E371 Bryce Mitchell
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On today's episode of the WDFA Radio Show, we have a special guest on the show, UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell. Bryce is a member of the UFC and has been with the organization for over 20 years. He has been a member for many years and is one of the most respected fighters in the UFC.
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Today's guest, this is his second time being here.
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He is an undefeated UFC featherweight from Searcy, Arkansas.
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It's not just, it's not just MMA anymore for this guy.
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Happy to spend some time today with my friend, Mr. Bryce Mitchell.
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I'll set that parking brake and let myself unwind
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And what does it feel like when you're watching that, dude?
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Because you've been, you've been out for what, almost a year now, huh?
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You know, I just, you know, I know we're going to get thirsty up here.
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And some homemade lemonade, and I got you some ear jerky in here.
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Dang, because I've been wanting protein for breakfast, man.
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Like I said, that's going to be real dry, but I do that on purpose because it's going to
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So, like apocalypse, bro, that ear jerky, it'll get you.
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Well, that or I had on glasses, one of the things.
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I shot that one with my bow, and then, shoot, just dried.
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That's like, it's going to stay for years, and I know a lot of people like it a little
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bit more moist, but the thing is, I have problems with it going bad.
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I put a lot of salt, a lot of pepper, and I dry it.
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I mean, it's dry, dry, but when you start chewing it, it'll come back to life.
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It bounces back quick once you start chewing it.
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I actually think you could take that, put it in a little pot of boiling water.
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I wouldn't do this unless if I was just mixing it up because I got bored, but you could put
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They call it reconstituting it, kind of get it kind of back to life, and then put it over
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Or you could have put rice in your mouth while you're eating it.
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I was watching that Emmett fight and that EG fight, and I was like watching it, and then
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like round three comes around, and I'm like, what the fuck?
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Some vape pens, and then a little bit more of those.
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But those vape pens, I'm actually not smart enough to smoke them.
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I don't know if it's an activated passcode or something, but I think you plug it into a phone
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So, you plug that bitch in, and then you smoke it.
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Now, this is the best gift of all, in my opinion.
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Oh, I'm gonna stack a little bit of my deer jerky in this bag.
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All right, let me show you what it sounds like.
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We got that rural Santa in the vicinity today, baby.
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In my, in my mind, it was pretty, like, really, it was a draw, to be honest with you.
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Because Ige got dropped in the first round, but then I thought he won the last two rounds.
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When you, um, when you're watching guys like that fight, do you start to feel, because
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you've been out now for, what, a year now because of your injury?
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Is it hard to still, like, see yourself as part of the show, kind of?
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Do you start to think, like, man, I'm not, does it, do you start to feel a little bit
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Because you were on a kind of a roll there, you know?
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I mean, dude, like, it's intense in my head, bro.
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So, what, so, so let's talk about the rest of that night, that, those fights, man.
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Well, first things first, I got to say that I called the Pena win.
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You know, I think she's pretty cute, so I'm gonna go for her.
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It was, it wasn't because of the personalities or anything that I picked Pena.
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I picked Pena because she had beat, I believe, Kat Zingano.
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When Kat Zingano beat Amanda, it was domination of wrestling and superior groundwork.
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And so you get one ground fighter who's already beat this chick,
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and then somebody comes and beats the chick who beat her at what she beat her at.
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She's gonna get her to the ground and beat her.
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She's gonna get her to the ground and beat her.
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And I didn't put no money on it, though, because I always fucking lose if I put money down.
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I bet my buddy a quarter of weed on a fight and then lost it.
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But the worst is when you lose a weed bet and your buddy just smokes it all
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and you gotta just sit there and look at his ass.
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My dude, my buddy gets so fucked up when we were younger, bro.
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One time his fucking dad came to pick him up, and he didn't even know his dad, bro.
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And he fucking fought him right there in the yard.
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And he fought him, bro, like it was somebody coming to a kidnapping.
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But, dude, fighting your own dad just because you're high or like you're so high.
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I don't care if I'm high or what the fuck, dude.
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I just beat his ass just for some child support, motherfucker.
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Yeah, they should have, if a dad flakes on the kid, they should have at least a couple rounds
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when the child's 16 or over that they got to do in the yard.
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Dude, we got to rewrite some of these laws, man.
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It don't always come to your favor when you're bigger like that.
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It means you cut more weight and she's a power puncher.
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So it's like, okay, so you're talking about a power puncher who cuts a lot of weight.
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Yeah, I bet she's going to be great in the first round.
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She's a power puncher who cuts a lot of weight.
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She's fighting somebody 10, 15 pounds smaller and she hits twice as hard.
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Now, what do you think, when you start to see this happening, what would you have done
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She come out like she's going to knock her out in the first round, throwing the power
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I mean, she should have gone out there saying, I'm not going to knock this girl out.
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And then I'm going to win round two a little bit better.
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And I'm going to win round three a little bit better.
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By round four or five, I don't even give a fuck.
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When it works so long, you know what I'm saying?
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But then she ran into a different stylistic matchup.
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In my opinion, Rousey is probably the best woman ground fighter that there is out there.
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Actually, if Rousey and Pena get into it in a ground fight, well, first off, that'd be sexy.
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I ain't sitting in the front row because I'm going to want to spend some time on myself.
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Well, second off, I think that Rousey will probably win eventually because of the submissions.
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She has that straight up kind of grab them and clinch style.
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Pena has a style where it's like shoot under and grab the legs, which works amazing if you're talking about a power puncher.
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Because a power puncher, when you swing, you open up all the openings for that.
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Like, when I'm fighting a power puncher, I'm not thinking, oh, I hope he don't swing hard.
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I'm thinking, I hope he swings as hard as he fucking can.
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Now, if you're Ronda Rousey, you don't go for the legs.
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She has to go against her opponent in a straight line.
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That's where she fucked up with Amanda Nunez, bro.
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She tried to just close that distance without any type of entangling of the hands, no distractions, no nothing.
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But if you would have seen Rousey get Amanda to the ground, you probably would have seen even more disparity.
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Just like the disparity was on the feet, it would have been the same on the ground.
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She just never had the, she don't go for those legs, you know.
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And Amanda, she opens up and throws those big punches.
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She took some of her best shots, lured her in, landed just enough to piss her off and make her want to hit her more.
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And you could tell her, Nunez, like, how is this not working?
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I mean, you could see, Nunez's like, what is this, hitting me?
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She just stayed right in there, and now she's advancing forward.
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It's probably been five years at least since she's been in that position in a fight, bro.
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Go back to that last few seconds there, Robert.
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It was probably a choke as well, but if it wasn't on the throat,
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you could still choke somebody right here on the face and the nose.
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Bro, it looked like she was up on her nose and her mouth.
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But I don't, and it didn't look like she was on the neck to me either.
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He's actually a 25er, but there's something about the way that, like,
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you know how ants, they can lift, like, 10 times their own body weight or something?
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Yeah, yeah, I've never seen it, but they say it all the time.
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Like, you get a little 125er, he can squeeze almost damn near as hard.
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Actually, in certain positions, a 125er can squeeze just as hard as a 150-pounder
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because of, like, the compactness of the muscles.
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He gets his arm and nose around your face and your mouth.
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And it's actually, let me tell you why it's worse than a rear naked choke
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because a rear naked choke, bro, you're kind of just going to, like,
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it's not the most pleasant choke because you actually can't breathe.
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And one time I got put to sleep in, like, an arm triangle.
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Bro, after the round, the guy was like, the guy was like, bro, you were out.
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He said, not only were you out, you were twitching for, like, 30 seconds.
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I was like, man, I thought I was dizzy or something.
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Somebody likes to dance in their subconscious, baby.
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You could be in it and then just, boom, wake up and not even know you're out sometimes.
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That rear naked choke, bro, you're going to cut off your air supply.
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And so the one you're talking about, your buddy, though, what is that one like?
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You can't breathe in, so you're getting that effect of, like, you can't actually get air
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But it's over your face or it's over your neck?
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It's over your face and it crushes the fuck out of your jaw.
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It feels like your teeth are about to get just literally just fucking, just all, you
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And I mean, I'm not saying I can't do it, but it's like, okay, we'll put it this way.
