College Football Spring Tour Is Announced, Dana White Explains His Distaste For Mainstream Media + Plans For Power Slap League and McGregor vs Chandler

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Speaker 1: Boys, ladies, gentlemen, pronouns. Everybody. Welcome to another episode of Bust with the Boys. We are your hosts, Harol Lawan, will comp do we have a special guest host today, Willow Lewan. And if you're asking yourself what she named after? Will the answers yes? Before we get into this upgrade of the boy who's got an incredible smile going on right now? We are sponsored and presented by the greatest truck on planet Earth, and that is the Chevy Silverado. Football seasons officially over. That doesn't mean we stop rooting for our favorite team.

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Speaker 2: Because the man, I feel like, thank you boys, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I got him done last night and I literally go home and I was like kind of showing tailing my teeth, what do you think?

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Speaker 2: And I'm you're thinking, like I'm hype, but there's.

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Speaker 4: Also a level of insecurity, like you're hoping they look really good and you're hoping that people are.

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Speaker 5: Matching the same energy as you.

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Speaker 4: But like I realized because I noticed when you got your teeth done, like your mouth is just always open, low key, like always smiling.

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Speaker 1: Now yeah, I'm kind of like.

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Speaker 4: Looking at people like this now huh yeah, And you know so I'm kind of pretty fired up.

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Speaker 1: Dude. You got that right now.

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Speaker 2: You got a fresh cut right away? You little thanks, dude.

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Speaker 5: They look apociate it.

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Speaker 2: Mom has been.

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Speaker 4: Sick today, so I brought Willow with me. We went to the dentist together, got a haircut together, and now she's on the bus. Everybody, welcome Willow to the show. Willow Twilling that you get more like daddy. Yeah, oh you can't hear it. That's because we're doing an intro to daddy's work. Now, this is daddy's work. This is what daddy does for work. You get to hear busting with the boys.

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Speaker 2: This is your this is exclusive.

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Speaker 4: The Willow does like to ran like now that she has the headphones on, like, we don't do iPads very much at all, but when we do, it's like flights situations like this and like right time, like you gotta get something done and you're like, bro, I just need you to just chill for a second.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but she doesn't.

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Speaker 4: She did like, you know, when you have your headphones on, you don't know how loud you're talking. Now when she needs our attention, she's gonna scream.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 4: We'll be on the plane like people like six am flights like going to Park City and people will be sleeping.

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Speaker 2: She'll be like day, like all right, dude, yeah, you gotta dial.

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Speaker 1: She's dials right now.

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Speaker 2: Boys, what do you got say? We got a surprise? I know I'm actually fired up.

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Speaker 1: What isn't a good surprise?

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Speaker 2: It's a fire surprise?

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Speaker 6: Am I gonna?

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Speaker 1: Am? I gonna love it?

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Speaker 2: Or is this like a surprise like we're coming that tailor?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna love it? No, you're gonna love it? Hang on? What did uh? We love a rumor? Okay, so it's rumored. These are just rumors. It's speculation. But here's the surprise. Taylor has not heard the surprise. Garrett I the crew we all know because we just got off a FaceTime with a barstool and they have some solid news an interesting partner that might come in the wholesaling game. So some of our Dad merch costco, some of our hanging slow it down, some of our yeah, some of our Dad merch is rumored, and it's just speculation. This is allegedly let it go into Dick's Sporting in Golf Galaxy. Let's go, And Garrett, the golf boys said, Golf Galaxy's like, it's like, what'd you say? It's like an adult film store for golfers. I love that it's an adult film store and golf products and golf products.

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Speaker 2: Wait, they want to take our dad merch and put it in their stores. Yeah, like our Dad golf collab that we.

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Speaker 1: Are twenty twenty three, the greatest year of our lives, greatest year of our lives. Oh my god. But it's gonna be like allegedly twenty five stores and then you can obviously you can get it online.

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Speaker 2: And we're hoping to do a red ribbon cut at Dick's here in Nashville. Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: That's a self that's like self proclaimed. We're just we're gonna go there and we'll just go there and have.

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Speaker 4: A big but we need the giants. We need like ones that are like we actually need both of us to use it. It's so heavy and baked.

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Speaker 2: But bro, he called arms too.

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Speaker 7: If we shot out one thing on the pod, we'll have one hundred people there for a ribbon cutting ceremony.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Bro, we'll get try to get in Nashville, like we're all coming together.

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Speaker 1: But it's like there's a couple of real allegedly there's a couple of polo.

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Speaker 2: There's two polos, which the patterns are awesome.

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Speaker 1: There's a golf cover, a club cover, and then there's a what is it a little accusic but like with like a cool design inside the collar. It's we were all fired up when the phone call got done.

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Speaker 6: Boys, this year is really shaping up, shaping up over day for you to that news on top of the teeth.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know, dude, I am feeling fucking I am feeling different, dude, I am feeling absolutely like different.

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Speaker 1: These are things run the way up right now?

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Speaker 2: Boys?

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna look spectacular for draft coverage? Aren't you gonna be doing draft coverage this weekend?

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Speaker 4: For those of you who are watching this episode, this episode comes up tomorrow, which is Thursday Sunday, NFL Network. I believe the one thirty slot to two thirty and then three thirty to four thirty. I am doing like a draft analysis combine analysis at Indianapolis in Lucas Oil Stadium. It'll be as average as it gets, boys and girls, but I will try to be as entertaining as I possibly can be.

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Speaker 1: A're you gonna do it?

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Speaker 4: I think Deon Dawkins is going to be there. Deon Dawkins, uh Rich Eisen or boy.

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Speaker 2: Richie will be out there. This squad will be out there.

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Speaker 4: And I think I'm not sure because for whatever reason, people don't like to tell me shit anymore. Like when I did the End of the Mega cast, I I was gonna be a booth, and all of a sudden I was on the field, and so you boys kind of a fly by the seat of his pants kind of dude. Right now, I think I'm gonna be on the field. I think I'm gonna be on the field with these dudes. If not, I'll be in the booth with which and the boys. I had a nice little suit plan, but it sounds like I'm wearing a hood a collared shirt now. But I thought to myself, put the mullet on, dude, get the energy going, and we're gonna have a hell of a time during what is usually people's least favorite time, which is when the old liner and old line are doing the combine.

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Speaker 1: But we're having a resolute blast.

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Speaker 2: That's why they're calling the bully in minimal fun.

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Speaker 4: My goal, I'm gonna sniff out who that next left tackle for the Santasey Titans are going to be.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna find the best one you think Tennessee should go left tackle in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Ah, we got so many damn holes. I know, we got so many issues out there. No, no, this is not a shot.

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Speaker 4: This is literally what I'm seeing. What we're all seeing is we're all a little scared of this next NFL season right now. But in Ran we trust, and Mike Rabel we trust. We got to understand that these boys got to go to work this offseason. Make free agency look great pay Jefferymens while also paying other players, getting some studs in there, and then have a hell of a draft and let's get back to the top of the.

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Speaker 2: AC South boys. Let's fucking do this.

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Speaker 3: We will do this.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see yellows.

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Speaker 4: She was just like, nah, yeah, brother, but yeah, dude, NFL Network on Sunday, it's gonna be an electric factory. I can't tell you that I'm gonna give you the best information you're ever gonna get.

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Speaker 2: In your life.

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Speaker 4: But I will try to have as much fun as possible, and I hope you have fun with me too. It's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to tune.

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Speaker 4: It'll be a great time. For sure, we're gonna have It's gonna be a blast.

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Speaker 1: And while you're there, like, let's start now that is it is a new year. We should start like dialing in when Rich can come on the bus for real?

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Speaker 4: Yeah that is that is officially it's officially Rich eisend season. Yeah, I will really talk to him on Sunday. Here's what I'm worried about is there was an opportunity for Rich to come on our podcast and we kind of shut it down. There was one night where I called rich Or. I said, hey, I'm I'm eating dinner. I'm gonna call you in a little bit with Will and I never called. So now I've got to do a lot of kind of backpedaling, being like, hey, listen, I know I dropped the ball in the communications standpoint. We didn't want him on the podcast in Arizona. We want him on the actual bus where my beautiful daughter is sitting right now.

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Speaker 2: But rich was when he takes hit at the next Thames like that dinner last so a little long. I was like, man, yeah, I dropped the ball on that, But that was a true decision, Like it is best that he's in Nationale and he's on the body on the bus.

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Speaker 1: We could have took the easy way out and got us all together while we were in Arizona. But that's not That's not what the whole chase, That's not what the whole What is it? What am I trying to say here?

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Speaker 4: That's been the goal from the get go. Yeah, it's been the goal from the get go. And Jack's been putting in work. He's at two hundred and eighty plus days right now.

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Speaker 1: What I can't wait to dive into for real. Yeah, and figure out if this is if the continuity has been there to see if Jack is going to hurt himself a Chevy Silverado.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the only time will tell. But he says he hasn't missed the day. The fine printer right now, you cannot miss one day. If you miss one day, we can be as upset as we want. But that's what we agreed on it.

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Speaker 2: Right, missy, You're not gonna be upset. You're gona understanding you do it to yourself. Yeah, that's great, and that's.

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Speaker 5: All we need to hear that. That's all we need to hear.

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Speaker 2: Guy, you gotta be all watched.

