Dec. 7, 2024

A Regression-Style BFY Episode

A Regression-Style BFY Episode

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And we will catch you next time, same Blockhead time,

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same Blockhead channel. Oh wait, that isn't what you were expecting,

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was it. You weren't expecting me to start with the

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conclusion of the show. You were expecting me to say

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the other line, weren't you well blockad Nation. For those

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that are tuning in to today's episode, you can expect

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the opposite. I think there was an episode of Seinfeld

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once where they did the entire episode backwards where George

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acted completely the opposite of what he would on a

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normal occasion. And that isn't because I want to grab

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everyone's attention right away with this episode. You were expecting

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a different introduction. This isn't the introduction. This is a

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regressing backwards podcast episode from Blockhead Favorite your or your

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Favorite Blockhead. I'm not delusional, I'm not losing my mind.

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I'm spending the weekend trying to overcome a few physical ailments,

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getting past a rough week that has affected my health.

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But I'm still here. But nothing in this episode is

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going to be anywhere near what you're used to hearing.

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That's just to say that we live, in many ways

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in a backwards world. Because in a non backwards world.

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For us that follow the sport of mixed martial arts,

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a press conference for a major pay per view that

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is loaded with talent would not be such a snoozefest

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as it was with a main event of a flyweight

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champion who has a hit list that is extraordinarily impressive,

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where he's defeated the former flyweight champion Brandon Marino twice,

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He's defeated Brandon Royval twice, Steven Ersig, Alex Perez the

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current flyweight champion, and Alexander Pentosia has absolutely a phenomenal

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track record to be the representative champion for the flyweight

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division for today's pay per view, And how does most

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of the MMA world respond a slight thumbs up back

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to the Komine event of two guys who have undefeated

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records that are on the line, somebody's walking away with

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no longer having a goose egg in their lost column.

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That's the truth. Does that work? My fway through this podcast?

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In a non backwards world, we wouldn't have a flyweight

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champion who has stated that when he's done beating the

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former Rising Federation champion who has come over to face him.

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The Japanese sensation Kayasakura after he's defeated him, that he's

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calling out a retired Mighty Mouse Demetrius Johnson. Now, my goodness,

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I love the idea of Pontosia and Demetrius Johnson from

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one championship who had a phenomenal career in the UFC.

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I would love to see that be a reality. In

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a non and backwards world, he wouldn't be calling out

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a retired Demetrius Johnson, who has been a cross promotion's success,

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even though the UFC didn't want to give him the

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time of day. Usually doesn't want to give the flyweight

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divisions the time of day. But now that Pantosia's champion,

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they're the main event for this UFC three ten that's

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happening tonight. But we're focused on the co main event

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and all of these amazing talents, And is there any

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build up other than this? In a non backwards world,

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you wouldn't have all of that. What was I gonna

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get to when it comes to being a Peanuts fan?

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And in a non backwards world, you wouldn't have a

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Christmas special that would be so rushed, so last minute

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that would be criticized for scripture from the gospel of

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Luke being used midway through the special and be ridiculed

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relentlessly by the primetime networks and by sponsors such as

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Coca Cola. In a non backwards world, you wouldn't have this.

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In a non backwards world, a blonde, brainless content creator

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that I'm using in quotations would not have supported the

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notion that a crypto coin would be used to not

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only boost her fame but apparently have some non existent

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digital gold dust valuation that within three hours the coin

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plunges ninety one percent in value, Because this twenty two

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year old whose brain is still not fully developed yet,

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would allow this to happen and blemish and wipe out

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her investors, slash followers, hard earned money that had entrusted

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to her popularity that seems to still be skyrocketing. In

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a non backwards world. This wouldn't happen in a non

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backwards world. Current sitting President Joe Biden would not even

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consider issuing a packet of quote unquote preemptative pardons to

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current government officials who just maybe the target of the GULP.

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Incoming administration, and a number of constituents and confidants would

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not be urging him to grant such pardons in a

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non backwards world. But this is the world that we

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live in, Blockhead Nation. We live in a regressing, deteriorating

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world that is harder to defend than ever before. The

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fact that my generation, the Millennials, are the preemptive force

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in the working world. Because I don't mind my hard

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work ensuring those who cannot work and are retired should

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be able to retire with dignity and assist in lifting

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or to live independently. I do not mind that. But

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there are generations that came before me that think every

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other generation just won't work. When the bulk of the

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working force would be classified as the Millennials, and then

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Gen X, and then slowly the baby Boomers that are

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going into retirement or are looking for their exit strategy,

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but we apparently won't work. In a non backwards world,

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this wouldn't even be a notion and block a nation.

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I'll save my joy and my cheer for the Christmas

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episode next week when I am not under the weather

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as much. I'm able to sit and hold a microphone

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and share with you every week. And the hope is

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that we're not going to have a non backwards dialogue

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in format for the next go around. As much as

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I've enjoyed throwing a curve at you, blockhead Nation midway

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through the show, I am always going to present you

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the truth. Today's scripture will be from Hebrews chapter ten,

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verse twenty three. Let us hold fast the profession of

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our faith without wavering, for he is faithful as promised.

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So I'm not going to try to throw any disarray

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or any confusion at you, because I always make sure

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the truth. The parable is always midway through this show

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because the reflection from Blue Layer Bible is spot on today.

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Here the author calls us to hold fast. We must

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remain strong in the faith in the anticipation of Christmas,

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those that celebrate the advent, the hope and anticipation of

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a savior. The joy that that's going to bring our

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strength comes from a merciful Father alone, for he has

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promised to be faithful to us Hebrews chapter thirteen, verse five.

