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

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You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

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Yes!

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Two, one, rolling. Welcome, welcome. Season one, episode 23, Breakfast of Champions. How are your levels? Hot? Good?

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It's a little hot, but I'm good.

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You're four. I can turn you down a little bit. Is that?

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That's good.

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That's good?

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All right. I'm about the same level as you. Okay. Welcome everybody. Season one, episode 23.

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This is our Michael Jordan episode.

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That's right. We had an idea. We had this idea where we were going to invite Jordan Klein on the podcast and not tell him that we were going to interview him as Michael Jordan.

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We could have still done this on episode 45.

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That's true. Maybe. He's a dedicated listener, so there's just no way that that's not happening.

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Yeah. So thank you for joining us. We've made it to episode 23.

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Obviously, if you're watching us on the YouTubes, we're not in center. We're back at my house.

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So if you watch the episode with Allie and myself, this is the kitchen table, obviously.

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And just we're going to pause a second so you can hear what's going on in the back.

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Dog toes.

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And it's not sizzling as good as it was when we first started.

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Hold on.

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That is the small faint sizzle of Scrapple.

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So we've been teasing this episode since we first kind of started talking about it.

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We have some Scrapple from Delaware.

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It's been sitting in our freezer for quite some time.

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Yeah, from Harrington, Delaware. It's the real deal, guys. It was brought here all the way from my homeland.

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Not Harrington, but Delaware.

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So if you've never had Scrapple, you don't know what Scrapple is.

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I would just say, do not look it up. Don't look into it.

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So I shouldn't read the ingredients. Yeah, no, no, no. Don't look into it.

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Just try it first. And then after you've tried it, you can kind of get into what it actually is.

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So do you think that Liver King eats Scrapple raw?

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He does everything raw. Yeah.

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I mean, oh, no, I unplug myself.

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I don't know. I don't know.

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Stuff on my cord.

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Yeah, as as per the usual, if we're having an episode at my house, they were will be cats everywhere and they will eventually knock something over or unplug something that's really important.

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So. So, yeah, you brought up Liver King.

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Have you any more updates?

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I haven't watched anything like since the last thing I sent you, but he just seems.

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I I'm wondering if it's acting because if you go to his website, he has a deal with Netflix to do a documentary.

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So it could be his redemption arc of like, look, he's this positive guy and he's got all these millions of followers and he's preaching a healthy lifestyle.

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Oh, no, he spends fifteen thousand dollars a month on steroids.

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Oh, no. Now he's losing his mind because of all the steroids.

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But raw liver and bull testicles will bring him out of the psychosis and make him whole again.

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The Trinity, the Trinity.

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Liver. Yeah.

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Testicles. Yeah. And hearts. That's right.

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Holy Trinity.

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So if you don't know who the Liver King is, he is a larger than life personality that kind of burst onto the scene maybe two years ago or so.

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Three years ago, he made his claim to fame by just being like this shit house of a human being just like stacked, yoked any way you can put it.

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And he was claiming that he was all clean at first. Obviously, he was not.

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And so he had to make this apology.

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And now he is very open with what he's doing, how he's doing it.

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And it just is a little unhinged.

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I will I will say I watched two or three of the videos that you sent me plus a couple more recommended ones.

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And there are some claims that he's allegedly on more than just steroids like math or he's been saying in his videos that he's taking vitamin K and then we'll just say that he's on ketamine.

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Yeah. But people are also thinking maybe like math or something else.

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Like there's also a video of him in Poland in like a crack house. It's really weird.

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Yeah, it gets weird out there.

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It's crazy because it's like you can.

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It's the same thing with Connor where like I'm not on drugs and you're like, you're clearly on drugs.

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You don't act this way unless you're on some sort of drug.

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So the Scrapple is being made for us currently as we speak.

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We're about to try that live on air.

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We have the Wikipedia article pulled up here just to kind of give you some background.

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Like I said, I don't really want to go into what it is.

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It is some sort of pork with combined with cornmeal and wheat flour and spices.

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And it's very popular in Pennsylvania and Delaware, Maryland, any of the mid-Atlantic states.

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It is a Pennsylvania Dutch like specialty delicacy Mennonites and Amish people really love the mess out of some Scrapple.

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We have a Scrapple Festival.

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My sister told me this morning there's a Scrapple vodka.

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Oh, that doesn't seem very Amish.

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Is that true? Is it an Amish?

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It says right here Scrapple is commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and the Amish.

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I didn't know they were considered an ethnicity.

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Well, now you know. Learn more every day on Breakfast of Champions.

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Those buggies, man. They're always in the way.

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So I grew up in central Illinois. So we had Amish towns like outlying and we would go there.

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But when I was on tour, I think it was 2008, we had played in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Shout out. That's when my dad was born.

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Hell yeah. Des Moines was actually the best show of tour. It was awesome.

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Slipknot country.

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Yeah, we played with a band called Skeleton Breath. They're on Spotify. They're awesome.

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They don't have any vocals and they have an electric violin player and they just shred.

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Before Yellow Card or after Yellow Card?

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This was after, but they're not. I'm just kidding.

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They're from Brooklyn. The violin player kind of looked like Howard Stern. It was awesome.

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That's what's up.

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But our next show was supposed to be in Tulsa, but it got canceled.

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So we're like, we made the most money of all of tour at this show. Let's just drive as far as we can.

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We had a long drive tomorrow and we'll stop at a hotel in like Kansas City or something, spend the night and then finish the drive home.

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So we're driving and we're out in the middle of nowhere.

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And it's just prairie and we're needing gas. And it's like midnight 1 a.m.

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And we pull off on a gas station and everybody goes inside. But I'm on the phone.

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I'm talking with somebody and right then like a lightning flash happens and there's giant like thunder heads.

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And again, it's just prairie and then a gas station in the highway. And that's it.

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And right when it flashes, this horse drawn buggy comes speeding down the road in front of us.

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And it's dark out. It's a flash. So all I see is just the black.

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And it's just racing down and then like a few minutes later, another flash and I see it like on down the road, just hauling ass.

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That would scare the shit out of it. It was awesome. It was surreal.

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We wrote a song about it because it was so cool. I love that. Yeah.

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So Scrapple is fully cooked when you purchase it.

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It's typically cut into quarter inch to three quarter inch thick slices.

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And then it's pan fried until browned to form a crust.

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Sometimes people coated in flour first. You can fry it in butter or oil.

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Scrapple is usually eaten as a breakfast side dish.

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It can be served plain with either sweet or savory condiments, apple butter, ketchup, jelly, maple syrup, honey or mustard.

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There's also very popular Scrapple sandwiches for breakfast bagels with Scrapple on them or, you know, just a Scrapple sandwich with egg.

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Or cheese to go along with it. So very popular.

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Have you had it before we talked about this? No. Okay. This is your first time.

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This is first time. So I've had it twice and I will just reserve my comments until after we're done.

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So I also I'd say I probably go twice a week to both Wal-Mart and H.E.B.

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And I always have to peruse breakfast items.

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And so the one that I sent you this week that caught my attention that I had forgotten about and is just super nostalgic for me is the toaster strudel Pillsbury toaster strudels.

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So I got some of those last night. I got a 12 pack of the strawberry.

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And so we're going to have that as kind of like our sweet part.

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We also Ali and her family always have king syrup to go with their Scrapple.

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So we're going to have that as well. So we're going to have a nice balanced breakfast this morning. My body is ready.

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I came hungry. Let's see here. What have I got on my notes?

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So we're going to rate and review that. It looks like it is just about done.

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OK, here we go. We're here.

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All right. Thank you.

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All right. Here is this Scrapple.

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Just you can hear it playing and then drizzle whatever you got to do.

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It is very thin and crispy. I do have some thicker pieces so you can kind of see the difference.

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It smells like sausage. All right. Cheers.

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This is Scrapple playing.

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That's good.

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I like it. I like it.

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I'm going to start now because that's going to really blow your mind.

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I did it real thin. I will say out of the three times I've tried it, this is probably my favorite time.

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Because I did it super thin for you so it's nice and crispy.

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Murray, you don't need that.

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I will say also, judgment.

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Also, there's a microphone right next to you.

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Sorry.

