MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - Room Service Diaries | This is Day 2 | Morning Kombat

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

Luke and Brian are back with the second installment of Room Service Diaries which details their second day in the Charlo Doubleheader PPV bubble at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and answers all the fan questions you submitted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two world champions, they happen to be twin brothers. While the ingredients are there, two guys who love to sit down to their punches and throw that firepower. I'm not scared of nobody and I'm definitely not scared of someone who talks. 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've been given a chance to let everyone in the world see the great things that me and my twin brother has 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 everybody. It's night two here of the Room Service Diaries. Day two, I should say. Episode two, whatever the fuck we're calling it. My name is Luke Thomas. It's night two here of the Room Service Diaries. Day two, I should say. Episode two, whatever the fuck we're calling it. My name is Luke Thomas. It's Brian Campbell. And for the second consecutive night, we are not sharing a room, despite popular belief. We're just banging. We're just two heterosexual guys who bang.

That's what we're doing. All right. Well, let's toast to your meat curtains then, all right? How about that? You know what I'm saying? So gross. All right. Yeah, yeah. Woo! then all right how about that you know what i'm saying so gross all right yeah yeah okay so we did one of these yesterday and everybody seemed to like it and on yesterday's program i asked you to email me luke thomas news at gmail.com if you had any questions now if you're watching it at this point it's too late stop emailing me but we have a bunch here already and no stick pics in luke's uh in luke. Well, if you send me those, you'll be banned for life. I mean, what are we going to do?

But in the meantime, we have questions, BC. All right, I got answers. Would you like to get to it? Yes. We'll get to it right away. So this will be like an all your questions episodes. And here's the thing. If you ask questions like, oh, is Khabib a better wrestler than Usman?

We're not going to answer it. It has to be something kind of frivolous. Hopefully they have watched the great content we put out this week on many platforms look breaking down this weekend's pay-per-view fights morning combat cbs sports hq showtime boxing live streams we'll talk about that a little later we did the uh we did the presser today people asking us what about our masks we didn't we got covid tested and then they wouldn't let us wear i mean you could wear masks to the event but in the event you couldn't it's fine you couldn't uh you couldn't wear one so i'm not gonna wear a mask on camera i mean you can't do it so put my guy in the local news come

on and then when we left the room we put the masks back on so yeah you know eat a fat dick all right this comes to us from dr luke fauci here telling telling the people out there well we want to do i mean that's the you know you gotta accept a certain degree of risk you take covid test that everyone gets screened what do you mean it's not perfect but it's just the way it goes all right from patrick he says uh he likes our chemistry bc a romantic chemistry all right we're never gonna live this i, you're the one who introduced dick pics. You know, now you've got the nerve to say something about what I'm doing. All right. So first question, BC.

Why the absolute hate for IPAs? Where did it start? Is it still the case today now that there are so many amazing kind of IPAs? Exactly. Okay, here's my point. This is not an amazing one, but I'm enjoying it. What do you have? Made by New Belgium.

It's called the Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze IPA. And as we've established in the past, I'm very much a fan of the hazy citrus IPAs, Luke. Okay? All right. What do you want me to do here? New Belgium, Colorado, decent brewery. I wouldn't put my life on the line for this specific IPA. But, yeah, Luke, you have a problem.

You don't understand how great American New England-based beer can be. That style. I mean, you can get... I like West Coast IPAs too, bro. Okay, but I'm... So here's the problem with IPAs. They're for basic bitches, basically. They're not.

No, that's what's wrong. You know what's for basic bitches? Lagers and, you know... Yeah, lagers are... Lagers are for donks. I mean, that's what it's for. Donks. Donks, basic bitches, and everybody else.

I know you want to go let me put a stick of butter in this beer this is the real belgium stuff i'm not like i personally don't love that style i'm sure if i went to europe and had the very best only the world's most uh the world ciceros all agree for modern day dads especially dads like you who in the past have climbed a few trees if you will you gotta get into where i mean it's not even like can i answer the question you're just gonna like run over this here's the answer to the question it is true that stuff like this today is totally different much better and if you like it i like to give them shit but if you like it it's basically fine the reason why i had a problem with it however long ago was five ten years is because the initial outburst of IPAs were all a little one-note.

The basic problem was that there was this, between breweries, this hops arms race. Who could stuff the most hops? There's a great example of this, Dogfish Head. Dogfish Head at first had a 60-minute IPA. Then they had a 90-minute IPA. Yeah, but that's a very niche extreme sort of. Let me finish.

Then they had the 120-minute IPA, and it was just hops all the time. There were things called like Hop Bomb, Hoppocalypse, Hop Fuck Your Mom in the Face. And it was like, my god, fucking stop. Now what you're seeing is they've dialed back the hops. You can still taste it. It's obviously an IPA. But they bring in – this one has what? More fruity flavor?

Yeah, I mean this one kind of sucks. there's there's a complexity level today 100 percent they're much much i'm not saying i'm not saying realize we are less than an hour away from tree house brewing in charlton mass right now we should probably go there all right maybe go to the edible store we should probably go there luke and um because you got to wait in line in the woods you can't go buy that shit in the store all right then you know maybe that's tomorrow night's episode me presenting you with the holy grail of what i drink okay luke and then you tell i don't want to drink piss you telling the world that you were wrong you're not ready for julius you're not ready for the purple haze all right you're not ready for that shit let's move through

these because otherwise he asked a question about chandler which we're not gonna know i want to hit every single question look you said in a question if you want to get through them now's the time because there's going to be a million of these. My email account blew up. In an effort to drop a few LBs. Can you give the guy's name? Can we give him some recognition? Alex Paulich, please. Thank you.

No, but it's about something stupid. I want to do something fun. All right. Okay. Good thing you took the time to vet this stuff before the show. Hey, this is a high-quality podcast that we do here. You got any favorite fights from Pride? That's a good question.

This is from Luke Rothwell. Don't say their last name, you fuck. Why? Why, Luke? No, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that. No, no, no. Why don't you tell me why?

Why not? Why don't you tell me? Just don't. It's not a good policy. Just say it's from my namesake. It's from Luke. We'll have him edit it out. It's fine. I'm going to be serious here for a second.

Because you shouldn't put out someone's full name. You just shouldn't do that. I didn't give his social security number. I understand. Maybe Rothwell's a fake name. Maybe his last name is Dingleberry. I don't know. Can you answer the question and stop getting off track? I like pride fights where people get dropped on their head. Shout out to Rampage there with the slam, letting the boys be boys.

I don't know, do you ever go, I mean, look, obviously pride rules. I go back on the network very often on the fight pass. I always go, my go-to is Pride Body Blow, which had the first Fedor Noguera. It had, I think it had Anderson Silva, Carlos Newton. Okay. I could be wrong about that, but it definitely had Randleman and Rampage. Have you ever seen that? That is like one of the most slept-on fights ever. Kevin Randleman in his prime versus Rampage in his prime.

I like Liddell Overeem. Liddell Overeem. It's a great one. It's a great one. Okay. Also, you mentioned previously you might start a political current events type show someday. This person says, I think that would be very interesting. It would listen.

Would you listen? You going to play in the Waterbury Open this weekend? I'll meet you there. You wouldn't listen? What are you gonna be? What's that show you like with the sneaky hot chick, right? With Crystal's balls? What's that show you like? Oh, Rising. Yeah, come on out

for the Rising, right? You big Springsteen guy? Why? Because I have testicles. Alright, here we go. Next one from Aaron. So does he. So does Bruce, right? He's the boss, you know?

Of what? A bunch of fucking Jersey Zeros? Where are we going with this? All right. This person asks, I had a huge breakfast, guy. Luke and Brian, what is your ultimate breakfast? See, breakfast is the best meal. I don't trust anybody, including my wife, okay? I love you. I don't trust anybody who hates

breakfast. Breakfast is the best. It's the most gratuitous, ridiculous meal, right? It's syrup heavy. There's cheese everywhere. I mean, it's great. So the best breakfast to eat, Luke, are on the road, typically when you're hungover, right? You want to soak yourself

in maple syrup, right? No? Answer the question. I want pancakes on the table, first of all. I don't need a lot of them, but that's the thing. It's more the syrup that I need, you know what I mean? Not necessarily the pancakes. Although, chicken and waffles, which doesn't have to be a breakfast meal.

When you get a... Do you know where chicken and waffles comes from? I knew you were going to nerd out, go down a side road, go down the lane and tell me that. I knew you'd be like knowing shit. What, the European banks were the first to eat that? I don't come up with dumbass conspiracy theories. What I'm going to say is this.

I have a great thing. Now, you already know my palate's a little bit different. I'm a gas station food aficionado. I love when you take basic comfort food but jack it up at a gourmet level, which is a thing these days, right? I love that, too. I have a rule. Whatever restaurant I go to, if there's meatloaf or lasagna on the menu, I'm getting it. I have to know what your meatloaf or lasagna tastes like.

Why meatloaf? Because it's freaking amazing, dude. Okay? But so on that vein, this new kick, and it's not new to people who live in Atlanta where they have the best breakfast in the world is in Atlanta, just so you know. All my black friends down there, amazing job that they do down there. All your black friends. Thank you.

So many of your black friends. Chicken and waffles is, Luke, is amazing at the gourmet level. It's good at the shit level. Do you have a go-to on-the-road breakfast? Yes, I do. First of all all chicken and waffles here's where it comes from so super quick super i actually like the story the jazz musicians in new orleans would play so late into the night your black friends yeah all my black friends

they would play so late into the night they couldn't decide by the time they wanted to go eat whether they wanted a late dinner or an early breakfast and somehow it became a tradition coming out of there that they would combine the two. I like that. I like that story. Isn't that cool? I like that story. Are you a maple syrup guy?

You're a pancake guy. Okay, let's ask you this. Pancakes or waffles? Both at the same time. In fact, just pour the maple syrup on my satchel, and I'll just teabag that shit. I mean, come on, right? I would go with my favorite breakfasts are, I like to get a nice runny yolk.

Damn right. The best breakfasts are sloppy, right? A little bit sloppy. So, like, for example, can I interject? Sure. The biscuits with gravy, I think, is in that category. A nice sloppy ass sausage gravy biscuit. Agreed.

It's like gross sex, right? So what I like is... You like gross sex? A nice sloppy ass sausage gravy biscuit. Agreed. It's like gross sex, right? So what I like is – You like gross sex? Can I finish the question without you being weird on every one of them? What I like is I like a rice dish reheated usually from last night if I can. Your Asian friends, yeah. Yeah, from all my Asian friends. And you put in there your meats, whatever you want, your sausage if you like it, your chicken or whatever.

You put in there, you know, I mean, potatoes. You chop up, right, the whole bit. Tomatoes, onions. Sorry, I was laughing at that Arby's and Hope Solo joke we made off air. Yeah, that was really good. Okay, keep going. And then lastly, you put a couple of fried eggs on top, but you fry them just enough so that you can pop them, and then the egg runs over. Now, if I'm in a hurry, my go-to, I like a breakfast burrito.

