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all right what's up everyone we have Toita Alen Carr fresh off of her win at UFC Fight Night on Saturday Thank you so
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much for joining us How are you feeling i feel amazing No damage no nothing
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Ready to get back right away Get a last call for Miami
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Oh okay Okay I love that I mean I'm pretty sure the amount of significant
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strikes that were landed on you were minuscule um in comparison to the amount
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of control time that you had in your fight So um yeah put you on that card Oh
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definitely Um she really thought that she because her experience you know she
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does have more fights than me and you guys later as well But um she really
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thought that she could punch my face like she promised But she didn't do any
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damage Um I think even in the strikes I got better than her you know was more like damage from me to her Uh of course
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I'll do what I'm best at Even if I have to strike a little bit you know I'm really fall in love with striking it's
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fun you know It's like to be in the cage and to be like sparring with the guys
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you know somewhat the girls and always like learning you know I'm always in a spot that I am learning a little bit
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every day and just get better I finally got to the point where I started enjoying jiu-jitsu Like it took
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a long time but eventually I started seeing the fun in it And did was it hard
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for you to start to enjoy the striking part was it scary at first or when you started MMA did you just fall in love
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with it right away i mean I I'll be honest with you like I came from a
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really bad uh uh childhood you know Um no trauma though I My dad used to beat
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my mom and my brothers used to fight It was like a mess you know And I I did became a very aggressive person I'll
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tell you Um and we I used to live close by the beach and me and my brother used
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to fight you know like flying each other like punch arms open So I we came for
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this type childhood like you know real real [ __ ] you know and this is was never
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a problem was more adjusting like getting out of a type of career that
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always was more comfortable not always because fights in general like even jiujitsu it's hard you know you lose
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sometimes and you face the different challenge and challenges and adversity
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of losing and getting better how to evolve and that sadet And it's kind of like kind of same thing MMA but with a
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much larger like knowledge you know that you got to like require every day It's
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like crazy you know like but for me it was not hard to get punched It was how
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to get punched You know what I mean how like how to respond and how can I use my
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technique and things that I was learning to put everything together and that's was always a big challenge for me like
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put it like striking that was like blast for me and like do my wrestling fits and
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then able to like do where I'm best jiu-jitsu You know what I mean but I didn't follow
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It's not natural No it's not natural You have to get the this trained into you
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otherwise it's like this Yes Or like this is like you know But Angela I thank
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you I've been watching your your fights because I watch all almost all the UFC's when I'm not very tired whatever to be
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to be who I am like watching you see at night But I think you've been your
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grappling been much better You know you look with like guys you guys both are
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like Johnny That's [ __ ] amazing Like everybody there Yeah When I was with
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them you guys were not there yet Like before I leave San Diego and after I left you guys came there and and you
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Justin you know like they're just [ __ ] amazing you know like there was no way to not get better at grappling
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you know having great partners You guys have a huge uh woman's group there you
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know that you guys help each other You guys have the best team there You know what I mean well come back Yeah that ass
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back over here I didn't realize you were training with Johnny I thought you were talking about a different Johnny earlier
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No Johnny Before you guys come there I used to live in San Diego How when was
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that when did you leave i guess it was in between 2017 2018 What that was right
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before I got there Yeah it was I know I know Because when I got there Johnny
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just had started day gym and we had like maybe 100 people but after I left Johnny
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was like 400 people 500 people at the gym And Peter Vinnie like everybody used
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to train there before Vinnie even got his gym like all the days you know Everybody JJ used to live there
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Everybody was there you know And then you guys came me and I was like "Oh damn I'm not there anymore." Ah So were you
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there so nice to have a lot of females to train with Were you there before uh Jenna was training there too because she
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was Yeah it was before Jana I was there before Jana Yeah By the way Jenna came
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Dang All right Well we got to get you back over there one day Just for a vacation No no no I love California I I
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wish I wish I could live in California but Florida is very good It's like closer to Brazil It's like close to the
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Bahamas and everything I love California If I could live there I would But they stay Texas in Florida that would make me
