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Unnecessary Roughness: We got the sports
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Introduction and Sports Banter
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by May I have your attention please? It's time for the final countdown.
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The show starts in...
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We'll right back. cold one headphones on game
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Goals and runs. We cover it all. Having tons of fun. Debating plays. Calling out the fouls. Racing hearts and heated growls. Trash talk is sports from coast to coast.
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Every game, every game.
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We speak our minds, leaving all the haters behind.
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With a side of spice.
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going on? God, man, this camera angle is going fucking kill me. What's going on,
Interview with Ezekiel, the MMA Fighter
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everybody? Happy Sunday. Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness. You know me. I'm Glick, right here on the Nonsensical Network.
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She does all of our merch, swag, and all that fun stuff that you see me wearing. But she can also personalize anything for anybody, Beauty and the Beard Creative Corner. But as always, we got our boy Rick in the building, fresh from the Savannah Bananas game, half dead.
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the I'm not half dead. I'm trying to share this out real quick. And returning... oh my god, our attorney made it. Our attorney is back. It's so exciting.
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I have so many legal questions for you. I tipped over another ATM. yeah He's Derek Wayne Douglas. Yeah, he might be a cornball white boy, but he's got some skills, ladies and gentlemen. ha yeah
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I love that intro. What's going on, brothers? Good seeing you. Yeah, y'all too. um miss And today, sorry, it was kind short notice, so I didn't get a chance to promote it, but um most of you guys have seen our good friend Chaka on Saturday nights. He pulls up randomly throughout the week from time to time when he can.
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But we have a very special guest today. The one and only e Ezekiel, MMA fighter, ass kicker, and his dad better watch his mouth and stay back there in the corner before he gets beat up by him. That's right.
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What's going on, Zico, man? I appreciate you coming up here with us today. how you doing, bro? Thank you. Thank you for having me. and current cook Yeah, man. Absolutely. As I is an MMA fighter.
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And we got to talking about him last night. It's wild to me, first and foremost. Congratulations on your second fight being a title fight. That's just unheard of. Thank you. I think anybody that's familiar with the fighting world, boxing world, m MMA world, anything like that, a young guy like yourself just does not get an opportunity like that very often right out the gate. So congratulations on that, man. ah Thank you.
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Yeah. what What's going on, Chatterbox? We see you guys popping off. JR's in the building. Thank you, guys. Shock is over there. And jove f Joe,
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Oh, boy, bananas. Yeah. yeah How long have you have you been fighting? you can So I started over the summer. I haven't reached a full year yet.
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You reached a full year and you're about to title? Yes, sir. Bro.
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Slapping them down. Yeah. Have you claimed man of the house yet? yeah yes sir have you claimed man of the house yet ah were they when When he's gone, yeah. When he's home, you should too. Put him in put him in a triangle.
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Tell him. Tap or say I'm the man. One of the two. Yeah. Who's the man now, dad? No, damn, dude. Less than a year.
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You've got two bites under two fights under your belt already. One of them being a title fight. ah and Now I'm assuming you're just going to just keep on going. You don't have any plans to stop him or anything like that? Oh, yeah, no. It's so young. If he goes like ah Jesse Gaethje, he's got 20 years still in the business.
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hey Or like a, yeah um what's his name? The Hispanic guy who's all tatted up. He just fought the other night. I can't remember his name now. Alex Pereira.
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Oh, okay. That dude's pushing 40. He's old. Yeah, he is. But he's still holding it up in the fights, man. Yeah. dude is Dude is definitely old, but still holding his own in the fights.
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Oh, for sure.
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So i got I have copious questions for an um MMA fighter. ah hu Shoot, Rick. I'm trying to make the videos here. When you approach, are you standing standing strike or dropping grapple?
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When I'm pro? When you approach. Would you prefer to stay on your feet or do you want to take it to the mat and see what you can do there? um I'd like to take it to the mat.
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I come from a very long wrestling background. It's just where I'm comfortable. that was going to be my next question was what are you, what are you most well-versed? Is it BJJ? Is it ah just jujitsu? Is it Taekwondo? Is it, is it, Oh, Greco Roman style wrestling?
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um and And with a wrestling background, it sounds like you're very Greco Roman wrestled through high school. going to speculate. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's a lot of wrestling. I did freestyle and Greco. So I do know... and And folk style as well throughout high school.
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So you're like the Kurt Angle at 19 years old, basically. You're like you're like a small-headed version of Kurt Angle because he's got a giant fucking head. i used to have a Kurt Angle toy.
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Kurt Angle has a huge head.
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So... And that's probably because he's been dropped on it so many damn times. So... so So so you like you like your grappling, and and how are you at your submissions? are you pretty good? Do you know a lot? of can you Can you kind of get them worked in or or we're still We're still working on me getting comfortable full sending that submission.
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Trusting yourself enough to lock it in when you go for it. Yes, sir. Makes perfect sense. By the way, the last thing you need to call me is sir on a regular. that You can just say, yeah. This is as casual as it gets, bro.
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As casual it gets. That's how i talk. I get that lot. I get it. It's just, it's awkward for me. It makes me feel really, really old. you are i hate you both. give me Give me one second.
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was going to say, besides the wrestling, what else have you mainly trained in and since when? Like how old were you when you started? So I started wrestling beginning of 2020, like COVID year.
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And as far as MMA goes, that's that's like where I started. And okay that's all I've really taken. That's all all the sports that go into m MMA. That's the only sport that I've taken up until ah April of 2024. That's when I joined m MMA and I learned everything. Yeah.
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Just up until that first fight. so what are they So what are you training in as far striking? Like Muay Thai, Taekwondo? Muay Thai, boxing, jiu-jitsu, wrestling. Okay. All right.
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ae I was just curious. Yeah. On an average day, how much how ah how many hours are you in the gym? So we do, we have multiple sessions like throughout the day and our first session in the morning, it starts at about eight in the morning and could end around like 12 PM.
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And then the next session is later in the day, about 5 30 PM. And that ends about like 9 PM. So what you're saying is having a full-time job is impossible. yeah This is your full-time job.
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It will be. So what are you in the next? Okay, let's go let's go hypothetical with you. let's Let's gaze into the future if we shout. You're 19, okay?
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We'll put a two-year mark on it, 21 years old. okay Are you looking to hit up Dana White Contender Series? Are you looking to try and catch a run into Pride? Are you looking to try and catch a one catch a run into any of those? what are what are you what do you looking Let's put
Ezekiel's Motivation and Reflections on Fighting
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a two-year plan together. What are you looking at two years down the road?
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Two years down the road, i would like to catch the ah attention from Dana White. That'd be amazing. you know But I think places like LFA and those smaller promotions, they're still huge, but you know under UFC.
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ah Yeah, when you make UFC, you've made it to the top tier. like it doesn't get You don't go no higher than that. Yeah, absolutely. And I believe like I have – The energy, you know, I can put on a great performance in any promotion in any octagon that I'm in.
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So I think I can catch the attention no matter where I'm at, just putting on a good show. So you're looking you're looking to go a little bit more, we'll call we'll call what you're doing now amateur, and you're looking to go more into a semi-pro with like LFA or if you could get a run at like Pride or or what is it? 1FC I think is another one that still runs. 1FC would be insane. Yeah, that's a big one.
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that's That's your one step below UFC, I believe, isn't it? Yeah. like Your one FC puts you literally one step under right where you want to be. So so you would you would absolutely, like, one of your one of your aim points is like a Dana White contender series where you get on there and get your chance to do your match in front of everybody and see what they say.
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Yeah, that would thatd be amazing. That would be awesome. Don't forget the little guys when you get there. Stay stay humble. Always, always.
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MK says, can we get a short ah YouTube short of you tapping your dad out? Sorry, not sorry, Choco. All right. So how many fights have you been in this this year or almost year?
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I've just competed in my second fight.
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Okay. And then ah where where are you competing at? Like location? Stuck to the floor out there. ah These last two fights have been under a promotion here in my town, Bakersfield. these next two fights... Yes, sir.
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Where's Bakersfield? California. California. Okay. hi Yeah, they're out in Cali. oh Okay, cool. you Represent. oh yeah Actually, i got... Chalk is over here sending me videos.
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Unfortunately, I can't share... um the the YouTube or the the Instagram promo, but I did throw a follow your way, Zeke. And... and well I'm going to actually throw that that that promo up on our story either later on this afternoon or at some point this week came to kind of share you out to all of our followers and whatnot as well because it is a kick-ass commercial you did and it gets to highlight some of his little bit of his skill. But I'm going pull this up real quick. And if you want to talk about you know what's going on, I kind of skimmed through
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right to the fight. This is your first fight. Dude, you guys got to see this knockout. It's fucking sick, man. You won on a KO on your first fight? Yeah. That's the shit I like to hear. That's what that's what i was about to ask. is like How did you win like you know each fight? yeah Yeah. This first fight was a knockout.
