Crime in Sports - #410 - The Corpse Was Driving - Ricco "Suave" Rodriguez

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

This week, we find out about a former UFC heavyweight champion, who let it all go downhill. He gained too much weight, did too much cocaine, and got a little full of himself. This lands him on the "Celebrity Rehab" show, but those lessons don't seem to stick. He readily admits to one of the most repulsive, uncaring things we've ever heard anyone do. Plus, he seems to like to drink, before driving, and before fighting cab drivers!Learn how to fight, so you can stop having to fight, all the time, hit the pinnacle of your profession, right before you throw it all away, and pull what you think is a corpse into the driver's seat, to save you from a DUI with Ricco "Suave" Rodriguez!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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going to try. He's got hopes and dreams everybody and you help him fulfill them and that's for that. We thank you Oh, yeah, that said let's get to it Asshole the week here. Okay. This is an MMA guy We're gonna talk about here and he was big in UFC for a minute And during the 2000s I'm sure you do a Rico Rodriguez. Do you know who this guy is? I don't know man I think he was UFC heavyweight champ for a minute there. Really?

Yeah, well he was. Rico Rodriguez? Yeah, I think, I read it, he was. What year? We'll talk about it here, but in the 2000s. His nickname is Rico, what do you think it is, Jimmy? Chico? No, Rico Suave Rodriguez.

Oh, yeah. Showing the fact that he was born August 19th, 1977 by using that as a reference of this is going to be my name. He's very aware of the song. Yeah. Anybody by 2008 who wasn't his age was like, what does that mean? I don't get it. What is that? Shampoo?

Yeah. This shit's bad. Is that a shampoo? What is that? Suave? Ohave they meant Rico suave Rico suave What does he shop in the bargain pin shampoo? Nobody would buy Rico suave a shampoo. It makes your hair look greasy. Yay. That's what you want Gives it a nice greasy sheen to it looks great. Greasy hair, but dry scalp Wow The driest scalp with the greasiest of hair

Terrific oh man Rico's law Rico's suave Rico's strawberry suave that's what he is Gotta get the sense, you know Oh, it's tired it's like two dollars a bottle it's terrible I first fucking shampoo. What a, oh it's terrible, it's like two dollars a bottle. It's terrible. So bad.

I bet if you walked around half the people that are bald, you go, what kind of shampoo you use? Yeah, I blend that shit. Most of them are gonna say, fucking suave, and you're gonna go, yep, that's about right, I think. That and fucking bar soap, that's what I use. That's what happened to Jimmy. Yeah.

You should have seen his hair. You should have seen it, guys. It was glorious, it was spectacular. Maybe they should have seen his hair. You should have seen it, guys. It was glorious. It was spectacular. Maybe they should have tested this shit on an animal before. Thanks a lot, PETA. Here we go. Now I'm bald.

Peach-scented suave and it's all over with. And Pert Plus. Oh, God, Pert Plus. Jesus. I think they advertised like, you know, it's either this or, you know, what's that, or turpentine, that's it, these are your options. So we put some turpentine in Pert Plus. It's bad shit.

Bad shit. So he's from San Jose, Rico Suave here. Grows up to be a pretty big guy, 6'2", 245. He's a heavyweight fighter. Yeah, we'll talk about this, man. He's had quite the interesting life. Lot of fights, too. And he does other things.

He does boxing, and he does some bare metal shit. What? Yeah, all sorts of shit. Apparently he represented the United States in the ADCC World Championship, which I don't know what the fuck that is. ADCC? The ADCC World Championship.

He represented the US in men's submission grappling. Americans with disabilities closed captions? Closed captions, yeah. You have a limp and you can't hear, that's what it is. It's for deaf people with bad legs. Yeah, that's how he wrestled, huh? That's what he's doing. Which, shock, not surprising,

because he's able-bodied. He won the gold in 1998 doing that. I think he shocked everybody that was wrestling. They didn't know. They were like, holy shit, this guy, wow. We're wrestling? Shocking, yeah. He's shouting, you can speak and hear,

everyone's like, what's going on? These are the closed captioned awards here. So he was born and grew up in San Jose before it was like what it is today. Today it's just fuckin' Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley, yeah. It's insane expensive. When he was there it was fuckin' cheap, right?

Yeah, it was probably just like any other smaller city in Northern California. I'm sure a lot of them were like that. Back then you could afford to live in San Francisco for Christ's sake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, in 1999 he was in those games again and he had the bronze and then in 2000 the silver.

So he went downhill there. And in the Pan-American Championship he also won a gold medal in 1998. So I don't know, he's competing, I don't know what these games are, but he's competing in them. I know these Pan-American games. He's 20 and doing fine.

He's doing great. From Bin Verified, now this is one of those sites that you can do background checks on people here. We found here that he's got several aliases, like legal aliases that he might have been... Really? Yeah, that's what they'll do. They'll find things that he's been arrested under or he's given as names. One is Rico Andrijewski.

That's the last name he used? That's the last name, A-N-D-R-Z-E-J-E-W-S-K-I. Who did he know with that name? Andrzejewski, Andrzejewski. I have no idea, but Rico is not the first name you think of with that last name. Usually, he's maybe giving himself a different first name. How about Rick?

Rico Nandrzejewski, as name. Usually he's maybe giving himself a different first name. How about Rick? Rico Nandrzejewski as well. Same spelling except with an N in front. And then Rico Angel Rodriguez, which is probably more believable if your name is Rico. He'll end up having a daughter and son later on as we'll talk about when one of them is taken away from him by the state. We'll talk about him and his girlfriend or whatever. So he's born in San Jose. Didn't grow up in San Jose, though. No? He grew up in Jersey City.

Why? Yes, I don't know. His parents moved him out there. He didn't have much say in it. I guess this was like when he was a baby, they moved there. So he ended up, after that, he was there for his elementary school years and then he moved to the projects in Patterson, New Jersey. So it got worse and worse for this San Jose Jersey City Patterson projects. That's the

same as winning a gold, a bronze and a silver or gold, a silver and bronze. It's the same bucket thing. He went down the hill there. So he moves there. He is half Puerto Rican, half Mexican. OK, so he's mixing the two coasts together, is what he's doing, mixing the flavor of the two coasts here. He grew up in an Italian neighborhood, though. And yeah, so these Italian neighborhoods, they're very insular.

And it's not like, oh, he's a Puerto Rican That's part of it. But it's also if he was always Irish or oh, he's not Italian. That's just that what it is That's what it is. Yeah, it's very they're very insular here So he was had to fight a lot when he was a kid Yeah, because you know, it's that's what Italian neighborhoods were in the fucking 80s when you had to fight so he had to fight a lot and we would see Joe Pepitone episode a further back time but Similar throw punch. Yeah, he is sexually molested when he's 9 to 10 years old So damn it, which doesn't help a lot and that'll make it that'll make you angry That has nothing to do with this stupid bullshit later on though. No, no, no, it's not it's not anything that stems from that really

It's just he's an arrogant asshole is what we know Do we know was the person caught or did did he just deal with it not caught but they know who it is It's a little tights. I think it's one of those that nobody said anything about it at the time So he enrolled in wrestling To have something to do here and he ends up going to Tom's River North High School, which we did a Tom's River, New Jersey small town murder episode recently. As we know all about that place. And he, you know, did that in his freshman year. His family ended up moving to Staten Island and he kept wrestling there as well

for Tottenville High School. He said, quote, I was from Patterson and I graduated high school from Staten Island, New York. The East Coast just has a very different style than the West Coast. All my boys are from the West Coast and I love them, but East Coast, everybody walks around with a chip on their shoulder. And if you're from the neighborhood, you end up scrapping a little bit more. As a Puerto Rican living in an Italian neighborhood, I just had a lot to deal with whether I was in or out of school. From fighting on the street, I eventually turned that over into martial arts." So he becomes a very good high school wrestler apparently.

Really? Yeah. He was very highly decorated. One of the most highly decorated in the state of New York high school wrestler. He couldn't afford to go to college, but he wanted to be a fighter anyway, so, you know. Yeah, there's no, there's no class for that, right? No, well why put a bunch of knowledge in your head when it's just gonna get punched out anyway? Seems like a waste of money, right?

Yeah. Yeah, it's a waste of money. So he decided to move to the West Coast where there was more fighting stuff happening here. So he gets a job at Gold's Gym in Redondo Beach when he moves to California. And he meets a guy named Eric Paulson who led him into Jiu Jitsu. So kind of got him into that. That's where this whole thing comes from here. I guess he's 1997, he became the second American to win the CBJJ now that's which is now the IBJJF

you know obviously we all knew that but I figured I would you know just say it IBJJ the IBJJ uh world championship in the blue belt division which is an open weight category so he became only the second American to do that and that was pretty really pretty soon after starting. So they were like oh shit this guy's pretty fucking good here. So I guess Brazilian people that do it. I don't know. Yeah. Yes. We have probably more less Americans at that time in the late 90s. This wasn't a yes. Wasn't a big thing. Jiu-Jitsu wasn't a big Jiu-Jitsu now. And I don't really mean any insult to it because it's a great way to do whatever but it's it's It is now what karate was in the 70s

Yeah, yeah, it's the big trend. Yeah, and taking a course in it Everybody's done three classes and thinks they know how to do it when they don't Look in the 70s how many guys were like, I know karate and they took three fucking lessons They knew his stance and it's the same thing with this I know jujitsu and then they go to leg dive you and someone punches them 30 times in the back of the fucking skull and leaves them drooling on a fucking floor because they don't actually know how to do it because they just took three lessons rather than you know did it a lot. If you know how to do it it's fucking you know really effective obviously but if you

are if you so I think there's a lot of that going on right now. There's a lot of people who do know what they're doing and they're doing it, but there's also a lot of people who are posers, I think, and just like karate people in the 70s. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, I mean, I do it a lot, and I mean, I don't do it a lot, I do it once a week, and I do it for the cardio and the technique

and trying to fix my fat fucking core because I'll fall over. I stand, try to stand on your leg for 30 seconds. You'll fall over. It's crazy how fast that disappears in your age. And that's a test to see if you're drunk on the side of the road. So that tells you a lot right there.

They're just baiting to see you say, I can't do this sober. That's all they're trying to do. Man, I couldn't do this if I was so, I mean, shit. Oh, fuck. All right. Fine. You got me. Yeah. All right. Let's go. Hands behind my back. I get it. I get it. Yeah. I know. I know. But now there's definitely a lot of people who just like the outfits and like, you know, in the seventies, a lot of people going, I'm into karate. You know what I mean? And all that kind of. That's the difference. The guy that says karate or karate.

Exactly. And there's a good group of that now with this. Those guys are like, I just love the battle of Jiu Jitsu. Shut the fuck up. No, you don't. Let me see your ears. No, you don't, stupid. Your ears look great.

Shut up. I can see every crevice in your ear. Yeah. I can tell real easy if you're a liar or not. Your ear doesn't look like a butthole. You're a poser. Yeah, I can see every crevice in your ear. Yeah. I can tell real easy if you're a liar or not. Your ear doesn't look like a butthole. You're wrong. Exactly. You're lying to me. Stop lying, you fucking poser. Get butthole ears and then we'll talk.

Then we'll talk. Yeah. If your ears look like I could just put my hand on it and twist them off and throw them away. If they look like a Mr. Potato headpiece. Then we'll talk. It looks like there's a bunch of air trying to escape really fast. Yeah. And they can't get out. Then we'll have a chit chat.

So the next year, 98, he returned to the competition, losing in the semi-finals of his weight class and the open weight to a purple belt, I guess. But 1998, I guess they had an ultra heavy weight division, so he also competed in that, because he had to do the open one before. So he became the first 99 kilogram plus champion of the Abu Dhabi based games here. That's like 5,000 pounds. It's a lot. A kilo is 2.2 pounds. I know that from drugs.

Almost 200 pound guy. Yeah. It would be 200 pounds, a little over 200. Plus. Plus. So he's 245 or whatever. I'm sure he was less at that point. Jesus.

So at this point, they saw that. MMA promoters saw that, and this is a very burgeoning industry at this point in time. In 94, I think, or 95, UFC was sold for a very small amount of money. It was a very small amount, like not $100 million even or something. It was $4 million or some crazy shit like that, $8 million or something. I watched it on pay-per-view back then, and if I watched it, it was cheap. It had to be cheap. It was not expensive. It wasn't $49.95 back then. No I watched it, it was cheap. It had to be cheap. It was not expensive.

