MORNING KOMBAT WITH LUKE THOMAS AND BRIAN CAMPBELL - TOP 5 STORIES OF 2019! BEER! TANK WINS! PASCAL VS JACK WAR!

Episode Date: December 30, 2019

Luke and Brian are back in the studio to put a bow on 2019 and start their New Year's Celebration early with some delicious beer! Our Morning Kombat hosts take us through their top stories of 2019, drink some beer and review last Saturday's Showtime Championship Boxing card highlighted by Gervonta Tank Davis and an excellent fight between Jean Pascal and Badou Jack.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rise to rewards with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa Card. Terms and conditions apply. Well, there we are, putting my earpiece in like a total non-pro. Hi, everybody. My name is Luke Thomas. It is the 30th of December 2019 and it is time for Morning Combat. What a series of fails this morning has been. I got here on time, which is more than I can say for my trusty co-host Brian Campbell, but I didn't have my earpiece in because I'm just so derailed by everything. Welcome to

everyone. Thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it. Here's what today was supposed to be. I think it still will be. We're not going to do Decades Best. We're not going to do our awards because every other show does that and it's really lame. We decided why not just do the top five stories that matter to us most in and out of combat sports. A little bit of a weekend preview and then we'll get into all of that. And it actually turns out that just before we started here, he only lives, I'm not making this up, he lives four miles away, and he was still somehow 20 minutes late. But it's my friend and yours, Brian Campbell from CBS Sports. I would love to know. Yo, happy new year, Luke. I mean, come on, bro. Let's do this thing. Why are you so late? I brought the total package.

You sickened me. Alright, alright, alright. Am I on? Is this thing on? You're on. Happy New Year to you, sir. Happy New Year, fuckface. I had a travel morning from hell, Luke. I want to explain something to you. Do you understand that I could take a later train, and if everything went

fine, I'd still get here on time? Here's what I do. I take the train so early that if there's problems, I still get here on time. Well, I do as well. That's what you need to start doing. Would you have guessed it would take five hours to commute from Connecticut to this Jersey swamp? Well, hey, we made it. End of the year bash.

No, this is not the great beer tasting episode. No, it's not Luke's life versus mine for control and power. But we want to celebrate what has been, this show has been a tremendous discovery to both of our careers. We've built a family of weirdos here. I forgive you for your non-apology. Oh, boy. Sound like my wife. This is great. This is great. You've got to say you're sorry. All right. All right. Hey, check out the build on this guy.

And he doesn't. And he won't. He refuses. Alright, well. Look, we need to celebrate this year, alright? Do we? In the worst possible fashion? I mean, I'm sweaty. I got rained on. Zero sympathy from me. Alright. Zero. You gotta get up earlier, bro. What time do you get up to come to the show? Very early. What time do you get up to come to the show? I don't need to disclose the personal details of my life. What time do you get up? Is to the show? Very early. What time do you get up to come to the show? I don't need to disclose the personal details of my life. What time do you get up? Is this an interrogation? My check's still going to clear.

It is still going to clear. Showtime, the Wimbledon page, man. I don't sign those checks. What time do you get up? All right. Very early. You want to move on with the— In just a minute.

I get up at 4.30. 4.30. All right. That's very— And I'm four hours away, never late. That's very Joe Rogan of you. Just want to point that out. Very Tony Robbins.

I appreciate that. All right. Now, we have this bucket of beer here for Mr. Non-Apology. It is cold. I do apologize to the listeners for coming in late and sweaty. Thank you. That's all we needed. Thank you so much. So it is cold.

Now here's what we did. Did you pick out the beers? Because I didn't pick out the beers. I did not. This is our trusty staff here. You just told them what you liked. Yeah. I told them what I liked.

I said surprise me. And the producers put it together. So you said what? IPAs that are fruity? I said I can do fruity. So how about this one? I'm just going to hand you what's like. It doesn't surprise me. And the producers put it together. So you said what? IPAs that are fruity? I said I can do fruity. So how about this one? I'm just going to hand you what's up.

Dogfish Head, which is I think a brand out of like Delaware. They have the Super 8, Super Goss, Gose. I've never seen this one. Our Sessional Goss,

Gose, brewed with a bevy of, I can't even read this anymore. I'm going to jump right in. Heroic fruits and quinoa pours a deep, vibrant red with an ample addition of Hawaiian sea salt. That's for you.

This one's for Kendall Grove. Thank you. Shout out. This is Grimm Heliogram. This is a dry hop sour ale. I'll pass on that. The show's pretty good, though. Here we go.

It's free beer. Oh, you know what? It's Delirium Tremens. You can't go wrong with old Delirium Tremens. I told them I wanted Belgian beer. So I'm just going to have that. Oh, yes. We might need that as well.

Well, we are here to celebrate today, Luke. Okay? Are we? A 2019 of combat. Our arrival on the scene. We're the most destructive combat brothers since the Melendezes. We're on fire right now. Who are the Melendezes?

Oh. Are they combat brothers or are they just murderers? Alright, so here's what we're going to do. We have to do a bit of a weekend review and then we're going to get into the way they apparently want to structure it is my top five which will kind of burn through all of them.

Yeah, we want to look at our best of the decade. I'm not talking about what's your best round of the decade, Luke. I mean, what's your best damn moments of the year? Right. Like, I was saying, the things when we think about 2019 in our lives, combat sports and outside, what really stood out to us is the way I've explained that. And this MKUltra life that we've built right here, right? All right, let me pour this out. Then we'll toast it, and then we will begin the weekend review, okay?

It's pretty nice and cold. Here we go. Hey, this is... Here's to swimming with bow-legged women. This is the tip-on-tip action right there. You heard that? Salute. All right.

Mmm, that's good. That's really good. Two-drink minimum on set today, I heard. All right. All right. So let's do this. I guess I'll go to this camera. Over the weekend, Showtime right here, Showtime Sports had a card down in Atlanta, Georgia. Your headlining action, jumping up a weight class to 135, Gervonta Davis taking on Yuriorkis Gamboa. He wins via 12th round stoppage after not one, not two, but three knockdowns. So in this voyage into 135, I thought there was some good, Brian. I thought there was some bad. First of all, let's talk about the bad up front because we have to.

The reason why is he nearly missed weight going up a weight class. Now, he eventually made it with a second attempt after two hours in the commission, a little bit disconcerting that he did. Plus, I thought Paulie Malignaggi, who was the commentator that night, was pretty fair about it. In these bursts, I thought his power did carry over into 135. His speed was still electrifying. His accuracy, his timing, he was really good about splitting Gemba with his timing, but then he would have these moments where he would kind of take rounds off, which he's

been accused of doing, which you thought, up a weight class, maybe this wouldn't be an issue. Now, on the good side, as I mentioned, some of the things I just talked about with his boxing technique, plus, dude, that crowd was all about him. And I was telling the producers here, I went bar hopping that night in DC because I had some friends from out of the country that just wanted to go around. We ended up in a place that caters to like an African-American establishment. We walk upstairs and all the other bars in the row were all showing Clemson and everything

else. This particular club, it was nothing but Gervonta Davis all the way around. He really seems to be making inroads. They had celebrities there. So to me, I thought there was some good. I thought there was some bad. But there's some big questions about whether, not that he can be a star, but are you going to be the boxer that we think you can be? The flashes are there.

I don't know if the rest of it is there yet. Yeah, I called it a very uneven performance in my recap on CBS Sports, and you nailed it. The big displays of power were undoubtedly there. That's what you come to see with Gervonta. Should he have allowed, though, a 38-year-old Yuriyukis Gamboa, who, by the way, beer follower not here, came to win that fight, was willing toa, who by the way, beer follower or not here, came to win that fight, was willing to put his shield on the line. A guy who wasn't noted for having a great chin, even though he's been an explosive fighter throughout his career,

let him hang around, also with an injured right leg, and almost finished the fight. There was a lot to like. There's a commercial side to boxing. There's a critical side. Commercial side, you said it. He nailed it. 15,000 people can't be wrong. He is a moving attraction, a traveling show. People come to see him, but you have to deliver up to the hype. It may be one of those where you can look back on years and go from now and go on his box rate page and be like, oh, KO12, man. Gamboa must have really pushed him. That's a good win against a very strong veteran opponent. True, but that's also a win you can pick a lot of holes in because at this point, at 25, having already endured the sort of public shame, if you will, when he was in that co-main

event bout on the Maymac card a couple years back when he got that big platform and he missed weight, lost his belt on the scales, really seemed to learn from that. He's a new father since then, he's turned a lot of things around, and he's had a hell of a year with three knockouts, but he didn't come in on weight the first time, and that played out during the fight, I think, if you can connect the dots, when he had those big-time stamina drops in there. You can't win against elite fighters throwing 15 punches a round. He let Gamboa hang around,

and he didn't show the complete performance that by far he's capable of. And that's why in 2020, the competition's going to have to raise up, because you can only learn so much about yourself when you're blowing guys away up to a certain level. This was certainly a learning experience overall. But for him to be able to outbox an elite fighter for 12 rounds, if he has to, you have to go through these experiences and you have to shine through them.

Saved himself with the knockout, but there was a lot of criticism to come if that didn't happen. He was able to play with his food. The question is, what happens when he can't? That wasn't a question for Saturday in Atlanta, but it's one going forward. Now, in that co-main event, Badu Jack taking on John Pascal, I thought it was a great fight. I did not think it was a fight of the year contender. You seemed to think it was. Don't misunderstand me, Brian.

I enjoyed it. The fourth round knockdown, then the 12th round knockdown, trading back and forth, Batu being the clinical guy, Pascal being just your heavier, crazy fight and spurts kind of guy. I enjoyed it, but that wasn't anything compared to Spence Porter. Well, you're hard to satisfy in general. That is true. But look, this was damn right a fight of the year contender. I would have put it at the back end of my top five, and another reason why I hate when outlets jump the gun on December 5th and put out their awards for the year.

