The conversation centers on Tommy Lee, portrayed as a vibrant, energetic, and positive figure who finds joy in unconventional hobbies like growing centuries-old bonsai trees and modifying vintage cars. His lifestyle reflects a deep connection to rock and roll and a free-spirited, unapologetic attitude. The discussion expands to broader themes of aging, physical conditioning, and resilience, emphasizing that maintaining fitness and mental sharpness is critical as one ages—contrasting with the physical decline and injury risks common in older athletes. The dialogue critically examines the rules in combat sports, such as the restriction on certain elbow strikes, arguing they are illogical and dangerous in practice. It also explores the risks of organ transplants, including immunosuppression-related complications and high mortality rates. A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the artistry and skill in modern martial arts and MMA, particularly the technical mastery of fighters like Ben Askren and Kamaru Uzman, and the value of movement-based tactics such as point fighting and quick transitions. The conversation ultimately celebrates the evolution of combat sports, crediting pioneers like the Gracie family for shaping modern MMA culture and underscoring the importance of adaptability, physical intelligence, and self-care in athletic longevity. Throughout, the tone remains practical, insightful, and grounded in personal experience, offering a balanced reflection on aging, performance, and the enduring appeal of combat sports.
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so your boy tommy was awesome good he was really cool yeah i actually listened on the way out to
that one he's really fun tommy lee's fun he's like a big kid man he is kid yeah like a 15 year
old that just never you know had to grow up all the way up there's no because he got famous when
he was 18 exactly so he really never had to grow up he just stayed tommy lee yeah i'm glad you
finally got to uh have him on it was very cool so it was good it's weird that he's really in a
bonsai trees oh big time crazy trims them up it's got like 100 year old where do you even find them
at his uh you make them yourself his yard he'll he sets up like a whole like zen garden type of
thing it's pretty wild but he's he's been into those and he likes to trim them up and uh
you know it's pretty pretty wild he's just he's a positive energy nice guy like he's never
never been in my you know uh what do you want to say interactions with him never he's never
been a dick never never he's like i just he was cool to work for well i only worked i met him
rather when you were working with him when you were his bodyguard and then uh this is the other
time i met him so he's super cool nice good yeah i remember him in the car on his in the car
his peckers is tall
you are i remember him with his fucking huge dick with pamela anderson he's got a lot of
advantages in this life doesn't he good lord good lord god damn person and one of the greatest
drummers of all time that was like one of the first sex tapes oh yeah that was right yeah for
sure celebrities actual celebrities didn't allow them to get famous afterwards well they were
already famous that was why it was crazy both of them were super famous right but i mean allow
they'd like to keep the catapult them into
like a different stratosphere right well anytime one of them celebrities is dating another celebrity
they it's like their fucking superpowers unite
he was with heather locklear too right right yeah yeah yeah i mean he was a fun dude the the trees
thing is wild though i didn't know that these people they have like hundred year old trees
200 year old tree 300 year old bonsai trees and they pass them down through generations they have
like paperwork so you know like who's the guy who first started the tree and then they're like
a tree and they've got these trees that are like several hundred years old and they're like this
big and they're in like a pot and what are you supposed to be trimming it's all like an artistic
thing they're trimming them in certain patterns and every time they try to grow you trim them
down and they just like tighten up and it makes a weird form yeah it comes very strange they're
pretty cool looking yeah actually i wonder if the tree likes it though she's like i'm trying to grow
i'm 300 years old i'm 16 inches tall this is retarded
i think for him though he's had such a crazy high-paced life that
oh yeah to the yang you know what i mean that's how he relaxes i loved hearing it it sounded
perfect i was like oh you found a great thing and you see he's a gearhead too like you so yeah
he was talking about bonding on the cars first cars he bought he bought a an old corvette he
got a fucking supercharger put on it yeah yeah he's a man he's a maniac he's definitely a maniac
but he's a very nice i mean rock and roll man
oh yeah the guy was the the drummer from motley crew i don't can't even i'm at 18 i can't even
imagine what that must have been like must have been insane a lot of these guys they don't want
to stop touring all these rock and roll stuff why would they want to i mean it's so fun but
some of them i saw some clips who the fuck was david lee roth no i think it was the guy from acdc
brian johnson i don't know if the singer great yeah it's bad it's pretty bad dude acdc also favorite
one of my favorite all-time bands and brian johnson's struggling i mean with that screaming
style he has well it's hard to keep that going keep that going like no acting or vocal coach
would ever tell you you could sing like that i don't think so you just can't sing like that
you can't fucking scream like that i wonder if they get like 60 year old groupies 100
keeping that flame lit since the 80s
of course but do they have to keep that flame lit since the 80s
they have like new groupies though of course of course you know there's no way they know like
doesn't what's what the what is what is his name um jesus christ
what rolling stones i forget what mick jagger yeah well i know mick jagger has a kid that's
really young like mick jagger just had a kid like really recently wow yeah he's like in his 80s i
was thinking of someone else though someone else is another oh there's a bunch of guys like that
like al pacino just oh yeah that's true yeah true but a lot of older guys like that they wind up
having kids like they're still obviously getting young chicks to fuck them it's kind of irresponsible
though i mean it's crazy i mean but maybe he's crazy you hope he's gonna take care of the kid
but maybe it's the young chick that wants the kids of course but it's still if you did it on
purpose if you're the guy and you did it on purpose that's wild yeah i don't even want to
be around yeah i'm just gonna have this kid at 80 it's more important than my jeans pass on
think about that by the time you're 85 you're probably gone yeah yeah by the time you're 85
yeah you won't even see your kid go to school you'll be five years old and the kid you know
the kid will be five years old and the dad dies maybe the maybe the wife wanted it well sure you
leave something behind type of thing you know maybe it's better than not doing it maybe yeah
but also if you're a fucking rational 80 year old like bro you barely have time to take care of
yourself you can't even keep your own shit in your pants
you're gonna break a hip and your toddler is going to be screaming and no one will hear it
right and you're going to be alone with them at the park and you'll be lying there bleeding
internally from a broken hip and the kid's gonna walk off
five years old three-year-old wander off and you're 80 that's nuts oh yeah by the way longo
you got a lot of time to do that you got a lot of time to do that you got a lot of time to do that
i'm upset because he's he's like man i've been feeling good he's like i'm you know i'm at the
gym every day and i go fucking i turn on rogan and he's he's bitching about being 58 i'm like what
the fuck he's 68 oh so basically like he's like what the fuck he's complaining about being 58
ray's really 68 he looks great he's fucking looks real good oh he's got dark ass hair right i know
right he don't have he don't have that can't be on his hair reagan hair he's looking he's looking
he's looking good that's great and then he asked me about what the fuck i love ronald reagan had dark
hair like deep into like the 70s come on my shit is all white if i grew my if i had hair and i grew
it out it'd be all gray really yeah mostly it's like my face like my feel like it's my stubble
it's like at least 60 gray yeah mine is all gray now yeah it's weird like something about a gray
beard that's like you're just saying fuck it yeah that's why i just started trimming it down i was
like yeah i don't like the way it looked yeah when i see myself in the mirror with a gray beard i'm
like who the fuck are you yeah you're supposed to have a dark beard for sure i had a dark beard most
of my life i'm looking at pictures and i'm like a couple years ago and it's dark now it's all gray
like what the fuck happened they had a thing on a and e with me and george and they had a short a
clip of me and you talking i still we both had hair yeah crazy it looked crazy it's weird you
look you look you're just slowly slipping out of it you're just slowly slipping out of it you're just
falling into the grave
we're looking good though as long as we can yes compared to people that don't take care of
themselves and also compared to people from the past oh that's what i'm saying
you know don't watch light therapy think about like in the 80s what 40 year olds look like in
the 80s right yeah they was and i think uh the like martial arts also helps like we just had a
uh an event henzo's 30th anniversary for his academy
and they invited all the ogs so we you know we were i've seen guys i hadn't seen in decades got a
fifth degree but yeah i got a sixth degree look at that that's amazing and uh i mean we were talking
like almost everybody looked good everybody everybody and there was 50 guys 60 guys there
it's the thing is you you gotta maintain and if you don't maintain you're never getting it back
yeah you don't you don't you can't like at 50 you can't take three years off like right
it's the thing is you you gotta maintain and if you don't maintain you're never getting it back
it's just too hard to get back and if you never worked out before and you're like 46 and you're
starting now it's tough that's a hard road man you never worked out before like first of all go slow
yeah yeah yeah break everything well that's the problem people want to jump right in and then
you get hurt or get busted up a little bit and then it just defeats you know what i mean you're
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The big reality about age is how long it takes to heal something.
My kids get hurt.
They just fucking heal up like Wolverine.
It's nuts.
Like within a few days,
oh, my shoulder's fine again.
Like you just fucking did a backflip and landed on your shoulder.
You all right?
I would be fucked up for a year.
They just heal quicker.
They're alive.
They're alive.
I mean, it's the fucking truth.
That's the truth, man.
That's the number one thing that happens as you get older.
If you're lifers like us, you just got to be smart about your training.
100%.
Like, you know, I got young savages.
I don't want, I don't fucking, I choose who I want to roll with.
Like, you know what I mean?
Sure, sure.
You don't got to be that guy to fucking just slay everybody on the mat there.
Because you're the sense of it.
You're going to break.
You'll break.
You know, it's like you have a Corvette.
You take it around the track.
You can only do so many laps.
Every car.
Even Formula One cars that cost $100 million, whatever they're called, they break.
You can only go so far, so fast, so long before you blow a rod.
You got some shit goes sideways.
Everybody I know has had surgery.
Yeah.
Everybody.
Like, for me, like, when I'm in Philly with the crew, Brady and Piper and them, like,
it's hard being in a room with these guys because they want to grab you and do moves
on you.
And I'm like, oh, chill out, man.
Let's grab one of the younger guys.
Bro, the last guy you want grabbing you is Brady.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
And he gets on top of you and just starts squeezing you.
A willow grip.
Yeah, right.
His, that fucking fight with Joaquin Buckley, I was like, holy shit, man.
Yeah, he ragdolled.
Yeah.
Bro, it was, the level of domination was, like, shocking.
I was like, okay, so this is his best form.
Like, this is him at his best.
At his best.
Yeah.
Is fucking terrible.
He's a little inconsistent.
Like, the Morales fight was tough.
But when, and he said, it's like his head wasn't in it.
But when his fucking head is in it and he's, like, dialed.
For sure, man.
He's, like, when he grabs you.
Bro.
Like, he'll squeeze you and you just start making, like, little noise, like.
When he did a Leon and what he did to Joaquin, you're like, holy shit, man.
What is that like?
That was beautiful.
Beautiful.
As explosive an athlete as Joaquin is.
The flow, like, everywhere they went, he was just following them one step ahead.
It was like, no escape.
Yeah, yeah.
He don't want you out, man.
And then, smush.
Just smush.
His back is so big, he just gets so much coverage over you when he's on top of you.
And the balance.
It's just every, it's just, like, so many steps ahead of them on the ground.
The one time, it really looked like a cardio drill.
Like, he was on top.
Like, he was just, it looked like he was just getting his room.
Like, placid face.
Yeah.
Super calm.
I believe where they were, he wasn't allowed to do the 12 to 6 elbows.
Oh, that's so crazy.
That's where, right or wrong?
Something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
So, at this point, I think Jersey's still like that, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of places that are like that, man.
It's so dumb.
They're still using the old unified rules.
It's so dumb.
Like, that rule doesn't make any sense.
It would be nice if they would just.
I get it if it's, you know, soccer kicks.
Okay, you want to have a debate?
But if you can elbow this way and this way and this way, but you can't go this way, that's
just retarded.
And everybody else is doing it.
So, why would you not do it?
It doesn't make sense.
And you have to remember what state you're in.
That's the problem.
So, like, when you're in the fight and you're on instinct and the guy's like this, but it's
wide open for a 12-6 elbow, you're supposed to throw it.
That's what it's for.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the referee's ability to make a decision have consistency in the rule set.
It's just another elbow.
It doesn't make any sense.
Like, this one elbow that's outlawed, that's crazy.
I don't know why I have no idea.
But you can knee the hell out of somebody in their face.
You can run and jump and knee them in the face.
Oh, God.
And some of the craziest knockouts we've ever seen come from that.
Like, we were just talking about Masvidal versus Askren the other day.
Oh, man.
Hey, he's supposed to be wrestling.
He's supposed to be wrestling again.
Oh, wow.
Is that real?
Is that a good idea?
No.
I saw him talking the other day.
Yeah, that freaked me out when I heard that.
When he was talking, he was coughing a lot.
I'm like, listen, people who are athletes, they're afraid of wrestling because it's exhausting.
They don't want to feel that burn in their lungs.
You really want to push yourself like that?
I worry about it.
I just don't want him to get fucked up.
Totally with you.
I mean, he had double lung transplant surgery, like, how long ago?
I don't know.
I think a year ago.
A year ago?
Maybe two years ago.
Maybe two years ago?
Yeah, maybe two years ago.
I'd be worried even just about infection.
Yeah.
I'd be worried about everything.
And I would also be worried if you're doing that, I think you have to take immunosuppressant
drugs in order to keep someone else's organs inside of you.
So you're going to go out to a giant crowd of people.
So my friend C.T. Fletcher, you know C.T. Fletcher?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
C.T. had a heart transplant, and he has to take medication to keep this heart in his
body, keep his body from rotting.
And he has a bunch of complications from the medication, like, makes him swell, and he
posts videos and pictures about it.
Like, it's a serious thing.
And he had to be real careful during COVID.
Like, you have a heart transplant, and then you're on immunosuppressant drugs, and then
all of a sudden, or a bad flu.
Like, anything bad will fucking kill you, because your immune system is working in a
weird way, because it's trying to keep someone else's heart inside of you.
Yeah, your body's like, who's this fucking heart?
This is not our heart.
Get it out.
Your body's like, this is a disease, which is wild, that your body knows.
Yeah.
Like, it recognizes that it's from another entity.
This ain't yours.
And we're just like, no, we can hack nature, shove it in there, and give you some drugs
that make your body stay alive.
I think it was Bilal Muhammad he was supposed to be.
Yeah, it's Bilal Muhammad.
Maybe he has, like, an agreement.
Like, hey, listen, man.
Didn't they used to train together?
Right?
They did used to train together.
So they're friends.
Maybe that's the deal.
Dude, we were just reading about this last night.
Two people have had pig hearts transplanted in their body.
No way.
Yeah.
One guy stayed alive, I think, for 60 days, and one guy stayed alive for 40 days.
Did they gain a lot of weight?
Did they become fatties?
They started fucking shoveling their face in the trash.
So wait, you're telling me that pig hearts?
Whose idea was it to put a pig heart in another human being?
There's a bunch of doctors, because apparently pig's hearts, for some reason,
are similar in function to a human heart.
Say that about a sheep's vagina.
Don't they?
Don't they?
They do.
They do.
I'm a farmer, but that's what I heard.
That's what I heard, too.
So a pig's heart.
Yeah.
That's fucking crazy, man.
It's crazy.
And so they did it on two people.
Yeah.
But either way, the whole thing of transplanting organs from other people is, like, super risky
and dangerous.
And once it's working, the human body is going to be like, "Oh, my God.
I'm going to die."
It's going to be like, "Oh, my God.
I'm going to die."
So the whole thing of transplanting organs from other people is, like, super risky and
dangerous.
And once it's working, the number of, like, we looked at heart transplants.
I don't know what it is for lung, double lung transplants, but you look at mortality over
a period of years.
And so it's like 91% of the people survive the first year, and then it starts going down.
So 9% of the people die after the heart transplant, but then it starts to go down.
After, you know, that's for the first year.
When it gets to five years, then you're done.
You're in the '80s or the '90s and then the '80s, and it keeps dipping.
It keeps dipping until, like, at 10 years, it's like half of them are dead.
Jesus.
Yeah.
So you're buying some time.
Yeah.
Right.
That's the heart, though.
What about other organs?
It's a good question.
So what is it like for double lung transplant?
I don't know, but I would imagine it's fragile.
You want to put that in the fucking red?
You want to push that?
Were you breathing heavy?
It felt like yesterday, he was making laps around the hospital floor.
Well, he's a winner, right?
And that's the problem.
Like, sometimes when you're a winner, your will is so strong that you think you could
force your body into unrealistic expectations.
Shit.
There's got to be some agreement or something.
Yeah, there's-
Like, I just, in my mind, too-
I would hope so.
Bilal's a good dude.
He cheated.
I mean, basically, you cheated death.
Yes.
Your family now, you have your family back, you understand you have a second chance, like,
why would you put that at risk to do something-
Maybe him and Bilal-
That you have nothing to prove to him.
You know?
Yeah.
That's kind of what I-. wrestling role.
Yeah.
That's kind of a friendly wrestling- I don't think that, though.
He's an animal.
Ben Askren's a fucking animal.
I don't think that they have an agreement.
agreement with each other. I think that somebody
told Bilal, hey, listen, man,
don't push this dude. Well, he said,
like, I saw an interview where he said,
like, his first question was,
what are you talking about? Can he
wrestle? You know what I mean? Has he even been cleared?
So. I would
not accept that if I was Bilal.
I'd be like, it's not. The pros. And this is
no disrespect to Askren. It's like,
I think that guy's an animal. Like, I was
one of the biggest promoters of trying to get
Askren into the UFC when he was the champion of
Bellator. And then when he went over to
one. And the argument was like, he was boring.
And I was like, no, he's not boring.
It's crazy that he could do this to these guys.
Yeah. He could take guys like
Douglas Lima and just ragdoll
him to the ground. And they can't do shit to him.
Koroskov, remember he did it to him? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He wasn't boring at all. He was destroying
guys. Yeah. Ragdolling these guys.
They had zero chance in
him not taking them down. It was zero chance.
And it was beautiful. Right.
It wasn't like Alex Pereira
flying knee in somebody in the face.
But it's still another way to win. But it was like
a man and a child. Yes.
It was crazy good. He was crazy
good. And then we got him
like a little late. Right. We got him
when he already had hip problems. And he
eventually had to get a hip replacement after
he got out of the UFC. You know, he had
already been 15 years in combat
sports. And then all the years of wrestling.
And like, but those days when he was running
shit at Bellator, he was a
motherfucker, dude. He was a
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slash audio. His fight
with Damian Maia was fucking awesome.
Amazing fight. That's a great, no, it's
the beautiful thing about that fight is
they're both, it's almost like
the closest thing to style versus style
that we could have nowadays. Yeah. You know
they're both so
brilliant at
the way they use their art. With him
with his wrestling and him with his jiu-jitsu. And
in that fight, you got
to see some of that. With
Ben, you got to see the takedowns.
You got to see an Uma Plata reversal.
An Leglock
Ashi reversal. I mean, beautiful jiu-jitsu.
Yeah. It was just such a, it was such
a great fight. Dude, Damian Maia got
fucked harder than anybody ever got fucked by
a referee's decision. Kamaru Uzman. Yep.
Ever. Right. Nobody got fucked harder
than Damian Maia got fucked. That wasn't her wrestling? Was it her? Who was it?
I don't know. And maybe we shouldn't even
pull her name up.
I can't do my boys like that, man. I gotta see them
in a week. I want to think, I don't remember
who it was, but I think it was a guy
who doesn't do it in the UFC anymore.
But he had him
on his back, one hook
in, over, under. He had
gotten to a position where like, you are
fucked. You're dry, and you
got the best back specialist in the UFC.
