Crime in Sports - #309 - Nobody Gonna Break My Stride - The Uniqueness of Daniel Barrera

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

This week, we tell a story that starts differently from most of our episodes. Instead of being a renowned athlete, from an early age, he was a decent high school athlete, then joined the military, as a firefighter, where he did tours in Iraq. He also began fighting. His skills were just right for the burgeoning business of MMA, and he landed a spot on UFC's "The Ultimate Fighter", where his strangeness first came to light. In the years to come, his behavior became more bizarre, with odd attacks, strange & violent attacks, and some of the weirdest antics, ever seen in a courtroom!Have war & fires not be quite dangerous enough for you, be the strangest guy on a reality show, and believe that you don't need medication, despite all the evidence to the contrary with Daniel Barrera!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!  Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman  Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail]  Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com  Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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My name is James Petrigallo. I'm here with my co-host. I am Jimmy Wissman. Thank you folks so much for joining us on another crazy, wild, downhill, jumping out of a plane, brain damage edition of Crime and Sports. And we have all of that for you today. We have a weird story of a guy who man everything was going so well every once in a while it's we have different sometimes these kids are like from the time they're seven they're pegged as a great athlete

sometimes it's like dennis rodman where they have to like work in an airport and then they get like a you know a seven inch growth spurt when they're 20 and then they're a good athlete there's all sorts of different paths to it. And sometimes you have a guy who looks like his life is just going great and then sports completely screws it up, we'll say, completely destroys their life. And then you end up with somebody who cannot control their actions at all and are walking around basically a time bomb and attacking, as we'll see, people who

definitely don't deserve it and it's we has a weird story everybody uh quickly before have we had anybody james who has a growth spurt in their 30s or 40s not yet not yet but i don't rule it out honestly crossing my fingers for that day for me you never know jimmy it could be six two still you could get it it could go there so uh quickly top of the house cleaning business here thank you for your reviews they do help five stars wherever you're listening to this also uh shut up and give me murder.com is where you get all of your merchandise you get your tickets to live shows full slate here ahead of us for small town murder we will be be in New Orleans on July 15th, so get your tickets there.

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True. Weird episode. Let's do this let's talk about our crazy person of the day and wow he has had quite the it's so strange like I said some of these guys will have like such a fine

life and a good career in athletics and then they'll retire and then they'll have like a bad marriage like a Jim Leyritz situation last week if you listen to Jim Layritz, he started out great. Yeah. Fought his way into the Major League Baseball, basically. Was a World Series hero.

When he retired, life was a cabaret for Jim Layritz. Everything was great. Should have been, yeah. And then it just all fell apart. I mean, the marriage and the crime and the dead woman being ejected out of her it's a lot it's a lot so booze jesus so much booze and beanie babies happening in that one it's when you and your spouse are legally fighting over beanie babies things have gone awry how funny is that that a world series champion uh His wife got sucked into the Beanie Baby craze.

And he's like, I'm keeping the Beanie Babies. You held it together in game six with Mark Wohler's on the mound there. You held it together and hit one out. The Beanie Babies and your wife, you snap, and that's enough for you. You've had it. It's crazy. So anyway, you have that. This is a very weird episode because this is a guy that no one would have pegged to be a professional athlete at any point ever. And the fact that he became one after having a – he has a career on the outside.

This is the thing. It's not like – you don't see people who are like, well, I have a really good day job, but I think I'm going to be a professional athlete. Like that doesn't usually happen to 20-something-year-old people, but it happened to this guy. Very weird. Daniel Barrera is his name. Daniel Lee Barrera, B-A-R-R-E-R-A, Barrera. Now he's born December 23, 1980. So Christmas baby.

That's very nice. Look at that. They're taking him home on Christmas morning or Christmas Eve. And how great. How wonderful. Jingle bells jingling. Almost exactly two months older than me. Yeah, there he is.

Two months older. Same age, me and this guy. Were you born in Rupert, Idaho as well? I was not. No? Wow, weird. Just down the road in Colorado. Colorado, not Rupert, Idaho.

No. not no wow weird just down the road in colorado colorado not rupert idaho no now i had to to because he's not a like a you know he wasn't a huge athlete in high school or you know like a star that was going being looked at by colleges and the papers or anything i kind of did a little research to see what the hell kind of what he's all about this kind of little small town murder thing here so i'm like what is rupert idaho where does he come from oh yeah what's it like it's in south central idaho like middle of nowhere um middle of nowhere and it's he he grew up on a farm here so that's number one he's a farm kid this area boyd coddington is from here. Who the fuck? Oh, the car guy. The race car guy. Yeah, the hot rod guy. Wheels and such.

Yeah. He was a hot rod designer. So that guy's from here, which is interesting. Grew up here. Went to the same. No, he went to a different high school, but he's from here. So this is from rupert-idaho.com. Oh, boy.

That's their website, rupert-idaho? Yeah, somebody else named Rupert Idaho took it. It was probably just like a drag queen. Rupert Dash. I know. Yeah. Somebody else named Rupert Idaho took it. It was probably just like a drag queen named Rupert Idaho. And they, you know, that would be, you know, somebody in showbiz named Rupert Idaho, like a singer or something. And they were like, well, the fuck is this guy? And it's, you know, some dude who looks like Rick James. And they're like, OK, this isn't.

I wanted to be a drag queen more because the people of Rupert, Idaho would be appalled. Yeah, that's also, with this area, they might be quite appalled. So let's read from the website and see what they have to say. They would be Ru-palled, James. They'd be Ru-palled with a double snap

and a whole... Glitter drops from the ceiling afterwards so now this is a quote the city of rupert is the county seat of minidoka county minidoka county and its largest city there's 5 000 people here this is the county's largest city. 5,000 people in this town. Southern Idaho is very sparsely populated. Yeah, for good reason. There's not a lot there to do or see. It's cold as a motherfucker. It's just farms.

Now, I love what it says here. Rupert is strategically located. Now, number one, that means they put it there on purpose to be strategically. There's a strategy behind it. So that's so this is this was this was their strategy. OK, Rupert is strategically located 45 miles from Twin Falls, Idaho, 160 miles from Boise, Idaho, and 180 miles from Salt Lake City. Was that their strategy? What the hell kind of strategy?

I don't think they know what strategically means did they put people here because they were diseased is that is that the strategy keep them away from people i think they that's what it sounds like i think they think strategically means conveniently yeah like amber heard thinks pledge means donate like i think it's the same i think it's the same thing like, I'm using those words synonymously. Well, the rest of us that speak fucking English aren't. None of us are. Okay?

We're not using strategically and conveniently or donate and pledge synonymously. You're using them more ironically than what you think. That would make more sense than strategically. That would be like if someone had a map and they were like, all right, now we're 180 miles. I found this once, but 180 miles from Salt Lake City, 45 miles from Twin Falls. People are perking up, really? Now here's the closer, 160 miles from Boise. Oh, my God.

Mark it down. I need to live there. So what you're telling me is we're remote. We're remote. Yeah. Those are the closest places with anybody else and this is the largest city in the county so the city is easily accessible to interstate 84 which is only 4.5 miles from city center i love when a city advertises how easy it is to get out of it that's always a good sign that it's a great place escapes only four miles away four miles

is a long ride four and a half miles yonder boy you walk you put your thumb up you can get out of here i'll tell you what someone will take you somewhere they might kill you but it's probably better than living here uh the interstate road system is accessed via highway 24 and state state highway 25 these two highways provide two separate access points to i-84 this is all your town talking about the access points to the way to get out all of the city's commercial and industrial exits are located yeah that's that's kind of what we're doing here the seat cushion is a flotation device. Put your gas mask on yourself before on your child. Well, obviously, you don't want to fall dead and then have your child fall dead on top of your corpse.

That's not going to work. You need to help them. They can't help you. So the next one is when they're real. This is when they're going to appeal to, you know, not just your sense of convenience or strategy in this way. You know, not just your sense of convenience or strategy in this way. Quote, for decades, Rupert has been the location of major cheese production facilities, including Brewster West, which produces cheese curds, Swiss cheese and approximately 27 million pounds of cheese that is sold to the Kellogg's company. Wow, that seems like a lot. Wow, it's a lot of cheese for Frosted Flakes.

How many Frosted Flakes? I didn't know there was that much cheese in Frosted Flakes. What's going on with you guys? Other major industries include the Idahoan potato processing facility. Of course. Everyone was wondering, where are the potatoes? This isn't Wisconsin. Large potato fresh pack plants and a less Schwab tire production facility.

Jesus. In 2013, the Frulact Group, a Portugal-based fruit processing company, announced that it will construct its first North American facility where? Rupert, Idaho, everybody. Oh, baby. Old Frulact is coming through. So I'm like, now I'm trying to think of growing up you grow up on a farm and the things to do here are to farm or to make cheese for frosted flakes or

to process or fresh pack potatoes yeah it's not or make tires drain it's not a it's not a metropolis no so much they try to sell it if you're a kid what you know you're like if you're not into any of those things, then you're in deep shit and you've got to get out of Interstate 84. Get the fuck out of here. Or you just go get in trouble in the woods, which is probably what the vast majority do. I would think so. Or they go to the Christmas parade because this apparently, I didn't realize this, but from the website they're going to tell us that, quote, Rupert is also known as Christmas City, USA. No, it's not.

No, it's not. Absolutely. Nobody knows that. No, I've never heard of that, and we do this on the other show a lot. How many towns on Small Town Murder are Christmas City, USA? We've heard like six of them already. There's probably three to six. And I'm not looking for them.

It's just randomly popping up in 300 episodes. The small town of Rupert, Idaho is alive with holiday spirit. It's common to see communities all around Idaho celebrating the holidays in their own special way. However, there's only one town in the gem state that's actually earned the nickname Christmas City, USA. Rupert is a quaint town that seems pretty quiet, but it takes on an entirely new character as the holidays roll around. Shit gets crazy. They're just running around the streets tipping cars over and shit. Fuck yeah!

Silver bells, motherfucker! Kicking holes in windows. shit gets crazy anything that's that's aimed at children like christmas is i don't want your whole town embracing uh being kind to my child stay away from my fucking kid no just because you're dressed up in some quaint garb. I don't want to see it. Oh, not only does it get all dressed up in lights, but community events and attractions are abundant during this time of year. Check it out. It's true. Christmas City, USA is right here in Idaho, exclamation point.

The quiet town of Rupert is proving that sometimes it's the smallest towns that boast the loudest holiday spirit. Fuck, I hate it. Want to hate it more, Jimmy? I do. Okay. We're sorry. We know you haven't gotten to the athlete much yet, but this stuff, this is where he's from, and we don't have a lot on his childhood. So replace the childhood with this part, and it'll all work out the same.

It's riveting to me. I love it. It's all work out the same. It's riveting to me. I love it. Well, in 2021, they gathered, Jimmy, New Year's Eve for revelers to gather. This is the third year they gather in the historic town square, and they have a giant party to watch a humongous lighted sugar beet. What? Sugar beet.

A giant lighted beet, I guess. I don't know. Is it? It's a sugar beet. Are sugar be beet. A giant lighted. I don't know what that is. A beet, I guess. I don't know. Is it? Is it? It's a sugar beet. Are sugar beets different from beets? Probably. I don't know.

I don't want to eat either of them. I'll tell you that much. They're probably red. Go on. Probably. I'm sorry. A giant lighted sugar beet named Crystal. They've named it.

They say it will descend from the sky. How will it descend from the sky, Jimmy? How do you think it will descend from the sky. How will it descend from the sky, Jimmy? How do you think it will descend from the sky? Is it like the New Year's ball? It drops? It drops, yes. But the New Year's ball, they have it like on a big thing on a building. This, they just have a crane and they just lower it down slowly on a crane.

Which is terrible. It's the most trash of fucking New Year's Eve lowering I've ever heard in my life. Like a wrecking ball? Yeah. That's worse than when in Tempe they'd have the chip go into the giant thing of salsa. That was worse than the Tostitos. This is worse. This is a beat.

From a wrecking ball. They just have it from a crane and they just lower it. Pete, slow it down. Jesus Christ. It's not midnight yet. That thing's three feet from the fucking ground. Where do you got to be, Pete? People are kissing already, for Christ's sake.

Come on. Back it up. Why do they lower it? It's for Christmas? For New Year's Eve. That's New Year's Eve. That's their ball dropping. Sugar beet.

That's their ball dropping. It beet. That's their ball dropping. It's the lowering of the sugar beet. The event also includes live music, food, fireworks, and a beer garden, because you've got to be shit-faced to think this is fun, to have anything to do with the sugar beet thing. Wow. Crystal, meaning the beet here, which has become a Rupert year-end icon, is 28 feet tall, including the leaves, and 12 feet in diameter. It's a fucking enormous fake sugar beet. It's not real, right? No, no, it's fake.

It just sits out there rotting for the rest of the year. And then they lacquered it up once, and they're like, that should hold a couple years, right? It'll rot from the inside, but lacquer will hold it the structural integrity together hold it all together now um 27 feet 20 28 feet by 12 feet or 12 feet in diameter it is um 28 feet tall uh rick hall with barkley cranes supplies the crane to lift the beat into the sky it's just a guy on a crane. Then one of the party coordinators said, quote, we couldn't do it without him.