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stay there It's so much better for businesses right now Yeah Yeah It's so much better for
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business and and all aspects Trust me But um definitely um I told Johnny that
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I was eventually going to come back just when I'm not in camp to come and train with you guys You know it's so so many
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women's just like maybe one day come to help as long as you guys not like we not
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fight you know we don't fight or like or you guys don't fight with my teammate
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Ari That's all good I don't care about the rest you know But yeah it would be my pleasure to help I love Johnny and
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everybody Join is like family for me Oh that's awesome All right so now we know now we know we got a jiu-jitsu girl to
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call on Um you did mentioned that you've known Demopoulos for a long time and
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there was a little bit of drama at the weigh-ins when you guys faced off Was it a good relationship
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between you two uh actually yes We never been best friends You know I know
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Vanessa since she was a white belt She was already fighting MMA back in the day
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you know Um I knew enough of her life I knew about what is going through uh on
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her you know I actually did a fight camp in Arizona fight where she was there
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before that I didn't know My coach set up everything because we me and Ari did
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a wrestling camp because there was more woman there to like to spar you know to
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sparring train Um there was really good wrestling there So we went there also
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because the attitude we spent three weeks there and I just got more updated about Vanessa I was like constantly
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having people coming to me at the gym saying hey you know that Vanessa is to train here I was like yeah I'm so sorry
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I didn't mean to be like you know I don't want to bother anybody I just came to train you know I'm glad that she's
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not here anymore because I would not have come here but I apologize if I am like bothering you guys No no no Nobody
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likes her And I was like what and I was like I am
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sorry Like I am I am trying to be a better person I'm not going to entertain a conversation about somebody I'm going
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to fight because I have nothing against her I said it but I feel really bad for what what you know happened to her and
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the reason she doesn't stay anywhere she goes you know and I said it like I am very sorry I hope that um this change
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you know I hope that she becomes a better human being and everything but I would not entertain a conversation about
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somebody that I have nothing against you know so I had no reason to talk about her because she never hurt me in any
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ways but at the She was trying to be funny because she loves camera you know She loves to be in
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front of the camera She shows who she is She show what is she not she's not but
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kind of that she pretends a lot but she loves attention Know she has the natural
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sexy um sexy way You know what I mean because because who she was you know and even
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though if she gay or not it didn't matter for me I would not attack her in any any ways you know But if she started
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talk [ __ ] I would have a lot to talk you know I would go down this road I was
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like "If you want to go down the playground come down to play We're going to play really hard."
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That was wild I did not know that you were like this Like I I would not expect
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the spiciness that you're given to come out of your mouth It's really like I
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don't know I I really enjoy the side of you Like I wish I wish more people would
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talk [ __ ] to you so we could see what you have to say back Somebody give her a mic at a press conference right
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i mean like that too Like I don't want to start it but I love to finish it You
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know yeah Like I mean like it's not because I want to be the last I'm not intending to start days because like I
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said before I'm a real marshal artist I think respect is very important too You
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know what I mean we know how hard what we're doing You know it's not easy It's
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very challenged We face so much adversities and even being a woman a male sport you know and I'm really like
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feminist to a certain point but I'm a fair person you know and I I try to be
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fair I try to put myself on people's shoes and imagine how things are and to
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to think outside the box as well you know I think it's important But when somebody started to talk [ __ ] it's
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because they intend to you know and because they want to you know and if
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they do you cannot expect less from the other person or you can fully ignore them exactly how I did and they didn't
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want to talk [ __ ] to her because I I didn't have mean I didn't want it you know like I'm worried about him punching
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her in the face in the other day not her punching me you know what I mean And for me it was like having fun you
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know show what I had learned how I had to like improve you know and just like
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fight as early as possible again with no damage But I did got a little emotional
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in the third round you know I I was punching her and I think her coach was say "Get out of there." And then she's
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like "I can't." I love that I cannot do it And And I was
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like in between her legs and putting her head against the wall like this I was like "Who's going to fight now?"
