JRE MMA Show #180 with Daniel Rodriguez

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The Joe Rogan experience.

My day's your rogue.

Drod.

Yes, pretty.

Man. What a fucking crazy story. So let's let's fill people in. So you were a top contender in the UFC's welterweight division, and then somehow or another you wound up getting arrested in Madden.

Yeah, man, right after the uh Kevin Holland fight actually. I was s I was in I was celebrating, I was over in San Diego. Um and decided, yeah, you know what, let's go to let's go to T J. She was Well we're not even that.

San Diego and you drinking. You could walk there.

Yeah, yeah, literally. So um decided to go to to T J for the for the night, you know, go celebrate my win. I was obviously in celebration mode. And I had an ounce of weed in the car, you know, and I've been across the border A hundred times, bro. Never had no issues, never had no problems, never got stopped pulled over. That's the last thing I would even think is that

How we was legal in Mexico.

I thought so too like

He thought everything's decriminalized down there.

Uh, apparently not, man. The the the laws are like crazy crazy strict over there, you know, and and I've been in situations before where I could like just offer some money and get out the situation, you know, like five hundred bucks at at the most, you know, and they'll just let me on my way. But got pulled over at the border and the border inspection um found found the weed in my in my in my backpack and I was thinking I was gonna be in that in that situation where I could

Holy shit. Jamie s could you please look up what the the laws are in Mexico for marijuana?'Cause man, I was reading something just a few years ago how Here it goes. Marijuana is decriminalized for personal recreational use in Mexico, but there's no legal commercial market and buying it or selling it remains illegal. For tourists and visitors, possession is strictly prohibited.

Yeah, so it was a it was approximately twenty eight grams.

So approximately you should have been decriminalized. The border transporting marijuana, including edibles and concentrates, across the US Mexico border is either in either direction is a serious federal offense. U.S. Customs and Border Protection strictly enforces federal laws prohibiting the import export of cannabis. But wait a minute. That's US. But what about Mexico? You got arrested by Mexican police, right? Yeah I got

Dude, they were trying to give me six years, bro.

Oh my god.

Six years and and I had we had to do all kinds of stuff for me to get out like

Did the UFC in get involved?

Um Hunter did um my management did reach out to uh Hunter and they couldn't do anything. I guess nothing. The reason why

Who could get a little of that?

Okay. We'll get into that. We'll get into that. That's'cause I I'm out. I'm out, you know, and um So I learned real quick how corrupt the the system is over there. Everybody's trying to get trying to get paid. And the reason why that I was in there so long is I guess at the time where I got arrested the the the whole uh judicial system was going through an election at the time. So it was new judges Um that so all the all the judges that were like taking bribes and stuff before, they had all got

And

I guess I don't even know if I if I could even really

Yeah, in trouble.

yeah yeah yeah

Yeah, don't get in trouble. You tell me later. If it's anything super crazy.

It's very corrupt. It's very corrupt in there. But um, you know It it's it's it's crazy dude, like even being in there, um So my whole experience my whole experience in there was like so crazy Uh ve I'm I'm I'm a expert now. I'm like fluent

Because of that experience or before?

I had already been I already know sp I already know Spanish but being in there it's like became Fluent.

But thank God you could speak it. Imagine if like I got arrested in Mexico, I'd be fucked.

Yeah, so when I first got there, um and when I went to court the first time One of the guards recognized me and he's like, you know, I'm in handcuffs and shit. And he's like, Yo, can I get a picture? I'm like, What? What? So I'm right there taking pictures with the dogs.

Yeah. You're a fucking top UFC contender in cuffs in jail. The fucking guard wants to take a picture with you. Wow.

While I'm in handcuffs and the other inmates We're like looking around, like, what the fuck? Who is this guy? You know? Cause like the the guard was like, yo, this is this is such and such, you know? So Um, as we're getting transported to the jail, which was the worst I mean I've been in jail before. I've like I I like from the age of fifteen to like twenty three, I was constantly in and out of jail. You know, I'm from LA, you know, um

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Um, right when I had first got there, one of the inmates that saw that seen the guards taking pictures of me was like we were right there conversating the whole time and he he had he had just got released from there but he had it five years, he was out for like two weeks, got arrested with the gun and then came back. So he's like, Hey, I'm c um it's like I'm uh I'm uh try to get you outta here, you know? And um over there

So how w how does this work? Does the guard come up to you and goes, Hey, I can get you in a cell, but it'll cost you seven thousand? Yeah. They come up to you and tell you that?

Yeah. So The dude that I that was that was that I had got to the the prison with, he comes back down and he's like, hey, he's like, hey, um the guards came, they pulled me out and they pull me they bring me to a whole different like section of of um of the prison.

Oh shit.

Yeah, and I'm like, all right, he's like, We'll come we'll come up here tomorrow. So I get there Um, I get there and then he's like, Yeah, just be my soulmate. So I um I pretty much ended up being like this guy's like I ended up getting the the feeling like I was like his protection kind of like or like

Please tell me you didn't spar'em.

he wanted to um no no no no

That's how it goes south.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I'm glad you're smart.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Like, as soon as you said boxing gloves, I'm like oh I d please tell me this doesn't end the way I think it ends up.

No, yeah. Yeah, we ended up we ended up actually being really cool. And um Yeah, dude, I ended up pretty much spending this whole time like in a boxing fight camp, you know.

Oh wow.

Yeah, I remember I I even I even made like a a makeshift double end bag. What I did was like I I balled up like a bunch of plastic bags, like really like like made it real tight and like so it's like hard. Threw it in the sock. Um I was able to to to buy um from the guards like uh

Bungie cord?

Yeah, bungee cord and then set that up and then

Nice.

Yeah, and I made a heavy bag'cause they had like these big gallons of water. And and I I got the gallon of water and I wrapped it with like the um the mat from the from the bed. So I And I just threw it in a bag and I and we had like a pull up bar in in our in our cell and I made a I made a heavy bag out of that and then whenever we would go to yard I would just spend the whole time running that yard.

What kind of food did they get you in his cell?

It's our junk food.

Dude still.

Yeah. Um it was all junk food like chips, noodles.

Damn.

soda, you know, water. Condiments,

So no protein.

None, none, none, none whatsoever. And I didn't think about that part, you know, because I was working out like crazy and I was getting shredded, but as time went on My mu like I like when I got out I was skinny as hell, bro. I was skinny as hell and and the only source of protein would probably be soy.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah, so they'll give like

Can you bribe someone to bring in some fucking meat? If you're the cartel?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's the thing, like this was crazy. Like so towards the end, towards like the the the final end of it Um I guess d the guards started cracking down on on like a lot of the stuff that was going on. So we started to to lose a lot of those amenities that we were getting in the beginning. And I and I I was just Yeah, when I got out I was just uh malnourished as hell, bro. I'll show you a picture later like of what I looked like when I got out. Completely different person.

How much weight did you lose?

Um I didn't really lose that much weight, but it was just like more my muscles were just

Were you thinking about going to fifty five? Were you like, damn, I might be able to make fifty five?

I've made 155 one time in my career.

Dude, you made fifty-five? That must have been hell.

Yeah, it was my it was the worst fight camp ever. Um it was all based on losing the weight losing the weight, losing the weight. And then I was just so I remember after the I made one fifty five I didn't even want to go to the gym for like a a month, bro. I was like, dude, I need a this this like my body was just done, bro.

Yeah, you're killing your body.

Yeah.

What is this?

Oh yeah, that's some of the workouts I was doing while I was in prison.

But no protein, unfortunately.

Yeah, but no protein. So I was getting pretty shredded like when in in in that like period in time, that was when we had like a lot of uh like we had food and and everything was cool. And if you notice

Oh look at that! The double M back. That's nice, dude.

Yeah, dude. And like you can see the TV in the back on the with the PlayStation, but I mean it wasn't

Looking good.

Yeah.

Tighten those hands up nice.

Yeah. Yeah, man, it was just like a uh it was like a whole experience. And it was crazy because this guy he'd be like you know, the guards would come and be like, Hey, op uh leave my door open, yeah? And the guards will actually leave this door open. So we're like we were able to like walk around the tier and go talk to other people like me. I I I kept to myself a lot. Like I've been in jail like a ton of times before and I learned I learned uh easily that, you know, you're

Avoid trouble.

Avoid trouble, you know, but it was crazy to see first hand how the cartel operated. And it's crazy, man. They got their hands in everything over there. Of course. Everything.

You know, there w there was thirty seven assassinations in Mexico last election. 37. Yeah. Different political people. And I was talking to Ed Calderon. Do you know who he is? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's uh Ed Manifesto on Instagram. He was he used to work for the Mexican government and then he he became an American citizen and he was involved with prosecuting the cartel, going after them, stuff like that. And he was essentially saying that like the entire

Yeah.

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So one of the guys there was actually the actual hitman who was actual like hitman. Um and he was in there, he's like, he's like, yeah man, I've I've killed like thirty cops in in my whole experience and he was in there for And they were they were just like telling me about all these things. I'm like, dude, like everybody is involved in this shit. It's crazy, you know, the and and and over here, like if uh if you kill a fucking cop they're like they're coming after you. But over there

So lower tier than the cartel. That's what it is. The cartel have more money, more power, more influence.

Yeah. And it's crazy how like murders just they're not even that big of a deal over there. You know? While I was in there I n I I I I was reading or I saw that Mexico has the Guinness World Record for missing peop mu missing persons.

Holy shit, dude.