I do hate that, too. I hate that. There's no rush. Nothing goes on in combat the first few weeks of January. We all know that. Everybody wants to be first, though. Both guys put it on the line. These are two guys that kind of fit into what I love.

Hashtag old guy fights. 36-37, I believe, right? Guys that still have something left in the tank, but they're certainly past their prime. And what this produced was a blood and guts back and forth war that you had to be entertained. And what a turnaround for Jean Pascal, who's got a killer resume. He's fought everybody. But we had left him for dead a couple times in recent years when he's lost to guys on the way up. And we said, OK, that's it.

He's chinny. It's the end of the line. He comes back this year, knocks out Marcus Brown for a secondary title. And then beats Badu. Jack. Close fight could have gone either way. I did want to circle back on Gervonta, though, something. Quick.

About the idea of what is next and how big of a 2020 he needs to have. Commercially, he's there. He's where he needs to be to begin to make that leap to the pay-per-view level. You need the dance partners. You need to be willing, and you need to chase them. It's kind of not his fault. His year was supposed to start in 2019 with that Abner Mara showdown in March on Showtime. Last minute, Mara's pulled out.

All Gervonta did in the meantime was knock dudes out when they got in there against them until Saturday night, where it was a little bit more of a test. It's time now. Whether you're welcoming in Leo Santa Cruz, who is very hungry and wants to be in there, or whether we can begin to bang the drum for those cross-network, cross-platform fights, this division is loaded with young big names that have been Haney's of the world. The Ryan Garcia's who's calling out tank. I saw. Vasily Lomachenko tank just won the secondary version of that WBA title, which Vasily Lomachenko is the WBA champion.

I want to start hearing about these fights being cooked up and I need your Vontae to step up and say, I want these fights as well. Yeah. 25 years old. If you're going to make that next leap into pay-per-view, I want to see some pay-per-view worthy opponents. So he looked good, but there were some questions that remained.

The one piece of MMA content that I want to get to before we start our top five, God, this was bad. This was bad, dude. Fedor fought Rampage in Japan. I'll give Fedor credit. I'll drink to that. Yeah, I'll give Fedor credit. I thought he looked about as good as you could expect. The crowd seemed to be

well, the Saitama Super Union was well attended. I thought Rampage's walkout with the pride theme was great. Fedor looked good in terms of getting the crowd hyped. The ramp that they were on, it had all the theatrics you could really want. So on the one hand, I sort of appreciate what Bellator was trying to do there. They love that nostalgia, romanticism angle. This was terrible. There's really no way to go about it. Again, I don't blame Fedor for it. Rampage seemed utterly unprepared. Now, it's interesting. No one is more in the old guy business. You were talking about Badou Jack and Jean Pascal. That's a competitive old guy fight, yes.

Well, those guys are still top 10 at light heavyweight. We're not talking about that anymore at heavyweight. These are long past top 10 rankings. I wrote an article several years ago saying that people who thought, for example, that either Chael threw the fight against Tito or other ones you could have looked at, that I understand why you might look at it that way, but it's just not rational. We've certainly seen thrown fights. Taehyung Bang and Leo Koonce got in trouble. Remember Taehyung Bang?

Went to jail for it in Korea, South Korea. We've certainly seen thrown fights. Taehyung Bang and Leo Koonce got in trouble. Remember Taehyung Bang? Went to jail for it in Korea, South Korea. But the chances are you have seen a thrown fight. It's just that you didn't know it. They were very good about concealing it. I do not think under any capacity that Rampage threw a fight. Not in the traditional sense, but did he do it? But this is my point, right?

You invite this kind of skepticism, however irrational it might be, when you have a guy that you trot out there as utterly unprepared, as heavyweight as he was. This was a terrible showing. I don't know what Scott Coker is going to do about it because if you think about it, remember Rampage had his little fiasco when he fought Fabio Maldonado in the UFC. That was during Scott Coker's reign. Then he comes back. Well, dude, Scott Coker's going to do nothing.

Let's look back to when Kimbo Slate failed that drug test and he was already setting up dates in Europe for Kimbo Slate. Scott Corker's going to do nothing. Okay, but if you're a promotional partner who's working with Rampage Jackson, you've done as much as you can for the guy in terms of giving him the fights and the places that he wants to fight. And he shows up like that. It was disgraceful, man. It was absolutely disgraceful. And look, what Rampage did is he broke the code of what we're doing here. This is the other end of old guy fights. I love them. I slop them up.

I eat them. It's gas station food. But Luke, it's a carnival and a circus, one that Bellator has really cornered the market on over the years. But what we sort of sign up for is that at least come in the best shape you can, at least go after it. And usually if these things are done right, they'll end quick enough. No one has to take any extended damage.

We get that nostalgic drug that we're looking for. We'll typically get a sloppy little brawl, because that's the whole thing about why old guy fights work and why we love them. You get a little bit of diminished skills between named guys. It's fun. Rampage broke that code. He came in disturbingly out of shape. He had been out of shape for that recent run

when he was up at heavyweight. A little pot belly there, but it's fine. He's still a tough guy. You're not going to submit him. You're not going to knock him out. He's still one of those guys. This was an absolute F you to the integrity of not just the sport, but the idea of these old guy fights.

You need to sort of stay in the old guy code. If you're going to be in a circus fight, you've got to at least take care of yourself coming in and not have this type of ending. Because we don't want to feel bad about ourselves when we're watching this slop. It's already bad enough. And when you come in there at that level out of shape,

it's just like, this is sad. This is disgusting. I want nothing to do with this. Fedor gained nothing from this. Now, can you gauge Fedor's expression? No. You once interviewed him and ruined an interview I was supposed to have right after you, by the way, by asking him about his favorite books, hashtag never forget. But he's never going to give you an expression, yet he even looks sort of extra sad, like, come on, dude, get the hell up. Let's do this thing. Yeah, I mean, and then taking a picture with Fedor, it's like, I don't mind sportsmanship,

but after a performance like that, it just looks exploitative on the audience. Putting on Instagram and sort of, you know. It was just, it was, and here's another point. Saying I'm still cashing checks, that kind of stuff. I mean, like. Right, the haters don't understand I'm still cashing checks.

It's like, dude, but you shouldn't be for performances like that. And I'm not asking him to finish the job and get knocked out cold. I'm asking him to compete. So you get to a certain level where you can't wear the sweatshirt to the weigh-in. We're going to see what's really going on. I mean, you've got to go in the pool with your shirt off. That's the rules.

He came in there, and it was really set. Yeah, well, we've got to move along. We don't have more time for it. But the rise-in takes place, I think, tonight, heading into Tuesday. I mean, you never know what's going to happen. An old guy fight, he walked in. I thought we might see a pregnancy. I thought we-in takes place, I think, tonight, heading into Tuesday. I mean, you never know what's going to happen in an old guy fight. He walked in, I thought we might see a pregnancy.

I thought we might see a birth. Someone give birth. I mean, it was like Arnold and Junior. This is the thing. It's like we're blaming Rampage, but another part is like, dude, if you're Bellator

and you're Scott Coker, he already did the whole thing with Fabio Maldonado in 2015. And then on top of that, it's like, dude, you book old guy fights, they just end weird, man. And they don't go the way

they're always supposed to. You don't want scrutiny for people saying you threw a fight, I get it. I don't think anyone did. You keep booking fights like this, you're going to keep getting questions like this. Okay. Time for a transition if we can, Brian. All right. Let's go through my top five. So you picked top five best stories of 2019 that inside and outside of combat sports. We're going to get to them in a minute. Let's go through mine. And we don't have time for all of these because I want to make sure we get to the stuff that really matters the most. But I do think, Brian, that this one does, in fact, matter.

My number five, the welterweight division. And I wrote from Ben Askren's, he had a great run, then it was a collapse. The return of Nate Diaz. Anthony Pettis had a bit of a resurgence, although he had his own issues there. Jorge Masvidal to Colby Covington. And then Kamaru setting the world ablaze. Even as we carry over into 2020, Conor's going to fight Cerrone up there.

So I get it's partly like a halfway step to 155, so I'm kind of cheating the margins here a little bit on this one, which I recognize. But still, Brian, I don't... We'll talk about some stuff that happened in other divisions with individual fighters, but to me, no division was hotter. No division mattered more across the sport for the things that we cared about the most,

from manufacturing a BMF title to everything else, than the welterweight division in 2019. What do you think of when you think of the welterweight division? I think of Jorge Masvidal. He's the winner. I hate what people do. Who won the year? He's the winner of this damn year by far, whether you wanted him as your fighter of the year or not. But you make a great point. The welterweight division became the sex division this year. Normally, that's reserved for the few

times heavyweight's hot or light heavyweight or lightweight right now, which is the deepest and darkest division in good ways. They made marquee moments happen. This was a fun-ass year, largely because of that. Yeah. So heading into the next year, as I mentioned, Conor's going to go there. I'm kind of cheating the sides here, getting to it, but I always say this. You look at a lot of different organizations, like bigger ones globally, their two best divisions, they might have a star here or a star there or whatever, but their two best divisions are probably going to be 155 and 170. It's just the center of the tennis racket, man. It's where when you hit it, you don't feel any vibrations back in the wrist. And this is proof of that.

Yes, this is the marquee of all the marquees. But you mentioned Jorge Masvidal. Real quickly on him, he and, you see him and Cejudo going back on fourth yesterday on Twitter? I did not see that. Yeah, Cejudo is trying to claim fighter of the year. He's got a claim. He's top three in my mind. He's got a claim.

