A Societal Look In The Mirror Along With Crucial MMA Bouts

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Broadcasting live, Good afternoon, Good
evening, blockhead Nation. Whatever time you

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one minute and then be talking about
MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host, my name
is Brian Little. I'm gonna remind

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I thank you for your time.
Blockad Nation is always great to talk to

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you again here in the Blockhead mansion. While I'm babysitting the three amigos known

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as the Dogs. One of them
has been fairly sick. The last couple

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of weeks. We're finally getting their
back, so all is good on that

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end. Sending prayers to everybody that's
been affected by the hurricane, especially they're

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in the lower coastal areas of Texas. So if you've been in the Houston

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area, the Corpus Christie area,
prayers to you and anybody else who's been

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affected by this. Those that are
still without electricity, keep saying with those

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prayers, blockad nation. They need
it. That's more important than anything that

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I can share. That's content creation
on my end. So again, I

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wanted to get back to the show. Thank you so much for your time.

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But I will say this, out
of all of the note taking that

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I did for this show, if
your brand new, Part one is very

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much dedicated to the Peanuts comic strip. If you are an MMA fan,

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stick around for Part two. That's
when I get to all of that.

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That's how it works. Part one
is for the comic strip. Part two

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is for the sport. But if
you are curious, I have some friends

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of mine that I follow on a
medium known as empowered podcasting. They have

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Facebook, they have Twitter, they
have Instagram, they have all the big

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ones. They have a few other
mediums. That are go through empowered podcasting

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gave me an idea. Yesterday they
were wondering if I've ever done a March

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Madness style bracket for the Peanuts characters, and that kind of was done a

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few years back. I'm not gonna
make you go digging through the archives and

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it's not going to happen. But
to my buddy who does all the fan

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art, to my friend Delvis short
Dell, it might be time for you

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to fire up the pencil again,
start getting the sharper and getting those pencil

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and number two pencils ready. It
might be time to consider that, because

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that's not a bad idea. So
what we're gonna do. We're gonna kick

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off a summer bracket. We're gonna
kick off a Peanuts Summer Mma tournament.

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And the first thing I'm gonna go
ahead and do is get one out of

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the gates. That's easy to cover
because the truth is it's already happened.

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If you were to date back to
an episode called Lucy Come Home, I'm

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sorry, Snoopy Come Home. I'm
gonna leave them. I'm not adding anything

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out. I'll just leave it as
it is. That's that's just me being

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human. But either way Snoopy Come
Home, there's a part where he has

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a boxing match in the backyard with
one Lucy van Pelt. No, don't

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start getting into your feminist approach and
think, oh man, he's beating up

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on women. No, Lucy actually
put the challenge out to Snoopy. All

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Snoopy did was take one glove,
put it over his nose, and he

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totally cleaned her up. So we're
gonna go ahead and move forward with an

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easy one Snoopy Lucy in the tournament. I really don't think anybody's gonna be

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upset that Lucy van Pelt, the
crabby queendom that she is, that she's

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gonna be left in the in the
addles of the tournament. So either way,

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Lucy's been defeated. Snoopy moves forward. That's easy, okay. So

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we're gonna have a few interesting lineups
the next couple of weeks, and we're

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gonna finally have the tournament until we
have the winner for the Summer Mma Tournament

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here on the Blockhead Hour. So
if you need to get caught up on

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some of these other shows, I
don't think Snoopy Come Home is on it,

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but those of you that have Apple
TV, it wouldn't hurt to look

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up something called Peanuts Classics on Apple
TV. Since I've converted, I now

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have my own iPhone, I've drifted
from Android. iPhone has quickly won me

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over over a three day period since
I hadn't finally had to get the upgrade.

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But Apple TV has got more than
just new Peanuts. The classics such

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as Charlie Brown All Stars is on
there. It was a sort of summer

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Charlie Brown's on there. Trying to
think some of the other ones are on

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there. It's magic Charlie Brown is
on there. Several older episodes that would

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get you interested in Peanuts. If
you don't follow the comic strip at all,

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if you're not a big fan of
the animed movie, which you should

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be, if you need that,
check out Peanuts Classics on Apple TV.

