["Fight for the World"]
You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
["Fight for the World"]
What?
Rolling. Good morning and welcome to Breakfast of Champions, season one, episode 22.
Holy shit.
I'm feeling 22.
I missed 20 and 21.
I know, bro.
For 22.
Here you are. I love your sweater. No country for old men.
This is not a video, obviously.
We're both in hoodies and crusty eyes, eye boogers, and stuff.
It fell below 70 last night, so you got to bust out the hoodie and short combo.
You know it.
Yup.
It's Texas uniform.
Yes, sir.
Hoodie and shorts.
Well, since last you were here, we had a UFC fighter on.
Huge.
We had my wife on.
I have realized over the past two episodes that I have been in a lot of trouble with my wife.
I have realized over the past two episodes that I am just terrible at video editing,
so I'm going to probably hit up Brian Beatle Bailey and see if he'd be interested in helping out with some of the editing on the back end.
If you saw the UFC episode around the 15-minute mark of the interview, the video and the audio kind of jump off.
And so for the rest of the video, it's just kind of off, which is apropos because Razak wound up not fighting on Saturday.
Yeah.
So we had Abdul Razak Al Hassan on and he was supposed to fight this past Saturday against Josh Fremd,
but Josh Fremd got real scared of him and decided he was going to miss weight by like five pounds.
And then the doctor told him that he couldn't fight.
And then they escorted him to the hospital to ensure that he wouldn't fight.
So hashtag pulling out Josh Fremd because you were scared of getting knocked the F out by Hassan Al Hassan.
Excuse me. I have a little bit of a tickle in my throat this morning.
We've got several things in front of us to try, and I figure we probably should just start knocking some of it out one by one.
For those of you that are not here with us in person, we have General Mills, Monsters,
Frightful Friends with all new marshmallows.
We also have General Mills Chocolate Lucky Charms Limited Edition with haunted marshmallows.
I fried up some Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon and then we also have...
Not in the microwave.
No, no, no, no.
And then we also have Parker found Cinnamon Toast Crunch iced coffee at, you said Dollar Tree?
Dollar Tree, yeah.
Dollar Tree rules.
The drinks at Dollar Tree, like the DVDs and the drinks are what I go to Dollar Tree for.
I used to go to Dollar Tree for the drug tests.
Because on probation I was always trying to like double-dutch that.
I feel like the Dollar Tree drug tests are all positive.
Yeah.
Or all negative.
Just lying to you.
I'm going to open this up just because I don't want it to get all cold.
I'm ready for the bacon.
I'm also going to crack one of these Cinnamon Toast Crunch iced coffees to wash down the
Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon.
So it's not freshly fried, but it is as fresh as it can be from Weatherford to here.
And then as I was doing it, Faye was like, what are you making?
Because we rarely make bacon at the house.
I was like, bacon?
She was like, I want bacon.
I was like, okay, I'll give you two pieces.
So as we dig into this Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon, cheers, by the way.
Cheers.
Smells so good.
Mm-hmm.
The cinnamon works.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Whoa.
Man.
Heather, when I told her this morning she was leaving for work and I was like, oh yeah,
we're doing the Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon.
Renee just sent me a picture that's fried up and she's like, that sounds weird.
I was like, cinnamon and sugar on bacon sounds great.
Yeah.
Salty, sweet, cinnamon-y.
It really works.
Yeah, that's amazing.
So, man, sorry, sorry, folks out there in podcast land.
This is way too good.
Whoa.
You guys need to get out wherever you can and get the Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon.
It's so strange frying it up.
I didn't think it was going to taste good.
This may be TMI, but whenever I cook in the morning I just feel like I'm going to yak
first thing in the morning.
I'm the same way.
So I was frying this up and I had to, as I was making it, I was taking breaks and going
to the bedroom and putting my shoes on and trying to not stay in the kitchen.
Yeah.
But man, oh man.
It is worth it.
Yeah, I have a hard time eating first thing in the morning.
When I first wake up, I can't eat.
I was something before we started recording.
I've been trying to get to the gym four mornings a week.
I usually get up at 4.30, get there by five.
I work out by the time I get home, shower, it's like seven, then I'm like, all right,
cool, I'm going to wait for two and a half hours.
Worked out.
Now I can eat.
The vomit has passed.
Yeah.
But eating like within the first hour, hour and a half of being awake is I can't do it.
You know, it's crazy is when I realized that for myself, I was working at Starbucks because
I was opening and I had to be there like four, four 30.
Yeah.
And I, and I thought to myself, like I'd wake up at the last minute at get there, it'd be
half awake and I'd be like, she's Danish thinking that was going to be like, no.
And I'd be like, Oh, I feel so sick.
So what I, what here's my thing.
Have you ever feel nauseous and you're opening up at the, at the Starbys apple juice, cold
apple juice is the way to go.
See, I can do coffee first thing like food and actually, okay.
I'm back on my bullshit.
Back on it.
I'm being good.
I'm eating right.
I'm tracking my calories, all that shit.
My fitness pal.
No, I ditched my fitness pal.
They got rid of the scanner.
So you can't scan barcode.
You have to pay for it.
Of course.
Yeah.
It's like 10 bucks a month or like 80 bucks a year or whatever.
Now there's a new one called chronometer.
I mean, it's not new, but it's better than my fitness pal.
Completely free.
You scan it.
If you scan it, it's not there though.
Like you take a picture of the label and it just imports it all.
Hell yeah.
Super cool.
Totally free.
They have a paid version, but, but yeah, so I've been like back on my bullshit.
So my breakfast routine has changed and I've actually been eating breakfast.
Okay.
I've been making good for you.
Yeah.
I've been making egg bites.
Okay.
Well, we have chickens and they're laying eggs now, which we're good.
Only we think only one's laying eggs.
We get like six, seven eggs a week, but I've been using egg beaters, throwing them in a
blender with cottage cheese, blending that up with spices.
And I pour it into like a muffin tin, bake it.
