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An interview with Nate 'The Train' Landwehr!
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Nov 6, 2024
Fresh off his big knockout win from Saturday, Angela and Jess sit down with Nate 'The Train' Landwehr! We talk about having that dog in him, gardening, fighting Russians in Russia and what makes him a standout in the 145 division. Watch exclusive Two Straws content only with your UFC Fightpass subscription.
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[Music] what's up
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everyone we're here with another episode of two straw we have a very special guest coming off of a huge win in
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Atlantic City sorry I forgot yes yes we have Nate the train land we're coming on
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the stage right now what's up yo how you
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doing thank you so much for joining us how you feeling oh I'm feeling good a couple stitches a't ain't nothing too
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bad how many is a couple I got two right here one and then I got
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eight on top of this head I forgot about that
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one you got the little side the side Harry Potter going on definitely my uh
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that's my receding hairline I had to cut no hair yeah there you go now you got hair
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you could you could just braid some into that and you'll be to just like slide your part over to
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that side just start your comb yeah oh man yo yeah you you clean up
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nice though man you look good for just being in like a a fight like it was a fight but it wasn't too long but four a
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couple four minutes I mean but honestly watching it it felt like three whole rounds in that one round like that was
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like fight of the night in one round for me I know I was hoping I get the fight of the night and the performance bonus
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that would have been balding yeah I don't see why not I mean you had my vote yeah I know right yeah the problem was
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there too many knockouts right there like eight on the card was that a yeah I got the performance bonus but I didn't
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get the uh fighted night bonus okay I mean that night we had two I pooke tko's
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on one card it was it was pretty epic yeah it was good that uh I I stole it it
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was good for me because it was it was easier to steal the show with all those other kind of things
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happening and plus the what think of those oh oh
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leave them alone it was their first time kind I have a question um when you when
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you have a fight like yours and you're sitting and you're watching the rest of the card are you like yeah I got that
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money in the bag like I mean I I was pretty sure of it just because but I was
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like ah you know anytime I fight on the card I look up people I was like man Bruno Silva he might take it I'll be
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like okay uh Buckley o Buckley on there damn he might take that 50 I just look
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up who's on there and I'm like I ain't got no competition between them but I
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knew Buckley was going to be a run for the money and I thought that uh Bruno Silva was gonna get me a run for the for
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the bonus uh is that why you let the guy hit you a tiny bit in the first part of
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the round just so you could secure the fight of the night you're like there some drama got me
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though I so I've seen two of your fights live um and sitting next to our manager Brian and he gets very stressed out when
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you fight and I didn't understand why until I saw you fight for the first time there's uh there's just something about
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when you fight it's like um you you got to get you got to take a little bit to get you know that reaction and get you
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going or something yeah what's that movie with the Jake gyllen all in it when his uh
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the Roadhouse no the one figh something like
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that which one is that oh left oh South Southpaw
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yeah yeah you had to go Southpaw to to really start beating him up yeah for
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sure I mean it's just one of those things I gotta fight I Gotta Get It Make It Nasty fight man these guys they're
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fast they're young they're tall it's not getting no easier you know how it is and [ __ ] real
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life absolutely yeah that was uh the San Diego card right the first one that you
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saw him fight it yes yeah that right
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there yeah yeah onama was it uh David yeah
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that that fight I was like mad at you because I was like why does he why is he
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playing with his food what is he doing man it was just the perfect opportunity to do some cool [ __ ] you can never waste
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that especially when you're in the UFC it's like I've been over the world fighting in Russia and when I got to I
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think I ever since I've been in in the UFC it's been crazy because I came in a weird time with Co no fans and then they
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now the fans back is we got to make up for lost time yeah well you really know
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how to steal the show um did you did you know uh your opponent from when he
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fought on M1 Global or were you guys kind of like different times no see I fought on M1 Global he fought on like a
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kind of like a h Road to it oh okay Feer like kind of like a feeder show
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organizational okay so he wasn't really NE technically in M1 Global but uh you know I don't want to brag but I happen
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to be a champion yeah had a what Champion you know what I mean and
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it's crazy because all the guys from M1 that was Champions have done extremely well in the UFC H yeah what do you think
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that's about just they knew how to bring the Real Deals in there they brought all the
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good guys all the think about over there in Russia one of the bigger
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promotions and then to win when you're not rushing is kind of a big deal too oh
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for sure man it was they don't kind coming from coming from over there and
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then my first fight was in the UFC was uh in Raleigh it was kind of like a let down I was like well this kind of ain't
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that Raley I thought the UFC was like well
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this thing kind of feel a little bit small but is