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So I wanted to kind of get
those out of the way, so if

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you need a few, I wouldn't
call that a homework assignment, but you

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know, if you're into the Apple
TV has been very courteous to the Peanuts

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the last couple of years. I
think they even have Happiness as a warm

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blanket. Charlie Brown from twenty twelve, so pretty accessible to get to all

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those. So I wanted to mention
that. So Snoopy moved forward in the

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tournament and you go check out Peanuts
classics. There are several of them up

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there that are from my childhood that
are considered old school. I think she's

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a good skate Charlie Brown's on there, So there's some good ones you should

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check out from back in the day. Let'll tell you this, something has

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been really stirring me as a content
creator the last couple of days. So

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I'm gonna shift from Peanuts ended just
something I gotta get off off my chest,

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and sometimes it just kind of reflects
society and culture a little bit.

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Meaning this is a society and culture
podcast. You're gonna find a lot of

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philosophical meanderians in the world of Peanuts
on here. You're gonna hear some spiritual

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approaches to things. So I just
say that because there are some things that

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society gets interested in that can be
disturbing and some that are doubt right disheartening.

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I'll get into it a minute.
I'll give you a modern day one.

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I'm gonna start with a classic one
from back in the nineties. Does

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he even have to know who the
guy named Mark Jackson is. I'm gonna

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be pleasantly surprised if you do.
Mark Jackson was an NBA player. What

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is his claim to fame? It's
really not him and his accolades is statistics

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on the basketball court. It's not. Let me tell you. There was

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a time when a card collecting company
known as NBA Hoops was putting out some

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of all my remember these. When
you grew up, you had the upper

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deck cards, you have the tops
cards. NBA Hoops did a series of

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cards back when Michael Jordan was really
becoming popular with everybody that's in everyday society

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and culture. You know, he
was on the lips of everybody during that

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time period in the early nineties.
But Mark Jackson has a specific card that

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has something about it in the background. This is where I get to the

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disturbing part. His claim to fame
is this NBA Hoops card. And in

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the back in the picture, we
determined at some point in history that the

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boys watching from courtside were the Menindez
brothers, and the courts had determined that

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this was shortly after they had killed
their parents. So if you haven't followed

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the Menendez case. The documentaries.
Now, they give you the pros and

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cons, they give you a balance
out on both sides either way. It's

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really hard to defend that. Within
the time span of you killing both your

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parents at point blank range, calling
nine to one one hysterically, and then

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after you've done so, or even
before you've made the phone call, whatever

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it was, you make the time
to intend an NBA event, and you're

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sitting courtside squandering your parents' money right
out of the gates. That's why we

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know Mark Jackson because of that infamous
card that happened to capture the picture of

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the Menendez brothers sitting behind him.
And I don't mind if you look that

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up blockhead Nation. But what bothers
me about that, what's disturbing is how

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much that card can run on an
auction on eBay. People have bought that

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car for thousands upon thousands of dollars
that I would consider disturbing. What I

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considered disheartening is what I'm being bombarded
with on TikTok. Now I admit it.

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I'm using TikTok a lot more to
be able to introduce my podcast,

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try to get new listeners. Some
of you have come that way from that

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direction, and you're welcome. I'm
thankful for you, and you're welcome here

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anytime. But I have to address
it. Two things have been what I've

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had to wade through and comb through
the entire time been on TikTok for the

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last two weeks. One in particular, is a heartbreaking story about Aubrey Wyatt.

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I won't go onto that one.
I can just tell you whatever the

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circumstances are with that this little girl
is no longer with us as a middle

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school teacher. It's heartbreaking to think
about what the family's gone through, the

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mother, the sister, the other
and everything that's happened, and just knowing

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about things like the gag order.
It is really a heartbreaking story and it's

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infuriating, especially for anybody who is
a mom of a teen or a mom

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period. I'll tell you that TikTok
has really kicked over a hornet's nest because

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these ladies are coming out of the
woodwork in droves in support of Aubrey Wyatt.

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I have a feeling that won't take
long before this becomes a documentary too.

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So if you're gonna go watch a
documentary on the Menendez Brothers to catch

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up on what happened there. Eventually
you'll see one probably of Aubrey Wyatt,

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or it will be a dateline story
or you know whatever is out there now

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on everyday primetime network television gonna it's
gonna be revealed. So either way,

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TikTok has eating this one up.
The other one, that I admit,

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is disheartening for me as a content
creator. It is something that happened almost

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instantaneously, not so much for the
girl, but for the sake that society

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and culture has accepted this and embraced
her, and now she's living a fairy

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tale dream. What am I talking
about? And it's gonna sound condescending,

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but you know what, I have
to get it off my chest. A

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blonde, brainless, tipsy girl.
And I can already hear some of y'all

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defending her, or even she were
to come on this podcast and defend it.

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Go you don't even know me.
Let's go through the five w's.

