in dormitories, built a giant gym, built it from the ground up.
01:49:22.000
The amount of money that he had to invest, the time he had to take, and the fact that he wasn't making any money out of it.
01:49:29.000
He lost a lot of money, and he got fucked over by a bunch of people, too.
01:49:32.000
No need to name names, but he'll tell you personally.
01:49:35.000
He got fucked over by a bunch of guys that he trusted.
01:49:38.000
And over the years, he learned who he could trust and who he can, and developed this incredible school and this incredible gym.
01:49:45.000
I mean, it's one of the best facilities on the planet Earth.
01:49:48.000
When it comes to MMA training, think about how many high-level guys.
01:49:58.000
The fact that he had the balls to put the money up for something like that.
01:50:02.000
First time I ever saw Hector Lombard, and he walked across the mat, and I'd never quite seen anybody that thick.
01:50:14.000
And they were like, at the time it was 85 and I didn't believe 85. He says another thing.
01:50:20.000
I was talking about rice and beans and plantains.
01:50:24.000
You ever have that garlic chicken from Versailles?
01:51:14.000
There's a limited amount of land they grow it on.
01:51:33.000
There's something really special about the mineral content.
01:51:36.000
Something about the mineral contact in the soil.
01:51:39.000
If you can buy a plot of land here, and the wine's like 30 bucks a bottle, for whatever reason, because of where the sun hits and what time, just over here, like the next plot over is worth, like, you know, it's a $100 bottle of wine.
01:51:54.000
Vuelta Abajo in the Semi Vuelto region, so the Pinar del Rio province.
01:52:03.000
It's located at the western end of Cuba and contains the Vuelta Abajo.
01:52:09.000
The Vuelta Abajo is where everybody wants cigars from.
01:52:13.000
Nowhere in the world grows tobacco better than Cuba.
01:52:19.000
Like, if you ever had a really good, like, Hoyo de Monterrey double Corona five Havana, this is what you want to do, bro.
01:52:31.000
And after you carpeted that ribeye, you sit there with a double espresso.
01:52:36.000
And a ridiculously fat cigar that gets you high after two puffs.
01:52:42.000
You're sitting there puffing on this Cuban cigar.
01:52:47.000
With one of those drug tigers at my feet so I can squish my feet in its fur.
01:53:08.000
I thought it was done between fat, beautiful Cuban fat thighs.
01:53:17.000
They know which tobacco leaves to take and how to put it together and what you put on the outside is different than what's on the inside.
01:53:24.000
And this fucking one guy I was watching at the airport, Some place near the airport, rather, where they would roll cigars.
01:53:33.000
And it's like you stand in front of the windows.
01:53:39.000
Way, way, way back in the day, there was a place where you could go where you could watch some people roll cigars.
01:53:45.000
And so they would roll the cigars in front of you and press them and put it all together.
01:54:00.000
Like, he's trimming it and they're doing it all by hand and by feel and he knows how much to put in the cigar.
01:54:12.000
And look, see, he's broken it all up by hand, and he's getting his finger wet and wetting down the leaves.
01:54:20.000
And you gotta think, this guy might be rolling...
01:54:26.000
And look, see how he cuts it with that old-school knife.
01:54:35.000
Do you think he's doing extra because the cameras are there?
01:54:51.000
So he trims it to the perfect size, and then he gets this bitch up there and he rolls that motherfucker tight.
01:54:59.000
Look at how he's backing it up and slowing it down and add a little moisture here.
01:55:11.000
But not like you're not doing it every Friday night or some shit.
01:55:29.000
No, I actually have it on good authority that they spray the shit out of it.
01:55:33.000
It's like pesticides or organic pesticides as a whole.
01:55:36.000
I have it on good authority that when you buy a lot of weed, they spray the fuck out of it because it's valuable and it gets moldy.
01:55:50.000
When you do it in bulk, you're buying people who deal in this stuff in big bulk.
01:55:54.000
They kind of did money, money, spray, and then you smoke that.
01:56:25.000
When you're counting a million dollars, when you have those money counters, and you're in a room, and they're, like, they're, because a lot of it's just cash, right?
