June 15, 2026
Trump Gets His UFC Birthday Circus, Complete With Insults And Allegations
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RSS Feed It was quite the spectacle on the South Lawn of the White House for the President’s 80th birthday. While the UFC event was spared the predicted extreme weather, the White House wasn’t too happy with the meteorologists who warned about possible lightening and downpours. But there were fireworks of another kind last night, including a vile comment made about former First Lady Michelle Obama, and an alleged texting hoax involving Eric Trump, who denies cheating allegations.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, June fifteenth, and oh what a night on the White House lawn. Stuff like we have never seen before. People being beaten and bloodied and it wasn't even politics. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. What a sight upon initial viewing, once it was underway and you saw people in the crowds at a UFC fight on the White House lawn. What did you think once you saw it. We've been talking about it for so long.
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Speaker 2: It looked like a redneck circus. I mean, it was just weird and bizarre to see it on the White House lawn. Look, I was seeing shots of like fighters. It looked like they were flipping and the White House is behind them, and it just was bizarre. And look, some people might have said that was the coolest thing ever. Yes, that was the sickest, dopest thing I've ever seen. I just thought, Look, I was just like, God, that's America. It just I don't know, it just didn't feel right. But that's just me. That's just my personal opinion. I'm I'm sure I am not in the majority. What was your impression?
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Speaker 1: I have to say I felt differently Once I saw it, you thought it was cool.
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Speaker 3: There was something.
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Speaker 1: About I got a bunch of problems with it. But the idea of making the People's House accessible to something that the people love, the idea of that is kind of cool. I think that is really a good idea. The problem robes is that the event didn't feel inclusive. It didn't feel inclusive of America. That is the problem. If you wanted to stage a championship tennis match out there between two great.
00:01:46
Speaker 3: Players, we were good.
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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds cool, looks like everybody could be involved in it. This just seemed like a specific thing for a specific audience, and the rest of us were not invited to what was a pretty big and cool and expensive ones in a lifetime thing at the White House. That would have been cool if it felt like it was a party for genuinely the country.
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Speaker 3: But it felt like a party for part of the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it really felt like a party for President Trump. And so it was his eightieth birthday, and that does make a lot of sense. He was the birthday boy, and that's what he wanted for his birthday. And he's president of the United States, and so yes, it happened. The way he wanted it to, and thankfully mother Nature held out there weren't these horrific thunderstorms that they were expecting and anticipating. And in fact, the White House seemed pretty upset at the Weather Channel for even suggesting that dangerous lightning storms were coming towards the south lawn.
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Speaker 4: They were pissed.
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Speaker 3: The Weather Channel rose, that is a very good point.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to pull up that rapid response forty seven tweet. But they absolutely went after meteorologists for predicting the weather.
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Speaker 2: For warning people like, actually, let me just again, I think I said this in the other episode.
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Speaker 4: My family was struck by lightning. My uncle died.
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Speaker 2: This is dangerous, and that is the number one job of meteorologists is to warn people, to warn event planners that severe weather is possible for their safety.
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Speaker 4: And so that is what the Weather Channel was doing.
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Speaker 2: And look, I know sometimes there's some fear mongering when hurricanes are coming or torn maaters are coming, but guess what they're doing it to get people aware of what possibly could happen and to have a plan be in place to be careful.
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Speaker 3: Oh what rods the idea that weather is now political?
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Speaker 1: Yep, if you say anything against us, we're going to just accuse you of being a left wing nut.
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Speaker 3: It's the Weather Channel. They took them to task here.
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Speaker 2: It is the fake weather. Is that the I don't know what they're gonna say about this, but you know.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here you go. The Weather Channel put this out.