Yeah, for real. Damian Maia was
the way he ran through Neil Magny, you're like
holy shit, man.
Yeah. His jiu-jitsu is so
high level, and for you to
get off, get him off, and
Kamaru's one loss?
Right, was to. Make a choke? Yeah.
Alex Patera's brother. So it's
like, how many years ago was that? Like, and now
you're fighting Damian Maia, and he's got your back.
You're in danger. Yeah. Like, you're in danger. And the referee
separated him. So crazy. Never got to that
spot again. Kamaru played it nice.
He fought a great fight, won the fight, and
you're like, damn, Damian had him.
He had him in a, like, not
9 out of 10, but he had him in like a
6 out of 10 spot. Yeah. For him? Yeah.
Like, half the time, he gets your back
and you're dry, and you're not at his level
of jiu-jitsu. You're in fucking trouble.
You should never separate anybody
from that position. I know you're a big
proponent of not standing people up, but
especially positions
that it requires time to get to.
100%. 100%.
The idea that a guy can defend it for
a few seconds and the crowd boos, and
that's enough for you to make them neutral again?
Fuck you. I know. It's so
hard to get to Kamaru
Kamaru Ousmane to get to his
back like that. And the tightness is
what keeps that position.
Any space he makes and Kamaru's
gone. Name the amount of times
in the history of Kamaru's entire
all the years of competition where people
got him in disadvantageous grappling
positions. I can't think
of any. There's very few.
Very few. Leon took him down.
Leon mounted him for a moment.
Chimaev. Yeah. Yeah. Chimaev.
But even Chimaev, he was winning the third
round. Oh, well, he. So for. Damien Maia. I thought he almost won that fight.
It came. Like, that was a fight where I bet he was. He won the last half. But here he is. Here he is.
This is crazy.
Oh, shit.
Do I need heads up? Who is that?
Does it matter?
That sucks. So, back it up
again so you can see how good the position was
a little further. Yeah, look at that hook.
Can you get it a little further back?
Yeah, here. So, I want to see
it like when he starts entangling. This is
so bad for Kamaru. You have
to understand how bad this is. Yeah, it is.
This is bad. This is a. This is not just
simply he's, like, behind you. And Maia
had that. The progression.
Like, it was. He was just about to beat that
wizard. Yes. Bro, look how good this looks
too. Maia is just a
gorilla. His wrestling was
underestimated too. Like, he was good. So, it was
technical and everything. Very good wrestler.
And his use of leverage and
his positioning was always perfect.
It just was so beautiful to watch.
When you see a guy just super high level
jiu-jitsu in the UFC, you're just like, oh my
God, this is beautiful to watch.
Yeah, I love
how methodical he's working his way
into this. Like, this is dangerous, man.
Look at that. He stepped. Oh, my
God. He was going to step in there.
Look at this. That arm is the
only thing. And he's just about to beat that arm.
And not only that, from here he could just start
beating him up with the right hand, which he'll probably
start doing. So, if the referee really
stands him up from this position,
like, this is a crazy
way to separate people. Look at that hook.
This is bad, man.
This is like, for Kamaru, this is
super dangerous. He's still got half the round left.
Hanging onto that whizzer for dear life is
the only thing from keeping him from getting this guy
on your neck.
And that whizzer is like at
40% power now, because look how far back
it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not much into that.
Yeah, there's not much. It's hard.
It's hard to generate power like that.
With Kamaru, I mean, he's got full
double underhooks. How do
they break this up? How do you break this up?
This is crazy to break up.
Like, this is such a dangerous position.
Like, oh,
this is bad. I don't
recognize the ref.
I can't remember. I recognize. I'm not
going to say his name. There's no need to. But this
is a giant mistake. You're clear, Herb.
Sometimes,
sometimes in
fights, man, these
guys listen to the crowd.
Oh, yeah. It's kind of hard not
to, right? And they feel responsible. Yeah, they do.
And in the organization, I'm sure
they feel pressure, because the organization
wants, like, fast action fights.
Oh, man. But there's certain
situations where you've got to
just accept the fact that sometimes this sport
is not the most exciting for moments.
Because it's so exciting in other
spots. Punching his ass. Oh, that's
crazy right there. Right after he punched him in the ass.
That's fucking crazy. That's crazy. Oh, man.
That's the worst fuck over
that anybody's ever gotten in the UFC.
I mean. I think that's the worst. Yeah, that was bad.
There is the time that fucking Bustamante
had to get two win-win and two submissions.
That's right. That's a pretty big fuck.
That's who Maia reminds me of.
His striking wasn't as good as Murillo's,
but the combination of wrestling
and his jiu-jitsu, like, once he got a hold
of you, he was probably going to put you out.
Yeah, Murillo was so good. He's still coming
around. He's got a fighter in the UFC now.
Nice. Does he? That's awesome.
I saw him when I first started
jiu-jitsu at Carlson Gracie's place.
Did you? Yeah, the very first year that I started
jiu-jitsu, it was, like, him,
Vitor was there,
Sergio Cohen,
Osperi. It was crazy.
They had a ridiculous room
back then. I just stumbled, I just lucked out
and wound up watching these guys train
when, like, Vitor was about to make his UFC debut.
I was just starting out. I was like, this is amazing.
You seen all them guys in there?
Dude, they were all in there, man. You could just
come in off the street and see the best jiu-jitsu
guys in the world training. That's crazy.
It was crazy. And it was all, they were all
fighting in, um,
there was the other guy, what's his name?
Carlos, fuck.
Bahato. Bahato, that's right. Carlos Bahato.
He was there, too. There was a bunch
of those Carlson Gracie team guys
that we just got lucky that this was the place
that was, yeah, man.
Yeah. Built like a
He-Man figure. Carlson had some
savages, man. He really had a great
team. Yeah. Yeah, it was
pretty. Laborio back then. Oh, that's
where I got my black belt from. Laborio? Yeah.
Hell yeah, that's another guy to be proud of.
He is a good guy. Such a nice guy.
Yeah, it's like,
it's kind of amazing when you realize
that before 1993,
Jiu-Jitsu had no schools, right?
and now they're everywhere
every corner
that is like really insane
that's truly insane
the Gracie family
the world owes them
there's no doubt about it
owes them
the world is impacted
think of the world
the whole world
because I think liking MMA
has impacted culture
and then people training
much more people training in Jiu Jitsu
has impacted culture
where the fuck would we be
the UFC's here because of the Gracie's as well
I mean obviously the Fertitta's and Dana
but whose idea was it
he wanted to have a crocodile mode around it
it's amazing
I remember hearing
about it in 1992
with Horian and Hoyce
the seminar I went to
and they were talking about that
they were talking about the different ideas
what they were going to do
even though I didn't think they were full of shit
I thought it was never going to happen
I'm like what is this Bloodsport
on TV they're going to be fighting
it sounded ridiculous
but now everybody's so used to it
it sounds ridiculous that it sounds ridiculous
that's true that's a good point
when I first found out about it
I didn't watch it until it was UFC 2
because I only watched it on videotape
like someone from the gym told me about it
and I went and watched it
I got the videotape like Hollywood video
brought it home and I was like oh my god they did it
they did that's what I thought
so you were like oh they pulled this off
no no they did the thing that we always wanted
so when I was when I first started
style versus style
yeah I first started taking karate
and I thought karate was good
until I stumbled into this really good taekwondo school
and I was like oh taekwondo is a shit
and then I started boxing
I'm like oh my god I can't box
and then I started kickboxing
I'm like oh my god you kick my legs
I didn't know you can kick my legs
like this is terrible
and then I started doing jiu-jitsu
like oh my god I'm helpless
so it's like all these steps along the way
I was like it wouldn't be nice
if we knew what style was real
and this is what Bruce Lee tried
and right
bro when I was starting out in like 88
doing taekwondo
nobody knew nothing
nobody knew what worked
everybody just like
so that guy beats people in that thing
and that guy beat
I wonder what happened
they thought no one knew
and they thought wrestling was worthless
grappling arts were worthless
yeah
but luckily I learned it was not worthless
in high school when I got my ass kicked
me too man
practicing on a fucking wooden dummy
to change
one inch punch my ass
that's all I know
and every time I get
into a real scrap
I'd go back to my season
of 8th grade wrestling
that's the case
but I also think
that Wing Chun would work
if you knew all the other
like Anderson Silva
can use Wing Chun
right
you know what I'm saying
a lot of hand trapping
yeah there's hand trapping
and elbows from him
there's stuff that does work
if you know all the other shit
it's an added element
right
it's like there's moves
that you could do
that you're just
your opponent's not gonna
your opponent is used to this
right
they're used to punches
like regular punches
every now and then
weird shit can work
because they don't see it coming
and then it opens up
other big shots
and Wing Chun can
those guys
when you watch the really good ones
like whack at each other's arms
and shit
you're like
okay there's like a little value
in this
yeah
there's a little value
in getting good at this
as long as you know
how to actually punch
yeah I don't dismiss nothing
because anything can work
in the right context
it's just not gonna work on
Terrence Crawford
yeah
not a boxing match
against Terrence Crawford
it's not gonna work
nothing can
you come out here
like this
what is working
against him anyway
not much
no one has figured that out
not much
no one has figured that out
not much
listen you can have fun with it
but as far as value
I'd say very little value
very little
because
it's only valuable
if you're already doing
the other stuff
yeah if you're gonna do that
you might as well be doing
Muay Thai
Western Boxing
or Jiu Jitsu
no no
for sure
by itself useless
but what I think is
if you already are doing
other stuff
and you can train with a guy
who can show you some of it
I think you would be
be like
oh I see value in this
like
do you remember when
Dan Henderson
was fighting Hector Lombard
and he hit him with like
a back elbow
standing
yeah yeah yeah
or a back forearm
it was an elbow
or a forearm
it was an elbow
yeah I think he like
threw a punch and came back
just wild shit sometimes
you ever see people do
standing back fists sometimes
and they work
there's some shit
that we're missing
yeah
and like
I think Wing Chun
is a part of it
yeah I agree with that
like especially like
when you're in close
like in clinching positions
yeah that's what I think
you're just like
trapping
hands inside
bam
you know what I think
is the number one thing
that people need
should be doing
the number one thing
that people should be doing
is point fighting karate
it's
you know like
if you want to add something
I mean not
obviously not number one
over wrestling
and all that
but the number one thing
to add
don't add Wing Chun
add point fighting karate
but it's
but it's such a physical thing
that a lot of people
probably can't do
especially if you come
from a wrestling background
where you're so used to being
like heavy
yeah
and square
yeah
to be able to turn
sideways
in and out
jump in and out like that
but if you can do it
yes
that advantage is so huge
when you watch like MVP
when he's in his fucking prime
that's so funny
here it is
the shara bullet
the uh
yeah but
the thing about
boom
yeah back elbow
crazy
what a beautiful elbow
from a wrestling position
yeah
let me see that again
how did he land it
so yeah
he had his leg
look at that
he's holding his leg
and he catches
look at the fucking elbow
oh son
right behind it here too
fantastic
what a fucking elbow
that's one of the greatest
elbows of all time
underappreciated elbow
right there
to get a knockout elbow
while you're hopping
on one leg
yeah that's crazy
fighting off the takedown
yeah
that was
nasty
nasty
wasn't Wing Chun
but what I was getting to
is these guys
like MVP
that advantage
is so huge
the advantage of being
Wonderboy
Wonderboy in his prime
yeah
bro
that advantage is so nuts
well I
so I watch videos
of people
doing it online
I'm like
if you could do that
in an MMA fight
no one will catch you
right
you'll be in and out
before they catch you
you know who's the closest to it
Cyril Ghosn
that's true
Cyril Ghosn
is not a point fighting karate guy
he's a Muay Thai
but he's a basketball player
yeah
and we were talking about this
the other day
like what better sport
to develop plyometrics
and the ability to change direction
than basketball
you're constantly changing direction
and they're big men
then why can't basketball players fight
they're the worst fighters on the planet
because they don't train
that's true
just because they don't train
yeah
but Cyril Ghosn
you look at the way he moves
like he moves
like a basketball player can move
but he's 250 pounds
and he's a heavyweight
and he can fucking strike
yeah I remember
I used to train
Walt Harris
who was a pretty good
basketball player
and I used to always
try to tell him
man it's the same thing
your pivots are the same
you gotta be able to move
change directions
it's the same thing
but as a heavyweight
it also comes with being lazy
yes
those guys are just lazy
well it's harder to do
hey fuck you Dean
it's harder to move
all that way
all that weight
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it's hard to get
a 248 pound guy
to move like
Cyril Ghosn
there's not a whole
lot of them
we were just
talking about it
the other day
I think it's an
underappreciated thing
because we're used
to lighter weight
fighters moving like that
but I'm like
name one
name one guy
at heavyweight
who moves like that
you know who used to
you know who used to
was the dark horse
of the heavyweight division
Travis fucking Brown
when Travis Brown
was in his prime
he was a bad
motherfucker dude
and he moved light
he was a
big tall dude
and he moved light
and Orlovsky
used to
he just had some
he had some
you know
wars
and they take their
toll on you
but if you go back
to like Travis Brown
in his heyday
when he was
knocking people out
with those elbows
from the clinch
and the way he would
move
like he would move
like super light
on his feet
like bouncing around
and I think it was
because he played
basketball
it's gotta be it
100%
it makes sense
because I know
Travis played basketball
yeah
you know
when you get a
big athlete that's light on their feet.
That's a giant.
advantage. Yeah, it is. Because you only
need one entrance that you didn't anticipate
when you get popped, and now you're compromised.
And getting that first step and being able to
get a clean shot.
Dude, those karate point, I've only fought
a couple of karate point fights when I
was a kid, when I was doing Taekwondo tournaments, we'd enter
into them, and I fought this one guy
that was like, his name was Mafia Holloway,
he was like a champion. I couldn't
even touch him. I couldn't even get close to him.
His first name was Mafia? Mafia Holloway.
He was a very famous, I don't know if it was his real name,
but that's what his name was back in the day. Mafia Holloway.
He was like a well-known black belt
point fighting champion. I was like, Jesus, we're playing
totally different games. I'm playing a continuous
fighting game, which where you're,
you know, you fight in Taekwondo for a certain
amount of minutes, and he's playing this thing where you stop
every time they hit you. And so,
you can't hit him, and he keeps hitting you. Yeah.
And it's just stop, stop, stop, stop.
It's like, whoa. It's so frustrating.
But I remember leaving going, ooh, I need
to learn that. Like, that's crazy.
I didn't know you could move that quick
and just jump out of there
the way he's doing it. And I'm like, and you think about
like these guys that fight him, like Kevin Holland
that fight MVP. Yeah. After a while, they're like,
what the fuck is this? Yeah, for real.
He was in his corner saying that, like,
how do I, I can't. He's quicker
than I thought. What am I doing here? This is nuts.
You just can't do anything
to him, and he's styling on you.
Yeah, that's why when I trained Tyron to fight
Steven Thompson, Wonderboy,
we didn't, so I knew the mistake
that everybody was making. They were using just
regular tall kickboxes.
I went to karate schools,
and we got just karate kids
that did that for him to spar with.
And I was like,
don't worry about takedowns.
We don't even need to get there.
Just be able to deal with this movement
and his length, and being
able to deal with that, because it's different.
What is this? Mafia Holloway.
Oh, shit. Yeah. He's got a crazy kick here.
Dude was very good.
There it is. He was very good.
He didn't get me with that.
He got me with a couple of sidekicks to the body, though.
I'll tell you that. I was very impressed.
I was impressed by the speed
in which he was able to move forward
and back, because that
darting in and just tagging each other's speed
is a totally different speed than
continuous fighting speed, because continuous
fighting speed, you would assume that if the
guy's hitting you, that you're going to
counter, and you're going to exchange.
And what these guys are used to is you never
exchange. They just pop you. They pop you,
and they get the fuck out of there.
That's an asset in MMA.
Giant asset. Because you can just knock somebody out, and that's it.
Giant asset. It's a giant asset also
if you try to play their game.
You should just try to play their game just to realize how hard
it is. And you're like, oh, this is a crazy
this is a different thing. This is all about the
blitz. It's all about the entry. They switch
stances at will, too. At will.
At will. But I think all the good
guys do now. I think that's going to be a
pre-weck. There's too many calf kickers out
there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got to be
able to switch. It's true.
Do you guys watch one? You watch
kickboxing in one?
Did you see?
Did you see Jonathan Haggerty
and Yuki Yoza?
It wasn't good for Haggerty, was it?
No, he won. He figured him out. Haggerty
was. Oh, he's the
guy that beat that dude that was
wrecking everybody.
He's a elbow guy. Well, he's just a
full-on Muay Thai guy, but he beat
him by continuous movement and switching
stances. Oh, right.
I think I've seen the video. I did see that.
It's a video and a really
technical fight. For sure.
If you really like striking,
it's a really technical fight.
He did an amazing job of just constantly
giving them different looks and switching
stances and moving and then catching
them in exchanges. And, dude, it was
fucking beautiful because Yoza crushes
everybody's legs. It was really sweet.
He just kept switching stances.
Just kept switching stances. And he did
a lot of great boxing from the outside,
too. It was just. But he never gave
him the same look. See that?
Look at that.
And then knees to the body. A lot of
knees to the body. It was a beautiful,
brilliant fight.
Just chatting with him on Instagram.
I'm going to try to get him on. Nice.
Bring him to America. Like, this is what
Zufa should be promoting. You know, I mean,
I know they love boxing. That's awesome.
I'm glad they're doing that. But, you know,
this is it. Yeah. If you want another thing
that's really exciting, it's striking.
Just have only Muay Thai. I'm just surprised
they haven't done that. Yeah, it doesn't make
any sense. It really doesn't. That's what everybody
likes to watch anyway, really. Yeah, that's what everybody likes to do.
Dana said to me, I don't know if you changed
his opinion, but he said to me that people don't like
boxing because they think of, like, P.K.A.
karate from ESPN from like the 1980s. I'm like,
that's old people don't even know what that is.
That's old people. Young people love martial arts.
Like, young people love knockouts. Young people
boo when fights go to the ground. They do.
MMA is the best. No doubt about it. It's the
greatest sport of all time. It's the champion of
sports. However, if you're going to have some
value in another combat sport, it's Muay Thai.
Yeah. It's the most exciting shit you can
do, the most options you can need. They can throw
each other. They do all kinds of wild kicking.
You think Rico Verhoeven's boxing success will bring
some eyes to kickboxing at all? I hope so. I'm having
him on, too. I hope so. I hope so. That was incredible.
He's really phenomenal. I mean, dude, for 10 rounds,
he really— He was into the point where if you're
good judges, if the judges are real, he— Usyk needs
a knockout twin. A thousand percent.
Which is crazy. He was up— I thought he was up by eight, like,
eight to one or two at the time. I thought the same. A lot of people thought
the same. I mean, he was bullying him around. He was moving—
Yeah. He would use his weight well. Did he shit over—
His cardio was incredible. He joked about himself, and it was
phenomenal, because he put my style against Usyk, and it was Jim Carrey and that fucking—
What's the one where, you know, he comes boxing at the guy?
It often looked like it, too. It was fucking phenomenal. But,
man, he really did amazing. I personally think if they rematch, that now Usyk
will, like, kind of figure them out, so maybe it'll happen—he'll get him faster.
Well, I don't know. I don't know.
Look, I hope not, because I was rooting for Rico. He really—
If they rematch— It was amazing.
Rico was going to know that he can do that. Like, before that fight, he didn't know he could do
that. And Usyk didn't know he could do that. And the difference is, Usyk is not a real heavyweight.
