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[BxBD] Nakatani-Nishida, Wardley-Miller distrack, and the Ali Act · Boxing B-Sides

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  Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Before. Before.
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  Before. Before. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing. Boxing
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  Before Dark. Dark. This is Boxing Before Dark.
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  You're really sad. Yeah, I saw that. I was like,
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  man. That was my first Batman, was Val Kilmer.
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  Yeah, Val Kilmer was one of my Hollywood crushes
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  as a kid. I can see why. He's a very handsome
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  dude. It's going to sound like a weird role to
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  choose. But him as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
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  I absolutely see why that would be. I said this
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  to somebody and they're like, you mean the sick
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  dying version of Val Kilmer. Yeah, but he was
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  dying in a hot way. Oh. So was that like Florence
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  Nightingale kind of thing? No, I don't think
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  so. I think Val Kilmer is a good -looking man,
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  and I like Tombstone the movie. It's a great,
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  great movie. I've been trying to find it to re
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  -watch it, but it's not on any of the streamers.
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  I can oblige. Nice. Oh, man. I remember... Was
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  he top secret? Do you know Top Secret? No, I
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  don't know about Top Secret. One second. I can't
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  remember if that's him or Johnny Depp. I can't
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  tell from the... Yeah. Okay, Top Secret is like
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  airplane style comedy, but James Bond -ish. Anyways,
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  you should go find it. Kind of, but different.
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  Yeah, airplane style versus the really... overtly
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  campy type of shit that Austin Powers did. What's
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  the little blurb they give? My Google's back
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  to being in Japanese and I don't know why. Okay,
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  top secret. An American rock and roll singer
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  is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany
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  in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO
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  submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved
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  in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned
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  scientist. okay all right val kilmer is the rock
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  and roll star but like at one point he's crawling
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  through a field and he like crawls up to a pair
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  of boots and they're just boots in a field and
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  then he does it again but the boots move but
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  it's a cow wearing rubber boots what the hell
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  okay yeah this is you have to go find it this
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  sounds like um Get Him to the Greek meets Austin
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  Powers. I haven't seen it for decades, but I
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  think that is probably pretty fair. I just remember
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  it feeling like Airplane. Like that stupid kind
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  of, yeah. That's what Austin Powers is. That's
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  really silly. Kung Pao, Enter the Fist. Yeah.
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  That type of silliness. It's Val Kilmer being
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  a comedy star and not like an action star. Or
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  drama type. Yeah. Yeah. Because like Batman Forever
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  felt a lot more like a drama than it did like
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  a Batman action movie. The same way some of the
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  others did. Yeah. Man. He's been really sick
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  for a while though. I guess it's not. Yeah. It
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  was like pneumonia for like the third time or
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  something. yeah well he had throat cancer or
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  whatever like a long time ago didn't he that's
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  why he quit acting he could hardly talk anymore
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  i didn't know that that's that was years ago
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  that makes it makes sense that that way like
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  he was in what was that movie like uh gruber
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  or something like mcgruber yeah some shit it
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  was like a cheesy action movie And he was the
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  big bad in that one. He had a big scar from surgery.
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  That's why he always wore scarves at the end.
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  Oh, I see. In that one, he let it be visible.
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  And it was part of his big bad persona. Nice.
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  Yeah, I remember that. I remember because MacGruber...
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  The movie was MacGruber. Man, who was the 80s
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  star, like would fix anything with like a paper
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  clip and a rubber band? MacGyver. MacGyver. So
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  it was like MacGruber was like a play on MacGyver.
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  And we had a guy in my unit at the time. His
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  name was Gruber. So he just became MacGruber.
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  And he had no say in it as much as he disliked
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  it. The more he complained, the more it became
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  cemented. Of course. Yep. Sorry, group. Man,
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  is this a good time for like a little formal
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  intro? Where's your soju and soju drop shots?
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  Drop shot drinks. I could go grab my soju, but
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  it's peach flavored. I have purple punch big
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  sips. Nice. pre -game cocktail pound one before
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  you go into wherever you're going and save yourself
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  a little yep little drink ball bombs isn't there
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  one that's like balls okay yep yeah i thought
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  there was one that was also something bombs and
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  they look like little cartoony bombs maybe i
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  am gonna get my soju yeah do it it's saturday
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  i'll be right back yep Oh, boy. Oh, it's a party
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  now. I had a Korean guy making fun of me because
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  I buy the flavored one, man. OK, well, it probably
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  helped when I lived in Korea that I would always
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  like I'd go shopping with my girlfriend. And
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  so like if I bought anything, quote unquote,
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  girly, nobody would ever say anything. Yeah.
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  Well, also, I'm a girl, so. Yeah, no shit. Like,
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  what the fuck? Like, I could buy girly shit because
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  I had a girl with me. You're a girl buying girly
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  shit. What's the fucking deal? Yeah, who cares?
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  But also, they are still, what are they, 10 %
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  alcohol? They're like regular wines. Yeah, they're
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  like 10 % to 15 % depending on which one you
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  get. I can't actually find it on here because
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  it's all in Japanese. I think this one's 13%.
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  Anyways, doesn't matter. Not the point. I just
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  buy them like wine coolers. With the flavored
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  ones, yeah. You could get like a really strong
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  wine cooler. So I was just, you know, I grabbed
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  a bag of chips and I think two of the sojus.
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  I was like, fuck it. I'm going to get tipsy tonight.
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  And this guy's like, oh, drinking the girly drinks.
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  And I was like, yup. As opposed to what? Any
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  drink that I get, if I'm a girl, any drink I
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  get is a girly drink. It doesn't matter. I could
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  get the dumpster water flavored something or
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  other, and it would still be girly. Oh, fuck.
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  Speaking of girls' drinks, they have... uh jim
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  beam peach flavored whiskey yeah you mentioned
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  that yeah i still can't find my crown royal i'm
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  pissed you know crown royal with the flavored
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  stuff they make uh canned cocktails and there's
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  they have a peach one an apple one and then like
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  a regular uh crown and coke nice yeah they make
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  just like peach flavored crown royal yeah i'm
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  familiar I think it's still 40%. Like, I don't
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  think they water it down very much. No, they
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  don't. And it's fucking dangerous. I know. I
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  know. I've had some wild nights with Crown Royal.
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  Me and one of my friends bought, like, the regular
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  -sized bottle, a 2 -6 or whatever, and we accidentally
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  drank the whole thing. And I was like, how does
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  this fucking happen as an accident? I was so
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  wrecked. Didn't make it home, slept on his floor
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  with his dog, woke up the next day, hung over
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  his fuck, and I'm like, but it tastes like peaches.
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  It tastes like peach juice. That's what it tastes
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  like. For the uninitiated, like crown, peach
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  crown is like the syrup that's inside of like
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  canned peaches. Just a little, not as thick,
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  but it is that sweet. It's so good. And it's
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  really dangerous. It's built for making cocktails,
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  but I'm a lazy piece of shit, so I just drink
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  it on ice. Well, all right. Let me give us a
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  little formal introduction here. Boxing before
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  dark. Boxing before dark. I decided to put in
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  a little X on the... I don't know if you noticed,
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  but rather than being BBD, because, you know,
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  you know, it's BXBD now, but still fun. Boxing
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  before dark. It's all the boxing and a lot more
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  fun. Like crown peach fun. I get so off topic.
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  We had to just get me away from the main show.
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  No, it's not just you. Something I noticed that
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  happened with Drip a lot is we would have a lot
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  of stuff in the weeds, and he'd be like, what
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  the fuck are you guys talking about? I'm like,
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  hey, this is important. But then I realized it's
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  not important. At all. Nobody gives a shit. So
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  that's Boxing Before Dark. We're here to talk
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  about the shit that may not make a regular podcast.
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  But still, if you want to get... further into
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  the weeds than boxing b -sides we're here to
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  get you nice and uh crawling through the fields
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  up to some rubber boots top secret style top
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  secret uh all right um so first things first
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  farmer tevin farmer reveals that he has tourette
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  syndrome I want you to gloat. Go ahead. You called
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  it. I fucking called this. You called it. I called
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  this. Everybody was telling me it was all in
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  my head, that there was nothing going on. You're
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  seeing things. No, you're overthinking it. It's
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  not that big a deal. Not some sort of neural
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  damage, but definitely a clear tick that I did
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  not make up. I fucking called it. I noticed the
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  tick. I just wasn't sure if it was as bad as
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  you were thinking it was. It's pretty bad. It
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  is very noticeable. For people who are saying
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  you were making it up, it's like, man, are you
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  watching Tevin Farmer? Are we watching the same
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  person right now? Because there's clearly something
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  going on. I am glad that it's something not damage
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  -related. Yeah, it's more innocuous than... something
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  else but i do think it did get worse after his
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  um jojo diaz after jojo diaz fight yeah and that's
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  when he took that long time off so i wonder if
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  they weren't trying to get him dialed in on i
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  don't know is there even medicine for torrents
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  not the type that's gonna get you to stop ticking
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  you it'll it'll uh dampen it but not not to the
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  point that it disappears Right. I wonder if he
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  needed some time to dial in something that let
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  him keep boxing. How to channel your tick. Yeah.