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Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with

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such things as you have, for he has said, I

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will never leave you, nor forsake you. God has promised

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blockad Nation to never leave us nor forsake us. As

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we hold fast to the faith, he will strengthen our hands.

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So I've got you this far. You're still here for

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all the things I've found that are in a backwards world.

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But this is a podcast where I always hold to

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three things. Number One, God is king. Number two, Peanuts

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is still the single most successful comic strip in American history.

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The TV specials are a seasonal joy. You have the

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anime movie that will flawed, and this blockhead and this

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little podcaster anticipates the day that he and his little

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red haired girl can make the trip to Santa Rosa,

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California and see the Charles Schultz Museum in person. Now,

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the other thing I talk about in this show is

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mixed martial arts being the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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So normally how this show has worked, I've broken up

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into two segments. If you are a Peanuts fan, Part

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one is perfect for you. If you made it this

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far and a part two, then you are clearly a

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fan of the UFC, maybe PFL one Championship Rise in Federation,

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many other entities that are out there. And I'll tell

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you this when it comes to some things I've overlooked

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it's still kind of a backwards world on this show.

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But I want to make sure I have mentioned why

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I brought up all that about the Charlie Brown Christmas

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epit because it almost never happened, Not so much because

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of Charles Schultz, but because of the producers of the

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show and CBS executives a couple of hang ups that

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they had. They didn't like the idea that real kids

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are being used instead of professional actors to voice Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, Lucy,

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and everybody in between, even Sherman who always ends up

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being a shepherd. They wanted professional actors, and Charles Schultz

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has made it abundantly clear that the Peanuts world is

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kid centered, always has been, always will be. Adults are

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an afterthought. They were also given six months of production

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with a budget of about one hundred thousand dollars, not

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much to work with there when it comes to Linus

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quoting the story of Jesus and the Manger. It wasn't

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that this was a cultural problem. It wasn't that the

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cancel culture was starting to evolve back in the sixties.

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It was just they didn't think that kids would sit

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still long enough for something like that and to add

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insult to injury ten days before the show aired, when

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it was actually finally finished. There's no time to go

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back through and edit the errors. I'm a podcaster who's

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trying to get past some physical alims. I can go

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back and edit this episode any way. I want to

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make it sound as professional as possible. They didn't have

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time to do that before the time that put this

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on the air for the Christmas special. Bill Melendez, who

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was a well known name in all of the comics

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in the TV special said and I quote, we have

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ruined Charlie Brown. Everyone that was part of CBS executives

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believed that except one. His name is Ed Levitt. He's

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the only one that disagreed. There's always that hope for

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the remnant Blockhead nation. There's always that one minority that's

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saying all of you are wrong, and they get ignored,

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and here we are. Why do I say that because

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Ed Livett specifically said, I believe this Christmas episode will

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be played for families to come for the next one

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hundred years. While CBS thought they would run at one

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time and call it a day and close the books

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on the Christmas special, well Ed we've made it to

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sixty years, what do you say, blockad nation, we push

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it to forty now. To continue with the idea of

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a non backwards world, In a non backwards world, you

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wouldn't have a rival organization to the UFC like PFL

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put on a championship belt at the end of the

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Thanksgiving holidays in Riod's South Saudi Arabia. You wouldn't have

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this event and all of a sudden because you have

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acquired the man that did all the undoing in the

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heavyweight division inside of the UFC, you wouldn't have this

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chant of Francis Nagano versus John Jones blockhead Nation. I've

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made it abundantly clear, and so has Dana White for

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the UFC that the only fight to make at this

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point for the heavyweights is for John Jones to face

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the interim champion that is Tom aspinall but in a

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non backwards world, you wouldn't have a chant for the

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opposing organization who has ownership of Francis Nagano, who has

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had run in after run in with John Jones and

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nothing has transpired. You wouldn't have something like this, This

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delusional idea start to evolve but block animation. The more

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than I think about it, and the more I hear

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podcasters like Chail Sonning who say on his podcast, You're

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welcome about how the outside world, outside of the UFC,

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all of the other continents are frothing at the mouth

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for Nagano Versus Jones. And I'm starting to buy into

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the idea that if we can't have what's logical in

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one organization to attempt for either a cross promotion or

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John Jones handing over his belt and not holding up

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the heavyweight division and building some kind of controversy that

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would put cracks in the armor of the Ultimate Fighting Championship,

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the mothership of all MMA organizations, and show that Dana

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White isn't as powerful as he thinks he is. If

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you can get into a cage, into a venue in

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any continent in the world, possibly Saudi Arabia, to have

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Nigana Versus Jones again an no onn backwards world, who's

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to say the intrigue is certainly there. The spark that's

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lie in the flame has somehow consumed every other continent

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and most of the surrounding areas of the United States.

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Is this a possibility? Well, to shift back into the

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night's co main event. One possibility that could throw everybody

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for a loop is Ian Gary. You have shot cut

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rockmanof and Ian Gary. Both of their undefeated streaks are

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on the line, and you could say this, if somehow

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Ian Gary is able to stay in the center of

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the octagon and keep Rockmanov away from where he does

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his best work, which is against the cage, then could

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Ian Gary be the one that is standing tall as

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the comin event closes and we fade to black and

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make our way into the main event for Pontosia versus Asaruka.

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This is all pending what happens tonight and what happens

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come twenty twenty five. And I am just word what

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I'm seeing from the world of MMA onto this show.

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And there has been no rhyme nor reason to all

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this backwards approach that I've got on this episode. So

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why not finish out strong broadcasting Live, good afternoon, Blockhead Nation,

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and thank you for stopping by. Once again. You are

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listening to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in the

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podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the past