He Was Over $600K In DEBT And One PUNCH Saved His Life...
00:00Hey, you were in like $600,000 in debt.I was like, damn, I laid that question out.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.How in hell did you do that?Yeah, bro.I could do that if I tried.Yeah, no, it's fucking, I got a TRX.I was like, 100,000 grand.
00:12Oh, yeah.I got heavy into option trading during COVID.Oh, okay.That makes sense.Trying to get rich real quick.I thought that shit was credit cards.Well, I did, yeah, that too.You know, it was a combination.
00:24But option trading, yeah.Yeah, I got pretty deep into option trading.Started doing like six-figure trades, getting into that.I still like it, but I just don't have todisband for it.I gamble too.Make your money and fight.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37Keep that option.Yeah, it did.If you were to invest your money, think long term.Yeah, yeah, that's my problem.I would just try to...Yeah, buy it and hold it for years.You're guaranteed to make money.Yeah.
00:48Yeah, but you're trying to flip that shit, do it off.I mean, it's possible.I'm sure people do it.I don't sure you made a lot of money, though.I did, yeah.That's what becomes addicting because you make, like,well, first, I was talking like,5,000 trade.
01:00Then I got a 10,000 now.It was like 40,000.The Tesla and AMC GameStop pop happened.I made like 150, almost 250 grand.Wow.Just sitting on a toilet from my phone, you know.Right, right.All that's on your phone and apps and stuff.
01:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.So once I learned that skill, you know, like, obviously you just have to have the discipline,but, like, it's something that you can go be on the coast of Greece and the fuckingCaribbean anywhere, you know, and just make a trade, boom, make some money.I feel about this shit called dude.It's called Nuke.Yeah, yeah.It's called Duke.
01:28I brought that bitch.I put $5,000.I woke up that bitchwas like $65,000.I said, man, this shit's going to the move.Yeah, yeah, they were by.And then I looked at that shit.I said, that shit blew up.
01:42Somebody rogue pooled, the fucking rug pulled.That's what they do.Yeah, yeah, you can.That's why you got to be, can't be greedy.That was my problem too.She took my profits.Exactly.Walk when you're up.
01:52You know, that's what you're up.That's your hard as hell.Because you're thinking it's going to keep going up, right?Yeah, that's it, brother.And that's the fight game, too, you know.Right.It's like, you always come with saying, oh, I get more.Yeah.
02:02And then you see guys like Connor, you know, they're just chasing that one win again.You know, they just want to what it feels like one more time, you know.Yeah.And when's the last time he won a fight?I think he's been like five to six years.Yeah, dude, still making money.Yeah, yeah.He's a big draw.
02:17Yeah.Yeah.He knows how to sell.And, yeah, I think he's just got so many things outside of fighting, too.Like, with his drink with his drink with the whiskey.They have a businessman.Yeah, he a businessman.And that's what you need
02:30That's what you use fighting for you knowLike fighting it's the hurt businessYou know you gotta get inBuild your platformYou find out how you're gonna make moneyOutside of fightingYeahGo heavy on that
02:39Because I'm not trying to get punched in the headI'm not trying to get punched in the headI've lived in for a whileI seen this video of youDo you have that video JoeLike it was after one of your lossesDude you had someYou had vaginas in your face
02:50You had deepThat shit was looking like a vaginaIn your faceReally?YeahBecause he had likeYou tell me about that yeahIt's
02:57Frankenstein, yeah.Dude, I was like,damn, you gotta be a tough mother.Yeah, I didn't go down, though, but, uh, yeah,my nose is broken, my fucking,do you have that, Joe?What was that?What fight is at?
03:07His first couple fights, or?I forget it was after a fight.You were showing the video.He was laughing and smiling in the video.Damn.I'll be crying like a little girl.I got some worse ones.I don't think I'll post it,
03:19but usually right after the fight, it's bad,but then, like, the next two days,two days, he was worse, you know,with all the inflammation.Yeah, but.Oh, wow.Yeah, I, uh...Well, typically after a fight, like a long grueling fight, what do your body feel like?
