Transcript of BYM Live Chat! Breaking Down Top Stories And Answering Your Questions!

Hold on. It says that the stream is live. I've got the YouTube page open. I don't know. It should go live. I think it's live. Oh, oh, oh, oh, baby, baby. We are live, Harrington. We are live to the world. I'll pop the chat out. We'll see when the chat starts jumping in. But Mike Harrington, looking lean, buddy. How are you doing?

I'm doing good, man. The magic of a new camera for Christmas will make me look better on my end, for sure.

No, you do. You do Did you see my little leaner. You shed a few pounds?

No, absolutely not. I've been gaining weight. I just saw a buddy of mine get on the scale and it was 300 pounds. And I was like, Dude, that's my future. That's literally coming down the pike for me if I I'm going to change some things.

Yeah, I mean, look, listen, I don't even want to say it, but New Year, new me and all the rest of it. I'm the same way because the neck surgeries, the pain I was in- You had neck surgery? Yeah. Did I not mention that? I hadn't heard. You prick. But I've been working out and stuff, but I got on the scale. I was like, 233. I'm like, Jesus Christ. I've been lifting again. So muscle weighs more than flab, but there was a lot of indulging going on for Christmas. So New Year, new me. Thanks to everyone in the chat for being here. We appreciate you. Thought we'd do a little bit of a live on a Thursday because we've only been doing one show per week. So Mike Hamilton was available. Brian's enjoying himself Austin. I mean, how dare this guy go on vacation, see friends, have a social life. Since when?

Yeah, dude, it's been seven years of working with Brian on this show, and I don't think I've ever seen him go to a social engagement 20 minutes away from his house, much less a plane flight away. So God bless, dude. I'm happy for him out there.

No, I'm happy for him as well. He said now he's finally earning some proper money. He can get on the road and start enjoying himself a bit more, and he bloody well deserves it. So we got a couple of super chats here. Correct, a kid. No question. Just boop. Okay, I don't actually know what that means. It says, Mike, I'm in the middle of the Jackson episode. What did they cut out? I don't know if you've seen this, Harrington. I did the Jackson podcast a couple of weeks ago, right before Christmas, and had a great time catching up with Quintin Rampage Jackson. Luke Rockhold was on there as well. I didn't know Rockhold was going to be on there. But what did they cut out? I don't know. I haven't watched it back. I haven't seen it. I can't imagine they cut too much out, Hypalon. I'm trying to think now. My agent had a couple of reservations. He said, We maybe need to chop this bit out. I said, I don't care. I don't care because I was talking about my neck surgeries because Luke was trying to get me to fight him in karate combat.

Would you do it again? I said, I would. I said, But right now I need a little bit of time. I said I haven't been working out because the surgeries that I never mentioned. And I mentioned that I've been taking a few pain pills and stuff. So my agent was, Oh, he can't have that bit in. I'm like, You have three surgeries You need to take medication. Anyway, what a guy. What a night. Thank you, Adam Rogers. What's going on in your world, Harrington?

Not too much. Had a very fun New Year's Day celebration. We have this weird tradition in our house where Alex and I work in comedy, so we always have to work New Year's Eve. There's always a show that we're going to be producing somewhere. Then the next day, her great aunt's birthday is New Year's Day. We have to go over to that house and have a big family with the same people we just did Christmas with. My social meter is like, I'm completely burnt out. I want nothing more than to sit down and talk about fights.

Well, exactly. And there's been no fights for the last few weeks now. We're still talking about UFC Tampa. Fight are back next weekend, though. Amanda Hibas going up against Mackenzie Dern. That's a rematch from 2019. Tampa, funnily enough, should be a good one. Pretty good fight card as well. Good to get this show back, the UFC, I mean. Then the week after we got Ahmad Shah Rukhian versus Islam Makhachev, Jamal Hill versus Yuri Proashka, and of course, Marab Dvalishvili versus Umar Nomagamedow. Monday morning on the Believe You Me podcast, by the way, we got Marab joining and we got Yuri Prohaska joining, and of course, the one and only, Paul Felder. Somebody says here, Love you, Harrington. F you, Bisping.

Okay. All right. This is getting out of control, guys.

That's not nice.

You got to knock it off. I'm going to get in trouble.

Never, buddy. Never. I have the fastest car in here, says Mika Gordon. Said, Well, all right. Calm down. Bispin, thoughts on Aspinal being safe from Coach Colin because his dad follows him everywhere. Well, that's not about chouts, actually. There is some nasty rumors going around. I don't know if the rumors, I don't know if it's true. I don't know if they're serious allegations. I've heard them, what they are. Youtube is a bit weird, but it does involve underage. It involves bloody kids and a certain way at I'm dealing with P. I don't know about the validity of any of this. I don't know if it's true. I don't know if it's bullshit. I don't know if it's nonsense. I did mention it to Tom. Tom said the exact same thing. He said, I've heard some rumors. He said, I don't know anything about it whatsoever, and I don't. So I'm not going to go any further on that. You know what I'm saying? Because that's pretty, pretty nasty shit. But if it's true, I hope it burns in hell. If it's not, then I feel for the guy. You know what I'm saying?

It's tough because that will follow you one way or another. You know what I mean? An allegation like that hits and it's like you were vindicated in court. Okay. Still the first thing that comes up when people Google you.

Well, what I think that would be. What's the first thing that comes up when they Google you, Harrington?

What do you think? I don't I don't know. Probably producer, superstar, champion, silly boxer. I don't know.

Well, I'm not doing it. I'm not wasting my time. We never gave out the award for Dildo of the Year.

We didn't.

We didn't. Who were the front runners? J Paul is always in the running. Dylan Dennis, of course, he's the godfather of the Dildo Award. Who else did I have Andrew Tate has been in there before. Who this year has been annoying?

Well, I had Drake in there and Haynie.

Jamal Hill.

Jamal Hill is in there.

Jamal has been I've been going off on everybody. Everybody. In fact, I did a YouTube video about it yesterday, so check it out if you haven't seen it. And a lot of people think I'm defending him. I wasn't defending him. I was just putting myself in the mindset because fighters, like Jamal Hill, like myself, like a lot of people that find themselves fighting for a living, maybe they've got a few emotional problems. Do you know what I mean? Maybe they've got a victim complex. Maybe they didn't have the opportunities that other people had growing up and their life was hard. So that's where that comes from. And they find themselves getting into a lot of fights. Ian Gary. Ian Gary should be on there as well. He's always a nominee. And I was just saying, look, listen, he's going mental at everybody, and he is. He's giving Michael Johnson shit because he said that that stuff with Pereira was... What did he say? It was something... It was lame or something like that. Lame shit. Clown shit.

Clown shit, yes.

He said it was clown shit. So then Jamal went after him. Well, of course Jamal is. Jamal is an angry, big, pissed off, embarrassed guy. You know what I'm saying? He's annoyed at what happened with the Pereira fight, and he wants to get it back. And here's what I was saying on the video. We don't get PR training. Do you know what I mean? He's come from the streets of Detroit, fighting his ass off for a living to all of a sudden, he's on social media, he's a household name in mixed martial arts, he's a former UFC champion, and everything gets scrutinized, and we don't get PR training. In a weird way, we should enjoy it that it's unfiltered. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, okay. Some of it's a bit out of... Some of it's a little bit nasty or whatever. Some people might not appreciate it, but I do appreciate the unfilteredness.

