MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Celebrating Andrei Arlovski & Jim Miller | Extra Credit EP 4

Episode Date: October 19, 2021

Luke Thomas is back with episode 4 of MK Extra Credit looking at the fights from the weekend that we didn't get to on Morning Kombat. (2:09) - Andrei Arlovski vs. Carlos Felipe (6:05) - Jim Miller vs. Erick Gonzalez (8:27) - Manon Fiorot vs. Mayra Bueno Silva (13:00) - Nate Landwehr vs. Ludovit Klein (19:15) - Brent Primus vs. Benson Henderson (23:10) - Henry Corrales vs. Vladislav Parubchenko (26:24) - More on the Weekend 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:morning kombat.store   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

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Alright, so first things first, thumbs up on the video, subscribe to the channel. We do MK regular, we do MK extra credit, we do interviews, we do on the scene, you know, coverage, all kinds of stuff. MK one-stop shop. All right. Uh, but this will be just be me for today. Now I'm going to do things a little bit differently, folks. I'm going to try something. If you like it, leave a comment. If you don't like it, leave a comment. Normally what I like to do is just go through all of the leftover fights from any major promoter, but it's usually only been about UFC the last few weeks. Here we have a bit of a crossover and I just, with Bellator and UFC, I don't want to just run through 20 fights and not really give you a whole lot of detail either for this weekend. I don't think there

will be 20, but in principle in the future, I don't want to do that either. So I'm going to try something today. I'm going to pick an additional five fights to focus in on from the weekend. If you like this format, let me know. If you like part of this format, let me know. If you like none of this format, let me know. I want to make sure that this podcast really gives you what you're looking for for MMA content that we can't get to on regular MK. All right. So with that in mind, let's start. I'm going to pick three fights from the UFC card. Again, UFC fight night, one 95 UFC Vegas, 40 UFC on ESPN plus 53, whatever name you want to give it. This was at the apex and it was on Saturday, the 16th. We did talk about Norma Dumas versus Aspen lad. We mentioned a little bit about Arlovsky versus Carlos Felipe.

Of course, Arlovsky winning that fight 29-28 across the board. You know, we said a lot about how, you know, not just marvelous, I suppose is one word you could use. But just sort of how impressive it is that Arlovsky has really done this into the second stage of his career. But now that I'm going back and I'm watching, and not that it's not impressive. It's extremely impressive. But, but like why is it happening and I mentioned basically what he's doing for these fighters is he's slowing the fight down and he's making it much more of a fight IQ and skills-based test for them if you notice what Orlovsky did in this fight a lot of times he would stand southpaw he would invite the pressure of Carlos Felipe then he would

throw over the top either with a left or he would uh stance switch into right-handed stance from the right-handed stance he was a little bit more in the pocket maybe sitting behind the jab there but what he was really doing was not so much about the stance although that's part of it what he was doing a lot was the fainting the lateral movement did not giving you a consistent look and the reason why that slows the fight down quite literally is that Carlos Felipe or whoever is against him, they're having trouble knowing when to go. They're far enough apart where they know they have to dart in. And if they just start in, they're either going to get counted or widely missed. They don't want to do either of those. So they take their time to take their time, excuse me, to try to set it up. But the problem is

they're not used to that kind of time. They're not used to that kind of motion slowing them down where it's a faint. He's off at an angle. It's another faint. He might throw a little bit. He might act like he's throwing. He'll switch stance instead. He's again, he's lateral moving the whole time. So what Arlovsky is doing is basically eating up the shot clock over and over again to the point where by the time they go, it's often ill time. There's not a whole lot behind it. They don't have the skills necessary to disrupt all of the spamming,

so to speak, that Arlovsky is doing. He's filling that time with his movement. He's filling that time with his feints. And as a consequence, these guys just can't get going. He can get going. He disrupts them. And it looks quite amazing. It's a much smarter approach.

