Welcome, my brother, Crystal Kylan, friends.

Today we're talking to Luke, thanks for joining us, man.

We appreciate it.

I'm delighted to be here.

Thank you so much for inviting me.

It's our pleasure.

And by the way, let me just say upfront real quick.

Luke Thomas gets political. It's his new political channel. Highly recommend everybody go sub to him. He started and correct me if

I'm wrong here as like an MMA reporter, you still do that. But now you also decided I got to do a

political channel because you're a political junkie just like us. Yeah, well, it was more because

I was so horrified by what was happening that I just couldn't keep quiet anymore, but certainly I felt like there was an opportunity. Yeah. Yeah, and you're in a field well known for having a lot of leftists, U.S.A. stuff. He's literally the Joe Rogan of the left. I mean, yeah, in a very direct sense, yes. Very literal sense.

Yes, that's true. So everybody definitely go check that out. Before we get into the stuff that we have for today, I'm very curious to get your reaction. We know Trump is focused on all like the most ridiculous things now, like the arc to Trump. And as I call it, the Epstein Memorial Ballroom, as the world is falling apart, he's like, Let me get a bunch of donations from billionaires and build this ballroom.

But the thing that everybody sort of knows about and is almost like a key

example of how dystopian this moment is, is the UFC fight on the lawn of the White House,

which apparently they're actually going forward with in the middle of a war. So give me your

thoughts on that.

I mean, we could do the whole hour just on this.

But I think I would say the way that I try to understand it, as someone who's been in the industry a very long time, is it's basically two events at once.

The, from inside the MMA world, this is a triumph of MMA's ascendancy for a long time,

certainly through all of my career. There's been this kind of little engine that could vibe

for MMA and for the UFC specifically about overcoming both regulatory hurdles, but also

kind of recapturing public trust.

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