Bussin' With The Boys - Michael Chandler Is DONE Waiting For Conor McGregor And Is Fighting Charles Oliveria

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Recorded: September 16, 2024 UFC309 has been announced. The co-main?? Michael Chandler vs Charles Oliveira. It's bye bye to McGregor (for now) as Chandler is setting his sights on the ultimate goal of being a UFC Champion. Mike has been out of the fighting game for 2 years now waiting patiently and building his mental game to prepare facing Connor McGregor. However, the wait has been too long and with Connor's shaky antics leading up to their previous fight date, Mike has moved on to take on the #1 contender, Oliveira. Willy is riding solo in this 1v1 interview with the boy, talking Dad Talk, Shoutout no free shoutouts, and what it will take for Michael to be at the top of the UFC! Mike's vision is clear, and his path is set. He will be heading to Madison Square Garden in his first leg of "becoming a UFC Champion" and is "ready to go"! Will asks Michael what he has learned most about himself during his time away from the ring. What has Mike specifically worked on, and in his late 30's how is his body feeling during training? Michael is all cylinders GO for his bout in the Big Apple and is looking to silence his loudest critics. There is a peace about Chandler that lets you know this fight with Oliveira isn't a detour. He says it is part of the path set in front of him. He has a humble swagger and a bulked up build coming off his McGregor training, and is ready to jump right back in to another camp in Florida this week. Catch up on the weekend with Willy and the boys in the back as they break down the NFL, CFB and news from over the weekend. JP fights through his painful addiction of South Carolina Football, Will tells the Boys about his high school number being retired, and Mitch defends his shoutout no free shoutout with his LIFE. The Titans have Garrett and Jack on the ropes, but Jack isn't ready to quit on Levis just yet. Also, a teaser for what is to come in our Vegas Vlog from Jack and Taylor's trip to the city of lights this last weekend. Willy breaks down his thoughts for the Illinois vs Nebraska game, and his (secret) love of Michigan's "impending" downfall. Timestamps are below for all you fact checkers out there. Make sure to give Mitch a shoutout below if you love his timestamps. As always, it's them big hugs and them tiny kisses in these streets! Enjoy the pod Boys! 0:00 Intro 1:24 Call In To The Locker Room 4:11 Will got the key to the streets… of Bonnie terre 12:07 Recapping The College Football Weekend 18:28 Surprising NFL Weekend 36:04 Jack Recaps Vegas 46:44 MICHAEL CHANDLER INTERVIEW STARTS 49:49 How He Feels About The New Fight And How It Came To Be YT 55:18 Did It Feel Weird Waiting All This Time For The Fight Not To Happen? 59:00 What Has He Learned Since The Last Oliviera fight 1:00:44 Chandler 2.0 1:03:11does he think about the other fighters being pissed he could be the number #1 fighter (scary fight clip) 1:04:54 Falling Out Of Love With The Sport 1:14:42 Which Fight Would He Want More - Title Or Mcgregor 1:19:42 Was The McGregor Fight Close? 1:24:25 UFC At The Sphere 1:32:24 Working With Dana And Hunter Throughout The Fight Process 1:34:38 Twisted QOTW 1:39:26 Michigan/Nebraska Double Header 1:46:01 Shoutouts OTWFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, unlock Bonteer real quick. Yeah, I'll get a little. We activated Bontair over the weekend. My daughter, Roo and I, we took a road trip down to Missouri. You move that, Mike. Yes, I will move that. the mic. We took a trip down to Bontair, Missouri to Will, your boy Will, your boy Willie C. I had a little ceremony. I had a little ceremony. I thought it was just going to be like,

they said that they were doing unveiling like a photo that's going to be behind the bleachers is what my brother Wyatt said. And when I got there, they had these chairs sitting up in the middle of the 50 yard line on the track. Family was there. The mayor was there. And Little to my knowledge, I got the key to the city. They retired your boy's jersey. And the unveiling of the photo up top, it's hanging on the press box. Great photo. Great photo.

Jersey number 28. Your boy got his number retired. And it was an all-time night. And then the next day, we went to the RJFL Fields, which is Raider Jr. Football League, or community league that I grew up playing. They had their pump-pass and kick. I think they call it pump-pass and field now because they do a lot of field activities. and it was all time because full circle moment my number 28 came from if you go back to that last photo

shirm uh i'm talking to you know everybody that showed up but to my left is dave gipson he is the guy who runs the rater junior football league dave gipson was a stud running back in high school he was my very first rjfl coach for the patriots the 1999 patriots we went six and no we killed everybody and he wanted me to wear his jersey number, which was 28. His number was 28 in high school. And so I was 28 throughout my entire childhood all the way up through high school. That jersey is now. That jersey number is now retired with the Raiders.

Your boy was fired up. I had an incredible weekend. And yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty solid. It is really cool. Yes, that's you next. Going back to listening to Dave Speak to the RJFL, they raised over $60,000.

My very first year, I think I was in second grade, flag football, we raised around $4,000. And that same fundraiser is now, they had the record year last year at $40,000. Now it jumped up to $60,000. A lot more kids are coming out in the Raider Junior Football League. So it was really cool to kind of see everybody there because when I was playing, it was like there were four teams per grade. Now I want to see they're in between like six to eight and all that money goes into all their equipment.

They get all like the cool stuff and everything else. they have like NFL looking jerseys not like the netted you know what I mean like when I was on the Patriots it was just blue and it just said RJFL on the front now they have like Patriot uniforms um so it it was really cool man it truly was I had a really good time they put me on the spot I had to give like a speech when he introduced me he's like hey do you mind talking kind of about you coming from here and say a few things if you know you want me to give a speech I'm Dave, I'm not going to lie, I'm not prepared. And so I got to talk.

I got to speak a little bit. And it was cool, man. The kids loved it. I loved it. It was a fun time. I feel very uncomfortable kind of talking about myself on the mic without Taylor here. You bring up that, I don't know, is that the clip that I posted? Or is this the highlight film?

No, that's you. So the night, Friday night lights, before the game started when they retired everything. and I got the key to the city. They played this highlight tape. The very first clip, they had like one or two clips of me and the RJFL to start it off. And it was my dad or coach Jones, the head coach of the Raiders,

like filming it on his TV. So we're just, we're like geeking out the whole time watching this highlight tape. Pretty good highlight tape. Your pose has reached new, new fame. Bro, it really has. And it fires me up because I'll be like smiling our pose. I'll like try to pose for the photo.

and smile. Most of the time I just do that. I just hit my I just hit my pose and people are like, hey, I want you to hit the pose. We got to hit the pose, which fires me up because that pose is simply so I don't have to smile or feel like I'm kind of like, you know, whether you're putting your arms around people or you want to do a thumbs up or number one, two, whatever it is. It just helps kind of like have a goofy pose so you don't have to worry about is my smile good in this photo. You kind of zoom in on your face. Like I look kind of dumb in this photo. I need to figure out my post. No, we just hit the Willie C. I see

Chiefs Kingdom, Kansas City Chiefs. Fans tagging me, hitting the pose. So, hey, if you hit that pose and you tag me and I come across it, I promise you, I will share it whether on my story or on Twitter. It's so funny. But it is, bro. The kids wanted to come up. They're like, hey, do you want to hit the, do you want to do? I'm like,

bro, yes. Like, everybody, everybody line up, like, let's hit the pose. We zoom out. We take an awesome photo. But it is cool that that pose is hit. When a kid doesn't, it hits different too. I know, man. Because they're, like, extra stoked because when you're older, it's like, you're being funny and doing it. When you're a little kid, it's like, it's super fun to have an excuse to flex.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so you can see it in their face or they're just like, like, so excited to be doing it. As I would do it like, you know, in like recent years, you feel goofy doing it around a group of people that have no clue what you're even doing and they kind of just like chuckle. But now, since it's kind of known a little bit, everybody's like, oh, yeah, let's go but it does it fires me up it fires me up hitting that pose the year 10 playoff willie pose um yeah rank the poses yeah that needs to be the trophy like you just get hit the pose going we give out that award will compton award yeah the will compton award uh but it it was awesome man it was a

really good weekend we went back to the farm we had like family and friends over to watch the huskers we watch ball all day saturday shout out ruse she pooped in the potty twice i have a little potty trainee in the making right now and she's really only wetting herself at nap time and bedtime just like her old man did up until he was about 14 but she crushed it it was a great time I didn't know how it'd be since I was riding solo the wife had to hang back for a bar three event on Saturday that she had to be at um but it was an awesome weekend man it was an awesome weekend we're getting to be at the old zombie grounds I try to tell her she has no clue what's going on she just wants to play and jump around and dance around and stuff top five adorable video yeah

girls when they helped her up yeah yeah yeah um she was hitting go big reds yo i was we were we had a long ride back home and i was trying to she she wanted music she didn't want music and then when we do listen to music it's got to be the same song on repeat essentially the entire time fortunately i got her on the lonely road with m gk and jelly roll but i was on the frozen soundtrack for the majority of the weekend and so when she didn't want music We were just sitting there and she was just talking and you got to like you're trying to, she wants you to repeat what she says pretty much every time. And so I got her into Go Big Red like, hey, Ru, we got to get you into this Go Big Red trend.

Go Big Red chant. So I tried teaching it to her over and over and over and eventually she got it. She's got it down now. I was trying to get to where I'm saying, go big Red. And then she says, go big Red. But she doesn't quite understand that yet. So she just does both of them together. But she's got the Go Big Red chant on Lod.

By the way, the Huskers. We took care of business. Defense, we did hold them the three points, but they were kind of running it. They were kind of moving the ball at will at some point. We just did a good job of being like a bend, don't break defense. But I'm sure it'll be one of those weeks of practice

to where it's all about physicality. Because we got a tough fighting Illinois ball club coming to town. And Illinois is not a team to sleep on. Brett Bielma, as I say later in the episode with Mike Chandler, He is my number one enemy this week. I mean, they took everything from us in the Big Ten Championship with Wisconsin. That's when they had like over 700 yards of offense on us. The buzz will be back too because they're ranked.

It has to be the first. This is the first ranked game where Nebraska's ranked and another team's ranked in over a decade. So it will be buzzet. And it's the 400 consecutive sellout. So it's going to be a massive game. Friday night under the lights. and we beat their ass last year. It's Friday.

We beat their ass last year because we were coming off of that. We just got stomped by Michigan and Rule went full paths the next day on a Sunday. And we mopped them last year. So I know they're going to come hungry. Like we're going to get Illinois best. So it's a big week. It's a big week for us.

I feel like we've had a good three first games where you kind of see it as like a preseason. And now you're facing a team that's not like a jugger. or not, but like a salty ball club that's built in the trenches, run game and everything else. They have a competent quarterback, but like a good test for where we are at right now to see kind of who we really are. Because Illinois, I think, is sneaky tough.

I think Indiana's sneaky tough. They went out to UCLA and beat them. And the reason I say that is James Madison University had a really good team last year. That staff is now with Indiana. And they took a lot of their best, they're better players from JMU. Not saying like they're world beaters, but still good football. football players. And so Indiana, that's why they're undefeated right now. They're kind of a sneaky. They're a good play in the gambling space, kind of like a dark horse the way Kansas was last

year. Kansas lost again, man. Sharon put me on game. I'll let him talk about it. Similar to the coach at Nebraska that's no longer calm plays, but he is there. I won't say his name. And when I told you, hey, your offense is in for it. Same situation is happening to Kansas. Yeah, what's going on with Kansas. I know we have a massive Kansas fan base that follows this podcast. Here's a little bit of lore. JP and I were both huge on Kansas going into the season.

Unbeknownst to me, Kansas during this offseason hired a man by the name of Jeff Grimes as their offensive coordinator. Grimes comes from BYU, the 2020 COVID season, where Zach Wilson went off. They were still independent, though, so they're playing nobody.