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These motherfuckers, they can make lemonade, bro.
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They can put them lemons right there and just squeeze that.
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I'll do some chili pepper, a little cumin, you know what I mean?
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It's like holding a damn baby in your mouth, son.
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It's like holding a damn little venison baby, son.
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I know you've been doing a ton to carry your time.
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I want to talk about the fights a little bit more, man.
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What's the thing that you've kind of missed the most?
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I mean, obviously, the fighting, but do you feel like this time...
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Because as a fighter, you only have so much time, really.
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You know, when you look at the breadth of these guys' career, they get to third.
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Some guys, you have the, you know, an animally...
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Yeah, it was a World Series of Fightin', and this is before, you know, he's the champ.
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Like, bro, he just literally sits there so chill.
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I mean, there's not too many people at, what, 44, maybe, something like that, you know, getting
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So, if, if he's not, that shit don't count, because it's, like, way back in the day.
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But, it's just two completely different playing fields.
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Tank Abbott was fighting other bar fighters his age.
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Teixeira's going in there fighting dudes half his age.
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He's been knocked out a couple times, and he don't give a fuck.
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He just comes back, and, you know, so it's, he's, he's legit, man.
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Some of the fights I saw, I saw Anthony Smith the other night,
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I mean, I just can't even believe watching some of these guys,
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I showed up right when Sean O'Malley was fighting.
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Look, sometimes you got to give a big girl a mint.
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No, you know, I ain't even into titty bars, but my buddy TJ Brown,
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he kind of was doing like a hosting of a party down there.
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So I showed up, and I just wanted to watch the fights.
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And Buffalo Wild Wings ain't even got no food that's, like, real good.
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Bro, I ain't been to one of them in, I mean, so long, bro.
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Yeah, I got family members that have danced, bro.
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And, like, the one in our town where you would, where the girls would learn that,
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like the local strip club, it had, the ceiling was low in there,
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and the stage was kind of high, so they would have to, like,
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Bro, this was actually the best strip club I've ever been to.
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And these girls was acting like the higher they went up, the more they got paid.
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And then she's doing some 360 spin shit on the way down.
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Where she lets go, and then right before the last second,
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Desperate time calls for desperate measures, man.
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Yeah, what did you think of the finale there with Oliveira and Poirier?
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It just, it looked to me like Oliveira had more weapons in his arsenal,
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You know, like, here was a telling sign for me, too, during a fight when Oliveira got that
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And it's just like, he is a lot better at the boxing, but this is in Poirier's mind.
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He's thinking, I'm going to knock this guy out with boxing.
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Yeah, I think that's his natural first thought.
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It's his natural first thought is I'm going to let him up and box with him and knock him
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Now, this is what Coach Bryce says, and Coach Bryce ain't shit on Poirier.
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Poirier, come over here and beat my ass right now.
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You know, I'm not saying, but looking back at a fight, you can look back at all my losses
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Oh, it's easy for us to sit here and say anything.
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It's so fucking easy, but if, say we redo it and I'm wanting DP, my dude, to win.
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And I'm DP's coach and say, if I say it, he does it.
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Maybe, you're not going to finish him probably unless you hurt him real bad because Charles
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But do not ever be scared to engage on the ground with an opponent.
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And it's not saying he's not afraid of Charles Oliveira's ground game.
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It's like, bro, you're Dustin Poirier and he's fucking rocked.
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You get on him and you just keep fucking, just, just wail down punches.
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And if I was his coach, I would tell him, I don't give a fuck how good his guard is.
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I could see it being a level of like respect thing.
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It was a, it was a level of respect is all that.
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He just has this like, uh, there's like, he has this, these, this mutual kind of thing.
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And like I said, he wanted to knock them out with the boxing.
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But if I was coach, I'd be Dustin going there, getting his guard, uh, you know, keep him
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down and, and just win the rest of that round, conserve a little bit of your energy.
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Um, then the second round, I believe that Olivera gets deep down and this is what, yeah, that's
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when Olivera got him down and was throwing those elbows.
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Like it didn't look super flush, but some, I'm sure they were, they were, uh, so they
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When they hit you in the teeth, you could feel it.
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Cause they were landing right here and here and, uh, you know, those elbows hurt, you know?
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Um, but he had a body triangle, walked around his body and you can do that every now and
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then, you know, cause to kind of recover or anything, but I think he held that body triangle.
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He was actually holding himself in that position.
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No, well, Dustin was kind of holding, trying to keep his body close to him, I think.
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And so, and so, um, I would tell him, I'd say, Dustin, open that body triangle.
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You cannot, how can you stand up on your feet if they're locked around your opponent?
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I say, Dustin, you've got to knock this guy out or you got to at least bust them up.
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You got to open your legs up and you got to fight to get up.
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Now the problem, if he opens his legs up, then what's possible?
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Putting his feet on the ground, planting them and getting up, getting back up.
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Now the risk there is that Olivera circles to his back or grabs a headlock.
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Would you rather the dude choke you out with the rear naked choke or get you in a guillotine
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Or would you rather sit and lose that, that, that round by round by round with that body
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And, uh, you know, I've done a lot of bad things in a fight, but I think when he looks
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back at it, he'll say, you know what, I'm not going to do that body triangle no more.
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I'm going to get back to my feet if my opponent gets me down because he was kind of keeping
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But it all came, all those, all those things you saw was the manifestation of the over respect
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And I say, oh, it's one thing to say, okay, Olivera is good on the ground and I don't want
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It's another to say, he's so good on the ground.
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So like the actual, he likes, he likes, he likes, he likes, he likes, he likes, I think
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You get a mat, you get a matchup like, uh, so if I was good at it, I would do it.
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If I'm, you know, if I'm good with a dagger, I ain't going to tickle somebody.
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And so it's like, just because it's like, it's not the same thing.
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Well, you know, there's, there's matchups like for Poirier that I just think he'll win
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I'm like the perfect matchup for him, uh, is Conor McGregor.
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Uh, a guy who, who power punches, um, doesn't do as good in the later rounds.
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There's not a time in the fight where Dustin has to worry about getting taken down, getting
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choked, he's in his element and you're going to, you're going to see him fully unleashed,
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but you put them up against a Charles Rivera, uh, Olivera, and you're going to see in some
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positions more timidity because of that respect for the ground game.
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And I don't, and this is my honest assessment of Dustin's ground game.
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I don't think the disparities as big as it is in his head.
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I think he was a little bit too worried about Olivera's ground game.
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Like I said, when he dropped him, I'm pouncing.
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I, I think, I didn't talk to him enough about the actual fighting and stuff before about
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And, and, and that's where it would kind of stay.
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And so we'd have a, you know, and then it just, it just, and I think also, I think
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Well, this, this, I gotta say this, my last loss guy took me down and I got choked out trying
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So it's just, it, you know, it's easy to sit here and say, oh, you could have, should
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have, would have, but my last fight, bro, I wish that I would have got up safer.
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I don't, if anything, maybe I should have stayed on the ground the rest of the fight
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And, um, every fight, there's something to learn.
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I mean, look, I obviously have, you know, like I get scared of things.
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There's so I know nothing, but it's like, it's definitely just, it's interesting to sit
00:33:55.880
We see what happened and we look at it and, and it's like, I just know also Dustin was
00:34:08.000
Like we got five, let's at least do four, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:10.880
Like, even if you already won, let's do another, you know, like, um, let's just keep
00:34:16.180
it going, uh, man, the energy in there was so wild, man.
00:34:32.640
Let me tell you why I think that, um, Gaethje is a great matchup for Oliveira.
00:34:37.460
What do you think would happen to Oliveira Gaethje?
00:34:39.200
Cause I feel like that's probably what's going to be next.
00:34:41.040
I don't think you're going to see a Poirier-Oliveira rematch cause I think it makes sense.
00:34:45.920
Well, he could go make money fighting McGregor.
00:34:48.500
You know, he might just get that, that money fight or a Nate Diaz fight.
00:34:52.300
They would pay him so much money for that Nate Diaz fight.
00:34:56.480
He don't even have to worry about fighting for the belt.