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I just meant if you want to talk shit, talk shit on the microphone.

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Oh, got it.

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I definitely put too much on there.

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That's okay.

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I will say now that I've kind of looked into the ingredients, I understand it more.

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The binder being flour kind of reminds me of a pork chop whenever you fry pork chops up.

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That's really good.

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Yeah, it's good. You don't have to just say that.

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No, I really like it.

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Okay. All right. Man, I got to convert.

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All right. It's really good this time.

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Okay, good.

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I don't know if maybe just.

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I think it was too thick before when you've had it.

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My grandfather was like the king of the crispy.

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Like the very, I don't know how he got it so thin. It's hard.

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I have a lot of extra over there and you can't, there's so much water in it.

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Like you can't like congeal it back into a, like it's just mush now.

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So if you mess it up, you're done.

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So and other times we've had it, we've had it with other things like pancakes or something else.

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I think trying it by itself before you have any other like flavors in your mouth allows you to appreciate that there is a meat flavor and then there is like a flour coating to it and that it's not just like, you know what I mean?

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That's the thing. I think people end up not liking it.

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I was telling Parker like friends of ours that have gone like our neighbors and they were like, we didn't like it.

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It was mushy. It was like soft and I'm like, yeah.

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Yeah, if you cook it wrong.

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Perfect.

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Try some.

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I will.

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There's more.

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Try some now on camera.

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We're here.

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You don't want anymore.

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I want you to try some on camera.

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Over here?

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No, I mean, it's.

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It's delicious.

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My mom makes this every time I visit.

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She knows because I can't get it here.

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Although we did see it in the freezer section, but like I said, it's like from Minnesota or something.

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We also saw it like way back in the Minnesota Minnesota way back in the day.

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We saw it at like Central Market and there was like a weird random state.

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I was just going to say.

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Oh, yeah, all this good eating noises.

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Oh, zero to six pigtails.

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Zero to six snouts.

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Just kidding.

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Give a solid six.

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Solid six, babe.

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I would.

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Absolutely.

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I would say, like I said, this being my third time trying this is you've really knocked it out of the park.

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This is a wonderful representation of Scrapple.

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Like I said, don't look up what's in it.

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Just try it.

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And then afterwards, you can kind of blow your mind as to what it actually is.

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Obviously, when we have guests on, we always talk about.

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Excuse me.

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That's exactly what we talk about.

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We talk about burps and farts and stuff like that.

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No, but we always talk about peasant food, oatmeal and stuff like that as far as like because I feel like a lot of times.

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Ethnic food that is oftentimes like, quote unquote, poor food tends to be the tastiest, the most nostalgic, has the best stories.

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And, you know, you always see the romanticized movie of like the rich guy going back to the neighborhood because they just don't make milkshakes like, you know, where, you know, where he is now.

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And so I think that Scrapple is very interesting if you've never tried it before. It's got a lovely story to it.

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As far as like we just found out there are ethnics that are having this breakfast and they've crossed over to babe does Scrapple sometimes they have it at Wawa sometimes.

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Like in their sizzlies or something.

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I thought I dream that stuff.

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Royal Farms has a Scrapple egg and cheese.

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Oh, RoeFo, the evil pop of Wawa.

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I will say because this is frozen, it's not as tasty as, I mean, it's tasty but it's not as tasty.

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So we need to do it fresh. We need to time it when my family comes to visit too.

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We need to take a trip.

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Go to the source.

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I'm going to just get one for Parker. You can make it at home now.

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It's really good.

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Yeah, so we thank you, Ali, for making this for us this morning.

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We've also like I said got the toaster strudel.

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Were you allowed to have these as a kid? Yeah, yeah, I was more of a pop tart guy though. Yeah, I was too much time I could just rip open a pop tart and eat it. Oh yeah, I was sometimes allowed to have these and was.

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I love them so much. They're so good.

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I just started appreciating them until I was an adult and I was getting them for my kids.

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But I am really considering turning it into a Scrapple sandwich. Do it.

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Actually, I think we'll just do a half Z.

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So my favorite part of toaster strudel is whenever, especially when you're a kid you don't really like have patience or even know about like you know temperatures when you're cooking so like the edges of it are super like burning hot and then you get into the middle and it's like still cold.

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So I like to put Scrapple and pastry strudel. Very good.

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Babe, Parker put Scrapple in his pastry. Whoa, yeah, so pancakes Scrapple sandwich like that's pretty good too. We do that.

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You think my dad can make a sandwich out of anything.

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Anything.

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All you need is bread right?

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Idiot sandwich.

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Is hot dog a sandwich?

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Glyzzy in its own category.

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It's hot.

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This is the better question is hot dog and taco. No, a taco is a taco.

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I think hot dogs close to a taco. You got foldable bread, meat, sometimes you put some sauce on it. No, I would say like a hero or like a that's gyro.

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I was like, like a Cosby sandwich.

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No, like a Greek sandwich is more like a taco than a hot dog.

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I would I would agree with that as well. But I think that hot dog is an American taco.

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What do you do with like bratwurst and I mean those are not. It's a German taco.

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See, no, I think it's just the shape that's throwing you off.

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Hey, oh,

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thank you. Appreciate you.

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Those are still cooking on the other side.

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Okay, I'll do my best.

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I'm chef.

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I muted that microphone. So,

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so today we had a couple of things to talk about, you know, you need a napkin of some sort or in a minute.

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I'm still eating. I'll probably get continue to get messy.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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So I don't have to watch it.

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Oh, I left it on. Oh, he's always I leave the oven on all the time.

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He's always like, baby, still cooking.

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And I'm like, no, you know, I'm not so good.

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I don't know that sometimes there's like mystery cookies or you're cooking nuggets for roads.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who leaves the oven on.

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I think it's called out about it.

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I'm not calling her out. If I was calling her out, I would say, babe, you left the oven.

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But I'm being respectful and not calling her and specifically saying, hey, you done with the oven?

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That's good, right? I get the same plausible deniability.

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Sometimes I leave the burners on because we've got gas burners and I'll just be so hungry and focused on eating the walk away and the burners on.

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It's like, hey, are you still cooking? And I'm sitting there eating like, no, sorry.

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Let me go turn that on. My bad, doc. I was just very hungry.

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Mm hmm. Sorry, this is a lot of dead air, but that's OK.

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We've never watched that much. These are some of my favorite things.

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And with the Scrapple on it.

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Oh, I'm going to try that next.

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Highly recommend. I'm glad I came hungry.

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Yeah, man. That had been a weird episode if you're just like one bite.

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I'm done.

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OK, while you you can still eat, I'll just kind of transition us. So we we normally talk about fights and fighting and fighters and like fun stuff.

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But today I wanted to talk about kind of focus more on some of the moments that have really captivated and Murray's really looking for some sort of treat.

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Scrapple, I'm sure you had Scrapple, though. Yes.

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Some of the moments that have really captivated my mind and attention.

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And I guess like I have the soft spot for coaches, corner men.

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I think in another life, maybe I was a coach or I will be a coach.

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I think that if I dropped every single thing that I was doing right now, went back to coach, went back to school, focused on coaching and like I could totally be a high school football coach or basketball coach or something like that.

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I just have like that in me, I guess. You know what I mean?

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And so I guess that like that's kind of also where I get my love of like teaching music and stuff like that or like forming a band and like or, you know, just like kind of quarterbacking any of the situations that, you know, I'm in creatively.

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So maybe that's why I like subconsciously. I love some of these moments. And so I just kind of wanted to talk about for those of you that don't watch combat sports, boxing, MMA as religiously as someone like I do, you might miss some of these moments.

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The other thing that I was thinking about whenever I was putting this list together is during the pandemic, the UFC was the only like sports thing going on.

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And so they were putting on fights in the apex in Las Vegas, putting everybody through testing and making sure that it was done right and everything. But because, you know, like everybody was on lockdown, the apex was empty except for the fighters, the corner men, the referees, the commentators and Dana.

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And also that was the first time that like during the rounds, you could clearly hear corner men shouting instructions. And so we've talked about that before as far as like Ali and I really getting into it as a family during the pandemic.

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And I think it was for that reason that it was just like that extra layer of information coming in that really kind of like sparked us. So even in movies like Friday Night Lights or like, you know, they even make fun of it in Varsity Blues.

