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Two Straws on Fightpass! Episode 30
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Nov 6, 2024
This episode we're talking bare knuckle, a wild night of fights at UFC Texas, questionable refereeing and a whole heap of other stuff. The last 15 minutes of Two Straws can be found exclusively on UFC Fightpass!
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what's up everyone we're back with another episode of two oh we're fancy we're pinkies up
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today oh where's my wine I mean you got your bubbly it's fancy it's like
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champagne for uh alcoholics without the
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embarrassing things at holiday parties that you'll regret and not be able to go into the office the next day you mean
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the mistletoe we need to get a mistletoe over here you want to make out I feel like that would
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make our viewers go up I mean it might I mean that would have to be on the exclusive
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content but we digress Jessica what is going on in your world well um fun stuff
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I have I have a visit uh with the foot doctor tomorrow so fingers crossed
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where's the boot well it it just gets really heavy in the seat so I left the boot on the floor and then I put the
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shoe on don't worry guys she got in the chair yeah she took the boot off I made it and then she put the F the the
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regular shoe on don't worry she is booted up um I just got back from Salt Lake
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City uh I almost lost my toes cuz they were freezing in that stupid boot d I
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can only imagine freezing I like chiped up on the socks and damn we uh so I was
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in salt Lake City Utah to support our uh Ultimate Fighter Alum castmate bestie uh
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Rebecca Rodriguez for formerly Beck Rollins it was it was a thing bear
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knuckle only wants to promote her I forgot she's Rodriguez now I know but they're like really stuck on the fact
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that you know she's that's her name you know they would have to do a whole branding change all this thing so they
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kept putting Rawlings down and she's like it's Rodriguez she needs to just walk around with cornrows
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and like big hoop earings they're like it's way more marketable if you're the blonde hair blueeyed chick from downand
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not like the girl from the black she's just Becky from the BL like
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she'll always be Becky from the blog to me she knows way more Tupac songs than I know she's
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down I say let her rock Rodriguez she probably rock it even uh better than
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Rollins probably I felt like it yeah definitely she torch she was a fiery
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Latina in her previous life and and in this one now she's just a fiery
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gringa but we love her all the [Laughter] same um yeah so I was I was there to
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corner and support our friend uh Jeremy Stevens our other former teammate also
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made his bare knuckle boxing debut against another former UFC vet um in
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Rivera mhm and that was that was a fast one a tough one but uh but luckily
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Jeremy made it out unscathed dude Jeremy is the last person I would want to fight
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and he's one of those people like he's just he's built different he's built for
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Bare knuckle he is he's a Savage I am so happy that that's where like the the
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road led him you know you look back you look back and you see all these like clear concise little steps that took you
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to where you are now and that what happened with bare knuckle he was he was meant to fight that was in the Stars
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there's like hieroglyphics somewhere with Jeremy Stevens having a
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baron knuckle fight at this very moment like that was supposed to happen I'm pretty sure prophecy was just
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fulfilled thank you thank you MMA guys you finally gave us something good oh my
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goodness that was a it was an awesome fight it was back and forth it wasn't one-sided but it was an awesome fight
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and uh you know I got to see Jeremy training a little bit between his fight
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with Jose Aldo and now he looks so much more like a boxer like he's just really
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embraced the grind of being a boxer training like one doing the pad work like one sparring like one and I feel
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like it's hard to make that transition because you're so used to working to different goals in MMA like I'm just
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going to hit him real hard and then I'm going knee him in the face or I'mma hit him real hard and then I'm going take him down when don't have that followup
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then you're kind of left to be punched you know when somebody's really training
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boxing and really taking that part seriously so it was cool to see him Embrace that and then see him get the
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win on the other side of it definitely I I think that it was also really impressive even though Beck she ended up
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losing um I thought she did so many good things so many beautiful technical
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things um everything that she's been working on and you know that I've seen of her and everything she was warming up
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with like she she really nailed all of those it was just one of those those fights where her opponent was making
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some really good adjustments and they both did their homework and Christine came out on top um and I mean she's
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she's a great Champion you know tough tough lady um very very humble in in
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Victory and defeat so it was it was really nice to see them both put on an extremely um entertaining great great
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fight a great display of Baron ala boxing yeah is it wrong to say that
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maybe people are more into females fighting bare knuckle for some reason
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like I don't know what it is but there's always like a girl either headlining or
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coold headlining and people show up for those fights like I remember watching um
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who did uh paage Vamp fight was it ovich yes Paige Vamp versus Rachel ovich I was
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into it I'm like these girls are throwing and it looks technical like it looks better than well and also really
