Dana White: A Winner's Mindset On Business, Health, & What It Takes To Get What You Want In Life

33:12And I mean, he and I are at a level now that it's just like, he's, he's one of my best friends. He's funny. He's hilarious. He's hilarious. He's one of the greatest human beings that you will ever meet. He, he, he is cares about people. You know, he always talks about America first, but notice he's stopping all these wars that are happening all over the world right now. And it just, I can't say enough good things about him and his family. I'll tell you, I'll tell you this, this quick story. So I'm with him for the last election at Mar-a-Lago. It's me, him, Elon Musk, and it looks like he's going to win, right?

33:54It's, it's, it's leading. Elon Musk called it way before anybody else, but it looks like he's going to win. So, you know, we're at Mar-a-Lago. There's 30 ,000 people there. Everybody's all over me. He's like, I'm gonna go to the convention center that's where his after thing is and he's gonna speak and all that stuff and uh he's like you I said I'm good you go do your thing whatever I get in my car I go to the to the convention center so we're in his room and it's me him his family his whole family and like one of his other really good friends they call it he won the election you know i hug him congrats and i sort of just fade off into the corner and let him and his family have their moments and you know then he's going to go out on stage we spill out and there's these kids he's such an animal he's been on the road for like three weeks he hasn't slept and how does he do that yeah it's i've never ever seen a more resilient human being this guy a harder working guy and just he doesn't end now there's all these young kids that are working on his look these kids haven't slept in days, right?

35:04Maybe even weeks, who knows, but they're all crying and, and, you know, um, you know, they're coming up and they're thanking me and, and, and, and all this stuff. And I'm in the corner, him and his family are getting ready to walk out on stage. And he starts looking around and he looks at me and he puts his hands up like this. And I'm like, what? He's like, get over here. Like, oh my God, I'm, you know, going out on stage. So I start to walk to the back of the line. Eric Trump grabs me and goes, uh, you're in the front of the line. and then we go out there and none of that was planned i wasn't going out on stage and then i end up speaking at the thing but him and his family are the best people that that you could possibly meet they're all really really good people and yeah ivanka's done this show and we never met her prior to doing this actually no lauren's met her doing the show my first time meeting her was on the show and i can corroborate that like one of the nicest people that ivanka's incredible and her husband, Jared Kushner.

36:01I mean, I literally in the first term, I didn't know Jared Kushner. We'd never met, whatever. During the first term, I met Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner and I are - I sent him a message after everything that's gone on, especially with Peace in the Middle East. And I was like, listen, like talk about just an incredible accomplishment. I mean, in my opinion, they're not getting nearly enough credit for that because what he's done is nothing short of a miracle, right? A hundred percent. I mean, what they have done, they did it in the first term too they'll never get credit for it now but in history they'll be looked back upon as you know the the uh incredible brilliant humans that they are the whole family is just they're all good people i text ivanka and told her i was coming here and she said a paragraph of the nicest things about you very very nice things she told me to be myself and i thought really are you sure she said be myself you don't meet jared and ivanka and not absolutely love them and adore them they are incredible people you and your wife met in eighth grade michael and i met in sixth grade oh shit all right so we have like a kind of a similar situation going i was telling your your fabulous team that her dad caught us in the closet half naked when we were 12 yeah michael my dad interrupted your 30 second blowjob that you were like and it was back in the day where he picked me up by the collar, threw me in his car, drove me down to the mall.

37:27We were 12. So do you blame my dad? Right. And I saw, you know, they had those slits in the, in the, uh, like the, what's it called? The closet, you know, like from a movie, we were looking out through the shades and he grabbed me and he threw me in the car, went down the mall. And this was before cell phones. We had pagers and I had to get on a pay phone to my dad and her parents like, you're going to boarding school. You're never coming back to this school. I pick up the phone. I call my dad and I said, dad, I'm in real trouble. What the hell do I do? And I'm silence. And all I heard is just bellowing laughter at the end of the day.

37:54All he did was laugh at me. He's like, you idiot, you should have jumped off the balcony. And like, so that, and ever since then, like that was the rest is history. What is the moment that you met your wife? Was it like in a classroom? Yeah. In class in eighth grade. And I was the new kid in school. I had just gone to that school and literally they had a bench outside and I was like sitting on the bench and her and a couple of her friends came up and started talking to me. And they were like the first kids that I met in class. Yeah. And then her and I had a relationship, friends, all through high school and whatever.

