EP119 Doug Kiesewetter schools us on the Taliban & Vicente Luque talks about fighting Kamaru Usman

Menace and The Man Show

This week SOFlete's Doug Kiesewetter & UFC welterweight Vicente Luque join us. We open the show talking about Doug's & Vicente's backgrounds, (02:03) Vicente's weight, background & going back to Brazil after fights, (04:40) Vicente's win over Michael Chiesa, (06:44) calling out Kamaru Usman, (08:40) how they can sell this fight & how it went in the gym vs Kamaru, (10:46) how Vicente felt watching Gilbert Burns vs Usman, (14:38) Doug asks Vicente if trash talk would get to him, (16:20) Menace's take on an opponents trash talk, (17:49) Menace asks Vicente what would happen if a group tried to take over Brazil, (18:49) whats going on in Afghanistan, (20:33) the videos of people jumping onto the planes as they leave Afghanistan, (22:11) Joe Biden's comments about Afghanistan troops not being true, (24:40) why the US is always policing the world, (25:14) the US interests in the poppy fields in the Middle East, (26:28) the President of Afghanistan having criminal ties & the lithium mines in Afghanistan, (28:48) Russian & China expressing interest to work with the Taliban, (30:37) wtf is the Taliban? (32:04) the killing of Massoud, (34:32) the Taliban being similar to Southern Baptists, (36:17) how did the Taliban take over a government?, (39:20) when the US first went into Afghanistan, (42:26) Joe Biden not knowing the Afghan army was never really ready for anything, (44:44) Menace talks about going hard with sparring partners sometimes, (46:07) Vicente sparring with Gilbert Burns & Kamaru Usman, (50:27) wasting trillions of dollars in Afghanistan, (54:51) vets not liking the Taliban takeover after being in war in the Middle East & Tim Kennedy's opinion on the takeover, (56:12) Vietnam vs Afghanistan, (58:06) Doug training troops & the US governments work/aid to Bin Laden and Saddam in the past, (01:01:22) the talks of the government or society collapsing & the great reset, (01:07:27) Kamaru Usman vs Colby Covington, (01:09:21) Gilbert Burns not liking Wonderboy, & more.