I remember having this conversation when ESPN first signed the UFC, Karen Bryant was on with us, and I was like, Yo, you guys are now getting paychecks from Disney. Are they not going to make you take PR training? And it's like, No, dude, this is still Danish stuff.

Hey, it's as real as it gets. It is what it is. That's just the way we are. A lot of people saying, Good job on the Jackson podcast. Thank you very much. Horcia XCL as Biden for Dildo of the Year. We'll throw him on there. Why not? Who would your nomination be?

I mean, it's tough this year. It's tough to think of anybody other than Diddy. That guy is the punchline of almost every joke. And not to mention, he got caught with about a thousand dildos.

Yeah, no, no. And that's never a good thing, and all the baby oil and all the rest of it. That puts a bit of fun on it. But I do have to say Jake Paul going out there and boxing a 58 goal. I'm sorry, that's my That's my pick. Let me know in the chat what you think. Steve Ruskin, we got a question for you, Harrington. Harrington, brother, how the hell are we going to get a BYM Live with a full team in the UK? We want Anthony and now Felda as well. Anthony has gone MIM. Okay. I'm just being honest. I saw him on Instagram. He's off swimming and snorkeling and enjoying himself, and he's having some downtime. It's a fair play to him. Hopefully, he comes back soon and we'd love to have him. Felder has stepped into the fold in the meantime. Good luck getting a BYM live anywhere. Good luck getting a BYM in the UK. And good luck getting a BYM with me, Harrodgen, Brian, Felder, and Anthony.

Just to let you know, there's a You see pay-per-view happening 40 minutes from your home. We haven't even discussed the possibility of doing a live show for that one.

Well, if we ever have UFC Manchester again, we'll do it. There's a UFC event in March. I would love to do it, but I'm already doing Apparently, two Black-Tide dinner events.

Fancy.

Yeah. That week is too busy. But the next time we're in anywhere in the UK, we will do it. I make that promise right now. What's going on in MMA, Hamilton? I know you haven't compiled notes like a normal effort, but if you were to pick out a subject or a topic, what would be your number one right now?

Look, you're throwing it to me. It's going to be very Harrington coded, but Eddie Alvarez gave an interview today. He said it's very frustrating to watch- Who did? Eddie Alvarez. He said it's been very frustrating to watch Michael Chandler's UFC career so far. He knows that he has a greater potential, and he should be showing that he definitely He has championship material. He did say, though, if this next fight doesn't go his way, he would love to see Michael Chandler drop the gloves and come on down to BKFC and fight him.

Yeah. I mean, Michael Chandler is a great fighter. He is. He just hasn't got the results. Simple as that. I mean, Eddie Alvarez became a champion in the UFC. Unbelievable. Great for him. Obviously, had a bad night in the office against Conor McGregor. That was a tough one. Mcgregor was on fire that night. So obviously, how many times did Alvarez and Chandler Did they fight two times?

Yeah, I think they fought for the title twice in Bellator and all one-on-one. I will double check.

And who won?

I think they were one-on-one.

Yeah, so of course, that's why Ávarez says that, because any time somebody beats you one time, you're like, This guy He's better than this because it reflects on you. And it just does. That's the way it works. Chandler's good. Chandler's great. The problem is he's in the lightweight division. And he went up against Charles Oliver and he gave a good account of himself. He clearly lost the fight, but he didn't He got to get finished and he had some moments. Who else is he? I mean, it's like we spoke about on Monday, Grant Dawson calling him out for only beating Tony Ferguson and Dan Hucker. Dan Hucker.

Dan Hucker He's a top five guy right now, by the way.

Isn't that crazy? Who would have thought that a few years ago? And by the way, he deserves it. He's earned it. He's earned it. He's done it the proper way. But the other people that he fought, who's he fought? Justin Poirier, fight of the Year, Justin Reggie fight of the Year.

Charles Oliveira, twice.

And Charles Oliveira, twice. And the first one, he did really good, almost finished him. And the second one, not quite as well. But anyway, Jason Smith on the Dildo subject has Diddy at number one, Biden at number two, Fauci at number three. Let's throw him in there. Covington at four, and Jake Paul at five. All right. Okay. We'll leave that one. Did you see- Come on.

Just Covington reminded me. He said that the only reason that he was caught in the walking Buckley fight was due to a headbut, was an illegal headbut, and the quote, unquote DEI doctor waved him off. Is that what he said? Yeah.

Oh, God. I can't remember what the doctor was.

She was a woman.

Yeah, it's a woman, but she wasn't DEI. You know what I mean? But she has been the doctor many, many times. I remember, actually, look, listen, it was a clash of heads. If I remember correctly, it was a clash of heads that caused a cut. Dana said at the post-fight press conference that the cuts was... He would have liked to have seen the fight continue. I didn't have a problem with it at the time. There was blood all over the octagon. Me and Felda were talking I thought I almost slipped on it when I walked in to interview Buckley. But that doctor, I've spoken to her before. I've seen her at the apex, and I can't remember what fight it was. There was one fight, and it was a pretty bad cut. And I I saw her, and she never stopped the fight. So I saw her in the canteen at the Apex before the show started. I said, Oh, how are you doing? Nice to see you. She knows who I am, so I just said, Hello, Polana. I said, Oh, good job on not stopping that particular fight. I forget what fight it was now.

And she was like, well, yeah, it was just a cut. It wasn't in a bad position. It wasn't bleeding into the eye. It's just a cut. She's not of the faint-hearted variety. You know what I mean? She's not that type. That was a caught. He was bleeding right into the bloody eye. Kolby is going to Kolby. Fair play to him. I'd say the exact same thing, if I'm honest.

Meanwhile, Chael in his corner for that fight said, I was grabbing the towel to throw it in when the doctor waved it off.

Did he really? Yeah. Well, fair play to Chael. We always say we don't see that enough. Oh, my God. Could you imagine, Colby, if Chael threw the towel in? That would be bad. Chael gives up his time, flies down there, goes to the way in, corners him, walks him out, gives up his time, throws He's still the towel because he's caring for him. Colby would not have appreciated that. This has been a personal question. How bad did Rockhold's chin hurt your hand? Straight through it, baby. Straight through it. Left up, Larry didn't feel shit. No, it was nice talking with Luke, to be honest, and nice speaking to Rampage. If anyone saw the podcast at the end of it, I said I would love to have another conversation off air because Rampage and I, we were part of a team for years. Rampage They've joined the team because of me. He liked the way I train and my work ethic and stuff like that. And those guys, I spoke about it, and I don't want to bring up old topics and just bring more heat. They were scummy guys. There was a lot of nasty shit went on.

There was a lot of threats made. They showed up at my mom's house and stuff like that, and then money was going missing. You know what I mean? I was like, Fuck that. I'm done. Rampage was with them at the time. I warned him, and in the end, they burned him. They ripped him off. But Rampage didn't know how badly I was ripped off at the time. So he was brainwashed by them, and he was talking a little bit of shit publicly about me. It turns out in the end, even it said on the podcast, I said, You were right all along. I should have listened to you. But it is what it is. So that's why I said, I want to speak to him. And I said, speak to him when we can have a private conversation because we've got a lot to discuss. But it was nice to sit down with Rampage because Rampage has got a big heart. He's an awesome guy. He's a hell of a fighter. And he's just one of those guys, just far, I'm far too trusting. And I've got so much respect for him. I even told him on the podcast, I was star struck when I first met him, and he didn't believe me because I just got in the UFC, and I didn't know shit about UFC or MMA at all.

