Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / The Great Dana White One-on-One: Trump, Boxing, Ali vs Tyson, UFC, Business, Exercise & Weight Loss plus the Best Rocky Movie Ever

Transcript

The Great Dana White One-on-One: Trump, Boxing, Ali vs Tyson, UFC, Business, Exercise & Weight Loss plus the Best Rocky Movie Ever · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: you as well.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Center.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: There are certain shows we get to do with this
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: pod that are just a lot of fun. This is
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: gonna be one of those, and we're gonna get to
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: cover a lot of different things, including I want to
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: know how you're gonna get Jack this year. You're I'm
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: gonna hold you to it in this podcast because you
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: said you wanted to like shred. We're using like masculine
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: words today, shred thirty pounds. Is that right? That was
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: the January resolution? Is that I want to get you
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: on the record at the beginning.
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: You are absolutely right, and I will tell you for
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: all all our listeners and viewers, we have a very
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: special podcast today because we've we've got a guest that
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: we have the great Dana White, the CEO of UFC,
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: an incredible businessman, an incredible leader, and just an all
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: around badass. Uh and so by the way, that is
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: a technical term. And so Dana, welcome to Verdict. We're
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: really glad to have you with us.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Senator, Thank you, Ben.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Good to see you, Man, you too.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to start with a big question on
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: behalf of the Center because I know he's going to
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: get around this, So we're gonna. I'm gonna we're holding
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: I am his accountability partner in these are your resolutions.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: One of them is to lose thirty pounds. I want
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: to know right away you've gone through a health transformation.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: What is your advice to Center Cruz. I'll take it
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: as well, because you do a lot of very interesting
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: things to get in shape.
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: Well, how old are you, Senator fifty five? There you go,
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: we're the same age. So basically the first thing you
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: do is start get on a Keto diet. It's really
• 1:36
  Speaker 4: easy to do, especially when you travel. Start getting into
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: Intermitte fasting, which will literally clears all the brain flog
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: you have and it gives you more energy. Believe it
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: or not. Eating less gives you more energy. And then
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: just just get on a modest workout program.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: You know, when you travel and you stay at hotels,
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: always have a gym. What I would what I would
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: advise you to do is find a trainer that you
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: can travel with. There's two things I don't go anywhere
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: without my trainer and my cold plunge. I have my
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: cold plunge everywhere.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: And how big is you're playing. I'm just curious asking
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: for a friend.
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: Well, no, So what I do is if we go
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: to the UFC, it goes on trucks that that that
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: get there before we do. But I have all the
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: hotels dialed in and they figure out a local coal
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: plunge to put inside my hotel room.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Have you ever done a cold punch? Have you ever
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: done this?
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: I have to admit I'm not a big fan of cold.
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: I like, but I'm not a big colt. So you
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: bring a cold plunge like literally with you.
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So for UFC events, we have the col plunge
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: on the truck. But when I travel, like I'll be
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: in London all next week, I'll have a cold plunge
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: in my room all next week, and I do it
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: every day. It's like for some people who have to
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: get up and have coffee, that's like my coffee. And
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: the great thing about cold in the morning.
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: Typically as soon as you.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: Get up it only takes three minutes, but when you
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: first start doing it, it takes like thirty three minutes
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: because you stare at it for thirty minutes and you
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: start telling yourself it would have been over if I
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: just would have done it already.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: But in other words, it's a form of torture, is
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: what you're telling us.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: They forced us to do it back in college after
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: training sessions, and I've never done it since college. Center
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: it's I hate it. I just want to be very clear.
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: I hate the fact data that you travel with. It
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: is insane to me.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: I love this.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: So how cold do you do? How cold do you
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: have the.
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: Water fifty degrees? You do three minutes at fifty degrees
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: And actually it's a form of accomplishment, like as soon
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: as you finish that in the morning, you've already accomplished
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: something that most people will not that day. But how
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: it makes you feel the rest of the day is
• 3:41
  Speaker 4: absolutely addicting.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: So what are the benefits? What does it do for you?
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: It gets rid of the inflammation in your body. And
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: at fifty five years old, doing all the traveling, you're
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: doing stress this, that, and it gets rid of the inflammation.
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: And there's nothing better than after you fly somewhere getting
• 3:58
  Speaker 4: into a cold plunge for three minutes.
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: It's the So after you fly, it just just reset
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: you or what.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: And it gets rid of all the inflammation in your body.
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: Now you feel puffy. I mean, if you take your
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: shoes off on a flight, when you land, putting your
• 4:10
  Speaker 4: shoes back on, your shoes are tighter. Everything's gets rid
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: of all of that.
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: And so so you do keto, are you doing mostly meat?
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: You're doing veggies too, like like like what are you
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: put in the diet? No?
• 4:21
  Speaker 4: So in keto, what you try to do is you
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: try to limit the only fruit. You can eat berries,
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: any any kind of berry. But yeah, you eat, you
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: eat meat, steaks, chicken, you can eat fish. You know,
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: there's tons of things you can eat. You just can't
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: have any of the sides. You stay away from all
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: the sides.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: It's an average day of meals for you, like a
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: normal day, not eating out nice meal at night like
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: you know VIP event type thing.
• 4:44
  Speaker 4: It's four o'clock here, I haven't eaten yet, so I eat.
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: I go all day without eating, and then.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I'll man fasting like a whole day.
• 4:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I eat dinner at night.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: So is that your typical intermittent fast is that you
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: just skip breakfast at lunch?
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: Yep, exactly.
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: And even who does that also has the same schedule
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: as herschel walker.
• 5:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, makes sense.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: And so what I was campaigning in Georgia with Herschel,
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: he just he doesn't do lunch, doesn't do breakfast. And
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: then and you know Herschel's in great shape, obviously one
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: of the greatest athletes ever live. But it's interesting he
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: does the skip breakfast lunch too.
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: And here's the thing that's interesting is, uh, how it
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: clears your mind and how much sharper you are. Brain
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: fog is gone, and it's it's pretty amazing. I'm telling you,
• 5:28
  Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta figure out. I'm gonna try to
• 5:30
  Speaker 4: figure out how to get you dialed in and get
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: some people around you. Once I get you started, you
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: will become addicted to the feeling of it and you'll
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: rip the weight off like this, all right, I'm gonna
• 5:41
  Speaker 4: help you accomplish this this year.
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: Seven And now you've credited the biologist Gary Breca with
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: helping you on this. And actually my mom who's ninety one,
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: told me this, and she she wanted me to ask you, like,
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: like what Gary Breckatt did with it was helpful and
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: what you found beneficial.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: The thing is would be the Gary. I'm all in
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: on the Gary brecking things. So I do the stuff.
