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Big ass beers. Talking to big ass beers. Looks like Conor McGregor had a few big ass beers over the weekends. There's the segue. Yeah, that's a good one. Welcome to the show, everybody. Yeah, we'll start with that. That was doing the rounds yesterday. I'm sitting there having a bar barbecue just looking at the phone. And there's Conor McGregor. In fact, the caption was Conor McGregor living his best life.

The caption I got was even better. It was like Conor McGregor updated Training Camp footage. I was like...

Yeah. And then I think I saw one from Bussing with the Boys, Michael Chandler training for you three or three, and it shows him with his gigantic quads doing stuff, slamming balls and all the rest of it. Mcgregor training for three or three, and he's there. He's in the club. He's loving it. I know which one I'd rather be doing.

Yeah, 100 %.

You know what? Fair play. Look, listen, that's not the ideal training camp scenario. But if he's not doing it every night, he looks like he's lost weight. When he went on that, he did a livestream last week. You probably saw clips of it. You see that? Yeah. He looks to be in really good shape. Looks like he's slim down.

Yeah, he looks lean.

Yeah, he looks lean. So he's obviously been training. You know what I mean? So, yeah, Ideally, but six weeks, he'll be fine.

He'll be okay. It's not that big of a deal. There is a part of me that's jealous of I think we've been married a long time. He's been with her a long time. And because of their lifestyle and his financial gain, he lives a different life than we live. So he can just be out in all these random places with his wife. All the bullshit that we've seen online and the stuff that's been said about him, she still loves the absolute shit out of him. Seemingly, ultimately, attracted to Connor, the person. They seem so happy. And not that me and my wife aren't, but they got a shit ton of kids. They got three kids now. I think they just had another one. And they're still able to go out and have time together and club it up. It's not something me and my wife would do, but it's pretty cool to see them living such a good life.

Exactly. Fair play. He smashed it and he's doing well. Just the criticisms are about the fight camp. For sure. I think most people, and of course, them two have been We've been together a long time. My wife and I have been together 25 years. That's why we were just in Costa Rica. It's a great thing. But I think most people, when they look at that, they go, Wow, that's not ideal. Here we go. He's got He's got his shirt off. It looks like he's at a club, but he's at his pub there. I think it was the football team won something. So the celebration has got out of hand. And listen, that's the way it goes. I don't think he planned for that, but you have one, that leads to two. The next thing, you got your I'll share it off.

You've never been in a train camp and just let her lose a little bit too much when you expect to?

100 %. There would always be probably one night, one night where I went off the rails.

You know what I mean? One night, every training camp?

Yeah, generally. I mean, there's- Yeah, me too.

I always have one.

There's definitely been occasions where there's been more than one. But generally, when I fought Dan Henderson, I was in Las Vegas for a long time. Do you know what I mean?

So there was a second time or the first time?

Or the first time. The second one was in Manchester at five o'clock in the morning. Just like UFC 304 is going to be. But yeah, listen, it's six weeks away.

I used to, at the very beginning of every training camp. It was almost like a ritual that I had. It was with Chris Camozzi. It would be the first Tuesday of every training camp. I would just absolutely destroy myself. It was always because I had back Way back in the day, this is a while ago, but I would always have Wednesdays completely off. So we would train really hard Monday, Tuesday, and then really hard Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And then I'd have Mondays and Wednesdays off. And that first Tuesday, me and Chris would go out in Denver and just absolutely destroy yourself. And then you'd be right back on the rails. It would be about the same amount that Connor's out. It'd be like six or seven weeks out.

It's like a little reset. You know what I mean? And this is going to go see It's been really crazy because obviously, any sports scientists or people like that would say, What is Bisting talking about? When you cut from a certain type of cloth, it doesn't matter. He's still going to show up. He's still going to fight his ass off. He's never had the best cardio because in the first couple of rounds, he's explosive as hell. Do you know what I mean? But it's just when you're that person, that greatness, it's like a juxtaposition. You need that madness to be able to achieve. Look at Mike Tyson, look at Jon Jones, look at Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell was notorious for it. Do you know what I mean? Just because you live on that edge. Do you know what I mean? You're not a regular person. And so he can go out, he can have his top off in the pub, and he can enjoy himself, and he can have a few beers and whatever bloody else he wants to do. As long as he shows up on weight, everything's out of his system, and he's ready to rock, God bless him.

Yeah. I think sometimes you just need that. It was always good for me. That Wednesday, I would feel terrible. Like, God, you're an idiot. All right, time to dial it back in, and then you're good for the rest of camp. But if you don't have that one time where you got to just let go, then you spend the whole training camp just barely hold on to it. I just want to go out.

Yeah, I'm talking back in the days when I lived in England. I didn't live with the old boys, and it turned into a bit of a mental session. And my wife on a Saturday morning be like, What are you doing? You've got to fight. What are you doing? I'm like, Babe, it's fine. It's six weeks away. Don't worry about it. On the flip side, there is a danger for Michael Chandler, and that's over training.

For sure. For sure.

People don't understand.

Going hard.

Going hard, being super disciplined, not letting loose a little bit here and there and taking time out to just be who you are as a person. Listen, who Michael Chandler is as a person is not the person Conor McGregory is. But if he needs to exercise those demons, if you will, if he wants to go out and enjoy himself and blow off some steam and all the rest of it, and then absolutely try to kill it on Monday or Tuesday. Monday, he might be a bit tender today. Tuesday. You make up for it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then you have a hard one Saturday, and then you're good to go. It doesn't matter.

Have you been overstrained? Yeah. It's in these moments that Michael Chandler is having right now where you feel like this is the big one. You got to give it everything you got. But it's been stretched out for so long that every time you see a video of him or see him, he's in great shape and he's working hard and he's training. Even when he's traveling, he's training on the road. Part of me does look like, God damn, man, you got to back off a little bit. You're still a ways out. You can't just put it to the floor right now and just go because you're going to burn yourself out mentally and physically. So, yeah, I have where I've had to just back off and take, where the coaches will be, okay, you'll show up and say, You got to get out of here. Take a day, take the weekend, come back on Monday, just refresh yourself, hang out, eat some shitty food, enjoy yourself, and then come back. We got plenty of time.

Parillo used to tell me my problem was that I wanted it so bad. I wanted it so bad, it was a detriment to me. I would work so hard. Go, go, go, full steam ahead all the time. And he's like, Sometimes you just got to relax. You know what I mean? Not stress it and have a little balance. That's the perfect word. Not that I'm advising any young fighters to go out there and get shit face-off with the training camp, but McGregor is going to be all right. This weekend, of course, is UFC 302. It's a big one. Is that Maka Cheb versus Dustin Poey? And happy Memorial Day and big respect to everyone, all the veterans around the world. Of course, Anthony is already ready for the Memorial Day barbecue by the looks of things. Oh, yeah.

We're ready to go. I messed my schedule up a little bit, but the family's out. They're already doing their thing, and then we're going to do this, and then I'll go meet up with them. It's nice to have the house to myself and quiet for a little bit, though, to be honest.

