WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:31.670 This shit ain't nothing to me, man. boxing? Yeah, 00:00:31.750 --> 00:00:37.549 it's time for Boxing Before Dark. What time is 00:00:37.549 --> 00:00:42.170 it where you're at? What time is it where I'm 00:00:42.170 --> 00:00:49.189 at? I don't even know. It's 1720. Oh, you and 00:00:49.189 --> 00:00:53.469 your army time? Well, 24 hour clock. The Japanese 00:00:53.469 --> 00:00:58.329 use the 24 hour clock too. Yeah, that one Japanese 00:00:58.329 --> 00:01:00.450 girl I didn't get along with very well tried 00:01:00.450 --> 00:01:03.570 to tell me that Japan invented the 24 -hour clock. 00:01:03.890 --> 00:01:06.569 It's going to be hard negative for me. Yeah, 00:01:06.569 --> 00:01:10.409 yeah. She was also surprised that I knew what 00:01:10.409 --> 00:01:13.870 it was because English speakers don't use it. 00:01:15.689 --> 00:01:20.930 Not a surprise there. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's 00:01:20.930 --> 00:01:27.200 1720 here and it's not dark yet. It is 9 a .m. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:32.599 here. Oh, shit. I've been kind of avoiding this 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:38.700 because the Ali act is on the ropes. Yeah, I 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:42.180 haven't been able to find much actual information. 00:01:42.540 --> 00:01:46.200 I spent a fair bit of time that one day trying 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.819 to find the actual wording because it's supposed 00:01:48.819 --> 00:01:50.799 to be out there. You're supposed to be able to 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:54.959 read. You'd think so, right? um well and some 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.819 of the articles say they went and read it and 00:01:57.819 --> 00:02:00.719 they've had lawyers read it and stuff but maybe 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.700 i'm just bad at this i could not find the actual 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:12.400 amendment to read so the way that honestly the 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.800 way that i understand it and this is all secondhand 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.360 like just like you said i can't i can't find 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:26.319 the actual The actual verbiage itself. What I'm 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:30.240 understanding is this is really taking the UFC 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.400 model and putting it onto boxing. Yeah. That's 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.860 really what I can get. So your manager can be 00:02:38.860 --> 00:02:41.840 your promoter, can be your whatever. You can 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:46.520 have a one -person system. Yes. Which was... 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:49.979 Kind of what the Ali Act was made to get rid 00:02:49.979 --> 00:02:53.080 of in the first place. That's the entire protection 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.639 that it establishes. Yeah. Is that one person 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.860 can't basically turn you into an indentured slave. 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.879 To me, a really good example of this is Dana 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.729 White's Contender series. So he has these random 00:03:12.729 --> 00:03:16.650 ass prospects come up and they get into his television 00:03:16.650 --> 00:03:22.430 show and they fight for him. And it's like, he's, 00:03:22.490 --> 00:03:26.629 he manages their careers from that point until 00:03:26.629 --> 00:03:30.689 they, if they graduate from the contender series, 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:34.530 then they go into his like promotional objects. 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:39.979 Yeah, so he has a say over everything they do 00:03:39.979 --> 00:03:42.300 in their career. Every step of their career is 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:46.780 managed by him. There's nobody to negotiate for 00:03:46.780 --> 00:03:48.900 the fighters, and there's nobody to negotiate 00:03:48.900 --> 00:03:52.539 with in the UFC. You're negotiating with Dana 00:03:52.539 --> 00:03:55.460 White. That's about it. It's not, well, fuck 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:58.919 you, I'll go fight with so -and -so instead. 00:03:59.979 --> 00:04:02.479 The boxers change promotions when they get in 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:06.000 fights with their promoters. Ryan Garcia is in 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.560 the middle of this right now. Yeah, like... And 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.000 they can just say, well, fuck you, I'll go work 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.879 with Bob. Or, you know, fuck you, Eddie said 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:20.579 he'd pay me more. And it gives them some negotiating 00:04:20.579 --> 00:04:25.350 power. But, like... MMA doesn't have that. There's 00:04:25.350 --> 00:04:28.470 other promotional places, but nobody pays like 00:04:28.470 --> 00:04:31.410 the UFC, which still pays shit. Right, I was 00:04:31.410 --> 00:04:34.589 about to say, nobody pays like the UFC is a very 00:04:34.589 --> 00:04:39.129 generous term, a generous use of paying, because 00:04:39.129 --> 00:04:42.470 they sure as shit do not pay their fighters what 00:04:42.470 --> 00:04:46.930 they're worth. No, it's... I don't want to see... 00:04:46.930 --> 00:04:49.629 I don't think it'll work. I think that the system's 00:04:49.629 --> 00:04:54.040 been set up in boxing long enough. But I do think 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.399 if they get this changed, some people are going 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.019 to get fucked over that wouldn't have otherwise. 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.500 There are going to be some who, my thinking is, 00:05:04.540 --> 00:05:08.300 it would be like using the, this is not what's 00:05:08.300 --> 00:05:10.199 going to happen. This is just me speculating. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:19.480 If the boxing Grand Prix that WBC is running 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:24.420 with the Saudis at the moment. That, having that 00:05:24.420 --> 00:05:32.079 be the feeder system into TKO boxing. And so 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:35.420 you have to get them while they're young, in 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:39.399 a manner of speaking. And lock them in so that 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.079 they can't go anywhere else. Yeah. That's how 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.740 you have to do it. They're trying to introduce 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:48.759 some minimum wage things with this change to 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:56.300 the Ali Act. Which makes it sound good, but it's 00:05:56.300 --> 00:06:01.759 not worth it, in my opinion. The boxers, the 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.540 fighters as a whole, are going to lose too much 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:12.060 for these 20 ,000 minimums for televised fights 00:06:12.060 --> 00:06:17.720 to make any difference. Yeah. We had a good talk 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:23.819 about it on boxing on the B -sides, and one of 00:06:23.819 --> 00:06:25.939 the points that we went over was exactly this, 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:31.000 was that right now, there are already fighter 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:36.279 minimums, depending on which state in the U .S. 00:06:36.699 --> 00:06:39.920 Yeah, other countries don't seem to have any 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.779 minimums, though. That's unfortunate. Because 00:06:42.779 --> 00:06:47.399 they're going to be bigger targets for... I'm 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.399 pretty sure Canada doesn't have a mandatory minimum. 00:06:52.259 --> 00:06:55.500 Some of those guys are fighting for basically 00:06:55.500 --> 00:06:59.839 free. And I know in South America, they always, 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:02.959 especially the ladies boxing, they always talk 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.839 about how the women actually pay to fight at 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.360 the beginning of their career. They sell tickets. 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:12.319 And they'll sell the tickets for like an extra. 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.120 I'm making up numbers here, guys. Like, don't 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.779 quote me on any of this. But if a ticket is 50 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:21.800 bucks, they'll ask their fans to pay $52. And 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.980 those $2 will go towards them paying the promoter 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:29.660 to let them fight. Oh, my goodness. You hear 00:07:29.660 --> 00:07:32.420 about this stuff if you watch those like Venezuelan, 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:37.209 Nicaraguan, like those kind of American. Yeah, 00:07:37.230 --> 00:07:39.509 and it'll be like, she's fighting for a world 00:07:39.509 --> 00:07:42.449 title, and at the beginning of her boxing career, 00:07:42.610 --> 00:07:47.850 she was selling empanadas to pay to fight where 00:07:47.850 --> 00:07:50.050 people would see her so she could get her career 00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:53.769 started, and that sort of thing. Like, when she 00:07:53.769 --> 00:07:58.810 was 15, she sold whatever to pay to be seen. 00:07:58.810 --> 00:08:02.550 Working this menial job just to get a chance. 00:08:03.149 --> 00:08:08.970 Yeah. That sounds a lot like what... That's not 00:08:08.970 --> 00:08:13.050 that dissimilar from what we see in UFC where 00:08:13.050 --> 00:08:16.689 guys are doing their Uber drivers or working 00:08:16.689 --> 00:08:21.930 other menial jobs because their minimums, the 00:08:21.930 --> 00:08:25.949 minimums that are established by the supposedly 00:08:25.949 --> 00:08:30.350 caring promotional companies, no, these guys 00:08:30.350 --> 00:08:36.279 can't survive off of that. To expect anything 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:44.659 different from an MMA promoter who has been waiting 00:08:44.659 --> 00:08:49.500 his entire fucking life, like frothing at his 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:53.200 mouth to get into boxing so that he could exploit 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.840 the fighters the same way that he does in MMA. 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:02.759 If you're expecting him to do something benevolent 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:06.960 and take care of his dudes, you're completely... 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.100 I don't know what to say to you. Naive, at the 00:09:10.100 --> 00:09:14.580 best. At best, you're naive. At worst, you're 00:09:14.580 --> 00:09:22.840 just like him. Yeah. Oh, God. Man, Dana White 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:29.919 is... I never watched UFC. I never watched MMA 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.919 at all before I started doing the ultimate effing 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:38.100 casuals. Never, ever in my life. I just didn't 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:44.720 care. It was not important to me. But as I've 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:49.720 gotten to know UFC, I've gotten to know 1FC, 00:09:50.019 --> 00:09:54.279 PFL, and Bellator, I've gotten to know the different 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:59.399 organizations that are in the MMA world. Dana 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.440 White is a complete piece of fucking garbage. 00:10:03.539 --> 00:10:08.600 Yeah. He is a garbage human being. I don't know 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:13.759 how much more kindly I can put it. He is a terrible 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.700 person. Than calling him a garbage human being. 00:10:17.740 --> 00:10:21.080 Him moving into boxing is not going to benefit 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:26.019 boxers. At all. Definitely not. He's going to 00:10:26.019 --> 00:10:29.350 be the next Don King if he gets in there. I would 00:10:29.350 --> 00:10:36.929 call that succinct. Yeah, that's what it's going 00:10:36.929 --> 00:10:41.330 to be. And if they remove the Ali Act, he's not 00:10:41.330 --> 00:10:44.110 going to get sued nearly as much as Don King. 00:10:44.409 --> 00:10:47.970 There will not be any guardrails that are going 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:50.750 to prevent him from being the piece of shit that 00:10:50.750 --> 00:10:58.759 he actually is. Yeah. Oh, man. I really hope... 