• 6:03
  Speaker 4: So I used to be on a bunch of pills
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: that doctors were giving me for blood pressure and a
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: bunch of other stuff that I really didn't need to
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: be on for years. So now all I take are supplements.
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: So I said how many?
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: How many? And what do you take?
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: So I was on a bunch of different pills every
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: day and I felt horrible, uh, tired, lethargic, and I
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: real bad. Sleep at me is snoring. You know, when
• 6:28
  Speaker 4: you go to the doctor, they tell you to put
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: a seapap mask on, which I could never sleep with.
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: It never worked for me. Now I don't have any
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: of that. I don't have to sleep at me. I
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: don't snore anymore, and I'm off all meds only on supplements.
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: And I couldn't tell you right here the supplements that
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I'm on. But uh, first of all, what they would
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: do is I'm gonna have I'm going to reach out
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: to the Senator and I'm gonna have them come to
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: a blood test on you, and then they'll they'll go
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: through and tell you everything that you need to be
• 6:57
  Speaker 4: on based on your blood work. And then and then
• 7:01
  Speaker 4: once you get that and they give you a plan
• 7:04
  Speaker 4: and he told me if you can, if you give
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: me twelve weeks, I'll change your whole life. It doesn't
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: take twelve weeks, it takes like three. After like three weeks,
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: you start feeling better, and you start feeling and you
• 7:16
  Speaker 4: start to become really addicted to it.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you an inter minute fasting
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: when you go all day like traditionally, if center Cruise
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: and I didn't eat today, I'd get that.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: I would say, call it brain frog.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: I'd get that kind of the shake saying where I
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: need something like the idea of not eating and then
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: having like more focus. Is there a transition period there,
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: because that to me seems like I'm gonna have a headache,
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna feel terrible if I don't eat all day.
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So what you need to do is hydrate. So
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: when you don't eat, you know, I do this thing
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: called the seventy two hour water fast where all you
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: drink are water and electrolytes for seventy two hours.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: And how often do you do that?
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: You do it like three times a year. I do
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: it three times a year.
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: It's the advantage you're doing that.
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: First of all, your body starts to eat up all
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: the dead cells, cancer cells, and literally all the things
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: that are really bad for you. This thing that's why
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: you do it two or three times a year. Your
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: body starts to eat up all the dead and bad cells. Now,
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: I'm not a religious person, and I would you know,
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if I consider myself spiritual. I
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: don't even know how to explain any of that. The
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: first time I ever did the seventy two hour fast,
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: I started. When I started to get up around sixty
• 8:35
  Speaker 4: five hours, I was like, ah, this is what people
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: talk about spiritual. You know, you're starting to have this
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: really euphoric, weird feeling, but you start to get more
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: energy and just this unbelievable clarity that you get when
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: you fast. It really is fascinating.
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: And yes, so I've done forty eight hours, but I've
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: not done seventy two.
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: Okay? And did you drink a lot of water and
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: electrolytes while you were doing it?
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: It wasn't do an electro like just water.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna senator up. When we get done, I'm
• 9:05
  Speaker 4: gonna get you. I'm gonna get you dialed in, all right, Sata?
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: What do I want to do?
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: And you look way too excited right now. I'm going
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: to enjoy this, I think more than he is. Are
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: we gonna get him cold plunging, We're gonna get him
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: not eating an electro like I think this is amazing
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: and a blood test.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: Well, let me know, but Ben, let me let me
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: be clear that the fasting is more likely to happen
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: than the cold plunge. I still have some persuasion on
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: the cold plunch side.
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: Ben. Let me be clear. He's going to start out
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: doing the you know, you get him on the way,
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: you know, on the road to doing this, and he
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: will get into cold plunging, and he will get into
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: doing the sauna. You become once you go in and
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: you start to feel, especially at our age. Man, when
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: you hit fifty, I mean, it's a it's a whole
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: nother ballgame when you hit fifty years old. People used
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: to tell me that, and I used to go, ah,
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: you know, I'll be fine, But you really do feel
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: a lot different when you're fifty years old.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: And then above, he's for your work for your workout
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: or are you lifting? Are you doing cardio? What are
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: you doing for your workout?
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: So I don't lift heavy weights anymore. I lift lightweights
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: for rep and for cardio, I walk on the treadmill.
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's all basic, simple stuff, nothing crazy. You
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: don't have to get into all this crazy working out
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: stuff at fifty five years old. Get in there, you
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: know you do a full body workout and do some cardio.
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: I got to ask you a question, can you buy
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: ROE bitcoin in your retirement account? Well, if not, it's
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: time to upgrade to bitcoin IRA. It's twenty twenty six
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: and cryptocurrency is where so many investors are going and diversify.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: You can buy and sell bitcoin inside a tax advantage
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: IRA with bitcoin IRA, and that gives you more ways
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: to diversify and grow your retirement savings. Security is their
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: number one priority, and your assets are protected by military
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: grade multi key security and you're covered up to two
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million in digital asset insurance.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: So what are you waiting for?
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: Get in the bitcoin game today and diversify your portfolio.
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: You actually talk to a real person eight six six
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: six seven nine six' eight seven one eight six six
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: six seven nine seven eight seven to one or bitcoin
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: ira dot com slash ben that's bitcoin ira dot com
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: slash ben to open a free account and earn up
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: to one thousand dollars. Bonus right, now how much weight
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: did you lose when you're on all the medications and
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: then you clearly made a life Tames LIKE i about
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: two what was it?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Center two years? AGO i?
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: STARTED i had three, boys AND i DECIDED i was
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: gonna lose. Weight i'm down like eighty something pounds it
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: AND i feel like a different human. Being WHEN i Started,
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: VERDICT i was at two ninety eight, almost and Now i'm,
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: like what?
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: Up?
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: TWO i think two oh nine somewhere in. There that's
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: incredible way for, you AND i feel. Different but when
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: you made this switch for, me it WAS I i was,
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Like i'm Afraid i'm gonna, LIKE i don't want to
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: not be around for my. Kids that was my number one.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Thing and the doctor was very, query, like, hey you're
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: gonna have a stroker a heart. Attack you're gonna this
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: is gonna end badly for. You you better get your
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: you know what together and if you, don't it's gonna be.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Bad like was there something that triggered with you that you're,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: like all, RIGHT i gotta get it. Together what was
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: the main thing and how much of you lost.
