JRE MMA Show #180 with Daniel Rodriguez

the Joe Rogan experience D-Rod free yes what a fucking crazy story so let's let's fill people in so you were a top contender in the UFC's welterweight division and then somehow or another you wound up getting arrested in Mexico yeah man right after the uh Kevin Holland fight actually I was set I was in I was celebrating I was over in San Diego um had some drinks and decided you know what let's go to let's go to TJ as soon as you know always a phrase that is regretted we're not even that far Diego you're drinking you could walk there shit yeah yeah literally so um decided to go to to TJ for the for the night you know go celebrate my win I was obviously in celebration mode and I had an ounce of weed in the car you know and I've been across the border a hundred times bro never had no issues never had no problems never got stopped pulled over that's the last thing I would even think is that I thought weed was legal in Mexico I thought I thought so too like here I thought everything's decriminalized down there uh apparently not man the the laws are like crazy crazy strict over there you know and I've been in situations before where I've been in situations where I've been in situations where I've been in where I could like just offer some money and get out the situation you know like 500 bucks at at the most you know and they'll just let me on my way but got pulled over at the border and the border inspection um found found the weed in my in my backpack and I was thinking I wasn't gonna be in that situation where I could bribe my way out of it because it's Mexico I've been there before and I've been in these situations and nah man I thought you know they took me to jail that night and uh I was thinking all right I'm just gonna be here for the weekend I'll get out Monday you know go to court and they're like nah we'll see you in a month I'm like a month you know like why it's just weed you know what I mean and um yeah eight months later holy shit yeah dude Jimmy can you please look up what the the laws are in Mexico for marijuana because man I was reading something just a few years ago here it goes marijuana is decriminalized for personal recreational use in Mexico but there's no legal commercial market and buying it or selling it remains illegal for tourists and visitors possession is strictly prohibited wait what the hell it's tourists and visitors so for everybody else you would be good like if you were a Mexican resident you would have been good it looks like according to this uh personal limits can possess up to five grams uh and up to 28 grams is decriminalized how many grams are in an ounce that's one ounce 28 yeah so it was a it was approximately 28 grams so approximately you should have been decriminalized but the thing is I think it's if you live there the border transporting marijuana including edibles and concentrates across either in either direction is a serious federal offense U.S. customs and border protection strictly enforces federal laws prohibiting the import export of cannabis but wait a minute that's that's U.S. but what about Mexico you got arrested by Mexican police right yeah I got I got uh arrested either direction wow but but I feel like if you got arrested by Mexico anyway tourists while small possession is technically decriminalized for Mexican residents the Mexican government explicitly prohibits tourists from possessing or consuming drugs and you could face serious jail time so that's crazy like people would go over there going hey no worries I'm in Mexico it's decriminalized here but not for a fucking tourist dude they were trying to give me six years bro oh my god six years and I had we had to do all kinds of stuff for me to get out and do like did the UFC and get involved um Hunter did um my management did reach out to uh Hunter and they couldn't do anything I guess the reason why somebody who could get a little of that all right we'll get into that we'll get into that because I'm out I'm right you know and um so I learned real quick how corrupt the the system is over there everybody's trying to get trying to get paid and the reason why that I was in there so long is I guess at the time where I got arrested the the the whole uh judicial system was going through an election and I was in the election at the time so it was new judges um that so all the all the judges that were like taking bribes and stuff before they had all got they they switched out the judges so the new judges were there were like all right we just got here we're not trying to take no you know we're trying to play it by the book and get comfortable so I was supposed to get released in December and and I guess I don't even know if I could even really get in trouble yeah yeah yeah yeah don't get in trouble they're worth it you can tell me later if it's anything super crazy it's very corrupt it's very corrupt in there but um you know it's it's crazy dude like even being in there um so my whole experience my whole experience in there was like so crazy how well do you speak Spanish I'm I'm I'm a expert now I'm like fluent because of that experience or before well I had been you're obviously I had already known I already know Spanish but being in there it's like became fluent yeah yeah but thank God you could speak it imagine like I got arrested in Mexico I'd be yeah so when I first got there um when I went to court the first time one of the guards recognized me and he's like you know I'm in handcuffs and he's like yo can I get a picture I'm like what what I'm right there taking pictures with the dogs so surreal yeah oh my God you're top UFC contender in cuffs in jail the guard wants to take a picture with you wow while I'm in handcuffs and the other inmates were like looking around like what the who is this guy you know because like the the guard was like yo this is this is such and such you know so um as we're getting transported to the jail which was the worst I mean I've been in jail before I've like I I'm like from the age of 15 like 23 I was constantly in and out of jail you know I'm from LA you know um I was you know gang member and and you know living in the hood and uh this time around was a whole different experience um one I'm in a foreign country and uh so I get there and they put us like in the in the processing area and the processing area is like probably about this this big and like 20 dudes in there all sleeping on the floor two dudes per bunk three three um on a three bunk three levels bunks and um I was there for like the first like the first 10 days Jesus and it was hell bro it was the worst like I had I don't know what kind of bugs there was in there but they were like biting up my whole body I had like like just just bite I don't know what it was dude it was like I don't know probably something yeah probably probably bed bugs or something and uh this episode of the Joe Rogan experience is presented by CBS Marshalls Luke Grimes is back as Casey 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And over there, the guards had tried to charge me seven grand, bro, to get me out of that cell and to move me into a better place. Because over there, if you got some money, you'll be all right, you know? And so right before that happened, the dude was like, yo, I'm going to come back for you, bro, don't even worry about it. So how does this work? Does the guard come up to you and go, hey, I can get you in a cell, but it'll cost you $7,000? Yeah. They come up to you? Did he even tell you that? Yeah. So the dude that I had got to the prison with, he comes back down, and he's like, hey, the guards came, they pulled me out, and they bring me to a whole different section of the prison, the third floor and the second building. And I go up there, and I'm escorted by the guards, and there's like a curtain, there's like a curtain covering the tier, and I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Like, why is there a curtain? And I get in there, and they pull me to this dude, and this dude's like, oh, you're a UFC fighter? You know, it turns out the dude's like the head of the cartel, you know, like a cartel leader, and he's like, oh, he's like, I want to just show you around a little bit, let you know how we're running things over here, you know? Kind of just gave me the rundown, and this dude had it made. You know, I get there, and there's TVs in the fucking cell. You know, dude had it made. He has a PlayStation. He has like a whole bunch of just all the amenities you can think of, you know? He's like, yeah, he's like showing me around and shit, kind of showing me off. He's like, hey, there, guys, look, look at this guy, look at this guy. You know, he's a UFC fighter, you know, and I'm like, all right, you know, what's going on here, you know? And, like, you know, because it's jail, dog. I'm like, if anything happens, I'm going to fucking use all my experience to survive this motherfucker. Right, right. And so he's like, just pretty much gave me the rundown. He's like, yo, he's like, I run it here. This is like pretty much, you know, our, our, this is our home, you know? So that dude was facing some charges. He got released, and he was facing some charges of him and his, like, 13 dudes. He got arrested with his whole crew. Him and 13 dudes were all in a tear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he had all his whole, his whole squad with them, and they had got arrested for dressing up as, as, um, like, government officials or, like, military dudes, and they would go, like, raid dope houses and, and, and take their drugs, whatever. So they had got all arrested for that, and they were facing some serious time, and, and I'm, I'm over here like, dude, I just got arrested for a fucking ounce of weed, bro. This is crazy. He's like, oh, no, you'll be out soon. Don't even worry about it. But if you want, we could get you, we can get you, like, accommodated, and you could come up here with us. You know, you'd, like, you'd be my cellmate or whatever. You could be wherever you want. And I'm like, all right. He's like, yeah, but, uh, it's gonna cost you a little bit of money. I was like, oh, yeah, how much? He's like, 3,000. And I looked at the guard, the guard that was trying to charge me seven. I was like, he said seven. He's like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. He's trying to get more extra money out of you. He's like, but you do gotta, like, pay to get up here and, like, kind of, like, pay rent a little bit, you know, to the guards. And so I'm like, all right. Yeah, yeah. So I'm like, all right, cool. So immediately, I was like, yeah, let's do it. So they gave me, like, this brand new, like, Nike tracksuit. Oh, shit. Yeah, and I'm like, all right. He's like, we'll come up here tomorrow. So I get there. I get there, and then he's like, yeah, you should just be my cellmate. So I pretty much ended up being, like, this guy's, like, I ended up getting the feeling of, like, I was, like, his protection. Kind of. Like, or, like, you know, like, when we would go to yard, I'd just be like, he'd be like, hey, walk with me. Like, and I would kind of, like, just, I got the impression, like, all right, I'm his cellmate. You know, like, I got this guy's back. You know, he got my back. I got his. And I really trusted him, you know, and that's one hard thing to do in jail. But, like, you catch vibes off people real easy, you know, and, yeah, dude, it was just a crazy-ass experience, dude. I ended up. Um, we ended up working out with the, with the, working it out with the, with the guards to, to get me some fucking boxing gloves, dude. I ended up getting some boxing gloves in there, um, some, some mitts, and it just so happened that the dude that I was cellmates with, he had a little bit of boxing experience, so he, he had been a boxer before, so I was like, oh, perfect, you know, and he actually knew how to hold pads and stuff, so, so I ended up spending this whole time, like. Please tell me you didn't spar him. No, no. He wanted to. No, no, no. No, no. That's how it goes south. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you're smart. You know what I'm saying? As soon as you said boxing gloves, I'm like, oh, please tell me this doesn't end the way I think it ends. No, no. Yeah. We ended up actually being really cool. And, yeah, dude, I ended up pretty much spending this whole time, like, in a boxing fight camp, you know? Oh, wow. Yeah, I remember I even made, like, a makeshift double-end bag. What I did was, like, I balled up, like, a bunch of plastic bags, like, really, like, made it real tight and, like, so it's, like, hard. Threw it in a sock. I was able to buy from the guards, like, a bungee cord. Yeah, a bungee cord, and then set that up. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I made a heavy bag because it had, like, these big gallons of water. And I got the gallon of water, and I wrapped it with, like— I wrapped it with, like, the mat from the bed, and I just threw it in a bag, and we had, like, a pull-up bar in our cell, and I made a heavy bag out of that. And then whenever we would go to yard, I would just spend the whole time running that yard, and I was just trying to do everything I could do to try and stay in shape, man, and just time went on and time went on and time went on. What kind of food did they get you in his cell? It was all junk food, dude. Still? Yeah. Him? Yeah. It was all junk food, like chips, noodles. Damn. Soda, you know, water, condiments. So no protein? None, none, none, none whatsoever. And I didn't think about that part, you know, because I was working out like crazy, and I was getting shredded. But as time went on, my—like, when I got out, I was skinny as hell, bro. I was skinny as hell. And the only source of protein would probably be— Soy. Jesus Christ. Yeah, so they'll give, like— Couldn't you bribe someone to bring in some fucking meat if you're the cartel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the thing. Like, it was crazy. So towards the end, towards, like, the final end of it, I guess the guards started cracking down on, like, a lot of the stuff that was going on. So we started to lose a lot of those amenities that we were getting in the beginning, and I was just— You know, when I got out— When I got out, I was just malnourished as hell, bro. I'll show you a picture later, like, of what I looked like when I got out. Completely different person. How much weight did you lose? I didn't really lose that much weight, but it was just, like, more of my muscles were just— Were you thinking about going to 55? Were you like, damn, I might be able to make 55? Starf me. I've made 155 one time in my career. Dude, you made 55? That must have been hell. Yeah, it was— It was the worst fight camp ever. It was all based on just losing the weight. Losing the weight. That's hell. And then I was just so— I remember after I made 155, I didn't even want to go to the gym for, like, a month, bro. I was just like, dude, I need to— Like, my body was just done, bro. Yeah, you're killing your body. Yeah. What is this? Oh, yeah, that's some of the workouts I was doing while I was in prison. But no protein, unfortunately. Yeah, but no protein. So I was getting pretty shredded, like, in that, like, period in time. That was when we had, like, a lot of, like, we had food and everything was cool. And if you notice— Oh, look at that. The double M bag. That's nice, dude. Yeah, dude. And, like, you can see the TV in the back. Right. With the PlayStation. But, I mean, it wasn't— Dude, you're looking good. Yeah. Tighten those hands up. Nice, I bet. Yeah, man. It was just like a whole experience. It was crazy. Because this guy, he'd be like, you know, the guards would come in and be like, hey, leave my door open, yeah? and the guards will actually leave this door open. So we were able to walk around the tier and go talk to other people like me. I kept to myself a lot. I've been in jail a ton of times before, and I learned easily that you'll get by if you just mind your own business and not get involved in shit and not get involved in things. So I was like, I'll just stick to myself and just get my workout on and avoid trouble. But it was crazy to see firsthand how the cartel operates, and it's crazy, man. They got their hands in everything over there. Of course. Everything. You know, there was 37 assassinations in Mexico last election, 37. Yeah. Different political people, and I was talking to Ed Calderon. Do you know who he is? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's Ed Manifesto on Instagram. He used to work for the Mexican government, and then he became an American citizen, and he was involved with prosecuting the cartel, going after them, stuff like that. And he was essentially saying that the entire judicial system, all the mayors, everyone, if they get in, they're cartel members. No one gets in. No one is a mayor unless they're in the cartel. And when they're getting assassinated, it's cartel assassinations. It's one cartel, you know, wants their guy in, and another cartel wants their guy in, and they just shoot the other dude. Yeah. 37. Imagine if that was in America, the last, like, the midterms. Imagine during the primary if 37 people got assassinated. We'd be like, what the fuck has happened to America? The final round of basketball season is here, and only DraftKings has you fully covered. 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So one of the guys there was actually, an actual hitman who was an actual, like, hitman. And he was in there. He's like, yeah, man, I've killed, like, 30 cops in my whole experience. And he was in there for, and they were just, like, telling me about all these things. I'm like, dude, like, everybody is involved in this shit. It's crazy, you know? And over here, like, if you kill a fucking cop, they're, like, they're coming after you. But over there, you know, I guess, it's just another thing. Killing, killing over there. The cops are a lower tier than the cartel. That's what it is. Yeah. The cartel have more money, more power, more influence. Yeah. And it's crazy how, like, murders just, they're not even that big of a deal over there. You know? While I was in there, I was reading, or I saw that Mexico has the Guinness World Record for missing persons. Holy shit, dude. Yeah. Yeah, and it was crazy. There's so many, like, so many hitmen in there. It was crazy. But, you know, I didn't have, I didn't get no shit from nobody, you know? Everybody was, like, cool as hell. Well, that's awesome. Well, you're an easy to get along with dude. Yeah, yeah. Luckily. Yeah. Did anybody ask you to train them? Actually, dude, there's some dogs in there, man. I bet. There's this one guy in particular, I'm like, dude, you gotta fucking start fighting. And he's, like, he was one of the military dudes, and he's just a little fucking machine, dude. And in the time that I was there, he got really good, really quick, you know? And I'm like, dude, you gotta, like, go to the gym down in TJ, that interim gym. I had mentioned, like, yo, even when I got, when I got released, that, man, we did a whole lot of things to try to get me out, man. There's a ton of fighters even try to pull some strings for me, like Yaya Rodriguez, you know, Brandon Moreno, he's from TJ, and nobody, nobody could help me out, man. Everybody tried to pull strings for me. Nobody came up with a number? Did they? Eventually. What was, how much, what was the number? Can you tell? I don't want you to get in trouble. Nah. No, don't get in trouble. Yeah, but it was, Talk to me later. It was hefty. It was, I bet. It was not cheap. I bet. It was not cheap at all. I bet. Everybody wants to get paid. Yeah, dude. Fuck, man. Yeah, it was crazy, crazy experience, dude. To get out of jail, you know, and then, and then, now I have this fight, I'm headlining, headlining UFC Serbia, first time in Serbia, fighting Euros Medic. When is that fight? August 1st. Nice. Yeah, to get out of, to get, to go through all that, and then, and then, to have this opportunity, it's just crazy. And to be here, to be here is just, is just crazy, man, because I didn't, I didn't think I was going to get, I wasn't sure if I was going to get out, man. For good reason. A lot of people don't. Yeah. Yeah, man. You know, the United States prison system is fucked too, but nothing like Mexico's. Everybody that I've talked to that has any experience in Mexican jail, and they're like, dude, it's not good. Yeah, no, man. It was, it was crazy, bro. I just can't believe the cartel can't sneak meat in. We did sometimes. Yeah? Sometimes. Yeah, we did sometimes. We had, they would bring us groceries, bro. Oh, really? Yeah. Because that's the first thing that I would want, man. I would feel like, look, what do we got to do to these guards? What kind of car do you drive, dog? Let's upgrade that motherfucker. We got to do something. I can't be eating noodles. Yeah, man. Especially as hard as you work out. Yeah, I was, I was working out like two, three, three hard, hard workouts a day, you know, I would do. So, I'm kind of programmed, like, to just work out. You know, I think, I think from my prior jail experiences before, the only positive thing that I think that helped me in that whole, everything that I've, that I've been through is like, when you're in jail, like, I personally, I'm like, I would, I would think like, dude, you, you, you got to be strong. You got to be able to defend yourself. You want to like, that's, that's my whole reason for, for staying in shape. You know, when I started doing MMA, it was just to, to, to be able to defend myself. You know, in situations like if I ever did go to jail, you know, and the only thing that I, positive that I, that I took from that is like, when I got, when I, when I would get released from prison prior, I just want to work out. I'm already programmed to, to just work out all day, you know? So, once I found MMA, I was like, oh, this is perfect, you know? And, and, How old were you when you first started training? 25. Wow. Yeah. That's late. Yeah, dude. Yeah. You turned into a UFC contender. That's very impressive. Yeah. Not a lot of guys started late. Did you have any sports experience before that? None, bro. Nothing? None. That's crazy. None. But I had, I had been in, no bullshit though, I had been in probably around 200 street fights already, including all my jail experience. You know, when I was in juvenile hall, I was a straight knucklehead, bro. Like, I was fighting, like every other day. And it was just, it became just fun. Just fun. Like, if like, you were like a, like a tough looking dude, it was like, hey, what's up man, you want a scrap or what, bro? Like, you know, I was just, he's like, why? I'm like, cause you're big, bro. I just want to fight you. Yeah. And, and with no training, you had no training at all? No, no training, man. Just, just, just wanting, just want to learn how to fight. I just want to be tough. By fighting. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a crazy way to learn. Yeah, dude. Just, and like, dude, you can't, I mean, like imagine getting in a fight with your cellmate. Like that's some crazy shit. That's crazy shit. Yeah. You gotta sleep together. Sleep with one eye open, bro. Did you sleep at all? Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, so that's, that's the only experience I had prior to, to starting MMA. And then I remember I stopped, I stopped going to jail when I was like 23. When I stopped, when I stopped going to jail, I started having, I started having kids. And I'm like, all right, I gotta start, I gotta stop gang banging because I used to think going to jail was cool. Really? I used to think it was cool because you get out and you just have like a little more respect. Like, like I thought, I thought it was cool. I thought like, like, oh, going to jail makes you a badass, you know? But once I started having kids, I realized like, all right, I gotta take care of, I got human beings. I gotta fucking, I gotta take care of and raise, you know? So, I started looking for every, any possible way to try to live a decent life. And I tried, tried everything man i've had every job you could think of and but i've even had good jobs before and i've lost them you know by just being a knucklehead and going back to jail and i remember i got out of prison one time and my cousin hits me up and he's like yo uh come to my house bro we're gonna watch uh some fights and barbecue and stuff i was like all right yeah dope i was like who's fighting he's like um some dude rampage i'm like who the fuck's rampage so I get there and that's when Forrest Griffin had fought um Rampage won the light heavyweight title and I'm like yo this is amazing bro and then I fell in love with Chuck Liddell and I'm like dude this he's just like me bro he's like knocking dudes out you know and I just obsessed with it I just obsessed so that was your first exposure to MMA I had seen it before like when it was Tank Abbott oh early days yeah in the early days but it never caught my attention like because I had always been a boxing fan I'm a huge boxing fan and and I grew up watching boxing like um all like majority of my family functions growing up they were all boxing events like Oscar De La Hoya, Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and and I was I loved boxing you know and I remember I mean I did have a little bit of experience before going into MMA because when I lived in the hood I would always have boxing gloves and I would always make my homies fight each other like when we're all hanging like hey you go with him you go with him because like you know we're all boys and I want them to like I always wanted them to to to like a in case in case anything happens in case we're ever all out and we get in a rumble with somebody or anything like that like I try to make my homies more tougher you know because like yeah you guys got to have my back I want to be yours and that's just that's that's just something we just did you know or like well we'll just go body shots body punches you know right and just fight each other so that's kind of my background bro to be honest with you and and yeah man I just I just I just carried that into into the gym when I first went I remember the first gym you went to it's called it was called tap out in downtown LA okay at the time I think that's um I was training with Eddie so and and he had moved in 10th last so that's when I first when I first started I wanted to box and I remember the tap out gym very well yeah yeah yeah it was great Jim yeah and I remember when I first started going there I was working construction I was I was working on a high rise in downtown LA and and I would um pass by every day I'm like man I want to go in there you know but I never like would go in there I'll just pass by and I'll get home and I talked to my bed mom like man there's this gym called tap out I really want to go you know she's like oh yeah but I was talking about all the time but I never had like I don't know you know it's kind of nervous it's kind of nervous going walking into a gym for the first time and you don't know like what to expect or but I was just a fan and so I walked uh actually the the way I got started was it was it was our anniversary and as a gift she gave me a gym membership and then I went to the gym and the the coaches were like yo dude like who is this guy you know but when I first went there I was like so raw and just so like Street Street fighting experience but I had power I had some power and um you know I just fell in love with it and the coaches were like even the days I want to show up because in the beginning of it I was still like still have that knucklehead mentality I'll still be out partying with my friends or not show up to the gym and coaches will actually call me like yo where are you at you need to be in the gym you need to be training so I guess what helped me in the beginning was my actually my coaches like I had like a talent you know I had I had potential and I just obsessed with the amount of fell in love with the whole training experience and and I remember my first time trying Jiu Jitsu it was a skinny skinny dorky looking dude was like hey you need to you need to come train Jiu Jitsu man come turn to you I was like nah because I remember right before I watched it and I was like oh man wrestling's gay dude hey dude wrestling is gay I'm going to train you I'm going to train you I'm going to try to watch that you know and then obviously like you go through that experience I'm like all right so the skinny dude is like come on man just try it out I bet you can't you know I bet you I could make you tap or whatever like nah nah he went strangled me you know I'm like oh hell no I hate losing bro so I was like and there's there's two different kinds of people there's people that will get their ass whooping just like nah it's same for me or um you get your ass whooping like I would show up every day determine like one day I'm gonna one day I'm gonna win one day I'm gonna get him one day I'm gonna get him and that honestly kept me kept me in the game you know it's amazing how little tiny dudes can you up dude that's the last thing I expected I was like what Jiu Jitsu is the only thing that like you know in martial arts movies there was always this myth that the little guy can up all the bigger guys yeah but with striking that's hard power is real size is real mass is real yeah there's just too you know too many variables if a guy knows how to throw a good one too you might be he hits you in the clinch you can't get away from his clinch he's too strong he clubs you you're but Jiu Jitsu man there's no lucky punches in Jiu Jitsu and that's what's crazy when a little guy just annihilates you it's so humbling my first experience uh was a dude who was a purple belt I was a white belt and uh he was my size I was like this dude's my size like this isn't that a bigger dude this is going to be you know competitive not he just raped me he did whatever the he wanted to do to me armbar me triangle me and I remember leaving going I am so delusional I had this idea in my head you know that I knew how to fight and then until I started doing Jiu Jitsu I was like I don't know anything I'm helpless like completely helpless yeah but you know like you the the the smart thing to do like what you did is just go I want to learn that you know and you having the courage to do that you know especially as a guy who didn't have any martial arts experience at all just like throw yourself into it it's very difficult to do man and especially at 25. yeah because by 25 like John Jones had already been a UFC champion and defended it multiple times you know it's like by the time you're starting out so many guys are like in the middle of their career yeah Mr president my company for me of the explosion on our rig on October 2nd causing massive water displacement and triggering a storm so y'all keep the blame on me Tom Cruise is Digger got us into this mess and Digger's gonna dig us out from 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insurance or live outside of the United States you can still get 10 off your first month visit betterhelp.com to explore your payment options that's better help.com so that's one thing that I that I've I've always thought about um and those like why I work so hard is like I feel like I have to catch up to these dudes that have been doing this their whole life you know like like dudes have been in the gym since they were kids doing karate and you know there's there is a thing though about having a lot of street fights there's a mental Edge to being in a lot of conflict and a lot of combat one thing I've always noticed about you when you fight you're very calm like when you get in there you're very relaxed yeah like and it's like life experience yeah that's a factor yeah I just feel like in an MMA fight it's it's a safe environment like believe it or not to me it's safe right you know because I've been in I've been in because if anything goes wrong the rest right there like all right there that's it it's done you know it's a fair fight you know uh I've been in situations where I don't know if I'm gonna live right you know if I don't know if I might die yeah you know and and I think that I carry that a lot you know what while I fight and that's why I look so calm because um