38:23And then I moved to Boston right after we graduated and we always kept in touch. And then when I came back to Vegas, she picked me up from the airport and we've been together ever since. What would your wife say that you're like at home? I don't know. That's a good question. What am I like at home? I mean, I'm the same at home as I am here. I mean, it's not like what you see with me is what you get. it's not like i'm any different at home than i am here who's the cook you or her neither neither yeah we have a chef okay i i thought you were gonna say that i'm just wondering if you're like in the kitchen grilling up a steak her family they're italian so you know her family was always cooking on sundays like her dad her dad passed away during covid but her dad was was was the big cook in the family you know pasta and you know he made the sauce they're from chicago so scalina scalina telly vibe how do you say it yeah scalina telly yeah it would be a great restaurant if you could remember how to pronounce it i know but you know it's a long name if you could remember how to pronounce it's a long name maybe more popular it is the dumbest name of all time for such a great restaurant what does scalina telly even mean is that the dictionary lenae scalina telly maybe it's a family mean something call it dana's how do you guys think about family values?

39:39Oh, they're Italian. I mean, it's all about family. I mean, you don't see, if you like Google my wife, you don't see too much about my wife. My wife, all she cares about is being home with her kids and her family. That's it. We bought her mom a house, two houses down from us. How's it going? Good. No, I like my in-laws. I've always liked my in-laws. So it's, you know, even when I was a kid, you know, I've known them my whole life, basically. I bet your in-laws I mean, I bet they can believe it, but I bet they're just like in awe of what you've accomplished. Yeah, it's pretty crazy because when I did come back and we got married, it's like, you know, I was in the fight business, but not like this, you know.

40:21With three children, what are the things that you want to instill in them? What do you want them to inherit from you? Hmm. Well, my kids have been very lucky that, you know, that they've had a strong family foundation at home, you know, with my wife and her family, the whole Italian thing. And, you know, they've learned on my side that hard work is the only way you get anything in life and you get anything done. I guess, um, all I really expect from my kids and all I really want for them is to be happy. Because at the end of the day, when you talk about what is success, how do you define success?

41:02How do you define, I think that being successful means being happy. When you get up every day and you're happy with your life, no matter what it is you decide to do. I don't care if my kids want to pump gas for a living. If that's what they love to do, then do it. I think the hardest thing in life is to be happy. You run into a lot of people. I say this all the time. You know how many guys I know with money that are the most miserable motherfuckers you will ever meet in your life? When I was broke, I was really happy. Now that I'm not broke, I'm still really happy. I just, I love what I do. I love my life and, you know, everything that I ever wanted to do, I have done.

41:47If I was still training people and doing what I was doing back then, if none of this happened, I'd still be happy. How do you deal with pressure? i heard you i love it i love it and and i'm i got this weird thing about me if if i if i don't have enough of it i create more oh my gosh i call it saber-toothed tiger why is that because every time everything's good he's looking for the saber-toothed tiger and he wants the tiger to come out and hang out with it i feel like i get more stress tiger so you you know i have a saber-toothed tiger he he wants a real one in the other room oh you have a real one yeah you really actually own one yeah it's in the other room i gotta show it to you now we have to take a picture next to that yeah okay that's i'm gonna need there's a flex to be like i actually i actually have one yeah wait so you like the pressure you crave it love the pressure it's i i got a buddy i got a buddy that works for you he'll he'll come in and tell you if he's not whatever he'll light himself on fire fucking you know i love i love pressure and i love stress love it i absolutely love it and what do you mean you create more for it if you don't have it like what like what are some things you'll do yeah i i don't know i i i uh i got the ufc now i'm getting into boxing did power slap we're doing jujitsu you know i'm adding if you'd have told me when i was 36 that i'd be busier when i'm 56 i would have never believed it i mean when i was growing up when you were my age you were looking at i'm i'm getting in my 60s here in the next, you know, the next 10 years, I'll be looking at retiring.

43:24I'm actually adding more onto my plate. Yeah. I love it. Well, I mean, think about even like the guy we were talking about earlier, like he's, you know, still handling all the shit that he's, I don't think you can ever stop. He's another level. I'm telling you right now, Donald Trump is another level when it comes to just, I mean, he is an absolute workhorse. And if you look at what he went through, you know, the last you know five years literally trying to destroy him and his family and he would just i mean i would talk to this guy and i'd ask him why are you doing this go jump on your boat and you know no he loves it he's he's an absolute killer man are you a guy that can do that and jump on a boat for a period of time or you can't just yeah yeah every year so i never gave a shit about Italy.