01:56:35.000
Number one, you can actually get a runny nose from the cocaine residue, and you get sick because of the dirt that comes off money.
01:56:48.000
First of all, almost every dollar bill has some residue of cocaine.
01:56:56.000
They found, this guy did this analysis on a bunch of different dollar bills.
01:57:04.000
On just a bunch of the bills because it gets, you know, the number of times that it's, you know, but they found crazy shit.
01:57:18.000
Because probably some poachers were turning back and forth.
01:57:22.000
There's nothing that shows that that does anything.
01:57:25.000
Remember we were talking about the bear bile earlier?
01:57:31.000
They're killing rhinos just like almost to say, oh, this tea is made out of dead rhinos.
01:57:44.000
If someone's like, dude, we got rhino horn tea, I'm like, I gotta try that.
01:57:48.000
If you're far enough removed from the actual source of the misery, and you don't actually see the rhino get a shot in the head and his horn hacked off, and you just think you're a fancy guy with a gold Rolex on drinking some rhino tea...
01:58:08.000
The Green Hills of Africa, I think it's called.
01:58:22.000
No, I just flew from the other side of the planet, son.
01:58:26.000
Why I went and bought all that weed last week is because the new rules came into place and they have to test for pesticides.
01:58:32.000
So I was like, they had six months, which I guess it started as a July.
01:58:35.000
So Jamie's like, give me that pesticide-covered weed, son.
01:58:42.000
What we smoked is what I've been smoking a lot lately is blunts.
01:58:46.000
With the tobacco on the outside and the weed on the inside.
01:59:11.000
I go, it's like the tobacco mixed in with the weed.
01:59:14.000
And the last time I'd really smoked one before that was with Charlie Murphy.
01:59:36.000
Because they don't know for sure if it's that much better for you.
01:59:41.000
I don't know if it's better, but I know a lot of people say it's better.
01:59:47.000
You are getting smoke with a vape, but it's different, right?
01:59:51.000
But in that smoke, like in that container, there's alcohol, there's all sorts of weird shit in that fucking...
01:59:56.000
Well, that's the thing with those weed ones, too.
01:59:58.000
I ran into some dude who told me he makes it with MCT oil.
02:00:44.000
Brendan decided he was bored and he yanked one off.
02:00:55.000
And you know that happens all the time and that's why I'm never doing a public...
02:00:59.000
This tank, unless Dan Harris from fucking Good Morning America, unless he's jacking off in the tank, he's the only one who's been in it other than me.
02:01:08.000
Don't let this degenerate in there, because I'll tell you right now, this fucking guy will squeeze one off right now.
02:01:29.000
You should jerk off before you go in there so you're not tempted.
02:01:36.000
Then you'll be like, man, I wish I was horny right now so I could beat up.
02:01:56.000
He goes, I just fucking jacked up in the water.
02:02:24.000
Shout out to the float lab in Venice, California, and now Westwood.
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They have the best tanks, and he's most meticulous about his fucking filtration systems.
02:02:32.000
He uses water filtration systems like you would use for a city.
02:02:37.000
Mike, you can see these giant fucking machines.
02:03:03.000
Look, anytime someone says I was beaten off, I go, I get it.
02:03:16.000
Any other fights we should talk about to wrap this up?
02:03:29.000
People are thinking, you know, the guy fights, wins more UFC title defenses than anybody in the history of the sport, becomes the most accomplished heavyweight of all time.
02:03:44.000
You think about the fact that he knocks out Fabrizio Verdum to win the title.
02:03:47.000
He knocks out Alistair Overeem to defend the title.
02:03:51.000
Stops, beats Francis when everybody's terrified of Francis.
02:03:55.000
I mean, he became the most accomplished heavyweight of all time, right?
02:03:58.000
Then he gets knocked out by a crazy perfect punch by Daniel Cormier in a perfect strategy.
02:04:11.000
Do you want to see him beat somebody first and then have a rematch?
02:04:14.000
But for me, Daniel Cormier, I've always said it, is the most impressive fighter to ever step in the octagon in terms of his stature.
02:04:26.000
I know that Jon Jones, they say has his number.
02:04:33.000
So even with Alexander Gustvin, all this 205 talk, he's like, yo, Romero?
