**Arman Tsarukyan Admits Post-Whistle Attack, Chuck Norris Tribute, More Ronda vs UFC & Ask Uncle Chael**
You're Welcome! With Chael Sonnen
Chael Sonnen
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening, guys? |
| 0:04.8 | Happy Friday and thank you for tuning in at long last, but I've been on a trip. |
| 0:10.1 | I went to California. |
| 0:12.2 | I sat down with Giorgio Pluas. |
| 0:14.1 | I sat down with Armand Syrucian. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm going to tell you about that trip. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm going to tell you what I learned. I'm going to tell you what I learned. |
| 0:21.3 | Plus, Rhonda Rousey is going hard at the UFC. |
| 0:26.8 | We're going to get into that. |
| 0:28.8 | And we're going to have a little time for Ask Uncle Chale. |
| 0:44.2 | I just spit the day in Big Bear, California, with Armand Sarukian at training camp. |
| 0:47.5 | Now, when I get in there, it's very interesting. |
| 0:49.0 | Like, I've never been to Big Bear. |
| 0:51.7 | And in the fight game, you always hear about Big Bear. |
| 1:11.5 | I can't quite remember the history on that, but I think it goes back to Muhammad Ali. Even if I'm wrong about that, fighters have been training in Big Bear for a while. And at some point, Oscar De La Jolla buys a place. He ends up selling that to Tito Ortiz. But Big Bear had been on the map for a while. There's something about elevation. |
| 1:14.8 | I was kind of excited to go, and I got to tell you, it was this very beautiful place, and I get there. |
| 1:18.4 | And when I pull up, there's these gorgeous cars outside. |
| 1:21.5 | And I don't really know fancy cars. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm in Oregon. |
| 1:44.1 | We don't see a lot of them, but it was like a Ferrari, and then this Corvette, and it was one of these things. So you pull up, we go inside, and there was the Armenians and the Dagestani. And this is how the house was divided. Other people were talking about that. Hey, we need to keep the noise down. Hey, and it's, okay, well, we'll tell the Armenians they're out front. Okay, hey, we got to, you know, there's a sound issue. |
| 1:46.2 | We're about to get this interview. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, well, tell the Dagestanis there in the back. Like, it's one of these things where these two groups come together. And one of the things I was most interested was Surukian. Now, Chameh was there. Chimae was there and they were training. |
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