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  Rather than letting it be a tell. And the fucking
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  announcers keep saying he's looking up at the
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  score clock or the time clock or whatever. And
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  I'm like, no, he's not, guys. That is not what
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  this is. Man. Anyways, I have queued up. the
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  voice thing insert here vindication all right
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  vindication i love brooklyn 99 oh i've been meaning
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  to watch that you've never seen it it's really
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  good highly recommend it i'm still uh trying
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  to work my way through modern family which is
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  100 up my alley and i know brooklyn 99 is too
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  i've seen Some of Modern Family, but I've never
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  sat down and watched it. Oh, while we're in the
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  weeds again, the second season of Windbreaker
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  has started. The teen school gang fighting anime
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  I like. Oh, yeah. Fucking first episode of season
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  two just starts with an all out gang war. And
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  you're like, what the hell happened? How did
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  we get here? How did we go from the end of season
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  one to this? I mean, it kind of makes sense,
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  but also just like no buildup at all. It's just,
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  all right, guess we're busting in and kicking
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  the shit out of these guys. Rather than like
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  an upward checkmark, we're checkmarking down
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  and we're going to dip from here and then build
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  back up to something else. I think it's just
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  we're going to start at the top and fucking buckle
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  in, boys. Because, yeah, we're going. we're going
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  top speed yeah uh fire force is also getting
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  season three but it's been so long since season
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  two i gotta re -watch it season one i've seen
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  like six times these sound directing i don't
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  know what you call that it's amazing in fire
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  force they use like negative sound somehow i
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  don't know how to describe it yeah super cool
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  that's yeah that sounds actually pretty interesting
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  The sound mixing is the best in anime, and the
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  visuals are cool. The world's cool. I just really
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  like Fire Force. Well, speaking of sound, should
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  they let boxers avoid the post -fight interview
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  in the ring immediately after the fight? I think
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  yes. I think so too. If they don't want to take
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  it, they shouldn't have to. I like... Because
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  that was Claudia Trejo, right? Yes. I put this
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  on to discuss because Farmer said he didn't want
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  to do the interview. He said twice and was trying
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  to walk away, and they told him he had to. And
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  then people got mad about what he had to say.
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  He warned you twice. Yeah, and he didn't even
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  say anything that bad. No, nothing that was all
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  that questionable. He said what you would expect
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  from a guy who just lost a super close fight
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  for the second time. He said all the things that
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  you would expect. I don't know what I have to
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  do to get the judges on my side. Of course, I'm
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  going to lose in his hometown. All the hallmarks
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  of what you'd expect. I don't see why people
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  would be upset about what he said. Well, and
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  he even opened it up with the generic, like,
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  I am not mad at Zepeda. Zepeda's a good fighter.
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  He did what he's supposed to do. But, like, just
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  let the guy go be angry and interview him at
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  the end. Didn't they let one of the Malonis just
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  walk out of the ring and go cry and pout? tantrum
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  tantrum yeah tantrum in the fucking dressing
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  room come on man i don't know why they stopped
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  farmer he was trying to walk away and they stopped
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  him and then he's like i don't want to do this
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  and they're like and then they're like oh but
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  you know you can't be mad at boxing Uh, no, I
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  can be bad at correction. I am mad at boxing.
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  I am not mad at like Williams of Peta. It's not
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  the same shit that we say. Like I say anyway,
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  with robberies is like, um, just, just an example.
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  Um, in over on the MMA side, there's this guy
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  named, uh, Bautista who ended up winning a very.
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  obviously shitty decision and so like i later
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  on we're talking about like who's he gonna fight
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  next what are his next options and then we're
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  i i'm always thinking of what how can i get his
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  ass beat the most Because he needs to fucking
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  pay for the shitty decision that had nothing
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  to do with him. Not at all his fault. He did
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  not make the judges do anything. But he was the
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  beneficiary. So, he has to suffer for it. Which
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  is also shitty. It is. 90 % of the time, the
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  sponsors have done absolutely nothing. It's not
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  Zepeda's fault. It's not over on the MMA guy,
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  Bautista. It's not his fault. He didn't make
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  the judges do anything. But. But he's the one
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  that has to pay for it because he's the one that
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  benefited from it. And he's the one that's going
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  to be in the ring. Right. Yeah. It's unfortunate.
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  Maybe we should put the judges that gave him
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  that shitty decision into the ring or the cage
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  or whatever. Like, okay, you want to score it?
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  You want to score it 8 -4 for Zepeda? How about
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  Tevin Farmer? He's about to give you an 8 -4.
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  How about that? Yeah, he gets 8 -4 minutes, depending
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  how long you live. Yeah, 8 -4 minutes, and that's
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  what he's going to get on you. And then we'll
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  see how you score the next one. If you score
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  the next one. I don't know. I don't know how
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  you fix it. You can't, but... I do feel bad for
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  Farmer. I do too. Anybody who was talking shit
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  about him, oh, well, everybody who loses calls
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  a robbery or whatever they were saying online.
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  I'm just like, man, give the man his hour to
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  get his shit together for the post -fight interview.
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  And he was so gracious in his little defeat interview.
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  Yeah. He was super gracious, very... uh congratulatory
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  to zapata like like okay if the judges gave it
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  to you the judges gave it to you congratulations
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  you're like hell of a fighter fucking trademark
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  tip my hat off to him that type of stuff but
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  and and then he went off on boxing as an institution
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  and that that's the type of shit like That's
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  the stuff that a lot of people don't, like, I
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  don't know. Do they not want to hear it? Are
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  they not ready to hear it? What do you think?
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  It's just politics, isn't it? Right. Yeah, you're
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  right. It's politics. And anybody who agrees
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  with him is going to agree with him. And anybody
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  who doesn't agree with him is just going to be,
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  oh, he's just a sore loser. Honestly, this fight,
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  I don't think Farmer deserved a win. Yeah, yeah.
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  The first fight, I scored for him. But this fight,
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  he got hurt. or whatever, and he just had to
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  take some rounds off in the beginning slash middle.
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  And him being hurt and plus taking the rounds
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  off in the immediate aftermath, that was the
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  deciding factor the same way the knockdown was
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  in the first one, right? Yeah, well, and I do
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  think he got another knockdown that they call
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  the slam. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can see why
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  he's... I can see why he's really upset. Yeah.
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  Well, and... Farmer really has not gotten any
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  of his just dues for these two Zepeda fights.
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  Everybody's like, man, Zepeda fucking sucks.
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  Like, he's been exposed. He's terrible because
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  Farmer dropped him. And I'm like, Farmer's good,
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  guys. Right! I don't understand the farmer hate.
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  Do you not fucking remember how many years ago
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  was it now that people were talking about Tevin
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  Farmer is the one to beat Tank? That's what people
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  were talking about. Honestly, I think he could
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  still hurt Tank. Farmer's chin is not going to
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  hold up. He will lose, but he could make Tank
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  look bad. If Roach can do what he did. Farmer's
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  more guts. Yeah. Farmer could have similar levels
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  of success. I don't think he beats him the same
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  way that Roach did, which Roach did beat Gervonta
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  Davis. Make no mistake about that. If Roach can
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  do that, win a close decision, I don't see, I
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  think Tank or Farmer could have Tank. giving
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  him a lot of fits, giving him a lot of trouble.
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  I think Farmer would lay hands on Tank. We would
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  see if Tank actually has a chin. Not that Farmer
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  hits that hard. That's one thing he is lacking.
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  He is not a power puncher, but we would see if
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  Tank can take a punch or if he's just going to
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  take another knee that somehow doesn't get fucking
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  counted. He's not a knockdown. It's not a knockdown.
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  It's not a submission. I don't even know what
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  you call them. It's just the fight continues
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  as is. Fucking bullshit. For anybody who might
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  be thinking, because Farmer, his last three decisions
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  have been on the... He's gotten the short end
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  of the stick. The last three times. Moritaya,
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  super close. Arguable that he won. I don't think
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  he did. Zepeda won. He won. Super close. Arguable
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  that he won. I think he won. And then Zepeda
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  2, super close. I think Zepeda won. In my first
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  watch, I thought Farmer did enough, but... Looking
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  back on it, like, eh, maybe not. Still. Yeah,
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  I have no problem with Cepeda winning that second
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  fight. Right. Still super close. This was the
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  guy when Matchroom USA first started, which it
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  doesn't exist anymore. But Matchroom USA, Tevin
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  Farmer was the guy that they were talking about.
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  This is the antidote to Tank. Yeah. And I don't
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  think they're wrong. So don't, if you're thinking
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  like, ah, Tevin Farmer's garbage, whatever, he's
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  washed, whatever the fuck. I don't think so.
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  Yeah, I don't think he's done. Not at all. Not
• 25:21
  at all. And his, whatever neurological issues
• 25:24
  that we were worried he might have had, not that
• 25:28
  big of a deal. Apparently. Yeah. It's not the
• 25:32
  worst. There are, like, Luis Lopez Venado recently
• 25:39
  had a fight, and that was... Yeah, I couldn't
• 25:42
  even find that to watch. It was on YouTube Live,
• 25:45
  but it finished super quick. It's like the guy
• 25:51
  didn't even give any opposition. He was there
• 25:54
  to get paid, and that was about it. Right. But
• 26:00
  that guy, Luis Lopez, that would be someone I'm
• 26:04
  like, ugh. Let's maybe rethink our career choices
• 26:10
  here. That's a good segue to if we skip one.