Zach Wilson has a great season. Jeff Grimes gets hired by Baylor with Dave Aranda's crew runs our offense into the ground. We had like five quarterbacks transfer, running backs transfer. I mean, it's terrible. Each year, our offensive numbers just got worse and worse. We fire them. And Kansas hires them.

But I have no idea why. And the same stuff that was happening at Baylor, it's happening in Kansas now. It breaks my heart. Yeah, because they have good players on that offense. Great players. And now everybody's coming for Jalen Daniel's head, and I'm like, dog, it's not him. That OC is, I call him Grimes against humanity, because he is the woe. Yeah, that's good information to know because I know we were high on Kansas kind of coming into this year.

Our boy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe pivot to Indiana. Yes, Arizona State, Coach Daly down there getting those boys going. Alabama, Garrett, Alabama looked tough. They just, they look tough, man. Obviously, Wisconsin is not, doesn't seem like they're that good of a team this year. They could turn around. I'm surprised that Fickle doesn't have like sort of a progression. Him coming out of Cincinnati, he was kind of a hot candidate to hire.

I know he was definitely on my short list with Nebraska hoping that we would hire him. I'm so happy we have for Coach Ruhl. Yeah. But you guys beat their ass. Yeah, handle business in Madison. Madison is a great place to visit for a game. It does suck that Van Dyke went down early, not saying that it would have changed much, but the morale in the stadium just dropped.

I kind of expect a big cat to be up there. That whole situation was hilarious with the gun dying on him and him just chucking it. I want to know how his shoulder feels today. But the one thing that I wanted to see is less penalties on offense, which we did. Week before against South Florida, we had like 130 yards of penalties. So cut that back Got back to just discipline ball And it was disappointing

Jump around was cool But the student section emptied immediately after Yeah I mean you got yeah I mean it's a tough situation It's a tough game and it was an early game too But they got up for it Yeah and Big Cat too What's funny about the Big Cat stuff is he gave me shit

For going on the T-shirt Canon Michigan last year they're like hey I was like first series of the second quarter Do you want to do the T-shirt canons It was before the Michigan game started And so I'm like, oh yeah, and I'm thinking early enough will be solid. We're down like 210, like, 210 when Jack and I are standing kind of in the back waiting for this gun cannon. And you just feel ridiculous that you're about to go out there getting your ass whooped.

And Big Cat texting me like, hey, are we in the trust tree? I was like, yeah, what's up? He's like, they're asking me to do the T-shirt cannon. And they were down like either 21-3 or 14-3 at the time. He's like, I know how you feel, but we're just kind of like laughing back and forth. And then they have the audacity to bring them out there. The T-shirt cannon doesn't work at malfunctions like what Wisconsin football is doing right now. And he's just throwing T-shirts.

Yeah. So heads off to B.C. Going out there, doing what you need. I did tell him, I'm like, hey, it's just part of the process. That was us last year. Look at us now. It's true. You got to get in the trenches.

You got to get a quarterback. Yeah, yeah. Got to get a quarterback. Bro, you have to have a quarterback. Yeah. Just at all levels of ball. at all levels of ball. I will say a surprising one over the weekend was in North County High School.

Deshawn Watson and the Browns beating Jacksonville. I thought Jacksonville was going to be solid this year, but then you see Miami get their ass beat by the bills at home. So it's like, okay, was Miami even a tough team? Tough situation there, though. But you think about how Jacksonville was in it, and they had a great first half against Miami. Miami kind of just turned it on in the second half.

You think Jacksonville, Trevor, looked better, like he's going to go up and they're going to dust the Browns, but it's truly like any given Sunday. I mean, the Raiders, 9.5.1.00 dogs going across the country with their first round draft pick last year out. And Max, Minchu looked fucking awesome. We tried getting them on the pod today for a call in. We did get turned down.

So that was tough. One win. But he was like 30 or 35. I mean, they look, the Raiders look tough, man. Are the two best quarterbacks in the league, Sam Darnall and Derek Carr? Bro, hey, what's crazy? I bookmarked this too. Derek Carr?

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Gardner Minshue has the highest completion percentage. The longest touchdown of the season is thrown by Sam Darnold. Baker Mayfield is undefeated and just barely behind Carr. Kyler Murray threw a perfect 158. past rating game. I mean, that's nuts, man. Cardinals do look tough. I mean, they demolished a very beaten down Rams team who have, who are without like

four of their starting offensive linemen. They lost Pooka Nukua. Cooper Cup gets hurt in the middle of the game. I mean, they're just a basically a band-aided team out there right now, which sucks because the Rams could have been a good football team this year. They still can be. Because, again, any given Sunday, you still got to line it up. Bro, just to touch on the local.

the local team, the Titans, man. And here, because I was watching that game, and here's what sucks about it, is without, and I'm going to sound a little bit Nebraska stylish in years past, but this is true. If you don't give up a blocked punt, like when a team blocks a punt,

their chances of winning the game is like north of 80%. But if you don't get a blocked punt and Willie Mayo just takes care of the football, They're fine. They are, they are, they're moving the ball well. Calvin Ridley looks good. They ran the ball. They ran the ball solid.

Their defense gets after it, man. And it's truly, what sucks is that it was repeat things. Obviously different situations, but repeat things from week one to week two. And the wild thing about that pump block, because your boy put his special team's hat on and watch that punt get blocked. Like, losing on an up and under to a five-man box, really four, because one guy was just kind of standing up, you knew he wasn't coming after it. But a four-man box is crazy.

You got seven in there blocking. You're sitting here when you got a four- or five-man protection, you're all thinking about getting out and covering the ball and covering the return. That is what that wing was thinking. It is like, all right, it's a four-man box. That the punt block, the punt return team is building a return. They're not coming after you. When a punt return team is coming after you to block,

a kick, it's a seven or eight man box every time. Let's say overload one side and a six man box. But you just had two guys on that surface on that right side, two guys on the left side. Like the guard and tackler looking at chipping to kind of get out, help each other get out so you can cover the punt. But a wing's card number, the worst thing you can do is get beat on it up and under in any situation. But a four-man box, he didn't even touch him.

He didn't even touch him. You can see he's like looking to get out, which I get that that is what you're doing. But your number one thing is protecting the inside. And getting beat on an up and under in a four-man box is so brutal. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know where he is on the roster. It's like our number three running back? He could be somebody that has to turn in the playbook this week.

Like those are things that happen. I've talked about before my time on Washington. We had a Thursday night game to where we're just doing walkthrough. So my man on the wing didn't really get a good look at everything, but he gets beat on it up and under, and he's cut the next day. And what was disheartening is watching, I forget his name.

Is it chestnut is his last name? But he's in the post-game interview with Paul Kaharski. And obviously Paul's seen as kind of like a villain in the locker room. No guys don't really want to mess with them or talk to him. But he just didn't, the answers he was giving the body language, kind of like smiling, like knowing that P.K. is asking him question. tough hard questions about it i guess but to not like me bro if i gave up a pump block i would be on suicide watch i would be feeling not only am i let it not only did i let my team down and not do my

job but i'm thinking my career is now in jeopardy because you are what you put on film like now if you're any team watching that you're any team any opponent watching that film every special team's unit is dialing up how they can get you in and up and under or how they can pick on you That's ultimately what that kid's going to be facing the rest of the year if he's still on the roster. But that is like that is the worst thing that could have happened in that situation. And the way he kind of handled that interview is like, you know, if I'm a teammate kind of watching that, you understand that you're trying to get out and it's on you and everything else. But you're kind of thinking like, bro, you have to show a little bit more emotion than that.

You know what I mean? Yeah. If you're a captain on that special teams unit, you, I don't know. Or you're the guy behind him thinking, okay, now here's my chance. chance for sure for sure like i don't know how they'll shuffled around again who knows if he's going to get cut or not yeah but that is one of those that's a type of offense that you have to where that is deemed cuttable yeah and if he's still on it he gets another shot at redemption but at the same time your assholes should be so tight bro like i i like i wouldn't want to talk to the media but you would

you'd be able to read in most people's faces that you gave up such a massive play obviously will Levis had his turnover. They had their own issues just across the board throughout the game because no one player like loses the game. But I'm feeling like I just lost that entire game because you give up a block punt. Yeah, that's... I mean, the defense looks consistent. Like, they look good. They get to the quarter of... Yeah, they play with their hair on fire. So that part, there is confidence there. I think Cali said it best. What the fuck are you doing? Like, that's tough. Yeah. Like, it sucks. You're inside the the 10. It's like just go down. There's three points. Leaving the week.

Yeah, so close, bro. In the week before, like, Bill Belichick broke it down on one of the shows he was on it. Maybe it was McAfee. Yeah. But he's just saying how him and Tom kind of talked through situations like that and say that's like a learning thing for the next week. You're sitting there talking about it in the film room like, hey,

I understand you're trying to make a play. You're trying to be Superman here and keep us in the game. But let's just say this doesn't happen and we punt the ball. Like, we're still alive and still playing. Like, we're in the game. We're not giving up nothing. Like right there when he gave it up there, it's like, hey, even if you eat that, I know, again, you're trying to, Will's trying to figure out how to play his game because he has great ability. But you just eat that and go down. Like, we have three points on the board.

Yeah. I mean, it's not changing them. It's tough because it's back to back weeks of that. I know, man. I know. I know. A pick six the other way. I think, I don't know if it was that play specifically, but also Tadj gets hurt. So if it is on that play, then it's like, turn the ball. over your running back gets hurt could have had three points a bellichick the quote about that is the main point is tom brady took care of the football no matter what if it was a bad series take care of the football and because you yeah sucks because will was on here like yeah of course i look at tom brady it's like yeah but like in will levis defense when you really look at his career he has probably started how many games did he start last year so he's probably played

25 games as a starting quarterback in his from college to NFL yeah which is like not a lot right and that's what I'm saying he's like figuring out how he can he can balance his ability because you can't get away with stuff like I'm sure you can get away with stuff like that in college you're not defenses in this league are going to make you pay when you make bad decisions like that and everybody's in if you just take care of the football every team in the league is in the game in the fourth quarter Yeah, unless you're not in Carolina. Also, I guess to Will's defense, because I feel like I might be the reason the Titans are losing.

No. Because if I was publicly hating Will Levis, I think we'd continue to win. And now that I have the public backing, I might have to be a hater, but I'm not. But to Will's defense, the Titans O line collectively is giving up the most pressures through two weeks in the entire NFL.

Bill Callahan's losing is mine. I bet he's furious about it. But I mean, we've got, we got young guys out there right now, you know, a couple rookies, two, three year guys. And a completely new staff. Like there's going to be growing pains. Like, I kind of hate how everybody's, you know, you see people saying like, Will Leavis, he's not the guy, blah, blah, blah.

Like, now is not the time to hit a panted button. Like, he's got time. He's just got to figure out like, hey, man, just take care of the football. Because, again, if he doesn't do that, they're putting at least three points on the board. and you don't block a punt. Those are two insane momentum shifts for a team. Yeah, it would be 2-0. Also, Malik Willis revenge game next week.

Packers come to town. Yeah. And Malik Willis got to win. If Malik Willis beats us in Nissan, I'll kill myself. Yeah. But I mean, it's going to be Josh Jacobs touching the rock 30 times. Like, the guy that show up to stop the run. I know, but I mean, I didn't catch a lot of the Packers game,

but he looked sound in the highlight. So it looked way more sound than he ever did with the Titans. Well, and I was going to say, you know, Lafleur is going to have him right. They're going to have a simple game playing. Like, they fed the rock to Josh Jacobs, like over 30 times. And he had a good day on the ground. But, you know, Lafleur's going to do a good job of kind of like having his confidence there,

playing within the playbook that he's given. And, I mean, they will. It would be a battle. The Titans defense is nice right now. We are. That D-line is solid, but. D-line is going to be a problem for everybody. Yeah, it was.

