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So for a long time around here, we have like to find on Miami's streets because Miami can be really rugged. Some of the tougher guys that you will find on Miami streets, whether it is Kimbo Slice or Horyn Masvidal, some of our fascination about these guys comes from the specifics of being from this region and knowing how tough it is to be the toughest guy in this region. And so, Julie Diaz, you might not have heard of him, the uley, the monster Diaz.

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I don't know why I called him Julie there. I don't know what they call you in Spanish, but Julie the monster Diaz, he scored a knockout last week. Bare knuckles fighting champion. I just called the monster. Yeah. The monster would have been easier. That's probably what I should have done. And it happened in three seconds. And it it was something that was pretty impressive when you look at it. So Julie joins us now. And thank you for joining us.

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You want me to make it a hard you? Usually I keep doing Tulear. I just know. I'm sorry, Monster. I'm sorry. I am sorry. I'm sorry. I can't get your name right. It's a failure on my part. Please forgive me. So most people just call you monster.

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I mean, yeah, most people call me Monster and thank you guys for this opportunity. But it's also to be honest with you guys. Thank you.

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So what is your story? How is it you fought a lot as a kid? Like what is it that made you somebody who wanted to be in fights? You know, as a kid, as long as I can remember from kindergarten all the way up to today, I always got to fight. I, I never I was never a bully. I never picked on people like that. But I've always felt like I was a protector of my friends.

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I always felt like I had this warrior spirit in me. So fighting got me in a lot of trouble as a kid. I got kicked out of school for fighting and eventually got sent to prison, you know, while in prison. I fought there also kind of I came out, you know, I you know, I did my amateur boxing career probably about 20 years ago. I got a job made back in 2000 and I trained, but I had I had kids at a young age, so it was hard to train and fight amateurs and not get paid at all and try to support a family.

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So I you know, I stayed on the streets doing things I was supposed to be doing and hanging around people I was supposed to be around. And eventually, four years ago, I had this what I like to call come to God moment when I was you know, I was 35 years old. I you know, I was working out a little bit. I was living in Colorado at the time and I was working out a little bit, training, jujitsu and a little bit of boxing.

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And I had just come to God moment is this moment where I saw my life flash before my eyes and I saw myself at 45 years old. And I'm like, what am I doing with my life? And and I and I always wanted it. I you know, I watch fights like a lot of people do on TV and they say, like, man, you know, I got to give this a try and I can't. I moved back down to Miami immediately.

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I called a transport company, got my car transferred, transported down here, bought a flight, got back down to Miami, started training. I free gym on South Beach and all with an old coach of mine. His name was Josh. His name is Josh Dempsey. At the time, I was training with him and so I was into for a month this was all this was from November and December of 2006, right before New Year's. I told them even I'm ready to take a fight.

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You know, I got to take a fight. I got to do this. It started off. It was a bucket list thing. I was and I get a whole picture for Instagram, say I did it for my kids, get a picture with some pictures on my wall. And that's what the that's what the idea was at first. So January 27, 2017, we flew to Dominican Republic. They got beat opponent. I was I was I was nervous.

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I was I didn't know if I was ready for for this, you know, but I didn't tell anybody that at the moment. I was on the inside feeling and I thought I knocked the guy out in the first round and it was the biggest rush, biggest, hi. Biggest drug I've ever. Anything that I've done in my life, it couldn't stop it. And and I finally and I said, I need I need to do this again, you know, and and I just I just continued I just continued training.

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I finally figured out what hard work was at the time. I thought I was working hard, doing things on the street, which was a big lie. I was livid. And so I you know, I saw I trained my ass off. I know. And and what you guys saw on Friday, those three seconds was a lot of work put behind those three seconds. You know, it was a lot of sacrifice, a lot of it.

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Right. A lot of sleeping, you know, a lot of hang out with friends, a lot of missing out on things for free for those three seconds that come to light. And it was it was still amazing, my head still spinning around. That is still unbelievable to me.