He's got a claim to being on the short list. I don't think he's, well, Jesus, that sounded mean. But he's got a claim. He doesn't have the same, like here's what Jorge Masvidal did. There are all these guys in these divisions at 155 and 170 who are all really good for a really long time, but they kind of stay that way. And then there are the guys, sometimes through popularity, sometimes through popularity and a win, usually the combination of the two, that elevate themselves out of the trenches. Nate Diaz did it a few years ago with Conor McGregor. Jorge did it this year. And he didn't just go from journeyman to superstardom pay-per-view headliner level. In the process, he became a legitimate title contender and is on the outskirts of the Pomp for Ppound top 10. Like, you couldn't script a more impressive, insane year.

Right. And I think doing that at welterweight is harder than doing that in other divisions. Now, Henry's claim is that he went up in weight class, which is tremendous. Okay, fine. But remember, Jorge Masvidal used to be a 155er, has gone up to 170 and put a claim there, and now done really well. That's not the same thing as going being the champion i recognize still though dude well i mean what henry could probably claim is he might have the best two wins of the year combined together i thought the best win is dillashaw and then this i thought the best win of the year was out of sonja over whitaker i thought that was the most valuable most impressive uh that's part of the currency why i'm arguing out of sonja as your fight of the year have no problem with anybody picking jorge so who know

though for the two fights he did fight in that six-month stretch, it's pretty damn insane. All right, we've got to move along here. My number four was Tech Bros taking L. Did you follow the story? No. First of all, are you putting that beer through college? What's going on? Yeah, I am. It's cold. It's still cold. Here's why I wanted to think about it. You had the whole HQ2 thing happening with Amazon where they're like they had this whole bid to have cities give them enormous to, you know, utterly irresponsible tax breaks, including changing the names of cities to bring Amazon there. And then ultimately

where do they just settle on? They settle on probably the places they were going to go anywhere just outside Washington, D.C. New York decided to bail on them, but they're going to bring some offices to Manhattan just the same. So it was a bit of a bad look for Amazon. Then on top of that, I don't know if you've followed the story of WeWork. Yes. You ever looked at the rates for the WeWork offices? I have not. Dude, they're out of control high. And then it turns out you had this crazy as a shithouse rat CEO who was out of his mind. They had

these enormous losses. They tried to get an IPO through. Excuse me, enormous losses. They tried to get an IPO through. Excuse me, EPO. They tried to get an IPO through. That was TJ Dillashaw. And it was a total disaster. Then on top of that, you had Uber coming back down to earth this year. If there was one lesson in the year in tech

beyond the consumer gadget side of things, it was this was the year that the bros who believe in the solutionism of their genius ideas took a big fat L. By the way, this is your slapdick. You get on me all the time. Somebody got hit in the dong. It's a Campbell original.

This is your version of slapdick. You love clowning on nerdy white guys. Yeah, I do. You're right. That's why you're here. All right, wow. Hey, by the way, I don't normally rock out with the GOES. How is it?

The super GOES? Fantastic. This is great. It looks cool. We'll skip that one. Let's go to number three. the rise of Adesanya. Two things happened in 2019. We saw the end of it with Volkanovski. Obviously, he's Australian. But more than that, you had the rise of Oceania, the rise of New Zealand. But no one was more

important in that effort than Israel Adesanya in doing what he did. Obviously, it goes back to 2018 to really capture the full breadth of the experience, but the capstone to it with the fights in Atlanta and then ultimately the ones back in Australia at the Rod Laver Arena where he beats Robert Whitaker. It was at Marvel Stadium, excuse me. I think it was Marvel Stadium. Rod Laver was the Silva fight. In any event, just an incredible run. They call it Rod Laver, by the way, in most parts of the world. Just keep going. I like to say Laver. You like to Laver was the Silva fight. Yes. In any event, just an incredible run. They call it Rod Laver, by the way, in most parts of the world.

Just keep going. I like to say Laver. You like to Laver yourself up. Point being is you just don't see rises like this very often. You saw Jon Jones do something similar. Habib's wasn't quite as quick because he had some injury in between. But you just knew you were watching a rocket ship to the stars. And I often said this, which was we always talk about the rest of the world catching up to MMA.

But if you look at what they're doing in that part of the world, and particularly in that gym city kickboxing, they didn't just catch up. They've lapped the world in certain capacities, which was something I don't think the language we use to describe globalization of MMA really ever fundamentally captured. Go ahead. Look, this was a hell of a year. That's why I wanted to make that claim for Adesanya as your fighter of the year. It's very rare that you enter with so much hype, people critically doubting you because you're so flashy.

You can talk and you're trying to make that claim that I'm a generational talent right now and to back it up at the level he did with three fights. Good God, it's so weird. When I'm going over my boxer and MMA fighters of the year and you're doing the debates and you're forming the year-end stories, MMA had three, four, five, six legitimate contenders for fighter of the year.

Three or four of those years are like slam-dunk years that would have won at any other time, where I feel like boxing, for whatever reason, had some very good years. There's an argument at the top. Did you like Canelo more? Did you like Spencer Pacquiao? Some very good years. MMA this year had some breakout campaigns, some monster years.

Some of that is obviously due to the more intense matchmaking that the UFC goes through. You've got to fight all killer, no filler. But even under that, guys, did anyone do anything more successful at the highest level than Anasanya? Masvidal splashed the pot, but Anasanya critically, man, that's a year that'll go up

there in history. In terms of raising his visibility, no one did. And, man, that's a year that'll go up there in history. In terms of raising his visibility, no one did what Jorge Vazcao did. And he also had the fight of the year on top of that and survived it. But my point being is for Adesanya, for that run he was on from, was it February of 2018, all the way to the moment where he captured the title, it's just the stuff of legend. And again, to do it from a part of the country where, excuse me, part of the world rather, that is not historically known for that level of achievement, and then to just take the, and under intense and unrelenting skepticism about his upside, pretty important there as well.

We move to my number two story. I have to go to the tight shot here, apparently. Oh, wow. Aunt Becky might go to prison. Oh, boy. Cut it out. Cut it out. You look like a Dave Coulier.

You don't mean that. A sweaty Dave Coulier. I thought Alanis read a song about me, all right? Yeah. Did she? Well, I'm only going to go that far. She did. Dave Coulier. I thought Alanis read a song about me, all right? Yeah. Did she? Well, I'm only going to go that far. She did. You ought to know.

Down in the theater? The big hit, all right? Yeah. In any event, on Becky character, there was this whole college admissions scandal. The FBI uncovered all of these rich people were either paying people to take tests for their stupid kids or creating false identities or creating false resumes around the identities to get their kids into the elite of society for colleges. Not because it meant anything more than assuring their status for their progeny.

Yeah. But just to do that, which lays bare all of the claims of meritocracy in this country. Social Robin Hood. Luke Thomas just taking shots at the super elite. Don't you find it just so representative of the age that we have these contests of meritocracy, which really, the game is just rigged anyway. Don't you feel that way? Yeah, I'm going to check my dictionary afterwards to fill up most of that sentence.

But hey, the mighty go down, and Luke Thomas was there to celebrate their L's. This is great. Yes, but not because they're mighty, because they're mighty and they're scoundrels. Hey, I never saw that coming with Aunt Becky, but at like, what, 55? Still got it. Yeah, Felicity Huffman, I believe. Still got it. I know you're trying to move past the conversation.

She had to go, I think, to a modest time, like weekend time. You ever have a friend get DUI and have to do weekend jail? No, I hang around with a higher grade. Oh, do you? Is that who you hang around with at the gas station? A buddy of mine got a DUI, managed to figure out a way to go to jail on the weekends. So we'd always pick him up on Sunday and ask him if he could give us a ride to the liquor store, which he never really found very funny.

We've got to take a break so we can get a taste test going here, Luke. You've got to jump in with something else here. What do you got? I'm going to break in on that. Oh, here we go. Take one of those. I like how you're breezing past any of my stories of significance oh well you know

you get so anal I gotta get to my other job I gotta get look some of us yeah I have bills to pay some of us take days off from their other job

in order to do this show I take the days off that I have alright this is look I'm not a Belgium guy we've been down this road before you'll like this one I've had this many times

it's friggin' fantastic. Yeah, it's good. What do you think? Give us the review. Give us the old... And I know that five years ago this was the top of the line for that category. Since then it's passed, but it gives me the feels on the inside. You like the little straw color that it comes in?

Looks like piss, but that's fine. What does your piss look like? You want to... No. Alright, where are we at with you? Number one. What does your piss look like? You want to? No. All right. Where are we at with you? Number one. What's your moment of the year in 2019? I think my number one, and I think you might agree with this, because it's true in sports,

but it's also true out of sports. 2019 was the year that the streaming wars became official. You have Netflix, HBO Now slash HBO Go. You have what's coming, Peacock. That's a real streaming service that's coming. But you already had Netflix. Apple Plus came on board. Plus, we know on the sports side of things, the two big competitors, of course. By the way, Flow Sports is kind of hanging out there. But the real two big dogs, they are kind of hanging out there. I mean, unless you're like amateur wrestling, they're kind of dead, right? They had DC United rights.

It says something about DC United. But the two big ones are DAZN and ESPN+. Let me say two things I think most folks get wrong about this debate. One about DAZN. 90% of DAZN's business is outside the United States. And they've even said, they've even said, you cannot compete in any market, whether it's the United States or any other one, unless you've got top-tier rights.

There's a lot of money that they have put into boxing. But eventually, here's my belief. That money is going to get spent on premier rights fees. And a lot of the money they've been putting into boxing is going to contract. Boxing is their gateway drug to be able to get into the U.S. sports market because there's no leagues, really. There's no organization. You can pick and choose, grab a promoter. So I'll give DAZN credit. They had a great 2019.

I didn't think they were the network of the year necessarily in boxing, but they were close. They put on big fights that matter. They put on creative fights. You sort of, if you're a fan of boxing, you're like, well, I know Canelo. I know Triple G. I know Anthony Joshua. Well, all three of those are on the same network.

So I give them the credit. It hasn't been a perfect year for them. I mean, are you a big YouTube guy against YouTube? Well, that tells me that what they're doing is they're biding time for the big dog. But I agree with your overall theory that this is just them making a splash. They're throwing money away in boxing to try to create a foothold while they're cashing in around the world. And then eventually when they get those NFL rights or that whatever.

