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I'm Luke Thomas. I'm Brian Campbell. This is Morning Combat.

Hey, it's the 28th of the month. Cash your checks and get up everyone. Hello, hello, hello. My name is Luke Thomas.

And welcome to a Wednesday edition on this 28th of the month.

And welcome to a Wednesday edition on this 28th day of June.

The year of our Lord, 2023. Thank you for being here.

We have a lot to get to. As I mentioned, my name is Luke Thomas. I join you from the capital of the status of needles right here in Washington DC.

But of course, I am really one half of your hosting duo. That don't go over there is also one as well.

You know him as the king of Connecticut. My friend and yours.

Has he shower today? Probably not. It's Brian Campbell. Hi, Brian Campbell.

The good news is yes, Luke. The bad news is it was the first time in two and a half days because that's what this life is all about Luke. Okay.

All right. This semi washed kind of life. Luke, but the good news is, you know, the fans took the hit that they were given of MK and they bumped again and they bumped again.

So we're back. We're banging. We're ready. What do we call this? The mid-year review show? Luke, is that what we're doing now?

I guess something like that. Yeah. So basically here's the deal. We know that there are some fights this weekend. And honestly, if you look at that card for Saturday, the main event doesn't blow you away.

Okay. Fair enough. And it's in the apex again, which I know a lot of people are going to be upset about, but there actually are some decent fights on that.

We're going to give you a full preview of that on Friday. But to BC's point today, it's two things a little bit differently here. We're at nearly the halfway point of the entire 2023 year.

Let's see what has gone right. What has gone wrong? What's on the path ahead and look back at some of our predictions from the end of 2022 to see if we're on the right track.

If we're not, that's sort of a thing. That makes sense, BC. Yeah. That makes sense to me, Luke, as your co-host. I just hope the audience is bought in. But, you know, some of them, the P1s at least, they just want to be injected. They don't care what we're talking about. Okay.

Yeah, that's probably pretty fair. They don't really care. But that's what we're going to be doing here today. Whoops, one more second here. Okay.

Reminder, thumbs up here on the screen if you're using YouTube, all that good stuff. You can see all the socials down there. You can follow us.

Let's see. Oh, we should remind folks. There's going to be a show Friday a live show. We'll have some program for you on Monday.

And then, of course, the end of next week, BC and I will all be together. And it will be doing the prelims for these are on NS Fight as well as doing a post fight reaction show for UFC 290. We will not be in Las Vegas, unfortunately.

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