MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Bonus Vacation Mailbag: Female Action Movie Stars | Collections | Future Plans

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell are on vacation but have you covered with a bonus mailbag episode. Which action movie star would they want to marry? What is a movie that they anticipated but was a let down? Do the guys collect anything? Who gets the Youtube play button when MK reaches 100k Subs? The guys discuss some future plans. Luke discusses a short version of his life story for some of the newer fans. Morning Kombat’ is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts.    For more Combat Sports coverage subscribe here: youtube.com/MorningKombat   Follow our hosts on Twitter: @BCampbellCBS, @lthomasnews, @MorningKombat    For Morning Kombat gear visit: store.sho.com   Follow our hosts on Instagram: @BrianCampbell, @lukethomasnews, @MorningKombat  To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Brad, welcome in. This is morning combat. Luke and I, Luke Thomas, Brian Campbell, the best duo around Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11 a.m. Eastern. You know the drill. This is, it's a great combat sports show. Look at our vacation this week. Okay. So we have pre-recorded an entertaining mailbag episode. We allowed you to scam our system and send in your questions. Showtime, CBS Sports, they pay us. And Luke Thomas, let me bring him in right now. Luke, I hope you're enjoying your vacation right now, even though we kind of Back to the Future 2 style kind of, you know, flux capacitor.

We went forward to go backward. You haven't gone on vacation yet. You, in fact, could be killed right now in South America. That's right. I could be dead as it stands, but the show will go on. This is a video to all your fans, then thanking them for. Yeah. Sad.

Sad. My family won't see it then. This is your living will. Here we go. OK. No, thank you. Like us. Subscribe.

Of course, YouTube dot com slash morning combat. So many great stuff going on there. Interviews, live chats, a lot of a lot of stuff going on. But today is fun mailbag time. So why don't we just hear what our viewers have to say? We'll get into this. Zach from Canada sliding in. It says if you had to marry an action star character, not the actress, but the character. Who would it be and why? Love the show since day one. Have yet to miss an episode.

BDE and stay frosty from your biggest Canadian fan, Ariel. No, what is that? Oh, Zach. Zach from Canada. Sorry. Luke, give me a female action star character like Tomb Raider, Lara Croft or someone like that, that you think you would, you know, is there have made an action movie yet about big Latin women? Luke. Yeah, I was going to say like Red Sonja, but didn't Brigitte Nielsen turn out to be a bit of a disaster later in life? Well, by the time she got to the flavor flavors. Yes, Luke.

But Prime Brigitte was still hot enough to overcompensate for that. of a disaster later in life well by the time she got to the flavor flavors yes luke but prime brigitte was still hot enough to overcompensate for that uh maria conchita alonso in uh running man i think was a yes fucking yeah it was amazing sharon stone in total recall not bad either luke even though she's working for the bad guys um who isn't trying there's got to be a go-to that we're missing right luke um cara dune from mandalorian you have to hear about uh you know you have to hear a lot of stupid political opinions have you ever gone let me ask you a question and everyone's got their own view of what this is but so just take the question as it comes yeah have you ever gone let me ask you a question and everyone's got their own view of what this is but so just take the question as it comes yeah have you ever been on a date or like yeah i'll leave it at that have you been on a date with someone who just had stupid fucking political opinions

look i don't i don't usually try to talk to people about politics you know what i mean i'm really in it for entertainment purposes life dating shows you know you've never been on a date and had any kind of conversation about your orientation on the world as it relates to how like the world is run well first of all i was raised in a factory town so we don't really go that deep look we go on dates usually for one of two reasons right uh and um no i haven't luca so can you give us one of somebody some chick who had just some stupid world outlook and you're like don't you know i used to write speeches for a living biatch right no i've never i've never um i've actually been blessed i've talked i've had many like i've been to like house parties and i

got stuck with someone who you know just had clearly uh confused their own commitment to, they confused their own ignorance about a topic with their certainty about the stupid ideas that actually explain the world events. Yeah, I've had a few of those. I've had a few of those. I mean, you're very deep, Luke. You're a well-thought-out, well-researched, educated man. I don't know if you're saying that Luke you're a well thought out well researched

educated man I don't know if you're saying that in jest you probably are I'm saying that in full full support here so you know in dates I would try to crack a joke you know I would laugh a little talk music

