You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
No.
Good morning. Welcome to Breakfast of Champions, Season 1, Episode 10.
We are coming to you live once again from Fort Worth Float Company, our home away from home with our third co-host, Kevin O'Malley.
Third co-host, Kevin O'Malley.
Checking in. So we also have our other co-host, Parker Howard here.
I'm just here to fuck shit up.
Thank you for joining us. If you are listening to this episode, that means you are listening to us on a week from when we record this, which is funny because we just dropped an episode this morning about three hours ago.
Thank you for having us back, Kevin. We had a great time last time.
And we just were kind of short on time last time. As soon as I like ended the podcast, I was like, no, I don't have time to look at your thing. I have to go. And I was gone.
And so we had a lot of good feedback and also wanted to come back and try your wares and be less in a rush for time. So thanks for having us back. And we appreciate you.
Yeah, of course. Good to have you guys here.
So when you say using his wares, you get to use one of his wares for the first time today.
Yeah, I certainly did. I've never done a cold plunge. And all three of us just dipped right in and made it happen today.
So if you're interested in what that's like, we're going to get into that here in a little bit. I've got that down here under their cold plunge review. We're going to talk about what our feelings were.
I read the notes right after I said that.
No, it's all good. It's all good. So we're kind of keeping it light this morning. I brought some donuts for us to try. We haven't had donuts in a couple of episodes.
And we haven't had donuts with Kevin.
I know we keep on bringing nasty taco meat to Kevin.
Yeah, that's true.
But these are tomato donuts filled with mayonnaise, right?
Yeah, exactly.
All right. See you guys later.
And then I had ketchup packets to square on top of them.
What are other foods you don't like, Kevin?
Tomatoes definitely the biggest and worst one. I also don't like mayonnaise. I like good mustard, but not like the shitty yellow mustard.
Okay.
That's about it.
Okay. Those are the only...
No, no. Okay.
What about you, Parker? What are the... you just don't eat them?
Because I've got a couple in mind now that we're talking about foods we don't like slash eat.
I mean, like we talked about on that one episode, sometimes if I cook something, I can't eat it.
But I'm very much like, I'll try anything once kind of good.
And I can't think of anything that I've ever had that I was like, no, never again.
Yeah.
For me, it's texture. I will not do squash or zucchini, especially cooked.
When I was younger, there's this Mexican soup called caldo.
And it always has some squash and zucchini that's cooked in there.
Usually it's pretty good soup. It's got chicken and vegetables and that sort of thing.
But for some reason I cannot. The slimy, squishy squash zucchini is not my favorite.
I get that way sometimes with okra. Like I like okra, but sometimes if it's too slimy, I have a hard time.
If it's in gumbo, no big deal. Like it adds that texture to the gumbo. But yeah, I get that.
And also squash sometimes, like it squeaks on your teeth when you bite into it. I don't like that.
Yeah. Those are the only two things really I don't care for.
Anything else I'll pretty much try or eat. I've had monkey brains in Pakistan.
Was it like in Temple of Doom?
It's exactly. No, it's funny actually. We went to this place called Barbecue Tonight in Karachi.
And it was not like that at all. It was not like the Faces of Death where you have to like crack open the skull.
No, you don't have to do any of that. But it was on the brain. I mean, it was on the menu for like novelty sake.
And of course our guides were like, you're going to try the monkey brain, right?
And I'm like, sure, I'll have a bite. So it didn't kill me.
I mean, again, it's one of those things. It's like if I went to Pakistan and I had the opportunity and I turned it down, I would regret it later.
Yeah. Like it's like so many things. It's just like this is a once in a lifetime thing.
I'm going to go ahead and do it because I would rather try it and hate it than regret it later.
So I've said this on another podcast. I agree with you 100 percent. Live in the moment. Yellow.
But at that same place, Barbecue Tonight in Karachi, Pakistan, it's spelled B B Q T O N I T E like tonight.
A couple of years after I came back from tour, I got this job over in Carrollton and I was just like driving around trying to find something to eat for lunch.
And I saw on this little strip mall the same font, same spelling. Barbecue Tonight went in owned by the same family.
Holy there's only two barbecue tonight in the entire world and one's in Carrollton, Texas, and the other one's in Karachi, Pakistan.
Do they have monkey brains? No, no monkey. We're going to Carrollton. I'm not going to work today.
We're eating monkey brains. So conversely, besides like foods that we hate, I brought in particularly one donut for us to try.
There's six of them so we can have two each and have a diabetic coma if we'd like.
But these are if you're diabetes, yeah, diabetes. If you're ever in need of the sweetest donut in the world, you can go to Krispy Kreme and then you can try these.
Wait, wait, wait. I just saw something because I know it's been a while since I've eaten a Krispy Kreme.
Yeah, go for it. How do you feel about microwave Krispy Kremes?
It says on the box to microwave it for eight seconds. Would you do that? Only if it was the original glazed.
OK, I would not do it with like the ones we're about to eat microwave up to eight seconds. They are pro microwave. Got it.
Well, I mean, so when the lights on, if you're ever driving by a Krispy Kreme and you see the light that says hot fresh now, you can go in and they'll give you a free one right off the conveyor belt right into your mouth.
That is that is my first Krispy Kreme memory is someone hand feeding me over the glass with a glove on.
Kevin, do you remember the first time you ever had Krispy Kreme? No, I really don't.
I just remember them not being a thing in like the late 90s to early 2000s. And then once they hit this area, my dad, my dad and me would drive by and the line would just be like into traffic.
And my dad was like, I'm not waiting in line for donuts, you know.
But then you try them and you realize that they were really good when they first came out.
And that's just the concept of having a hot fresh glazed donut being served to you right fresh. And you're just like, yeah, I'll take 12 of those because they're light.
And yeah, so this particular donut is the chocolate ice cream filled donut.
Kevin, if you'd like to donate one to your to your offspring, you may. Yeah, my boy Calvin here here donuts and he wanted to come on in.
Calvin, you get the first one, buddy.
Calvin, remind us how old are you?
I'm turning nine. Turning nine.
So it's just a few days, right? Yeah. Yeah.
All right. So, Calvin, for your ninth birthday, you get to choose one of our.
This is my favorite donut. It's a chocolate ice cream filled donut. It's really sweet, but it's my favorite.
Krispy Kreme, if you've never had them, let's take a let's take a I did pull this up yesterday while we were.
I'll take a pull this up and talk a little bit about the Krispy Kreme if you want to dive in and try one.
The first time again, like I'd never had Krispy Kreme before, probably like 2002 or 2003.
And I went to the one it was in like grapevine. I was like on the border of grapevine, South Lake Colleyville.
And that was a furtose like right when I first moved to the area. Yeah.
I yeah, I was super stoked on it.
Walked in, got a free donut. I was like, all right, you got my business. You gave me something free and hot and you fed it to me.
All right, let's go. They looked longingly into my eyes while I took a bite of it.
Like it was magical. I agree.
So another thing that I think that Krispy Kreme has done very well is their logo and branding.
Their colors are very red and green being like opposite colors.
You know, they go really well together. It's almost like Christmas.
But, you know, it's one of those things where it tricks your brain into thinking this is a donut color.
It's very diner esque as far as like their font is concerned and the way that they've done their restaurants,
particularly when they first opened and almost felt like walking into an old diner with like the chrome and just the way that they have their hats on.
They all wore white and they had like the paper hats.
That was another thing that Krispy Kreme that was really cool.
You'd get you a hot donut and they'd give you a little hat that went along with it.
So Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Rudolph.
He bought a yeast raised recipe from a New Orleans chef and then he rented a building in 1937 and what is now historic old Salem Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Then after he rented that building, he started selling to local grocery stores.
And then they became a public company in 2000.
So you can actually buy stock in Krispy Kreme there on the NASDAQ.
Their call sign is D and UT. So if you need to. Yeah.
Obviously, this is, you know, there's probably some lore there with Vernon Rudolph and where he got his recipe and that whole thing.
A fun fact about Krispy Kreme is, like you said, he went into grocery stores with them.
Yeah, because of that, they invented the donut box with like the window.
I'll know maybe not invented, but that is why they started making donut boxes.
He used something that you could see through so that you could sell at retail because it's easier to sell a donut if you can see it.