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We know what you said, we
know when and where you said it,

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and what context you're talking about this
loogie that you're gonna spit. I'm just

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putting that out there from a societal
standpoint, from a parental standpoint. This

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You always hear the phrase the cream
rises to the top. This is what's

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accepted by society. That rises to
the top, that gets fandom. I

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mean, and it might be a
simple boom and bust overnight, it might

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be a shooting story in between there. Because this girl making the comment these

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two words, you already know what
I'm gonna say before I say them.

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I won't even give it the time
of day. I'm just gonna call her

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a loogie girl. That is what
society wants. And it's disheartening because now

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she's already going on other podcasts and
through TikTok and through the small segments that

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I've seen. I can't even sit
through them. And you might think,

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oh, man, are you're being
a judgmental on every way? Aren't you

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blockhead? It simply comes down to
this. There are other creators like myself

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who have put in the work,
the ones who rolled up our sleeves,

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have been in the trenches for a
while doing all the things that we realize

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our best practice is, at least
in podcasting. And you come in and

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you steal the limelight right away.
I sincerely hope that you can take your

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money, you can leave, and
you can enjoy the secluded life that you're

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talking about. But just like Obama's
podcast didn't stay on top of the of

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the rankings, just like Oprah didn't
stay at the top, Doctor Field didn't

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stay at the top, I'm pretty
sure the number one listen to podcasts are

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going to consist of Lougi girl,
enjoy the ride while you can. But

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this is going to be a reflection
on society. This is what you would

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rather listen to. This is what
you embrace. It's not a harsh reality

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check in anyway. You just embrace
and go, oh, this woman is

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charming. What's charming about it?
I'm challenging on it, and mostly just

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because not really to sound like I
have sour grapes, but there are many

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content creators like myself that are putting
in the work that are authentic, that

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are consistent, and this rises to
the top. I guess I'll be one

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of those in left Field holding them
catchers met and going hello, trends like

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this happened before, and guess who's
still going to be here when it's all

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said and done. Just challenging the
status quo, on that one, because

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it's disheartening that that is what society
craves and longs for without even a seconds

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notice to even contemplate what else is
out there that might be a little bit

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wholesome, might be a little bit
beneficial to you. And I'm not just

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talking about my show, I really
am not. I'm talking about so many

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out there, even creators, musicians, artists that have become very good friends

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with and the world hardly knows them. Maybe it's because we're called to be

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contrarian too the world. Maybe that's
it. So hone, your skills,

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keep going, content careers. We're
still going to be here when this rocket

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ride desists and falls out into the
atmosphere. Take around for part two.

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes
from First Corinthia, Chapter one, verse

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twenty seven. But God hath chosen
the foolish things of the world to confound

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wise, and God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to confound the

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things which are mighty. I think
this is applicable as of what we just

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talked about on part one, as
the reflection from Blue Latter Bible simply talks

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about how when we contemplate the remarkable
grace that God has. It says this

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amazingly. He chose men of all
trades, men of low stature, men

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from walks of all life. That
doesn't just include men as a whole,

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that just means humans in his image. He chose you. He desired those

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dead in their sins to be resurrected
and recreated to declare the infinitus glory.

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And what a privilege that is Blockhead
Nation to know that that's a God that

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we serve. Let me clarify on
the second part here three things are always

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talking about on the show. Number
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Peanuts is the single most successful comic
strip in American history. Now that you're

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here for part two, this is
where we talk about mixed martial arts,

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which is the greatest sport under God's
hot sun. It's not an event where

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people stand at a table with hands
either behind their back or holding on to

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the table, and the other one
puts baby powder in their hands and slaps

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you across the face. If you
don't know, I'm taking a stab at

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something else, it's called power slap. It's bad enough that we have people

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doling out concussions on this show It's
even worse when somebody from ten years ago

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who did have possible success in the
world of MMA, somebody who was marketable,

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meaning she was very easy on the
eye, still is. But if

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you look back at the twenty thirteen
version of PVZ you'll see what I'm talking

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about. Yes, I'm talking about
Page van Zandt, who has signed a

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deal to be part of Power Slap
now, and I am annoyed. I

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wanted to see her do well in
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She went to bare knuckle fighting.
Eventually she got her an OnlyFans page

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and now here we are signed a
contract with Power Slap handed out CTEs that'

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sure I have for that is enough, already enough. I can't get behind

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this movement. I just can't.
What I can get behind is somebody else

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who has the skills, who has
the marketability, but has the toughest challenge

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of her life tonight, who did
what she had to to get on the

