All right, let us say hello to Robert Whitaker, who is looking to regain the UFC middleweight

title February 12, UFC 271 against Israel, Adesanya in Houston, Texas, always great

catching up with this man, always tremendous insight. Robert, how are you, sir? I love

this background. This is the first time we've had chat since we see this backdrop. How's

everything going? Not everything very well. You know, I'm Kim's, Kim's being fantastic.

You know, the ups and downs as a camp has and might already get in there and just get

to work. I'm going to secure it. Not bad. Thank you for doing this, by the way. There's

been a lot going on in your world. Of course, you get this big fight coming up. New gyms

are opening up. You're becoming a video game character, not to mention everything in the

normal life. Being a family man, a dad, new babies in the house. Like, although you haven't

fought in nine or so months, you've had a lot to keep you pretty busy, haven't you?

How would you describe these past nine, ten months since the win over Calvin Gaslam?

Yeah, it's, it's been, yes, it's been strange, you know, it's been, there's been a lot

of ups and downs. So there's been a lot of times of like preparing for fights, wondering

what's going to be happening, preparing for dates that fell over. They got pushback, they

got pushback, trying to organize a new gym. As you said before, day to day life, having

four kids is kind of a full-time job as well. So yeah, you know, I've just been enjoying

it though. Wall studying gets much work done as I would have liked. It's, uh, this is

still a good year. The last time we spoke, man, it's, it's, it's been a minute, right

around, I think it was like right around Thanksgiving, 2020, I think. And we spoke about a number

of different things. It was an interesting time in your life and your career, you, you were

trying to clear the air about some misconceptions and things said by the UFC, Dana White. Maybe

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