03:33Oh, like you got into a car crash, man, yeah.Yeah.Your whole body hurts, huh?Yeah, yeah, because, like, everything.Like, when you're in it, the adrenaline is kicking, like, you feel bulletproof, you know.But then afterwards, especially, like, if you had, like, a lot of leg kicks, like, usuallyyour whole foot would be swollen, you can't walk, your face.If you took a lot of damage, you know, like, your jaw, you have a hard time eating, you know.
03:53Right.Nose is always bleeding.Yeah.We're talking to Larry Wills.He said, man, sparring?He said, man, it's like you got to develop a callus over your entire body.He said everything hurts.Yeah.
04:06Because he's a bodybuilding.He's just recently starting to do something to UFC.He said, man, you got to actually calish your whole body up.Yeah, and that's basically what it is.Like, you just over and all it.Because I remember the first time I got leg kicked years ago.Yeah, that's one of them.Well, that's afterwards.
04:21I'm talking about, like, he was laughing and video smiling.Just showing everybody them gaitsYeahYeahI can't even see the scar on youYeahIt healed up pretty goodYeah
04:34You're goodYeahThat's the thingIt's just likeNo scarI don't even see a scarYeahYeah
04:39YeahJust put some cocoa butt onYeahThat's that damnThat's a damnThat shit just healed overYou don't even see a scar on his pointYeah
04:47YeahYou got one tooIt looks likeYeahI gotI got a scarYeahHe's healed like a nigg
04:53You can see hisWhat happened to yours?What happened?I was 11 years old.I was rammed.I think he was younger than that.I was 11 years old.I remember this shit when it happened.
05:03I opened a cabinet.I iron fell in out.Oh, shit.Cut me all the way down to the white meat.Man, white meat hanging out my head.The nasty scar.But you hit up great.Yeah, yeah.
05:15Yeah, Santa Ana, California.Yeah, we lived in Tustin, Santa Ana, Corona.We lived out there for about 16 years once I got out of the Marine Corps.because I was stationed at thatTushted airwingsBut they're still there?Oh, shit.That's why I was stationed at.
05:28Yeah, yeah.When we first started YouTube, that's where we were living at.I was off of, damn, what's the street, man?Off of Central and...South Coast.It's by South Coast Plaza.That big street go by South Coast Plaza.Poplar?
05:41Bristol.I lived off of Bristol.Bristol Street.Bristol and, yep.Cruising down Bristol.Yeah, it's always people racing up and down that street.Drag race.Yeah.
05:50People dying.Yeah.Yeah, she's crazy.Yeah, you know about Bristol, huh?Yeah, yeah.You grew up on that one.You grew up on that.Cruising down Bristol on Sunday, man.
06:00Yeah, I was running around with all the wrong folks, but everything happened for a reason.Yeah, it does.It does.It does.It goes by fast, too.You and your 30s?Man, it's like yesterday, huh?Fuck, man.
06:12I'm just getting started.I'm 33, man.I still got seven years ago.Shit.It ain't go by fast.I'm talking about me.I'm 52, man.I don't remember that shit.
06:23It goes by fast, man.Yeah.Yeah.So when you, you traveled a lot when you was in the Marines.Did you ever have to go work like near Israel or IDF or anything like that come up?No, I think they wouldn't let me go because I think they'd have a conflict of interest.But my embassy stations were South America, Uruguay, then I went Mozambique, Africa,then I ended up in Madrid, Spain.
06:44And I traveled a lot while I was there.Yeah, that must have been fun.That's like the dream job.Embassy duty?Everybody want to do that.Yeah.you out there you could travel so like when i was south i went to go to brazil and bounce around thereand then africa i went to climb count mount cummajoral go to kenya and nigeria and
07:01this was seeing your 20s huh yeah yeah all through my 20s and same thing with spain i would go to likerome i went to greece i went to abiza so i love traveling i can't wait to get back to thatyeah damn wow you've seen the world yeah yeah will do me some traveling yeah i'll travel tooI did a little bit.I'm doing damn comedy showsin America, man.But you did that real crap.Yeah.
