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Michael the Count Bisbing and Anthony Lionheart Smith.

I am tired today.

Me, too.

It's almost like I'm in training camp, but I'm not in training camp. You are, though, so I can't speak about being tired. How is training going, Anthony?

It's going good. It's going really good, man. I feel really good. I'm in really good shape, and I'm feeling sharp. We got a real game plan that's really coming together. That works for me. And I'm excited. I'm really excited. I feel really good.

Good. You sent us some inside info on training camp, which we won't divulge, but you're feeling good. Cardio is the main thing, so kill it for these last two weeks, brother. UFC three are one. No change on the main event. Not that that's a bad main event. Pantoja is a phenomenal fighter. Steve Ursake, three wins in a row. Last time, a stunning knockout, but still. It's still looking like that from your inside info?

Yeah, that's what it sounds like. Sounds like the main card is set. I like Pantosa. I like watching him fight, and I think that. I know, like, the Ursic Pantosa fight. Isn't that that really big name, you know? But I think it's a great fight. I think Erskyk is really good. Yeah.

Yeah. And Pantoja is so exciting. He really is. It got me thinking, though. Is that, like, one of the quickest ascensions to fighting for the belt ever? You know, it's gotta be. So I did some research. Well, Ronda Rousey got a UFC title fight on her debut. So that was quicker.

Well, she got a title without fighting.

Oh, no, that's why she did. She was giving it before she signed. Okay. Yeah. So that was disqualified. Then we had Anderson Silva got it after beating Chris Leben on his second fight.

Yeah. Yeah.

Brock Lesnar was quick, I think. Third fight, lost to Frank, beat Randy, then fought.

You know, I think he fought Frank again. No. Wait, didn't he be the title?

Yeah. Beat Randy for the title. Yeah, of course. What am I thinking?

What are some other ones he fought that, um. He fought one, he fought mere, then another guy, then mirror again. I think I've got.

I've got. I've got. I've got the list that I did right here. But how much can. Go ahead and talk.

Well, I was going to say Yuri Prochaska was.

Was very quick.

Yuri pro Hasker was quick. Okay, here's the five that wrote down. Brock Lesnar at five, Holly Holmes at 4281 days, Quinton rampage Jackson at two. He had one win over Marvin Eastman. Marvin Eastman, the beastman. And then he knocked out Chuck Liddell in stunning fashion. Number one, Anderson Silver after beating Chris Weidman. But anyway, that's not what we're here to talk about. Welcome to the show, everybody. Big show planned, of course, Anthony Smith with us. We have also Armin Saruki from UFC 300. He'll be joining us in about 20 minutes or so. So I never saw it, but I saw the highlights. I'm talking about Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney. Did you watch it, Anthony?

I watched the. I watched the first three rounds. And then just the highlights.

Yeah, yeah, I saw the highlights. I know Garcia was at.

I was at a wedding.

Oh, we're going to get to that story. In fact, fuck it. Never mind Ryan Garcia. Give us the lowdown on this. You're not going to believe this, people.

There we go. Lost my ears. So I. I leave here, I go to Denver, or I'm in Denver and I'm telling my wife, like, oh, maybe I should just fly home and just spend the weekend with the kids. You're going to this wedding. Just have a good time, and I'll. And I'll just see you on Sunday. So, of course, she does the wife thing, talks me to go in Arizona, which actually turned out to be really good because you know Javier Torres, right? Yeah. So Javier trains a couple. Couple big UFC heavyweights. So I went and drove an hour on Saturday morning at, like, seven and went and trained with those guys. Had an awesome training session. So I'm glad I went. I'll make the long story shorter, but please, once. There's a bunch of drama going on during this wedding, right? And the bride, she's a wonderful, very, very sweet lady. Like, really awesome person. Groom turns out to be some huge piece of shit, and he's treating her like shit. He leaves her at the. At the rehearsal dinner. Then he's, like, not gonna show up to the wedding because of some bullshit argument they had.

Long story short, he sure shows up, starts trashing everyone, his. Him and his brother, talking shit to all the bridesmaids, calling them whores, talking shit to my wife. Me and all the other husbands show up angry, like, about to fight everybody, and then they end up calling the wedding off. So a half hour after it was supposed to start, her poor dad had to go out there and announce to 150 people that this wedding isn't happening.

Oh, my God. I mean, it was beautiful to.

Everything was so set up. It was like at this winery. It was so. It was sad, but it turns out, like, it.

$100,000 wedding.

$100,000 wedding. Yeah. Number one.

That's a ridiculous amount of money to just waste like that. Why do you think I would. Listen, if they're gonna get married and we're not gonna die, set their relationship because they're friends of yours? But you brought it up, not me. Do you think subconsciously that he was doing that on purpose? Because that's what it sounds like. Because if she's going to marry him, I'm assuming he had some endearing qualities going into this.

Yeah, I don't think so. I think that, uh, I think he sabotaged it a little bit and just doing some controlling shit, but I think that. I think she already had questions about it. Like, was already kind of having some second thoughts. And then once all of her friends and family are there, I think she kind of had, like, a tribe of people that were sticking up for her, being like, you don't have to do this. And I think she had the, you know, gave her the courage to say, no, I'm not doing this shit. And I think it worked out for the best, to be honest with you. I. With all the stuff that's come out afterwards, it sounds like, best case, I think she dodged a bullet, but it was. That's kind of like the shit you see in movies, you know?

No, no, no, it is. But you know what? It takes a lot of.

We had a lot of fun, though, afterwards. Like, her dad said, he's on the microphone and said, you guys can stay. We're still gonna have a party. And so, like, we. We had food at the reception and hung out. They've. DJ played music. Most of his family and friends left, but we all.

Yeah, so the dad's not listening. The food and booze, that's paid for, so we're gonna be consuming. That actually takes a lot of courage to do that because, you know, if, you know, you. You set the wheels in motion, you pay for everything. You book the DJ, you get the food, you do the rehearsals, you do all of that stuff.

Bachelorette party.

Like, bachelorette party.

Hair, makeup, dresses, everything.

And then at the last minute to say, you know what? Actually, this isn't right. This isn't for me. And I feel like a lot of people, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience. I have one experience that shall remain nameless and that isn't my wedding. But a lot of people would just go through with it, you know what I mean? Because it's too late. The wheels are set in motion. Everyone's here. Somebody I know, they pulled the plug at the last minute. Family had flown in and all the rest of it. And whilst initially everybody was very angry, in hindsight, looking back, it was like, well, do you know what? If that's truly how you felt and you didn't want to get married, then you did the right thing. Yeah, there was harbor, there was tears, there was wasted flights and wasted money. But you don't have marry somebody and pledge an allegiance to them and till death do us part. Yeah, you don't feel like that.

And that's how it felt afterwards. Like, I don't think anybody was really mad because he was being such a piece of shit the whole day and, like, treat the way that he. Everyone seen him treat her like, he did that in front of everybody. So I think everyone was kind of like, yeah, let's not do this. Let's just party, and you don't have to do this shit. Like, so I. Instead of everyone being angry and upset, everyone was sad because it's always sad, you know? Like, you have this incredible day that's supposed to be planned and supposed to be this huge thing for her and ends up being the shit show. Like, of course you're sad for her, but also, like, yeah, it, like, I think that it worked out for the best. She had a lot of support. She looked relieved, to be honest with you the whole time.

Like, are you married, Anthony, or you just living together? You married?

Yeah, yeah.

What year did you get married?

20, 2020. Okay.

Big deal. Big wedding.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we had a big wedding. Like, 300 people. It was a. It was one of the. One of the. I mean, it was awesome. Like, that's what I kept comparing it to. Like, the whole time we were there. Like, this is. This sucks for her because my wedding day and, like, the rehearsal and, like, you know, the couple days before your friends come in and everyone, you know, they're sleeping on couches and they're hanging out, and then you get. You could do the rehearsal dinner, and then everyone parties after that. Then you get married, then you party after that. I did get thrown out of a bar on my wedding night, though, so it ended not great, but it was, like, a great three or four days. Like, we had a blast the whole time. So much fun.

I'll be honest, I don't think I could invite 300 people to a wedding if my life depended on it. I don't think I could pull. I mean, I could go through the contacts on my phone, but I'm not sure how many of them would show up. 300 people. That's a lot of people at a wedding. That's a pricey wedding.

Yeah. I was big. It was big.

Well, we've been.

We've been together for it. We got married on our nine year anniversary, so we've been together for a while. Anyways.

Yeah, we're going to Costa Rica. I mentioned it on another show. I'm not sure if you were on for our 25 year anniversary, but 25 years of getting together, not 25 years of marriage. Ten year wedding anniversary. 25 years together. The poor woman. I was just going to talk about Ryan Garcia. There's Ryan Garcia. I was saying on the last show, maybe this guy was just pulling the ultimate troll move, you know what I mean? And just pulling the wall over everybody's eyes. And he misses weight, right? That was going to cost him $1.5 million in the little side bet that he had with Devin Haney. I don't know if he's going to pay that $600,000 fine from the commission as well. So it's in essence, $2.1 million. Okay. Steps on the scale. He's downing a beer as he does it, and I'm like, I can't help but like this guy, do you know what I'm saying? All the madness, all the crazy stuff, all the bat shit out of his mind stuff that he was doing, I thought, this isn't going to bode well for him. Then he shows up, puts on a ridiculous performance, drops him three or four times.

I think it was on the highlights, anyway, wins. Wins the fight bets. I think it was $2 million on himself. So I think he won $20 million from the bookies, but he's not the champion of the world. And on the flip side, Devin Haney just lost a fight, but he's still the champion of the world. I mean, what a crazy mixture of emotions.