Oh, badass. Yes, yes, yes. I'm a breakfast burrito guy. Okay, I'm down with that. Okay, all right, good. Now, do you go like, I like some guac in it? I like some salsa? A slice of avocado.

That's fair. Oh, you know what I was doing? When I was the host of PBC Face to Face last year on Fox, a nationally televised interview boxing show, by the way, before it got canceled, I got on the avocado toast train, okay? I like avocado toast, but it's like... I mean, it's played out now. It's cliche now, right? But I didn't understand... My white friends eat that. Yeah, I didn't understand what was so special about it.

I'm like, you mean it's just avocado and actual toast? It's like being like, I had the wheat and milk breakfast. You mean cereal? Like, what the fuck are we labeling this with? See, look, I don't understand. As much as I know you, I don't get you. Yeah, because you... Because you're a highfaluter in some categories, but then in music and other stuff, you don't know where you are.

Because you do things to me that you say you would never do for yourself, which is put me in boxes and try and label me. I would do this to myself. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. And you try and label me with these cheap ideas you have about the world rather than dealing with the actual complexities that each human brings to the table. That's what you fucking do. Because you're trying to save the world. I'm just trying to entertain the world.

All right. All right. So next. You didn't tell people what you're drinking. Oh, yeah. I just have Beam and Coke Zero and a shit'm just trying to entertain the world. All right? All right. So next we got – Oh, you didn't tell people what you're drinking. Oh, yeah. I just have Beam and Coke Zero and a shitload of it. That's great. All right.

So from Max. Okay. We're going to do it. Yeah, do it. We'll do it. Okay. This person goes, after going straight out of the butt and right into the fuck – What?

What? This is what they're writing. The Trump campaign spirals into their final freefall of 2020 um don't look at me i'm not going to read all of this but they say can we assume that the country is doomed if the trump voter base refuses the validity of our election the justice system and future covid vaccines do the social consequences of trump in a jail cell outweigh retaining the integrity of our legal system. What do you think?

It's all bullshit, Luke. Okay. You're not worried about that a little bit? It's all bullshit. Dude, the day that I believe our country's political system is run at the way it's presented to us. No, no, no. What I mean is you – okay, what he's basically asking is let's say we have an election and it's tight. Yes.

Tight like the junior prom or tight like 2000? Tight like 2000. Okay. Where it comes down to – Junior prom is pretty tight. Where it comes into one or two counties in Arizona or Florida or something. And the Trump campaign, let's say they lose – lose, I'm putting up air quotes – but then contest the election and then don't accept the results. Remember, he's been discrediting all the mail-in ballots.

Do you worry that we could have a constitutional crisis? I don't worry about any of that shit because I'm politically asexual. You can be politically asexual and still recognize that may or may not be a threat. What I'm asking is do you take that as a plausible scenario, not likely, plausible scenario that one should consider? No. You don't? i well i take it from i don't think it's likely i do think it is plausible will you vote on november 3rd no it doesn't matter see that's what i like about you i can't because i get in fights with my parents on the phone all the time because i have yeah but my it doesn't matter as different than your

grandparents died so that i could choose not to vote okay all right to quote dennis leary i don't need you know don henley telling me i need to vote all right puff to puff day don't tell me don't first of all first of all did he don't tell me what to do okay i love i love breakfast in atlanta and his so his fucking voting thing was so stupid vote or die it's like i mean what shut the fuck up anyway my, my reason for not voting is different than yours. I live in a place that is overwhelmingly to one side. So if you put a protest vote, you're just masturbating. Or you can just go along with what's going to happen anyway. I don't like Joe Biden.

I vote locally because it matters. So it doesn't matter. I live in a place that's going to overwhelmingly go for Joe Biden. But I vote locally because it matters. Yes, locally is different. Maybe you'll have to edit this out. I don't think my vote matters on a national scale. Look, this isn't a Trump or Biden thing. You know what it is? Not in Connecticut it doesn't.

Well, it certainly doesn't in Connecticut. But on the whole, when we live in a country with the electoral college system, when the popular vote doesn't actually get in the person that the people voted for, that's when I like college, I pull out a little, okay?

You know? Yeah. I'm not sure which one it is. I don't think a Republican president has won the popular vote. God, I forget how long it goes back, but it's like a shockingly long time. I saw an interesting stat. Ready for this one? Mitt Romney had a greater percentage of – I've got to look this up.

Mitt Romney had a greater percentage of the white vote than Trump did. The difference was you didn't have – you had more third-party votes during his time, and you had a lot less – you had more voter apathy the second time around. So it just removed a part of the voting base that would ordinarily conflict. But Trump got 46 and some change. Romney got nearly 48 and still lost. Pretty remarkable. Yeah. People don't want to hear about our drunk politics. Yeah, who gives a shit?

Okay. Okay. Okay. This is from, I'm going to say Griffin. That's not the name. Luke, what's it? This is a real question. You can shit on me for it. Luke, what's it like being generally more informed than most others?

What's it like being intelligent? About complex topics. I have a friend that's way smarter than me, and it's hard to have a conversation with him since he pulls out facts while I have half-baked opinions. You're going to pull it out. Yep, yep. Did you write this email? No, I should have, though. Love your guy's show.

Best MMA show in the world. It's a boxing show, by the way. Thank you. Is it a boxing show? That's becoming an uproar of the people. Our audience does not give a fuck about boxing. First of all, it's called Morning Combat. Well, Brian Custer thought it was called Mortal Kombat, but to his credit, I called it that.

Twice. I called it that a few times by accident, too. Sub-Zero in the house. I'll say, Luke, that it's a combat show, okay? I'll talk about some bare-knuckle bullshit if you want me to, okay? Yeah. I'll skip that question because there's no way to answer that without pissing off half the world. All right.

Jesus Christ. Hey, you should have v the world. All right. Jesus Christ. Hey, you should have vetted this. You should have prepared this. Questions about science and empiricism. We can skip that one. Let's have a fun. You know what? I'll start.

Any Carl Sagan questions in there? I mean, you know, come on. Favorite late night hotel room service snacks. So here's what's interesting. Let's remove. We're removing the fourth wall, the fourth curtain, the fourth bed sheet to do this show. Yep. I have, you know, I have lived a good life, 42 years.

Visited many a hotel on a family vacation, on a work. Look, I've been traveling, covering fights for a decade, Luke. I have never once ordered room service in my entire life until we were quarantined yesterday and I had to. But then you told me that your money bag has had a lifetime of room service. Not a lifetime. In fact, you had no problem yesterday buying a $50 bottle of wine through room service. It was $30. I'm like, dude, why don't we just go walk to the liquor store down the road?

There is no liquor store down the road. And also, here's the point. It gets worse. I used to, on SiriusXM's dime, I used to order like $300 worth of room service and then not even eat it. You're going to have to edit that part out too, all right? No, I mean not all in one night, but I mean over the course of a week of, you know, fight coverage. There's starving children in China, Luke. Okay, come on.

Oh, really? And what are you doing to fucking fix it? Nothing. I'm entertaining the people, please. Eat a dick. Favorite late night hotel room slash service snacks. What would you buy? Service snack?

What the hell is a service snack? I think the ones that come in the room. Oh, okay. Well, I've come in the room a few times. But, you know, in Vegas after fights, you know, yeah. You're the worst person. I've broken the glass a few times. Can you change your name to Osama Bin Laden?

That's who you are. I've broken the glass a few times. Can you change your name to Osama Bin Laden? That's who you are. I've broken the glass on that service snack here. You know, it's like seven bucks for a bag of Skittles. I'm going to say Peanuts and or Cashews. Oh, so Peanut M&M's is the perfect. Yeah, M&M's would be number two. And you'll pay five bucks for that bag in that room, right? Or Sirius XM.

You know what I've done before? Many times. Many times, okay? Many times, Dwyer. Many times. You don't know Richard Dwyer, but shout out to Richard Dwyer. I have done the Peanut M&M's, Luke, at like 3 a.m. in Vegas, and the next day going to CVS and replaced the bag so that I, you know,

just turned down the turndown service for a couple days. Yeah, but it doesn't work. It does work. It does work. Because once you lift it, you adjust the weight. No, there's no alarm that goes off. I pull like an Indiana Jones. I pull the thing off the thing on the Temple of Doom and I put it, you know.

All right. Let's see. This is from William, right? From Willem. Willem. That must be British. We got a lot of British fans, right? We got a lot of Aussies.

When was the last time or the most significant time that you can remember being uncontrollably hysterical with laughter? And what was the situation that caused it? Morning combat room service last night. This is true. I would say I have this friend who's an attorney, and we're friends, but he can't stand me. And so I told him, because he has to work in an office even now, and I told him, wow, you have to work in an office?

That sucks. And he was like, what's so great about working from home? And I was like, you mean except I can touch myself on my lunch break? Right? And I was like, psych, I did that in the office too. But here was the joke. And I was like, psych, I did that in the office too. Osama bin Thomas over here. No, but here was the joke.

So now I've got this running bit where I'll send him sad pictures of people in their office eating soup alone at their desk. And I'll be like, this is your lunch. And then for mine, I'll send him pictures or just outright videos of orgies. And one time he told me his boss was looking at his phone when I sent him a picture. It was a roll of toilet paper, and I go, this is your toilet paper. And then I sent him a GIF of Rocco, not Rocco Soprano, I'm sorry, Nacho Vidal. Oh God, Rocco's Jack. No, no, no, Nacho Vidal.

I don't know Nacho. Oh, he just abuses women. That's Nacho Vidal. And he's got a woman just, let's say, doing the car wash on the back door, up and down. And I go, this is my, I go, this is my... In high school, Luke, we used to always have those

like debates like if you could magically wake up tomorrow and have like sean kemp's vertical for an hour what would you do with that hour and we're always like oh my god i'd find the closest inner city i'd pull up on on the on some game i'd steal the ball in the middle of the game and then go up and do like a 360 windmill dunk. I don't have hostility to dunk on black. I think we should have that same conversation about Rocco. So, Freddie, if you had one hour, you could pitch a Rocco tent for one hour. Luke. All right.

I made a Lex the Impaler joke last night. You just didn't even say anything. Hey, can we can we toast to good times here, Luke? Yeah, by the way, not a 40. Definitely a 40. Not a 40. Definitely a 40. Not a 40. Definitely a 40. What's the alcohol content?

Because it's not malt, Luke. Do you want to just tell us the story about fermentation again? It's not a 40. All right. How would you sell Brian Campbell on Ajiaco? All right, so it's a Colombian. What is Ajiaco? He's got one for you, so hold on.