Yeah. This is just them putting money in boxing as a showcase to the various leagues that when their rights fees or rights dues become available, they can say, see how well we did with this? We had the number one boxer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then half that shit's going out the window. So fans can enjoy it in the meantime because you're paying less for pay-per-view quality fights, but that bubble's going out the window. So fans can enjoy it in the meantime because you're paying less for pay-per-view quality fights,

but that bubble's going to burst. Also, I don't ever hear John Skipper talking about, like, I hear him talking about what Canelo does for their subscription fees and how he helped actually change their modeling. Because remember, they gave the first fight away for free. They stopped doing that shit for the second and third fight completely.

I never hear him say anything about Bellator, ever. I wonder what happens with the money that they've given them. They'll be curious to see that. Maybe if you party with them, you can get some answers. And then, of course, you had ESPN Plus. I don't party.

Oh, yeah, it's funny. Hardy har har drug addiction. And then, of course... You're the worst. You just stunt the growth of any possible joke erection. You're just... No, I just...

I don't... I'm not like the donks who hysterically laugh like hyenas at everything you say. You've got to have a real zinger for me to get a good laugh. But it also brings us to ESPN Plus+, which is very different because it's part of a larger sporting ecosystem. What are your impressions about what happens for

ESPN+, in 2020? From a combat sense or from a larger sense? Larger sense. I don't know. I don't know, Luke. I mean, look, they're not going to fail when you have that brand behind it. It's priced correctly. No, it's doing well. And they're really spread out across the board. Look, right now when you're looking at the zone, it's really combat or nothing. I know they've got some fringe things on the side, but ESPN has done a good job at sort of well-rounding it and giving a lot of people a reason to get in on that. And with that ESPN Disney engine behind it, you're not going to fail. That modeling is the best because you have Hulu, which is for adults.

You've got Disney+, which is ostensibly for children and everyone in between. And then you've got the sports component as a bundle. Last thing I say about this, I said people get two things wrong. One, DAZN's business is largely outside the country. Second, second is there is, it's not a zero-sum game, right? There are going to be some winners. There's going to be some losers. But to me, it's like, you ever seen people like, oh, I subscribe to a bunch of magazines?

And then you check and they only subscribe to like three or four, the ones who really say they subscribe? It's going to be like that in the end. Barber shops and doctor's offices, the only people left on magazines. That's right. So exactly who wins and who loses, I don't know. But the idea there'll be one or two, I don't actually know. Hey, I've got the American Beauty Hazy Ripple IPA here from Dogfish.

I'm very Grateful Dead inspired. Luke, do you ever get into the dead hardcore in your life? I'd rather die than listen to Scarlet Begonia. Fuck the Grateful Dead. Wow. Worst band, worst fans. That's so misguided. Only fans worse are Phish fans because they think their music's actually better when it's

the same. Wow. Chris DiBlasio knocking on your door. Wow. I would call you a boomer, yet it's the boomers that are the dead fans. That's right. Really, Luke? I don't like them.

I mean, I was on the outside looking in for many years, and certainly if you needed a gateway drug to get into the dead, there's... Which you dead, there's a lot of gateway drugs that'll get you into the dead. But wow, I had a three-year window in my life where I was, I mean, I had 400 live discs. I was to the point where I could hear five seconds of the song and tell you the year live that it was. Yeah, but you have terrible taste in things. This is very on brand for you.

Wow. Wow. So you don't respect the jam band art on any level? I won't say that. You don't respect the idea of catching feels off the rhythm? If you're high on quaaludes, maybe. No, even sober, Luke. I'm trying to understand.

Dude, no one listens to the Grateful Dead sober and claims to like it. That's not what you do. I think people who used to get high still listen to the Grateful Dead and try to remember what it used to feel like, right? Which is fine. Dude, if you want to get high and listen to the Grateful Dead and just kind of zone out, whatever. I don't really have an issue. But you can't be, like, playing the music sober and be like, wow, isn't this great? No.

Okay, you want to talk about Pink Floyd? I can give you that argument that it's more of a drug ban. Grateful Dead sort of passes past that. Do they? You don't see the art in that? Who? Grateful Dead? The songwriting, the country rock influence, any of that.

Oh, you mean are they derivative of the various musical influences of their time and then combine it in a relatively unique way along with a traveling circus slash drug medicine show kind of vibe? Yeah, sure, they did all of that. Do I like that shit? No, I have ears. combine it in a relatively unique way along with a traveling circus slash drug medicine show kind of vibe. Yeah, sure. They did all of that. Do I like that shit? No, I have ears. Wow. You popped Jay in the back. That's fantastic. Wow. All right. Hey, you want to get into my top five? Yes, you have your top five. You didn't like any of my top five, which is fine. You're going to have to try this. This is absolutely fantastic. Never been a giant dogfish. This is the kind of fruity, hoppy IPA that I get down with. This is absolutely fantastic. I've never been a giant dogfish guy. Poe it up. Poe it up.

This is the kind of fruity, hoppy IPA that I get down with. This looks nice. It's got a little, what would you call it, a little pear almost to it? Yeah. Looks like TJ Dillashaw's urine. It's great. If it's got APO in it, I'm ready to have some. It's pretty good.

Come to my side of the tractor. It's pretty good. All right. I'll give that two thumbs up. It's good. All right. I'll give that two thumbs up. It's good. All right. I like that.

I like that. See, I'm amenable. You just have to produce quality. There's got to be somewhere in the middle. We come from such opposite sides of the tracks. This is good. This is good. You know, like people say, hey, when are you guys going to go to a concert together

and do a concert show? I don't know what band would be the perfect intersection of where we're at. Oh, what about a hip hop act? We could go to a hip hop show together, right? Possible. Right? I mean, I'm a little more of a 90s throwback guy. I don't know if you know, but... What'd you call the Wu-Tang?

Like, the quintessential 90s. You know, if we went to like a Rage Wu-Tang concert together... Which I went to in Atlanta, 1996. Yeah, those were some riots. It was the worst concert I've ever been to. Yeah, the one in Hartford at the Meadows. People burned the fence down, pissed all over the seats. It was great, yeah.

Yeah? Yeah, it was great. All right. Hey, why don't we get back into the show? My top five moments of 2019 of the year. Okay, let's bang. Let's start at number five. I call it 10 rounds of hell.

It was UFC 236 in Atlanta. I was Luke hashtag blessed to get to cover it that night. And in the end, you had the two fights of the year, number one and two, in my opinion, back to back in the co-main event and the main event, interim title fights in both, Adesanya Gastelum in the co-main, Poirier outlasting Max Holloway in the main event. And Luke, there's been what I like to call magic in the air at some fights, memorably. Do you remember UFC 217 at the Garden?

It was bang, bang, bang, three title fights in a row, insane endings. There's a high in the air that is just palpable. There was something special this night in Atlanta in these 10 rounds. There were two fights that really mattered. And we can argue all day whether Dana putting an unnecessary interim title bout and each one sort of raised the stakes, which was his goal when we sort of rightfully all week were like, this is ridiculous. You don't need these. In the end, it all worked out. I saw the reason why we watched this sport. I saw two fights that could be those fights when people say, hey, man, you're a boxing fan. You're like, yeah, man, I used to love it in the 90s. What's the fight that got you into it? Everybody's got that story. Everybody's got that Gotti Ward where you're like, you know, I wasn't a

big fan, but that one fight just pulled me in. There was something special in the air, and especially in Adesanya Gastelum, where it was not only the fight of the year, I thought, hands down, I think it's on the short list of the greatest fights in UFC history from the standpoint of two elite guys in their absolute primes. Kelvin Gastelum on one night put together the performance we had wanted him to put together for years, thought that that was possible. And then you had a guy, Nat Asani, like I mentioned earlier, who really had to critically prove that he had the backbone to stand up with his flashy style and his mouth and all that stuff. And it was a humbling three rounds of tactical war back and forth

and then two absolutely bat-chick crazy rounds of near submissions, near finishes, and then you just sprinkle on Holloway Poirier on the top of that. Which was the co-main event. It was one of those nights where you're there as a journalist, but you walk out of that arena at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. or whatever and go like, I'm the luckiest man in the world. I just got to experience that.

You don't get an Adesanya versus Gastelum every year, Brian Campbell, but I always try to tell people my first go-to, like all the credit in the world to Brian Stan, all the credit in the world to Vanderlei Silva, a lot of people that year, what was that, 2014 or so, they wanted to name that fight of the year. But I don't give it to brawls. But I don't need a brawl to get a fight that just checks all the boxes, which that fight did, where you have high-level technique, where you have back and forth, where their games just kind of fit together like a bit of a Tetris piece, and they can take advantage

of each other's weakness. And then somebody, somebody has to ask themselves, do I want it more? And they have to rise to the occasion, which you got at Israel Adesanya. And you also got this moment where you're like, is all that technique he has, is it just good for Flash? Or is there a real combative component to it? And you got the answer there.

To me, people are accusing MMA journalists of being like, oh, this is on your all-decade list. That's recency bias. That's normally a fair criticism. It's not here. It was something special that went down that night. By number four, moment of the year in 2019. It seems like almost years ago at this point,

but I don't know if you remember January of 2019, all everybody talked about were the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries, one on Netflix, one on Hulu. And for two days, it was viral as ish because of one man put it on the big screen jay the great andy king who was willing to take one for the team he was willing to suck dick wow wow wow so you think i put it on here because, oh, Campbell's the dong guy, all this stuff. No, Luke. Yes. It's very on brand. Yes, we had fun with these memes like crazy. But you know what? Shout out to Andy King. Shout out to the ideas of brotherhood, teamwork,

loyalty, family. This man was willing to risk it all. When I look around this room, okay, people don't realize that behind these cameras, there's a staff of like 12 hungry-ass people out there making it work for us. There's ladies in there. I get a lot of gross looks after I make jokes in the camera. But what I'm saying is I love these people. I like to believe that we got nothing but Andy Kings out here. All right? I'm not in the— What are they doing to you when I'm not around?