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Big so you say that you're you know a huge showman and and you're there to put on a show have you ever thought about
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taking your you know talent for being on the mic into like pro wrestling or or anything
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broadcasting I'm not really do know backflips off like like that I mean you don't need to do
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backflips if you you have like the gift of gas tag team champion match but now
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we'll see I mean I don't think so I just like the real thing you know what I mean it's a lot harder to do these kind
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of things when it's real than when it's scripted yeah well like lot of those
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scripting yeah it sounds scripted it sounds like you like have a notebook of of quotes I feel like everything you say
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belongs on a t-shirt I would buy them that's what I was telling Brian I was like I'm I'm GNA come come out with me a
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quote book made the train book you should com soon on Amazon Prime
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yeah there you go I mean they're doing their own publishing now aren't they I'm not sure I just buy [ __ ] on
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there I would I would buy a t-shirt that says when I'm not losing I'm winning
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like that I would straight up like I would walk out wearing that t-shirt for my next fight like that was yeah I know
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that's one things I miss from Russia I used to just have a bunch of shirts I come out and throw them out with my walk
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out I always used to bring like 20 shirts with me and throw them things out they kind of crack down they kind of
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they kind of leas you up in the UFC you know how it is yeah it it's annoying you know all the things cool things that you
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can do as a fighter like with your outfits and everything you kind of like lock down in something and then you got
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to give them everything all your clothes too at the end oh we need one item I'm like we just take the gloves and I don't
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need yeah I got you got enough I think a quote that I would want
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to un sh sure it was what you were saying all a fight week which was uh I felt bad about it or what were you saying I didn't feel good about it I
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didn't feel good about it I think that's the famous quote
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yeah what's that in reference to oh that's that's just inside jokes you
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have oh we can't it was it was in reference to anything and [Laughter]
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everything I think that's the favorite one and then what did you say after the fight uh see what happened when you [ __ ]
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me up oh whoop my I whoop my ass and see what happens yeah yeah that's a good one
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he was doing well see a lot of people good about dishing that [ __ ] out but when it comes back around they wake
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up yeah I think that's like your your kind of X Factor right you have that ability to change things around where a
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lot of people would just keep falling into that trap of like feeling like
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they're losing or feeling like the fight's getting away with them away from them you like find away every time I
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already know this is real because the thing about fighting is you could um you could be out of it out of it out
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of it think about uh look at that perfect example is that Usman versus uh
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the champion now it wasn't gonna be the champion kicked him in the face now Leon
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Edwards is that guy yeah yeah where do you think that uh
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that grit comes from from me oh man I think it did I think some
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sometimes you just born with it and I have to just give it to my city man our City's tough we're different down here
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in Clarksville difference blessed to be a southern
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man yeah yeah no there's definitely that grit that like you got that dog in you like that's that that could be one of
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your t-shirts too you know every time you know when I was born the lights was off so I was born in the dark you know
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what I mean I didn't see the light until I was a grown man oh
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okay this is the beginning of the autobiography this is like the yeah the
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acknowledgement or the what is it the I don't know when you talk about what the
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the intro the little the origin story like Bane I was born in the darkness
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yeah about does uh does being a father
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affect that grit too does it make you even more of just like you latch onto something and just like yeah I mean it's
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hard to say because I try not to take that with me you know okay now I try to add that extra you know how it is you
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start adding all these tangibles it's already Tough Enough then you start talking about man I gotta pay bills and
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you break yourself in the background you know too many too many people think about fighting wise you
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only doing this because it was your passion and then later comes all right you getting paid pretty well cuz first time you did it wasn't nothing so it had
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it been passionate it was just your passion eventually get paid and then you start thinking about the money and all
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the [ __ ] you got on line but in all reality it was just the passion that brought you to it
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all yeah keep you going yeah
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100% what keeps you going and what uh you know keeps you motivated if not um
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you know or what else I'm want to do construction maybe you know what I
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mean I got some options but as far as doing what I just done what was it four
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minutes and 50 something seconds I ain't G I ain't gonna be a to I ain't gonna be able to do that nowhere else plus it
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like I'm a nice guy but I like to get that [ __ ] out my system sometimes and be meaning with it I don't I don't think
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that should have play out nowhere else on planet Earth yeah no I love what you said when you like we
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did it because it's our passion because so many once you get to this level it's easy to over complicated and be like I
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be a world champion or I gota be the best of the world it's really like you love beating the [ __ ] out of people and
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now you get to do it for Liv yeah it's like a privilege 100% it's just uh don't need
