MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Room Service Diaries | This is Day 1 | Morning Kombat

Episode Date: September 23, 2020

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There's no one in the division that can beat me. There's no one in the division that's strong as me. It would definitely deliver a statement. The power is for real. We would get a chance to let everyone in the world see the great things that me and my twin brother have done for the sport of boxing. Oh!

Charlo just dropped Lubin! Being on the same card gives us energy. We want to be sharp. We want to be at our best. We're going to both meet in the middle of the ring, and we're going to let our hands go. Let the best men win. They are boxing.

And they pound for pound. Well, hi, everyone. Brian and I are not gay. Not that that's a... We had to start the podcast this way. We are in my hotel room here in the Mohegan Sun. It is late at night.

And, well, we are here to do a podcast. We want to do one of these every night. I don't know if that's going to work because we have a lot of things to do. But here we are in Connecticut, Brian Campbell. How are you? Yeah, I feel like I'm in a college cable access show right now.

I'm about to do a set at Caroline's. What's the deal with Luke in his own hotel room? What's up with airplane food? Anyway, so we are here. We're going to try to do this for a little while. I don't know, 20, 30 minutes, something like that. Luke's been bragging all, I don't know, since I've known you about how you have your own equipment. You've paid for your own equipment.

That's right. Your own equipment is here. And then my light dies. Yeah, your own equipment has failed you tonight. My equipment fails me every single day. All right. You're talking about your bait and tackle? My bait and tackle, Yes, all of it.

Yeah. Okay, well, here we are. I kind of got a young Dooku vibe going on right now, right? A little bit. You're a little bit also out of the frame if you want to scoot a little bit more towards. You know what you can do? You want me to sit on your lap at this point? Just rotate this way a little bit.

There we go. We could give the people what they want and just go tip to tip finally. You know what? I don't like that joke. I've never liked that joke. I just have to live with it because it took the life of its own. Let's recap here a little bit. So this morning, we got our results back.

Everyone's fine. This morning, we got COVID tested. Yeah. But we did not get COVID tested in the way that you might imagine where they perform brain surgery or gag you like you're having to do something for Lex of the Impaler. Do you know they had a rectal option? I took them up on that. They did not like that joke. By the way, Hartford HealthCare did not enjoy that joke.

I bet you went in there and you were like, I heard there was a rectal option. Yeah. It wasn't bad. All they make you do is you have to take the thing out yourself, swab yourself while someone watches you. Yeah. I'm not going to out them, but I was able to have a pain-free situation. I controlled the levels, which is a little different.

And then you put it back in the vial, and then you... You ever get one of those Swedish massages where the agent lady hangs from the bars on the ceiling and jumps on you and stuff? It was the opposite of that. I don't like massages. Can you believe that? Luke Thomas not liking touch? I could see that happening.

I could see you. Yeah. And then we quarantined all day in our rooms. What did you do today? I did two podcasts. I wrote a column. I ate a lot of really – I crapped a lot because I ate the room service food. So, you know what?

It's been what it was, all right? I did a podcast with Submission Radio. Those Australian fellas. Yeah, I'm not sure when that's going to be out. What are their names? What are those blokes called? Let's see. Dennis and...

God, I forget the guy's name. It's so bad that I can't remember it because I know their faces like the back of my hand. I've gotten drunk with them. Do you drink Fosters? Dude, Fosters is A, shit beer, and B, no.

I forget the other guy's name. They're sweet guys. In any event, I just studied all day. I like playing a game with you involving MMA media in terms of who's on your naughty list. Who's on your nice list. I like those guys. You won't wish death upon them. They're good people.

At the top of the list is Chuck Mendenhall and Brett Okamoto. Everybody else behind that. No. You can put them up there. You could put... Because you think there's no good people in this game, right? There's not many. There are some, though, okay?

Danny Segura, he's your Matuba to your Petula, whatever you call him. Yes, Danny is the Arequipe to my pen. He is the Arroz to my frijole. So he's up there. He's the Verntroyer to your Mike Myers. Something like that. You know, I like the junkie guy.

I like Dave Doyle. I get along for the most part with John Morgan. I like him. Would you wear his blue shirt right after a long fight card? Golfing, maybe. Okay.

Then, you know, the creative duo, Esther and Casey, I get along with. Great people. I love them. I'm a big Mark Raimondi guy. I like Mark.

I worked a long time with Mark. I worked a long time with Mark. Oh, the other guy, the Sean Alshadi guy. I met him for the first time. Very nice guy. Sean's great. You didn't know Sean? Never knew him.

Really? Never knew him. Sorry, Sean. I never knew you, bro. I didn't know you. I'm a boxing guy. I'm new to this skinhead white thing. Who are your people in boxing? Boxing is a lot of weirdos. I won't you, bro. I didn't know that. I'm a boxing guy, okay? I'm new to all to this skinhead white thing, okay?

Who are your people in boxing? Boxing's a lot of weirdos, I won't lie to you, okay? I got brethren there, though. The Rafe Bartholomews of the world, Salt of the Earth, you know, Eric Raskin. A lot of the older guard, the Karen Mulvaney's. Raskin hates MMA. Yeah, he does. Raskin's an old white guy.

That's the problem. There's no young guys, you know? Besides Mike Hoppinger, there's no... It's a weird breed. You're getting into a weird world. Boxing's like you start dating a girl and you go in and her family does S&M right in front of you. Can it be worse than the right-wing fever swamps that are

moderate MMA? I wish we did last night's show. Last night's show, before our COVID testing, was you and I getting drunk in this room sharing conspiracy theories about world government politics and european banks that would have been a great show we could have put out there all right people think you're very far left it's not the case you're telling why that's true why why tell me tell them why that's true yeah tell them what has made you believe that i am not as politically radical as the as the online idiots seem to think that I am. Because you voted in just one presidential election? That's true. I've only voted

one time. Alright, so you know, there's no Biden posters in your bag over here. No, fuck no. You've never heard me say one positive word about Sleepy Joe. Never. Never. That has never happened. That's the worst. They're all the worst. That's the thing. They're all pretty fucking bad.