Even when he gets hit, he doesn't get hit very hard. He can do this because he's kind of gifted at it for a while. He does obviously look, you know, he's 42 years old. This is only natural. He does look a lot slower than he used to. But at the same time, that style where you're filling up the space with your hand feints, your stance switches, your fakes, your level changes, whatever, and then your lateral moving and changing the angle and not giving them a consistent target, and then you're just eating up the clock in the process. Folks, I got to tell you, that's, I don't know if I'm going to say the style style of the future but I think that's a big part of the style of the future and that won't always work against someone who's got equal levels of athleticism and or you know similar kind of skill sets but it will work a lot if there's a big gap in skill set I mean the UFC has such a blessing in Orlovsky not merely because he is so good at this kind of game this late in his career.

This is an amazing story. But then beyond that, what it kind of shows as a weeding out process, not just who's good, who's bad, but that particular test, I'm going to make you fight on terms you've just not fought on before. You're going to have to think through these problems, and I'm going to throw so much stimuli at you either with level changes angle changes stance switches motion in general hand faints shoulder faints hip faints all working in combination I'm going to eat up the clock so that by the time you go I can see

it all coming and then make some kind of reaction from it it's it's extremely impressive it's what you see a lot of high level fighters and champions doing. Olofsky is doing it at a bit of a different level given his age and the relative kind of competition he's facing, but it's a similar kind of thing in principle. I said I might give you six. I could do a lot of these fights. Second fight I want to get into is the Jim Miller versus Eric Gonzalez fight. He wins 14 seconds into the second round via KO. That left hand was landing over and over again.

You heard Michael Bisping mention it in the second round. He comes back out and he gets it again. Gonzalez comes in, I think, with a double switch knee or some kind of technique where he left his feet and then came down. His hands were by his waist. But more than that, he just wasn't moving off the center line at all when he was boxing, at least not a whole lot. And so that's why the left kept working.

I think it was also Southpaw versus Orthodox, if I'm not mistaken. So if you line up the left hand over and over again and he doesn't move his head, then it's going to be there. And then you saw that. He did get rocked, Jim Miller, but he fought his way through it. Remember, I think he wrestled, if memory serves, at Virginia Tech, a D1 program, not like the most elite D1 program, but a pretty respectable one.

And so you saw a little bit of that there. He got hurt a little bit. Even got, I think, he worked from guard for a little bit, I think after getting taken down, but was able to get up without too much incident. So it was overall a well-rounded kind of performance from Miller, and his result is in some ways more impressive than Arlovsky's. Not that they're in competition per se, but we're talking about two of the older guys on here, but I would actually argue what Arlovsky is doing as a body of work is more impressive. Even if a KO is always going to get,

or in many cases going to be viewed more highly as a authoritative, it's a more authoritative finish by definition, but a more representative representative of a more authoritative performance. In that case, I think what Arlovsky is doing is a little bit different. Miller is obviously improved on what he used to be but Arlovsky has figured out what the very best are doing he's taken a version of that made it good for himself and has applied it at a very specific level of the game Miller I think is just showing you that if you're constantly in the gym and you

always have a a you know distilled down to its most basic version does he have a strong skill set he does and i think uh that's what you saw there were just sort of so many bases covered even one thing goes wrong and one thing doesn't work all that well there'll be something else that can kind of bring up the rear so to speak um i was only going to do three on this card i'll do four here i'll do six fights today. I want to get to the rest of this main card from UFC. Manon Fioro taking on Mayra Buenosilva, 30-26 and then two 30-27s. Now, this was an interesting one.

Fior or Fioro, however you pronounce her last name. Again, she's French. I don't know how to do it. She's an interesting fighter because she has a ton of skill on the feet and I was hyping her up on regular MK. This fight to me, I don't, I'm not, I'm not exactly sure what to make of it. Bueno Silva had a problem in this contest, namely her defense, which was one, she was kind of walking in a linear path. She wasn't doing a whole lot of setting angles. She was getting beaten to the punch, you know, metaphorically and literally. And more to the point, it was this. When the punches were beginning

to be thrown and you would see these blitzes from Fioro, the hands of Bueno Silva would come up. If you're listening on the audio podcast, just imagine you're looking at your palms or your palms are kind of touching the top of your head and your elbows are up together. And on the inside, you've seen this position a million times. That was what she kept going back to. That was the wrong answer for someone like Fioro. Why? Because what Fiora could do is simply throw a punch at Wino Silva's face and the defense is going to be the same every time the hands are going to come up. But when the hands come up, one, it can kind of impair your own vision. And two, she's kind of locked into that. It's probably true that you can bring your hands up and you can rock your head and