So, Colombia is a very diverse country. There are mountains, lowlands, there are marshes, there are beaches, everything in between. So it's like Southern California. It's like a mix between Georgia, Florida, California, Colorado, and Arizona. It's got it all. It makes no sense. Exactly. It makes no sense.

So the food is highly specific to the region. The national food of Colombia and specific to Bogota, which is high in the Andes, is called ajiaco. It is a chicken soup, but it's not exactly what you might think. It's more like a stew. And in the stew, they shred the chicken and they serve it with rice. Then on the side, they give you slices of avocado. They give you this cream called, what's it called called uh suero we should do mk karaoke hold on then hold on hold on get on top don't be disrespectful all right all right sorry

sorry then then they give you capers to put on top and then they give you like all these other things on the side and you put it in there to your heart's content they serve it super hot in this boiling pot and it's incredibly delicious. Okay? Would you eat that? Hell no. No. Why? That sounds weird.

It's chicken soup with rice. What is so weird about that? All right, I'd try it. I'd try it. All right, now for you. I'm trying to be disrespectful to your folk, but I'll try it. How would you sell Luke Thomas in watching a Walter wrestling match? Okay, so Walter is this Austrian-German-ish fellow, Luke. He wears really tight tights like he's an MMA guy.

No knee pads, no arm pads, and he slaps the shit out of people in a German-Nazi-like vibe. And the matches are brutal. They're MMA-like, okay? I'm going to stop. You don't care, Luke. I don't give a fuck. I could give you the best IPA ever, and you'd be like, I can show you the best wrestling match ever. That's not true.

Bells makes an IPA that's pretty good. Bell's is good beer. Yeah, I like Bell's. Rock the Bell's, yeah. From another Hispanic, because it's Pregunta para Service Diaries. It's from Fidel. Fidel says, blah, blah, blah. Well, no.

I mean, anyone can be Fidel. It's not a Cuban name, per se. For me, I've always wondered how and why, of all peers you chose you chose Brian as a partner for MK he was always the loose goose in the panel what does loose goose really mean Luke people that you know what am I a clown I'm here for your entertainment I mean I brought I brought takes to more I brought takes to the MMA people weren't ready for the pressure you don't like when um you know you have a pretty good high school basketball team, but you live in the farm country of whatever state,

and then you go upstate for the finals, and you play against an all-urban team, and they will press the balls. You've got repressed feelings about black youth. They will press the balls out of you, and they'll just make it. That's what I brought to the MMA beat set. Full court press, Nolan Richardson, 40 minutes of hell.

It wasn't all circus clowns and entertainment, Luke. There were takes in there. I hated hosting that show. That was a fun show. It was a fun show, but I didn't like hosting it. You know what you should have done early? You should have recognized what I brought to the table and said, hey, this guy BC should host it. Nah. I don't want to do that shit either.

How did I choose Brian? Let's tell the origin story, Luke. Here's the question, because he has a part two for Brian, which is how did Luke approach you with the idea of MK? And then he says, This is like the how'd you meet your wife story. Like your wife has a different version of it than you. I think we're going to have separate versions of it.

Okay. No, you go first, Luke. It's for you, for Brian. No, answer the first half of it, okay? I was out of options, desperate. I have nowhere else to go. No, I was like Richard Gere in Officer and Gentleman. I got nowhere else to go.

No. 80s reference counter, yes. No, I don't get it. It's fine. Mayonnaise. Louis Costas Jr., one of the best fucking actors ever. All right. The answer is basically pretty easy i thought i had a good idea about a partnership and i thought brian was uh the best fit for me and a strong like chuck is a really strong

member of the beat as well chuck is great he's great but great people but i needed someone who was more he and i are more similar i knew i needed someone who was more my opposite not in the sense that i didn't respect but i mean in style presentation we don't necessarily think the same sometimes we do but a lot of times we don't i knew i needed an opposite and i thought we'd be a great pair and uh i think i came to you with the idea pretty early actually yeah we were we were the left and right testis and it turned out that showtime was the dong we made this work that's right now the full story is luke that we did i did a couple mma beats because chuck chuck was the middleman he was the matchmaker in this sense right that is true he was a million dollar matchmaker uh and uh i showed up on the beat a couple times i thought

you hated me luke okay i do hate you and i don't know if you remember. We had talks off camera after like the second time I was there. I know you're deep in your text messages and your DMs right now. Any chance we can talk right now? Yes, I'm listening. It's a live show, Luke. Any chance we can talk? I'm listening. And I said, and you shared with me, Luke, an honest take.

You said, look, I got a great opportunity here at MMA, buddy, a great platform. But this isn't necessarily my bag, baby, right? This Swedish penis pump isn't mine, right? It's not mine. This isn't my bag. This was somebody else's. There was a Canadian man before me. I'm thankful to take over this platform, but this wasn't my idea.

That's true or false? That was a conversation we had. I mean, I don't make references to penis enhancement. Or Canadian men, yeah. And I said to you, Luke, you know what i think you need now was my quiet was my statement a little loaded thinking of myself in that spot maybe but i said luke i think you need a two-man show that maybe has an interview in it but it's the pti of mma that's what you need oh i see you think you came up with the well i think i i but i didn't say me i said you know maybe if you could get yourself a Brendan Schaub.

That's what I did say to you. And I remember that. I was thinking in my head. You definitely did not come up with the idea, just so that's clear. I mean, that's how you remember. Okay, that's how you remember. Here's what I'll say. You might have done the old Okie doke. No. Newton and Leibniz bit where they both kind

of invented calculus at the same time. Now, Newton gets credit for it because he actually got foot to print his proofs first. But you and I may have invented calculus at the same time. But you're more. You think I need you? Is that what you're saying right now? You think I need you? No, I think we need each other.

And part of the reason, part of the reason why I worked is because we're opposites. And here's the other part. I had a connection through Showtime through Brendan, but you already had a connection through Showtime. And I remember when I told him about the idea and they're like, well, who are you considering? I was like, I'm considering Brian Campbell. They immediately signed on. They immediately were like, yes, we fucking love this idea.

In part because I didn't have to sell them just on the – I only had to sell them on the concept. Well, there's a chance I planted a seed in your brain early on through an early conversation. You think you did inception on me? I think I did. I definitely didn't. But anyway, there came to a point where your contract was up. You were looking to reimagine yourself there at that other place. That's right.

Thankful that you thought of me as a provocateur. That's right. A rancontour. That's right. Yes. More of an interlocutor, but yes. Yes, yes. An Apollonia to your prince.

That's a little much make it rain purple um and uh it just so happened that the showtime part of it it came quickly right i mean in a matter wasn't there a chance subway meetings there was like a chance meeting and i ran into basically the guy who is in charge of all online video at Showtime on the subway. And I was like – And so full disclosure, I had told that same gentleman because he was launching a lot of these very popular shows on Showtime Digital. All the smoke. He's behind below the belt.

I said to him, hey, have you ever heard of or considered Luke Thomas who has very opinionated, very independent, very whatever? I wasn't pitching this, but I was saying in general, and maybe that planted a seed. Maybe I'm the seed planter, but you're the guy that pisses on it and makes it grow, okay? That's possible. Let's move through this if we can. You just lost interest in that extended origin story. Well, we have so much to get to, and you just keep doing this thing. They're asking about top five music videos.

Yeah, Corey. Corey asking about top five music videos. I'm Corey. Corey asking about top five music videos. I'm not going to do top five. No, no, let's go. Old school. Okay, old school. I think the greatest, and look, can I tell you something? May 1st, 1984 was like a transcendent day for me.

You think we have all the time in the world. We've been doing this for 30 minutes. Look, I. You need to push this along. Don't turn into Jay. Don't you fucking turn into Jay. This won't, this will overheat into jay don't you fucking turn this won't this will overheat again are you aware of this all right we'll overheat again i went from 13 channels with the ab switch to the cable box 64 channels with mtv i had parents who said oh you're five or six go ahead watch mtv all day i am an old school video head nerd

the greatest music video of all time is actually November Rain by Guns N' Roses. The song's great. There's three guitar solos. And the whole motif with the church and the wedding and Stephanie Seymour, the model who was banging Axl at the time. That's my favorite video. You want to say Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel or something wacky and wild? That's fine. Thriller.

I do like Sledgehammer. Thriller when that came out was a moment. That was a thing. But I love me some November Rain. So my aunt's husband. That would be your uncle, Luke. Yeah, but not really. Like, I don't really know him all that well.

What's your uncle? Sort of. It's pretty distant. He did the We Didn't Start the Fire video. He directed it. That's a good video. With Billy Joel in the kitchen? Yeah.

Everything's on fire? Yeah. Yeah. We didn't start the fire. Yeah. That shit was always burning, right? He directed that. Okay.

Isn't that pretty cool? That is cool. So that's got a bit of a soft spot for me. But if I'm asking about video videos, I would say, man, what are some ones that stick out from the youth? Walk This Way with Aerosmith and Run DMC was massive. That is huge. When they ripped the wall down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great pull. Great pull. Totally down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great poll. Great poll. Totally agree. That's a big one. Madonna. Like a Virgin? No, no, no.

Like a Prayer. Justify My Love, which was one that was banned on MTV, so you had to get the VHS tape and a couple kids I know that ran to it. Also, Like a Prayer, where she had the cuts in her hands and everything. With the Christ thing that was crying and was a black guy. I mean, it was wild, you know? Dude, could we be older motherfuckers? Well, here's the deal.

Remember that video in 84 with Madonna? Oh, by the way, I don't like trippy red. We don't run from that. We are 40. Come after us. We're a man. But, Luke, we're hip. We're hip to be square, but we're hip.

No, we're not. Dude, we are many things. We have a thing going here, but we are not cool. We're not cool. I'm a little cool. Have you ever seen the animated Justice League movie Doom? No. I have.

It's one of the best Batman Justice League stories DC has told and explores how Batman's paranoia extends to even his allies. Yes, I've seen it. Do you like comic books in any capacity whatsoever? I had a lot as a kid, but I'm not a comic book guy. Favorite comic book movie? Even if you don't like it very much, it's the one you could maybe tolerate. Does Darkman count?

No. Darkman? That sounds like a porno you watched. That was with... With Sylvia Saint? With the guy from Taken. What's the guy? You know, Liam Neeson.

Are you going to see Darkman in the early 90s? I don't think that was a comic show. You didn't see the Joker with... No, I don't get down in the Marvel Universe. You know this, okay? First of all, it'sc and the the donk who died heath ledger you never saw heath ledger's joke that shit holy fuck dude are you serious like i have a problem i have so many cool things your only problem is that you have deprived yourself from great from ipas to red-haired women to 70s rock i have so many things in my life that are great that you wouldn't understand you

wouldn't recognize you wouldn't give a chance. Okay? You like Radiohead? I like most of their shows. All right, we'll meet in the middle on that. Everything else, you have no idea where I come from, what I'm all about, Luke, okay? Okay, so can we watch The Dark Knight together? So that's the reimagined Batman series, right? I saw the first one.

With Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan? Who the hell is that? It's the director. Oh, yeah. Who's the lead guy? The first with Christian Bale. I've seen the first one. What's it called? The Dark Knight

or The Batman Begins or something. Very good movie. Yes. Okay. That is nothing compared to the second one. Okay. I'll watch the second one with you. We'll get a couple 40s, right? Real 40s, dude. Not that bullshit. Bro, 40 Oun ounce to freedom is the only thing i have you know what i'm saying bc thinks if you put water in a 40 ounce container it's a 40

what so you want a real hardcore urban african-american king kong why is that what you want it's a it's a it's a hip-hop thing right that's how is that what it is why is it black i liked a lot of white hip hop. Third base, right? Those are my guys, right? I'm C-Sherry. What, you can't like black hip hop now? I was a big Eric B. and Rock M. guy. No, Hurricane, OE, King Cobra, Red Elephant.

I drank a lot of OE, but really the one I drank the most was Private Stock, made by Heffernan. Private Stock's fine. All right, here we go. To the next one. Thank you, Josh, for that question. Oh, Josh Nason. You know that guy? He says I wiggle the mic too much. How am I doing so far this time?

I won't be able to hear it until afterwards. All right. Shout out to Josh there of the Observer, of the Meltzer Rag. Have you watched the show Hannibal? No. Least favorite comedians? That's a good question. Paula Poundstone.

I hate to say this, but it's like most women I've listened to. That's not true exclusively. You misogynist comedian. You know me. I have a small palate. I was a big Chris Rock guy. I was a massive Dennis Leary guy, but I know you say you stole everyone's jobs. You stole everything from Bill Hicks.

But No Cure for Cancer still stands up to this day. Well, yeah, because a lot of the bits are from Bill Hicks. Yeah, so that's why it probably stands up pretty well. Okay, so comedians I like. In fairness, I liked old Sarah Silverman. Nikki Glasser's pretty good. Old Sarah Silverman was great. Yeah.

Janine Garofalo was good too. Early Janine Garofalo was very good. In all seriousness, comedians I don't like. Anyone that does like the old black people do this, white people do this bit, you know. Do you remember Last Comic Standing? Yes. Do you remember Dat Fan? Where his whole bit was just talking like his Asian grandmother?

No, but that sounds funny. Basically like what Michelle Watterson does in every interview. Are you down with the original Kings of Comedy? Oh, Bernie Mac. Steve Harvey. Rest in peace, Bernie Mac. And then I remember Cedric the Entertainer. The guy was like, call me chocolate.

Nah, dog. Nah. We're not doing that. Cedric the Entertainer. The guy was like, call me chocolate. Nah, dog. Nah. We're not doing that. Luke Thomas, many black friends. Many black friends. Many. I guarantee you I've got exponentially more friends of a minority origin than you. I grew up in a town that was at least half Portuguese.

So I very much, you know. Portuguese can be white, by the way. I'm not saying they're black. I'm saying I had a little bit of culture in my. See, I'm from Connecticut, so people think Greenwich. No, I'm from an armpit. My mom was from another, by the way. I'm not saying they're black. I'm saying I had a little bit of culture in my... See, I'm from Connecticut, so people think Greenwich. No, I'm from an armpit factory town. My mom was from another part of the world. My wife is from another part of the world.

Virtually all of my friends are from another part of the world. Look, my town would kick your ass. I'm from a factory town, brother. You know what that means, okay? Your town. You know how many inner city brothers I would get to dunk on your town? Nogatuck, Connecticut. You couldn't last a day on our streets, okay?

Yeah, but the inner city brothers, fucking D.C. You know, D.C. Assault. D.C. Assault would fuck you all up. All right. Luke, what's your favorite theater in D.C. if you partake that is? Ford Theater.

Ford and National Warner. Samuel Mudd got a raw deal. I would say Kennedy Center. I've been to a few times. Are these music venues? Are they plays? I took my wife to two ballets. And I saw, but you'll like this.

The things we do for love, Luke, right? Yeah, exactly. I liked one of them. One of them I didn't like. I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, okay? I'll tell you that, me love. But I saw the South Park musical there, Book of Mormon. Oh, that's cool.

That's cool. Yeah. A sad eagle, eagle, wait. A sad eagle, eagle, wait. Hamilton, baby. Hey, fuck Hamilton. there book of mormon oh that's cool that's cool yeah i said evil wait i said eagle evil way hamilton baby yeah hey fuck hamilton why do you hate black people i don't i don't like dude how are you gonna watch this guy one was is it one lynn manuel miranda whatever it is he's like gonna be alexander hamilton and you're not gonna be like this doesn't make any sense at all the performance the writing spectacular yeah if you're not going to be like, this doesn't make any sense at all. Luke, the performance, the writing, spectacular.

Yeah, if you're five. You haven't even watched it. It's like you with IPAs. I'll watch it. I'll watch it. But I actually don't think I've seen any shows in Ford Theater. Rogan performed at the Warner Theater when he came to town. Rogan's a very good comic.

Yeah, you don't have noticed. You go from open mic to comedy clubs. When you start doing the theater tour, the only thing left is what Rock was doing, which was stadium tours. Chris Rock? Yeah. Or Dwayne Johnson. Fucking whoever can sell out the Verizon Center or whatever it is. That's the only step left.

Do you remember Dice Clay was selling out MSG? Dice Clay. Dude, Dice Clay was on top of the world when I was a kid. People don't understand this. Dice Clay sold selling out MSG? Dice Clay. Dude, Dice Clay was on top of the world when I was a kid. People don't understand this. Dice Clay sold out MSG. Sold out MSG. I have that VHS tape still to this day. I have that.

Ready? In back-to-back nights. When was the last? And by the way, I saw Chris Rock at the theater at MSG. Not MSG. Do you understand? He sold it out two nights in a row. Have you ever seen the Dice Man Cometh?

The classic VHS tape? 100%. That's my favorite. Well, no care for cancer or something, but that might be my favorite. I mean ever seen The Dice Man Cometh, the classic VHS hit? That is my favorite. Well, no care for cancer or something, but that might be my favorite. I mean, look, it's politically incorrect, obviously, now. It's ridiculous. You can't watch it at all, yes. But it's obscenely great, okay?

When he does the nursery rhymes and the white dudes in the back are like, balls across the nose, brother. I mean, it's just great. Or how about Eddie Murphy, Delirious? It still holds up. I mean, well, okay. No, it's dated. The jokes are dated. The anti-gay stuff, not so great. But everything else is holds up. Yeah. I mean, well, okay. No, it's dated. The jokes are dated.

The anti-gay stuff, not so great. But everything else is great. Luke has a lot of gay friends, though. He's got so many gay friends. I've got one right here. God, you've got to edit that out, too. No, we don't. I'm just teasing.

Did you know that Michael K. Williams, a.k.a. Omar from The Wire and Sean Pryor are cousins? I did not. That's cool. I did not, but Omar's coming, right? Omar coming. Luke, too, over here. All right, someone says, okay, Luke, I've heard your Star Wars opinions,

and for the most part, I agree. Hey, can I make a Star Wars opinion right here? Hold on, he's asking for it. I would like to hear Brian's. Thank you. Namely, the newer Disney-owned films. Is Brian a mouth breather who liked Rise of Skywalker? The stars of the films have recently stated in interviews

what everyone knew already, that these movies weren't planned at all and that they didn't know what they were doing. Side note, enjoyed episode one. That's Max. That's Max B. He was reaching out to us. What do you think?

I like them more in the theater. So this is at seven, eight, and nine we're talking about, right? Yeah, the last two weeks. I like them more in the theater than I did on subsequent replays. But I do think they are insanely better than episodes one, two, and three, which we our age have a lot of problems with. My kids love them. They're still my kids' favorite Star Wars movies, but they suck. They did play to the nostalgic card to try to win us back.

And I'm not going to tell you. Look, there are very few times, I almost touched you there, that I went to a theater and had like – can you focus on me? Can I have your attention? Yeah, I'm just getting the next question ready. I'm listening. That I've had a moment in a theater, right? Karate Kid, the first one when I was five, I stood up and clapped at the end. You're the best.

When the crane came. Over my head. I had a moment for episode seven. Went with Cousin Mike Campbell. Shout out to Cousin Mike of NASCAR fame. And I laughed, cried, cheered, stood, celebrated, was really drunk. I had a night at the theater, all right? It played to what I needed and was missing in my life.

Can you answer the question? I think Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie. I've watched it 8,000 times on Netflix. I'm so conflicted on that. I'm so conflicted. It's a war movie. Can I tell you why I'm conflicted? And it's so freaking good.

Can I tell you why I'm conflicted? You have a so freaking good. Can I tell you why I'm conflicted? Please, this is your, you have a producer credit. Go ahead. I do have a producer credit. I'm the one fucking cutting this shit up. I gotta send it to him. I'm just a talent, Luke, okay? I agree with you that when I watch it, I get more enjoyment out of Jane Erso and her search

for her father. It's Jen. Jen Erso. Jen. J-Y-N. Jen. I'd bang Jen Erso, yeah? You would bang this fucking bottle of High Life.

But here's my point. I agree with it. Do you know what Red Letter Media is? No. It's a YouTube channel. You would love it. It's a bunch of sarcastic white guys. I've heard of it.

It's a bunch of sarcastic white guys, and they understand film, and they make commentary about it. They have said that Rogue One is nothing but fan service, which is to say... No, no, no. 79 are fan service, motherfucker. Yes, that too. That too. But that Rogue One takes the cake.

Do you agree with that characterization? Okay, there's fan-servation at the end. The way that they were able to meld... Look, the final second of Rogue One. The final second of Rogue One. The Darth Vader scene, did you need it other than to service the fan? It was cool as fuck. I had my pants around my ankles.

I marked the fuck out. So did I. The final seconds of Rogue One, it touched base with the first few seconds of Episode 4, which you have to understand. We're in a hotel. In 1983 on VHS in my grandparents' basement, I would watch Episode 4 like four times a day when my grandparents would babysit for me. This is ingrained in the front page of my skull.

And Rogue One was the back end. They got me from behind. I didn't think I was into it. And yet they got me from behind and they reached around and they connected it. Okay, Luke? We're 40 and doing fucking gay jokes. We need psychological counseling. Rogue One worked because it was gritty.

It was a war movie. It was serious. The characters were unique and great. And even though people have issues with certain... People said the character development in that movie

wasn't good. They're wrong. Well, the guy who... Diego Luna, who played the guy who died with Jane, Jane Erso, on the beach.

What was his name in the movie? Oh, yeah, yeah. Another guy. He looks Hispanic. Well, he is. He's Mexican, so that helps. Yeah. Luke is married to a... His name is Diego Luna. He you're talking about. He looks Hispanic. Well, he is. He's Mexican, so that helps.