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scale and make weight. Now I'm
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not giving any more recognition to that
and going straight to Tracy Cortez. Main

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event tonight for UFC is Thug Rose
former champion versus Tracy Cortez. Ultimately,

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that was supposed to be Thug Rose
versus the future Macy Barber. Macy Barber

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again pulls out with an injury or
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with illness for a while now.
I'm really worried about her overall health and

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conditioning, But since Tracy Cortez stepped
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make weight well. Ultimately, she
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time and has to make a personal
sacrifice and cuts her hair. Now,

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this is where it gets kind of
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her yet. I'm sure post fight
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she cuts her hair to get back
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chopped off hair in her hand,
which I would assume would just tip the

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scales anyway, unless she had lightened
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And either way, it's a chance
for her to show the sacrifice she

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made to make sure that she can
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is Thug Rose. So I will
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but I also see just inexperience here, so are those that are looking for

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a good main event tonight. Yes, the girls are gonna be fighting tonight,

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Thug Rose versus Tracy Cortez. It's
official. Not a lot of controversy,

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just some issues at the scale and
now here we are, so Thug

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Rose. I'm putting the wife be
cursed on that simply for the sake of

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being a former champion, and I'm
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But as you know, any given
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could find an opening. She could
end up doing a submission or knocking her

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out. It's gonna be fun to
watch that one. I'm glad it finally

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transpired and we have the fight Drew
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to be the comane event. I
don't have a lot of confirmation what's going

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on here, but it looks like
his adversary Mike Davis pulled out and now

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we have from Brazil Jean Silva,
which is no longer the comin but it's

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still on the main card, so
I don't know if this was just pulling

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out of the fight. It can't
make weight. It's kind of it's very

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sketchy water now, but either way, Drew Dober's coming back in He'll be

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on the card, so I think
that this card's worth it. It's really

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hard building up post three oh three
getting ready for the UFC three or four

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in Manchester, which will be later
on this month. So I would suggest

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checking out Thug Rose versus Racy Cortez. The Drew Dober fight looks fun.

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I'll be checking that out. But
I have to kind of go into detail

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on something here. A lot of
you that have been watching and are wondering

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what's the main event for UFC three
or four in Manchester, Well, it's

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Leon Edward versus Beleel Muhammet. I
will tell you now, blockhead Nation,

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that is not the most important fight
of the night. It's not something crucial

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is hanging in the balance here.
And if I can make it a little

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more clear, I'm gonna use a
shout out to another YouTube page known as

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MMA on Point because I sat there
thinking how did we get here? We

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do have what needs to happen.
We do have the running back of Tom

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Aspinall versus Curtis Blades Interim Heavyweight Championship
hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, John

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Jones, the current day heavyweight champion
of the world. We'll be facing steep

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A at Madison Square Garden in November. That was supposed to happen back in

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twenty twenty three. You have John
Jones who gets a torn bicep that takes

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at least nine months to recover,
which means you'll be lucky to get three

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months inside of the cage for sparring
and for our training camp. So either

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way, he was out. They
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So let's fast forward. We got
UC three or four, you got

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UK, You've got the background for
Tom Aspall. This is his backyard.

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But the last time they fought,
Curtis Blades was actually landing several shots,

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but then Tom falls with a knee
injury. TKO doctor stoppage, heartbreaking,

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not something Blades wanted, not something
the Aspenall fans wanted. Once see how

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well this guy is. He's proven
since he fought Sergey Poplovitch that this is

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the guy that if anybody can beat
John Jones, it's him. Well,

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as of UFC three hundred, UFC
three h three, the fans are demanding

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somebody else being included in this picture
in steps the baddest man walk in the

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face of the planet, Alex Pereira. So Alex Prera wins against Uri Prajaska,

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Joe Rogan feeds off the crowd and
says, do we want to see

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this guy go to heavyweight? The
crowd erupts, So there's no Vacan of

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the title. Yet the only other
possible fight that I could see coming out

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of light heavyweight would be Uncliath.
There's not a lot of splendor, a

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lot of fireworks behind that one.
I mean, it would be a decent

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matchup to see where we go.
But if Perera is included, we wonder

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how we got here. Meaning the
championets to sit and wait it out for

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Steve A. Miochic for a feel
good moment against arguably the greatest heavyweight champion

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of all time. I don't mean
the best heavyweight, but as far as

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in UFC, the one who has
the most brass rings in the heavyweight division

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would be none other than Steve A. Miochich and he's been out of commission

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for a long time at this point, much longer you need to be out

