And You Call Yourself A Peanuts-MMA Fan...

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Broadcasting Live Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by once again.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead
the only podcast in the podcasting world.

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If it somehow incorporate the Phoenix comic
strip one minute and then be talking

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about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon
the next I am your host. My

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name is Brian Little. If the
title of this episode seems a little bit

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off kilter, if it seems like
it's somehow insulting the Blockhead Nation, that

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is not my intent. I want
to get that out there right away.

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Just if it comes a cross that
way. Block In Nation, it's simply

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talking about the host talking about myself. Because when you come to this show,

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number one God is King, Number
two Peanuts is the single most successful

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comic strip in American history, and
number three mixed martial Arts with the greatest

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sport under God's hot sun. I
can guarantee those three topics what we talked

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about. But it seems like this
week I'm not exactly as well prepared as

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well as I would have liked to
be. My preparation for this show to

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make sure that I am on point
with my topics, because you know,

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it's always fight week, or it's
always something seasonal. With the Peanuts,

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there's always something I can talk about. There's plenty of content that I can

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bring you, but usually I feel
like I have a better flow, and

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there's just been events that have thrown
everything into a different direction, mostly in

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the world of MMA. But it's
still kind of the truth over here for

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the first part for Peanuts, and
I'll say this, I had a particular

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dream the other night. I normally
don't share my dreams just because you know,

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they're not really that important and then
they're just dreams. But this one

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I'm going to use as a cliffhanger. I hope you will stick around to

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see who the MMA fighter that WYFB
dreamed of fighting against. I hope you'll

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stick around long enough to hear who
that fighter is, because it was very

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vivid. It was very clear that
I am training for this guy. However,

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that's still a ridiculous idea, but
just want to leave that as a

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cliffhanger. Hopefully you'll stick around for
part two and find out who it was

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after I've done my scripture of the
day and giving you updates about UFC Austin

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that has changed in many different directions, we're talking off the wall, out

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of nowhere. Everything is being stirred
up over there in Austin right now.

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But when it comes to the peanuts, before I even get to that,

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I have to give a praise.
You've got a particular group of podcasters in

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the WIFB networks that have hit their
one year anniversary of being on Facebook officially,

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that is, but I'm gonna go
ahead and give them a shout out.

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Now. We're talking about The Empty
Slave. Russ and Chris have been

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doing the podcast weekly for the last
year and they just celebrated their one year

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birthday of being an official podcast.
So if you have not gone to YouTube,

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you have not gone to the Empty
Slate, please do that. I'll

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make sure that the links are there. They're available before you inside of the

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blog, so you can go find
it. Your favorite blockhead dot com slash

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blog has all the links for today's
show. I make it as simple and

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easy for you to find as I
possibly can. But it's there, and

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they put a show out every week
unless something comes up just with work schedules.

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But they're pretty much a weekly show
and you can get plenty of content

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out of their meetups and their topics
and Russ and Chris just really compliment each

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other very well, so it's really
a well put together podcast. But I

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want to make sure that I give
them the praise before I get into some

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things about the Peanuts and I had
to go back and search for the particular

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comic I wanted to talk about.
I knew I had it. This is

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what I mean by it's a little
sporadic. It feels like I'm all over

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the place because I had to go
back and find this episode. All I

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had putting down in my notes was
that there was a Peanuts comic strip that

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I wanted to share about Snoopy and
Spike, Spike being his brother out in

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the desert. But what you may
not know is Snoopy and Spike have shared

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more than just memories when they meet
up for the family reunion. They have

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shared foxholes. They've gone together in
Trench Warfare. I'm talking about when we

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portray Snoopy as the World War One
flying ace. And I had to go

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back and find the comic because when
I just went to Snoopy and Spike World

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War One, all I was finding
was the discussions they would have about wanting

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to go home because things are getting
tough in the trenches during World War One.