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That's no surprise. Excuse me. No surprise there. If he loses, I And I think I felt the same way when I was thinking about his career. If he loses, could he fight his way back up to a title or at least a title contingent spot or be in big fights? For sure. For sure. But does he want to? I have similar feelings as Dustin. Unless there's a really good reason to be doing this, I put myself in a very similar position as far as just crossroads in my career, where... How old is Dustin? 34?

35, I believe.

Yeah, so we're both 35. Say we live to be 70. We've already lived half our lives. We have a whole 'nother' lifetime ahead of us that's exactly the same length as we just lived. We have a whole 'nother' lifetime of shit we could be doing. Do we really want to waste three, four, five more years when we could be moving on building something else? He has a daughter, and he's got a wife, and he's got businesses. And I get it when he said, I want to be a dad and a husband and have a schedule. That really resonated with me. A schedule would be really nice where every day you get up at this time and you take your kids to school, and then you go get coffee, and then you come back and you do your yard work or whatever. Whatever that schedule is, as a fighter, you don't really have it. You get into it a little bit and then boom, you get a fight, and then you're off to training camp and then everything's fucked up, like your schedule's all over the place. So I get that part of it. And I understand what he means.

Could you do it? Yeah. Does he need the money? No. Does he need to prove anything else other than trying to get the title, the to be the title? I don't think so. So I understand, especially with my baby. I always think, if I fight another five years, she'll be seven years old, and then I'm going to start. It's got to be for a reason. It's got to be for a reason. So I understand.

Yeah. I mean, the thing is, though, and this is what's hard for a lot of fighters, because Dustin Poey is passionate. It's his dream. It's his goal. Like a lot of fighters, want to be champion of the world. When it's all said and done, he wants to be able to retire and hang the gloves up knowing that he did it. He climbed the mountain. I mean, he was the interim champion, so it's almost there, but it's not quite. But this sounds really disrespectful to someone like Tom Aspenal, but it's a great consolation prize, you know what I mean? But it's not quite the thing, and there's no disrespect intended, but you do obsess over it. But ultimately, if he walks away, he's got nothing but pride if he looks back on his career. He fought at the highest level. He provided so much entertainment. All right, you won't be able to become the champ, but he turned his life around. He's provided a great future for himself. As you said, talking about schedules, he can become a regular guy because as you know, mixed martial arts or the path of a boxer There is nothing else.

You know what I mean? And it's hard to balance life in general. It's hard to be a father. It's hard to pursue other dreams and goals and avenues because it takes up-Definitely the way you want to.

You're definitely doing it the way you want to. How many times have you guys, as a family, had a vacation or a trip or shit for your kid's schools or programs or wrestling matches or whatever. And then you get a fight pop up two weeks later and all of that shit doesn't matter.

We were engaged for 15 years.

Yeah, right.

I mean, you got to be short. You can't push into these things. No, but the reality is, yeah, I proposed, but we didn't get it married for 15 years. And it was because a fight camp would always come up. So it would always go on the back burner. We said, Okay, we're doing this. And then all of a sudden, the book of fire, then you got a press conference, then you got a tour, or you got to do something, training camp, predominantly. So it would always get put on the back burner. All right, after this fight, we'll figure it out. And then it happens again and again and again. And before you know it, 15 years have passed and she's like, Listen, dickhead, are we getting married or not?

Right. You're like, Well, I think... See, we were engaged for a long time for the same reason. You miss a lot. And like you said, the fight is all that matters when you get it. And I understand that we'll talk about having vacations and like, Oh, it would be really cool to go do this, this time in seven or eight months or this time next year or whatever. You're like, Yeah, hopefully it works out.

Yeah, but I still have those conversations with Rebecca because I'll say, we'll book because we loved Costa Rica. Oh, my God, we can't wait to go back. And we're talking about going back in November. And I'm like, As long as nothing comes up. And she says, Well, hold on. Well, if something comes up, you say no. And I'm like, Well, there might be a movie popping around There's rumblings of it. If that comes off, then we can't do it. It's just like, Jesus, for God's Christ. We've had this for years. So there's always going to be something anyway, and these are good problems to have. I think if he loses, then, yeah, okay, he'll probably retire. Three shots at the undisputed belt. He gave it his all. He's made the money, all the rest of it. I think if he wins, he's going to defend that belt. He's not interested. You've got to. I mean, I had the eye issue You. Rebecca said, Right, okay, so you finally got your title fight. Are you going to retire, win or lose? I'm like, Baby, if I lose, I'll retire. If I win, you're out of your goddamn mind.

We're getting them paper points.

Let's go. We're getting the big box. So I think if Dustin pulls it off, I think we'll see him stick around. I think if he loses, then that will be a great time and the perfect send off, and it'll be emotional because Dustin's given the sport so much. He's been a fantastic ambassador. I mean, he's fought with nothing but his heart and soul. That last fight with Benoit Saint-Denis, that just summarizes Dustin Poey to an absolute tea. And when you look at the record of Dustin Poey, and you compare it to Islan Makhachev's, I did a video the other day, Dustin's record, Smokes, Islan Islams, which sounds like I was being disrespectful to Islam. I'm not. But when you look at Islam, yeah, you thought Bobby Green, then who was it? Then it was for the Bell, I think, against Oliver. Charles. And then twice against Volkanoff. When you look at Poey.

It's a shark tank.

It's insane. Hold on, I'm just trying to bring it up here. You got Max Holloway multiple times, Eddie Alvarez, Justin Gagey, Anthony Petties, Conor McGregor three times, Jim Miller, Dan Hucker, Olivera, Chandler, Gagey again, Benoît Saint-Denis.

That's tough.

In terms of experience, he's fought the tougher guys. I think that's fair to say. Now, competition in common, Islam beat Charles Oliveira, whereas Dustin lost. How do you see this fight going down?

Well, with the utmost respect to Dustin Poirier, he's fighting an uphill battle for sure. He's not going to win a decision, I would imagine. I just don't think he wins a decision. I think it's still going be too tough. I think he's a better finisher in more ways, I guess. He can finish in more ways than Islam can. I think that the battle is going to be keeping Islam off of his back. I think it's going to be keeping himself off the fence because Dustin does tend to fight. He does tend to back himself to the cage sometimes because he doesn't mind fighting from there. But you cannot do that with someone like Islam or Habib or anybody that fights like that. The wrestling is going to be easier to deal with if he can keep it in the center. Islam and Habib, those types of grapplers, those two guys specifically, didn't always do real well, wrestling, taking people down and keeping them there in this in space, in the center of the octagon. So he's always running them to the fence, and then they drag them down, works with back, start handcuffing people, lace the legs.

So I think that's the fight, is to stay off the fence, stay in the middle. I think he can do really well on his feet. I think he's the harder puncher. Islam is not bad on his feet, though. So I think he's got to catch him and hurt him early and defend takedowns. But I do think he's got an uphill battle.