I voted for, I told you, I voted. They're all pretty bad. I voted for, I told you I voted for Nader once, 2000. I voted for, who's the old guy in 96? Did you vote for someone who could give you a good haircut?

It doesn't look like it. I gave myself this haircut right before MK. I can never tell. Let me go back to the Skywalker episode 6 in Jabba's palace look. To be clear,

my wife did this. And there's some issues with this one, too. I don't think there's not. But yours is. See, here's the difference. You're trying to get one hundred dollar haircuts. I'm doing them free. That's not too bad.

Right. Took me like, you know what? If you look at me straight, it's fine. It's the minute you start going profile is when all the issues are. Yeah, well, I haven't showered in a long time. So that's that's a big part of it here. This is like summer camp, this whole bubble experience, right? We're not allowed to have dinner together.

I mean, we could sit on each other's laps here, that's fine, but... Yeah, we could totally bang. Yeah. Alright, hey, I'm really... I'm not here to talk about fights, but I'm really excited about the fights. And that's not a sell, okay? People think, oh, these guys are Showtime shills now, they're cashing big chicks, oh, they're trying to feed me things.

I don't want an MK. First of all, back the hell off there. I'm really excited about Charlo on Charlo. Just as much as Costa Adesanya has me, you know, you can't see me from the waist down, but it's,

it's large. You should back up a step though, before we get into that a little bit, because we're not, I just told you, I'm not getting into it. I'm not here to talk about fights. Can we talk about Monday show?

It's the first show I think we've done where, not for the individual pullout segments, but for the individual show itself. I haven't pulled out since college, to be honest with you. Okay. I'm going to ignore that because it was unnecessary and weird. It's the first show I think we've done where the individual show itself has a less than 90% upvote rate. It's the first one where we've done that. You know, I'm not a big read the comments, check the stats guy like you. I know you live and die by the opinion of the people.

The comments I don't read too, too much, but the stats I always pay attention to. What do you make of that? They're bitter at us for our... They hate you and your left-wing politics. You were not that far away from me. I was where I always land. I was in the middle because I think that's the true answer in life in a lot of these ways is to not get it so extreme and get painted by such a broad brush in either direction.

But, you know, I mean, look, I don't know if I fully was able to represent in that short period of time because Jay is always in my ear trying to rush me, and you're now Jay number two trying to get out of the segment every single time when you know I thought you don't have any more jobs anymore I thought we're allowed to just you know talk about that loviate and sexuate and all that all right um you know you know I mean just just I don't I don't want I don't want there to not be freedom of speech but I also don't want an absolute shit show you know so uh there you know I like when when when it's man to man i hate you i want to fight you i want to beat you i don't like when you're bringing in some of that other stuff all

right yeah let me tell you why i uh well first of all i you know people don't like it they can voice their opinion and we just let it rock now what have you actually ever pounded sand uh i'm sure in frustration at some point. Here's the thing about the views. It's like, if people don't like it, it's cool. If you don't like it, turn off your station. No, it's not even that. It's like I've said it before.

If it wasn't... I get a lot of people who email me being like, Lauren, were it not for me, these are viewpoints they would not be exposed to, which I don't think is going to convince a lot of people per se, but I think it's worth at least having a platform in MMA where some of those views get expressed, and if people don't like it, they can shit on them, which is what they're doing, and that's fine.

People also, by the way, and this is just, I guess, human nature, they watch, sometimes they don't even watch the full show. They'll watch a tiny clip that's edited, and it never properly gets the full spectrum of what you're saying but even if they're watching the full show they'll they'll hear that one thing that sets them off and you know you might not actually be portraying that one thing as absolute you may be referencing that one thing or saying it's almost like this but they hear that one thing that pisses them off and then it's like downvote f you f luke f his soy boy politics, F his shitty music choices, F his angry demeanor, F his overgrown beard, and I'm just getting started.

Yeah, I don't care. I don't care about any of that shit. If they don't like it, then say you don't like it. It's cool. I don't care. As far as the show hurrying up, here's my view on that. Jay does a little bit too much of cracking the whip, I would agree. Yeah.

But I don't think we need to go long just to go long. Like, for example. Try telling that to the guys at Blacked Raw, right? Okay. You don't know what I'm talking about. There you go. It's like, are they all $5 foot longs? Jesus. No, but here's my point.

For example, I think our intro should be as fast as possible. Those should be quick. And then, even if folks don't like the topic, a Covington, free speech, Tyron Woodley topic, that's where you should go. That's where you should just have as much time as you need. But, like, just to talk, to talk, I don't think we should do that. I'm a little bit looser in life. I don't really like plans, rundowns. It's the radio in me where they want you to get to the opening topic within 60 seconds of the mic's cracking.

All right, well, you've quit that job, okay? I'm not saying we have to do that, but there's a reason for that, because people tune your shit out. You quit satellite radio just when I got a new car and got my first taste of SiriusXM. I love the shit out of it. I got it on my app. I play it through my stereo in my office every day. It's awesome.

Top five channels for me, and then I want to hear yours. Okay, you ready? Here we go. Classic vinyl, number one, no question about it. I've never listened to that. Oh, it's awesome uh top five channels for me and then i want to hear yours okay you ready i got here we go classic vinyl number one no question about it i've never listened to that oh it's so good okay number two is um well i like so many you know you only get 18 presets and i could go about 30 deep here but uh uh you know the 90s station is always is always playing and you know there's this classic rewind any basically any form of the classic rock mixed with i got the dead channel i got the fish channel the springsteen one the the whatever i'm sure you're getting a lot of weird ones like lithium and ozzy and all that i mean okay i actually like the political talk shows and um obviously mad dog i like oh yacht

rock i'm big on yacht rock fuck yacht rockacht Rock is the thing that white guys say they like. Oh, The Bridge. I'm in on Coffee House. I'm in on a lot of those. What's The Bridge? The Bridge is sort of smooth 70s. Not necessarily Yacht Rock. Not necessarily prog rock.

