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Before Dark. yeah i think we're cooking with
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something here but the internet has ruined me
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did you notice what the bbd i did yeah i yeah
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i thought about it from side pieces to bbds yeah
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i i saw it and i thought about it i'm like you
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know what i i don't care i'm going with it yeah
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it's it'll be part of the charm it made me laugh
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it's all good boxing before dark uh I was going
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to put that on there to set up a formal introduction
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at some point. Man, I got to do an interview
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today and it was really fucking cool. It was
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with an author. His name is Clay Risen. He wrote
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this book called Red Scare. It's a book about
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McCarthyism and how it's starting to crop back
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up. McCarthyism for the uninitiated. It's like
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back in the 40s and 50s after post -World War
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II. there was the immediate aftermath where being
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a communist was like being the devil, pretty
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much. So that's what McCarthyism, that term means,
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like the witch hunt for alleged communists or
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alleged gay people and vilifying and driving
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them out of public life. Sorry, I thought I recognized
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his name. Is he the guy who writes about bourbon?
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Yes. I completely forgot to ask him about that.
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As soon as we hung up, I was like, shit, he has
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like five fucking books on bourbon. I need to
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ask him about this. I will say that's the one
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thing I am slightly missing. It's not that it
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makes any difference in Japan, but I have also
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not been buying the American alcohols out of
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solidarity. I miss bourbon. Nobody makes bourbon
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like the Americans. Yeah, that's our thing. they
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don't the japanese or not the irish or scott
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scottish god what's wrong with me um they don't
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call it scotch everyone else does because it's
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yeah they just call it single malt or whatever
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yeah and well canada does have some smaller brewer
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distilleries i guess um that are making bourbon
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like drinks they have to call them bourbon like
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bourbons made in america yeah if it doesn't come
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from the bourbon region of kentucky uh then it's
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just corn whiskey yeah spicy corn water yeah
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yeah that's i can't fucking stand people that
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do that they're all pedantic like that I finally,
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this even hurts more because I finally found
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a bottle of Blanton's to buy, which is my favorite.
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It's fucking expensive now. I'm going to sound
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like such a hipster douche, but I found it when
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it was still cheap and now they've gotten popular.
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It's like $200 a bottle. Okay, what? Yeah, I
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won't be buying it anyways, boycott or not. Don't
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recall. I think the most I've ever spent on a
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single bottle is like $120. I bought gift bottles
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that were $200. Like birthday, anniversary, whatever.
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But yeah, no. Not usually. Well, Red Scare from
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the bourbon guy. That'll be coming out. Part
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of the Lux Media family, Progressive Patriots.
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going to be the first episode in like two months.
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So, whatevs. You're getting all the other podcasts
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rolling again. I'm trying to. Try my best. One
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last push, I suppose. The one card in Tokyo.
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Did you end up catching it? Well, everything
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except the main event. I was watching it at work
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and I ran out of time. But the one card seemed
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a lot more fun. than other MMA. There's way less
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wrestle fucking. Yeah. I do not like the UFC.
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The one card was really fun. The atmosphere was
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good. The one kid came out dressed as Luffy from
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One Piece. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, he's real
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tall and skinny. I don't know anybody's name.
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I know who you're talking about. Yeah. He looked
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like Fundora, but Asian. That's... Exactly what
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I was thinking as I was watching him. He's like,
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he's six foot four fights at 135. Like, man,
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you've got plenty of weight classes to go. Yeah,
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I missed the main, but I did see that Rod Tang
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just destroyed that kid. What I'm told from like
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somebody who's a little bit, Zoe, I think it
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was, he's a little bit more in depth with. the
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MMA stuff than I am. It was that Takeru, the
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Japanese kickboxer, he had been still doing hard
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sparring up to like a week, week and a half before
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the fight. And he had a lingering injury that
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he didn't disclose. If you're injured, pull out
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of the fight or no excuses. Right. If you walk
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out, you don't have any excuses. I also just
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really like Rod Tang, so I wasn't too sad. He's
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a fucking monster. Yeah, Rod Tang. In the co
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-main, the guy, the very slender man, his name
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is Nibel Anan. He's, I think, like, Thai and
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Algerian or something. I don't know. I think
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that's what they were saying. But he fought Superlek,
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who's another Muay Thai. I recognize that name.
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Yeah, he's a Muay Thai monster as well. I think
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that he's called like the kicking machine or
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something. And that is like where who the fuck
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is this? This is not super like he looks like
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lethargic. Well, he must be old now. He's about
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30. Really? Which is old when you're doing Muay
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Thai. Yeah, but I hadn't realized he was that
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young. Because Luffy guy is like 20 or 21. How
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old is Rod Tang? Rod Tang must actually be old.
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He's older for sure. I think he's going to be
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finding his way out of the sport kind of soon.
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So enjoy him while you can. Rod Tang's 27? Is
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he? He looks old as shit. Is Rod Tang his real
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name? Like he's Rod Tang Jitmongnong or something?
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Yeah, the last name. It's his gym or his sponsor
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or whatever. Okay, but I mean, like, I haven't
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found the wrong guy. Yeah, that's the right one.
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He's 27. No fucking way. He looks like he's 37.
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Well, I thought he'd been fighting for like 10
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years. He very well may have. They start really
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young there. That's crazy. I thought he was older
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than me for sure, which would make him ancient.
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But I guess not. I think that they still have
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the mileage on them, and that's why they may
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seem older than they are. Yeah. Yeah. That is
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surprising. Anyways, yeah, you've been telling
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me to try the one instead of UFC, and it does
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look way more fun. Yeah. I also have decided,
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now that I've seen all my boxers, I should...
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go to either a one card or a rising card in japan
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the crowd seems more fun rising i think would
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be more just because it's a lot more homegrown
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yeah well and i might meet some low -class friends
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yeah boxing is for the businessmen boxing is
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fairly high class elite kind of stuff in tokyo
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that's the feel it has there's There's people
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scattered around, but it feels fancy, which is
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weird. It is. I have always heard it called the
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gentleman's sport. Yeah, but that's not really
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true. No, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Exactly.
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Like thinking of Tijuana ballroom or bar rooms,
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not ballrooms. Maybe it is a ballroom. Who knows?
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Or like. The British cards, it does not seem
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like it's the gentlemen that are showing up to
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watch. No, it's the hooligans. But yeah, no,
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the one I do not like mixed martial arts, but
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that one card seemed pretty fun. I have a little
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thing that I did with Isaac. We have a little
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cross promo thing that I play at the end of the
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boxing shows, which is like what? What would
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you tell a boxing fan, like a purist type of
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mentality? What can they get out of watching
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one FC UFC? UFC has got too much wrestling in
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it now for me. It's not, not fun. Even the strikers,
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they, they wrestle a lot, but the kickboxing,
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there's no wrestling when they fall down, they
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stand them back up. Usually. Yeah. Yeah. So,
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yeah. It's stand -up fighting with kicks, which
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is fun. And the kicks are super impressive sometimes.