OK, and that's why most donut shops, they don't have the window.
You don't see the donut. But if you go to the grocery store, you got a windowed box.
I love that. Good call. So it says here, 18 year old Vernon, along with his brother, Louis, began working for his uncle Ishmael and a small general store in Paducah, Kentucky.
And it had very popular donuts. It says the origin of the donut recipe still remains partially a mystery.
But it's believed that Ishmael Armstrong, inspired by an Ohio river barge cook named Joseph Labouf, who had famous light and fluffy donuts, inspired the recipe.
So, yeah, like I said, this time in my life was very like I remember being in the DFW because my dad was at seminary and I was in high school.
And so there was a lot of like church gatherings. And it was one of those things where like if somebody about Krispy Kreme, you know, they waited in line, you know, that, you know, they they really cared about you.
It says here, one of my favorite companies was acquired by Krispy Kreme in 2018. And that is the bakery chain Insomnia Cookies.
Oh, I don't know if you guys know Insomnia, but they make warm cookies that and they also stay open until like two or three in the morning.
And they deliver as well. And some of the some of my favorite cookies come from Insomnia. So that's pretty cool.
Yeah. So what do you guys think about this particular variety of donut? I'm going to have one while you're talking.
That was the first time I had one of these and that was an excellent donut. Yeah, I agree. That was a solid donut.
I think the gene get out early. Oh, no, no, no. They're chasing gene. They're chasing gene. I hope not. He's on his way here.
It's like Michael Myers when he gets out. Solid donut, you say? Yeah, very good. And usually I don't like cream filled, but this one I would get again.
Yeah, the the cream on this, it's it's like a really light cream. It's not going to be like your heavy, like more pudding based or custard cream.
Really, really solid donut flavored good. The sweetness is good. Like, yeah, for a return to donuts, this was a solid pick.
Yeah, it tastes like a remember.
Kevin, any anything you would change about this donut? No, I think it's just great. Yeah, I think that I like that.
I think that when you first bite into it, the chocolate is darker tasting than it looks. Yeah.
And then, like you said, the cream, it's sort of a mix between like a powdered sugar icing and like maybe like a cream cheese icing almost.
Yeah, it's like a kind of halfsies. But it's really good, though. Yeah, that's my favorite donut at Krispy Kreme.
I probably could eat that whole six dozen by myself if I was by myself. But I'm not.
So you have to share with us. I know. I thought this was pretty cool.
Krispy Kreme has a sponsorship for a NASCAR vehicle or they did at one point. I thought that was pretty cool.
Check that thing out. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah, brother. Brother. That's a Ford Mustang right there, brother.
Hell, yeah. Number 60. That's how many Krispy Kremes I could put back in one sitting.
60 Krispy Kremes. So, yeah, if you're in the Fort Worth Float Company area, there's a Krispy Kreme right around the corner.
Grab your chocolate ice cream filled donut and then you can come right over here and get some.
Get some cold plunge on, get some sauna on. So. Get your float on. It'll help balance out all the sugar.
For real. Yeah. On a scale of one to six hot donuts, what is your rating for this donut this morning, Mr. Kevin O'Malley?
I'll give it a five and a half. Five and a half. Just so there's a little room for something.
Almost perfect. Yeah. I'm going to go five and a half too. That was a good fucking. Five and a half. Yeah.
Five and a half. I'm going to go back on that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm right there with you.
I'm going to give it a five just because I'll balance it out on the low end because, again, I always like pick my favorite things and then I'm biased.
I feel bad. I'm like, this is a perfect fucking donut. So I'll give it a five, five point five.
It averages out five point five there. Five point three three three three three three three.
Five. Yeah. Let's see what Calvin O'Malley thinks of it. Oh, yeah. Calvin tiebreaker. Calvin, come here.
He's got his buds in. He's partying over there.
Fun fact, the chairs that he's sitting in there like the massage chairs, I got to help Kevin move those out of a home in Mansfield or at least one of them.
Maybe not both. I don't remember, but we had to bring it from the second story of a nice home in Mansfield, Texas.
That's one of the least cool things that you could do in life is move anything is surprisingly heavy.
As I remember, there was like a three year old watching the Deadpool movie.
There was a lot of weird stuff. It was on the golf course. There was definitely a small child watching Deadpool.
There was like a that's a recurring theme in this podcast is young people watching movies they shouldn't be.
Yeah. And so Calvin, on a scale of one to six, one being the worst, six being the best, the donut you just ate.
Could you give it a rating for us, please? Five. Five.
So you heard it. There's no lying. There's no bias from the babes of from the what is it from the mouths of babes.
That's right. You know that he's telling the truth. Kids don't lie ever. Perfect angels.
So you're about to be nine. The lying is coming. Yeah. Just kidding.
Also, young forever. While Calvin's over here, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention his one has one piece shirt.
Very cool. Yeah. Yeah. What's your who's your favorite character? Calvin.
Luffy. Luffy. I haven't watched enough one piece. I'm daunt. It's a daunting task to undertake.
Yeah. There's just so much. The show that you sent me fighting. Oh, yeah. Whatever. It's like 97 episodes.
And that's pretty short for an anime. I know. I've never seen it, but his grandfather in Japan, he's seen every episode.
Oh, really? Die hard. Nice. Yeah. My son is trying to watch all of it right now.
I think he's like he's told me where he's at in it and I don't know enough to know, but I think he's around the halfway point.
It's got like a thousand something episode. It's crazy. I love I love when you get into the middle of it and you get that tunnel vision and you're just like, whoa, I went through like a hundred episodes.
Yeah, I've done that with like Dragon Ball Z. Yeah, I've done that with.
What's the other one? Gundam Wing. Now, I've done it with all the Gundam shows. Yeah. Lost. Crazy.
You could get lost in any sort of anime, manga, television show like that very easily.
And they're just kind of like soap operas, dramas for your mind. Yeah. So let's move on.
We already have heard from various listeners about the episode that just dropped three hours because we included some voicemails that we've received over the past couple of weeks right at the top.
And so we kind of wanted to get a reaction. We just what what are your general thoughts, Parker, on some of the voicemails that we received the past couple of weeks?
Well, we we got the Muncho Maniac chiming back in and he's he's wanting to eat hot dogs for breakfast. And I accept that challenge.
That was very Fourth of July inspired voicemail. You could feel the patriotism just rip roaring off of that voicemail.
The biggest patriot I know. Yeah, but he did lay down the gauntlet of a challenge and that is eating hot dogs for breakfast, which is like to me not a challenge.
That just seems like it sounds like it's just sounds like a fun time. Yeah.
But we're issuing you a challenge. Muncho Maniac. It's a video challenge that will post on the Instagram. It'll go on Instagram. And we've got a challenge for you.
And that challenge is to come through and have as many hot dogs as you can in the cold plunge. I don't know if Kevin will let you eat in the cold plunge, but it might be a thing where you have to catch up.
Yeah, well, maybe we can figure it out. Yeah, we'll have a little tray across it. Yeah.
So we had much of call in lay down that challenge. We also had Kevin, our third co-host call in and correct us on the Jean Claude van Damme Predator Connection.
We stand corrected. It's Michael Scott, Gary Clark Hall, Michael, Michael, Michael, Gary Scott.
Rolling in the dude. I love that. Being a big predator fan. I felt like I had to. Yeah. I mean, that's what the phone number is for. It's for people to call in and correct us when we're wrong.
I mean, exactly. I I don't know how to do that. I lie a lot. I forget a lot. I tell tall tales.
I know for a fact that the episode that dropped today, I have already I was corrected on it before it even saw the light of day. So, you know, I just bullshit.
So my wife's just now figuring that out in our relationship. We've been married for the this year will be 13 years.
And just this year, she started going, is that true? You just say stuff like it's true. And I just think that she just told me.
Yeah. If you say it with confidence, it's true. Whether I'm misremembering or not. So in the past couple of months, she just starts fact checking me in real time.
And I'm 99 percent wrong. I'm 100 percent wrong. It did take her 13 years to figure that out, though.
True. I kept up the charade pretty good. That's pretty solid. Solid. If you guys need tips on how to fool your wife for 13 years, head us up at 682-294-0101.
