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Speaker 1: My name is Luke Thomas. I am one half of

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Speaker 1: your hosting duo on this lovely podcast. We call ourselves

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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know. I don't know. But that's a

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Speaker 1: different discussion for a different time. Here's what I do know.

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Speaker 1: It's time for a mailbag episode. Hi, I'm Luke Thomas.

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Speaker 1: That's Brian Campbell to can't Connecticut. But what's up BC?

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Speaker 1: have to watch BC's stupid stupid face. Yeah, Mutch, you

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Speaker 1: You go, there you go. All right, BC, let's kick

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Speaker 1: this off. We've got some questions from people who helped

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Speaker 1: us scam the rating system. There We'll go to number one.

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Speaker 1: This person has no name there there, They're just a drifter.

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Speaker 1: They come into town, they bang all the girls, and

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Speaker 1: then they leave, you know, like all eighties heroes. Who

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Speaker 1: are your top five non UFC champions?

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Speaker 2: Is this a favorite? Who we think they were the best?

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Speaker 2: What's the deal here?

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Speaker 1: What's this? What I mean?

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Speaker 2: You got to simplify here, so.

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Speaker 1: I'll say, like, when I think about who my top five,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if they're asking currently, it's harder to say.

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Speaker 1: If they're asking like historically you have to go Pride

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, who it could be? Well, here's what I

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Speaker 2: Here was it he Alva's bowdog champion?

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Speaker 1: I would say, wouldn't you add? You could add who

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Speaker 1: was like the best Strikeforce champion? Jake Shields was champed

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but you can do that too. Okay, but

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Speaker 1: there go. Those are some answers to your questions there,

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Speaker 1: all right, this is from danan or day Nan. Hi guys.

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Speaker 1: First off, you guys are my number one fave combat

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Speaker 1: sports podcast. Yeah goddamn right, And he goes and I

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Speaker 2: Just your audio whore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right, you absolute slut of audio. You guys

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Speaker 1: Hole, Luke, don't. I don't think so. I think that's

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Speaker 1: Here's the question you got to ask yourself, BC. I'm

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Speaker 2: Rule changes facilitated the NBA's change because scoring was down

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you kind of already are a little bit.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's not a coincidence that you have fighters

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Speaker 1: if this seems to me highly unlikely BC, but what

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Speaker 2: That means you're not fighting for rounds, You're fighting exclusively

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Speaker 2: I wonder that could alter or change at all. But

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Speaker 2: head like you said with I mean that, I wonder.

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Speaker 1: If that you change?

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Speaker 2: Want what rule change? I mean like, look the NFL

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Speaker 2: they had to make rule changes to protect offensive players. Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think it's gonna if anything

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Speaker 2: You want more? You want to widen the audience.

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Speaker 1: I mean no, I tend to think that the public

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Speaker 1: There's been a dramatic shift on the power the building. Now.

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Speaker 1: To your point, I do think there are going to

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Speaker 1: I take that seriously, no doubt about it. You're right,

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Speaker 2: No, the the arm rest on my chair came off.

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Speaker 1: To the next question, it's from It's from Jose. Jose says, Hello,

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Speaker 1: for the following talent trade? I don't know where. Okay,

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Speaker 2: No, No, go further, Luke, I love these type of

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Speaker 2: quiet Why wouldn't you entertain this? Why wouldn't you love

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Speaker 1: Because if you really want to tell you what the

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Speaker 1: Would Jones like it? Now that's a little bit different

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Speaker 1: AJ McKee not a million years would they make that trade?

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Speaker 2: Right now, the villains still till ye proven.

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Speaker 1: think Jones would like it? I don't think Jones would

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Speaker 2: I mean, Jones is the greatest fighter of all time

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Speaker 2: you know that, that's still and he could still be

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Speaker 2: he's still too close to there. You'd have to that

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Speaker 2: it was only about Belator getting a musty attraction, then

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Speaker 2: you could argue, are you mortgaging the future of giving

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Speaker 2: That's the spirit of that trade. Right now, we ain't there.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask a question, could you do John Jones

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Speaker 1: How much would it sell? So we're talking about that

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Speaker 2: Who's he fighting though, fade Ar? Oh shit, dude, that's

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to really know, Like, is aj

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Luke, I tend.