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Put your freeze frame in. It's awesome.
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Is it? It might be a little glitchy. The weather here sucks. It's good head kick. Let's
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see. That was another thing, too, is this guy was a purple belt. He was a purple belt in jiu-jitsu, and I was not going to go to the ground. Yeah, you no.
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You don't want to take a jiu-jitsu guy to the dirt if you can avoid it.
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Those guys just have this interesting ability to move. Yeah, like he he kept moving. That was one thing. I needed to get a hold of him and calm him down. Yeah, he's he he looks like he's pretty fast too.
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Yeah, that's what that's really what that weight class is like. A lot of fast. Because have legit question. Those body shots right to the side that he was just kind of throwing at you.
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Are those just attention getters? Are they just motion to keep the official from splitting you up? Or do they actually do damage and hurt a lot? um I wouldn't say they're doing any damage in the moment. But as the fight goes on, you will feel it.
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ah Right. I was going to say, because getting hit in them kidneys, it could definitely, yeah, it'll add up. but be in bad place ah start Yeah, over time, it's gonna start to you're going to start to feel it.
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You probably definitely felt it the next day. I've seen a fight end on a liver kick. And Zeke knows a liver kick will literally cripple an entire body. ah
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Well, that's that's what happened in that first fight when Brock burst came back to the UFC. Alistair. Oh, there it was. love it. I love it. One
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love it run at that one time. Yeah, run that back real quick because that happened so fast. It was a right off the wall. I put him on the wall, held him still, and when I found you know the right time, just threw a simple f cross, you just knocked him out. All your stuff is in it?
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Blink it, too.
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Watch. why second They also, like, transition it. Yeah. It is...
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yeah it is black Oh, there it was. Big old right cross.
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yeah fucking caught him off Caught him off with that right, didn't you?
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Yeah, Jaco sent us that video a couple days after the fight. I was like, God damn, second Cracked his ass. Lights out.
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So when do you think you're going to adventure youre out of California and start fighting elsewhere? Because there's a lot. I know there's a lot of promos. Nashville's becoming a hot spot for fights. Atlanta's becoming a hot spot for fights.
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Texas, there's there's like four places in Texas that put together so many promos for fights. like and But I know Cali's hot spot. They have tons of them out there. But I was just curious when you would be interested in getting out of the California area and venturing. See who else has got what.
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ah hot So as of now, I think California, just as of what they're doing with MMA, like there's a lot to do here. There is a lot to build. Absolutely. Yeah. And I think right now as a Bakersfield, I really want to get that title.
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I have to get that title. This is my town. I want to get the title. Is it ah Bakersfield where Uriah Babers from? I'm not sure. I think he know he's from California because they called him a California kid.
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He looks like he's on a beach. Like a beach area. doesn't he he looks to he looks like he He looks like a surfer dude. like yeah yeah He's still in it though, man. He's not fighting, but he's in the corner of... ah One of the fucking Stan guys, Urzik Stan. Well, he's got a whole team.
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Does he really? He actually takes his team and he moves them into this, like, all these houses that he bought. And they all live on the same ground together and train together. So he kind of does it like Shemayev's whole crew does. Yeah. They just stay in one fucking place and they constantly just go together. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:22
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Last time, did he? I don't know that he ever went UFC. I know he was WEC. Did he get? your honor ago I stopped following him when he was in WEC still.
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I think he did. Yeah, he ended up coming back to the UFC. I believe losing. He's from Isla Vista, California. Okay. I don't know how far that is from you, but that's where he's from.
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He actually runs a um ah promotion called A1, A1 Combat. And there is a fight in May that I believe that we're looking at under that promotion.
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Hell yeah. Oh, man. oh yeah And I'm sure there's a hundred places that they televised. I say televised because it's probably watched on the interwebs. But um make sure you keep that keep us in the loop for that because I'd love to watch it.
00:20:13
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yeah um I like watching fights. like I was at Savannah Bananas last night and opened my ESPN to watch the first first match knockout last night that was done. over the right and then just pushed him over with his left hand. he was like, you're done.
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so hi sister. My sister in the chat. There you you go What was it that...
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Have you always been a ah fan of of like the MMA-style fighting? What was it that made you kind of go, you know what? think I think want to get in the cage and get my ass kicked for a living. Well, he was probably hoping he wouldn't get his ass kicked. Even when you win sometimes, you still lose. You still know you're in a fight the next day. yeah. yeah I would say um the moment I went into high school, high school kind of was my opening up to MMA and just combat sports in general.
00:21:12
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Prior to that, no clue. I had no clue what, you know, fighting. I was not interested in that. and god be rest You were wrestling, though, in high school, right?
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Yes. sir That's when that kind of that started opening up. Yeah. it was whenever I kind of decided like going up to college and wrestling wasn't really what I wanted to do.
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I knew my next question. Yeah. Why didn't you pursue that into college? You might've come into the league a little late, but you got that college education under your belt before you got your eggs scrambled up.
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Yeah. I, that was one thing that, um, that question he's gonna, he's gonna like this. I just wasn't, I'm not a big school guy. Not really. Understandable.
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So yeah you're hoping you're you're you're putting all your eggs before they get scrambled into one basket, and that's to make enough money before they're scrambled, where once they're scrambled, you can just not worry about it anymore.
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yep Yeah. Yeah, during do it while you're young and you got the chance. The dreams of 19 years old again. I love it. Yeah. remember when I was 19, I was going to in the NFL.
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Yeah. Yeah. i remember when i was nineteen i was goingnna i was goingnna be in the nfl and yeah not much in the ufl and glick couldn't even play there couldn't even play i'm watching the ufl i couldn't even play in canada come on now he's looking on a sunday pickup game in the backyard that he makes it out without his knees broken but we've all gotten to that point as we got old yeah unfortunately for the 40s creep up on you and go man i remember when just like um
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we did So I want to show some, I'm going to kind of skim through this, but I do want to show this. I mean, like I said, if you want to add any commentary as we're going through it, feel free to. This is, this is your, this was your latest fight, your second fight, which was for that title that you, you said, Hey, does homeboy know you're coming back after him? That you want that belt? ah yeah Does he want that fight again? Because from what your dad said, I,
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I ain't no dummy. If I was in that guy's shoes, I'd be like, yeah, no i got I got away. i got away real quick. Yeah, but but ni champion be as a as a belt holder, you don't get that luxury. You got to defend that belt.
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So if it comes for a rematch and you back down, then you're known as that guy. And in the MMA world, as big as it is, it's really this big. And if you're known as the guy that backed down from a rematch on a title fight,
00:23:48
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That is not a rep you want to have. I promise you that. Because that means once somebody does get that title away, everybody is going to make sure you never get a shot again. i You know, you can't be a non-working title. Yeah, you got to be active.
00:24:06
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Yep. If you make you can make it to Nashville or over this way, i want to know because I will come watch you fight in a heartbeat. Awesome.
00:24:18
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that's awesome I would make the three and a half hour drive to Nash Vegas. I'll get my attorney so I don't go to jail while I'm up in Nashville. I'll pick my attorney up on the way by because you're not in Nash Vegas, are you, Derek Wayne?
00:24:33
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um No, not right now. I'm in Johnson City. Okay, so meet me at 40 and 75 right there in the noog and I'll pick you up and you can keep me out of trouble in Nash Vegas.
00:24:44
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Who, me? yeah well and he got another journey ah so we already down to trouble at nashville
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um ah go liberty twitch you asking the chat How important is the diet and in your fitness routine 20 years from now? so Can you imagine himself looking like like like like we do, which is not in very good shape, or 20 years from now, do you still plan on, I guess is what he's saying, staying and keeping up with it and everything else?
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Yeah, I mean, the diet and fitness is very, very important. Even when you're not rolling, you're still training and eating right and doing something right. You have to be. And honestly, I'm still getting i'm still getting better at staying on that.
00:25:36
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um I think the one thing I need to keep up is my cardio. Lucky for you, you got 19-year-old metabolism, bro. you like Yeah, I get heavy. I get heavy, and I got to cut down to 135. You can eat three pieces of pizza and not dread it for two days afterwards.
00:25:52
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Yeah. No, I get up there, and I think 20 years from now, – and There should be no difference. It's just more muscle. I want to be in shape for as long as I can.
00:26:05
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what What are you doing right now for diet? Like, you know, is there a particular diet that you are on right now or trying to be on? Currently, I'm not on a diet. I'm fresh off of a fight.
00:26:18
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I'm and enjoying burger. eating pasta every night and trying to drink beers without his dad knowing because he's not 21 yet. It's usually and about until we get in that fight camp. And um that's ah that's when that diet will really kick in. And um um I don't eat things like bread.