He's the greatest heavyweight of all time, which is crazy. But he's not a real heavyweight.
Right. He's— You can't say the—
Like, Tyson, in my opinion, is always going to be my favorite in his prime.
Yeah. He was just so insane.
It was so insane to watch him just demolish the whole division.
For real. But then,
you look at Cassius Clay, and then when he was Muhammad Ali, and Larry Holmes doesn't get his due,
and Lennox Lewis was a fucking beast. So maybe—you know, who knows who would have fought. But that
guy, stylistically, is, like, the greatest heavyweight ever. Like, watching him move, the
way he— Yeah, like, skill for skill.
Yeah, skill for skill. You look incredible.
You're watching an artist. Yeah.
It's like, the way he put it on Dubois. Dude, that uppercut was sick, too.
Yeah. Oh, my God. He's
incredible. But he's still, really, a 220-pound guy.
Yeah. You know? Like,
he puts on some extra weight. He gets a little—he was a little thicker for that fight.
Right. But, you know, Rico's huge.
He's a giant. Rico's a giant guy. He's a
giant guy from the Netherlands. Right.
That's a— Is that where he's from?
That's a real heavyweight man. Yeah, yeah. Another Dutch kickboxer.
They're all giants. They're all tough as shit, too.
Six—what is he, like, 6'5", 270? He's huge.
260. He's got crazy cardio,
too, for a big, giant guy. Dude, he was bouncing on—I
mean, he was—for 10 rounds, he kept that pace. That's a heavyweight, keeping that
pace. And then once he slowed, you know, that's when Usyk was able to find him.
Did you watch it, Matt? I can't watch it. I have a hard
time watching anything but fucking mixed martial arts.
I love jiu-jitsu. And Star Wars.
I love jiu-jitsu. Yeah, well, you know, Star Wars.
I saw the new He-Man movie, by the way. How was it?
It was fucking good. Really?
The Masters of the Universe was good. I was worried,
because I'm thinking all the new reboots and this and that. I go, "Is it going to be too
woke? Is it going to be this?" It was fucking fun. It had a Thor/Ragnarok-type feel,
where it's just kind of fun and a little goofy, but not to the point where it just takes you out
of it. You know what it is? I grew up with that He-Man. That was my kid, around our age, right?
Yeah, right. So it did justice to that. It made it fun.
I heard Skeletor was awesome. Yeah, Jared Leto.
Wasn't that a Jared Leto play? Yeah. I heard there was some sort
of crazy. He wasn't allowed to do interviews, wasn't allowed to talk to the rest of the cast.
I heard that, too. Why? Because they were worried he was
going to do nutty shit. In the Joker, he was sending people dead rats in the mail and stuff.
Oh, really? Yeah, because he was in character.
Yeah. That's fucking weird. That's weird.
So they were like, "Yeah, you're going to be an evil fucking Skeletor guy? No. No,
we can't let you be in character. We can't contact the rest of the crew." I don't know if that's true.
That's what I heard, but it was fun. See if that's true. No, I heard that, too. I heard Will Smith said
something about that. Yeah, I thought somebody said it.
I thought somebody said he sent them like a rat or something when he was the Joker. He said,
"I know you're playing the Joker, but come on with the rats."
Yeah, yeah. He would chill out. There's some dudes that play the Joker,
and you're like, "All right, it's over." When Heath Ledger played the Joker, everybody stopped.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the Joker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't come back after that.
Until Joaquin. Joaquin Phoenix. Well, he's a great one.
Yeah, they came out with- I saw that. I was like,
"Okay, now that's the Joker." Yeah, and then you saw the sequel,
and you said, "Fuck that. Bring that."
I didn't see the sequel. Tim Dillon told me it was the worst movie that's ever been made.
Everybody said that. I didn't see it, neither. I didn't make it.
I didn't watch it. If I was guessing,
he probably didn't want to do it. I don't know what they were thinking.
I bet it was like a dispute between the movie company and the dude who directed it.
I heard it was a musical. Why would you do that?
It's so much- Yeah, that's so silly.
Unless you're trying to mock it or you're trying to diffuse it.
Maybe the government was like, "Hey, after you released that movie, we had the BLM."
BLM riots and everybody's lighting LA on fire. Hey, maybe don't have a movie where you're encouraging
people to like light cities on fire maybe make a musical with a musical
it's funny how the first if I never seen a I mean sequels aren't normally as good
as the original but holy fuck I'd never seen something so bad I didn't make it
through it I saw some of it and then I'm like once I started singing I'm out of
this it's very rare where a sequel you like damn that's just as good well
Terminator 2 Empire Strikes Back yes there are a couple those are a couple
rocky - you didn't like rocky - obviously why do you take it to the zoo
in the beginning the whole joke was that beat that mean bodyguard saying take it
to the zoo the retards like this to the fucking zoo
to propose the war is that not crazy yeah that is but that's how people were
in the 70s they were animals but before the internet movie reviews on your
channel oh you trying to plug my channel
you know what I'm watching on there I do I do series reactions it or movies
reactions are you watching the new House of Dragon no yeah there's so many things
to watch let me tell you something I'm fucked I'm in the middle of from I want
to talk to you about that my wife's made it from you don't tell me why season 4
episode 5 I think there's only four four and then the fifth one is the final
season it doesn't come out until 2027 so tell me hey House of Dragon now look I
love Game of Thrones the night of the Seven Kingdoms was phenomenal and House
of Dragons out of all of them is the one I like the least because it's a lot of
just gloom and doom it's a unit all the characters are pricks they're all a
bunch of fucking wacky talking yeah there's no one to like exactly one's
noble but this one this third season is fucking I watch good yeah I do the
reactions on my channel thanks Dean what is the channel I'm back Sarah channel on
YouTube look at this he's contemplating
it's like he's contemplating you know House of the Dragon no no no what this
is do you ever see Mystery Science Theater yeah well they showed the back of
their head you're the former UFC welterweight champion of the world and
you're sitting there with the headphones on that's great this is what I think
about House of Dragon yeah you didn't have to do that that's 200 milligrams of
variables right there it's 55 milligrams you know what scene I really love when
they were trying to find Targaryens because the Targaryens had a bunch of
bastard children yeah trying to see who's a Targaryen so they put people out with
the dragons burning them oh no the prior seasons had some good scenes like that
yeah but this season I just watched three of them so far I'll get in each
one of them is it's all it's nothing but fighting now it's nothing about but
going at it let's go and it's fucking good yeah all right it's good I'm in I'm
just I watched the whole season of the whole all the episodes of Game of Thrones
recently then you went back and started back yeah we watched it for like four or
five months watching every one of them when you watch it like every couple
nights a week like two three nights a week when you're watching it it's like
you you just like you follow you have to wait like years in between seasons it's
incredible that way it's the greatest epic adventure show in the history of
the world I tell people that all the time I'm like you gotta watch it yeah
yeah dude sure I forgot how good it was and even though it's ten years old
special effects are perfect yeah for sure here's I'm gonna say something I
never said in my life there's a new book I'm reading is it a graphic novel no it's
not it is um and all right I gotta be honest I'm listening to the audio but
okay people say they're reading a book when they really listen to the audio but
donald rollins gave me so much shit about that how you reading when you just
listed I'm just trying to abbreviate it yes I listen to an audiobook sorry red
and sit down and read it rising red rising have you ever heard of this no
well you're gonna document this episode because sooner or later someone's gonna
pick it up and it's gonna become either an Amazon series or a movie my one of my
black belts Jedi Joey beans told me about this age what a great name yeah
oh he's great but he likes all the shit I'm into so he told me about this I'm
gonna write it down what is it called red rising all right that's it and I'll
tell you I don't know how many books there are but I'm listening to the first
one and I'm like more than halfway through and it's what's it about set in
future on Mars whoa red rising is a 2014 this book this oh how you cannot
dystopian science fiction
my short friend he's out he's reading and dystopian comes out somebody else
read it
a bunch of pricks this is a great book it's a great book and I like getting into
something new well how long is the man that's regular coffee there's a cup if
you want coffee coffee you know what you must you want a little baby I'm trying
to figure out what you're gonna do with that I'm down for that I'm down for that
yeah the red rising man that was really good in a coffee man it's like Game of
Thrones in space oh I'm nice I'm in oh you know what I started watching cuz you
guys that uh Battlestar Galactica fucking great I'm like I'm I'm only on
the first season there's like 20 episodes I'm like I'm like 10 in right
now yeah that was a sci-fi channel bro that show was so underrated so under
rated like to this day if you go back and watch Battlestar Galactica the
entire series it's fucking incredible very good the new one not the old one
original here's what I'm gonna recommend you could watch it with your wife or by
yourself whatever you want to do porn
Widows Bay Apple TV comes out with some fucking bang bangers silos another great
one but uh Widows Bay it's very rare it's about an island that's kind of
cursed and a mayor's trying to get it to become like the next fucking Martha's
Vineyard whatever that is any and you know this is it oh that guy that guy was
in the Beast Within this is great bro that guy's in another great fucking
series that also might be Apple it's it might be it's very rare that's something
I don't like like my family's a bunch of ghouls except for my oldest they like
all the horror shit I'm not into it but it's very rare I like spooky shit so
it's like spooky but it's fucking funny
the character oh it's it's got like a quirky type humor to it and I was
fucking dying I was nice the beast in me is another one it was uh what was it on
Netflix it's on Netflix it's still on Netflix it's a series and it's about an
author and this fucking psychotic guy that is a rich guy who lives in her
neighborhood I don't want to tell you any more than that it's a movie it's
clear yeah I saw that Claire Danes and that guy Matthew you watch that show I
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that's how good it is it's a great show the beast in me yeah there's too much
shit to watch so much I just started the pit so I'm like and I'm and I'm late on
that so what's the pit about the the ER room in Pittsburgh oh she plays a doctor
in the ER room it's really good though okay there's some I'm into for a while
then I just fucking follow I never heard of it just too many shows yeah I did
that with Landman after a while I'm just like new season of Landman's good I
don't give a shit about the slutty wife and the door doesn't know I love it
she plays the stripper wife well after a while it's just like all right I go they
get to some interesting shit with like the cartels after them and then they're
oh let's take the old seniors out to the strip joint it's like oh the wife's
being outrageous again I can't take it that's fun now that was my problem with
that was my problem with it too I thought that the the women were like
it too I thought that the the women were like caricatures of women yeah come on
caricatures of women yeah come on man who's cheering their
order on. Basically to be a
hoe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was kind of like,
this is too much. I have a
question, though, if you guys all seen it.
Why do they live together?
Like, the other lawyer,
why do they all live with Billy Bob
Thornton and his family? That's a plot point.
Yeah. Yeah, there's no
other reason why. Yeah, because there's only
one house on the ranch or something.
Oh, because I'm just like. And they all have to live
in the one house. It's his office and
his home, basically. Yeah, it's his office and his home.
So it's like, it makes it fun, but isn't he
making a lot of money? Shouldn't all
of them be making a lot of money? Yeah, you would think his
lawyer would be making big bank, you know?
Well, now he's got to be making money because now he's running
the company. Spoiler alert. Right, right.
So he's making more money? Yeah, he's making sure they're
eating their vegetables.
And that bitch
gets mad about it. Anything.
It just, it loses me. I love Billy Bob, though.
Billy Bob on that show is so good.
He makes the show. He makes the show.
He's the show. He is the show. Taylor
said that he wouldn't have even made the show if it wasn't for
Billy. Really? He went to Billy with the idea. He goes,
I'm not going to make this if you're not going to be in it. Yeah, he made the show.
I thought Andy Garcia was good in it, too.
Oh, Andy Garcia. He's great in everything.
Yeah. You ever see things to do in Denver
when you're dead? Hell yeah. Fucking Longo loves
that lemon. Dude, that's a great movie.
I like it, too. I hate that movie.
Are you really? I never made it through.
Longo loves that fucking movie.
I'm with you, Ray. I'm with you.
That lemon. Longo loves it.
And I can never make it through it.
In all honesty, I haven't seen it in decades.
But when I saw it, I loved it.
But the problem is, sometimes you go back and you
try to watch one of the movies that you really liked.
And you're like, whoa, what? Oh, man, what was I thinking?
What the fuck was wrong with me? This movie sucks a fat one.
There's a bunch of movies like that.
You try to watch them, they're terrible.
Yeah. Sometimes it's just
better off remembering how good they used
to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the
impact. You were just a more naive
person before the internet. Yeah, true.
I watched one of the worst movies
that was so fucking good that it was
bad. It was
Rowdy, right? Rowdy, right?
Rowdy? Rowdy Piper?
Rowdy, right? How's he? Rowdy, Roddy
Piper? Yes.
100 milligrams.
We saw him last night, too,
Joey. Joey, that's right.
Hell comes
to Frogstown. Ooh.
Now, it's a combination
of, say,
like, Mad Max, like a post-apocalyptic
thing, and Escape from New York,
where, in the future,
Rowdy,
Roddy, is the only guy
who's not fucking
sterile. Everybody else is sterile.
So. I'm sure everybody's chasing him for it.
So they have to, like, it starts
off when he's in, like, a fucking general's. He's in, like, a room because he got caught
with the general's daughter, and fucking
they put a
jockstrap on
him with explosives,
and he has to. Oh, my God. He has to. Is he talking to a frog? Yeah, oh, yeah.
Yo. So, he has. His mission is to go to this
Frogstown, and there's a harem
there, and he's got to impregnate everybody,
or else they're gonna fucking blow
him up. Sounds like a horrible job.
It is. It's crazy. This movie. What a silly movie.
Oh, yeah, no, no.
Oh, my God. You can't unsee it.
So, he comes to Frogstown?
This is amazing. He cut out halfway
through Things to Do in Denver When You're
Dead. But he's in
for Frogstown. Yeah, but I agree.
With this, you know what you're
getting into. It's not a bunch of people
pretending to be cool,
you know? It's like, this is just silly.
How did you even find this and then
sit down and watch the whole thing?
This is the thing. Well, you know,
it's well-documented about my ass problems.
So, sometimes, I spend a lot
of time on the throne, and I got my
iPad, so I go to Prime
Video, and it's almost like when I
was little, like, I used to go through the channels,
and I'm, like, up all night. I'd find something
wacky. So, I look for
weird or different movies, and
that's one of them, and I just. It just brought me right in. I watch
that whole. In two shits, I watch that whole fucking movie.
What was the one when he was an alien?
That's a crazy amount of time to shit.
Was it called They? Or whatever?
Oh, I'm on the toilet a long time.
That's crazy. It's crazy to shit
for two hours, you're saying? A little.
Well, not for two hours, but. The budget for this
movie was double what that movie
Obsession was that just came out.
My wife said that movie was great.
So, the budget was $1.5
million back then. Yeah, in 1988.
Wow. So, was this a
small release? Yeah, it has to be.
Who made this movie?
What was the company that made it? New World?
That's a big company. Maybe they sold it to
New World? I don't know how all that shit works.
Was this before or after They Live?
Well, They Live was good. That's what I'm saying.
Maybe they bankrolled it.
But I bet if you tried to watch
Return to Frogtown was released
on 93. Direct to
VHS. Bro, before
even DVD, they're like, no,
fuck this. Straight
to tape.
Now, listen, everybody, don't go watching
this and cursing me. I mean,
you gotta know what you're getting into.
It's exactly what it looks like. TV Guide
only gave it two out of five stars. How dare
they? DVD Talk said three.
But I'll tell you, he's
hysterical in it.
He's fucking. I bet if we watched They Live
right now, we wouldn't like it. I bet we'd be like,
oh, this movie's whack. I don't know, it's still pretty funny if you watch it.
Is it good? When was the last time you saw it?
I mean, it's one of them movies when you're flipping
around if it's on. Because him and the. What's the. His guy's name. Remember, they had basically a wrestling match
in the fucking alley. They were suplexing each other
and everything. The black guy from Men at Work.
There's movies from, like, the 80s
and the 90s. There it is.
There's movies from the 80s and the 90s
that become comedies.
This is a comedy right here.
But this is kind of a comedy. This is, like,
a little tongue-in-cheek. But then there's stuff like
Roadhouse. Right, right, right.
Roadhouse is a comedy now. Right, for sure.
Roadhouse is such a
bad movie. Yeah, yeah.
It's so bad. I mean, it's so insanely bad.
The bad guy's bad. The writing's bad.
Everything is bad. Everything's bad
except for Patrick Swayze's hair.
That's amazing.
It was appropriate at the time.
In the 80s, everything was cheesy.
We were dumb. People were dumb back then.
You know? That's what I think.
I think we were dumb. Miami Vice, you know?
No internet. People were stupid. It's true.
You're right. We were only
exposed to what we were exposed to
in your area. Yeah, we thought,
that's a solid movie.
You should go see Roadhouse. I'll tell you what.
That's a good guy. You're going to root for him.
Yeah. He's complicated,
but he's tough. He's quiet, and he likes poetry.
He fucks people up,
and he says, pain don't hurt.
I was about to say that. Pain don't hurt.
The karate scenes are so bad.
Everything is so bad. It's so fake.
It's so dumb-looking.
But it's still awesome.
He brought Sam Elliott in as backup.
Had an 80-year-old backup. Dude, clearly
could barely walk. He's like KOing
guys left and right.
That's it, mijo.
He's awesome in everything, though.
Sam Elliott's awesome. Every time you see Sam Elliott
in a movie, you're like, yes.
Hang in there. I think the bad guy's. Didn't he tell
Patrick, what's his name,
that he used to fuck guys like him in prison?
Yes. Yes.
Sam Elliott, that's the one who played Landman's father,
right? Yes. Yeah.
He's awesome. He's always good. Always.
Always. In everything. He's a real-life Marlboro
man. Exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, that movie was
so bad.
But the thing is, back then
it wasn't. Yeah, everything in the 80s was bad.
TV shows were insane.
You watch them, you're like, what were they doing?
Trying to brainwash America. Roger Ebert's
review is that this is right on the edge of
a good-bad movie and merely
the bad.
It's not a good movie. Well, he's right.
It's not a good movie, but viewed in the
right frame of mind, it's not a boring one either.
Ah, that's the thing.
Gene Siskel was less complimentary.
He's calling it outrageous in terms
of its cartoon-like plotting and dialogue
and lamenting Swayze's
mindless posturing. A young star
has sold himself to become a
pin-up boy. Someone sounds a little
jelly. Come on. Yeah. That sounds a little
jelly to me. Acting.
It's called getting paid.
Yeah, he made a movie and thought it was going to be better than it was.
Right. Okay, let's move on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right? It's a cult classic.
To this day, people are still talking about it.
Bro, basically every
actor that's ever lived has been in a cup of lemons.
Right. Of course. That's part of the process.
Except maybe Daniel Day-Lewis.
He's probably a little bit more
selective. Maybe that Lincoln one. A lot of people
didn't watch that Lincoln one.
That might be the only one.
I don't know anybody who was like
raves about the Lincoln movie. Right.
What about the vampire hunter
Abraham Lincoln? That wasn't crazy.
Who was in that? Did anybody see that? I never seen it. I never saw that.
That was Daniel Day-Lewis, right? It sounds like something that
No. Abraham Lincoln
vampire hunter is crazy.
That should have been made in the
eighties. No. That should have been.
It should have been. It should have been made in the eighties.
Yeah, it's like a comic book. That sounds like a Marvel comic. Yeah. I haven't seen it.
I didn't see it either. It sounds like something I would watch.