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Speaker 1: To I don't know if I don't know, if MMA

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Yep, that's interesting too, Like there are some

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Speaker 1: all right. This is from uh Jesse from Australia. After

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Speaker 1: a better all around fighter than Max and Bulk or

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Speaker 1: with these elite UFC feather way it's find a way

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Speaker 1: when fans start asking us, hey, could X from Bellator

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Speaker 1: so what do you think Couldy? What geez are you

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Speaker 1: pulling at Luke Thomas and listening to not a fucking word.

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Speaker 1: I am telling you.

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Speaker 2: Now, I couldn't find this. I had some old gum

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Speaker 2: and I don't know where I didn't know where I

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Speaker 1: You just put gum out of your mouth and then

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Usually before before I do HQ or an interview,

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Speaker 2: and I just have used gum sitting around. It's gross off.

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Speaker 1: You truly are a disgusting man. I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: I'll say this PC. I'd have to look at their ages.

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Speaker 1: McKee is twenty six correct.

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Speaker 2: We can't look. We cannot answer this because we haven't

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Speaker 1: Follow me here, following me here. How old is Brian

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Speaker 1: let's do this. I'm going to go through the top

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Speaker 1: ten of the UFC's featherweight division. So Volkanowski passed twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but before we even do that, I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: that we can't do this because we haven't seen him

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Speaker 2: face any kind of adversity. Some of that is due

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Speaker 2: to his dynamic.

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Speaker 1: I want to make a point. I just want to

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Speaker 1: make a point. I just want to follow me here,

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Speaker 1: follow me here. Volkanowski older than twenty six, Holloway older

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Speaker 1: than twenty six, or Tega older Rodriguez. How old is

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Speaker 1: Yaya Rodriguez. He's pretty young. I think twenty seven, okay,

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Speaker 1: So he's sitting at twenty eight, twenty eight, and he'll

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Speaker 1: be twenty nine in October. So that's him. So then

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Speaker 1: you've got Calvin Cater, who I know is older. Arnold

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Speaker 1: Allen is young. Let's see how old he is. Arnold

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Speaker 1: Alan he is twenty seven and just turn twenty seven

446
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Speaker 1: well January, so not just but okay, so he's still older.

447
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Speaker 1: Then you go to Josh Emmett older. Dan Egay I

448
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Speaker 1: think is like twenty nine. Dan Egay is thirty, okay,

449
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Speaker 1: Edson Barboza older, Giga Chikazi. I don't know how old

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Speaker 1: Giga is. Giga Chikazi, do you get Chakadze point, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to get to it. Thirty two, Okay, so that's

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Speaker 1: your top ten. That means AJ McKee. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he can beat those names, probably some, maybe not all,

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Speaker 1: but he's younger than all of them. He's younger than

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Speaker 1: everyone inside the UFC's top ten, meaning even if he

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Speaker 1: couldn't beat them now, he's got a lot of time

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Speaker 1: to catch up. Some of these guys are thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how good is aj McKee if he stays

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Speaker 1: on the straight and narrow going to be in six years,

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Speaker 1: we see he's gonna be fucking good.

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Speaker 2: So that's out. I can't figure out again if the

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Speaker 2: pitbull win is just the byproduct of that. He's a

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Speaker 2: super exciting like MVP Luke. MVP could could be anyone

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Speaker 2: on any given night because he does super ridiculous human

465
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Speaker 2: video game things right. But he also on any given night,

466
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Speaker 2: can be absolutely solved no you could say about anybody.

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Speaker 2: I get that, but I can't figure out if what

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Speaker 2: we've seen so far from AJ in his most toughest

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Speaker 2: in his toughest fights on paper has been MVP like Flash,

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Speaker 2: and he just hasn't run into like Fernando Gonzalez yet

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Speaker 2: to kind of go oh whoa. Okay, this guy is

472
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Speaker 2: no superhero, right or if he's freaking tiger Woods of Mma. Luke,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, you.

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Speaker 1: I don't know you either. I don't I don't know yet.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go here. ABC one two, Three Dragons

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Speaker 1: love Tacos. Okay, name three MMA fighters and they put

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Speaker 1: in parentheses. No boxers, BC. Name three MMA fighters that

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Speaker 1: you would most like to see a documentary about their lives.