Now, of course, the one loss on Islam's record is to Adriana Martens, which was a minute or so into the fight. He caught him with the right hook from the South Pole stance, which is Justin Poirier's best shot. So, of course, Islam is only human. He can be knocked out, but that was a long time ago. Now he's on a ridiculous win streak, and no doubt-You know Dustin's right-handed? Is he right-handed?

He's right-handed.

He's right-handed as Duffla.

Yeah.

I'm a left-handed Orthodox.

Oh, yeah. You might be the only left-handed Orthodox fighter I know.

I'm just shit. I don't know what I'm doing. No. Listen, can Dustin catch him on the feet? Yeah, of course you can. Islam's only human. Is it likely to happen? I don't think so. When you look at Volkanovski, Volkanovski was able to drop Islam once or twice. So again, if Volk can do it, so can Dustin Poirier. However, these are the problems for Islam. If you look at the fight with Benoît Saint-Denis, Benoît was able to bully him early. He was able to really beat him up early. But Dustin, because he's so goddamn tough, you know what I mean? He's so resilient and so durable, was able to continue to fight, get back to his feet, taking damage, was almost finished multiple times. But the problem was Benoît Saint-Denis, in his aggression, in his output, in his wrestling, in the takedowns which he was forcing, he got tired. And it was when he got tired, Dustin finished him. Again, I am not taking anything away from Dustin. I have the utmost respect. But Islam is far more efficient with his takedowns. He's far more graceful with his wrestling. The wrestling that Islam has, and Benoît Saint-Denis, it's not in the same conversation.

It's not in the same ballpark. And the difference essentially is that because Benoît was using brute strength and forcing them, he got fucking exhausted. Islam's smooth, he's technical, he's precise. It doesn't use nowhere near as much energy when he gets those takedowns. So he's not going to get tired the way that Benoît Saint-Denis did. And of course, once he gets on top, he's a much, much different problem to deal with. So I think it's a massive uphill battle for Dustin Poirier. But hey, I wish him the goddamn best of luck.

I wish him the best for sure. I'd like your explanation on the Benoît-Santini wrestling versus Islam's wrestling. I think probably the most frustrating thing I would imagine if I was fighting Islam is that he doesn't really chase the finish. He just lets it happen. He just finds it, and he just waits till you give it up. I feel like Santini was forcing it. He was just trying to shove a square peg through a round hole and just kept hammering away and just couldn't get it. But this arm just seems like a wet blanket. I don't mean that in a bad way, but he's just so heavy. And everywhere you turn, he's right there. I think Dustin's going to have a tough time there. So he's got to stay away from there. He needs to lay in something big early.

That's my- Recold Rodriguez, just to further eloquate your points. If that is a word, eloquate, I'm going to- I like it. Yeah, it works. You know what I'm trying to say? Yeah. Just to further dive deeper into that topic about forcing square pegs into round holes. Recold Rodriguez, former heavyweight champion, back in the day, I was training with him and we were doing some wrestling. And he said, Mike, you got to finesse it a little bit more and you got to use a bit more technique. I'm like, well, I'm getting the takedowns, aren't I? Because I was a. And he's like, Yeah, but it's all horsepower. You're doing it with all horsepower. It shouldn't be that hard. And I'm like, Well, hold on. I just took you down. He says, Yeah, you did. But you're forcing it so much that you're using so much energy. So for anyone that doesn't wrestle or understand what I'm saying, that's what it is. You can do it like that, or you can be smooth and you can glide, and you can use their weight against them. The art of jiu-jitsu, the gentle art.

The gentle art.

The gentle art, brother.

Didn't Rico have some issues?

Rico has had a lot of issues. Okay. Jauja, Rico, by the way, he's a great man.

I was making sure that I was putting the right thing together. I ran into him in a jiu-jitsu thing years ago.

I'm such a fan. He's hilarious.

Yeah, he's so funny. I just vomited at the mouth because I wanted some advice from him. What did I say? I said something real, I said, stupid. So what happened? How did you fuck it all up? I just word vomited, and it sounded so messed up, and I looked like such an asshole. But really, I was like, how did it all get so messed up so quickly? And then you It seemed like you fixed it all and brought it. That was what I wanted to know. How did it go bad? And then you fixed it, but it really sounded like, how did you fuck your whole life up? That's not what I meant. I was like, oh, you idiot.

God, I'm in trouble. Rick, you'll probably see this and text me because we still talk. We keep in touch. And he's been on this podcast years ago, back in the early days with Louis. He's a good dude. I trained with him for years. He came out to England. He was living out there for a while and stuff. So we keep in touch. But essentially, I'm going to butcher this, but he It was back in the early days. I think he beat Randy Guitor to become the heavyweight champ. So he was a legitimate champ of the old school era. But he almost brought the entire UFC down because they had it, I forget the name of it, but he had a massive henna tattoo of a different casino or something like that on his back. So he almost got the UFC shutdown or something like that. So he was gone. He was down the road. Something like that. I apologize to anyone involved if I'm getting that wrong.

I'm Well, I apologize to him for word vomiting and making an ass of myself when I was trying to... I was trying to ask him a really sweet question, but it sounded terrible.

No, Rick, I won't care. He's cool as hell. What was I going to say there? So 302, so who do you think wins, Anthony? Because you won't be with us on Thursday. What is your official prediction?

I'm going to say Dustin.

Oh.

Yeah, I just...

You're putting it out there. Are you trying to will it into existence or do you actually feel...

See, but I got to be unbiased.

I feel like that might happen.

I feel like sometimes some things just fall certain ways. If we're talking about who the better fighter is, who's more efficient, who's more tactical, who's going to win the minute after minute, win the rounds, round after rounds, probably Islam. But I just feel like something special is going to happen. Okay. But the good guy has got to win at some point. You know what I mean?

It's a tough, cold world. Sometimes the good guys don't win. Nice guys finish last.

Yeah. Not all of them. You're a nice guy.

I'm a great guy.

You didn't finish last. You didn't get his last.

I did. I got choked out and knocked out in my last two fights.

Yeah, but you were on top of the world when it happened, though.

Yeah, I was. Okay, I'm a nice guy.

Enough about me.

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I'm not saying that everyone should be forced into the army. But this younger generation, we always talk about how soft they are and all the rest of it, that doesn't apply to everybody. But I think he's just trying to win over a certain section of the crowd for the election. However, Never mind that side of it. If there's young men and women, of course, sitting around doing nothing, no prospects, no education, doing nothing, going nowhere, I think it's probably a good idea to throw them in the army for a year, get some training, get a bit of discipline. In that respect, I'm not totally against it.

No, not at all. I think you're onto something there for sure. I'm not saying we should take young men and women and throw them into the military and then send them off to war. No. But I think, at least in America, there's plenty of those that want to do that. But I think if you take the ones that aren't... If you're not going to college, maybe you serve a year in the military and you go and learn how to do so. I think that... Because there's a lot of trades in the military. There's construction jobs. There's a lot of things that the military has going on in there that could help people find their way. So we were forced to go do something and, I don't know, get outside of the sitting on your couch doing nothing for a year, pretending that you're taking a gap year before you go to college. I'm not necessarily against that.

I'm not necessarily against it. That's what I'm saying as well.