I've been I'm calm and hectic like yeah it's not the worst thing you've experienced that's not for a lot of fighters it's the most dangerous thing they've ever experienced yeah and they step into that octagon they close that door and they're looking across this octagon and another train killer like oh boy like this is the scariest thing that's ever happened to them yeah so there's a mental benefit that you have for having all those street fights though you didn't start until late man the mental game might be most of the fighting you know yeah man when when i step in there i'm just i'm just happy to be there you know like i i i'm lucky to be out here i'm lucky to be have my freedom i'm lucky to be alive you know so when i'm when i'm walking out to a fight like i just feel i just feel happy dude i'm just i'm just it's just happy happiness like you know because while i'm backstage i'm like thinking how did i get here dude you know like i'm just how the fuck did i do this how did i make it this far you know right and you know like a situation like like this like where i'm fresh out of fresh out of jail you know and and i'm like dude like main event in serbia against a guy from serbia is crazy bro but you know what just live live that shit man i like i told myself like dude this is your opportunity to to tell like to like this shit's a movie bro like my life is crazy it is a movie if you think about it i mean very few people live that life in a jail many times locked up in mexico for eight months never knowing if you're going to get out next thing you know you're headlining a ufc card yeah man sitting here main event yeah sitting here on the joe rogan experience you know telling my story is just you know uh where's euros medic ranked is he above you or both he's number 13 what are you at 15 yeah so both of you guys top contenders i'm surprised throughout that whole process they kept me in the rankings well good respect to them you know also they probably realized you were probably working out in jail yeah yeah but i mean well it's not you shouldn't be punished for something like that you get stuck in a crazy situation yeah man especially if you're coming from california where weed's legal everybody gets confused you know you have that weed in california everybody is everywhere it's totally legal that's why it didn't even i know it didn't even cross my mind it didn't even cross my mind i know hey we can get in trouble for this that's crazy you know i would have never known those laws because i heard that it was decriminalized i thought oh they don't they got other shit to worry about they're you know they got cartel problems and fentanyl problems they don't give a fuck if you're bringing in weed yeah well now now i have a part of of the process of me getting out is like i had to get like now i have dual citizenship in mexico now you do yeah because of getting out no no um my lawyers um it was a part of me getting out so like when you pulled up the um the the uh decriminalized the laws for the laws for citizens so that that was a process of oh so you became a citizen so the law was less for you yeah well that's hilarious so it was a ton of stuff that we had to do bro that is a crazy loophole yeah yeah so now people are asking everybody should become a citizen of mexico yeah man i ain't ever going back to mexico i'm not going back for a while bro i cannot see myself either i don't even want to go back so um especially since i released the footage of me working out in prison and stuff like i don't ever want to go to mexico and and for any reason they're like get his ass you know bring it back over yeah yeah and they probably would too yeah at the very least try to get more money out of you definitely especially after you're headlining a ufc card yeah and on top of that like like um like releasing that footage was like definitely like a no-no but since how did you did they all have cell phones inside yeah so we had we had cell phones yeah so were you texting your friends you could text your lawyer all that shit yeah did you worry that your text would be intercepted no no not at all because uh i would text everybody or call everybody on whatsapp and i guess yeah it's encrypted yeah it's encrypted and so when you're doing all this and filming all this you just save the footage and then when you got out no i would i would send it i would send it to like my friends so i i sent it to one of my buddies and i was like yo save all this stuff because when i get out this is gonna this is gonna be it's gonna be big bro you know well i'm glad they didn't release it before you got out yeah yeah you gotta really trust your friends because that could have been fucked yeah man and the whole time like knowing you with knowing you where i was at knowing you where i was going on and there was a couple rumors going around that i was backpacking in peru another one was was one of my buddies like it's crazy how the internet believes anything bro like there's people thought i was building wells in rwanda like one of my buddies said that he's like oh he's building wells in rwanda doing god's work and like people ran with that like hey actually people when i got released uh right away they were like oh kevin holland bailed him out kevin holland bailed him out to get a rematch and people believe that that's hilarious that's so funny it must have been so weird so when you're inside did you did they have the internet would they could they watch fights yeah yeah actually um so they ended up putting like these self like scramblers like these towers that like mess up the signal and we ended up getting uh what's that that uh tesla thing starlink we ended up getting starlink oh my god that's insane yeah we ended up getting starlink and had wi-fi for a little while and then we ended up getting starlink and had wi-fi for a little while and then we ended up getting starlink and had wi-fi for a little while and then we ended up losing all that stuff because um like every every once in a while they'd be like hey the guards will come like hey uh they're gonna come to inspections and you know so they would like hide everything and i remember just one time they hid everything and they're like oh we're not gonna give back to you guys so we ended up that like i'd say like by by the fifth month that's when like they really started cracking down and stopped bringing us like the extra food and the food that like the prison food in there dude is it's the worst it's terrible terrible um tortillas like with every meal like five tortillas rice or beans and like some kind of like soup but the soup is pretty much there's no meat in it it's it's um majority of it's like potatoes and carrots you know like so your only protein you're getting from beans yeah wow yeah and it was just horrible dirty unsanitary what's the first thing you ate when you got out first thing i ate when i got out was um a double western bacon cheeseburger from carl's jr must have been the best ever yeah man and i couldn't even finish it because at the time like my stomach was so i i got i like i got full as hell man like i was crazy and um man i was so skinny when i got out bro it was crazy so like this whole time i just been like trying to to just bulk back up you know so what did you wear did you wear yourself when you got out uh when i weighed i weighed myself when i got out and i normally walk around around 200 and i was like around 180 you know but i looked horrible bro like i looked like i just cut weight i looked like i was like i'm sure yeah it was it was horrible but it was it was like i wasn't shredded or nothing i just had no muscle definition and it was just it was bad bro and i remember um when i first got out man i was like thinking like all right i tried like when i got out i hit the like i got out ready to just like all right i'm getting my life back i'm gonna i'm gonna uh train my ass off bro i was so out of shape i was so out of shape bro and i was like really discouraged at the time you know i was like dude i don't know i think my fucking career is over dude i don't know how am i how am i gonna come back from this you know i was so out of shape and that's crazy because you're working out so much in jail yeah but it was just um because of of the lack of of nutrition yeah nutrition i was like so malnourished body was just destroyed yeah it was horrible bro and uh i almost thought like dude i can't do this shit anymore dude like i'm i'm not gonna i think my career might be over you know and um i was just in my head about it for a little bit and then and then you know like i was like nah you know i'm a fucking soldier dude i could bounce back from this and and you know i just i just really believed that through hard work you know i'll get back to to my old self and now i feel great dude how long did it take before you started feeling normal but uh i'm barely starting to feel like a hundred percent now now yeah and when did you get out it's been almost two months wow that's not a lot of time yeah and when is this uh the fight is august 1st yeah it's another not two months yeah that's good yeah and i feel i feel good now that's crazy though it takes you two months and then now you're back you look normal like physically yeah you look healthy so it took you that time to just put the weight back on and get your muscle tone back and all that that's a good thing though that you were always in shape so you bounce back quicker you have memory yeah and actually i've honestly been enjoying the process this whole process of Of, like, when I first got out, I could only run, like, a mile, and I was dying, bro. And through each run, I could see my progress. I'm like, okay, I'm getting better. Okay, I'm getting better. And I'm like, I'm in love with it right now. I'm in love with, like, getting better and better and better 1% every single day. You know, I truly believe, believed that through the work and to trust the work that I have ahead of me. And I honestly think that by the time the fight gets here, I'm going to be in perfect peak shape. That's awesome. Yeah. What a crazy comeback story. Yeah, man. You know? Yeah, and it's really just, like, a really deep personal one for me because from when I first got out to now, it's just, like, it's crazy. It's crazy how the body can bounce back and, like, just get back into shape, you know? Well, it's crazy. It's crazy the mind, too. I mean, you must be so thankful just every time you're training. Yeah, you might be tired, but, man, you must be so thankful that you're out and free and then you're working towards something big. You know, you got a big fight coming up, and what a blessing. Yeah, man, and I'm just embracing the whole process, you know, and I'm just, you know, I'm all for it. I'm all in. And actually, going to jail and going through all that actually made me appreciate. And value everything that I have going on right now. So I'm just, like, so grateful and so thankful that I even have this opportunity. And I just signed a new contract with the UFC, six more fights. Nice. And now I'm main event. It's just crazy, dude. Dude, if you go on to win the title for me, how crazy would that be? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. That would be crazy. Who knows, bro? You beat Medich. You're in the top 13. You're close to the top 10. And then a few fights later. Anything can happen in this sport. Yeah, and I would even tell dudes like that. Like, realistically, bro, like, I can, like, in four or five fights, go, like, four or five fights, I could be fighting for the championship, you know? Maybe even less. You never know. Well, in this sport, it all takes is a few spectacular results. A few spectacular results, and people get behind you, and the crowd gets behind you, and next thing you know. Yeah, I mean, if I go out there and smoke this guy, it's going to be so much even bigger just because of the whole experience. I went through. And they're like, man, he got out of jail and just fucking knocked this dude out. And, you know, why not? Like, why not, bro? You know, why can't I be that guy? Like, you hear stories all the time of these incredible stories of people that become champions from nothing. Yeah. And then been through all kinds of stuff. Like, why not me, bro? Listen, you never fucking know. You never fucking know. That's the crazy thing about this sport. Yeah. Anything can happen, dude. Yeah, I mean, you got Makachev. He's the title holder, which is, you know, one of the baddest motherfuckers to ever do it. That's part of the problem. Yeah. You know, he's got the opposite life. That's a guy that's been disciplined in training his entire life. You know, he's never, never fucked around. No drugs, no drinking, no nothing. Just discipline. Yeah. It's a tough sell. It's different levels, man. Yeah. There's different levels to it. How old are you now? 39. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's like. So, I got, like, a couple more years left, man. So, that's why. I know. It's crazy why they stole eight months of, like, very valuable time. Yeah. And that's one thing that. That's one. The number one thing that I was like, man, like, I'm running out of time, bro. You know, I don't got. Yeah. I don't got a lot of time left, you know? So, getting out. And like I said, like, I'm just taking it a lot more serious, you know? I'm sure. Where are you training now? So, right now. Right now, I'm in Vegas training over at the PI at Extreme. Oh, that's great. At Extreme Couture right now and Freestyle MMA while I'm in Vegas and while I'm in California, I go to Classic Fight Team, training over at Tenori and 10 Planet, you know? So, I'm just. But right now, I'm in Vegas right now. It's so much easier. L.A. is crazy, dude. I'm on the road. When I'm in L.A., it's just. I'm on the road all fucking day. L.A. traffic is just a nightmare. Yeah. So, that's why, like, I'm in Vegas right now because everything's so close together and so convenient and. It's also so high level. There's so much high level training in Vegas. Yeah. And the PI is an amazing resource for fighters, you know, as far as nutrition, cutting weight. I mean, they'll get your meals for you. They get your supplements for you. They make sure that everything is, you know, safe for sport, approved, so you don't have to worry about. You don't have to worry about testing positive for anything. Like, the PI is amazing. Yeah. Such an incredible resource. Yeah. Right now, it's a little bit crazy because they're letting, like, the slap fight guys go there and the Zufa boxing guys, I think. Yeah. So, yeah, those guys are using. The slap fight guys train? I don't know how they train. Like, how do you train for that, bro, you know? They do neck workouts. I don't know. I guess that's it. Yeah. Right? Like, swinging things with your arms. Yeah. You know? I guess, like, cable machines. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, get a cable out of your wrist and do this a bunch of times. Yeah. So, they have, at the PI, they have, like, this thing that gauges your power and your strike. And they use that all the time. The power slap guys do? Oh, that's so silly. Yeah. And then, also, the Zufa boxing guys are there, too. So, it's a little bit hectic right now. There's, like, a lot going on. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah. Power slap guys, that's a different thing. I've never been to one of those. I hear you have to go to one to, like, enjoy it. You have to be on acid. Yeah. To me, it's like, I don't know, man. I feel like letting someone just swing on you. And the thing is, like, if you get the first swing, you have a giant advantage. Yeah. The first swing is a crazy advantage. That's dangerous, bro. That's, yeah. Just getting, you know, just getting whacked. And some of these guys, they get knocked out. Yeah. Oh, 100%, man. It's not less powerful than a punch. You know, this is the idea that you're slapping like this. That's not what they're hitting with the palm of the hand. Yeah. Right on your fucking jaw. Yeah. It's super powerful. You can only take so many of those in your whole life. You know, and you're lining up for those. Yeah, and, I mean, you can imagine, like, their nerve damage on your face, too. Well, I mean, look, I'm for whatever you want to do. You want to jump BMX bikes, you want to ride bulls, you want to power slap, have at it. This is America. Have a good time. Yeah. But it seems like at an MMA gym, it should be MMA fighters. I don't, I mean, the boxing is probably a good crossover. Like, you could probably get some good work with some of those guys. Yeah. You know, and also seeing high-level boxers train is good. It's great for your technique. It's great for just raising the level up in the gym. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's really dope. I love the pure. I love the pure, man. And Vegas in general, like, there's so many killers out there, you know? It's one of the best places in the world for MMA training. I mean, you got Extreme Couture. Think of how many killers are training out of there. You know, you got, there's so many. You got Syndicate. There's so many places, man. Yeah. It's incredible. So much jiu-jitsu. Robert Drysdale's there. There's so many guys that are there. 10th Planet there. There's so much jiu-jitsu there. There's so much MMA there. I mean, if you're a fighter. If you're a fighter, it's, like, one of the best places to live. Yeah, I remember when I first, when I first went out there, I was in about 2020. I went out, I was on Cowboy's Camp, and he went out there, and that's when I saw firsthand all the, all the amenities from the PI and, like, all the, the whole Vegas experience. And so I decided to move out there. So I lived out there for, like, two years, and I've just been going back and forth ever since. It's worth living. I've been there just for the PI. Yeah. You know, and then there's so much Muay Thai there. There's so much everything. There's so much great training there. Yeah, yeah. There's a ton of, there's a ton of gyms, like you said, man. Yeah, it might not, there might not be another city in the country that's like Vegas in that regard. Yeah. Think about boxing. You've got Floyd Mayweather's gyms there, which is crazy, right? There's a bunch of other gyms there. You've got high-level boxers there. You've got high-level Muay Thai guys there. You know, One Kick Nick has his place there. There's so much. High-level training in Vegas. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Summer is great, isn't it? It's the perfect season for adventures, but it can also be pretty exhausting juggling chaotic schedules and trying to make the most of summer. That's why it's important to take a moment for you. Go out for a weekend without planning anything and just have fun, or relax at home, or if you're really struggling, try therapy with BetterHelp. With a network of over 30,000 quality therapists, they can connect you with the right one, just like they have for millions already across the globe. Together, you can work out what you need and how you can enjoy summer to the fullest. You don't have to say yes to everything this summer. Find support in therapy. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com slash J-R-E. That's Better H-E-L-P. Dot com slash J-R-E. Yeah, sometimes I even go to the Andrew Kiwani gym. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Anthony and Chidi. They have their own gym? Yeah. Okay. They were with one kick Nick, right? Yeah. Fucking crazy town. Yeah, man. Training. And again, I can't say enough. I've been to the PI a bunch of times, but when I first went there, before they were really open, when they were really getting rolling, I was like, this is incredible. If you're a fighter, you have a place that has all the recovery stuff, all the high-end, top-notch recovery stuff, cold plunge, saunas, everything, all physical therapy, supplements. When I found out they make food for you, I was like, this is crazy. Yeah. I love that part. I'm always there. You could go there, order whatever you want. Sure. Steak and rice. Yeah. Well, they just want you to be healthy, which makes sense. It's so smart that they did that. When they did that, I was like, what are they doing? Dumping all this money in that? Who's going to go there? And then when I went there, I was like, oh, I get it. They went all out. They went all out. If you want your fighters to be at their very best to compete in the UFC, what better way than provide the best world-class facility on earth, and then to put it right there in Vegas? And now they have a bunch of them, right? They have one in Mexico. I think they have one in Singapore. They have a bunch of them. It's awesome. So smart. Such a smart move to do. You know what would have been crazy? If you were on the White House card. Dude, that's going to be major, dude. That's crazy. It's going to be major. I wish it was inside, but it is going to be crazy. It's so funny watching people lose their mind over it in all sorts of different ways. Lose their mind over it because they hate the political situation in this country. Lose their mind over it because they feel like it's a waste of money. Why are they spending so much money? This country's in debt. We've got problems. Why are we having a fight? And then other people are like, fuck yeah. You know, I mean, there's no more American thing than having a UFC fight on the White House lawn. It's so American. It's so Trump. It's so crazy. You know what I mean? A UFC fight on the White House lawn is bananas. Yeah, man. Even the fight card is amazing as well. Fight card's incredible. The only thing that bothers me is that it's outside. Yeah. These guys are fighting for world titles. I mean, Ilya Teporia might be. He's not just one of the best. Right now, he might be one of the best that ever did it. It's very possible that he goes down in history as the all-timer. I mean, he's so good. And for him to have to defend his title, the world title, outside with bugs and humidity and heat. Yeah, you've got to take into account the weather. It's a whole different environment. It could rain. It could thunderstorm. Who fucking knows? It's D.C. It's the East Coast in the middle of the summer. I mean, it's crazy to have a fight outside in June. In D.C. Yeah, I've fought outside before. It's definitely a different vibe, different energy. Where'd you fight outside? I fought outside for Combate Americas. It was somewhere in Arizona. And it was a nighttime fight. That's Camel McLaren's organization, right? Yeah. Love that dude. I've also fought in the summer, in the daytime. And I had a fair once. Oh, my God. Yeah. In California? In California. Yeah. What was the temperature? It was hot as hell, dude. The mat was hot as hell. It was like at a fair in the middle of the summer or something. Oh, that sucks. The mat's hot. Yeah. I didn't even think of that. Yeah, dude. Was it canvas or was it like mat? I think it was mat. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, it wasn't canvas. So not just that, but it gets slippery as fuck, too, then. Yeah, dude. It was hot as hell, bro. Did you ever see King of the Cage, Wet and Wild? You ever see that? No. King of the Cage put on a fight in the middle of a raincoat. It was a rainstorm. And just let people fight. Just like, I think they just said, look, you know, if you want to fight, you get paid. This is it. It's going to rain out, and we're going to have to fight. Because it was outside. Yeah. So this was back when California did not have MMA. It was illegal, but it was legal on Indian reservations. So we would go to these Indian reservations for King of the Cage. So back when Eddie, I think Eddie was the commentator at that event. I'm not sure. But he was one of the main commentators at King of the Cage. And my friend Bud, who's. He's my neighbor back in California. I actually sold him my old house. Real good friend of mine. He was one of the owners of King of the Cage. And they were just putting on these events in fucking these Indian reservations when it was totally illegal in California. So we would just drive to the Indian reservations and watch. And one of them, it poured. I mean, it was outside. The whole thing was outside. They just set up a cage outside. And it's fucking pouring, dude. And these guys are slipping all over the place. And it's crazy. They're fighting. They're wrestling shoes on. And it was just. Some of them did, at least. And it's fucking ridiculous. Like, there's no way you should fight like this. Yeah. Actually, my pro debut was for King of the Cage outside on the Indian reservation. What year was this? I want to say 2017, maybe? Oh, wow. So they were still doing them outside even then? Yeah. Wow. At Ceboba Casino. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's where we went. See if you can find the King of the Cage footage. It was one of the craziest events I've ever seen in my life. And just imagine, you're basically fighting on ice. You're slipping all over the place. Everybody's sliding. This is it. Look, they're trying to mop down the cage in between the fights. I mean, it's ridiculous. Like, what are you going to do? You're not going to dry it out. I don't know why they were trying to do this. But they were trying to at least give them some sort of, like, not sopping wet environment. Dude, that must have been so hard to fight on. Oh, look. Yeah, they're slipping. Oh, they're slipping all over the place. At least they had wrestling shoes on because I don't remember what year this was. The ref with the ponchos is kind of funny. I know. It's crazy. All the officials have ponchos on. I mean, it's fucking pouring right now. I don't remember what year it was. I think it said it right there. 2001, I think. Oh, okay. That makes sense. So I think that's illegal days. I'm not 99% sure that's the illegal days. Of course it is because they're wearing shoes. But the whole event was just insane. And imagine, like, trying to get a submission on someone who's illegal. He's literally soaking wet. Yeah, dude. I mean, it's impossible. It's so crazy. But, I mean, these dudes will remember this forever. This event, like, everybody was there. Look, you see the rake? Oh, it's pouring. I mean, why are they even? It's pouring. But why are they bothering, like, sweeping the water off? And look at his feet, man. His feet are sliding all over the place with wrestling shoes on. It's crazy. In a situation like that, you're almost, like, better off, like, immediately going, going to the ground. But even then, like, how are you going to even get a choke? People are, everyone would slide out of everything. It's like fighting someone who's oiled up. Look at him just drying them off. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, but the White House one, I just hope it doesn't rain. I hope they figure out a way to kill the bugs, too. I've been investigating online. There's a bunch of different machines that they sell for, like, outdoor events. And these, they kill every bug within, like, a mile radius. They set these things up, and all the bugs just go to it and get zapped. And at the end of it, they dump it out. There's, like, a fucking, like, a big bag of bugs. So if they set a bunch of those up around the perimeter, maybe they can at least minimize the amount of bugs that are out there. Because you have, in the D.C. area, you have a lot of gnats. Imagine fighting, and you've got a gnat in your eye, and, you know, you're in the middle of moving around, something goes in your mouth. You know? Yeah, is there a lot of them out there? Oh, yeah. Yeah? Yeah. It's moist. That's the thing about D.C. It's humid. That's a humid environment, especially in the summer. And Jamie and I checked. Was it 100 degrees there? Yeah, it's current. I mean, we're getting closer to the date, so the forecast is getting better. It's currently set to be a high of 85, low of 69. 69 is nice. No rain, and, well, isolated thunderstorms the two days before. Oh. But that doesn't, I mean, who knows what that means. That doesn't mean anything by the time it gets here. It gets to June. Yeah. And is it June 11th? What is it? It's on the 14th. 14th? 12th and 13th both have isolated thunderstorms. 12th and 13th, and it's on the 14th? Oh, fuck. And the one on Friday, it says considerable cloudiness and fog after midnight. I think the fights will be over by then, probably, but who knows? Well, the fights are Sunday. Yeah, no, I'm just saying, like, that means at night it's getting. Yeah. Well, the thing is, if it's the low 69, that's nice. So if it cools off by the time the main storm comes, or the main event starts, or the last few fights, but the first few guys that get after it, they're going to probably be fighting in the daytime. Yeah. You know, you never know. They might just spray some chemtrails and change the weather. You know? Yeah, they might. You never know. Oh, if anybody's going to do it, it's Trump. Do you see the thing that he posted? He's got, like, this whole drone army on the roof of the ballroom now. Oh, no, I didn't see it. So, you know, they built. What's up, Jim? They will. I mean, it's not done yet. Oh, it's not? No. Oh, well, he posted pictures of the AI? Yeah. Well, no, I mean, it's just a rendering. Oh, that's all it is? Yeah. Oh. How far along is the ballroom? I think they're pretty far. I'm going to show you the picture that they posted, but it's not. It's like a rendering of what it will look like. Oh, that's fake? Yeah. Okay. Why would you tell people what you're going to do? Well, you're going to be able to see that. It's like they can't hide it. That's not what I saw. I saw one that looked like it was during the daytime. Yeah. But obviously, that's. Yeah, that's what I saw. that's the one i saw so that's what it's gonna look like yeah drones are crazy bro drones fight more missiles and guns flying around on the top all controlled by ai that's crazy what could go wrong war war is a whole nother owner thing these days yeah yeah it's spooky you ever seen some of that footage from ukraine yeah drones just flying around bombing dudes just bombing dudes just dropping down on guys and exploding and there's hundreds of those videos now you get a one of those um instagram algorithms we watch a couple of them and then next thing you know they're getting recommended to you over and over yeah dude that's crazy um there's two weeks ago you know one day i'm talking talking about something with my buddy next thing you know it's all over my phone my feed i know that's crazy it's weird we're just accepting the fact that our phone's listening to us all the time yeah you know what i got trapped in recently uh algorithm of schizophrenic people what does what does that mean dude it's all crazy people that like one guy is like hi i'm joseph wilson i am the legitimate president of the united states due to constitutional reckoning like crazy stuff like crazy people this one lady this one lady is crazy she's like uh i forget what famous actor she was saying they're trying to kidnap me and put in my vagina and like she's just completely insane and every day it's like some new accusation someone's after her someone's tapping their phone someone's communicating with her through her ceiling fan like yeah just but i don't know how instagram knows that these people are schizophrenic and keeps sending me schizophrenic people over and over and over again because i know right well you're if you're watching them you're all at things you want to keep watching i understand but how does it know who's schizophrenic it must there's got to be there's and there's internal tags on every post right but isn't that nuts i don't know how it's but yeah how schizo got in there but it is or whatever the word is it's using the yeah i don't know what the word is but it knows these people are up and so it's sending me all these crazy people like it's completely insane people one lady who thinks everybody's a man she thinks rosa park secretly a man everyone's secretly a man she's like pointing out like collarbones look at them look at this is a man kim kardashian's a man everybody's a man it's nuts man and it's just schizophrenic people and i'm like okay so instagram must know these people are schizophrenic because they're all like i'm telling you it's like three out of ten videos instagram recommends me are ins or people that are completely crazy so