It wasn't 49.95 back then. No, god no. This is like, hey, for 10 bucks we can see guys beat the shit out of each other, all right. Sounds good. For 10 bucks we can watch plumbers hit each other. They might use pipe wrenches, I don't know. Let's see if the fat guy can beat the guy

who never stops kicking all the time. Let's see if that works. Fat guy versus kicking guy, see if that happens. That's what it was back then. Yeah, and if I watched it, then it was cheap. I assure you that. So March 25th, 1999 is his first, I guess, pro fight here at EC, which is Extreme Cage. That's it, just Extreme Cage. In fact, when you're in a cage, that sounds good. And it's 1999, so it's extreme. You gotcha.

Everything's extreme. I can't believe the E was in there. I can't believe it wasn't XC. It's not even, yeah, it's actually extreme. With the actual spelling out, not any weird shortening or anything. Where he fights Scott Adams and beats him. Scott Adams is one and O in his career.

And eight, or one and O coming in, eight and one in his career. And eight, or one and O coming in, eight and one in his career. And his one loss is to Rico here, who beats him by a decision in all three rounds. Next up is Rocky Battastini is his name. He is, let me show you him. He's a real Adonis, this guy. No shit.

Oh wow, look at those saggy titty. He's just a saggy-titted blonde man, which is obviously a beach blonde. Spilling out of those American flag pants. Yeah, this is what he's got Rocky like from Rocky II with the American flag and all that kind of shit. That's what he's got going on. It's got spilling out over it on either side.

And that's what MMA was back then. You know what I mean? Right. That's this guy. That's an in-shape fella. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at him. He you know what I mean? Right. That's this guy. That's an in-shape fella. Oh yeah, he's, oh look at him, he looks like he's ready for this. He's been training.

He's 2-0, for his career he'll be 8-22. Jesus Christ. Took a lot of beatings this guy here. Sure did. This is the same night, by the way, he fights the first guy and the second guy. So Rocky versus Rico, here it is. And it's a submission at the end of the first guy and the second guy. So Rocky versus Rico, here it is. And it's a submission at the end of the first round

for Rico, now he's 2-0. How about that? So that gets to July 10th, 99, where he fights Steve Shaw at Rage in the Cage 6. Okay. That rhymes, now we're doing something. Rage in the Cage is a big fucking deal. That was a big enterprise.

We've done tons of MMA guys who've done Rage in the Cage is a big fucking deal. That was a big enterprise. We've done tons of MMA guys who've done Rage in the Cage. He's fighting Steve Shaw making his MMA debut, and it will be his debut and his swan song, as this is his only fight, and he loses it to Rico. Oh no. A minute and 34 seconds by submission. It's got to sting. That's, I would say.

He had a career of a minute and 34 seconds. Either that or rage in the cage wanted to introduce this Rico Rodriguez. So they put him up against some guy they found in the parking lot and were like, want to make 50 bucks? Come here. The guy that hung the lights tonight, that guy called your mother a whore and he runs in the ring to fight him. And then Rico submits him with an iron bar. I know the fights tonight, but we couldn't find anybody. You couldn't find anybody. There is a homeless man outside. You finish hanging that white and throw on

some shorts. There's a guy that says will work for food outside. We can put that to the test. What do you say? See how hard it will work. Yeah, see how hard it will really work here. So he's 3 and 0 Rico now. Next up, September 7th, 1999, he fights Bobby the Truth Hoffman. The truth, baby, not the lie. He's the truth. 8-1 he is coming into this fight. He'll end up being a 36-10-1 career fighter. Not bad.

Which is a damn good record. That's real good. This fight, this is at Super Brawl 13, which used to be a WCW pay-per-view Super Brawl. They were still in business. How do you just take... WCW is still in business in 99? That's Super Brawl is their thing. You can't just take that. That's crazy.

Well, maybe they got sued and that's why they don't, you've never heard of it again. Impossible. And they do, it's like SB 13, which looks like Super Bowl too. Super Bowl 13. You're really trying to, this is not good. You're toeing the line, motherfucker, of confusion. This fight only lasts three minutes and 13 seconds where Bobby Hoffman knocks out Rico with punches.

Oh. So, three and one for Rico here. November 23rd, 99. Sam Adkins, who his nickname is, The Experience. Yeah, he's going to make it a real romantic night. It'll be an experience. Yeah. First, he's going make it a real romantic night. It'll be an experience. First, he's gonna beat you up.

Then he's gonna gently tap a wet sponge on your head to make it feel better while he caresses the other side of your face with his hand. And then there'll be berries and soft cheese. This is a whole experience. It's gonna be nice. Big time strawberries, you know that. A roaring fire, a bearskin rug. We all see it happening before our eyes very romantic

So this is he's a five and eight fighter seven twenty and two in his career So not a great fighter here Sam. This is at Armageddon to Sam loses to Rico by submission with a forearm choke in the first round So he's doing well here four and one for Rico February 5th, 2000, he fights Travis Fulton, who's known as the Iron Man, which makes sense when you see his career record. Well, I'm sure Iron Stewart has some problems with that. Travis Fult, the Iron Man Fulton here.

Ivan Stewart. Ivan's not Iron, did I call him Iron Stewart? Yeah, I was like, who's Iron Stewart, who's that? Ivan Stewart, he's the fuckin' truck driver. I don don't know that is either. You don't remember Ivan's on I think it was super regular Nintendo. I've Ivan Stewart Racing where it was just the trucks that went around the corners turns, but the yeah, the steering was super Yeah, they're all wobbly. Yeah, it go left, but they went you know, I mean, but it was going down So then the truck went right when you turned left. You had to like drift yeah it was like yeah yeah I remember that. And you always lost. Well this makes more sense why this guy's the Iron

Man. He comes into this fight 72 21 and 6. Oh. For his career he will be 255, 54 and 10. That is so many. Spence fights over 300 MMA fights. Holy shit. Holy shit. Do you think he can remember his address at this point or what? I can't believe, I bet nobody knows that man. No, he's just fighting, I don't know if it's in

parking lots or what. He did all of that for nothing. Wow, this is a KOTC2 Desert Storm. And he beats Travis Fulton, Rico does. Even with all that experience, he beats him with a submission with an arm bar at 449. Next up, he says, I'm going to fight somebody else. I fought this guy, fought the Iron Man. Now I need to fight Big Daddy.

So he fights Gary Big Daddy Goodridge. Which that's a bad nickname because if you're Gary Goodridge, your middle name should be alliterative. It should also be a G. Gary the guillotine Goodridge or Gary the something like that. You know what I mean? Is it Good Ridge or Good Ridge? Good Ridge. R-I-G-G-E. Yeah. Good Ridge. Good Ridge. R-I-G-G-E. Yeah, yeah. It's gotta be a literative man.

So he's 10 and 10, Big Daddy. Sure. 23 and 22 for his whole career. So not that much of a Big Daddy. And Rico beats him by decision here. And so he's six and one. August 27th, 2000. Oh God.

Takayuki Okada I've heard of him. I believe well his nickname. I doubt you have his nickname is giant. Oh Chaya, which I don't know what that means Giant giant cock and balls I believe is what that translates to large nuts right in the oh Chayda it's OCHIAI relates to large nutsack. Kick me right in the Ochida. Oof, it's O-C-H-I-A-I. Ochia. I don't know what that is. Ochia, I don't know.

He's 0-1 coming into this fight and 3-3-2 for his career, which is why I said I don't think you've ever heard of him because he didn't do much. No, never. Yeah, this is Pride 10, Return of the Warriors as the event here. And he beats, Rico wins in the first round with a submission smother choke. What the fuck is that? That doesn't sound like

it should be legal. Yeah, that feels like he brought a pillow into the ring with him. Yeah. Oh, here he comes. He's getting out the pillow. Everybody. Oh, here it comes. Oh my God. Oh no, it's all over. Once he gets out the pillow, it's like Mick Foley with the sock. Once he gets out Mr Oh, no, it's all over once he gets out the pillow It's like Mick Foley with the sock. Let's see gets out. Mr. Socko. It's all over smother choke So smother Joe moves I think it's you sit you sit on someone with your asshole over their face and then fucking Grab them by the neck and then you know, you grab them by the balls while you sit on their face I believe and squeeze and that's a smother choke. I don't know what that is

Smothered and covered. Smothered and covered, babe. He wins anyway, 7-1 Rico. Next up, December 23rd, 2000, holiday spirit here. He fights John the Bull Marsh who is 6-3 but comes in on a 3-fight winning streak. Rico beats him though with a unanimous decision and he's 8-1. Next up, Paul the Headhunter Buentela here, or Buentelo. He's 11-4 coming in 35-17 for his career and this is at KOTC Wet n Wild, which I think is King of the Cage I believe. Submission kneebar, second round he wins. So 9-1 for Rico. So around this time, 2000, he's starting to get some heat on him 2001 so here is an interview and

This is funny the first question by the way because so far the biggest he's fought in pride and King of the cage are his two Big ones that he's fought and raging the cage and then raging the cage and they asked him Here's the first question here, quote, how do you handle all the fame and pressure these days, Rico? What? All the fame. Gee, I can't walk down the street. Tell you what now. Wow. Why would they ask him that? I don't think he's exactly getting like swarmed in the cereal aisle at the grocery store You're like he's bought a gallon of milk without with lots of these. Nobody knows who he is. So That's pretty fucking funny. He said quote one thing I learned is that you don't fight to lose I was the guy here three years ago trying to beat the top named fighters to get the recognition and today

Fighters are coming after me for the same and I have no problems with that. You're nine and one. You're barely even in this. No, no. We mean do you shop for your own insurance or do you have somebody? Because I can get it for you if you have a great rate. He said I fought three times in pride three times in Abu Dhabi so I've done a lot of work and have come very far.

I only have been doing jiu-jitsu for two and a half he said, well, when do you think you'll hit your prime? Predict the future for us here, Rico. He said, I think I'll hit it very early as I started very young. I was a world champion at 19 years old and the world's in Brazil, so I would like to retire at 27 or 28. I'd like to retire at 27 or 28. By the way, spoiler alert, that didn't happen. When they asked him when is he going to hit his prime, did he look at his watch? Um, shit. Um. It's coming pretty quick here.

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totally terrifying. Go follow Mr. Bolland's Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're a Prime member, you can listen early and ad free on Amazon Music. So he says I'm 23 right now and have a beautiful daughter who is three and a half. Oof. And I'm also traveling the world and enjoying a beautiful lifestyle and that's why I'm excited to do what I'm doing. How much can he be getting paid for this? I was, how does he expect that in four years

from this second that I'm going to make, in the next four years I'm gonna make enough money to never do anything ever again? Never, never not fight. Never get punched in the head again. How much money have you amassed thus far in nine fights? 10? Nine in one, yes, 10 fights.

Is he planning on fighting like Mike Tyson around this time in the 90s or like, what's he gonna, where's he gonna get this money from? Does he have a Holyfield bout lined up? Lennox Lewis looking over his shoulder right now? What's happening? Anybody that's gonna carry the fucking promotion of the fight because we don't know you, man. No, and in 2001, MMA just wasn't as big.

Yeah, it wasn't there. Nobody was making millions and millions of dollars off MMA at the time. They just weren't. So I don't know what kind of beautiful lifestyle. Was Ken Shamrock even making any money in this yet? I don't know. That was post-WWF. That was post-wrestling.

Okay, yeah. So the no-not-yeah. In the late 90s. Because Shamrock had a brother, right? Yeah. And he was an MMA fighter. Yes. Yeah Yeah, I don't think anybody was making any money in 2001 in this probably not I mean not I've been the people were making money, but I mean nobody was like this

Nobody was making you know, oh Yeah, the pay-per-view nobody was doing that Four years this is saying in four years years I'll never work again. He's got some fucking some really high expectations of himself. No shit. You know, can't fault him for that I guess but maybe... That's beautiful. Realistic also is good. We've known comics like this. I feel like we're doing okay and my bills are paid but I don't think in four years I'm never gonna work again. No, we'll be doing this for a while. That's insane.

We're gonna be doing this with a foreseeable fucking future here, so. This man has a five year plan already, a four year plan. Done, and to pre-30 retirement. Wow. Living a beautiful lifestyle. Imagine thinking that highly of yourself. They said, how do you stay focused?

And he said, I don't treat this as a job, I treat it as a lifestyle. That's weird. Well, treat it as a hobby, man, because there's no way it's making that much money. He's living a beautiful lifestyle, though. Don't you understand? Jesus.

I can't imagine. He said, other people get up and go to a job that they're not sure of and do not like, and I have done that. I'm one of those guys who definitely has ADD. I can't sit still for five minutes. I have to go there, do this so I just enjoy it and being the center of attention and putting on a good show for the fans.