02:04:41.000
Well, Corey Anderson just asked for a title shot now, after he just beat Glover.
02:04:46.000
And so, you know, he said something like, hey, you know, like, maybe we can do it.
02:04:49.000
I love Corey Anderson, but the UFC's going to be like, no.
02:05:03.000
How long do you need before it goes out of your system?
02:05:09.000
Gustafson opens up on crazy situation, taking him off UFC 227. Look at those ears.
02:05:15.000
He's got a small injury, so he won't talk about it.
02:05:20.000
Well, because people are like, oh, you won't fight Anthony Smith, but you'll fight DC or you'll fight at heavyweight, but now all of a sudden you're injured.
02:05:26.000
Anthony Smith versus Shogun was a fight that I was concerned about.
02:05:34.000
If he would have won that, I wanted to see him get a title shot against DC because I want DC to get paid.
02:05:39.000
Well, Shogun is, he was ranked, I think, eighth before this fight.
02:05:44.000
But even though he's not that old, how old is Shogun?
02:05:52.000
He's a fucking Brazilian tortoise with a unibrow.
02:06:02.000
Even though he's 36. Look, when Bernard Hopkins was 36 is when he knocked out Tito Trinidad.
02:06:09.000
When he beat Kelly Pavlik, I think he was close to 40. 42, I think.
02:06:21.000
But Shogun had been in so many wars, and he got knocked out by Dan Henderson in that last fight.
02:06:54.000
The argument for it is, he knocks out Rashad on short notice.
02:06:59.000
And then he'll say, look, I'll take this fight too.
02:07:05.000
You know the fight, the most intriguing fight to me would be...
02:07:08.000
I mean, it's not Brock, and I like Brock DC because DC gets paid.
02:07:15.000
Yes, but the most intriguing fight to me in a lot of ways would be Yoel Romero at 205, so he didn't deal with that weight cut, with Daniel Cormier.
02:07:24.000
Well, Cormier was like, no, no, no, you can't lose at this fight.
02:07:31.000
But then Yoel's like, listen, DC, you cheated when you made weight.
02:07:35.000
You know you were pushing down that towel that one time?
02:07:40.000
Do we want to talk about cheating for Yoel to DC? What are you saying?
02:07:52.000
When John McCarthy explained it to me, and I think he explained it to me off the air, this is what was wrong.
02:08:10.000
And John was trying to get him to come back in.
02:08:15.000
And he said if he had to do things differently, he would have done things much differently.
02:08:19.000
But he said this clusterfuck that happened over 30 seconds was not because of Yoel's corner.
02:08:35.000
He said, but listen, man, I feel like he got away with something.
02:08:37.000
He goes, and every fight after that, I watched him like a hawk.
02:08:42.000
He goes, I felt like he got away with something in that fight.
02:08:48.000
If no one's getting on the stool, I'm like, I'm chilling.
02:09:07.000
He hit him with a punch, and that was the punch that hurt him.
02:09:12.000
You're right, it happens at every fight, but it's not supposed to happen, right?
02:09:16.000
Now, Tim was in full barbaric rage when this was happening, when he was throwing these punches.
02:09:26.000
He's fighting the most athletic guy for sure he's ever fought.
02:09:34.000
He was fighting a guy who was like, Jesus Christ.
02:09:41.000
Beat Kelsey Anderson twice in the world champion.
02:09:45.000
I think you won that Whitaker fight, all due respect.
02:09:52.000
No, if you think he won, and you go to 10-8 rounds, if you look at it, it'd be a draw.
02:10:06.000
But he hurt him badly in both of those rounds, right?
02:10:09.000
But one was like 10. I'm like, damn, that's 10-8.
02:10:12.000
One for sure, but he didn't get it even in one.
02:10:46.000
Yoel hit him with some bombs in that second fight.
02:10:49.000
I don't have a problem getting a 10-8 on that one.
02:11:06.000
But the problem is he's fighting, so he can't, you know what I'm saying?
02:11:09.000
So when you're going through that rehabbing of broken bones, you're not getting that much better in between.
02:11:14.000
Yes, but it's entirely possible that with a broken hand, he can work his kicks, he can work a lot of different things.