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:08.899 It's asking a lot, but... This... The Ali Boxing 00:11:08.899 --> 00:11:12.740 Revival Act, as they're calling it. Which is 00:11:12.740 --> 00:11:15.460 just a fucking slap in the face. It really is. 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:22.720 That's terrible. If you could... If you care... 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:27.399 If you genuinely care about boxing... the integrity 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.840 of the sport, which we already know is questionable 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.600 at best. But if you really do want to protect 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.279 it from this type of person, you genuinely have 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:43.539 to call your legislators. And you have to keep 00:11:43.539 --> 00:11:47.299 them from allowing this type of legislation to 00:11:47.299 --> 00:11:55.450 pass. I'm not sure how else... How else is this 00:11:55.450 --> 00:11:58.190 supposed to happen? How else are we supposed 00:11:58.190 --> 00:12:02.350 to block something like this? Well, and I should 00:12:02.350 --> 00:12:04.289 have put it on the outline. I completely forgot. 00:12:04.970 --> 00:12:09.350 What's the boxing union? It's not a real union, 00:12:09.509 --> 00:12:12.409 but you know what I mean. The Fighters Association? 00:12:13.330 --> 00:12:17.029 Yeah. They didn't even get to read this before 00:12:17.029 --> 00:12:20.649 it was brought before Congress. The Fighters 00:12:20.649 --> 00:12:23.690 Association, like, you can say whatever you want 00:12:23.690 --> 00:12:29.029 about Jake Paul. I will never stop singing that 00:12:29.029 --> 00:12:33.389 man's praises because of stuff like the Fighters 00:12:33.389 --> 00:12:37.509 Association. This is as close to a union as the 00:12:37.509 --> 00:12:42.529 fighters have. And, man, they didn't even get 00:12:42.529 --> 00:12:45.129 a chance to read through the actual text of this 00:12:45.129 --> 00:12:49.730 before it got sent to the floor. I've seen that 00:12:49.730 --> 00:12:54.190 in multiple articles, like the fighters representatives 00:12:54.190 --> 00:12:57.950 in the association didn't even get to look at 00:12:57.950 --> 00:13:04.389 it. So the fighters association, I don't know 00:13:04.389 --> 00:13:07.610 exactly how it's set up, but somebody looked 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:11.169 at it, but not the people who actually interact 00:13:11.169 --> 00:13:15.509 with retired fighters. So somebody in that association 00:13:15.509 --> 00:13:18.429 approved it, but the people who actually care 00:13:18.429 --> 00:13:21.090 about the fighters and the fighters in the association, 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:24.470 the retired fighters in the association, didn't 00:13:24.470 --> 00:13:27.990 get to look at it before the association gave 00:13:27.990 --> 00:13:31.889 it their stamp of approval. Apparently, according 00:13:31.889 --> 00:13:35.730 to the articles online, somebody, well, we know 00:13:35.730 --> 00:13:38.509 who it is. Dana White just paid somebody to stamp 00:13:38.509 --> 00:13:42.590 it. Well, yeah, his BFF. is in the white house 00:13:42.590 --> 00:13:48.789 so yeah oh my god all things are politics dudes 00:13:48.789 --> 00:13:51.809 if you're if you really think that you could 00:13:51.809 --> 00:13:54.690 just pay attention to fights just watch the fights 00:13:54.690 --> 00:13:57.529 and not have to ever worry about the shit like 00:13:57.529 --> 00:14:01.730 man your your favorite fighters today are gonna 00:14:01.730 --> 00:14:06.549 be retiring soon and yeah what's gonna happen 00:14:06.549 --> 00:14:11.639 to them when they retire Well, and speaking about 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.500 worrying about associations and politics, the 00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:21.259 JBC has taken another L since we recorded the 00:14:21.259 --> 00:14:23.320 last one. I think it was announced the day we 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:27.080 recorded, actually. Urakawa passed as well. So 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:31.279 the other fighter on that August 2nd card, he 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.700 passed away. So that's two people died on the 00:14:35.700 --> 00:14:38.039 same card. This is the one that was in the eight 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:41.980 -round fight. And what was their move was to 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:47.679 lower the round count? Yeah, so the Japanese 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:53.519 titles have been 12 round fights, I think, forever. 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.000 And they're lowering them to 10 round fights 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.779 now. Oh, yeah, because it wasn't an eight round 00:15:00.779 --> 00:15:04.000 fighter that just died. Well, he hadn't died 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.539 when they announced that. Oh, right. That makes 00:15:07.539 --> 00:15:15.470 a big difference. Not at all. In other JBCL news, 00:15:15.970 --> 00:15:20.950 Yudai Shigeoka has announced his retirement to 00:15:20.950 --> 00:15:24.190 become his brother's caretaker. So he put up 00:15:24.190 --> 00:15:27.309 a post saying he was doing hours and hours of 00:15:27.309 --> 00:15:30.549 rehab with his brother. But it was a little hard 00:15:30.549 --> 00:15:33.820 to tell whether he was awake or not. Because 00:15:33.820 --> 00:15:35.740 when people are in a coma, you still have to 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:38.299 rehab their muscles and things. Yeah, you have 00:15:38.299 --> 00:15:44.000 to move them around. Yeah. Right. But since then, 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.659 I guess he's realized that people couldn't tell. 00:15:47.019 --> 00:15:49.980 He put out a very short video of him talking 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:53.500 to his brother. It's framed very carefully, so 00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:59.919 you can't see Jinjiro at all. But... He's holding 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:02.360 his brother's hand up and his brother closes 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:07.559 his fist and tries to do the Hawaii thing. He 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:12.139 gives mostly a thumbs up. He doesn't make any 00:16:12.139 --> 00:16:16.399 noises at all, which I do think probably means 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.879 that he can't talk. His brother's talking to 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.500 him. Yudai's talking to him, but he's just moving 00:16:22.500 --> 00:16:25.600 his hands in the video. I assume it's really 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:31.480 bad. He's responsive. He's awake, and he's not 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:36.000 100 % paralyzed, but I assume if he could even 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.179 just sit... I don't know how to put this correctly. 