I've learned that you cannot become a champion overnight. Don't get your window of opportunity like you think you will. It takes time to become a champion. It takes time to succeed in life and become the person you want to be. I had to accept a lot of responsibility at a young age and I had to grow up fast. Yeah. I mean, he's a doctor, James. He's diagnosed himself. He's obviously good. That's what he's going to do in four years, I think.

He's clearly fine. Well, I'm sure his brain will be working great in four years. None of the shit that got him on this show will be happening, I'm sure. So they said, how do you stay focused? That's, that's his answer to that weird. So June 29th, 2001, he fights Andre the pitbull or our Lovsky who we've talked about before. And he was foreign one coming into this fight or Lovsky and he beats him. Rico wins this fight. This is at UFC 32 by the way. That's how new UFC was. 32. Showdown in the Meadowlands. Are they on like 300 right now? I think they're on like 4,000 right now. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's... It's not 30s. I'll tell you that. Constant events. Yeah. I don't know. This goes into the third round where Rico wins by TKO with punches It's the first time I've seen him win non submission here Next up he fights Pete El Dorro Williams at UFC 34 El Dorro is for 12 and 4 coming in and 12 and 6 in his career. So he is going el homo probably after this Yes, and short answer yes

So people always that way El Dorro is that the the boy with the map is going out the El Dorro is where he's going Out the El Dorro on his way El Homo out the Eldoro on his way el Homo That's how that goes. Pete Williams here. So this is UFC 34. TKO with punches again a win for Rico. Next up he's fighting a crime in sports alum, Jeff the snowman monsoon number him and test. Oh, yeah I remember him or monsoon or whatever the fuck his name was January 11 2002 He's seven and three coming in Jeff is 60 26 and one for his career Rico beats him with a TKO with punches in the third round. So he's punching now now

He's not no more submissions all punches now Yeah, next type next up, oh boy. So Yoshi, TK, Kosaka, TK, because those are his initials, perfect. He's 23, 13 and two coming in. UFC 37, high impact. All right, here we go. And he beats him with a TKO with punches again, Rico.

He's 13 and one. Not too fucking shabby. This. Beats him with a TKO with punches again Rico. He's 13 and one not too fucking shabby this Jesus I just choked on breath Breath can be thick and chunky sometimes It may stink I don't know So this this earns him a title shot All these wins he gets a title shot here the vacant heavyweight championship against Randy Couture.

So Rico and Randy gonna go at it here. And this fight goes into the fifth round. Yeah, and Randy's going to destroy him. Well, five minutes, this is UFC 39, the Warriors return. Five minutes, or three minutes and four seconds into the fifth round, Rico wins with a TKO submission to elbow. I guess he just bashed him with his elbow until he gave up, I guess.

That's a lot. Wow. Wow. You give up yet, motherfucker? And he beat Randy Couture? He beat Randy Couture, becomes the first Puerto Rican heavyweight champion. He was losing, I guess, in the scorecards in the initial rounds, but in the fifth round he just was able to fucking overcome him.

That was that. So he's 25, he's the champ, and there we go. He actually- What year is this? 19, or I'm sorry, 2002, September 2002. He broke Couture's orbital bone with his elbow, actually. Son of a bitch. Fucked him all up here.

He's 14 and one and the UFC heavyweight champion of the world. Unreal. Grace. This is Grace right here, though. Yeah, for sure. This is before, because Randy's gonna become the champion again.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I watched it way after this. But that's, hmm, he couldn't have made much money by now, right? Well, I think there's not a lot of money in this. Now in the defenses there'll be money. If he can stay champ for a long time. Well, let's find out. February 28, 2003, Tim Silva, known as the Maine IAC,

Maine the state, hyphen IAC, but he's from Iowa. So I have no idea what the Maine IAC, Maine the State hyphen IAC, but he's from Iowa. So I have no idea what the fuck he's, he just likes Maine a lot. Spent a wonderful couple weeks. Yeah, he spent a great week up there in the summer, had lobster rolls by the water and he's just hooked. So this guy's 14 and 0 coming into this fight.

Is that right? Yeah, it's his first title defense. Tim Sylvia here, the main IAC, is 6 foot 8, by the way. He's a giant, huge guy. And he knocks out Rico in the first round with a TKO with punches. Is that right? Just pummels his ass, yeah.

So that's a loss, and he loses the belt. He's a big guy with dark hair, Tim Sylvia. I don't know, maybe. Oh, OK. All right. I thought you were looking at him. I don't have his picture here, and I didn't on the hair, Tim Sylvia. I don't know, maybe. Oh, okay, all right. I thought you were looking at me. I don't have his picture here, and I didn't on the site. Tim Sylvia, yeah.

That guy's a giant son of a bitch. This guy had so many fights. I've seen a lot of guys' pictures. I have no fucking idea which one he is. I don't remember. So, this is his first defense. Now he's 14 and two, so that's where the money would have come in, beating guys like that, and now that's gone.

But he couldn't do it. Yeah. Next up, August 10th, he fights Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira who is 19 and 2 coming into this fight. Yeah I've heard of this guy we've talked about him before. He's very good. 34 and 10 for his career. This is at Pride FC total elimination 2003. This goes all three rounds and it's a unanimous decision against Rico. So Rico

loses again. Now he's 14 and three. November 21st, 2003 Pedro the rock Rizzo. So Rizzo versus Rico here. He's 13 and five coming in. This is UFC 45 revolution. It goes all three rounds and Rico loses a unanimous decision to Rizzo. What happened? 14 and 4. Okay, there we go. That's not good now. He's lost three fights in a row.

No, it's falling apart. He went from top of the heap to looking up at the bottom of the heap in wide-eyed admiration. Not going well here. December 18th he fights out Mike he fights Mike crazy boy seal I guess the seal crazy is that what he's trying to do like the song. Mike kiss from a rose seal. I don't know. That's what he's doing here. Maybe he's a big fan of Pauly Shore movies. Possibly he kind of looks like if Pauly Shore played a UFC fighter and look at him I there's a picture of him here seven six and one I don't know what

he's chewing on some dreadlocks on the back looks like it yeah yeah there they are little dreads there some braids or some beads in them yeah it's Paulie Shore in and like mild blackface is what it is very very, very light though. Mike Seal, this is MMA Mexico 5. Wow. This is, it goes one round, one minute and six seconds. Rico wins by a submission from a rear naked choke. Gets back on the winning side here. He's 15 and 4. Next up, he fights May 7th, 2005, Scott Junk. His name is Scott Junk. Really?

Junk. Okay. Scott Junk. Yeah, like the junk. Like junk, like he's a pile of shit there. It's his debut, and Rico beats him with a submission from a front choke. Maybe he should get on the junk.

He needs to get on the gas or the junk or something here. This is at rumble on the rock seven. Next up this now we're in a 2005 by the way, July 2nd, 2005 Ruben Villarreal known as war path. He's eight five and one coming in. I want you to see this guy cause he looks like a really bad wrestler. Yeah. What is that? He's got, he looks like a job or wrestler. Yeah, what is that? He looks like a Jabba wrestler. He's got a gimmick. Yeah, he's got the paint with the shit coming down.

And he's fat? That's not a fighter. He doesn't look like a real fighter here, but let's see how he does. He loses to Rico with a submission arm bar here at Extreme Wars 1. Yeah. Extreme. Extreme. Ew, one. submission arm bar here at extreme wars one yeah they call it x1 even though

it's extreme with an e so they're all fucking confused next up he fights Andy Montana okay who's 14 Joe's little brother it's like I got my brother won all these Superballs and I got to do something with my life. He's 14 and eight. This is at an independent event. So I don't know. That's maybe the Tosos parking lot, I believe.

This is only last a minute and 50 seconds where Rico wins with a submission by arm bar. So he's 18 and 4 now. Next up it is August 18th 2005, Ron Waterman, which is spelled Waterman, that's his last name, and his nickname is H2O. Come on bro. Well he's a better fighter than he is a nicknamer here because he beats Rico at Clash of the Titans 2 by unanimous decision. So when Rico loses a lot of the times it's a decision. He goes the distance here. August, or I'm sorry October 14th 2005, Jimmy the Titan Ambreeze, who's 8 and 2 coming into this fight. This is at WEC 17, Halloween Fury 4. So it's event 17 but Halloween Fury 4 in case you're confused.

One in the first round, Rico wins by TKO submission to punches. Please stop punching me. So 19 and 5, next up Corey Slater, 6 and 4 coming in. The Ultimate Texas Showdown 3 is the event. The ultimate one. Yeah. You can bring pistols, I believe, is the rules in this. It's a little different down there. Ha ha. This is a arm bar submission for Rico. He wins this one.

He's now 20 and 5. But none of these are back to where he was. No. And none of these are Tim Silvia either. No, these aren't money fights is what these aren't. So December 3rd, 2005, David Morey, who's debuting, this is MMA Fighting Challenge 4, and this is his only fight, the guy he's fighting, so.

And he goes the distance. Really? You'd think if in your first fight you went the distance with a former UFC heavyweight champion, you'd probably keep fighting, right? Probably fight some more, yeah. Yeah, no, he quits, that's it, 0-1, didn't like that very much. Next up-

Then he lost. Yeah, Rico won the fight here, he's 21-5. Next up, December 9th, 2005, Tyler Brooks, 2-0. This is the pro fight league, again, not UFC. Submission win for Rico, he's 22 and 5. Then January 14, 2006, Robert the Inca Warrior Baran, who's 6 and 3 coming in and 7 and 7 for his career. Okay, not great. This is RITC 78, back with a vengeance. This goes all three rounds and Rico loses to this guy by unanimous decision. This is this guy's last career win. He'll then lose four

fights in a row and quit. Yeah. Jesus Christ Rico what are you doing? Concentrate Rico concentrate. 22 and 6 now. March of 2006 Taylor Brooks he fights who's a debuting fighter so he's trying to get his mojo back and he beats him by submission in the first round obviously. Next up H2O is back. Really the water man can't get enough. Here we go let's fight the water man again and in this fight he beats the water man with a doctor stoppage TKO doctor stoppage.

He can't go on bleeding this is WFA for king of the Streets was the event Jesus Christ. He fought as a super heavyweight. He weighed in by the way Rico at 300 pounds for this fight Really and he said quote I'm fat, but I still got skills Which Jack yeah Which explains why he's losing to guys making their fucking you know not That aren't that good because he's out of shape. Don't think he's training that hard here. Next up he fights boxing for some reason. He's going to give that a shot.

Yeah, which is weird because he comes from a pure wrestling background. So it's one thing to learn how to strike, it's another thing to actually box, which is a whole separate thing. It's so hard. It's, yeah, there's no option to grab a guy and try to take him to the ground. You know, it's totally just a different skill set. Or fucking if you're frustrated that you can't punch him,

just kick him. That's not even an option. There's... It's so hard. It's a hard sport. So he fights Brandon Baker, who's also making his boxing debut. Oh, that's good. Brandon Baker, by the way, is weighing in at 197 pounds, while Rico clocks in at a fucking spelt 287 pounds.

He's got 90 pounds on this guy he's got. Oh, man. And he worked hard to drop weight to get to that, I'm sure. I'm sure he did. He's like, I'm down 13 pounds. I'm sure I'm sure he did. He's like I'm down 13 pounds I'm looking good looking shrimp and shit This is at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Houston and he beats him by a KO in the first round Rico wins So he better beat him. He outweighs him by 90 fucking pounds

Yeah, two punches should floor that little Jesus is not even a 200 pounder for Christ's sake so back to MMA He fights Abdias Erason or a recent who this is MMA MMA X so M max 7 okay TKO for Rico doesn't matter 25 and 6 extreme MMA extreme that's it and they call it MMA extreme 7 is the name of the event. So again, yeah, yeah, with the X. November 17th, 2006, Imani the Juggernaut Lee. He's a juggernaut. The word juggernaut has more letters than both of his names put together.

It's also an X-Men character that's pretty popular at this time. 2006, probably, yeah. I would think so, yeah. So this is his debut and Rico beats him. He's beating a lot of debuting fighters lately sure that's not a good sign This is with a rear naked choke by submission at the BIB beat down in Bakersfield, baby That's right

so after this fight though, so he's looking better in this fight, but The problem is right after this fight though, so he's looking better in this fight, but the problem is right after this fight, he is put under indefinite suspension by the California State Athletic Commission. Oh, they won't sanction a shit anymore. No, because he tested positive for both marijuana and cocaine and was given a six month suspension before a failed drug test after that. So he suspended for six months and we'll talk about it. He's going to talk all about how much he loves cocaine in a little while.