00:34:58.900
He's a fucking bajillionaire or whatever he is.
00:35:03.160
And so he's, it's not going to be typical with him.
00:35:12.440
You know, it's, um, especially with the way the belt is kind of used as like a, it's a bait.
00:35:19.200
Sometimes it's who's definitely, obviously it's always who's great.
00:35:23.720
But sometimes it's used by the administration of there.
00:35:29.940
And I don't think that these people who have the belts are fucking built different than
00:35:34.420
any, but then, you know, they had good circumstances and, and, and a lot of them are great and
00:35:44.100
If I'm in a fucking street fight and I'm fighting for my life and, and there's one person I have
00:35:49.360
my back and, and they said it's Dustin Poirier.
00:35:53.180
I don't give a fuck what belt he's got this or that.
00:36:01.080
I don't care if he's wearing a belt from Banana Republic.
00:36:07.540
And, uh, you know, here's another thing, man, with that, that championship stuff, man.
00:36:11.800
It's like, I hate to see these people get the belt and then they act like they're gods
00:36:35.320
He had some rough nights and you know, it, he's a championship fighter.
00:36:41.420
Like I said, I'm comfortable with him having my back in any street fight.
00:36:49.420
Now, Dustin has made, obviously he's had, he's had some choices and made some choices and
00:36:54.140
had some blessings where he's gotten, uh, have a stronger financial side than probably
00:37:00.880
Um, and do you think, how does that start to influence other fighters to do their own
00:37:07.220
I know you got your, um, you got your music now that you got, you know, which is cool,
00:37:12.340
And if we listen to grandmother's grave, a decent amount, man, thank you so much for
00:37:17.600
I like problems in my head and grandmother's grave.
00:37:26.680
Um, just thanks so much for listening, brother.
00:37:29.180
It's just interesting that where did some of that kind of like, do you see guys doing different
00:37:37.560
And does that, is that kind of what inspires you to be like, you know what?
00:37:40.780
I'm going to do some, I'm going to do some of my own stuff as well.
00:37:46.140
Where does it, where do you feel like any of that kind of comes from?
00:37:49.360
You know, uh, the first song I made, it was just, uh, it wasn't supposed to be a mixtape
00:37:54.940
I was just making it and made it from old lady, you know?
00:37:57.780
And, uh, cause we fighting over some petty shit and I just wanted to let her know this
00:38:01.540
is petty, you know, kind of explain, express myself.
00:38:04.920
And then she was like, well, that was really good.
00:38:08.240
I started fucking putting out hitters, brother.
00:38:13.060
And what, uh, and so then did you, did you match up with somebody to help you make some
00:38:20.840
And then I, uh, I went to the, uh, Joker in Little Rock and, uh, his name's Kev.
00:38:25.880
But, uh, you know, we went up there and cooked us up a little mixtape.
00:38:31.320
You guys can check it out if you haven't checked it out.
00:38:33.780
Um, yeah, I put a lot of heart and soul in there, man.
00:38:39.120
You should have barred up them like a damn prison.
00:38:45.500
You doing a damn seven life sentences on some of them lyrics, man.
00:38:52.460
Oh, the first one, the first song on there I made about a year and a half, maybe two years
00:39:01.720
And, uh, each song probably took a couple of weeks to write, except the first one.
00:39:07.380
Um, and then I would just kind of casually work on other ones.
00:39:11.760
It wasn't like, until about the last month, then I was like, really like, okay, I really
00:39:20.840
And then I started feeling like that, that, okay, I need to finish this.
00:39:25.560
But while I was making most of the songs, I didn't have any type of timeline.
00:39:33.280
And so it didn't really, it was just kind of a passion project.
00:39:38.660
It wasn't something you were just waking up and doing like, I got to get this.
00:39:42.220
I'm fucking using YouTube beats and, you know what I'm saying?
00:39:46.700
And it's, it's more, it's more than about the money and it's about, um, the greatest thing
00:39:51.380
that I could do is to relate to people that watch my fights that, you know,
00:39:56.600
If there's somebody out there that, that heard, even if it's one fucking verse and
00:40:00.800
they heard it and they thought, well, shoot, I'm going through that too, you know?
00:40:04.740
And it's like, okay, well now I got something in common with that guy.
00:40:08.100
That's kind of like my brother, even though he don't fucking know me, he heard my song
00:40:11.120
and he heard my, you know, and now we got this, this, we're going through the same
00:40:29.680
Do you, do you feel like you need to do stuff to try and keep your name out?
00:40:36.300
Did you start to ever feel like that a little bit?
00:40:38.300
Because it's, it's tough because it's like you, you don't disappear.
00:40:43.060
You're there, you know, you have a great rank of your top 15th, your 10 or 11 and some
00:40:47.580
of the rankings or what, you know, whatever the rankings are kind of.
00:40:50.240
Um, but that you can't get out there and express yourself.
00:40:55.100
You, you know, you're, you're expressing is limited.
00:41:00.440
And, and same with the music and, uh, you know, the feeling of people forgetting about
00:41:07.340
Everybody, if you stop fighting, people forget about you, but that ain't why I fight.
00:41:10.960
It is this inner desire to express, uh, most of his fucking anger, frustration, you know,
00:41:18.800
and it's, and it's, um, it's more about all I care that is that God's watching me.
00:41:24.700
Like that I have a purpose that, that I'm fighting for something and I don't give a fuck
00:41:29.440
If I feel like God has told me to go in there and fight to better my life, to better, uh,
00:41:34.060
potentially better my family's life, that's what I'm doing it for.
00:41:41.720
Um, like say I put it out anonymous, anonymously.
00:41:47.140
I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even give a fuck as long as people liked it.
00:41:49.800
You know, I just want people to relate to it and feel good.
00:41:53.000
And bro, I ain't made no fucking money off that.
00:41:55.060
I put hundreds and hundreds of dollars into it.
00:42:03.140
And, and you know, it's been built up for a long time.
00:42:05.820
And like when I'm, when I'm fighting or whatever, man, you get these emotions.
00:42:10.080
It's just like the closest thing you could feel to like God, you know what I'm saying?
00:42:14.160
Like I'll be fighting sometimes and I'll just like make myself, or I'll be rapping sometimes
00:42:21.240
I, I'll get mad at some shit that I say, like I'll be in the middle of a rap freestyling
00:42:25.140
in my, in the car or something and say, fuck, you know, it makes me so mad just thinking
00:42:29.420
of that memory and I'm like hitting the steering wheel and shit.
00:42:32.220
And then I'm like, okay, I just snapped out of it.
00:42:41.680
I think that's one of the things, even just like, you know, Dustin's probably the fighter
00:42:46.100
So it's been interesting to just, uh, I can understand exactly what you're saying.
00:42:49.860
Like, if you look at his early stuff, it's like, it's just this anger.
00:42:57.320
And then you see as you, as, as he starts to get older and evolve that you get to know
00:43:05.620
It's like, you almost got to fucking get these layers of anger out of you so you can get to
00:43:12.680
So you can have, uh, opportunities to like get your voice out there.
00:43:16.600
It's like, um, I hope my anger goes away one of these days, but not before you have a
00:43:27.980
So when you look at your, how do you see your path to, to the belt?
00:43:31.600
You guys have an interesting, y'all's weight class is so interesting.
00:43:34.500
Just the way some of these guys are built, you know, I feel like if it gets a little bit
00:43:39.020
lower in weight class than yours, a lot of the guys, their body types are really
00:43:45.740
It's like some of these guys, uh, the body styles to me look really different, you know,
00:43:52.960
What, what, uh, what do you see your kind of path making it up through the rankings and
00:43:57.060
some of the, your future here, your path to the belt?
00:44:03.180
You know, so I, I think two more big wins and I'm getting a title shot.
00:44:15.440
I mean, we're still seeing, yeah, we're still seeing, you know, I'm just waiting on it.
00:44:27.780
I mean, that's a dude to be fight, to be entering into the top 10, right?
00:44:35.120
In my head, I've already done it a billion times.
00:44:37.220
I've like, in my head, you're asking like, you're asking what's the path to the belt?