00:16:40.299 --> 00:16:42.940 I know what I'm saying isn't right, but if he 00:16:42.940 --> 00:16:46.279 could sit and look mostly normal with his face, 00:16:46.419 --> 00:16:51.200 they would show a picture. No, that's not at 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:56.299 all asking too much. I don't think it is. No, 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.000 I just... I just mean, like, I think he's probably 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.759 really bad off. Which is not a surprise. He had 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:11.400 multiple brain surgeries. But... God. And also, 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.019 this one I forgot to put on the outline. Jin 00:17:15.019 --> 00:17:18.259 Sasaki's back in training camp. Jesus Christ. 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.700 He's gonna get hurt. That man's gonna get hurt. 00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:26.720 Yeah. I'm expecting he better get at least two 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.839 soft touches, but it's Japan. He's not going 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:31.660 to. They're going to throw him in there with 00:17:31.660 --> 00:17:34.119 another contender again. He's probably going 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:39.759 to have hard sparring. Yeah. In the midst of 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:44.799 whatever training camps he gets. The way that 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:49.039 Josh put it on B -Sides was something about that 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:53.210 culture needs to change. And I don't know how 00:17:53.210 --> 00:17:56.630 many more people have to die before the Japanese 00:17:56.630 --> 00:18:01.150 Boxing Commission figures it out. Yeah, obviously, 00:18:02.150 --> 00:18:04.410 like, we're not the experts on this stuff. Of 00:18:04.410 --> 00:18:09.190 course not. But Pro Box had an episode with Chris 00:18:09.190 --> 00:18:12.390 Eldieri and Pauly Malignaggi there talking about 00:18:12.390 --> 00:18:15.549 the JBC and the Japanese culture around boxing 00:18:15.549 --> 00:18:19.490 and sparring. And I thought it was a good discussion. 00:18:20.669 --> 00:18:24.210 They were talking something I hadn't really heard 00:18:24.210 --> 00:18:26.809 or knew anything about because, again, I never 00:18:26.809 --> 00:18:33.490 boxed. But Japan goes really old school, apparently, 00:18:33.630 --> 00:18:36.970 according to them. And they get you on weight 00:18:36.970 --> 00:18:39.990 multiple days before the weigh -in, or basically 00:18:39.990 --> 00:18:42.789 on weight. And they're still doing sparring while 00:18:42.789 --> 00:18:47.390 they're dehydrated. Yeesh. Which is not good. 00:18:47.650 --> 00:18:52.700 No. Hard sparring when you're already dehydrated 00:18:52.700 --> 00:18:56.420 does not sound like a good idea. With the smaller 00:18:56.420 --> 00:18:59.940 gloves and probably no headgear of any kind. 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:07.440 Yeah. I don't know. I am just waiting to hear 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.920 or see that Jin Sasaki ends up in the hospital 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:13.319 after his next fight. Because they're not going 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.039 to give him a soft touch. He's going to train 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.859 the same way he always has. I love Japanese boxing, 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:24.579 but something's fucked. It's broken and you need 00:19:24.579 --> 00:19:25.920 to fix it. There's something very clearly wrong. 00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:30.599 Josh put it perfectly with this is a cultural 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:40.200 problem. Yeah. The warrior spirit is commendable. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.160 It really is. And I don't think... It's impossible 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:51.680 to maintain that warrior spirit with cutting 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:58.740 down on the hard sparring. There was a 1FC situation 00:19:58.740 --> 00:20:04.500 where a Thai fighter versus a Japanese. It was 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:10.400 a kickboxing fight. And the Thai fighter had 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:15.920 a lingering injury. from fucking sparring coming 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.759 into a fight. Like, I do not think that this 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:24.819 is too dissimilar from just regular boxing. I 00:20:24.819 --> 00:20:29.400 do. I have not very much basis to base this on, 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:33.640 but I do think the JBC ignores injuries more. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.539 Like, I think they let people back into fights, 00:20:38.660 --> 00:20:44.140 hard fights. right away when they probably should. 00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:48.799 Well, we can't let the world... I am waving my 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:51.940 hands in really thick quotation marks or thick 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:55.220 irony. We can't let the world think that we're 00:20:55.220 --> 00:21:03.400 pussies. Yeah. Is what it is. Oh, man. How many 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:06.460 more people have to die before you figure out 00:21:06.460 --> 00:21:09.880 that you need to fucking change something? Well, 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:15.500 that's four people this year. This year, let 00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:18.519 alone... So two died, but I mean, that's four 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.500 people whose lives are probably fucked. They're 00:21:21.500 --> 00:21:23.519 never boxing again. Right now, Jin Sasaki... 