Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf
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Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: That's fun. Conor O'Brien's going to host the Academy Awards.
Speaker 3: That's cool. That's also cool.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of swamp watch to get to.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do that? Well, let's hold up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, that's false. Okay, you guys, do
Speaker 4: not bashed Christianity. I love Jesus. He is my main guy.
Speaker 4: Love him so much. He sustains me and you all
Speaker 4: talk about him honestly all the time. Is such a
Speaker 4: great light and it makes me stoked and it's one
Speaker 4: of the reasons I listen to your show so much.
Speaker 2: So do not listen to that. That is crazy. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's go Jesus.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's go with that, GJ. LGJ.
Speaker 2: That's a good one to get started.
Speaker 3: LGJ. Yeah, let's go Jesus. Leave the f out what Well,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have even said that.
Speaker 2: I think your wife posted the LFG yesterday.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, well, but not about this. No, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: that'd be crazy, right. The swamp is horrible, man, make
Speaker 3: this like a reality TV show.
Speaker 1: Bado always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a
Speaker 1: swamp and in so many ways still a swamp.
Speaker 3: A batch of malwarkee, he said, drained the swamp. I said, Oh,
Speaker 3: that's so hope.
Speaker 2: You know the thing, but we've got to start with it.
Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson is urging the House Ethics Committee to
Speaker 1: not release its report on Matt Gates. Pressure is mounting
Speaker 1: on the panel to publish its findings because uh Trump
Speaker 1: has selected him to be Attorney General, and the fallout
Speaker 1: has gotten louder, and it's gotten more pointed. The woman
Speaker 1: who is at the center of this investigation into sex
Speaker 1: trafficking allegations surrounding Gates testified to the House Ethics Committee
Speaker 1: that he had sex with her when she was seventeen
Speaker 1: years old. This is according to sources familiar with the
Speaker 1: investigation who spoke with ABC News. She's now in her twenties.
Speaker 1: She sat for multiple days of testimony where she testified
Speaker 1: to the committee that Gates had sex with her when
Speaker 1: she was a minor in high school and if you
Speaker 1: missed the scathing editorial oh my gosh, one of went
Speaker 1: through Trump's biggest fans published today.
Speaker 3: Ben Dominic is his name, and wrote in The Transom,
Speaker 3: which is his website, he said, I realize we're occasionally
Speaker 3: given to hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but
Speaker 3: let me be clear. Matt Gates is a sex trafficking,
Speaker 3: drug addicted piece of s. He is abhorrent. His eyes
Speaker 3: are permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters.
Speaker 3: In person, he smells like overexposed axe body spray and
Speaker 3: stale astrogram.
Speaker 1: He talked about how ninety nine percent of Republicans on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hell have an opinion, and it's to keep him
Speaker 1: away from their mothers, their wives, their daughters, anybody that
Speaker 1: they care about. He ended it this way, after calling
Speaker 1: him a walking genital. There are pools of vomit with
Speaker 1: more to offer the earth than this std riddled testament
Speaker 1: to the failure of fallen masculinity.
Speaker 3: No punch is held now. Okay, So this is where
Speaker 3: I'm not uh, this is where I don't quite understand.
Speaker 3: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, was asked about this
Speaker 3: and was asked about this ethics report that the House
Speaker 3: Ethics Committee has been working on and apparently has completed,
Speaker 3: and like you said, had interviewed witnesses and interviewed potential
Speaker 3: victims in this case and have come up with a report.
Speaker 3: The vote today was to be was to decide whether
Speaker 3: or not they were going to release the report. Well,
Speaker 3: Matt Gates has resigned from Congress. He resigned from Congress
Speaker 3: soon after Donald Trump said that he was going to
Speaker 3: be nominated to be the next Attorney General. Because he's
Speaker 3: no longer a member of Congress. There's no reason, I
Speaker 3: mean in congressional terms, there's no reason for them to
Speaker 3: release this report. And in fact, Mike Johnson had said
Speaker 3: it would go against tradition to release a report for
Speaker 3: somebody who's no longer a member of Congress.
Speaker 2: It is not unprecedented.