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to over complicate you don't need no game plan that's why I tell people just go out there and get in a fight and your
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training kick in yeah all these young guys like you out there thinking thinking thinking thinking thinking you
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a even GNA be able to fight you just go out there get yourself in the battle you gonna end up slipping rolling doing all
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the [ __ ] you've been training I feel like you could like come out with a mental coach like DVD or
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something yeah that's what my wife always my wife always like you gotta do this and that like I just trying to
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punch some stuff right now let let me grab the back of that
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head yeah I got a little something I'm out here in this Garden been planting garden
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seeds hey what your growing oh I grow a little bit of
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everything today I planted some uh potatoes you know okay
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okay a little that's a little something y'all might not know about me I'mma AB The Gardener
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oh are you you grow farming and stuff yeah I've been I've been I've been
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gardening for about about five years now my uh mother-in-law was at was
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a a great Gardener she was just a professional at it and uh she's was old
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school so she never uh she never really took breaks so if you wanted to talk to her and hang out with her you had to do
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something so I st guarding to spend more time with her and I kind of fell in love with it so a passed she passed away a
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few years ago from uh lung cancer oh I'm sorry that was a pretty good battle but
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you know it was a beautiful thing and I learned a lot from her in experience and uh but she was a fighter
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she fought they gave her four months she she battled for 21 months wow so I mean
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there's nothing to take away from it just you know her time and of course I wish she was here but you can't uh you
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can't out can't tipto your way to the Grave that's really awesome that you're
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keeping that tradition going you think you think you're G to pass it down to your son too oh yeah he already been out
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there helping me yeah ever since he born we' been out there I put him out there in his little uh his what it call it's
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called a bassinet you know it's like a little carrier for in the
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shade he's a little Asian man a is Robin
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into it too uh I mean yeah she she will help but she's more into the she likes the uh the
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last end of it the harvesting oh yeah she doesn't too much you know she doesn't too much like all the dirty
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work she likes to go out there and pick the there something it's something uh something different about going out
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there picking your own everything certain times of the year you could pretty much feed your whole your whole
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family just just walking out there you know it's a beautiful thing natural yeah
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that's really cool you got to get some chickens too chickens yeah I used to have some chickens oh yeah too much work
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feel good about that oh no you eat the chick let not talk about the chickens did you fry them
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you fry your pets I just play they're hard they're hard they're hard to they're hard to
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keep up with and you gota worry about other people's animals coming messing
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with them it's a whole okay it's a whole little thing that you got to do is a task and it's
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especially now that um I'm traveling back and forth with the training try not
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to put too much extra work on my wife you know she got one job and that's to
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look after that boy yeah well that's really thoughtful
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of you not leaving her with a ton of choice to do out for camps do you still
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travel for your fight camps yeah yeah I've been down there in South Florida and uh at Team uh MMA Masters so oh nice
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working out well for me nice no and it's definitely showing you level up but how crazy was it so you had
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an opponent switch uh you were supposed to originally fight sabatini and then your coaches um didn't end up making it
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there until what was it fight day or weighin day oh yeah they I think they got there matter of fact they got there
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uh when we weighed in the day of the weighin but I had brought my other boy with mckelvin Garcia so it wouldn't have
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been making weight at that point all the work is over all these guys they need
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this and that they handheld and damn they they butt toodle curled and uh hair
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brushed and put on some makeup and it's like bro we just out here fist fighting
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how hard is it you you throw a punch I throw a punch and we're gonna see what
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happens wait so do you not let the makeup Lady put makeup on you when you're H doing your media and stuff n
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Play I mean that's still they got to but
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powder me up yeah just just keep it natural I like the natural look yeah it's all kind of stuff it's so
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it's so weird that with all the hoops and stuff we gotta jump through just punch some in the face I
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know that's another thing it's so crazy the way probably only 10% of the people
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in the fight game actually get punched what do you mean what do you
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mean that think about how many people are are are in orbit you got managers
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you got coaches you got the at the promotions you got the promoters you got
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that you just got so many different people that's involved with it that's just around it that's never getting
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punched and then you punched and then you got the IRS coming for you right off
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the rip punches either that UFC UFC are big
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three letters but that IRS a big three big three letters too y it's like you
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got take it from everyone well that's why I I like our manager Brian because
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he every now and then he'll let you punch him in the face like yeah Brian's the real D I love that man I call him
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uncle uncle uncle BR a I was actually looking forward to
