Co-Main Event Podcast Episode 202 (4/25/16)

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Well, last week’s Co-Main Event Podcast got bombed out of relevance fairly quickly by The Irish Gentleman Conor McGregor, eh, Universe? The paint was barely dry on the shingle offering CME No. 201 for your attention before McGregor tweeted his weirdo retirement announcement last Tuesday. The ensuing week has been largely swallowed by McGregor-o-mania, so you know your dudes Ben and Chad are going to discuss that during episode No. 202. There are other topics demanding their attention too, however, including the long-awaited and somewhat underwhelming return of Jon Jones at UFC 197--though perhaps the real culprit there was our own raised expectations. Also, Demetrious Johnson made an Olympic gold medalist look fairly hapless inside the Octagon. So, you know, ho hum. Just Mighty Mouse doing Mighty Mouse things. All that, plus AYFKM, JSS and the return of MasterTweet Theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your hosts, Ben Fulks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.2	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your co-host, Chad Dundas from BleacherReport.com. And joining me, as always, from MMA Junkie and USA Today,
0:31.5	it's your friend and mine, Mr. Ben, folks. Ben, how you doing this week? I'm doing all right.
0:36.5	Do you think Connor McGregor is listening to this right now?
0:38.9	I assume so.
0:39.7	Do you think that he's just waiting for us to publish the co-main event podcast so that he
0:44.5	can post his tweet saying that he's discovered a cure for cancer or he's going on walkabout
0:49.1	and will never be seen again?
0:50.1	You know, when you think about it in that term, where you imagine Connor McGregor with his tweet all written out and his thumb just hovering over the button, I appreciate his commitment to maintaining the pattern of breaking big news after the podcast has come out.
1:05.1	I assume he's got it saved in drafts.
1:06.6	Yeah.
1:06.8	He's just ready to go as soon as this thing drops.
1:09.0	He probably has one of his flunkies on hand to tell him, like,
1:11.7	let me know when the CME podcast is up so I can go ahead and ruin their world by breaking this news.
1:16.2	Yeah, this past week was essentially the ultimate or the culmination, perhaps, if you will,
1:21.6	of the Tuesday news curse when we got this thing posted and then immediately Connor McGregor
1:27.4	announced his quasi-retirement.
1:29.9	It's so powerful, I guess you could say, that still developing, still ongoing situation.
1:36.4	I assume it'll just keep leaprogging to every Tuesday.
1:40.9	That's when every development in this story will be made until the last Tuesday when
1:46.3	the breaking news story is that the world is ending.
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