Dustin Poirier | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #494

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docomo thank you to everyone uh for your. support and if tickets are too expensive. wherever you are um just wait we'll come. back around sometime don't uh outspend. yourself and uh we love you and thank. you we are here at the tunnel bar. downtown Baton Rouge Louisiana at the. Hilton Hotel and we are grateful to get. to spend time today with a UFC Legend. leg is lightweight competitor former.

interim champion and uh and just a. one-of-a-kind guy to cheer for and get. to know we're grateful to have him. returning to the podcast today's guest. is Mr DUS. [Music]. horer I'll sit and tell you my. stories sh.

I know. me and I will find a song I will sing. [Applause]. it. ass how's Louisiana been treating you. guys eating some good food I saw the. Crawfish right now it's big crawfish. time yeah yeah we had some craw Fish Man.

uh we had some crawfish the other day. some of them know the size. disparity that's where it's tough to. know like do you get specifically the. big ones from somebody you know or how. do you guys do it over there Papito has. his own oh yeah yeah he has his own Farm. is it open now yeah yeah he's running it. wow bring you how many sacks you need. man is uh is not not not his pit stop. not his store his family owns crawfish. ponds oh I didn't even know that dang. yeah man I'm going have to get a hold of. some of those.

um Dustin porier welcome bro thanks man. good to be back yeah good to see you. dude how's uh you guys just went skiing. or yeah we went up to Aspen with my wife. and daughter um spent four days up there. and it snowed the whole time weather was. great man oh that's nice travel back. wasn't as great got got stuck in uh. Oklahoma we were going to Dallas had to. circle for 20 minutes in the air then. they didn't let us land so we went to. Oklahoma we were running low on fuel so. we sat on the runway there I was in the. I was in that plane for like 6 hours and. two of it was in the air so I was on.

yeah yeah that's uh we made it man. that's alarming bro yeah something the. other day we landed real fast and then. took off again you ever had that happen. no yeah no yeah did you guys uh what. kind of what kind of skiing you do out. there you ski you snowboard like what is. what's it like out there for uh what. diamonds are you doing out there dude. I'm not I'm doing the bunny sloves. really yeah I don't want to blow my back. up. oh yeah my daughter this is her second. time skiing so she's picking it up my. wife this was her first time last time.

we went she snowboarded with me I didn't. ski this time I didn't want to bust. myself up I did sledding tubing um stuff. like that ice skating yeah cuz some. people say uh snow is just gay. water hey. perspective could be oh I think yeah. when because it's just like if you look. at it like as just as a flake some of. them [ __ ] are yeah little feminine. they nice yeah yeah um do you guys have. do you guys have contracts in UFC where.

you can't do certain sports are there. things that you guys are not allowed to. do I've heard that in our contracts I. haven't seen it but I've heard that in. our contracts there's something with. like U extreme sports maybe motorcycles. and things like that but I haven't sto I. just do everything normal I don't I. don't know yeah it's interesting because. you guys are one of those few Sports. where it's like yeah cuz sea. Strickland's on his motorcycle every day. yeah blatantly you know telling people. he's going hundreds and hundreds of. miles an hour yeah um and I believe him. yeah I believe him too yeah um but yeah.

that's pretty wild that you guys are. just able to just be totally free like. that you know I had a motorcycle for a. while when I lived in Florida and uh I. ended up selling it I only had it for. like 6 months maybe it just felt no. never but it just felt too dangerous man. yeah I was scared every time I was. riding oh yeah bro but you know most. organ donors uh are motorcyclists yeah. yeah like uh dude I just did my uh ID. recently I had to update it to the real. ID the new thing and my wife was with me. she was like no don't don't say you're. an organ donor I'm like why I mean I I.

got the goods you can have them if I. can't use them you know yeah but she. said she was like no I'm telling you if. you get an accident and they go to the. hospital and see it that you're organ. donor they're not going to work as hard. on you cuz they want those organs I'm. I'm like a man conspiracies bro that's. what I hear conspiracies look that up. Nick I wonder if that's true or not I. tell you man dude I uh actually while. I'm thinking about it if something ever. happened to you God forbid right can I. have one of your hands I won't do. nothing weird with it I promise it's. just for I'll keep it in like.

uh little cage or what you know like I. give you the left left one bet yeah. thanks dude now look if it gets out at. night and beats up a neighbor that's you. know what I'm saying well like Adam's. Family it yeah yeah it's. like [ __ ] it starts popping off bro or. if it wakes up in the middle of the. night it starts cooking up a r bro I. tell you what man I'm part of the rot. tank CL protect your. neck what does it say what does it say. Nick um there is a age limit or Oran uh.

myth religion see I never heard of this. but my wife was with me at the DMV oh. here's the myth right here doctors don't. work as hard to save the lives of. registered organ donors fact if you are. sick or injured the first priority of. your hospital care team is to save your. life organ donation is only considered. when all efforts to save a patient have. been. exhausted that secondhand Market man. yeah yeah yeah a secondhand Market bro. oh especially dude if they know it's you. probably I mean my liver's taking.

probably a little bit of abuse but like. heart and stuff's good oh dude the if. yeah they're going to get at least for. poier is hard oh. yeah they're going to cop 40 50k on that. for sure easy easy on Etsy you could. probably get. 60k yeah man that's easy man um D. speaking of etsy speaking of stuff like. that eBay you know we auction off the. fight kits for the foundation somebody. out bid everybody you know so they had a. bunch of real biders and then didn't pay. so now I got to listed it just sucks.

because you know we listed the week. after the fight when momentum and you. know the fight's fresh now we got to. relist it I just hope it raises the same. amount of money yeah I think it will man. we'll make sure to do to to make a bid. how much did they uh what did purchase. price did they get it at maybe 11 or. 12,000 I think which is which is which. is good CU we're trying to raise 50k for. the food net in Lafayette so okay Bet. yeah that's a great uh that's a uh I. think that's a great thing to have you. know according to the widely used. although somewhat hard to find credit. for figures a heart is worth around 1.

million in the. US on the black market on the black. market wow liers come in second worth. about 557 th000 kidneys cost about 262k. each um human skin if you want to do it. all Dustin I don't know what type of $10. an inch $10 an inch bro now look hey hey. I'm look look hey there's going to be a. limited amount of that that's all I'm. saying if if it's me dying bro.

stomach 500 eyeballs 1,500 each though. wow that's crazy and this is off of the. black. market Nick or is this um is this 2024. prices yeah yeah yesterday's price. they're saying it's from a kadav broker. so it's not like obviously no one's. taking official stats here but based on. their research of cadaver Brokers those. are the prices okay I have a cab in my. nose really yeah somebody's rib uh-uh. yeah cartilage dang that's lot think.

yeah bro if you yeah I've done cocaine. off a Bible that's kind of similar it's. not the same thing you have going on but. no no and we shouldn't have done it bro. yeah or you shouldn't have admitted it. yeah that's too late one of the other. dude did you see uh did you see the new. Roadhouse no I haven't but I will I. watch it I've been traveling so much man. yeah yeah you guys been busy since your. fight watch every week in La yeah I was. shooting some stuff out there um last. week Aspen the week before Carolina this.

week in Indiana I think for Anthony. Pettis oh he's fighting he's at a he's. got his own promotion and I'm a guess. appearance there so that'll be cool yeah. um Connecticut the weekend after and are. you cornering somebody over there no. just watching fights dang yeah that's. busy man um yeah you didn't see the. movie but you'll see it though yeah I'll. watch it I just haven't had time to. really yeah do you think uh what movie. would you be in you think you think you. would ever be well you just I know you. were out in La you were doing a movie.

