we're on pace and we've already beaten mcgregor's record for his first live gate at the ufc.e was about 15 fights into his career. so in my fourth fight, i'm already selling more of a live gate than mcgregor did with the ufc promotion mind you, i'm doing this by myself, no ufc branding, no dana white behind me, so it's pretty amazing stuff i'm excited about and then the pre-buy for this event are on pace with floyd mayweather and my brother 's event in june, so that means we're looking at 1 point something million pay-per-view buys. liz: well your people have really limited us in time which annoys me, but i want you more because i want to hear about your business angle here. you have a lot of sponsor, i'm sure you're in great demand. your brother logan has been on the show he's tried his hand at boxing as well, but you know, he hasn't had as much success as you have when it comes to boxing. i mean, how good are you? could you beat ali in his prime, because could you even go one round with ali? >> i mean, ali is a legend. we're both born on the same birthday, and he's one of m

for the ufc fighters, that is never going to happen.na says it, he means it, trust me. let me be clear, my message hasy always been consistent. i'm not telling you what to dodo because i'm not a doctor. take the virus seriously. it can kill you. research extensively. take into account the medical history and current medical condition. talk to yournd doctor, doctors, medical professionals you trust. and then with information, you make the decision that is best for you based on your unique medical history and condition. this is the united states of america, supposedly the land of the free and the home of the break coming up the land of joe biden government mandates and everything and taking away everyone's freedom, oh, and one-size-fits-all medicine from people that have zero medical experience. our great system relies on a free people making their own decisions, giving up that freedom will not save us. in fact, it will make everything hola worse for years and years to come. the same geniuses that destroyed our school system can't keep th

here was stopped in his tracks when he tried to make a victim out ufc fighter. yeah. >> well, surveillance captured the confrontation reporter deborah takahara spoke to the fighter about how it all went down. >> that's right. every day it's my lifestyle. you know, being a state department job after nearly 12 years. training in mixed martial arts, ufc fighter, jordan, williams knows how to defend himself and his car so i ran up and the guy he's back in the way he's looking at me like. this afternoon. that's a car. but i william says he ran into this convenience store on his way to work on wednesday. he left his car running mistakenly believing if you have the key fob, the car could not be driven. that's when he saw thief trying to drive off in his car. actually you can drive a. >> without the key 5 but only few was able to go because the with the parking brake. so i was really like seconds away from losing my car. >> and know i know williams ran up to the car open the door and thought to himself, there was no way this guy was going to get away with his car punche

. >> ufc, i love it.to talk about it, but i really do worry in the way we're moving as a culture and as a society that it's just -- you know, we were worried about concussions in football and conc concussions in boxing. i watch ufc, and the blood and -- as woke as you are, do you ever question whether the business model for ufc did you see -- i know you saw it, because you were in the front row. you saw connor mcgregor, that was almost a compound fact fracture that would have probably boosted ratings. >> all sports have injuries. we've had injuries in our sport, football, basketball all sports have injuries it's actually a sport that's been around for 26 years, and there has never been a series injury like in other sports. so we are comfortable in the sport. and we're constantly -- we have performances, we're constantly trying to improve the sport as it relates to safety and we will continue to do that. >> well, i mean, very little can get me to stay up till midnight anymore. >> maybe we'll get you to veg

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move and then uber agent endeavor also punching his way to a decisive win the entertainment giant and ufclifting revenue guidance on the return of live events and overall growing demand for content. shares of endeavor jumping 8% to $24.98. and i guess the ufc fighters since it's so popular probably in need of pain management after all of these fights. one non-opoid pain relief drugmaker is making a major, look at this on the screen, as ever den or s into a whole new race, the fda clearing verpa x to pursue a new drug application for its virus fighting nasal spray, the space which has shown promise in animal studies working by creating a barrier against virus es, including coronavirus and the flu, shares up 207% right now. reports are flourishing that any day now the biden administration is planning to recommend booster shots of pfizer and moderna's covid-19 vaccines to most americans, eight months after they got their second dose. the reason for the boosters is that the delta variant, of course, which threatens to derail the u.s. economic recovery, is very much on the doorstep. we already