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Speaker 1: UFC Freedom two fifty is facing a chaotic weather set up on the White House South lawn with a sixty percent chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, wind gus up to thirty four miles per hour, threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal DC humidity is driving triple digit heat. Okay, And they have a graphic up there robe. They have a little image that says rain, thirty mile hour winds and mosquitoes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I kept hearing about that. I saw so many headlines and I thought, is this for real? Look, I lived in DC for four years. It is humid, it is swampy, and there are mosquitoes. But they were acting like it was plague. Like the mosquitoes and the what were they calling them black flies and all the different insects that were going to be descending upon the folks who were there at the mall and in the cage. It was.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't bizarre.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't just the Weather channel.
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Speaker 2: I was seeing this everywhere. People were warning about the swarms of bugs.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it had up here the official UFC freedom to fifty four cas. It sound like they were trying to do a service here the Weather channel. So rapid response forty seven, which is the White House, Yes, rapid response arm on social media on x H retweeted that and put this as a response quote. This event is about celebrating America's unmatched greatness after two hundred and fifty years, which apparently doesn't sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit click bait headline rain or shine, We're celebrating our great country no matter what, God bless America.
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Speaker 3: Woooo.
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Speaker 2: They called meteorologist losers because they were predicting rain, and what are you schoos to say? I don't know, but that just you showed that to me yesterday. And you know what at this point, look, they're little snarky folks there that they have running their social media campaigns.
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Speaker 3: It's you're a loser if you predict the weather that we don't.
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Speaker 2: Like, I just think everyone should listen to that and make their own opinions.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well the party goes on the president. What do you think about his walkout? He came out with Daniel White. I can't remember what music was playing, but he had a long walkout from the Oval Office with the UFC President looking as very tough, very very masculine walk in.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was dramatic and fitting for the president on his eightieth birthday.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but looks like the whole family. This was a family affair, the whole fan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to see the newlyweds, Don Junior and Betina they were there, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and Lera, all the grandkids were there. Yeah, he had his whole family around him. His entire cabinet was there as well. I saw Zach Brownban did the national anthem. Kid Rock was there signing autographs. Shane Gillis was there as well. I didn't see even know no flow.
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Speaker 3: Rider Commodore is nowhere in the nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nope, you got Pete Hegseth though.
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Speaker 1: You know what, is it fair to say this wasn't a big, big name celebrity crowd.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't known because all the celebrities as we've seen, who were even who had agreed to be connected at all to the celebrations dropped out. So there's a groundswell of unsupports.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I have to say I did like, I thought it was cool, it was fascinating and it also seemed inappropriate. But the fighters when they do their walkouts, you've seen this. You watch any fight in your life, boxing or UFC. Traditionally there are walkouts where they introduce them, they have music playing, and they come out and do whatever. However they walk however many people they want to walk out with whatever. All the walkouts happened from different rooms of the White House. These fighters were coming out to fight and walking out of the Oval office out on the balcony of these historic places and rooms. It was bizarre but awesome at the same time. It reminds me of like the Roman Gladiators. I don't know, it just there had some kind of feel to that where they're coming out of instead of the Colisseum the White House, it just felt it felt wrong. I understand that that may have looked cool and certainly it's unprecedented, but it just didn't sit well with me.
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Speaker 3: It was odd.
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Speaker 1: I mean like the great the most historic places and sacred rooms in the most sacred building. Dude, dude just runs out sweat it up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just wondering, like, ah, if any residue was left behind, Yes.
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Speaker 1: It has to be the answer. But you when you said the Gladiator thing, that was the line from Gladiator when they're about to fight and Caesar's up in the thing, they turn and say, we who are about to die, salute you. It did have a feeling that we are here to put our lives on the risk for your entertainment. And yes, that's what they do in the UFC, I guess anyway, and get paid for it.
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Speaker 3: There was that.
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Speaker 2: At least we didn't have President Trump at the end give a thumbs up or a thumbs down whether or not, you know, the loser could live or die.
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Speaker 4: I think he would have been okay with that too.
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Speaker 3: Did you like the moment the crowd spontaneous? Right?
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Speaker 1: I guess it was. But they broke out in song after the third or fourth fight. I think it was saying happy birthday.