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Speaker 1: I gotta said, you guys find them much more interesting

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Speaker 1: than I for this kind of a thing. All right,

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Speaker 1: this person says, here are my suggestions. Rose is one

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Speaker 1: matt Linlan because you have the Olympics and the fall

483
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Speaker 1: up Team quest Techanri Gomi, the Pride and alleged Yakuza

484
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Speaker 1: influence Alexander Ramenko Emilianenko. Of course, he went to prison

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Speaker 1: and has hepatitis. He's also a fad or his brother

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Speaker 1: Shinya Alki. What do you say? ABC?

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Speaker 2: Sexyama inspire choice if I shaw what his personal life

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Speaker 2: is like, Luke, He's really who I aspire to be

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Speaker 2: in life. People think I hate riz In in japanis

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Speaker 2: of nah Na Bra Na Bra Okay, Rose would be interesting.

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Speaker 2: You know. Uh, Yohanna apparently did one for HBO Poland

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Speaker 2: I'd like to check that out.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I don't want to see any documentary

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Speaker 1: if it's made by the athletes, like with like their

495
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Speaker 1: production company, like you like they hired them to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't give a I don't need your RG three

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Speaker 1: self worship. I don't need to see it at all.

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Speaker 1: Like my wife still told me, like, oh, we got

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Speaker 1: to check out this documentary on Amazon. It's about Jay Balvin.

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Speaker 1: J Balvin is this like sort of famous music producer

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Speaker 1: slash rickitts Naro and uh and it was about all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that was supposed to be like you know,

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Speaker 1: all Columbias were like raving about it. Dude, I watched it.

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Speaker 1: It was his film. He made it, and he made

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Speaker 1: himself look like the greatest most you know, pensive and

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Speaker 1: deliberate human I've ever seen. I was like, man, and

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Speaker 1: then you need somebody.

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Speaker 2: With highs and lows, then, Luke, you need it non

509
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Speaker 2: self made, and you need someone who had highs and

510
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Speaker 2: lows both in and out of the cage right to

511
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Speaker 2: really tell an inside story and tell it accurately about

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Speaker 2: their strengths and weaknesses of character and all that, Luke,

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Speaker 2: So you keep that in mind, right.

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Speaker 1: So it's also so this is what I mean. If

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Speaker 1: someone was able to get his participation but he couldn't

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Speaker 1: control it, how do you not pick John Jones?

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Speaker 2: How do you not Jones to be massive? Chill Sonen

518
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Speaker 2: would be great. I'd like to well, you know why

519
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: he's wired that way in certain certain brock, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, because of the language difference. Josie Aldo would

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Speaker 2: interest me a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's again, there's hay geography stuff made about him.

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Speaker 1: I'm not interested in that. People are like, oh, did

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Speaker 1: you see the Connor documentary. I'm not. I'm not interested

525
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: in that. I'm not. It doesn't do anything for me.

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Speaker 1: I want to see somebody independent and tell the story.

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Speaker 1: But Don Fry would kind of be one that would

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Speaker 1: be a little bit interesting as well. The whole era

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Speaker 1: of like hard nosed wrestlers turned fighters are on that

530
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Speaker 1: Mark Coleman kind of you know, ninety eight two thousand era.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of cool shit from there. Obviously, Smashing

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Speaker 1: With was kind of the first of those.

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Speaker 2: Good that's good, that's a good flick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boz Rutin hasn't had an interesting life. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I'm going a little old school.

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Speaker 1: I don't this is due when when the fights are over,

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Speaker 1: I tune this shit out. I'm not I'm not I'm

538
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Speaker 1: not that. I'm not that guy. But you have to

539
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Speaker 1: go to school.

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Speaker 2: Because UFC does such a good job today with embedded

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Speaker 2: and countdown, you kind of feel like you know a

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Speaker 2: lot about the active fighters, correct.

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Speaker 1: I I know what you mean, Like there's a ton

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Speaker 1: of information. I don't take the public view of things

545
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Speaker 1: as all that accurate though, Like it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: just you know, here's the version of the truth we

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Speaker 1: can tell, not the actual full version.

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Speaker 2: Show me the facts. Show me six fighters up, six

549
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Speaker 2: fighters down on resume review, show me the facts.

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Speaker 1: Right? And Son in a Way is another one. Bj

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Speaker 1: Penn Bjpenneah. Yeah, all right. This is from the Dragons Rage.