But that, yeah, it was tough, man. Tough. That was a tough loss for the boys in blue. Yeah, Malik Willis. You saw where the center threw up on the ball? Wild, head he played. Don't throw that. Yeah.

Pukin rally. Puk and rally. But. Setting your QB up for disaster. Snaps. it. Yeah, South Carolina, we obviously get into it with, during the Chandler interview, but South Carolina, man, I, man, my heart goes out to your family.

You know, you just broke my heart again. What was the stat you said when you block a punt? It goes up north of 80%. Yes. An epic block fun. And you guys had two pick six is called back. Two pick six is called back. And an OPI that should not have been an Opie.

Oh. How do they get away with this? The rest of bailing out LSU. very similar to the way the refs bail out the chiefs. We need to start seeing prop bets on the Drag King Sportsbook for referees. Referees need to start doing press conferences after the game and the fans need to be the ones asking the questions. They can put all the security you want,

but I got to be in their front row. They took something away from our program. Yeah, because you were saying it too. Like that, it sets a tone for the program. Not only the season, but what's to come next year, the years after that. We would have been, if we beat Akron, never sleep on any teams. We would have been 4-0 coming off a by week and going into number 5. Ole Miss at home, juice Wells, back in our stadium.

Both teams ranked, opportunity to take down a number 5 team. Ole Miss was the first top five team we beat back with, maybe it was even Garcia. We beat him when they were number four and they had Bo Wallace in Columbia. They could come back. They would have come back. freaking Brian Kelly, I swear I'm pulling up to Baton Rouge. Coach Kelly,

never mind, we had them on the podcast. Your team doesn't rep you, man. So don't even try your raw, raw speeches. They don't care. They want you out too. The Southern accent, man. I mean, truly... A heartbreak.

People watching this right now, you're seeing in real time a true heartbreaking loss. They have to know the pain. To the most diehard South Carolina fan of the people. One of the reasons I dislike Tennessee so much is because they gave me the same pain, like back when I was in elementary school. I was at home by myself, and either we missed a field goal or they blocked it, and we lost the game.

And I was like 10 years old punching my parents' bed. And I just said, why does this always happen to us? And I leave back, I say, I don't know if we'll ever go to win. And that's how I felt after LSU. And now I'm 28. and I feel the same way when I was 11 so I'm sick

but the last thing I'll say I was telling Sherman on the phone I look at our schedule it's hard yeah but I see Ole Miss Alabama Missouri who at Oklahoma what's the first word

that comes to your mind when you see that Opportunity because we can get it right back after this LSU whatever we want to call that we can get it right back with a win You guys have the cats.

Yeah, I mean, why? You're up there, you're heartbreaking lost, but you watch the film, like you can't tell me we can't play with anybody. We finally have back, and if you're a South Carolina fan, it'll make sense. We have back in undisciplined, disciplined defense.

Where, like, DJ Swearingers are running around out there, popping dudes in the head, not sorry about it. With confidence, having some swag, talking shit. And we're built from the D-line out, which is so key. You'll always have a chance in the game. Yeah.

I'm glad we have a space and a platform. Yeah, that felt good. I was just scrolling Twitter looking for validation all weekend. Luckily, I was getting it. Because I didn't. Also, to go back to the Titans game, I know I mentioned this earlier in the preseason, but we're making a difference.

The OG Paintrain video is back. But literally get... I think we're making a difference in the community. We are. But they played it and I stood up out of my seat and I'm going nuts and there's like a guy who sits his name Sam, two down for me and he's like a fan of the show and cool. They didn't play it right at the fourth quarter, which they always have traditionally. They played it on the first defensive drive. And so they start playing it and I get on my seat going nuts.

You could hear a pin drop in this fucking stadium. No one's standing. I almost feel like people got quieter when they turned it on. So this is a call to action to the city of Nashville next week. in the fourth quarter when Malik Willis is getting donkey kicked in the nuts. I need everyone on their fucking feet and we need to get loud for the boys or else I'm going to have to start hating Will Levis again. I don't know. Well, you'll be dead. Yeah. Hey, you'll be dead. You got to kill yourself.

So get loud. Yeah. Yeah. Start getting the memorial. Yeah. Just in case. Shout out Ney Bain. I know he made this possible. He was really whispered in some people's ears. And I don't think it was the best showing for the front of or the front office seeing how quiet it was during that video. And they were like, dude, y'all got to bring it back. It's going to be awesome. I know. And then they were like, this is why we don't do this stuff.

But they also had a couple weird videos, but doesn't everybody. How was, how was Vegas? Do you come out profitable? Yeah, Vegas was good. I don't know if you want me to wait for Taylor to tell you about his weekend. But, I mean, it'll make you sick. is his best one ever? Best one ever by far.

Maybe I'm going to kill myself. Yeah? I don't know if I can... Let's talk something because it'll be like two weeks before we're back because again, everybody listening to out next week we're going to be at surviving bars. So we're trying to figure out what the episode situation is going to be like. But we will be in the middle of surviving next week.

So we're kind of figuring out what we're going to be doing with as it pertains to bust with the boys in the locker room. But it could be two weeks forward. we're all back together. Yeah. So we need to have something because it sucks too that Michigan 2818

that was a tough game. Yeah, out of town. He slept through. He didn't watch the game. He didn't watch the game. He didn't watch a single second of the game. Yeah. Taylor's not a fan.

We know that. We told him last week. The reason that you're a fan is because what J.P.'s talking about. It's heartbreak. That's what being a fan is, is letting a team dictate your mental health week in and week out.

and not changing anything about it. Yeah. Like my wife's trying to put together a birthday party on Friday and I'm like, kind of going back and forth like, hey, the Huskers play on Friday. And she has the audacity to say they don't need you to watch the game.

And I'm thinking, it's not even fucking about that. It's I want to watch the game. Like this is my favorite time of the year with my favorite team and it's Husker football. Yeah. and it just blows my mind that, okay,

we're planning my birthday party and it sounds like I want to watch Husker football. She can play and you can watch. Yeah. I say, hey, that's fine. I just know I'm going to be on my phone. It's not,

I'm watching the Huskers and the fighting of Linae because we got a tough team coming to Lincoln. That's a beast of a team. But sorry, Jack, I apologize for interrupting here. Oh, you're good.

I get it. I don't ever schedule birthday party when the vaults are going. Everything's good at home. Everything's great at home. She's eight months pregnant. Like we're figuring out. Yeah. But Vegas. Taylor got in there Thursday. I flew in Friday morning. When I show up on Friday, he's like, yeah, I was, I'm up $380,000 on one night. And I was like, what? He was just playing Baccarat with this dude, Cody, who's, I forget his like, yeah, is it exposed? Yeah. So they really profitable first night. Friday, we gamble a little in the morning and he's still doing

very well. Friday night rolls around and Robbie Fox from Barstool, he's in town. He broke that Connor news, which was awesome for him. He comes to the Red Rock and Dana had told him, hey, I'm going to pay for your wedding. But you just got to make me. I saw that video. Yeah. So we go in there and you can check out the vlog that's going to come out here in the next few weeks. But I'm getting all like inside scoop from Robbie. I'm like, how are you feeling? Have you ever gamble? He's never gambled before in his life. He says the most he's ever bet on a sports game was $5. So he's like, this already is making me nervous being in here. And I was like, I was like, you know, best case scenario, Dana gets in here, wins like three hands, hands you a bunch of chips and you're

good and you walk. Tunnel of chaos. Four hours later, we're sitting there still. And it's, it's 4 a.m. I'm so upset. I'm like, I just want to go to bed, but I'm not allowed to go to bed ever until walks out. So, but Dana is down $2.3 million. $2.3 million. And I'm sitting there like, I'm going to die in this room.

Truly, I'm never going to leave. What does he do? Dana comes back from $2.3 million. And the reason I'm like giving this away from the vlog because Robbie already posted the clip, Dana gives him money for the wedding. It's awesome. But Taylor has $200,000 in markers on the table.

And every, like the dust settles and we're about to leave and Taylor's like Dana, yeah, I got these things, I got to play some more. So Dana goes back in, 2.8 million in the next hour. He's down. Taylor?

Or Dana? So he went down. So Dana's trying to play to get Taylor out. Dana ends up going down $2.8 million. After he was just down 2.3 and then paid Robbie. And then he's completely clean and then goes in.

And then from $0, not owning anything, goes back down to $2.8 million. And then it was like, 4.30 a.m. And Dana just like, I've never even seen it happen. He just walks out like with his boys like we're going. Because I mean, this was Friday night before the sphere. So it's late. And he's got to be up and probably Saturday. It's Saturday morning. Yeah, Saturday morning 430. And so he goes out and because he's Dana White, the Dana White effects, he can just leave his

markers there legally. If you're not Dana White, you have to sign a check that says I am liable for paying this money. So the chips were there the rest of the weekend. He hadn't come back. So like Saturday they were still there and all of his markers. So I don't know exactly what happened there. Um, but it is the vlog will be crazy. There's a lot of ups and downs. And then all of the sphere content will be awesome. Just one of the coolest fights. Just experiences ever. Um, and UFC, everyone's just so nice. I just don't understand like why we are getting placed like in the seats we are when there's like a plus list celebrity. like sitting three roads behind us and I'm like yeah what's up

what was it? UFC takes care of the boys. They really do and Dana does an awesome job but if we could do it for anything and not even just a fight we should try and go to the sphere for something. They have like interactive movies or they'll have like what Mike was saying like a safari

or it's like a journey through the cosmos type thing and it's like an hour and a half movie it is well worth going. I know Garrett's been there for Dead and Coe but I mean it's just like I feel like it's truly the eighth wonder of the world like you go in there and you're like this this is God's house

so it's cool love it so hang on hang on hang on Taylor's down a couple hundred thousand Dana takes over for Taylor down 2.8 yes but yeah I mean we can talk about it more

or I can tell you should should we not say so people watch the vlog I say watch the vlog because there is some storylines in there that you're going to know. I can tell you off the bus. Okay. Because now I am insanely curious how you get out of a hole like that. And Robbie's sitting there when he was on 2.3 and I kept going back up to him with the camera

because I wanted to get like his perspective. And you can just see it in his face that he's like, he feels like he's losing this money because it's like kind of like inevitably. It's like for him. Yeah. And he's just like pacing and like ghost white and like you can just feel like stress. air. It sucks being in those rooms. No one's having fun. Taylor's like,

hey, let's get some claps in your ear. Like, come on, let's get the vibes up. And it's like, dude, that's like, you know, 100 people's salaries right there on the table and four chips. But, yeah, Vegas. Well, yeah, watch the vlog.

Yeah, watch the vlog. Watch the vlog. Anything else, boys? Talk to Husker football, the main thing. Save Will's birthday party. Yeah. That'll get figured out. Your boy's going to be watching the Huskers on Friday.

Whether with people, without people, locked in a room solo. I don't matter. I have a question before you go, because I saw this on Twitter, and I want the answer from everybody, do you prefer to watch your sports team alone? Yes. A thousand percent. Yeah. Because even when we were watching it on Saturday, we have people over and stuff like that.

And it's awesome, but I can't, like, hear the TV very well. I like to just be locked in and dialed in. want to understand everything going on. I want to hear what's being said. I love the commentating. And I just like to be alone. You know what I mean? Because then you can't get off track

on any side conversations anywhere else. I feel like all of us too, we're like all perpetually on Twitter. And I love being like dialed into the narratives there, whether it's saying, yeah. Yeah. And going to be watching the game,

scroll on my phone. Like, I want to be in it. Yeah. Make watching football alone cool again. Yeah. Or just great. Maybe maybe that's,

But I will be a Nissan. Yeah, I will be a Nissan. Ready to... Oh, yeah. If you can go to the game. Yeah. Yeah, you can go to the game. Yeah, absolutely.

