The Ariel Helwani Show - Sean Strickland banned from UFC White House card? Tom Aspinall not invited? | The Boys in the Back

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

After reading your five-star podcast reviews (04:02) and tackling some news and notes (08:03), The Boys in the Back react to Sean Strickland claiming he was banned from attending the UFC White House card (11:53), leading to a back-and-forth with headliner Justin Gaethje. Tom Aspinall also came out and said he wasn't invited to attend the event. The Boys then preview UFC Vegas 118 (39:20) and give their picks (1:07:21), before delivering their P4P worst mic moments (1:12:45). The show closes with your voicemails (1:45:19) and Super Chats (2:14:54).

But boys in the back But boys, boys, boys, boys, boys, boys. What is good! We are back with another episode of The Boys in the Back on a beautiful sunny June 4th. Here in New York City, some are saying it's the basketball capital of the world, the New York Knicks victorious last night in game one of the NBA finals.

I am one-third of the boys in the back, Connor Burke. Turn alongside me. the New York Nick himself It's Mr. Eric Jackman Be honest, how happy were you when Jalen Brunson was heading to the locker room last night? No, I don't care. Are you giddy?

No, I have many more Nick's friends that would be happy if they won. I have two people in my life, Ariel and my boy Jake, who are like rabid, die-hard fans. And when I saw Jalen Brunson head to the back, I was like, oh, God, this is, this is tough. I know I'm wearing the Knicks jacket right now. I am not a Knicks fan.

I've gotten, I've collected some Nix gear over the, over the years because of fight feasts, plus they have sick gear. But I am a Nix supporter in the finals. I want to see this city on fire. I want to see them put up a banner. I want to see the parade. I want to see this place burned to the ground. It would be more beneficial to my life if the Nix won. It's just because I am not a Nix fan.

Be cool to see, man. Wearing this around New York, like, you would think I'm the mayor, the end of the next. amount of like, ah, hey, go next, man, I'm just like dapping up people.

More or less than when we were walking around Seattle and Sonic's jackets? Less than that, surprisingly. That's how powerful the Sonics were.

Shout out to Seattle. Shout out to the muck. That we wore Sonics jackets and we were the kings of that place. New York Knicks are off of a

finals victory last night. An upset finals victory in game one on the road, and it wasn't even a third of what we got when we were in Seattle.

That's a great point by you. I didn't even think about that. I was just Mr. Cool, like on the train. Everyone was like, sick jagging, man, go next. I was like, I'm not even a Knicks fan, dude. Go Hawks, fuck you.

Go Hawks, you guys actually eliminated my team this year. But they do have some sick stuff. Frank, how are you doing in the back, man? I'm doing great, man. We got some Mediterranean food for lunch. Yeah. It was delicious. Yeah.

You are the final third of the boys in the back. But I mentioned it's a beautiful June afternoon here in New York City, which means we've got some summer interns, the boys in the bag. now have boys in the back. Look at him. We got Jack. Oh, boys. We got Josh.

Hit the new drop, Frankie. What do we got to? Give me a fucking break. Not that one. The mic on, John, hanging with the boys. Hang it with the boys. You know what?

We need, I'll read the rookies in the rafter. We need something. You guys need a name. You need an alliteration name. That's the homework assignment. That's what we got to figure out here. We need an alliteration name.

You know what the issue is there's not many I words. The interns in the, I don't know. I will brainstorm over the weekend and we'll be back. I like IITB, interns in the back. I think it's pretty good. Interns in the back? We only believe in alliteration here. You can only have a phrase if it's, you know, lads in Los Angeles, men in the muck, boys in the back.

This is so great. I was thinking the boys in the back of the boys in the back, but I mean, maybe that's too much of a mouthful. It's a little bit of a mouthful, but I'm sure, you know, Frank could get us a drop or something like that. Yeah, B-I-T-B squared, maybe. The boys in the boys in the back? The boys in the back of the boys in the back. Boys and turn the back? How about like the boys in the further back?

Yeah. The boys in and then parentheses turn the back. We'll workshop this. We'll workshop this. We've got all summer to think on it. None of these are winners so far. That is one of effectively. We're going to come up with something.

We're going to come up with something. Either way, we appreciate you guys being here. Shout out to Jack. Shout out to Josh. Shout to Syracuse. Shout to Syracuse, yeah. I guess that's the direct uncrowned pipe. That's the tie, as they call it.

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get to all that, but let's start with some news and notes. And the people of Canada, to the north you can rejoice in 2027 Paramount Plus is headed your way. No more pay-per-views for the Canadians. Exciting news from the UFC. Numbered event main cards live on Paramount Plus in Canada. I mean, if you're, now I don't know what that means for the fight nights and everything like that, but it feels like you're not going to be paying pay-per-view prices anymore. I feel like it will all be shifting over and, you know, the most interesting part of this is the alignment potentially of the UFC's rights. TKO did this previously with WWE, where right now UFC has a deal with this territory, this territory,

this territory, right? But if you align your rights and most of them expire around the same time, right, there could be few exceptions that you have to pick up later. If the U.S. rights, the Canadian rights, the Australian rights, and some of the European rights all expire at the same time, when you're in negotiations, you can't. go to a partner like say a Netflix and say, do you want to have global rights, right? A global distribution platform. And so this is, you know, business 101, smart strategy by them to kind of just say,

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Yeah. No pain. No worrying about anything like that. The White House card is just about 10 days away. And we are getting rapidly updated pictures of the South Lawn and what it's going to look like. The claw is essentially done. It looks like you see all the light panels, everything on top of it. They're building the stands underneath. I don't know what's going on. Is there like some sort of fancy dinner going on on the lawn? The stands looks like it's going to hold like they're saying, like, you know, three. See, the tables, that's where the bugs were. The bugs were at the table. What are the tables?

That looks kind of nice. I can't lie. It's probably for something else entirely. Like, because I don't think they'd put linen on something weeks ahead of time. Why does that server look so small there? Yeah. I think the claw is pretty big. Some AI shit.

No, but he looks small compared to the chairs. Oh, well, they're just extra large checks. There's a big perspective. No, but he looks like he's like one inch tall. That's a woman. Yeah. Oh, she. Sorry, it's very small on the screen. It's in them, and they look very small.

They can do whatever they want. Maybe they're just small. Imagine being like, oh, I'm going to the White House. They invited me for dinner on the South lawn. It's going to be so magnificent, and you get there, and you just have construction behind you. Nah, you're at the White House. Who gives a fire? Oh, the cloth's fucking sick.

Be for real. That thing's never coming down. Like the Eiffel Tower. It actually does look sick. I can't lie. I just, is the, like, the American flag that we see, is that a video board, or is that stagnant? I think that's stagnant I don't think it's a video board

It wouldn't be on the whole time already Makes sense Makes sense that it wouldn't be on Yeah But it would be cool if it was a video board Like a monitor and they were just displaying Different things as people came on right It could be

What do you need to display other than the red weather flags? Colors No other flags Since this is staying up forever Do they just demolish the apex And just build like a fence around this To it's like This is Washington D.C. Jordan

This is not Las Vegas Wow It's not the fight capital of the world. Either way, it looks cool. Be nice. Be nice. I'm getting excited. We're about 10 days. The knee jumps are so good.

10 days away from UFC Freedom 250. They showed the stands there. Someone who will not be in those stands in peers is one Sean Strickland, the middleweight champion of the world right now. Yesterday, they posted Cyril Ghan, UFC being they posted Cyril Gahn and Alex Pereira preview, hype up video for the White House. Sean Strickland jumped in the country. comments. UFC at the White House with BB in the audience straight and then an Israeli flag emoji slop, BB obviously referring to Benjamin and Yahoo. To be fair, they did ban me, but when you make fun of the leaders of America, they tend to be a little petty lull by leaders,

I mean Israel. A couple of people tweeting at him. He responds. Yes, somebody asked, why are you banned? Why are you banned? I made fun of Israel and Epstein. response to another guy, the only male American champ banned at the White House because I said Trump is owned by BB. That's not public opinion. It is fact. So obviously, once that was posted, people got screenshots of it. It started going pretty viral that he wasn't going to be able to go. So Sean Strickland continued to address it, doling out a sarcastic apology. Here is that video. I'm not surprised, but I got the call. I got the call. I got the call. The UFC high reps called me, you know, big names.

They said, Sean, I got to apologize. But you're not Israeli enough to go to UFC 250 Israel edition. The White House in it clear, yeah. And I'm not really surprised, you know. Moving forward, I would like to just apologize to Israel. I'd like to say I'm sorry, you know. I'd like to apologize to Trump. And I just want to prove that I'm Israeli enough for you guys.

Like, for instance, you know, whenever the list like disappear and Trump goes out there says to everybody that he can't really go into it because people that by association will get prosecuted and like their names will be tarnished, I want to apologize because, you know, I don't want them to be prosecuted. You know, when Trump goes and bombs the fuck out of Iran that no Americans agree with, they cost Americans five to $15,000 to $15,000 to go fight Israel's war, I want to apologize. Sorry, I've been a critic of that, you know. Or when Trump goes out there and says, hey, Trump, your approval ratings are the lowest that's ever been across all. demographics and Trump says well you know what I have a 99% approval rate in Israel I want

to apologize and I want to repent and I want to repent you know apparently I'm not American enough to go to Freedom 250 yes I already bought my plane ticket we're fucking going I'm gonna bring the belt I'm gonna get a big fucking bullhorn and we're gonna go right up to the gates if you guys isn't gonna be there let's fucking go not in a threatening way we're gonna do a peaceful protest outside with the bullhorn so you know FBI don't I'm coming to my house. Very, very peaceful. I actually don't doubt that he would do that, and I don't doubt that he could get a strong contingent of people to come with him to the gates of the White House.

Then this obviously starts making news, starts making a splash on Twitter and everything like that. Fans are getting involved. Justin Gachie starts getting involved as well. Brian Miller, who's just like a UFC fan online. I think he has like 300 followers tweets. At Sean Strickland, not to be in, I told you so, but every American fighter going to this fight in the Octagon or not should boycout the White House fights.

Tags Justin Gachey, tags Alex Pereira. Justin Gachy responds. Shut the fuck up, loser. Keep my name out of your mouth. Brian Miller. Well, I was rooting for you, but I didn't realize you were a MAGA retard, you know? Justin Gachie says, I'm American, bitch. I don't need or want a coward support.

You and Sean are relentlessly dumb as fuck. Sean Strickland then chooses to chime in. Oh man. If being a spineless bitch makes you a good American, you have that title. Eat your goy slop. Just do me a favor and switch your flag. 5K to 15K costs every hardworking American not getting paid millions, 13 dead Americans for Israel. You traitor.

Justin Gathe responds, I don't give two shits about you or Israel, God, family country since day one. You are dumb as fuck. You bash our country every chance you get and expect to step foot on the White House grounds. have a party with the rest of your American hating goons. So back and forth there. Is that all of the tweets? No, no, they continue.

Sean Strickland says in quotes, you hate America. Did your handler give you that line? I love America and criticize the administration because everyone on this earth understands he is controlled by APEC. Iran will have nukes next 20 months. Next month, 20 years ago, I have the list on my desk. Just stop.

Someone responds, real shit. Ali is having a field day on one of my favorite writers page. Sean Strickland responds, when Justin leaves the room, we all look at each other and think, damn, we really need to start sparring less. Man can't even get through a sentence.

And now he's explaining to me, I hate America because I don't support 15K Trump tax on families because of the Israeli war. Insane. So there you have it. Two of the bigger stars in the UFC going at it. Sean Strickland saying that he's being banned from the White House because of his comments

on Israel. And it's, to me, it feels like something that's getting inflated, that's getting blown out of proportion based on something that Sean Strickland said that isn't true. I don't think that he's banned from this event because of his comments on Israel. I think it's just because either A, the UFC, who Dana White has come out and said several times, you know, I need fighters that I can trust. I need people that are not going to be problematic on this card. I need people that I can depend on to be there or be White House.

My brother obviously in the Marine Corps band, like he goes to the White House often. The security there is incredibly intense. And they did a background check and figured that Sean Strickland was not worth the trouble. And the UFC informed Sean Strickland of this. Yeah, we've yet to really hear from the UFC on this. I imagine next time Dana White speaks that somebody will ask him the details of this, whether Sean Strickland is banned or not, because we are just taking Sean Strickland's word for at the moment.

There's a few things that I've been thinking. One, this is very like Sean Strickland, right? To take, however this played out, whatever method he got delivered the message that he would not be at the White House card, whether it was banned or whether it was, he asked for tickets and they said, we don't have tickets for you. Whatever that message actually was, was then turned into, here's the thing I really want to say, right? Sean Strickland is very good at that and it's why he's kind of, you know, taken hold with

certain fan bases and certain people. is he takes whatever the thing in front of him is and then just makes it whatever he wants it to be, right? I'm not getting tickets to the White House card. Perfect. This is my opportunity to then turn this into, hey, Israel is doing this. Trump is doing this. Here's the message and just double down on the things he's already kind of been saying and spewing. And then it spirals out from there.

So Strickland just doing kind of what Strickland does again, you know, whether you agree with him, disagree with him. This is kind of the game plan. This is the playbook. And he's doing it effectively. The other thing I thought was, if there was one reason or another that you were not going to this card, right? Let's assume that it's not what he's suggesting. Let's assume for a second that it has nothing to do with Israel or anything else like that. And it might just be because Sean Strickland has a reputation that they don't necessarily want to have in the presence of this event. Is this the way you prove that you should be there? Is this the way that you should be there? Is this the way that you go, no, you guys really made a mistake. I need to be at this White House card.

Who better than me to be at this White House card? And here's how I'm going to prove it to you. By going on these Twitter rants, by making the fake apology video, by doing all these things. Is this how you then change their mind? Is this the method that you use to then make them go, oh, we made a huge fucking mistake. We need to have Sean Strickland there. Of course not. But to your point, I think it's all in the game plan.

Yeah. He does this. He accepts that he's not going to go anymore. So now he goes on this tirade. says that he's going to, you know, go and protest outside the White House. He's going to bring the belt. He's going to bring the bullhorn, everything like this, make all these accusations of why he is, quote, unquote, banned from going to this event. All his fans, like, you talk about stirring the pot.

Like, everything that he's posting is getting insane engagement. It's just building his brand even bigger than it ever has been before just after he got the belt and everything. He's the only American champion. It's like parlaying all these things together of why he should be there. And it's just working for his brand. I think it's all part of the game plan for him. Do we actually think he should be there? And I ask that from the perspective of I don't have any problem.

If Sean Strickland wants to be at the White House card, he's a UFC champion, I've got no issue with him being at the White House card, right? My outside observer, I'm not running security at the White House. I'm not doing anything. If Sean Strickland wanted to go to this event, my feeling is, sure, he should be there. Let him. Does he need to be there? Like, no.

What does Sean Strickland do for that event that enhance him? is it in any capacity. I don't, I agree with you on both sentiments. Does he need to be there? No. If you were making a list of fighters that I think should be there, and we have no idea how many fighters are even going to be able to go to this that aren't fighting on the card, we have no idea. This is the first time we've heard anybody talking about anything other than the other information we've had before, which is military will be in attendance, right? They had a certain number of allocated tickets. There were those seats that you could purchase as like a partnership marketing opportunity, right, for a million dollars that we had heard about coming out.

There is staff and there are the fighters and their families. That's all we've heard about so far. This is the first time we've heard anybody who's just like, hey, can I get a ticket that has been revealing any info? I think of the fighters, like there are three fighters that come to mind that I think should be there. Okay. That you would say these people should be there for one reason or another.

I have a reason for each of them. Good for the event. Yes, maybe not good for event. It doesn't make any difference, but like the most sensible fighters that should be. I'm listening. Kayla Harrison, she's the only female champion on the roster that's American.

By the way, coincidentally, Justin and Sean are the two a male, you know, obviously Josh Van is American, but also has heritage elsewhere. Reps Myanmar, yes. Reps Myanmar.

But Justin Gagee, interim American UFC champion. Sean Strickland, American USC champion, and those are the two who are at each other's necks at the moment. Kayla. Kayla, the author American champion. That's why I think she should be there. She was also part of the planning for all of them.