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Speaker 1: Dragons love Tacos BC. They also love age apparently. All right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. H question for Luke, since you caught

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Speaker 1: the whole thing from Barry boxing about the rhythm step,

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Speaker 1: I'll explain this in just a second. B See how

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Speaker 1: often do you notice it when you're observing a fighter,

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Speaker 1: so on the padwork or even during a fight. I

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00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: saw it and now I can't unsee it. Do you

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00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: know who this is? Barry forget his last name. I

560
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: also get his name wrong. It's get good at boxing

561
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: or get great at boxing. As his Instagram account, he

562
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: has trained a lot of boxers. He's trained some MMA

563
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Speaker 1: fighters like Dan Hooker and some other ones. But he

564
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Speaker 1: has this idea called the rhythm step. And if you watch,

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Speaker 1: what happens is two guys are facing off, two girls whatever,

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Speaker 1: and they'll interact, they'll fight, they'll you know, they'll faint

567
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then you'll notice that one of them

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Speaker 1: as they change angles or as a reset moment, typically

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Speaker 1: it's almost always a reset, they'll bring their feet together

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Speaker 1: and then they go back to the exchange or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And he sort of noticed that, like, this doesn't just

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Speaker 1: happen at lower intermediate levels. This happens at the very

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Speaker 1: highest level, that there's a lot of people who are

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Speaker 1: Basically the argument would be he calls the rhythm step,

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Speaker 1: but the idea would be they're resetting in the middle

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Speaker 1: of these fights, and if you time their reset and

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Speaker 1: you pick couple on their reset you can attack the reset,

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Speaker 1: and I have to say it's been a very influential

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Speaker 1: on my thinking about certain fights. Have you known stuff

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Speaker 1: like that?

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Speaker 2: So is it the equivalent of Teddy KJB with the

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Speaker 2: Oreo twist on rounders?

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Speaker 1: Luke, it's a tel, it's a tel, it's a tell,

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Speaker 1: but it's a particular one that a lot of people do.

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Speaker 1: You'll see they'll step out and then step back, bring

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Speaker 1: their feet together, and then they'll reset. But when they

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Speaker 1: do they let their their hands don't necessarily drop, but

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00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: their mind is when you have to. When your mind

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00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: is resetting, your defense is not cued as acutely as

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, and you can you can land

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Speaker 1: on these fools when they do that.

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Speaker 2: So that's similar to the angle DC found in the

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Speaker 2: first stepa fight that Stepe exits with his hands down

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00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,959
Speaker 2: just a bit and he filled that whole Luke. Right,

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Speaker 2: Let's hope the rhythm style is a lot more effective

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00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 2: than the rhythm method, Luke, which helped produce you into

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Speaker 2: this world.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, this is okay for folks who don't speak

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Speaker 1: Brian Campbell, let me translate. He's very moderately interested in

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Speaker 1: this topic, not really and he was looking for an

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Speaker 1: exit from it so we could move on, and making

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Speaker 1: a joke about my parents fucking is his way of

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00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: doing that. Let me just say one thing, do you

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Speaker 1: see it, and we'll move on to the next one,

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Speaker 1: which is Folks have asked me like, how are you

606
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Speaker 1: able to pick up on all this stuff in a fight?

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Speaker 1: And this is like, it's not really my secret, but

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Speaker 1: I'll just present it as such, which is, dude, here's

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00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: the big key to understanding fights. Yeah, sometimes they over

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Speaker 1: in thirteen seconds, sometimes at the end for reasons that

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Speaker 1: have nothing to do with how the fight itself was going. Right,

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Speaker 1: there's all mm is crazy. But what I've noticed most

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Speaker 1: of the time with most fights, especially at the elite end,

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Speaker 1: is everything's a pattern, and once you decipher what the

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Speaker 1: patterns are on either side, you'll see it repeat itself

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Speaker 1: over and over and over. Not merely over fights them rounds,

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Speaker 1: I should say that fights themselves. So, yes, how they

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Speaker 1: got to those positions what they I mean, the very

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Speaker 1: fine details. Yeah, you need to be a really good

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Speaker 1: coach and a former fighter to have the full amount

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Speaker 1: of information. I make no claims otherwise, but if you

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Speaker 1: just understand, you're looking for patterns. A lot of this

623
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Speaker 1: stuff is a little bit easier to pick up on

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Speaker 1: the people imagine it is.