Really? Oh yeah. Big fan. Next up he fights, this is 2007, so July 28, 2007, so like seven months later, he fights Lloyd Marsh Banks who goes by Cadillac is his nickname, with a K. I guess for copyright reasons, you know. Trademark and all, you know what I'm saying? Well his name's not like Carl Cadillac, you know, Caligan or some shit, that would be bad I guess. So he's eight and five coming in,

and this is a TKO win for Rico in the first round, 27 and six. So next up, Ben Rothwell, who is Ben Rothlis's cousin, I believe. He is 28 and five here. This is an IFL 2007 team championship final, and he loses this to Ben Rothwell. Rico loses by decision. So he's 27 and seven.

He is having a hard time losing to guys who he feels he shouldn't lose to. His career is not where he wants it to be. So where do you go from there, Jimmy? I mean, where do you go? Rehab? Well, not just rehab. You go to celebrity rehab. Oh, that's where you go.

Yeah. The TV show? You say, I need to put this on television because that'll where you go. Yeah. The TV show you say I need to put this on television Because that'll get me better quicker to tell dr. Drew about it. Yep. I need to tell dr. Drew all about it. So he's got a 17 year old with impotence problems on hold so I can fucking do this, you know from love line there. So So you can treat my rehab or my very adult cocaine habit So you can treat my rehab or my very adult cocaine habit. With a couple of anal warts.

Yeah, he's kind of a kid wondering how you find anal warts on fucking line three. He's going to do this for now. So he does this. It's going to be the whole series here, Dr. Drew, as we know what that is. This is the one that had Tom Sizemore on it. This was a very famous one. I saw a lot of these because Tom Sizemore on it. This was a very famous one I saw a lot of these because Tom Sizemore is a fucking trainwreck and a fascinating man because you're like, yeah You're such a good actor. Why are you doing this to yourself? Why you have a career?

Everyone likes you stop doing this Hated himself. Oh god Lee did he hate him? He had to the better he did and the more he did the yeah worse He treated himself in his body is wild Mortuary put himself through He's a fucking mess. He's dead now, but yeah also China on that show. Okay All right, you know Bam Margera has so dead morphed into Tom Sizemore's face. He looks exactly like That's where I see pictures of them on social media. I'm exactly like him. Oh, that's a shame. It's crazy. That's weird.

I see pictures of him on, I don't know, social media, whatever, and I'm just like, is that, oh, that's Bam. You don't want to look like that and not have the talent of Tom Sizemore, which Bam absolutely does not. And not have some fucking Saving Private Ryan money. Yeah, and some Saving Private Ryan talent, some Spielberg talent, where Spielberg goes, I trust that guy to deliver my lines. Some Black Hawk Down money and talent. Yeah, that Spielberg talent. Where Spielberg goes, I trust that guy to deliver my lines.

Some Black Hawk Down money and talent. That's some shit. You ain't got that. This is quite the cast here. We have Tom Sizemore, China, Brigitte Nielsen coming off all the flavor of love shit. Oh my God. And Andy Dick, who somehow has been a bigger mess than Tom Sizemore for a long time. I mean, that's...

At one point, I remember hearing him in like 2012 do an interview. Andy Dick was... He did a bunch of movies. He was on news radio and all these shows for years. He had syndication money and all this shit going for him. He fucked his life up so bad, he was living in a trailer in his ex-wife's backyard. Yeah, I don't I don't think it was even a trailer It was a storage unit. Yeah It was like a cargo thing. Yeah, like on a ship like a cargo thing that he like put a fucking portable toilet into

That's what he was living in and his ex-wife's how low do you have to go before you need to ask your ex-wife for help? Can I can I stay on the property that you won in our divorce? Yeah, that I'm sure I bought with news radio money I'm sure yeah, it's it's not your shit And also came your money After the judge heard of what I was like as a husband, yeah, I would say probably with Andy dick Yeah, can I stay in a Hyundai box out back? They're like wow, he's got there's multiple things here to talk about

Number one, he's on 18 different kinds of drugs, right? Never stops talking and number three he likes guys, right? What are we talking about here? I grant you this divorce and you take that house. Because I don't think he's a good husband. Why do you show your asshole to so many in public? Yeah, what's going on here? So also an American Idol contestant, Jessica Sierra, who I have no idea who the fuck that is.

No, don't look at me. And some other people. So anyway, here he is. Rico makes his first appearance there. He checks in for his habitual cocaine use, is what he says. Wow. Yep, he's just been a mess and he's suspended for coke. He said he was going through an eight ball a day after he got, as soon as he was in UFC,

started making some cash, he's tearing through the coke. He needs it now? He was tearing through it as soon as he could afford it, basically. Fascinating. He's been waiting like finally I can afford an 8 ball a day coke habit. That's been his dream since he was a small child. I need a very expensive habit. No shit. His usage leads to some domestic disputes with his girlfriend that we didn't know about. One of which resulted in them both being arrested

and their one year old son being taken away from them by CPS. Unreal. That's bad. Is that the rock bottom that put him here? I would fucking hope so. Jesus Christ, man. I mean, wow. When he first got there, he was just acting like a cokehead who was needing coke and wanted to do coke and didn't want to be on the show. And he was real nervous when the staff was going through his bag and all weird

and cokey, you know, coke heads. So he was really weird too. He would call, he kept saying that everybody was being rude and the other celebrities were rude. Meanwhile, nobody was being rude to him really. He was just real irritable because he wanted to do coke and wasn't doing any, which gets irritable. It's just one of those things. So yeah, he was like that. He wasn't well liked here in the group, I don't think, in this group. He says, my number one concern was getting better.

Without my being sober, there was no future, there was no career. It wasn't a tactic to get exposure. it was more for me to get myself straight." So he claims that's it. He's just here to get himself together and that's all. Well, you know what we should do? I just think we need a little in their own words after this next stuff here because, wow, there's a big one coming up later after this to some really crazy shit that he did. But let's find out in his own words what he thinks here in their own words quote at the time

No one knew about the domestic violence. I've never really I'd never been on a reality show I've never been in a rehab facility He said dr. Drew educated me on the addiction and the disease on the whole situation I needed someone to educate you got me, to be honest with you. I think it was as real as any rehab. It was about people's emotions, people's problems, people's situations. If I put it out there, it's because I'm honest

and it's the shit I've been through in my life. I've made some bad choices and that's just the truth. I've had to live with them. You have to take responsibility for what you've done. I don't know, I know I don't want that to happen to my children. I'm breaking the cycle in life. Are you now? Okay. He's never been to rehab and he chose to put this shit on TV right out of the gate. That's

fascinating. He didn't even try a rehab first. It just was like right to Dr. Drew and the VH1 camera crew. Yeah, I need VH1 to document this before I take this serious. It's almost like, I would think if you're a celebrity and you go on that, either you do it because you need the TV exposure in some way, or maybe you do it because it's a way to be held almost accountable because you're doing it in public.

So now everybody knows what you're doing and you have to be good, otherwise everyone's going to talk about it. You know what I'm saying? So maybe it's a way of painting yourself in a corner. The bad part about it is that all of that, and then if you're not successful, now you're the worst. Yep. And all of that and showbiz stuff is what makes a lot of these people use and then if you're not successful, now you're the worst. Yep, and all of that, and showbiz stuff is what makes a lot of these people use,

and then you're making the process of rehab showbiz. So I don't know how you do that exactly. It's a very strange thing to do. It's almost, it's so counterproductive. It just, each thing kicks the shit out of every reason to do this. Well, that's probably why half the people we mentioned that are on the show are dead now.

Dead, yeah. Of drugs. Of drugs. Drugs killed them, yeah. Yeah. A lot of dead people on that show. China-sized Mark Conway. Dr. Drew is responsible for more deaths.

Somebody should arrest that murderer. You get Jeff Conway in there who's been doing coke since the 70s. Dr. Drew isn't going to fucking fix him. No. That's fucking crazy. I can't stop that. No. That's a steam train with...

Dr. Seuss couldn't fucking write him into not doing that. Nobody could. He's fucked. That's a train with a head full of steam for sure. For sure. Green eggs and ham. Fucking those eggs are green because there's drugs in them.

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Because he's fucked up and you know whatever His girlfriend is completely unconscious and bleeding and he thinks she's dead He goes off fuck my girlfriend's dead. Yeah. So what do you do if you crash and you think your girlfriend's dead? Throw that bitch in the driver's seat. That's what you do. She can't get a DUI when you're dead, right? He fucking picks her out of the car, drags her body to the driver's seat. You don't know if she's got neck injuries, spinal injury. He doesn't give a fuck. Drags her, stuffs her into the fucking driver's seat

so the cops would think she's driving. Wow. Problem is, he's such a dumb shit that he doesn't move the seat up even though he's six foot fucking two and his girlfriend's probably not. So the cops knew he was driving because of the position of the seat.

You know, because her feet can't touch the fucking pedals from where it is in the car. She couldn't operate this vehicle if she wanted to. Yep, and then after she, the girlfriend, after she came to, she survived, she told the cop she was driving. No, I was driving. Why'd you do that? The seat, he must have put the seat back

to get me out easier. I was driving, that's what they said. And he said, quote, their attorneys took care of it. Their attorneys. Their attorneys took care of it. Their attorneys put her in jail. Yeah, that's, dude, this is, I'm sorry, that's a character flaw.

Yeah, yeah, that's disregard for others. Like, you're hurting others in this process. It's like, well, I thought she was flaw. Yeah, yeah, that's disregard for others. You're hurting others in this process. It's like, well, I thought she was dead. That's not making it better. That's worse. You killed her if you thought she was dead, you asshole. And then you're like, oh good, I'll blame her for my problems.

Okay, good. And I'll drag her corpse into the driver's seat. That's a sick thought, number one. I'll try to revive her. I'll call an ambulance. And then if you didn't think she was dead, were like I don't care if she has spinal injuries I'm gonna drag her and stuff her into another seat And hopefully she's not crippled for the rest of her fucking life nice going Wow what a monster

That is a real shit thing to do They said that and a lot of people I keep seeing like reviews of these episodes and they said he really seemed kind of proud of this too. He was like, he thought this was like a clever ruse. He got out of a DUI. Genius, right? Genius. So he then yells at a counselor

who didn't laugh at the story. What are you not laughing for? Yeah, I'd only be laughing in the fact that you're a fucking monster and an idiot. He said quote can you believe she didn't laugh all my friends laugh at it. Yeah and well that his girlfriend said later on yeah that's cuz all your friends are assholes yeah. Yeah you've got monsters for friends. If somebody really did that you should be, what the fuck when they tell you about

that? Dude, what's wrong with you? Yeah, that's fucking messed up. But December 9th, 2007, he's back, baby. Here we go. He fights Kelvin, the big hit, Fidial, who's 6'4 and 1' coming in. This is at PFP Ring of Fire. Tokyo, or not Tokyo, no, nevermind, TKO. I looked

at the... I just read TKO as Tokyo because I glanced up at it and I'm a moron. He wins by the country of Tokyo. He got beat up by a bunch of Japanese people in Tokyo. Tokyo kicked the shit out of him. No, it's not in Tokyo. I don't even know where it is. So he wins in the first round with a TKO. The guy just stopped fighting. Retirement, they said. He didn't retire from the sport.

That should be the only way that happens if he says I'm done fighting now. So he's 28 and seven. Rico says, I'm 30 years old and I feel like I'm 60. Well, you're three years past retirement, man. That's what I mean. You were supposed to be with a pita colada in your hand on an island somewhere right now.

You should have counted about 800 sunsets by now. Yeah, this is ridiculous. You suck, bro. He says, a lot of people out there just don't understand that life throws you plenty of curve balls. It also throws you eight balls and you have to dodge them. That's the problem. It's how you deal with them that makes you a man.

It's not the fact of who has more money, who's the best fighter, it's about how you deal with those problems. I mean, it's kind of both of those too, if that's what you do. Well, I mean, if you have a lot of money, I guess it doesn't matter how well you fight because you don't really have to,

because you have a lot of money. Right, yeah, I suppose that's true. how well you fight because you don't really have to because you have a lot of money so right you know I suppose that's true but if you're a really good fighter and that's what he's supposed to do yeah that's how you get good money yeah make more money I mean if you had like you know someone gave him 30 million dollars and he might not care who the best fighter was anymore because he's like yeah the more money you have the less you give a fuck about who's better at what. Yeah it doesn't matter to me I'm good. So February 16th 2008 Antonio Bigfoot Silva here.

9-1 coming into this fight. This is at Elite XC Street Certified. Yeah. Yeah. Bad ass man. Street cert. Street cert. This goes all three rounds. It's a split decision loss for Rico. Straight cert. Street cert. This goes all three rounds.

