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You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like me for breakfast.

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Do you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

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Good morning. Welcome to Breakfast of Champions, season one, episode 11.

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We made it.

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Eleven Zs. That's like second breakfast, right?

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Yeah, definitely second breakfast.

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Yeah. So welcome to season one, second breakfast.

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We're coming to you live from center once again. It's early in the morning.

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This gentleman's probably had like three hours of sleep.

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Yes.

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Yeah, so it's going to be a fun one.

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No caffeine, three hours of sleep. You're going to go on this delirious ride with me.

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Go ahead. I was going to take a sip of this Dr. B here.

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Dr. B, H-E-B, please sponsor us. Also put more H-E-Bs in Fort Worth and not just outlying areas.

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Yeah, no, I don't think we've ever said like what I do because we're at center and we talk about that.

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Talk about what I do.

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We talk about Ray's Burgers. We did the live from Ray's, which I've gotten some good feedback on that.

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Yeah.

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But then I moonlight by working in a movie theater and today is the day after Deadpool came out.

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And it was insane. And I also worked at Ray's Burgers yesterday and that was insane.

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So yeah, if you're listening to this or if you're watching it, I'm staring into your soul right now.

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I am very delirious right now. I got home about 3.30. By the time I wound down, it was about five.

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And then I got up at eight to be here with Renee and Renee's been here since 7.30.

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Yeah, something like that. And today's going to be my long day. I'm going to be the zombie later.

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So we both wear a lot of hats. So I'm wearing one right now in case you're not watching the video.

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But hold on.

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Okay, got him. Got him. So yeah, if you don't know us personally, you just know us via via the podcast, then yeah, you don't know.

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But Parker does the movie theater. He does raise burgers. He's a dad. He's a hubby. He's a friend.

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He also has like music projects that he does. No, it's I thought that was a thing.

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It is a thing. It's always. Yeah, there's always music happening somewhere.

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And then me, I work here at Center during the school year. I teach music at Montezoari School and I also DJ and do the podcast now.

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Yeah, so podcast is a big part of my life. This is becoming my personality.

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Yeah, I'm constantly looking for content for the podcast.

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So just keeping it 100 this week, we are broke AF.

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So we don't have any breakfast to review.

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So we're going to just talk about breakfast and imagine having a really good breakfast this morning.

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I would love to have a good breakfast right now.

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Yeah, so we I see you put on your English breakfast.

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Yeah, I just kind of threw some ideas in there and into the notes.

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I, too, yesterday was looking for like, what should we talk about?

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And that's kind of how I landed on offside equals.

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But I did do some research on the English breakfast and I thought like we should talk about that.

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Yeah, I mean, I've never been to England, so I guess I've never had a proper English breakfast.

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But growing up, my aunts lived in Portland and they had a couple of really good English like pub restaurants.

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And a couple of them did proper English breakfast.

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So when I was like 10 or 12 years old, I got to have one.

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And I remember just blowing my mind, I was like, there's baked beans.

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Hell, yeah. There's sausage. Hell, yeah. There's eggs. Hell, yeah.

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Like just the whole concept of it was like similar, but totally different than like what I was used to.

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Again, growing up majority in the Midwest and like south, my breakfast were usually like scrambled eggs and biscuits and gravy pancakes, all that.

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So like having this like mushrooms and sliced tomatoes and everything was really wild to me.

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And and I loved it. But I was also tricked into eating something that grossed my mom out really bad.

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Was it the bread pudding? Blood pudding.

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But on the menu, it said black pudding and my aunt got it, which it's funny now.

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My aunt has been vegan for like 10 years or something now.

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But back when I was a kid, neither of my aunts were vegan and they would eat like rabbit at Christmas time and like maybe rabbit on Easter and duck.

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I don't know. They had a bunch of like weird traditions around food and now like they're super duper vegan.

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It's real cool. But but yeah, my aunt like had the black pudding and she's like, oh, you should try it.

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And I'm like 10 years old, somewhere between 10 and 12.

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And my mom was just sitting there. My mom is kind of a picky eater.

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And she's just like, hey, that's really gross. Don't do it. No, no.

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And I was like, I don't want to try it. It's black pudding.

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I love pudding and like, you know, I was starting to go into like my emo goth phase of preteen and I was like black pudding sounds awesome.

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Black parade, black pudding. Yeah.

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This was a long time before black shirt, black t-shirts.

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Yes. Black jeans. Yes.

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But but yes, I took a bite of it like, holy shit, this is awesome.

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And my aunt ended up like splitting it with me, like giving me the rest of it.

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My mom was like mortified.

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And then after I'd finished eating it, she tells me what it was.

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Yeah, I was pretty disgusted when she told me.

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So in my mind, I've been like, I guess kind of recently thinking a lot about like history timelines.

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And like when you grow up, you think like, man, this is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, you know.

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But then you realize like, wait, it's just been about 100 years. Not like.

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Yeah. So in my mind, full English breakfast comes from like King's Feast.

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You know what I mean? Like medieval times, like bring everything to bring me the baked beans.

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Like bring everything you have for breakfast or feasting. Right.

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But I guess what I didn't know is that it actually didn't it wasn't very popular until the turn of the century.

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1896. OK, wow. So like right around around 1900 or so, this lady called Mrs.

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Beaton wrote a book called The Book of Household Management.

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She was married to somebody that was a publisher.

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So she basically got her book published because her husband was the publisher.

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But this book became kind of like the Miss Parker's like.

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How to run a household type book like Dear is this kind of like, oh, man, I already forgot the fighter's name with the Brazilian wife or whatever that took.

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Ian Machado, Gary. Yeah. Is this like her book about like how to be a.

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Yeah, kind of. It's like that. The 1898 version of that.

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Yeah. Now, it's funny. Last night, Ali was telling me about there's like, I guess, this big popular trad wife movement going on.

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But it's like she's just Mormon and they're just kind of just trying to hide the fact that they're Mormon.

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But very like like similar thing. Like, let's let's.

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This is the book of how to like it's right here, like the some of the the the the graphics, the design and the pictures are like amazing.

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Those are really awesome. And like the book is very cool.

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She is Miss Bean is compared on the strength of the book with the modern, quote unquote, domestic goddess like Nigella Lawson or Delia Smith.

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So I think I read. Yeah. So here goes two million copies were sold between 1868 and when it was published.

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We're sold by 1968 or 1868. So 1860 1868.

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So yeah, it was published in 1861.

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OK, so for seven years, two million copies and so before the New York Times bestseller list. Yeah.

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So it basically had it was oh, here we go.

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Sixty thousand copies in the first year. Wow. And then two million by 1968.

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It was like a household management book, you know, and it had 74 chapters and over 2000 pages.

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Geez. But it basically took recipes and just different things on how to like, you know, how to properly prepare fish.

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And, you know, it's like it would show you like, well, that's a lot of pages just to tell you to boil all your food.

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That's what all British food is, right?

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It's boiled either bangers and mash or boiled or comes from a tin. Yeah.

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So I don't know. I'm sorry if anyone from England is listening to this or watching this.

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And I did not mean to offend you. I love. No, be offensive because here's the thing.

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But chip shop. Here's the thing.

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This lady that wrote this book that became so like infamously like popular and like to this day,

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this is the reason why English people eat full English breakfast is because in this book, her thing was like the ideal breakfast is this.

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And so food group. Yeah, everything. But here's the thing.

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She plagiarized all of her recipes. No. Yeah. Where'd she get them from?

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She it says, let's see here.

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Her one of her acquaintances actually, Miss Henrietta Marie Poutois advised her that it's a science that's only learned by long experience and years of study, which of course you have not had.

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And so she wrote her in a letter. Therefore, therefore, my advice would be to compile a book from recipes from a variety of the best books published on cookery.

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And heaven knows there is a great variety for you to choose from.

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The recipes were largely copied from the most successful cookbooks of the day, the copying in several cases unacknowledged in the text.

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So she would take she basically gathered all of the best cookbooks of the day and then took the best recipes and then copy them and then put them in her book.

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So she was the original like P Diddy. She like remix peoples.

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She's like, take that, take that. And then, oh, man. But they even I read that she it says Mrs. Beaton couldn't cook, but she could copy.

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That's what the New York Times said about her.

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That's why it says in that same New York Times article that her first recipe for the Victorian sponge was so inept that she left out the eggs in the recipe.

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How could you make a sponge without the eggs? Like that's one of the most integral parts of the sponge.

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But she was so bad at copying that she forgot the eggs and published a recipe for a sponge without the eggs.

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So while English people, you are living a lie. But your breakfast is delicious.

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Your breakfast is delicious, but it's all compiled from plagiarism and lies from the 1800s.

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So that means she didn't actually create the original English. Correct.

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She just lifted it from another. We have to figure out. All right.

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We'll have to do some sleuthing for next week. That's the deep, deep dive. All right.

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I already deep dove, but we got to go deep. We got to get Marianna Trench down and figure out down the rabbit hole which book.

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So taking both the red and blue to find out says the variety of books she used are Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families,

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an English bread book by Elizabeth Raffford called the Experienced English Housekeeper Marie Antoine Caramise, La Patisserie Royal Parisian.

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So obviously, I think that just means let them eat cake. No, that's that's the Royal Parisian pastry book.

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La Patisserie Royal Parisian. So I think. Yeah. Let them eat cake. Louis Eustache. What a name.

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Eustache. Oudé's the French cook. Alexis Sawyer is the modern housewife or menagerie.

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And Hannah Glass is the art of cookery made plain and easy.

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So she just like basically took everybody's shit and then put it into this book.

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And then this book sold like a bajillion copies and now everybody in England and Ireland eats full English breakfast for breakfast.

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Damn. So you can counter McGregor eats that for breakfast. Yeah, I think so.

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I'm pretty sure. I'm sure the yacht has a giant side of if the yacht has Jim yacht has kitchen as well.

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Did you see that tweet? No, I'm not on Twitter. Somebody. Well, yeah, neither am I really.

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I run a couple of Twitter accounts, but I'm not I'm not on Twitter. It's I'm on X. I'm not on X either.

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In this build up for this fight, somebody accused him of being on a yacht too much and not being in the gym.

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And he just tweeted yacht has Jim. That's all. That's it. So yeah, I don't think he's ever going to fight again.

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That's amazing. So he's never leaving the yacht unless they bring the octagon to the yacht.

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Somebody did ask, does does does he not have octagon though?

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You have see whatever three three fifteen straight from the yacht.

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So English breakfast. That's kind of my spiel on that. I've never had it personally. I've never tried blood pudding.

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I've never had anything like that. I'm sure there's somebody somewhere around here we can get an English breakfast.

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If you know where to get full English breakfast in the DFW area, contact us at six eight two two nine four zero one zero one.

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Or you can call us or you can email us at breakfast of champs pot. See, we're tired at Gmail dot com.

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So you have on your favorite regional breakfast items. I mean, I mostly put three ideas. We could pick one to talk about.

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Let's talk about it. So when when I go back east, like in the summertime, the big thing over there is like Scrapple.

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You mentioned Scrapple. You sent me a picture of Scrapple. I don't know what it is.

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Yeah. When we have Alley on, she's going to cook it. It's sitting in her freezer waiting for her episode.

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She's going to cook it for us and we'll we'll have it.

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But one of the things that I personally enjoy that's like like really kind of corny and but is Wawa.

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It's a convenience store slash gas station in a magical place, Pennsylvania, Maryland area all the way down to like Florida now, I think.