Sort of the in-between on that. A little singer song. Where would I hear like hollow notes? What I want, you got. You could hear that on The Bridge. You could hear that on Spectrum. Spectrum is another one of those channels. I think you know more about the company than I do.

Full disclosure, I did text you, and you haven't picked up your end of the bargain, saying, look, I want to DJ on. I want to get on classic vinyl and be a host, a disc jockey. DJs. I'd love to do that shit. No Shade 45? What is that?

I don't know about that one that's the uh major hip-hop station oh no no okay i'm in big on deep tracks you know that one they basically find like a band you know but like a deep album track or a rare track or something a little bit uh you know off the wall um i like outlaw i hate country but like outlaw country that channel it's a little bit more you know bluegrass and stuff americana is a decent channel um they're you know they're switching them all the time i don't think you know i don't think we need a michael jackson channel i don't think we need a tom petty channel there's a netflix channel there's a comedy central channel isn't there a channel um oh the barstool one's not bad you listen to power i think it's

called power something i don't know power nine power 98 power 85 is that a hip-hop one thing no no that's i think that's the name. They didn't... They may... Okay, you know what? Sorry. They rebranded it Barstool. Its initial name was whatever the numerical...

Whatever the integer was. And then Power before. It's like Power 98, Power 85. They're pretty good. I don't want to do a whole lot of that, to be honest with you. Okay. But... Yeah, that's about it.

What do you drive, Luke? People want to know stuff like this. What does Luke Thomas drive? I'm going to guess a whole lot of that, to be honest with you. Okay. But, yeah, that's about it. What do you drive, Luke? People want to know stuff like this. What does Luke Thomas drive? I'm going to guess a 98 Ford Bronco, maybe white AC. My wife and I were actually talking about it this week, about maybe buying a new car. Okay. She wants to get the SUV that's the Infiniti. The company Infiniti?

Yeah. Okay. I don't know what the model or the make, whatever it is. Good times in the Thomas house these days. She makes more than I do. Are you serious? Yeah, she makes a killer bag.

So we drive right now a Mazda, a 2015 Mazda CX-5. It's from 2015. How many miles do I think I have on it? You live in Washington, D.C., so probably 30,000. 23,000. We barely drive that.

You should trade that shit in then. Yeah, so that's what we were saying. We looked at the Kelly Blue Book value. If we trade it in, we could get up to 18 grand on the trade-in, which would, you know, Infinity's not cheap, but that would knock it off a pretty decent chunk, you know. What about you? You're driving that one.

Are you still going to the Lilith Fair with the Indigo Girls? I bought a 2020 Subaru Crosstrek bright orange. I don't care. You don't judge me. My neighbors judge me all the time. Judge me however you want. Closer I am to fire. It is.

I don't know if, like, so all the cars I've had before this were always economy point A to point B efficient. I had a Honda Accord. I had a Nissan Rogue. I had, you know, I had like, you know, whatever. Right. I dodged neon back in the day. I had some shitty cars. But this is the first car where there's just up to date on every possible option.

I don't know if you've been in these newer ones. Dude, you could legit fall asleep purposely on the road and set certain things and the car would it would it would more or less drive you have been driving nothing but cars that have told women to never ever you know you're like oh you went to the lot and you're like mr carl salesman find me a car that will ensure i never get blown i didn't he's like sir i've got this dodge neon that looks like Barney. I had the Dodge Neon when I met my wife. She hated it. She hated it. I didn't make this serious. Look, there's you know, we all have our backstory of the grind of climbing the mountain of finally getting there.

And I did not make would you know anything resembling legitimate money that you would want to tell your parents how much you make and have them be proud of you until I was thirty nine. So, you know, it's just this is my first. parents how much you make and have them be proud of you until I was 39. So this is my first... How did you get to high school? My neighbor's mom drove me a lot. Or I had a friend down the street who sometimes would drive me. So freshman year, I could walk. My house was literally down the block. This is old Marietta.

No, no, no. So I went to two different high schools. So first two years, I went to Valdosta High School, the winningest high school football team in America. In Georgia? Yes. Really? Seven national titles. Give me some NFL players.

Oh, I don't even know. I couldn't tell you. But the NFL Network last year did a series on them. Okay. 40 plus state titles. No chance you could have played there. Oh, fuck no. No, no, no.

But they get in trouble all the time because it's like, why is this kid from Florida living in his own apartment at age 16? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, oh, because they, oh, okay. Anyway, so my freshman year I could walk. It was literally down the street. It would have been stupid to do anything but that. Okay, so I walked. It was like a reprieve.

Sophomore year, my brother was a senior, so I could, he could drive. So I got it right with him. He didn't get checks in high school, right? No, fuck no. No. You gave him a bunch of mathletes in your house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was worse than me.

Political commentary reading. He was way worse. You think however bad I am, he was way worse than me. These are the kind of nerds that end up opening restaurants later in their life. That's exactly right. And now he does risk assessment at a high mathematical level. Yeah, yeah, that's great. So then he graduates, and I'm on my own, and then I move to Marietta.

So my junior year, I took the buh-uh-uh-uh-us all the way. Did you bring a bag lunch, too, dude? I mean, come on. It was. I had a single mom. I had no money. We were living in a new town. I had no choice but to take the bus, okay?

Your dad couldn't buy you a car? Wasn't he working for the government at that point? He refused. This bastard refuses to watch our show, too, right? He refused. He was like, you're on your own. What I'm going to do is I'm going to find him, okay? I'm going to do a lot of things.

I told you that time. Let me finish. So then senior year, I saved up a bunch of money. I saved up five grand. And this was when gas was, my senior year, I'll never forget this, gas was 77 cents on the dollar my senior year. 77? The cheapest I ever paid for gas was in New Haven, Connecticut in 1999, $1.05. That was the cheapest I ever paid.

Oh, man. In Georgia, it was way cheap. Anyway, so I paid $5,000. I went to a government auction. This is where they collect people's cars for whatever, crimes or whatever, and then they auction them off. And I got a white Chevy Corsica for five grand that I drove. And it was dented and shitty. But it got me.

Tape deck? Just a radio. What year was this car? I don't remember. I don't remember. It was fucking awful. Everybody knows the year of their first car. They know it like the back of their satchel.