Breakfast of Champs pod at Gmail dot com. We also had Kevin, we had to bring you back on because we had a kind of a disturbing voicemail left for us.
Yeah, I apologize in advance. I haven't heard the episode yet, but whatever he called and said, I'm sorry about it.
Yeah. He had our editor working overtime with the beeps there.
Yeah, it was not not family friendly for the podcast. So, you know, he did end the call with Trump 2024 and he definitely some hate speech in the call.
So we had to bleep that out. I block his number, but he always makes new phone numbers or borrowers of somebody's phone.
I mean, he hears. Yeah. The gene seemed like a man of burner phones.
Well, every message anybody gets from hands it with that, like written letters, text messages, emails. He signs it on checks.
I'm scared to know where his mind is now after recent events.
And we are talking about Jean, my older twin brother, in case you didn't your older twin brother. He's the evil twin. Yeah, he's definitely evil.
I definitely need a check in from Jean after events that transpired over the weekend. I don't know if he's emboldened or maybe he's he's definitely fired up.
He's also like most of Trump's base. Yeah. Yeah. He said that he was he said that he was getting out on Tuesday.
It is now Thursday. So Jean is now out in the wild. He does not have to call from behind bars.
So I'm going to be looking over my shoulder and I am also very I hope that he's not emboldened to do crazier things.
Yeah, it's free. I haven't seen him yet, but I know he's out there and that makes it even scarier.
That's why whenever I heard that police siren really close, I was like, does he know when we're recording?
Does he have the float? Well, I mean, company plays tapped. But does Jean train?
I'm not in a school. He'll just get into street fights and you think that's training.
OK, well, I feel safe with you, Kevin. You have a black belt in judo and jiu jitsu.
So he's got the wild card factor, though. You never know what he's going to do.
So how's your leg, Kevin? It's fine now. OK.
How bad did it hurt for and for how long? It did hurt.
It was sore till the next day, but not bruised, which is weird. And you don't bruise.
Apparently not. Did you happen to catch his fight?
I didn't see the fight, but I saw the controversial ending of it.
Yeah, we'll talk about that here in a bit. But yeah, it's part of the drama I want to talk about.
But I just wanted to make sure we're both on the same page there.
So by your reaction, I can tell we are.
So yeah, if you have a voicemail for us, if you want to leave us a message about corrections or anything like that, give us a call.
Once again, that's 682-294-0101. We'll do our best to feature you as quickly as possible.
Sometimes we'll get backed up and we have lives and that whole thing.
So we're trying our best. You know, it's a free show, free show.
So next on the list, we're going to talk about that cold plunge.
So so last time we were here, I just want to be like just for for continuity sake and just for like Kevin's sake as well.
The last time that I was here, I was in a really weird mental place, just being honest with you guys.
So like if you heard the episode with like Kevin and the float company, the first episode, like that was just a weird time.
And I was dealing with some like personal stuff and like just like not realizing that I was kind of like shutting people out and kind of like doing that weird thing where like I didn't feel like I deserve to be included in doing good things because I was, you know, just in my own head.
So I know just before we get into the cold plunge, if you are struggling with mental health problems and you need someone to talk to or you need someone to reach out to, please do that.
I've got friends that are in my life that, you know, personally, like I said, I was in a weird place, but I've got friends that have called me or text me in the past couple of weeks that are kind of in that same boat where they just feel like they're kind of lost aimless.
I don't know if it's the gold rims of summer, or just the fact that, you know, whatever's happening around us and our society is just kind of grading on us and bringing us down or whatever.
But like the biggest thing is that you like vocalize that. And so just reaching out to a friend and being like, hey, I'm in a shitty place really helps. And so before we recorded last time, like I kind of like pulled Parker said I was like, I just got into a fight with my wife.
I'm just like not feeling it and that whole thing. And so, like I said, I think the last time we were here, we had, you know, great grand ideas of like getting in cold plunge and like doing sauna and like having video of all that.
And it was really my bad. So I just want to like before we get into the cold plunge and before we like talk to Kevin further, just bring that up to you guys. I know that like sometimes we get on here and we like put on this cool face and we're like, everything's great in our lives.
And we're, you know, this is a, you know, it it's hard to make sure that we're consistent with this and also keep our like personal lives, you know, compartmentalized out of the podcast because, you know, there are some days that we've recorded the podcast and you haven't slept.
You know, I, you know, we just had been traveling or like we have just been like, you guys don't realize that we also have kids and wives and that sort of thing.
So just to keep it real and just to kind of keep it real with Kevin that that last time we were here, I apologize, like I said, for being rushed and just kind of being out of here.
But I came this morning prepared. I got my mind right before I got here this morning. I woke up and just got my swimsuit on and put on my rash guard. I thought I was going to need it, but I didn't.
Kevin was like, pop that shirt right off. So we got here and set up and the first thing we did was we we all cold plunged for three minutes. And that's the first time I've ever done it.
It was all three of us in the tub at the same time. Three guys, one tub, three bros, one tub, three bros, one tub. It's our new YouTube channel. Check it out.
So I guess, Kevin, tell us for people who don't know what a cold plunges, I think we kind of got into it on the last episode, but if they didn't hear it, tell us about the cold plunge and the benefits and all that.
Yeah, so it's basically an ice bath without the ice. It has a chiller built in. So the water is always circulating and being cooled down.
There are a lot of benefits. A big one is mental toughness because it is something you don't really want to do, but you do it and then you realize it wasn't that bad and you feel good about just making yourself do that.
Physical benefits. When I do it regularly, I'm hardly ever sore anymore. That's a big one for me.
And it also does a lot for your immune system, especially when you combine it with the sauna because those two modalities are really great on their own, but then that it's pretty much a hundred degree temperature difference between the two.
It really does a lot for getting your body to regulate its temperature on its own and also just kind of helping you avoid getting sick and those usual things that can come up.
Oh yeah, because I know it helps with inflammation and stuff and I woke up this morning and my whole right lower back and right hip are killing me.
And I was like, oh man, I'm so glad we're cold plungeing this morning and it already feels so much better. When you're in it, you can't think about anything that hurts because it's so cold that all you can think about is how fucking cold you are.
But now I can definitely feel like my lower back has loosened up quite a bit and my hip is feeling better and it's amazing.
Yeah, I think one of the mechanisms for that is all your blood goes to your core just to help keep everything warm.
And then getting out, especially if you go to the sauna, it goes back out to the extremities, which also improves circulation a lot.
Like one of the biggest things I noticed when I first started was I got that pins and needles feeling in my feet really bad.
But after doing it a few times that went away and my dad, he has peripheral neuropathy, which is a condition where you have poorer blood flow to your feet.
Like he can't even feel is anymore. It's so bad. So if there is some inherited trait there, I'm hoping that it mitigated that for me.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we were in for a total of three minutes. And what was the type piece of 38?
I think it was 43 when we started.
Oh, 43. OK. So yeah, if you've never done cold plunge, you kind of want to ease your way into it.
I accidentally lost my balance and splashed a little bit, but you kind of want to ease your way down into it.
Kevin was kind enough to not make me like dunk my head or get all up in my chest area.
So I was up to probably about like mid mid belly and all of my lower extremities were in.
And then for that last minute, Kevin was like, put your hands in.
And I was like, oh, God, I only made it about 45 seconds of that last minute with my hands in.
It was just too much. I started shivering.
So it's the little tiny adjustment of putting your hand in that just like my brain was like too much.
And I've heard that that shiver is kind of what you're aiming for, because that supposedly is an indication of burning brown fat.
Oh, perfect. But I did it right. Oh, yeah. I fucking expert first time. Nailed it.
Fucking nailed it. I really in my brain, I like it's exactly like Kevin said.
Your brain is telling every part of you that you do not want to do what you're about to do.
And then you just kind of like override your brain with like the decision, like your caveman decision of like, fuck the brain.
We're getting in this. And then once you're in it, you know, obviously you kind of have to breathe your way through it.
And but it really like you said, this knee was killing me. My back was a little tight.
That three minutes has done more for me than, you know, probably like 30 minutes of stretching or foam rolling or anything like that.
So recovery, if you have any soreness or any sort of aches and pains, I mean, the first time I felt a little relief from that.
