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Yeah, you want to go in there without shooting your boy?
Like a wedding night, you know? It's in and out.
You broke your neck and walked it off for a year and a half.
Well, that ain't the worst of a partner.
Straight up modern day gladiators, dude.
We can rebuild him.
Stronger, faster, hoardier.
Let's just lift weights.
Oh, come on, sweetheart.
Brandon, we're so sorry.
Feed a dog.
Say hi to Eli.
He's racially ambiguous.
Brandon.
His hair is fucking fabulous.
Don't I?
A dark joke disposition.
And there's a fat electrician.
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Firing Finn.
Again?
Again, Finn.
Why are you still here, Finn?
Last week and the week before we have fired you so many times.
Why do you bring Cody around?
He just keeps firing Finn.
Then we have to rehire him.
Moments later, it confuses him.
He's scared right now.
Litigation is a nightmare.
It's just, we've been in a legal battle with our camera guy for two years.
Talk to our new HR guy, Don Fry.
Take a number.
I quit.
Here's a complaint box right here, boy.
Dude, you were just a walking merch line.
Here's your complaint.
Bobx?
Me and you guys showed up a little bit later than we did to brunch before we did me and
Brandon and Don did the drink orders and Brandon orders, you know, Jack and Coke, I just had
coffee.
Don goes, I'll have bourbon and the little bubbly waitress comes over with her big smile
trying to get a good tip.
She's like, okay, I have and just starts reading off a laundry list of all these decadent
mixed drinks.
And Don just goes, can I just have bourbon?
And then as she goes to walk away, he goes.
make it a double i don't want you to wear your shoes out
on the way there
it set the tone
pretty fucking well
it got it going oh man
yeah
poor poor little girl
okay so
i think she got her 10,000 steps in you know
don do you know how this works
on the count of three we're gonna pop a top
just by that microphone i got you a beer
everyone ready
Three, two, one.
Oh, yeah.
Hi, everyone.
Welcome to the unsuscribed podcast.
I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap, fat electrician.
Don Frye.
Brandon Herrera, myself, Donut operator.
Thank you so much for being here.
Have a little spillage there, neck.
It's okay.
The beer was shaken up.
It's not my fault.
Sorry.
Well, it didn't blow up onto, okay.
We could just beat Fen again.
I blame Finn.
I just blame things.
Fenn shook up my beer.
Finn's like, I ain't touch your beer, dude.
And kind of a paper towel.
The first HR needs a word.
Good idea.
Good idea.
And there's no paper towels.
We're setting up for a regular towels.
Fing and fuck up a two-car funeral, you know?
Whatever.
A wet one.
That's surprising coming from you.
Jesus Christ.
This has been, I sat down.
I look over to get my dream.
And I'm like, oh, Don's drinking whiskey.
Just, okay, it's a glass.
Okay, I will take a mimosa.
You need a skirt with that.
I'm like, no, here we.
Here we begin.
Mamosa.
It's a manmosa, Don.
When there's vodka in it, it's a manmosa.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, because it's a potato, but potato alcohol, is that I'm just a walking potato, aren't you?
It's a calming alcohol.
Listen here, Doc.
I do think we should hang up a picture in here that says human resources, Don Frye,
and just have a picture just on the wall.
Employee of the month.
Every month of the month.
Human resources time.
Oh, we're adding that now.
That's going to be right back there.
Employee of the month and HR.
Just Don Fry.
Don Fry.
HR department.
Face never changing.
How are you doing, brother?
We have been so excited to have you on this.
This is why all of us are here.
It's been a couple of months in the making, getting the teams aligned and then the schedules aligned.
But thank you so fucking much for coming out.
Nice to be here.
Nice to be here.
Thanks for having me, guys.
It's an honest pleasure.
Coming up with a mustache and beard wax, I'll get you three.
Whenever you decide to grow one, we'll get you one.
It's my Asian and Mexican heritage.
Got a kitty formula for you.
You know
There's four months in the work
You're trying to grow
What's this
One day
I'll hit puberty
Three packages of beer product
A beard product
And one package
With the beard product
And a bottle of rogain
Yeah
It's just formula
What's the brand gonna be called
A little nipple bottle
Yeah
What's the brand gonna be called
You know that's a good question
I kind of jumped the gun on that one
Didn't I think it's
Don Fry something or rather
toxic masculinity is a good good line for that too yeah it should be it should be that's a really good
title for a beard oil we were hanging out with uh with baker brandon and i went on a dove hunt with
him and he was asking about you the whole time he's like how's sushi burrito doing i love baker
this is her sushi burrito sushi burrito speaking of sushi bra fish and a tortilla
i'm just the schnitzel burrito oh the the joke is uh because it's german ancestry
Mexican so it's just a
schnitzel.
A little bitchnissle over
there. What's the joke?
No, it's not. It's just reality.
You just have to
half German. I don't know
why I say the racist part for the Mexicans
side. Sourri-Crow.
Say reframed beans and Sarah Grail.
Dude, Don, we did a good
podcast with his grandmother
who was in Nazi
occupied Germany. It was fun
hearing her stories. Because like
she was, she inadvertently
attended some of the Hitler
rallies as a small child.
Reality of like growing up, she's 93 years old.
So she was a German civilian during World War II in Mannheim, Germany.
Right.
And just I'm very, very lucky that she's still around and very sharp still and can
remember all these stories of what it's like growing up under Nazi occupation.
It's crazy stories.
She needs to record that and force the kids of today to listen to it, you know, because
Yeah, they had it kind of hard.
They got no idea.
No.
No, zero idea.
Not being able to go to school because it got blown up.
Right.
It's like, we think we have fucking problems today, you know?
We're very blessed, and a lot of people don't realize that.
No, they don't.
They never get outside of their own city block, you know.
They don't get more than 200 yards away from their house,
and they want to bitch and complain, you know, about the country.
This is the greatest country on the planet, you know.
Texas?
Texas.
That's number two.
The USA, I forgot you guys are kind of slow.
Let me speak slower here now.
Man, to the individuals or the audience that don't know who you are,
can you give a brief, hey, this is why the guys are so fucking hype that you're here.
Because you're an OG legend.
Hey, this is why the guys are so fucking hype that I'm here.
He bullies us, and that's the only reason we are so stoked to have him on.
Human resources.
The gang gets bullied for two hours
He threw my tamp on that man
So you were
You were two-time UFC champion, right?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, two-time.
Two-time, fought in the UFC for a year.
How many fights you have?
I had ten fights in the UFC
And then also 11th fight over in Japan that year
It was in November.
So it was a few weeks before the ultimate, ultimate two, you know.
Yeah.
And they weren't happy about it, you know.
But that's, hell, they're paying me $25,000.
Right.
You know, you want to pay me?
I'll stay home.
So back when you were fighting, it was tournament style.
So what's the most amount of fights you had in a night?
We'd fight three times a night.
If you're lucky enough to win, yeah, you'd advance three fights, yeah.
So I have, so like UFC today, obviously, every dude that goes into a fight is
watching footage of the other fighters because it's much more available now than it was for
you. So I mean, you're like doing groundwork like, oh, this guy does this. I'm going to do that.
And there's all this game planning that goes in when you're planning on fighting one or two or three guys a
year. What's the game plan for knowing that you're going to fight three dudes a night? You don't
know much about them. Like, what's your strategy going into the first fight compared to the second and third
fight? Are you trying to conserve energy on the first fight? Yeah, you want to go in there without shooting
your what, you know, you want to go in there, just like a wedding night, you know, it's in and out
like that.
So, and again, anyone that doesn't know, when you have a fight now, you'll have a fight camp
that's a few months long, and then you will, the next thing, you are watching the individual
you were fighting.
You were studying, there's a lot more cameras, everything's filmed now.
Back in that time, this is three big-ass fights with three highly talented fighters all
in the same evening and however many rounds those lasted at that time what was it well they were all
one round but they would there was no break you know you would just go until the fight was over
there were no rules no weight classes Jesus Christ well there's two rules nobody no
aggiotting but those are more guidelines and rules everybody did it anyways this is like full-on
stomping on your face like I was showing brandon soccer kick heel stomps yeah I mean they did it all
So how much did you know about your opponents going in at times?
Like, were there ever times where you, like, didn't know if your opponent was a ground guy or a striker?
Did you know, kind of have an idea of what their style was?
What they did.
You had their style, you know.
Back then it was more style versus style.
Yeah.
And so you just find out what the style was of the other seven competitors.
And then you plan for it accordingly, you know.
and most of them were
the majority of them were
stand-up fighters
yeah so you know
you knew all you had to do is get them on the ground
when you were doing it were gloves required
or optional no they were optional
they were optional still you chose to wear them though
I chose to wear them because I hit hard
and I still broke my hand you know broke my hand twice
you can see the surgery scar there
you wore shoes too
yeah except for in the
except for in the ultimate ultimate
I went barefoot and that
one.
Is there a reason or you had to?
No, I just, um, for some reason I decided not to, because I knew Ken Shamrock was going
to be in there.
And I decided to shoot him, when him get a hold of me, you know, with his shoe on.
Oh, leg walks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, because he's, he's dangerous.
Yeah.
You know.
What was, even getting into that, what was that transition from, hey, we talked earlier,
you did some boxing and then wrestling and what was that blending of the arts where it was
the first time of, hey, here's a different type of fighting where it's MMA. It's, hey, we're
grappling and throwing fists. What was that first experience outside the UFC?
Well, you know, like I said, I wrestled in high school college, little international. And
then I did, after college wrestling, I did a year and a half pro boxing, had eight fights.
I think it was two, five and one or two and six. It was very good at it.
And it's hard.
Yeah, it's hard to pick up, you know, late in life.
And then I got out, and I just worked for a few years.
And my first marriage started going bad, so I found a judo club.
So I started doing judo, you know, so I could stay away from the house, you know.
It was a fireman.
On my days off, I was shoeing horses, you know.
And what a little time I had left, I went to the judo club.
And I released my first.
frustration.
I truly love
those poor
marriage.
Those poor guys.
I know.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Don fries upset.
Don't angry.
He just hit tossing.
You still being a bitch,
I'm going to go shoe the horses and throw a guy across the room.
Come here, honey.
You were telling us earlier.
I didn't know this about you.
You were a firefighter for a couple years in Los Angeles.
No,
no.
No.
I started out in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Oh,
okay.
Because I took a simple,
I was in college.
for something as somebody told me about being a firefighter and only working 10 days a month
I said well that's a job for me you know because I'm a lazy son of a bitch and so I took my EMT
and got got out the old phone book back then you know we had a phone book and I went through
every town in the state of Arizona nobody was hiring so then I called up Santa Feene New Mexico
because you know it's a capital of a state so you figure they pay good
No, they didn't pay worth of shit
I went there
They said, yeah, we're going about to run a test
You know, hire much people
So I went over there and passed everything
And then went for the interview
And he says, you won't we pay this much a month
This comes out this much a week
Comes out this much a day
Which is about $4 an hour
Are you okay with that?
