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And I'll just say that if you look like someone who's ever, you know, committed a sex crime on the side of the road in North Florida, you'll probably hate this show. But for the rest of you, welcome in.

Welcome in. My name is Luke Thomas. I joined you from the capital of the status of this right here in Washington DC joined by my friend, the big beige one himself. It's Brian Campbell. What's up, Brian Campbell? Look, you're on fire already. I'm like ready for you to solicit me sexually in a very aggressive manner. But if we can put the debauchery beside us, we have a fantastic hump day show in the combat sports fear for our listeners today. The best damn combat sports show. In fact, period in Luke 10 days out.

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We'd appreciate it. If you're listening to your favorite podcast platform, do be so kind as to leave us a nice review. We appreciate that as well. On the docket today, we'll talk about UFC.

The return to the United Kingdom, which is this weekend. Tom Aspenal makes his return as we mentioned after about a year off. So we'll talk about what that means and the fight against Marching Taborah.

We'll get to some announcements. Francis and Ghanu has spoken out. There's some news about MVP. We have a whole lot to get to plus fan subs. And yeah, BC.

We also have some breaking Conor McGregor news. Let me just pause that for just one second. And let's just get through the

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BC, you want to get to this Conor McGregor news that just broke like a minute ago or something? Yeah, it's hard to know what to make of it. But according to TMZ Conor was back in Europe at a funeral and exited the funeral angrily after behavior from some of the people inside the authorities were called that does not at this moment seem to be more than that. But look, it's, you know, I was, you know, I was going to make a joke that he was going to celebrate his first ultimate fighter win, which I believe did happen.

In the last 48 hours there on on tough, but this was out of funeral. So out of respect for those that were there. I'm not sure what this is Luke, but you know, his name will be is lightning rod. It'll be attached to anything and go big, but just another day in the life of Conor McGregor.

I guess. Yeah, I mean, again, let's just be careful about this one, but I'll just read you with a couple of first couple sentences. Conor McGregor rushed away from a funeral in the UK on Tuesday following an incident at the gathering and now cops are trying to figure out what happened.

And footage shot from outside what's called the saddle club shows the UFC star flanked by two security guards. You can see this video made the swift exit after he had been inside the venue for services for a late family member of the 3035 35 year old fighter looked perturbed in a clip and urged fans to move away from his car.

So he could leave the scene. Club official said McGregor had actually been jovial earlier in the day, even sharing several photos of him smiling with other guests at the event, but they said he was quote upset by the actions of certain people attending the funeral end quote.

And they all left don't know what to make of it. Don't know anything more than that. Yeah, I think the bigger sort of half news that probably needs Luke Thomas's reaction to kick off our already fantastic show in the tightest 90 minutes and combat sports Luke is how about this Abu Dhabi?

We've been like, where's Hamzat Jamayev? Is it going to be Usman? What the heck's happening here?

Paulo Costa at Middleway is the the drum that's getting bung around right now. Is that truth? Is that official? What do you know about this?

I don't know anything about that. I had people texting me about it yesterday. I was trying to look into it. I didn't hear anything in the affirmative. At least not yet.

And I did see, I mean, Hamzat's always on social media being like, this guy fight me. You fight me. You fight me. So he was doing that to like Leon Edwards. He was doing that to some other folks as well during the course of the day.

So it's just hard to know nothing has been confirmed at this point. I will tell you though.

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