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sparring him he didn't bring his mouthpiece though oh better watch y man got them skills yeah I was gonna ask
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have you ever sped him before no I never spar with him okay he definitely I think
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it's time he might be scared he he I feel
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like he has inspired with any of his male uh clients recently my boy Brian
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Butler is not scared he about that life shout out to Brian Butler he's a
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man he's a he's a man's man yeah he is he is
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how did you end up getting connected with Brian well you know in in uh M1 Global
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they had this thing to where when you win the uh the Bell uh you defend twice
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and you go to the UFC so I'd already punched my ticket to the UFC so I would just you know calling all these managers
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all these managers first question I would add like what's your favorite Nan train fighting if they didn't have
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nothing good I just hang up on him so damn if you don't even if you ain't
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gonna take minutes to look up my [ __ ] you gone so I mean he passed all the test and man he he's well connected I
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say in the world of the fight game legitimately he might be the best but
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without a shadow of doubt he's top five on the planet Earth his managers of of being there knowing who to talk to he's
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got champions in multiple promotions I mean you can't get a better manager than Brian Butler with Sucker Punch
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entertainment nice we'll clip that out he'll love it it's a
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commercial for Sucker Punch basically that's what that's what our podcast is
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exactly so what what are your plans in next how yall come up with how y'all come up with two straws what's two
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straws about two stra straights and a little spin-off a little John it makes sense now two straws yeah
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and it's spin off of what and the East Side boys
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or two chains I mean two chains I'm like I'm like that was it I know I know I was
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like wait that wasn't right I always thought it was because h a cup when you get it at a bar like if you get not a
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cup a cocktail when you get at a bar is two straws in it because we often drink on our podcast not right now but we
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often do I'm in Camp right now so I can't and Jess is fat yes yes she is she
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is she has entered fight camp today actually I'm going be [ __ ] I've been
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smashing ever since I just got done good for
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you yeah yeah you gotta eat everything in the garden right now all the
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potatoes growing right now this plant only thing I got in there is this this edible is some
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garlics oh well don't smash those yeah every time yeah I like some garli though
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I ain't goingon to lie to you oh yeah so what's your plans uh coming up
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next you know like are you are you on vacation are you trying to like heal up as fast as possible like what do you
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what are you thinking is next for you oh man what's next is just uh spend this time with my
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family but my son's been alive for just six months and daddy's been gone for quite some time so I'm GNA spend some
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time with him and uh with my wife take her somewhere nice maybe tropical Maybe
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wherever she want to go i a b point to the map and go right now you know what I
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mean y should come to San Diego s die I've been there it's not
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that tropical try not to go to the same place more than once you know what I mean okay because it's like I just ain't
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got the enough what me and my wife do this is how we this is how we travel I'll pick three places she'll pick three
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places we'll write them on a card toss them in a hat and we'll draw a
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that kind of like faith is kind of like because we ain't got I mean we ain't got enough time and resources to go
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everywhere we want to go but with this at least we get to try you know kind of
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like fate kind of takes us so we've been all around the world like that that's so cute I love that I'm
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gonna steal that from you yeah I'm was gonna put some lame places in there
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though see how it goes though yeah it's usually it's usually believe it or not
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it's it's cheaper to go out of country than it is to in country it's so weird
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like you can go to Florida and spend thousands or you can dip out and spend the same thousands
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it's like what how does this even make sense yeah it's like the flight might be cheaper but once you get there it's way
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expensive it'll cost you a thousand to get over there but once you get over there it's like I like to go we like to go to Korea
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we got family in Korea my wife's have so oh okay we need to get over there definitely need to get over there take
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the boy over there but I didn't didn't you don't realize till you have kids that both parents have to be there to
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get them a passport one parent can't get them a passport ah okay just in case they're trying to dip out the country
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with the kids so we got to get him a passport go over there to Korea show them off and
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uh hang out with the family over there in the mountains yeah that's awesome was it was it weird
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um coming home and seeing how big he got once he got back home yeah it's like he's growing like a little tumble weed
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right now he's a big boy yeah might not know this about me but I'm an honorary
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Asian man myself okay okay let's Kore speak I
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speak a little bit of Korea tad bit you know let's here ah yeah put my spot so you could
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say like an say oh that's that means hello come s that like um thank you yeah
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and then it's like um Ango mean sit down I know a couple little things like that
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and usually when I get up I could I could listen to it better I've been trying to teach myself how to read and
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write the language okay like it looks like a bunch of drawings but it seems all their
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sounds we have it in our language too but it's just time consuming every time