Yeah. Luke is married to a Hispanic woman. His name is Diego Luna. He's a phenomenal actor. He plays the star, essentially, in Narcos, Mexico. I still haven't watched that, but I want to. He dies in one movie. It's like they're not all that memorable. But I thought Borg Guller, the guy who could read your mind, was interesting.

Who was the Japanese samurai? What was his name, though? That's the thing. I don't know. I don't know the name. What about the guy who was – who was the – Oh, Jenner's dad. That guy played the shit out of that role, too.

Okay, what was the name of Forrest Whitaker's character? I don't know either, but he had, like, the breathing machine, like my dad's – Saul Guerrero. Saul Guerrero. That was what it was. Great name, too. Luke, the emotions on that final scene, dude. I cried.

I had a stiff. I stood up. I pumped both the fist and the stiff. I mean, it was like the lock and the key, right? It was like a... All right, let's move along. No? Diamonds and pearls? You cream? Get on top?

I'm with you, but you've got to watch some stuff with me. All right. What is BC's favorite trash wrestling t-shirt he owns and proudly wears? I own a lot of trash wrestling t-shirts. It's a great question. My favorite trash wrestling t-shirt is probably the male version of the Nia Jax WWE shirt, which says, not like most. Not the one that says, not like most girls, but not like most is a pretty trash ass t-shirt. I also have the Vaudevillians t-shirt, which says quite manly on the front, which no one gets it.

There are a couple times you get a guy in the Stop and Chop Deli who's slicing the meats like, hey, bro, got it. All right, that's about it. You don't own any wrestling t-shirts? I'd rather die of AIDS. Okay. Very Rock Hudson of you. I like to think more Eazy-E. How do you feel about old 3-6 Mafia?

Not versed. Not well versed. A buddy of mine was really big into them, so from what I heard, I liked, but I'd be lying if I said I knew a lot. What about Bone Thugs? Now, that is where I got to tell you. You love them. Fucking A. You love Busy B, right?

Dude, East 1999 is one of my favorite songs maybe ever. And Cleveland MMA fighters routinely refuse to come out to Bone Thugs. And I know that I'm old, and this is a day to think, oh my god, I meant to tell you. So I took my wife on a road trip, and we were on the way back. We were playing Spotify

90s hits, just shuffle. And your wife has a good feel of American culture in the 90s? So she came here in 2001. She knows some before that, but it's real. It's real. A lot of things would be like, oh, yeah, I totally know. And then about things you would think she knows. Would you give her a hall pass for Boroshenya?

Do you have to be awful? That was a good interjection. You have to be awful? Well-tim good interjection. You have to be awful? Well timed, too. She had never heard Crossroads. See you at the crossroads or you won't be lonely. I'm going to miss everybody. And I miss my Uncle Charles, y'all.

That whole thing. I'm like, dude, that defined the summer of 95. Did it not? It did. It was the summer of 95. That and Delametri's Roll to Me, right? Roll to me. Roll to me. Roll to me.

So Bone Thugs, yes, I'm a huge fan. If you could go back in time. Yeah. I think about this all the time. If I could turn back time. I'm like, wow, I only had to be old and unattractive before my life turned out to be pretty good. Look, if we could go back to high school in the 90s, knowing what we know now, right? Remember Red Mosquito Pearl Jam? pretty good look if we could go back to high school in the 90s knowing what we know now right remember red mosquito pearl gym if i had known then what i know now and it's really the confidence

right if you had the confidence you have now as a successful rich infinity about to purchase mail and you could go back and focus entirely on getting laid well yeah luke i mean i did focus entirely on getting laid but but it was largely unsuccessful as a as a white male in the val d'asta old marietta areas um man right if you can get in that time if you could bill and ted honestly i feel like there's a lot of ways high school probably could have gone better and there's a couple things that change but i don't regret my academic focus i really don't fuck you no i don't regret my academic focus. I really don't. Oh, fuck you. No, I don't. It built in habits that carried me forward in life.

You know what built in habits for me? Growing up in a factory town, and I say that legitimately. Eat shit. Here we go. East 1999. I can't say the word. Think about back in the day when it was 89. I can't say the word on the grind. I'm going to serve down on the clear 9-9.

When they were like this, you remember the dudes like Coolio? Used to button the top button. Oh, yeah. I was like, those are the cool guys. The cool guys do that, yeah. That's an N-word. We can't say that. We can't say that. We can't say that.

True. He'll turn it off a little bit. Hey, can we get back to the – There's too many N-words. I can't even go along. Yeah, can you turn that off and we get back to the fan questions? Because that's why we're here to service our people there's so many n words hold on there's a there's a line in the song i really love heartless here we go here we go here we go bitch trick n words can't say it again. Here we go. Consider me heartless.

So yes, flesh be running a ho check. Better check your Rolex. Your time now for giving up respect. Oh my God. That is one of my favorites. That's a 90s banger. I would have if I could have.

You know what I'm saying? Very good. Dad jokes. Here we go. I want to hear from the people. Let know what I'm saying? All right. Very good. Dad jokes. Here we go. I want to hear from the people, okay? Let's do rapid fire. Here we go. From Melon Man. I said his last name.

From Melon Man. What's your stance on gun control? That's a fair question. What do you stand? Because you are an ex-Marine. I'm going to guess that you... No such thing as an ex-Marine. I'm going gonna guess that you

it came out both ends and it smelled it smelled like a connecticut factory i'm gonna guess that you own a firearm luke uh my wife has been very adamant that i not so i do not um are you looking to disarm the world luke i don, the world, I don't know. It's just not possible in America anymore. There's a gun for every man, woman, and child in the United States floating in circulation. I think gun buyback is simply not possible. I'm not against, but I'm not for personally. You do this bullshit like I'm not going to upset this group, and I'm not going to upset that group. Take a fucking stand.

It's about I live my life on a certain... I take many stands. No, you don't. You take stands on shit that is consequence-free. Look, you take a stand to wipe your ass, first of all. You know what I'm saying? Because I don't like mine to be... Absolute dirt hole. Because I don't like to be itchy.

You walk around like... I got a long arm, okay? I can get under there, all right? I got 42 years of this, okay? No, what you walk around is with an itchy ass, and you're just used to it. All right, next one. In their primes, I don't give a fuck.

Read the question. No, it's about some fight question. We're not doing that. You look so angry. Oh, here's one. How'd you end up not getting deployed? That's actually a good one. We had a good talk about that the other night while heavily intoxicated. The basic answer is this. I was with an artillery unit in Richmond, Virginia, but I had moved to New York City.

The people in charge of the unit wanted me to transfer to a Brooklyn unit. And I had fought it because I was like, well, if I'm going to go to war, I'd like to go to war with the people that I know. I've been with them for all my life. At that point, it had been four or five years. And so they were going to send me. They were going to ship me out. And then they had a rotation into a new CEO. And the new CEO loved me. And he was like, you're not going anywhere. Look, I'll interject to tell your story better than you can.

When 9-11 happened, which was a seminal turning point moment in a lot of our lives, all of our lives, to be honest, you had a legitimate fear you would get the call. Yeah, well, they told us to get your you know i mean get your power of attorney done your will because you were a marine reserve at the time yeah but they were activating tons of reservists and the reason why we didn't end up going was because we did marine corps artillery those are the guys who fire the big cannons and if you think about it why wouldn't you go well one the army has them so it was redundant for the marine corps to have them but two they didn't really need that many of them for the Iraq fighting. They needed some but not many. So what they ended up doing was just converting a lot of Marine Corps artillery units

into grunt companies or infantry companies. In fact, to that point, I got out, and then a month later, they converted Hotel Battery 314, which is who I was with, 4th Mardiv, into a rifle company. And they made them do prisoner transport in Fallujah. And all the guys I know who went were like, we got shot at every fucking day. Every day. Every day we knew when the convoy fucking, when you flip the key,

not that there's no keys, but the switch on the Humvee, you knew you were going to get lit up. That was just how it was going to be. And they did all that shit. They did all that shit for a year, if you can believe it. Then a bunch of them got out all disillusioned. Damn, Luke. Okay.

Damn. All right, let's get to the lighter shit. Thank you, though, Luke, for your service. Yeah, whatever you consist of it. Damn. Wish I was your lover. Here we go, BC. Help this young man.

Yeah, from Austin M. Austin M. says, I'm going to turn 25 next week, and I find myself running in circles. Not sure what the hell I want to do with my life. Freeze your sperm. Tossed up many ideas just to have to pull the trigger. What were you guys doing at 25? Yes. 25.

That's actually a very good question. You know, the quarter life crisis can be a real thing. At 25, Luke, I made the transition. So here's the deal. I was a commuter student in college first couple of years with a goal of eventually transferring to UConn and living sort of the life that every suburban white Connecticut kid did. My parents chose not to pay for me to go to college. They made the decision that sort of you're going to earn your own way type of deal. So that really wasn't a possibility. I ended up doing the two-year degree, juggling three jobs, ended up dropping out of

college, but yet had a job in my career as a local journalist. And Luke, 25, I sort of hit a wall, right? Because I didn't go away to college age 21 to 25. I kind of lived college as a young 20 something in like a crappy apartment in my hometown. You know what I'm saying? Partying every night, right? 25 was that turning point year where I said, I'm either going to die or I'm going to get my life together. Sort of found God, found a purpose in life. Get poor or die trying.

Turned it around and began. And you know what I did? I had been in the local sports writing business from really since I was like 16 all the way through 25. I got out of the business for a couple years. I actually worked in a factory in my hometown and rediscovered a work ethic, Luke, and rebuilt myself. Two years later, I got a job at ESPN, and here we are today. You are in love with your own story. Have you noticed that?

It's a great story, Luke. Yeah, I know. You are in love with it. There's an underdog element to it, right? They gave up on me. I gave up on myself. Mostly like a bit of a luck box element to it, but there's some of it. There's an underdog element to it, right? They gave up on me. I gave up on myself. Mostly like a bit of a luck box element to it, but there's some of those. There's a black box, actually.

A lot of black friends, okay? So many black friends. Between us, there's like no black friends. So at 25- We're trying to parse like the few in our orbit. At 25, I had a crappy apartment in the hometown. Was like, you know what? I got to turn this thing around and stop it.

Look, I lived the rock star life from about age 20 to 21. You've never lived the rock star life. It was pretty rock star, Luke. It was pretty rock star. Did you fly on a private jet anytime? I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about white planes.

I'm talking about other things. You know what I'm saying? Other white things. You know what I'm saying? I lived a pretty aggressive life. All right, so at 25 for me, I had left New York City to move to D.C. I never told you this.