They're like 35 calories, mostly protein on the fat.
And I can just, I can eat them cold.
I can pop them in the microwave.
I can take them with me.
It's, it's pretty dope.
So yeah, I've been being a good boy and for you eating breakfast and eating good stuff.
This cinnamon toast crunch iced coffee is pretty good.
Hmm.
It is very, very sweet.
It's a sweet, but it feels kind of like a Milky sweet, even though is it, is it the
Vagon?
Oh no, it's Victor Allen.
Victor Allen.
Now we're done.
It's 2024 my dude, no more.
Wow.
That is pretty good.
It's a, it's a smaller, it's kind of like this, the same size as a smaller Red Bull,
but it does have a full flavor of coffee, milk and cinnamon sugar to it as well.
So it's not one, just the way the can looks too.
Yeah.
That swirl of colors.
I bet if we took the label off, there's another flavor underneath it.
I'm just kidding.
So I was thinking about this while I was frying this up.
There was a bar in Japan that I really, really liked going to.
When my band was in Japan, we stayed in, it's called Hiro, H I R O O.
That's kind of like the borough neighborhood subway stop that we stayed in.
And I still have to this day, like a photo of every step from like our apartment to the
end of like the street that we were on.
And there was a McDonald's and a 7-Eleven and a convenience store and a ramen place
and just like everything on this one street.
So it was like perfect for us.
We'd get done playing a show, come back, chunk all our gear back into the apartment
and just like go walking down the street trying to find.
That's where we first experienced the Shaka Shaka chicken at the McDonald's,
which is just a really thin pounded out like fried chicken cutlet.
And then they put it in a bag and you get to choose which spicy shake on top of it.
So they have like a kind of shake and bakey type.
They have like a lemon pepper, you know, all that stuff.
So it was like a dollar.
You get a filet of chicken with like a shake it up and be like, that sounds pretty dope.
So at the end of the street, there was there was a burger place and it was called home, homebrew,
home, home grill, something home, home and then whatever it is, home burger.
The burgers tasted and looked exactly like they were from Kincaid's,
but it was in the middle of Japan.
That's dope.
So it was like a good fat American juicy burger.
And then right next to it, there was this other bar.
So I forget what the bar is called, but it was a very nice like upscaly kind of bar
where like the ice is certain shapes and stuff like that.
So we went in one time and being the broke on tour, people we were just like, can we just get a shot of like whiskey?
And this bar had this guy that had this huge, almost like the jamon style of like you slice off the cured ham piece.
With every shot of whiskey, he would carve you a freshly carved piece of this pork cured meat.
It was like almost like it looked and tasted like bacon.
It might have just been smoked and cured bacon instead of like fried bacon, but it was on like a like a rack.
And every time someone would make order a drink, he'd go over it really thinly, slice this piece of bacon,
put it on a little plate, and then you get it. You take a shot of whiskey and then you'd have a nice salty bite of pork afterwards.
So that's very interesting. I can't stop eating this bacon.
It's so good. Three slices already. So good. So, so good.
I think I mentioned this in a past episode or maybe just when you and I are talking.
But my friend Proctor texted me a picture of this bacon when he saw it in the stories.
Like, I blame you guys for this and Proctor, if you're listening to this, you got to go buy this bacon. It's so good.
Anybody that we know, Jordan, Elijah, Bill, my wife, anybody, my wife, anybody that has sent us this, that has faulted us for this,
we'll take all the blame because this is really, really good stuff.
The world needs this. There's so much bad stuff in the world. That's right.
If we could only, you know, that was weird. Yeah.
Has it been the same cop? Yeah, he was really power walking back and forth.
Yeah, well, I just, I saw another cop go that way.
We're, we have a glass storefront here at the center and it's like 930 a.m. on a Monday on Magnolia.
And most of the stuff is closed, but there's just been a cop like power walking back and forth from our door.
I always feel like they're after me. They are.
Well, I don't know if you read what the hoodie says. It says, talk to cops in a language they understand.
Yeah. And for those of you listening, it's a scene from No Country for Old Men where an old boy gets out of the jail.
He's strangling the cop with the handcuffs. Yeah, he comes up from behind him and gives him a nice, there he goes again.
I'm going to show him my hoodie. I have shot happy Monday. I have so many anti-cop shirts and things that like I just forget about it.
So like whenever I have guests in my home, there are two of them.
Oh, they look exactly alike. Yeah, they're clones. Oh, wow.
I just forget. And so like inevitably my mother-in-law who comes to visit from time to time is very thin blue line relative.
And so I came out of the room the other day and I didn't even think of it ahead of my title.
I was exactly seeing that. I also have my drug church. The cops are not your friends on that one.
I've got one that's a year of the knife. They've got the it's a cop car that's on fire.
And on the back it says no justice, no peace or something like that.
And so I've got so many like fuck the police shirts that I just kind of forget about it.
And then I just show up to my kid's school and I'm like, hey, guys, what's going on? The cops are not your friends.
You should know that. Man, I got a buddy who's a cop.
And he was in police academy when I got this shirt.
And I he knows how I feel about the cops. I felt so bad.
Like I think I posted on Instagram and I was like, talk to cops in a language I understand.
Cops are not your friends. A.C.A.B. And it was just like I didn't hear from him for a while.
And I was like, he's a really good dude. His dad's a cop.
And like I know his heart's in the right place, but I don't know if he listens to this.
So I don't know who listens to this. I'm sorry if you listen to this and I've embarrassed you.
It's like my dad's listening or whatever. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm not sorry.
I'm not sorry for anything I say. My words are my own, though.
And if I've offended you, if I've offended you, come talk to me.
You're pretty righteous of a person, you know.
I did get off social media just because I was spending too much time on there and getting too like riled up.
I got a lock in because work is getting harder. Yep.
And I got my ass kicked on Saturday at work on the bar.
I was running the shift. Oh, just too much going on.