I wouldn't want it to be instead of college. If you got a kid that's going to college, you should let them go to college.

No, if you got a kid that's going to college, if you got a kid that's got an apprenticeship, if you've got a kid that's got some goals and some drive and working towards something. But if you've got a kid that's just sitting around and he's lost and he's feeling sorry for himself and he's, what was me and he's got no motivation in his life, then sure, I think that would be a fantastic idea. Give him a bit of regime, give him a bit of discipline. You know what I mean? Give give them some training. Because as you say in the army, you can do all kinds of shit. I'm not saying it's the problem to everything because when I originally heard it, I thought, what's this guy talking about? But then when I thought about it a bit more, I thought, well, for some people, that would be the best thing that ever happened to them. I tried to join the army when I was younger. They wouldn't take me.

Me either. The bastard. I tried to join the Marines. They wouldn't take me.

Why not?

At the time, some of it was my tattoos and then criminal history. I'd been in some trouble.

Gang tattoo, gang affiliation.

The Nebraska gangs.

Hanging out with the neon Nazis. It's like, We don't want any of those. We had a fight card. Sorry, a fight added to the McGregor versus Chandler card as well. We never spoke about this last week. Ian Gary versus Michael Vennen Page. A wise man predicted these things.

Yeah.

Remember I called for that ages ago?

Yeah. What do you think of that fight?

I think it's a great fight. I think stylistically, it's perfect. I think a lot of people are going to be happy because Ian Gary is a polarizing guy. Of course, he has a lot of supporters. He's turned his comments back on on Instagram. I look at some of his comments and there was a lot of nice comments. I don't know why he didn't turn them back on sooner. But there's a lot of people that aren't a fan of his shtick, shall we He's just young and he's trying to promote himself and he's talking shit and maybe rubbing some people up the wrong way. And then after a while, you just say, Fuck it, and you lean into it more. The Jeff Neil fight, he was able to use his height and his length and his speed and his footwork to play it safe. So the reason I said people will be happy is because I doubt he could play that style against Michael Vannen page. So I think we'll see a really exciting striking affair.

He's going to be forced to fight. He's not going to be able to stick on the outside, play his game, be the longer range here guy and just pick people apart. That's for sure. We're going to have to see him get outside of himself a little bit. He's going to have to show that he's more than just a long rangey striker that can keep people on the outside and pick shots. He's going to have to show that he's smart, that he can make good decisions, that he's fast and athletic enough to keep up with a guy like MVP. I don't know that... I think the problem is going to be, I don't know that he's got that raw power to back MVP off, because Kevin Holland is a knockout artist, and MVP had no problem just darting in and out. So I think that's where Ian Gary is going to have a problem.

I think, though, to be fair, to give credit to Ian Gary. When he was fighting Jeff Neil, who, again, heavy hands, hands of steel, the real deal Jeff Neil, he had a smart game plan. And it worked. And it wasn't the most satisfying performance for people in the crowd because they want blood and they want action, and they want two men biting down on the mouthpiece and just swinging. But that was a calculated performance. Just because you have one fire like that doesn't mean you don't have the ability to switch things up. When I started my career, I was all forward right from the early days. I thought Chris Leban, and seeing Chris Leven take so much damage and be able to still find the knockout. So my game plan for Chris Leban was, I knew he was going to come forward, so pick him off as he were coming in, use a lot of angles and stuff like that. So I think Ian Gary can pivot. I think he can go forward. I think But he is going to have to do that. He's going to have to buy down on his mouthpiece because if he tries to pick him apart at range, I think that plays right into the hands of Michael Vennen page.

Yeah. And if he tries that, we may end up in a similar situation with the same reason we didn't Michael Venin-Page and Steven Thompson. It's just two guys staring at each other in a mirror, like waiting for the other one to go.

Will we see Ian Gary go for a takedown?

I don't think so.

He's down at shooter box. His jiu-jitsu looks smooth.

Yeah. If he's taking any information from Kevin Holland, probably wouldn't. Kevin Holland is like a legit Travis Lutter Black belt. Really good. No, he knocked out Jaka Ray from the bottom unfaced.

Yeah, but that wasn't jujitsu.

Yeah, but he was- That was Kevin Holland just being a wild man and just going, Take that, you bitch. Who's that comfortable under Jaka Ray like that, though, where they're just talking shit and throwing strikes and not even attempting to get back up. He didn't care. Kevin Holland. That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.

Because he is crazy because he has that calmness of mind.

I don't know. I think MVP is better on the ground than maybe we think. I think if he runs into a real heavy wrestler, like a Gilbert Burns is going to give him some problems, guys like that. Ian Gary just doesn't come off to me as a real heavy top pressure grappler. Maybe. Who knows? Maybe we just haven't seen it.

You never know. You never know. It remains to be seen. Herringbone. Welcome to the show. Herringbone. Got a nice fancy backdrop there.

Oh, look at that. Okay. Okay.

What's your plan for Memorial Day, Harrington?

I'm actually at my destination. I'm pool partying. We're barbecuing a whole thing here. We got a little gas retreat, and then, yeah, just hanging out my wife all day. It's my fault, it's going to be great.

Well, I apologize to be interrupting you with our obligation to myself. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, sorry. The world doesn't stop.

All good. And exactly. I'm here. I look and sound better than I ever had before on this show.

You look and sound better than you ever have done in the studio. Do it from the pool party more often. Give us a non-MMA, but all these non-MMAs that you've put in there are pretty wild. A priest in Florida bit a woman to improperly receive communion. What's the other one that you put in? Give us number 4. Give us number 4.

Okay, this is a rough one. A woman is facing in charges of false alarm to an agency of public safety and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, two counts of false reports, and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities after she lied about a man attempting to kidnap and assault her. The reasoning, he looked creepy.

Hold on. Just give us a little bit more details. There was a guy, she thought he looked creepy. She goes to the authorities and says what?

This man tried to kidnap me, forced me into his car, do untold things to me when I was in there. So because of that- She made it all up. She made it all up, 100%.

Because he looked creepy?

Yeah. She saw this guy, I think, a couple of times. He worked nearby or something like that, and she happened to just see him a couple of times, and she got creeped out. And that was that. She went to the authorities, made that claim. The guy ended up doing 31 days in jail because of it.

Wow. Where was this again?

I believe it was Florida. Let me double check.

No surprise there.

Well, I told you there's a bunch of weird non-MMA stories in there, and that was the least weird one.

You remember that that check that made the phone call? Was the lady made a phone call? It wasn't that long ago. The lady made a phone call to the 911, said that she was looking like she found a baby or something, a toddler on the side of the highway and stopped. It was on the phone with the police and like, Hey, I found this toddler on the highway, and then pretended like she was screaming with someone back and forth on the phone and then just disappeared. And they left her car, all of her stuff in the car. No baby, no toddler, no her. Disappeared for three days and then just showed up again. And they found out that she made the whole shit up because she was going through a bad breakup.

Jesus Christ. Yeah, no, I mean- People are crazy. People are crazy. People are crazy. There's a lot of things you can say, but you got to be careful what you can say these days. But see, the problem is, women tell lies.