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Mustard gas is probably flying overhead they're
having to mask up. But it

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was actually from November of nineteen ninety
nine, and may it's befitting. I

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found one on my birthday or the
day after, either on the Charlie Schultz

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Museum or one of the Snoopy websites
that I follow, because they'll put out

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those comics all the time, and
I just couldn't find this particular comic strip,

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and finally I did. It's Snoopy
and Spike going to a cafe and

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ordering two root bears. Well,
Spike decides to get this brilliant idea to

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ask for more than one straw.
And what he starts doing is he starts

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spitting straws, he starts shooting straws, he starts acting up there in the

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cafe, and that gives Snoopy and
Spike the boot. It continues to portray

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something that I say all the time, that it's not just for the weekend.

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When people are in the workplace,
whether that be corporate, that be

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construction, whether that be the classroom, whether that be any profession that you're

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in, people don't want to be
serious. Twenty four to seven. People

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are looking for a boost and morale, some type of welfare and recreation that's

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applicable and that can be found in
the Peanuts comic strip. Charles Schultz is

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not just saying that Snoopy got a
little out of hand or that Mike got

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a little bit carried away while they're
having root beers and while they're enjoying a

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family cafe not far away from the
war scene of World War One where the

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trenches are. But it just goes
to show that Sparky very much made that

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clear that we need a chance just
to embrace being little kids. We need

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to embrace being immature every once in
a while, perfectly normal. And when

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I started to figure out that the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade had Snoopy on display

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ever since the nineteen sixties, I
wondered what would be the first Snoopy that

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would be used in that particular parade, And it happened to be Snoopy as

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a World War One flying ace.
Now, I made that comment to the

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little Red hair girl that I knew
Snoopy had been around a while. I

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actually didn't realize how iconic he was
to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade other than

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Santa Claus and his elves, and
those were in his workshop. It seemed

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like Snoopy is the one that made
the most appearances at the Macy's parade.

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And the little Red hair Girl aka
my wife Heather looked at me and said,

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and you call yourself a Peanuts fan
ought to be ashamed. So that's

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the real basis behind the topic I've
got. I can hear her in my

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ear already telling y'all that I fumbled
around a bit with my notes, but

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I had to go back and find
the nineteen ninety nine comic strip that I

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wanted to even share for this episode. And she's living on And you call

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yourself a podcaster, You act like
you got all together, and you don't.

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Why don't you just be vulnerable with
the blockhead nation? Why don't you

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just tell them like it is?
And I am so. I made sure

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that my friends at the Empty Slate
got their credit for a year's worth of

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hard work and showing up. I
mentioned that Spike shooting straws in a cafe

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solidifies the fact that people don't want
to be serious twenty four to seven,

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including Snoopy in the gang that Macy
is very much when it comes to the

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parade, those that watch that every
Thanksgiving start looking for snoopy, start looking

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for woodstock. But it goes all
the way back to nineteen sixty eight,

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and the first one you this was
a World War One flying a snoopy,

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which is relevant to the comic that
I wanted to share on this particular episode.

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So I just wanted to remind you
again that if this is not my

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best effort, at least I've made
my connections. And I can still hear

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here going and you call yourself an
efficient podcaster and a female, you ought

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to be ashamed of yourself. I
mean, friends, nobody can push your

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buttons better than someone that's closer to
you. Correct. And I'm sure if

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she hears this back, she's gonna
be thinking, why have be Why do

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you got to put me out there
on the streets, Slight? I want

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to put my business out there.
Well, Ever, since she was on

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episode three hundred is the number one
spot I think there can be more inclusion

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of the little red haired girl on
this show anyway, So I made sure

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that I've mentioned those those that saw
the Thanksgiving parade. I hope you caught

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Snoopy flying high and flying proud.
I hope you've seen that he has been

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an iconic member of the parade for
so long, ever since he first made

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his appearance as the World War One
flying as And if you are not sure

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where to find all these comic strips, I'm gonna say it's a free plug

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if you type in Charles Schulz's museum
where you follow them on Facebook, Instagram,

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Twitter. I think they probably are
starting to move towards TikTok at this

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point those would like to go that
direction. I promise you you can find

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their website, you can find the
blog that James Schultz does. It's all

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there. But they do a very
good job of sharing comic strips. Now

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this season, this time of year
is pretty easy. You can count on

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the fact that I'll be talking a
lot more about the Christmas episode coming up

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into the future. But I hope
you've stuck around long enough and you want

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to stick around for the scripture of
to Day. Some updates on UFC.