I got a job on a fucking super low-signal AM radio station, but it was run by Fox News. Fox News hired me to do a political show on weekends. You were the host. There was two hosts. At 25, you were a political radio overnight host. Yes. No, it was not overnight. It was middle of the afternoon.

And were you the right-wing guy? I was the libertarian. I used to be much more right-wing than I am now. Because as military people assume that you're a right-winger. Of course. And then they hear your shows. Most of them are. And then they assume you're extreme left-wing because of your voucherism.

No, because they're extremely right-wing, not because I am. In any event, so I did that. That show got canceled. The whole station flipped formats, and I was kind of on my own. I rediscovered myself at age 26 doing speech writing in D.C., which is a pretty lucrative career. For who? All kinds of clients. Tell me someone you wrote a speech for.

Are you allowed under the Hippolys? No, I can't, actually. I'll take it off the air. All right, tell me the type. Here, you want to see some names? No, no, no, no, no. I don't, I don't, because I won't know who they are. I won't know who they are, allas? No, I can't actually. I'll take off the air. All right. Tell me the title. Here. You want to see some names? No, no, no. No, I don't. I don't because I won't know who they are.

I won't know who they are. All right? Oh, you will. No. Can you give me a general title? Like a ish? All right. Here we go.

This is, you know, let's see. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. That's a really large name. Okay. Are you serious? And did they read your speech? Yes yes did they vet it first and edit it though the company vets it but yes wow all right so yeah luke 25 i got out of the rock star life

and tried to get serious at 25 you're actually doing legitimate things you're writing by 20 by 26 they were private clients but by 26 i had I had discovered – well, I had understood and followed MMA early on in my life. Yeah, you rolled a few times. And I got away from it. But I got back into it in the Marine Corps. And then I started training in – The only rolling I did was at raves. I believe it.

You know I've never done ecstasy? Oh, God. Never. But then by 25, I began to get invested in it. And then my hobbies got going again. and then it all just took off. But here's the thing. Before I discovered MMA, I was like, I don't know that I'm very good at anything. I don't know that I'm good at anything.

I'll agree with you on that. And then I eventually found this, and I was like, you know what? There's always something for somebody who's got to find it. It's weird. I hit a lot of walls before my career really took off. Luke, where it was similar, where I said, you know what? My friend down the road, he's been playing guitar since he was eight this other guy he went to a great college and knew he was going to be a businessman from the beginning

this other guy knew he was going to take over his dad's business since he was 12 i'm like what the hell did i do with my life but you know what i actually did luke i spent my whole life watching sports memorizing stats being an absolute weirdo right look where it's gotten me today jackson writes i started as a luke thomas hater most of most of most of you do then became a hardcore luke fan now i'm a bc stand wow yeah jackson e chiming in here i used to scream at people in very angry bands and have a personality very similar to bc it always surprises people what do you have a passion for that makes people go really you what do you think that's a fair question um you saw my car i've got a passion for bright orange subarus right we got into the car

and i couldn't believe i was so shocked in the back seat melissa etheridge and anna defranco were scissoring i couldn't i was like how did this happen the car's name is lilith is that a problem um you know what i you know what i did sir i am to find that's a fair question um i'm a big dashboard confessional closet fan so there's that answer right there who is that that's an emo band but um here's the deal luke i've gotten into vinyl have i told you this in the past uh three months i think you mentioned something i have a little more um so i bought an 80s uh you know record player from some guy on facebook I don't know. Have I told you this in the past three months? I think you mentioned something. What is it? Tell me more. So I bought an 80s record player from some guy on Facebook Marketplace,

some old guy down the street from me. And I bought eight or nine records off eBay or new ones in the store. And then I found this on Facebook Marketplace. This lady was selling a couple hundred records for like 70 bucks, Luke. Okay? You're cutting me off. You don't care about me you know it's in the background don't worry okay luke i now own hundreds of records and i

spend all my free time with the expensive podcast headphones on in my office in the basement living out the 70s luke you know what i avoided like the plague my whole life you know what i did man well women getting laid 70s prog rock I don't mean extreme prog rock like Russian yes I just mean prog rock in general because of this because of beer

because of this new record player these extreme headphones that are expensive you know good podcast headphones you can hear you can hear Jimmy in there you can hear some shit look I'm getting into prog rock, and I'm a little nervous. Okay, so my turn? You into that at all? No.

My turn. I do like ballet a little. A little? A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. That is the lamest thing I've ever heard you admit to. It's pretty fucking lame.

If you said opera, I'd think you're pretty lame, but ballet? No, opera, no. I can't get into opera. You like the movements? Is this male or female ballet? More so female, but the tandems work, too. Does your wife love it? Is that why?

Nope. She likes it just about as much as I do. Okay, then you're a freaking weirdo, Luke. Yeah. I'd beg Prime McLaughlin, you. Closer to fine is really all I'm thinking about right now. The other one. You like prog rock at all, bro?

No, the other one is. I'm embarrassed to say I have Genesis records and I listen to them. I like Genesis. Phil Collins. I'm talking about like post, even though I love Gabriel. People are going to hate on us for this. I love Land of Confusion. This is the land of confusion and not much love to go around.

I'm listening to Emerson in Palmer, which is a little bit out there. It's a little weird. My other one is, this is all very recent, but I've gotten into it, and I'm terrible at it. I'm not doing it to like, oh, I want to be good at this. I just want to have fun with it. Dude, I kind of like photography. That's fair. That's cool. That's cool, right? That's cool. That's very cool. I don't have any goals other than to have, I kind of like photography. That's fair. That's cool.

That's cool, right? I don't have any goals other than to have fun. That's a good goal, right? That's a good goal. Alright, I'm a new audiophile. I like splitting wood. I like chopping logs. Bro, do you remember this song, Lisa Loeb? Oh, yeah. Stay. With the glasses? That was back in the day. That was the song. Yeah, 9-4. Yeah, 9-3 maybe.

I would have stayed for her right i mean she has a librarian is that you that is me playing the piccolo there yeah i didn't know your car did karaoke. My car is great. You know people judge me in my own neighborhood? You know what I always wished growing up, Luke? Have you ever thought about this? Have you ever thought about this? You know we had those cable boxes growing up, right?

I always wished that when you're watching a movie or a TV show with like a hot chick right and you're like man i'd love to see that chick naked right you've been they've had the moments right of course i always wish that there was like a credit card slot on your box that you could slip it in it'd be like 39.99 right now to see her topless would you have been down with that in the 80s no i'm not paying that kind of money. People asking tip-to-tip questions. I'm going to skip those. That's your from a girl.

That's Jessica, right? Oh, here we go. From a girl. Jessica goes, what goes down in your DMs? Do you see? All right. I love have you seen this shit. You hate it. A lot of people love it.

I love what it brings to the show. Okay. It's become a phenomenon shout out to many people like um not the swan that mother effer drops like 50 videos a day in my folder um what the problem is luke all right tip the tip was a funny joke right right it was a funny joke it was like a one-time funny joke now people are just sending you hardcore look at those hardcore slovakian kickers. They're so jacked up. Remember when McGregor had that phoner in his pants for the Floyd way?

Look how cute my daughter is. This is not the time for your daughter. I'm talking about dicks. All right, fair enough. Remember when McGregor had that phoner, that fight boner in his thing? Yes. Okay, both of those guys, those legends, had the fight boner. I made one joke about it, right?

With the poster, remember? Yes. I get a lot of really gross dick things in my DMs, okay? I block people left and right. So that's my DMs. What do yours look like? Hate? Because people hate you, Luke.

No, they don't. They oversell how much they hate. They love to disagree. Hate is a strong word. I get a little bit of that. Not really. I get some of the, you know, but it's always from, like, user 85023339. You know, who cares about that?

I get a lot of love, which is probably why I don't have a lot of Twitter followers because according to you, you can only get famous by people hating you. No, that's not quite true. You just don't engage the medium with your full personality. You have a very limited connection to social media. Okay. Social media to me is here's my work. See it. Right, which is why you have limited viewers.

Okay. No, but you're right because I purposely think sometimes i'll have a really good take or a smart you have tons of good you have tons of good takes and i go am i gonna tweet that or am i gonna save that for the next show right you tweet it and then i refine it over time my twitter is my rough draft of everything. That's fair. I'm not in this game to try to get followers. I like making friends in this game. It would be nice if I had someone else who could do the heavy lifting on the viewership.

You know what I'm saying? There's only one boss I listen to, Luke, and his name is Springsteen. Do you have any Springsteen albums? Do you have nothing? I'd rather die than listen to Springsteen. I wasn't a day one-ish Springsteen guy, you have any Springsteen albums? Do you have nothing? I'd rather die than listen to Springsteen. I wasn't a day one-ish Springsteen guy, but you're really going to just... There's nothing for you?

He has nothing for you? Oh, he's got one. Hold on. He's got one. Song or album? Song. He's got a lot of songs. He's got a lot of song-y-dongs that you'd get into, okay?

He's got a lot of song-y-dongs. Hang on. Does he spell Springsteen all fucked up like? No, he spells like a man, bro. He's from Asbury Park, okay? Great. Hang on. Does he spell Springsteen all fucked up like? No, he smells like a man, bro. He's from Asbury Park, okay? Great. The best Springsteen album.

Most people will say Born to Run, or the nerds will say Nebraska. It's actually The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle. Here, this one. It's a bunch of white guys that almost did funk and R&B. This song gets busy. Radio Nowhere. This song gets busy. It's a good song.

That's like old Bruce though, right? Yeah, this to me is killer. What if we got Bruce on the podcast? Would you no-sell it and not be part of it? No, he's super famous. He must have amazing things to say. I just don't necessarily appreciate his art personally. I'm not insane. But you like ballet

though. You're a big ballet guy. I'm not a big ballet guy. I'm a little ballet guy. Hey, how hot was Gina Gershon in Showgirls? Let's be honest. 10 out of 10. People talk about the famous Gina Carano lip-biting thing. I'm like, Gershon had that

a long before and much better. Remember that time in Morning Combat when you no-sold Carano's bear chest? I've never been into her at all. You're a motherfucker. I mean, you're just a... She's never been my type at all.

No, she's the goat. She's the goat, all right? Who, Carano? Yes. Who all lives matter, Carano? Luke, your life matters to me, all right? Yeah, especially to her because I'm white. This song is good.

I like this song. He always looks like he's trying to take a dump. He probably is. He probably wears diapers. He's got that Charles Bronson look. He's a real man, Luke, okay? Yeah, he's something. So here's the deal. He's a factory vibing type guy like me.

Yeah, exactly. That's why you vibe with him. We represent the working class, Luke, okay? Unlike you. You represent the highfalutin, angry, political, speech-writing bastards from D.C. How many of those are there? You know what? This is true.

