My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 96 - ROB FONT/JORDAN LEAVITT

Episode Date: December 10, 2020

Rob Font hops down into the Basement this week to preview his fight against Marlon Moraes on December 19th, discuss the New England Cartel, his friendship with Calvin Kattar, and more! Then, Robbie is joined by Jordan "The Monkey King" Leavitt who recaps his 22 second slam KO victory this past weekend! 3Chi: Use code ROBBIE at checkout to receive 5% off at 3Chi.comYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports and 3Chi. I am your host, Robbie Fox, and today I've got a mixed martial arts edition of the show for you, with not one, but two interviews. First up, we got Rob Font of the New England Cartel, who has a fight coming up against Marlon Marais on December 19th. This was a great sit-down, great interview. I've never gotten the chance to talk to Rob Font before, despite being a fan of his for a while, so this was cool for us.

And then I'll throw it over to Jordan Leavitt, who picked up a 22-second knockout victory over Matt Wyman this past Saturday by just fucking picking him up and slamming him on the ground. It was brutal. It was vicious. It's a great interview. We talked to him as well. And as always, before we get into it, I have to remind you guys about 3G and their Delta 8 THC. It's getting time for the holidays, ladies and gentlemen. Happy Hanukkah. I think today is the first day of Hanukkah.

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to purchase. The website is 3chi.com. That's the number three, C-H-I.com. Use the promo code Robbie. Now let's get into the first of our two interviews. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. Welcome back to my mom's basement. It's Robbie Fox and I am here with yet another New England cartel member. I'm trying to collect them all really. I'm getting everyone. Rob Font, he's got a fight coming up against Marlon Marais on December 19th. What's up, man? How are you? I'm good, man. You know, we're two weeks out. Weight's good. I'm healthy. You know, just ready to get in there, put on a show for the fans. Big opportunity. It's everything I ever wanted, and I'm ready. It's huge. It's a huge fight in

your career. And now today, as we record this, it's December 7th. It's one year to the day after your last fight against Ricky Simone. Now, this fight was amazing. You earned fight of the night honors. One year later, looking back, what do you think about this fight? It's, it's weird that I obviously had a year off, obviously rehab, but I feel like I'm better than that guy that fought, you know, Ricky Simone, like really do. I think the break helped me out a lot. I saw the game differently. I did a lot of watching i saw the game a lot differently uh i'm approaching a little little different um not like crazy changes but

it's a little little more tighter on on how we approach it and i'm seeing results you know you can i can pull up my old sparring footage from the ricky simone fight and i can pull up this sparring footage and it's like night and day it's a totally different person and I'm excited you know it's like uh and I just gotta go out there and and handle business but I'm excited because this has been so long and I feel like it's gonna be a big big finish for me I was gonna ask are you itching to experience this like COVID fighting experience no crowd you know the whole different environment yeah I mean definitely yeah I mean obviously I got the opportunity to kind of get that what it feels like with Calvin you know the whole different environment yeah i mean definitely yeah i mean obviously i got the opportunity to kind of get that what it feels like with calvin you know he did florida

jacksonville i'm sorry jacksonville and they did a fight island so i got an idea of it um we've been keeping it super awkwardly quiet when we spar so it was like you just know it was literally just the coaches talking um so we try and mimic that as much as possible but yeah i mean it's just it's definitely awkward at first but in the next like i feel like the first 30 seconds you just it's like another day at that point you're in a fight right yeah it's the first i would say the first two minutes the awkward walkout maybe the first 30 seconds the moment you take a leg kick or get punched or punch somebody it's right back to what you do naturally so let me tell you this i'm not going to tell you how to

control your emotions after the win, right? But say you get a win, big finish like you said. If you scream in there, it's going to be real awkward. As someone that has experienced the screams, it's always just like, huh, we're all alone in here. You just screamed in an empty warehouse, dude. Talk to me about this year off. You said you changed a lot of the ways that maybe you're approaching things.

You did a lot of watching. Who were your favorites to watch? What were the things that you were looking for really first off it was i went back and watched all my videos you know and broke myself down started with obviously all my losses and then i did i saw what i did when i lost i saw what i did when i won and reaction i saw kind of we broke that down weirdly enough i watched a lot of max holloway charles olivera and those two were the main guys I watched a lot because of that pace they peaked as far as

the submissions, how he just throws on submissions from everywhere. Charles Oliveira and then Max Holloway with the numbers was kind of perfect and I had an idea that Kyle would eventually fight Max. A little pre-study.