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.579 Well, right now, Jin Sasaki is. But I'm not thinking 00:21:29.579 --> 00:21:32.220 this is going to go well for him. I'm very pessimistic 00:21:32.220 --> 00:21:36.400 on his... As am I. Everything. Just based on 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:39.849 the track record. I am not betting that he's 00:21:39.849 --> 00:21:44.069 going to be doing very well. But I do have a 00:21:44.069 --> 00:21:47.289 funny Japanese boxing thing to throw in here 00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:50.349 to lighten the mood just a little. So I think 00:21:50.349 --> 00:21:54.990 I mentioned last week that Seiya Satsumi is in 00:21:54.990 --> 00:21:58.109 Mexico. And he's been live streaming his walk 00:21:58.109 --> 00:22:01.950 to the gym every morning. is right before bed 00:22:01.950 --> 00:22:03.829 for me. So I've been jumping on and watching 00:22:03.829 --> 00:22:06.750 his live stream. He cannot figure out the fucking 00:22:06.750 --> 00:22:10.269 coffee machine at a Mexican convenience store. 00:22:10.529 --> 00:22:14.450 It has been so hilarious. So the very first day 00:22:14.450 --> 00:22:16.609 it made sense. It's one of those ones where you 00:22:16.609 --> 00:22:18.390 press the button and you put the cup underneath 00:22:18.390 --> 00:22:21.650 and it comes down and he lined it up with the 00:22:21.650 --> 00:22:24.569 little half circle. He lined the cup, pushed 00:22:24.569 --> 00:22:27.329 it all the way in and the coffee completely missed 00:22:27.329 --> 00:22:29.910 the cup. That one's perfectly understandable. 00:22:30.150 --> 00:22:32.670 And he freaked out, like moved it. And it was 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:37.109 really funny. The next day he came in the convenience 00:22:37.109 --> 00:22:39.470 store and he was talking about buying a monster 00:22:39.470 --> 00:22:42.309 energy drink instead. And the chat's like, no, 00:22:42.390 --> 00:22:45.710 you have to use the machine. So he puts it against 00:22:45.710 --> 00:22:49.660 the backstop, pulls it ahead a bit. but not far 00:22:49.660 --> 00:22:53.059 enough and still misses his coffee all over the 00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:55.880 outside of his cup. And he's holding his phone, 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.519 freaking out, trying to get it, gets it all over 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.779 his hands. He pays for his coffee and he's walking 00:23:01.779 --> 00:23:04.000 down the street with his coffee stained cup. 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:07.700 And like his hand was red, like it's hot coffee. 00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:13.779 He got fucking burned. The next morning, he walks 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:16.500 in and the chat's just losing their mind. They're 00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:19.779 like, you can do it. Today's the day. I believe 00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:30.339 in you. And he goes, and he's like, okay, so 00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:33.099 I got to put it right at the front. Right at 00:23:33.099 --> 00:23:35.640 the front. And he's so worried about that, that 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:38.220 when he goes to press the button, he knocks the 00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:42.599 cup over. hadn't pressed the button yet so this 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:46.160 time he got his coffee but it's just like you 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:48.339 can tell he's like i can't fuck it up this time 00:23:48.339 --> 00:23:52.400 there's i think it was 130 people watching him 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.759 make his coffee the steaks are too great i can't 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.039 put it i can't i can't let my coffee spill this 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.720 time yeah so he did he didn't spill any coffee 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.059 but he did knock the cup over once and then everybody's 00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:10.039 like is it delicious and he's like no This is 00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:13.759 not good coffee. Not worth all the effort. Three 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:16.680 days of effort that I put into getting this. 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:22.079 Not worth it at all. It's been absolutely hilarious 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:29.319 to me. You know what's not absolutely hilarious? 00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:37.839 Tank. Gervonta Davis. All charges dropped. Yeah, 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.960 I wonder how that happened. I wonder that as 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:50.839 well. Yeah. I guess... I hope she got paid well. 00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:56.920 I hope perhaps he doesn't go near his kid anytime 00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:59.279 soon, but he probably will. His very, very gay 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:03.700 child. Who is a toddler that probably can't talk. 00:25:04.890 --> 00:25:08.750 Has no understanding of any of this whatsoever. 00:25:10.730 --> 00:25:15.650 Tank needs to get his shit together. Yeah, it's... 00:25:15.650 --> 00:25:20.549 Maybe we get the Rotary match now, though? Maybe. 00:25:21.130 --> 00:25:29.190 Maybe that can happen now. Yeah. Speaking of 00:25:29.190 --> 00:25:39.019 babies... Dillion White. The Baby Snatcher. I 00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:43.440 laughed so fucking hard when I saw this. And 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:46.680 every interview since, it's just been, Dillion, 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.720 what do you think of that? What do you think 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:56.460 of being called the Baby Snatcher? Like, of all 00:25:56.460 --> 00:25:59.740 the ways to mess up a nickname, I guess I can 00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:04.000 kind of see it. Body snatcher to baby snatcher 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:10.779 is pretty easy. It isn't easy. But for a professional 00:26:10.779 --> 00:26:19.779 journalist, I would expect better. Yeah. So I 00:26:19.779 --> 00:26:23.099 did see one interview where Dillion was like, 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.200 oh, they did it on purpose just to mess with 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:29.059 me. It's all mind games. He's like, they rerouted 00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:34.269 