Chapo Trap House - 1045 - Fight Night (6/15/26)

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

Will and Felix are in person to celebrate two great victories this week: the IRGC and the New York Knicks. The two also review “UFC Freedom 250” on the White House lawn, with Will as our entry point into and Felix as our expert in the field of MMA. Plus: we also discuss Eric Trump’s brilliant plan to gamble on the fights.

Hello, everybody. It's Monday, June 15th, and we've got some chap for you. It's Felix and I on today's episode, and on today's episode, man, we're going to be talking about here in the United States, here in the world, I would say, what a weekend for sports. It was a sports weekend for the entire world. And obviously, I'd like to talk a little bit about what happened in New York on Saturday night. Felix and I will also be talking about what happened in Washington, D.C., on the entire world. Sunday night. But like, you know, you've got the World Cup going on, the Stanley Cup final. I mean, the Stanley Cup, the Carolina just won that. Carolina? Yeah, Carolina just won the Stanley Cup.

No, they got to end hockey. It's not a natural sport for them. But the whole country is just, what a weekend for sports? We're going to get into the wins and the losses, but I would like to just open by saying, there was no bigger dub this weekend. You think I'm going to say the next? No, Iran. The L that Iran hung up. The L that Iran hung in the United States and Donald Trump this weekend raise their banner to the rafters. Yeah. Retire. Whoever the new I-Tola

is, retire his jersey today. Yeah. I don't know if it is a Jalen Brunson situation where we could say any single Mosaic Warfare Commander put up 45 points. It's more of I'm not a basketball expert, but more of a, you know,

Tim Duncan's San Antonio Spurs situation. Everyone did their part. Everyone fucking did their part. But like, you know, I really thought about it. And it was like, I know what Knicks fans feel like. Yeah. I really fucking do. Shea jurisprudence.

It's been about 53 years since the revolution, too. Yeah. No, me and Ed and Jim Adam, we were talking about this. I have to give them credit for this. Shea jurisprudence is our James Dolan. And, dude, now, now, dude, fucking, they get, to give them $1 billion. got 300 we'll see we'll see but like best free agent signing of all time if they even get one percent of that they're making the fucking pure hydrogen bombs that but oh this is it comes full circle

the pure hydrogen bombs from metal gear solid two that do not leave any fallout so it fits with uh shia jurisprudence it's okay to do it it's we're great day great day Felix, right before you walked in the door, I was watching a clip of John Pot Horowitz and the commentary magazine crowd on their podcast. And like, I gotta give them respect because unlike a lot of the,

a lot of the MAGA people and like the foundation for defensive democracies, there was no cope from them. They were like, they were like, it's a loss. It's worse than ever, we haven't even done it in the first place. And then like,

the best thing was John Potts saying is like, he wouldn't even put, One boot on the ground. This is an all volunteer army. They volunteer to defend their country. And he was just like, nobody on the planet Earth is going to see this unless you are literally a paid agent of MAGA related to Donald Trump or some lunatic who is really excited by the possibility of Trump turning on Israel. There is no person on Earth who was going to say that America didn't lose this war. And he was like, no, and I got to give respect to J-Pod and the tablet commentary magazine crowd

because, like, they are taking this loss and they are taking it in. Because I saw the FDD guy being like, I've never been more optimistic than in my entire 23 years of doing this. I'm sure. I'm sure, yeah. I'm fucking sure, man. So, like I said, IRGC, all the Mosaic Missile Commanders, all those guys, their jerseysies are going into the Rafters. United States, big, huge album on this one. Gassing out like Wembe, but way earlier and fucking,

okay, actually, you know who Jalen Brunson is? Sinwar. Yeah. Number one. Number one. You did no one, you crazy man, you did it. I mean, and the other thing is like, as I said it, like, both sides, Iran and the United States have, like, docu signed a memorandum of an agreement.

Apparently they're going to actually physically sign it. in Switzerland on Friday. But again, like, like so much of this before, does this mean anything really? Like, I'm not so certain because, like, Israel is absolutely not going to stop doing what they're doing

in Lebanon. And, like, it remains to be seen if this is all just symbolic or whatever. Because, like, Israel is in a position now where they're furious with Donald Trump. And it is so funny, Mark Ames made this point that, like, this is coming on the verge

of, like, Donald Trump successfully, like, exiling the like the section, the sector of the MAGA movement that like would have supported a ceasefire deal like Thomas Massey and like Tucker Carlson he has successfully excommunicated all of them and has left like now MAGA entirely

in the entirely like the Mark Levin pro Zionist wing of MAGA who are all going to completely stab him and they're going to sell him out over this in a second. We're going to see the new Epstein stuff that's going to come out is going to be wild. Oh my God. There is going to be like they will Well, when we saw, we'll cover this in a bit, but when we saw Dana and Trump walk out for their disgusting walk to the podium.

It's longer than a copish dog. Oh my God. It was, yeah. It went forever and ever. Oh, my God. It was, yeah, they both looked repulsive. I was aware. I mean, obviously I know what Trump looks like.

I'm aware of Dana White, but like, Dana White looked especially like bloated. Well, he has been Niers disease, which I always thought was like made up to get 100% disability. when you're like in the Navy but he he has it he has it look bloating is it's natural but I thought they looked like especially because of the makeup on Trump's hand like they tried to deuce his slave

and the slave like beat them up and it's like that video is coming out like tomorrow you were texting last night when I was watching this and you said it looked like the child fought back yeah yeah no yeah it was a it was a repulsive

despite but tomorrow it's just Jamie Diamond's getting a boss call it's you just don't want to be you don't want to be Trump right now and this is so funny because like this is also coming on the heels

of the new like Maggie Haberman book it's coming out like based on like I guess like the story that they're breaking here is that Trump like had everyone in the situation room

to do like Epstein response and everyone's like and everyone's like oh this is just another blatant desecration of like you know the situation room was for killing foreigners. Not for covering up all the child rape

that the president is responsible for. Look, it's a situation. It's a situation for this White House. What else are they going to do? This is like an evil curb plot. You use the fucking situation room for your sick shit, right? Another detail I love from the Haberman story is that like J.D. Vance pitched at that meeting.

He was like, this is his brilliant idea for like, crisis management. He pitched a TV interview with Donald Trump and Jelaine Maxwell where Jolene Maxwell was like essentially just said like, oh no, like you didn't do anything Trump like now you were there. His idea was like

one of those podcasts after like whatever 1090 Jake finds out someone testified in front of a grand jury and they go on one of the like they go on like big you's podcast before he went to prison and they're like when you get called to testify you have to do it. So it's not snitching.

That's his idea. That's his idea. He's telling him to do like what BG did. It's like, I only switched to my lawyer who then snitched to the cops for me to make a deal. I never snitch to the cops.

I never talked. I was solid. What did they? I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to like blow up Megahamerman shit too much. I don't want to,

it's too soon to reveal all the secret IRGC agents in the world. You know what I mean? People were freaking out about this. how she got a recording of the situation room and they're like oh my god if if they found out what we're talking about in there they might humiliate us in a war and it's like i wouldn't worry about that uh it's come to pass but um maggie haverman would always fav so like uh the grossest

shit like uh that i posted like if i had a joke about um who the fuck was the NBA player who always was like putting guns and people john morin yeah i was like anyone see the John Morant and Barbara Feinstein sex tape? Like a shit like that? She would like think it was funny. And so I think I think she's a soldier and I don't know. She might have passed it along. But I, I, um, people were bitching about this.