She was going to be on the card, yeah. She should be on the card, but unfortunately gets the neck injury, surgery, everything like that. John Strickland, who is the other male American champion, the only undisputed male American champion, and he can't fight on this card circumstantially because he just fought last month,

and he wasn't a champion going into that fight, and a lot of people doubted that he should be. But now he is... Is that true? Is he actually the only former? No, no, no, only undisputed male American champion. The only, well, he's former.

Sean Strickland? Oh, sorry, I thought you were saying Sean O'Malley. Sorry, no, no, no. Sean Strickland. Sean Strickland. Did I say Sean Strickland? Either way, Sean Strickland. Undisputed male American champion.

Kayla Harrison, undisputed female American champion. And then Tom Aspinall, who is currently the undisputed heavyweight champion, and there is an interim heavyweight title fight. Yeah. Those are the three that I can think of in terms of being there. Of those, I think only. Tom Aspinall is the one that would do anything to make the event any better. That's actually a fair point by you, yeah, because we don't know what Tom Aspinall's timeline is.

We, like, on his road to recovery, they're having an interim title for a reason. It would be a great moment for him to be in attendance and the heavyweight, the interim heavyweight title play out and then him come in the cage and be like, I'm coming back. That's right. I'll see you guys in October. I'll see you guys in November at MSG, something like that. As I said, if Sean Strickland wants to go, I have no issue. I think he should go, great. Does he need to go? No, there's only one person

that I think it actually would be beneficial to have sitting there to make any sense to have them there related to this event and it's Tom Aspinall. They're fighting for an interim belt that is going to be at some point, hopefully,

contested against his. That is going to be put up against his to unify the titles. That's the one person I'd want to see sitting there. Well, as of now, it looks as if Tom Aspinall also will not be there he was speaking to Tony Bellew and he had this to say about the White House Guard

they're fighting for the interim heavyweight title Alvin you not got the UFC Heavyweight Champion of the World they're talking on the broadcast breaking down the fight talking about them and basically saying oh I mean it's I'm fighting the winner because I'm the champ I'm the real king so have you got any plans Tom to be there no they've not asked me no one's asked me yet so How insane is that?

I mean, imagine someone fighting with the heavyweight championship of the world and who's just not being around to talk about it and commentate on it, especially if he's not actually in camp, I get it. Or Fury MacModov without AJ there, for example. Exactly. You know, I'm trying to point to these things, and when big fights happen, the champ is usually there. When you're fighting to face the champ, he's there on site.

To not have Tom there on that night will be a crime. Do you feel disrespect it by it? To be honest, I've never really thought about it until you asked me. Um, no, I don't feel the disrespect. Why, I don't because you're the champ, Tom? They should come to me. No, I agree, but if they call you and say, Tom, we need to be one. Oh, yeah, I'll be there. I'll be there.

Exactly. If they asked me, I'll be there. But it shouldn't he be, he has to be there because these two are fighting to face him. He's the champ. Yeah, if they ask me, I would definitely go. So Tom and Tony Bell, you kind of makes it clear as well, the exact same way that we feel. Like, it would be a perfect moment for him to either step into the, Octagon or B Cage side,

sort of similar to the Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury from a month ago. Yeah, and I don't want to make too much of it. I don't necessarily know, like the other host, you know, the one was not Tony Bell, you asked, did you feel disrespected? Charlie Parsons. Oh, shout out Charlie Parsons. I didn't even know that's what you look like.

Shout out to Charlie. He asked him, do you feel disrespected? I wouldn't go that far because to this point, as I said, we don't really know what the nature of this is. We don't know if they're inviting anybody. Again, Sean Strickland is the only one who's talked about this and he said, I've been banned, right? We don't know that there was a list of people who were invited. But as I said before that, before we threw to that clip, the one person I would hope that they would invite, the one person who I do think it makes sense to have sitting there is Tom Aspinall.

I imagine it might be a little too late in the planning stages to, I don't know when that interview was recorded. It seemed like, you know, it has come out recently, but I don't know when that was recorded. it might be a little too late if Tom Aspinall was somebody who you'd want to get there now, but maybe not. Maybe he can pass the background checks and all that fast enough. You all my take, and I could just be proven completely wrong in 10 days. I kind of feel like we're not going to see any fighters there. Maybe. Just when I sit and think about it, it's just like they have such limited seating.

There's going to be a huge number of power players there, powerful, wealthy people who have either paid their way in or been invited to come. James Tihuna? I wish. You talk about a crowd pop. We see James Tihuna on the crowd cam. I'm going absolutely nuts. And I will immediately...

And it's actually just Tyson Pedro. I will immediately tell my brother to go snob a picture of him. Yeah, it is just Tyson Pedro. Because if you give it to a handful of fighters, like how do you... How do you allocate that? I mean, champs is a good way to do it. Also, again, to the point, Tom Aspinall,

I am the champion of the world who's going to eventually fight the guys who are fighting for this interim belt. Not for nothing. I think there's a world where we don't see anybody, to your point, right? How do you then tell what is the cutoff of that? Is it like, we're taking three that we love the most. We're taking 10 that we love the most.

We're going to get the crowd cam and it's going to be like, there's Brandon Roy Val and Janjohn-in. I have a feeling not, but you would hope, though, that this is a massive opportunity if somebody does get to go, right? Like, let's say at Kayla Harrison or even a Sean Strickland did get to go to this event. It'd be massive to be in the crowd there and just to be around all those people, shake those hands, make those introductions further in, you know, engender yourself to these people, make your brand known to them and you'll have support and a fan base that is

being built from this from very influential and powerful people. There could be a way to leverage us and make this work, but I don't know. This is the thing. We are all, we're just speculating on all of this. All we know at this point is Sean Tricklin says he's been banned. We don't know whether he asked. We don't know whether they proactively told him he's not going. We don't know any details of how they've been thinking about

this event other than the actual fights themselves and the production of it. Well, he has had a change of heart back in December. He was on stream with Aidan Ross and was asked about potentially fighting at the White House card. Here's what Sean had to say back in December. I want to see you fight the White House.

I'd be dumb, dude. love for you to fight the White House. Some guy fought and he said that he doesn't really want to fight in front of billionaires. And I do understand that. And I was like, I make sense, bro. So I think I'd want to do the White House. Yeah, if there was some kind of like inclusion for like like like there.

So if there was some kind of inclusion for fans, it'd be more. But like, you know, just to go hang out the fucking Epstein list, I'm good, dog. I'm good, dude. Yeah, so there ended up not being any inclusion for fans. So like back then he seemed pretty vehemently against it. I'm not sure what changed. I guess maybe not fighting on it and just being in attendance.

And being champion again, I guess. Yeah. Like I'm, you know, as you said, he's one of the only American champions. He could be in attendance. I don't know.

It feels much ado about nothing. It feels like an opportunity for Sean to kind of say things that he just wanted to say anyway with an amplified kind of like platform and angle and twist to it. And using it as a, as a reasoning for why it's happening. Yeah. There is no validation that any of.

of that is. Well, we will find out. I mean, I'd be very interested to hear that he was actually barred from coming to the event and what the reason would be why, if he is. So I'm sure at some point Dana White is going to be asked about this or somebody else. Oh, you have to imagine. We will find out an answer. And then we'll also find out, like, who is actually going to be there?

Are there going to be any fighters there? And if so, like, who are they? And what was the selection for that? Is the schedule not a McGregor press conference that week? I don't know. I think they're supposed to be doing. one like from the the ellipse or whatever it is

from the like Washington Monument maybe I'm just dreaming this that they're supposed to be doing that I don't know but I would imagine like I don't know I don't know you would make sense to be there I guess as well right it's all just speculation it's all yeah we don't know we don't know any of the details of this

my gut instinct says that I don't think Sean Strickland was banned from this event I think he was probably just not offered tickets yeah I think he asked and was told no. UFC said no or security said no. Yeah, somebody said no. The background checks they do with the White House are not.

Like, can we see your ID? Yeah. They're diving deep, man. And there are a lot of things on the internet that aren't like the most professional from Sean Strickland. Like there are reasons for the White House to be like, ah, we're just going to pass on this. We'll just not have this one here. Do we think he's actually going to show up with a megaphone outside? He says the flights are booked.

Can't cancel the flights now. You can't? We got that. We got to go. rate on Southwest, man. We got to do this thing. Yeah, I would imagine that he would actually do that. And I would imagine he would have a strong contingent of people with him. Imagine like Bisping did that 5K and like 2,000 people showed up in London. Shruglin does a protest outside of the White House and 2,000 people show up. I'll tell you what would be a strong statement is if they just let him go.

If they said, we heard the noise. We heard you complaining about it. We heard all your reasoning, all your sound just a It all made a lot of sense We're going to let you in No but truly to say like Hey Again The TKO is a company

We stand for free speech America as a nation We stand for free speech Despite the fact that you're saying all this shit We're going to let you in And then what would there be to say at that point But like To be clear like the

He obviously has free speech He's allowed to say any of us The White House can decide whether or not they want to let them in, though. Or if somebody who's saying those things should be, you know, somebody they invite to their event. Yeah. This is not surrounded by.

It's not a public place to just. By famous, powerful people. It's, uh, what, what an interesting thing just the White House itself hosting the event opens itself up to. It is crazy. Inherently, Dana White saying not political, but I just don't see how it's possible to not be political. even by some example like this, where now a UFC fighter is using it to make a political statement.

You are living in complete denial if you do not think this is political. Or just lying. Yeah. I don't think Dana White for one second believes it's not political. Of course it's political. Everything about it. And now the discussions surrounding it are heavily. That's what I'm saying.

Even just this tangential storyline is a political statement now. Do you have Justin Gatchie and Sean Strickland, to your point, who are an interim American champion and the only other American champion going at it over the degree of Americanness and what exactly is more than you, yeah. Or like I, I love America, but I hate this administration.

Yeah. Yeah, it's very, it's very political. I'm starting to look forward to that June 15th. You and Ariel, yeah? I mean, you know, the fight isn't political. It's just a fight. Dana had to explain to some politicians that they blew in red corners or not,

Democrat or is Republican. They just always have blue and red corners. Who's to check? Who's to check if they are or not? Should they ask them their political views before they fight and then they can put them in the appropriate corner? Can Buffer announce to their political lining? Fighting for the Democratic Party. In 2012, the Democratic Party.

Matt Romney. Ah, political. So we say all of this. And then someone tweeted at Trump's very much. yesterday, you should have been invited. Only male American champion in the company now. It should have been their honor to invite you. John responds, I don't blame them honestly, L.O.L. So all of that, just to be like, yeah, I actually kind of get it why they didn't invite me. But that's the, I mean, this is the thing that Ariel has kind of just, like, recently been on about Sean Strickland

is like, the thoughts are fleeting from one second to the next. It's like, I feel this way. And then it's like, nah, nah, nah, just kidding, guys. Even if you watch the Aden Ross clip, I mean, he starts it off by being like, that'd be sick to put it at the White House. And then 30 seconds later, he's like, I'm not doing that. Yeah, no, who cares? Who gives a fuck eyes? Yeah.

But he's a very fascinating dude. Sean Strickland is a very, very fascinating dude. He, uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he stirs the pot, that is for sure. He gets people talking. I'm, I was trying to get to this yesterday when we were talking about this when I was like, what do we actually know about Sean Strickland?

I feel like there's very few moments where he's... Like motorcycles? I guess. I mean, he kind of, but then it's like maybe tomorrow he's going to hate motorcycles. It's this like weird thing. He's guns. Yeah, but maybe he'll be anti-gun tomorrow.

We know he's married. And he said that his father-in-law probably didn't want him to be his son-in-law, but here he is. That's true. Yeah, these are the things we know. You're right. Trains at Extreme Tour. Middleweight champion of the world, two-time.

Crazy. We know he fought Kamsats Shemayev. All right, right. Now we're getting silly. So we'll, we'll, um, we'll see over the next 10 days if Strickland heads of DC if he's actually banned, if there are any fighters at the White House event. But I'm curious to see if this continues to get contentious among fighters.

Your prediction is they don't invite anybody. My prediction is if there are fighters there, it is limited. Like severely limited. We're not getting McKinsey Dern crowd cam with, oh, shit, is that Josh Van behind her? Yeah. Is that the mirrors Magulov? Oh shit, Landauvinata's there. Chito Vera's in the crowd.

I don't think, I don't, I'm not expecting that now. Yeah. We'll say, yeah. I am also nice. Actually, do you think there will be like other athletes that are, I guess, pro-Trump supporters in the stand? Like, just there? Did you think that they will do that at all? Nothing?

Dude, I have no idea. I'll tell you who be there, though. Like, will Jackson Dart be there? Kid Rock will be there. Yeah, Kid Rock will be there You know, it won't be there Brad Michaels Okay, so

He came out and said he's no longer doing the event I'm seeing this from Fox Sports Australia I don't know The event he left That's the American 250 celebration Oh, oh in D.C Completely different weekend too Martina McBride also

Not in a devilics So I'm actually seeing this from MMA junkie as well There's quite a few There is a celebrity guest list including Tom Brady, the Rock. Okay, actually, these are people who have been invited. I don't know that they will be there. Tom Brady and the Rock, Adam Sandler, Jared Lido.

The champ should get invited then. Jason State. Jared fucking Lido, the champs should get invited. I think Sean Strickland should be there. So, yes, maybe, look, based on that, it feels a lot more likely to me that his name came up and the government was like, oh boy. this does not shock me though, dude.

Knowing the security background checks that they, I mean, I was scrolling his Twitter. I mean, he does come after the administration a decent amount. Like, just like three days ago, he was just like, I just bought this new assault rifle, which obviously is completely legal, you know, Second Amendment, right to bear arms. But like, you know,

you know, being a guy that's constantly shooting guns and buying, you know, assault rifles, it was kind of a loose cannon who doesn't really like the administration. I can see the White House being like, Well, you know, maybe we just pass on him. Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe it's not worth a headache to have him come to this event. Like, it wouldn't shock me. The U.S. government, the Secret Service, the White House, like, does not play around about security. No. So we'll see. 10 days away, though. 11 days away from June 15th. Get Tom Aspenall there, please.

I feel even stronger. Tom Aspinall won't be there. Yeah. I mean, it's more difficult, certainly, because of him not being. in the country at the moment, but yeah, it just makes too much sense. Yeah, I don't think they're going to reach out to them. All right, let's go to this weekend.

The appetizer, the penultimate card before the White House, UFC Apex 118, Balamah, Muhammad, taking on Gabriel Bond theme. At the Apex main event, we've talked about the tapology, strength of schedule, you know, and sometimes there's discrepancies. If you haven't seen it,

It's like the last six UFC fights calculates your topology strength of schedule. So if you see a guy who's just made his debut, then they're not going to have as much of a strength of schedule because they don't have six UFC fights. But the guys in the main and the co-main event have over six UFC fights. Strength of schedule. Balaamah, 76. Gabriel Bonfim, 34. 76 is one of the higher ones I've seen. Balaamahma'am has been fighting killers.

Brendan Allen, 65. Also a strong one. Edmund Shabazzian, 26. Oh, 26 for Edmund, huh? Yeah, not great. Not great. All right, let's dive into this main event, Palamahamad.

391 days ago, Palamahamad was a welterweight champion of the world, getting ready to headline, his second straight pay-per-view, and he was riding a 10-fight win streak. Now come Saturday night. If he were to lose to Gabriel Bonfif, team, he would be coming off a loss to the number 11

water weight in the world in the apex, and we'll be about the turn 38 on a three-fight losing streak. Yeah, this is do or die for sure. It can change quickly, man. It can change quickly. Right now the odds are sitting at minus 120, Bilal. Gabriel Bonfim plus 100, and I kind of feel like Bilal is fairly constantly underrated on the lines. Could not agree with you more.

I feel like because of the way people feel about Bilal, the betting public is often wrong or like the value, the plus EV is always on the side of Bilal. Yeah, I mean, Bonfim is nine years younger. He's got a much better record. He's got more finishing capability. But Belal seems to just kind of find a way in fights like these. Like obviously his last two fights were against Jack Delam Adelana who beat him in the championship fight.

