Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the destruction pieces podcast episode 34. Thank you very much for tuning in. I guess this week is Dan Hardy, but before we get to that, I'm going to quickly plug my label speech development records, please head to speech

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Loads of you have been requesting Dan Hardy for ages. We are both on a show called Beyond the Earth, not Beyond the Octokent. I've fought until Greg Uli.

And yeah, I've known him a long while. I've been a fan of him. Along while he's coming out to my shows. I've gone and watched him fight. He's a great fighter. But even more importantly, he's a great ambassador for the sport because he's an intelligent, genuine individual who can speak informatively on the sport on the R.

He's a part of mixed martial arts, but he's also gone through a lot in these recent years. So this is a great one. But I've had to split this one into two parts as you will hear. So the first part is now. You're already listening to it. You know, it's happening. And this is going to be the bulk of the interview. But then we thought we'd do a second part as just a breakdown of upcoming fights.

But recent fights, recent results, what we think of different fighters, who's one to watch in the UFC. So we thought we'd do that as a part two. That is going to be so this became available at midnight. So Tuesday into Wednesday at midnight. And part two is going to be available at midday. So again, if you've got the automatic download on.

You don't have to worry about that just when you choose to listen to it. You can listen to it. But yeah, I'll be back at the end to give a bit more information. But until then, this is episode 34 of the Strachian Pieces podcast with Dan Hardy.

Hello you. I need to apologize for this extra bit of audio that is poor quality, but I haven't even got my podcast in gear with me, but I needed to jump on. See, since we recorded this podcast.

All the John Jones stuff has happened. So we don't talk about that. And I want to I thought I should watch a warn you in advance of this.

I can't speak for Dan. I think he's put some tweets out saying his feelings on it. So I thought I'd briefly say mine. So it is kind of addressed on the podcast. I think John Jones is potentially the best, you know, MMA fighter of all time.

But he's clearly in a fucked up place right now and needs to sort his head out. I applaud the UFC for I mean, finally in a way, but still it's a huge thing to do to strip him of his title and suspend him. And to pull, you know, one of the biggest, the most anticipated fights of the year.

So, you know, although it is the right thing to do, I still think they deserve some credit for that. Some bold moves to do that. So yeah, hopefully John will get the helping needs and have some time away from the spotlight and all that kind of thing to to refocus and, you know, hopefully one day come back and continue what could be an amazing legacy, but who knows also I'm crazy. I'm hyped for for a rumble V call me a I'll watch that.

I'll watch the hell out of that. See, I think the UFC have done made the right choice. Again, you can question if they should maybe have stepped in or been harder early or on when things started to flag, but you know, you can't, you can't or hindsight is a beautiful thing. Anyway, as said, we don't discuss it in the podcast. So it might negate one or two of the things we discussed, but not not huge amounts to relax. Enjoy the podcast.

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We're rolling. I'm joined by Dan Hardy. How you doing, sir? Good, man. I'm ready. Good. Sit in the sun. Enjoying it. It's beautiful.

I mean, you've posted pictures on Instagram. So I don't feel as if I'm giving anything away. I'm sitting in your beautiful. Is it an old school hall or something?

It's a chapel. A chapel. Yeah. It's a chapel. It's lovely. It's all right. It's my little pile of bricks. Yeah. You have some fun in here. It's as I mean, we were discussing before this started. It's rare to find anywhere that actually has unused space.

Yeah. It isn't. There's, there's, there's meters above our head that they haven't put another floor on or. Yeah. Don't know. I mean, that was kind of intentional. I wanted a space that felt functional. You know, I think I don't, I don't, I can't live in a box. I've lived in boxes. I've rented places in the US. Yeah. Yeah. It just doesn't, it doesn't make sense. I want to be able to reach over my head and grab onto something. So I've got, you know, space for a gym in here and. And then, you know, obviously my wife's an aerial performer. So we're going to get a rigging point in the room. I mean, you were in a room. I mean, you were in a room. I mean, I'm going to be able to get a room. I mean, you were in a room. I mean, I'm going to be able to get a room. I mean, I'm going

to be able to get a room and, and I'm going to be able to get a room. I mean, it's going to beAN on it, sure. And again, all of the, they're kind of across from it to that. So I was like, you need space and rule. You can't really have kettlebells or battle ropes or whatever in a small space. You need to spin this, this shit around your head and. Definitely. Definitely. You know, I think we're starting to realize that we're not supposed to be contained. Yeah. I think people are realizing that. We are physically at our best,

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