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I love it I love it And my coach said "Finish finish." I was like "I don't want to finish I just punch your hand in
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the face." Oh man That's great That's great
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So do you have any kind of idea where her comment at Williams came from like what was the catalyst for that or do you
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think it was just show i think she was trying to sell you know um and when
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somebody tried to sell you don't have to sell either because they're selling for you You know what I mean like I could
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but it's never I'm not in a UFC number We're a prelims fight People don't give
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a [ __ ] about prelims Some people will watch the whole It's true Some people will watch watch the whole but then
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they'll go to or they either batting on us They have a favorite You have your
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friends and family that will care about you that will sit down to watch the fight but they don't care if you if you
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win or you lose it You lose they hate you You win they you love you for a little bit but then they forget to focus
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on the next fight You know what I mean and fight week is like you want to do as
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much as market as possible You want to like market yourself You want to be a little funny You're like super funny
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Angela Like I love your content you know like Yeah I like to be dorky like this
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you know be creative and stuff like this But I think that was more for show She was on the front of the big guys over
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there Sean and the other people the owners of the UFC You know Donna was not
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here this week Not there this week So there was no way she she shows more but she actually
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was like um uh humble
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Yeah I was wondering how it was after the fight Do did you guys like kind of shake hands and everything i came
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together she shake hands and she didn't want to hug me I was like come here give me a hug I hugged her because what is
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the point you know what I mean she talks I pay back We eco we move forward She
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didn't unfollow me She's still there on my Instagram I still on hers you know I wish nothing bad for her I wish only
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should you be be blessed by God Nothing else you know And that's it The name of the business We move forward you know I
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love that I love that way to be the bigger girl in the situation Fine Try
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But if it was worse trust me I could not hold myself I cut
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you Thank I have God in my life because otherwise it would be different
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I love that side of you No I had no idea You're so funny Um thank you Do you have
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any uh Oh go ahead Jess I was going to say I feel like God MMA like some kind
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of sport always kind of like really like reigns people in and keeps them humble and keeps them on the right path Like
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that's what that's what the sport did for me at least Oh yeah I think this is really important you know because I have
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like a personal experience about days I I was Catholic and I become Christian
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when I was living in San Diego and I went in many different wrong paths you know and I I am not um proud of you know
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I'm aware of things that I did I you know to to be in this sport and you made
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many sacrifice sometimes like you sell yourself short you know and but you know
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your value in the end of the day but most of the things most of my fights I
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thought that I had to to do like A B and C to be like okay now I I would do my
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fight week perfect I'm going to speak with my parents I'm going to do days and days But the most I think I forgot to do
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it was pray was thank God you know like talk to him like he's a best friend and
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like you know do the what he desires to do you know have intimacy with him And I
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think this was big you know and value things that around you like simple things that your coach are telling you
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you know like let your coach be in control for a certain point because we are very selfish fighters you know it's
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a very selfish sport we always think like oh I'm the boss and this and sometimes you got to put yourself in in
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another shoes and be the the follower you know be the disciple and this for me
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makes big change not just for this camp but it's something that I was already trying to exercise and just be better
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And that was also one of the reasons that I didn't I didn't respond Vanessa because I was like there was no need for
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this you know good for you Good for you Yeah Uh do you
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ever uh do you feel like you learned that in jiu-jitsu like when you were
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competing and and winning all the tournaments and everything did you kind of uh find God then or not even find God
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but just like really start holding on to that uh to that relationship with with uh with God then yeah I think part is
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being by myself you know like I don't have a family in United States my family is my friends you know people that I met
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through time like Johnny people that were in my career in the jiu-jitsu for
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good and for bad you know what I mean Johnny been a few of my world championships with me he been through
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also bad stage of my life of changing you know like moving count moving cities
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and it's always like difficult you know and you you have a sometimes when you
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don't have a family or people that you really trust around you you always feel a sense of loneliness you know what I
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mean of like oh I don't have who to trust you and you're seeking so many
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things because we're made to be impaths you know since the primarily times the
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the like before Christ you always in group like you want to belong somewhere
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you know what I mean you want to you seek like acceptance and you seek many things that are not very important and
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then you forget the most important that's God you know and when you started to understand yourself and realize those
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things you feel like there's nothing like this matter you don't have to prove yourself you just need to have God in
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your your heart you learning and having the Holy Spirit on you and like when you
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start when you seek for the right and knowledge you see big difference and I think that the jiu-jitsu life and
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because I was moving so much they used to call me jiu-jitsu gypsy Yeah Because I was like I felt like that
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I had everything and I had nothing Right You know Yeah Because you I had