Well, no. Who's going to hoist a 28-foot by 12-foot beat into the air without the crane guy? And have it drop at a reasonable pace. Correctly, right? He's got to practice that. Todd's catapults wanted to do it but you know we figured that was a bad idea it's a little reckless it's an unpredictable countdown

it could be a long time see if it goes far enough shit everybody kiss now oh it's me for come on god damn it sing the song that's a shit lousy sons of bitches well back to making potato stuff all right todd your your coordinates were off on your catapult you ruined the meyers house god all the way to twin falls idaho which is 60 miles due east i don't know where the fuck it is, but I'm just, so couldn't do it without him. At midnight, the beat will drop until it touches the ground and fireworks will begin to go,

to explode, they said. Rupert, which has the state designation of Christmas City, it's Christmas City, Idaho is what it is, has its central park decorated for the holidays where people can gather.

The guy who organized it all said, people need to come with their smiles on. We're really lucky to have Rupert as our home. Oh, my God. Oh, fuck. This is how I think I would off myself in about six weeks maybe I could last here. This is where Barrera grew up. This is where he grew up. Get the fuck off of this shit.

Which is just he grew up. Get the fuck off of this shit. Which is just a, it's a strange thing. Apparently, I assume his family became, at some point his family became ultra-religious. And I'm going to assume it's at the point when he's two years old, because that's when he is baptized like a born-again Christian at two. Is this Christian? It's not Mormon? No, no, no, Christian. No, no, devout born-again Christian type deal. Because you've got to be born again by two. You this Christian? It's not Mormon? No, no, Christian. No, no. Devout, born-again Christian type deal. Because you've got to be born again by two.

You've had three divorces. You've had a couple of failed businesses. You fucked all those prostitutes. Did a lot of gross things to them. Maybe killed a couple of them. At some point, you need to come clean here and start over and get right with Christ. You know what I mean? Pretty sure that kid's quite pure, you need to come clean here and start over and get right with Christ. You know what I mean? Pretty sure that kid's quite pure, you guys.

Yeah. So this you'll see over his career. He's got an obsessive religious thing about him. Even later on when he's on television, most of it is all sorts of weird. I'm talking like hyper, not just like just like well i'm just praying the fight goes well not none of that shit this isn't one of those this is everything everything has a god component to it it's all they talk about him and his wife it's it's fucking weird so um you'll see that later on he goes to minico or manico or however the hell you say it, M-I-N-I-C-O High School here.

He's on the wrestling team in high school. So he's a high school wrestler. He'll fight later on at 170 pounds. So, I mean, he's not a big guy. You don't see him and go, oh, man, this guy's a real athlete. He's just a good high school wrestler, a decent high school wrestler. They made it to the state championships in 1999. which that's his senior year um there so i mean not bad at all also going to his school is um um bill i don't know how you say fagerbach is that how his last

name is spelled isn't that isn't that dauber on coach i believe I believe? Is it? I think it's Dauber on Coach. In 1999, though, he was in high school with him? No, it was 1975. He went to this high school. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Yeah, he was on Coach when he was five, and then he went to high school later on, and I don't know. Wait, what's happening? I think that's his name.

It might be a different guy. He's an actor. Dauber Dubinsky, that kid? F-A-G-E-R-B-A-K-K-E. That's the guy yeah okay he's from there and also uh lou dobbs the insane person that does news well quote new stuff yeah fascinating voiced man hello welcome to lou dobbs tonight here is why mexicans are hiding outside of your house to slit your daughter's throat and then rape the hole later on lou dobbs hold on now on my pillow commercial

so it's different the one thing i'm not saying one thing to have a political point of view but this guy's like i mean he's wild his pants are on fire literally while he's sitting there it's crazy you're like dude you're nuts bro he's in flames talking about hair on fire. Yeah, the impending rape of your family this afternoon. Oh, it's going to, yeah, it's a countdown. They have a counter in the corner. Yeah, he has a turnip dropping.

Four minutes until your whole family's raped to death. so anyway in high school here as a junior he moved up to 171 pounds so i mean he stays the same weight from junior in high school till he's an adult here later on and as a senior they made the state tournament his coach said he remembered uh daniel only losing one single match in the state tournament and finished third. So he did well. His coach said, quote, his senior year, he was just tough. He really blossomed, won three or four big tournaments that year and turned into a team leader. So he's good. He's a good wrestler, but he's a 170-pound high school wrestler.

It's not like there's a – I mean, there might be colleges that look at him, I'm sure, but there's not like any big – ESPN isn't waiting for him to sign a letter of intent so they can broadcast it quickly. Is he going pro now, or will he spend one year at Kentucky? Which one's going to happen? And wrestling's a fascinating scoring system. If you can only lose one match and come in third, what? How does that happen?

I don't know. Judging. I'm not sure how it works. The second place guy at least has to lose once to the guy that won, right? I would hope so. Otherwise, it's really unfair. If the second place guy didn't lose at all, he's getting fucked hard. How'd I lose?

I didn't even lose. I don't understand. This is crazy. I won and I still lost? That's crazy. It's weird as shit. This is crazy. I won and I still lost? That's crazy. It's weird as shit. This is stupid. So after high school here, he's a stand-up guy.

He decides he's going to go into the Air Force. So he signs up and he'll spend six years in the Air Force. Is that right? So we don't have a lot of crime and sports athletes who spend six years in the military. We had Riddick Bowe go into the Marines for like a month and a half and then come home. And that was after everything. That was after everything. And we've had a couple of guys do like a short.

We've never had anybody in the military for six years before they're even an athlete. We've had them kicked out of the military, I think, too. Yeah. years before they're even an athlete that's we've had them kicked out of the military yeah yeah i'm sure if we did like a 40s guy we'd have a guy who like went in for world war ii and came back out and we could maybe do that but we never had a guy do it and then have a career afterwards it's six years in 2000 yeah he went in in 90 and 2000 he uh he served as a firefighter for most of that time in the air force so he's definitely got a uh looking for action streak to him yeah there's also like between wrestling and firefighting there's a there's a mochismo to him he's certainly got a an ego and air of of masculinity he walks with his chin held up high he's one of those guys he walks and he does that because he's got a great

jawline you know what i mean one of those kind of guys and he's very confident he is um and during this time as a firefighter in the air force he went well i'm in the military one and you know 9-11 just happened right at any point i could be in a combat situation this is always a thing um but uh and i'm a firefighter doing this so i could be like putting out you know crazy fires some plane catches on fire i got fuel fires i got to deal with it all this type of shit this isn't dangerous enough though what i also would like to do is have other guys who are just about my size punch me in the face a lot can i have can i can i add that to my routine of things i think that'll while in the

air force while in the air force he's boxing he's on the boxing team or whatever i don't know some there's a lot of guys boxed in the military and that's how they started you know so he boxes and he has a he goes 15 and 3 in the in the air force boxing wow and he's a wrestler to begin with he's not a boxer so that's uh that's pretty good in 2004 he uh ends up losing his uh a match to 2004 uh i'm sorry 90 i think in 2002 he lost to this guy this guy ended up in 2004 being an olympic gold medalist andre ward ever heard of andre ward never no real good fighter he's uh he's a, kind of, he doesn't look like a fighter. You know, Sugar Ray Leonard didn't look like a fighter. It's like, oh, you're kind of handsome to be a fighter.

There's nothing swollen or lumpy or anything like that. He's that kind of guy where he looks like he could be on a sitcom when he retires. Like, that kind of cat. He ended up going 32-0 in his professional career, this guy. Holy shit. And being elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2021. I've never heard of him. Yeah, he wasn't a big—the weight class here, that middle weight isn't a big draw, really. Poor bastard.

To fight like that— It was in the 80s, but it wasn't now. To fight like that and have that kind of a career and have nowhere near the amount of money that Floyd Mayweather has sucks. Shit, no. No, fuck no. That sucks. And your last name's Ward, and there's also Mickey Ward later, so that kind of overshadowed him because he was just a crazy fighter, so he had more publicity. But this guy's just a great fighter, Andre Ward.

So he ended up being transferred to Fort Knox, Barrera was, in Kentucky, and they had no boxing gym there when he got transferred there. So he's like, fuck, I don't have a boxing gym. Use it to store the gold. Yeah, so he didn't know what to do with himself, obviously. He can't just punch the gold.

That's not a gym. Just let me in and punch the bars, man. I'll just punch them. I'll punch them hard. I ain't going to hurt them, I swear. I won't steal none of them. Make them into watches. Watch me.

Remember how Rocky went into the meat thing? Remember that? He went into the cold storage with the meat, and he was just punching meat. Let me go through and just, I'll run through and just i'll run through and just punch gold bars and shit and like you know what i'm saying like watch me rock the body put me in the scrooge mcduck room and just let me i'll just go off and punch a bunch of things

and like someone can film it and if you put music behind it it's gonna be pretty cool you can put those coins in a bag and i'll punch the bag i don't care oh hang them from the ceiling pow pow pow no problem see if i can pop the money out so he decided at that point well i mean i gotta i gotta get punched in the face that's something i need to do so they basic well they kind of started like a like an organized fight club like wow like not a that but like an mma club their own little even this is 2000 sparring matches but no gear yeah this isn't like there wasn't really that many mma gyms in 2003 you know what i mean so this is like basically they were calling it like hand-to-hand combat training that's what they were calling it so they were just punching and striking and wrestling each other and doing basically mma without the any sort of discipline, I guess.

I call that- Any certain discipline is what I mean, not without discipline. That's just a group of dangerous men. Yeah, who were like, they need to fight while they're hanging out. Like, it's not enough. Yeah. Let's go out and get drunk and look for girls. Nah, me and the fellas are going to beat the shit out of each other instead.

Why don't we punch each other first? Bye. Yeah, bye yeah that'll look chicks like it when your face is swollen so that's um that's a weird a weird group of people obviously here so he um from this um he ended up basically so now he's he's grappling and he knows how to wrestle well. He knows how to grapple well. And he's put the two of punching and grappling together with this hand-to-hand combat thing. And he's a good boxer. So he's a good striker. He's strong punching.

And so he's kind of tailor-made for an MMA career at this point. He's got a bunch of different styles that he can do. And, you know, he's pretty good at all of them, so. The wait is over. So far you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that. Ding!

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He enjoys just, you know, messing around anyway. How wild is that, James? In 99, when he started wrestling, UFC wasn't what it is. So it wasn't like he was doing this as a career path. No, no, no. It just lined it up. It lined up. It lined up.

It all lined it up, brother. Tell you what. Hanging out with hillbillies or toddlers? I'll tell you what. It lined it up perfectly. I lined it up for either way. It works. That's crazy.

Serendipitously, how do I know that word but not line you don't align well you should have wrote their town description you wouldn't have called it strategically serendipitously located is better than strategically that's better that's just all kind of happened now that's better than strategically i could name fucking 12 words off the top of my head that are better than strategically. Who wrote that shit? Thank God they didn't tout the school system because I don't buy it for a second. Somehow this guy just stumbled into an actual viable career path. It's amazing. It's fascinating.

He accidentally built up the skill set. Yes. Kind of a thing. Yeah, they just kind of all came together because he liked to get punched a lot. By the way, Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward that he fought, a really amazing guy, his nickname is SOG. What is that? I'll give you a guess. What do you think it is?

Sons of Gangsters? I don't know. Son of God. Okay, so Son of God Jesus beat his ass. He is claiming to be, I don't know, at least Jesus, if not something else. I don't know what denomination he is or what faith he is, so maybe it's not. Maybe Son of God is something else somewhere. I don't know.

Whatever he's into. But either way, he is the Messiah, so you can look for him there. 32-0? He is 32-0, so, I mean, that's pretty infallible right there. No one ever beat him. You never know. But he couldn't get a title fight. I feel like Jesus could pull a title fight, you know?

You'd think so, yeah. You'd think so? I feel like he could pull that off. So, he ended up, you know, kind of falling in love with MMA because this is when MMA was starting to rise, too. So, he started seeing it. to rise too so he started seeing it uh now before he got out of the air force though in 2003 he is arrested on july 31st 2003 in ventura county california um i don't know what he's arrested for at this exact point but he's arrested a whole bunch of times apparently

during this time period this is when he starts acting kind of wacky um boxing wrestling hand to hand we can't these air force guys without anybody supervising yeah they're fucking beating the shit out of each other probably who knows what kind of head injuries they were giving each other but this guy definitely has a couple of uh bats in the belfry we'll say. He's got some decision-making issues that probably relies on a portion of his brain that's not intact. I think, yeah, a little bit of he's been punched in the frontal lobe one too many times. And we're not trying to be dicks about it. I'm just saying, like, it's one thing. We feel terrible for people who have this brain damage through this.

thing we feel terrible for people who have this brain damage through this but once it starts manifesting itself on others and the rest of the world we're like hey chief uh right not about your fucking brain damage anymore get that shit fixed and then we don't or we don't we're not fixed but at least you know manage that figure it out because that's not good you can't just go out being uh you know like a coiled snake out there ready to pounce on people so you can't just be unleashed on society with no quick decision making abilities no and now he's during this period he's convicted of a couple different things a disorderly conduct that was pled down from something else i assume he was fighting somewhere is what i can only imagine uh he had a harassment charge at this time which isn't great he's convicted of that he ended up during this time period getting sentenced to you sir may

fuck off 12 days in jail he had to do here so for one of these counts so he keeps getting arrested for like minor things but there are things that are showing a lack of decision making and a lack of control over your faculties, basically. Being able to control your temper especially is a problem for him. The weird thing with him is that his temper, like, it doesn't even have to have, like, a trigger point or like a – you know, most people you're like when this happens that person really goes off you know he doesn't really have that he'll just no it's pretty random and weird and uh wait till you hear is the one arrest is the strangest thing i've ever heard in my life it's strange for this show yeah it's like mitch blood green doing a shift at the gas station what's in the register isn't enough i'm gonna take what they're

also gonna make in the next half hour and put that in my pocket yeah um it's that kind of weird where you're like what a strange decision to make here so um sometimes people have just trigger words that just set them off too you know what i mean yeah i don't know sometimes there's a being called a bitch yeah we'll do it. It's just little things, little triggers that people have. Well, later on, he'll go to a place that doesn't make any sense and he'll end up doing something to someone that he's never even met and makes even less sense because it's the last person you would do that. It's so, so strange. But we'll get to it.