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I went to one in Tampa last year. So they have a bunch of different things that you can get there for you.

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Non East Coasters Wawa is kind of like a QT like here in Texas. It's kind of like a bigger QT.

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It's like the it's like a mix between a QT and like less steroided Buc-E's kind of they have.

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Yeah, they have like a touch screen that you can order sandwiches, hot foods, that sort of thing.

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They also have just your regular convenience store fare.

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So, you know, the big old long coolers with drinks and but what we what I like to do in the mornings is I usually get they have these things called Sizzle's and they're like, you know, they have those warm stations where they just have like stuff you can pick off of.

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So they have Sizzle's or they have bagels, sausage, bacon or, you know, anything you want on it. They have different varieties in a big warm container and people just come and grab, you know, I want bacon today or want this today or whatever.

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So I usually grab a Sizzle's and usually some sort of sweet cake because they have on one side of the pastry cart, they have all of the Intimans, single serve Intimans.

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And then on the other side, they have all of the single serve tasty cakes, which is like my favorite.

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Yeah, so usually I'll get some sort of sweet cake from tasty cake, single serve a Sizzle's.

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And then for some reason, their coffee is unmatched, unparalleled, like gas station coffee is like usually like a little gas station coffee, but theirs is really good.

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So I'm not a huge coffee guy, but whenever I go to Wawa, I usually like their coffee.

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They have their like little coffee station. It has like a cooler and it's got half and half heavy whip, milk, 2%, 1%, and skimp. Like it's got every dairy option that is there and it's cold and it's ready to be used.

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They've got like mini marshmallows. They've got like anything you can do to like dude up your coffee super good.

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Wawa, please come to Texas. Also sponsor the podcast, please.

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So I know that that's not like a regional breakfast thing, but that's a regional thing for my family when we go back home to Maryland to visit my wife's family.

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We also have a like a timeshare in Ocean City and there's a Wawa just like everywhere.

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So we're just like that's one of the first places we stop. That's probably, you know, we also whenever we have family go back and forth, it was like, would you want something from Wawa on the way home?

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So because they have like hers cheese doodles with Old Bay and just like anything you can think of.

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So we usually get a box of tasty cakes and bring some big bag of hers cheese doodles and that stuff.

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That's not super breakfasty, but it's Wawa.

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Yeah. When I went to Wawa and Tampa, I was kind of let down because I was used to the ones in like the Northeast more.

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And the one in Tampa was similar to like a racetrack here. It wasn't very big. It was very clean, but it also didn't have as much stuff in it.

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I was like so excited because I hadn't been to Wawa in a long time.

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I went in and I was just like, oh, this is like any other gas station.

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Yeah, I can still order the food, but like it wasn't cramped packed full of all the goodies that the Northeast has.

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But yeah, like I remember Wawa being like a mythical place. My friends like first started touring in the Northeast and stuff.

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Like them coming home, telling the tales of Wawa and sheets and real fires.

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Got to got to make the stop on the road trip.

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That's a big thing up there too. Now is like, are you a Wawa person or a Royal Farms person?

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Because Royal Farms is kind of similar, but they're more chicken heavy.

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OK, they do like fried chicken.

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Like, you know, around here, like if you go to like a potluck, somebody's always bringing like a big old thing, a Costco fried chicken or whatever.

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Similar to that, you got a Royal Farms and you're like, I need 20 pieces of chicken. And it's a gas station.

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And they do they do fried chicken. They have like chicken tenders, chicken sandwiches and that sort of thing.

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Dude, I mean, what else could you need? You just need like the main thing, whether it's a sandwich or like like chicken or whatever.

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And then like let Frito lay and everybody else handle the sides. Yeah, no Coca-Cola handled the beverage and you don't have to worry about any of that.

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Yeah. Go to raise and get a burger and like Coca-Cola and we got fries. Yeah, we got earrings. Yeah, you got things.

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You know what? Actually, I sold two shrimp baskets this week. How is that?

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Looks fucking good. So yeah, it was yeah, I was running out of stuff. So people were buying stuff that wasn't on the menu because I ran out of burger stuff.

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Yeah. Have you ever been to like tropical Mexico, like Tulum, Cancun, anywhere like that? No.

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I've been to Cabo. Yeah. The reason I ask is because like that, you know, we always talk vegan stuff, but like in Tulum, especially everything there is vegan.

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Everything there is very vegan and organic and very healthy. And so regional breakfast in Mexico and like the tropical area.

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Super fruit heavy, right? Yeah, you're going to get a lot of well. So they're actually like right there on the mangrove.

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So mangoes are usually readily available and fresh at any given point in time down there. So you're going to have fresh mango for breakfast.

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Usually they do a lot of like bowls. You know, they have fruit bowls, that sort of thing.

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Smoothie bowls, acai bowls, that sort of thing for breakfast.

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You got a lot of people out there that are going to be out on the beach and doing all that stuff all day. So like refreshing.

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Yeah, you want something cold and refreshing, but a little bit heavy and that sort of thing.

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So I always like to go down there with the kids because it's fun to see them like get different stuff for breakfast and they get to try different things.

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And they're just like, oh, dragon fruit. What is this? You know, or whatever.

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I have pictures of like Faye just like eating all of the watermelon and everything. Oh, that's awesome.

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So, you know, there's obviously there's coconuts all around.

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So you're going to get a lot of like coconut water and coconut meat and that sort of shavings.

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I love coconut. Anything.

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The place that we usually stay at when we go to Tulum is actually a yoga retreat.

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It's kind of a cool story of how we got there. It's called Shambhala Petit.

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So the first time we went to Tulum, Ali booked us this place called like El Cosmico or some shit like that.

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I think that's like a usual name for like a resort or it's also someplace in Austin.

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There's a place called or in Marfa. Marfa. Yeah, that's I think in Marfa.

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It's called like Cosmic something. It was something cosmic. Anyway, so first time to Tulum, you know, we've got our pretty newish, youngish kid Rhodes with us.

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And so when you can't get to you can't get directly to Tulum, you have to fly into Cancun, I think, or Playa, Playa.

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Plays with Carmen or you have to fly into a connecting city and then you have to either take a shuttle or rent a car and then drive like an hour and 15 hour and 30 to get to Tulum proper.

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And so the first time we did it, we rented a car and that was cool. It was nice having your own like get around, you know, whatever.

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But the thing that shitty is once you like leave that town, it just becomes like dirt roads and like crooked cops.

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You know, they don't understand like, oh, you just give this cop some money and he just leaves you alone. Fuck right off.

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But so yeah, the first time we went, we went, we get the car, you know, we get the GPS.

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And of course, you know, in Mexico, they don't care about like this. This car seat has an expiration date.

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This car seat is not meant for this size child. Like when you like you're like, I have a baby and I need a baby car seat.

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They're just like, here's a booster. Yeah, no. Good luck. We we went to Cabo when Ava was two and it was literally just oh, yeah, just hop in the car.

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Yeah, just get in the car and go. We're like, oh, she's fine. All right. Yeah.

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So we finally got what Ali thought was like safe for roads and we get on our way.

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We get all the way to Tsulum and we get to this where this like resort like kind of hotel Airbnb ish kind of place is.

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And there's just nothing. And we're like. All right. Well, did we get the address wrong?

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Like, does anybody around here know most everybody speaks Spanish? Plus, our cell phones don't really work like that.

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So you know what I mean? We like we've just gotten there. So we're just like shit. So we like we went back to like the main store and try to like WhatsApp or like Facebook message, Instagram message the place and just got nothing back in return.

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So we like we're like, maybe we just missed it. So like we went back again and then we finally like we see the sign and there's just like a huge like padlock and chains.

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And then like we like look kind of behind the sign and into like the tree line and like like there's places that you could stay.

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But it looks like they're either like had been like they're in the process of being torn down and rebuilt or they're in the process of being built and not finished.

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And so. Really, what are we going to do? And so right next to that place on the beach, it's like resort, resort, resort, you know, and they have them, you know, kind of like that.

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So the very next little plot of land next door is Shamballa Petit. And so like we have no clue what we're doing.

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We just kind of like, hello. And so this very nice man came out. His name is Roberto Hernandez.

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So, Roberto, if you're out there, if you happen to be catching this podcast, thank you for helping our family that day.

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He came out and was like, hey, what's going on? And we're like, oh, we have a reservation to stay at this place right there.

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And he's like, he's like, yeah, no, they don't. They're gone.

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They're they basically there had been some things happening in Mexico where like what happened was they were trying to standardize like security on the beach.

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And these people didn't want to play ball with the government as far as like having the government security guards.

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They were just like, oh, this is Mexico. No one gives a shit. But actually, Mexico does give a shit.

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Oh, my God. And so they just left whatever they had there there.

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And whoever had booked reservations were just fucked. I guess they didn't tell us they didn't like give us any warning or like give us our fucking money back or anything like that.

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So he's like, I know, I know them. I've contacted with them. I've got like direct contact with them.

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I've got a phone that works here. Like, I'll help you guys out. Try to try to get you guys in contact.

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And we're just like, he sees that we have children with us and he's just like, what are you guys going to do?

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And we're just like, I don't know. I guess we're going to try to figure out another place to stay or like whatever.

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I mean, we literally have five days in Mexico. So what are we going to do?

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You know, he's like, look, I run a resort here. Obviously, you see he's like, it's the off season for me and I don't have anybody here.

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He's like, I'll give you a room and I'll help you guys out. I'll like make it like semi affordable for you guys.

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And he's like, in the meantime, he's like, just relax with your kids.

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He's like, just park, get your stuff out and just go relax on the beach with your kids.

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He's like, this is your vacation. You shouldn't have to be stressed out about this.

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He's like, at the very least I can do is offer you a place to relax.

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Find a plan. If you want to stay here, you can stay here. If you don't, no problem, but I'll help you.

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So, like, dude, I still have his number in my phone.

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Let's text him and see what he's doing now. I know what he's doing.

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So we get there and he's got, he literally has no one.

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He's got maybe like 10 or 15 cabins, cabanas, you know, and they've got like a full staff of people there.

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And so, like, as soon as we got there, like the two ladies that were running the kitchen, like, brought our kids drinks and snacks and like cold, you know, cold fucking coconut drink and like, you know, just whatever they had fruit wise laying around snack wise.

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They brought it out to us and just, you know, lovely kind for no fucking good reason people, you know, and.

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We wound up making the decision to stay there.

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We're like, well, we this is so far it's nice.

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You know, the people here are nice. They're at least going to help us.

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We'll figure out whatever it costs later or whatever.

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So that wound up being like the best place you could ever stay.

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So his he had his so he like, I don't want to give out too much of his personal life, but he has he has a kid that comes and visits from time to time and was around the same age as as our kids.

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Okay. And so I was like, he was staying there with his kid and we were staying there with our kids.

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And then so like in the morning, we'd all meet for breakfast. That was the one meal that he provides.

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It's just breakfast, but cereal, granola, yogurt, fruit, eggs, you know, oatmeal, like anything that you can think of tea, coffee, freshly squeezed fruit juices.

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And I mean, it was just like we'd all meet and sit at the same table.

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Like we're all one big family and just have breakfast and talk about what we're going to do for the day.

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And then the kids would inevitably the kids are playing, you know, because they don't want to have breakfast.

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You know, we're sitting talking and they're just playing over here and the sand and stuff like that.