44:10You can care less about Italy. Then I went to Italy. Italy and especially like the Amalfi coast, like other than the top of California all the way down to like Cabo, the greatest stretch of land on planet earth. It's a toss up between those two places, right? I gotta agree with you. And the Amalfi coast is just unbelievable. The people in Italy, the food, the water, all of it. The first time that I ever went and did it, I said to my wife, I'm going to do this for the rest of my life every summer. You know, there's a reason the richest, most powerful people in the world go to Amalfi every summer.

44:50So I'm going to do it either till I die or go broke, whichever happens first. And how long can you, can you do that and kind of disconnect and go with your family? No more than 10 days. By day seven, I'm tired of putting lotion on my skin. I'm tired of you know it just it just becomes I can't wait to get back to work yeah I think that's interesting for people to hear because people will hear us about that place and they'll aspire like oh that retirement looks good but even someone like you who you could do that you could just sit out there and do nothing but that but you choose to come back the greatest thing in the world to go to go do that I tell all my all the guys who can actually afford it that have never done it, I tell them, I'm telling you right now, it's a game changer.

45:33It's one of the greatest times you'll ever have in your life. And when you do it on a boat, you literally, so you go to bed at night and you're in Sicily. You wake up the next day, you know, and you're in another spot that's just as beautiful or even more amazing than the last spot you were in. It is indescribable and everybody has to experience it in their lifetime. Is that how you celebrate your success? to do pizza champagne gambling what's the way you celebrate it i would say no i wouldn't say gambling is i gambled when i was broke too but but celebrating my success is is a molfi and doing it on a boat there's no doubt about that's my it is there's no hotel that you will ever stay at that's nicer there's no restaurant you'll ever eat in where the food is better and there is no greater time that you will spend with people that you care about than on that boat i'm gonna play that while you're sleeping so I get to do that trip next year.

46:27It doesn't take that much convincing. No I think that's just convinced you next year that's where I expect to be next summer. Well if you see you know all the most successful guys in the world that's what they end up doing. I mean when we get down into Capri you know you'll start up you start up at like the corner of France and then you travel all the way down through Amalfi and hit all these different places over 10 days and you want to spend the last three or four days in Capri which in my opinion is the greatest place on earth and then when you pull in with these boats you got Zuckerberg's over here Gates over there you got Bezos over here I mean that those are all the boats that are around you speaking of Zuckerberg why did you decide to get involved with meta I thought that was a really interesting move well I didn't decide they actually called me and asked me he asked me if I would be on his board and I would have never dreamed that I would be interested in being on a board so it was I mean, if you're going to be on a board, yeah, meta's the board you want to be on.

47:28So when I accepted that, my thought process was, you know, when I get there and I do my first board meeting, it was actually the first board thing they did. It was dinner at his house. You do a board dinner at his house. And when I got in there, I mean, the people that are on this board are all brilliant, all have a ton of value to add in these conversations and and and Zuckerberg this guy starts these board meetings at like 8 39 in the morning and the timing on how this is timed out he doesn't he's not off by a second the entire time you're at this board meeting and everybody that's on the board, you know, when they, when they speak on whatever the topic is, I mean, it's, it's incredible.

48:20I'm literally on the edge of my seat from eight 39 in the morning till six o 'clock at night during these board meetings. And every time I leave, I'm blown away by what we talked about input that the other board members had. And it is absolutely fascinating and i'm so glad that i said yes what was your what would you think your big input was when you initially got involved because i know you're very much against censorship and i'll put it to you this way okay the first board dinner my my my philosophy was you know the first couple board meetings i'm gonna shut the fuck up and learn and listen I did the complete opposite.

49:06My first dinner, I said, now I know exactly why I was asked to be on this board. I know my place and I know my position on this board. And through the first two meetings, I think that there's a perception of people that you have until you meet them. And after our first board dinner, I started to create relationships with the other members of the board, even ones that I think probably didn't like me coming in, knowing what they see and hear about me other than actually meeting me and, you know, getting the opportunity to talk to me. So it's been a great experience for me. I have so much respect for the guys and women.

