How are you sir? I'm good. Thanks for doing this man. I really appreciate it.

No, no, thank you for having me. Thank you you thinking of me. How about that? Please, you are the guy whenever anybody asks me who's the best fighter in the world, you're the guy.

I appreciate it, man man I think if young guys are coming up and they want to learn how to fight where they take as little damage as possible and inflict as much as possible you're my my perfect example. So thank you for being you.

No. You know what?

I'm doing my best to pay these bills.

I got bills that pay.

I understand.

But it's more than that, man, you can't just be paying bills because you you don't just do enough work you do more like

it's pretty obvious when you fight that you're putting in crazy hours

because you keep getting better and better and and it's not as simple as like you just

paying the bills.

You obviously have a pretty deep passion for this.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I will honestly say it's credited to Mad Hume and Brad Curtin.

Ever since I started training mixed martial arts,

you know, I didn't jump into mixed martial arts because the U.S.C.

I mean, I did see the ultimate fighter and all that stuff,

but I saw it the workouts how in shape they were and then when I started fighting Matt was like, okay, you can do a mixed-martial fight. So I had my first amateur fight. The next mountain was like, good job. Okay, then I'll go back to

training and then Matt was like, hey, you can do a, how do you feel about doing a kickboxing fight?

I was like, sure, why not? Did a kickboxing fight won that? He goes good job.

Then he's like hey there's a Jiu j Jiu jitsu tournament you need to go there and

beat everybody I would go there take first place he goes good job and in the

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