Please let me say this because this is a real moment of candor I'm going to share with you. I don't, I've never, I always say this about MMA because it's the world that I live in. But in the speech writing world, I didn't fit in. When I was in the Marines, I fit in a little bit, but obviously I sat on the outside. In MMA, I fit in a little bit. There's a lot of me that doesn't. When I was in the political world, even if it was politically aligned, you know, these are guys that thought, like, going to the baseball game was a man's thing. And I'm like, you're a, no, you're

a pussy. Did you fit in at MMA fighting? No, no, no less distinctly than I fit in at any other part of MMA. My only point is there's never been a world that was like perfectly catered to me. What was your social class in high school? And I mean this like within the high school nerds, it's fake. Like within the high school. Nerd. It's fake, but within the high school power structure. Because I was upper middle class, meaning I wasn't in the elite football party drug group. No, neither was I. I was in the jock prep group right below that.

No, I wasn't in that one either. I was in the who are the guys we can reliably cheat off of guy. That's what I was. So you're a nerd. I was a mathlete in high school. So are you overcompensating with the abortion medal and the beard and the Marines? No, because it was always kind of part of who I was. It's just that I wanted to focus on that part.

I wanted to focus on academics in high school. Are you the most badass member of your core family? Oh, in my friends? No, your family. Your brother brother sister's dad mom like are you the most like sort of badass black sheep of them yes okay by far by far all right uh all right let's move along i like the fan questions here oh here we go most visited porn category yeah from jessica most visited porn category what do you think i, that's very personal. I don't know if I like that from Jessica. You don't even want to know the depravity that I would tell you right now.

Let's see. That's inappropriate, Jessica. You're better than that, right? I like this white balance that I'm shooting on because you look like a pie-faced red just absolute zero. I think I was all high as balls on the last show? I don't know. I wish I was. I wasn't, bro.

This guy wants to know about renting versus buying. Yeah, no, no, come on. This guy took the time to send it in. Hold on. Why do you hate him? Because he's white? Because there's so many. We don't have time to get to.

Let's see. Yeah, what's the status? No, no, Miguel has a great Miguel M. What's the status of your Joe Rogan experience? So I told him I would hit him up on Monday. Hit him up like Tupac? status no no miguel has a great miguel m what's the status of your joe rogan experience so i told him i would hit him up on monday hit him up like tupac or hit him up for like hey let's book this so i'll probably have a booking by the end of next week in texas in texas so i'm excited for you will you drop the words morning combat on that show yeah of course elon I'd smoke weed with Elon Musk. I would not. Why?

Fuck him. No, fuck you. Jessica Rose Clark says, Bo Fiti, Jessica Rose Clark is the hottest UFC fighter. Tell BC he can retire his Yolanda crush. So I realized something over the weekend. JRC is kind of sneaky, and I hadn't realized this before. I can't weigh in on this debate because I'm not an absolute heathen. You know who's very underrated? Veronica Maisedo. realized this before. I can't weigh in on this debate because I'm not an absolute heathen. You know who's very underrated?

Veronica Maisedo. That's Dan Hardy's girlfriend, yeah. Wow. You know, I am a Ioana guy. I'm a Rose guy, by the way. We should wrap this up soon. We're going to get fired. Okay. Okay.

Any stories from back in the day when you were a bouncer? We're going to get fired. Okay. Do it. Any stories from back in the day when you were a bouncer? This is good content. This is good content, Luke. Okay. Can you give us one? Not the best one, but give us one. Okay.

Not the best one. No. Oh, God. I had a guy. I didn't do it, but a guy pulled a knife on me. And then. Wow. And then.

What was the name of the establishment? I'm not going to say that. Luke, what are you? You're trying to protect people's last names. You're trying to protect defunct bars. No, they're not defunct. That's the problem. They're quite established. The Chop House in D.C. where we – Let's call it the Chop House in D.C., yes.

And this dude pulled a knife on me. We had kicked him out earlier in the night. He pulled a knife on me. What did you do? I sat there, put my hands like this, like waiting to see what he was going to do. And then here's the problem. We knew he was going to come back, and he did. And there was another guy who was working security, who was working at a different door, but saw it, and pulled these chairs.

And they're like, the chairs didn't bend at all. They were just 100% steel. And he came around the corner, and this dude was hammered. Not the guy working, but the dude who pulled the knife. And he was doing one of these numbers. Like, he was not, you know, this was not West Side Story or some shit. And he wrapped that fucking chair around that dude's head. Damn, WWE stuff?

Yeah. I mean, he sliced him wide open. Have you ever been knocked out by a punch, Luke? Yes. In what situation? Street and in the gym. Damn. I got mugged once in Lawton, Oklahoma.

I got viciously KO'd and then robbed. What was the setup there? What was the deal? What were you in Lawton? My brother and I were visiting my grandmother. God rest her soul. And we were playing in a local park and we got robbed. So that was great.

How old were you? Jesus. Like 15 or 25? Not even. Not even. 12 maybe. And you got knocked out? Yeah, we got viciously attacked by a whole group of guys.

Did your brother save you? He tried. He tried. He also got whooped. Was that because you were white? Were there Native Americans that took you out? What happened? We couldn't quite tell.

You had a wallet on you with credit cards. You're 12. I know. It's like, if you're going to rob somebody, wouldn't you want to rob somebody with money? You know, it's kind of weird, but whatever. Okay. I've been flash knocked out in boxing sparring, but that's about it, Luke. Okay?

Lucky you. All right. Question for the gay pod, this person writes. This is Jordan S., right? Mm-hmm. A big, big, yeah. It's a question about fights, which we're not going to answer. No, I like him.

Go ahead. What do you got? Tell Brian to park the mic on his chin and keep it there. Jesus F. Christ. His levels are horrendous. Wow. First of all, we can leave Jesus out of here, all right? Josh Nason already hit us up with that, okay?

I've done a better job tonight. Okay, here we go. We're going to end on this one. No, there's a lot of people that have... There's so many we don't have time, and I'm tired. Here we go. You're angry. We have to do this for two more nights you're an angry person here we go you're on death row okay yeah brian gets drunk and sneaks into your room and went

tip to tip with you while you were asleep and you accidentally hit him with a wine bottle and killed him okay that's why i'm on death row. And your number is finally up, but the prison guards offer you below. How do you respond? Number one. They offer you a blow? One last phone call. Who do you call? I call my wife.

One last MMA boxing fight to watch. What do you watch? What do you watch? Let's stick to MMA. What do you watch for MMA? What would be the one if they're like, you have one chance on UFC Fight Pass, what are you watching? Probably Condit Lawler.

Really? Over Rory Lawler too? Yes. Why? Because it was a little bit more dog in that one for longer. I mean, that was a fight that changed them forever. God, they were savage that night. Unbelievable.

In boxing, maybe something with like Pernell Whitaker? No, you'd watch Scotty Ward 1, okay? Scotty Ward, which by the way, took place here at Mohegan Sun. Yes, Scotty Ward 1 is an institution. No, wasn't that Foxwood? No, was that Mohegan? They said it was Mohegan Sun. Okay, okay, that's fine.

First, okay, your last meal, what do you eat? I've often thought about this. What is your last meal? I'd go lasagna because it is my favorite meal. You think so? Yeah, unless they offered my mom's specific Thanksgiving meal with the meat pie and all that, I'd go there. But if not lasagna. I have struggled with this one.

I can't decide. Does your mom have a go-to meal that is your comfort? Yeah, but my mom's been dead for almost 20 years. She's a great woman. What did she make, though? Doha pizza? No, that's not disrespectful. It's not? It's blat not disrespectful. It's not?

It's blatantly racist. It's not? You can eat pizza in that part of the world. There's nothing wrong with that. Oh, yeah. Everyone knows Doha pizza. That's the shit right there. She was not even Qatari.

Oh, she was Armenian. Armenian, yes. Okay. Shout out to Vanus Martirosian. He is Armenian. Shout out to Armin Tverdian. He is Armenian. Shout out to the other guy who lost. What's that guy's name? Martirosian. He is Armenian. Shout out to Armin Tverdian. He is Armenian. Shout out to the other guy who lost.

What's that guy's name? Carl Parisian. Oh, no, the young guy that Ronda manages. Oh, the donk, yes. By the way, Carl, I've done some deep dives on the fight pass with Carl. He's got some fun as balls fights. He's got great, because he came up in an era

when MMA was still partially unregulated. So the early fights where his judo shit worked was great. Yeah, hold it. Last meal. And then like the DS fights and shit. Hold on. Last meal. Last meal.

You know what? I don't have a good answer. I'm going to say one of my favorite combos. And you may not be this way, but let me say, where are you on chimichurri? The hell's chimichurri? Chimichangas? Where are you going with this? Jesus fuck lord.

Is this like Armenian pizza? What is this, Luke? You've never had chimichurri? Chimichangas? Where are you going with this? Jesus, fuck, Lord. Is this like Armenian pizza? What is this, Luke? You've never had chimichurri on steak? No. You've never been to an Argentinian steakhouse? No. Look, you dabble in all things South American. You put all parts of your body.

You put your mouth on this. You'll put, you know. Oh, my God, dude. You are, dude, you've never lived life. You understand that, right? Dude, I'm from a factory town, bro, okay? Which means I'm a hard worker. I can do a lot of punishing. What song you'd listen to if you had a radio my favorite song of all time is blue sky by the allman brothers dickie betts is one of the most underrated guitars of all time

it's probably like my second or third favorite and that specific guitar solo is the most um melodic uplifting ridiculous you know that song do you know that song by the offhand you're my blue sky you're my sunny day the good basically it's a three and a half minute song melodic, uplifting, ridiculous. You know that song? Do you know that song by The Offhand? Mm-mm. You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day. Basically, it's a three-and-a-half-minute song with, like, a three-minute guitar solo in the middle. And it's... The lyrics are positive, uplifting,

but this guitar solo is... Luke, you know how there's dog whistles? Remember that scene in Teen Wolf, right? There's dog whistles that only dogs can hear? Mm-mm. What are you playing? Sam Cooke. What are you doing? Go ahead. There's dog whistles that only dogs can hear. What do you call Sam Cooke? What are you doing? Go ahead.

There's a thing that, you know, jam band guitar sounds can make that only, like, hippies and stoners can hear deep in their soul, okay? Blue Sky by the Allman Brothers. I'd spend five minutes with that. What would you do? You would go Sam Cooke, bring it on home to me. That's a great idea. Sam Cooke, live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963. Now, is that your way to let people know that you hate white people and you're woke? Or is that a...

Is that a hate whitey song? There's some soul in that, though. Bro, he kills this. Oh, my God. What is your short list of favorite songs in this category? In terms of, like, you know, you're going to die one more time. Oh, die? Thank You by Led Zeppelin?

I mean, that's a tearjerker. And then he asks, last movie. Maybe I'll go out happy. I'll go out Tommy Boy, you? Last movie. Predator. That's, I forgot. Predator.