ufc, you've got anything that looks abnormal in your system? >> [inaudible] how about, dewey calm. anything with the information? >> [inaudible] let's start down scanning. >> here is a bulletin from abc news. in the apollo 13th spacecraft has had a serious power supply malfunction that could cause the lunar landing mission to be terminated early. >> [inaudible] flight, so again. have you called in your backup [inaudible] right now. get more break our. >> at the monthly astronauts are continuing to try to isolate their trouble. reports that state -- all unnecessary equipment is being turned off. >> okay now, let everybody keep cool we've. got lens still attract, lem spacecraft still there. so if we need to get back on, we've got a lem to do a good portion of it with. okay, let's make sure that we don't do anything that's going to blow our csa electrical power with the batteries or that would cause us to lose the main or the fuel cell number two. >> okay, we want to keep that oh two and that kind of stuff working. we'd like to have our fierce [inaudible] meant want your system. so we

and organic valley they both wrote, "get ready for a night of pain. [ laughter ] ufc posted a picturealley posted a picture of someone doing the milk crate challenge. >> steve: oh [ applause ] >> jimmy: this next one is from marvel and dc. >> steve: really >> jimmy: they both wrote, "someone's in trouble for this." marvel posted a picture of the leaked "spiderman" trailer dc posted a picture of a batman popsicle from some janky ice cream store. [ applause ] "yeah sure, whatever kid it's batman. >> steve: "hey, it's batman, man. >> jimmy: here's one from kamala harris and mexico >> steve: ooh. >> jimmy: they both wrote, "the cdc is closely monitoring the situation. kamala posted a picture of masks. mexico posted a picture of "bachelor in paradise. [ laughter and applause here's the last one here is from joe biden and cvs they both wrote, "if you're a teacher, you should get one. biden posted a picture of the vaccine. cvs posted a picture of a case of white claw. [ cheers and applause that's all the time we have for "picture this. stick around we'll be right back with a a brand new "bot

i believe he is a ufc champion. he is a qanon influencer. and while his position, which i think he has since resigned on the council, the city council of huntington beach, california, may not seem all that impressive, these are the kinds of positions that people on the far right, more normalized far-right movements, this is how they find their way into republican politics, is by eliminating local seats. we've been watching allie alexander, one of the organizers of the so-called stop the steal movement which is the movement that was kind of an astroturf movement but with a lot of followers now. it alleges that the 2020 election the stolen from donald trump. and they had a lot to do with all the momentum for the insurrection. and then there is a post on pastor greg locke who is always kind of making very threatening remarks. now he has forbidden anybody from coming into his church wearing a mask. that gives you sort of a sampling of what we are up to and who we are looking at. host: what is the line between exposing extreme rhetoric and giving

>> recently on lectures in history, emory university professor felix harcourt taught a class on how ufcspiracy theories have shaped american culture. here's a portion of that class. >> alien invasion films in the 1950s. of course the classic "invasion of the body snatchers", but also "invasion of the sourceror man qug invasion from mars", "killers from spais "earth versus the flying saucers" and more. there is a couple of interesting elements to be brought out from these films, not the least of which is a lot of them deal with aliens either taking control of humans' minds or of replacing them entirely with look alikes. and given that niece are coming out mid to late-'50s, what other fears have we been talking about that that kind of coincides with? >> melissa. >> communist infill administration into u.s. government. >> communist infiltration. >> brainwashing of perform o. withs. >> brainwashing. good. this is very much playing on two simultaneous fears bubbling up in the 1950s. not just that the communists are infiltrating, but that the communists are infill trading through these kind o

ufc dnr raising their offer -- you have cdnr raising their offer.the regulator will have to step in, the takeover panel will step in, will we see a forced option? -- forced auction. deirdre: it is possible. we saw that recently with the drugmaker and the takeover panel requested an option with phillip morris and carlisle. at the moment there is no indication that is the way it is going. one assumes that fortress will probably do that sooner rather than later. at that point, if they do come back, it might treat up -- it might reach a point where the takeover panels say we need to accelerate since june 18. this is a -- for the more with them 100,000 employees at morrison it could be quite a trying time as they try to figure out what is happening with the business they work for. alix: more consolidation after? deirdre: it is possible. we have seen what is happening with morrison. bringing us back to marks and spencer, they have a food business doing exceptionally well. there's always been speculation marks & spencer would end up hiring off its food bus