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Austin and who wyf B had a
dream that he was going to face in

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the crazy world that is mixed Martial
Arts. Our scripture in for this podcast

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comes from John chapter seventeen, verse
eleven, Holy Father, keep through your

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name those whom you have given me. I'm once again going to use the

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wisdom from doctor Charles Standley on this
one, where he says our first response

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when anxiety hit should be to look
heavenward and cry out Father. Jesus went

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frequently to the Father in prayer.
We read in the Gospel accounts how Jesus

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left his disciples to be alone,
often praying early in the morning before dawn.

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What prayer does shifts your focus away
from the problem and sends it to

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the one who can give you the
answer, the one who gives you the

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next step. Prayer takes your focus
off yourself, off of your pain,

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your confusion, and gives it to
the Father, who knows all, who

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controls all, who has all the
power, and is all loving. Always

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want to share the truth of you
block in nation when it comes to the

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scripture of the day, and the
truth once again is my notes are all

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over the place when it comes to
UFC Austin. But before I even get

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into that, I guess you can
say there's a possible debut now that PFL

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has acquired beltor MMA, and there
is a free agent out there who might

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have a chance to step into the
UFC cage pretty soon, and that man

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is none other than Michael Venom Page, better known as MVP. But when

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you hear who is a is,
you're not just putting MVP into the deep

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end of the pool. You're putting
in the deep end of the ocean.

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Because it looks like the possible debut
in January for MVP is gonna be against

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fort Worth's own Kevin Holland. Now
that is a scrap for the ages if

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this comes to be, there's no
way that why f B is missing Michael

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vinam Page versus Kevin Holland. It
has some of the same sparks in it

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that you would find with even Connor
McGregor versus Michael Chandler, guys who were

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the flagships for beltor MMA that represent
them well that the world knew who they

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were and this is their chance.
And it's kind of like that phrase that

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was said for those that are pro
wrestling fans. I think Kevin Nash said

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this when he came over to WCW
and said, so this is where the

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big boys play. Huh. If
MVP puts on a performance against Kevin Holland.

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I think he has more than enough
grounds to say that. And we

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do have an amazing lineup tonight,
just by looking at the weigh ends making

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sure that those fights got solidified.
You do have Kelvin Gatsolom, who I

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was worried about making the weight for
one seventy that's been a problem for him

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in the past. He looks fantastic. He looks ready to go to war.

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But so does Sean Brady. So
this is not a fight you want

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to miss. Those that are fans
of our women MMA fighters, Misha Tate

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returns tonight. She's gonna be fighting. You've also got, as I mentioned

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in the last episode, the debut
for the bantamweights for Davison Feloredo looks very

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fit. Rob Font made weight,
so it's gonna be figure out versus Font.

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Now when it comes to the comine, I mentioned last week that I

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appreciated that Jalen Turner stepped up to
face Bobby Green, but I forgot to

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mention something about how when he face
Dan Hooker that Jalen Turner is the guy

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that actually sent Dan Hooker to the
hospital. Now, he mentioned in his

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post conference, that he had some
remorse over this, that he hated the

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idea that he had to go to
the hospital after facing Shalen Turner. So

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please don't think that Jalen Turner is
not a dangerous opponent for Bobby Green.