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: So WHEN i, STARTED i was like two hundred and thirty,
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: five two thirty. SIX i got as low as one
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: ninety one at one. Point but the thing with me
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: was it was more about. HEALTH i felt terrible AND
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: i was taking, pills these garbage pills that not only
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: did they not do WHAT i needed them to, do
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: they had tons of side effects and you, know a
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: Lot LIKE i, said if you have ever had sleep
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: at MEA i, mean and if you snore really, bad
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's. Horrible it's a horrible. Experience i'd wake
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: up every night choking and coughing and throwing up. Too.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Wow and you know WHAT i found was every TIME
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: i went to a, doctor nobody could cure. Anything there's
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: always take this pill or LIKE i did the sleep
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: study and they put the seapap mask on your, face right.
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: Yep and WHEN i talk About Gary, breca it's, like you,
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: know people, like, oh that's, garbage that this is that you,
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: Know i've seen this guy help so many.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: People so he do what does he do that's? Helpful
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: like what's?
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: Specific so he goes in and does a blood test on,
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: you gene test and he looks at at this is
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: WHAT i loved about, him and this is really where he.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: Got just for the, RECORD i used to look at
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: this as, like you, know which doctor. STUFF i never
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: believed in any of this, stuff and then AFTER covid
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: that Now i'm anti doctor, man and there are certain.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: Things IF i break my, Arm i'm going to a,
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: doctor Right IF i want to work on my general,
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: health definitely not talking to a doctor about. That and
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Basically gary goes, in finds out what's wrong with, you
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: and he told me you shouldn't be on these. Pills
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: you should have never been on blood. Pressure he got
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: my sister off blood pressure medicine, too AND i had
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: been taking that stuff for like fifteen twenty. Years and
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: he gets you on these different supplements and you, know
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: pep tides are big right now among some. Peptides and
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: in three weeks when you do, it this GUY i
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: got on a keto, diet started taking the, supplements you,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: know regular. Exercise in three, WEEKS i felt like a different,
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: person and all the people that were around me started
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: to notice the difference in. Me AND i wouldn't be
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: able to run at the LEVEL i run at right
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: now IF i hadn't Met Gary. Brecker so this guy
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: completely changed my.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Life all r, right let's go. Back that is. Awesome
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: let's go back and just just just tell your. Story
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: so you grew Up massachusetts And. Nevada right when did
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: you first get interested in boxing and mixed martial arts
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: and what was it that attracted you to?
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: It, well it's that. Thing it's like when you're a.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Kid some, people you, know end up being thirty years
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: old and not finding out what it is they want
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: to do for the rest of their. LIFE i was
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: very lucky in the fact THAT i knew WHEN i
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: was a kid THAT i wanted to be in the fight.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Business what that meant at that, TIME i didn't, know
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: BUT i knew that's WHAT i wanted to. Do SO
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: i was nineteen years, OLD i lived In boston AND
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: i worked at The Boston Harbor hotel AND i was
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: a belman there And i'm, LIKE i did not want
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: to do this for the rest of my. LIFE i
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: literally walked out the door and. Quit and there was
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: this guy Named Peter welsh From South boston who was
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: like a fighting, legend and he's a guy you didn't
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: go looking, for AND i went looking for, him AND
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: i found him AND i, said, LISTEN i know this sounds,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: crazy BUT i want to learn everything about the fight
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: game from. You i'll work for you for. Free took
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: me in and this guy was basically my college professor
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: for the next four.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Years and so you started with boxing BEFORE, mma, right.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: And, yeah MMA mma didn't even really exist at that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Time while that was with, him you, know there was
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: this talk about this fight that was going to happen
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: that was no rules and it could be any, style
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: and we watched it on pay per, view you, know
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: and it was shocking and, crazy BUT i NEVER i
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: didn't get into.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: It so, Uh, now like when you were a, kid
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: let's say you're in junior. High were you a kid
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: that got in a lot of? FIGHTS i, mean was
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: it like a rough upbringing or how what drew you
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: to the world of Fighting.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: That wasn't really like. That my uncles at the time
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: were really uh into, boxing and and you, know when
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: the big fights were on ABC's Wild Wild sports or
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: whatever it would, be there was always this energy and
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: buzz in the house THAT i became you know THAT
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: i fell in love with, yeah and uh AND i
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: just became a fight. Fan you. Know it's no different
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: than how does a kid become a baseball fan or
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: a fan of. Football it's just mine was.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Fighting, now did you do other? Sports you play football or? Basketball? Baseball?
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: NOPE i was always just into. Fighting, Yep, OKAY i
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: MEAN i played at the level that your parents put you,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: in and you you know. YOU i did, play BUT
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: i was never into it or anything like.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: That all right, Now NOW i read something online THAT
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: i thought was, fascinating which, is you were In boston
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: and you decided to Leave boston because the Mobster Whitey
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: bulger threatened you and and that and that's what took
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: you To. Vegas you got to tell us that, story
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: because that's a wild.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Story he didn't threaten. Me his guys. Did his guys
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: wanted wanted money from, me and, uh you know THAT
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: i obviously didn't know. Them and uh, Yeah SO i
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: got a call at my house one day and they're,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: like you gotta till tomorrow to pay, it and did
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: you owe him?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Money had you borrowed money or like what put you
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: in that. SITUATION i didn't even know those. Guys you
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: know those are they were just shaking you.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Down and they had approached me one day at at
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: one of the fitness, clubs and you know the first
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: thing you said to me is do you know WHO i?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Am AND i didn't know who he. Was and then
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: as he starts to talk AND i figured out who he,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: was and, Yeah so they literally called me. Up they,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: said you got till tomorrow to pay. US i, SAID
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: i don't have the money fifteen hundred two five hundred
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: bucks and, alohol which was like twenty five thousand to
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: me back.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Then, Yes and, uh now were they trying to press
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: you to like fixed? FIGHTS i, mean was that they
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: just wanted money from?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: You. YEAH i wasn't involved in any of that stuff
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: at that. Time we were training. Fighters but, yeah, No
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: so they called me one day and they, said you
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: got till. TOMORROW i, said or what he? Said are
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: you going to find? Out AND i literally hung up the,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: phone Called delta and flew To vegas the next.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Day All, right did you ever see the Movie That
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: departed Where Jack Nick gordon Plays White Bull? Joey what'd
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: you think of the as A boston? Guy what do
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: you think of the movie that? Portrayal?
