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The guy is on the front cover of "UFC 2009: Undisputed" but it really hasn't changed Forrest Griffin, who is still wacky and quick-witted as ever.

Griffin visited the ESPNRadio1100 studios in Las Vegas to preview the May 19 release of the new video game. He says he can still keep a low profile around Las Vegas while visiting the local Albertsons or Blockbuster but it's a different world when he actually attends fight cards (1:00 mark).

Griffin touched on a variety of topics including the dilemma of too many Silvas and Jesus. That's right, Griffin opined on history and religion, referencing Sarah Palin:

"I was reading the Bible the other day," Griffin told the Cofield and Cokin Show on ESPNRadio 1100. "I realized something, all these crazy, like, Palin people that talk about Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus hung out with, like, the lowest of the low. He hung out with like whores and derelicts. He really did. He was, like, the most liberal guy of his time. It just really amuses me. Jesus was a liberal."

Watch Griffin with Cagewriter:

In part two, Griffin discusses the strange reaction everyone greets him with now that they know he's fighting Anderson Silva.

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  1. yqa.rb.sr1@...
    1. Posted by yqa.rb.sr1@... Thu May 14, 2009 7:05 pm EDT

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    This is awesome.
  2. Jason P
    2. Posted by Jason P Thu May 14, 2009 7:10 pm EDT

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    My head says Silva. My heart says Forrest. My gut says I shouldn't have eaten two chili dogs with onions for lunch.
  3. Michael W
    3. Posted by Michael W Thu May 14, 2009 7:11 pm EDT

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    Priceless...rarely do you see the interviewer leave in the middle of an answer.
  4. Cofield
    4. Posted by Cofield Thu May 14, 2009 7:27 pm EDT

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    Welcome to radio bro, happens all the time. Listeners don't understand sometimes that there's 12 things going on at one time. I had to go outside to deal with a PR person and have some other host yell at me about something in the middle of the interview. Then you wonder why I come back in and had no clue of what the hell was going on. Fun stuff. Griffin is nut job.
  5. Steven W
    5. Posted by Steven W Thu May 14, 2009 7:31 pm EDT

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    oh my god a cofield sighting
  6. fightchica
    6. Posted by fightchica Thu May 14, 2009 7:43 pm EDT

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    Well at least he has a firmer grasp on what Jesus was about than most others you talk to. He spent 40 days in the desert? He did what ? Why? His Love was Mary Magdalene and she was a whore who washed his feet with her tears. But I am waxing religion and so much for the video game. It will do well with or without his endorsement on radio.
  7. Michael W
    7. Posted by Michael W Thu May 14, 2009 8:08 pm EDT

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    Steve...I wasn't badmouthing your walking out...just thought it was funny. Forrest seemed a bit surprised by it as well. Thanks for the interviews.
  8. mathiasmorciglio
    8. Posted by mathiasmorciglio Thu May 14, 2009 8:25 pm EDT

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    Forrest is a funny guy that's a great interview. Real down to earth. He's still gonna get his @ss handed to him by A. Silva though. On the flip side, I think he could take Wandy out. Too bad for him the lady at the supermarket wasn't right.
  9. HA!
    9. Posted by HA! Thu May 14, 2009 8:55 pm EDT

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    It wasnt Mary Magdelene that washed Jesus' feet, it was Mary, Lazurus and Martha's sister
  10. fightchica
    10. Posted by fightchica Thu May 14, 2009 9:18 pm EDT

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    I stand Corrected
  11. Mitchell
    11. Posted by Mitchell Thu May 14, 2009 9:21 pm EDT

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    Jesus wasnt liberal He hung out with the sinners because they accepted Him and realized that He was the only way they could go to Heaven
  12. Steven W
    12. Posted by Steven W Thu May 14, 2009 10:27 pm EDT

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    who cares about jesus' feet?
  13. Caligulus
    13. Posted by Caligulus Fri May 15, 2009 4:19 am EDT

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    Forrest comes off as pretty cool but I've also heard a few really bad stories about him. Anyway I'll form my own opinion till then see ya guys.
  14. jarred
    14. Posted by jarred Fri May 15, 2009 9:29 am EDT

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    "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners"
    -Mark 2:17
  15. HAHA
    15. Posted by HAHA Fri May 15, 2009 9:32 am EDT

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    what bad stories?
  16. Irish Bastard
    16. Posted by Irish Bastard Fri May 15, 2009 10:07 am EDT

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    Let he who has not sin cast the first stone .
  17. Darkness!
    17. Posted by Darkness! Fri May 15, 2009 10:26 am EDT