They were like, oh, journalists are saving their big story so you'll buy their book. And it's like, well, like maybe they want to buy a second house. Can you like fuck off? Yeah. Dude, we're both into subscription visits. I would, I would say, yeah. I wouldn't defend her if she wasn't like liking all my jokes, but whatever, dude. And it's like, yeah.

Whereas all the journalists who, you know, as a matter of the public record, like in real time, make all the, you know, like publish all sorts of revelations about Trump's connections, the Epstein. Like, yeah, that's made such a big difference. Yeah. You know, that's really, that's really stopped him in some meaningful way. Oh, yeah. She put this in an article, V for Vendetta happens.

Like, shut up. Shut up. She's a fan of comedy. I love her. Well, you know, like, when you see successful sports. teams like with the Knicks you see a lot of bandwagon fans but then you see a lot of fake fans too and i'm sorry israel fake fans of don't trance israel and all the zionists lobby in america we're seeing they're they're not they are fake maga yeah they were they were they were rooting

for the team but it was easy then it gets a little tough and they're like oh he's betrayed us yeah by the way they should the people are posting from the israeli like telegrams they're so funny right now look they're they're saying saying they're saying out loud like it would have been better if we they had never done this at all get no shit because like Iran is like even more powerful like it is just like we're in a worse position now than when we started another like almost even number one with a bullet more than than the Zionist lobby who is taking a massive hell on this are all the Iranian expats in America like all the Persian monarchists oh boy yeah they got nothing to do now than protest the

Iran's fucking World Cup team when it comes to L.A. Yeah, when they, yeah, they're having to take like a 14-hour commute to the game. I mean, yeah. Yeah, I didn't know they were, I don't follow soccer at all. Like, sorry, but obviously we're pulling for them too. If we can do like a two-piece, that would be awesome. I don't follow football all that closely, but I always watch the World Cup. And like, the only thing I'm really rooting for this World Cup is some kind of limits events that can happen.

So that Team USA plays a run of the World Cup. Yeah. And like that will, I'm buying all the flags. I'm going to the venue. I'm fucking, I'm showing out hardcore for Iran. Oh my God. We should hit up our contacts in England

and put together like a, like the expendables of football hooligans. And be like, boys. Yeah. This is like the big mission. It's like the dirty dozen. Like they're all facing execution for hooligan crimes.

Yeah. And they're like, we're sending you on a suicide mission to Dallas or like San Diego or something. I mean, they're going up against, you know, American football fan. Like those poices.

Cupcakes. Oh my God. Tomato Cairns. Yeah. They, that will, that will be like, um,

the real ending of the boys when they were like this, the seven really just start massacring everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, they would just tear through everyone. Like, uh,

the Dallas fans are taking out their concealed carry weapons and trying to do that shit from the stupid drills and like big berry just like takes a folding chair and fucking snaps it. Glasses them. Yeah. Oh my God. they're yeah they're gonna go into lad time and like pick the bullets out of the air like neo well like like i said the l that iran has just hung on the on donald trump and the united states of america

that that i think hangs over this entire weekend but like to open it up like i'd like to start with like i said what happened in new york on saturday night and what happened what happened in real america with a real sporting event and a real fan base what happened on saturday night in new york and then what happened on Sunday in America B. And I'd like to begin, like, you know, like the basis of this episode here is that like long-time listeners of the show will know that Felix is not a fan of,

as he says, stick and ball sports. You've never watched a basketball game that I'm aware about. You hate football, baseball, baseball is fun. I like baseball. Yeah, yeah, but most of it, like, you don't, you're not, you don't watch it. You don't follow it.

And I have mostly never followed UFC. So, like, this week, weekend like like World Cup fans like we traded jerseys i got felix to watch game five nick spurs saturday night and then on sunday i for the first time ever watched my first full ufc card the fight at the white house ufc freedom 250 live from the white house long i mean out of both these events for me i would only say i fully watched one voluntarily and it wasn't the ufc this was unthinkable years ago yeah no and i was actually nervous though like i thought it was going to be.

So I had two predictions. That's the way that you're never wrong. It's just always make two. I thought either it was going to be like all the UFC fight for the troops events, which I've talked about on the show before, where it's tons of violent finishes, or the fact that it's outside, precedent is set by the infamous UFC

112 in Qatar that was made after the sovereign wealth fund bought a piece of Zoufa where Frankie Edgirr versus BJ Penn and Anderson Silver versus Damien my both went to excruciating decision partly because they were fighting in like

a hundred and ten degree heat and that's not humid there wasn't nearly the humidity of DC no fight went to decision but I was afraid I was gonna I've had so many fucking moments of like this is more like 10, 15 years ago when the sport wasn't so popular

of like gathering all my friends around and being like this is going to be so cool like don't worry three of the guys on this car are convicted criminals this will be like tons of unfinished And it's just the worst. It's just the worst. And I was afraid it would be like that.

And, you know, you'd get one of those. You've wasted your life phone calls from a friend. Those are never good. But no, it was a repulsive display. Horrible. Makes me mad every time I hear John Anick's voice. I can't believe Mike Goldberg was killed. So stupid as John Anick could replace him.

But as far as the fights got, like, hey, Only one real fucking stinker. Lewis versus... The most chunified athlete in America. That guy is so... Josh Hokit. There are so many names on this card, by the way, where they...

I do a triple take on them because I think that it's one of those very rude things where they try to trick a streamer into reading it out loud and it's a racial slur. Like, when I see Bo Nickel, I'm like, okay, let's run this by some people. Well, look, we're going to have a full tail of the tape, breakdown of the fights and just like the larger fascist spectacle of you know UFC 250 at the

White House but I would I would like to talk first about like I said New York on Saturday night and folks if you were not in New York City on Saturday night if you really watched it online just to give you the flavor of it I think the best pot the best comment that summarized what New York on Saturday night was like uh these is posted this is like reverse 9-11 and that is exactly what it felt like. All the Jewish people were like, I'm going to work tomorrow. It's the day after the Sabbath.

I'm sorry, I don't believe that. But obviously, yes. My New York Knicks finally won an NBA championship after a 53-year-long drought, never before in my life. Was this something I experienced? I remembered 94 and 99, and like those teams are iconic.

I'll love them forever, but that was, you know, like the heartbreak of getting that close and losing. And then, like, you know, 25 plus years, just, like, absolute doldrums and really just, like, a disgracefully managed team. But, like, they did it. They did it.

And it was, like, one of the best sports, probably the best sports moment of my life. And the vibes in New York City were incredible. Felix and I, we were outside right after the game ended. People were setting off fireworks. It was just absolute joy everywhere in the street. It was like a million people in the streets. all partying and having a good time at the same time.

And you know, like, it was done with like almost no incidents of, you know, anything bad happening. Yeah. I think there was a few burned cars either. I think there was about 60 arrests. But like for a million people all partying at the same time, like that's very good. Yeah. No, that's, it's pretty good.

Yeah. No, I mean, like, I cannot. I think like, uh, there are probably more fatalities related to the game in Chicago. just people like they got mad at a commercial and killed someone no it was really fucking cool to watch

one of the reasons well I came out because Chris was in town and I you know I wanted to see everyone but also I just I had a feeling

that this was gonna be one of those things where years later people would ask me if I saw if I was there and I didn't want to go I was playing a game I've played 20 times before

for a limited series podcast. But it was, I mean, first of all, I've really, I've been to one NBA game before. So long ago, it was when Kobe Bryant was playing. But it was fucking cool. And I'll say what I said then. I really see why people like this basketball stuff. It's a great sport. I know it should totally overtake football. Football sucks. And this sport's so dynamic. I don't fucking know anything. But it just, it's so intuitive. It was, it was, it was pure joy. And we saw so much funny shit out on the street. I know I posted about it, but my favorite thing was a guy pouring out beer on the sidewalk.