And then Ian Machado Gary, who's likely next for the title. Gabriel Bonfim, down at 11, feels like a drop off. And this is one of those fights where Balal is absolutely live to sort of. of remind people of who he is of like, oh yeah, this guy was on a 10-fight winning street. To make him remember his name. Eric Jackman, everybody. You said it not may. Ultimately, how do you feel in the fight? I like Bilal. Like, at nearly even odds, like, what's the current line right now? Minus 120, Ballarat, Gabriel Bonfim plus one.

At nearly even odds, unless Balal is not the same fighter that I've seen in, you know, the lead up to his title run, then Balal is too well-rounded and too good. I think he's going to be able to be a lot. able to mix it up. Bonfima has not faced anybody even remotely as good as Bilal Muhammad. And so if you're if you're giving me Bilal at that price, I'm going to say yes to it. There's a real chance though. The age is, you know, what you pointed to, he got to the title later in his career. There's a real chance that he also could, you know, be falling off the cliff and that the combination of how he looked in those fights and his age is what kind of like it led to his downfall. But truth be told, I just think he kind of shit the bet against Jack.

Delamadalana. Like that was what I made of that performance. You know, Jack did everything he needed to do. I'm not trying to discredit Jack, but Balal Mohammed decided to stand and strike with him for the entirety of that fight when everybody thought that the path of least resistance was going to be to wrestle. And we've now seen, you know, what happens when you try to wrestle with Jack. Granted, that's Islam Makachev, but even still. I just, I don't think Balal is that damaged goods. I think Bilal is still good enough to beat a Gabriel gone. Bonfim. He went for seven takedowns against him, and Meshard O'Garrier,

wasn't able to get any of them. If he can't get the takedowns, then, yeah, I think he's probably in trouble, and I like the finishing upside of Gabriel Bonfim, especially across five rounds. You don't think on the feet he can keep it close with Gabriel Bonfee? I think he can keep it close, but I favor Gabriel and I like Gabriel's potential to end the fight.

Yeah. But I'm only saying that if he can't get the takedowns. I think he's going to commit to a takedown heavy gameplay. Concerns about gas tank at all? For Bonfee? For Bonfee? For sure. Yeah.

Because you know that Balala in round five is going to be there, no problem. Easy. Yeah. It's a fascinating fight, man. It really is do or die for Blah Mohamed, man. I think he's a long ways away from the title shot right now, even at this high ranking and only having lost to J.D. Eminie and Gary, just because of his standing within the company and his age, if you lose to Gabriel Bonfiend, you're not getting it. I don't think title is in his future, but I still think he can be hanging around in some bigger fights at, you know, the top of the Welterweight division. So, yeah, I don't know. Like, this to me feels like an easy side, it feels like an easy pick to make with Balal,

but there's a real chance that he's just slowing down, the age is catching up, and he can't quite do the same things that he's used to. The skill of Balal Muhammad is that he has all skills, right? He doesn't really have holes in his game per se. He's very good everywhere. He's not great anywhere, right? That's kind of the thing.

He's a very good wrestler when he needs to be. He's a very good striker when he needs to be, and he mixes those things up well when he needs to. but he's not like a finisher in the way that Bonfim is, right? Bombfim is just like if he sees a window, a slight window to finish a fight, he's going to take that opportunity. He is great at that. He is truly magnificent when it comes to, you know,

snatching up finishing opportunities. But guys that are well-rounded like this are often very, very difficult to deal with, especially for guys who maybe do have holes in the game. And gas tank, you know, being the most glaring one for Bonfim. But also I feel like they're getable, both of the Bonfam brothers, are kind of getable in fights. I wouldn't be surprised to even see a potential finish by Bilal. If it gets to the later rounds and Bomb Fem is huffin and puffin,

I think Bilal has a real opportunity to kind of pour it on him. So yeah, I'm going with Balal. I feel confident in it, but he's almost 40, and that does worry me a little bit. Not even just for this fight, but like for his future. Bilal inside the distance right now, you can get it plus 365. That round four, if he's pushing on the gas pedal, round four, and Bonfium is just sitting there, hands on his knees. I don't know, man.

That feels possible. I'm not saying it's likely. Ballal wins in round four plus 2200. Listen, man, just saying, that gas tank, I'm worried for Bonfume, for his sake. I will also pick Bilal. I think it's kind of like the veteran moment, and he gets his hand raised and staves off. you know, the dying of the light. I mean, who is Bonf-

So the win over Randy Brown was really impressive. I thought that was good. Split decision against Stephen Thompson. Then it really goes down from there. It's like Chaos Williams, Anglosa, Trevin Giles. Had that loss to Dalby. Hell of a fight, though. Yeah, I mean, this is a huge step-up in competition.

This is a massive step-up. And so we'll see if he can pass this test. I think a lot of the betting public is going to be on Bonfif. you. Let's go from one Brazilian to another to the co-main event. Brendan Allen. Brazilian Brendan Allen, taking on Edmund Shabazzian.

Brennan came out... Brazilian. Brennan came out on social media and announced who he'll be representing this weekend at the apex. What's up, guys? Brendan Allen Allen here, number four, middleweight in the world. Hey, next Saturday, June 6th, make sure to tune in,

watch me fight Edmund Shabazian. You know, one of my daughters, my son. half Brazilian. My wife is Brazilian. I'm representing Brazil this time. Let's go. I know the World Cup's coming up. Let's go. Team Brazil. All right, so we just saw Brennan Allen fight in Vancouver against Rainier de Ritter, who he beat, which got him this fight, I guess. He stepped in on short notice against the top five guy who was on fire four in the UFC and RDR, and his reward for that. Dog walked him. And his reward for that is going to the apex against unranked Edmund Shabazian. Either way, he was

He's repping Canada in that fight in Canada, and now he's reppping Brazil. I think it was something with the grandparents with Canada, and now his wife with Brazil. Originally he was American, as red, white and blue as it gets. But now we're switching it up. Where will Brendan, where in the world will Brendan Allen go next? I'm not, you tell me if I'm incorrect here. You check me on this. I'm not somebody who gets really like up in arms about a lot of things.

I kind of have a much more of like a who fucking cares about most things attitude. I don't love you just picking what like six new flags every month to represent. It feels a little bit weird. I don't know. I'm not someone who gets up in arms about these fighters' lives, period. I mean, take for example the writings of Sean Strickland and everything. Yeah. It's just sort of like they are who they are.

it is what it is. I'm not going to change them. So, you know, Brendan Allen, I kind of feel the same way. I think it's dumb. Like, you're American. Like, I think you should represent the country that you were born and raised in and continue to live in. But, like, at the end of the day, is it that serious to fly the flag?

I guess, fly the flag of another country? Yeah, it just, like, I don't know. You're right. And it isn't. But when I hear, like, Fluffy Hernandez be like, They made me get my dead grandmother's, like, birth certificate to show that, like, I'm Mexican. And then Brendan Allen's like, my wife's Brazilian. I'm representing Brazil this time.

Okay, I do agree with that. I do agree with that. It's absolutely ridiculous that there are some fighters that have to prove where they come from, prove their heritage and everything like that. You know, I've seen a couple of guys who wanted to wear specific colored shorts to represent their country. Yeah, we saw Dan Inge the other day. Yeah, Danigue wanted to rep like Hawaiian colors or something like that. that and they deny them of that. Yeah, like having to prove all this.

And then, yeah, Brennan Allen can just walk in and be like, I'm Brazilian this week. Last time I was Canadian, this time I'm Brazilian. I don't know. Yo, I got a boy that I play Call of Duty wife who lives in Morocco. So I'm up in Morocco. That's kind of my point is like it feels like transient. It doesn't feel like it feels gimmicky, right? Like it feels like it's not like really a true tribute to anything.

That's without having spoken to Brendan, without really knowing the full story. We should be very clear. This is not like, we're not trying to attack Brendan Allen. I have no issue with Brendan Allen. He should do whatever he wants. Maybe at first when the whole thing came up with Dan Igay, I was like, let him do whatever the hell they want. And now I'm kind of like contradicting myself and being like, maybe we should have better rules in place instead of just like you can rep whatever you want to rep. I don't know.

At the end of the day, he's going to do what he's going to do. But I don't know. It felt weird to me because when we hear some of the. the people who are like, I had to prove my heritage. And then Brendan Allen is like, I got a new one this time for you. It just felt off to me. If I had to have a take on it, yeah, it's dumb. I don't know why.

I don't know why he did Canada. What's up, guys? Brennan Allen Allen here. Can't wait to be representing Canada in Canada for UFC Vancouver October 18th. Yeah. I've represented Canada three or four times in my UFC career, but this would be my first time rep in Canada in Canada in front of all you guys. I can't wait to put on a show for you guys.

guys. My grandparents are born and raised in Canada. My grandma still has a green card here to America. They're from Edmonton, Alberta area. So, I'm super excited. I can't wait to put on a show for you guys. Can't wait to represent. And I'm gonna give them hell, man. Can't wait.

Thank you guys for the love and support. Appreciate y'all. You know what? That video actually changed my mind a little bit. You know what? Let Brendan do whatever the fuck he wants. That was actually all right. Like his grandparents, he's like I'm excited to put on a show for the people of my heritage

You know what? Fuck it, I changed my mind. Wait, so is it actually just his wife that's Brazilian? Well, now his kids are half Brazilian. Right, but it's not like somebody above is Brazil. Oh, I guess by law,

his parents-in-law are also Brazilian. I don't know, man. Almost World Cup season? Oh, that's right. He was like, yeah, fuck it. All right. Do your thing, Brandon. Yeah, I said, like, ultimately,

I think the take is dumb. Ultimately, at the complete end of the day, I feel like we got to. Not for nothing. I don't get that fuck. I do not care what flag Brendan Allen is flying on Saturday. What do you think he will do next fight?

I think I know. What is it, Josh? It's going to be fight night in Baku Azerbaijan. He's going to be representing them. Shout out. I thought you, at first thought you said, I think Guyana.

No, Baku Azerbaijan. Yeah, yeah. He said, I think I know. He thought you were saying Guyana for a lot. Yeah, shout out to Guyana. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I had a friend once. Like, stopped at the Baku airport.

So, I'm a reprimiser by John. Yeah, I mean, letting it distracts from the fight itself. Brennan, top five middleweight, unranked, Edmund Chibazian. Yeah, I kind of feel like Brennan has just fought the better brand of competition, has had success in those and is going to be able to do maybe not exactly what he did to RDR, RDR, D.D.R. DTH gas, but be able to implement his game plan and beat Edmond Schab. I mean, Edmunds been. known to Defgas at times.

So it's possible that he does the same thing. This being three rounds, I think, is good for Edmund, right? Like, he knows he doesn't have to potentially enter the deep waters against Brendan Allen. I feel similar in this fight that I feel about the main event in terms of

Balal and Gabriel Bonfim. One, Brendan Allen has been fighting a much higher caliber of competition. Brendan Allen is extremely well-rounded. Like, he is just good everywhere. there's not a lot of holes in the game. Again, not great anywhere, right?

Like there's nowhere that I'd say, like Brendan Allen is top class in one specific specific area, but he's good on the feed, he's good on the ground, he's good at mixing it up, he's tough, he finds ways to win, whereas Edmund is an absolute killer. Like Edmund is somebody like Bonfim, who if there's a window to finish, he is chasing that and he is often finding it. I tend to favor those more well-rounded guys in those scenarios. And so like in the main event where I'm leaning toward Belal because of that, I'm also leaning toward Brendan in this fight. Someone in the chat says, some fighters have half flags.

Brennan Allen's will be quartered the next time he comes out. Oh, when they sew them together and have them on the... Someone said he's going to try the right beef patty and walk out with the Jamaican flag. Because he trained with Aljo once? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brendan in all countries, Allen. Yeah, I feel the same way about you. Like, Edmund Chabazzian is live for a K-O, obviously.

Yeah. He can land that shot at any moment. But I do like over the course of the three rounds, Brandon Allen, getting it done. Three rounds is good though. Three, like this is a good three-round fight. As a five-rounder, I'm taking Alan all day, take it to the bank. Like, that feels like to play.

As a three-rounder, like, if Edmund has a great first round, he really only needs to steal one of those other two. but more often than not, it's Edmund having to get the finish anyway. If it does go successful for Edmund, we are looking at a top five middleweight, Edmund Chabazian. I've always, okay,

how do you feel about the fact that when you beat somebody, you should like take their ranking? And then when you lose to somebody, you don't fall back to where they were. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. I've always thought it should be much more like if you beat somebody,

you then take the other person out of the ranking, and then you look at those other fighters and you try to slot them in somewhere in that ranking. It never made sense to me that there's like this assumption of you beat somebody and then you take you snatch their ranking and jump it to that spot. But it seems to be the convention. That's how they do it. Let's keep it rolling. Farah Ziam, taking on Tom Nolan.

Farah Ziam on a sneaky six-fight winning streak hasn't lost since February of 2022. Not enough to get ranked though. I think Colin Sal Kiel debuted in 2024 and he's already in the top 15. Tom Nolan obviously got sparked out in his first UFC fight now on a four-fight winning streak. as well. Combined 10 straight wins for these guys. Tom Nolan usually has that that height advantage at 155 being 6-2. Fares him, a lot of sneaky things about him. Six five, winning straight. Also, 6-1. Yeah. Out to the smile killer, man. No, I'm a fan. We've talked about the smile killer before. I am a fan of him. I think he gets it done again. Can

he get ranked? Is this finally? No. No, beating Tom Nolan is not going to get him ranked. It's crazy. 155 is also just deep. Like, who's number 15? At, at, 155. I just completely butchered. I typed in UFC ramlongs instead of rankings. Finger was... Beep! Gemini helped you out, though.

Finger was one key keyword off. 15th is Benile Daryush. Yeah. I'll tell you what, for his... You know what? More casuals, bro. What? I missed this yesterday when I was researching the car. What? He's 14.

Okay. That makes a lot more sense. Because I was about to say, he would beat the fucking... breaks off B'Neil Daryush at this point. I swear to God, I looked at this yesterday. All right, all right. That makes a lot more sense. That makes me feel a lot better.

I swear to God, he wasn't there. I think they just added him on. He's very good. I like him to beat Tom Nolan, who I also think is like pretty promising, like decent fighter. But Perez has just shown that like he's skilled, man.

I'm interested, like, what I'm interested with him is what the step up is going to look like, if he can get past this. And this is not a foregone conclusion. Again, Tom Nolan is a decent fighter. If he gets past this, what does it look like when he starts really fighting

like those upper echelon ranked guys? But I believe in Ziam. I think he's going to win this fight. Bryce Mitchell is taking on Santiago Luna. Thugnasty back has been on a win loss, win loss, win loss since that Teporia fight back in 2022. He takes on the undefeated Santiago Luna, who is just a few fights into his UFC career, tough enough vet.

I actually think Bryce Mitchell goes and gets back on a winning streak here. Obviously, undefeated up until Dillia Teporia fight, and now he has three losses, but I think he gets back on a winning streak. Take down control? Yeah, Santiago Luna. It's 21 years old, like very early on in his career. Bryce Mitchell now at 21 fights. He's starting to have that veteran experience.

I think he's going to be able to get it done. What are the odds on this, actually? He really is a fantastic grappler. I mean, the takedowns are nasty, and once he gets you down, minus one 40, right now for Bryce Mitchell. Yeah, I don't mind that. Yeah, Bryce is very, Bryce is very good at the grappling and singularly driven there. And then it falls apart if he can't get the takedowns. I wonder how that's going to go. But I will, I will side with Bryce on this one. I think he'll be able to have some success. Yeah, I mean, and Santana,

Aluno could prove me wrong. He's still very young. But like this time last year, he's fighting and tough enough. I don't think Kwong Lan, Angel Pacheco, are, fully on Bryce Mitchell's level. It's one of those things, though, can he stop a takedown? At the highest level, right? Yeah. It doesn't really matter who he's going to go for him. Yeah, it doesn't really matter who he's faced to this point.

If he can't stop a takedown, he's cooked. If he can, there's a real chance here because if you've, basically the people that have been able to thwart Bryce's take down attempts, it just does not go well for Bryce. Match Schnell taking on Alessandro Costa. Poor match, Schnell, man. Alessandro Costa, minus 700. Yeah. You like that.

