You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.

And now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right.

You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm your co-host, Chad Dundas, alongside Ben Folks. We're both senior writers for MMA for the

athletic, and we meet here every single week to chop up all the prominent, newsworthy, and hilarious

happenings in the world of mixed martial arts. Ben, how are you doing this week? Doing all right.

How's your big weekend away?

Can we talk about that on the show, or is that supposed to be a secret?

No, we can talk about it because it didn't happen.

It didn't happen?

What happened is I left here, I don't know if you noticed that I was not at my full power on Friday, but I left here and proceeded to get

sicker and sicker as the afternoon wore on to the point where I was like, no, I'm still going

to go to Vegas, meeting some old friends from high school and college. We're all going to meet

up in Vegas. I could still totally go. I packed a bag, went to the airport later that day,

standing in line at the security thing,

and I noticed I was shivering, and it was like, all right, maybe here's the point where I admit

to myself that I'm actually sick and that it would probably not be the greatest thing for my immune

system to go drink beer and stay up late in Vegas for the next two days and catch like a 4 a.m.

flight home on Sunday.

And so I just went home and got immediately in bed.

So you just bailed?

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