All right, sounds good, fellas. Hey, shut up Bonte, Missouri. Cool, wooden key. Again, the key to the city. Spectacular. Retired Jersey. They said they were taking it out of the rotation after this year.

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Enjoy this Michael Chandler episode. All right. Michael Chandler. we are fucking back bro back dude how uh how you feel since the announcement good man i feel like i uh made this decision like four weeks ago so i've known for a while and it's always hard because you know you know what you're training for you know you know my management knew my wife knew a couple of the select boys new but like now that the whole world knows it's it's good because now we can finally this one especially because it's not just announcing a fight it is

foregoing the connor fight for now at least Moving on from that for, yeah, for now. Moving on from that from now. And, you know, I'm happy with my decision. I'm happy with the opponent. Number one contender fight, five-round co-main event underneath John Jones versus Steepa at MSG, which would be my fourth time at the world's most iconic arena. I mean, yeah, it's going to be insane.

John Jones coming back. Yeah, it's going to be big. And I actually, because we were waffling back and forth. Like I knew the Connor, or sorry, I knew we were moving on from Connor for now, and I knew we were going to fight Charles, but I was trying to get it at MSG. And my text to Hunter Campbell, whenever he was like waffling back and forth. There was, I was like, hey, 2021, Chandler versus Gachie, fight of the night and fight of the year at Madison Square Garden. 22, Chandler versus Poirier, candidate for four, fight of the year, fight of the night.

Every single time I step inside MSG, I blow the roof off the place. And it was actually funny. I saw John Jones at the fight since the last weekend. He's like, hey, I know you're the co-main, but could you save some excitement for me in the main event? I was like, no, probably not, man. I'm about trying to steal the show. Are you fired up that it's at MSG? I am.

You know, actually, it's bittersweet because I've kept saying this. I've now fought in the UFC. This would be my sixth fight. And I have never fought in Vegas. So I've always wanted to fight in Vegas. That was one of the stings of this Connor fight falling through. It was going to be in Vegas. And I'll fight in Vegas eventually, but I'm just, the boys ready to fight in Vegas, man.

I want to enjoy a and take in a Vegas fight week. Right. Outside of just sitting in the stands watching it happen. Yeah, I've watched a ton of fights in Vegas. And so it's, it's just different because, you know, the UFC takes over the entire city, which if you have a, if you had a second best city, like MSG, New York, the media, ESPN, like all of the barstool, like all of the big media companies are there with a huge presence in New York. So you always end up with a ton of extra media, which is a ton of extra exposure. So that's a good thing. And it's MSG. Someday I'll be speaking from a stage or writing a book or something. able to talk about how I fought at MSG. The world's most iconic arena four times. Yeah. Which to me, I just told you I'd rather fight in Vegas.

But someday when it's a story and where you're creating, you know, making people feel something, they're like, dang, this dude fought in the same vicinity as Muhammad Ali and freaking Tyson and De La Jolla and all those guys. Yeah, Madison Square Guard's got like that historic pull to it where like Vegas, it's like in a U.S., if you're a UFC party, like you want, you want the big pay-per-view in Vegas. Yeah, because it's city. Yeah, but MSG is iconic. When you said you made the decision four weeks ago, how long had that offer been on the table?

Or did it all come into fruition really quickly? Because obviously you've had, everyone knows it's been the two years in the making with Connor that kind of falls through. Walk us through that about how that offer kind of came to you. So we, when the fight fell through two weeks before June 29th, it was like, you know, June 15th or whatever. was immediately you start thinking okay is a broken pinky toe we found out that so it's like hey a broken pinky toe we should be able to fight in six weeks eight weeks so right immediately we're like hey no big deal and connor's camp was saying it's going to be quick we're going to you know hopefully scheduled for august september you know then you start talking about the sphere you start talking about

you know salt lake city was thrown out there let me let me interrupt you before you learn that it was like a broken piquetoe and then like hey this could be quick and everything else wasn't there a moment where you still might have fought on that June 29th weekend? There was. So they actually offered it to Max Holloway, which he was on vacation and he wasn't in camp. I mean, to go to put your BMF belt up, you know, with having no training camp short notice,

UFC will throw a lot of money at you, but is it the smartest thing for your career? In the position that Max is in, Max is already the BMF champ, and he's already number one contender to go fight for the 145 title, and he was steadfast and focused on going to win the 145 title. And in this sport, the sport moves fast in a very good way and sometimes in a very bad way. So if you're ever in a position where you can become the number one contender, you don't want to pass that up because, you know, just like Justin Gachie situation.

Justin Gachey probably would have been talking about fighting for the lightweight title, but now he lost a max. So now he doesn't have the steam to go fight for the title. He's got to go get another win. Yeah. And then also, obviously that was June 29th. Now we just had this past weekend UFC 306 at the sphere. Marab versus O'Malley hadn't been announced yet. And there was talks of me and Max.

They actually offered it to Max fighting me for the BMF belt at the sphere. And rightfully so, he turned it down because he wants to go win the title. And he can go defend the BMF belt whenever. So there was a lot of different moving parts going. But Charles Oliveira's name had gotten brought up. And that's a fight I want to run back. It's a vengeance fight. It's a number one contender fight.

It puts me right back into the title contention. Obviously, the last year and a half, I've focused on, Doing the Ultimate Fighter, which is really, really awesome promotion on ESPN 12 weeks and then fighting the sports biggest star, which doesn't exactly do great things for you athletically to move toward the title. So now I'm going to get back to my main thing, which is coming into the UFC. And I've always been wanting to be the number one guy in the world and fight for the world title, win the world title. So now that's where we're at. Fight Charles Olivera, Madison Square Garden, beat him, become the number one contender. And then I have an option to go fight Islam, who I think is going to be.

still the champ by then or Connor if Connor can get his house in order yeah man it's been uh the photo mic right there yeah it's been such a roller coaster with the with the McGregor so when did oliver his name come up to you uh right because i would assume that all right whenever you realize that the Connor fights getting punted maybe hopefully just a few extra weeks you're looking at september um and then you start to feel that okay he might not be prepared for a way longer than that Because I'm almost assuming that when Olivera's name gets brought up, it's almost like a no. Like how do we get this Connor one going? Yeah.

It's definitely you want to exhaust. We wanted to exhaust all the options to fight Connor at a realistic date before we made a pivot. But then it just seemed as though it was going to keep getting pushed off. I mean, it was like, hey, if we could fight, if I could fight Connor in December, I'm not going to say yes to Olivera. But as soon as that became a no for whatever reason, I'm like, man, boys, I'm not, I'm not waiting any longer. Let me go bet on myself. And this is what I, it's been my brand, obviously, you know, the walk-on mentality, betting on yourself.

Because back in 2004, the young kid from St. Louis, Missouri, bet on himself to go walk on to Missouri. When everybody around me said, don't do it, you're crazy. What are you thinking? You're just going to be a punching bag for five years. End up becoming an All-American and a four-year national qualifier and a three-year team captain. Let's go. You know, and so I bet on myself and it worked out.

And then I also, the 34-year-old me in 2020, the 34-year-old, me in 2020 bet on himself to say, you know what? I love what I've done in Bellator. I'm the biggest name in Bellator. I know it's a smaller organization, but I have financial security. I have, I have career security, but I want to go bet on myself. And I told Hunter Campbell that. I said, hey, throw me into the fire right away. I'm going to come over to the UFC. I want to be a good thing for your organization. I want to fight the toughest guys right away. And if I go 0 and 2 and you guys cut me, I can at least know that I tried to bet on myself and take the biggest risk, And now obviously coming into the UFC here I am fighting for the number one contender spot again

fights of the year fought for a world title going going to end up fighting for a world title in 2025 with this win. Betting on myself has always worked out. So in this scenario where I have a contract with Connor that was already signed, all the fighters in the world who have crapped on me and said I'm waiting and wasting my time and all of the different things that they've said behind closed doors in their heart of hearts, they know that they would not have bet on themselves and left this this. matching up with Connor. They would have waited as long as possible. But I'm done waiting and I'm ready to go out there, take a chance, let it fly and battle myself. How weird was it for you? Because obviously the last year and a half has been kind of a new process where you talk about like betting on yourself. Like even when you came into the UFC, you're flying and making sure you're

prepared, making wait in case you're a backup fight. Hey, throw me against whoever. You face Hooker coming out. Have a big win there. You're facing all these all these badass as long as fast as possible. how new was it for you to kind of like sit, be patient? And the world speculates and talks. I mean, you talk about Connor being the biggest name. He's also like a public favorite too. So anything that comes up, it gets pushed back. You try to call him out.

You got people pushing every which way on like why, you know, Mike's going to wait for Connor. He's going to do all this stuff. How hard was it for you to kind of wait this last year and a half? Especially what you knew behind closed doors. Yeah. Because you're thinking that it's going to make right at some point. but for whatever reason it didn't come into fruition right now.

How tough was it for you to kind of sit in the batters box this last year and a half and not go out there and do what you would normally do? Yeah, it was, I had my days where I struggled. You know, we've had conversations where it's like, everything's good. And then the next time it was like, dude, I don't know what's happening. Connor tweeted this, the whole world ran with it. This guy's talking. You know, there was the whole drug testing thing at the very beginning had to be

inside the Usada pool and all that kind of stuff. There was just so many different layers. And that's what Hunter Campbell said. the very beginning was like hey we're gonna do this ultimate fighter thing but just i want you to be prepared booking a fight with connor mcgregor is like nothing you've ever done before it's not normal and i you know i held on you know held on tight and uh i also enjoyed the time off excuse me i also enjoyed the time off honestly i think i no matter how much you love a sport it can chew you up and spit you out and and and chip away at your spirit and your soul you know like today i leave and go to florida i'm

leave my family for the next eight weeks, right? And doing that every couple months, nonstop, watching my sons grow, missing, missing bedtimes and missing, um, missing dinners with them and missing sporting events and missing all these things. You do it so much and you're constantly going and you're very happy because you know God has called you to do something, but you also are constantly dealing with the, am I always making the right decision, dealing with the dad guilt, dealing with the husband guilt. Um, so I needed a, I needed a little bit of time off. So I spent the, the last year and a half serving my family, loving on my family, working on my businesses,

businesses outside of just fighting, setting myself up for after I lay the gloves down eventually. And it was good for my soul. And obviously, I had a litmus test May and, or April, May and June to go train for Connor and it fell through. But it was the best training camp of my life because I fell back in love with the sport.

You know, as cliché as it sounds, you don't know how much you love something until it's taken away from you. So being away from the sport for a year and a half, I was happy. I needed a little bit of time off, but it also made me love the sport more, made me love my coaches more,

made me love the process more, made me love what I get to do more. So I grew as an individual in that time. And then now I get to go let it fly and fight one of the scariest dudes on the planet, Charles Olivera. Most submission wins in the UFC history. And it was an interesting process.