Not in the literal sense, necessarily, Luke. I mean more. They would metaphorically go to suck the guy's dick to get the water and go to the surprise festival. It sounds awful when you put it into those words. Yeah, it's an awful thing. But our guy Jake right here who doesn't know 90s music, that guy's the best. Andy King.

Jake, are you are andy king yeah damn right damn right so shout out to andy king for teaching us this year about teamwork okay about loyalty andy king just there he'll do it look at jake that guy's the best right there i love it all right my number three moment of the year it doubles as my knockout of the year in boxing does it it? Really? Deontay Wilder, Barclays Center. This spring, I was there, and he sent Dominic Brazile to where, Luke?

The land of wind and ghosts. To the bottom floor of hell with a one-punch knockout. Look, you may have loved his knockout over Luis Ortiz better. Hey, you may have loved Devin Haney against Antonio Moran. If you don't know that knockout, look it up. But for me, this personified in one punch who Deontay Wilder is, what he brings to the table as an attraction, one round, one punch,

clean knockout. But it wasn't just the knockout that I love. It was the reaction of those at ringside. Where were you? I was in that mix. Did you see the Showtime was able to zoom in afterwards on the reactions of people? You know Ray Flores, our Showtime commenter.

Yeah, I love Ray. You know his younger brother, Miguel, who does some ring announcing. Yep. He had the face of the year. Well, Andy King may have had the face of the year. But he had the face of the year. Jay in the back, can we get this queued up here on the reactions in the crowd here? This was insane.

But I think if you want to show somebody who Deontay Wilder is and what he's all about Luke this one highlight we don't have it okay apparently we don't have that's great this is a very it's great it's only this is a very good show it's only a showtime fight on a showtime show guys no problem at all right no really anyway Luke take my word for it there was jaws hanging down there was so much oh shit going on right so, because here is something none of those people could just understand, right? Deontay Wilder may have just killed a man, and that's boxing. That's actually the beer talk. I'm still thinking about Andy King doing what he had to do.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Not in that way, but more like, wow. Jay, you going to bail me out here, or are we going to? Dude, Jay, you and Jay today, LVPs. You two. You two. God. Jay, it and Jay today, LVPs. You two. You two. God.

Jay, it's Hanukkah season. No joy, no grace, no doing your job, nothing? He wore a Hanukkah sweater today. Did you see the Hanukkah sweater? I came in here so abruptly late bringing the goods. You did. All right. Hey, my number two, wow, what a missed opportunity for this show.

Here is his excuse. He's like, I don't have to go Flores on lock. Isn't that your job? Anyway, there's this zoom-in look of everybody going nuts. I'm in the middle of that. I'm the only guy with a straight face. I was a little concerned about Boobs Brazil there, all right? Why don't you call that to his face next time?

Yeah, all right. Here we go. Hey, my number two moment of the year. I got to be honest. It's people up in their feels about Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker. And one of those people is sitting next to me at this desk, nursing his first beer.

No, no, I've had this. Hey, bartender, Joe Boone. I'm reported. Joe Boone needs a refill. Fuck face, learn how to count. All right, here's the deal, Luke. I'm a hardcore Star Wars guy, okay? All right, nothing wrong with that.

All right, when I was three years old, I went to my grandparents' house every day. Star Wars Episode IV, I watched three nothing wrong with that. Alright, when I was three years old I went to my grandparents' house every day. Star Wars Episode IV I watched three times a day, every single day. I'm one of those hardcore originals. Episode IX, was it the way I would want the saga, the Skywalker IX episode series to end? Not necessarily. But was it jump off the cliff, call the whole franchise shit, pick it out the doors of Disney, call this franchise shit, just basically have an outrage that would have been equivalent to

when the prequels came out, yet we didn't have really an update on the internet at that point. Do you realize how bad the damn prequels were? Anybody who steps up today and tries to say, well, they're a little bit underrated. They're not actually as bad as you think. Marcos Villegas. They're an insult. Within that insult, there's some redeemable moments and story and all that. But largely, that's vegetable lasagna, the prequels. That's like something I think I like, but there's no meat in the middle of it. It's not geared toward me. Episode nine was hit and miss. Was it hit? It was hit and miss. From an in-theater experience, especially that middle third of the movie.

Were you sitting next to Andy King? Is that why it was a hit? I caught the old school feels. Can you stand up to this? Because you have spent a lot of time on radio, on YouTube, getting those clicks, cashing those dollars, buying those diapers with, oh my God, the sky has fallen.

I mean, it's a little nerd heavy here. Well, first of all, I count myself as a Star Wars nerd too. I think we share a mutual fandom. Let me ask you this real quickly. Have you watched at all The Mandalorian on Disney Plus? A few episodes. So you're not finished with it yet? Not finished. It gets really good at the end. I finished the last episode. You're going to love it. Okay. So I'm not out on all things Star Wars. In fact, the overwhelming majority of their content, the middle three, four, five, and six, I love for the most part in varying degrees. Mandalorian I loved. Force Awakens I was fine with.

Last Jedi I thought had its problems but was creative. Prequels were just... The prequels are for kids. I don't know. I mean, it's just shit. They're terrible. I don't know what else to say about them. Okay?

Here's the problem with this movie. It's twofold. One, it's objectively a bad movie. Two, the problem with it is, and here's my real bone of contention, I'm not suggesting to you, Brian, that the last movie, The Last Jedi, is some problem-free movie. It's got plenty of issues I didn't like. I didn't like the Mary Poppins Leia thing. I didn't like the ham-handed way they treated politics.

I didn't like how Snoke was just offed, and then that was the end of it. There was a lot of that that could go on. But those are three major ones that really stood out to me. However, what they did do with that movie, Rian Johnson in particular, he was right about essentially three core insights. Kylo Ren is not interesting as an emo bag of shit. He's only interesting as a guy who gives in to his own evil impulses. One. Two.

Dude, Star Wars, he was right. Goodbye to the First Order, goodbye to the rebellion, goodbye to everything. It was time for that shit to end. And that's the, no, no, let me finish. Dude, if there was anything that this last movie showed, it was that Star Wars went on way past its expiration date. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, this saga, this saga of, oh, let me finish. This style of storytelling. This saga went on way too long. And last, but not least, no, no, no, no. No, no, this saga, this saga of... Oh, let me finish. This style of storytelling. This saga went on way too long. And last but not least, the most important insight of all of this was... Look at the anger. In an era of the failure of our own institutions, of belief systems and the buildings that house them,

he took that insight and brought it to Star Wars, which I thought was fucking brilliant. He took a risk. He took a risk. I still believe. What they did was they said, you know what? We've got mouth breathers for audience who didn't like us taking a risk with our characters. Let's just, let's just. No, I don't hate that.

Let's just get the cover band back together and play all the hits. To some degree, I think you would agree. The failures of episode nine did kind of fix some of the failures of episode eight. They didn't fix any of them. Because it was like. They exacerbated them. No, I thought it actually fixed it to a certain degree. If I smash your car window and you tape it up with duct tape and drive around, did you

fix your window? All right, here we're going down a weird road right now. Right, right. All right, here's the point. You didn't fix anything. You just covered it up. I didn't love the final scene with... Oh, spoiler alert.

I didn't love the final scene with Palps. I didn't love Palpatine being back in the movie. I didn't love the final scene with Palps. I didn't love Palpatine being back in the movie. I didn't love him not being actually explained why he's back in the movie. Completely a punt and uncreated.

Oh, I got one lightsaber. I do say though, let me get two. I, being a hardcore nerd for years on this level, I do have limits.

I don't read the books. I don't go too deep. I did watch Rebels and all the other side of spin-off things. Clone Wars. But I've watched some nerd YouTube videos that sort of explain why the things that you think you hate in episode nine, watching it for the first time in the theater, actually fall in line

with the overall storytelling of the entire universe. Every time they do something interesting, they kill it off. You mean like cheap plot devices that you can see coming a mile away? In the end, the messages that the final half hour sent were actually the right ones. Execution was a little off, but the final scene, they nailed it. The final scene. It was the most...

The final message of it doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. It matters who you end up becoming. Is that really what it is? You could be born in Qatar. You can be bullied in old Marietta nothing. No way. You're Palpatine's granddaughter. You can be bullied in Old Marietta, Luke, but you can still get your own Showtime show. Hey, shout out to Miguel Flores right there.

That was my face when Brian Campbell was like, I didn't hate it. That guy looks like a Bermudan official when Andy King walks in the room, right? No, that's Andy King when the Bermudan official walks in. Oh, Bahamian. Sorry, Bahamian. All right. Yeah. Thanks, Jay.

Thanks for doing your job. No, the movie is just... It's a poorly made movie. And what people really wanted was they just wanted... Here's what... Look, I had disappointments, but on a whole... I understand. On a whole, it's 100 times better than the prequels.

Well, dude, that's not saying anything. That's not saying anything. Jay's trying to get us to go. People don't realize, though, what we have seen with Rogue One is how you can tell the modern Star Wars movie. All right? Hopefully, people will take that. See, we're mostly in alignment. have seen with Rogue One is how you can tell the modern Star Wars movie. All right? Hopefully. Hopefully. We're mostly in alignment. You're just too forgiving of poor craftsmanship. My number one moment of the year in 2019 in combat sports and beyond,

it's unity. And it's similar and it mirrors. Why is gay sex the theme through all of this? Wow. All right, let me restart. So my number one moment of 2019, Luke, is it really mirrors you and I, all right? Us coming together for this show, building this band of, this audience of just voracious viewers and listeners. What's your show about? Two dudes fucking. Here's the thing. You called Polish regional MMA tip on tip a yin and yang.