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That was a wandering path of wonderful storytelling that got us to where it is that we are right now with your story, those three seconds I want to talk about. But you said a couple of things in there that I want to ask follow ups on. One, you talked about fighting in prison. How much of that were you doing? And there there has to be a good amount of fear involved. More fear than normal fights? No. A yes, yes and no, yes and no, because of, you know, on the streets, I tell people when you're fighting on the streets, 99 percent of the fights on the streets are sucker punches.

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You know, you're kind of you kind of get into an argument with somebody. You you you feel where you you kind of see where this thing is going. And you either sucker punch them before they sucker punch you, you know, and and that's not really that's not really a fight. That's that's you know, that's nothing. And then in prison, it's a turn more into. It's not it doesn't really it's that sucker punches. Now you've got to set up a fight because you can't get caught by the border, by the correction officers in there, because then you're going to go they're going to put you in a box for fighting.

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So now you've got to now you've got a you know, you get into an argument with a guy, but I go, OK, I'll see you over here, you know, where usually fights go down, where people can see them. And and I had a couple of fights like that. And that's where you kind of build this, you know, where the where the butterflies start kind of going away because now you're you're kind of put in a position that either you you see the fight or flight and and in prison, there's really, really one choice is either it's only fight or fight, because if you fly, then you're going to have a rough time in there.

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You know, people are going to see, you know, that that you're running from things and it's a different animal in there.

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So explain to us in terms of the prison experience, where you, the guy that had to take care of things the first day in because of all of the movie cliches, you go find the biggest guy in the yard, all that stuff for like, how did that work?

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You know what, I went to prison at a young age, and I first when I first got in there, I did I did not think it was like the movie cliche. You're kind of waiting for somebody to tell you something. And really, it's not like that. I like that, you know, but eventually, you know, you're in there with a lot of people is a lot of animosity. A lot of people are, you know, are illegal.

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You're doing time with a lot of guys that everybody everybody was so different at a different time. And you're surrounded by just, you know, by nothing but men. So you eventually fall into things when you're, you know, involved in any type of sport in the prison or anything that you fall into arguments. And and again, you know, I was never one to back down. So, you know, you get into a little argument and little things in there turn into huge things really fast, you know, and you never know what some guy's feeling.

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He might be arguing what you might be mad at his family about something. And, you know, it gets taken out on you somehow. And and again, there's a lot of little weird situations in there that, you know, I found myself in a couple of them and I found myself having to fight, you know, just to to defend myself or, you know, not to get to not to feel, you know, quote unquote, disrespected.

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How long did it take for you to run that prison? You know what, within the first year, man, I was and it was and I'm going to say running the prison, I'm not trying to be myself until I was the biggest guy there. And I think but, you know, I get along with people are easy to get along with. You know, a couple of guys like everybody else in life, you know, you're going to run into people that you don't disagree with.

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And, you know, I had a couple of fights, but after that, it wasn't like it was, you know, I had to watch my back the whole time we fought and after the fight was back with, you know, is this over? Yeah, we shake hands. All right, cool. And everybody went back, back their way.

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What's the worst present fight you were ever involved in? The most memorable one. The most memorable one was meant two weeks before I went home. I was I was I was walking. I walked into the yard. I was you know, I had been working out. I'm going home in about two weeks. I'm actually in a great mood. Everything's good. And me and this guy start well, this guy says arguing with me about but about the weight.

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And I'm trying to avoid it. And he just keeps going and and man, it was it was you know, we set up a fight right there in the yard. And when everybody it got too far where we couldn't we couldn't go anywhere to hide. It was like, all right. Had to go down right there at the moment. And I, I hit him with a left hook man and I knocked him out where he didn't fall back.

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He kind of sat he he knocked out sitting on his I like Indian style was weird and but we didn't get a fight and I ended up going home two weeks later. It was great.

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Well, help us understand something here again, Julie the Monster Diaz three seconds. I didn't even know we were doing bareknuckle. It's usually down bareknuckle.

