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you can't just have one Teddy you look like a [Music] [ __ ] will you start a say less brand
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I would totally buy the M that's what you said to speed yeah yeah when speed
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was like damn fight me say less I just said say less say less brother I didn't realize how much I said
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that until after uh that video came out and then I was like just live my normal life and I was like [ __ ] I actually say
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that as like a threat quite a lot like them you know the muscles be like oh yeah whatever say less say less and I
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was like I really do threaten people with say less a lot what does it mean yeah enough you'll see what I'll do all
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right right like it's your last morning oh I'm not going at all you know what I
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mean I broke my arm yesterday does Dan have any tips for Recovery yeah I'm not a
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doctor for young Fighters how do you overcome a loss like feel that [ __ ] like it's your fault feel it take it on the
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chin that's the biggest thing is that people take a loss and they go like oh
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my breakfast was cold that day and I didn't wear my lucky undies no you lost
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cuz you [ __ ] up like you didn't train out like you didn't listen to your
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coaches properly like you didn't put the work in in the gym or you got scared in
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the fight and you pussied out figure out what went went wrong and be honest with
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yourself the quicker you can confront those things and and and and admit it and face it head on like the quicker
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you'll get over it [ __ ] that's a good answer there's a book I really like by
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this s guy called Joo willink called Extreme ownership and he talks about that it's like own everything take most
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yeah most of those most of those um most of those books I got that David goggin's
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um can't hurt me got the audio book and listening to it and I was like [ __ ] me
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there are the saddest like he's like [ __ ] this everything's hard like it's
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like what like this is horrible I was like this is a horrible way to live your life the only way you find it is to
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drowned yourself where you can't swim and you're drowning oh goggin yeah go
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hang man's he's calling you out yeah I'm not criticizing that guy I'm just saying
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I'm just saying [ __ ] me days like that's a sad way to look at the world he's s
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like um your world has live on a mattress some someday some [ __ ] can take away that mattress and I won't
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have one anymore it's like well enjoy the mattress while it's there yeah while
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it's there you know like my first K said like you know when we're scheduling a
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time for training and oh yeah got to do it at 4 in the morning he goes why do at
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four or you can do it 10 let's shout out boys that was that was one of the best
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ones and I was just like yeah why would you waste like you only have like a certain amount of mental fortitude why
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waste it on like just making yourself uncomfortable for no reason like callousing your mind callousing your
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minding your mind does Dan feel different in the Octagon since getting heavily tattooed no no I think I'm the same cuz
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it was was kind of your point of difference eh like being this like clean cat why I just never had time I was just
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never injured I broke my hand I was like out for over a year two backto back uh arm surgeries so I just actually
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couldn't train like I'd never had that amount of time injured off in my in my
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entire career and then I started and I was like well I did my back and then I was like well you can't just have one
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tatto you look like a [ __ ] then the legs and then I was like now I look uneven so I need something in the middle
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in the middle and then I was like well now my arms look dumb like no but now kind over you're all guess no break my
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parents absolutely hate tatos I never got them just because my mom absolutely hated them and I don't do things by half
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measures like when I get a tattoo I go I'll do a whole arm like I'm not going
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to go in and just you know right right get a little yeah yeah like I'm going
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[ __ ] all arm or I'm not going at all you know what I mean funniest [ __ ] he's
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seen behind the scenes in the UFC I love this [ __ ] so the first fight I had at spark Arena
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and Jamie Zuna was the headliner warming up for the fight he was kicking uh tpads
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and and his foot went under the tiad and his he broke his foot he's a soldier so
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he still like went out there and for but he like lost his submission because obviously he's got a [ __ ] broken foot
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you know what I mean your nervous system is going to be shot and um then from when he was walking from the cage to our
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back like the kiwis were booing him and then as he's going through the tunnel
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like he was getting like drinks and [ __ ] throwing at him and that's when I was
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like you don't do it for the mob like you don't do it for the crowd like you
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fight for the people that are truly there for you because they'll turn on you so fast like I've fought in uh Texas
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in uh James Vick home state big star he was a heavy favorite coming into that fight it was like the 10th fight on the
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day and there was all decisions before our fight and I knocked jamesb out and the crowd went AP [ __ ] like they were so
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happy everyone loved you and I was going like these are your people like these are your people and the mob like the mob
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turns so quickly yeah they're not really your friends are they they just want to
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see someone get knocked out they don't give a [ __ ] whether it's you or the
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other guy like they just want to see they just want to see blood it's like old Coliseum Gladiator stuff like it
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really is yeah they they couldn't care whether it's you or him they just want
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to see someone get knocked out and they will cheer regardless of who it is he people on Instagram wanted me to ask you
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about Christmas Bash the the Hell's Angel guy yeah I I used to train at um this uh Strike Force out in West ockland
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and um yeah every Christmas we'd have like a Christmas Bash and we were just