Value? On Chanel? He's already dead! Matchnell lost four of his last five. Five of his last. Yeah, I'm out on that. I think this might be the end of this run for Matchnell. Do you think they cut him if he doesn't get a don't year?

He's now sub-500 in his UFC career, 36 years old at Flyweight. Did he retire or did he leave the promotion? He retired at some point, right? That's what it was? There was a point where, matchnell took a break, I think it might have been retirement. Yeah, because you remember he had that streak of just like not being able to get into the octagon, him and Alex Perez. Yes, matchnell retired after losing to Cody Durdon in September 2024.

It hasn't gotten any better. Like, matchnell is an all-action guy, somebody we appreciate as fight fans. You know, obviously the Sumer Darjei match-Snell fight is in the fucking Pantheon, like it's in Valhalla. he's at this point in his career he's become a guy that you can get a dub over and I expect Costa too Yeah, Alessandro Costa A minus 700

Flyweight's fucking fun though Match now, I'll tell you this Matchnell is going to fight his ass off And make this fight fun for as long as it's last That's the matchnell guarantee There's no guarantee of win, loss, whatever There is a guarantee that he is going to come to fucking scrap And it's going to be fun for as long as it lasts

Yeah, and we did say flyweight, this is actually... It's not at flyweight? Catchweight 1.30. Match now was supposed to fight Iminald Rodriguez. Interesting. Speaking of fun fights for as long as they last, Iwo Barnowski, taking on Junior Tafa. How can you not love Yuo Barnawski?

He's been in some absolute scraps for the rounds that they have been in 28 seconds in March, a minute 29 against Ibo-Austlin back in December. some said the round of the year 20 seconds on the contender series I mean if you just look at his record it's just knock out knock out knock out knock out round one round one run one run one and I think the same happens here against junior's alpha

he has to be very careful here sure and junior got a nice win last fight in month ago yeah in Perth was he a dog he was either a dog or a small favorite or something look the game plan against either of the Tafa brothers

is as easy as it can possibly be which is take them down and grapple and you'll probably have some success Iwo is probably going to stand with him and probably has the power to knock them out but that is a dangerous proposition and he was a judo player like maybe he should look to you know mix it up a little bit take him to the ground

but Junior is very very very very skilled on the feet And so while I expect Evo to win this fight, I think Junior is a live dog because of that striking ability. As long as it's standing. As long as it standing, you are not like, there's very few guys who are just like significantly better strikers than Junior Tafa. There are many guys who are better mixed martial artists. There are a lot of guys who are better mixed martial artists.

So if you turn it into a striking fight, you're evening the playing field in a way that you don't need to. I'd get him on my hip, judo throw his ass, and try to take a, take an easy, path to that. But Iwo is also very, very powerful and has shown himself to be a good athlete. So I don't think I'm as concerned about it. But yeah, if I was, if I was in that corner, I'd take it to the ground and try and get myself out of there quick. Marcus McGee back for the first time since the Peyoteer Yon lost that derailed has undefeated UFC career taking on John Yannis, a massive dog,

I mean a massive favorite himself, minus 550 for Marcus McGee. I don't know if he should be that big, but I very much favor him to win the fight. Yeah, I'm a, I'm a massive favorite. a fan of his, a believer in his, it does seem like a pretty steep line, but do remember, like, we're coming off a pretty decent performance against a Piotrion. It wasn't like, there was no point where I was like, Marcus McGee's about

to win this fight, like that was Piotrion's fight to win. But like, Marcus McGee has always performed really, really well and high level in the Octagon, so I expect that to continue. I believe in his potential. He's able to get finishes too, which is just massive at the lower weight classes. Bruno Silva, taking on Edgar Shirez,

flyweight banger. I mean, I don't know how you can't love this fight. It's going to be all action. That, you know, shout out, throwback, flyweight unders. That's an under. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, these are just two guys that are going to come to scrap that get finishes down at this weight class, Edgar Chiraz, especially.

So that'll be a good one. Chelsea Chandler, Priscilla Cachera. Frank, I know you're excited to see Zombie Girl back. Hugely excited. Which one, zombie girl, by the way? The one that has the C in her name. That was pretty good Chandler or Catcheruaire?

That's right. That's good. Jordan Levitt, honorary boring the back, taking on Joe Anderson Brito. Tough test for him, man. Joe Anderson Brito is a violent, violent man. Minus 200 right now of Jordan Levitt's plus 170. Levitt can be violent too,

and we've seen some flashes of brilliance from him, but this is a tough test. I think, I don't know, man. I think I'm just influenced by the fact that I like Jordan Levin, but I think he's live here. We're trying for Jordan Levin. We won't hide it.

But this is a difficult matchup. This is a hard fight that he's going to have to pull it out of the mud. A couple other fights going down on this card. Giesla Shives versus Eunicey Dubin. Ketland Sosa versus Ariane Karnalosi. Biggest biceps east of Mississippi. Shout up. Some other fighting going down this weekend.

You got Zufa Boxing 07, CBS, Ryan Rosemary. Zika. First time Zufa leaves the apex. First time doing a Saturday show. I've done a Friday and a Sunday. You're going to lock in? Well, will I lock in? Will I catch the highlights? Yeah. Will I see

how it fills out? It's like a 5,000 seat arena in Bournemouth. We'll see what happened. Former WBO champ and Christian William Smith. I mean, can't wait. Shikers Stevenson's going to be fine there one day. The intern's no ball because I walked in on a discussion about Octagon 89. They were talking about what's going down in Slovakia this weekend.

Zalgas, Zuma Gulov, you know, obviously of UFC fame, fighting for the Bantamweight belt, and Martin Boudet. Oh, sure, Martin's back. ...Octagon win against Lazzar Totev. Yeah, they were breaking it down. Yeah. Anything to add? Yeah, no, I mean, when I saw Connor, I, you know,

I expected you would have had the Slovakia media credentials, and he said, you know, it was tough to get. Yeah. I feel like we got it. Yeah, we almost did the boys in the Vakia, but it didn't work out. Rising Landmark 14, also going down in Japan this weekend. So a good offering of fights as we crank up the way. I just got reminded that this was supposed to be Bryce Mitchell versus Victor Henry.

Ah, yeah, it was, man. It was. God damn it. I don't want to brag or anything. But, you know, when we were out there training with all of Vic, he gave us the scoop. We knew long before all of you. We were driving around. I was like, man, we're sitting on a big news right now.

We could tweet and break, disrupt the whole MMA sphere right now if we broke this news. Yeah, quick recovery for Victor Henry. Shout to Victor Henry. Hopefully he can, you know, he was banging that drum for a long time. Him and Josh Martin, especially. That would have been fun, man. So yeah, hopefully he can get that fight. Let's rip bets.

Parley Pals real quick. Parley Pals are on fire. Do we have the recap of them last week? Can we just see it? Look at that. All greens again. Pavlovich, Songy Dong, Kaya, Kaya, Jake Matthews, bang.

We are up 2.4-3. Never stop it. Never going to lose again. Never going to lose again. Fast forward two days. Then on the first leg. Already got Pizzi's pick. He's taking the smile killer,

Fares Ziam, to extend it to seven straight wins. Your 14th ranked lightweight. Don't disrespect. Smile killer. I'm going to go with my guy, Marcus McGee. To get it done, hand raised, bounce back up to the Peoria on loss. Shout out. Minus 500.

Break it? I am going to go with Brazil's own Brendan Allen. Yeah. See, this is why I hate it so much. It gets so weird. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

You keep saying that. You keep saying. It's just such a dumb sports. It's such a dumb sports. Today in particular, I feel. Like has been like, going through the assets today, I was just like, man, this sport is dumb as fuck, huh? This is what we choose to dedicate our lives. Show him.

Yeah. I was actually Brendan out. Shout out. Your pick? My pick, I'm going with Evo. Oh, shout out to Evo Barnowski. Stud. Yeah.

Made his debut on Contender Series back in August and is now looking to be 3 in O in the UFC. since then. There it is. Plus 186. That could get us over four units, guys. That could get us over four units. We're flying. I've already spent the money from these potential winnings, so. Did you get Odyssey tickets? No, I didn't.

I was hoping that you were just like, hey man, but you want me to grab two for you and Couldn't even get them for himself. I have an update down. Oh? On air. Mrs. On air. Three tickets. You're fucking kidding me. I don't know who the three or four other than herself because I wasn't invited.

So they might be for you and camera guy Nick Bruh Bruh, I'm actually gonna try and buy tickets right now Is that phone up? So you get a commercial breed? Yeah, yeah, yeah, if we could just... Why don't you take us through the process? What's going on exactly?

Today's episode. It's brought you by. Van Dingo. Just Odyssey tickets. Just see if I can get through here. No chance she got 70 millimeter IMAX, did you? I believe that's what she was. She got 70 millimeter IMAX?

Look, man, it's my birthday weekend, and I could string together an absolutely epic weekend. We're thinking, birthday dinner on Thursday night, Odyssey, IMAX 70 millimeter Friday, Kegger on my rooftop on Saturday, World Cup Final on Sunday. Wow. I mean, it could be an absolutely all-time weekend. 70-millimeter 11 a.m.?

I'm getting the same. Connecting with Fandango. I'm now in line, less than a minute. Holy shit, we're about to get Odyssey ticket. 70-millimeter. Shout out. Give us the plot of the Odyssey for the people who don't know. No, hold on one second, though.

You're going for one specific showing at one specific time. Well, anytime works. Because you said 11 a.m., right? Yeah, but I'm trying to capitalize on it being a... That whole theater has to be sold out, no, already by now. No? I don't know. I mean, probably.

You had for the next few weekends. Yeah, I feel like one particular time is dicey. You got to go for like the... Oh, I just clicked the first one. Yeah. It could be anyone that day. Thank you for waiting. You might have to get those on the resale market.

They have that for movies? There's some idiots that will actually buy. the tickets resold. Frank being one of those idiots. Frank bought doing three tickets on resale. You know you can cancel movie tickets up until you've gone to the movie, right? I have this guy's fucking social security number.

He ain't going nowhere. Okay, so it looks like I got through and then they showed the seat map and then it just disappeared. It says select up to 20 seats. I mean, this is just a racket. That's the Yahoo internet cracking down.

It's all just a racket. All right. Those the news and notes. Those are the Pets and Pakes. Those are the UFCA Peckle. Conner's is over. Sorry, Andy? Oh, yeah, and then I'm up that. I'm sorry. Thank you for the reminder, Andy. Thank you so much. Yeah, I do have a parlay. I will Barnowski, Marcus McGee. So I actually took Iwo Barnawski inside the distance. Half of the

Barlet House. Wow, shout out. I haven't seen, I haven't heard that one in a while. I didn't even know it was still there. I mean, it's amazing how like, uh, generic our sounders are. I love when we, uh, when I hear like, uh, I'm watching another video and I hear our, the music we use. Do other people use that one? No, I haven't heard that one, but I heard the post-show music on a video this week. I just went to a Slack channel. I was watching a YouTube video and... That was on there?

I was like, hell. I just went to a Slack channel and saw something that I meant to put in another Slack channel. And I'm just like, fuck it. It wasn't bad, wasn't it? Was it in the... It was mission critical and we're all done. So this will be the last show. Thank you for everybody for watching.

Was it in the audio Slack channel? And it was, God, this audio engine. There sucks. Yeah. All right, base y'all, thanks for watching. Okay, we're really getting off the rails here. UFSI Apex 18. This is LAS.

The books. Pound for Pound this week, in honor of UFC Apex 118, main eventer, Aisider, Balaamahamah, and his infamous quote, last time he fought. Just his incredible mic work. I've seen Fathers as a side, everything like that.

We all know the whole story, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. In honor of that pound for pound, worst Mike moments. Frankie, what's the order? The order today will be Frank, followed by Connor, and then we'll have Rick. All right. Go ahead, man. So starting off about the worst Mike moments, and these are people named Mike, right? Uh-oh, Frankie.

We got Paul the head hunter, Buantello, tried to make popular. a catchphrase, which, to do him credit, the catchphrase is, don't fear me, fear the consequences. But he tried to get the crowd excited and to, like, fill in the next part. So he was just, like, on the mic, like, don't fear me! And then the entire crowd is dead silent.

Like, they didn't realize that they needed to say the corresponding part. Right, right, right. Just roll the video. There is no video. What? If this was your bit, I fucking hate all of you.

Our bit? Yeah. How could you do this without a video? That's exactly my fucking point. He goes, don't fear me. And then everybody's supposed to say, oh, fair the consequences. But nobody knew who he was. Nobody knew this phrase.

Not only am I let down. I'm disappointed. No, I'm let down. I was looking forward to this, Frank. I asked three or four times what the hell is. Frank, last week we didn't do one. The week before that, your house got flooded. These are Mike moments from people named a Mike.

So who's name Mike? I felt like you could have just tossed the video. I felt like you could have just tossed the video, Frankie. Yeah, that was the goal. Manel Cop says, your daddy's going to take your diapers alive. I don't know what the fuck that means. That's a great video. You're reading it.

That is a fucking horrible one. That's the exact quote, your daddy's going to take your diapers alive. Yes, that is the goal. That is horrible. Actually, what I learned doing this exercise is that there are so many bad mic moments. The Minel Cop Diapers was a contender for me. All time. Then one of my personal favorites, it actually involves a media member.

How is it that we always get to number three and Frank already starts talking about his favorites? He has a number one coming in two picks. And number three, he's always like, this is one of the best. This is one of the greatest. John Jones is responding to a reporter here. but he actually says the quote itself is boring but at one point he's just like

you know that young men everywhere ask me and this media member guy says Yao Ming and John Jones has to pause for so he's like no young men and you can tell like he's like almost offended like I don't speak that incorrectly that young men sounds like Yao Ming

at a UFC press conference oh man you don't know what we're referring to Google John Jones Yao Ming all-timer absolutely all-timer This is fucking good. Wow, Frank, you've outdone yourself. And it's actually better that we don't have the video. This is a little.

An old school clip, if you find the time to go look it up and watch it, go for it. Kim Shamrock is saying to Tito Ortiz, I'm going to beat you into a living death. He sure did. Which I even tried to like rationalize. Like maybe I'm going to beat you into like you're a zombie. I don't, I don't fucking know. I think he might have just misspoke, read the cue card wrong, I'm not really sure. There is a reason this video would be funnier, but it's still pretty funny.

He does the dying laughing and then it just laughs at him. He kicks up the chair and Dana White catches it in the air. Oh, it's great catch by dude. It's great. And then to finish it off is my all-time favorite. Honestly, just happened a few months ago when Balal is referring to a 17-year-old fighter that's training. And he's like, yeah, it's like Epstein Island.

But, you know, without the sex. the sex. Without the sex. Like, he leaned right into that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, you know what? Frankie actually delivered pretty well on that.

You fucking killed that, Frankie. Number three, Yao Ming? Fucking. Dude, you caught me off guard with that one. None of mine were used either. That was fantastic. Next time we could have maybe used the video support just to give it more clarity.

Yeah. I love how committed to the bit you guys were. I was like, are we just trying to reduce workload? Frank. You keep mentioning a bit, man. Should we? We just ask that you.

be prepared for the show, man. Should we break the fourth wall, as the show often says? I'm going to burn the fucking building. Well, I'm just saying, we don't, we obviously... Careful, man. We were locked in here last week. Don't burn the building down, man. Who do you think did that?

Just remember. He did leave the room right before we got locked in. That is true. We don't obviously compile our list because otherwise then I know your list and you'd know Frankie's list and you'd know mine, vice versa. We give them to Jordan.

So if Jordan's the keeper of all this stuff, I don't know why you're so mad at us. What do we do to you? I've asked you guys at the lunch table, like, are we not submitting videos? It's kind of weird. That's this about the list? And I said, of course I submitted videos.

How much would we do this? They both turned to be upset. If you want a video, man, just send the video in. I'm like, no, no. Is that not us telling you? If you want a video, send the video in? We told you. I both love this and hate this equally.

Send the video in, man. It's a Venn diagram of... To be fair, I didn't know anyone, if anyone has video, maybe the interns cut the video. I have no idea. Oh. No, I have video. I sent a video for all right.