In some ways, Luke, you and I are that yin and yang. The dark side of the force and the light side, right? The twig and the berries, right? The tango and the cash. We come together to make something special so i wanted to commemorate this moment of polish regional mma finally coming to the forefront tip on tip reality it's a lifestyle it's a movement luke and really for this set's history although a woman on the train did ruin my my here to you. I wanted to commemorate this moment.

Is this real? In loving memory, Luke. Tip on tip, 2019 and forever. Did you really have a broken frame? Well, here's the deal. On my train ride in from hell, a lady sat on it. It's a true story. It happened.

Are you shitting me? But I can buy a cheap frame to replace that. Luke, this is really what it's all about. This is my moment of the year because it's not just these. Are they also smooching? I don't know if I remember that. Well, here this is really what it's all about. This is my moment of the year. Are they also smooching? I don't know if I noticed that. Well, here's the deal. It's not just broken glass everywhere.

It's not just the intensity of what's going on down below that, of course, you're fixated on. Check out the heart that they formed right here. Because really fighting and loving, there's a thin line between them. The intensity here. This is our Jay right here, this girl. This is our, this is like really, Luke, this is you and I, and this is the spirit of what we bring to the show.

Intensity in your face. The ying, the yang, the ding, and the dong. We should've started drinking before the show. And we really should, we should really put this on the set. Yeah, I'm fine with that. You know, do I have a nail up here at all, Jay? All right, all right.

Right here. So it can live on forever. Thank you. Luke, that's my top moments of 2019. I'm good with that. I'm good with that. How are your seven and a half beers? Doing pretty good here.

I like this. I like this. There's that. See, look, I'm a New England IPA. I'm a Connecticut guy. Let's look this out. We've got the Grim Patter as a half beers. Doing pretty good here. I like this. I like this. There's that. See, look, I'm a New England IPA. I'm a Connecticut guy. Let's sit this out. We've got the Grimm Patter as a Saison. Who drinks Saisons besides fucking Cicero's? Do you?

This is a... Duvel. I've never had... I usually like Duvel. I'm going to break into that. And then we got the Grimm Helio. This is the one I didn't want before. Who bought the Saison?

Fucking session beers? Really? All right, Luke. All right. Can you go to the next segment? Can we do this really? All right, Luke. All right. Can you go to the next segment? Can we do this? Yes, now we're going to do an extended DMs from dogs. I wanted to tell you something.

You're mad at me that I'm late to the party today. Super bitter at you, yes. You got a job. You got to get to. Oh, God. It's only the most important show of the year that you fucked up, but okay. I have. Have you seen the shit prepared if we have time?

We do not have time. So you ruin that. Motherfucker. Blame yourself. Take do not have time. So you ruin that. Motherfucker. Blame yourself. Take accountability, Andy King. After you leave, I'll do my own spinoff show, all right? Well, fine. You can do that, but you can't do it on this one.

All right, let's do this. DMs with donks. So the plan was... There's a piss pourer right here. Yeah, he didn't do that one well. The plan was to do this one we normally do, just an extended version. All right, so here we go. To you first, Brian Campbell.

This is from ZjohnSN. What's your favorite fight from 2019, MMA or boxing? All right, I've already established that Adesanya and Gastelum, which I was cage-side for, amazing. The fight of the year in boxing, it may not be off the tip of your tongue. Is that Spence Porter? No, it's not, which was a fantastic one. I had that number two.

It's Nonito Donair. Pouring out the jug at age 36 against Naio Inoue. We talked about it a couple weeks ago, but when you have a fight that matters so much, unification fight at 118 pounds, finals of the WBSS tournament with the Ali trophy and all that, but we thought it was a formality that the old guy

Donair was biting off more than he could chew. And at the same time, similar to Adesanya in that fight of the year, we knew Inoue was special because he's this Japanese guy who moves up in weight and knocks fools out time after time again, but nobody had tested him until now. Nonito Doneri came down two weight classes from where he had been fighting in recent years. Didn't he get injured in the fight too? He did, and he fought, I'm sorry, it was Inoue who got injured.

Inoue got injured, yes. With a broken eye socket, and he fought through it, and they had a round from hell in round 11 in which Donair got dropped by a body shot when he had no business getting back up from. The spirit, the character that they showed, that's one of those hardcore delights. It's hard not to feel that.

And Luke, I know that you don't get down with Australian boxing. You've probably never even heard of Jeff Horn. Michael Zarafa, too. Oh, no, I didn't hear that one yet. There's a round, round nine. It's one of the best rounds of the last 10 years, I think you should check out. Very Corrales Castillo-like. The Australian version, a little bootleg, but it's fine.

It's great. Okay, fair enough. I'll go with you on the Adesanya Gaslum 2019, and then I'll go Spence Porter for boxing. That one was... High-speed chess, baby. I was waiting for Spence to break, and he just never did. No, how is it?

Here, pour me some. I can't get through the head yet. All right, that's kind of... That's what Andy King said. That's great. That's great. Okay. Why did you pour it like a gorilla?

Very Darren Till of me. All right. So Kyle... That's hoppy. I like that. Yeah. Kyle Kurosi says, Why does Bellator seem to

struggle when it comes to cultivating new talent? Some of the biggest names over there are fighters who got their fame in other organizations. They said Rory in the UFC, Fedor in Pride. What do you think? It's not quite true. So for example, Coker's methodology is sign from the top down, groom from the bottom up. One guy they have, there's a bunch of guys coming up. First of all, Dylan Danis is still very new. I don't know if he's going to be a big deal, but here's my point. If you actually look at that welterweight division now that Rory's gone, you've got Dylan Dennis, Logan Storley, Ed Ruth. You've got a lot of guys who are young, and I don't know if they're all going to work out, but they don't all need to. There's just a whole lot of youth there. Patrick Mix, I think,

fought already on the belt, or he's fighting tonight. I can't remember which night he's fighting, but they've got a bunch of... How about AJ McKee? They've got a bunch of interesting guys who are coming up in this featherweight tournament. Adam Boric, the whole nine yards. So I actually dispute the premise to a degree. Well, can I bring the TBT, the two-bear truth,

to this conversation, Luke? Please, by all means. All right, here's the deal. If Bellator consistently grown legitimately top level elite prospects already drunk you're already slurring i'm not there's no sluration behind deprivation all right without representation um sorry i don't listen to hip-hop go ahead i did not have relations with that woman um ultimately luke if they were great they'd leave bellator bellator is better off sort of picking out the somewhat flawed potential rising star,

the MVP, to be honest, who once again fought an Uber driver on Saturday, and it was fun watching. It was a UFC event he fought. He can still operate a vehicle, all right? And it was fun watching. That's your favorite insult. You know, look, Michael Chandler is like part of the fabric of that company, Luke. Never made the leap to UFC, yet is going to be fun every time he goes in there.

Dude, why would he go when he can make good money and have all the sponsors? So the answer to that question is they have their own version of that, all right? And certainly Aaron Pico had the potential to be massive and still has if he can put the train back on the tracks. But I would think the more flawed the top-range prospect is for them, the more likely they can keep him. I would argue that they sign him a lot younger, so it's a lot more uncertainty and volatility in whether the prospect will work out. By the time you get signed to the UFC, you might be still a prospect,

especially if you came off, like, Contender Series or something. But Bellator will sign you at 1-0, make your pro debut. So you might get someone who ends up being a jackpot. You might get a lot of misses. AJB Key looks like he might be a bit of a jackpot. My blood alcohol level, though, much bigger than yours. Every time the camera goes to you, I'm taking down half a glass. I could drink all of this and not get drunk.

You don't understand who you're dealing with here. Okay, this comes to us from Brandtendo64. To both of you. That's a hell of a name, right? Not bad, actually. If you had to fight yourself as you were at the beginning of this decade, who would win? Present you or past me? That's actually a good question.

It's based on fitness levels. It's based on mindset. It's based on knowledge of certain... 30-year-old me would wipe the floor with me. I would kick the shit out of 20- and 30-year-old me. Would you really? I really would. At 41...

20, maybe. Not 30. of 20 and 30 year old me would you really I really would have 41 20 maybe not 30 I don't think I had the the scars in life yet to really know who I was like I do now all right been there and back Luke okay you know I'm saying I don't believe you Wow you want to test me is this where this is going look you know you don't want a shot at the title, bro. Trust me when I tell you. You're going to show up in a gi next week? Is that what's going on?

Gi in a gi. Like, how like Gracie. You ever seen that rap video? No. You don't know what I'm talking about? I don't. Is it from the 90s? Holy shit.

Are you serious? Go. If you have not seen this, Google G, like there's the letter G, G in a gi. How like Gracie, the Metamorris guy, had a rap video. Sounds a little nerdy. I usually play the hits like De La O or Get the Fuck Out of the Komodo. Whatever you think Henry Cejudo does in cringe, it's another order of magnitude above that. I'm a big third base fan.

I don't know if you can guess that from looking at me. Pop the Weasel? Weasel Goes Pop? All right. Anton Booth 11 says, will boxing and MMA cross-promote again in the next decade? What do you think? Yeah, of course. It can't be forced, though.

It's got to be perfect. Mayweather-McGregor was an absolute perfect storm. And again, talking about it, people are like, yeah, I know Mayweather-McGregor. I don't think people really actually realize how perfect of a storm that fight was to come together when it did. I do think it'll happen again because there's money to be made there. You just have to wait for timing, and you need the right willing participants.

Did you see Canelo was like, yeah, I'd fight Jorge Masvidal. Don't do it. You don't believe it? Well, would he do it? Yeah, of course. If Jorge Masvidal was willing to come to the zone and fight Canelo, Canelo would be like, yeah, of course, I'll knock this dude out. But I don't think that would be smart for UFC and Masvidal to do that.