Exactly. A lot of kickboxing. Went back and did a lot of the Ramon Deckers. And then, obviously, all the fights that came up

during the pandemic. But, really started off on myself. Did a lot of studying on Max the last day on Holloway.

And just trying to bend that, those numbers and those submission attempts and that kind of, like, fearless attack

on, like, the way Charles does. he doesn't care. He's just going to jump on anything you give him. He just jumps on it. I think I want to bring a little more of that out. Both of those guys you just mentioned have two of the most exciting fights coming up for the entire year. I mean, Max Holloway and Calvin Cater, your guy, and then Charles Oliveira and Tony Ferguson.

Holy shit, that's just a violence fest. I'm so excited for both of those. Talk to me about Calvin and your friendship with him. I know that you guys are super close, corner mates and everything like that. So just talk to me about how that relationship formed. Yeah, no, it started off me wanting to fight him, him wanting to fight me on the local scene.

And then now I've seen Tyson stepped in. It was like, listen, guys, you guys are thinking too small. You know, let's think bigger picture. Let's let's get like you guys gonna fight each other for chump change why not come together you know train together help each other get to the UFC and then if we end up do fine at least get paid for it you know it was just like yeah it made sense and then we we just clicked man we really just clicked it's funny how like we we thought the same we we kind of like like, approached the game similar. We, you know, we did a lot of things together.

And then we started courting each other. Once that happened, it was just, like, more of a bond, a trust, a brotherhood. And I was like, I can't do a fight week without him. And so it's, like, it's there. You know, it's all love. It's, you know, I'm part of his family. He's part of my family. And, you know, just helping each other get to the main goal, which is bring that belt back to Boston.

That's awesome. And I didn't know that you guys met in that way, that you guys were each individually fighting and then came together like that. So talk to me about how you got your start in fighting. I know it's kind of a strange route into how you discovered mixed martial arts. I know delivering pizzas was involved. Yeah, yes. I was delivering pizzas and kind of just like you know bullshit not really doing much just partying delivering peaches making a couple dollars on

the side just wasn't terrible like wasn't completely just being a bum but just what age are we talking here like 20 2021 wow so you didn't start training until even then yeah i didn't even really watch it i didn't watch it holy shit that's crazy yeah i didn't watch it i didn't know it and then i delivered to uh i mean i was i knew of usc i just i kind of knew of like chuck liddell and like ramp that was it i knew the superstars i guess you could say and then i didn't really understand like wc and uh usc and like how two different promotions i didn't i didn't get it at first i. I kind of grew up on boxing a little bit and obviously regular sports, but I wasn't a diehard. Or I didn't grow up on MMA and I wasn't

a diehard MMA fan. Then I was delivering pizzas and I delivered to a house. They were doing jiu-jitsu outside and it was just like, what the hell is this? This is pretty cool. Like, what's going on? They broke it down. Jiu-jitsu is part of the martial arts. It's not like judo. It's not wrestling. I'm like, all right, cool. But they were all MMA guys as well. I'm like, we also do MMA. I'm like, what's MMA? They broke that down. Then I eventually tried out a Jiu-Jitsu class and just fell in

love with it. I was like, oh, this is awesome. This is great. Then I just said, wait a minute. I can make money doing this? You telling me I can make money? All I got to do is win and I keep going forward. I'm like, man, I think I can do this. I'm like, you telling me I can make money? Like, all I got to do is win, and I keep going forward. I'm like, man, I think I can do this. And then I would just always kind of, like, hang around and watch the pro team spar and roll and all that.

I'm like, wait a minute. Like, I don't know if I'm too cocky or not right now, but I know I'm not good on the ground, but I know I can stand with, like, the guys right now. Like, I know it. And I did. And I would throw – they would throw me out there, and I would hold my own. The moment I hit i was done but starting off real green i could i

was you know scrappy or whatever and then did maybe uh six seven months in florida i moved out to tampa i'm sorry i moved out to boston um signed up at a muay thai gym and then six seven months later uh my coach and manager tyson asked me hey, you know, you're interested in fighting? I see you're here. You're dedicated. You know, like, yeah, yeah. Then he signed me up. Got an amateur fight and just never looked back.