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And so one of the most magical that sounds times and things that I've ever experienced.

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But yeah, the reason I wanted to talk about that is because that's the only like breakfast like thing that I can think of.

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But a lot of us, I ebols were had in Tulum.

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That's kind of like the first time I had had like a honest to goodness as I ebola.

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Also, when we go to our condo area and Ocean City in Fenwick Island, Delaware, there's a place called High Tide.

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And they have the best coffee and some of the best as a ebola I've ever had.

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So that's one of our favorite breakfast spots besides Wawa.

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As high tide when you're wanting something a little bit healthier than.

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You know, again, you know, baseline espresso is everything that you know, that's the secret.

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If you get the shot of espresso and that's good, everything else on the menu is going to be good because it's built off of that shot.

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They have really good espresso there and their as I ebola are like bomb dot com.

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So I don't know if I've ever had it. I might have had an as a ebola.

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I'm not sure if I have once. Once we get money again, we're going to have my maca for as a ebola for for breakfast.

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Oh, yeah. Joe was telling us about that.

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Mamaka, I whenever I started working here, I legit was getting it like every day for like two weeks straight, so much so that they started recognizing my name on the door dash and started writing me little notes on the bag.

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And they're like, drawing me pictures and like hearts and like, well, thanks for the order because I was ordering it every day.

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But I was like yesterday when I was thinking about like, what are we going to talk about today?

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I was like, where did I say like, where did the Acai bowls like come from?

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You know what I mean? Like it just like boom, it exploded. It was one of those things where and also like, is it a breakfast food or whatever?

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Or is it just kind of like a snack or like whatever?

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So I did a deep dive in acai bowls and it freaking hit me in the face, dude, like a freaking karate chop or right hook.

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It hit me in the face, dude. I never put two and two together.

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So let me just, I was reading this and this is, let me, I'll just, let me just, let me just read this to you real quick so that way you can have the same experience that I did yesterday.

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I was like, where did, so where, where does Acai even come from?

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What's the deal with smoothie bowls?

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Exactly.

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That would have been, oh, interesting movie if they did smoothie bowls instead of cereal brands in that movie starring Jerry Seinfeld.

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I can never remember the name of.

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Frosted.

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Yeah. So in the early 1970s, frozen Acai bowl began to travel from the Amazon to Northern Brazilian cities.

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In the 80s, it was legendary Brazilian jujitsu founder, Carlos Gracie, who popularized the Acai bowl in Southern cities like Rio de Janeiro.

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The Gracie family is the one that brought the Acai bolts to the United States. Holy shit.

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So it all ties in perfectly.

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I was like, wait a minute.

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The Gracie family? And then I was like, duh, they had this like whole like in the 80s because they really revolutionized like how people saw like martial arts as far as like it being a more of a lifestyle and more of like a community lifestyle.

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And so they put out the Gracie diet and one of the components of the Gracie diet was the Acai bowl in the morning.

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And so the reason that like Acai bowls are so popular is because Brazilians were bringing the Acai bowls.

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And the reason that they're Acai bowls is because the pulp, once you like grind it up, you have like 24 hours to use it.

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Otherwise, it rocks.

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So they have to freeze it. And so once they froze it, they had it in like savory components or whatever.

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And but once it's frozen, you can ship it.

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And so now that it's frozen, it can last longer and you can ship it.

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Well, once it's frozen, you can just put it a little bit of honey, a little bit of fruits and blend it up and make a smoothie bowl.

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And so it was one of those things where I was like, fuck.

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Violence brought Acai bowls to the world, really, because moms everywhere love it because the gentler.

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So I started thinking about it as far as like, OK, well, the Gracie family was the one that kind of like I don't know if you know this, but like so UFC one was one was what?

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Gracey was the one that won UFC one one one he won one one. And you know, Pete, Pete Holmes, the comedian, I know the name.

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He has these funny like he's a silly, silly, silly comedian.

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Like that's his thing is he doesn't care if he loves to laugh at himself and he also doesn't care if you don't think that what he thinks is funny is funny.

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He's just going to do it anyway. But like on some of his earlier specials, he had like he just thought.

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More beers, Pierce was funny just the way that it sounds like four more beers, Pierce, and he would just say it over and over.

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And then like the second special was he's like, I have another one.

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He's like, I just left saying this in the shower. We won one one.

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Like you're trying to tell your friend won you won one.

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So he's just shouting one we won one one anyway.

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Sorry. But yes, Acai bowls.

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Awesome. Yeah. So, yeah, hoist Gracie won UFC one.

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But what I didn't like what I was kind of thinking about is like the history of Acai bowls and how it ties into the history of the UFC.

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So the the Gracie family tree is very spread out.

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They've got several fathers, brothers, cousins, grandkids that, you know, are famous and their own rights for different things.

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Hoist was the one that won UFC one in 1993.

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But their father, Hordeon Gracie, was the one that actually brought the idea to Art Davy, who is the kind of like a sports entrepreneur.

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Right. Like he was like looking he's always like looking for new things.

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And once he was done with the UFC, he created this thing called X arm, which is this new sport where it was combining arm wrestling and Muay Thai kickboxing.

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I've actually seen that. Yeah, that was his thing after the UFC.

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So but he was the one that had like the money and the connections to set something up in the United States.

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And Hordeon was the one that had like the experience and his family.

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And also, so what was going on in the 80s is Vali Tuto was this thing.

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Basically, that is just the way that translated is no holds bar.

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There's no rules. And so Vali Tuto in Brazil, these things were becoming popular because it was like brutally violent.

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You know, there's no holds challenges.

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And so the reason that it kind of gained in its popularity is because the Gracie's had this thing called the Gracie Challenge.

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And basically anybody from any martial art could come to their gym and challenge them because they wanted to display that their brand of Jiu Jitsu is the best fighting technique in the world.

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And so oftentimes you would have these closed door matches with the Gracie's and they would they would just show you that Jiu Jitsu was the shit.

367
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000
But then they started cuddles for everybody.

368
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Yeah, they started entering these Vali Tuto ships and instead of it being like crazy violent, they were just submitting everybody and they started promoting it and making like videotapes that they would sell.

369
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:57,000
And so it kind of like became underground popular in the United States, especially with like martial artists and stuff like that.

370
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:04,000
But then that's when Hordeon and Art Davy came up with the idea of having this tournament.

371
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:15,000
And so in Brazil, the reason that Vali Tuto was popular and had gone long is because they actually had them as part of like their circuses and like their traveling circuses.

372
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:23,000
And so as part of like the displays is they would have like fighting displays and you would usually have like a Gracie that would travel and show people.

373
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,000
They keep the Gracie in a cage with the animals.

374
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Release them.

375
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Exactly.

376
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
So I think the circus is the word that we use, but it's very traveling.

377
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Yeah, I know like in Mexico, a circus, there's like they don't have animals in the circus and it's awesome.

378
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:46,000
So I'm sure in other parts of the world, yes, circus is not the cruel animal treatment that we have here in the US.

379
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Right. So it's a little bit loose.

380
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
They just have a different definition of Gracie's in cages.

381
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000
So these like that had been happening since like the 1900s.

382
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Okay.

383
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,000
They're like the Gracie's actually were involved in putting on the circuses originally.

384
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,000
And so they're kind of like carny.

385
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Yeah, they're circus people.

386
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
That's even scarier.

387
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,000
So yeah, so they would go travel around.

388
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
They filmed it.

389
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,000
They got all this popularity and stuff like that.

390
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
And so when Hordion came over and was talking to R.A. Davy, they were like, okay, let's put it on.

391
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:30,000
They needed a paper view component, obviously, because there was no way that they could put it on linear TV because it's too graphic.

392
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,000
So there was only three different people that were carrying paper view during that time.

393
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,000
HBO, Showtime, and this other company called SEG.

394
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,000
HBO and Showtime passed because they said it was too violent.

395
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:49,000
So right now that you think about it, you go back and you're like HBO, you could have had UFC this whole time.

396
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Yeah, but Showtime is known for their boxing.

397
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000
That's correct. That's correct.

398
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Both of them were actually known for their box.

399
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:02,000
I remember growing up, my grandparents had Showtime and HBO because my grandpa wanted to watch the box.

400
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Exactly. So SEG was like kind of like them, but they actually were more experimental.

401
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
They actually do you ever do you remember watching like blooper videos when you were a kid?

402
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,000
Do you ever remember like they would always show like Jimmy Connors versus Martina Narvitz of the Loa?

403
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000
It was like Battle of the Sexes.

404
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000
It was like the one sport that you had like a man versus a woman.

405
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000
I don't remember that.

406
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:34,000
So I vividly remember that as a kid because I thought it was hilarious that Jimmy Connors was like a pretty decent tennis player.

407
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:40,000
But I think he was a little bit older and maybe was just being sexist and trying to be funny at the time.

408
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,000
But he challenged Martina Navratilova to a tennis match.

409
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,000
And they like build it on NBC's like this huge thing like Battle of the Sexes.

410
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:57,000
They used to have wacky stuff on TV. If you didn't know, they used to have like their anchors competing in different like sports competitions with like actual professional athletes.

411
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000
And we don't have 24 hour. Yeah. I mean, we had crazy shit on TV.

412
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:07,000
So to see Jimmy Connors, a man, play tennis against Martina Navratilova, a woman.

413
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,000
She dusted the shit out of him, by the way.

414
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
So anyways, they were the ones that like put that on.

415
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,000
And so they were like, SCG was kind of like into that experimental shit.

416
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:27,000
But here's what I thought that was very cool is the way that they pitched this ultimate fighting championship to SCG and what kind of like had them sold.

417
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Is there like it's going to be like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, but in real life.

418
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Perfect. We're going to summon them to the other realm.

419
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:44,000
I was like, OK, so Mortal Kombat's based on Bloodsport and UFC is based on Mortal Kombat. So technically the UFC is based on Bloodsport.

420
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000
Boom. John Claude got it. UFC. It all comes back to JCVD. Yeah.

421
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
So SCG was like, yeah, we'll take the real life Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

422
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,000
And they got they got hurried to the octagon design.

423
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:08,000
So that's the other thing that I think that we take for granted as far as the ultimate fighting championship is the fact that they actually designed an entire new like fighting surface and arena.

424
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:17,000
So the reason that they went with the chain link is because they wanted to reduce the timidity of people running away from people in grappling matches.

425
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:25,000
So if you were in ropes, you could just like and you were in a grappling exchange, you could just like fall out of the thing and they'd have to restart you.

426
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:30,000
And or you could like run, you know, and nowhere to run.

427
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:39,000
And also the eight sides was very like integral because it was like there was like the the the I forget exactly what it was.

428
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,000
But the designer like had this really cool reason for the eight sides or whatever.

429
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:50,000
But I think that that is really interesting that like not only did they base it on a video game, but they actually they're like, we need to make sure that the surface is perfect.

430
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:59,000
So that way there's nowhere to run. Everybody can see like there's plenty of like space for like every type of martial art, all that stuff like that.

431
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:05,000
So I thought that like yesterday I was on this mission of like looking for like what we should talk about.

432
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:12,000
It was just like, oh, I say equals Gracie family Gracie family equals UFC UFC.

433
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Charlie Day meme from always saying where he's got everything in your head.

434
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:21,000
You know what Pepe Sylvia is.

435
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000
I don't think so.

436
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
He can't read.

437
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,000
And they live in Pennsylvania.