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty seven, the panel released its report into
Speaker 1: former Representative William Bonner out of Tennessee after he resigned
Speaker 1: from the House. Oh we can say, Boner asked about
Speaker 1: that instance. Johnson says it reflected precedent being broken. He said,
Speaker 1: I think it would open up Pandora's box. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: it should maybe you should hold yourselves to a higher
Speaker 1: level of decorum and responsibility as a sitting member of Congress.
Speaker 3: I looked that guy up because I have never heard
Speaker 3: of William Bonner at the representative out of the Great
Speaker 3: State of Tennessee, largely uncelebrated member of Congress. His largest
Speaker 3: legislative accomplishment was a bill to recognize National Sewing Month.
Speaker 3: That's what he's known for now. The investigation was a
Speaker 3: close relationship that he apparently had with a government contractor
Speaker 3: that is very different than the allegations of underage sex
Speaker 3: trafficking and drug abuse. Not to mention all of his
Speaker 3: at the very least lack of decorum instances on the
Speaker 3: House floor, and this guy's being put up as the
Speaker 3: potential Attorney General of the United States.
Speaker 1: He openly bragged about crushing viagra and mixing it with
Speaker 1: red Bull to last throughout the night during his sexcapades.
Speaker 1: Like that was that was, like, you know, just plain
Speaker 1: conversation with Matt Gates. Small talk for him was telling
Speaker 1: people that he does this. That's disgusting.
Speaker 3: Prove to me that this guy should be Attorney General.
Speaker 2: I don't even think he should be sitting in Congress.
Speaker 2: Let alone. He's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, the kind of guy that he is belongs
Speaker 1: on one of those lucrative soft landing spot for politicians
Speaker 1: boards that we never have to hear about him again.
Speaker 3: And you know, people like this guy too.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 3: That's what I said yesterday was that I don't know
Speaker 3: if these these allegations are true, but they're believable, and
Speaker 3: that says more about his character and his personal the
Speaker 3: profile that he has put out there publicly.
Speaker 6: Hey, Gary and Chennon. One of the things I love
Speaker 6: about your show, Gary that you play the talkbacks good
Speaker 6: or bad, and no other shows do that on KFI.
Speaker 3: So you guys, keep up the good work. Don't let
Speaker 3: people get you down.
Speaker 6: Screw all the Bible thumpers up there that think they're better.
Speaker 6: And everyone uh listening to your guys show for years,
Speaker 6: and you guys do a good job of actually promoting
Speaker 6: Christianity and religions. Happy Friday, take care.
Speaker 3: I'm perfectly fine with Bible thumpers, I am. They have
Speaker 3: a good sense.
Speaker 1: Of humor, yes, And I also like to play the
Speaker 1: bad stuff. Who only wants to play the good stuff?
Speaker 3: Lame? Boring?
Speaker 7: Hey, holier than now, Christian dude, just chill, oh, kill bro,
Speaker 7: all right, I too am Christian. I take my family
Speaker 7: with church every Sunday, and I think Gary and Shannon's
Speaker 7: Christian stuff is hilarious Christian Like she says, she's not mocking,
Speaker 7: she's asking in reality. So just chill, bro, Like Mike
Speaker 7: Tyson says, you don't like.
Speaker 3: It, turn off the station.
Speaker 2: Is that what he says?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, somewhere there is a SoundBite of him. Okay, station,
Speaker 3: that's great. Back in DC, we just got word that
Speaker 3: the Trump can campaign or the Trump Transition team hows that,
Speaker 3: has named Stephen Chung as White House Communications director for
Speaker 3: the next administration. Has been a pretty constant presence at
Speaker 3: the former president's side, key member of the campaign run
Speaker 3: by Susan Wiler, Susie Wiles, and Chris Lasovita. He has
Speaker 3: relied Trump has relied on Chung, a former communications professional
Speaker 3: for the UFC, to send out statements that reflected his
Speaker 3: boss's penchant for rhetoric like a political knife. Kept a
Speaker 3: low profile. You probably wouldn't recognize him if you saw him.
Speaker 3: But Stephen Chung, raised by Chinese immigrant parents here in California,
Speaker 3: went to work for several Republican campaigns before he troined,
Speaker 3: before he joined the UFC and worked in the communications
Speaker 3: office for UFC. Also, probably the least controversial pick of
Speaker 3: all in the potential upcoming cabinet is Doug Burgham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody has a problem with good old Doug.