So, I mean, thank you so much for allowing us to do that and experience that.
Yeah. And you know, it's fantastic for recovery. But my favorite times do it are about maybe two hours before I go to judo.
I feel like it really gives me more energy for that. I can see that for sure.
The second I got out and started warming back up, I was like, fuck, this is great.
I think I read a study and Kevin, you probably have heard this too, but the cold plunge is the same.
Like it hits the same receptors as like cocaine basically. And it gives you a similar effect.
Yeah, I think I have heard that. And, you know, cocaine is horrible for you. Look at Conor McGregor.
So this is a healthy way that you don't have to worry about ruining your life or ending your life.
So, hey, if you want to do a bump, maybe just come to a cold plunge. It's also a lot cheaper.
Come here and get addicted to this. That's right. You won't have to pull out of any of your fights.
You can just take a bump of that cold plunge and then you'll be right back in the mix.
You won't have to worry about you saw to knocking at your door for the cocaine.
You know, it will also keep your toes from breaking. Oh, OK. I don't know if that's true. Not medically proven. I lie a lot.
I've never broken a toe. OK, you heard it here first.
It'll help you not break toes. So all right, Conor McGregor, come on down.
So Kevin had a really great idea. We want to give him the entire credit for this idea.
I'm typing his name as I'm saying, but he was talking about obviously corrected us with the blood sport.
And as far as like Predator, which I'm sorry, with John Claude Van Damme historian.
Yeah, with the Predator thing while we were on our blood sport sort of review, if you will.
And so his idea was if we were to make a remake of Bloodsport, if we were to recast Bloodsport today,
who would we like to see in some of these characters places?
And so I've got the character list pulled up here on the whole IMDB.
And we can kind of go through this and kind of recast with some more modern day people, actors, maybe influencers, famous, famous people.
Yeah, I'm I'm very like so Kevin texted me this like earlier in the week or late last week or something.
And I was like, oh, man, this is a great idea.
Like, I know that we don't agree with Bloodsport being remade because it's a perfect movie.
But if they were like to give it the Roadhouse treatment, like we could also talk who would want to direct it even because Newt Arnold directed the original.
I'm not I don't know if he's done anything else that I'm familiar with.
Well, let's take a look. Newt Arnold also has done The Godfather Part Two Blade Runner War Games.
So he's a second unit or assistant director on these directed Bloodsport.
He's he's done a lot of like first and second assistant directors.
Yeah, he really has. Ninja Turtle, Secret of the Ooze.
And so what's cool is usually the second unit director is the one who's doing a lot of the stunt work.
First AD.
So, yeah, that makes sense for him to do Bloodsport because he was doing a lot of the like filming the stunt scenes.
Yeah.
OK, cool. Well, I'm glad we went down that rabbit hole.
So, yeah, let's start off top. So if you were to pick maybe a different director for Bloodsport, more modern director, who you who you think and you want to go director first before jumping to cast?
Sure, sure. And, you know, I think with anybody here, we don't want big names.
I think that's one of the good things about this is, of course, John Claude Van Damme.
We all know him now at the time. He probably wasn't the superstar he is. Right.
Think of him and the budget for this film was super low as well.
So it's not like we're going to go get fucking Steven Spielberg or anything like that.
We wouldn't want him anyway for this. But and by the way, this thought came because we were listening to the last episode and then that inspired young Calvin O'Malley here to one watch Bloodsport again.
All right. So if he has any input on the original, just let us know.
Any words on Bloodsport?
Did you have a favorite part of Bloodsport?
No, no. All right.
My thought as far as director is concerned, right now, the only one that kind of comes to mind that's not super humongously big.
That's kind of like on the come up, maybe would be.
I don't know if Ty West is into.
Well, that could be interesting. He he takes a he does more horror, but he did do in the Valley of Violence, which is a Western.
And I also think that like also not having like a maybe quote unquote horror director or I'm sorry, not a quote unquote action director or something that's like super into action movies to take a different look at it.
Maybe even a more brutal look. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's that's an interesting take. I like that.
I think he's also just in the ether right now because of Maxine and Pearl and X. But you know, sorry, you think whoever did it.
And if it was redone, I think one thing that should be played out more is like the grittiness and brutality of it. Yeah, that's kind of why I went there because I want to see like the first time I watched.
Have you seen X? Yes. Have you seen X? Yes, I have. So like the first time that Pearl kills someone and like it's I mean, like that didn't stop for a good 30, 45 seconds.
I was like, I was like, when is this going to end? My tummy does not like this.
I like someone that's like you want to be if you didn't like that.
So that's just kind of like my first thought as far as like maybe a horror or like a Rob Zombie or you know what I mean?
Like like the beer horror movie so that we can get the more brutality thing.
But I just pulled up here the top 50 upcoming directors like the Ryan Coogler's number one. Yeah.
I mean, he did Creed, which was fantastic. Yeah.
Alex Garland, that's really interesting. I mean, his most recent one was what? Civil War? I think so. Yeah.
Oh man, Tycho, T.D. But some of these we wouldn't be able to get just because of price point.
I mean, you're not going to get a Ryan Coogler to do a lower budget. You'd be surprised.
Unless it's just a passion project. Actually, I'm not sure.
So don't quote me on this because again, I don't know what I'm talking about, but he might be working on a UFC movie.
Like in some small part.
Yann de Manget, The Minge. Lovecraft Country. Oh yeah, that show is cool. But also Top Boy. I didn't see that.
So Top Boy is like the the wires. I'm sorry, the UK's version of The Wire. OK.
But more I'd say more gritty. They deal with a lot of like because, you know, a lot of over there, there's not like a lot of gunplay.
Because, you know, of how illegal it is. So you've got a lot of like knives and like machetes and lots of people on.
Yeah. On like Vespa's driving around throwing acid at people. So yeah, maybe.
Or what's old boy that does? Jordan Peele. Yeah, I like that. I've got two.
I've won this guy. I just looked him up and apparently he's retired. His name is Ben Ramsey. OK.
He he did a movie called Blood and Bone. OK. I've seen that. I like that one.
Yeah. Blood and Bone's really good. And it's kind of the similar style as Bloodsport.
It stars Michael Jai White, who is also a martial artist, who I would also probably cast in the kickbox remake.
I love Michael Jai White. But so Ben Ramsey, his he was he did Blood and Bone.
He also wrote the big hit with Mark Wahlberg. That was like his first big hit.
He also had a part in Don't Be a Minister South Central, Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. So we have Street Cred. Yeah.
But he also wrote Dragonball Evolution, which was the Dragon Ball Z live action movie that was terrible.
So I'd love to give him like, hey, come make something awesome. Yeah. I mean, that sounds good to me.
I'll go with that guy. Yeah. And then the other guy, he actually just released a movie and he I'm only familiar with two of his movies.
His name is Michael Sarnowski. He did a movie called Pig starring Nicholas Cage.
Okay. And Nicholas Cage is like this former chef who lives out in the woods of Oregon.
And he has this prize truffle pig and he just goes hunting truffles and he sells them to chefs in Portland and all this.
And they like kind of it starts out they sold it more as like a John Wick type movie where somebody steals his pig.
And then he goes on like a hunt for vengeance for the pig. And there's definitely action in it.
But it's kind of like understated and like brooding.
And I think that he would do well because he also just directed A Quiet Place Day One, which is like his first major studio outing.
And it had lots of really good action scenes with like the monsters and stuff. It had some jump scares.
It had lots of tension, but it boiled down to like this really awesome human story.
And it had very similar themes to Pig of like relationships with animals, with nature, stuff like that.
And so I think that he could do a cool take on Bloodsport remake. And he's also a director to watch.
Nice. I get very popcorn answers. You're a little bit more in depth with the AMC connection there.
So let's go right into it. Who are you choosing? Yeah, Kevin, give us some thoughts.
I don't really have any thoughts on it. I'm not too familiar with any directors.
I'm right there with you. Like I know peripheral directors, but let's save Jean-Claude Van Damme's character for last maybe.
OK, so I think this one would be a fun one. Whoever. Who do you think who have for Jackson originally played by Donald Gibb?
Jackson's character was the character that was like the Street Fighter esque.