Yeah. Yeah, and it was crazy. There's so many like it was so many hit men in there. It was crazy. But you know, I didn't I didn't have I didn't get no shit from nobody, you know. Everybody was like cool as hell.

Well you're an easy to get along with dude.

Yeah, yeah. Luckily. Yeah.

Did anybody ask you to train them?

Actually, dude, there's some dogs in there, man.

I bet.

There's this one guy in particular, I'm like, dude, you gotta fucking start fighting you like and he's like he's he was uh one of one of the military dudes and he's just a little fucking machine, dude. And in the time that I was there he got he got really good really quick, you know, and I'm like, dude, you gotta like go to the gym down in T J uh that interim gym. Mm-hmm I had I had mentioned like, yo, even when I got when I when I got released, um

And nobody came up with a number?

Yeah. Eventually.

What was how much what was the number? Can you tell? I don't want to get in trouble No don't get in trouble

Yeah, but it was talking about it. It was hefty. It was it was not cheap.

Uh

It was not cheap at all.

Yeah. Everybody wants to get paid.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, it was crazy, uh crazy experience, dude. And um to get out of jail, you know, and then and then now I have this fight, I I'm headlighting headlining um UFC Serbia, first time in Serbia, fighting Eurosmetic.

When is that pipe?

August first. Yeah, to get out of j to get to go through all that and then and then to have this opportunity. It's just crazy. And to be here, to be here is just is just crazy, man. Cause I didn't I didn't think I was gonna get I I wasn't sure if I was gonna get out, man. I thought I was gonna get out.

Good reason. A lot of people don't.

Yeah, yeah

United States. Everybody that I've talked to that has any any experience in Mexican jail and they're like, dude, it's not good.

Yeah, no man. Uh I just can't.

You can believe the cartel can't sneak me?

We did sometimes.

Yeah, sometimes.

Yeah, we did some like we had gro they would bring us groceries, bro. Oh really? Yeah.

Because that's the first thing that I would want, man. I would feel like look, uh what do we gotta do? These guards What kind of car do you drive, dog? Eat that motherfucker. We gotta do something. I can't be eating noodles. Especially as hard as you work out.

Yeah, I was I was working out like two, three three hard hard workouts a day, you know, I'll do Um I'm kinda programmed like like to to just work out. You know, I think I think from my prior jail experiences before, the only positive thing that I think that helped me and that whole everything that I've that I've been through is like when you're in jail, like I personally I'm like I would

When you first start training?

Twenty five. Wow. Yeah. Fir yeah, dude.

To turn into a UFC contender, that's very impressive. Not a lot of guys started late. Did you have any sports experience before that?

None bro. Nothing. None.

That's crazy.

None, but I had I had been in no bullshit though. I had been in probably around two hundred street fights already, including all my jail experience. You know, when I was in Juvenile Hall, I was a straight knucklehead, bro. Like I was fighting like every other day. Um

And and with no training? You had no training at all?

No training man just Just wanna just wanna learn how to fight.

I find it.

Yeah.

Yeah. So it's a crazy way to learn.

Yeah, dude. Just and like dude, you can I mean like imagine getting a fight with your cellmate. Like that's some crazy shit. Yeah.

Sleep together.

Yeah, sleep with one eye open, bro.

Oh yeah.

Yeah. And um yeah, so that's that's the only experience I had prior to to starting MMA and then I remember I s I stopped going to jail when I was like twenty three. When I st uh when I stopped going to jail, uh I started having kids and I'm like, all right, gotta start g I gotta stop gang bang because w I used to think going to jail was cool. Really? I used to think it was cool because you get out and you just have like a little more respect. Like like I thought

So that was your first exposure to MMA?

I had seen it before, like when it was Tank Abbott.

Early.

Yeah, in the early days, but it never caught my attention like because I had always been a boxing fan. I'm a huge boxing fan and and I grew up watching boxing like um all of like majority of my family functions growing up. there were all boxing events like Oscar de La Jolla, Mike Tyson, uh Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather. And and I was just I loved boxing, you know? And I remember I mean I did have a little bit of experience before going into MMA because when I lived in the hood

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It's called it was called Tap Out in downtown LA.

Okay.

I think that's a good thing. And and he had moved in tenth last so that's when I first when I first started, I wanted to box. And I

Remember the tap out, Jim, very well.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

And I remember when I first started going there, I was working construction. I was I was working on a on a high rise in downtown LA. And and I would um pass by every day. I was like, Man, I wanna go in there you know, but I never like would go in there. I'll just pass by and I'll get home and I'll talk to my baby mom, I'd be like, Man, there's this gym. Call tap what I really want to go, you know? She's like, Oh yeah, but I was talking about all the time. But I never had like

Um

I would never want that to happen again. You know, so I would show up every day determined like one day I'm gonna one day I'm gonna win, one day I'm gonna get him, one day I'm gonna get him. And that honestly kept me kept me in the game, you know.

It's amazing how little tiny dudes can fuck you up.

Dude, that's the last thing I expected. I was like

What jujitsu's the only thing that like you know in martial arts movies there was always this myth that the little guy can fuck up all the bigger guys. Yeah. But what's striking That's hard. Power's real. Size is real. Mass is real. Yeah. There's just too you know, too many variables. If a guy knows how to throw a good one, two, you might be fucked.

Yeah.

But you know, like you, the the the smart thing to do, like what you did is just Go, I wanna learn that. Yeah you know, and uh you having the courage to do that, uh you know, especially as a guy who didn't have any martial arts experience at all, just like throw yourself into it. It's very difficult to do, man, and especially at twenty five.

Yeah. So that's one thing that I that I've I I've always thought about. Um And those like why I work so hard is like I feel like I have to catch up to these dudes that have been doing this their whole life. You know, like like dudes have been in the gym since they were kids doing karate and

Do you know there's there is a thing though about having a lot of street fight. there's a mental edge to being in a lot of conflict and a lot of combat. One thing I've always noticed about you when you fight, you're very calm. Like when you get in there, you're very relaxed. Yeah. Like and it's like life experience. You know? That that's a factor.

Yeah, I just feel like in a MMA fight it It's a safe environment. Like, believe it or not, to me, it's safe. Right. You know,'cause I've been in I've been in situ'cause if anything goes wrong, the rest right there, like, all right there, that's it. It's done, you know. This is a fair fight. You know, uh I've been in situations where

Yeah, it's not the worst thing you've experienced.

that's not

For a lot of fighters, it's the most dangerous thing they've ever experienced. Yeah. When they step into that octagon, they close that door and they're looking across the octagon and another train killer, like oh boy. Like this is the scariest thing that's ever happened to them. Yeah. So there's a mental benefit that you have for having all those street fights and even though you didn't start until late, man, the mental game might be most of fight

Yeah man, when I when when I step in there I'm just I'm just happy to be there, you know? Like I I I'm lucky to be out here. I'm lucky to be have my freedom. I'm lucky to be alive. You know, so when I'm when I'm walking out to a fight, like I just feel I just feel happy dude. I'm just I'm just it's just happy happiness, like you know,'cause while I'm backstage I'm I thinking

It is a movie if you think about it. I mean very few people live that life. In and out of jail many times, locked up in Mexico for eight months, never knowing if you're gonna get out. Next thing you know, you're headlined at a UFC car.

Yeah man.

Main event.

Yeah sitting here on the Joe Rogan experience, you know, telling my story is just You know uh

Where's Euros Medic ranked? Is he above you above?

He's number thirteen.

What are you at?

Fifteen.

Yeah, so both of you guys top content.

I'm I'm surprised throughout that whole process they kept me in the ranking.

Well, good respect to them, you know. Also, they probably realize you were probably working out in jail.

Yeah. Yeah.

But I mean well it's not you shouldn't be punished for something like that. You get stuck in a crazy situation. Yeah man. Especially if you're coming from California where weed's legal. Everybody gets confused. You know, you you have that weed in California, everybody it's everywhere. It's totally legal.

That's why it didn't even

I know.

It didn't even cross my mind that hey we can get in trouble for this.

That's crazy. Yeah. I would have never known those laws.'Cause I heard that it was decriminalized and I thought, Oh, they don't they got other shit to worry about. They're you know, they got cartel problems and fentanyl problems. They don't give a fuck if you bringing in weed.

Yeah. Well now now I have a part of of the process of me getting out is like I had to get like now I have dual citizenship in Mexico.

Now you do? Yeah. Because of getting out?

my lawyers, um it was a part of me getting out. So like when you pulled up the um Uh decriminalized.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, the the laws for citizens. So that that was a process of

Oh, so you became a citizen so the law was less for you. Yeah. That's hilarious.

So it was a ton of stuff that we had to do, man.

That is a crazy loophole.

Yeah. Yeah. So now people ask.

Damn, everybody should become a citizen of Mexico.

Yeah man. I ain't never going back to Mexico. I'm not going back for a while, bro. I don't I cannot see myself. I don't even want to go back so Um, especially since I released the footage of me working out in prison and stuff, like I don't ever wanna go to Mexico and and for any reason they're like Get his ass, you know, and bring it back over.

Yeah.

Yeah.

At the very least try to get more money out of you.

Definitely.

Especially after headlining a UFC card.

Yeah, and on top of that like like um Like releasing that footage was like a little bit of a little bit of a little Definitely like a no no. But since

Do they all have cell phones inside?

Yeah, so we had we had cell phones.

Yeah. So were you texting your friends, you could text your lawyer, all that shit?

Yeah.

Did you worry that your text would be intercepted?