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Speaker 4: You know, Jack does do this little thing where he does like it just Alvin Kamara, right, Josh Dobbins on the podcast, He's all of a sudden the green that he was on a utilized player. The next week, Derek Henry's on the podcast. Derek Henry starts looking at me like I'm fucking crazy.

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Speaker 5: His eyes get big like he's in a ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: Yard run, and all of a sudden, someone's jumping on the back of Derek saying whatever to me, dude, I know that is true.

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Speaker 1: That you know, you gotta play to your advantage.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, you gotta advantage. Not a player here had to boy jack. Your glass glasses look cool too, they do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know whose they are, but they matched the little Nascar Yeah, and your T shirt rips too.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, shot, maybe a little uh. I'm blanking on the word foreshadowing.

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Speaker 2: Foreshadowing, yes, shadow and we're back.

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Speaker 4: Maybe nickel Back came on the podcast. Maybe it didn't. Maybe they gave us those shirts. Maybe they're coming here August first, and we're gonna be at the concert, maybe doing special things that maybe never know. You never know what's gonna happen. Twenty three the best year of bus with the Boys history. It's gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Boys. I'm I'm psyched. I was cursed again, but I'm psyched.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything going on out in the world?

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm looking at miss because I feel like he might know that we should talk about our cover. Should we?

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Speaker 4: Here's what I think we should do before Michigan says that should we release where we have decided we are going for a spring football tour.

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Speaker 1: That is an incredible idea. Totally, I totally forgot about that.

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Speaker 2: Yes, dude, all right, you're gonna pull this up. Yeah, pull the list and we'll hype it up. We'll hype up each each one. Pull the list up. Now the Spring tour. Here's what is happening on the Spring tour.

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Speaker 1: Just like last year, we went to Nebraska, Michigan and the University of Tennessee. We did four or five interviews, we got in, we got off with the VLAG, we got out. This year, we have expanded the team list to six actually now in five of those locations, we're doing a couple of interviews on you know, at the college, we are doing a vlog. We're gonna be in the city, we're gonna be on campus, trying to eat at a staple, touring whatever. The big addition that we are adding this year the Element Live shows Taylor and I. We're getting a local venue. There will be probably two to three hundred spots at each spot that we go to, each city, each campus that we're in, and that'll be we'll be doing a live show like seven o'clock at night.

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Speaker 2: Fans.

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Speaker 1: There'll be tickets, VIP photos, fun, energy, vibes, you guys know the drill. But with that said, you guys know, we're doing interviews, we're gonna do vlogs, and now we're adding the element of the live show. At five campuses, we'll show you. We will release the details of the fun little six spot that we're going to.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, because originally we were just gonna do five places. Now some crazy stuff happened where we actually added a six. We'll get to that dark Horse came in out of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: That we can not refuse.

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Speaker 6: Chaparo High School, dude, shout out, shout out, bro. But the first date March fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: Every one of these dates will be on a Wednesday, and the live show will happen that Wednesday evening March fifteenth. The first campus we are going to the University of South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Let's go in, Boys, the Game, Cops, the band talk.

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Speaker 1: I think will be sitting down with Coach Beemer and uh insa rattler who.

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Speaker 4: Was going to go to the NFL Draft decided not to go to the NFL Draft because he wants to come back and bring them an SEC championship.

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Speaker 5: We'll see.

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Speaker 1: We saw what happened, Jack. I don't think you're in a place to talk right now.

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Speaker 7: I was with you that game this year.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm with you so much.

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Speaker 4: March twenty second, the Boys on the Bus will be in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas.

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Speaker 1: That burn orange.

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Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're not boomer and boys, we're horns up right now.

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Speaker 1: We're horns up right now.

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Speaker 2: We are buying into the culture. Hey McConaughey, we're looking at you, brother, We're looking at you. Were I love to.

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Speaker 1: Have him on the bus.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely love to have him on the bus. Obviously, doing a live show and Austo will be incredible. Now I am not going to this is a little bit of a speculation. March twenty second is the day that we will be doing our live show. We kind of know where the live show is going to be. I am under the same impression right now that the Joe Rogan will also be doing a show in the same place that night.

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Speaker 1: Is it our.

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Speaker 4: Opportunity to go on this podcast? Is you want to have to set this podcast? That answers probably no, But is it an opportunity for us to push and bit the boats moving in the right directions?

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Speaker 2: Because that's when you do it, boys, that's when you fucking do it. We get after it. We're people who.

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Speaker 1: Are listening that might be thinking about, Oh, I want to go to the boys show now and then I'll hit Rogan after if you just get a little for the boy, shan't going while Joe like when he comes on so he knows, like what's.

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Speaker 4: Going on here the bus, my daughter, my daughter's water to me because I got a little tickle in the back of the throat.

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Speaker 1: Here. March twenty ninth, we will be attending the rival, oh the greatest rivalry in all of sports. We will be going to the Ohio State University, State University, the Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: We will be in Columbus, Columbus, Ohio Boys.

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Speaker 4: Yes, going into enemy territory to see what they're really cooking up over there. They've lost you to Michigan. They can't seem to win a Big ten championship in the twenties.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna find out why.

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Speaker 4: I want to sit down with Ryan Day and find out why are you one and two against the University of Michigan. And a last coach to do that Jonathan Cooper in nineteen eighty nine one one and two. He also ended up going one ten and one that's just a little stat for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Love a good history. He how is he going to get over that?

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Speaker 1: Hurle? Do I want him to?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not, But I want to find out a little information, maybe report back to the boys. I'm not saying I am going to I'm just saying, maybe d down a couple of things. I am this is probably the one I'm most fired up for. Oh say which if we got to pick one player, who do we think it would be?

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Speaker 1: One to be?

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Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior?

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Speaker 3: CJ.

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Speaker 2: Left Yeah, Marvin Harrison Junior is the one.

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Speaker 1: C J.

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Speaker 4: Strouds he's gone. He's going in the draft. I wonder how that will cook up with their pro days if we're in line.

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Speaker 1: You never know.

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Speaker 2: You never know, but I would love to. I would love to meet with Ryan Day.

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Speaker 1: I think Ohio State came out of nowhere because Brian Hartline coach heartline so wide receiver coach for Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: When he was a receiver for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he was on my fantasy team one year. A shot out the boy he DMed and was like, Yo, you guys can come to a house state. We'll hook it up. We'll make sure, you have a good time.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, that fires me up, due because we did talk about that a little bit at the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: How cool it would be to go to Columbus. Yes, so like check it out now.

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Speaker 4: I was in Columbus for college game day for the game, and I thought to myself, I'm lily gonna get assaulted here, and I'm gonna deserve every part of it. If you guys don't know about my history, your boy down there Ohio State fan when I was a senior in high school or college, and so now I thought I was about to get mines. People were incredibly nice. All the rumors I was told about that, people would be like, fuck you, Taylor, love your podcast, dude, Actually keep going.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, will I shouldn't have cursed, but you got the headphones on. You didn't hear me one bit. Good dad, Good dad? Go ahead, Willie? Oh you ready?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? April fifth, the boys.

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Speaker 6: Are going down to the Bayou, going to Louisiana State University.

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Speaker 2: We're talking friends, We're talking Mike's, we're talking Bogies.

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Speaker 1: Even though I heard Bogey's close down. That's a huge bummer.

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Speaker 2: We were doing the live show at Friends.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a live show. Friends.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to friends. When I was there in my junior.

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Speaker 1: Year of college, I went down there.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't allowed in because I was wearing a playing colored T shirt and visible tattoos with earrings. You guys said I couldn't come in. Looks like we're in a full circle situation here. Would love to sit down with Brian Kelly and learn where you learned that accent in such a quick pace.

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Speaker 2: Go make fun coming from there. Dame to LSU.

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Speaker 4: If I was going to be an individual going back to high school, I couldn't go to the University of Michigan.

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Speaker 2: The school I would want to go to is LSU.

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Speaker 4: I am so fired up to see Mike the Tiger, maybe catch a baseball game, because their baseball games fill out. Brother, It's an open container law there too. Normals is its own world. It's a third world country where the first world mindset. Boys, we're getting after it every single day.

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Speaker 5: Shout out Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: They absolutely the airport. It smells like you know, have you have you flown at Baton Rouge? Yeah? When I was you know, a couple coffee with the Saints y Yeah, and you want to know a little fun stat about your bo.

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Speaker 2: That's the boy ten years old went to a baseball camp at LSU. No way got to read the difference between a.

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Speaker 1: Four seamen and two seam and your boy went nineteen for twenty when that yeah, bro on saying out loud with the you know, not the brag.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not the brag ten years old LSU content is really him and it's about time we start giving him the respect. You just appreciate that.

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Speaker 7: Well, before we go off of LSU, I would love to start a personal campaign if we can get Livy done on the pod.

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Speaker 2: I think that we're gonna send into New Heights. I don't know if y'all know who Livy is to be done. She's twenty years old.

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Speaker 1: Jack. Yeah, that's why we're trying to get Jack a date. Pretty.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to get Jack Jack a date. Yeah, she's pretty, Jack, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Not sure to have a date.

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Speaker 2: I just know she is a huge you know engagement. Oh, you're trying to have us do an interview with her?

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Speaker 1: Who knows that fall in love with? Who knows what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 2: What we're trying to go back?

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Speaker 1: What we're trying to swing for the live event the boy playoff Lenny four.