Speaker 1: Burgham ruptured and Achilles and was still able to stand
Speaker 1: on the debate stage for ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: He said last night, I don't know why, but even
Speaker 3: even Trump knows that he tried to, you know, sprinkle
Speaker 3: a little bit of excitement into this, because last night,
Speaker 3: at an event at Mar a Lago, Trump said, I
Speaker 3: won't tell you his name, it might be something like
Speaker 3: Bergham Burgham. He's going to be announced tomorrow for a
Speaker 3: big position. He's going to head the Department of Interior.
Speaker 3: He's going to be a fantastic good Doug. Good Doug
Speaker 3: like dog dog, but good Doug. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: tell you anything about who I'm gonna nominate good Doug
Speaker 3: for what I'm not going to tell you, but Department
Speaker 3: of Interior.
Speaker 1: It's funny because the headline of this article in Politico
Speaker 1: is Hill Republicans rejoice over Burgham pick for inferior. Has
Speaker 1: anybody ever rejoiced over Doug burg But like the boringness
Speaker 1: of Doug Burgham is so refreshing from Trump that that's
Speaker 1: what's caused for rejoicing.
Speaker 3: And of the names that have been connected to the
Speaker 3: specific appointments that they're talking about, it seems like Doug Bergham,
Speaker 3: super boring North Dakota governor, is probably by far the
Speaker 3: most qualified for his job as Department of Interior, Federal Lands, energy,
Speaker 3: mineral production, gazing, recreation, all of that sort of stuff
Speaker 3: seems like it would be right up his alley. So
Speaker 3: the other thing that's going on is with all of
Speaker 3: these cabinet picks, these potential cabinet picks, the transition team
Speaker 3: has apparently bypassed some of the traditional FBI background checks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this comes back to what we were talking about at
Speaker 3: the beginning, which is Matt Gates as the potential Attorney General.
Speaker 1: Well, they believe that the FBI system is fraudulent, right,
Speaker 1: that there are issues that slow and that this is
Speaker 1: going to impede the quick work of implementing the agenda.
Speaker 3: The question I would have is are you willing to
Speaker 3: are you willing to look at the bad things that
Speaker 3: your private company would find if you have a group
Speaker 3: of private investigators outside of the FBI that you say
Speaker 3: are doing the background checks on potential Director of National Intelligence,
Speaker 3: Tulci Gabbard, Pete Hegseeth as Defense Secretary, even Matt Gates
Speaker 3: as Attorney General, and they do come up with something
Speaker 3: that would compromise their position or would raise doubt, would
Speaker 3: you be willing to listen to that?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think Trump cares about
Speaker 1: background checks. I don't think he would have his own
Speaker 1: team investigate and vet these people.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care. He's going to pick who he wants
Speaker 2: to pick.
Speaker 3: He's just doing it up pass be damn for loyalty, right?
Speaker 1: Would you like your Jeopardy question weather for twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 1: According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory, hail with a
Speaker 1: diameter of four and a half inches is comparable in
Speaker 1: size to this.
Speaker 3: Fruit four and a half inches. Yeah, a grapefruit?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would say softball sized hail.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not what the Severe Storms Laboratory says. They
Speaker 1: compare it to a grapefruit.
Speaker 3: That's very that's a big that's assuming that people know
Speaker 3: what grapefruits.
Speaker 1: Are that's true. It's probably quite antiquated. Do you think
Speaker 1: more people know what a softball is?
Speaker 3: It's probably a real ding dog?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: You much of baseball? Ways?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, do you know how much a baseball ways? No,
Speaker 1: it's football season. Nobody cares how much of a baseball?
Speaker 2: Ways? How many ounces?
Speaker 3: Yes? Ounces?
Speaker 2: Six ounces?
Speaker 3: I think it's between five and a half and six
Speaker 3: and a half.
Speaker 2: So I nailed it.
Speaker 1: You said five regulation baseball weighs between five and five
Speaker 1: point two five ounces.
Speaker 3: Boom, nailed it. Boom. Okay, winter coming up?
Speaker 1: Speaking of sports, there was like six different balls jokes
Speaker 1: that I just ran through in my head and I
Speaker 1: did not do any of them.
Speaker 2: And I would like, you're pointing to our Jesus.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: I think we're onto something here.