00:26:36
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And I try to just stay heavy water. Because once we get to that, the final two weeks, it's a lot of just cutting out that water weight. Oh, that's so not fun. I don't miss that.
00:26:48
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Yeah, it's not fun at all. Wrestling in high school. You got eight hours to cut seven pounds in water weight and eight hours time to make weight for your for your meat the next fucking day.
00:27:00
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Not even that day. It's the next day. So you basically kill yourself and then you're like, okay, we made weight. Now we got to pack everything back on. Yeah. back i was going to say, yeah, you weigh in, then you go eat, you know.
00:27:14
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That was the nice part about this fight right here that I was able to have the entire day being the co-main event. I was the co-main event. So, weighed in at 10 in the morning, didn't fight until 6 p.m.
00:27:26
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You were able to replenish everything you'd beat out of yourself. Yeah, I thought I did. it was ah had such an adrenaline dump when I got in that cage. Oh, man. yeah so arm heavy So here's theres There's In my mind there's Two types of fighters At the young age There's those that are going to come in the in the cage And they're going to go balls to the wall And hope for a finish in the first round And then there's the guys who develop the stamina And they can run for the duration Like they can make What do you guys do when you're co-in main event Five or three
00:28:03
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Rounds? odd Three. Okay. So the most you're going to do is what? 15? Or how long are your round limit? They were three minute rounds. Okay. So you did you you'll do you'll do about nine to 10?
00:28:15
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Yeah. if you go If you go the duration. So, you know, um which which do you in your opinion, what what kind of fighter do you think you are? are you ah looking for that first round finish or are you ready to go the 10 minutes?
00:28:29
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I'm always ready to go to the 10 minutes. you stamina to last that? ah Yeah. yeah well Women will be happy to hear that.
00:28:43
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yeah So, yeah, I think going for go for the first round knockout, yeah, I think maybe not over for doing it, but if it's there, I'm not going shrug it off. I'm going to full swing.
00:28:57
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you know Look at that. You're going for that full-on triangle from the back. Yeah, that's so the rare naked choke. Yeah, looking for that choke.
00:29:09
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So many of them look so similar, and they're still the same same type of move. Oh, just teeing off, bro. Teeing off. And this right here, I get the arm right under the chin.
00:29:20
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He rolls through. That's it. leave the body open. He goes again. You didn't wrap around him to keep him on. on You had that back control to keep him on his back.
00:29:31
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Yeah. You probably would have got the finish since you wrapped it around his waist. Oh, absolutely. I should have got you'd have been able to pull down with your feet and pull up with your arms. And you stretched him, bro.
00:29:45
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And right here, this is where the This did want to stand up and... old boy is This is where you started getting gassed? Yeah, this is where I started getting gassed. He's wore out, too.
00:29:58
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No, he's not. He looked like it. He looked he spending whole lot of time comfortably laying there. This man had o o the cardio tank like a robot. i don't Are y'all allowed to throw elbows on the ground?
00:30:11
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Yeah, we could throw elbows to the body and things like Oh, not to the head? mid-week to six on an elbow. I think they go to the collarbone, as far as the collarbone. Oh, golly.
00:30:23
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Elbow to the collarbone? That'd be rough. Mm-hmm.
00:30:27
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to be ah god That is not how I want to spend my Saturday night. You made it out of there. these At the end, though, you made it out of that round, looks like. I did. I did get out of there.
00:30:40
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Barely. Yeah, I heard that bell ring, and you were like, oh, my God, thank you. Yeah, I heard the 10-second mark, though the wood. They knock on it or something. Yeah, they clack it together. That's when i heard it, and I was like, I can take this beating for 10 seconds. I can do this.
00:30:53
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And I was like, I'll be okay. Yeah, because if there would have been 30 seconds left in that fight, he might have had you on a TKO. Oh, yeah. I would not. don't think was getting that. He was teeing off on your head there for a second.
00:31:04
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Absolutely. hey Them stingers that make the whole world flash white real fast. And this right here is the end of the fight. This would be the third round.
00:31:15
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And right here, he gets a nice kick to my knee. And then he kicks my a he goes for a high kick. I grab him. I throw him. Boom. Boom.
00:31:27
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And then this is just where he just gets me with jujitsu, just outsmarts me. Yep. He just rolled out from underneath the other side. and How much older is he? he's got your back.
00:31:39
Speaker
He did what you could have done to him earlier. Oh, no. Absolutely. He's 28.
00:31:49
Speaker
Don't experience all day long. yeah was its I'm not going lie to you, man. He's little rude. he's a little rude Like throwing the mouthpiece, bro, and then walking over like, bro, come on, dog.
00:32:03
Speaker
little respect. I think half the side of his head tattooed. Did you expect much better? Maybe he needs an attorney. I mean, some of them, some of them, you know i mean, are more respectful. I mean, that's side note. I think that comes as they get higher up, though.
00:32:19
Speaker
yeah he I think he just got really pumped up at the fact because I was whooping him for two rounds. Right, right, right, right, right. took a whooping. yeah He was just probably all pumped up from it.
00:32:30
Speaker
Okay. yeah He felt like, yeah, you thought you had me. you know yeah Here's my question for you. When he locked you up in that and he started pulling, what part made you tap?
00:32:41
Speaker
Was it the choking, the stretching, the angles? What was it? When I felt that body lock, when I felt that he had the bottom half of my body. Had your hips locked up in his legs.
00:32:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's what was under You knew you were tapping or you were going to be out cold. Right. Yeah, and I wasn't going out cold in front of that crowd. I had to tap. Yeah. Understandable. feel that. I just, i always wonder that because some submissions, like, they look like they're extremely painful on different parts of the body and other ones look like they're just going to knock you out. Like, they're going to choke you right out.
00:33:11
Speaker
So, I was always curious which one. Like what, what was that angle for you? Was it, was it the pain or was it that you knew you were going to be blacked out in the next six to eight seconds?
00:33:24
Speaker
It definitely wasn't the pain. I'm not scared to go out. Like if it happens, you know, I black out. It's just, I knew i could, you know, I knew I could go to sleep. I just wasn't going to.
00:33:35
Speaker
See, it's it's crazy watching this. he did He did to you what you missed on your first round. Yeah. He did exactly to you what you – but, I mean, you were able to see. You called it out when I asked you about it at the beginning of the video.
00:33:48
Speaker
You knew what you missed. You knew that you didn't lock that body up because had you done it, you'd had that rear knee choke, and that tap probably would have gone the other way in the first round. Absolutely, yeah so yeah. I've gone – it's an experience thing, I think, for in that case.
00:34:02
Speaker
Yeah. He wasn't a lack of skill for sure. Are you fighting this guy again? ah hope so. I really hope so. I hope so. He wants that title. He wants that belt. Yeah.
00:34:16
Speaker
yeah After that first round, the last thing that dude wanted to do was stand up and and bang it out with you. He wanted to keep your ass the ground. That's what I wanted to. Wow.
00:34:27
Speaker
wow I may be tired. I knew the one thing I was like, may tired, but I can hit. I was like, I can hit him. If he gets in my face and just stands there, I thought it'd be fine. But pressure forward put me on the fence. I had to throw him.
00:34:39
Speaker
It was there.
00:34:42
Speaker
So it looks like if you're in your focus in your training, what are you currently working on? the most? Are you working on your grappling? Are you working on your striking? Are you working on your, your jujitsu? So your mat skills are better. What are you, what are you focusing on going forward, looking at this fight?
00:35:00
Speaker
After this fight, I, um, I realized how my striking was, it was kind of flowing. It was flowing. I was feeling better with this. I felt very comfortable. And in my last fight, even though I did knock him out, my striking up to that point, I wasn't comfortable with.
00:35:17
Speaker
And me noticing that there's improvement, all I want to do is build from there. So right now I'm just heavy, just trying to get this striking to where I can depend on it more, you know, and not have to go to the ground too much.
00:35:31
Speaker
Need to get your Miyagi-san. to work with you on your i hear on your quick jabs. jebs for Your quick jabs and crosses and all that. Get those leg kicks incorporated real good because I watched some i was watching some videos the other day.
00:35:46
Speaker
fact, one of them was World's Strongest Man, Eddie Hall, taking a leg kick from an MMA fighter. And that last kick at 100% just took him right the fuck to the dirt. Took both his legs right out from underneath him and he screamed to call 911 because his muscle was swelling up. and I mean, obviously all in ha-has, but...
00:36:03
Speaker
I know from watching as many fights as I do, those guys utilize the leg kicks just to to wear the other guy down for the most part. Because if he's wobbly on his feet, that's when you've got your your chance for your, you know, he's focusing on his footwork at that point, so he's not focusing on protecting.