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It's Monster said, all right, listen, I'm Cubitt. All is fine. Well, that's what I keep this. A mistake I keep making is that that's the way I'm used to seeing it. But yeah, yeah, it really is the way that we've got to go here. So bare knuckle fighting. I didn't know we were doing that. And before I get too far, forgive my ignorance here. But I also would be remiss if we're sitting here glorifying prison fights.

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I don't know why you were in prison. Was it also for fighting? How long were you in prison? Question.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're absolutely right. I'm not trying to brag about all these prison things, but yeah, I was in prison for two and a half years. I went in at twenty three. I came out when I was right after my twenty fifth birthday. I was in there. Yes, I was interfer for fighting on the streets. I had gotten jumped in Tallahassee. I got jumped and, and I ended up you know, they sent me to the hospital, I sent two guys to the hospital with me and that started my whole downward spiral of of just, you know, sending me to prison for aggravated aggravated battery.

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When you were saying that you were bad and on the wrong path and with the wrong people, were you simply a criminal? I wouldn't consider, but I mean, I wouldn't consider myself dead, but I was I was you know, I was dabbling in criminal activity, I would say, OK, well, is it from desperation like what was happening in your life?

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Like what is your back story in terms of your ethnicity? Or I mean, obviously you're Cuban, but like, what is your back story on how your family got here? What level of desperation are we talking about from an early age?

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So my family came over my family, my my mother father came over in 79 on Freedom Flight. I was born in 1981 before I was born. My mother and father had already separated. My father was a political prisoner. He he left, you know, and so I was raised with a single mother. My mother is a great person. She's actually a pastor now, you know, but so but she did everything she could for me. But as you know, being a single mom here from a new country hardly speak and not speaking any English, she had to go and work and do things.

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So I grew up, you know, mostly with my friends being my family, you know, so I grew up trying to figure things out. You know, I had never had a male role model my life never had a father and uncle or cousin anybody to tell me anything to leave me in the right path. So I figured things out on my own. And, you know, growing up and in Miami, you know, it's easy to figure.

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I mean, it's easy to think that that, you know, certain things that you're supposed to it's cool. Doing things that you're not supposed to be doing is cool and, you know, and putting yourself in these positions, you know, if nobody ever tells you that you're that it's wrong to do it, but you just think that you're doing what you're supposed to be doing. And finally, as you know, I started growing up and realizing things and figuring things out to have my own kids that I didn't want to go down the same path that I had.

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I, I said I had a it might be late in life for some people, but at least it happened to me, you know. I mean, and I had that that, you know, where I feel like slap me across the face and was like, yo, are you going to this are this forever? Because there's two there's two avenues here, death and prison again. And and I woke up out of that. And and, you know, I, I hate to sound cliche, but I really changed my life, you know, I really changed my life.

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I gave it all up, gave it all up and, you know, the money, the fastness and everything and went through hard times even when I gave it up because I was broke and I didn't I didn't know if this was going to work out for me, but I kept on on this path and I kept on this path. And I have this little equation. I'd like to tell people that consistency over time equals success. And I'm not saying I'm successful.

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Well, what happens with this particular fight, what kind of opportunities, like I said, I didn't know we were bare knuckle fighting during a pandemic, that seems like a pretty terrible way to make a living, I guess, unless you're you because it's just fighting other men for money seems crazy to me. Fighting other desperate people for money seems crazy to me. But your life has changed since this knockout in any way. My life has those three seconds has changed my life completely.

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Amanda, Dan Levitas Sure. Right now talking to you. So, gosh, I'm on every article from here to China and back. If you just Google my name, I pop up everywhere. I have the fastest Knock-Out in combat sports history of going down in the Guinness Book of World Records. I'm leaving my footprint in life when my kids could look up to me and I could be somebody zero. I'm you know, and I'm not trying to boast, to brag or anything like this, but I'm helping people without even knowing that I'm helping them.