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He's very dangerous. He was just
coming off of a loss. It just

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means that the pressure is more on
him now. But before we even get

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to the main event, you'll notice
that there really hasn't been a lot of

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trash talk and not a whole lot
of storyline even in the ESPN debuts or

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any of the promos that are out
for UFC Austin. Between Banelda, Ruche

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and armand Serukion. There's not any
bad blood here. There's just a battle

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for the rankings more than anything else. Two guys who want to fight,

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who get to fight in the main
event, and it's an awesome mass I'm

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excited about it. But there is
no bad blood And I feel like I've

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been watching a lot of satire in
the last week, which is still possibly

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true. It's just hard to maneuver
through the waters that is Twitter and X

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spaces. It's just not easy.
But I'm talking about there was a run

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in between Bobby Green and Ottoman Serukion. Now, to be fair, this

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is right before the way ends.
Anybody who is waiting to be getting on

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the scale to make weight. These
guys haven't been eating for the last twenty

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four hours. They might be on
just water. They've probably been in ice

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baths, they've been sitting in saunas, They've been losing a lot of their

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water weight, and they are irritable, so much so that I've even heard

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this talked about when Chill Sunnon talked
about him making weight that before he gets

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on the scale, he is starving
so much that he would eat the carpet

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that's right in front of him,
and he wouldn't care if he ate the

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dust bunnies as seasoning. That's kind
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for these guys who either have been
wrestlers who have to get on the scale

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to make weight or guys that are
in MMA, they are about to get

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on the scale to make weight and
make sure that they have their fight and

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they get to gorge after the fight's
over. If ever, there was not

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a time to address a warrior when
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he's about to get on the scale, and they all say that's the worst

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part of fighting, which is the
weight cutting. So if ever there was

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a time that you would leave Bobby
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for whatever the reason, whatever it
was something said in the press conference or

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with something on Twitter, what it
was, just something by word of mouth,

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armand Serukion does not take favorably to
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him while he is sitting down on
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way I understand this portrayed to me
through social media. It can easily look

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like satire when you think about how
there has been no real beef between Bobby

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Green and Jalen Turner. It's just
been graciousness and appreciation. When it comes

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to Banel del Rush and our Monseroukian. There has not been any hate or

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love loss between these guys, but
you certainly have some now. So it

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just seems like if this is not
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that our Monsteroukian and Bobby Green have, it just escalated even more when you

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interrupt the weight. When you interrupt
again on the scale, not a smart

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move, but Bobby Green clearly is
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and wants to try to punch him
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him. And of course they're separated
there in the hotel rooms and words are

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exchange. You've got some verbal accosting
going on, and you've got all of

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a sudden something that makes this card
even more interesting. Not just the athletic

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says, I'm not just the match, Megan, not just the potential for

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war. Inside of the cage.
You got some real beef and some heat

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between Green and Serroukion, who are
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both of these guys come off of
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you have an easy matchup to work
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while the iron's hot. It could
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But I had to mention that as
much as I wanted to go in more

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detail about some of the other fights
going on, it was just a weird

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spot and I could not not address
this with you Blockhead Nation. So in

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some nation, I've covered everything I
want to get to except for one that's

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forced my hand, and it's kind
of an eye roll. Is Sean Strickland

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has dug up dirt on Ian Gary. I guess you can stay this one

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feels satirical as well. Sewn Strickland
says that his wife, Ian Gary has

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written this book that is controversial,
that was from ten years ago, and

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that's not the first time things like
that have happened where we do mud slinging,

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especially in politics. That happened way
back in the election of eighteen twenty

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eight Andrew Jackson was accused of marrying
somebody that he didn't have a legal marriage

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with, but it was like such
an outdated incident that it didn't matter anymore,

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which meant Jackson had to go find
more dirt on John Quincy Adams,

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and one of the things he accused
him of was buying a billiard table a

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pool table and using it for gambling
purposes in the White House with Okay,

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we're reaching now at that point,
but it kind of looks like now we

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bring it back to mma Sean Strickland, who decides, I don't know where

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to bash Ian Gary's wife for that. It's that what are we doing?