438
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,000
So every single piece of mail that's coming in has Pennsylvania on it.

439
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:47,000
So I when it's always sunny first came out, I hated it. But I had somebody who had it on DVD because it was back before streaming was everywhere. And I sat down and watched the first two seasons in one go.

440
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,000
Yeah, I was like, OK, I got through the first season.

441
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,000
The second season like started getting better. And then I started watching more and I was like, OK, I get this.

442
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:02,000
I enjoy it. But it's one of those shows like it's so chaotic that it like I start getting kind of stressed out watching too much of it.

443
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,000
So I don't know a lot of the inside. Always sunny jokes. Yeah.

444
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Like I think it's really funny, but I can't watch a lot of it because then I'm just like, oh, my gosh.

445
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,000
Like I feel some sort of way. It makes you feel violent and dark. Yeah.

446
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,000
And also it makes you feel like you're an addict. Yeah.

447
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Just like your scuzz bucket, the addict darkness. And that's probably it says more about us than the show.

448
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Yeah. But yeah, I have a hard time like watching more than one episode at a time.

449
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Yeah. So that's kind of there's kind of my history lesson for you today.

450
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:50,000
I say balls UFC one Gracie challenge in when we were talking about UFC one just a little bit, just I know what you have here, but I was going to just go to this thing.

451
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Any of my notes. So five a.m. The first UFC is actually quite different than the current UFC.

452
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:09,000
The first UFC they allowed, they said it was no rules, but the rules and the first UFC, I believe, were.

453
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:17,000
No fish hook. No, I gouge and no bite team.

454
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:24,000
Let me double check biting was a lot of everything else. No, no, but they, you know, soccer kicks were allowed.

455
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Shoes were allowed. Yeah, I remember like when I first started watching old UFC, I was like, dudes aren't shoes and octagons combat boots.

456
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000
Yeah, like what the hell? Truly like Street Fighter.

457
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000
Let's see here.

458
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,000
Did did did did did did did.

459
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:50,000
Dead air. Sorry, I had to be on. Is that your shoe? That was definitely my shoe. So we're not.

460
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,000
It's not the. Oh, the fire alarm. No, the fire. That was my shoe.

461
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:03,000
I am not much of a Nike guy and I found these Nikes at a thrift store for like six bucks.

462
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Nice, great condition. And I've noticed that, yeah, they like squeak.

463
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000
It makes me think of that like early 2000s Nike commercial.

464
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:16,000
Yeah, every like every time I wear them, I squeak them somewhere.

465
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:24,000
And again, like I said, not really a Nike guy. So are do all Nikes make that sound?

466
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Um, yeah, basketball. They do. So UFC one, they advertised it as there are no rules, but there were in fact some rules.

467
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,000
No, no, no biting. Just right.

468
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,000
No biting, no eye gouging and no growing attacks.

469
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,000
Oh, growing attacks. Got it. No kicking the balls.

470
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:51,000
But then in UFC, UFC to growing attacks for unbanned. So you can kick them in the balls.

471
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Number two. So anyways, the evolution of the rules have been kind of like a funny slash interesting thing to see,

472
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000
because like I said, if you were a fan from the very first UFC, now there's just so many rules.

473
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:10,000
And, you know, UFC one had rules to change the rules, three chains of rules, four chains of rules.

474
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:23,000
It wasn't until you got to I think UFC 21.

475
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Number 21. No, UFC 28 actually number 28. Yeah.

476
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:45,000
So UFC 28 had the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board sanctioning its first UFC event, meaning that like the first time that the UFC had a sporting commission actually sanction it as a sport.

477
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:52,000
Right. But then UFC 31 had what we know as the weight classes that are realigned to the current standard.

478
00:48:52,000 --> 00:49:00,000
So it wasn't until like UFC 31 that you see the current rules, the current weight classes and the current judging and criteria.

479
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,000
So you have those first 31 events that were just like kind of buck wild.

480
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:09,000
If you have UFC fight pass or if you have YouTube or whatever, you can go back and check out those events.

481
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,000
They're a little bit crazier than what the current rules are.

482
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:21,000
And so some things we don't talk about, if you've never watched mixed martial arts or UFC and you think that it's just barbaric or whatever.

483
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,000
So here are the things that you can't do in the UFC.

484
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:34,000
You can't headbutt. Yeah. You can't eye gouge. You can't bite. Yeah. You can't pull hair. Yeah. You can't fish hook. Yeah.

485
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:39,000
No grow in attacks. No pee pee attacks. You cannot put a finger.

486
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Brace yourself. You cannot put a finger into any orifice or into any cut or laceration on any opponent.

487
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,000
So you can't finger those eye flaps. Nope. No finger in those eye flaps.

488
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Damn. I thought this one was funny and I didn't think about it until just now, but no small joint manipulation.

489
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:05,000
So like fingers. Yeah. You can't grab someone's finger and be like, yeah, you can't wiggle somebody's toes.

490
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,000
This little piggy went to the market. You can't strike to the spine or to the back of the head.

491
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,000
They get a rabbit punching. Now, this number 10 needs to be changed.

492
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,000
Whoever does Wikipedia editing, get on this one. You can edit the Wikipedia.

493
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:23,000
You have the power. I'm not a nerd. I just said nerds get onto it. I'm not a nerd.

494
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:28,000
Somebody tell the nerds. Alert the nerds. Striking downward using the point of it.

495
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:37,000
The elbow. This is called a 12 to 6 elbow. This is a rule that this week has been proposed to be changed.

496
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,000
And that's important. We'll come back to that here in a second. So 12 to 6 elbow. Remember that.

497
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,000
Now you cannot throat strike. No throat striking of any kind.

498
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,000
Can't go for the throat rips the turkey. No grabbing the trachea.

499
00:50:51,000 --> 00:51:01,000
Oh, man. What's McRubber going to do when he hits the UFC? You cannot claw, pinch or twist the flesh.

500
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:07,000
No clawing. But so that also means you can't give me like purple marbles. Yeah.

501
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:13,000
Or that. What's that one? Oh, horse bite on the back. My dad used to do that to me. Oh, God.

502
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:19,000
I don't like that one. Yeah. You cannot grab the clavicle. OK. No grabbing the clavicle.

503
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:28,000
You cannot kick the kidney with the heel. You have to use the toes. Come over that kidney with my toes.

504
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:34,000
You cannot spike an opponent to the canvas on the head or neck, AKA pile drive them.

505
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:40,000
This isn't the WWE. You cannot throw an opponent out of the ring or the fenced area.

506
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:47,000
If you can, that's impressive. Yeah. Just pick him over your head and throw him out.

507
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Now, this these next couple of ones are this one right here in particular is going to play in a part later on this evening.

508
00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:02,000
You cannot hold or grab the ropes or the fence. OK. You can also not hold the shorts or the gloves of the opponent.

509
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:09,000
The reason I say that that might come into play later tonight is because Leon Edwards is guilty of doing both of those things.

510
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:15,000
He is very cheeky whenever someone tries to take him down. He's a big fence grabber.

511
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,000
And he's got this technique where he grabs and lets it go real fast.

512
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:24,000
So like he times it so well where like the momentum of them going down, he like grabs it, stops it and then lets it go.

513
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:30,000
But he also if you can see it, they slow down and like zoom in on his clinch work with Kamara Usman.

514
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:36,000
When Kamara was going in on his single legs, you could see he was getting inside of his gloves and kind of breaking the.

515
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,000
So Leon, don't cheat tonight. No cheating.

516
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:46,000
Also, we're coming to you. This we're filming this and recording this Saturday, July 27th, the night of USC 304.

517
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,000
So that's why we're talking that way. You're going to hear this on Thursday.

518
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:57,000
The fight will already have happened so you can see if we're right or wrong or if there is any fence grabbing or getting in those gloves.

519
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:02,000
OK, back to the rules. You cannot spit at the opponent or the referee.

520
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:08,000
OK, no spinning. You cannot engage in sportsmanlike conduct that causes injury to an opponent.

521
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,000
I don't know what that means. OK, you cannot hold a grab over talked about.

522
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:19,000
You cannot use abusive language in the ring or the fenced area, which is crazy because I hear abusive language just about every week.

523
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:25,000
So you cannot attack an opponent on or during the break.

524
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:33,000
Come into your corner. You're like you're drinking water and then just out of the side of a kid comes in.

525
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:42,000
They're like, breathe and you're just like, you cannot attack an opponent who is under the care of the referee.

526
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:48,000
You cannot attack an opponent after the bell. You cannot flagrantly disregard the instructions of the referee.

527
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:59,000
Now, here's a this is a good one. Timidity, including without limitation, avoiding contact with an opponent intentionally or consistently dropping your mouthpiece or faking an injury.

528
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:04,000
So. If you don't want to fight, just don't get in the damn ring.

529
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:11,000
Interference by the corner. Now, this is an interesting one because I believe it was.

530
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:19,000
Sean O'Malley's corner. Yeah, Sean O'Malley is coached Tim Welch.

531
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:28,000
The when they were fighting Aljo for the belt, his Sean's coached Tim shouted at his opponent.

532
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:40,000
It's time to go, Aljo. It's time to go. Pretending to be Al Jermain Sterling's coach, baiting Al Jermain into like throwing and going into a combination so that Sean could counter him.

533
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,000
So he said, it's time to go out, Joe. It's time to go.

534
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,000
And I'll just started going. But it was because he wanted Sean to counter him.

535
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:51,000
And they knew like when he was trying to get him to go, quote unquote, he knew what he was going to do from there.

536
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:56,000
So there should have been a little, you know, a little look into that interference.

537
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:01,000
There's there's video out there. You can see it and you can see it and see his mouth going.

538
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,000
It's time to go out, Joe. So there's no like, no, that wasn't him.

539
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,000
You can't throw in the towel during the competition.

540
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:14,000
So when people do that, I guess that's technically a foul and you're disqualifying your your own opponent.

541
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,000
But I didn't know that you couldn't do that. Yeah.

542
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:25,000
Because I hear I hear the commentators say throw the towel and throw the towel and whenever it's like the referee is not stopping it, you should stop it or whatever.

543
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:35,000
You can't apply any foreign substance to the hair, body, clothing, gloves immediately prior to or during a contest or exhibition that could result in an unfair advantage.

544
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:46,000
Now, this one seems weird because there are some cut men that are very liberal with their application of the grease and like the whatever they put on their face beforehand.

545
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:52,000
I mean, I've seen some times where you see John Jones go in there and he's just like Vaseline up to the gills.

546
00:55:52,000 --> 00:56:00,000
It's like he's got whiskers of Vaseline. But then you see them use that and put it on the gloves and like kind of like put it places.

547
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,000
But, you know, I don't get that. You can't do it, but they do it.

548
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:13,000
If the referee of SIG has signaled that the opponent has been knocked out, striking an opponent who is helpless as a result of a previous blow and so supported by the ring or fenced area that he or she does not fall.

549
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:20,000
I don't know what that means. So they like knocked out and they're still standing up against the fence or something.

550
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:25,000
Yeah. You can't strike deliberately at the part of the body over the kidneys.

551
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:35,000
Also, I don't know. Do they specifically show you where the kidney is on the body and be like, don't heel kick here and don't punch up here on top of that part?

552
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:41,000
So strange. Yeah, that's weird. And then lastly, intentionally spitting out the mouthpiece, which is covered under timidity.