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hot yeah well there's some there's some boobies getting punched there was there
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was a boob or two getting punched and you know that adds to the flare of it but hey I I really enjoyed the
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technicality of it and also just these are two girls getting down I don't know maybe it's the maybe it's the novelty of
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seeing women do something so brutal we're not used to that so whenever you
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kind of see that it grabs your attention you're just like oh [ __ ] and then
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especially when it doesn't look like two girls who just came off of the street is two girls who are well- trained who are
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very technical who are going at it I don't know for some reason that always like perks my interest maybe because I
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am a woman as well but I think it perks the interest of the guys too I
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definitely think it does um I think there's some sort of um maybe it's the dichotomy the the feminine and the
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brutality and yeah it's like everyone who was into Zena when they were kids
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exactly I want be a girl like Zena Warrior
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Princess yeah there's just something about it and I mean it it's also if you
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if you look at all of you know the female species in the animal kingdom the
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females are always most vicious they're the ones [ __ ] [ __ ] up they really really are yeah the guys are just there
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as like the you know the the big bazooka if you really need it like they're just
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there for a show really to like walk around show their balls but the women are the one that are like ter yeah
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exactly like I have the best chicks that will [ __ ] you up like that's what the guys that have to do don't come over
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here these are my [ __ ] and they'll [ __ ] you up I'm just picturing a lion with huge
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balls but that's what it's like and in like a hyenas too the women actually have mock
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penises yes yes they're like my [ __ ] will [ __ ] you up and so will
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I oh you got to love the animal kingdom Love full of female Empower empowerment
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yes I love it black widows ring mantises oh my God we stay [ __ ] [ __ ]
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up so it maybe it's just natural it's natural for people to want to see this happen because it's just the order of
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things I think so I think there's just some sort of intrigue you know it's we're we're past the days of like these
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these passive ladies jumping their handkerchiefs yeah they were in control back then too people just they they just
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did it subtly yes they just did it subtly a soft hand
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yes um but uh it was really cool to watch watch the main event um Mike Perry
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versus Eddie Alvarez holy [ __ ] that was probably the most beautiful bare knuckle
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fight I've seen like it it was just so I don't know there's so much back and
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forth there was so many adjustments being made but then there was so much damage too like the damage on Eddie
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Alvarez's face oh my God and then he was given it back to Mike Perry Mike Perry
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ended up like getting the Finish like it was it was so cool to watch it was and it's really good that everybody did well
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because the Nevada and California State athletic commission were there and so were a bunch of investors so oh they
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were making sure everybody was on their p's and q's yeah during the whole fight week and especially during the fight
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because they are trying to get it sanctioned Nevada's on board they just don't want to be the first ones to do it
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okay so they're waiting for California to to give the nod first California I
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know y'all are going to be waiting forever no I I have a feeling I just I
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have a feeling that they both want to do it because there's money especially for Nevada but it's been
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said that Nevada won't go first and they're waiting on California and I feel like California would do it if Nevada
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did it so it's like I wish they were waiting on someone who was more into freak Show fights like we have our
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chicken coop fights out here but they're not sanctioned you they are not sanctioned by California state athl
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commission California is the craziest one because they're all about the hydration test if you weigh in at 115
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and then fight the next day and they weigh you and you're 135 they're going to be like hey you need to move up and
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that's every straw weight every straw weight I fought has been at least 135
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when I fought him I'm not I'm a just a we little thing but it's literally
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everyone and when you get up to the higher weight class it's even more dramatic so um I'd be really surprised
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if California allowed that before Nevada or anyone else I wish they were waiting
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for like the Texas like say Florida like wait for
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those guys because they'll they'll they'll sign up quick well I mean Florida's Already There Mississippi is
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already there Utah is there I mean it was the biggest thing that ever happened in Utah like it turned out they sold out
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their um what is it their their Bo office Junior Hockey League Stadium
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which is a really nice size Stadium it was like 8,500 people oh wow it was it was a big turnout it was really well
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done you know normally when you get into these like big Arenas they'll like curtain off half of it so I went out and
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peaked as soon as we got there I was like I was like oh it's the whole thing
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it's the whole thing everyone everyone here that's dope and um and there were
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some you know Big Shot investors that were there so there are a lot of eyes on this card and it it delivered nice and I
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am one of those people that does not have a desire to to fight bare knuckle
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ever and I was asked repeatedly repeatedly I was asked I'm so