right yeah we were filming a commercial. from movie monkey manh I don't know a. whole lot about it but it looks pretty. good yeah yeah um do you think you. that's something you like think about. for yourself or is it just like a fun. thing that kind of happened like I know. Conor's in this movie uh Conor McGregor. do you think about that for yourself or. I'd like to you know it's something. different like it's exciting because. I've never done it before it's a new. challenge keeps me busy I got to be busy. man that's my thing like I got to be. busy if I'm not getting ready to fight. somebody and I've said this a thousand. times I have to have some kind of.

obstacle you know to in front of me so. if I'm trying to do movies or grow my. businesses I just need to be in action. you know yeah yeah that's how you feel. have to yeah you just there's no if you. get complacent or if you what I'm like a. it's honestly bro I'm a danger to myself. when I'm have nothing no no goal circle. in my calendar I'm a danger to myself. man yeah yeah I be I beat myself up. mentally I I'm home I drink I'm it's. just not good I have to have some kind. of battle Yeah Yeah H and I've always.

been like that but like as I'm getting. older I'm kind of recognizing oh you can. see it more yeah so I kind of set set. goals so I stay busy you know oh that's. interesting yeah yeah CU I know in the. last uh yeah I know whenever you came. off of uh the gatei fight you were kind. of in a tough spot I guess at times oh. big time man that was probably like one. of the lowest points of my my life you. know mentally I really felt down did you. feel like so because now you're in a. place that feels different yeah back in. the wind column Everything feels like.

it's it's in in the motion like it. should be you know I just felt out of uh. out of sync with life after that last. fight yeah do you think that it's like. um because yeah I'll like a lot of times. determine how I feel about myself based. on what is happening like in my career. or in my uh social life sometimes or how. I think people are perceiving me you. know like do you notice for yourself was. any of that like about did you feel you. were depressed did you feel like it was.

like like were you able to get any. perspective on like what made you feel. bad kind of or no I I don't think I like. pinpointed what really brought me down. obviously getting kicked in the head. wasn't good but uh sorry yeah but U I. didn't want to laugh but God just made. me laugh right there yeah yeah uh it was. just a lot of things you know and like I. think I might have text you after as. well after that fight like I worked so. hard to like build myself up and be. successful and have a career and. fighting is tough you know and I feel.

like I've got myself to a point where. where I'm respected by my peers and. fighting and stuff like that and I feel. like when I got home from that loss it. was like the world is just going to. throw me away remember when I text you. that that's how I felt it's like I. worked so hard and and one night you. feel like boom everybody's throwing you. away now you know like everything I've. done before that feels like it doesn't. matter you know it just sucks it was. like a bad place to be in in myself you. know waking up every morning I was just. not happy wonder what makes us feel like. that cuz I can tot relate to that man.

like if it doesn't go good then I don't. have I'm not worth anything right I just. feel is that what it felt like H yeah. yeah and in fighting you like they say. You're only as good as your last fight. and then that's that's where the world. thinks about you your last performance. you know getting knocked out after I. built myself up so long so many crazy. fights and you know the struggle and the. grind to get there it just feels like. boom now everybody's looking at me like. that and just throwing me away damn but. that's why I put my nose to the. grindstone this last one and went not. there and touch that guy up yeah. yeah and what it it so like when you.

when you start like if CU I think so. many people can relate to that man I. mean I totally can like I remember we. were kind of texting about it like yeah. like I would pin so many of my uh like. who I feel like I am on how I do right. right or like um but then I'll start. feeling like like how did you uh like. how like how did you notice when it got. like too hectic or did you um what did. you do to start to turn that.

around you know my my wife really helped. me out through this last one um putting. things in perspective like like we were. saying you feel like the fight is your. life but it's just something I do you. know I'm a a father a husband a friend a. business owner a son a brother that's. who I am fighting is just something I do. you know so if you put in perspective. like that and I kind of switched my my. mindset of like everything's an. experience you know I'm thankful I got. to experience that fight week and the. and the down and the UPS of fight week.

and losing sucks but I got to fly home. in a different perspective looking back. you know because like losing sucks. especially when you work so hard and. fighting's like everything's into it you. know I put myself into this for real oh. yeah I remember sitting in your green. room after we were all sitting in there. oh yeah and literally it was. like it felt like we were at a funeral. in a weird way but you were right there. yeah it just felt like everybody felt. everybody I told everybody that in there. I said D this ain't a funeral now you. did you're like yeah yeah you're going.

around trying to boost people's you're. like hey I'm I'm you put on a black suit. and stuff still here I don't even know. where you got it we're all singing I can. still hear Mama praying somebody stood. up and was like he was a good man I'm. like I'm right here bro I'm right. here [ __ ] yeah I think that was somebody. trying to flirt with your wife at the. event too I don't know that might have. been saah your buddy yeah the demon yeah. yeah could yeah could have been the. demon definitely uh he loves to meet a.

lady but you know what you know what. taking uh that last loss what really. switch my mindset man is. uh I know who I am like losing you find. out who you are and and losing sucks but. in those moments like when you're down. it's a great time to experience you you. know cuz like when you're winning you. can get this momentum when things. everything's going good you can kind of. get in that Groove where you're just on. cruise control you know but when you. lose and the phone stops ringing and. you're at home laying in bed going to. sleep by yourself and everything the. dust settles you know that's when you.

experience yourself who you really are. you know and I think that's important. you know yeah was that tough did you. like what did you cuz that's yeah that's. scary because every moment of silence. thing you kind of like if something like. that happens to me like I have something. that's not good or feels like it's not. good I don't get the outcome that I want. any silence I hear after that I always. just it feels like yeah that uh. nothing's like it feels like the phone. isn't ringing but even it's just silence. it's just normal. but in my head I feel like oh the phone.

ain't ringing you know that's when. reality really sits in sets in you know. like when you're around a bunch of. people after after a loss and you're. talking and everybody's you know keeping. you busy your mind's busy but then you. go back to your house and you're by. yourself you know and you look in the. mirror and it's just you like that's. when it's real yeah yeah that's when the. phone's not ringing. yeah what uh yeah how rough did it get. like was there was there moments where. you're like okay I got to get some help. like what did you kind of help did you. get I started doing therapy I want to. speak to a therapist yeah there was some.

nights where I would just I just got up. and left my house like I just I couldn't. be here I just got up and left my house. and went to get a hotel room you know. got in my truck and just left you know. and I don't know why I don't have a. reason why I just felt like I had to it. was crazy man I I was going through it. yeah yeah and do you think it was just. that you were feeling like like would. was some of it like like Med like. medical or CTE related do you think or. do you have like do you have any. perspective on like what it was kind of. or do you think it was just I mean it.

could have been all of that you know I. definitely have head trauma I have 50. fights and uh yeah and you were yeah and. you're from freaking youngville from. Lafayette yeah Sor sorry sorry sorry. yeah but yeah we all have head trauma I. mean look bro if you born in [ __ ]. Louisiana yeah you come out with head TR. BR that's on the report yeah I'm sure I. it could have been all I don't know you. know I just wasn't in a good spot but. I'm good now that's what matters you. know and what about medication or. something like I take I was offhanded. presence for a while I cuz I was trying.

