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Arman Tsarukyan Presses the Nelk Boys and Discusses Fighting on the White House Card!

80 min
Apr 8, 202611 days ago
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Summary

UFC fighter Arman Tsarukyan discusses his path to a title shot, social media strategy, and training at Santos Studio while the Nelk Boys cover betting, fitness goals, and various lifestyle topics including a high-stakes paddle match with Arman.

Insights
  • Social media presence and content creation are now critical competitive advantages in combat sports, with Arman's viral engagement outperforming official UFC posts
  • Fighter compensation and title shot allocation appear influenced by promotional narratives rather than pure merit, creating frustration among top-ranked contenders
  • Private, selective training environments (Santos Studio model) prioritize quality over scale, contrasting with traditional open-gym approaches like AKA and Greg Jackson's
  • Lifestyle spending for combat athletes scales dramatically with sponsorship and content opportunities, with monthly expenses reaching $200K+ for elite fighters
  • Betting on combat sports requires deep fighter knowledge; casual betting on unfamiliar athletes (like WNBA) represents high-risk degenerate gambling behavior
Trends
Combat athletes leveraging personal brand and social media as negotiating leverage against traditional sports organizationsPrivate, invitation-only training facilities becoming status symbols and competitive advantages in elite MMAInfluencer-athlete crossover creating new revenue streams through content, sponsorships, and side competitions beyond traditional sports salariesPeptide and performance enhancement discussion normalizing in mainstream podcast content with nuanced risk-benefit analysisHigh-stakes individual sports betting (golf, paddle, tennis) replacing traditional team sports as primary gambling focus among content creatorsFitness transformation and body composition goals becoming content pillars and audience engagement driversPodcast sponsorship model expanding to niche products (meal prep, jewelry, recruitment software) with promo code tracking
Topics
UFC Title Shot Allocation and Fighter CompensationSocial Media Strategy for Combat AthletesPrivate Training Facility Models vs. Traditional GymsPeptide Use and Performance Enhancement in SportsHigh-Stakes Sports Betting and Gambling BehaviorContent Creation as Revenue DiversificationFitness Transformation and Body Composition GoalsPadel and Racket Sports CompetitionGolf Handicap Challenges and Training RegimensSponsorship and Brand Partnerships for InfluencersLifestyle Spending and Monthly Expense ManagementGrappling and Combat Sports TrainingPodcast Advertising and Promo Code EffectivenessWNBA Betting and Sports Knowledge RequirementsPost-Workout Recovery and Supplement Protocols
Companies
PrizePix
Sports prediction app sponsor offering DFS and prediction markets for NBA, NHL, UFC, and entertainment events
Shopify
E-commerce platform used by Full Send and Happy Dad; discussed as essential infrastructure for online businesses
GLD (Gold Leaf Diamonds)
Men's jewelry brand offering chains, pendants, rings with NFL/NBA/MLB collaborations; 40% discount code NELK
Quince
Affordable basics and activewear brand offering European linen and sustainable materials at 50-60% less than competitors
ZipRecruiter
Recruitment platform helping businesses sort resumes and identify qualified candidates; free trial offered
Starbucks
Coffee brand promoting new Protein Cold Foam product with 15g protein for beverages
Santos Studio
Private MMA training facility co-founded by Arman Tsarukyan and Hamza Kamilov; selective membership model
UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
Major combat sports organization; discussed regarding title shot allocation, fighter compensation, and promotional de...
Tala Organic
Seed oil-free meal prep restaurant with glass containers; owned in part by Santa Cruz
People
Arman Tsarukyan
Lightweight contender discussing title shot pursuit, social media strategy, and private training facility Santos Studio
Kyle
Co-host discussing golf handicap challenge (road to scratch by August 14), fitness goals, and betting strategy
Stiney
Co-host discussing fitness transformation, meal prep, and upcoming paddle match with Arman
Santa Cruz
Co-host discussing fitness, health protocols, peptides, and meal prep business ownership
Jesse
Co-host discussing party management, house events, and lifestyle content
Freezer
Co-host discussing sports betting, WNBA gambling, and UFC fight predictions
Dana White
UFC leadership; discussed regarding title shot decisions and relationship with Arman Tsarukyan
Ilya Topuria
Lightweight champion; discussed as potential opponent and comparison point for Arman's title aspirations
Justin Gaethje
Lightweight contender; discussed as upcoming opponent to Topuria with analysis of matchup viability
Hamza Kamilov
Co-founder of private training facility Santos Studio with Arman; manages selective fighter recruitment
Tiger Woods
Discussed regarding recent car accident, rehab in Switzerland, and Sunday Red merchandise sales spike
Lizzo
Discussed regarding Ozempic weight loss and perceived contradiction with body positivity messaging
Caitlin Clark
Described as generational talent; mentioned as reason for occasional WNBA betting interest
Josh Hokett
Highlighted for entertaining post-fight interview and personality; fighting this weekend on Paramount Plus
Wyndham Clark
Referenced as example of extreme dedication; spent 5+ hours practicing sand trap shots at golf course
Quotes
"If they put me, it would be way bigger than Ilya versus Gagey. 100%. They need more stars. They want to push Paddy. That's why they didn't give me title fight."
Arman Tsarukyan~45:00
"I'm going to get the title and leave UFC. But where I'm going to live if I become a champion? So I want to be the best in UFC and to be with that company because they built me."
Arman Tsarukyan~52:00
"Humor trumps everything. I think that's the key word, though. If it's not funny, it's not funny."
Kyle~1:15:00
"You can't make a mistake. It's just like beating yourself, you know? But it's cool because it's like I've already done the fitness thing a little bit. So this is more of like, if I could achieve this, it kind of just shows. If I could do this, anything's possible."
Kyle~1:35:00
"The most i'll lose is like 20k in a day so if you lose 20 do you just get fucked up after or what fuck no absolutely not that's how things spiral"
Freezer~2:10:00
Full Transcript
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Must be 18 plus and for event contracts be a U.S. resident. Restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. use responsibly for help call 1-800-426-2537 or visit ncpgambling.org i wonder how much tigers merch sales went up we got the sunday red tarp on boys some of the best fit in tarps i've seen on the internet i mean his sunday red in the videos were like pretty out i know from back in merch days back in merch days with us whenever we got arrested we sold a shit ton of merch right Jesse? Yeah, definitely trigger some sales. The backend of Sunday Red? Yo, maybe that was planned. Maybe that was an ad for Sunday Red. His manager gave him a handful of pills. They were like, buddy, fucking, we need some marketing. Go take a lap around the neighborhood. Well, dude, there was a time when I remember we probably sold like 20,000 mugshot shirts. I know. And this is Tiger Woods. What was the first thing you guys got arrested for? I was in high school fucking just geeking. Stacking like 10 pizza boxes and going to someone's door and saying like, hey, these pizzas are for you. And the lady got so triggered. It's always the stupidest shit you got arrested for, right? I mean, dude, the craziest shit ever, I think, in Elk history is just you guys actually doing the coke prank in Mexico. That was fucking ridiculous. That was one that's like, you know, the moment. you're i mean i was scared as shit i was fucking still running it which i was like bro we got the clip let's go but then when we got that shit translated because we don't know what they're saying so we slept at a fan's house and someone translated it and it was like we're gonna drop this guys in the desert and like take their money and their coke and like dude it was like after you got you got scared even though you knew you were safe it was like oh we're dealing with in that no the the we went to a fan's house had spoke spanish and he like translated the video to us and we were like oh fuck like this is the cartel and they wanted to kill us and they thought we had real coke in the in the car or the van or whatever do we have a van was it in the scion no it was your car was it dude that was heavy have you ever been arrested any of you guys I haven't dude. I just got arrested, but when I was young, when I was young, I got arrested for, it was a fake ID and I was already sort of on the health wave. So I was like out using a fake, like with my buddies drinking. And I literally had vitamins in my pocket. Cause I would go out and drink and I would have like vitamin C, magnesium, activated charcoal, N-acetylcystin, all the stuff. And so the cop, the cop is like patting me down and he's like, dude, he's like empty your pockets. I'm like, yeah, no worries. And I pull out a handful of pills and he goes, what the hell is that? And I'm like, it's vitamins. And he goes, dude, sure it is. And I get in an argument with bro. I'm like, no, it's vitamins. And he's like, yeah, I've heard that one before, buddy. So what happened is he starts lab testing these things and he's sure it's going to be ecstasy or drugs or whatever. And I'm in the back of a cop car and it wasn't ecstasy or drugs. And I think he felt embarrassed because when I get to the station, they go, you