I'm thinking, these guys are full of shit
They're just here to see if I'm here for the money
And I said, no, no, that sounds great
I just want to be firemen
got my first check
I was like
holy balls of $4 an hour
and I loved it there
beautiful Santa Fe is beautiful
you know people were great but
you know couldn't afford to live there
so I was there for
about a year you know went through the
academy
lived at a buddy's house and
went through the academy and then I was there
for like I said for about a year and then we
couldn't afford to live there anymore
had to move my wife back
home and I went off to Oklahoma Horseshoe in school,
and out of shoe horses.
And came back and worked some odd jobs.
And while I'm trying to establish my business and then I started on the Fry Fire Department,
no relation, you know, and as a reserve and worked for them.
And then finally their position came open with Bisbee Fire.
So I got to hire a Bisbee.
Nice, man.
That's wild.
They couldn't even pay the people who are,
keeping your house from burning down enough
to live in the town.
Yeah.
That's all fucking nuts, man.
I'm noticing the recurring theme of
wife went home, you went to Oklahoma.
I back up and leave.
Oh,
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What years were in Japan?
Oh, see.
I would say 97 to, uh, shit, 2008.
Damn.
Yeah.
During that period, what was it like being in Japan is the most aggressively American man on the planet going over there?
It was fun.
It was a lot of fun.
What was the culture shock like the first time you were there?
Oh, man, those poor people, you, you walk down the street and it's like a bunch of zombies, you know, their eyes are dead.
You know, they just, they don't have a soul, you know,
because they just had everything ripped from them, you know, after World War II.
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And they, but they come to the wrestling matches or the fights,
and that's where they have their excitement.
You know, they come alive.
They come alive for that stuff.
That's awesome.
Did you participate in some of the wrestling events, like the pro wrestling side?
Yeah, I'm a pro wrestler for four years.
No shit.
See, that's, and that's wild.
So you have pro wrestling in Japan is very different than American pro wrestling.
And those fighters, you're Sakarabas, like the Gracie Hunter.
He was a wrestler, pro wrestler too, but also a fantastic fighter.
How was that experience going over there?
And you're like, hey, this is pro wrestling, but it's also legitimate on the side of we can hurt, we can really hurt you.
It's more like fighting, fighting over there.
Yeah, but it's stiffer.
It's not, it's still at work, you know, but it's a stiffer.
And I guess I got a little bit too stiff.
And got a couple, you know, I call it a potato, you know,
then if I gave you a big potato, you wouldn't give me a receipt, you know.
And a couple of times got my neck broke because.
No shit.
That's a big potato.
Yeah, a big potato.
It's a hot potato.
I was with my hands and knees, and the guy stomped me, and he stomped it, and I heard it crack.
I go, that don't sound good, yeah.
Oh, fuck.
And I worked on it for a year and a half, and then I started having, you know, that's when I noticed this was going wrong, this was going wrong.
And then finally I got the x-ray and the MRI, and the doctor said, well, you got a broken neck.
And he says, you got to stop this shit.
And I says, well, I can't.
I got the Tokyo Dome, you know, January 4th.
And she says, you can't do that.
You got a broken neck.
I says, you don't understand.
I work for the Japanese.
I got to do it, you know.
Holy shit.
Yeah, I called him up and says, hey, doctor says, I can't wrestle, you know, on the 4th, because I got a broken neck.
And here, rah, rah, rah, right, right, right.
Don, son, we know it's your neck and your health and all, but we've already advertised.
You think you can push it one more time?
yeah okay the other guy at least kind of go easy on you knowing that you know he couldn't kill you
I hope so yeah don't stop the being a beach how long was it how long was it between breaking your neck
and getting the MRI and finding out you had broken your neck I had broken it I had broken it
and worked on it for a year and a half you know because that's that's how dumb I am you broke your
neck and walked it off for a year and a half.
Well, that ain't the worst of it, partner.
Jesus, okay.
They fixed it.
Go on.
They fixed it in 2000, and then I, you know, went back to fighting in 2001.
And then, um, let's see, May, May 2010.
I broke it again in 08 or 09, and May 2010 and May 2010, May 20.
11.
Where am I getting the dates wrong?
Hell, when my dates may be fucked up here.
But anyways, I had...
We're not questioning.
One year, I had five surgeries, my neck surgeries.
And then I was good for a couple of years.
And then I had a truck accident.
My tire blew out and bounced me against the guardrail twice and pits me into the median.
You know, I thought, hey, I'm good, you know.
I survived that.
I'm good to go, and my backs are aching just a little bit.
Anyways, two years later, I found out I broke it in that accident again, you know.
So I broke my back.
And, um...
These are like each individually, like, career-ending injuries.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm too dumb.
That is the typical guy of, I'm not going to the doctor.
Yeah.
I'm fine.
Yeah.
I'm fine.
Sir, your spine's broke.
I just take some pills and drink some alcohol, you don't walk it off.
I know you don't go to a checkup, but it'd be funny to take you to one and record it just to hear the doctor read your health chart out loud.
I see you broke your neck in 1999 and in 2008, and then you broke your back, and then you broke your hand twice.
Yeah.
Well, the first time I broke my neck was in 86, back when I was in college wrestling.
and me and Dan Severin's younger brother Rod
we went down to my house
my parents' house and we went out
we were drinking and had those three-wielders
one of those
Oh, big guy traps?
Yeah.
Oh, the big reds?
Yeah, yeah.
And so...
The illegal things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're drinking and riding the thing
and jumping and all this on this course
and then we see some guys pull up, you know,
in their
in their suits
with the shoulder pads
and elbow pads
and gloves
and helmets
you know
look at the little
sissies
you know
I'll get one more
I go boom boom boom
boom broke my neck
and didn't
didn't know that either
I didn't know that
until
2001
when they fused
when they fixed
my broken neck
from wrestling
you know
they said
when did you
would you break your neck
the first time
I said, I didn't know I did.
Dear God.
All right, Finn, next time you call him for a sick day,
you're going to have to talk to HR, okay.
You just say, I don't get sick anymore.
You're damn right, you don't.
It's like that it reminds me of the assassination.
Oh, I caught a Finn.
Now sick gets me.
The assassination.
The assassination of Jesse James,
where the guy tries to get up in the middle of the night,
he pulls a pistol.
I just got to go to the,
the bathroom.
You think you do, but you don't.
So every, I've talked to a lot of, you know,
first generation MMA guys and pro wrestlers and stuff,
they all have a crazy story about going to Japan and going out drinking with the
yakuza or something crazy happens after their fight in Japan.
You got a story like that?
Not that I can remember.
Well, it must have been a good one.
Yeah.
What was one of the funnest nights in Japan, like, with that audience?
You're like, I know you became friends.
I don't know if it was during pride or after with Takiyama.
Yeah.
Were you guys, like, did you ever party with him?
No.
We didn't party because, you know, after our fight, he went to the hospital.
You know, God bless him.
And I think he might have went to the party for a little bit,
But they kept those separated, you know, because, you know, after the party, they sell, they'll sell tickets to people, you know, there'll be a thousand people at these after parties.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
And, you know, they're all paying, you know, $1,000 or what have you, you know, to rub elbows with you.
And so, you know, you're there drinking and taking photos and all that good stuff.
Is that like a club-type environment, just like blasting music and you're hanging out with people?
No.
It's not in between somewhere, you know, because they have a big buffet and, you know,
they have food and then they have, you know, a lot of alcohol, a lot of, big socky barrels, you know.
It's like the official after-party kind of thing.
Yeah, right.
They have sake barrels?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
The Japanese love to drink.
I'm sure you've seen that.
They get after it.
I've seen the, like, the viral videos online of the Japanese businessman that just they're laying on the street
after work because they got shit house
and there are people that come around
and bring them water and stuff and that's part of
the culture. Dude, it is fucking
wild. Waking up at Sunday, we went to bed
and we got drunk early, passed
out, woke up early and it's like six in the morning.
I walked around just to a 7-Eleven
there was shit-wrecked
old Japanese businessman passed out
in the stream like, what the fuck?
I walk in to 7-Eleven
walk out and there's an old Japanese dude in a
suit pissing in front of me. I was like
imagine that's just the culture where you're just like it's Sunday morning it's like there's my dad
yeah they go hard especially they are very much just hey I'm ABC that's all I'm going to do
they work their ass off that's it yeah it's like boom boom boom they party their ass off
you got a small island you know a lot of people and so there's limited housing you know limited
space so you know you can only buy so much electronics you know equipment so much furniture so much clothes
you know and and so you gotta have something to spend your money on you can't save enough money to
buy a house out in the country so you know that money's for entertainment and i fucking love
entertainment yeah oh no is that with how the fight culture is over there because that's very
different it sounds like for even the after party it's
Everyone's paying money just to hang out, socialize with you guys.
And then you've just done three fights, and now we're drinking and partying.
Over there, I only had to fight once a night.
Only.
You only have to put yourself in the ring with one professional fighter at a time.
Yeah, one professional.
That's what people, oh, I can do that.
No, you can't.
That's a professional athlete, you know, and he's trained to kick your head off.
And this was still when there was no weight classes.
oh yeah pride there's no weight class going in there
fucking wild so have you ever seen the highlight
of the big daddy goodrich
the black guy and he gets the one dude in a crucifix
and elbows him in the head legs he's wearing in tons and knocks out
he's wearing like a white guy that was round one of the tournament
don fry caught him in the second round
third sorry you fought him that night
from that highlight you know yeah yeah so like you got to see him do that to
somebody and then you went in the cage with him no i missed that
I'm glad I missed that.
I'd probably pack my ear left.
Hey, you won?
Yeah.
If you guys have never seen that one, that's crazy, I forgot about that.
Because you can see, what's the big black dude's name?
Gary Goodrich.
Gary Goodrich.
He's just like, I forgot what he did.
But he realizes, hey, I can just elbow this guy and just fucking goes to town on that.
Like 20 times.
Oh, Gary's cock strong, man.
It's like a horse, you know.
And I'm getting hit by that guy, you know, the temple of his elbow.
How do you like my face to elbow style?
hell yeah yeah he just out instantly it's like oh that guy's gone oh Gary's a monster
I'll tell you it's so crazy though that when you were doing this fighting three times in
night Gary had a legendary highlight reel goes into another round the same night and then you
end up beating him yeah and so it's like I don't know it's just weird you could have legendary
highlight reel I imagine that feels great to do and then you still end up losing at the end of the
So it's like...
Still want the W, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What'd you beat him with?
He tapped.
He is worn out.
He's pretty much worn out.
Because it was, you know, it was down in Puerto Rico.
So you're talking 100% humidity.
And you're talking about 150 degrees underneath those lights, you know.
So...
Holy shit.
They didn't have AC?
Oh, hell no.
Heard of Puerto Rico, didn't you hear?
Yeah.
Hell no.
How much did you weigh at that time?