It's a split decision loss for Rico. Oh no. 28 and eight. Next up, this is fun, April 11th, 2008. He said, fuck it. Coming to the end of my term, I'm ready to do it. He fights George Bush. He said, I'm done in November guys. I don't, you know,

they swear I'm in January. I'm ready. I lost a house. I'm taking it right to George Bush. Deggan and do it. Yeah, that's it. He's five and Oh, George Bush coming into this fight. He's a bad man. He's a bad man, but he's going to finish his career five and two. So Rico makes him reconsider fighting here with a unanimous decision. This is at YAMA Pit Fighting 1 is the event. Very, very prestigious there. Next up Travis Diesel Wiouf, WIUFF. I don't know.

51 and 11 coming in though, decent fighter. W-I-U-F-F. We-UF, I don't know. 51 and 11 coming in though, decent fighter. And he beats Rico by unanimous decision, so. Yeah, he's done this 55 times. He's done it a lot, yeah. Next up in June 2008, Chris Geehan, 13 and five. He'll be 13 and 16 in his career. Jesus.

13 and five, he never wins it, and he loses 11 straight fights before he finally says, I don't think I'm good at this anymore. I think I lost whatever that it thing was that I had. 11 fights, yeah, whatever. I don't have it, guys. I gotta be honest. Somebody hit me and it fell out of my ear, I think.

I'm not sure, but it's definitely gone. So this is U uce round 31 finals So there you go 30 and 9 for Rico as he beats that guy He wants to box again for some reason really don't know why He fights Chad Davis here who by the way Chad Davis is currently suspended by the Arizona boxing and MMA Commission indefinitely What'd he do? Forever, who the fuck knows. He fights this guy, this guy's 0-1 coming into this fight.

6'17 and 1 for his career, Chad Davis. So not a great fighter. This is at the Las Vegas Hilton in Vegas. Four round split decision loss for Rico. So there you go and that's the end of his boxing career at one and one. He's gonna leave it there. Back to MMA, John, Big John Ivy. I don't know if Ivy, IE.

Or Ivy, IE what? I don't know. Is he fighting Big John the ref? He's beating the ref up? That's pretty fucked up. Maybe. 27, 34 this guy is. And he'll finish his career 33 and 58

It's a lot of meetings man. So he beats this guy. This is XP 3 is the name of the promotion unanimous decision Next up Titus Campbell. He beats Who is this is his first and only fight? So there we go Silver crown fights is the promotion So there we go. Silver Crown fights is the promotion. Guillotine choke submission for Rico with a win. 32 and 9. Next up, Rob the Bear Broughton. I don't think he knows what that means. Or maybe he does.

Maybe that's part of what he's doing to strike fear in people's hearts. I don't feel like you're going to fight me. I'm a bear. I'm going to fuck you when I'm done. Understand? I'm a bear. You know what I mean? You know what I'm a bear. I'm gonna fuck you when I'm done understand that's I'm a bear you know what I mean you know I'm saying I mean you know feel this hair on your back you're gonna feel on your back and you're gonna feel this penis in a lot of places so what's up bro a lot of sweat and hair I'll get people oh shit if he's big enough you'd be like oh I'm gonna play this real yeah real quietly here. 10-3-1 is the bear.

And the bear gets beaten by submission in the second round. So he submits the bear. 33-9 for Rico. Rico wins. Next up, the Inca Warrior again. Here we go. The Inca Warrior. This is another decision, unanimous decision for Rico.

He wins. 34- 9. Here is an interview he did in 2008. Okay, wow. It's some MMA site, 8CN it is. He says, they introduced this by saying, Rico Rodriguez is a man who can fully appreciate the ups and downs that life has taken him through. It's strikingly evident in the tone of Rodriguez's voice that he's a man who is wise appreciate the ups and downs that life has taken him through. It's strikingly evident

in the tone of Rodriguez's voice that he's a man who is wise to the past mistakes he has made, and also humbled and grateful for what the future could still hold for him. As he sat in his dressing room on Saturday, December 12th, just hours away from a showdown with dangerous Jeff Moncone, Rodriguez opened up about his life and trials and tribulations he has experienced along the way. Here we go, he says, quote, I have my whole crew with me and they keep me at ease. I'm sure. At ease.

At ease. I always travel with the same crew when I try to keep everything very relaxed and family oriented. I don't try to change the rhythm of how things go. I'm 34 fights into my career and I'm a lot different than I was 10 years ago. Yeah, now I know there's no hope. Before I thought there was. He says, me and my team just like to relax, joke around and all the butterflies usually come when I'm getting my hands wrapped. This is the best part of life, just being able to go out and perform and fight. So he says, I watched Rocky and Sly Stallone really portrayed the fighter

lifestyle to a tee. Rocky, known for its realism in the boxing. He says, you get into it because you're passionate about it. And after a while you start to move forward and change that passion to glory. After that comes the fame and then the money, but you have to balance that along with your friends and family. Everything you go through, the trials and tribulations, it's just part of the game and also part of life. For me it's not over and I'm still on the journey of everything. So he said all of it and nothing at the same time. That's what he does a lot of

this. They talk about what about the bad your battle with just you know life in general and he says winning the UFC belt against Randy Cotor and then losing it against Tim Sylvia was really humbling to me. Coming from the projects in Patterson not everybody like me has gotten to see what fame is like. I've just been through anything that you can imagine from addiction problems to questioning whether or not my career could move forward. I've had to fight a lot of demons and put them behind. I'm just glad, I'm just working toward becoming a better man more than anything else. I just know that I always have to be ready to fight whether it's in the ring, the cage or life itself. This is a battle that doesn't stop and you have to be ready." Yeah. Terrific.

They find out about why he went to Dr. Drew here. This is fucking amazing. He said, my life is an open book. There isn't anything that people can bring up about my life that's going to offend me in any way, shape or form. I did have addiction problems in the past, but the opportunity to overcome it is something that came from me when a talent agent with VH1 gave me a call about a show featuring Dr. Drew.

Wow. He said, I wasn't going to pay $50,000 to go to rehab, but I welcome that opportunity. So it was free rehab. Free rehab is why you did it. Yep. He said, I found someone who gave me the tools to realize my problems, as well as the correct advice toward correcting myself. Rehab has been phenomenal for me,

and I've been sober for over 18 months. I look at guys like Robert Downey Jr. You're on the same level with Robert Downey Jr. I look at Iron Man? I look at, you know, yeah. I look at Iron Man, and then I look at him, yeah. I look at Iron Man and then I look at him and you know, Sherlock Holmes and all that shit. I figure I'm the same guy.

I can fucking anchor many movie franchises also. Here's the thing though, dude, you're a fucking disaster. So much so that casting agents are like, who can we get that's fucked up? Let's call that guy. People knew how fucked up you were. Yeah, and the difference is Robert Downey Jr. will pay $50,000 for what he had.

He doesn't have to go on television to fucking get it done. He's not relying on Dr. Drew to fix his career. No shit. So, wow, same problem as I had. He's been doing some great things lately. Yeah, being a fucking gigantic movie star dopey amazing actor. He said he just completed Iron Man. Yeah Then he said man. Look at Fergie. She also had a drug problem and she overcame that again

So many incredibly talented Fergie could buy and sell you a thousand fucking hundred thousand times over She has a private jet. You don't stupid. She has a lot more reason and hasn't been hit in the head as many times as you also. Oh my God. He said then again that this is good too. My girl and I were involved in a domestic violence incident in California. My trial took place there and my child was taken from us to human services.

Okay? That really made me stand up and want to take my life back. I don't care who you are, once your child is taken from you, you'll do whatever you have to to get them back. Yeah! That's an extreme case. It shouldn't take that. You should probably fix it long before that.

It shouldn't take the state removing a child from your custody to fucking get you to realize you're fucking up here. You should probably be doing something, and the mental clarity washes over you that, oh my god, if this, I'm gonna lose my kid. Like, you should have that at some point. They're never gonna give it back.

Fuck, that's not good. Yeah, I'm never gonna see them again. He said, just going through the whole process of getting my son back really opened up my eyes and one of the key steps Toward that was going to rehab That's good the opportunity how everything has gotten put together again for me for being on the dr Drew show to getting my family back everything has taken a turn for the better and I feel that it has come at the right time Ready to go. Yeah, he talked about his trainers in Jiu Jitsu, the Machado's,

and he said, I met the Machado's were these five brothers from Brazil. The Machado's are the cousins of the Gracie's. That makes sense. Their father was a Machado and he was married to a Gracie. So they're like the Rocks family basically where Peter Maivia was married to the, yeah, all that. Okay. He said, otherwise I'd still be on the streets fighting or be like the rest of my crew who are either in jail, on drugs, or dead. Martial arts really gave me an opportunity to excel. I was a wrestler in high school and did well in the state.

Not everybody can afford to play football or hockey, so sports like wrestling and jujitsu really gives kids a different outlet outlet. That's true. It's what really helped me. I found ways to do these programs and it's really helped me. He said the people who are with me now are the same people who are with me when I wasn't anywhere. These are the same people who were with me when I was fighting in Mexico getting beer

bottles thrown at me. Oh my God. That seems like a pleasant. That's why they fight in a cage there, just to protect you. It's like the abandoned roadhouse. It's just to protect you from the projectiles. So to keep you in is to keep them out. Yeah.

Beer bottles exploding all over the chicken wire. Jesus Christ, I can't imagine. He said, these people have been with me no matter what, as opposed to all the people who tried to get a hold of me only when I was on top. Today, when I come back to do this again in the future it's going to be different because I'm only going to have real people around me." Yeah. He continues, What you see on TV sometimes doesn't really portray you in the right light. I keep my friends close and tight and that's just how I do things. I have a lot of love for

people and I just try to stay down to earth. When I was 19 years old, it was a different story and I was just itching to get into trouble. But now that I'm 31, I'm a bit more grounded and I see things differently. I know that the things I have been through have changed me for the better. Oh, better. He's gonna be just fine.

He's good now. He's 31, still working when he wanted to retire four years ago, still working, still happy. Still working progress here. And better. And better, and better. He said, we wouldn't be having this conversation if I hadn't truly changed myself. And if we were, then I would probably be telling you a bunch of lies.

When you're not in the right state of mind, things can unravel you. I got caught by the commission for marijuana and cocaine and when they took someone I loved away from me, I guess his son, the commission didn't take us. He made it sound like the fucking the state fighting commission took the child away. You're not allowed to fight or be a parent anymore. We've decided on both of those things. He said, took a loved one away from me that really made me realize just how wrong things were. I was losing my family, then I began to see my career falling away and something had to happen.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results and I was doing just that. Today... Found that quote, did he? He found it, yeah. He's been using that one a lot, I think. I think he's really been up... Yeah, that's one that he whips out all the time. He's like, I read that, you know, people are, ooh, he read something.

He thinks that makes him smart and like educated sounding. That's my favorite quote that people use to try to sound like they know something. It's fucking hilarious. And it's always someone who constantly fucks up too that says that. Constantly fucks up and they're like, you know, listen, I understand that. They fuck up again. So holy shit. He said, today I think it's awesome for me to be able to sit down and talk about my life

because I know that I've truly changed myself. I'm here to have fun with everything. You never know when you might not be able to do something again and I just try to stay appreciative of everything. You never know when you might not be able to do something again and I just try to stay appreciative of everything. So that fight against the snowman, he loses in a unanimous decision. Oh no. So maybe he should have spent a little more time warming up a little less time running his fucking yap. That might have helped. So he's having some problems, we'll say. Next up he fights Doug, the Carthage Killer Williams. I think he's from Carthage,

not he's looking to murder Carthage. Not misspelled Cartilage. That's what I thought at first too. My first thought was the Cartilage Killer, and then I'm like, no, that says Carthage. It's a nose puncher right there. Yeah, my brain, it just fucks you. Just goes after noses and knees and fucking ears.

Yeah, that's all he's after. He's five and eight in this thing here. He hasn't been doing too much killing. And so Doug Williams, I don't think, he's just a rebranded ex-quarterback of the Washington Redskins is what he is there. He'll, Tampa. Throw the nickname in there.

Yeah, this is it. Armageddon Nine. And he wins this time Rico submission from an anaconda choke, which is he wraps his giant penis around your neck and chokes the life out of you. So he taps in ice cube and he brings a big snake. Yeah, that's how it works there. This is in a minute and two seconds too. He's 35 and 10 here. Next up Mario Rinaldi Yeah, Mario the big hurt Rinaldi now hurt Let's describe for me Mario the big hurt Rinaldi Jimmy just do me that favor Would you a man the size of Frank Thomas right he has to be okay? Well, what's that?

Right give me a full physical description of him like you like a police report. Like he just mugged you. Six foot seven, yeah. Six foot seven, large man. The big hurt. He hurts people. And he's big.