No, no, no. In fact, that Mazda that I drive now is the first new car I've ever owned. How about that? Oh, all right. Got to be a touch. That was a little uncomfortable. Yep, we are now officially a couple. That was a little uncomfortable there.

All right. Oh, look, what are you drinking? Because you refused to drink my- If you want to have any more of it, it's over there. I'm drinking wine. My Wolf Pup Session IPAs here. Your Sessions IPAs are terrible. Can I have a glass of wine, please, so you guys can see my luggage in the back?

Yeah. No, no, I think it's in the back. Closer I am to fire. Friends hang out in the same hotel room and sing Endless Love together, right? Yeah. Luke, by the way, got room service with a bottle of wine. I mean, a guy alone, that's great. Well, you know what?

I've paid my dues, guy. I've paid my dues. Here we are. I did that interview today with Submission Radio, and we did 40 minutes just on Adesanya Costa. Well, because it's down under right those those boys love their their guys you watched embedded at all yes i heard our voice no i know i yeah episode one of embedded yes yes i did it's boring right now that's boring yeah i mean it's like look

like the hbo 24 7 thing which kind of invented this it was great and it was great even when it was shitty but then it got really shitty because it's like, how many times can you watch Manny Pacquiao not say anything, right? How many times can you watch Floyd be a little... I'm going to knock him out. It's going to be nice. Yeah, how many times can you watch Floyd in his house with no friends spend a lot of money? So, you know, there's a little bit of sex and pizza to it where it's always going to be good to a certain degree. But not enough morning combat in it. Now, Countdown, a lot of morning combat in it and serious xm

oh wow okay okay i had people email me about it they're like dude you're in countdown i'm like uh not the first time guy yeah yeah probably the last but not the first time yeah people like people dm me like i thought ufc hated luke how did he end up in kill it's not dana going through the show and picking up and also he doesn't hate me enough to, like, go through each episode with a fine-tooth comb. To be like, fuck that guy. Get it out of here. You know? Although I guess he does.

Do you ever see? I don't think Josh Gross has ever been in any of those. No, because they hate Josh Gross. Does Ariel have that stuff, too? Who? Ariel. Oh, no. Dana hates his ass.

No, Dana hates him, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Ariel. I know him. No, no, I'm saying, is he ever in the Countdown episodes? I don't think Oh, no. Dana hates his ass. No, Dana hates him too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Ariel. I know him. You know what I'm saying? Is he ever in the Countdown episodes? I don't think so, no. Damn, that must have been a mandate from on top, right?

I've never seen him on Morning Combat either. Maybe I can change that. No, we talk about his reporting. We do. He moves the needle. He moves product, right? Hey, you're making news? We'll talk about it.

I don't give a shit anymore. I'm 41. I might have an Infiniti SUV. You, you're making news? We'll talk about it. I don't give a shit anymore. I'm 41. I might have an Infiniti SUV. You know what I'm saying? I'm drinking a bottle of wine. You know what I'm saying? I can't complain anymore. I can't complain anymore.

Room service bottle of wine, probably $1,000 for that bottle. But hey, cheers. The bottle was fucking $30. All right. All right. I don't make what you make, but I will. Nice contract. Thank you.

All right. This is like when- Hey, you know what? Rising tide lifts all boats. That's what I'm talking about. It lifts a lot of dogs. You will. Next contract. Thank you. All right. This is like when. Hey, you know what? Rising tide lifts all boats. That's what I'm talking about. It lifts a lot of dogs. Yeah. All right.

And by the way, if you want to know what I made, I'm not going to tell you now. On the air. But I will tell you off the air so you can use that as information to get more money. Oh, wow. How about that? I don't know if I should say this in front of the cameras. Oh, I'll say it. I don't care.

I'm not trying to steal from them. That's the history of Luke's career. He just doesn't care. All right. I just don't care, bro. That's why my lights don't work. That's the history of Luke's career. He just doesn't care. I just don't care, bro. That's why my lights don't work. That's why you have gray hair. But look at where you are.

Look at you now. Look at us now. Pay-per-view. Pay-per-view this weekend. Cheers to pay-per-view. All right. Take that, America. All right.

Thank you, by the way, for backing us. Thank you for getting behind us, reaching around us. We really appreciate the support. You know what we should do? How about this? We normally do DMs from dogs. I have an idea. We don't have to hold it to this. Let me just throw this out here.

Why don't you ask us questions? Shoot me an email. LukeThomasNews at gmail.com I'm assuming if you're watching this, you're probably a hardcore MK fan. Yeah, or just a big Luke Thomas fan. Luke, you have a lot of followers.

Yep, a lot of them love to hate. I don't have any followers. It's the way you sell yourself, that's why. Explain that. This is a good theory. Let me finish this out, and then we'll go to bed. So, again, we're going to hopefully do these one night. We'll see how that goes, but we'll do as many of these as we can.

So, lukethomasnews at gmail.com. Whatever questions you normally want to ask, it can be MMA related, but we'll do as many of these as we can. So LukeThomasNews at gmail.com. Whatever questions you normally want to ask, it can be MMA related, but preferably not. Just something sort of different, fun, irreverent, and then we'll answer those on the subsequent night show. Yeah, two drink minimum. Are you about to tell me that my problem

with social media not being as popular as maybe I should be is because I want them to like me. That's what you're about to say. There's a little bit of that. You sometimes, after the show, indicate to me that you'll kind of tiptoe to not like, you know, ruffle feathers. And you know me, I go in there and just rub my balls

all over the face. You just rub your balls on me. And I'm like, oh, what? You never heard of left-wing views? Here you go, everybody. Enjoy these balls. You enjoy not being liked. You expect it, and you prefer it.

So Monday's episode is a little bit different because there's a lot of people who are really pissed. But here's my general view. Patrice O'Neill is my favorite comedian. Is he still alive? No, he died. He died. White guy? Patrice O'Neill?

