Ep. 73 | Chad Mendes – MMA Fighter. Public Figure. Hunter.

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🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chad Mendes is a very recently retired professional MMA fighter (Still toweling of the sweat from his last fight and not retired at time of this recording), former collegiate wrestler, public figure in sports and at the risk of damaging his outwardly tough-as-nails appearance, a really nice guy. To us, perhaps the coolest thing about Chad is that he has been an avid hunter his entire life. From making time in his busy wrestling career as a kid to head to the mountains with his dad and family to now running an organization called “Finz and Featherz”, giving regular folks like you and us the opportunity to hunt with some of their favorite high level celebrities and professional athletes that also share a love for the outdoors and hunting. It was great to get Chad away from his intensive training regimen of preparing to knock other professional fighters unconscious to talk to us and all of you about his biggest passions. If you haven’t checked him out on social yet, hit him up and support him amidst some of the backlash he receives when he posts pictures and videos from his hunts. We can show him and the rest of the world that the hunting community has his back! As always - let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. All right what's up everybody we are sitting down today
0:21.0	Jim and I are sitting down today with the one
0:24.4	the only mr. Chad Mendez which is we check the phone but what's up the only
0:31.4	okay yeah I'm not sure if it's the only but you're the only one that I know
0:35.6	oh perfect that's really all that matters so he is the one and the only
0:39.4	Chad Mendez that we know that is a badass mama fighter and did a bunch of cool
0:45.2	wrestling stuff and hunter and exactly that's me so yeah Jim I mean I
0:51.9	interrupted your intro so I stole it.
0:54.3	You didn't steal it.
0:55.3	I just, I got flustered and then I panicked.
0:57.8	It was the new, it was the same thing.
0:59.1	You're doing good.
1:00.3	It was the sweaty nose.
1:01.6	I know, I know. I think we got that cleared up. Yeah. So for those who may not be familiar if you've been living under a rock,
1:09.2	Chad Mendez, I'm going to go with what I know of Chad. I know there's a lot more layers to this onion, the onion of Chad. But lifelong
1:18.1	wrestler, lifelong Hunter, College Wrestler, MMA Fighter, and Fins and Feathers.
1:27.0	Yep, that's good.
1:28.0	So let's start at the beginning.
1:30.0	Let's go way back.
1:31.0	Let's open this book.
1:32.0	Yeah, let's do it. So for me my I mean a lot of people don't know this actually I actually started competing before wrestling I started wrestling when I was five years old and before that and this is really funny I'm sure there's
1:44.1	probably some pictures that my sister my dad have taken and put on social media
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