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I'm in Camp I learn a little bit and I'm like all right put this [ __ ] away you got one you got one goal you don't need
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you need to be out here mad you gotta get on that do lingo just do a lesson a
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day easy yeah I know oh so if you want to say FU if it's yo
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Moga yo Moga y like my cousin my cousin she's uh
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lives in Soul so she taught me how to say that one day when I was drunk and I just went around pointing at all the uh
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the bar the uh security just like yo bo yo how' they like that they was like who
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the [ __ ] isn't there like ones like Sheba or something right oh I'm not sure but uh
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it's definitely uh definitely different over there okay do you like it over
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there oh I love it over there the only problem is over there you get used to eating so much
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because their food is so natural and then you come back over here with these eating habits and you'll blow up no
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you'll blow up soon as you get back like because you get used to eating a couple like plates on top of plates on top of
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plates over there and you w gain weight because it's all real food and you come
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over here and you try to smash three plates and you'll gain 10 pounds in a couple days all the sodium and garbage
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yeah what's what's your favorite Korean dish oh I got plenty of course P go we I
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like a you know when I was up there my uh I ate some some some sea slugs some
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then they was alive W some alive
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octopus you throw it in your mouth you gota be like you gotta eat it don't you feel bad you gotta
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Chew Chew Chew Chew cuz if you don't chew it up real good the tentacle stick
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to your uh your throat on the inside oh that's the final fight right like yeah you see them
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things they alive right you don't feel good about it oh that's
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horrible like d I'm about to eat this little thing oh man is it is it like the head
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too The Head and the tentacles or it's all of the whole thing he's just sitting there looking at you like this man come
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on bro like you really G to eat me right now
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just in this thing chilling oh taste
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good I don't even know it was so fast you can't even taste it you got to chew it so fast you're not even tasting it
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yell when just in survival mode trying not to choke everybody just you just
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look around everybody do this I feel like that'd be in Squid
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games yeah I yeah oh that's crazy well that's cool
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man is it's also how many times have you been to Korea uh one two three okay so we'll
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probably go back on this fourth time last time we was there uh so the way you say uncle is samun and the way you say
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aunt is weso so they was like don't y'all come back without no baby and this was years ago now so now we got a baby
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and they're like 909 2 93 94 so I'm like we gota we gotta get over there yeah
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it's like when I go over there I train with a Korean top team and they're all cool and it's so crazy yeah it's so
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crazy the way uh you could just go anywhere and find the subculture people
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got [ __ ] up ears and wear flipflops every all the time yeah no it's really crazy I've been
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watching that show on Netflix called the the 100 oh yeah yeah that's wow ain't it
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yeah and I feel like there's a lot of MMA fighters from from that gym who end up getting on the show yeah they're good
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there was good uh it's crazy they got a couple guys the first time I went over there and trained with them none of us
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was in the UFC now it's like okay what's up a the uh the Ninja Turtle guy he's
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real good he was over there I met him and uh get doing real well at 2:5 he's
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in there what's this is uh I forget his name it's Korea name for
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sure yeah something cool yeah that's awesome all right well
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I hope you have a fun time picking your next vacation 100% all right guys uh thanks
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for having me on yeah thanks so much for joining us enjoy your time off rest up
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heal up enjoy family and your garden I'm about to start a h podcast myself called
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one feather do it well you're gonna have to invite
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the two straws on to it be your first guest take it easy all right
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by he's so funny he's hilarious I he needs his own podcast honestly he does
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he needs to do something people need to hear his words because he's got a lot of great ones I would I would watch his uh
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gardening uh instructional videos we should we should actually
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pitch that to him yeah because how great would it be to have him teaching you how to garden yeah I wouldn't be stressed at
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all because I get stressed I tried to start my own garden I was stressed out I'm like oh man nothing's growing or
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something was growing and now it's dying and like you killed my aloe see a dead
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corpse every time house the way it goes sometimes it just wasn't meant to be just got got to plant another seed and
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I'll be like I wouldn't be discouraged I keep planting those
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seeds do it with it just be like the train keep on chugging yeah I think he'd
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be great at that I think he would yeah I think we need to push that get Brian and
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and Nate on to it yeah we will we will all right guys well that was another two
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straws we'll be back uh to do the next
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card that's coming up what's the next one oh I don't know I'm still I'm still like in a Time
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warm for like uh from UFC uh Atlantic City I'm still still in that mindset but
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yeah gonna move on yeah we gotta move on to the next thing and then 300 is the weekend after that so a lot of fun stuff
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coming your way this has been another two straws we'll see you
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later oh
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