He does a tour of Pakistan in the Air Force. So that's part of his tours in Pakistan. So he spends a lot of time over there. This is during the height of the Afghanistan war as well. So we had a lot of people over in that area. He does get an honorable discharge in 2005. So regardless of what he did outside the military, in the military, they seem to like him. He'll get a military burial yeah he moved back to

idaho uh with his wife now he's married through all this and sometime during the air force gig he got married so um it's six years so somewhere in there he met a woman and married her and he begins uh at that point training um for mma a little, but that's on the side of his day job, which is a fireman for the Rupert Fire Department. Oh, he went back home. Yeah, he went back home, joined his wife in his hometown. And because he has years of firefighting experience in the Air Force, he's a natural fit for the fire department. So, hey. You bet.

That's what I mean. There's kids that dream about being in the goddamn fire department. is like a you know you're a fireman what do you want to be when you grow up a fireman you're a fireman now there you go you have it so that's a career yeah and um one thing though he sees that the ufc is getting bigger through this point now this is when it's really exploding 2004 5 6 7 fucking key demographic oh yeah absolutely i mean he's a dude in his mid 20s who loves to get who loves to punch and be punched in the face yeah like he's just like yeah brother holy shit serviceman fireman hit each other he's it hump, yeah, brother. Holy shit. Serviceman, fireman. Hit each other. He's it. Hump his face.

Come on. Can I interest you in a tap out t-shirt? Yes, you can. Oh, God, you can. I only wear the Ed Hardy's on Friday night. They're very, they're pretty pricey. That's my going out shirt. That's my going out shirt right here.

The ladies know, ladies know it's high time when i come in wearing this bad boy so uh but so he looked and he saw that there were you could audition you know for the ultimate fighter tv show which is basically their tryout and how they got their new people and all that sort of thing so he said that he never really followed it, but he found it while he was just flicking around the channels. He saw this ultimate fighter thing. He had seen season five, a little bit of it.

And he was like, Oh, that's interesting. He said, quote, I'd watch it every once in a while. It's like some of these guys get real crazy and drunk and start destroying the house.

And these fights seem kind of mediocre my wife said you should do that okay okay listen to this okay who the fuck's wife would see a show where guys in a house get drunk tear the house up then beat the shit out of each other and she goes you should do that honey what kind of a psychopath are you around the house or how much does she not like you either one which one is that yeah how many times has she thought god i wish somebody would just kick his ass calm the fuck down you're good at getting drunk and breaking furniture and punching people well i mean this looks like the perfect thing for you sweetheart no if i said to

my if i said to sarah hey i'm gonna do that she'd go you're no no you're not you're gonna get hurt and you're doing this she would be like you're not fucking doing that you know like sorry and she's not not anyone to tell me what to do or any of that bullshit but she would say like i draw the line at you're gonna go get drunk and fight people every day that's crazy what's wrong with you you're gonna get brain damage it's the equivalent of telling your wife she'd be great on real housewives of whatever the fuck that's not a compliment that's an insult why would you say that except if they could get seriously injured and have more brain damage from real housewives which is you know maybe from the wine but wine bottles and then the tip over tables and shit it's just

glasses of wine there's no real violence the worst thing that'll happen are extensions that's that's what really gets the the brunt of it on that show is extensions yeah somebody might lose an eyelash no one's getting really hurt there's never there's not usually blood drawn or anything it's just yelling it's still not a compliment to say you belong on that show but to say you belong on this show is like wow those people are acting like wild animals honey you'd be perfect for this exactly that's thanks thanks sweetheart appreciate it yeah so um yeah my wife said you should do that i laughed it off and then here it comes but now god's given me the opportunity oh jesus everything is like if he goes

to mcdonald's you know you go to mcdonald's and sometimes it's there's good mcdonald's bad mcdonald's mediocre mcdonald's you know when you get like the bad mcdonald's fries are soggy and cold you're like ah this mcdonald's sucks and sometimes it's and then every once in a while you're like oh fuck who the fuck was making this do they have bobby flay in there today what's going on this is the burgers are great the goddamn fries are crispy and a perfect amount of salt it's you know that's that sort of thing he'd say god had something to do with this mcdonald's today like he would credit god with the mcdonald's not just a guy actually gave a shit about his job in there you know i'm saying he'd be, I'm positive that this is. God saw me in the drive-thru and blessed me.

He knows my truck. It wasn't this kid in there got distracted with the McFlurries and these fries are now disgusting. Yeah, that's exactly right. So anyway, he has to choose careers. You can't do both because if there's a fire. Right. And you're on television, you can't put the fire out.

You're fighting Chael Sonnen. What are you going to do? And most fires have a shelf life on them. They can't call you and then you come in there. And he tells the firefighters, listen, I want to do this. So hold my spot for me and I'm going to go do this. Tell the fire to stop burning for a minute and I'll be right back. Yeah, you can get a replacement guy and then he can leave.

And they told him, well, if you leave, you're not going to have a job when you come back. So basically you want to go on this show. That's your fucking career now because you're not going to be a firefighter here anymore. We're going to hire somebody else to fill in and then we're not going to fire him because you're ready what is that about so he was like shit um he said that well i guess he's going to be a fighter but he has goals beyond fighting he's talking about at this point he's working on a degree in criminology and one day hopes to this is uh just a quote open a ranch for underprivileged children what for what them to just live on and wander they're not livestock he's gonna corral them underprivileged children ranch just to hang out and like get at the farm for a day like one of those like a day in the country

type things or we're gonna milk them to do like farm labor like i'll adopt them and then they can like sleep in the barns and get right what is he talking about hey you sleeping on that park bench would you rather keep doing that or or i got a lovely farm i got a shitload of work for you to do will there be money no oh no not at all but it will be a nice pendant area and people come look at you there's a corral look at you it's a it's a it's a corral ever eat from a trough it's really fun it's really fun we don't tie your hands behind your back and have you bobbing for gruel yeah you. You know, adults are always telling you to, you know, stop making such a mess. Stick your face right in there.

We don't mind. It's a good time. Play with your food. Use your nose. Throw it at your friend. We don't give a shit. Just share with the pigs because they'll want some too. Would you like a bale of hay to sleep on?

Would you like a bale of hay? So this season, The Ultimate Fighter Season 6, the participants are, and now I don't know much about MMA outside of the people that we do, so I'm going to read these people off and maybe you know who they are. I know some stars. What year was this? 2007. This is the Ultimate Fighter Season 6.

Matt Arroyo and him, Daniel Barrera, Blake Bowman, Mac Danzig. No, Jesus, is that Glenn's brother? Probably. Paul Georgief, I don't know, Richie Hightower, John Koloski, War Machine. We know him. We know all about War Machine and his fucking we read his jail notes they were wild this kid got he

fought against War Machine on this show he didn't but he was on the same he was just in the same on the same season he fought the same guy twice on the show we'll put it that way who else Troy Mandalani's Billy Miles Roman Mitch Michigan Dorian Price Jared mandalani's uh billy miles roman mitch michigan michigan uh dorian price jared rollins ben

sanders joe scarola george cirritopolis or satira satira populous something greek and uh tommy spear those are the teams now this is a shitty season so do any of these people end up being besides war machine i mean we know what happened i don't think i don't think more than more than two of them really fought much and if they did they weren't a big deal war machine wasn't that big of a deal until he got into the fucking in the news he just had a nickname that people thought was fucking cool. He was all nickname. He's one of those guys. And he changed it legally, right?

I believe his name is War Machine now. Jesus. Which is hilarious. So he pulled an Ultimate Warrior who changed his name to Warrior Warrior. Did you know that? No. All the wrestling people know that.

But if you didn't know that, the wrestler, the Ultimate that but if you didn't know that the wrestler the ultimate warrior if you remember him from back in the day what wanted he didn't want vince mcmahon to be able to say that he couldn't call himself warrior because he had a whole comic book thing and warrior gyms and all this type of shit so he changed his name legally to warrior warrior so you could do whatever he wanted with the word warrior so he is the warrior and his wife was mrs warrior sure name was now like whatever it was warrior you know paula warrior like it was the weird linda warrior is the weirdest shit so he did that jessica warrior out there you know her you know char know Charlene Warrior, the Warrior family.

You're probably closer with the name. Yeah, something like that. I'm hitting more youthful ones. Ooh, what about Wendy Warrior? That'd be a cool name. That sounds like a movie, doesn't it? Wendy Warrior. It's probably more like Glenda Warrior.

Yeah, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's Glenda Warrior. That's a good one there. I like Glenda. That's going to work for her. Maxine Warrior. Fuck yes. Makes her sound pretty badass at that point.

Maxine. She got Max in there. Yeah. Max Warrior. She can go by Max Warrior. That sounds awesome. That's a great name. And then she could be a wrestler.

Fuck Ultraman. Ultimate Warrior and Max Warrior. Max Warrior. Max Warrior. that's a great name and then she could be a wrestler fuck ultimate warrior and max warrior max warrior oh man so uh he makes the team he's on the ultimate fighter six so he went from high school wrestling went through the service which he enjoyed firefighting doing his thing worked his way through now Now he's on television. The opportunity is before him. It really is.

It's like there's a pair of hands just handing. Here you go. It's all right here for you to take. Grace. This is Grace right here, obviously. Getting on TV is Grace. That's Grace. Oh, yeah.

He apparently had a hand injury during the training sessions as they were getting ready. He's got a nagging hand injury through this whole thing to where if he lands a good shot with his hand, then he's fucked up for the next couple of rounds. He can't really do anything about that. Well, I guess a lot of guys got injured here. He said, quote, this is Barrera, our practices were basically just gut checks every day. I can't compare it to anything else I've ever done in my life. He's a military guy.

If you missed practice, everybody showed up early, everybody stayed, and they all took their lickings, man. They didn't show a lot of it, but they were pretty tough. They were pretty tough rundown practices. So the training, I don't know what the fuck that means but this guy where do you hear what he screams in court at judges it's wild this guy has his own way of talking his own syntax his he's crazy bat shit would be the best way to put it so here is a thing i found this page it's like a blog page that talks about the ultimate warrior our ultimate warrior god damn it talks about the ultimate warrior just it's an ultimate warrior

for tribute page where they're like remember that one match against ravishing rick rude this one talks about the ultimate fighter tv show yeah and basically they make a transcript of every show basically on here so and then with little commentary of their own in between stuff so it's it's fucking interesting here and uh there's a yeah i had to read all this there's a poor bastard who's who has to do that oh wait do you hear how they describe a fight i'm like man you'd have to keep pausing it and going back it would be excruciating to do this. So here's a comment, by the way, from one of these threads that somebody put.

Quote, someone said, do you remember Daniel Barrera? Does anybody remember him? And this guy said, quote, he was that guy on TUF6 that always talked about his wife, two horses, and his dog. Because he has two horses and a dog that he repeatedly talks about. two horses and his dog because he has two horses and a dog that he repeatedly talks about um he had a direct connection to god that woke him up every day so he could get his early training in he said that god would just wake him up in the morning because it was time to train and god knew that and uh you know god he's like a personal assistant sometimes he comes in he wakes you up, and he's like, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, wake up. Daniel, it's time. I made eggs, Daniel.

So they're there for you if you want some. There's eggs. And the toaster is out. You can use it if you'd like. So there's eggs. I got a feeling that somebody else set an alarm clock in the house and he'd just wake up to that. He's on television also, so he's got to get up. But no.

He better be up. He said so he could get his early training in. This guy went on to say didn't spar lightly, was always shadowboxing something. This is what he was known for. Other guys would be talking or doing stuff and they'd cut to him and he'd just be like in his underwear in the kitchen shadowboxing. Just a cabinet. Just like like what's up fucking blender i'll get you you'll never get catch me you know food processor watch out slap

chop yeah i'm coming for you so he said it was always shadowboxing something they showed him shadowboxing in the gym in the van home in the van home what uh in the kid maybe he lives in a van i don't know in the kitchen in the bathroom with his shorts down and dick out in the pool yeah he'd be like pissing and he'd still be shadow boxing with his dick hanging out apparently um in the pool in the doctor's office against a brick wall and even punching a fucking dumpster so while everyone else is doing something he's in the back hitting things he's just like a crazy person remember the kenny versus spenny episode where the guy's just doing push-ups did you see that one that's what it's like like they talk to him

and they're like hey daniel remember that time and he's like hitting a dumpster and they're like okay he's not listening never mind he's he seems like like if there's ever a video of like a spoof of this shit he's he's the guy making it silly and stupid yeah he's the guy if there was like a you know like five people doing a doing a parody of this they'd be like all right you stand in the back and just punch shit and ignore everything we say everything and just ignore shit that we say seriously if i'm holding the sandwich come up punch it out of my hand, but don't even make eye. Don't talk to me. Just punch the sandwich and move on to like punching like a couch cushion.