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There was one guy on there. His name was Jonathan
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DiBella. He's a smaller weight class, but his
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boxing is super crisp. Usually, whenever you're
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talking about... MMA guy or kickboxing or whatever
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and you say oh their boxing is really good and
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usually they're pretty sloppy they just have
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like a decent jab or it's just really basic fundamentals
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but DiBella is really good if he could plant
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his feet you could very well be looking at a
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boxer right there very few that get that acclaim
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from me I've, I think I've only got two, three
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that I've ever, Jonathan DeBell is three, three
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of three. But yeah, I tell everybody if you're
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trying, if you want to get into more combat sports
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and you're a boxing head, Muay Thai is the, Muay
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Thai, kickboxing is the easiest alternative to
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start with because it's, it's boxing, but with
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kicks added. And then Muay Thai. Yeah, because
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they wear, like, boxing -style gloves, too, so
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there can't be any grappling. Right. And then
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if you want to move a little further, Muay Thai,
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they add the elbows and the knees. And they can
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do a little bit of clinching, but you have to
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be actively working in a clinch, or else they'll
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split you up. And they still stand them up when
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they get thrown. Right. If there's, like, trips
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or pushes or anything that you stand up immediately,
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like, they do still have the 10 -count knockdown.
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But it has to be a very clear and obvious knockdown.
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A usual technique is like in Muay Thai, they
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throw a kick and it gets caught. And as they're
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holding it, they throw a punch over the top.
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And then that usually sends the guy down. And
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that's like a knockdown. Yeah, because my biggest
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problem with mixed martial arts is the ground
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game. I just find it boring as fuck. And there
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are submission grappling competitions on 1FC,
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which is just pure grappling. And it's paradoxical
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because I have the same problem with ground game
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stuff in UFC. But submission grappling, it's
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like watching master chefs cook. Yeah, I say
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this all the time when I'm making arguments with
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people. Grappling is like soccer. I'm sure it
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takes a whole bunch of skill. I sure as hell
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couldn't do it. People love it. It's super popular.
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I think it's boring as hell to watch. Yeah. You're
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either going to get it or you don't. You can
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be brought onto it, but you've got to be... You've
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got to want it or it's not going to happen. Because
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it can be pretty homoerotic. Very. which i'm
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not against i love reading homoerotic comics
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but watching it on tv is weird yeah not quite
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my thing oh man the big news deep sigh george
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foreman uh we mentioned it the last time uh just
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kind of in passing that an acknowledgement but
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holy cow looking into his life this I didn't
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realize how much he had transcended the sport.
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Yeah. George Foreman was a phenomenon for a while,
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and I hadn't realized he had multiple TV shows.
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Really? He had, like, it's only one season. I
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think it got canceled pretty quick. But Family
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Foreman was him and his family, but, like, a
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scripted TV show. And there was also one just
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called George. that was a sitcom as well scripted
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family show so yeah it's like a sitcom like but
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with all his kids i never watched it but it it
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looks like it was written kind of like sanford
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and sons maybe did you remember that one yeah
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but like him and all his kids yeah so i didn't
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know Big George had a TV show. That one was from
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2008. And then his other TV show, I think, came
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before that. Yeah, he had a TV show in the 90s
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when he was doing his comeback. That's about
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the time he had his infomercial series as well.
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Yeah. When he did all his grill stuff. Yeah.
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Oh, man. The George Foreman KO boxing video game.
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I had that on Sega Genesis. It was not very good.
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It was hard. It was a good, like a spiritual
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successor to Mike Tyson's Punch Out. It did have
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that similar level of difficulty. Yeah, I always
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think that people have forgotten how scary George
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Foreman was in his first run. Like, there's a
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few interviews and... I meant to go find the
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clip, but there's one where it's old George talking
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about his mindset in his first heavyweight run.
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And he's like, I hated how nobody respected me,
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nobody liked me. And he said, well, if I kill
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one of these guys, then they'll have to respect
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me. Oh, boy. One of those. But it's old George's,
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like, happy, friendly voice. But it just... Like,
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even George trying to not be scary was a little
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scary. His first professional loss was to Muhammad
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Ali. And the little blurb thing that Serial's
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putting together, I had mentioned that even though
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he was on the losing side of it, he still, like,
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cemented himself as the... one of the greats
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to hang with Ali like that. Yeah. Bop and Joe
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Frazier, who... Was undefeated. I didn't know
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that Joe Frazier was undefeated at the time.
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That makes that win a whole lot crazier. When
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Big George entered the scene, he shocked a lot
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of people. I don't think anybody really expected
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him to be that good in the professionals that
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quickly. 76 -5. That is unbelievable. I remember
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watching George Foreman vs. Evander Holyfield.
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uh i think i saw michael moorer i've watched
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that fight a couple times and he's so crafty
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in it and i don't know how much of it is true
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i do feel like george might rewrite history slightly
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in some of his storytelling but uh he In interviews
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afterwards, he's like, I was only throwing my
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punches at about 60%, waiting for just the right
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time to hit him. Like, let him get confident
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that he can take my punches, that I'm just an
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old man and I don't hit like I used to, and wear
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him down and wear him down. And he's like, I
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had to pick the perfect time to throw that one
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big punch, because if I let him know the trick
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too soon, he would get cautious and I'd never
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get a second chance. That stepping uppercut that
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he would do, that's immediately what comes to
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mind. The Jerry Clooney? Yeah. That is the most
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casual knockout ever performed in a boxing ring.
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What I didn't watch, what I meant to watch before
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we chatted today, was the loss to Shannon Briggs.
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Because he was almost 49 years old at the time.
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And Shannon Briggs is... Not that good. Yeah,
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but age is a factor, man. It still took him to
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a majority decision. That is pretty nuts. That
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raises a lot of question marks, Shannon. It's
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not very canon -like behavior. Yeah, man. I guess
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he'd been sick. I don't think they had told anybody,
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but this was apparently not a surprise to his
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family at all. And now that I think about it,
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we haven't had any new Big George stuff in quite
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a few years. True. Even at his late age, Ali
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was still going around doing stuff. He was very
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clearly in bad shape. But I saw him, no kidding,
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he was at a... My first like official date with
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my then girlfriend, the one that went to Vegas
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with me, we went to this little jazz festival
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and they they like stopped everything to let
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Muhammad Ali walk up to his private box. Nice.
