LIVE Benson Henderson joins Josh & John ahead of his PFL debut
WEIGHING IN
John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Bam! There's that beautiful graphic right there. And John Morgan's beautiful face, get down and give me 50, buddy. Get down. Get down. Get down. Get back. |
| 0:09.5 | Bro. People eat that shit up. They hit up the comments last night and they're just cracking up every time I've read some of the comments last night laying in bed, man. And they were cracking up. Yeah, get down and get me 50. I fucking love it. |
| 0:21.6 | I just think it's so great how good you are about letting shit just roll off the off the cuff. Like I don't know, whatever. Just having fun with it, man. And, you know. Hey, man. Bless life, bro. I mean, as much as I love the sports, you know, like I always joke. like I remember paying for tickets to to go just to be in the building. And then now to build a whole life around working in this industry, man, I feel blessed. So if I got to take a little heat on the side and people talk a little trash along the way, I'll live with it. You know what I mean? You got to let that stuff roll off. I agree, man. I look. Fighters are going to say wild shit. I like speak from experience. |
| 0:57.3 | And so, especially to the media. You know, so this is what this is what I'm so excited about. |
| 1:02.2 | So when you were talking about, hey, man, we got a chance to chat with Benson Anderson tomorrow. |
| 1:06.1 | Like you want to join me? I'm like, hell yeah, because I'm going to tell you, outside of you, |
| 1:10.0 | Vincent Henderson was another dude that hated talking to the media. |
| 1:13.0 | Like, hated talking to the media. |
| 1:15.2 | And so, like, I'm kind of curious. |
| 1:16.9 | I kind of want to know, like, what you guys would both tell media guys what they could do |
| 1:22.3 | to kind of be a little more, you know, respectful or appropriate or not be on your bad side |
| 1:27.3 | all the time because |
| 1:28.0 | I always felt like I was just annoying the hell out of you guys on Fight Week. And Benson was |
| 1:32.7 | well. Look, I saw Benson, I saw Benson not that long ago in an event. And like, I didn't |
| 1:40.3 | say anything to him because I did because I know how annoyed he was at talking to us. |
| 1:44.8 | But he said what's up to me? |
| 1:46.8 | So he was like, oh, John, what's going on? |
| 1:48.7 | And it made me realize, oh, wait a minute. |
| 1:50.5 | You don't actually like hate me as a person. |
| 1:52.9 | You just hate like this process of the whole media thing. |
| 1:57.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:57.6 | Look, we love fighting. |
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