Post Malone. Wow. No, I'm kidding. Not Post Malone.
So honestly, a bigger guy, maybe tattooed biker kind of.
I said Michael Jai White earlier that I'd want to cast him and I feel like he's a little bit older, but he can still hold his own.
And maybe Jackson. I don't know about that. Yeah.
Only because Michael Jai White is known for like speed and like elegance and like being post Malone.
No, no, no. But like the fact of Jackson's character never using a single martial art in the entire movie.
I guess that's true. Yeah. Be kind of like a counterintuitive there with Michael Jai White. You want to show off his martial arts, you know, so action Bronson in that role.
Perfect. I mean, there's no there's no need to go further. Yeah. In my opinion.
OK, Kevin, do you know Action Bronson? I've heard the name, but not familiar with.
Let me pull up a picture. Action Bronson is a rapper from New York.
He is the former one of the former chefs for the New York Mets.
And whenever he slipped and fell in the kitchen, he broke his leg and decided to become a rapper.
And so he's got a lot of food references. He's got a lot of sports references.
He's got a television program called Fuck That's Delicious.
He is also has lately been into fitness and he's specifically into like kettlebell training and Mace and like functional fitness things.
I forget the like hydro bag. I see him using that a whole lot.
So, yeah, like that's kind of that's a great cast casting for him, I think.
I mean, he's obviously got the he he's got the look.
He's got the look. He usually comes out on stage in kind of like wrestling gear.
He usually wears like a tank top, elbow pads whenever he was first coming up before he got like super popular, like more like pitchfork crowd.
He was like DDT people from the crowd. He was actually this. I changed my answer just based on this.
No, I got a better answer. Oh, OK. We can we can keep going down action.
Bronson. But I got another answer for this character. So how big is this guy?
Oh, that's a good question. He does have the look.
But one of the things about Jackson was he was I think even better than Charlie. Yeah. Yeah.
Like he was definitely over six foot, maybe like I've always assumed he was like six, four to six, six range, like just a big dude.
Five, nine. Yeah. A little too short. A little too short. OK.
Here's here's my next one. And this is a pro wrestler who also plays in a hardcore band.
Brody King. OK. He's an A.E.
What is that?
He's this lead singer of God's Hate. He's a massive human being.
Actually, at Sound and Fury this past weekend, he like did a wrestling move on a stage diver.
Six, three, two, eighty five. Yeah. It's like just a big dude, intimidating, loves violence.
I think that he would also be a good fit for Jackson. I'm down for that.
He's got the look and the size. Yeah. Let's see if we can pull up some more Brody.
I'm going to see if I can pull up this video. What is the name? Brody Stevens. Stevens. King. Brody King.
Steven Brody Stevens. Yes. Positive push.
I love rest in peace, Brody Stevens. That just made me realize he was such a good guy.
All right. He's got it. Does he have a straight edge jacket here? Yeah, he's straight edge.
Even better. Here he is on stage from this past week. Yeah. All right.
I think that he would be a great Jackson. Man, I wish I could find this video.
I'm sure it's I'll find it on the Internet and I'll send it to you all. But oh, here it comes.
Boom. Right into the crowd. Yeah, that's perfect. So I think Brody King equals Jackson. Yeah.
I think he'd be a good one. All right. So next on the list, we have Janice, who's playing the sexy reporter?
Because Leah Ayers was not that.
How old was she before we get into that? I think she's fairly attractive.
I got to contend what you guys said about her last time. I'm sorry.
There's definitely she does have kind of that 80s look, but there's definitely people who have that more.
And I think she's not too far off from beauty standards today. So she reprises her role.
No, I just want to argue about last time. I know. Yeah, I agree with you.
There are some like there's definitely that that 80s look for for for ladies.
And that's sort of one of those things where like if you go back and watch like Christmas vacation is one I always think about because you have like Beverly Beverly D'Angelo, who is sexy and very 80s in that movie.
But then you had like that supermodel that was at the counter. Yeah. Who like did not look 80s at all. Yeah.
So, yeah, you have like that converseness there. But I'm wearing those right now. That that whole scene is classic. Can't see the line. Can you rest?
So let's objectify women here for a moment. And who is a pretty lady that could play a reporter that was that is into uncovering the secrets of the kumatai?
You going with Kevin? Well, still not unknown, but not a huge star.
Alexandra Daddario or however you say her name. Yeah, I've watched anything with her.
Let's take a look. True Detective season one. Oh, I don't need to look. Yeah. Yeah. What do you hear else inside piece of that one? Okay. Yeah. You heard anything. I'm watching it. Yeah.
That's it. That's a good choice. Yeah. I know being brown haired, but in Asia, I still think she has a good time, you know, getting her way into an underground fighting event.
She got the blue eyes. She has other things going for. Again, I'm pulling up beautiful young actresses.
I'm DV. We talked about Ty West earlier. So, you know, Mia Goth is yeah, like one of the best right now. I don't know if she would necessarily do great in that role, but I would be totally down to see her in the who Elizabeth Olsen.
Yeah.
Maybe maybe someone that's not as well known that would do well.
That would be a good one. Zoe Kravitz. Yeah, I like she's great in Batman. So yeah, and also like a little diversity to the cast. Yeah, as far as like not necessarily being it like must be a white lady.
Because that's what it was in the original one.
We gotta get Kathleen Kennedy in on this.
Also, you know, would be good to.
And like, in my opinion, could probably like maybe play herself is Laura Senko from the UFC. I don't know if you know her.
Laura Senko. Oh, yeah, she's a sideline like reporter or whatever. Yeah, for the UFC. But she also trains martial arts. So if there was ever like a scene that like, yeah, she was an em, she competed professionally for Invicta.
So if there was ever like a scene where she kind of got roughed up, she could handle her own plushie very knowledgeable of like MMA and UFC and kind of is not necessarily known as an actress. Absolutely. Yeah, that would be very cool.
Yeah, between her and then like Megan O'Leavy is the other one that that calls. But Megan O'Leavy is actually married to a UFC fighter. That guy. Oh, I forget what his name is, but she's married to that guy. But she's another one that would be like sideline reporter.
Here's her standing on a box talking to Kevin Hollen. Yeah. So yeah, there's a lot of young pretty actresses. Like you said, you got Mia Goth. Yeah. And then Halsey is also in Maxine. Yeah, she's kind of making her way into the active game.
Yeah, any musician we could just do a musician one if we did this too. Like you have like Billy Eilish and on there. No, I was thinking more of Haley Williams from Paramore. Okay. Yeah, like a non actor kind of. Yeah.
And that role. All right. What about you want to do the cops? Yeah. So we got Helmer and Rollins. I could see Michael J. White. That's kind of with Helmer. You know, no Rollins. Oh, Rollins. I'm trying to switch it up. Oh, okay. And he's also a little bit older now because Forrest Whitaker was young in this. That's true.
That's true. That's so Michael. Yeah. Why would Michael J. White would be the like the aging agent that also like, but he knows some stuff. He can handle his own. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking is. Okay. So then we need a younger person for Rollins. I think, you know, let's get a little wild and have Forrest Whitaker be the old one.
Yeah. And then Michael J. White. I have about the same age. Probably. I have a fun Forrest Whitaker aside. That's a shout out to my mother-in-law. She was in court one time and was getting into it with a judge and the judge had a lazy eye and she goes, shut your mouth. Forrest Whitaker looking as bitch.
Whoa. This is your mom? This is my mother-in-law. Oh, mother-in-law. And I've always said that I'm going to get, like, I don't have any portrait tattoos, but I want to get a Forrest Whitaker like ghost dog portrait with that quote underneath it.
That's good. He young buck actors that could play like dumb though, because he was kind of clueless in that, wasn't he? He was like, oh, I've fallen in the lake. I feel like. I think Post Malone would be that good character.
I think it needs to be somebody who's more of a comedian than that. More of a comedian. Like an up and coming comedian type. I'm thinking like Saturday Night Live, but I'm also not super familiar with the current Saturday Night Live cast, but someone who kind of fits that role of like.
Snarky. Yeah. Maybe like a Tony Hinchcliffe. I could see that. Yeah. Like a smaller, but still imposing in his personality. Yeah, absolutely. Michael Che, is that his name? Oh yeah. I could definitely see that.