your waist together. But that's not really what the purpose of that is. The purpose of that is to be able to block and now your hands are up there and you can quickly retaliate based on the hand position. What I'm trying to point out is if she was able to slip punches or lean out of the way of them or roll under them or whatever, where she could more nimbly move around the punching lanes of Fioro that would have been a completely different fight not saying that uh Bueno Silva would have won but if your hands are just going to go up every time that your opponent throws them at your face they're going to take that and use it against you so what would they do is they would just throw some kind of

decoy shots the hands would come up and then she would throw hooking punches around the side because that's the other problem. You can do this for a little bit, but if you bring your hands up, there's going to be a window around the outsides of it that a hooking punch can get into, especially in MMA where the gloves are small. So she just kept doing this and then angling off for basically three rounds. She also took her off of her feet with some front kicks, and the side kick was the one that was kind of interesting.

I don't know how painful they were, but they were good at making her back up, come back into range on essentially Fiora's terms. So when Asova would get pushed back with the side kick, she tries to walk back into range. And as a consequence, by that point, Fiora has already timed her and blitzed her. Here come the handskick. She tries to walk back into range. And as a consequence, by that point, Fiora has already timed her and blitzed her. Here come the hands again, bop, bop, bop, up to the top. Winne Soler brings the hands right back to the same position. Now you can go down to the body if you want to. Now you can go back to the hooking punches. You can do switching stance hooking

punches from the other side. And you can use that, by the way, when they bring their hands up, you can also pull their hands down on a hand trap. i've seen fighters use it to go hook to the head uh then the straight punch to the body and then use that moment to then turn and then reset the angle i think fiora fioro did that a couple of times if i'm not mistaken like it just creates so many things for your opponent to do against you and it seemed seemed to be, at least in this fight, the only defense that the Brazilian had. And it made this fight basically unwinnable. The thing that was kind of interesting to me about Fiora is that she even got a little one note with it. And it was funny. It's like, dude, on the one hand, she did exactly what she was

supposed to. And she did it very successfully. Like when that fight was over, there wasn't a lot of doubt about who won it at the same time. If you have your opponent that caught in a defensive trap, you would have thought that the punches would have accumulated some more, although we don't win. A silver space was messed up. You would have also thought that maybe you could have opened up into some other forms of offense. Like that's the only offense you have is what we showed here.

It got the job done by a million miles. It was a great performance. Don't misunderstand me, but you would just wonder, wow, did you really have her number? Maybe step on it a little bit, and I didn't quite see that. I'll make a quick mention of Nate Landwehr beating Ludovic Klein with an anaconda choke at 222 at the third round. What an interesting fight.

Klein looked like he was chiseled out of stone. That guy looked to be in incredible shape, and Landwehr just gave him the business. I thought Dean Thomas, who I guess has at this point replaced the coach, Trevor Whitman, as the kind of ringside expert, let's sort of go to what he says kind of role. I think Dean's been a breath of fresh air in there, particularly in this fight. Cause he noticed it to climb like this kind of fight at distance where it's more or less a similar kind of test to what our law ski is putting to these

up and coming heavyweights. You can think through this problem at distance through angle change, through faints, through fakes, through timing. You can win, but but if you can't i like this sort of slower battle on the outside whereas a guy like land we're just getting your face make it ugly and and make it work but dude the fight's a little more complicated than that even that's that's true right just sort of getting in client's face and not really basically what land we're did on the feet was i'm just not going to accept that there's a ton of risk here I'm going to plow through it and almost Klein almost needs his opponents with that

style to be so fearful of breaking the rules of engagement that they would never do it so then they stay on the outside but then they lose a fight by getting picked apart right oh you can't just blitz me because if you did even worse things would happen but then Landwehr called the bluff and it turned out there wasn't worse things that happened to him in fact it all benefited him but the real story is actually Landwehr getting Klein up against the fence and sometimes Klein would go to like clinch over takedowns and Landwehr would then reverse the position and push him into the fence and he could do that because one in those positions he would get the underhook and he would drive it but then