to not take them and then I got I was. like I just can't do this right now. life's too much I'm going to get on them. I guess I'm back on right now um but did. you have did you ever try any medication. or is that something that a lot of UFC. fighters do or do what is that like I'm. not sure I mean like the we're such. tough guys fighting we don't really talk. about that in the locker room or in the. gym we don't talk about like I'm feeling. down it's just shut the hell up in work. you know we got work to do you got a. fight to win we don't we don't sit. around and hold hands and talk about I'm.

not feeling well today yeah you're right. that's your point point it would be nice. if we opened up and kind of because I'm. sure a lot of people are going through. it and not talking about it but I've. never been like shied away from telling. people how I feel and stuff like that so. I I don't care I will talk about it yeah. yeah yeah yeah I feel like you try to. share when you can about what's going on. and I think that's one thing that's so. interesting about kind of what the past. like year of your life has been like is. that you were in a space where things. were so tough and you were having a.

tough time and then you get a victory. and some of that goes away but some of. it may still stick around so then you. get some better perspective as to what. that's like you know yeah it's just the. highs and lows like losing is the lowest. of the low then you win on pay-per-view. knock a guy out and you're back on the. mountain top it's just what a roller. coaster this is fighting you know yeah. yeah I'm thankful for it all though you. know it's giving me every giving me my. family everything we have yeah so I'm. I'm thankful for it the good and the bad. but I wouldn't recommend anybody. seek this as a career really.

no sorry be a doc go to school huh yeah. go to school go to college or something. yeah maybe that's the movie you could be. in man it would be like yeah media goes. to the swamp or something I'm trying to. think of a good since jyan Hall and. Connor had a movie what would be a good. poier. movie uh fried green cauliflower ears. maybe that's a good one that's a good. one Dustin goes to 10th grade we could. do I don't.

we could just do a a a movie about me. trying to get my GED all right there. go yeah there's like there's some scenes. where it's like you hear a choir just I. can still hear Mama praise I can do it. man that'd be awesome dude I get one um. who would play you in a movie I wonder. you ever think about that because DUS I. like John CLA Van. Dam I mean that's that's does that shoo. too high no I just think I don't know if. he can do the stuff you can I think he's.

getting older yeah he is but I'm Prime. like blood sport John Club yeah that. would be sick yeah but because one day. they could make a movie about you you. know I mean it could be like if I get. this [ __ ] gold belt we're going to. have to make a movie yeah yeah I. remember coming over your house when you. had the belt yeah yeah does it ever feel. like you didn't have it cuz there's so. many like they they they cuz you're. still interim. Champion yeah Champions not in it no and.

I beat a current champion at the time. who was the title holder when we fought. you know it's just I I feel like it was. a world championship but people's. opinions you know is is what it is yeah. um now that you have like a win and. you've had and you're it's a good place. and it it takes it like silences some of. that self-critic in our head and some of. that even fictional critique from other. people that some of it may be there and. some of it it may not yeah uh do you do.

you want to do you feel like do I want. to risk that again like do you think. about that at all yeah I do like where. am I at if I it doesn't go my way which. is likely you know it's fighting uh I. think I can I know I can beat anybody in. the world I believe in my skills but the. margin for error out there is one. mistake you wake up asking what happened. you know you think you you going to the. school bus stop you know you wake up. like I'm late for school no oh no you. dropped out yeah yeah sorry that's too.

many dustins not in school jokes um but. no that's that's one of the the some of. the best stuff about your story is that. you didn't even finish High School never. finished ninth grade yeah yeah yeah man. I always I love you and your wife's. story man it's all all of it so. hilarious to me dude there's so many. funny moments you guys have been through. together over the years yeah dude I. mean been together a long time been. living together since we were 18 so you. know she was there for the whole. fighting you know journey and uh it it's.

it's been fun man I I don't think I've. said this before but I don't think I. would be as successful of a fighter. without her oh yeah yeah yeah cuz even. like this last loss like she I put her. through so much stuff after that loss. and she was still there for me you know. every day right by my side like telling. me I'm the best in the world oh wow yeah. yeah man it's so important having that. huh for sure um and when I was younger. dude like I would have been cutting up. running the streets you know but I had a. a mortgage and a wife at home so I was.

home every night and at the gym the next. day so that you know right it's like a. blessing you don't even realize prob. yeah cuz I had I had to be home yeah you. know yeah CU you respons oh I would have. been drinking and partying and I didn't. do that you know right damn that's true. man it's so many little things that are. blessings that you don't you can't see. until you get some more perspective. sometimes right yeah dude one of my. there's that picture of you at the prom. do they have that when Dustin's in that. white uh that was her that was her uh so. I was living by myself when I was I had.

my own place at 17 years old and uh she. was living with her mom then yeah it. doesn't roll that was. her that was her senior. prom that [ __ ] is so good cuz everybody. remembers the dude that wore that to. their prom and that was the only one. type of dude that rolled up like that. bro that's so cool wow bro look at. that wow that's wild huh what a journey. y'all been on yeah man. dude you used to fight people at the.

police station I would here cuz it would. be so yeah I have fought somebody in the. yard or the grass of the police station. my my place I had when I was 17 was. directly across from Lafayette Police. Department yeah and uh one time this is. a crazy story but one time we went out. to a bar my brother was playing his. guitar there or something and uh a guy I. was with I didn't really know him well. he was a friend's friend yeah and he. stole somebody's purse at the bar and. then he got caught and called called out. for it and we're with him and I'm like. oh and then then we start walking back.

to the to my house and we just got into. it and fought but yeah yeah was it fun. like those street fights is that kind of. more fun or you like having a referee in. there I'd rather a referee yeahuh. especially nowadays man people are. shooting and stabbing yeah that's not. fair no um yeah cuz now you have the you. have the you're in a space now where you. can do you can run it back man you can. feel like you can do it again you can if.

you wanted to you could retire on a high. note people can retire whenever they. want yeah when I was 18 bro I told my. wife we made an agreement I wouldn't. fite past 35 and I had no at 18 I had no. idea what 35 looked like but now I'm 35. I'm like oh [ __ ] it's here I don't I. still feel good I don't want to stop you. know so we'll see I I I still feel good. and I compete with these young guys yeah. I I do it every day in the gym and I got. bumps and bruises I carry from so many. years of fighting had a couple surgeries. but I feel good so what do you think. what does it look like for you like are. they pushing I know you talked about. fighting um um hamsat uh Islam Islam um.

do you think that's gonna like what do. you think's going to happen we'll see. man I think uh this next pay-per-view. UFC 300 is going to they have um might. be an announcement no no no it's it's in. two weeks Max Holloway is fighting gatei. oh yeah I'm gonna go to it are you going. nah n I'm doing a viewing party in. Connecticut oh okay great um where's. that at just so people can come check. you out at the moan Sun gang gang at the. moan Sun um but there's two huge title.

fights on that card at I mean not title. fights two huge lightweight fights oh. yeah this could have a lot to do with. you guys armman versus Charles and then. uh gatei versus Holloway so that's some. big fights in the division we'll see. what happens after that. wow yeah because but I've you know I've. fought three of those four guys already. and two of them I fought twice. yeah I know huh yeah I fought Max twice. fought Justin twice and fought Charles. once do you have what kind of outcome.

would you prefer do you think I don't. really have a I I think people are are. kind of looking past Max a little bit I. think Max can beat Justin you know of. course Justin could win but Max is tough. his rhythm his range and his technique. on the feet you know unless Justin. wrestles a little bit I think Max can. pick him apart and stay on the outside. but that's what makes fighting so fun we. don't know until we watch. it and Charles and and Armen that can go. either way both great Grapplers I I. would think Charles would have a a.