I didn't know what it was, really. So I started training for this thing called UFC, and then started watching as much as I could to learn about it. And I was watching Pride. Rampage was in Pride, obviously. And then he ended up in the UFC, and I was at UFC Belfast, and he was there, and we met each other and he said he was training. He invited me out to his gym, but I was like, Jesus Christ, is that Rampage Jackson for Pride. Do you know what I mean? And then he was the champion of the world as well. So I was still star struck. So it was nice to sit down and just have a nice laugh because he's a funny bastard as well.

That is great. I'm glad. I know it took a while for you to get on that show, and I'm glad it finally did happen. And the fans have been, I'm sorry, the believers have been popping off quite a bit. They really enjoyed that episode.

Apparently, I was the most requested guest of all time, but apparently, they say that to every guest. I'm like, You guys are floffing me. You don't need to do that. Kzmma says, and he's give us 50 E-N-I-O, whatever they are. Why didn't Hamza get the title shot after subbing Rob? And it's a good question. It's a fair question. I do believe Dana had already committed to Strickland versus Drickus Just a rematch. It wouldn't have surprised me if Hamza jumped the line, but I don't know if Hamza can freely travel due to visa issues all over the world and compete everywhere. I just don't know the ins and outs. I might be wrong on that. But Hamza, he's got to get the next shot. Simple as that. What he did to Robert Whittaker was just unreal. We all know that. We've spoke about that many times. But what do you think, Harrington?

I think it's important for when Dana White comes out and says, This guy is getting next title shot for that guy to get the next title shot 90% of the time. So it's like he made that proclamation about Sean Strickland. It would have been tough for him to go back on it despite how electric he was in the Whittaker fight. And it's like, if you're going to do it for anybody, Sean Strickland has been the company man, stepped up on short notice to fight Izzy in Australia, then turned around pretty quickly to defend that belt in Canada against DDP when you did a headliner beginning of last year. If anybody earned the the chance to get a win, sit out and get a very close title fight back, I think it's Sean Strickland.

Yeah, maybe. Also, you got to remember, hearing the words from Dana, the company President, say at a press conference, XYZ, whoever it is, they're getting a title fight next. Do you know what I mean? That comes with a lot of gravitas. Fighters are going to hang on to that. You know what I mean? Dana did say that publicly. So there you go. And that was before Hamza did that to Whittaker, if I'm not wrong. So it is what it is. Deal with it. Someone says, Hey, why will I or will I ever consider bare-knuckle boxing? The answer to that is a no. Absolutely no. I don't need to. Why do I need that? I would consider maybe down the line, if my neck gets better, I would consider a little boxing match. Nothing crazy, nothing wild. I'm going down to Colombia a week on Sunday. I'm going to be there for a week. I'll be doing the Believe You Me podcast.

From Colombia?

From Columbia. The day after 3:11, I'll be in Colombia, Medallín. So I'm going to be doing my stem cells. We'll see how that goes. Bio Accelerator in the house. Thank you very much. I'm going to do some content down there as well. Out of breath. I'm also going to speak to them. Maybe we'll get them on the podcast because I'm like, how does this- This sounds interesting.

Yeah.

It is interesting. I want to know, how does this work? Now, what I know from a layman's perspective is that they take the placenta or the umbilical cord of actual humans, and they take cells which hold all the DNA to making a human being. And somehow they have a way where they inject it, and there's some receptor or hormones or something where it goes to the part of the body where it's required, where the most inflammation is and stuff like And they can direct it away as well. And then from there, it helps regenerate certain tissues, cartilage, tendons, things like that. So I hope they got the umbilical cords of twins because I need all the bloody help I can get. But if that does all work out, I love a little boxing match. I would do a boxing match, not an MMA fight. It's too much. My body can't say that. But a friendly exhibition bout, maybe down the line. If the money's right, why not?

I'm doing commentary for an event in February, Armored Combat, where you put on the full suit. The eye thing isn't an issue. You literally have a helm. You'd be the best fighter who's ever done this sport.

Well, again, that would be embarrassing, right? You think so? It would be embarrassing to go from being champion of the world to all of a sudden standing there with a joust and a shield and a helmet on in front of 17 people taking on some nerd that's what he spends all his spare time playing Dungeons and Dragons. You know what I mean?

All right, fine.

No, I'm sorry. If the check's good enough, I'll do it. Sign me up. I have a word to the organizers. Say, Michael Bisbin will do this, but it's going to need some proper money. Anyway, we got any more questions on What's the biggest news story? Let's talk about UFC 311 a little bit. Umar Namaga made off, Marab Devalishvili. Fair play to Marab. Getting right back into it. Just beat Sean O'Malley, of He's always been up and running for us. Now he's going to fight Umar. I said he wants to fight. I saw this. He wants to fight three times in six months. He wants Marab, he wants Pyori Jan, and then he wants Sean O'Malley again in a six-month stretch. I mean, fair play to the I don't know if he would do that. I don't know if he will do that. I don't know if he's going to get through Umar and Amaga Madoff. The man's undefeated for a reason, always well-trained, tremendous wrestling as well, and he's got great striking. So I think it's a tough one for Marab, but it's not an easy fight for Umar either.

No, but it's like I can understand the looking ahead being like, I can take this in six months because if he can get past Umar, I don't That's easily the hardest part of the three-form. He's beaten Jan before, he's beaten O'Malley before, and we know what those fights look like. I don't see anybody. I don't know about you, but just looking online, looking on Twitter, the discourse that's going on, I've yet to see anybody who's giving Marab a chance in this fight.

Yeah. You yet to see anybody giving Marab a chance?

I've seen everybody saying Umar is going to do whatever he wants to Marab, and there's just no path to victory.

You just can't say that for granted. Look at Marab, the village, look at what he's done. Look at the people that he's beaten, right? And look at how he does it. He's a cardio machine. He's never been knocked out. He's virtually got no neck, so he's almost impossible to knock out. Yeah, of course, you can knee him in the face, you can knee him to the stomach, you can kick him in the body, you can hurt him to the body. His pace is ridiculous. He can crack himself. He hasn't got as good strike as Umar. But in terms of will, in terms of heart, dedication, just preparation, all that stuff. Marab's got that all day long. So don't count Marab out. Not at all. House says, We missed his non-MMA superchat. I don't recall seeing that. Do you have a 10? What was it?

Oh, yeah, I do. He was asking about, I believe that's him. He was asking if we have seen the trailer for the new Superman movie.

I have.

Okay.

I didn't like it. No, I don't know. Call me. Listen, I didn't see anything original there. It just looked like a rehash of an old Superman stuff. You know what I mean? And yeah, Henry Cavill, he was fantastic. What's the original guy called? My God, Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve. Christopher, I love those Superman movies. They're fantastic. They are good. Fond memories as a child, but I don't know. I didn't like it. I thought the suit looked like shit. It didn't look like the best Superman, but who knows? Maybe it's a tremendous film. Anyway, one topic that people often like to talk about is who will be the champion at the end of 2025. Okay? So have you got the rankings up there in front of you? Can you do that?

I'll pull them up right now.