are getting charged with a felony false impersonation for having a fake ID. I go, what the fuck? I got out of there in a day, all the charges got dropped. It was all good. But yeah, be careful with your vitamins when you're out drinking, bro. That's wild. You think those vitamins and shit, those hangover pre-drinking things work at all? I see that purple triad everywhere. I mean, I've ripped them, but- It depends what's in them. Yeah, I don't know, man. I mean, yeah, before you drink, you should be doing vitamin C. You should be hydrating with electrolytes. You could take N-acetylcysteine, which is absolutely amazing for your liver. It boosts glutathione, which is your body's master antioxidant you could rip glutathione like you were talking about and then like after you drink or maybe like with like your third or fourth drink you can start uh taking activated charcoal pills so like if you get alcohol poisoning they will pump you full of activated charcoal at the hospital but you can like kind of take like small amounts of activated charcoal and you'll notice you're hanging how does one consume activated charcoal capsules get little capsules and take like two or three of them i think once the damage is done it's done in my opinion. I think the pre is more important than the post when it comes to a head over like like when the dish, you know, to protect the liver or something. When the damage is done, it's fucking done. So I think a combination of a pre before you drink and then an after to kind of soften up the blow a little bit. I think if we made that. Yeah, there's some cool research on vitamin B1 vitamin B1 Santa Cruz. We should make it. We should make it. Me and freezer freezer. You need it i need it yeah you guys can do all the market testing dude just every weekend tweaking formulas should we make it santa cruz that'd be pretty fire bro i i know some i know some stuff that could actually work if you were saying after drinking it's like how much water i drink and electrolytes before i go to bed is like a big difference to tomorrow like if i got drunk and passed out hangover is a a number of things right santa cruz do you know what causes it it's like lack of sleep, dehydration, and then what's it called? Acetylaldehyde. Acetylaldehyde, basically like a poison that alcohol, you know, alcohol is a poison at the end of the day. It can be a fun one for people. I get that. But like the main things you can solve are sort of that sleep dehydration. And then you can make some meaningful progress in the detoxification pathways. And then there's this basic stuff that happens when you go out and drink like blood sugar dysregulation. So like you could look into something like a methylated form of vitamin B1 in there, which would help. So yeah, it could be interesting. I bet the, because some of these shots, bro, it's like, oh, the hangover cure. And you look at like what's in there and it's like, bro, this is like a shot of coconut water and they're just taxing people. It's kind of funny. People just waking up hungover as fuck, but that company made their money. Like they're like, fuck it. Do you guys see Tiger? He got accepted to go to Switzerland for rehab. A judge gave him. I heard that's like the finest of the finest. Isn't he addicted? Isn't he addicted to Swiss like white chicks? Like, isn't that his type? Like the Swiss white chick kind of vibe? I think Tiger does like white women for sure. Can you be addicted to a type of woman? I think you could be addicted to a type of woman. Yeah. Yeah. I take it back. That's a pretty good gig, though. Getting to go to rehab in Switzerland. Just getting to fuck off completely. Honestly, yeah. If there's a photo that you got to ship him to Switzerland after that. bro that's me on my ayahuasca trip right there dude same pose is this a video though like it shows him screaming yeah there was there wasn't any like video right from the back car he was he wrapping the dog like that go back real quick i don't know he probably knows he's on camera right he's probably trying to hide his face i mean he doesn't look like dude that first one is just fucking ridiculous guy actually looks like mother theresa in the first one go back to that other photo bro this might be marketing is that not this is not this is ai dude i don't think mother teresa off a hydrocodone sunday red i i'm guarantee you sunday red is booming right now booming dude him dropping i just got off the phone with the president is like the craziest hardest one what do you what do you think how do you think that combo went down what do you think tiger said and what do you think trump said i don't think trump actually answered i think tiger just said that i think he just said that to be like yeah buddy yeah like just shit on him quick i don't know though i feel like if tiger woods is calling trump trump is actually picking up no matter kind of what meeting he's in i think if he's in the middle of a russia ukraine negotiation and his phone looks and he sees tiger I think he's saying one second fellas and he's picking it up that's he's going what the fuck is good with this yeah he's like he's like what something can't be going on I mean because he knows well maybe but he knows if Tiger's hitting him up out of the blue it's for something not good Trump is one of the boys first and a president second I think I think if Tiger Woods is calling him and I think geopolitics comes second what do you think Tiger Woods's name is in Trump's phone do you think he's got like a little tiger emoji or like do you think it's just tiger gotta be just tiger i don't know how he gets away with this shit his car literally yeah his car side if his car wasn't sideways he might have been able to somehow you know yeah i need to see how he even did that on a road like that that seems like it's pretty hard to do it's kind of impressive i'm not gonna lie i mean that guy's gonna be a hero somehow but yeah like did he just fucking zing the curb and do a barrel roll going 60 how was your weekend buddy it was good yeah what'd you do yeah raved until 6 a.m last night jesse if you really want to know my house is absolutely destroyed you had a party last night yeah so you're you're seeing stars right now stiny pretty much i mean i'm good but uh it got a little out of hand it escalated very very quickly what is it the pre-coachella crowd or yeah there's a lot of people here uh in la and i don't know what that dude it literally like it went from four of us to having dinner to like 80 people in my living room so yeah my house is so fucking destroyed i wish i could do it like a cam so you guys could see it but it's not that's the thing with la is house parties spread so fast so fast and like like is there another city where the address just like spreads around so quick i remember that from living in la no dude yeah like is new york like that you can't get to luxury apartments like in new york and miami you're not like getting up to the the penthouse and yeah you roll up you're right there you say you're like mclovin's cousin and you somehow walk in i feel like la is more of like an open door policy too when you have a house party because someone could have been at like fucking Leonardo DiCaprio's party last weekend. So if they pull up to your house and you're like, yo, like, I can't let you in. They get like, they like feel a way about it too. And they're like, what the fuck? Like, you notice that's tiny or no. Yeah. Like people don't accept when you say you can't come in. Yeah. I don't really want to see. I didn't have that last night. Thank God. But I don't care to say like, yo, dude, there's no chance. Like, you know what I mean? Like, dude, I don't want you in my house. Like, I don't know. They're showing you sound. I've had a couple of weirdos before, bro. At my house, this is when I stopped doing this. At my house two years ago, I got a selfie from this guy that was like the most face-tatted guy you've ever seen. Like on a TV show, like Beyond Scared Straight. And this guy texted me and he's like, yo, are we running it back tonight? And I was just like, dude, you had my fucking house last night? And I was like, I'm done with this shit. Not judging, but like, dude, it was crazy. I got a crazy-ass fucking first time in LA for the Bieber fucking account. And then wait, I had the people across the street from me send their ring camera footage to my landlord. And it was like 400 people outside of my house. And I got evicted, but it was like, whatever. Ford, do you remember that bedroom you slept in up top in that Airbnb? I rented Bieber weekend. Yeah. Fucking guy just pulls up in Gucci flip flops. I'm hung dick after the Justin Bieber album listening party. And I'm like, God, I don't hear anyone, dude. You're tripping. And he's like, dude, someone's fucking upstairs and you already dipped. This guy's just walking around, perked out in our crib. Fucking that house was like $8,000 a night. I'm like, Gunner grabs him by the neck on the stairs. He's like, what the fuck are you doing in here, guy? And he's just like, I'm looking for something. I left here like a bag. And we're like, dude, you got to get the fuck out of here. Then Gunner's still blacked out, freaking out on him. We walked him up by his collar up three sets of stairs and just threw him out the gate. pretty fucking nuts. That's insane. All right, guys. So starting a new business, there's always going to be that moment where you're like, yo, is this actually going to work? When we first started NELC, I always had the vision, but sometimes you get that question in your head. But at some point, you just have to go balls to the wall and you got to figure it out and take it from me. You got to have the platform behind you. And that platform that's always been there for us is Shopify. Shopify powers 10% of all businesses and they have huge brands like Gymshark, Mattel, and of course, Full Send and Happy Dad. They make it so easy to build an online store with hundreds of ready templates. 