No, no, not at all.'Cause um I would text everybody or call everybody on on WhatsApp and I guess

Yeah, it's encrypted.

Yeah, it's encrypted.

And so when you're doing all this and filming all this, you just saved the footage and then when you got out

No, I would s I would send it I would send it to like my friends. So I I I send it to to one of my buddies and I was like, Yo, save all this stuff'cause when I get out, this is gonna this is gonna be it's gonna be big, bro, you know? Well

Glad they didn't release it before he got out. Yeah.

been fucked yeah man and the whole time like no one knew what no one knew where I was at, no one knew what I was going on and there was a couple of rumors going around that I was backpacking in Peru.

Yeah.

Another one was was one of my buddies like it's crazy how the internet believes anything, bro.

Mm-hmm.

Like there's people thought I was building wells in Rwanda. Like one of my buddies said that he's like, Oh, he's building whales in Rwanda doing God's work. And like people ran with that. Like, hey, actually, people when I got released. Uh right away they were like, Oh, Kevin Haaland bailed him out and Kevin Harlan bailed him out to get a rematch and people believe that.

Hilarious. That's so funny. It must have been so weird. So when you're inside did you did they have the internet? Would they could they watch fights?

Yeah, yeah. Actually, um so they ended up putting like these cell phone like scramblers, like these towers that like mess up the signal and and We ended up getting uh what's that the that that uh Tesla thing? Starlink? Mm-hmm. We ended up getting Starlink.

You got starved in a T W out of jail. Yeah. Oh my God, that's insane.

Yeah, we ended up getting Starlink and had Wi Fi for a little while. And then I remember We ended up losing all that stuff because um Like every every once in a while they'd be like, Hey, the guards will come, like, Hey, uh, they're gonna come do inspections and you know. So they would like hide everything. And I remember this one time they hid everything and they were like, Oh, we we're not gonna give back to you guys So we ended up That like I'd say like by by the fifth month?

So your only protein you're getting from beans?

Yeah. Wow. And it was just horrible, dirty, unsanitary. First thing I ate when I got out was um a double Western bacon cheeseburger. From Carl Jr. Yeah, man. And I couldn't even finish it because at the time like my stomach was so I I got f I like I got full as hell, man. Like like I it was crazy. And um Man, I was so skinny when I got out, bro. It was crazy. So like this whole time I just been like Trying to

So what did you wear? Did you wear yourself when you got out?

Uh when I weighed m I weighed myself when I got out and I normally walk around around two hundred and I was like around one eighty. You know, but I looked horrible bro. Like I looked like I just cut weight. I I looked like I was like I'm sure. Yeah, it was it was horrible. But it was it was like I wasn't shredded or nothing. I just had no muscle definition and it was just It was bad bro. And I remember um when I first got out, man, I was like

That's crazy'cause you're working out so much in gym.

Yeah. because of of the lack of of nutrition. Yeah, nutrition. I was like so malnourished. Yeah, it was it was horrible bro and uh I almost thought like, dude, I can't do this shit anymore, dude. Like I'm I I'm not gonna I think my career might be over, you know? And um I was just in my head about it for a little bit and then and then you know, like I was like, nah

How long did it take before you start feeling normal?

But uh I'm barely starting to feel like a hundred percent now.

How? And when did you get out?

Um, it's been almost two months

Wow, that's not a lot of time.

Yeah.

And when is this uh y the fight is August first?

Yeah, it's another

No two months. Yeah. That's good.

Yeah, and I feel I feel good now.

That's crazy though. It takes you two months and then now you're back you look normal, like physically. Yeah. You look healthy. So it took you that time to just put the weight back on and get your muscle tone back and all that.

Yeah.

That's a good thing though, that you were always in shape so you bounce back quicker. You have muscle memory.

Yeah, and actually I've honestly been enjoying the the pro this whole process of of Like when when I first got out I could only run like a mile and I was dying, bro. And through through each run I could see my progress. And I'm like, Okay, I'm getting better. Okay, I'm getting better. And and like I'm in love with it right now. I'm I'm in love with look

Yeah.

Yeah man. You know? Yeah, and and it is it's it's really just like a a a really deep personal one for me because from what Where when I when I first got out to now it's just like it's it's crazy. It's crazy how how I c the body can bounce back and like just get back into shape, you know.

It's crazy the mine too. I mean y you must be so thankful. Just every time you're training, yeah, you might be tired, but man, you must be so thankful that you're out and free and then you're working towards something big. You know, you got a big fight coming up. Whew what a blessing.

Yeah man and I'm just im I'm just embracing the whole process, you know, and I'm just you know, I'm I'm all for it. I'm all in. Actually going to to jail and going through all that actually made made me appreciate and value everything that I have going on right now. So so I'm just like so grateful and so thankful that I even have this opportunity and I just signed a new contract with the UFC, six more fights. Nice. And and now I'm I'm main event. It's just crazy, dude.

Dude, if you go on to win the title from here. Do you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

That would be crazy. You beat Medic, you're in the top thirteen, you're close to the top ten, a few fights later. Anything can happen in this sport.

And I would even tell dudes like that, like realistically, bro, like I can like in four or five fights go like four or five fights I could be fighting for the championship, you know? Maybe

It all takes is a few spectacular results. A few spectacular results and people get behind you and the crowd gets behind you and next thing you know.

I mean if if I go out there and smoke this guy then and it's gonna be it's gonna be so much even bigger just because of the whole experience that I went through. And like, man, he got out of jail and just fucking knock this dude out and you know Why not? Like why why not, bro? You know, why why can't I be that guy? Like you hear stories all the time of of these incredible stories of people that become champions from nothing and then been through all kinds of stuff like why not me, bro?

Listen, you never fucking know. You never fucking know. That's the crazy thing about the sport.

Yeah. Anything can happen, dude.

Yeah, I mean you've got Makachev as the title holder which is a little bit more than a little bit. You know, one of the baddest motherfuckers to ever do it. That's part of the problem.

Yeah.

Yeah. The he's got the opposite life. That's a guy that's been disciplined and training his entire life.

Never.

Never fucked around, no drugs, no drinking, no nothing, just discipline.

Yeah.

It's a tough sell.

It's different different levels, man. Yeah. There's different levels to it.

How old do you now?

Thirty nine.

Yeah.

Yeah. So I got like a couple more years left, man.

Well, it's crazy while they'd stole eight months of like very valuable time.

Yeah. And that's one that's one thing that that's one the number one thing that I was like, man, like I'm running out of time, bro. You know, I don't got

Yeah.

I don't got a lot of time left, you know, so

Getting out

And like I said, like I'm just I'm just taking it a lot more serious, you know?

I'm sure. Where are you training?

So right now I'm in I'm in Vegas training over at uh the PI at extra

Oh that's great.

at Extreme Couture and right now and and Freestyl I'm in May while I'm in Vegas and uh While I'm in California, I go to classic classic fight team, uh, training at over at Tenori and Tim Planet. You know, so I'm just but right now uh I'm I'm in Vegas right now. It's so much so much easier. LA's crazy, dude. I I'm I'm on the road when I'm in LA It's just I'm on the road all fucking day. LA traffic is just a nightmare. So that's why like uh I'm in Vegas right now.

That's also so high level. There's so much high level training in Vegas. Yeah. And the PI is an amazing resource for fire. You know, as far as nutrition, cutting weight, I mean they'll get your meals for you, they get your supplements for you, they make sure that everything is You know, safe for sport approved, so you don't have to worry about testing positive for anything. Like the PI is amazing. Yeah. Such an incredible resource.

Yeah, right now it's a little bit crazy because um They're they're they're letting like the slap fight guys go there and the Zoofa boxing guys, I think. Yeah. So yeah, those guys are are using

The slap flight guys train?

I don't know how they train. Like how do you how do you train for that, bro? You know? To do neck workouts. I don't know.

I guess that's it.

Yeah.

Swinging things with your arms.

Yeah.

No, I guess like cable machines. Like you know what I'm saying? Like get a cable machine out of your wrist and do this a a bunch of times. Yeah.

Yeah. I a thing that gauges your um your power and your strike. And that does they use that they use that all the time.

The power slap guys do?

Yeah. And and then also the Zoofa boxing guys are there too. So so it's a little it's a little bit hectic right now. It's like a a lot going on.

Yeah, I could imagine.

Yeah. I've never been to one of those. I hear I hear you have to go to one to like enjoy it.

You have to be on acid. Yeah. To me it's like I don't know man. I feel I feel like Letting someone just swing on you. And the thing is, like, if you get the first swing, you have a giant advantage. Yeah. The first swing is a crazy advantage.

That's dangerous, bro. That's just getting you know, just getting whacked and some of these guys are g

Thank you.

They get knocked out.

Oh a hundred percent man. It's not less powerful than a punch. You know, this is the idea that you're slapping like this. That's not what they're hitting with the palm of the hand. Yeah. Right on your fucking jaw. It's super powerful. You can only take so many of those in your whole life. You know, and you're lining up for

Yeah, and I mean you can imagine like the nerve damage on your face too.

Well, I mean look, I'm for whatever you wanna do. You wanna jump BMX bikes, you wanna ride bulls, you wanna power slap, have at it. This is America. Have a good time.

Yeah.

But it seems like at an MMA gym it should be M. A. fighters. I don't I mean the boxing is probably a good crossover. Like you could probably get some good work with some of those guys. Yeah. You know, and then also seeing high level boxer train is good. R raising the level up in the gym.