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Speaker 2: To this The crowd that was there was there to you know, for a lot of reasons. But certainly that doesn't surprise me. And yeah, it was his eightieth birthday. That's a big deal.
00:09:26
Speaker 1: Okay, you said eighty. There do we need to mention that? Here we go again, right, anytime he's in public sitting for a while, it looks like somebody gets a shot of him and somebody says the man is sleeping.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's eighty and he's up past midnight and he's got to fly to Switzerland to go face people he just has publicly eviscerated. I would be a little exhausted myself. So yeah, he fell asleep. There's no question you should.
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Speaker 3: It's not a great shot. I haven't seen his song eighty know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that, but I'm saying the shot does it?
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Speaker 3: Is it confirmed that he's asleep?
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Speaker 2: Never? He No, he takes long blinks. You don't remember, that's what the White House says. He's blinking, idiot. Okay, he loves his slow blinks.
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Speaker 1: The other part of last night that is a bit problematic. And I said, Robes didn't feel like it was for everybody. You had to be a Paramount Plus member to see the fight because they have a contract with UFC. Paramount Plus Dave Ellison was there.
00:10:21
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say Ellison was there. Zuckerberg was there as well last night work And this is.
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Speaker 1: Why people have a problem robes he has and he has a stake in UFC. UFC is getting paid by Paramount. Paramount is now gotten approval from the administration to have all just happened merger, and now you have polymarket and all these things advertising at the White House and getting money for an event at the people's house that the people can't see without having to pay for it. So that's that's fair. That is a fair criticism.
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Speaker 2: About the event without a doubt, and it's it actually smacks of potentially being illegal. I mean, how can you use taxpayer money to privately profit. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: Well, they sure did happen last night. But something else happened last night. It certainly got going online, a accusation that one member of the Trump family was looking for insider information about possibly rigged fights and was trying to put money on it. This thing caught wildfire online. And yes, it was one of the president's sons who ended up having to respond to this.
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Speaker 3: Stay here and.
00:11:49
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We're talking about the big ol UFC cage fighting that took place on the South Lawn went past midnight last night on the President's eightieth birthday, And while fun was apparently had by those who attended, there was also a couple controversial moments, one of them involving the president's own son, Eric Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was involving a.
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Speaker 1: Tweet that was posted to the account of Daniel Cormier. Now, anybody who watches UFC might be familiar with him, but he's essentially a UFC longtime fighter now doing a lot of commentary. But his official account put up robes a screen grab of a text conversation that he claims was between him and Eric Trump. Yes, and this back and forth robes would be pretty sketchy if.
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Speaker 3: It was true.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and it's just sketchy by the fact that we don't know whether or not it's true.
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Speaker 2: So the screen grab showed a text purportedly from Eric Trump to Daniel Cormier saying, are any of the fighters injured? And then are any of the fights tomorrow rigged?
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Speaker 1: So he's asking and there's some dollar signs involved in Daniel Cormier at least in the back and forth in the text of saying, I'm a poll that you would ask and no, this is that d D DA Okay, but he adds this in addition to that screen grab quote, I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for bringing this to light. However, I refuse to stay silent. The UFC is a sport that I'm deeply passionate about. I will not tolerate this type of insider behavior behavior. Shame on anyone trying to ruin this beautiful event. Obviously that went everywhere.
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Speaker 2: It went everywhere. And then not shockingly, Eric Trump said, this is a fake. This is someone must have Basically, the suggestion is that someone hacked Daniel Cormier's account and use AI to create a false text exchange. So Cormier did delete the screen grab and the the post, and then Eric Trump used that as c I told you this was fake. And then Cormier later put up something that said are people really this dumb, implying that yes, of course it had to have been a hack and a fake, because he would never put this up. And so Eric Trump then put up, we are away of the fake, aware of the fake AI generated screenshots being circulated online. I have never spoken to Daniel. He has since deleted his post, which confirms it was clearly fabricated.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't think that much of it until the explanation. I didn't think he had to go that far. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, this isn't true and move on. There was a lot of explaining in there, as you can tell by this, that this was this, and it was fake, and it was AI and all these things. So one somebody had to hack the thing his account, and two somebody had to go through the effort of making the whole AI, which is possible and also rotes. It seems kind of crazy. Who would be stupid enough to text yeah in writing hey, in the fights rigged and I'm thinking about betting on them.