Like nobody else would have gone through. You know, even speaking to my manager, he's like, dude, I've been doing this for 20-something years and I've never been in a situation like this. I sometimes don't even know how to advise you because I don't know what the right answer is. You know, so you kind of get stuck in a scenario

where you don't know what the right answer is. But sometimes if you have patience, the right answer will reveal itself to you in due time. And here we are. And now November 16th we get after it. Yeah, I have so many different routes to go. But you just mentioned Olivera, what do you feel like you've learned

since the last time you fought him? Because that was a, you know, it'll be essentially. a few years ago since you fought. Yeah. And also just the maturation process of who I am as an individual and fighter. You know, I, for better or worse, you know, I needed to come into the UFC and stake my claim and prove myself, right? And now I have proven myself. So Chandler 1.0 was come into the UFC, prove the doubters wrong that this Bellator dude can't come in and compete with the best guys in the

world. Obviously, I have done that. When loser draw, it's a great fight. When loser draw, I've hurt everybody they have fought win loser draw i'm getting fight of the night when loser draw you're on the edge of your seat when you when michael chanler steps inside the octagon right and now chandler 2.0 is okay i had i had an opportunity to step back fall back in love with the sport and now i truly believe now more than ever that it's time for me to go win the title so fighting olivera puts me in that position and then islam is next then maybe max or if conner at any given time can get his stuff together I'll fight him. So I'm just excited to fight differently.

I know the mistakes I made. I was still, it was my second fight in the UFC, just had a crazy knockout of Dan Hooker a couple months before that. I got thrown into that training camp. I essentially had three weeks off between training camps when Hunter called me and said,

hey, you're fighting Olivera in Houston for the title. So I went right back in the training camp and I was just going and going and going. And I didn't have a lot of time to fill up my cup enough and fill up my mental enough to really fight the way that I needed to fight to win. I needed to go out there and just try to put a beating on somebody. And that's been a lot of fun thus far, but Chandler 2.0 is coming for, not just for blood, but coming for the title.

So is there a different Chandler 2.0, a different kind of maybe strategy, I guess, about it. If you look at like Chandler Gaichy, you know, it's going to be explosive. Chandler Porier, you know it's going to be explosive on their feet. Chandler McGregor, you know it's going to probably be on the feet and explosive. Like Alvara is kind of an unorthodox kind of a, a weirder fighter like is are you you know you've been on the bus before and we've talked about hey you know you're pretty good of wrestling too are we go are we seeing a whole world is like a more of a heady yeah more yeah more of a heady chanler is that what you're saying um yeah i mean but it's still

even even at my most strategic and even at my most veteran and even at my most um smart i'm still going to be I'm still going to be the most violent guy who does it that way, right? Yeah. Because I love the violence. I have the explosiveness. I have the skills and I know I can go out there and finish anybody in the first round. So immediately, just like I always do, I'm still going to put pressure right away. I'm still going to be in your face for 25 minutes. I'm still going to make you second guess yourself and fight off of your back foot because I want to be in control. I'm always going to be in control. But I think there's just been a different set of decision making and a different set of game plan that I looked at. on this last training camp because I realized the opportunity. I'm in the best position in the sport of mixed martial arts right now. If you look at the fighting this number one contender fight, having a contract already signed and connected to with Connor McGregor for the ultimate fighter. So I have nothing but huge fights coming up.

So yeah, that gets me excited to go out there and entertain, but it also gets me excited to go out and show and prove that I'm the best fighter in the world at 155 pounds. So I'm going to show that on November 16th. but it's still going to be violent and it's still going to be fun. So you guys better by the pay-per-view. We interrupt this episode to bring you something near and dear to our hearts. That is Mountain Dew.

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Yep. Like you get this fight, you win, you're the number one contender. Then you can essentially either go for the belt, go for Connor. Do you ever think about the roster kind of getting pissed off about something? like that do fighters think about that stuff um i i don't because people can have their opinions all they want and everybody can everybody can play the oh whoa is me game but just why don't you show up and become a person of value and when you show up and become person of value and not worry about the people trying to try to pull people down and just try to elevate yourself it doesn't really doesn't really bother me

because i know i'm in the position that i'm in whether it be happenstance luck good relationships good favor whatever it may be but it's funny the harder i work and the better of a human being i am the the luckier I get, you know, it just, it's, it's funny how it always works out that way. And, uh, yeah, now we're in this position. And the UFC doesn't care either. It's like, hey, this, this fight makes sense for us. This is a, a rematch. This is a, a vengeance fight. Charles Olivera versus Chandler won was a huge fight. A lot of parody, almost finished him in the first round. He comes back and beats me in the second round because I made some mistakes that I will not make again. And, uh, it's a fight that everyone wants to see. And it's a dangerous

fight. It scares the hell out of me, man. Like Charles Oliver can choke all. seven of us out right now. I don't know about JP. If you make the wrong decision, you know? So it's like, it's a scary fight. And those are the type of, those are the type of circumstances I like. I like, I like opportunities in which the likelihood of failure is higher than I'm comfortable with. And those are the type of, those are the type of fights I want, not just in the octagon, but in life.

Because I like to throw myself into the fire. And, you know, that's, that's the difference between me and a lot of fighters. And that's why I keep getting rewarded because of it. When backing up. And you're alluding to falling out of love, like with the sport, with the game and everything else. Like what plays into that? Obviously, you talked about your dad, guilt, husband guilt earlier on. Do you think about the wear and tear just with your age too?

Like what are the things that goes on to kind of make you fall out of love with the sport? I think it's just the time. It's just the, you know, it's such a funny thing too, right? Well, football and just in sports in general, every sport, like people will just crap on you, not realizing that you're a human being, not realizing the sacrifices that you make, day in and day out. And you have the same doubts and fears and insecurities as everybody else, right? So we're human beings. But with me, I take, I take it so seriously and I pour myself so fully into it that I become a different human being for a couple of month period. And I love being that person. I love that,

that God created me that way. And then I have also created myself into that type of man. But it takes a toll on you because you're, you feel like you're missing out on life sometimes. And then when you bring children into it and a wife and and all these things, you feel like it's the constant tug and pull between doing what you need to do, but also doing what you want to do. And I feel like when you're constantly grinding, I mean, in a 25-month period, I had six training camps, five fights. Every single fight was do or die. Every single fight was huge. Every single fight was a main event or a co-main event. And you're fighting the toughest, scariest guys in the world. So you can get, you can become jaded by it because you look back and you think, man, it's been two, two years and all I've done is pour myself into this.

So it can just chip away at your passion for the sport. And, you know, just constantly being away from my family down in Florida. I love my team. And I know this is, it's the best team ever. And thank God, I love my coaches. I love my training partners. I love our facility. But that two training camps ago, when I walked in there, I was like, man, here we go again, these four walls and these guys and this and I got four hours of training today and then I got to do it six days this week. Do you ever think too? I appreciate you. Sure. Do you ever think too like I don't want it as bad as I used to? And I asked that and I'm not putting you in a spot. No, it's fine. To you saying like no, I don't want it. But even perspective for myself like going through it,

like when we were, you know, it was like year eight, year nine, year 10, like having the fun with it that I was having. But just showing up into again those same four walls and just kind of knowing in the back of my mind, I really just don't want this as bad as my young self did. And I know sacrificing for this sport, sacrificing for like the character and the individual and the person that I wanted to create in this sport, you almost feel like you're doing yourself a disservice by feeling that way. You feel a little, I felt a little guilt when I would go about it like that, knowing that I was, you know, I still like love playing the game, but I didn't love it the same way. I didn't want to like grip my teeth. I didn't want to have to like make a 53 man roster, like

throw myself at the bottom of a depth chart, try to become a starter. I just, I kind of like lost that mentality. But at the same time, I was also able to relieve myself of all that expectation and pressure because I was getting these chances later in my career. And so I got to like just enjoy playing the game that I grew up loving versus all that business on top of it. So that's, that's kind of like while I was asking you, like you show up and you're like, do I really want this is like I used to. Yeah. Well, and that's where, and I think for me, now having the clarity of having a year away from it and enjoying things outside of just fighting, spending more time with friends and family and loved ones, but also still always staying in shape.

Yeah, you can start the question. I think like, man, well, when I was 25, I used to come into a training camp and be all pumped up. And I am pumped up still like crazy good pumped up. At 38 years old, I leave for Florida today. 38, that's fucking crazy. Yeah, I don't tell anybody. But I feel like I'm 28. That's a thing. I definitely feel like I still have it. I definitely feel like I still have it. I definitely feel like I'm the best guy in the world. I definitely feel like I'm going to beat Charles Olivera. Because this is a game of millimeters, man, and any of us can beat each other on any given night.

And you can't step in that octagon second-guessing or half-assing anything. Because it's you versus somebody else in a fucking war. Yeah. Well, and that's the good thing that I always am able to rely upon is I know I do the right things. I leave no stone unturned. I have, I flex my discipline muscle every single day. and I do things by the book and do it as perfectly as I possibly can.

So I know when it's time to show up and start training camp, I know I'm going to show up. So there was moments where I questioned it and thought, man, you used to love this more than you did. But really, I think it was just the wear and tear of the nonstop, the mental wear and terror of nonstop. The thinking of stuff that's going on outside of the four walls. Yeah. And just the nonstop every, like, man, I just need a break. I need a break. And then finally, I was almost forced to get a break, which is really funny because Brian Smith, our head coach at Mizzou, tells a story about how I was,

I was one of the first guys that he finally had to actually pull out of practice and kick out of practice and say, no, you can't train today. We need you. Just walk because wrestling. Yeah. It was like, man, he would notice that my, my performances would suffer, but it was because I was over training or I was going too hard or I would show up and do extra things that I was not asked to do. But I'm like, hey, coach, I was a walk on kid. I'm still that walk on kid. I have to do more or else I'm not going to be able to beat these guys. You know, I'm wrestling against. is Jordan Burroughs and Mike Poeta and Jordan Lee and these top, top guys. I have to do extra or else. And he's like, no, man, you are, you're taking two days off this week. And I'm

like, wait, so that everyone's going to be at practice and I'm not going to be at practice. And he's like, no, yes, you're going to be off Wednesday and Thursday because we need you to rest up. So it's kind of awesome how the sport pulled me out of it. The sport, Brian Smith, me pulled me out to make me love the sport even more. And I've got a new lease on life. And I have a new passion. So I'm excited to go into this training. camp as much as it sucks the first week where you it's a new transition and you're missing the family and I cried this morning freaking dropping half off at school. It's just like, you know, it's just a part of it all. You were talking about like getting back into it. Was there like a moment

where you started to gain more clarity in falling back in love with the sport? Like the process, was it the people you're around? Was it something maybe your wife said? Was it something that allowed you? It's like the Rocky Two moment where he's have there having the baby. He's kind of half fast training, but they have the baby and his wife looks at him. She's like, go do it. And then all of a sudden, the Rocky montage goes off. Yeah. Was there like a moment for you of that clarity of like falling back in love with the grind and the sport? I think, I think it was just when I got back to this last training camp that ended in not the reward. I did all the work but didn't get the reward. Yet I still look back and think, man, every single day, I couldn't wait to wake. I was getting to

practice an hour early to just work on little things or just to be there and watch other guys. You know, it's like, it's funny how as a 38-year-old veteran and team captain down in Florida, I'm the guy who's looked at as I'm the highest, the highest ranked guy, the biggest name on our team roster, right? So I'm looked at like that guy. So the last couple training camps, it was just like, hey, everybody looked at me that way, but I didn't look at other guys that way and excited about watching this 22-year-old kid chasing his dream and watching this 25-year-old kid fighting for the, title in this other organization and this so I got I was just so focused on myself because I had to go do it and do it and do it but then this last training camp I found myself getting to practice early

watching the younger guys helping out the younger guys being a part of the peanut feeling that hunger yeah being a part of more being a part of more and they thinking man I lost the I lost a little bit of the passion for for all of that and the and the love of the sport and then just pouring into people more too you know Zig Ziglar says you can have everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want in life. So I was of service more this last training camp. And I'm excited to go down there and do that this week and then get back to it and be the guy there and continue to show the young guys that, hey, yes, I have accomplished more than maybe you'll ever accomplish in your entire career. But it still always goes back to the hard work and the

discipline and doing things right and showing up early and doing more than was asked of you and being of service. So I think it was just this last training camp, the entire process every single day. working out three times a day and working on things more, watching more film and fully immersing myself in it and doing the media and having time to still FaceTime the family and doing stuff. Well, you're also flying. You guys were flying out there too. Like one thing that you were doing in the last training camp not to flex with also flex is flying private. So that way you gain those hours in time with the family when you were present with them. 47 extra waking hours I got last camp with my family. So almost two full days with my family to get that.

a couple extra hours home on Friday and be able to leave a couple extra hours late on Sunday. And yeah, just because those are times you can't ever get back, man. And it's and it's a weird tug and pool of if I can do it, I want to do it. If I can make it happen, I want to make it happen because I know that I will perform better. If I know I did as much as I possibly could as a fire. You filled that bucket up with the family. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I know I will perform better. And it's almost just like, okay, all I got to do, Monday morning I wake up. I hit the ground running, go hard Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. By Thursday, I'm excited that I get to one more practice, train really hard, get home, see the family, maybe do one session on the weekends or a recovery session. But yeah, yeah, yeah, not to flex, but to flex. Yeah, that was a good, that was a good situation. We guess we got the PG a couple weeks ago with the Nebraska.