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    Hack-
    did u know that the Bible is proven to be the most historically acurate work of literature ever written? This is especially amazing when u consider that it isn't actually 1 book, but rather 66 books written by more than 50 diff. writers; most of whom lived generations apart from each other, and thus could not have possibly corroborated each others' stories. Also when u consider that the carbon dating method (which is how scientists estimate the earth's several million years of age) has been proven to be waaaaay off. I am NOT by any means a religious nut, but I am a Christian, as well as a sensible human being. To believe in a dating method that is (at best) a highly uneducated guess, or a "theory" of evolution, which it's own theologian (Darwin) denied himself on his deathbed, as he had never really found any solid proof to back it up- speaks volumes of your pride and ignorance... for that, I'm sad for u, but to each his own. That being said- I pretty much agree w/ Forrest's (and fightchica's) view of Jesus- the guy wasn't just liberal; he was straight-up revolutionary. It's sad that the modern church has become a religion instead of a relationship, as it was originally intended. Modern Christianity is so watered down to the point that it's now no more than a flock of millions of sheep that follow only what a guy standing at a pulpit has to say, rather than the teacher (Jesus) himself... "everyone vote republican cause that's what I feel is Godly", says the preacher- so everyone does... sad.
  18. Darkness!
    18. Posted by Darkness! Fri May 15, 2009 10:34 am EDT

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    I don't know if Griffin can actually beat Silva; but I do think he'll be Silva's toughest UFC opponent thus far. And it might be to Griffin's advantage that this will be a Lt.HvyWt. fight rather than MdlWt. (I would assume Griffin will have the size advantage come fight day); but that prob. won't make much of a diff. Arguably the sport's best striker (Silva), against arguably the sport's toughest chin (Griffin). I do think Griffin will get the hell beaten out of him; but at least maybe someone will finally bring the fight to Anderson...
  19. me
    19. Posted by me Fri May 15, 2009 11:03 am EDT

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    Dude, cmon Darkness, you have to be kidding right? How has the bible ever been regarded as the most historically acurate work of literature ever written, and where did you read that carbon dating has been proven to be way off?
  20. Supposed2BWriting
    20. Posted by Supposed2BWriting Fri May 15, 2009 12:44 pm EDT

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    If Forest can understand that Palin people are not crazy, but are those who actually help the lowest of the low, the whores and derelicts, then he can understand how he can win.
  21. mike h
    21. Posted by mike h Fri May 15, 2009 1:09 pm EDT

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    Jesus was PERSONALLY "liberal," but what does that have to do with government mandated liberalism? Where in Scripture did Jesus appeal to Caesar or even to Herod or to the Proconsul? Where were the street protests? Where were the marches? Where were the speeches demanding anything of the government? But, I can point to a lot of commands to INDIVIDUALS to "liberalism" and isn't it interesting that recent surveys demonstrate that conservatives PERSONALLY give way more to charity than the governmentally liberal. Jesus by "hanging around" derelicts inspired them to change. The prostitutes were no longer prostitutes - the tax collectors were no longer dishonest - the "haters” changed into lovers of all mankind, etc. etc. Jesus never “hung around” derelicts and joined them in their dereliction.
  22. Kauz
    22. Posted by Kauz Fri May 15, 2009 2:17 pm EDT

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    Ok lets stop with the biblical debates, it only leads to hurt feelings.
    The "Jesus is a liberal" statement made me laugh so hard my co workers had to know what I was laughing about. That is one of the funniest statments I have heard in a long time. I never thought of it that way. GOOOOO JESUS!!!!
  23. me
    23. Posted by me Fri May 15, 2009 2:55 pm EDT

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    Jesus sux, HAIL SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  24. Darkness!
    24. Posted by Darkness! Fri May 15, 2009 3:36 pm EDT

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    heath c-
    did ur co-workers then proceed to tell u what a weirdo u are for laughing at that statment? cuz it couldn't be more true...
    me-
    Hail whoever u want, dude; that's ur business, not mine. Like I said- I'm not one of the right wing religious freaks, bent on saving the world. God is there if u choose to accept and respect His existence; if not, then that's ur choice too. But u don't have to listen to me as far as the Bible's accuracy; just look it up. The things that it actually says happened (not the mataphoric stuff that people interpret to mean w/e they want), actually happened. I'll give u about 50/50 on carbon dating; but like I said, it's not completely accurate.
    On the other hand- God isn't really helping me out a whole lot in life right now; so hail Obama!
    : p
    To be honest- we ALL worship the almighty dollar, before we worship anything else. U may deny it; but u know it's true...
  25. me
    25. Posted by me Fri May 15, 2009 3:55 pm EDT

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    Darkness I'm sorry. I did not mean it. I don't think Satan is real either. I am just so anti God that sometimes I say stuff before I think of how others will feel about it.

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