00:36:21
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. But I didn't know if you were, like, pushing more to get your to get your your ground game, your mat skills, your submission-type skills up more, or if you were just still working on your striking or, you know, what your what your main focus was after that fight.
00:36:37
Speaker
It's absolutely the striking. The jujitsu part, being on the ground, I mean – I am very dominant on the ground. I think, yeah, i slipped up. You know, i made a whoopsies and he got me.
00:36:49
Speaker
But that's a simple fix. You know, that's something I just got to avoid. It's a learn from your mistakes kind of a deal. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
00:36:58
Speaker
because I know just everybody's like, oh you know, this guy's such a good striker, but his ground game isn't up to par. Like, a oh, God, who's an example? like yeah i would I was going say Jon Jones, but even on the ground, he's he's lethal too. Just because of his size. Just because of his size.
00:37:17
Speaker
but if you If you had to look at like who else is out there, like top tier fighters right now, ah who are you looking? Who do you see? I know you're going to be just you, but who are you looking to maybe like emulate? like You know what I mean?
00:37:32
Speaker
Because everybody wants to be something. Yeah. Everybody has a role model or a or somebody they want to be like a protege Right. Like who's somebody you look up to and can see yourself. don't I don't think there's a fighter specifically that I look at and I'm like, you know, I want to be like him. I like his skills.
00:37:52
Speaker
I've really, cause when I got into MMA, it was the same time I got into UFC. I wasn't really a fan before I got into it. And so I kind of just grew with what I, when I started, I grew with the sport.
00:38:03
Speaker
um I kind of just, I have appreciations for every fighter's style and I like to learn from all different ones. uh like some examples i like the the top contenders in the bantamweight division right now like sean o'malley come on that guy's you know he's a stud with his striking and marab's such a dick as a person he's such a break dick as a person hey he like yeah as a person he's such a dick but his ring skills are there yeah
00:38:35
Speaker
yeah um Hey, Zeke, I know you gotta get ready for work, man. do want to thank you for jumping up here, and I would love to have you back again, man. I know I kind of ah your dad and I kind of sprung this on everybody last minute. Shout out to the guys, shout out to the chat, man.
00:38:52
Speaker
Um, but I would love to have you come back on, uh, and chat with you a little bit longer. And I'm sure the guys have, and I know I have some questions, uh, would love to like dive into your head a little bit more, and, and talk to you again, man, especially, as you start, you know, you continue training and, uh, when you got your next fight coming up, you know, I don't know if you know anything about that yet, or if you guys are working on getting that scheduled, but, um,
00:39:17
Speaker
definitely, definitely would love to have you come back up and, and promote you some more. And like I said, I threw a follow your way on Insta. We're going to, I'm going to share out some of your stuff on, and do our, like our story and stuff like that, man.
00:39:30
Speaker
Well, I'm excited, man. When your dad first told me about you, And then sent some pictures and videos. I'm like, I'm excited for this kid. I'm definitely, I want to see where you go with this, with this fighting, because at 19 years old, you're an absolute monster.
00:39:44
Speaker
And I want to see you get that belt from that dude, because that, like I said, after that first year round, the last thing that guy wanted to do was stand and and bang with you. You wanted no business with that. So, you know, as you,
00:39:55
Speaker
learn and progress and and you get better with your ground game and stuff like that, man, I think that second shot you get, you're going home with that belt. so Thank you. know we'll we'll I'll let you jump off here and like I said, i I'll get with your dad and like I said, we'd love to have you back if you're down for it, man, and and talk to you some more ah and and just watch you grow, man, and watch you grow as a fighter and not only as a fighter but as a person too. You to put his ins up so people can follow him?
00:40:24
Speaker
What is your Insta? If you don't mind. Do I just like type it in the comments or something? Yeah, you can. or i can actually yeah My dad said he'll put it in the chat.
00:40:38
Speaker
There you go. That works. Just because I got my phone up, I'm going throw a follow-up and check out some of your stuff. cause i In the last two years, I've gotten very much into the MMA team.
00:40:50
Speaker
you know, watching and stuff. And and Glick knows but a lot of Saturdays when I come up on on his Saturday fucking free for all, I usually have the Saturday night fights on in the background. So, and I've worked my mom and I split pay-per-views. So I watch watched the last few pay-per-views.
00:41:05
Speaker
That's awesome. So um I've gotten pretty big into it. And my son, when he, once he black belts in Taekwondo, he wants to move into BJJ and possibly go into, um,
00:41:18
Speaker
possibly go into like my buddy Warren's place and learn in cage fighting. That'd be awesome. but's The sport's fun, man.
00:41:29
Speaker
yeah it's It's fun. It's fun. It's fun. I enjoy getting my head kicked in It's fun. right yeah
00:41:41
Speaker
No, got enjoy it, man. it is ah it is a It is ah an exciting sport to watch. I mean, I can... i've ah I can only imagine what it's like to be in that moment, that that adrenaline rush when you get in the cage, the buildup, that first time you get hit. I've been punched in the face a lot in my life, not necessarily in sanctioned fights or anything like that. It's usually bars or a parking lot or something like that.
00:42:05
Speaker
But I know that it's that and that initial adrenaline rush, that first time you get cracked, man. But to be able to be fighting for something. Put me a name in that. in that in that chatterbox. It'll be the Z-E-K. I can't type all that shit.
00:42:20
Speaker
The Z-E-K, the I and the E, or the two E's. That's just the that's the Instagram name. Okay. There you go. Put that up right there.
00:42:32
Speaker
There's his Instagram. they Give a follow. Go show the kids some love. Bro, like I said, I'll Go get ready for work. I know you got priorities, brother. You're welcome back anytime, man. Not just on Sunday.
00:42:47
Speaker
You know, if you're around on a Saturday and your dad's hanging out with us, you're welcome to pop in and say hello. But we would definitely love to have you come back on a on a Sunday where we can spend a little bit more time with you and and get to learn a little bit more about you.
00:43:01
Speaker
What's going on in your head? What you're doing? What you're where you're heading and all that stuff. All right, man. yeah Yeah, buddy. I'm all for it. Thank you, guys. Love to have more conversation. Yeah, man. It was good to meet you.
00:43:11
Speaker
Nice meeting all you guys. You guys have a good rest of your day. You too.
Ezekiel's Father's Perspective
00:43:15
Speaker
You do the same, bro. Good luck, man. Do you think stay hungry and keep digging? Yes, sir. Hey, take your coffee.
00:43:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah. There you it go. Take your coffee. I appreciate you guys. I didn't even know he had hair because he always has a hood on usually, so fucks me up.
00:43:34
Speaker
No, man, absolutely. Thank you for having him come up. you got a good kid right there, man. And he's impressive. I told you from that first fight, he he' is impressive, man. At 19 years old, he's got some skills and he's got some talent.
00:43:47
Speaker
I didn't realize he'd only been doing that for less than a year. I didn't realize it even until he said it. And then ah then I thought about it. I like, holy crap. He's, yeah, he's only been doing it not even all a year. that yeah like is That speaks volumes, man.
00:44:01
Speaker
Less than a year in. What's up? How does that make you feel? good arm kids Knowing your kids climbing and they're in a cage with a grown-ass man who's literally trying to demolish his face.
00:44:14
Speaker
And you have to sit there and like trust that he knows what he's doing enough to not get his face rearranged. Well, I mean, he he he was, out of all my four kids, he was the one. He was the fighter.
00:44:27
Speaker
He was the one. So i was like, yeah, you'll be all right. it Makes sense. This makes perfect sense, actually. Yeah, you know, all my kids are different. He was the one who was stubborn and did it his own way and would get in trouble, and he was the fighter. So I was like, well.
00:44:44
Speaker
Makes sense. But the last fight, and he thought it was weird because he just, he fought a a grown man with a family and and, you know, and I was like, no, that's weird for me because I was like, I'm used to my kid doing wrestling and and wrestling people his own age.
00:45:00
Speaker
And then I saw him and i was like, this is a guy, is a man. this isn't This isn't a kid. Like I still picture my kid. Like this guy could grow a full fucking beard.
00:45:12
Speaker
Yeah. He's got tattoos all over. like When he wrestles another kid, I can't be like, you know, um' if the kid does something wrong like to him, I'm like, I'm going go talk to his dad. I'm going to go, me his dad can have words.
00:45:24
Speaker
This guy, I was like, well, he's a grown-ass man. you going to go out of words to another grown-ass man? He's an MMA fighter. But I got to get going. yeah You guys are awesome. Those are great questions. You guys have an awesome day, man. Thank you for ah doing that. Thanks, Chaka. It's good to see you, buddy.
00:45:43
Speaker
got You too, brother, man. Definitely appreciate it, man. Have a good one. You too. Bye. So, sorry I kind of impromptu sprung that on you guys, but it all kind of just.