it wasn't like I was not trying to crack jokes I mean I'm trying to get laid on these events I'm simply saying yeah try to trying to slide into like a few of those could you do you let me ask you this do you and your wife have roughly similar outlook roughly similar outlooks on politics or yes yes okay so that's what i mean like at some point you're gonna disagree here disagree there but there needs to be like these all there's like these like who is it uh james carville and mary matlin it's like i'm a democrat i'm a republican but we get along it's like yeah because you're both fucking rich that's what you bitches have in common you know i mean

they might just like they may just enjoy each other's company luke you never know yeah i don't i don't believe that luke this i know we've been we've been filming a bunch of uh stuff uh it looks like that you wore that shirt on shirt on a show the other day? No, I wore this one this morning. This morning. Okay. It's the same brand, but it's a different. I have like 10 of these.

Truly. What does it say on it? What does it say, Luke? Notorious Bastards. What kind of company is that? It's an apparel company. They're shots of Notorious Bastards. What kind of company is that? It's an apparel company. They're Shots of Notorious Bastards. They're kind of like

so the way I describe it is they're sort of like it's tattoo enthusiast kind of artwork sort of chic but much more toned down not like super it's not gauche like Ed Hardy or something like that. It's actually like really about

kind of artistry around simple, traditional tattoo culture and kind of the things that go along with it. Is there, is it just the tattoo and political culture ever, ever crossed Luke? No, I find that most people, well,

I don't know about them. I don't have any way to suggest as much, but I've always noted my real lot in life is that all the things I like are filled with people i don't so you know who knows i don't know all right all right here we go um lemur lemur lemur pirate lemur like the animal from uh yeah you know the lemurs uh what is the movie yeah madagascar there you go what is a movie that you greatly anticipated and wanted to thoroughly enjoy but were let down by for an example lemur pirate says dark night

rises was it for me decent movie but a big letdown to close out the nolan directed batman trilogy appreciate the three episode per week content lt keep on as the bbl enthusiast bc keep on as the connoisseur of sneaky i don't understand that keep on stuff but uh thank you sir luke was that let's give an example here oh yeah i know exactly the answer to this one okay what do you got that last star wars movie was the rise of skywalker was such an unbelievable piece of shit and you gotta understand something man you know again to even like sci-fi you have to be a and you gotta understand something man you know again to even like sci-fi you have to be a certain kind of person that's you know which is a wide amount of people obviously but still my wife doesn't like sci-fi for example then you know

you have to kind of forgive all the prequels and i did and the first uh episode seven or whatever was wasn't great but it was okay uh i liked the last jedi because it was. It wasn't great, but it was okay. I liked The Last Jedi because it was setting fire to everything, really. It was what it was kind of about. And obviously, because Disney had fucked up the handoff between the movies and the directors, everyone was just kind of trying to paste together a jalopy to make it go.

And so by the time it got to the last one, the whole thing was fucked. But dude, that movie sucked so much ass it was so fucking terrible literally we got out i went with my colombian in-laws and they're not nearly into star wars in the way that i am we got out of the theater and they were like high five and they're like yeah we love that shit because all they want to see is chewbacca roar you know they want to see some stormtroopers some lasers and shit and they're good they're not they're not all in on it like i am and i walked out of there mad i was like man fuck that movie man fuck chewbacca fuck all them hoes fuck that

movie i was i was so angry fuck luke thomas yeah um i would have to say it feels like an easy one but rocky five you have to understand like i mean like i came to boxing through the rocky movies right i didn't see Rocky three in the theater, but I remember when it was in the theater, which I was like five. And I remember being so fired up when it came on to HBO, Rocky four was destination city in the theater. So when Rocky five came around and you were not only told that a real boxer would be the co-star, but that they, you know,

Rocky would become a coach and like, you know, like there was this whole thing around it. I was so damn jacked. And, you know, looking back, Luke, I think sometimes we overrate our hate for that. Like it's become the redheaded stepchild of the entire franchise. But what do you think really went wrong in Rocky five? But I remember just being angry, leaving the theater. Is that the Tommy gun one?

Yes. Because the story was strong, right? It's just something about the execution. Was it the fact that Stallone had his real son play his son and it just didn't work? What do you think it was? I haven't seen that movie in 25 years. I don't know.