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And it was just that like coach being like that figure of like pulling you through what you think that you couldn't do, you know, inspiration.

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And so I put together a list of some of my favorite moments. We've both watched them. And so I'm just going to play them and we can talk about them as we play them.

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The first moment that I would like to talk about is because it is very recent is Leon Edwards versus Kamara Usman. So to set this up a little bit, Leon Edwards and Kamara Usman are fighting for the belt.

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Kamara Usman has the belt. He's had it for quite some time. He seems like he was unbeatable. Leon Edwards has had a really long, hard, difficult road in the UFC.

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His father was murdered when he was young. He has dealt with some like really serious freak injuries. So he's never had like the consistent on making a run through the UFC. And so once he got his opportunity to go for the belt, it was one of those things where like it felt like it was almost like a long time coming for him.

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And there was a lot of adversity. And so during this fight, if you don't know, all championship fights for the UFC, if you're fighting for a belt or if you're a main eventer, you have to fight for five rounds instead of three.

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And so this entire fight rounds one through four, Kamara Usman just dominated the fight and Leon Edwards went back to his corner and he was really dejected to the point where he wouldn't even look at his coach in the eyes.

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And so his coach really was trying to motivate him, tell him, you know, like, hey, like, where are you? Like, you're still in this. You can't let him bully you. And so the entire fight, it was very clear that Leon Edwards was losing.

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And so the commentators made a comment that.

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So, yeah, I'm going to let this play for just a second.

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So as we're watching Leon has his eyes closed he's not facing his coaches, and he's not looking at his coaches in the eye.

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So what we're hearing is the end of round four, Leon Edwards immediately goes back to his coach.

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I wanted to point out there to.

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I don't know if you saw it is very quick but as his coach went to pour his water. His hand was so shaky.

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And so the emotion that it must take to invest time and energy into someone else, and then have them not believe in themselves.

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Yeah, you know, it's, I mean, obviously not on this level but I've definitely experienced stuff like that.

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It's wild. Well, like as a manager sometimes you invest so much in your people and you show up for them in hopes that they show up for you and you're coaching them to be better at what they do to hopefully do more and grow and whether it's with you or somewhere else.

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And when they're beating themselves up, it's like, you got this like I'm so yeah like I.

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I was just watching I know we just so silly I bring this up almost every podcast now but I was watching last night, Rhodes and I had some time together. He was like asking me if he could watch some music and I'm like sure.

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And so he put on.

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Not my suggestion, birds of a feather by Billy Eilish.

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You subliminally yeah, but it was this other video that we hadn't seen any asked me to watch it with him and it was like the story behind the song and so during that second verse talks about like, you don't even see how I see you.

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Like if you could only see how I see you wouldn't even believe it. You know what I mean? And so I feel like that time a lot of time as the manager like we know like the people that we can count on and we know that like they are they have it in them.

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They just don't believe in themselves, you know, and it's like, if you could only see what you know and sometimes you got to push and sometimes you gotta go to not fun places to push people.

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So it's a work setting, but especially like here. Yeah, so during between rounds four and five.

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There was two comments that were made. I believe Dean Thomas said, you know, a fighter is given up when he won't even look at his coach in the eyes. He was like, that's how you know that he's basically given up.

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And right as they were getting into the fifth round.

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He didn't get knocked out by tomorrow. He didn't get submitted by tomorrow, but at least he went five rounds. And he was like, if you're fighting that way, you're losing, you know, so his coach. I don't know if you heard that I'm going to play it back one more time between four and five.

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Listen, stop saying.

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What you're hearing now is the roar of the crowd as Leon Edwards hit head kick tomorrow's been into the nether realms.

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So the thing that gets me is that the entire time is like, you know, he's like, don't let him bully you. And then finally, that fifth round Leon Edwards finally believed in himself and he said, I'm not.

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And then he goes, well, then come on, then let's like pull it out of the fire and fucking go, you know. So those moments are like, whenever I saw that, bro, because like everything was stacked against him, like his backstory, the fact that he'd been injured, the fact that four rounds had just gone by and he got his ass kicked.

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The fact that he wasn't believing in himself, the fact that the commentator said that there's just no way that he was going to be able to like do anything to get anything more than a moral victory is just like crazy. So I'm going to skip over Teddy Atlas and come back to him last just because there's a few of them there.

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This one I love because, oh, you had made your notes.

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Yeah.

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So Alexis Rocha.

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I'm going to set this up. Alexis Rocha is undefeated at this point in his career. He okay. This is also in not USC. This is in boxing. So just to let people know they're like, who's Alexis Rocha if we're thinking about UFC this we flipped over to boxing now.

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He is undefeated and for the better part of this entire fight. He really was like, not fighting like confidently. He was scared to kind of let his hands go. And so this is special to me because I have a lot of Mexican family members, and I have, I can hear this particular speech slash the intensity of this love speech.

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It sounds like it from the outsider it sounds almost like he's like telling him off almost you know but in reality he's just keeping it real with him and letting him know. So, Alexis Rocha, this is his corner man, as he comes back after losing this last round.

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You're gonna fucking hate yourself in the morning. Why are you pulling back.

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He's hitting the right hand.

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Alexis, where are you supposed to be.

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So, basically, yeah. He was like, just like what happened to the, like we talked about this like just like, God damn it. Just like all of that is just, is like my childhood like as like, you know, like, and the also like to have the like you have 60 seconds in between rounds.

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Yeah, but to have the wherewithal to be like, I asked you a question don't tell me yes I want to know why like what's going through your head slow it down enough for you to tell me what you're doing, you know, and so this is, like I said near and dear to my heart so after this very rousing speech,

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Alexis definitely listens to his quarter men. He doesn't back up. He goes straight ahead and he lands, a right hook, and then a left hook, and then several body shots that said his opponent down to the canvas.

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He finally believed in himself he finally let his hands go he finally was, you know, not scared to stand in the pocket.

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So he definitely won that fight so.

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We'll get into Teddy Atlas now. If you have never watched boxing, if you have never seen like highlights of boxing, you may not know Teddy Atlas as a character in boxing but the man is so big that he's actually crossed over into all combat sports, and so you may recognize

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Teddy Atlas's name because he comes over and analyzes the boxing in the UFC and so he is a boxing corner man.

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And he is very famous for a lot of his cornering speeches and so before we get into Teddy Atlas, I want to get some more scrap. Yeah, get some out. So, on a snack for this. Yeah, this is a long one so you're gonna, you're gonna need a little snacky.

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That's cool.

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Oh yeah, that's right.

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Good situational awareness.

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Pause for eating and reloading of snacks.

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I'm going to grab one thing as well.

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I just thought about it.

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Just in case we want to have a taste.

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I almost bought one of those.

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I did have four shots of espresso. Yeah, we don't have to but I didn't want to show it. I love caffeine though so.

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So, like we were talking about Teddy Atlas is a boxing corner man and so to set this first one up.

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This is Teddy Atlas is advice to his boxer. When it comes to being in the fire.

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Is just to build some foundation.

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invented in

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That's great.

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This really gave that extra strength and three of his name tags.

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he gave that his fighter that extra strength that he needed to to go ahead and contain to go and finish that fight.

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So it reminds me of in the worst of the Christopher Nolan Batman's in my opinion,

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Dark Knight Rises where Bane's like, I was born in the darkness. Yes, you really inhabit it,

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but I was born and that it's like, we do all of this in the fire so that when the fire comes to us,

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we're ready to go. That's right. And yeah, I was not super familiar with Teddy Atlas before you

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said this to me, but now after watching this video, I have gone and watched a few more. Yeah, I'm gonna

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watch some more even after this. Yeah. He Yeah, I mean, he just seemingly knows exactly what he

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needs to say to pull the emotion, the energy, the like want out of his fighters. So this next one,

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this is a, this is a difficult one, because this is a fighter that doesn't speak English and Teddy

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Atlas doesn't speak, I think Russian is what it is. And so kind of got me misty. Yeah, the first

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time I saw it, I was like, Oh my god. So this Russian fighter, he started the fight off really

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well. He had won the first two or three rounds pretty, pretty handily. And then the fourth and

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fifth rounds, he begins to kind of like lose steam and let it slip and his opponent started really

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kind of tagging him. And so Teddy Atlas knowing that he was fighting for the inspiration of being

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his father passed away. And so he wanted to make sure that this fight was dedicated to his father.