49:50The women on this board are absolute gangsters and absolutely brilliant and add so much value to the, the whole it's it's it's awesome i can't say enough good things about it i'm so glad i did it outside of you know obviously you being an extremely accomplished entrepreneur yourself did you ever figure out why they chose like they picked you and they could pick you know there's so many people they could pick yeah i wouldn't say it publicly uh but yeah i i knew the first 30 minutes into the first board dinner why i was there yeah and what my job was on the board but but mark mark did rogan and i'm on his podcast he said uh we we brought dana white in because this company needs a backbone.

50:27This was his quote. Yeah. It was a weird four years trying to put out content. And I run, you know, a media business regularly. We produce a lot of shows outside of this one. I call it like a hundred or so shows. And my big thing is like, I'm never going to tell people what they can do or not do or say or not say on these properties. And as you can imagine, like, and you've dealt with this to a great degree, it's, it's challenging because you're getting pressure from both sides. Yep. And, and, you know, Zuckerberg's another guy that everybody saw the movie right so you see the movie and you hear all these things about him and and people talk a bunch of shit about him Zuckerberg when you get into a board meeting with this guy and you watch him run this board and and and talk about every single one of his businesses and the people that he brings in and just the team that he has built that the CFO CFO at Meta.

51:25The first day that I went to Meta and we were going to have our first board meeting, they had this huge, like I had all their employees from all over the world. They were all talking about the business. His CFO got up and spoke and I was blown away. She's absolutely brilliant and incredibly badass. And when you listen to her speak on calls going toe-to-toe with these Wall Street guys. It's what he has built, who he is as a person. By the way, too, people talk shit about Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is actually a great athlete. He trains in MMA. He surfs. He does all this shit. You know, everybody. Zuckerberg will beat the shit out of you, okay?

52:07Everybody thinks he's some, you know, some computer nerd. Mark Zuckerberg will beat the living shit out of you. All these guys that talk stuff about him on the internet. Yeah. So who would have won? He'll kick your ass. Him or Elon, who would have won? Listen, that's, Elon is much older and weighs more. But the thing is with Elon too, that we found out during the promotion of that fight was, you know, he grew up doing judo. So he's a judo guy. So that whole thing was fascinating. That was fun too. I'm sure. And a fun moment in my career. like conor mcgregor versus floyd mayweather and we we traveled and did that you know the press conferences and all the different cities around the world incredible fun period of my career but but promoting the elon zuckerberg fight and trying to put that thing together was a lot of fun too but the moral of the story is all of you you know telephone tough guys and internet tough guys that talk shit about mark zuckerberg zuckerberg will beat the shit out of every one of you just for the record.

53:08Dana, you have exceeded my expectations, really. What's the biggest misconception about you? There probably aren't any. I'm probably not as far right as everybody thinks I am. Everybody thinks I'm like far right. I literally, up until the world lost its mind, considered myself to be liberal. I leaned, you know, a little left, but I would say that's probably the biggest misconception everybody thinks i'm like some far right you know i'm not really even that political to be honest with you you're also very warm warm yeah oh thank you yeah that's i think you were saying like some people were surprised when they got to know you at the meta dinner yeah that's i think like that's something about you that i can see is you're warm you're disarming thank you how do you think about what to give your time to and how and and time management as a whole.

54:01Yeah. It's, it's one of the most difficult things for anybody who runs a business or has a family or has to work and has to work and, and, and figure out, you know, how you divide your time up. You know, I say this all the time. It's, you know, I have a lot of things. I have acquired a lot of things in life. A lot of time is not one of them. Time is the, is, is the enemy to all of us. I, you know, my wife would disagree, but I take as many trips as that, you know, I think for as busy as I am and all the things I have, you know, we probably do four big family trips a year. That's a lot. That's what I said.

54:37She disagrees. She would make it be 55 if she could, but I try to take as much time as I can to spend, you know, with, with my family, spend quality time with my kids as much as I can. And, you know, try to get all the shit done in a day that I have to get done. But it's, it's the hardest thing that everybody in life has to figure out this balance of work, relaxation, and family time. And outside of family, how do you decide who gets your time? Nicole decides mostly who gets in. Lene. Thank you, Lene. Yeah, Lene and Nicole are the two that decide how I spend my time during the day. But I try to do as much as I can to, you know, I don't ever want to be that guy that doesn't, I don't know, give back.