02:11:21.000
With a broken hand, he's not going to have the same issues that he had with a knee.
02:11:24.000
See, with a knee, you've got mobility compromises, you have a real hard time training.
02:11:31.000
He's young and he could still, I mean look what he's doing in the fight.
02:11:38.000
He went, Yoel, you want to fuck up my knee with those kicks?
02:11:43.000
And he fucked his knees up really early in the fight.
02:11:46.000
He was using that oblique kick on the front leg side kick.
02:11:54.000
I would never wear clothes if I had a body like that, yeah!
02:12:02.000
Because Kelly was like, I don't think he passed the sniff test.
02:12:15.000
So unless Stephen Thompson goes up to 185, I don't think it's going to happen.
02:12:20.000
Because Stephen Thompson is at 170. And Stephen could do it.
02:12:28.000
So if he wanted to get a quick title shot, he'd have to win one.
02:12:34.000
Yeah, I think you attribute some of that to the brutal weight cut.
02:12:37.000
You know, we're seeing these guys that are, they're just taking so much out of their body to get to 170. That's why people get so fucking angry when someone misses weight by a couple pounds and still fights, like Darren Till.
02:12:50.000
So here's the argument against Darren Till fighting for the title.
02:12:53.000
He beat Steven Wonderboy, but how many pounds over was he?
02:13:05.000
That is a lot of weight to lose when you're already dried out.
02:13:10.000
The argument should be, if we're in a fair world, if you do not make weight and you win, you cannot fight for the title next.
02:13:20.000
The problem with that is, financially, that sucks because I want these guys to fight.
02:13:24.000
And as a fan, it sucks because I want these guys to fight.
02:13:27.000
But from the perspective of the athletes, you've got to think, like, man...
02:13:30.000
And so this brings me back to my original premise.
02:13:33.000
I don't think they should be able to cut weight.
02:13:35.000
I think what they're doing at 1FC and what Ben Askren detailed, how they monitored his weight cuts.
02:13:44.000
You find out what fucking weight is the right weight for them.
02:13:57.000
They do hydration tests through their entire camp.
02:14:02.000
They find out what they really weigh plus hydration tests.
02:14:11.000
He went up to 185. He was fighting at 170 before.
02:14:16.000
He's better for your body, better for your career.
02:14:19.000
He was 170. But I believe they gave him the title.
02:14:29.000
And I think they should establish additional weight classes.
02:14:35.000
We will not allow our athletes to compete dehydrated, Rich Franklin said.
02:14:42.000
But if they happen to be overweight, if they're hydrated but maybe half a pound over, something like that, we can negotiate a catch weight and we have parameters for that.
02:14:50.000
We have to at least 105% of their opponent's weight.
02:14:55.000
Oh, they have to be at least 105% of their opponent's weight.
02:14:57.000
So they can't be more than 5% over is what he's saying.
02:15:02.000
He said, we use an instrument to test the specific gravity of their urine, which tests how much solutes are in their urine.
02:15:09.000
He continued, obviously, the more solutes you have, the more dehydrated you are.
02:15:14.000
So they have dehydration tests, so they establish that a fighter is performing at a healthy weight.
02:15:20.000
They're weighing in at that weight on more than one occasion.
02:15:34.000
He was so much bigger than David Loazzo and a lot of the guys who fought.
02:15:41.000
He was like one of the guys that was one of the first super fucking conditioned guys.
02:15:46.000
Who would just break guys with his pace and his will.
02:15:53.000
Because we see, because we remember him from the Anderson Bites.
02:15:58.000
But for most of us, most of us have heard about him when we saw him just have to deal with that, the best of all time.
02:16:06.000
Well, when Anderson, when he fought Anderson back then.
02:16:13.000
When he fought Anderson, at that point in time, Anderson was the best of all time.
02:16:20.000
And how about they were like, Rich, we need you to fight Anderson.
02:16:22.000
Listen, you need to do it again, but we're doing Cincinnati in front of all your friends and family.
02:16:26.000
I remember when he was grabbing him with that Muaytac clinch and he couldn't get out.
