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Ep. #3612: UFC preview, RDR speaks up, Farid Basharat & Shawne Merriman Interviews, more

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4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 3,612, the guys had a UFC PPV to preview and also had two guests. They had a great conversation with Farid Basharat, who just got a win, and Shawne Merriman, who came on to talk MMA and NFL.

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0:00.0

Gorgeous Georgian Cones, are you ready?

0:03.6

Junkie Nation, are you ready?

0:05.7

Let's get it all.

0:07.6

From the fight capital of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:11.4

This is M&A junkie radio.

0:14.2

We're rolling!

0:32.2

Well, What's going on, Junkie Nation, gorgeous Georgian goes, checking in on a Wednesday night for your Thursday morning delivery and we're excited to talk to you for the next hour.

0:34.3

So actually, we'll probably go about an hour 10.

0:43.6

As we discussed the latest in mixed martial arts, we've got some news to go over, a fight booking, some popular fighters that are agreed to sign to throw down an injury update here or there and some controversy with fighters, possibly turning down fights.

0:49.4

Got two interviews for you, Forid Bashrock, coming off a big win over Chris Gutierrez.

0:55.6

And we also have Sean Merriman. He's the promoter of Lights Out Extreme Fighting based in southern California.

1:01.7

His show's coming up on November 1st, former pro football player.

1:06.7

So together with previewing UFC 321 should be a good one.

1:11.7

And we'll get started when we come back.

1:26.8

I guess goes the quicker we can blast through some of the news, the more time will leave for UFC 321.

1:32.0

And by the way, Gilles and I will be hosting a watch-along on Saturday.

1:35.8

Please, please listen here.

1:38.4

It's not a normal start time.

1:40.3

It's a pay-per-view.

1:42.0

We're not in the Paramount Plus CBS era yet. But it's not the normal start time of Saturday night at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific. This one's early. 2 p.m. Pacific for the main card. That's all we're going to do is the five fights. So for us, it'll be 11 a.m. in the morning. Two title fights should be a good one, but don't get caught slipping because it's an early start time. All right, goes. Edson Barbosa signed on a fight. Jalen Turner at UFC 323. We kind of went over this on spinning back click. They got a lot of little guys going. You got Davaoish Reilly versus Jan.

2:19.6

They got Pantoja versus Van. They got Sehudo versus Paden Talbot. There was another Van der Waite fight that was, oh no, it was the Suhudo, Peyton Talbot. The other one was Brandon Marino and Tatsuro Taira. and so yeah man

2:32.3

these are

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