Yeah. I thought he was in a lot of danger just from the way that he was talking and the way he was acting. He was just being really goofy. He's always been kind of like this, you know, this young mexican kid that's got a lot of swagger and. And big social media influence. Like, he's the cool kid, you know, that everybody wants to be. And now he's like, I don't know, he turned into Tony Ferguson, like, overnight.

I don't know if he went that weird.

He just. He just. I don't know. He just unapologetically did whatever he wanted to do, said whatever he wanted to say. Then he was, like, trying to rap in freestyle, and I. It was weird. But then he goes out, I was like, oh, wow, he looks better than he has in a long time. But maybe. Maybe he's just been hiding this freakazoid that's been inside of him, and now he's just super happy, because now he's just allowed to be this weirdo and just go and fight and train it. He said, I beat you, and I drink every day.

Yeah, yeah. No, I don't. I drank and I smoked every day, and I still beat you. I'll tell you what I did. Like, he had the orchestra in his dressing room playing nice, soothing classical music, and I thought, I like that. That's a cool touch. Mike Tyson came in. They had a little, you know, a little exchange and whatnot. That was good. Do you like a little classical music? I can't. I don't have you down as a classical music guy.

Yeah, definitely not pre fight, either. No.

I don't know.

I could get. I don't know if I get my blood pump into that.

I love it. If I'm honest, I do love classical music. I know nothing about it. I just go to Spotify. I put classical on. It calms me when I'm driving. It calms me. And some of its proper atmospheric look up Max Richter. I know you want Max Richter. He does, like, movie scores, you know, music, movies and whatnot.

It's.

It's some atmospheric.

See, I think it was driving. It probably put me to sleep. Oh, no.

It makes me want to go kill someone. Just, like, Zen and calm and I'm okay. Everything's good.

Well, you have to give it a shot, then.

Do you ever find yourself having to do that? I've been doing that a lot lately. When I've been finishing my workouts in the garage, I just lie down. I turn the music off. I just lie there.

I do it all the time.

Just. Just. Just let it go. Let the negativity go. Let the problems go. Life is good. We're blessed. I found doing that a lot helps.

I've been probably, I don't know, the last couple training camps, I find myself. I don't get to keep it super quiet because I'm still in the gym. But I find myself going up and, like, through the octagon, like, on the other side of the gym, and I just starfish my whole body.

Yeah.

Flat on my back. And I think some of it is. It helps my neck feel better. Like, it's a little bit of a relaxed, like a release, you know? Um, but I just lay there and just kind of just take it all in and it go. Not that I'm trying to be all motivational on you guys here, but it kind of goes back to what Mark Montoya and I have been talking about at this point in my career, that we're just focused on one fight at a time and not trying to look forward. I'm not trying to plan it all out, but I'm trying to just enjoy where my feet are. So then I just lay there, take in the practice a little bit, and then as I start to cool off finally and, like, start to try to stop sweating, then I'll just go and mingle with my training partners. We don't talk. I don't. I won't ask them anything about fighting. I'll just, like, I realized, like, I don't learn enough about my training partners. Like, I don't know. We always end up talking about fighting or bullshit and all the. All the things that are fight related around this world.

And so, like, I've been trying to make it a point to go and, like, ask them about their families or, like, what'd you do this weekend? Or. I don't know. It sounds silly, but, like, just trying to, like.

Yeah, it doesn't sound silly because that's the easy go to, isn't it? I mean, and it's the obvious go to, and it kind of drives me crazy, because if I'm anywhere and, like, things not get awkward, but, like, you know, the conversation is drying up a little bit. It always goes back to UFC, you know? And sometimes, as much as I love the UFC, we do a podcast on it, and it is a massive part of my life. It's like, I don't want to talk about it 24/7 I'm sure Dana White doesn't want to talk about every dinner he goes to, bloody the title fight coming up or what happened last time. You want to talk about life. You want to talk about relationships, what movie you've seen or whatever. And sometimes I'll be there with my mom and some. And, like, say if someone comes up and they don't know the person, then all of a sudden, it's just about flipping UFC, you know, all my career as a fighter. So, for you with the training partners, of course, that's an easy go to. It's an easy go to.

It's what always pops up. It's like you've worried about techniques and all. So I just been trying to just, I don't know, just be in the moment, just figure out what people have going on in their real lives and it's been relaxing. It's been nice to just not always talk about fighting. I like it.

Well, good. Well, good, because unfortunately for you, you're going to talk about fighting for about the next hour and a half. Okay, we've got arm and star Rukia joining the show in just a minute. Hopefully got time for this r1 quick, though. Jamal Hill. Unfair play to him, by the way. All these rumors or accusations or theories that Herb Dean stopping the fight was the reason he got caught. John Marl Hill came out, I forget the exact word in what he used. He's like, no, what are you talking about? I got caught, simple as that. Had nothing to do with that. So I respect him for that. He's already booked a fight. He has booked another fight against your former opponent, Khalil roundtree junior. Is that three or three? International fire week? I believe it is June. What are we in now? End of April? May. So it's a relatively two months. Two months turnaround, I don't think. Because, for example, when Volkanovski got knocked out against Islam, people said it was a quick turnaround for tepporia. I didn't necessarily think it was. I don't think this is a quick turnaround for Jamal Hill. I think having the year out, not saying there was ring rust and certainly not making excuses for him.

It's just good to get right back on that horse, you know, and just keep things going. But what's your take on that and what's your take on the fight in general?

Well, I mean, realistically, first talking about world title fights, he kind of took this on a little bit short notice. Like, he wasn't preparing to fight on that card and he didn't really have a whole shit ton of time in terms of getting ready for Alex Pereira at UFC 300. So I think it's good for him if he just jumps right back into it. Listen, Jamal's my friend, but let's not, let's address the elephant in the room. He tends to get pretty out of shape in between fights, so now he doesn't have that opportunity and he can just keep rolling on that. He was already in great shape and he can continue to build on that. He's already sharp and I think he'll be much better after being in there for a little bit, getting that. That. I don't want to say ring rest, but that unfamiliarity. Unfamiliar. You know?

I'm talking about familiarity.

Yeah, I can't say that word.

I don't know why, you know, when I've got the pronunciation sounds over you.

When he gets that out of the way. Now, he's been in there. He spelt the canvas under his feet. He's made the walk. He's done the media days. He's had the whole fight week. He cut the weight, and now we can just. Now it's not unfamiliar anymore. Now he can just train, get back in there, do it again, and it's going to feel normal again. As far as the fight, I think it's a great fight.

They're.

I think they're both going to struggle with each other a little bit because they're both south. Boss. Jamal is accurate and well timed and hard to hit. Khalil's insanely fast way. Like, even my coach, when he broke down the fight, he was like, listen, this guy's gonna be really fast. Like, okay, well, I can deal with fast. And then when I got in there, like, oh, wow. Yeah, this is a problem. This is a big problem.

Yeah.

Especially, like, without proper time to prepare. But with Jamal, I mean, he knows that he's gonna have the time to prepare for it. I don't think we're gonna see a lot of grappling, so Jamal's by far the bigger fighter for sure, probably the harder hitter. I think it's a great fight, though. It's good for both guys, too. Puts them both in great positions, I.

Think for Jamal as well. You know, not that I'm saying that he was cocky or underestimating Pereira at all. That's not what I'm saying. But getting finished the way that he did, with it being in round one, there's two answers to that. You can either take your ball and go home and cry about it and feel sorry for yourself, you know, or you can say, right, shit, wow, I didn't expect that. That was a shock. I've got to step up. I've got to train harder. I've got to research my opponents harder. I've got to respect the dangers coming at me more, you know, because essentially, when you're undefeated, and I know he wasn't undefeated with the submission to Paul Craig, but, you know, that was kind of a weird scenario. It was a legitimate win, but he broke his arm and all the rest of it and the referee stops it. So I think in Jamal's mind, he still felt like he was undefeated. And when you're undefeated, you have this mindset where you're invincible because you feel like that when you're knocking people out the way he knocked out Johnny Walker and Thiago Santos before that.

You know, you feel unstoppable. Well, now you know you're not unstoppable, so therefore it makes you reassess a few things and raise or elevate your fight iq and just respect the game at the next level. I'm not saying he wasn't respecting the game, but you've always got to be stepping it up, you know? So I think for that, I think we'll see Jamal come back as an even better version than what we saw before.

Yeah, I, um. I think he's going to be better. I think he's going to be mentally sharper. And I. And again, I have no inside information on what I'm about to say. I'm. I do think that I. I got a little bit of a different vibe the night of the fight from Jamal. And I think that he's such a strong minded person that I think sometimes he overcompensates his nervousness with self belief. And I think sometimes there's a fine line where you can teeter totter between confident and a little bit of overconfidence. So I think. I don't want to say he was cocky or underestimated Pereira, but I think that he's a little bit nervous, and then he just leans into a self belief which at times can get you in trouble, and then I don't suspect you do that again.

And that's what I think that's a common trait for people like Jamal, for people like me, for people like you, when you. Because we all feel nerves, we all get scared, we all feel the pressure, you know, regardless of whatever it is in life. And then you go, right, shit, I'm not going to succumb to this, so I'm going to go the other way. I'm going to go the other way. And then you end up doing more damage to yourself in terms of what the outcome may be. So. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. We have Armand Sal Rukin joining us in just a minute. Earlier this morning, I was hoping he'd be on this show, but he couldn't make it because of the time, because he's in the Czech Republic. I am, of course, talking about the one and only Yuri Prohaska. So the Yuri Prohaska interview will be on the channel in a little bit. We're gonna.