That's unbelievable. Did it just click immediately? You said you were scrappy, but were you just immediately good? Was it something that came naturally to you? I mean, like, yeah, not natural. I think I was decent enough to kind of like, all right, this kid can protect himself at the minimum. And then decent enough to give, like, some guys a decent round.

You know, I've been in a couple fights growing up. We used to slapbox a lot growing up. Just lose a game of Madden, we'd start talking shit, and you know, we're slapboxing. At the time, Jorge Moslow was kind of doing his thing in the backyard and we would always watch that on YouTube. We didn't take it that far.

We didn't take it as far as doing bare knuckles, but we did. We bought the cheap blue Everlast gloves and we would just barbecues or Friday night or whatever. We'd just go out and again, no training.

Knowing what we're doing, we would just beat each other for like two minutes, gas out, and then call it a day. Oh yeah, I had a great day, but it was trash. And I just kind of take it up to the next level where I got in shape. I learned technique. I would watch YouTube videos. I would, you know, do privates. I would go to seminars. And before you know it now, all the boys that we would bring over and they were like, that, you know, they, you know, we would spar would spa now i'm just tooling on them i'm just completely tooling on them they don't know what i'm doing they're like asking what i'm doing i'm just training you know and then

and then again i moved out here got with the uh the muay thai program and just again just took off but i don't know i honestly came natural i think i was i think naturally tough and willing to learn and willing to take a beating, but I just, I don't want to say natural, but I think naturally willing to just learn and do whatever it takes to get the job done. Meeting the New England cartel, this whole brotherhood, which I'm such a fan of because I was such a big fan of Joe Lozon growing up. He was one of my first guys that I was super into in the sport. So I kind of feel like they're all, you know, his guys, they're all his chain in some way or another. A lot of them are at least. In all of the camps in mixed martial arts, you guys seem super tight knit, super close.

Yeah, no, it's, you know, it's, it's a, again, it's a small group of guys that I really understand that we got to get, you know, we got to win big fights, you know, not too many people want to train like the way we train, not too many people have the opportunity to kind of like get together and just get after it so you know like like i said like there there's there's the navy then there's the navy seals right in northeast there's a lot of fighters not too many can join the navy seals you tell me and i think that's what we are we're kind of like the navy seals but we we take it to the next level we can just show up for work but we show up and we do the extra mile all the time. And there's a select few that do that out here.

And you can see it. You can see it in the performance. You can see it in the way either the win or lose. You can see it. Like, it's night and day with how we prepare, how much attention to detail Tyson Chartier is. You know, it's just different. And then you have the other guys, you know what I'm saying? They're cool, but it's just not Chartier is, you know, it's like, it's just different. And then you have the other guys, you know what I'm saying? They're cool, but it just, it's not the cartel,

you know, it's a little different, you know, and it's, and again, it's an elite group of not just fighters. Cause again, we got, I've seen myself, Calvin, a lot of up and coming fighters, but we have an elite group of coaches that do whatever it takes to get the job done. They don't care about the brand. They don't care about the gym. They don't care about making money. They just't care about the gym. They don't care about making money. They just want to get us through the mission. Because again, like this is tough.

We go out there, we could potentially get fucked up real bad. And they get that, that it's like, it's more important about the fighter, fighter first over the brand or the school name or anything like that. And, you know,

so we have a huge network full from Maine all the way down to Rhode Island of coaches that are really understanding that we'll ride all the way from Maine all the way down to Rhode Island just for an hour session and go right back up. You know what I'm saying? So, again, it's an elite group. We got a small, tight group. And it's definitely growing, but it takes a lot just to kind of link up with us. And if you prove that, you know, you're that type of fighter or that type of coach, we're definitely, you know, we're going to overpay you to make sure that you stay with us. What a frigging badass way to put that.