00:45:55
Speaker
I'm so pissed off that I wasn't prepared with questions. Oh my God. Derek, i didn't even have the right questions.
00:46:06
Speaker
and I know. a Click. Click out of here. Awesome. No, so shout out to you guys. Kind of out of nowhere, but it was right on the ball.
00:46:21
Speaker
Um, But, uh, yeah, Chaka, Chaka popped up last night. We got to talking about the the fight and I was like, dude, I'd love to have your son come up on Sunday. Let me know. little more Schedule wise. About an hour or two later, he's like, Hey, you can come up tomorrow. i was like, Oh shit. Yeah. So, um,
00:46:39
Speaker
talking another a party yeah so ah But like I said, you know it's
Savannah Bananas Baseball Experience
00:46:45
Speaker
cool. with When the opportunity is there to get to talk to somebody in the sports world, us being a sports show, yep obviously I'm going to jump all over it. you know Whatever sport that may be. but You're not done yet. Such young kid, man. Did you get under there?
00:46:58
Speaker
He's got a really good head on his shoulder. side how would you pick all that Would you pick those three pairs of shoes up and get right there too, please? Can you flip his bed up and get underneath it? Very neat. No, I want it done right. so Sorry. Hey, check this out.
00:47:14
Speaker
Nice. one of that She got to meet one of the players. one of the One of the bananas was walking up through the crowd last night in the middle of the game, and Peyton goes, I'm going to go down and get my picture taken with him. And I'm like, who? Where? And then I see her going downstairs, and I see these, like, there's, like, 12 people there. And I was oh, there's a banana in the crowd.
00:47:30
Speaker
There's a banana in the crowd. And he autographed her forearm, because why not have him sign her shirt that's her softball jersey that she's wearing? Let's just let him mark her on my arm.
00:47:44
Speaker
Yeah. Which makes sense. That'll wash away in a little while. I will fucking stab you. Why? I got my neck. Seems like I was going to have him sign my neck. What? Or six beside my phone My God. i would have So I got a quick video clip.
00:48:01
Speaker
And how do I set it to you so you can post it on like while we're here doing this? Because I do want to talk about the Savannah Bananas because it was really yeah a super neat experience that a lot of people, like those tickets sell out in record speed.
00:48:13
Speaker
oh yeah they sell out like So how should I send this video to you? Shoot it over to me on WhatsApp. Oh, for fucks. It'll automatically save you. I was going to ask you. I know you sent me a ton of videos from the game last night.
00:48:33
Speaker
Snapchats and whatnot, and I was trying to keep up with it. um
00:48:41
Speaker
a Anything, anything, um, in the sports world that, that, that, oh, I've seen a headline. Tennessee beat Kentucky.
00:48:53
Speaker
That's all I got to say. Yeah, let's go Vols. Tennessee beat Kentucky Friday night. And now, here in 20 minutes, they're playing Houston. I'm actually watching the Michigan Panthers versus the Memphis Steamboats in the UFL right now.
00:49:09
Speaker
That's what I'm watching. Michigan is up 10 to 6. Michigan State and here's playing Auburn at 5.05. And Duke knocked Alabama out late last night for those didn't see it.
00:49:22
Speaker
That game ended around 11.30-ish. They beat them by 20. We're just going to run the vacuum one more time, but you can't do that while i'm doing this. so on hold and Hold on. Hold on. Don't put that up.
00:49:36
Speaker
Did you get around both the toilets with the broom? ah um I don't believe you. Speaking of Tennessee, and now I'm trying to find it.
00:49:48
Speaker
Tennessee Titans. Supposedly, there's a rumor mill that Tennessee could potentially trade their draft pick for one Mr. T.J. Watt from the Steelers.
00:50:03
Speaker
Their number one draft pick? Yeah.
00:50:08
Speaker
Do you know what benefits they would have? Just sell the team already. No, no, no, no, no. The way that they've been signing for games that are just nobody.
00:50:20
Speaker
There's a benefit to that. There's one benefit to that. JJ said if TJ ever left the Steelers, he would come out of retirement to play with his brother. We still don't have offensive line, so it doesn't matter how good the defense is.
00:50:34
Speaker
we're got We have to keep the deep defense to zero so that we can win game. Defense wins championships. yeah Yeah. Not now. when you're not scoring points.
00:50:45
Speaker
hey Yeah, they want points. They want points on the board. Again, again this is just this is just a rumor. Not sure if it's true or not. They had another visit this week with Cam Ward already. They're taking Cam Ward. Yeah, I think you guys are going to take Cam Ward.
00:51:06
Speaker
Yeah, they're just entertaining stuff like that for whatever reason. But I lean to, yeah, they're taking Cam Ward. Yeah. That's a rumor for you. like i I'm like, whatever. You know what? I hope I'm wrong. I hope he turns out to be the next coming. You know what I'm saying? But i don't think he's it.
00:51:27
Speaker
It'll be another bust and whatever. Well, that's just because he doesn't have anybody to protect him long enough to make the throw. Yeah. Well, not only that, I mean, like, the Hurricanes, man, ah haven't really had,
00:51:44
Speaker
like a real season for a long time. Like who are they playing? Who is he beating? What defensive schemes is he playing against? I'm really beaten that can, that could say he's ready for the NFL.
00:51:58
Speaker
I'm not seeing it. So exactly. Did you watch that? That's, the fun that's, I mean, I mean, you guys do need a quarterback. Well, we we do need a quarterback, but.
00:52:11
Speaker
That's why I'm saying like we should be making trades to get a pick for next year. ah there' you know what I mean? That's just – I just have the heads up. There's so many pieces to put together anyway. like we If we're going to waste the year on this kid, we can waste the year on something else. you know Yeah, exactly.
00:52:34
Speaker
I'll be there in about 10 minutes. No. i like I like what their quote-unquote, you know, everybody does the draft projection, what they prospect. ah Cleveland, they're saying that they're going to, with that number two pick, that they might, they're looking at the kid from Penn State, that defensive end, who's an absolute fucking monster, and pairing him up with Miles Garrett.
00:52:56
Speaker
And then if he's available, because we, we still have to answer our quarterback situation as well. We're in the same boat as you guys, uh, either second or third round picking up, uh, what's his name? Jackson dart out of old miss, which I would not be. And here's the thing that kid will turn out to be better than ward and Sanders. Yeah. I don't, um,
00:53:19
Speaker
um mean goes but i don't I don't foresee Sanders being... he's man and i'm and and unless i'm Until I'm proven wrong, my stance on Sanders is he's all hype.
00:53:35
Speaker
All hype. And then you get a bunch of people that I see online trying to make it racist. Like, oh, because he's black. more I'm so over racing. I know. I'm like, dude, it's got nothing to do with it. I could care less if he was purple.
00:53:50
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? like I want to see the talent. I want to see the proof, you know what I mean, of what it is. And I don't see it with neither one of them. I don't care if they were white. Okay. yeah as this is They could be ghost white, could be Casper white. you know, that was another thing. That was another thing I got to address real quick is, is motherfuckers.
00:54:14
Speaker
And this goes out to just the general population. Keep your fucking political beliefs and your racist rhetoric and all that bullshit. Keep it out of sports.
00:54:24
Speaker
We were at the game last night. We were at the Savannah Bananas game last night, right? This is supposed to be a family fun event. This is a goofy baseball game. No real actual baseball type rules, you know?
00:54:36
Speaker
And there's a woman walking around with a shirt on and making sure that she's standing out like a sore thumb with a fucking mohawk cut. And her shirt says, proud to be woke instead of an ignorant racist.
00:54:52
Speaker
Why? Why? why Why? I mean, I might have that if i had an eight-year-old or a nine-year-old kid, why would I want my fucking kids seeing that?
00:55:03
Speaker
We're there for a family event to have fun. Keep your bullshit to yourself. but I'm so sick of it. I'm so tired of that. And I'm tired of hearing about it and every fucking comment about, you know, Dion or Shadour or Travis Hunter or any of these players.
00:55:18
Speaker
I'm tired of the old players like like Cam Newton and shit like that bringing it up and saying this wouldn't be the case if if it was a white receiver a white quarterback or this. I'm sick of it.
00:55:29
Speaker
Like, quit. I'm with you. Just fucking enjoy the game for what it is. These players are are paid to play a game that you enjoy watching. Keep all the other bullshit out of it.
00:55:41
Speaker
Yeah. Anyway, that's where I stand. And and I just had to get that out because seeing that yesterday while we were out there doing our thing just irritated the fuck out of me.
00:55:53
Speaker
That made me so mad. But in other news, Tennessee beat Kentucky. You did say that. I know. I'm just happy about it. um The Bills extended Christian Benford.
00:56:08
Speaker
Big time extension. Got four years at 76 million.