I don't know Patrice O'Neill. I don't know the name. He's a giant black dude. All right. I'm sorry. He's big and fat and huge. I don Patrice O'Neill. I know the name. He's a giant black dude. All right. I'm sorry. He's big and fat and huge. I don't know your comedic heroes. I know the name.

I didn't know. Anybody who put a fucking fork in the eye of anybody else is who my favorite comedian is. Is he better than Mitch Hedberg? He's very different. Mitch was kind of like, what happens if you have a pizza and it's not frozen, but they call it a frozen pizza? What do you do? And it's like, oh, that's funny if you're fine. He's like burnout Jerry Seinfeld, basically.

No, no, no, no. I'm teasing. Mitch Hedrick was very, very funny. But he had this sort of like really irreverent kind of goofy humor. Patrice O'Neill was like, I mean, you put a finger in your chest a little bit, right? He had a rule. He had two things about him that I really loved. He had a rule.

He goes, if you go to a club and you're performing and you're a comedian and at least 10% of the audience doesn't boo when you get off, you have failed. You have failed. He goes, you can't please everybody and you should not try to. You should please yourself. You should do. Rick Nelson. And you should, the people who really get you, you should only respond to them.

You don't have to respond to anybody else. Well, you've been pleasuring yourself for years, so this is it. I'm honestly masturbating as we speak. No, but in all seriousness, in all seriousness, my point being is there is – I don't take pleasure in having the world mad per se. No, there's no comfort there. However, in having a dedicated group of people that understand what I'm trying to do and don't misrepresent or offer some bullshit response to what i'm doing which is the

overwhelming majority of the criticisms and then pissing off uh a small but you know even a vocal minority i think is exactly the way it's supposed to be all right so at your core jokes aside of you know you want people to hate you you want to, you want to make a difference in your own way. Whether that's shaking up somebody's belief system, educating them, challenging them. That's sort of your goal and every intention. My intention is just to have fun and entertain. I want to have fun, too. But, yes, my goal is I am not here to comfort your worldview.

All right. Because how I look at this is like I have this. You mean the job? The job. These type of shows that we do. This right here, Morning Combat, is what do I love more than anything? Fights, right? The fight game is a passion for me.

It's a personal passion. I have that many people in my real life who have a clue or care about fights, right? It's like a couple guys who kind of understand boxing and like it a little bit that's it and i don't really think i have any day-to-day non-job people who like mma or who really know maybe a couple uncles or cousins but uh you know like so it's it's been a loan before i got into this business been a lonely been a lonely time watching fights alone you know there's no internet back then and even when you know i got on twitter right away it was like it's almost like i've always equated being a serious boxing fan to like having a drug habit you know what i mean it's like you're just trying to find like-minded weirdos like you and then we get to do these shows

with this platform where it's like holy shit like what do i love doing more than anything hanging out with my friends and cracking jokes and laughing right making people laugh then making you laugh inappropriateness that now we get to do that on a platform with people just like us that I would want to hang out with normally. It's a dream. It's a freaking dream. I'm a little bit with you. It's like the thing with me is none of my friends are at all into this shit.

You know, none. None. I'm with you. None. And so I just, it became kind of like a isolated affair. I don't know. Yeah, a drug habit. Let's be honest.

We've all done drugs. Yeah, I don't know if I call it a drug habit. I don't know. Yeah, a drug habit. Let's be honest. We've all done drugs. Yeah, I don't know if I call it a drug habit. I don't know. I try to put my brain to certain pursuits. Like, what am I going to use this for? You know, and then when things like, they're like, who's more into free speech than us? I'm like, Kim Jong-un, you know.

Yeah. Anybody. So that's part of it. I don't know. Wow. By the way, a comment Luke made last night while we were heavily intoxicated. Well, I was heavily intoxicated.

Four beers. I mean, this guy is the biggest. I'm 42 years old. I mean, I used to be. I'm 41, motherfucker. I could drink in my day. I could drink with chemicals and really have a great time. When you got drunk at that Dave thing,

I was trying to text you all day like, what do you think of the rundown? Are you ready to go? And you didn't respond because you were getting hammered at fucking steve's house down the street wait what day that was uh a few weeks ago oh yeah i went to i went to a like a high school friend's house like the kids were in the pool while the dads were at like the home bar and i had to be careful because my wife was like all of me like a hawk trying to take away keys and trying to, you know, just, you know, trying to do wife things. I think I probably had over the course of four hours, five and a half beers. It's not, you know, five to six beers total. She drove.

So that wasn't that big a deal. But I also, you know, I see in that same house, in my friend's house. Shout out to shout out to Ed at Ed's house. A couple of years earlier, we had the, you know, I see in that same house, in my friend's house. Shout out to Ed. At Ed's house a couple years earlier, we had the full pool party, the kids all around, and he's got the pool with the diving board, since removed for insurance reasons, and I got crazy drunk, six, seven, eight, nine beers deep, whatever, on like a Saturday afternoon, and I just was like, you know what? I never learned how to dive my whole life.

Everybody else diving and doing backflips. I've been afraid to dive. I'm going to learn how to dive right now at whatever I was, 36 or something. Hit my head at the bottom of the pool and concussed myself like a bastard. So, you know, there's some people that look out for me. I'm so glad you got a vasectomy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, in that regard, you know, yeah.

I mean, I'm at the point now where I got the old guy drinking disease where, know on any random night luke i could just be watching the game drink two beers go to bed everything's fine to wake up this morning at a javelin stick it on my head just a headache from hell it's not fair and it doesn't make sense but if you saw the alcohol loads i was putting away well speaking of loads here luke last night was saying i was like you know i got some ipas look you want to drink whatever he's like i'll drink your shit. And he proceeds to purchase like a $70 six-pack of Corona. Corona was expensive. And then I go, Luke, do you want

a beer? No, because this is my Luke voice, because I would need about 46 of them to get drunk. It's like, dude, get the fuck... No, seriously. No, seriously, guy. We're going to figure this out. No, seriously, guy. I would need like 40. What is the beer I'd have to drink for like standard measurement of beer?

You know what I mean? I'm not talking about shit junk. What's the unit of beer? I'm not talking about take your thing out. I'm not talking about touch a girl inappropriately. I'm talking about just getting buzzed. You're telling me right now. Oh, to get buzzed?