Listen, after coronavirus is over, I'm coming out to Massachusetts and we're doing a video. I'm going to train with the whole cartel. I need one of those hoodies, the whole deal. All right, final question. Now that we're talking about Calvin and everything, the cartel, I know you're best friends with Calvin. He's a friend of the program he's been on before why don't you tell us something embarrassing about him that he wouldn't want out there

are you gonna get me knocked out i'm embarrassing embarrassing um is he scared of monsters does he sleep with the lights on like what's the whole deal with oh actually he's very very I guess it's not embarrassing. It gets calm. He's very terrified of spiders. Spider. Oh, me too. Oh shit. I don't think it'd be embarrassing, but he's definitely terrified of spiders. It's embarrassing to the level where I'm at, because when I was living with my mom, I would see a spider,

like she'd be sleeping. I would just put it under a solo cup, fucking tape the solo cup and leave a note. Like you deal with this in the morning.'s boom there you go man there you go max holloway he's a friend of the program too i'm not going to tell him that because that would be bad he comes into the octagon with like a new spider tattoo or something that'd be it that'd be horrible all right rob font he's taking on marlon morais december 19th you know we're cheering him on the new england cartel, as always. Check him out. Social media, where can the people find you?

Instagram, Rob underscore font. Twitter, Rob S font. And then, yeah, just tune in December 19th. Big fight. Just come check me out. Also, you can check out the New England Cartel website. Get the sweaters, the hoodies, the hats, anything you want. We also did a collab with the label. So, whatever you want to do is holler at me,

check out the links and we'll get it done. Hell yeah. Thank you for joining the show. My man. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Rob, for joining the show. That was a great interview.

Now I'm throwing it over to the Monkey King himself, Jordan Leavitt. All right. Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen. I am joined by a very special guest right now. He picked up an amazing win over this past weekend. Jordan Leavitt, the Monkey King himself. How you doing, man? I'm doing fine.

So you're coming off this amazing win, which I just mentioned. I think it's the first knockout in UFC history where a strike wasn't even thrown. You know, you just slammed Matt Wyman to the ground. Have you heard that? Yeah, I heard it was like the first knockout of no significant strikes landed. And, you know, it's kind of backhanded. I'm like, I landed a sidekick. Maybe it wasn't significant in the eyes of other people.

But in my mind, I landed at least one strike. But, yeah, I've heard that a lot. I kind of like it. Definitely a very Jordan-esque knockout. Yes, it was a 22-second knockout. You picked Matt Wyman up. You slammed him to the ground. Can you just walk me through what was going through your mind in this fight? I mean, it was only 22 seconds long, so I imagine not much,

but what were you thinking in the octagon? Yeah, I was just trying to, I was just thinking pressure. I walked out there. I pushed him back to the cage right away. I threw the side kick, and then I was waiting for him to come inside so I could counter, but he threw a two like a lot faster than I thought, and he covered distance a lot faster than I thought and he covered distance a lot faster than I thought he would be able to so instead of me going for the elbow that I was going for I had shot and then initially he tried to pull guard right away because I was in so deep but I didn't want to be in his guard for an entire round so I lifted it up right away so that way he couldn't pull guard and then I hear my coach like yo bring him

over here and so I'm like because you know you got that stage blindness out there I'm like where are you and then I walked toward and then I was waiting for to see how Matt was going to try to defend then when I saw him pull guard I put the cross face in this dumped him so the cross face you put in there I actually picked up on and I'm not a mixed martial artist myself i'm just a fan so when i saw that i was like i wonder like is that something you practice do you practice throwing the arm over the sort of jaw when you slam someone to ensure their upper body their head hits the canvas is that something you practice or is that instinct i know it'll sound weird but i don't practice it that's kind of like a dangerous move to practice in the gym but well yeah beware if i said i meditated on it like i thought about that move to practice in the gym but yeah beware if I said I

meditated on it like I thought about that move I'm like if I'm ever in this position I'm gonna do that and I hopefully maybe I'll get a result maybe I'll knock the wind out of him so I wouldn't say I practiced it but maybe I meditated on it a little bit that's interesting and I saw after the fight you did some interviews where you said you wish you didn't win like that you wish you won any other way and you even went as far as saying you did some interviews where you said you wish you didn't win like that. You wish you won any other way. And you even went as far as saying you believe that move that you won with should even be banned. Can you expand on that a little bit? I'm very fascinated by that mindset.

Well, that's, you know, TMZ. TMZ says nonsense. It's funny. I gave context in the interview. Yeah, I would have preferred to win any other way because I feel like slams are kind of brutal. And that's not my style at all. But slams, definitely, they have to be legal because if not, then judo throws would kind of have to be suspect.