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Speaker 2: So you know what I thought turned into a good story.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that bloke in the UK named Lee

627
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Speaker 2: Wiley who used to for years on YouTube put out

628
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Speaker 2: those historic boxing breakdowns where you take like Sugar Ray

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Speaker 2: Robinson or Harry Greb or whatever and break down the

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Speaker 2: film like you're saying, picking up little patterns and showing

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Speaker 2: you the Luke Thomas like you know the equivalent and

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Speaker 2: Mma what you used to do with a very very

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Speaker 2: well uh you know visited uh what was it called? Dissected?

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Speaker 2: Very good segment. I hope we can see the return

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: Luke.

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Speaker 2: You may have heard of him because remember when Kenny

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Speaker 2: Fluorin had that plagarizing incident. Yes, that was Lee Wiley's videos,

639
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Speaker 2: and then he ended up having Lee on the podcast apologized.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize. Good old Lee, who I followed for years,

641
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Speaker 2: got hired by MTK you know that management team that

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Speaker 2: manages Fury and Billy Joe Saunders in the UK, and

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Speaker 2: he was part of the team. What we didn't talk

644
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 2: about was on his own last week it didn't make

645
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 2: heavy see this ship. There was a title fight at featherweight.

646
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: There was that guy zoo Can.

647
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: Yeah saw that fight. I literally saw that fight.

648
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: He got upset by by a UK guy named Lee

649
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 2: Wood who knocked him out in the twelfth round, but

650
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 2: was on his way to winning that fight because they

651
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: had figured something out on the video and Lee Wiley

652
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: was the was the guy they used in camp to

653
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 2: to really figure that out, which is wild because Lee

654
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: Wiley was just some dude to work at a factory

655
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: in the UK that loved boxing would put out these

656
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: videos and he got all the way to that level.

657
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 2: Luke into to your horn. Not that you're just some

658
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: factory worker, although you do a show with a former one,

659
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 2: you also have had teams work reach out to you

660
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 2: and be like, you know, interest in doing the same thing. Correct,

661
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: I'm not they.

662
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: Didn't want they didn't want to pay me for it.

663
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've had a few UFC fighters reach out

664
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Speaker 1: and ask for some help.

665
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

666
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty great. It's pretty great. So I will

667
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: say this lastly, Sean McVay, who's the head coach of

668
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, did you see he hired some

669
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: like guy who was like a reporter for NFL network

670
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 1: for a long time guy and maybe he played football

671
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: in like high school or something, but was not in

672
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: any way would you consider an athlete. He got hired

673
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: to be like an like a coaching analyst for him.

674
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, picked him from me. I always find it

675
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: when they're like when the coach sees someone in media,

676
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: and it happens quite rarely, but when they see someone

677
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: in the media and then they pluck him out for

678
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: like a very specific but also highly important job and

679
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: they can kind of fill that niche in a pretty

680
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: those are always interesting to me when I see that.

681
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: It happens along like I've seen like people do with

682
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: like financials for teams or looking at tape or whatever.

683
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: It's always Darryl Moore.

684
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: What was that guy's name, Darryl Moury or Morley. They

685
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: call him Dirk Elvis. He was the Rockets GM and

686
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: he was like a stack cruncher of a guy, and

687
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: he figured out trends and it led him all the

688
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: way to the front office.

689
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Speaker 1: Luke tell you you'd be amazed. But you can pick

690
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: up on if you just watch a bunch of this shit. Okay,

691
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: this is from more Moy, I guess he's in Japan, Hi,

692
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: Luke ABC. In the Dillashaw Sandhagen fight, the commentators we're

693
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: talking about TJ's leg injury in the first round. Does

694
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: that news reach the other corner we see?

695
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: I guess it could during the fight if somebody watching

696
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 2: at home texts the cornermen of.

697
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: Corey.

698
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: I usually think that that kind of information makes it.

699
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 2: That's why we even saw in the Floyd and when

700
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: Floyd Mayweather ran up on Gervonte Davis and the fight

701
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 2: against Barrios on pay per view on Show tom and

702
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: was like, you know, the broadcast has you down, So yeah,

703
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 2: that stuff I think gets there. Luke, I don't think

704
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 2: it's like formally done, but I think it gets there.