55:21I meet with a lot of people that want to come in here and pitch me things. I mean, this room right here is like Shark Tank. Every day, people are in here pitching me business ideas, looking for advice or trying to raise money. And I try to meet with as many of those people as I possibly can. It becomes incredibly, incredibly tough. You know, it bangs my schedule up every day, but I like to do it. I like to do it. We have a great intern program here, which I love. every intern that comes. I meet with every intern when they come in and I meet with them all when they leave. One of my favorite things to do.

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1:02:22You have to be consistent. Consistency is the key to everything. And it's not easy for people to, to be consistent in anything. You know, it's like, like Gary Breckett, you want, you want, you want to get all your numbers dialed in or whatever you have to be consistent. Like right now, like I could show you videos, uh, like a year ago, beginning of summer i went off the deep end this summer i was eating everything and yesterday i i am where's my phone i'm on a uh i'm on a fast right now i just started i'm i'm 19 hours into a fast like a like a water fast or yeah i'm doing a water fast i won't eat again till like i think it's gonna be wednesday do you do those often i'll be in the middle east i'm heading to the middle east tomorrow and i'm gonna do this fast kickstart it i'm in the middle east for the next three weeks, I literally had them put the oxygen in my room.

1:03:15I had them put a treadmill in there, the cold plunges in my room, and they got a great gym at all the places that I have to go in the Middle East. I am going to rip off 20 pounds on the next three weeks. I'm going to go absolutely batshit crazy. And yeah, I'm going to murder it over the next three weeks while I'm in the Middle East. So is that how your mind works? It's like when you tell yourself you're doing something, it's like there's no negotiation. Consider it done. If I say I'm doing it, consider it done. It's going to happen. What's the key to pitching you? You said you get a lot of people in here like Shark Tank.

1:03:44What's the secret? What gets you interested? Yeah. So if I'm not interested in it personally, there's a lot of other people I can send them to, to go pitch and raise money. And if anything that they get out of meeting with me is I can get them in front of the right people. And even if these people don't take what they're selling, they're going to learn a lot, you know, over the next two or three meetings that I'll set them up with. And, you know, I know there's guys that I met that to do this, you have to give them a piece, right? If I set you up and you go meet, you know, if I set her up with you, she goes and meets you, you give her the money, she gets a deal.

1:04:26I get a piece, right? I don't do that. I set people up and I do it because I want to see you do it. I want to see you win and I want to see you be successful. I'm not doing it because I'm looking for a piece. I can't stand that shit. That drives me crazy. It feels a little slimy. Yeah. I hate it. I hate it. Some of our audience is just starting out in their career. What advice do you give to your kids? Yeah. I think that it is the most interesting time in human history right now. Yeah. Now, when I grew up in the eighties, there was a lot of old money and you know to really get out there and and and create something different and be it was almost impossible now everything is about disrupting everything is being disrupted the biggest businesses that have existed since you know for a hundred years are being disrupted right now and with this thing anything is possible you know you don't need let's say you have a concept for a tv show and you want to go pitch it to all the cable companies all the majors everybody else you don't need them you go right on youtube you can go on facebook you know you can go on instagram and you can create anything that you want by yourself at very low cost yeah i mean think about this platform and platforms like it when we started doing this people were like what the hell are you doing why would you do it and now like I just call podcasts the new talk shows.

1:05:56I don't even call them podcasts anymore. They're just shows. They live everywhere. It's not just audio, they're video, they're YouTube. The streamers will pick them up, in my opinion. And it's so much more cost-effective to do it. But outside of that, there's no more gatekeepers. When we wanted to do this 10 years ago, we didn't have to ask permission. We just started talking to people. And there was no barrier to entry. It was like, there's competition, for sure. Still a lot. But there was nobody saying, yes, you can do this, or you can't. where in your day, you had to get the green light from someone.

1:06:25100%. Power slap. So this, when our rights deal was up with Rumble, right, we started pitching all the networks, going all the networks. I had a few network deals. But as we started to dive into the network deals, they're telling me, ah, we don't want, we don't like this. We want to change that. And then you start getting into sponsorship. And I said, you know what? I don't want to be on TV. I want to stay on YouTube. I went out and cut my own rights deal. You know what I mean? to stay on YouTube and it reaches more people. I walked you through the numbers. You know, these guys did six, we did 10.