Guys, I have breaking news here. I got through... I got through for regular IMAX. Chad, do I rip it? Do I rip the regular Imax? I can't get in on any of the 7-1stab. Yes, yes. Keep that. That's your backup plan. If you don't get the other ones, you just go to that.

If you do, you cancel that. You can cancel a movie ticket up until the showing. There's no reason to not. They actually film this movie with a 70-millimeter film stock. You have to watch it in 70-millimeter. It doesn't have to be IMAX. All right. So you're saying...

I have breaking news. Oh. Whoa. I just got tickets for the Odyssey 70 millimeter on Fandago July 24th. So... The sex. 70 millimeter or IMAX 70 millimeter? I think IMAX 70 millimeter.

You better be damn sure, Jack. Let me check real quick. Look, I have... How many did you get? I have a friend who loved sending me Project Hail Mary. Yo, dude, there's all these tickets for... iMac's 70 millimeter and i'm like that's just i max 70 million oh it was just 70 million in a movie that was it's the uh it's the i max 70 millimeter

experience you son of a bitch you know what did you get him in there wants to let you know that you're a loser how did you how did you go about a oh sorry mrs on air that i actually have a job okay that i actually have to work and i can't just sit at home all day and buy movie tickets why the fuck are the interns getting movie tickets right now how i've been asking the same would you do it you guys were talking about it i just i just clicked on two buttons. That was it. Odysseymovietickets.com? Fandango.com?

Fandango.com. Lincoln Square, let's call it. What showing did you go to? AMC 34th Street, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lincoln Square? Yes. What time showing did you go to? I just want to make sure I avoid that.

10 p.m. 10 p.m.? Okay, I'll go 10 a.m. There's no chance that we cross paths. Fandango, Fandango, Fandango. Fandango. Are you on the Wi-Fi? Yeah, it took me legitimately 30 seconds.

I think the Wi-Fi might have is geo-blocked. I'm not going to lie. He's not on the Yahoo. Yeah, he's not on the Yahoo one? He's a hacker. We'll pull out the phone while Rick does his list. Oh, I'll go first. Yeah, yeah, you go before me.

You go before me. I'll go before me. No, respect the order. Oh, sorry. Honor goes next. No, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'm actually very excited about mine.

We're really getting off the rails here, folks. You were the one choosing of pie movie tickets right now. Look, man. I understand how important it is. I'm a Nolan. guy, you know it is. You know how it is. I know you're not. You don't appreciate great cinema, but I'm a Nolan guy, you know? Yeah, I see the text here from Miss On Air. And you can quote me on they, that.

Oh, about the loser thing? Yeah. Again, I reiterate. Sorry that I, you know, I have to go out and, you know, do a job. I can't sit at home all day, twiddling my thumbs and buying movie theater tickets. Yeah, congrats on your... She better not be twiddling her thumb. There's laundry to do. A. The way you said that. on your Fandango gold membership. Whoopty-do. Did she send this text from the kitchen?

All right, this is... Like I said, she should be doing laundry. Okay. Jesus Christ, guys. What, dude? I mean, you know... Yeah, the director has left the building. Yeah.

I mean... I thought we were in the street from Dara, bro. Hang it with the boys. Okay, all joking aside. Here we go. Let's lock in. Pound for pound. Worst mic moments.

So of these, some of them are, most of them are talking shit, obviously, you know, there's going to be a couple that are just microphone moments. Some things that play into it is, A, how satisfied they are with the line and just how terrible it is, that obviously is going to bolster it as well. Important. All of these guys are all primarily English speakers. That is their first language. Okay. There's some, like, legendary ones that, like, the transatlantic ones that, like, the transatlish speakers.

translation just doesn't add up. Got it got. And like it's kind of like, it feels like you're kind of picking on someone at that point. Like it's their second language. So like it makes sense. Like, what was it?

Vanderle was like, I'm gonna fuck Chuck. Like he meant to fight on tough. David Tamar being like, oh yeah, like you better like watch your underwear or whatever. I mean, insane line,

but still. These are all English speakers. Number five for me. It is one, Joseph Benavides, who was actually coaching tough at the time. Henry Sehudo started getting into a bit of an altercation,

and he wanted to remind Henry of something. Oh, you're trying to be cool. Yeah, I used to f*** guys like you in high school. It seemed to land, though. I think everyone's laughing at him. Who was that? It looked like DJ, but I don't think it is. Like right outside, they all realized it at the same time.

He obviously meant to say, I used to fuck guys like you up in high school. Or did he? He left out the... Yeah, I guess. You don't know that? Or did he just fuck guys like him and ice? You don't know what he meant?

So, yeah, it just been to me as, you know, he forgot the word there. It just didn't... We talked about Justin Gaichi earlier on in the show today. In his early UFC career, he was supposed to fight Michael Johnson, him and Michael Johnson, jawing at the presser. This is actually a Michael Johnson double play to... I'll call him microphone faux paws. Take a list.

It's going to be a march. A march to deep water, baby, and you ain't not going to last. Can't I swim in this water? It's a deep water, don't, I don't need to swim. I do my fight in a land player. Look that smile. Nailed bad. The shit that's breaking my mind.

Breaking. Peace by piece. Artistically breaking you. I eat my shit a hole. I don't fucking take piece by piece. Mm. Masterclass. Masterclass.

The smirk on his face after I don't go to water I do all my fighting on land and just being like I fucking nailed that and then I eat my shit whole I don't do piece by piece

and those are like minutes apart masterclass by by one Michael Johnson Cody Garbrand supposed to fight Dominic Cruz this top three it was tough to decipher from this one is an all-timer

They're on the UFC broadcast. They're jawing back and forth at each other, and Cody Garbrandt wanted to remind Dominic Cruz of something. I'm going to put your boy down. Look, I never had to chase pussy in my life on December 30 if I ain't doing it. I don't have to. What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

We'll see. Do you think they were figured out what they were talking about? What are you talking about? We'll see. He definitely thought of that line beforehand. Yeah. I was waiting to use it. Yep.

I get the sentiment. Like he's trying to call Dominic Cruz a pussy, and he's like, I'm not going to chase you around. Like, I'm just going to beat you. But just be like, I never chased a pussy in my life. And then, like, it's delivered so poorly. They're screaming over each other. It's just a bad line to begin with. It's just not good.

And then Dominic Cruz just goes, what are you talking about? And he goes, what are you talking about? You've lost the argument at that point. If you're hitting the just mocking exactly what the guy said back at you, tough. Tough for Cody Garber. Yeah, tough was earlier. That was Benavita. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see.

We'll see. This next one, from one of the greats. You can't have a list of worst Mike moments without this man on it. It's one that I still quote to this day. The second I saw it happen in real time, I was like, Jesus Christ, he really should fuck that one up. It's sad to see him go to retire from the UFC. Kobe Covington, please. Saturday night, I'm going to bring you to a place.

you never want to be. I'm going to bring you the seventh layer hair. Hell. Okay. Seventh layer hair. How? Okay. No, I'm bringing you to seventh layer hell. We'll say what's up to your dad while we're there. Oh! The combination of being a vile piece of shit. The vile piece of shit. The absolutely ridiculous fucking, like, George Washington outfit with the maga hat on top of it. it. And then you're talking shit about this man's dead father, and you don't stick the dismount. And, like, I don't even know where hair came from. And, like, how quickly he changes it.

And he had this line planned. You can tell this. Yeah, yeah. He's just like, wait till Saturday night. I'm going to drag you to a place you never want to go. We're going to the seventh layer of hair. Hell. I think his wig was getting in his face. I think it was the hair. I think it was the hair. We can cut it after the slow motion. Can we just one more time? No, the slow mo was great. Saturday night I'm going to bring you to a place

you never want to be I'm going to bring you the seventh layer hair hell okay seventh layer seventh layer of hair seventh layer

a hair he immediately corrects himself all time all time he's wearing a wig and he said seventh layer

let me do a spoiler yeah that one's not on my list although I very strongly considered it and I'll tell you why nobody roasted him in that moment

now granted that has gone because it immediately switched it to your dad in hell and then everybody was like fuck Jesus Christ Goldie so I didn't put it

because the trash talk ended up being too successful does that make sense yeah like he ended up in the right spot Leon Matt yes yeah seventh layer hair hell all these are just all timers dude yeah yeah I eat my shit hole I used to fuck guys like you in high school

I okay between I eat my shit hole and do Do all my fighting on land? Which one is your favorite? Just the sound of I eat my shit hole is crazy. It's crazy. I like the land. And then number one, it's, come on. It's why we're doing the list. A legendary moment. UFC fans, this will go in the Pantheon. November, Willa Muhammad, please take it with. My future is bright, right? I'm training with young monsters.

Ignacio Ball Mondes is probably 28, and I think he's one of the best strikers in UFC. See, like I said, I got a 17-year-old now. Nacho's younger brother, who's a monster, right? It feels like the Epstein files without the, you know, the sex, right? I'm getting their powers through sparring and training. So it feels good. One of the fucking worst statements ever uttered. To be like...

He's a monster. Like Epstein. 17-year-old kids. It's... The Madlib Association here. It's the bringing up... Voice crack. Don't forget the voice crack.

Everything throughout the whole thing. When he brings up Nacho's little brother, or Ignacio's little brother, he's just like, the voice crack when he's like, yeah, he's 17 years old. And then he's just like, it's like the Epstein files without the sex. And then I've rewatched this. It like almost gives me chills down my spine when he's like, I'm getting the... their powers through training and sparring and he has that smile on his face I like can't stop watching it but it's

just like out of pure like what the fuck is he saying? Not to mention I'm getting their powers through training and sparring. He was playing Kirby man. The sex part of the island is horrible but so was other shit at the island so what are you actually imply? Without the

sex. Jesus Christ. He says it's so confident too like he's like like a team after being like yeah I killed that. This is so great. I killed that. The smirk right. Like, that's the key. Connor likes when they are admiring their work. Yes. I love when they think they just pimped the homer.

Like, they just drop the grand slam in the bottom of the knife. They sit there and smirk just like Michael Johnson. I do all my fighting on land. He's just like, got him. He was ready to flip the microphone and just walk off. He was like, fucking got him, bro. Yeah, and then Epstein, Fiveth, Seventh layer of hair. They're all just, they're all great.

They're all great. Yeah, I mean, he must have to think about that before and then be like, Oh, yeah, this will get the crowd going, like, for sure. Many of these, that's what makes them even worse. Many of these are premeditated. They weren't thought of off the spot. Like, there was a couple that I almost brought up, like, Henry Sehudo, when he fought Al Jermaine Sterling, goes up there and he's getting asked about, like, looking at,

or taking Al Jermaine Sterling lightly. And he's just like, how could I take someone lightly that carries around an Academy award with him all day? zero response from the crowd at all. Fast forward like 20 minutes into the thing. He's like, like I said, how could I take someone lightly that carries around an academy award with him all day? Zero response from the crowd.

And it's just like- You went back to it again? Three? He went back to the well on it. And it's just like, brother, it didn't hit the first time. It ain't going to hit the second time. Like the magic of a great shit talker is someone who can operate on the fly. On the fly, but also isn't sitting.

there waiting for a crowd response. They just know. They just know, I'm dropping it and I'm going. That's it. It's done. Or the premeditated is actually a bar. Yeah, if you can actually pull that off. Yeah, like if it is actually a bar, it's fantastic. Like, Jamal Hill

had one where he said, I was going to take the high road, and this is in reference to his upcoming fight with Yuri Prohashka, I was going to take the high road, but I put it in the GPS and I couldn't find it. And then he goes to talk about...

That's not horrible. That's fucking ass. And then he goes on to talk about how the difference between them losing to Alex Brerer was Yeri got dominated and he got caught. Got it. I don't know. That feels almost like a rap lyric or something. That's okay.

I'm not mad about that. I don't think that that's in the pantheon. Yeah, that's why it's on the list. That's why it's on the list. But it gives sort of like, bang, bam. Yeah, yeah. It's not great rap, but it is, you know, he tried. All right.

Here we go. Number five, you actually referenced this one. Okay. I did not have the same reservations that you did. Let's call this, let's play and call this the one that I play called your underwear. Let's play this one. Let's wear it, you do. Take care of your underwear.

I'm going to fuck you, man. What? Guys, settle down. The boy with big mouth. Yeah, I try to what happens. I got all of you, you too, man. They've got snakes in the ground. It's up for you.

Dwayne, Lord is a . I'm the . Sleeves with that . He's a snake for him, you're still in here, recognizing him in here. Recognize what's going on. You're looking like a pussy doing that. Okay, what I love about that, in addition,

okay, so first of all, he says, yeah, like take care of your underwear's, which, and then everybody immediately laughs because they have no idea what the fuck he's talking about. And then he says he's gonna fuck all of them. The best part of that is that, That's David Tamer and Cody Garbrandt. Meanwhile, this is a coaching season between Connor McGregor and Uriah Fabor,

and he's trying to, you know, sow the seeds of dissent and all this. And then we just get that magical moment. But yeah, shout out to the legendary, take care of your underwear by David Tamer. Number four, this one was talked about by Frankie, but I do want you to witness the magic of living death via Ken Shamrock. MGM Grand right here. The gate shuts

and the bell rings. Titor Ortiz is going to find out what Ken Shamrock is all about. I guarantee you that. So if I was you, I hope to God you come ready. Because if you

don't, I'm going to beat you into living death. Danes, you think this is all funny games. But when the gate shuts and the bell rings, you're going to find out it's not fun in games. This ain't the WWF, boy. Shout out to Ken Shanwick-Tito. But yes, into the living death.

It wasn't even, like, he just lost it. That has gone on to become a very popular meme on the forums after it happened. But Tito's reaction makes it, right? Because he's doing this whole long speech about how it's not fun in games. It's all serious. And he says, speech into the living death. And then Tito just fake cracks up. It was incredible.

great rivalry that they had, even though Tito was victorious in all of them. A lot of fun that one. Number three, you referenced this one. You played it, but I'd like to play the extended cut. We're going to do the director's cut of the Michael Johnson. I called this one land fighting. I'm a violent motherfucker. I'm the most violent lightweight on this planet, and I will put that.

No, you're going to find out. We're going to find out. Trust me. It won't be a march. A march to deep water, baby, and you ain't not going to last. You cannot swim in this water. Deep water, I don't, I don't need to swim. I do my fight in a land player.

I'm literally going to try to take this man's life. Yes, I want to die. And if you're not ready, and if you're not ready to die, don't show up. I am ready to die there. The shit that's breaking my mind. Breaking you piece by piece. Artistically breaking you.

I eat my shit whole. I don't fucking take piece by piece. The more you talk, the bigger when I ask you to look on July 7th. That's all I got to say. I don't chew out of nothing the whole time. I'm gonna fucking eat you up for dinner, boys. They're nothing for leftovers. There was the extended, I don't, I just, I don't even chew it.

I'm gonna eat you up for dinner. Michael Johnson delivering two great ones in what was like a two-minute stretch there. There was a little bit of a break where somebody else got asked the question. Also, it gave us the first instance of Justin Gaci, because this was Justin Gachie's UFC debut of Justin Gachie saying, yes, I want to die. Like Michael Johnson was like, I'm gonna fuck. fucking kill you. And Justin Gitchie was like, yes, please. Good. Good. Fucking kill me. People really enjoyed the debut of Justin Gichi. Okay, this one has not appeared anywhere.

This one has not been mentioned. I don't know if you've ever even seen this. I don't think I have. But it is one of the goats. It is, it is. And it comes from one of the goats who was appeared earlier in my list, but he was on the other end of it. And that's one T to Ortiz. I'm calling this one Reaching for Grapes Chuck feels like he stole your thunder And this is sour grapes from you Like

It's personal because in a way You're jealous of him How does hearing that out of his mouth Fall on your ears Jealous of him This guy can't even put a fine sentence together Man are you kidding me right now He's reaching for

He's reaching for those grapes He's trying to make his wine And the wine's already signing like a violin with that cheese and wine. What was see on November 24th? Oh, man. He's reaching for those grapes, but the wine's ready, something.

