It is. Let's see. The 5th of August 2020 and it is time for morning combat. Hello, everybody.

My name is Luke Thomas. I'm not sure if I can hear anybody, but you can see the gentleman to my left. He is the iceman, the man in the hat. He's my friend in yours. It's Chuck Mendenhall.

Hi, Chuck Mendenhall. What's up, Luke? Feels like a minute since we did one of these and it was only like two weeks ago, my friend. I missed you. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Hold on, Chuck. I actually can't hear you for some reason. Sure enough, at the beginning of the show, my fucking ear pods don't work or whatever. Here we go. Here we go. Hold on. Hold on. One more time. Let's try it again.

There we go. How are you, Chuck? Sorry about that. I am well, my friend. It feels like it's been a little while. Can you hear me now? For some reason I can't hear you again. What the fuck? Hold on. Now we're good.

Okay, this is reminiscent of the old beat days. Okay. Kind of low grade operation. How are you? I am well. I should tell you this time that I'm really shitty, man. I should just I should lie to you now. But no, I'm really well. It feels like a few minutes since we've done this and I just was thinking about it's only been a couple of weeks. So I'm happy to be back, man. It's always fun. I love the invite and happy to see you, man. Yeah, I'm having earbud issues. I can hear you now because I took it off my things. I'm going to try putting it in the other ear. This wasn't happening before, but now it is. All right. Let's see if this one

works a little bit better. Let's see if I can get a little bit of results here. Let's try it, Chuck. Let's see here. Goddamn. This is annoying as hell. If it's not one thing, it's the other, my friends. Let's see. I like real time troubleshooting, Luke. This is, this is fun. This is good. This is good TV. Okay. Now I can hear you in my ear pods much better. All right. Very good. Chuck, what a wonderful Friday. It is the, it is the fifth of August. Excuse me. Sorry for the trouble with the intro. We're good.

We're good and locked on now. Now you are joining me from wonderful Connecticut. How is Connecticut in the summer? What's a summer in Connecticut like? It is, it's like standing in Brian Campbell's shade, you know, because he's, he's the king of this state, right? It's, it's hot and humid and it generally miserable, I would say. And the winters aren't much better because it then it gets cold and gloomy and ice storms and stuff like that. So the real only good season out here is probably the fall. I would say that does probably true.

People do for like, because I know there's a couple of options. What do you do for like a, oh, I want to get away to the water with the fam? Where do you go when that's the, when that's the goal? Well, you can go down to the sound, which some people do. I mean, there's like a couple of lakes. This sounds kind of silly. But when you're, when you're a little bit landlocked, you can, there are a couple of lakes that have these beaches where a lot of kids go and stuff like that. So, those are options. And if you wanted to go to the sound, I mean, it's probably 25, 30 minutes.

It's a very small state. So you can find water, but it's not generally known for that. You know what I mean? Like it's not going to be like the beaches that you're used to out there in DC. Well, the beaches around here are just full of Maryland, purple camo, dogs, the old bay under their fingernails. I mean, it's not, you know, it's actually a bunch of nice beaches around here. But they're kind of actually a little bit hard to get to from DC in the sense that like Virginia Beach is four hours away. Yeah, which is okay. And then there's like Dewey and then there's Ocean City and as we're home with some of those are nice. But, yeah, if you look

believe on a Friday, bro, like, you know, it's good. It's an all day trip to get there. Like, I know, I'm not doing all that shit. Well, we make an annual trek to Virginia Beach. You know, Sandbridge, that area down in there. We make an annual trek down there. And that kind of, you know, fills the need for water for the whole year for me. I don't, I'm not the biggest beach guy, man. But I enjoy it for a little while. If I can drink on the beach and hang out. So, I love the beach. Also, shout outs to outer banks area and the duck area in North Carolina. Those are pretty fun. All right. On the docket today here,

let's see, we've got some big news about a big UFC fight. There is a fight night card this weekend. But boy, it is not strong. We'll talk about that a little bit later. PFL is back tonight. We'll give you a brief overview of that. We have a bunch of fights that were announced. Smaller ones will do collectively. And then we're going to play a little game called buy or sell with Chuck Mindenhall. I'm looking forward to that a little bit later. What a reminder, everyone. You can give us a follow on social media. Put the graphic up there below if you would be so inclined. There we go. You can see it there for all.