553
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:50,000
But so the rule changes that the commission is talking about is the 12 to 6 elbow.

554
00:56:50,000 --> 00:57:03,000
The reason that I thought that we should talk about that is because we just saw our friend, a friend of the show, Abdul Razak Al Hassan lose because of a quote unquote intentional 12 to 6 elbow.

555
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:08,000
It was a no. It was actually called a no contest, which is bullshit.

556
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:14,000
If you go back and watch that fight, our friend of the show who side kicked our third co-host Kevin.

557
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,000
I have an aside to this after you make your point.

558
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Yeah, I forgot something.

559
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:24,000
He needs to go back and appeal that because he was winning that fight, obviously clearly winning that fight.

560
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,000
And that should be a dove on our friend of the show's record.

561
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:33,000
So please, Mr. Al Hassan, appeal that loss with the commission as soon as the world changes in November.

562
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,000
Your point. It only has to do with Mr. Kevin O'Malley.

563
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,000
OK, he brought a photo and I forgot to bring it.

564
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:46,000
So I would be, you know, it's because that three hours of sleep.

565
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:49,000
It's yeah, I was literally like just trying to get myself out the door.

566
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,000
But we do have a photo of Kevin for when we do these video episodes.

567
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,000
He is a great exactly.

568
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,000
We got a perfect show for it.

569
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:00,000
But so that Kevin will always be here in spirit as the third speaking of visuals.

570
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:06,000
If you're taking a look at this year, we have a poster, my friend and supervisor,

571
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:13,000
boss, DJ Bruzy will be at Gustos right across the street every Friday of the month.

572
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
He's going to be spinning some hot wax for you there.

573
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,000
This flyer poster so fire. Love it.

574
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000
He's a good graphic designer as well.

575
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:29,000
So the other person I think that should take their case up with the commission is Mr. John Jones.

576
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:38,000
He only has one quote unquote loss on his record, and that was to Matt Hamill.

577
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:46,000
He pissed up Matt Hamill for like four rounds. Like, I mean, just it was like a clinic on striking.

578
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,000
And Matt Hamill is no schlub or anything like that.

579
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,000
It was like he was a good fighter, is a good fighter or whatever.

580
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Like it just was like very clear that John Jones is superior striker and wrestler and grappler.

581
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,000
But at the end, he was cutting him up with some elbows.

582
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:06,000
And one of the most hated referees who is no longer with the UFC or I don't think any commission,

583
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:11,000
Steve Mazzagati was refereeing and he.

584
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:18,000
Stopped the fight for a 12 to six elbow, stopped it, took a point away and then.

585
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,000
Like the fight was over because he asked Matt if he could continue and Matt said no.

586
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:28,000
And so they disqualified John Jones for an intentional 12 to six.

587
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,000
And actually, Matt Hamill has the win.

588
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:39,000
Bullshit. Yeah. So John Jones is like actual only loss, even though Steve Mazzagati was only, quote unquote, taking a point away.

589
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,000
Yeah. Because the opponent couldn't continue.

590
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
He was disqualifying John Jones for that intentional elbow.

591
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,000
So John Jones, soon as that rule changes in November, you and Mr.

592
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:57,000
Hassan, you do it, do a class action lawsuit and get your wins back on your record because that's some bullshit.

593
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:03,000
I went back and watched the John Jones, Matt Hamill elbow last night just in preparation to talk about this.

594
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Even Joe Rogan, Rogan, I'm having a general experience.

595
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:16,000
Even Mr. Rogan was commentating that fight and during that fight was saying that that rule was bullshit,

596
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:25,000
that that the 12 to six elbow does not do any more damage than angling it off to the ear or, you know, a slicing elbow.

597
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,000
This was like it literally was a crappy bullshit rule back when John Jones lost.

598
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:31,000
It's a crappy bullshit rule now.

599
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,000
They're finally changing it.

600
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:41,000
So I think that's cool because, you know, sometimes you you have these staunch like we don't ever change the rules, leagues or like whatever.

601
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:50,000
It's like I was thinking about the fact that like the Olympics are on currently and how like wrestling and boxing have been a part of the Olympics.

602
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:55,000
It's back in the ancient Olympics back in Greece and Rome and stuff like that.

603
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,000
And how like I wonder what their rules were.

604
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,000
You know what I mean?

605
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,000
You had to do it naked.

606
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,000
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

607
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Just had to.

608
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:04,000
Dick tugging aloud.

609
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Yeah.

610
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,000
A little dick crab.

611
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:12,000
No, it actually was to I don't know if we talked about it here or if I heard it somewhere again.

612
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,000
I don't know where I'm at right now.

613
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:20,000
Center, Fort Worth, Saturday.

614
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,000
Not sure.

615
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,000
Thirty ninety.

616
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,000
But they they used to wrestle like loincloths.

617
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:32,000
But a woman like snuck in and wrestled and or like they had stuff.

618
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:37,000
And so they start wrestling naked to prove that it was men wrestling men.

619
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,000
I don't remember where I heard that.

620
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000
We're still fighting that battle to this day.

621
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000
I could be making that up.

622
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,000
You just made that up.

623
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:51,000
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure I heard that somewhere is that that was the original reason why wrestling was done naked.

624
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,000
Interesting.

625
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
I'm sure there were other reasons to.

626
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,000
Like just dudes like rolling around naked other dudes.

627
01:01:58,000 --> 01:01:59,000
I don't know.

628
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,000
So we're looking into why they wrestled naked.

629
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:08,000
Deep deeper dive into that and then a deeper dive into the what cookbook she stole English breakfast from.

630
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,000
This is going to be a good episode 12.

631
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,000
You guys are here.

632
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:18,000
So there's another rule change that the commission is talking about or has talked about and is changing.

633
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:26,000
So there's a the rule right now is no kicking or kneeing to the head of a grounded opponent.

634
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:35,000
And the definition of a grounded opponent was having a hand or a palm on the ground while you're on the ground in some sport or former fashion.

635
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:45,000
So what you wound up having is you wound up having people that were getting pieced up and then as they're falling down, they're getting knocked out.

636
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:50,000
They would just put a slight little slight little hand on the ground and then quote unquote, they're grounded.

637
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:58,000
So then you have like this like fighter that's having to make this decision in the split second of piecing somebody up like no shit.

638
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:07,000
Do I have to stop my hand now that I or do I have to stop my foot now that I'm headed to his head because he's grounded, quote unquote.

639
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:15,000
And it also just kind of it gives a fighter a way of like taking the strike away from his opponent by simply just putting his hand in.

640
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:19,000
And so there's two states where they actually said, fuck that.

641
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:23,000
We're not doing that. I think New Jersey, you can kick them in the head if they have a bomb on the ground.

642
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:26,000
And I think that sounds right for me. And then like Montana or some shit like that.

643
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,000
I think there's a couple of states that they're just like, we're not adopting the grounded opponent rule.

644
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:39,000
And so then you had like whenever you fought in those states, you had some fighters that were smart enough to know the rules, some that were still thinking they could put their hand down.

645
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:49,000
And so they put their hand down and they just like, don't be like, well, I thought it was a nice not here, not here, not in New Jersey, not right here.

646
01:03:49,000 --> 01:04:06,000
So you can no longer do that. These rules I think are going to take place in November to give the fighters, the referees, the judges, everybody time to learn, adjust, adapt, train and get those new rules into their.

647
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:19,000
So this week, every single reporter asked every single fighter on the card what they thought about it. And 100% of the fighters are in favor of this. These rule changes.

648
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:27,000
So I think that's a good thing. You have fighters that are really excited to now when they're on that top ground and pound, they don't have to worry about angling.

649
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:35,000
They can just straight up, go straight up and down when you're in that clinch situation when someone's got you in a single leg and their heads right here.

650
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:48,000
You don't have to figure out if this the year is that the year you can just just just go for it. Try to defend yourself. So cool rule changes.

651
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,000
Hmm.

652
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,000
Let's see here. How are we doing on time? What we got here?

653
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:56,000
How much time we got?

654
01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:03,000
We've been talking for an hour, but that's fine. Well, I've got plenty of time. I've got another hour before I have to open up shop.

655
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:14,000
So you have on here rating your top five or slash and or Mount Rushmore of John Clyde of Wondow movies could be a recurring theme.

656
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:17,000
This is this is a copy and paste from another thing.

657
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:24,000
No, I might be. I don't know. I typed it out. I didn't copy and paste it. It could have been in like an original idea.

658
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:32,000
Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis, Charles Bronson, Decades Directors Production.

659
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,000
Yeah. All right.

660
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:44,000
If if we wanted to, if we want it like I was mostly just saying like if we need time filler. Yeah, I like that. Let's do top five Keanu Reeves today.

661
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:52,000
OK, yeah. I think that's a good one. Yeah. The reason I think that's a good one is because I just saw he was just on Colbert.

662
01:05:52,000 --> 01:06:01,000
I think last week or maybe two weeks ago. And this year is the 35th anniversary for Bill and Ted's excellent anniversary.

663
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:07,000
It is excellent anniversary. Good morning. We're here.

664
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:12,000
It's the 30th anniversary for.

665
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:23,000
Point break. It is the 25th anniversary for the Matrix.

666
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,000
I think. 2520.

667
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:35,000
25th anniversary for speed, 20th anniversary for the Matrix and 10th anniversary for John Wick.

668
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:43,000
Yeah, because Matrix on 99 speed. So you're out in 9425 for Matrix 25 and.

669
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:52,000
Yeah, that's great. So Colbert like listed all those off. And these are all the anniversaries for Keanu Reeves this year.

670
01:06:52,000 --> 01:07:00,000
I can't believe John Wick is 10 years old. I know completely changed the way like action movies happened.

671
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:06,000
So he asked him like he was like, let's just do rapid lightning round.

672
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,000
He stole our lightning around Colbert. People people love to steal our shit.

673
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:13,000
Oh, fuck you, Stephen Colbert. I'm just kidding. We'll fight you in the off.

674
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:18,000
John just let us know when he was like, let's do some lightning round word association type things.

675
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:26,000
And he was like, just tell me what comes to mind whenever you think of. And he's he asked him about those movies and dude almost made me cry when he talked about the Matrix.

676
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:32,000
I'm not going to lie straight up and down. Like he said, the Matrix. And he just like he went.

677
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:39,000
He's like, well, he's like talked about it. I was just like, yeah, I love you, Keanu Reeves.

678
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:48,000
Like the way he has changed movies over the last 25 years and even before that.

679
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:55,000
So let's do what are your top five? Let's do Keanu Reeves movies. Yeah. OK. Number one is speed.

680
01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Your number one count every number one is speed. OK. Number two is the Matrix. OK.

681
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:08,000
Number three is point break. OK. Number four is John Wick.

682
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:21,000
Mr. Week. And then I'd probably go. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure anniversary anniversary.

683
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:28,000
It's a good top five. Yeah. I and I know speed is kind of controversial, but speed is one of my all time favorite movies.

684
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:34,000
Speed is one of my I would say it is a sentimental movie for me for sure.

685
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:40,000
Like it's one of those first movies that my mom and dad were like, let's watch this together type shit. Pop quiz, hot shot.

686
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:46,000
Yandabant, who directed speed. What else did he do? He did a whole bunch of shit.

687
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:52,000
But he did a movie in the early 80s. I think it took like it started in the 70s when he started filming it.

688
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:57,000
But he was like a stunt coordinator or something on it. But they used real animals.