All you do is type UFC rankings. It comes up. So Flyway division, right now, the champ is Alejandro Pantosha. I'm looking at the rankings, Royval Moreno, Amir Mabasi, Kaikar, France. Who is the champion this time next year? It's either, in my opinion, Alejandro Pantosia or Manel Kopp. Manel Kopp looked ridiculous in Pamper. And I do believe he has a potential of becoming the champion. At some point in his career, I think he will be a champion, but can he beat Pantosia? I don't know. What do you think?

Yeah, I mean, you took the words out of my mouth. It was a coin flip between those two. Heading Coming into the Tatsu fight, I would have said Manel Kapp beats either of those guys for the title for the next fight up. Coming out of that fight, looking how dominant Pantosia was in there, seeing the mistakes that Kopp made, even in that fight where he did look sensational, he still got caught a couple of times. If Pantosha catches you, he jumps onto that moment where you're stunned against the cage. He's not going to try to follow up with strikes. He's going to wrap up your back, get you down, and get you choked out. I think those are the only two. I'm going to say Pantosha.

Yeah, I say Pantosha as well. I'm looking at the top 15. That's the only guy right now that I think, legitimately, that sounds disrespectful to Kai Kara, France. Of course, he's formidable as well. But yeah, Roy Valle. Moving on. Let's try and make this a bit quicker. We got loads of divisions, buddy. Marab De Balishvili, champion right now, going up against you, Martin Mager, made off. End of 2025, who's the champ?

It's either Ammar or Marab, the two guys- We can't have the same conversation every time.

It's either.

You know what?

You say no, Mali can't get the bell back. You're saying Pyori Anne stands no chance. You're saying Cory Sandegen? He's out of his depth.

I'm going to say it's Davis and Figareto.

He just lost to Pyori Anne.

I know. He can build back. Two big wins, you're in a title shot. He can get those in March and June and then fight by November for the title.

Now, this might be heavily swayed by the fact that Marab is coming on the show on Monday, but I'm going to say Marab DeVille. I like it. No, I am, though. Moving on. Featherweight division, Ilyas Aporia. I'll I'm going to start off by saying, I don't think... I mean, the only person, the only person, and it's a real conversation is Max Holloway or Diego Lopez. Diego Lopes should be the next fight for... Sorry, pardon me. What am I saying? Iliya Soporia. Excuse me. Elia Teporia or Diego Lopez.

No.

What? You said no.

You mean Volkanovski? Oh, you're saying by end of year, it'll be Teporia or Lopez.

By the end of year. I love Volk. I think he had his time, and his time was tremendous. I think Volkanovski was amazing. What a champ, right? Unbelievable. He defended the belt four times, something like that. Incredible run. No doubt made a fortune, still going to have some great fights, still going to entertain us, still going to make a lot of money, but I don't think he becomes the champion again. I say that out of nothing but love and respect and admiration. Iliate Tepore is doing sensational things. The only person right now that I think that could even pose a challenge is Diego Lopez, and that's the fight that has to happen next.

I personally don't think we see Iliate Tepore fight at 145 this year. I think he's angling for some superfight at 55. I could see it being a where it's either the division is just on hold for a year where he's champion by default. If that belt goes on the line, I think Diego Lopez takes it down, and he's your champion by the end of the year.

Okay, so you got Diego, I've got Iliate Teporea. Moving on, Islam Mahe Makachev, the lightweight division. And this comes down to the UFC 311, essentially, because it's the hardest fight. Islam makachev, Armin, so we can get the boat once already. Armin was 22 years old. He stepped up on a few weeks' notice, and he did really well. He pushed Islam. It wasn't a domination from Islam, far from it. It was a very, very competitive fight. It was a very competitive fight. Armin started to slow down a bit. What are you laughing at something in the chat?

No, I'm laughing at the fact that I walked away from that fight going, Man, Islam is not even that tough. Look how much he struggled against this guy on short notice.

Yeah, yeah. And he did, though. He did. And now, of course, Armin's older. He's stronger, he's more experienced, and he's got a full camp. It's down to them to champ at the end of the year.

I'm going to say we need another gigantic star from that part of the world, Dan Hooker. Why not Dan Hooker? Let's do it.

Why not Dan Hooker? Let's go wild card. Fuck it. If we're doing that, if you're throwing wild cards out there, Patti Pimbler, Hinata Mohikana.

I mean, honestly, either one of those is a decent shout.

Really?

I mean, look, what do you think if Patti gets this fight with Michael Chandler Which it's like, I mean, it seems like both guys are alluding to it. If he gets a win over Michael Chandler, then he's legitimately within striking distance of a title. And it's like, I don't know, man. Whatever happens with this Arman versus Islam fight, maybe Islam once again gets bored of the division, decides he wants to go up. Now the title is vacated. I think that Patty is going to get himself very close to a title. I think Moikana is going to get himself very close to a title. And anything can happen once you're in that, once in that mix. I mean, you were fourth on the list of guys who got the call. You flew off a plane from Toronto on eight days' notice, won a fight as a plus 400 underdog. Michael, anything's possible.

Anything is possible. And I'll tell you this, Paddy proved himself, as we know. I think he proved that he's more than just some fun fights. He proved that he's more than just a loud mouth and good at selling a fight. He's proved that he's more than just an And you know what I mean? He's legit. That sub against Bobby Green, that was one of the slickest you've ever seen in the history of the UFC. That was beautiful. And two more wins I mean, who knows? One more good win. You never know. If he was to fight Michael Chandler, that would jump him up a tremendous amount. So you never know. You never know. But champ, at the end of the year, I'll say Islam. Bilal Mohamed. God, it's the same thing. It's a two-horse race. Is it Bilal or is it Shabqat? Give me your answer. Go.

I'm going to say Bilal. I just think, I mean, Bilal's style is... He's dominant, You're going to need somebody like, I don't know, maybe an Ian Gary to finally take him down. Somebody who's that good at stopping takedown attempts, somebody who can just fight you in the clinch and keep up that same pressure that Ian Gary can. I don't think any of these guys are going to put together enough to take it off of Balal. I don't think Gary gets a fight against them this year.

I don't think Gary, no. I don't think he fights for the belt this year. I don't think he would become the champion either. Not this year anyway. And I mean that, I don't mean that disrespectfully. Shabqat versus Balal, early call. Yeah, I'm the same thing. I wasn't overly impressed against Ian Gary. Now, granted, apparently he was injured. Apparently, he tore his ham string or something right before that fight. Who knows about that. But yeah, this time next year, I'll say Bilal Mohamed, Sean Strickland, Drikus DiPlece, Israel Al-Assanah, Robert Whittaker. Who's going to be the champ at the end of 2025 in the middle of the division?

Hamza?

I'm going to say Drikus.

Yeah.

Yeah. Light heavyweight? No, that's not light heavyweight. It should be. Is anyone going to be Alex Pereira?

I don't think it's going to be Maga Man on Goliath.

I'm trying to curry favor, apparently, by everyone in the chat on my YouTube channel, so I'm going to say Jamal Hill. No. No, Alex Pereira will still be the champ this time next year. And the heavyweight division, Jonny Bones-Jones, or will it be the interim heavyweight champion of the world, the one and only, Tom Aspinal. What do you think?

I think if Aspinal and Jones fight, Aspinal clearly wins. And I think he even defends one more time before the end of the year, if it happens in June against Jones.

