You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your hosts, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.

That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.

I'm your co-host from bleacherreport.com, Chad Dundes, and joining me, as always, from MMA junkie and USA Today.

It's your friend and mine, Mr. Ben, folks. Ben, it's UFC 217 week.

Sure is.

Do you feel the excitement?

Well, I mean, no, but in fairness.

So far, like the way that you just answered that question leads me to believe that you are not, in fact, feeling the excitement.

I need to set a little background for you here, though, because I come in here today pretty damn exhausted, mainly owing to the fact that, see, one of my cats, my cats has been missing for a couple days.

Oh, really?

I thought my children were about to learn some hard lessons about cats and death, because, you know, cats can disappear for a little while, but yesterday, kind of inclement weather.

Usually it's the weather when cats choose to come inside and, you know, be domesticated once again,

hadn't seen the cat in a little while, and we're thinking, all right, maybe this is it.

Maybe this is when they learn about death.

And then last night, you know, somewhere between 3 and 5 a.m., I'm not totally sure the cat comes back and announces his presence to everybody, has a huge wound in his head.

It seems like from fighting with another cat, really excites the household and let's just say nobody got a whole lot of sleep thereafter.

But the cat's okay, except for the head wound.

You know, if you're interested in that kind of a schedule, I could loan you a six-month-old.

You don't want, nah.

You don't think?

You don't want to make that a permanent fixture of your...

So despite the exhaustion, how would you rate your hype level leading up to UFC 217?

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