Oh, my God.

This interview. But we didn't do that. Anthony, how dare you interrupt me?

No, I know.

I gotta give comment section people is an interrupting bastard. I am laying the foundation for the Yuri, perhaps interview. The floor was yours.

Have a Yuri pro Haskell story so.

I want to hear it.

They had to pull me off the desk, right? Because I had to. I had a red eye flight, so I had to go make my flight. And I'm. I had to go to the parking garage because I had left my car in that parking garage at New York, New York for two days. So I went to the parking garage, go up the elevator. Now I can't find a goddamn car because I came into the garage a different way. Anyways, couldn't find it. So I'm on all these different floors trying to find this car, and I hear this banging and the shaking. I'm like, what is that? I look over by the elevator. Yuri pro Hoska is struggling with a pop machine. He cannot figure it. Like, he's shaking in hitting the side of the. He just can't get this. I don't know what ended up happening, but I was there waiting on this elevator for, like, a good three or four minutes.

Oh, the what machine? You mean, like, for drinks and stuff?

Yeah, like a soda machine in the parking garage, like, next to the elevator.

He's just.

He's punching the side of it with, like, an open. An open palm. And that went on for, like, three or four minutes, and I just had to get on the elevator. There's. There's video footage of it somewhere, because the camera people, like the embedded people, were still with him filming it. He is changing colors. He's getting so mad.

Oh, God, that is hilarious. That's hilarious. You go out there, you win at UFC 300, you get a $300, $300,000 bonus. Hey, but, hey, I'm still hitting that parking lot vending machine. The prices are good. The water bottles are cheap there. So, Yuri, we spoke about all kinds of stuff, but one of the things that he did speak about, you probably saw it this week, is that never mind going up to heavyweight. He wants to get the bell back. He wants to fight Yuri. He wants to fight Alex Pereira right now. He said he doesn't care where it is, when it is. He's ready to go at a moment's notice. And when he becomes the champion, and he's defended it once or twice, wants to come down to 185 and he was a big dude. And. But according to him, when I spoke to him, he said, no, no. He said, I don't cut weight at two or five whatsoever. So. And I found that quite surprising as well. So he feels that 185 is definitely doable. Says he doesn't cut weight. Anthony.

He's a liar. I like Yuri a lot. There's no way that's true. I've stood next to him before.

There's no way, bro. He's japanese.

His shoulders, he's a. He's as tall as I am. His shoulders are wider and he's shredded. There's no way that guy just walks around at 02:05 no, I know that.

Well, that's what I said. I said, dude, I've been in your company multiple times. You're a big man. Yeari you're a big man.

You didn't challenge him?

I did. I asked him. I said. And he said, no, no. For the weight cut is diet not no cut. Anyway. Yeah, he said he can make 185 no problem. I said. I said, bro. I said, that's going to be miserable. Just so you know. It's going to be shit. And he had a big smile on his face. Armasaruki in should have been here on. What time is it? Five minutes ago.

Oh, man.

Is it. Is he going Hollywood on us?

He might have.

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You know what felt good today? I was going through the airport this morning, and again, another one of these things that sounds silly, but I really enjoy it. I don't. I. I probably get people come up to that, come up to me more so for, like, the ESPN stuff and this podcast. So I love it when I'm, like, going through the airport and, like, there was some random guy passes me. I see that he recognizes me, but he doesn't say anything until we get all the way past each other and he goes, you, Harrington.

Oh, dear.

Like, he didn't stop me. He didn't say anything. He just said, you, Harrington. And then I just put my hand up and kept on walking. It was awesome.

And rightly so. And rightly so. Now upon queue, we will bring Harrington into the fold. Harrington, how are you doing, my friend, in terms of a big mixed martial arts story while we wait for Arman Saruki. And if he does, in fact, show up, and if he doesn't, Armin, I'm coming for you, brother. Just so you know, I ain't no punk bitch in the audience, right? You can come at me all you want. You're 155. I'm 185. In fact, I'm 220 these days. Come at me, bro. You do this, you mock me. You make a fool out of me. I have announced you on the show all love. I'm kidding. Whilst we wait for an apparent appearance from Arvind Satoruki, do we have a mixed martial arts, please, Harrison, what is the biggest one in the notes you've got?

I mean, I think, you know, speaking of coming at people, speaking about setting records straight, I think Dana White did a better job of that than just about anyone when he released this video about everybody who's had anything to say about UFC. No. You don't think it's a big story?

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say it's the biggest story we've got to talk about, but yes. You sure? Go ahead, play. I loved it.

What's up, guys? As we rolled into UFC 300, the.

MMA experts weighed in on what they.

Thought of UFC 300. For all the fighters that were on this card.

When I said it's the greatest card ever assembled in the history of combat.

Sports, this is what the media thought of you guys.

UFC 301st up. Brendan Sharp.

Is any fight on this card 300 worthy?

Hold on. This is the most diabolically. Jesse on fire.

He called me about that.

Culmination of something hell want it should have been first, Eric Jack MMA personality. He's like watching pain dry. I wanted my jaw to hit the ground.

I did expect a little bit more.

From the company, Brian Campbell. Anyway, the reason we can leave that one, though, the read. The reason being is because we've talked about how great UFC 300 was, Harrington. Not because I didn't want to play the video, didn't want to talk about it, but we have talked about it, you know, but fair play today, and if you're gonna come out and talk shit, you're allowed to have a little rebuttal. But conversation there.

Harrington compilation.

Give me. Oh, I got me a question. Give me a question.

Because we. We obviously were fans of UC 300, but we do a lot of different media and interviews, and we're on here a lot, and we say a lot of things. Was there any part of you when that was playing, that was rolling in your Rolodex of shit that you said about the card thinking, did I say anything negative? Like, in hoping to God you didn't find yourself on that. On that reel?

I must admit, a lot of the time when I see headlines, that happens. But I was like, no, I don't think so, because I've been very, very pro UFC 300. I thought the car was phenomenal, but I do know the phenomenon of which you speak. You know what I mean? I do know that the only time.

I can think of anything that I was even remotely negative about was when the announcement came. I think I was like, oh, well, we already knew that that fight was going to happen at some point. We just didn't know when. So I was expecting, like, the, oh, my God, I can't believe it's Brock Lesnar versus whoever, you know, like a fight that you weren't. Weren't even considering. We end up getting one that we all kind of expected to happen at some point, anyways. But then Jesse on fire did call me, and he was like, I was actually making fun of people that were making fun of UFC 300 in that clip. Like, if I was like, oh, yeah, right.

No, he wasn't. Jesse's full of shit, man. I mean, he's not. No, he's not full of shit.

Like.

That's what I'm saying. I'm saying he's full of shit in that regard. He was jumping on the bandwagon. He was hating on it big time.

I was so happy we weren't on there.

All he does is big up Jake Paul lately. Oh, my God, Jesse. I love you, brother. You gotta take Jay Paul's nuts out of your gut. Yeah, damn, he's been pretty.

Jake Paul. I don't know why he's on his nuts now.

Is it. I don't know, Lou. Rocko was back in action on Saturday. Did you catch that one out?

I did. I did.

Karate combat. If you haven't seen it, go to my YouTube channel. I do a live commentary. Watch along. And the fight is on there as well, so go check it out. Dubai karate combat. Joe Schilling. Luke Rockhold. Luke Rockhold. Because I was like, he's gassed. He is gassed already. Turns out he took it on like three weeks notice. So, to be fair, three three minute rounds gets the job done. Boom. Nice right hook drops. Joe Schilling after taking him down multiple times. Looks like there's still a bit of. A bit of fight left in the old dog yet.

Yeah, he's got a little bit left in it still. I found myself in a weird position, Mike, where?

Go ahead.

Because I like Joe Schilling. I like that guy. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know him super well, personally. Every interaction I've had with him has been positive. He's never done anything or said anything to me. When I had that break in in my house, he, out of nowhere, randomly reached out, like, asking, do you need anything? I feel bad for you and your family. Like, I hope you guys are okay. Like, and we'd never. We didn't know each other at all, so I've always thought that was really cool of him. And me and Luke have kind of patched our thing up, so I was happy for Luke. We kind of felt bad for Joe Schilling.

Yeah. Well, that's fair enough. I mean, it's like anytime people fight, you know, like, number one, we have to make predictions. Secondly, you have personal relationships. You know what I mean? So it's. It's like that every time. But Luke Rockhold. I was doing a live to it. And everyone was like, you got to do the trilogy. I'll do karate combat. Okay. Rockhold. I'll do it. I'll do it. I will have a trilogy with loot. Rockhold in Karate Kamba. I would love.

Why don't we book that? Let's just do that.

This is gathering momentum a little too quickly. Let me just see my hip doctor first. And get my neck salty.

Well, that's not what you said.

Yeah, I'm joking. I'd do it 100%. I would. Okay.

I'll call you after the show.

Let's go get this.

We'll get this booked.

We're going to Dubai.

The next show will be a fight announcement.

I'm coming back blind. I'm already walking into bloody walls. Yeah, well done to Luke. Well done. Fair play, man. Fair play. So, it looks like Armor saw Rukian is definitely not coming because he's twelve minutes late. So, Arman, I don't know what to tell you. This is your big opportunity. This would have. You would have been exposed, right, to all the believers, the international audience, you.

Know, after blowing us off Indonesia, Charles Oliveira would have came on here.