One thing that was really weird to me was he was like, oh, I want to get this fight, and then he just posted a picture of him hitting the speed bag, you know? And I was like, and people were like, damn, look at them hands. And don't get me wrong, Jorge's got great boxing, and the speed bag work was nice, but it's like, dude, every pro boxer knows how to hit a speed bag. I don't understand what that was supposed to show. Anytime you mix MMA versus boxing, people will come because there's a curiosity, but you have to understand they were able to sell that McGregor had a chance

to half of the people on the globe, including Brendan Schaub. Taking shots at Brendan? Well, look, you know. I thought he always picked Mayweather in the end. No. I thought his whole argument was Mayweather will win, but Conor has a much better chance. Look, in respect to Brendan Schaub, Conor was on such a ride of magic, and I know people hate when I say that, right? And you look at the scouting report, what the

hell is magic? He was on such a ride of doing what he said he would do, and Mayweather was two years removed from retirement, so there was sort of that question mark. I was never going to pick McGregor or think. I'm just saying you had an ability to fool the public. No one's going to believe Mozaville could be Canelo. I'm going to show this to Brendan and see what he thinks. I could have sworn he picked. You trying to set up a rolling session between me and Brendan? We're going to see what happens. Bro, come on.

He was fucking smoking like salmon. I was talking about smoking. All right, here we go. More likely to happen from Bobby Adkins, Luke goes with Brian to a pro wrestling show. I'd rather get HIV shot in my eyeballs. Oh, stop. Or Brian goes with Luke

to a concert. What do you think? Let's do the concert. I just don't know. I don't think the concert's that hard. What's our middle ground? Is it Rage Against the Machine?

Is that our middle ground? Great. Is it Pearl Jam? No, Pearl Jam, but Rage Against the Machine, I'm all in. All in. I'd happily go.

I love Rage Against the Machine. I don't know if All in. I'd happily go. I love Rage Against the Machine. I don't know if we would match up and meet in the middle anywhere else. I can't believe we wouldn't match up on hip-hop. Really? Okay, you wouldn't go to a Pusha T show? Well, you have to understand, Luke, and I'm a connoisseur of music. Oh, are you? I just really want to put that out there.

Is that what you are? You know, hip-hop shows are the worst, and I've seen many. They're terrible. They're the worst. They're terrible. So when I want to see art form displayed like that, I think that's why you're missing the boat on not understanding the jam genre. Oh, is that what it is?

Is that's really the art of music splashed on your wall. Very similar here. All right, let's keep going, because we're going to have just enough time for Have You Seen This Shit. We don't have time for Have You Seen This Shit, dude. I have shit to do. Look, I will get you. By the way, did we not agree yesterday on the show call? We're not going to do Have You Seen This Shit? That's the thing. What makes this show good is the constant tension of power between us. There is no tension. It's like the last of the

line for Guns N' Roses. Remember Axl? Axl wanted to basically become Elton John. He wanted piano driven rock. And Slash and other guys were like, what the hell are you doing, dude? We're grimy rock stars. That's you and I right now. Someone has producer credits. Someone doesn't. King.J. Did you see him draw that sword like he's Iron Sheik in 84? I think that's great.

King.J.07 says, name your fave Adam Sandler movie and your movie of the year. Fave Adam Sandler movie, go. The answer is Billy Madison, but I'm going to put a but here, all right? I don't know if I like that. It hasn't aged well.

It hasn't aged to the like of... When you say age, you meant like the movie was over and you were like, wow, I'm not brain damaged. No, here's how I'll say it. I think this movie's bad. I can watch Tommy Boy, for example, from the Farley Library today and laugh as hard and real as I did in 1995, all right?

Billy Madison in 1994 was so freaking good. I was a sophomore junior in high school around there. I saw it four times in the theater. Do you know the amount of movies I've seen four times in the theater? E.T., Christmas Vacation, and Return of the Jedi are the only three I've ever seen four times in a theater. Luke, it was the epitome of who I am, Billy Madison. You go back and watch it today at 41, it can be a little hit or miss, but I'm a big Sandler guy. There's some late model offers

that he's put out there. Have you seen Bedtime Stories with your wife and kid? It's not bad. Have you seen Click? I've heard that's good. I'm not seeing it. Because, I would say, if I'm a best comedy that Adam Sandler's done, I'm going to go Waterboy. It's fantastic.

I like Waterboy better. I mean, dude, the golf one is all-time. Okay. I won't go wrong. It's fine. Happy Gilmore, yeah. Happy Gilmore. But really, his best movie that I've seen to date is Punch Drunk Love, which is a P.T.

Anderson movie. I've actually never seen that one. Dude, it's fucking awesome. It's really, really good. People are like, oh, he does a serious role in Uncut Gems. He does that in Punch Drunk Love, actually. Don't ever watch The Cobbler on Netflix starring Adam Sandler. I've not seen it.

There's a twist at the end that I... Fucking shoe repair salesman? It's a horror movie at the end. He repairs shoes? He kills folks. That's what a cobbler is. They just fucking repair shoes? I know what the hell a cobbler is, Luke.

What's your movie of the year? Let me get you out of the Skywalker. I know what the hell a cobbler is, Luke. What's your movie of the year? Let me get you guys a Skywalker. I don't really go to movies anymore, you know? My movie of the year, I'm going to say is Shadow, which is a Chinese sort of martial arts movie, and not exactly, but it's shot monochromatically and is just brilliant.

It's an absolutely brilliant movie. Shoplifters is another one, a Japanese movie that I saw that was really good. You got one? Keep it rolling. Keep it rolling. I've got to have time for this shit. We're going to have to skip some of these because we don't have time.

So, Jay, in the back, just sort of be on your ass here. Let's go to OG Spicy Brown. Between Luke and Brian, who would last longer in Naked and Afraid? Have you seen that show? Oh, many, many a time. Now, would you last longer than me in Naked and Afraid? Have you seen that show? Many, many a time. Now, would you last longer than me in Naked and Afraid? I don't have high potential in that show. I'm going to be honest with you.

Why's that? I would think I would be a little bit soft in that, certainly in the naked idea. Even on a show like Survivor on CBS that I've watched forever. I don't think I have what it takes. In that category, you're a little bit more hardened to life. You're an ex-Marine. No such thing as an ex-Marine. You're sort of, in general, borderline

on your personality level at all times. You could snap at any point. Have I ever snapped on you? And those type of people do well with nothing. Yeah, I'd probably do okay naked and afraid. I was also a Boy Scout, too. That should become no surprise. Together, though, I don't know.

I'd sit on a cactus by accident. Some bad things would happen. Probably. All right, next one. Edwin's Picture asks, what are your tips for a first date? I haven't had many first dates that have gone all the way to the tip. You? You're worse than Osama Bin Laden. I just want you to know that.

You're worse than Osama Bin Laden. Do you not have any tips for the incels who watch the show? You may come as a shock. I wasn't a great dater. How did you meet your wife? MySpace. No way! She hates when I tell that story, though.

Who cares? In this modern age, no one gives a shit anymore. The ring's on. Who cares at this point? It's pretty cool. All right. What about you? Do you at a protest or a... Protest. Bitch, please. You rally around the family with a pocket full of shells? No. We used to work together briefly. Corrections Institute? Oh, shit. That'd be awesome, wouldn't it? family with a pocket full of shells? No. We used to work together briefly.

Corrections Institute? Oh, shit. That'd be awesome, wouldn't it? Hey, you ready for viral videos to close this? Okay, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Before we do that. Alright, it's 1.24. I'll make a deal with you. I'm being dead serious, dude. I don't have fucking time to play around. You can get us out by 1.30. I can do it. Oh, damn right. Alright, let's hit it.

You ready for six minutes of fury? Six minutes of fury. Jay in the back, can you give me a heads up that we're alive, we're good? Oh, God. Have you seen this shit? I do not like that. The good... You don't like that? That triple?

I can get it done with that. The good, bad, the ugly in combat sports over the past two weeks, Luke. Hey, we start with a viewer on Instagram. Us with two S's versus them. Hit me up and said, hey, do you think Luke has an uncanny resemblance to the Marvel's newest sketch of Mr. Fantastic for 2020? That's Luke freaking Thomas right there. What do you think, bro?

He's got the salt and pepper. He's got the creepily long limbs. I won't vouch for that. Is there a pro wrestler named Paul Lazenby? Not that I know of. From Canada? He one time said I looked like Peter Parker's boss in Spider-Man. I don't know, but that guy looks pretty jacked too, Luke.

You used to be a power lifter before pregnancy. Yeah, now I'm just fucking dying slowly. Well, yeah, I look a little bit like Mike Schur. All right, have you seen this shit, Luke? We always claim we go around the globe. South Africa, there's a heavyweight named Ruan Visser. He's getting ready. He's warming up.

He's ready for the big fight. Oh, my God, he's over the top rope. Luke, eliminated from the Royal Rumble, just like that. His two feet hit the floor, right? How tall is he, bro? I don't know much about this guy, but that's embarrassing. You can't come back from that. Well, look at his opponent.

His opponent's just like. I don't stand for that. Who wants Chinese? All right, hey, let's go to regional low-level MMA. This could be middle America. This could be Omaha, as far as I know. Oh, sent to hell, and look at the cage hold him up, Luke! Dude, he turned into a doorstop.

You know what he turned into when you catch a fish, and then you mount it up, and you put it there? Bop. Oh, wow. Freeze. That's bad, but I guess that's why the wall, the cages are there. What dances? Oh, wow. Freeze. That's bad. But I guess that's why the cages are there. What dance is that? Oh, is that an American dance?

That might be. Did it rain after that? I don't know. Bop. Was that racist? I don't know. All right. Well, if he's getting back at the white man, you sort of have to cheer him on.

Hey, we're going to go over to Glory. You told me about this guy, Alex Pedeta. He once sent Adesanya to hell, and now he won't stop sending everyone else. Glory Champ Champ. Glory Champ Champ, who is getting back into MMA? Is this true? So they wanted to, and then Glory made him a big-ass offer to not do it. That he couldn't refuse? Bop, bop. Hold that, bitch.

