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 Fulks, as always.

We're both senior writers in MMA for the Athletic, and we meet here every week to chop up all the prominent, newsworthy, and hilarious happenings in the world of mixed martial

arts. Ben, you're back. I'm back. I back. You are recently returned from Australia, where you

went to take in UFC 243. Regale us with some tales of your travels.

You know, Melbourne is a lovely city.

I did not know that.

I also did not realize that Melbourne at least thinks of itself and other people think of it as kind of the arts and fashion capital of Australia.

Okay.

Known for having a lot of good coffee shops and bars and restaurants

so I could just wander around and pretty much everywhere I stopped in was an awesome place to eat or have a cup of coffee or have a beer or something.

I had a really good time.

Not so much on the plane ride there and back, though.

That is a long, long time to be in an airplane.

Yeah, what is it?

15 hours. It's like 16 hours there from

LAX and then 14 hours back. And then, of course, when you live in Missoula, Montana, you got to take

a number of smaller and smaller planes just to get back here. It's not a simple business at all. So

I still feel a little bit jet lagged after all that.

But got to watch an MMA event in a giant-ass stadium in Marvel Stadium there in Melbourne

and got to hang out with a lot of fun Australian people.

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