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Yeah, it was I was like, holy shit. And then
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she didn't know anything about boxing. It's like,
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who what are you talking about? Do you not know
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who that is? How do you not know who Muhammad
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Ali is? Once I said the name, of course. Right,
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oh, she just didn't recognize him. Yeah, she
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had no idea what he actually looked like. I can
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see that. Especially an older, sick Ali didn't
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really look like Ali anymore. He was in rough
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shape. I expect that George just stayed home
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to kind of not tarnish that big legacy. Yeah,
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I heard a rumor. I don't know how confident you
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can be in it, but that he'd had a few strokes.
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So I wonder if he really wanted to kind of hide
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that and remain the big George Foreman, not,
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you know, some guy who was having trouble walking
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anymore. Right, because his whole face and he'd
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be slurring all his words. I can imagine he'd
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want to save face a little bit. I haven't seen
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that from any really good media, but I've seen
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a couple rumors online. And that would make sense
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too, I think. Yeah, wouldn't be too surprising.
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But we have talked about Big George and not making
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fun of the fact that he named... All his kids,
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George. How the fuck do you do that? Yeah, I
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think even the girls are like Georgette or something
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like that. One of them is Georgina, and then
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the other girl had a regular name, the one that
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boxed. He had a kid that boxed? Yeah, one of
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his daughters was female heavyweight champ. Was
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it Georgina that boxed or the other one? I don't
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know. I didn't know any of his kids did. I knew
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one of his sons did, but... I think his dad talked
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him out of it after a little while. Frida? I
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think it's Frida that boxed. I think it was Frida.
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I don't think Georgetta boxed. It's whichever
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of the girls is dead. Oh. But that's not super
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helpful. Good lord. Because there was for a little
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while talk that she was going to fight Ali's
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daughter. Layla. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, it's
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Frida Foreman. And I'm pretty sure she was a
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champion in the early days of women's boxing.
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All I can find are articles on her death, though,
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because of course that's all I can find. All
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of his kids are named George. I mean, a modern
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version is the Gary Antoine Russell or the Gary
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Russells. There's like five of them, three of
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them box. All of them have the first name Gary.
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It's so weird. It's got to be so weird at home.
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Like they must go by their middle names. You
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got to. You have to. I would, if I had, I would
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have liked to name one of my sons after me, but
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that was, it would just be one. I'm like, I'm
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not going to. Yeah. Frida Foreman's middle name
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was George. Well done. Can't not do it. I am
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wrong. She never had any of the belts. No? No.
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I did not realize her middle name was George.
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I didn't either. It makes me think that the other
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one is also... Oh, she's Georgetta. Yeah, that's
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right. Is she Georgetta George Foreman? Because
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that would be madness. Man, anything more for
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George? I don't think so. I think... People with
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much more time on their hands have gone over
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his career really well. But to me, George Foreman's
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always just going to be more the inspirational
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guy than anything else. Yeah. I had always wanted
24:32
a George Foreman grill just because it was George
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Foreman's. But I never got one as much as I asked
24:40
for one. Then when I got to my first duty station
24:43
in the military, I might have told this one.
24:46
bit already but that was like that was the hot
24:49
commodity was having a george foreman grill in
24:52
your room because yeah if everyone got a microwave
24:56
by default but zapping everything is not very
25:01
fun you can't microwave a steak right it's exactly
25:06
right and so sometimes like fridays saturdays
25:10
and sundays you'll smell like steaks and chicken
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and stuff going on In the hallway. Like, man,
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I hate being a fucking new guy right now. Because
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it would take me like three hours on the bus
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to get to the shop where I can buy one. And then
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another three hours getting back. And I don't
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know if it's that worth it. I got three of them
25:38
for graduation presents, and my mom is adamant
25:41
that you don't throw out presents, and George
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Foreman grills never break, so I still have three
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George Foreman grills. Other than the power conversion,
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they would be good for Japanese living. Yeah,
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there's no grounds in the plug -ins here, but
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the sockets are the same. Oh, really? Yeah. It's
26:06
all Americanized. I remember them being two,
26:09
the two prong. Yeah, but I mean, they are two
26:13
prongs. They're not like British or European.
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That's what I remember them being like is European.
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me. Kazuto Ioka, his fight is rescheduled again.
28:47
Who was he supposed to fight this time? Same
28:51
guy. Martinez? Yeah. Oh, why did it get rescheduled
28:57
this time? Oh, no. I think I confused you with
29:03
the wording. It's not rescheduled again. I just
29:06
mean it's coming up soon. Oh, the reschedule
29:08
is happening. Yeah. Okay. I wasn't sure if we
29:14
had already talked about that on the podcast
29:15
and I was looking for filler. No, I don't think
29:20
we did. It's May 11th in Tokyo. That's why I
29:26
put it up. They just announced the venue. Where's
29:29
it going to be? And the date. Ota City, which
29:32
is where he always fights. It's that other side
29:35
of Tokyo. It's technically still Tokyo, but it's
29:39
really like Kanagawa. The not so good part? Yeah,
29:45
well, Tokyo is the name of the prefecture. So
29:51
what everybody thinks of as Tokyo is kind of
29:54
like the five or six areas or whatever, but this
29:57
is the outskirts area right near Yokohama. Ah,
30:01
I see what you mean. Okay. So the Tokyo prefecture,
30:04
that would be like a metropolitan area? Well,
30:08
Tokyo is not the name of the city. Tokyo is the
30:12
name of the prefecture. Oh, okay. Yep. Clicked.
30:16
Got it. Yeah. So it's... it's just what everybody
30:21
calls all those cities that have grown together.
30:23
Yeah. Okay. I see what you mean. Yeah. It's,
30:27
it's hard to explain without sounding super douchey,
30:30
but like if New York was a New York city was
30:34
a state and the five boroughs would be the cities.
30:36
Yeah. That's what Tokyo is. Tokyo is actually
30:39
the prefecture. That's what I had in mind actually
30:42
was the five boroughs. That's what I was thinking.
30:45
But. This would be more like whatever city is
30:49
just outside of New York. I don't know New York
30:53
at all. Like New Jersey. Yeah, I was going to
30:55
say, that's exactly what I was going to say.