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glad your poor hands oh my God they've been broken enough dude uh my nose has
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been broken enough I've you know what I've just I've taken a lot of damage in 17 years and I I just no thank you just
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be there for support be there to hold the ice pack all of you know what that's
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I have a bone to pick with their commission though they would not let me up the doctor could go up in between
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rounds the doctor got to sit by by Adrien Beck's husband who was you know first Corner obviously I'm there you
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know for moral support I can shout out some stuff but I'm I'm there for for support
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you know ice yes that's a major job and they wouldn't let me up there huh I was
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like okay the ringard girls get to go up there this guy gets to go up here like I
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was like let me let me up so I kept having to like shook things up at at Adrian and I'm like [ __ ] yeah um it was
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just it was kind of weird that they didn't allow us like two fullon corners
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which are necessary what about the other side did you peek oh over and see what was going on over there it's too there's
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too much going on yeah I'm I'm more focused on on you know on my fighter
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than what's going on over there I'm curious though if they were allowed two people to no it was just it was water
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and ice her yeah it was a weird one we're going to have to look into that I'm sure they were doing the same thing
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for everyone though but it's still that's still weird because you you need like a whole crew like a like a pit stop
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in NASCAR you know you the guy doing the tires and the guy checking the oil and stuff yeah the cutman's busy bar boing
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the cutman is always going to be busy he is an intrical part of of the barck
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cornering EOS system 10 cut men I know just for one fight man there I'm not kidding you
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those Corner man even Beck's last fight when when her fight got stopped excuse me by the cut um man they they did a
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great job on packing it because it was it was open and it didn't bleed you know um it was it was
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pretty cool they they do they do a really great job and that's completely necessary I mean the their triage room
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looks like it's on the on the front line of of a battlefield um just nobody comes out on
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scathed I think there was one person in the first preliminary bout that that got out and all he had was a little boo boo
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on his knuckle oh good for him yeah he'll probably do it again and then regret it no that's what he said he was
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like I was like are you going to do it again again he's like yeah totally I'm like if if you look like her would you have done it again he was like yeah
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totally I'm like oh he's a crazy okay he's just crazy we'll see we'll see if
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that happens Jeremy looked pretty unscathed I saw him Monday yeah he looked pretty good yeah so like whatever
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swelling is already went down he just has a little a little like fashion uh black eye just like a little line it
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doesn't even look like anything like look at you your little fashion black eye but uh but yeah it's so rare that
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you don't get Cuts you don't have broken hands all that stuff yeah so that must
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have been an experience it does not appeal to me in how many times have you cornered um back
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for Bare knuckle just just twice okay yeah yeah was it like that last time too
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just really bloody aftermath uh in the back room yes they had I think they had
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like five beds the the first one that I went to this one they only had two and it was a private room because they were
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trying to just really like lock everything down and there was enough time because of the pay-per-view and the
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way that they like um interval the fights there was enough time to like tend to them or send them to the
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hospital and then like clear the room before it was but the first one that I went to in Denver with Beck there were
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five tables and every table was filled up oh my God I mean you you had Ben
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Rothwell on that card who uses himself he like lets people like hit him
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and takes so much damage just to let them gas out and then capitalize off of it like it is it
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is not the best strategy for longevity but it's very
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entertaining oh my God and it works for him so good on him yeah good for you
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man that's so brutal oh well it sounds like you had a
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good weekend oh um I wanted to ask cuz Mike Perry and Eddie Alvarez they both
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fought at 175 right it was a catchweight okay how big did they look in person cuz
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we've seen them or I've seen him when he was in the UFC but
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like and a 70 pounder yeah so Eddie Alvarez got to pick the weight because
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he's coming up from 155 okay he is no longer a 15 fber he is he is
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thick he is is very full figure we um not in a bad way he's just no he looked
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amazing on the scale no he looked great he looked like he got his he missed weight though did he he missed by like a
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pound what so we were uh we were that's so funny we were on Deck to uh to go
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into the room uh the the ladies were first so first up went Christine and then and then we were in line and Mike
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Perry comes over and um oh no we were waiting we were waiting to see the doctors we had already wait in and Mike
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Perry came out and he was storming around and he's you know drink his Pedialite and he's like man that [ __ ] played himself I was like
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what he's like he missed weight he picked the weight class and he missed
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like we could have done it at 180 185 I know but it was it was smart because
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Mike Perry is a big boy and and it he looked really lean he looked like he was
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you know he had he had a big boy cut he had a cut okay he had he did have a cut