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Speaker 2: Dude, Yo, Lenny Os is that private jet down there too? So Lenny will be looking to you us a good food too. He said what he said, He's back in a minute, not to New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: We were going back and forth. I was like, hey, do you have the same number? He had one digitalf but he sent me his number. I text him like, hey, this is a this is Will Compton, and I'm like, I have a question for you. He face times me right away. No way, face times me.

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Speaker 2: But Lenny, it really is like he did it. He asked about you said, have my boy doing Oh yeah, hey, boy's doing great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, he's flourishing. He's doing a great job. April twelfth.

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Speaker 1: April twelfth, we will be going to Boulder, Colorado, the University of Colorado. We're gonna get this rivalry started that started. We're gonna reboot this rivalry between Colorado and Nebraska. And he's some shit talking going to down with Dion Prime time in the room, kids in the room. This is I think this is perfect down you announcing the last one and I think it fits because shout out Chaparral High School. Yeah, Chaparral, Yeah, Chaperra.

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Speaker 2: So originally we were gonna do five.

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Speaker 4: You heard that earlier before we started this very long winded announcement for where we are going for a spring football tour. Coach Dillingham, y'all know who that is. He was, I believe two years older than me at Chaparral High School. He is now the head coach of the ASU. I think Sun Devils ASU, Sun Devil Supery got offered from them. I got an offer from them in high school. I'm just gonna say. Charlie Ragel, who is my head coach in high school, is now the social team's coach there. They hit us up during the super Bowl week they say, hey, we would love to sit down with you guys, maybe doing an episode. I thought that'd be a phenomenal idea. However, they reached out to us as the Super Bowl and they say, hey, we love to sit down with you guys. We ended up not working out because we had a jam pack schedule. Was unbelievable. I was gay for seventy two hours. It was a wild situation. Now fast forward, fast forward, the boys call us up and say, hey, we want not only you guys to be the coaches of each spring game team. What we want, hold on, baby, what we want is for you and Will Compton to be the head coaches of each spring team. And we're gonna call it the Busting Spring Game.

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Speaker 2: Incredible. That's an opportunity to play.

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Speaker 4: He run Power five School has asked the boys to literally be head coaches for a day. That being said, that'll be going down that week, so it'll be a lot of fun things. Obviously, Arizona's an incredible place, a lot of fun times there to be had. We you're gonna have such a great time, and that's why we had to add a six location to our bus and spring tour.

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Speaker 2: Not doing the live show that week.

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Speaker 1: That's the only start we're not. We're not doing a live show.

00:20:27
Speaker 4: A lot of shows are a lot of work, dude, and they cause a lot of anxiety in the boy. I'm thinking, man, I hope we just don't let y'all down. You can come enjoy an episode with us. I think it's gonna be amazing. It is going to be so much fun. New places, new friends, new experiences. This is going to be an incredible spring, incredible bustling week for a spring tour. It's gonna be amazing. With that being said, I think we should take a break at things. We should go to our tear talk next.

00:20:51
Speaker 2: We can do best casino games and we will be in Vegas next. Oh, dude, one more announcement for the boys out there. Yeah, that's going to basically kick off the spring that we're about to have.

00:21:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, next Thursday, the boys are going to Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada for work Boys and Girls.

00:21:07
Speaker 1: Dana White.

00:21:07
Speaker 2: The episode you're about to watch was incredible.

00:21:10
Speaker 1: He truly is.

00:21:11
Speaker 4: An awesome dude. I enjoyed every single little bit about him. I enjoy how his mind works in the business standpoint of understanding how to acquire the PSL and knowing that how our little brains work nowadays with all the stuff we got going on on the screens, how we computerize and take down information into our own heads.

00:21:27
Speaker 2: He bought PSL.

00:21:28
Speaker 4: They're having their first live event this next coming Saturday, so not the Saturday that's up next with the one after that. We're leaving Thursday. I believe we're doing interviews, We're doing UFC Media Day, maybe a little dinner, but with the boy Dana, and then we are going to be at the first PCL event and PSL. I say PCL, the first PSL.

00:21:49
Speaker 2: Event with Dana.

00:21:50
Speaker 1: Ya.

00:21:50
Speaker 4: We cannot be more grateful or excited to head over to Sin City and enjoy that.

00:21:54
Speaker 2: That is going to be amazing. So how to get that out? Hey, we're doing tear talk.

00:22:01
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be the presenter? Are you guys gonna go one at a time? It's obviously gonna.

00:22:05
Speaker 4: Be jack.

00:22:08
Speaker 1: All right.

00:22:09
Speaker 2: Best casino games honorable mention.

00:22:11
Speaker 7: Got a throat on the slots every now and again to you lucky throwing a dollar push up to one hundred, maybe five hundred, didn't lose it all coming in at number three. We are doing roulette love a game of chance, throw down a couple on this on that. I was actually in Lake Tahoe last weekend. All of my buddies put down on the double zero green and hit it no way. He had like thirty dollars on it and a winning like seven hundred. You can't beat that kind of energy.

00:22:37
Speaker 1: Pretty sure.

00:22:37
Speaker 2: It's more than seven hundred, brother.

00:22:39
Speaker 7: It was split so it was oh, seventeen to one to thirty five, so you had both. But yeah, when someone hits something big on there, everybody's jumping. Hey, can't beat it?

00:22:48
Speaker 2: Uh, Tier two blackjack.

00:22:51
Speaker 7: Love it can't beat it, usually getting beat by the dealer. But it's still fun to be there. You're always next to some like old dude smoking a cigarette who like, really is the game? Well, but number one, uncontested is craps. Like you said earlier, the social aspect, like the team environment of it, you can't. It's just so much fun when one person's winning. Almost everyone's winning, unless you're that asshole paying.

00:23:13
Speaker 1: That don't come line.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: Yep, don't pass line. Yeah, well it says don't come on the things, so it says don't pass. There's the come line in front of that. It's okay, come come on. The kick trum.

00:23:24
Speaker 7: Perhaps number one without a doubt, when everybody's winning, you know you can't beat that kind of team atmosphere.

00:23:30
Speaker 1: So that is our three.

00:23:33
Speaker 4: Well for words, yeah, almost if needed right there. Similar but you know, yes, very similar.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: No, I thought he was.

00:23:51
Speaker 1: Gonna do, but but you want me to go?

00:23:55
Speaker 3: You want to go.

00:23:57
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. Jacket Great Jack had a great list and also explained a lot of the intricate details of why they're all great. My honorable mention is gonna be Texas Hold them. Never played it at the casino, but loved it in high school, way too intimidated to play at the casino. Loved it in high school. Got the whole set for Christmas when it was hot World Series of Poker. You got the whole set with the chips and everything else. You'd have the boys over twenty dollars buy ins that all time. Texas hold them, love it never again. Never played at the casino to intimidate it. Loved it in high school. Still we played to this day. It's a good game, Mike. Tier three, it's gonna be craps. The reason craps is not higher. You guys are the whole social team aspect. You want to hear it, You want to hear it. You did? You got them all right?

00:24:51
Speaker 3: All right?

00:24:52
Speaker 1: You got my three right, same as around Jack's, same as probably most people. But you're right, all right. You want to hear me set you want to bring me down right? Craps it Tire three, Hang on, Willow, I'm just kidding.

00:25:04
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: Tier two, Relette, love lette, relove a give a chance let It's actually my first love at the casino because you know, it's something you just go over there. And I'm an outside player. I don't play the numbers. I think that stuff stupid. You take way too much time trying to spread everything around your lucky numbers, your birthdays or this or that, your dog when he died. But LETTE love play the outside evens ods Black Red, Big Black and big Odd. Guy. Just put that out there. You guys should take that advice. Got touch that is that I got my Tier one to go. It's the biggest one, you know what I mean, Like Tier one, my Tier one. And it happened because of the boy trip. It happened because of the boys. It happened because of the boys trip in Vegas that we had not too long ago, Blackjack, dude, when we had that little room, the little high rollers area before the high rollers actually came in on the weekend, when we had that Wednesday Thursday. You remember what I'm talking about. And we're just vibing. You get a good dealer, you get a good group of guys. You're yelling, you're having your own jargon. We're talking football terminology the whole time. Remembers showed me the back door to tickle me in the back door. Yeah, blackjack, dude, that is my tier one, and that that concludes my tear talk.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: Are you ready yep? Yep, of course. Not a lot of energy behind that, yep. I don't know how to read that. Sure, simple what you call you? Simple? Jack?

00:26:53
Speaker 3: Spot on?

00:26:56
Speaker 4: Same nice. I'll have my tar talk right now. I have no idea my daughter's are taking time off.

00:27:03
Speaker 2: At this point.

00:27:04
Speaker 5: Listen, my tier three is going to.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: Go to roulette. Do I love Roulette?

00:27:09
Speaker 1: No?

00:27:09
Speaker 4: But I did refer to the roulette table as the ATM when I was playing. Your boy would get down the blackjack a little bit. I say, hey, boys, hit the ATM real quick, go for quick thousand on black Thank you very much.

00:27:20
Speaker 2: I'll see you later. Now, all of a sudden, we're back on the blackjack table. Oh oops, oops.

00:27:25
Speaker 4: My tier two is going to go out to crafts. I wish it was my tier one because I love the social aspect of the game. When somebody goes on a roll, that is tier one. When somebody is ripping numbers left, right, and center, you know that everyone.

00:27:38
Speaker 1: Is just juice and that one handshakes chest bumps.