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Teddy Atlas basically gave one of the greatest speeches of all time whenever it comes came to

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pulling something out of his fighter. And so like I said, let's just let this roll and then kind of

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come back to it.

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Oh, man, he simply, it's me so hard. He simply asked him, do you believe in magic? And also

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basically was just imploring him to be like, you know, you win this fight, people are going to be

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talking not only about you, but also the memory of your father. And so he really wield him to

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come back into this fight. It almost seemed like it was a different fighter following the corner

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advice he came through and basically just demolished his opponent. And then at the very end

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of the fight, as soon as the bell rings, the other fighter knows that he let it get away.

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But Teddy Atlas immediately comes into the ring, raises his fighters hands and points up to the

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sky. And the second that I saw that I was just like, you know, and he gets the belt. And then

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as they're celebrating in the ring, they hold up portraits of his father. And so it was just like

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the complete package whenever it comes to like a fairy tale story of like,

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you're winning, but you're losing. Then you come back.

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Like that, that's some Hollywood shit right there. Like, but not.

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So this one, they actually shortened this clip that there's a longer clip for this one.

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This is his famous, you're blowing it. You know, you're blowing it son.

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This is actually that TV judge, Judge Mathis. That also refereed boxing. And so in between rounds,

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which is pretty unconventional, you don't want the referee kind of coming to your corner,

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invading your space, or even kind of hearing that like your fighter may not want to fight.

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But almost like reverse psychology, like Jedi mind trick. After this round, Teddy went and grabbed

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the referee and brought him back to the corner and basically was like, I'm about to tell him

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that we're done here. If you don't want to fight, I'm like, we're done here. And so

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this one was really good because it, like I said, it was kind of like a Jedi mind trick.

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He pulled it out where he was like, it seems like you don't want to fight. And then the

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fighter was like, wait, I do want to fight. So.

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And so in round 11, he came back and both of them are extremely exhausted, but

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land some great overhand rights and his opponent just doesn't ever get it from that. And then

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there's one more. Teddy Atlas, obviously being the first one over the ring to congratulate his

400
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:05,480
fighter almost looked like he pulled his back. Yeah. So they stopped the fight and here's Teddy.

401
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Like Superman's over it. Yeah.

402
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Okay. Here we go. Here's the last one of this one. I believe I think this is the last one.

403
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And that was actually against Manny Pacquiao. So one of those things where it's like

404
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:49,640
the reputation preceded the fighter, but Teddy Atlas was like, I don't care who we're fighting.

405
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:55,080
Yeah. Like just give me, I know who you are. Give me six minutes. It's not about the first

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20 or whatever. So like Parker said, if you don't know who Teddy Atlas is, just do a simple Google.

407
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Where's this coming from? I don't. Spooky haunted music. I know, right? Just do a simple Google and

408
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put in Teddy Atlas and I'm sure plenty of videos will come up. He's just a great corner man. He's

409
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:28,120
provided a lot of great sound bites throughout the years to rouse and rail, rally his fighter.

410
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:37,960
Whoa, not rail as fighters, rally his fighters. So from the UFC, which one? There's the really bad

411
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one. Sean Shricklin. No, no, no. Tiki Gosen. Yeah. He might. That was a bad joke. No, it's okay.

412
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:53,800
No, Teddy Atlas. I, the note I put was like, I need a motivational speech from him every day.

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Dude. Like if Teddy Atlas was on cameo, I would pay ungodly amounts of money for him to just be

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like, you're blowing it. Get your shit together. But the way he delivers it, like it has a swell

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to it of like an emotional intensity and then like a cool off of like, I mean this, I care about you.

416
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That's why I'm being so intense without ever having the same. Yeah. And like also just being like,

417
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I know what you're going through. You're thinking about your dad. You're not thinking about boxing

418
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,520
right now. You're thinking about your dead dad or you're thinking about, you know, the fact that you

419
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:34,520
lost the first few rounds or whatever, like get out of your own goddamn head and realize that

420
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we've got two or three more rounds to put this shit together. I know who you are. You've done the

421
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training with firemen. I need him in my life because my mind is my own worst enemy. Me too.

422
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:52,200
It's just like, I need somebody to yell at me with that intensity and that love to pull me out of

423
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:58,040
that and be like, Hey, your head sucks. Your inner monologue sucks. Stop listening to it.

424
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But sometimes there are funny or even controversial corner advice. So one in particular that,

425
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,040
and this is kind of the reason that I started thinking about this moment, not only because I

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love all of these moments separately, but because if you were watching us during the fight companion,

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during the sphere card, during that fight, we had a sugar Sean O'Malley's coach, Tim Welsh get called

428
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out for what is called excessive coaching or excessive cornering because he was calling out

429
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:41,800
Merab's name. And so we do have some of that thing where you have like, you had Sean fighting Aljo

430
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and his coach, Sean's coach says, okay, it's time to go Aljo. And Aljo thought that it was his coach

431
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telling him that. So he went forward with like an overhand right. And it was just like perfectly

432
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:59,720
timed counter from Sean and knocked him out. So that's kind of why we talked about that. That's

433
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:06,280
kind of like the funny thing. Like his excuse was that some of their call outs for like their

434
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:11,240
striking moves and stuff like that have their opponent's name in it, but like there are billions

435
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:15,000
of names. Why, why do you choose the one that's going to get you in trouble? I never, I didn't

436
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:23,000
get that. I never got that defense. Oh, here you go. How to deal with. All right. Oh, does he have

437
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:30,600
his own podcast? Teddy Atlas motivation. All right. How to deal with fear. So we're going to look at

438
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this one right here. It's super funny.

439
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:55,400
Yeah. So sometimes you hear some really funny ones. There is a very famous translator back in like

440
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:02,680
the 80s, like late 80s, early 90s, that was very animated and he always translated any of the

441
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,880
Spanish speaking fighters. And so you would be listening to him and the corner advice, you know,

442
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:12,680
you'd hear him be like, they'd say something in Spanish and then he'd be like, if he hits you in

443
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the balls, hit him back in the balls. And then he'd be like, here, let me put some water on your

444
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balls. He would say like all of the, like the funny controversial things. And like he would just like,

445
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,240
it was like, you could tell that he was so like locked in and it was like, I need to say everything

446
00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:32,520
that I'm locked in. Yeah. And so the guy would be like, what the fuck are you doing? And he'd be

447
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:38,120
like, what the fuck are you doing? And so yeah, you can, you know, if you could get lost in the

448
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:43,240
world of like finding these funny or controversial clips when it comes to like cornering people.

449
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:51,240
Let's see this next one right here. Oh, this one. I didn't want to play this whole entire one.

450
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:58,120
Actually, is the last one I sent you, is that Mike Berry? I didn't get to the last one. Let me see.

451
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:02,600
I was trying to watch them in between. Okay. No. Okay. So this one right here,

452
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,440
this one right here, there is a law, there's a couple, there was probably like two or three

453
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fighters over the past couple of years that have elected to have either like their girlfriend

454
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:22,600
or their wife in their corner. One of the ones that is, that comes to mind and is funny to me is

455
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:29,720
is Mike Perry. He is the bare-knuckle guy that kind of is always involved in like a little

456
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:35,160
controversy. He actually just got arrested last week for driving while intoxicated and also

457
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:45,720
called the police a bunch of FAA words. And then he released an apology and immediately was found

458
00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:50,040
out that he used chat GBT for the apology. So anyway, that's Mike Berry. I didn't want to actually

459
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:57,400
apologize without chat GBT in 2024. No. Yeah. Also, I think if you put any sort of text into chat GBT

460
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:04,520
dictator, they're like, yeah, this sounds fake, but it's like, okay. Anyway, he famously had no

461
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:11,080
one in his corner except for his girlfriend at the time. And the entire time he would come back and

462
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:17,000
it was silent and she'd go, you're doing good, baby. You're doing good, baby. And that's the only

463
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:22,040
corner advice you get. So I just wanted to play this first one because it was a good example of

464
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:35,960
having your significant other in the corner with you. That's the coaching you don't need. You don't

465
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,880
need somebody telling you you're doing a good job or to coast. It's like, you need that person,

466
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,560
even if you're doing good, you need that person to be like, you got to push through. You got to keep

467
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:48,040
going. Exactly. It's the max Holloway moment of like, he won the entire fight, but he still

468
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,480
pointed to the ground and said, Justin Gaethje, let's go. I'm going to knock you out in the last

469
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:56,520
10 seconds. Having your girlfriend tell you that you won the first two rounds and you could coast

470
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:01,560
the third and then you lose to a decision must be one of the worst feelings in the world. So

471
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:08,600
the last one that you didn't get to see. So let me set this up. Chris Eubank is a really

472
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animated boxer from the seventies and eighties. And he famously, I didn't include this one,

473
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but he famously had this fight where he has like a, so fighting is scored like on a 10 point system.