Advantage standing up but we got to. see yeah because now if if if Max went. like yeah I'm just wondering where do. you because I got two wins over Max. right I just lost my last loss was to. Justin if Max beats him does he stay at. 55 or does he go back to. 45 what do you think like if you think. like do you feel like you have a certain. amount of fights left in you what is. that yet is it start to feel like that's. an interesting thought do you start to. feel like oh I think I I might have one.

or two left in there or do you think you. would get a definite feeling from. yourself when you're like I think so. right yeah I I don't even put a number. on it I just like even this last one how. I feel in the warm-up room how I feel. walking through the tunnel walking into. the crowd getting into the Octagon like. how I feel then I felt good you know I. felt like it wasn't time to stop right. so maybe next time you know if I feel. like that again then it's it's not time. to stop I don't want to put a number I. just put on on the way I feel yeah yeah. this episode is brought to you by prize.

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if you were going through like if there. were some real tough some of your. toughest times after uh the gaii fight. right before the BSD. fight how what was it that made you able. to stay. in like get ready for that next fight. because that's a space where honestly I. think a lot of people can relate to in. their lives like like God like I don't. feel I don't feel great right here or. you know there's something in my life. that's not perfect or that's not the way.

I wish it to be that's not my will you. know and how to get ready then for. something still that's. important like we were talking about. earlier I think just having a name. having a date to circle on my calendar. kind of put me in in the right direction. mentally like I knew I had something to. work towards it was a big challenge it's. a fight it's what I've been doing my. whole life like that kind of put me back. on the track where I needed to be. obviously practicing mindfulness and. speaking to therapy and talking to my. wife and stuff like that was helping. along the way but whenever I got the.

name and the date for this next fight. everything kind of clicked into all. right this is what what I need to be. doing wow yeah it really drowned out all. the the idleness of of sitting at home. or overthinking you know I had such a. big challenge in front of me that that's. all I focused on everything else like. blinders that's that's how fighting is. for me you know is that part of the. reasons why you also took that fight you. think cuz you're like yeah you're like I. need a goal right now y wow I was in the. spot it just happened they called where. I was in the spot of my life like and. mentally in a place where whatever name.

they called with I would say yes I just. needed to challenge you know cuz I. needed to be at war with something else. besides myself because I was fighting. myself every day yeah yeah man that's. fascinating yeah so many times I'll sit. around like fighting myself instead of. picking a like putting something on the. calendar that is something I could be a. goal yeah uh be a something I could try. and Conquer a challenge man yeah if I'm. not if I'm not at war with something I'm. at war with myself yeah me too bro. that's crazy yeah man and some I don't.

even realize it I'm sitting there I'm. pitching and hitting against I don't. even know what's going on yeah and. definitely down on the judges scorecards. yeah I'm not winning the decision yeah. bro I'll be the judge dude and I'll. [ __ ] be giving myself shitty [ __ ]. I'll be the judge and the jury yeah I. like this guy sucks he's guilty yeah. guilty man God that's the same way I am. man um but it's good too because that.

mindset and having that work problem it. if you focus it on something you could. really you know go far right right it's. it's that same it's a gift in a curse. yes you know but recognize it having. some ability to see it is also a gift. cuz when you're just in it and you're. just a victim of all that and you just. keep doing it you're reactive only. that's when it that's when it feels like. C it can feel catastrophic sometimes for. sure um but then also it can feel that's. the same stuff that D like just gives. you unending motivation you know right.

they have so do you have do you know for. yourself do you have a fight that you. want or you don't know yet I want to. fight for the belt you that's what I. want that's the last thing I have to do. in this sport is be the Undisputed world. champion after I do that anything you. can do in the sport I've done right you. know I have 30 fights in UFC been. fighting a long time before the UFC like. that's the last thing I have to do yeah. yeah but also I don't want to attach. myself to it too much to where if it. doesn't happen or if I never get another. title shot that I I judge my life's work.

on that you know like I don't want to. leave it like that so I'm just really. practicing trying to be content like in. the place and space that I'm in you know. yeah yeah dude I felt like when you won. that fight it's interesting how much. like I was in that bar like me and my um. uh comedian friend air we're in this bar. in Australia we're watching and I'm like. holding on to some guy in there I don't. even know like everybody's just people. were on their edge of their seat there. was like some guy left his wife right.

there in it like people were loot like. there was just so much going on man but. it felt like you almost felt the whole. planet it felt like taking exhale. like yeah like it felt like things were. possible that's what was craziest about. it I think and somebody had a great. tweet it was like uh Dustin for Humanity. and I was like man that's exactly how it. felt it was like the underdog came. through again man yes I think it made.

everybody just. feel like oh there's still things that. can happen in the world that uh like a. guy stands a fighting chance for sure. yeah dude I've I missed a bounce back. every time I take a l i come back you. know I come back and it's a challenge to. myself every time because I've never. lost two fights in a row getting knocked. out by gatei jumping right back in Camp. you know unsure the future what if I you. know I was in a bad place what if I lose. this fight where am I going to be at. then you know but to to get my hand.

raised and put on a performance like. that it's just like [ __ ] man hard work. pays off yeah dude that strut after what. did Trump say to you after the fight I I. was uh I couldn't hear what he was. saying I was talking to Dana and then I. was somebody sitting next to Dana was. telling me they bet like 200k on me or. something like that and I was trying to. get my 20% from him that's what I was. talking about yeah. yeah you're just walking around. collecting like hey always be closing. the work is done baby gotle it looks. like I'm talking to Trump but I'm. talking to somebody Dana and somebody.

sitting next to him oh I see yeah you're. doing good you're great you're. phenomenal vice president um yeah that's. unbelievable man. God what is that how soon do you after. you say you end up knocking someone out. what's the appropriate amount of time. where you have to go over there and. check on them well I I guess everyone's. different but he was kind of sitting. down for a while so and U the rles was. waiting for us to get in the middle so I. kind of helped him walk to the middle.

talk to him a little bit um it just. depends how bad it is and how much. they're moving you know right you never. know man that's so. wild um yeah because I guess can you. kind of tell how because you you've. having been having having been knocked. out or gotten knocked unconscious you. know what it's like I mean you guys have. that throughout your careers yeah you. cuz nobody's around Knockouts as much as. you guys do you start to gauge how well. a GU is after it kind of thing see like. I I've been in the corner of so many.

guys uh who have been knocked out and. I've been around fights for so long so I. kind of see when people go back to the. locker room and they don't even remember. what happened they keep asking the same. questions over and over again like. that's when you know it's it's it's. serious wow yeah so I didn't see I. didn't go to his locker room and speak. to him after so I don't know where he. was but he seemed like he shook back. pretty quick in there he was talking. pretty clear yeah yeah has um Dana and. sea have they offered you a title match. yet. no okay no I don't know what's next but.