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like stack so we used to just stack crates and put mats on and then everyone all the people would be the ring like so
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if you went out like you get pushed back in by all the people and we used to just
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have a piss up and like a good time and then yeah me it was me and my coach uh Aaron Bo and then um we I say aspiring
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when we fighting uh Francis V and uh yeah ants ants and Anson but then my coach Aaron went out first and
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he just went like ballistic at them like he kicked he kicked the hornet nest he went and like swung on both of them and
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like other one standing in the corner he swung on the one in the corner and then
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he came back and tagged me and I was like oh thanks bro you know cheers but yeah we just that was just like that was
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just sparring I went to work after there I used to be a a bouncer in town I went
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to work and then people were like what what's on your for and I had like just
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knuckle Mark like just all just all over my forehead cuz yeah like aners are buddy Heavyweight World CH World
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kickboxing champion like bro hits like a truck like you and I have got very different ideas of a good night out they
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left they left the mark yeah that's a good night are you the ones you remember
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will Dan fight in New Zealand again yeah whenever the UFC comes back they're like
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punishing us for being eggs during Co izy was quite outspoken at the time but I think I think he had a faar point I I
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feel like the way you treated was quite unfair but we are a niche sport like you
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know we're cage fighters at the end of the day and we don't do what we're told
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and we can't be controlled like why would they give us special treatment I get it I get it yeah we're cage fighters
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biggest gambling win so far 100 100K no yeah in the 100K Club does a win that big like make you happy or is it just
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like a bit of extra it's kind of like fighting but the the the mentality of it
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is like cuz you just feel something like whether it's like a huge win or a huge
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loss they will say like true the gener gambles will get like the same amount of emotion from like a loss as they do for
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a win because it's like you just feel feel something like you have a huge loss
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then you're just your mind's going oh no like and they're addicted to whether
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they win or whether they lose like they're addicted they're addicted to that moment so it's about chasing the
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dopamine yeah yeah I guess I guess can Den remember the age where he got punched in the face for the first time
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where the friends this kid bar primary school and we're having uh we had a fire
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that we having a little Mexican standoff we grabbing sticks and beating each other up or whatever and then we got
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caught in someone snitched on us and we both got caught into the principal's
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office and he's like oh he you two had a fight blah blah blah and then we like
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looked at each other like well let's not get in trouble for this and we were like
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yeah uh he called me uh smelly and we're like oh yeah oh no he said uh uh I'm
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yellow like we just made some we said yeah oh we we just kind of pushed each other and then the principal was like
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well don't do it again uh where you go boys cuz yeah if we would have told the
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truth if we would have told the truth we in trouble we would have like got suspended like had a full-on fight hting
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each other with sticks and [ __ ] I was like well we both would have got in trouble but because we both like just
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were like oh yeah let's lie our way out of this we got out of it and then we
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were friends after that cuz we were like shot bro work what's better a knockout
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win or a submission win I love like a just a real cheeky submission like a real eat ass catch the guy like out of
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nowhere submission obviously even Jesus loves Knockouts like people love people love Knockouts like no no you're never
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going to win a bloody bonus or anything like that from a cheeky little smart ass
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submission but I love the feeling of it because I feel like I like robbed the bank and got away of it like you just go
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out there don't get hit get like a little submission and get to go home like with all the cash I like that but
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the fans yeah the fans they really like it they love The Knockouts what's the
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hardest fight he's ever won probably when I this a heavyweight dude so I would probably weigh like 83 kilos he
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was 128 like when we before and like a good fighter Mark really was he was scheduled a fight heavyweight from my
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gym and then it was like the Wednesday of fight week and broke his hand so he couldn't fight and I just remember my
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coach Aaron coming out and he was like pissed off you know he's like whats it
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like broke his hand pulling out and he was like you're really upset about it
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and I go who I said who I go how much I said how much is the black weigh and he's like oh I think like 130 something
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I said how about I fight him and I just Aaron's eyes lit up and he was like I
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ask I wanted to do that because it was the last uh they let us fight Pride rules so Soccer Kicks head Stomps no
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weight limit like I knew the sport was going mainstream and I was like that's
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the last time that like the Commission in New Zealand and like would ever let that kind of [ __ ] go down I knew that
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would never happen again so I wanted to be the last to have a pride fight in this country so I did by hell of a fight
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hell of a fight 10minute War we just absolutely bad at each other but I got the stopped them in the second you you
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talk about this stuff with a glint in your eye that's what you do it for you
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do it for the the moments you actually remember that will and it's just like my
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own memories that I'm I'm kind of proud of and it'll be like small stuff like I
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remember come back after the first round and my nose was broken very rarely do these guys get worried about anything
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but I go back and they were both like like real concerned and they were like is your jaw is your jaw broken because I