I was thinking about this recently, and I've always been I'm very bullish on Tom beating Jon Jones. And then I watched some of that fight with Steepay back again. And I still... Listen, I'm a friend of Tom. I'm an admirer. I'm an supporter. I'm a fan. And I still think he beats Jon Jones. I do. But I had a couple of thoughts. Watching that fight, the diversity, the variety of strikes that Jon Jones was using him was really impressive. It was never the same thing more than once or twice. And then obviously the spinning back, it was great. The foot sweep in round one or two was it, and he just pobbled him on the ground. I mean, it was really nice stuff. Now, granted Tom, the power that he has, it's more meat and potatoes from Tom. He's not as tricky, shall we say, but if he cracks you, good luck staying on your feet, right? But Tom's never thought anybody like that. And I was thinking, Jon Jones, with all the experience that he has, he's fought a lot of different styles. He's fought wrest. He's fought people like that. Now, for Tom in the heavyweight division, Coates Blades, probably his best opponent.

Who else? Serge Povlevitch. I mean, fucking devastating. But it's just that John has gone through all these different people. Anyway, the point that I'm making is I was just like, it's probably a harder fight than what I initially thought because I was like, Tom is just going to smoke it. He's going to kill him. I still think Tom wins, but I was watching, I'm like, Hold on a minute. Hold on. John Jones is pretty goddamn good.

The only thing I could say back to that is I don't know that John Jones has ever fought a guy like Tom who likes to get fights done that quickly. A lot of guys let John take time to download reads to feel their movement. They let John Jones set the pace. Tom Aspenal never lets another person set the pace. He's foot on the gas from the jump.

Listen, I'm going to let you into a little secret. We all want to finish it that quickly. It's just that we don't have the ability. That's why I've always been so high on Tom Aspenal. It's like, Justin, he's not planning on, Oh, okay, I'm going to take him out now. When we're fighting, any time you throw a shot, you throw it with bad intentions for the most part, there might be a few flaky jabs and this and that. You're going to step into the pocket. You're in the fucking danger zone. So of course, you're going to rip. You know what It's just that most people don't have that ability to have the touch of death where you go down. That's how good Tom Aspenal is. We all want to finish fights like that. And then I was doing the same thing. I was looking at John Jones and looking at his resume and trying to think who's the most dangerous puncher that John Jones has fought? Probably, we were talking about him earlier, Quintin Rampage Jackson. Rampage hits hard. We Really hard. He knocked out Chuck Liddell. He had some impressive knockouts. Flatline, Vandele Silver.

There's a few others as well. It's probably the hardest puncher, I would say, is Quintin Rampage Jackson. And he outwrestled him, and he used his fight IQ and his game plans and all the rest of it like he always does, chips away at him and chokes him out. I still think Tom wins that, so I think he'll be the champion this time next year. Now, listen, we're not male chauvinistic pigs, Harrington. I know I'm not. Are you?

No, you might be a little bit slyly.

Are we going through the women's divisions?

I'm more hyped about the women's divisions because I have a fun one. I have a real fun one.

Of course, we're being silly, of course. I mean, all right, let's just start with it. Strawweight, Jean-Guy Lee. I said this a while ago. I believe her title is in the future for Tatiana Suarez. I'm commentating this fight in Sydney. I can't make a pick. I got to sit on the fence. I can't. I can't say it. I can't do it. Harrington, who will be the champion this time next year?

Yeah, I mean, it's one of those two. I've been saying Tatiana Suarez forever. If she can make the weight show up healthy, she'll win the belt, and then it'll probably just sit on for the rest of the year. So I'm going to say Tatiana Suarez.

All right, Tatiana Suarez. Flyweight, Valentina Shevchenko, currently the champion, of course, ended that trilogy with Alexa Grasso, Manon Fior, and number two or three, whichever it is, Erin Blanchfield before her. I think Manon Fior has got a really good chance. I do, but I just see Shefchenko wrestling the way that she did against Alexa Grasso. The double legs, the wrestling ability in general is absolutely fantastic. I can't see Shef Czenko losing to her just because of the wrestling.

I can't. I was so blown away by men on for the Rose Namajunas fight, of course, but then the fight in Atlantic City against Aaron Blanchfield, who's somebody who... You're talking about wrestling. This is a girl who spent 25 minutes doing everything she could to try to get her into any submission, and Manon just shrugged her off real simple with the combos, just piecing her up. So I like Manon to win that fight, but I like my girl Macy Barber to beat her before the end of the year.

Oh, come on.

I'm serious. Macy Barber is on a four or five fight win streak, something like that. She's doing great.

She's an incredible fire. The joke is because she's one of your favorites. That's what I was saying. Then, of course, Bantamwe division, Giuliana Payna, currently the champ. I think Kyla Harrison, or I might think I'm even Amanda Nunez.

That's what I was going to say. That's my pick.

And I like Julianna Payna. She's a lot of fun. She's great. When you hang out with her in person, she's hilarious in fact. You sat with her when we were in MSG. I sat with her again this time, and she was funny. I sat with her in Vegas with my wife, and she's good energy to sit around and watch fights with. She's talking shit about everyone and screaming and hollering. She's awesome. She is, and she's a tough fighter. I just think Kayla Harrison is something special. I'd pick Kayla Harrison at the end of the year. If Amanda Nunez comes back, I got to go with the Lioness.

Yeah, that's my pick, too. I do think Kayla and Giuliana are going to fight. I think that's a foregone conclusion. I think Kayla does enough to get that win, and that's enough to bring Amanda out of retirement. Because it's like, I mean, Amanda's teased it too many times for her to not desperately want Kayla Harrison to win this fight and then test her skills against Kayla, right?

Yeah. No, I agree. All right, so there's our pics. Hosia had a little super chat there. I said, What's our most anticipated movie in 2025? Nothing but I have a movie questions from this guy. I will say this. I filmed a movie. Now we're in 2025. I filmed it in 2022, which technically, according to the calendar, is three years ago now. Read Sonia. I spoke to the director the other day. It's ready, it's sold. It's getting a theatrical release. Initially, I believe, I could be wrong, I thought it was going to go straight to a streaming service. Now it's getting a theatrical release. Hopefully, it will be released in about March, something like that. It's my biggest part today. It got a lot of range, a lot of motion, some emotion on the screen. I might even cry a little bit and shed some tears. You know what I mean? For me, I'll say that one because it's been three years waiting. What about you, Harrington?

I'm going I'm coming with another Michael Bisping classic, Den of Thiefs 2.

Hey.

I am hype for that movie, dude.

That comes out next week.

Oh, really? Den of Thiefs 2, yeah. I knew it came out in January.

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. The premiere was on Friday, the 10th. I'm commentating on January the 11th, so I'm trying to figure out a way I can do both. But I'm like, Should I or shouldn't I? Because I'm like, when I'm commentating, I can't show up hung over or anything like that. But that I said, I'm off the booze these days. This is dry. This is a dry bisping era that we're living in right now. So the productivity is going to go through the roof.

Where's the premiere?

La.

And the fights in Vegas?

It's no problem. I can go to the Premiere, jump on a plane in the morning. Boom, I can make it.

So you don't have to be in Vegas for fighter meetings or anything like that? The way in is not the best.

When they're in the apex, we do them virtually. Oh, don't get it. Yeah, we do them virtually. Yeah, we did it virtually.

Yeah, exactly. For sure. How are you not going to go to a movie premiere? That's the dream.