I think right we're going to hear. soon you think that yeah I know oh that. seems interesting yeah news alert. breaking news yeah uh what about boxing. you see this stuff like do you start to. think as you get further in your career. that there's a lot of people. fighting going to boxing Tyson Pedro. just went to boxing did he yep wow he. just started um there's guys uh who go.

like um that'll fight like in the Jake. Paul C you know in that in that world. right do you see yourself ever doing. something like that would you ever count. something like that out or I just I'm 35. and I have you know I think five fights. six fights left on my current contract. with UFC I don't know if I'm ever going. to fight that out you know am I going to. fight six more times and become a free. agent I don't I don't know but I would. love to box yeah so even if you were to. go to boxing do you have does that UFC. have to have a part in that fight if I'm. well if you're still under contract if I.

fight whatever's left on my contract. then I'm free agent that can do whatever. I want right yeah but if not and there. there's not like a an equal parting then. even if you were to go do boxing like. Tyron Woodley went and boxed he was he. was out of his contract oh he was out of. his contract I think the only person. who's ever done that is Connor where UFC. was co-promoted it and got a cut of it. but it was such it was yeah against. Mayweather but it was such a big fight. everybody won you know that that makes. sense other than that I don't think the. UFC would like. let anybody do that yeah because it.

would open up a can of worm I think it. would just open up a crazy can of worms. where now Dana he doesn't want it. doesn't seem like help promote a lot of. that yeah and he's built the UFC the. brands it's so strong now I don't know. if they want to give any other brands. the rub by co-promoting and stuff like. that yeah and we fight mixed martial. arts you know boxing is a part of mixed. martial arts but it's a whole different. thing man do you think it would be. something like when you think about that. is it something that's kind of interest. you or do you feel like. uh I just like mixed martial arts.

because you're great on your you know. one of your like even with. BSD or BDS I can't remember but he um. BSD BSD he it felt like he didn't they. didn't want to have you on the feet that. much you know yeah it felt like it it. wasn't a preference of his just watching. it and every time we went to the ground. I took myself down I never got taken. down once by him I was jumping. Guillotines you know ending up on my. back I never got taken down but we we. worked wrestling really hard that camp. we thought he was going to be diving for. my legs you know he just seemed a little.

bit slow on the feet and uh you know if. you stand in front of me he didn't have. great head movement in his fights the. videos we watched if you stand in front. of me like I'm going to get you you know. something's going to land that's going. to hurt you especially over five rounds. that's why I asked the UFC for it to be. 25-minute fight I didn't want to do. three rounds cuz if this guy pushes me. against the fence and I lose one round. right you know like I I think the better. fighter wins over the long run so I I. asked them for five rounds and they gave. it to us. yeah what is that what are those moments.

like when you're just up against the. fence and it just feels like it feels. like two neighbors kind of just. like are like having an issue about some. bro fighting is is like when you're not. touching each other like when you're. squared off like fainting and throwing. punches that's just like it's it's. chaotic but when you get to the fence or. you get on the ground and you're kind of. you know pummeling and stuff like that. that's when like reality sets in where. you get like a Moment of clarity like oh. [ __ ] this is happening oh damn I'm. against the fence he's kneeing me but. like you don't think you don't have time. to think when you're fighting like if.

you're scrambling on the ground or or. throwing combinations and blocking kicks. and fire and punches back it's it's kind. of chaotic you're not thinking you're. just reacting but whenever you get to. the fence and a guy's clinching you and. you have time to think you're like oh. [ __ ] that's when it sets in this is. happening wow yeah because you almost. have moments there's times where you see. the fighters kind of look around or. they'll they'll just be locked in a. moment and they'll just kind of engage. with somebody almost or yeah it's it's. it's surreal like when that Moment of. clarity sets in when when the fight. slows down a little bit it's it's pretty. crazy man cuz then you can hear the.

crowd and it it's sometimes I can hear. the commentators like I hear Joe Rogan. through the fence talking it's it's it's. crazy um if boxing yeah so who would you. fight if you had to do a celebrity. boxing match do you have any thoughts on. it ever Biden maybe oh. dude yeah he's already he already lost. that one true the Bell might wobble him. when it starts you ready fight ding he's. like oh. [ __ ] yeah I think even if they let him. use like 12-year-old kid just smelling. salts though I think he might bounce.

back you know or fight Hunter Biden oh. that would be a good one coked up sure. yeah that would be a good one I'd hate. to fight all coked. up yeah it' be the worst um yeah I'm. trying to think of something else I was. going to ask you about they should do. Trump Biden they should do yeah yeah. yeah that'll be a going that' be a. pay-per-view. Blockbuster yeah I wonder who would act. actually well Trump would probably win I. think from pushing him over I don't know.

if Trump trump has does this he has like. that seems a little bit more ponist out. yeah yeah yeah he might have a little. bit. more um I'd bet the money line on that. one. Trump did you uh can you bet on yourself. legally I used to be able to um ever. since like maybe a year ago they put in. that that claw or that rule we can't so. I completely stopped but I still bet on. boxing and football and stuff can anyone. in your house that could be I bet on. sorry to cut you off I bet on myself a.

bunch of times coming up yeah like when. I first started fighting in Vegas you. know oh yeah really what's the most that. you ever bet on yourself you think not. much maybe 500,000 maybe that's a lot. though when you're coming up yeah that. was a lot that's a lot dude I don't know. if I've ever laid a$ thousand dollar on. somebody maybe I have I can't I can't. get in one of my accounts so I haven't. been able to bet on you in a long time. but that last one would have been a good. one I know I think by knockout I was. like plus 370 oh God. I gotta [ __ ] figure out I think they. stole my money but um but yeah I don't.

even know what company it was but yeah. um what do you think man I was going to. say this a lot of people are talking. about aliens all the time and I'm. talking about Joe Rogan but um if they. attack us right and we have to send five. UFC fighters to save the planet you get. to go right and you have to pick four to. go with you who you think you got like. current Fighters are just all time o. let's say current just to keep it yeah.

Jon Jones for sure oh yeah J Jones for. sure why because of the length he's he's. the best that do it right yeah and he's. big and he's big yeah so we got that. maybe maybe get a small person we need. like a 125 or something maybe the champ. Pantoja so we got a we got a big guy got. a small guy Pantoja speaks Spanish too. and I don't know what aliens speak but. that's good to have some diversity on. our side maybe toss a girl in there too. yeah cuz we you never know yeah who's. the new girl that just came over from.

pfl yeah Kayla Harrison K har toss her. on the team too yeah yeah okay so you. got Kayla Harrison Jon Jones Pantagis. Pantoja pantoes sorry all right and uh. damn do we need another big guy you. think how big are these aliens well I'll. say this a lot of them they're lateral. movement struggles but they uh they can. like blink in order. Starbucks so it's a lot of mental game. you might need a. dang I'd bring gatei you know I'd bring.

gatei yeah you guys are warriors he can. go on the front line like the wrecking. ball just we'll send him over first yeah. there you go yeah yeah you they they. asked for somebody else but you just. tell them it was him and just [ __ ] go. you over there butd yeah he would go. anyway man one of the best things I ever. saw was like one of the first UFC fights. I ever went to he's just back he's in. the backstage and literally just walking. around looking almost looking like he to. fight anybody he's like I'm ready to. fight anybody he was fighting that night. no he wasn't that was a crazy part but.

it was just like showing up like showing. I'm ready you know it seems like there's. a lot of like um like because you just. get so few chances to show your shine. and your sport well every F dude every. time we go out there it's the Super Bowl. you know it's not like we have we train. three four months to prepare for this. moment it could be 15 or 25 minutes The. Whole World's watching there's no redos. there's no finger pointing my you know. my teammates weren't picking up the. slack or whatever it's all you and if. you lose it's going to be a while till.

you get that opportunity again so. everyone's a Super Bowl you know it's. such every fight's the biggest fight. damn it's exciting but it's it's scary. at the same time yeah yeah I think. that's what makes it so uh appealing to. so many people I mean the Sport's grown. so much since you've been in it have you. felt that as a competitor 100% really. yeah big time not as as a competitor but. like as a fan of the sport and just. watching it grow in the F the new fan. base you know cuz when I first started. it was older like older men watching.