it must know these people are crazy and it's just setting them my way yeah same for me dude i was talking to my buddy uh i don't know something about like sardines or something next thing you know i'm like look at my phone i'm like dude what the hell is all this about sardines this episode is 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it though i could send it to you yeah i got it um i think it's good um yeah it's from february 16th yes that's it that's the one it's not showing up right here though let me send it to you well yeah yeah yeah the thing i just had was like a russian website click this no problems definitely there's another one like britney griner that poor lady oh yeah she did nine months they they wanted to put her away forever yeah they were they were trying to put it away exchange like some russian arms dealer or something like that a merchant of death guys responsible for thousands of people being dead so this is from kim.com palantir was allegedly attacked uh hacked rather an ai agent was used to gain super user access and here's what the hackers allegedly found peter teal and alice carp commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a mass scale massive scale they have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of donald trump jd vance and elon musk they have backdoored the devices cars and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material palantir is creating nuclear and bioweapon capabilities for ukraine and is working closely with the cia to defeat russia they believe they're one year away they plan to achieve this by keeping russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations palantir is responsible of the majority of palestinian deaths in gaza they've developed the ai targeting for israel palantir is an arm of the cia and all data from international clients is copied into a c so the problem is this is like alleged is there a community notes on this at all no really just kurt metzger he's the number one post when can we see these hacked materials though what are the hackers doing with it if they aren't exposing the whole thing then fuck them yeah they'll he how does he know community knows he posts a lot of things that sometimes are true and sometimes are not true yeah predictions do you know his background do you know the story behind that guy me or yeah generally yeah so his back i first found out about him a long time ago he's a very wealthy guy he lives in new zealand and he ran a site was it a super uploader yeah like one of those uploads mega upload i think that's what was that it and they targeted him because they said that people were uploading things that were copyrighted material and i think they were trying to they were trying to they were trying to get him out of the country extradited on i think they still want to come back uh yeah fraud charges related it's on the screen to make upload um he denies wrongdoing hughes u.s authorities are pursuing a vendetta against him on behalf of politically influential hollywood studios 2018 new zealand court of appeal upheld the lower courts ruling dot com appealed to the supreme court of new zealand which ruled in 2020 that dot com could be extradited to the united states but that he could challenge the decisions through judicial review his extradition order was eventually signed on august of 2024 he's remained free in new zealand while continuing to pursue judicial review of his extradition order he launched another he launched another cloud storage service called mega although he severed all in 2013 all ties with the service in 2015 he also started and funded the internet party the party contested in the 2014 new zealand general election under an electoral alliance with the mana movement and contested the 2017 general election independently but failed to win any seats at either election he um was a famous guy in the early days of the internet did you ever see those videos that he made like these cartoons yeah i'm trying to remember some of those videos i'm trying to remember some of things that i remember i don't yeah yeah there was like cartoons that he did where he was like killing dictators in the cartoons what did he call he called the internet party moment of truth extradition see if you can find kim.com early animated videos big on the seth rich conspiracy here he should be um the seth rich one is wild the seth rich one is one of the ones where i just i don't understand why anybody doesn't think that that's crazy this guy gets assassinated after he supposedly gave wiki leaks all sorts of inside information on the democratic party about how they kept people out of the election how they were running things and then he winds up getting whacked And they're like, no, it was a robbery attempt at 3 in the morning. They left his watch. They left his wallet. They left everything, his phone. They just killed him. See if you can find his videos. He has some crazy videos. I want to say these are from, like, the 90s, like late 90s or early 2000s. He was – I don't even know what he was doing, but he was very wealthy. He had this crazy house and his hot wife, and he would show videos of it and shit. And I think this guy has just been persecuted because of that site that he had. And he's fucked now. They just keep going after him. I don't know if he's right about this Palantir stuff, so I probably shouldn't have been saying it. But you do know that, like, in worst-case scenario, a gigantic corporation could have the power to surveil everyone all the time. Everyone's online. Yeah. I mean, they can see you now with Wi-Fi. They know where you are in a building at any given time. With the Wi-Fi in the building. Oh, that's crazy. Crazy. They use Wi-Fi, and they can get a literal image of you walking around your house. They know where you are at any given time because of the Wi-Fi. So if they tap into your Wi-Fi, they know where you are, they just – boom. There's a targeted strike in the upper right bedroom. Send a drone after you. It's crazy. It's really nuts, man, because this is – this wasn't – here it is. This is from, like – this is old. Kimball. Old internet stuff. This is a Flash video. Yeah. 90s Flash video. Yeah. This is it. Give me some volume. I'm surprised that even has sound. It's going to be a very crude sound. Yeah, this is what he did. I remember this. So this was the 90s. So this is the same guy. It's a very interesting guy. He's getting in a boat. Yeah. It's called Kimball Special Agent. I mean, he's probably – this is – yeah, if it was made in the 90s, this is 30 years ago. He's, you know, screwing around with internet graphics. He flies up and catches a helicopter. He lands on the ground. He's standing on top of Microsoft. What is he doing? Oh, there's Bill Gates. Boy, people hated Bill Gates. Bill Gates even back then. That's crazy. It's assassinating Bill Gates. What the fuck? It's so weird. Oh, he didn't kill him. He just wrote Linux around him. So he got in trouble for these? Nah. No? Nah, not really. I mean, I think people – People just thought those were silly. He got in trouble for that mega upload site. So the way it used to work is – do you remember Napster? Yeah. Right. So Napster worked where you could take songs, you could upload them, and anybody could download these songs. The way mega upload worked on a lot of these upload sites is you could take a film and you could turn it into a digital file and say you take like Avatar, turn it into a digital file and upload it. And people could then download it and watch it on their home. Just download the file, plug an HDMI cord from a computer into the TV, and boom, you're watching movies. Yeah. And you don't have to pay anything. And the thing was it's like all this stuff was copyrighted material. And I think his argument was like, yeah, but I'm not uploading it. I'm just – I'm hosting this service. And they're like, well, this service is used to do illegal things. So you're in trouble. So it's like I don't know what the argument is there. I don't know who's right. Do you understand it, Jamie? Yeah, you explained it. But, I mean, it's – most people would go like copyright law, American copyright law only matters in America. I don't know if that's the argument he was making. That's true too, right, because he's in New Zealand. And this site was hosted in Hong Kong. Yes, it's on January 20, 2012. They seized more than $300 million of – or Hong Kong money is $40 million in American money. Damn, son. He denied any wrong. He's doing – I wonder how he's earning money now. I wonder if they took all his money or – Well, he's – I mean, he did – they did – I just looked it up. Mega is like a cloud service website now. I don't know if he owns it or runs it. He's trying to do cryptocurrency stuff. I'm sure he was big into Bitcoin when it started. He's probably doing okay. Yeah, I don't know what the story is, but I'm kind of rooting for him. He's a fun character online. Oh, he's very fun online. I don't know if he's right about the Palantir stuff. Like, forget about Palantir. We know that what's happening now in terms of you talking into your phone about sardines and then your phone showing you ads. Like, they're definitely listening to something. Grok said it's unverified. As of February – oh, so this was Grok commenting on it. Kim.com's claims about a Palantir hack and related allegations remain unverified. Major outlets like Reuters, BBC, and New York Times show no coverage. Palantir's site has no statements. Some sources – Echo the Post, but no independent evidence confirms it. Right. But you've got to think, if you know a dude who's deeply connected into the hacker world, it's that guy. Right? Yeah. I think he's the most public one. Yeah. He'd be the guy that would know some shit. I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. If it's not Palantir, and I'm not accusing Palantir of anything, but there's got to be at least one point in time there's going to be a corporation that has the power to do those things. That's what's going on with all this surveillance shit that people are missing. I'm sure there already is. They're already doing that, you know? Yeah. I mean – 100%. If I was an evil person running some gigantic corporation, I would do it, especially if I thought I was right, doing the right thing. I can imagine China probably has. Of course. 100%. Also, I forgot what I was reading. Someone got arrested. I think some government official or something got arrested and admitted to being a spy for China. Well, yeah. Well, there was a mayor in California, in Arcadia, California, that was a spy for China. She was the fucking mayor. Yeah. The mayor of a city was working for China. Yeah, and admitted it. Yeah. It's crazy. Oh, China's playing a long game. They infiltrate universities. They give money to universities. They fund programs. They give money to research labs. They sell cell phone towers at a discounted rate to the military, and these dumb motherfuckers put them around where their military bases are. Yeah. Yeah, I've had guys that are, you know, CIA guys on the podcast tell me about that, how dangerous it is that they've bought farmland all around these military bases. Yeah. China has. Yeah. What's up? Did you say something? I thought you said something. Yeah, that's crazy. It's crazy that they – They're even allowed to do that. Like, imagine you're in conflict with another country, and they buy land right next to your house. You're like, hey. Yeah. What are you doing? Forget about your house. A fucking military base? Anybody buying any land around a military base should be thoroughly vetted. It should be – there should be different laws. If you want to buy land around a military base, it should be like, no. No, no, no. Yeah. Background check for sure. Not just background check. Like, you should be an American citizen. a and you should have like a legitimate verifiable reason for owning this land like you're a farmer or you're gonna put fucking windmills up there whatever you're gonna do it should make sense it shouldn't be like all you have to do is have money and you could buy land right next to a military base yeah where they're doing who knows what yeah and you know china has like some of the top top uh you know um some of the the like you never know what they're wanting yeah the technology their technology is off the charts their their drone technology is beyond ours and they they have like crazy drone displays where they have enormous dragons oh yeah i've seen that fly them over the sky like thousands and thousands of drones and they make a dancing dragon in the sky like whoa so they're all coordinated but some sort of a computer program and they all work autonomously it's nuts man like their technology their cars are insane china's cars they have electronic or electronic cars that are beyond anything we have here in america yeah and they can't sell them here which i think is kind of crazy i think that's kind of fucked it's kind of i mean i guess we're in competition with china but like it should be survival of the fittest when it comes to cars like if you're making the best fucking cars and you happen to be in china they should be over here right you know yeah i mean it would suck if i was ford and these chinese cars were way better than anything that we're making here but everybody that i've talked to and i've talked to some guys that work for major automobile organizations and they went over to china and like oh my god we're fucked like these cars are insane yeah yeah i mean just tesla alone i know i know it's not china but i mean oh those cars are insane yeah they're pretty dope but they make them here and they make them in china too they made a lot they were making a lot of them in china during the pandemic because the pandemic didn't really close things down in china the way it closed things down here But they have electric cars now that have like these insane suspensions they go zero to 60 in one and a half seconds they're nuts yeah they there's this dude that i follow online god what's this name forest auto reviews i'm trying to remember but he does these quick reviews and somehow or another he always gets these chinese cars i'll find his name because you know you know what it is but i was i mean i don't think this is his channel i'm looking at the xiaomi su7 i can find his video if you want me to yeah these cars are nuts man it looks like a tesla but oh that's the dude it is yeah what is his channel this isn't his channel i don't think somebody else uploaded it maybe i don't know maybe maybe somebody else uploaded it i think it's the same guy let me find it i think i think it's forest auto review no that's not him he's not that guy hold on this guy yes forest jones that's it so he keeps finding he keeps reviewing these uh just good scroll down for his videos go to his video section i'm not if you search you can just narrow it down more but uh it didn't really work one year ago a tesla minivan or china minivans they have some crazy find find a good one i don't know if it's electric it's just a luxury car though yeah this is it this is electric look look at these things they're nuts play in a huawei sound system with this gorgeous speaker i also get two wireless charging pads with a fan to keep them cool i have this gorgeous drive mode selector i have cup holders right in here and i have a dash cam that can do this oh that's crazy great selfies for the blicky a big one i have built-in fragrances that slot in right here if i push this button i have more storage space and i can do this if i push the button on the side of my seat that'll fold down my armrest my seats are heated ventilated and massaging i have an area right down here for my phone i have built-in sunscreen shades if 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peak season doesn't wait and neither should you get ahead of it today with ship station and get 60 days free at shipstation.com with the code jre that's shipstation.com code jre taxes and fees apply yeah so they're doing wild shit over in china with technology and they have full surveillance on their population you can't say shit over there yeah they have like facial recognition everything that's