then he got sued by ufc, and had to pay everything back [ laughter ] and then to avoid federal charges it would be smart to move to duluth and change his identity. so he got plastic surgery, and had to come up with a new name he's not great at fast thinking, you know so he came up with art garfunkel. which looking back he regretted, because people started thinking he was the real art garfunkel even paul simon heard about him, and there was talk of a a reunion. [ light laughter ] it got sticky and he had to pay paul simon $5 million in hush money. one night, to make himself feel better, he ordered a large pepperoni pizza from domino's. [ laughter ] >> steve: oh, oh >> jimmy: he accidently used his real name on the pizza tracker. >> steve: oh >> jimmy: so the fbi was able to track him >> steve: ooh. >> jimmy: and he was fined $10 million. [ laughter ] >> steve: what >> jimmy: but he sold his story to a publisher >> steve: oh, really >> jimmy: and it was a surprise best seller. it made him an absolute fortune. >> steve: how much >> jimmy: but it turns out it was plagiarized word for word

to the white house as soon as president biden begins his first address to the nation since the last ufc soldier left kabul. now the diplomacy, or power panel is here to walk us through the challenges arise in the end war from dealing with the taliban to expo trading up to 200 american citizens and thousands more afghan allies. plus the gulf coast trying to put homes and businesses back together again after the deadly hurricane ida left billions of dollars of damages in her wake. were headed to louisiana for a live report from the center of the disaster. meanwhile markets are mixed on the final trading day of august if the s&p 500 and the nasdaq can make any gains in this final hour it'll mean three straight record closes for those two major averages, the dow down 35 points. let's take a live look at the white house, any moment president joe biden is expected to address the nation regarding the ending of the longest war in u.s. history. the war in afghanistan all u.s. troops have departed go to the white house and edward lawrence. what message and what tone is the president expected to d

he is about to fight tyrone woodly, ufc welterweight champion.n." "kudlow" ♪. larry: hello, everyone, welcome to "kudlow." i'm larry kudlow. so as much as i love america these are the times that try an optimists soul. the biden administration is running a reckless foreign policy in afghanistan and elsewhere and a reckless economic domestic policy at home. in afghanistan of course president biden has catastrophically bungled his exit strategy, the lack of preparedness is mind-boggling. willingness to let the

business will start to figure out how do we work in the guidelines but also offer new offerings, carrying ufcts, clinging to a different type of experience. >> it's interesting, bakish at viacom centered in hon the 45-day window. we'll see what he says tonight chapek will be on with jim wrb "mad money." let's get to t"the half. >>> thank, carl. welcome to the "halftime report"" front and center this hour, the state of play for stocks as the s&p nears the remarkable milestone. doubling from pandemic lows of last year, not far away. we debate the stocks doing best and worse over the period period of time. jenny harrington, josh brown, steve weiss and jon najarian, the co-founder of market rebellion.com. good to see everybody today. let's check the markets. stocks are mixed the dow lower by let's call it 100 or so, thereabouts, s&p a from a fractional winner nasdaq higher than expected. inflation read higher than

and i saw you, we jumped ahead a couple of years, then we went to this conor mcgregor fight, this ufcr mother. >> and my mom. >> david: it was funny. you walk through the chairs, they have your name on them. it says me, then addison rae. i was like, oh, how fun. we sat there, and we had kourtney kardashian, travis here in front of us, they had the front row. we had the garbage second row. >> sitting next to you. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> david: machine gun -- addison, go to your room! no, we sat there and it was megan fox and machine gun kelly, but it was fun. we had a good time, goofing around. i had to point you to where the fight was. [ laughter ] because you'd never been to a fight, she doesn't know for sure. [ laughter ] no, we had a great -- you were really fun to sit next to. your mom was cool. and i think, oh, you grabbed megan fox's butt. i didn't know you knew her. you were going crazy. and then -- she was goofing around, it was a long fight. then i go, kourtney, i think it's time to put your daughter to bed. [ laughter ] she goes, i think so, we'll send her of