That's your job. Now I want to do that. I really want to make that. Again, it's like punching the buttons on the blender, punching. Yeah, it gets on an elevator. He's like, pow like pow five floors light up what are you doing we're only going to the eighth floor you fucking moron and then he just turns around a shadow box is the corner of the elevator yeah just pop up come on that's right it's off

going up it's so what a weird guy so June 26, 2007 is his first fight here. It's an exhibition. This doesn't count on either of their records. It's an exhibition against Ben Saunders or Sanders, whatever he is. So he, now he wakes up at 4.15 every morning without an alarm because God wakes him up at 4.15. Or somebody else has one set for 4.15. Possibly gonna credit god with this one um and this is to do his running um he just thinks that it's great um he says quote this is what he's uh quote my wife says you're crazy people aren't like you you need medication now that sounds like a serious talk.

Yeah. I could be taken a couple of ways. She said, you're crazy. People aren't like you. That's cute. Once someone adds, you need medication. That's the part that makes it different. Now it's a talk.

It's not just joking around. Hey, yeah, that dude's crazy. If you're talking about one of your friends, you're like, yeah, that guy that guy's fucking crazy man this one time he was pissing off a thing and blah blah blah then if you go that guy's crazy man he needs medication you're like oh really what's wrong if he turns into a it's not as fun no yeah once he's encouragement it's a conversation once he needs medication if he's peeing off things it's sad oh he needs medication poor if he's peeing off things, it's sad. He needs medication? Poor God. Jesus Christ.

He's going to pee on me maybe. So you need medication, which is a serious talk, to which he responds not, I don't know, maybe I'll go see somebody. I say, quote, honey, this is the way God made me. I don't think I need medication. Oh, no. You aren't a doctor, man. This is the way God made me. I don't think I need medication. Oh, no. You aren't a doctor, man. This is the way God made me, so I don't need medication.

His version of religion is like Scientology. Like, well, you know, I'm clear, so I don't need psychiatry. I mean, I can crush it with my mind vice like Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock. That's how he does. He says, quote, these cats would have to stab me in my sleep or throw me out in front of a train wreck. Jesus, in front of a train wreck? To stop me from running my three to five miles every day. Not going to stop me, bro. Hey to five miles every day. Okay.

Not going to stop me, bro. Hey, you know what? Run all you want. I would say the opposite to make me run three to five miles a day. You'd have to stab me or threaten to throw me in front of a train wreck for me to run three to five miles every day. That's a lot. We either run or we do this. You're crazy.

People aren't like you. You need medication. Nah, this like you. You need medication. Nah, this is the way God made me. I'm cool. I don't think I need shit, man. It's cool, bro. What a wild statement. Wow.

You need medication. That is really specific, man. It's crazy. Feels like she was trying to hint, you're crazy. Yeah, she was telling him. And then she waits for a reply, and then she goes, no, no, no. People aren't like you. And then he's like, oh, yeah, I know, I know, I know.

And she's like, you don't get it. You need medication. You need a doctor to write something down, and then you've got to go somewhere and have a guy in a lab coat hand it to you. Then you need to take it twice a day with food. I can't deal with this. The doctor can't even trust you to take it there he will take what he writes down and fax it straight the fuck to them they'll bring it to your house just

don't worry about it this is you have problems bro but a bee's not okay with that so Take it with food. That's hilarious. Take it with food. So twice a day. So he goes to a bone specialist here, and apparently they were taking x-rays in the show, and he said they were like, well, you know, we're waiting for the results to come back. It's a cliffhanger.

Is his hand broken? And he says, how do you, he says it's in God's hands is who's hands. That's the only hands I'm concerned about is God's hands. I'm not kidding. That's what he says on television. Um,

it's in God's hands, which is fair. I mean, it's either broken or not at this point. It's not going to change, but at first you could say it was maybe possibly. Um, so anyway, he, um um he says it's broken

um then he says it's not broken so he says he's fine that's what he does he walks in like on camera and he's like it's broken he's i'm fucked up and then he's like just kidding around man it's all good it's fine so he is uh gonna fight he said, I thought it was broken, but. And God is the ultimate healer. Yeah. Of course. God did it. It's God's thing.

So he's there. They cut to him at one point painting. He's painting flowers and some fish on a piece of paper. He's painting some stuff. On TV. You know, like a six-year-old would do. Like if you gave them

like some watercolors and a cup and some construction paper and you were like, just paint some shit and they'd be like, flower and a fishy. Like that's what he's doing.

He's got his wife tattooed on his arm. He talks about how he went to Iraq for a few months after he started dating her and then came back and got married it's like nothing makes me feel romance like felucia it's just it's a most romantic city in the world and i sat back one night and i was watching the tracers come in and i said you know what i heard an ied go off in the distance and i said it's time

to marry that little philly i got back at home can Can't spell I love you without I-E-D. Maybe you can. I wasn't good in school, but still, she's marrying stock. So I'm going to add her to my two horses and a dog, and I'm going to have a wife now too. And also little underprivileged children on my ranch as well. They stay with the two horses, though. That's how it works.

They like them, so it's good. So he said that he came back when Ian got married. He was 21. She was 18, which is always a good idea to get married. Really? As soon as you're legally able. That's always smart. So anyway, he said that he just wants to do well for his wife and blah, blah, blah here.

Now, he is on the phone with his wife, and they say that there's never phone calls in any of these. And all of a sudden, they keep showing Dan here on the phone because he's on the phone with his wife, and these are always wild conversations. We don't allow phone calls. Until they're awesome. Yeah. Until they're pretty fucking cool. So they said. Dana White said.

Normally we don't allow phone calls on The Ultimate Fighter. But the only exception is if there's a family emergency. And he says. Well Dan's wife has a medical situation. So we're going to let Dan talk to her. So they said, wow, this is on the day of the fights. So they cut to him, and he's saying to his wife, talk to me, please. And she says, I swear to God, I knew I was dying.

And he said, why? And she said, I don't know. I'm dying. She's dying, apparently. So he says that he believes maybe she had a seizure okay that's what he's trying to say so it's you know it's pretty serious then she says quote i just had some kind of attack i don't know i'm not a doctor i don't know some kind of panic anxiety attack i guess and dan says sounds like a seizure dan's a terrible doctor dan's a bad doctor his wife tells him clear medical facts

and he doesn't take them that way you need medication so i'm great i think i had a panic anxiety attack oh a seizure okay good well then again he's from a town where conveniently means strategically so who cares words don't have a lot of it sounds like a seizure don't it yeah no um yeah so it sounds like you're shaking were you on the ground were you unconscious were you when you came to were you shaky still and like disoriented and foamy did you remember what happened that's a seizure yeah i think i hit my head on the nightstand but i don't remember doing that sounds like a seizure is what you say there a panic attack anxiety sounds like a seizure to me sounds like a seizure to me shit jesus christ wow god damn it i feel a little hungry well that sounds like cancer probably i'm assuming brain cancer right at the core right at the stem so she said i felt like i was dying no one fucking believes me i was praying my last prayer i was

praying my last fucking prayers i swear to god i was dying and she said you're not going he said you're not going to die and she said i haven't slept in three days i haven't eaten in like a week there's a problem this yeah this this sounds like you're having a – I'm not a doctor, obviously, but just based on being a human being, this sounds like you're having a severe anxiety attack that's going on or a panic attack, depending on whether it's about something or out of the blue, that's going on for an extended period of time that's causing you to have trouble sleeping and eating. It sounds like you might need something. Medical, yeah. Medical care for this because this is a you can't live like that also uh did you start not eating because of this or did you i think so and then this happened because perhaps your body is shutting down because you have no fucking

nutrition in it or sleep you've not you have not replenished your arsenal at all here. There's nothing. You're not on empty, love. Yeah. The communal holy water pool is empty, man. It's dry. There's nothing left in the old tank here. You are on fumes, dear. No shit.

I like how, by the way, they're super religious, and she's like, I was praying my last fucking prayers i swear to god what the fuck god i'm saying all these fucking prayers and you're not saying jack shit about it my god likes to curse my god encourages it he encourages it he says you know what let fly he says it gets the words up there faster if you say some colorful ones. Yeah, it gets past the guards quite fast. You don't like to hear. If you don't know when Crystal Pepsi was discontinued, what was in Al Capone's vault, or which famous meteorologist is Lenny Kravitz's second cousin, then you haven't spent enough time on Wikipedia.

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does anyone know what English words mean in this town? I swear to God, you come to Rupert and your vocabulary just disappears. It falls away. You just start using other words and plugging them right in and no one cares. I don't know what's wrong with my brain she says so there's something wrong up there yeah he says would you please eat something which is fair yeah uh start with that maybe you'll start to feel better like some cottage cheese you know something i guess light and maybe healthy or some cheetos he says which are two very different things.

Cottage cheese or Cheetos. On an empty stomach that's been empty for several days. I'd go with the Cheetos. Both of those are terrible choices. Yeah, I'd go with the Cheetos to soak up any acids that might be in there. That's going to create something, too. Are we talking puffy Cheetos or the hard ones? Or the crunchy?

Are we talking hot Cheetos? Are we talking hot Cheetos? Are we talking talkies? Well, that's going to be the hot Cheetos is a whole other thing. You can't be eating hot Cheetos when you haven't slept for that long. I feel like a hot Cheeto thing would be a disaster for you. But UFC fighters, is there any other Cheeto than a hot Cheeto? Probably not. It comes with like whatever Mountain Dew comes in that blue can.

Yeah. I don't know which one that is, but it comes in like a real hot blue can. And you're like, wow, that looks like it'll just make your insides go to liquid. I don't like that. What you got to do is butt chug one of those Mountain Dews. You got to beer bong a monster. And then you got to throw those Cheetos right the fuck down. It's Cheetos in the face, dew in the butt, and you get a double side.

They meet in your stomach in the middle. And boy butt and you get a double side they meet in your stomach in the middle and boy i'll tell you something it's a it's something it feels good snort a shot of monster you're gonna be all right you're gonna be all right did you snort did you snort monster no try it jesus christ so i don't think i would eat cottage cheese or cheetos at this point maybe not no toast let's a toast. Let's start with toast. Let's start with toast and an IV. Yeah. Piece of fruit, maybe.

Some Gatorade. You've been drinking? Get you a liquid IV. Get you some actual nutrients in your bloodstream. Jesus fuck, lady. You're wasting away. Well, you know, you can say that. But she says, I'm fucking delirious i don't know what's wrong

with my brain he says would you please eat something like cottage cheese or some cheetos she says everything is falling apart that's her response to that to which she then says everything is going crazy honey then here comes the quote it's like the devil's doing all this while you're gone on purpose. That damn devil. Making me hungry. All sneaky. Making me feel all wackadoo in the brain brain just because you left. No, this isn't the devil. You're having maybe a panic attack, some sort of anxiety attack that you need some help for.

And there's nothing embarrassing about that. But when you blame it on the devil, then it gets embarrassing at that point. Here's another quick side note. Shame on Dana White for taking advantage of this and not getting that woman help. Like, right. Yeah, there's something going on here. And yeah, the two of these, they need to be looked after together, probably. So, yeah.

Yeah. So they're the guy on this blog, by the way, is like, is this staged because she's ultra religious? They're both ultra religious. So maybe they could get some sort of weird conversation out of them. But who the fuck knows? Um, anyway, uh, he tries to get her to pray on the phone. He's like, pray with me, pray with me. And she, uh, she doesn't want to pray right now because she's having other issues. So he, he he she starts crying while he prays on the phone he's like instead of comforting you i'm gonna do this um yeah so we'll do that um then he said he sent his sister to stay with her until he gets back in there so now he's got to go fight imagine all this you don't want your wife to be sad on a fight you want to get in a fight with your wife here and be furious about it. You know what I mean? There's very little you can do constructively after that phone call.

No, you got to go fuck and then worry about shit and want to help, and now you got to go beat a guy up. That doesn't seem fun at all. So either way, he's fighting this Ben Sanders guy. Kill a bee, Ben Sanders, he goes by. He has an MMA career, 23, 13, and 2 total. Pretty decent. This is when he's first starting out.

Now, I'm going to read you some of, not all of, but some of this poor bastard who had to do this blog. And I'll put what the blog is in there. But he had to go through. Imagine the pausing he had to do just constantly. Quote, this is they start out. They come in. Quote, they clinch. Clinch is broken.

Knee to the body by Ben. Head kick by Ben. They trade a few punches. Exchange leg kicks. Ben misses a looping head kick. Dan lands a punch on Ben's head. They clinch for half a second then break away. Head kick by Ben.

More punches. I mean, this is like blow by blow, literally. Every single blow. on ben's head they clinch for half a second then break away head kick by ben more punches i mean this is like blow by blow literally single blow body kick by ben they trade punches kicks dan lands a in all capital letters huge punch on ben's face he drops so he drops ben with a fucking punch to the face here the crowd roars and there's only 15 people in the crowd that's funny dan swoops in and ben slaps on a triangle dan has enough strength to slam ben on the ground a few times before he lets go okay uh dan stands above ben the crowd is loud herb asks that he works i don't know what the hell that means dean eventually stands ben up dean yeah okay he's the black guy okay okay he's rad uh he's telling him get up and work otherwise i'm gonna have to call

this fight if you don't get it all right that helps to know he's the referee that's a that's positive herb dean's rad otherwise i'm like who the hell is that uh they circle each other leg kick by ben dan comes in but ben catches him and dan drops they clinch couple knees in the clinch that hit dan's body ben goes to the ground and dan stands above him again herb calls for them to work again they are doing nothing they're basically just kind of catching their breath and this is a rest hold yeah it's the equivalent of a chin lock in WWE. So, Ben wears the same stupid smile on his face. Herb stands Ben up. Ben misses the punch but connects with an elbow that nicks Dan.