Sounded like the violin, cheese and wine. Just like, he just started, he just started blubbering at some point. Yes, it was free association of just these things that he's picturing, he's picturing charcutory and grapes and wine. I love how he made fun of the guy for not being able to, like, put a sentence together and then could not put a sentence together. He's reaching for those grapes, man. He is reaching for those grapes. It sounded like wine. You can hear the violins.

Shout out to Tito Ortiz, an all-time speaker. All-time speaker. We could have done an orator. He's the, he's the orator of our times. If we just did top five, we could do a T-O. We could do a top 30. Oh, yeah. How many times do you see a T-to-Cli-Clip, like, on your timeline and then Dana White's in the comments being like, my boy. Like there's 30 a day that we could do if it was Tito Ortiz. All right. Number one, this also didn't appear on anybody's list yet. It's from a guy named Bilal Muhammad. You might have missed this one.

There was a press conference where he referenced a certain set of files, calling this one without the sex. My future is bright, right? I'm training with young monsters. Ignacio Ball-Munders is probably 28, and I think he's one of the best strikers in the UFC. See, like I said, I got a 17-year-old now. Nacho's younger brother, who's a monster, right?

It feels like the Epstein files without the, you know, the sex, right? I'm getting their powers through sparring and training. So it feels good. I still don't understand. I just can't. I have such a hard time watching when he says the, I get their powers through sparring and training. Fuck you, man. How many times do you think, like, when he's just hanging out that he references the Epstein files

and he thinks it's like funny, but they're all just like not hitting like this. I don't know, but in that room, I do, I think I asked about it at the time. I think I'm sure Oscar Willis was there because Oscar's at most of these events. I think I asked him at the time how that went over in the room

and I forget what he said, but I just, I would die to see the other, the camera face the other way as well. Just to see the faces as this was happening. Of the car crash. What are you doing? That's the car crash is happening. Um, that was fun.

I can see Balal walking down after the press conference and the PR team's there and they're just like, what the fuck? Come on. You fucking kidding me? No, I bet they're pretty hardened to it. After you get through with a Sean Strickland Media Day or press conference, I have a feeling they probably weren't too upset about anything, Bala said. Anybody got anything in the chat?

Anything, anything? Well, they keep playing the video? Yeah, shut out. Look at that. Oh, somebody literally said, we have a super chat leader that's at from Bougie. Alpaca that says, I wish I could have seen the media's reaction to Balaw saying without the sex. Legit. It would just be so good. There's just a moment where you're just like, wait, what did he say? And it was off a first rip. It was like very first listen. I was just like, yeah, I don't know about that one,

B. I would love for him to have no sunglasses on, too, because it looks like he's so confident in saying that, and I bet you take those sunglasses off, and that last three words probably weren't as confident as we think. Anyone y'all can think of? Yeah, I actually have a good one from Mr. Ortiz himself. Shout up. It's a quote, and this is awesome. He says, in an interview, I don't know who it was with. He said,

I trained six days, actually six days a week. Five days a week, I'll train three days a week. One of those days, I will train two days of the week. So six days a week, I will be training. Is it a riddle? Do you think he's living three days in one day? No.

I appreciate that, Tito. You just have to follow the... No, because it's three days in one week, but that one week also has seven days. So it's like there's a compounding effect. He's living many, many days within that week. I think essentially he doesn't believe in time and he's just kind of living his own life.

He breaks his day. In night to Cis, Sam? That's one day. Over the course of a week, I'm already way ahead of you. Over the course of a year, you're done. Shout to that video. Cardone, I think. All right, that was a fun one.

I loved going back through and watching just like a low light reel of UFC moments. Because it is so funny because, like, you have these guys that literally get punched in the head for a living, and you force them to get on a microphone and talk. Like, and a lot of the times it's talking shit. Think about how much bad shit talk there's been in the NBA, in the NFL, and soccer, and all of these sports. Just where my life seeing people talking shit. Where you're just talking shit up close to each other and, like, it's not on a microphone or everything. There's probably just been a plethora of just horrible shit talk.

These guys have to do it into a microphone. Get my powers from firing and training. I get my powers from sparring and training with the biggest dumbest smile on his face. To me, that's almost as egregious as Epstein Fowles Without the Sex. I can watch it so many times and it just never makes me grind on fucking D. I'm going to call Oscar after the show. I got to remember what the reaction in the room was. Okay, quick update on the Odyssey tickets.

Frank, I followed your advice. I secured just 70 millimeter for. the B-Day weekend. Nice. The dinner, Odyssey, kegger on the roof, World Cup final. I'm now attempting to purchase

IMAX 70 millimeter the next weekend. I'm just going to see it twice anyway. But the Fandango app keeps crashing. Do you want to give this to the Interns? Jack, I need to know your secret. I don't know how you got it,

but like, yeah, just keeps getting internal service error. Either way. That was a fun list. Yeah, I don't even know really, I just click two buttons that's pretty simple. Yeah, man, I guess you had the magic touch, Jack. I guess he's had the fucking magic touch. Jack can do anything back there.

I got a full head of hair, I'm not sure. Wow! Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I'll remember this one. I give a shit, so give us a fucking answer. Come on, buddy. This one's been logged, Jack. I don't need, see, here's the thing.

It's not like a UFC press conference. to get my revenge right now. Maybe he's just saying that because you called him like three different names on his first day yesterday. What I say? Jack. Oh, it doesn't help that. Did you call him Jason at some point? That was Frank.

That was Frank. Is his name not Jason? Did I even not? Did I ever call him, not Jack? Did I call him Jake on the show? That would be rude. No, no, I think you got it. Ariel called him Jake at one point.

Frank called him Jason. It's tough because we have a Josh. We actually have two Joshes. Jake, a Jake. A Jake. a Jacob, a Jordan, a Jack. And I think that's it. A lot of J names rolling around.

Jackman. And Jackman. I'm too hung over to deal with these people tonight. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it's because I'm on the Wi-Fi. I don't know what's going on. Either way, we got any voicemails, Frankie? The balls on Jack. He was just like.

I like it. Really? I like it. Just watch your fucking guy. I saw him rehearsing that one really. Watch your fucking back. Boys love the show. That training video you guys put up on YouTube was amazing.

Just showing you guys get out there in the deep end and trying is pretty thrilling. Keep it up. Thanks so much. Oh, wow. Thank you, brother. Oh, nice. Appreciate it, man. Do you even say his name?

No. No. Just showing love. Thank you. Shoulder is just about fully repaired now. There was a while where I would like, like the few days after we did the training because I was just getting slammed on it. I was trying to throw overhand rights the case. He was just blocking him every time.

where I would roll over in bed and readjust, and my body would just fall under the shoulder because my shoulder just wasn't working. I was getting on the border of like, do I need to go see a doctor for this? But luckily, you're good. Just a little bit of time. We'll be back in that training room.

Always in the back. It's Gorgonzol across the gout. I'm calling from Shanghai today. Give myself one more chance to get on the freaking show. I'm here for a tea ceremony with my fiance. Rick, I'm curious, how did you do the tea ceremony

with your wife? I believe she's also Shanghai-Ease. She is not. Curious with some of your favorite Shanghai-e's food. And, on her, I was also curious

for you, if you've had any Shanghai-ne's food or if you have any interest in going to China or Shanghai. And as I've been here, pretty sick the weekend of USC Macau, though I did a ticket. All right, peace, boys.

Bye. We've all eaten soup dumplings. The soup dumplings are definitely a must for Shanghai and the rice cakes. Few things. Love Shanghai Chinese food, what they said. I thought you were completely fucking around in the beginning. I thought this was a Matt from Dagestan moment

because your name was Gorgonzola encrusted gout, which is just a deep cut for the show. If you know, the Gorgonzola encrusted steak almost ended me. And Rick suffers with gout. So it's a nice little cross over there. And then just like, I thought Shanghai was just a random pull. I have never been to China. I would love, love, love to go.

We'll see. Maybe one day. Yeah, my wife is not from Shanghai. We will be doing a Shanghai-nees fight feast one day, though. That is for sure. The rice cakes and soup dumplings are my two go-to. We kind of missed our opportunity with just having a Chinese card. But we get kind of busy, there'll be plenty more.

There'll be plenty more. We will do a, you know, we'll go down to. Chinatown or Queens? Queens. Jackson Heights? Jackson Heights. No, flushing. Close to Jackson Heights. Boys in the back, it's Alex and beautiful Ibs, Lanny, Michigan. Shout that to the whole crew.

I gotta be honest. I was not loving the hate for pound for pound last week. That's my favorite part of the show. Every week, Boys in the Back is about hanging out with your boys who happened to work in the back. Shout out Andy. Shout out to Andy. And that's pound for pound.

That's when you discuss things like that. So I'm really looking forward to another one this week. And let's relax on the hate for pound for pound. Love the show. Have a good show, boys. Shout out to Andy. Shout out to Andy. Really appreciate the call.

Good news for you. Pound for Pound is back this week. I can't tell you how many people were like, I love pound for pounds. Don't quit pound for pound. We will not be quitting pound for pound. I hate pound for pound so much. and they love it. I love pound for pound,

especially when it's a good one. Like today I really enjoyed doing it. It's just a struggle when we're like, pound for pound birds. What's wrong with that? Those are some of our best. We have the assets loaded up. What happened to your assets today?

Frank? Boys, how you doing? Eric out here in Denver. Rick, It's basically good for you, bud. Hey, you're the fucking goat, man. Don't let nobody say nothing different. Is this a voice change?

They deserve everyone. Eric and Rick, we got this. Anyways, have you seen Backoon Jet? Yes. Great. I'm sure you have fucking dope, right? Especially if you know the lore, I love the fuck out of it. So, next movie.

Obsession. Tell me you've seen this because, brother that shit saves me nightmares and I'm gonna be honest why because I've had somebody similar to that up to like halfway to where I've been stabbed by what said to me so hey I get it I fucked up I didn't deserve it but you know that's my own thing playing with people's hearts and sex and anyways brother no without those two great movies you haven't seen them definitely see them obsession being number one.

Anyways, thank you for killing it. He's been stabbed. Fuck, man. He says thank you for killing you. Shout out to you, dude. We appreciate the phone call, and I'm sorry you got stabbed. I bet obsession was quite scary for you.

Speaking of movies, guys, I keep getting internal service errors. I get all the way to the checkout point, and it just keeps giving me internal errors for this. Sometimes the problem's between the chair and the keyboard. I could get you tickets. Buy me three. theoretically.

For real? Yeah, like not joking. Okay, pull up Fandango, go to that 10 a.m. showing on January 24. Still 10 a.m. is crazy. That's definitely sold out. I'm a matinee guy. Timeout awaiting request.

I mean, what is going on it? It's just, it's just crazy. Grab seats, what do we got? What do we got? If you're announcing which seats you're going to be sitting at what time, at what city, in which theater. Good luck to you. Howdy, boys. The session was great.

Denver. We hit it. It's June. It's happening. Here are the White House questions. Two quick ones for you. Yeah, hit him. One, everyone's talking about the weather.

And what if the weather goes to ship? What if it's hot and humid? Oh, no. Yeah. Who do you think on the card is likely to be the most affected by bad weather? I'm thinking probably our big boy, Derek Lewis. Derek Lewis, 100%. And second, what about, like, late notice for,

replacements on this card with like the extra security that has to be going into the white house you know i i feel like it would be hard to vet people two three four days out from the fight if someone got hurt needed replaced so what do you think that like protocol will be on that you know with a few fights that they have on the card if they lose one for injury that they can't replace you know that could really hurt the the fan parrard of it all uh anyway love you guys Love you too. Love you, man. Yeah, I don't know what they'll do for a late replacement.

Armin was supposed to be the late replacement for the main event, but then Armin is grappling on June 13th. Yeah. So I don't, I actually, that's the one where he's grappling Tony Ferguson for RAF. Yeah, because like shit could just go wrong. Like someone misses weight bad, someone has a bad weight cut, someone gets sick on the week of. This is such a massive event for the UFC. They're putting in so much resources to this.

Yeah, I don't know. You just got to pray for the best, I guess. Yeah, dude, especially if they lose an A side. Yeah. Ilya out. Alex Pereira out. That's bad, bad news. I can update that all the seats are gone.

All the seats are gone? For that 10 a.m. showing, yeah. Oh, for 70 millimeter? Yep. So my fandangle is just lacking. Yeah. Yeah, it is just lacking. Let me see if I can go to a...

Let's if I can go to any of them. We'll just, we'll figure it out. But yeah, I don't know what they're going to do about late, labor placements. It's your boy, Bodkins. What's up, Bodkins? Happy summer to you, boys. Question number one, is Scott Coker,

y'all's new promoter for the Melman Fighting League? Yes. No, we are. Question number two is, it is summertime, boys. What's the jams that you're playing out? Give me your top five best summer jams to get the barbecue rolling.

Happy summer to y'all. Have a great weekend. Bodkins out, baby. I'll start us off. Yeah, let's do my sunshine by Lit. Oh, yeah. Oh, I got a banger too. Oh, yeah, rip it, bro.

On the Hunt, Leonard Skinner. Great summer song. I don't know that one. There's a lot of good summer songs. Frankie, what 311 song are you bumping all summer? Oh, man, Amber. Come original. It's a great one, man.

It's not lit. It's Lynn. Lit is a thing you like give up. That is another band. Litt is a different band. He was talking about Len in his first reference. Yeah, some of the jams. Maybe a little sugar ray.

There we go. Which one? Every morning there's a good one. A little smash mouth? Which one did walking on the sunshine? Walking on the sun? Oh, isn't it? What are we bumping, Angie?

A smash mouth, isn't it? We are bumping Manuel Turizo. Sing it. Okay. And we are bumping anything by Capo. I have them on repeat. Okay. So we're doing like

Rwajana too Modern Day songs of the summer Yeah man All in Spanish What is this? You get it Summer equals Spanish music

Come on Sing one You guys like yacht rock Fuck yeah Yes Actually yes What I like

I heard the term Yot Rock What constitutes yacht rock Uh Soft Yeah like Just easy going Give me a yacht rock

song I would know Dirty work Steal it in I don't know I don't want to do your dirty work no more. Is Brandy Yacht Rock? You know, like, you know the... Yacht Rock?

Like, I randomly got into an Uber last week, and it was... The sailor says Brandy. You're a fine. They fucking played that in the Uber. I'm not kidding. It was an hour and 15 minute long Uber ride, and the guy was on Sirius XM Yot Rock the entire time. And, like, in between songs, the guys would be like,

welcome back to Series XM Yacht Rock. guys I just want to bring you in real quick and have you tell me about your first time ever experience in Yacht Rock and like a couple guys came on and they were like oh it was back in the 80s you know like the times were good and

you know they gave their whole story it's not appropriate for this for this audience but yeah, and the term Yacht Rock comes from these are jams on the yacht like people are on the yacht

yeah exactly exactly wait till he hears about Dad Rock and that's just Dad Wait wait till here's about Are the guys in the band's dads, or is it going to? I divided me on your yacht and you played rock music for me. Wait until he hears about...

So is that yacht rock? Kid rock. And no, it's not rock music for kids. Without the sex. So is kids bop an artist? It's the greatest rock artist of our generation. Give us a few more, Frank. Hey, guys, it's Michael from North Carolina.

G.C. What's up, bro? Talk all the tennis you want, man. Don't say that you're talking too much. much about something in an MMA show and fucking Ariel gets to go on about the Knicks and the bills but I still listen to Ariel for the same reason

I want to listen to you because you're passionate about something I want to hear you talk about it I want to hear you talk about Vara and Fonseca and all that. No man. I want Frank and New York ripped to drop their favorite cards from new sets and magic or the ones that they can't stand. I want fucking Andy and Frank

to let us know when there's a good album or a good show. On Air Jordan I just well okay I just want him to have a with Mike first. Let's start there. I love boys in the back the most out of all the shows this week. So please, please, please, please. Speak about what you're passionate about. I give a shit.

I give a shit, so give us an answer. You know, Ariel did request that Andy and myself have actual microphones like you guys have set up back here and Frank refuses. Yeah, it's too bad. Yeah, Frank wants the spotlight. You get the coffee order right, you get the microphone. I'm not an intern, man.