crazy yeah you can't step out of line at all they'll they'll make you turn you into a handbag they don't fuck around over there yeah you know they have um do you know that bodies uh exhibit do you know what that is like a dead bodies exhibit uh i think there's one in vegas exactly they get their bodies most of them from china and they're yeah they're they're called like chinese i think it's undeclared bodies so like if you die within a certain amount of time you're going to die within a certain amount of time if someone doesn't claim your body unclaimed bodies if someone doesn't claim your body within like 30 days they just can turn you into a statue wow well here's the problem with that in order to do this process where they turn you into a statue it has to take place within 48 hours of your death so there's no way they're waiting a month yeah so they have to start this process like pretty soon after you die and they have this process called plastination and they take the bodies and they basically strip all the fat from the body and they turn it into this plasticized statue of all your muscles and tendons and ligaments and so you're out there like playing basketball and like you could see like the rib cage and all that was a dude that was probably tweeting the wrong thing or he worked for a company and he fucked up or he was banging someone's wife or he's doing something and they turn this dude into a statue and now he's at the luxor in vegas playing golf yeah like for real we looked into it it's there's not not just me saying this there's a bunch of stories online about these different bodies and how they've found ones with bullet holes in them they found one of them was crazy so this lady was uh having an affair with a mayor in this town in china and she was uh an online uh or a television broadcaster she was like a news lady or something like that and she was having an affair with the mayor the wife finds out about it the lady goes missing she gets scrubbed from the internet turns out the lady was pregnant she was eight months pregnant she goes missing then all of a sudden this pregnant lady appears at the bodies exhibit with the baby inside of her same exact size same features everything as this lady the wife of the mayor who she was having an affair with the wife was the manager of the plastination factory where they turn everybody into statues damn damn and and these bodies there's no skin on them no skin it gets even crazier years later she gets arrested for killing another person she gets arrested for poisoning some english businessman and then it goes to trial well the person who stood trial for her the person who was not her there's pictures of the lady on the stand it's a different lady so she must have paid someone off to get convicted and go to jail like paid their family off or something like that and she got free so this is all alleged by the way yeah all alleged but the you could see the the video or the um the body is still exhibited the body of the pregnant lady so there's a pregnant lady and you see a cross-section of her stomach where she's like holding onto her stomach and you see the fetus inside of her stomach so we're supposed to believe this undiscovered body this unclaimed body of a pregnant lady with uh an eight-month-old fetus inside of her body that they find it and then somehow or another they know it's cool so you just turn it into a statue but you have to do that within 48 hours of someone's death but no one claimed it which takes a month none of it makes any sense yeah the whole thing is nuts some of them are people that like i'm gonna die i want to donate my body to this exhibit okay if you're crazy and that's what you want to do that's cool but that's not all those people some of those people are it's very sketchy circumstances see if you can find that image of the wonder how often or how many how many times that happened like because because wouldn't like the the pregnant uh body like they never investigated it the family wanted to the family wanted to investigate they wouldn't let them exactly they were trying to do that but they wouldn't let them do it these people have like obviously have immense power if she got someone allegedly got someone to stand in line and this is like in china this is in china so look at this this is the baby pregnant woman and the fetus inside of her and so the family looked at the face and they're like jesus christ oh someone stole the fetus oh also i was digging there's another scandal that happened in 2024 with a bunch of corpses in china too well there's a video or this where this uh investigative reporter this investigative reporter visited one of these plastination factories and there was bodies that were laying down there's a video of you could watch the video these bodies are laying down they have sheets over their head and they have their arms tied behind their back and the sheets are bloody so it looks like they all got whacked and they're all at this plant getting ready to be turned on into a fucking statue. It's creepy as shit, man. This body was. They just stole the fetus. Two women in L.A. stole it. Two women? This was 20 years ago. They probably stuffed it inside of their belly. Look here, I'm pregnant. This is probably on my Instagram algorithm right now. There's another scandal they have where over 4,000 bodies were in a corpse scheme, they said. Oh, my God. Where they were being sold. Families thought their family member was being cremated. Was not. They were being sold into. I was trying to find out what they were using. That's a lot of bodies. Jesus Christ. They were using them for bone grafting. Oh. Allogenic bone graft products. Oh, that's another thing one of these schizophrenic ladies was telling me, and that is true, that a lot of these women are getting fat that's taken from cadavers. So they take fat from cadavers and then they inject that fat in their ass. To give them a BBL? Like, no bullshit. And Whitney Cummings, I sent it to Whitney, she's like, oh, my God, it's literal dead ass. That's such a funny line. Because that's what it is. I mean, it's dead tissue. You're taking a dead person's fat and they're stuffing it in their ass. Cadaver fat transfer, utilizing processed human donor fat, has become a major emerging alternative to traditional autologous fat transfers like traditional Brazilian butt lifts or BBLs and synthetic implants. How does it work? Instead of harvesting fat from your own body via liposuction, surgeons use donated human fat harvested via authorized tissue banks, allegedly. The fat is rigorously screened, sterilized, and processed to remove all the donor's DNA, cells, and genetic material. What remains is a structural, clumpy butter. That's disgusting. So hot. Clumpy butter ass is so hot. Matrix of collagen, proteins, and growth factors. When injected into the body, this matrix provides immediate volume and also acts as a biological scaffold that encourages your own natural tissue to integrate and grow into it. Yeah, that's gross, bro. Dead ass. Actual dead ass. And with that, women are doing this. See if you can find a video of them doing it. That's crazy. I was thinking like, man, how's your heart? You don't want to? They call it zombie filler. Oh, it's so nasty. That's so nasty. How bad are you? Just do some squats, you lazy bitch. Yeah. But that's, people like a real ass anyway. The ass and the legs, it has to match, folks. Yeah. It has to match. You can't fake it. It's like, you ever see those dudes that they don't really have muscles, but they get oil injected into their arms? Oh, I see. Yeah, and it's just like, it's all weird. Weird, like, almost like a fake tit. It's almost like an Indian dude. Yeah. I saw this Brazilian dude. He had it on his biceps. And his traps. He had his traps. Giant traps. Giant, crazy shoulders, big tits, crazy, and he's like flexing and doing all this stuff, but it looks weird because it's, your body, it's like, it doesn't fit. Yeah. It doesn't fit your body. That's the same thing when a girl gets a crazy fat ass and she's got these toothpick legs because she's lazy. Yeah. Like, that doesn't fit your legs. Yeah. This is, it looks like you're wearing a diaper. This is crazy. Don't do that. Yeah, man, dude. Commit to the process. Women go to the extreme. I know. You know? Well, the thing is, I think if you do just a little bit, just a little bit of dead ass, maybe it's nice. Yeah. You know, I bet there's girls that have done it that you go to the right doctor, like, this Beverly Hills dude, he's like, I got you. Just enough. You're just gonna plump that sucker up just a little bit, just a little bit. Yeah. A little bit of dead ass. A little bit of, just a touch, just a touch of dead ass. Yeah. That's pretty gross. Like, for someone to put someone else's clumpy butter in. It's fucking completely disgusting. Like, how did your body even react to that? Or how to like, Not well. Yeah. Not well. And then to have all that, take out the DNA and all this other stuff. What? What if they don't? What if that's bullshit? What if the DNA's in there? What if you start getting weird memories? You know? Yeah. Weird memories from ass tissue, like weird nightmares. The fucking photos here are rough. Let's go. Well. Pull them up. Right here. Ho! Elderly male, fresh cadaver underwent a layered dissection of Bob Muggs. So they're taking a fat from an elderly guy's face? Actual dead body? Whoa. Does it matter where the fat comes from? I guess not. I guess it's just fat. So this is a dead guy and they're peeling. So who sold his body to some fucking laboratory where they do this? All the videos I kept seeing just have the clumpy butter in this. Look at that in the upper right-hand corner. There's probably a whole crazy, like. So this is pre-deadass and post-deadass. See, that's not bad. It's not bad, but that lady could have done that with the gym. True. That lady could have done that with. She didn't go crazy there. That's just a little deadass. Just a. Just a touch. That probably looks good on the side if you turn it sideways. Is there any photos where they show. No, but this video there says one shot costs 20 grand. Let's see that guy. He looks like a demon. Well, these videos are. That's not even a real shit state. That's AI. It's false. Yeah, it falls down a weird path here. Oh, my God. Yeah. I'm not showing those photos either. It's disgusting. So they're just sucking fat at a dead people. I had one of my knees reconstructed with a cadaver graft on my ACLs. I got a. They use a. a Achilles tendon because the Achilles tendon is thicker and stronger than the actual ACL and they put it in my right knee. It's never been a problem. Holy. Works great. From your own. No, no, no. From a dead dude. Oh, okay. Oh, what's that? That says gluteal augmentation. So that's butt. Right. Right? It says fat grafting. So that would be putting fat into the butt. Oh, where's that scar? Bro, that scar's gigantic. You could have this. I just got a fork holding it open. Look how green everything looks in there. Oh, that looks so nasty. It looks like bad cheese. That's disgusting. That looks like. You know when you go to see like dry aged meat and you pass by those. Yeah. You know when you go to a nice steakhouse and they have the dry aged meat container? So you're gonna get your fat put in your ass or an implant but then you have this massive scar. I mean, these pictures are gnarly. That is another head. Look at the ear right there. So that's where they're getting the fat. How much fat do you have in your head? Oh. Well, that's. That says temporal augmentation by intermediate fat pad filler injection. So that's someone getting that done to their head. Maybe it's like tightening up the skin? Yeah, maybe, right? Like a filler? Oh, yeah. There you go. Look. It says here. Oh, she looks good. That actually looks good. So that's from her fat, fat grafting. Sorry, I can't show these photos, guys. You have to Google it. Sorry, folks. Some of it's disgusting but if you look at like people's face when they get older, that's one of the things that happens is you lose collagen and fat in your face. And that does make sense that putting it in would be better. See, that looks like hell. Both of them look like hell. Don't do that. Go to the gym, lazy bitch. What is that one to the right of it, though? That one to the right? Yeah, like there. So she got a little bit of a bubble butt from that but again, go to the gym. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah, look at the rest of the body. Yeah, go to the gym. This is crazy. Questionable tattoo. Yeah, questionable choices. You get dead ass. You get dead people's tissue pumped into your butt so that more people want to fuck you. Like, hey, find Jesus. Go find Jesus. Okay? If you are out there, I don't give a lot of advice but this is my advice. If you're out there and you're thinking about getting dead people's fat pumped into your ass, you probably need Jesus. Yeah. Yeah, I mean. BBLs are kind of going out of style, man. Yeah. I think people think they're gross. Naturals are coming back. They should. Naturals are making a comeback. Yeah. Just work out. Like, there's a lot of ladies that have flat butts that they put in the time, they put in the effort and now you're like, damn, you can do that too. Yeah. Anybody can do it. It's just the process. Yeah. People don't like that process. People just want quick results. Exactly. They don't want to work for it. They want Ozempic and then they want dead ass. They don't want to lose the weight. I think there's like a nice combo they could put together. And now they're saying and then put it back where you want it. Yeah. Retruatide. What is that called? Retututide. Retututide and dead ass. They should have like a one-stop shop. Yeah. Now they're saying Ozempic eats up your bones. Oh, yeah. Oh, definitely. So everybody's fucked who's been taking it. Well, it's not just that. It also kills your desire. This is what's weird. Like, people are falling out of love when they get on Ozempic. Like, they lose their desire. Really? Yeah. People lose ambition. They lose desire. They also lose addiction. Like, people that are addicted to cigarettes, people that are addicted to alcohol and gambling. Apparently, Ozempic helps that because you're basically killing desire. Like, your desire to go and smoke a cigarette, your desire to have a drink gets killed by Ozempic. Yeah, it also changes your whole face, right? Oh, yeah. Eats up all your fat from your face. Yeah. Yeah, that's a problem. Especially for ladies as they get older. Like, the more fat you have on your face, the better you look. Like, when your skin gets real thick, the better you look. Yeah. It gets real thin and starts draping over your bones. You know, that doesn't look healthy. Yeah. Looks like a problem. you like to cut they just cut weight i know yeah it's fucked it's fucked that that's a part of our society now and it's just preying on people's lack of discipline and lack of understanding of the benefits of going through a process and achieving a result because of all these ladies that wanted to do this instead if they just went to a gym started eating healthy they would feel better they would think better their body would look better everything would be better and they wouldn't have to get dead ass yeah yeah it's just people being really self-conscious you know about themselves like i know a hot hot ass chicks that i'm like wait you take ozempic why like why oh just like a little you know i'm like you don't need it i think some women say there's a real benefit to taking a micro dose after a certain age i was watching a video this lady is talking about how micro dosing um these glp ones is actually beneficial for some women after a certain age because it helps reduce inflammation it does a bunch of different things to them but i don't know do you uh gain the weight like say if like there's people that just i'm just gonna do it like like really overweight people they're just who obviously like have struck do that struggle with diet and and working out uh when when they get off do like they gain all the weight back like everything else most likely if it's a psychological issue the