Very sarcastic and sardonic would probably match up height wise with like a Forrest Whitaker or Michael J. White, whichever way we went in that way. Let's see who we got for Tiger Tanaka. Who's going to train our main character?
Why don't we make Michael Tiger Tanaka since he's older? And Forrest Whitaker is. And Forrest Whitaker is Helmer. And then we've got, I keep on hitting this, but then we've got Michael Che as Rollins.
And then we've got, I don't know who's special lady.
For Tanaka, you know, pretty much any time they need a Japanese guy, they have Hiroyuki Sonata from Shogun or Ken Watanabe. Who's the guy that plays. Both great actors, but I don't know if I want either one of them. Maybe somebody more unknown.
What's his name? Who's the guy that plays? I keep on going to images when I don't mean to.
Well, I would say David Carradine. RIP.
Gordon Lu?
He doesn't look old enough though. I'm talking about the guy that. Are you talking Sonny Chiba? Yeah, Sonny Chiba. Yeah.
That'd be a good one. Yeah. Sonny Chiba. I believe he passed away though, didn't he? Oh God. Here we go. Fact checking was alive. He might have. No.
I feel like it is Sonny Chiba marathon.
Oh, yeah. 2021.
Who's the guy that plays in John Wick that's Blight?
Donnie Yen. Oh, Donnie Yen would be good. Yeah, that's a good one. Right. This guy right here.
But is he old enough to be a Tanaka?
I mean, he looks old enough. You know, I don't care, but he's Chinese.
So people might care about that. That's true. Got to keep it.
Well, we can come back to Tanaka if we think of somebody. So let's see here. We've got let's go to maybe Chong Li.
Who do we have as the villain for someone we see as like killing someone? Yeah, this was a tough one for me.
And believing it. I think, you know, with it being said in Underground Hong Kong, it should be an Asian person.
What if we change the setting? We could, but I think the setting was a big part of the movie.
Because the Walloon. Yeah. Wall City is no longer there, right? No. Yeah.
I was thinking like if we change the setting, then we could make it a different nationality and then we could kind of flip the script on who has to be what.
But let's see here because it was a Japanese event, but it was set in Hong Kong. Yeah.
Let's do this. But my thoughts were a little more known, so maybe not.
But Dave Bautista, he could be a good Chong Li. Oh, yeah.
Or a judo guy who's still doing MMA now and some acting Satoshi Ishii.
Okay. He's a big giant guy. He could be pretty intimidating. That'd be awesome.
Oh, what about, I know he's not a big guy, but the Korean zombie.
Yeah, he could be good because I do like the size of the guy. Big Asian actors.
I don't even know how to spell Asian, right? Google searches.
I know it's going to betray you. Big Asian.
This could go a few different ways. Your results.
Lucy Liu's number one. Oh, Ken Jeong. Dr. Ken.
I didn't mean big as in popular, but in stature.
The biggest Asian actors in Hollywood right now.
Let's see here. Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, Jet Li.
They're still the most popular ones. Yeah. Legends never die.
I guess that's true, but what have they done for me lately?
Good point. Man, this is going to prove to be tough if we have to stick with Chong Li being.
One of the challenges for any of the fighters was, as far as I know,
there aren't a whole lot of good martial arts movie stars right now.
Yeah, you're right. We had to pull from MMA to get anyone for blood.
I mean, for Roadhouse. I guess we could do that, too.
I mean, we have been kind of. But let's see here.
Any of these other ones. So who are you going to go for Frank?
Who's going to be our Frank? Do you think? Because you can't do you've already got like Roadhouse.
No, Jalen Hall. That's OK. No, Connor. Good for that.
Yeah, I mean, you need somebody different. Who's going to be the next American?
I was actually thinking Michael Jai White for Frank, which I think some people would get upset.
Calling him a D.I. higher, which I'm happy to piss those people off.
Yeah, but I do think he'd be do a good job about it. Yeah, I think so, too.
I think there's probably not anybody more apt as far as their martial arts skill and also their acting is concerned.
Yeah, that could handle it. My second choice, though, a lot from seeing the iron claw was
Jeremy Allen White. Oh, actually, I really I think he would.
Yeah, he would. It would bring that, you know, how like all movies now, like action movies.
The actors are always like brooding stars.
And I this, you know, obviously in the 80s, they weren't brooding the same way.
But I feel like he would bring that like 20 20s, like brooding action star.
And he's got the look like, yeah, that's a that's a great.
And he beefed up really well for the. Yeah, as well.
So, you know, he wouldn't have the campiness or John Claude Van Dam, but he would.
I can see him actually looking upset about his sensei dying. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, that's that's a great. Good call. I like that, Kevin. Thank you.
Anybody else that we have to cast? Is there anybody that stands out that needs to be mentioned?
I don't think so. I don't think so either.
I think that just for comedic relief, I think that maybe Ken Jong could be the translator slash.
You know what I mean? Like the guy with the glasses.
Absolutely. The guide. Yeah, that's the one.
So, yeah, if you've got any great suggestions for who should be recast in this fictional bloodsport movie
we're making a shout out shout us out on phone call or email or even on the socials.
We've got a little bit more time here for I got to get off to work.
So let's move on to any M.A.
drama that's happened in the past week that we haven't talked about previously.
So one thing that I brought up just quickly cursor rarely is if you've been keeping up with us,
we've talked about Nate Diaz versus Horton Hospitals boxing match.
So the scuttlebutt there is that they fan me.
Oh, is the company, the production company that put on this event.
They promised Nate Diaz 10 million dollars with a signing bonus of one million and then nine to follow after the event.
His lawyers and him were very concerned about this.
They asked for the guarantee in writing. They've got text messages. They've got emails.
They've got guarantees from this company that they have the money that the money actually went into escrow
for the sanctioning to even happen for the event.
So it's not a matter of whether or not the money is available.
It's just like turning it over to Nate Diaz.
And so fan me. I was one not this is not a top tier company.
It's not like top rank. It's not like the UFC. It's not like anything like that.
It's one of those production companies that's trying to make a name for itself.
The only other combat sports event that they put on was Jake Paul versus Floyd Mayweather a few years ago.
So it was a gamble for Nate Diaz and Jorge to take this fight.
Obviously, if you're going to pay Nate 10, you're going to pay Jorge 10.
So I don't know if Jorge got paid or not.
But the CEO of Fan Meo in a text message to Nate Diaz basically said, if I give you this nine million dollars, my wife will divorce me.
And so I think he was trying to play to Nate's sympathy and maybe try to get some more time.
But Nate and his lawyers were obviously prepared for that.
They had already filed a lawsuit in Florida.
And so that lawsuit will be played out over the next probably couple of weeks, months to see if Nate gets his nine million dollars.
But the thing that kind of like puts that I was selling Parker, that kind of puts a little tickle in the back of my ear for all that is the fact that if Nate is expecting income and then he doesn't get income, that kind of maybe like puts some of his plans like off.
And so if there is a need for income, I know of one promotion that will definitely pay Nate Diaz.
So if this lawsuit kind of like sours Nate as far as like trying to like drum up his own business and trying to like be out on his own promotion, I think there is probably a path for him to come back to the UFC.
So that's kind of the drama when it comes to that is concerned.
There's some more drama brewing when it comes to who's letting the cat out of the bag for the sphere card.
So I don't know if you watched the last last weekend's UFC event, but if you were in French Canada, and you were listening to their simulcast, their announcers accidentally let out some information about who the headliners were going to be for the sphere event in September, Riyadh season presents UFC Noche.
And apparently, they had some sort of information that said that Max Holloway and Elliot Taporria, we're going to headline and that sugar shot O'Malley and Merab Duval Shafili, we're going to co headline.
And so everybody kind of took that information and went like buck wild with it.
Somebody even made a fake poster, and the socials are kind of blowing up but I guess the UFC put word out to a couple of different media agencies to get the word out that that is not the fight that's going to happen.
So I was, I text Parker, it's like this is going to be a great card.
But apparently that's not happening and so now we've kind of got this event that is kind of weird and in jeopardy for like who's going to headline. So, from what I hear the only for sure.