Commando, please. That's, you know, Mark for Death by Seagal. Come on. Is that a pube or is that a beard hair? That is a gross pube on your laptop screen. It's a beard hair. It's a long pube, too. That's like a...

Oh, God. Let's see if we can find one woman to end this. Can we talk about positive things and good people? Remember yesterday's show? We said Chuck Mendenhall, Brett Okamoto, salt of the damn earth, right? John Anik is my favorite person in combat sports media. annick's a beast he's a total beast you understand i came up with him i remember when he was living in boston and driving to bristol connecticut to do part-time radio shifts working in my newsroom sitting next to me this guy i'm

telling you folks okay people become pretentious you can love different people john annick is among the greatest humans of all time okay i mean I mean that. All right? Chost. Chubby Host. He used to eat a lot of McDonald's, that guy. Okay, I know now he does cardio. Do you have a lot of history with that man? Positive history, yes. I mean, he has tried to substitute me in to do some of his interviews because he knew I had the passion but didn't have the confidence to step forward

and try to become a talent. He's partly responsible just by getting in my ear and just being like, dude, what the hell are you doing sitting out on the sidelines? Get in there. When Bernard Hopkins came in, do you understand that Bernard Hopkins is John Anik's favorite fighter of any combat sport by like 1,000?

John Anik is the biggest Bernard Hopkins fan of all time. Sorry, I'm listening to Sam Cooke. Bernard Hopkins was coming in, and John Anik was scheduled to interview him. He said, hey, Donk Donkerson, why don't you do the interview for me? I'll talk to the boss. I was a nobody, Luke, okay? You're still a nobody.

You fucking asshole. Bring it on home. I like that you've evolved. You don't hold grudges anymore, Luke. You don't have enemies anymore, right? I still hold grudges. I just don't live by them. Alright, last one. Why don't we get Ariel on the show? What do you think? Nah, we can skip that shit.

All right. What about Mike G? What does he got for us? No? George H.? No? Dio Melli? No?

Come on. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Last one. We're going to end on this. Number one favorite movies in these genres this is from uh joel you're gonna call joel what is he joel okay action marked for death by steven seagal although if you're gonna fucking amateur no fuck you if you're gonna say um commando or predator you're fine you're like pup patrol fucking disney have you seen mark

for death by seagal yes with the screw face twins yes it's fucking ridiculous it's great that's a action that's a better action movie than the matrix are you out of your fucking mind yeah that's a better action movie than passenger 57 yes no it's not no it's not okay look this is an ipa thing this is where you haven't actually dabbled but you have a hardcore i have a beard and i really you're gonna ride or die on a Steven Seagal movie? I'm an ex-speech writer. How is it? I'll douse the house.

Ready? Ready? It's better than The Raid. So you don't respect- It's better than The Night Comes for Us. So you don't expect- You're out of your fucking mind. You don't expect Seagal's prime.

The six movies. I respect Seagal's- The six amazing movies. I respect Seagal's prime. His prime is a pimple on the ass of The Raid. It's a pimple on the ass of The Raid. You know who you are, Henenborough? You had a good run.

You're washed, bro. All right? All right. Number one movie in drama. That's tougher. There's a lot to go with with that one. What do you mean by drama? Like a relationship movie?

Because you know what's one of my two or three favorite movies ever, Luke? Have you ever seen it? He actually separates drama and suspense. there's a lot to go with with that one what do you mean by drama like a relationship because you know it's one of my two or three favorite movies ever luke have you ever seen he actually separates drama and suspense have you seen 1995's beautiful girls yes one of my two or three favorite movies ever because it's a it's about a whole like a small new england town where guys come back for their high school reunion and they're trying to figure out at age 27 who they are as a man matt dylan in it, right? Timothy Hutton, great flick. You like that. You like that shit.

Yes. Okay, so action. I'm going to go. What about drama? I've got to hear yours. I'd go probably Predator, but there's a bunch of different ones you can go there. Luke, I could outlast you in the podcast game for years. You're always tired.

You always want to. No, no. You think that you can say more means you have interesting things to say. Look, I'll answer every single one of these questions. Drama. I'm going to go with... Fuck, man. That's a tough one.

Shawshank? No, no, no, no. Sophie's Choice? I've never seen it. Oh, my God. I've never seen it. Do you know the premise? Is that the...

Which one's that? That's the horror movie. No. Well, it's horrible, but it's not a horror movie. It's the one where the Nazis make the lady say, which child would you like to lose and die? Yes. It's terrible. Suspense.

Doesn't that have to tie into the Tate-LaBianca murders? No. Suspense. No, it's got nothing to do with it. Suspense. Well, Parasite was pretty damn amazing. That's pretty good. Well, my favorite movie of all time is 1917.

Can we be honest about that? Show it to my kids? Yep. They love the shit out of it, okay? Yep. It's not as good as Letters from Iwo Jima, which I'm sure you've still not seen. Luke, 1917 is so damn good. Webstream.

Did you see? Webstream showed it to his wife, Christopher Rose. Did you see Letters from Iwo Jima? No, okay. It is saved on my DVR. I'm supposed to see it. Okay. But I heard that it's not as good as you think it is.

It's actually better than I think it is. How about that? I don't even know what the fuck that means. Is that the flip side of Flags of Our Fathers? It is. Flags of Our Fathers sucked. It was not good. All right.

All right. Horror. Saw I. I stand up to it. It's so well written, Luke. I know the sequel is out of control. I've not seen it in a long time, but how much is the original Halloween? The original Halloween is the best horror movie of all time.

Is it? Because it was – you know why I always loved it? I want to say because it was as close to – I love horror movies where you're like, that could happen. Now, look, I know Michael Myers got shot, dropped out of a second story window, and still got up and walked away. You can argue if he's a supernatural psychopath, you know. But for the most part, that's a movie that could happen, right? I didn't get in as a kid to, like, Freddy and some of the, you know, bizarre, over-the-top nightmare sci-fi shit.

Halloween is brilliantly made. I mean, it's amazing. I'm going to go with, I'll probably go with that one. I don't watch too many horror movies, so I can't really have a strong opinion. So I'll go original Halloween. Did you see, there's a brawl in Cell Block 99. It's on Prime. Vince Vaughn's in it.

Did you see that? Terrible, yeah. Oh, it's fucking fun as shit, though. Yeah. There's some brutal deaths. It's a, what I call it is a very good B movie. Yes. Did you see Arkansas with Vince Vaughn, that drug movie on Prime?

That's worth your time. Okay, all right. And then lastly, comedy. Can I go first? Yeah, please. Please do. Stripes, Bill Murray. Prime, Bill Murray.

An old school Stripes guy. As a kid, I watched the show. Favorite line. They sign up to go in there and sign up for the Army. First of all, they park in front of a fire hydrant. A guy comes out. He's like, you can't park it. He's like, oh, no.

We're not parking it. We're abandoninging it then they go into the recruiter's office and he's like uh are either of you two homosexuals and he goes no we're not homosexuals but we are willing to learn uh the funniest movie of all time is tommy boy um second would be half baked um as non-stoner non-stoner 80s it doesn't hold up but i feel like stoner comedy is slightly separate no stoner comedy is the best comedy but um spies like us is so good spies like us is good you know what i did last year dude people people don't understand like chippy chase is washed but in his day he was the man i watched the man you know what i did i got real high on a plane with some edibles from flying back from la last year and i watched the man you know what i did i got real high on a plane with some

edibles from flying back from la last year and i watched a double bill fletch for the first one and then when they really sinked in i watched the first harold and kumar that's a good ass stoner i've never seen that is a good ass stone i saw harold and kumar and the winter oh sorry the christmas one with uh seth rogan yeah i haven't seen that one it's it's a it's a it's a you know it's what did you expect i tried to watch the Pineapple Express on Edibles. I didn't make it through. Me neither. I couldn't watch it.

All right. What's on the docket for the next couple of days? Okay, so we record this on Wednesday night, right? Right now? Yeah. So here's the thing. Friday, 11 a.m. Eastern, you want to check out the Showtime stream on YouTube, on Facebook, wherever you can find it, of the Charlo Brothers doubleheader weigh-in.

You and I are going to host it. We did it on Wednesday. You can watch the replay of the press conference with our colleague, Brian Custer, and the fighters. We're going to be on CBS Sports HQ. I want to introduce that to people that don't know. It's actually, like, crazy that it's not more understood what a value proposition it is for fans.

Look, if you want to make a comparison, remember the old school ESPN news where there's a news desk and there's highlights and there's analysis? There's 24 hours a day and it's free. You don't need to stream anything. You don't need to pay anything. You can put it on your smartphone, on your laptop, on your Apple TV, wherever you want to put it. You can put it in there.

Remember when Sarah Michelle Gellar in – Finish your point. What was that movie? Finish your point. What was the movie? I don't care. Finish your point. Cruel Intentions. Remember she was like, you can put it in there. Remember when Sarah Michelle Gellar and – Finish your point. What was that movie though? Finish your point. What was the movie? I don't care. Finish your point. Cruel Intentions.

Remember she was like, you know, right. Finish your point. You can put it anywhere is what she said. And we'll be on there this week previewing the fight, previewing UFC, getting fired up as well. Also, we have a second – Luke. Is it not focusing? There we go. Luke, it doesn't matter

okay we have a second live morning combat episode true or false yes tomorrow no no Friday Friday morning

and look this is what we're going to do we're going to fill in the blanks that we didn't do on Monday we're going to preview you we're going to tell you who's going to win UFC 253

the big fight we're not going to do that but why are you afraid to tell people who's going to win I don't lie to people on purpose

Luke remember on the MMA beat when I said Wood who's going to win? I don't lie to people on purpose. Remember on the MMA Beat when I said Woodley's going to knock out Till? No. I know he submitted them, but you know. No, I don't remember that. And you're like, wow, this motherfucker's bold as shit. No, I was telling you the truth and it happened, okay? I don't remember that at all. You might have had one good take on that show.

I had a few. I had a good run on that show. All right. Hey, I got an MK franchise. Hey, here's what we didn't. It's true. You think I'm afraid of you getting mad at me? You think I'm afraid of that? This is where you go long just for the sake of going long.

Do us a favor. Give the video a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button. If you like these shows and you want to see more of them, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. We always need more subscribers trying to drive that number up. We need you to do that alright what's your other favorite comedies Blazing Saddles Blazing Saddles is good what's modern last 4, 5, 6

years what's a comedy that you saw that you're like you know what oh I saw one the other night what the hell was it can we end this please for fuck's sake I'm done do you like Dazed and Confused yes yes I like Dazed and Confused you gotta get angry you gotta stop us I've gotta go and Confused. All right. If you got to get angry, you got to stop us, you know. All right.

I've got to go, and, you know, it's my lunch break. You know what that means. It's a champagne of beers, okay? All right. For Brian, I'm Luke. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you tomorrow night. Until then, go fuck yourself. you