00:15:05
Speaker 4: That does seem strange.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't make sense.
00:15:07
Speaker 4: Why would you put that in text?
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Speaker 2: I don't think Eric Trump is that stupid, to be honest, I mean, you'd have you'd put a phone call in you you wouldn't leave a actual digital trace of you insider trading in your own father's UFC fights.
00:15:22
Speaker 1: And also how much money was he trying to make? Right because from all accounts that the Trump folks are doing great.
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Speaker 2: They're doing really well in the second term, like one really really well. And then there was the other controversial moment by heavyweight champ Josh Hokit. I don't know who any of these people are. I'm just going to be totally honest right now. But he's up there doing a post fight interview with Joe Rogan and just goes and makes the most disgusting comment. He's talking about former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Speaker 1: But he wasn't talking about her at all. I think, yeah, why about something totally different? And in the the interview and decides to add this, Yeah, that's a good point.
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Speaker 2: And there were not There was zero discussions about anything related to Michelle Obama or the Obama's and he just throws out there at the end of his interview and lastly, Michelle Obama is a man.
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Speaker 4: Am I right America?
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Speaker 2: And then the crowd, some of the crowd booed, some of the crowd cheered. There was a shot of President Trump Trump with a half smile on his face after those comments. And look, the Obamas haven't commented, and I hope they don't. I don't know, would you want to hear from Barack Obama after that, even giving any sort of wind or any sort of motivation or yeah, because maybe you want to hear him stand up for his wife.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, I don't fault him for not so. Oh no, but I don't mind. And I'm sure he's annoyed. I'm sure he's pissed, but I'm sure he's used to it. But he the guy has been given license from the President himself, Yeah, to say these types of things in public.
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Speaker 3: For everybody here, it was just why, who's just that mean? Right?
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Speaker 4: Like, what's the point?
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Speaker 3: What's the point of that?
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Speaker 1: Just a personal insult of a gorgeous woman that we saw in public every day for eight years.
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Speaker 4: It's tough. It's tough.
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Speaker 2: And that's why this type of display on the South lawn there in the White House, when you have a certain a certain group of people who really you, as you mentioned this, this was put on for a certain group of people.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't for all the people.
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Speaker 2: And then you have a comment like that, and it just reinforces that notion that not everybody is welcome.
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Speaker 1: Not even women. It seems right, So this is a white man event, and that's okay, that's the majority of the audience, and Trump did well with that group. That's perfectly fine. But it's those things. How How are you gonna get mad at anybody for saying, I don't want to be a part of your thing, mister president. You call me unpatriotic, but I want you want me to come to a well, you say this, this historic black woman, and you'll say, where that's allowed. He should be sanctioned. Yes, the guy should be fine, he should be agreed. And you know, somebody should have stood up on the mic, and Joe Rogan could have done so. And please tell me if I missed it. But I don't think Oh I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so at all, or absolutely not to.
00:18:21
Speaker 1: Just say, hey, everybody, I know you just heard that. But that's not what this event is about. It's not what we all stand exactly.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, the fact that this fighter who I again have no idea who he is, Josh hoke it, the fact that he felt comfortable and safe saying something so disgusting to me speaks volumes about the event itself.
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Speaker 1: Rope say, if he would have said that on local stage in Cleveland, it would have been inappropriate. I would have been shocked if he said it at a little bar in Louisiana, Brod. He was comfortable saying it on the lawn of the White House, exactly in front of the cabin.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've given them license to say whatever they want to say. Thanks of it.