474
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:30,440
Usually like a close round is like you won the round, you got 10 and I got nine. If you really

475
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:37,000
dominated the round, you get 10 and I get like eight. And if you knocked me down and whatever,

476
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:44,120
I may have lost a point. I think there's even like a 10, seven. So Chris Eubank had boxed this guy

477
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:50,200
and had just won like a 10, eight round. Like he clearly dominated the round. And so he was like

478
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:55,000
strutting with his hands down and doing all this and just like, come on, hit me, hit me for like

479
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,480
the last 10 seconds. So when he got back to his round, I'm sorry, when he got back to his corner,

480
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:04,680
his corner men slapped the shit out of him and was like, you stop all that showboating. He's like,

481
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,600
you could lose it, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that's Chris Eubanks. Like he just was like a

482
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:17,880
character. Well, his son is also now a boxer and Chris Eubank is his corner man. His dad,

483
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:25,400
the famous showboater got slapped is now the corner man. And so his son comes back from a poorly

484
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:32,520
fought round. And this is, I'm not going to put the microphone up to the speaker because there's

485
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,520
not, you'll see. Okay.

486
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:58,520
So that's Chris Eubank. That's a look.

487
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:14,520
Do not adjust your set. Nothing is being said. For once, a few words.

488
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,520
For once.

489
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:20,520
Never expect the expected.

490
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:44,520
So for the entire 60 seconds, he didn't say one word. He just stared at his son. He's like,

491
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:52,280
was sitting back from like 10 feet away and just kind of like, Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. But it's all like,

492
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:57,640
also every son has been in that. Yeah. You're ultimately, you're disappointing your father

493
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:03,560
right now and he doesn't need to say a word. He's just like staring at your heart. What I did,

494
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:09,400
why you're mad. I'm sorry. I'm going to make this right. You don't have to say shit. Yeah.

495
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:19,320
Yeah. So this Saturday, we've got a fight. We boy, oh boy, do we got to fight. It is UFC 308.

496
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We've got a Max Holloway versus Ilia Toporia. And if you've heard our podcast before, or,

497
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:33,480
you know, us in person, you'll know that we've spoken about Max Holloway quite at length. I've

498
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:42,600
got a shirt with his face on it. He is currently the BMF title holder. He fought Justin Gaethje for

499
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:52,600
what Dana has taught, what Dana has brought to the, to, to the UFC as a baddest motherfucker belt.

500
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:58,520
Basically there's no rankings involved. There's no, it's basically just who the UFC thinks is

501
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:04,280
the baddest motherfucker and they put them together and they fight each other. And then, you know,

502
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:12,840
there's a belt. So there's been like three BMF holders. Max Holloway is the current BMF holder.

503
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:19,320
His last performance was so electrifying and so entertaining that they said, you know what,

504
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:24,280
you get another crack at the belt, the real belt, not the BMF belt, like the actual belt.

505
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:29,160
He's had it before, but you know, it's just one of those things where he still is in his prime,

506
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:34,600
still doing the thing. So they're going to give him another crack at it. So as always, we scroll

507
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:40,360
down to the bottom of the car. We start things off with a light heavyweight bout between

508
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:54,120
my fat thumbs and my fat fingers. Ibo Aslan, Ibo, Ibo Aslan and Rafael Serguera.

509
00:56:54,120 --> 00:57:00,840
Debut. Yeah. Debut. We've got a shadow of a man. He also has a professional record of zero, zero,

510
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:06,520
zero. We don't know where he's from country-wise. We don't know it. He's just a shadow man.

511
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:16,680
Yeah. So this guy, Rafael Serguera is fighting Ibo Aslan. Ibo Aslan is from Turkey and he looks

512
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:26,840
pretty stacked, pretty yoked, pretty hot. He's the last Ottoman from the Ottoman empire, I'm guessing.

513
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:36,120
Okay. So we never give deference to people that have debuts. He's from Brazil. He doesn't have a

514
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:43,880
picture. So I think we should just go with Ibo Aslan. Next fight, we have a welterweight belt

515
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:53,560
between Renat Farakretdinov and Carlos Liel. If you couldn't tell, Renat is from Russia.

516
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:59,080
He looks scary. He's got one of those Dagestani beards, looks like he's going to be a hard

517
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:07,560
wrestler. And we have also got Carlos Liel making his debut. So the thing with Carlos Liel is his

518
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:17,240
record is 34, nine, and two. That's insane. Which is crazy. I don't know where they're pulling that

519
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:24,760
from. What organization has he fought over 40 fights in that we haven't heard of this guy before?

520
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:30,120
But again, no sort of knowledge as far as his height, his weight, where he's fighting out of.

521
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:41,720
Do a quick Google search on that. Gugs that guy. Renat Farakretdinov. Man, I'm good at these names.

522
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:52,040
While he's doing a quick goog, I pulled this out of the refrigerator because I saw this online and

523
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:58,040
also I saw it at the Walmart and I just couldn't pass up. If you're a fan of ghost energy drinks,

524
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:06,280
they have this limited edition electric daisy carnival edition electric limeade energy drink.

525
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:14,040
Also, the can is embossed. I don't know how to say, would you say embossed?

526
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:19,000
Yeah, definitely embossed. Yeah, it's got like a raised graphics and lettering. So they really

527
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:27,160
went all out on this packaging and detail. And from what I heard on Reddit, somebody said that

528
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,880
it tastes like a Sprite from McDonald's that has been left out on the counter for about an hour.

529
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:37,640
So I'm going to crack that open here in a bit. I just had a Mountain Dew, a Gio.

530
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:44,200
Got a Dew the Dew. So when I Googled him on ESPN, it comes up with a different record for him.

531
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:55,080
It comes up with a photo too. 21-5-0 is what they have on ESPN. He also looks like a BMF.

532
00:59:55,080 --> 01:00:00,600
Oh, that's pretty tight. Not a blessed man forever, but a lion. Okay.

533
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:07,080
Honestly, I have him. I know he's a shadow person.

534
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:11,640
The record and the pretty cool picture. Let's go for it.

535
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,600
He got boulder shoulders. The only thing though is it's like,

536
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,760
I don't care how cool you are, if you can't wrestle, then you're not going to beat a Russian.

537
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,760
Yeah, that's true. But it shows that he's an MMA fighter.

538
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:30,440
Like, hey, okay. Let's gamble. Let's go with Carlos Lille, the lion.

539
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:37,800
Oh, cool. Okay. So yeah, he's the underdog anyway. So yeah, we're definitely going to

540
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:42,360
put money on him if we put a hundred dollars on him and he wins, we're going to get 385 back.

541
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:48,440
So let's lay some chalk on that. Chris Lille or Carlos Lille. Sorry.

542
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:57,640
Yeah. When he's prepared and healthy, he's a beast. Don't be surprised about an upset.

543
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,520
Okay. He beat the shit out of Ray Cooper, the third,

544
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:07,960
which probably isn't as impressive as it used to be. So yeah, apparently like

545
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:13,480
people on the internet are vouching for him. Also friends, if you care about this card and

546
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:20,120
you're trying to actually see it, I do have to let you know that this card that's happening on

547
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:28,840
Saturday is super duper early for us because it is taking place at Etihad Arena at Yaz Island

548
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:35,560
in United Arab Emirates in Dubai. So when they had Fight Island back in the day, they created Yaz

549
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:42,040
Island and Etihad Arena is right there. So this is actually going to be happening probably about

550
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:48,280
12 o'clock PM. Our time is when it's going to start. Yeah. It seems, no, actually I'm off on

551
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:53,880
Saturday. Nice. Yes. So yeah, it'll be at early start. So wake up, have your breakfast,

552
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:58,520
then watch the UFC. It'll be a perfect breakfast of champions. Or you can brunch too.