And then he just yelled, if you died before the Knicks won, I feel bad for you. Weird. So the guy was FaceTiming his friends and was who was the... It's just like a viciously slandering Wemba Nyama and then Trey Young, too. Trey Young is a guy who was like the Knicks villain like five or six years ago. And they're still going in on him. Like just vindication against Trey Young. you know like as guys like you know peeling out like just like doing the thing when you

rev up the motorcycle and it just you just like wear out the fucking tie we yeah we we we saw that we we were like too close to it yeah I like I assured us all away because it was like I thought we were all going to get 9-11 syndrome yeah yeah it was cool to see but like shit we had uh guys and gals making out all over the city it was amazing and you know I was like uh pro the guys comments about like if you died before the next one I feel bad for you it was one of those movements that like I genuinely was like, I wish my dad was here to act so I could share that with him. But then I was like, wait a second,

that selfish motherfucker, he saw two Knicks victory. He saw two Knicks championship seasons in the 70s. Before I was even boring. I was even born. How selfish. Fuck him. This one's for me.

This one's for me. What was basketball like in the 70s? I know it was integrated then. Yes, it was always. The NBA was always integrated. Oh, interesting. Interesting. But however,

the very first New York Knicks team were all, the starting five were all Jewish guys. Holy shit. That's how all that. That was in like the 1950s. Things have changed. Who was like the big guy from those next championship? It was Walt Frazier.

Oh, I heard of him. Oh, I heard of him. Bill Bradley, Dave DeBuschrester, Barnett. I had to hear about those guys from my dad, like folklore. And Bill Bradley, of course, famously went on to be a senator from New Jersey. Yeah. I'll always say to finish it up on the dicks

like because obviously like you know if you've been following me you know how closely I've been in tune with this and it was like one of those things where I was like I still up until like the very end almost couldn't believe it because of my history with this team you know and you know after game three

the Donald Trump curse game I was having some bad thoughts I was having some bad thoughts and then halfway through game four I know maybe you saw Catherine I posted the photo Catherine took in me when I was watching the game, like, through a sliding glass door, looking like my soul had loved my body.

Because I was just, like, I was seeing it all slip away. But I never should have fucking doubted. These guys, Immortal team, and I'll say is it, Jalen Brunson now, enters the category of, like, those rare New York guys in my lifetime, like Mark Messier, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, the captains who delivered a championship to this team. And, like I said, New York, this is the greatest thing ever for fucking New York. city. And I'll say from a political angle

on this, it's totally irrational, completely unjustified. But the shine that Zeran is going to get from this is going to last for another four years. Until he runs again. And what I will say is, I don't know if you saw this, Felix. But like, one of the rallying cries for the Nix

was like this Nick fan who made sort of like the sort of like a catchphrase for this finals. My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish. Then it was like, I don't know, like my cream cheese chive, Nixon five. Or he said, even the Pope's on our side, Nixon 5. I forget what the original one was for Nixon 4,

but the idea that my mayor Muslim has become a rallying cry for this team and this city, obviously, like, a lot of people are sort about that. I've seen a lot of Zionist accounts be like, Jalen Brunson is married to a Jewish woman, so that means that this is a win for Israel. Oh yeah, I was reminding people of that

the entire game. I was like, guys, no matter what happens tonight, his kids are Jewish. He could renounce the religion right now. It doesn't matter. Like, anti-Semitic conspiracy accounts be like Jalen Brunson's married to a Jewish woman. That's why they, like, they won a fake rig championship. Okay, yeah, okay, guys.

They're in control the sport. Like, the certain groups control all outcomes and sports. And I'm like, if that was the case, they're going to take the next 53 fucking years. Right. Right. There's a much simpler explanation. Gillian Brunson doesn't want to fucking go back to Chicago. I saw that look in his eyes.

You never will. He's from Lincolnshire, but Lincolnshire is expanded into Chicago after this. They're part of it now. I would like to show, though, so much so that they want to like clout jack, Zeron on this. This is posted by the at Israel account.

The official Twitter account of Israel. My main account. Yeah. They posted, your bagels are Jewish and they are delicious. But don't forget about hummus by the seaside, Israel and five. Israel and five, what? Like, what the fuck are you talking?

What? Who? We used to write books. We used to make like even our middling TV shows were better than this. They've got the Ottoman the guys who'd be hanged by

the Ottoman vice royes for embezzling from the treasury writing the comedy posts and they got the guys who should be writing the comedy post doing the embezzling. It's all fucked up over there.

Yeah, like I said, like the contrast between Saturday night, real America, real joy. And yes, like a New York socialist mayor basically kind of vicariously receiving a lot of the shine from this team because like, look,

and didn't win under Eric Adams. You know, like, or Bloomberg or DeBlazgian. They do that despite Adams doing your thing. Yeah, absolutely. But like, more in tune with what we usually talk about on the show, which is like, I guess, like,

a political angle. UFC to Freedom 250 at the White House. Well, as many of you know, UFC fans have traveled four and wide across the United States and around the globe, all to witness history and be a part of this uniquely special mixed martial arts showcase

that is UFC Freedom 250. We've been talking about in the weeks getting up to this. We've all seen the construction being done on the White House South Lawn. And I feel like we had to watch this. Just as like a spectacle of American fascism and like on Donald Trump's birthday, the best birthday party for our best most special birthday boy.

Yeah. And by the way, like, I've been making fun of this event, but like truly, I actually have something similar to what you shared. My dad was a huge, huge fan of one of the guys on the car, Josh Schitt. And it was really weird because when he was a fan of him, he was just a junior college wrestler. And we would even tell him, like, dad, Josh Schitt's family is telling you to like stop taping his wrestling matches, like stop. like going to their house and he's like no you don't understand it's because he looks like like richer from those books i like and we were like no one no one knows what you're talking about

there will never be a limited serious based on reacher no one looks like reach your dad shut up and he was also this is really i'm really sad he didn't get to see this because he was a big fan of that famous kirk cobain quote about how one day an outsider like donald trump may become president when kirk koban's generation the millennials start voting my dad loved that quote he did not like Kurt Cobain. I will not repeat some of the things he said about Kurt Cobain. They were very unrepeatable. But after seeing not just Donald Trump host the U.S.

My dad didn't, he wasn't like a, at that time, he thought that Donald Trump would be what he called a Kurt Vile Democrat. And we would say, dad, what does that mean? And he'd said, look it up. It's not in anything, it turns out. But anyway, I like to think my dad is in heaven. with Kurt Cobain watching the UFC

and he turns to Kurt after sort of both their prophecies came true and he goes you're all right for a vamp and Kurt Cobain says

why are you using a World War II era British slur for bisexuals from John Licarian novels that's my beautiful moment oh man I would say

overall as a televised spectacle I was you know there was some question about like is the way they're going to fuck it up. I was obviously rooting for a complete shit show.

But that underestimates, I think, and I have to give credit to him. One thing Donald Trump is extremely good at, which is TV. Yes. Which is making TV events to make, making spectacle. And particularly for MAGA, this represents like, you know, a culmination of their efforts to create these kind of alternative spectacles for America beat that everyone kind of has to pretend is like just as awesome as the Knicks winning the championship. or the Super Bowl, or like, you know, this is a chudstock or, I don't know, Lollipaloozo.

Yeah. So going in, like the big funny thing about this card, right, was that the UFC only had one American champion going in in Sean Strickland. And Sean Strickland is like, you know, he's all over the place. He's part of a very important American community, the stupids. But he's like, you know, he's his own man. He's been posting about Epstein shit, Israel. about how the Holocaust didn't happen.