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Are we trying to just find reasons
to fight each other. Is Shaun Strickling

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just bored or is he find some
religious obligation to call this out and to

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mention the abominations of other MMA fighters
or is this you know? And how

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does he respond to it? In
many ways, I and Gary Kind did

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what Thomas Jefferson did. He left
it alone. His wife certainly didn't.

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But you know, we've got all
of these rumors in MMA and all of

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these upcoming beasts that happen, and
some of them are just straight up annoying.

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This is one of them that's annoying, that's a bit distasteful. But

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do we have to address it?
Yes, we do, and see how

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it transpires. Now you've been waiting
for the cliffhanger. I told you that

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I was gonna mention a particular MMA
fighter that I had a I was gonna

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face. No, I don't actually
aspire to do this. No, whyfe

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b is not training to be an
MMA fighter. If the chance ever came

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to commentate in a broadcast booth for
an MMA fight, I'd do it in

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a heartbeat. That'd be a dream
come true. I guess you could say

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it's kind of one that's I never
realized was a dream until I started doing

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this podcast and mentioning the sport that
I enjoy but no, I have no

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aspirations whatsoever to ever step in the
cage with a killer, especially not the

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guy that was in my dream.
But somehow I was in a discussion with

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some guys outside of a venue and
they went, oh, you have a

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fight coming up, and I tell
them who it is. And the response

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is just what my wife said when
we woke up the next morning and I

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told her who it was, and
they said, oh, you're dead meat,

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aren't you. Because somehow my very
first fight straight out of the shoots

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is against the current day Bellator MMA
heavyweight champion of the world. I had

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a dream that my next opponent,
my first ever opponent in the octagon,

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was going to be Ryan Baiter.
And that is an insane idea. It's

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not something that anybody who does matchmaking
would ever even consider. It's like when

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people say who wants to fight,
and all of a sudden you interferre and

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said, I'm ready to knock your
block off. I'll pulverize you. Everybody's

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ready to throw hands, but then
you finish the sentence who wants to fight

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the champ? Then everybody scurries and
runs for the hills. That would be

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the case here, no, I
have no aspirations to fight. I don't

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want to be an MMA fighter.
I love this sport very much, so

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I enjoyed discussing it with other MMA
fans. And we know that would be

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a death sentence for me to even
try to go one round or even spar

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with somebody who has the stature of
Ryan bat. Even though Bellatorma may have

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been acquired by PFL, they stuff
to fill out their obligations. In one

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more year. At least, we're
gonna still see Bellator MMA events and venues.

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I'm sure Ryan Bater is gonna have
one more fight somewhere in there.

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But how that ever came up in
my psyche? How I ever envisioned stepping

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into the cage of all people with
Ryan Batter. That's an outlandishly ridiculous idea,

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But I felt like I could share
that with you. Since this one's

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been a little bit off the rails
and hasn't really been as structured and organized

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as other episodes have been, why
not let's mention the dream that I really

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don't have, but I had anyway, And even when I woke up the

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next morning, the little Redhea girl
looked at me and said, he'd kill

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you. He would he would absolutely
destroy and demolish me from pillar to post

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if I stepped in with Ryan Batter. So don't worry, Champ. You're

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not in any danger whatsoever, and
I am not training in any way to

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ever face you. But it would
be awesome to shake your hand one day.

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Many other MMA fires would be a
chance to get a picture taken with

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them, or to have a poster
signed. That's a very different story.

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But don't worry. There is no
chance that wife B is training for mixed

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martial arts and certainly will never face
Ryan Batter, But there was a dream

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there somehow, someway and until we
speak next time, and I will keep

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you updated as much as I can
what's going on the wife B network.

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Keep checking out the links in the
blog your favorite blockhead dot com slash blog.

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The downloads are the most helpful,
and I would appreciate you coming back

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and listening. In next Saturday,
blockad Nation, Same blockhead time, same

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blockhead, Champ. When to the
to the way to make the