Luke Thomas: UFC fighter Brendan Royval’s White House UFC fight comments ignite a bigger question about real fans vs billionaires, while new Epstein emails, Trump mentions, and reporting by Murtaza Hussein at Drop Site News raise fresh questions the media glossed over, as Luke Thomas breaks it all down.

In this video, we start with Royval’s “Hunger Games” critique and whether a White House card would actually serve the diehard fight fans or mostly seat VIPs and DC power players. We assess the realities of security, who likely gets in, and why fight sports should feel communal rather than like a museum exhibit for the ultra‑rich. Then we pivot to the week’s document dump: what the Epstein emails do and don’t show, why some outlets chased the lurid while missing the “shadow diplomacy” story, and the possibility Epstein functioned as an intelligence asset of some kind—an angle that deserves far more daylight. We close with takeaways for fans, media, and anyone trying to separate spectacle from substance.

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Listen to the full conversation over on Luke’s Substack: https://lthomas.substack.com/

Chapters

00:00 Royval’s “Hunger Games” take

00:45 UFC White House crowd reality

02:00 Who actually gets in UFC White House

03:05 Billionaires vs real UFC fans

04:20 What fight sports are for

05:35 Fans deserve the seats

06:38 Epstein emails overview

07:20 Shadow diplomacy reporting

08:30 Was Epstein an asset

09:40 What media missed