They do.

Men are crazy people as well. Hold on. Who's this? Carly Russells admits she was not abducted and did not see a child on the road.

Why would she say that? She just made it all... She ended up... I think she's in jail over the whole deal now. I think she got sentenced to jail time.

Well, this woman that reported this guy for being creepy, she should do 31 days in prison.

No, she should do more than that. Just to set a precedent for other people.

At least that. At the bare minimum, lock her up for 31 days.

Yeah, that's inside. It's so crazy how... And again, I'm not saying everything that people say is untrue, but like, man, there's got to be more consequences for people that are lying on other people. You tell a lie like that and you just change someone's life forever.

Brian says, yeah, she was sentenced to one year supervised probation, 100 hours of community service in $18,000 in fines to the city of Hoover, Alabama. Now, is that the woman on the freeway or the woman- That's the woman on the freeway.

Yeah.

I mean, that's just a crazy person being a crazy person. There was no victim per se.

No, not really. Not any individual.

Imagine being that guy.

Could you imagine being in jail? I don't even know that check.

Imagine you've got a wife and In a family house. Children. Kids. And the police show up and say, You tried to kidnap a woman. And it was all because you look creepy.

Talk about your feelings getting hurt, too. I'm so crazy on the jail. I'm so ugly that I'm in jail because of it.

You're sat in jail and you're like, Yeah, this is bad. And on top of that, I'm the creepiest looking guy ever.

Yeah, but I love my wife, but I wonder what she would say. If the police show up and say, Yeah, sorry, your husband tried to kidnap and do unspeakable things to this woman and kidnap her in a van or something, what's my wife going to say?

Yeah, it's nice. Listen, babe, I'm telling you.

Babe, I'm telling you. This is bullshit. This is not like the other shit.

Do you know what they say? Well, she's not making it up for no reason. She's not just coming out with that.

She knows your work schedule.

There's a reason why this woman is saying this, and you're like, Babe, I am. I'm not telling you this is bullshit. Look at me in the eye. I'm telling you this is bullshit as you're getting card to the right in the hand.

You're like, your hands behind your I love you. Send the lawyer.

You're like, You're rot in hell.

Yeah, thank you.

You're rapist.

What? It's like, Jesus. That's crazy. And then you don't find out. And then you don't get... It doesn't get found out that you're telling the truth for a month. What shit have you- She doesn't visit me the whole time. How much shit have you gone through for a month? You haven't seen your kids because she ain't taking them to see no goddamn kidnapper in jail.

No, you're not fit around to be. And then when you come out as well, it'll still follow that guy around. It is small to, Oh, yeah. Years from now, you know what? Back in 2024.

The people working at McDonald's, they had flippin burgers.

Allegedly.

Spent on this guy's sandwich.

Allegedly, he tried to kidnap a woman.

I think he did it.

Yeah, he got off with it. He's got a lot of money. He had a good lawyer. He's never going to get away from that because of some crazy, crazy, crazy person.

All because you're ugly.

Because you're fucking really ugly. He's a creepy dickhead. I'm surprised that hasn't happened to Harrington, to be honest. I mean, come on, if the shoe fits. All right, this episode is brought to you by Fit Bod, which is the smart workout app that is going to make working out for you easy. It's going to give you a wealth of knowledge, exercises, fitness regimes and tools so you can become the best version of yourself. You can lose weight, you can get You can shape, you can add muscle, you can stop over training because the app is absolutely fantastic and it adapts to the available equipment that you have. So if you got a gym, great. It will give you an all singing, all dancing workout. If you've just got a garage or a couple of dumbbells or whatever it is, just tell it what you've got and it will target and create a workout just for you. So Fitmod, as I said, it creates a personal workout routine based on your goals, your fitness level. It adapts as you improve. Each workout remains challenging. It will track all of your muscle recovery, and it is fine-tuned by experienced certified personal trainers.

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No.

The curse of Paulo Costa, because I think he has fought on seven or nine fight cards where title fights are going on, and the champion has lost every single time.

Yeah, I did. Now that you said that, I remember it now. I'm reading it somewhere.

So, all right, UFC 212 Aldo, me, best being, coldLoses to T. J. Loana to Rose. Steepay to DC. Who's that one then?

Then DC to Steepay.

Usman to Leon. Polkinawski to Portia. If you're Dustin Poirier, you're saying, So you're telling me there's a chance?

There's a chance. That's so crazy.

Yeah.

What a genius. The person that figured that out, too.

Curses aside, Paulo Costa, Sean Strickland, what do you think?

I know that I'm going to rub a lot of people the wrong way by saying- Rub them. Sean Strickland is so goddamn good that I don't know. I've said that I've I've only said this about one other person in my entire career in this sport or as an analyst. I don't know how anybody beats Sean Strickland. I don't know how he's lost anytime recently. He is so good, but he only fights with about 50 % of his skillset because of just his mindset and the way that it is. And you've talked about how good he is, how good his grappling is, and all that stuff, a nauseam. But when I did that, the week of UFC 300, I trained in Vegas with Sean. I was so blown away at how smart he is. Not saying I thought he wasn't smart, but his fight IQ, insanely high. His grappling, really good, wrestling, really good, wall wrestling, really good, defensively on his feet, really His output is insane on his feet. He's really tricky, moves his head, hard to hit, good kicker, all around good guy. Not just okay in all places. Very, very good everywhere. And really gave me serious problems on the ground.

When he would get on top, I can't tell you the last time when my goal was to get the fuck up and I couldn't, I can't remember the last time that was. Yeah, He just held me down. He's so good.

I've said it for years. He's really good on the ground, but we don't see it.

No, he just doesn't. He doesn't want to. It's just a want thing. So that said, I know that his coaches are working on him, really fighting with his full skill set and really trying to drive that point home. So if we see even just a little bit of that, I don't see a way he doesn't win. And that's not me sitting on Paulo. I just have that direct experience with Sean of how good he is everywhere. Also, just to give him a little bit of love, he's an incredible teammate. All we see online is how big of an asshole he is and how he's sparring hard and yelling and screaming or whatever. He's like the captain at Extreme Couture Sure. He's going around, he's fixing little things for people that nobody knows. And he's trying to help everybody. He's encouraging everybody. He's a very good teammate. But that aside, I think that Paulo is going to have a tough time just connecting, and I think he'll get tired trying to land on Sean.

Yeah. I mean, I've known Sean for years and years and years. But Paulo Costa is a problem for a lot of people. However, he's been inconsistent, and he hasn't been particularly active. In 2017, I thought, one fight in '18, one fight in '19, one fight in '20, one fight in '21, one fight in '22, didn't fight in '23. So his strength of schedule has been pretty much nonexistent, just the occasional fight here and there. So he fought in February, now he's fighting again. So I'm not saying it's ring rust or anything like that. It's just because he's choosing not to fight him because he's out there living his life and probably didn't feel the need to be doing that. Before his last fight, his coach was telling me that his mind is now right. And there was definitely some weirdness going on, weren't it? Showing up for the Marvin-Vattori fight, 20 pounds heavy and all the rest of it.