People of the UK, you know, listen, we spoke about Ryan Garcia before he bet on himself. If what Harrington tells me is correct. And Harrington, is this correct? He bets, or. So I saw, that he bet 2.

Million at six to one odds. So he collected 12 million from the bookies.

But what was the purse? Do you know what the purse was?

I don't know.

I'll look that up now.

So he collected 12 million by betting $2 million on himself.

I was dying to ask you guys, can you. Fighters are allowed to bet on themselves. This is the first I'm hearing of this.

Well, you can bet on yourself to win. Yeah.

Legally you can.

You can bet.

Yeah, to win.

You can't bet on yourself to lose because that's easy. But betting to win, like, the odds, the odds makers might say, well, we think you're gonna lose. You know, so if you want to give us some money for free, go ahead. But to lose, yeah, of course. Because you can just. You can guarantee you lose a fight. Yeah.

I believe legally you can to win. And obviously, what the UFC's new, you know, and in our promotional agreements with the UFC, that's no longer allowed. But, yeah, that was something that went on a lot.

Yeah. Thanks to James Krause. Yes. No more betting at all. Let me ask you this, though. That's still. That's still brave. I mean, because fighters, we all believe in ourselves and human beings as people. Harrington. Can I help you? You're going on and back and forth, and you're making me bloody dizzy. I.

So I got the purse. It wasn't disclosed fully, but Oscar de La Hoya said that he thinks Ryan Garcia is going to make about 30 million from this in an interview before. So it's Oscar de la Hoya cut that in half, but still probably 15.

Yeah, either way. Plus the 12 million. Do you think he's going to pay Devin Haney the 1.5? I don't think so. It's just like, what was it?

You already.

Tommy Fury?

I think so, yeah. I think you already got paid.

Really?

I think he paid him before they. Before they fought. Yeah.

Wow.

Immediately.

Wow. No way. No way. See, that's amazing. That is called being a man of your goddamn world, because what was that stupid bet? It was with KSI and John Fury or something like that. And John Fury is still trying to get paid. And you see this all the time, where fighters make these silly bets at press conferences. Rarely do they pay up because you got to think about it. There's no contract signed or anything like that. It's just a bit of machoism at the press, a conference, puffing their chests out. They say things they don't necessarily mean. But for Ryan Garcia, I tell you what I thought. My opinion on him has changed dramatically. Amazing. But it's not just winning, right? It's the way that he did it, paying the bet. That is a man of your word, because you have to do that.

Do you remember when Artem Lobo. Who did he fight? Michael Johnson on short notice, and Michael. Michael Johnson missed weight, but, like, Michael Johnson took it on, like, really short notice, missed weight, and then Artem said, I'll get. I'm going to give him his money back. I don't want his money. I'm thankful that he just, you know, that he took the fight and he showed up and then, like, a week later, like, Michael Johnson came on. So, yeah, that dude sent me money. Sent me the 20% or whatever, 30% back. I thought that was super cool of artem.

That's incredible. No, it really is. It really is. But Ryan Garcia, so he bets 2 million on himself, makes 12 million, gives 1.5 away. Okay, fair enough when you put it like that, but I don't care. Yeah, okay, so. But still 1.5 million, right? Because that's still a lot of money.

And a lot of men that's not married.

Well, it is a man that's not married for sure. He's a good looking kid, though.

My wife would say, I don't give a shit what bet you made.

You ain't. Oh, of course. If I came home to Rebecca and I said, look, listen, yeah, you know, so we made this amount, but I've got to give Devin Haney 1.5 million because we had a stupid bet just like you said. She'd be like, I don't care what you said. And I'm like, well, everyone saw it was at a press conference. I don't give a shit. You are not giving away $1.5 million so you can get brownie points on social media. Because other than Devin Haneys in a couple of interviews saying, yeah, prick never paid me, you're not going to hear anything else of it. Rebecca would say, if you're out of your mind, right? Yeah.

Good for him. That's a big deal.

Good for him, indeed. Herringbone.

Well, I was gonna say Ryan Garcia did actually brag about that after the fight. He's like, I got no girl and no wife to come home to. Like, that's kind of a big thing for him, is being young, free, and single.

Well, didn't he just get divorced? I think that's new, isn't it, Harrington or. No, I'll look into. Maybe that's why he's acting so crazy.

Everything about marriages, it turns out so. Speaking about one man, you know, having a blazing performance, I'm trying to find a segue.

Okay.

Did you see the man that went up in flames outside?

Okay, I seen you sent this in the notes, and then I was scrolling on something and got a. And, like, randomly kind of seen it, but I was like, I don't want to dig too much into it. I'd rather just hear about it in real time.

Harrington, stop feverishly googling and just set the stage for what went down last week. And I was like, wow, we'll talk about it in a second. But everybody's probably seen it by now.

Yeah, I unfortunately did see it. It came across my timeline, and it's.

Like, I don't know.

There was too many good videos of this one. Yeah, it was a.

It was a man.

He went in the park across the street from the.

From.

From where the trump criminal trial is taking place, guaranteeing there'd be, like, a ton of press and everything there. Doused himself in gasoline after handing out a bunch of flyers that had, like, conspiracy theories and propaganda on them and then lit himself on fire. He later succumbed to his injuries. I believe yesterday and passed away.

Do we have a video, Brian? Not that I want to see somebody die. I don't very.

Just before.

I don't. Yeah.

Think we can play that?

Can we play that on YouTube?

Well, we're playing, but I'll play and.

I'll cover it up. Just give me 1 second, I'll find this.

Listen, I mean, clearly the guy's mentally ill, right? You know, I mean. I mean, that's never the answer. To set yourself on fire. Didn't somebody else do that recently as well? There was somebody kind of recently that set themselves on fire? Yeah, somebody. Was it protesting Gaza? What's going on there?

They went to the israeli embassy and did it.

Protesting the war.

Wow.

You got to find a better way.

Well, yeah, cuz I'm just gonna throw it out there that the moment those flames hit, you gotta be like, I immediately regret this decision. That is not the way. A, to go. B, to make your point, you know? Fuck.

Here's what I always think when I see these things, Mike. I don't know that I care that passionately about anything else. Enough to light myself on fire.

Well, well, well, never mind. Just.

I'm not saying I don't care and I'm not passionate about things like. I mean, listen, if to save my family, if I light myself on fire, fine, I'll do it. No, but like to push some political thing or something that I believe in or to save the whales. Like, I'm not lighting myself, so I'm pretty graphic still and a very edit and like a very blurred out video. So let me know which one you.

Let's just do the still. Just do the still.

God damn. Come on.

Yeah, I mean, that's just an awful way to go. But to your point, what you were just saying there, Anthony, you're absolutely right. Because I don't care enough. There's people protesting everywhere.

Right?

You're not making any difference. You're not right. All these green peas and climate change and whale hunting and stop this and stop that and just stop drilling and.

There'S a traffic and all sorts.

It's like that. What? You're not making it. And it's not because I'm not a man of principles. I am a man of principles. Find something better to do with your time. If that's all you've got going on, that you're gonna go there somewhere and wave a bloody flag. You know, I'm. Listen, I know there's a tragic, terrible situation going on in the Middle east and that's a little bit different. I'm talking about the frivolous things. And you see people. Stupid, stupid shit. It's like, really, you care that much? You're gonna go do that. You're not gonna make any difference whatsoever.

I see, I always. I always. And this is. I. I'm gonna catch shit for this, and I don't care. I always. Immediately, when I see people protesting dumb shit and things that, like, not that maybe the. The idea that they're protesting, maybe I agree with it, but it's like you're. You're not making a difference. Standing on the corner with three of your friends, with a bunch of signs blocking traffic, and you're just in the way. But, like, I don't have the time to say, okay, well, on Tuesday, from eight to four, I'm gonna stand up. Like, if you have that kind of time, you need to figure some out with your own life, and you need to do more and do better. If you have time to work a full time job picketing, you need a real goddamn job, or you need to go find something that's putting positivity in the world.

Because standing there with Trump flags above freeway bridges, you know what I'm saying? Is that you ain't got kids, you ain't got a wife, a husband.

You don't have shit to do today.

Shit to do. You're gonna stand over with the Biden flag, whatever it is. Really? That's what you're choosing to do with the very limited time that you have on earth. Number one, neither of them really give a shit about you. You gotta focus on you, buddy, because no one else gives a shit. And you going out there and standing there and waving your little flags for whatever it is, I hate to say it, you're not making the change.

It's the same people that stand outside of trials that they're passionate about. Like, you've been standing outside that trial for a month. How do you have the capability to stand outside a courthouse for a month? Like, I don't have one free day. Not one day where I could just take off and hold a sign. I don't have one free day.

I wish I had a free day right now. You. You definitely don't. You're training for a fight. You leave Brazil next week. You've got podcasts, you've got ESPN stuff. You got this, that and the other. And you got a train, and you got a wife and you got four kids. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know, I just, like, how do you not have shit to do. Maybe we do too much. Maybe we do too much. We need to get some picketing time scheduled into our lives.

Well, if I did have the spare time, I wouldn't be using it to pick it.

No, because when I do, I can't get my ass off the couch because I just want quiet and I want to relax.

When did picketing ever work? When did. When did they ever go? You know what? Those people there. You're right. We're going to change the policy. We're doing it. You. Now there's 17 people with flags. We're changing it. When has that ever worked? When has that ever worked? I don't think it has.

Congressman, why are we. Why are we voting for this bill? There's nine people outside with signs that they drew themselves. Why would.