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: WELL i lived there during that whole, era which, WAS
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: i mean, crazy the things THAT i saw and the
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: things that, Whatever BUT i never had any interaction or
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: involvement with those those guys THAT i knew of. Anyway you,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: know you just heard about him and things like. That
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: but then to come to find out, that you, know
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: they have this thing back That South boston was crazy
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: at that, time like you could shoot. SOMEBODY i, mean
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: guys would get beat up and all this, stuff and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: nobody would call the. Police you didn't call the, police
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: and you, know come to come to find out later
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: he was involved with you, know with THE, fbi and
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: if you did, call he'd know you.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Called having just come back From. ISRAEL i want to
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: paint you a. Picture it's, midnight sirens are blaring and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you have only seconds to grab your child and. Run
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: now imagine your. Elderly your legs don't work like they used.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: To getting downstairs feels, impossible and after all of, that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: you end up in a bomb shelter for, hours even,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: days because you can't make the trek. Again this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: what's happening Across. Israel his Operation Epic fury. Continues children
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: are being traumat families are just, exhausted and homes have been.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Destroyed and that's why The International fellowship Of christians And
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: jews is there on the, ground bringing, food emergency, equipment
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: care for those, children and help for the, elderly and
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: supplying the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Essentials if you've ever wondered what it looks like to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: stand For israel and stand for good against, evil this
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: is it and that's Why i'm asking to now please,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: act give forty five dollars right now to rush life
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: saving essentials to the vulnerables under. Fire you can also
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: call eight eight eight for eight EIGHT. Ifcj that's eight
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: eight eight for eight EIGHT. Ifcj join me and give
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: and make a real difference online AT ifcj dot.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Org THAT'S ifcj dot.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Org now you come To vegas and you get an
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: opportunity to buy THE. Ufc you go to The Fertida,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: brothers WHO i guess you do from school In. Vegas
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: but at the time there wasn't much to THE ufc
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: when you were buying. It tell us about how that
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: came to.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Pass. Well at the, TIME i was representing a couple
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: of guys who fought in THE ufc and something that
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: wanted to AND i got into a contract negotiation with
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: the old owner of THE, ufc and then finally he
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: flipped out there on the call and, said you know,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: what there is no more. MONEY i don't even know
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: IF i have enough money to put on the next.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Event SO i was, like when we hung up the,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: PHONE i was, like holy, shit you, know this thing's
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: going out of. Business SO i called The fertida brothers
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: AND i, said, HEY i just got off the phone
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: With Bob, mywitz the. OWNER i think THE ufc is in.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: TROUBLE i think they're going out of, business AND i
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: think we should buy. It SO i Connected Lorenzo fertida
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: And Bob myrowitz and they started. Talking then a couple months,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: later we bought the company for two million.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Dollars what's it went went out just to put it in.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Respective what's it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Worth it's in the. Billions it's IN tenny twelve fourteen.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Millions so they're happy with, you, right they're they're they're
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: they're glad you called that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Day well it all worked.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Out they're all right now now and SAY i need some.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Money they're, like how much you need?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Now when you bought, IT i, mean they had not many,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: assets they had the name that they had an. OCTAGON
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: i read that they'd actually sold the WEBSITE ufc to
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: to somebody, Else so, like how did You once you buy?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: It then you're, Like, OKAY i got to build this
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: into something that that can generate real revenue and become
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: A i don't know if you were thinking of global
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: business at the, time but but how did you build
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: it from from where it was to to where it is?
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Now, Yeah so when we bought, it we bought basically
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: those three letters in an old, wood an octagon because
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: everything else have been stripped out and, sold you, know
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the merchandise, rights the video game, rights, uh the, uh
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: even even the you, know THE dvd business became very
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: big during our early days of THE. Ufc we didn't
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: even own the rights to. That And i'm just and
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: senator just to show you how much nobody believed in this.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Thing lionsgate owned the rights to all that, stuff and
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: we actually went back and bought the rights from, them
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: and you, know they were probably laughing at us when we.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Left they're like these, guys you, know they're thinking about
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: how that's going to look on their books over the
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: next two. Years but it really is a testament to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: how nobody believed in this thing and nobody thought it would.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Work that they shold us the rights.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Back what was the secret to building it? Back was
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: it just pure, sweat, equity hard? Work what did you
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: see in the value when you guys went to buy
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it and you, said, HEY i think two million is worth,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: it we should do.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: This was it because you.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Knew the fighters or did you understand the product and
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: how to market?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Was what was different from what you did compared to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: what the guys before we're.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Doing so The fatinas AND i started taking jiu jitsu
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: together and that's how we fell in love with the.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Sport we started to meet some of the, athletes and you,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: know these athletes were different than. BOXERS a lot of
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: these guys graduated. College and if you look at Chucklate
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: l right with the mohawk and The chinese, fighting and
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: it looks like an axe, murderer but this guy actually
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: graduated from Cal poly with honors with an accounting. Degree
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: you know WHAT i?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Mean, Okay i've Met. CHUCK i didn't know that. That
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that's very. Cool.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah so they all had those kind of stories and
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: we were interested in it and said you know, what
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: if this was done the right, way we put on
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: a better live. Event PLUS i had always felt like
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: boxing was messed up and on the, decline we felt
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: like this, could this could be. Big And i've always
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: had this philosophy that fighting works, everywhere you know WHAT i.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Mean and when you think about The United, states we
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: have so many sports, HERE nba college, BASKETBALL nfl college,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: football the list goes on and on and. On but
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: in a lot of these other countries they have soccer
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and that's.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It, Yeah so it was huge In Latin america as.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Well, Absolutely and, LISTEN i don't care what color you,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: are what country you come, from what language you. Speak
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: we're all human beings and fighting is in OUR. Dna
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: we get it and we like. It, yeah we love,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: fighting and especially if somebody.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Was one of my one of my favorite quotes THAT
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: i use in politics in life is From Mike. Tyson
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: everyone has a plan until they get punched in the
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: face and and and that that's pretty. UNIVERSAL i.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Agree and when somebody looks like, you comes from where
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: you come, from you, know people rally around them when
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: they're looked at as the best in the. World and
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: the fight.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Game now now you said that you thought boxing was messed?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Up how so what what was messed up about?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: BOXING a lot of things were messed. Up, well let's
