Hey it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

Season 8 of Game of Thrones begins this Sunday, which means

bench mode Game of Thrones makes its long awaited return with your resident

experts Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion guiding you through each episode. with your

resident experts, and Jason Concepcion guiding you through each episode. And to get your fix every Sunday night,

Chris Ryan joins Mallory and Jason on Talk The Thrones,

a Twitter after show recapping each episode throughout the season.

So make sure you check out the Bench Mode podcast on Apple or Spotify,

talk the Thrones on Twitter, and for even more Thrones coverage you can head to the Ringer Podcast network. I'm your host

Annie Finberg as always joined by my co-host Vince Carter and Camp Baysmore.

BC now, it's happening. And today we are very excited to tell you that we are

joined by the Und undisputed UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway

Yeah, glad to be here. I think we just call him champ. Yeah, I mean I just wanted to get the full title right

The champ is here. Let everybody know.

Listen, they're gonna be like, what's his name? Champ? Champ.

Right. That's all you need to know. I saw some good pictures, by the way, of you on the broadcast from when you were in band.

Yeah, that was pretty cool. Yeah, that was good time. That's where my kind of my love for music started.

What do you do play? I play seven instruments or so. So I play saxophone,

trumpet, baritone, tuba, play the drums. I played the trumpet for like three six months in

eight grade. I thought I was like that's when that's when Nick Cannon drumline came

open to try the band I want to be a percussion. They put me in trumpet. I was like, okay then.

Jumping to do. Yeah, and we had to, then. That we do.

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