The only event that's happening that night is Alexa Grasso will be fighting Valentina chef Shinko for her belt. And sugar Sean has stated that he is training for the sphere event so in my mind I'm thinking sugar Sean Merab Duval Shafili is going to be the headliner Alexa Grasso Valentina chef Shinko is going to be the co headliner.
The other weird thing about this event though is Dana said that there's only going to be 10 fights, which is a light pay per view card is 12 or 13. Yeah, so he also stated that he's already into this for $17 million and it's not even September yet.
Yeah, I was gonna say like, if they're doing it this fear it's gonna definitely be expensive, like one of the more expensive productions put on.
So yeah, this is also the first time they have a co promoter Riyadh season.
Shake L Turkey has flint in some promotion there so this is not just a UFC event this is going to be a Riyadh season event as well. So it's going to be the first time that's ever going to be from the sphere and so the scuttlebutt for this is that there may be some sort of way some sort of like
background push for Habib to come out of retirement and fight Connor. Now that the Connor Michael Chandler fight is kind of blown up.
The UFC just re released their last fight, they, they're calling it muted, which is basically they removed all the fighter commentary off of the top of it so you can hear the fighters when they're talking you can hear the corner men, give their instructions they've got it all translated out there
and so in my mind, there's no reason to release this fight, unless you're trying to like drum up some, you know, some sort of like rivalry.
Hate from that that you know that would definitely get people buying the pay per view and that would be huge, especially the first, you know, UFC fight at the sphere, like legendary historic moment.
Yeah, so I mean, if you're unfamiliar with Habib he's probably when he retired he was the pound for pound fighter. He's never lost 29 and oh from Dagestan.
He's also coaching Islam Makachev right now, and some of his various friends and family members that live out in that area. He also had Golden Eagle promotions for a minute that they haven't put on event in a while so.
In my mind I'm thinking he doesn't have any fights coming up promotion wise.
The UFC is kind of in shambles with everybody pulling out and having different contracts disputes not in the sense of their in shambles of they're going to close up a shop or anything but as far as like their organizational skills and planning when it comes to these fights, got a lot of people
pulling out a lot of people big names that are, you know, trying to shuffle their like Michael Chandler I straight up hasn't fought two and a half years because he's been he's been waiting on Connor.
So I think that he had he not taken that Connor fight and just fought like a regular schedule he might even be retired by now. He was on his way out anyway. So, there's going to be kind of like I would say a new class of like who the face of the UFC is coming up we've got
obviously poet on is making his rounds as far as like being the face of the UFC and you've got sugar Sean you've got a Israel and Draco's coming up that something to look forward to. That's the other. That's the last thing as far as MMA dramas concern.
Are you familiar with Israel out of Sonia Draco's do Plessy a little bit. Yeah, Kevin you you kind of know about a little bit right about it. Yeah. So, Draco's is from South Africa, and he lives in South Africa trains in South Africa was born there lives there blah blah blah blah blah.
At one point. I don't know if Israel kind of like took this and kind of made it his like, this is my reason to fight this guy or whatever. But there was some talk of Drake is basically saying he was the real African champion.
Yeah, because Israel out of Sonia lives in New Zealand and tomorrow usman lives in America and Francis and God knew lived in France or wherever he was living at the time and so his point was he's the only one that is from Africa and it still lives there and so
Israel took that really really really to heart. And so, the night that Drake has to Plessy one and they had Israel out of Sonia front row, you could tell that is he was really drunk, and they brought him in and he got in Drake is his face and the first thing he was like
What's up my n word What's up my brother, my African brother, you know now I'm hearing your face blah blah blah and Drake has got really shook. I think I didn't think that he, I don't think that he wanted to go that route as far as like the rape make it super racial and like
I don't know that route and so they let them cool off for a minute but that fight is now back on. And so that whole like racially filled tirade. I went back and watched it again and I was just like man I can't believe I saw that live because Israel is real drunk, you can tell he
and slur in his words and definitely let the n word fly about 1015 times right in his face and so that's kind of a little drama for you, if you're into like some of the background drama, not to mention that we've got fights that are happening this weekend.
And so, like I said, if you're joining us. Let's see here. Close events upcoming we got coming up. Yeah. So the next couple of days, if you're listening to this, you will have seen Amanda lame of versus Virna genre Robe.
That's the UFC fight night that's happening Saturday July 20 here in a couple of days or if you're listening to this it just happened. So, on this card we've got Brad to Varus and a junior Park, as the co main.
You've got Steve Garcia versus seeing one Choi from South Korea. You've got Kurt Hallibah and canine crew choose ski, Chris, ski, Cody Durden, Bruno Silva and do whole choice versus bill Algeo.
You've got John young Lee versus hider a mill Brian Keller her versus Cody Gibson Miranda Maverick versus Diana Barbosa or Dion Dion look Barbosa.
Loic, I'm going to get these names. I'm impressed Luke Loic rods above versus Troy tray Ogden Luana Carolina versus Lucy pulled over and then Mohammed us Usman versus Thomas Peterson.
We've got a local fighter that's fighting right off the right off the rip so please tune in and watch Mohammed Usman versus Thomas Peterson, that is the first fight Mohammed is a local fighter from Dallas he's also the brother to tomorrow usman.
Mohammed has actually been in here to float several times. That's awesome. Yeah, so we've got, speaking of someone that's been here we an MMA drama we had Rizak Hassan Abdul Rizak Hassan fight last weekend and kind of had a controversial stoppage for too many blows to the back of the head,
but we're talking to Parker I was talking with Parker earlier and you could kind of maybe if you read about it or saw some highlights from it. I don't think that some of those were to the back of the head I think that he was doing his best to aim off to the side to the
ear and really was cognizant of where he was placing some of those blows was the only one aiming off to the ear.
Sorry, that's how good.
I really will ask Gene about it on his next call. I really think that we should have given him a warning and restarted the fight. But yeah, I mean that was most of the fight because I didn't see anything besides what was controversial which is maybe 30 seconds into
it. Well that's the whole fight. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, my understanding is he got a good hit. Other guy went for a single leg. That's how they ended up in that position and watching what they said were the 12 to six elbows are hitting him in the back of the head.
Maybe one was the rest were all deliberately on the side or with his forearm. Yeah, which I don't know, you know, hitting somebody with your form in the back of the head if that's legal or not. But they're all pretty obviously aiming for the side of his head.
Yeah, I mean, I've seen it at least three or four times and I'm right there with you. I think that was a bullshit decision. I think he should have gotten a point taken away. If you're going to do anything, you should have given him a warning at the very most. Take a point away. Start the fight back over.
Cody Brundage was the guy that he was fighting and I think that Cody just didn't want to continue in my opinion. I think that impression that they had two doctors explaining to him that the fight wasn't over and asking him if he wanted to continue to fight his answer was I don't know.
So in my opinion, I think that he felt the power of Mr. Hassan and he was like, I don't want to mess with him. I'm done. We'll just call this a no contest. So Kevin's also felt that power. Yeah. Razak, he did give me a pretty good leg kick last time he came in.
Yeah. So Dan Murgliano, get your shit together. That was the first fight of the night for you. I don't think that you, you know, you probably should have done a better job in my opinion, but that's we're a little biased. I understand Brundage was acting pretty normal.
Once they stopped, I'm sure. Yeah. So Cody Brundage, you're kind of a pussy for not stepping up to the plate saying you're ready to fight and finishing that fight out. I don't know. I would have. I'm already in there and I'm already kind of concussed a little bit. I think I'm going to go out on my sword. I'm not going to be like, no, I can't fight anymore. I'm sorry. My head hurts now. And if you, if you can make that decision to stop the fight, you're not hurt anyway. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. Yep. So yeah, we've got these fights.
Coming up in my opinion, I think again, Amanda Lamos is going to go ahead and take care of business. Verna Jandaroba kind of has one of those floaty eyes that we were talking about last night. I'm not trying to be insensitive by that. I did see a funny thing. Do you know who Michael Bisping is? I don't. He's a former UFC fighter who's now a commentator. He, he legit lost his eye in a UFC fight and didn't tell anybody, just pulled out.