Yeah. Yeah, no, it's it's it's it's really dope. I love I love the PI man, uh and Vegas in general, like there's so many killers out there.

Yeah. It's one of the best places in the world for MMA training. I mean you got Extreme Couture. Think of how many killers are training out of there. You know, you got uh there's there's so many you got syndicate. There's so many places, man. It's incredible. So much jujitsu. Robert Drysdale's there. There's so many guys that are there. Tenth Planet there. There's so much jujitsu there. There's so much MMA there. I mean, if you're a fighter, it's like one of the best places to live.

Yeah, I remember when I first when I first went out there, I was in tw about twenty twenty. Uh I went out I was I was on Cowboys Cab. And uh he went out there and and and that's when I saw firsthand. all the all the the amenities from the PI and ev like all the the whole Vegas experience. And so I decided to move out there. So I lived out there for like two years and and I've just been going back and forth ever since.

It's worth living there just for the PI. Yeah. You know, and then y there's so much Muay Thai there. There's so much everything. There's so much great training there.

Yeah, yeah, there's there's a ton of there's a ton of gym like you said man.

might not be there might not be another city in the country that's like Vegas in that regard. Yeah. Think about boxing. You got Floyd Mayweather's gyms there, which is crazy, right? There's a bunch of other You got high-level boxers there. You got high-level Muay Thai guys there. You know, one kick Nick has his place there. There's so much high-level training in Vegas. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Summer is great, isn't it?

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Yeah, sometimes I even go to uh uh the Andrew Kwani's gym.

Yeah. They have their own gym? Yeah. Okay. Well they they were with one kick nick, right? Yeah. It's a fucking crazy town. Training. And again, like I can't say enough. Like every time I I've been to the PI a bunch of times, but when I first went there, before they were really open, when they were really getting rolling, I was like, This is incredible.

Yeah. I love that part. I love I love I'm always I'm always there, you know. You could go there, order whatever you want, you know, and it's like sure, steak and steak and rice, you know.

Yeah, well they just want you to be healthy, which is makes sense. Just it's so so smart that they did that. When they did that I was like what are they doing? Dumping all this money in that? Who's gonna go there? And then when I went there I was like, Oh, I get it. They went all out. They went all out and it's just if you want your fighters to be at the very best to compete in the UFC.

Dude that's gonna be major dude that's crazy

I wish it was inside, but it is gonna be crazy. It's so funny watching people lose their mind over it. You know, in all in all sorts of different ways. Yeah. Lose their mind over it because they hate the political situation in this country, lose their mind over it because they feel like it's a waste of money. Why are they spending so much money? This country's in in in debt. We got problems. Why are we having a fight? And then other people are like, Fuck yeah.

Oh my god.

There's no more American thing than having a UFC fight on the White House lawn. It's so America. It's so cr it's so Trump. It's so crazy. You know what I mean? A UFC fight on the White House lawn is banana.

Yeah man, even um the fight car is amazing as well.

Uh fight card's incredible. The only thing that bothers me is that it's outside. Yeah. Ilya Taporea might be is i i is not just one of the best right now, he might be one of the best that ever did. It's very possible that he goes down in history as the all timer. I mean he's he's so good. And for him to have to defend his title, the world title outside with bugs and humidity and heat

Yeah, you gotta take into uh account the weather, you know, it's a whole different environment.

It could rain, it could thunderstorm, who fucking knows? It's D C. It's the east coast in the middle of the summer. I mean it's it's it's crazy to have a fight outside in June in D C. Yeah.

I've I've fought outside before. It's it's definitely a different different vibe, different energy.

Where'd you fight outside?

I fought outside for Combate Americas. Uh it was uh somewhere in Arizona and it was a nighttime fight.

Camel McLaren's organization, right? Yeah. Love that dude.

I've also fought in the summer in the daytime. And at a fair.

Oh my god.

Yeah. In California? In California.

What was the temperature?

It was hot as hell, dude. The mat was hot as hell. It was like at a fair in in the middle of the summer.

Oh that sucks. The mat's hot. I didn't even think of that.

Yeah, totally.

Was it canvas or was it like map?

I think it was Matt.

Jesus.

Yeah, it was it was.

Not just that, but it gets slippery as fuck too then.

Yeah dude, it was hot as hell bro.

Did you ever see King of the Cage wet and wild? You ever see that? King of the Cage put on a fight in the middle of a rainstorm. and just let people fight. Just like I g I think they just said, look, you know, if you wanna fight, you get paid. This is it. It's gonna rain out and we're gonna have to fight'cause it was outside. Yeah. So this is back when California did not have MMA. It was illegal, but it was legal on Indian reservations.

Yeah, my my actually actually my pro debut was for King of the Cage outside on Indian Reservation.

What year was this? Um

I wanna say twenty Twenty seventeen maybe?

So they were still doing'em outside even then. Yeah.

Wow. At a Saboba Casino. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's where we went. See if you can find the King of the Cage footage for Wet and Wild. One of the craziest events I've ever seen in my life. I'm just imagine you're basically fighting on ice. You're slipping all over the place. Everybody's sliding. This is it. Look, they're trying to mop down the cage in between the fights. I mean it's ridiculous. Like what are you gonna do? You're not gonna dry it out. I don't know why they were trying to do this.

Dude, that must have been so hard to fight on. Oh look. Look at their slipping

They're slipping all over the place. At least they had wrestling shoes on'cause I rem I don't remember what year this was. I know it's crazy. All the officials have ponchos. I mean it's fucking pouring right now. I don't remember what year it was. Oh, okay. That makes sense. So that I think that's illegal days. I'm n ninety nine percent sure that's the illegal days. Of course it is,'cause they're wearing shoes.

Yeah, dude.

It's it's so crazy.

That must have been solved.

Remember this forever. This event like everybody was there remember.

Oh it's pouring.

I mean why are they but why are they bothering like sweeping the water off? You're not gonna dry it out. And look at his feet, man. His feet are sliding all over the place with wrestling shoes on. It's crazy. In a situation like that you're almost like better off like immediately going to the ground. But even then, like, how are you gonna even get a choke? People are sl everyone would slide out of everything. It's like

Yeah, but...

The White House one. I just I just hope it doesn't rain. I hope they figure out a way to kill the bugs too. I've been investigating online. Uh there's a bunch of different machines that they sell for like outdoor events. And these they kill every bug within like a mile radius. They set these things up and all the bugs just go to it and get zapped and at the end of it they dump it out. There's like a fucking like a big bag of bugs.

There are a lot of them out there.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Especially in the summer. And Jamie and I checked was it a hundred degrees there?

current I mean we're getting closer to the dates so the forecast is getting better. It's currently set to be

Sixty nine's nice.

Rain and well, isolated thunderstorms.

Mm-hmm. That doesn't mean anything by the time it gets to June. Yeah. And what is is it June eleventh? What is it?

So it's on the four.

Fourteen. Twelfth and thirteenth and it's on the fourteenth. Oh fuck.

On Friday it says considerable cloudiness and fog after midnight.

Well the fights are Sunday.

Yeah, no, I'm just saying like that.

Yeah. Well the thing is if it's the low sixty nine, that's nice. So if it cools off by the time the main event starts or the the last few fights But the first few guys that get after it, they're gonna probably be fighting in the daytime.

Yeah. You know, you never know. They might just spray some chemtrails and change the weather. You know?

Yeah, they might.

You never know.

Oh, if anybody's gonna do it it's Trump. So you know they built Oh it's not? No. Oh well he sho posted pictures of the AI? Oh, that's all it is? Oh. How far along is the ballroom?

I'm gonna show you the picture that they posted, but yet

Oh that's fake? Why would you tell people what you're gonna do? That's not what I saw. I saw one that w looked like it was during the daytime.

Yeah.

But obviously that's yeah, that's what I saw. That's the one I saw.

Yeah, drones are crazy, man.

and guns flying around on the top, all controlled by AI.

Yeah, that's a crazy boy.

What could go wrong?

War is a whole nother

Yeah, it's spooky. You ever seen some of that footage from Ukraine? Yeah.

Drones just flying around.

Just bombing dudes. Just dropping down on guys. You get a one of those um Instagram algorithms. We watch a couple of'em and then next thing you know they're getting recommended to you over and over.

Yeah, dude. That's crazy. Um You know, one day I'm talking talking about something with my buddy, next thing you know, it's all over my phone, my feed.

No.

Yeah, it's crazy.

It's weird. It's it's we're just accepting the fact that our phone's listening to us all the time.

Yeah.

You know what I got trapped in recently? Uh algorithm of schizophrenic people.

What if that

Dude, it's all crazy people that like one guy's like, Hi, I'm Joseph Wilson. I am the legitimate president of the United States b due to constitutional rec you know, like crazy stuff. Like crazy people. This one lady this one lady is crazy. She's like uh I forget what famous actor she was saying, They're trying to kidnap me and put shit in my vagina and like

Well you're aug if you're watching them, you're all things you want to keep watching.

I understand, but how does it know who's schizophrenic?

Must there's gotta be there's and there's internal tax

Right, but isn't that nuts? But it is. The yeah, well I don't know what the word is, but it knows these people are fucked up. And so it's sending me all these crazy people, like ins completely insane people. One one lady who thinks everybody's a man, ro she thinks Rosa Park's secretly a man, everyone's secretly a man

Yeah.