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Speaker 4: But it was a wonderful event America, UFC Freedom.
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Speaker 2: Happy two hundred and fiftieth America all right, And with that everyone, we appreciate you listening to us.
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Speaker 4: I made me Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes.
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Speaker 4: We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, June fifteenth, and oh what a night on the White House lawn. Stuff like we have never seen before. People being beaten and bloodied and it wasn't even politics. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. What a sight upon initial viewing, once it was underway and you saw people in the crowds at a UFC fight on the White House lawn. What did you think once you saw it. We've been talking about it for so long.
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Speaker 2: It looked like a redneck circus. I mean, it was just weird and bizarre to see it on the White House lawn. Look, I was seeing shots of like fighters. It looked like they were flipping and the White House is behind them, and it just was bizarre. And look, some people might have said that was the coolest thing ever. Yes, that was the sickest, dopest thing I've ever seen. I just thought, Look, I was just like, God, that's America. It just I don't know, it just didn't feel right. But that's just me. That's just my personal opinion. I'm I'm sure I am not in the majority. What was your impression?
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Speaker 1: I have to say I felt differently Once I saw it, you thought it was cool.
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Speaker 3: There was something.
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Speaker 1: About I got a bunch of problems with it. But the idea of making the People's House accessible to something that the people love, the idea of that is kind of cool. I think that is really a good idea. The problem robes is that the event didn't feel inclusive. It didn't feel inclusive of America. That is the problem. If you wanted to stage a championship tennis match out there between two great.
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Speaker 3: Players, we were good.
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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds cool, looks like everybody could be involved in it. This just seemed like a specific thing for a specific audience, and the rest of us were not invited to what was a pretty big and cool and expensive ones in a lifetime thing at the White House. That would have been cool if it felt like it was a party for genuinely the country.
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Speaker 3: But it felt like a party for part of the country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it really felt like a party for President Trump. And so it was his eightieth birthday, and that does make a lot of sense. He was the birthday boy, and that's what he wanted for his birthday. And he's president of the United States, and so yes, it happened. The way he wanted it to, and thankfully mother Nature held out there weren't these horrific thunderstorms that they were expecting and anticipating. And in fact, the White House seemed pretty upset at the Weather Channel for even suggesting that dangerous lightning storms were coming towards the south lawn.
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Speaker 4: They were pissed.
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Speaker 3: The Weather Channel rose, that is a very good point.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to pull up that rapid response forty seven tweet. But they absolutely went after meteorologists for predicting the weather.
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Speaker 2: For warning people like, actually, let me just again, I think I said this in the other episode.
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Speaker 4: My family was struck by lightning. My uncle died.
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Speaker 2: This is dangerous, and that is the number one job of meteorologists is to warn people, to warn event planners that severe weather is possible for their safety.
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Speaker 4: And so that is what the Weather Channel was doing.
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Speaker 2: And look, I know sometimes there's some fear mongering when hurricanes are coming or torn maaters are coming, but guess what they're doing it to get people aware of what possibly could happen and to have a plan be in place to be careful.
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Speaker 3: Oh what rods the idea that weather is now political?
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Speaker 1: Yep, if you say anything against us, we're going to just accuse you of being a left wing nut.
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Speaker 3: It's the Weather Channel. They took them to task here.
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Speaker 2: It is the fake weather. Is that the I don't know what they're gonna say about this, but you know.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here you go. The Weather Channel put this out.
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Speaker 1: UFC Freedom two fifty is facing a chaotic weather set up on the White House South lawn with a sixty percent chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, wind gus up to thirty four miles per hour, threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal DC humidity is driving triple digit heat. Okay, And they have a graphic up there robe. They have a little image that says rain, thirty mile hour winds and mosquitoes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I kept hearing about that. I saw so many headlines and I thought, is this for real? Look, I lived in DC for four years. It is humid, it is swampy, and there are mosquitoes. But they were acting like it was plague. Like the mosquitoes and the what were they calling them black flies and all the different insects that were going to be descending upon the folks who were there at the mall and in the cage. It was.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't bizarre.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't just the Weather channel.