02:16:39.000
His strategy was to be super strong, super in condition, very highly skilled, but not at the same level of Anderson.
02:16:47.000
Anderson was all about technique and footwork and movement, and that trumps everything.
02:16:52.000
Tiago Alves told me that he's like, the dude, because he knew him really well.
02:17:02.000
Remember that one weird thing where he did his elbow up and knocked the guy out?
02:17:07.000
Apparently, according to Tiago, he'd been practicing that.
02:17:13.000
His fucking trainer told him to stop doing it because it's not going to work.
02:17:19.000
So he goes home and he's fucking blasting the pillow with this upward elbow.
02:17:23.000
He does it over and over again and then pulls it off in the fight and knocks him dead with it.
02:17:29.000
You ever see his fight with Lee Murray and Cage Warriors?
02:17:35.000
You know, he was going to retire until Big Nog told him, like, you can't stop.
02:17:38.000
Come to the UFC. He was catching his stride in England.
02:17:41.000
See, he fought very well in Japan, but then really came into his own in England.
02:17:48.000
He fought Jorge Rivera, and Jorge was teeing off on him.
02:17:50.000
He was letting Jorge punch him in the face, and then he fucked him up.
02:17:53.000
It was one of the scariest fights I've ever seen.
02:17:55.000
I'm like, I don't know what the fuck he was doing back then, but Anderson was on another level.
02:18:00.000
Because Anderson in pride wasn't like this crazy super...
02:18:09.000
I was watching him fight from the fights that I was watching from England.
02:18:13.000
As a hardcore fan, especially back then, I knew that there was a lot of talent that I wasn't seeing in the UFC when I was working for the UFC. So I was actively trying to seek out all the guys and people that I would hear about.
02:18:25.000
And I remember watching some of the Anderson fights.
02:18:31.000
You'll see a fighter, and they're really good, they're really good, they're really good, and then all of a sudden, Boom!
02:18:37.000
Sometimes there are certain pockets of coaching that seem...
02:18:44.000
Right now, for sure, with Stylebender and with Dan Hooker.
02:18:53.000
He's holding on to him, and Jorge's hitting him, and hitting him, and hitting him.
02:19:01.000
I mean, he literally let him punch him in the face and just rolled with him.
02:19:04.000
Then how about when he comes to the UFC, they're like, hey, Chris Lieben, fight this Brazilian.
02:19:10.000
But it's crazy how calm he was while Jorge was knocking people out, man.
02:19:16.000
The fact that Anderson was so skillful that he was able to just turn his face just slightly and move with those punches, just enough to take the pop off of him and completely ruin his confidence.
02:19:27.000
And then he just starts putting it on him, man.
02:19:30.000
Prime Anderson, you remember how electric he was coming to the octagons?
02:19:34.000
This was a fight that really turned it around for me.
02:19:37.000
There were two fights where I was like, okay, he's in a different place right now.
02:19:40.000
You know, he just was so fucking talented and so good at judging distance and figuring out what to do and when to do it.
02:19:49.000
And when he fought Damien Maia in Abu Dhabi, it was a boring-ass fucking fight.
02:19:53.000
But there was something in the first round that he did where I was like, wait, what?
02:19:58.000
He leaped and he hit Damien Maia with a flying knee from about...
02:20:02.000
Four or five feet further away than I thought was possible.
02:20:10.000
He was so talented, and it didn't look like it was much effort.
02:20:14.000
When he knocked out Vitor with that fucking front kick, remember?
02:20:17.000
It was the first time we kind of saw someone get fucking starts from that main event.
02:20:24.000
My manager, Lex, was with me, and he has a bad eye.
02:20:29.000
I go, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen in sports.
02:20:48.000
That's the best sporting event live I've ever seen.
02:20:57.000
Like, SMACK! And it was also one of those fights where you didn't know who the fuck was gonna win that fight.
02:21:08.000
It wasn't bodied up the way he was after that fight.
02:21:17.000
His body's nowhere near the Vitor that Rockhold fight.
02:21:33.000
That was the same look that he had when he fought Takeyama.
02:21:42.000
In comparison to how he looked when he fought Bisping.
02:22:19.000
Anderson was doing like Wing Chun on him and shit.