She's like pointing out like collarbones. Look at them, look at this is a man. Kim Kardashian's a man. Everybody's a man. It's fucking nuts, man. And it's just schizophrenic people. And I'm like, okay, so Instagram must know these people are schizophrenic. 'Cause they're all like I'm telling you it's like three out of ten videos Instagram recommends me are inst are people that are completely crazy. So it must know these people are crazy. And it's just sending'em my way.

Yeah, dude. Same same for me, dude. I was I was talking with my buddies uh I don't know, something about like sardines or something. Next thing you know, I'm like looking at my phone, like, dude, what the hell is all this shit about sardines? Back to back to back. It's crazy, bro.

It's creepy how the ads target you. Yeah.

Brainwashing me into it. You watch me to bind her deep.

Well it's like how much is it listening? Did you see that post I'll send it to you, Jamie, that Kim dot com posted about Palantir? Yeah. Did you see that? Is that what it is?

Yeah, that's what I said.

Yeah, I'm sure. Um it's very recently that uh I saw it. I didn't check the date on it though. I could send it to you?

I got it.

It I think it's good um here yeah. It's from February sixteenth.

Sí, eso es. Clique this no project. Definitely that's another one like Britney Greiner. That poor lady. Oh yeah. She did nine months. They they wanted to put her away forever.

Yeah.

The merchant of death. Guys responsible for thousands of people being dead. So this is from Kim dot com. Palantir was allegedly attack uh hacked, rather, an AI agent was used to gain superuser access, and here's what the hackers allegedly found. Peter Teel and Alice Carpenter Commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a mass scale. Massive scale. They have thousands of hours of cr transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Elon Musk.

Really?

He's the number one boat. When can we see these hacked materials though? What are the hackers doing with it? If they aren't exposing the whole thing, then fuck'em.

He posts a lot of things that sometimes are true and sometimes are not true. Yeah. Predictions.

Do you know his background? Do you know the story behind that guy? So i his bac I I first found out about him a long time ago. He's a very wealthy guy. He lives in New Zealand and he ran a site, was it uh Yeah, like one of those uploads, mega uploads. Was that it? And they targeted him because they said that people were uploading things that were copyrighted material and I think they were trying to they were trying to They were trying to get him out of the country.

Yeah, I'm trying to remember.

Yeah. There was like cartoons that he did where he was like killing dictators in the cartoons. See if you can find Kim dot com early animated

Video.

He should be. The Seth Rich one is wild. The Seth Rich one is one of the ones where I just I don't understand why anybody isn't think that that's crazy. This guy gets assassinated after he supposedly gave WikiLeaks all sorts of inside information on the Democratic Party about how they kept people out of the election, how they were running things, and then he winds up getting whacked.

Yeah.

I mean they can they can see you now with Wi Fi. They know where you are in a building at any given time with the Wi-Fi in the building.

Oh that's crazy.

Crazy. They use Wi Fi and they can get a literal image of you walking around your house. They know where you are. Because of the Wi Fi. So if they tap into your Wi Fi, they know where you are, they're shh boom.

Yeah.

Upper right bedroom. It's crazy. It's really nuts, man. Because this is this wasn't here it is. This is some old.

Internet.

Yeah

Nineties flash video.

Yeah, this is it. Give me some volume.

I'm surprised that even has

Cruz.

Yeah, this is what he did. I remember this. So this was the nineties. So this is the same guy. He's a very interesting guy. He's getting in a boat.

Yeah, it's called Kim S Kimball Special Agent.

I mean it's probably this is

Yeah, if it was made in the nineties, this is thirty years ago. He's you know, screwing around with

We realized it catches the helicopter.

Uh

He lands on the ground. He's standing on top of Microsoft? What is he doing? So there's Bill Gates. Boy, people hated Bill Gates even back then.

Ha ha ha.

That's crazy. What the fu-

Ha ha ha.

It's so weird. Oh he didn't kill him. No, not really. I mean I think people just thought those were silly. Uh he got in trouble for that mega upload site. So w the s the way it used to work is you remember do you remember Napster?

Yeah. Right.

So Napster worked where you could take songs, you could upload them, and anybody could download these songs. The way Mega Upload worked, and a lot of these upload sites. is you could take a film and you could turn it into a digital file and say you take like Avatar, turn it into a digital file and upload it. And people could then download it and watch it on their home

Yeah, you explained it, but I mean that's a most people would go like copyright law American copyright law only matters.

That's true too, right?'Cause he's in New Zealand.

And this house this site was hosted in Holland. Yes, on january twentieth, twenty twelve they seized more than three hundred million. Wrong doing

I wonder how he's earning money now. I wonder if they took all his money or

I mean he did they did cre uh that make I just looked it up. Mega is a like a cloud. Cryptocurrency stuff, I'm sure he was big into Bitcoin when it started. He's probably doing okay.

Yeah, I don't know what the story is, but I'm kinda rooting for'em. Yeah. Oh, he's very fun online. I don't know if he's right about the Palantir stuff, but forget about Palantir. We know that what's happening now in terms of you talking into your phone about sardines and then you your phone showing you ads, like there's they're definitely listening to something. As of February.

I'm sure I'm sure there already is um you know there already Doing that, you know? Yeah. I mean a hundred percent.

If I was an evil person running some gigantic corporation, I would do it. Some c especially if I thought I was right. Yeah and doing the right thing.

I can imagine like China probably has.

Of course. Yeah. A hundred percent.

Well, so I forgot what I was reading that um Someone got arrested. I think like uh some government official or something got arrested and admitted to being a s a spy. Oh yeah.

Well yeah. Well there was a mayor in California in Arcadia, California, there was a spy for China. She was the fucking mayor. Yeah the mayor of a city was working for China.

It's crazy.

Well China's playing a long game. They they infiltrate universities, they give money to universities, they they fund programs, they give money to research labs, they uh sell cell phone towers. at a a discounted rate to the military and these dumb motherfuckers put them around where their military bases are. Yeah. Yeah, I've had guys that are, you know, CIA guys on the podcast tell me about that, how how dangerous it is. If they bought farmland all around these military bases, China has.

Yeah.

Yeah that's crazy. It's crazy that they uh are even allowed to be a little bit more than a little bit. Like you imagine you uh you're in conflict with another country and they buy land right next to your house, you're like, Hey

Yeah.

What are you doing?

Yeah.

Forget about your house, a fucking military base. Anybody buying any land around a military base should be th thoroughly vetted. Yeah, it should be there should be different laws. If you want to buy land around a military base, it should be like no.

Yeah, background check for sure.

Sure. Not just background check. Like you should be American citizen, A, and you should have like a legitimate verifiable reason for owning this land. Like you're a farmer or you can put fucking windmills up there. Whatever you're gonna do. It should make sense. It shouldn't be like all you have to do is have the money and you could buy land right next to a military. Yeah.

Yeah. And you know China has like some of the top top uh you know um Some of the, like, you never know what they want. Yeah, the technology.

Technology is off the charts. beyond ours. And they they have like crazy drone displays where they have enormous dragons. Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Fly'em over the sky like thousands and thousands of drones and they make a dancing dragon in the sky like So they're all coordinated but some sort of a computer program and they all work autonomously. It's nuts, man. Like their technol their cars are insane. China's cars, they have electronic or electric cars that are beyond anything we have. Yeah. And they can't sell'em here. Which I think is kinda crazy. I think that's kinda fun.

Yeah.

I mean, it would suck if I was Ford and these Chinese cars were way better than anything that we're making here. But everybody that I've talked to and I've talked to some guys that work for major automobile or organizations and they went over to China and they're like, Oh my god, we're fucked Like these cars are insane.

Yeah, I mean just Tesla alone.

Those cars are insane.

Yeah, they're pretty dope.

But they make'em here. And they make'em in China too. They made a lot they they were making a lot of'em in China during the pandemic because the pandemic didn't really close things down in China the way it closed. But they're they have electric cars now that have like these insane suspensions. They go zero to sixty in one and a half seconds. They're nuts. Yeah, they there's this dude that I follow online

Yes, Forrest Jones. That's it. So he keeps finding he keeps reviewing these uh just g scroll down for his videos, go to his video site.

You can just narrow it down more, but uh didn't worry work one year ago, Tesla minivan or you China minivans.

Like, look at these things. They're nuts.

Gorgeous speaker. I also get two wireless charging pads with a fan to keep them cool. I have this gorgeous drive mode selector, I have cup holders right in here.

Oh that's crazy.

You also get selfies for the blicky.

big one. I have built-in fragrances that slot in right here. If I push this button, I have more storage space and I can do this. If I push the button on the side of my seat, that'll fold down my armrest. My seats are heated, ventilated, and massaging. I have an area right down here for my phone, have built-in sunscreen shades.

Push this.

button, my cup holder comes out, and I can do this.

This is thirty seven thousand dollars.

And these cars are not available in the US.

Yeah.

Is that one? I don't know. No, maybe I'm looking at the wrong video. That sounds like it would cost more than thirty it says luxury cars. What car is that? Does it say? Doesn't it say in the description? No descriptions. See go for the beginning, see what it says.

I get a moonroof, pillows in my headrest, these heated, ventilated, and massage seats. I get a passenger screen.

Yeah, so they're doing wild shit over in China with technology and they have full surveillance on their population. You can't say shit over there.

They have like facial recognition and everything. That's crazy.

Yeah, you you can't step out of line at all.

Over there.

Yeah. You know, they have um do you know that bodies uh exhibit? Do you know what that is? Like the dead bodies exhibit.

Uh I think there's one in Vegas.