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Shopify is the best in the game. shopify.com slash full send and take your business to the next level today remember that tori lane party call and like the fucking cartel son shows up and he's just like bro let me in and he's like oh yeah yeah i was like so bad i just went to santa cruz's house last night and just had a like that just sounded so good you would have been you would have been watch a movie is your girl has bone broth soup and we're just pretty much exactly i'm low-key probably on half a zan and you're not and it's just like the best day i was asleep i like i was out by 10 30 dude you feel like you're so much better than us i just know i don't like condescending bullshit i just feel i do feel better right now but i'm not the other thing that i actually want to bring up really quick is like i can't get over like and i've thought about this all week but we talked about how you want to live to be 140 like yeah i'm gonna do it whatever you're saying i'm gonna do it but it's like dude why do you you want to be 140 where you like have to walk around with a staff and you're wrinkly as fuck and you can't really move that you a staff sounds kind of cool a staff sounds kind of cool you should have said a cane because it came okay whatever you can't get laid you can't fucking you can't do anything athletic no he said yeah he's gandalf the gray bro it's like but not with any of the shit you could do i don't know if i can if i can surf if i can surf on my 100th birthday which i'm going to do i'm literally going to do that i'm going to be on a wave on my 100th birthday i'll text it to you you know okay whatever at that point i would love to be there to see that i'm gonna back santa cruz on this i'm sorry signing you're gonna take santa cruz yeah dude when you think about when you're 39 and you're in okay jesse i bet you 10 grand that santa cruz is not surfing at 100 years old all right dude you gotta you gotta adjust for inflation you gotta like seven million dollars on that you're not gonna be alive to fucking pay me the money fuck that is probably how old is that bruce i'm 33 yeah fuck i don't think i'll be there to pay it but i'll put something aside i'll put it in the will you'll live to 100 bro we got science man we got modern medicine steiny we got you you're you're gonna be good bro okay well i'm relying on you for that keep the fellas in here in the loop on any new things we got to get on right away too that's all um i need to hear dude go to go to brian johnson's house dude stay with him for a few days bro dude i could not spend like a day at that guy's house it'd be so weird i don't know i don't know what we like have in common you know what i mean i could do a day he rips workouts dude that's dude you can't have me going to dude if my if my hair ends up like that i'm gonna be in turkey getting something man i'm up that's pretty good flow for a hundred bro that's good Yeah, for triple digits. That's not bad, dude. That's like the side mully tech. Dude, I look like that guy in Italy that dances with a bunch of chicks and has the yachts. That guy's living life, bro. You guys see Jake Paul's talking about Drewski's skit and saying that he's going to do a blackface? Yeah. That shit was hilarious, bro. Is that fair game or what? Honestly, I think it's fair game. I feel like it's fair game. Like if something's funny, if he does something that is genuinely funny, I'm all for it. Like I don't humor trumps everything. I think that's the key word, though. If it's not funny. Yeah, it's if it's not funny, it's not funny. If Drewskies wasn't funny, then it would have been bad, too. But as long as it's funny. So I guess it's up to the person, right? I mean, is Robert Downey Jr. The first to do that in fucking Tropic Thunder? Yeah, he's playing a guy that thinks it's OK to be blackface and stay in character. but like just straight up doing it your guy trudeau up there maybe not maybe not your guy but he trudeau was rocking um blackface up there and the problem is trudeau tries to be all woke and this and that that's the thing jake paul doesn't try to be that so i think he could you know i think jake paul could kill it and make it funny he's not in that space when you operate in that space you try to be all woke and this yeah you can't do it but i still can't believe trudeau is plowing Katy Perry. That's just the most insane turn of events ever. Are you fucking kidding me? You didn't know that? Trudeau's rinsing Katy Perry? Yeah, bro. Guy fucking dug the country into the dirt for 10 years, fucking leaves and then starts banging Katy Perry. You think he rinses her to the song Fireworks? I would. Crazy. I'm just dying at Stiney. No Knowing how Stiney feels right now. Because I feel brutal That was my one night partying in like two weeks And I fucking just over it So stupid dude Yeah dude I over it Come lift with us Wednesday Look at my face It bloated from all the fucking stews I fucking hate it. Damn, he passed out? Oh, yeah. Clav went out. Oh, yeah. What drugs? What's he on? He had someone choke him to sleep. Whoa. That's not good. Yeah, so he had his boy choke him to sleep because I think Armin choked his friend. so they're like oh this would be funny his boy did hold it a little too long because clav goes out you can see and he's still holding it bro like I have fans come up in my meetups and ask me to choke them out and my lawyer a while ago was like hey never do that no it's so unhealthy why the fuck would you want to volunteer to do that people ask me every single meetup I've been asked over 15 times to choke people out I'm like no absolutely not I saw Poirier just did it to a fan that shit sucks man I was like, what the fuck? I just don't get that. Yeah, my lawyer is basically saying they could come back and be like, well, I didn't expect to get whatever damage they get, and then it could be a whole thing. But I've been choked out before. It sucks, bro. It's not like... By who? It kind of sucks. Just had jujitsu. Just not tapping to... Like you let him do it, or are you just... No, stuck in a guillotine. I thought I could escape, and then next thing I know, I'm kind of up. And I go, yeah, you went out for a second. I guess Lizzo said she would only lose her virginity after winning a Grammy. Lizzo's always saying crazy shit, I feel. Wait, she's a virgin? Is she skinny now? Yeah, what? Is she on Reddit for Tud? Lizzo's definitely been stabbing Ozempic. Yeah, pull up Lizzo. Like, currently. Yeah, I don't even know what she looks like anymore. What does Lizzo even do? Does she make music? Yeah. I only know Lizzo for just being, like, fat and saying crazy shit. She plays, like, the violin or some shit. I saw some viral clip for, like, violin or flute or, like... I don't know. Isn't that a thing? Or am I fucking tripping? My thing is, if fat is so beautiful, if being fat is great, then why do you get on Ozempic and make yourself not fat? Because everyone wants to be fit. I agree. I agree with that. They're like, fat is healthy. You saw the Jillian Michaels debate where these fat people are like, no, being fat is healthy. But it's like, okay, Lizzo claimed the same shit. Why are you... I mean, good on you for losing weight, but shit. She lost some LBs. I was epic or not you know I think I was epic can be valuable for people like that and like but yeah then talk about it be like hey I was fat and it was super unhealthy and I felt horrible and this is what I did to fucking fix it you know like who cares just say it I feel like it's a part of her brand to be fat so she's probably like fuck I can't get too skinny 74% America's overweight or obese so when you when you rock that as your brand a lot of people are going to identify with it But you could also be like, or I could motivate all those other people that looked up to me to lose weight. And that's a positive. You know what I mean? I feel like comedians deal with that too. They're like, oh, I'm only funny if I'm fat. And it's like, you're just, I think that's a stupid way to look at it. Someone's a fan of you and you're going to be like, oh, sick. I'm going to get fit now too. JV's boy, he's like, God, let's just get you up to 280 pounds, 290, and have you start a Netflix show. I'm like, yeah, dude, I'm doing the opposite of that. It is true. You're funnier when you're fatter, I think. Yeah, Hundo P. I had to get that. Yeah. Gabe is an example of that. 100%. Because when you're fat, you could get away with it more, because it's like, oh, he's fat. But then that means you've got to up your talent, right? I don't know. My talent will go up once I'm 185 and just shredding birds. I just feel like you were leaning on the fat. If you do that, you'll be a douchebag for sure. I mean, that's what I'm trying to hit 190. I'm at 206 right now. That's my goal, Kyle. That and the scratch. Road to scratch is not going good. Kyle has a lot of goals out there. 