Yeah. Regular shit. The shit guys talk about. And he got banned from the event. He got arrested for trying to watch it at the ellipse. And, you know, so the card is filled with guys from like Cidad de Pitbull, Brazil, fighting like, you know, a guy who's a part-time sheriff. Okay.

I really like the guy, Diego Lopez from Brazil. I would describe his look as if Hitler had a mullet. Yeah, he looked awesome. It was, that was a real, like, it was really confusing because I used to be so good at identifying the American and the Brazilian,

but I stopped watching as much, and I kept, I kept getting a fucking mixed off. With one of these guys is Brazilian. Oh my God, that guy's the stupid hair of an American. But no, here's the real thing, though, is they thought it was going to rain, and they don't hold MMA events outside for a reason. There was one King of the Cage event where it got rained on, and they retitled it wet and wild anyway and promoted it.

Like, the fighters are slipping all over the fucking place, and they're like, oh, yeah, no, this is part of the plan. But Alex Poetan Pereira, who I like Pereira. He's a very fun to watch guy, very accomplished. He was going for trying to become the first three-divisional champion last night, which would be an insane fucking achievement after an already illustrious career. But he did some type of fucking ceremony or prayer or something. He did something to prevent the rain. Unfortunately, it did not prevent him from being elbowed in the back of the head 87 times by a French cheater. He's sort of like, he, like a lot of guys on that card, he gave his life for Donald Trump.

Like Michael Chandler. We'll get to Michael Chandler. I will say like when the coverage, again, like on Paramount Plus, the David Ellison streaming network, you know, like the new. media platform for American Israeli fascism. When it began, I really enjoyed a comment made by, it was the guy, they were like inside the White House. It was like three former USC guys and then like, I don't know, the like the play by play guy.

And he said, we've seen incredible sports events made even more incredible by weather before. And I was like, John Antick is so fucking stupid. He loves saying shit like that. It's like maybe in American football, you know, the sport that is known for being played in all conditions no matter what. there's been some famous snowballs,

like, you know, wild weather events where they continue to play the game and it affected the game and it became a memorable fabric of that event. But literally every other sport, other team sport, or individual sport being played, it's like if weather happens,

it's made more memorable by being canceled. Yeah, or fatalities. Yeah, I fucking, I'm sorry. I know, I, I maybe I'm not fair to John Anick, but like people fucking hated Mike Goldberg so much for just, you know, not knowing where he was.

or what languages are being spoken a few times after a career with hundreds of events. But his enthusiasm was awesome. And he never would say the stupid shit that John Anick says every event. Every fucking event, John Anick says some dumb shit. Like,

stools are a very important part of fighting because they enable the fighter to sit down. Another great example of like that kind commentary. And I loved on this broadcast, I kept with Catherine and I were watching it. And I kept going to Catherine, like as the commenter is, as like every piece of this presentation.

I kept going to Catherine. Hey, where is this event being hosted again? Because I forgot. Because like every fucking 10 seconds, they were like, to be here at the White House. It was once described as the most historic sports event in history. There are some awesome. There are some awesome sentences.

I mean, Annick was, he took the limitless bill to make stupid sentences while promoting Poillier's remand. match with a rapist ballgame. He said, McGregor Poillet, too, non-legions need not apply. Just rolls off the tongue, John. Another one of like the commenter patter

that I really enjoyed is, believe it or not, this is the first professional sporting event hosted on the White House South Lawn. Believe it or not. I was like, can you believe that there hasn't been a professional sporting event that the White House? before.

Like what? I, just like the overstating of this shit. Because like, yeah, it is a novel event, but it's certainly not like an historical event in America

or sports history. And I also think like one time someone described the White House South Lawn as one of the most important places in American history. No, I remember that. During that they put,

they put together this like Yeah, like a sizzle reel. And it was like Jimmy Carter was. It was like, yeah, with like fucking Brayshneb. It was like Lyndon Johnson shaking someone's hand. Yeah. They put some real like duds in that promo real.

Like whoever was putting that together did not know. They were showing like, yeah, Lyndon Johnson meeting with the sorghum growers association and being like everyone remembers when this happened. Yeah. It's like, yeah, Japan did not sign like a surrender on the White House lawn. You know? Yeah. You know, like. And the odor hyping of this event, my favorite of, uh, my favorite of, uh,

of today's commentary, like of the day after commentary on it, was our good pal, Jack Prylosek, who just posted a bunch of images of like, you know, like the flyover or whatever. And he was like, the left has been conclusively defeated. Liberalism is over in America. They've got nothing now. Yeah, everyone, everyone watch this.

Everyone is, you know, it's kind of like secret uncles. Like people are like sneaking away from their Harrigan wives who are like making them root for the Knicks. Yeah. The Knicks have three fans in America. Josh shit. Yeah, Josh shit, the guy who was like, Michelle Obama's a man. That guy is 700 million fans.

People are sneaking away to talk about Josh shit. That's their favorite guy. During the flyover, you know, you got the Blue Angels, an impressive array of a flyover. All I could think during the flyover was like ultimate Felix, Felix Beardman fantasy. Okay. I don't know if you've seen the James Bond movie Thunderball. Oh, yeah.

Okay. The plot in that were like a pilot who's going to pilot an aircraft like armed with a nuclear bomb goes to like a weldness spa in the English countryside. And Spector like kills him and replaces him with a guy who's had plastic surgery to look identical to him. I love that when they do that in movies for the 60s because it's like that guy would look insane. Like fucking crazy. We do that with one of these flyover pilots and get Felix in the cockpit. And then as they're going over the White House and the claw erected there,

it's just like breakaway, weapons hot, just free fire. This is, dude. Just send two sidewinder missiles just into the crowd. Into just straight, you know, just drop the, just drop everything on the White House. Yeah, oh my God. Yeah, I have a J.S.S.M.

What's the load out? What's the load out? I have a few, I have, depending on what I'm in, I'm going to have it like two standoff things. Just like let him know I'm coming. I'm going to do like Clint Eastwood and unforgiven. Let him know I'm coming. And then I think probably I'm going to have two Amrams, two AIM 9Xs, sidewinders for like, you know, because ideally I want to go down in dogfighting scenario.

Either kind. But for like whatever, like if there is a box with like David Ellison, the Grinch, all those guys. Zuckerberg. Yeah. I think, I think, like, either small diameter bombs or the ginsu missile. Is that the one that blows up and sends spinning blades everywhere? It doesn't blow up. It's a kinetic weapon.

It just, like, sends a whirling, whirligig fucking knife at you. It's pretty nuts. But, no, this is why I'm always, like, praying for a terminal disease. So I can just, like, go out and blaze of glory. And it's like, look, I'm not literally threatening to do this. And it could be, like, if you're in politics, don't worry. I it's my anger can shift on a dime. There is this good of the chance of me doing this.