I don't. Listen, maybe you could say you're bringing awareness to it, to other people. Okay, but I really don't see. I can't think of one. Brian, just see if you can look it up. Protesting is 100.

Like, early 19 hundreds. People picketed a lot. Because that was. That was the way to get your message out. Now I feel like in the Internet, well, that was more like unions and, like, for, like, work, like the workforce. They all got their shit done. Yeah, but they just stopped working. Right. Like, they'd shut down whole factories and in entire. It's a much different. It's different. Yeah.

Yeah, but. But that's union striking.

Right.

For labor reason, which is very, very different, because once production of a certain good or product stops, then. Then. Then, yeah, of course. But that's. That's a strike. That's not people standing out there and waving the little flags and going, hey, protesting.

I guess protesting and striking are different.

Yeah. No stress. Yeah, very, completely different. Yeah. I'm trying to think what there is to talk about here. I'm looking at the notes. I don't want. There's two things here don't really want to talk about. One of them is Arman Saruki and the pig. I'm joking, Alvin. I'm joking. He's not. He's a very nice guy. No. Aljamain Sterling. But I guess it's a conversation point. Or this is why I didn't want to bring it up, because it sounds like we're inviting a discussion to just take a dump on him, which is what the. The Internet seems to be doing. Aljermain Sterling says that his fight, UFC 300, wasn't the most entertaining, but it was the most dominant. Our fight on that particular night was not the most entertaining, but it was the most dominant fight I think you could have possibly had when you looked at the entire card. Harrington, you put this in the notes. You're forcing me to write your. Read your words. Come on. So read the rest of it out. What you wrote there for me. Okay.

You got a guy who on average lands about four to five strikes per minute who was reduced to about 0.5.

Yeah. Tried to get me to read that out. That wasn't how.

That's an Al Jermaine quote.

He said it. Oh, oh, did he really? Yeah.

So it's Al Joe saying that. So it's Al Joe saying that he reduced Calvin cater to almost zero strikes a minute. Yeah, I mean, I don't. I can't. I can't disagree with Al Joe. But also I think we need to do a better job of managing our expectations. Like, is Al Jamain dominant most of the time, yeah. Is Aljamain the best bantamweight in UFC history, like it or not?

Yeah.

Yeah, he is. But also, we know how he fights. We know what he is willing to do and we know what he's not willing to do. He's not going to get into firefights where he's not. He's not just in Gaethjean, Max Holloway was going to point at the ground and start throwing bombs. He's just not going to do that. So at some point it's our fault that we expect him to be in these barn burning shootouts because he's not.

No, no, no. I don't think that's. I don't think we do. I don't think anybody expects that because we've never seen.

I think a lot of people do there. He's boring. All he wants to do is wrestle. Yeah, we know. So, yeah, and then you won't be so disappointed when it happens.

We all know as fires and people with half an ounce of intelligence that follow the fire game. In the UFC in particular, we know he's coming off the back of the loss outside Sean O'Malley. So that's going to make you not be the most reckless. So he went out there and he got a dominant victory and it was dominant. He shut down Kelvin cater and he made it not look easy. Kelvin gave him some moments, but it was a dominant victory. Right. I think Aljamain would help himself, I think. And it was impressive. Not taking anything away from him. He needs to stop talking about it being the most dominant victory. I think there it will throw back to everybody booing at UFC New Jersey when he won and defended the battle against a hudo. Right, because, listen, you can't force people to change their opinion. You can't give them one thing and say that it's another. You can't say this fight was boring and safe and cautious, which kind of was right, but for these reasons. But then at the same time, go. Well, hold on a minute. What are you talking about? This was the most dominant fight at UFC 300.

Never mind Max Holloway face planting, just engaging. Never mind Alex Pereira knocking out Jamal Hill in the first round, so on and so forth. What I did was the most dominant because people aren't going to drink that. You know, as analysts, if the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kind of pussy to drink it. What's the movie? What's the movie?

I don't know, but it's a funny.

Quote, long stock of two smoking barrels, and if the milk turns out to be sour, I don't care the pussy to drink it anyway. Yeah, but you see what I'm saying.

Yeah, 100%. And I think that in the way that he's forming it, if we're just looking at it as analysts, he might be right. He might be right.

He.

He fights one of the hardest styles there is to fight, and he went in and fairly dominated. He was never in any trouble and, you know, whatever, but I don't know. It's hard to say. You know, Jamal, you know, Jamal Hill, Alex Pereira. Pereira didn't really take any shots at all. Lands one big clean one and puts him out. Like, that's about as dominant as you can ask for.

It doesn't get more dominant.

Yeah, but if you, on the flip side, when we're breaking down fights, being controlling someone at the highest level of the game for 15 minutes is very hard to do. So, yeah, it's. It's a conversation. It would be an easier conversation to have coming off like a finish.

No, it is. No, it is, it is. And again, like Al ja. Menstrual.

Yeah.

Respect. Tremendous amount of respect for him. So, you know, but as I said, you can't present one thing and then tell them it's another. You know, it was. It was a dominant fight, but it was. It was one of the most lackluster of the night. It was. It kind of sucked the energy out of the room, and you can't deny that. And we're not being haters or being pricks to Aljamain Sterling for acknowledging that. I think that's a well known fact. I think everybody that was there I think that everybody that watched it knows that what he should have said was, look, guys, you got to remember, I just got knocked out over Sugar Sean O'Malley. Do you know how hard it is to come back from that situation? You know, I got flatlined. I got dropped hard. I've got all this. These demons inside my mind. So, yeah, I played it a little bit safe. It's my first time at 145 against the guy with a similar style. So, yeah, yeah. The most important thing was getting the victory. You know, if you would have said that, people would say, you know what? And that's fine, because guess what?

You still won. You still got the job done. Speaking of Sean O'Malley and speaking of Ryan Garcia, Brian, I sent you a little video earlier to the email. So Sean O'Malley wants to box Ryan Garcia even more so now after the victory over Devin Haney at the weekend, he says that he wants to beat Mohrab. Obviously, that will make his start even bigger, and then down the line, he wants to box Garcia. Apparently, he said the UFC are fine with him doing that as long as there'd be enough money involved. Can you play the tape, please, Bryan? Yeah. I mean, but two fights down the road. Okay, say you turn rabs nose sideways. T kill. Boom. Peace up, Ilia.

Five rounder. Boom.

Then what? Is it possible? Is it possible for Ryan Garcia? A boxing fights? Possible for me? No way in hell.

I mean, no commission. Would even that go the sugar show. Why don't we do something a little special?

Why can't we get him into the.

UFC with some kind of renew route? Like a different rule or something where you guys.

I'm not there yet. I still got to be. I still got to become bigger. I gotta be more, though. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Two more sick performances, and we're. Then we're talking about being able to.

Do it, but maybe yet two more. I think that'd be perfect, because your pay per view was top five all time and us sales, Gail. Yeah, right.

Like, that's insane. Yeah, that's good. But I also like that. I do think it was partially because of me, but also because UFC is just that big now. They grew 40% over COVID, so 2020 to 2024, they've grown, however much more. UFC is just rocket ship, whether I'm in it or not. I mean, but, yeah, I do. I feel like I could pull the relationships so good with those higher ups. They love you. You're not like they told me, we will.

We.

You can do a box fight 100% if it makes us enough money, like, so the options there just has to be able to make enough money. But Ryan being a freak like that, you need two a sides to make a Floyd Connor fight. You know what I mean? Yeah, that'll do. Excuse me, number one, first thing, it's really nice to see Sean being as level headed because he's right. It would have been easy for him to go, yeah, you're right. UFC 299 was a ridiculous gate because of me, and I am a star. But he was. He was quick to add, well, hold on a minute. That was a star study card. The UFC is a juggernaut, you know, top to bottom. That was hyped as the greatest fight card before UFC 300 was. So it was really nice to see him. What do you think about him going and fighting Ryan Garcia, though? I think he's right in what he says. Two more fights for sure. It would need to be for him to really elevate his status. I also think what he's talking about there with the UFC is because, listen, they're his promoters, he's under contract, so they would all be partners in the promotion of it.

They're not going to do that, and they're not going to risk their bantamweight champion potentially losing. More than likely, according to the odds makers, losing. They're not going to risk the damage to the marketability unless there's enough money involved, which makes sense.

I thought everything he said was right on point. He sounded very, very well thought out. Like he's. Like he's. He's being very smart. Like, he's not speaking crazy shit. Like, yeah, I go do that. They don't care. Like, I thought it was good insight. I think that's really good insight. I think he's being really self reflective of exactly where he is and where he needs to be to make a fight like that happen, technically. Think that's a rough one for Sean.

O'Malley, especially if Ryan Garcia comes in heavy. 1.5 million, though.

I don't know where I seen this clip, but it was another boxer, I don't remember who it was, was saying a couple days before the Devin Haney Ryan Garcia fight, they said that, what do you think's gonna happen in the Garcia Haney fight? And he said, I think Ryan Garcia just goes in there and walks him down and drops him in the first round. He was like, he probably hits harder than tank. And I was like, that is absolutely crazy. And then the fight happens.

Holy shit.

That guy was totally like, right. I mean, it's just different. It's different. Sean O'Malley's a fantastic striker, but it's. A lot of his game is predicated on the kicks. Like, it's kind of built and worked around that.

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What is going on with Puff daddy right now? Is he actually on the run? I feel like Brian knows the ins and outs to this.

Yeah, I think Brian probably knows what is going on.

I know his kids were arrested. I know his house was arrested. My wife asked me in bed the other night. She said, what's going on with him? Is he on the run?