It sounds like something you would recommend.
It's funny. Was it good?
The vampire hunter thing?
To me, it was like a comedy
thing. I might have seen it and forgotten about it.
Yeah. I don't even remember if I saw it.
I mean, you get high enough
when you watch the movies. They're cool, but you don't really
remember details all the time.
You know what I'm looking forward to?
That new werewolf movie.
Oh. Eggers guy, the same
guy that did Nosferatu. He's doing
a werewolf. They just released a trailer. Did they?
What's it called? Werewolf.
Yeah, werewolf. I saw that. It's spelled weird,
but it's basically a werewolf.
Where's it take place?
I don't know. Some foreign country.
You can hear them speaking some strange language.
You know, it's like, give me some volume.
Oh, man. Oh, I want
to see it. Yeah.
That looks pretty wild. Robert Eggers
is the shit. Oh,
Christmas time?
How was the family?
Yeah, that's a weird time.
It should be a Halloween release.
How was the vampire one?
Fuck yeah, it was awesome.
You think I'd like it?
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's good, dude.
It is?
I think it's the best vampire movie of all time.
Better than Interview with a Vampire?
Yeah.
Nosferatu?
Yeah, I think Nosferatu's the best vampire movie of all time.
That's my opinion.
I think it's the best.
I've seen a bunch of them.
Gary Oldman one was amazing.
That was a great one.
That Dracula one with Keanu Reeves.
That's still great.
But, man, there's something about Edgar's Nosferatu.
It's more terrifying than all of them.
It's just something that's more hypnotic.
He's got powers over people.
It's weird the way he influences people.
It's creepy.
Yeah, the way that looks shot.
I see what you're saying.
You didn't see the Nosferatu?
No, I didn't see it.
Show me a scene where he's making him sign the contract.
There's a scene where the dude has to go to his house,
and he doesn't know, spoiler alert,
like what contract.
What contract he's signing because he's signing it
in a language that he doesn't know to sell a house
to this prince that lives in Romania.
And he goes to visit this guy.
It's the creepiest fucking scene ever.
And this is the first scene where you, like, see him,
and you slowly, it gets revealed, like, what he is.
Yeah.
The best vampire movie of all time.
Really?
You'll love it.
I'm going to watch it now.
It's so well done.
I'm going to watch it with my voice.
Okay, listen to me.
My lord.
The language of my forefather, son.
Of course.
The maiden's token, I see.
Your bride.
Just so, he did it?
Yes.
The eye.
The eye.
He wants a look at the bride?
Well, he wants this guy's wife.
This is this whole contract.
This is what this whole thing is about,
of him going to this guy's town
and buying a house there from him.
Like, this, it really, he just wants this guy's wife.
He's, like, eternally connected to her.
Oh.
It's creepy as fuck, dude.
Oh, shit!
Oh, I got to watch this.
Oh!
Yeah.
It's good.
I got to watch this.
Best vampire movie.
Is it?
I got to watch this.
Ever.
Yeah.
Some people disagree, and that's fine.
My opinion.
You ever see Lost Boys?
That was good.
That was fun, though.
Back in the day, I bet if you watched it today,
you'd be like, what?
Yeah, you'd be like, yo, this is corny as shit.
John Rollo with long hair, I still believe.
With the fucking, with the saxophone.
I was, is that you, Rollo?
With the fucking wig.
Lost Boys.
There's a Broadway show for it now.
Lost Boys, the Broadway show?
Oh, my God.
Dude.
That's hilarious.
Boo, first of all, boo Broadway.
I saw Spider-Man.
I saw Spider-Man.
I saw Rocky, two things I love.
It's like going to see a Spider-Man movie
with the worst special effects ever.
All of a sudden, there's a guy swinging,
and everybody's like, oh.
I go, dude, what the, really?
Show me the one with Macy Barber in it.
Not Macy Barber.
Marcy Barber?
Macy Barber's a fighter.
Who's the black girl that used to sing?
Macy Gray.
Macy Gray.
100 milligrams.
Yep.
Yeah, I saw Macy Barber in it last night.
There's a Rocky play?
It was fucking horrendous.
Did they box?
Did they pull a ring out and everything?
Yeah, it's fucking awful.
Wow.
It's like what the movie is, but just what you're picturing on Broadway.
2012 or something.
I've never seen anything I liked on that motherfucker.
This.
This is it?
Oh, boo.
Oh, theater people, you're so silly.
Dude, I can't stand it.
This guy sucks.
He can't box.
The beloved Oscar winning story.
Dude, I just.
I mean, I assume Stallone did this.
I don't know.
I mean, he's got to own it.
It's like, it's a cover story.
I'm not into plays.
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I saw Dog Day Afternoon with Jon Bernthal on Broadway.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
How was that?
It wasn't bad, though.
That guy's really good.
He was really good in it.
He's really good.
He's really good in it.
You probably liked that shit, though.
You do improv.
Did you ever get into The Punisher?
Did you see the one last kill?
Yeah, I watched it.
That was good.
It's a one-off.
Did you see it?
Yeah, it's like an hour long.
People think it's a movie.
It's not a full movie.
It's like a special.
That was good.
Yeah, I liked it.
That was really good.
I liked it.
Season one, him and the Daredevil was good.
Yeah, he was good.
His first season was okay.
Second season wasn't good, but that special was good.
Yeah.
I have to watch one thing.
It's like 45 minutes to an hour.
Yep.
I did a watch-along on the Matt Serra channel.
But I did.
That guy's awesome at everything.
John Bernthal?
Yeah.
Walking Dead, he was amazing.
Yeah, he was.
He played such a good, creepy friend.
Yeah.
You liked it, right?
When he came back to life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Punisher?
Shit, that was crazy.
I met him a few times in real life.
He can scrap a little bit.
Yeah, he's a very nice guy.
He was on the podcast.
Enjoyed talking to him.
Very smart.
Yeah.
Very interesting dude.
Went to. School in Russia to learn acting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's a weird place to go and learn acting.
And just so you know, while we're on the topic,
The Punisher's going to be in Spider-Man Brand New Day.
That's coming out.
Yep.
Is that a movie?
Yeah, the new Spider-Man movie.
Those. They just keep swapping out Spider-Mans.
Yeah, but this Tom Holland Spider-Man. He's back in it again.
He's yet to do a bad Spider-Man movie.
Yeah, I think he's good.
There's no job security in being Spider-Man.
No, hell no.
They got another dude waiting in the wings.
Or there isn't.
There is job security.
They just brought Tobey Maguire back after 20 years.
Yeah, they did the multiverse thing.
But the thing is about Spider-Man is he's supposed to be like a college kid.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's really it.
Unfortunately, this guy looks like a little kid.
Tom Holland?
Yeah.
It's the origin story as he starts out as like a college kid.
Yeah, he's a high school kid.
He might be a high school kid.
Is he in high school?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then his Uncle Ben gets killed and he doesn't save. Yeah.
He doesn't stop the guy.
You know what else was fun?
Was the Spider-Man in the wall.
Yeah, I was pulling that up.
Oh.
Yeah, I just saw.
Jamie, me and you are right here, buddy.
Yeah, that's the Nicolas Cage one.
Yeah, I watched that too.
That was fun.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty good.
That looks dope.
I thought it was good.
And you can watch it in color or black and white.
They give you the option.
Yeah.
Nicolas Cage is a fascinating dude.
But he's. He's another guy that's been around forever.
He's the good Nicolas Cage in this.
Yeah, yeah.
Some stuff you're watching him in, you're like. Well, I think after that Pascal movie he did, his name was in the title.
It's like, I don't know, Being Nicolas Cage?
Right, right, right.
That movie brought him back.
It was like Pulp Fiction.
Pulp Fiction for Travolta.
Right.
Like, kicked him back off again.
What is that movie?
It was great where Pedro Pascal's like a drug dealer.
Cartel guy.
Who's a big fan of Nicolas Cage's.
Oh.
And he winds up like hiring him to come to his house to do something.
And then he gets Cage's hemmed up in the cartel business.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
That's what it's called.
Is that it?
Is that the name of the movie?
Yeah, there it is.
See?
Being Nick fucking Cage.
So, that's. Great B+.
That's not bad.
That's pretty good.
It was good.
I'll probably check that out.
I watched part of it.
I never got through the whole thing.
Nah.
It's just busy.
But it looks hilarious.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
The premise is hilarious.
You know, you're like an actor and you get these gigs.
Like, because people do things like that.
They'll, like, show up at people's houses and parties.
Like, someone wants to pay you a million dollars to go to Dubai.
And you're like, okay.
So, then they fly to Dubai.
Then they have dinner with people and hang out with them and meet them.
And people just cut them a check.
Damn.
Yeah.
Shit, where can I get that check?
I know.
It's weird.
It's weird.
It's, uh, there's, you know, so, like, Nicolas Cage, like, that probably would happen where
the cartel guy was like, that guy is my favorite.
Like, remember when Sean Penn met El Chapo?
Right.
What?
He was hanging with El Chapo and did an article for Rolling Stone magazine where he talked
about meeting El Chapo in Mexico.
No shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You don't remember?
No.
Do you remember when Conor was wearing the El Chapo shirt and he tried to do the pictures
just like El Chapo did?
Those were the pictures that he did with Sean Penn.
No shit.
Yes, that's the shirt.
with Conor, when Conor's doing that,
that's what he's doing. He's mocking him.
That's hilarious.
Speaking of Conor, how well
does he do next week?
We're going to find out.
We're really going to find out what's going on
if it gets into the second and third rounds.
That's what we're really going to find out.
We'll know immediately.
But I mean, whether or not he can really
fight for five rounds.
I don't know if he can, man.
With a great gas tank.
After five years of tearing
your body up.
You don't know, right? Because it's all
in a vacuum.
There's some training footage of him beating
guys up that you've seen, but who knows
what he actually has been doing.
We know he's been partying, but has he
also been really training?
Because if he's been really training and he shocks
everybody because he's still got his skills.
My God, if he somehow
or another sparks out
Max in the first round.
Do you know how big he shocks?
Oh, he's right back.
Oh, right back.
He and Justin Gaethje, the biggest fight
in the history of the known universe.
They go for the BMF title at
170. Conor's like, I don't want to cut any weight.
That fight would be crazy.
My only concern is
his size. Max
struggled with bigger dudes.
Dustin the first time, then Max came back
bigger, which we know because
when he went back down, he struggled
with Orlovsky.
He went five rounds
with Justin.
So I'm just waiting to see
is Conor able to put that
fucking weight on him and
have a problem.
Is he a bigger dude, though?
They both fought at the same weight class.
Yeah, they did start at 45.
When Max was fighting at 145
when he was a champion, he was walking around like
176. He's a big guy.
He's a bigger guy.
I mean, I love Max, so
it's hard for me to believe Conor's coming back.
I follow Max on YouTube.
He's got a great channel, so recording all of his
training and all the stuff he's doing, and you know,
you see him. He looks good, dude.
He looks big. Dustin Poirier thinks
Max might be bigger.
Really? Yeah. I mean, he's taller.
He says he's kind of thin,
but he's got a bigger frame. He thinks he's
going to be bigger than Conor. He's tall. I mean, he came to my
gym a couple times, and he's like my height.
I think he made a big mistake going back
to 45 after he did 55.
Yeah, I agree. I think it's too hard.
I think it's just too hard on the body.
And especially when he got. He was a thick 55 when he fought Justin.
He looked good, man. Yeah. He looked
solid at that weight. I think
him fighting at that weight,
he could actually fight. I think going down to
45, I think he was fighting. It looked to me like he was
compromised. I think the weight
cut was just too much.
Do you think the Justin fight and Max
is different if he doesn't get caught
with that kick early in the face?
You know what I'm saying? 100%. I would like to see
that fight without Justin's compromise.
Right. But I mean, that's the beautiful
thing about moves like that. It's a fight game.
It changes everything. Yeah, that was the intention.
Right. It could have been a KO, right?
It shattered the bones of his nose.
Yeah. So that for sure.
I mean, but then, you know, you see
the way Max looked at 145
when he fought Ilya, but then you
got to also factor in. Also, he's fighting Ilya.
And Ilya's so fucking good.
Like, you look bad. Like, there's a lot
of guys who don't look. He lands combinations
on people, and a lot of guys look bad.
Doesn't mean they're bad. I'd like to see Max
and Justin again, if Max
pulls it off. But then again, like, what are you gonna do
for Ilya? Like, if Ilya wants
a rematch, like. Can you justify that? I don't
believe so. I think you give him Patty
if Patty wins. That's what I think.
That's what his next fight should be.
I think Patty beats. I think Patty
wins. Wait a minute. You think
Patty beats Ilya? No, I think he beats
Saint Denis to get to Ilya.
I think he gets hit way too
much to beat Ilya.
Well, Ilya's sharp. He's so
sharp with his striking. I rewatched that fight
again. Yeah, I like Patty in this one.
Saint Denis is not an easy. I don't think he's easy. Saint Denis is a beast.
I just think his Patty striking's a little better
and his jiu-jitsu's better. I think the only place
Saint Denis has the
advantages in the wrestling. Just my
opinion. I don't know,
man. Saint Denis switched
camps and then made that big adjustment
after he lost to. Who'd he lost to? Moikano. Yeah, after the Moikano
fight. He's looked a lot better. And if Patty puts him
on his back at all, like,
I don't. Does Saint Denis train off his back?
Because it didn't look like it in that Moikano
match.
Hmm. Patty
and Ilya would be huge. Hell yeah.
Because they have history, too. That's right.
They got beef. That's the fight. Yeah. That would be a
meta fight. That's the fight you make. Do that shit in London?
I think that's the right comeback
fight for Ilya. And also. Do that shit in England. Joe's like, I'm going!
Oh my God. Now I don't want to
get caught in a riot.
Not for anything. Be careful. They might lock you up
for your social media when you get over there.
They would, too. They were shitting on Patty
when he lost to Justin.
And, you know, he got compromised
also that first round. I believe he got poked in the
eye or whatever else.
Whatever the case, he went five with him.
Yeah, he did go five with him.
And, you know, got battered
and stood up to great shots.
And he's going to come out of that fight better.
He'll know, okay, there's more work to be
done. There's holes I have in my game.
There's places where I got caught.
And he has improved over his. When he first got there, I didn't really think much of him.
But each time out, I think he gets a little
better. Yeah, dude, for sure. It's just
Justin's in. Yeah, he's a savage.
Dude, he's a dog. He's my favorite fighter rat.
You know, been for a minute. Yeah, no doubt.
Because he's just always in a great fight.
And especially after you see
that second round. I re-watched
it again. When Ilya was
putting it on him in that second round, I'm like,
oh, those liver punches. I know, like, how does
he come back from this?
More than one, too. So beautiful
though, too. Like, the way he
delivers those shots, man. Just
clean. Wham! You know who else does it like that?
Aaron Pico. Yeah, he does
great. Great body work.
Yeah, 100%. I'm glad that he's
got to show his stuff. Me, too. He looked
great his last fight. He looked great. Yeah, Pico
was, because that was one of those guys
I love. He was fighting Pitbull, who's like,
you know, a real legend. But the way he
mixed it together, the striking
and the wrestling, was really
good. He just got crazy in his
debut, and he just got a little just
too hyped up, a little too aggressive against
a guy who's way too skilled. Yeah.
You know? He's a hunter. Yeah.
You know, I love that
he's so aggressive, but that was a
great comeback fight.
Yeah, it was. Because it shows that
he's still in there, you know? You get worried
when you see people get
their lights put out like that. You're like, oh, they can never be
the same. And then when you see him come back and have a fight
like that, being so intelligent,
that's a good sign. But he has to make
sure his defense is always good, because
his chin is still suspect.
Regardless of how good his skill is,
he still don't have a chin.
Well, he's been knocked out a bunch of times.
You know? I mean, after a certain amount of times, it's
easier to get knocked out. And you've got to know
he's been knocked out in training. I always believe
part of your chin is believing you
can't be knocked out. And then when it happens
to you that first time, instead
of when you get your bell rung, you bite down on your
mouthpiece, now you're like, oh, shit, not again.
Like, I think mentally
it's different, you know?
There's something to that, probably.
But then there's also, like, a pro-cop
head kick. Well, if you get hit on the button, you get hit on the fucking button.
Yeah, there's, like, certain shit that violates
your beliefs. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Nobody twice
see red, bro. It's a fact.
Bang! Edson Barboza
wheel kicks you.
I remember that one. That was in Brazil.
Edson Barboza. Terry Adam?
Yeah, he had a good one, too. That's one of those where
you go, I don't think that guy's ever gonna be the same.
I don't think he was the same after
that. No. I thought it right then
and there. I was like, I think that was too hard.
Yeah, that was too hard. That's a different shot.
And you've seen it where guys,
they get one, and then they're still
in there, and then you see them get a couple, and then
next thing you know, their chin is gone.
It's just, it's not. And then, listen,
Chuck Liddell's mentally strong.
You don't think he's being like,
I wonder if this is gonna. You know, that's just
his body saying. His body's trying to protect
him. Yeah, his body's saying enough of this.
And then it's also the. Apparently
it's the lining inside your
brain. All that fascia
tears over time. And repeated
head traumas, and just there's a
lot of swashing around. So when you get
dinged, your brain
is literally going without shock
absorbers bouncing off the inside
of your skull. That might not be the technical way
that a neurosurgeon would describe it.
Hey, man,
listen, all those
height jokes, I was like a little armadillo.
I was like a pig at the
top of my head. I was
covering that little motherfucker. Unless I'm
running to a backfist, I was okay.
That's right.
But it's so funny how everything just evolves.
When I got stopped with the first. I was
the first guy ever to get stopped with a backfist.
And when I did, the people were like,
yo, this guy
must suck. Nobody gets stopped with that shit.
You see it on every card, people getting stopped with backfists.
Dude, we used to have these conversations, like
Eddie Bravo and I, at the beginning of the UFC
about stuff that works that's not
in there yet. Like, what about this? What about
that? And you know the big one that I missed on?
What's that? Front kick to the face.
Before Anderson Silva front kick
V toward the face, I'm like, that shit doesn't work.
Nobody does that.
It's too hard to land.
I don't even know why I thought that.
So you really thought that? For a little
bit, because I was like, it's not worth it. I was like,
that move is so powerful to the
body. I was like, that's really where you should use
it, because you could land. It's a big target, and you could
really fuck a guy up. You get your most power
with a front kick going straight. And I was like,
to the face, it's too hard to hit.
I don't know why I thought that way. Machida.
Machida and Randy.
Yeah, Machida and Randy. I think it was
like Vitor first.
Anderson Vitor
first. I think that was the first one
when we saw a real spectacular front kick
knock out to the face. But then it was Machida
and Randy, and then a bunch of people
started doing it. And then front kicks to the face became
like a spam move. Thanks
Sensei Seagal for that. How about Michael
Chandler, Tony Ferguson?
Oh, that was a bad one.
That might be one of the worst ones ever.
Or Chito Rivera, Frankie Edgar.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a bad one for Frankie.
Front kicks to the face are brutal.
I just didn't see that coming.
I really, because in martial arts tournaments,
most people were throwing them to the body
and not throwing them to the face.
Even in kickboxing, not a whole lot of guys
were throwing them to the face.
You know, with Michael Chandler,
I remember talking to him,
he said he didn't even practice that.
He just says he just saw the opening
and just threw the kick.
That's so crazy.
That's wild.
Yeah.
That's so crazy.
I mean, I think, too, once a successful technique
gets out there and people see it,
then all of a sudden, hey, I can fucking do that.