Speaker 1: Just having him in the room is kind of tidying
Speaker 1: things up inside my head.
Speaker 2: I mean, not a complete overhaul.
Speaker 3: Not crazy, right, I mean, he's not going to get
Speaker 3: rid of He's doing some dusting. He's not going to
Speaker 3: get rid of all of your sin some light dusting.
Speaker 3: You're human, after all, so were you.
Speaker 2: So was Jesus.
Speaker 3: But Jesus was also God, son of God. Okay, we
Speaker 3: need to go back through this part. God took human form, that's.
Speaker 1: His See this, I think this is where we have
Speaker 1: differences in Catholic versus Christian.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, but there's also you also have to
Speaker 3: take that leap of faith, which is there are some
Speaker 3: things I can't explain.
Speaker 1: But God sent his only son down to die for
Speaker 1: our sins, which makes it even that much of a
Speaker 1: better story.
Speaker 2: The Catholics tell a pretty good story.
Speaker 3: But what if it was what it means? It's that
Speaker 3: the stay it's the same story. I mean, you're just
Speaker 3: the background.
Speaker 2: Still have to say, we're not going to have this
Speaker 2: fight on a Friday, do.
Speaker 3: You want to bet? Certainly not eating meat today.
Speaker 2: You're just pissed because I knew in a.
Speaker 3: Baseball way, we're trying to get a hold of rich
Speaker 3: and we may we may bump him to the next
Speaker 3: segment just in case.
Speaker 1: But Tropical Storm Sarah expected to weekend before it gets
Speaker 1: to Florida next week. It's slowing down, it's dealing in
Speaker 1: Honduras right now, flooding mud slides there. Gonna head over
Speaker 1: to Belize over the weekend. But they say that Sarah's
Speaker 1: interaction with a cold front along with land will slow
Speaker 1: it down, so it's not going to be a huge deal.
Speaker 1: It's going to bring a lot of rain to Florida,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't wreak havoc.
Speaker 3: Biden administration officials are working against the clock. They're trying
Speaker 3: to dole out billions of dollars in grants and taking
Speaker 3: other steps to try to preserve at least some of
Speaker 3: Biden's legacy before Donald Trump takes office again in January.
Speaker 3: In fact, one of those cabinet members, Transportation Secretary Pete Boodaget,
Speaker 3: says it's the administration's responsibility to spend the funds that
Speaker 3: Congress has authorized for us. His statement comes as Trump
Speaker 3: has pledged to rescind unspent funds in Biden's landmark climate
Speaker 3: and healthcare law and stop some of the clean energy
Speaker 3: development projects that are on the books already.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it when we talk about our wellness
Speaker 1: or do you want to just do that now?
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll make sure you get rich in the next segment.
Speaker 2: I just want to throw this in there.
Speaker 1: The nomination of RFK Junior to lead the Department of
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services is getting backing from across the
Speaker 1: aisle which is sometimes something it was a little bit odd. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polus praised this pick, saying Kennedy
Speaker 1: will face strong special interest opposition, but that he wants
Speaker 1: to partner with Kennedy to truly make America healthy again.
Speaker 1: That we are being crushed. This was from Trump by
Speaker 1: the industrial food complex and drug companies who engage in deception, misinformation,
Speaker 1: and disinformation about public health. This is this is true.
Speaker 1: Former Vice President Pence is calling on senators to reject Kennedy.
Speaker 1: He pointed to his position on abortion, saying that it's
Speaker 1: an abrupt departure from the pro life record of our administration.
Speaker 1: Should be deeply concerning. What the hell this is a
Speaker 1: position on abortion? Mean anything in that regard. It sounds
Speaker 1: like Pence is lining his pocket somewhere.
Speaker 3: What is he doing lately?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, after he it's a aborted sorry to use
Speaker 3: that word in this term, but the aborted presidential campaign
Speaker 3: that he had. I haven't seen what he's I don't
Speaker 3: know where he does. He used to have a talk show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so all right, So this new study published in the
Speaker 3: Lancet says that nearly three quarters of US adults are
Speaker 3: overweight or obese. That compares to nineteen ninety when it
Speaker 3: was just over half of adults who were overweight or obese,
Speaker 3: and shows how many more people are becoming overweight or
Speaker 3: obese at younger ages than in the past. And again,
Speaker 3: I know that RFK Junior brings with him some baggage,
Speaker 3: but this is one of the massive issues that he
Speaker 3: talks about. This is where he would be at the
Speaker 3: forefront when it comes to making it because it's not
Speaker 3: only a health issue. It's not only that we're unhealthy
Speaker 3: and that's bad for us as a as a culture.