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You know, I'm giving the people are looking and saying, man, you know, this guy changed his life. What what is stopping me from doing this right now? You know, I mean, maybe not fighting, but just like just picking something and going to do it, you know? And so, yes, to answer your question, yes, this has really changed my life. This is giving me a great, great opportunity and opportunities and doors are opening for me right now.

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You are your rent, you're jacked. You're in phenomenal shape. You look good. I'm checking out all these images on the Internet. You also have a Sebastian the Ebers tattoo on your arm, which makes it. Yeah.

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What's that? Are you hitting on me right now? I'm not.

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Just listen, I felt like it felt like for once and I like to look the way you love just for one second of my life. I'd like to look the way you look at the type of shape.

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Yeah. It felt like you were flirting with him. I want to ask your question again. Yeah. When I know one is Sebastian the IBIS. I don't want that tattoo on my arm, but you have one on your arm, which begs the question, are the canes back?

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Listen, I love the game. I love all Miami teams, but I'm a die hard hurricanes fan, you know, and and I. I love. I love. I love. I got excited many years ago when I was a diehard U.S. fan.

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Billy, you must have so much to talk to usually about, given that he was a bodyguard for pit bull. Right. Like, no way.

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Yes. Yeah, yeah. More than that. It was a brother to me. I grew up with him, says him. Well, we're in seventh grade in middle school. And from that moment until today, we're we're brothers. He's still by my side. I'm actually doing this podcast this afternoon, one of the biggest inspirations in my life. And I did when I came out of prison. I did. I was the bodyguard for him for many years.

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When I like to tell people I was from prison to private jets, you know, his life has been amazing.

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It seems like it's more than just bodyguards with him because you're there on a boat with him, with Jay Kalid, Marc Anthony. Who is Fonzi Breteau. How how is this your life now?

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To a couple of years ago, that picture and my life has always been like that with him, he takes a lesson he took me to go see I've met Tony Robbins when I met Tony Robbins, I met him backstage. He signed my book, made it out to me and set me on a four day trip to New Jersey.

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I was with I was with Bon Jovi and I was you guys that that sometimes I flew out of my body. I'm looking down on myself and these things are incredible that was happening. And it's really I like to say it's a blessing, man.

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You know what I'm thinking? A lot of people are talking about you right now because of the three second knock. Right. And it's going to be hard to beat a three second knockout. So I think for the next fight, we need to get in a way of saying we like I'm part of your crew now, but I feel like we need to get you like some marquee person, not necessarily like a good fighter. But I know if you've seen this, Jake, Paul is fighting people now.

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Maybe you fight like a Jake Paul. Or if things go well for Tyson, you could fight Tyson after his fight on Thanksgiving because, I mean, look, you're thirty eight. Tyson's in his fifties. Right? I feel like you have a shot with Tyson. And that would be a dream come true. Talking about Dick Paul, I was looking for a sparring partner when he did his last boxing match last year. I was at his house with Shannon Briggs and all that.

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They flew real good to be a sparring partner. That would be an amazing moment for right now when I have my eyes on his Thiago Alves. You know, I respectfully called him out. I was a fan of his when he was at USC. You know, the guys the guy's a great fighter. He fight for bareknuckle also right now. And I think that me and him for a title fight, a light heavyweight sometime now in twenty one would be the show, you know, ball.

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Yeah, yeah, the other people here, the other the lesser the lesser pit bull, I'm feeling like I feel like maybe we'll talk to you tomorrow with Pit Bull. What do you think?

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What do you do with Jagow?

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Yeah, no, no, no, no. Hold on. Just back up. Those two guards is getting too aggressive. He's flirting to you with you and then he wants to get straight to the gun. That's how it works with Strugatsky goes from flirting to just going like, hey, can you get me a pit bull? So we'll come back on that in a second.