00:44:41.780
Like I'm already fucking champ in my head, bro.
00:44:43.480
Like I don't want to be arrogant and stuff, but bro, I am the fucking champ.
00:44:46.660
If you ask me and my trailer, when I'm chilling, bro, I'm the fucking champ.
00:44:52.300
What, um, well then let's, maybe we'll jump off a fight.
00:44:56.380
What do y'all got planned coming up for the holidays?
00:45:02.020
It's just, you know, go our different paths and, uh, ain't nothing wrong with that, you
00:45:11.280
Nah, I've just, I've just been laying low, brother.
00:45:13.080
Like I said, I went to the two bar the other day.
00:45:14.620
That's most, you know, I've even seen females in a while.
00:45:18.360
You know, but like I said, that ain't my scene.
00:45:20.260
I've just been kind of training and whatnot, but, um, yeah, I ain't even worried about it.
00:45:25.540
You have a gym at home now that you're training at?
00:45:30.300
I'm building a block wall because, um, I have to lean these mats up against the wall
00:45:34.640
and I don't have a wall to, uh, lean them up against.
00:45:59.620
Uh, first off, if Thug Nasty, I'm talking to you, man.
00:46:04.000
If you were in the cage with a gorilla and a panda bear, over or under, how long would
00:46:28.040
Um, I'm going to be like dancing around the panda bear while he, and then try to jump on the
00:46:37.580
I mean, he might as well say, he might as well say Tyrone Woodley.
00:47:01.440
It'd be like the final scene in that movie, bro.
00:47:05.340
If y'all are in there together, that'd be great.
00:47:07.200
You get in there, and then you and the panda freaking, you guys join forces, you know?
00:47:12.940
And then you guys go straight at that gorilla, bro.
00:47:24.500
So, I went to the fights, right, with this guy, David Spade.
00:47:32.000
I want to be just like Joe Dirt when I grow up.
00:47:46.380
Like, he's kind of watching on his computer, and then he's on his phone sometimes.
00:47:51.240
He had a young fighter, I think from Brazil or from another country that came up that was sitting there watching the fights with him for a little while.
00:48:17.540
Because I'd sat in Joe Rogan's seats before, but I'd never.
00:48:33.240
UFC has become my favorite sport in the past two years.
00:48:39.840
There's, when you, when you really get into it, it's like, there's not other sports with
00:48:49.480
Like, I can't watch a football game and I don't feel nothing.
00:49:02.780
Just like, man, people come in and it's just this moment of like, there's going to be this
00:49:08.020
moment of clarity and it's such a euphemism for just life, bro.
00:49:13.220
Like you can try so hard and you can still be great.
00:49:17.340
You just might not get the outcome that you want.
00:49:21.480
It's like, you see, because so many of the fighters to me are heroes.
00:49:25.560
That's what I realized when I'm there the other night.
00:49:27.080
I'm like, oh my God, everybody I run into, I feel like is a hero.
00:49:33.020
And they die, but they, but they hit the, it's like win or lose kind of it's, they're
00:49:39.440
It's still a hero, but it's like that letdown is like, it's like when one of my buddies
00:49:44.100
loses, it's like, man, I feel his pain for him.
00:49:51.160
I just, it's like, oh, you just know that people want, you know, that there's this, we,
00:49:57.940
I think everybody at times carries like a storybook idea of the way they, they think things are
00:50:02.820
going to go or they could go and you see so much evidence that it's going to be like this
00:50:13.940
Um, and then whatever things happen that God wants or whatever the way it shakes out,
00:50:21.520
And it's just such, there's so many like intense moments of it's like life.
00:50:26.580
Just, it's such a fucking life that happens on those nights when you guys are doing those
00:50:32.940
It's such like a, I think that's where I can relate the most as a human.
00:50:37.280
You're relating on a human level because you're like, man, this is, there's wins and losses
00:50:42.660
right here and there's dreams and there's, especially you talk about, uh, wives and children.
00:50:47.840
A lot of those fighters, they really need that for their kids.
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This was at the Poirier McGregor and Gilbert Burns, I think.
00:53:29.740
He was out there fighting and his wife was sitting there and his two boys are there and they're like start punching each other and then they're cheering.
00:53:38.700
And it was just one of the craziest moments ever to sit there and watch them, like watch their dad and husband and like all this crazy energy.
00:53:49.960
Oh, and then Dominic Cruz came up to me and he'd been in a war, right?
00:53:59.400
And I'm like, this guy, I feel like he's in the witness protection program.
00:54:05.920
And then we start talking and I'm like, oh my God, this is Dominic Cruz, man.
00:54:10.120
And it just, and I just was like, holy shit, this is my favorite sport.
00:54:14.120
It's like, yeah, I'm not really thinking about the guacamole.
00:54:20.260
You know, I'm just thinking like, man, I don't want to miss a moment of this, like, it's
00:54:26.620
like a, it's like you have all these arteries and all these veins, but then it all comes
00:54:30.440
together for this fucking heart, you know, and there's just so much right there.
00:54:34.320
And then there's so much respect between everybody.
00:54:40.480
You know, I, I do like talking some shit if somebody wants to talk some shit, but I'm
00:54:46.720
You know, I would actually much rather respect them and all that.
00:54:49.620
But I do like it when the people talk shit because then it's makes it a lot easier to
00:54:59.800
What is the difference going into a fight where somebody, where there's been a lot of trash
00:55:05.180
Is there a, does the motivation change a little?
00:55:08.180
Uh, the, well, maybe not the motivation to win, but I'm talking about the motivation to
00:55:17.480
If you sit there and like, think about hurting somebody that you, that you like, like, but
00:55:22.400
when I, and somebody calls me a bitch, like, bro, I can sit there and think about just stomping
00:55:31.140
But like, if I like you and you got kids and you got, it's like, I'm going to think
00:55:35.420
about winning, but I don't, I'm going to hurt you as little as possible.
00:55:39.200
Like, and there is a difference in that for me, but, um, I don't, I don't think, I think
00:55:45.760
it can affect your performance, but I think that, um, I've, I've walked out all of that
00:55:50.020
and, uh, either way, I think my performance, whether I like the person or not is going to
00:55:53.400
be, um, the same because take this into account too.
00:55:58.980
You know, if you hold the coal, you'll, you'll get burnt.
00:56:01.420
So if you got all this animosity, cause this dude's calling you a bitch or whatever, right?
00:56:11.820
There might be a chance in that fight where you've already knocked him out or whatever.
00:56:23.280
Well, we're going to see if I hit like a bitch before, before Herb gets there.
00:56:36.960
And I wonder sometimes if Herb just laid back another course.
00:56:44.880
I mean, not on Herb, but on any referee of anything.
00:56:47.440
Cause I remember I even used to referee flag football, dude.
00:56:50.060
I used to work at like the student center or whatever in school.
00:56:53.020
And so I, and dude, there were sometimes I wouldn't even pay it.
00:57:03.900
When you see this, like this Woodley, uh, Paul, this second fight, do you see the first
00:57:10.960
Uh, I saw that, uh, Woodley rocked him pretty good.
00:57:15.920
Out of the high, I watched the highlights and it's like the highlight video was a little
00:57:19.880
So I'm thinking, okay, I'm not going to go watch the whole fight.
00:57:22.560
But there was that one punch that Woodley landed.
00:57:33.220
And fighting guys that ain't as dangerous as what he was fighting.
00:57:39.240
I mean, that guy's taking a lot of punches over there.
00:57:41.500
Do you think that he'll, the thing about Woodley though is you're literally yelling, screaming
00:57:52.720
Bro, and he makes all that money and he's sitting there just like.
00:57:56.300
I think that, you know, if he was poor, he'd probably fight a little bit different.
00:58:03.800
He might come out in a damn lazy boy on this next one.
00:58:11.980
In between rounds, they got that lazy boy reclining.
00:58:16.740
What if he just walked in and said, look, I'm just here to count money.
00:58:25.600
I'll tell you what, back in the pride days, you know, that Yakuza was real popular.
00:58:29.460
I don't know if you, you know, pride, kind of that old school boxing ring stuff.