I opened by myself. I had only opened Friday.
I opened with someone and they scheduled me Saturday to open by myself.
OK. And you're like, is all the coffee brewed? What's going on?
Well, I mean, opening was fine, but we got busy at eight.
And including me, we had five people on.
We needed seven. And also, I didn't know what I was doing because I don't have a flow for like.
Yeah, it's a brand new store. Like today, it's been open for three weeks as of today.
You guys got to drive. I know it's complicated things a little bit more.
Exactly. So it was a lot of like I don't have a rhythm or a flow and they don't really know what business is going to be like yet.
So it was it was a great learning experience.
But I felt it when I left on Saturday. I was just like, you did a great job.
You're beating yourself up. I was like, I have to be perfect at everything.
You don't know me. I must succeed in all ways.
Yeah. It's like if I was like that did not feel good.
And like, yeah, we could have used two more people like it was a scheduling thing and we don't.
We're still getting our footing and people are finding out about us.
We're just getting busier. But you did a good job.
Like inside, I'm just like, fuck it. Fucked up. They're going to fire me. I'm so bad.
I do that to myself all the time. It's just a big like Sunday night into Monday morning before I have to teach.
I feel the heaviest imposter syndrome ever.
Like, I just feel like all of the things that like it's one of those things where like all of in spite of all these things, you are who you are.
But like those things that are in spite of come creeping back, like for me, it's I don't have a degree in anything. So how should I be teaching people if I never got a degree?
Like, I just go back to like my general attitude in life.
And I'm like, it's just incongruent with Mr. Renee, the music teacher that like loves kids, loves singing and dancing and being outgoing.
It's just like I become another person, you know, whenever I step into that role. Yeah.
And so I definitely feel that as far as like if you are not OK with it in a sense, like afterwards, like if you don't come away with that going like, OK, we made it.
At least we made it. You know what I mean? It's just like fuck everything. Burn it down. I'm the worst. This isn't going to work out.
That's exactly what it was. Yeah. And it also something that threw me off because like I've basically done the same thing for the last 14 years or whatever.
Big fish, little pond. Yeah. Kind of deal going into corporate world.
Little fish, big pond. But I have a weekly check in with my like big boss.
Yeah. So, yeah, on Friday I had that and I had it in person instead of online.
So the manager who's training me, she was there with me.
We're talking and he just stops mid check and looks at her goes, have you ever Googled Parker Howard, Fort Worth, Texas?
You told me about this, but I never followed back up. Yeah. And she's like, no, I haven't.
And he's like, you should do that. It's really interesting.
I'm just saying, oh, God, oh, God, I don't know what could pop up. Could be a music related thing.
It could be a could be food. Like there's lots of food interviews I've done over the years.
It could be the podcast. I doubt it's the podcast. I mean, you never know.
Just because number one, there's several podcasts named Breakfast of Giants. That is true.
But if you again, Parker, Fort Worth, like but yeah, I was just like, oh, no, no.
So I Googled myself and it popped up with a lady country singer with my same name from Fort Worth. Oh, hell yeah.
So I was like, thank God. Some interference there. Yeah. So it's like if you're looking at photos, it's mostly just photos of her.
Yeah. But then, like, if you scroll through, you find some of the articles I did.
And later on, he was doing like like have people make drinks and blah, blah, blah. And so he had me make this drink and I made it.
And he tasted it. I text you about this. He's like, yeah, that's better than it normally is.
And I was like, oh, cool. Thanks. He's like, it's because you made it with love.
And I was like, I think he's trolling me because I definitely that was like a go to line in interviews.
Oh, yeah. When you're oh, why? Why is vegan food so good? I was like, oh, well, like it's vegan.
It's better for the animals. It's better for your health.
And it's made with love. Yeah. And that was like a go to line. I was like, he knows he he read it and he's growing.
He's awesome. Like I I'm super excited to learn and grow.
Like he's going to push me to the next level. But it caught me off guard.
Like, he knows he knows he read the article and he's saying that to to troll me and see if he can get a reaction funny or not.
All right. I've opened up the monster frightful friends.
This has really, really made my family just go nuts for the last two weeks.
It's been sitting on my desk and they're like, I want it just because that what's going on.
I'm just looking at it. I like it. I'm excited. Yeah.
So this is monster frightful friends, which is artificial berry flavored frosted cereal with monster marshmallows.
We've got Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, and then the the Apple Lady. I forget what her name is.
Cruella to Apple or something like that.
But the monsters have pets, too. So on this box, you find out scratch.
Yes, scratch is the is oh, it's Carmela. That's what that chick's name is.
Scratch is Carmela's soulful snake who's got serious attitude and perfect rhythm.
Can you find her record? Igor is Count Chocula's fearless guard spider.
He's fiercely he's fiercely loyal. Can you find his teddy?
Benny is Frankenberry's best, but he has a wicked sense of humor and a wonky soul.
Can you find his bat? And then now, Barry, when Boo Berry's cat disappears, there's not a ghost of a chance of you finding her.
Can you find her yard? So obviously, there's a little like fun thing you can do on the back.
But yeah, new marshmallows all mixed together.
So I love this idea because every year I buy like a box of each of the cereals.
And there's like there's still one or two like half eaten boxes sitting in my cupboard by like Christmas time.
Yeah. So being able to buy everything in one to get that scratch that edge, have one box and be done with it.
I love that. Me too. It reminds me of the Cap'n Crunch kind of flavor.
Yeah. Light. It's a lot lighter than I thought it would be.
That's very good. Yeah. The apple and the berry go well together.
Try one of these marshmallows. That's good. I enjoy that.
I like that a lot. I love it more with some milk, obviously.
How are you feeling about Lucky Charms Haunted Edition?
You want to give that a go or you want to pass on that till next time?
Maybe we save it till next time. I think so, too. So many we've had a few.
We've had so many snacks. We might as well save this one. Plus, I feel like it's going to be the same thing as what we just had, except for chocolate, not berry flavored.