00:27:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one in a hole that sits there and does the do not pass the line or is just like to put it do not come line like that guy's guy.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: We're all fighting against we're all getting it.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: You put it in, you get a set, you had a six or an a that you can five times your bet, then you're living on the table.

00:27:58
Speaker 1: Hey, let me get a hard eight.

00:27:59
Speaker 2: Over here.

00:28:00
Speaker 4: People are talking, kIPS are flying, dice are rolling. It is such an electric time. This is why it did not make my Tier one, because boys, when it goes bad, it goes bad fast, and you lose a lot of money really quickly. My Tier one is gonna go because of this boys trip we had. There is nothing better than five if you and your closest friends sitting at a table and slowly putting together cards to equal twenty one and just all of you fighting against one individual with smart ass comments they make every fifteen minutes about when they win they have in their back pocket because they've been doing them for so long. And a thing that I hate the most about blackchack, how do those dudes count the cards so damn fast? They're flipping the things over and they get like a three, and you're thinking, I'm gonna win, so you double whatever you have. I geld have fourteen. I'm gonna double because I know this person's gonna bust right now. All of a sudden, it's three six, seventeen, nineteen twenty one. Are obviously have stuff at seventy, But you know what I'm saying. They get to twenty one and it's just like, how are they counting these cards that fast?

00:28:58
Speaker 2: But boys, when you win when a ten hits, not when.

00:29:01
Speaker 4: Ace hits on your first start at ten hits and you say, honey, it could be male or female at giving you those cards, and you say, honey, give me that back door loving you start tapping at the table. The boys starts standing up. Feelings are starting to rise, energies you up. You can feel your blood pressure, it's truly.

00:29:15
Speaker 3: Through the roof.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: And you hit that ace piece, there is an electricity that goes off in your head that is comparable to nothing else than just I would assume bank robbers stealing from a bank because guess what we're coming. We have work to do, but we're taking from you. I always go to Vegas and I say I'm gonna lose I'm willing to lose this much. Screw that, boys and girls. I'm going in there to win, and to win big. I can't wait for next week. It's going to be an electric factory. My daughter is doing such a phenomenal job. Now, thank you so much that as my dear talk decent, there's the same exact one as your as well decent for the teeth deef Leiteth.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: Descriptive energy, electric.

00:30:06
Speaker 3: Camaraderie, camaraderie, great worth, A great one, great worth.

00:30:11
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything else else left to say.

00:30:13
Speaker 1: You guys, don't stop going around and trying to massage. Oh yeah, I'm going around and trying to massage, just just to throw you a chip.

00:30:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

00:30:22
Speaker 4: It is drive more than walking up to a table watching some dude with a chair back on his stomach. Is he's laying there just getting destroyed by some pettit Asian lady.

00:30:31
Speaker 1: And one of our boys was doing it, and it's just like, hey, like sweating at the table, bro, you.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Know their massage.

00:30:38
Speaker 1: Your boys are doing it.

00:30:39
Speaker 4: But you walk by a hairry, a hairy you know, bald Russian cat with a jumpsuit on and it's like, buddy, what are you doing. You're in the riff raft, you're in the you're in the regular tables hanging out, and you're getting a massage like that's it's creepy, creep essentral, creepy central. And they just grunting back there and they hold that five five dollar chip and they kind of just don't even look at a misgiving to them.

00:30:58
Speaker 2: Just keep it going, bro, And that's what they was doing, not for.

00:31:01
Speaker 4: Me, massage me. I'm I'm working, I'm in business. Don't give me a drink.

00:31:06
Speaker 1: We are business.

00:31:07
Speaker 2: We are in business. The low hit, the ATM, the table boom, double it asap.

00:31:12
Speaker 1: But you lose it.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: That's what you gotta think about, you know, walking away. Yeah, you gotta you gotta walk away. You have to walk away.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: Dana White incredible episode. He's a he's a stud man. He's a studd he's a stud great business insight too.

00:31:28
Speaker 4: He breaks down how he even got the PSL legal in Nevada, working through that process, why he decided to do it. The guy is a stud man. He's a billionaire for a reason. We are we are very lucky to have him on our podcast. Hopefully a lot more times in the future as well. Hopefully we get him on the actual bus and have some.

00:31:44
Speaker 2: Oh I think I think that's that's in the future. Yeah, we gotta get on with his ten X guy. Yeah, because he's see that right there, it's gonna get a whole lot bigger. Yeah, we had to like basically cater in some Keto stuff because he's on Keto. Yeah. Yeah, for Tallo's I believe it was what we'll NOO for shut out for Tillo's.

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00:32:50
Speaker 3: How fucking fascinating though at the time when social media exploded for these kids that were into it, and it actually became because when Twitter first came out, I was one of the first people that was on Twitter and doing I was doing like video blogs back then that we were uploading on YouTube. And I remember at the time like you couldn't hire anybody to come. Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing, right right, I mean, And then boom, within you know, like five or six years, there were kids everywhere, you know, turning into stars on social media.

00:33:22
Speaker 4: Twitter and all that stuff. And also it's got to help the entertainment industry so much like social media and the UFC. I think UFC uses a social media better than probably any other, like even better than the NFL, better than baseball, better than hockey. Like it just seems like you guys are understanding the formula of how to get people engaged in what's going on, playing the game, getting the villain, getting the hero, bringing them together. It seems like he got a legit Well, obviously you have a legit thing going on, but it's like killing.

00:33:48
Speaker 3: I would love to tell you it's because you know, I was brilliant and everything else, but I hated the media is so fucking bad. I hated them so bad that when you told me, wait a minute, I can cut the middleman out out and I can go directly to the fans. Fucking I'm all in on that.

00:34:03
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:34:03
Speaker 3: I loved it. So I was infatuated with it immediately because I hated the media.

00:34:10
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you jump around on all the like you you're in like the podcast game. You're like a guest who will go like milk boys, like I've Rogue and everybody.

00:34:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I uh, I love that. I love uh talking to these guys. All the mainstream media are exactly the same man. I was just doing, uh, you know, the radio row over at the NFL, which I've been doing for a long time, and it's just when you when you get in with guys like you, guys and guys that are doing podcasts and and and these kids that are doing things on social media, it's uh, it's real, not fucking bullshit. It's not a bunch of fucking uh these jerk offs who who click bait and and and do all this. I just I mean, you start to look like McAfee. Yeah, look at how McAfee has blown up, right, and he's getting Aaron Rodgers and these big guys because they'd rather go to him and have a real conversation with him than these guys in the media.

00:35:13
Speaker 4: You know, the unique thing about Pat McAfee in the NFL, there's like opportunities like you can do like shadowing or do skill building kind of things with the with networks, but you have to like kind of put in a resume see if they want you to do it or not. Pat was one of those guys that put in the resume every single year the whole eight years he was playing, and got turned down every single time. When as after he retired, tried to go do something more mainstream and they're like, now we're good on that. Fast forward to now and you see these bigger the NBC's, the CBS is the NFL networks, the espns are trying to find ways to be more like Pat, more casual. The suit and tie thing is dying. Mainstream media as we knew it podcast end up podcasts. The mainstream media as it was five to ten years ago is dying. It's not dying, it's transitioning to something that needs to feel more more real for the for the consumer that's taking it in on a day to day basis.

00:36:03
Speaker 3: One hundred percent, And and they're also woke. You know what I mean that. It's it's like you go in to do a sports interview and they're interviewing you like they're fucking sixty minutes.

00:36:13
Speaker 2: Well, they already have the story kind of written and they're trying to ask you.

00:36:16
Speaker 1: They're trying to problem questions that's going to fill those parts of the story, which is like why the division between like the person getting interviewed, whether it's at a press conference or something else. I feel like that's like where that hate stems from, because you kind of already know when somebody's asking that question. It's like they're gonna write some story that's gonna have this kind of headline already on there. Like you guys, there's no doubt.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: I just want to get something out.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: They want Dan and White to say something that's gonna make him or somebody look dumb, and then they can take that out and then get people to watch it more and more.

00:36:43
Speaker 3: Even if you don't give them what they want. They have some clickbait title that has nothing.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: To do with this story.

00:36:49
Speaker 1: We do that.

00:36:49
Speaker 3: We do that, not even a part of the story.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: We'll find Yeah, we're gonna find a clickbait he hey, yeah something.

00:36:55
Speaker 1: But speaking a new content, speaking of content, being in the content game and doing well with that. Theultimate Fighters coming back, Michael Chandler, Connor McGregor, yep. Talk about that a little bit, like getting Connor, getting him in the house and doing kind of that reality show because that that show is all time.

00:37:10
Speaker 2: That show is all time.

00:37:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, uh, you know, it's all about timing when these things happen. When there's a new season The Ultimate Fighter, we're always looking for who's busy, who's got fights going on, whatever, and then we look at who's available and what fights make sense and who would make sense to coach, and this one just just landed on our lap this year. Connor is coming back. Obviously, there's been a lot of talk about Connor and Chandler. You know, they're both in the right place at the right time, and at the end of the day, you know they'll both be great coaches, and even more importantly, you know that fight will be absolute and total violence.

00:37:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be. It'll it will not go the distance. Yeah, I agree, I will not go to.

00:37:51
Speaker 3: The great And it's a it's a funny thing because these are two guys that have shown interest in fighting each other. Yet I think there we'll see when they get together, but there's a level of respect between these two two.