some of my team. their um plane got lost or something 00:26:34.269 --> 00:26:37.990 or their plane tickets got changed so they had 00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:41.869 like a six hour layover i don't know what the 00:26:41.869 --> 00:26:45.269 hell he's talking about but the baby snatcher 00:26:45.269 --> 00:26:53.289 is going to stick so long the baby snatcher if 00:26:53.289 --> 00:26:57.609 i if i had the chance to talk to him like even 00:26:57.609 --> 00:27:02.990 it it's um One of the things that you have to 00:27:02.990 --> 00:27:05.609 think about is when you're doing this, like the 00:27:05.609 --> 00:27:11.529 floor for boxing, to get into like boxing media, 00:27:11.609 --> 00:27:16.269 boxing journalism, the floor is pretty low. Yeah. 00:27:16.750 --> 00:27:21.950 So it is possible that we could get somebody 00:27:21.950 --> 00:27:26.710 into Dillian White's vicinity to ask him about 00:27:26.710 --> 00:27:32.960 baby snatching. We need to send Robbie. We could 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.480 send somebody. This is not out of the realm of 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:44.539 possibility. It's not that I haven't, that we, 00:27:44.539 --> 00:27:48.099 Lux Media, it's not that we don't have access 00:27:48.099 --> 00:27:50.140 to these things, it's that we don't have personnel 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:54.720 to go to them. Yeah. That's really what it comes 00:27:54.720 --> 00:28:00.319 down to. Well, and in my case, I... I'm too nervous 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.680 trying to talk to people. Yeah, trying to get 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.720 yourself ingratiated with a Japanese as a foreigner 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:12.220 is not easy. I've had several attempts in my 00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:17.980 life and usually didn't go well. No, they're 00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:23.839 very polite. Overly polite. in my opinion but 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.519 well i'm canadian so actually a lot of these 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:28.900 oh it's so japanese and foreigners would never 00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:31.720 get it i'm like we do that too guys like people 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:36.059 don't say no to things like oh yeah maybe i'll 00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:42.259 see if i can come that's just a no like i i don't 00:28:42.259 --> 00:28:46.160 think the politeness is as strange as japan thinks 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.319 it is but they just assume that you can't get 00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:54.390 it because you're foreign And I'm like, you guys 00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:58.670 don't get sarcasm. True. That's actually completely 00:28:58.670 --> 00:29:03.069 true. Which ruins like 90 % of my communication 00:29:03.069 --> 00:29:06.589 with my friends. I have had to really think about, 00:29:06.710 --> 00:29:11.490 like, they don't understand tone changes change 00:29:11.490 --> 00:29:16.769 the meaning of words in English. That's so interesting. 00:29:17.509 --> 00:29:21.480 Yeah. They don't get that? No, like you can make 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:25.339 it as obvious as possible. How obvious could 00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:28.740 it possibly be? Yeah, yeah. Like somebody was 00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:31.220 like, oh, Benita, do you want to try these shrimp 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:34.380 crackers? And I don't eat seafood at all. And 00:29:34.380 --> 00:29:36.740 I was like, oh, yeah, that sounds fucking delicious. 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:39.940 They bought me shrimp crackers. I was like, God 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:45.359 damn it. It's not what I meant. So then I had 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.119 to try them and I was like, no, still tastes 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:51.569 like shrimp. What was the expected outcome here, 00:29:51.609 --> 00:29:55.049 guys? But I'd had a couple beers, and I just 00:29:55.049 --> 00:29:58.150 forgot I was talking to people who don't understand. 00:29:58.809 --> 00:30:07.369 Yeah. It's my fault, but... Oh, shit. Anything 00:30:07.369 --> 00:30:12.890 more for the news? Probox is on right now, and 00:30:12.890 --> 00:30:15.990 I forget who... pro box good but somebody blew 00:30:15.990 --> 00:30:19.490 weight by seven pounds i forget who that is obscene 00:30:19.490 --> 00:30:25.289 yo yeah pro box is good so let's uh let's keep 00:30:25.289 --> 00:30:27.089 ourselves rolling here so we can get the hell 00:30:27.089 --> 00:30:29.789 out of here um really quickly let me put some 00:30:29.789 --> 00:30:33.809 fucking notes in here uh lvx media net that's 00:30:33.809 --> 00:30:36.589 the social media handle everywhere if you cannot 00:30:36.589 --> 00:30:39.369 find it chances are it's because we're not on 00:30:39.369 --> 00:30:42.579 it Wherever you're listening, leave a rating 00:30:42.579 --> 00:30:46.059 and a review. If you're not feeling a five -star 00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:53.920 rating, 833 -589 -7637. That's my fucking phone 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:58.619 number. My phone number. Tell me what's up. 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LVX .BE slash bees. Use code 00:35:13.250 --> 00:35:23.329 LEO33862. Buzz, motherfucker. And we're back. 00:35:26.510 --> 00:35:29.670 We have previews this week, Leo. We do. We don't 00:35:29.670 --> 00:35:33.150 have any recamps, but we have some previews. 00:35:33.869 --> 00:35:37.010 So let's get right into it. Wednesday, August 00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:42.969 20th. In the U .S., this will be starting around 00:35:42.969 --> 00:35:50.230 midnight, 01 timeframe. If you're in Japan, probably 00:35:50.230 --> 00:35:58.940 like 16 or 1700. But we have a bunch of shit 00:35:58.940 --> 00:36:02.659 that I don't really care about. Moving to Jasmine 00:36:02.659 --> 00:36:07.820 Parr, jazzy, decent prospect on the ladies' side. 00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:11.559 So if you want to get yourself more well -versed 00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:15.400 in the women's part of the sport. Brock Jarvis, 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.420 that same Brock Jarvis who fought Keith Thurman 00:36:20.420 --> 00:36:25.320 versus Sam Beck. This is really fucked up. Brock 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:30.559 Jarvis is 22 -2 versus Sam Beck, 7 -0. Throwing 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:33.860 the young man to the wolves. He's not that young, 00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:42.559 though. He's 30. 