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um Eddie Alvarez shouldn't have have had such a cut but it he was enjoying that post
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Thanksgiving had a little bit too much stuffing during the holidays yeah he is a little stuffed he looks like like in
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shape though he looks like he's holding the weight well he's on a good regimen M
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regimen that's was getting at but I'm like am I going to go there thank you Jess we're we're in agreement
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he looks good he looks great oh my god
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well yeah it sounds like a fun weekend um yeah
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it I I just can't imagine doing that and
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just the damage that you accumulate especially after doing it as many times as someone like Beck has done it like
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she needs to like start pumping her aesthetician or whoever is like making
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sure her face looks good because she looks [ __ ] dope like she looks so good she will catfish people into doing
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bare knuckle because they think they'll still look as good as her after they finished well the thing is if you look
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at her post fight though like she um how did Adrien put it or uh it's like she
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her her face is soft like she she has like a delicate face like so she bruises
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really easily okay uh so she was quite swollen um she refers to herself as a bull
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terrier after she fights cuz she just she just swells and like she she maybe had like one or two Little Stitches just
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from like little Nicks okay um but like she she puffs up from from bruising and
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I mean obviously you're getting hit bare knuckle and barrage the punches like Christine is is a brawler so there's
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just punches coming you know that you're not seeing and boxing all that St wait a
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minute wait wait a second no stop it stop it just grab her I put my guard up how did that
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happen punch me with your thumb those are the ones that hurt the
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most too just like from the uh from the MMA gloves you'll catch like this
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knuckle or this like this [ __ ] knuckle like I'll catch that and it'll
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be sore for weeks and it'll be the dumbest little thing just like a little
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random bone hitting you in the right angle yeah I can't even imagine I know I
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just I can't do it and they asked me multiple times afterwards I was like they were like they were a lot of
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tickets they were like why not they were like I was just like no and they're like why I'm like cuz no and they're like
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wait who is asking um the the Matchmaker for the females her name TRS and they
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asked me like afterwards and then um while we were waiting for the girls to get all stitched up afterwards um
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Christine's coach asked me too he's like are you best time to ask like ex like as
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everyone's getting stitched up [ __ ] off no and then the next day in the lobby while I'm standing next to my my bestie
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with her glasses on they're like so did you think about it did you sleep on it I was like it's a no like I saw Beck
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before she put her makeup on like no God damn it they're like give us a number like it's not in your
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budget I know what she gets paid I know what they get paid there's no amount of money there's no amount of money that
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anybody is making on this card that I would say yeah that's that's great so uh
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if there was a number what would it be there is no number it's no number nothing about bar
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knuckle boxing sounds appealing to me 250 no more girl four I am
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40 yeah but you got better boxing than most of these girls yeah but it doesn't
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matter I know that's the that's the weird part does not matter that's the weird part they are so
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they're twom minute rounds they're they're Sprints yes they are Sprints and they go hard and they are just trying to
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Wing you and hit whatever and throw whatever at you that is a strategy that is like across the board the main
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strategy that I have seen there there are a handful of people that are like really technical Beck is one of them
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there were some like technicians on that card but sometimes that gets you [ __ ] up
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yes yes because you're trying to to like box in in a fight in a fight yeah yeah
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400 oh we're getting close
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450 it has to be like a even half it's got to be yeah like at least an even
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half mil yeah then we that that'll Tate it would be a one and done one and we're done no for fight
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contract five figures or whatever or six figures no one and done and there needs
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to be a plas surgeon in the contract because I will need it yes maybe we'll
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just uh hold out for the California card so you can get the good ones the good plastic surgeons and not the Mormon
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Mormon surgent probably not even allowed to get
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plastic surgery on there I don't know I watch the uh real
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houseway of Salt Lake City they're pretty they're pretty pretty decked out yeah they are
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good regimens yes all right well we'll see if that happens maybe I'll try to negotiate for
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you I heard from on the grape vine she'll do it for
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800 they'll be like [ __ ] you crazy I'll go five oh okay
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discount yeah we'll wait till it gets like uh sanctioned in Nevada yeah there you go California Nevada cuz that's when
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the money will roll in hey there you go they'll love it oh yes I'll I'll wait
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yeah oh man so uh your mind oh my God so what's been uh happening in the world of
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MMA oh you want to talk about MMA there's been a I guess I mean it's boring compared to like punch of people
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with a bare fist but at least you could kick him in the head too I mean I was
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going to Segway to Sano uh vacating her WBC Title o
