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Broadcasting Live. Hello again, Blockhead
Nation. Did you miss me? I

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want you to know that I truly
missed talking with each and every one of

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you. It looks like the cough
has finally gone to the most extent that

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I can say I can actually get
through this full episode. So here we

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go. It's been two long weeks
and finally, once again, you are

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listening to your favorite blockhead, the
only podcast in the podcasting the world that

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can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip
one minute and then be talking about MMA

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

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is Brian Little. It's been too
long, and again I only took a

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hiatus simply to get over the viral
infection that I was facing. And looks

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like now I can finally do that. I can get through an entire episode

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without any interruptions from the cough.
And what I'll just do every bullet point

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that I was going to bring up, I'll just kind of do a post

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Mother's Day thing here to start with, because I wanted to give a sincere

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happy Mother's Day to all of the
mothers out there that are listening, or

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to anybody who is loving on their
mother that's still here, or their mother

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that might have passed, or anybody
who has taken a position in their life

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that is a mother. Then I
wanted to make sure I honored you.

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But because I had to get over
the cough, it looks like I can

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do a post Mother's Day special on
this part of the episode. And just

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know that there are three things that
are always talked about on this podcast.

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Number one, God is King.
Number two, Peanuts is the single most

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successful comic strip in American history.
And number three, mixed Martial Arts is

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the greatest sport under God's hot sun. You just had the fights of the

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UFC and the Apex that are finishing
up tonight eds Barbosa in the main event.

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We'll get to all that on part
two, but I will mention now

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when it comes to Mother's Day.
I tried to figure out could I incorporate

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that into the Peanuts? Could the
Peanuts have some relevant mothers, because as

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most of you have followed, the
parents are always distant in the comic strip.

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You would hear the sound effects and
the TV shows, you wouldn't have

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any visible adults. Unless we're talking
about this is America. Charlie Brown where

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they would show actual historical figures.
You just don't see adults. They didn't

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have a place in the Peanuts.
Charles Schultz made that very clear. This

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is a kid's world. So how
do we do that? Well, there

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have been some instances where mothers can
be addressed and can be honored here on

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the Blockhead Hour, and that's what
we're gonna do. One in particular that

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comes to mind would have to be
the episode of Charlie Brown All Stars.

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It's a well known summer episode with
the baseball team. Charlie Brown's on the

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mound and he's saying, I gotta
get this right over the plate, and

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as he throws from the pictures mount
he goes there, it is right over

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the plate and clear over the backstop, which means Lucy is gonna run up

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to the pictures mount and say,
what kind of a picture are you through

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that thing? Clear of the backstop. Be more careful next time, Charlie

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Brown, you almost hit my mother, which you know that is an issue

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that has to be addressed. So
when it comes to protecting mom at the

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baseball game, she's present, and
Lucy had alluded to that she's there giving

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her support so we do have a
few instances where the mother is there.

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There are a couple of more a
boy named Charlie Brown. There's a scene

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where Lucy is waking up Linus and
saying it's time for us to go to

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school. What's his response again?
She resons, what do you mean again?

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And he smiles and snuggs back into
his bed and goes, I went

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yesterday, So I guess you're off
the hook. Well there's a catch.

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She says, Mom's already made your
lunch and puts a sack of lunch on

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his bed. So he up sits
up and has a sense of guilt and

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goes, I guess I might as
well go to school. I can't waste

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a good lunch. That same thing
is alluded to in Charlie Brown's house,

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where Charlie Brown says Sally it's time
to go to school. She goes,

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I'm not going. I'm not going
to school. I went yesterday. It's

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the same joke. But then Charlie
Brown mentions, Mom made you a lunch

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and got you a whole new lunch
box. And so I think and goes,

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she went to all that trouble,
and she went to all that expense,

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Yep, replies Charlie Brown. Well, if she did all that,

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then I need to go to school, don't I. But that is my

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only reason for going. So I
guess if you need a reason to go

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to school, if your mom went
to all that trouble to make you a

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good lunch, then I assume that
should be enough firepower to at least get

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you into the school, doesn't it. That's twice that I can think of

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mothers who were mentioned, but one
in particular that comes from the nineties.

