Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas. Today is part two of Teddy and his longtime mentor, Kustimato.

If you miss part one of this series,

please be sure to check that out first.

And now, without further ado, part two.

Kusta, um...

He loved food, food, coveted food, you know, he always talked about, you know,

being a tie-in and food was important and even when they didn't have money

his father always made sure they had food somehow made sure they had enough food

food was important. Food, you know, if you had food you

okay, no matter what your status on the totem pole of life was, as long as you had food you were doing all right.

So he was always afraid of not having enough.

That's like a byproduct I think of anyone who spent time during the Great Depression because my

grandmother was like that.

She wasn't a huge foodie per se, but same way.

Food was like, as long as you had the food,

we're good.

Without the food, there was a problem.

But that, and she would tell stories about growing up in the depression and how they'd eat a can of

Tomatoes and putting water in the ketchup to stretch it

Oh cuz food was, you know, was very important and he discovered

a like for tuna fish. He was funny cuss because he grew up a different way, you know a rough way and you know he grew up in a whole different way in a toughest sport or toughest business in the world or one of them and you know he and then all of a sudden

He discovered things I remember you used to tell it. Teddy, I discovered a few years ago tuna fish and mayonnaise. I said, oh really? I'm ahead of you,

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