I mean, the story was that Pauly gambled away all their money or whatever, invested it wrong. So they went back to their old house in Philly and, you know, Rocky was starting to have the CTE come in and he trained Tommy Gunn in his basement. And then, you know, Tommy took the money from the fake Don King guy. And and then eventually, right. Tommy challenged Rocky on the on the street. You know, you know, you mess with Pauly. Want to try knock me down. Right. No, I don you know you you mess with paulie want to try knocking me down

right no i don't know if you can hear the uh the civil war that is taking place the civil war reenactment that is taking place outside of my door okay does it involve uh uh your daughter a dog a grandma probably just 50 000 people who yelling at each other that's great okay all right all right all right that's yeah i'm look is there another because the hook to this question is that you went to the theater actively prepared to love something you know it's not like million dollar baby where i had no idea and then i got caught on that left turn and i was like screw this movie for life i didn't go to the theater for that being so fired up like destination you know like there's got to be something in my blind spot here i mean i don't know what we'll get back definitely that last star wars one was the last time i can remember leaving the theater being

like man fuck those pieces of shit for making this fucking movie and for my stupid ass for sitting through it i haven't had that feeling in a while okay all right here we go this from sambuca of great britain hey lads do you guys collect anything i know bc collects fight posters and moldy livers personally i collect golden silver and bronze age comic books which have all seen an increase in price probably due to the pandemic thanks for all all the laughs from Factory Town, MMA, UK. DC also collects ball fungus. I don't collect fight posters, but I do have a decent amount through connections in the fight game or some that I bought.

I rotate them regularly, Luke. The only thing I collect, and I think there's two kinds of collecting there's collecting with the idea of spinning it one day to make money and collecting because you're obsessed and you love it so i collect vinyl records like a fiend i also collect nba replica jerseys usually from the 1990s usually of like ridiculously journeymen or failed players just for the novelty fun of it luke what the hell do you collect probably something real nerdy right i don't collect things because i'm not a huge nerd um as a kid i collected jesus fucking i mean i hope they're having a good time with the quinceanera out there keep a kid, I collected... Jesus fucking... I hope they're having a good time with the quinceañera

out there. Keep hitting that piñata. I mean, what the fuck are they doing? I would say, as a kid, I collected baseball cards, and I specifically instructed my mother not to throw them away, because I was of the generation as you were, where everyone was like, oh, I used to collect, but then my mom threw them all away when I got older. I was like, where everyone was like, Oh, I used to collect with them.

My mom threw them all away. When I got older, I was like, I would tell my mom, do not throw these fucking things away. And sure enough, right after like my junior year, she chucked them shifts in the garbage and I lost all of them.

I had some good ones too. I had like Ken Griffey, junior, junior rookie card. I had the Michael Jordan baseball cards. I had a sign, Nolan Ryan. Like I had some good shit. Those are still worth bullshit because they, they, in our era, they made too many cards. junior rookie card i had the michael jordan baseball cards i had a sign nolan ryan like i

had some good shit those are still worth bullshit because they they in our era they made too many cards they mass produced and brought down the value yeah but i had i had i had like jose can seiko rookie cards mcguire rookie bonds bonilla i had i had a lot of good shit or vanilla however he pronounces it but um from our era you know i had i had a decent amateur collection you know yeah i had kept all my cards they were that was a big part of my life in the you know middle school years i threw away though more than half of it right after getting married just because i didn't want to carry around bulk and then i regretted that once my kids got into cards for a short period about five years ago and

we you know we traded with each other we bought old wrestling cards and all kinds of stuff but never really you know don't collect but i mean i i got a decent amount of garbage pail kid cards still okay i used to collect that for a short amount of time for a short amount of time yeah um no i never i never like i'm gonna collect coins like for what it looks like i i collect emotional scars isn't that enough yeah i collect tattoos i guess something like that all right uh coming in hot henry henry rossian henry henry ocean of finland wow when you guys get to 100k subscribers which one of you is going to get the youtube play button on their wall luke that sounds like something you would covet i've already got one oh shit oh shit uh no you

may have it i or the more more specifically it should be in studio we should have that yeah look we haven't talked about this in a while but we need to get back to studio regularly i know dude didn't we talk about this in fucking miami with all the superiors and i thought we were on board with the plan but i don't know i mean you know what you know we are going on vacation and then we're going to be together later this month so maybe that's it or something i'm not sure the past few weeks with the with the pandemic going back in sort of the other direction for a bit has has muted this i think even more but i mean once a week would be nice once a week i know there was some talk about two times a month well we agreed

on once to twice a month but for two to three days as a time at a time correct right. Right. So we film a couple of stuff, some bonus stuff. I mean, that could be fun, but I would love to get, I mean, do you think, so what now it's the summer of 2021, do you think Luke by March of 2022, we will be back every Monday in the bombshell? It's possible. I mean, I think the problem is is that it's made it too easy to do it from home.