So let's save that. I think it's going to be great no matter what for next time.
I'm going to get another piece of bacon. Please do have as much as you'd like.
Last time I didn't have bowls. So today I went over and got some cups from the salsa. They saved our life once again.
Funny story. A couple of weeks ago, we had the Travis Scott release.
We tried our absolute best to not let anybody know that we were going to release those shoes.
We didn't post anything on Instagram till the day of, and we did it 45 minutes before we opened.
So by the time I got here to open the store, the line was from here down to LRB.
Wow. And that so I got here around 1045. So within 30 minutes, a line of like at least 100 people probably had formed.
That's insane. So we're trying to go through and serve the people as best as we possibly can in a safe way.
We only let a couple of people in at a time and kind of just made it try to make it as safe as possible.
The people from salsa were not happy with us. I believe that.
The dude, the guy that with the big hair in the net that was he's he came over.
He's like, can you move, please move the line? He's like, you're blocking our doors.
People can't come in and out. And I'm like, can you give us like, please give us like 10 more minutes. We're almost done.
Yeah. So as soon as we sold out, of course, the line dispersed. But like, yeah, we have this special relationship.
We're constantly like battling back and forth. It's like what's also the life on Magnolia just in general.
Yeah. There's so many like big personalities and businesses on this block or street.
And yeah, that's a constant thing. My you remember Efrain? Yeah.
He he used to say something that used to crack me up. Anytime something like that would happen up at a Voka, he would say, it's hard being a local celebrity.
For real.
That was always used as kind of like a derogatory towards some of those people that think their personalities are larger than life.
But yeah, anytime he would say that, I would just I'd think about that and be like, oh, I don't want to be a local celebrity.
No, I I again, going back to imposter syndrome, I've got horrible imposter syndrome, but I would get talked up because I would do so many interviews and stuff.
And I remember one time Heather, when she was working at a Voka, somebody who worked there, like I came in and got coffee and I left and the person was like, oh, my God, that's your husband.
Like Parker's huge, like it's like meeting a rock star. And she's like, no, he's real like stupid. Like, what? That's weird.
And she told me that I was like, like it made my skin crawl. I don't want to go out anymore.
Like it's but yeah, everyone who owns like a restaurant or is high up in a restaurant, Magnolia has that like kind of mentality, especially Vance over at Lilly's.
He's naming names now. Yeah, I mean, he is what he is. He's of a different era.
So I know that you've been off the social media and speaking about celebrity, I had to show you this to get your reaction live.
OK, so Saturday night, usually there's fights, you know that Saturday night, the bare knuckle fighting championship was on and Mr.
Gregor is part owner of that. And so he usually likes to make his presence known. And this is after the fights.
Everyone's kind of partying and whatnot. Connor is obviously inebriated on the cocaine and forgets that his wife is also near him.
So this is a woman that's not his wife, pulls her hair, starts grinding on her. She sees the wife and that's the wife right there.
And then he's like, ha ha ha, trying to play it off, swipes, slaps his wife's butt, grabs her hair and everybody's just kind of like, what the fuck, Connor?
Oh, my wife, my wife.
I wife and he plays it off, slap the butt. Oh, you need some. Oh, you're jealous. Let me pull your hair to this man is never coming back to fight.
I don't care what anyone says. He's never fighting again.
So he's enjoying life too much. Yeah, he put in the hard work he got.
He did the fights now to just party until his heart gives out.
So there is we've talked about this behind the scenes and I kind of wanted to bring it up on the actual podcast itself.
But Connor is how do we say this? Oh, another cop this time, a lady.
Oh, two more cops. What the hell is going on?
I need to take my hoodie off before I leave. I'm not getting shot today.
Hey guys, I can't come in for my trading shift. I got shot by a cop because I'm wearing an offensive cop shirt.
Connor has some connections to what some would say is a cartel.
So of course, all of this is alleged. We don't know anything like for sure or whatever the case may be.
But there is a gentleman who is how do I say this connected to a cartel.
OK, and this gentleman who is connected to the cartel in, I guess it's Ireland, four cops now.
And none of them were the two and they were staring at us as they walked by.
Sorry. No, you're good. Talking about cartels.
So in I want to get this right. Ireland, I believe.
Dublin, Ireland, there is an organized crime group by the name of Kinnahan, Kinnahan Organized Crime Group.
They're also known as the Kinnahan Cartel. They are a major Irish transnational organized crime syndicate.
And it's probably they they are one of the largest organized crime groups in the world.
They were established in both the UK, Spain and the UAE.
And basically what's going on is it's basically like a crime family where you have a family that has gotten into selling both drugs and arms.
And basically, Connor is getting his supply from these gentlemen here, especially there's this one.
His name is. I want again, I don't want to get it wrong.
I believe his name is let me double check. Sorry.
Are you watching the cop situation? I'm just yeah, I want to know what's going on.
I'm curious. It's like between the two that looked alike, plus the other four we've seen that six cops just walking up and down this block right now.
Like what? What is going on out there?
I also don't know. Are you on do you have like a ring camera? Yeah.
Do you get the ring updates whenever like someone's going on in your neighborhood? Oh, yeah.
I woke up this morning to six ring updates.
There was a police chase down Eighth Avenue behind my house and they I guess the car like crashed into a house down like south or something.
It was a red Mustang. They're topping one hundred and fifteen miles an hour during the pursuit is what rings says.
But yeah, that was fun to wake up to.
And then there's like videos on here. Yeah, looks like it cracked.
Maybe it didn't hit the house and crashed and stopped in somebody's front yard, but over kind of by like the Taco Bell at Berry.
OK, here it is. So Conor McGregor's sister, her name is Aofi.
She is dating someone named Graham the wig.
We'll in Graham.
We'll in is part of the Kenan Cartel.
He is served over over a decade in prison for both drugs and armed trafficking.