00:38:02
Speaker 4: Do you Is there a point though, like when you go do the Ultimate Fighter and you have a polarizing figure like Connor McGregor, a guy like Michael Chandler who has put himself as the all American boy, like he's well spoken, doesn't really curse, like family man, he's got that vibe to him. Is there a way you guys sit down and be like, hey, here's kind of the rule. Let's let's no rules, but let's have a guideline when it comes to this, like Connor, do your best not across these X, Y and Z lines.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: Well, you kind of just let them figure out them for themselves.

00:38:27
Speaker 3: That's not the vibe with him. That's really who he is. He's he's he's such a good person. Michael. I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for him. But we don't ever tell these guys what to do or what to say, or how to act or whatever. It's what makes the reason we're in thirty something seasons of The Ultimate Fighter. When they get in there, whatever happens happens when we film it. That's just the way it goes. There's no there's no guidance, there's no any of that stuff. And it's it's what makes each season very unique because just when you think you've seen it all, new happens every season.

00:39:01
Speaker 2: It's gonna be incredible. It is gonna be cool when you look.

00:39:03
Speaker 3: At this is the first season that's actually been on ESPN, the network. Usually they were on Plus since we did the ESPN deal. Yeah, this year it'll be on the networks.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Big numbies. It'll be big, big number, massive.

00:39:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:39:14
Speaker 2: Connor coach will make the Yeah. Yeah, the Fight's gonna be Yeah.

00:39:18
Speaker 4: People getting to watch them on a day to day basis, just chirping at each other over and over again. I mean, Connor's got a silver tongue, and I'm excited to see what cheeky things Mike Scott playing.

00:39:28
Speaker 2: We are we were talking before. That's our boy.

00:39:30
Speaker 4: Mike lives in Nashville. We are rooting for Mike. But I got into the UFC with Richie Incognito. Do you ever met Richie?

00:39:37
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly who who he is.

00:39:39
Speaker 3: He ended with the Dolphins, right he played.

00:39:41
Speaker 4: No, he ended with the Raiders the Dolphins. He was on the Dolphins, Dolphins, Bills Raiders. And I met him training out of exos here in Arizona and he's like, let's go to a UFC fight. I was like, I've never been to the UFC fight and he's like, let's go to this Connor McGregor fight was first Connor McGregor maype Is and I went there and he's like, start watching videos on Connor, and I was like, this, fucking there's a reason why he's made so much damn money. And it's guy that had to be like an incredible like golden goose for you guys for a while. But is there ever a point when you have like a guy like Conor McGregor and it is great for the UFC, but then he gets so baked where he almost calls the shots, which might hurt negotiations when it comes to him fighting in the UFC.

00:40:20
Speaker 2: He can kind of do whatever he wants.

00:40:21
Speaker 3: No, he's a smart dude, and and you know, he's actually been one of the easiest guys to deal with. Yeah, listen, Carl McGregor would be perfect. If he showed up everywhere on time. I mean, if he did that, he'd literally be the perfect guy.

00:40:34
Speaker 2: Give a fuck.

00:40:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just you know, it's all part of his thing, you know what I mean. Yeah, but no, we have a great relationship and he's been he's been great to work with and and you know, the reality is it doesn't have to be a superstar fighter. It can be one of our employees or whatever. Because it happened during the sale when we sold to Endeavor. Once you get to a certain level financially, you know, we had guys that were for us, that that that had some points in the company. They retired. They're gone, they don't work anymore. You know, as soon as the company sold, they were gone. And it's like, uh, whether you have connor regret. Look at John Jones. You know, there's a lot of talk, a lot of ship talk that we don't pay our fighters. Don Jones hasn't fought in three years. Yeah, you know what I mean, how many people at John Jones Age can just take three years off and say, eh, maybe I'll come back, Maybe I won't know that there's there's there's a lot. Henry Sahudo, Henry Suhudo won a title. I think he defended it once or twice and hasn't fought since. What do you think there's mean, it's just part of the money. When when the money comes along and and and when you're in a sport like this where you got to jump up every day and get punched in the face, you know, once the money comes in. Amanda new Ness destroying people, I mean out there knocking you know, uh, you know she fights here and there, she's she's you know, they all got plenty of money and they don't need to do it anymore. So it's just at the nature of the business.

00:41:58
Speaker 2: Big, big gets better, dude, the pig does.

00:42:00
Speaker 1: Like It's like the NFL.

00:42:01
Speaker 2: You get you get paid financially. A lot of guys like to get a little bit worse.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and guys like the one percent of the NFL. And then there's the guys that are trying to grind it out on a day to day Base. Why do you think the UFC gets so much fly for not paying their fighters.

00:42:15
Speaker 3: Because I don't tell anybody what they get paid. I don't tell anybody what they get paid, and guess what, neither do the fighters. There's no gag inger in place, and these fighters could come out and say what they'll say exactly what they make. I just had I just had a situation recently, and I'll tell you who it was. It was Paula Costay. He's a fucking lunatic. He acts like a lunatic, and uh, he came out publicly and kind of said what we what we offered him. Yeah, it was the furthest fucking thing from the truth. Really it wasn't true, and that this was a while ago and this is the first time I've even talked about it. But it's just an example. See, these guys will say stuff like that because they know I won't talk about it publicly. I really don't give a shit. You know, all these people that come out and say, oh, the UFC doesn't pay the fighters and they only pay this percentage of the fucking this, that and everything else. We got an awful lot of people who sit out and you know, don't and and and he recently came out about an offer we made, and it was the furthest thing from the truth.

00:43:14
Speaker 4: When you're sitting there and you're seeing guys like that say numbers that aren't real, that are obviously way lower than you actually offer, right, what makes you not bite your tongue? Because there is got to be a level of being a human being, like whoa, we do right by our guys, Well, what's the deal?

00:43:28
Speaker 3: Like the But when you look at it, look at how long I've been in business for twenty three years, how many guys have left? I just did a new A fight deal with John Jones, who was sitting out over money issues. I just did a new A fight. I just did a new eight fight deal with Sugar Shan O'Malley. And list goes on and on. How many guys The guys that leave are the guys that we're okay with them leaving, yeah, you know what I mean? And the guys who leave the guys that we're we're okay with it, you know. Recently the most recent that that and probably the only guy I mean, I did deals with Tito or Tiz when we fucking hated each other, Chuck Ledell, who was the biggest star on the planet. We always got deals done, brock Lesnar, we got deals done. You never heard any of these people complaining about their money, right, everybody wants more money. That's there. You guys want more money. You guys aren't being paid enough. I guarantee if we said, yeah, yeah, we want more money, we do in nature. Everybody wants more money. And I don't feed into the bullshit. I don't feed into the uh paul stuff. Well then, well, yeah, Jake Paul, that's that's something that's small. But it's like it's like the viral. It's like you're you're absolutely right he he, he keeps playing that whole thing. You know, Uh, we'll do right, we'll thrill treat you guys. How many guys have left and went with Jake Paul?

00:44:51
Speaker 2: Yeah right, how many guys?

00:44:53
Speaker 3: But yeah, let's go with Jake Paul and fucking you know he's gonna pay us. It's just it's it's all bullshit. It's all this narrative of that I don't play into. You know, the guys who fight here know that that they've been taken care of, and you know, and and it's one of these systems where the guys who actually bring all the value are the ones who make all the money, you know, and the guys who don't when you when you talk about you know, they always talk about this this pay disparagy. But between boxing and the UF three, Yeah, there's there's fucking like a handful of guys in boxing that makes shitloads of money. The rest of the guys make nothing. And that's not the case.

00:45:34
Speaker 1: Thing.

00:45:35
Speaker 3: We've got eight hundred guys under contract. You know, if you're a lower level guy coming in, you work your way up. But these these these kids are all making really good money.

00:45:43
Speaker 1: Who are some of the arder fighters to deal with or some of the fighters that are tough to deal like when you are doing some of these negotiations, like John Jones, He's been going out of the game for three years over money stuff. He was loud about it for a while. Now you say you just got an eight fight deal, Like, who are some guys who are tough.

00:45:59
Speaker 3: To That's not that John's difficult to deal with, It's it's more about when these guys hear some of these boxing numbers. First of all, most of these boxing guys that you hear that make all this fucking money. They're all in lawsuits. Mike Tyson's in a lawsuit right now for for a fight that he didn't get paid for him here, and Wilder it's probably about to be in a lawsuit here. Yeah, these guys all get in lawsuits because they never get paid. All these guys that I do deals with, they signed contracts. And this is a fact. Not only do I pay them what they're contracted to make, I actually pay them more than they're contracted to make them more than what they were contracted to make.

00:46:40
Speaker 4: And what makes you want to pay these guys more if they have a contract? Yeah, as a business Now, as an owner of a business, why would you sit there and go, I'm gonna pay this guy more than his contract says?

00:46:49
Speaker 3: I would call it incentives and bonuses because we could we do these these these post fight bonuses if your fight was unfucking believable and you blew us away. You know, there's usually four guys on the card fifty thousand dollars more, and the rest of the card we throw them some more money too, So everybody on the card makes more money than they were actually contracted to make.

00:47:09
Speaker 2: That's a fact, there's no reason for me to think you're wrong.

00:47:14
Speaker 4: I feel like, right now I'm sitting here and be like, I just agree with everything you say because I have no idea.

00:47:18
Speaker 3: Now, if we were talking to mainstream media guys would have said one fucking word of what I just said.