They fought a 205.

Yeah, but he's a beast of an athlete. He's got a hell of a chin. He can hit hard. He's athletic. He's not an easy man to take down. Joel Romero couldn't really do it. So take down defense is on point. Excuse me, down in water. I think it's a really, really tough fight. So I think Paolo is going to walk him down. I think that suits Sean because Sean is more calculated than what he makes out. You know what I mean? He fight dick to dick, nipple to nipple. Here's the thing, guys. We're going to go to war.

Here's the deal. Here's the deal, guys.

But then he's strategic when he's in there. So I think Paulo is going to go forward. He's going to be swinging and stuff, and that'll suit Sean because he's happy to fight behind the jab, often on the back foot until he starts to find the momentum and do some damage, then he'll go forward a bit. But But yeah, I think it's a really winnable fight for both men.

Yeah, it's a really close. They're going to fight, fight. I mean, Paulo doesn't know how to fight any other way than just pure aggression, and Sean's fine with that. So I'm excited to see it. I think that's going to be one of the better fights on the card.

I think it's going to be a tremendous fight. What else do we have as well? Hold on. Let's have a look at the rest of the card. Randy Brown, Elezea Zaleszaleszko-Dasantos, Zaltan Almeida, Alexander Romanoff, Kevin No, it is. And then Kevin Holland, Michal O'Sheish. Michal O'Sheish. Are you familiar?

I am. He was a middleweight. He is. Or he was a 205er.

So exciting.

Yeah, he's good, too.

No, he's crazy. I mean, he's just pure aggression. You look at his fights. I'm just looking at his record here. It's win-loss, win-loss, win-loss. But it's lost in the first round to Pereira. He was on a role right now, Michal Pereira. One minute into the fight. Before that, knocked out Chidian Jaquanee, first round. Lossed to Kyle Buhio after a war. Beat Cody Brundage, round one. Beat Sam Alvie, round one. Lossed to Dustin Jacobi, beat Shaamal Gamzatoff, round one. So he's definitely one of those kill or be killed type of guys.

But since he's been a middleweight, he's seeming a little bit more consistent. He's just in really tough fights. That guy's It was really, really tough.

Yeah. And he beat Chirien Diquanee. He was tall, he was long, he was rangey. He's got beautiful tie boxing and kid boxing. The reason I bring that one up is because look at Kevin Holland. Kevin Holland is tall, he's long, and he was able to beat that style. I think Kevin is going to have a hard time keeping him off him, but Kevin Holland has just got the ability to use those long arms, lock up Dorsh chokes and stuff like that. So I'm leaning towards Kevin Holland, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lochet shook.

He's fast, too.

He's really fast. Kevin Holland has a fine chin, man.

Yeah, he does. He took some- Has he ever been knocked out?

I don't think he's ever been knocked out.

No, he took some pretty big shots versus Hamza, too. Took a couple of really big ones off of MVP. Buckley landed some big ones when they fought. He's taking some big shots.

He's lost once via knockout. Who was that? I don't know. Let's have a look. Maybe it was early pre-UFC. I'm going all the way back, all the way back. No. Who the fuck knocked him out? Beat Curtis Melinda, lost to Tiago Santas, lost to Brandon Allen, Derrick Brunson, Marvin Vittori, lost to Hamza. Oh, Steven Thompson, TK.

Oh, yeah. That was his name. His hand was broken, though. Yeah. He stopped it between rounds.

Yeah. So on the record, it has 1K. That wasn't a K. He stopped it at the end of the round because his hand was like, hammer's bussed up and couldn't really continue. So he's never been knocked out.

Yeah. Yeah. Good for him.

All right, Harrington, give us a non-MMA. Come on.

Come on.

So I thought this is interesting in our digital age, where you never know exactly what you're looking at. Norway has come up with a new plan. Any ad that has been digitally altered to make someone look more attractive, make people prettier, thinner, whatever the case may be, it needs to have a warning label on it the same The same way cigarettes tell you. It tells you they cause cancer or along those lines. It lets you know when things have been digitally altered so that you're not comparing yourself to unrealistic beauty standards.

I think that's perfect. I think that's great.

Absolutely love that.

I mean, you've got four daughters, Anthony.

Yes.

The pressure that they're under in this modern day and age, because we say it all the time and we're going over all the ground, but with social media now, it's like the pressure It's good for young girls, especially, and young guys as well. But guys don't care as much as girls. Let's be honest. We want to be handsome. We want to be attractive. We want to be appealing to the other sex. Of course we do. But it's not the be all and end all. I'm not A lot of women are like that either. But a lot of women, they want to be pretty. They want to be beautiful. Excuse me. I think that's fantastic.

Yeah, there's this... I need to find it. It's an Instagram page that I follow, and it's this guy that goes on there, and he finds fitness influencers that are selling their fitness programs or bodybuilders that are selling their products and their programs. And he'll go on and he'll find all their pictures that have been photoshopped to make them skinnier or bigger or whatever. And so he'll say, such and such name, welcome to the show. And he'll go through and he'll just trash all their photos and all their bullshit and all how their products don't work. And It's awesome, but it's the same concept where he's mad that these people are using these photoshopped and digitally edited images to make themselves look a different way so they can sell their product. So I think it's a great idea. I love that Norway is doing that.

Yeah, they should implement it across the bloody board, to be honest, because the advertising industry is just bullshit. It is absolute bullshit. All these drugs, all these products, all these supplements that are going to do this. And they're going to do that. They don't work. What works is discipline, hard work, having a schedule, having a regime, getting out of bed and doing the work and eating a healthy diet, just being goddamn disciplined. All these supplements There's all these drugs that say they're going to do this and they're going to do that. No, they don't. All these drugs that say, Oh, this is going to get rid of this. It's going to get rid of that. And you're going to have no inflammation. You're going to have no pain. I got prescribed all kinds of shit for my neck. None of them-None of it fucking works. None of it works. None of it. It's all bullshit.

As we both sit here and go...

None of it works. Come on, no man alive. The only thing that does work is osteine. Do you know why I brought that up?

Why did you bring that up?

Do you know why I brought up osteine? Because Ryan Garcia is positive. Pretty well Yeah, Hamilton, give us the low down. If you're not too busy partying it up at the Copacopana. If you don't mind doing a bit of work.

My drink's on ice. My burger is safely attended to. It's fine. No. So his B sample came back, and yeah, it tested for the exact same things that the A sample tested for. He came out and said on his Twitter that he knows he's never going to make another dollar in boxing now, but says that it is a conspiracy against him.

There is no goddamn A sample or B sample. I hate this.

It's the same sample.

You're P in one cup, and then they separate it and put it in two, and then they call it A and B. It's the same P. I don't know why we're pretending. I hate this. We're like, Well, we got to wait on the B sample. Well, no, they just tested it. They just tested it again to make sure there was no mistake. Well, I know, but these other people are like, Who knows? Maybe his B sample is going to come back negative. Yeah, I I think it's unlikely beings that came out of the stream, the same stream of urine. It's the same shit.