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Speaker 2: I was seeing this everywhere. People were warning about the swarms of bugs.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it had up here the official UFC freedom to fifty four cas. It sound like they were trying to do a service here the Weather channel. So rapid response forty seven, which is the White House, Yes, rapid response arm on social media on x H retweeted that and put this as a response quote. This event is about celebrating America's unmatched greatness after two hundred and fifty years, which apparently doesn't sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit click bait headline rain or shine, We're celebrating our great country no matter what, God bless America.
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Speaker 3: Woooo.
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Speaker 2: They called meteorologist losers because they were predicting rain, and what are you schoos to say? I don't know, but that just you showed that to me yesterday. And you know what at this point, look, they're little snarky folks there that they have running their social media campaigns.
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Speaker 3: It's you're a loser if you predict the weather that we don't.
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Speaker 2: Like, I just think everyone should listen to that and make their own opinions.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well the party goes on the president. What do you think about his walkout? He came out with Daniel White. I can't remember what music was playing, but he had a long walkout from the Oval Office with the UFC President looking as very tough, very very masculine walk in.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was dramatic and fitting for the president on his eightieth birthday.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but looks like the whole family. This was a family affair, the whole fan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to see the newlyweds, Don Junior and Betina they were there, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and Lera, all the grandkids were there. Yeah, he had his whole family around him. His entire cabinet was there as well. I saw Zach Brownban did the national anthem. Kid Rock was there signing autographs. Shane Gillis was there as well. I didn't see even know no flow.
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Speaker 3: Rider Commodore is nowhere in the nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nope, you got Pete Hegseth though.
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Speaker 1: You know what, is it fair to say this wasn't a big, big name celebrity crowd.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't known because all the celebrities as we've seen, who were even who had agreed to be connected at all to the celebrations dropped out. So there's a groundswell of unsupports.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I have to say I did like, I thought it was cool, it was fascinating and it also seemed inappropriate. But the fighters when they do their walkouts, you've seen this. You watch any fight in your life, boxing or UFC. Traditionally there are walkouts where they introduce them, they have music playing, and they come out and do whatever. However they walk however many people they want to walk out with whatever. All the walkouts happened from different rooms of the White House. These fighters were coming out to fight and walking out of the Oval office out on the balcony of these historic places and rooms. It was bizarre but awesome at the same time. It reminds me of like the Roman Gladiators. I don't know, it just there had some kind of feel to that where they're coming out of instead of the Colisseum the White House, it just felt it felt wrong. I understand that that may have looked cool and certainly it's unprecedented, but it just didn't sit well with me.
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Speaker 3: It was odd.
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Speaker 1: I mean like the great the most historic places and sacred rooms in the most sacred building. Dude, dude just runs out sweat it up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just wondering, like, ah, if any residue was left behind, Yes.
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Speaker 1: It has to be the answer. But you when you said the Gladiator thing, that was the line from Gladiator when they're about to fight and Caesar's up in the thing, they turn and say, we who are about to die, salute you. It did have a feeling that we are here to put our lives on the risk for your entertainment. And yes, that's what they do in the UFC, I guess anyway, and get paid for it.
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Speaker 3: There was that.
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Speaker 2: At least we didn't have President Trump at the end give a thumbs up or a thumbs down whether or not, you know, the loser could live or die.
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Speaker 4: I think he would have been okay with that too.
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Speaker 3: Did you like the moment the crowd spontaneous? Right?
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Speaker 1: I guess it was. But they broke out in song after the third or fourth fight. I think it was saying happy birthday.