07:26You're so tired,you can't even go outand enjoy yourselffrom shows and stuff.Yeah,I was going to ask you that.Like, we tour,we do comedy,
07:32you get butterfliesbefore you go out on stage.Right, right.What does it feel like?Well, you're about toin a cage.You're getting rid of it in a cage.It's a guy
07:41your same size,if not bigger.And you about the,y'all trying to tear each other's hands off.Yeah.What does that feel like?Man, it's hard to describe.but the best thing I could think of is like you got to completely accept whatever's going to happen
07:55yeah because if not like that that's when the nerves each you know because like you feel it but you alsothat's where you have to understand the nerves are there to help you know they talk about like thethe gazelle and the headlights can jump 10 times as far right right just a regular one because it hasall the adrenaline has so like when you start feeling those nerves and those butterflies you're likeoh this is going to home me it's going to make my reaction time better it's going to make me sharperIt's maybe hit harder, you know.And so once you understand that, it's almost feel like, oh, this is like, this is me preparing for battle, you know.This is what it's like.
08:26And so once you walk out and you completely like surrender to whatever's going to happen,you just kind of like, just let go, you know, let your training on all the years of work take over.Yeah.Yeah.I remember the first time I walked on stage, I had a panic attack.Yeah.My whole mouth went white.My legs was so heavy.
08:44I could barely pick them up going up steps.Yeah.Yeah.I was nervous as hell.I was very nervous.But then when you hear the jokes, it all went away.Hear the laugh.Yeah, excuse me.
08:54When you hear the lives, it starts to go away.Picture everyone naked.I didn't even look at the crowd.I didn't even look at the crowd.I was looking at the crowd.I was looking at them.I couldn't even look at them, niggas.I told them, who said, cut the lights off.
09:06I don't want to see nobody.Do you all still do that?It's like speaking games.I haven't did it in a while.We haven't did in a while.Yeah.And went to concentrate.To be home with my family because I was always gone.
09:17I missed a lot.my kids growing up.Yeah,which I really regret.Why was that?Because we was on the road.My kids were small.Yeah,
09:24we were about doing comedy shows.And it's just,and it's so busy,life was just a blur and before I know it,they graduated in high school,you know?So I missed a lot.Is you all present now?
09:36Yeah,what you're still just mainly focus on nowis just a YouTube,the podcast.Yeah,you stay home,work from home and go home.Like it's a job.
09:42Now I can focus on family more.Even now.How long y'all been out here for?Vegas.Damn.Since,2018?Yeah.
09:50About eight years.We lived in Southern California, about 16 years.Yeah, so is that.How come we guys moved out here?It was expensive, man.Yeah.It was hell expensive.And so we got the hell out of there in 2012.
10:04I finally bought my first home in Virginia.And then I was like, these damn Virginia's taxes are eating hell out of me.They're just like California.Yeah.So my wife wanted to be closer to a family.I said, we could go to live in Vegas.It's cheaper there.There's no state tax.
10:17And we'd be close to home.Yeah.So that's what brought us out here.Our family's here and everything.Where are you located?You ready in Vegas right now?Yeah, yeah.Well, I'm back and forth between Santa Ana and here.
10:28But mainly I did my camp all out here.Yeah.California's expensive.It's a beautiful place to live.The weather is great, but the cost of living, man.That's why I was crashing out my mom.Yeah.She still lives in California?
10:42Yeah, she's still in California.So that's what I've been trying to figure out now.After this fight got down, I'm like, well, what?Because I mean, I got a small spot out here that I was renting.Yeah, but it wasn't like somewhere I committed to.It was quite more like a crash pad just for the camp.So I'm trying to figure out where it wasn't.Where you want to live?
11:00Yeah, like where my home base is going to be.Would your mom be renting and relocate out here to Nevada or?Yeah, she's just California.Yeah, yeah, yeah.Especially California.It's like a big Arab community there.It's like, oh, okay.Anaheim and stuff.
11:13Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.And all my family's out there.So, yeah, I don't think she would come out of here.I think Arabs feel a lot safer amongst each other too, right?Yeah, yeah.Yeah, that makes sense.And family and stuff.Yeah.
11:27Yeah, y'all got your call to prayer going on, got your shit going on.They don't have it in California.What state is that in New York?Is that where they're doing it?It was New York.New York, yeah.I don't care how people pray.I don't care if they're, I don't care.
11:42People are praying.That's like, it's not my concern.They can actually help me be a better Christian.Look how much these people pray every day.Yeah.You know?Mind everybody to pray.Yeah.
11:55I need to pray more.
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