Dan is running in for punches but they miss. Head kick misses for Ben. Ben misses a Superman punch. They swoop in to clench. Ben throws him down but Dan stands up. Body punch connects on Ben. Failed Superman by Dan. Head kicks by Ben.

Dan is running around the cage. He's nuts. That's what I mean. He's just a crazy person. Huge knee hits Dan's face. Ben fires such a big head kick that Ben falls after connecting. So he made himself fall. Dan is standing above him.

End of round. Both are extremely bloody. Already. Yeah. Dan is bleeding from forehead uh and the top of his head blood is gushing from ben's nose so they're they're they've just been beating the shit out of each other this guy goes through and ranks all the fights and this was the top fight of the season he thought because it was just they beat the living shit out of each other here. So anyway, this is how this works. I guess they touch gloves for round two. Ben fires several leg kicks that do not connect. Ben closes the distance and connects with a right hook.

Nearly connects with more head kicks. Dan's face is bloody. Dan is working not to lose. Apparently, too, his hand is fucked up from the punch he landed earlier. So he's not firing off with the same vigor here with his right hand. Ben lands a straight left. Body kick and another. Ben is ripping him apart.

Another big body kick counter. Dan lands a right hook. So does Ben. Then a huge knee to the head. Dan is still defending. Ben fires a leg kick countered by Dan's right hook. A few feints. Dan misses a body punch.

Ben misses a punch to the head. Huge looping head kick misses for Ben. He connects with body kicks and head kicks. Dan lands a straight right hand to the body. Body kick for Ben and a head kick. Jesus Christ almighty. So this is going on for a while. So anyway, I'll just do this next little paragraph because it comes to the end.

Action slows down. Ben lands another big body kick. Dan connects with a punch to the head. They're just exchanging. This is like a Rocky movie. They're just beating the piss out of each other. More body kicks and a punch to the head by Ben. They clinch where Ben lands a knee and takes Dan to the ground.

They are stranding. I don't know to the ground. They are stranding. I don't know what that is. Standing. I guess it's just they misspelled something. The combination of body kick and punch by Ben. Ben lands several uppercuts to Dan before standing again. Dan is running around. Now he starts running again.

Where Ben lands a left hook and Dan stumbles around the ring. Huge knee to the head by Ben and a head kick by Ben. Herb stops the clock. He asks Dan if he wants to fight. No immediate response and Herb waves off the fight, but Dan interrupts and says he wants to finish. Clock resumes with 1.12 left. This is an exhibition, so there's no official rules here. They touch gloves.

Straight right hand misses by Ben. He lands more knees in the clench. Another knee in the clench. Dan is running around. He misses a Superman attempt. Body kick by Ben. Brutal head kick by Ben. Another head kick by Ben.

This guy's been getting kicked in the head a lot. Have you noticed a pattern? A lot. Holy shit. Dan gets hit in the head a lot. That's not good. That's where Ben is aiming his entire assault is right in the head a lot that's not good uh that's where ben is aiming his entire assault is right in the fucking head he's hitting him uh more knees they clinch dan

tries to take ben to the ground but it fails ben takes dan to the ground and attempting a submission end of round now um at this point uh the fight is just stopped and they go to the judges they decide that that they're going to stop the fight uh which is weird they go to the judges they decide that that they're going to stop the fight uh which is weird because it's a really good fight that everybody's into and um you know Barrera said he thought he had a broken hand from the first punch he landed in the first round he said quote after I threw that right and knocked him down and he had a broken nose I thought that I broke my hand to tell you the. It felt like I seriously broke my hand. I just got a shot of pain all the way up to my spine,

and I just kind of hesitated for a second. Yeah, that's electricity going up there when you hurt your hand like that. If you've got that much adrenaline pumping and you feel the pain, then that's not good because you usually don't feel your injuries until the next morning because you're so juiced up on adrenaline. Usually in a boxing match you don't really notice right when you break your hand that's the problem and uh if it hurts that bad it's it's hurt so uh yeah it stopped to go to the judges both the fighters are a bloody

disaster um they give the decision to ben two to oh two Two rounds to 0, 10-8. So it's like, how the hell did Dan lose the first round when he fucking leveled him and almost knocked him out with a punch? You know what I mean? Maybe those kicks to the head were just too much. Maybe he landed more punches, even though one was devastating. I don't know. This guy's recap says that dana then congratulates ben on one of the best fights he's seen on the show he tells uh they also talk about how uh they tell

dana that this they should that they should get the five thousand dollar bonus dana says that both fighters are going to get the bonus because it was such a great fight and dan says quote i don't deserve it dan shut, shut up. Shut the fuck up. And Dana said. Your girl doesn't have any food. Yeah, right. She's like, Dan, you deserve it.

All we have is Cheetos and fucking Cheetos and curds. And it's only because they make Cheetos and curds here. Otherwise, I'm sure Kellogg's has something to do with the making of Cheetos. And that's where the cheese goes. And we get it. We get it wholesale down here. That's the only reason I have it. Otherwise, I have no food. So shut your mouth and get paid.

Jesus. Dana White says, you fucking deserve it. That was a nice fucking fight. So, yeah, Dana White was saying that, you know, what a great fight there. And he thinks Dan won the first round as well, as well as everybody watching it and everything else. But somehow they don't. And either way, that doesn't count as a fight. So they do all of that just as an exhibition.

Yeah, just to be on TV. So December 8th, 2007 is the season finale of The Ultimate Fighter. And he fights Ben Saunders again here. season finale of the ultimate fighter and he fights ben saunders again here and um yeah he said that uh this one doesn't it goes kind of the same way but this one goes the distance again and he loses a unanimous decision again so now he's fucked here he's oh and one daniel barrera is and uh oh and one and he's not going to be starting out in the UFC. He's going to be starting out in Warrior FC, which is hilarious because we were just saying, it's the ultimate Warriors UFC fucking division,

which I wouldn't be surprised if it was, to be honest with you. I would not be surprised. WFC? It's Warrior Fighting Challenge, Warrior FC. WFC. Yeah, WFC, brother. The name of this show is Consequences. Uh-huh.

Oh, boy. It's in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Kentucky, not PA. No. Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where everything good is. For sure. September 13, 2008, he fights Franklin Chancellor Edmondsonson who sounds like he married into the royal family that guy sounds like he definitely franklin chancellor edmondson this guy comes into this

fight oh and seven why are you still fighting franklin franklin because his name's franklin chancellor edmondson he doesn't sound like he'd be good at fighting. His career record's going to be 2-16. Jesus, that's terrible. This fight goes a little less than four minutes in the first round, where Dan gets him in a rear naked choke and wins. So he gets his first professional win. Hope that was worth the fire department. So he is 1-1 now professionally as a fighter.

So October 3rd, 2008, which is 20 days later, he fights at an event called SOS. Yeah. You know what that stands for? Yeah. Showcase of Strength. No, it doesn't. It means help these men. We need help because of their showcase of strength.

It's frightening all of us. This is in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Okay. Yeesh. He fights David Overfield, who is 6-0 coming into this fight. I mean, I don't know who he's been beating in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, but he's here. And for his career, he's going to be 6-3. So he never gets

another win because this fight is his first loss and then another no wins after this it's a TKO in round two so he's two and one now Dan so Dan has won one fight by a submission and one fight by a knockout so look at him that's uh he can well Yeah. Well-rounded. I found a deal here where he's supposed to be on a card, but he doesn't appear ever. He's supposed to be at a – during this time, it's 2008, he was an instructor at the SSF Submission Academy in Clarksville, Tennessee. So he took a job in UFC training. I suppose while he was doing this they said he's supposed to face robert iron man thompson at extreme fighting championships

xfc7 retribution this year it's supposed to be in nashville and uh gonna be a big deal and then he never ends up doing it or it never happens or I don't know what the deal is, but it ends up falling through. So I also found him in a wrestling tournament during this time. Yeah, he was in what's called the Hawaii Naga, N-A-G-A. I don't know what that is, but it's some wrestling tournament that apparently happens. It looked like a big, giant gym full of wrestling going on. And, yeah, I think he lost a wrestling match during this. It's grappling.

I think it's whatever grappling is. Is it like TNA? No, I think it's like something, something grappling association or some shit. I think that's the deal here. Oh, that's the G in it? I think that's the G. So it's just grappling here. So National Amateur Grappling Association, North American Grappling.

Yeah. Whatever the fuck it is. So people here, though, multiple. It's on YouTube, and there's a bunch of comments. Multiple people are just like, he's crazy. That guy's crazy. Everybody calls him crazy. It happens every time.

November 19, 2010, LOTC lords of the cage oh lords of the cage i like that that's and it's in the just land of milk and honey the pachanga resort and casino in temecula california yikes jesus christ what's the matter they had like the hologram of bob dylan needed the night off the fuck are they playing out there that's that's bad stuff that's one of those desert casinos yeah that's one of those ones that you pass on the way to somewhere fun you're like should we stop at the outlet mall or the pachanga which one should we stop at he uh he fights brett malfrust jesus m-a-l-p-h-r-u-s malfrus that's not a good name uh this guy's two and oh coming in okay but his career though he's gonna be two and two so you know the result of this one this one goes all three rounds actually and it's a unanimous decision win for daniel okay so he is

three and oh look at our three and one i'm sorry three and one and um he'll never have a pro fight again it's over that's already done three and three and one so it's a pretty damn good start i mean it's a good start he gave up his his his uh entire firefighting a career for this so maybe he should he should have thought about that ahead of time of a pension fight more than everything fight more than fucking four goddamn fights out of that so yeah apparently at some point in here after his fighting here in 2010 ends uh he ends up in up in Hawaii. So from Rupert, Idaho to Hawaii, those are very different places.

Polar opposites. He was training with and apparently working at the gym of BJ Penn in Hilo, Hawaii. Um, so he moved there, brought his family there. His wife moved with him to Hawaii and, uh,

he wants to immediately get into shit here and be all into MMA. He won the Triple Crown Grappling Championships in Oahu, apparently. Good for him. So I don't know what the fuck that is, but he went in there and grappled everybody down, apparently, and did a great job. And so he would also work as an instructor at the BJ Penn gym as well. So the gym he has there. So this is where shit goes awry. Now, like we said, there's some brain damage here, I believe.

He's been hitting the head a lot. Way more than most people. Really been hitting the head a lot. a lot way more than most people um really been hitting the head a lot so february 9th or february 3rd this is when it happened 2017 okay so some time goes by where he's just hanging in hawaii doing his thing he shows up at a pahoa high school p-a-H-O-A High School. Okay? Uninvited, mind you, into a wrestling practice. Yeah.

He's not an alumni. He's not, you know, like, hey, the teacher taught me and now I'm going to come back and help. Well, this is part of the police report. This is what he did. Quote, Barrera walked uninvited into wrestling practice

at Pahoa High School, came up behind a girl as she was in a wrestler's position Quote, Why? He just beat the shit out of a 15-year-old girl who was at wrestling practice, doesn't know him, and didn't even see him coming. She was in a wrestling pose the other way. He went up behind her and started fucking palm striking this poor girl. A child. I am stunned. Is he on drugs?

He's just fucking nuts. No, I wish he was on drugs. He's just crazy. He has like a train on a track and it's not stopping. He's just, ain't nobody going to break my stride. Ain't nobody going gonna hold me down oh no i'll punch this little girl now that's what he's doing like he's just it's his own tune going on yeah right here somebody should have told him you're crazy

yeah you're not like other people you need medication wife says i need medicine i said i don't think so oh no i got to keep on moving i'll punch a teenage girl i'm gonna do crazy shit oh yeah you're gonna have to cuff me he's just fucking dancing after he punches teenagers for no reason what'd he do then a teenage girl why would you do this what'd he do after that he left just walked in he walked out walked out hit a girl three times beat a teenage girl down to the ground from behind mistaken identity no she didn't he's got beef with another 15-year-old girl? What the fuck?

He's a 30-year-old man. What are you doing? He's 37 years old. Holy shit. You can't have beef with 15-year-old girls to the point of violence for that. What the fuck are you doing, bro? Apart from your own, you shouldn't know a 15-year-old girl to have beef with. No.

Never. You shouldn't. Yeah't yeah nobody gonna hold me down oh no he's just fucking yeah that's his whole theme song going on in his head i feel like um the girl uh who then you know told authorities and called the cops and everything told authorities she never met barrera in her life doesn't know who the fuck he was just some strange adult man who decided to punch her a few times um he said later on quote they invited me to the school to help them wrestle i'm a very very skilled grappler what about the striking sir and what about the fact that no one said they invited you nobody invited you and you grappled nobody and you grappled nobody you palm struck a child and then left but he

holy fuck the more important part he wasn't invited no what gave him the idea to go here is he just no he's on he's on punches to the brain is what he's on. He's on too much God. It's God and brain damage. When you mix those together, those are a really frightening combination. He's on way too much God. Way too much. He's ODing on it.

So his attorney requested a mental examination. He said, maybe we could have a mental examination. And the judge said, tell you what we're going to do. We're going to we're going to not release him at the moment. Let's keep him. Let's go ahead and keep him on ice for a second while we figure out what the hell's going on here. So which led to him being Barrera being escorted from the court. And now it gets wonderful.