553
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:04,120
That's true. You could brunch it up while you watch the UFC somewhere. That sounds nice. Yeah.

554
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:14,040
All right. Next one, we have a middleweight bout between Ismael Norediev and Bruno Silva. Morocco

555
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:20,360
versus Brazil. We've got middleweight, so it's going to be at 170. So this guy's going to cut

556
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:30,440
down to 170. So they look pretty evenly matched. Does this dude have some cool tattoos or what?

557
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:40,200
Yeah. Death or what? Let's see. You got to check the feet. Yeah. I got to look at the feet.

558
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:48,920
No tattoos for this guy. I want to go Bruno Silva. Yeah, me too. I mean,

559
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:55,640
he just looks a little bit more marauding. Yeah. Let's go Bruno Silva. All right. Next step,

560
01:02:55,640 --> 01:03:02,760
we've got a bantamweight belt between Fareed Basharat and Victor Hugo. Fareed Basharat is a

561
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:11,080
huge, huge favorite in this. Looks like if you put down $625, you would get back $100.

562
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:21,800
So yeah, this is one of those ones where if you put $100 on Victor, you'd get back $555. So

563
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:27,880
it could be an underdog upset, but we've got Afghanistan versus Brazil.

564
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,200
This guy's never lost. So that's kind of why he's such a big favorite.

565
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:40,040
Very similar in stature, very similar in reach. So I don't think I'm going to go against that

566
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:45,640
huge money line and I'm going to go Fareed Basharat. This guy's in for it because it looks

567
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:51,160
like this guy's on a streak here. Okay, cool. We've got big guys here. Now Chris Barnett was

568
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:56,120
supposed to fight Junior Tafa last week, but he pulled out and so they have him fighting Kennedy

569
01:03:56,120 --> 01:04:03,400
in Shuku this week. Chris Barnett, his physique is very, what's the word I'm looking for?

570
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:15,960
I don't know the word. His physique is, what's the word where like it looks like it, but it's not that?

571
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:22,920
I don't know. He looks really big and like he couldn't move very well,

572
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:27,800
but the gentleman is very nimble. Yeah. I mean his appearance is deceiving. That's the word I was

573
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:33,960
looking for. Okay. Okay. He is very deceiving. The height difference and the weight difference in this.

574
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:44,280
Yes. So Kennedy is 6'5 with an 83 inch reach at 205 pounds. Normally he fights at 205, but he is

575
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:52,920
going up to heavy weight so he can weigh up to 266 pounds. Okay. So Chris Barnett will actually have

576
01:04:52,920 --> 01:05:01,880
to cut a pound and a half. That's hard work, but then Chris Barnett is 5'9 to 67 and a half with a

577
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:09,880
75 inch reach. Also the leg reach, there's an eight inch difference in leg reach. There's an eight inch

578
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:20,600
difference in arm reach. And then that's what? Seven, eight inch different in height. Yep. Like,

579
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:32,200
whoa. And we've got, believe it or not, he's the favorite. Yeah, no. I mean, his record. It's a

580
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:37,480
pick him, but oh, I mean, Chris Barnett is one of those guys where like he will not only fight in

581
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:44,520
the UFC, he'll go over into a grappling match with like black belt, jujitsu players. He does back flips.

582
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:51,720
He does the splits. He like is a very athletic, nimble, explosive, like cannonball of a person.

583
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:57,480
So it's a very interesting fight. It's like almost like UFC one where it's like, let's get some

584
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:03,640
freaks together and see who comes out on top. So I'm also interested to see what Kennedy weighs in

585
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:08,440
and how much weight. Yeah. I mean, so if he doesn't have to ever cut weight and he normally walks

586
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:14,760
around at 220 or whatever, then it'll be a little bit more parity there. But what are you thinking?

587
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,720
I think it'd be cool to see Kennedy win. Yeah. But I think Chris Barnett's going to take it.

588
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:30,360
All right. Chris Barnett. Next up, we've got a middleweight belt between Abus Magomedov

589
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:37,080
and Bruna Ferreira. Both of those last names are very familiar because you've got a Dagestani

590
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:44,360
Russian wrestler that is part of Habib's team. And then you've got Bruna Ferreira coming from

591
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:49,400
Brazil. So he's probably hanging out with all those Brazilian nerds that are doing their grappling

592
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,960
thing with their glasses and all that. Have you seen those guys? Like they wear the, so they've

593
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:59,720
got, they actually call themselves the Brazilian nerds. They're like, they put on black, like super

594
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:05,800
black with the tape in the middle, like nerdy nerd stuff. They're Jedi mind tricks. So Bruna's only

595
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:13,800
lost one time. Their height is pretty comparable. You got 6'2'' versus 5'10'' both weighing in right

596
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:19,800
at 185. Homeboy over here has got a little bit of a reach advantage, about half of a foot.

597
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:26,280
Hmm. I think I'm going to go Abus.

598
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:27,240
I think so too.

599
01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:27,800
Abus.

600
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:30,680
Those Dagestani wrestlers.

601
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:40,280
Yeah, man. Even though it says he's fighting out of Germany, but oh, but it also says Russia.

602
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:46,840
Yeah. So he may be training in Germany. Next up, we've got a Bentamweight belt between another

603
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:52,680
Russian Dagestani, Saeed Nurgatomedov and Daniel Santos. So that since this fight is in UAE,

604
01:07:52,680 --> 01:08:01,080
it's like a home turf for them basically. 18'3'' versus 12'2'' they're both shorties, 5'8'' and 5'7'.

605
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:03,000
Yeah.

606
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,720
I think I'm going to have to go Saeed Nurgatomedov.

607
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:06,680
Agreed.

608
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:11,800
He's also the favorite. All right. Lightweight belt.

609
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:16,200
Matos Rebekky versus Mikhterbeck Oralablai.

610
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,680
Hmm. I'm not familiar with either of these guys.

611
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,200
Nah, but they're both. I'm going to go with him just because he's 5'10''

612
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:27,240
Let's do it.

613
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:37,720
Yeah. That guy. Mikhterbeck Oralablai. All right. And in the future prelim, we have number 10 Jeff

614
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:44,920
Neal versus number 15 Hafio dos Anjos in the welterweight division. Both these guys are really

615
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,560
exciting veterans of the game. Seen them both fight many, many times.

616
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:57,160
Jeff Neal likes to stand and strike. Hafio dos Anjos does too, but he also has his black belt

617
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,000
in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. So.

618
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:05,240
That record of 32'16'' and oh was.

619
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,240
Yeah. Dude's been in the game.

620
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:07,740
Yeah.

621
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:11,240
Jeff Neal.

622
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:11,800
Yeah.

623
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:17,160
Let's go with Jeff Neal. I think that's a good pick. Hafio dos Anjos is kind of on the back

624
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:23,400
swing. So, all right. Kicking off the main event, we've got Shara Bullitt Margatomedov

625
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:33,000
versus Armin Petrosian. I don't see Shara Bullitt losing anytime soon. So, this is the one-eyed

626
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:40,760
ginger giant wrestler from, that's part of Habib's team and all that. So, yeah, I don't see

627
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:46,840
Armin Petrosian providing any sort of a problem to Shara Bullitt Margatomedov. So,

628
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,360
all right. Get this out of my mouth.

629
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:58,760
All right. Next up, we've got Margomet Ankaliya versus Aleksandar Rokic. This fight is going to be

630
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:07,320
crazy. Both these guys are huge human beings. They probably weigh closer to 230, cut down to 205.

631
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:13,880
So, they're going to bounce back up to about 215, 220 the next day. Both are 6'3'' and 6'4'' so

632
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:28,760
height, not a big deal. And yeah, I mean, reach is within three inches. Leg reach is exactly on.