I haven't been paying the most attention to all this. I know I've seen pictures of him, like, out doing shit. Like, he was out and, like, the boardwalk the other day, like. So I'm not really sure what's going on, but I do know that the FBI took a bunch of his shit.

The evidence, the only reason I know about Puff daddy, it's not because I was there. These illicit parties. No, it's because 50 cent. 50 cent on Instagram just shits on him and anybody he feels like shitting on anytime he wants. And I must admit, they are pretty funny.

Yeah, 50 cent is pretty funny when he's trashing people. I watched this. This show on. There's this YouTube channel that I follow called Swamp Story, and it just tells, like, the history of old gangsters and crazy stories of celebrities and rappers and. Anyways, there's an episode called surviving P. Diddy.

Oh, no.

That guy is a monster. An absolute monster. If you get a second, you get 45 minutes, or you're just sitting around, you want something to listen to. Like, it goes, like, through like, from P. Diddy in the, like, the nineties till today, he is absolutely trashed. A lot of people. It's, there's some weird shit in there, too.

So what did they have to do to survive, though? Like, what are the allegations? Is he just one of them? Because obviously that beat Biggie.

Yeah, there's the, there's the biggie thing. Like, there was some stuff that happened in the biggie story that I didn't, that I didn't know. Like, Biggie didn't even want to come to that, come to the party that they were at before he got shot. And P. Diddy's the one who convinced him and canceled all of his plans. He was supposed to be in Europe doing like, a signing or like, an appearance in Europe, so he was getting ready to go do that instead. And p. Diddy, like, essentially forced him to come to that party where he ended up getting shot afterwards. Like, there's a whole bunch more to it, but there's a lot of sketchy tin foily hat shit around. There's some weird usher stuff. Let's just be, let's just be honest. The usher thing is weird. Where he had, like, usher and parties with naked people and drugs when he was, like, twelve years old.

Like Justin Bieber.

Yeah.

Yeah.

His adopted twelve year old daughter.

Yeah.

Not for nothing, there's a lot of weird stuff. I don't know what it all leads to, but it's all weird.

And he's an expert at mine.

Did you know that he's, I'm in.

You right now, Anthony.

Are you?

Yeah. Why? I hope you wear a condom because I got a dirty mind. What movies that, I watched it Saturday night. Puff daddy was in it. Get into the Greek. Have you seen that?

No, I've never even heard of that.

It's a funny movie. It's got. What's it called? Russell Brand in it. Saturday night, we're just going through. What did we watch? We watched a film, nil by mouth, an independent british film. My God, it is heavy. But if you want to know how grim it is, growing up in working class London in the nineties, my God. Nailed my mouth. We watched that, but it's so heavy. I said, we need something. Something a little bit more than light beat. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's a p. Diddy movie. We just go, yeah, yeah, exactly. I was just going through Netflix. I'm like, oh, there we go. Getting to the Greek. We've seen it one time years ago. I said, let's watch that. I said, that's funny, if I remember, and it is funny. It's hilarious. But, yeah, we chose a p. Diddy movie to keep it light. You know, it's a slow day in the world of mixed martial arts. Anthony, I'm going to ask you about your mind coming into this fight. Obviously, you know, we're talking about MMA and all the rest of it. You're flying down to Brazil next week. I don't need to say this, you know, this.

The results haven't been what you were looking for recently, going up against Vitor Petrino, undefeated, powerful dude. How's this, Trina? And I'm pointing at my head for the audio only listeners.

I'm in a really good place. I really leaned into. I leaned into my therapy and figured out, like, what the hell's going on in my head. Because here's the problem. I'm the most inconsistent guy the last five years. Like, sometimes I show up and I beat anybody in the world, and sometimes I show up and I shit the bed and it's all mental. It's all.

Where I'm.

Where I'm focused, where my head is, where my personal life is. And I don't mean that, like, my family or anything like that, just where I feel in my personal life. And I. I really. I really wanted the Vitor Pacino fight after he called me out, partially because it looked hard. It looked like it was going to be, like, that would be a hard fight. And so I told MC Maynard right away, if that guy's ranked on Tuesday, I'll take it. And they got lucky, and he was. He was ranked, and so that worked. But, um, I. I like the matchup. Like, stylistically, I like, I. I do well versus guys like him. Um, who. Not that he's not good. He's predictable. Like, he's. He's kind of set in his ways. Like, it. I can. I can. I don't have to say this without, like, just giving my whole game plan, but I can. I can predict or I can create his reaction and kind of know where he's going to go. So, like, I can out think him for sure and he's going to be for a little bit. Like, he's big and strong and powerful, but I, like, I have answers for all of that.

Like, I know what to do with big, powerful, strong guys. Everybody's big. Everyone's strong at this weight class, but he really leans into that, and so I know how to deal with that. So we'll just go deal with it. And then once he doesn't have that now. He has to lean on his technique and his skill set. I think that is fairly limited. Not bad. Not saying it's bad. It's limited and it's predictable. He doesn't have the. He's not a, you know, some crazy black belt world champion that I got to worry about him taking my. Taking me down and passing my guard and slicing and dicing me on the ground. He's not, like, crazy, crazy explosive. Like, does he hit hard? For sure. But he's not like, he's not Khalil roundtree fast. He's not crazy dynamic and unpredictable like Johnny Walker. Like, I just. I like the matchup. I think he's really good. I actually like.

Yeah.

Really impressed with what he's been able to do with, you know, in his kind of short career, at least, versus credible opponents like the ones before. It's kind of Brazil, and they just beat up random people, and that is what it is. But he's done very well versus really tough guys.

Yeah. I don't disagree with anything, what you said there, but I was meaning more not with the x's and O's and the technical stuff and all the rest of it. More in, like, you know, what's the mindset coming into this one? Because anytime I had a loss, it was always like, right, okay. The hunger was stronger than ever, and it was like, it just fueled me and angered me. It made me mad and drove me and motivated me, whichever adjective you want to use. And it always put me back to this feeling of fucking. I'm. Now I'm at the bottom again. I've lost. I want to be the champion, and that kind of mindset never left me, ever.

That's exactly where I am. That's exactly where I am. And I kind of. I accidentally, you know, Neil, Magni caught a accidentally the last time I kind of talked about this. But I have become the. At least in the eyes of some of the people in the division, I'm the wounded lion that they think is at the end. I got the big name, the name that people recognize, and my face is the one that's on tv, so they want to come in and, like, I don't know. I feel like I'm being viewed as being done. Like, I'm on my last leg. Like, I'm about, like I'm just on the edge of retirement and I'm not. And it pisses me off. Like, maybe I'm a bit inconsistent at times, but if I show up, I'll beat everybody in the division, and I don't give a who gets mad about that. And they all know it, or else they wouldn't get so mad about it when I said it. You know what I mean? Like, if someone, someone that I know that I would smoke says I'll be, I'll beat that guy, I just laugh because I know that's stupid and that's why they get so angry about it.

If I show up and I'm on point and I'm mentally where I need to be, I'll beat them all. So that's where I'm at mentally. Like, I. It's not even about proven anything to anybody else or chasing the title or trying to, to even get back on the right track. I'm just trying to prove something to myself, you know? Like, I. I gotta slow down a little bit, I think. Just in life, I think I gotta slow down a little bit and just focus on one singular thing. And that's what I've been doing. And I'm. I'm a terrible training partner right now, if I'm being honest. I'm. I'm sure my training partners are happy to see me leave, because I'm just. It's not about anybody else. I'm raging in the gym and I'm gotta be. When we get matched up and I can see it in their face, they're like, here we go. Like is. I'm going. I'm going. There's no, I'm not, like, there's no rounds off. There's no taking it easy. There's like, at a point, like, I'm not even your friend. When we're out after training, I'll lay around and we'll chitchat and I'll ask about your family and how's life?

But, like, when we're in there between the hours of ten and 1230, like, I'm fucking. And because I don't got that long left. I don't got that long left feeling how I feel now. I feel great physically, but that's not always going to be the case. So I need to. I need to stop around and just make the most of it.

Well, well, that's good to hear, Anthony. It's great to hear. I would say we do a live watch along on the channel, but I'll be in England. The downside to that is also that the fight's going to be on it, like 05:00 in the goddamn morning and I fly back on the Sunday.

We'll just drink through the night.

Well, I'm in two minds. It's going to be me and Rebecca. I've got a little. I'm in and out for a few days. I've got a little business trip. I'm like, do I just stay up all night? I'm considering it.

And just sleep on the plane.

I know, exactly. And that's what I said to Rebecca. Then we just sleep on the plane the entire way home. Stay up all night, you know, and she's like, yeah, but did you a good breakfast at that hotel? I wanted to go down and have the nice breakfast. I'm like, the breakfast? Anthony's fighting. This is a big one.

We're celebrating a win here.

Oh, God. We will be celebrating a win. Number 13 in the notes or no, should I say number twelve? And we all wish you the best of luck. Anti, they're all going to be nervous for you, but we'll all be wishing you the well. And of course, you can get the job done. Believe in yourself, train hard. You only got two more weeks. Two more weeks. A lot can change in two weeks. You've got to be ultra disciplined. Can't cut any corners. That's why I said, are you going to be here next Monday? Don't worry about it if you can't be because you're going to put this fight first. This fight comes above everything else now. No volleyball tournaments with your daughters, no podcasts, no going here, no going there. It's got to be 100% focused these last two weeks. Now dial in. Feel good, put this first. Everything else afterwards is still going to be there. And you can pick it up and continue it after the job's done. But right now it's going to be.