Yeah, no, I actually appreciate that, man. Yeah, this French Open has been absolutely insane. No more's you Alphonseca, but that's all right. Mensik is only a year older than him. Everyone's like, oh, Afon Seca, this brand new prospect. Mensick is literally one year older than him, just 20 years old. He needs to play hero ball. He needs to play Hero ball.

He needs to knock Zverav out. Zverav cannot. He can't win a slam. And if he does, this is such a Mickey Mouse title. Hasn't faced a single top 25 guy already in the semis. Yeah. Fuck, fuck Zverv. I will be rude.

including if as long as I'm still alive, Alexander Zverev has a hater. Just know that. If it isn't the boys in the back. Oh shit. This is Trey from South Dakota. If it didn't Trey. And I called a couple weeks ago.

I took a little vacation for a couple weeks of not calling because I had a timely humorous reference to PFL soup balls, which is in South Dakota, by the way, shout out. Shout out. And that week, instead of my phone call about like a timely reference, We get some dude talking for over a minute and a half just glazing Frank and talking to how great Frank is. What do you think made that choice? Here I am thinking these are the boys who push me to the back.

And then 24 inch dub, 24 inch dubs, sorry, I'm stupid, called a couple weeks ago, shit's on all the voicemails. And it gets played. So I'm either cussing too much or I'm going after Rick or I'm going after Frank. And I think I just got to start going after GC. and then my shuttle you play more or do I have to like talk about Frank's mom's ass or or like talk to Frank about headphones

talk about something that Frank's into talk about an ick am I right New Jersey but anyway how many times we missed Bodkin so that Frank could play one half-ass call from someone who called four times that same week

and I want to a positive note my mom just got back from the Mayo Clinic I called about her cancer diagnosis months ago The tumors are reduced in size by 35%. Tumor markers are down by 50%. And it's looking great. So fuck cancer. Fuck cancer.

Peace and love, brother. I appreciate that animosity towards the other listeners, but I really do love to hear that your mom is doing better. Hopefully she continues on that road to recovery, man. Very Jim Rome, right? The clones are smacking off on each other. I love it. Yo, what's up, fellas?

This is Nick from Spokane, Washington. Shout out. Hey, I was listening to yesterday's episode, and on the nose, Crater said that G.C. predicted the White House show on a previous boys in the back. Correct. We doubted this. Well, guess what? I went back and found that episode. It was actually New York Rick who predicted the White House lawn. That's right. Get it right. Rick, take your flowers. You guys rock. Take the flowers, bro. We doubt it the whole time. I was like, did I say that? I have no recollection of that. I'm actually glad that I wasn't like, yeah, you fucking right, man. Yeah, yeah, hell yeah, I knew this shit was coming. Yeah, you definitely were like, you're like, did we do that? I don't remember saying that.

So yeah, shout out to you. Great call. Mostradamus over here. So 24-inch subs here, and this is why everyone hates the New York Knicks. Okay, tell us what. All your celebrity fans are the most annoying people. Tracy Morgan, Spikeley, that stupid Timothy little punk ass. He's also great.

He's at the game in San Antonio. thinking he's part of the team. Dude, go away. You play make-believe for a limit. Get out of here. You're part of the team. Go Spurs. I'm out.

Okay. We're like the Boston. I was just going to say famous Celtics. Like Mark Wahlberg. Oh, yeah. Include Mark Wahlberg. Dana White's been court set. Dana.

Dana White, notorious good guy. Ben Affleck, known for a Sterling record of being a quality guy. Mark Wahlberg, same thing. You just want to point out John Turturro He was like You know what

I can't spend all this money Court side I want to go with my son Gets the 90s Nix jersey out Looks like a real Real hardcore fan How can you hate that guy

Tor Tor Toros are just Also Tracy Morgan Who doesn't like Tracy Morgan Maybe he has Walmart stock What kind of weird Oh you have to be If you can't respect Mark Wahlberg

Just type in Mark Wahlberg 90s No no don't do that There's nothing there. Matt Damon, love Matt Damon. Chris Evans. What is this? It's just like...

Handsome actor club. Gucci, man. Get the fuck out. Gucci's a hot man. I feel like I've seen Robert Kraft courtside of the Celtics game. Becky G? All right.

Boston sports stars and just the whole Wahlberg family probably takes up an entire row. Yep. If Becky G's a Celtics fan, I'm a Celtics fan, too. Shout out Becky G. Hey, boys are back. This will give you a shout out.

Just get a quick question. Didn't think about until today. I don't fucking know why. Anyway, we got to think about the UFC disrespecting Tom Aspinall. Kind of fucked up, ain't it? Thanks. And also, Frank, tell your mama today. Thanks.

What did he say, Jordan was in my ear? He said, tell your mom I said hey. Frank, tell your mom I said hey. He also said, what do you think about the UFC disrespecting Tom Aspen? Yeah, we kind of touched on this earlier. I'm assuming he's referring to Tom Aspernel having not been invited to the White House card. I think Tom Aspinall should be there. I really think that that would add something to the card if Tom Aspinall is looming while Alex Prair and Cyr O'Gonner fighting for the interim belt.

But Tom Aspinall said in that interview, he's like, I don't take it as disrespect. I don't love where their relationship is. I hope they make amends. For no other reason, then I just want to see Tom Aspinall for me. You want to be totally honest? I don't love Eddie coming out and being like, give him to me. Let it. I'll take it from here.

I think that phrase the relationship further. I don't doubt that Eddie Hearn could get him the biggest payday of his career, but how many more after that? Or how do you get there? Yeah. They're not going to just straight release him. I want to see Tom Aspinall fight for him. Yeah, I want to see Tom. I want to see Tom Aspinall against the best in the world, man.

I don't want to see Tom Aspin versus fucking Chase Sherman on Netflix MVP8. I want to see Tom fight. I hope they will come to terms. I hope they'll fight. I hope he gets what he's worth in coming back to fight. But I do understand why Tom Aspinall would feel disrespected. The level of lack of care and dismissiveness that Dana White displayed after Tom Aspenall's eye thing and him going through a very tough time in his life and just being like,

downplaying the eye poke, downplaying the entire situation. I understand why Tom might be aggrieved. I totally understand. And so it's hard. It's easy for me to just be like, I hope they kiss him. and make up when meanwhile you're the champion of the UFC getting disrespected by the face of the UFC but I want to see Tom Aspen I'll fight one of these guys like this is a is a big massive opportunity either way Alex Perr is a fucking super fight zero gone there's unfinished business

it's a huge fight so I hope we see Tom back I hope they can get on on the same page in a good standing and I hope he gets what he's worth I don't think Eddie Hearn is going to get him three times, you know, what he's currently making. But I hope he has big paydays and big fights ahead of him in the UFC. Yeah, what's up, boys? This is creators from a sub-tech feed and also from the YouTube as well. That's my username on there. Anyways, I think it's a lot of fun when you guys discuss more, like, real-life stuff,

more than the MMA. Not that MMA is not real life, but you know what I mean? Like social faux-paws and that sort of thing. So I was wondering, what is the chopstick? situation in the team's rotation. Does anyone not use the chopsticks or have the shameful honor of asking for the silverware when you're at a place that me and they use as chopsticks? I was very much wondering. I feel like at least one of you uses the kiddie chopsticks with the rubber band around the two. Yeah, let me know. And thanks for all the shows and stuff.

It's always fun to listen to you guys while working or doing other things. care. Thanks. Bye-bye. Appreciate the phone call. That's a fantastic question. I have no shame in saying I'm a wizard with the sticks, bro. I'm quick on the draw with the chopsticks. I got no issues. Does anybody not know how to use chopsticks back there?

I suspect the interns might not. I actually can't use chopsticks. We got some forkers in this. Wait, you can't? You said, Jordan? Yeah. Growing up, I had some hand issues, and they never really resolved themselves, so I can't do it. This is not surprising. What does that entail? Hand issues.

I had to go to occupational therapy because I didn't have like, you know, some hands. So can you not use like a pen? I don't hold my pen and pencil correctly, actually. So like, you know how like lefties when they write, they drag their hand across the ink and they have it on their, like on the side of their hand? I do that and I'm a righty because of the way I hold my pen and everything. Is that why you use the handicaps doll? I like the handicapped stall because I like to eat Oreos, man. I was wondering why those Oreo rappers were always in the handicapped.

That wasn't in the handicap one. Even worse, that was in the public one. So somebody was in there with everybody around. Yeah, we've been Oreos. We've conspicuously found a couple of Oreo rappers in the bathroom stalls here at Yahoo. If you want to own up to that, you know where to find us? Could you imagine just being on the shitter with fucking Oreos? And then just leaving the wrapper.

And leaving that there, too. I think that's, they get off to that. They're like, I want everyone to know. I am very, very skilled with chopsticks. I've caught flies with chopsticks before. I'm a fucking demon. Yeah. Sometimes I just eat things that don't even

aren't meant for chopsticks with chopsticks. Hell yeah. Love is to test it. Papaya saline? Nah, like just a watermelon. Just grab a watermelon. Shuffle that bad boy down with the chopsticks. When you eat a sushi roll, do you always use chopsticks?

Not always. Sometimes a hand roll is nice. Not a hand roll, like a hand pull of a roll. I'm ripping the sticks. Osabi clop. In Japan, they take it with their hands and they dip it. Right, right, right. obviously you can hand roll like the nigeri or whatever

there is a hand yeah there's also a hand roll that you eat with your hand the cone do they call it the cone no I'm saying it's conical that's what a hand roll is the shape is a cone conical monota yeah the cameras good old boys I was wondering could we get a

13 million for the kitchen scrap drop that would good thank you yeah cheers that's a good suggestion I can't tell if he's fucking with us. Does he like want me to push the button? I thought he was, oh yeah, yeah, go ahead. No, no, no, I want him to call back and explain. Can we get one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, we don't have one. We don't have one. We don't have one.

Yeah, was he asking, do we need one or can we just, can you hit it? How does someone know to call and leave a voicemail? But don't know. But doesn't know that that's one of the, I'm so confused. I need them to call back. Do you think? Do you think we could get Action Bronson to say $30 million for a kitchen scrap and put that as a drop? to wrap it. We needed to be in a song, yeah, you're right. That was all the voicemails.

All right. Thanks so much for calling in, guys. We really appreciate it. I do have to give myself the old Barry H. Is this an update about the tickets? There is no update. I haven't gotten the tickets yet. I'm literally looking at internal server error.

Please try again on both my computer and app right now. But I just wanted to say I've been navigating these voicemails, giving incredible responses. Wow, Fandango. is fucking me in the ass. It says there's tickets. I've gone, I've tried. I've tried every different type of show. I've like, I tried a Tuesday 10 a.m.

I was going to, why not you? I was going to tell Rick live on the air, hey man, August 2nd. Can't make it. I'm sorry. Connor. Why the commitment to Fandango? Connor, I think you should get in touch with Frank. I know he knows a couple of Facebook groups where he can, you know, resell. Also I'm not going to lie.

Jesus, that was set to you in confident. Went to AMC and like, I've been in line. And when I joined it said, 18 minutes in line. That was like 19 minutes ago, and I'm only at 14 minutes left on the line. I mean, it's a disaster. Just trying to watch a little IMAX 70 mil.

Any super chats, Frankie? What is this? This is fuck. My favorite part is... This is from Mrs. On Air. She wanted you to be aware that she got three tickets. Hold on, hold on.

Leave this up there. Leave this up there. Just one second. Now people know where she's sitting. Amax 70 millimeter. He was going to be so happy if it just said IMAX. He was going to fucking... I can't lie.

I was looking. close to see if that was just a just a 7mmy. Shout out to the jacket, by the way. Yeah, if you're going to the AMC Lincoln Square 13, July 24th, 6 p.m., say hello to my wife and I guess whoever else is with her. Hopefully. Is this like a lean-of-the-plug, Adam 22 situation here? Why are you not going with your wife?

I didn't get the invite, honestly. Makes me wonder, is Connor going with her? It's tough. Huh? Brian, did you just sit the Elwani intro music? What are you talking about? I feel like that's not the first time you've done that. The thing's broken.

I, you know, she could, I mean, she could have just taken a screenshot on her laptop instead with the picture of the dirty-ass laptop screen. Like my dad does? Yeah, it wouldn't be the worst thing to, like, clean your laptop. Yeah, you know, it looks. I looked at it up. I was like, what the hell did she do here? On Sterling.

I actually, they brought lunch in today, the burrito bowls, and, I literally just onto my burrito bowl and I was just eating it off of my Mediterranean that's how clean it is

Joe whenever you get a chance you know maybe a chlorox wipe or something like that well he's lashing out because of the tickets I assume the dirty laundry made the screen dirty

so she should probably do a lot of cleaning no Jesus yeah I now I actually get why you're not

going to the movie if I actually get it as well I don't know still a mystery yeah actually though what did she go through

Van dango? It looks like AMC to be honest. Jake as well, yeah, well AMC is just honestly, I went on AMCtheaters.com just to check it out. It said just to get into the main screen, 28 minutes. Yeah, man.

Is the Odyssey this big an event? I keep getting them in my card. Every frame is an IMAX. No, it actually isn't that big of an event. It should have just been a three-minute process at noon, and then I would have never mentioned again. But the fact that I'm having to do all this bullshit to try and get tickets is making.

it that much of an event. Like, we just got Oppenheimer. Which is harder to get tickets to... It's a few years. UFC 329 or the opposite. But I just mean like the bus for Oppenheimer and Barbie was at like historic levels. And you could get tickets. It wasn't like this.

The difficulty, I already have tickets for a normal screening for 70 millimeter. It's the IMAX 70 millimeter that... There's only one real IMAX theater in New York. Yeah, we know, man. You get, you say it every chance of you. I have to say it to justify the cost. hype for this will really come. And it's that one, though.

What is it? Lincoln Square? I mean, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathway, Robert Pattinson's, and I... I mean, every frame of... Charlie's there. This movie was filmed in IMAX. Did you know there's only one in New York? Benny Safty's in here. Shot of Benny.

See, Christopher Nolan didn't like IMAX cameras at first, because they were too noisy. So he would only do certain scenes, like, with the Dark Night, only a couple scenes. So the idea that, like, they've convinced him to use it all the time. That's why they're marketing it is. Every frame is an IMA. I'm starting to think that this is actually great. This is great. You guys who don't love Interstellar won't get this.

They're paying homage to Christopher Nolan's masterpiece Interstellar by AMC minutes being. Oh, they're different time. 20 minutes in real life is one AMC minute because somehow we're still at 13 minutes away, despite having gotten in line at like 2.35. So shut out. Or Inception, right? Tenet? Tenet. Yeah, you could do tenet too.

What's up? Any super chats, Frank? Oh, shit. 1,500 people watch out. Take it away. Josh, Jack. Who's doing it? Josh, you go for it.

I'll go for it. Here we go. We got Centolt, 746, saying, Hey, Andy, Rick, G.C. and Jordan. As co-workers, what would you find more entertaining to watch? A jealousy, seething, and sarcastic Frank in a team meeting. trying to highlight the mistakes and derail the hype of the young interns,

and then in another super chat, or Josh the Mark and old mate Jack, taking and hiding Frank's multi-tool for one week. Love the show. I would like to see Frank doing anything in a meeting because that would be the first time ever. So that's what I would like to see. Can't do meetings, so not my contract.

I would, yeah, the multi-tool, hiding the multi-tool from Frank would be fantastic. All I'm going to say is someone's going to get stabbed. I know. But you won't have your multi-stab anymore. The history revision to I didn't care at all is so crazy. From the irate punching walls storming out, telling an Uber driver to fuck off and drive, pitching a hissy fit, we'll see you back in New York. Jordan and Andy's knees knocking because they're so terrified of what's going to happen.

He actually tried to get some people fired over this. Truly. Multi-tool. Scooby-Doo ass. To now Frank being like, what's up? Oh yeah, that old multi-tools? You guys haven't seen my multi-tools?

The Giver or the Litherman? No big deal. Good news is, you can always buy another one. It's only 100 bucks. Yeah, Frank, you can just expensive. Ah, what's the trouble? What's the trouble? I don't really keep receipts like that, you know?