Yeah. Do you know Rebecca hates anything like that? She can't stand it. And to be honest, I like that about her. I respect that about her. She hates movie premieres and red carpets and all that bullshit. She's like, go by yourself. Because I've done a little bit of acting and whatnot, I get invited to a few premieres here and there, and I think they're fun. Do you know me and let you go there. There's always an after-party and stuff like that. I get invited to some good movie premieres. Rebecca never, ever, ever wants to go. I've been with Ellie. I've taken Ellie a couple of times.

I was going to say, don't you have a daughter who's an aspiring actress?

I do. So I take her a couple of times. But Rebecca could not care less. Could not care less. And I actually love that about her. So that's good. Let's have a look in the chat here. Got any good questions for us in the chat? Please let us know. Red Sonia even flopped with Arnold and Bridget. Well, that's just nasty for one. Secondly, I don't know if it flopped. I'll tell you what, Red Sonia was one of my childhood favorite films. Loved it. I watched it back recently. Didn't really stand the test of time. But when I was a kid, I loved Arnold Schwartzenecker. Someone says, Yeah, I've seen Pantera in February. Yeah, Den of Thiefs 2 is going to be unbelievable. I mean, I've only got a small part in it. Again, I'm obviously not I'm not going to give any spoilers, but it's going to be great. I can't wait to see it. Horses with courses straight from the top of my dome. Okay, whatever that means. Any New Year's resolutions for 2025? Well, I say it all the time, and I touched on it a second ago. I'm trying to stop drinking.

I always say that because that drink is not a problem in my life, but I wish I didn't drink as much. Anyway, so I'm reading this book right now called Quit Drinking Without Willpower. And it is fantastic.

Who's the author?

Allan Carr.

Yes, that's the guy who does the smoking book.

Yeah, so he did a book called Quit Smoking Without Willpower. So he has this whole method on how to do it. So I started reading it And it's so interesting. And basically what he's talking about is that you got neural pathways in your brain to learn behavior. And a lot of the time you associate having a good time socializing and all the rest of it with having a drink. And it's totally true because I'm not an out here or anything like that, but I'll have a couple of drinks and I wish I didn't. And then sometimes I overdo it and I wake up with a bit of a sore head or whatever. And it's not good for your liver, but it's absolutely right. So anyway, We're two days in, guys. We're two days in, but the plan is until February, Sydney, Australia. I'm going to stay dry till then, lose a few pounds.

Until after the pay-per-view, until the pay-per-view after party.

Yeah, because my buddy Jacko, he's going to be there. He's flying in. Rebecca's best friend is flying in as well. And he's an old-school... One of my old-school... Dj Jacko and Mikey B. He's my old mate. He lives in Australia. We used to DJ back to back. Do you know what I mean? So we'll be throwing down a few. So I'll stay sober until then. What about you, Harrington?

Well, my big thing I talked about on the show the other day, getting to gaming with friends already making pathways to that. But I did, I think I was talking to you right before the show, I saw a friend of mine get on the scale and he was 300 pounds and I was like, Yo, it's right around the corner from me. So I do need to button up and fly right. I'm doing the bone broth fast on the 15th. I think that's what I'm targeting for that week. And then just kickstart into the new year. I don't know, try to get to maybe 185 by summer. That'd be pretty sweet.

No, good for you, Harrington, because it's important. All the time, you see these posts on social media everywhere, health is wealth and all the rest of it. And it's absolutely true. And then obviously, given what I went through with my neck this past year, I mean, My neck issue has been ongoing for years, but this last year was really bad and I was miserable. And I was... Come on, what are you going to say?

Well, I saw a really good one just like that where it was like a woman in her 70s who's ableing along with a walker and then another woman in her 70s running up a mountain or whatever.

I saw it. It's like, this is the difference that you can have to your life with exercise. Exercise is one of the most important things that you can do. It's just as simple as that. You have to work out. And I've actually, because Rebecca has come to the gym with me now. I used to drag her into the garage now and again, and she got bored of it. She's a bit miserable in the garage, and I don't blame her. It is. It's not the same vibe. So now we're going to the gym because Ball Got Drop not casting Bisping as Kano in motor combat. I know I actually audition for that Zulton. Anyway, I'm convinced her now because to your point, lifting weights is so important and building muscle is so important. And Rebecca has realized it now as well, because as you're getting older, you need to hang on to your muscle, because if you don't have muscle, then you don't burn as many calories. And if you don't burn as many calories, then you put fat on. But if you have more muscle, you burn more calories. So it's so important. And then also it's important as you're aging, you get older, you get a little bit more frail, you stumble, you fall over.

If you've got muscle, you can catch yourself. You still got the fast twitch muscle. You can stop yourself instead of falling over and breaking a hip or breaking whatever it is. And I'm only 45, and Rebecca is only 42. But I'm like, babe, finally now Now she's seen the light. She knows it's important to lift weights and just get down to the gym and be healthy. She's working out and I'm like, babe, we're going to Australia in February. You're going to be wearing a bikini. Come on, let's go.

That is a fun idea, planning a beach trip in the winter to make sure that you never hit that slack off point. You always got to be beach body ready. I like that.

Yeah, no, I'm joking. I'm taking the picture. It looks great all the time. But it is important, and it's good for your mental health and all the rest of it. So yeah, working out, Harrington, good for you, man. Set some goals. You know one thing that we always see in the chat here, Harrington, and speak your mind, tell the truth. People are always giving me shit for being mean to you. They still don't get it after all these years. A little thing that we do in England called taking the piss. And I thought that some people in America did that as well, certainly on the East Coast. And in many ways, certainly in my neck of the woods where I'm from, that's how you show affects you.

Yeah. And it's like, don't act like we don't all get on Bisbing's case, too. You know what I mean? What are we talking about here? Yeah, no, never once. But no, it is what it is. I feel like it's almost at this point, I feel like they're playing into it because it's a bit now for them to make you say, you You know what I mean? It's gone too meta.

Yeah. They're just trying to get a rise out of me. We take the piss, but sometimes Harrington looks devastated, and you do look a little devastated sometimes, but it's fine.

Yeah, I'm a decent actor. I can go, Oh, no. Oh, that hurt. Oh, please don't.

All right. Should we see what's going on in the world of MMA. I love it. Is there any big stories out there right now? I tell you where's a good one to go to, Twitter. Twitter, you're going to find some crazy shit, but what have you got right now, Harrington? Well, I'm seeing- This is an impromptu live, by the way. We haven't scheduled out topics and all the rest of it. Here's Habib Namaga made of, Ireland don't have fighters, brother. Let's be honest. How many fighters All right, Ireland, they don't have fighters. Let's be honest. How many fighters do you know come from Ireland? Paul Hughes, Conor McGregor, and who else? Dagisdian level of MMA here, but Ireland level not even half. Well, So Ireland is a country full of fighters. I'll say that that's for absolutely damn sure. Of course, Habib is going to say that because of his nemesis, Conor McGregor. And of course, there's probably throughout history more famous Russian fighters because look at the size of Russia. It's one of the biggest countries on the bloody planet. And Ireland is not exactly a big place, and it's not a huge population either.

But make no mistake, there's plenty of Irish fighters, whether boxers, MMA fighters. You go down a pub and start talking shit in Ireland or anywhere in the UK and Ireland for that matter, you'll find out, buddy. You'll find out.