02:22:23.000
And we're like, come on, let's do something then.
02:22:29.000
He's looking for that opening, and he's smiling.
02:22:35.000
He did that old move that guys would look down at your feet and kick you in the head.
02:22:44.000
Man, Vitor was throwing some fucking haymakers under on the ground.
02:22:50.000
See, this Vitor is very fit, very good in shape Vitor, but not TRT Vitor.
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Once they gave him the green light and then he didn't have to worry about testing, he was like, yee-haw!
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He put a thousand horsepower engine in a Volkswagen and drove off a cliff.
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He looked at his chest and front-kicked him in the chin.
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And that was literally the first time we'd ever seen a front-kick to the face KO like that.
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There's only two moments that made my jaw drop.
02:23:29.000
And then remember when Leota Machida did the same thing to Randy Couture, but he did it with a jumping front-kick.
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And then Liotto did it to fucking Vitor and was like, this is your last go around.
02:23:54.000
I got Randy Couture ready for this fight the night before.
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One thing I didn't mimic was the fucking karate kick.
02:24:24.000
When he knocked out Vitor this last fight, that's the worst front kick you've ever seen.
02:24:32.000
He goes, and fucking Vitor just falls down and he gets on his knees and prays.
02:24:42.000
See, like, stands over him and then, my brother.
02:24:48.000
I'd rather you just walk off and jump on the cage with your dick out.
02:24:58.000
Well, you know Liotta and Anderson are partners in crime, right?
02:25:08.000
The thing about the front kick is, man, if it's going to the face, it's such a different thing than if it's going to the chest.
02:25:14.000
Don't battle me like that after you fucking knock my head off.
02:25:17.000
When it's going to the chest, you're looking to move away with it, but it's going to the face as you're standing there.
02:25:23.000
Yeah, and a lot of times when guys would take it to the body, what they would do is almost move with it a little bit.
02:25:31.000
Try to move with it, but that doesn't help you if it goes up to your chin.
02:25:35.000
Lyoto's just that career-ender, like, this is your last fight.
02:25:46.000
Munoz, we need to take this fight on short notice.
02:25:57.000
That was Leota's first spin at 185. Let's take a look at that again.
02:26:05.000
First of all, those two are the best men I know that have entered that octagon.
02:26:18.000
Lyoto was such an unusual fighter, so difficult to deal with.
02:26:21.000
I remember four years ago, three years ago, we were in the locker room, we had done training, just had this brutal training session at Black House, and I go, how much longer are you going to do this shit, man?
02:26:38.000
Well, now that he's in Bellator, he's on an extended warranty.
02:26:41.000
Yeah, he got a new warranty for fucking keys on Van Nuys.
02:26:48.000
Is Chuck actually going to fight Tito, or is that going to happen?
02:26:54.000
Listen, they said that it's going to happen, but there's no venue picked out.
02:27:02.000
Dana said publicly that there's a reason why he asked Chuck to retire nine years ago.
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He doesn't think it's right, and he wouldn't put the fight on himself.
02:27:13.000
I mean, whoever would put the fight on would make a shitload of money.
02:27:16.000
Credit to them for not wanting to do it, because Dana cares about Chuck, but Chuck wants a fight.
02:27:23.000
If he goes, I want to fight, and Oscar medically can.
02:27:26.000
The thing is, whoever the board, I mean, I don't know what his medical condition is.
02:27:35.000
It all depends on where they're going to do it, too.
02:27:44.000
No, it's going to be on an Indian reservation or some shit.
02:27:46.000
Like Tacoma fucking Indian reservation or some shit.
02:27:54.000
He goes, like, Tacoma fucking Indian reservation.
02:28:16.000
You know, you're dealing with Oscar De La Hoya's long history of promoting.
02:28:19.000
He knows where he can get away with what and what they can do.
02:28:22.000
But the thing is, will they do that or will they give them some real examinations and find out how Chuck's doing?
02:28:43.000
We have an impression of Tito that a lot of it is based on his interactions with other people, his fights with other people.
02:28:48.000
But also, that's a product of the times with him because he was this badass, the Huntington Beach bad boy.
