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Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Hello, everyone. It is the third of August, 2022, and it is time for Morning Combat. I am one half of your hosting duo for today. My name is Luke Thomas. I join you from the capital of Estados, Anita's right here in Washington, DC. Join by my friend. Look at this man. I was gonna call him Elbi Gote, but I guess he shaved it off. Look at that.

What would you call him? I don't know. He's the king of South Florida. Some shit like that. It's Danny Segura. Hi, Danny. How are you? Can you hear me? Oh, shit. He can't hear me. Well, we're off to a rib-roaring start. Oh, there we go. What's up, dude?

So, Ben, a little delay, but I can hear you. Thank you for having me. I'm hyped to be on the show. I think I set the bar real low as far as tech last time. So, I mean, there's only up from here, right?

Yes, there is. Yeah, you'll see a delay in the Zoom screen. Just sort of work off the audio, not what the picture shows you can do.

Yeah, the way. Okay, neither here nor there. Let's catch up a little bit, Danny. So you are currently with MMA junkie. You live in Miami, Florida. We were living in New York for a time during the pandemic. You switched up things.

How is sunny South Florida? It's good, man. I can't complain. Weather is great here. I ran away from some of the prices in New York. Sadly, prices here are getting, you know, through the roof rent, everything. I mean, all around the country, but South Florida is like a special place as far as like real state and all that is going off. But all in all, I mean, I can't complain. Life is good. Working for MMA junkie. Very happy. And yeah, excited to talk to you about combat sports this morning.

We had Rashad on Monday, who also lives, I think, you know, you're roughly your neck of the woods somewhere there in South Florida. And he was telling me that the heat is so bad at this time of the year that you treat it like the snow in December in New York, which is that like you just don't leave the house. Is that what you do? How do you manage? How do you manage what the weather there?

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, doing activities throughout the day, like if you're going to go play sports or whatever, it's impossible. So for example, I usually play soccer like on a weekly basis. And at this point, we're just all playing at night because during the day, it would be, it would be suicide. So yeah, the weather here over the summer, it's, it's pretty bad just because it's so humid.

But I mean, you just wear out the storm and then around like September gets really nice. So, you know, we all got a couple months and then we'll be good to go to go out. And after that, nothing, nothing beats the South Florida weather from like September to like February March. I would say.

Wow. So nice long stretch. I do have to admit. Yeah, yeah, it changes things up. So well, listen, we're good to have you. It is not the strongest week in combat sports, but there's still plenty going on.

Danny, Danny and I are going to get to it. We have some retirements. We have a UFC event this weekend. We have some PFL news. We've got a bunch of the games we're going to play here today. It'll be a fun one midweek for you here on morning combat. So thumbs up on the, let's see, if you're watching on YouTube, hit subscribe.

Let's throw up the socials there for a little worth there. There you go. You want to give Danny a follow on all the various places. You can check them out right there.

Also is a reminder morning combat dot store for any of the merch. I don't have any merch on today. Hey, Danny, have we sent you any merch yet? Do you have any MK?

No, zero, man. Zero. You just got to send some stuff my way. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll get that. You know, I don't know if we have any in kids sizes, but we can probably find some for you to wait.

I've been hitting the gym. I'm like large on kids now. So, you know, there you go. Do you have this story out of buddy? Do you guys still have the dad hat?

I don't, I haven't looked recently. I have to. I like going. If there is, I take one of those for sure. All right. Big, big dad energy there from Danny Cigarette.

I had a buddy, my best friend in high school. This is true. And it's not true anymore. Obviously he's grown a little bit. But when we were seniors, sorry, juniors in high school.

Just think about that. So, you know, 16, 17, something like that. He was still so small that he had to buy pants in kids, kids section.

I was like, you're just the run of the litter. He's a little bit bigger now. So that's why I like to joke. Let's see. We also have showtime showtime.com 30 day free trial. If you like it, you can keep it. If not, you could pound sand. By the way, it's not just the sports side.

It's everything that showtime has to offer from the app on demand the whole nine yards. In fact, yesterday, I sat down here in DC with W Kamal Bell, who has had specials on showtime as a comedian.

He also is responsible for the Cosby documentary, the multi part documentary series that aired about him on showtime, the award winning one. So we talked about that. That interview will be out pretty soon.

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