00:58:41.920
So what I heard would happen is they'd get you in the hotel and they'll come up to you
00:58:45.580
and, you know, a couple guys deep roll up on you.
00:58:56.860
They'll sit down and they'll open up the briefcase.
00:59:01.920
They'll say, hey, do you want to lose in the second round?
00:59:10.460
Shit, I don't know if I'll make it to the second round.
00:59:23.240
What do you – do you know if you will fight in February?
00:59:30.880
It's just – I mean, I have no clue, to be honest with you.
00:59:39.960
I mean, we don't know if – until I get in there and land a hard hit.
00:59:43.560
But if I punch like that again, it'll probably break again, you know.
00:59:47.980
So I'm going to change up my punching a little bit, try to go for more accuracy.
01:00:07.280
Yes, as long as you ain't, like, doing that, as long as you're doing that, you're fine.
01:00:15.220
He does a little bit of some crazy shit, you know what I'm saying?
01:00:22.000
You could really kill somebody without kung fu, man.
01:00:28.740
That's all they ever said growing up, dude, if you hit somebody like that.
01:00:35.080
I mean, I don't even want to do that to somebody.
01:00:41.220
If hand breaks, bro, I got to go old school kung fu.
01:00:44.020
Have you ever had somebody roll up on you that didn't know you were a fighter?
01:00:50.340
I'm sure in your area, everybody kind of knows now.
01:00:54.500
I mean, the kind of last scuffle that I got into is kind of like that.
01:01:07.340
So, you know, I would much rather, like, avoid a situation, you know what I'm saying?
01:01:12.700
Because the consequences are pretty bad, you know?
01:01:16.960
Would you, if you're about to get in a fight with somebody and they didn't know you were a professional,
01:01:40.660
What y'all's Christmas look like over there, man?
01:01:44.960
My pet paw's going to Florida, so I'm going to go to my mom's.
01:01:48.300
I'm going to have my aunt, my cousins, my mom, my sister.
01:01:54.260
Just, you know, turkey dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, fried okra.
01:01:58.980
And you bring anything, or are they doing all the cooking?
01:02:12.740
I about had to get a ladder to pick the okra off the top of it.
01:02:20.000
I probably put in, like when I got to picking on my best day, I picked, it was almost, it
01:02:28.980
I filled up two five-gallon buckets with it, so that was on my best day.
01:02:33.760
And you like, is that one of your favorite vegetables, okra?
01:02:41.960
Sometimes I feel like, I don't know if we're supposed to be eating.
01:03:25.500
I saw you did a car commercial too, which is fucking hilarious, bro.
01:03:31.020
Dude, that shit is so fucking ridiculous and funny, bro.
01:03:36.920
Dude, I thought you just pulled up a clip of it.
01:03:40.060
Everybody likes that line, I would have made it on time.
01:04:07.920
I don't think that they thought that I could come up with some shit like this.
01:04:21.780
I'm shooting a .44 Magnum in a commercial just completely randomly.
01:04:28.800
And they let you shoot it right at the vehicle?
01:04:43.220
Yeah, what kind of stuff do you see yourself like?
01:04:46.020
Are there other ventures you start thinking about?
01:04:48.140
Because I could see you having a cooking, Lama.
01:05:06.100
I'm getting real fucking creative with that shit, bro.
01:05:14.440
I got 22 cows right now, which really ain't much.
01:05:18.840
But we did get this year to where the newborns did cover the cost of the hay.
01:05:24.080
So we didn't actually have any expenses this year.
01:05:33.980
So we had to buy some, but then we just sold cows to cover the cost of the hay.
01:05:38.220
So, and how many cows does the cows have every year?
01:05:43.240
I think it's kind of like similar to a human, like the length of time it takes, you know?
01:05:51.360
Would you come out there some mornings and they got one?
01:05:53.680
Well, they're actually a little bit north of me.
01:05:57.760
We're about to move four more, so I'll have six at my place.
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But the two that I've got are mom and daughter, but...
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I've never had to pull one out or nothing like that.
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Not opposed to it, but I do what I got to do, you know what I'm saying?
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Shit, I've probably done nastier stuff than that.
01:06:27.140
Now, you'd have to run the restaurant at that point.
01:06:28.880
You'd have some people that know what you want.
01:06:40.580
I'm going to be everything in this fucking restaurant, bro.
01:06:47.200
Well, I would try to utilize as much of my beef as I could, you know,
01:06:50.440
because that's one thing I could bring to the table is some beef.
01:06:52.520
And then, actually, when I get more into farming, there's a possibility of getting, you know,
01:06:58.140
some of my own pork, some of my own this and that, growing my own this and that, you know what I'm saying?
01:07:02.400
So, and it's going to be a long time before I ever do that.
01:07:06.720
I'm not trying to juggle a fight in a restaurant, but it is one of them things, like, that's on my bucket list.
01:07:13.420
I want to sell some food, and I got some secret recipes, bro.
01:07:19.960
You got them, dude, I'm sure you got a couple, some twisters hidden in your food books, man.
01:07:25.280
What would, yeah, I'm trying to think thugs, nice thugs.
01:07:29.220
Would it be more like kind of, what are you thinking, upscale?
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Might even do one, like, a straight up restaurant, like, some good, just good fucking food.
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Just, I'm talking like, fill you up type of stuff.
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And then across town have a little coffee shop.
01:07:49.660
With some of these desserts, I'm telling you right now.
01:07:54.340
My aunt, she learned how to make chocolate pies from my great grandma who passed it on to my Mimi,
01:08:01.000
So, all I got to do is holler at my aunt, and then she'll show me how to do it.
01:08:06.280
Look, or you got to get your aunt to do it, bro.
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Hey, if I get some money, I guarantee you she would.
01:08:21.660
You know, like, that was my favorite thing about the show, is like, all these people love each
01:08:25.640
other, working together, and it's like, they're succeeding in life as a unit.
01:08:32.280
I think you could have that, man, because you don't have any children or nothing yet,
01:08:47.160
And, bro, if your jerky came in a turtle shell every time, that'd be freaking fire.
01:08:50.900
I knew you was going to get creative with that thing.
01:08:58.320
Dude, I remember one time on the way to school, our school bus hit a big turtle that was crossing
01:09:02.020
the street, and the bus driver, Ms. Hazel, put that bitch inside the thing and took it
01:09:11.040
And it was the biggest turtle our town had ever seen, dude.
01:09:14.220
Oh, people were sending pictures around of it, drawings of it.
01:09:17.840
It was just a damn sketched out freaking little snapper.
01:09:23.180
Let's hit another question that we had that come in for Mr. Mitchell, please.
01:09:33.300
This is Brady from Minnesota, just checking in.
01:09:36.160
I'm just wondering, is there any truth to the report that you're going to be fighting
01:09:43.840
Also, would you consider anybody from the UFC hopping on a track with you someday?
01:10:00.980
If there's somebody you could do a track with, who would it be, do you think?
01:10:42.000
And that could be Biscuits and Gravy, too, man.
01:10:57.340
What do you see happening next in the lightweight division, kind of?
01:11:09.720
Well, now, but with Gaethje, Gaethje is a, I mean, he's a, him and Dustin, that's why
01:11:20.280
Like, it's almost like something he'll do for you that's nice.
01:11:25.360
Like, it's just like, it's just, it's like a way to show, express anything, you know,
01:11:30.300
I think that it would be really hard for Oliveira to get Gaethje down to the ground.
01:11:36.080
But do you, why would it be any harder to get him down than Dustin down, you feel like?
01:11:41.640
And Dustin's done so much grappling in his life that he's been on the ground.
01:11:47.200
Like, he's not going to have that response that Gaethje is going to have.
01:11:50.840
Like, there's a, there's a certain point in which somebody's in on a takedown and you
01:11:55.400
have to expend, and you know, okay, they might get this takedown or they might not.
01:11:58.520
But if I, if I don't want him to, I'm going to have to expend a lot of energy.
01:12:04.020
And I feel like Gaethje, he's the type of person, like, I'll give everything I fucking
01:12:15.020
I don't think you'll see ever Dustin Gaethje go for a gi team.
01:12:19.600
Like, if the fight goes to the ground, he's not in trouble.