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everything I wanted like sponsors I was traveling I I was good at what I was doing I was not always successful but I
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was almost there You know what I mean and gave me a a feeling of like uh
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rewarding but at the same time I felt lonely I felt like empty you know and I
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didn't know what it was I thought that because I didn't have a boyfriend that I need to share life Yes You
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misconcept when you have God you fulfill You know what I mean you like full and
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you have so much to give to other people You can help anybody You know what I mean and you can you're there you
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present you know you're not you don't have doubts anymore like oh I you know
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intrusive thoughts that we have like we have like 5,000 thoughts a day and 200
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of them are very good thoughts and the others are all intrusive thoughts that are [ __ ] You know what I mean that you
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think about like you think about you see a big ass heel and you imagine yourself on top of the heel and then later on you
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imagine should I jump you know what I mean like yeah because this is an intrusive thought and that's a human
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brain and that's the same in life you know what I mean and and you think about
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like oh [ __ ] and you have so much negative thought because you had a bad u interaction with somebody and then
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you're like oh it was this and it started to be like no it was not that like this is all good like we move
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forward like no you know what I mean like and that's it's a real big
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challenge you know but God was with me like about 2017 but before days I felt
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empty for sure well you're there you're there I saw it at the weighin and I saw it in the fight
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you definitely have that zen that focus that purpose like I could see it and
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there was a huge jump between um how good you looked in this fight versus the
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last one And I'm not sure did did we get that part or No we did We did Uh for you
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what what made the difference between your last fight and this fight because like Angela was saying it was a huge
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jump Yeah Really good Yeah Of course the technique My coach he's the secret
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secret My boyfriend my beautiful boyfriend just arrived Baby come to say hi You're gorgeous
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even took my breath away No definitely the secret weapon was
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my coach when it comes to my technique And I always say this thing like to work
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with somebody that no matter how they are and how good they are they got to understand the athlete they're working
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with You know they got to understand their personality how they worked how they give you results what frustrate to
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them and all those little things that it might not matter but it does matter You know what I mean a little at least for
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me because I also am a coach I'm not MMA coach I I teach kids in adults womans
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and etc I specialize in self-defense and I really try to understand the necessity
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of my students before I I impose a technique you know I tried to understand
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like you know everybody has a different way to learn as well And I think he was
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the big secret but he understood how I work He saw what I needed and how he was
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going to do this This first the second mo most important thing there was to be
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more calm less emotional you know to be focused to be fearless but like a ice
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cold heart you know because the game and the recuperative game a while you're
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doing all you're doing there like striking and you did a really good combat you had to use so much power then
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recuperate after all you If you have to engage for takedown you do and save your
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energy and just punch and just go from there This was big difference in the
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fight for me Definitely Nice That's really hard Definitely showed Yeah Yeah Yeah You see people at
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the top and still they'll go hard hard gas out lose two rounds and then rely on
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a knockout to get the win And if you can keep control of that like the recuperation in between big moments then
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yeah you're going to be you're going to be killing it out there Do you have any uh names that you want next on the top
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of your head or you just chilling no I am not you right now I'm not best at the
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words you know I I also didn't have any opportunity to get a last minute call that was really good that I got like mix
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mix uh proposals like 125 115 and I was like no hell and less like short period
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of time to give a answer they want to answer right away they didn't give me 48
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hours you know uh but with my coach now he's uh been um doing very good uh
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planning um Ariani Silva career he so was my um he won't allow me to get a
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last wanted to call that's a very short you know but I and in the end of the day
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I know it's me and he would do what I want but I I rather go with what he want
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as well I don't have names to call to be honest I I'm happy and grateful whatever
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yours he give to me you know because the last time I fought Angela was like eight
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months ago you know and yeah so I I do intend to fight three times this year
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you know and um I would like to have a call soon you know before June or July
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Nice Any any place that you're looking at i heard you wanted to fight in Brazil possibly Yeah I I would like to fight in
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Brazil There's like five years that I don't see my family you know Wow Yeah I want to see that It would be great to
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get a W and just go enjoy my family you know but otherwise it's whatever they
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offering to me I I would like to fight a U number UFC you know I think I should
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talk a little bit more [ __ ] online like talking to Donna girl Hey be like this
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wrestling guy Don't Nico I was just going to fight if it's going to be main card
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There you go Fight night Fight night Put me in a main card Put me in a purple
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Just call out everyone you think you can submit like just be like "I'mma finish her her her." And then they're gonna
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want to prove that it's not true And you get a fight book There you go Yeah Yeah Yeah But I like how you Yeah I like how
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you're doing it as well Like you like always ready you know like I'm trying to be ready because I was also saying this
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is in last interview I did They say "Oh how was the preparation for this camp?"