689
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:06,000
And I'll have to look up the information on it. But like actors were mauled on set. I think there was one death on the set.

690
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:16,000
It was some crazy shit. Really? While you do your top five, I can look up this and we can come back to it.

691
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:23,000
But yeah, the director of speed, Yandabant, is a fucking maniac.

692
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:36,000
So I was just looking at IMDB so I didn't miss anything. But I do see here that he is in development for as the actor, producer and writer for Berserker.

693
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:43,000
Oh, interesting. Is it going to be a Netflix original since they love to make anime into live action movies?

694
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,000
I hope not. That was a joke. I really hope they don't do that.

695
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:52,000
I don't want to find the contact information. I want to see the Berserker information anyway.

696
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:59,000
The Yandabant movie I was talking about was called Roar and it came out in 1981.

697
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,000
Okay.

698
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:13,000
Yes. And it took 11 years for it to finally come out. It was not initially released in North America.

699
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:20,000
It was released internationally, blah, blah. But it was all about protection for African wildlife.

700
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:31,000
I know this has nothing to do with Keanu Reeves, but anytime I think about speed, I think about this movie because of just how insane the production on it was.

701
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:44,000
All right. Now that I've refreshed my Keanu Reeves. God, I forgot about that movie.

702
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:52,000
I was just going straight from memory. I'm sure if I would have looked up at his filmography, I might have said things differently, but I was just trying to...

703
01:10:52,000 --> 01:11:08,000
Yeah. I mean, it's like, how do you not pick some of these? So personally, I'm going to go Scanner Darkly 5.

704
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:27,000
Yeah. That movie had me in a chokehold for a good couple of years. Just the rotoscoping and just everything about that movie.

705
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:39,000
And Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder. I mean, it's just good, good shit if you haven't seen Scanner Darkly. Yeah, that's a good one. So that's going to be 5 for me.

706
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:45,000
4 is going to be, I would say, Constantine.

707
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,000
Constantine's a good one too.

708
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,000
I would say...

709
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:58,000
And you know that they're doing a sequel and he's reprising his role. And so that's super exciting. Or at least last I heard they were doing this.

710
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:14,000
Scanner Darkly, Constantine. Let's do Hardball for 3. I know that's not an action movie or has anything to do with anything, but I love that movie.

711
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,000
You have to watch Hardball.

712
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:16,000
Okay. I'll check it out.

713
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:25,000
He's like either an alcoholic or a drug addict. And one of his community services is that he has to be a coach to a Little League Baseball team.

714
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:28,000
You're a real upstanding citizen. Go hang out with these kids.

715
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:30,000
But they're like inner city kids.

716
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:34,000
Oh, I know this movie. Okay. I know Hardball.

717
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,000
The Cucumbas.

718
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:38,000
It is, you can watch it for free on Pluto TV.

719
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:39,000
I fucking love that movie.

720
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:40,000
Okay.

721
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:45,000
2, I'm going to go Matrix and then 1, I'm going to go John Wick.

722
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:50,000
All right. Nice. You're not going to go with the replacements of the Hardball.

723
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:57,000
No, Hardball for me is again one of those ones that's like I remember watching it with my folks and it being one of those ones.

724
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:01,000
Because like growing up in a Christian household, you don't really get to see a lot of like secular shit.

725
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,000
So like Speed for me was like, oh my God.

726
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:08,000
You know, that was like action, a little bit of romance.

727
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:15,000
You know, I mean, I think I told my mom, like I was like, can you take me to the hair?

728
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,000
Take me to the barber and I want to look like that.

729
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:24,000
Give me a Dickie's jacket and a buzz cut and make me look like Keanu Reeves and Speed.

730
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,000
And I was like 10. You know what I mean?

731
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,000
It was like what am I doing trying to look like a grown ass man?

732
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,000
You know what I mean?

733
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:44,000
Yeah. So Keanu Reeves, I think another thing that we forget that maybe that you have forgotten because I forgot that he was in.

734
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:48,000
He was in Parenthood.

735
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,000
I didn't.

736
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:51,000
With Steve Martin.

737
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:52,000
Yeah.

738
01:13:52,000 --> 01:14:00,000
Dude, that movie was another like iconic movie for my child because my dad would do the he was on his guts and he was sliding on his guts.

739
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,000
And like that whole like Parenthood.

740
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:08,000
Yeah, he played the like he played like the boyfriend that wasn't supposed to be dating the daughter or whatever.

741
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,000
The not good for that. He was in that.

742
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:15,000
I mean, obviously he was Johnny Utah.

743
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Dracula member Bram Stoker's Dracula.

744
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,000
Little Buddha.

745
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,000
What you know about Little Buddha.

746
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,000
You got to watch that movie.

747
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:28,000
Johnny Mnemonic.

748
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:29,000
Oh, yeah.

749
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:30,000
That's great. That's a good one.

750
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:34,000
I know this is a more rom-com but a walk in the clouds.

751
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:37,000
Dude, Crush the Grapes.

752
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,000
Crush the Grapes.

753
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:43,000
Dude, my mom and we loved her romantic comedy.

754
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:44,000
That's for sure.

755
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Devil's Advocate.

756
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,000
Get out of here, bro.

757
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,000
He's freaking talking to the devil.

758
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:52,000
Yeah.

759
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:53,000
Yeah.

760
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Let's see. Like you said, replacements and a matrix.

761
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,000
It says.

762
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,000
It says he was lost in translation.

763
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,000
He was the last in translation.

764
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,000
It's been so long.

765
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:08,000
No way.

766
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,000
Oh, he.

767
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:13,000
I think it was just that just mean he was thanked.

768
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,000
Oh, yeah.

769
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,000
He was just thanked.

770
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:18,000
Something's got to give is a classic.

771
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,000
Yeah.

772
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,000
Classic.

773
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:26,000
He plays like the younger man, Constantine, obviously, Scandred Arklay, Lake House where

774
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:29,000
he's talking to his dead lady in back and forth.

775
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:30,000
That was.

776
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,000
I forgot about that one.

777
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:35,000
John Wick, obviously.

778
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,000
How did you feel about the last Matrix movie?

779
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:41,000
Did you see it?

780
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:43,000
Did you bother with it?

781
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:44,000
The Matrix Resurrections?

782
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:45,000
Yeah.

783
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:47,000
I watched it.

784
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:48,000
It's okay.

785
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:52,000
I don't think that it should be canon with the other ones.

786
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:54,000
It shouldn't exist.

787
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:58,000
I watched the whole thing thinking, Oh, eventually it'll get good.

788
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,000
Eventually it'll be good.

789
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:06,000
And I told myself that for two hours and it felt like it was trying so hard to be self

790
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,000
aware and meta.

791
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:12,000
And I realized that it was literally just like a cash grab.

792
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,000
Hey, look at the studio meddling with everything.

793
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,000
And we're just doing this for the money.

794
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,000
And I got all the nods and the wings.

795
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,000
But God, it was so bad.

796
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:25,000
I was so bummed out watching that movie, hoping that it was going to get good.

797
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,000
And then the credits rolled.

798
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:29,000
I was like, damn, it never got good.

799
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,000
Damn it.

800
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,000
And I've gone and I've read reviews on it actually, like in the past few months,

801
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:37,000
because like maybe I need to give it another try.

802
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:43,000
And it got like a 78 or something like critics seem to like not hate it across the board.

803
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,000
I was like, missing something.

804
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:47,000
This is a political thing.

805
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:51,000
But I can't make myself go back and watch it.

806
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:56,000
Like I want to, but I just can't devote another two hours to that movie.

807
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,000
Have you seen all four John wicks?

808
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,000
I haven't seen John wick number four.

809
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:03,000
John wick number four made me cry.

810
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:08,000
We were on a plane flying home and I was like, I'll watch John wick four because I've seen all of them.

811
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:10,000
I'm just like, what are you crying about?

812
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,000
It's a freaking action movie.

813
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,000
And I'm just like, you don't understand.

814
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:14,000
There's a dog.

815
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,000
Yeah.

816
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,000
I haven't seen the fourth one.

817
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:22,000
I wanted to see it when I was in theaters, but I couldn't find the time for it.

818
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:28,000
And it's also like around three hours long, which just kind of, I was that's my,

819
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,000
I was just going to ask if you had a favorite one.

820
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,000
The first one, like the first one is so perfect.

821
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:38,000
And I feel like they get longer, more convoluted as they go on.

822
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:40,000
Like the third one is fine.

823
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:45,000
Like it's got cool stuff in it, but I feel like it's just so drawn out.

824
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:46,000
Like they're all great.

825
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:53,000
They're all like insane, but I do feel like they just kind of like keep dragging it out.

826
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:55,000
I always get confused.

827
01:17:55,000 --> 01:18:05,000
Like, is it just a day or two or is it like years or is it like, it seems like everything happens in like the course of a day or two in the movie.

828
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:09,000
And then like the next movie starts like the way that the last one ends.

829
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:14,000
So it's like in real time, is all this happening in the course of like two weeks really?

830
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,000
It sucks to be the John Wick.

831
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:21,000
Also does he have adamantium like Wolverine or he can just like recover?

832
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:26,000
Yeah, he's got adianium bones and has the mutant healing powers.

833
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:29,000
Because that's always like whenever he goes.

834
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:36,000
I actually think he just takes cold plunges at the float company and that's how he recovers and keeps fighting.

835
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:43,000
I always love whenever he goes to London and he goes to the Somalia for his guns.

836
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:50,000
And the guy's like so proper and he's like, perhaps something more robust than he like has like this huge gun in his hand.

837
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:53,000
So I was like, yes. Yeah.

838
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:54,000
Okay, cool.

839
01:18:54,000 --> 01:19:01,000
Maybe we'll go on next week and we'll talk about another one of these amazing people.

840
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:06,000
But let's prepare. So let's pick somebody this week so that way we can prepare list for next week.

841
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:11,000
Let's do.

842
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:12,000
You want to pick?

843
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:15,000
I'll let you pick because I threw a bunch of names.

844
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,000
I picked Keanu Reeves today, so that's why I'm asking.

845
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:18,000
I mean.

846
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,000
Let's do Mr. Jackie Chan.

847
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:22,000
Fuck yeah. That's who I was going to pick.

848
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:23,000
I read your mind.

849
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:24,000
Yeah.

850
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:31,000
All right. So moving right along here before we get into our predictions slash preview for UFC 304 and wrap things up.

851
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:35,000
I wanted to talk a little bit about mental health awareness.

852
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:42,000
The reason being kind of similar to what we discussed at the top of the bill.

853
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,000
Like we always like to keep it real.

854
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:53,000
We're broke AF, but we're also both going through like mental health like problems, but just like kind of like.

855
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:54,000
Life is hard.

856
01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:00,000
Life is hard and we're both constantly checking in with one another and it just seems to be like an ebb and flow.

857
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:07,000
And like I said in the last episode, I've got friends that have reached out to me about just like the way that things are,

858
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:14,000
whether it's the economy and the fact that jobs are hard to come by or the fact that like groceries are so goddamn expensive

859
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:22,000
or the fact that like if you have kids, you know, all of your money is going towards making sure that they're taking care of and thriving and surviving.

860
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:28,000
And so when it comes to this podcast in particular, we do talk a lot about the UFC.

861
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,000
We talk a lot about fighting and fun stuff like breakfast.

862
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Obviously, breakfast is good for your mental health.