This is where he goes. He gets up. Several sheriff's deputies are going to try to walk him out, so he screams loudly, quote, I'm sorry, Mom. Okay? They're not, I guess so. I don't know. She's in Idaho.

They're not releasing me. Maybe she's there. I don't know. She's in Idaho. They're not releasing me. Maybe she's there. I was just helping the wrestling. Okay. That's bad enough. That sounds crazy. I'm sorry, Mom. They're not releasing me.

I was just helping the wrestling. Then he goes on to say, these kids need to wake up. I wanted them to wake up because Hawaiians need to toughen up, okay? What the fuck are you talking about? Then he says, I was at a wrestling practice. And the judge says, I hear you, Mr. Barrera. Like, shut the fuck up. We got you.

Then he goes on to say, I don't understand how this is assault. What? Then he starts banging his hands and he says, you play football? Anybody? Am I fucking crazy here? There's murderers on the street. My sister got murdered two months ago in Pahoa. So I punched a child.

I'm going to slap every motherfucker until I get the right one. And nobody holds me down. Oh no. i got to keep on what a fucking lunatic this is great what are you talking about you play football anybody am i fucking crazy here there's these thoughts don't connect bro what does football have to do with it that's you know what let's is he trying to? Is he trying to say that is that assault? Well, what about football?

I suppose. But then he doesn't make the connection between them. That's the same thing he just said. You play football. Am I fucking crazy here? I mean, if you just want to know if I play football, that's not crazy. But it has no relevance in a court of law at the moment. Does nobody playing football relate or correlate to you being crazy?

Yeah. And all the participants in football are there voluntarily. You don't just find somebody. The game of football isn't to put on your pads and shit, go somewhere where no one's playing football, and then tackle them. That's not football. You can't just tackle a 15-year-old girl who's, I don't know, stretching? Not involved in the sport. It's not a thing.

So that said, let's read the whole thing in their own words, I feel like. We'll put the whole thing to music and make it better here. Make it more fun. Let's start here. In their own words, quote, I'm sorry, Mom. They're not releasing me. I was just helping the wrestling.

These kids need to wake up. I wanted them to wake up because Hawaiians need to toughen up, okay? I was at a wrestling practice. I don't understand how this is assault. You play football. Anybody? Am I fucking crazy here? There's murderers on the street.

My sister got murdered two weeks ago in Pahoa. End of, end of. Lock him up, you guys. put him out of here fast we were like about yeah we'll take him and put him over here we got a guy that's gonna fight a speeding ticket next get him out of here yeah he's frightened in the corner of the courtroom right now doesn't want any part of being next to this guy so the judge and then he said am i being released because no usually when the deputies have you and they take you forcibly somewhere, that means they're not taking you outside. No. Not taking you to your car.

Normally in court, when you are in for something criminal and they tell you you can go now, you don't need anyone to escort you out. You can get the fuck out all day long. It's the other thing that they need to escort you to jail so the judge said you are not which is and he said what's the reason i can't be released which is hilarious because it's like you just scream crazy shit in our courtroom that's one of the reasons top of my head in addition to that because you have too much of a history he said you have in the last couple years you have two prior convictions for all this other shit. You've done jail time.

You've got disorderly conduct that happened also recently. We can't, you know, let you do that. So then he realized he wasn't going to get released. Then he started physically trying to scuffle. So the deputies had to wrestle him into the courthouse cell block while he was screaming to talk to his lawyer now now it's serious so sometime in the next five days he gets out of jail all right gets out of jail somehow and uh we only know this because uh he'll be right back in jail.

Because it's documented a few days later. That's how we're sure of it. Five days later. Five days later, he's at BJ Penn's gym, where he hangs out, works, trains, does all this type of shit. Well, he's apparently outside the gym. He's not really in the gym. And is like threatening people all sorts of people i'm sure teenage girls included just whoever he can find trying to fight numerous people for no reason um acting like you know like

crazy people act really like yeah a wild man in the streets who wants to fight people for no reason and it's an MMA gym. We don't need this type of shit here, obviously. There's enough animals here. Yeah, we do it inside. And, you know, it's all under the lights and we can all see. We don't do it in alleys over here. So they actually call the cops on him.

They can't control him. I mean, even the guys in there, they don't want to deal with him. He's acting nuts. So they just call the cops on him. And he is arrested for disorderly conduct in the street. Unbelievable. Like a crazy person. He's put away.

And then he gets out. And like within 48 hours. What? He's out. And I know that because he gets put right back in. That's how I'm aware of this. Because there are time stamps. It's time stamps to everything now

he's apparently uh doing he's in some kind of situation where he has to apparently get evaluated or there's some sort of something where he's talking to a nurse here all right now during this time he told this nurse started out with saying he's going to get BJ Penn. Oh. I'm going to get him, he kept saying. Okay. Also expressed anger toward BJ Penn's brother, who is the one who had him arrested for disorderly conduct. Okay.

Here. So he was challenging multiple gym members to fights. Here. So that's, if you went outside, he tried to fight you was basically what it was. So, which is crazy. So,

um, now while this is going on, he then tells the nurse and a bunch of other witnesses that the Hilo district judge, Harry Freitas, who, who fucking put him in there. Uh,

he said that he's going gonna get what's coming to him the judge uh yeah you can't say any of the shit that he says he said he's gonna get he quote put me in here and he's gonna get his one day then he said quote directly followed up by i was in the military and i killed guys so i get no i problem killing again. Oh, don't say that. I killed before and I'll kill again. Can't nobody break my stride. Oh, boy. Oh, man.

The most angry version of that song ever. That's what he said. He says that there's that, so I'm going to get him. Obviously I've killed people. I have no problem killing people again. Then he said, I'm also going to, you can lump BJ Penn and his whole family into that too. So people to kill, uh, judge BJ Penn, BJ Penn family, mean guys from gym who were mean to me and jerks and total buttholes that, you know, blah, blah, blah. It took too long at the water fountain.

He's got a big to kill list here. So the nurse reports him and all of this because it's a state thing. The nurse reports him. A security guard overheard him saying all this shit to a bunch of people heard him. So they report him. He is. There's an all points bulletin for him the whole everyone's looking for him now for ish for issuing terroristic threats against the judge yeah can't do that you

can say i'm gonna fight bj penn that's one thing the you can't threaten to use your military killing experience on a judge that made you go to a mental health evaluation that's not okay so um that's what he did um you think he's done being crazy in court jimmy i hope not no of course not he's not at all they set his bail at 50 grand this time they're like you're going you're going nowhere it was 2000 before by the way i'm gonna hang on to you for a very long time we really want to check you out in court my goodness jimmy he is um he's interesting he comes in and i'll post the picture on social media this will be the first picture you're going to see on uh at crime and sports on twitter and facebook at small town murder on instagram he has band-aids all over his face okay okay um um and on his ear as well yeah um his he's got cotton stuffed into his nostrils yes like just stuffed with nostrils with band-aids all over

his head he looks like somebody's like three-year-old daughter took some shit from the medicine cabinet was like there you go daddy now you're a pretty princess like that's what it looks like happened thanks honey yeah these are band-aids dear are they just brown band-aids or do they have themes to them are they they're not like frozen band-aids or like pixar band-aids of some kind yeah i've done that queen on his fucking face i've done that i've done i've gone on stage with princess band-aids on when that's all we had because that's what my daughter fucking had yeah i cut myself i'm like great now i got a fucking bell band-aid i'm on stage come on let's go this is giving me confidence damn it

awesome so he also has a swollen foot as well how do you tell he has a swollen foot because it's up because he's also in a wheelchair oh great so what the fuck happened 48 hours ago he was in perfect health standing outside of a gym threatening uh other fighters and now he looks like he went through a wood chipper and came out in a wheelchair. There's a lot of problems going on. So this is very interesting. The judge here was like said that the media requested permission to photograph the proceedings. And it was basically if the prosecution didn't care if the defendant didn't mind and then they were gonna he was gonna let prosecute the people photographer photographize

the place they're gonna photographize it jimmy that's right photographize this whole place yeah um and they said to the judge said mr barrera would you be willing to allow the media to photograph the proceedings to which he said, what do you think his response was? Oh, shit. This could be fun. This could be something like, does the 12 o'clock bus run at three around here? That would have been almost, that at least is a valid question.

Yeah. Even though he's not going to be on the bus, he says, and I quote, yes, absolutely fucking yes. First of all, you can't tell the judge absolutely fucking yes in the middle of open court. Okay, you got to know better than that. So yes, absolutely fucking yes. Please record. Please. I am a celebrity.

No, you're not. No, you're not. You were on a reality show 10 years ago that is not a celebrity sir i am a celebrity i am a combat veteran that's true and yeah i was on the ultimate fighter six baby i'm a singer i do commercials it's a fucking court proceeding where your nose is packed with cotton while you're in a wheelchair for some inexplicable goddamn reason because you've been crazy bat shit out of your mind for the last week and been caught doing three crazy things what the fuck are you doing and

we're asked a yes or no question that ended with i'm a singer i do commercials and he called the judge baby and said fuck yeah he did call him baby this is all in response to a question would you be okay if we photograph this from johilo district judge dakota friends he called a woman judge baby that's not okay no you're gonna get she was like well 50 000 is what happened there bail the fuck out of here so he has at this point half a dozen sheriff's deputies around him because they expect them to be trouble even from the wheelchair right you still this guy could be trouble from anywhere you know he really good you got to keep you in a wheelchair you're a problem you are a problem you're like you need medication he's like that's what my fucking wife

says and he starts going crazy so they wanted to keep order during this this is just supposed to be a brief hearing this isn't a murder trial this is a quick yeah in and out he's doing the judge is doing 60 of these in a row before lunch like let's go he um then the uh a tribune herald reporter tried to get a better angle to photograph him this isn't the next breath he said fuck yeah fucking yes record me i'm a celebrity. I'm a singer, blah, blah, blah. Then they try to get an angle on him, and he says, quote, get out of the way. You're the fucking sideshow. You just vehemently accepted an invitation to be photographed. Right in your face.

What the fuck are you talking about? And again, he's screaming fuck in court, which again is not good form usually. They don like that yeah they don't like that so then he goes from get out of the way you're the fucking sideshow to then saying look at this which is in the same breath get out of the fucking way look at this which is crazy take pictures right here look yeah he shows his swollen foot in his wheelchair and he says look staff i've got staff take a picture i've got staff a lock what is it snuffleupagus yeah i've got snuffleupagus in my foot yeah staff bro i ain't calling him bro you're calling the assembled media bro while they try to take pictures of your foot after you called the judge baby staff bro then he said good job deputy prosecutor i've got staff bro hot apparently the deputy prosecutor is prosecuting him which is the reason he's in jail

in jail he contracted staff yeah therefore his fault right because he brought the charges for even though the judge is the one that said you're going near you got to stay in jail asswipe so this is this is what are you doing and how do you get staff that quick and you're also just as likely to get staff in an mma gym as you are really probably more likely more likely to get staff anywhere where there's a mat with people on it that's where the staff is going to be it's that's where it is i mean that's and this goes when we're not i'm not taking shitting on mma for this thing because they're filthy pigs they get staffed like in they are filthy pigs that's beside the point that's not where the staff comes from the staff is just people rubbing on the ground and this happens but like this is

this goes through major league locker rooms all the time like you know rod beck got nasty staff from when he played fucking baseball you know what i? Like that was just from the locker room, from towels, from shit, but these mats sweating and pushing it out everywhere. It's all these mats are the worst. That's where it really comes from and different equipment and rubbing on each other.

So, um, he's, but it's more like more likely that he got staff being in jail for two days than he did. Um, rubbing his fucking cell phone, an MMA mat for the last 10 years,

much more likely. This is amazing. I've got staff, bro. Good job, deputy prosecutor. Your honor, I submit that you fire the deputy prosecutor and appoint me in his place, bro. What's up? Come on, deputy prosecutor, baby.

I can fucking do this. I'll solve your staff problems i'll solve it sir do you have any legal background fuck no okay um this is quite the job interview um do you think the staff infection will keep you from doing reforming your duties shit no bro so uh the judge then at this point told him watch your language please stop yeah and he apologized to the judge and said oh sorry about that my bad um so then the deputy prosecutor asked for the judge to order a mental examination for barrera you know because he has eyes and ears and he's witnessing what he's seeing so this guy says maybe uh you know maybe a quick once over on him just uh

you know kick the tires and start the fires type of deal and you know i'm present i've witnessed this i've seen it while he's asking the judge for this barrera chimes in even though he's not in the conversation he says your honor i submit blah blah, blah, blah. And Barrera says, nope, negative. Then he says, you already got four of them, bro. It's enough out of me for mental health evaluations. Yeah. Apparently every time he gets arrested and he's had other issues, he's had four. I don't care how many you've had.

You need more of them until they figure out what this is what is this yeah what this is this is you've got some like mental staff and you need help it's you know this is they're not finding what it is and uh let them keep looking so he said nope negative you already got four of them bro Then he turns his attention away from the prosecutor to the judge and says, can I approach the bench? He's not an attorney. No, you cannot. He said, your honor, can I approach the bench, which is absolutely inappropriate. The defendant does not approach the bench on his own to go over some shit with the judge. That's not how this works.