• 26:15
  All right. So I was watching interviews for Hergovich
• 26:22
  and Joyce. And Hergovich had the funniest line.
• 26:28
  Maybe it's his accent. Maybe it's the delivery.
• 26:31
  But they're like, what? do you have for Joe Joyce?
• 26:35
  And he's like, punches are not vitamins. Do not
• 26:40
  stay in boxing too long. And I was like, yes.
• 26:43
  This is my new catchphrase. Punches are not vitamins.
• 26:50
  It's a good one. Joe Joyce has, like, the juggernaut
• 26:57
  moniker comes from his just taking punches that's
• 27:04
  yeah and he walks through him his non -defense
• 27:08
  like joy joyce is there to be hit he gets hit
• 27:13
  a lot right and i i really like joe joyce i really
• 27:18
  hope he does something here but then i don't
• 27:22
  know what that leads to either so hope uh yeah
• 27:26
  this is their both of their their bids to stay
• 27:31
  at the world level. Um, yeah, I don't know. I
• 27:36
  feel like Herkovich would do well at the Europe,
• 27:40
  like the European, the continental kind of level.
• 27:44
  And Joe Joyce, probably the same. Like I, it's
• 27:47
  like they're fighting for a position that neither
• 27:49
  of them really deserve, or I don't know about
• 27:52
  maybe deserves not the right word, but that neither
• 27:55
  of them really rate. They don't, they don't have.
• 27:59
  the appropriate merit if that's the better way
• 28:04
  to put it but I mean like if fucking Derek Chisora
• 28:07
  is getting another belt getting another chance
• 28:12
  at a belt maybe Joe Joyce can too it's one of
• 28:18
  the with the current crop like the age of the
• 28:20
  current crop Derek Chisora is one of the few
• 28:24
  that I could call unk yeah Like, dude, it's about
• 28:30
  time. Like, what the fuck are you thinking about?
• 28:34
  I know you think you can with this next one.
• 28:37
  Does he, though? I don't think he does. I think
• 28:40
  Derek Chisora is cashing out. He had his fucking
• 28:44
  retirement speech all written out and planned.
• 28:47
  He did it with Otto Wally? Yeah, and then he
• 28:48
  won the fight. Yeah. I think it was expecting
• 28:52
  to win, to be honest with you. But not get a
• 28:56
  fucking mandatory shot at the IBF world title.
• 29:00
  Well, UK is one of the ones that, like, they
• 29:04
  play heavily into the IBF because rankings matter
• 29:09
  over there. And as long as you're not one or
• 29:12
  two, you can grease your way into any slot that
• 29:18
  you want, really. And I think that's what's happening
• 29:21
  with Joe Joyce. Or not Joe Joyce, with Derek
• 29:25
  Chisora and Daniel Dubois. Is Chisora not ranked
• 29:32
  number one? I think he's ranked number one by
• 29:36
  the IBF. If he is, I'm going to have to retract
• 29:40
  everything that I just said. Let me... What do
• 29:47
  we got here? IBF. rankings i guess is what i
• 29:51
  need to type in i am so tired hold on i am i'm
• 29:56
  a little bit um i have them saved just because
• 30:01
  it's a good idea but okay so number one is not
• 30:07
  rated but derek chizora is the top rated heavyweight
• 30:11
  by the idf he is number one or number two these
• 30:16
  are the ones that get enforced Why are they listing
• 30:21
  him as Zimbabwe? Must be where his heritage?
• 30:29
  I thought Chisora was born in the UK. I thought
• 30:35
  he was British, but Dillian White is Jamaican.
• 30:40
  That's how they label him, is Jamaican. Oh, no,
• 30:46
  Chizora was born in Zimbabwe, according to BoxRec.
• 30:49
  Sounds British enough for me. Like, anytime I
• 30:52
  hear him speak, he sounds British as shit. Yeah,
• 30:57
  I just didn't realize. I don't either. I guess
• 31:00
  that's... I guess we gotta cheer for Chizora
• 31:05
  now. Man, I can't even... I could barely tell
• 31:06
  the difference... I always cheer for Chizora.
• 31:07
  I could barely tell the difference between, like,
• 31:09
  a fucking Manchester or Liverpool... or blackpool
• 31:16
  or whatever different parts of the uk i can barely
• 31:19
  tell the difference between them so if there's
• 31:21
  a zimbabwe born british person i'm not sorry
• 31:28
  that i didn't recognize if he had a different
• 31:30
  accent because he sounds british to me apparently
• 31:34
  he was in zimbabwe all through school well Chisora
• 31:40
  and his family moved to the UK in 1999 when he
• 31:44
  was 16. 16? Yeah. Well, you all sound the same
• 31:54
  to me, British people. His family must have had
• 31:55
  relative money. They sent him to an all -boys
• 31:59
  boarding school. Yeah, that sounds like they
• 32:02
  would have money. I'm going to chalk that up
• 32:07
  to... To save face for myself, I'm going to chalk
• 32:13
  that up to I don't hear differences in accents.
• 32:17
  I just hear British United Kingdom citizens speaking.
• 32:24
  Yeah, he's not American. That's all I can know.
• 32:29
  Yeah, well, I'm learning the different accents
• 32:34
  of like the Canadian accents. I'm getting better.
• 32:39
  Yeah. I can pick out parts of Canada pretty good.
• 32:43
  Of course. I can pick out parts of the U .S.
• 32:45
  easily, but it's... I'm going to just bolster
• 32:52
  myself, gas myself up a little bit. I don't look
• 32:55
  at you guys. I don't hear your accents and think,
• 32:59
  that's this person or that region or that region.
• 33:03
  I just hear my British friends, my United Kingdom
• 33:07
  friends. speaking. That's all I hear. I still
• 33:12
  have trouble with the difference between England
• 33:14
  and Britain. Still haven't quite nailed that
• 33:17
  down. I'm never sure which one to use. I think
• 33:22
  those are the same. They're not. There is a difference,
• 33:25
  but I can't remember what it is. Britain includes
• 33:28
  Wales or something? It's the British Isles. So,
• 33:33
  like, yeah. Britain includes Wales because it's
• 33:37
  on the same island. I think. Okay, but England
• 33:42
  does not. England is a part of it. England is
• 33:45
  the smallest. It's a part of the isle. But not
• 33:52
  the full island. And then the UK includes Scotland?
• 33:56
  Yes, and Northern Ireland. Yeah. I just remember
• 34:04
  this because I saw a video recently. It's this
• 34:07
  guy who does like flag and nation trivia. And
• 34:14
  it's like, oh, what are the four nations of the
• 34:16
  United Kingdom? It is. I just in my mind, I said
• 34:21
  Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. And then
• 34:27
  the response. His response was wrong. It's Northern
• 34:33
  Ireland. I mean, it is. It is, yes. But also,
• 34:39
  suck my balls. Like, are you... My favorite history
• 34:44
  flag trivia. Do you know why Northern Ireland
• 34:49
  has the red hand on their flag? No. Okay, so
• 34:55
  I can't remember his name. But there were two
• 34:58
  kings. or noblemen of some sort that were racing
• 35:04
  and the first person to touch the land got to
• 35:09
  claim it and he cut off his fucking hand and
• 35:13
  threw it so he touched it first so it's the red
• 35:16
  hand of ulster because he cut off his hand and
• 35:19
  just hopped it and he's like fucking touched
• 35:22
  it it's mine bitches hilarious And we had the
• 35:30
  troubles because of that. Yeah. But yeah, that's
• 35:35
  why it's got a red band. Jesus. The only flag
• 35:42
  trivia I really know. I don't know any flag trivia.
• 35:46
  I just recognize what they're attached to. But
• 35:50
  let's just fucking carry on. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry.
• 35:56
  No, no, no worries. Wilder versus Ngannou. Yeah.
• 36:04
  It's in the works. Is it really? Yeah. If Wilder
• 36:09
  gets past his next fight, which, given who it
• 36:13
  is, chances are likely that he will. And then
• 36:19
  Wilder versus Ngannou. Huh. I don't know, man.
• 36:24
  Wilder looks... so shit last time out. Ngannou
• 36:27
  might tag him. It's worrisome. I don't feel as
• 36:33
  confident as I normally would about Wilder's
• 36:38
  chances as I usually would. Ngannou made Fury
• 36:42
  look hittable, and Wilder has way less defense.
• 36:48
  And he doesn't have the killer instinct anymore,
• 36:51
  apparently. opened his third eye and connected
• 36:56
  with the gods or whatever so he i don't know
• 36:59
  man the bronze bomber is gone now we got the
• 37:04
  we have deontay wilder that's what we have now
• 37:08
  it it's just that's what we have left is some
• 37:13
  guy from mobile alabama the the professional
• 37:16
  fighter not The bronze bomber who was like the
• 37:21
  professional fucking in -ring killer. Yeah. No.
