1045 - Fight Night (6/15/26)
Will and Felix are in person to celebrate two great victories this week: the IRGC and the New York Knicks. The two also review “UFC Freedom 250” on the White House lawn, with Will as our entry point into and Felix as our expert in the field of MMA. Plus: we also discuss Eric Trump’s brilliant plan to gamble on the fights.
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The only thing historically interesting about the south lawn is that Biden’s dog Battleship killed someone
Just like how the White Walkers caused an awakening of the Dragons, a Muslim being a mayor unlocked all the latent Jewish magic in New York causing them to finally be able to rig a Knicks game.
Jon kinda sounds like Stavvy
Yeah, I watched F250 with my dad who had never watched a fight before. When the announcer said "black beast" my dead said "jesus christ. Why not just call him Mandingo"
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I will accept nearly all criticism of the UFC but I will NOT accept will making fun of sweet young Diego
I know, my boy seems so pure. I feel bad for him, he'd wreck anyone (and has) in featherweight NOT called Volkanovski. But being from the NSW south coast, by legal mandate I have to be ready to kill or die for Volk and do his enemies harm. So I have had to root against Lopes for those 2 fights.
cracking up at "you don't want to see any of these guys get permanent brain damage" you have to believe in the easter bunny if you think that isn't what you are seeing the whole time you watch this sport
i feel like if it was legal at least half of ufc fans would watch a sport where people compete to see who can stick their arm deepest into a blender
I saw Bob Dylan in Berkeley on Sunday, and a young guy in front of me was watching UFC Freedom 250 on his phone and showing close up clips of dudes being pummeled in the face to his gf instead of watching the concert.
Who tf is Cyril GoneYay?
Blood Sport, ...savage
Good movie
Could the hosts remind me how ZOGran is socialist again?
You can’t tell me, after watching their performance during the playoffs, that the Knicks don’t play like they are the main protagonists in a sports anime and Jalen Brunson, in his heart, truly believes himself to be Goku.
Jesus Christ, what gun? He’s got a fucking hero sandwich here.
Fun Lincolnshire story, in middle school, this beautiful Mormon girl who’d moved to the Shire from Australia befriended me one summer because we lived close together. Her grandpa had been the original mayor, and she claimed he “made sure all the streets connected” 😐 There was even a park named after him near the house she moved into. I convinced her that I was psychic for some reason and she completely believed me. Maybe I wanted to see how far I could push a lie. In any case, she had a pool and a hot tub that we’d sit in a lot but it was never actually heated. Once school started again, she became super popular and we drifted apart because I was literally Daria, but in recent years she got into a skin care MLM. I think she is pretty and charismatic enough that she might’ve actually had lots of people under her and made money, but that one has since been forced to become a regular direct to consumer company.
Do I see badly bruised 👆Rico Verhoeven Boxing with the Ukraine? 👆
Will’s point about the difference between the World Cup and Knicks fans actually having fun and the WH UFC fight fans trying to pretend that this is the most fun and sick thing to ever happen puts me in mind of Matt’s point about “Zen fascism” — these guys can never be truly decadent, because there’s always that voice in the back of their head, however faint, telling them how dumb and empty and evil it all is.
Okay no, the Romans were constantly handing the Persians fat Ls. The times when they didn't are the exception. Most wars between Rome and Persia ended with Ctesiphon getting sacked
B.
felix debuts a brand new sound at 57:47
I’m surprised they didn’t mention one of the oddest parts about Josh Hokit, he showed up to the weigh-in dribbling puke all over himself and said “yeah I did some drinking last night, who wouldn’t, I’m about to fight a giant black guy”
Patreon player is useless
Felix claims to be an mma fan but then pronounces cyril's last name as ganye...it's pronounced gahn. What's with him and words?
Dol(an)drums
Anyone know the song at the end?
Really upset Felix didnt drop the lore that Derrick Lewis was added late because Trump personally called Dana and asked why he wasn't fighting
Also, I’m not surprised about the Lawrence Kansas thing because that is the “in this house we believe” part of Kansas.
The Carolina Hurricanes will not be disrespected by Midwest elites on my watch.
Canes can win 1,000 cups and we'll all still wish they were still the Whalers
Participating in sports culture is gayer than watching a video of men having sex with each other
Glad you guys evidently think Eric Trump dumb enough to go on X/Twitter and ask an insider directly who's injured, who to bet on, etc. to an insider In The Know pal. So, a couple days' back, The Grayzone did reporting on this, just Max and Aaron. Max was all over this, like White on Rice, but Aaron always being more compassionate and "fair" (I'm sure his dad taught him that, can't hate on him) said he thought it was unproven and a possible Psyop. Will we ever know? I dunno? Ewic pretty goddamn stupid though, might have an IQ lower than his Daddy's.
get Desus on the fucking show!
Live Chapo > Zoom Chapo
Scotland beating Haiti is massive as it our first win in a world cup since 1990. Absolute scenes as the game ended. A public holiday was granted on Monday. Glasgow is bouncing haha
Loving this sode. It always feels and flows better when the boys are in person, makes me nostalgic for the old days
My Filipino father in law is into cock fighting and those chickens are better taken care of than UFC fighters
Its called "cocksucking"
It’s like Khadyrov’s playbook in Chechnya.