But what does he look like? You can't describe that. A bald guy, yeah. Okay, bald. There we go. Age. Mexican guy, yeah. Around 32 to 38. 32 to 38, 6'7", Mexican man named Mario Rinaldi.

A bald one. A bald one. And he's bald too. A lot of bald Mexicans too. That's the most common people for hair loss really are Mexicans. The cops would be like, are you sure about this motherfucker? This man doesn't exist. I'm sorry. Are you on mushrooms right now?

Who did you find? He also have blue skin. Yeah, a six foot seven bald Mexican. I'm not buying any of this Would you like to see Mario the big hurt Rinaldi Not who you know, no, it's like Joe. Yeah, he is a large he's black as. No. It's like Pat Joe. Yeah, he is a large, he's black as fuck though. He's a black guy. Not like he's a darker brain, he's a black guy. He's definitely not Mexican or Italian really.

Mario Rinaldi, who you would expect maybe an Italian guy. Nope, very black. He's super Sicilian. The very- Is that right? No, no. The very bottom tip of the island, you know what I mean? Southern tip here.

So he loses to Mario Rinaldi. Really? Yeah, he does that, but then Mario Rinaldi made him a beautiful meal. It was wonderful. It was a chicken cacciatore. It was all these, he's very good at it. The bread.

Oh, the bread he makes. He bakes it himself, obviously. His own sauce is very good. It's pasta by hand. You know Mario does it This is battled by the Bay 8th or 8 so unanimous decision 35 and 11 for Rico Yeah, next up may be the greatest nickname that we've all heard ever here John Brown, okay

Now you can go a lot of places with that. Yeah, Charlie Charlie could do delivers like UPS. You can do a Civil War reference if you want to get deep like John the Body Brown, you know what I mean? Because John Brown's, you could do that, you could do all that. He chooses the best one though of any of these. John Doodoo Brown.

D-O-O-D-O-O, doodoo. How the hell do you do that? Doodoo Brown. D-O-O-D-O-O. Dodo. How the hell do you do that? Dodo Brown. It's an ODB lyric is what that is. Yeah. I don't know what he's thinking, but he's six and one in his career coming into this fight. The poop man cometh here and Rico beats the shit out of the poop man, which is nice to do. Beats the doo doo out of him. Choked it out of the poop man, which is nice to do.

Beats the doo-doo out of him. Choked it out of him, a rear naked joke submission. Wow, choked the shit out of him. John Brown refuses to do audible tap outs though. He won't say it, he shits his pants and that's when you know it's over, when you hear it happen. That's when you know it's over. He's constantly looking at the back.

He looks at his face, then he looks down at his pants, he looks back up to the face, back down to the pants. Soiled, it's over. He's constantly looking at the back. He looks at his face, he looks down at his pants, he looks back up to the face. Soiled, it's soiled. That's it, that's it. He wears white trunks only, so you can tell. Real easy. No underwear, just right to the trunks. Next up, Justin Howard, which is a very boring name.

And he beats Justin Howard with a TKO with punches 37 and 11. October 7th, 2009, here, this is, what is this, about a month after that fight, he is arrested in St. Tammany County, Florida. Where's that? Fuck if I know. St. Tammany County, Florida. I don't know.

Let's look it up. What do you say? Let's find out exactly what level of trash He was trying to mean is it or tammany? tammany County Florida well there's one in uh in Louisiana They're calling it a Florida parish, so it's got to be on the west side, huh? Yeah, it's got to be over in that ballpark there Yeah, where the fuck is it though? Give me a map. What's in it?

Click on maps on Google. Nope, that's on, I'm trying. No, it's asking me to sign in. Yeah, I'm not doing that right now. St. Tammany County, Florida. There it is, okay. Show me where you are, you lousy whore. Keep springing up Louisiana.

But yeah, so it must be on the panhandle up there, the Northwest tip. Wow, it's so strange. Oh, Tamany, T-A-M-M-A-N-Y, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. It's showing it all in fucking Louisiana, so it's got to be right there next to it.

They wouldn't put that shit down next to a fucking Palm Beach, would they? This is my bad. It's Louisiana. It's not Florida. Oh, OK. Well, there you go. It's Louisiana.

I'm like, where is this? Where's the one in Florida though? I'm a fucking idiot Yeah, and yeah, it's over in that area. It's it was established It was established out of the West Florida rebellion against Spanish authority. There you go. Yeah, so that makes a lot of sense Anyway, he's hanging out there for some reason disturbing the peace Okay, so he's hanging out everybody some people with fighting it said reason disturbing the peace. Okay, just disturbing everybody. So he's hanging out with fighting it said, so disturbing the peace fighting. This wasn't a publicized thing. No.

These MMA fighters, it's weird, they're very famous in the MMA world and the MMA press, especially back then, didn't really cover the bad shit all that much. Didn't wanna, huh? Didn't really wanna, no, cause they didn't wanna damage the sport. They know, yeah, they're aware of what it'll do. The mainstream media didn't really cover the bad shit all that much. Didn't wanna, huh? Didn't really wanna, no, because they didn't wanna damage the sport. They know.

They're aware of what it'll do. The mainstream media didn't know who the fuck these people were, so they didn't cover it either. So they never really got out there. This is doing a background check website, we found this. And this is also a guy from 2009 who hasn't been popular since Randy Couture kicked his ass.

Oh, it was Sylvia that beat him in 2003. Since Dr. Drew declared him sober, he hasn't done anything of any note. Nobody cares at all, yeah. Nobody cares, so he's back fighting again very shortly after that, November 2009, fighting Moisey Swamp-Rimbaud. Swamp is his nickname. Okay, he's 14 and eight, Moisey Swamp-Rimbaud. Swamp is his nickname.

Okay, he's 14 and eight. Moisey, this is at the Union of Veterans Support Mayor's Cup 2009. It's a split decision win for Rico. So 38 and 11. He might have got that on name recognition. February 2010, he wins by TKO with punches against Patrick Miller bringing

him to 39 and 11 March 20th 2010 Brian Ryan is this guy's name okay Brian and then RYAN Brian Ryan his nickname is flying the flying lion the flying lion. The flying lion, Brian Ryan. I love him. That's amazing. What a fucking idiot. That's hilarious. That's like Arrested Development, the Bob la blah la blah blah blah blog. That's what he's doing to me right now. The Brian flying lion, Brian Ryan. The Bob la Blah blog?

Yeah, the Bob La Blah Blah Blah blog. That's what it was. His name is Bob La Blah, and he's a lawyer. Bob La Blah Blah blog. You should check the Bob La Blah blog. I'm laughing, it's hard to say when you're laughing. It's so hard to say. It's so funny.

It's so fucking funny. Lion, Lion, Ryan, Brian Ryan. Yeah, he's trying and crying and if he loses he's gonna feel like dying. He sounds like a country song. He really does. An old timey country song. He's 16 and 4 the Flying Lion, Brian Ryan. And he loses to... Brian, Brian. Oh, it's Brian Ryan, you're right. Brian Ryan, yeah. He loses to Rico though here in 2 minutes and 5 seconds into the second round by TKO with punches. 40 wins for Rico.

Wow. Next up the Ironman is back, Travis Fulton. Oh is that right? At this point in his career he's 2422 45 and 10. I'm not shitting you That is fucking wild and Rico wins this one with for the first time I've seen a ko with a head kick I've never seen we go get somebody in the fucking head Yeah, I never see anybody kick someone in con con or rot Rico hasn't kicked anyone unconscious in his career yet

So that's a new one for him and Incredible, and he kicked the Iron Man. The Iron Man, his head is an iron, he should have worried about that. Ken Sparks, May 22nd, 2010, three weeks after that last fight here, he fights him, he's a five and four fighter, and this is his last fight, because he gets knocked out quickly by Rico,

bringing Rico to 42 and 11. July of 2010, Bobby Martinez here. What's he look like? Oh, yeah, that's a tough guy. A lot of quarter in his. He's nine and 12 coming into this fight and his career will be nine and 13. So he loses this fight and hangs it up. So two retires in a row here. He does. This is a submission with a heel hook in the first round. So he got grabbed up quick. July 31st 2010, two weeks later, he's fighting Jean Juarez. I think he needs money and he's just fighting, you know, I get a thousand bucks here, two thousand bucks here. He's the name on the

card of these small things because this was at the Bobby Martinez was at a fa for parking lot beatdown was the name of the event It's literally it's a it's one of those American. Yeah, like that or a fa Yeah, like Jared Wyatt was fighting at the guy who cut his friend's heart out before that It was USA MMA legends, which is some one-off thing The the Iron Man fight was that caged thug that was the name of it So these are one-off fucking there's here Embarrassing so John Juarez he fights one-and-one coming in This is that USA MMA stacked is the name of it

This goes all five all three rounds here and he wins a decision Rico does Next up in November Daniel the the Gladiator Tabara here. This is the Israel fighting championship Genesis. Is it in Israel? I don't know or if they're using biblical fucking terms here, I'm not sure. So he fights that. He's 16 and three here, Tabara.

This is a unanimous decision win again for Rico, 45-11. Next up, James the Hammer McSweeney. Hell yeah. 4-6 coming in and he'll get hammered by Rico in a unanimous decision again. Uh-oh. 46-11 for Rico. Now that's February 26, 2011 and on May 19, 2011, he is in Awetookee, Arizona. Yep, if you know Phoenix, that is a southern Phoenix.

It used to be a suburb, but now it's just a neighborhood in Phoenix, Phoenix has grown around it. He is arrested there following an assault and he resists arrest as well. Oh, who'd he assault? The cops. Well, before this, it was something else. And then it was the first, it was a taxi cab driver,

then the cops. Oh, fantastic. You know how that costs. Yeah. He got in a fight with the taxi cab driver, assaulted him, then struggled with several police officers after that. Apparently him and his female companion, quote unquote, got a cab to drive them to a sports bar here.

And the cab was $75. Which, one thing about Phoenix, everything is fucking far away. In terms of mileage, it's all far. Anywhere you go, it's like, oh, that's 26 miles away, which sounds far, but in Phoenix, that's just across the thing. It's close. It's a straight. There's a road that goes all the way there. One of the fucking eight freeways will go there or whatever. But you're

doing 85. So it feels like 10 minutes. Yeah. But it's certainly not. And every, if you take a cab anywhere, it is mega expensive because everything's so an Uber to now is the same exact fucking way. Ubers there are really expensive because they're going on long distance and sitting in traffic too. So they said 75 bucks and he said, I'll give you 20. He's gonna haggle.

Not only will I not give you a tip, I won't even pay a third of the fare. How about you pay 45. Yeah, this is crazy. 20 is not even close. No that's really what he wanted to pay was 20? He said I'll give you 20. So I guess finally there it wasn't even a big argument over that. Apparently they were just going back and forth talking like well it's 75, well it's only worth 20 well, it's 75, well, it's only worth 20, well, it's 75, like, whatever. Then his female companion here apparently said,

she will, I'll pay it, I'll pay the rest. This is crap, I'm not gonna sit here and argue this is theft of services if you fucking take off on a cab driver. We're going to jail, right. Yeah, I'll just pay it. Then Rico got pissed off. How dare you make her have that as an option. Yeah, now you're making her pay pay it. Then Rico got pissed off. How dare you make her have that as an option.

Yeah, now you're making her pay for it. Like he got all pissed off and he proceeded to grab the cab driver and throw him to the ground. Oh, he pulled him out of the car. Yeah, because you know, he's a giant guy and he knows he's an MMA fighter, a former UFC champion, and the cab driver probably isn't. He's probably an overweight guy who sits on his ass for 10 hours a day.

Most of the cab drivers I saw in Phoenix were very, look like very skinny guys from countries in Central Africa. That's who they're from. That's who drives cabs in Phoenix, you know what I mean? Not big, huge people usually. No, no, no. And if they are big and huge, they have like eight health fucking problems. They got an oxygen tank in the passenger seat.

