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Oh, hi everybody. Hi. It is the second of September 2021. My name is Luke Thomas, and this is my live chat, which I do right here on the Morning Combat YouTube channel.

It has been several f-ing weeks since I have done one of these.

Way too long. We have really fucked up the content plan for the month of August.

We went on vacation over there at Morning Combat. No one's fault more than my own, and I'll be seated too.

We are really sorry. It was a bit of a learning lesson with how this was handled, and so I'm sorry about that.

But we're back on the horse. We're ready to go. We have a big fall schedule for combat sports, and we're really excited about it.

So first things first, thumbs up on the video, hit subscribe if you are new. Please, if you are new, help us move the chains.

Help us move the subscriber chains to our goals. Our first one obviously is going to be 100k, but then certainly beyond that as well.

We are very close to the first one, but we need your help to move those chains. If you are a common watcher of this, and you want to help, now's the time to share it around.

Send it to a couple of friends. Let them know. Repost it on your socials if you can if you're so inclined.

We appreciate any and all forms of help. Today on the program, we'll get to, of course, always your questions wherever they may lead.

I'm going to guess it's going to be some of the big combat sports news headlines. I'm going to guess it's going to be, you know, some stuff in my personal life and professional life and everything else in between.

So without further ado, I'm sorry for the late start on this. I appreciate you guys watching when I say late start, I mean, there's the big gap that I had, but let's get things started, shall we?

All right, and there we are back. I'll take this off.

So hope you're doing well.

It was a, I went over most of this on morning combat. It was a, it was a, it was a strange vacation. It was a, it was a decent vacation, but it was.

It's not the one we had planned and it's just been a, it's been a crazy month. My daughter had an accent where it's taken to the hospital. She had to get 20 stitches in her forehead.

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