for example, amc, they had that new partnership for the trilogy fight with ufc, and i, for every number success. so i'm expecting more partnerships to really branch out of just showing movies. and then a reference to gme, they're doing all they can to really get into and building a strong foundation and cementing itself as e-commerce for e-sports which is an absolutely booming sector right now. so i believe it's happening, and it just takes time to really move such a sizable ship of a business. charles: and, by the way, listen, it feels longer in realtime, right? i can tell you i regret stocks i sold more than the stocks i held that went to zero. those are my biggest regrets in investment. the so-called smart money, matt, forget about it. they'll put a buy recommendation on this stock three years from now significantly higher if it works out. quick -- well, we've got a minute to go, we can talk about this robinhood thing. what's your thoughts here? >> three words for you,, bearish, bearish and bearish. [laughter] to explain those fancy three words right there, i just -- it's really twof

again, it is not a technology play, but streaming ufc fights on a saturday night and charging $25 per ticket, that shows they understand their customer, and that shows that at least they can try new movie things they have a new deal with warner bros., where they have 45 days exclusivity, a classic movie business thing, so they are turning around the movie business itself. but i agree, accepting cryptocurrency, it is not a -- it does not make you a technology company what it does do is show adam aron knows the elon musk school of search engine optimization. he knows what to say, he knows how to drive the conversation away from fundamentals, and get every headline talking about cryptocurrency >> right, so how do you think then that retail investors should be taking this with a grain of salt, do you think that these are promises that he can actually deliver on? >> i think if the movie business does turn around, you know, the jungle cruise and suicide squad, the poor performances, were they bad movies or just larger secular sign of where the industry is going, amc has $2 billion in cash.

you've done ufc fights. you do concerts. you have chance the rapper.ave a long ending list from your apes. someone tweeted at me yeah, ask about a national indiana jones day where you show all three of the movies on the big screen, things like that. there are ways to use your assets that can be innovative and that could make up for any sort of shortfall you're looking at. i'm sure these are all on the drawing board, right? >> ideas like the ones you described are on the drawing boards. you're also correct that our new multimillion shareholder base is, that is multimillion people, not multimillion dollars, that four million of our shareholders are showering us with good ideas. i got to tell you, not every idea is a great one. a lot of ideas that come in from the shareholder base are very good ideas because they are consumers of movies. these are people who go to movie theaters. they live our product, they experience our product. clearly they like our product. that is one of the -- charles: i don't want to be rude here. we're running out of time. i block

also offer new offerings, carrying ufc fights abconcerts, clinging to a different type of experience. >> it's interesting, bakish at viacom centered in hon the 45-day window. we'll see what he says tonight chapek will be on with jim wrb "mad money." let's get to t"the half. >>> thank, carl. welcome to the "halftime report"" front and center this hour, the state of play for stocks as the s&p nears the remarkable milestone. doubling from pandemic lows of last year, not far away. we debate the stocks doing best and worse over the period period of time. jenny harrington, josh brown, steve weiss and jon najarian, the co-founder of market rebellion.com. good to see everybody today. let's check the markets. stocks are mixed the dow lower by let's call it 100 or so, thereabouts, s&p a from a fractional winner nasdaq higher than expected. inflation read higher than expected not far away 25 points on the s&p, 44.74 and change is the number you need to watch today what what li what are you watching today what's most important to you do you think? >> i'd say -- i keep thinking about the rotation

i thought it was a big deal when you went to the ufc.ian, i think people made a mistake saying i'm not a georgia. i have always talked about georgia. i have lived in georgia. i don't care what they say. i think one thing we want to mention is, i'm not just waiting to take on the senator. i have got take on people before i get there. there are a couple people running that i may have to take on in the primary. i have got to be ready for them. right now i have the left and the right against me right now. that's why i tell people to go to, you know, team herschel.com and donate and let me take on anybody coming in. because i can tell you right now i will fight in washington for you. i will fight in washington for every georgian in the state of georgia because i'm a georgia boy and i have been a georgia boy my whole life. i think people know that. brian: herschel, you have latham stadler, [inaudible] going be running there couple others not big names. you know by your sports career, you have to study the tape. how from what you have ascertain