They're a problem. Not someone that's a real physical threat to recap. Right, they've got strange colors around their ankles. It's, they're not in great shape. No, so the cab driver calls 911, obviously, for this. And over $55 of dispute was fucking idiot So according to the report here It took three officers to try to get him under control after that for some reason in this

I don't understand I don't know if it's one of the guys was a UFC fan and I guarantee you in my mind That's probably what it is because They did not they didn't handcuff him in the back they handcuffed him in the front which they do for celebrities friends people who aren't gonna you know try to assault them usually everybody else it's safety they get handcuffed in the back that way also you can't run away if you're handcuffed in the back because you'll faceplant nobody wants to do that and

it's with them in your front, you can fucking... You can do things. Hands behind your back and you're running, you appear to be running from the law. You definitely look like you're running from the law. You're balancing shit, and then you fall on your face because you have nothing to break your fall. If you've ever seen on any of these cop shows,

anybody try to run with their hands behind their back, it ends 30 yards down the street with them on their face with like gravel implanted in their forehead every time. And they just go, well, that was pretty stupid. They pick them up. They barely chase them. They just kind of jog after them like, I just want to be in the area when they fall on their face

because they're not going to get far. So they get him in the front, which allows him to flail his arms around and fight the officers. A UFC guy is getting it in the back. I am cuffing him six different ways. Oh God, yeah. Like he could be a problem. So a sergeant here said, it's our policy to handcuff behind and that did not occur. He was struggling with the officers flailing his arms. One of the officers was pushed against the wall and we believe at that point he sustained a minor injury

and a cut to his elbow. So now he's facing charges of assault and resisting arrest. Right. Not terrific, obviously, for him. He has to go to court for that, for the resisting arrest and all this type of shit in, what is it, May of 2011, he has to go do that. So pretty quickly here he goes into there.

So at some point here, I guess, yeah, it's a felony, the resisting arrest charge is a felony. So the other thing is, the cab driver thing is mild. They'll drop that and concentrate on this. Somehow though, by July he's back in the ring anyway. He's fighting. So he doesn't give a shit here. He's fighting the Carthage killer again and beating him in two minutes and 16 seconds. So there you go. Very little money likely.

Yeah. Next up, August 20th, 2011, Seth the Silverback Petrulesi. Okay, what's he look like, Jimmy? I don't wanna do this game anymore. Let's play the game of what Jimmy thinks this guy looks like. A man named the Silverback? Yeah, what do you think? I bet you you won't guess.

The Seth Petrulesi? Yeah, the Silverback. God damn it. Mario Rinaldi, remember him? Yeah, I don't want to do this. Okay, you want to see him though? Yeah, because I don't want to get... There he is.

Yeah, that's the silverback. Yeah, there he is. He's a big white guy with pink and black hair. He's got pink puffs in his hair. Does he know, is he aware of what a silverback is? I think so. He doesn't even look that big either. No. The other thing doesn't look like he was even that big. You gotta be huge to carry that off. That's the biggest one, right? Yeah. If not, it's fucking

big. We all know it as a formidable character. Yes. We know it'll write pretty much everything is a rapia in the ring. Yeah, those, when they're in season, they are in season. You don't want to lose by submission to this guy. You better bring your lube because he's coming for you. He's got pink and black. What is that about? The hair? I don't know.

It's very strange for the silverback. This is at Bellator, so he's making his way back up. Oh, he's making his way up, yeah. Bellator Fighting Championship 48. He loses in the first round Rico does by a TKO with punches. Well, that's not good. That's not great at all. He gets to a good place and then back down again.

And by the next month, he is fighting Michael Masakra-Kita, who's 10 and six at MMA Attack One. Oh no. Where he's the main event against this guy. Shit. And he loses to Michael Keita. Oh no. Unanimous decision.

He's 47 and 13 now. Next up, this is three weeks later he's fighting again. This is after he fought, went the distance. He's fighting three weeks later against Glover Teixeira here. He's 16 and two coming in. This is at MMAAD. This is MMA against Dengue? Dengue, I don't know what that is.

Whatever, either way, he loses to this guy. Yeah, he's a 35 year old man now. Yeah, TKO with punches, with submission to punches. Rico said, please stop hitting me. And in a minute and 58 seconds in the first round. Not great. Next up, he fights Bashir. This is like three weeks after that fight.

Bashir Yamilkhanov, who's three and one coming in, and this is his last fight of his career. Rico beats him in the second round with a TKO with punches. Next up in December, this is Christmas Eve, literally seven days after the last fight. Oh boy. He needs money is what this is. He fights Blagoje Ivanov,

who's 6-0 coming into this fight. It's like he's standing at the port welcoming all comers now that are, listen to the names Jesus Christ the most boring guys. Thousand bucks in their hand he'll play. Yeah guys they can make a name off him you know. This is at CMMAT Chekov MMA tournament. Okay he beats he loses to this guy by TKO. Retirement, he just didn't come back out, he stopped. Done.

That's not a good Christmas Eve here. No, no, no, that's a bad day. 48 and 15, next up here, February 23rd, two months later, Alexander Drago is his nickname, Volkov. Yeah, what's with all the Russians or Eastern Bloc guys? What's he doing this for? Probably where the money is. These are tough fucking guys though. You don't want to fight them. If you're a guy with a name this is where you can make the most money probably. I suppose yeah. They use you for a name. This is at Baltic Challenge 3. Is

he over there? Oh yeah this is all Eastern European shit. He's not in America. He can't make money over here anymore. Nobody cares about him He's just a fucking drunk guy who dr. Drew couldn't fix right but you're over there punching guys with big fucking solid foreheads You know, yeah those guys and hard lives, right? It's our life fucking fellas. So yeah, Alexander Volkoff beats him by decision unanimous decision 48 and 16 a month later by the way March 23rd Ruslan Leopard Magomedov. Ruslan Magomedov? That's his name Ruslan Magomedov the Leopard he goes by he's six and one

coming in and this is that United Glory 15 2012 Glory World Series. That is a lot of words. You put hole in there and that's a very different event. United Glory Hole 15 2012 Glory Hole World Series. Yeah. That's an event. We'll tell you something there. That is a loss for Rico again, unanimous decision. Okay. Next up, Stav Ekonamo Ekonomow, known as the crazy bear. Yeah, me as well.

Eastern Europeans. This is in Dubai Fighting Championship 1, the beginning. They just want to watch like fucking gladiator days over there, right? That's what it is. It's a guy they've seen fight and they've heard of him before and he beat Randy Couture and you can only say that even though that was 10 years ago Yeah, hasn't done shit since nope. He loses this one by unanimous decision He's 48 and 18 and they keep hiring him because he's not like getting knocked out in the first round

He's giving them a three-round fight Which they need to fill the card out in time if everybody got knocked out in the first round it'd be a 40-minute fucking card Everybody be pissed off. And that's annoying, yeah. Yeah, they need some guys who go the distance. So October 20th, 2012, Kevin Thompson, his first baby possibly an American in a while. This is UWC 21 explosion with an X. Explosion. He wins this with a submission by by armbar 49 and 18 next up and

Auntie a NTE so Auntie or aunt Auntie Delijah who goes by walking trouble. That's his nickname He's five and oh in this fight and he's gonna beat Rico here by a unanimous decision and this is in some Spanish country because it's the name of the event is knock gladiatoria 7 no see gladiatoria 7 I don't either March 4th 2013 now a couple months later he is in LA at 125 in the morning driving oh yeah not good here and he is going to be busted for DUI. Oh, he should have called the cab. Yep, should have probably got it. Oh, shit, never mind.

He's arrested. He blew a 0.10, which is over the limit. That's not good. And they had him take another breathalyzer at the station, and he blew a 0.08. So that's interesting. They say they're going to fight the charges. Why?

And fight the power. But first it was a suspicion of, and then March 6th is the official arrest, so two days later the official arrest for misdemeanor DUI. So he's definitely not sober at this point. No. That's not good for a guy who's a fucking crackhead. That could be bad.

Horrible, yeah. He's not doing well. They told, law enforcement officials said he did voluntarily take the breathalyzer tests and it's not uncommon to get varying results. But what I do feel bad for here, I get that he had some other things, but what you don't get varying results on is I feel not as bad for anyone else as I feel for these people Rico Rodriguez, oh boy, who is another guy who is Booked no. No, he's booked in the Carroll County jail or driving under the influence of multiple substances Okay, that's not good Rico Rodriguez

neuroscience PhD candidate at Brandeis University software engineering professional Look at how much what do you think he looks like? Exactly like this right a fucking door Yeah, he looks like hey guys, they show you my new computer program or whatever the fuck, I don't know what he's talking about. He said he's passionate about learning, both human and machine. Both learning, human, weird science boy. Both human and, I make women.

And then me and my friend fuck them together, that's what that says. I built it, we fuck it. I built it, me and Anthony Michael Hall fuck it together, that's how this works. British accent, I can give her any accent watch this he starts typing away check it out He said my dream is to converge these two worlds and do something interesting in the process Nope, he wants to fuck machines

He wants to fuck machines, because he can't fuck women. It's been done already. There's a TV show and a movie from the 80s. Oh my god, that's fucking great. So there's that. Rico Rodriguez, senior construction manager at Walmart Realty. They got, they're doing that now? They got Realty.

Apparently they, they're diversifying. They have to be stopped. They're being like the Catholic Church, like we'll just buy land now, like they did back in the day. You imagine renting from Walmart? Oh God. Oh my God, yeah. Well, they're my landlord, Walmart. And finally Rico Rodriguez, private client advisor,

vice president of investments at JP Morgan Wealth Management. Really? What do you think he looks like? I'll have some out of you. Oh, wait! Not that. A fat bald guy with a weirdly overly groomed beard. Yeah, that almost looks Irish, that beard. Irish or if he takes the mustache off,

he's totally Amish, one of the two. Oh, just fuck. He's a guy that can go Irish or Amish in fucking two seconds. You can switch them from Irish to Amish quickly. That's fascinating. His name Rico Rodriguez. Who knows? Wow. So that is fucking funny. And then finally Rico Rodriguez, who was Jesus Christ, the

father of a baby girl who was smothered by him and he was charged with first-degree murder in Chicago Smothered and covered smothered and covered babe. That's it He won by submission by smothering knockout and so did this Rico. They both have Smothered joke if they both have a smothered joke submission to their credit Unfortunately, one of them was a two-year-old child, I believe, here. Jesus Christ.

That is fucking horrific. We are monsters. We are terrible. Ha ha ha! A two-year-old smothered in cover. We are monsters. Yes, we are. But we didn't kill a two-year-old.

We didn't fucking smother the two-year-old. That's not our fucking fault. This is someone else did it. It's the kid's father. Rico did it. And the mother's lawyer said, how is she going to stop him when she is about to be killed too? Yeah.

Great point. He's going to kill her. And finally, one more. Fuck it. Rico Rodriguez, he's an actor. Oh. Best known for his role on Modern Family, which I've never watched in my life one episode of, so I don't know.

But he's had, he received several Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance, so a lot of our audience is going, that guy, yeah, you fucking idiots, you guys are dumb as shit. I don't know who he is on the show, I've seen the show and I like it. He's a young guy, he's on It's Nice Born in 1998. He must be, oh, he must be that Spanish, oh boy, that lady. Must be her kids or something. What do you think he looks like?

I hope like her, Jesus. If I forget her name, she's a smoke show, Jesus. Oh yeah, what's her name, yeah. I don't know her name. I don't know anybody's name. I don't know her name. I know her tits and I can pick them out of a fucking lineup. Oh yeah, yeah, there you go.

Her name, not so much. That doesn't stick with me so well. Sophia Vergara, nailed it, got it. Yeah, I got Sophia Vergara, that's what it is. May 12th, 2013, he fights Andreas Big Daddy, Jesus, stop fighting these fucking Eastern Europeans. I can't pronounce their names. Craniotakis, He might be a Greek.

I'm not sure. That's the second Big Daddy. Whew, another Big Daddy. 15 and 6 coming in. This is a cage fight, series 7. He wins by unanimous decision, giving him his 50th win, Rico. 50 wins. 50 and 19. Look at him. And one of them was Randy Couture and I've never heard of this fucking guy. Isn't that crazy? Unbelievable. I only knew about him because I heard he thought his girlfriend was dead so he put her in the And one of them was Randy Couture and I've never heard of this fucking guy. Isn't that crazy? Unbelievable. I only knew about him because I heard he thought his girlfriend was dead so he put her in the

fucking car. That's the only thing I knew about him at first. That's a monster. That's a monster move. That's a terrible person. Truly. Well, I gotta worry about me. I'm the one still here.

That's beyond selfishness though, right? Because it's like, it's such a lack of concern for somebody else, it's not even just selfish, it's just. It's sick. Yeah. It's no empathy. He never said, oh my God, my girlfriend's dead. Oh no, oh God, that never crossed his mind. He went, cool, she can't say she wasn't driving.

She won't be mad when I do this. Yeah, this'll get me out of a DUI. Like, what the fuck? So May 24, 2013, Tomas Semonic, another fucking 4-2 coming in and Rico beats him here. Final fight championship 5. Okay, now I guess June 15, 2013, Rico makes a deal for his DUI to plead no contest to reckless driving involving alcohol. They call it wet reckless. It sounds hot. That sounds hot. I bet there's pornos called that.