00:56:15
Speaker
So that was a great one. And the Ravens just extended our ball. I got a rock and roll. I got family waiting on me. We got some family events to go do.
00:56:28
Speaker
So... I'm going to go do that. don't know Glick's talking to, but it's not us. It's not us. No, he's talking to somebody.
00:56:39
Speaker
Well, it was good to see good to see you, Attorney Dirk. Appreciate you popping Attorney Doug. Attorney Doug. ah attorney attorney doug oh Yeah, man, definitely. And I'll be back on next week and stuff, too, because I'm not going anywhere for a while.
00:56:55
Speaker
You say that. all Family, family. oh Yeah, I know, right? I know. And then I'll be like, oh, yeah, going. Right. Yeah, exactly. ah But anyway, it was cool. It was good to talk to that kid, Zeke.
00:57:11
Speaker
He does look a good fighter. I look forward to talking to him again. and Yeah, I'll see y'all next week. We will be here, bro. All right, see y'all.
00:57:22
Speaker
Later, homie. See ya. And Glick, I can't hear you, but I'm out.
00:57:32
Speaker
Currently have a women's basketball. Number one, South Carolina versus number two, Duke in women's college right now in the halftime. South Carolina up by four.
00:57:45
Speaker
So that should be a a stellar game for those that want to watch the women's women's basketball. We won't lose basketball. You finally came back to chat. Yeah, sorry about that. I was i talking to Nikki.
00:57:59
Speaker
Well, Derek said, fuck you, he's leaving because you're ignoring him, so he left. I wasn't ignoring him. You were. Damn you, Derek. Well, I was kind of ignoring you guys, but but not ah not intentionally. I think he was trying to find stuff that she misplaced last night. Yeah. Did she misplaced last night?
00:58:20
Speaker
Yeah. i was through ah Through a tied one-on deal. Yeah. it was It was a good night last night. in the So I managed to catch the final out of the game last night on that video that I just sent you on WhatsApp.
00:58:35
Speaker
Oh, nice. Which is pretty cool. And if you watch it, right there at the end of the video, he caught the ball doing a backflip. Oh, shit.
00:58:46
Speaker
Yeah. So they get they get extra points for for doing tricks. e Nice. Nice. I didn't know how that worked. Let me see. Well, Derek, if you got your ears on, bro, it my apologies. I wasn't trying to be a dick, so i't I didn't didn't hear. You're supposed to have all your shit organized before we start, bro.
00:59:05
Speaker
Come on.
00:59:08
Speaker
I mean, i was kind of thrown for a loop today. It's been one of those weird... Well, come on now. and Go ahead and show it.
00:59:18
Speaker
Yeah, so so I was at the Savannah Bananas last night, and i was just – I don't remember what the hell I was trying to catch right there. So there was the hit, and right on the edge, the right side of the screen, you'll see the catch with the backflip, and then the other guy in the field does a cartwheel back handspring, and that's how the game ended right there.
00:59:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah. That's awesome. So something else that was cool that they did was the Bananas brought up, a former Atlanta Brave Hall of Famer World Series ring wearing Charlie Culberson to bat for them i one on one.
00:59:53
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And at one point, he was behind... on two strikes. And I'm sitting here in my head going, man, this kid pitching for the party animals was the other team has got to be riding on his high horse right now, knowing that he's got hall of famer world series winner, Charlie Culberson behind on two.
01:00:16
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Like, that's got to make you feel really, really good as somebody who didn't ever play pro ball, to have somebody who is a World Series winner behind the count. Like, you're you're throwing – and they weren't, like – this wasn't just no bullshit pitching. Like, the first pitcher of the game was throwing gas. Like, he was throwing in at 90-plus.
01:00:38
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Bam. Like, it was – It was neat. are aren Aren't most of the guys in the bananas and the party animals and stuff like that, like they're they former college athletes and stuff like that. Yes, they at least played in college.
01:00:53
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mostage just they just They just didn't get the – or maybe they did get the opportunity to play in and in major league. ah some of them some of them Some of them went to semi-pros. Yeah.
01:01:08
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A lot of them were in at a college, stuff like that. you know it was It was pretty neat to watch. It was really neat because get a little backstory on everybody, too, while they're playing. and you know They fill you in a little bit on stuff. and one of A couple of the guys last night were actually from Atlanta. and One of them that plays for the Bananas was an Atlanta-born kid.
01:01:27
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When he would come up to bat, They would play clips that, like, his mom had prerecorded, talking about how proud of him she was and this, that, and the other, and then he would get the bat. And, like, his aunt changed his walk-up song, and I can't remember what the hell she changed it to.
01:01:41
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But it was it was pretty cool. Like, all in all, so they don't play it like your normal innings. debate I mean, they play the normal innings, but it's not a nine-inning game. They put a two-hour time limit on the game. Yeah.
01:01:53
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They're not allowed to step out of the batter's box. So once you're in and swinging, like the pitches just keep coming. Like you're not, you're not stepping out of the batter's box. So it really progresses the game along very, very quickly.
01:02:07
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Yeah. So, I mean, they got through, they got through all of it and, and including all the little breaks they take, they do all sorts of goofy, like they did the world's slowest race.
01:02:19
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on the field in between innings where there was like 11 people brought out their less than one year old babies, set them on the field. And then they ran down behind the finish line, which was like 25 feet away and tried to coax their baby to crawl across the finish line.
01:02:34
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Like it was the world's slowest race is ultimately what it was. So it was neat. There was a lot of, they just do a lot of silly things to incorporate a lot of family fun in the, in the game.
01:02:45
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Their music plays the whole entire game literally the whole game and it was just like at one point two of the party animals walked up one of them had a bride's veil on his head they walked up arm in arm singing from this moment by shania twain as he walked up to take the bat like it was just there was just a lot of fun to it so it was it was really neat it was definitely fun Yeah, mean hearing people who have gone and seeing different video clips and and different clips and whatnot.
01:03:21
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um Yeah, it looks like it'd be a really fun experience. And, you know, like you said, there's always something going on. There's no like. Yeah, there's no slow in that game.
01:03:32
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yeah And there's stuff going on all over the field. Yeah, there we go Thanks, Will. That's what I was looking for. Minor league players. Yeah. While they're doing stuff, the guys in the outfield are playing catch with a football with fans.
01:03:46
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but like its It's wild, dude. It's wild. it's so go I'm sitting there and all of a sudden the banana band, which they have their own fucking marching band, just comes walking through the causeway behind us playing music just as loud as it gets.
01:04:00
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I'm like, what the fuck? There's a fucking marching band behind me and there's a game going on on the field. Yeah. like It was crazy. It was it was a lot of fun, though.
01:04:11
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Hell yeah. So it was it was pretty neat. Hell yeah. And, you know, speaking of baseball, the season opener was the other how'd your Reds do? ah Lost the first game to the Giants and won the second game. So we are currently 1-1 on the season.
01:04:33
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We are, I believe, the Braves are 0-2 right now against the Padres. Ouch. Ouch. Yeah, the Padres. The Reds are actually playing the Giants right now. It's the bottom of the third.
01:04:49
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No, Atlanta's 0-3. I'm sorry. The Padres are three and l So the Padres have beaten Atlanta three times already. just Just swept them in that first series.
01:05:03
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So, yeah, so baseball's back. um yesterday Yesterday, the other night, um, Sidney Crosby of the Penguins broke. What record did he break?
01:05:18
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He broke Wayne Gretzky's record of most points in a season, I believe. Okay. ah Yeah, most most points per game for game season. so and And your boy, I believe, is six goals away from breaking Gretzky's record.
01:05:38
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Got to be regular season though, right? Yeah, regular it's regular season, I believe. How many games are left? There are let me see here. There are, but who does it?
01:05:53
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It's the Senators. That's who he plays for.
01:05:58
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Who plays for the Sens? Or not the Sens. Is Washington? Is that who O.B. plays for? the cap Yeah, Capitol. Yeah, Washington. Yeah, which is where um' I'm at. I'm looking at their schedule.
01:06:10
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There is one.
01:06:17
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There is 10 games left in the season.
NHL Updates and Aaron Rodgers' Future
01:06:21
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I think the stats people, they said that he has a 64 point something percent chance of breaking the record.
01:06:30
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Breaking the record. And then there's like an even higher percentage of him at least tying the record. But in 10 games, yeah, I think i think I think he'll he's going to break it.
01:06:43
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Is this goals or is this points? Goals. Okay. So he needs six more goals in 10 games.
01:06:54
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What is this? I hope every time he goes to shoot his stick breaks.
01:07:00
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So this is the all-time goals record. So. If he doesn't break it this year, he's going to break it next. Oh, so it's a career career thing. Yeah.