01:12:24.540
But would it be easy for Barbosa, would it be easy for Oliveira to get Gaethje onto
01:12:29.440
You're saying that that would be the harder step to get him to the ground.
01:12:32.980
It wouldn't, it wouldn't go to the ground, I don't think.
01:12:36.460
Um, and then wonder what happens with Chandler in that division.
01:12:41.000
Because you got that Kismat, Mike, I'm not sure what.
01:12:46.540
Wow, and you can say, damn, I feel like an idiot.
01:12:58.860
Bring up the lightweight, UFC lightweight top 20 rankings if you can.
01:13:02.620
But he actually had a grappling match with the 185-pound guy and beat him at grappling.
01:13:07.780
You know, so he could actually get in there and hang with us.
01:13:19.440
He's coming up, that dude's coming, I mean, he's one.
01:13:25.200
I think I've seen a video of him getting knocked out.
01:13:29.780
Now, the video also could have been some dude, like, photoshopping it or whatever, you know,
01:13:34.660
But I did see a video of him getting knocked out, like I said.
01:13:57.820
So, you got, so Dustin would probably have to maybe fight that guy, would, because, and
01:14:08.860
And throws more kicks and punches than Khabib does.
01:14:19.720
Because he just, that guy seems like on, just like nobody's doing kind of exactly just what
01:14:26.880
There's, like, you, he's got so many spots where if he gets that fight to, like, those
01:14:34.860
And it's like, whereas you look at, like, a Gaethje and a Poirier, like, they're both
01:14:42.620
elite level fighters, but they're elite in kind of the same discipline.
01:14:52.680
Not, not really, you know, DP, he switches stances and flows, I think, a little, on a
01:15:03.020
But just the way that they box and power punch and kick the shit out of you, it's real
01:15:09.420
There's nobody in that division similar to Makachev, you know?
01:15:16.940
It's like, it's like when somebody brings something to something that shouldn't be
01:15:25.540
Like, people's eating dessert and somebody brings in a damn, uh...
01:15:32.540
Yeah, somebody brings in a chocolate pecan pie.
01:15:34.780
Like, if everybody's having ice cream and one dude rolls up with a chocolate pecan pie...
01:15:38.420
Everybody's going to be fighting over that shit.
01:15:39.780
People are going to be at least looking over at him and be like, damn, he got that.
01:15:46.020
What do you think could happen with Cody Garbrandt?
01:15:50.100
Dude, me too, man, because I really like that guy.
01:15:59.400
I mean, if I was him, he's obviously probably not going to.
01:16:05.460
I think he's going to go beat somebody else's ass now.
01:16:09.620
And here's what makes me the most fucking mad about that Cody Garbrandt situation.
01:16:21.020
That's all that matters is that, like, his spirit is strong and he's a fighter to the death.
01:16:25.440
He was cheated out of his fucking championship belt.
01:16:28.820
But they went back and done blood tests on Dillashaw when they fought...
01:16:46.220
He beat TJ Dillashaw off of fucking morals by not being a little bitch and cheating before the fight.
01:16:53.920
And you got TJ over here and Garbrandt over there and fucking street fights breaking out.
01:17:02.380
I'm going on Garbrandt's side every fucking time.
01:17:05.360
I'll die with that fucking man before I take the little bitch's side.
01:17:13.380
They don't go back in time and kind of correct what happened.
01:17:17.500
He won't get his reward until he gets to heaven.
01:17:20.120
And God will say, hey, man, I know you are the champion.
01:17:25.660
And I'm telling you right now, that will hang over Dillashaw's head the rest of his fucking life.
01:17:36.060
He's still going to make 10 times more money than me in my next fight.
01:17:45.020
And got removed by a little cheap shotting bitch.
01:17:49.680
So, this dude gets knocked out in practice and says, well, I'll just go put a needle in my ass.
01:18:01.720
And I'd say it to his face if he was right here.
01:18:07.760
What do you think leads someone to do something like that?
01:18:10.460
He's scared because he got knocked out in practice.
01:18:14.360
And he justifies it by saying, in his head, he's going to say, well, you know, I need this
01:18:27.120
If you're going to be a gangster and going to be doing shit by the rules, go be a real
01:18:31.560
Go fucking, if you're going to not play by the rules, go with those, go gangbang.
01:18:37.340
You'll see how long your little bitch ass lasts out there.
01:18:44.080
This is a, it should be a fair as possible sport.
01:18:47.360
And everybody should have an equal opportunity playing field.
01:18:49.880
And he took away one man's championship aspirations.
01:18:54.580
Do you think he should have been allowed back in?
01:18:59.120
I think that if, if you could let him back in, like, I think he was clean his last fight.
01:19:06.620
Well, I thought, cause I, well, that was a Sanhagen fight.
01:19:11.020
I thought that, I thought that Sanhagen won that fight, but yeah, I mean, it was definitely
01:19:18.840
You know, he did, he definitely did more damage, but if you go by the scoring system, it was
01:19:23.000
a close fight, but damage wise, you know who fucking did more damage.
01:19:34.280
Would you, could you ever, could you see yourself in a different division?
01:19:40.960
But no, with Dillash on, they're not 55, are they?
01:19:47.900
You know, I was standing back, the other night I got, I'm back, I got to stand by Al
01:19:55.660
He's like one of the first fighters I ever met at the comedy store a long time ago.
01:20:17.380
Well, this is one of the funniest things that happens.
01:20:19.440
There's this, Pumi stays in the basement, and Pumi's kind of like me.
01:20:24.920
Pat kind of, and Al Joe kind of go to bed a little bit earlier.
01:20:28.260
I'm up one night, you know, I'm sleeping on the couch.
01:20:33.640
I start making a little bit of stuff in the kitchen.
01:20:37.860
And Al has this problem with coons getting into his trash, like these big old fucking city coons.
01:20:44.920
And I told Al, you know, like, one morning we came out, and there's trash all over the ground.
01:20:52.160
And so, I told Al, I said, brother, I'll get these coons for you.
01:21:06.160
And two big ones out there on the trash can, and they're about to get into it.
01:21:16.680
And I was thinking, man, this is going to be a fucking good fight.
01:21:21.660
And Pumi's down there in the basement, and he's like, huh, what's going on, brother?
01:21:26.240
And I'm like, bro, I need some help up here bad, bro.
01:21:35.920
Bro, so I go out the door, and I fucking smack one of these coons in the spatula.
01:21:43.120
Bro, he looked like he didn't even give a shit.
01:21:45.940
He turned around and looked at me like we was about to have a long conversation.
01:21:50.420
Bro, he was one of them little fucking ninja coons.
01:21:52.760
He was like, I don't even know what weight class he was.
01:21:56.600
Bro, they were jumping from the trash can to the fence.
01:21:59.520
And then he's jumping, and we had to stare down, and I was, like, kind of reared back.
01:22:08.520
Thank God, because then that's when both of them coons was like, okay, now it's a fair fight, and they took off.
01:22:17.400
We had a spatula and a butcher knife rolling deep on them coons, brother.
01:22:29.700
Yeah, sometimes you'll go out and buy the trash, and they have the couple that are in the trash.
01:22:32.740
The weird one that always gets me is the one that's in the recycling bin.
01:22:39.860
Because that's the one that's looking for knowledge.
01:22:41.620
He's in there reading papers, looking at your reports and shit.
01:22:46.400
They were like the scouts, you know what I'm saying?
01:22:47.840
Probably like the Army Ranger ones, scouting out for surveillance and shit.
01:22:57.860
They probably went and reported back to somebody, I'm sure.
01:23:01.600
They orchestrated attack, you know what I'm saying?
01:23:06.180
That's the dark arts, dog, because once they get going, you don't know what's coming next.
01:23:10.120
Them coons, they come up from any window, chimney.
01:23:13.140
They come up underneath in the plumbing, brother.
01:23:15.160
Actually, them coons, that's where they actually, believe it or not, that's their headquarters.
01:23:29.980
Their mindset's just straight militaristic, bro.
01:23:33.980
They're up there boosting their population, getting their numbers up.
