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hello everyone and welcome by now

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you know i'm on maternity leave and so were

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airing a few best of tennis episodes

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where i get behind the scenes commentary and all

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new una first up in

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this episode is my interview with dana

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white's and the us see it

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could not have been more throw this is a seat and

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of the first or second interviews i'd ever given

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i'm obsessed with the u s c i got into the

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sport because a full be coming ten i

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think it's sort of like the last man standing

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when it comes to sports i particularly

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love that he refuses to allow

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the u s c to be perverted by

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so social try and see lousy athletes

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to be who they are as individuals but

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he does not take it on up as it'll

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a corporate mission he's not waving

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lgbtq flags are waving blm

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flags he's like listen here's what we do we

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fight that said and that's exactly

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what we discussed take a listen

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the man who needs no introduction the president

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of the u s c welcome

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you know why

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the u n c have become one of

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my favorite pastimes a for a lot of a lot

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of reasons and i do love the as they do on the way

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and

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you guys have just exploded

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over the last few years what what do you think it is

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and what is going on that it's just been like us

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see the

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well first of all what were the most exciting

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live sporting event the ritz you've ever bands

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to one that it's great on tv fun to watch

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on tv but it's even better lives

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and our we've been aggressive than

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the mustang everywhere you know what what

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when you think about were bossing did over the last thirty

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four years i do allow say madison

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square garden every once in awhile and a lot of vegas

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we took this thing everywhere every major

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city in the country ah and

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and other parts of the world and ah

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you know really focused

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on a live event that and television

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deals and i think that

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the faster i pushed so hard

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to go through covert really

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the lotto are ya know

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there is something that is so unique and i can only

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describe as people who have not been to us the by

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bus i went to my first bite last year

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didn't know what to expect and i am tell you when

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i was sitting on the side of the octagon

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like there's just i can't even explain the

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energy that courses through by like eventually

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i'm gonna have to pay you to get rid of the tape of the things

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that came out of my mouth and i was assad

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heard around all day huh yeah

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we destroy

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like it and i was this point of this is a hawaiian

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that sources i don't know what that isn't he said

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there is something about it that it's it's almost

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primal b c

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spiders are amazing athlete

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i don't think people understand their like must

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yeah know that birds are super

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talented they're incredible athletes

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are a lot of their stories

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a really cool most of these guys went

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to college and graduate younger not the

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stereotypical fighters what you would think and ultimate

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fighter as they entered the exact opposite it's

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and we saw that early in the

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ah and the athletes in in the sport and

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it's part of what we sell

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right exactly and actually speaking of incredible stories

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you actually have an amazing story as

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and people don't often hear it but you want

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a person that had tons of opportunities in your life

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and eve turn this into quite the industry case of

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lived about your personal background

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yeah you know i i grew up my

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family's from boston the

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my mom was a single mother we

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moved to las vegas and

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seventy nine terminator seventy

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nine am and that ballpark because they were

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pet my mom as a nurse and they were paying nurses more

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than anywhere else in the country so that's why we move

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to vegas the and you

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know i i went to school there for couple

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years than one and level my grandparents

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and main and ended up

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back in boston and the when i was i

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the two years old i was a bellman at the boston

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harbor hotel the and are

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one day i was them in the lobby now

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of like without my doing here you

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know it was good money you know great

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hotel for a place to work

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replace the stay that you know

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they had all the things you think you

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want and life you know i made tips you

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made good money every day that a four o

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one k health insurance all those

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things but i just said this is a major

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incident what i want and are a little

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he walked out the door quick the

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are and ago

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what was that moment that was

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there a specific thing that happened or just in your head

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you just said

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i'm done with as yeah i always wanted to

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be or love fighting and always wanted to be on the side

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business and i'll never forget it and ones are

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standing in the lobby wonder you know that is your you

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were going all day of stand up against the law be

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like this way with the dumb i'll be with your bags and i'm

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when i literally said what the hell am i doing

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here why why am i doing this

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not that so often it's it's almost

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the mentality switch when you

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can just kind of save yourself i don't want to i don't want

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this for my life anymore right and you did this

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one on present and i tell people

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all the time you know people say

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what what's the worst thing that can happen worth

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a million albums not trying not trying

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of the worst thing that can happen if everything's

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bail the none of that worked out the

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go back to work i mean go get a job like that

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any day of the week you

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know what i'm nineteen years old this time and

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us you know everybody stone of would you gonna

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do what you going to have i want to get the five months

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and on and then you hear how stupid that is enough

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the dumbest thing anybody's ever heard