00:47:24
Speaker 2: To you guys here man for that, and I appreciate that.

00:47:26
Speaker 3: I don't play these little fucking pussy games that they try to play with me, and that's what drives them crazy. And you know, so they can write all the negative stories they want and put put the headlines up there. I don't know if it gets some more traffic or what it does, but it's all bullshit at the end of the day.

00:47:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like this whole this whole game at the end of the day is this.

00:47:43
Speaker 3: Is my company. Who the fuck are you to tell me how to pay my people? And if you don't like it, there's no buried actuary. Go start your own MMA organization and pay them whatever you want. Many people have done it and it hasn't turned out too well for him. You know, we've run a real business.

00:48:00
Speaker 2: You have cornered that market.

00:48:01
Speaker 3: We run a real business.

00:48:03
Speaker 1: It's it's it's unreal, and I wish I knew something might happen with like live golf. You never know what they're doing across the across the pond. And and you know what I'm saying, how PGA was going and the way to live right live comes in just starts throwing these crazy.

00:48:16
Speaker 2: Crazy numbers at people.

00:48:17
Speaker 1: Get people out.

00:48:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, tour, that was the only scenario you could see something.

00:48:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have the other thing though, You come out and you can't pay a guy like And I'm not gonna act like I'm educated on this because I'm not. I don't know a lot about it. I've heard of it, but I don't know the ins and outs of it. But you take a guy, you guys, for instance, I'll use you guys an example. I come out and I pay you guys three hundred and fifty million dollars to do the same podcast.

00:48:48
Speaker 1: Right.

00:48:51
Speaker 3: Once you get that kind of money, it's fucking hard, you know, it's hard to to get people incentivized to get out and actually fucking work and and and to grind and and to and to help build you know, you guys are part of barstool Sports and part of building them into you know, a massive sports brand. What's the incentive there when you make that kind of money, There's not a lot of incentive. Now, let's take it to another level. When you when you are a fighter who gets paid to get punched in the fucking face every day. You know, Connor McGregor is a perfect example, John Jones is a perfect example. Amanda Nunas is a perfect example. Ronda Rousey is a great example. I could go on and on for days about the people who've made massive money in this sport. You get to a point where you're like, Okay, I achieved what I wanted to achieve.

00:49:45
Speaker 2: It right, you got what you needed, Like theamship on the shoulder.

00:49:47
Speaker 3: Does pretty famous. I became a world champion and have a shitload of money. What's next?

00:49:55
Speaker 1: Yeah? So what do you think makes John Jones and McGregor come back and want to continue to fight when you are when you do have.

00:50:02
Speaker 3: Well, I think what happens is you get this this level of success and this level of financial security where I mean, you guys just said it five minutes ago. You almost you get to call your own shots.

00:50:14
Speaker 1: Now.

00:50:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna take three years off when I start to feel the itch again. I'll come back or I won't. You know, you have that financial freedom to do it. Or if I want to jump in and pick up a quick fucking twenty five thirty million dollars, I'll pop back in when I feel like it.

00:50:34
Speaker 2: When when yeah, you know, if you have the ability to do that.

00:50:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is just crazy to look at a guy like Connor in like twenty eighteen, he's gone like one and four whatever whatever the number is. It hasn't been like a great record since. Right he's got proper twelve. He's got all these other businesses he's killing, and he can make a he can make a million dollars just going to some billionaire's birthday party for an hour. And you think, like, what what makes you want to keep coming back to such a violent sport, the most violent sport there is.

00:51:02
Speaker 3: And that's a that's a great point too, because when you think about our sport, our fan base accepts losing more than other sports to Because I wonder why that is, because there's so many different ways to win, in so many different ways to lose in this sport, you know, and and you're actually are our fighters are are looked at on more of like an Arturo Gotti type level, Like ar Turo Gotti was losing these fights but kept signing these big HBO deals because everybody loved the way he fought and that he was such a dog and would go out and give it everything he had. And that's kind of the the You know, you lose four or five in a row in the boxing and boxing, you're fucking done. You ain't making any more big money fights. But here the fan base, uh forgives losing because.

00:51:48
Speaker 2: Similar like Chandler.

00:51:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Chandler's won.

00:51:51
Speaker 2: I mean, how many fights, don't example exactly, he goes out there like a rott wild, but he's out there for they got to.

00:52:00
Speaker 1: The last fight. It's like he lost, but he also won. Yeah, a weird way, you know what I.

00:52:04
Speaker 3: Mean, absolutely think about this. So every Saturday night I have to convince you guys to not go out, uh, not go to dinner with your girl, not go to a movie, not through this, not through that, stay home and watch fights. So when you do, you better have some holy shit moments or you're gonna turn off your TV and be pissed off. First, forget the money, right, the fact that you stayed home on a Saturday night is what will piss you off first and you and that's what that's where boxing started to go. Every time you stayed home on Saturday night. You know, they charged your fucking eighty two one hundred bucks and you saw these two multi millionaires run around and try not to fight each other so that they could win and go on to the next multi million dollar fight. Right when you tune into a UFC from the first fight of the night to the main event, these fucking kids go, man, they go, and you see the shit that you stayed home on Saturday night and paid fucking eighty bucks.

00:53:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like when you who that Autosania guy he just lost yep, and that it was. It was an incredible fight, But the fight before that, when he was defending his belt, it was kind of like five rounds of like what are we doing here?

00:53:11
Speaker 2: He's gonna just bouncing out and you.

00:53:12
Speaker 4: Do kind of play yourself like man, people were getting yeah, people were on that last fight, and but I'm out of Sonia. I'm also saying like, hey, fuck you guys, I won. Yeah, like it doesn't matter, and you can just play into that, right, I feel like you get this. It's a no lose when it comes to the UFC, whether it's it's so true inning or it's not entertaining, it's like if it's not entertaining and we just say fuck you, then it's like, hey.

00:53:31
Speaker 2: People are like, no, fuck you, We're gonna wat you lose next.

00:53:33
Speaker 3: Well, the difference is if you if you saw the Israel Out of Sonia fight and you were unhappy with it, there were four more fights on the under card that you fucking loved. Yeah, that's the difference. And with boxing, you wouldn't even show up for the under cards. You don't even pay attention to him. Everybody just shows up for the main event, and if the main event sucks, the entire card was judged by the main event.

00:53:52
Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair. Yeah, that's a good point.

00:53:54
Speaker 4: When you have all these other endeavors and you introduced the Power Slap League, you look at it and I'm thinking to myself, what the fuck are these guys doing to say wild wild? And then it's framed as a as a martial arts show, right, like what a what enticed you?

00:54:11
Speaker 3: It's not framed as a martial arts show. It's framed as a fight. And then people say it's an interesting one.

00:54:17
Speaker 1: How the hell is this a fight?

00:54:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you something entertaining as hell. If you can get viciously fucking knocked out, it's a fight. It doesn't matter if it's with a slap of punch, an elbow and knee, or a head kick.

00:54:30
Speaker 2: You were just in a fight, and you just introduced the most disrespectful thing you can do during a fight.

00:54:34
Speaker 3: I guarant you guys have known people like this. Maybe maybe not. I've known plenty of my day. I've known some guys who are bad dudes, you know, in the ring and out in the street, and they got to a point where they didn't hit anybody anymore. They would slap them because you know they were they were wrecking people, punch you, so they would just slap guys and knock them out. So in twenty seventeen, I started watching some of this slap stuff that was coming up on the internet.

00:54:58
Speaker 2: Russian Bear or something like that.

00:55:00
Speaker 3: The guy what's his name, Yeah, he was.

00:55:03
Speaker 4: You watched that because you have your buddies. You'd be sitting this on and you'd be like, hey, watch this fucking Russian cat. And he was like the Russian Bear and it's just like this Harry asked, got a fur coat on with the shirt off, and he's just disintegrating dudes, Yes, disintegrating cats exactly. Twenty seventeen. You start seeing these videos on YouTube exactly, and your mind goes to.

00:55:20
Speaker 3: What fascinated by?

00:55:21
Speaker 1: Yes? Right?

00:55:21
Speaker 3: So I started taking a deeper dive and looking into it, and uh, I'm looking at the numbers that it's pulling on on YouTube, and I'm like, three hundred and fifty million views. That's fucking crazy. That's the eye fucking justin Bieber music video, you know what I mean. I'm like, this is nuts. So I, uh, the guy that was putting on those events from Russia, I met him in La one one day. I flew out to La to meet him. Started talking to him and like, Hi, hamascinating. So I said, I think I'm gonna fucking do this. So I start getting into it, and COVID hits. So I got a deal with the UFC, and you know, getting getting that going during COVID, and then we get through COVID and I start getting into it again. And let me just put it to you this way. I start this thing. First of all, we get it sanctioned by the vastinate Athleticmmission to turn it into a sport. I'm looking for some of the guys who are considered the best out there so that we can start building rankings and and and do the first title fights. So we did well to weight middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight for easy. You know, everybody can follow it. Everybody understands those weight classes. And we uh, we put an event together last March just to kind of see it. So it's my first time ever seeing it live in person.

00:56:45
Speaker 2: Oh you you put an event together and you haven't even seen it live yet?

00:56:48
Speaker 3: Exactly. Okay, yes, we put put on an event.

00:56:51
Speaker 4: There's a whole lot you're saying right now we need to unpack, but I want to leave you this is this is incredible.