• 37:25
  That's what we have left. You can't yell bomb
• 37:28
  squad anymore. It's just, it's done. I don't
• 37:32
  think so. As much as I want to. Because. That's
• 37:37
  funny shit. He was our, our heavyweight hope
• 37:41
  here over in the U .S. That, man, I. Oh, God.
• 37:45
  The great American hope. He was the great American
• 37:48
  hope. I cannot express in words how much I believed
• 37:54
  in him and how he was going to be the one. He
• 37:58
  is the one. He is the one. He is going to take
• 38:02
  American heavyweight boxing back into its glory
• 38:06
  days. I believed it. I cannot. And for a while,
• 38:13
  he did. To be honest, he did. And he did, but
• 38:18
  it's like, man. I talked my boyfriend at the
• 38:22
  time into going out to a bar with me to watch
• 38:24
  Wilder Fury 2. And I was like, there's no fucking
• 38:28
  way Wilder wins this one. I was like, Fury's
• 38:30
  going to win, whatever. But we got to the bar
• 38:35
  and it was so quiet in there. There was like
• 38:38
  no atmosphere at all. People were there to watch.
• 38:41
  Like you paid a cover to come in and watch the
• 38:43
  pay -per -view. It's the only reason anyone was
• 38:46
  there, and it was fucking dead silent before
• 38:49
  the fight started. And me and my ex, we fed off
• 38:55
  each other really in sometimes a fun way, sometimes
• 38:57
  not so fun. And I walked in, and I was like,
• 39:00
  no, we just got to yell bomb squad, and everybody
• 39:02
  is going to, like, hate us. He's like, but you
• 39:05
  said he's going to lose. I'm like, fuck it. And
• 39:07
  we walked in. And so you paid your cover, you
• 39:12
  walked down a small hallway, and you went in
• 39:14
  to where they had the fight playing. And there
• 39:17
  was just like regular bar bullshit on the other
• 39:19
  side. And as we walked through that second door,
• 39:21
  we both just yelled bomb squad. And people turned
• 39:25
  and started yelling at us, telling us why we
• 39:28
  were wrong. And I was like, yes. Oh, man. I knew
• 39:32
  we were wrong, but you just got to stir the pot
• 39:35
  sometimes. I took it so far that I placed like
• 39:40
  $40 worth of bets with people and lost all my
• 39:42
  money. But fuck it. Strictly for vibes. As long
• 39:47
  as I throw a smoke bomb into the hornet's nest,
• 39:51
  it'll be fun. Worth it. It's $40. I got guys
• 39:58
  yelling at us enough that they just bought us
• 40:00
  pitchers of beer. I'm pretty sure beer to...
• 40:03
  That's lost ratio. I came out even. Yeah, if
• 40:06
  people are buying you drinks for the sake of
• 40:09
  you, just because you are wrong, right? Very
• 40:15
  Canadian thing to do. I would take it. I would
• 40:19
  take the same thing. If I'm walking into a bar
• 40:25
  and I'm yelling bomb squad and everybody's looking
• 40:28
  at me like, you're a moron. Like, okay, well,
• 40:32
  let's just see who's favorable or friendly anyway.
• 40:40
  And we'll just be chatting and buying drinks
• 40:45
  for each other. Yeah, I was betting five bucks
• 40:49
  against people, however many times that is, like
• 40:53
  eight times. And they all just bought drinks.
• 40:55
  Yeah, of course. Fuck yeah. Of course. I would
• 40:59
  be. antagonizing people into buying me drinks
• 41:03
  all the time as well. What's that? Bomb squad.
• 41:08
  Oh, what's that? Your mother bomb squad is what
• 41:12
  I mean. I don't know how much that's going to
• 41:17
  antagonize anybody, but that's what we're doing.
• 41:20
  Cause I think it only works if you, if it might
• 41:24
  be because I'm a girl, I hate to play that card,
• 41:26
  but it might be because I'm a girl. It might.
• 41:29
  Like, oh, isn't she cute? She watches boxing.
• 41:33
  Oh, she thinks she knows boxing. She thinks she
• 41:37
  knows boxing. Oh, you know him because he's a
• 41:41
  knockout guy. That's the only reason that you
• 41:44
  care about him. 100%. And they're like, oh, well,
• 41:48
  who are your five favorite boxers? And you know
• 41:51
  me. They were all fucking tiny little men. And
• 41:53
  the guys are sitting there on their phones like.
• 41:56
  Oh, yeah, this guy, he fights at 120. Who the
• 41:59
  fuck has heard of this man? Fenito Lopez, Salvador
• 42:03
  Sanchez. Do you know who Roman Gonzalez is? Have
• 42:08
  you heard of that name? Like, it's that type
• 42:10
  of, like... Yeah, yeah. Well, it was... When
• 42:14
  was that? That would have been 2019, I think.
• 42:20
  2020 before COVID hit, maybe. Anyways, I listed,
• 42:26
  in a way, as one of my favorites. And somebody
• 42:28
  legit said, nobody watches the fucking victim
• 42:31
  weights. What are you doing? Oh, man. So then
• 42:38
  I listed all my favorite fighters under 127 pounds.
• 42:43
  All the victim weights. Yeah. Which, for the
• 42:51
  person listening, victim weights came up. When
• 42:55
  was that? Was that on the previous B -Sides?
• 43:00
  That might have been B -Sides. I think it was
• 43:02
  B -Sides. That was the previous time that came
• 43:05
  up. Nobody watches the victim weights. Like,
• 43:09
  I'm going to make you a victim weight. Yeah.
• 43:13
  I don't know if you realize how, like, big I
• 43:15
  actually am. Anyways. I love shutting up dickheads
• 43:23
  in bars. It's great. I kind of miss yelling at
• 43:28
  people living in Japan. I miss yelling at strangers.
• 43:32
  I bet you can only do that in the expat bars.
• 43:36
  Nah, you can't even do it there. Really? Well,
• 43:39
  the bartenders don't really understand the difference
• 43:42
  between friendly arguments and arguments. Oh,
• 43:45
  I see. At least in Chiba City. Maybe in Tokyo
• 43:48
  I could get away with it. But where I live, it's
• 43:52
  a little smaller. And if you speak English loud
• 43:55
  and it's not like really friendly, obviously
• 43:58
  really friendly, you get told to leave. Oh, that's
• 44:02
  lame. Yeah. I get told to leave sometimes just
• 44:07
  because I speak English. Japan still does that
• 44:11
  if you're outside the areas. Yeah, yeah. I don't
• 44:20
  know. Speaking of Japan, we skipped the announcement.
• 44:23
  We did. Inoue versus Nakatani in 2026. Yeah,
• 44:29
  they said it at the Boxing Awards night here
• 44:33
  in Japan. This is making my balls tickle. Tokyo
• 44:38
  Dome. I might legitimately extend my contract
• 44:43
  just so I'm still in the country. I need it to
• 44:48
  be first half of 2026. I am very much interested
• 44:52
  in traveling for this. It would be worth it,
• 44:57
  I think. Yes. Just this headline is enough. But
• 45:04
  it's going to be a stacked card. Of course. Of
• 45:07
  course. They will stack the fuck out of that
• 45:09
  card. Because fuck you. Come to Japan for it.
• 45:14
  You want to watch it? Come to Japan. We got all
• 45:17
  types of shit that's going to entice you. Yeah,
• 45:20
  of course. Of course they're going to stack it.
• 45:23
  Like, oh, God. I really hope it's in the first
• 45:27
  half. The only thing I'm a little worried about
• 45:30
  is they're going to put it in cherry blossom
• 45:32
  season. And I don't know why that bothers me,
• 45:36
  but I do not want to have to deal with allergies.
• 45:41
  Well, and just Tokyo trains in cherry blossom
• 45:45
  season. Right, a lot of travelers. And not just
• 45:49
  foreigners. Like, Japanese people legit travel
• 45:54
  to Tokyo to see the cherry blossoms. Yeah, I
• 45:57
  mean exactly that. It's just people straight
• 46:01
  up traveling. To go to the Cherry Blossoms. Yeah.
• 46:05
  Yeah. Anyways, I am so stoked. That's really,
• 46:11
  that's, even, I have so many questions. Like,
• 46:16
  how are we guaranteeing that? What? Yeah, like,
• 46:22
  it's boxing. It might fall apart. Exactly. But
• 46:24
  I do, I do feel like the Japanese guys don't
• 46:28
  really make these announcements until it's relatively
• 46:30
  solid. Right. Right. They're not just yelling
• 46:33
  and calling people out. Like, Inoue and Nakatani
• 46:38
  have never even hinted that they were actually
• 46:41
  going to fight soon. Right. So there's no hints.
• 46:47
  There would be guarantees. Like, you have to
• 46:54
  win your fights up to this point. I don't think
• 47:00
  either of them said anything like that. I legitimately
• 47:04
  think they both were just like, yeah, we're going
• 47:08
  to fight next year. We both have fights lined
• 47:11
  up, but we're fighting next year. That's the
• 47:16
  part that I was worried about. Like, what happens
• 47:19
  if one of them loses? I'm not saying that they
• 47:26
  would. Would it matter, though? Would it matter
• 47:30
  to anyone if either of them had a loss? No. I
• 47:40
  wouldn't give a shit. I wouldn't give a shit.