If we drank a six pack each while recording this show, you wouldn't be buzzed? No. I'd be freaking drunk as shit. No, nothing. Zero. six pack each while recording this show you wouldn't be buzzed I'd be drunk as shit no nothing zero so what I do as an old guy now I try to drink a lot and as short a period of time as possible and just ride that buzz till the headache starts yeah that's about

right I could do maybe 12 to 15 to get a buzz 12 to 15 beers to get a buzz that is not so that that tells me you're like Wade Boggs you ever heard Wade Boggs drinking stories Luke you're serious that it would really take you that many beers to get... Like, when we did the drinking show, December, the day before I went in the hospital for fake COVID. Remember that?

Mm-hmm. In Jersey City there. You weren't buzzed at all on the set that day. Not even remotely buzzed. No. Not even, like, giggly a little bit. I don't believe it. You don't have to.

It is not true. We pounded like four and a half beers in like an hour, five beers. Yes, which for you apparently is very difficult. For me it's not. I mean, what's your childhood like? How do you retain this much alcohol and not let it affect you, Luke? Oh, I'm sure that it does. By the way, if people don't know why the picture looks different.

We had to switch cameras and then lenses. Yeah, Luke bragged about his equipment all week. But hey, we're pulling it off. We're pulling it off. Thank you. But we got to listen to some Patrice O'Neill during the intermission. What did you think? Fantastic. Pretty good, right? Yeah. I'm going to get into it. Alright. Thank you. We should wrap up from here

before too long so we can save some for tomorrow. So the plan for tomorrow is? Yeah, people need to watch our Showtime. We have a lot of Showtime stuff coming on. We got the Presser stream. We got the Weigh In stream on Friday. We got the Halftime Show. We got some CBS Sports HQ, which we need to start pumping that people need to hit.

I mean, look, if you like all sports, how about a 24-7 free network that you can get on your smartphone, on your smart TV, on your laptop, whatever. We're going to be on there from site all week setting the stage for the UFC card, for the Charlo card. We're going to be doing nightly podcasts. What are we going to do on Saturday night

as far as UFC? What are you talking about? In the MK Poe show? Yeah. We're going to break it down, bro. I mean mean there's only two fights on that card worth breaking down so we'll just talking about the main and co-main title fights yep you know the other stuff we'll have to watch on our free time and get into it next week next week we're kicking this off right MK allegedly allegedly Luke I have an important question all right what mainstream 90 songs that when they come on the radio or the XM,

it doesn't have to be a band you like, but you're just like, fuck, yeah. Turn this shit up. For me, it's Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. I will drop everything and just be like, fucking A, man. Yeah. What's wrong with you? Are you serious? No.

Semi-Charmed Kind of Life just makes me have AIDS. She Talks to Angels by Black Rose. If that comes on,'t, it just makes me Alright, she talks to angels by Black Rose If that comes on, you're like, yeah man She talks to angels No Don't give me some like tool or something Spoon man, sound garden Spoon man

I like that one Man in a box you'll rock out to I actually don't like that song that much I'll tell you which one I like Alice in Chains would If I are into the flood again That's a great song Great song

But I'm not talking like Show me your badass Show me the metal songs I'm talking about the mainstream No no no Those are the ones where I'm like No like mainstream hits Like look

If Breakfast at Tiffany's By Deep Blue Something comes on What about Yeah right You're gonna make sure no one's watching but then you're gonna be like fucking hey right yeah man no no i'll tell you which one am i i won't say fuck yeah but i'll sing along to it is the eve six inside out i would swallow my pride i would choke on the rhymes that one thank you great great choice all right look you do have a soul okay flagpole sitta harvey danger come on no it's about masturbation, you know? Yeah, I know, but the song about this

is my life. That's what I did before you got here. I mean, come on. Oh, come on. You shook my hand. This is disgusting. Yeah, maybe I did

wash my hands. Maybe I didn't. Who knows? Maybe I used... No, no, no. I'm not going to do that part out. We need a bet

that ends in me getting a DC-related tattoo, not Daniel Cormier district of columbia on my uh forearm i'm getting another tattoo no let's tell the people tell the people please i'm getting my i waited and waited and waited and waited and waited because you know uh well i'll tell i'll tell folks this so i wasn't disillusioned with the marine corps actually like the marine corps a lot but semper Fi, mother effer. Semper Fi. But I did not want... Every Marine gets a moto tattoo, a motivational tattoo.

And I have one. I have my ribs tattooed. But it was not the one that I really wanted. That thing must have stretched over the years, Luke. Of course. And they were quite painful. But no, that's not the one that I wanted. I always wanted the Eagle Globe and Anchor, which is the official insignia.

And I contacted a guy who's going to do it for me, officially. Oh, okay. And it's going to cover my forearm. Do you... So what is it going to be? The Eagle Globe and Anchor. And it's going to cover the outer part of your forearm? Well, I have to get it fitted.

And I have to see his particular illustration. He's going to take a very tiny creative license to make it work, but from here to here, I'm going to do this part. What happens when you see a fellow Marine and you know they are? Do you have a Freemason handshake?

When my dad, he's a big motorcycle guy, you know, he sees all the motorcycles, they give that sideways weird wave. It's like, you know, it's like, you know, like, you know, hey, man, I'm cool like you. No, it all depends on what they've done with the rest of their lives.

Like when you see Sarge Eubanks. She's not a Marine. Sajara. I thought you told me she wasn't a Marine. I never told you that. All right, name a fighter that was a Marine. Kyle Stewart. He's not with the UFC anymore, but he was one. All right. Name a fighter that was a Marine. Kyle Stewart. He's not with USC anymore, but he was one.

Brian Stan. Okay. What would you and Brian Stan do? Would you smell each other's fingers? Well, while you'd be disrespectful to the troops, I would tell you that we do. We've definitely greeted each other with Semper Fi before. Okay. Over a beer, would you guys lament Pat Tillman's inside job?