It saves a lot of money. It's a, it's a, I mean, it's an inconvenience for both of us in our own way to travel to, to Jersey city. It's not, how long does it take you to drive?

Assuming the traffic is more or less cooperating two and a half to drive with the train. The best train set up for me is to drive um with the train the best train setup for me is to drive an hour and then take like a 90 minute train and then take some subways so the most efficient way is to just drive two and a half hours straight yeah and for me it's about three um what so it's not it's not so terrible what would the drive be how bad would that be i think three and it'd be closer to three and a half uh a little bit longer it's just because the train is so especially if i take the high speed train then it's only then it's only like two and a half that's actually not bad at all

but you know yeah i agree i'm looking to do the show isn't it this is a version of a version of a show the show is what we do in studio and everything else is a lesser version i mean you get a better energy you get a better back and forth between us we tend to pick up each other's cues for pausing or interrupting better it's just it just flows better i think those on-site gags wheel of death wheel of dismemberment wheel of misfortune that that all that stuff just works better in person um luke imagine if you and i lived close enough that we did every single episode in person the show would be unstoppable okay but what would that actually do to our numbers to the public's like the fans that we haven't hit yet the fans who have tried us but didn't stay around right what would that do to

that i don't think necessarily doing the show like this hurts us all that much like it doesn't it's not such a negative uh you know but one it would look different i mean a lot there's a lot of people talking over skype or live you or zoom in that sense it doesn't look remarkable it looks remarkable when we're at least in person together so that's that's one second of all we can record a bunch of extra content so i think we just have more shit to give people and it would be higher quality as well so the quality would be higher there'd be more of it um and i also think that the fun element you bring to the show with like wheel of death or whatever we would do more of that but probably also more other things like uh what about by whatever

happened to the basketball shootout we had like they haven't posted that i don't know what the fuck's going on with any of that stuff so that kind of shit i think yeah yeah you could do a whole lot of stuff that we just can't do right now you know and i'll be honest like let's look at shows that have had that through the years i wasn't a big mike and mike fan but they were together for 20 years basically and they did a lot of skits. They had a wedding episode where people got married. I think the best who have done stuff like that in person, Sports Nation, back when it was Beatle and Coward, used to do some really fun stuff.

Do you remember his and hers with Michael Smith and Jemele Hill? They used to do those movie remakes. Do you know what I'm saying? They dress up and redo the barbershop scene from Coming to America, but add modern stuff. Look, if we were together all the time, I think we could do... Think of what we already do with the docs.

I think we could really do some next level shit that I think would raise our profile massively. Would it drive you and I apart being around each other that much? That's the key question. Probably, but I'd rather go further that way than not. I'd rather bang you too many times than imagining what it would feel like is really what you're saying. Yes, exactly.

All right, all right. Let's keep it going here. This is from Natsfan16. Hey, guys, relatively new donk here. Hey, Luke, I will say this. I'm interrupting here. I feel like I've gotten a pretty large amount of DMS from people who say it was the second, I'm sorry, the third, the third Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier fight that opened their eyes that we were even a thing.

So that shows you the power of us doing stuff like traveling and stuff together. Right. Yeah. Right. So that's great. That's probably a fair point. Yeah. This guy, in fact, this guy says I first listened to your UFC two 64 preview because I was looking for an in-depth technical breakdown of the fight and have listened to every episode since anyways, my question is for Luke. I know you mentioned that you were formerly a Navy seal. What? No, he wasn't.

And I've trust me. I've never claimed that shit. And that you worked for some kind of political consulting firm. That's true. That's true. I think you mentioned being Indian a couple of times. This guy has the listening comprehension skills of a not bright person. Nats fan 16 wants to know, what's your life story for us newer, less familiar donks? Also, why is BC the king of Connecticut?