01:23:42.060
But punji traps ain't shit on them raccoon traps, bro.
01:23:49.260
They did this thing at Harding because the coons are so bad.
01:23:52.480
They go up and they grab the trash and then they scurry back to the little sewers.
01:24:02.940
And that's where I've seen them for years building up their numbers, bro.
01:24:05.520
And they're just getting bigger and faster and smarter.
01:24:07.840
And they're not even afraid of motherfuckers now, bro.
01:24:11.560
Yeah, like I was going to throw something away one time and damn near had a conversation
01:24:16.020
And he's like, man, you can't believe you're going to eat that.
01:24:19.080
Like, they ain't even scared of people no more.
01:24:21.200
I saw a moment of wallet on them the other day with a wallet chain.
01:24:32.760
And I think it's honestly to flush the coons out.
01:24:39.720
And you see steam coming up out of things for like an hour straight.
01:24:44.780
Bro, that's against the Geneva Convention as far as I'm saying.
01:24:50.460
That's why they got that military mindset, though, man.
01:24:53.600
Once we sign that Nuremberg Treaty, I think that shit should be done.
01:25:01.980
Like, it's one thing to smack them with a spatula.
01:25:19.620
Do we have any good other questions that came in?
01:25:30.760
We were talking about, and you said you guys all stayed together.
01:25:42.240
So, anyway, I was backstage, and that's when the Cody fight was going on, right?
01:25:48.120
And he said that when you drop down a weight class, like, there's less, like, your body's so tight that when you get knocked out at a lower weight, it's real hard on your system.
01:25:58.080
Because you just, you know, there's less, like, fat inside.
01:26:02.020
There's less, like, cushion inside of your universe, you know?
01:26:11.520
When you get to that final moment in the weight cut when you're like, okay, I can't cut no more, that's when your body begins to pull the moisture from the brain.
01:26:21.060
It's the last thing that your body will protect, that your body will keep all that fluid in your brain until it don't have fluid from nowhere else.
01:26:31.860
Now, guess which fluid takes some of the longest to get back into your system?
01:26:38.160
Now, here's how I knew that Cody was really feeling.
01:26:55.080
He's really a 35er, though, because he's healthier at 35.
01:27:00.260
Because I saw him do a video, Garbrandt, and he was talking, and I could tell his voice was not the same.
01:27:09.260
It was when you begin cutting that much weight, I have sinus issues, or you get just extremely dehydrated.
01:27:15.520
And when you get to that point of extreme dehydration, you'll notice a lot of fluid change up here.
01:27:24.860
Like, you ever get water stuck in your ear at the pool?
01:27:28.240
Bro, I've been cutting weight before, and it's like water's in both my ears.
01:27:37.500
I kind of heard him like, kind of like a, like his, it was a different pitch, and I could tell something was up in the, up in the nasal.
01:27:52.180
And I think that his performance was probably hindered by the weight cut.
01:27:59.500
But I'm just telling you, by the way he was talking, I could feel it.
01:28:04.560
He was having sinus issues, bro, because when you start, your fluid's drained, and then your brain fluid's drained, and then you've got this pressure you can't hear right.
01:28:17.660
He didn't, I didn't actually see the whole fight.
01:28:26.800
Yeah, I can't even imagine the levels that your body has to go to to do all of that.
01:28:31.960
I think that that was just a big weight cut on him.
01:28:34.640
That's what I think you saw that performance out of him.
01:28:39.820
And like you said, man, I just feel bad for the guy because that's one of those guys that I just really fucking like, man.
01:28:48.100
And he's just, yeah, his personality, he's fucking vibrant, and he's vicious, and he's ready.
01:28:55.220
I think he's like, I wish how I could be just like fucking, you know, let's, you know.
01:29:05.900
All right, we got another question here, and then we'll get you on your way, man.
01:29:16.540
Tell you some real shit when we get off air, bro.
01:29:29.060
First, I just wanted to shout out your new mixtape you dropped on YouTube recently.
01:29:37.520
I honestly think it's better than 90% of the rap mixtapes.
01:29:46.980
I heard you on Ariel Hawane's podcast recently.
01:29:49.500
You said you were driving about three hours or so to go get a truck, and I just wanted
01:29:57.260
Is it hauling them cows around as well as it needs to be?
01:30:13.940
Bro, it's like a fucking little redneck paradise, bro.
01:30:23.580
Yeah, it's a push start, and you have to use a screwdriver to flip a switch.
01:30:26.720
Well, on the way home, what I didn't know on the back of the push start is like, he
01:30:33.220
Well, if you touch the positive and the negative, I let it hit the clutch and broke a spark and
01:30:43.520
So, on the way home, I fucking blew a fuse on the way home, and then we had to jump
01:30:53.960
Did y'all think it was a lemon at that point or what?
01:30:57.000
When I heard that engine, brother, that 91 7.3, like I said.
01:31:15.480
And let me just tell you right now, I don't care if you're Ford guy, Chevy guy, Dodge
01:31:20.060
guy, I don't even care if you like fucking the Honda trucks.
01:31:25.160
You cannot talk shit about a Cummins diesel engine, and you cannot talk shit about a 7.3
01:31:31.600
I think International Harvester might actually make the engine.
01:31:36.600
I did some research on it, but the thing about what I've got on a 91 from, I think,
01:31:42.860
91 to 94, they did the IDIs, and that's what I got.
01:31:47.760
This is why this truck was made for me, brother.
01:32:03.460
You'd be so much better than Bob Barker on that show, man.
01:32:07.060
If there's ever a Price is Right, you're the motherfucking host.
01:32:09.640
I'd be giving away damn owl meat on that bitch, dude.
01:32:14.680
I'd give half them bitches away on there, too, dude.
01:32:19.100
I'd say we got to get rid of some of these bitches up here, man.
01:32:22.000
So, the IDI engine, it's different than these modern Power Strokes.
01:32:25.680
The Power Stroke is, they're both great engines, Ford engines, but this IDI is mechanical in nature, so it doesn't have as much computer parts.
01:32:39.340
I fucking cannot stand all this cheap electronic shit.
01:32:43.520
And let me tell you, it ruins everything, and it is to the level where it is a conspiracy.
01:32:48.680
If you don't think that they're making these cars to break at a certain point or making it more expensive for certain parts, you're fucking blind, bro.
01:32:55.580
Because that's what the industry, the cars from the 90s with the manual transmissions and the simple engines last longer and are easier to fix than these newer ones.
01:33:04.040
They're doing that because they want you in the dealership, and they don't, like, I got the best mechanic in the fucking world that lives, like, right down the road from me.
01:33:14.420
And let me tell you what, I guarantee you Mr. Paul could fix anything on that 7.3 IDI.
01:33:21.520
You know, and he could probably fix a Power Stroke, too, but there's going to be some computer.
01:33:25.900
Yeah, something you can't, that's out of your control.
01:33:28.280
But it's just like, okay, you're going to have to order this cheap-ass part from some.
01:33:33.140
But, yeah, and by now they know how long you're going to use a car.
01:33:39.620
Like, it's called, if you want to look into it, it's called Planned Obsolescence.
01:33:43.540
It's been going on really since the beginning of time.
01:33:47.040
But, like, when it first started getting popular, there was one instance of it in Germany.
01:33:51.080
There was a, people who made T-shirts, I believe, maybe T-shirts or jeans, but they started using nylon.
01:33:56.760
Well, bro, nobody, they didn't have any return customers because their fucking T-shirts and jeans was lasting.
01:34:04.180
It's like they sell a pair of jeans and you never see that motherfucker again.
01:34:08.980
But, bro, that's in every single industry that there is.
01:34:13.340
And it's to certain degrees, but in the car industry, you see so much planned obsolescence.
01:34:17.640
These pieces of shit, especially Nissans, with their CBT transmissions, you know, because I have one going on.
01:34:32.600
Anyway, I guess you've been to some of the Ubers.
01:34:39.200
But let me tell you what, them headlights, for example, you get you one of these Nissan 2006 Maximus.
01:34:45.880
This is the planned obsolescence that I'm talking about to certain degrees.
01:35:11.560
You know, and that truck is me personified, bro.