I weighed 200 pounds at that time.
I said it was 205.
I was only 200.
Gary was quite a bit bigger than you at the time.
He's probably closer to, yeah, 250, 260.
Jesus Christ.
Big old boy.
It was a big size advantage when you watch him fight.
Yeah.
You get to see the discrepancy in those weights and you're like, oh, God, that's terrifying.
In a sauna.
Yeah, in a sauna.
I mean, it probably worked in his favor at that point, though.
Bigger dude wears out, especially if he's fighting three times a night.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
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stay cooler which fight was it in all of that where you're like fuck me I have another
fight to do after this one which was the biggest like probably after the second fight
god I got one more one more and I'm done you know for the night for the night
One more before I can clock out for the month.
Yeah, basically, we were fighting every couple of months back then.
You know, that was February.
Next fight was in May.
And then the next fight was early July.
And the next fight was September.
And then December.
And each one of those is how many fights per tournament if you do, like, the best you can?
It's three?
Yeah, three fights, yeah.
So no matter what, every three months you're fighting.
Three fights.
I'm curious also
What was your recovery process
Like after one of those
Hardcore fights?
Oh man, it was tough
You know, drink a lot of water
And hope to, you know, absorb it
You're just laying in bed
Like watching TV and drinking water
Nothing fixes a broken neck
Yeah, yeah
Was it at home?
It was, it took two weeks to recover
If you didn't get hurt
If you did not get hurt
Jesus
You just try to relax as much as possible
No, yeah
The wife
yeah
it's like
this sounds really stupid
okay
and I don't mean to demean you
but it's like coming back from war
you know you gotta de-escalate everything
or coming out of prison
you know something like that
you know you equated to that
because you know
all your time went into training
you know you train 24 hours a day
eat sleep
um you know
train
everything
is calculated for you know six weeks six eight weeks you know and then boom you hit it and then and then
boom it's all gone it's over that's super interesting i never thought about that it is hey i'm
focusing for the sole purpose your entire you're hyper fixated hyper focus on that event for those
three fights your elevated testosterone everything's elevated and then it's
it's right there's gone and then empty you're like okay what do it yeah that would be a weird yeah
coming off of that coming out yeah coming out prison or coming you know coming back from military
yeah yeah yeah TDI or something yeah and um you just you're you're sitting there going you know now what
you know you know what where am i doing where am i at then and then uh just getting uh
because you know you remove yourself from society when you're training for six or eight weeks you know because everything everything is just just about the fight game you know I mean you watch TV we were just watching fights you know I mean that's your downtime is watching fights and otherwise you know you're you're jogging you're hitting a bag you're lifting weights you know you're wrestling your sponsor
you know other than that
you know or you're fucking you know
that's the only release this only
let's just lift weights
yeah
oh come on sweetheart
not you and I dummy
you're a girl
I had to throw the blazing saddles
right for it's out there let's play chess
let's play chess
brother you're not
you're not got that looking as I like all the horses
have been shooed oh no
Brandon we're so sorry
Feet a dog
We just push Brandon down
Dawn hungry
Let's send Mongo
Let's send Mongo
What are you saying?
I wanted to ask you also
What do you do to relax these days?
You're a hunter?
Like you're still playing around with horses?
I have a hundred in a decade
with my back
Okay
My back's still bad
And I'm too
Undisciplined and too lazy
To go to the gym
you know get it
fixed
and too cheap to go to the chiropractor
well chiropractor can't do anything for me
because you know I got
this much of my back of shoes
11 levels
you know so
can't can't do anything
what's your relax time then man
what do you do I got an English bulldog
named Quinn just chill
yeah me and Quinn and I
excuse me hang out and fart on each other
you know
and and
And then my girlfriend, Lisa, she's got an animal rescue.
So we go over there.
And I shove a lot of goats shit, you know, and water goats and horses all day long.
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Dude what
Going back to just that mindset
When you're coming out of a fight camp
After the fight
Is it
Are you hit with depression ever during?
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
That's like looking at you
And how you talk about
Exact same feeling of
Man okay
You actually go through
each stage of depression
I don't have a mission
what am I worth anything
and that's after you came out
like winning
and you still have that mindset's wild
but also shows how that can affect you
like no mission
no you're like
it's that singular focus that you had
for this much time
and now it's gone
the other thing I'm curious about
is because like you knew
you were going to do it all over again
in three months
so I mean what's your motivation
be like well I don't want to start
anything else new
because I got to go through
all this bullshit again in three months
so you're just kind of
sitting there twiddling your thumbs like fuck you know what I mean like imagine if you went
on a deployment and you had two months off before you had to go into pre-mobe again that's what you're
like uh and then afterwards is you're also trying to how do I scale pass this I won but what's the
next step right right well I mean for like I said for two weeks you're in depression you know
because it's like you have the have the rug pulled out underneath up yeah you know everything you
everything you were and there are was taken away from you you know even though even if you
won or lose and um then you know like you said you start all over again you know and you look
forward you look you look forward to that next assignment you know i bet like that's that
motive i guarantee that's why you killed it even harder like coming right back into it did you
train harder oh yeah because of it when coleman when coleman beat the hell out of me you know i just
I was obsessed with that fight.
I watched it every day.
I watched it every day for probably two or three years, you know, until I finally let it go, you know.
And that was hard?
Yeah, it was, yeah.
Because you go back and you're like, I made this mistake here.
It's that what if I did this instead.
Well, I woke up sick that day.
I, I, yeah.
The night before I told Art Davy, you know, he wanted me to fight Gary.
first round. I said, bullshit.
You know, I said, I just fought him, you know, three months ago, you know, in the finals.
I said, give me somebody else. Give me somebody easier.
He needs me on the other side or something.
And, and so I says, you know, I'm not going to fight him.
He says, well, we'll see about that.
And I said, well, you know, I'm not feeling good.
I don't feel good. I may have to pull out, you know.
I'm an amateur over here.
Yeah.
You're going to talk to fucking HR about this.
HR, break his kneecaps.
Give me the phone.
Nick got in trouble.
Don has his phone.
You have to talk of the teacher at a class.
Bayliff, whack his pee-pee.
Give me that phone.
Don's going to make my mom come here and get it for me, guaranteed.
what was your what were your training camps like when back when you were doing because like now it's you got the ufc performance center they these guys aren't eating a single grain a grain of rice that isn't planned by a dietitian it's all super scientific and they've got chiropractors and medical professionals on staff it's all on your own you know so you're just out there doing rocky shit in the barn yeah yeah ready to beat the people well that's where i had my heavy bag was out in the barn you know and then i'd go running the
Go running through the hills, you know.
I'm lucky, got a real nice place, a couple acres right at the base of the mountains.
So I'd go running through the desert in the mountains.
And then go down to the wait room, and I had a bunch of good guys.
Sam Sotelo, he was from a Marine family.
Rich Marino, he was an ex-Marine, Rainey Martinez.
is he was a former sniper in the seals um you know Steve Owen was my was the coach you know
he was a judo sensei and he just he was a stud he's like a seventh degree black belt you know
yeah he's just a stud you're just hanging out with hard motherfucker yeah oh yeah that's awesome man
and uh so you know they were always there for me you know anytime anytime i had them they showed
up at two o'clock in the morning for me one time you know
Yeah.
It's a good group of boys.
Yeah.
It's a good.
You count on them.
Damn.
Back when you were still training for the fights back in the day, would you still drink?
Oh, you bet your ass.
I needed calories.
I cut.
That's not calories.
It's impossible to find calories elsewhere.
Yeah, it is.
I kind of figured that might be the answer.
There's a pork chop in every can, okay?
A loaf of bread, the guy said, yeah.
Like a loaf of bread.
I know.
It's, oh, God, I'm trying to, I'm blanking on his name, golf.
Oh, daily.
Yeah, John Daly.
Yeah.
The John Daly of fighting.
Holy shit, he is the John Daly of fighting.
Oh, we should.
I bet I ate about 8,000 calories a day, you know, while I was training.
Because, I mean, it's a 24-hour job, you know.
But when my kids were born, you know, I could be, you know, I could be, you know,
In-town, you know, face one workout, and it would take 45 minutes to get to my house, you know,
and then 45 minutes or an hour to get to the next spot, you know, from the house,
whereas there would only be like 20 minutes from where I was at, you know.
I would go home just to see my kids for 10, 15 minutes, you know.
I'd spend 45 minutes on the road there to get there for 15 minutes and 45 minutes.
You know, just to see my kids, you know, while they were awake, you know, because I was, I was gone that much.
Right.
I don't think a lot of people realize the dedication to be at that level, especially when it's a new sport at that time.
A brand new sport.
Yeah.
And then you're, what was, how did that first call from Pride UFC go about?
What was the first offer?
Like, hey, do you want to do this?
For the UFC, like I said, got hold of Dan Severn.
Dan to B. 7.
Dan to B. 7.
He's at another OG.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, he's great.
And he got me a few fights across the country and still waiting on the paycheck from him.
Dan, what the fuck?
Still waiting on the paycheck.
I'll say the Un-Sub podcast calls out Dan.
He's about to say or talk to HR.
Oh, yeah.
This is your complaint box.
You want to support you another one?
Sure.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, too easy.
Sure.
Same stuff?
Yes, sir, please.
And, you know, Dan was getting ready for the first ultimate ultimate.
You know, because he had placed second and number four and one number five.
And then lost.
a super fight against Shamrock in number six
yeah number six
and
so
he'd get ready for ultimate
first ultimate ultimate
so I went up there on my days off
from the fire department
and trained with him
you know and
I was just his chief thorn dummy
he was tossing me around you know
I mean thank you
you'd get guys that would come in
And they'd, oh, I want to help train you, you know, for the UFC and blah, blah, blah, blah.
You know, they'd be there once, and then they'd disappear.
They'd never come back.
So you were probably fucking them up, right?
No, I mean, several was fucking up.
He was out of horses to shoe.
Yeah.
So I was, like I said, I was just this chief tolling dummy.
And so then we went to the first ultimate ultimate, and it was in Denver.
He introduced me to the UFC people.
And then sometime in January, they called me up and said, hey, you know, we got to fight February 8th.
You want to do it?
Yeah, you bet your ass.
So, you know, we went to that fight in Puerto Rico.
No shit.
That's awesome.
And then to see where it is now, I bet it's mind-blowing.
Oh, it's crazy.
Because they had said at the arena there in Puerto Rico.
Rico and they had those, you know, blue plastic tarps as walls separating, you know, the big,
the big clothes line and the blue tarp separating for your locker room, you know? And, uh, and now
they got everything. I mean, how we didn't even have scale. We didn't, we didn't even weigh in.
You know, they just took your word for your weight.
What the fuck?
Ferre fights, why? I mean, if there's no weight classes, fuck that. Yeah. How much weight? Okay.
Maybe.
Straight up modern day gladiators, dude.