Luke, all these questions are going your way. Go for it. So the answer is short on this one. I'll go to the second part first about BC. Basically, there's a rapper called Apathy who kind of, I don't know if he calls himself the king of Connecticut or other people do, but I've heard it mentioned about him. shouts to Apathy. I love his work, but I just thought it'd be kind of fun to call BC that because, you know, he's sort of, I have a friend

from Connecticut, but he doesn't live there anymore. BC is still kind of like my Connecticut. I've always had a friend who lived there and usually a couple or two or three, and now I've got one, it's just BC. so to me he's the king of connecticut it's just sort of a fun way of describing him that i like plus he's kind of connecticut proud too you know so there's that one my love story i'm not sure what to say man my dad's from oklahoma my mom was from uh beirut lebanon she was part of the armenian diaspora that left after the collapse of the ottoman empire they were what is a diaspora luke that's where the armenians or any country people they're not necessarily in the country but they're kind of

spread out there's you know there's probably french people in spain that's part of the french diaspora um so they were part of that after the ottoman empire collapsed they were all living in many of them were living in syria my mom was uh born in aleppo which you know now is a war zone completely just turned into rubble. But back then, it was an extremely nice place. And they ended up in Beirut. My dad was a member of the Foreign Service. So he had done a bunch of tours overseas at different places and ended up in the Middle East.

Met my mother. My sister was first. She was born in Beirut. My brother was born about seven years later in Paris. My family lived there for some time, almost a decade. And my sister and my dad speak fluent and my mother as well all spoke fluent French. My brother and I got none of it because there's such a gap.

It's always fun when they would just talk shit about you to your face. That's always fun. I feel like that's happened a lot in your life and your family. Not necessarily in a foreign language. Have you ever picked that up in Spanish where Abuelo is just like that motherfucker? My Spanish is a lot better. like i didn't know any french so i i you know you can kind of keep it up pepe i can find you another place to live all right

keep it up bro with them that's much i'm not saying they haven't done it and i've always not uh picked up on it but my ear is pretty good for that. Anyway, so I was born last in New Delhi, India, and then my dad had a few more tours, a time spent abroad, including Japan, Qatar, and then came back. I grew up in Washington, D.C. My parents got divorced, kind of moved around a little bit from the state of Virginia to Georgia. And then when I graduated, went to William & Mary, was in the Marine Corps, moved around and and ended up back here. Your father would dine. He would womanize. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.

No, he would not do things like that. My dad is not that kind of guy, but that's my story. That's it. All right. Quite inconsequential there. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. That's true.

We got one from Root Ninja. Root Ninja. Root Ninja. Root Ninja. Root Ninja. Root Ninja. Luke and BC are the best podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Wow. BC brings the passion, which I always love him for. Luke brings the cynicism and analysis to all the fights.

I look forward to it every week. Hey, thank you, Root Ninja. Hey, Luke and BC, name of the strain slash edible that BC was on during the last Room Service Diaries. All the best. Somebody sent me a note. Someone sent me a note. And I think this used to be a racist joke,

but the way they applied it to you was not, which was BC wasc was so you know off his rocker from the gummies that you could have blindfolded him with uh dental floss because you were just sitting there like this now now true or false i didn't think that was a great look for us to publish that okay true or false i i didn't care at all i don't care you you were the one who bullied that through. You're like, shut up. You know, just get, you know, I'm like, you know, I do have some level of a professional,

you know, resume and reputation to hold up. Yeah. Is that how people know you as the guy that's really professional? Does that how you're known around the water cooler? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Be who you are, dude.

That's not who you are. Okay. You're, you're, you're, you know, you're not off the rails crazy, but you know, you like your, I think people that only know me through morning combat, Luke, right. Right. They think that that could be the only facet of my life or personality. I had to be pretty damn professional to get here. Okay.