I don't know. You'll be Ubisoft. Oh, the remake slinter cell. Like it's, I really, I'm a man of mood swings. Josh shit, uh, in his postgame, uh, victory interview with Joe Rogan, that, that was a guy who said, Michelle Obama was a man and what, and walked off. Uh, you know, but, but, but before that. And one of the, an amazing, amazing, amazing.

post-victory interview. Like he also said, basically I'm paraphrasing here, but I was like, did I hear this correctly? He said, you know, I'm going to think something incredible Hulk. I'm a fan of the Hulk Hogan,

but there's no bigger Hulk than my Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ. Martin Luther, if you could see your works now. And then he also said, fuck the speech. I was got to say thank you. Because like,

only Donald Trump could have the fucking balls to do something like this. And it's just like, yeah, no other American president had the balls to put together, you know, to display, you know, a professional sport that, you know, it's only been around for like about 30 years,

but prior to that was being held on barges in international waters. Yeah, I mean, and after this event, I do kind of agree with John McCain. I hate to say it, but it's like, apologies, sir, you're right. This is human cock sucking. Like, a couple things like

they should have hung over the spectacle of this event before it even started. and the first was what I found out in the hours leading up to it. The official broad, I should a quote here, the official broadcast for Trump's UFC fight announces that fighters will be paid in crypto

from the Trump family's crypto company. Okay, that's, um, they said it was a stable coin, which I'm sure. I'm fucking sure. Well, there was some really gross shit by the, John Anick,

um, there's a part like, um, there were a lot of delays and just like random. They, they spent a lot of time just like, uh, you know,

call here's the, fucking soldier because the fights were being ended sooner than they planned and there were delays and shit. John Anick did a live read for Trump coin and it just really made me fucking mad for some reason. Like I guess at the end of the day, anyone who is going to buy that does kind of deserve to get scammed. But it just, it just reminded me of what like an unprincipled shit everyone is now. John Anick went to the same prep school that Robert Krapp's disgusting offspring went to.

Yeah. Yeah. He's like a college educated guy. John, how much Trump coin do you have for your kids college accounts? Is that like a big holding for your family? Would you fucking buy it asshole?

And it's like, I'm not, look, I know that people have to have jobs. But so many people know what a disgusting display all of this is. But they won't even go, I'm not going to fucking chill for this scam token. No one can even stand up in it. Well, I mean, the other very odd thing,

speaking of like, you know, the ethics and integrity. of the sport here was the insane sequence of events regarding Daniel Cormier and like his post of screenshots of what reported to be Eric Trump basically hitting him up for insider information on the fights asking him point blank if any other fights were rigged so that he could bet on it for money then there was this like whole sequence of events where like he deleted it then like they said oh he was like their AI generated screenshots but then it was like well then if they're a like why are you posting them from your account right do you know do you see what he did today

And then he said I was hacked. Well, do you see what he did? What? He posted a bunch of random codes and crypto wallets that were set up 20 minutes ago to make it look like he's still getting hacked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, first of all, what it is so fortunate that he got hacked, but then got his account back and deleted the post in under a second. Yeah, yeah. He's really, D.C. has really got his fucking eyes on the ball there.

Really good work by him. It just, okay, so, look, obviously we don't think that, like, Eric Trump is going to, like, actually get in trouble for this. But the entire thing is hilarious because our fights fixed. Well, we do know that, per the James Krauss and other batting scandals, that, like, you know, fighters may have agreements between each other to do things to make it so that they cash out on rigged prop bets. There have probably been guys that have even thrown in the UFC, even in the Zoufa and maybe even the, uh, post-eufa. I mean, like in an individual sport like that, right. Outcome is like win or loss. It's very, the temptation to get an edge, gambling wise is very easy to accomplish.

But if the UFC itself was fixing fights. I mean, I'm skeptical about that because it would require, let's just say very volatile and unpredictable co-conspirators. Yeah. Yeah. They would be like the guy who got shot reaching for his sub in casino. know. You're just working with 10,000 of those guys. But if they are, this is at least under any normalish presidency, this would put the O.C on the hook for potentially hundreds of billions

of dollars in gambling losses, fraud, like, it would ruin that. It would destroy maybe hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth. It would destroy probably WME. It would be. a seismic event, probably the biggest sports scandal of our fucking lives. And Eric Trump is saying not just can you confirm this but can you, Daniel Cormier,

highly venerated former champion, can you confirm to me that your career was possibly entirely fake? And do it over Instagram DMs. Yeah. I mean, we talked about this last time how, or last administration, how their imaginations were too small.

That's obviously not the case this time, but they're still doing this little shit. Like, do you think Eric Trump needs $7,000 that bad? I think the revealing thing, though, is the first thing he asks is, well, is anyone injured? Like, is anyone... I mean, that's asking for, like, basically insider information that, like, you get ahead of gambling odds. Well, what does that tell you, though? You would figure, okay, if someone is, they had a tough weight cut, they got knocked out in training a few weeks before the fight, they're like,

like Ilya Tepora, they're taking their divorce harder than it seemed, uh, whatever, right? That information would probably get passed along to the people who are closest to Trump,

right? Yeah. Like it's, if lefty Rosenthal, the real Ace Rothstein was getting information like that in the 70s, it's got to be a hundred times worse now. Trump, Eric Trump did not,

like the hours before was like, oh shit, I don't have any of that information. He was like, think about what that tells you. His dad, Remo Gaghi, he's like, I'm hell, did you have Gaiji over to Burry? Nobody had Gajee.

Dude, Justin Gay Guy. He fucking, I mean, that is, we'll get the, by the way, in a roundabout way, I do think the UFC is fixed now because I think they panicked after the, the, the, Cormier tweet and delete, and they said, okay, we need every single consequential fight, almost.

We need the guy who's promotionally worse to win to prove that the sport is legitimate. So, 29-year-old Ilya, one of the most exciting going into the fight undefeated

stars in the sport. People were saying he was like pound for pound greatest, you know, if he wins this or already. He loses to Justin Gae who, to give people

who don't know some context, Justin Gachi has been getting into fucking knock down drag out brawls for so long that me and my friends would watch him in college and we would go yeah this guy's awesome but like i hope he retires in like four years or else he's going to fucking die Justin gaugie's 37 he's used to say oh i get into these brawls because i bad eyes eyesight and then five years into his career he fixed it and he still does that because it's you know it's like anything you if you keep doing something you want to do it he wants to fight that way

but it just he's going to he's 37 years old he's going to have to fucking retire and Ilya who incredibly exciting talent not only did he catch a brutal fucking beating he put they probably broke both of his orbitals

which is pretty hard I was gonna recover from it I was watching that fight and uh Tuporia's face looked like the doom guy when you're on low health yeah that was that was that was that was that was brutal it was a great fight I mean like Credit the game.

I thought that as far as like the main event was actually the most exciting fight of the night. Lightweight is at least used to be the best division in the sport. There's arguments for phantom weight. But whatever. Lightweight's the top of the division especially is just that they're amazing because if you're a guy who can make 155, what, you're not going to be. If you're athletic, you're not going into fucking football probably. Well, except for Josh shit. Yeah.

Josh Shets did. I'll tell me. The two, the two heavyweight fights that were duds, in my opinion. Because like Josh shit versus Derek, Derek Lewis, that looked like two truckers fighting each other. It was so fucking funny. The commentary was going like, oh, I, Derek Lewis looks so unmotivated. And it's like they both looked awful and exhausted.

Josh shit looked like he did not know how to do an arm bar, which is insane. He spent a minute at the end of the first round trying as hard as possible to do an arm bar but he was just lying there. He had like he lacked if he had a toddler's understanding of negative space he could have completed that. But it's like, oh, I wonder why

the biggest fucking guys look exhausted right now. It couldn't be that it's outside in this slaltering. This guy Derek Lewis, like he came out and it's like he's 41 years old. Yeah. And let's just say he looked big. Like he looked big.

He's always been a big guy. Yeah. Like, you know, was gas within the first 10 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted Derek Lewis to. Like, Derek Lewis is hilarious. Okay.

I got to ask you this about, about Derek Lewis. Because like, when they're intro in the fight, they're like, Josh Hockeet versus Derek Lewis, the Black Beast. And I was just going, hold on a second. Hold on it. That's not really his nickname. We're not really going to keep saying this, right? And they were like, they were like, here comes the Black Beast.