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The other part too is like now in the UFC it's like they call a UFC for
fighter, they're like, we want you to fight this person and they know who that person is and
there's guys that are like, no, I don't want to fight that guy or I do want to fight that guy
or if I'm going to fight that guy, I need this much money and you're just over here like,
sure, I'll fight three random dudes on February 8th.
Fuck it.
Did they, was there really like a betting culture around fighting at the time?
Oh, I'm sure there was.
I'm sure there was.
Because now, the only reason I ask is because now, like, everything's so stats heavy.
It's like, this guy's fighting in it this weight, here's his record.
Here's his reach.
Here's his, you know, everything.
They've got all these stats, and people use that to, like, bet on fights.
I didn't know how the fuck it would work back then.
I don't know either because, you know, just, you just pick a name, I guess.
That guy seems right.
Yeah.
I like the sound of his name.
What the hell?
He's got seven letters.
That guy might look tougher than the other guy.
We'll pick him.
Right.
You were talking about, hey, I don't want to fight that guy out the gate.
Let's put him at the end.
of it so if you guys meet
it makes a better title fight
well that was big daddy goodrich
and he had beat him in the final
on the previous show
so that he's like
Wi-Fi again
yeah first round you don't put
both number one seeds in the first
game in the tournament yeah right number
one number two yeah you don't put them in there
the fight in the first round
was a response to that like oh
did they actually like oh that does make sense
we'll put them down and then I got a phone call
from the owner Bob Meyerwitz
And he says, listen to me, I'm not going to have no god damn athlete tell me how to run my show.
He says, I'm going to change it just this one time, you know.
But you still, you're like, don't ever expect it again.
But, no, it was silly.
We had fought in the finals, and they wanted us to go the first round.
It was silly.
He called you an athlete like a slur.
Yeah, a goddamn athlete.
Well, he is from Manhattan.
Holy shit.
What was, in your entire career, what was the hardest fight for you?
Were you like this?
That's the one.
That fucking sucked.
Oh, that'd be the Coleman fight.
First Coleman, both Coleman fights I lost.
The second fight, I really wasn't there.
But the first Coleman fight, you know, like I said, I woke up sick.
And I just went downhill from there.
And we even thought about pulling out, you know, after the second fight,
man, I'm done.
I got nothing left.
And it's, you know, but then I looked at the alternates.
And, man, if I had to pull it out and they'd have sent in one of them alternates,
there wouldn't be in the UFC after that.
They'd have closed it down because they were trying to shut it down as it was.
No doubt.
Yeah.
They would, like in UFC 8, they spent all day in the courthouse, you know, trying to keep it going because the governor was going to shut it down.
Because there was a lot of, like, this is human cockfighting.
It was everyone fighting it.
Now it's so mainstream.
People don't know.
It was a huge.
Now it's going to be on the front lawn of the White House next year.
I was just about to say to go in that short of time from something that was trying to be outlawed in fucking Puerto Rico of all places.
to something that the president of the United States routinely attends.
Right.
That's a crazy jump in that short of a time span.
Oh, I got to.
Well, people don't realize, like, MMA is safer than boxing.
Yes.
Less deaths.
Yeah, you want to get knocked out once, or you want to get knocked out,
knocked out three fucking times and have the opportunity to stand back up?
Like, how many MMA fights would have kept going if somebody had a 10 count to stand back up and go back in again?
You know what I mean?
The CTE.
If you get knocked out once and then you get knocked out.
three more times back to back to back
to back that's so bad for you
and you're getting up some of those big fights
I mean you look at like the Mickey like
man there's a handful of boxing fights
when you watch it is
two of the grades
the greater one
hey there we go
yeah
that was that was cool
that was so slick
you ever talk to him like actually get a chance to chat
you know what I choked
I mean I really
they get a really lousy first impression.
So I wasn't going to screw it up, man.
I just said, yes, sir, no sir, no sir.
And get the hell out there, you know, for my buddy.
So I wanted to screw it up for him.
So he could get his photo taken.
It's kind of funny to see because to my understanding,
Trump is a very big, just, he's a big fan of athleticism.
Yeah.
Like sports and things like that, he just follows it, like whether it's golf,
MMA or whatever.
It's funny to see the people who show up around him who are very,
very clearly, like, I won't name any names, but
like pencil pushers that have
no interest in watching gladiatorial
combat. Just watching
the difference between how invested Trump is
and, like, the people to his left and right
sometimes, depending on who he brings.
Right, right. That's funny.
I also think you make great first impressions,
Don. We've already hired you to beat the fuck
out of our interns.
HR. It's official.
Well, hell, you'd hire anybody
for that. Come on. Like the opening line
wins.
Fenn could fuck up a two-car funeral.
That's on a good day.
Poor thing.
You're going to die, Finn.
They're like, what I do, dog?
So I asked you at breakfast, you got two daughters.
Yeah.
To which I immediately said, what was it like the first time they brought a boy home?
And you got kicked out of the house.
I was already.
I was already kicked out of the house.
Who's your dad?
No one.
We'll talk about it later.
Why don't you tell me your dad's name?
Why don't you tell me?
Your dad's name.
His nickname's The Predator.
Well, the last name of Fry should give some concern.
Oh, man.
Oh, hell.
You got kicked out.
I got kicked out, yeah.
My youngest daughter, her, I guess they don't talk about it, you know.
Because my youngest daughter, her boyfriend didn't know anything about me, you know, for a while until my friend says,
do you know who her dad is and what he did?
No.
Sit down.
Let me show you this DVD.
I was about to say him walking into your house, seeing like a trophy here and a ribbon there and just like, oh, fuck.
I don't have those.
You don't?
No, no.
They all disappeared in the divorce.
A lot of my ship, there's more than divorce.
Half of it, some might say.
Oh, more than half.
More than half.
That had to be a half.
might be happy.
A rude awakening, though, for that guy.
Oh, shit.
I'm alive because he wills it to be so.
I can't break up with her.
I'll tell you, if they can handle my daughters, then I'm nothing.
I'll tell you.
Imagine getting compared to your father-in-law like that, your whole life.
Yeah.
You know, my dad would have done blah, blah, blah, blah.
I bet.
My dad can beat your dad up.
I know.
I got it.
I understand that.
You have no rebuttal other than that.
There was,
there's one,
oh,
it's such a funny picture.
It was like a normal dudes Instagram,
like 50 followers,
normal guys Instagram,
bigger,
stockier black dude.
And he's very obviously
at like a middle school
wrestling tournament
sitting on the chair
on the mat,
coach and his kids.
And he just takes a selfie like this.
And in the background is Daniel Cormier looking at the mat.
And he goes, man, Daniel Cormier is the other team's coach.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
It just like went viral.
You're screwed.
Go home.
What are some of like now with modern MMA UFC, who are some of your big favorite fighters to watch?
I like Pereira.
You know, like watching him.
You know, I think he was sick the last fight.
You know, I saw him the night before.
I just thought he was in the zone, you know,
because he was focused, and he's quiet, you know,
was real stoic.
And, you know, just, but the nicest of the world took pictures.
He took pictures for over half an hour
with anybody who wanted to take a picture with him, you know,
and he was on his way to go get dinner.
And the night before the fight.
Yeah, yeah, the night before.
And, you know, gave up all that time.
But I thought he was focused going to win until I saw him walk out.
I saw him walking out.
There's something wrong with this guy's off.
You know, so then I wanted to change my, wanted to change my opinion, you know.
I hit that.
No.
Watching some of those skinnier guys like him with unlimited cardio fight at some of the best.
fucking fights to wars, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I have all that energy.
Who else, like, any of the heavyweights or?
No.
God dang it.
Who's the guy from Arizona?
God dang it.
I can't believe I can't remember his name.
Which weight class?
Like a middle weight or lighter middle.
Gichi.
Gitchie.
Justin Gage.
Yeah.
He's awesome.
He's great.
That's him and Tony Ferguson is probably my favorite UFC fight a long time.
Yeah, that's a great fight.
It was, it was the craziest part is when you go back and watch it now,
because I got reused to normal UFC fights.
During COVID, there was no audiences.
So it just sounds different.
When Justin Gagey fought Tony Ferguson and it's just dead quiet because there's no audience,
Justin Gagey hits like a fucking truck.
And he hit Tony Ferguson a lot.
And it's just every strike sounds like a fucking car crash.
Is that the COVID fight when there wasn't an audience?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, I mean, he beat the shit out of Tony Ferguson.
It was bad.
But like I said, you could hear the impact of every fucking strike.
And I was like, holy shit.
It changed fighting and watching it for that brief time because it did feel like you're watching.
A snuff film?
Yeah, something illegal.
You're like, oh, there's no cheer.
Oh, I don't.
You just here.
This isn't a sporting event.
This is just two grown men trying to kill each other.
I get on this.
Oh, you know, it's funny.
It's like, like, 50 years.
years ago, Terry Funk and
Jerry Lawler had the empty arena
match, you know, for wrestling
empty arena match. And
it was just, it was
ridiculous, you know, because
it was empty. It was just those
two doing their normal
wrestling shit, you know, with nobody
there. And then... Totally different
vibe. Yeah. And then
50 years later, it
actually happens in real life, you know.
Shit. I'm curious what you think about
Sean Strickland.
he's funny or shit
I kind of figured that would be the answer
he's funnier and shit
I love him man
I get to kick out of that boy
he's probably my favorite fighter
to follow on Twitter
yeah yeah
just the shit he says
and the shit he says in interviews
and whatnot he's just no filter
none none at all
bunch of guys from dirka durka stan
wrestle fucking everybody
the interview about like
oh how do I say what in Chinese
oh how do I say work harder child
I'm starting
starting my own merch line. I need to be able to say these things.
Oh, he's squirly. Yeah, yeah. He's got it down, man.
Some of the shit that comes off of his mouth is and gets me, you know.
He's funny, he's got a good stick on. I would rarely enjoy him. I think he's great.
And, you know, I wish him most success.
Oh, my God. He's even keeping him around, you know.
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I was just going to say,
do we do the offenders with Don?
No, 100%.
We've done that in a while.
We have a recurring bit that we do
with some of our bigger guests.
Yeah.
We have a pretend superhero group
and we all have different superpowers.
And you get to pick your own superpower.
But we get to pick the offset.
So, for example, Cody can fly, but in order to fly, he has to yell racial slurs the entire time.
He's a frequent flyer.
We get to.
We like to joke with that.
And it's like, what if I'm having to rescue a bunch of kids from a Section 8 housing development?
Like, it's on fire.
I just got to bring in the ladder.
I'm just carrying a ladder at that point.
I'm not flying today.
Yeah, I did my house.
20 years ago, I was going to paint an Adobe,
but somewhere you got screwed up and ended up being orange,
like those numbers there, you know.
Yep.
Yeah, that color orange.
And so you can find it.
You can find it, you know, just look for the orange house.
And a new neighbor moved.
in and put up a wall and then painted his wall the same color as my house and i says well i thought
i'd get a section eight how's he coming in here he looked at me like like i fell off the truck
so what's your superpower going to be oh shit any superpower in the world any superpower you want
Any superpower I want.