30:58
The old Sopranos line jumped to my head. This
31:01
other pygmy thing over in Jersey. Yeah, so it's
31:05
in the same place. It's May 11th, and I think
31:09
I'm going to buy another ticket. Yeah, I was
31:12
going to ask if you were going to go. You should
31:14
if you can. I have told myself that I need to
31:17
go to less boxing matches, because they are starting
31:22
to add up expense -wise, because I've gotten
31:24
a little spoiled. I want the nice seats. So they're
31:30
about $300 an event, which is still very reasonable,
31:34
but I've gone to a lot of events now. I think
31:39
I only sprung for seats like that one time. uh
31:45
where i paid for the front row not on the floor
31:48
but where the bowl ends yeah that's that's where
31:52
i've been buying them yeah that's how that's
31:55
the seats were like 500 they're so nice though
31:59
i know it was such a perfect view i had perfect
32:02
view of everything it was the best you can see
32:04
their feet you can hear the punches half the
32:08
time i can hear them yelling at each other it's
32:10
great it's like i'm on that elevated platform
32:13
where the judges sit where they're just off to
32:16
the side and they get that one side view but
32:18
that's what the that's the seat that i like so
32:21
i either need to be less spoiled and sit farther
32:24
back which i did at the last one and it was still
32:26
fine the arenas here are not that big but i'm
32:32
gonna need to start the hardcore fans club yeah
32:36
it's gonna be a subscription -based thing where
32:40
you pay in monthly but then when the when hot
32:43
tickets come out you'll get them at like 75 %
32:46
off. That would be awesome. Because you're paying
32:49
into it for a few months. Speaking of tickets,
32:53
I totally missed that prospect that I really
32:57
like. Aoi Yokoyama is fighting today. He fights
33:01
in, I don't know, like six hours. So I did not
33:06
get a ticket, but it's going to be on Abima,
33:09
which nobody's going to hear this before then,
33:11
but you should watch it. um he's i think the
33:17
co -main he's fighting for uh asia pacific pacific
33:24
oriental yeah oriental pacific belt there we
33:27
go already yeah it's like his third fight or
33:30
yeah that's that's actually really quick yeah
33:34
uh the i've been translating he doesn't get any
33:38
press in english i've been translating the things
33:41
he puts up on instagram and i If the translation
33:44
is correct, which it could be, maybe not. And
33:48
the English wasn't great. But it's the fastest
33:51
a Japanese boxer has gone for one of those international
33:56
belts. Maybe in his weight class. Maybe ever.
34:00
I'm not sure. Like I said, it's Google Translate.
34:03
But I think I sent it to you. His grandparents'
34:08
retirement home did another good luck video.
34:12
I love it. That's the sweetest thing. I thought
34:16
he was just... I didn't know that it was his
34:19
grandparents' place, but it makes sense why he's
34:21
there all the time. Or is that where they live?
34:24
I might be assuming that it's his grandparents'.
34:27
Maybe he's just really good friends with one
34:30
of the old guys, but there's one old guy that's
34:32
always in his videos that... Again, it's all
34:36
in Japanese. I assume it's his granddad, but
34:39
maybe it isn't. Maybe he just volunteers there.
34:41
Yeah, either way, it's still really cool that
34:43
he spends a lot of time there. Yeah. I know elder
34:47
care is a big hot button consideration for the
34:52
declining birth rate there. Yeah, there's a lot
34:57
more old people than young people here, unfortunately.
35:03
That's a lot of the, how would you put it, non
35:08
-prestigious jobs are done by Incredibly old
35:11
people here. I think the janitors I see at the
35:14
university are all in their 70s, at least. Wow.
35:18
Because young people want good jobs, and there's
35:22
not enough young people to fill the jobs anyways,
35:25
so who sweeps the floors? I remember reading
35:32
somewhere, and this was like 10 years ago, that
35:35
Japan is headed for its own... korea as well
35:39
but they're headed towards pandemics and the
35:42
illness is good it's not going to be contagious
35:44
so i don't know if pandemic's the right word
35:46
but like dementia and yeah alzheimer's are going
35:51
to decimate a large portion of the of the population
35:56
and there's really no way to stop it well and
36:01
japan specifically has a lot of intestinal cancers
36:07
for some reason, which is part of why my research
36:11
gets funded here with the microbiome stuff. I
36:15
see. Yeah. But anyways, yeah, the young guy,
36:19
Aoi Yokoyama, is fighting tonight, and I'm going
36:24
to watch it. We will report back later. I actually
36:27
don't even know who's the main event in this
36:28
one. Is it at Korakuen? I don't know. I didn't
36:36
really look. I can probably figure it out. Jamal
36:42
Charlo is coming back on the 31st of May on the
36:46
Kayla Plant undercard. Nice. All right, why?
36:52
I don't know. After this long? I don't recognize
36:55
the way in place, so I'm not sure if he is fighting
36:59
in Tokyo. I don't think so. None of this looks
37:04
like Tokyo in the kanji that's not translating.
37:09
He's fighting a Filipino champion. Jamel Magramo.
37:14
Is he the Filipino Boxing Federation guy? I don't
37:18
know. Filipino champ. His name is spelled different.
37:24
No indications of who Jamal is going to be fighting.
37:29
They are fighting in some place I have never
37:32
heard of. I just found it on BoxRec. Aichi Sky
37:36
Expo in Tokoname. Where the hell is that? No
37:41
idea. Joshua, next fight moves a step closer
37:48
and it's going to be either Dubois or Tyson Fury.
37:52
If you can't get them, it's going to be Joseph
37:54
Parker. AJ versus Parker might be interesting.
38:00
I think that Parker would do a lot better this
38:03
time around. Oh, speaking of heavyweights. Derek
38:09
Chisora is the IVF mandatory. Are they trying
38:14
to kill this poor man? What the fuck? I think
38:20
if they give him a title fight and he loses,
38:24
he'll walk away. He had his retirement speech
38:28
before his last fight and then he won it. Yeah,
38:31
he sent Otto Wallin flying like a full 90 degree
38:36
turn. The career that won't die. Yeah, hopefully
38:42
this last one is the final one. Finally. It's
38:46
just too much. It's too much to watch him keep
38:49
doing this. Wow. And he always sounds so out
38:55
of breath. Yeah. I wonder if it's going to go
39:00
away. Where people are going to be asking questions,
39:04
like looking back, like why did nobody stop him?
39:08
I think it's already there. Is it not? I think
39:13
we're on the cusp of it. And it's just going
39:15
to take one more like hard shot or hard fight
39:18
to push him over the edge. And I don't know what
39:21
over the edge really means. I'm not accusing
39:23
him of anything. Just saying I think something's
39:26
going to like with his health is going to click
39:28
in the wrong way. Right. And people are going
39:31
to be like, why did we allow this to happen?
39:34
Well, I mean, he must be passing the physicals,
39:37
but who knows how hard that is, especially in
39:40
Britain. I feel like the British Boxing Commission
39:43
does not take fighters' health super seriously.
39:46
They do take egg consumption really seriously.
39:49
Do they? Do they, really? Yeah, you're right.
39:54
Bob Arum doesn't want Tyson Fury to fight AJ.
39:58
Bob Arum was saying something about how he wants
40:01
Tyson to retire, wasn't he? Stay retired. If
40:06
your retirement is genuine, then stay retired.
40:09
Don't come out of it. Hasn't he retired like
40:12
four times? Something like that. Fucking fury.