Now that he's out, he's back in Dublin and has basically been palling around with Conor and Conor's sister.
So let's see here. He pled guilty for possession.
He describes himself as a dangerous criminal.
Start describing myself as a dangerous criminal.
So now that he's out, this is a picture of him and Conor's sister.
He looks so dangerous. So basically what's happening is Aofi and Graham the wig are dating and they've gone public.
And so now the whole thing is they're probably going to get married.
And so Conor's marrying into the Kenan Cartel in Ireland, which I mean, obviously they're drugs, arm suppliers.
So he's taken care of as far as his drug problem is concerned.
He's becoming his character from Roadhouse.
He literally is becoming. Yeah.
Good for him.
He's made several appearances on TV in the past couple of weeks, and he is just unhinged.
And so the fight between him and Michael Chandler obviously is way in the rear view mirror.
Michael Chandler has moved on. He's got to fight with Charles Olivera scheduled.
So now Conor is calling out basically any and everybody. And the last one he called out was Dan Hooker.
Dan Hooker says he's ready to fight him.
So, again, if Conor comes back at all, it will be in 2025 as a bargaining piece between the UFC and whoever their potential TV buyer is.
I brought this in just for funsies. I'll take a picture of it.
Throw it on the Instagram later. Rhodes built an octagon.
Obviously, it's not an octagon because it's not the shape of an octagon.
However, this is Bruce Buffer with the megaphone.
This is Sean O'Malley with the pink hair. Now I see. Yeah.
Also, yeah, the abs, the legs.
And then he thought of the dream scenario of Sean O'Malley fighting one of his favorite fighter, fighting Alex Pereira, his other favorite fighter.
So this is white. It is.
And then we've got the referee here. So the cage door open and shut.
And then this is the he said this is the advertisements in the center of the ring, like the big Bud Light that's in the center.
He didn't know how to make it flush with the ground.
So yesterday I came home and he's like, Dad, I made this for you. Got to take it to the podcast.
So we have our very own Lego ring with Alex Pereira and Sean O'Malley and Bruce Buffer and Dana White with his big white bald head.
He's also part of the evil empire, obviously. Obviously.
I love it. I love that Rhodes did this for us.
He said he's like, look, there's even some people watching.
He's got like a little like advertisements like that.
He he he missed no detail. No, he really did not.
So that's awesome. Obviously, my family buying into the UFC, buying into combat sports and and and all on Saturday, we were at home and he goes, I want to stay up for the main event.
And I was like, it's not going to be late tonight. It'll probably be over before your bedtime.
He's like, I don't care. I'm staying up.
So the main event was going on. I was like, hey, he's in another room playing another game.
He's like, hey, main events on. He's like, I don't care.
I'm just staying up. Yeah. Yeah.
That's how my kids are like, we're going to do this. Actually, no, I just want to stay up.
I want to do that anymore. I just want to be awake.
And so we're talking about Conor McGregor Internet.
I mean, he's not just an internet personality, but local celebrity.
Do you do you ever did you ever follow the liver king?
Yes, I did. I did.
So I got sent. I think it was a tick tock of the liver king from like a few days ago. Yeah.
I haven't kept up with him. Like I think the last time, like when he first like started appearing, I was like, oh, like I know his supplement brand like I'm familiar with those supplements, whatever.
This dude looks like a roided out like CrossFit dude who's trying to like promote his brand.
So like I saw through it, but I was like, you know, watching a dude eat raw bowl testicles and stuff every day and his whole persona.
I was like, this is crazy, but whatever.
And like he shows up at UFC fights and his whole like like no sure like water buffalo hat.
The whole primal thing. And then it came out he was on like fifteen thousand dollars with the steroids a month.
And it's like, yeah, no shit. Like, look at his HGH gut. Like, yeah, his nipples are a dead giveaway.
Like he's unhinged, whatever, like not shocked. And he's like, I'm, you know, going to be honest.
All this stuff. Well, I haven't paid attention to him in a year or two since all that happened.
I got sent this tick tock and he's more unhinged than ever.
He won. He lives in like the Houston area outside of Houston.
He's got a whole bunch of land and like a mansion and all this stuff.
And like the biggest thing in all of his videos is like when he bring his like sons into it,
be like, these are my primal boys or whatever he calls them and liver boys or whatever.
He like have them eating the raw, like bull testicles and liver and stuff.
He's like, we live the tenants of the ancestral lifestyle. All right.
And I'm just like, are you shooting HGH? Yeah.
Like you shouldn't trend in there. They would. But they always look so bummed out.
Like you have them doing cold plunges and doing all this and people in the comments be like liver boy blink twice if you need help.
Well, it's him and he's just filming himself and one of his pupils is way bigger than the other.
OK, he looks like he's aged about 15 years since the last time I saw him online.
And he's like. Liver King Trinity, liver King 3.0, we're turning a new rock.
We're going to have some father, son time, some wholesome fun.
And you can tell he's in a water burger.
He's like, I'm taking my sons to what a burger for some wholesome father, son time.
And it's him. Oh, we have an oh, my God. I saw one of the cops drive off.
Sorry. I'm so it's OK. I want to know what's going on.
But yes, so he orders like one of everything from what a burger.
And while he's recording the guy who's like taking his order, I guess, is recording him, he's like, hey, bro, if you want to record me like ask permission, I don't mind.
Like, I'll tag you in this. We can take a video together, but just ask permission.
He's like, I'm not filming you. I'm not putting you out here. If I was going to film you and ask you.
And it was like real weird. And then they like have a table just covered in food with like one bite taken over.
Everything is like, that was delicious. That was so good. We're following the tenants. We're doing this.
We're doing that. And it was just so fucking weird.
And then so like I was like, I'm going to go on Reddit and see what Reddit has to say to what the real story is.
Somebody on Reddit posted a link to his Twitter or his ex or whatever.
And it's him. And he's sitting there and he's talking and he's like talking about something.