Yeah, I mean, brother, brother, 143 million, Russia, Ireland, 5 million. What? Of course, there's more Russian fighters, dude. That's simple math.

Hold on. The UFC, this is according to Happy Punch. The UFC is reportedly involved in deep negotiations with Conor McGregor and Logan Paul for an exhibition mission targeted in April. We've been talking about this already. I don't know why a misfit boxing. We talked about this on Monday at length, and we won't bang on about it too much. I think it's going to go ahead.

You know what makes me think it's going to happen?

Go on.

Hale came out and said it's not going to happen.

A lot of people have been saying that as well. I'd say maybe he said that because Ian Parker, who he works with, Ian Parker is like an analyst on ESPN. He knows a lot about the fight game, knows a lot about the boxing world, and a lot of stuff behind the scenes as well. And he was tweeting saying, There's no way anyone's going to pay them $50 million each. You never know. This guy, this Ambani dude, is one of the richest men on the planet. And who knows? Maybe it's an investment for India, so it might happen. It might happen. I'll tell you what, Conor McGregor, given all the shit that he falls through, still comes out smelling of roses.

I mean, dude, this is a guy who spent what, 300 million on his kid's wedding? You don't think he'd spend an extra 200 million on the most talked about fight of the year?

Come on. Well, it'll be 500 million, but still. I mean, what's a cheeky 200 million?

I'm saying 200 million more.

Yeah. Anyway, Tony Ferguson has been teasing a new fight. Tony Ferguson tweeted, completely I'm destroying myself to reinvent it as an artist. I aim to show you something you've never seen before. Happy New Year's, crew. 2025 in my sight. Champ shit only. Stay tuned and watch the magic. New Mission, acknowledged. Fight news coming soon. What do you think?

I'm thinking Cowboy? I mean, Cowboy joins the testing pool again, and now he's saying, I got big news coming. New Mission. I mean, I did say champ shit only, but it's like, come on, dude.

Yeah, we said this on Monday. You're right, though. I'm glad you said that. It makes all the sense in the world. Tony beating him the first time. Dana has a really good relationship with Donald Cerroni, Ferguson's a legend, I'd like to see him retire. If he's going to give him one more go, Donald Cerroni makes sense in that regard. They're both guys that shouldn't maybe be fighting. If Serron is coming back for two more, God bless him. All the best good luck to him. As long as it's something like that, as long as it's not, I don't know who else it could be, but I like that one, though. What else were you got?

Sean O'Malley on his tour of Japan. I don't know if you know anything about that, why he did a big star-studded tour of Japan.

That was- Because he can. That's the cool thing about becoming a worldwide phenomenon. You can do shit like that. You don't need to reach it and say, I'm going to go do a tour of Japan. Here's what happens. Your agent calls you and says, Can we get a bit of interest in Japan? We can get you $150,000. They'll fly you first class. They're going to take you to a bunch of nice hotels. You're going to do some appearances. You'll do some seminars. You'll do some interviews. Whoever set that up, your boy, I've never been to Japan. Sign me up. I'll do for half the price. I'm dying to go to Japan. But that's why he did it. But I haven't seen any of the news that came out of it.

It's been a lot of silliness. I know he was at the Risen Card. He did some stuff for some Japanese game shows where he's kicking guys in the pants or whatever. But I think the big thing, at least, what people have been hitting me up about, do you think with this interest in Sean O'Malley, specifically in Japan, he's buzzing about there, do you think a fight with Tatso Taira, because that's a dude who fought primarily Primarily at 135 in Risen, do you think he comes up to 135 to fight Sean O'Malley? Is that a big star-studded fight for the UFC in 2025?

Tatsuro Taira?

Yes.

Yeah, Tatsuro Taira. Yeah, I mean, listen, Or are you talking about Kaya Sokoda?

I'm thinking of Kaya Sokoda. I'm a dummy. My bad.

Yeah, it's quite all right. They're both Japanese. Tatsuro Tata just lost to Brandon Royval. Kaya Sokoda just lost to Pantosha. Either one of those would It's going to be a great fight for O'Malley, of course. He just lost. He's going to fight again. He's out there in Japan now. Yeah, it's going to be somebody like that. It's going to be interesting to see who they do match up Kaya Sokoda with. Anytime you get a title fight, He's going to debut like that. Obviously, there's a lot of headlines, a lot of attention, and a lot of envy from everybody else on the roster as well. They're like, This son of a bitch just comes in with his big swinging dick, gets a title fight straight I've had 15 fights, never had a title fight. So I'm sure a lot of people will want to fight him because he'll represent an opportunity now. So it'll be interesting there. I'm not sure, though. I'm not sure what else we got. What else we got.

Okay, I got a fun one. The UFC hit up a bunch of fighters for their New Year's resolutions.

Go on, give them to me.

Sean O'Malley, what is your New Year's resolution for 2025? Non-fight related. He said no sex till his next fight. I mean, I don't know if he's going to do that.

There's more chance of me not drinking again. Listen, he hasn't got a fight schedule. You know what I mean? Don't set yourself up to fail. What else?

All right, but Rob says, My 2025 New Year's resolution, spend more quality time home in Georgia with my family and friends. The past few visits have been filled with meetings and fan gatherings, which I'm grateful for, but they came at the expense of relax with my family. I hope I can spend this time with and maybe find a wife there. My New Year's wish is for peace all countries, especially sweet home Georgia.

Yeah. Can I just say Jake Webb is in the chat? He says, These dorks think this is live when they are answering from the chat. Jake Webb, we are. This is live, you dork. Yeah, fair play. My lab is Georgia, just like I. I say every year, I'm going to go back to England more. I got myself a little place out there, so I do go back more. I was going to go in Christmas, but I couldn't. I don't know if I've mentioned it, it's something to do with my neck. But yeah, what else? What are the New Year's resolutions?

They asked Shabqat, he just said no. Yeah, good. Pretty good.

He said, no, shut up. This is stupid, brother. I'm just looking here. There's some good ones. Dude, I couldn't believe it when I turned on the news. The shit that went down in New Orleans, man.

New Orleans.

God. And then the cyber A truck?

What was that about, by the way?

I don't know. Obviously, it exploded outside Trump Tower. So my initial thought was it was like some crazy extreme Leftist. And it might have been. I might be right because Rebecca thought it was another terrorism attack. I'm like, Well, I don't think so. Trump Tower in Vegas, it's way off the strip. It's not like a crowded area. You could go 300 yards and you're on the strip. You can go pull up anywhere. You can pull up outside the MGM, pull up outside any casino, one of the main casinos. There's people everywhere. And if that bomb went off, there'd be mass casual difficulties, but they parked it outside Trump Tower. So I'm inclined to think it's something to do with that. However, did you see, because it was a cyber truck, do you see this?

Yeah. Brilliant.

Go on, give me the date.

So apparently because it's steel in the way that it's built, instead of the explosion going out, it forced the whole thing upward, which they're saying greatly reduced the amount of damage done by an exploding cyber truck.

It was still a massive explosion. Closion, though.

Oh, yeah, it's big.

It was huge. But I tell you what, what an advert for Cybertrucks. The guy is also a moron. A, if you're trying to cause mass casualties, it wasn't the best place. And I'm glad I was on mass casualties, of course. But picking the cyber truck, the amount of technology in that car, there's cameras all over those. Now, I don't know if they're recording. I know a lot of people don't like the technology and all the rest of it because they say it infringes on privacy. But in this case, it might be good because all the technology and all the WiFi and the location services and all the rest of it that that car has, they're going to catch this son of a bitch pretty quick, I would assume.