705
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, the some I need to double check this. People

706
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: can dead wrong me. If it's wrong, I'm not committing

707
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: to it. I think there are some states where phone

708
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: use in the middle of the round or even during

709
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the fight itself is prohibited. Where after the fight, take

710
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: all the pictures you want, before the fight, record everything

711
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: you want, but then once you get on that ring

712
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: or octagon, apron, you're not allowed to use it anymore.

713
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: I need to double check that, but like you know,

714
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: also like dude, they're not. I mean, you know, it

715
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: wasn't like a hidden injury or some shit. The guy

716
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: was favoring it pretty clearly. So sometimes I think that

717
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: thing can reach, but it doesn't give you that much benefit.

718
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: You got, your guys still has to know how to fight,

719
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: all right. I've got a time for a couple more

720
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: here from QB kill Us seventy seven. Hey, guys, love

721
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: the show. Been listening to BC since the ITC days

722
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: in this corner.

723
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was a great podcast in CBS Sports

724
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: It then we got copyright suit A sued so it

725
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: became the State of Combat and now it's worn in combat.

726
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: Looks right and also have endured and grown like have

727
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: endured and grown to like LT great chemistry. I love

728
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: the way you're pulling each other. Blah bah blahlah blah

729
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Okay, makes for awesome theater. Keep

730
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 1: it up. Question here we go, considering Pitbull's loss, continuing

731
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: to uphold the resume review curse. Can you guys do

732
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: a resume review for Chris Cyborg for her next Bellator

733
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,479
Speaker 1: fight to either prove or disprove the resume review curse

734
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: is real, we think b see.

735
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 2: No, we would never do one just for the sake

736
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 2: of trying to discuss with the curse. The curse Israel.

737
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 2: We do, as you had said, an almost defense of

738
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 2: the curse, like it's a lot of times you're doing

739
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: the fighter that is more has a deeper history than

740
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 2: the other fighter to make the to make great content,

741
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: to make the resume review make sense. You're not gonna

742
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 2: do it on a guy who's got you know, four

743
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 2: major fights, right, so that tends to lean towards doing

744
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: it on the older fighters. And I think over average,

745
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 2: younger fighters in their prime are going to be older

746
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: fighters more often than not, so maybe that explains some

747
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: of the resume review curse. But I am interested to

748
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: see Luke the first time we do it on a

749
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: fight that really isn't fifty to fifty ish that what

750
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 2: it really does, or who's the first fighter that beats

751
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 2: the resume review curse right, especially if they do it

752
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 2: as an underdog type of stuff interest me, although I

753
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 2: don't think we would ever. We're never going to do

754
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 2: like that meme last week, go oh, Kobe Covench. It's

755
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,959
Speaker 2: kind of lame. Let's do a let's sabotage his career.

756
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, we only I mean again, I know

757
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, and you know you're killing these guys.

758
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's whatever, but it's not designed for that.

759
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: It's designed to be uh informative and kind of candidly

760
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: a little bit of homage to the person who is

761
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: the subject of it, so that folks can understand the

762
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: significance of the moment and also what brought them to

763
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: that moment. Obviously, it has been a case where we

764
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: have picked but didn't it wasn't it true that Ariel

765
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: had done a series of interviews with ESPN prior's departure,

766
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: and he had done the exact same ones we had

767
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: done for resume review, not.

768
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 2: As many, but he was doing those those weird U

769
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: pandemic ones where he would do it from like the

770
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 2: basement of a factory.

771
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: It looked like or working on TV or something, right, Yeah,

772
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: and he'd be.

773
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 2: Looking at the TV and they would set it up

774
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 2: that way and they were you know, they were well

775
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 2: shot and well done. But he was picking you know,

776
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: he picked McGregor, which is the guy you would want

777
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 2: to talk to heading into a second poor a fight, right,

778
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 2: he picked out a Sonia, which is the guy you

779
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: would want to talk to going for a second title

780
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 2: against Blahovich. So it's it's not like rocket science. But yeah,

781
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: he picked masud all the same thing.

782
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: It just shows you that we have similar like he

783
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: and I and you in terms of what we find interesting.

784
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: We all have similar news judgment. That's really what the

785
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: common denominator is there. We kind of spotlight, oh, what's

786
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: interesting to us. We all have similar sensibilities about what

787
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: that is. Now as a prediction engine, it's uh, it's

788
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: a disaster, but it's not, it's not designed to be that.

789
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, Austin Aio. Very similar. I agree

790
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 2: with you, very similar.