100%.
He had a rough outing the last one, Mike.
Yeah, that was a tough fight, man.
I mean, that was a bad matchup.
That's Dana saying, Mike, it's time for you to retire.
Mike is 40, Hufi is in his prime,
and he might be the scariest striker at 170.
Yeah, he's in the south.
Or 155, rather.
And by the way, giant for 155.
I know, tall, like rangy, good movement.
Slick.
He's fucking good.
Bro, he hit him with like three wheel kicks.
Yeah.
Yeah, he was just, I mean, it was target practice.
It's crazy how good he is.
And you talk about that taekwondo movement,
he has that.
Exactly.
But with boxing hands, so it's crazy.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, gotta tighten up the wrestling
and the jiu-jitsu,
and that's why he lost to Benoit Saint-Denis.
Yeah.
But that was a good learning experience.
When you see a guy who's that good fucking everybody up,
you know, the way he put out,
King, ooh, Jesus.
That was real bad.
He does it like a video game.
And, and, and Fazeev.
And I thought that was gonna be a decent one.
And by the way, the Fazeev knockout,
apparently he was like sick as a dog before the fight.
They were talking about pulling out of the fight.
No shit.
And he just took the fight anyway
and had one of the best performances of his career.
Bro, that guy's, he's elite.
Yeah, he's tough.
And training with Volkanovski.
I know, only gonna make him better.
Perfect.
Yeah, for sure.
What better guy, like,
feeling strong, like animal, featherweight,
that was like the king for so many years,
won the crown again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stick around with that guy.
He'll show you how to get up.
He'll show you how to not get taken down.
And Volkanovski, you know,
he don't have much left in him.
Right, so he's gonna wanna coach guys.
Yeah, he's gonna wanna like pass it on.
Yeah.
And you got the perfect guy to pass it on to.
He's got a great fight IQ.
Yeah.
Very well-rounded, too.
Volkanovski?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think he's one of my favorite
in terms of fight IQ.
Yeah, he really grew on me.
I didn't like him because of Max.
You know, I was always rooting for Max,
but, you know, he's earned my respect.
That guy's just, he's good.
He's good everywhere, too.
He really is.
The dude I got my eyes on the most
is Carlos Prates.
I got my eyes on him the most.
He's so accurate.
Dude, that's so accurate.
That Jack Della Maddalena KO was crazy.
Jack is so fucking good,
and he's so tough.
He's so tough.
And you watch Carlos just tee off on him.
He really did.
It looked like target practice for him
against such a high-level guy.
He was having fun.
I know.
Ain't that the worst part?
Dude, Morales is a savage, too, still.
I know, but that fight,
but save that fight.
Morales versus Prates, save that fight.
Yeah.
Wait till it's ready.
Not yet.
It's like, don't pull the brisket
out of the smoker just yet.
Like, wait.
I was telling Matt,
I saw some grappling-like footage of Morales,
and, I mean, he looked pretty fucking good.
Well, he has a wrestling background,
and if there's a way he's going to get Prates,
it's going to probably be
a combination of those things,
because Prates just wants to stand.
Yeah.
Of course.
And he's built like a,
like, if you had an engineer,
like a long-range striker.
His torso's as big as all legs and arms.
Bro, and he's so accurate.
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He had his best round
the fifth round
versus Ian Machado Gary.
Yeah.
He came back like a bat out of hell.
And really had him hurt bad.
He might get outpointed,
but he's calm in bad positions
and he's always fucking dangerous.
That was the last. Are you thinking maybe he's a chain smoker
or something that he's. Or he smokes cigarettes?
Whatever, yeah.
The fifth round, man,
he had Ian in trouble.
He's good, dude.
And he hits so fucking hard.
When he KO'd Leon,
I was like,
I know.
Leon's good.
He's a good guy.
He's a good striker.
To KO Leon like that,
clean,
was crazy.
They got a crazy rumor.
Was it a fight nerds
they called themselves?
Yeah, fight nerds.
And Hoofty was there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
He trains with them
and he trains with other people as well.
Like, Prates moves around.
But he, you know,
he had a giant Muay Thai record, rather.
Oh, no shit.
Yeah.
Like, how many Muay Thai fights
did Carlos Prates have?
Like, world class.
Like, I've watched a bunch of his
just pure Muay Thai fights
and the. The comfort level that he has
in there,
exchanging and moving
and knowing where he's supposed to be
and not to be,
that, like, sensitivity that he has
to, like, striking exchanges
because of world class Muay Thai
is such an advantage.
Yeah, I would favor him
if he fought Ian Gary again.
Perhaps.
Yeah, I would hurt him.
Yeah, yeah.
He knows he has to, like,
try to get it on him.
Yeah.
Can't point fight him.
Do you think that Islam's
gonna just have his way
or do you think Ian Gary
has a shot there?
He definitely has a shot.
I mean, Ian, he's. So he had 20. 29 Muay Thai wins,
five losses,
so 34 Muay Thai fights
and, like, high level, man.
You watch him fight
and you're like,
okay, this guy,
he can fucking. He knows where to be,
where not to be,
and he knows how to, like,
piece people up, man.
It's like,
when you have that high level. We've seen it so many times
with these guys
that, like, world champ. Like Alex.
See these world champion kickboxers,
they entered to MMA,
like, nobody has a chance
standing with them.
It's, like, it's too scary.
Yeah.
And that's what you're seeing
with Carlos.
It's like, fuck, man.
Like, what he did to JDM,
I was like, holy shit.
I mean, he was having fun.
He was just playing with him.
Having a good time.
I was like, what?
Beating the shit out of
the former world champion,
having a good time.
Just smashing him.
Stopped him.
Had him screaming
from calf kicks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whereas he went to his corner
and they're like,
no, ah, don't fucking scream.
They're telling him
to not scream.
Yeah.
Oh, you didn't just get kicked
in the same spot six times.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
You know how tough
that dude is?
His nose is on the left
side of his face
and you're saying,
that guy, toughen up?
Right.
That's a fact.
That was one of those,
I had him when he was
getting him up against the cage,
I was fucking flinching.
I'm like, here it,
it's coming.
Bro.
Because you just,
you know it's coming,
but you just don't know
where it's coming from.
And those knees to the body
are so nasty.
Bratis is so nasty.
He's so good, man.
And he's getting better, too.
Yeah.
And now he's starting
to do this shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's like, he's feeling it.
He feels like he's the best guy
in the world right now.
Yeah, I feel like he's
the scariest guy in that division.
I think so.
He's the scariest.
But it doesn't mean
he's going to be the best.
Right.
The bottom line about Islam
is no one's able
to get away from him.
He gets a hold of you,
he's very good standing up now.
His wrestling's great.
And he gets a hold of you,
you're at fucksville.
He has a different
kind of wrestling.
Different kind of grappling.
Well, if Ian can't keep him off of him,
I don't see how he beats him
on the ground.
His submissions are fucking insane, too.
He's just got a vice grip, man.
I know.
Everybody that he rolls with
or everybody that he fights with,
they all say,
I've never been grabbed like that.
Never felt anybody that strong.
Who's that, Islam?
Islam, yeah.
I don't know if it's the same at 70,
but he's so big,
I can't imagine it's not.
It's not like he's a little 70.
Yeah, because he's tall.
Fucking big, man.
Yeah, he's got a good frame on him.
I think he's going to be better at 70
because he's not going to be depleted.
Because when I would stand next to him
in the octagon
when he was the 50,
five-pound champion,
I'd be like, how?
How do you weigh 55?
That doesn't even make any sense.
You're 190 pounds right now.
guaranteed if i put you on a scale you weigh 190 you're fucking so big i think ian's gonna make it
competitive early you know like because he's got good footwork he moves side to side really good
he's long but if he gets taken down twice and then it becomes a habit of him getting taken down he
won't get back up he won't if but the thing is if ian gary can get off sharp combinations early
he could stun him yeah because ian can move he's fast as fuck fast fast as fuck and he's super
accurate and the way he throws his strikes is like real clean yeah no fat in his move
everything's like like he's very responsible yeah he's not like a physically overpowering
guy it's technique his technique is sharp yeah did you see his interaction that time with comes
out yeah what are your thoughts on that there was a little too much of a pat on the back that's what
the fuck i'm talking about
i don't know
wasn't wrong and i like ian i don't know against them but there's like a pat on the back where
they're kind of halfway yeah yeah he went up to him like oh what do you think you're trying to
check him what do you know you got oh you got something coming up oh you feel strong and
there's a weird thing when you hit me a little too hard on the back yeah you know there's one
there's a hug and then there's a slap slap yeah yeah where like there's a slap slap that's like a
little aggressive trying to show some male dominance here yeah like you don't like me
what are you trying to do you don't like me are you hitting me you feel like it feels like
you're hitting me a little bit yeah it's like if you were if you hit a woman in the face like that
you go to jail right you're hitting me in the back but if you like hey where's my fucking spaghetti
and you double slap her in the back right now i don't even like from so many right hands if you
see this little oh jesus this thing right here that's bumping out yeah it's broken i don't like
yeah i fucked it up on shoni's head but i don't like when guys try to when you first meet somebody
and they try to squeeze do i because i want to smack them right there yeah
because it's i'm like because i feel pain with that shit another one what are we looking what
no he's talking about the hamza no no no that's shavkat that's how dare you
no it was uh jamie wasn't at a fight it was like
yeah but i felt i honestly felt bad for hamza trying to make 185 uh from all that i heard
before the strickland fight like he almost died to make 185 yeah when he made 185 when he fought
strickland really yeah he was apparently thinking that he was going to go up to light heavyweight
oh and they were even talking about him fighting yuri okay and so he was preparing like he was
going up to light heavyweight and if you watch he's another guy who's got a great youtube channel
he details all his training he was hanging out with that calavita guy doing a lot of
cardio strength it's here it is like he he gave he gave him a thing like before that
though i think it was like good job tonight good job and i think he slapped him on the back before
that there was or maybe it was after i don't know what it was but it was enough so like he's fine
now like they seem cool oh no no oh they're talking a little shit right here he gets pissed
and pushes him he's a champion don't worry so yeah yeah well you know hamza doesn't well i mean
that little squeeze on the shoulder bro yeah that was not necessary chechnya is not america
right okay it does it come from chechnya that is a war-torn country and those motherfuckers don't
play and the guy who runs it the guy who runs it is it's hamza's homie yep which is like okay
so much so he lets him tap him out yeah it's ridiculous but that's how it goes
you know you gotta do what you gotta do but i like the fight i think uh ian has a real chance
i do too i think early he does but if he gets if he gets taken down repeatedly uh so he gets
taken down he might just get smushed he might just get choked and smushed and choked i don't
know he struggled with shavkat on the ground he did but again that's a couple of years ago it's
not like he's not getting better i mean that dude yeah he's smart like he knows how to he knows how
to get himself prepared super smart i just think he's got his edges on the you know on the feet
obviously so i think that's where he if he's gonna win that's where he's i don't know why people don't
like him i love him he also is awesome he also almost finished shavkat with a red naked show
if i remember correctly does that really
he did he did have shavkat back yeah he had his back oh i forgot about that i forgot about i mean
he that was the closest anybody came to finishing he also fucked up shavkat's knee yeah he hit him
with that oblique kick to the knee and that's the reason why shavkat had to get surgery really and
he's had two surgeries since yeah like ian even made a post about it yeah damn so rude so rude
this is why he had to get surgery he's like i think he had made a post i saw a post that maybe
somebody attributed to ian but it was he it was his work i mean look it's a legal technique and
he's
really good at it and the way he throws it that oblique way sideways to the knee that's fucking
devastating and he's long enough to do he just kind of yeah man for sure john jones style but
he's like with his the way he could move in with combinations it's very hard to deal with but even
he had to fucking grab mvps like i know right yeah even even him yeah even him yeah that's what i'm
talking about where you can't hit them yeah and you're like what am i doing here well see but
that's why i like ian like in terms like think about that like he's able to solve them problems
like he says iq is so high he's beating guys like mvp and like the guys that other people and carlos
protest uh-huh guys that other people can't beat very true very true look at that there it is right
there that's it right there man can you back it up again so we hit it right here oh my god dude damn
that's a fucked up look how bad that is that's it right there boom that in the wooden dummy that's
a wing chun see there you go that's a stomp kick yeah it's real it's real wing chun works proof
bro gary's no joke man he's fucking dangerous and that style of being that tall is so hard to deal
with matt my short brother you know what i'm talking about dude let me tell you something
especially little trolls like us they'd always try to latch onto my head yeah it's just so hard
to even spar with tall guys because they can hit you from six inches further away than you can hit
them that's a lot of space yeah you gotta come in behind that double triple jab i love the fact that
you you can do anything and you
should be able to kick to the knees i hate the fact that it blew his knee out we really haven't
seen him the same since we i mean he's been two surgeries i think he had one fight after that
right did he have one more fight he's had the fight he's had a what didn't he have a bad car
accident or something like that did he yeah uh shavkat i thought so i don't know maybe i hope
not or maybe it was just his family maybe i don't know i hope he's okay i just missed the guy in the
octagon he's fucking good man
shavkat was good it's just like one technique can change your yeah i thought he was coming back
like trying to rehab from whatever from the accident like oh so it was the accident i thought
that's i mean look he obviously well first it was it hurt his leg for sure for sure first he had acl
surgery before that so he might have maybe that's maybe that's what happened maybe he redid it
fuck dude that sucks he's so good but then again it's like this fucking sport waits for no one
these dudes are coming up coming up you know what i'm bummed the guy can't do it
cancel this weekend is ethan ewing oh yeah that kid's good he's so good yeah that was gonna be a
good fight he came onto the scene and uh it was a short notice fight for three days maker at
madison square garden yeah and well maker and well like he's having a hard well maker's having
a hard time lately he lost his last one too and he's a better fighter than that so he's a young
kid so we'll see the best from him yet but well he came out so spectacular well maker did he looked
so good in his day and age he's a young kid so we'll see the best from him yet but well he came
out so good in his day and age he's a young kid so we'll see the best from him yet but well he came out so good and he looks like he's you know and on the contender series he looks like he's he's really good but fucking ethan you know he's really good he's real good and he's another guy like we're talking about like these this new breed of guys like the san hagens yeah constantly switching stances constantly giving you different angles and directions it's like very hard to pattern them he's he on the counter card too right he was on oh yeah san hagen is yeah san hagen is fighting uh bautista yeah um but he was uh
san hagen is fighting uh bautista yeah um but he was uh ethan was on the card and i think they pulled him off yeah he was uh the dude he's fighting was undefeated um what's there it is basarat yeah fuck and basarat's good yeah that's a really good fight he's tall rangy he like that would have been interesting yeah but the rest of the card can we see he's injured he'll be back but i like the fact that he's not fighting injured too because it's a pretty significant injury and so when these guys they say fuck it i'll just do it and then you have one loss and then that loss leads you to the next one
you know your career can go down a weird road pretty good it's a very good card this is a good
ben y and sandini and patty pimblitt right that's right and then connor max is on this one too right
yeah there was he was going around that he was gonna fight josh hokett i was like please don't
make that be true yeah but he's a minus 2500 robert whitaker and nikita krylov is good too man
yeah that robert is going from 170 to 85 to now light heavyweight isn't that crazy and he's not
he's not that big not that big no he's pretty short not even no six how tall is robert six feet
tall yeah six so he's uh i mean he's a thick fella yeah definitely got to be walking around at like
230 or something like that but these guys are so tall and so rangy and that fucking nikita krylov
guy can kick yeah he's legit 205 yeah he's cody still he was lighting up yuri in that fight before
he got caught remember
yeah he was lighting yuri up for sure yeah
cody i i don't i think it's time
too. Cody Garbrandt? Adrian
Yanez, man. He went through a bad streak too,
but that dude's very skillful.
Very good boxer. Yeah, he looked good
in his last one. What's Cody doing too? What is
this thing on his eye? Is he angry that he's
good looking? Yanez is, yeah.
Yeah, he's got to
doctor it up. The kids these days, they like
face tattoos. Yanez
is 450 favorite.
Minus 450
is nuts. Cody's chin, man. He's just been
too many times.
Well, it's an age thing too.
Cody's not actually that old.
I think he's only like 33.
How old is Cody Garbrandt?
33? No, he's got to be older than that.
I don't think he's old. No,
I don't think he's old. I think he started
his career at 34. 34? Oh my god.
See, I think he started his career really young.
Dude, fucking Max. 35 now?
Oh, July 7th. Oh, so next week.
Max started, he was what, 19? This guy's
still good. Right. Yeah, well
you know when I interviewed them for the UFC
at the White House, which is the most ridiculous thing in the
world, I'm sitting there in this
this like beautiful
adorned room with like gold on the
ceiling and shit like that, and on a
chair with a camera in front of me, and then
there's a monitor here that's Connor, and there's
a monitor there that's Max,
and they're arguing with each other.
You won't lay a glove on me.
There you go.
There you go.
It was crazy
to see the two of them going back and forth.
It's fun seeing Connor
come back, man. I know, he's
fun. I mean, he is the world's greatest shit talker.
He cracked me up, man. He was cracking me up.
I can't wait till fight week. He's the best. It's gonna be
amazing. Yeah. Look, I hope he looks great.
I hope it's a good fight, but
you know, it's a tall order to take on
Max Holloway after he was just the BMF
champion. He beat Dustin Poirier.
Yeah, he lost to Ilya, but like, you look
at the wins that that guy's had in his career
and how he's looked since their first
fight. This is a totally different human
being. Yeah. This is a world
champion, like one of the all-time featherweight
greats. I think
if Connor don't knock him out early,
he's in for a long night. Yeah.
Max can fight with no weight cut.
No weight cut. Max might never
get tired. People are saying, like, oh, yeah, but what about
moving up weight? I'm like, that's great for him.
He don't have to cut no weight. Great for him. It's great
for both of them. Listen, this is the future.
I would hope. I would hope guys
would abandon weight cutting. I really do.
And I think the UFC should accommodate it by
letting go of these ridiculous
weight limits. Let's just find out
what guys weigh. Let's find out what
guys weigh and, like, have them fight.
Have them fight it with their weight.
Does one still do that?
I mean, that was the way to go. Like, the way you went
at the beginning of the year and then, like, this is
where you're going to fight. I would run things like
one because they also allow steroids, allegedly.
I might have just made that up. I don't want
to get slandered. I don't want to get sued.
I don't think they. I think they have
drug tests at one. I think it's, like, a multiple
choice. Multiple choice.
I want
guys to take testosterone. None of the above.
I want them to take peptides.
I want them to take everything they have. I want
to give them a hyperbaric chamber. Like, let's
go for it. And then just release
them. Yeah, release the hounds. I want the best
fighting that's humanly available.
The old fucking pride days. Yeah, that's
exactly what it is. I want the enhanced games
MMA bouts. Yes.
But with Conor and Max,
one guy, even in his prime,
Conor's always shown
signs that, you know,
his endurance was never the best.
He's a sprinter. And Max
is, man,
he's the guy in the last round, he's winning
a fight. 30 seconds, he's pointing
to the. Yeah, he's fresh.
His fifth round is as good
as his first round. Max's discipline
is beyond compare. Like, that motherfucker
trains hard. I mean, you
might train just as hard,
but there ain't harder.
There ain't harder. The craziest one was
when he put it on Calvin Cater
and he was just talking shit.
Yeah, we were there. I'm the best boxer in the UFC.
It was so crazy.
