WATCH: Randy Couture Tells Tom Colicchio How To Really Retire

There are two things chefs seem to love nowadays: professional fighters, fishing, and talk shows. Okay, no, there are three things, three things that chefs seem to love nowadays: professional fighting, fishing, talk shows, and day drinking. No, four things. Four things. (We’re sorry, it’s not like this is the Spanish Inquisition!)

All four of those things are in full force in today’s newest episode of Hooked Up!, where Tom Colicchio takes UFC fighter Randy Couture on his Boat Of Soul-Baring Confessions, where Couture, among other things, reveals how to actually retire and get people to take it seriously (a big feat, considering how athletes often fake-retire): tell everyone in advance that you’re doing it. “Part of me was like, making it public that it was going to be the last one, so that there was no backing out,” he explained. “You win, you start thinking, ‘You know, maybe I shouldn’t retire, so one more.'” Okay, so he came out of retirement once — “and I won the heavyweight championship again!” he laughed. “So maybe it was the right thing to do.”

Watch the rest of the trip below:

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