633
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:40,520
Margomet Ankaliya is the fighter that the UFC is keeping away from Alex Pereira. So,

634
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:44,040
I'm going to go with him. Yeah. I want to see him win.

635
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:51,160
Yeah. I need to see him fight for the belt. I need to see him handily take out Aleksandar Rokic

636
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:55,960
and then immediately get on the microphone and say, Poetan, where you at?

637
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:59,960
Yeah. So, all right. Featherweight bout between

638
01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:07,720
Lerone Murphy and Dan Ege. Dan Ege is the fighter that whenever we talked about pulling out a couple

639
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:14,920
weeks ago and he was already in Vegas and he called Dana and he fought Diego Lopez on short notice

640
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:21,240
whenever Brian T. City Ortega pulled out. So, he's a G. I give him bonus points for putting

641
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:27,240
himself out there, taking a fight on basically a day's notice, making the weight, making the walk,

642
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:33,480
being a G. I don't know much about Lerone Murphy. I know that he's English and I know that he likes

643
01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:40,920
to fight fast, but I think that Dan Ege has a little bit more of the experience on his side.

644
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,160
Absolutely. Especially on those records. Yeah.

645
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:47,560
Yeah. Dan Ege. Let's go.

646
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:51,960
Let's go, homie. Don't let us down. Okay. All right. Co-main event.

647
01:11:53,880 --> 01:12:00,120
The reason that we came up with hashtag pulling out or the pulling out segment is because of that

648
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:08,120
gentleman right there. His name is Hamzat Borzhchmaev. He is the scariest fighter in the UFC

649
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:19,000
by far. He fought, I think, three times in like four or five weeks a couple of years ago. He has

650
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:24,920
had this issue where if he trains too hard, his body revolts against him and he starts getting

651
01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:31,320
flu-like symptoms and none of that is going on right now. He is on target for this fight,

652
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:37,480
not going to pull out. So Robert Whitaker has held the belt before, has fought many, many times in

653
01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:43,640
this division, is still in his prime as what people like to refer to him as the gatekeeper

654
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:48,440
of the division. If you can be Robert Whitaker, then your next step is for the belt. Robert,

655
01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:55,960
I think, sees himself as still a challenger for the belt. So I think that he sees if he takes care

656
01:12:55,960 --> 01:13:01,560
of Hamzat, the scariest man in the UFC, then his time for another title shot will be after this.

657
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:08,280
Whereas Hamzat has been ready for a title since the second that he came. Hamzat was born in

658
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:14,600
Chechnya. He had a cleft palate whenever he was born. So he is war torn, scary looking,

659
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:23,720
and not ever losing. I mean, you can see every time he fights, his guttural spit,

660
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:32,120
scream of just being ferocious. So I am excited for this fight. I do think Hamzat is going to win.

661
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:36,280
I do too. I hate to see that Robert Whitaker fall,

662
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:40,680
but I think that Hamzat is just too much for just about anybody in that division.

663
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:48,680
So, all right. Now we've come to the main event, title weight bout in the fifth weight division

664
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:54,840
between Ilya Toporia and Max Holloway. So like we said, Max Holloway, he's had the belt before.

665
01:13:54,840 --> 01:14:02,040
He's had the belt at 45 and at 55, I think, no, just at 45. And he's kind of toggling back and

666
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:06,840
forth between 45 and 55. He has made sure that... So the last time him and Justin Gagey fought,

667
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:12,280
they were at 55. So he's coming down to 45 to take this belt. Like I said, he's had it before.

668
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:21,800
Great boxing, great striking, great chin. I don't see Ilya Toporia being able to... I mean,

669
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:27,640
he's never been knocked out. So this would be a first if Ilya Toporia is able to knock him out.

670
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:35,880
I'm scared about this fight because I really, really, really, really, really, really want

671
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:42,440
Max Holloway to win. But Ilya Toporia is very, very good. I know. Very, very good.

672
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:52,040
The only thing that I think is Ilya Toporia is strong, but he is shorter. He is four inches

673
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:59,720
shorter. He is... And he has a little bit smaller of a leg reach. So Max could get to him with kicks.

674
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:04,840
Max is going to be a little bit taller than him. So it'll be Ilya's punching up.

675
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:05,400
Yeah.

676
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:05,960
You know, so...

677
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:09,560
Let's go with Max.

678
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:15,160
All right. Fuck it. We're going to put it on. He's going to have both belts,

679
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:18,040
Bless Man Forever and the Featherweight belt together.

680
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:18,600
Let's go.

681
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:21,960
Let's go, Max Holloway. I'm going to be wearing my shirt on Saturday for sure.

682
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:28,520
Those are our picks. Again, the person out there that's handling our bets, put those in for us and

683
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:33,000
make sure you send us our winnings from last week because we did cash out last week.

684
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:33,560
Okay.

685
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:41,640
Quickly before we go, last week we did, like I said, we did talk about the fight night that happened.

686
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:48,280
And so just some of the results because we haven't really done that before.

687
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:58,520
We picked Robelius, I believe, and he lost. So Austin Lane took out Robelius.

688
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:06,840
I think we also picked Alice Ardielane and Melissa Martinez won. So we are 0 for 2 starting off

689
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:17,080
fight night. I think we picked Jessica Pan. 0 for 3. All right. I think we definitely picked

690
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:18,200
Jocelyn Edwards.

691
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:19,480
Yeah, we did.

692
01:16:19,480 --> 01:16:26,120
All right. 1 for 4. Brad Katona, Gene Matsumoto. I think we picked Brad Katona.

693
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:27,240
We picked... We went with Brad, yeah.

694
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:35,240
1 for 5. Mataus Nikolaou and Asu Alambraiev. I think we went with Asu.

695
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:37,800
I don't remember, but that sounds right.

696
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:44,280
I think we went with Asu. So I'm going to say 2 for 6. All right. Now we have Darren Elkins

697
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:45,320
and Daniel Pineda.

698
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:46,760
I think we went with Daniel Pineda, right?

699
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:51,320
Yeah, we did. Yeah. And not only did Darren Elkins take care of Daniel Pineda,

700
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:57,080
but they also got the fight of the night bonus there. So, all right. Jake Hadley and Cameron

701
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,480
Smotherman. I think we went Cameron Smotherman.

702
01:16:59,480 --> 01:17:00,040
I think we did too.

703
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:02,280
Yeah, because we didn't like Jake Hadley's hideous face.

704
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:13,560
Yeah. So, we were... Hold on. Let's see. 0 for 1, 0 for 2, 0 for 3, 1 for 4, 1 for 5,

705
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:15,800
2 for 6.

706
01:17:16,440 --> 01:17:16,760
Oops.

707
01:17:17,480 --> 01:17:17,960
2 for 6.

708
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:19,880
2 for 6.

709
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,480
2 for 7, 3 for 8.

710
01:17:25,480 --> 01:17:28,680
Okay. Charles Johnson and Sumar Darje.

711
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:30,280
I think we went Charles.

712
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:33,320
Did we? I thought we went with Sumar Darje. But...

713
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:40,040
I'm going to go with your initial instinct so we can go 4 for 9. And then Rob Font,

714
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:42,200
Carlyle Phillips. We definitely picked Grab Font.

715
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,760
I would never pick a guy that looks like Kyler Phillips.

716
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:51,720
Yeah. He got fraud checked for sure. So, 5 for 10. Anthony Hernandez, Michelle Pareta.

717
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,000
We went with Michelle, didn't we?

718
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:53,560
Yeah, we did.

719
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,200
Yeah. So, 6 for 11.

720
01:17:57,080 --> 01:17:57,320
Yeah.

721
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:01,240
Could have been better.

722
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:05,000
It could have been better, but you know, shit happens. It's a fight game.

723
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:08,680
Lastly, I don't know if you saw any of this.

724
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:09,800
Okay.

725
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,320
Do you know who Francis Nganu is?

726
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:16,200
I do not. I've heard the name, but I'm not familiar.

727
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:23,480
Okay. So, for those of you that are coming to this cold, Francis Nganu is a fighter

728
01:18:23,480 --> 01:18:32,920
who formerly was the heavyweight belt holder in the UFC. He is this huge, scary guy. He

729
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:43,080
has a great backstory. He fled Cameroon, I believe, and swam across the ocean basically

730
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:49,080
to get to France and basically was sent back like two or three times and then finally made it.