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but it was what i wanted to do was what i

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knew that no matter what

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happened when i got i'll bet every day i was going to be happy

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doing what i i'm going to work and

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doing what i love the death

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the at interesting now because you see what i'm

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seeing starting to shift now is that so many so

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many celebrities as attendees ask you know these

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these are sitting at which the octagon

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side right

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aguero entire

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the octagon pilots sort of becoming

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a cultural thing is it's just so interesting to

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see what you've been able to deal with the u f c

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arms and and you definitely deserve all

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of the success and i have to ask you what

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are you making right now just talking about a popular thing

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that people are talking about right now of the

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jake paul challenging the u s

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c fighters or what is your perspective on all that

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well this is the thing is in this business it's

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all about showmanship i mean if you look conor

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mcgregor and how he exploded us the

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floyd many money mayweather and you know

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what he was able to do and turn himself

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into you know that and the kids a showman

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and and he's he's calling out you fc

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people the

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get more attention and i'm kids make

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ammonium the know

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twenty five

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doubt it absolutely if you look

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at what he's done this isn't gonna last long

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yeah but he's gonna make some money

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i think it's a they think it's more of a gimmick

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it's the absolute

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gem

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any of these athletes like i said that the

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enemy guys they just the day

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in and day out it is just such a grind

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if i don't think people understand what it takes

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ah you notes to be the octagon and ends

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feel how much of their lives they're giving up is dedicated

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to the sport day in and day out and it's it's unlikely

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as a lifelong commitment it's not something that you just wake

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up one day oh i'm gonna jump and stuff in

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the octagon and and try to be a fighter you

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don't run it's it's inquiry

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air know that but but these type of athletes

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are wired different than anybody else you know

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that that that they're so different in that

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these are people that whomever

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sitton bumper to bumper traffic go to work

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will never sit in a cubicle and listen to somebody's

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telling them when they go to launch what time they got

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to be back insists they're not built that way

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and ah you know

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i've heard

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throughout my career sometimes i'll i'll hear people say

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it's bomb i feel bad for them that

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they have to fight ruler living us that's

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money i feel bad for you yeah

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you have to get up and go to work everyday and some

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twenty two year old kid tell you what to do and what not

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to though you know so that

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they're they're just they're different human beings that's why

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the fighters

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i think the u s c in general is different

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i wanted to actually points the phone because it was actually

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one of my favorite sports moments last

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year arms and you probably barely

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even remember deck as it probably didn't even hit your register

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but a man i think so much people that are washing and i think

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that it's a big contributing factor to the success

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of the u s c remember our the fight

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it

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hi round woodley my advice is as

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the colby cutting ten job with with a friend of mine

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aren't and i remember watching the

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two of them just looking so opposite you

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know one of them you that tyron woodley he comes in

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his i live i live on his live our lives matter of

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and you've got call the he comes in and he's like mega mega

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mega yacht down some software like and he is

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that they they're all the talking trash shall avail we saw

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trust each other i remember

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our in an interview afterwards there was a

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journalist i was trying to be you sorted

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into just making a comment or ceo

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picking one side or the other baby and you completely

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didn't take the bait and i actually thought the full

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what we saw the default all

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the own causes them to own beliefs we

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don't muzzle anybody here everybody

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think their minds and not going to play these games that he

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died like an amen

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to that are

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you how refreshing it is because i

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think especially for americans right now he feels

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like there's nothing that we can enjoy can decade

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to fix a scholarship to say and these of

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individuals that are fighting is the feel that feel always

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has to be you know a corporate strategy

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corporate clerk and we just don't really wanna hear

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it and so he was he was

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of fresh or of the you have

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well thank you i appreciate that and

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i grew to it's like we live in

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this world right now we're nobody's allowed to have

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their own opinion in else or am

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i gonna let iran

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cabana talk about black lives matter am i gonna

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let him talk about mag and somebody everybody

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has a caught these are all grown men and women

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that my thrust they all have their own beliefs

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their own politics or whatever it

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is they can say whatever they wanna say

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will you know

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paul i'm in a sometimes that something's

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cross lox that of the invade to specify

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business guess what

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we say really been things to each other fishes

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that's how this works as a good automated and

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it seems to be an adrenalin for

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so i can't say some mean do

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well i'm gonna punch you in the face of moral sentiments

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not a nazi one conscious right about

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us as the way i would have been to say something new

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to the other

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i know it but an exciting you know because everyone

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obviously knows is not mean that that they're saying

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it's it's it's almost like they're hyping themselves

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if and are getting excited and ah