02:29:00.000
So if Tito came on, if Tito at the time was as big as he is, and he came on your podcast, he'd been even better Bigger!
02:29:09.000
He did come on my podcast many, many years ago.
02:29:12.000
I'm saying if he came and went during his heyday, his 100 Beach bad boy, and you were as big as you are now with this podcast, and you got his story out, oh my god.
02:29:20.000
Well, people get to see people and they have an idea who that person is.
02:29:29.000
Super tuned in, super ambitious, fucking amazing fighter, and young as shit.
02:29:35.000
But people saw him on the podcast, got to hear him talk for three hours, and he's super honest about everything.
02:29:47.000
Yeah, because in sound bites, you get such a different impression of certain people.
02:29:52.000
Those interviews, the guy's like, tell me what you're going to do to your opponent.
02:29:55.000
By the time I ride, when I rock off the scale and I'm energized, what are you going to do to him?
02:30:01.000
You know who I think would grow even bigger as a superstar if they did your podcast?
02:30:13.000
Obviously, he has all the accolades in the world, and there's the stool or the dolly, all that shit.
02:30:18.000
But as a person, if you sat down and you talked to him, you just didn't get all that hoopla over here.
02:30:30.000
There was some trying to figure out times before he became gigantic, before the Diaz fight, before he won the title.
02:30:40.000
For better or for worse, I don't chase anybody.
02:30:44.000
I'm not saying you aren't, but I'm saying I know there's some great guests.
02:30:47.000
I know there's some people that I would really like to get on, but if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
02:30:52.000
I like having you guys on as much as I like some scientist who flies in from France.
02:30:58.000
I just like talking to people that are fun, whether it's talking to you guys or talking to...
02:31:14.000
When are you going to get real answers, though?
02:31:20.000
Have you talked to Maren about when he had Obama on?
02:31:22.000
You had to submit a list of questions, had to okay the questions.
02:31:25.000
And even Maren, you know, he goes, listen, it was great, I'm glad to give him the time, but that's not like a real podcast.
02:31:31.000
There can't be an agenda, and I can't know what I'm going to ask you next.
02:31:35.000
When we come on here, Fight Companions, or our podcast, I have no agenda.
02:31:40.000
They have to be concerned that you're going to set them up and make them look bad.
02:31:48.000
And when Obama was doing this, Obama was a sitting president.
02:31:53.000
And they probably had very strict rules in terms of what they would allow and not allow in terms of interviews.
02:32:02.000
I guarantee you, he would be more confident and more open to just being able to figure his way through it.
02:32:08.000
Because he wouldn't worry about me outmaneuvering him.
02:32:10.000
He also wouldn't worry about me outmaneuvering him.
02:32:17.000
But also, have you ever heard Trump before he's president on Stern?
02:32:26.000
And then also the pressure of that gig, and then the pressure of everybody hating him.
02:32:42.000
And it's such a dumb move to take that gig at 70. Well, every decision you make, you piss off 50% of the people and you make 50% of the people.
02:32:54.000
Do you have 20 years left if everything goes great?
02:32:56.000
It's a nice cherry on the sundae for a guy like that.
02:33:00.000
But also to say, hey, you have four years to accomplish all this.
02:33:15.000
He's got a video of him dancing, and there's all these girls with thongs on behind him, bent over with their ass up in the air.
02:33:24.000
That's what you're supposed to be doing when you've got Trump money.
02:33:27.000
What Trump should be doing is fucking be half-naked by the pool, dancing in front of butts.
02:33:34.000
I'm going to want you to watch this real quick.
02:33:35.000
This is what, if I was friends with Trump, I would say, listen, bro, I want to be like this guy.
02:33:43.000
By the way, he's younger than me, so he's not that old.
02:33:54.000
So, he's a little wrinkled because he's in the sun every day, but meanwhile, he's doing this every day, too.
02:34:22.000
Either it's a tremendous act or he is actually a happy rich guy who's banging tens all over the world.
02:34:30.000
And he's working as a DJ everywhere, and he's got all these videos of him having a great time.
02:35:00.000
That looks like somebody just wrote on him with a magic marker.
02:35:04.000
He's got a picture of his face on his back going like this.