Dude, if a chick came up to you and went, I'm wet reckless, you'd be like, whoa. Hand her your hotel key. Wow, that sounds great terrific wet reckless Jesus Christ so right here because reckless is what you're into reckless driving involving alcohol it's below a DUI basically it's a drop down really it should be worse than it sounds worse what no yeah so he won't spend any time in jail but he'll'll be a thr- he got you, sir, and they fuck off a three-year probation and a $300 fine and 12 hours in an alcohol educational program.

And I'm pretty sure they should add, that's not run by Dr. Drew, they should put it in there also. A more serious one. A serious one that doesn't involve camera crews and them having to change the fucking batteries on your sound pack. So June 29, 2013, Marcin Lazars, he fights, who's five and one. He loses to this guy, this is in UK by the way, the British invasion UK versus US. Loses by unanimous decision, that's his 20th loss. So, hitting milestones all over the place. Next up, Ian the Machine Freeman, he fights.

This is right in the same time period here. 19 and seven coming in, he loses to him again. This is an event called the Legends of MMA. So now he's doing legend shows, he's not even a serious fighter. Next up, Zigg Benkai Gelesik. Zelg, oh Zelg, not Zigg, Zelg Gelesik he fights. This is final fight championship eight and he beats Zelg. That might be the worst first name ever. Zelg. Z-E-L-G. Hi Zell. Far too close to Zeke, that's no good. No good. November 9th, 2013, Dennis the Menace Stojnik. This is Bosnia Fight Championship 1. Oh, did they just get Nick at night there with Dennis the Menace? He goes, I see show. Little blond

boy. Little blond boy. He says, I get you Mr.. Wilson he fuck mr. Wilson in ass every night I get is I laugh so hard. They say mr. Wilson he fall off roof this fucking bum Then is that is a real rascal this thing he hold with rubber band pull back shoot rocks off fucking hilarious man Shoot rocks off! Fucking hilarious man! It's people right in the ass! Wow, wait till they get Bart Simpson, they're gonna lose their fucking minds over there. Tell you what. Eat my shorts! Eat my shorts or say cowabunga dude, you know? Right?

Am I right or what? I can't eat my shorts he says. That was great Jimmy. So no contest for some reason this fight is. I don't know what happened. Both of them, I don't know, both of them had a stroke and fell over. So December 13th, 2013, Nestoris Batzelis. Oh Jesus, he's 1-0 coming into this fight and Rico beats him. Next up

Deon the Soldier starring. The Soldier this is wow interesting 31 and 10 final fight championship 17. He loses to Deon. Old neon Deon here. Retires after the second round. He says no more thank you. Next up June 13th, 2005 How's he still doing it? 2015 Dennis the menace is back. Oh, he got him again Bosnia fight championship 2 and he loses to Dennis the menace So there you go. Now, it's a contest. He loses to him 53 and 23 Yvonne

Shit shitty shitty. Yeah- What the fuck man? What is it? Shittier Cove. Shittier Cove. That's the only way to put it. Shittier Cove? Shittier Cove. The shittier one.

S, it's probably what you said. S-H-T-Y-R. Oh, what? No vowels in there, nothing unless you count Y. K-O-V, there's one fucking real vowel in there. Shitty Rekov. Yeah, it looks like a license plate that I can't figure out.

Yeah, yeah. Like, what does that mean? It's like an F-150 and you're like, what's your truck saying? What is that, shitty Rekov? What does that mean? Is it an insult to Chevy somewhere, is that what you're like, what's your truck saying? What is that? Shitty, what does that mean? Is it an insult to Chevy somewhere? Is that what you're doing?

Are you peeing on Dodges? What's happening right now? What is that? His nickname is Ural Hulk. Ural is the region, the mountain region, the Ural region, he's a Russian type guy, but it sounds like he's a Hulk from a urinal that pops out of a urinal.

He loses to I Rico does here at Titov boxing promotion Shitty or cov versus Rodriguez TKO with punches of this is so he loses that Next up Gilbert the hurricane Gavelle loses to him to 53 and 25 now next up January January 20th, 2018. Very recent here, a few years. Nandor Gyulmino, the Hun he goes by. Rico beats him. It's this guy's last fight. Yeah, by a submission with a forearm choke. Next up, Alex the Spartan Nicholson. He loses to the Spartan here. This is a Cam Soda Legends is the name of the thing, the name of the event.

TKO submission to punches in a minute and 27 seconds. This kind of pummels him into submission. So he says, people keep beating the shit out of me. Yeah, it's not going well. I should diversify and do something new. What I'm gonna do is bare-knuckle boxing because with little gloves on I'm getting knocked out. I should probably get hit with bare-knuckles now.

The gloves are weighing my punches down. That's, they're making me slow. That's what it is. This is June 2nd, 2018. He fights Louis Rumsey at Bare Knuckle FC held on June 2nd 2018 this goes all five rounds by the way two minute rounds and he wins by unanimous decision next up Hatef Moeal he's got too many vows the other guy he needs to loan this guy some vows the other one. This is moe il Moyle moe il you're a moe il. He's gonna he's gonna circumcise you chief. That's what's happening

Eastern block circumciser ha teff boss is his nickname moe il the moe il beats him And afterwards like I said you get circumcised if the moe il beats you happens every match. That's the rules by decision 57 and 27 And that's it for that. It seems like so that's so many fights He was the king of the cage heavyweight champion once the UFC heavyweight champion once the YA MMA pit fighting Tournament semi-finalist an an Ultimate Warrior Challenge Heavyweight Champion, I don't know if that's the Ultimate Warrior you have to beat

to win that or not, the UWC British Heavyweight Champion once, the Cage Fight Series Heavyweight Championship once, and then he won all of his shit, so there you go. He looks like he is currently the Renzo Gracie martial arts training center in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Looks like he is listed as a professor on their website. Okay, so he's helping. He's was training. Yeah, he's training people. He said that's he said that he's training and teaching where he has been

Passing down his wealth of knowledge to the net next generation. Yeah, this is how you get out of a DUI Perk up your ears Make sure she's unconscious. Okay She can't be conscious like at all or it will fuck the whole thing up. You need the cops to make her make her more Kind of like lapper some smelling salts, right? He's appeared in an episode of the history channel series human weapon in which he faced bill duff in a draw Don't know why they were doing that also appears in the bonus footage of the smashing machine the life and times of extreme fighter mark Kerr DVD we've all seen that, obviously.

Can't get enough of Rico Rodriguez? Oh my God, yeah. Well, you can get his UFC official fight gloves signed Rico Rodriguez UFC champ in gold marker. 12 bucks. 139.99. What? Yep, you can get that.

The audacity, how dare they? It's probably him selling it too. I know it's American icon autographs, it's probably him, just I need the money guys. Then there's another picture of him, it's a signed 8x10 if you're looking to get a little cheaper here, $39.99 where he is... Really taking it in the ass. Looks like he's having sex with a man in the corner of a ring. He's got his legs around him. Some gay missionary.

It's some good stand-up missionary right there. He's giving him the once over over here. So he signed that one too. Here is me after full penetration. That's $39.99 and that everybody is Rico Rodriguez. Just kind of a jerk off. Yeah. Kind of a wasted life. Just kind of a jerk off. Yeah. Kind of a wasted life.

And it's just a wasted career. That's really shocking how you go from beating Randy Couture, who's one of the biggest names in UFC ever. Oh, Hall of Famer. I mean, the guy's in fucking movies with Sly Stallone now. I knew who he was before we started this show, and I don't know shit about MMA, and never really watched it, and I knew who he was. Like, this show, and I don't know shit about MMA,

and never really watched it, and I knew who he was. Like I was like, oh yeah. Tim Sylvia's just, that guy's enormous. You can't. He's fucking huge. He'll never beat that guy. No, so he never fulfilled,

I mean after beating Kotor, you'd expect him to be the next big thing, and whenever he got one step forward, he would take three steps back. That's what his thing was. Because he seems like he's lazy, and he likes to do drugs and fuck off yeah but he probably thought that he was gonna be like this giant guy that you know I mean nobody's gonna be bigger than him and then he saw Tim Sylvia yeah that guy's a

wall of a human being he's so big big. But I mean, his ideal fighting weight isn't 300 fucking pounds, you know what I mean? So I think he was champ when he was like 245. That's where he should be. 242.50 is probably his shit, his jam. But if you're so lazy, you put on an extra 50 pounds, you can't be training that hard. You just can't be.

And there's guys out there that are eating glass every day fucking training their balls off. You can't Yeah, and he's bigger than you and he trains harder Oh, you can't can't get over in the 90s You might be able to get over on some size and a little bit of skill But once these this became a real serious thing with guys now it's you got to be fucking amazing at this shit There's no getting over these guys are will tear you apart So gonna be pound for pound the best fighter. It's wild.

Yeah. It's crazy stuff. So there you go everybody. There is Rico Suave Rodriguez. He's a bad man. He's a bad man. The one thing he did was just so terrible it casts appall over anything he could have done. He could have saved eight children from a burning building. I'd go, I don't trust him still. He could have saved that other guy who smothered his two year old. Yeah. He could have saved the two year old and I would have still said, I don't trust him still. He could have saved that other guy who smothered his two-year-old. Yeah, he could have saved the two-year-old. And I would have still said, I don't trust this guy.

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Good for you, Natalie. Thank you so much. Stone Toad, Samantha Barnes, Wooper God, Icky would know last name, Don would know last name, Gloria Haley. What is it? Say it again. Woods, obviously, for Icky would know last name, Don would know last name, Gloria Haley, what is it? Say it again. Woods obviously for Icky. It's for sure, it has to be.

It might just be Ick. Shill 34, Wendy Middleton, Carey Cormack, Alicia Caniso, Tom Kowalski, Chris would know last name, Kimberly Pratt, Carter Lee, Veronica Barth, Samantha Smith, Melissa Urbonik, Bobby Goldsmith, Young with no last name, Sterney with no last name, Haley with no last name, Amanda Johnson, Megan with no last name, Seb Casablanca's, Madison Gordy, Flower Moon Bagels, Wayne McKinley, Abby Testa, Travis Payne, Rebecca Patterson, Abby Braun, Laurie Espe, Denise Fries, Samson Nelson, Sarah Maloon, Matt Barnes,

Kimberly would know last name, Casey James, Petruccio Ataturi. Oh, Ashley Hancock. Cindy Wolf, Jenny, Jeannie, Jeannie Hammers. Yes, she does. Kayla Davenroy, Rat Baby, Dana Dahl, Courtney Ward, Susan Brown, Zoe Ford, William Chandler, James Lancaster, Liana with no last name,

Rose Brammer, Andrew Hadding, Radio, Andrew Hadding from the radio, I don't know, Troy Miner, John Murphy, Michael Nuding, Susan with no last name, Brittany Jones, Jasmine Caldwell, Raphael Mosey, Jesse Koschal, Tanya McPherson, Rick Schmitz, Rebecca, just one, not two, no it is two, it's not just one. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what it is.

Rebecca Baggett, Badjet, Trey Adler, Alder, Trey Alder, Thomas with no last name, Michelle Nazarino, Eric Widerholt, Kelly Doond. Heather Mama Miller. JB. Charlie Coker. Coach Sam with no last name. Estelle with no last name. Zachary Thompson. Kenny with no last name. Margaret McCormick. Trish Tawne. J. The letter J. Also Jen. Scott Richardson. Adam with no last name. Brittany Cox. Flutie Flakes. Levi Stiles, Zach Chalky, Fizel Isbay, Isbay, Isbay, Fizel Isbay, Kerry with no last name, oh, maybe not. All right, J.L. Pipe.

You had a fucking epiphany there. Sure did, Ethan M. Schaaf, Lisa Milbrot, Michelle Curtin, Jen, no, that's Jed Frederick, Cathy Kathleen Jefferson, Martha Mayer, Jason Sabine, Sabine, Aaron Howard, Kai would know last name, John Weaver, John Erickson, Jill Rini, Jolene Black, Rock Trotter, Jean Mensinger, Ricky would know last name,

Daniel the Manual, and Jenny Pithicus. Nicole Garcia loves us, James, in case you didn't know. We love you back. She would like us to know that in case you didn't know. We love you back. She would like us to know that. Cody Argue, L. Sperry, Lucas Schulz, Lee Rutledge, Ashley would know last name, JB would know last name, Jason Molasse, Desiree Kern, Mike Elliott, Christopher Kilburn, Jackie would know last name,

Samantha Binkley, Aaron Hoskins, Frackle Rock, Matthew Golden, Riley Moran, Ryan would know last name, Hope Eggers, Noah would know last name, Dana Bengel's sister, Gavin Long, I mean, we all know Dana. I like to know, well yeah, we all gotta know. Gotta know who the brother is. Who they're related to, obviously. No other way.

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