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Yeah, he he's even taking me on a date. Hey, it's your homey sorry, it's your home. I know you don't like it when I call myself your old man, so I have some favors to ask you. Could you get rid of a few chairs in the living room? My floorboards are tired.

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I want to talk to you a little more, though, about these experiences where you end up in these situations. Do you call pit bull pit bull or do you call him Armondo? Call my brother, my brother. Yeah, but just my brother, every time, it's like you don't have a brother. I hate my brother. How are you doing, my brother? What's going on today like that? That's basically my, my, my, my, my name friends.

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You're my brother.

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How does it work? How does it work with with the meeting of Tony Robbins? Like when you end up in one in all of these situations here, you're you're you're saying it's surreal, but do you have one that you recall among all others?

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Well, that one to me was the most surreal one. I'll tell you why. So I found out that it was going to do he was doing something with with Tony Robbins. So I called them and told me, you know, this one right? There I go. Listen, I love that guy, you know. You mind if I go, which is a no, let's go. So I jumped on the jetway and we went to Detroit.

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He did a show right after the show. We don't want to deal with that matter. The next day he had Tony Robbins. So the next day I used to carry a Tony Robbins book is called To Awaken the Giant Within. I used to carry it on me at all times. So I show up to the green room in the back and have Tony Robbins book in my hand. You know, I'm dressed and I kind of got a suit on and it's like, hey, so and this is not has never before and never, ever done this in his life.

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So until this moment to this day. So I get backstage and I got to I mean, to the green room and I got the Tony Robbins going to go, what is it. I don't know. Tony Robbins book. I take it with me everywhere he goes. And this is kind of at the beginning of my career. I go, he inspires me. This guys, this guy, you know, he motivates me like, you know, I don't do certain things I could take from what he says.

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And I and I kind of use them just to get me through the day. He's like, hey, look, I'm going to make them sign the book for you and we'll take a picture with him. I'm like, dude, he's never done that. You know, Pitt never says that. I'm like, Oh, that's amazing. So now we go backstage. Tony Robbins is still on stage being put out backstage. I'm sitting in a corner in a chair probably 20 feet from where it is.

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He's you know, he's got people around and talking to him. And so I'm sitting by myself. Tony Robbins comes out and there's this tiny trampoline, you know, those little tiny ones. He comes off stage. And Tony Robbins, I kind of jump in on the company, I guess.

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But why is it.

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Yeah, I the guy tells me he's like usually usually he's looking around, he don't see me sitting down. So I kind of jump up and I run over and they look, Tony, this is my brother. You know, he carries your book around. He says you're an inspiration for me by signing this book. Is that. No, no, that's my book. I have it right here next to me. You know, he said, you know, something to the effect of follow your dreams signs of Tony Robbins.

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He told me, hold on. He calls some lady over and tells me to come over here. Hey, get his email talking to me, get his email. I want you to be a special guest of mine at the zoo. I'm throwing my first it was his first event in an arena. It was where the New Jersey Devils play was 15000 people at this arena. And he goes, I want you to be my special guest. I'm like, all right.

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So they get my email, they get my email and and she goes away. You know, the pay goes into what it is to do with Tony Robbins. And we go home. I so I think to myself and my brother was amazing, but I'm like, man, they're going to forget about me. You know that this guy's too busy. Three days later, I get an email. They got me a hotel room. They got me tickets to this thing.

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First time he doesn't have 15000 people I'm sitting up front with. My seat has to cost at least fifty thousand dollars. I'm sitting with this guy. Used to be one of like an assistant coach for the Heat. I got Kevin Durant's Mormonism, Dr. Daniel Amen, which is a huge, like neurosurgeon from around the world. I have Bon Jovi sitting behind me at Night Shyamalan. I'm I'm like, who am I right now?

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They're they're like, I got so many. I was the assistant coach. Ron Rosene. I gotta get to this. I no follow up. Was Tony Robbins on the tiny trampoline the entire time you were talking to him, jumping up and down.

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Oh no, no, no. He had gone off, he had gone off the trampoline to talk to me.

