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Period. It's morning combat and it's back with a bang Friday, January 28th, 2022. Yes. Don't dead wrong me on this Friday. I know I said 21 last episode, but Brian Campbell back at at the BBC with that BDE.

Just call me the American Alpha, but you know what I'm here to do. I am here to remind Luke Thomas of the mess he left when he went away on vacation, but luckily to clean that up a little bit, we have CBS Sports's own the Persian Prince of MMA, the pride of Vancouver, British Columbia.

It would be a Shaquille, Majority of French origin. My friend back for round number two. Thank you for joining us. How you feeling on this winter day? Here you here you roll out the red carpet. Feed me some grapes. The Prince of Persia is back on morning combat above the bars, Luke Thomas. Look at this. Look at this dropping bars, cutting promos. Shack, of course, if you're new to this, these parts, Shaquille, Majority of CBS Sports now.

Big time combat sports guy, but enjoying all of your interviews, you hit that wrestling world hard. You know that's going to irritate the audience of this show.

Well, no one more so than Luke Thomas, but hey, you know, you got to get your traction where you can and I don't know, man, the pro wrestling fans took to me.

Yeah, yeah, more cushion for the push and I think is the weirdest thing I can come up with right now. We're back at it though, setting the weekend up.

Bellator will return this Saturday night and speaking of that showtime, the great label that pays us, you can get 33 days of showtime right now.

Why don't you go to showtime.com. You can check out Bader Moldowski this weekend showtime championship boxing, Ray Donovan movies, billions, the JFK doc that Mikey was all into.

I mean, there's so much good shit on that showtime app, including your boy BC calling show box February 18th. So get your 30 days free now.

And also, you know, you want to talk about merch. Check. Did they send you any merch for being part of the family now? I mean, not yet, man. I didn't even got a paramount plus subscription yet.

I brand wise keeps telling me it's coming, but I can't get merch. I can't get my free services. Luke, you have to, you have to pull teeth from Luke Thomas to get my interview clips shamelessly promoted on this show.

So, you know, that's Carmen. Now you get an hour and a half of me. Yes, indeed, indeed. Luckily, this show is still free, but you can get your own merch at show. Sorry, morning combat dot store our great website. Look, drug rugs are back for a limited time.

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Whoa, whoa, we got a little little note here from the producer. See, Maniche, Maniche refused to come on camera like Gaff was willing to on Wednesday. By the way, yeah, drug rugs are selling here and there. Okay. Yeah, from RJ Dunkelmaker. Yeah, they're moving. The drug rugs are moving. So check that out morning combat dot store.

I'll check not going to waste anybody's time with anything else because I can't remember what else there was to throw to. Oh, yeah, I was going to say this sports podcast towards that sports podcast. We're talking about an award winning morning combat, doubling down on itself. We can we as a family here listeners and hosts alike. If you go to sportspodcastawards.com and you love yourself some mk. Why don't you vote for us for best combat sports show 2021.

It's USA versus Canada. All right. Also gets Ariel in this one among many others. Chris Jericho as well. So it's it's plenty. It's like the 2002 gold medal hockey game all over again. Or maybe that was 2008. Or maybe that was 12. You know, I'm really getting old.

Shaq, where do you think you fit in on the on the Canadian combat sports power rankings?

No, we're now no number one with a bullet. Some people love them. Sumerial. How about my guy, Braunsteader, right? You're somewhere.

Yeah, Braunsteader. I would have had him ranked much higher up until his crypto takes on Twitter last week. He's he took some

cells for people in this industry, but I love me some air Braunsteaders. So I'll I've got work to do. I've got

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