731
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:54,920
And then once he got to France, saw combat sports and was like,

732
01:18:54,920 --> 01:19:00,440
pretty sure I could do this and started training. So, he is multidisciplinary. He basically,

733
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,120
he'll go for like a couple of years and just be like, I'm going to learn everything I can

734
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:07,320
learn about boxing. I'm going to learn everything I can learn about jujitsu. I'm going to learn

735
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:14,360
everything I can. So, came into the UFC, got the belt, and then they were trying to set up this

736
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:19,640
huge super fight between John Jones and him. But John Jones had been sitting out because he wanted

737
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:25,640
to gain like 30 pounds of muscle mass. And so, it took like two or three years for that to happen.

738
01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:31,000
By that time, Francis was kind of tired of waiting around and there were some other things on the

739
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:36,920
horizon for him. So, he gave up the belt. Well, I'm sorry, he never actually gave up the belt.

740
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:44,360
He left the UFC and then he got signed to PFL because they were going to allow him to do

741
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:50,120
more than just MMA. They allow him to go do boxing. They allow him to,

742
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:58,200
any combat sport he wants to be involved in, excuse me, the PFL will allow him to do that. So,

743
01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:05,240
his first fight outside of the UFC was a boxing match between him and Tyson Fury, who is like

744
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:09,800
the king of the hill when it comes to heavyweight boxing. Many people believe that Francis

745
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:15,640
Sanganu won that fight, even though the decision went to Tyson Fury. He definitely put Tyson Fury

746
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:21,480
down. And then he went on to fight Anthony Joshua. Anthony Joshua knocked him out. And then he was

747
01:20:21,480 --> 01:20:28,280
like, okay, I'm going to go back to MMA. So, while all of this is happening, he has a son.

748
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:35,560
And he's not really with the mother. It's just one of those things where he has a son. So,

749
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:44,200
he is getting some of this information, you know, cursorarily, but basically his son was

750
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:52,680
16 months or 18 months and was having some problems breathing. And so, they took him to

751
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:57,960
a hospital in, I believe, Morocco and they were like, nothing wrong with him. They did tests,

752
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:03,000
basically, nothing was wrong with him. And then they took him to a hospital in Dubai and they were

753
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:07,480
like, oh, he might have asthma. They gave him some breathing treatments and basically he was just

754
01:21:07,480 --> 01:21:15,640
misdiagnosed and sent home and then he passed away. And so, Francis Sanganu, who has had this tragic

755
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:25,160
road and life already as it is, has lost his under two-year-old son named Koby. And so,

756
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:31,560
whenever this fight was announced, he was like, the only reason I'm doing this fight is because

757
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:38,280
I want to do this to dedicate it to my son in memory of him. And so, I'm just going to play

758
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:44,760
this in the background kind of like while we talk about him. So, Francis Sanganu, yeah, from Cameroon,

759
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:52,360
he's 6'4", 256. He's fighting someone named Henin Ferreira, or he was on Saturday. That's 6'8",

760
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:58,920
261. So, they build this as, I mean, they build this as the battle of the giants. The promo leading

761
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:02,920
up to them was basically like a Godzilla type situation where they were like...

762
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:05,800
Chris Those are big fucking dudes.

763
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,000
Chris Where they were like tearing up a city,

764
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:17,560
trying to get to each other. So, yeah, humongous guys, the emotion that must have been going on

765
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:25,160
with Francis Sanganu to have lost his son this year and still be able to put it all together

766
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:33,720
to come out and fight this fight. This is the highlight video, but the fight is so short that

767
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:42,840
the entire fight is the highlight. This is also Dan Mergliotta who is in the UFC a lot. And so,

768
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:49,160
it's fun to see him calling a non-UFC fight. Also, if you've never seen PFL fights before,

769
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:57,720
the referee has a camera, like a glasses cam. And so, sometimes they'll switch back and forth

770
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:01,960
between what the referee sees and what the other cameras are doing.

771
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:03,960
Chris That's super interesting.

772
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:05,800
Chris I always wish the UFC would adopt that because,

773
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,640
yeah, he's got these glasses on that have a Google lens in them or whatever.

774
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:10,440
Chris Dang.

775
01:23:10,440 --> 01:23:14,120
Chris So right now, yeah, it's over basically right now.

776
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:14,520
Chris Yeah.

777
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:18,360
Chris They did some grappling and then...

778
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:25,960
Chris Just ground and pound. Oh, man. He's trying to kick out of it. That is a big... I would not

779
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:28,680
want to get kicked by that. Chris He flattens him out right here too much.

780
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:30,120
Chris Yeah. Oh, man.

781
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:32,120
Chris You just hook straight to the head.

782
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:36,680
Chris Yeah. Jeez.

783
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:41,160
Chris There we go.

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Chris Their combined weight is over 500 pounds.

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Chris And then you can see like his body's...

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Chris Just done.

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Chris And Dan's like, keep going. He gets one or more too in. But yeah, so after the fight,

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he gives this emotional speech about basically remembering his son, remembering his name.

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And it's hard to see someone that is humongous as him, as like,

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aggressive and like, you know, he immediately like breaks down into tears, like ugly cries,

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you know. Anyway, cheers to Francis Ngannou. That was a very cool fight. Sorry to hear about your

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son. We will remember Kobe's name. So we've got a lot of cool things on the horizon,

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combat sports wise. What's next for him? He, him and John Jones met in the crowd and they did a

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little shit talking. So that was fun. So anyway, Scrapple, it's good to go.

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Chris A plus.

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Chris All right.

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Chris So much of it.

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Chris All you people in Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, you guys are not crazy. It tastes

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great. We loved it. Six out of six. Dose thumbs up. We love our coaching moments. Again, if you've

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never seen any Teddy Atlas videos, go plug that in and have yourself a motivational day. It'll make

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you be ready to take on the world. Again, 308 is this Saturday. It's early. It's at noon. So

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like I said, let's brunch it up. Let's have a little, you know, some Scrapple and some fights,

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some Scrapple and some scraps, scraps. There we go.

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Chris New segment.

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Chris Thank you very much for driving all the way out here. So we had a good time. Yeah. If you need

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anything, you can call us at 682-294-0101, or you can send us an email at breakfastofchampspod

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at gmail.com. As always, please rate, like, subscribe, all that stuff. It really helps us

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01:25:50,440 --> 01:25:56,920
out, helps get the word out, spread it to other people. Our little old podcast has already had

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professional UFC fighter, semi-professional combat sports athlete. We've had professional chefs,

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lead singers of famous metalcore bands and just like, you know what I mean?

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Chris Thrash.

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Chris Thrash. Sorry, semantics. Anywho. I know I just screwed up the entire 90 minute podcast.

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Chris We should have somebody, we should try and get the singer of like, Kubla Khan on.

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Chris That'd be tight. That'd be tight.

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Chris That's some fighting music.

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Chris I meant to say hardcore. And then for some reason, like I was like, they're harder than

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hardcore. And so I just like, I'm messing with you. But yeah, the one thing I was going to say,

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before we wrap up, if you have a second, I downloaded Mortal Kombat 11 or 12 or whatever.

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I have not played a single match of that yet. So we definitely need to have somebody on,

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we need to get into video games. We need to discuss that soon. So you have somebody for that,

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right? Maybe, maybe, maybe somebody for that. So if you are a huge video game, fighting video game

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person, give us a holler, tell us what your favorite ones are. I'm old school. I like

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Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, that sort of thing. But I also play like the Fortnite and,

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and then the other, the others.

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Chris I have a hard time with fighting games. I always try to like them. Like even Street Fighter

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is like, Oh, I'm so excited. I play like three rounds. All right, cool. I'm done.

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Chris My thumbs hurt.

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Chris Backyard wrestling on like PS2. That was pretty sick.

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Chris That's my stuff.

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Chris Sipping some Fago while you play. Opening the Riddlebox.

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Chris We won't go there.

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Chris What is it? Swinging the Axe?

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Anyway, have a great week. We'll catch you next week. Thank you for joining us. Bye.

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Chris Bye.

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Jesus this is really awesome.

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you