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Put on your tin foil hats; we're talking conspiracy theories to kick off this episode. From the moon landing to Elvis to the frozen envelope in the NBA draft, we're discussing the most outrageous ones we can think of. From there we dive headlong into the big stories of the NFL and MMA worlds. Redskins making bonehead front office decisions; Michael Irvin fighting in an mma cage; the Mayweather/McGregor tour getting old in a hurry. Finally, Justin gives us the scoop on the latest flicks including the Big Sick and War for the Planet of the Apes. All that and a deleted sex scene from Full Metal Jacket.

The press tour for the Conor McGregor/Floyd Mayweather circus has officially kicked off and it's every bit the spectacle we were expecting. NFL payers are salty about the amount of money the NBA threw around in the first days of free agency. Is a strike in their future? Speaking of not going to work, should Amanda Nunes have been given a loss by forfeit for pulling out of her fight with Valentina Shevchenko the day of the bout? All this and an in depth review of Spiderman: Homecoming.

Chris and Neal run down both UFC offerings for the weekend. We start with the TUF Finale, which is headlined by Michael Johnson vs former WSOF champ Justin Gaethje. Then it's on to the ppv of UFC 213 where an interim middleweight champion will be crowned from the winner of Yoel Romero vs Robert Whitaker. The Lioness Amanda Nunes defends her bantamweight strap against Valentina Shevchenko. Lots of action in the cage. Consider this your primer.

We kick off this week's episode talking about the worst movies we actually paid to see. It's a painful trip down nostalgia lane, but a fun one nonetheless. Speaking of painful, trying to rationalize the judging in last week's Pacquiao/Horn fight was excruciating. Corruption? Home Cooking? Ineptitude? All of the above? In the films segment, Justin reviews Beguiled and we preview the latest Spiderman movie that drops this week.

How depressing is it to watch your sports heroes at the end of their run? Last week's MMA action was about as bad as it gets with legends Fedor Emelianenko, Wanderlei Silva and BJ Penn all suffering embarrassing losses. Chris, Neal and Justin ruminate on the action from the UFC and Bellator cages. We also disect the NFL's Top 100 list and review Baby Driver.

Neal, Jeff and Justin hold it down this week. We start off with our favorite TV theme songs then brainstorm ways to fix the NFL draft. We examine the recent death in boxing and the UFC stripping its featherweight champion of her title. We end with Justin's admission of watching the latest Transformers movie...on purpose.

Our First Four this week details our favorite local food items around Hampton Roads. In the Football segment we discuss Becca Longo being the first female to receive a scholarship to an NCAA school. In Fight news, the Mayweather/McGregor fight was officially announced. And on the Film front, we sort out the new releases including Cars 3, All Eyez on Me, Rough Night and 47 Meters Down.

This week we bring you a First Four full of moments that shaped our fandom across all sports. We then talk about which coaches are under the most pressure this NFL season, break down the breakdown between the UFC and flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson, and fawn over the new Wonder Woman movie.

It's a super-sized episode this week. We start off our First Four with some fun songs that put us in a good mood. Then we go deep on football topics from Mike Vick wanting to retire as a Falcon to QB comparisons from 25 years ago to Richard Sherman's thoughts on why he doesn't have multiple rings. In the fight segment, we discuss Ronda Rousey's return to television and briefly preview UFC 212. The film section closes us out with reviews of the hard-to-watch but excellent Raw and the hard-to-watch but awful Baywatch.

The No Fun League tries to rebrand itself as the Now Fun League. The UFC rounded up its entire roster for a symposium in Las Vegas; what could go wrong? Is a movie with twice the Michael Fassbender twice as good? Find out in our spoileriffic discussion on Alien Covenant. In our First Four this week we run down our favorite beers.