863
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:44,000
But there are we talk, you know, fun stuff, but also like let's kind of let's let's like zoom in a little bit about this mental health situation.

864
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:47,000
And I put four fighters on here.

865
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:55,000
The reason that I put these four on here is because these are kind of more notoriously outspoken about what's going on with their mental health.

866
01:20:55,000 --> 01:21:05,000
And I think that the conversation in the UFC in particular was kicked off by Robert Whitaker.

867
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:09,000
And if you don't know who Robert Whitaker is, he fights.

868
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:13,000
He's an Australian fighter or New Zealand.

869
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:15,000
No, he's Australian.

870
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,000
He's Australian. I look it up just because you look it up.

871
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:26,000
Yeah. Well, you keep talking about look it up because I don't want to offend any of our fans in Australia and New Zealand.

872
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:30,000
It's Australia. I'm almost 100 percent sure. But you look it up.

873
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:39,000
So Robert Whitaker, he did an interview after New Zealand, Australian mixed martial artists.

874
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:44,000
So where does he live now? Well, I think it only matters.

875
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:48,000
He's New Zealand born. Born. Yeah. Australian. OK.

876
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:53,000
Yeah. He fights out of Australia and also represents Australia. But I'm sure he probably promotes both.

877
01:21:53,000 --> 01:22:01,000
Yeah. But he had a couple of fights where he had had the skid because he had been champion.

878
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:09,000
He had been a champion previously. And then he had like this little skid of fights or whatever.

879
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:29,000
And then he had done this interview where he had really opened up about like his mental health and how he was feeling after his losses and kind of like just kind of gave an update about the fact that he was needing help.

880
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:43,000
And so typically whenever you see these fighters, they're very confident, cocky, you know, whatever. They put their theirself out there to be prize fighters.

881
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:50,000
So there's no like there's no fright in them. There's no run in them. There's just very little.

882
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:56,000
When it comes to their mental health, there's obviously you're not going to see them crying or like you're not going to see them hurting.

883
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:09,000
You're going to see them at their very best. And so to see someone like Robert Whitaker, who is very stoic, who also like plays video games and isn't very like super like he's not like Robert Smith, where you like, you know, he's like walking around all the time.

884
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:22,000
Like this man is like, yeah, he's like, he's a professional prize fighter who has like a streaming channel on the side and like just does him for the most part and seemingly is very positive.

885
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:27,000
But gave this very candid interview with the things that he was struggling with.

886
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:35,000
And so he has kind of like a rivalry with Israel, Adesanya. They fought a few times and traded the belt back and forth.

887
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:43,000
And so and Izzy is out of New Zealand now. And so that's kind of like their, you know, you know, coastal rivalry rivalry there.

888
01:23:43,000 --> 01:24:01,000
The second that Robert Whitaker kind of outed himself as someone that is struggling with mental health issues, Israel Adesanya was very quick to step out and say that he too struggled with mental health issues and even has a therapist.

889
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:21,000
And so it kind of took it at that step further where it was like, oh, not only is the guy who's kind of like on the downs on the downward skid of like things like seeking help for his mental health issues, but the person that is like riding the wave on the top of the world is also struggling with mental health issues and is even in therapy.

890
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:44,000
And so I think that it's very important if you're a fan of the UFC, if you're a fan of combat sports and martial arts, I think that sometimes that we get pegged as like meatheads or like douchebags or is like, you know, like even if you lift weights at all or if you if you know, if you do anything physical, you're kind of considered like a knuckle dragger.

891
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:58,000
Yeah, but it is literally to keep the demons at bay is why you're training to fight or why you're lifting weights. It is literally for your mental health. And if you don't get those things, it can really mess with your mental health for sure.

892
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:15,000
And so that's it's funny that you say to get the demons out because the next fighter that I had on my list that that is a very big outspoken person when it comes to mental health is Sean Strickland. Now he's the opposite of the Robert Whitaker Israel Adesanya.

893
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:28,000
He very candidly said that he doesn't think that therapy will help him and that he knows that training and physical exertion is really the only thing that will help him.

894
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:47,000
I mean, everybody is different and I as someone who has been to therapy, someone who has been on antidepressants, literally the only thing that really works for me is lifting weights, doing something physical when I'm in a hole like that is the only thing that pulls me out.

895
01:25:47,000 --> 01:26:02,000
I think that that's good self-awareness. And I think that sometimes people look to him as like, I mean, he's like sort of like a Trump guy. Like I said, he's like a Trump guy. I think he wore a shirt that said a woman in every kitchen, a gun in every hand or something like that.

896
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:17,000
That's his kind of like brand of humor slash politics. But even he himself recognizes that like, I think that his exact quote whenever it came to therapy is like, oh yeah, tell me about your repressed childhood memories.

897
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:30,000
And he's like, all that's going to do is make me want to put a gun in my hand and go kill somebody. He's like, so the best thing that I can do is get myself into a gym and roll around with some people and hit some bags and get myself to the point of exhaustion.

898
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:49,000
So that away, but he also like really candidly spoke about how like he like gets into these dark holes blows up on like people that he loves a lot. And then a week later, after having some of that physical exertion and having some of that time, he realizes that he needs to go back and apologize to these people.

899
01:26:49,000 --> 01:27:01,000
And like, so like the guy that like everybody thinks is like, Magus gun bag, even he has like his points of like, everybody, everybody gets to that point of like, I need some help.

900
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:26,000
And so I thought it was good to talk about the two that said like, oh, I'm, I'm in therapy, I need help or whatever. And then to also talk about the opposite side of that of like, even if you're not in a point or a place of like seeking help with therapy or you can still get your, your endorphins going, you can still get some of those natural drugs flowing from your brain, serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin, all that stuff.

901
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:37,000
Yeah, that comes from, you know, that physical exertion, giving yourself a, I don't want to do something, making yourself do it that floods your brain with all of that good stuff that helps you with some of those problems.

902
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:46,000
So the, the final fighter I wanted to speak of, which leads us into UFC three or four tonight is Patty Pimlet.

903
01:27:46,000 --> 01:28:00,000
The reason that I kind of wanted to bring that up when it comes to this current card is because his interview with sky sports is being kind of weaponized against him.

904
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:07,000
Whenever it comes to the media, and it comes to comments online.

905
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:21,000
So, he basically told sky sports in a very candid interview that five weeks ago, his coach was going to pull him from the fight, because his coach saw that he was like mentally not fit.

906
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:36,000
And he said that he knew they like was not there he almost himself was like considering not fighting because he just mentally wasn't there and so he has made it a very,

907
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:48,000
very outspoken mission of his to talk about men's mental health in particular, because he's lost training partners to suicide.

908
01:28:48,000 --> 01:29:08,000
And so, the last time he fought in England, I think somebody had just somebody from his gym had killed himself like maybe like two weeks before that fight. And so he dedicated that fight to that person and made sure that his post fight speech was very heavy on like if you need help, please reach out to a friend.

909
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:20,000
And so, this current fight this year, another member of his gym killed himself about four and a half five weeks ago, so it was around that same time that Patty was like in training camp.

910
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:27,000
He lost another member of his gym, and so it's kind of.

911
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:48,000
When you're when you're in that situation it's kind of seeming like you're, you know what, you know, what do you do and so he told sky sports that he reached out to this place I think it's called Jane's place, and where he lives in London, and reached out and asked for help and is seeking therapy

912
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:56,000
and getting help from the same people that he had seen the first time whenever he was talking about that and so that.

913
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:02,000
That interview really, really got me.

914
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:11,000
Mental health is super important and especially among men, like we don't talk about our feelings enough.

915
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:27,000
A lot of us were raised not to so it's super important and it's cool seeing like very again like you said meathead knucklehead people who are perceived that way, talking about their feelings talking about their mental health talking about the help they're getting.

916
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,000
It's hard out there.

917
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:42,000
So the thing that I kind of wanted to like full circle it is that now that he's doing like 304. Yeah, press. That's all that anyone's talking about is like, you almost pulled out is your head in this fight.

918
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:45,000
Yes, answer that question over and over and over again.

919
01:30:45,000 --> 01:31:00,000
You did this interview about mental health blah blah blah like where are you at now, you know, and he's like having to kind of like revisit and so it's like, I say that because it's like he like he gave that interview and like that's all well and good but like now it's kind of being shoved back into his face.

920
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:14,000
And now the comments are being brought up and shoved back into his face and it's like on the video for sky sports you have people telling him he needs to kill himself telling him that like, you know,

921
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:19,000
I mean, I mean, and so for someone in the comment sections.

922
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:34,000
Oh, fuck your so for someone that is Patty's age, where you know, we know that the comment section is accessible but someone that is coming up that like, is 20 something, it's a little bit different so anyway.

923
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:37,000
If you're struggling, please reach out to somebody.

924
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:47,000
Give me a call 682 to 940101. Give us an email. We probably don't have the resources to help you if you're struggling in an emergency.

925
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:58,000
But if you need a friend to talk to that's also interested in breakfast and or violence, you know, we're here every week obviously, even when we've only had sleep.

926
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:08,000
So we got to stay the course. Yeah, so looking forward to tonight's card. If you are in Manchester, England.

927
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:15,000
This card is happening at like three o'clock in the morning. So that's really weird for them. Yeah, yeah.

928
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:24,000
If you're in the United States is happening at like nine o'clock tonight so good for us bad for them. So I'm going to scroll down to the bottom and then we'll just get as we go.

929
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:38,000
So we have Shauna Bannon versus Alice Ardieland Ireland versus who knows I think she's she might be Russian because sometimes they do that whenever there's no flag.

930
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:44,000
They're just like they're from a country. You know which one. So there are two different ones.

931
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:57,000
I think Shauna is obviously going to be the favorite because Ireland is close to Manchester. So I'm just going to go Shauna Bannon just because just because we have a heavyweight battle.

932
01:32:57,000 --> 01:33:04,000
You got Mick Parkin versus Lucas Bresky Bresky. You got Polish power versus English power.

933
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:16,000
Look at those odds. Yeah, that's a pick and fight. Basically you don't know who's winning here but this one is if you want this guy to win you're going to get paid.

934
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:25,000
So if you put up a hundred bucks you get 225 on top of your hundred if you win. So he's going to be your underdog. He's going to be your favorite.

935
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:36,000
Mick Parkin you can go favorite since it's in England and he's English. Right. I feel like yeah this guy looks pretty crazy though. He does. And he's got his he's got two Z's in his name.

936
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:48,000
Lucas is and Breszynski. Yeah the Polish. I'm going I'm going to go Mick Park and I'm just going to go just favorite.

937
01:33:48,000 --> 01:34:02,000
You know Polish power English English pride. OK. No that's not bad. Take that out. I honestly I I don't know. It's just fun. Yeah.

938
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:10,000
For fun. There's no money involved here. No we'll go Mick Parkin just because that's what the odds should go with. I'm safe better.

939
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:26,000
Next in the welterweight division we have Sam Patterson versus Kiefer Crosby. I like the way Kiefer Crosby looks. He looks very mean and Kuwaiti ready. Yeah. And Sam Patterson looks like a nerd. I know I'm going Kiefer Crosby on this one. Yeah.

940
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:42,000
I'm going to go Kiefer Crosby on this one too. We're going to the dog. All right. Now this one flyweight bout with home Mohammed Mokai versus Manel Kopp yesterday at the weigh ins. This dude didn't even step on the scale or it's sorry at the ceremony of weigh ins.