10% body fat, road to scratch. How's the road to scratch going? Not good. Any improvements? Not good, bro. I might have bit off more than I could chew. What's your timeline again? How much time do you have? Dude, make it road to five handicap, man. No, we'll keep it road to scratch. August 14th. So you have four months to become a scratch golfer? Four months. And your handicap's what? I don't have an official handicap, but I shot 91 the first day. It was a bad day, though. It was a bad day. It was a bad day. Yeah. it was a bad day that's a cool goal to set after coachella i think i'm gonna be pretty much living on golf courses yeah what's your what's your scad looking like for this have you talked to a golf coach yet someone just hit me up about being yeah i got a i got a couple golf coaches um but pretty much i'm just gonna be probably practicing for like four to six hours a fucking day six times a week wow that's you need a golf simulator a golf simulator in your house bro I might just dip Miami for a little bit too. I think after Coachella, I might maybe go to Zona. I'll go to Zona or Jupiter and post up there for a bit. And then we might get an RV freezer. Big John's in and shit too. And we might just roadie across the country and just stay at golf courses. Dude, end up Pebble Beach or Torrey Pines would be sick. Just park the RV on the golf course and just practice every day. That's sick. Yeah, because it's so absurd that it's like, fuck. What did Big John shoot? We played alternate shot. Me and Big John versus Salim and D.O.D. We beat them by one. Let's go. I don't know enough about golf to understand how hard being a scratch golfer is. It's fucking hard, bro. You can't make mistakes. There's just no mistakes. Yeah, that's the thing about golf. There's no mistakes. You can't make a mistake. It's just like beating yourself, you know? But it's cool because it's like I've already done the fitness thing a little bit. So this is more of like, if I could achieve this, it kind of just shows. If I could do this, anything's possible. Because this is just fucked. You're not there in four months. I think you still keep going for it. Yeah. No, I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there. I'm stoked because now I got to lock the fucking. I know. You can't freeze your five or beat you in a 1v1 on the golf course. That's what I said. Yeah. You don't want that. You do not want that. I wanted to know what your coach said, though, because mine's making a schedule for me. And I'm like, all right, let's fucking do this. Two hours in the sim at night. You know, roll putts for an hour a day. An hour a day of putting, an hour a day of chipping, and then 45 to an hour of range. and then probably play three to four times a week. You want to know something weird that just crossed my mind is Wyndham Clark. Chad, you know Wyndham. He's on the tour. He won the US Open, didn't he? Yeah. We used to go to the golf course, and that guy would be in a trap, a sand trap, and he would be in there for five hours practicing his shots. Like, that's the kind of dedication these guys have. The golf pro's mental is fucking insane. He had probably 400 balls in there, and I've never seen any. Like, we did a whole lap, and he was still there. and I was like, dude, this is different. It's all up and downs too. Yeah, no going out of bounds, no fucking doubles. It's just like, when I play my best, it's like I usually get like 13, 14 pars and then a few bogeys and that's like what, 76, 77? I'm like, you need birdies too and that's what I don't get to get scratched. What's your lowest score ever? 70 like five times. And I missed a putt on a team. On a part 72? Yeah. and i missed a fucking time though i used to be a dial this fuck that's why like right now i'm probably like an eight handicap which is like not good for me right now i'd say like i can go out there and shoot high 70s low low 80s right now all right guys buying men's jewelry can be a nightmare it's either cheap or it's either overpriced that's why i want to let you guys know about shop gld they sent me some pieces to try and honestly you can tell the difference right away. 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Let's get back into the podcast prize picks was they they want to get some odds for my for the shooting scratch but they want to do a couple benchmarks so they're they want to do like kyle should break 80 by this month or date what do you what do you think that should be this is skewed because if you shoot 81 time that doesn't mean anything you'd have to shoot 80 consistently like if you do it three or four times in a row then you're breaking 80 though like so just one time has to half. Yeah. For the first time, for the first bet, like Kyle will break 80 by this date. And then the next one will be like, Kyle will shoot even by this date. Yes or no. Let's get Cruz and Jesse on some handicap lines. Let's get all the boys caps down. Let's all get a starting point. I want to see Jesse at the range roll with that beanie on it. I'm all trial and at the rain, Jesse and Santa and Stiney road to road to double digits. That would be how you get there. Road to 99 for I've shot 90 many times bro Stiney you cannot break 100 What? The clips I see of Stiney are the funniest Clips just hawking his clubs in the water Arman Arman What up champ? Were you at your daddy's crib? What happened? You at your daddy's crib? No rental house are you in newport uh no in beverly right now but i'm going to newport oh it's good to see you my friend yeah how are you guys you good good how are you arman thank you for joining us thank you how many people there is one two three four yeah there's five of us nice to meet you guys nice to meet you too buddy how are you all right well i'll get this cracking okay so arman do you think what you guys are building at Santos Studio right now, what Bear is building over there. Do you think it's going to surpass the legacy of places like Greg Jackson's, AKA, because it seems like what you guys are building there is already very special. But do you think it's going to go on for a decade, two decades? I don't think so because it's more private. It's more private gym. We don't let a lot of people come and train. Just a small group of people. my my my people hamza's people and uh we are not looking for a big team we want to have a small team and uh you know not a lot of eyes on the in the gym if something happened in the gym stay there you know yeah so we want to just push like uh with the big names and who wants to join us and we're always welcome but like if you're one and all and like amateur fighter we're not gonna take you and like teach you something we need like a uh like a legit fighters you know in 155 or hamza suede class what sparked like the content creation for you because like you've obviously been killing that you've been everywhere your videos have been entertaining funny you're doing a ton of collabs what made you want to get into doing that uh when i after when i didn't get the my title fight i said okay now i gotta work on my social media and then when the times come they have no no excuses like They couldn't say you're not famous, they couldn't say you have no big name, people are not going to buy PPVs, and we need a paddy to sell Timo Baloran or something like that. And I said, okay, I'll work on it because you see this is not just a sport, this is like a show, you know, entertainment. I think the UFC posted was a Gaethje and they announced Gaethje and Tuporia and then you did an April Fools of you and Tuporia and your post got more likes than the UFC. That's crazy. I don't have too many followers, but my followers are real. And whatever I post it, it's like blowing up. And people want to see me fighting for the title in the White House. And this is the big mistake for UFC. If they put me, it would be way bigger than Ilya versus Gagey. 100%. Was there ever talks of you, Armand, fighting Paddy or Gagey? No, Gagey, they're never going to give me Paddy because it's easy money for me. And they're not going to risk it with his name, you know? So, even UFC knows that Paddy is not the best fighter. That's why they put not against me for the interim title. They put against Gage and they thought Perry is going to win and fight for the title. But he's a trash cane. So like I said before, he lost even to Gage who is almost retired. It's pretty interesting to think about. I think if you really looked at every fighter, you are probably the most famous one right now. In terms of going on social media, you're going to see Armand more than any other fighter. On social media, yes. It's who everyone's talking about. There's only a few fighters that actual people are talking about. I don't know why the UFC, yeah, I don't know why they're not. What happened with you? Dana said in a press conference that he's, I don't know if he said he wasn't too happy with you or you guys aren't doing well. What's that relationship like right now? I have no idea. I've never had a conversation with him. I have no idea what's going on. But I talked to Hunter and our relationship is good. I don't know why he's saying we have a problem with Armand. I have no clue what's going on. I've never had a problem with contracts. Whatever they send me, I signed it. Never like a negotiation and say like, oh, I need a little bit more money or something. I need this fighter, that fighter. Maybe because of headbutt or like all that stuff. Or last time maybe I punched the guy that I wrestled. Maybe because of that, he was mad. So I have no idea. That's the most interesting thing is you're not even really fighting for the money. so you gotta be the easiest guy to deal with you're not gonna go back and forth right right now yes but like when I'm gonna be a champion I'm gonna ask for big money I'm not gonna like when I'm become a champion okay my goal was a champion and then I'm gonna make money and like to build a legacy like take care of my family you know because yeah that is good but I have make my own money have you seen the UFC switch up a bit ever since you like kind of changed like your your star power uh yeah they told me i'm doing a good job so that's good i think dana white might be like a little bit scared of building up huge stars because when you look at what happened with mcgregor and even like john jones i think there's some aspect of the ufc like they tell these fighters oh we want you to be huge star like this but then they seem to almost get a little scared when people get really popping like they want to create their own narratives and stuff like that and then