It's the black beast. And I was like, they gotta stop saying. I'm not, I'm not so sure about that nickname. It's, he picked it. Look, MMA,

we've come a long way. This is like progressive for MMA. Yeah. When Rampage Jackson was 19 years old and fighting in Japan, for people who don't know, Rampage, former UFC light heavyweight champion,

a famous black fighter, pride the greatest promotion on earth, all the accusations about being run by the Yakuzaa complete lies. They promoted him under the heavy implication that he was just like a crazy homeless man they found, which was in case I need to say not true at all. But just, yeah, to the main event, like credit to Gagy, we've always known this about how tough Gagy is. But you saw the massive body shot he took in the first round. Oh, yeah.

When you get hit in the liver like that, like your shit shuts down. you have to be so fucking tough to like not just like get up from that but to like come back and to beat the shit out of the other guy so badly that his corner has to stop it like no i mean good for gaugie but it's just between a guy who's probably going to have to retire like his next fight in gaugie cyril ganier who the reason he was fighting for the interim belt against elix perera who i don't think looked very good at heavyweight i think he would have benefited from not bulking up so much, but he is, you know, he's 38, he's not a young man.

The reason Cyril Gagne and Pereira were fighting for the interim belt is because in the last three years, Gagne is challenged for the UFC heavyweight belt three times and walked away without it, three times. Lost two of those, and the most recent one, and the reason that fucking Tom Aspinall is out for so long, is that Gagne poked him in the eye, so badly that it nearly fucking blinded him

in that eyes. Yeah. And he's I mean, there is a good argument to be made that every knockout Gagne has in the UFC is the result of blatant cheating. And people are mad at Herb Dean. I don't, I disagree. I like Herb Dean's philosophy of just, I want

to see every fighter die. I don't like it, but I respect it. No, it's just, I don't, how do you promote Gagne? Hey, we have a French cheater. Like, I don't, yeah, It's tough if you're then. I thought Victor Wemagnama was bad enough.

I was thinking about this how Wemagnana, like, obviously I don't want to say he's not a cheater. He didn't cheat. I don't want to say he gassed either because that's like fighting for 25 minutes. That's playing basketball that fucking hard. That's insane. It's insane. But he had a similar, he has a similar build to one of my favorite kickboxers of all time.

Bader Harri, a Moroccan kickboxer. And Bader Harri had the same thing where he had like, he had a lot of go. win him for the first couple rounds, but that like kind of long, strong build without intense conditioning. It is tough to fucking keep up. After 250 years, our story is just beginning. And our national gallery is still a timeless work in progress. With each generation, countless new images of our fighting spirit come into view. And every one of us may leave our mark. on the great American mural.

Now, you mentioned, okay, you mentioned Gagne and his, his poking of Aspinol's eye. You mentioned Justin Gage's eyesight, which is a good digression to the other thing I want to talk about, sort of taking in this whole thing as like a whole media spectacle, which includes the ads. And obviously, like, the sponsors for this event being like Saudi Arabia, crypto.com. Freedom 250 brought you by Riyadh investment. By Riyadh season. I believe it was and the crypto.com

Trump coin and I think like you know like I think the Trump family has a stake in UFC too obviously this whole thing is just an incredible display of corruption and that's what I mean about like how Trump is so good

or like giving MAGA these kind of like alternate spectacles to be like oh everyone loves this and this is the most important thing everyone loves it look at all the fun we're having over here did yeah

did you see the post that was like peace with Persia in the afternoon. A Roman Empire. Gladiator. And it's like, Josh shit is not the Spaniard. And also, I mean, if you're in comparison to the Roman Empire, they never defeated the Persians either. Yeah.

Yeah. They never beat them even once. So Jesus Christ will be born in like Puerto Rico. Maybe he's already here. And I would say like overall, in terms of watching this on TV, I was more entertained than I thought I would be. despite the fact that there was just like a kind of grimness and a bleakness. And even like, you know, the chance of USA and the people having a good time cheering the fighter is.

Like, it doesn't hold a candle to like, you see these World Cup fans. You see New York on Saturday night. Like, it's just this like everyone has to go along with the implied implication that like everyone's having the most fun they've ever had. And like this is a historic event and all of America loves this. Yeah. But you see, it's like, it's all brought to you by like criminals and fraud. and like this absurd bullshit. Like there's all these,

one of the ads is for, um, that was it like, um, and, Andrewl and they're like, we're fighting, like,

we're bringing like, bleeding edge technology to like the, the war space or whatever. And then like that, the, the, the slogan for Enderl was, um,

fight unfair. But make no mistake. When pushed, we'll do what it takes to win. Dude, Cyril Gagne, I mean, like,

like, I know why defense companies do that, but I just, like the idea that like the UOC's audience of let's be honest future Israeli garden fertilizer is like oh I'm in the market for a weapon

system yeah there was a commercial right before the main event they gave Pete Hankseth his own commercial and it was like workout clips of him he was doing like workout clips and it was always just like you know like join the military but it was like for war

dot gov was so he did did Mac from Always Sunny's Project badass but like on a national scale I was I was taking note of the commercials too here's two that were really telling to me

one Dana White does a car commercial that is just an ad for the concept of loudness Oh my God yeah It's a Doddram commercial I wrote this down Doddram The tagline for that is

In Loud we trust Hell yeah I saw a smoke brother Yeah and then like Dana White was like you know He's like you know America didn't actually be country we came out fist swinging

and he goes fighting is in our DNA we get it and we like it once again like we just lost the war with Iran and it's like all for Dodge Ram think about what Dana White would say if America and Iran were fighters under Congress and they just fought for Iran just let's say this is like a

5042 type decision like one of those GSP title defenses where it just makes a guy look like shit what does Dana saying about America. Is America getting another title of shot soon? Well, they got a tough road ahead of them. The other ad that I made note of it, and I thought this was so illustrative of the UFC audience,

which I've got to admit watching the Gaiji fight, it did remind me why I spent so much time in the sport. And to your point, by the way, about how grim this all is, MMA is a very solitary sport, both from competitors and kind of for watching, even though there are more fans than ever, Those fans are kind of realizing that the product is very samey and bloated and shitty now.

It is a grim time for the sport. But the contrast between what I saw after the Knicks game, and I'm very happy for the time I spent training. I'm very happy for the people that I've met watching and writing and caring about the sport. But beyond that, like the social utility of it is like you can make conversation with your Uber driver if he's from Tajikistan. like you both know about like an obscure guy who fought in like 1996 that is very different from like the true

what I saw on Saturday night was like I thought this is what they do in Europe every few months and it's so cool to see it in America yeah yeah did an actual community the thing we everyone out in the streets having fun and it's just like nothing bad is happening

and everyone is like it turns a big city into a small town right you know right the thing that all these like the Tyler Michael Austin guy always talks about these fucking gay college people they never have like real community events. They're not drinking beer

with their neighbors. By the way, read my new book from college university press called the gayness of college. But no, I mean, like isn't that it isn't what that what we saw was like what those guys want. And yeah, you could say that like, okay, there were a bunch of like lame people in Brooklyn

which not us. We're not in Brooklyn. there have been a lot of I've seen a lot of truly embarrassing sports takes from Nick's bandwagoners who were like Jalen Brunson

and McKell Bridges Charlottesne Towns they will usher in socialism and then they will end the era of frigid individualism and neoliberalism in America

stop like everyone everyone's having fun everyone's having fun just enjoy it it's professional sports it's not going to usher in socialism

in America these were the post that cursed us after Nevada you guys got to fucking stop and they got these after they actually won the championship that's all I got a time because that's even worse than Trump showing up in terms of like what like fucking kiss of death that is but yeah