00:56:55
Speaker 3: I'm fucking with the production. I want to see how to you know, how should the lighting be? How should this? But you know, we're starting to build what is going to eventually become the sport. And we put on the first event. Holy fucking shit, man, as these guys start slapping each other, the sound fucking knockouts to everything about it is just what I expected.

00:57:17
Speaker 4: But even more, you know what I mean wild thought process for entertainment.

00:57:22
Speaker 1: Bro Dudes are just like laying on the ground and then and then they pick.

00:57:25
Speaker 2: Him up though you're good.

00:57:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get him back up there. Hold this fucking it is so incredibly entertaining. Yeah, okay, So there's a couple of things you did. You First off, we need to go to COVID in a second, because I thought you handled when sports were dead.

00:57:44
Speaker 2: You kept sports alive. We'll go to that in a second.

00:57:47
Speaker 4: You go, you meet this guy in Russias are in La he's from Russia. You sit there and you have this conversation. I love the fact that you're putting people together to slap each other, right, simple terms.

00:57:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I asked him how it got started?

00:57:58
Speaker 1: What did you do?

00:57:59
Speaker 3: Or do you find these and all this stuff? Just kind of doing some homework on it.

00:58:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, jumped on the I mean you jumped on a little goal.

00:58:05
Speaker 1: Mind for sure, it's like you get three hundred and fifty million, But it's so easily and short and consume, Like you can just watch a slap and it's just the brain the way our everybody's brain is now going.

00:58:16
Speaker 3: To be the younger generation.

00:58:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, yeah, well, I even need to see a fight. It's like, hey, I'm jumping on this because you see kind of the big picture.

00:58:23
Speaker 3: Of everything that's being said negatively. First of all, let's start with this. Everything that's negative that's being said about it is an attack on me. It's it's me that these guys are attacking. It's not the actual slapping the media. It's all about me. Okay. They want to they want to fuck me. That's why they're saying what they're saying about slap. Because this ship was going on. This ship's been on the internet since seventeen is when I first saw it.

00:58:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's also in Russia.

00:58:49
Speaker 3: There's three hundred and fifty million views. But I'm the only fucking guy that's seen it, you know what I mean. And there's no stories written, there's no oh my god, this is horrible. How's this on social media? Children are watching this? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, right. This has been going on since fucking well. I noticed it the seventeen It could have been before that for all I know. But now it's a fucking you know, it's it's it's a it's horrible and it's a tragedy and it needs to go away. Yeaheah, Okay, get the fuck out of here. So let's start there, right, so uh we we go. Let let me tell you this one real quick. So I started a power slap TikTok two and a half weeks ago. As of two days ago, it has uh hey, Lena, see how many followers it has now, But it.

00:59:33
Speaker 2: Had there's an amatas one point.

00:59:35
Speaker 3: Seven million followers. It was one point eight. Never mind, it's one point eight yesterday. It was one point days ago.

00:59:42
Speaker 2: It was one point that's going to be over to mill.

00:59:44
Speaker 3: When we first opened it, it was growing ten thousand followers an hour.

00:59:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:59:48
Speaker 3: Then it went to one hundred thousand every two days. Now we're at one hundred thousand every two days. It grows okay, six hundred and eighty eight million views in two and a half weeks. Yeah, Instagram, we have almost four hundred thousand followers, one hundred and sixty six million in two and a half weeks. And I could keep going on and on with the international and all this other shit. So you fucking nailed it right on the head. The younger generation. It's fast, it's easy to consume, it's like holy shit, you know, and they're eating it.

01:00:22
Speaker 1: And you can watch the same slap multiple times because you're like, you want to see the slap, you want to see the gal emotion. Look at this referee, they're helping them back up.

01:00:30
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, your reactions people, Yes, it's it is fuck. You're guys gonna watch one slap one time. That's a five slapper. It's getting about. It's eating a chip from a back. You're not gonna have one, You're gonna have four or five, ye boys right.

01:00:42
Speaker 3: There, So even more fascinating. So you look at this thing and you look at it on a you know, and all the media is like, oh, this thing's a flop. It's fucking this that they have fucking no idea what they're talking about. Number One, I laugh when I read their stories. And here's the truth. If the media says something's bad and it's good and it should go away, you got a fucking home run. You know you hit. You know it's going to be successful, right, because these guys know jack shit about anything.

01:01:08
Speaker 7: Right.

01:01:09
Speaker 3: And then you look at the television, right, linear television is dying on the vine. Right. TBS has been awesome with us, It's been great for us. So we're the only thing coming out of AAW wrestling. Aw Wrestling pulls a great number, and everything they tried just dumps right off into the abyss. They tried Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's, Burger's, Young Sheldon, all these different shows that haven't worked. We go in there and you know, much older Demo and everything else. We held fifty percent of AAW's audience, no shit, and every Wednesday night we're number two on all of cable with men behind the NBA. The fucking thing is three weeks, three weeks old, three weeks sold, twenty one days, so exactly. So even on BRO, you're thinking there at.

01:01:55
Speaker 2: Seventeen like, no one's doing this, and then by make a move on this.

01:01:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's yeah, it's phenomenal. So over the way till you see what I do in the in the next five weeks with with with Power Slap and where this goes. So after the first uh season here that we've done. The other thing that's really good for us that you know, when you do a reality show like the one that we have, we know every episode gets better. And I haven't seen episode seven yet, but Craig Pligian, my partner, the producer. He does tons of television. He says Episode seven is the best TV show he's seen in two years.

01:02:27
Speaker 1: Really.

01:02:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, we know what we have in the can already, so it's good to know that. But watch what happens with this thing over the over the next five weeks.

01:02:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.

01:02:36
Speaker 4: So you're okay, you're across the pond, you're this guy from Russia. You bring it to Nevada, you get it all bundled up where you're allowed to sell it, allowed to do it in the state of Nevada. Then the next thing you say is we now we go and find talent.

01:02:48
Speaker 2: What are you talking?

01:02:49
Speaker 4: Are you going likes? And like, hey, you guys, slap how much do you weigh?

01:02:54
Speaker 1: All right?

01:02:55
Speaker 2: Lightweight?

01:02:55
Speaker 1: You are? Have you weight?

01:02:56
Speaker 3: Almost like, how are you finding these cats? Let me tell you how good you guys are. You guys are so fucking good. It's almost like the show is like scripted. This is fucking crazy.

01:03:03
Speaker 2: Oh, we have your pieces. You don't see.

01:03:04
Speaker 3: My next thing I was going to say to you is we go into this thing, we start looking for the talent, we find the guys that you know, Like I said, I didn't just start this. This has been around since sixteen seventeen or earlier for all I know. But I started to notice it in seventeen. And so there's guys out there. So we go out and there's there's this guy who had a league out in the Midwest and you know, had a good grip. We hired him. He came in as a consultant and he walked us through, who's some of the best guys you know in the country. Are we put it together? We were coming up on episode four on TBS tomorrow night, on TBS's episode four, and we've already got like nine hundred and thirty people that have mailed in and said, yeah, I'm a professional slapper and I want to be in the next season. So now we're gonna do is We're gonna put together at the Performance Institute, the UFC Performance Institute. I'm gonna put together a combine where these guys come in. Yeah, these guys come in.

01:04:04
Speaker 4: Like what are the The only thing you need is that little little punching bag that comes down, you punch, and you see how much power.

01:04:12
Speaker 3: There's. Actually you'll see it if you watch this season the show The Coaches training the fighters and and you know, they have a power cube where they can test their force, you know, how much force per square inch they're slapping with and next strength and all these different things that.

01:04:27
Speaker 2: Go into I didn't think about the.

01:04:29
Speaker 3: Being a good slap. You gotta have you gotta have the next strength, you gotta have it. Yeah, and you gotta win the coin toss, the coin toss, the.

01:04:39
Speaker 2: You're gonna win the film overtime football with that?

01:04:41
Speaker 1: Like whoever gets that way? So what's the combine? Like what does the combine help you do other than like put guys in the system? Like does it it? Does it ever?

01:04:47
Speaker 2: Go to a little team format.

01:04:49
Speaker 3: The other thing that we're gonna have is we're gonna bring in these guys that are going to be coaches and as guys come through the performance Institute, they're gonna train these guys on because there are rules on flinching, you know, clubbing where you're hitting with this part of the hand instead of the slap. You can't move your feet. Your feet have to stay stay with So there's a lot of different rules that that guys have to you know, try. And the other big thing is we have to help get the commission trained. Like when you become a referee for boxing, there's a lot of you know, you go to these gyms, these local gyms and guys are sparring. You actually get in there and move around with the guys while they're sparring, and if you see them tying up, you break them apart. You get in there and work, And a lot of the m m A referees do the same thing. So the refs need reps, you know, to be able to do this. So I'm actually gonna put on a we got to Our first live fight is going to be in March. I'm actually going to do a fight the Wednesday before the fight, I'm gonna do another fight to get the refs some reps and get them working.

01:05:50
Speaker 1: But you know, you're about to have like a world ranking system with all these people who want to do this, Like it could be the most massive.

01:05:58
Speaker 3: That's what's gonna happen.

01:05:58
Speaker 1: The barrier of the entries glow like do you have a big hand, do you have a chin? Do you feel like you're tough? Like, well, you're tough. Heyp square, You can't plinch hold o that pole. You can pray to God, you just don't.