Your honor, your chambers. Let's go. Yeah. Your honor, your chambers now now bang that gavel don't make me come up there and do it this is this is you a lawyer does that if there's some sort of argument like in terms of needing a clarification on why this objection is like this or that and half the time the judge says no stay down there i'm not doing this right now this is defendant wants to talk about his mental health with the judge well he out of turn yelled at the prosecutor and gave the judge's decision for them

even though it's the judge's decision decision then just out now just address the judge and says let me approach i think i can clear all this up. The judge says, quote, unfortunately not, you know, because you're crazy and all. And then said, but you can address me from there if you really must. I'd rather you talk to me from a safe distance, but I can't wait to hear this. I mean, sure. What the hell let's show me why i need to have you mentally evaluated even more than i thought i did please i understand i knew i did

but this is now i know i do so then he said well um uh my case manager here um he asked his case manager rather than the judge he said can i address you approach the bench they say no say it from there so then he turns to someone else yeah again what are you doing um his case manager sitting in the courtroom and he says hey come to the defense table will you come over here but the guys remain seated because he's not supposed to do that this isn't a a birthday party at a bowling alley. Come to lane three. It's cooler down here.

We got cooler people. We got pepperoni pizza. Come down here. This isn't a weird one-on-one conversation. This is open court. It's open court. I'm your case manager. I'll talk to you later.

At that time, after the guy didn't come, Barrera started knocking on the table with his handcuffs he started like banging on the table with his handcuffs um which he did in another court appearance as well this is a thing that he does like clang clang clang clang like hey come over here motherfucker yeah so while he's clanging his fucking while he's distracted by three different conversations and clanging his handcuffs on on the, the judge says, I'm going to go ahead and prove the mental examination now. We'll do that. And you can come back at 1.30 p.m. on another day. To which Barrera screamed, no, no, no, no, no. I'd like to know what he wants to happen in here.

He wants to go home and fight people on the street that's what he wants to do i've been punched children and not be called out for it that's what he'd like to do ideally i don't know what his end game is in this entire thing i don't get it because it's that's not a logical uh next step with all the shit that's happening no it seems like he wants to be put in a mental facility. That's what he seems like. He's begging to be evaluated by mental health professionals. But this behavior in open court, that's what you're begging for. So he says, where are you going to send me?

Red roof? Red roof? Am I being released to red roof? Jesus Christ. And the judge says, that's up to the jail, sir. Wherever they fucking send you. And he said, okay, I'll go to Red Roof. Thank you.

Maybe not. We just told you. It's not even up to me. And I'm a judge. Do you think it's up to you? Dip shit who's sitting here in a wheelchair yelling at reporters for no reason. Whether or not you'll go is not up to you. You will go if we want you to go.

Yeah, that's the thing. So they said that they had no objection as long as he's in jail because the prosecutor says brings up that he has two recent convictions each for disorderly conduct and harassment. So, you know, and he's clearly escalating his behavior. Obviously, he said, quote, his be his unruly behavior appears to be escalating. It does, yeah. That is one way to put it. So, I mean, he's got problems, man.

I mean, there's a lot of problems. He's in a lot of trouble. Yeah. He can't even do his running. Between the staff and the lack of a place to run, he's got nowhere to go. What are you going to do? He's just in his jail cell, just stewing and angry and thinking of the next crazy shit he's going to to go what are you gonna do he's just in his jail cell just stewing and angry and thinking of the next crazy shit he's gonna say to a judge and uh all of a sudden though

out of nowhere in his jail cell this is very weird clouds appear jimmy yeah clouds these big clouds appear they're fluffy yeah and they part before him and a great light blinds his eyes. Shines. And it's God. Yeah. It's God. God is right there. And he says. How is it you've come to arrive here, Daniel?

Daniel, my brother, you are younger than me. I like to play that with people. You're a little young for it, probably, I'm sure. But, you know, I get a good laugh out of it every time. It's very funny. I know a man named Daniel, actually. Well, you're probably named after him, as a lot of people are. He's got a whole book. It's a, you know, it's a lot of thing.

It's a thing. But anyway, I would like to address you, Daniel. Daniel, step forward, son. Your staff is fine. I fixed it all. Wheel flow. Roll here. Roll toward me, son.

I appreciate, I must say, first of all, the loyalty you've given me. And I appreciate the credit for the good French fries and for early morning wake-ups. I'm very... I appreciate what you're doing for me, but I would like to say that you don't represent what I'm doing in any way, shape, or form. Please stop. You, sir, are a, you're a mess, frankly. I'm sorry. I mean, I feel like I'm supposed to make everyone in my image, and I, frankly, I fucked up here. I'm sorry.

I don't like to use this kind of language. I try to keep it pretty PG, but, you know, frankly, we're in a jail. Who's going to hear? You know, no one will believe you anyway. You're in a mental examination room. When in Rome. Who will believe God spoke to you? Half the people in here think I spoke to them, and I've only spoken to a third.

So the rest of you will be deemed insane. Whatever. Either way, it's fine. But still, Daniel, see, I get official. So, Daniel, stop being a fucking moron, please. That's all I need from you. Stop being a moron. Think before you act.

I gave you, remember free will? Remember that? Use it, please. Thank you. Stop hitting children. Stop hitting little girls. And by the way, I have to go now because there's six billion other people to tend to, you selfish, selfish man. Okay, goodbye.

Poof. And poof. And in a cloud of halos and angel wings and choir music and harps, he's gone. The skies open up. The skies open up. And Daniel is yelling and banging that god was here and they come in and they hit him with a tranq dart and he falls over in his wheelchair and uh that's that so then um he is arrested again here i find him arrested for disorderly

conduct in another occasion here the next year and he's fined 250 for that disorderly conduct so don't know what he was doing but i lose track of him for a couple years here from 2017 i assume there's a lot of uh mental health evaluations and probably court dates and things like that and uh i found a comment on a page where they were talking about him and it's from july 1st 2021 okay and it says quote i work at the idaho maximum security prison and guess who is there mr barrera he's in the acute mental health ward and he's getting ready to get out soon oh my so i just heard acute mental health and ready to get out soon and i'm starting to be worried maximum security i'm starting to be worried when i know his history i mean not just because he's got mental problems

because he's violent as well that's the problem so he said he's not as bad as he used to be he's calmed down quite a bit and he's told me multiple times that he's sorry for anyone he's ever hurt he's a good guy but he has had a head injury, and that made him go off his rocker, so to speak. Injury-za. Injury-za. So, yeah, apparently he's acknowledging his head injury at this point. And what I found for court documents here, by the way,

I found he was, I was like, what does this mean? I just found he's got three different arrests i guess this is because it's on a criminal record and it doesn't say what they are it just says cv66-1305 and there's three case there's three different ones of those so my god sounds like our code for some kind of case it doesn't say what it is so i look up it's in idaho so i look up idaho cv66 blah blah to see what that is turns out it is uh let's see here title 66 uh chapter 13 um here it is okay uh section 5 66-13 5 uh dangerous and mentally ill persons defined. That's how it starts out, the actual statute here. For purposes of this chapter, persons found to be both dangerous and mentally ill

shall mean persons found by a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to any lawful proceeding to be in such mental condition that they are in need of supervision, evaluation, treatment, and care and to be present a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons as manifested by evidence of homicidal or other violent behavior, or evidence that others are placed in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm to them, and to be dangerous to such a degree that a maximum security treatment setting is required. He's dangerous to society and he's getting out that is well that's that's in 2022 so that was after he was getting out of idaho apparently he got out of idaho and apparently he's back the fuck in because these are because

he's had three of these cv66 1305 since then and it seems like that's where he's staying which is i mean dude i mean imagine being his family like imagine being this guy's thank i haven't i don't know of any kids he has thankfully but he does have those two horses and i feel bad for them and of course there's the ranch full of underprivileged children which we can never forget about so there's a lot of people here to you know that that this can affect. He's out in the world. He knows how to fight. That's the other thing.

He's not just some jerk off who doesn't know what he's doing. No, he's well armed. He can remember how to fight. That he's got just down in his head. Fine. He just doesn't know what to do with it. So, I mean, I feel bad for all these people, Jimmy. I really do.

But not nearly as bad as I feel for Daniel Barrera, director of marketing at Minuteman Power Technologies in Flower Mound, Texas. Jesus. Daniel Barrera, art director and a UX UI designer in Brooklyn, New York. Okay. He's a graphic designer. There we go.iel barrera in new york if he was crazy he would just blend in yeah just they wouldn't notice it that much

just put him on the subway no one will fucking look twice at him it's the whole thing he's doing whatever he wants to do unless he started punching 15 year old girls then they might bring him in daniel barrera corporate and investment banking in Latin America. He's from New York, New York, and he went to Harvard Business School. Wow. Not our guy. Yeah. Daniel Barrera, who is an associate.

What is this? And what the fuck is this? Lurch Early Brewer. He's an attorney. And he's apparently an attorney. There he is. Daniel Barrera, high school. what is this, a pitcher? High school fucking baseball player, I suppose, here.

Yeah, there we go. The other guy was a lawyer. One of the partner's names was Lurch. L-E-R-C-H, so Lurch. Lurch. It's Lurch. It's fucking Lurch. I want it to be L-U-r-c-h and i wanted

to be a short man that would be amazing yeah it's kind of a bald guy with glasses he looks very pleasant actually he looks like a nice guy this lawyer looks like me he looks like check him out here roll your chair over look at him christ you're three feet away i can show it to you look there he is that's lurch that's no that's daniel barrera oh all right i want that to be learned he's not one of the partners tiny lurch is probably an old guy but this guy's nice he looks like a nice guy doesn't he yeah he does he looks polite and like he knows what he's doing looks like a like a mediocre feature comic that's what he looks like he's got the like he does some cruise ships and stuff and goes around a couple people but serviceable whatever he doesn't crush but he

does all right you know he's got that one bit about his dog. It's kind of funny. He's that guy. The show will move along. Yeah, he's not setting any precedents or anything, but it's fine. So, yeah, he's apparently 117th ranked overall high school baseball player in California

as of 2021, Daniel Barrera. Keep going, little buddy. Finally, Daniel Barrera, alias El Loco, who is a Colombian drug lord. That's a Daniel Barrera that robbed hours of the best nickname ever. No shit, El Loco. He should be El Loco anyway. He should just take it. Fuck it.

I'm crazier than you motherfucker yeah you might be a crime boss and a drug lord and all that shit but i'm crazy i curse at judges and call them baby so you don't do that it's the last time you open hand smacked a 15 year old unwittingly yeah no shit so it says here daniel barrera barrera his middle name is barrera barrera alias el loco was, was the closest thing Colombia had to a modern day Pablo Escobar. Until his capture in 2012, he used a vast network of collaborators from former paramilitaries to leftist guerrillas to move cocaine from the country's eastern plains to the United States and Europe. He apparently had a huge operation, tons of murders, and it was a huge deal when they caught him.

Maybe if they hadn't caught him, the fentanyl industry wouldn't be thriving as much as it is right now. Maybe. Coke wouldn't be tainted. Possibly. Then I found in September of 2021, I found that he's out,

Daniel Barr, Daniel Barrera, R.L. Loco, of 2021 i found that he's out daniel bar daniel barrera rl loco because he got taken in for drivers operating a vehicle without a current driver's license of course how would he have a driver's license he's not of course he has no driver's license um so he gets in trouble for that then in 2022 he gets a whole new level of whatever the fuck he's doing um i don't know exactly what happened because he's not famous enough for anybody to cover it anymore i just have to find his records and i found that uh he's arrested on the same day march 22nd uh 2022 yeah he is arrested for disturbing the peace willfully disturbing the neighborhood. That's one charge. Property malicious injury to property. There's that and pettit theft.

Okay. Okay. So I'm going to broke some shit stole something and broke some shit. I assume here that all happened on the same day. So they took him into jail and he is then charged with more for quote assault and battery propelling bodily fluid or waste at law enforcement officers oh no he's doing that so he's maybe throwing his piss at somebody or some shit like that one sir stop dude cut that shit out and you know what what are we doing with this he needs what i don't understand can you sentence someone to fucking medicine or help or

something i know you can't but right dude something he needs we can't just have this guy walking around acting like a fucking loose cannon everywhere we can't he's i i i understand if he can't help it and he's got brain damage i get that and i feel for him but at the same time i don't want to walk in with fucking 7-eleven and have this guy just start punching my teenage daughter in the chest if I have one. You know, like that's not cool. It's just not okay. We can't have this guy. And he knows how to fight, so he's dangerous too.

And he seems like the type of guy, this seems like the type of guy, especially if he's unstable, who would, you know, start fights with people on purpose so he could beat the shit out of them. And, you know, he's a wild man. So right now, as of that, of them and you know he's a wild man so right now as of that i don't know what he's doing he's got i would assume when why would they release him at this point with all this stuff waiting on a court date if he doesn't he's gotta be if he's not already sentenced to some holding time that was only three months ago yeah he's got to still be in jail right now in idaho so if you're in jail in Idaho, can't get enough? Get arrested in Idaho.

There you go. Can't get enough. Get arrested in Idaho and, you know, see what he's up to. Say hi. Give him a howdy-do from me, too, while you're at it. From James and Jimmy, a howdy. There you go. Howdy from James and Jimmy.

And that is Daniel Barrera, anyway. So so there's that that's a crazy story it's not the longest story but it needed to be told because it's bonkers it's not over it's oh god by a long shot no no no there is there's death in the future of his life his defining moment is coming whether it Whether it's positive or negative, it's coming. It's not done yet. We will update you when it does. He is going to go down on purpose in a hell of police gunfire, or he's going to take a machete and just walk toward a group of police officers, daring them to shoot him, so he gets death by cop, suicide by cop.