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we could talk about that yeah because the WBC will not allow female boxers to
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fight for a world title 12 rounds three minutes they will only approve TW minute
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rounds at 10 rounds and so she's looking for equality
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she actually made a a huge you know Mark in history her last fight out which was
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with a different promotion and she was allowed to do 12 3 minute rounds like
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the men did it last did it go distance I believe so okay so it's
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possible we can do it and not die yes so the the WBC has refused to evolve the
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sport for equality according to the Serrano sisters uh she will vacate um just her WBC Title following
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her 12 round unanimous decision victory over Danielle Ramos in October the w W
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BC refused to sanction the fight because it wasn't the standard 2 minute 10 minute round or 10 rounds for Women's
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Championship president Mauricio sullon said tennis women play three sets
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basketball uh the basket is shorter and the ball smaller We Stand by safety and well-being of the fighters basically
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saying that women are not fit or strong enough to fight like the men see they don't want
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they don't watch M planet or Animal Planet or MMA see as as crazy as MMA is
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and as like Junior of a sport it is when it comes to like equality between the
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male and female athletes you see it a lot more in MMA than other sports and
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it's it's really um about us being on the same platform you know like you're
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when you're watching in NBA there's not going to be a WNBA game in the middle of
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the NBA fight or NBA game yeah um and just having that platform the same as
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the men I feel like you educate people more the people who are making decisions they can watch it and they'll say oh
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this woman was able to fight 25 minutes just like the guys were and she didn't die you know they lasted they still look
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good in the fifth round like it's possible for women to give the same out put as the men do as long as they're
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fighting each other you know like we're fighting each other we're not fighting dudes and uh it's really strange that
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such an old sport like boxing would still try to hold on
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to kind of an archaic kind of like idea
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when it comes to sport because we've proven time and time and again that we can do just as much we can last just as
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long um we're just as technical you know as the guys so that's that's really
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strange to me because WBC they're supposed to be like the the trends
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Setter like the the first ones the official sanctioning body and then I feel like all the other boxing like
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sanctioning bodies are the ones below that so it would be the equivalent of
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Dana White saying he'd never allow girls in the UFC you know um thought we were
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passed that yeah and apparently we're not that sucks I feel like we've evolved past that I feel like feel like the
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women in in boxing especi and in MMA we have we have proved that that we can do
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it we've we've proved that we can you know cross that barrier I understand so
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my first fight in California it was my my second MMA fight and they did to uh
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three two-minute rounds MH and because I was because it was newly you know
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sanctioned in California and they were you know just trying to do their best
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and they were going by the boxing rules with the two-minute rounds uhuh but after you reached a certain amount of
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fights then you could go to five minutes yeah you know it wasn't like you stayed in that so just like in in boxing you
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have you know four four rounds and then you have six rounds and then eight and then 10 and then 12 like I understand
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you letting people build up to it why not let the women build up to it she's
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there especially someone as accomplished as uh it's Amanda s right yeah yeah
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someone as accomplished as her um at that point they should be able to make
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the call on if it's going to be 10 or 12 rounds like if it's going to be two or
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three minutes same thing with Muay Tha you start out at 2 minutes three rounds
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then you work way up to either 2 minutes five rounds or 3 minutes five rounds rounds and that's the same as the guys
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and it's the same in Muay Tha why can't it be the same in boxing it's the same in MMA why can't it be the same in
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boxing that's really strange that boxing is the one that's holding women back but
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if you go back to the history of MMA being considered a real sport it was the
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boxing commissions that were trying to stop it from happening so boxing y'all need to stop with your
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[ __ ] seriously stop it it's just I yeah I I
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don't understand why they're they're holding on to this tradition so hard it's not for our safety it's to me
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there's there's something else yeah and I and I don't know what that is but it just does not make sense because um
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specifically this woman and and many other women on that platform have have proved themselves time and time again
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that they deserve that they are capable of of fighting the standard it should be
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the standard yeah they're they're not training any less hard they're not uh
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running less or sparring less rounds in the gym they should be able to fight however many rounds they want yeah we
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sign a waiver signing signing our our life away basically assuming all risk
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and bodily harm and death that is literally on our contract let them choose the amount of rounds that they want to go out on yeah and if anything
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uh the more rounds the more technical technically sound you're showing you are because you're able to last these rounds