791
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: All right, last question here we see here we go

792
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: from tayrou No wait tie Rush Shirter Rush Rushooter. I

793
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: love this show before and after every big fight Luke

794
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: and BC three times a week, never disappoints. Blah blah blah.

795
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 1: Question for you guys, who do you think should be next?

796
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: Uh to be hit with a long where Brian's cat

797
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: or Brian?

798
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: No?

799
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: Seriously, who do you guys think should be next for UFC?

800
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: By the way, Josh Emmett as he is awaiting his

801
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: return from knee injury. Has that dude fought since the

802
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: what you call it the.

803
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 2: Not since the fight against uh the Burgos Burgos? No, No,

804
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 2: we need him back, Luke, this divisions hot. We need him.

805
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: What's up with that cat? Bro?

806
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 2: This is the longest she's ever let me hold it

807
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 2: hold her, so I'm kind of just rolling with it.

808
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 2: This is Emma. She's amazing.

809
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: He's actually pretty chill.

810
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's she's awesome. She loves my office. She doesn't

811
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 2: really love me.

812
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: That much, but this is great, you know, I mean,

813
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: who does.

814
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 2: I'm more of a reggie guy. You know, I tracked crazy.

815
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: Hey, why don't you lick and put your mouth closer

816
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 1: to the place of your cat uses the litter box?

817
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: You filthy, filthy cracker?

818
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: Can you pick up this purring on camera? Here? Luke

819
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 2: tell it. I'm tell him. Emma, Oh yeah, look at that.

820
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: Look that's great theater. This is great content. I mean,

821
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: you can't get that. You can't get this is on

822
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: DC and Alwaannie, I'll tell you that much.

823
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: This is how you know Brian has checked the fuck out.

824
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: I mean, look at this. He liked Brian's the kind

825
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: of guy like, in the middle of a conversation, he'll

826
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: just like lean over and audibly fart in front of

827
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: a table, just so that the conversation can switch to

828
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: something different. He's like, I'm tired of this, I'm tired

829
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: of this topic.

830
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: Let me ask it's not true, It's not true at all.

831
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: Let me make a Miguel what was his face with

832
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: the mullet who made the rape van joke?

833
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 2: Miguel Torres guy, Yes, yes, yes, wow, go a deep

834
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 2: dive right there.

835
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, yeah, Like, yeah, I don't I don't know

836
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: about the rape van jokes as a good idea. Well,

837
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: I can say this BC, this has been something.

838
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: You know. Can we take people behind the fourth wall? Luke,

839
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 2: you and I are going to film a few of

840
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 2: these back to back to fill out a vacation. I said, look,

841
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: why don't we change T shirts to make it look

842
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: like we're not doing it on the same day, back

843
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: to back to back. You're like, I ain't changing shit, man,

844
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 2: I'm more than the fucking T shirt right here.

845
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: Man, I wear the shirt the whole.

846
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 2: To How lame was that?

847
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: Bro?

848
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: Right?

849
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: Why don't you go commit more unspeakable actually feline cats.

850
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: Why don't you do that?

851
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 2: All right? You had a question, I'm ready to answer it.

852
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I don't eve give a shit this morning.

853
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: What's the last one here?

854
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: Uh?

855
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, joshm but who do you want to fight?

856
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: I got the top ten right in front of you,

857
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 2: right in front of me.

858
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: How about Oh, he's a little bit ahead of him, though, No, Gay,

859
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: you could do.

860
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 2: Get Gay is coming off a win? Correct? No?

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Speaker 1: I think didn't heard.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Arnold Allen hasn't been exposed, right, Nope, he's good dude,

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Speaker 2: He's tough a shit. That'd be a good fight. Or

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Speaker 2: or Calvin Cator who who's coming off the Max fight?

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Speaker 2: Still right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? By the way, he Gay lost to Chan Sung

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Speaker 1: jung in his last fight in June.

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Speaker 2: Good call? Yes, yes, what the hell do I know? Luke? Right?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we can call it a day on

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Speaker 1: these We appreciate all of your questions. Continue to leave

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Speaker 1: of course you can put a question in there. We'll

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Speaker 1: Anything else, No, I.

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Speaker 2: Gotta go change your shirt for them when we do

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Speaker 2: next after this, look right back.

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Speaker 1: All right for BC. I'm Luke Thomas. Thank you guys

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