That's true. And you do know how to navigate corporate America far better than I do. But at the same time, if once we start losing our edge we should just stop doing this wow okay okay and you know do you think my daughter will scream loudly enough that she'll just take over as host of this podcast and you'll no longer be able to hear me what city did we do that rsd and was that miami yeah that was vegas that was vegas oh yeah so it was just some local vegas stuff yeah uh luke you and i uh may or may not be going to cleveland later this month yes that's true i look forward to that dude rsd in cleveland would be fun

maybe a rock and roll uh hall of fame trip maybe uh i don't care about that place but if you think it makes good art okay no seriously why you know i make jokes about you know school shooting rock and all that but you you're a you're educated you lived through the 90s grunge. You know music. Why would that be something that doesn't interest you? I would go. I would go. I would go. I wouldn't treat it like bucket list stuff.

Is that fair? All right. Well, I went there once in 2001, but I only stayed for a little bit. I would have had like a full day. See, I can get into that. It's not just like, oh, that's the guitar Jimi Hendrix broke at this concert. It's like, here's Pete Townsend's fourth grade report card

or here's the pack of cigarettes that John Sebastian broke. I don't idolize those people in a way that that matters to me. Okay. Okay. All right. You know what I'm saying? Okay. That's cool. Sometimes you just want to see the world burn bc sometimes yeah yeah um luke the fourth documentary of uh the the donkey

mentory series that that less than jake our great documentarian put out luke i know we talked about it briefly uh on the friday show but um you, it may have been our most entertaining one, Luke, but I did feel it. It didn't really have a story. It was more just, Hey, here's some shit we did. I feel like there were potential stories that either didn't connect or Jake lost the footage, or maybe we were a little afraid to go after. You're very upset with Jake for losing the Pennington James footage. I have no, I mean, imagine, you know, there, there was a real storyline going on that weekend that we weren't allowed to talk about.

Look, imagine if we had made that the dock of some of our inner. See, that should have been the dock, but then that would cause all kinds of problems. So that was some heavy shit that went down, Luke. OK, that was true. That was a pretty. Yeah. All right. Well, they cleaned.

I mean, look, you know well they cleaned i mean look you know i as i tell them you know i gave about an hour confessional about us working with brendan i didn't really see any of that in film you know okay brendan played ball though you know he looked good in the in the dock it was i did you know people how about that scene where brendan is sitting next to us and over his head the lady's like twerking on the stage at the weigh-in, you know what I mean? Jake sometimes captures like the perfect angle of something.

Yeah, and I had no idea that was happening either. I was like, oh, right, right. Florida's different, man. Florida's Oh, Florida's it's a different world. It's a different world. Look, that does wrap up the fun fan questions. But so I wanted to say, look, you haven't been day one-ish

in love with the documentary series. Sometimes you think it's gratuitous or forces us to take our eye off the ball or, hey, it's cool. But, you know, if you used to brag about a producer credit for MK, let's say you took a more hands-on approach with the docs. Like, do you think it's run its course? Do you think there's more storylines?

I think there's two problems. There's two major problems with the doc. One is that you want to do too much of it. I actually think less is more. And I think they should be shorter. Number one, or even episodic rather than like a big grand four you should chop that up into like five different four minute pieces

or something like that right that's the first part we can think about second part is I actually have nothing against it except that I always am thinking about the balance of content at MK and with the removal of dissected there's just been a little bit of imbalance with it i feel like if we could add it back honestly it i would like all my objections would basically go away it's really the problem okay uh let's get dissected back on the road it is possible it is possible for it all right yeah i'm gonna go on vacation and not think about it. But maybe afterwards. Alright.

You know what would be a great doc? Us winning the World MMA Awards Best MMA Programming Award. People can go to that website and vote for us at worldmmawards.something Imagine the doc cameras there luke i mean imagine if imagine if you susan lucci that shit because what i didn't know luke

i knew those awards existed i knew ariel had won like you know best mma guy for like every year it's it's happened i knew i remember seeing red carpet content in the past. What I didn't realize is that so many fighters go to it. I didn't realize they produce funny skits as if it's like the Oscars or MTV Music Video Awards. I didn't realize, Luke, that it's an actual thing. Like this is the MMA world and Fight Magazine and the folks at World MMA Awards like actually going for it. I didn't realize that you go up and give speeches, Luke. I mean, you can imagine if we won i gave one for what when mma fighting won like uh best news source of the year i went up there and uh i was like yeah damn right we won this we were the best

