I can't handle hikes and I was in Tenerife with my missus for her birthday. These are massive slides and I'm looking at them going, fuck me. I fought in front of millions of people watching around the world. I lost and I would rather get punched in the fucking head than walk up there right now. I get the balls to do it. I go down, fucking screaming. And then I finished the first slide and go, oh fuck, that was actually pretty fun. If there is an obstacle in the way, it's probably a good indicator. That's the right direction to go in. Ali McLean is an Irish M.A fighter, nicknamed Insane, the lightweight from Belfast is best known as the first Irish competitor to appear on the Ultimate Fighter Season 15. Ali McLean, what's the problem with being soft? Physical toughness is a byproduct of mental tough. Being mentally tough comes from pain and we avoid it. We're told there's mental all the time, just talk about your issues. But that's not going to fix fuck-all. It's only going to be fixed. If you take an action, people may or may not like me saying this. We made it this far on the podcast without a technical glitch.

Unfortunately in this episode, Ali's camera didn't work for the first 13 minutes. Either way, the conversation you're about to listen to is one of the favourites we've done so far on the pod. So please enjoy it, and those you're watching, sorry about the visuals. Those you're listening, as you were. It's at this very moment here that I could have got thousands of pounds to sit here and promote a greens powder that doesn't do anything. But instead, I decided to pay for every aspect of this podcast myself and just ask you that if we're in the UK, USA, UAE, to please try and get a can of Newtonic. Australia, we're coming incredibly soon. We're in the manufacturing process. And for any of you that can, please do try our Newtonic creatine sticks. They are the shit. You can head to Newtonic.com to see what's available to you. And I will let you now get back to the episode. Allie McLean, what's the problem with being soft. The problem of being soft is everything you're told about, well, it's in general self-defense, isn't it? Like, that's what people think soft is.

And every course, every YouTube video,

every magazine or every video you watch

on Instagram shows when someone grabs

your wrists or they,

you know, grab their hands on your neck.

But that stage, you've already kind of

lost. You've already

failed and probably the most important part.

In fact, in the UK today there are approximately 1.94 million violence against person

offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2024 and 2025. Now if you look back

at 2013 and 2014, there were only 600,000. So that's like a decade.

That's more than one tripled. And so it's not going away. And the problem of that is people

are just blissfully unaware of being situational aware, not being capable

enough. And the big problem of that as well is the fact that a lot of these issues are caused

not by the stranger in the alley thing people have. Like, oh, a stranger in the alley is going to attack

me. It's like most of the time it's why people you fucking know. And that's a big issue with it. So, for instance, would you say there's a couple of things that play here? If I had to put the finger at some things, I'd say social media one. We're watching, you know, street compilations of fights, knockouts, Twitter can show you some of the most savage knockouts.

And where maybe in the 80s and 90s you'd watch films and think that you could be the main character.

Suddenly now you're looking at social media and thinking, if someone started on me and my mates at the pub, I'll just chin all three of them.

That's exactly that.

And so I talk about there being three types of people there's

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