I was watching that cage side
and him looking away,
talking and hitting him was just
something.
Bro, how about Brian Ortega
when he was fighting him, showing him how to keep his hands
up. Oh, Jesus.
He grabs him, grabs his hand and puts it by
his head. No, do it like this.
He can block it and then pops him with a jab
again. Bro,
Max Holloway's a bad motherfucker, dude.
100%. And, you know, I think it's
going to be interesting to see. Look, Conor in his
prime was elite.
Conor Eddie Alvarez, if it's that Conor
right now fighting Max, I'd be like, holy shit.
Yeah, that's different.
That's different. But can he regain that form?
Right. We don't know. I mean, he's a
special dude. Look at this. Just pop.
Talking shit to him.
Dana was losing
his mind over there.
There's also COVID, so you could kind of hear him, right?
Yeah, 100%.
Look at that right here. Look at it. He wasn't even
looking at it. It was slipping shit.
Look at
this. Bro, he's such a bad
motherfucker. Man. And if he starts
talking to Conor like that in the middle of
the fight and teeing off on him, if Conor gets
tired, it could get rough. Look at his
last fight with Dustin.
The difference is, Conor,
I don't give a fuck if he's 39. I don't care
how old he is. That dude's got the
touch. He's got the touch
of death. And he's very accurate.
He's accurate, and he's fast as
fuck. And when he's sprinting,
when he's sprinting, he moves quicker than anybody.
And it's like, you can't do that
for five rounds, but if he does it and
cracks you, you're
on fucksville. Look what he did to Aldo.
Who the fuck's ever done that to Aldo?
Yeah. That's the touch.
Do you think there's any chance that Conor wrestles
him? I think Conor might try to wrestle him a little bit.
That's what Nate said. All of a sudden he wanted
to turn into a wrestler. Because of the Charles
Olivera fight? Maybe looking at that and then maybe
seeing that that's what. I don't see that. I think
Max has got to put it on him a little bit, and then
he'll shoot, because he's not in it for war.
That's going to get him even more tired. He did it
in his first fight. He wrestled him. We say he's
not in it for war, but he can surprise us,
man. Like, you know, the humiliation
of losing that second fight to Dustin
with a broken leg and sitting there and having to go
out for all the. Who knows how
he responded to that? Obviously he did a lot
of partying. We don't know what kind
of training, you know? And
if he really is still the Conor
McGregor that had something to prove when he
entered into the UFC, and he can get himself
into that mindset and get through a camp
with that mindset, who knows,
man? I mean, he definitely
focused his fuck when I was talking to him
in the interview. That doesn't really
mean anything until you actually see him
move around. But if he really prepared
himself correctly, he wants to make a stand
and show that he can still do it,
this might get wild. But if that's the
strategy, fuck, man.
If he's worried about his endurance already, or if that's
a question, if that's the
strategy, it's not like he's
going to take him down and just smoke him. Max has
got. Hey, how's the ground? Max's jiu-jitsu's
gotten so much better. Look what he survived with Charles Oliveira.
So it's not like he's going to take him down and just smoke him.
Right. I would like to talk to Kavanaugh
and see what was the plan. Like,
what did you guys do? How long was the
camp? Like, how did it start?
What was he doing before the camp?
Yeah, so I had talked to Laura Sanko, who interviewed
Kavanaugh. Oh, okay. And she
said that. He wouldn't say
it, but he kind of alluded to
that wrestling might be a part of the game plan.
Well, that might be a ruse. Yeah.
Yeah. That might be to lure. Because the way that Charles handled
Max in the last fight was crazy.
But also, that's Charles. Charles. Nobody else took Max
down like that. Nobody. Charles is a
fucking monster on the ground. Charles is Charles.
He's so good on the ground, man.
Max had
to survive some shit that other people
would have tapped. Yeah, a lot of people. And here's what's crazy.
Islam smushed him.
I know. I know.
Right? Right? There's crazy
levels to this sport. Yeah, true.
Islam smushed him. I know.
He got him to the ground. Made him look bad.
Smush. He was tapping, like, immediately.
He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I ain't getting out of this.
I'm going night-night.
That's how good he is. I mean,
his. When he got Drew Dober
in half guard. Oh, I know.
When he got that arm triangle from half guard, he was like, dang, no
half guard here. Yeah. This is just
smush. Yeah. Pressure.
That pressure's fucking phenomenal. Incredible
squeeze. Like, he just cuts off
the blood. Like, there's nothing you can do about
it. That forearm grip
Doris that he uses, do you fuck with that?
I don't mess with that, but I know how powerful
it is. Do you fuck with it, Matt?
That was never my thing.
The anacondas and the Dorises.
Because we're short-armed little heckles.
That's what the fuck it is.
These are great for some things,
but not for Doris.
But it shouldn't be better for y'all because. Because, like, all y'all have to do is grip here.
Yeah, I never tried it, though. But I did
used to like the Japanese necktie for the same
reason. Because the Japanese necktie, when you're
funneling under for. When you go for that
underhook on the left arm and you get it behind
the head, you cinch down like this
and then instead of trying to go
all the way through and cinch it up as a Doris,
you take it from this position with this
lever on the back of the neck and you tuck
the neck into your chest. Okay, yeah. And then
you grab a leg. You grab a leg and you
do this. Yeah. You, like, lean on this
shoulder. So you. Once you cinch it up,
as soon as you get this forearm behind
the neck, the first thing to do is you put your left shoulder
to the mat. So your left shoulder,
you drop down the mat, and usually they
think they're going to spin out of it, but you're trapping the head
on the chest. Yeah, with your shoulder to the floor, right?
There's a video of me. See, we could. There's a video of me
showing it to T.J. Dillashaw.
We're at the Onnit headquarters
and I'm showing him how to do it. I've. It's great
for short-armed dudes. Wait, you're on his back, you're saying?
No, you're on the darts position, right?
So he's got the underhook, you funnel under,
you get it behind the head. Once you get it behind the
head, you use this lever, you pin that
down on the neck, and the first thing I want to do is put my
left shoulder over on the top.
So here. Oh, here it is. So here it is.
So once you get to this position and you clamp,
I want to put my shoulder
down, and then his head is
trapped.
Ooh! Is that a neck crank?
100%. It's horrible. You're hipping in?
Yes. And you usually grab a
hold of a leg.
You can just step over. It's right there. Jamie, back it up to
where I'm showing it to him, and then I
talk through it. Back it up a little bit.
Yeah, there it is. Give me some volume.
- You know how I'm doing this?
- Yeah.
- I'm going onto my left shoulder.
- Yeah.
- Sorry, sorry.
Once you got this, if I hook this leg,
I'm going on my left shoulder.
- Yeah.
- So I'm all the way sideways.
- Okay, yeah, yeah.
- So there's a tremendous--
- So you're hooking the leg even before you fall down, too.
- Yes, immediately.
I'm tangling up with him. - Yeah, because you won't
be able to get it if you fall down before.
- Exactly, so as soon as I cinch my hands together,
I'm hooking a leg.
- Yeah.
- I wanna tie him up.
- Yeah.
- I wanna tie him up and I wanna get him in a position
that he's gonna roll out of it like you would with a dars.
- Right.
- But you can't roll out of it.
- You can't now that you already got the leg.
- Exactly, also because I'm trapping your head in my chest.
So you're just worried about me getting this,
but I'm not even trying to get that.
- Yeah.
- I'm just getting to this.
Can you give some volume right here?
- Yeah.
- Dude, that's a--
- You're not doing it.
You're not doing it.
- Try it again.
- Let me see that again.
- Would you get it?
- I like when they put their legs in there
'cause I go, right, right, right, for sure.
- See, people like when they put their legs in there.
- That's what he was just saying.
That's why it's like, it's really good.
- That cranks that neck.
- That Danny Castillo?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Going all the way to my--
- No, I'm sure you can.
But that's better to get this wet.
There's more pressure.
- You very rarely see this in the UFC.
And it's available too because also the gloves,
they get in the way of certain chokes,
like definitely rear naked chokes.
It's so hard to get the hand in the proper position
with the back of the hand on the head.
- Does it matter which leg you step over?
Like he stepped over the first,
you stepped over the far leg when you did it.
- The far leg's better.
- Yeah. - You get better.
You get better control.
But it doesn't matter as long as you can tie him up
and trap his head inside your chest.
So once the head's in the chest,
you're in a terrible position to defend
'cause it puts your head at this nasty angle.
Like the moment your head gets to that angle,
so TJ's showing like one of the ways that he does it.
He's doing like a different grip.
- I was about to say, his grip is different from yours.
- He's trying a different grip.
- He's got a hand doing that.
- Yeah.
- I like my grip better.
Well, it's not my grip, it's Eddie Bravo's grip.
But I like the grip better because you got the lever.
So the thing is about having it go through.
This lever, when you get this forearm
on the back of the neck, that's a lot of power.
- Yeah.
- There's a lot of power that way.
So if you see how I'm doing,
I'm doing it like a little bit different.
- And his is gone.
- Well, yours too, you're all on his head and neck.
TJ is cradling him almost.
- So he did it that way now, like in that time.
Now he's doing it the right way.
That's nasty.
And then once it gets in the chest,
yup, trap the leg.
He can trap either leg.
The whole thing is just trapping the head.
You just wanna make sure you have contact with his body
so his left legs, or his legs rather, can't spin out.
You don't want him spinning out.
Because then his head's gonna get free.
It's nasty.
But it's just, I don't see it in MMA.
And I don't know why.
Because it's available when guys are trying
to get the darts and they can't get it.
Like there's a lot of times the legs are tangled up.
And it's horrible.
Because you have this lever.
You remember when Khabib tapped Conor
and everybody's like, oh, you didn't even,
that wasn't even in.
The choke wasn't in.
- He was doing that same shit.
But he was doing it across the neck on the back.
- It's gonna break his jaws.
- Fucking horrible.
It's gonna break your neck, man.
And that's what that feels like.
But that's even worse, 'cause it's sideways.
- And you got your body on it.
- Yeah.
But the worst that I've never seen in the UFC
is the executioner.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody get that rear,
that, you know, you're in the back mount
and you reach over and you go guillotine
from the back. - Yes, yes, yes.
- What the hell?
- Somebody got set like that the other day.
- Well, that was the Scottish--
- Oh!
- Scottish Twister.
- The Scottish Twister, yeah.
- That's different.
- The Scottish Twister's different.
- Yeah, it feels like it.
- Scottish Twister's a little different.
It's still nasty as fuck.
- You're leaning back, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, it's horrible in your neck, man.
- Anything that attacks the spine and the fucking--
- Oh, they're horrible.
But I think the executioner--
- My man couldn't tap fast enough, yeah.
- The executioner's the worst,
'cause you've got rear naked hooks
and you've got the head back this way
and you're going like that.
- Yo, that's--
- It's nuts.
That's nuts.
- Yeah.
Now, that's a catch wrestling thing, right?
- Oh, that?
I don't know, man.
That sort of started popping up at Tenth Planet, at least,
like in the 2000s.
Like 2003 or '04, Epstein likes to call it the executioner.
But he wasn't the only guy doing it.
Like, other guys had figured it out.
So you're in north-south, which a lot of guys, you know,
that was back in the north--
- Oh, God, I'm--
- Yeah, this is it right here.
Bro, this is holy hell.
When you're in rear naked choke position
but you have the arm wrapped like that,
the amount of pressure on the spine is just crazy.
- Yo, that's--
- It's crazy.
- You could paralyze somebody.
- 100%.
- Should I to a fucking-- - 100%.
- Well, a knucklehead, they'll be fucking--
Make sure everybody's signed a waiver on that one.
- But look at how nasty this is.
Like, it's such a bad position to try to defend.
You have no strength to defend it.
- Yeah, that's a wrap.
- Hell. - That's a wrap.
- It's hell.
And I don't see it in the UFC, and I don't understand why.
I think it's available.
I think some guys could get this.
I mean, not always, but there's a lot of times
you're trying to fight the rear naked choke,
or you're trying to get the rear naked choke
that the guy's defending.
- Jesus.
- And if you switch to something like this,
if you could find a way to get into a position like this,
you're not gonna defend that, man.
- Well, the truth is that a lot of guys in the UFC,
or in MMA in general, don't really practice jujitsu
from that standpoint.
They do anti-jujitsu because they think that their chances
of winning a fight on their feet are better.
So their idea is just like, defend the takedown,
get back to my feet, or just use basic jujitsu.
So stuff like this that's available to them,
they don't know it, or they don't practice it enough
for it to be instinctive for them to do it.
- The fact that they're just trying to get up to their feet,
that's the first problem.
- Right?
- Yeah, that's it, yeah.
- Because look at Gilbert Burns versus Damian Maia.
When he made him match his jujitsu a little bit,
then he finds the opening.
If he doesn't match his jujitsu, he'll use that.
But then he has to move a certain way,
gives enough space to get to his feet.
- God, I gotta remember this guy's name.
The guy who was the Bellator champion,
who's from Ukraine, he's fighting in the UFC now.
- Amosov?
- Amosov.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Bro.
- Yeah, Yaroslav Amosov.
- What's that?
- I knew that was the name, but I didn't wanna fuck it up,
and I was panicking.
- Yeah.
- That's what I'm saying, it's not easy to, yeah.
- Bro, you know when I really panic?
Way in days.
- Oh.
- You look at my face, I'm in a hot panic.
- I be feeling for you sometimes,
stuff like that, he's gonna forget the name.
You don't bring the paper up with you or nothing?
- Should I have a shoe phonetically spelled on your paper?
- I do, I have to.
Not only that, I have to listen to these fucking names
over and over and over again.
- Fucking, some of that shit's coming.
- And you know--
- Zabit Magumov, Sharapov, right?
- And Anik gonna be mad at you if you mess it up.
- He's so good at it.
- I don't know how you do that.
- You should be doing it.
- Right?
- I should just give the microphone name.
- Yeah.
- He'll introduce the guy, I'll just interview people.
- Yeah.
- He's the best at naming the names.
- I do that all unfiltered.
I go, "Hey, Jimmy, who do we have next?"
It's a fucking crazy name.
I just get the first name down.
- Yaroslav is good, dude.
- Yeah, he's good.
- He's good.
His ground game is so sweet.
Did you see him fight?
- Which show?
UFC?
- See, pull up his last fight.
- Yeah, he beat--
- Like the second round.
- Joel--
- Yeah, but go back it up a little bit
so you can see the takedown.
Watch how he does this.
Look at how beautiful this is.
Bro!
- It's all in the hip.
- I mean, right into arm triangle.
Look at this.
- Wow, that's a--
- Bro, and then he goes knee to the belly too.
Just crushing him.
- Did you see his setup for Neil Magny?
- Yes.
- Oh man, he's so smooth, man.
- He's smooth.
- He's smooth.
- He's smooth.
- Dude, he put it on Neil.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and then he breakdances afterwards.
- Oh, he breakdances.
- Gotta have something.
- Oh, actually, look at that, man.
It's pretty good.
- A little windmill.
- Yeah, that guy can move.
And that guy's really good.
He's dangerous.
- Old Sean Alvarez, he would be doing the windmill.
- He has one KO loss.
He lost two of them.
- That was Jason Jackson.
- Jason Jackson.
- Yeah, Jason Jackson knocked him out.
He just put it on him.
Jason Jackson just murdered him.
Just like ran across and beat him up.
- Yeah, I was talking to Big John and Josh Thompson
on the podcast, they brought him up,
like that he's like the most unheralded,
the most underappreciated of the guys that are out there.
- Jason Jackson?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- That's the problem when you're not in the UFC.
- That is.
And if the UFC picks him up,
I mean, it's gonna be kind of late.
- He had to dig through the rubble of his house
to get his belt back. - Holy shit.
- Jeez, that's nuts, man.
- That's crazy.
- That's nuts.
- Put shit in perspective real fast.
- Holy shit, dude.
How bad did he want that belt?
- For real, right?
- I mean, this dude went back to a war zone to get his belt.
- A Bellator.
- His house got bombed.
- A Bellator belt.
- Christ, imagine if it was a UFC belt.
- I don't love that motherfucker.
- I don't fucking care.
- That's so crazy.
- With his Bellator belt.
- That fucking dude's good, man.
There's so many good guys now, it's crazy.
It's just a wild time for the sport, man.
- Yeah.
- You know, I like Big John.
You know one thing I don't like that he does?
- What?
- It always irks me.
- What?
- Big John McCarthy.
I like, when I won the title, he was my guy.
But I hate this.
Man, as you fucking savages know,
when you're in there, you're in a certain mindset.
You've got a guy looking to do bodily harm to you.
You're looking to fucking take him out, any way possible.
If there's a foul or something,
now you're in this mindset.
So now you've got this big fucking guy.
Hey, what do you see?
You see ugly?
- Making jokes.
- Oh, oh.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Okay, let me go back to this guy trying to kill me, Big John.
Good one, Big John.
What the fuck?
Really?
That's just a fake, Big John.
You don't like him making jokes in the middle of a fight?
- Hey, how about this?
How about you go to the mothership,
and you bring that to Tony?
How about you put your name in the hat,
you take the name out,
and maybe you could use that on "Kill Tony."
I don't like that shit.
I mean, fuck that.
Every time he does it--
- Oh my God.
- There's something in me that makes me just be like,
"Dude, is it about you?
"What the fuck's the matter with you?
"Good one, Big John, oh."
And you see the guys do it.
Sometimes you see the guys go,
"Oh, yeah, all right.
"Dude, fuck that."
It's the same as the guy looking to give you
a high five out there.
Fuck that, too.
That's boring.
So I mean, I don't know, man.
It always irked me,
and it just stuck out when his name came up.
And he's not a bad guy.
Great guy.
Love him.
But how about this?
Now that you're back reffing, make a note of that, maybe.
Make a note of that.
Put your name in a hat.
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Yeah, I can imagine.
That would fuck with your head, right?
You'd be like, man, make me listen to that joke.
Goddamn!
Fuck!
I just got poked in the eye.
You're in here fucking working.
What are you, you see ugly?
Bro, I think they're getting a little bit better about warning people for fouls, but not better about taking points.
They did for a little while.
Yeah, like right when it was hot, it was hot, and they were like, yeah, point, point, point.
Yeah, one point, and everybody was like, yes!
Crowd cheered.
That's how it's got to be.
Okay, folks, that's the new rule.
The new rule should be eye poke, one point.
Don't poke eyes.
You do this shit, and you jab someone in the eyes, one point.
One point.
Yeah, no doubt.
One point.
Right away, you know not to do it.
Sometimes it happens.
Unfortunately, if it happens, you get a point taken away.
Don't let it happen.
And you go back to your corner and go, make sure you don't do that again.
Nut shot, one point.
Unintentional nut shot.
It's a warning.
Because you could kick while I'm kicking, and you hit me in the nuts.
You weren't trying to hit me in the nuts.
We just collided legs.
That happens.
All the time.
The rough one is the call is the back of the head when you're trying to put a guy away.
Because he's moving his head.
You're trying to hit him.
It's hard, man.
That's hard.
That's hard.
And that spot is a lot smaller than what most people think.
Because we think about it, they just say the back of the head.
So you're assuming that it's like anything back there.
It's just a moho.
It's just like a little small piece.
Isn't that crazy, though?
You kind of should be able to hit the back of the head.
If everybody had the Odey Osborne haircut, it'd be okay.
Just don't hit him in his hair.
Bro, do you remember when Henzo fought, what was his name, Rikers?
Ben Rikers?
Yes.
Spikers.
Spikers.