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: let's go To Senator john. McCain, So Senator john McCain
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: was the one that got THE ufc basically shut down
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: and taken off. Cable AND i didn't know. That oh,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: yeah oh. Yeah Senator john McCain went after THE ufc, hard.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Huh and you know he was a big fight. Fan
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: so what was happening at the, time is that was.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Doing it to help? Boxing was that?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: His? No, no, no he was doing what he said
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: was the old owners were running from. Regulation they weren't
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: being regulated by The athletic commiss which you know obviously
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: he didn't. Like so he went after, him and we
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: did the exact opposite when we bought the. Company we
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: ran toward. Regulation and Before senator McCain had, passed you,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: know he had complimented us and what we had done
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: with the, sport how we cleaned it, up and you
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: know he was actually he was on our. Side.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Huh, Okay, so so you acquire THE, ufc what is
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the what are the biggest steps to making it? Succeed
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: is it making the live events really? Fun is IT tv?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Rights is it recruiting new? FIGHTERS i, mean you got
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to do all, That but what were the biggest things that.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Mattered that's, it all of the, above exactly what you just.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Said first of, foremost go out and find the best
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: up and coming, talent people that you think could be
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: world champs or at least top five fighters in the.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: World you have to go out and get a television.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Deal think about, This this thing was in such a bad.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Place it wasn't allowed on pay per. View you as
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: a grown, adult didn't have the right by porn was
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: on pay per, view but THE ufc was not. Allowed
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and our goal was to get it onto free, television
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: which everybody thought was impossible at the. Time, plus when
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: you think about The United states back, then you, know
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: all the people that grew up in our era had
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: grew up in That John wayne era right Where John
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: wayne would hit a. Guy, yeah they fall, Down you
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: didn't jump on top of them and, start you, know
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: beating the shit out of. Him you would stand them
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: back up and hit him. Again, Right so.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: An Own son And Big.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Jake, yeah the whole ground game thing was how how
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: we had to uh educate people on and how exciting
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: it could. Be and and THEN i.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: To be, CLEAR ufc has like what was one of
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: y'all's biggest pay per VIEW i remember like looking at
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the data one time several years, ago you guys had
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: some of the biggest pay per view events like ever.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Period, yeah, yeah we. Did and And i'll think about.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: This it took us a long time to get Into
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: New york and you, know we were being blocked By
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Sheldon silver In New york who was in with the
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: with the union keeping us out Of New york because
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: of The. Fertidas we are eight of the top ten
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: all time gates At Madison Square. Garden now in the
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: next two years we'll be ten of the top ten
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: all time gates because we go there Every november with
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a big fight and we break you, know last year's. Record,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: yeah and.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Right you were talking about looking for great. Fighters what
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: makes it great? Fighter what sets someone apart who's great
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: versus someone is just?
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Good, well first of, all you have to have the.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Talent are you talented enough to get? There and our
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: matchup makers are are great at finding new. Talent we
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: actually have a show based on it's called The contender
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: series that we do every, year and it is all
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the BEST.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Tv if people haven't watched, it it's.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Amazing it's LIKE i watch it and you get to
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you feel like you get to know the, Guys you
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: feel like you get to know their, story you feel
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: like you're rooting for the you pick your favorite horse
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: and essence by the middle of the.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Season that's the ultimate. Fighter, yeah that's the ultimate. Fighter
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: that's what actually launched us and got us onto television
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: and started to build the. Business The contender series we
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: do once a. Year we signed the best unsigned fighters
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: in the. World they show up one night and they
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: fight right. THERE i don't care what your record, is
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: what you've done in the. Past what are you going
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: to show us right, here right now. Tonight and it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the greatest fight show on, Television it really. Is so we.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Always do you have a view of best boxer? Ever
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: do you look at someone and, say all, right he
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: was the? Greatest?
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: YEAH i mean, WELL i mean we literally just had
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: this debate a couple of weeks, ago you, know And
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: ali is my all time favorite for many other, reasons
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: not just. Boxing you know, what that GUY i never
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: DID i never did.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: All, right so is an? Expert tell me If ali
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: is in a ring With Mike, tyson both at their,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: prime who.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Wins, well as an, EXPERT i have no, idea but, uh.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: That's a good.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Answer it would be a great. One it's it's hard
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: to talk about that kind of stuff, too Because i'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: a fan of both, guys and both were so different
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: and both brought something different to the. SPORT i, mean
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: when you think about And Senator, cruz we're the same
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Age That tyson era was. UNBELIEVABLE i mean everybody was
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: into boxing because Of Mike. Tyson it was.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Incredible well he hits so hard and so. FAST i
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: mean you'd have you'd have matches over in the in
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: the first round because he just knock everyone. OUT i,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: mean it, was it Was i've never seen anything like.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: It it's. True So ali brought something different during his
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: era And tyson brought something. Different but the boxing is
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: where it is today because both of them existed and
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: were in the. Sport there's no doubt about.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It all, right same question about MM a BEST mma
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: fighter Ever John?
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Jones?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah why?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Why?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Good, well one of the things that happened in boxing
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: is that you had all these different sanctioning organizations and
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: all anybody and they all had different champions and different,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: guys and all anybody wanted to do was stay, undefeated
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: so they would fight lesser competition to make sure that
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: they got up to twenty five and. Zero and you,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: know IN, mma you go through the, gaunt you fight
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: the best of the best all the way to the.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Top so if you end up with it with a
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: long career and you are still, undefeated you are the
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: greatest of all. Time and that Is John jones and
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: many other.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Reasons what about if If John jones is in the
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: ring With, ali who wins that? Fight that's that's kind
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: of a mascular, question, okay because it's the same. Question
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: you remember The rocky movie Where rocky Fights Hell cogan
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: and and the wrestler versus the Boxer.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: John. Jones John jones would get, inside he'd grab him
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: and he would rip them.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Apart, yes have you ever seen a pro athlete not
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: in your business that you wish you could have taken
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: them and turned them INTO ufc Fighter if you had
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: to pay a celebrity.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Athlete any any, SPORT i don't. Care it's The.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Olympics but there's got to be talent data that you
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: look at and you're, like that guy should have done,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: this and he would have been a.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Beast who would that?