02:35:14.000
When you're a billionaire, you do where the fuck you want, though.
02:35:28.000
That's aggressive, but when you're a billionaire...
02:35:31.000
He's got water there, in case you want to know.
02:35:32.000
He has love on his right tit, because you need love on your right tit.
02:35:39.000
Every time I see Trump, he's got a bigger and bigger frown.
02:35:56.000
The fucking most recent Cohen tapes, Cohen's releasing tapes now of him negotiating about paying off a gal.
02:36:06.000
Cohen released them to CNN. I thought they seized the nine tapes.
02:36:10.000
Oh, they definitely did that, but I believe they said that Cohen released them to CNN. Is that true?
02:36:17.000
Did you see that his wife got busted watching CNN? No.
02:36:20.000
He freaked out because she was on Air Force One watching CNN? Just hating on him?
02:36:29.000
It's tough when the Stormy Daniels and the other one comes out.
02:36:39.000
Well, she's probably keeping it together for a kid, man.
02:36:42.000
Donald Trump erupted with rage when Melania's Air Force One TV was tuned to CNN's leaked email.
02:36:49.000
How crazy is it that the president is in a battle with CNN? That is so fucking insane.
02:36:56.000
Well, what he's definitely 100% done is damage their reputation among some people.
02:37:04.000
Some of the mainstream media deserves, because what happens now is to stay in business, they've got to create clickbait.
02:37:12.000
White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event?
02:37:16.000
She asked him about the Cullen tapes, and she got banned from him.
02:37:20.000
Damn, you can get banned if you ask him questions?
02:37:28.000
I think the White House has always reserved the right to sort of, you're invited into the press pool, I believe.
02:37:34.000
And I think it's always been that sort of the president's prerogative.
02:37:38.000
There are all these little sneaky things that the executive power has that's kind of granted to the executive.
02:37:45.000
You can go, yeah, they killed a bunch of people, Brian, but I like you.
02:37:50.000
Did you guys listen to I Admit It, the new R. Kelly 19-minute song?
02:38:09.000
No, he doesn't admit peeing on anybody or that the video was him.
02:38:15.000
Most of the song is just him talking about all the chicks he banged and about how they took all his money because they made him sign contracts when he was young and he was dyslexic and he couldn't read.
02:38:24.000
He gave away all the rights to his music and talking about all the flaws that he has and How many girls he lied to and how many girls he banged and he goes over.
02:38:34.000
So that whole story about him with the young girl was not true?
02:38:43.000
No, just because someone gets off or a jury of their peers doesn't convict them.
02:38:51.000
Yeah, but it does not mean that he didn't do it.
02:39:00.000
R. Kelly secretly marries 15-year-old Aaliyah 22 years ago today.
02:39:12.000
Well, that alone is illegal in a lot of places, right?
02:39:30.000
I think the age of consent varies in the states and has been different over the last couple decades.
02:39:38.000
And I think 22 years ago, what he did, I don't think it was illegal.
02:39:52.000
Like, if it's illegal in the United States, but it's legal somewhere else, say if you go to Japan or wherever the fuck it's legal, and you get married, and then you come back to the States, can you live as a husband and wife?
02:40:07.000
Maybe as low as 12. Can I get a whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop?
02:40:14.000
But, you know, why don't, you know, we need to incorporate them.
02:40:18.000
Just tell Mexico, listen, we're going to make drugs legal.
02:40:21.000
We're going to pull all the troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
02:40:42.000
It was awesome to see you gear up for it, to see how fucking fired up you got, and you were doing a lot of touring, and I knew you were constantly doing sets around town and constantly writing on it and working on it and tweaking on it.
02:40:55.000
You could tell you were really obsessed with it, man.
02:40:57.000
It's the best thing I ever did, so I'm happy about it.
02:41:06.000
And then you're going to write some new shit, take some time.
02:41:12.000
You don't have the whole rest of the year off stand-up, because October, we're doing that big show with All Things Comedy Festival.
02:41:20.000
You, me, Theo, Ari Shaffir, and Big J. All Things Comedy is doing a festival?
02:41:27.000
But we're doing one show on a Saturday night, the weekend before Halloween.