Ben Spikers.
And it showed, if you're allowed to elbow the back of the head, the rear mount.
When Henzo was dropping bombs on him and then stepped on his neck on the way out.
Put him to sleep with his jacket, with his gaiter.
I remember that.
I love that.
It was awesome.
The beating he gave him before he choked him to sleep.
The beating in the back of his head.
Stop calling my fucking room all night long.
The guy was being a prick before the fight.
He was a piece of shit.
Yeah.
He did.
What'd he do?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
He was calling his fucking room, trying to wake him up, had his people harassing Henzo.
He was a dick, and that's why Henzo did that.
Henzo went to greet him, and he said, "Oh, you have eyes like my girlfriend, but they're prettier."
Or some fucking. So Henzo's one of those guys that he can go from a smile to a fucking
boha in a few seconds, about to fucking throw it out.
I mean, zero to 100.
Real quick.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, and only if you're a dick.
Oh, yeah.
100%.
If you're not a dick, he's the nicest guy in the world.
Yeah.
Fuck him.
Come on.
That position just shows you, if you're allowed to do that. Yeah.
This is. Show before that.
Watch what he does before.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Once he gets them back mount, watch this.
Boom.
Boom.
Man.
Bop.
Bop.
Bop.
I mean, dude, that's a wrap.
You can only take. Imagine if that was in MMA.
That's great.
Why. Now, here's the thing.
Is that. And then his dummy has a gi on.
Is that inherently dangerous?
He steps on his dummy.
Is it that much more dangerous?
I mean, what we're doing is already dangerous.
Right.
Yeah.
And it also is very effective.
Yeah.
So, are we removing a very effective technique that would end fights?
And if so, are we doing it to protect the fighter?
Because if we are, why are we allowing a lot of other stuff?
Yeah.
Why are we allowing flying knees?
Right.
Why are we allowing side kicks to the knee?
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
Why are we allowing wheel kicks to the head?
Heels to the head?
Hey.
Smack him in the face again.
Yeah.
Sure.
Hey.
Step on his neck.
I mean, there's a certain amount of things that we already allow that are so bad for
you.
It's like, why don't you allow a shot to the back of the head?
I need it explained to me like I'm a child.
Why is it okay to slam your elbow full blast into someone's temple?
Yeah, but not this spot.
You could drive your elbow down into their eye socket.
That's okay.
But the back of the head is bad.
But also, the back of the head's fine if you knock someone out from the back of the head,
like you didn't mean to, like a head kick.
Like how many head kicks wrap around with the back of the head?
Right.
Right.
Wonderboy, and it's like his UFC debut.
He goes over the shoulder, whack, back of the head, out cold.
Yeah.
That shit always works.
The back of the head, round kicks.
That's a lot of times where they land.
It's got to be a title.
It discombobulates you getting hit in the back of the head.
It is a little different, I think.
How many times, like Ernesto, who's knocked dudes out with back of the head head kicks
in kickboxing?
A lot.
I mean, yeah.
All the time.
For sure.
I think that's how he knocked dudes out with back of the head head kicks in kickboxing.
A lot.
Like Ernesto, who's knocked dudes out with back-of-the-head head kicks in kickboxing.
A lot.
All the time.
For sure.
I think that's how he knocked out Maurice Smith.
I think he snuck it around over the shoulder and hit him in the back of the head.
I mean, anatomy's going to dictate that.
That's what you're supposed to do.
So that's legal?
No one says, that's an illegal blow.
My overhands, that's where they hit a lot.
Fuck them.
I'm facing you.
What do you want me to do?
This is what is part of the sport, right?
Now, if that's legal and you get a KO win, if you head kick someone and you land them in the back of the head, that's always happened.
That's happened a hundred times.
I don't know.
It's weird, right?
I mean, it's weird because, I mean, now we're playing with all these different rules and people don't like them.
And it's just like, I mean, you've got to draw a line somewhere, I suppose.
See if you can find Ernesto.
So who's KO's Maury Smith?
Less rules shows who's the better fighter at the end of the day.
But there's some rules that I'm like, okay, but now you're getting an unrealistic understanding of a position.
Like when someone's in a turtle and you can't knee to the head.
Yeah, to me, that one should be eliminated right away.
You should be able to knee a guy in the head from there.
Yeah, watch this.
Look at that.
Shoot, there it is.
Right at the back of the head?
Yep.
Watch that again.
Is it in slow motion?
Is that what it is?
Watch how slick this is.
Ernesto, who's such a beast.
Look how close he is, too.
Look at that.
Oh, man.
Boom.
Crazy.
See how close he was?
Shoot.
Crazy.
That was like Billy Jack.
Look at that.
Bro.
Yep.
That is nice.
So if that happened in the UFC, everybody would cheer.
You couldn't say, hey, that's an illegal blow.
Right.
Even though, technically, that's the spot where they can constitute a legal blow.
Yeah, that's illegal.
Yeah.
That's illegal.
And wheel kicks happen like that all the time.
All the time.
All the time.
Because it's coming from that angle from behind.
Yep.
Whipping around.
The guy tries to duck under, hits him right in the back of the head, and no one complains.
Yeah.
It's weird.
The referee never says, stop.
No striking the back of the head.
Never happens.
Yeah.
Ever.
It's only when they're like turtled.
On the ground.
And they're throwing arm punches.
Yeah.
Which is the least powerful shot.
Which is less powerful than a full kick to the head.
But the reality is, if you were in that position and the guy could throw elbows to the back
of the head, that would be a wrap.
In that same position where you're on a guy's back.
And you're doing this kind of shit.
Instead, if you're just back of the head.
Boom.
Boom.
Like Henzo just did.
Hey, man.
What about headbutts?
Right.
Headbutts.
Not even standing up.
Right.
Like when I'm in a clinch and I'm buried in.
It's good for short guys.
Yeah.
I fucking love you.
No doubt.
Coming up with your head all day.
Bro.
When I get in that clinch.
Mark Coleman.
Remember that?
Mark Coleman would get in your guard and headbutt the fuck out of you.
And the only guy to solve that puzzle was Maury Smith.
Yeah, well.
Maury Smith was the first guy to do that.
He was the first guy to solve that puzzle.
Ragged him out.
Cardio.
Cardio.
Cardio and defense off his back.
Good butterfly guard.
Dude, Mark Kerr murdered Fabio Gurgell with headbutts, too.
Bro, headbutts when you were on top is brutal.
Yeah, I was at that Maury Smith fight.
That was the first fight I ever went to.
Really?
The UFC fight I ever went to.
It was in Birmingham, Alabama.
Really?
I was there, yeah.
Wow.
Bro, that was a huge upset.
Yeah, I know.
Big time.
I was nervous.
Everybody fucked Cole Maury.
Did you?
I was nervous.
I was in the crowd rooting for Maury Smith for obvious reasons.
Well, I was.
And everybody, but I was the only one there rooting for Maury Smith, yeah.
I was friends with Maury's.
Maury's came over to my house, worked out with him.
I was cool with Maury's.
Nice guy.
So it was like, I was sad.
I was like, oh my God, Maury's is going to fight Mark Coleman.
get killed. I was like, he's 260 pounds.
He's a wrestler. He takes everybody down.
And then when Maurice was
leg kicking him, he said, come on, Mark. Ground me and
pound me. Whap! Whap! He was talking
to him while he was doing it. And then when Mark moved towards
me, move away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got my back in. Those leg kicks were
brutal, too. Maurice was the first guy
to bring, like, world-class leg kicks
to the UFC. Yeah. World
class. Did the Lions then guy
actually Pedro Hizzo? Yeah, Pedro
Hizzo. Pedro Hizzo. Yeah.
Paul Varlins. Yeah, he had sick leg kicks.
What's the Lions? Pete, uh. Pete Selle? I mean,
Pete Williams.
Pete Williams? Pete Williams
knocked him out. Who knocked him out first?
I think
Maurice beat him first. Yes. But Maurice
beat him by decision, right? Wasn't it a five-round
decision? I think it was a decision. I think it was a five-round
he just beat him up. Pete Williams caught him with a kick.
Yeah, Pete Williams head kicked with shoes
on. Yeah, the good old
day. That's right. He hit him with shoes
on, yeah. Bro, what a crazy
sport, man. I remember one of the first
fights that I saw was
this Japanese dude and
Valigi. And they
were grabbing each other's, like, underwear.
Like, you could hold up. It was giving him a
wedgie. I think the dude he was fighting, like, was
literally grabbing his shorts and, like,
giving him a massive wedgie, like, during the
fight. Yeah. Totally
legal. It was totally legal. In the
UFC? It was bare knuckle back then, too.
The first fight I worked was bare knuckle.
That was 97. I remember that. Vitor
was the only guy that had gloves.
Was Vitor the first guy or Tank the first
guy to wear gloves? Tank was one of the first
guys, for sure. Tank might have been the first
guy. I believe he was the first guy.
And then Vitor wore them, too.
Vitor was, you know,
bro, at 19 years old, and Vitor
first fought in the UFC. Tornado.
I know.
Trey Tellingman
fight? Like, holy shit, dude.
I mean, definitely pre-Isada
on that motherfucker. A hundred.
He looked like the fucking Hulk. Right? Well, not yet
he didn't. When he first fought in the UFC, he only weighed
200 pounds.
When he fought Scott Ferrozzo, when he
fought Trey Tellingman, he weighed 200 pounds.
Then he gained tons of weight
and fought Randy. And when he fought Randy,
he was like 240. And that
messed him up, too. He couldn't move. Oh, he was too big.
What if Randy got cut
in that one, remember? No, that was a different
one. That was in the UFC later on for the
light heavyweight title. Where he hit his eyelid? Yeah.
So this is Trey Tellingman.
And Trey Tellingman,
if you're watching this, lost his
check and his peck
rather in a car accident when he was a baby.
That's crazy. Yeah, crazy.
He lost ribs, too. Oh, this is Brad Kohler.
This is a different fight.
What is going on here?
Japan 1997.
Oh, yeah, but this is
not, that's not Japan 97.
It's UFC 12, actually.
Japan 97 was when
Frank Shamrock fought Kevin Jackson.
Remember any armbar? Yeah.
This was. That was pretty crazy.
This is a different card.
It's Ultimate Japan 97.
UFC 12 is the fight.
I was just going off on that.
You remembered a number? Yeah.
Randy looks older there than he does now.
Peptides.
It's not. It wasn't Japan, though.
I just heard you say something
about Japan 1997. That's all I typed in.
No.
No, there's a Japanese fighter,
is what I said. He fought Waleedji.
Waleed Ishmael.
It was either UFC 12
or UFC 13.
Waleed,
Ishmael, UFC.
If you find that, you'll find it.
And the dude was giving him a super wedgie.
You were totally
allowed to grab shorts.
You could punch guys in the nuts.
Keith Hackney punching Joe Son in his balls.
Yeah. Remember that?
Dude, what about Gary Goodridge in The Crucifix?
Oh, yeah. What about Paul Herrera?
So here it is. Look what the dude's done to
Luigi's pants. Luigi's pants.
Jesus. All the way up the crack of his ass.
Because the dude had a hold of
his shorts earlier in the
fight. Rather that be McKenzie Dern,
he's giving the wedgie to him.
Look at that. Look at that.
Here it is. Bro. Oil check.
Bro.
Oh, my God. So this was my first
UFC that it worked. Okay, so look.
The Japanese guy has the gloves on as well.
So Vitor had them on, but
Waleedji is bare knuckle.
Look, you're allowed to grab it back then.
The Japanese guy has gloves. Waleedji's bare knuckle.
It's hilarious.
Isn't that crazy? He's really grabbing
his balls. He's up there grabbing his nuts.
I think you could. I think you could grab nuts. It's got to be so uncomfortable.
And look how he's grabbing the fence.
Full on grabbing the fence.
And Big John's trying to pry his hands away.
He just grabs them again. He just don't even let go.
At least back then, I guess you couldn't
grab the fence, so there was a rule.
He's grabbing it again. Look at the grab.
Look at the grab. That is the most
blatant fence grabbing of all time.
I see ugly right there.
Bro. Big John.
Get on it. John. John.
Slap his hands away, John. Do something. John.
Johnny's grabbing the fence.
It was like a suggestion
back then. It was not even
a rule. You're allowed to grab the fence.
I think he knocked his hands away. He was saying
don't grab the fence, but only like a little.
He's kind of not that
enthusiastic about enforcing it.
As he was letting go already, he was
slapping his hand away. He grabbed it.
That was the first UFC I worked.
The rules back then were so weird.
Shoes. Wrestling shoes.
It's weird how you. Wrestling shoes would change everything.
You get so much more grip on the cage.
So much.
So much more ability to move.
But the wrestlers would love it.
More foot locks.
Yeah, that would be a problem.
Oh, heel hooks would be a real problem.
When I first started training, I remember with
Kukuk back in the day, he used to wear
wrestling sneakers and stuff. And I'm never being like,
I wanted as much for the street as
possible. I remember that was my mentality.
So I'd wear the wrestling sneakers and I'm like,
yo, fuck this. Guys are grabbing your
foot. I'm like, yo, fuck that.
It also like, you're setting up
arm bars and stuff. Like when you try to grab the foot
and throw it over it, now you've got a grip
on something that's like text
textile. Like you could hold
on to that motherfucker. A foot is
foot's hard to hold on to. They get
sweaty and shit. They're all slippery.
Nah, no good.
When I hear Jens Polver, I was like, he gonna
wear shoes? Oh, word?
That was. Hey, Jamie, can you find
Dean Thomas' rolling knee bar on Jens Polver?
Oh, it was beautiful. I bet they don't
even have that. I think Jamie can find it.
Oh, it has to be online. Everything's online.
Dean Thomas. Those fights?
Those old fights? I mean, those are history. I'm a
shooter fighter, you know. I remember seeing that interview
because I was. You remember seeing it? I studied it because I was gonna
fight you. Oh. And I'm like,
ah! Try that knee bar
on me, motherfucker. Jens Polver had some
laser beam punches back in the day. I know.
I remember when he knocked out John Lewis.
Ooh, I was like, I gotta fight this guy.
Sure, that was a bad one. Jens Polver
crack. You got him in his prime, too. Yeah, but I
did not want that guy punching
me. Yeah, you can't be wearing shoes.
It's just. Rolling knee bar. Yeah.
It's just too much. Too much
of an advantage. That was an old school one, too.
You did it almost like you're gonna give your back to him
and he fucking rolls. Yeah, he just rolls under him. I think
you should let him win. Look at this. Look at this. Here it
is. Look at this. Who is that fucking
youngster? Look how lean you are.
Oh, man. This is nasty. Inside heel hook
in shoes. Inside heel hook with shoes on.
That's a wrap. That's the worst. He has no way
to. Tap, tap, tap. You should have tapped a long time ago.
Dean Thomas. Oh, my God. That must have
hurt. Dean Thomas. What did it feel like? Did you feel
a bust? Oh, I heard all the pop.
How bad was
the injury? Oh, I don't know. I never
called him afterwards, but. Oh, it had to be real bad,
dude. It had to be real bad.
With the shoes and everything. Like, my God.
Look at that, Dean Thomas. Look how you rolled into that.
That's so pretty. Look at you. Look at you.
Right into the inside.
Oh, my God. He knows he's fucks, Bill.
Oh, God.
I heard it pop.
You mean, Dean Thomas.
Yeah, I heard that pop a few times afterwards.
That's awesome, Dean. How good does that feel?
It feels good.
I've watched myself get knocked out by BJ Penn
over and over and over for years, so, like,
about time I get one.
Those heel hook ones are the ones that you. While you're watching them, you're grabbing the knees.
Yeah, you know. You're already. I hate them. I hate them with a passion.
Yeah, it is. Because they ruin your whole career.
Hey, did you ever see a Kimura
dislocate? Oh, yeah.
That's just ugly, man.
It's like, you almost want to push it back in.
You're like. Frank Mir.
Oh, dude.
Dude, in a straight jiu-jitsu tournament,
I'd snap the dude's humerus just, like,
straight up key lock because he didn't tap.
My coach is yelling, like, protect your fighter.
Oh, Jesus.
God, that's horrible. And you don't recover
fully from that. Yeah, he had to get surgery.
Sounded like a pool stick snapping.
Ah, I'll never
forget the sound of Weidman.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. That's like a chalkboard thing.
Never forget that sound. I remember that.
That one was so loud.
I didn't work that. I wasn't in the. It was so loud. It was so loud.
What are the chances Anderson
does it to, you know, he does it to
Anderson and then it fucking happens
to him, too. That's crazy. Right. It's only happened to
four guys in the UFC.
It's scary. Conor's one.
Corey Hill's the first one. Yeah.
I remember the Corey Hill one because the referee didn't see it.
And I put my headphones on. I'm screaming,
stop the fight, stop the fight.
He passed away, too, that guy. Stop the fight.
Did he? Yeah. Yeah. Young.
Was it related to that? No, I think he had some kind of
disease. Some kind of, like,
something with his blood. Bro, a break of a bone
is a traumatic injury. Like, you have
to understand, there's such a difference between breaking
your hand, which I think we've all done.
I broke my arm when I was a little kid.
Breaking your shin in half
like that, it's
such a traumatic injury. Stepping down on it
and it just gives out. How about Frank Mir? Broke his
femur in a car accident.
A guy T-boned him on a motorcycle.
Snapped his thigh bone.
But Frank wasn't the same for years.
It took years for him to come back
to full form again.
That's rough, man.
Rough.
So this is the other question about Conor.
How much can he use that left leg?
His left leg snapped in half, okay?
And I see him kicking the bag, and I see him doing all these things, and that's great.
And I hope it's 100%.
But, I mean—
I've seen Chris Weidman kicking, heck, the lombard.
They had a weird thing where I think it's only body punches and leg kicks.
You see what I'm talking about?
Oh, that jiu-jitsu thing?
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, that jiu-jitsu thing in Russia.
But it wasn't jiu-jitsu.
But it is.
They do jiu-jitsu, too.
Did they?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're allowed to leg kick and body punch.
It was the oddest thing.
It's the weirdest thing.
I just saw Chris just kicking him in his body.
And Hector was, like, punching him in the neck.
I'm like, what the fuck kind of rules is this?
It's crazy.
I didn't know what I was watching.
Those ones where the dudes, like, stand next to each other and just leg kick each other into submission.
Oh, yeah.
That shit's pretty nasty.
Those are so—that's so crazy.
Who does that?
I don't know, man, but there's a lot of those videos.
It's almost as dumb as slaps.
Almost.
Shit.
I mean, kind of almost, because, like, you could really ruin your leg.
Come on, man.
You don't understand.
Like, Pedro Hizzo, like, one of those kind of guys.
Could you imagine, like, doing that with Pedro Hizzo?
Look at the damage Hizzo did to Randleman's leg.
That shit had a different vein pattern after he got done with him.
Randy Couture.
It was, like, six months for him to recover.
Two fights with him.
Earlier this year in an MMA fight.
God damn, man.
In a heavyweight fight.
Oh, Jesus.
Are we going out to eat later, man?
Fuck.
You're going to make me sick.
It's a horrible, horrible injury, man.
I hate those things, man.
And I know how hard Chris kicks.
Longo was, like, backstage.
He was killing the pads.
It was hard to hold them.
That's such a great impression.
And fucking, then he went out there, and Jesus.
Rogan's making me feel bad for being 68.
Oh, yeah.
He was telling me.
He's so funny, man.
And then he was asking about a peptide.
I have to text him later.
He's the best.