Yes.
Oh, man.
Well, I think the caveat is if somebody already has that power,
they have to fight you to keep it.
Yeah.
Don gets any superpower he wants.
Yeah.
There gets changed.
God dang.
It's superpower.
That would be, um, let's see.
Either I could.
What did I do?
No, I just have it a little closer to you.
Screwed around.
I screwed around and moved, huh?
Oh, you're good, you're good.
Got a little too silly.
No, it's perfect.
I like everyone's relaxed.
Perfect.
Everybody bouncing around here.
Let's see.
It would be either seeing through women's clothes or being able to have an erection as long as I want, any time I want.
We'll give you both, Don.
Yeah, okay.
What a killer combo.
Your wife gets half the power in the divorce.
Yeah.
That was awesome
You kind of see through women's clothes
She took that
Believe me
She took that
That's a half chubby all the time
Yeah, now he just had to get hard
You're just disappointing
It's almost there
But it's nice
The desire is there
But he's gone
It's not you
Not you honey
I swear it's me
I swear it's
I mean this in the best way possible
It was my ex-wife
you don't understand honey
it's not you or me as her
are the offenders I hear
Don go in the corner
Don't
Don't stop looking dog
Stop it
Stop that
Oh man
It's bad day to be a super villain
It's gone fry with half an erection
His superpowers don't even have anything to do with his ability to fight crime
He'll just beat your ass
We just get him drunk
What are you going to do?
Break my back.
People have tried.
Broke my back.
Broke my neck.
Yeah, okay.
So I got two fake shoulders that's been done.
Fake hand that's been done.
That's your con.
Bionic man at this point.
Jesus.
I love this.
Except it's the UFC.
We have to rebuild him.
What is?
He's going to be hornier.
We can rebuild him.
Stronger.
Faster, harder, heartier.
What are the conversations with the surgeons go like when they tell you, I don't know,
you probably shouldn't fight anymore after the second time breaking your neck and back or...
No, they never gave me that.
They just gave up?
Yeah, they gave me that story.
I'd like to think it was the same surgeon and like the fourth time you're in there,
he's just smoking a cigarette.
Oh, it's you again.
The Ben Affleck just...
God damn it, Don.
He puts out on my neck here.
Listen here, fucker.
We've got to talk this thing through.
I've been re-watching Landman.
Have you watched that one?
I love that show.
Yeah.
Remember he smashes his pinky with a hammer and the surgeon comes in?
He's like, Doctor, I don't want this son of a bitch anymore and he pulls a pocket knife out.
I imagine that's you in there.
Like, I'm fine.
Don't worry about it.
I need to watch this show.
Oh, you ever watch the show?
Taylor Sheridan can't keep getting away with this.
He's doing too good of stuff.
I'm doing too good.
He's amazing the shit he comes up with that.
Bro, fucking Sicario.
Yeah, yeah, that's a great show.
Sicario, Yellowstone, 1883, 1923,
Heller Highwater.
Wind River.
Wind River.
Landman, Tulsa King.
Like, the guy's everywhere.
It's fucking insane.
Can't keep getting away with this.
Yeah.
He was fucking wild.
He was just taking it as like a personal slice.
bought that four and that four sixes ranch.
Yeah, dude.
Is that great?
And then he did the best thing ever.
He leases the ranch out to his show that he owns.
Yeah, yeah.
He's brilliant.
Brilliant.
You, fucking tax man.
Yeah.
Making a good chunk of change.
Oh, yeah.
Write a show and have them pay for it.
You know, it's brilliant.
And the chunk of change you needed to have to buy the four sixes in the first place.
Yeah.
Dear God.
which is wild too he didn't he didn't start off till he was like early early 40s he had some small roles in Hollywood here and there and then he just came out of nowhere riding all these fucking shows we just talked about yeah it happens you get those later starts in life and then it's just like I think I think he just witnessed Hollywood and he witnessed everything around him for years and then he poured all his time yeah he's just tired of it and then poured his his his knowledge into it right yeah
he's crushing it to say the least you can't keep getting away with this taylor sheridan
but please do but if you do if you do i need to roll
we would all just love to die on one exactly man that's what i've been saying like all of us just
die i need to jump so i can buy another horse can i be random henchman don's just paid in horses
i'll take two more let me take the one from the show yeah hell yeah you've seen them horses
that bald feast he's at on that show
and on Yellowstone
it's a beautiful horse
shit
god damn it I want Don Frye
a damn Sheridan shell
I love I love how you
randomly rides himself
into shit too
like hell or high water
it's like the detectives are going out
they're trying to find the bank robbers
and Sheridan just pulls up on his horse
and he's like just passing through
he just rides himself in there randomly
he's like the Tarantino of Westerns
he's just like I need somebody to be the the super
cool guy for a role, except
Tarantino's just like, I need somebody to say the
N-word and lick feet.
There needs to be a character to lick
feet right now. It's me. I'm going to
play that character. It has to be me. I'll take that.
I'll take that position, you know.
Any volunteers?
Depends on the feet you're looking, though,
you know? Do you see
that fucking, it was like the acceptance
speech for like, I don't know, it was the Oscars or something,
whereas Brad Pitt talking about once upon a time in Hollywood?
I'd like to thank my co-stars
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Margo Robbie's feet, this actresses' feet.
Who is the feet?
Tiritino has his vices.
Bruce Lee's family was like, I think they were pissed off about that movie.
Oh, I'm sure they were.
Very good.
Because I think the inspiration for that scene was because of judo gene LaBelle.
Yeah.
Because I guess back in the day, you know, judo gene, right?
Judo Jean, just badass judo guy.
I think he was like one of the first Americans to get a black belt and judo.
Oh, yeah.
Just a complete badass.
He was a, if you ever see the videos where Ronda Rousey's highlight and it shows an old man balding with red hair and a stopwatch because she won in like seven seconds, that's judo Jean LaBelle.
He was one of her coaches.
He used to wear pinkie.
Complete badass.
Just to piss people off and just to fuck with him.
His ghee was pink.
I like this guy even more.
There's a, there's a little story.
Me and John used to wear pink geese.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I thought, I'm donut.
I thought it was a funny thing to do.
Yeah, but you all would horn hands a skip, too.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, but you're a game.
It's different.
It's just, that game gets bullied.
Right.
He did his laugh.
Yeah.
Our gings were actually skirts, but it's fine.
That's the fun.
He wouldn't let the, the,
Mimosa joke go with the whole, like,
you need your skirt?
How about a pink skirt?
But there's a story.
I don't know how true it is,
but allegedly there was some movie
that Bruce Lee was doing,
and he was kind of being a dick to the stuntman
and extras really hitting him harder than he needed to be
and they sent in Gene LaBelle
who was a stunt man at the time
and they sent Gene in to correct the behavior.
Apparently Gene just picked him up over his head
and walked him around until he settled down
and he couldn't do shit about it.
It's like with a toddler.
Yeah.
Like, nah, no, you're not going to do this.
And I guess that supposedly
that was the inspiration for that scene of a stuntman
taking it to Bruce Lee.
He also did that, Steve,
Steven Seagall.
Stephen Seagal will take cheap shots onto the stuntman.
So Judo, Judo, Gene choked him out.
Oh, shit.
What?
Get that out of him.
I choked him out.
Wait, was that when he shit his pants?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's what he shit his pants.
And then drew a mustache on his face because Gene would always put a mustache on people's faces
after he choked them out.
Well, you have me.
Hold on, pause.
So, Steven Seagal on this guy, Stevens being a dick.
This guy chokes him out.
Yeah, Gene was probably 60, 70 years old at the time.
And then a 60, 70-year-old judo master,
choked Steven Seagall out and then drew a mustache on him.
He's awesome.
He sounds cool as fuck.
Do you guys remember that cool-ass TV show Stephen Seagal was on
where he pretended to be a fucking cop?
Oh, God.
I heard about it.
I never saw it, but I heard about it.
Is that the one where he's sitting down in a chair fighting people?
I was just going to bring that one out.
That was so funny.
a movie. There was, at one point
there was he was like, I've been deputized by this
department and I'm a, it's like a live
PD kind of thing and it's just
it's terrible. It's fucking Steven Seagall pretending
to be a copse. No, it's actual like live action
like we were life. Oh, oh, this isn't a
no, it's not a show. Like a not a scripted show.
Stephen Segal was like deputize me so I can have a reality
TV show. And it's wild.
You should, you should do it on. I'm definitely going to check it.
Any of those Stephen Segal movies, if you
haven't watched, he still does them.
And he still writes them.
And they are.
They're just all produced in Russia trash.
And dear God, if you do just the recaps of them, so it's like 15 minutes long, just comedy gold.
I would love to see this plot points.
Donut operator reacts to Stephen Seagall's cop show.
Remember?
Remember when Steven Segal when Anderson Silva knocked out Vitor Belfort with a front snap kick?
And then Steven Seagull's like, I'm the one that told Anderson Silva to do that in the back room.
he took credit for Anderson Silva's like amazing it's like one of the best knockouts of all time is this front snap kick clean on the jaw and just drops Vitor Belfort and Stephen Seagull's like yeah I was the one that recommended he do that maneuver actually yeah like okay Anderson walked out with him a couple of times you know afterwards it's like oh man what are you doing you know maybe maybe everyone just loved him because we grew up on his movies yeah it fell for the bullshit we get it
It put a lot of us on the, like, martial arts, because I remember the one where he's on the ship.
Oh, yeah.
He's a famous undersea.
He's a cook on the submarine or whatever, yeah.
The Navy sill that got reassigned or some shit.
Yeah.
I remember watching that and being like, I want to learn how to kick people.
There was nothing better than like, did you join the Navy because of Stephen Seagall?
No.
No.
You said that all too fast.
There's nothing.
better than back when Spike TV was still a thing.
It was like, Tuesday night at midnight, the Steven Seagull movie Marathon, you fall asleep
watching TV, you wake up, he's gained 80 pounds, still playing, like.
I just, I remember Spike TV.
Yeah, just the, huh, ha, and they go flying.
They just die.
Yeah, that face.
And they're just like guys flying away and dying, and it's exploding.
Spike TV is how I would hang out with my dad after work.
Thank you. That's what I was thinking about.
Like waking up Saturday, Sunday morning,
dad's cooking breakfast,
and fucking a Stephen Seagall movie is on Spike TV in the morning.
Guess we're watching Independence Day.
Holy shit.
All that shit.
Were you big in a martial art movies growing up or westerns?
More westerns, yeah.
I was a John Wayne Clint Eastwood fan, yeah.
The O.Gs. What are your favorites?
Oh, true grit.
True grit, the John Wayne true grit, you know.
I like the Jeff Bridges' true grit, too.
I think it's a better overall movie,
but he still just couldn't match up to John Lane,
even though he played him the exact opposite,
you know, where John Wayne's yelling and, you know, loud drunk,
you know, obnoxious drunk.