moment you get off of it that psychological issue is going to happen to you and that's going to happen to you and that's going to return because that like shrinks your stomach or something right yeah well it does but it's basically you're starving yourself just like when you got out of jail you barely could eat that double cheeseburger yeah right it's because your stomach shrank because you weren't eating much that's kind of the same thing that happens with ozempic i mean what what happens to them when people say oh my god it makes you lose bone mass it makes you lose muscle mass right but so does starving yourself that's one of the things that happens when people they go on these crash diets they go i'm just i'm 30 pounds overweight i'm just not gonna eat okay well you're your body's gonna find food somewhere so it's gonna eat itself and yeah your body will eat fat but it's also gonna eat muscle tissue it's also gonna eat bone tissue your body's gonna consume itself to survive which is crazy so these things that you're getting these side effects of like bone loss and muscle loss that's what would happen if you just stopped eating too it's your body doesn't have any nutrients just like when you were in jail you weren't getting any protein you weren't growing any muscles yeah your body is not getting the nutrients that it needs so it's just drinking so red atrutide is that how you say it i believe so so that the difference between this red atrutide this one is a different one in that this one allows you to have all the weight loss but you don't lose the muscle loss it's not the same thing i want to show you a picture of what i look like bro oh yeah please do it's horrible you got my number send it to me and i'll send it to jamie all right if um it's shocking bro holy hell bro if this red atrutide am i saying it right red atrutide red atrutide whatever it is this one they think is going to be incredible because this one is going to give you all the fat loss but none of the muscle loss none of the bone density loss and i wonder if it's going to be the same for like desire and whether it's going to fuck with addictions and all those other things too because i was reading this thing where employers are um they're getting upset at people taking glp-1s because it changes their ambition i saw it too i've been trying to find that article ever since i saw it and i can't find it and it's not that it is but it makes me wonder if it's like uh right propaganda propaganda against it from the people who are on like you know selling the good stuff now they don't want to don't get replaced it could put it into uh perplexity see what ai our ai sponsor are people working yeah um habits change do employ are there employers who are having a problem with their employees taking glp-1s because it affects their work or ambition i think what they were saying was ambition it's making people less ambitious which kind of makes sense because i think a lot of people their ambition is probably an addiction they're probably addicted to kicking ass and doing things here it goes yes but the main employer issues with glp-1s today are cost coverage and side effects impacting attendance and productivity not a clearly documented widespread loss of work ambition i'd be the same thing kind of probably yeah productivity sure if you're not as ambitious but attendance is it unless you're injured you're hurt that was my mind you might decide to show up you might like i don't even feel like going right right so side effects and performance common common side effects are nausea vomiting diarrhea plus headaches and fatigue can result in comfort increased absenteeism and are tied to workplace performance issues if unmanaged legal and hr complexity employers must balance cost control with ada hipaa and non-discrimination rules when deciding coverage and when asked about employee medication use evidence of motivation and ambition there are anecdotal stories uh media and personal accounts of people feeling less driven or shifting life priorities on glp-1s but these are not yet backed by large workplace specific studies so employers are not treating lost ambition as a primary policy issue but i bet they're thinking about it yeah i bet they're thinking about it i mean it makes sense did you find it i'm having a sense of me right now okay yeah what you looked like right when you got out yeah yeah yeah that was crazy dude i can't find her and i'm having someone send it to me though okay no worries i'm kind of embarrassed to show you but i gotta i gotta see this because if you see me now i bet holy hell bro yeah crazy a good before and after is great yeah the people that are really brave are the ones that say i'm gonna get in shape so here's what i look like right now and they post that on the internet like whoa that's that's crazy yeah but that's also it's a good way to hold yourself accountable you know yeah a bunch of people to shit on you fat like fat shaming works i know it's not nice people don't like it but it's a good way to hold yourself accountable when someone calls you a fat fuck and you're like oh man you start thinking and you go to work yeah man you know yeah a little bit of hard work you know a little bit of hard work get it you know well listen if there's a way where massively obese people that are dying can get healthy and if it's a glp one i'm all for it but for everybody else just get to work and you'll you'll you'll respect yourself so much better like right now like you you could look in the mirror and go damn i look so much better than i did when i got out of jail yeah because you could have stayed looking exactly that same way right if you got discouraged when you were saying like i don't know if i'm gonna be able to do this i have no endurance i don't know if it's ever going to come back a lot of people would have just quit right there yeah and if you quit right there you wouldn't be able to appreciate the results when you kept going and that's the that's the case with everybody that's at a bad place right now just go to work go to work write it down go to work put it together yeah and yeah man i think it just makes you that much like uh stronger and and and like aside from the work but like internally 100 you know yeah value yourself so much more in health absolutely you know it's also good for your brain and your brain's ability to do tough things if you get through something difficult you realize like oh i've been here like the next time some fucked up shit happens to you like i've been here before i know what that sucks right now but i'm gonna just try to get through it and i'm gonna try to get through it and i'm gonna try to get through it this process exactly keep on trucking so right when i when i got back to work and i was like man i'm in the phase right now where it it sucks you know like waking up sore as hell i remember the first time i did leg day i couldn't i couldn't even fucking walk dude did you have somebody walking you through it like how to do it correctly where you don't overdo it in the beginning because like did you work with a trainer or anybody um yeah yeah uh like over at the pi there so when we first got started we obviously didn't want to like because i was so eager to just get back in shape and and and it was it was tough you know but that's like one of the things that that uh like while running why i like i like i love to run and it's it's like one of those things where like a lot of people they reach to the point where they get tired and then they just stop you know they'll just quit you know and like you got to push yourself more and more harder and more harder next thing you know you catch a second wind and you know you're you're jamming but when i first first started i swear dude like i would like so when i first got out my my oldest son he wrestles for high school um and he was like oh you want to wrestle you know you want to wrestle because like you know he knew i was out of shape i'm like oh man he might he might get me you know so in my mind i'm like all right i got one good one good takedown in me and right and and yeah sure enough um we wrestled and then shot for that takedown got the takedown and got up and now i'm just like whoa whoa and like he just ragdolled me after that he just ragdolled me man and then uh actually a couple days ago i got back from vegas and and i hit him up i'm like what's up now you know like what's up now and and yeah man from from that first day i was like oh my god i'm like what's up now and i'm like what's up now and i'm like that from that first workout to this, this one you know we made it through a whole a whole workout you know it's such a good feeling because i got really like really discouraged bro i'm not even gonna lie and there was points where i was like got real emotional i was like dude how am i this tired like this is crazy you know and then i just always told myself like dude you've made it through so much in your life that you could come back and you can bounce back for this so that's this whole this whole process has been like to me it's like a comeback comeback comeback story you know of course yeah and it's just about trusting that process it's just so hard when you used to be at one point and now you're way way way below that and you got to build back up to get to where you used to be you know but that's that's kind of a blessing there's a blessing in that because you realize like after it's over it's like wow i did it i did it i pushed through all that bullshit i got my body back in shape again and i'm back like when you get done with your camp when you're peaking and on that last week you're gonna feel so good yeah man honestly i feel great now and and like i feel like i've i've done such a great job and and actually recovering more doing like a lot more recovery stuff and i've been i've been incorporated that so much and before i used to just go go go and like now like i take the time to recover and i'm like i'm gonna do it again and i'm gonna do it again and i'm gonna do it again recover and and um i've been i've been taking this stuff from regenerate what is that uh regenerate is uh uh like and and what is it nad or something like that okay yeah stuff like that and so it's nmn so it's like a precursor to nad yeah the ufc can find that stuff ufc provides it yeah okay so that means it's third party tested regenerate hmm does that um who who makes that stuff do you know um i know i know that they're they're definitely ufc uh approved approved and like i think they might even sponsor thorn is the main supplement company that you that the ufc uses right yeah because they're all third party tested it's like safe for sport yeah the uh yeah it's um true shield certified products for professional athletes and uh yeah i started i started taking that like about two two fights ago and yeah i feel great i guess it's like nad like some kind of anti-aging or something like that and stuff yeah it's uh it basically lengthens your telomeres and it is uh it sort of brings your body back to like a level of recovery that it had when it was younger allegedly there's a lot of there's a lot of people that take iv nad and they take um nad and um you know you can get it in the subcutaneous um what's it called subcutaneous uh under the fat injections they do it that way too yeah yeah but um but i think some of the best ways is actually nmn that stuff because it what it does is it it's like a precursor and your body just makes more nad that way yeah um i take it yeah yeah it works i take it before i go to bed every night you know andrew huberman was telling me about it he was saying it he noticed that when he really felt like it was working one of the things that he noticed was that his fingernails were growing quicker and that's the same thing with me i texted him the other day i go this is crazy like my fingernails grow way quicker than they used to and i think it's because of that yeah that's crazy i just noticed that too if i may have been going crazy too yeah i think it's your body's ability to regenerate you know and and heal and like for fighters like there's nothing more important than your ability to recover from a hard workout so you can get to another one yeah and um i spent a lot of time like in a hyperbaric hyperbaric chamber and now there's this thing um like this pimp pimp pmf pmf yeah pmf or something like that uh-huh and it's like an actual like a whole bed and just like right just kicks up like like just um something like electric like little pulses and i'll be taking naps on that thing and just so some of the stuff i don't even know what it does and i was like oh it's for recovery i'll do it you know hyperbaric works and it works in the same way that nad and nmn work in that it lengthens your telomeres like they did this study out of uh a university in israel i believe it was where they put people on a protocol of for 90 days they did 60 90 minute sessions at a hyperbaric chamber and they showed that their telomere increase was equal to a 20 year difference in biological age so it makes your cells younger because you're infusing them with energy you're infusing them with oxygen every time i do it when i do it for like a series of it when i get like real consistent with it when i have the time i always feel better i'm always like why don't i do this all the time yeah yeah i'm in there like four or five times a week that's huge that that is one of the best things ever for your recovery especially as you get older you know because it makes your body react like a young body does you know yeah so i'm over here against racing against the clock man so i'm like trying to do everything possible to to for my body just to recover from these hard-ass workouts you know how long was it after you got out before you started sparring again um i recently just started sparring about three weeks ago so you gave yourself yeah so what i wanted to do was was definitely get shape gotta get get in good enough shape to like because if you go to extreme and you're out of shape they're gonna you're gonna get killed yeah they're gonna it's gonna be very demoralizing yeah yeah so i i definitely wanted to to get my my get myself in good enough shape so like this whole time i've been doing like a whole bunch of like weight lifting stuff and and technical stuff and and a lot of snc stuff and and and strength and conditioning just getting your body back in condition again yeah so just recently i'm like all right i feel i feel good enough to to to spar and and um yeah i've been having pretty hard sparring sparring sessions well you were a guy that was known for your endurance before you know you're not a guy that fatigues and fights very much you know so it's like and you always push a good pace too so for you to get back to where you used to be and have that same style like you have to be in shape first yeah yeah yeah i feel like i've been getting getting ready just to start getting ready you know right right right yeah do you wish you had more time than august or do you think it's a good enough time period i think it's a good enough time especially like the way i feel now and you have two months to go yeah and i have like another eight eight and a half weeks eight nine weeks something like that that's nice have you been to serbia before never been i've been watching videos of like um the serbian crowd like in basketball and yeah it's wild bro that is wild so so in my mind that's what's going on right now i've been watching videos of like that's what i'm that's what i'm expecting i'm expecting like to be chanting and they might be crazy have they had a ufc in serbia before the first one whoa first ufc and so we've played those serbian basketball games a bunch of times here we go outside one there's an outside they got fires and shit what i don't hear anything i don't yeah so i i had looked i had looked this up because i'm these people you you you you they treat it like war yes like the audiences they they chant like they're like a war is going on yeah in the middle of a basketball game and you know all these serbians that are coming over and dominating an american basketball well guess why yeah yeah so that's motherfuckers that's originally why i had looked this up a long time ago and um what was it nicola jokic jokic one of the top nba players uh and i was like when i when i uh when i found Fan boy over, like, and I love basketball. Basketball is, like, one of my favorite sports. I always, like, look into, like, the background of the basketball player, where he came from. And I had already seen the Serbian basketball crowds. I'm like, man, it would be dope to go to, like, a basketball game in Serbia, you know? Yeah, I'd be careful what I ate and drank. Yeah. Going over there to fight their main dude in the main event. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. You just get them in trouble. Yeah, I'm like, dude, that's crazy, man. Especially as they've never had a fight over there before, never had a UFC over there. I'm not accusing the Serbians of doing it. It might be a few unscrupulous gamblers, a few people. Yeah, so. Look at this. Here we go. This is a basketball game. I mean, they got. Whoa. War drums. They got war drums they're pounding. Bro, this is Viking shit. Yeah. I love it. I love it. So this is what I'm expecting when I go over there. I love it. I love it. I want to go see a basketball game over there. Especially fighting their guy. Oh, yeah. It's going to be nuts, man. Yeah. For sure. But it's going to be exciting. It's going to be so weird for you just to, when they shut that cage, like, oh, my God, I'm back. Yeah. I was in jail. In Mexico. In Mexico. I was in a different kind of cage. Yeah. Like a way less preferable cage. Wild, man. What a crazy fucking story. You know what? Yeah, man. And I get to, you know, tell the whole, keep the story going, you know? Make it even, make it even better. Yeah, does it piss you off? Because, like, you had so much momentum after beating Kevin Holland. Like, that was a big victory for you. Yeah, it couldn't have happened at a worse time, man. I know. Because Kevin's a tough guy and a tricky guy. And that was a welterweight fight, right? Yeah. And fighting him at welterweight, that's where he's at his best, you know. Kevin at welterweight is really, that's where he belongs. Yeah, man. For you to beat him, that's huge. Yeah, dude. He's such a tricky guy, too, man. Yeah, it was an amazing fight, dude. It was. I hadn't been, I don't think I've had a fight like that in my career where there's so much going on. I was almost, I dropped him in the second. You know, I was, blew my fucking gas tank trying to finish him. And then come the third round, he drops me and almost finishes me. And I bounce back and then end up on top. It's like, those are the fights that I train for, bro. In my mind, that's what I'm training for, you know. Yeah. Like, and it couldn't have worked out. It couldn't, that fight was amazing. I had, that's my third time being scheduled to fight him. And finally, finally happened. And it was an amazing fight. It was everything I expected it to be. And I expect this fight to be an absolute war as well, you know. Dude, dude's, you know, he's got a couple knockouts. Come, you know, looks pretty good. He's a very skillful guy. Very skillful guy. Uros Medic is no joke. He's very good. Yeah. It's going to be a good fight. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. I'm going to bring it, you know. For sure. I'm bringing it. You always do. Fair, yeah. But for that, man, it's going to be so emotional for you. Like, having that moment, like, to realize that you're fully all the way back. Yeah. I can't imagine. Yeah, man. What is the craziest shit you saw in jail in Mexico? The craziest shit I saw in jail in Mexico? I don't really. It's too crazy, man. Really? Yeah. I would imagine Tijuana jail is pretty fucking crazy. Was it because you were in sort of a protected area? No. To be honest with you, the area I was in was kind of like, it was like the VIP section, bro. It was like. Right. Everybody was like there, like someone with money or like, you know, well, we paid to be there. You know, I wasn't like, it wasn't like that protected. It was kind of dangerous in a sense where. Like, at night, all the cell doors are open, you know, so it's kind of like a little dangerous on that. A little sketchy. Yeah, a little sketchy. Nobody got killed or anything while you were there? Not on my, not in my section. But in other sections of the jail, people got killed? Yeah. How many? In my, since the whole time I was there, like, I'd say like two or three, you know, but I don't know, the craziest thing I saw in jail. Probably, probably some of those, I bought an ounce of weed. You bought an ounce of weed? That was the last thing I would buy. If I was in jail for weed. I bought an ounce of weed. Were you worried about they're going to piss test you or anything? Yeah. No, no. Well, the guards brought it in, so I figured like. Oh my God, that's crazy. How am I going to get in trouble for this if the guards are bringing it? That's crazy. The guards sold you weed. That is wild. How much is an ounce of weed in Mexico? In jail? About $300. It's crazy, bro. You could, you could pay for girls to come in, bro. Really? Yeah. They have like a, a menu. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. And you can't get a steak? I'd be like, keep the ladies. Can you get me a ribeye? Yeah. Dude, we had a, we had a barbecue one time. Yeah? Yeah. We had a, we had a, a fucking, um, we literally had like a barbecue. It was like, well, not on a grill, but when I first got there. We had like these hop, these hot plates and, and the leader, uh, would always like do stuff for the whole tier. You know, like he'll always like, oh, today we, you know, like every once in a while, I'd say like once or twice a week, maybe. Um, nah, not once or twice a week. I'd say like once or twice, maybe, uh, every couple of weeks. Like we'll get like pizza, like the order pizzas and shit. Yeah, dude. And, and, and for like, I think it was like 1,500, the, you could like order a chick, bro. Like a thousand, like a thousand bucks for like 1,500, something like that. And they'll put you in the conjugal, in the conjugal rooms with some random chick and you could, you know, have, have your time with her for like three, four hours, something like that. So you could basically, if you have money and influence, you could kind of do anything in there. Yeah. I mean, if you got, if you got money, you'll, you'll be okay. I guess. Yeah. As okay as you're going to be in a Tijuana jail. Yeah. But I mean, you're still locked in a cell. I mean, we would only go, we would only get, um, two days of yard for one, one in an hour and a half, you know, an hour and a half. And the whole time I spent it running, trying to run, trying to keep my, my cardio up. And it was crazy, dude, because I was like the only dude out there like working out, you know, and, and, and honestly, by the time I left, I had everybody like. Working out, running or, or like doing some kind of, like, it was, it was crazy how, how I, I, um, my, just me working out and doing like my daily thing just like affected other people, you know, like. Sure. Yeah. I was like, I remember like I would have like, I would come out to on the tier and, um, I'll be like doing, doing workouts with, with dudes right there. You know, and, and like I said, there's a couple of dudes in there that are some dogs, you know, and, uh, yeah, hopefully, hopefully if, if they do get out, you know. Can they contact you if they get out? Do you have their information? Yeah, I'm still in contact with them. That's cool. Hopefully you can get them set up, man. Did you get the picture in? Oh my God. Yeah. I'll send it to you right now. This episode is brought to you by the farmer's dog. Here's a fun fact. Research shows that dogs who maintain a healthy. Weight can live up to two and a half years longer on average than dogs who are overweight. Isn't that wild? 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This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. If you're thinking about building a website, you should try Squarespace. I know because I use it. That's right. Joe Rogan dot com is powered by Squarespace. It has all the features that you need to create a standout website like an AI enhanced website. Builder SEO optimization tools and seamless checkouts with mobile pay links. Head to Squarespace dot com slash Rogan for a free trial. And when you are ready to launch, use the offer code Rogan to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. I'll send it to Jamie. The world needs to see this. Wow. Is it crazy looking at it? Yeah. Did you send it? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Waiting for it to come in here. Oh, yeah, man. So you said a few people got killed. Did you know those people? No. No, I didn't know. Oh, my God. This picture is crazy. Yeah. When stuff like that happens, there's obviously like. You hear because. Oh, you know what? A lot of dudes were overdosing in there. Really? Yeah. From fentanyl? I think so, bro. A lot of dudes were in there like doing heroin and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that picture is crazy, though, huh? It is crazy. Yeah. And then like to. It's crazy, dude. It's crazy how I've bounced back from that. Here it is. Wow, you look so thin. Yeah, dude. Dude. There's malnourishment at its finest, bro. Oh, my God. Yeah, you look like a dude who's just getting out of prison. That's what you look like. Yeah, so that's the first. What do you got, a burrito there? Some tacos. So that's like right after I had the burger. I only took like two bites of those tacos. I was like, yo, I'm full. I imagine. Your stomach must have been super shrunk. But yeah, you could see where you lost all your muscle mass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so to bounce back from that, be to, you know, I'm pretty We'd be in decent shape right now. How many guys died of overdose while you were there? About three or four of them. Damn. So you could kind of get anything you want, really, in jail. Yeah. Any kind of drug. Could you get steroids? I don't think so. I try to get protein. Protein powder? Yeah. Yeah, some protein powder, but it was never able to happen. That's crazy. They get you heroin, no problem. Yeah. Protein powder? Oh, that's kind of an issue. Yeah. That's ridiculous. That's crazy. Yeah. I had turned myself into like a little gym, man. I was like just trying to stay busy, man. I always told myself, like, man, there's got to be some way that this is going to work out for me, you know? And, you know, I ended up having to, you know, pay a nice amount of money, you know, to be here today. It was a lot, bro. I'm sure. We'll talk about that later. Listen, I'm glad you got out. You know, I had only heard about it maybe a few months ago. I'd heard about it like, I want to say three, four months ago, because someone had asked where you were. Like, you know, someone's saying, you know who we haven't seen in a while is D-Rod. And then someone said, dude, I heard he's locked up in Tijuana. And I was like, oh, no. I'm like, what a fucking hat. Like, that could be it forever. You hear someone's locked up in a Mexican jail. It's like, that could be it forever. Never hear from you again. Yeah, man. I'm so happy to be out, dude. I can only imagine. I can only imagine. I mean, listen, you don't appreciate the sunshine until you experience a lot of rain. Unfortunately, that's how people operate. You know, you get real accustomed to things being great, and then you don't feel good about it anymore. You need, like, a little bit of that in your life sometimes. Just a little. Just a little bit of a wake-up call to let you realize, like, you should be so happy and so thankful that you get to experience this life, especially the way you're experiencing it. I mean, what a dream to go from being a guy who's in and out of jail, fucking up your whole life, to being a top 15 UFC welterweight contender in arguably one of the toughest divisions in the sport, if not the toughest. I mean, the UFC welterweight division is fucking crazy. Yeah. You've got Carlos Prates. You've got Sean Brady. You've got Morales. You know? Yeah, dude. And before I got arrested, we were—I was going to fight Prates. Wow. I would have fought him in Brazil. Woo! Yeah. That would have been wild. Yeah, dude. And, yeah, I mean, it's crazy to see, like, how the division has changed. Mm-hmm. Like, right now, the top five dudes are—it's Ian Gary, Prates, Morales. Um, Makachev's champion. Mm-hmm. And it's completely top—it's completely, like, different now from—from—from when I—when I got arrested, you know? Did you see the, uh, JDM protest fight? Uh, no, I wasn't able to see that one. Whew! The protest looked so good. He's—he's so clever. That's a tricky striker, man. Yeah. And he's so long. So long for the weight class. It's almost like his arms belong to a dude who's seven feet tall. Like, his arms and legs are so long. He's so slick. Yeah. When I, um—when I first got released, um, we were—we were planning to fight Leon Edwards. Mm. Yeah, but, um, I think it would have been July 11th, and that would have been way too—it would have been too soon, you know? But, I mean, the August fight's a couple weeks after that, but, you know— That's a big factor, though, those couple weeks when you're dealing with, like, your body. Yeah. Yeah. recovering from what you've been through that's that's august sounds right july sounds early yeah yeah so now i'm gonna i'm gonna be ready bro i'm gonna be in super good shape um and and i just i just trust all the work that's ahead of me all the work that i have lined up and and and all the recovery and and just just it's like like like i said man like just appreciating everything you know my like my life bro i've been out of jail before and no one ever gave a fuck you know like now i'm out and i have these amazing opportunities and i'm sitting here talking to you bro well it's crazy and more importantly you got a big fight coming up so that's very exciting i'm very happy for you brother hell yeah i can't imagine what you went through i can't imagine what it felt like wondering if you're ever going to get out you know and thank god you had the resources and you knew the right people and yeah they figured out how to do it and then got into a mexican yeah that dual citizenship that's wild yeah well i can't wait to hear all about it off air but uh congratulations on getting out i look forward to your fight i'm really pumped i'm really pumped for you i'm very happy very happy you're out yeah man biggest fight of my life coming up man i'm just embracing all the work and just everything bro just everything i'm living the whole process well i can't wait to see the fight so congratulations i know the people are rooting for you so thank you for being here man it's a lot of fun thanks for having me my pleasure my pleasure all right bye for adults with crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms every choice matters you trimphia offers self-injection or intravenous infusion from the start trimphia is administered as injections under the skin or infusions through a vein every four weeks followed by injections under the skin every four or eight weeks if your doctor decides that you can self-inject trimphia proper training is required trimphia is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease and adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis serious allergic reactions and severe ulcerative colitis are increased risk of infections or lower ability to fight them and liver problems may occur before treatment get checked for infections and tuberculosis tell your doctor if you have an infection flu-like symptoms or need a vaccine explore what's possible ask your doctor about trimphia today call 1-800-526-7736 to learn more or visit trimphiaradio.com hank joined bj's wholesale club the day he became a father of 30 i coach football now coach hank saves up to 25 off grocery store prices 30 pounds of pasta three cases of protein bars 75 sports drinks and that's just pre-game he knows teamwork and bj's knows savings this is your home coach home of the save join for just 20 at bj's.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save