Yeah. I saw somebody posted. I'm hesitant to even share because I don't know the validity of it, but I saw somebody posting a video of that next to a guy's LinkedIn, and the guy's LinkedIn said that he was in the army for quite some time.

So that's who- No, that was the guy in New Orleans.

Oh, yeah?

The guy in New Orleans was in the army for For a little while. Yeah.

Okay.

And that guy's a piece of shit.

Yeah, that one's bad.

Dead. I mean, Jesus Christ. Could you imagine? I mean, it happened in Germany right before Christmas at a German market. Similar type of scenario. It was just Just despicable. Evil doesn't begin to describe it. This fucking guy pulls into Bourbon Street, full speed, rams people up, and then jumps I start shooting everyone. That street is absolutely packed. I've been there, the Bourbon Street, bitch got me. I'll catch up with him one day, by the way. I was there on just a regular day and it was absolutely packed. I can only imagine how crowded that was on New Year's Eve, on New Year's Eve to do that. I mean, the level of... Not insanity, because this guy isn't insane. He's a fundamental A mentalist is a fucking psycho. His brain is warped. Obviously, he has a problem with Western society and war in America and stuff like that. To do that and then to jump out with a gun and just randomly start shooting people. Jeez, it's awful, man. It's awful. It really is.

I did see a thing. New Orleans had had this problem once before during Mardi Gra, where somebody drove into a car full of people, and they had hydraulic barriers installed to prevent If a thing like this happened, they'd be able to put a barrier up now that that car can't plow into a crowd of people. They said they couldn't lift the barriers because citywide, they were down for repairs on New Year's Eve.

Yeah. They were down for repairs.

Yeah.

On New Year's Eve.

They have them.

And it's like, this is what you use it for. I tell you what, that's just insane. What's the point in having them? And then the busiest celebration. Simple as It doesn't get bigger than New Year's Eve. The crowds are always crazy. That's why this year... And by the way, Luc, turk, cis, I just saw you super chat there. More than a year, I'm still chasing my photo with Michael from Tells from the Octagon. Poor Bisping I'm VIP ticket. I'm sorry, £230. Was expecting more from my legend, but still a fan. Mate, that's not my fault. I'm sorry, buddy. I think I said to you before, Lucas, shoot me a DM, shoot me a DM, and I'll figure something out. But I have nothing to do with the photo service. And if you didn't get your photo that night and it didn't get an email to you, I apologize. But that's not my area, mate. So don't expect more from me. I was there. I met you. I shook your hand. We took a picture. If some guy didn't forward it onto you, that's not my problem. Sorry, what did you say a second ago? Just bring me back on topic.

They have hydraulic press barriers that they can spring up to stop cars from plowing into people.

Why the F on New Year's Eve would they do that? Who in the right mind thought, I know, let's get them repaired on New Year's Eve? I went to the gym this morning and I do the Stairmaster now because I pulled my groin when I did the Wayne show in Manchester, and it still gives me issues. It's pissing me off, so I can't run at the moment. And the Stairmasters, they've had a schedule for service sign, three of them for about four weeks. And I'm like, are you taking the piss? They're not scheduled for service. I don't know what you're doing. Anyway, but still, things are scheduled for service. Don't schedule it on New Year's Eve. I mean, that's the time that these are bloody needed because it's going to be crowded. I mean, speaking of New Year's Eve, this is how you're not getting old, Haritan. What time do you think I was in bed on New Year's Eve?

Not drinking? Did the not drinking start?

No, I saw New Year's Eve out with the bank.

Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to say you made it to 11:15?

I was in bed at 6:33 PM. Jesus.

You really did see it for New Year's.

It's Rebecca. She's bloody She's a hermit. She doesn't want to go. We went out for an early dinner. To be fair, we were both exhausted. We went out for an early dinner. It was just me, Lucas, and Rebecca. We had a nice bite to eat, and we were going to go watch Nosferatu. We're wild. We're going to go watch that movie because she loves the Dracula franchise. She's with a count after all. So we were going to do that. That was going to be like 6:00 to late, and then we were going to go for a drink or two afterwards or whatever. But we had food and we were just exhausted. I said, Can we skip the movie? And she said, Yeah, but as long as we go to bed. So she's just obsessed with going to bed. She loves to hang out. When we're in the house, 6, 7 o'clock every night, we got to go to bed. She never sits down in the lounge room. Even when her brother was here at Christmas. I'm like, Babe, it's rude. We can't go upstairs and hang out in our little boudoir. Do you know what I mean?

You have to sit downstairs and socialize with people. But still, we were in bed super early. Hold on, we got a couple more super chats here. This is Curtis. He says, The guy that pulled that cyber truck thing into Trump Tower. Oh, he was inside the vehicle when it blew up. I never knew that. News said he shot himself before the explosion. Met you in Philadelphia at the meeting. Great. Love your show. Thank you very much, Curtis. All right. So he was inside it.

Well, apparently both cases rented cars, by the way.

No, I know.

Renting them off the Toro app.

Yeah. Well, they're both dead anyway, so it doesn't matter. Yeah. Anyway, well, good riddance to bad rubbish. I mean, it's just... But anyway, there's not a lot to say. We could go on and on about it, but there's better things to talk about or more important things or fun things, should I say. We're not trying to get all doom and gloom. It's just heartbreak. Absolutely heartbreak. What have we got, Harrington? Breaking news?

No, just somebody in the chat reminded me that the PDC World Championships are on right now. Pro darts.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Love a bit of darts.

Do you not?

Not really. I don't watch a lot of sports. Anyway.

You should go to a live darts match. You would have fun.

I've played darts, even Now I've got one eye, I could still throw a dart. I've got to go.

Oh, yeah.

We've got to wrap this one up.

All right.

We can go for an hour and 10 minutes. Look at my hair. It's long. It's out of control. I've got a haircut. I'm scheduled for two It's 143. It's a 30-minute drive away. I'll be 15 minutes late. Francesca's awesome, but she expects that. She's never on time anyway. And any time I do get there on time, she's not finished. So it's like this little unwritten rule. But And because of that, we do have to wrap this one short. So we're going to go. That's been an hour. Harrington, you're the man. I appreciate you, buddy. All you people watching this, do me a favor. Hit the subscribe button right now because we're live. I'm going to watch the I go up. Hit it now. Don't be a prick. Support the show. Hit like, hit subscribe, leave a comment, do all that good stuff. We'll be back on Monday with another episode. As I said, we're joined by Paul Felder. We've got Marab We've got the former champion, we've got the Bantamweit Champ, Marab, and we've got the former champ, Yuri Prohaska, and of course, Paul, I, Brian, and Harrington will be having a laugh as well.

If you have a question, please send in a video question to bympod@gmail. Com. And in fact, we might just do a question special coming up soon. That might be fun. So send in your video questions for whatever you want to know about. And that's it. Harrington, have you got a word for the believers?

Happy New Year.

Oh, yeah. There you go. Happy New Year. And that's it. All right, guys, I got to get my hair cut. Got to get it under control. Harrington, you're the man. Take care. Bye-bye. You're going to hit Stop Recording because Harrington is in charge.

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