To the day like it's laser focus on four days. Vtor Petrino. I'm scheduled four days. I got four days left here. I drive home. It's insane. Cardio and weight cut, you know, just managing my weight for the four days I'm three days I'm home and then fly to Brazil and we do this damn thing.

Just get out there and start blasting hell spits every other day. I'm telling you. I'm serious, man.

Go do some conditioning.

People don't do hill sprints because they don't want to do. Yeah, they do them at least once a week. Just. I want you out there every two days, Anthony, at the end of the month, drive, sprint up the fucker, walk back down, spin up the walk back down. What is it? They call it something in glizzies. What is it? You call it yard paints and glizzies. Anthony's been on the yard pimps and glizzy sprinting up the hill and walking back down over and over Lizzie Gladiators. That's what we want to see Anthony, yard pimps and glizzies sprinting up and down those hills. Lincoln, Nebraska. Let's go Harrington. What do you want?

So you had asked for number twelve in the notes. That was Robert Whitaker. Had some thoughts on Bo nickel, right? Obviously Robert Whitaker has been a stalwart the middleweight division for the last six, seven years. Now he says he saw some holes in Bo nickels game at UFC 300. He said I think I saw some potential hole. We saw some potential holes in Bo nickels game. Bo finally got a guy that he couldnt just do what he wanted to with. Cody Brundage isnt the best fighter in the world. I think Bo Nickel did fine versus a dude who can kind of wrestle, kind of strike and he didnt look as good as he has previously because hes been running through shoe ins for him.

It is what it is.

I think he's got some work to do before he's ready to fight top ten dudes.

I think that's a fair statement from Robert Whittaker. I don't think he's being a hater there or anything like that, saying no, this guy's getting hype, he's getting a push and I had to earn this the hard way. No, I think that's a fair statement. You know, it wasn't, he didn't just run through Cody Brundage. Yeah, he got the job done. He got the win. He got the victory, but it wasn't insane. Yeah, he does. I think Jacob Malcolm, is it?

No. So his management said that's not true. Malcoon put that out apparently hoping for it. Bo Nichols management says that's not happening and Bo is only focused on a ranked fight for his next speaker.

Zero. Okay. Okay. Here's what I was, where I was going to go with this, Anthony, because the wrestling that Bo has, and we know if anyone's heard me speak about Bo nickel, I've been very complimentary. I do think, I do agree with what Robert Whitaker said and it leads me to think of this. Yeah, he's the all star wrestler, but whose wrestling game has been more dominant and more impressive and more effective.

Hamza, chimiev Hamza. I don't care. Whoever's after that is Hamza.

Yeah, I know. Look at what the, look at. Look at the way Hamzat takes people down. Look at the way he just picked up and slammed and dominated Kamara Usman in that first round. Look at the ability that he has. And as good as Bo nickel is, and he's calling out Hamza Chimiev. I'm telling you right now, if it comes down to a straight wrestling match in that first five minutes, at the very least, Hamza's probably got the edge.

That's the only chink that I'll ever. That I have up to this point with Hamza is he is so dominant in the first round when he's fresh. I think he gets a little bit nervous about his conditioning as the fights wear on because he never really wrestles a whole lot later on in the fight that a couple times that it's happened. So to be fair, he's only gone deep into fights with really high level guys. Come on, Gilbert. That. So that maybe that's a little bit of an unfair assessment because the times he has gone into deeper fights to a decision, it's been versus the best guys in the world.

But.

But I, you know, I think there's a conditioning issue there. Yeah, he doesn't wrestle like that deep into a fight, but like you said, first round, I. I just don't see different. A fight is different. Fighting and wrestling is different than just wrestling.

I was talking about this recently. I'm not sure if it was on here or somewhere else, so I apologize if it was on here. Um, the thing is. So you could say. So Hamza needs to pace himself. He's going to do five rounds against Whittaker, so he's got to pace himself. Well, if he paces himself, he's taken away from what makes him so great and what makes him effective. Do you know what I mean? There's no point being mediocre for five rounds. You just need to be really good for five. Not immense for one, you know what I mean? But the thing is, he's so confident in his ability of wiping them out in round one that he just goes for it. Well, if you take a little bit of that away and he doesn't go for the finish, then what is he gonna do, you know? It's a real, so real tricky one for Hamza, Jimmy.

It's real mess. It's a real mess because then he's not as dangerous if he backs off the gas a little bit.

Yeah. Yeah.

And he's not as hard as. And he's not as hard to deal with if he backs off the gas a little.

If he backs off. That's what makes him so successful, because he's just a force of nature running through people, you know, real problem. It's a real problem. Him and Robert Whittaker. How do you feel about that one?

I think that's a great fight. I think it's a great fight. I. Man, Robert looks so good, and it was his last fight. Costa. Costa. Yeah. I don't know. It really depends. It comes down to the wrestling.

Robert.

Robert. Robert Whitaker spot a lot of really good wrestlers, though.

Robert Whittaker beat Joel Romero twice.

Twice. Twice. Yeah. They don't get. They don't get any more bigger, stronger, and athletic than that. Explosive with a high level, explosive wrestling ability.

Yeah. So now I tell you what, I'm fair play to Whittaker for taking that fight, because he loses to drink as duplessis, right, comes back, beats Costa back in the mix. Yeah. No one's putting their hand up to fire. Hamza may have, but Whitaker does it. Fair play. Fair play.

Strength of schedule, too. We always talk about RDA, strength of schedule. You kind of go back and look at Whitaker's record. God damn, that guy's got some monsters on there. He's fought best of the best over his entire career.

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He's pro free speech.

I like that guy. But I'm gonna make that dirty brazilian bleed. And, you know, I'm gonna do it for Brazil. Because Brazil doesn't even like Casa.

So.

Hey, Brazil. This one's for you guys. Let's get it done.

I'm half a Mexican. What you talking about?

Don't speak English.

Speak the folk Spanish ton Mapovo, joy. So Mexican, you will never toast a secret juice. You hear me? Shut the up.

I'm not sure what you actually want us to comment on there, Harrington, but I did see that video, and I was, like, giving the Ricky Martin shit. I tell you what, that's a tough fight for both men. That one there.

Yeah. So I trained with Strickland the week of 300.

Yeah.

Really impressed with that guy. Really impressed. Like, whatever skill set he shows when we watch him fight on tv, he's got a whole lot more that he's holding on to, and I don't know why he's holding on to it, but that guy's. That guy's good.

He's real. I've trained with him extensively. But that's always the way, though, isn't it? That's often the way. Like, I never showed any jujitsu, for the most part, in my fights, other than defensively.

That held me down for several rounds. Oh, yeah.

No, he's got. I've always.

Point of the round was to get to your feet. That held me down several times. I was so angry.

I'm trying to think, who was it? Was it Strickland? No, it wasn't Strickland. Who was it? It was somebody that we know. We were doing the same drill. We were doing the same drill. Who was it? Oh, my God. Who the was it? I don't think it was Strickland. It might have been Strickland, though. No, it wasn't. It wasn't but, you know, you know, you do the thing, you hold them down and you ground and pound and you're allowed to ground and pound them. They can hit you from the back, but it's pointless and they've just got to get to the feet. So I did it and I held them down. Whoever it was, I can't remember who it was. It might have been Sean, I'm not sure. I think the full round and give him a good bit of a scene, too, or whatever. And then when it was the flip side and I went on my back, I was getting up a few times and then I got to my feet and it was the end of the round. And then as I was getting to my feet, they went ba, ba, ba ba, like four times and cracked me in the face with the little gloves on about four times.

What the hell? It wasn't strictly do, was. It's on the tip of my tongue. It's on the tip of. I'm like, you're up. Uriah hall. That's who it was. It was Uriah hall. It was Uriah hall. And I was getting.

He just gave you a four piece.

And the round ended, right? So I stopped and then boom, boom, boom. But hard with the little gun. I'm like, the. Are you doing? I was like, well, that's the drill. I'm like, that's the drill. When the rounds going, you can clearly see it just ended. Anyway. I just said, you're a bad trading partner, bro. You're. But you're having a little soul card. Yeah.

Because you, you're angry.

You have a little bit of a sulk. Anyway, Anthony, if you are here Monday, great. If you know, we will all understand. Let me know when you can, though, so we can get someone step in for you and fill in. But if you have a question for myself or for Anthony, send it in.

I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to skip.

Oh, you gotta go.

Have to skip out on the questions, Mike. Yeah, I got. I gotta get my blood work done.

Well, you tell them your Wi Fi is losing.

It's losing speed.

Kick gigawatts. 1.27 gigawatts. Get out of it. Off. All right, let me know. Take it easy, sir. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye. In Harrington, that is your cue. And if you do have a question for either myself or Anthony or whoever I have filling in on a Thursday or even maybe on a Monday, you never know. You know. Send it into bympodmail.com. I say this all the time, questions about life, you know? Yeah. Okay. If there's something you really want to know about MMA, do it. But if you're just sending it in to kind of get on the show and it's a bland MMA question, it. Does it exciting us or excite you guys, the listeners, the believers that support this show? And we support and appreciate every single one of you guys for making this little show what it is. So thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

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All right, first question we have here today is Abby from the fight space, featuring Michael Bisbeck.

Abby, this feels a little weird, doesn't it? Have you not got a question for me? No.

No, not this time. You're right here.

Always a pleasure. Thank you. Your girl made it.

I just want to know from you boys, what was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you. Trying to check into a hotel. Literally as I'm checking in, I had.

Paid for my cab with my debit.