You two together, I swear to God, should be a show.
Come on.
It should be a show.
Let's just fucking follow him around.
Yeah, just follow you guys around.
Follow you to the pizza place.
I've seen him yesterday.
It'd be a great fucking show.
Are you kidding me?
It really would.
You get one of them keep it up with Kardashians people who know how to do a reality show, film
the two of you guys together hanging out, drinking coffee, talking shit, training fighters.
Oh, it'd be epic.
Yeah.
Epic.
Don't wait too long.
He's getting older.
And also, think about how many guys you've worked with, like super high-level guys like
Aljo and Merab and, you know.
And Weidman.
And Weidman.
Being with them at the UFCs.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
We have a good time.
Who's best to have mics on in the corner?
No one.
Those two.
Come on.
You guys are the best.
It's so funny.
I like that comedians are making comedies again.
I'm looking at Harlan.
This is Harlan Williams.
Yeah, Harlan.
Will Harlan Williams.
He put a gourd in his fucking underwear.
I love that guy.
Oh, my God.
I think that guy's hysterical.
With the fake legs.
With the fake legs.
He's so funny, man.
His movie, you know, I love movies.
His movie, Wingman.
Wingman is funny.
It's funny.
It's a good movie.
Of course it's funny.
He's funny in everything he does.
Yeah.
I miss those.
Him and Nasty Nate.
Half-baked.
You know what it is?
These comedians are now funding it themselves.
Like Theo Vaughn and David Spade did Busboys.
Yes.
And Tom Segura's doing a bunch of shows like that now, too.
Theo and David Spade did one together.
Yeah.
Theo's real life Joe Dirt.
So that's-
You know, I like that they're just doing it where they don't have to get okayed by anybody.
Yeah.
And the other one, I keep-
I know.
Now he's telling them what to do.
How to fucking be in a cult.
How to start a cult.
With the Greek guy.
The heavy set Greek guy.
Is that Stavros?
Stavros?
Yeah.
That's a funny one.
Dude.
That one made me fucking laugh.
Stavros is very funny.
He's from Baltimore and he does a Baltimore Ravens fan after every win or loss during
the season.
Like, you have to fucking see it because it's fucking hilarious.
Very funny dude.
Yeah, man.
I like this.
It's a good time for comedy because this is like pushback.
Yeah.
You know, when there's pushback, then people get excited when someone doesn't give into
it and they make their own shit.
But if you want to try to make a comedy movie with a studio, you have to deal with so many
people telling you what you can and can't say.
You're way better off just doing it on your own.
Like, they don't really know what funny is.
They're trying to protect their job.
They have a Mercedes.
Man, they were cranking them out for a while there.
Like, Talladega Nights and fucking Tropic Thunder.
You know what happened?
The fucking internet happened.
People started complaining in real life.
Like, you know, it started-
These morons online started affecting-
It started affecting the way people view comedy.
So ridiculous.
Meanwhile, it didn't affect the way we view violence, which is crazy.
Like, you could have a super hyper-violent movie and nobody has a problem with it, right?
Yeah, more now.
It's the dumbest shit of all time.
But if you have some crazy-
Like, if you tried to make a movie like Superbad-
It's fucking hilarious.
Try to make that today.
Couldn't make it.
You couldn't make it.
Or Tropic Thunder.
Couldn't make it.
Tropic Thunder.
Couldn't make it.
Fucking Robert Downey Jr. straight and bold.
Straight and blackface.
Couldn't make it.
And then Ben Stiller, full retard.
Come on.
I asked him, I said, do you think- Robert Downey Jr.
I said, do you think you could make that movie today?
He goes, oh, you could make it.
Yeah.
Well, most of the 80s comedy is about guys trying to get laid.
I mean, the premise alone is not going to make it.
It's funny, man.
It's like, we're allowed the most hyper-violent movies and celebrate them.
Oh, this is awesome.
It's awesome.
Like, I just watched Collateral again the other day.
Oh, what a fucking love.
That's an awesome movie.
We watched a scene in one of the episodes we did.
We watched that scene where he shoots those guys in the alley.
In the alley.
And I got so into it, I go, I need to watch that movie again.
Fuck.
Yeah, sick movie.
But hyper-violent.
Yeah.
And a movie that everybody says is a wonderful movie.
Yeah.
Really good.
But comedy.
Really enjoyed it.
Let's make you laugh.
Yeah.
But doesn't it like, isn't it like spoilers, like, I don't want to spoil it, but like,
doesn't the other, doesn't Jamie Foxx kill him or something at the end?
Well, in the end.
In the end, he dies.
Well, I mean, he dies somehow, but like, isn't it like kind of unbelievable that he kills
the master assassin, the taxi driver?
I think like he wanted to die.
I think when you kill a bunch of people over a long period of time.
Oh, it's one of those?
It's deeper than that?
I didn't see it.
You wait for your turn.
You know, it's supposed to be Russell Crowe and Adam Sandler in that movie.
Whoa.
Originally.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Interesting.
I think one of them dropped off.
Yeah, right.
That's interesting.
I'll tell you what, Tom Cruise was good.
Phenomenal.
He's pretty much good in that.
Dude, they say they used that clip of him in that alley for training, like CIA motherfuckers.
Because it was that clean.
Do you know the scene?
No.
Oh, one of my favorite scenes in any movie.
Jamie, pull it up.
One of my favorite scenes in any movie.
Two idiots.
I love a good tactical draw, because I love a guy who practices.
What's the, it's underrated.
It's a fucking, it's a live, die, repeat.
Yes.
The Tom Cruise one.
It might have been called something else.
Edge of Tomorrow.
What is it?
Edge of Tomorrow.
Yes.
It's a space ride.
It was really good.
It kept coming back, coming back.
This is a scene.
So Jamie Foxx is strapped to the car.
He's zip-tied him to the steering wheel and took the keys.
Wow.
That's fine.
But you can't have a bunch of guys trying to get laid.
Yeah.
That's unrealistic.
You're sending a bad message.
Spring break.
I never thought of it that way, actually.
It's ridiculous.
The comedians rebuttal to it, to not being able to make the movies they want to make.
Well, it's only empowered the clubs.
Like, clubs are packed.
Yeah.
Everybody wants, because you go, like, you go to the mothership, you're going to hear
some wild shit.
Right.
People want to laugh.
They don't, nobody, it doesn't mean you mean what you're saying.
Right, right, right.
What the fuck?
It's a joke.
Bob Marley didn't really shoot the sheriff.
Right.
Okay?
It's like, what you're doing is fucking around.
Yeah.
And we all know.
We've always been talking shit.
Talking shit has been a natural part of humans.
We talk shit.
We joke around.
And the idea that that's supposed to be up to someone else.
Up to someone's standards or someone else's parameters of what you can and can't talk.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
Just don't go.
Just don't go watch it.
Tom Brady roast kind of brought it back.
In a big way.
Yeah, in a big way.
Yeah, the Tom Brady roast, I think, cracked the egg.
Because that thing got, like, 55 million views on Netflix alone, like, within the first week.
Joe, can I get that water, please?
Yeah, sure.
Are people still getting canceled now?
I think it's kind of passed.
I think it doesn't work.
You can't, because everybody can just put your own stuff on.
Yeah.
You can just do your own stuff.
Well, it's also when people get canceled, people just flock to those people now.
Yeah.
It, like, makes them more popular.
Yeah.
You know, look at Kanye.
Kanye is selling out the biggest fucking places in the world doing pop-up shows.
Yeah, yeah.
He's doing arena pop-up shows.
Yeah, he just did one in Miami a couple weeks ago.
My son went to it.
It was, like, crazy.
He's doing one this weekend in San Antonio.
Really?
Just a pop-up show.
Tony Hinchcliffe just went to the one in Tampa.
He said it was insane.
Yeah.
This is the greatest show he's ever seen in his life.
He's on top of a world.
He's, like, standing on top of a globe.
And, like, it's spinning while he's up there doing two and a half hours of bangers.
Yeah.
Like, you realize, Tony goes, you realize how many hits this guy has.
Who is it?
Kanye motherfucking West.
Oh, Kanye.
Shit.
Otherwise known as Ye.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeezy.
Yeah, no one wants to do a versus battle against Kanye.
No.
He's going to eat you up.
He's so prolific.
Yeah.
And, like, Tony said that, like, every aspect of the show he produced.
So every sound has, like, a purpose, every lighting effect.
It's all coordinated.
He said it's amazing.
He's, like, a genius.
He's a genius.
Legit.
Crazy as fucking a shithouse rat.
But that's how you have to be.
He's out there.
I mean, but most creative people.
100%.
You know, they're coming from a different.
You don't get that good by being normal.
Right.
Like, he's too good.
But, I mean.
Normal's overrated.
The guy comes back from wearing a diamond-encrusted swastika to selling out the biggest arenas
in the world.
He has a song called Heil Hitler.
A year later.
He's selling out the biggest arenas in the world, like, instantaneously.
Do you know?
He's the GOAT.
Like no one's even close
He's like one of the greatest performers of all time
Yeah
Like no one's even close
Like with the stuff that he does
Like you can compare it to his contemporaries
Like he's out of it
Yeah he's so far ahead of everybody else
Out there
Prince was like that too
All the hits he had
And all the hits he's written for people
Yeah man
When that Freddie Gray shit happened in Baltimore
He called the city
And wanted to do like a benefit concert or whatever
And I was able to go to it
And at one point on the stage
He's doing all these songs
And he goes
God damn I forgot all the good shit
And then he kept going
But the best story was on Soundcheck
Like he tunes
Everything's got to be the way he wants it
And Jay-Z, Beyonce
And somebody else
I don't know who the third person was
But they were going to come and be part of it
So they asked him if he could come
He's like yeah sure
So when they came
They started to go on stage for Soundcheck
And a friend of mine at the building said
Prince is like whoa
What are you doing up on the fucking stage
And they're like oh you know
We want to get our shit straight
And he goes no this is my shit
You want to come and be a part of it
Fine if not
Get the fuck off the stage
Whoa
And they walked and left
And got out of there
Well you got to be careful with other stars
Because they do like the metal
Yeah
I want it like this
I want the lighting
And that dude
You know shit was getting done
How he wanted it done
100% it has to be
He was too good
Yeah he's a fucking genius
I remember that guitar solo he did
At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Oh my god
He could do anything
Yeah
He could play any musical instrument
He used to play all the musical instruments
Did you
And he could play basketball
Yeah
Yeah
Did you watch that Michael Jackson
I didn't
Michael Jackson
I saw it
Did you watch it
I did yeah
How was it
I thought it was good
Ray liked it
You didn't see it yet
I didn't see it
Oh it's good
No it's good
But Longo watched it
No it's good
And then he told
You know what he told me
What
I mean
I mean
It's a good thing I guess
After he's seen it
He goes
He didn't touch any kids
Oh I'll tell you right now
He didn't fucking touch any kids
So I'm like
What Longo
So that's all
So I want to know
Your thoughts on it
That's hilarious
Nah
Cause like
His father was fucked up
Yeah his father was fucked up
Nah it's a good movie
And the guy who played it
His nephew nailed it
Yeah man
Nailed
My family loved it
My wife
My kids
They loved it
I didn't see it though
It's a cautionary tale
The Michael Jackson story
Is like
When kids get that famous
No one can handle it
That's what that is
Yeah
There's also the weirdness
Of the doctor saying
That he was chemically castrated
His doctor
The same guy that killed him
The same guy that killed him
With the profenol
The guy that put him to sleep
With anesthesia
That guy said
That when he was young
His father chemically castrated him
To preserve his voice
Are you serious
Yeah
They didn't get into that part
Which totally makes sense
When you look at him
In comparison
To all the other guys
In his family
You know
He's really thin
Like he has no testosterone
Yeah
Never really thought about that
All the brothers
Are all big men
They're men
Like you look at Jermaine
For sure
They're big men
He's really thin
And he kept that
High pitched voice
Like when you listen
To some of his
Like human nature
Listen to human nature
Like that voice is insane
Yeah
We can't play it on the show
But Jamie
Play human nature
By Michael Jackson
Real quick
Why did
Why did Varys get plump
On Game of Thrones
When they cut off his balls
Well
I don't think that was real
Oh yeah
I mean
There's also dragons in it
You can still get fat
But you can't
You
You know
You don't get muscle
Like you don't have any testosterone
It's gone
You're a eunuch
They probably weren't
Feeding that guy either
To keep him thin
So he could dance
Right
Oh man
Well also he's probably
Performing every night
Every night
So he's burning off
Shit tons of calories
If they put a Fitbit on that dude
The amount of steps
That he's taking
Dude it's pretty crazy
Like a front man
For a band
Fucking running
They're doing all night long
Here we go
Let's play
We're gonna play this song
Human Nature
Ooh the official music video
Oh man
So that voice
You
I don't think you get that voice
From a man
No
But how do you
A regular man
How do you
That has a testicle
How do you castrate somebody
The same way that they do it
With puberty blockers
That they use on kids
Just like pills and stuff
No
Like when you're
When they do puberty blockers
That's what puberty blockers do
Yeah
What they're doing
Is they're just blocking
All of your testosterone production
And so they used to do it
To criminals
So if they had a sex offender
That was
Put them in jail
They would chemically castrate them
I'm all for that
Yeah
Chop their dicks off
Just eliminate them
We just eliminate them
Yeah man
They should be eliminated
But the
The chemically castration thing
They used to do with opera singers
They called them castratos
But not chemically castrated
They used to use a knife
They used to chop their balls off
When they were young
Damn
So that they could sing
Like
Like a woman
It was a very haunting sound
Like there's only one recording
Of a castrato
That's from like
Jimmy when was it from
Like the 1800s
Yeah really
There's one recording
Of a guy singing
That had no balls
And they do it to them
When they're really young
They do it to them
When they're kids
No kidding
Yeah like your family
Sells you off to some opera
And they slice your balls off
And keep you that way forever
Man
Crazy
Damn
Yeah
And the sound
Find that castrato recording
The sound is haunting man
You hear the guy singing
And he creeps you out
You're like
Oh my god
This guy was a little boy
And they cut his balls
Off so he could sing like this
Oh that's so
Ugh
Yeah
And I think that's what
They did to Michael Jackson
Well at least that's what
The doctor says
It makes sense to me
I mean it makes sense
Like even watching a movie
How hard his father was on him
And how much he demanded of him
Oh man
You're gonna creep us out now
Listen to this guy's voice
Okay
Oh Jesus Christ
Ugh
That's depressing
But we know that
That was an actual process
That was an actual practice
They really did
Chop boys
Balls off
So they could sing
And they could sing better
Went from happy human nature
To sounding like
Some funny
He was fucking dying
I know it's really nuts
If you think about
The horrible things
That people were willing to do
It's not disproving it or anything
It's just the guy saying
He went to search
Where they were doing it
And I think he said
He was having very trouble
A lot of trouble finding
A lot of information
About castratos
Yeah and where they did it
Or how they did it
But they hide that
Yeah
I was gonna say probably
I was chopping nuts off
Oh yeah
Let me take you to the lab
We'll show you
What we do with the balls
Are you doing those peptides?
Many eunuchs were castrated
After puberty
And thus castration
Had no effect on their voices
Oh that's a eunuch though
But that's just
The puberty
Oh after puberty then
Yeah it wouldn't make a difference
Right
So you gotta catch them young
Makes sense
Yeah right
Ugh
You gotta catch them
Before they
Grow their nuts
That's so horrible
Ugh
It says it goes back to 480
But
Boy
Constantinople
Boy
Who
Who's
Who
Who came up with that idea?
I have an idea
I mean how many of them died
From an infection
From getting their nuts chopped off
You know
Probably a lot
You know
Back then they didn't even know
What fucking cooties were
They had no idea
Yeah they didn't clean the night
The night
Yeah
No
Disgusting
It started off as a punishment
It wasn't a choice
And then they realized
These guys sing really nice
In prison
It's kinda cool
They sing in the shower
I really like it
Whoa
Mine
Gentlemen
This was a lot of fun
As always
As always
We always have such a good time
Hell yeah
Matt how you feeling?
What are you talking
Why me?
Why out of everybody
Are you asking me?
100 milligrams
Hey
You alright?
Handle like a boss?
Like a boss
Give me another
Your eyes are a little thin
I was gonna say
You look a little Asian right now
My Italian
Guys
You handled it
I had a good time
I had a great time
It's always fun
Let's go eat
Let's go eat
Let's go eat
Is it Italian?
We can go wherever we want
But what did you want?
Did you want to do Italian?
Well let's cut this off
Alright
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Tommy Lee is described as a fun, energetic, and positive individual who maintains a relaxed lifestyle through activities like bonsai tree care and car modifications.
The bonsai trees he grows are centuries old and passed down through generations, requiring careful trimming and artistic maintenance, reflecting a deep personal passion.
Tommy Lee’s life is portrayed as high-energy and adventurous, with a strong connection to rock and roll, music, and a rebellious, free-spirited attitude.
The conversation highlights the physical and mental challenges of aging, emphasizing the importance of fitness, self-care, and maintaining physical performance over time.
A recurring theme is the difficulty of sustaining athletic performance as one ages, with examples of fighters like Ben Askren and Kamaru Uzman showcasing elite technical skill and physical dominance.
The discussion critiques outdated rules in combat sports, such as the ban on 12-to-6 elbows, calling it illogical and dangerous given the widespread use of such moves.
The conversation touches on the risks and ethical concerns of organ transplants, especially with immunosuppressants, noting their high mortality and long-term complications.
The host praises the evolution of martial arts and MMA culture, particularly the influence of the Gracie family and the value of point fighting and movement-based tactics in combat sports.
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The conversation centers on Tommy Lee, portrayed as a vibrant, energetic, and positive figure who finds joy in unconventional hobbies like growing centuries-old bonsai trees and modifying vintage cars. His lifestyle reflects a deep connection to rock and roll and a free-spirited, unapologetic attitude. The discussion expands to broader themes of aging, physical conditioning, and resilience, emphasizing that maintaining fitness and mental sharpness is critical as one ages—contrasting with the physical decline and injury risks common in older athletes.
The dialogue critically examines the rules in combat sports, such as the restriction on certain elbow strikes, arguing they are illogical and dangerous in practice. It also explores the risks of organ transplants, including immunosuppression-related complications and high mortality rates. A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the artistry and skill in modern martial arts and MMA, particularly the technical mastery of fighters like Ben Askren and Kamaru Uzman, and the value of movement-based tactics such as point fighting and quick transitions.
The conversation ultimately celebrates the evolution of combat sports, crediting pioneers like the Gracie family for shaping modern MMA culture and underscoring the importance of adaptability, physical intelligence, and self-care in athletic longevity. Throughout, the tone remains practical, insightful, and grounded in personal experience, offering a balanced reflection on aging, performance, and the enduring appeal of combat sports.
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Tommy Lee is known for his fun, positive energy and his passion for bonsai trees, which he grows and meticulously trims in a Zen garden-style setup.
Tommy Lee became famous at the age of 18, which allowed him to avoid the typical growth process and remain youthful and energetic throughout his life.
His bonsai trees are several hundred years old, passed down through generations, and maintained with detailed documentation of who originally planted them.
He relaxes by working on his bonsai trees and is also a gearhead who enjoys modifying vintage cars, like installing superchargers on old Corvettes.
Tommy Lee is known for being a positive, kind, and respectful person who has never been aggressive or disrespectful in any interactions.
His early fame at 18 allowed him to avoid the typical aging process, contributing to his youthful and energetic lifestyle and mindset.
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