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We are live here on another episode of the A-side live chat is of course Friday I believe it's May. Yes, May first so first episode of May

joining me this Friday is AK Lee of

in May Fighting, our cameraman and producer Casey Leiden and

joining us this week we've had many of USC and non-UFC fighters on the show in recent weeks. I know we've been trying to do this

three times a week during quarantine time but we haven't had a fighter on a long time that actually

has a fight scheduled since this pandemic started. So the man of the hours of course

you have see heavyweight contender Ben Rothwell Ben before we get into the fan

questions I first have to ask how has life been in quarantine for you up in the great state of Wisconsin?

It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride just because I had to close my gym down and just seeing all the people that have been affected by it.

For me personally, it's not been so bad.

Neo 2 came out right about when the quarantine started so I jammed out on that for two weeks.

And my training has been pretty good. I have a personal gym that's in my my

trainers and everybody's been able to come to me and I've been able to use the MMA gym, you know, there's less than 10 of us.

So life's been somewhat normal, but outside of that, just seeing the grocery stores and the public and see what everybody is.

And it's pretty crazy, you know, just, this is something that's never happening in our whole history.

And hope it, and hope you get the economy back soon.

It's kind of scary.

You do have a fight lined up.

Has it been like like you've mentioned that you're fighting your life

yourself has been fairly normal and you're in camping you are able to train but

with everything you're witnessing going on outside of fighting like you've brought up the grocery

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