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Speaker 2: To this The crowd that was there was there to you know, for a lot of reasons. But certainly that doesn't surprise me. And yeah, it was his eightieth birthday. That's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you said eighty. There do we need to mention that? Here we go again, right, anytime he's in public sitting for a while, it looks like somebody gets a shot of him and somebody says the man is sleeping.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's eighty and he's up past midnight and he's got to fly to Switzerland to go face people he just has publicly eviscerated. I would be a little exhausted myself. So yeah, he fell asleep. There's no question you should.
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Speaker 3: It's not a great shot. I haven't seen his song eighty know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that, but I'm saying the shot does it?
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Speaker 3: Is it confirmed that he's asleep?
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Speaker 2: Never? He No, he takes long blinks. You don't remember, that's what the White House says. He's blinking, idiot. Okay, he loves his slow blinks.
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Speaker 1: The other part of last night that is a bit problematic. And I said, Robes didn't feel like it was for everybody. You had to be a Paramount Plus member to see the fight because they have a contract with UFC. Paramount Plus Dave Ellison was there.
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Speaker 4: I was just gonna say Ellison was there. Zuckerberg was there as well last night work And this is.
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Speaker 1: Why people have a problem robes he has and he has a stake in UFC. UFC is getting paid by Paramount. Paramount is now gotten approval from the administration to have all just happened merger, and now you have polymarket and all these things advertising at the White House and getting money for an event at the people's house that the people can't see without having to pay for it. So that's that's fair. That is a fair criticism.
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Speaker 2: About the event without a doubt, and it's it actually smacks of potentially being illegal. I mean, how can you use taxpayer money to privately profit. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: Well, they sure did happen last night. But something else happened last night. It certainly got going online, a accusation that one member of the Trump family was looking for insider information about possibly rigged fights and was trying to put money on it. This thing caught wildfire online. And yes, it was one of the president's sons who ended up having to respond to this.
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Speaker 3: Stay here and.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We're talking about the big ol UFC cage fighting that took place on the South Lawn went past midnight last night on the President's eightieth birthday, And while fun was apparently had by those who attended, there was also a couple controversial moments, one of them involving the president's own son, Eric Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was involving a.
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Speaker 1: Tweet that was posted to the account of Daniel Cormier. Now, anybody who watches UFC might be familiar with him, but he's essentially a UFC longtime fighter now doing a lot of commentary. But his official account put up robes a screen grab of a text conversation that he claims was between him and Eric Trump. Yes, and this back and forth robes would be pretty sketchy if.
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Speaker 3: It was true.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and it's just sketchy by the fact that we don't know whether or not it's true.
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Speaker 2: So the screen grab showed a text purportedly from Eric Trump to Daniel Cormier saying, are any of the fighters injured? And then are any of the fights tomorrow rigged?
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Speaker 1: So he's asking and there's some dollar signs involved in Daniel Cormier at least in the back and forth in the text of saying, I'm a poll that you would ask and no, this is that d D DA Okay, but he adds this in addition to that screen grab quote, I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for bringing this to light. However, I refuse to stay silent. The UFC is a sport that I'm deeply passionate about. I will not tolerate this type of insider behavior behavior. Shame on anyone trying to ruin this beautiful event. Obviously that went everywhere.
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Speaker 2: It went everywhere. And then not shockingly, Eric Trump said, this is a fake. This is someone must have Basically, the suggestion is that someone hacked Daniel Cormier's account and use AI to create a false text exchange. So Cormier did delete the screen grab and the the post, and then Eric Trump used that as c I told you this was fake. And then Cormier later put up something that said are people really this dumb, implying that yes, of course it had to have been a hack and a fake, because he would never put this up. And so Eric Trump then put up, we are away of the fake, aware of the fake AI generated screenshots being circulated online. I have never spoken to Daniel. He has since deleted his post, which confirms it was clearly fabricated.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't think that much of it until the explanation. I didn't think he had to go that far. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, this isn't true and move on. There was a lot of explaining in there, as you can tell by this, that this was this, and it was fake, and it was AI and all these things. So one somebody had to hack the thing his account, and two somebody had to go through the effort of making the whole AI, which is possible and also rotes. It seems kind of crazy. Who would be stupid enough to text yeah in writing hey, in the fights rigged and I'm thinking about betting on them.