40:16
Yeah. Reports indicate that he earned in excess
40:19
of 100 million US for the two Usyk fights. Why
40:25
would you come back? I would just... $100 million.
40:31
You could live off that forever. You could live
40:33
off the interest forever. Yeah. This is why I
40:38
would never be a world -class anything. I would
40:41
get just enough money and I would quit. You step
40:44
in to fight AJ. AJ is trying to prove that he
40:48
still belongs, whereas Fury kind of already has.
40:52
Well, and Fury also has kind of looked like shit.
40:57
off and on many times. Yeah. I don't like it.
41:04
I agree with Bob here. Uncle Bob knows what he's
41:08
talking about right now, Tyson. Speaking of slamming,
41:13
Bruce Carrington says Espinoza doesn't want to
41:16
fight him? Yeah, he was twittering about how
41:22
Espinoza is ducking him. Pretty sure it was twitter.
41:27
I don't know if I believe that very much. No,
41:30
I don't believe it at all. I think Espinoza will
41:33
fight anyone. He may not be built like your typical
41:39
Mexican fighter, and he doesn't always necessarily
41:43
fight like one, but the pride is there, and it's
41:49
not a good idea. That's not the beehive you want
41:51
to poke on a Mexican fighter. There are other
41:54
things you can do, but... That's inadvisable.
41:58
Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I would want
42:00
to piss Espinoza off before a fight. I would
42:04
be so boring. I would be so respectful. Don't
42:09
give anybody any fuel. Yeah, they're really good.
42:13
Did you see their last fight? They won by a knockout.
42:15
That was incredible. Wow. Let's everyone take
42:19
a moment. I guess there are quite a few fighters
42:24
like that, actually. Yeah, a lot of them have
42:28
to be translated. Yeah, well, even like... Who
42:33
am I thinking of? No, lost it. Anyway, there's
42:37
some in English, too, that are always just really
42:39
nice. I always kind of wonder, too, how much
42:42
of the translated guys, they're just not translating
42:45
it properly. It happens a lot. Like, I don't
42:49
actually understand any other languages, but
42:52
sometimes I'm like, that is not... what you said
42:55
i don't think i try my best whenever i'm in um
42:59
if i'm in discord for with everybody and there's
43:03
a spanish translation i try my best to uh throw
43:07
my own on top of it just because yeah the translators
43:11
are usually ass the ones that have been good
43:14
the uh like scottish guy that's on the zone with
43:20
the notebook yeah him He seems really good. He
43:25
even says it the same way in English. He puts
43:29
the same feeling behind the words when he translates.
43:32
The Thai translator at 1FC is really good that
43:37
way as well. He gives the same emphasis bidirectionally
43:42
on the same enthusiasm. The Brazilian translator
43:47
for UFC is good. Most recently, Ola Squaga's
43:55
translator. It was a Japanese woman. I don't
43:59
like her. You know? No. Not the English one.
44:04
It was the Spanish. Oh, okay. Yeah, no. I don't
44:08
know that one. No, the one who does English in
44:12
Japan, I don't like her translations. I don't
44:15
think they're very good. Very cutesy voice. Is
44:18
that who we're thinking of? Yeah, it's not necessarily
44:22
her voice that bothers me. No, yeah, that's just
44:24
how I remember her. I pick up enough of the words.
44:28
I'm like, that's not really what he was saying.
44:31
Yeah, Felix de Jesus was like that. I'm glad
44:34
he didn't get picked back up for PBC on Prime.
44:39
Terrible. Yeah, I really like that Scottish guy,
44:41
though. Like, it's a weird thing to say, but
44:45
he is my favorite translator. When I see him
44:47
at the cards, I'm like, yes. No, it's a real
44:51
thing. Not getting the real feeling of what somebody
44:56
is actually saying, you're losing a lot of real,
45:02
it's not like atmosphere, but it's a real, it's
45:06
a serious ingredient, is having the fighter's
45:09
perspectives. yeah that's makes parts of part
45:13
of what makes understanding their native language
45:15
good yeah uh like felix say one a guy would go
45:21
off saying uh i had a really great opponent he
45:25
was really tough but we prepared for everything
45:27
and we came out on top and then the translator
45:30
will say like yeah we did we got the job done
45:32
so i'm sorry that's not what he said that's not
45:36
what he said yeah uh but Man, I'm going to have
45:41
to get the names of these people because there's
45:43
this other guy. He does Spanish and he's it's
45:46
not the Scottish guy, but he also does his own
45:48
stuff. He does the like Islander Spanish. He
45:53
translates that really well because I like the
45:56
Cubans. Yeah, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans.
45:59
I struggle understanding with them sometimes.
46:01
The blonde lady that does the English and Spanish
46:05
interviews on the zone. She seems really good,
46:08
too. And it impresses me how she switches back
46:11
and forth all the time. Probox has one like that,
46:15
too. It's also a blonde lady. A little younger,
46:18
though. Yeah. I'm always impressed when people
46:21
can switch like that. On the fly? Yeah. Speaking
46:27
of on the fly, Terra Moana with another early
46:32
stoppage. If you're not watching Terra Moana,
46:35
you should be. Five fights in 2024. Five stoppages.
46:40
Kicking off 2026 with a stoppage. Does the dance
46:44
afterwards. He toned it down. I didn't appreciate
46:49
that. So you're going to have to step it up next
46:52
time, buddy. Needing to step it up. Fucking Cambosos.
46:58
Goes the distance with a late replacement no
47:02
one's ever heard of. Except Jacob in the Discord.
47:05
The Aussie Jacob? Oh, yeah. Apparently he fights
47:08
with him from the same gym. Oh, shit. He was
47:12
at the fights cheering for him. Actually, in
47:15
the second half, Wiley was doing well. Maybe
47:21
not winning, but doing well. Yeah, I was going
47:24
to say, like, he held his own. I wonder, giving,
47:28
pardon the expression, but giving Cambosos the
47:31
benefit of the doubt here. Like, this is a late
47:34
replacement. You have no idea who he is. You
47:37
probably can't find any footage on him, so you
47:39
don't know what to expect. You're kind of game
47:43
planning on the fly, maybe? No. No? Campbell
47:49
has no fucking excuses on this one. That Wiley
47:54
guy came in, he looked... Odd by the moment.
47:59
He was nervous. He was stiff. He looked like
48:02
shit in the first three rounds. And Kambosis,
48:05
I think he got a knockdown. Maybe. But he didn't
48:11
finish it. He let him get into the fight in the
48:14
second half. Kambosis should be much too good
48:18
for these domestic fights. He should not be going
48:21
the distance. Especially not with a late replacement.
48:26
I don't think Wiley was particularly impressive,
48:30
to be honest. I think Cambosis was just shit.