Card, walked into the casino, and my car disappeared. Shanghaied, unpacked my whole bag. Like, it's gone.

So it was the craziest thing that's.

Ever happened to you?

Just trying to get me to your.

Freaking hotel at one of these events and see you. It's gonna be an awesome weekend.

Yeah. By the way, that annoyed me because for the TNT sports, and thank you, Abby. Hope you well, thanks for the question. Well, I just got sit with the press, and I felt, like, so self conscious, like we're gonna do for TNT sports. Used to be bt sports. We're gonna do a thing covering the press conference. I was like, right. We're just gonna stand there and, like, do a little bit with the microphones. We'd sit there with that in the press section. I'm like, not being a diva. It just feels weird for me. I don't want to be sitting in the press section. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Weirdest thing, checking into a hotel. It is something I do far too frequently. Sadly, trying to think. There's so many I can't remember yesterday. I do remember. I checked in for a room once, and I walked in the room, I threw my bags down, and I could hear the shower going. And there was a dude in the shower naked. I was like, what the. He's like, well, what are you doing? What are you doing? And some other rooms have got mixed up, so that was pretty weird.

That was pretty weird.

They gave you keys to that guy's room that he was already staying in.

I walked in on a naked guy in the room, and you look like.

You could possibly be a hooligan coming to Robin. You know what I mean?

Thank you very much. I'll take that as a compliment, but yeah, no, I did.

You're like a giant brick of a man.

Like you, I'd be shook if you.

Just walked into my hotel room and I was naked.

Especially, like, inside some weird, like, american town. And I've got the skin head, like, hello, Mike? What the going on? Is that? What is. I'm like, bro, bro, relax. Calm down. I've just looked. I've got my bags. They gave me this room, and he was like, oh, okay. So I went downstairs, and they were, oh, we're so sorry. We're so sorry. But, yeah, but that's about it. Abby from the space Harrison. Any. Anything?

Yeah, so I had a weird one.

It wasn't. It was kind of similar to that. I wasn't checking into the hotel room I'd already been in. And for some reason, I woke up in such a, like, daze. I went to the bathroom, and then.

I walked into the hallway, like, instead.

Of going back into bed, and I didn't have my keys on me. I'm in my underwear. I'm so into dazed, I don't even remember which hotel room is mine. They ended up having to bring me, like, security came and got me. Brought me down to the front desk and made me a new key for my room.

It was insane. Yeah, I did that. Something very similar. I walked out of my room looking for the bathroom. I just changed into a hotel. It was in Prague. And there was two doors. One was the bathroom, one was the hallway.

You just went to the hallway?

I might have been naked. I got locked out of my room. Do you know what I mean? Sleepwalking. I was like, oh, shit. And then the door shuts, and I couldn't because I was, like, half asleep in the middle of the night. Anyway, moving on. Brian.

All right, next question we have here is from Kyle Kostensha. What's up? Kyle mispronounced that name.

Biz being. Thanks so much for listening. My question here. So first off, I should say you, Harrington, really excited to talk to you, Bisbing. But one of the big things I really want to ask you is I am taking my wife to London for the first time and I want to know exactly from your perspective, what are the things I should see? Obviously, the Tower of London is what your life loves. I've already checked that box. But looking for the places I need to eat, the things I need to see from a true native british man, I want to know it's going to be cool so I can press her because we all know what happens when you impress the ladies as well. Just keep being awesome. Love you guys. And just, you know, bring back more of daddy Fury because that is the best impression and best thing that you do love. You keep being awesome and can't wait for some great advice. Well, no man alive should request the impression that I haven't done for quite some time. I haven't been doing it because people said, you've done too much. But it's back.

We're fucking back, baby. Thank you very much. Oh, God. I'm not no London tour guide. I mean, obviously Tower of London is a big one. Just go for a walk around Soho. That's a really cool area. Shoreditch is a cool spot, a little newer. It used to be kind of a shitty area, but now it's been gentrified. Stuff like that. You can do like the Jack the Ripper tours and Jack the Ripper Museum and stuff like that. I mean, you've got all your historic sites. We're going to Windsor Castle, which is a little about. It's a little train ride about half an hour outside. Windsor Castle is phenomenal. We've been there before, a long time ago. But what were you going to say, Harrington?

I was going to ask about the eye of London. Like, is that. Is that akin to our Empire State building? It's whack and nobody actually do it.

I was talking to someone recently from ESPN and I said, oh, yeah, it's awful. No, we really loved it. Well, we went, it was summer, it was boiling hot. We got on it and it was packed. It was jammed. Right. And there's no aircraft in the car itself. You could have moved, right? As Strickland would say, it was date to date, nipple to nipple. Do you know what I mean? And the thing was so slow because we walked on, I thought, it's dead. We're going to be the only ones on. Great. All of a sudden, they just kept flooding in and flooding in and flooding in. You know what I mean? Because there's a massive line of people, and it took about a bloody hour. Maybe I'm exaggerating. It felt about an hour to do a full rotation. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Don't do it. Don't do it. That's not good in terms of where to eat. I mean, London's one of those cities, is new places opening and closing all the time. But in London, you can find some amazing food. Where do I like, I'm trying to get into Jim Carner, which is Dana White's favorite restaurant in London.

I tried to book it three weeks in advance. Couldn't get in, couldn't get it packed, sold out. So I'm like, any other believers got any contacts at Jim Carner? Because I'm trying to get in there. You know what I mean? Jim Carter, give your boy a shout. Give me a table. Stop playing games. Come on.

I would imagine this is what most people assume a manager is for. Just can't you. Can't you call someone and be like.

Hey, throw your weight around.

Get me. And that's what Rebecca said. That's what Rebecca said. Michael, you've got a team of managers. You've got management here. You've got management there. At paradigm. You've got management with your acting agency. But I'm just not that dude. I will never. I don't call people and say, excuse me, I'm looking to get in here, or, can you do this for me? Can you do that? In fact, it's funny, because Anthony, obviously, we were just in Vegas for you, and his manager was saying the same thing. I'm like, I do everything myself. They said, what do you mean? I do everything for Anthony. Like, literally, I schedule his entire life. I'm like, oh, that must be nice. I do everything myself, probably because I'm a bit of a control freak, but also, I don't know. I don't like asking other people to do shit like that. But Jim Carna, if you just happen to be a fan of the show, hit me up, brother. We've got one more, Brian.

Sure do. This is a question about culture. Coming the other direction from daz. Hey, fellas.

Daz here from Bamber Bridge, Preston, you might know it. This been know it well. This week, I booked flights to Vegas, booked my hotel. International fight week. I'm there for it now. I'm just gonna wait for a ticket release. Hope I can get some. You might notice the famous knockout in the background here. Put it in on purpose. But anyway, I just wanted to ask you two things. Firstly, what's the tipping culture in America? Is there like a certain amount, a percentage recommended or what's.

I don't have a clue. Never been.

And secondly, while in Vegas, any recommendations of places I should go eat, food wise, a decent bar, things to do. I know it's bouncing. Just wondering if you've got anything that you think is must see.

All right, cheers.

Hopefully bump into you and some other fighters in fight week as well. Bamber bridge. Bamber bloody bridge, mate. Listen, listen. When it comes to tip culture, it's going to annoy you because in the UK we don't have a tipping culture. And I still argue with, like, friends and family when they come over because they don't want to tip. I'm like, you've got to tip, okay? I'm like, no, this is how they make a living. You have to tip. So I'd say as long as you didn't have a bad experience, you got to give 20%, you know? Again, what to do in Vegas depends on your budget. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can do a lot of fantastic stuff. Go on, Harrington, you were going to say something?

Well, I was going to say, for drinks, you don't have to do 20%. A dollar or two per beverage I think is fine. If you're getting charged, you know, $15 for a beer, you don't have to give them a three dollar tip.

Well, I do, yeah.

Really?

Yeah. It's $3.

Okay. Yeah. Harrington didn't work in the service industry like the rest of us.

Where to go in Las Vegas? I mean, depends what you're into, mate. Depends what you're into, of course. I mean, listen, if you've never been to Las Vegas, it's going to blow your mind. Right. I find it hell on earth walking up and down the strip and going through all the casinos and stuff like that. But when you've never been there, it's kind of an eye opener and you look like a young lad, so you'll enjoy all of that stuff and just have a mooch about. There's nightclubs, there's shooting galleries, gun galleries, there's bloody desert. There's anything you want to do, you can do it pretty much in Las Vegas. Just depends what you're into, mate. You know, for me, when I go there these days, it just works. It's just work, work, work, and then find the quietest the quietest bar possible. Do you know what I mean? Just for a couple of little drinky poos before I hit the hay. Ain't going out. I don't do none of that shit anymore. No way. Had my fill. I hate it. I hate it. It's a production and a half, and this show's been a production and a half.

Go on, Harrington.

There's just a little recommendation for our friend Daz. I was going to say, when I was in my early twenties, I went to Vegas a lot. And I always spent time on the strip. I didn't spend a lot of time in old Vegas. Around Fremont street. That's where I've been the last couple of times. I'm telling you, it's more fun. Everything's cheaper.

Everything's cheaper.

And there's way more like there. There's cool stuff you can do out on Fremont street.

Yeah. You've got a better chance to get robbed.

People insides on the street. Yeah, dude, that's to go Vegas.

You can find some meth addicted hooker, if that's what. What you like. You know what I mean? You can get stabbed off a homeless person. Yeah. Go down there. Things are cheaper for a reason. That's the show, everybody. Thank you for watching. We'll be back on Monday. Bye.