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you're able to use these rounds to game plan and to finally get that finish that you want and not have it taken away from
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you by the judges like we've seen uh numerous times I've watched boxing which isn't that many times but every time I'm
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like how the [ __ ] did that guy win you know and so I understand why someone
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with a lengthy record who's undefeated would want more rounds to figure out her
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opponent and finish the the job mhm y need stop with your [ __ ] I'm
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I'm annoyed about that and I didn't learn about that until you told me yeah it was I mean it's it's a pretty it's a
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pretty big thing and I mean again I'm not I'm not huge in in following boxing but I I do respect enjoy watching it and
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so when I heard that I just felt like it needed to be shared yeah [ __ ] that
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yeah make sure you clip this out so people know that we are not happy with what boxing
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is doing to the Sano sisters so speaking of equality with you know males and
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females in sports and all that stuff how do you feel about splitting the bill on
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a date do you go dutch or do you think the
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man should pay girl I've been married 15 years going on January 2nd like I don't
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even know what splitting the bill is I make Adam pay for everything but we have a joint account like I'm like you
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go and be a man and pay for dinner and he's like you're paying for it I'm like
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that's neither here nor there oh man I don't know I think it
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depends on the situation like did they ask you out did you ask them out was it
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like a mutual hey what are you doing tonight oh nothing what you you want to do something I don't know we could do
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something like if it's if it's a casual thing I think it's okay to split the bill if it's like he ask you out because
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he wants to get into them draws he better be paying for it you know like if
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if that's obviously the endgame he wants to like [ __ ] you like he should be
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paying for the on the first date after one date and July not after it doesn't matter how many dates it takes how many
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visit how many visits it depends on how how interesting he is
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like I don't know I don't even know what the barometers are it's like you have to have a good balance of like being fun to
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talk to not looking like [ __ ] uh I don't know good taste in
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restaurants I don't know like it it depends it really it it depends on how the vibe is that night and then if it's
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good enough that night it could be that night if it's if it takes a while it takes a while but I don't know I think I
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think if you guys can't agree on whether you're going Dutch or whether he's
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paying then it's probably a red flag sure like it should be
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uh uh you know just kind of you should you should know what's what's entailed
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in the contract before but how do you before you go out I don't know if you
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don't have that intuition with them maybe that's a red flag like if if they're expecting you to pay for lunch
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or if or if I don't know if if they expect that and you don't then what else
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is going to happen that they expect that you don't sure you have to think about
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your safety that's true I know that's true properly vet people why is this a
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question just we were just talking about equality oh okay well what's your uh
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what's your Mantra on that they're Pion if it's a date but what if it's a hang they're
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still ping oh okay yes see I believe in Cherry I'm a bit oldfashioned oh there
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you go yeah yeah yeah if they don't then we are friends and I am happy to pay see
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I run into that problem where I end up dating my friends at least when I was single I would always date a friend like
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I would never really like fall for someone uh sight on scene is that the
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saying cuz I don't know I was I was I guess I was more of
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a guys girl so it always be like people that
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I've known for a while and then oh let's go on a date so there was always that
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gray area between a hang or a date yeah unless it was actually a date and then
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I'd expect them to pay and I've had guys who have asked me out and then tried not to pay and I'm just like I'm never gonna
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see you again what the [ __ ] is your problem fck don't date New York guys
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they act like they have game but they are so cheap they're all Mama's Boys
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they dude don't don't do it they all live at home
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like don't do it cuz New York's an expensive city so they they hustle and
36:51
that comes to dating too they hustle they know if you're not happy with it they can holler at 50 other girls and
36:58
one of them is g to be like all right whatever I feel like that's everywhere yeah but New York especially like
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there's a lot of people in New York well I will stare clear of New York the dating pools a tiny bit smaller
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out here I feel like so they'll they'll they'll do a little bit more uh not in my experience but but hey you but you've
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never dated in New York no I haven't yeah so I've dated someone from New York
37:27
how'd that go what did I tell you what did I tell you there are too many [ __ ] people in
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New York there's too many people out there so they're just like hey I'm going holler at the next girl that walks by
37:41
I'll holler at a whole Subway card of people and somebody's going to give me a lick you know somebody's going to like
37:48
jump on the bait sure and it's a numbers game it is it is doesn't matter like how
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attractive how like available you are like if you're married like they know
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that eventually someone's going to say yes so they don't give a
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[ __ ] if you can find love in New York you you've done something real special