01:07:11
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So it's not just in a regular season. Yeah. Okay. Then I can't stop it because he's still got two or three more seasons left, so he'll get it, no doubt. I mean, he is 40. So, I mean, he's definitely going to play in hockey. Dude, Yager played until I think he was like 50.
01:07:29
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He's still playing. What's up, bro? Not in the NHL. No, he is...
01:07:38
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Where is he at? He is 53 years old. Sorry. For what? Okay. ah Get your headset.
01:07:52
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So he is he is the he is still playing. He is the owner of a Czech team, and he's still playing there.
01:08:02
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Interesting. I did not know.
01:08:08
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Yeah, I knew he was still... ah Yeah, he in the ELH.
01:08:18
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ELH or EHL? ELH is the highest level of ice hockey in the Czech Republic, and it was recruited in 1993. What are you playing?
01:08:29
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what do he you blame so And he... He is still playing for the team he owns, which is the Rotiri Klondos something or another. Here, there we go.
01:08:43
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um In other NHL news, the Utah Hockey Club has selected a name. Have they finally? I know that they had it up for vote. Next year, they will be the Utah Mammoth.
01:08:59
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That's right. and idea i love everybody i like it. I like it. I like it. I like what they picked for the that the the look of the the team's emblem. I like it.
01:09:10
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a I do like it. It looks really, really cool. I think it's a good choice for them. I think it's very fitting. um I think they're stupid for having another hockey team out there, but whatever. That's what we needed was another West Coast hockey team.
01:09:24
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Why not, man? A little old. little Little hockey, little Mormon hockey out there in Utah. Yeah, right. Right.
01:09:36
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Some of them fucking families have enough kids to so put together a ah hockey team. something do
01:09:49
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We still have in the NFL the the Aaron Rodgers saga. off yeah and so We actually really don't. There's really only one team left for him to look at. Either agree your deal with the fucking Steelers or leave.
01:10:05
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Like, you're out of choices at this point. Well, ah this article that came out where the Aaron Rodgers, it said the Minnesota Vikings no don't close the door on Aaron Rodgers, but will not offer him a starting job.
01:10:23
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He will be in the backup to J.J.
01:10:28
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The Vikings are all in on J.J. I mean, more power to him. But Aaron Rodgers needs to either seal his deal with the Steelers or leave. Because at this point, both the New York teams are off the table for him because they both took the Steelers quarterbacks.
01:10:44
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Yeah. So. Exactly. um yeah Excuse me. Currently, I just want to update real quick. Currently, women's Duke is beating women's South Carolina 33-32, that is number one and number two in basketball right now for them.
01:11:05
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Really? Yep.
01:11:11
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Hell yeah. Not that anybody watches women's basketball, let's be honest. This is college, so I'd still watch that over WNBA any day of the week. People just started watching WNBA this year, and that was because of Caitlin Clark. And that was the only reason they watched women's college basketball the last three years or four years or whatever it was.
01:11:29
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Because Iowa certainly hasn't been relevant since she left.
01:11:35
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I don't really think there's much major news going on. Like I said, we're gearing up for the draft in the NFL, and you have all the –
01:11:48
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the predictions and the, you know, the analysis, you know, who's going where, what we think is going to happen, da-da-da-da-da. Apparently, the Raiders are leading very heavy heavy on Ashton Chenty, though.
01:12:01
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Are they? that what they're saying? Mm-hmm. Like Derek said, when he was up here, you know, it seems like Tennessee's basically, at this point, almost all in on on Cam Ward.
01:12:14
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Yeah.
01:12:17
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Yep. um
01:12:25
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I don't know, man. There's a lot going on that's going to come in the draft. I'm not a big fan of the draft class. I don't think it looks super good. But who am I, you know? There's, like I said, there's a couple there's there's a couple guys in the draft that I'm curious. like ah Like I said, I'm definitely curious to see where Jackson Dart ends up. I think he's going to be the sleeper quarterback coming out of this draft class.
01:12:49
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I'm definitely keeping my eye on that defensive end out of Penn State. I can't remember his name right off the top my head, but the kid is an absolute fucking teller. I'm watching to see where Cam Scadaboo goes. That's really what I want to see. I want to see where Scadaboo lands. I want to see where Gentile lands.
01:13:06
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Like I said, the Raiders seem to be locked in and wanting to take
01:13:20
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to Anybody else on the top?
01:13:24
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The draft is what it is. Like I said, there's nobody really screaming out to me that's going to be a standout player. um So
01:13:34
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nobody that's truly holding my attention like that. Yeah. Exactly. There's definitely not a quarterback really worth screaming about.
01:13:46
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So. Yeah. College basketball is coming down to the Final Four now. They are officially into the Final Four. So it'll be interesting to see where that ends up. ah Duke's still in it. I don't even know who's still in it, to be honest with you.
01:14:03
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I haven't done enough. Duke is in it.
Elite Eight Games Discussion
01:14:09
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um Let's see. i bought a Duke's playing right now. Tennessee's playing Houston right now. so you got This is still the Elite Eight. Yeah, you've got Auburn and Michigan State.
01:14:23
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Yep, that's today too. for to dumbbe um Florida Texas Tech. So got Florida and Duke and then the winner of the Tennessee-Houston and Auburn-Michigan State game.
01:14:38
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ye And it literally is down to the guys that were in their region ranked 1 and 2. Yep, exactly. No Cinderella stories this year.
01:14:50
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Yeah, this might be one of those this might be one of those. You don't see very often where the 1 and 2 teams make it or the 1 seeds make it. but All the way in. there's but Yeah, there's potential that houston all i mean Houston, Auburn, Florida, and Duke, all one seats could be in. But I'm pulling for Tennessee, man. I'm hoping the Vols get in there.
01:15:11
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It would be nice to see the Big Ten represented, even if it is little brother. So I have Duke in one and Tennessee another in another one. I had Michigan in one and Duke in the other.
01:15:25
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well My Michigan one was just kind of a... Your Michigan one actually has more points than your Duke one. I know, and that was my fucking round one. Like, I'm looking at it right now, like, only you and I did it, and right now, we're tied.
01:15:39
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or no, I'm ahead of you, sorry. I am 470 on my top. So... a It's funny, because we go, one, I'm one, you're two, I'm three, you're four.
01:15:51
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Yeah, what... what what What killed me was I had ah couple teams that went to the Final Four that lost early.
01:16:02
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Gonzaga being one of those teams. Not the Final Four. Oh, you had them going to the Final Four. No, I had them going into the Elite Eight or something like that. um And they lost early.
01:16:15
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um my
01:16:21
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I had like Kansas State going into
01:16:26
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the Elite Eight and Gonzaga, and then I had...
01:16:36
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Actually, I think I had Gonzaga in the Final Four. Or no, i had them going and losing to Duke. And then I had KU losing to...
01:16:49
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are going. turn But nonetheless, my bracket got, my bracket got shit, shit on early. So, but yeah, the one, the one that I was fucking around with has more points than my other one. That's funny.
01:17:07
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Ole Miss. I agree. um But nonetheless, like I said, not a whole lot.
Sports Season Transitions
01:17:15
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I mean, if baseball's kicking off. Basketball's winding down. NBA's winding down. I think they've got seven or eight more games left in the regular season, and then we'll be getting into the playoffs, which I'll be watching a lot more of the playoffs. I'll be watching and NBA once we hit the playoffs because obviously I'll be watching my Cavs and hopefully watching them go all the way into the NBA finals against Oklahoma. that would I think I'd be ah
01:17:43
Speaker
awesome championship series to watch between the two of them being and the two best teams in the league all season long. Hockey's getting ready to gear up for the Stanley Cup. Like I said, I think they've got 10 games left. i think that's what I said.
01:17:58
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So I think Columbus has all but done everything they possibly could to knock themselves out of playoff contention. Oh, that's comforting, right?
01:18:09
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Yeah. I mean, they're two points. Well, they're two points. i mean they're too
01:18:15
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I mean, yeah, they could. They're two points behind a wild card spot. So if they go on a tear and start winning some games, they could potentially slide back into the wild card spot where they've been hanging out at.
01:18:27
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Yeah, Buffalo, it don't get no worse than when you score a goal on yourself. Oh, my God, you're still going on that. Jesus. Still going on that.
01:18:39
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Yeah. That's when you know your season's pretty bad.
01:18:45
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If it wasn't already bad beforehand, it got really bad at that moment. You're terrible. oh I might be terrible, but I know Buffalo Sabres terrible.
01:18:56
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You're right. At least you guys have the bills. you Yep. Another team of disappointment. yeah It's like in Cleveland.
01:19:06
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You got the Browns. Yeah. but we got the Indians and Cavaliers. They usually do pretty well.
01:19:15
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Uh, yeah. Oh, u l the NFL season started, uh, this week. um As we said earlier, uh, we are watching, uh, I'm watching, uh, Michigan, uh, currently, uh, was, it was a pretty good game.