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I was like "I was not really preparing for Vanessa." I said I'm been I've been ready to be in the UFC you know like
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because he our division 115 it's the most spec division you know of the woman
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was us and 125 It's the most pack and
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there was 70% of Brazilian you know too many Brazilians Yeah I was like I'm
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going to end up fighting with Brazilian again you know Of course if it's coming to the country I I would not like to but
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it is what it is you know Actually there is many of at least like a list of 10 girls that I would fight right now you
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know But they all kind of fought recently you know Um but I know as much
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as W I get I'll get better But not there yet for the 15 or for the 10 but maybe
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few years or less than this I mean demop
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Yeah she had went over Dakota who was ranked for a while I think Um and then
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she wasn't ranked but that's definitely a move closer to the top or closer to
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the top 15 of win over Vanessa So you're definitely going to be looking at
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something if you get another win for sure Yeah I know I didn't Yeah Anything
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can change a fight or two Anything can change 100% how uh Jacqueline you know
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like Jacqueline u Amory Yeah She uh she
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lost her first fight and then she got four W's and now she's like fighting
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somebody else Oh Poliana They're fighting Yeah It's going to be a good fight Your people clashing heads with
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too many of you Yeah Right So like now two Brazilians fighting and they kind of
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about the same city you know like one's from Bellia another one's from now you know what I mean and they really good
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people you know what I mean they should just have a whole straw weight card in Brazil Like just all women
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Yeah Yeah They pack up Yeah And what is next for you
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for me i'm just hanging out I'm waiting I fought in February so I'm still
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waiting to hear back from them on what's going to be me what's going to be next but hopefully three this year too So we
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both got our one out of the way So fingers crossed for three It's not like happening for everyone nowadays So no no
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it's ideal but good Two is good but three is amazing you know it's it's
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perfect for the year Uhhuh Definitely leaves you in a good mindset for the year Yeah I feel like kind of the
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average is two a year for everybody Yeah Yeah Just because there's so many
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and especially like you said there's so many straw weights right now that uh for our weight class it seems like
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definitely too Yeah Um are you going to Miami next week i'm going to be back I'm
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going to be back and um I think I'm going to miss the UFC Brian tried to get
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me tickets but I don't think they got it But I'm going to watch the UFC from here
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I'll be back on a Monday and back to Derfield Beach Oh okay Nice Nice Oh one
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more thing I want to ask you What's the name of your coach that's taking such good care of you and uh uh Hen Silva
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Yeah his Instagram is I think Hen Let me see
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Hat Yeah you should check him out He have clean technique and okay he's
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cooking good Henato hasha is his uh Instagram but underneath is Henato Silva
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but if you know Ariani Limpiski Limpski or Silva
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so he's the husband the coach Okay okay nice coach husband they always take good
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care of their fighters He's real He's a real piece of work He
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can make you like trust me because I'm not very easy you know I can tell I can be a real real piece of work I can be I
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can be sweet as as as a strawberry but I can be a real [ __ ] you know So all the
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best can Yeah there's a balance you know and he put on my shoes and always to be like
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"Yes sir." You know so he takes the most off me for sure I love it That's why
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you're a good fighter because you got that balance For sure For sure Yeah
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Well thank you so much for joining us We really appreciate your time I know it's uh kind of short notice and I know
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you're just coming off your victory so thank you so much for taking your victory lap with us It's my pleasure
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Actually I was happy when Brian told me that you guys want to talk to me I was like "Oh yes I'm gonna get more
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girlfriends I'm gonna get more girls." So I was like "Yeah I like to support um
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the woman's business you know I I wish you guys a lot of success you know and I
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I I hope to see what you guys get best from this and keep being funny and
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authentic how you guys are like I love it It's so entertaining you know and I
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also take some things from me make some notes and be funny as well." Yes you are
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You don't need to try I know right i can't wait for that video you said that's coming out We're not going to
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tell them what it is We'll we'll surprise everyone but I can't wait for that I will I will definitely post
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because it's it's meant to Yes you have to You have to
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Thank you so much for your time Yeah we'll be posting this later and we'll keep in touch Thank you so much You're
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welcome Bye Bye Bye Okay Was it scary cutting that much for
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the first time no because I used to fight 118 uh in jiu-jitsu but um like
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the big tournaments and I had to like weigh in the same day fighting the same day you know So I had to be like 114
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because the ghee and the rash guard the stuff for the knee was about 3 to four pounds you know So it's kind of the same
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thing but because I was much heavier much heavier than I ever walk in my life
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I've been much heavier I'm like I'm walking really heavy for sparring Um it was a little difficult you know but no
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it was nothing that uh challenged me very much that I felt very weak but the
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last pounds are very hard to be honest Yes Yeah they always are That last one
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Yeah Well done Um I have something to confess I realized that I didn't press
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record Oh no No problem We can't do it again What an
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amateur No But you guys are studying right now
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That's okay I have time Don't worry Oh thank you It's okay I saw that and I
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thought maybe you stopped and then started again Um do you want to introduce her and then we'll just roll
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right back into the because I really wanna uh post a me too It's all good I'm so sorry I
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really No don't Look I want to support you guys business I It's really cool
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what you guys are doing and I'm here to support and I'm not trying to kiss ass at all but I want to help Don't worry Go