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Be? Yeah. ABSOLUTELY i mean if you look at a
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: lot of these guys that play not just in THE,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: nfl but college football. Too you, know when you look
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: at how big and explosive and powerful these guys, are
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: had they been training and mixed martial arts their whole,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: life they would be, unbelievable you. Know and you, know
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: he was a big fan and always said he wanted to.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Fight imagine if he trained when he was young a.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: SHACK i, mean.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: You KNOW i Met zek WHEN i was at THE
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: ufc fight with you In, miami and it was he
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: is a huge. MAN i, mean he's just a mountain
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: of a.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Man massive and one of my all time favorite. Killers you,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: know you, know the, mentality the talent and all that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Stuff it would have been interesting to see If Michael
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: jordan was you, know was a, uh we're TRAINING mma
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: his all. Life.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah he certainly had an unbelievable heart of. COMPETITION i,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: mean you knew at the end of every game he'd
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: have the ball and he'd be triple, teamed and it wouldn't.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Matter he was gonna score and he was gonna.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Win so, true and he had that chiller mindset and
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: he was probably the most clutch athlete of all.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Time, David there's a lot of people that listen to this.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Show they may not actually have known you FROM. Ufc
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: they may know you from seeing you next To Donald.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Trump talk about how you guys became. Friends was it
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: because you both were in this REALITY tv world and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: exploded that you're both understood. Entertainment was that how you
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: guys originally kind of? Connected was? It you, know he's
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: The Apprentice GUY, Tv you're DOING UFC. Tv and then
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: how did you guys become? Friends it's clear that you
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: all are friends when you see each other. Together it's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: not just, hey come to my, event like you guys
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: obviously really know each other like each.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Other, yeah, no it's not any of that at. All
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: it's he's a big fight. Fan he's been a fight
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: fan since he was. Young all of his you, know
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: the big fights for his. Casinos and he AND i
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: met when we did the first fight at the Taj.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Mahal he had think about. This THE ufc wasn't allowed
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: on pay per. View no arenas wanted, us no venues
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: wanted our. Events he actually had us at The TRUMP.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Taj mahall showed up for the first fight of the
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: night and stayed till the end both times that we
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: went to THE. Taj and when you think about The
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: trump brand was, HERE ufc brand was. Here but he got,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: it he liked, it and then literally everything good that
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: ever happened to me in my career after. That he
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: was always the first one to call or reach out
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: in some, way and he was just always a, really
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: really good. Guy and then he reached out and asked
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: me to speak at The Republican convention for, Him and
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: everybody told me not to do, it don't do, it
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: don't do, it don't get into, politics and number one
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: and number, two he's never gonna. Win and the guy's
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: been a great friend of. Me SO i, said there's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: no Way i'm not going to do it for. HIM
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: i really like this, Guy and, yes he AND i
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: are very close, friends AND i love the.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Guy sarah AND i were both there for that. Speech
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: what was the biggest shock for you in the reaction
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: from the. Public was it the? Animosity because you went
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: there and because you. Spoke what was the biggest surprise
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: from doing that speech at the?
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: CONVENTION i never get any negativity from. It, Ever it's
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the exact. Opposite When i'm out in the streets AND
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: i go, places people always come up to me and
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: say thanks for thanks for. Staff i've never ever had
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: one person walk up to me or yell or say
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: something to me and anything About. Trump and here's the.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Thing WHEN i do, speak you don't ever hear me
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: talk negatively about the other. Side i'll tell you. Why
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: everything they say about this guy is a, lie and
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: he's not what they say he. Is he's actually a
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: good man who loves this, country cares about, people and you,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: KNOW i just talk about who he is as a.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Person, yeah all. Right AT, ufc you Hired Joe. Rogan
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: when you hired him and he was just getting, started
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: did you did you have any inkling of what a
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: a major, figure what a really historic figure for free
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: speech he would. Become did you see that early?
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: On, no WHAT i SAW i was getting into that
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: when we were talking earlier about the ground. Game so
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: when people didn't understand the ground, game the greatest THING
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: i did was Bring joe rogan in and he started
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: walking people through what was happening while it was actually,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: happening so that you would understand. It and when we grew,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: up your parents would put you in karate or taekwondo
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: or something like.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: THAT i did four years of. Judo there you.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Go this is the martial art now that, men women
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: and children are taking all over the. World and Then.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: JOE i remember When joe told, me he, said, hey,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: LISTEN i started a. Podcast would you come on my?
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Podcast AND i was, like what the hell is a?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Podcast he's, like, well it's like, radio but.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Grant on that, person what the hell is a? Podcast?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: YEAH i, said, wow, yeah really, big you gotta do
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: it with the. Accent so So lindsey was the very
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: first guest ever on this, podcast and we were meeting
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: in a basement studio IN dc and we had just
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: burst on and created the podcast and it's skyrocketed to
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: the number one rank podcasts in the. World and SO
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: i Asked lindsay to come, on and he comes down
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to the basement and and his line he, goes what
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: in the hell is a? Podcast and we had this
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: this shag carpet from the seventies and and these same
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: big old, mics And lindsey looked around and we were
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: still number one at the, time and he, goes your number.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: One who the hell is number? Two some guy at
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: a van by the.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: River that's, funny all, right come, On. Buda EITHER i
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: didn't get, It and And rogan was definitely very, insightful you,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: know and and starting his podcast and then and then
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: it just absolutely blew up and he, became you, know
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: the biggest thing in the.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: World so why do you think he's so good at
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: the podcast?