• 47:42
  As long as it's these two guys. I don't give
• 47:46
  a shit. I don't give a shit. Nakatani could get
• 47:50
  stopped. Inoue could get stopped. I don't care.
• 47:54
  I don't care. I want to see Inoue and Nakatani
• 47:57
  fight. What's the wait? Did they tell what the
• 48:01
  weight is? Nakatani would come up, is my understanding.
• 48:04
  Of course. What you'd expect. I actually found
• 48:11
  an English article. I don't have to translate
• 48:13
  here. Okay, so the JBC annual awards gala where
• 48:24
  all of my boys were there looking super fucking
• 48:27
  dapper. punch burgers pictures are amazing everything
• 48:31
  about it i just love but uh and they they actually
• 48:36
  um had the the lady with the pink hair her real
• 48:42
  name is not mimi but that's what she calls herself
• 48:44
  mizuki mizuki yeah yeah that i i have never not
• 48:52
  that i've watched it that many times but i've
• 48:54
  never seen any women at the the japanese boxing
• 48:57
  commission and they they gave her an award good
• 49:00
  she she rates yeah she does 100 okay so during
• 49:07
  his acceptance speech inoue challenged nakatani
• 49:10
  to fight him in 2026 let's explode japanese boxing
• 49:15
  at the tokyo dome next year inua said Through
• 49:18
  an interpreter, or according to an interpreter,
• 49:21
  Nakatani rose from where he was sitting, went
• 49:24
  over, and shook his hand and said, let's do it.
• 49:27
  So, no details, but I really don't think they
• 49:33
  would do this on such a public stage. Even if
• 49:40
  it's just that handshake, they're not going to
• 49:43
  back out of it. I don't think so. No way. But,
• 49:47
  yeah, there's absolutely no dates or fucking
• 49:50
  anything. Yeah, well. But I assume Nakatani's
• 49:55
  going to come up. I think Inoue's going to hang
• 49:57
  around at whatever that is, 122? Yeah, 22. And
• 50:04
  wait for Nakatani to come up. That's a good fucking
• 50:08
  fight that everybody wants to see. Absolutely.
• 50:11
  Oh, I'm... For the audio audience, my boxing
• 50:19
  boner is just fucking ripping apart right now.
• 50:24
  That is exactly the kind of fight that I want
• 50:27
  to see. Fucking crazy. And they both fight soon.
• 50:31
  Right. So first half of 2026 lines up. I might
• 50:39
  still be in Tokyo. Well, in Tokyo. I might still
• 50:43
  be here. I might get to watch it live. Oh my
• 50:46
  God. I don't, I might have to. How are you going
• 50:49
  to secure tickets for the other people? Like
• 50:54
  there's going to be a lot of us that want to,
• 50:56
  that are going to want to come to that. I mean,
• 50:58
  I, they're going to put caps on how many you
• 51:03
  can buy. I assume, but I also have all the old
• 51:07
  businessmen that will buy tickets for me if I
• 51:10
  transfer the money. Yeah. I can get us tickets.
• 51:16
  I am confident about that. But Tokyo Dome is
• 51:19
  going to sell out. Oh, fuck. Of course it fucking
• 51:22
  is. Are you fucking kidding me? I would pay for
• 51:26
  a seat at the boxing bar. I would be willing
• 51:31
  to go to that level just to be in the city or
• 51:36
  in the prefecture when that goes down. Happens.
• 51:41
  Yeah. I just want to be there, dude. Speaking
• 51:46
  of the boxing bar, I have already had to reserve
• 51:50
  my seat for the next in a way fight when he fights
• 51:53
  in Vegas. It's not even that big of a fight.
• 51:55
  It's not. It isn't. But the the owner texted
• 52:00
  everyone in the group chat and he's like, reserve
• 52:03
  your seat now because it's first come first serve.
• 52:06
  He's like, it's OK if you guys cancel. he's like
• 52:10
  i'll fill it don't worry don't worry about that
• 52:13
  if you think you might want to come just tell
• 52:16
  me now and i'll save you a spot so i have a seat
• 52:21
  in tokyo but man that's gonna be at a shitty
• 52:25
  fucking time i think i'm gonna have to do the
• 52:27
  overnight thing i'm gonna have to catch the last
• 52:30
  train to tokyo and drink from midnight to probably
• 52:35
  10 a .m ish Oh, no. So terrible. Well, the fucking
• 52:44
  Saudi cards, I always fall asleep. They have
• 52:46
  to wake me up. Ah, well. Better you fall asleep
• 52:51
  there than... I don't know. I can't speak to
• 52:55
  how the... I've heard the anime bars are pretty
• 52:58
  safe if you have a room. Oh, yeah. No, the rooms
• 53:04
  are at least... You can pay to have a locking
• 53:07
  door. That's all fine. Okay, cool. Yeah. But
• 53:11
  no, this is just me, like, at the bar with a
• 53:14
  bunch of old men and being like, oh, shit. I
• 53:17
  just put my head down on the bar and sleeping
• 53:19
  like a student in class. But at the same time,
• 53:23
  like, you're, like, part of the circle, right?
• 53:27
  Yeah, yeah. No, nobody's going to fuck with me.
• 53:29
  Of course, no one's going to. Not in that bar.
• 53:33
  I wouldn't do it in other bars. Yeah, that's
• 53:35
  the thing that I'm thinking about. It's like,
• 53:38
  man... People get roofied here. People are always
• 53:43
  like, Japan is so safe. People get roofied here.
• 53:47
  That's a thing you have to worry about anyways.
• 53:49
  That's exactly what I was thinking about. People
• 53:55
  aren't going to steal your shit while you're
• 53:57
  roofied. What else is going to happen to you?
• 54:04
  That's the type of shit. Don't make me fly out
• 54:08
  to Japan to beat somebody up. You know, like
• 54:12
  touching you or something like that. I mean,
• 54:15
  the Japanese guys aren't that big. I could probably
• 54:17
  handle it myself. I'm sure you could. But a big
• 54:22
  old brown dude pounding your fucking face in
• 54:26
  has a little bit of a different delivery. It
• 54:31
  does. It does. I also think those 60 -year -old
• 54:35
  men that used to balk would also have something
• 54:39
  to say. I'm sure. But we don't have to get into
• 54:45
  the dick measuring. Yeah, I imagine a bunch of
• 54:50
  this is getting cut. Jesus, I have killed this
• 54:54
  bottle of soju. Oh, well, I was waiting. We're
• 54:57
  not even to review. We're not. I got this much
• 55:02
  left. Well, all right. I got one of my little
• 55:05
  buzz balls. Oh, I also have a beer, I think.
• 55:09
  I got a tall boy of Asahi. But I do have to go
• 55:13
  to work. Oh. Well, you probably should not have
• 55:19
  had that whole bottle of soju. Nah, it's fine.
• 55:22
  I just gotta count cultures on a plate for the
• 55:25
  Chinese girl. If I can still count to 100, I
• 55:30
  am good. Well, who can count to 100 anyway? I
• 55:36
  get one of the little clickers. All right. So
• 55:41
  we were at the Inouye Nakatani 2026. So I wanted
• 55:48
  to bring up Bevo Better BF2 sells 134K on pay
• 55:57
  -per -view. And I brought up other pay -per -view
• 56:01
  numbers for comparison. Sorry, how much? Because
• 56:06
  you said a different number than you have written
• 56:08
  down. $340 ,000. Right, you said $134 ,000. Did
• 56:13
  I? Wow, I'm not very good at this. $340 ,000.
• 56:19
  That is more than I thought. That is the Bevo
• 56:23
  Better Be Of Rematch pay -per -view number. So,
• 56:28
  for reference... Dinero Alvarez versus Berlanga
• 56:37
  sold $650 ,000. Gervonta Davis versus Lamont
• 56:45
  Roach was $260 ,000. David Benavidez versus David
• 56:50
  Murrell was $160 ,000. Now, the thing is that
• 56:55
  people are calling Dimitri Bivol versus Artur
• 57:00
  Beterbiev at $340 ,000. They're calling that
• 57:03
  a pay -per -view flop. Which is ridiculous. Well,
• 57:09
  the thing is that we have to consider how much
• 57:12
  they were paid for the event. Do we know? Like,
• 57:18
  Saudi's throwing money away. Everybody knows
• 57:21
  Saudi's throwing money away. True, true. So if
• 57:24
  you're going entirely on pay -per -view buys...
• 57:28
  It did better. Yeah, that is a really good number.
• 57:33
  In the post -Mayweather Pacquiao era, that 340
• 57:38
  is a solid number. It really is. So, well, and
• 57:45
  I don't think, how do I put this? They put too
• 57:48
  many big names on the same pay -per -view. But
• 57:51
  also, none of those were pay -per -view stars.
• 57:56
  There wasn't one pay -per -view star on that
• 57:59
  card. Not one. Not one. That was a degenerate
• 58:02
  card. In all honesty, that was a card that boxing
• 58:07
  fans knew a ton of names. But if you went on
• 58:10
  the street to casuals that actually do kind of
• 58:15
  watch boxing, they'll know Bivol and Beterbiev.