Look at the way he sent that. So the way he touches people and they just go away, it kind of reminds me of college. I actually began covering him when he did Glory's Last Man Standing thing, and I knew he was good, but he didn't appear to be like a world beater. He's only become a world beater in the last few years or so. He just like became amazing, as you just do this for. Like this segment. All right, Luke, we're gonna go from there.

Here come the ball hit me. There's an old, there's an old set, hold on. That one tastes like balls. Look at this guy Kinger coming in right here, right here. I know. Is that a TMT sweatshirt that he's wearing? That's a ball. All right, I got to get back into the haze.

I like how you had like 50 IPAs with fruit in it, and you had one fucking Belgian beer. Luke, the history of Luke Thomas' life, never happy. All right, here we go, Luke. That's actually true. There's a saying that the old people use. It's called from the lip to the cup. And I know you don't know what that means. But this guy's trying to measure that distance.

Check it out. Check it out. Check it out. It's a little trick you can play on your friends, Luke, all right? If you had some. What do you think of that? Nothing? No cell?

A little no cell from Thomas? You're five years old. All right. That guy took it hard, though, right? Let's see. One Thomas? You're five years old. All right. That guy took it hard, though, right? Let's see. One more time. Raises it up. Get the correct measurements.

Lets it walk. Bop. Pretty good fall he took. Well, I popped the back. If I can pop the control room, then you know I'm doing well. All right. Let's go to another regional MMA where anything can happen to regional MMA. I mean, people come from under the canvas.

Look at this. Grounded pound finish. Ref wakes the guy up. The guy, he's back. He's back. Look at the ghost. He's back. Look at the ref's takedown defensive guillotine.

He tapped him. Somebody break that up. What is going on here? Whoa, dude. Wow. Look at this regional Mazzagati over here. And the ref is smiling like i got that bitch yeah well he put that guillotine on on on hard right time it is yeah damn holy shit man you ever want

to get high with josh rosenthal oh desperately you know he's got fucking dank come on yeah all right hey we're gonna go go to the Dubai CrossFit Championships. Hey, remember Polish MMA started this thing about tip on tip. It was a revolution. Look at this celebration, Luke. You down with this? This is not how we greet each other. Luke, there are people, and I'm not saying

I want this, by the way. I want to put that out there. That people think if we can get to 100,000 YouTube subscribers, that you and I are going to go TOT. And I am not in on this. I don't even understand that. It's like I want Brian and Luke to, like, to fuck each other. Why would you want that?

Luke, we're going to have to edit that part out afterwards. I don't even understand. I just don't even understand, like, what the appeal would be. All right. Okay. All right. Hey, thanks for blowing the spot. Hey, let's move on here.

A lot of people train for fights in very different ways, Luke. I mean, Luke, this is called a hit in the bag. I think you got some of the shaft too. Look, when it comes to preparing for a fight, Luke, I don't know if this is an adult movie

or what's going on here? Hey, Dylan Danis putting that on the interwebs, though. You? You into that? Nothing. We got nothing from Thomas right now. I don't know what to say. I don't know.

I literally don't know what to say. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Woo! Woo! Woo! All right. Hey, we're just going to let that play.

Jay, Jay, big fan of that one. Jay. Hey, do you know this? How did we get this job? You know that Jay has three kids? There's no way they know what daddy does for a living. Oh, God. All right.

Hey, let's close with this. This is a little bit old, but I've had this saved on my phone for so long. This is Kevin Connors and Andre Ward, ESPN Boxing. Look at Strange Brew 2.0 popping up. These guys are my heroes. Look at these guys. Look at the choreography, the placement. That's brilliant, right?

It's like you and me right now if you only had a beer. Salud. You know, when I was young, I really pretty much aspired to be those guys. That's where you and I differ. That's where our lives part ways. Luke, have you seen that shit? I have seen that shit. All right, all right.

Is that the show? Hey, do you want to say something really nice about our audience? Our overlords? First of all… Because we don't cash those checks. Here's the thing. I want to say nice things about Showtime, and I will, but my hunch is the people who are mad at the most at Showtime, they don't know what we're up to.

Because if they saw someone shadowboxing off a dong, we'd be fired tonight. Oh, hey, we got fan mail. We got fan mail here. What is this? Hold on. I'm not going to open it. I'm not going to open it. Let me see. I'm going to open it.

I'm not going to open it. It's from Ireland. Dude, there's going to be like... There's going to be powder in there, right? Yeah, there's going to be smallpox in this. All right. Although I've got smallpox vaccines. Remember in 2001, people were milling each other powder and panoply?

Yeah, yeah. Maybe we get some of that. Dude, I was in the military to take this vaccine. All right, we got a card here from Ireland. Let me see. We got a shout-out to me, too. Hold on. Hold on.

There's room for everyone on the nice list, even you. Shout-out to Elf. And this is where you get AIDS. Wow, look at this. To Luke and Brian, thanks for all the great content in 2019. Can't believe it's free. Yeah. Morning Combat is an outstanding show.

I'd say more nice things, but Jay is in my ear telling me to finish up. God. Have a great Christmas and superb 2020. All the best. Dez from Cork, Ireland. That is great. Bitch, we are worldwide right now. That is great.

That's what I'm talking about right there. Wow, what a card. Dez, our number one fan., all right? That is great. That's what I'm talking about right there. Wow, what a card. That is our number one fan. And that really is real, man. Like, the postage on this thing, that's real. I love that shit, all right? How come they gave it to you and not to me? Luke, we can't have a show unless we have people so...

Also, how did he find the fucking address? That's a good point. This is a... That's a little unusual, right? This is a random bunker here in Jersey. Did he find the actual address? Bro, he got it right on the, like, he got it down perfectly. He must have called somebody.

I don't know. That's a little sketch. Maybe he's watching us right now from your laptop viewfinder. Maybe that little hole at the top. It's a nice card, though. All right. All right. Hey, shout out to Des right there.

Shout out to all the weird people. All right? All the lonely people. Where do they all come from? They show up and watch. damn show. And I love it, Luke. Because here's the thing. I would do this over the phone with you for free. I don't believe that, but we are getting paid. So it's a nice thing to say. I mean, look, here's the reality. Who gets paid to do this? And who does this in combat sports? Seriously, serious question. Most people in combat sports are putting out cringe content. Yeah. Most people in combat sports are nerds.

But then there's a couple of cool people that when they get together, they produce something better. But in all seriousness, this audience is unlike any other audience, I think, for any other show. This show is unlike any other show that we have in combat sports. Yeah, you're damn right. And we're only trying to take it to the next level

in 2020. 2019 was a great year for us. We did, what episode is this, 24? We got to get the fuck out of here. Look, I mean, the microphone explodes, shattering the mold, right? I mean, that's what we do on this show. Get the, right? Yeah. Get the F out of the commode, right?

It's going to be a, it was a great year. I can't thank Showtime enough for this opportunity. If this is our last episode, which there's many reasons why it could be, there's a broken frame picture of two guys touching dongs over there. That will be our legacy, Brian Campbell's infestation of dick touching. I will say this. Shout out to Andy King for teaching us about teamwork. Shout out to our crew, all these people behind here.

Round of applause for everybody. Yes. All right. Ashley didn't clap because. I just raised my hand. Yeah, but that doesn't really count, does it? It doesn't really count. Yeah.

What are you going to do? I love this shit. Luke, do you know when we signed up for this? I know because I gave you a phone call being like, don't do anything. I've got a great offer coming. I was like, you know what? Remember that?

Remember that phone call? This is another thing that I do, and it's great. But now... Then it became the best... Now it defines your life. The best thing going, Luke. Salute to you, Brian Campbell. This is a real moment, people.

Even when you ruin shit by being 30 minutes late. All right. That's pretty good. You want to do it Colombian style real quick? Yeah, what does that mean? Does that mean where we get high and shoot each other? That's actually your drugs, not Colombia's drugs. One more time.

Ready? I'll show you. So you got to go. It's up, down, inside, back. This is very Danny Segura right here. Yeah, but you know what? It's a good luck thing. How about that? Okay. Okay. So, parriba, you got to clink. Pabajo, clink. Pacentro, clink. Parantro, take it. Us Lithuanians, we just touch dongs and drink it, Luke. All right? All right. That's what we do, okay? It's a simpler time over there in the Baltic States.

All right. So here's our social. You can see it on the... They're going to put it up here. If you want to follow us, give us a... Hey, do you want to... Hold on, fucker. If you want to follow us on all this stuff for, let's see, Twitter, for Instagram, and

then, of course, give the video a thumbs up and then subscribe to the channel. Tell folks about this show. Please do. Please, please, please, please. Anything else you want to say before we go? Because I have to get out of here. What number do we have to get to subscriber-wise before we can unleash Jay on the masses?

Ooh, 75K. 75K. All right. Not quite to the 100K. He can be seen at 75K. But until then... Did you know he's a director? He stays at The Wizard of Oz.

He's a singer-songwriter. He's a... Well, he's mostly mediocre. He's a podcast co-host. Yeah know he's a director he stays at the Wizard of Oz he's a singer songwriter he's a well he's mostly mediocre he's a podcast co-host yeah he's mediocre what are you gonna do alright

thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed 2019 as a combat sports fan as well as an audience member of this show that is Brian Campbell I'm Luke Thomas

until next time wait what Jay what the fuck Jay why are you interrupting me on my fucking sign off oh fuck Brian Campbell there's Brian Campbell Wait, what, Jay? What the fuck, Jay? Why are you interrupting me on my fucking sign-off? Oh, fuck Brian Campbell. There's Brian Campbell.

I'm Luke Thomas. Until next time. No, fuck it. May all your games be loyal, bitches. We'll be you next time.