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Business he's really good At he's really good. At. Uh
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: first of, all he talks about a lot of interesting.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Things he's very, smart, obviously and, uh he's great at
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: speaking to. People he's he's a good, listener ask great,
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: questions and uh is always talking about interesting stuff with interesting.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: People and he tried so hard not to get into.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Politics he tried so hard not to get into.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Politics everyone that tries to do that THAT i know always.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Fails but that's probably WHY i know them at that.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Point right, here here's Another rogan. Question, so So rogan
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: had been A Bernie sanders. Supporter, yeah then he became
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: A trump. Supporter he's now Criticizing trump on some. Front
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: what's your sense of sort of where where his politics.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Falls, well he was very. LIBERAL i mean he was very.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Liberal and then when the world started to lose its,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: MIND i, mean if you're not a little, right, uh
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: you're not. Right. Uh SO i think that you, know
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: a lot of these guys who were who were who
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: were liberally at one, point including, ME i was, Too
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: so what common? Sense common? Sense, uh and a lot
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: of the other nutty stuff that was going. On, yeah,
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: listen taxes are never gonna go. Away, uh that's always
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: going to be a. Thing but you, Know, uh WHEN
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: i talked To joe about Having trump on the, podcast
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: his big thing was and AND i was the one
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: pushing the president to do these. Podcasts. Yep SO i
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: brought The Nelk boys On Air force one at the
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: end of his, uh at the end of his his first.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Term and you, know there's that conference room in the,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: back and we're in the conference. Room and then finally
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: he called us up to his. Office and WHEN i
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: brought The Melk boys into his, OFFICE i could tell
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: by the look on his face because he was, like
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: what the hell are you? Doing? Right BECAUSE i Called
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Jared kushner AND i, Said, JARED i want to bring
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: these kids to melf, boys you, know because he was
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: picking me up In vegas and we were flying To.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: ARIZONA i, SAID i want to bring these kids with,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: us and he, said, Yeah i'm not asking them that you,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Are SO i end up asking. Him we do, it
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: and to The president's, credit he gets done with this
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: rally In arizona and he sees this, Kid, steve who
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: is you, know a very famous, kid you, know in
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the influencer, world and he was on the plane with
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: us and The president and he called them up on
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: stage And steve started doing THE ymca. Thing the crowd,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: erupted and after that The president agreed to do their.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Podcast he did The Nelf boy podcast and the thing
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: went to something crazy like ten million views in four,
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: hours and YouTube pulled it. Down and that's when all
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: hell broke. Loose and then The president was all in on.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Podcasts and the REASON i love The president doing these
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: kids podcasts that are an, hour two hours or The
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Joe rogan three hour podcast is because he is a real,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: guy a guys guy who can sit there and. Talk
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: So joe, Said I'll i'll do. It But i'm gonna
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Invite Kamala harris to do it. Too i'm Gonna i'm
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: gonna invite. Both, yeah she can't do a three hour.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Podcast now now she cannot. Do So trump shows, up
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: they go three and change, Right he's late for his
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: next rally and it's. Incredible so they reach out To
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: harris's team and they, said, well here's what you're gonna.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Do you're gonna have to fly TO La we'll give
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: you twenty minutes and we need to know all the
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: questions ahead of. Time And joe's, like that is not
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: WHAT i.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Do have you ever watched my, podcast you would know
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that's not gonna.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Fly.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Yep and then now now everybody gets the podcast.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: THING i want to be honest with you for a
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: second about how an act of compassion really. FEELS a
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: couple of years, AGO i made the choice to partner
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: with an amazing organization Called Compassion. International why BECAUSE i
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: wanted to sponsor a child in. Need it was a nice, idea,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: sure BUT i had no idea just how much that
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: simple act would change my life as. WELL i Sponsored
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: nadia and got to watch your life change right in
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: front of my, eyes going from starving literally alone on
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the streets to getting the healthcare and education she needs
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to reach Her god given full. POTENTIAL i got to
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: be a part of that, change and the light of
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: that compassion not only illuminates in, her it illuminates now in.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Me that is the power of. Compassion the light Of
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: christ shines on all of. Us feel it for yourself
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: and change literally a child's, life change the, world and
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: you also change. Yourself you can sponsor child. Today visit
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: compassion dot. Com that's compassion dot. Com let me ask,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: you like legacy question is as we get close to
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: wrapping things up. HERE i always love asking, people especially
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: right around your, age when you've, Done you've worked really,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: hard you did something.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Incredible, Listen, skippy we don't need any of these lines
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: about your. Age you, know you know one of these
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: days you'll hit puberty and you'll get a little wisdom
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: like data and. Me but go ahead of the.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Question rip on the forty four year old right. NOW
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: i feel very good about. IT i feel great about.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: It but when you there's a certain point where you look,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: here like, RIGHT i worked, HARD i put my head,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: DOWN i got a lot, done and then there's like all,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: right what's?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Next do you have? Contentment what do you want the
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: next ten years to be of your? Career your?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Legacy what is? IT i, mean now you're at the
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: point where you can kind of pick and choose what you.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Do you built this, brand but what is it that
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: makes you wake up every day and what excites?
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: You, YEAH i mean the level that we've built this
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: company and what we've done with combat sports globally still
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: fires me. Up now we're getting into, boxing uh, know
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: we're adding on to The Ali, act WHICH i know
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: you know About senator and, uh you know we're Gonna
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: we're gonna we're gonna build boxing into a massive business again.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: Globally so you, KNOW i still have goals for THE,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: UFC i have goals for boxing and other things That i'm.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Into beyond, THAT i don't. KNOW i, Mean I'M i
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: got three great. Kids you, know WHEN i think about,
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: legacy my legacy is my, kids uh and their. Kids
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: and you, KNOW i don't think much ABOUT i love
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: WHAT i. Do it's what gets me up every. Day and,
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Uh i'm still just as passionate now AS i was
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: about it twenty five years. Ago SO i don't. KNOW
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: i don't know the answer to that question is going
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: to get up and keep. Grinding love it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: All, Right different question. Movies i'm a big movie buff
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: for a boxing. Officionado what's the Best rocky?
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Movie rocky, Three rocky?
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Three all, right cluver, Lang, yeah.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Yep rocky. THREE i love. It me and The president
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: argue about this all the. Time what's his One rocky?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: One what's the logic behind his what's his?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Argument what's?
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Yours AND i might Be rocky, Too so that's, interesting that's.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Awesome And i'll tell you something else About Rocky it's
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: the only fight movie other than uh Like Raging, bull
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: which is a true. Story and you know THAT i
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: actually really, like like a fictional boxing, movie fight movie
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: THAT i actually. Like and we can actually debate as.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Men what's your favorite, one, two, three or? Four once
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: you get past, four you.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Lose, yeah it was pretty awesome, too was, LIKE i thank.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: You you, Know i've In. Draga if he, dies he,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: dies so.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Right so make your argument on why yours is number?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: One and what's the president's argument on?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: One?
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: WELL i loved that In rocky, three you, know he
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: he he had had all this success and And, uh you,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: know then you have Clever land who's hungry coming, up
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: And mick is trying to avoid him because he thinks
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: he's gonna. Murder and, yeah you, KNOW i JUST i loved.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: EVERYTHING i thought mister t absolutely murdered that role and
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: and could not have been better in. It and, UH
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: i don't, KNOW i just that's The that's the one
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: out of the three that hit me the. Most they're all.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Great one's, great two's. Great four is.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Great why Did trump say number? One what was his
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: argument on number one being the?