I saw Brian look this up. He bought Pornstar, Savannah Bond. Nice. $1 million engagement ring. I saw him buying an engagement ring for somebody else. It didn't look like Savannah Bond, but apparently, it was on a podcast with Jake Paul, and they were talking about it, and then he FaceTimed her, but they split up now. They're not together.

She's keeping the $1 million ring.

Oh, that bitch. Let's have a look. Brian Garcia gets engaged in Adult Film Star, Savannah Bond. You When I saw the video, it wasn't Savannah Bond. I didn't recognize her.

Why are you so familiar with it?

I'm joking. Jesus Christ, bro. So So Ryan Garcia, it's not going well. No. So he's testing positive. She's going to get banned. We went through all this stuff. Poor guy. He's broke up with his girlfriend.Yeah..

It's too bad.

And he's getting sued of Logan Paul.

Why?

Logan Paul is suing the shit out of him.

For what?

So it's defamation. He came out and said some pretty nasty things about prime hydration. And yeah, Logan Paul just had enough. Couldn't see his company slandered anymore. So he's taking legal action against Ryan Garcia.

What was the tweet that Ryan Paul put out there, though? He said something. He said, Oh, great. I'm going to take all your money. Something like that. I'm not sure. I don't know. Got to be careful what you say. You don't want to get slapped with the lawsuit. I think at the center of the lawsuit, what does it say? You're a bitch. I'm going to take everything from you, including the food out of your kid's mouth. Go pray to your God, you're going to be sorry like the kids in Gaza. I don't know if you really said that.

I don't know. Just because that's on the internet, I don't know if Logan Paul is sending that. That's... Do you believe that? No, I don't think he'd say that.

What is that? Logan Paul responds to confirm that Ryan Garcia posted fake DMs, Mocking the death of kids in Gaza, and he doesn't even have his number. Yeah, I mean, for one of that- That's a DM by the looks of it. But as I said, I don't know Logan Paul, but I don't think he would send that text.

No, I don't think so.

No way. So I think at the center of the lawsuit, it's about, I think, and I might be saying this, and this is all alleged because I don't want to get slapped with a bloody lawsuit. I think he said something like it was the prime that caused him to test positive for Austria.

Oh, shit.

Now, if he did, and I don't know this to be fact, if he If I did say that, then I can understand why he would do that. For sure. To a certain degree.

That'll get you sued.

That'll get you sued. That'll get you sued. I don't know for a fact, and this is alleged, and I read it on Twitter. So don't come for a Mikey bee, okay?

Logan Paul is pretty sue happy. He got some lawyers on speed dial.

Allegedly. No, but if you are saying that, then I can understand.

Yeah, 100 %. If you said that about my company, you don't have a choice. You You have to defend your company. Of course. You really have to.

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Harrington is a fool. That's why you got the background.

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We got there. This question is from Mahmoud, and he's asking about weight cuts. What's up, BYM crew? Mahmoud here from Toronto. Big fan for years. Was that your first one-man show here at Bisbing way back in the day, and we've been waiting for you to come back ever since, man. My question is about weigh-ins. I was just wondering if you guys had any thoughts on this proposal, I guess. What if rather than having the weigh in the day before, we just have them the day of or better yet, as they're going into the octagon? That way everybody would fight a lot closer to their natural body weight. There's no chance to rehydrate or try to get back up to their natural weight.

I've never really been a big fan of these rehydration tests.

It seems like an overly complicated roundabout way to make people fight closer to their natural body weight. Why not just have them weigh in, have the scale right at the apron of the octagon? Then if anybody's over, the purse swap happens right there, 20% from one guy automatically goes to the other guy. If it's-The mood.reggiously over, if it's-Mamoud.regeously over, one guy has the right to not fight the other guy. And then that's just do it that way. I heard Chael say it once years ago, and he's never said it again, and I've never asked him.

My dude.

Just wanted to get you guys. My dude. Love the show, guys. And Harrington, love My dude. Listen.

My dude.

My dude.

Jesus Christ, my dude. Listen, you started so well. Okay, so let's imagine we do it your way. We're just going to have them weigh in on the way into the octagon. And if someone misses his weight, they have to write there and then for the fight not to go ahead. The main event, it's a title fight.

Islam Mashacheev, Dustin Poirier.

Is that miss his weight? Dustin says, I'm not fighting him. Everyone in the arena is going to be pissed that that main event didn't go down. Everyone that bought the pay-per-view, they're all going to want their money back. People are still going to cut weight as they step on that scale.

That's the problem.

So then they're going to be in danger because they're going to be fighting in a dehydrated state. They're not going to perform well. The fights are going to be shitty. They're going to be in danger of CTE and brain damage. Damage and just running out of gas. Sadly, the best way to do it, the best way for it to be as safe as possible for the fighters is to do it the day before. But the reality is people are always going to find a way to try and game the system to give themselves an advantage.

I can't say it any better. The biggest problem with that is when you're dehydrated like that, you're dehydrating your brain and the fluid that protects it. People are still going to cut weight. You're overestimating the intelligence of us as fighters. You're overestimating our intelligence. So if they said, Well, you got to win the day, instead of people saying, Well, I guess I'm going to have to go up a weight class and fight in my natural way, they're going to say, Well, shit, now I got Now I got to cut weight closer to the fight. They're just going to change their weight cut times. That's it. They're going to push it back a day and they're still going to cut the weight.

And he even said he's not a fan of the hydration test. You know what I mean? So how are you going to test them? You know what I'm saying? So It just doesn't work. I wish weight cuts. I feel your frustration, my mood. All jokes aside, I understand what he's getting at. I wish people would just fight at their natural weight class. But when there's money involved, when there's titles involved, when there's opportunities to change your life, you're going to try.

There's not enough weight classes to do that either. There's not. If you fought at your natural weight, what would you fight at?

205.

If I fought at my natural weight, what would I fight at?

225.

Yeah, there is no 225. That's the problem. I'd be fighting Derek. Choose the weight. I'd fight Derek Lewis.

Yeah.

That's not fair. There should be To be fair, Derek Lewis wouldn't be able to fight because he can't make 265.

There should be a super heavyweight. Yeah, but you're right. There should be more weight classes. Now, I'm not advocating for a super heavyweight weight class because- You don't want all these fat slobs rolling in there. Fat out of shape guys just rocking up with a cheeseburger. Not that all big guys are like that, but you know what I'm saying.

There'd be a handful of guys that are sumo-sized wrestlers, like sumo wrestlers, that are going to try to come in and fight. Nobody wants to see that shit.

There should be a cruiserweight division, though, in my opinion.

225 would be nice.

Mcgregor was teasing something that him and Dana have an announcement, and a lot of people are getting excited that it's going to be a 165-pound division. I don't think it's going to be that, but I would like to see that. I would like to see 65, 75, 85, 95. But we've had this conversation many, many times. Mahmoud, there's your answer. Brian, we got one more.

We do. This one's from Doug Norton, who usually sends in the I have a lot of questions, but this one is about dog. Nice.