You really have a way of taking conversations and ruining them. Ruining them. I have a Pat Tillman story for you. Please, please. I once made a Pat Tillman joke and it got legally cut out of a clip. Can you imagine? This is my only Pat Tillman story. So do you remember like, I don't want to say 10 years ago, but maybe it was close to 10.

Maybe a little bit less. Maybe eight years ago, there was a documentary that came out about Pat Tillman that finally told the truth that he died in friendly fire. Okay. And the government covered it up. The government covered it up. And there was a documentary about it. They interviewed his family. They interviewed, like, blah, blah, blah.

Do you think the controversy and conspiracy ends there? I don't know, but it's certainly, I mean, the amount of malfeasance is overwhelming. Okay. But here's the thing. So they made this movie, and they were not showing the movie at the normal movie theaters. They were showing it at ones, sort of these independent ones. So I went to an independent movie theater. Like VA hospitals and stuff?

No, no, no, no, no. It was at, like, the one I went to was actually by the Ford's Theater. It was downtown. I'll never forget. I had gone there. I'd never been to this in particular one and there were these

I was it was not crowded the theater I was sitting there and there were to my left maybe four or five seats between us

there were these two old ladies when I say old I mean 60s okay now Pat Tillman played college football then he played pro

and then he turned into you know an army ranger in the whole bit he watched the buildings fall and got inspired to help his country. Okay, but here's the thing. Great luck of the heritage. He was a lifelong athlete, and he was,

just follow me here for just a second, he was a handsome guy. He was photogenic. He looked all-American in many ways. Very Greg Kelly. Exactly. And so I'll never forget when the documentary is happening. Dude, this is a very somber documentary.

They're talking about a guy who not only lost his life, but then the government covered it up. And his family was distraught about the whole thing. It was very, very sad. They're showing pictures of this guy's life and what led to all the decisions and how it may have been led. Basically, 9-11 was the catalyst, but he was living life choices before that where you could kind of tell that he was going to be this kind of a guy. And every time they showed pictures of this dude, these two old ladies were like, ooh, and on.

They're like, mm, oh, mm, oh. Oh, I'd like to take down that drink. Yeah, shit like that. And I'm like, dude. That's inappropriate. Imagine going to like, I'm not saying it's equivalent, but imagine going to a funeral and being like, damn, she got some big-ass titt you'd be like you'd be like dude

maybe wow it's like dude maybe shelf that maybe shelf that a little bit right it's like brian put your pants back on buddy this is not the this is not the venue okay so finally it comes to a point where they showed him in his green beret outfit uh he was obviously not dead but they was it was at his funeral and i remember one of them said something like um something to the effect of i wish he was still alive because he was so handsome something like old late old women in their 60s bro and i'll never forget i don't do this ever i'll never forget i got up sitting there where i was sitting, and I said, shut the fuck up. I said, no one gives a fuck what you like. Shut the fuck up. Were you alone?

Yes. And I said, stop being disrespectful. And they didn't say a fucking word. I mean, I'm not sure they breathed the rest of that fucking movie. Wow. Wow. I was so upset about that. I was like, don't you fucking dare sexualize.

Yes, he's a handsome guy. He's a very handsome guy. This is not the venue to fucking double click your fucking mouse, you old whore. Shut up. Shut up. Shut your mouth. Shut your fucking mouth. Woo. All right. That was actually a good story. Shut your fucking mouth. Woo.

All right. That was actually a good story. Wow. I was so mad about it. That was so bitter. I sat there and tolerated it. It went on for like a solid hour, hour and a half. Until eventually one of them was like.

And I was like, shut the fuck up. One day that's going to happen on the MK set. When are we going to return to Jersey? Do you want to make a bet on this? Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. How do you feel about your February packed arenas bet? Not too good, right? Did I say indoor?

Did I say indoor? You said indoor. And I let you have the outdoor possibility, and you told me to fuck off. I was feeling good at that time. You were very Fauci. Let's be honest, Luke. You were very Fauci. Look, let's be honest, Luke. You were very abrasively Fauci.

Whose assessment is going to end up being correct? Yours or mine? Yours or Dana's? I'll split the difference. I have an island. I'm building the infrastructure. By the way, that's one of the greatest videos of all time. You see Brett's face during that interview in whatever Zufa gym they were in.

And Brett's like, uh, okay. I guess I didn't pay attention to his face. What did he do? Brett gave a very, like, like, you know, what is happening right now? There's a madman in front of you. But look, again, Dana, along with Joe Exotic, couple of fits and starts, but they pulled it off. I am here to tell you thank you, Dana, for pulling this off

because this kept us employed and going. I've said it before. People are like, what do what do you want what do you want all I ever wanted was to work with a major commission there's three of them uh New Jersey Nevada California we almost had a Tai Chi Palace uh quicksand puddle to step in but no work with a major commission find protocol and then follow it and that's what is that some scandal it's not a fucking scandal and it works for the most part it you know is it a perfect system it's not a perfect system but it fucking works that's it that's all i have to say what a great show this was we got pat tillman worked in we we i've never told you that pat tillman no that's a great freaking story yeah even my wife was like okay you may have gone a little overboard but dude

i i i remember leaving and i was like, I think I overreacted. You ever wonder if the friendly fire, though, was unfriendly? Like, they realized that he knew too much. That he saw how the sausage was being made out there. Stay on topic for just a second here. I remember leaving the theater and, like, feeling kind of bad that I yelled at some old ladies. And then I was like, would you feel bad about that? No, no.