Speaker 1: It's physical health, it's mental health, it's the money, it's
Speaker 1: the healthcare system.
Speaker 3: It's financial it's a national security issue. If you can't
Speaker 3: recruit soldiers, an airman and Space Force guardian, we are
Speaker 3: in trouble Space Force. The study ARCT documented the increases
Speaker 3: in the rates of overweight and obesity across ages, particularly
Speaker 3: alarmed at the steep rise among children children, and.
Speaker 2: That's the thing that makes me very sad.
Speaker 3: Without aggressive intervention, Without aggressive intervention, the number of overweight
Speaker 3: and obese people will continue to go up, and that
Speaker 3: by twenty fifty we'll see two hundred and sixty million
Speaker 3: people who are considered obese.
Speaker 1: They're saying, we are at a crisis point in this
Speaker 1: regard and it's time to turn the tide. Whether it
Speaker 1: means cracking down on the tobacco industry that pivoted into
Speaker 1: processed foods, whether it's an advertising situation of maybe not
Speaker 1: advertising six value meals for one in one sitting, or
Speaker 1: in this weird thing where we're just embracing and celebrating.
Speaker 3: It well, and then we're trying to medicate our way
Speaker 3: out of it as opposed to dealing with those core
Speaker 3: issues at the beginning of it. We're trying to medicate
Speaker 3: our way out of it. We've seen that with these
Speaker 3: GLP ones, right, and we've talked a lot about ozempic
Speaker 3: and Wegovi and all those. There is a forty one
Speaker 3: year old guy who was initially thrilled at the weight
Speaker 3: loss success that he had with weygov but he had
Speaker 3: to quit in April of twenty two because he couldn't
Speaker 3: afford it. She sorry couldn't afford it, and she ended
Speaker 3: up not only regaining the weight that she had lost,
Speaker 3: but actually got heavier than when she started. That's how
Speaker 3: weight loss works for the most part.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, because your body is fighting against you, you drop
Speaker 1: a ton of weight. Keeping it off is nearly impossible
Speaker 1: just because of your body chemistry.
Speaker 3: And listen, you can be on one of these drugs,
Speaker 3: but you've got to change habits. That's the only thing
Speaker 3: that's going to make the long term change is that
Speaker 3: you've got it.
Speaker 1: Where does that start? It starts in your head, right,
Speaker 1: starts in I don't know. It's a whole lifestyle change.
Speaker 1: I would assume. I know it's easy for me to
Speaker 1: say that I have the appetite of a gnat, but
Speaker 1: you know, we all have different biologies and different systems.
Speaker 1: But we've gotten really far off course when it comes
Speaker 1: to celebrating unhealthyness right and unhealthy practices.
Speaker 3: And then looking at people who do try to do
Speaker 3: things that are relatively healthy and point them out of.
Speaker 2: That freak shaming them.
Speaker 3: Why do you eat? Why do you drink?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: Is that all you're going to eat?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I cannot believe that this may was This
Speaker 3: was the last time we talked to Rich Murata was
Speaker 3: seven years ago. I know when the Mayweather McGregor fight, right, Rich.
Speaker 1: Murata, course, our KFI longtime family member, always a family member.
Speaker 1: Here a sports canter, founder of the Nevada Boxing Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame.
Speaker 3: And wait a minute, before we even get that far,
Speaker 3: don't forget Southern California Sportscasters Hall of Fame the California
Speaker 3: Boxing Hall of Fame. He's in inductees to both of those,
Speaker 3: Like you said, started the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: He has been honored with four Local Emmy Awards, ten
Speaker 3: Golden Mics, and those two Hall of Fames.
Speaker 2: I was going to go through that whole list.