I tell you was. It's a time machine, man. You know, and it's time in this season of my life, it's time that I won't ever be. able to get back and it made me love the sport even more so this uh this camp will be no different let's play the game you win this fight which one would you rather say say they're both there for you we sat on the bus and i sat right there and we had this same question title yeah mcgray yeah well um because there's there's clearly and just to like call the elephant in the room as well it's like you face somebody like connor like that's different style that's a different type of money that you can

that you can go after. The title is a different, you know, all of those factors play in your mind, but you beat Olivera. Now, Connor now realizes the machine goes on without him, so whatever he's got to get going on in his house, that the game's not going to wait on him, he's got to figure out. So hopefully force his hand to fight you. Yeah.

But which one? He's definitely realized that the sport will continue to move on without him. And I think he never thought I would move on. I think he always thought, well, Chandler's going to. You could tell by his presser the other night. At bare knuckle. By him saying, oh, I'm kind of out of the loop. It's like, in my mind, the stuff that just I know and have watched from afar as well,

it's almost like, no, bro, you are in the loop. You do know. Like, if anything, you hold the key, you've held the key the whole time to do it. And everybody knows that. And you can kind of see that he felt some type of way that you are taking this fight and that he's kind of watching it, him trying to say that the UFC kind of left him out of the loop. It's like, no, you're just upset to see that it's going to go on no matter if you want to or not. You want it to or not.

The UFC needs nobody. The UFC will continue to build stars, continue to put on shows every single week and continue to keep pushing the envelope and growing, whether they have Connor, me or anybody else. And there's a freedom in knowing that you're a, you're disposable. You know, there's a freedom in that knowing that you don't get too high on yourself because success is rented every single day. And that rent is due every single day. Talk to them, man. And that's that's that's in our industry, your industry or everybody else's industry that's listening. But yeah, I think I think the funny thing is I don't he definitely did not know because ultimately he's not a trusted individual with information.

If if they called him two weeks ago and said, hey, just so you know, we're going to announce Chandler versus Alibara. He's moving on. It would have leaked. He would have done his own video, you know, like the swirling of the wine whenever he announced that me and him we're going to fight June 29th. And I called Hunter and I was like, hey, dude, you want me to corroborate this and like go come out and say, you know, this is true. And he's like, no, dude. that's just Connor being Connor. I effing told this guy to shut his mouth and not say anything. So, you know, it's, and Connor has earned that position. If that's the way Connor wants to be and how he

wants to do it, that's fine. I'm completely different. I've known for four weeks and haven't said anything because that's, I do my job. I have a job to do. And if I, my word is my bond. And if your word is no good, then eventually you are no good. So I think, like you said, Connor is now abreast to the situation. Um, I'm fighting Oliver. If I had the option, I do have that unfinished business with Connor. It's the fight that I want. It's the fight that needs to happen. Chandler versus Connor happens in 2025, whether it's the first quarter of 2025.

And if it gets pushed off any further, I'm definitely fighting for the title next. That's what I want anyway. The way I look at it is, I'm not going to say the Connor fight's always going to be there, but the Connor fight is always in limbo. So even if they would have said, hey, you can fight Connor in February or January or whatever. I probably still would have just fought Oliver because the last thing I won is 12 weeks before they call me and say, hey, never mind, we're pushing it to international fight. We're pushing it to this. Because that's how it was over the last year and a half. So I deserve security or I deserve concrete, concrete dates and a concrete opponent. That's what Charles Oliver is. That's what most of the other guys are on the roster. Conner is not that right now. He's a little bit too unreliable when it comes to when he's coming back. And maybe that's the position he wants to be in. That's fine. But I got a job to do. And I got a title to win. And I do believe I beat Islam Mahal. of first quarter of 2025, and I'll probably make that decision to go make that fight happen

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Well, they said early 2025 was, you know, the target. And to me, I'm like, man, we're sitting. What reasoning? Like what's the, especially like in the beginning. when you hear like when the uh june 29th day gets punted to hey this could be like a six to 10 week thing like this could be a quick recovery like what is taking in your brain obviously you don't know all the perfect information on that end but in your brain like what is taking so long is it finding some certain date with the ufc on a big pay-per-view is it is it him trying to leverage something

business wise money wise all of that stuff is in play i think um and yes it's it's widely known there's only 12 months in a year, which is 12 to maybe 13 paper views they do per year. Of those 13, only five or six of them are in Vegas, maybe eight of them are in Vegas. He needs to fight in Vegas or Madison Square Garden. Those are usually the two kind of locations that he fights at. So you just whittle it all down to the options that you have and all of a sudden things get pushed. So that's part of it. The other big question is, is Connor ever going to come back? Is he ever going to come back? Does he still have it? Does he believe that he? he can still do it, I think he does, but does he actually care enough and love the sport enough?

It's one thing to sign a contract. It's one thing to say you're coming back, the greatest comeback in combat sports history. It's another thing to go through the grind. It's another thing to put a 12-week training camp together. It's another thing to actually show up to practice every single day. And then even if you do, then you got to look at, you know, checking the boxes, the pros and cons of, man, how well did I do today? Are my legs working well? Am Am I still fast? Am I? I stand firm in my conviction that if Connor McGregor was lined up against anybody else,

June 29th, not named Michael Chandler, he would have fought with a broken pinky toe. I think I bring something different to the octagon. I think he signed a check in January of 2023 that his ass couldn't cash because I think he just thought, I don't want to fight this guy. He might beat me, but you're going to come, you're going to leave the octagon hurt no matter what. That's the thing. You fight me. You might beat me, but it's going to be a hard.

hard, hard fought battle. And you are going to leave limping and you're going to leave with a busted lip and a black eye and some stitches. You know, you're going to get hurt. So that's, uh, that's my take on it. But I think it's a couple of those things. The lack of the lack of dates that Connor can actually fight and his propensity and willingness to actually show that he wants to put together a training camp and right over all the other things that he has going. Yeah. He does a lot of shit. And the UFC and the UFC losing a ton of money on that last fight. And we broke the gate record and then they had to issue refunds and probably got sued a couple times because of hotels and this and that and all these other things. You know, like the UFC who is a public and trading company, TKO group,

Endeavor, all these guys that's like, hey, we have a, we got to look at this. Yes, Connor brings a lot of eyeballs and probably make, we make a lot of money when Connor fights, but we'll do just fine without him. So he better show us that he's going to show up. And same thing with me. When you ask who you want to fight, Islam, Islam will always show up. Olivera will always show up. Polrier will always show up. Gates you will always show up. Unless these guys cannot physically walk to the octagon, they are fighters. We are fighters. We will show up.

Is Connor that guy anymore? We don't know. Yeah. Have you ever had a broken piquet toe? I haven't. I've not had a broken. Oh, we've got to talk about that, dude. Was it broken?

I mean, it was something. It was black and blue within a day, right? And I would say, if Connor had anything like that, I can understand and empathize a little bit with that. I still showed up the next day and performed at a very high level. very high level um but yeah yeah that that was a that was a that was a painful one you just walked in oh ac stuff oh we're getting a shout yeah shout out a than roast by the way no free shout out shout out ath and aces dude how well that go back to the bus at the very beginning we had no ac no ace no no no nothing dude he was on there by the by the train tracks we ripped the shooter

right before we came on the bus you remember that oh we pulled up in the truck we ripped the shooter yeah what was the tarps on i want to say that was shop that was shop that was shop. Oh yeah, it was. Fireballs right before we got on the bus. There's a shout out. No free shout out. I got shop on the bus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No free shout out. Oh, but yeah, that was back in the, that was back in the gritty days. Dude, just a couple kids with a dream, man. Now you guys are all sitting pretty, man.

You guys should see out here, man. It looks like a mansion, man. It looks like a beautiful. We got that. That set is awesome. The locker room? That set is sick. That set is sick, bro. But you guys deserve it, man. You guys are freaking kicking. I appreciate that, man. You know, how sick. was how sick was the sphere? The sphere was cool. It was different, you know. I'm not going to say it was, like, it was really, really cool being inside of it. The, you know, Mexican Independence Day.

I was almost too close to the screen. Like if you were out. And everybody pretty much too close? Well, that thing's just on top. Well, I was, I was sitting here looking at the octagon and behind me. The screen was behind me. So the screen was only like 15 feet behind me. So I had to like turn around and look all the way up. I almost fell backwards off the railing one day or one part of it when I was trying to get a full glimpse of the promos that they were doing.

It was really cool. It was very light in there. So it felt different, but it was a really, really freaking cool show, man. There's no way Dana's not going back to the sphere. He'll probably go back to the sphere.

You think it'll kind of be like an annual thing? I would think so. I mean, it's all based on dates and stuff. You know, there was a big, big dispute this last time because Canello fought the same night right down the road. and, you know, it's...

Did he win? Dude, I don't even know. Canelo win. I saw Caleb playing, too. He had to, him, he had to have one or else that we probably all would have heard about it. Yeah. Because Canello is the most ridiculous boxer on the planet.

But it was fun, man. It was cool. You know, I think Sean O'Malley losing was very interesting. What happened there? I mean, I wish I could have, the Huskers played. Now, your boys on dead, dude, too. So I was asleep after the Husker game was over. Shout out the Scurs.

Yeah. So I think O'Malley just couldn't get anything done, man. As I said before, we started recording. I think Marab's style is the hardest to fight in the entire world. Unlimited gas tank. He's not a great striker. He's not a really, really great grappler from a getting submissions type of guy, but he will pick you up and put you down.

He will wear you out. And there's nothing harder to fight than a guy, you know, wrestling or fighting where a guy just will not stop coming forward, will not stop. stop putting pressure on you. And O'Malley just wasn't able to get things done. Whether he had a bad night or it was flat or he was flat or it was just Marab not ever letting him plant his feet, not ever be able to see stuff. You could see that Sean was visibly rattled.

But Marab's a hard style. It sounds like it was a boring fight because I saw the boy Dana come out on the presser talking like it seemed like every fan had a great time. I hope everybody watched and they got new fans up until that co-made event. He's like, oh, up until the co-main event. Yeah, yeah. I think everybody had a great time. I hope they turned their TV off.

Yeah, yeah. I hope they turned their TV off before the co-main event. That's tough. The co-main event, yeah, I mean, Shevchenko, which I had her winning. She's one of my favorite girl fighters. Alexa Grasso didn't look bad. I think Shevchenko just, it was time for her to get that belt back. She's a woman possessed.