like for the fans it ends up in the situation where everyone wants to see armin fight and they seem, oh no, we want to, let's give it to Gaethje. And it's kind of a weird situation. They need more stars. They want to push Paddy. That's why they didn't give me title fight. They thought this is easy fight for Paddy. That's why they didn't give it to me. And then they said, oh, Armand had butt. That's why we didn't give him title. But this is just excuses. Everybody knows that. But it's okay. I take this and I'm still waiting for my chance. If they tell me, okay, Armand, you got to fight one more time. Okay, I'll fight it. I'll fight anybody. So I'm not going to wait just for the title fight because I'm on my prime right now. And like, I know I can beat everybody. And like, if they want to see me beat again, they can just give me name. And I ask anybody, I ask like for anybody in our division who is in top five, top six, you know. If they called you tomorrow and said, yo, you can pick any fighter you want, who would it be? Would it be Tapuria? Yeah, Tapuria, but Tapuria has a coming up fight. So I would take Oliveira because he's number three and he has BMF title. I think that title fits me more, like a BMF title than Oliveira. yo could i ask you something completely off topic yeah yeah bro what do you think your monthly expenses are mine because i see the way you move yeah it's like pj to pj to mansory rolls to fucking insane dinners traveling the world like but i imagine part of that's for content yeah that's a for content as well but it doesn't it doesn't matter yeah how much like if you're not if you're not buying something or what if you're buying watches and everything yeah including shopping, you buy a white tee for $2,500 like it's nothing? No, I don't know, but probably like $500, $700. Damn! Every month, one watch after my grappling or wrestling, but like one watch costs like $250. If you're gonna go there, like $200,000, so it's already... Oh my god. And you're saying you want... He's saying he wants big money when he becomes champ. Hunter's watching this like, fuck no. Yeah. No, they worry about that. I'm going to get the title and leave UFC. But where I'm going to live if I become a champion? So I want to be the best in UFC and to be with that company because they built me and I appreciate that they signed me and make me a star. And they gave me a good fight, many wins. and I want to be a champion. I want to break record in our lightweight division defense as much as possible. So Islam did four. I want to do five or six, and then we'll see. So I'm not young anymore, too. I'm 29, so I have maybe six, seven years. I got to make a lot of money. I got to make a lot of money, be a champion, be the best fighter in the world, and then, yeah, I can live. I think the fans like a lot that you don't need to fight. You're not trying to reach this goal of some amount of money. You just like fighting. And then, like, the training that you guys do is insane. Guys, we need to hit a training lab workout, a boys' training lab workout at some point. But I just explained, like, for example, I just beat the guy in the freestyle wrestling, right? They called me, like, by the way, do you want to, like, Uriah Faber? I said, Uriah Faber, he has no name. What do I need? Like, just pay me good money, I'll go there. I doing this for money right now Like why I need Uriah Faber For what like freestyle wrestling right They pay me good money that I can spend all amount of money So why not? What is the loophole, Arman, in the RAF? Because I'm surprised that the UFC lets active fighters do that. It's a freestyle wrestling. We don't get hurt. We do, like, it's a six minutes, like, three rounds, two minutes. It's easy for the fighters. And, like, it's like a side quest. if you don't have a fight yeah it's good it's not boxing you know and it's not uh and rf they don't want to compete with ufc it's completely different and they have a good relationship and they let us they let us wrestle but uh they don't let us wrestle with active ufc fighters but like so that's the issue right now so as long as it's not a competitor like a direct competitor with UFC and you can't get hurt. That's the contract pretty much. Yeah, but wrestling and grappling. And if you have a fight coming up before eight weeks, you're not allowed to wrestle and grapple. I see. I absolutely hate shopping. I hate going to the mall. One online store that I like that I want to tell you guys about is Quince. So they sent me some stuff to my crib to try out and I really, really liked it. They just make like solid everywhere basics. Their materials are 100% European linen. The pants and the shirts are like super good for like spring. 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Bro, that's such a tight rear naked choke. Yeah. Oh, hell nah. Would you do that? I mean, I wouldn't. It doesn't look fun. It doesn't look fun. Yeah, I mean, he's there are teenagers, you know, they want to do something fun. I said, okay, if you want to do that, I'll do it. This is good. This is not bad for the brain. Sometimes it's good. Give the brain a little break. So you're saying the boys should all give it a go? Yeah. Once a month. If you need to come here. Arman, what's your best sport outside of MMA? I like to watch or play? To play. Tennis. Really? Yeah, I'd fucking dust you in tennis. little pickleball are you good at tennis arm i'm not bad but i'm not bad but uh i used to i i was good maybe three years ago but right now i play less because of my knees so i don't want to even uh like uh it's like when you play a lot of tennis and then you go wrestle your your legs so sore so that's why i'm i stop right now i play sometimes puddle instead of tennis stani we should get a we should get a high stakes 2v2 going he's messaged he's responding my stories. Armand, I'm ready whenever. I will backgammon. Where you at? We're going to be in Cali this week. We should do, you get a partner, me and Stiney versus you and your partner. Let's do it. How long have you been playing backgammon? Five years? Yeah. What about you? Okay, I've been playing for like seven or eight years. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Okay, well we'll play. 400 a point, whatever you want. I'll tap out on backgammon, but... What about Pickleball or Paddle? We play. Paddle, Paddle. Sounds good. I'll bring my partner. where's your internet girlfriend internet girlfriend she's in Miami keeping a close tab on her do you guys share each other's locations or no sometimes Stiney wants it Stiney wants the location what do you think if you're gonna have a sparring with her who's gonna who's gonna beat I think Nina gonna Nina gonna beat you 100% send the contract my boy I put all in on Nina Okay dude let's do that You're gonna get tired Wait are we taking MMA or boxing? MMA street fight She might have me there I'm not gonna lie I've seen Nina's kicks bro She always trends with elite fighters 100% bro She's gonna choke you out She's used to like standing beside Armand Marab And then she's gotta go against you She's probably gonna be pretty confident That's for sure Yeah, we'll see. How's your grappling, Stiney? I have zero. I'm a mitts guy. Stiney's got hard. I got hard. I got hands. Yeah, Stiney's a boxer. Stiney, how will you play pickleball? I play tennis my whole life, so I can play pickleball pretty well. Nice. But I prefer Padel. We could play tennis too, Armand. Anything you want, bro. That doesn't matter. Okay. You know Armand's partner in Padel is nasty, though. He looks like a guy that has a nasty Padel partner. Yeah, he's going to bring some fucking ringer. He's a hustler. I know how he's going to do it. Yeah, he's a hustler. He's going to bring some guy that acts like he hasn't played one of his Armenian fucking friends and hustle us. That's what he's going to do. And then we're going to have to fight after. Yeah, like in Aiden. Except for you look bad here, bro. You do not look like you have a good hand-eye when you're born. Basketball, no, not my thing. You got swatted by Neon. Yeah, right? Neon plays very good basketball. He shoots so good. Yeah. Yeah, he's a good player. Yeah, basketball in the U.S. is so popular. In Russia, not that much. In Russia, brother, street fight. Have you trained in Dagestan or no? I used to train in Dagestan for like four years. Oh, shit. Yeah. I always prepare there for my fights before the UFC. So at that time, would you ever mesh with the Khabibs and the Islam and that group? No, there is a bunch of different gyms, like American Top Team, Kill Cliff. There is the same. So I was in the Ankalaev's team. So I used to train with Ankalaev and his team. Obviously, you want the Toporia fight, and that's probably going to happen. But is the Makachev fight still on your wish list? Do you see that happening one day down the line? I know he's at 170 now, but do you see that happening? No, really. In your mind? No, really. Never? no maybe because he's gonna retire I think in two fights yeah one two fights he's gone so but me I'm gonna take over this this sport in one year so everybody gonna just just gonna see me when they see me they think about UFC you know because I'm gonna be a face of UFC just I need a title to show up I think 100% you're right I'm gonna travel around the world I actually need you. With that title. And fight everywhere. We all go. You fund it and we'll come. I mean, now it's kind of a blessing in disguise too. Because, I mean, Armand versus Taporia now. That's a big fight. Would be one of the, not a big, I mean, I think one of the biggest fights in UFC history. Yeah, like top five, yes. In top five. Because number one is Habib versus Conor. Number two, I don't know. so maybe number two is gonna be us because i know number two is probably conor nate i mean where was conor everywhere is big so he