I gotta say one more shout out one of the best fans I saw out on the street on Saturday night because obviously like the World Cup is going on now too and I saw a lot of Brazil fans out getting in on the fun, but there was one Scottish guy. The one Scottish guy. And like, while the Knicks were fucking playing the Spurs, Scotland had a one-nill victory over Haiti in their first round of the group player

within their first game in the group. And there was just one Scottish guy with a Scottish flag draped over his back out in the streets pretending like everyone was there to cheer for Scotland. It was a great big. It was just going, Scotland, yeah, come on, Scotland. That was awesome. Me and my friends, Anna and Dan. Oh, yeah, we read it to them.

strolling down the street and we didn't know about this whole thing the the whole backstory we just saw this guy's flag tied around his neck and you know as i'm sure you're aware if you're familiar with the colors and arrangement of the white it could be dicey and so dan very bravely asked like excuse me sir what flag is that and the guy sort of like you know kind of like reacher squaring up when a guy goes is up to his nipples and is like get out of our town you big piece of shit kick your ass. He's scoring up. And I'm thinking like 50-50 shot,

we're like, he's, he's going to, he's going to hit us with fucking, you know, ecstasy pizza, white phosphorus. But no,

Scottish flag. We're really dicey. But like, I was happy to see that. I love seeing, like, the World Cup fans join in on, on the joy of New York City

because like, you know, like now that we're hosting this huge international sporting event. And of course, like, I hate all the stuff about how the,

fucking bitching out the Iran team and they won't let them sleep in America. All this shit that Trump's doing with like the players from the African countries that they're like holding up their visas. They're fucking hassling them at the airport. It's just like all really gross, racist, awful garbage. That being said, I have enjoyed a lot of the good vibes

of like all the shit from like Lawrence, Kansas. Yeah. Where all these Midwest corn feds are like, like rock chalk Algeria. Yeah. That's a real reason they want to keep like foreigners out. Yeah. It just takes one.

It takes one. Yeah. You know, everyone wants to have a good time and like the good vibe. But to go back to the UFC here, as a supporting event, like I thought I was interested in the fights.

I thought there was a couple good moments, but I thought like other than the main event, from my perspective, as a novice viewer of the UFC, I thought most of the fights were a little bit lackluster, you know, because it was like, basically just like one or two big punches or kicks or landed and they were pretty much over.

Well, the one thing I want to say, though, is the overall spectacle, though, I got to give Trump for like, because it looked good on television, but more than anything, I did enjoy the experience of seeing the White House turned into a bordello. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, it just turned into a whorehouse. This was, I wanted to bring up the other commercial that I... I've one in mind as well, but what's the one you're thinking? Because this was, this was emblematic of the whole night. What was done to the White House, the completion of the project on January 6th. Yes, yes, absolutely. You know, the, you know, us and the Trump people,

I got your back brother. We both agree. We need to shame and bring this nation down low. Emblematic of the entire night. The AT&T commercial that basically is an instructional for how to knock on your neighbor's door

and make friends. That is the stupidity of the people watching this event. Is that they're like, wait, so do I do it armed or unarmed? It was an AT&T commercial for the concept of making friends and neighbors.

And it might as well have had like fine print of the end. Like do not assault these, but do not kill these people. These are not enemies. Okay. The ad that I thought was my absolute favorite that I literally couldn't believe it. Mark Zuckerberg was there.

It was an ad for meta. And then it was this big promo that like that they announced after the, the premiere of this ad. And the idea is their meta is going to provide to every blind veteran a pair of meta glasses. What the fuck is that supposed to get? And I was last year with Catherine and I said, they're blind. Why do they need glasses?

Well, aha. These are meta glasses. And the point is that they use this AI technology to tell blind people what they're looking at. And in the ad, like there's some old veteran and probably was like, you know, at Pearl Harbor or something. And he puts on the meta glasses and he goes, meta, where's the flag?

And it just goes, it's over there. Yeah, yeah. It's glasses for blind veterans where the blind veteran can ask the meta glasses what they're looking at and the glasses will tell them they'll speak it out loud

and then there was like they were like, what a beautiful thing for meta to do and Dana was like every blind veteran in America is getting a free pair of these meta glasses. That's going to be great for some bus riders across America.

I forget who I was talking about this with last night, but we were talking about people who just like watch porn at the airport with the implicit thing of like, you're not going to be able to finish yourself off for like 10 hours and just like how crazy that is,

how so many people do that. David Cross joke about how they sell pornographic magazines like at airport news kiosks. Oh yeah. On bus rides across America, you're just going to hear like the robotic meta voice.

Her vagina is being penetrated by three penises. She's like in monotone. It's echoing throughout the bus. He is squirting. Uh-oh, the stepsister is caught in the washing machine. Do you want help with extracting stepsisters from washing machines? It's just like, all of this, like, it's just absolutely ridiculous bullshit.

Another great sponsor was like, they were like, brought to you by Buffalo Trace Bourbon. The tagline for Buffalo Trace Bourbon is America's fastest growing bourbon. I just love it. Buffalo Trace as a name for any product is great Because you think of like Buffalo Trace That basically means the giant piles of shit That they leave around

They're like their hoof prints Or their giant mounds of shit That the piles that they're leaving all over And their slogan was Burn Your Own Trace Which is just take a shit anywhere And get hunted down and killed Like I said there

There was a lot I enjoyed about it Another observation I had here The first fight which is, I believe, featherweight or like, this was, yeah, 145.

Steve Garcia versus Diego Lopez, who in my notes I have is Hitlero Lopez because of his, I mean, just like, look up a photo. Like I said,

he looks like Hitler with a mullet. He's, he's got, he's got to look. I liked his vibes when he came out when he, because all,

the other thing is all the fighters literally warmed up in the White House and like walked out of the White House to the, to the octagon.

But, like, as they were going there, one of the, I think, Anick, the guy, hate said of Steve Garcia

he said now he has fought outside before and Catherine was like yeah in front of bars in parking lines so you know like that the first round of that one that's pretty boring but and then in the second round I have your old Lopez caught him with a big

left hook and then it was basically over TKO yeah this is what I wanted to this is what I noticed with the first fight and this is 145 which is historically one of the best divisions in MMA some absolutely amazing fighters have ran over 145. Max Holloway, Dustin Poillier, Jose Aldo. But watching this fight, I was reminded of one of the reasons that I find

am just not as excited by the sport as I used to be, and many people feel the same way. Except for the fighters on the roster who have sentience, everyone does kind of fight kind of samey now compared to how they used to. Um, there is, if you told me 10 years before that fighters would have a basic semblance of footwork and fainting, that would have been quite exciting at the time, though. Um, even, you know, in, in the case of Lopez, the number two guy at Featherweight, a historically deep division, um, this sort of like, uh, imitation Leon Edwards style of fighting. And then they, one or both guys will get hit on the button and then they just revert to fighting like Chris Levin. Obviously, there are tons of guys with distinct styles and ways of fighting

that are not just like that within the company, but they are seeming fewer and far between by the day. And it just, it doesn't really seem like we'll ever see a guy like Michita pop up

with like a truly, like a guy doing karate and it works. You know, something that interesting ever again, though, I hope I'm wrong. Then it was Bo Nicol

versus Kyle Dacus or Dachus. Lucy Dachis's husband. They're very different people. A fairly boring fight. Bo Nichol was a college wrestler. I think he got Deiqis on the ground very quickly in the first round. It was over in the second. What I remember from that was Bo Neckle absolutely glazing Donald Trump in the postgame

when Joe Rogan interviews him in the post game. And basically, I got to credit to the two fighters who didn't mention Jesus Christ in the post game in their victory interview. several of them quoted Bible verses. There was a guy who proposed to his girlfriend. That was kind of fun. So this was, yeah, this was Michael Chandler versus Maricio Huffy. Michael Chandler for people don't know.

Connor McGregor, this is a, most times it's not so funny when Connor McGregor ruins someone's life. But this is one of those cases. So Michael Chandler was a great fighter in Belta. He is a great fight. You know, he's been in some absolutely incredible fights. But, you know, he's another guy, just. like fucking Justin Gagee. He's been in a bunch of wars, and he's older now.

I think he's like 38, maybe even older. But he comes to the U.C. He loses a fight in 2022. And he challenges Connor McGregor, because, I mean, it makes sense. You get paid more for big money fights like that with more

viewership. It's obviously why you would want that. But in the two fucking years of delays caused by McGregor, being like, oh, I'm going to hit the gym soon. And you just see like powder. His nose is busted in powder.

Like he's getting convicted of rate. Like, you know, just he's doing all the Connor McGregor stuff in that time. It's like anyone with half a brain after six months would go, okay, this is never fucking happening. And McGregor is getting some sick joy out of rooting Chandler, who is one of those hyper positive. Like I visualize everything like Christian guys who loves Trump, obviously. After two years, he finally wizens up.

goes, I don't think this visualization shit is working. It takes his first fight in two years. Loses. And now has lost three more fights in a row with the number four on this four-fight skid is getting

blown up horrifically on his favorite guy Donald Trump's birthday. Like getting murdered in front of his favorite guy. Like Maricio Hoofy fucked his shit up. He went easily in the first round. I have here a couple big roundhouse kicks

a vicious body shots and then a few big blows to Chandler's head and it was over. The way Chandler fell was really like, buddy I don't think you're going to be doing a lot of visualizing anymore. I don't know. It's like these guys have like fucking dumbbly but like I really don't want to

it. It's one of the reasons why even at the height of my family, it can't be a hard sport to watch. Like you don't want to watch these guys suffer like permanent brain damage. It's the you know, the reason that they disallow strikes the back of the head in theory. But

yeah, I hope he hangs it up soon. I hope he hangs it up soon and that he is, I hope he had a 401k because that is another thing the UFC could use is a real fighter pension plan. Then, I think we talked about every fight, but the last one I have here is the bantam weight,

Shona Mali versus Amman Zahabi. And I thought that was like one of the more entertaining fights and it's just O'Malley's fun to watch sometimes. I was probably most impressed with O'Malley as an athlete and as a fighter just in terms of how

unbelievably fast, powerful, and accurate he is as a puncher. No, yeah. I mean, 1.35, like, I think you would really enjoy watching guys a Bantam weight and featherweight. Like, some of the best fights I've ever fucking seen. And flyweight, 125. And my other note was that

Sean O'Malley looks like the White 6-9. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. O'Malley is like, I think he, yeah, he has gone the decision much more times than he's finished people in the UFC. But he is a very dynamic athlete. He's very fun to watch

a lot of the time. And yeah, this was a really fucking good finish. O'Malley, I believe, was a barstool sponsored fighter for a while. But yeah, no, White 6-9 is a good way to put it. Yeah, like we've already mentioned

Cyril Gagne and Alex Pereira. We talked about the Josh shit who was I think it's funny that like the day after Dana White's like yeah I don't approve of that

like I wish you didn't make a political Oh God forbid The day after I like Dana White just being like I'm really proud of what we did I hope we created some unity And otherwise divided

I think you did Dana I think you did I think you did Dana I think you saved millions of lives and being too humble I guess just like Take it all in this whole Like I said like

To view this like as a spectacle of American fascism, I thought it did a pretty good job, but it would be like an event that a fascist country would have to celebrate a loss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To get people's mind off

like the loss that their military actually just suffered. This is like... Mussolini would put this on after like, I tried to invade a fucking Ethiopian. Yeah. If we had actually like, if we didn't like commit to never doing this in 1944 and we actually

did nuke germany in 195 in west germany this is an event they would have they would have this with like guy the real guys from das boot fighting each other for rice marks and bread you know a lot of a lot of cussings too in front of the white house

as well yeah i didn't like that yeah i don't like all the f words you know very disrespectful yeah and also the other hilarious uh like brilliant uh i don't know if it's dana white or don't Trump but they had all the fighters come out

with like a 9-11 first responder. It was like a New York or FDNY got like a cop or a firefighter a 9-11 first responder and a medal of honor recipient which means that as they walk to the fight with this like you know a guy in a wheelchair like you know it was it Ewo Jima or something like

that means that all of the Marines and troops in attendance had to salute as they were going by so it was basically like they were saluting Josh shit yeah and like and then like a slew of fighter from like Georgia and Brazil essentially. Yeah, I was thinking about like imagine, look, I'm not a big enough AOR Homer to think that like, you know,

30,000, 30,000 US troops died. Like, I'm not quite there yet. I'm sorry. But like, some did. Some fucking did. And imagine your friend, like got blown the fuck up by a Shahid. And then weeks later, after the after, you know, just the total confirmation that we got owned.

Donald Trump is like, it's my birthday. You have to salute Hanato Mephistophiles from Pit Bull Mines Brazil right now. Do it. Yeah.

All of these guys had like an honor guard of like, you know, serving U.S. Marines saluting them. Yeah. As they go, as they trunch to the ring and flip-flops

to the boys are back in town to like, Like, you know, to excel at their, you know, vicious blood sport. I think, I hope that they had like a 100-year-old Korean War veteran walking out with Derek Lewis. Wheeling him out. Like, I would love, if Meda can get the technology to broadcast that guy's internal monologue. Meadow, what am I looking at? You were looking at the Black Beast.

Oh, no. You were looking at a Black Beast being brought out of the White House to be served up as meat for a, for one of the most. Chutified dunces on the planet. I saw a lot of, there have been a lot of great posts about Josh Hookett after. M.O.A.

is filled with people who were just like, if anyone talks about you at all, that is what they call marketing genius. Yeah. And I saw a really good post from a guy who, you know, one of these guys with an account called like, you know,

jujitsu IQ, footwork professor. He, he, Oh yeah, everyone thinks Josh Hook It's such a dumb guy. He got a degree from Fresno State in political science.

He knows what he's doing. Yeah, I even think, he's like, for America B, he came from America A to America B like Enrico Fermé. He's as great of a mind. He's escaping liberal fascism. Well, once again, yeah, congratulations

to Dana White and Donald Trump. Happy birthday. to Donald Trump. What an event? What a weekend for sport in the world? Yeah. Like I say, we're keeping it going.

If you're a fan of the World Cup. Like I said, congratulations to the New York Knicks. Congratulations to New York City. And also congratulations to Iran over like the biggest double of the weekend. Once again, Jersey to the Rafters. Yep.

And Sinwar. And another, look, I'm sorry, rules are rules? this is a seventh ring for Chicago in my lifetime. 45 points for Julian Brunson in the last game. That's Lincolnshire officially part of Chicago now. Congratulations to everyone. Now merged, New York and Chicago.

And like to the ones we lost, you couldn't see it, Sinwar, Nazarala. This was for them. Yeah. This was for them. You know the boys are watching. They're up there. Yeah. We're getting them a ring.

I really, Nisralla would honestly, he would have had such funny shit to say about, UFC 250 too. He really would. He was a funny guy. Well, that does it for today's episode, everybody. Until next time.

Bye bye. Bye bye.