48:34
I'm glad that Wiley went the distance. He looks
48:36
super fucking happy with that accomplishment,
48:39
and he should be. Yeah, it's a real -life Rocky
48:41
story. Yeah, but, like... Cambosis should be
48:46
ashamed of himself. He should be, though. I don't
48:49
know. I don't understand how he keeps getting
48:51
fights. He has the best fucking manager promoter
48:55
team in boxing. He has turned one kind of fluke
48:59
win. Not a fluke. He deserved that win. He beat
49:03
Teofimo. But he turned one win into fucking ten
49:09
big fights. Yeah. At least like the bigger ones.
49:13
The better of his opponents have been really
49:17
messing him up. Like Lomachenko really took him
49:20
to school. yeah that was nice confused who was
49:26
it recently that had a late replacement and uh
49:29
they bopped him out in the first like three rounds
49:31
and that was they said exactly what you said
49:35
like this is the late replacement joseph parker
49:38
it wasn't a heavyweight well i mean joseph parker
49:42
beat i'm bad with names but coley right super
49:45
fast came in super fat yes It wasn't who I was
49:50
thinking of, but that's good enough of an example.
49:53
That's what you're supposed to do. You got dudes
49:56
coming in on three days notice. Don't let them
49:59
get very far. Right. You're the one that's fully
50:02
prepared. Even if the game plan has to change,
50:05
you are a boxer. You're supposed to be able to
50:07
make the adjustments. Yeah. Cambosis should not
50:11
be going the distance with any of those domestic
50:14
level guys in Australia. Plot twist. He is a
50:17
domestic -level Australian guy. This is true.
50:21
So he's doing exactly what he should be doing.
50:26
Because he never should have been world -class?
50:29
No, he should not have been. Maybe, but... Then
50:34
everybody should acknowledge that. Stop giving
50:37
him good fights. Right. You can have him headline
50:42
these domestic dust -ups. But definitely keep
50:45
them off of a... That should have been Princess
50:50
Skies. Oh, yeah. Her headlining the downfall.
50:55
Actually, I missed that fight. I forgot to put
50:58
it on the outline. Did you not see it? No, I
51:01
missed it. It was good. I heard she deserved
51:05
the loss. She did. I would say that she was just
51:09
a little bit behind. Not enough aggression. Just
51:13
a little too slow. A little too heavy in the
51:18
feet. Just a shade, not enough. And with that
51:24
compounding round over round, yeah. She deserved
51:30
that loss. Can't say I'm too upset by it. I am
51:34
not a Sky fan. No, I only really mentioned her
51:39
for the same reason I mentioned Tension so much.
51:43
Yeah, because it annoys the hell out of me. Just
51:45
to needle you a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I
51:49
completely forgot to get the fight order on this
51:53
one. There's a few cards coming up that are all
51:58
really fun. I don't even have it open. It should
52:03
be on your website, right? I wanted to... No,
52:07
I have the other doc right next to it. I had
52:12
it. I thought I did anyway. All right. Yeah,
52:15
the website has all the details. Look at me.
52:18
I'm really good at this. I just pulled up the
52:21
LVXmedia .net calendar. And it's a good one.
52:30
What do we got here? Somebody did say it looks
52:36
like the blue screen of death, and now I can't
52:38
unsee it. Yeah, it was Bally. Yeah. I'll have
52:43
to find a new shade of blue, but the idea is
52:47
all the boxing stuff is blue, all the MMA stuff
52:50
is red. Ah, that makes sense. Only the top three
52:55
stick out to me. Yocasta Valle, who beat Senisa
53:00
Estrada, eat your own shit, Chris Mannix. Yeah.
53:05
I don't know about this one, though. I actually,
53:08
in the pick league, I picked Esparza. So, Vale's
53:13
moving up two weight classes. Oh, shit, that's
53:16
right. And Esparza's only moving down one. So,
53:21
Esparza's gonna be big. Esparza's been looking
53:25
like shit lately, though. Yeah, but she's also
53:29
tough as nails. Yeah. And she's gonna be big.
53:36
She's coming from 15 pounds heavier than Valet's
53:40
last fight. They're meeting at 12 pounds heavier.
53:45
That's a lot. It is. It is a big jump. We'll
53:50
see. I, you know, I've been wrong before, but
53:54
I'm calling an upset on this one. I think Esparza
53:57
is going to be too big and too tough, and Valet's
54:00
not going to be able to prevent her from just
54:02
swarming. Like Esparza does. Yocasta Valle, born
54:11
in Nicaragua, lives in Costa Rica. She is the
54:15
jungle goddess, jungle warrior goddess. Nice.
54:19
And then, cute as fuck, Marlon Esparza. I'm going
54:26
with my warrior goddess here. That's fine. I
54:30
don't think Marlon has it anymore as much as
54:34
it pains me to say. Maybe. I don't know. I have
54:39
a feeling she's going to be too big. I think
54:43
they are underestimating Esparza and it's going
54:47
to piss her off. With how she's looked recently,
54:51
yeah. I can see why she'd be underestimated.
54:56
We'll see. I like Esparza. Speaking of underestimated,
55:01
Oscar Collazo, the WBO minimum weight champion.
55:06
Underestimated. I'm not... Wanted that to mean
55:10
he's short, but I couldn't make it work. Versus
55:14
Edwin Cano Hernandez. I'm expecting Collazo to
55:19
make easy work of this. Yeah. I was debating
55:23
whether to put down knockout or not. I don't
55:25
think I put any guesses on... type of win and
55:31
the rematch williams zapata versus tevin farmer
55:35
holy shit the first i'm excited the first one
55:38
was great i expect the second to be the same
55:42
yeah yeah i'm i'm really torn on this one i don't
55:49
even know who to cheer for i really like zapata
55:51
but i think farmer deserves a win finally. He
55:58
always gets fucked. I thought he won the first
56:01
one. I did too, and they stole it from him. Yeah,
56:05
just by virtue of the knockdown, that being the
56:07
deciding factor. I don't think this... I wonder
56:13
if Zepeda turns up the heat a little sooner.
56:18
Yeah, I think Zepeda will not be as surprised
56:21
this time. Right. I think Zepeda underestimated
56:26
Farmer a bit in the first fight. Mm -mm -mm.
56:30
Underestimating Kazakhstan? Johnny Beck's next
56:33
fight is going to be in Kazakhstan? That's pretty
56:36
damn cool. I thought it was cool. I don't recognize
56:40
anyone's name on this card, but... I have them
56:44
split into the two that really matter. Well,
56:47
and maybe I just don't know how to read the names.
56:50
Maybe I'll recognize them when you say them.
56:53
Baturzan Jukambayev, you should remember from
56:55
Probox, he fought on Probox like four times.
56:58
I'm not sure who Con Gardner is. That is not
57:02
how I was reading that. And Johnnybeckalimkanuli,
57:08
Phlem the KH, pro tip. Yeah. Man, this guy is...