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Speaker 4: That does seem strange.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 4: Why would you put that in text?
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Speaker 2: I don't think Eric Trump is that stupid, to be honest, I mean, you'd have you'd put a phone call in you you wouldn't leave a actual digital trace of you insider trading in your own father's UFC fights.
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Speaker 1: And also how much money was he trying to make? Right because from all accounts that the Trump folks are doing great.
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Speaker 2: They're doing really well in the second term, like one really really well. And then there was the other controversial moment by heavyweight champ Josh Hokit. I don't know who any of these people are. I'm just going to be totally honest right now. But he's up there doing a post fight interview with Joe Rogan and just goes and makes the most disgusting comment. He's talking about former First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Speaker 1: But he wasn't talking about her at all. I think, yeah, why about something totally different? And in the the interview and decides to add this, Yeah, that's a good point.
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Speaker 2: And there were not There was zero discussions about anything related to Michelle Obama or the Obama's and he just throws out there at the end of his interview and lastly, Michelle Obama is a man.
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Speaker 4: Am I right America?
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Speaker 2: And then the crowd, some of the crowd booed, some of the crowd cheered. There was a shot of President Trump Trump with a half smile on his face after those comments. And look, the Obamas haven't commented, and I hope they don't. I don't know, would you want to hear from Barack Obama after that, even giving any sort of wind or any sort of motivation or yeah, because maybe you want to hear him stand up for his wife.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, I don't fault him for not so. Oh no, but I don't mind. And I'm sure he's annoyed. I'm sure he's pissed, but I'm sure he's used to it. But he the guy has been given license from the President himself, Yeah, to say these types of things in public.
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Speaker 3: For everybody here, it was just why, who's just that mean? Right?
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Speaker 4: Like, what's the point?
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Speaker 3: What's the point of that?
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Speaker 1: Just a personal insult of a gorgeous woman that we saw in public every day for eight years.
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Speaker 4: It's tough. It's tough.
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Speaker 2: And that's why this type of display on the South lawn there in the White House, when you have a certain a certain group of people who really you, as you mentioned this, this was put on for a certain group of people.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't for all the people.
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Speaker 2: And then you have a comment like that, and it just reinforces that notion that not everybody is welcome.
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Speaker 1: Not even women. It seems right, So this is a white man event, and that's okay, that's the majority of the audience, and Trump did well with that group. That's perfectly fine. But it's those things. How How are you gonna get mad at anybody for saying, I don't want to be a part of your thing, mister president. You call me unpatriotic, but I want you want me to come to a well, you say this, this historic black woman, and you'll say, where that's allowed. He should be sanctioned. Yes, the guy should be fine, he should be agreed. And you know, somebody should have stood up on the mic, and Joe Rogan could have done so. And please tell me if I missed it. But I don't think Oh I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so at all, or absolutely not to.
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Speaker 1: Just say, hey, everybody, I know you just heard that. But that's not what this event is about. It's not what we all stand exactly.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, the fact that this fighter who I again have no idea who he is, Josh hoke it, the fact that he felt comfortable and safe saying something so disgusting to me speaks volumes about the event itself.
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Speaker 1: Rope say, if he would have said that on local stage in Cleveland, it would have been inappropriate. I would have been shocked if he said it at a little bar in Louisiana, Brod. He was comfortable saying it on the lawn of the White House, exactly in front of the cabin.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've given them license to say whatever they want to say. Thanks of it.
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Speaker 4: But it was a wonderful event America, UFC Freedom.
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Speaker 2: Happy two hundred and fiftieth America all right, And with that everyone, we appreciate you listening to us.
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Speaker 4: I made me Robock alongside TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes.
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Speaker 4: We will talk to you soon.