Hi, guys.

My question is for Mike and for Rebecca. She's there. I'm sure you two really be able to help me with this one.

This is probably the only MMA podcast in the world to ever have a question coming in on dog handling.

But here we go.

This is Winton. Winton is our first dog. He is a four-month-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He's an amazing dog, like 80% of the time.

Amazing dog, well-behaved, well-trained-ish. And he's an absolute joy.

But 20% of the time, which crucially is every day, he's an absolute nightmare. And he loves nothing more than attaching himself to my toes, socks, trousers, my wife's toes, socks, trousers, my daughter's toes, socks, trousers.

You can see where this is going.

I've tried everything. I've tried telling him off sternly. It doesn't give a shit. I tried getting up and walking away.

It just hangs on the back of the trousers, again. It's really difficult to know how to get him to stop.

But like I said, he's amazing the rest of the time, and he's got a lot of character, which I like, but the trouser biting has got to stop. So you guys experience dog owners, dog handlers, I see lots of conflicting information on YouTube.

I just love to know what you guys would do to get the nipping nipped in the bud. Thanks.

Love the podcast as ever, and see you, Harrington. Thank you for the question. Rebecca has gone downhill. Rebecca, what's your question? What's your answer?

Do what?

You're Rebecca now.

Oh, I'm Rebecca now. Okay. I was like, Wait, is she coming? Is she in the background somewhere?

No, because it should be Michael and Anthony, but anyway, whatever.

I don't know that I would probably give this advice. I know what I do, and it works, but anytime I have a dog that chews a bunch, for whatever reason, we always have bully breed dogs, which is what that one looked like. They chew on hands and fingers, and they're not being mean. They're just nippy, right? I'll take my finger, and when they're chewing on whatever you don't want them to chew on, and you stick in their cheek as their mouth is open. So when they bite down on something they're not supposed to bite down on, they bite down on their own cheeks, and it hurts. So anytime that they're chewing on my fingers, always just shove my finger right in their cheek. Not hard, being mean or anything. I'll just hold it in the side of their mouth so that they're biting on their own cheeks when they're biting on something you don't want them to chew on. That's what I've always done, and it's always worked.

Hey, well, if it works, keep doing it. That looked like a puppy as well. That was a very, very young I was going to say that, too.

I think you just have to just deal with that for a little bit. It's always worked for me with puppies, even. Just put it in their little cheeks, they chew on it, they'll stop doing it, and then they come back, you do it again. It only takes a week or so.

Puppies will do that. Simple as that. I mean, it's teething. It's growing. It doesn't know. You're just going to be disciplined with it. Tell it off, put it outside. Give it a little... No, one of those little things. You know what I mean? Rebecca. Let's see if she got an answer. Because we were talking about this last night. Rebecca, someone sent in a question. Just come here real quick and say, Anthony. Hi to Anthony. They all want to leave, babe. So you got to be quick. You got to be quick. Hi. We had a question about dogs and what to do to stop the dog from chewing. But, Anthony, I want to ask you this. No. I said, just discipline. Take it outside. Yeah, there's a bit of that. Give it a slap. No, none of that. Violence. No, no, no. Anthony, so we had this last night. We had a barbecue And there's a lot of meat around, and the dog comes. He wants a little feed. So I chuck him a bit of food here and there. Okay? Yeah. She gets mad. I get mad. Why? Because then they just whine and beg constantly, and it pisses everyone off.

It's very annoying. It doesn't wine him. He does. No, because what happens is- No, what happens is, and then you say, Harry, F off, right? No. Yeah, so he does. And the poor dog doesn't know whether it's coming or going. Sometimes he gets fed, sometimes he gets told to F off. So just don't feed him.

He won't beg.

Whenever I eat, he knows not to beg for me because he knows that he won't get fed. And if I've got leftovers, I'll give it to him at the end. Great advice, everyone. Do it. Don't be a softy. Teach your dog some discipline. Well, I prefer to show my dog a bit of affection here and there. If I'm full- They don't care about that. The straps on my plate. They want some raw meat. I'm not here. I have my straps. And she said, No, don't do that. I'm like, Listen, because I have the ability, when I do that, he doesn't know.

He's out, yeah.

That's it. That's your lock.

She might never come near me. As soon as Alani, the two-year-old, is in her little high-chair seat, the dogs just hover because anything she doesn't want to eat, she's right.

It's going to be straps.

She's dropping She'll wait till nobody's looking. She'll start sliding it off of her tray. So they don't leave her side when she needs.

They're not stupid. But what about you, Anthony? Do you give a little scrap here and there?

I used to, but the Frenchies gained so much weight. They were like 40 pounds. So we switched them just recently to an all-raw food diet. So they're eating 100% raw food twice a day. So it's really dirty and nasty and there's blood and shit. It sucks. It's expensive, too. It is. Do you have to buy it or can you eat? I just buy it because it's just easier. Because it's 80% raw meat, 10% organ meat, and 10% bone, and it's all ground together. I couldn't get the right mix together. Yeah, I couldn't get the right blend. Yeah, it is. It is expensive. And we switched between turkey, chicken, and beef to keep them balanced, I guess.

The rotation of the proteins and the amelacons. They don't get bored.

Well, they're used They're used to free feeding. Like six months ago, we just fed them whenever they were hungry or we just kept the bowl full. But now that we're on raw food, anytime you walk in the kitchen, they're like, What the fuck? What's he doing? Is he going to eat this? What's he going to eat? They don't know what to do.

Every time he hears a rapper, we could be opening like-Oh, God, is that the worst. I don't know. That's not even the latest. An Amazon packing. Yeah. He's like, Oh, food.

That's because- Yeah, these guys are insane. Anytime I walk in the kitchen, they're just like, I think it's time. I think he's going to give me that shit again.

So Every night when I go to bed, I take up a gigantic beaker of water. Anytime I do that, he's like, Oh, it's bed time. It's seven o'clock in the morning. But when we go to bed, we do the water, and then we give him a treat. That's the little routine. And then he gets the treat and he runs off fast and has it. He comes back for another one. He knows that I give him one as well. Yeah.

But no, dogs need to know where they stand.

They need routine and no feeding at the table. Anthony is ready for a barbecue?

Yeah.

Brian's ready for a barbecue. Okay.

We had ours yesterday. Are you guys having one today? We had it yesterday. We should have another one.

Hamilton is ready for a barbecue. Okay. We got a very hostile crowd.

Herb is at the barbecue already.

Yes, not doing his job. Flopped the only line that he had. He's multitasking.

Hi, Rebecca.

Hey, how are you? He's never looked so professional. I like the background. Yeah. It does not look like he's at a barbecue. Yeah, well, we're going to allow them. We're going to free them from their hostility. Be free. Enjoy your Memorial Day. See you. Yes. Happy Memorial Day, everybody. And we'll be back on Thursday. Oh, Thursday, we've got a couple of great guests. We've got Bobby Green. We've got a couple of good people coming up on Thursday. So don't miss Thursday's show. Anthony, I allow you to go and enjoy yourself.