ones and everyone knows it yeah oh wow oh you gave like a like a Suge Knight Source Awards speech, basically. Right. A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. I'm just saying, imagine you up there with Luchi in it and, you know, they like me. They really like me. And that was Sally Field, I think. But you know what I'm saying, Luke? Just just. Just, you know, F&A, we won that shit. And would you just go up there and just drop trial and then walk around with your pants i would probably grind i'd probably do a couple dx chops to our competition and probably

yeah i would do that but luke i i mean i don't know you know i've got confidence you've got you know i've got hopes and dreams you you don't really have too many ways or means luke but um imagine just imagine all the people right i mean imagine you standing up there holding that shit up there what the fuck we did bro you have to give it back when you go backstage i mean we did this what does it mean i don't know what do we win nothing but we did this we did this together luke so the best years of your life luke now right now this is i know and i see you don't want to do these questions but we still have like 10 more minutes. We got to kill.

There's no more questions. Luke, we ran through them already. Did we? All right. Yeah. That's it. Yeah, bro. Wow, dude, this episode is going to tank.

Hey, I don't see DC and Hawani doing Vacation Day episodes. I don't think that show is around. I don't see our I don't see RC and DC. No, really. I don't see it. I don't think that show is around I don't see our I don't see RC and DC No really I don't see it I don't know much about it Luke Alright Okay well I don't know what you want to do This is yours to open and close

I'm not bailing you out I see you I see you checking out mentally Luke will pick up this garbage No it's on you I see you. I see you checking out mentally. Luke will pick up this garbage. No, it's on you. It's on you. Whether we win awards or not,

whether they do more docs or not, Luke, we built something fun, special here. So hopefully these little crumbs satiated you this week as Luke navigates the jungles of Columbia. And I'm not going to the jungles of columbia and i i'm not going to the jungles of columbia i don't know i'm not meeting with the fark uh when i go guy i unwind somewhere in upstate new york on a lake dock right wearing probably white kwan i don't white club bro you know what i get into luke this is really really what I do. Yeah, gummies. Well, no, not in real life. Because of my fatty liver,

I really barely drink, but when I do, Luke, I go Moscow Mule 100% of the time now. I mean, that's the drink. You know, the canned version or the at-the-bar version. Do you mess with that? The ginger beer with the vodka and the flavor? You don't F with that? My wife loves that drink. I like it. I don't love it. I like a... Well, what's the white guy drink

the white guy drink is the old fashion right every white guy gets that it's a fine drink i'm more of man what's my go-to my go-to would be like a boulevardier which is similar of course um you you buy a surprisingly like i look at you as this like overcompensating overly macho i'm going to show you how macho i am guy and then the waiter will come and you'll be like tell me about your uh your your cocktail sir you know this one have a flag in it i mean like you'll get something that's just like like where i come from they would have killed you for getting that i mean back in the, I would never order stuff like that. But now that I'm really trying to cut back on my drinking and I am like,

I figured it out basically three or so cocktails. That's all I need. I don't need three beers. Make me feel heavy. I don't want to drink just the same old thing. Like, you know, beam and Coke zero. I want something with a little bit of like, you know, style to it and cocktails are better than they really ever been in many ways so i i asked for what the cocktail menu is i have two three of those sometimes four if i'm feeling frisky and i'm good that's it i'm done that's it i don't have to drink anything else okay okay luke um luke what year did you start watching mma I want to stop this forever now. I mean, technically nine 94, 94.

What year did you become an MMA journalist? Oh, six. Oh, seven, 94 and Oh six. Who would you say was your favorite MMA fighter for a long time? Hoist Gracie.

Yeah. Uh, and then after that, probably Frank Shamrock. Oh, I like that. BJ Penn pretty early. Somewhere about like that. Okay.

That was a big Ken Shamrock guy early, right? I liked Ken a lot too, but then when Hoist kind of ran over him, I was like, oh, he's not that good. That's not true. Big Kimo guy. When Kimo almost beat Hoist, was badass yes ufc four i think that was one more horse got injured and withdrew yeah yeah well he was he had to pull chemo's hair so he wouldn't get completely

destroyed by ground to pound it's badass love love chemo all right we're done here all right i'll take us out of here for the great luke thomas we we limp to the finish line my name is brian campbell morning combat always giving it to you sloppy dirty sometimes buttoned up but uh like subscribe do all those fun stuff buy our merch we love you we love all of you thank you get get vaxxed if you care thank you for caring um for our producers for our people we out