They get their bodies, most of'em, from China. And they're yeah. They're they're called like Chinese I think it's undeclared bodies. So like if you die within a certain amount of time, if th someone doesn't claim your body, unclaimed bodies. If someone doesn't unclaim your body within like thirty days They just can turn you into a statue.

Yeah.

So so they have to start this process like pretty soon after you die. And they d they have this process called plastination and they take the bodies and they basically strip all the fat from the body and they turn it into this plasticized

Statue.

of all your muscles and tendons and ligaments and so you're out there like playing basketball and like you could see like the rib cage and all the ligaments. That was a a dude that was probably Tweeting the wrong thing or he worked for a company and he fucked up or he was banging someone's wife or he was doing something and they turned this dude into a statue and now he's at the Luxor in Vegas playing golf.

Damn. Damn. And and these bodies, there's no skin on them?

No scan. It gets even crazy. years later, she gets arrested for killing another person. She gets arrested for poisoning some English business. And then it goes to trial. Well, the person who stood trial for her, the person who stood was not her. There's pictures of the lady on the stand, it's a different lady. So she must have paid someone off to get convicted and go to jail, like paid their family off or something like that. And she got free.

So

This is all alleged by the

Yeah.

Yeah. All alleged. But the you could see the the video or the um the body is still exhibited. The body of the pregnant lady. So there's a pregnant lady and you see a cross section of her stomach where she's like holding onto her stomach and you see the fetus inside of her stomach.

Yeah.

whole thing is nuts. Some of'em are people that like, I'm gonna die. I wanna donate my body to this exhibit. Okay. If you're crazy and that's what you want to do, that's cool. But that's not all those people. Some of those people are it's very sketchy circumstances. See if you can find that image of the

How often or how many? How many times that happened, like'cause'cause wouldn't like the the pregnant uh body, like they never investigated it?

The family wanted to. The family wanted to investigate the way. Exactly. They were trying to do that, but they wouldn't let them do it. These people have like obviously have immense power. If she got someone allegedly got someone to stand in line.

And this is like in China.

So look at this. This is the baby. Pregnant woman and the fetus inside of her. And so the family looked at the face and they're like, Jesus Christ, oh, someone stole the fetus? Oh.

Also I was digging there's another scandal that happened in twenty twenty four.

Well there's a video or this where this uh investigative reporter this investigative reporter visited one of these plastination factories and there was bodies that were laying down. You could watch the video. These bodies are laying down, they have sheets over their head and they have their arms tied behind their back and the sheets are bloody. So it looks like they all got whacked and they're all

Uh

this plant getting ready to be turned into a fucking statue. It's creepy as shit, man. Thank you.

Two women in LA. Twenty years ago.

Look here, I'm pregnant.

Oh yeah.

It's probably on my Instagram algorithm right now.

There's another scandal they have where f over four thousand bodies were in a sch a corpse scheme they said. Oh my god. Where they were being sold uh they peop families thought their body the f uh their family member was being cremated. Was not. They were being sold into

That's a lot of bodies.

It's a crap.

Using them for bone grafting? So the uh al allergenic bone graft products?

Oh, that's another thing one of these schizophrenic ladies was telling me, and that is true, that uh a lot of these women are getting fat that's taken from cadaver. So they take fat from cadavers and then they inject that fat in their ass. To give them a BBL. Like no bullshit. And Whitney Cummings, I told I sent it to Whitney. She's like, Oh my god, it's literal dead ass.

Ha ha ha.

That's such a funny line. Because that's what it is. I mean, it's dead tissue. You're taking a dead person's fat and they're stuffing it in their ass. Cadaver fat transfer utilizing processed human donor fat.

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Yeah, that's gross, bro. Ha ha.

Actual dead ass. And women are doing this. How see if you can find a video of them doing this

Crazy. How do you how Excuse me.

Oh, beefiller?

Oh nasty. That's so nasty. How bad are you just do some squats, you lazy bitch. Yeah. But that's w people like a real ass anyway. The ass and the legs it has to match, folks. Yeah. It has to match. Can't fake it. It's like you ever see those dudes that uh they don't really have muscles but they get oil injected into their arms?

Yeah and it's just like it's all weird.

Like. I saw this Brazilian dude. He had it on his biceps, giant traps, giant traps. Giant crazy shoulders, big tits, crazy and he's like flexing and doing all this stuff, but it looks weird because it's your body it's like y doesn't fit. Yeah. Doesn't fit your body. That's the same thing when a girl gets a crazy fat ass and she's got these toothpicked legs because she's lazy. Yeah. Like that doesn't fit your legs. This is Yeah.

Man, dude women to the process. Women go to the extreme Yeah.

Well the thing is I think if you do just

Just a little bit, just a little bit

Maybe it's nice. Yeah. You know, I bet there's girls that have done it that you go to the right doctor, like this Beverly Hills dude, he's like, I got you.

Just enough.

Plump that sucker up just a little

Little bit, just a little bit. Little bit of dead ass.

Just a touch, just a touch of dead.

That's that's pretty gross, like for someone to put someone else's Clumpy butter and

It's fucking completely disgusting.

How did your body even react to that?

Not well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well. And then to have all that take out the DNA and all this other stuff.

What if they don't? What if that's bullshit? What if the DNA's in there? What if you start getting weird memory?

You know? Yeah.

Weird memories from acissue, like weird nightmares. Let's go. Well pull them up. Right here. Ho So they're taking fat from an elderly guy's face?

Yeah.

Whoa. I guess not. I guess it's just fat. So this is a dead guy and they're pee so who sold his body to some fucking laboratory where they do that.

Yeah.

Look at that in the upper right hand corner.

A c a whole crazy

So this is pre deadass and post deadass.

See, that's not bad.

It's not bad, but that lady could have done that with the gym. Let's see that guy, he looks like a demon.

Yeah.

That's not even a real

That's a

Falls done yet, falls down all weird.

Oh my god. So they're just sucking fat out of dead people. I had one of my knees reconstructed with a cadaver grass. on my uh A C Ls I got a they use a um the uh Achilles tendon'cause the Achilles tendon's thicker and stronger than the actual ACL and they put it in my right knee. It's never been a problem. Holy works great.

But from from your From your own body.

I don't know, from a dead dude.

Oh okay.

Oh what's that?

It says uh gluteal augmentation, so that's butt.

Right.

Right. So that would be putting fat into the butt.

Oh, where's that scar? Bro, that scar's gigantic. You can have this.

Fork holding it open.

What look how green everything looks in there. Oh, that looks so nasty. It looks like bad cheese.

That's discussed.

That looks like that.

You know when you go to see like dry dry aged meat and you pass by those. Yeah. They have the dry aged meat container. What but y so you're gonna get your fat put in your ass or an implant, but then you have this massive scar.

Oh here's I mean these pictures are gnarly. That is another head.

So that's where they're getting the fat.

How much fat do you have in your head?

Mm.

Well that says temporal augmentation by intermediate fat pad filler injection. So that's someone getting that done to their head? Maybe it's like tightening up the skin? Yeah, maybe, right? Like a filler? Oh she looks good. That actually looks good. So that's from her fat fat graphic. Sorry folks. S some of it's disgusting. But if you look at like people's face when they get older, that's one of the things that happens is you lose collagen and fat in your face.

Good.

Find Jesus. Go find Jesus.

Okay.

If you are out there I don't give a lot of advice, but this is my advice. If you're out there and you're thinking about getting dead people's fat pumped into your ass, you probably need G.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean

BBLs are kind of going out of style, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They should.

Naturals are making a comeback.

Yeah. Just work out. Like there's a lot of ladies that had flat butts that they put in the time, they put in the effort, and now you're like, damn, you can do that too. It's just the process.

Exactly.

For it they want Ozempic and then they want Dead X. They don't want to lose the weight.

Now there's

put it back where you want it.

Yeah, retruitide, what is that called? Reditru Tide. Reditru Tide, Reditrue Tide, and Deadass. They should have like a one stop shop.

Yeah, now they're saying uh Ozempic eats up your bones. Oh yeah.

Oh definitely.

So everybody's Everybody's fucked who's been taking it.

Well it's not just that, it also kills your desire. This is what's weird. Like people are falling out of love when they get on Ozempic. Like they they lose their desire. Really? Yeah. The people lose ambition, they lose desire. They also lose addiction. Like people that are addicted to cigarettes, people that are addicted to alcohol and gambling. Apparently Ozempic helps that.

Yeah, it also changes your whole face, right? Oh yeah.

Especially for ladies as they get older, like the more fat you have on your face, the better you look. Like you when your skin gets real thin and starts draping over your bones, like you don't that doesn't look healthy.

Yeah.

Looks like a problem.

You like the cutting did just cut weight.

I know.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fucked. It's fucked that that's a part of our society now. And it it's just preying on people's Lack of discipline and lack of understanding of the benefits of going through a process and achieving a result. Because if all these ladies that wanted to do this instead, if they just went to a gym, started eating healthy, they would feel better, they would think better, their body would look better, everything would be better. And they wouldn't have to get dead out.

Yeah, it's just people being really self-conscious, you know, about themselves. Like I know a hot hot ass chicks that I'm like, wait, you take Ozempic? Why? Like why? Oh just like a little you know, I'm like you don't need it.

I think some women say there's a real benefit to taking a microdose after a certain age. I was watching a video this lady's talking about how micro dosing um these GLP ones is actually beneficial. For some women after a certain age,'cause it helps reduce inflammation, d it does a bunch of different things to them. But I don't know.