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was fighting with my mouth open but it was because my nose had broken and I couldn't breathe out of my nose so I had
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to fight off like an open mouth but I was like relax like relax boys relax I got this I had to tell my sister to shut
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up and that one she had a few Woodies and was just going go down go down relax Dan versus who for the true
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BMF I wasn't there interested in that title I just wanted the world title until I found out that the BMF title
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gets pay-per-view points as well and I said holy [ __ ] watch that I'm instant
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I'm instantly injured like that's the only reason I want the bloody real title
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is the pay-per-view points you get millions of dollars so of course I'll do it for the BMF title I want a more I
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want the BM I want Conor McGregor I want everything buba favorite pies in West ockland in
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West Oakland I don't know about I don't know about West Oakland I'm an I'm an
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ell man myself favorite pisle yeah yeah steak and cheese from from rashu there inle um I'm
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an Isle man I'm quite well known in the community oh yeah is that that where you
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live now yeah yeah oh lovely bloody neighbor lovely family neighborhood like wild wild crazy like the the day the
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weekend we moved in there moved in probably had like 15 different groups of neighbors like popping I thought it was
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on The Truman Show honestly I went like went down there and they were just like hey you know if you ever need anything
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number like keep you know give her the good work the girls across the road came over knocked on the door they're like
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What's your daughter's favorite color will make her a BL I was going I was go
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where are the cameras I was going this place is incredible you know you have many communities like that anymore
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anywhere in the world so to yeah moving to one was cool man were they being neighborly or because they knew you were
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Dan hooker that's the thing like you're famous on like social media and [ __ ]
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like that but in terms of like actual like Ms and dads and stuff like that you're not you know like there's a lot
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of people that it's not their cup of tea and they've never looked twice at it but
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yeah I've got a huge um statue that I was gifted uh uh a big po po fin big carving um awesome yeah it's probably
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yeah like four meters 5 met tall and uh it's a few ton you need a crane to get
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that around but yeah I'll just wherever I go I'll whack that thing outside the
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front of my house so everyone knows everyone knows what I love oh God if the Russian Lady he that
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you're in trouble oh if I'm on my own if I'm as I said if I can justify anything
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by law coming around my house is not the wisest option what's his favorite activity outside of fighting drinking
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beers yeah how does that work are you quite disciplined like you no it's like
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a time thing like obviously like a newer fighter can't come in and and be relaxed
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and have a couple beers and have a good time because like you do need to build like a callous but I spent a like a
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decade every day like there's there's periods of time where I didn't drink I I
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didn't eat a carb for two years I did like all these different things that that I built like a really strong mental
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callous on myself so it's like a newf fighter can't come in and relax and have
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a couple beers on the weekend because he doesn't have that kind of callous it's
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like if I came to you and I said in in 6 months time we both have to rub our finger on on the edge of a knife and
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then you didn't do anything and then I went away every day and just just slowly
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like rubbed it on sandpaper or carpet like I build like a strong callous so when we go to fight or we go to rub it
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on on the knife like your finger is going to split the bits and mine probably won't even get through the
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callous and that's the small things like the years of training and and hard times
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and not eating this and missing parties like I've built like such a strong callous now that I can in in some
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aspects like take a bit of chill time because I know it's not going to affect
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you like having a couple beers on the weekend month out from a fight is not going to impact the fight whatsoever uh
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dream fight and why it can be past all present Fighters McGregor for the money like but besides that no yeah McGregor
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would be great it' be great for your profile too wouldn't it it'd be great
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for the money will he have a fight again I was listening to a Rogan thing the other week loves the C like he does yeah
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but like he does like he he's cuz I obviously went and seen him with my own eyes and Spain like he um when he goes
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out like he's he he knows that he's being watched and he's on the whole time
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like he's a he's a celebrity a character doesn't even get the time to just be a a
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person anymore so that that must be difficult but yeah he's got two fights left on his UFC contract so if he fights
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anywhere he has to fight he has to fight in the UFC then it's like if you're
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going to fight anyone in the UFC like yeah I'd be on the short list of people
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to get that fight I suppose when you're that rich as well like the the the hunger to train or do the necessary
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training must diminish somewhat eh silk sheets it's it's hard to get out of silk
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sheets and and go to the gym I can't say if I had his kind of money that I would
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be anywhere near a cage for the rest of my life like I cannot sit here and tell you that I I would want to compete or
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want to fight with that amount of money I wouldn't be there so credit to him
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that he still wants to get out there and compete Dan hooker this has been so much
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fun you're in so much trouble at the sky if I was going to get fired they would
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have fired me by now you know okay I'm actually late for my you were late half an hour ago Dan
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hooker you're a great New Zealander thanks mate really enjoyed it than you very
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much ow [Music]