No Bets Barred: UFC White House Is Finally Here, What Can We Expect?

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**Jed Meshew** (1:28)
What is up, y'all? We are back with another edition of No Bets Barred. I am your host, Jed Meshew, and it is Fight Week, ladies and gentlemen, but not just any Fight Week.
250 freedoms we celebrate for UFC White House this Sunday. That is right, ladies and gentlemen, not Saturday, Sunday, as the United States of America kicks off its 250th anniversary celebrations a month early. And on Sunday, not a Saturday, for reasons that may be good, you know, mileage may vary to steal a catchphrase from our good friend, Luke Thomas. And speaking of our good friend, Luke, we have a different one of those on this week. Long Island Luke, Luke Noseda, also of Morning Kombat, but also from Main Card Minute, and at this point, probably most known for Prop Quiz Luke. I just saw you yesterday, but thank you for joining me today to talk about gambling on the UFC White House.

**Luke Noseda** (2:30)
Jed, good to be here as always. I think we all know why it's on Sunday though, right? Nothing political. It's just cause it's Flag Day. It's Flag Day. Yeah. It's Flag Day. I mean, it's obvious. I don't know why everyone's all up in arms about it, but yeah, Flag Day. So good to be here though.

**Jed Meshew** (2:42)
Thank you. Hopefully it is on Sunday.
Weather, weather is always a problem. Maybe that will happen. We talked on Morning Kombat that I was on this week about the influence of the elements, the outdoors, maybe that will play a part in some of these fights that we get to discuss. But Luke, straightforward, we only have seven fights to discuss. So I think this actually will end up being a slightly shorter episode than normal while still, you know, covering all of the fights and all of the fights are better than our average fight that we get to cover. So there's that going quick state of the union, since it's a White House card on where things stand for me gambling. I am basically at dead even on the year overall. The climb we are on, I don't even know what iteration of the climb we're at right now, but we are four steps up. We did a mega four leg climb to restart last time out, which was not last weekend. It was the weekend before. So we will be advancing that four legs up on the climb right now.
The net pile I have on that is $102 plus a little bit of change. $102 will be the bet. For those who do not know, because we will be talking climb this week, the climb, if this is your first time here, you don't know the climb is my effort to do 30 consecutive bets tied together. One after the other, we build up, we start with a bankroll of $50.
We hopefully turn it into $11,000 at the end of this journey. Four steps up, we'll go on the mountain. Luke, before we dive into the fights, anything specific you want to say about UFC White House? How are you feeling? What's your level of enthusiasm? You know, we're recording on Wednesday. We usually go on Tuesday, but this actually fits because the fights won't be till Sunday. So even being a day late, we're kind of on schedule, you know?

**Luke Noseda** (4:32)
Yeah, I'm pretty excited, dude. I mean, obviously you just mentioned these seven fights arguably better than any like, you know, normal card we're doing, seven fights. Normally we got like three good fights at the top and then a bunch of crap after it usually.