A lot of rough takedowns would be suspect. And sometimes the only thing you can do is just slam somebody. But I do feel like sometimes slams happen when maybe they aren't warranted. Like maybe you spike someone on their head. In America, a're very, um, a lot of drafts don't want to call spiking when it's very obviously a spike. Like if I had a soup, if I was behind someone,

I locked in their arm and I had a duplex and I go to spike them on their head. Totally should be illegal because you're stopping them from doing anything to defend themselves. But, um, yeah, I see nothing dirty about the move I did. Um, okay. I didn't either. So that's what I was curious about. Maybe you got taken out of context, like you said, by TMZ there.

But I was like, is he saying like the move I won with should have been illegal? Because that, I was like, in my mind, why is that any different than like a gruesome elbow? You know, it was a brutal finish. It looked gruesome. I'm sure in the arena, everyone was saying it sounded so loud. That's what was the worst thing about it. But watching at home, it was just kind of a vicious finish where I was like oh my god that's gonna make for an awesome blog in two seconds yeah I thought it was funny people are like oh that's dirty and I'm like well I mean it's no dirty than if I got you really get people saying that yeah people are like oh that move should be illegal I don't know why he's proud of that and I'm like well first off it was legal yeah and then second I didn't slam on the back of the head i definitely slammed it on the side of the head so that's one good thing about

the crossface because listen i'm on you i thought the slam was sick i'm not one of these guys coming at you for being dirty yeah so it's just fun people are people are totally fine if you're splitting someone's head open and then giving them 20 stitches you're breaking their leg their arm their skull it's a very weird place to draw the line. It's almost in my mind when people say that trash talk goes too far in MMA sometimes. I'm like, the trash talk goes too far, but the slicing each other open with elbows and stuff is fine. It's an interesting distinction to draw there. The dirty dancing celebration you had afterwards was also amazing. Now, your coach picks you up. Nobody puts baby in the corner. Is this the

Monkey King special, or can we expect to see this puts baby in the corner. Is this the Monkey King special? Or can we expect to see this after every win from you? Is this your tradition? I'm one of those people where, like, you're talking in the gym, you know, just shooting the craft. And they're like, wouldn't it be funny if you did this? And I'm like, oh, yeah, man, that would be funny. But unlike most people, rational people, they, like, kind of drop it and they never think about it again. But, like, I'm laying in bed at night my eyes are open staring at the ceiling and i'm like what if i did do that

so you know we're at the gym i practiced it a few times like a few weeks ago and then i'm like yeah i'm gonna do that and then we were backstage and then my fight got moved back like two more hours i got moved to the main card really lucky blessed for that and i was like yo chris let's practice the lift a few times and I was blessed for that. And I was like, yo, Chris, let's practice the lift a few times. And we got it down just perfect. And I was like, well, I have to do it now if I get a finish. So then we did it. I don't know if it'll be a continuous thing or if I'll find something else.

That could, yeah, that could also be the thing. You keep us on our toes, keep us guessing. We don't know what the monkey King's going to do afterwards. So you mentioned the fight gets pushed to the main card this is your ufc debut you were on the contender series but this is that did you feel a lot of pressure coming in or are you cool calm collected i felt pretty calm actually it's kind of weird and maybe it's like some hubris or pride but i'm like i'm being set up for something really amazing here i'm like this is all working out for my benefit i'm like like this in my head, I'm all thinking, this must mean I'm going to succeed really well

because I'm going to put on the main card. All these lines are like, everything's connecting perfectly for me. And it kind of just took away all my anxiety. I walked out there. I'm like, nope, this is my stage. This is going to be my special moment. And it kind of did end up being my special moment so

it was kind of cool holy shit dude can you be my therapist that's the most optimistic way i've ever heard anyone look at anything i look at everything the complete opposite way if my fight got pushed i'd be like oh this must mean that i'm gonna be you know slammed on my head in 20 seconds so talk to me about the monkey king nickname where did that come from it's a fascinating nickname oh thank you so i when i was younger we used to watch a lot i used to like to watch kung fu movies jackie chan jet lee and i remember watching the forbidden kingdom in middle school okay yeah my friends with jet lee and jackie chan and like there was the monkey king he's all playful and dangerous and i'm like

we're all big fans of like anime and kung fu and stuff and I'm like oh like he's so bad either he's kind of like you like he's all quiet but like mischievous and then so that was always like people always call me like you know as a joke oh yeah the monkey king right there playful and then I started wrestling in high school and like one time as a after I went to match I like crawled on my knuckles off the off the mat and then that just like if it wasn't stuck then like it stuck like it was my nickname from sealed your fate yeah so i just got it embedded and then it matches my personality very well the monkey king and you know a lot of different asian mythologies like a very cocky very confident warrior and though i don't think i'm'm cocky, I'm overflowing of confidence.