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as an MMA fighter. But either
way, and we're expecting Jones to cut

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through steep a like Butter the way
he did surreal gone step cutting through him

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like butter. But now that he's
been out, you had an interim championship

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that Tom aspinall wins in desirable fashion. We're forgetting somebody. How did we

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get here? An mma on point
clarify this and I'm going to bring it

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up here too. Why this is
so important? We don't get to see

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who truly is the best in the
heavyweight class because you're missing someone and his

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name was Francis Nagano. Let's piece
this together. Steve amy Ojic knocked out,

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loses the strap to Francis Nagano.
Nagano can't come to terms on his

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contract, becomes a free agent outside
of the UFC. Daniel White literally accosts

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him every chance he gets on the
microphone to say we offered him a million

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dollar deal and he didn't accept it. Then PFL grabs up Francis Nagano and

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he ends up having a boxing match
against Anthony Joshua. So either way,

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what you've lost is who is the
best. Even when you had staredowns between

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Nagano and Jones outside of the UFC, organization. You have a belt that's

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almost meaningless around the waist of Tom
Aspinall if he can't defend it against three

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people. Francis Nagano is not a
fighter on the roster for the UFC anymore.

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That's out. Step A and Jones
want to face each other, and

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the talk is whatever happens there,
we're probably seeing a double retirement. So

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if you insert now, what we're
missing, which is possibly the baddest man

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walking the face of this earth,
is Alex Pereire. So why does this

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match matter so much? Co main
event at UFC three or four is crucial.

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The validity of the heavyweight Championship hangs
in the balance because if Aspinall loses

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the blades, all of this,
like a domino effect, falls flat across

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the board. We lost Nagano,
there's no defending of anything. We have

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Stepe, who's been out since being
knocked up by Nagano. We've seen Jones

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cut through surreal gone and he's out
with an injury. Once the inner injury

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is gone, he's facing who he
wanted, which was Steepe. This has

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a shelf life for MMA fans,
but it certainly doesn't have a shelf life

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coming out of the UFC war,
not for the UFC organization itself, not

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for Dana White, but US fans
are thinking, Okay, if Blades wins,

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then the only other option you got
to make this the biggest match in

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the face of the planet is bringing
in Alex Pereira. So that's all kind

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of laying out the scenery down the
road. I don't want to act like

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I'm seeing the tree from the forest
of the trees here, but this match

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is crucial. We have our rematch, we see what's legitimately gonna have is

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Tom Asmall, the well rounded athlete. We all believe he is in his

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backyard, which means he will have
defended the interim championship and now he deserves

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a shot at John Jones. But
if John Jones won't fight, a guy

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who will, who has proven that
he will fight, is Alex Perreira.

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So ultimately I am anticipating a Pereira
versus Aspinall's showdown somewhere in the future,

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maybe by the end of this year, maybe even on the same card as

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Madison Square Garden. It'd be so
hilarious if Aspinall and Pereira were to be

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the co main event or be on
the main card and steal the limelight away

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from Jones and Steepe, which in
the eyes of MMA fans, it could

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happen. So that's a lot to
lay out for one match on what truly

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is hanging on by a thread is
the validity of the heavyweight Championship, on

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these being the baddest dudes walking the
face this plant. We need Alex Pereira

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to decide to go to heavyweight.
We need Tom Aspenall to defeat Curtis Blades.

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As much as I hate to say
that, I love Curtis Blades,

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I love the wrestlers, I enjoy
his shots. I know he's got power

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in his hands. We need Tom
Aspinall to get this done so that we

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can set up this match, because
what you'll never get again as far as

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I'm concerned, is Nagano to come
back and claim what was his in the

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first place. So many missing pieces
to all these dominoes that we've laid out

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and one false move and we have
a domino effect in the heavyweight division.

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So I hope you followed me through
all of that block at Nation. That

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was fun. Either way. You
us see three or four Manchester it's gonna

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have some awesome bangers on it.
I'm expecting Makaiav to go out there and

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do extremely well. I'm a huge
fan of that flyweight. You're gonna have

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Patty the Batty versus Bobby and Green. I think King Green's gonna completely steamroll

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him, but Patty the Batty can
surprise you. You saw what he did

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against Tony Ferguson. This is his
backyard too. You're gonna have the main

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evently on Edwards versus bellel Mohammed.
It's easy to know who we get behind,

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but certainly below. Mohammad could be
the one who gets the entire MMA

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community ticked off and plenty of ears
in the sideline saying I told you so.

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The most crucial battle of the night
will be Aspinall versus Blades two.

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