is the biggest but like nowadays you know a lot of sports and like and uh a lot of a lot of like um famous people in ufc but before was just only conor but now we got like a lot of like a different uh the champions what's your take on the on the gaethje fight do you think it's just like a bad matchup just a worse matchup waste of time so get gaethje should step step step out and let me step in but do you think anything could happen like could gaethje get the upset like just it is a fight oh it's a fight for sure for sure you You never know, one punch, you're dead. So that's why there is a chance of a lucky punch, but Ila, he fights so smart, he's not going to be open. And he fights like a compact, you know, he never opens so much. I don't see how Geji can beat him. But never know, Geji sometimes goes and shows up in good fights. Like he did with Perry. What do you think Gaethje should do, though, if everyone's saying it's a bad matchup? Like, should he just make it a brawl, make it messy? Just old Gaethje? He should pull out and give it to me. That's the best game plan for him. That's it? Yeah. There is like a 1% or 2% of chance to do Lucky Punch. I think higher than that. I think like 25%. I think it's a tough matchup for Gaethje. I mean, like, even if Gaethje starts throwing, like, hard leg kicks, Ilya throws these, like, nasty hooks. He gets inside of this boxing, and he could counter that. It's going to be tough. It's a weird sport, though, man. Like, it's a fucking fight. That's why I'm always just like, and I love an underdog story, but the... No, I want to hear more about, like, Gann versus Powhatan. What do you think, guys? That fight, like, 50-50 in my mind. Yeah, it's a good fight. What do you think? Who's going to beat? I think Pereira takes it. I'm never putting a dollar on that guy again. I'm down 80k in Pereira. You're down 80k in Pereira? Yeah, the fight in Vegas. Me too. I bet against Pereira and I lost huge money. Sitting with Steve Will. Learned my lesson. I learned my lesson. I know. And then the next fight, I feel like he's not losing twice. Bro, Cyril's a big dude. You know what I mean? Yeah, and he moves so fast. I don't know. He moves so fast. He's quick. His boxing's really good. I don't know if he's going to use any grappling and get Pereira up against the cage. Not give him space. I wouldn't put money on this fight. I don't even know who he is, but Cyril's getting hammered by me at least 25k plus. I learned my lesson against Pereira. Guys, dust. Gun. He moves like a lightweight and heavyweight. Heavyweight's a different animal. It's really difficult to bet on heavyweight because those dudes hit so fucking hard. Did you guys see the video of Jon Jones? yeah I did what happened he was I think the kid just wanted to have a hype so he got it yeah probably kid just like a bullshit guy like like always clickbait rage bait yeah I think he probably knew it was John Jones yeah he knew that and started like filming like a bitch you know that's that's the worst thing and the like how you can like talk to even John Jones like if you're a man like turn if you're a man like turn off your phone and talk to him like you're like a pussy like filming what like I hate this shit. People don't fuck with you like that Armand do they? I saw one guy say that to Armand he's like we're gonna he said he was gonna fight you after or something I don't know where you were oh a cameraman. Where? Yeah the paintball he was like don't shoot my cameraman or I'm gonna fight you he was serious too. That's Wando no no he was he was playing he was joking just and then he said i had them i said you have have you had the fights yeah i had the one street fight with the girl and she she beat me and i said okay you're a bullshit guy so i don't want to even talk to you yeah that's wando he's like a professional troll so yeah so but bro road rage is crazy dude i used to roll around with a todd duffy ufc heavyweight and he's a not that great of a driver but people would road rage on him and he has tinted windows and they would be like pull the fuck over. And it's like, bro, you're talking to a six, four, 250 pound heavyweight. So road rage can get you killed if you start talking to the wrong person. All right, guys, for any business owners, sorting through thousands of resumes can be almost impossible and exhausting. I've been there. That's why I want to tell you guys about ZipRecruiter. It makes that process so, so easy. We started using it a long time ago. 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Like a kangaroo in Australia, in Kazakhstan, they eat horse like that. Really? Yeah, it's good for man's strengths. Really? Stiney, Stiney, you need that. Okay, I'll eat horse. Yeah, you eat horse and then walk around like this, Stiney. Like what? bro I'm in the fucking gym dog look at that shit no man man's strength man's strength bro I ride a horse fam I'm like that I'll pull up to your crib on a horse beat you and paddle take your internet girlfriend and go home for the day brother you always tell this but never show up never show up Kyle when do you get here I'm flying out to LA tonight I already hear you I'm in LA we need to play a couple times and then pick your fucking ringer and then we'll play me and Kyle No, no, no. Right away, we go and play. I don't even like practice. Just go and play. Put the bet, shake the money, and then go. What's the bet? With 10K. I can whoop his ass. I know. I'm better than him. I'm better than him, bro. You don't know how good I am. Well, we don't know who. I know. I know Armand has a nasty partner, too. You see him playing basketball? Basketball and racket sports is totally different. We play a paddle this week. We'll play paddle this week. So I'll bring, even I'll bring the girl, like, who can play a little bit. That's tiny going to be, is not going to, like, be angry that I bring, like, a professional player. Okay, perfect. Let's do it. We'll make a bet. We'll make a bet. Okay, Los Angeles, who is the best female paddle player? Reach me out. Damn, Arman. All right, let's do it this week. We'll see you this week, my boy. Sure, sure, sure. All right, Arman, we appreciate you, bro. Thank you, guys. Nice to talk to you. Thank you, bro. We'll see you. See you. See you later. Bye. Guy's a goat. Dude, he's the best, man. He actually is a beauty. He's also, like, so humble. He's just such a cool dude. I don't want to just, like, I don't want to make a bet just for a fucking video and lose fucking 10K. No, we'll shop at 5K each. Stiney said he's amazing. I don't know. You guys got that. Stiney's good. Stiney's good at Padel. Stiney's good at Padel, but there's some nasty Padel players out there. I can get an arm on Ted easily. i know but he's gonna yeah i know but we don't know who his partner is so we gotta get in there let let me negotiate a little bit we gotta feel it out maybe get some odds you know what i'm saying like you said 4g always gets an edge yeah yeah no i'll let you handle that but let's run it for sure can you beat jimmy gambles in tennis jimmy's good but yeah we're about even we've played i would put up i would put up insane amounts of cheese and pickle or tennis that's against jimmy i mean he would wax he would wax in high school no dude i was number one varsity as a freshman he would kill him you kidding me well freezer might have to fly to la then bro i want to grapple with armin he would absolutely cook me but i just want to feel that i want to feel that well we should do uh if you guys want let's do a stream day with armin we'll stream this all those big food spreads then eat some horse or whatever oh do you guys see this a fucking baby was born at a hockey game yeah that's true oh my god that's oh why are you going to a hockey game if you're that kid that kid is destined for the show yeah dude that kid's gonna be on skates before he can walk his hands are gonna be fucking going before he can speak but santa cruz can you attest to the fact that you probably shouldn't attend a hockey game if you're like that pregnant oh i 100% agree bro like yeah when my wife's pregnant i'm just gonna have her walking on the beach and at home like that's it bro it's a simple routine there's no wait so who delivered the baby the husband had to do that was it an oilers fan judd yeah hundo p fucking oilers fans are insane did it happen in canada yeah bro oh i mean that's that makes sense that wouldn't happen in an american hockey arena that's some canadian ass shit dude i just know the husband of that that that wife is just the biggest hockey fan he's like look i have tickets we're fucking going that kid's just gonna be a legend in canada like if he's growing up playing hockey like being born at a fucking hockey game like you just that kid's gonna be disgusting get him on skates the second you can like i want to meet that kid he's he's gonna be probably future captain of team canada did you play mini sticks kyle growing up oh yeah of course best shit ever i built the whole arena boards jumbotron everywhere high stakes mini sticks would go crazy if you see my arena you'd be like wow you went way too hard at that like boards and everything how about UFC this weekend who you guys got I don't even know I'm stoked for this card who do you got Santa Cruz hey as long as Yuri didn't blow out his knee on stream with neon he looked fine though Yuri Peroska's 1.6x I got Yuri I got Yuri in that one and then I might hammer yuri right now i got yuri i got merza konov as well the i'm throwing 20 on yuri right now smart hey you know you know who to watch out for it josh hokit fucking tonight is the fucking march madness final boys i firing i don see how you can fire Michigan after the performance session Yeah Michigan all day baby Michigan all day What about Walker and Reyes Santa Cruz That's a tough one. I kind of have Walker in that one. I