If only the Reds could do what the Knicks did
Is Bad Bunny Jesus?
What’s the music at the end?
Kumite from Bloodsport
The Hurricanes better not go to the fucking White House, I would be so bitter
I’ve always wondered if Felix follows/reads MMA analyst Jack Slack. It just seems like someone he would like.
Huge scouting and development win for the IRGC with the shahed People thought it would never be good enough for the major leagues, had to go play overseas for a few seasons in Russia for the talent to be recognized but look at shahed now, def in the conversation for MVP.
My city is hosting a few WC games. Most people hate it, but it was a lot of fun to have a squad of Turkish octogenarians squad up at the local spot
Anik is better than Goldberg
I live in DC and the amount of slackjawed troglodyte tourists out and about over the weekend was crazy. You could spot every retarded UFC MAGA guy from a mile away. Also way more national guards out than I've seen ever
The entire federal government has been reassigned to tard wrangler duty.
hypothetically iran vs usa happens if they both finish top of their groups and get to the round of 16, july 6th in seattle
Ok Felix, I get that you don’t follow hockey, but that was actually one of the top Stanley Cup finals of all time
no one outside of Raleigh thinks so
"jesus christ is the hulk" is the most protestant thing i've ever heard
I like that will and Felix aren’t shitting on the Lawrence/algeria bromance and the regular America interaction with the World Cup visitors. They can be kinda black pilled sometimes but this is so pure that I didn’t want to hear them shitting on it. I’m glad they see it for the pure thing it is. 🩷 a jayhawk
Did Felix mean “human cockfighting” instead of “human cocksucking?”
I hope not
Gonna show my schizo for a sec but the gaethje topuria fight must have been fixed. Late minute large bet on gaethje was promoted right before the fight began. Topuria was fighting way too still, DC even commented on it. Even in round 2 Topuria easily could’ve gotten the finish if he hadn’t gone to the ground, but he followed Justin to not finish him? Maybe I’m coping but that outcome was insane and I am a fan of gaethje, I really enjoyed seeing him shut down Paddy, but would the UFC really let a non-American win on Americas birthday in front of trump?
I would pay so much for will menaker to never attempt basketball talk in public again. conversely, Felix is the only MMA commentary that matters.
It would have really been historic if they had held the fight inside the Oval Office, I want to see someone body slammed through the resolute desk
waiting on that juneteenth ep like
the most Chapo weekend in American history
Players club S2 in the pipe hell yeah
if the nba was rigged by a zionist conspiracy then actually the finals wouldve been Trailblazers vs Nets
It's kinda wild that there's some liquor called SHOOT BUFFALO ON SIGHT because that was a key component of America's race war against the Plains Indians. It's basically like an ad that slaps a whiskey bottle over DER JUDE or something
Rwanda VSOP: Cut the tall trees!
There's something really funny to me about how Felix mispronounces Lucy "Dawkus" name but correctly pronounces Mauricio Ruffy the way that a Brazilian would say it.
Chris Leben mentioned!
Ciryl Ganye
Lol Felix's pronunciation was killing me
I kinda regret not staying out later Saturday night, but I’ve never been a huge NBA guy so it felt a bit unearned. If/when the Mets win though I’ll definitely find a bus to burn to the ground
An air attack on the white house would be like the scene in south park where the Baldwins get carpet bombed "Ha ha you missed me!" *Boom
Speaking of Israeli Telegram, I made a bot that translates/posts Israeli Telegram posts. @IsraeliTelegram on Twitter/@israeligram.observer on Bluesky. Sorry to promote here but I put a bunch of work into getting out what those psychos are saying.
OG Anunoby's touch and block in game 4 made me believe in god.
Machida is basically like if Ken from Street Fighter was a real guy.
If I want basketball analysis I listen to "The Flagrant Ones" thank you very much! Great episode
"The Iranian team hasn't played much as their league was prematurely terminated in February." Foxs commentary team last night about Iran. They spent about 95% of the time talking about NZ and said NZ had real difficulty bc one of their starters had a hamstring injury.
Ah yes, famous ball knower, felix biederman
Lolipalooza got me
Maybe don't with some of the Jokes, Brunson is nothing like Sin***r. The IRCG are rapist theocratic c*** s. Great vibes for the Knicks. The deadpan is funny. You lose humanity if you are so careless. It is quite gross.
Why did you censor Sinwar
I think the romp in the swamp is pretty historic, it feels like the kind of spectacle that will be highlighted in the "Fall of America" chapter of history textbooks
Pro sports may usher in the era of socialism!
