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Speaker 1: Is there any boys Like running with 20 deep Every.
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Speaker 2: Team All the Dagestani guys Really Comes out Chamayev If you interview him He's got 30 guys Really With him And you can't piss him off Don't want to piss Any of those guys.
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Speaker 3: Off They're ready to bang Bro they just They look scary They're intimidating You know what I mean I'd rather Have to Take You know Moses Leota Off the back fence Than having to Interview Comes out In front of his 30 guys Because they're intimidating They look like They want to kill you But Yeah, it's just they do have a good sense of humor to their credit.
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Speaker 2: He's very short-spoken, but he can have a laugh.
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Speaker 4: Islam can have a laugh.
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Speaker 2: It's just their crews are scary. Their cultures are very different. They prioritize different things. They don't drink alcohol. All they know is discipline and training and religion. So you've got to be respectful and don't piss them off.
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Speaker 4: It started off pretty rocky.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: Because I was fresh to the game.
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Speaker 4: It was when Volk was fighting Islam.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, I didn't know what the etiquette was and what my role as an interviewer was.
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Speaker 4: And I did a thing. I interviewed him. Well, I was asking him some funny questions. And I gave him a pair of budgie smugglers. Islam.
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Speaker 2: And he just didn't like that. Since then, I haven't been on the best terms with his team. But I have interviewed them since.
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Speaker 4: Interviewed.
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Speaker 2: Them in Abu Dhabi, interviewed them in LA, interviewed Islam. And then when he fought Jack Della in New York, Islam came up to me and we took a photo backstage and his team were like, hey, peace in the Middle East.
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Speaker 4: It's all good.
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Speaker 2: Like, you know, I like, I love Australia. I let Australia know I'm a big Australian guy. I'm like, you know, it was early on. I didn't mean any harm by it. And, you know, ever since then, interviewed them very professionally. They do have some of the best sense of humor in the game, these Russian guys. Islam's a funny guy.
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Speaker 1: Khabib's funny, bro.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, they're good guys.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Islam's manager, he's not the biggest fan of ours.
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Speaker 4: But when we do get the chance to interview them, we do. And, you know, we're pretty respectful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is his manager that Ali guy? Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Bold dude, yeah. He looks a bit serious. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: You got to be on his good side.
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Speaker 2: He tends to, like, ban a few media guys from interviewing his fighters.
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Speaker 4: A lot of guys, you know, he puts.
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Speaker 2: Them on On like bands. You can't interview his fighters for a while. Until he okays it.
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Speaker 4: And you know. He might okay it in a year. He might okay it in two years.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 4: You know. You got to get on his good side.
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Speaker 1: We went to the HQ in Vegas. We met a few right there. They're scary people. They learn a lot.
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Speaker 4: They got a bit of a screw loose. Some of them.
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Speaker 2: But I get them during fight week. When they're just fucking zoned in.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 2: Weight cutting. And they're worried about. Killing their opponent. So you got to be a bit on edge.
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Speaker 4: Around them. You don't want to. Cut the wrong joke. You know.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 2: If you build good rapport with them and you give them a different interview than the one that they're already doing during fight week, then, you know, they remember you and you can kind of build some good relationships with them. Like, I remember last time we were in, uh, the States, uh, McGregor's fight.
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Speaker 4: Um, Gable Stevenson was on the card. John Jones is in his corner.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And we're backstage interviewing Gable and, uh, John Jones comes up to me and my brother and we've.
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Speaker 4: Interviewed John before. And he's like, Oh, the twins, the boys.
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Speaker 2: We got a photo with him and he was like, he just remembered us because he remembered our interview or he's seen some stuff that we've done online. I think he laughed at a joke we made about Cyril Garn.
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Speaker 4: And, you know, he just says, yeah, keep doing what you're doing.
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Speaker 2: You know, just like, so if you mix it up, you can get on the good side of some fighters.
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Speaker 4: So some of them are really chill. Some of them you don't want to piss off. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: No, I think he's doing a good job with like bringing that funny aspect and that different type of interview because... most of those people that go for the media, they're saying questions or they're just trying to rage bait the UFC fighters, but you actually make funny clips. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like we react to a lot of things that are viral on the internet with the fighters surrounding the fighters. And it's not just completely analytical, same question or, you know, what have you been preparing for and how hard is the weight cut been and who's next? It's more just like, what are the Twitter fans and what are the social media fans kind of want to ask? And we try and ask it in a funny way, but. No, but we're lucky and we get to have a bit of fun with it.
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Speaker 1: And then what? This is maybe his last fight. He said, hey, if he doesn't.
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Speaker 4: Fight all day. He's fighting a Russian that just hugs everyone's legs. Doesn't do much.
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Speaker 2: He just control times. And he's got 20 wins, this Russian. His name's Mozvar Evloev.
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Speaker 4: No finishes. 20 wins, no finishes.
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Speaker 1: So he's just boring.
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Speaker 4: Exactly. So Volk is the more exciting fighter. He's a better fighter. He should win.
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Speaker 2: But Volk said, look, if I lose to this guy, it could be my last one.