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: BEST i think because if you didn't, see you, Know
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: rocky one, happened and then all the other ones, by
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: you didn't see a place where actually the guy who
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: is the hero of the movie is gonna, lose uh the,
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: fight you, know and obviously the major success the movie
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: And stallone had coming out of, that and and the
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: story of stallone and and how he built the. MOVIE
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: i don't, KNOW i guess that's. It rocky one is.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Great i'm not Diminishing rocky. ONE i just Think rocky
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: three is.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: BETTER i gotta say. Two, WELL i gotta say it
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: BECAUSE i like. Winning rocky one is pretty. Awesome but
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: then he, loses And rocky two he comes, back he
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: gets it. Done it's three is awesome, Too SO i
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: mean it's a hard but Like rocky two is when
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: he like finishes the job and gets it. Done. Uh
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: but you, KNOW i got to, say one of the
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: things that's fun about the Whole rocky you, know and
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: stallone obviously created the character and the Whole rocky saga
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: actually think has a lot in common With President trump
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: because if you look At Rocky, balboa you, know he's
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: not the fastest, hitter he's not the strongest. Hitter he
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: just keeps frigging. Going he's like The terminator no. MATTER i,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: mean it's nothing stops, him and he just goes and
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: goes and. Goes and that's very Much Donald. Trump you.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Know Donald trump used to say he no president has
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: been as persecuted as he, Was AND i got to
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: say a few years, AGO i wasn't sure that was.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: True and then the indictments come and they try to
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: bankrupt him and bankrupt his, kids and it is now clearly.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: True it's unequivocally and there are very few human beings
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: who could have gone through What trump went. Through when
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: The democrats were trying to do everything they could to
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: stop his, reelection and it reminds me Of Rocky balboa
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: that no matter how many times they hit, him he
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: just keeps.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Coming the most resilient human being THAT i have ever
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: met in my. Life, yeah and as his, friend you,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: KNOW i used to tell him when he was going
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: through this. Stuff i'd be, like what are you? Doing
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: why don't you just you? Know and you know what
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: he would, Say DO i have a. Choice you absolutely
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: have a. Choice, yes you can stop doing this shit to.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Yourself but he is, unstoppable the most resilient human Being
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: i've ever met in my. LIFE i absolutely love the.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Guy and, yeah nobody when he won this last. ELECTION i,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: MEAN i don't know if anybody was happier for him than.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Me AND i was with him the whole, night all
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: the way through. It and it's JUST i tell people
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: this all, time And Senator cruz tell me If i'm,
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: wrong And i've actually brought. People Kid rock Brought Bill
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: maher to The White, house, Right and Even Bill, maher
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: who has hated this guy for thirty, years had to
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: go on a show and say the guy That i've
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: hated for thirty years was not president at this. Dinner,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: yep anybody who thinks they don't Like, TRUMP i dare
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: you to go to dinner with him for an. Hour
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: you cannot walk out of there and GO i hate that.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Guy it's.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Impossible he can be amazingly. Charming he's funny as all get.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Out And i'll give mar some credit, too because he
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: was honest about. That you, Know mar is someone WHO
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: i used to disagree. WITH i find myself agreeing with
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: him more and. More AND i feel Like Bill maher
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: is an old school liberal that his party went, crazy
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: and he's sitting there, going, okay how about like free
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: speech matters and and don't embrace Crazy islamis who want
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: to kill us and and and suddenly that makes him
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: feel like a right.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Winger, yeah it's and it's. Not Bill maher is a
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: common sense, guy LIKE i was, Saying he's a guy
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: who isn't afraid to stand up for common. Sense and and,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: yeah that night was actually really really cool at the
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: way he was. Hilarious the president was. Hilarious and think about.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: This Bill maher has been pumping The democrat agenda for you,
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: know thirty forty whatever many. Years he's never been invited
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: to The White house and never toured The White. House
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: trump was the first.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: One yeah, no what are you not One democrat, ever
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Asked Bill moore of The White.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: House, nope wow what miss pretty? Crazy and The president
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: gave him an incredible tour after it was. Over and you,
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: know and those two talked all, Night me And Kid
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: rock state out of their. Way they talked all. Night they,
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Agreed they, argued they this and that and that's how
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: it's supposed to.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Be. Yeah, well and And marris smart and he'll engage
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: on real. Issues you. Know you, KNOW i did his
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: show a couple of years ago and at the, end
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: when the cameras were, OFF i, Said, bill you, KNOW
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: i got to thank you for endorsing me for. President he's,
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: like what are you talking. About and in twenty, sixteen
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: when it was down To trump and me, running mar
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: did a whole show and he, said, okay so you've
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Got trump And cruise and he said it's a little
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: bit like malaria or the bubonic. Plague he's, LIKE.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: I hate them.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Both but he, said if you give me that, choice
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: and he pulled out a red hat that said better
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: ted than, Dead so he, said compared To, trump he
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: decided to endorse, me and he'd forgotten about. It AND
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: i had a, picture a screenshot of him wearing the
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: hat that said better ted Than, dead AND i signed
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: it and, said you, know thanks for your, visionary visionary,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: wisdom and he cracked up. LAUGHING i think he'd forgotten
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: all about.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: It he is funny and he is, smart And i've
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: been a fan of his for. Years so to be
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: there that night and see it all play, out and
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: what's funny, is you, know The president always busts my
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: ball BECAUSE i don't wear. Suits, Right SO i don't wear.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Suits and When Bill maher walked into The oval, Office
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: he's got a suit on the whole. Thing he's, like
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: there's no WAY i was showing up here without a. Suit.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: Hey he looks at me and he, goes that's definitely
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: from The zolensky.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Collection but by the, WAY i will, say there was
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: a funny THING i saw On, twitter like When zelensky
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: showed up for one of The White house meetings again
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: in his. Sweatshirt someone said he should have, said, look,
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: look mister, PRESIDENT i showed up with a. Suit but
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: WHEN i landed some guy from The biden administration stole my?
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Luggage do you remember that weird transgender cross dresser who
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: was in The biden administration who was stealing suitcases at the?
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Airport like it was a bizarre little story multiple times
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: and caught on, film like it was one of the odd.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: Things all.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Right last, question how cool is it for our nation's
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: two hundred and fiftieth birthday to be doing A ufc
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: fight at The White house on The South.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Lawn it's a real Amazing.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: And how many people have called you for a ticket?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Already that's WHAT i really want to.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Know it's. Crazy but we're going to put on one
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: of the greatest live events anybody has ever. Seen and,
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah i'm really excited about, it all.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Right and by the, Way i'm gonna shamelessly get in.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: LINE i already told my TEAM i want to be.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: There come hooker By. CROOK i ain't missing.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: THIS i love. IT i look forward to seeing you.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: There senator Excellent, dana thank you for joining. Us this
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: was a lot of. FUN i appreciate. You thank you
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: for your, leadership your courage and and by the, way
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: everything you've BUILT ufc Into NOW i look forward to
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: the next five ten twenty years and where it. Goes
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: we got you got a lot to do in, business
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: and the country's got a lot to do going.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: Forward thank, you. SIR i appreciate. It congratulations on all your.
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: Success appreciate.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: It don't forget we did this Show, Monday wednesday And.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Friday hit that subscriber photo download button wherever you get your,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Podcasts share this on social, media rights a five star
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: review as, well and we'll see you back here in
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: a couple of.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Days