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okay I feel like I don't know all right we can talk about MMA now yeah no I want to talk about dating
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because I'm living vicariously through my single friends who haven't been married for 15 [ __ ]
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years honey stay married it it ain't what you think it is the grass it is not
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well the grass is dead it always seems Greener it's it's not it's it's
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AstroTurf it's don't it's fake grass stay married stay married a stay where
38:44
it's safe what was where was your last date [ __ ] I don't know a I haven't dated
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in a long time oh I thought you I took a break oh okay long long girl dates are
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fun too just go out I take myself out on dates that see that's I go out with
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girlfriends we do girl dates yeah yeah I still I mean I still go and have a good time yeah exactly we don't need no man
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don't I can buy myself flowers yay I do buy myself flowers too oh you do every
39:18
fight week I'm always like I was like oh my God I forgot
39:27
it's like really funny to me but it's also really sweet and Charming the fact that you get fresh flowers and put them
39:34
in your fight hotel with candles with candles and I bring my crystals yes you
39:40
really create like a mood a whole vibe in there and I've never thought about doing that I mean I guess I do it my own
39:47
way I bring my video games yeah you just got to like you know
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bring yourself things that like are good for your soul that like you fill your cup because fight week can be exhausting
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I mean it's like there's a lot of downtime so you just want to be comfortable and be surrounded by by good things yeah like crystals yes and
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Friends yes and horror movies
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yes that's always fun we have good fight weeks MMA all
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right so we just had UFC Austin o and the leadup to the fight and the fights
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there there was a lot going on so we had uh Bobby green getting into getting into
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it in the hotel lobby with um what's uh Armen suian thank you I was going to
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really try and like pronounce that that one I got you thank you I got you I always make a mental note of the hard
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ones yes cuz I'm like soan sanan that's a tongue twister right
40:51
there um so we had some altercation in the hotel lobby but that wasn't even his opponent I'm not exactly sure why like
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why it even happened but so what happened was Bobby green did an
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interview and they probably asked him about suoi and he said his fights are boring aside from this one I have to
41:12
agree his fights are very like wrestle pressur sit on you make you hate life
41:20
for 15 minutes like that's that's what he does so it's not really wrong you
41:26
can't deny his skill but it isn't the most fun to watch usually
41:31
and I mean that's what that's why most people are like who is headlining who is
41:36
this guy like who is you know like who is he fighting nobody really knows him
41:42
yet because he hasn't had those breakout performances like he had this weekend so Bobby green was I felt like he was
41:49
correct in saying that but Aran cukin had a problem with that took it very personal
41:55
yes he said keep your name out of my face
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brother he probably said it like that but you knew what he meant yes it's just
42:08
some things get lost in translation yes um so we had but Bobby green was not
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fighting sarian cian cian it's like a it's like the uh uh Street Fighter
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movein but it's San thank oh wait no it's the
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upper yeah you'll never forget it now so
42:37
I was fighting who was he fighting and he had a big win against
42:42
Dar yes oh ppil yeah he's he's been on uh this is a second one in a row yeah
42:49
second tough tough loss in a row and it must be so [ __ ] hard because he just came off of that eight fight win streak
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like I hate that like you get a streak and you're like I'm never losing again
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and then it happens and then it happens twice again [ __ ] just for good measure
43:08
yeah um but we had Bobby fighting Jaylen Turner on short notice he was originally slated to fight hooker uh hooker had to
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pull out due to injury and man
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Jaylen Jaylen got Bobby green hard and and it was it it was a great knockout I
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think what stands out mostly in my mind though is the stoppage yes many people were were outraged by the stoppage it
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was it was way way past an acceptable time to stop a fight yeah Bobby green
43:44
was went in and out I think two or three times before the fight was finally called he was not defending
43:51
himself um intelligently I didn't see any Reon
43:56
reason why the ref Let It Go on and he's he's apparently apologized he's taking
44:02
responsibility and said he he did the wrong thing um but that that was really
44:08
really scary the amount of damage that he took unnecessarily yeah and so I guess my question is because I saw this
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quote by by Matt Brown oh I saw that too and I'll I'll read it and it just made
44:19
me thinking and I just I I don't necessarily agree with it in this
44:25
instance oh yes
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please oh my goodness thank you you're such a good
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host you so much [ __ ] about smell up thirsty as Fu dude yeah I read
44:48
that quote too and I was like so so this is a quote from Matt Brown uh being
44:53
interviewed after the fight and he says I'm going to request TR referee Carrie Hatley In my fights because I would
45:00
rather that as a fighter than an early stoppage let the dude half kill me like
45:07
take a couple of years off my life I don't want this [ __ ] fight stopped uh but I
45:14
agree it was EG egregious thank you oh good job
45:20
Matt Brown I was like I didn't expect that from him right like he's they Silo
45:26
hurts I was like he threw me off that was a big one um it was absolutely
45:32
[ __ ] ridiculous like what are you thinking we're literally watching like what are you doing um so he did not
45:39
agree with that particular stoppage however he said let me die yeah I think
45:46
a lot of Fighters kind of share that sentiment though um but at the same time
45:52
I would hate for my husband to see that happen to me I would hate for my mother
45:57
to see that happen to me like people care about your life yeah you know and
46:03
when you get to that point where you can't defend yourself where you're unconscious where you don't know what's
46:08
going on but you might have glimpses of like oh where where am oh no no I'm back
46:14
back in my bedroom oh no back in in school naked oh no oh hey oh okay I'm in
46:20
the fight again you know and now I'm in the ambulance and in a hospital what happened I don't remember what happened
46:25
happened the last five minutes of the fight that only lasted four minutes but
46:31
it's it's a real thing when you talk about your mental health when you talk about um just the longevity of damage
46:40
from multiple concussions uh being beaten down like that can be uh can give you
46:48