01:35:14.920
And the only thing I got to do is got to add a little, one of those gooseneck balls on
01:35:19.940
the back of it, you know, that mounts right there in the truck bed.
01:35:31.880
Well, it's so you can actually pull that weight.
01:35:35.220
If you, you know the balls that hang off the back like a regular, like on the, you'll see
01:35:39.780
out there in that truck, you'll see I got a little two-inch ball.
01:35:43.160
On the back of it, not the kind you like, but the kind with, you know, the kind with
01:35:53.780
Okay, when you mount one of these gooseneck or fifth wheel hitches.
01:36:01.000
And so, that distributes to where all that weight ain't on the, it puts more of it up
01:36:05.400
front, so your truck, and more of the weight goes to the trailer, and so now you can pull
01:36:11.320
Like, I'm going to be pulling some shit, you know?
01:36:17.840
I got to rig it up to where I'm not jumping a solenoid every time I start it.
01:36:25.660
When I pull out the little cup holder thing, he had a swisher in it.
01:36:30.380
I just wish I was here for that one, you know what I'm saying?
01:36:36.220
And by the way, you don't ever see these manuals.
01:36:38.000
That's how you know they're trying to make these vehicles to brake.
01:36:40.540
Now, you can't even hardly find a fucking truck with a manual.
01:36:42.680
I would never buy another vehicle that's not a manual, unless if something crazy happens
01:36:47.180
and I get some good deal or something, you know?
01:36:49.120
But, you know, this thing is like, you put it in the first, bro, and like, you don't
01:37:02.700
It is nice when you get into something that feels like it has a life of its own.
01:37:07.960
It's got two gas tanks on it, and you switch it, but one of them don't read, so you just
01:37:19.840
That's old school, not even knowing how much gas is in that bitch.
01:37:31.320
Damn, yeah, you can pull a lot of weight with that, man.
01:37:37.000
Of course, I don't even have a gooseneck trailer, actually.
01:37:39.260
That's the next thing that I got to get is a gooseneck trailer to pull any of that shit
01:37:42.960
because I've got light-duty trailers right now.
01:37:44.780
I can pull about, most I put on it, about 6,000 pounds on one of them.
01:37:48.600
And I'll tell you what, I put 6,000 pounds on a trailer the other day.
01:37:51.960
I bought for that block wall that I'm building in the garage.
01:37:55.020
Bro, you ever heard that song, Jesus Take the Wheel?
01:37:58.140
I could have shot the music video about three days ago.
01:38:01.780
Bro, I was driving home from Lowe's that had 6,000 pounds of blocks on the back.
01:38:05.200
And I was going 40, and I just got comfortable.
01:38:15.640
And I'm going 40 on a straightaway, and I start curving them.
01:38:18.360
It's not a sharp curve, but that curve was enough to start a fishtail, bro.
01:38:27.340
But, hey, I think a good thing for me to maybe the reason that this popped in my head,
01:38:34.340
Let me tell you right now, do not touch the brakes if you get into that fishtail.
01:38:41.760
I kind of straightened it out, but not overcorrected it.
01:39:00.440
Yeah, it's funny how you get a little bit comfortable, dog, and next thing you know, it doesn't matter.
01:39:04.020
It doesn't even matter if you got all that weight in there.
01:39:15.940
Bryce Mitchell, you got some yet, but in the spring, you'll be getting him back in the
01:39:37.720
Oh, let's take him through those three deers real quick, and then we'll go get something
01:39:43.740
We just wanted to let you know, how would you handle these three situations?
01:39:56.120
This guy's just trying to, I guess, touch hands first.
01:40:12.800
So, I guess he maybe got a little close to pet him or something.
01:40:16.140
How, if you're, if you're, yeah, how do you handle that situation?
01:40:34.660
Like, straight up, like, stay on top when you're talking with them deer, bro, because
01:40:44.560
Like I said, he should have approached from the back.
01:40:47.940
But their bottom game, if you're on bottom deer, you got those antlers.
01:41:05.360
And then I'm just going to brainstorm for a minute.
01:41:12.460
I'm going to lock him out, and I'm going to brainstorm for a minute.
01:41:15.080
Now you're going to grill a little bit open, baby.
01:41:18.600
That rear naked is going to be hard with them antlers in the way.
01:41:26.880
Actually, trying at least you'd have more control.
01:41:28.320
You'd probably be able to keep him upright enough to keep the antlers away from you.
01:41:32.260
If you want to be real fucked up and you can talk about some animal cruelty.
01:41:40.120
Bro, then you won because even if, you know, he ain't going nowhere, bro.
01:41:44.440
Like, if them antlers are in the way, bro, go pull an arm bar.
01:41:47.580
And like I said, I'm all about position, staying on top.
01:41:50.480
But if you can't sink in that choke and that deer's getting up and you see an arm, go for that arm bar, brother.
01:41:59.300
Like, he ain't going to, you know, he ain't got no defense, you know.
01:42:19.220
So, that lady got, she got, that lady got, took that, it looks like a doe or just a female.
01:42:36.820
You see that, them hips on that, she's putting them hips on that deer's hips.
01:42:41.060
She's keeping that low center base, knees spread out.
01:42:44.980
Bro, I can tell you right now, this ain't her first, first rodeo.
01:42:49.360
This ain't the first deer at the Walmart for this lady.
01:42:54.760
If you see that, she's got, she's keeping that arm, that deer from getting any.
01:42:59.500
I'm not even going to comment on this because she's doing far better than I would have.
01:43:10.200
Let's get that third one, the last one we got here.
01:43:34.300
Well, right there, I don't see anybody trying to cut off the room.
01:43:38.280
Man, I see that guy, first off, he gets up out of the chair and he's not in a stance.
01:43:43.320
That's the first thing I do because, you know, there ain't no, that door ain't, he ain't going
01:43:48.640
So, first thing I'm doing, see, he's right out the front door like I said because, look,
01:43:53.940
First thing I'm doing, brother, I'm getting low in that stance.
01:43:56.400
I'm going to left, right, you know, he's going to have to go back to that door.
01:44:03.340
I'm going to get in range, too, because, you know, he's going to be doing this shit,
01:44:06.740
so I'm going to back up, bring in a little bit, maybe slap.
01:44:15.060
He's flat, standing straight up, completely unprepared.
01:44:23.420
But people completely unexpecting this shit, though.
01:44:29.980
I think you have to take a little bit of position there for sure.
01:44:41.120
If he had some good deer jerky, he'd be like, all right, I'm going to cook you up, buddy.
01:44:51.820
Bryce Mitchell, thank you so much for coming in, man.
01:45:02.700
I know you ain't because you've been eating it the whole time.
01:45:12.180
Yeah, I had dinner with this guy, Jordan Peterson, last night.
01:45:24.740
I'll have to show you the picture of the after dinner, dude.
01:45:29.380
I'll show you the damn picture from dinner, dude.
01:45:36.120
He's smart, and he's just like, you know, and he says the most powerful thing you can be is articulate.
01:45:42.380
And he says the biggest thing is what gets your attention.
01:45:49.220
And that's kind of fascinating because it's like, yeah, I notice, especially in this technology world, like, so many things get your attention, and they're calculated.
01:45:57.720
Like, you're saying, like, with the, how they got the car parts ready to wear out.
01:46:03.360
It's like, they fucking, they're using data to know exactly when you're going to walk back in the shop.
01:46:10.000
So, it's just, we're up against the dark arts, man.
01:46:16.200
Bro, nah, but the best part was, that was dinner.
01:46:19.420
It was just, everybody ate freaking steaks and lamb.
01:46:24.500
Bro, they were chewing on the bones over there.
01:46:27.600
Dude, I'll take the bones home, give them the dogs.
01:46:32.940
It's not like you're bringing home some good stuff, man.
01:46:34.580
Hey, next time, I'm going to bring you some more, brother.
01:46:36.080
Since I know you like it, I'll bring you two bags.
01:46:40.520
Y'all could have sold this in high school, baby.
01:46:44.460
Bryce Mitchell, thanks so much for coming in today, man.
01:48:32.280
And as always, I'll be joined by the voices in my head
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