1:06:56I mean, look at the, like the Pierce Morgans and the Megan Kellys and the tuckers of the world that all left and said, fuck it, we're just going to do our own thing. A hundred percent. Right. Yep. That's, that's what exists now. That is what's possible. Any of these kids out there, you know, first of all, to be successful, you have to be creative, right? Any of these content creators out there, like these kids, when, when they show up to our events, I just let them go create, do what you do. You've obviously been very successful at it. Do what you do. Number one. Number two is you have to be a fucking animal.

1:07:28You have to be a savage. You have to go out. And, and, and I feel like this, this next generation is so weak. If you even have this much of it in you, you will run everybody over. Why do you say that? I want to know why you think this generation's weak. I keep on that because I feel like if you look at the way that they act the things that they say and everybody's offended by something or you know it's just very weak very weak there's there they've gotten used to being comfortable in every which way I agree and and you I'll give you an example I hate protesting. I don't care which side it is, who it is.

1:08:10Protesting is the dumbest waste of time. So I built an arena right here next to the headquarters here. They were literally putting the last screw in the building when COVID hit. So I start working with our ex-governor. I want to put on events over here. He tells me no. I'm like, what do you mean no? I'll social distance. I'll do whatever the bullshit is. I'll do it. Right. And I got my own arena. No. So then I started thinking, now, you know what I could have done? I could have protested. Could have got a bunch of idiots together. What be it? We could have marched up and down the street. We want to fight blocking traffic.

1:08:49What is that? Not only is that going to achieve nothing, it's going to piss off a lot of other people toward your cause. And cause you're inconveniencing them. What I did was got in here every day and started grinding and figuring out how i could put on fights obviously it's not going to happen in my state with this governor so i need an island you know that's i don't know why i had island in mind but you know place that's isolated end up actually being in it no it was like a bubble though it was what did you it was like a bubble you built yeah yeah we created the only real true bubble that existed in sports so you know we end up with Fight Island and Abu Dhabi and the thing's a huge success.

1:09:29I could have been in Las Vegas protesting all through COVID trying to fight, you know, don't be that guy. Don't be that guy or girl. Part of being an entrepreneur and part of being successful in life is solving problems. You're always going to have problems to solve. And this can be in business or in your personal life. Every day when you get out of bed, life's standing right there to kick you in the teeth and you got to figure out how to get through it. Come downstairs, got a flat tire. Oh shit, I'm going to be late to work. I got to do this, that. You're always solving problems. Be a problem solver.

1:10:03Yeah, it's always funny to me. Like you'll see someone, I'll just, a random example. Someone like a Kim Kardashian will pull something out of a concert that says work, you got to work your fucking ass off or work, work, work, whatever. And they give her so much shit. And it's like, well, don't you think the better lesson is to figure out like how that person got to where they are? And like, maybe there's a lesson there as opposed to just being - I got what she was saying about that. I understood exactly what she was saying. But I've never met one. I mean, we've done almost a thousand of these.

1:10:24I've never met one highly accomplished entrepreneur that's like, yeah, I just kind of happened. Like I just kind of floated into it. Well, you know who it doesn't happen for? The people that you see. I see them all the time on Instagram and on social media, the posts. Oh, he has this because of this. Oh, she has this because. No, that's not how it works. You know what, man? Anybody you see that has something significant, they work their ass off to get there. even you know catching up with the kardashians film that fucking show every season what how hard that is and what a pain in the ass it is and what you have to go through just to film that show it seems oh big deal they come nah nah it's a big deal i've been doing reality tv you know for 35 seasons believe me i know and they're not in my house they're that's just over at the gym yeah These people are in their house, in their cars, up their ass, 24-7 filming these shows.

1:11:22It's not easy, and it's definitely not fun. Dana White, you're a legend. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Where can everyone find all the things you're working on? Thanks for having me. I will be on Paramount, Paramount CBS starting January. We just signed a new deal with those guys. That's actually my next meeting is all the Paramount people are coming in, and we're going to go through the new marketing plans leading into January for boxing, UFC, and a lot of other stuff I'm working on with them. Is this in front of the Sabertooth or in a gym? Yeah, yeah, no. Well, that's next. I'm going to take you to show you the Sabertooth.

1:11:57That's amazing. So crazy. You brought up Sabertooth and we got one in the other room. Maybe we'll run into you into Scalina Telly or whatever, however you say it. Yeah, Scalina Telly. Or Pizza Arte. Pizza Arte. Dana, thank you for doing this, for hosting us. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me