feel like Reyes is just getting a bit older. He's really talented. But if you can pull up Josh Hokett post-fight interview, you guys will become a fan of this dude. Pull it up right now. Josh Hokett post-fight interview. this might be the next like most exciting heavyweight and the thing is the dude is legit like he has a legit wrestling pedigree um and he's just i mean dude he has the personality to take over the heavyweight division if he wins this fight you're gonna be hearing this dude's name everywhere because the post fight like interview that he's gonna rip is gonna go crazy holy fuck this guy looks like he's uh hell's angel volume on this shit yeah i gotta piss I can feel the angle lightning and angle thunder. The one who can end world hunger. The bees, the big cheese. And me losing in a fist fight. N-word, please. I got the plums. This is my new guy. The size of drums in a division full of Tweedledees and Tweedledums on Paramount Plus. where I will make the viewer combust with one thrust. And I got one name on my mind. He's a deadbeat father, not to one kid, but to nine. Waldo Cortez Acosta, you absolutely suck. And that's the bottom line. And P.S. Brittany Griner is a man. bro this is unreal spew how have i not seen this this dude is fighting this weekend bro britney grinder is a man that's how he ends it sounds like me chirping on my fucking reels dude not for real for real i'm hammering buddy this week i just need santa cruz to pick out the fighters he thinks i'd like and i'll start becoming a fan that way a youtube thing i wanted to see if you guys saw did you guys see mr beast did the streamer games yeah i watched it He live streamed the last day. Did you see that? Yeah. And bro, I'm a Mr. Beast guy now. Because it was live streamed and he fucking crashed out and like freaked out on the competitors and was fucking awesome. He would have never known if it was like in a YouTube video. So you got to see the authentic guy and it fired me up. Did you watch it when the guy who won Rage, his live stream? dude it was i mean he made fucking half a million dollars oh where did he give it away to all his people i'll explain it because i i actually was really interested in this so if you won the streamer uh games you were given a million dollars to give to your subscribers so he goes live and his subscribers fucking go up to like 400 000 yeah so he made all that million back pretty much yeah yeah but then he wanted to subscribe he wanted to subscribe so then he just had a free million to give away. But did you not think it was weird that he's like, I'm giving 150 grand to this guy who's my manager. I'm giving 100 grand to my editors. I'm giving 200 grand to like my what's it called? Like the people who run your chat, your mods. And then you'd be like five grand to this random subscriber and this. But like, I don't know. I didn't read the comments. I don't know if people are already talking about it or not. But like the whole time I was like meal prepping watching it. I'm like, is he not just giving his money to his team while making all this money in the stream? felt a little weird like wasn't the whole idea to be like giving it just to random fucking people they like we're giving away like lambos so like everything went to your subscribers so you're basically playing for yourselves i just felt it was like but it was an influencer one and then he just started giving all the money that you're supposed to give away to like his team take back what i said mr beast a fucking boner like no offense would you ever would you ever go to the bar with some chicks with mr beast for the story if he was like bro you want i got two chicks want go to the bar i'm like yeah i mean just for this podcast i would rip it up i wouldn't be too fired up but oh my god yeah who gives a fuck wait i want to see what her trade value was what did what did they get for her first round pick 180 does anyone actually watch the nb w nba i could barely i i barely watch nba bro caitlin clark is an absolute generational talent so i will yeah caitlin clark is a fucking bucket but like you'll turn on a wnba game no i'm just curious i'm not hating i'm just asking when it when it gets deep into the summer i'll start throwing chad on it when i'm sick of betting on mlb i'll start throwing money on wnba that's the only time geez dude this gets real degen dude because freezer can you name five wnba players definitely not angel reese caitlin clark uh sophia cunningham um freezer you're throwing money on a sport where you can't name five players. Well, no, I get picks, all right, for certain sports that they're sharp, right? I got all the intel I need. How sharp is it? If you, all the intel, you can't name five players. Sometimes you don't want to be taking your own picks. You take who, it's like shooting in basketball. Who's ever hot on the team? Take who's the hot hand. How do you handle, if you have like a huge bet or if you have like a huge day of betting and you just like outright lose, we'll say like you're bigger, a bigger loss, like 20 50k how do you handle that depends if i'm feeling like i should go i always have a gut feeling that's like the best part about me betting is i can go on a crazy run to go up a ton the most i'll lose is like 20k in a day so if you lose 20 do you just get fucked up after or what fuck no absolutely not that's how things spiral that's when i start betting on that's when you lose big hung at night dude the jimmy gambles method was that fucking ufc fucking night with perera and fucking togi and those guys fucking terrible yeah i can't do this is tough to bet on bro fighting is tough he was minus 500 bro last second my parlay for like 20 30k and perera lost again and i'm like i can't believe this guy i'm literally filming it in my house woke up the whole house are some of the hardest gambling on sports makes it so much fun but it's so fucking stressful like you can't even enjoy the game i've been disliking nhl lately hockey's fucked really hockey's so hard to bet on i mean the other night by the way was the sickest thing ever i was hammered sending you guys condi but literally we're texting cole before the game i'm like score a fucking golden night buddy find the back of the net warm-ups he shoots a puck at my head and i was on my phone sipping a beer fucking about dropped the beer and then uh second period is on our side he goes and scores one and i told him i dump a beer on my head if he comes and sell he's So they come over on our side to go dap up the team. And Slavski or whatever the fuck his name is, he went like this to me on my head. So I just fucking poured my beer on my dome. It was nuts. But I had 3K on him to score a goal for nine and then had them minus one and a half. Won like 25K on the Canadians. I can't fucking talk to anybody about talking about peptides. What do you think about Reda and the BC, the other one that's super popular? I don't know what the BC one does. Reda and BPC. probably bpc bp 157 157 i think i think retta and peptides okay so it depends which peptide but if we're talking about retta for somebody that's like really struggling to lose weight or they want to lean out i don't think like low dose retta is a bad thing the problem is when people are already kind of lean go on retta they develop micronutrient deficiencies because they just don't eat and it's really hard to like hit all your micronutrients if you're just starving yourself you can get other issues um i don't think it's the worst idea in the world but yeah then bpc if you have any injuries i'm a fan of bpc you know like if you have any pre-existing tumors or cancers there's some evidence like not evidence but there's some theories that it might feed those basically through angiogenesis but like i'm not you know people expect me i think sometimes to be against peptides because i'm like all natural and shit just like walking around barefoot getting sun i'm not like against them bro i think they can have uses it doesn't do anything for muscle growth no bbc157 is not anabolic retitrutide is definitely not anabolic um there's peptides like tesamorelin sermorelin that can stimulate your natural growth hormone secretions and those could arguably be slightly anabolic but um i'm thinking about those cjc it's not gonna make you like jack my wrist is fucked up right here um and you're supposed to put the bpc as close as possible right it's like where the fuck am i shooting yeah my arm oh bro yeah i used to be scared doing it on my shoulder and now i'm like i'm pretty like you just got my shoulder i'm good but i'm saying if it's in my wrist just oh yeah so you can go in at it you can go in at an angle you know yeah yeah that's how you're going at a pretty good angle and yeah you'll be fine um but then you also have to do all the rehab exercises i like i talked to the guy who works with like all the pro sports teams on the rehab like he currently works like i think the giants in the 49ers like he's he just got hired for the 49ers i think it's like they had a bad season with injuries so i need this guy anyway the dude's like yeah bpc is cool for injuries but if you're not actually doing the rehab exercises it's not gonna like magically magically fix anything so he's like combining those yeah it could be valuable but yeah you gotta do everything same thing with reddit bro if you don't lift weights then you just like you don't even want to look like that dude who just takes red and doesn't lift you exactly does not the body you want you want to look shredded and jack yeah yeah when was the last time you watched porn porn i don't i literally that's like one of the things bro i really the last time i watched i mean dude like two days ago yeah like right now like i got me tv back there but yeah yeah no i'm a couple days ago no but i want to know santa cruz i try to not watch that shit