He was just a drunk mumbling, you know, fool.
And, but they both did a great job.
and uh but you know you can't beat you can't beat the duke can't beat the duke and then
Clint Eastwood you can't beat Clint Eastwood good bad ugly yeah well Clint Eastwood he wasn't
even supposed to be an actor right wasn't he the stage hand or a grip or something no that
was that was John Wayne that was John Wayne that did that wait what he was a he was a stage
hand and um and uh I didn't know this yeah he was a stage hand for John Ford and then John
Ford took a liking to him
And putting him in a couple of movies, you know, as extra.
And then he started doing the three muskete tiers, three mesquite tiers, you know.
And then he started doing a bunch of other small movies.
And then finally, John Ford got him, the stage coach.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
I thought he could have sworn Eastwood was like that, too, though.
I didn't know John Wayne was like that.
Arley Ermey was one.
From Full Metal Jack?
his iconic role in
Full Metal Jacket where apparently there was
some other actor that was supposed to do the drill sergeant
role and just he's...
Arly Ermi was like the guy who was teaching him how to be
a fucking drill sergeant and finally he's just
like you come here
you'd be this guy
well he he schemed too
he he he steamed to
really steal a lot
still I didn't
know this part yeah yeah
he was a bit part guy
you know he was a helicopter pilot
and um
Apocalypse now
but yeah
once he was training
he was showing the actor
how to
how to be the drill sergeant
but yeah he is the back of his mind
the whole time to steal the part
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Or Stanley Kubrick movie?
Dude, to have Kubrick be like, I want you and Steve.
Instantly, hey, fame is going to fall.
He also was a...
He was amazing.
He did that shit.
piece of shit. They've got an
action figure. R.
Lee M. Reaction figure, you know,
the sergeant, you know.
I got to get one.
Got to find one.
Does it yell racial slurs?
Private Snowball!
I don't hate. They're cool.
The TV
censor version's crazy.
It's funny, though,
because my grandfather
on my mother's side was a Korean war vet.
Yeah.
And so he, but he had a stroke later in life.
And so, like, growing up around him, like, he couldn't really speak.
And, you know, he's wheelchair-bound.
The whole left side of his body didn't really work that well.
But we would bond on, all he wanted to do all day was watch John Wayne movies.
Yeah.
And so that's just all he did all days.
He had a massive collection of John Wayne movies, and that was just his thing.
Yeah, my grandfather on my dad's side, he served in Europe in World War II.
and then when the Germans surrendered, they sent him over to Japan, you know.
And then my uncle, my dad's brother, he was a Marine in Korea, and then the Green Bray in Vietnam.
And my dad was Air Commando in Vietnam, and I dropped the ball, you know.
You were the smart one.
That's what I always say.
My 40th year and my 40th birthday, my dad puts his arm around and says, you know, they've raised the,
the enlistment age son
after all this shit you've done in life
yeah I'm thinking oh my back
hurts so bad I would love to
but my back because you know
I was broke you know I didn't know it
you could have just showed up to any
enlistment office ever and just shown
your your fucking surgical history
and they're like no
yeah
I don't know
I you know what because
I didn't think I was ever mad enough to be a Marine
I wanted to be a Marine but never
so you you chose
professional modern gladiator
instead.
I know.
I want to be a Marine or a Green
Beret, you know?
So I instead decided
because I'm not man enough to do that
to beat up professional fighters
for a living.
I took the easy way, yeah.
I took easy way out.
That's not the easy way,
what is it mean?
You know,
then I found out women
could be Marines.
I broke my heart.
I fucking, oh, man.
Damn it, I could have made it.
Yeah.
I could have been number two at least.
You could have been a cop.
Couldn't even do that.
I'd be a fireman.
That's a smart way, man.
That's what I've been telling my son recently.
Yeah.
Because he's 16.
He's going to head off to college in a couple years.
I've been telling him, why don't you just be a fireman?
Firefighter.
Yeah.
And while you're at the station, not doing the firefighter EMT thing, you just go to school.
Then you take your classes, right?
Yeah.
Take your classes, work out, just get jacked.
Be a firefighter somewhere nice.
That's what I was saying, too, be a firefighter on like a coastal town, like a beach,
like a nice beach town.
So there's like college girls just rotating out all the time and work out, fucking just go to school,
make a paycheck.
Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me, man.
Oh, it's a good job.
It's a great job.
just the DEI got
in the fucking way and screwed up everything
yeah
yeah
through a wrenching a couple things
luckily that only happened with firefighters
oh god I forgot about that
I mean just see that
that moose
um
in L.A
it says well if I have to
pull a man out of fire
that's his fault for being
it's his fault for being
in the fire.
Yeah.
Way to go, sweetheart.
Yeah.
Have you seen that moose?
That's probably the hardest left hook you throw it in a lot.
That fucking moose.
I didn't say bull moose.
I held it back.
I held the rain back on that.
How is this new wave of social media and being involved in?
Is it?
Is it wild, especially now, like, you're older in life?
Is it, like, what the fuck is going on?
Oh, yeah, because I've been here.
I talk more in one hour or two hours, you know.
We've been together four hours now.
And so I've talked more of these four hours than I do in a week when I'm at home, you know,
just it's myself, my Vodalk, you know, or we over at lease his house.
At least we don't fart on each other.
Yeah.
we might have to cut this part but that the woman that you brought up a second ago the fire chief that said if a man's in a fire he shouldn't have got there in the first place she's dead now oh yeah what happened uh her wife stabbed her to death in a domestic violence incident
what did you give me any relevant details about this person's life
you're fucking kidding me are you what i'm dead serious i'm dead serious i'm dead serious
California fire captain Rebecca Ramoti 45 was stabbed to death by her wife Yolanda
also known as Yolanda Marotti 53 on February 17th 19 or 2025 you know what but she shouldn't
have been put in that situation that's right she shouldn't have put herself in that
did you have you seen the divorce what the fuck I say we keep that in fuck yeah the divorce rates
you know what every man of
Man versus and woman divorce is 50%.
Gay men is like 30.
Gay men is like 30.
And the gay women is like 75, 80.
It's not a real stat.
Yeah.
Yes.
The highest domestic violence rates in this country are between two women.
Two women partners, like women partners.
No shit.
The highest in the country.
How many times did you have to respond to one of those as a cop?
Oh, good Lord.
I told you about, I think I've told you guys about the first like,
the first domestic violence
I ever went to
was two dudes
which one
was it the poppers
or which one was this
I pull up
and this is
this is like one of my
first nights
on the streets by myself
I'm fresh out of
I'm fresh out of
FTO
like I've got my own
police car
I'm feeling cool man
I'm feeling cool as shit
and I pull up
and there's this
dude he's standing there
and he's covered
from head to toe in blood
he had some scalp wounds
and you know
those bleed like motherfucker
so he's covered in blood
and I go
and I'm like, hey, what's happened?
He's like, well, me and my partner got into a fight, and here's my ID.
And he, like, he knows the whole drill because we had to respond out there.
Like, apparently other officers had to have to respond out there a bunch of times.
And the ID's covered in blood, too.
He says, I just want you to know I'm HIV positive.
Oh, I was just making that joke as you, fuck.
No, no, it's the first thing he said.
He's like, here's my ID.
I just want you to know I'm HIV positive.
And I'm just standing there as a fresh officer.
I thought I was responding to, like, help some.
crime or so kind of and I'm like
fuck
day one
day one day one
they're reading it too he'll hold it up
don't think of it's like
oh there we get a problem solver
right there
I think like the majority of
domestic disputes
where there was blood taken from someone else
where they had a knife or they beat the absolute
fuck out of each other it was always same sex
couples they also like the amount
of like that was one thing
I don't know if bleep this
Okay
Talking about his time
And I think he was state police
Yeah state police
Talking about how every
Like the two things I learned from policing
And he had one like wholesome thing
And the other one
Everyone has Hep C
Yeah
Everyone in their mother
Everyone you would ever respond to
At any trailer park anything
Everyone has Hep C
Yeah that's his takeaway
That's why you see so many officers in videos
When someone spit
When someone spits on them
They just pop them in the fucking out
Yeah.
Like, because everyone has fucking hepsy.
Right.
It's biological assault.
Disgusting.
Right.
You're dealing with the lowest of the lowest.
Yeah.
It's fucking nasty, man.
Especially for the pain.
We want to one time, you know, two guys.
That bitch, that bitch in there.
He started his fight.
Arrest that bitch.
Whoa, so down there, Tiger.
What if I didn't have to be a
babysitter for grown men?
that would be really cool
never gonna happen
you're like nope
no I mean the
the thin blue line thing
it sounds kind of gay sometimes
like thin blue line protects you they're like
dude cops put up with some
ridiculous that shit
and they really do keep like
these shit people from people
who just want to pay taxes
have a job live their life
well it's that it's that thing
where people don't understand how good they have it
or what that other
that job
and tells. It's like, oh, well,
they have this skewed version of their
world. A police have that.
They think, oh, well, this cop just gets
to deal with good people all the time. No one's evil.
Police don't
get that luxury. Holy fuck, I have to deal with this.
Most people have never seen the real world.
Yeah, exactly.
That's the thing. They'll go
more than a block away from their house, you know.
Yeah, exactly what you're saying at the first.
Have you seen that interview where the police
chief, and I think it was Milwaukee,
gets confronted by an interviewer
because he was at like some press conference,
because it was like during BLM, it's a couple of years ago.
And there was some, I'm assuming, black person was like shot by police and killed.
And it was like a big deal.
There was all the press and everything.
And during the press conference, he was on his phone texting stuff.
And one of the reporters, like, called him out on it, being like, you don't even care.
You've been on your phone the whole time.
And he just goes, I've been on my phone because an eight-year-old girl was shot in the face and we're trying to capture the suspect.
And I'm getting updates on her in the hospital.
And then he just goes, like, he goes, there's.
been 58 shootings or whatever
it was this past month in
Milwaukee. None of you can name a single
one of them, but you can name the three
people my officers have shot and killed
in the last five years.
And just the whole room is just like dead quiet.
He should have called that reporter up.
Hey, come here. I want you to be in frame when this
clip goes viral. Yeah, shit.
Yeah, that's fucking wild.
Some of the Florida share, there's also clips
of, uh, I don't, I don't know if it was
Grady Judd or someone. One of the Florida sheriffs
that did the same thing. He's like,
You're questioning me about how many times my officers shot someone.
He was shooting at my officers.
Yeah.
So fuck you.
Yeah, they don't count, though, you know.
It's like, you saw the one video where the woman was like, well, he killed, he killed my son.
Just because my son stole from him.
How else my son's supposed to get money to go to school looking at books?
I saw that one.
Yeah, it's a wild one.
And it's a wild one.
The mom literally says, how else is he?
supposed to get money to buy clothes.
Justifying her son breaking into somebody's house.
Everyone else seems to figure it out.
I want to do the Chicago thing real quick.