01:19:30
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Uh, and Michigan has since come out and started putting a whooping all over Memphis. Uh, Brian actually went to, um, The Houston Roughnecks game Friday night or Friday. so Good for him.
01:19:51
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I wonder if he smokes a rib to take with him. Jerk. I
01:19:59
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i just went and picked up a couple of groceries with Wyatt before we started and I picked up a deal on a couple of New York strip steaks. I got two strip steaks, two pounds worth of steak, one pound each on the strips at $11. I was pretty excited.
01:20:13
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Hell yeah. Not mad at that. but Nope. Yeah, man. kind of a Kind of a low-key Sunday for us here. Sorry. um you know Kind of impromptu sprung Zeke on. No, that was fun, dude. That was fun.
01:20:26
Speaker
I'm glad because, like you know, I follow MMA pretty closely, so i knew i knew a lot to talk to him about, too. Um, yeah no I wish we'd had more time with him. That would have been really cool. If we have got a solid two hours of him.
01:20:39
Speaker
Yeah. Shout out to Chaka for, for hooking that up. We'll definitely have, like I said, we'll definitely have him back in, but, uh, it's it's It's kind of – there's not a lot going on in sports right now. I mean, there's a lot going on, but there's not a lot going on. You know what mean? A lot of it's just updating on things. It's not – like there's no major yeah information on anything super, super exciting going
Recap of Recent MMA Fights
01:20:59
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on. March Madness is March Madness. It is what it is.
01:21:02
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Yep. It's not – I mean, the next – the next round of games is going to be probably the most important because it's final four. So, yeah. um You know, like I said, baseball's just kicking off. UFO is just kicking off.
01:21:15
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Now we are like, you know, we will have lots to talk about when a Stanley cup playoffs start and the NBA finals start. Yeah. And then we've got the NFL draft right around the freaking corner.
01:21:27
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ah So and nothing major happened last night in the fights in the fight night. So that wasn't anything super crazy worth right now. I'm about, I'm going to assume that ah I didn't know any of the fighters.
01:21:39
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ah You might have. think Brandon Moreno was one of them. Oh, that name sounds familiar. Yeah, I think he was one of them. I'll tell you who fought last night real quick.
Savannah Bananas Game Experience
01:21:49
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Yeah, Brandon Moreno beat Steve Erkig.
01:21:54
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Nice. Let's see. You don't know who Markel Medeiros is, but he won by decision. You don't know who Jamal Emers is, but he won by KO.
01:22:06
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Let's see. Lupi Godinez, the female fighter, she won by decision over Julia Palastri. Lupi's really good. She's a really good Mexican fighter.
01:22:18
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Okay. and Really good Mexican fighter. um
01:22:27
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CJ Vergara got submitted last night. That doesn't surprise me. And then Brandon Moreno won by decision, so.
01:22:34
Speaker
Wasn't a whole lot that went on there last night. Not a whole lot going on in general, actually. Like i said, I went to the Savannah Bananas game. That was a great time. um lot of fun. of any I recommend if anybody can get tickets and they want to take their kids, um that's that'll be it'd be great. The kids will have a blast.
01:22:53
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Be prepared to spend an arm and a leg on things because they're fucking expensive, as with almost anything out there. A t-shirt was $32, so we didn't buy any t-shirts.
01:23:04
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The jerseys were $65. Dang. Yeah, it was fucking ridiculous. Parking was stupid, but that's Atlanta. I'm not surprised by that at all. Yeah, that's that's typical for Atlanta. No big shocker being in Atlanta. I got paid $21 to park, which wasn't terrible.
01:23:26
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But if I'd have parked in the parking deck um right at the stadium, it would have been $60.
Motorsports and Personal Plans
01:23:34
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motorsports is where it's at yeah well hopefully uh we'll see what hopefully we'll hear what's going on in the motorsport world tomorrow night wally yeah we don't we don't want to steal his thunder on that for sure um but no uh like i said we uh man unless you got anything extra i said bro i got nothing today we're we can we can wrap this up pretty good i got shit i gotta to do here at the house too um we can bury this this horse today and uh I was also not being home yesterday um and stuff like that. I didn't have time to do a lot of mental prep, getting knowing the knowledge of things that were going on or whatever. so
01:24:12
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Yeah, no like I said, I kind of... Yeah, I kind of ah kind of threw the curveball on everybody today with Zeke, but no, I'm glad we were able to get him on. Well, I was totally cool with that. I just didn't watch anything yesterday, so I didn't have a whole lot of knowledge and shit to talk about. so Nick, he started a new a new job yesterday, and I went and went up there and hung out because we've got some friends that work there as well.
01:24:37
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They had soccer on all day. I like, why is there soccer on? like There's so much other stuff to watch. yeah so I wasn't home hardly at all yesterday myself.
01:24:50
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Such is life, right? Yeah, exactly. but no Thank you guys for hanging out. Kind of a kind of a but Sunday.
Guest Gratitude and Podcast Promotion
01:25:01
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Shout out to Zeke, man, and and Shaka. Appreciate them coming up and hanging out.
01:25:06
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And getting to meet Zeke and everything like that. Definitely looking forward to hanging out with him again in the future. um If you guys aren't already, go and check us out. We are everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok shows live Monday through Sunday. We kick off the week.
01:25:19
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good spot Tomorrow night with Wally with Speedway Story. She's going covering all things in the motorsports world. Tuesday night, Clicks House of Music is back, as always. And I have Callie from Callie and the Boot and Rally will be joining me.
01:25:36
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We're going to catch up. She's got the new album that come out a bunch of new songs that are coming out. So we're going to catch up there. And Blaze will actually be joining us tomorrow night because Blaze is a big fan of Cali. And I told him the next time she was up, he would definitely be a part of it if he wanted to be.
01:25:52
Speaker
So he'll be up with me Tuesday night with Callie. Wednesday, I'll be back with What the Fuck News. ah Thursday, Wally's back again with Cold-Blooded Conversations, talking all things in the reptile world, man.
01:26:05
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um Friday, Blaze is back. I think Mike will be with him. I think it's going to be a new permanent ah spot with Michael. They'll be watching or talking or doing something.
01:26:17
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Uh, Michael is a standup comedian here from Ohio, uh, that blaze met through another podcast and him and Mike kind of hit it off. And, uh, they, they do have good conversations together.
01:26:29
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um Mike's pretty cool dude. I got to hang out with him Friday night when we did trivia. Um, so he's gonna, I think he's going to be blaze his new cohost moving forward, which is awesome.
01:26:40
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Um, because they do, they do have good chemistry together.
Wrestling Nostalgia and Farewells
01:26:43
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uh, They both ah know a lot about a lot when it comes to movies. So ah I don't know what they're going to be doing this Friday, but tune into nonsense and chill Friday night. And then Saturday we're back acting crazy, acting up, acting foolish on nonsensical nonsense.
01:26:59
Speaker
Don't forget cash is corners. Also back next Saturday. We are on the road to WrestleMania. So we're going to be talking about WrestleMania and, Some other things that are going on revolving around WrestleMania. does Do you have Peacock at your house?
01:27:15
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Yeah. Okay. Does Cass watch any of the old wrestling? And when i say when I say old, did you see my snaps the other day?
01:27:26
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i was watching the first ever WrestleMania. I don't know if i' seen that or not. With Mr. T. Nice. He does every once in a while watch some old school stuff.
01:27:38
Speaker
um But he's starting to dive a little bit more. He watches a lot of stuff on YouTube from the old school stuff. Well, Peacock has everything w WWE yeah and WCW all the way back to where it began.
01:27:54
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so Yeah, they took basically yeah basically the WWE w Network had their streaming thing and then they partnered up with Peacock and ah they transferred all that stuff over onto the Peacock.
01:28:05
Speaker
um So, yeah, we want and we've we've watched some old stuff back a while, you know, in the past, him and I have. But I don't know if he does it on his own. But, yeah, so we'll be back talking all things wrestling this weekend.
01:28:19
Speaker
And then next Sunday we'll be back here again, Unnecessary Roughness, talking some sports, closer to the draft, closer to the playoffs, closer to the Stanley Cup, and all that fun jazz. So.
01:28:30
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01:28:44
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So with that being said, let's get the flock out of here. Make like a goose and get the flock out of here. Yeah. Make like a banana and leave.
01:28:56
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I thought it was make like a good tree and leaf. I'm going to make like a fetus and head out. yeah It's one of my favorites. They don't make like a fetus and head out, guys.
01:29:09
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Yep, exactly. All right, man. We'll check in with you a little bit later. All right, bro. Hasta la pasta, brother man. Yeah. Later. you later, man.
01:29:20
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Later.
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