PTSD it can really ruin your fight career we've seen a lot of Fighters get
46:55
into tough fights and they just get knocked out brutally and usually it's just one hit and then they're out
47:02
forever and they're never really the same you look at someone like Dan hooker he's pulled out of multiple fights after
47:08
having so many really tough fights after getting dropped a bunch he was basically
47:14
being looked at as being the next champion and then lost a bunch in a row and now people are like uh I don't know
47:20
he seems a little frail um and that happens to so many fighters once they get to that level
47:26
something brutal happens and then they're never the same and it really hurts my heart to watch that happen to
47:32
someone like Bobby green because they're talking about him having like this Jorge masol type Resurgence you know people
47:40
are finally knowing him for being the finisher that he is and for the skill
47:46
that he has and then to just be finished in that way and to
47:51
possibly be damaged to the point where he might not be able to fight as many fights as
47:57
he was before that happened it it just seemed like a really avoidable
48:03
accident it's there there is a fine line between you know too early too late um I
48:11
I honestly I I understand wanting to to die on your Shield but there is
48:18
just there there's too much at stake with with your with your health I think
48:23
health comes first and especially as I get up in in years and fighting and stuff like that I I don't want to be put
48:29
in those kind of situations where I'm going to take years off of my life you know I I want I want function I want
48:37
full function yeah I want to be able to control my motor skills I I don't I don't want to deal with that kind of damage so I
48:44
would I I would appreciate at this point if referees aired more on the side of
48:50
caution because it it it's about health it's about longevity mhm and um we're
48:57
just we're still not really understanding the the consequences of the damage that we're taking in the sport yeah yeah it you hear about people
49:06
killing themselves all the time I I I know a couple yeah it's it's really
49:11
scary and a lot of that people think comes from CTE you
49:17
know um it's just it's it's a really scary thing we don't know much about the brain and we're in a sport where you can
49:24
get your brain pum that's a way to win to Pummel your opponent's brain and if
49:29
the referee isn't on point that night then he can really hurt someone we just had that other incident where the
49:36
referee didn't realize that the guy was choked out like he I think he was in a
49:42
triangle and he went out excuse
49:47
me that's what he did and the referee didn't think that that was a thing he's like oh he's just fighting and the guy
49:55
goes out in this kid's triangle he transitions to an armar is ripping the
50:00
kid's arm apart the kid is asleep and he wakes up with his arm all mangled and
50:05
it's like what is happening like that and you're so confused when you get choked out you wake up you might not
50:11
know where you are for a few seconds um I can't imagine waking up with my arm
50:17
totally destroyed and it was super avoid avoidable I think his his Corner had to
50:25
jump in in there or just throw things in there and we're yelling at the ref stop the fight um it shouldn't have to come
50:32
to that but I I do understand angles and the referee doesn't always have the best
50:40
view of the action going on uh it it happens sometimes and I don't think
50:45
we've really heard this ref's name before so he'll still have a job I I think it
50:53
takes a while a few fuckups for someone to really be on that watch list of hey
50:59
don't get in there but I think early is probably better than late but at the
51:05
same time you get so much [ __ ] for early stoppage then it it's I don't know it's it's
51:12
really a tough one it's a tough one to navigate I feel for the roughs because any decision you make to stop a fight
51:19
can be criticized and he decided to give Bobby green a chance to fight back and
51:27
he [ __ ] up but it happens we have humans in there yeah and it happens but
51:33
I don't want to get pummeled like that no if I get hurt you know give me a few
51:38
seconds to fight back give me a few seconds to recover and start going but if my head's bouncing off the canvas
51:45
please stop it please don't I don't need to go out on my shield in that manner in
51:51
the in the way Matt Brown wants to no if if we're talking Cuts sure let me ble oh
51:57
yeah I I'll B all over the place where you still we're talking if we're talking joints every
52:08
month we we got that under control we know how to deal with blood thank you
52:13
yeah we're fine it's nothing oh you know what I think it would be cute if uh female
52:21
cornermen started carrying tampons in their cut bag how would that be cute just shove it up
52:28
there you you've done the bloody nose oh sure Tampa get nice light day tampon
52:34
shove that thing up there you're good to go I mean I'm pretty sure some people do I mean they've actually made like the little things that properly fit you know
52:41
so you don't have to do but they don't have the string like the tampon does to pull it back out you need the string
52:46
otherwise it's going to get lost up there it happens then that's a whole another mess you have to deal with you
52:53
and you don't want to deal with it see we're well well versed in the bleeding issue let us
52:59
[Laughter] bleed oh my goodness yeah but I really
53:05
felt for Bobby green especially after all that drama that he had to deal with with the with the
53:11
serian negativity I'm sure that was weighing on him backstage I'm sure that
53:17
like caused a distraction or two when he's like getting ready because that kind of
53:23
thing I don't know for whatever reason I just I hate any type of drama
53:29
going into a fight week it just it's hard enough yeah it's hard enough there's so much buildup you don't you
53:34
don't need to deal with with something emotional like that and I mean speaking of suian did I get it right yes I said
53:43
it I said I said it in my head like it first I'll never never not say it but
53:50
speaking speaking of him too the pettiness on this guy he went at the press conference and you know talked
53:56
about how he was happy Bobby won and you know good come on man give it a
54:02
rest you want stop yeah that I just I hate when people don't respect each
54:08
other and I know I'm asking a lot I'm asking a lot for for fighters to respect
54:13
each other but I just I just hate that because you know people are being asked
54:20
questions to stir things to stir drama it's really just don't let take the bait
54:26
don't listen to it it just makes you look bad and it's going to get you like you're you know what you're going to get
54:31
be on the bad end of something and and then someone's going to bring it up and and they're going to ask the questions to everybody and everyone's going to
54:37
talk [ __ ] about you because that's what the media does so I hate when they're able to turn us against each other
54:44
because I don't think green had a problem with suruki cukin had a problem with green it was just this fabricated
54:51
thing because someone asked a question yeah and that that really bummed me out so to see him taking a little Victory
54:58
lap over Jaylen Turner's win cuz Jaylen Turner did that and no one's talking
55:03
about him he showed up six days notice made wait had to weigh in twice and then
55:10
did that to someone who is just a staple in the weight class that that was a big
55:15
deal that was a big deal for Turner and no one's talking about it cuz cian is
55:20
being petty way to go now you got another Target on your back jaylen's Coming For
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You O I want that fight next he's lanky man speaking of Street Fighter he's like
55:32
Dome you know he's fun to watch he uses his
55:37
length so well and he's so good on the ground yeah like it's not just the kicks
55:43
and the punches that you have to worry about if it goes to the ground he's doing some weird [ __ ] to you and his
55:50
arms and legs are so long and he knows how to use them he he really has a fun Style yeah I'm excited to see what he
55:56
does yeah me too definitely well on that note I think we're going to uh segue to
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