• 58:21
  Or Beterbiev. Yeah. I mean, nobody that isn't
• 58:29
  a hardcore fan knows who Joseph Parker is. That
• 58:34
  was something that people were pointing out with
• 58:38
  Benavidez vs. Morel. Was that Morel, of course,
• 58:43
  nobody knows who the fuck this guy is. Hardcore
• 58:47
  fans know who he is. Well, and I have a hard
• 58:51
  time judging because we're in our little echo
• 58:53
  chamber. Of course. What is what? But I... Like,
• 59:02
  Benavides. Janabek was the one. I was like, people
• 59:06
  know who Janabek is. Like, he's not popular,
• 59:09
  but people know who he is. And they're like,
• 59:11
  somebody was like, why? It's like, he's had multiple
• 59:15
  belts and defended them. And I'm like, yeah,
• 59:17
  but people don't know who the fuck he is. Yeah.
• 59:20
  I mean, morale. Morale. I think would fall into
• 59:25
  the same category as Johnny Beck. Morel had a
• 59:30
  fringe -ish title, but nonetheless, he has highlight
• 59:39
  reel performances. Yeah, but people know Shakur
• 59:46
  Stevenson's name, but nobody is excited to watch
• 59:49
  a Shakur fight. Nobody gives a fuck about Joseph
• 59:54
  Parker. I think... Zhang is a name if you watch
• 59:58
  boxing, but not really. Like, if you walked out
• 1:00:02
  to a crowd that says they casually watch boxing,
• 1:00:07
  who else was on this? Virgil Ortiz and Madrimov?
• 1:00:11
  Oh, don't make Alex upset. I'm just saying, like...
• 1:00:19
  These are not people that the average person
• 1:00:23
  knows. More people probably know who Callum Smith
• 1:00:27
  is than know who... Virgil Ortiz? No, I was going
• 1:00:33
  to say Carlos Adamas, but maybe not. I have no
• 1:00:37
  fucking scale of this. That's accurate. More
• 1:00:41
  people knowing who Callum Smith over Carlos Adamas?
• 1:00:44
  100 % accurate. Absolutely. So they're all names
• 1:00:49
  to you and me and all of our friends. We know
• 1:00:52
  who they are. Yeah, the Sickos, we know who they
• 1:00:55
  are. But none of these people are pay -per -view
• 1:00:58
  stars. No. The biggest name is Shakir Stevenson,
• 1:01:00
  and no one pays for a pay -per -view with him
• 1:01:02
  because he's boring as fuck. Man. So for that
• 1:01:08
  event to do 340K... I was thinking of this in
• 1:01:14
  the context of just wasted money, period. But
• 1:01:19
  in the context of the Saudis wasting money, that
• 1:01:26
  makes me happy. Whatever means the Saudi Arabians
• 1:01:31
  are losing, that makes me happy. Are you listening,
• 1:01:34
  Turkey? Are you going to get your fucking goons
• 1:01:37
  to come to my house? Go ahead. Go ahead. that's
• 1:01:42
  also news rumors whatever that turkey had an
• 1:01:45
  egyptian guy arrested arrested disappeared i
• 1:01:51
  have he had him he had him disappeared you want
• 1:01:56
  to come to my house buddy like that's that's
• 1:01:59
  up to you but uh i'm just gonna say 340k that's
• 1:02:03
  a solid like pay -per -view performance it's
• 1:02:06
  a solid buy it is that's a good number in the
• 1:02:10
  post may pack era that's a good number it is
• 1:02:14
  and if you decide to over stack a card that's
• 1:02:17
  your problem right you could you top three fights
• 1:02:22
  you could stack it and you probably would have
• 1:02:24
  done the same number you could have moved like
• 1:02:27
  um carlos adamas fucking Virgil Ortiz and we'll
• 1:02:34
  say Callum Smith, move them to a separate pay
• 1:02:36
  -per -view, would have done the same number.
• 1:02:39
  Yep. And then you'd have had the separate pay
• 1:02:42
  -per -view numbers for the super degenerates
• 1:02:44
  like me who will pay to watch Callum Smith. You
• 1:02:49
  would have had it with like, you could have divided
• 1:02:53
  this into two events instead of calling it a
• 1:02:56
  failure. But what really is a failure, turkey
• 1:02:59
  a little shake. What's really a failure is you.
• 1:03:04
  My hands are up because fuck you. His fucking
• 1:03:10
  emotional tantrums about boxing lately have also
• 1:03:14
  been... He's a little fucking child. He's a little
• 1:03:16
  baby boy that expects his toys to play the way
• 1:03:20
  that he wants them to. He gets so mad when the
• 1:03:23
  fights don't end the way he thinks they should.
• 1:03:27
  Man, little pissy boy. It's all good, dog. It's
• 1:03:31
  all good. One day you're going to grow up. It's
• 1:03:33
  all good. No, he's not. He's a rich, spoiled
• 1:03:36
  brat that just pays people to do what he wants.
• 1:03:40
  Well, speaking of rich, spoiled brats, Ryan Garcia
• 1:03:44
  moves off to Derek. He moves back to Derek James.
• 1:03:51
  I actually hadn't heard about this. Ryan Garcia
• 1:03:54
  is such a piece of shit. Yes, he is. Yes, he
• 1:04:00
  is. But here's one thing that I think is that
• 1:04:05
  by moving back to Derek James, Derek James gets
• 1:04:10
  to say, no more bullshit. If you want to come
• 1:04:15
  back to my camp, I'm in charge. Do you think
• 1:04:21
  that's going to stick though? I can only hope
• 1:04:26
  because I would like for Ryan Garcia to be better
• 1:04:30
  than he is. I would like to see him fucking crash
• 1:04:35
  and burn and everyone forget he exists. Alright.
• 1:04:43
  I'm a fucking elite level hater of Ryan Garcia.
• 1:04:49
  I like For him, the worst thing in the world
• 1:04:52
  is for people to forget about him. That would
• 1:04:56
  be what upsets him the most. I don't want him
• 1:05:00
  to die. I don't want anything overtly bad to
• 1:05:03
  happen to him. No serious harm. Nothing like
• 1:05:04
  that. Of course. I just want him to not be famous.
• 1:05:09
  Fade out of the zeitgeist. Entirely. Yeah. Like,
• 1:05:14
  I want him to get Lubegan. Lubegan. I don't know
• 1:05:21
  why I picked him, but nobody remembers who he
• 1:05:23
  is. I remember Lubega just because of the Lord
• 1:05:29
  of the Rings one that I shared with you, like
• 1:05:33
  the Lubega. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. One for the
• 1:05:41
  Monica in our lives, two for the Erica by our
• 1:05:45
  sides. But there was one dance that Lou Bega
• 1:05:49
  saved. Yeah. The Dark Lord Bega. Anyways. Anyway.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah, I guess if Derek James can get Ryan Garcia's
• 1:06:01
  shit together. But I personally don't want him
• 1:06:06
  to. I personally want Ryan Garcia to fail. Yeah,
• 1:06:10
  well. My opinion does not matter. I will be adding
• 1:06:15
  Ryan Garcia's success with Derek James into my
• 1:06:22
  Tenshin Asakawa category. Ah, fuck off. Fuck
• 1:06:28
  off. Well, here's what we're not fucking off
• 1:06:35
  with. Oi, Yokoyama. Gets the win. I only got
• 1:06:42
  to watch part of this fight. He looked good.
• 1:06:45
  He was super fucking impressive. No notes. Very
• 1:06:52
  impressive. This is a young man that you want
• 1:06:55
  to keep your eyes on. So, in case you forgot,
• 1:06:58
  I picked AOA as my prospect of the year last
• 1:07:02
  year. You did. I did. He just won the Oriental
• 1:07:08
  Pacific... OPBF. Yes, thank you. In his third
• 1:07:15
  professional fight, which, if I am understanding
• 1:07:18
  translations properly, he is the fastest person
• 1:07:22
  to ever do it. Number of fights -wise. Not the
• 1:07:25
  youngest, but the fastest. It's fucking crazy.
• 1:07:30
  They threw my boy to the wolves and he came home
• 1:07:33
  with a new coat. Like, he looked fucking impressive.
• 1:07:36
  It's the beginning of 300. Yeah. Which is exactly
• 1:07:40
  what you just described. That's what it is. I
• 1:07:45
  am so high on this kid. And he is also the kid
• 1:07:49
  I always talk about that volunteers at the retirement
• 1:07:51
  home. And he seems like such a good person. I
• 1:07:56
  want him to do so well. and i looked up what
• 1:07:59
  his name actually means so not the characters
• 1:08:02
  because i don't know how to read that but aoi
• 1:08:05
  means blue and he has the character for ocean
• 1:08:09
  in his first name but his last name is yogoyama
• 1:08:13
  which is the next mountain so he's blue from
• 1:08:19
  the next mountain over there i don't know why
• 1:08:22
  that makes me happy but it does no it's pretty
• 1:08:26
  cool to learn more about who the guys like who
• 1:08:32
  the people are that are coming up like um so
• 1:08:36
  he's signed with the comedas which is the only
• 1:08:40
  thing i'm a little wary about that concerns me
• 1:08:44
  too like they have a connection i don't remember
• 1:08:49
  which major promoter but they do have a connection
• 1:08:52
  to one of them They do, but they are also a family
• 1:08:56
  that the Japanese Boxing Commission hates. Oh,
• 1:08:59
  shit. Because of their behavior when they were
• 1:09:04
  boxing. The Kamedas are very controversial. We'll
• 1:09:08
  just leave it at that. Because they what? Because
• 1:09:10
  they lived and trained in Mexico? And they had
• 1:09:14
  a personality. So they learned to be Mexican.