Speaker 1: I'd take all the time up for the love of God,
Speaker 1: Rich good to hear you again. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of cool. Mike Tyson, isn't the villain in this one?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Isn't that funny? Yeah? Jake Paul is actually and
Speaker 5: he's embracing this villain role. And you know, he's a
Speaker 5: hell of a promoter. You know, as far as the
Speaker 5: event is concerned itself, and it's hard to get a
Speaker 5: handle on it or quantify it in some way, we
Speaker 5: just haven't seen anything like it. A thirty one year
Speaker 5: age difference between these guys. So you know a lot
Speaker 5: of people are wondering and I'm actually in the last
Speaker 5: half hour, I've gotten two tech one from the woman
Speaker 5: who used to produce our show in the morning on
Speaker 5: bill Handle, producer Jennifer, who lives up in Seattle. Haven't
Speaker 5: heard from her for a while. She's texted me asking
Speaker 5: about this fight. My daughter ten minutes ago literally texted me, Dad,
Speaker 5: is this just a stupid thing? Or is this for real?
Speaker 5: So you know, is it a novelty act? Is it
Speaker 5: the circus, the theater of the bizarre? I guess it's
Speaker 5: actually all of them. Have you seen this guy's going
Speaker 5: to be though? It is one of the most watched
Speaker 5: TV streams ever.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's about, right, It's about the pageantry
Speaker 1: of it all.
Speaker 2: It's about the splash. It's going to make the old guard.
Speaker 1: Versus the YouTuber who chokes to train the monster into
Speaker 1: him as opposed as Mike Tyson called himself the natural
Speaker 1: born killer.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what Paul is not a pretty incredible thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, as you mentioned, he was a YouTuber and
Speaker 5: influencer until a few years ago, I didn't even know
Speaker 5: what that was. Well, but he took that platform and
Speaker 5: decided to give boxing a go, and it has really
Speaker 5: worked for him. I mean, he fought some other YouTuber
Speaker 5: and then the weird menagerie of opponents, you know, MMA guys,
Speaker 5: he fought a former NBA player, and then he actually
Speaker 5: started to take boxing pretty seriously and he has worked
Speaker 5: on it and he has gotten better. I mean, I
Speaker 5: really was very critical and just thought the whole thing
Speaker 5: was ridiculous at the start, but he kind of made
Speaker 5: himself into what looks like a journeyman fighter. And a
Speaker 5: journeyman fighter, might you know who's in the prime of
Speaker 5: life at twenty seven might be able to beat him?
Speaker 5: Mike Tyson tonight. That's the mystery of it.
Speaker 3: Talk about some of the details of the fight itself
Speaker 3: that they've agreed to, which is the lighter gloves, the
Speaker 3: shorter eight rounds, that sort of thing. What kind of
Speaker 3: impact would that have on what we see tonight?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it will be. You know, most fights
Speaker 5: that are considered big fights are ten or twelve rounds, right,
Speaker 5: twelve rounds of the championship distance, This one will be
Speaker 5: only eight rounds and the rounds will be only two
Speaker 5: minutes in duration as opposed to a normal three minutes. Now,
Speaker 5: the thing that might actually work to the detriment of
Speaker 5: Tyson tonight, because I suspect you can still no matter what,
Speaker 5: he's still as powerful. And if he hits a guy,
Speaker 5: you know, a guy's gonna feel it and feel it big.
Speaker 5: But they are wearing fourteen ounce gloves tonight. Now, these
Speaker 5: are not lighter gloves, Gary, These are heavier gloves. These
Speaker 5: are like what you use in sparring in the gym.
Speaker 5: They're much more padded. So they normally wear heavyweights in
Speaker 5: this era wear ten ounce gloves even and before that,
Speaker 5: if you go back to you know, twenty thirty years,
Speaker 5: they were wearing eight ounce gloves as heavyweights. They're going
Speaker 5: to be wearing fourteen ounces, which is going to take
Speaker 5: some of the thing out of these punches tonight. But
Speaker 5: everybody's pretty excited about it. I'm going to watch I've
Speaker 5: never watched the Jake Paul fight live. I've seen them,
Speaker 5: you know, I've seen the highlights of them, seen them light.