Klein was constantly pushing Landwehr back so once they made contact all he had to do as the stronger man was turn him and he did and they pushed him into the fence and did he was tearing him up with knees in the clinch he was bodying him he was getting him from snap downs that's how I was actually able he was able to get the two anacondas he attempted to win the previous round the other one he got when he attempted in the third and you're basically talking about where that choke needed to be. A lot of times you'll see guys drive through with a really deep hook with their hand for the anaconda, but it turns out getting it slightly shallower is actually better versus all the way through. I'm trying to demonstrate with my hands. It's a little bit difficult, but it turns out you can go a little bit shallower, a little bit narrower on the inside

where the lock is kind of almost covering their face or a big part of it that's what he was talking about because it was too far up on the side versus not right in front and it's went in front where it's again it's a shallower grip technically speaking but that shallowness actually makes it instead of being all the way over it actually comes on the inside and now it's nice and tight that's what he was talking about anyway um so the second time he got it although if you look at his toes, if you look at Landwehr's toes, Nate, I saw you. He had all of his toes in the fence using it to push into the choke itself.

Not supposed to be able to do that. Again, you can put your feet on the fence. Your toes aren't supposed to grip on the inside. That's the issue. But neither here nor there. I think it was Landwehr should have won that one via decision, even if it didn't get submitted, even if Klein didn't get submitted there.

And I was just extremely impressed. Even on the outside, Klein was doing a lot of pressing, but Klein has something like our Lovsky style, which again is sort of this particular style he's employing, which is a little bit similar to what like Volkanovsky does it's a little bit similar even to what gone does again they're all very different in their own ways but there are common bonds between them about eating up the

clock confusing opponents getting them to slow again what does Volkanovsky do he doesn't just land a lot he lowers the output of his opponents so you see some kinds of things with Orlovsky where he doesn't just beat them, but these guys are taking lots of time and around to get going because they can't figure out what to do. Anyway, Klein tries something similar, but he doesn't have the nimbleness of the footwork, either as the attacker or the retreater. He was just a little bit flat-footed with it.

In fact, if you look who's bouncing, especially in the first and second rounds, it's actually land where he was doing a lot more of the movement, which you would expect on the outside, but for the style that he had for the things he was trying to do, I think Klein obviously it looks like he's a great athlete, but I think in the footwork working with the striking style, he's trying to impose, there needs to be a little bit more harmony there.

There's a lot more of these fights I could have gotten into with Bruno Silva having an incredible comeback win against Andrew Sanchez, Danny Roberts getting a nice win, Dana Bat-Gorel getting the really nice win, Ariana Carnelosi getting the rear naked choke. There's a few of these you could have gotten into, but those are the ones that were most impressive to me, which brings me, of course, back to the

Bellator card. If I have more time at the end, I'll go back, but I want to get to this Bellator card because there were some fights on the main card worth talking about. We don't do a lot of Bellator coverage here, but I thought it was kind of important to do it again can't say enough good things about cory anderson versus ryan bader go back to um the nemkov fight where he gets dropped in the first round he's supposed to roll under the hook and he just comes straight up he just moves his head

right into the lane you can also see anglicious measure him a little bit to see that kind of a tendency which he goes back to with his long-range uppercut, I think either even later in the round or the next round. I don't mind that he was going for the uppercut. Uppercut can be obviously very phenomenal. And you can see Glitch is kind of hunched over. Anyway, just to go back to what we said on regular MK, Corey Anderson, if you come up in that lane

where you go to the body and then you just come right back where you were, rather than rolling under where the hook's going to be. Dude, you're going to get eaten alive. You're going to get eaten alive fighting like that. And Corey Anderson can wrestle. He's got great cardio. You know, that's a – I think Nemkov overall is more of a dynamic force.