He's his whole thing is liver King 3.0, the Trinity, like all this stuff.
But then he's like, wait. And he's like giving a point about something. He's like, hold on.
Oh, he's sitting on the toilet taking a shit like, oh, no.
Like I think he saw what Connor was doing. Yeah. And he's taking it even further.
Like it is so unhinged. He looks like he's about to be in like organ failure because like his blood pressure is definitely through the roof.
He's redder than ever. One of his pupils.
Apparently he had a workout accident with like a band like he's doing banded face pulls and it snapped and hit him in the face.
Like he lost vision in one of his eyes.
It's a it is wild. So it's insane. Yeah. You should definitely.
If nothing else, just go watch the water burger video because it's so bizarre.
I stopped kind of around the same time that he made the apology. I kind of stopped following that whole situation just because I figured like now that the cat's out of the bag.
Yeah. Next door neighbors. Cats in the bag.
But I did see something recently because you know how whenever you see a video on like tick tock or Instagram and then it's like part of a trend.
So you like want to see the other videos. There's this trend of people opening and eating so strumming.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The fermented fish or whatever. And he has a streaming video.
He does. Yeah, I would like to see that. Yeah. So does he gag? No, I didn't. I didn't expect course.
I mean, he eats like he probably just eats the bull. Yeah, just straight off the bowl while it's alive. Just goes on bites on.
Yeah. So I I get so tickled when people like vomit off of just smell.
They like pop open the strumming can and the way it like sprays. Oh, I did.
I did see one guy open it inside of his car. No, he like open it and started spraying everywhere.
And he just like threw it across the car that like flung all over the car. And I was just like, you're never getting that. You have to get a new car. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Yeah, I I see those. I'm like, I don't want to do that.
Not at all. But I'll watch you do. Yeah. I don't laugh at you.
No. Yesterday, Heather and I had like a day without the kids.
So we were like, oh, we're going to like run errands and like have a date night kind of thing.
And we had this again. It was a Swedish tend to fish. It was like herring fillets and mustard sauce or something.
That made me think of the strumming. We had that some caviar and like this French pate.
That sounds good. I didn't like any of it. Heather loved it. She was all about it. And that's all that matters.
I tried each one. I was like, no, I'm good. I tried it all. I'd never had caviar before.
I'm cool to never have. It was like a black truffle caviar. I was like, cool. I tried it. I'm good.
Like I've had salmon roe and tuna roe like on sushi and stuff. That's fine. But yeah, just caviar on a cracker.
This week, I sent you kind of like an idea and we talked about it peripherally.
But if you out there enjoy our movie talks, we talked about Nicholas winding refin or Nicholas winding refin.
If that's how you say his name, if you're unfamiliar with that gentleman, the probably the most recognizable thing that he's done is I would say drive.
For sure. Would probably be the most recognizable thing that he's done.
I mean, according to letterboxed drive is his most popular neon demon.
Only God forgives him. Bronson. Those are the top four most popular movies he's done.
So the first time I saw drive, obviously I was blown away by the pacing and the music.
But the thing that Ikeena, I kind of always kept coming back to is just the elegant way that the brutalism was portrayed.
It was almost every single time something violent on screen was happening. It was being juxtaposed with an opera aria or some sort of operatic music.
Time slows down in that movie whenever the violence happens.
Bullet time. Yeah, things go really slow and really methodical and very, like I said, almost like an opera or a ballet when it comes to the violence in that movie.
Love that movie. Have you seen drive? You still haven't seen it? No, I haven't watched it yet.
So great, great kind of like cinematic universe that this guy basically creates with each one of his movies. It seems like it could be in the real world, but there's some elements of like that old suspension of disbelief and an old Hollywood and old TV movies, TV shows and movies.
You know, you could never have somebody running around just killing people for no reason.
That would get solved really quickly. But this guy gets away with it. He's a driver.
He's you know, anyway, some of the other movies that we talked about and the one that I brought up in particular for this podcast is the movie Valhalla Rising.
Yeah, it's one that I don't hear a lot of people talking about. I don't see a lot of people talking about, but it's one of those movies that really interests me for two reasons. One, the violence in it.
Obviously, you get to see a lot of very cool up close combat, hand to hand combat styles, but also the conspiracy of Christopher Columbus obviously not being the one that discovered the Americas more than likely it was Vikings.
So that whole thing. Also, the entire movie is based upon ruins that were found in inland Delaware. And so they're way older than the Columbus discoveries and obviously they're Norse in origin.
And so how did the Norsemen get so far inland to Delaware to place those ruins? And so the entirety of the movie is based upon just that simple fact that the ruins were found inland in Delaware.
And so did you watch some of it? I watched it. I again, I had told you like, oh yeah, I remember watching this when it came out. I never finished it. Yeah.
And I put it on and I remembered why I didn't finish it. It's very, the pacing is sluggish. Yeah. There's not a whole lot of dialogue.
The fights are cool, but I just didn't connect with it. So like it was on, but I wasn't paying close attention.
There is two parts that I, well two pieces of the movie that I kind of really like. I like the chapters, like it reminds me of like a Quentin type thing where you have chapters one, two, three, four, and five.
That kind of helped break up the pacing in my opinion a little bit.
But also the wide range of emotions or the wide range of human humanity that they went through while all being high on the psychotropic view. That scene really captures just like the wider range of like you have someone that's confused.
You have someone that is building. You have someone that's hiding. You have someone that's raping. You have someone that's killing. Like it's just like every range of human emotion being portrayed.
Someone's just, I mean, emphatically praying to God and being a religious zealot. I mean, there's just so much going on during that one scene.
And I do feel like the entirety of the movie, the reason it's paced that way is because it's almost like we're seeing the entirety of the movie from the perspective of the natives.
Yeah, that's true.
And it's like when they show up at the end and they're just completely silent and then like it's one of those things where like the visions that the one eye was having of like things happening, it was almost like they were giving him those visions.