30. The low experience, I guess. 00:36:42.579 --> 00:36:49.360 Yeah. Moving up into the co -main, Michael Zarafa. 00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:54.090 That Michael Zarafa. If you've been watching, 00:36:54.329 --> 00:36:59.369 he's been on like some PBC cards like a handful 00:36:59.369 --> 00:37:03.909 of times. And if you've been paying attention 00:37:03.909 --> 00:37:06.949 to Australian boxing, which if you listen to 00:37:06.949 --> 00:37:11.369 us, then you are familiar with this name. He'll 00:37:11.369 --> 00:37:18.949 be fighting Mikey Dahlman. From America. Oh, 00:37:19.050 --> 00:37:21.010 he's got to get himself international again. 00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.699 I actually don't know who Mikey Dolman is. I 00:37:25.699 --> 00:37:30.219 don't either, but... Nikita Zoo and the headline 00:37:30.219 --> 00:37:39.420 verse, Lulzim Ismaili. Right now... From Macedonia. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.500 Oh, well. Right now, this is the better of the 00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:53.329 Zoo Brothers. Unfortunately, for Tim. This is 00:37:53.329 --> 00:37:59.989 the hope for the Zoo Clan. Yeah. I hope it goes 00:37:59.989 --> 00:38:03.030 well. I can't... I don't know. I assume this 00:38:03.030 --> 00:38:06.130 guy was kind of brought in to lose. You would 00:38:06.130 --> 00:38:13.130 think. I would think as well. But you never know, 00:38:13.289 --> 00:38:19.750 I guess. Has he fought outside of Macedonia? 00:38:20.730 --> 00:38:26.880 Germany? Albania, Germany. A lot of Germany fights. 00:38:27.260 --> 00:38:35.960 Okay. So he's Euro level. No big deal. Still, 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:45.719 I expect Nikita to take care of business. But 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:48.460 it's always good to watch the Australian fights. 00:38:49.130 --> 00:38:51.309 At least for me, they're at a time I can watch 00:38:51.309 --> 00:38:54.250 during the week. Yeah, they should be on your 00:38:54.250 --> 00:39:00.869 Wednesday evening. Yeah. Let's move on to Friday, 00:39:01.070 --> 00:39:06.050 August 22nd in the U .S. Oh, actually, Leo, can 00:39:06.050 --> 00:39:09.570 I step back real quick? Go ahead. Tuesday, August 00:39:09.570 --> 00:39:15.190 19th, Aoi Yokoyama is fighting. Oh, shit. I have 00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:20.000 a ticket. I forget who his opponent is, but it 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.099 is for some sort of trinket belt. I just need 00:39:24.099 --> 00:39:28.579 to look it up real quick. Very nice. The Oriental 00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:39.500 Pacific... Yeah. OPBF what? Superfly. Oh, shit. 00:39:39.699 --> 00:39:45.840 So he's going for a legit regional title. Yeah. 00:39:46.300 --> 00:39:54.739 against rusey baba who doesn't seem to have a 00:39:54.739 --> 00:40:00.019 pitcher on box rec so also seems pretty prospecty 00:40:00.019 --> 00:40:04.599 uh four and two but i bought a ticket i think 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:12.469 it should be fun i'm uh i'm excited So this is 00:40:12.469 --> 00:40:15.869 Yokoyama's fourth fight. Going for a regional 00:40:15.869 --> 00:40:19.489 belt in four fights is pretty Japanese, but pretty 00:40:19.489 --> 00:40:23.130 good. Is it going to be on any streaming services 00:40:23.130 --> 00:40:29.590 in JP? Probably Lemino, I think. This is the 00:40:29.590 --> 00:40:33.630 one that is like a triple promotion. It's Watanabe, 00:40:34.090 --> 00:40:41.329 The Kamedas, and someone else. The Kamedas? Yeah, 00:40:41.369 --> 00:40:47.969 that 360 lush thing. Yokoyama's with Watanabe. 00:40:48.250 --> 00:40:53.730 He's not with the Kamedas. Anyways, I'm excited. 00:40:53.869 --> 00:40:57.110 It's his first time headlining. The old folks 00:40:57.110 --> 00:41:00.929 home did a really cute video, a cheer video for 00:41:00.929 --> 00:41:03.929 him. I missed out on the merchandise. I ordered 00:41:03.929 --> 00:41:05.909 my ticket too late, but I'm hoping they're selling 00:41:05.909 --> 00:41:08.630 something at the place. I'm sure they will be. 00:41:09.190 --> 00:41:15.829 Yeah. Second batch. All right. Friday, August 00:41:15.829 --> 00:41:22.690 22nd. It's the MVP Prospects. Most Valuable Prospects 00:41:22.690 --> 00:41:25.230 series. I think this is their 14th iteration. 00:41:32.389 --> 00:41:35.119 I don't think I've... recognize any of those 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:39.440 names. Yeah, it's Prospects. Not anybody really 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:47.199 to recognize. Queensberry on the 23rd. This will 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:51.360 be about midday on the west coast of the US at 00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:59.400 the Planet Ice in Altrincham. Fucking Mark Chamberlain. 00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:02.800 The only reason I brought this guy up is because 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:08.059 Eddie Hearn has highlighted him a few times. 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:13.980 And he's one of his fuckselency's favorites. 00:42:15.340 --> 00:42:20.199 I do recognize Rafferty. Yeah, Jack Rafferty. 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:29.440 I recognize this picture. And last thing. MVP 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:35.840 fight night at the Caribe Royale Orlando in the 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:40.480 U .S. There's some good fights on here, even 00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.940 if you don't know the main or co -main. Lucas 00:42:42.940 --> 00:42:48.000 Body is a pretty decent name for Roger Gutierrez. 00:42:49.260 --> 00:42:53.519 Jermaine Ortiz versus Steve Claggett should be 00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:59.820 a good win for Jermaine Ortiz. Yeah, I mean, 00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:03.199 technically, I have to cheer for Claygett. He's 00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:09.860 from Calgary. Yeah, he's homegrown for you. Yeah, 00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:12.760 and actually, like, the same part of Canada as 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:25.440 me, so... There is one thing. In the main and 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.940 co -main... The way that I put it on B -Sides 00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:38.500 was, like, this is islander Spanish for those 00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:43.900 Caribbean islanders. This dude's name is Yanquiel. 