kind of -- >> endeavor did raise their guide for the year on continued confidence about live events, ufc right ari finally got through. again, i'm a client, too i've been watching the stock has been going down while the fundamentals have been going up. but again in ari's defense, it's one of, what, 300 companies that have gone public and you don't have really great coverage it's infrastructure and steve t tusa wrote about it, jp morgan genius i use that term lightly. it's not an analytic service that finds out if you're using games a lot and third-party analysis that's going to be hurt it's actually a business and, by the way, se, if you went gaming, geez i mean, that is just worldwide gaming but based in singapore i find that we're getting a lot of things like outbrain, which we all know is at the bottom if you're looking at a story and it has something that is -- you click on it. jeffries piece that frankly is lukewarm on outbrain and another piece that is liking it. they're the exact same thing honestly there's nothing more to say. it's like hey. this is the problem with all the new c

we just had our first two ufc fights that we showed at amc theaters attendance was very strong this month in august we're showing our first two concert movies in ages, with the artist chance the rapper and halsey so there are things we can do, $2 billion is a nice cash reward biggest we've ever had to play with, and as i said, we're the largest theater operator in the world and playing on offense >> all right, so -- >> it is true covid put us back but that's behind us now. >> now, you mentioned obviously the apes this cohort of investors that is very excited about amc stock and you also mentioned something they want very much. partnering with gamestop on a number of possible fronts. now, how are those talks going have you sat down or zoomed with ryan colin, the seer of gamestop to get something going >> i think actually use of the word "apes," i look at these millions of individual investors as the, who really -- came on the scene just in the last six months they're the owners of my company. they don't work for me i work for them. they're my bosses. and just like all of the memes respond

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here to react former ufc fighter and sniper tim kennedy we don't need to mention the imagery of nancywhen there is wearing a mask seemingly not that interested or concerned about what our boys are facing in our allies are facing on the streets of cobalt afghanistan life goes on i know not everyone's life has to orbit but if your leader in this country and you're finishing a 20 year war in the year activity at this moment. >> is not just completing a twenty-year work in this moment with dozens of people killed tried to get into an airport, we have had security forces murdered, taliban and we've been fighting for the past 20 years are controlled all of afghanistan and able to do anything that they want and they're not provoking americans the military forces that we have to get americans out it is not just the tone deaf of what type of the past 20 years but currently people being whipped in the streets, being stoned to death in your dancing in the streets, come on it's embarrassing and pathetic. brian: not to mention their constituents, like the emergence citizens or veterans who have tr

two women got into a ufc style brawl at a braves game in atlanta.eing arrested. it is up clear what started that fight. and those are your headlines, back to you guys. steve: all right. ashley, thank you. the biden administration vowed the border was closed. how many times have we heard that? a growing number of illegal crossings forcing them to walk back that statement about the border being closed. we know that's not true. ainsley: in an about face, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas border patrol encountered more than 12,000 migrants in the month of july alone. and now secretary alejandro mayorkas is finally admitting how serious this crisis has become. >> the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face it is complicated, changing and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. brain britain yep, and you caused it all yourself. our next guest so fed up with biden's border policies he quit. joining us the former ice field director for buffalo thomas, what brought you to that point? your thoughts about his remarks

i believe he is a ufc champion. he is a qanon influencer.nd while his position, which i think he has since resigned on the council, the city council of huntington beach, california, may not seem all that impressive, these are the kinds of positions that people on the far right, more normalized far-right movements, this is how they find their way into republican politics, is by eliminating local seats. we've been watching allie alexander, one of the organizers of the so-called stop the steal movement which is the movement that was kind of an astroturf movement but with a lot of followers now. it alleges that the 2020 election the stolen from donald trump. and they had a lot to do with all the momentum for the insurrection. and then there is a post on pastor greg locke who is always kind of making very threatening remarks. now he has forbidden anybody from coming into his church wearing a mask. that gives you sort of a sampling of what we are up to and who we are looking at. host: what is the line between exposing extreme rhetoric and giving i

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