Dude, fuck them, right right I have a flaw we all have character flaws I when when I know like when you're in the supermarket and like you accidentally bump into somebody or maybe you didn't give somebody the right away you turn around it's an old lady you know they give you that look like you you know like you be I have this this flaw in me where I can't just go oh I'm so sorry I stand there and I stare them the fuck down you know what I mean like you know like what because it was I worked at a grocery. You have a brag is that bitch I get real passive aggressive

you know what I was going to say because you mentioned Ford's theater yeah do you think Samuel Mudd historically got a raw deal I've not I've not really thought much about it well he's the doctor who after John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln the fuck in the face, jumped off the thing, broke his leg on the stage at Ford Theater,

and ran off and found a doctor. He found mud. Mud fixed him up the best he could, and they threw mud in that. That was the Hippocratic Oath. They threw mud in that jail that is now Dry Tortugas National Park off the coast of Key West. There's that old Spanish jail, and he lived most of his adult life yeah tortugas the uh in that jail but he was doing his job isn't there isn't there hip shouldn't hippa laws have prevented right but wasn't wasn't the uh refresh my memory wasn't the idea that they had conspired ahead of time i don't have that information all

right like most of my conspiracy theories i don't have the full information my thought was that they had coordinated ahead of time like hey we might come to you because we want to fucking off this guy and then see i like to believe it was more natural like samuel muds asleep yeah and they're like dr mud this guy needs you and he's like you know what have you done and then you know uh wilkes booth is like you know bro i really can't tell you know i mean look you know it was a big i didn't like slavery and he's you know they didn't get get into that. OK, they just look like, oh, you got a broken leg. I'm going to help you. OK, I'm going to help.

That's my oath in life. OK, anyway, I mean, when you were off in war and there was a young child rolling around, it didn't matter what country they were from. You help them. Right. No, not necessarily. All I'm saying is fuck those old ladies. I wonder what they said.

What do you think they said about me when they went home? Were you jacked at that point? Huge. On performance enhancing drugs? I wish, but enough to make them think that. Let's put it that way. Maybe they, I don't know. Maybe they probably ripped you the whole way home, right?

Made fun of you. Do you think everyone said to themselves, maybe we shouldn't verbally masturbate at the documentary of a dead war hero? They were like, that big blowhard had no manners. Where'd he grow up? Doha? Grow up in a war zone? What's going on here?

What the fuck is wrong with this guy? Get some tattoos, pussy. All right. Well, we should close it with that. We'll be back tomorrow, yes? Yeah, until they take our jobs from us, which is any day now, right? We might be one and done. Yeah.

All right, well, sorry about the change in all the cameras and whatever. We'll get it worked out, better system for tomorrow. Hopefully our crotches can be further apart on the next shot. Plug whatever we need to plug. Jesus, you're fucking worthless. Showtime Sports has a YouTube channel. Yes. That's where our weigh-in and our tomorrow, our presser coverage will be.

I really would, you know, look, everyone sells things. I want you to get used to CBS Sports HQ. That's half of my job, half of Luke's job. That's where we're going. That is a free 24-7 sports network, okay? Get on that, all right? It's not, people hear that, they think CBS Sports Network. No, no, that is where Bellator is going.

I'm talking about CBS Sports HQ. It's free. It's online, right? It's online. It's that. They think CBS Sports Network. No. No. That is where Bellator is going. I'm talking about CBS Sports HQ. It's free. It's online, right? It's online. It's free. It's 24-7, 24 hours a day. We are going to be a major part of that during big fight weeks set in the States. You know what?

We got one more we can end on. You know my views on like the NBA with the whole Black Lives Matter and NFL with the whatever. It's like I don't trust these entities to promote these messages. Yes, yes. I don't care what they think, right? I saw Rachel Nichols tweeted being like, how come the NBA didn't honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

And I'm like, are we really fucking doing this right now? Showtime gave her the 10 count, right? Saturday night before the Lubin fight. Did they? They gave her the freaking, she's a warrior. She was a fighter. I have nothing bad to say about her, but why does the NBA give a fuck?

What am I missing about this? Are we going to do this when any head of state, the Lebanese head of state, died in a blast explosion? Why doesn't the NBA care? That's convenient for you to say Lebanese, right?

I'm making a point. All right. So you're half Armenian? Yeah, my mother was Armenian, yeah. Oh, full percent. 100% Armenian. And your father's like some English mutt. Just fucking European.

Hard ass. Oklahoma. Your dad grew up in Oklahoma? Yeah, the home of bail bondsmen and fucking pawn shops. Did he? Oh, wow. So he's real old school, this guy. No, not like you might think.

Did he have to kill puppies when he was little? No, don't be ridiculous. He may have talked shit during a Pat Tillman documentary. We hashed it out. All right. Yeah, so watch our shit, support us, and then we'll keep doing. And by the way, I'm a big fan of the Golden Road Wolf Pup Session IPA. Show us a little glint.

Show us a little glint. I picked that up on the way here. There you go. All right, thank you. Thank you. All right. You should get in what I'm drinking. You don't drink Kalo? I drink that hemp-infused seltzer during every. It doesn't work for me. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You should get in what I'm drinking. You don't drink Kalo?

I drink that hemp-infused seltzer during every... It doesn't work for me. All right. Can we end this? Hey, real quick. Come on. I got one more for you.

Last word. All right. Luke one time during a morning combat show in Jersey was like, hey, BC, you know that bodega around the corner

that our Korean friends run, right? It's right next to the subway stop. Hey, bro, they got some CBD brownies that you should check out. Because you're like, you know,

I think that you could actually get a little bit of a buzz off. I'm like, really? And I'm like, okay. So on the way back, I picked this up, all right? I was on my way from our morning combat shoot to go do a podcast in New York City. And I bought one of those, ate it. I'm like, oh, okay, okay, this was a dud.

Okay, maybe Luke got a little buzz, but he's different than me. He needs 64 beers to get drunk, right? The second we pressed record, like an hour and a half later, it was just like, wow. It came to a point. Now, luckily, it was an audio podcast. It came to a point where I had to write down with a pen what my co-host on the other

side of the country was saying because i could not process or remember it i was like this this this ish is freaking fantastic i went back that next week remember the lady was like i don't know what you're talking about we don't sell these she's like we're out of brownies i'm like what the fuck you mean you're out of brownies i was like those ones were real good she was like no no we don't we don't sell those no No, no, no, no, no. Someone must have come to me like, you know those things are fucking packed to the rafters of marijuana. Dude, to this day, that was good. That was some good.

That was no false advertising. All right, that's Brian Campbell. I'm Luke Thomas. Give the video a thumbs up. We'll be back tomorrow night with something kind of similar to this. Until next time, fuck off.