He didn't tell anybody, just plucked a glass eye in there and fought with one eye for the rest of his career. Whoa. So you kind of knew something was up because you could kind of see that it was not moving. But I just saw a blooper of him over the past weekend and he was standing in the middle of two fighters and they were like, all right, you guys just want to kind of look at each other.
And he was like, and then he pulled his eye and pushed it to one side and then made his eye look at the other. And he's like, how's this? That's awesome. Michael Bisping, that dude is the count. He is a freaking badass of badasses. So yeah, I don't know if Verna needs to hang out with Michael Bisping a little bit.
But yeah, I don't know. Every time, every time I see her fight, I just think of like, it's almost like whenever, I don't know if you're familiar, Dracus, we just talked about him. He had like a deviated septum and was only getting like 3% oxygen from his nose and was still going out there and fighting people basically with no nose.
He got his nose fixed and now his cardio is through the roof. You have people that do that all the time where you just like, you know, Nate Diaz had scar tissue on his face and because he fought so much, he just would never get it.
And so I feel the same way like Charles Oliveira, every time he wins a fight and then he puts his glasses on. How do you accurately hit somebody if you can't see them without your glasses?
So Verna, I love you. You're a great scrappy fighter, but that eye freaks me out sometimes while we're fighting.
What else do we have here guys? We got, oh, okay. So before we wrap it up, this will be the last thing we talked about here. We've talked about him a little bit.
Action Bronson. Now, for those of you who don't know who Action Bronson is, we kind of gave you a little behind the back scenes, but I feel like this man is stealing our lives.
He's on the same wavelength as us.
Our wavelength. Him and I were, we were only 21 days apart. He's 40. I'm 40. He was born on December 2nd. I was born on December 23rd.
So this gentleman just released a record. It is called Johann Sebastian Baklava, I believe. Johann Sebastian Baklava the Doctor is what it's called.
And I was just kind of listening to it and just, you know, trying to, there's not even a Wikipedia. Great.
One second. I was listening to it and we actually saw the, the like first single that he released in video form and I sent it to you and I sent it to Phil and I was like, this guy is just stealing our lives.
And like he legit is stealing our lives. It's also funny. So last time we were here with Kevin, you know, we've been talking about floating and cold plunge and sauna and benefits of that.
And that very day after we recorded that episode, another very well known podcast had action Bronson on and they talked about floating and sauna and cold plunge and they talked about kettlebells and maces.
Like everything we had recorded, not having heard this, not knowing, like it came out maybe while we were recording the episode.
Yeah. And just like, you know, we're, we're on that same wavelength.
Yeah. So, like I said, the album is called Johann Sebastian Baklava, the doctor just came out on the 11th.
There's a couple of songs that we've already heard, but the one that I kind of wanted to touch base on is Hogan because not only is he rapping about like he namedrops, I think six different UFC fighters throughout this project.
But this part right here, lyrics are Mel Gibson gave me COVID at McGregor versus Poirier three when he broke his leg. His favorite breakfast was Coke and eggs.
So my thing is with this line, we've got violence, we've got breakfast, we've got the fact that Connor's always on Coke. We've got, I mean, we just got so much that we've talked about on this podcast, all within just a few seconds of each other.
Yeah. And three lines. I'm going to add another layer to this. I was going to bring up a picture for you guys to have for the video episodes when I'm out there. So I'm still kind of the third coast is there, but that was going to be a picture of me and Hulk Hogan.
Oh, perfect. Yeah, exactly. Perfect. So I was looking at this one.
Anyways, he shouts out Francis and Ghanu. He shouts out Shavkat Ramana. Shavkat Ramana. That's how you say his name. He's got a track on here named after of Hideo Nomo. I mean, like NBA leather on NBC. NBA leather was the tour that he was on with Earl Sweatshirt and Boldy James.
And I went to go see that show. It was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen. Hideo Nomo is the one that I think he, let's see.
That's the one that you sent me first. I got more karate moves than Steven Seagal. He says Seagal. He does. It really kind of made me angry. But that's the thing, right? If you, if you are trying to insult Steven Seagal, you call him by his real name Seagal and say it's karate moves.
Karate moves. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So if you're into this podcast and you'd like to hear like the hip hop version of this podcast, just listen to Action Bronson's new record. Also, Action, I need to, we need to like fight or something because everything, the video that you just released, you went camping.
And my homie, that's the editor of this podcast, Phil, his current line is all about camp. So you stole that from Phil. You stole your love of UFC and love of hip hop and love of breakfast foods from us. This whole record is basically the soundtrack to our podcast.
So we're going to need royalties. Yeah. I need something. You're going to have to put something down on this. So if you hear this Action Bronson, you give us a call 682-294-0101 and tell us how much you're going to compensate us for stealing our vibes and our lives and our stories.
Get out of my head, Action Bronson. Or at least come in here, float, do a cold plunge. Yeah. Let's, let's, let's chop it up in real life. Yeah, for sure.
Again, we're here every week, Thursdays, 6 a.m. Central time, talking breakfast foods and violence. We're pretty much wrapping up for the day. So I'm going to let Kevin take it away for the next couple of minutes. Whatever he's got to plug or whatever he wants to talk about.
If he wants to threaten Gene over the airwaves, whatever he's got, I'm going to give him the airwaves for the next little bit.
I don't really want to fire Gene up anymore than he already is. Yeah. We had a big event last week, but we don't need to talk about because we, everybody else is talking about it. Yeah. We don't need to get political. But needless to say, Gene is more fired up than ever.
Besides that, Forward Float Company, come get a break from all the nonsense and distractions for a while. And if you've got physical stuff going on or just need to kind of reset for the week, come do this on a cold plunge too.
Yeah, we can attest to that. It is something else. Yeah, I'm definitely going to do it again. For sure. I definitely want to get in the sensory deprivation pod as well. I need to schedule some time for that.
Yeah, do it. It's awesome.
Parker, you've got raised burgers, right?
I got raised burgers. I'm there 11 to 3, Monday through Friday, slinging burgers, fries, onion rings. I've also got Philly cheese steaks. I got all kinds of good stuff.
I'm working on some secret menu things. I got veggie stuff for all the vegan homies.
Yeah, they're 11 to 3 and then I got a night job doing stuff in the middle of the night too. So come see me, bring me caffeine. I'm showing movies. I don't have Bloodsport on tape, but once I get Bloodsport on VHS, I'll start showing that.
Head up, Jordan. He's got so much VHS for you.
Yeah, I've got a whole bunch. Actually, I had some friends drop off some tapes to show. So yeah, it's been cool. Come grab a burger, grab a patty melt, come see me. 1945 8th Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas 76110.
Perfect. If you need some lunch, go see Parker at raised burgers. And if you need some shoes, you can find me right down the street at Center. We're over off of Magnolia. We'll be back in there doing some more filming and you'll see that place a little bit more on the YouTube channel.
I've got a DJ event. I don't know if let me see. When is this coming out? A week from today? Yeah, so that would be the 23rd?
Yeah. Okay, so then this is perfect. If you're listening to this on the 27th, you can come see me DJ through being cool at the Boiled Owl. That's Jason Ferris' event. It's normally him, but he's going to be out of town. He asked me to cover for him.
So if you want to come shake your ass and bother me while I'm DJing music, I'll be at the Boiled Owl that night. Usually it's from 10 to 2am. Like I said, I'm at Center pretty much every day if you need to come see me for shoes or any cool gear or anything like that or to give me a high five or anything like that.
So we appreciate everybody that's listened, given their advice and reviews and helped us out with this podcast. All of the fans out there that are continuing to download our episodes, we thank you. Please like, rate, review, subscribe to all of our stuff so that way it helps us know that you're out there where you're from.
To those people that are listening to us in Belgium and Germany, we want to say Dankeschön. I think that's how you say that. I don't know. I'm pretty sure. Something like that. Yeah. And if you're in India, we'd like to say thank you because English is the national language in India.
So thank you for listening to us. Kevin, thank you for having us. It was really a treat to get in that cold plunge. My body feels ready to take on the day. And these donuts have really given me the sugar I need to get my engine going for the day.
So I'm about to head off to work. You guys have a great day. Thanks for joining us. This has been Breakfast of Champions, season one, episode 10 with Kevin O'Malley, Parker, John Parker, Howard the third and Renee Floyd. We'll see you next time. Bye.
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