And then the rest of the car was really, I mean, Ortega versus Diego Lopez. Diego Lopez now has cemented himself inside the top five, top three, probably getting in a fighting for a title in the next two fights. So it was fun. As a fighter, you hear your, you hear Dana say something like that. Does anything go through your mind? Dana's never. Are you kind of just like, oh, fuck, like, you know, it is what it is.

I kind of just, I kind of performed with what I was given. Yeah, yeah. Luckily, Dana's never said anything like that about my fights. If anything, he's like Chandler's the Arturo Gotti of UFC. he's a freaking crazy yeah you've got some good ones but if you had that and i earned it but also yeah i mean that's that's a tough spot you know because dana's opinion is not the end-all be-all necessarily but it's no different than if it was freaking you know your head coach comes out and says something about the defense or the offense or whatever you're like well damn coach like i'm trying the best

i can but still we're all fallible human beings and we have bad nights we have bad performances as long as you as long as you look like you fight fought hard you can have a bad performance but still fight hard, still lose. You know, it's all about effort, just like anything in life. Because the entertainment value and just the, the effort is so much more important than the X's and the O's sometimes. But, yeah, I mean, it was still fun. For me, I thought it was still a great card.

I think the fans got what they, what they paid for, whether you were inside the sphere or outside the sphere. Inside the sphere was ridiculous. Walking in from our perspective, I think, you know, you guys saw the video that Taylor posted as he, like, walked out and it just it's almost like it just engulfs you you know so the sphere is cool and and i've also heard you can bring kids there and do like they do like cool safari looking you know outer space thing i was like oh i didn't know you can do that because my kids would love that rude

freaking eat it up yeah yeah as long as she can handle the sensory overload i don't know if right it might be too much you know like it feels like it's too much walking in there i would have loved to uh been jack jack was there yeah what was it like your experience walking into the sphere. From a fan experience standpoint, I'm sure it was awesome. Like, talk about how different it is watching a fight in Vegas versus like having the sphere just on top of you the whole time. Yeah, I didn't know exactly how I was going to pan out while the fights were going on.

Like if there's going to be activations going on. But they did a really good job between each fight. It was almost like a Mortal Kombat style like background. Each fight had its own different backdrop. And it was obviously all Mexican theme. So like some would be in the jungle and then others would be like ruin. cities. But like Mike said, when you just walk in onto the floor, it's just like everything is all around you. And it's hard to take in at first, but it's, it's beautiful. Like that's the only way

I can describe it. It is beautiful. The clarity, yeah, I mean, the clarity that you can have those screens that are a thousand foot tall and freaking they, it looks like it's your LCD screen in your living room. It's, it's pretty pretty cool. And before they jumped into the full activations of like the backgrounds. They had this kind of like cage style like view where it almost looked real. It was like these steel bars and then all of a sudden it all opened up into like the actual atmosphere of it all. But yeah, I guess from a Vegas fight at T-Mobile arena to the sphere, it's so big and open that maybe some of that noise gets pumped out of it or it just kind of travels. It did it did audibly sound a lot quieter. Yeah, especially in that Sean

fight and a Shevchenko fight when they were on the ground. It was just like for a few minutes, it just felt like you could hear a pin drop. Compared to, yeah, compared to Team Mobile. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, I mean, anytime we have an opportunity to go back to the sphere, I will drop everything I can

to be there. Were you on the side where the spheres behind the octagon or was a sphere behind? I was like, dead on the center of the ring or the octagon. Like, I had the best seat I could have possibly had. So it was cool. I thought they did every

you never know with those kind of things. You know Dana wants to be the greatest promoter on earth and he very well is, but you don't know if it's going to be a flop or not. And from an entertainment perspective, I thought that fans got all their monies worth just from the experience of all the Mexican independent stuff. And so I thought it was an awesome thing to experience. I don't know if they'll do another one just because I know how much money it costs.

I think Dana said it was like $20 million. and who knows if they broke over that, but. You know, I was going to say, I wonder how the, hopefully the bottom line worked out for him to where they feel good about their game. Yeah, he said they were trying to hit like 22, 5, but I don't know.

And that picture was where I was sitting. I was up on that first little rafter, which was probably, in my opinion, the best fight, because I was probably a little bit further away than you guys were, but I was elevated. So I was like eye level with the fighter. So it was, it was cool.

But I was also so close to the screen, that it was kind of like the screen wasn't as much in play for me because I was just, it was behind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Working with, uh, working with Hunter and Dana throughout the entire process, how, how were they with you with throughout McGregor chain or going to a port, or not for you, Alivaura? They were awesome, man.

I mean, they, I still to this. Just as frustrated as you were at times. Yeah. And, and there's, and we have such a good relationship where it's like, hey, listen, I wish we could do this, but we can't. Or this is not, this doesn't make sense for us as a company. you know you're my guy. I want to make this happen, but we can't do this. But then when I ask for something, then they're like, oh, you know what? Forget it, man. We'll make it happen. We're going to

make it happen for you. You know, like we've had a really good relationship. And I think it's a testament to they know they can trust me to be a good dude. They know they can trust me to show up. And they know they can trust me to show up when the lights come on and put on a great fight. So when you have that kind of relationship, that kind of asset inside of the company, then it's very easy to get things done. It's not always the right. It's not always the answer you want to hear, but it's portrayed in a way like, hey, if we can make it something happen for you, we're going to make it happen. And they were always in constant contact. As you alluded to earlier, I had enough reassurances behind the scenes that the fight was going to eventually get booked up until finally

it got booked and then obviously it ultimately fell through. But they, they were always in constant contact with me and we always made it happen, even though, you know, sometimes it'd be weeks, weeks that would go by without us talking and I just got my job to do, which is stay in shape and Yeah. Get ready for the fight whenever it did happen. Yeah. She has some fun with a twisted question. JP, do you have anything?

I know you're our UFC expert. Our UFC analyst, yeah? Yeah. I didn't know if I miss anything. I know you're deep. You're deep in the cut when it comes to the UFC. You're deep in the cut, dude. All right.

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which makes it easy to drink all day long. It was Chandler's favorite when he was at Missou. It is the perfect beverage or alcohol for game day where they're tailgating in the parking lot, watching at a bar, watching it home with your friends. Twisted D is there to turn up your game day. Keep it twisted with the boys and grab a refreshing twisted tea today. Mike, this twisted question for you is,

number one, do you have, do you have enemies? Like, do you have somebody you hate? If I say, do you have somebody you hate, does somebody flash in your mind? You have to say who? Sure, yeah. All right. You receive, the twisted question is you receive $1 million,

but your worst enemy would receive $5 million. Do you take the money? Yes. Let's say you receive $500,000 and they receive $5 million. Because I'm with you on the $1 million. I think you get a chance to get a million dollars. You take a million dollars. Because it's free money.

It's free money. And one of the craziest things about money, too, you got to put your mindset around it. There's enough to go around. And just because you make money doesn't mean that I can't make money unless we're directly competing for one certain thing. Right. So I'm like,

I'll take money all day long because I don't care. First of all, that person, if I don't like them that much, they're probably not that great. They're probably going to squander it and have bad luck befall them anyway. And I'm a good dude, so good things are going to keep happening to me.

So I'll take the $1 million and let them have five and probably end up losing it all. What about the $250,000? Oh, shoot. Yeah, I'll probably still take it. $100. hundred bucks 100,000 yes might as well you get 50k and they get too much you get 50k well he's he's saying yeah with i think i say yeah no matter what because i'm like i think it's a it's a good it's a good exercise

in uh confident expectancy and like the law of attraction or whatever to be like hey i'll take what i can get and i'll take something good even if it means someone else gets something because I'm not worried about anything else anybody else has. Yeah. But it would be tough. And if your enemy was listening, it's more one of those things. Like, they probably need it more than I do. Yeah.

I've, yeah. Can't tell you. Yeah. What are y'all doing? Everybody's taking it, I assume. Mitch, you get $10,000. Your worst enemy gets $100,000. I don't know if I hate anybody that.

That's what I'm saying. When Taylor was asking me, I think we did this question too, or something similar, like on the plane. when we did our twisted adventure with Nebraska, Michigan. But I was like, I don't really have anybody I hate like that to where I wouldn't. That's kind of how I wouldn't necessarily care. Who is your biggest enemy? I don't know, man.

And say their full name. Brett Beulma? Head coach of Illinois? Yeah, it changes every week, man. Yeah. Brett Beulma is enemy number one. Not only is he playing the Huskers, but he and he not only took. the Big Ten title from us.

He shoved it up our asses when he took that Big Ten title from us too. Because he's the head coach of Wisconsin when we played the Big Ten. Will you get a million dollars but Nebraska loses the national championship? Do you take the million dollars? This is like the live stream during Michigan. Yeah. There's always next year. I'd pass on the million dollars.

Ooh. Because you could look at it as you're paying a million dollars for a national title, but I'm not paying for it. This is like, this is just a, like, hey, we'll give you a million dollars, but Nebraska loses the national championship. Like, we're solid. Like, I'm in a good spot to where I would say, I'll forego the $1 million for Nebraska to have a national title. Dang, dude.

What would your number be? To take? Yeah. I mean, five jumps in my head, but I'm sure I would take less than five. One point one. And then anybody, and then anybody who was mad at, at you, you just give them an NIL deal in Nebraska.

Yeah, with the money. Boys, you didn't win a million. You didn't win the national title, but I got five mil, I can, you know. I love that spin. I love that spin. Yeah.

And then it's like, probably two. The bus, and then Nebraska wears the bus logo and a bunch of different things. Yeah. Awesome. Go take two million.

Buy Dylan Stewart from us. Yeah. Buy Dylan Stewart. Yeah. Number six, I saw that we got correct on that. He's number six, not number five from South Carolina. Five went crazy though.

Manor. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like when they asked Taylor, if you're like, hey, Michigan wins tonight, but Chandler gets knocked out by McGregor. He's like, we're taking that national title, buddy, sorry. Which is crazy. That's crazy.

I'm like, I'm right here, bro. Yeah. Live on live stream. Right. Taylor, I think his fandom should be in a little bit of question. We're going to have to call him. to the stand. I think we got to call him to the stand.

He should be, I don't even, I'll just wait to say that. How was that though? You guys went to Nebraska. Was it Michigan first, then Nebraska? Yeah, so. In the same day?

We left at like 6 a.m. We flew out at 6 a.m. from Nashville to go to Ann Arbor, do Ann Arbor. And then to make the Nebraska game to land at 4.30. We had to leave right after like a series or two after half time from the Michigan game. Then we get to the plane, fly to Lincoln. Great estate. Greatest day ever.

Greatest day ever. Greatest day of my life. Tough, man. And that's thinking about both the wedding, Rue's birth. Tough to beat. We had McFurrie's waiting on us at the, when we landed in Nebraska.

Clutch. I mean, they truly could not have gone any better for myself. If I'm thinking me personally, personally, that day went as good as it could have. For sure. Well, and the whole day.

And it's just a gross Secretly, don't tell anybody The entire day Could not have won any better Oh my gosh You seen what we're saying No What was the bad part of the day?

Yeah, if something you wish Oh Michigan lost? Yeah Badly It was a great day It was a great day It was a great day for you It was a great day for you

It was a great day for you I mean, it also just the testament, even in his sorrow, you know, even in the sorrow of maybe losing a game, it's still the bus is winning, man. The bus. The boys are winning. And in these moments, you leave that game and he's starting to process what it feels like to lose, especially they got whooped by Texas. Pretty bad. Yeah, bad. And so, you know, you start to like, hey, this is fandom.

But then you get this last weekend, I saw him tweet talking about he missed the game. He slept through the Michigan game. And to me, that calls in the question, like, how big of a fan are you, bro? Yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? But we'll wait until we all get back on the bus. Another lawsuit coming his way. Sometimes you got to feel that, though.