So it fits. It does fit. And the way that you described, you know, going into that fight and it's setting up good things for you, that has a little confidence behind it. You've got the confidence that a fighter needs to succeed, I guess. So I like the nickname. I think it's very unique. I think that's great.

Now talk to me about the year that you've had. You've competed. I looked over the list. Kind of three, four different promotions. If you want to count the contender series as a different promotion, what, where were you in January? Like what were you doing last January or maybe even this time last year right now? Oh, like about this time last year, I just fought for gladiator challenge, which is a smaller show and sometimes a little sketchy. Maybe another time I could talk about some stories, but, um, I just won my fight in 17 seconds heel hook. And I didn't know where,

I don't know what was going to happen for me. Money was running a little low. I was like, maybe I'm not this, maybe take some time off from fighting so I can get a job and a full-time job and start paying the bills and everything and then you know I went to hang out family for a little bit and then I came back I got a fight in Ohio and I won that fight it was and I was out of shape for that fight I went out there won a decision where I should have finished them but weight cut messed me that time and then and then that fight allowed me to pay my rent for two months. And then I got another fight in July.

And then I beat Levon Lewis, very talented kid. You know, definitely my hardest pro fight so far. I was in a weird mental space for that because I was on the LFA stage. And they switched my opponent last minute, and he was very talented. And we thought he was smaller. So when I saw him at the weigh-ins and he was bigger than me it was weird um so i was a head case for that fight went out there and then choked him out and won that fight and then i was just fishing i was fishing a family up in utah for some crawdads and i'm like you know barefoot in my pajamas and

i get a call from my agent he's like can you fight in 10 days and I'm like I don't know man what's the money like he's like it's not about the money and I'm like then what is it he's like it's contender series and I was like let's do it man like 10 days I even knew who the opponent was yeah I'm like yeah let's do it who am I fighting fought a nice you know talented southpaw Jose Flores went out there and took him down right away choked him out and then I got my contract. And I announced my pregnancy, which we had just found out about. And, you know, I was just on top of this giant mountain.

Like, the year was, like, perfect. There was no better way for that year to end. I didn't plan on fighting this year. And then I got a fight with Matt Wyman scheduled, and I'm like, okay, if I just get this fight, I can pay my rent for the next year be very frugal and then be careful and then I got the slam knockout and I got the bonus and it's just been a roller coaster I went from you know worried about how to pay my internet bill

to now like I'm about to get a lease and pay off the entire year up front it's been a crazy crazy year best year of my life that's fucking awesome man I'm about to get a lease and pay off the entire year up front. It's been a crazy, crazy year. Best year of my life. That's fucking awesome, man. I'm so happy for you. Just, like, hearing that journey over the past few months, this time last year to right now, that's amazing. You can't ask for anything better. It's like the universe did set you up at the Wyman fight for things to succeed there. Congratulations on your upcoming child.

And what's next for you? You looking for a quick turnaround? You looking to get back in there beginning of 2021, take some time off now. What are you looking to do? I'm just right now. I think the thing I'm focusing on the most is getting ready to meet my daughter, preparing the home for her, being here for my wife for the last like two, three months of the, you know,

last trimester. And then as soon as I see my daughter, it's go time. Like next fight. Then you get that dad strength. Then you get to come into the UFC with a little extra, you know? Yeah, like I've had this dad bod for years. Now I'm finally getting a dad, so. You get the dad strength. You get the dad adrenaline.

You got to get like a nice pair of New Balance shoes when your daughter's born, you know. Jordan, this has been great. We'll have to get you back on before or after your next win or something. You'll become a new friend of the program. Jordan, leave it to everyone. The Monkey King, tell everyone where they could find you on social media. Yeah, if you want to follow me on Instagram, you can follow me at monkeyking underscore UFC. Or if you want to follow me on Twitter, which I'm very new to, you follow me at Mr. Jojo Monkey King. Awesome. Thank you for the time.

I appreciate it. All right. Thank you, Robbie. You have a good one.