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00:00The one at the top of the card, the one headlining it is, of course, the Florida's own Jared
00:08Captain Deadpool Warren, the champion at Light Heavyweight Division coming in here and talking
00:11to us now.
00:12Jared, thanks so much for joining us.
00:13We're looking forward to this fight.
00:14You defending your title against the Richmond, the Marine, of course.
00:18We'll talk about that in just a couple minutes, but first, I want to talk about what you guys
00:22have been going through down there, obviously, for people who may have missed it.
00:25We talked about it on our Thanksgiving show kind of at the end, trying to get some love
00:28out there.
00:29We had a few fights before that when it first happened as well, but, you know, you and Crystal
00:33Pittman, of course, down there in Tampa going through some tough times after the storms
00:39that ripped through there, the back-to-back hurricanes that ripped through the Florida
00:42area.
00:43Tell us about what was going on, what happened with you guys and your house and the flooding
00:47and how things have been since.
00:49Oh, man, it's been a, it was definitely a rough go the last few months.
00:56Yeah, the hurricanes hit us hard, flooded my house really bad, lost, you know, the majority
01:03of everything I own.
01:04We had to, you know, throw away all of our furniture, you know, pull up all our floors,
01:09pull out all the walls because, you know, once it soaks in, it can create mold real
01:14easily.
01:15So, you know, the house was completely gutted and, you know, we've been, we were doing a
01:22mix between staying in hotels and Airbnbs and towards the end, I had a buddy loan me
01:27his RV.
01:28So, we, you know, we're living in that for a couple of months, but, you know, just been
01:34grinding, man.
01:35You know, I haven't been able to take off work during the period, but when I wasn't
01:40at the fire department, you know, working on the house, had, you know, a couple of key
01:45good friends helping me out and, you know, now we're on kind of the other side of it.
01:51A couple of weeks ago, we were finally able to start sleeping back in the house.
01:56You know, it's not finished.
01:57We still got a lot of finishing touches to do, but overall, it's been coming around nice
02:02and it's really awesome to be able to, you know, sleep in the house and, you know, start
02:08to get a feel of normalcy back.
02:11I'm sure it has, you know, when you have all the things you're going through, not just
02:14the, you know, the breakdown of everything and the loss of what you have, but, you know,
02:17then you got to deal through insurance and all their, you know, BS as they try to mess
02:21with you as you're trying to just get your life back together.
02:23And as you said, you know, you being a firefighter, it's not like you could just say, all right,
02:26I'm going to go take some time here and deal with my issues because it wasn't just you,
02:29you know, hit hard there as well.
02:31You know, of course, it happened at a terrible time too, because I know you guys were supposed
02:36to be in a whole shift MMA and shift combat sports supposed to be out there in Spain supporting
02:41Dave Mundell.
02:42Unfortunately, I know you guys couldn't.
02:43What was it like though, from your perspective as, you know, a firefighter, as a first responder
02:47out there dealing with not just, you know, your own issues and your own problems there,
02:50but you're trying to help people through their stuff.
02:52What has it been like for the community at large dealing with those issues, the issues
02:55and the flooding and all the seawater and stuff that came in to the area and messing
02:59people's lives?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Yeah.
03:02A lot of people got hit hard and, you know, whenever I'm at work, I was able to see a
03:10lot of that.
03:11And, you know, I would try and, you know, at least communicate with them some, you know,
03:17some of the people, they try and lean on you and be like, yeah, you know, we lost everything,
03:21this and that.
03:22I'm like, well, probably doesn't make you feel any better, but, you know, the rest of
03:26us aren't immune to it.
03:27I was like, it happened to myself as well, but, you know, hopefully we can all, you know,
03:32push through and in a few months won't be anything but, you know, a bad memory.
03:37But it's, yeah, it's definitely been, it's been trying, you know what I mean?
03:46Most of the time I just would work and when I was on my days off, I would put my time
03:50into training and, you know, didn't have a lot of things I had to do otherwise besides
03:55your typical day-to-day stuff.
03:57But, you know, that completely changes.
04:00Working on the house, sunup to sundown and, you know, not till we got to the eight-week
04:07point from the fight, you know, I kind of had to start changing it up and be like, listen,
04:11I'm going to work until, you know, four or five o'clock and then I'm going to go, I got
04:16to go to the gym and I got to put in my time there because, you know, it's a very unforgiving
04:20sport and it's up to you whether you show up or not.
04:24And if you show up and you're not ready, then that's on you.
04:27So I'm not going in with any excuses.
04:30I never considered canceling this fight.
04:35You know, it just adds a little bit of extra adversity to it.
04:39But at the end of the day, I feel good.
04:42I feel strong.
04:43I feel ready to go in there and dominate.