941
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:52,000
This dude didn't even step on the scale. He just rushed out to try to get in this dude's face and it was like pandemonium. You had Dana and all the security guards like pulling them away and stuff like that.

942
01:34:52,000 --> 01:35:09,000
So this one's going to be these people hate each other for real in real life. So I'm going to go Mohammed Mokai. Sure. I'll go with that too. Just because I think he's got that. He looks mean as fuck. He was like I'm not even going to weigh in.

943
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:24,000
I'm just going to go straight to attacking this man here. So I'm going to go with the mad person in that fight. And then the last fight in the early prelim is going to be Orban Elliott versus Preston Parsons.

944
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:34,000
This dude's head looks like he's wearing a football helmet but it's underneath his skin.

945
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:49,000
I was going to mention Mega Mind over here. We're talking about the comments section. We're just ahead of the game if you feel me.

946
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:54,000
I'm going to go with him just because I'm making fun of him and he's from Wales and that's kind of hometown-ish.

947
01:35:54,000 --> 01:36:08,000
Yeah, I'm going to go with Orban Elliott as well. Preston Parsons. Yeah. PP. No good. No good. No PP.

948
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:25,000
All right. Moving right along to your prelims. We've got Modestas Bukaskas versus Marcin Pracino. He's Polish so it can't be that Italian.

949
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:40,000
I'm going with the Lithuanian fighter. Okay. I'll go with Marcin just to mix it up. Then you've got a bantamweight fight of Jake Hadley.

950
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:56,000
Oh man, I am drawn such a blank. Why does Jake Hadley look like if Joseph Gordon-Lovett had a really hard life?

951
01:36:56,000 --> 01:37:06,000
If he only boiled food and never got that third rock from the sun roll, this is where he would be.

952
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:15,000
And he's fighting Cowlin Loughran from Ireland. I'm going Ireland on this one. That dude looks trapped out.

953
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:20,000
Yeah. It's like a triangle on his neck. There is no neck. There's only traps.

954
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:27,000
All right. Then we have a woman's struggle weight bout between Meatball and Molly McCormick. What? That's her nickname.

955
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:32,000
I didn't know that but I was like, you're calling her Meatball. Damn. No, that's her nickname. Okay.

956
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:43,000
She's actually very fit. I can tell. Yeah. Meatball Molly is going to fight Bruna Brazile. She's from Brazil. Her last name is Brazile.

957
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:48,000
I'm going with her. Brazile on Brazile. Okay. Yeah.

958
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:53,000
I'm going to go with Meatball only because she's lost the last couple of her fights and I think she's due for a win.

959
01:37:53,000 --> 01:38:00,000
She's typically paired with Patty on the same card. They're kind of like a funny duo. They're like a brother-sister energy.

960
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:11,000
They also like rival football teams. It's always funny. She bought his newborn baby a rival football kit for his newborn baby.

961
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:17,000
He's like, that's going straight in the trash. I love that. Yeah. They have cool energy. They always do fun interviews.

962
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:23,000
I'm going to go with her. Just like I said, she's lost the last couple of her fights. I think she's due for a good one.

963
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:31,000
And then finally, your future prelim is going to be a featherweight bout between Nathaniel Wood and Daniel Pineda.

964
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:36,000
Now, Nathaniel Wood is very heavily favored. Yeah.

965
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:46,000
And I don't know if that's for a reason or if they just set up this Daniel Pineda kid to get beat in front of his hometown crowd or whatever.

966
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:56,000
But you're looking at you're going to get you have to put up $425 to win $100 for Nathaniel Wood to win.

967
01:38:56,000 --> 01:39:02,000
Whereas if you put up $100 for Daniel Pineda, you'd get $330 on top of that $100 back.

968
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:09,000
So this might be a good money line. Like if you just want to put $100 on Daniel Pineda just in case he pulls out the upset.

969
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:14,000
You can't borrow $100. Yeah. No. I literally do not have that much money.

970
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:18,000
Me either. All right. I'm going to go Daniel Pineda for some money.

971
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:23,000
This is going to be our money bet right here. Yep. All right. Moving up to the main card.

972
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:35,000
You have a featherweight belt versus Arnold Allen and Giga Chad. No. Giga Chikadze. Giga Kick.

973
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:42,000
I'm going to go Giga Chikadze. He's got a signature move and momentum behind him.

974
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:46,000
And I think Arnold Allen is not going to be able to keep up with them.

975
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:54,000
Then we have a middleweight bout between Christian Leroy Duncan and Gregory Rodriguez. Sorry. Brazilian Rodriguez.

976
01:39:54,000 --> 01:40:03,000
I'm going to go Christian Leroy Duncan from England. I'm going with a Brazilian again. You're going to go with Rodriguez? Yeah.

977
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:08,000
All right. Back to who we're talking about. Mental health awareness.

978
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:14,000
Mr. Patty Pemblit is fighting King Green. Patty will not call him King Green.

979
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:22,000
He says he was his name on his birth certificate is Robert. So he will call him Bobby.

980
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:31,000
Is he is he naming him? Yeah. Yep. Patty. I know Patty. Mental health buddy.

981
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:44,000
I'm going to go with Patty to win. I think Mr. King Green is, while his fighting style is erratic and a little bit hard to contain,

982
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:52,000
I think that Patty, if he gets his hands on him, it is game over because Patty's wrestling, grappling is just top notch.

983
01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:58,000
So I'm going to go Patty to win. We've got two co-main events here.

984
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:04,000
The heavyweight interim title belt. So do you know why there's a heavyweight interim title belt?

985
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:12,000
I'm sure I do, but go ahead and tell me why. So John Jones holds the heavyweight belt, but he will only fight Stipe Miocic.

986
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:16,000
And they're waiting for them both to be healthy enough to have this fight.

987
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:23,000
So they had to have like an interim belt so that way, you know, they could actually not hold up the division or whatever.

988
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:32,000
So Mr. Tom Aspinall has the interim belt there. Curtis Blades. He's a really good fighter.

989
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:40,000
I've never seen him get like straight up like Molly Watt killed. Like he's like gotten caught a couple of times.

990
01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:48,000
Like one of the one of my wife's least favorite highlights of all time is Derek Lewis uppercutting Curtis Blades.

991
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:55,000
And he just immediately starts snoring on that. But that was like in the fourth round and they had a very competitive back and forth for the most part.

992
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:59,000
So I just think that this is going to be a good fight. There's a lot of underestimating Curtis Blades.

993
01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:07,000
Another person that is very vocal about his struggle with not necessarily mental health, but he has a speech impediment.

994
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:17,000
He has a very heavy stutter. And so he's been very vocal about being a reluctant face of the UFC,

995
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:21,000
a reluctant spokesperson for the UFC because of his speech impediment.

996
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:29,000
But I think enough people in the in the industry have kind of championed him as like someone to be like, look, man, you're you're doing it.

997
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:36,000
You're living that life, you know. And so I sadly I think that Tom Aspinall is going to go ahead and retain the belt.

998
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:42,000
I don't think Curtis Blades has enough to take it away from him today. What do you think?

999
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:48,000
I want to see Curtis Blades win. OK, you know what his nickname is?

1000
01:42:48,000 --> 01:43:01,000
What is it? Razor Blades. I like that. Yep. And every time he fights, do you know, like that, like, Internet thing where, like, if you say Razor Blades, you're saying Razor Blades in Australia or whatever?

1001
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:12,000
Razor Blades. Anyways, every time he fights, my daughter is like Razor Blades. Yeah. Finally, the last fight of the night,

1002
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:20,000
a welterweight title bout is going to be between champion Leon Edwards and opponent Bilal Mohammed.

1003
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:27,000
This guy right here says that he has this like whole three round narrative for what he wants to do to that guy.

1004
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:35,000
He's like, I want to wrestle you and then I want to look your corner in the eye and I want to beat you up and then I want to let you up.

1005
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:42,000
It sounds really romantic. Yeah, it's like this like love note for what he wants to do to Leon.

1006
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:52,000
I want to see his dreams come true, his romantic dreams come true. I have a very soft spot in my heart for Leon Edwards, so I'm going Leon Edwards.

1007
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:57,000
I think Leon Edwards win, but I want to see. You want to see this dream come true for Bilal. I do.

1008
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:04,000
I want to see him like make that eye contact, wrestle around, like just have that romantic moment with Leon.

1009
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:13,000
So once this episode drops, you will immediately know if we're right or wrong because this is going to happen tonight and this episode will come out on Thursday

1010
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:20,000
like it normally does. So I kind of like that about our podcast. We're making pretty bold predictions for fights that are happening.

1011
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:24,000
And then Thursday we're immediately wrong. I love that.

1012
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:33,000
And we're like we're talking about just drama that it like immediately changes the second we get out. By the time it comes out, it's already done.

1013
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:39,000
Excellent. I think I'm good. You good? You feel good? I feel great. You feel great. You want to go home and go to sleep?

1014
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:45,000
I'm going to go home and go to sleep for like three more hours and then go to work. Nice. I'm going to set up to sell some Jordans.

1015
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:51,000
If you're listening to this, you can't come tonight because it'll be too late.

1016
01:44:51,000 --> 01:45:01,000
But I'm DJing at the Bold Owl down the street tonight for the Through Being Cool event that Jason also, my boss also puts on there every third Saturday of the month.

1017
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:07,000
Yeah. Come see that if you have ESP and you're listening to me talk right now.

1018
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:10,000
Do you have any other DJ gigs coming up?

1019
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:17,000
Let me think. I thought I did, but I don't think I do. I think this is it. I don't.

1020
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:24,000
Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for joining me this morning. It's been a broke boy episode, but we did it.

1021
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:29,000
We did it. Episode 11. Yeah, we're here. We're cranking them out weekly. Boom.

1022
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:35,000
So thank you for joining us. We'll see you next week on another exciting episode of Breakfast of Champions.

1023
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:43,000
We'll have to figure out a Patreon soon so that we can make some money. We should get something like a, hey, donate to our breakfast.

1024
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:50,000
We should make a, this is how you become a house husband cookbook situation.

1025
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:54,000
Because you know how most of our wives make a lot of money. We could plagiarize it.

1026
01:45:54,000 --> 01:46:00,000
That's what I'm saying. That's what most people do now with ebooks. They just copy and paste something, put it in an ebook, and then put it on Amazon.

1027
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:05,000
They're like, buy my ebook. We really need, I see those people like, buy me a coffee.

1028
01:46:05,000 --> 01:46:11,000
Like different, have you ever seen that? Oh yeah, of course. So it should be like, buy me a breakfast.

1029
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:15,000
Yeah. And then sponsor our breakfast foods. Yeah.

1030
01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:23,000
If you're a restaurant out there and you want to provide us breakfast so that we can review it and talk about it on this podcast that reaches millions of listeners all across the world, hit us up.

1031
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:30,000
Breakfast of champs, breakfastofchampspot at gmail.com, 682-294-0101.

1032
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:39,000
And if you would like to donate monetary funds to feeding us for less than a cup of coffee a day, you could feed two podcasters.

1033
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:45,000
You too could feed two podcasters. You can watch us eat. If you want us to mukbang it, just put it in the comments.

1034
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:49,000
Yeah. I'm down. I'm down the clan. Same.

1035
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:54,000
All right, brother. Have a good day. Take care. Everybody. See you later. Bye bye.

1036
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:26,000
Yeah.