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All right everybody, it is Thursday March 30th, 2023 and is indeed a heck of a morning.

We are live on the M.A. Fighting Twitter spaces here at the show at this entirety shortly thereafter on the M.A. Fighting Podcast Network.

I am Mike Kack. Hope everyone's having a fantastic week, a very rare non-UFC week, but that does not mean that there are not combat sports events for all of us to partake in.

You got Bellator, 293 tomorrow, Saturday, we got Anthony Joshua, we got GameBrid Boxing 4, we got PFL 1 taking off the 2023 season.

So there's lots of face punching, there's a fight circus, forgot about fight circus as well, got a little fight circus.

So there's lots of combat sports events for you all to partake in and I don't really have a game plan for the show today.

There's no real monologue or anything. All I'll say is the last 48 hours or so, I've been working on something and when I first kind of had the idea to start working on this,

I was like, this is probably something that I can get done in like a day or two and then as I talk to many, many people about this concept and did a bunch of interviews for it.

I realize that is not going to happen. There is a lot to this. So for those who are a fan of the long form features and the sort of mini doc podcast,

things that I put together, we got one comment and it is going to be a doozy and it is absolutely insane.

I was talking to Shaheen Alshada about it yesterday because I was a little overwhelmed by it all and then we kind of laid out the way that it should go.

And I was telling about some of the stories that I was being told, some of the nuances to it all and he was like,

eyes open, blown away, all sorts of craziness. So that's what I've been working on the last couple of days. That's something I'll continue to work on for the next few days, whether I'm on or off schedule.

And hopefully we can get that released early next week before obviously before you have C287 would be my goal.

But this is a story folks. It's probably like if you guys really thought about it, I think you guys figure out what I'm doing it on.

If you go back to some of the past podcasts and some of the timely nature of some of those past podcasts, but this is pretty wild. So stay tuned for that.

But for the most part, we're just going to talk to you all and see what is on your mind. So let's kick things off. Shall we? Tristed? You're up.

You hear me? Yes. Hey, Mike. I just wanted to say this and just what your thoughts about this. I think I've probably brought it up before, but I remember when you had said about Justin for you and you said, man, we don't, we don't appreciate what Justin for you has done or just or just engage you or for that that are Edson Barbosa.

And I just really think that that really like hit me in a way where, you know what, I'm going to sit back and just enjoy these fighters and enjoy the moment in time while they're still in the sport because and especially also listening to them, they were good about Ben, Ben, Ben Henderson and like, we talk and you said a plenty of time talking about rankings.

It's all silly and just made me really sit back and just be like, you know, I'm just going to enjoy these fighters. Maybe they'll be champion. Maybe they're not, but you know what?

If they're exciting and they put in their all into it, you know, I'm just going to sit back and just relax and enjoy those moments because I mean years go by quick. And, you know, you're not, you know, you're not, they're not going to be fighting for long and not having fighting forever. And you know, that even when you were talking about with the

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