Do you uh gain the weight? Like save like There's people that just oh I'm just gonna do it like like really overweight people. They're just who obviously like have strugg do that struggle with diet and and working out. Uh when when they get off, do like they gain all the weight back like everything else?

Most likely if it's a psychological issue, the moment you get off of it, that psychological issue's gonna return.

'Cause that like s shrinks your stomach or something, right?

Yeah, well it does, but it's basically you're starving yourself. Just like when you got out of jail, you barely could eat that double cheeseburger. Yeah. Right? It's'cause your stomach shrank,'cause you weren't eating much. That's kind of the same thing that happens with those empty. I mean what what happens to them when people say, Oh my god, it makes you lose bone mass, it makes you lose muscle mass Right, but so does starving.

Yeah.

Your body is not getting the nutrients that it needs. So it's just shrink So that the difference between this red atrutide This one is a different one in that this one allows you to have all the weight loss, but you don't lose the muscle loss. It's not the same thing. Oh yeah, please do. You got my number, send it to me and I'll send it to Jamie.

Right.

If um

Shocking bro holy hell bro.

If this red a two tide am I saying it right? Red at true tide, red a two tide, whatever it is, this one they think is gonna be incredible because this one is going to give you all the fat loss, but none of the muscle loss, none of the bone density loss. And I wonder if it's gonna be the same for like desire and whether it's gonna fuck with addictions and all those other things too.

I've been trying to find that article ever since I saw it and I can't find it and it's not that it is

Right. Propaganda.

people who are on like you know selling the good stuff now.

It could f put it into uh perplexity. See what AI our AI sponsor. Yeah. Um habits change. Do emplo are there employers who are having a problem with their employees taking GLP ones? Because it affects their Work. Or ambition. Which kinda makes sense. I mean,'cause I think a lot of people their ambition is probably an addiction. They're probably addicted to

Um having a sentence.

Okay. Yeah. What did you look like right when you got out?

Yeah, it was crazy dude. I can't find her and I'm I'm uh having someone send it to me though. Okay. I'm kinda embarrassed to show you but I gotta I gotta I gotta see this'cause if you see me now I'd be like, holy hell bro. Yeah.

And they post that on the internet like whoa that's That's crazy.

Yeah.

But that's also it's a good way to hold yourself accountable. You know? Yeah. Want a bunch of people to shit on you? Fat shame like fat shaming works. I know it's not nice, people don't like it, but when someone calls you a fat fuck and you'll

Yeah, man. A little bit of hard work, you know. A little bit of hard work get it, you know.

Well listen, if there's a way where massively obese people that are dying can get healthy and if it's it's a G L P one, I'm all for it. But For everybody else, just get home. And you'll you'll you'll respect yourself so much better. Like right now, like you you could look in the mirror and go, Damn, I look so much better than I did when I got out of jail.'Cause you could have stayed looking exactly that same way.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man, I I think it just makes you that much like uh stronger and and and like aside from the the work but like in internally.

Hundred percent.

You know, makes you value yourself so much more in health.

Absolutely.

You know.

It's also good for your brain and your brain's ability to do tough things. If you get through something difficult, you realize like, oh, I've been here but like the next time some fucked up shit happens to you, like I've been here before. I know it it sucks right now, but I'm gonna just trust this process.

Exactly.

On trucking.

So right when I s when I got back to work and I was like, Man, I'm I'm in the phase right now where it it sucks, you know, like waking up sore as hell. I remember the first time I did leg day, I couldn't I couldn't even fucking walk, dude.

Did you have somebody walk walking you through it, like how to do it correctly, where you don't overdo it in the beginning because uh like did you work with a trainer or anybody?

Um Yeah, yeah. Uh uh like over at the PI. They're so when we f first got started, we obviously didn't wanna like 'Cause I'm I was so eager to just get back in shape and and and it w it was it was tough, you know. But that's like one of the things that that uh like while running

Yeah. And it's just about trust in that process. It's just so hard when you used to be at one point and now you're way, way, way below that and you gotta build back up to get to where you used to be.

Yeah, but

It it's kind of a blessing. There's a blessing in that because you realize like after it's over

Oh I did it.

I did it. I pushed through all that bullshit. I got my body back in shape again and I'm back. Like when you get done with your camp, when you're peeking and on that last week, you're gonna feel so good. Yeah.

Yeah, man. I honestly I feel great now.

And and

Like I feel like I've I've done such a great job and in actually recovering more. doing like a lot more recovery stuff and I've been I've been incor incorporated that so much. And before I used to just go go go and like now I gotta take the time to recover and and uh I've been I've been taking this stuff from regenerate.

What is that?

Uh regenerate is uh Uh like and and what is it, N A D or something like that?

Okay.

Ja, stuff like that.

So it's N M. So it's like a precursor to N A D.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, so that means it's third party tested. Hm. Does that um who who makes that stuff, do you know?

Um I know I know that the they're they're definitely UFC uh

Approved.

approved and like I think they might even sponsor

Thorn is the main supplement company that you that the UFC uses, right? Yeah. Because they're all third party tested. It's like

Safe for sport.

Yeah, the uh yeah it's um true shield certified products for professional athletes. And um yeah I started I started taking that like about two two fights ago. And yeah, I feel great. I guess it's like NAD like some kind of anti aging or something like that and stuff.

Yeah. It's uh it basically lengthens your telomeres and it is uh it sort of brings your body back to like a level of recovery that it had when it was younger, allegedly. There's a lot of there's a lot of people that take I V, NAD and they take um NAD and um y you know, you can get it in the subcutane um what's it called? Subcutaneous uh under the fat. They do it that way too.

Yeah. Yeah, but um

But I think some of the best ways is actually NMN that stuff. Because it what it does is it it's like a precursor and your body just makes more NMN.

Yeah.

Um I take it. Yeah. Yeah it works. I take it before I go to bed every night. And that's the same thing with me. I I texted them the other day, I go, This is crazy. Like my fingernails grow way quicker than they used to. I think it's because of that.

Oh that's crazy. I just noticed that too. That was been going crazy too.

Yeah. Oh I think it's your body's ability to regenerate. You know, and and heal. And it like for fighters, like there's nothing more important than your ability to recover from a hard workout so you can get to another one.

Yeah. And um I spent a lot of time like in hyperbarrick. Hyperback chamber and now there's this thing um like this pim pimf pimp pm.

PMF.

P yeah, PMF or something like that. Uh-huh. Uh and it's like an actual like a whole bed and just like just kicks up like like Um some of like electric like little pulses. Mm-hmm. And yeah, I'll be taking naps on that thing. And just so some of the stuff I don't even know what it does. And I was like, oh, it's for recovery, I'll do it.

Hyperbaric works. And it it works in the same way that N A N A D and N M N work in that it lengthens your telomeres. Like they did a study out of uh A university in Israel, I believe it was, where they put people on a protocol of for ninety days they did sixty ninety minute sessions at a hyperbaric chamber and they showed that their telomere increase was equal to A twenty year difference in biological age.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm in there like four or five times a week.

That's huge. That that is one of the best things ever for your recovery, especially as you get older. 'Cause it makes your body react like a young body does.

You know? Yeah, so I'm over here against the uh racing against the clock, man. So I'm like trying to do everything possible to to for my body to just to to recover from these hard ass workouts, you know.

How long was it after you got out before you started sparring again? Um

I recently just started sparring about three weeks ago.

So you gave yourself a month and a half to sweet.

I wanted to do was was definitely get in shape. Got get get in good enough shape to like cause if you go to extreme and you're out of shape, you're gonna Yeah, they're gonna

It's gonna be very demoralizing.

Yeah. Yeah, so I I definitely wanted to to get my my get myself in good enough shape. So like This whole time I've been doing like a whole bunch of like weight lifting stuff and technical stuff and and a lot of S and C stuff and and and all that.

Just getting your body back in conditioning again.

Yeah. So just recently I'm like, all right, I feel I feel I feel good enough to to to spar and Yeah, I've had pretty hard spar sparring sessions.

Well you were a guy that was known for your endurance before, you know. You're not a guy that fatigues and fights very much, you know. So it's like and you always push up a good pace too. So for you to get back to where you used to be and have that same style, like you have to be in shape first.

Yeah, yeah. To start getting ready, you know.

Do you wish you had more time than August? Or do you think it's a good enough? Time period.

I think it's a good enough time, especially like the way I feel now.

And you have two months to go.

have like another eight, eight and a half weeks, eight, nine weeks, something like that.

That's nice.

I've been watching videos of like um the Serbian crowd like in basketball and and Yeah, it's wild.

That shit is.

Crowds are crazy. So so in my mind that's what I'm that's what I'm expecting. I'm expecting like to be chanting and

They might be. Have they had a UFC in Serbia?

This is the first one. Whereas UFC and Survey.

played those Serbian basketball games a bunch of times. Here we go. Outside one. There's a outside one they got fires and shit.

Yeah, so I I had looked I had looked this up because I'm I'm a

Yeah. They treat it like war.

Yeah, something.

audiences they they chant like they're uh like a war is going on. Yeah. In the middle of a basketball game and you know, all these Serbians that are coming over and dominating in American basketball, well, guess why?

Yeah, yeah.

Both motherfuckers.

That's originally why I I I looked this up a long time ago and Um who is it? Nikola Jokic. Jokic, one of the top NBA players. Uh and I was like when I when I uh when I fan fan o fanboy over like and I I love basketball. Basketball is like one of my favorite sports. Um I always like look into like the background of the basketball player where he came from and I had already seen the Serbian basketball crowds. I'm like, man, I'd be dope to go to like a a a basketball game in Serbia, you know? Yeah.