this now kids and even grandmothers are. talking about fighting at the grocery. store you know if I go get some. groceries right now I'm going to run. into somebody and it can be back in the. day it was just like old dudes with. beards you know talking about MMA now. it's such a big sport everybody's kids. are talking about it soccer moms are. talking about it it's cool to see the. grow the the growth but it's just crazy. the different wave of fans that come in. with that you know did you feel the. growth like being in the ring and stuff. has has the size of venues that you guys. have been in Chang and stuff too over.

the years or what been like the crowds. well when I first started fighting in. Vegas it was at the Palms it might have. I don't even know 1500 2,000 at the at. the uh yeah really and it was that was. the UFC fight night that was WC UFC they. they did big events like 10,000 or they. go to the MGM or the Mandalay they might. have like 18,000 it was big but they. would only do pay-per-views every few. months you know now there's a fight. every week yeah every week that's. another thing that was cool at the. beginning of fighting too when I first. got to the UFC like you win a big fight. it that win that high lasted for months.

because that's how long it was until the. next event oh so you yeah you got to be. the real the everybody's still talking. about that last card now you win on a. Saturday it's already you you by the. time you fly back home it's fight week. again for somebody you know so the the. focus of the media and everything. switches to the new the new guys coming. up so I I've noticed that big time yeah. it's kind of a blessing and a curse cuz. also then if you don't get the win it's. like that goes away pretty quick too. right cuz somebody's getting [ __ ] up. the next Saturday. yeah yeah and you're almost hoping. somebody gets really [ __ ] up so that.

people forget quicker yeah I hope. somebody gets kicked in the head that. way they're talking about that one you. know. yeah yeah I remember that because I. remember Dominic Dominic Rey Reay uh. Reyes no Dominick Cruz also got a head a. head kick that went uh Cheeto Cheeto. that was against Cheeto huh yeah cheo's. a cool dude man yeah Cheeto is a neat. guy man oh it was it was powerful to see. him go against Shaner just stay in there. dude he took some damage man he did that.

knee I had to rewatch it cuz I was doing. media right after the fight so I missed. it but I went home and watched it and. yeah it made my throat hurt for some. reason he he's never been finished bro. never yeah I think he wanted to stand on. that it was amazing now Sean was just. like oh my God Pez dispenser bro I feel. like yeah I feel like you that ain't. good for you somebody just opened up a. pean yeah cracked the pecan right there.

remember that sound bro oh yeah you guys. have pecan trees in your yard growing up. yeah I used to uh gather them up and and. go sell them so I could that was beer. money was it oh yeah yeah bro yeah when. I was growing up dude a sack of peans. was something nice dude I don't even. know what they're going for now but I. used to have the tools where you it. rolls on the ground and Picks Them Up. yeah yeah dude we used to go pick him up. my buddy Robert he was thought he he was. kind of his parents thought he was. haunted or whatever cuz he had some his.

mom was a nurse or whatever but his dad. was out of work but they uh he we would. go over to his house they had a couple. pecan trees yeah man we go pick them up. and sometimes you get them maybe a. little too uh early yeah the green. they're bitter yeah you still have it. but you don't you wish you hadn't had it. yeah sometimes you got to shake the tree. to make them fall too really damn now. never threw threw like sticks up in the. tree to no we throw sticks but I wasn't. over there just [ __ ] shaking that. [ __ ] dude oh yeah climb up get on a. brand shake them down Tai to iasa or.

somebody he shake it those [ __ ] up. yeah like Louisiana we the only people. that call them peans everywhere it's pan. and you've traveled a lot I hear pecan a. lot you hear pcan outside of no that's. true I don't oh look at this right here. about to shake that bad boy oh yeah Mr. weather all look at this. thing I don't know what's going on here. man this dude this looks like he's look. at that oo shorty get look at look at.

all them peons falling bro Twerk. Team shy getting Wicked huh shaking them. branches boy damn they need to do a Mr. weatherall remix to this then look at. that that thing shake what your mama. gave you know what I mean bro that's. crazy I wonder how many it says they got. did it say that's unbel I mean that's. thousands of pecans falling cuz you know. the green thing that goes around them. you know when they're they're ready it. opens up it looks like and then it has a. shell in there right but if you shake. that when they're open like that bro. they're all. fall bro peans were so good sometimes.

you would get them at the right exact. time and it would be a little bit sweet. yeah oh that was so nice bro I loved. having that I like them fresh like that. yeah get your a little snack they were. pretty good um what we got in the news. nick uh Drake gifted sexy red aen Ross J. Cole and 21 Savage a heart chain but. many people did not think it looked like. a heart oh wow that's a.

scrotum yeah bro that's a different set. of bean bag right there yeah yeah yeah. that's a it's got veins on it and. everything damn he gave that to people. to wear on their. neck dude I'm not wearing some mixed. guys nuts on my. neck okay I don't know how I don't care. what if even if it matches with a belt I. have you ever see the big trucks with. the with the balls hanging off the back. on the the a toe that's what that looks. like bro I is that some kind of an.

ownership thing if you send somebody's. nuts to. somebody that to me seems like I. wouldn't like if somebody sent me their. nuts even if it was a hero of mine you. know even if it was. damn. uh trying to think of. somebody Willie Nelson or. whatever right if that dude sends me a. golden nuts I ain't wearing them [ __ ]. dude I love him but I'm not wearing them. [ __ ] what if what if Lance arm song.

send you one. nut would you wear that I'd wear maybe. it's just a earring. yeah especially if I'm biking I'd wear. that [ __ ] just one solo bro having one. n has to be cool it's almost like. mistletoe I feel like you know I feel. like at that point ah yeah yeah I would. I think having one nut has got to be. like a unique Thing Two Nuts I don't. want more than two I know that yeah not. two is a perfect amount yeah two really.

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supporting this. podcast um what else we got in the news. nick uh Governor de santis uh enacted a. social media ban for children under. 14 uh it's supposed to go into effect. January 1st and uh kids 14 to 16 need. their parents' permission my wife was. just talking about that really yeah. Florida Governor Ronda to signed one of. the country's most restrictive social. media bills in the law Monday Banning. children under the age of 14 from having. accounts and requiring children age 14.

to 16 have parental consent to hold one. huh what do you think about that you. guys have a child D what's that like for. you do you think about this kind of. stuff and the effects it could have on. your kid for sure man yeah we do and uh. she she's not on social media or. anything like that but she does have a. an iPad we give her on the weekend she. can use like Friday night Saturday night. when she's out of school she's on it you. know or if we're traveling she'll watch. movies and play games on her iPad but. yeah I don't think it's good you know. like being at that age 14 start you know.