It’s a real shame that this whole event didn’t get [REDACTED]
This episode was made for Felix
The banality of comparing the meaningfulness of deeply meaningless entertainment.
american sports are so gay
So is Bad Bunny the Jesus sequel
I think Trump must have watched idiocracy and been like #goals smh
Israel would never survive drafting Kevin Knox
Easily the worst part of the Knicks winning is the crowing from bandwagon fans who do not know ball and are only celebrating because they feel a cultural affinity for the city that gave us Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. I was going to say "endless crowing" but 90% of the Knicks fan base have already stopped caring about the win. Decent team with a garbage fan base
Knicks talk ends @ about 30 min
Wembanyamao just got worn down throughout the playoffs. Every big man on each team they played just constantly roughed him up and hung onto him each series. Gobert and Reid for 6 games, Hartenstein and Chet for 7. Mitch Johnson did not manage his minutes well, even in games they were in control throughout. The spurs also don't have anyoneover 6'7" that they can trust playing extended minutes.
Can you believe Josh Hokit and Aaron Judge are from the same college. As a Fresnan I can’t say I feel bad for what we have produced here.
reality tv show to find white puerto rican child christ
NBA Finals > Super Bowl easily
Felix accidentally saying “Kurt Vile democrat” lmaoooo Also I’m gay
Wait. What is Felix refering to? I like KV what he do?
I got fired from work today
BLEEED
I had an aneurysm and shit my pants from whatever noise that was at 57:50.
Always thought Diego Lopes was Mexican but turns out he just trains there. Him being Brazilian makes so much more sense
“It’s 1973 since the New York Knicks won a title, we’re talking about Walt Clyde Fraser, I am talking about when they actually liked his outfits, we’re talking about Willis Reed.” Stephen A Smith.
sorry fellas, we all know the greatest victory of this week was when our Aussie boys finally got revenge for Gallipoli
I saw the movie. 'Chopper' Read already got revenge for Gallipoli.
A Brazilian kickboxer in red white and blue shorts is warming up in the east wing - Do you see? big beefy soldiers and the marine corps band are crammed into every shot of the action - Do you see? Trump’s face is frozen in a rictus grin while his fingers drum on Melania’s shoulder - Do you see? Ai tributes to America’s military play with voiceovers from Reagan, Clinton, and Obama - DO YOU SEE?
where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
we love our Matty, folks!
Fuck the Knicks. Trash fan base. Trae Young's the GOAT
Show us on the doll where knicks fans hurt you
word to yer pops guys
Hold up, now about the Romans… if we are talking Byzantium, which we should, then my boy Heraclius did defeat the Persians. Unfortunately the caliphate wiped the remains of them both and only the theodisian walls held out before we had caliphal Italy, but a dub is a dub
#FactsMatter
I hate MMA and I hate hearing about it
Ackshually from a leftist perspective it’s the only sport that - [blah blah blah]
No better event than the world cup (don't remind me of the bad stuff)
Felix is wrong on this one. Stick and ball sports are the best
McGregor v HOLLOWAY 2 Conor is going to fight a guy from Lost or something
They just need to set up a big mirror across the middle of the octagon, “forgot” a dangerously large bag of coke in his room, and make sure the cameras are rolling. It’ll be the most in interesting thing UFC does in like 5 years.
Congrats to Iran. It’s easy to say they’re beating up on a weak opponent, a patsy that hasn’t won a war in a century. But you can only play whose on your schedule…Happy the mma thing went by without my even noticing as always the primary concern is making people like me mad.. wasn’t it supposed to be July 4th for the big 250 birthday? Passed and who knew!?! What an event!
Felix, Will, I know you guys feel very passionate about this, but I have to point out the obvious: mood swing or not, these are the Blue Angels. You wanna' do that shit, you gotta' fly your F-18 into the ground. Literally, no pain, no gain.
Jalen went to my high school (much later lol) but glad that now makes me a true native Chicagoan
Rock Chalk! Algeria!
Thank you Felix for recognizing my hometown of Lincolnshire as Chicago 🙏
folks, things are happening
Micheal Chandler was ritually sacrificed for maga.
Man sacrificed his prime trying to get that Connor red panty night
Hope we hear from Matt very soon ❤️
I know iran won by simply not being stupid all the time, but all I'm saying is they coulda also won by sending a swarm of shahed drones to the ufc event and it would've been pretty funny
Where are those Iranian mothership drones that loiter off of the coast near DC when you need them?
Chapo Fight Companion hell yeah bruther
Barack is a man
Elite performance by Michael Chandler last night
America is the mob. He will bring them CTE, and they will love him for it.
https://killshelter.bandcamp.com/track/fight-night-crimson-xiii
Great weekend in general. My garden is starting to produce peppers too.
I just finished a fantastic blackberry harvest and am digging into our yellow squash. Gonna plant some beans and greens next month.
Why are they hitting each other? 🫤
Don't look sweet giant. People can be so cruel
Can someone please report on how much of this episode is devoted to the Knicks? Like do I just skip this episode or is there a timecode to skip to so I don't have to hear the glee?
Cope and seethe
Cage fighting twinks tonight fellas
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 11 seconds
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Thanks for the early release tonight.
I got an early release for you right here pal
Balls
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Amewwica! AMEWWICA!!
Felix back in the saddle of MMA
Hello Andrew
hell yeah brother
Yooooo
Finally no guest.
Syke, I'm a guest of your mom actually