01:06:10
Speaker 2: Get Yeah, pretty got its tails when you hold tails.

01:06:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know what's gonna happen. What's going to happen is the same thing that happened with MMA is once there's fucking real money involved in this, you know, and let me address that too. There were you know, my buddies in the media saying, oh my god, these guys are only getting paid fucking this And we invested fucking ten million dollars being the Ftida Brothers into this thing to fucking launch this thing. We invested ten million of our own money to do this thing. Much like you know the UFC when we started the UFC. This is a startup like any other fucking startup business. And these guys that are in it then in this first season are the pioneers, much like the guys who played baseball in the early days in the NFL and the UFC.

01:06:52
Speaker 1: You know.

01:06:54
Speaker 3: So what you know, once we get this thing where there's going to be real money involved, you'll be surprised who you see. I'll bet you start seeing NFL players like the guys that want to box and get into.

01:07:03
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about and make the cutter.

01:07:05
Speaker 3: So talk about guys who was funny. Who's the buddy board and the velocity to slap and the next strength and the chance you think of a lot of NFL players that that could be a part of this. You're probably gonnad up getting celebrities who want to be a part of this, and who knows.

01:07:18
Speaker 1: But your celebrities that want to slap the shit out of each other. Piste off and we'll settle it.

01:07:23
Speaker 3: Well in the beginning, we'll probably get my yeah, Danny Bonaducci's and ship like that.

01:07:27
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, these guys don't even know yeah twice, but I have no idea you're talking about it.

01:07:33
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, for sure, what's the next question I got to ask here?

01:07:36
Speaker 3: That's a letric dude. I just you know how fucking old I am now that these guys don't know who Danny Bonaducci is.

01:07:42
Speaker 2: Who is Danny Bucci?

01:07:44
Speaker 3: He was a celebrity back in the day when I, you know, who is my dad would be so pissed off. Yeah, so he was on the show and Get Me Boys, Partridge Family and uh, and then he ended up you know, he became a fucking lunatic. He started doing all this boxing like celebrity boxing and he has a radio show he had at the time, I think in Philly or something, but yeah, he was he was a wild man from the eighties.

01:08:10
Speaker 2: Dude.

01:08:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I've been, I've I've learned now absolutely, here's a business am right there?

01:08:18
Speaker 1: Question? Yeah, I want to ask a business question. Since now that you're investing ten million dollars and going into the power SLAF, what are some things that you have learned over the course of the years because you did the you did the startup with the UFC acquired that What are some of the things you can fast track now knowing I won't make that same mistake again as far as growing the sport. Uh, now that you have power slow Hey.

01:08:36
Speaker 2: That's a great question, dude.

01:08:37
Speaker 3: Well, the difference is is that now because of the UFC and what I've done with the UFC, it's much easier to go to get television deals or or distribution deals, sponsors. The list goes on and on. I mean we we didn't have real sponsors in the UFC to like two thousand and six five six. Yeah, you know, you look at the first season The Ultimate Fighter, Fucking Matt is blue blue. There's nothing on it. Yeah, you know, we had no sponsor. Nobody wanted to sponsor the first season the Ultimate Fighter. We have sponsors on this first season of Power Slaps. So you know, because of the success that I've had with the UFC, it's it's it's a lot easier to get things like that done than it was back in two thousand and one.

01:09:20
Speaker 1: Right, So I would assume your mind, like trying to figure out how you're going to build the UFC, your mind as was probably a lot more cluttered on which action steps to take right. No rights, Now, obviously you have the value that can like, oh, we know, we know how we're going to point to this thing. But I'm sure your clarity now on like this is the direct approach we're going to be taking in you know, X, Y and Z, these areas as like a business guy, entrepreneur, all of that stuff that you've built.

01:09:42
Speaker 3: Over the years, one hundred percent. I mean, yeah, it's it's it's you know, I saw something that there was a negative story written about me a couple of weeks ago where they talked to an old employee and that the old employee, and I know who it was too, was saying, yeah, Ari is convinced that Dana has the secret formula to run the UFC. Yeah, motherfucker, I absolutely positively out of the secret formula to run the UFC. I look at all the other promoters, and I look at every single thing that they do wrong, and I go, why would they still do that? They if you watch what we did, why were we just still Why are they doing that? Why are they doing this? And you're gonna do the same thing with slap Yeah, same thing. You have to run it like a business.

01:10:23
Speaker 2: You have to run this thing like, hey, we probably got like two more questions. You've got a boogiy sing. I know I saw him. I saw him. Yeah, they're giving, they're giving okay, yeah, yeah, I know you had one. You know he does well.

01:10:34
Speaker 4: He's playing probably at you know, I still Goldstream piece out back to Vegas. I want to bring it back to Chandler McGregor real quick. Ye help two questions? When when is at three again? Because I have one more? You have one more?

01:10:49
Speaker 2: When is that if I going to happen?

01:10:51
Speaker 3: When when?

01:10:52
Speaker 2: And then two how do you see it going?

01:10:55
Speaker 3: So we literally don't have any of that in place yet to get out here and films doing you know, doing the show and then we'll figure out, uh when and where and all that stuff. Because this is one of those I was talking about this today. This is one of those fights. This could This could be Madison Square Garden, this could be Dallas, Texas Stadium, this could be you know, Vegas in uh you know, Raider Stadium or a T Mobile.

01:11:21
Speaker 2: Stadium, you know what I mean. We know Mike wants to fight in Vegas. That's like his He's never fought in Vegas.

01:11:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're just we could put together you know, you look at the main event with these two, and then we could put together a bad ass card underneath it that we could do this at any arena or any stadium. So we got to figure that out. We're kind of still playing with that and uh and how do I think it goes? Yeah, this I know exactly how it goes. This fight is absolute and pure fucking violence from the minute the bell rings, yeah, till the fight is over. You know, stylistically, when you match these two up, there's no way this fight sucks. It's incredible. Yeah, fight's incredible. Who wins that? I have no idea?

01:12:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be electric.

01:12:04
Speaker 2: Who it's that button first.

01:12:06
Speaker 1: I would assume it'll be some interesting bumps along the way with getting the fight exactly down. Like I can sit here just being a fan, like watching McGregor over the years, like trying to hold some of these situations hostage until he gets whatever he wants. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like you probably can.

01:12:22
Speaker 3: But you know, he doesn't really do that. It might appear like he does that, you know, Connor Connor. You know, I always hate to compare anybody to Ali, but I always compare him to Ali because he's so good at playing the mental game. He really is with with opponents and stuff like that. But as far as us as a business, I mean, I look at Connor as a great partner. He's not one of those guys. Believe me, I've dealt with some bad guys in the past that will do dirty shit to try to hold you up for more money and stuff like that. He's not that guy. Connor's not that guy.

01:12:56
Speaker 1: Have a story that you can share about some guys who would do some dirty.

01:12:59
Speaker 3: Do or T's teto or Teas was the worst with that. He was the worst.

01:13:02
Speaker 1: It was like get it, almost getting to the finish line, and then like.

01:13:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd get there a deal with him, You start going and he'd call you three days before the fight and say I want more money three days before the fight. That is how this works. Yeah, Tito did some bad ship in his day. That's why he and I, you know, uh had the relationship that we had and and and you know it's why I don't have a relationship with him today.

01:13:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:13:23
Speaker 3: You know, at the time when the company was the most vulnerable, peeto Ortis was the worst to deal with.

01:13:29
Speaker 2: Damn man, man, what was the one question you want asked?

01:13:31
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, like, what would you tell your young self back when you started the UFC being where you're at now, or what advice or just anything that you would tell your younger self.

01:13:40
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, when I when I was younger, I was a savage. I just I uh, I believed in this thing from day one. I stayed the course. I didn't listen to all the outside noise. It's like right now, this exact same thing was slapped you know what I mean? These people are completely irrelevant that the noise that's going on out there, you don't listen to it. You know what's right? You know what you want to do, you know how you want to build your business, and you stay the course that you know is right for the company. You don't listen to any of this outside bullshit. And I think that's the hardest part for people who, no matter what line of work you're in, to drown out that negativity and not let it influence you or listen to it. If anything, let it just fuel you to get out there and shove it up their ass and prove to them all that they were wrong. I mean, that's the only that's the only reason you should ever listen to it is for fuel to get out and win. But all this stuff, when you listen to the media, you're listening to people who have never fucking accomplished anything ever. They've never built a business, nobody's ever depended on them for a paycheck. They're giving you their opinion, and what the fuck does their opinion matter? It doesn't matter. It means shit, you know what I mean. They're out there working just like you. They have to sell their stories. Their story has to people have to read it, so they have to figure out ways to make people try to read their fucking story. This is exactly why anybody whose mainstream are doing big things would rather come do this, a podcast like this with guys like you. This has been a great fucking interview. I don't know how long it's lasted, but it's felt like five fucking minutes. Right, this is where it's all headed. People would rather come down and sit down with people like you than talk to these fucking know nothing, do nothing, never accomplish nothing, motherfuckers.

01:15:32
Speaker 2: Dana. We appreciate you, man, Thank you.

01:15:34
Speaker 4: They irritaining time out of your day and we knew you had like a schedule and it was crazy you got to boogie back to Vegas.

01:15:40
Speaker 2: Thank you so much taking the.

01:15:41
Speaker 5: Time out of here.

01:15:41
Speaker 3: I love it. Congrats on all your success man, Congrats