High. School your friends and and who's. popular at school you know it affects. you like you're I don't know it's hard. to put into words but it's it's a big. deal man think about how tough it was. without this yeah now now you have this. and it's just you see the bullying and. stuff like that on there I don't think a. kid can handle all that yeah I agree I. mean well they have so many kids that. like have had taken their lives had a. lot of issues with online bullying and. as a parent the scary thing as a parent. you don't even know it's happening.

sometimes I think so that's probably one. of the things I think would probably be. good if they had but also like raising a. a kid all of her friends are going to be. on social media when they when they get. that age and she might be the the weird. one out if we don't let her it's it's a. weird place to be in yeah yeah I think a. lot of parents don't set controls on. their kids social media they just think. the kid isn't going to get into stuff. you know yeah um but I think yeah I. don't have any children but yeah would. seem like as a parent you got to make. those choices cuz your child's not. really going to you know they're going. to make some of them but you got to.

really look out for your kid at all in. every space yeah and that's crazy cuz. somebody could get to your child through. social media it's just so wild you know. right and just the stuff they're exposed. to man The Internet's a wild place oh. it's horrible dude she has like kids. YouTube we have like the parental uh. settings and stuff on that she can go on. YouTube on our on our stuff but yeah I. don't want her seeing even some stuff on. YouTube is crazy yeah yeah oh yeah um. what else did I say oh I saw that kid.

still hitting home runs you see that kid. Big Al remember him Big Al no the. children's uh he was a. um. child an Italian child I think he's. remember he hits uh what did he call. it this guy uh would hit home runs all. the time hi my name's Alfred deia at. home call me Big Al and I hit dingers hi. my name is Alfred deia at home they call.

me Big Al and I hit dingers and he grew. up oh it's him as an adult yeah he's. still hitting dingers. dingers that's got to be heavy for kids. yeah I think kids yeah cuz if something. happens to you when you're a kid and it. goes big on social media then you're. that kid forever if you're like the kid. that like yells a slur or something or. call somebody a uh gy or something when. they're on like Dental gas or whatever. and. then that's who you are forever like you.

can run for Mar years later on that you. know gas will get you oh God that [ __ ]. is fun. huh you ever get any good gas any good. stuff to Huff out there whippits back in. the day not the not the dental gas back. when I used to work at a restaurant we. used to crack them whippits oh dude the. whipped cream whenever they finally put. it on dessert that [ __ ] was just just. kind of dribbling out of it was. dribbling out of my lungs. yeah bro there was nothing left for. there was no whipped cream left for your.

dessert no man um what's the number one. fight that you would make outside of. your division is there a fight. that I really want to see the 145 pound. champ Toria I want to see him fight Max. you do yeah cuz like vul was the only. guy Max couldn't beat at 45 he's you. know pretty much cleaned out the. division now there's a new Young Blood. great Striker good Grappler I think that. would be an incredible Fight Man Max. versus Toria yeah that's wild cuz who. just called him out too sugar Shan just.

called him out out to oh that would be a. good one too yeah yeah that would be a. good one do Max and sugar Shawn are they. in the same no Max is 45 Shawn's 135. okay wow but Shawn's pretty tall you. know pretty decent size for the division. but Max is a lot thicker than him so but. Shawn might move up out of his Division. I don't know I I'm not sure yeah he's he. was talking about it do you think about. that for any more of your fights or you. you happy in your division I'm happy. like a lot of people wanted me to go up. to 170 mhm but dude like this morning I.

weighed myself when I woke up I was 173. you know I can't I can't fight at 170. PBS those guys are going to rehydrate. and be 190 for a fight night you know. yeah like at the top at the highest. level a guy with 20 pounds on you on. Fight Night you know in grappling. positions and side control half guard. it's just that weight really matters. when guys know how to use it yeah. yeah what about um this guy you ever. heard him blood diamond is his. name yeah hea's friend yeah yeah I don't.

I I think I've seen him fight but I. don't know much about him I wonder if. there' ever be a fight for like the real. you know the. less you know the the he's a 55 no what. is he's. 1 170 if you ever go up just. to put an end to the like I I would. fight at 17 if it was like a really. really big fight but I'm not trying to. make a run in the welterweight division. man those guys are are huge yeah I used.

to get a lot heavier though like the. last couple years I've been walking. around a lot lighter really yeah outside. of training camp I've been eating clean. you know before I would get in shape. during camp and then after the fight eat. pizza every day and and enjoy life you. know but I've the older I got the easier. it is for me to just eat healthy and be. all right I don't need to eat all that. crazy stuff right you just start caring. about you you you just start having a. more of a general care about yourself um. what else oh yeah I saw this right here. Fury as parents offered version of.

school class photo without complex needs. pupils so you can get you can pay more. money and if your school has like. special needs kids or whatever they'll. take them out of the photos at. school huh I mean that's crazy to me. dude that's it's just everything you got. to pay for now soon they're going to. make it they're going to start every kid. is on crutches in the picture right so. and if you pay a little bit more then a.

couple kids come off crutches then. somebody gets uh you know somebody will. get every kid like loses like body hair. or whatever just it's going to get I. feel like you have to keep paying to get. an actual picture of your child you know. yeah no I didn't I didn't see. that but yeah everybody's going to start. in a wheelchair and the more you pay. then you finally get get the crutches. from the wheelchair a boot no crutches. yeah we keep moving just an arm brace. yeah shoulder sling the more you pay. yeah neck brace right.

um that's ridiculous oh man um yeah what. do you feel like man do you feel like. you're getting towards the end of your. career do you feel like you're just. you're figuring it out do you feel like. it's up to you do you feel like it's up. to the UFC what does it what does it. feel like kind of it's definitely up to. me and uh you know my my wife my coaches. they want me to keep going my wife wants. me to stop and my coaches no I still. have it um I'm just taking it one fight.

at a time I still feel good like I said. my wife wants me to stop though my. daughter wants me to stop too oh she. does yeah what did she say what you yeah. well like what is that like cuz at a. certain point it kind of turns on for. your kid what's going on she's old. enough now she knows that I fight you. know she knows what it is um and she. wants me to be home you know I'm when I. do camps I'm going for 8 weeks they'll. come out for two weeks we try not to do. more than two weeks apart so I'll do. like the first two weeks and they'll. meet me and I'll the last two weeks but. uh she doesn't want me to fight anymore. she doesn't want to see me come home.

with stitches you know since since she. was a baby she's been like pulling. stitches out of my face and stuff after. fights oh that's insane yeah it's almost. that's almost like um on uh lady in the. [ __ ] when the kids meet at the. spaghetti or something a little bit it's. a different version of that yeah where. the puppies meet or whatever um what's. your favorite business you have you you. got involved in some businesses outside. of work man what's that been like for. you becoming more of like a business guy. is that enough of a thing to entertain.

you enough outside of the sport and to. keep you busy enough like has that. started to tip the scales enough I think. that's another thing that happens in. people's lives who also have the. opportunity to get into business is at a. certain point uh the business you know. can start to become a something that. still um appeases them and makes them. feel you know like busy like you like to. to stay busy yeah but it's about balance. like I can't do too much of the business.

because it takes away from the fighting. and fighting is still my main thing but. the business stuff keeps me busy it's. fun it's new you know I'm learning a lot. um have the hot sauce have a bourbon. have a liquor store in. Lafayette um hop water I'm I'm uh. partner with them you know just have a. lot of stuff going on outside of. fighting that keeps me busy and uh it's. that's good man you know like I said I. have to be busy I have to be busy yeah. but it's but it's balance. yeah it's balance so right now you train. right now yeah I'm g go box tonight and.

uh this Friday I'm G do Jiu-Jitsu but. I'm still training okay. um Five Mile Fri what do yall do five. mile Sundays Five Mile Sundays yeah yeah. man miles is fun huh yeah I do it fasted. like at the end of my training camp I do. 24-hour fast and then finish it my fast. with the run then I'll break my fast you. know like for run madon or whatever not. huh that's not it no no it's similar. yeah yeah somebody was doing that yeah. at this Vape.