00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:52.119 And then the main event, Yoenis. And if we jump 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:56.449 back really quick to the... mvp the prospect 00:43:56.449 --> 00:44:00.369 series the co -main event there his name is yo 00:44:00.369 --> 00:44:04.210 elvis yo elvis i thought was pretty hilarious 00:44:04.210 --> 00:44:07.550 actually so that there you go that's that's some 00:44:07.550 --> 00:44:10.570 islander spanish for you like i i don't know 00:44:10.570 --> 00:44:15.550 i i don't know that's cuban right they're all 00:44:15.550 --> 00:44:18.849 cuban not necessarily it could be uh dominican 00:44:18.849 --> 00:44:24.570 um Most likely Cuban, but it's possible that 00:44:24.570 --> 00:44:31.989 they're like Dominican, Dominica. It's not a 00:44:31.989 --> 00:44:35.230 guarantee that they're Cuban. Oh, Yanquiel's 00:44:35.230 --> 00:44:38.369 from Puerto Rico. I didn't want to mention them. 00:44:38.489 --> 00:44:43.269 I thought they did better than that. I was just 00:44:43.269 --> 00:44:45.869 looking on BoxRec. The other two are Cuban, but 00:44:45.869 --> 00:44:51.329 he's from Puerto Rico. Well, there you have it. 00:44:53.309 --> 00:44:59.190 That's all we got. Something to watch, anyway. 00:44:59.829 --> 00:45:05.869 Yeah, there is boxing on. Not necessarily the 00:45:05.869 --> 00:45:11.610 greatest, but of all of the stuff that we previewed, 00:45:11.630 --> 00:45:17.989 I would have to say Nikita Zu is the one that 00:45:17.989 --> 00:45:24.059 has my attention. More than anyone else. I do 00:45:24.059 --> 00:45:27.559 expect that to be very lopsided, though. Yes. 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.079 Like, I don't know if it'll be a super entertaining 00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:35.360 fight. I would like to see Nikita Zu tested a 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.760 little bit. Or to have a little bit of a challenge. 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.719 Because he's still really young. Or he's still 00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:44.699 really young in his career. So, I'd like to see 00:45:44.699 --> 00:45:48.079 him have something of a challenge. I think for 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:52.360 fun -to -watch fights, that last one, the MVP 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.500 fight night, or whatever they call it, will probably 00:45:55.500 --> 00:46:00.219 have the closest matchups. Yeah, the top four 00:46:00.219 --> 00:46:04.699 on there are worth watching. If you have other 00:46:04.699 --> 00:46:08.059 things to do with your time, please don't think 00:46:08.059 --> 00:46:11.880 you're missing out on shit. Don't skip family 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.699 supper this week. Right, if you've got family 00:46:14.699 --> 00:46:17.690 stuff for just... your friends want to go out 00:46:17.690 --> 00:46:21.030 or whatever like dude go do that all right yeah 00:46:21.030 --> 00:46:24.050 but we have no friends so we'll watch it and 00:46:24.050 --> 00:46:26.889 tell you about it we're the friends are on the 00:46:26.889 --> 00:46:30.670 podcast if they're not on if they're not here 00:46:30.670 --> 00:46:34.849 they're on b -sides uh they're on ultimate effing 00:46:34.849 --> 00:46:40.610 casuals like i i all i have is fight nerds that's 00:46:40.610 --> 00:46:50.179 all i got IRL friends are overrated. All right, 00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:56.260 let me do this. You've been listening to Boxing 00:46:56.260 --> 00:46:59.079 Before Dark, a Lux Media production. If you are 00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.460 just dying to tell us how fucking casual you 00:47:01.460 --> 00:47:03.880 think we are, you can be a duck. 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So, we are heading into a relatively light 00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:20.679 weekend. Parting words. I always forget to plan 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.980 parting words. I don't know. I'm going to keep 00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:26.860 it simple this week. Just stay frosty. Stay frosty. 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:31.059 Yeah. It's hard this time of year. That is a 00:48:31.059 --> 00:48:34.280 full -time job for me, staying frosty. If your 00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:42.300 brother has post -comatose... situations then 00:48:42.300 --> 00:48:48.639 be there to do hang loose with him I do think 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:52.320 that's that's not surprising or anything but 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.500 I do think that's a very good thing for Yudai 00:48:57.500 --> 00:49:01.760 to do it is it's a really noble thing for him 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.199 to do yeah like he he has relatives other than 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:11.300 Yudai that could become the primary caretaker. 00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:16.119 He didn't have to do that for him. Let me see. 00:49:16.139 --> 00:49:18.679 I'm going to throw one out by Maya Angelou just 00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:23.280 to give something substantial. You are the sum 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:26.280 total of everything you've ever seen, heard, 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:30.260 eaten, smelled, been told, or forgot. It's all 00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:34.239 there. Everything influences each of us. And 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.039 because of that, I try to make sure that my experiences 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:44.900 are positive. That's Maya Angelou. I'm not that 00:49:44.900 --> 00:49:50.239 smart. Sorry. Surprising no one. To the surprise 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:54.199 of fucking nobody. But there you go. We opened 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:57.519 up with cat shit and we end with Maya Angelou. 00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:03.639 Yeah. What can I say? Alright, that's it. Boxing 00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:06.760 Before Dark. See you on the other side. Bye.