Be careful what I ate and drank. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Going over there to fight their main dude in the main event.

Yeah, yeah. That's crazy.

Get them.

Yeah, if I'm mine I'm like, dude, that's that's crazy, man. It's like

Especially as they've never had a a fight over there before. Never had a UFC over there. I'm not accusing the Serbians of doing I'm like it might be a few unscrupulous gamblers. Yeah, so This is a basketball game.

Thank you.

I mean they got war drums. They got war drums they're pounding. Bro, this is Viking sh-

Yeah.

I love it.

So this is what uh this is what I'm expecting when I

I love it. I love it. I want to go see a basketball.

Especially fighting their their guy.

Yeah, it's gonna be nuts, man. Yeah, for sure. But it's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be so weird for you just to when they shut that cage, like, Oh my god, I'm back. Yeah.

I was in a different kind of cage. Yeah.

Like a way less preferable case.

Yeah.

Wild man. What a crazy fucking story.

You know Yeah, man, and and I get to um you know, tell the whole keep the story going, you know. Make it even make it even better.

Yeah, does it does it piss you off'cause like you had so much momentum after beating Kevin Holland, like that was a big victory for you.

Yeah, it couldn't have happened out of out of wor out of worse.

I know.'Cause Kevin's a tough guy and a tricky guy. And that wa that was a welterweight fight, right? Yeah. And fighting him at Walterwaite, that's where he's at his best. You know, Kevin at Walterweight is really that's where he belongs. Yeah. He's such a tricky guy too, man.

It was an amazing fight, dude. It was. I hadn't I hadn't been a I I think I don't think I've had a a fight like that in my career where So so much going on, I was almost yeah, I d I dropped him in the second, you know, I was blew my fucking gas tank trying to finish him and then come the third round he drops me and then almost finishes me and I bounce back and then end up on top.

Very skillful guy. Very skillful guy. Yuros Medic is no joke. He's very good. Yeah. It's gonna be a good fight.

Yeah.

It's perfect.

Yeah, I'm a I'm I'm a bring it. For sure. I'm I'm bringing it up.

You always do. For that, man, it's gonna be so emotional for you, like having that moment, like d realize that you're you're fully all the way back. I can't imagine. Yeah man. What is the craziest shit you saw in jail in Mexico?

the craziest shit I I saw in jail in Mexico, um I'm not really too crazy, man. Really? Yeah.

But imagine Tijuana jail is pretty fucking great. Was it because you were in sort of a protected area?

No, I'm uh to be honest with you, the the the area I was in was kinda like it's like the VIP section, bro. It's like everybody was like they're like s someone with money or like You know, c well we paid to be there, you know, it wasn't like ver it wasn't like that protected. It was kinda dangerous in a sense where like at night all the cell doors are open, you know, so it's kinda like A little a little dangerous on the

Yeah.

a little sketchy.

Nobody got killed or anything while you were there?

Not on my not in my section.

But in other sections of the jail people got killed?

Yeah. In my since the whole time I was there, like I'd take like two or three. You know, but um Man, the craziest thing I saw. Prob probably some of this I bought an ounce of weed.

If I was in jail for weed

About an ounce of weed.

Were you worried about they're gonna piss test you or anything?

Ja, ja, ja. Well the guards brought it in so I figured like I might be in trouble for this if the guards are bringing it.

That's crazy. The guard sold you weed. That is wild. How much is an ounce of weed in Mexico?

three hundred dollars? It's crazy, bro. You could you could pay for girls to come in, bro. Really? Yeah. They have like a menu

Shut the fuck up.

Yeah.

Of the can't get a steak. I'd be like, keep the ladies. Can you get me a ribeye?

Yeah. Dude, we had a we had a barbecue one time.

Yeah.

Yeah, we had a we had a uh a fucking um We literally had like a barbecue. It was like, well, not on a grill, but when I first got there, we had like these hot these hot plates. And

And

the leader, uh, would always like do stuff for the whole tier. You know, like he'll always like, Oh, today we You know, like every once in a while. Say like once or twice a week, maybe. Um not once or twice a week, I say like once. or twice maybe uh in every couple of weeks. Like we'll get like pizza, like the order pizzas and shit. Really? Yeah, dude. And and and for like I think it was like a thousand five hundred

So you could basically ha if you have money and influence, you could kinda do anything in this

Yeah, I mean if you got m if you got money you'll you'll be okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean you're still locked in a cell. I mean we we would only go we'd only get um two days of yard for one one and a what an hour and a half. You know, a hour and a half and the whole time I spent it running.

Can they contact you if they get out? Do you have your information?

Yeah, I'm still in contact with them.

Hopefully you can get them set up, man. Did you get the picture in?

Oh my god, yeah. I'll send it to you.

Send it to me. Is it crazy looking at it?

Yeah.

Did you send it? Yeah. Okay.

There we go.

Wait for it to come in here. So the two the you said a few people got killed. Did you know those people?

No. Yeah, when uh stuff like that happens, like there's obviously like You hear'cause'cause um oh, you know what? A lot of dudes were overdosing in there. Really? Yeah.

From fentanyl?

I think so, bro. A lot of dudes were in there like doing heroin and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that picture's crazy though, huh?

It is crazy.

Yeah, and then like to It's crazy dude. It's crazy how how I've how I bounced back from that.

Wow, you look so thin.

Yeah dude. Just malnourishment at its finest, bro. Oh my god.

Yeah, you look like a dude who's just getting out of prison. That's what you look like.

Yeah, so that's the first one

What do you got a burrito there?

Uh, some tacos. So that's like right after I had the burger. I only took like two bites of those tacos. Like, yo, I'm full.

I I imagine your stomach must have been super shrunk. But yeah, you could see where you lost all your muscle mass.

Yeah. Yeah, so to bounce back from that and to f be to you know, pre be in decent shape right now.

How many guys died of old?

About three or four of them.

So you could kinda get anything you want really in jail. Could you get steroids?

Uh I don't think so. I try to get protein.

Protein powder. Yeah.

Uh yeah, some protein powder but we never mi it was never able to happen.

That's crazy. They get you heroin, no problem.

Yeah.

Protein powder.

Yeah.

That's ridiculous. That's crazy.

Yeah. I had I had turned myself into like a little gym and I was like just trying to tryna stay busy, man. And I always told myself like man there's for some this There's gotta be some way that this gonna this gonna work out for me, you know? And You know, I ended up I ended up having to, you know, pay a s a nice amount of money. You know, yeah. To beer today is a lot, bro.

I'm sure we'll talk about that later. But I'm listening I'm glad you got out. You know, I I had only heard about it um Few months. I'd heard about it like I wanna say three, four months ago,'cause someone had asked where you were. Like, you know, someone saying, You know who we haven't seen in a while is D Rod And then someone said, Dude, I heard he's locked up in Tijuana. What a fucking hat like that could be it forever. You hear someone's locked up in a Mexican jail, you're like

So happy to be out dude.

I can only imagine. I can only imagine. I mean You don't appreciate the sunshine until you experience a lot of rain. And unfortunately, that's how people operate. You know, you get real accustomed to things being great and then you don't feel good about it. You need like a little bit of that in your life sometimes, just a little bit of a wake-up call to let you realize like you should be so happy and so thankful that you get to experience this life, especially the way you're experiencing.

Yeah, dude. And before I got arrested, we we were I was gonna fight protest. I would have fought him in Brazil. Whoo. Yeah. That would've been wild. Yeah, dude. And Yeah, I mean it's crazy to see like how the division has changed. Mm-hmm. Like right now the top five dudes are it's Ian Gary, Prates, Morales. um, Mokachev's champion. Mm-hmm and it's completely top it's completely like different now from from From when I when I got arrested.

Did you see the uh JDM protest fight?

Uh no I wasn't able to see that one.

He's he's so clever. That's a s tricky striker. And he's so long, so long for the weight class. It's almost like his arms belong to a dude who's seven feet tall. You know what I mean? Like his arms and legs are so long. He's so slick.

Yeah. When I um when I first got released, um We were we were planning to fight Leon Edwards. Mm. Yeah, but um I think it would've been July eleventh and that would have been way too so it would it would have been too soon. You know, but I mean the August fight A couple of weeks after that.

That's a big factor though. Those couple of weeks when you're dealing with like your body recovering from what you've been through does that August sounds right. July sounds early.

Yeah. Yeah. So no I I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be ready, bro. I'm gonna be in super good shape. Um And and I just gotta I just trust all the the work that's ahead of me, all the work that I have lined up and and and all the recovery and and just just it's like like like I said, man, like just appreciating

Well, yeah.

Crazy.

More importantly, you got a big fight coming up, so that's very exciting. I'm very happy for you, brother. I can't imagine what you went through. I can't imagine what it would felt like wondering if you're ever gonna get out, you know, and thank God you had the resource. You knew the right people and they figured out how to do it.

Thank you.

Turn you into a Mexican.

Ha ha ha.

At dual citizenship. That's wild. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Well I can't wait to hear all about it off air. But uh congratulations on getting out. I look forward to your fight. I'm really pumped. I'm really pumped for you. I'm very happy. Very happy you're out.

Yeah, man. Biggest fight of my life coming up, man. embracing all the work and just everything, bro. Just everything. I'm I'm living the whole process.

Well, I can't wait to see the fight. So congratulations. I know the people are rooting for ya, so Thank you for being here man.

Hey, thanks for having me, bro.