0:00 The UFC just happened at the White House. >> Oh, yeah. >> Leading up to it, I thought it was the stupidest thing in the world, the dumbest thing in the world. >> As an avid UFC ████ fan, you hate it? >> As an avid UFC person, leading up to it >> You weren't excited a little bit or curious? >> Not at all. I was like, I never >> What if Jon Jones was on the card? >> It wasn't about the card. >> Then I would still be like, is it about the venue? >> Yeah. >> I would still be like >> It's like, why is it here? Why does it have to be here? >> is it here? >> Cuz it's America. >> BUT LIKE, WHEN IT WAS AT THE SPHERE, DOPE. If you take it to the Colosseum, dope. Going back to the origins, I understand. >> Hell, yeah. >> At the ultimate admin office, I was like, what? >> this? Yeah. >> But then, watching the clips leak out, >> Kind of sick. >> Damn, that was sick as ████ [laughter]
0:51 And I'm like >> It turned me, too, bro. It turned me, too. >> like, okay, these guys are visionaries, because I didn't see it. But after it played out, I was like, I see what you guys are trying to do, and it is ████ amazing. Seven fights, seven ████ knockouts. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> But then, after the hype comes down, the adrenaline leaves the body, and you go as a US citizen, taxpayer, whatever, participant in this community, you're like, was that like necessary, or did that [laughter] add anything to what we're trying to do? >> Yeah. >> But then, also at the same time, it takes me back to I don't know, like the 1800s, where I'm like, I'm sure they held ████ duels in front of the White House, or like boxing exhibitions, probably. >> The gladiatorial matches in the Roman Colosseum were like to appease the mob.
1:44 >> But it was at the Colosseum. They didn't move the gladiators to the Parthenon, or whatever the hell they do their ████ >> [laughter] >> You're right. >> You know what was badass? Teddy Roosevelt, my favorite president in the world. That fool used to box, wrestle, all that ████ at the White House. >> You look like your name could be Teddy for some reason. >> Cuz I Why? Cuz I got a mustache? >> Yeah, but that's David's son's name. >> So, they did it back in the day, so why is it not okay now? That's something I'm questioning myself cuz I I'm very conflicted myself. >> Yeah, cuz Teddy Roosevelt was like after hours, he would just be like, "Come on. I just want to fight." Cuz he's badass like that. He's like, "I don't need it to be on TV." They didn't have TV or newspapers, right? But they didn't even have no journalist. Dude was just like, "Let's just ████ get down." Cuz he was crazy like that. >> He was getting it in. >> maybe that's what would have been different if Trump was really about UFC. He was a UFC like he was an MMA fighter
2:34 and you know he was crazy. >> Like Putin. >> You know he's a black belt in judo? >> If he's like, "I'm going to hold the ████ national judo event here." Or whatever it is. >> That's sick. See? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> It's a natural It's a natural ambassador. >> Organic. >> If he's he's there eating McDonald's and he's just watching and it just >> He's falling asleep. >> He's just relatable to the audience. >> But it's also weird cuz it's like it felt like you're at a kids birthday party while you're watching it. Like that's what it was. It was like, "We're going to have ████ dirt bikes. We're going to have ████ We're going to have jets. And then And then afterwards, I'm going to like be with the UFC fighters and we're going to walk out together." And then like it was cool. Like I cuz I actually cuz we were at the wedding, so we missed I missed all like the production. >> ████ Ryan. >> Of like what it was like. >> How dare you have it on that day? >> But it was kind of good though because afterwards, you got you kind of got to see it for the like the dust settle a
3:25 little bit. Yeah. And you're like, "Okay, this is actually was kind of a success." Like >> The jets are kind of sick. >> The jets are cool. >> When I When I When I saw the preparation leading up to it, I'm like, "You ████ ego stroking ████ You're going to have jets, people dressed up like Evil Knievel and ████ like that." And then after when I saw the clips, I'm like, "Damn, that was kind of sick, actually." >> But I think it's okay like cuz I think a lot of people that are UFC fans are conflicted. And I think that's okay. Cuz you could have both emotions. You could be like, "This is ████ weird, but >> [snorts] >> you know, I love the fight. It's like this is pretty This is great for me as a fan." >> I mean, it it's just America propaganda, isn't it? >> Yeah, that's exactly what But that's That's what feels kind of icky, right? It's like then they start like promoting their ████ coins and all this here like, "Dude, this is just weird." >> It was like so capitalist. Yeah. >> Yeah, it was like and so for like, you
4:16 know, Trump family and ████ You're just like, "This is ████ weird, dude. This is feels icky." >> Damn. Well, when I looked at that, I was like, "America." Because you know, UFC was like not real sport for like a long time and then finally, he's like, "Here's the stamp of approval, dude." >> That's true. You don't get more of a stamp than that at the White House. >> Yeah. >> But the the most American thing was Justin Gaethje winning, beating the the Spaniard the Georgian Spaniard who was the pound-for-pound number like one or two. The He was a 500 uh plus 500 underdog and he goes out there and smokes him. >> living ████ out of him. >> a no mas moment. And as an American, you're like, "Dude." >> Did you bet on him? >> No, I didn't. >> We didn't bet on him. None of us >> I don't bet no more, bro. I'm not betting, dog. I'm good. >> to bet on it so bad. >> I'm out of the betting game. I can't do
5:06 this, bro. >> How dare you? >> It's because we bet too big cuz we're betting next to this titan. >> My Chinese genetics is going to fail me, bro. >> bet like 50 to 100 bucks each time like you guys do. >> Bro, I bet like three to five dollars every time. Yeah. >> Really? Let's do three to five dollars then. >> Well, they do it like every day, but you're doing it like once every couple months. >> You literally looked at me last time you're like, "If I don't do 100, I'm not doing it. If I don't do 100, I'm not doing it." Yeah, cuz he does it like once a year. >> He's not going to feel anything. He needs to feel something. >> like once a year. I'm so res- I'm so responsible. >> You're just repeating what everybody's saying. I'm just hearing it twice right now. >> [laughter] >> What would be the China uh equivalent? Doing a wushu competition in front of ████ >> The difference is >> the Forbidden City? >> This is the era of American trash winning. Also, the difference is China just does it every year, every month. So, China does a military parade, but China, their culture is ran by the CCP.
5:56 >> You got to get country bumpkin, their Trump, to rise up and then be like, "We represent ████ China trash, and then we're going to make it mainstream." Cuz that's what's happening with the US. Which I love. >> That current guy right now, what's his name? He's supposed to be from humble beginnings. Like he worked his way up from a tiny province, and slowly came up over like, "We need to poop." Yeah, like he came up like over 30 to 40 years from the come up. He is like a country bumpkin. >> That's the story they tell you, dog. >> That's true. That's true. >> You say Evil Knievel, right? Don't you remember that time where in Vegas he did that giant ass jump over that one bridge or whatever? >> At Caesar's Palace. >> But that's Vegas, though. >> Yeah, but here's the thing though, that at that era was like broadcast, televised, like late night primetime. It was a big spectacle. And you you
6:46 couldn't not tune in to this American moment, right? Where like I feel like this is almost like a similar reflection of just like America, red, white, and blue, in like its most uh stereotypically like uh um you know, white American way. I get that. It it's just a reflection of that, right? So, it's an activity that is not broadcasted televised to the whole world, so to speak. You you have to tune in. You have to pay for services to watch it, or like choose not to watch it is very easy. Versus back then, you like it was you could only watch something that was truly American. So, what I'm saying is like what what do you know, like is there even a reason for people to complain about it? Like just don't watch it, because there's a million things that happen at the same time. Even during another like president's term, like different >> People are complaining like a
7:36 ████ >> all they got though, you know? Then that's the Trump thing then, right? >> They hate Trump. >> Well, he's very polarizing, so there's going to be a lot of people that have, you know, very strong opinions about >> if it was done during Obama or Biden or whoever, you think it would have been more chilled up to do it? >> I think it would be slightly more hype. >> I think there's criticism no matter what president that does it. >> Yeah, I think I think you Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You're >> Especially when there's a war going on and people are complaining about like living, right? >> happening though. Don't you think? To distract Wasn't that the only reason why even the Romans did it? They would throw these things to distract them out from discontent. >> Yeah. >> Because there was just uprising, civil rebellion, all that stuff. So they were like, "Let's just throw this giant ████ in the name of Caesar." >> That's why a lot of people are upset about it though, right? They go like, "Oh, it's like the UFC like there's a whole Luke Thomas, you know that guy? Luke Thomas? He's really good uh political
8:28 He's really good MMA journalist. He's also kind of gets a little political, too. But he was talking about how the UFC has become like this marketing arm for, you know, the White House and >> Clearly. >> you know, and like the DHS and all that and like ICE and it becomes like this kind of weird thing where a lot of fans go like, "Dude, what the ████ is this? Like You guys say that sports not political, right? Cuz Dana White goes on these press tours and he talks about that. And then they're, you know, running these ads. But then Luke Thomas is talking about how the thing about combat sports in general, it's not like a NBA or an NFL, it's like they're just they're willing to get money from people that are like a legit source. So, it kind of brings their legitimacy up, right? Cuz a lot of times people look at cage fighting as like "What the ████ sport is this even anyway?" So, when you get like kind of a co-sign from like a governmental agency or something big
9:19 like that, it's kind of like a look for them where they go, "All right, well, this is our incentive to even run with this." >> Can I play devil's advocate? Cuz I agree with everything that Luke Thomas said. But to play devil's advocate, it could be hasn't Hollywood been the marketing arm for the other side anyways for a long, long, long time. >> Yeah. >> And they bring like Ariana Grande or whatever to the White House for some event. It's like, what the ████ does she have to do with anything? So, I feel like maybe that has already been that way for the other side. So, I think the other the right side is like, well, we might as well start forming our own version of what already has been existing. >> This is weird cuz Trump is not technically right because he's more like underdog trash. Cuz if you think about the traditional right, like Bush, all the boring ones, they had like country singers and their version of mainstream
10:10 >> Like NASCAR or whatever. >> They had NASCAR. Yeah, they had uh I mean, there's still Trumpers, right? But then like but before that, I don't think they would have touched UFC. Like they're more like oil tycoon, high society, super Christian. They're like maybe like The thing is we're seeing something different right now. I'm saying the trash are the winners. Cuz like we're talking UFC, blue collar, people that were not dominant culture. So, like back in the day you had the Obama who was hella popular. ████ you know, he was like the first social media president. He used Twitter. He used Facebook. And he had Hollywood and all the rappers, all the celebs, he had all of them backing him up. And he was a cool president. Everyone liked that ████ But before that, everyone was like, oh, you're kind of you guys are lame. But Democrats always did a good job like combining forces
11:01 with Hollywood and they had media. But nobody wanted to touch Trump. So, it makes sense why Trump will collect all of these different like underdogs of the people that are like underdog sports, underdog billionaires, underdog whatever that are like not accepted into this group of like the Ivy League guys, the Wall Street guys. >> So, like >> Yeah, to him he's like cut from the same cloth. >> The new rich. >> Yeah, yeah. >> So, yeah, new money, ████ new money trash, all that. Cuz you look at the people that went to the uh when he got inaugurated, right? It's like all the famous media people. >> Paul, like that kind >> Yeah, the Pauls, the Rogans, like you know, like they've co-opted a certain group of people like you said that >> others. >> Yeah, like that are are kind of like the dominant forces in media, right? In whatever aspect, but they are like the
11:52 main guys. Like like Logan Paul co-signed Trump, that's a big deal for a young kid where they go, "Oh, ████ Okay." >> Yeah. >> You know, like >> Like Nelk Boys. >> Yeah, 100%. >> That's not just like the current, that's like indoctrinating even like the future. >> Yeah, he's collecting fan bases and that's what, you know, like part of the reason why he won is why he did such a better job than than Kamala is like he captured all those audiences and they did it immediately, which goes back to the what we were talking about all their ads that they do. It kind of is more like a Gen Z kind of vibe because they kind of embraced it. >> Yeah, like the DH Have you seen those government DHS border patrol? If you go on their Instagram they're playing They're making fun of this ████ dude. They're playing pop music. They have Black Eyed Peas, yeah. Building the wall, boom boom boom. Get that, boom boom boom. And then like explosives are going off.
12:42 >> That's also why a bunch of artists are constantly like, "We are not affiliated with this. Do not use our music for these types of content." >> Yeah, bro. It's so crazy. They did the whole uh got it They did this on like uh I think on Twitter or something. It was like a It was I was like, "Gotta catch 'em all." And it was like Pokémon. >> And Pokémon had to come out and say, "No, yo. You guys did not have our permission to do this s███." >> What the ████ are you guys doing? >> So, they're getting all these people. >> That's too good. >> Crazy work, bro. And that's our administration, man. >> That's too good. >> When I say I like this stuff, I think people really don't really understand what I'm talking about. I love the chaos. I've never seen anything like this before. And to me, I'm like it makes life so fun. So, previous to this, it was so boring. I ████ Politicians always lie. There's no honest politician. At least we got a guy
13:32 who's entertaining and a liar. Versus before, you're just like, "You're boring and a ████ liar." >> I think people want boring and stability though. >> Yeah. I think it depends on the lie. >> People want stability I think. >> I think people want that. Or the illusion of stability. Cuz Obama was in two ████ wars, bro. >> I think people want just like the right lie. You know what I mean? >> Keep me calm while there's death and destruction. >> But also people can't afford ████ too right now. Everyone's hurting. >> You know if you drive by City Hall? >> That's what it is. >> It's like the most boring uh building in the city, right? People want to drive by and keep it that way. It does doesn't catch your peripheral vision, nothing. They don't want to drive by and then see the mayor butt ████ his mistress or whatever. You're like, "Oh ████ that's ████ crazy." You just want it >> [laughter] >> to keep City Hall like quiet, you know?
14:23 >> Curtains. >> I think a lot of people would like to see that actually. >> What I would like to see is someday demolish this boring ass ████ building and build a castle. That's what I want to see. >> This guy's so European now, dude. Man, that ████ changes man. >> [laughter] >> He's so European. You want a gothic castle, huh? >> No, I want like a Excalibur. I want a ████ [laughter] >> Excaliba. Excaliba. I can't even say it. >> Knights of the Round Table. >> What did you What did you think about Josh Hawley saying Michelle Obama is a man? >> [laughter] >> Now, that's America. >> Yeah, dude. But I he was he was saying all that and I think recently there was a news article that dropped saying that he's donating $50,000 to the Obama Foundation. He truly apologizes. You know, that won't ever happen again. >> PR stunts. >> So [laughter] they they got his ass. >> That's ████ funny though. Yo, power
15:15 is a trip to witness like >> Free speech. Hey, you can say whatever you want, but there's always consequences, dog. >> Oh, yeah. Free speech and so do consequences, for sure, dude. But, man, calling calling a man like that and you're like close enough, that's some real land of the free, home of the brave ████ you know? >> What did you guys think when you heard that? Like, your first initial thoughts off rip. Like, what what did what through your head? >> That she's a man. >> That he said that at the White House at that time. >> I thought it was in character, though. Cuz his the way he is, he's just crazy already. >> He uh he was doing this bit where he was uh he was fake throwing up at the weigh-ins. He's like, "Bleh." And then people are reposting it. They're like, "They They let this lunatic fight? He's throwing up on himself at the weigh-ins." It's like a whole thing, dude. >> Let us know in the comments, is she a man or not?
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