Speaker 5: I never had any interest really in watching him. You know,
Speaker 5: Tyson is the mystery. He's fifty eight years oh, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just ridiculous, but you know, he has worked himself
Speaker 5: into what appears to be reasonable shape. The thing that
Speaker 5: I that I would really you know, warn people and
Speaker 5: advise people on is this is not Mike Tyson from
Speaker 5: thirty years ago. You know, this is a guy Mike
Speaker 5: Tyson twenty years ago, at the very end of his career,
Speaker 5: was knocked out in his last two fights by real
Speaker 5: mediocre opposition, a guy named Danny Williams and a guy
Speaker 5: named Kevin McBride who has not been heard from before
Speaker 5: or since then, you know, and was knocked out legitimately
Speaker 5: in both of those fights. And those were journeymen, So
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's hard to expect too much of Mike,
Speaker 5: although I will tell you two minutes or not those
Speaker 5: that first round or two is going to be pretty brilliant.
Speaker 5: And I think that's what everyone's excited about because Tyson
Speaker 5: will be fresh at that point. He has worked himself
Speaker 5: into very good shape and he's going to come out
Speaker 5: while he's still, you know, is fresh in the fight,
Speaker 5: which I don't think is going to be very long.
Speaker 2: And he hasn't had sex.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had sex for like months, and he used
Speaker 1: to have sex before every fight because he would tell
Speaker 1: his chauffeur, if I don't get laid, I'm going to
Speaker 1: kill this guy and he's upstate times.
Speaker 5: A day, at least three times a day, at least
Speaker 5: in Mike's case, he is one of the most had
Speaker 5: one of the most prodigious appetites in that department of
Speaker 5: everyone probably in sports history.
Speaker 1: What is your idea of the best fight ever? Is
Speaker 1: it Muhammad Ali Joe Fraser? Do you have a personal favorite?
Speaker 5: Well, I have a personal favorite. I think the best
Speaker 5: fight ever of all time. And of course it doesn't
Speaker 5: rank in terms of name recognition with the with Ali
Speaker 5: and Fraser or Ali Informant, et cetera. But with a
Speaker 5: fight with Diego Corrals and and Jose Luis Castillo at
Speaker 5: Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. It was just ten rounds
Speaker 5: of unbelievable brutality. I don't think we'll see unbelievable brutality tonight,
Speaker 5: but that that is my I believe the greatest fight
Speaker 5: of all time. But you know, this fight doesn't rank
Speaker 5: in the Ali Frasier kind of It doesn't even rank
Speaker 5: as a good HBO main event of a few years ago.
Speaker 5: But it's just a mystery. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: You were here.
Speaker 1: You were here when that fight happened the Korea. You
Speaker 1: were here when that fight happened the Koreo fight.
Speaker 5: The Diego Corrals and Jose Luis Castillo fight. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: that was in That was in May of twenty oh five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somewhere in my head and the files that are
Speaker 1: covered in dust, I remember you talking about that fight.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because I did the actually did the international
Speaker 5: telecaster in that okay, and it actually I can I
Speaker 5: can actually remember saying in the worth the fifth round
Speaker 5: that it was actually getting hard to watch it because
Speaker 5: it was so it was so brutal. And then of
Speaker 5: course the last round it set it completely apart from
Speaker 5: all the others because Diego Corrals was knocked down twice,
Speaker 5: a great lightweight camp and he was knocked down twice,
Speaker 5: and then somehow summoned up the energy to you know,
Speaker 5: to knock out Castillo after that had happened, all of
Speaker 5: that happening in one round. But that was unbelievable. But
Speaker 5: it did not have what I would call the mainstream
Speaker 5: interest that this event tonight has for all kinds of reasons.
Speaker 5: Look at Jake Paul is putting a lot of new
Speaker 5: eyes on boxing, and boxing is a niche sport and
Speaker 5: it is becoming niche heer all the time. And this
Speaker 5: is probably the nichiest niche of all you know, of
Speaker 5: all of it. But I'm telling you there is massive
Speaker 5: interest in it. It's you're talking about it. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's on regular newscast, it's you know, and a lot
Speaker 5: of people resisted, of course, but there's gonna be a
Speaker 5: lot of eyes on this one tonight, Rich Marata.
Speaker 3: It is a blessing to talk to you every time.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh listen, I'm glad to talk to you, guys.
Speaker 5: I've been listening the last hour. You know you're pretty
Speaker 5: good listening on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That's the hell of assure you, guys.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Rich Murda, Hall of Famer, Rich Murda, thank you for
Speaker 3: your time, buddy.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, thanks for having me on. Love to see you.
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