57:17
This guy. I think I got that one. Apparently
57:22
he's from France? He's from somewhere... He's
57:29
born in the Congo. Yeah. His nationality is listed
57:34
as French. Yeah, former colonies. Yeah, I think
57:41
this one's on ESPN+. It is. This one will be
57:43
starting around one or two on the West Coast.
57:49
I am just... I always like seeing these smaller
57:52
countries get some recognition. And it's nice
57:57
that Janabek gets to fight at home. Yeah. You
58:01
know, like, I wonder how Golovkin is going to
58:05
look. Because he's going to be there. Yeah. I
58:08
wonder how he's going to look fat. Maybe. Man,
58:13
I was working it out. I was getting close to
58:16
getting like a sample package of Triple G's energy
58:20
drink sent from Astana, sent to me. That would
58:26
be really cool. Yeah, I would pay for the product
58:30
and they would ship it for free. That's what
58:32
we were working on. Nice. I was excited for it
58:37
would just be. Like, two of each flavor they
58:39
had, which I think they only have three. Still,
58:42
though. Yeah. Not available outside of Kazakhstan
58:46
at the moment. I'm excited to just kind of see
58:49
what the Kazakhstan crowd looks like. Like, are
58:52
they going to be super hype? Is it going to be
58:54
quiet? I hope so. What clothes are they going
58:58
to wear? Is it just going to be normal stuff,
59:00
or are people going to come in, like... Fur coats
59:02
and big poofy hats? Well, I mean, it's... Probably
59:07
not cold this time of year, but Canada doesn't
59:12
have it. But like, if I was going to be going
59:15
to something on TV and I was from one of these
59:18
countries with cool traditional clothes, I would
59:21
dress the fuck out of my national clothes. Yeah,
59:24
wear traditional style clothing. I think it'd
59:29
be cool. It would be cool. That's what I hope
59:32
to see. And I know they don't do it, but if they
59:36
thought in Ukraine, I would love to see the ladies
59:38
in the dresses. There's a very specific Ukrainian
59:43
style dress that they wear when they do the dances
59:45
in Saskatchewan. Maybe it's not even a thing
59:47
in Ukraine anymore. There's a lot of those old
59:52
traditions in Canada that have been dropped by
59:54
the original country. Oh, well, speaking of being
59:58
dropped by the original country, Tim Zoo. Yeah,
1:00:04
this one starts at about five on the West Coast.
1:00:10
This will be 5 a .m. or 5 p .m. p .m. This will
1:00:13
be like Sunday morning for you. Yeah, there's
1:00:19
only like three fights really worth paying attention
1:00:21
to anyway. Andre Mikhailovich versus Blake Wells.
1:00:26
Mikhailovich is the dude he fought. in australia
1:00:32
most recently oh yeah i recognize his face yeah
1:00:37
uh cohen mazutier he's a good prospect he's 12
1:00:43
four and one so i don't know what you want to
1:00:45
call him but uh he's he's good to watch so that
1:00:50
should be a fun fight and i expect dan hill being
1:00:52
seven and one they're giving him a bit probably
1:00:54
giving him more of the push and mazutier is like
1:00:57
the Top of the domestic level sort of geeky.
1:01:03
A test before you go farther. Yeah. And Tim Zoo
1:01:08
versus Joey Spencer. I'm not sure how I feel
1:01:12
about this. Joey Spencer's not very good. Yeah,
1:01:18
Tim Zoo needs a confidence booster, though. Right.
1:01:21
I mean, for Zoo's career, this is the right thing
1:01:26
to do. He looked... scared in that last fight
1:01:29
yeah like they had was it a head clash and he
1:01:36
kept checking for blood like what kind of ptsd
1:01:40
to me it kind of was like being afraid of another
1:01:45
gash i mean man he lost so much blood in that
1:01:50
pandora fight i would be scared too but If he
1:01:55
wants to be a world -level boxer, he's got to
1:01:57
get over it. Right. I think this is what this
1:02:00
is, is getting over it. Giving him a bit of a
1:02:03
soft touch, get some round -ins, realize I'm
1:02:08
not going to get cut every fight like that. I
1:02:12
noticed that they keep referring to Joey Spencer
1:02:15
as dangerous. That's what they keep calling him
1:02:18
in all of the promo stuff. Is he, though? Right.
1:02:21
Yeah, no, he's not. His picture on BoxRec, he
1:02:28
looks like he's 12. Yeah, he does have a very
1:02:31
young -looking face. He does, and I'm sure in
1:02:34
that picture he's not 12, but he looks like some
1:02:38
middle school football player. I don't know.
1:02:43
I hope Tim Zhu does what he's supposed to do.
1:02:46
I hope he gets in there and he kind of takes
1:02:48
care of business in the first half of the fight.
1:02:51
Yeah, the way he should, right? Yeah. Get some
1:02:55
confidence back. Give him maybe another pest
1:03:00
-ish afterwards. Like something he should win,
1:03:04
but should be a little difficult. And then try
1:03:07
and get him back in the world title hunt. All
1:03:11
assuming that, you know, he doesn't get bopped
1:03:15
trying to check for blood again. Oh, that wouldn't
1:03:18
be good. No. If he loses to Joey Spencer, he
1:03:22
should. be done pack it in yeah yeah oh damn
1:03:29
no good setups for a segue there uh moving to
1:03:32
richard torres this is a busy ass day yeah this
1:03:39
one's this one's later though right uh it'll
1:03:42
be at about seven so no i mean it's next week
1:03:46
oh right is it not like april 6th or something
1:03:51
Or I guess probably the 5th. It'll be your Saturday,
1:03:54
my Sunday. April 5th. Yeah, it's on the same
1:03:59
day. Just later in the day. Yeah. The main event,
1:04:04
if they have Abdullah Mason as the co -main,
1:04:06
which if you're smart, that's what you do. The
1:04:10
main and co -main should be done after Tim Zhu.
1:04:14
The whole day lines up actually really nicely.
1:04:17
So you have Queensberry. At the top with Joe
1:04:22
Joyce and Filip Hergovich. That's kind of the
1:04:27
only fight worth anything on there. That should
1:04:31
be happening. How did I miss that on the outline?
1:04:33
I really want Joe Joyce to make a comeback. I
1:04:36
don't think he's going to, but I want another
1:04:39
Joe Joyce title run. I think he'll get past this.
1:04:43
I think he'll be okay. That card should be wrapping
1:04:48
up. At about the time we're getting to the top
1:04:53
two for the Kazakhstan card. And that should
1:04:58
be wrapping up about the time the main portion
1:05:01
of PBC is starting on Prime, which should be
1:05:05
wrapping up about the time the main portion starts
1:05:09
for Top Rank. That is a busy day, though. It
1:05:12
is. It's a nice day, though. It's a nice Saturday.