How many people do you think have been shot in Chicago this year?
Just this year, 2025.
258?
$283,283 people.
Oh, shot.
Oh, shot.
Just shot.
Sorry.
Oh, I thought it's dead.
There are 297 of those.
died, but 1,383.
Guess how many people in Chicago
police have shot this year?
Three? Five, seven. Zero.
14. 14.
1,000, almost 1,400
people have been shot in Chicago this year.
Police have shot 14 of them.
No, police are the problem, though.
We should defund them, right, John?
Yeah, we can name the 14 people, yeah.
Defund the police.
Their fat, mayor, though, is throwing
a bitch fit over all the, you know, Trump's like,
hey, why is the murder cap?
of the world in the United States.
Right.
Right.
It is what I didn't realize was it Venezuela.
They had the highest murder per Kappa, like by a...
El Salvador.
At least it was for a while.
Yeah, one of those, but then they did the...
Honduras was another one.
Was it the one they cracked out?
They were like, hey, new president come in.
They elected that young guy as president.
Yeah.
And he keeps getting reelected.
And he like...
Argentina?
I think it might have been Argentina.
He like fully militarized everything and arrested.
They were building.
new prisons and now it's like one of the safest
countries. Like by I don't
love the idea of militarized police
but when you're talking about militarized police
for the sake of like murderers
like not like talking about speeding
or potteries. This was like
the crackdown on the cartels because the cartel
was basically running the government at that point.
I'm like these things are not equated.
Right. You had I think it was
900 or a ridiculous
number for every 100,000. It was a
very, very high number. Like 900
to 1800
murders poor 100,000.
They dropped it down to like 20 or 40 because those prisons,
they put all the gangs together and then those guards did not fuck around.
They're not allowed to talk.
They just,
someone went in and filmed it and you just get to see them just staring.
Look at the wall forever.
That's it.
Oh, is that the one where they showed them during their daily exercise and they just have to sit there
and this is all they get like they got to do this shit?
Probably.
It's all the tattooed, like, tattoo faces guys.
Yeah, MS-13 people and the other gangs.
And they have, like, those, the gangs won't even fight inside that prison because they're terrified.
They're like, hey, you just, you can't do anything.
This is your life now.
And they're just in blocks.
Well, just shoot them and let them lay there bleed, huh?
Oh, yeah.
The original, the AM-180?
Oh, yeah.
The prison riot gun.
Have you seen that?
No.
It's a...
No, you didn't show me that today.
We didn't have the AM-in.
Oh, it's up on my wife.
It's at the house.
Oh, shit.
You guys got to go see.
You got to see the machine gun collection.
Yeah, I went there.
Went there.
How was it?
Oh, great, man.
Great.
We did a video on it.
It's 22 LR.
No shit.
Holds like something stupid.
It's like 277 rounds.
Right.
I'm up top.
And it was used for riot control in American prisons.
I think it's originally an Austrian gun, I think.
But, yeah.
It looks like a Thompson has that top pan-fed magazine, like the Lewis, like we were talking about earlier, 22LR.
And it was because it was not less than lethal, but it was less lethal.
Right, right.
But it's got an absurdly high fire rate.
And you just spray a bunch of inmates.
Dear Lord, you better have enough bandages.
Yeah, before we had like Bingbag guns and shit like that.
They were just using 22 bullets and that thing to spray people with it.
But there are instances of American cops.
smoking dudes with that.
Like I think I want to
I'm probably horribly
misremembering this but I think it was like out in
Miami or something like that.
It was two cops that were in a shootout
like you know two cars
with drug dealers
or whoever it was
and they fired out the back
and just shot or either it was
they were shooting the people
they were pursuing or they were pursuing them
along those lines.
They just sprayed a Camaro
with the AM 180.
Just sprayed it with 22
and ended up murking two dudes.
Oh, yeah.
Jesus.
That'll do it.
That gun was fucking nasty, man.
The Angry Bees.
Yeah.
Well, I knew it from, I did a video back in the day.
I was watching old SWAT training videos from like the late 70s, early 80s.
And SWAT guys were running around with that thing.
Yeah.
What is?
It's like, it's like 2,600 rounds a minute or something.
It's not quite, it's like a thousand or something like that.
It's fucking crazy.
But it's, and it's just, they call it the, what, the swarm of angry bees?
Yeah.
Because it's just 22 round.
It's nasty.
But SWAT guys used to carry that back in the early 80s.
Holy shit.
What was your favorite gun going to his nice little museum he has going on?
Oh, hell.
1,200 rounds a minute.
I like the B.A.R.
I just, for some reason, I like the B.A.R.
It's because it's you as a gun.
Yeah.
It's like dawn morphing into a barn.
American and powerful.
Well, I didn't know this until earlier today.
You said you would carry a BAR in that movie.
Yeah, yeah.
It was public enemies?
Public enemies, yeah.
Had no clue.
About John.
You're in public enemies?
Yeah, I was a John.
Son of a bitch.
What?
I killed Johnny Depp, and then I didn't work for seven and eight years.
Spoiler.
Didn't work for a decade.
Dude, I was watching Tombstone last night.
Like, I was on my whole thing.
where sometimes I'll just throw on
like one of the Taylor Sheridan shows
or like some shit
just a classic Western type thing
and I almost watched that
I didn't know you were in that dude
yeah that's cool
bro bro
all right how the fuck do you not know
I know no something out
I'm like God dang it
one of the Texas Rangers
are coming in and clean up yeah
damn you handsome motherfucker
thank you very much
thank you very much
yeah how old were you when you first
grew that mustache
were you born with it
that was I think
that was born first
I developed
around it.
That is a question he's probably been
asked a lot of times.
Your mustache is eight pounds.
They set it down and a baby grows into it.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
You have a mustache.
Dawn over here gets pushed out.
There's no crying.
Pass me a beer.
Congratulations, ma'am.
It's a man.
It's a man.
Congratulations, it's a man.
Go, go, go, go, gong.
Dogg spanked the doctor.
He's a full-sized 30-year-old man.
Throwing shit.
Like a monkey, like a monkey, you know.
Fucking doctor slaps his ass and punches the doctor back.
Oh, God, what were you like as a teenager?
Dear Lord.
I was a dick.
That was a dick
Oh, that got me
Dad
Care to elaborate
Dad in the military for 20 years
What were you up to during that time?
Oh
I'd see
I was wrestling
And playing football wrestling
And screwing my girlfriend
You know
So that was
That was pretty much it
Guessing not picked on much
No
I know
I wasn't a bully
I didn't pick on anybody either, you know, but a couple of times I was an asshole.
Besides that, I minded my own business.
You said your dad, earlier when we were talking, he said your dad was a boxer.
Yeah.
Amateur boxer, I think?
Yeah, amateur boxer.
So he got you interested in stuff like that.
So at what age did you kind of start taking on fighting sports?
Was it like during high school?
Yeah, yeah.
He was good enough to, he got offered a chance to turn pro.
But he decided there's a better way to make a living
And get punched in the nose
Smart man
He forgot to tell me that
You know
That was something funny
We were talking about earlier
Like did your dad ever see one of your fights
Yeah
And
Yeah
His reaction to your first fight
His reaction to my fight was
How come you drop your hand
And your jab
When you bring it back
Correcting you
Yeah he was
You're supposed to
Throw the jab, bring right back.
But apparently, I was throw it and drop it.
He was not happy.
He was not happy about it.
Did you win that fight?
Yeah, I won the fight.
Yeah, okay, well, fuck, Dad.
Power through it.
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's still your dad.
Did you have any, like, during your peak, any of your sparring sessions where it was going
extremely hard or a sparring partner that you did not like sparring, where you're like,
oh, they swung?
uh yeah there's a couple of guys that didn't like yeah yeah but you know one time hit one kid in the liver
and oh it dropped him and he screamed he screamed on his way down and when he hit he couldn't
make a noise you know he just laid there for about 20 minutes and we're kind of grabbed him
and pulling him off to the side so he can keep going oh my god go set on the cuck wall
I got more pimp men to beat up
Did you punch you did you do that on purpose?
Plunched him right in the liver, you know
Because you didn't like him?
No, it's just
It was there
Probably didn't like him at the time
He's probably being a bit of a dip shit
Yeah, so
Probably put a little bit too much into it
Yeah
Shit happens
Yeah, yeah
I know
I would wear 20 ounce gloves
When I was sparring
Jesus Christ
You got a canned ham attached to your wrist
I don't want my liver to get hit with that thing.
And it's still making it through defense.
Eli's been fighting with 20 ounce clubs lately.
Yeah.
That's all I've been using for training is like 20 ounce for the last few months.
And when I put on 16 or 12 ounces, I'm like, oh, these are nice and light.
Holy shit.
Oh, we were four.
Well, you're wearing 12s to spar?
No, 16 is for spar.
I was going to say, fuck you.
God, I didn't know that.
We fighting four ounce gloves.
Which you're like, oh.
Yeah.
It's, you know, have no fingers and, yeah, they're just small little pads.
Yeah, so when you go from a 20 ounce to a four ounce, you know, you can't block as much, you know, but you can hit it a lot harder.
Do you block more a lot with your like your, your, uh, your forearms then?
Yeah, yeah.
You go higher.
Yeah.
Especially when I'm on my back.
I'm on my back.
I can, you know, you can parry real easy, you know, because you obviously, you, you're, you're, you know, obviously, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're.
You can't, you don't have a chance to have any footwork and move out of the way.
You know, you're, you're stuck in that position.
It's like, you've got to be able.
It was the craziest thing to see being adopted by fighters that's really working.
I know, you come from more of a wrestling background.
So was that Brazilian jihitsu in the 90s, early 2000s?
Was that crazy to see being used at that level?
Or what was the martial art for you?
Were you like, what the fuck is this?
No, because I did judo, you know, and jujutor.
Jitsu's from judo, you know, it's just a watered down, just naiwaza, you know, groundwork, you know, other than that, it came from judo.
And so none of it surprised me, you know.
See, that's the stuff I find, like, super interesting, because this is judo to, as you said, it is a watered down.
Jiu jitsu stemmed from that.
Yeah.
But seeing everything, oh, this dude's doing Muay Thai or that one guy that did the boxing glove.
Yeah.
Oh, he had one boxing glove?
Yeah.
God damn it.
The fuck?
I know that guy.
Back in the day, he had one wrap him.
Art, yeah.
Yeah, he's the funniest guy in the world,
the nicest guy in the world,
yeah, nicest guy.
It's like MMA fights?
Robossus.
Back in UFC when you could do,
you could wear shoes if you wanted.
So he could grab with one hand and hit with the other?
He had one legit boxing glove and one hand.
He was a ranked middleweight, you know,
and,
Hell, you got to get him on here.
I would love to.
The story, they were going to offer him like 10% of the UFC, you know, for him to,
or 20%.
You should have taken that, you know.
It was just like they would have offered.
Just to fight.