Charles is there himself. By the way, Chuck has gotten really nothing to do with your name. But I did see the new top gun, which has Iceman in it. As you know, I think I'm the only guy who calls you Iceman. Have you seen the new top? Probably true. But you have such a cult rabbit following that since you started doing that, I have a lot more people calling me that but you were the first for sure. Okay. Did you see the new top gun? I have not seen it yet. It's like, you know how they have used to have the dollar theater after it made its run at the regular theater. They have it playing at our little

town hall. Like for this week. So I intend to see it, but I have not seen it yet. It's the weirdest movie. It's very fun. It's like a really fun. Like you should really go see it. But it's really better than Thor. Well, I mean, you know, I saw your reviews. So I could take a dump in my hand and throw it at the wall. And that's more effort that they put into that piece of trash movie. But what I was going to say was it's real. The top gun movie is really weird because it's good. Don't get me wrong. Like you should go see it. But they never like they there's this big mission.

That everyone has to carry out. And they never name who the mission is against. Like what country? What territory? What you know, organization? Nothing. Like they just they took it through with it. You know, the original, you know, the original goose from the from the original top gun lives in my town here. Is that right? Yeah, we see him in the grocery store and you know about town. What a very weird celebrity who lives here. But anyway, that's neither here nor there neither here nor there. I want to remind folks. If you want to get showtime showtime.com is the label that pays that includes Bellator that includes

showtime championship boxing that includes the W Kamal Bell Cosby documentary on the app. Lots of different stuff. You can stream it for 30 days. If you like it, you can keep it. If not, you can go pound sand. We also have merch morning combat dot sword. Now you you do have merch because here's the thing here, right, Chuck? We had reshot on Monday. I guess hosting. He had one MK shirt. We had Danny on Wednesday. He had nothing. I feel like you've got some MK merch, right? Yes. Courtney hooked it up. And she like sent me a nice

box of stuff. I have actually have a coffee mug too, which is really awesome. But I'm wearing one right now. I just a matter of fact. I'm a dog. Yes. I do. I have like maybe I have maybe a three or four T shirts and then the hoodie. The hoodie with your your face on it, which I wear in the winter. It's a heavy hoodie. But I love that thing. It is. Yes. It's very. It's very comfortable. What can I do to get the hat without paying for it? That's really what I want to know, Chuck. Well, you just you just send me your address and I will get you one and your head size. I need to know that as well. Well, just the long. I saw Campbell. I

saw Campbell pimping it out. Man, that was awesome. I got like a bunch of sales right after that. I was like, what happened? Somebody must have mentioned it. And it turns out it was the influencer himself who who put it out there. So we'll take that man. I actually like those styles of hats. I just don't really wear it that often. But I would love to get one. All right. Yeah. With that out of the way. And with our tech issues behind us. Oh, I never do it. But let me remind folks. I forgot the last two episodes. MK is nominated for the World Emily Awards in back to back years. And since I didn't pimped it earlier in the week, let me do that.

Now you can use the QR code that is on your screen. If you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening to your favorite podcast platform, let me read you the link. It's world MMA awards plural dot com slash nominees world MMA awards dot com slash nominees. Chuck, you've been nominated a bunch of times as well. We won together as part of MMA fighting when the site one. At what was the last time you went to a world MMA awards event. So let's see, I was at the athletic. It was in 2019 was the

last one I went to Dolph Lungren was the host. It was actually, you know, those, you went to the last years, right? Because you guys, you guys won. Hopefully get that, that, that repeat. But it was very strange. I mean, the whole, the whole vibe of there is very uncomfortable. But generally speaking, it's gotten better over the years, because I've been to some of the earlier versions of it. And I think that they've improved it. But it's still a very awkward experience out there. So Chale hosted when I was there. And I thought he did a really great job. Actually, I'm going to get

asked that they're going to bring him back for another one of those. That would make sense. Because you're like, Dolph Lungren. It's like, it was very weird. He will see. I will say that he had a few moments. It was pretty funny. But for the most part, yeah, the little like skits. They do just so bizarre. They're so bizarre. But it's some of them hit most of them don't, but everyone's. Yeah, but I will say, but dude, I mean, you guys went in last year. That was like, I thought that was the greatest upset, you know, that we've seen. Yeah, take that. Really on a pain. Yeah.

Yeah, Matt Sarah. That's my list. Exactly. All right. All right. With that out of the way, let's get to some real fights here. And we kick things off with topic number one, of course. Chuck, correct me if I'm wrong. I believe our colleague, Ariel Hawani was the first to report this. It's not officially signed, but it appears all systems go for Dustin Porier versus Michael Chandler. Now, this is supposed to be. Let's be understanding. Again, we haven't had a full confirmation yet. November 12th at.

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