1:05:17
That is going to be, if I want to watch it all,
1:05:19
that's going to be me staying up all fucking
1:05:22
night. Yeah, through the entire night, right?
1:05:25
Yeah. Yeah, the British stuff, the main events
1:05:29
are usually about 2am. That's all we got here,
1:05:34
though. I don't have anything else. Let me do
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after the... This will be heading into the weekend
1:07:06
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1:07:20
Drink water. Eat fruit for breakfast. If you're
1:07:28
going to have sugar, have it in the morning.
1:07:32
Oh, another update. That Saskatchewan taking
1:07:38
Budweiser off the shelves and all that stuff
1:07:41
didn't even last a full week. Not even a full
1:07:44
week. Nope, I think. They started lobbying them,
1:07:50
like the local government guys started lobbying
1:07:54
the provincial government guys two days in, and
1:07:58
they pulled the ban, I think, within five days.
1:08:02
Didn't even last a whole work week. Wow. I told
1:08:07
you the farmers would get pissed off and this
1:08:10
would get taken care of. Yeah. I saw a video
1:08:14
actually online. It was the farmers like dumping
1:08:18
shit on. Was it? Yeah. On people like government
1:08:23
buildings or people's lawns. Yeah. Blocking their
1:08:28
driveways with a big pile of dookies. I mean,
1:08:33
it's a pretty effective form of protest. And
1:08:37
it's not just a Saskatchewan thing. I think the
1:08:40
French farmers use it a lot. But the French are
1:08:44
the best at protesting. Yeah. We want to lower
1:08:49
the retirement age by a week. Absolutely the
1:08:53
fuck not. All right, I got a quote for this one.
1:08:59
A little more persistence, a little more effort.
1:09:02
And what seemed hopeless failure may turn to
1:09:04
glorious success, says Albert Hubbard. So when
1:09:08
you're wondering, man, can I stay awake to watch
1:09:12
four fucking boxing cards in a row all back to
1:09:17
back? Just a little more persistence. Yeah. I'll
1:09:22
just have to sleep all day Saturday, I guess.
1:09:24
Yeah. But that'll do it. We be out of here. Bye.
1:09:41
Welcome to the fucking show! Alright, just a
1:09:44
quick blurb, just so you can get back to what
1:09:46
you were doing. Why would a boxing fan, let's
1:09:52
assume they're like a purist or some shit, why
1:09:56
would they want to watch MMA, why would they
1:09:59
want to listen to an MMA show? I'm gonna come
1:10:02
at this from sort of like a primal level. So,
1:10:05
I will admit there are like some very, like...
1:10:08
unique and like stark differences between mma
1:10:11
and boxing and it seems like one of the main
1:10:14
things that uh keeps boxing fans away from mma
1:10:18
is the grappling aspect and yes sometimes it
1:10:21
can be you know a lay and pray uh type of fight
1:10:25
and it can get old but man like it's just instinctual
1:10:31
man some of these people the way they find an
1:10:33
mma It's just brutal. And I feel like that's
1:10:36
what it comes down to when it comes to being
1:10:38
a combat fan, a combat sports fan. I mean, we
1:10:43
saw it just recently. Mauricio Rufi versus Bobby
1:10:48
Green spinning back or spinning a wheel kick.
1:10:54
Man, I mean, they went viral. And it's something
1:10:57
that everyone can appreciate, even boxing fans.
1:10:59
I know if you have a few friends that are boxing
1:11:01
fans. who I sent him that clip. I mean, and they
1:11:06
were amazed. One even told me that they wish
1:11:10
they would have seen it live because seeing that
1:11:13
type of stuff live just elicits, like, a euphoric
1:11:18
feeling that, you know, you can't get. I mean,
1:11:20
it happens in boxing, too, whenever you see,
1:11:22
like, an amazing fight. But I just got to say,
1:11:25
like, in MMA, you get those type of fights as
1:11:30
well, just in a different type. It's different,
1:11:33
but sort of the same. It's sort of weird how
1:11:36
I describe it, but it's different, but the same.
1:11:38
It comes down to that same like carnal or primal
1:11:41
instinct of just like fights. Yeah, I always
1:11:46
think like the biggest, the easiest transition
1:11:49
that I always recommend, I say this all the time
1:11:52
on Ultimate Fucking Casuals, is if you're not
1:11:56
too keen on the grappling, Muay Thai and kickboxing.
1:12:02
are exactly where you want to start. Like, you
1:12:05
start working on the kicks, the elbows, the knees,
1:12:07
all that stuff, and you can come to learn to
1:12:12
appreciate grappling. I never thought I would,
1:12:15
and here I am. Yeah. Like I said, some of it
1:12:19
is very boring, some of the grappling. It depends
1:12:21
on the fighters, but sometimes, man, there's
1:12:23
boring boxing fights all the time. Yeah. Yeah,
1:12:26
no, yeah, you're true. I mean... Oh, you're right.
1:12:28
But, man, some of these grapplers, man, these
1:12:31
scrambles that they do, it is, like, pretty crazy
1:12:34
just to see it. Like, you know, rolling around
1:12:37
the floor. I mean, you can see the stuff that
1:12:39
they're doing in between and the scrambles. I
1:12:41
mean, it's sort of crazy. Flipping someone over,
1:12:43
the trips. I mean, it can be fun. But, yeah,
1:12:46
you're right. The easiest transition is definitely
1:12:48
start out with Muay Thai, kickboxing, and, you
1:12:51
know, slowly work your way into MMA. And, you
1:12:54
know, this is the thing about... Of the ultimate
1:12:57
fucking casuals. We will let you know which fights
1:12:59
are going to be good. Which ones, you know, if
1:13:03
you're not too in tune with the grappling, we
1:13:05
can get maybe a little tag or a little asterisk
1:13:09
on certain fights saying, like, this is a boxing
1:13:13
purist type of fight. You can watch this and
1:13:15
enjoy this. Like, we'll let you know. Yeah, we
1:13:20
always try. Like, I came into this. The whole
1:13:23
show was started with me. I didn't know shit.
1:13:26
about MMA. I'd never really seen an MMA fight
1:13:28
in its entirety in my entire life. And I came
1:13:32
into this with nothing. And yeah, that's where
1:13:34
we're at now is like, we're talking to like,
1:13:36
I make sure I go out of my way to bring up Muay
1:13:40
Thai and bring up kickboxing so that people know
1:13:43
like this for boxing fans to know this is what,
1:13:47
this is where you can start. All right. Well,
1:13:51
that was about it. I really appreciate your time.
1:13:55
Thanks, Isaac, for jumping on real quick. Thanks
1:13:58
for having me on. All right.