It was just like Matt Damon with like the 10% of all of Avatar.
Yeah.
And he turned down the starring role, like that similar situation.
Yeah.
Because he was a ranked.
He was a ranked middleweight fighter, you know.
In boxing?
Yeah, in boxing.
Okay.
And it would have brought legitimacy to the sport, you know.
Oh, my God.
But he said, he said, no.
He took a couple hundred dollars or something.
I don't know.
That's what I guarantee you got paid like maybe a grand max instead of the position.
Because he's like, oh, I'm only making this much.
No, I'll take the thousand dollars instead of this percent of a company.
Right.
That's what happened to the Facebook.
artist.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was like, oh, hey, do you want 60 grand or do you want some shares into Facebook?
That shares was $400 million.
He made the right choice, obviously.
Yeah, he was the guy painting their walls in the office or something like that.
Yeah, the graffiti guy.
Yeah, and it was like $60,000 and or shares of Facebook, which were nothing at that time.
And he took that and then walked away with $400 million.
Damn.
Yeah, I mean, your buddy would have been.
Yeah, art would have been sent for money, yeah.
fuck but he wore a glove to protect his striking hand right i forget his no i think it was his jab hand
wasn't it was a jab i think it was a jab no shit the other one was taped up and he had he had the
jab hand and gloved up yeah wonder which hand he's going to try to finish me with yeah one glove art
you know was everyone you know one glove is everyone was there anybody that in u.c whether you fought
or you didn't that you just did not get along with that was kind of a dick or oh i had my problem
to tank abbott you know but i was just going to say because i heard tank abbott was a huge dick
that's what i was thinking of in my head but he's changed a lot you know um i worked with him here
oh about four or five months ago um in las vegas we did a signing at um at russomania and he he's changed a lot
He's a completely different guy.
He's a great wife, great daughter, you know.
He's still off, you know, because he had a liver transplant.
So he's lost like about 150 pounds, you know, 200 pounds.
You guys know who Tank Abbott is?
Oh, yeah.
Takes it, I don't.
Tank Abbott legitimately looks like my dad.
Like same build and everything, huge beer gut and would just go in there.
Not anymore.
Well, I'm back when he was fighting, huge beer gut, he would go in there and just knock people
the fuck out. He used to do like the street fight stuff too, like street beef, like shit like that, right?
Wouldn't he, wouldn't he just like, I don't know about that, but I mean, I know he was, he's, uh, you're thinking of, uh, black dude.
Show, yeah, show that full body picture to Cody or to Brandon. No, he's a white guy, right?
No. Tank is. Yeah. Yeah. Something. Yeah. I feel like he used to do. I feel like he used to do like, like backyard.
It wouldn't surprise me. He could have. I know, I'm thinking of OG like early day of the, like early day YouTube, like early day YouTube.
he might have
those like street fights or
backyard brawls because it was him
and I forget the black guy's name
Kimbo Slice. Yeah that's exactly who I was
I was like Kimbo Slice doesn't look like
Nick's day. Nikes this guy in the world man
I met him a couple times. Nis
nicest guy
completely opposite of what
he projects
you know the image but man
what a sweetheart very polite
you know. One of the funniest post-fight
interviews ever. Yeah. When he lost in the
ultimate fighter to Roy Nelson. Roy Nelson also pale pale white dude with humongous beer gut
Dana White described him as the ultimate underachiever ungodly talented fighter but was like
eating Big Macs and shit the night before and Roy Nelson was like an elite level grappler and
striker but his grappling was really good so he took Kimbo down put him in a crucifix from the top
side so his bellies just right on Kimbo's face for three five rounds whatever it was and
Kimbo sliced afterwards like he'd take me down and put me
in that crucifix, and then I got the moon
on my face. I can't move the moon.
I don't know what you guys want me to do.
Who's the guy right now?
Derek.
Derek Lewis?
The Black Beast?
Yeah.
Hilarious.
My balls is hot.
My balls is hot.
You were talking about like best post-fight interviews and shit like that.
That's immediately who came to mind.
Derek Lewis.
Why did you take your pants off?
My balls was hot.
Yeah.
Well, your guy, what was your name?
Roy Nelson.
Roy Nelson was
again his level of athleticism and Dana White and everyone said is if this guy gave it 100%
he would be unstoppable he was not out he lazy fighter he knocked out Brennan Schaub in the final
for the ultimate fighter like out fucking cold knocked him out he's not a big dude for the heavy
weight class he's like he's my height 260 pounds of an enormous beer gut like I'm pretty
sure my arms and shit are like bigger than his like he's not jacked he looks like just some
dude bellied up at a bar in the Midwest.
He just goes in there and beats the shit out of people.
Huge mullet.
He knocked out Bigfoot Silva.
He's got all kinds of crazy knockouts.
All those in a fighter, you're saying the older, like, tank, the older they get.
A lot of them just look at Tyson.
They just become softer.
Like, oh, hey, I'm not as aggressive compared to that young age.
Did you see.
I don't have to beat up grown men for a little bit.
I can tone it down a little bit.
I can chill.
I don't have.
Oh, yeah, I got lazy, you know, I mean, I, shit, I got addicted.
There, I didn't get addicted.
I got dependent on the pain pills, you know, after the neck and the back, you know.
And the neck and the back, and the back, and the back.
And the neck in the back, you know, in the back, in the back.
And, yeah, I got a little dependent on the, on the pills.
And so the fights I lost, you know, I'd, I, you know, I,
I would take the pain pill before I went out there, which is stupid, you know,
because I was like, man, that's, that's a long walk out there.
I better take a pill, you know.
You were going to fight another professional athlete
and you were more concerned about how long the walk to the cage was.
Wasn't too smart.
It sounds pretty badass to me.
I don't know.
What is that, 50 feet?
Oh, yeah.
Maybe two.
Two for the road.
Not worried about the fighting part.
It's the walk there that gets me.
Take an extra for the road.
I was curious about was a lot of these fighters, like we know, like we talk to Chalk and like some of the stories that they have of like how crazy the party's got and stuff like that in like early UFC days.
You have any stories like that?
No.
That you'd be willing to tell.
Yeah.
Early UFC's.
Statute of limitations.
Yeah.
I got two dollars.
daughters now so i'm not going to speak about i want to ask you a question too uh my son he's 16
he's been in jiu jitsu and boxing his entire life like since he was five years old do you have any
advice for like a young man yeah getting high school wrestling high school wrestling
wrestling is the toughest thing you'll ever do in your life you know most discipline and uh
It's, uh, it's exact opposite of, uh, jujitsu and, um, and judo, you know, or basically, to break it down,
judo's more pulling or wrestling's pushing, you know, to simplify it, you know.
And, um, and then jujitsu's, you know, you fall to your back or, you know, wrestling,
you want to put the guy on his, on his back and you want to stay off your back, you know,
so, but the, the discipline involved, uh, necessary to be a wrestler.
is the hardest thing you'll ever do.
As soon as you started saying that,
Nick was looking at me like,
I fucking told you so motherfucker.
It's true.
Wrestling is so hard,
because I've been doing jujitsu forever.
It's so much harder than jujitsu
because there's arm bar,
there's 20 different types of arm bars,
there's 50 different types of chokes,
there's 50 different types of light.
There's so many different ways
to end a jujitsu match.
There's one way to end a wrestling match,
and both motherfuckers in it know it.
So it's not a,
matter of, I can't trick you into a pen. I can't finesse my way into it. You know exactly
where I'm trying to go. And I'm going to have to force you to do it. Right. And it's so
much harder than Jiu Jitsu. Do you know the highest rate of young men who make it through
Navy Sill training are wrestlers from the South? Really? That's the highest rate of men that make
it through that training. I'm going to call bullshit. I think it's wrestlers from the Midwest.
I wonder why you might be biased. Bad checks. It is.
you both will be able to answer to this.
Cody,
like when you're grappling somebody,
you know if they come from a wrestling background so fast
because they go harder and faster than anyone you know,
especially coming from like BJJ,
you're like, okay, hey, I'm relaxed.
I can't, dude goes 100, like full throttle out the gate.
You're like, oh, fuck me, dude.
This guy's just, they're just dragging you across the floor.
They don't know how to pit.
I've been doing jujitsu so long.
It doesn't, I don't even need to know before.
I can literally.
tell when a new student walks in
by the way they walk in their posture
as soon as they walk in the gym
okay yeah come in free trial
fill out the waiver where'd you wrestle at
oh how'd you know I wrestled I can tell
yeah you're an athlete yeah
I can tell by the way you walk the way you stand
your posture all of it like I can
see them from a mile away it's terrifying
individuals with a wrestling background particularly
those from southern states are known
to have strong statistical presence in Navy SEAL
training it's almost like I went
to buds and know this thing
I like
Man, it's just like, damn it.
That's all I has to say about.
Swiper, no swiping.
Aw, man.
That makes sense.
All the Midwestern guys were probably too busy
going to the Olympics.
Wow.
It's like, I can't lose it.
They're in the Air Force.
Fucking hell.
Holy shit.
Don, this has been a
pleasure.
My brother, thank you.
So, so very much.
coming out and hanging out with us.
You had a great time, man.
You've been, after your amazing career in life,
you're trying to do what we do for a living now, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
You're trying to be a YouTuber.
Yeah, Dan Severn and I got Dan and Don's toxic masculinity.
We haven't put one out for about six or eight months.
Is that on your main channel, or is it its own channel?
It's a separate channel.
So you've got toxic masculinity, and you also have your own YouTube channel, Don Fry.
Yeah, Don Frye, USA.
Yep.
So go check him out,
subscribe to him.
Some of your videos are hilarious.
You're basically doing a,
you're doing mean tweets now.
You're reading comments.
Some of the comments are,
I've seen a couple.
Don Fry speaks fluent F350.
My revolver sleeps with Don Frye under its pillow,
shit like that.
It's pretty funny.
And so,
I was saying earlier,
like I just,
I find most of your shit
just coming across my Instagram Reels feed.
Yeah.
Or it's just,
just you saying just horrifically,
politically,
incorrect shit to interviewers.
And instantly, why we're like, we need him on
the show. Like, damn, this both
seemed like he'd get along.
He's one of us.
Instantly.
He don't have all his teeth, obviously.
So, yeah. Go check out
Don's channels. Cody, you want to
close this out, my... Oh, he's
getting you. Get your photo in there. You guys are just
like really handsome right now.
Oh.
Hell yeah.
It's Don.
Don, what's your O.F?
channel.
Joking.
Guys, thank you for joining the unsuscribed podcast.
I was joined today by Eli Double Tap, the Fat Electrician, Don Frye himself.
Brandon Herrera, myself, Donna Operator.
Are we doing an after show?
Yeah, we'll do it.
Check out the after show on Patreon.
In that case, you want another drink, Don't?
Absolutely.
All right.
Oh, we're going to drink some more.
Absolutely.
Love you.
You'll just be my grave.
You don't know my name.
We just feel my name.
You don't know my name.