Multi-tools are like the penny tray. Like you lose one, you lose one. You lose one. You lose one. It's no big deal. Now, the way he was acting about it, you would have sworn it was his great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather's multi-tool for some war. Yeah, we get it, Andy. This doesn't make any more true. At one, at one point, he got on, like, the gorilla stance, like, on, like, all boards like this. I started puffing, yeah. In respect to your own way.

We were like, all right, Frank, I will admit, in Frank's defense, the key to this, much, this is like a horror movie, right? the suspense was actually built up by Jordan and Andy, right? Because we're outside observers. I had no idea about this multi-tool situation. We're sitting in the room and the fear and the panic that Jordan and Andy had is what escalated the tension. Then Frank comes in and a huff and does do the $100 as he's storming out. The best part of all of this is the fear from Andy and Jordan ignited anger in me to where I was like, man, fuck Frank. We can buy him another fucking multi-tool.

I don't give a shit. And my usual indifference of, who cares? Actually, Eric offered to get the top of the line multi-tool for Frank just to make him happy. And then Frank was like, oh, shit, maybe I should lose this thing again. I also said that too. I was just like, well, fucking expensive. Find the nicest multi-tool on planet Earth than you can have, Frank. It was a one-time offer.

No, unfortunately. Yeah, shout out. Shout out, shout out. Josh, the next one. Yeah, we're going to switch off, so I'm going to take this one. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Let's go, Jack.

So The Gator says, Have a great weekend, boys. Maybe Hamza is a bigger name than Armand. Who's the check? Love the show. Sorry for being a little shit sometimes. This is the guy who's been on us all week about Armin being Hamzaa.

Imagine, though, like, thinking you have to apologize for being a little shit. Like, this is exclusively what the internet is for. No apologies required. This is for. Yeah, and this show, yeah. We just hosted a program

for the last two hours and half the time I was trying to buy movie. movie tickets. It's what this show is meant for. As I'm dual screening AMC, 10 minutes on the computer, six minutes on the phone. We'll keep you updated people. We got the Gator 117 saying GC is a much bettered reader than Frank. That is facts. If that's not intentional, that's fucking classic. Sometimes when I'm reading these long tweets on the show, in the back of my head, I'm like, Frank would have fallen over 18 times. I can't wait to get the official diet. diagnosis that I have dyslexia.

Me too, because then we can just rip on you for being dyslexia. I know, right? Yeah. I will say, Josh and Jack have been doing much better than Frank. Anyone? A chimp could do better than Frank. I hope so. No, I'm not sure, though.

Mercy in Motion Book says, boys, if God is all powerful, can he be all good? Jeez, this is a deep one, mercy in motion. A little heavy? As your first intern assignment, Jack, take it away. We need a three-page paper on this by the end of the world.

I don't know. If he's all powerful, he's not all good. Power does corrupt, right? Yeah, also, I mean, like, if there was a god, Bala wouldn't even be on the UFC roster. Wow. Jesus, Jack, with the Haymakers over here. Geez, first of all.

Hot take, he's coming at you. He's coming at Balao. Jack got some fire in him. You know what it is? He's sitting in my seat. He's feeling the energy. Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's like the Venom symbiote or whatever it is.

It's taking over him. Also, like mercy in motion, clearly devout in his religion. And Jack, like, if there was. If there was one. Which there is. You didn't say that part. Easy there. He didn't say that part.

I'm going backwards on AMC. I just watched it go from 6 to 11. This is ridiculous. If there was a God, G. G.C. would have tickets to this showing of, No, if God was all good, he had to have it. If he was all good, yeah. If he was all good, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know if I'd be working right now. I don't know if I'd be, you know, suffering in his capital. We got side side, five to two hundred saying interns on the inside. That's not terrible. I don't like it. It's not terrible. On the inside of what? What are the inside?

The control room. Interns in the, let's see, most popular words that start with I. Any more? Any more Superchat? Yeah, so he said, Jamie De LaHouz said, G.C., you're a goat. Eric, I fuck with you, Frank. Just keep pressing the buttons, dog. Shout out to the crew.

Lastly, need a pound for pound. Biggest kiss asses in honor. Oh, that's not bad. That is not bad. That is not bad. We didn't do that one already, though? No, I don't think we did. That's not bad, though.

That's not bad. Biggest company men, did we ever do that one? How much would you pay? How much would you pay for, private investigator like Rusini Vrabel photo of Frank kissing his mom's ass like what would that be worth

there's not enough money $10,000 like I'd pay anything for that not enough money in the world if that existed it was dark Jeff Bezos Joe Bezos entire net worth just a little snap

from a behind a tree through the window here we go we got Create like Mike saying I hope that Cody G drop came from my boy from my voice Hangin' With the Boys. Nixon 6 is Strickland the

anti-hero of the UFC being banned from the White House card? That drop did come from your voicemail hanging with the boys. Appreciate you, great like Mike. Nixon 6th. Hang with the boys. Hang it with the boys. Love it. Is Sean Strickland the anti-hero?

Is he actually banned? Or are they just like, hey man, like we're not allowed in fighters. Hey man, man, like, you can't come. He does do a good job, though, of always positioning himself that way, right? of always being the like anti-establishment guy. Well, he comes out and he's just like, I am banned because of my statements on Israel.

People run with that to the point where Bryce Mitchell got asked about it. He's just like, here, Sean Strickland got banned because of his statements on Israel. Meanwhile, there is no backing of validation to that at all. We have no idea if that's actually true. But just in general, he always is able to find the angle or the stance of like, I'm not supposed to do or say this, but I'm going to do or say it. And then everybody's like, look at him being a rebel.

Look at him doing that thing that he's not supposed to. Yeah, exactly. I mean, the guy, the guy can market. It works. It works. It works for it. It works for the fans, man. Yeah, so it's from the same guy.

I create like Mike, what do we call the BITB hive? We are fam and fans over the fence. Homies over the hill? All right, Frank. Settle down, bud. Wow! Wow! Jack is working one up today.

A settle down bud! Wow. Wow, the history of bud on this show. That will not fly. That will not fly. A settle down bud to old Frankie. It's nothing secret anymore. Jack is coming for next today.

Wow. I mean, you did hit him with it today, Jr. It's an Adam Sandler reference. You also can't fucking read, though, Frank. That's the problem. What do we call our hive? We go to lunch, bro. We go to Keynes.

Is that a Keynes cup right there, Jack? Yeah, yeah, I did go to Keynes. Three-finger combo. I have a strict no-food and drink policy inside the control room. Shout out, man. That lasted like literally three minutes when it was instituted.

We threw the paper out. We threw the paper that set it out. And I asked them for a trash can. They're like, you can't have a trash can. What do you need it for? The sign went down, Halwani instantly made a mess in the control. Every guy, Nick's like, oh my God, we got to clean up.

I mean, I know, Nicole has to clean up while when he stands there. I've exploded like four seltzer waters all over my backbench, like, several times. Frank poured an entire Yerba Monte. It got cases that Yeramonte is like an award. Yeah, I mean, there's a chance people lost their jobs because of how much food and drink we've had in that control room. It's, yeah. Is it weird if our fans are just also the boy? Are we all the boys?

You know what I mean? Like a where the all the boys thing? We need a catchy name. We do need something for them. We also need something for the interns, obviously. Yeah. Yeah, we're working on. We need suggestions.

We need suggestions. Call it to the voicemail. It doesn't have to have alliteration, but if there is alliteration, it doesn't hurt. I want some good ideas. I want some good ideas. Yeah, I think we're alliteration preferred. But here we go. Bougie Alpaca says, I wish we could have seen the media's reaction to Bilal, saying, without the sex.

Me too, brother. I will, if I remembered next week, I will get a blow-by-blow account of it, and I will retell that story on the air. Or maybe I'll get a voice note and play it, but I'm going to try to dig and find out what the reaction in the room is. It's the

ultimate, like, Drewski. What do you mean by that? Yeah. What do you mean by that? Hakujun Otaku says Benavide's line is from Roadhouse. Yeah. Still, it just doesn't. I used to fuck guys like you in high school.

I mean, it's like I used to eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast. Yeah, exactly. You eat pieces of shit? Well, Michael Johnson eats a shit hole. Yeah. I used to fuck guys like you in high school. You used to fuck guys. All right, we have a blind ranking here for real.

Oh, me. All right. I'm looking away. And Frank, I believe we're going to need your cooperation on this one. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, Frank already said he's not hitting the drops. He told me I said, have the drops ready.

He said, that's too bad. Oh, so it's ranking the drops? All right. You are ranking these five soundboard clips. Here's the first one. Zero. Who the fuck is we? Okay.

That's a super solid one. That is a super solid one. Three. What's going on here, Frank? I'm actually trying to find it. Do you have the next one? You want me to say it? I don't think that one exists.

That's some bullshit. What? Oh, that's a bullshit? Yeah, that's... We're disrespecting these here. That's a bullshit? Uh... Four.

Keep my fucking name. Fuck them out. That's not even on this list. Next up. It's a mess. James Tahuna. Fuck. James Tehuna?

The significance of it is great, but as a drop, it's a five. Next up. No, no, this is not my fault. No, no, this is not my fault. Number two. Fuck, did I nail this? Give me a number one. Next up. Lastly, 30 million for the chicken scrap.

Chicken? I think they're doing this to troll us. Tahooners misspelled. It's not that some bullshit. Yeah, I don't know whether to take this at base value. Why are we reading this? $30 million for a chicken. Send them their money back.

$30 million for a chicken scrap is incredible. The misunderstanding of Pizzi's accent. I feel like that was okay. I might have swapped maybe two and three. Fight is a fight business. This is an all-timer for me now. The worst one became my favorite. Hey, Carl.

Good to see you. Okay, that's actually the worst. worst one, but it's, nah, no, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, he fuck is the, fucking. Who gives a fuck? Who gives a fuck? I don't give it. I take whatever you have to give to me. Let's go.

The fact that he doubled down. No, I want all of it. Uh, yeah, yeah, not just that one's horrible. Not just the, I will not age well. Like, yeah, will not age well. It's, it's, it's very akin to the, uh, to the, uh, to the carlfroch one. If we wanted to go alliteration, we don't necessarily have to go intern. I'm looking up some synonyms. Okay.

Apprentice. Trainee. Novis. Okay. Do you have like an alliteration for it? Do you have like a... Nope. Buck Connor.

Yeah. Yeah. Should we just... Should we just call them the apprentices in general? I feel like that's got some prestige to it. That's got some gravitas, some status. Because of the Trump affiliation? I don't know that that Walt Frank Fetch approves of that.

Wow. Is that the only thing you can think of? and the word apprentices said. Excuse me, I'm getting offended now. Apprenticeship has existed for centuries. Wow. Millennia. Yeah, man.

Still. We're literally beating up babies. All right. That's all the superchats. No, there's a few more. Go! Laboratory says reaction to Price's reaction to Strawn Strickland,

insight. Yeah. I think the question was framed as if what Sean Strickland's saying is fact, then Bryce Mitchell took it as such. Yeah, it's an assumption that like, all Bryce Mitchell did was further support whatever Strickland's had. Yeah. He agrees with the ideology. Yeah.

I do think there was some validity to what Bryce Mitchell was saying that it's kind of weird that a government entity is hosting a massive sporting event and that, like, government is here to serve people not to entertain us with sporting events. I don't necessarily disagree with that. But in terms of what he was asked about Strickland, yeah, I mean, the question was framed going off the basis of what Sean Strickland is saying that he was banned for his comments as a fact, which I'm just not sure if that's true. Well, and Bryce's take on it was just a reiteration of what Strickland already said in bringing his real and this type of shit. 24-inch Dubs says if it's not Ella Langley, it's not the summer song.

Oh, shout out to Ella Langley. Is she contemporary or an older? I've never heard of L.A. No, she's new. And I'm from Nashville. Shout out Nashville. Ella Langley is one of these country rising stars are now. She's banging.

Yeah, she's great. Does she have a hit song right now? I would recognize. Like, is it a radio rotation right now? Choose in Texas for sure. Like, who in Texas? Choosing? Choosing Texas, yeah.

Choosing Texas. All right. I'll look it up. Shout out Ella. Yeah, the next one is from KMoney, 0-0-0-0-6. Shout out on the hunt by Leonard Skinner. Truly great. It is a banger. Shout out to Leonard Skinner, baby. I don't think I know any Leonard Skinner. Yeah, you do, Freebird. Oh, I know Freebird.

Alexander Simon says, Frank, thank you for taking my voicemail. Sorry, I said, you couldn't read yesterday and we're about to be replaced. All-time pound for pound this week. Shout out Andy. Please don't spend your money to apologize. I understand you're sorry. Shout out to Andy. And Frank can't read, so you shouldn't apologize. about that. It's just the words, like, move around. Yeah. Yeah, going right back to Frank. La Mancha, MMA, says, when discussing Frank's mom, will y'all be changing it to gestating parent to be in accord with some changes in NY legislation that was just passed? Yeah, I saw this this morning. It's like not, they're not,

they're changing some language from mother to this, I believe was the. Dems replace mother with gestating parent and latest woke rewite of NY law. the news. Sounds like the Post? Yeah, that's the post. I was going to say, you got to love the New York Post. Yeah, that sounds like a post headline. Um, mom's not the word. I'll tell you what. Their fucking ability to pun is just unbelievable.

It really is crazy. A woke new bill erases the term mother and father from state child custody and parental laws. Post puns are just... Just stating parent. How do I feel about it? I don't know. I don't really have a strong feeling on it, to be completely honest. Look, if there is a compelling argument for the need to change and go for it. Sure. If somebody wants to use that terminology, I got no issue with it.

I will probably be like, what'd you say? Yeah, well, that's fine. Mum's not the word? Are you following that woke new bill? That'll be my response. Do you subscribe to the post? No, clearly they wouldn't. Yeah.

All right, we got Smoke Season here saying Syracuse Scousers for the intern's nickname. No, but Scousers is a geographical. I don't mind the use of Syracuse, though. Yeah. Cues or even Cues. Cues in... Cues control room? Cues...

Something with orange? Orange, yeah. We were thinking of Cues in the corner earlier, but I don't know if that'll stick. What is it? Yeah, the Q's corner. Cues in the corner, yeah. I think it's really just got to roll off...

I think it's got to roll off the tongue. I think we can't force this thing. It's going to horse. It's going to be a workshopping, and when it comes out, we'll know. Once we decide, we're completely stuck with it. Do we get cute and do, like, citrus something? Yeah, something with the orange could be good. What?

Tickets? Yeah, I'm on the AMC app right now, and I'm getting, I made it all the way through the line. I got to the, to a showtime. You got Stubbs? Immediately saying there. You're a Stubbs member? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any more Super Chats?

Yeah, the very last one is from, Utebu, O one. Armand versus the Secret Service is the best matchup on the White House card. Don't be surprised when Chris Barnett gets that Freedom 250 belt. Shout to Chris Barnett, Athens very own.

Him and the Freedom 250 belt would go like movie in a soundtrack. You don't know what I don't get the... I don't get the Barnett reference. I get the Armin thing because it would be funny if Armand was there and did get into a tussle with Secret Service. Yeah, I think he's just a random pull.

The Chris Barnett I didn't get. But that's funny. imagine Armin being at the White House I mean he's not because he's going to be at Raff but imagine if Armin was there and just lost it like no no this is not my fault the one time he actually couldn't

the one time the repercussions would be too severe shout out to Armin though what a G is that it that's all we got that's it thanks for the reading Jack Josh great stuff you're gonna keep workshop in that name

we will keep workshop in that name We'll also keep working on the name for the boys in the back. Our community, yeah. You're going to have to tweet out an update on your ticket situation so that nobody fears what really happened. We're not going to see them for another week. There's an AMC around the corner. I'm just going to go scrap the ticket guy there.

Hey, man, can I get those 70 millimeter IMAX tickets? He pulls out his iPad. I'm just here to scan them. You can just use seniority. I trained one time, bro. And then it's Nat in the ticket booth, and she just whoops your ass. Shout out to Nat the Adam Wait,

who beat my ass out in California. That's going to do it for us. UFC, Vegas 118 this weekend. Watch the crack tomorrow. Were you slating it? White House next week. Odyssey at some point? Odyssey in a month, whatever.

We'll see that. NICS this weekend. We'll see where they're at on Monday. World Cup starting soon. Until next time. The sex.