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it's a it's just thank you i think i

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think everybody watching this thank you for

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keeping the u s c a political and

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allowing people to just be individual

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well i also believe that that when

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you watch sports right you're

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you're you're tuning in to get away

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from all the all the crap

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that's gone on in your life whether it's you

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know personally professional political

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whatever is going on in the world that your

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time we have to nets never once did

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we talk about kobe we don't talk

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politics we didn't talk about anything

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negative that was going on when you comments and

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you watch two or three hours or of whites your

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tune in and for flights coming in to watch

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a sport you want to hear all that crap

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watch any other show

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any on a walk anywhere

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it's true or the

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model corporate law and i'll

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have a nineteen a horse it we we understand

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this is going on but it is so true that there needs to be

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something

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the american people all over the earth the world can

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turn to and allows them to turn off

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the noise and the bad news run

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and and we we have the i think do a better

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job i think corporations need to do a better job of remember

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race at the individual opinions of indignity

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of people find big all of the individual thing

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is what can we just have and we have some fun can

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we have some good things that are on touched

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and and not marred on what what was

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that by what feels like this a political

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take over at all times of every day so

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kudos to you guys get some fights that

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are coming up

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yeah let's us so this saturday

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i'm leaving here and flying to jacksonville

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we're going to be the first back with a

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full arena we sold out jacksonville

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if you're watching five and will not yet

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been paying attention to the us the i'm telling you

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there's just something about it i didn't know what i

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was doing was up a fight but i was like i need

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to be back i want to be back every single time like

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this is

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this is a sport for us america we can we can

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just are taken some things turn our brains

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off and just enjoy ah you know being

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on the side

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i'm an admirer we sold out jacksonville

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we sold out here since and we sold out vegas

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three the back by fifty

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thousand tickets of all birds

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combined sold them less than five minutes yeah

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and i i think what that means is people

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are done people are [unk] dhan [unk] ready

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to go back you

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know i'm going to have no way you

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know with people and we're going to put on fights

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on saturday you know your there's going to be that

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buzz that energy that camaraderie

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that people feel again about being around

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fifteen thousand people thousand just want something

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together

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yeah i love that so much and and your why people

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are way to have fun against i'm rate has been right

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now we're going to play a game with you is it's a

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fun superlative games so

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we're not going to get you into trouble i always say that brio

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of the ones that will have as it's it's a fun

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support against super simple i were

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going to put up a bunch of love photos and you're just going have found

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the winner of each category

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are you ready

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dot is the most overpaid

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kim kardashian below

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us or justin bieber

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the year but listen you can be as

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big of a hitters wanted to have them are justin bieber

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super down either down

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on

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oscar de la hoya need some rehab

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money so

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we'll let him keep his money and

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i'll go to court as soon as the over the most

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over

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the party but i same you won that round

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next up what is the reality show that candice

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oh and is most likely to be on

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is it a the great british bake

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off be in fact or or

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we'll have why you

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like that right the and great housewife

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i'm gonna go fear factor you know there

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the top

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i'm can't put the roaches that they

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eat i would be out the door

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so fast anything rash or roaches

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i swear it's like a little

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we need a lot like to

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i could neither

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the why am i a who is hop another they're like i'm

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going on it was i respect those people make

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a really good housewife

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the satellite entrepreneur

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third want i am

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a great wine people are wondering at home

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between economy gregor and save

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the air who is the best dressed

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us the fire outside the octagon

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that's that's a no brainer cox com

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or gregory

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dresses better the me when he goes to the gym

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though he doesn't even on on the way

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my god

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i like that yeah i have to agree with you i think

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he is so well dressed and actually he's going

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to be fighting soon your feedback

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and the vegas

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tampa bay to hit when the ones i see most are sold

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out the guy is incredible fighter

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and and just honestly i think

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i so much respect respect for these athletes

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and everything that you're doing arm i just

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cannot say enough everybody who's watching this if

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you are looking for a way to turn off and watch

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a sport that you can deeply appreciate

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least you have to start watching the us

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the

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hope you enjoyed that that still ranks

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as one of my top five favorite interviews

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ever in fact acid i went to another

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you fc face and dana white introduced

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me to halle berry and i about

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fell out of my seat she's so beautiful

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she was so kind she gave me a hug

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and despite all of the cameras there are

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no one caught on video i could barely

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speak i couldn't say the her i wish i had something

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way to say what i said was,

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i love you, you're it

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was just really ridiculous and probably

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embarrassing, but i don't care it's halle berry everybody

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absolutely loves halle berry and she

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is actually very beautiful

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