And then like they just showed up silently and just fucking killed everybody at the end.
Spoiler alert.
Yeah, sorry.
So the other one that I watched recently, just rewatched recently is Only God Forgives.
Again, if you haven't seen that movie, sorry, there might be some spoilers here.
But Ryan Gosling runs a Muay Thai gym in Bangkok and he is basically forced to be in the life of crime. His mom is pushing drugs through his gym basically.
And his brother is like a black sheep that wants to hurt and rape.
And so what winds up happening, the whole story is he's running this gym, his brother murders somebody, and the cop that deals with the murder allows the father of the daughter that he hurt to come and kill him.
So it's like just street justice or whatever.
So of course the mom is not having it even though she's a crime boss. She's like, that's not how you do things. So go kill the cop.
And so it's a revenge darkness type situation. It all takes place in Bangkok. A lot of cool scenes of like Muay Thai fighting.
A lot of scenes. There is a very climactic fight between the cop and Ryan Gosling, who obviously has been training Muay Thai for this fight, for this movie.
So a lot of what we talk about blended in with the dirtiness of Hollywood.
So we talked about Neon Demon being a popular one. I've seen it just the once.
That movie is 100 percent, please don't go into that movie thinking it's going to be a great movie. That movie is 100 percent just like candy, like masturbation, like pure, like straight up vileness, but with a pretty face and a pretty bow tied to it.
Yeah. If you've never seen any of the Nicholas winding reference movies again, please go check them out. Bronson is great. Bronson. Amazingly one that I'm super familiar with and seen multiple times drive.
I like I was telling you, I avoided it because the hype for it was so big that usually when a movie is hyped up that much to me, I go in and I'm like, oh man, I think this one will live up.
I think so, too. Only God forgives. I think we'll live up to. Yeah. But yeah, I just I one point to five speed, baby. That's the only way to watch these.
But yeah, I wish I would have done that with Valhalla Rising. Yeah, I would have probably been more locked in if maybe at one and a half speed. For sure, for sure.
So, yeah, check out his movies. There's a bunch to choose from. I would say go way back and watch pusher. Oh, yeah. I think all the movies are on Amazon. Yep. One through three.
Yeah. So there's a couple of things he's working on now that I'm interested in that may be coming out in the future. But drive only God forgives Bronson and the neon demon.
I can wholeheartedly suggest those if you like watching violence on screen again, if you're like Parker and you're like this takes too long, one point to five speed will get you through those those scenes a little bit quicker.
Get you straight to the violence or whatever it is that you're interested in there. I wanted to talk before we wrap up about a couple of things we have.
The UFC is happening again this Saturday. We've got another fight night and we can go through these really quickly if you'd like.
Not too many fighters on the card. Let's see here.
We've got a heavyweight bout between Austin Lane and Robelius despondent. Oh, I don't know who that is. I don't I don't know either of these guys, but they are huge six six and six seven two fifty five and two sixty one.
Let's see here. They're both coming off losses.
I'm going to roll the dice and go with Robelius despondent. From where I'm sitting he kind of looks like Dennis Rodman. Yeah.
He's one inch taller and weighs a little bit more. So, hell yeah.
Then we got a women's draw weight bout between Melissa Martinez and Alice Ardillane.
Both coming off losses.
Romania versus Mexico. We got more more fights.
Less losses, but I'm gonna go with Alice. Alice.
Let's go with Romania. We've got a women's draw weight bout between Jessica Penney and Elise Reed.
Yeah. 1480 that's a.
And she's got a couple inches on her.
Personally, I think Jessica Penny is going to win this one. Yeah, I think so too. Cool.
Women's bantam weight bout between Joseline Edwards, Joseline Edwards and Tom Eddie's Vidal.
I'm going Joseline Joseline. Yeah.
Again, cool blue hair. Dennis Rodman look.
If you look like Dennis Rodman, we pick you. Yeah. Bantam weight bout between Brad Katona and Gene Matsumoto.
Gene Matsumoto is undefeated. 15 and 0. Yeah.
Making his debut. Yeah. Gene Matsumoto from Brazil.
Okay, that's all of the prelims headed into the main card.
We have a flyweight bout between Mataus Nicolaou and Asu Alombre.
Wow. 20 and 2. Great record. Kazakhstan. Can't go against them. My wife. My wife.
Asu Alombre is who I'm going with. Yeah, me too.
Featherweight bout between Darren Elkins and Daniel Pineda.
Both have humongous records. 28 and 11 versus 28 and 16.
Well, dude from the US has a couple inches on him in height and reach.
He's also got looks like he's going to cut some weight to he's 162.
Let's see. Yep. Yep. Darren Elkins. Yeah, I think so. Darren Elkins.
Bantam weight bout between Brady Heisten versus Jake Hadley.
We've got similar records. 9 and 2, 11 and 3. United States versus England.
Both coming off wins. Looks like it's going to be a pretty good scrap.
I personally am going to go with Jake Hadley.
I'm going with him too. He looks mean. Yeah, he does.
He looks like he's starving and he's mean.
Flyweight bout between Charles Johnson and Sumo Darje.
One name like Madonna. I'm going with him. Yeah, I like Sumo Darje for this as well.
And then we've got Rob Vaughn versus Kyler Phillips. Rob Vaughn is crazy scrappy.
I don't know much about Kyler Phillips other than he's coming off a win.
And that's a weird looking upper torso. Yeah, I'm going to go Rob Vaughn.
He looks like he did the reverse Marilyn Manson. Too many added an extra
middleweight bout Anthony Hernandez and Michelle Paredes.
This is the main event.
Both coming off a wins, both relatively equal in size.
I'm going with Pereira. OK, Michelle. All right, lock those in. Broke Boys Betting Club.
Get those picks locked in for us, please.
If we need some money, send us a couple. Yeah, just a couple.
You know, keep the lights on over here. Buy us a box of cereal on Sunday then.
For show. Let's see here.
What else we got? I was thinking.