You know, you got to feel the sting, you know, and maybe even fall out of love with it a little bit and to come back as the best fan. He can't afford that because his fandom just started last year. It is true. You can't just be a fan, win the national title and then just you're off the way. You're set up for failure right away, man. You want to win the national title. Those fans in general. Like, I hated seeing that from the boy Taylor, but I sent out a tweet a little bit after.

Kind of like, hey, their fans are kind of just in question. Like, they won a national title. Like, half the stadium left that halftime. How about Portland? What's Portnoy doing these days? He was at Pizza Fest. So he wasn't catching the game. Oh, man, see.

And this is why the Huskers. This is why it's going to be Missou versus the Huskers in the national title this year. We might both be in the college bowl playoff this year. See? It's not, you know. We got a tough one this week against Illinois. Dude, Matt, Matthew McConaughey, too? Yeah.

Did he say he was coming on the bus? No, he has not, but Jack identified him. We didn't ask him, but Jack identified him as the next guy to... He's got to be. Days until he comes on the bus, tweeting a photo of him until he comes on the bus. I like that. He would be awesome, though. I think McCona would be all time.

There's enough pictures and screenshots to him out there. Yeah. All of his movies he's been in. That'll work. In Michigan, also, 28, 18 against Arkansas State. Three picks, the quarterback through. Three picks, man. 28 to 18, Arkansas State?

Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how Michigan does this year After, you know, after winning and Addy last year Real high on themselves, aren't they? Yeah, they are real high on themselves Alabama looked really good Tennessee But also you guys played who Kent State

Kent State Shout out Julian Edelman When he score No doubt 63 in the first You guys put up 30 in the onside kick right? Yeah But apparently I've been hearing

Because my cousin was a GA And Jack's got boots on the ground for the balls And apparently that Onside kick was to give them better field position So we were like trying to give them a handout Because in the second half we also They offered to make it a running clock for the second half And Kent State denied

And they were like no So apparently which regardless Even if I honestly love that we did an onside kick And I want it to be because it was like foot on the throat type mentality. But apparently it was to try and give them better field position. That's also massive foot on the throat disrespect. Yeah, I know. But here we are.

This week, though, is the true test. The kickoff team just stands there. It's Tennessee, Oklahoma. And they said it's game day. So it's at Oklahoma. So this would be our big first test. Do we know what the opening line is? No, but I'm short out there.

Bro, I think Tennessee could whip their ass, man. I just hope everyone has fun. The boys love college football. It's all good. Mizzou's got a little bit of a squad. Now, I will say I did call Boston College plus 16 and a half. But Mizzou's got a tough team. Yeah, Tennessee Open is six and a half point favorite.

I'm hammering that. I got to get on that right now because you know it's going to move. Tennessee, yeah. Brady Cook, first form athlete, dude. Do what? Brady Cook first form athlete? He's a first form athlete? Oh, good for him, dude.

I'm trying to be a first form athlete. Yeah, dude, you got to be a first-form athlete. Come on for sellers. Look it up. Hook the St. Louis boy up, dude. Yeah. I went on, because what is it called now? What's this podcast called now?

Real as fuck. Real A-F. And then he did just bring back the MF CEO podcast. I was going to say, your boy. Yeah, I had an appearance on the MFCEO, like 2014 or 15 maybe. Yeah, I need to do that. Yeah. Now that he brought it back, dude.

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Sport Clips. It's a game changer. My shout-out, no free shout-out this week. Mike, I hope you have one, is going to go to flickering when people flicker their lights, letting you know that there's a cop waiting down the highway.

happened a couple times on the drive to Missouri and back I got to do one as well I'm just letting the whole other side of the highway know hey you got there were two sitting there was one you go over a hill and then there was another one so they were out to get people speed but when people are flickering their lights tell letting you know that the hey there's a cop down here make sure you control your speed get your shit in order but that's my shout out no free shout out so you yeah I think you're yeah you might be able to get in trouble I think you do actually but you should maybe I didn't do it hey people

People helping people, man. So we believe in humanity, right? So my shout-out for no-free shout-outs goes to people who put their shopping cart away. Nice. In a world where laziness continues to win, the people who will walk to their car and then walk it all the way back to the receptacle and not leave it on a curb. That's my shout-out. Does anybody here not put their cart away? Sure, I can see you being a guy that doesn't put their card away.

There's a guy actually the carton arc Cartnarch. Yeah, the carton arc completely changed the game ever since I saw Cartnarks on TikTok. He goes around the country. He finds people that don't put their carts away and scared the shit out of me. So I always put my card in out.

I follow Cartnarks. It's actually hilarious. Yeah, he wears a GoPro. He'll put a sticker on your car that says, I'm a lazy bones. So he made a really cool brand out of it. But even when people aren't looking, it's the things that you do right.

When people aren't looking, you don't get any credit for that will then release the positive karma that good things that will happen to you. Because I truly believe that you can't be successful in life if you're one of those people who just doesn't put their shopping cart away. It's the little things. It's the details. It's the little things.

So shout out to all those people who do it and they stand firm in their convictions. That they, just because it's someone else's job to do it, it doesn't mean that you can be lazy and not put it away. One thing that I like to do because usually the parking spot right next to the right next to putting your carts always open because people are like, why would you park next to it because you risk getting it. But I'll just park right next to. So that way whenever I get done, I just put it on the night.

Now some people would say, oh, well, that's real easy to do that. But it's like it's okay to make decisions that make doing the right thing easier. It's okay to make, you know, I'm not saying, I'm not saying I'm any better because I will push it 1,000 yards and all that. But like, yeah, if I park next one, no matter what, it just, it's a non-negotiable that needs to be done. So there's nothing wrong with parking next one as long as you put it away. Yeah, you got to build around your laziness. I'm like the most, I'm like the laziest person. I know. So I got to set myself up.

That's efficient. That's just efficiency. Little successes. That's efficiency, man. As long as you do the right thing, whether doing the right thing was harder for you than it was for me, as long as you do the right thing, that's all it matters. Amen. To go back to yours, there is like a rumor, conspiracy out there. And this is why I have stopped flashing people going the opposite way, if I see a cop, is in gangs. It's alleged to be an initiation when you, they have to kill somebody that flashes their lights at them.

them on the road. Dude, I knew gang members. I've heard that. What the fuck? Yeah. Like their lights are off and flick them to, right. They got to go kill you. I've heard that since like high school. I had to stop. I don't know if it's true at all. It's on the highway. Like let's just keep it clean on the highway out there. Boys, you guys are listening to this and that rumor is true. Be careful in cities and towns. Yes. Flash at your own risks. Yeah, flash at your own risk. And I was thinking too. I was like, I wonder if that's like an illegal thing to like tip people off. Like, okay, there's a copy.

But at the end of the day, we're all trying to get each other right. Yeah, man. What are they going to say? What's your charge? Oh, yeah. Somebody said that my brides weren't working, so I was just trying to feel them out.

Like, oh, it's one in the afternoon. Or I try to, try to put my blinker on and you accidentally flip it, flip it. You always say that, I do. Because I've done that before, you accidentally flip it and you're like, oh, shoot.

That's a good call too. Just be like, sir, you can't prove that I did not. I accidentally do that. Yeah, yeah. Yes, I know you were sitting there. Any more shoutouts in the back? Okay, Mitch. I moved this weekend

and that feeling of finally getting everything like in your house and sort of settled. Haven't you already said this one? Yeah. Yeah, but I just, I need to do it again because. Hey, you said this one like a couple months ago.

It's so important. It's so important that every time you move. Yeah, I moved like three months ago and I just did it again and it sucked. But like we, my, the new house has like a, it has like a projector and me and me and my roommate foul or just literally like your stereotypical picture. You and foul, I'd say you guys every time too. Yeah, I mean, it's just moving everywhere around that's my boy. It's like shout at the boys,

man. Shout out one month leases. Yeah, no. And I was we were doing we were doing our other buddies to solid to kind of like match up our leases so we could all move in together. But like it was literally your stereotypical of like what guys need to be. be happy. It was a chair, two chairs, a little footrest, and like, we had red zone going and like just sitting there. And me and him maybe said it like six times, like, bro, this is so sick. We are so happy to be here and like once it's over. Settled and done with all of that shit. But again, shout out that feeling. It's a good feeling. It's a good feeling. It's a good feeling. Mitch like I got one.

I got a great one. You guys have never heard this before. My shout out every shout out goes to birthday weeks. When I was growing up, it was just, just the birthday, you'd celebrate the birthday. Birthday weeks? Because it's my birthday week. A, birthday weeks are awesome. And. Happy birthdays in the chat.

Happy birthdays in the chat. Happy birthdays in the chat. Dude a special, dude. Treat them extra special all week. Will's is the 19th. My wife's is 18th. She grew up doing birthday weeks and they would make like a big deal just like starting on that Monday or Sunday.

You just like celebrate every single day. It's been fun. She does it. for me. I'm going to do it. What's up with all the L's? What's up with all the I rolls? What's going on?

All right. Let's hear. Let's hear it. For me personally, my birthday is on Christmas. Oh, yeah. Just forget that. My birthday is barely celebrated anyway. So when people are talking about, oh, it's my birthday month.

It's my birthday week. Like, hey, honestly, nobody cares. Yeah. So, except for Jill, Jill, Jill shares the same birthday as my brother. Yeah. So we'll let this birthday, this can be the birthday week I'll celebrate. Birthday weeks.

Birthday week. I can know, I'm not going to shout out finally get into my apartment. I will, the last thing I'll do is give them praise. But I'll shout out as sad as it was, I have to shout out the fans at South Carolina and Williams Bryce. We went through. One of the worst feelings, worst experiences you could ever have. But game day and in the stadium they showed out.

We have not seen a crowd like that. Oh, man, I don't even know. Like the Tennessee game was epic, but there was something different where like we had some swagger about us. And the fans just like, they truly made a difference in the game. And nothing fires me up more as a fan than seeing other fans make a difference. I bought my ticket to the Ole Miss game during the LSU game. I'm like, I have to be there for our next war. Yeah.

Because I promised you, if I'm there, that's not happening. I will go on the field. I would have, maybe we'll get into all this stuff later. But shout out to the fans in Columbia, South Carolina. Y'all showed up, keep showing up. It matters. No gamecox. Chandler, bro.

Hey, Jack, I hate to cut you off. We got to get our boy rolling. No, I don't want a shout out of you. Got to get rolling. No, no. We'll get you one when we do the intro, when we do the intro. But, bro, thank you for coming on. Thank you for talking about everything.

Good luck in your camp. Boys, we're going to camp, dude. Back to war. Back to war. Today starts day one. Back in the foxhole. And I can tell, like, you know, Mike's a good friend of mine. Clearly, he doesn't feel the same about me.

Because he's leaving before my birthday, he's going to be gone. And his fight is on November 17th. Like, our second one is due in mid-November. So he clearly doesn't think about being able to get to the fight. I didn't plan my entire career around you. You're right. But I am here on the bus for your birthday week.

So I mean, that does mean something. And I appreciate you, man. Because I did. I know it leaked over the weekend. We kind of texted about and talked about it and you're on the bus. You always come on when something pops off with you.

Hey, and Monday after the fight, November 18th, I'll be here on the bus. Win, lose or draw. No matter what, I'm here on the bus. So let's do it. Appreciate you, bro. You got, bro. Good luck, man.

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The rallies are relentless. and at the French Open, only the toughest survive. I'd know. I competed there for decades. Join me, Renee Stubbs, on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast for no-nonsense breakdowns of the biggest matches, the toughest players, and the moments that define Roland Garros. She's an outsider to win the French fame. And she likes Clay.

Listen, Lennar Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcasts on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports.