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Cage Bound: From Kickboxer to MMA Fighter with Chris Fritza
Chris Fritza, kickboxer and real estate agent, shares his journey from childhood martial arts to preparing for his upcoming MMA debut on June 7th. He discusses his fighting philosophy, training regimen, and mental approach while we review fighting movies Roadhouse and The Amateur.
• Real estate agent by day, MMA fighter by night
• Started martial arts in fifth grade, always wanted to fight professionally
• Views fighting as "movement therapy" rather than an outlet for anger
• Follows the philosophy "you don't experience life, you experience what you focus on"
• Advises aspiring fighters to simply "go to the next class" rather than seeking secret techniques
• Trains approximately 6-8 hours weekly at Team Cologne
• Currently has a 1-1 record in kickboxing, making MMA debut on June 7th
• Reviews the Jake Gyllenhaal/Conor McGregor film Roadhouse
• Discusses differences between Hollywood fighting and real MMA
• Provides insights on Rami Malek's thriller The Amateur
Follow Chris on Instagram and look up Premier MMA for information about his upcoming fight at Gary Union Hall on June 7th.
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Speaker 2:sorry, this is taken sorry, welcome back to the seats taken where I'm. Your host, rob miranda. Uh got an interesting episode. Good, first time on the podcast. Uh, kick boxer and making his mma debut. Mr chris fritza, thanks for coming on, chris. Thanks for having me. Man chris, I'm excited to have you on. You reached out to me a little bit ago. You think might start your own podcast and it's will manifest. It happened this year some point in your life. Yeah, some point, you some point. You know what you're gonna podcast about, be about good question.
Speaker 1:Um, I've, I'm a goofy guy, I have a lot of ideas, but um, we'll figure it out, it's. It's a good way to talk. I love talking. I can get people's ears off, but yeah I think it'll be a fun opportunity to have some laughs at least exactly, and um for those how we know each other, listening uh we went to high school together well, like middle school, high school, you know we grew up together a little bit.
Speaker 2:Even though we weren't close in high school, I still knew of you a lot and that's exactly your. I'm surprised like you didn't come on the podcast sooner, because it seemed like her personality is like I guess I could tell you you are a people person. You're a real estate agent too.
Speaker 1:Yes. So I mean, yeah, it kind of makes sense You'll be in the podcast day yeah, I mean time on a podcast, so this is going to be a lot of fun. Um, I haven't been invited to any other podcast but I've had ideas of wanting to be on other podcasts. But honestly, man, it's just conversations fun. I love talking to people. It's my job as a realtor is talking to people all the time. You know, introducing myself that is cool.
Speaker 2:I mean I had the opposite effect in high school. You probably know I was like one of the quietest guys in the universe. But movies is cool. I mean I had the opposite effect in high school. Like you probably know, I was like one of the quietest guys in the universe. But movies is something I love talking about, which is exactly why I love starting this podcast that's awesome, man, because you were a quiet one I was, I mean, I think, the most.
Speaker 1:We have maybe had a few conversations, if we ever had a class together, but otherwise we just said hi, we never had any we had a lot of mutual friends yeah, we had a lot of mutual friends but never any, I wouldn't say trouble, like I just I just looked at you as another person in high school I don't even know disrespect.
Speaker 2:That's cool. I don't even think I ever had detention or anything like that. I was like the good kid in school quiet kid.
Speaker 1:You probably saw me around the hallways and raised an eyebrow because I was the weirdo.
Speaker 2:But no, no, no um, I want to talk about mma fighting, because this is like big news, like you're making your mma debut, yeah, june 7th. I don't remember you being like that in high school, though, so how did they come about?
Speaker 1:um, my brother was mma fire. Before and back when I was like in fifth grade was when I started at another gym in shareville and it was taekwondo jujitsu. It was like a mixture that was their kids class and, um, I did that going up into high school that's kind of when jujitsu ended, and so it's always been on my mind that I wanted to fight. Oh really yeah, it's always been on my mind that I wanted to fight. Oh really yeah, it's always been on my mind.
Speaker 2:It's not really like an anger thing though.
Speaker 1:No, I just like the art of mixed martial arts. I call it movement therapy for me. I love learning something new and, yeah, it's a defense mechanism. I would consider it as a defense that I can use, but it's not like I'm looking to use it. If you want to see me use it, get in the cage. Come see me in the cage, come see me in the ring. I have two kickboxing matches. I'm making my MMA debut. I couldn't be any more excited.
Speaker 2:How'd you do in your kickboxing matches?
Speaker 1:One and one in my kickboxing matches. I lost my first one. Second one came back strong. The crazy thing about those was the second one. I was worried about an injury oh really and didn't have an injury. The injury.
Speaker 2:Like in your arm, it was in my back.
Speaker 1:Lower back Hip problems. You know the hips don't lie, but yeah I was. I was like so worried about that, ended up getting a decision win.
Speaker 2:so that was it was a lot of fun fuck yeah, do you follow a lot of mma like, like, pros and stuff like that?
Speaker 1:oh yeah um, I'm not the type to like study fighters, because everyone has their own style. Yeah, um, if you're gonna hear me cough a lot, I was actually watching eight of my guys fight yesterday, so a lot of screaming, so my voice is somewhat gone. So you're part of a whole team though. Yes, uh, team cologne, cologne, way or no way okay, remember that.
Speaker 2:So it's a cologne way. No way, I like that. How'd you guys come up with that name?
Speaker 1:uh, someone in my gym said it and and everyone just followed along. Honestly, that's dope. Steve Colon, if you ever see a clip or watch this man, you're the best, best coach in the region. He's really changed my life. Yeah, not only that, I have the best family in there, we're all family in there when we get in there.
Speaker 2:How many of the guys are you guys in there?
Speaker 1:Oh, man family in there, uh, when we get in there, how?
Speaker 2:many of the guys, you guys are in there.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I don't even know, okay, because, um, yeah, we have an mma class, but we also have jujitsu, we have boxing, we have kickboxing. Everyone does their own thing. Yeah, and me being a people person, I love watching people's growth. So, by all means, I'm no coach or anything, but I'll help as much as I can do you think that's a possible future for you in the future?
Speaker 1:we'll see, um, see where it goes, see what my body tells me. Um, a lot of people, like you know, I'll give you this a lot of people ask me what is your advice about fighting, or what is your advice about this? And I go just go to the next class. You know, because and I and I said this in an interview in my from my supposed to be upcoming kickboxing match, but it got canceled because the opponent didn't accept and the other one backed out.
Speaker 2:Did he hit me that?
Speaker 1:tough, you scared him out of it. Yeah, I guess. So that's what we're all saying. But yeah, man, everyone wants me to teach them the secret move and I'm like, there's no secret move. I'm no pro myself, I'm an amateur. No, it's just putting in the hours. Yeah, putting in the hours.
Speaker 2:Come up, come to the next class, and then they'll be like what's after that next class, you know I keep it simple um, you show up, listen to your coach and probably make it far I want to give a shout out to our mutual friend, freddie, who's you know. I knew because he's my friend's cousin and he's been on the podcast before, but you, you work out with him too, right yeah, um, he's a little guy, a little scrawny guy, little scrawny guy and he's like a, like a tank don't tell anyone, but I put him in my gym bag to uh, I carry him around that's how awesome he is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's a good kid but uh, he's awesome man, he has a great mindset good personality yeah, and very knowledgeable in the fitness field. Very knowledgeable, like, don't fall asleep on his knowledge. If you, if you need a trainer, you go talk to him, man how many hours a week would you say you're in the gym? If, if I do four days, probably hour and a half, two hours a day that's done now.
Speaker 2:How like what does it like a workout? Look for you like training day. Look like like you lifting weights. Are you just strictly doing movements?
Speaker 1:so for this upcoming fight, it's going to be different but, um, when it comes to this uh, getting to my MMA gym, hit up jujitsu and then hit up MMA Call it a night, Follow my body and follow my temple.
Speaker 1:Sundays we do open mat. As long as I'm getting some type of movement, I'm going to be locked in ready to go. I got eight weeks to get ready. The cardio's got to step up. What a lot of people don't realize is you guys. No disrespect to any other sport, but let's talk about basketball, because I'm a big basketball fan.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You can tell me they practice for an hour, hour and a half, two hours. But the real champions is what comes from who puts in the extra work? Steph Curry he put up, he put up 15 000 three-pointers and made what? Three thousand, four thousand of them. That's him going in every single day hitting a thousand shots and then going to practice I heard that.
Speaker 2:So it's the extra work. A big one like that too. Yeah, he would practice before the practice practice before the practice lift weights.
Speaker 1:Before the weight or stuff like that. I mean it's that's insane.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, like it makes sense, they're great, like they're like oh, it's all time, because like they put in the hours, like sometimes we're doing three, three days, you know it's um, it's tough on our body, but I mean, mean that's sport. We're physically hurting each other and did you grow up playing any other sports?
Speaker 1:Just basketball, that's about it. Um, obviously I tried out for our high school, but it didn't work out, so I just did my thing. You know, I just love playing.
Speaker 2:Are you on a wrestling team?
Speaker 1:at least no. I thought about it, but it was.
Speaker 2:I think it was too late I think our friend matt lambeau was on a wrestling. I don't know if he was in middle school, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1:But he he's another great athlete yeah, he is, he, he's a, even when it comes to weight lifting weights, he's just. He's just a freak of nature, you know yeah, yeah, it's another small tank, yeah then he's a break dancer yeah, I don't know if you still do that.
Speaker 2:It's kind of cool you know what?
Speaker 1:um so I'm at a wedding and they, uh, he was just busting out the breakdancing move. So he still had it. This was a couple years ago, but that is awesome, but I'm sure he still has it. He he's very active, very um man, we got to.
Speaker 2:We're pushing 30 now.
Speaker 1:We got to be active, yeah yeah, I think matt just got engaged too yeah, congrats matt lambert.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he's my number one listener. I've talked to that guy this is like junior high school bro right no, um, I still run into people from high school yeah, I do too yeah, I'll talk about a few who I'll rant. We I ran to recently. Afterwards. Well, brady cole is a big part of this podcast g-force yeah I told him you're coming on this. He was very excited because, like he's on like at least once a month, I feel like that is mr vivacious right there yeah, mr vivacious.
Speaker 1:You want to know where that name came from I remember that, thinking about it middle school, in high school, yeah uh, I think it was sixth grade vocabulary class or whatever reading, where you learn the word vivacious and stuck with him, yeah, as we would call mr vivacious I. I called him g-force because it was just a name I gave him back in middle school. But um, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2:He's a ball of energy like I am he's, he's a I, his episodes are my favorite episodes. Like he's very knowledgeable about movie news and actors and stuff like that and what I could just nerd out with all the time. Um, yeah, I'm excited to talk to you about MMA still, but um, for those listening don't discuss it. We're still doing movie reviews, oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Uh we're going to do, just talk a little bit, but we're going to be two in. The new amateur came out and then, uh, for a throwback episode, you picked the road roadhouse with jake chillen. I'll thinking about it. I think I might have did a mini review of this already with brandon cole, and this is my second time revisiting it since it first came out. So, yeah, I'm excited to talk about that one, because it's all. I don't think it got any better. It's the second one. Yes, yeah, um, but you movies like, do you like watching the MMA fighting? And like, uh, like brother, brothers, is it brothers? With um tom hardy and um, no, it's called warriors, sorry, where he fights oh my god, you would love that one.
Speaker 2:So it's focused on two brothers. One is a teacher for like a middle school, high school who does, I mean, decided just to get money because, like he's like living check to check, he has a wife and, I believe, a couple of kids. I don't think I've seen that.
Speaker 1:Or heard of it at least.
Speaker 2:Tom Hardy plays his brother, who's a dishonored military act. I think he got a dishonorable leave or something like that. Just grew up in hate and stuff like that. So he chose MMA contests to just get money by too, and then they're fighting together in the finale. It's a feel-good, phenomenal mma fighting movie. And you know you have other stuff like uh, one of the movies we're gonna talk about with south paul. That's not mma, but uh close enough.
Speaker 1:Uh, jake jill oxing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jill, I can never say his name jake jill and all who's amazing about transforming his body.
Speaker 1:Dude, he's a beast. He's a great actor too. He's such a great actor. There's some movies that he was like a crazy guy or something that I can recall. But the thing about him is he works hard on his body, definitely, and let's talk about Roadhouse first. He just the acting, which is so chill. The one thing I'll tell you is there's a little crazy side in him that I saw A little bit. We'll talk about Conor McGregor, because he's one of my favorite fighters stylistically, the things that he's done in public let's say I don't agree on, but stylistically he's a great fighter.
Speaker 2:That was his acting debut in this movie too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was surprised. I thought he was only going to get a small little part.
Speaker 2:No, he was a villain, he was a main villain. He was a main villain.
Speaker 1:He became a TikTok main too. It was hilarious.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm thinking about it, I remember that.
Speaker 1:I thought it was hilarious man.
Speaker 2:Jake Gyllenhaal. We talked about him just a little bit too, because he's everywhere now he's an A-list actor now. On top of that, I enjoy watching him off the screen interviews and stuff like that, because he just does seem like a genuine nice guy. And anyone talking about him like Tom Holland was talking about when he was working in Spider-Man Far From Home how great it was working with him. He's always in the gym. He even invited me to work out with him and he said he killed him in the gym and then after 45 minutes in, he's like all right, you ready to start working out?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that clip. I minutes in.
Speaker 2:He's like all right, you ready to start working out? So, yeah, yeah, I remember that clip. Um, I thought that was with um, I'm having a brain fart. Who played thor? Oh, chris simsworth, yeah, no, no, I'm pretty positive that was with jake tom holland.
Speaker 1:That was jake. Yeah, I remember watching an interview.
Speaker 2:It was like on um, like one of the tonight shows, right, yeah, simsworth is also great at transforming his body too yeah, they all are well, like for this movie specifically, jake did train with actual mma fighters and, um I can't remember his trainer's name offhand, but he did put in the hours um, and it paid off too. It definitely in the movie like his arms, his type of body he built so with this. Well, for this specific movie, I think they wanted more like show muscles versus actual muscles yeah like the abs, the six-pack, the ripped arms, stuff like that, obviously for the.
Speaker 2:I don't think that stuff is necessary for the actual octagon, because you see them and you guys Just first glance I'd be thinking this guy's just a fat guy. No, that is all pure muscle underneath it.
Speaker 1:Yeah and movie-sake absolutely A lot of MMA fighters that fight in their weight class. They're not super shredded like. Everyone has their own definition of shredded.
Speaker 2:Jake is just beyond shredded in my opinion, but I'm so impressed, like how, like the written one, I say he's amazing, transforming his body, he, he shreds his body in different ways for different movies, like oh, yeah, this one's six packs, the other one's like like zach efron for the iron, iron claw like his is more just like a round belly almost, but like that was pure ab work right there and um versus.
Speaker 2:You see him in like baywatch. You know that. One's like a completely different kind of body, which is insane insane for the human body.
Speaker 1:How we could do that absolutely yeah, but um, but compared to mma, because there was clips of him in that movie, in the ufc, big and um, from what I recall, he had a accident in the ufc and then got him kicked out, but um, he was just trying to find his way. So he found his way to that bar, obviously, and he was protecting the bar, and so for him to transform his body for like the ufc compared to like actually watching the ufc.
Speaker 1:It's like I have that little critique when it comes to like actual mma, because I think of like the memes that come up yeah like if you look up like a justin gaethje meme, uh, ufc fighter, um, there's this one that I'm a big meme guy, you're gonna learn that but um, there is this one that, uh, it was like a twitter post and it said, uh, I'm looking for this kind of man in my life from a girl and then replies justin gaethje, hi. And she goes, ill known. And he goes and he replies I'm literally the guy in the picture. So, um, it's crazy how, because there's different stresses when it comes to fighting- you know um.
Speaker 1:And then movies too, like what we're talking about with jake um. He put his stress into this movie super jack, super shredded. Conor mcgregor stayed the same yeah yeah, everyone's accusing him of steroids. I, I wouldn't doubt it. I saw him fight at 145 pounds.
Speaker 2:I used to walk around 180 well, there's certain rule like I think they get in serious trouble, they do get caught fighting outside. Uh, mma fighting, yeah, like you look legit registered register weapons walking around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. And let me talk about Conor McGregor a little bit, because unless you got any questions for me about the movie, yeah, well, we're going to talk about the movie after this.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So this will probably follow into some of your questions, because I know you got some critiques.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I saw the look on your face. I'm ready for it. I'm going to be honest I think Connor was good in his acting For that role. Any other movie if he's not acting like I'm going to say it cracked out, cocaine-ed out in any other movie, then I don't think he's going to say it cracked out cocaine, a cocaine out in any other movie, then I don't think he's going to be a good actor this guy seems like a live action Wario character right, right, and you know, just seeing that crazy side of him was like it was a crazy side of him, but it also seemed tame like he did that in the movie.
Speaker 2:He seemed tamed as well, like yeah, he's fucking crazy side of him, but it also seemed tamed like he did that in the movie. He seemed tamed as well, like yeah, he's fucking crazy, but he can get even crazier. You know, you presume? Um, we'll talk about uh, roadhouse first before we get into the amateur. Um, this is actually a remake. Have you seen the original?
Speaker 1:no I haven't.
Speaker 2:No, it's back in the 80s. This is actually a remake and a lot of people were upset that this was even get made at all. Um, pet swayze plays the original character, but in this movie they changed out to later update it isn't. The other guy wasn't a ufc at all. Uh, ex-ufc fighter dalton takes a job as a bouncer in the florida keys roadhouse, only to discover that the paradise is not all as it seems. This movie is directed by doug lemon, written by anthony bargosi, uh, chuck mondry, and the story motion picture screenplay by r lance hill. I hated this movie for not just for the fighting. The fighting scenes were cool and all that yeah I mean the characters.
Speaker 2:I hated a lot of the characters. I hated like a lot of the dialogue. It was a lot of cheesy acting, absolutely jill and all this movie was a lot for jake to carry on himself like to carry everyone else I hated the side characters.
Speaker 2:Um, the chemistry wasn't really there. I mean jake, between jake and um the chemistry wasn't really there. I mean between Jake and Connor. You know he was very good. I thought that was very good together. Other than that, the villain, like the guy the money kid I hated his ass so much. I hated the little girl in this movie, the little girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't do the little girl like that, she's innocent.
Speaker 2:She's like 19, 20 years old and she's trying to play a 12-year-old. She's that age? No, I'm assuming she looked that age to me 19, 20. She's not a little girl, because she's pursuing to play a 12-year-old in this movie.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think younger, with her little pigtails and all that too.
Speaker 2:I was like come on, what are we doing here? It sucked. Come on, what are we doing here? Like it, it sucked. Um, I have a whole list here, too, what I want to go through. But, like, the first open movie opens up, I thought it was cool Cause I'm a big post Malone fan to see post Malone opening up as a fighter too. This is during a chunky days, though, um yeah. And then, like I like, the movie sets the tone right away for dalton, like how his reputation precedes him, how he was supposed to fight post malone, but he takes one look at him, he's like nah, I don't want to fuck that, yeah, yeah, yeah so I mean they do good about setting up things like that.
Speaker 2:But like jake, general's character does take himself a little bit way too serious in this movie. He's a little bit of cockiness and I hate how, like the almost every other fight he's like before we get started. Do you got health insurance? Do you got I?
Speaker 1:thought it was funny, I, I thought it was funny I thought it was like come on, dude, like in movie scenes?
Speaker 2:yeah, but um but if you met this guy in real life?
Speaker 1:oh, absolutely yeah. If you met him real life different story, but um watching ufc like I would hope. Someone say that I laugh, you know, like if someone said I hope you got health insurance yeah, how far is the nearest hospital?
Speaker 2:yeah, and he takes him to the hospital himself yeah, I thought I thought that was savage.
Speaker 1:Um, that's the only word I can put with it, but um. But I I totally agree what you say, but um, I just think I have a different perspective on what it looks like. But you're right, jake really carried this movie.
Speaker 2:The combo with him and Connor was great, which kind of doesn't even come in. This movie's two hours long. He doesn't come in until like an hour and 15 minutes, which is kind of wild to me, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he was like the whole second half of the movie.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:He was the annoying bug that wouldn't go away.
Speaker 2:And what confidence for this guy when you introduced him. He's walking around butt-ass naked too, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I mean I found it funny that his favorite weapon was like a golf club, A golf club too. A golf club.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the way he just introduced himself and just punched him in the face, I thought it was hilarious. I I thought he just goes.
Speaker 2:You know, he even said pop yeah, I mean for his first acting debut. Do you think we would see him in more stuff after this? I'm shaking my head right now, I don't think so either. Um, I don't know what he would.
Speaker 1:No, I'm shaking my head and not saying no, I'm shaking my head because whatever you put in front of that guy, he just will say he does it. And well, it's just like a story if we'll ever find out if he does it or not.
Speaker 2:That's the thing about conor mcgregor yeah, but I think, actually thinking about it in his personal life too, with some allegations and stuff like that, I don't think he's gonna have too many offers right now.
Speaker 1:I agree like, and I'll tell you this, he did the ultimate fighter, which is like the thing to get ufc fighters, their name in there and he, um, he was one of the coaches and michael channel was one of the coaches, and after that, after that series is over, they're supposed to fight. Well, they didn't never came to agreement or contract, so they haven't fought yet.
Speaker 2:This is like two years now he's not really fighting right now, is he? Is he still fighting?
Speaker 1:he has fights on his contract, but um, we'll see if he actually fights. But that's what I mean about what I said yeah it's always a story like if he's going to do it or not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as far as like mma fighting goes, like I I mean mma's been around for years, but I think he was one of the ogs that made it what it is today, like as popular as it is today um, yes, uh, he did put.
Speaker 2:Put it on the map yeah, because I remember like hearing about mma fighting. But he was, I didn't watch it myself, but like he was one, like it's. For me it's a lot like if I know your name and I don't even watch the sport, same thing like tiger woods, like I'm not in golf, I know him yeah, you know, he's one of the ogs in the sport yeah, and um two-time champion, um one of the first, I think.
Speaker 1:I think he was the first one to hold both belts at 145, 155 pounds and he had the fastest knockout in championship history, in 13 seconds with Jose Aldo. So I mean just his voice and what he's done. If he had that fire that he did back, then he probably would have been fine. But he has money.
Speaker 2:I think I remember listening to interviews too.
Speaker 1:He would talk to jake gyllenhaal um and give him tips on how to fight too, which I thought that was very cool and you know what and that, and that's the thing that's, he's still like that yeah I when I mentioned the ultimate fighter, because I think one or two of his guys out of that whole series won in a fight, and so I don't want to say he's a great teacher. But when it comes to technique, I I would say he's a great teacher and he has no problem doing that man.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine getting tips from like? Like it seemed like so surreal getting tips from him like hey, man, they started punching me like with this, like leaning back or something like that. I'm sure that's what he was doing on set with him the whole time and I don't know. It's not really their fault how I feel about this, but like I think it's the editing choices like throwing punches. I could totally tell they weren't contacting and some of them, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, which I mean that's a silly complaint because obviously they're not actually hit each other. Actually, for south paul, jake gyllenhaal really was boxing.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you knew that like it was legit yeah, he actually told the director I want to do this for real, or maybe the director told him he wanted to do this for real, but like, yeah, like that's legit. Blood and blows are hitting throughout that whole movie. Um, but this one, like we're getting ahead of ourselves backtrack a little bit. The roadhouse itself I wrote down in my notes like during the daytime it looks like a cool resort spot really. During the nighttime is when it gets fucking crazy. And one of the funny things about this movie it is known around the whole island basically that if you want to fuck around and go fight, this is the spot where you go do it at, and the owner and the staff hates it there being known as that To the point where they have a cage in front of, like the band playing and the band knows like if fights start breaking out and stuff like that, just keep on playing, keep on playing.
Speaker 1:I was like, okay, now you guys are just catering to these I, I think in real life, I don't think that would ever happen no, it would get shut down so quick yeah, um well, not just the fights, I'm talking about the band. Yeah, I don't think the band would continue playing. No one knows this, but I play guitar. Uh-huh, I can't. Obviously I'm no singer, but you know, like I, I like to try to practice songs at home. I can't.
Speaker 2:I have a hard time alone singing the song and playing guitar at the same time, let alone kicked in the face right next to you.
Speaker 1:No, I enjoy fighting, so I may just sit there and watch, but I would just stop what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was pretty insane. When Jake gets hired there first, he doesn't even really help with the fights. He only helps if things get really out of hand. Someone pulls out a knife or something like that. Other than that he looks like a busboy.
Speaker 1:Pretty much handle all these fights you know what that was a teaching. He was trying to be a teacher.
Speaker 2:I like that I did like that I wish they would focus on that relationship a little bit more and you see him grow towards the end. But like after like the end of the first act, they don't really touch on that anymore. Like, yeah, he's teaching him and the other kid how to fight and they get excited. There's a whole montage of them actually throwing people out.
Speaker 2:After that there's like useless the rest of the movie yeah, yeah uh, he does have a love interest in this movie with a nurse who I hate. Um, she sucked. He takes her, takes the like like the gang. He beats up to the hospital and the nurse comes out of the to the parking like, hey, you know, you just ruined my night, right. I was like what nurse does that? What nurse will come to you is like, you fucked up my night. I was like you know what?
Speaker 1:maybe it's uh, maybe it's some sort of uh. How much I don't want to say. It's like some sort of like, because what you said at during the day, it looks like a nice palm resort at night, it's like a bad neighborhood so maybe it's like some type of bad neighborhood nurse behavior. It could be, it could be, but I mean like, but also like you know how, what, you know how? They always say girls love bad boys. Like that's, that's her way of shooting, her shot I guess I.
Speaker 2:Well, it kind of works and he ends up like liking her too yeah, and it's basically saving her life and and it just so happens.
Speaker 2:She's the police chief's daughter. Yeah, like, what a coincidence exposes the chief too. Yeah, uh, yeah, yeah, the only good thing about this movie I'm gonna say that I really liked was this one specific shot on their date as they take out the boat to go to this like a small island where, like, the surface is still below water but like it's only like ankle deep, yeah, and the shot with them sitting on a lawn chair drinking beers. That was a beautiful shot. I was excited for that. This movie was shot in the Dominican Republic and I think that was my favorite thing about this whole movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean that sounds. The soundtrack was pretty cool too. Yeah, it was, I can agree on that. That shot was beautiful. I would love to do that one day. Maybe after this fight I can go do that.
Speaker 2:That'd be tight.
Speaker 1:That would be tight. I would need the rest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't forget to plug yourself. We'll plug it towards the end. But mentally, how do you prepare for this fight? Obviously, physically, it is like training. But mentally.
Speaker 1:Um, I have a quote I stand by yoga and it's just everyone's different. There I I've. I'll tell you this I learned in my first fight not to get all fired up like a madman, and I did that and it gassed me out. I think that was part of my reason, my gas out. My cardio could have been better. But, um, the one quote that I've learned in the past year, when it came to fighting twice last year, was you don't experience life. You experience what you focus on. So you can sit in there and say well, what if I got knocked out? What if I hurt my leg? Oh, what if this? What of that?
Speaker 2:oh, that's a good quote, like when.
Speaker 1:He's probably like that yeah, because I mean, how many times have you sat there and just really just focused on another thing? Yeah and just let it consume you, you know. So are you really experiencing life that way? Because, like vacation, for example, let's go on vacation but let's not focus on the bad, like we're on vacation to have fun, obviously, be responsible, but, like I said, you experience what you focus on. Where focus goes, energy flows I like that. That's a good quote, thank you for joining my TED Talk. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I forgot what I was going to say. One thing I do like about MMA fighting and stuff like that and we're going to go back into the movie in a second For the most part it's a mutual respect to each other. Yeah, like you know, you have people confronting each other, like when they weigh in and stuff like that, like the whole big show thing but at and stuff like that, like like the whole big show thing.
Speaker 1:But at the end of the day, like you see them like dab each other up towards the end, which I like seeing that too.
Speaker 1:You know like it's a mutual respect right there. Yeah, yeah, and um, it really depends on the relationship too. Yeah, um, me personally I look at as all right if, if we're talking shit the whole two weeks, I'm thinking like, if I'm in ufc now, if we're talking shit over facebook, instagram, all that, and then we get there and I get my ass whooped, I lost. Yeah, I'm gonna humbly accept my loss and then go from there. Yeah, if we can run it back, we'll run it back pretty cool, pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Are you running back with that one guy yet? No not yet no plans to I don't know um I mean, would you like to?
Speaker 1:I should say you know last I heard and me and him are cool yeah he's a great guy. Um last I heard he was supposed to fight mma and I haven't seen him fight, so um, so you're winning right now I, I guess, I, I guess the win is from a loss. You know, because I saw some of my team win and lose and really, like you win, you get this high and it's gone. You lose, go back in the lab and work from that. You know, everyone learns from a loss in life.
Speaker 2:Some people have no losses in their record and that's respect yeah, it's pretty impressive so, uh, from that loss, I appreciate even him stepping in the ring with me yeah, yeah, man, going back to the movie, a little bit like jake won and lost at the same time. Not jake dalton, yeah, um, the reason he's even at this resort being a bouncer is because he, I'm assuming, got kicked. I don't know if he got kicked out of mma or yeah, yeah, because he, yeah, he got kicked out, yeah kicked out of mma.
Speaker 2:Um, he killed someone in the ring by accident. He lost control, you know, and he got angrier get the best of him and he did a finishing blow to this guy and I think his friend too. He ended up killing him in the ring and, um, it's a big no-no. Did you know, during those flashback scenes and the mma, like I don't know if you remember watching this, but like they filmed that during actual mma fights, yeah, like in between them, I remember them filming that, like I was watching the fights with my friends and, um, you know, in between these fights they would come out for a little bit and do like a little fighting and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That was cool as hell, I thought. I think it was an actual live event, I think it was like 2019, 2020 one of those two. Yeah, it was an actual live ufc event and actual crowd and I I don't know if everyone knew that was gonna happen, but I think think it was pre-planned. Yeah, with Dana White, the president of the UFC, and I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I thought that was very cool, Because on the mat you see blood. That was real blood from those fights, from that day too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:That was very cool. Going back to the movie a little bit, there's a whole big scale in those between politics and the cops wanting to rule the city. Not even the cops, the specific family. I thought the motive was pretty stupid. The whole reason they started all this mess messing with those bars is because they wanted to knock it down and build condos and shit like that Stuff to build up the city to charge rich people like a resort.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was kind of a ridiculous plot line alone yeah, I mean, I mean I was like, why not just build around this thing and make that one of a tour spot?
Speaker 1:well, besides the storyline of this movie, how many movies have you seen like that?
Speaker 1:a lot exactly, so yeah I could see your kids like, obviously like I'm not a movie guy like you, but I could see why you think it sucks because you're looking at this movie of tearing it down. Let's make real estate, yeah, which we'll talk about my real estate business later but I could see because you've seen so many movies a hundred times more than I have so I understand where you're getting at, how many like whether there was guns involved or it was like uh I'm thinking about it's probably there wasn't more guns involved in this movie yeah, I mean I'm surprised with conor mcgregor walking in with that gang, like you think.
Speaker 1:Gang guns yeah, like I. I was surprised with a golf club yeah, he's walking around the golf club and he's getting stabbed at the end and then walking out of the hospital naked. Like is that? Is that showing that they're gonna make another one?
Speaker 2:I think they did confirm a second one is coming.
Speaker 2:You're gonna hate it. I am, um, you know what. Hopefully it's better. This came out amazon as an amazon prime original. It came out streaming right away. This movie did have plans for a theatrical release but the studio got cold feet. They were worried about people were going to compare this too much to the original Roadhouse. So instead the director was pissed about it first of all and then they started to put it on the streaming one, which it did get a lot of hate coming out of this movie. But that way I believe you can hide the numbers like how much views and stuff like that donald's got, once it's streaming they don't have to release them I look at it as if they're gonna make another one.
Speaker 2:It's just for fun you know, obviously they gotta make their money, but they're just having fun which I'm sure jake's doing it just for the money you know it's. Does he need it though? Exactly. He's such a good actor. He's probably my top 20 actors of all time, I'll say right now oh, yeah, yeah um I put him up there, yeah yeah he's a good guy.
Speaker 2:He's like I said it is. He just couldn't carry everybody in this movie like the bar owner. I like her a lot as an actress. She was kind of ridiculous. There was very cheesy dialogue in this movie.
Speaker 2:I want to tell you one line in this movie To give you an example of how stupid this dialogue was. It was like, hey, what are you building? Or what are you carving A stick? Well, what are you carving a stick for? Because I want to? That was legit a line in the fucking movie Like what are you calling a stick for? Because I want to? That was legit a line in the fucking movie. Like what are we doing here? Like, who is making up this cheesy dialogue? It has like I feel like a person wrote this but then ai edited it.
Speaker 1:you know, yeah, exactly, and um, honestly, if I had a conversation with someone like that, I kind of be worried about myself because, like I would think they're crazy.
Speaker 2:So this movie seemed like it was produced by spike TV. You remember that?
Speaker 1:Oh man, that's a good, that's a good comparison. Yeah, I know I say like the movie, but I just like that. I just think it's interesting. That kind of McGregor outcome of this movie was this like that's the only positive I can give about this movie is kind of McGregor outcome of this movie was this like that's the only positive I can give about this movie is Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor being, I don't want to say perfect, but that was his perfect personality for his actor acting debut.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's an exaggerated version of like someone like himself. Yeah, yeah. You can definitely tell he had fun with the role too. He definitely had fun, cause he loves that scene like before you go off of this, like that scene where freaking uh dalton gets ran off the road, off a bridge with a truck and the truck falls on top of it. He's.
Speaker 1:He's totally fine from that yeah, I mean, anyone else would have been it's.
Speaker 2:This movie is like cheesy almost like vin diesel in the fast and Furious in this movie. Oh yeah, this guy got stabbed like six times with a stick and he was totally fine, a thick one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was no way, and he took it out of his body and stabbed Conor McGregor with it too. And in the angle it was too it wasn't just straight through, it was up and down, up and down, up and down. Yeah, I know, I know I'm surprised. I'm saying that because I get cringy like that, but he just walks out of the hospital like he's fine yeah.
Speaker 2:Like that kind of stuff, like destroys your muscles where you can't even move If McGregor does any other movie I could see him joining the Fast and Furious family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2:I don't think him and vin diesel will get along, though. No, no, I could totally see that, I think vin diesel has his own way of acting, and especially with those movies he's very control of yeah, I mean there's 10 of them yeah I think connor would open his mouth too much. Yeah, I could see that yeah, open his mouth too much. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, what would you give this movie a 1 out of 10? Roadhouse.
Speaker 1:Roadhouse 6 out of 10.
Speaker 2:6 out of 10 is very generous. I'd probably give it a 3 out of 10. See, I don't know what your ratings are like, because you can say my ratings are based off of rewatchability, the chemistry. Well, you know how Dave Portnoy it is with his pizza review.
Speaker 1:You can say, my readings are based on like rewatch ability, like the chemistry, um well, well, you know how, dave Portnoy, it is with uh like a 6.8 is good to him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, like a D, I mean, if the entity is seven and higher is like must see movie for me. Yeah. Like three or below is like do not waste your time with this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or below is like do not waste your time with this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean have you seen this movie more than once? Once and a half see like, yeah it's, it's entertaining to watch, to have it on the background. I should say yeah, absolutely yeah. If you want to make a whole night out of it, I wouldn't make picking, recommend picking.
Speaker 1:You know what's crazy is I watched it when I was at work. Yeah, I was watching because I used to work at the railroad and we got done with our work so I just kicked everyone out. But I have to stay because I was the manager.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I just watched it with my buddy. I had to stay too so just watching it, I thought it was great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in a certain scenario like that maybe. But if you want a date night or something like that, or even just a night with your boys. Maybe with your boys it might be entertaining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a date night with a girl, no there's so many more.
Speaker 2:Prime is putting out heat. Actually lately I've been watching a lot of Prime and Apple TV lately.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know you're not a really big movie guy.
Speaker 1:What do you really like to watch, though? Oh man um are, we are we talking tv shows too. Yeah, okay, um, I've re-watched supernatural like three times.
Speaker 2:I've never seen that okay, 15 seasons long. You watched all 15 seasons three times.
Speaker 1:Get out of here a lot of times it was background noise too, and I'm not saying it was bad, it was because I know what's happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But they actually did and if anyone's listening that loves Supernatural, they actually just made a new picture on their whatchamacallit on their Facebook, so they might be coming out with a 16th season.
Speaker 2:Isn't that the one where, like that main character's wife, like try to put a hit on him? Have you heard about that, oh man? No it's one of the maintenance.
Speaker 1:Two guys right it's uh, two brothers, jared padalecki and jensen ackles. Jensen ackles played in the boys and jared padalecki played walker. That was like a short-lived, uh three season show, but um, if you saw him you may know I want to say it's what are their wives? Jared padulaki was in the gilmore girls too oh, yeah, yeah, it might have been him his wife. He's still married to his wife and his life was actually in the show yeah, are you talking about in the show or in real life?
Speaker 2:in real life, oh, I don't know I've never heard that I would have heard supernatural, if I'm not mistaken I would have heard that um, supposedly she started doing a pen pal with this person in prison and they ended up falling. I don't know if they fell in love or something like that. The guy in prison definitely fell in love and he would get a contraband.
Speaker 2:He got a phone like illegally in the car and they started texting each other and they were right like oh man, I wish we could be together and stuff like that and like, yeah, but like, and so they stopped him all. Like I wish I could just, like you know, kill my husband. And so she convinces him to hire somebody to kill her husband.
Speaker 1:I'll have to Google this. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:This is actually pretty recent too. I don't think it may be Jensen Ackles, but not Jared. So then he gets his phone caught by the police, although the guards there and you're not supposed to have this, so they're going through, and they started reading through the messages and they put two and two together like, yeah, this guy's trying to fucking get his husband or this kill his husband, this woman's husband and, um, she got arrested recently, so maybe it's a totally different show I'm thinking about. I'm pretty sure it's supernatural well, um long story short.
Speaker 1:Supernatural is two brothers, two brothers who basically come together, have fake aliases that um go around the country, fight ghosts, demons I thought it was a real reality show no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Uh, that's probably where you got it from, maybe no. Supernatural is two brothers who fight ghost demons, all that, and they're all in human form, like ghouls. They have this human form. They kill them. There's certain ways to kill them and it's like 15 seasons long. I could see you not liking it, because in the first five seasons because it was supposed to end after five, season five then they added another 10 seasons, so, um, the first five seasons come together, but afterwards it's like whole new story. Whole new story. Who's the big boss that we're killing? You know that kind of thing. They fight lucifer. They fight michael. Um, god chosen the picture. God's god has a sister.
Speaker 1:Um, it's pretty interesting, I think you should get interesting you know, you know I, because they started in 2005 yeah so I think you should give that show a shot interesting.
Speaker 2:I just got done watching invincible the prime like cartoon oh really, what's that about? It's based on a comic book series like really yeah, yeah, I'll show you some footage from it later, but like, yeah, brandon cole put me on that and I can see that. Yeah, dude, like I finished it maybe like a week or two ago, I already really want to re-watch it. It was freaking amazing it's still going. It's a show with, like stephen, young voices of the character. The main character, uh jk simmons, is voicing character seth rogan it's a big cast really by voice actors.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, before we go any further, I have a whole other movie I want to review real quick. I know you haven't seen this movie yet, but it's the amateur starring Rami Malek and Lawrence Fishburne that just came out. I was excited to see this. This is probably the best movie I've seen in 2025 yet in theaters. It's a remake from the 80s, too, based off a book. Actually, you know that of a book. Actually, you know, that's what I googled. What's that? When I googled?
Speaker 2:it, that's what I saw, that was the best 2025, no, no, no, that was based off the 80s, yeah, which I started watching the movie it's on hulu right now, yeah, and um, I mean the movie itself. It looks like something I could take my iphone with now, just record like, I mean, it's nothing groundbreaking, but the premise this is, it's technology based in that time, yeah, but the plot was great in that movie and this is a similar plot, which is more modern, in this one.
Speaker 2:But, it's movies about. When his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a decoder takes matters into his own hands. Like I said, starring Robbie Malick, this movie was directed by James Halls and Ken Nolan Sorry, written by Ken Nolan, gary Spinelli and Robert Littell. You know who Robbie Malick, not Robbie Rami Malick, is correct. He played Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know him. You've seen him a hundred times.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's an.
Speaker 2:A-list actor and man, his is acting great in this movie. I went opening night at five o'clock on a thursday. There was only one other person in the theater, insane to me. Did you talk to him? No?
Speaker 1:I wish I did I.
Speaker 2:I wish I had the more confidence to do stuff like that in theaters, which I don't know why I don't, because, like, I could get that, because I have an easy and I have a podcast. We're talking about movies. I just want to get people's intake. But yeah, I went with my girlfriend and then there was only one other person in the theater beside us. This movie was phenomenal. I actually can't wait to go see this movie again. When are you gonna go see it? Uh, you're gonna go see in theaters, or I would love to see in theaters again. Actually, I want to take like my dad or something like that. Who's into it? It's a thriller, but there's like and there's actual killings in this movie, but there's like no blood at all. Did you go to amc or?
Speaker 1:imagine, amc, because I, because I'm so, so stubborn. I will only go to imagine I, I can't.
Speaker 2:If imagine was a little bit closer, I would go there I I mean I'll take the drive, I'm not gonna lie like I might make the switch eventually.
Speaker 2:I love amc. I'm at the point now where I go to the movies, so much I know they recognize me there. The manager's like well, say what's up to me or ask me what movie I'm seeing, which is very cool. I guess I don't get recognized to get free popcorn and all that. Yet you should, that'd be tight, that'd be tight. So, anyways, this movie, he plays this very timid almost. So, anyways, this movie, he plays this very timid, almost like a.
Speaker 2:Peter Parker vibe, very nerdish, skittish kid who doesn't. You can tell he doesn't take any risk in his life because his wife's a journalist who was traveling to London and she even asked him to go with them. But he's kind of afraid of flying and he's kind of afraid of social interactions. Basically like no, go hunting, go without me, have a good time. And he kind of puts guilt on himself because he tells her to go and he could have went with her and even then like he thought, like she calls him, I'm kind of tired, I want to go to sleep. I'll tell you no, go, maybe have a girl, you know, go with your colleagues and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:And according to sure enough, like where she's at, like that's what the terrorist attack happens. So there's a bunch of guilt on him like that, on this. And he he's a very good at his job as an analyst, as a researcher for the cia. He finds out everything about it. Like it's almost scary in this movie too how much cameras are honest too, because it's in london, there's a ton of cameras everywhere versus like security cameras or like just people holding cell phones. He's able to like to put together the whole scene like 3d model just from the camera, angels alone, and there's four suspects and he's able to identify three of them through voice analyst too. Um, and he goes to cia with all this information and they pretty much don't want to do anything about it because, like these are four guys, like four little drops in the big ocean, like they're, they're wanting to get the big ocean and that's how they're not taking it, taking immediate action and then he finds out like like ci, some of the ci operatives are dirty um so he finds out more than what
Speaker 2:yeah, and he says like fuck it, I'm gonna go after myself. He doesn't want to help. So he ends up blackmailing the cia like I'm gonna expose you guys, like unless you like, give me cia training and like new identities so he can go after themselves. So they do that and he ends up going after themselves. Lawrence Fishburne plays the guy who trains him, and he's also hunting him too, because he's I don't want to spoil too much but he's after Rami's character as well, and so he's not only trying to find these guys without being noticed, he's also avoiding the CIA running away from the.
Speaker 2:CIA. He's against all country now.
Speaker 1:So now, now I have one question, yeah, that hopefully it doesn't and feel free not to answer if it doesn't spoil it. But when you said he's blackmailing the cia, I think when if you even think to do that, they'll just find a way to kill you. That's how smart he is he.
Speaker 2:That's how smart this guy's character. He makes a kill switch, like he says like if you guys kill me, if you guys arrest me, if you guys do anything, if I don't put my codes in like the certain website or computer, whatever it is, every five hours all your information is going to get leaked to the press, to like the world wide web, everything, so everything. That's how he gets away with blackmailing them. That until they buy time. So, of course, why he's in cia training and all that they're tearing up his office, they're tearing up his house trying to find anything, and I don't spoil too much what happens with that part, but, um, he's always one step ahead of them. And this is like a thriller kind of like, where it's like having you guess an entire time of how things are connecting.
Speaker 2:So much for amateur type exactly so much for amateur he can't kill in the sense of like take a gun boom yeah, no he's just not that kind of guy.
Speaker 2:He doesn't have that in him. But he kills people more creatively in a way where, like, he can try to justify it being guilt-free. Um, john burndall's in this movie as well too. He was a small cameo but his character was big in this movie. There is a moment, there's a couple times in the movie, where I felt like I wish they had this big in this movie.
Speaker 2:There is a moment there's a couple times in the movie where I felt like I wish they had this character in this movie, like a kind type of character, like I wish there was a character like where they almost try to talk him out of it, like your wife would have want this, you know you should go home and stuff like that. And there is a character that shows up later. It's like, oh man, they did cover all bases almost. I don't think I would get the same effect while re-watching this movie because I already know what's going to happen, but watching it for the first time in theaters was phenomenal. Like I didn't check my watch once, the whole movie, which is very impressive to me because it's a two hour long movie, and um, he, robbie malick, is just so fucking good in this movie great supporting cast.
Speaker 2:The villains in this movie are great. Um yeah, I have nothing but great things to say about this movie. This is probably a good 8 or 9 out of 10 for me.
Speaker 1:Wow, I'm going to have to find my ticket on the engine. Yeah, because I'm long overdue to go to the movies anyway.
Speaker 2:Have you gone this year yet alone?
Speaker 1:Did I yes once.
Speaker 2:Where did you go see? What was it?
Speaker 1:it was the one I texted about. What was it? What was that one?
Speaker 2:oh, the chick flick yeah um, I don't even think I've seen that yet. What was that movie?
Speaker 1:long story short um forgetting actors, but it was pretty inspiring how to turn your life.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was zach levi in um the unbreakable boy unbreakable boy. Yeah, it's a that man when it looks like it's meant to make you cry?
Speaker 1:yeah, um, I I think I saw a couple people crying there yeah, but um, it's a true story too yeah and um. What's crazy is like those people are still living, so um.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that myself. Um, zach Levi, who plays a dad in that movie. I'm a big fan of his. He's man. Almost any actor is always in the controversy. He's another actor on there under fire right now. Really yeah, With the sole support of Trump and some of the things he said out there too.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Like he supports Trump to yes like he supports trump. Yeah, which is the opposite of rachel zegler's right now.
Speaker 1:Who's against trump? Yeah, um, I'll tell you this. So it's, it's really a movie. That's for eye-opening way of just saying um, you started somewhere, went low and then worked your way back up in your relationship you, um, you told me you went on a first date to see this movie and I texted you.
Speaker 2:I was like that's a good movie, but I don't know if I'll go on the first date to see it.
Speaker 1:You know what? She's the one that picked the movie, yeah, so I respect her wishes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I haven't talked to her though.
Speaker 2:Oh sorry, unfortunately, yeah, I don't know if that was your next question, but I wasn't going to ask you about the podcast but.
Speaker 1:But Is there any?
Speaker 2:other movies coming out that you're looking forward to see, that you would want to go see. Not that I'm aware of I think I've suggested to you for this month. I don't know if you've seen the Accountant. The Accountant 2 is coming out with ben affleck and john bernthal gotcha. That one looks very good. I haven't even seen the first one. You should definitely check it out um next week, brandon cole's coming on for sinners, the michael b jordan movies. It's like a vampire movie vampire killer movie michael b jordan yeah, killing vampires.
Speaker 1:Or is a vampire?
Speaker 2:I don't know if it because of vampire the movie. Hayley steinfeld plays his love interest in the movie.
Speaker 1:That sounds interesting. Michael B Jordan I see him more as an athlete actor type deal.
Speaker 2:After Creed, black Panther.
Speaker 1:He's great Talk about someone who changes his body too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say I almost Hate to make this comparison, but I think he might be our generation's Denzel Washington. Hot take, hot take, hot take. Are you a big superhero fan? Superheroes Like the Fantastic Four is coming out, the Thunderbolts are coming out in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 2:Obviously, you can see I'm a big super hero fan too. Oh yeah, absolutely I mean I do enjoy them.
Speaker 1:It's like following them. I don't have a problem. It's just like you know, like people have these crazy I don't want to say crazy, that's not the word I want to use but but they get into intense conversations yeah about storylines, what it could have meant, what it could not have meant. I think it's interesting, but I'm so far behind I definitely can't catch up.
Speaker 2:It is an intimidating pull. That's the reason why I came into Star Wars. That's a big one to jump into.
Speaker 1:I know a lot of people who have their whole bodies tattooed with Star Wars. You can make some cool tattoos out of it. But, um, yeah, definitely, but um, even with superheroes. But when it comes to superheroes, um, I'm honestly like for movies for me, I'll watch them for the fight scenes. To be honest, I I like whether they're fake or not yeah, I think they're cool though. Look at the editing. Like Iron man, the way he's able to fly around and all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And do all that. I think it's cool.
Speaker 2:It's very, very cool. You would like Invincible. It's a cartoon, but it's fucking amazing.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Before you go, you do have a big MMA fight coming up at your debut. Yeah, you go you do have a big mma fighting, come on. But your debut, yeah. What are the dates of time on that?
Speaker 1:um june 7th. From what I remember, I believe the first fight starts at six or seven where's that? It'll be at the gary union hall for the steel mill union hall, nice, so um, it'll be there. It's actually my coach's own personal promotion, so he's running the promotion.
Speaker 1:And I couldn't be any more happy for him because he puts on a good show. My first two fights were at his gym. It was like a little promotion just to get your feet wet type thing for fighters. So the term is called smoker. So for this to be MMA. Honestly, he's got some cool sponsors and everything, so hopefully I think he got one of the casinos to sponsor him.
Speaker 2:Nice, where can?
Speaker 1:people buy tickets or if they want to go. So if you follow me on Instagram, I'm going to be posting about a lot. You can go on Instagram and follow CK Fighting or look up premier mma. You can find the information on there. There'll be a link in their bio. I am not sure if he's getting tickets. The old school way was to get tickets printed out and sell them to people and we we became like us fighters really became and I'm saying like I've actually fought before, but I'm thinking my brother and other people but we become business people trying to sell these tickets yeah like I remember my friend fighting a couple years ago doing that.
Speaker 1:So, um, for I don't know if he's going to be doing that I. I don't see why he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2:But, um, you can get a ticket online or you can contact me and you talk up yeah, um, do you have a goal with this kind of career, like with this like?
Speaker 1:you want to be like in the pros or you know a lot of people ask that, but I said this in an interview because I was supposed to fight kickboxing and they want to do another interview with me. But I gotta tell my, tell them. My kickboxing fight is off, so I'm going to use that opportunity to promote my MMA fight. So I'm kind of sneaking that in.
Speaker 2:So don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1:But I'm just going with the flow man. I got real estate happening. I got fighting happening.
Speaker 2:Real estate agent, my day MMA fighter by night. Right, that's a t-shirt, right there, yeah.
Speaker 1:Right Um, you should see the new gloves I got custom made Uh yeah. Yeah, I'll give you a little. I'll give you a little hand. Um, I won't tell you about the graphic, but there's a with that. I'm just having fun man.
Speaker 1:I'm really having fun. If I don't ever become pro, I'm going to keep this in my back pocket because I can become a black belt in jiu-jitsu or something. I'm going to get as many fights as I can. If I can make it to the top, I'll make it to the top. Call out Conor McGregor. Maybe He'll be probably far retired before then.
Speaker 2:It'd be cool to meet him at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'd be awesome. But just the people I get to meet in the scene. They're people that I get to look up to, that put in the grind, that do more than what I do now. With this career real, I mean real estate when, when it starts booming, I'll have a lot of free time too. It's. It's really like a way for me to discipline myself and in routine. So that's what I'm getting out of it that's pretty sick man.
Speaker 2:I'll probably be probably be there. I'll check it out.
Speaker 1:Absolutely that sounds fun. Absolutely Sounds fun.
Speaker 2:Sounds scary. That's not my lifestyle at all. I'm a big Sally. Someone punched me in the face. I'm definitely going to cry.
Speaker 1:And you know what you know, even if you don't train like it's, it's okay to be a fan of fighting Like fighting like um. If you do come, I'll try my best to communicate with you, because my first two fights. But, um, from my advice to people who buy tickets, just buy the damn ticket and put in the address in your gps and go man, because, um, we have to mentally prepare are you the main card?
Speaker 1:um, I don't know where I am when it comes. I'm not the main event, but, um, I don't know where I'll be standing in the fight, but, uh, both of us will be making our MMA debut me and my opponent, so, uh, so that that's going to be interesting. I don't know what he fights like, um, I'm just going to go in there, be myself how exciting, how exciting and have the fun I can, because know the difference is I'm in the cage alone.
Speaker 2:No, one's here to help me. That's man, that's tough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's tough, that's guts, that's guts. I couldn't do that, thank you.
Speaker 2:Chris, good luck to your fight. Dude, Good luck on your fight. Like I said, we got a couple months away, but you got a lot of time trading, so you're. You're going to be the victorious at this one. I'm manifesting it, but thank you so much for coming to the podcast.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you, brother, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's a lot more fighting movies we could definitely talk about, so I'd love to have you back on Absolutely Postpone fight. Maybe We'll talk about recapping your fight a little bit, but next week Brandon Cole's coming back on the podcast.
Speaker 1:He mostly comes zoom because you know that guy travels everywhere, um yeah, I don't know how he doesn't like I see, I see him on snapchat and I go sick invite. I want to be in kentucky right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah I think he lives there, kentucky, without mistaken. He doesn't live out here, no more dude, I I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:And brandon, if you see this, I'm sorry we haven't talked or hung out in a while, but um, man, I'm just glad he's doing well. I hope he's doing well, but um I see him, all of him and his friends him and his friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're so tight, all from high school also middle school, yeah, middle school even some from elementary, like danny. Danny's been on this podcast before, I think danny alex and uh, brandon sweats.
Speaker 1:Is he around?
Speaker 2:uh, he might be part of his crew. If I'm saying I, I those guys, I really don't keep up with you much, but they, they from I remember.
Speaker 1:I remember they used to throw great parties, so they're, they're all very a tight group yeah and I'm so thrilled for them.
Speaker 2:They're so friends not just friends, but like best friends and they're close. They also hang out regularly. I haven't seen my best friend like in three weeks right. Honestly, I I don't know why brandon hasn't started a youtube channel yeah, I've talked, I've talked to him about that before and um, he they, you know they do like a. They started the beer olympics that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:They do every stuff. Yeah, I don't know why they're recording and putting on youtube exactly yeah, I should talk to him about that because I'll definitely do, because, like he's so much good, all those guys have great energy. Yeah, I I don't know if they've ever talked about it, but brandon started youtube. Man, I'll watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will watch he um, I think they I love they still do this stuff like they do, like, uh, like a rom-com sundays they all get together watch rom-coms.
Speaker 1:Dude, it's like I see the stuff that like it's like perfect content you. Yeah, game night, freaking, rom-com, sundays, beer Olympics.
Speaker 2:I mean dude, yeah, he's a good kid. I got to link up with him. He's a big family man too, because he's very supportive with his nieces and nephews, and all that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he had, from what I remember, a pretty big family. Yeah, a twin sister.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we haven't seen her. I don and uh, yeah, we haven't seen her. I don't even know she's around this area, so we're not. I don't either, but from I remember she. She got in the army too for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think she's married now. Well, obviously with kids. But, yeah, married with kids, yeah, um, for her. We'll talk more about this stuff on camera.
Speaker 2:I guess everyone cares about this yeah but, uh, next week, uh, we'll talk about sinners. I believe it's the next movie coming out with brandon call. I'm excited to get into that. Um, once again, chris, thanks for coming on the podcast everyone next week, where I'll be saving a seat.