Tuesday, tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the last episode of Contender Series.
I can see that fell off the way on Contender Series. Life got life. Life is life and on you.
Also, I'm falling asleep at like 9 p.m. every night. Yeah.
So if you've been hearing us speak about Contender Series this season, if you've been following along with Contender Series this season,
tomorrow will be the final week of Contender Series for the season. So make sure you catch that.
I believe this is week 10, which means this is the rematch from week two, which will kind of settle that beef from this season.
We had a draw in week two and instead of giving either of them contracts, Dana invited them to rematch in week 10.
And so that will be happening tomorrow evening.
A lot of great fighters have come out of this season. A lot of cool storylines we've got.
Like we had Tory Finney that we've been talking about all season. He finally got his contract in.
You know, just fighters that that one fighter from Brazil that didn't have a dollar to her name that came anyway.
That was awesome. Lupi. Yeah, I think so. She wasn't from Brazil. She was from Nicaragua.
She was somewhere in like Central America.
So just some great storylines of people who, you know, their lives have been changed just simply by coming and putting on a great performance for the Contender Series.
Three of the fighters from this season have already either fought or scheduled their fights for the UFC. So really cool stuff.
This past week, like I said, we've had a couple of pull outs. Razak did not get to fight.
But also we had Junior Taffa's opponent pulled out and then they had Chris Barnett was supposed to come in and fill in.
But then he got sick, so he had to pull out. And then they signed this guy this week named Sean Sharif, who I mean, literally they signed him in three days later.
He was in fight night fighting Junior Taffa. Not a great fight.
They both gassed out within the first round because they're heavyweights that don't really like train very hard. But great stuff.
So also since last we spoke, we've had kind of some rumblings as far as like who Alex Pereira is going to fight next.
Because, you know, what did we do with him now that he's basically cleaned out his division?
Is he going to go back down to 185 to try to get that belt back from Drakus? Is he going to go up to a heavyweight or is he going to kind of stay at 205?
And so what I'm seeing now is that since Sean Strickland is training with him, he has said, I'm not going to go back to 185.
I'm going to let Sean Strickland handle that and I'm going to stay either at 205 or then go back up.
So we've kind of got this holding pattern and heavyweight. We're waiting to see what happens with John Jones and Stipe Miocic in November.
The whole thing there is that they both want to retire. So they're going to fight each other and then apparently both retire.
If John Jones doesn't retire, he'll have to fight Tom Aspinall to kind of consolidate the belts.
You've got an interim heavyweight belt and then you've got John Jones holding the belt.
So in my opinion, what needs to happen is Tom Aspinall doesn't have a fight. He's waiting for the Stipe and John Jones fight.
I think they need to get Alex up to heavyweight to fight Tom Aspinall. And then that would really give some parody to John Jones.
If he wins to say, I can fight this guy who they're calling the goat or if Tom Aspinall takes care of Alex Pereira quickly, relatively easily, then you know that he has to fight Tom Aspinall.
So there is some moving pieces when it comes to the heavyweight and light heavyweight crown.
You've got Uncle Ioff that's waiting in the wings that has been waiting to take on Alex Pereira.
But I just don't think the UFC is going to make that fight because they don't want to have the face of the UFC losing.
So a lot of cool stuff happening. Some trash talk is also happening in the background right now.
You've got talk of this whole there. I know you're not on the Instagram, but there was this past week talk of a four man one night tournament between Max Holloway,
Dan Hooker, Justin Gaethje, and Dustin Poirier. Basically, they're going to fight each other and then the winners will fight each other on the same night.
And so you had several of those fighters saying that they're in. I doubt that that would happen, but that is an interesting thing happening right now.
You've got a lot of people that are holding belts right now that are talking trash.
We've got, excuse me, what's his name? Marab Diwaleshwili. His next fight coming up is supposed to be Marab, excuse me, Nerkr Demidov, but he doesn't want to fight him.
Excuse me. He feels like there are some other fighters there that are more deserving of that fight.
Sugar Sean O'Malley had labrum surgery on October 3rd, so he will be out for the next, I would say, six to eight months.
He wants to wait on him for that fight and wants to give him the rematch. You've got, like I said, plenty of people that are holding belts.
There was this fight that's coming up between Max Holloway and Ilya Toporya. They finally had a little face to face on ESPN.
Man, it was very cringey. You had Max, who doesn't really buy into the trash talking thing, just being like, okay, buddy, okay, buddy, the whole time.
Ilya Toporya is trying to really sell the fight. He's like, grrrrr. It was just kind of cringey. Their energy levels didn't match.
I think that Max is going to allow some of that cringeyness to get to him and throw him off of his game a little bit.
So also, not UFC related, but we are about a month out from the Tyson-Paul fight.
That's true. Is it going to happen?
I think it has to happen. Like, I mean, Netflix is their big live. Yeah.
I think no matter what, it just has to happen. Good, bad, or otherwise. So have you been seeing the fat suit? Yeah. Yeah.
I got sent the fat suit. I saw some of the promos that they're doing at AT&T Stadium where he was like spraying his body spray on Mike Tyson.
It all just seems like a PR stunt. Yeah. Have you seen their trying to compete with Lunchables?
My kids have been talking about this and I found out there are some places locally to buy them. Yeah.
So I was going to surprise my kids. I picked some lunch. Yeah. It's a healthier version of Lunchable. It comes with a prime.
I was like the prime hydration drinks. They don't have all the electrolytes you need. You need some salt. Yeah. Just some element.
Yep. Get you some element. That's right. I think we're good if unless you got something else you'd like to speak on.
No, I think we're we've nailed it pretty well. We've spoken on the cinnamon toast crunch bacon.
Go get you some. Also the Monsters Frightful Friends with all new marshmallows.
Also Delicious gets you a box before the month is over so you can celebrate October. Yeah, man.
We talked to movies with violence. We've given our picks for this week. I think we've done the damn thing.
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