I mean, he can beat you by submission. He can beat you by wrestling. He can beat you striking. In that sense, Corey Anderson's a little bit more sort of boxer, ground- type uh Nemcov's got a little bit more you know in the tank than that but um the way that might individually match up is going to be interesting okay a Brent premise taking on Benson Henderson he wins 29 28 and then 230 27s I guess that i think it's like the second round maybe um where you could score it for henderson even though premise might have had some strong positions and for a time even the back um but not enough to really do a whole lot with it but that's really the story here it was like

even in the third round benson was he landed a nice shot for example a big punch I should say on premise and it took him off of his feet but he was able to get back up and then find the back and then you know flatten him out a couple times from there really the story was that premise was able to get the takedown when he needed it to one way or the other sometimes jumping for guillotine and then rolling him over that happened or even just whatever, going for a takedown and then getting behind him when you can't get it. And then finding a way to find the back really, it was Brent premises, better Matt grappling,

I would say. And then the fact that he was the initiator here that saved him, that was the big difference between them on the feet. And Henderson might've been the better striker. You have premise kind of holding his hands open and then almost like a little wide at the same time which meant that straighter punches uh or quicker punches that Henderson would throw sometimes would have an effect although premise never you know was never hugely in range a lot but that big difference was the asymmetry dude I mean just think about all the places where

you have an advantage positionally over your opponent it's hard to think of one back mount that's more asymmetrical than that it's such an advantageous position and yes even with that especially if you're going to the body triangle which you saw him do over and over again largely as a condition of holding position it becomes less dynamic because it turns out from the back you need your legs to help you do some of the wrestling to isolate the limbs uh for any kind of submission finish a high percentage other way i should i should say um if you want to to do that so you know when you be would you go to the body triangle it locks you into position where it makes that position while advantageous and asymmetrical not quite as it may have been before.

Nevertheless, if you can consistently find it on an opponent in mixed martial arts, you should have a lot of advantages. And you should use that. You should not lose a fight if you can find your way to the back in, I think, all three rounds, if memory serves. That's such a game changing skill um and I know that there is still some debate about like well if he takes the back and he doesn't do anything with it I have to tell you I mean maybe these are certainly these are not in keeping with the way that judging is going I understand the inclination to want to treat the

back as okay you got there the reward for the back is that you've now found your way to the back. If you don't really do anything with it, how do we score this position? We shouldn't really score all that effectively. I tend to think if you have the back, you know, we'll have to see the rest of the round. But automatically, for me, that is winning the round, even if you did nothing with it. When I say nothing, I mean, like, if I – I suppose if I literally just held on and didn't try anything maybe I would feel more

neutral about it because you're not employing literally any offense at that point but that position is almost offense um so for me you don't have to do a whole lot once you get there to win a round. Again, this may not be in keeping with what the judging is or is taught, but that's my personal belief that I have, I take that position to be, you know, again, especially when you could have a third round in and you're going all the way back to it again, you know, that is a, that's such a weakness in the plumbing, so to speak, that just finding that position really counts a lot for me.

And then Henry Corrales defeating Vladislav Padubchenko, 30-27 across the board. Padubchenko's an interesting guy. He's actually teammates with Yaroslav Amosov, who is that organization's welterweight champion. And by the way, a very good fighter. Wrestle heavy, trains out of American Top Team now, I think for some of his camps uh still out of kiev ukraine but parochenko is his teammate and was like 16 and 1 16 and 2 or something heading into this contest

he had a long layoff he came back on the prelims for a previous bellator card maybe even that leota baiter card something like that and uh and didn't look great didn't look great but you're like well maybe it was the layoff or something this guy's a black belt in judo and he has a you know combat sambo background and was beating the shit out of people on the regional scene including through japan and then he didn't look great in his bellator debut and then comes back in this contest and he doesn't look bad by a stretch. He's certainly not a bad fighter, but you just wonder, like, what is the ace in the hole here?

He looked a little bit outsized to me. He didn't have nearly the hand speed or the quickness of Corrales. Corrales had good defensive wrestling and good defensive grappling for the most part in this contest, I thought, right? And Paduchenko, who needed the takedown, who needed to get on top, who needed to find that outlet, when that wasn't really available, he just didn't really have a lot else to offer. He got hit with that left hook in the third.