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All right. Who was the Heat assistant coach. The Heat assistant coach is I forgot his name, he wore glasses in front of you, no light skinned black dude, but this is Dale. It was for yes. Yes, thank you. Good job, Chris. So so listen, it is the first night of this thing when when the first night ends, we go outside and Tony Robbins makes it make us makes us walk about 10 yards of hot burning red coal fire, coal and its buns.

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I mean, yes, Bon Jovi, me and Tony Robbins are the first people to walk together on the hog, pull together.

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And it was the amazing, amazing who screamed the loudest.

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I mean, honestly, no screaming. Oh, get the hell out of here. Nicole screaming What did anyone scream?

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You know? No, nobody screamed. Everybody makes you do this. You know, he makes you say this, you know, he makes you pat your chest and like, you know, say say say this certain thing that he tells you to say that your mind is more powerful than whatever he's, you know, take off your shoes, your socks with people waiting with water hoses and stuff. And you walk across this hot pool real quick and and, you know, you overcame a certain thing.

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You know, it makes you it makes you feel like you overcame something. And that's the first night.

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Billy, I think now that we can no longer have a relationship with Masvidal, I think you need to become part of Uli's entourage. I think that you because he's very Miami, he is unusually Miami. You can hear it in his speech patterns. You can hear it in his story. Just stay away from Kuhnen. Yes. We should probably ask about the political beliefs on the front end here.

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We're getting a little deep in that uley. What's YPO boy been up to? I see you're friends with White Boy. White boy, white boy with the dreadlocks, you mean, right? Yeah, that's not from I love New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love New York, he's a brother to me, too. I was on the cash. Don't follow him. I know why, but for over 20 years, he's he's also like family to me.

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He's he's one, too. He's been on one of the my biggest motivators and, you know, supporters. And he's he's doing great right now. I mean, you know, he's just he just laid back trying to trying to trying to make things happen. He was actually at my bare knuckle fight. He he's doing some photography on the side. So he did took a bunch of badass pictures of me that night.

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Billy, do we have any Miami Cuban questions that we want to ask him? Like best, best black beans in South Florida, like to see how how Cuban he actually is. Do you want to grill him on the subject?

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Well, no, I don't want to grill him. I was just heartbroken when you said that he's eating healthy now because now he's probably not doing the party leaders in the croquette and none of that stuff.

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I still I still throw him in here and there, you know, I mean, I like you. Like, I know you. I got the fire brigade that Sergio, too. You know, you got to give a shout out to the Somali people and the little man. I'm a I'm a Carlo's Bakery guy. Cartus Bakery fire to me. All right.

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And what what region from Miami is your favorite? We're regional. I'm from South Miami and I'm from Sixty Seventh Avenue, Southwest Byrd Road. That's where I grew up on 67 Avenue. And that's, you know, that's my stomping ground. South Miami, a real south Miami West Miami area.

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Go Cobras. Thank you. Thank you, Uli. We appreciate your time. It was nice meeting you. Congratulations on your success. Hopefully you could parlay it into a lot more. And congratulations on changing your life. Dan believes to God. Thank you so much, man, I truly appreciate this interview. Man, you guys are amazing. I'm a huge fan of you guys to God. No, I don't like guys. No, no, no, no dates for you, brother.

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OK, but no, I'm thinking I'm thinking a second date tomorrow, and here's what I'm thinking. You come back on the show. You bring friends. So it is me and Billy, you and Pit Bull, like you're going to be on the podcast that I say pit. Hey, I need to go in the Leadbeater show again. OK, this is my moment to shine. They want you to join me to talk about our friendship, our relationship, and we talk to you again tomorrow morning.

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Same time about that.

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You know what? I'll run it by today to see what he says.

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And boy, do I maybe listen, maybe. Maybe was stupidity a little home at home for me, you know, get out of here.

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You think just pets. OK, thanks. You guys have a great time. All right.

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Thank you, man.