Or he's going to overcome and be something fantastic. Yeah, I don't see that this gets worse cte only gets worse so i don't see i don't see a the only thing positive was b is if we could medicate this guy to where there's less anger and then he's just he can be confused there's a lot of confused fucking people out there i'm fine with that you can be on the outside and confused and do whatever but he is dangerous so we need to calm we need to at least calm the the violence out of him and then we can go from there yeah so um that's that now i wanted to talk about something and the reason why i did a short episode and why we're doing this short episode is we wanted to talk about something that's near and dear to our hearts yeah it's not political at all has nothing to do with that we're not going to talk about some thing like that no no no no no

this isn't divisive this is if you like comedy which we assume anyone listening to this podcast if you listen to two and a half hours plus of two comedians you have to be into comedy somewhat so if you like comedy and you've watched everybody you've watched specials on whatever the fuck hbo back in the day into netflix now and all these different ones you can all these specials even youtube there's they do specials now too like all this different type of shit you've seen this and everybody's grown up with your favorite comedian this is my you and it's somebody who you didn't know it at the time when you're watching as a kid you don't know that that guy's been doing comedy for 20 years and whatever you know what i'm saying like

especially when we were kids you'd see somebody young it looks like oh they must have just started doing this you don't know they've been doing it since they were 17 you know yeah these people been doing it a very long time and they're really good at it and we all so comedy is very important it's everything i mean you hang out with your friends you have little inside jokes that are a lot of times jokes from comedians that you align that you guys both laugh at shit like that so we we would like to keep that always happening yes we would like comedy to be to last into the future and we're talking about whole thing burns down yeah we're talking about live comedy stand-up stand-up comedy, someone on a stage with a microphone, and that's all, telling you jokes and can make you fucking laugh for an hour and go home sore just with their body and some jokes. So that type of person, that's going to be extinct soon, just so you know.

to be extinct soon just so you know and there is one group of people and one entity that's responsible for that and that is the comedy clubs now you might say why would comedy clubs not you know why would they contribute to not having the next generation of comedy considering you know that they need these people for their future business right major league baseball has like seven minor league teams per goddamn team yeah because of the fact that they need the future players there otherwise they're not going to have them and then no one will want to come and watch mediocre players play and that's what you get in comedy because you didn't fucking invest in these people and you eventually have to do this so we're gonna splice in right now this is something from our patreon patreon.com slash

crime and sports um we are plugging it yes uh this is something from the recent doc ellis episode somehow it got on comedy clubs and this and that and we got off on a bit of a rant about the whole thing so i'd like to splice that in right now, and it'll explain everything we're talking about, and then we'll wrap it up after that. But here it is right now. Let's go to it. So anyway, that bothers me when management picks on people for that, because it's fucking what I was complaining about the other day about comedy.

There's a big thing here and people should be aware of it because i don't think they know this shit i think when you go to a comedy club and it's a professional comedy club a place with 400 seats that's got a big stage it's not you got a ticket some back room somewhere yeah you bought a ticket you went to this comedy club to see whatever it doesn't have to be a headliner you've been dying to see just like we felt like going to the club tonight there's some guy who was on a sitcom five years ago he could be funny you go to see him you assume and there's two people that go on before them the openers and one does 10 minutes and one does 20 25 so it's a good chunk of the show it's a third of the show

you assume that since there's this big operation looks like like, I don't know, 100 people, not 100, but two dozen people work here between waiters and kitchen and this and porters and DJ and there's four managers walking around and all this stuff is going on. You just assume that because only three people are the thing that are causing this entire thing to go on, you assume that everybody up there is being accommodated fairly. You know what I mean? Meanwhile, the two people who take up a third of the show make 50. This isn't a good club. Mind you, this is in a smaller club. It's less in a,

in the, under the best circumstances, those people make 50 and a hundred dollars for that. One tables bill pays for two people. That's it. Meanwhile, more, they comp more food than that in a fucking night.

They can pay vendors and all these people we just discussed all fair wages because they have to, but they'll pay the comic shit even though they're the focal point of what we're doing here. That bothers me. I used to be a server, but I don't think a server should make more than the comic. I just don't. I don't think so either. I don't think a server should make more than the comic. I just don't. I don't think so either. I don't think so. The server should make a good amount of money, but the comic should make more because without the comic, the server isn't serving anybody because there's nobody fucking there watching

anything. And the food at this place sucks because it's a comedy club, and they don't give a fuck that it sucks because you're there to watch fucking comedy, you fucking asshole, and you're just trying to soak up the alcohol that they're forcing you to buy. The jokes are to make you forget that you're paying too much for a mai tai and your burgers dry that's that's what we're for that's what we're there for and the first third of the show being a professional and funny show where no one is complaining that hey why am i paying this much for a drink while i'm watching something that isn't funny right that's pretty impressive and

those people have to lose money to go there that's not fair yeah yeah that's the other thing the way the server's making money but they also live in that town or something half these people traveled here are sleeping on someone's fucking couch for the privilege of making a hundred dollars so for the for the middle act the first guy doesn't make that he doesn't make that the the the host guy, the first comic, probably lives in this town. And if there's a parking garage between shows, he's going to move his car so he doesn't get charged. Yeah. I would break even sometimes doing shows. Both of us would.

Right. That's the way it fucking worked. Yeah. We both have broken even doing shows. It happens all the time. Yeah. And we've- broken even doing shows.

It happens all the time. Yeah. And we've gas. We've also seen very, very, very good comics who are amazingly talented, skilled, and can crush a crowd. Do this and go from town to town on a fucking Greyhound bus and sleep on

people's couches. It's ridiculous. I'm sorry. So what I'm saying is don't fucking go to comedy clubs. Don't let them all close because their business model is a piece of shit in their business model if they pay these people an extra hundred dollars to open the show the place will close so they're on such a razor thin margin let's just let them shut the fuck down apparently if that's what they think that they're doing let them shut down go see who you want where you want that's all cascade uh emails to these people and tell them pay your people right

yeah you do that for everything else everybody else what when you laugh your ass off at the end of when someone made you laugh real hard at the beginning call a manager over and go how much did you pay that fucking guy right how much did you pay i actually i heard you paid him 50 fucking dollars and then say that's bullshit that's fucking bullshit that's bullshit yeah get everyone around you to do it too that's both they only paid that guy 50 he was funny that's bullshit right i'd give him an extra 10 and fucking do that embarrass these motherfuckers say let's get a collection going everybody pitching a dollar and then to the to the comedy club manager who's wearing a fucking tie and dressed nice and all that shit hand him a pile

of fucking dollar bills that you collected around around the thing and say here we feel terrible that that funny fucking comic is gonna sleep in his car tonight that sucks he's gonna sleep in a car that shame shame and embarrass these fucking cocksuckers into doing the right thing yeah all right sorry about that that was a sorry listen man people that worked their ass off and flew somewhere should have to should be able to be paid for they shouldn't have to pay to do that and does a good job yeah and is making you money those people are laughing and buying drinks and enjoying themselves if you suck they're not going to do that so anyway that's uh beside when they do that james that will up the ante for the comics

to be funny and therefore comedy grows because the comics will have to earn a living therefore they won't that's the thing there will be no benefit to being lazy in this if you're not getting if you're getting paid well plus do you know how fucking hard it is to have two goddamn day jobs and and write comedy and do comedy at night and be sharp. The guys in this, all the people that you see now that are, you know, being around for 20, 25 years are these amazing headliners that do these great hour specials and shit like that. They didn't do that.

No. They didn't do that. They went around, there was enough paid comedy work that they could fucking make a living that way. You can't do that anymore. No. It's impossible. So they're suffocating their own fucking young is what

they're doing so uh they're killing comedy and uh they're they're and they put out they have the balls to put comedy club on their fucking marquee with a smile on their face while they put a pillow over a goddamn baby uh bassinet and fucking till it stops moving scumbags anyway okay see what we're talking about here is and the thing is it's up to all of us not us and we don't anybody think sour grapes here at all because we're fine we don't we sell theaters we don't need comedy clubs and you know we don't we don't need them we're not up and coming comics right now that need the work at a comedy club. So we're saying this for those people because they won't exist in the future without this. They'll end up quitting. That they work four nights a week, five nights a week on and spend all this money on and all this time on and all this shit.

There's got to be a return at some point. Something. You know what I mean? So you have to do it. And they're eating their own young at this point, these comedy clubs. Their own selfish bullshit. They're going to fall. I'm sorry. If you can't afford to pay your comics an extra $100 a piece, if that's your profit margin, then you don't have a business.

How do you pay your own bills? You don't. That's not a business. No one opens up a club and has lights and hundreds of people there and a comedian stage and mics and food and a kitchen and all this shit and all the boozes you can want and all this. And they go, all goes right. We're going to make a cool hundo out of this tonight no one's saying that because that means if one table like if their check is fucked up the whole night's blown man so there's profits there you know what i'm saying we got gas money now yeah we got gas so instead you're to do all that while the guy in the middle who entertained for 20 minutes while you sold $14 drinks and people weren't mad at it because you were so funny.

You're going to make him run down and move his car so he doesn't have to pay the parking garage because he can't afford to pay it because it's $12 and he's only making $50 that night. Really? So fuck these comedy clubs. Seriously. Tell these comedy clubs. Really? So fuck these comedy clubs. Seriously.

Tell these comedy club, everybody that goes to a comedy club, ask if, if a fucking manager gets asked 30 times in a night, what are you paying the openers? And then goes, that's disgusting. You guys are fucking assholes. They're going to fucking change.

That's the way it is. Yeah. Cause the comics, it doesn't matter. The, the headliners don't care cause they're not getting paid that much. And if they have a problem with it, they know the structure of a really nice headliner knows what's going on and they'll throw the comic

an extra hundred bucks yeah yeah they do two percent of them do that nobody does that i wish it was that it's not even two percent yeah it's not even it's one percent if that so that's not a thing and guess what it's not up to them they're not the ones selling fucking drinks out there you are right it's not their problem it's not it's your problem so you fucking pay the person and and cultivate a goddamn thing and i get if you're in a small place or something you're like oh well what am i gonna get them good and then they're gonna leave yes that's how comedy works assholes then when they get real, they'll come back here because it's loyalty. You don't just get to extract anything you want out of them and then they fuck you people. Ciphering money?

Jesus. You have to invest some now. That's how it works. It's the same pay scale since 1982 for openers. It's been 40 years. 40 years? Minimum wage was like three dollars an hour back then but yet same and we're not joking that's not an exaggeration they'd had a strike in was it 81

or something they had a strike where letterman was involved in it all these people are late 70s whatever it was and that's when they raised the wages of openers to what they are now right which is crazy which is nothing still and the clubs that do the showcase shows still have the same exact you know they pay these guys 25 to host for six hours they fucking host for six hours there's 20 comics they get 25 it's insane it's crazy we went to the hollywood improv yeah yeah The showcase shows now are often, yeah, $20 to middle. That's crazy. $20.

I got $20 to drive to California. I drove to California and came home with $20. With $20. And that was when we were with Dan, and he wanted to give us more money, but we wouldn't take it from him because it wasn't his responsibility, we said. This was their fucking responsibility, not yours. That's what you got. Not your problem, their problem. They was their fucking responsibility, not yours. That's what you got. Not your problem, their problem.

They didn't even call us to negotiate. They told us what the pay is. Yeah. So anyway, the problem is these comics can't say anything because you say one word, then they just don't book you anymore. And the next person is so happy to step on your fucking head to get above you that they'll happily do it for $50 because they have this fucking carrot dangling. We've always called it the carrot dangle. They have this carrot dangling whereas if I do good

here, then I can do this. Then this guy will take me on the road. Then I can really lose money while working every fucking night. That'll be great. Then I can be really broke. Then I can make $400 for an entire weekend when I have to fly somewhere and stay in a fucking hotel for four days which costs way more than 400 but i can do this this is great and with travel now

fuck man it's impossible oh it's impossible 1200 to fly from la to la to florida best of luck fuckers best of luck so that's why if you go to comedy clubs now and you see the openers quality a little bit lower this is why because no one these features can't travel anymore because they can't afford to travel so now you just have the local pot and that's it and we remember in phoenix there was 700 comics and three of them were decent that's literally what it fucking was literally can't work them the two of us and like three other people were the only fucking people that you could trust to actually be able to rock a crowd for 20 goddamn minutes that paid money that wouldn't be angry about it.

That's it. Ridiculous. So anyway, that's the rant about comedy clubs. And we only say that because we say you like comedy. And a lot of you, our listeners are like going out type of people. And you go to these places, just understand what's happening. Know what's going on and know that it really sucks that those guys aren't getting paid shit for this. It really, really sucks.

And it's not cool. I adore comedy and hate business. That's all it is. I love going. I love seeing it. I love being a part of it. I love being in the experience and the environment and event. It's a fucking event.

And it's rad when it all works right and it's beautiful. But there's no money happening. And it's a beautiful thing to be. You tell a joke and then everybody independent of each other all laugh at the same time. Everybody got that. That's an amazing thing that we can do as human beings. And it's like a magic trick when you do that.

It's fucking incredible. That's awesome. But the assholes that get in the way and sell drinks between you and that crowd, those are the pieces of shit that we need to figure out what part of them we need and what part we don't and cut the excise the rest of that bullshit out and make it about the comedy. You know, it's fucking stupid.

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You wouldn't think so, but there's no dairy in the Yoo-Hoo, so it's fine. What kind of pizza, though? If it was milk, I couldn't do it. Any pizza? I don't know if any pizza, but I like a cheese pie. I'll slam a Yoo-Hoo in a cheese pie. It's acceptable. It's acceptable.

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