That nearly, I almost put his lights out, but clearly he felt it. And I think that there's a lot of these guys coming out of Eastern Europe from all different places, which is great. He had a great record, but it also just sort of goes to show it's true now that there are a lot of international promotions that should be celebrated for how good they are in terms of talent coming out of there. You can be reasonably certain that they'll be ready for the big show when they get the call up places

like cage warriors acb used to be this way i think it's still it was aca now whatever it's called um certainly one and places like that but one is already kind of you know one of the bigger shows on the earth you know i'm talking about these sort of like fight past shows, LFA would be another one here regionally. That if they don't go explicitly through one of those feeder leagues, I don't want you to dismiss them because part of Chenko did have some, you know, good experience, but if they don't have experience from one of those shows,

especially coming off of a long layoff, all I would say is not to discount them, but you would definitely want to double check your homework. Like sometimes I'll see guys coming out of cage warriors and I'll see that they won in their UFC debut. And maybe I missed it, maybe whatever, but I can sort of be like,

Oh, he went from cage wars to UFC and he won second round TKO. Right. That makes a lot of sense. He's probably the genuine article winner lose in his next fight. But some of these other places, he was on a lot of shows, but it doesn't look to me like he's really ready for,

despite having a vast amount of experience, Pardubchenko for this level. So there is some retooling that is in order. Very quickly, since we have just about a minute or two left here, what can we say about the other parts of that UFC card as I go back here very quickly? I would say that the most interesting result was the Andrew Sanchez one where he has this incredible comeback quite late. In fact, the method was TKO 235, so over halfway through the third round.

Great, great response by him after what was a really, really tough beginning and middle, frankly, to that fight. So great work by him. And then Bat-Gorilla, I can never pronounce his name correctly, the TKO in the first. That was a mean TKO. He was all over him like white on effing rice. You could not believe how just no air

to breathe is sort of the method of the madness there. And obviously Danny Roberts. Luana. Oh, and by the way, Lupita Lupi Godinez losing 29-28. Remember she was the one who was trying to make the turnaround on seven days. She was kind of thoroughly out of her element here.

I think it was a move upup in what class of memory serves. Let me double-check that. I have to see. But fly-away debut, yeah. She was too big and too skilled. I don't discount the spirit of the attempt. I appreciate the attempt, but that was a clear overreach. It didn't really work out. Your performance winners, by the way, for UFC, Jim Miller, Nate Landwehr,

Bruno Silva, and Dana Batgarell. All right, did you like this format a little bit better? Do you want me to do a little bit of column A, column B? What did you think? Leave a comment. What was your favorite fighter of the weekend? By the way, oh, let me do this before we go. Shouts to my guy, Justin Barry. Justin Barry made his debut yesterday at Cage Warriors.

I don't know the number. Please forgive me. But it was the one on the 17th of October, 2021. Justin Barry, keep an eye on this name. He was supposed to make his Bellator debut and then cut weight. And the commission axed his fight

at the last minute because he had like an elevated heart rate. He was fine. I was messaging with him on Instagram. He was fine. Like I knew the guy was in his corner and they all told me he was fine, but whatever, the California Commission didn't allow it.

This time he cuts weight and he makes it and he wins with an inside crescent kick KO, one shot, one kill, in just one of the most spectacular highlight reel finishes you'll ever see. Why do I bring up Justin Barry? I trained with Justin years ago and dude, he was,

he was maybe the hardest guy to partner up with in the gym of anyone. I, I could not pass his guard. I could not pass. Guy, no, it didn't matter. Could not pass his guard.

And he just got so much better than all of us so much quicker. And then he moved. And then I stopped training not too long after he moved. And then I saw he'd hooked up with a guy who I also used to train with shots to SUNY M hotep. Both of them are training together now the West Coast, and they got back together. And anyway, so Justin was supposed to make his pro debut for Bellator. Couldn't. So he made it yesterday and one with inside Crescent kick KO. It's all my Instagram stories. If you want to see it right now, dude, keep an eye on that guy. He was so, he was a great training partner cause he was so talented.

But, um, if his striking is anything like his jujitsu, people are going to have a big problem with him. Athletic. He trains like he sucks, but he fights like he is fucking awesome. You know what I mean? Like he's the first guy in the gym, last one out. And if he keeps going, he will be a problem. I guarantee it, dude.

That guy was good. Really good. So congratulations, Justin. Everything you got, you deserved. Okay. Thumbs up on the video. Hit subscribe. Thank you guys so much for watching.

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