• 1:09:18
  And then they came back to Japan. Like, we are
• 1:09:21
  Mexican, like, in culture, shitting in Japanese
• 1:09:26
  language. Yeah, like, I have no problem with
• 1:09:31
  anything the Kamedas ever did. Shrugging my shoulders
• 1:09:34
  for the audio. Yeah, but, like, Japan has a problem
• 1:09:39
  with the Kamedas. Of course they do. They don't
• 1:09:41
  fucking like Ioka for no apparent reason, as
• 1:09:44
  far as I can tell. Because he's from Osaka. So
• 1:09:48
  are the Kamedas. Oh, well, surprise, surprise.
• 1:09:52
  Of course they hate them. He's from Kansai, so
• 1:09:57
  he's not even from the city. He's from some small
• 1:09:59
  town. But this event was fucking hilarious, by
• 1:10:05
  the way. I don't know where you were watching
• 1:10:08
  it, but I watched it live. But it was concerts
• 1:10:12
  and boxing. Like, that was what it was billed
• 1:10:18
  as. It was a weekend of music and combat sports.
• 1:10:22
  But it was actually only boxing. Two -day event
• 1:10:25
  just outside of Nagoya. I always get them confused.
• 1:10:32
  I'm pretty sure it's Nagoya. And they had fucking
• 1:10:37
  idol -colored lights and dancing and DJ. battles
• 1:10:43
  and shit between the fights it's what Saudi wants
• 1:10:49
  it to be but with an actual atmosphere and uh
• 1:10:54
  I actually I had priced out tickets but I couldn't
• 1:10:58
  not a price thing I just couldn't take the time
• 1:11:01
  off work but anyways that's where AOA is from
• 1:11:06
  so of course he signed with the promoters that
• 1:11:10
  are near him and speak the same dialect as him
• 1:11:12
  and are super famous. Like, I'm not shitting
• 1:11:16
  on him for it, but the Japanese Boxing Commission
• 1:11:19
  is going to shit on him for it. And I kind of
• 1:11:22
  hope he moves to someone else whenever his contract
• 1:11:25
  is up. Because this event was not popular. It
• 1:11:30
  was not one of the ones that's very well advertised
• 1:11:34
  or anything else. And there were title fights.
• 1:11:37
  There were... This is the same as that weekend
• 1:11:40
  event where Tsutsumi won his title from Little
• 1:11:47
  Inoue. But it wasn't fucking advertised because
• 1:11:52
  it's in the middle of nowhere. Nagoya is a small
• 1:11:54
  city in Japan. And it's a Kameda production,
• 1:12:00
  so... All the ingredients are wrong, right? But
• 1:12:06
  this is just me as a foreigner, maybe misinterpreting
• 1:12:10
  things, but I don't think so. So Aoi Yokoyama
• 1:12:14
  is going to be fucking great. He is definitely
• 1:12:17
  winning at least one world title. And he needs
• 1:12:22
  a promoter that the Japanese government's going
• 1:12:25
  to like and let him get out of Japan. Does he
• 1:12:29
  need the Japanese government to get outside of
• 1:12:32
  Japan? Because if he has the Kameda family promoting
• 1:12:37
  him, he could leave and go up the Mexican chain
• 1:12:45
  of boxing. Has that ever happened, though? Question
• 1:12:48
  mark. Because that's what the Kameda family did,
• 1:12:51
  was they left Japan for exactly these reasons.
• 1:12:57
  Is Mexico going to let them promote a Japanese
• 1:13:01
  fighter in Mexico? Yes. I just haven't heard
• 1:13:06
  of it. I haven't either. I haven't either. Maybe
• 1:13:09
  they've never had anybody that good. I don't
• 1:13:12
  know. But if that's a fucking option, why didn't
• 1:13:16
  Nyoka do that? I would like for Nyoka to do that.
• 1:13:21
  I think it's way too late now. For him, yeah.
• 1:13:26
  But, like, if that's an option, why has no one
• 1:13:29
  ever done it? If anyone is going to do it, it's
• 1:13:32
  going to be the Kamedas. They have the connections.
• 1:13:38
  I mean, Junto's the closest thing. Right. He's
• 1:13:45
  not with the Kamedas, though, right? No, no,
• 1:13:47
  but he trains not in Mexico, I guess, but with
• 1:13:51
  a Mexican. Southern California in a Mexican camp.
• 1:13:55
  Yeah. But, like, the Japanese Boxing Commission
• 1:14:00
  likes Nakatani. Right. Man. And there's no reason
• 1:14:06
  they shouldn't like Aoi either. Like, he has
• 1:14:10
  no tattoos. He has no controversies. He has nothing
• 1:14:15
  bad yet. But if he hangs out with the Kameidas,
• 1:14:19
  he's going to get scandals. Whether they're warranted
• 1:14:22
  or not, he will get scandals. That would be like
• 1:14:26
  signing with people known to deal with the Kinahans
• 1:14:30
  or whatever their name is. MTK or Probellum.
• 1:14:36
  I think those were the Kinahan groups. Yeah,
• 1:14:40
  like even if you as a person are spotless, just
• 1:14:44
  dealing with those people kind of tarnishes you.
• 1:14:48
  Jamel Herring was like that. Spotless, but he...
• 1:14:55
  Signed with Kinahan. Yeah. I'm just saying. I
• 1:15:00
  get you. I get you. I want this kid to be smart.
• 1:15:03
  But he is fucking adorable and they always give
• 1:15:07
  him the little tear videos. Love it. Oh, shit.
• 1:15:12
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  Cool. Cool. Are we... My day is off the rails.
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  Are we drinking or not drinking? I'm drinking
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  right now. Okay. I have a tall boy. Welcome to
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  the fucking show! Alright, just a quick blurb,
• 1:16:55
  just so you can get back to what you were doing.
• 1:16:58
  Why would a boxing fan, let's assume they're
• 1:17:05
  like a purist or some shit, why would they want
• 1:17:08
  to watch MMA, why would they want to listen to
• 1:17:11
  an MMA show? I'm gonna come at this from sort
• 1:17:14
  of like a primal level. So, I will admit there
• 1:17:17
  are like some very, like... unique and like stark
• 1:17:21
  differences between MMA and boxing and it seems
• 1:17:25
  like one of the main things that keeps boxing
• 1:17:28
  fans away from MMA is the grappling aspect and
• 1:17:32
  yet sometimes it can be you know a lay and pray
• 1:17:35
  type of fight and it can get old but man like
• 1:17:40
  it's just instinctual man some of these people
• 1:17:43
  the way they fight in MMA Is just brutal. And
• 1:17:47
  I feel like that's what it comes down to. When
• 1:17:49
  it comes to being a combat fan. A combat sports
• 1:17:51
  fan. I mean. We saw just recently. Mauricio Rufi.
• 1:17:58
  Versus Bobby Green. Spinning back. Or spinning
• 1:18:02
  a wheel kick. Man. I mean they went viral. And
• 1:18:08
  it's something that everyone can appreciate.
• 1:18:09
  Even boxing fans. I know a few. I have a few
• 1:18:12
  friends that are boxing fans. who I sent him
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  that clip. I mean, and they were amazed. One
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  even told me that they wish they would have seen
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  it live because seeing that type of stuff live
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  just elicits a euphoric feeling that you can't
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  get. I mean, it happens in boxing, too, whenever
• 1:18:33
  you see an amazing fight. But I just got to say,
• 1:18:36
  in MMA, you get those type of fights as well,
• 1:18:41
  just in a different type. It's different, but
• 1:18:44
  sort of the same. It's sort of weird how I describe
• 1:18:48
  it, but it's different, but the same. It comes
• 1:18:50
  down to that same like carnal or primal instinct
• 1:18:53
  of just like fights. Yeah, I always think like
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  the biggest, the easiest transition that I always
• 1:19:01
  recommend, I say this all the time on Ultimate
• 1:19:04
  Fucking Casuals, is if you're not too keen on
• 1:19:09
  the grappling, Muay Thai and kickboxing. are
• 1:19:13
  exactly where you want to start. Like, you start
• 1:19:16
  working on the kicks, the elbows, the knees,
• 1:19:19
  all that stuff, and you can come to learn to
• 1:19:23
  appreciate grappling. I never thought I would,
• 1:19:26
  and here I am. Yeah. Like I said, some of it
• 1:19:30
  is very boring, some of the grappling. It depends
• 1:19:33
  on the fighters, but sometimes, man, there's
• 1:19:34
  boring boxing fights all the time. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:19:38
  no, yeah, you're true. I mean, you're right.
• 1:19:40
  But, man, some of these grapplers, man, these
• 1:19:42
  scrambles that they do, it is, like, pretty crazy
• 1:19:46
  just to see it. Like, you know, rolling around
• 1:19:48
  the floor. I mean, you can see the stuff that
• 1:19:50
  they're doing in between the scrambles. I mean,
• 1:19:52
  it's sort of crazy. Flipping someone over, the
• 1:19:54
  trips. I mean, it can be fun. But, yeah, you're
• 1:19:57
  right. The easiest transition is definitely start
• 1:20:00
  out with Muay Thai, kickboxing, and, you know,
• 1:20:02
  slowly work your way into MMA. And, you know,
• 1:20:05
  this is the thing about the ultimate fucking
• 1:20:08
  casuals. We will let you know which fights are
• 1:20:11
  going to be good. Which ones, you know, if you're
• 1:20:14
  not too in tune with the grappling, we can get
• 1:20:17
  maybe a little tag or a little asterisk on certain
• 1:20:22
  fights saying, like, this is a boxing purist
• 1:20:24
  type of fight. Yeah. You can watch this and enjoy
• 1:20:27
  this. Like, we'll let you know. Yeah, we always
• 1:20:31
  try. Like, I came into this. The whole show was
• 1:20:35
  started with me. I didn't know shit. about MMA.
• 1:20:38
  I'd never really seen an MMA fight in its entirety
• 1:20:41
  in my entire life. And I came into this with
• 1:20:43
  nothing. And yeah, that's where we're at now
• 1:20:46
  is like, we're talking to like, I make sure I
• 1:20:49
  go out of my way to bring up Muay Thai and bring
• 1:20:52
  up kickboxing so that people know like this for
• 1:20:55
  boxing fans to know this is what, this is where
• 1:20:59
  you can start. All right. Well, that was about
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  it. I really appreciate your time. Thanks, Isaac,
• 1:21:07
  for jumping on real quick. Thanks for having
• 1:21:09
  me on. All right. Thank you. All right. Just
• 1:21:15
  to get right into it, Nathan, you and I both
• 1:21:18
  tried the Strikeman dry fire system. What did
• 1:21:23
  you like about it? No, scratch that. What did
• 1:21:28
  you dislike? about uh i tried i have the 380
• 1:21:32
  acp and i have the 65 creedmoor what did you
• 1:21:35
  test out and what did you dislike just to start
• 1:21:38
  off so i got the uh 223 556 caliber uh system
• 1:21:44
  um and really my only um complaints really just
• 1:21:52
  came from the platform i was using so i my 556
• 1:21:55
  is a AR -15 platform, semi -automatic. Just in
• 1:22:01
  that context, a little tough to use because it
• 1:22:05
  requires the trigger to be reset before every...
• 1:22:09
  So it's pulling the charging handle over time,
• 1:22:11
  right? Right, you're not relying on the gunpowder
• 1:22:15
  resetting your... recycling around, so you have
• 1:22:19
  to rack that thing back and let the bolt fly.
• 1:22:24
  But, that being said, there's plenty of other,
• 1:22:27
  uh, you know, different types of systems that
• 1:22:31
  use five, five, six. You don't have to use, uh,
• 1:22:34
  AR style and the auto system. Yeah. We're in
• 1:22:38
  that context when you, when you have a big old
• 1:22:41
  bolt like that, um, worry. Sorry, I lost my train
• 1:22:46
  of thought there. Let me chop that up. But in,
• 1:22:48
  in that context, um, it was a little tough to
• 1:22:51
  use. I think this is a system that's much more
• 1:22:55
  oriented towards either bolt action or a pistol
• 1:22:58
  style, where you could just rack the slide, reset
• 1:23:03
  the trigger, and then you're ready to go. Yeah,
• 1:23:07
  I had a similar experience on the 6 .5 Creedmoor.
• 1:23:11
  I have a bolt action, so you don't have to go
• 1:23:14
  through the full range of motion to get it reset,
• 1:23:18
  but you do still have to pop. the bolt and then
• 1:23:21
  put it back down to get, to get the trigger reset.
• 1:23:24
  But as you were alluding to the pistol version,
• 1:23:27
  I have my three 80 is a single action, double
• 1:23:32
  action. So I don't have to rack the slide, but
• 1:23:36
  I can't, I do still have to pull down the, uh,
• 1:23:39
  the hammer a little bit to get it to fire off.
• 1:23:43
  Gotcha. Uh, what about the, what did you think
• 1:23:47
  about that? I thought the app was really cool.
• 1:23:51
  The setup was very easy. It took less than five
• 1:23:54
  minutes to get the whole stand and phone configured.
• 1:23:58
  I do really like a lot of the gamified features
• 1:24:01
  that are kind of put in there. So there's like
• 1:24:02
  some different challenges and you can get on
• 1:24:05
  kind of leaderboards and do matches with people.
• 1:24:08
  And I think that's just really cool because,
• 1:24:09
  you know, when it comes to getting better at
• 1:24:12
  shooting. one of the best ways to do that is
• 1:24:15
  learning how to shoot under pressure and so having
• 1:24:18
  something that's very low stakes like this you
• 1:24:22
  know that is a it's going to force you to be
• 1:24:24
  accurate but um it's going to do so in a way
• 1:24:29
  where it's making you you know you're not just
• 1:24:31
  doing it repetitively to range you're trying
• 1:24:34
  to almost beat yourself or beat a friend and
• 1:24:36
  that competition you know that raising of the
• 1:24:39
  stakes is going to help you become a calmer shot
• 1:24:41
  over time i think I really enjoy that aspect
• 1:24:44
  of the app. Yeah, that's something I've heard
• 1:24:48
  discussed when it comes to pressure shooting
• 1:24:51
  is your max effective range, cut that in half,
• 1:24:56
  and that's about what you're looking at shooting
• 1:24:58
  under pressure. So if you're practicing with
• 1:25:03
  friends, it makes it a lot easier than, I don't
• 1:25:08
  know, we'll call it a zombie apocalypse. You
• 1:25:11
  know, when you don't have walkers coming down
• 1:25:13
  to your face, that's a whole lot easier to just
• 1:25:16
  play around with friends. And also, you're doing
• 1:25:19
  it without spending any money on ammo. Like,
• 1:25:21
  obviously, we've all just happened to the stock
• 1:25:24
  market these last few days, and ammo could become
• 1:25:27
  significantly more expensive. But now with the
• 1:25:30
  Strikeman laser firearm training system, you
• 1:25:36
  don't have to spend oodles of money on ammo.
• 1:25:40
  You can take your time in the comfort of your
• 1:25:42
  own home and practice all you want. Man, that
• 1:25:46
  was actually kind of tough, like moving it back.
• 1:25:48
  I started off at what was it like? Like 10 feet.
• 1:25:56
  And then I moved it back to 20. And even that
• 1:25:59
  just that little bit was still like, man, I did.
• 1:26:02
  I thought I was good, but I apparently need a
• 1:26:06
  lot more practice. but good to find out here
• 1:26:11
  i think being on that timer too really shows
• 1:26:14
  like oh wow this is kind of the gap in in skill
• 1:26:18
  that i i need to work on you know there might
• 1:26:20
  be it's also different ranges this is similar
• 1:26:24
  to like archery or long range shooting really
• 1:26:26
  but like you could be really good at 100 yards
• 1:26:29
  but you go out to like 125 or an odd number and
• 1:26:32
  all of a sudden you're you're messed up oh right
• 1:26:35
  so this this is you know being able to very quickly
• 1:26:38
  just change the ranges that you're shooting at.
• 1:26:41
  Again, just in your home, in your backyard, whatever.
• 1:26:44
  Like, that's a really, really helpful skill you
• 1:26:48
  can hone with this system. Oof, yeah. Well, overall,
• 1:26:55
  I would call this a, what, four out of five buy?
• 1:26:59
  Like, it really depends on what it is that you're
• 1:27:01
  trying to do or what you're trying to practice
• 1:27:04
  with. I can't speak to any of the other calibers,
• 1:27:08
  but if it's like a handgun caliber, I always
• 1:27:12
  say if you can get a single double, get a single
• 1:27:16
  double. But I know that's not useful for everyone.
• 1:27:21
  Nonetheless, it should still help to increase
• 1:27:25
  your max effective range, like under pressure,
• 1:27:28
  right? Like I said, cut your original in half.
• 1:27:32
  Yeah, and I agree with that recommendation. I
• 1:27:35
  think any kind of pistol caliber, I think, is
• 1:27:36
  really well suited to this system. I think if
• 1:27:40
  you're going to do rifle, I think bolt action
• 1:27:42
  is probably going to be your best bet. But yeah,
• 1:27:46
  I definitely concur with your assessment on its
• 1:27:49
  usefulness as a pistol training tool, which I
• 1:27:51
  think is, if you look at, I think it's what they're
• 1:27:54
  aiming for when they're marketing this. They
• 1:27:59
  did well there. I think they have shotgun gauges
• 1:28:02
  as well. Like that's kind of wild. Not what I
• 1:28:07
  would have expected for like a dry fire kind
• 1:28:10
  of training thing. But hey. Oh, that sounds like
• 1:28:14
  it would actually work because you'd just be
• 1:28:16
  for a pump action. Yeah, you just pump it, right?
• 1:28:21
  Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, Nate, thanks
• 1:28:25
  for jumping on real quick. Just wanted to get
• 1:28:27
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• 1:28:37
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