i think it's like i think it just does something weird to your dopamine system but bro i also live with my wife so like it's like a different vibe i I think when you have a girl, I think porn can definitely be detrimental. But when you're single, I think it's great. Yeah, I think there's a lot of decisions in life where if a dude busted one before, they'd probably make a better decision. So if you're a single guy, you could probably control some bad decisions by letting off some steam. But living with my wife, what am I going to do? Run to the bathroom? Yeah, that's exactly what we're going to do. i've never understood the whole like porn addiction thing i have a zoom call like baby you got to get out of the room i have a zoom call that's my zoom call on pornhub she's like how'd your call go i was like it was great nah man i don't like that feeling of guilt bro yeah i don't either i don't like being guilty man i feel like it's like a sleeping yeah when you're single i'll just fucking rip one off just to pass out it saves you time too because like sometimes you maybe want to hit up a chick and then it's like you gotta hang out with her and you gotta fucking watch a movie and then you gotta like then then you get down to it and then she sleeps over you get a shitty sleep if you just hit a quick jerk and i'm not like i'm a one to two video like you find a video and you get it done like i'm not it's not a whole thing for me like it's like it's like it's like brushing my teeth where it's like bro i'm jerking and i'm done i don't know the like the porn addiction shit to me is so weird when people say like yeah i watch it I watch it all day and I like fucking, I'm like, dude, what? Like just, just beat off and move on. Yeah. And you could probably like when you're single, you could find out if you actually like a chick kind of by like, you know, you jerk one off and then you're like, you know what? I still like this chick. Okay. Like that might give you some insight. So usually right after you beat one, you're like, oh, thank God. And I didn't like waste my time with that chick. Cause now you can actually be productive. I don't like that girl. Get work done. Like you save so much time. Dude, so Armin, stream, you guys are going to play him in Padel. Wow, that's going to be fire. We should do a stream with Armin when we're there. High stakes Padel, maybe Muck and Cheatmeal. Cook me. Maybe if I can last 15 seconds, maybe grappling him. You could last 15 seconds. A choke-off clip would be crazy. You'd be surprised about how quick people can tap people that are like Armin's level. True, true. Do you have a belt? Like, are you at a certain level? I'm a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu. Solid blue belt. What is that? It could be fun. A second? Where does it go? Doesn't it go like white, yellow, blue? White, blue, purple, brown. You're a second belt? Oh, yeah, you're fucked. You're flexing a second belt? Bro, I'm not. I didn't flex the belt. I said I'm going to get cooked. You've been talking all this time about like rolling around with these guys and you're a blue belt? Bro, I got some moves, man. You haven't seen my leg lock game. It's intricate. You're a rookie. I am a rookie. I thought you were a black belt. You don't even have a belt on. Bro, I'll talk a big jujitsu game versus like a normal person. I won't talk a big jujitsu game versus Armin, I'm saying, in the last 15 seconds. that's not great I wonder how many of us would take the tap Armin out three he's still fucking ragdolling us but that's in just grappling if it was fighting bro that conversation always gets fascinating because the reality of that conversation is there's a human element to it where we would maybe we go near him someone's gonna get slapped I don't know if yeah yeah then you're like it's cooked do you think all five of us could take arm on yes i don't know no i actually know because because of that i don't know i don't because of that human element that i just talked about so somebody goes up first we each take one fucking limb you say that but if you watch somebody get their jaw broken then you're gonna be way more hesitant to approach like we go up we're like have this planet then someone gets he's just gonna throw a right hand at somebody someone's gonna get knocked out then the other four are gonna be like oh you're gonna be way more timid on that plan you're gonna be like all right now i'm gonna grab this dude's leg like then the next person's gonna eat like a rib kick or a leg kick we would all agree we have to just like cloud him you have to cloud him yeah you would just have to swarm him you have to swarm him yeah because then like at least one person could just start like throw a knee to his face like someone would have to have he's like scrambling with three dudes and someone could just like Santa Cruz, you have to just charge him with a flying knee. Oh, with your blue belt. Yeah. With my blue belt. When we do it, can you wear your blue belt? I could, I got it in my closet, dude. Intimidate him a little bit. And actually act like you're very stoked on it too. I'm going to be like, buddy, I got a blue belt. Yeah. All right. I have a quick question for Cruz. I'm going on a two week detox. What's the first three days looking like to shred as fast as possible all this blowed off what's my getting that sauna bro getting that sauna hydrate getting the sauna and honestly i mean just walk hella are you are you like a running guy i'm i don't run a lot actually i'm a big walker i think i'm gonna do two walks a day for okay then hit that hit that incline hit that incline treadmill like crazy yeah yeah i've been doing uh 17 000 steps a day i've been walking to the gym and back i'm the best in my life yeah that's beast honestly like that's really good and i bought like is it too try hard i bought one of those weighted vests no i'm a fan of those men like you can increase your caloric burn with that and just like it's just adding some weight i think that's legit no i mean dude like we troll but stanny you're you're not like you're not not locked in like you party a bit and i mean i could show you guys right now but i don't want to do some gay shit and then like whatever no people troll you and it's like i don't i know we cut this part out you guys want to see what my my uh what's it called let's see it my progress. We got to cut this out, though. This is fucking weird. Now it's going in, dude. I'm not playing, bro. Core's looking good. What do you think, though? I've slimmed down for sure, right? Your core looks good. You have. You're looking good. Your core looks better than the last transformation pick. Last three months I've seen you. People thought I was trolling when I was like, oh you're stronger than me in like a clip no i've just been lifting five days a week and i walk honestly dude i walk like 17 000 steps a day dude you should add that add 100 pushups a day for dude i've been doing it for like three years and i i haven't touched a gym in like three years it's like it still gives you what are you eating i saw your story i'm on like a crazy deficit it's been really hard to like get back to my the weight i was at but the i meal prep like a fuck load of cauliflower rice mushrooms and 99 lean turkey ground and i make like a bunch of little meals but like it's like a pretty filling meal but it's only 300 calories and pretty much pure protein and i'll eat like three of those a day and then burn about a thousand to 1500 calories on the treadmill i'm gonna send you meal prep from uh tala organic i own part of this restaurant it's like the most dialed in meal prep comes in glass all seed oil free that's crazy dude i'll tap because you're in the area it's like the area i used to do that i just it gets so fucking expensive and like i don't know maybe yeah maybe eventually i just hate to be like two hours for free meal prep dude wait did you guys see the video of uh tim walls no no it's bro this guy goes uh he was at some sort of uh addressing the media and he's like i can't go outside my house without someone driving around passing my house and calling me a retard it's the funniest thing ever well he says the r word but i guess a bunch of people have just been driving about around his house and he's like watering his grass and people are just yelling retard at him out the car like that is oh my god i could just picture his face his face his face is Just look at it. Yeah, let's watch it. This creates danger. And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, this is incredible. I'd never seen my house by my house and using the R word in front of people. That's my home. This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official say, you're right. That's shameful. You should not say it. So look, I'm worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts. They turn to violence. So deeply concerned. funny bro oh it's funny like that would suck just every time you step out of your house retard yeah i'd be like fuck this man i'm done being fucking governor i know he's also so dumb for saying that because now so many more people are gonna do that yeah come on uh i think this is solid boys i gotta um i gotta head out your guys way cali i gotta make a flight right now sweet nice so i'll see you i'll see you boys this week sounds good all right boys all right we'll see you next week easy next roll with vernon davis i'm your host vernon davis okay y'all thank you thank you That's not. Today we have Dietrich Watt. Through my example, on the field, off the field, during game day and practice, that was one way that I led because then it led to success. Next Roll isn't about what's next. It's about why they do it. My man, Dom Kansu. You finally reach this pinnacle, but can you actually close the deal out? 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