Shop it is Ramadan right now yeah it's. got to be yeah this [ __ ] guy wouldn't. shut up about it air probably know huh. yeah could have been air but yeah this. guy get [ __ ] vaping I'm like dude if. you vape enough [ __ ] watermelon. that's counts as eating if you do 200. Puffs dude that's counts as eating March. 10th April 9th what other Avenue can we. go down here Dustin is there something. else that you want to think about or. like that how have how have uh you've. been doing man um I've been doing pretty.

good dude I think you know I. still yeah everything's been fun I think. sometimes I get busy with work and it. feels like I don't even know what I'm. doing kind you're just going almost. going through the motion sometimes so. it's like uh that feels tough sometime. or it just feels like a challenge I. guess like am I doing anything that. means anything or am I just like showing. up to work each day like clocking in.

yeah even though it's your own job and. things you want to be doing it still. like can sometimes feels like that um. what else yeah I still have a lot of. trouble like feeling like proud of. myself you know I think about that kind. of stuff a. lot and I talked about that with people. on the podcast just like what it's like. to it's just so hard for me to like. people are always like man you should. take a moment and just feel happy it's. like. it just I always want to there's always. a part of me that's trying to figure out.

the next thing you know it's really hard. to just feel good about something you. know yeah so I don't know what that's. about. um what else outside of that show your. show's going good in Louisiana yeah dude. we had fun that was some of my best. shows man I know you guys came out to. the last one at Uno and uh and that was. awesome we still have a lot of people. that talk about that you were there I. ran into a guy at the gym the other day. he's like yeah you brought out Dustin.

that was awesome um but we had some. great shows this weekend nice um I just. got a cyber truck too oh you were. telling me that yeah you got it yeah how. is it it's wild bro I mean for one you. feel like you kind of work at Lowe's. kind of a little because it feels like. you're supposed to be like delivering. something to somebody but you never drop. it off what do you put back there I. don't it no it's just the whole car. feels a little bit like a appliance yeah. so it that it feels like um it feels.

like sometimes somebody's just going to. open up the back and just put a TV. dinner in it you know it's it just has. this like kind of or just put a load of. laundry in there just press a button you. know it has an applianc kind of feel but. then it makes this sound when you go. fast and it literally feels like you're. going into the. future nice and some people don't know. what it is like there was a guy who like. I don't know if he was homeless or not. but he just he just seemed really. homeless and he he was like what is.

it what is it you know and then he just. kind of started yelling at it and just. cracked a beer open and I was like. God like some I feel a little bit like. cuz people look over at it and then well. first I thought the windows were tinted. right and they're. not so I'm like Elon [ __ ] how much. just tent these windows probably like. 100 112 bucks bro and I ordered this. [ __ ] do it for you yeah oh yeah you got.

a buddy here will do it oh yeah yeah bro. I got to pull up on somebody bro get. some of that swamp Darkness on it bro. just get it a little bit brackish you. know yeah yeah um sure but so that's. interesting I think I was a little bit. embarrassed like At first like CU. everybody looks at it and you kind of. don't want to be the center of attention. sometimes so you're like and and yeah. and I thought it was so I'm in there. like just being alive and [ __ ] and. you're like oh everybody can see in here. I thought nobody could see in cuz people.

would be at stoplights just recording a. lot of times and i' be like I'm safe in. here you know and then I'm not and so. that was dumb but um yeah what's it. like it definitely feels like the future. some it looks like the future yeah they. have the they have big tires on them. right yeah the tires feel like they. almost feel like they're from like a. some vehicle out of like a. um sci-fi movie or something yeah it's. got a Sci-Fi kind of feel to it I've.

only seen once uh one in person yeah in. Miami yeah you did yeah was it what was. yeah what was it like At first I was. like I don't know how I feel about it. but it's growing on me for sure it's it. looks strange to me it's cool it's. different yeah I was surprised I ordered. it four years ago and I got home and um. my buddy John shahii is close with Elon. and they uh just got me like a early. yeah I ordered it four years ago I think. when did that order go out.

for Tesla first I didn't even know about. him four years ago yeah they started. taking orders yeah Tesla can be. 2019 I'll put that $100 down on that. site yeah because you got to think even. if a million people put on that's a 100. million bucks they made right there it's. a lot of trucks to make's call in. October must said demand was off the. charts over 100 1 million people have. paid $100 fundable deposit the. truck. um so you think there's so there's news. we're going to hear D and that's what.

I'm feeling out of you or is that we'll. see we'll. see we'll see okay that's fair man uh. cool bro you're GNA be uh people can. come and see you with Anthony Pettis. yeah uh in Indiana next weekend Anthony. Pettis has his own fight promotion. they're doing a big event up there I'll. be watching uh fights with the fans. signing autographs hanging out. okay um and also UFC 300 I'll be at the. moan Sun doing a viewing party there a.

big sports book there so we're going to. be watching the fights okay Bet oh nice. man um and then you're going are you. gonna go see um Thiago fight this week. so yeah thiago's fighting Perry Mike. Perry huh yeah in La I want to go to it. I'm just not sure yet yeah God that's. gonna be wild yeah it's going to be. insane bro is this thiago's first bare. knuckle fight no no he was a champion oh. he was oh I got to get up on game man. yeah have you ever been to a bar Knuckle. Event no bro it's different I don't know.

if I'm ready like the bone on bone oh. man it's rough it's rough oh yeah H. there's a got to be there he is right. there oh my. God there's got a lot of organ donors in. there dude Thiago is so tough man he's a. vet legend of the game great coach as. well the nicest guy I would NE if you. didn't tell me that he was I would not. even think it yeah he's solid man. wow I think that last fight though he. like came to the gym the next week his. hand looked like a balloon that you you.

like a a glove doctor glove that you. blow up or something it was just like. puffy he broke his fingers and Knuckles. [Music]. and yeah that's wow that's going to be a. war man isn't it so amazing how uh Mike. Perry has found such a home in this. sport this is perfect for him man that's. he's the face of be knuckle fighting now. you know so wild yeah his style and his. grit just how crazy he is this is. perfect for him yeah it's amazing how it. all kind of like things evolve where.

there is a space for everybody you know. yeah he found his spot for sure wasn't. Gerard meart just in this too no he's. still in the UFC oh he is yeah that was. uh Luke. rockold oh yeah rockhold's fighting this. week or something you just fought no I. think he's fighting uh karate uh Combat. versus Joe Schilling oh those are. interesting I haven't been in one of. those you been in one of those no I. never been in one. yeah um it's pretty much just like MMA. except they might only grapple for a.

couple seconds if it goes to the ground. so it's just like kickboxing with small. gloves yeah there you go oh that' be. interesting that's going to be a good. one man. yeah uh Dustin porier man good to see. you bro thank you so much for just the. fights over the years giving us all like. just just yeah man just so been so fun. to be along for some of your journey and. um yeah yeah just give us inspiration. man you know you give so much. inspiration to us no matter your outcome. I think these days that it's there's a.

lot of times I want to give up and I'll. just think of how you are and I don't do. it you know and so I just want to say. thank you on behalf of I know not just. myself man thank you man so we. appreciate you bro um excited to see. what happens next bro buddy in all. facets baby yeah we'll see what happens. this this coming weekend or two weeks. away at UFC 300 I think that's going to. shake the division up a little bit and. we'll see what's next let's. go strappy Gilmore I will [ __ ] punch.

somebody's [ __ ] step husband out [ __ ]. um Dustin poier thank you so much. bro now I'm just floating on the breeze. and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be. [Music]. Cornerstone oh but when I reach that. ground I'll share this piece of mind I. found I can feel it in my. bones but it's going to take.