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If you don't know, there were
a few commercials throughout the eighties and the

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nineties that would be Charlie Brown and
the Peanuts, usually talking about a breakfast

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cereal. Usually one of them would
be Cheerios. But in the nineties there

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was an episode a commercial about Chex
Mix. So the episode, you can

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see the kids already eating Chexs mix
out of the bowl and you hear wanh

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want what mom. The checks miss
was for the guests coming tonight. Oh

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good grief, which means the kids
have to get up and go and make

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more checks mix, and they show
how to do it because it's so super

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simple to make. They get back
in there in the living room and your

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chili brown go, they're not coming
wanh wanh want we can eat the checks

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mix great. So even moms will
show grace at times throughout the Peanuts,

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just like any good mom out there. Yeah, you gotta be strict at

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times. Yes, you got to
give that mother hen hovering, that happens

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with it. But when you can
allow the kids to just be kids,

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when you can allow them just to
enjoy their snacks, why not. And

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you can see the parents do that
manytimes, especially the moms in many instances

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throughout the Peanuts. That's just three
of them, those are able to pull

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up. So a belated happy Mother's
Day to anybody who might be listening.

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Or for those of you that are
Blockhead Nation who want to give love to

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their mom, they can go find
and hug their neck one more time.

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Why not, just to say,
because Blockhead said I should do it,

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there you go. Now. I
have a couple of friends of mine that

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do their own podcasts known as the
Empty Slate. I will address something that

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they brought up because when Russell and
Chris got together and did this last episode,

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some of it got a little heated, mostly because of the demonstrations that

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have been done on college campuses throughout
the United States that have been pro Palestine.

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I'm not going to go into all
the politics if you don't know the

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Asraeli as in the Palestinians have not
had a good relationship since the times of

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the Bible, to where we would
have instances in the nineteen seventies with the

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Olympic Games, to where you have
instances like this where there would be demonstrations

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on universities on their school grounds,
and you have things like the Kent State

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massacre which led to students being killed. And Russell did bring up something about

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what good are you really doing when
you take refuge on a college campus.

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The truth is you don't. I'll
say that you're not really making any effect.

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You found a safe haven where you
can demonstrate and practice the First Amendment,

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and that's about it until the police
bring in force, usually provoked by

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somebody that's a college campus person that
most of them that got involved in the

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riots weren't even college students in the
first place. There there looking for trouble,

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and that's been mentioned many times.
So I'm just saying I side with

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Russell. But was there any instance
where a student hanging around at a university

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made any impact. And my answer
is there is one. There is one,

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and who am I talking about?
Joe Cool's other persona the alter ego

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Joe Cool hanging out at the student
union. That comic strip was done a

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few times throughout the seventies in the
eighties, and if there's anybody who had

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any effect on a college campus,
it would be him anybody else. There's

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not a lot of debate there,
so we won't get into the pro Palestine

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pro Israeli discussion here. It's just
I agree with Russell, but you cannot

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throw out the baby with the bathwater
and say that there has been no contributions

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from any student whatsoever on a college
campus because Joe Cool at the student Union

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was a different story. That points
back to Peanuts being the most successful comic

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strip in American history. I've been
asked this question many times with all this

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going on, with the issues with
Israel and Palestine, with Ukraine and Russia,

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I've been asked, are we possibly
gonna see World War Three? My

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answer to that is, if we
ever do, it certainly won't look like

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the First and Second World Wars.
It will be very much AI driven which

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is why we need to keep a
watchful eye on things like AI robots,

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things like drones, or viral infections, some kind of virus outbreaks, whether

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it's in cyberspace or physically amongst people. That's the kind of way I see

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this going, if it ever does. It's very technology driven and very hysteria

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driven, way more than what we
would see in the First and second World

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Wars. And it take a lot
more than one superpower to pull it off.

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It take again at least three a
rebirth of the axis powers in some

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way, shape or form. So
I'll tell you, Blockhead's not that worried

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about that. That's not something I'm
going to worry about. I will mention

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as I get into the scripture of
the day, it's disheartening when I hear

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things like an AI robot who can
take fifteen thousand dollars, what can make

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three thousand into fifteen in a week, in other words, getting almost a

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five hundred percent ray of return.
Things like that I read about in the

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stock market can be a little bit
discouraging. Go man, what are we

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doing wrong than an AI robot can
do? What I'll say is this,

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utilizing AI can be a good thing. It's beneficial, just like my last

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episode, but it's not a substitute. It is not a substitute for God's

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worksmanship, meaning you, me and
myself, me and the creatives out there

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who put out content. For those
who are continuing to utilize this thing called

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hard work and sacrifice and the sweat
of our brow, our blood, sweat

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and tears. AI cannot replace that. And I will utilize that same reference

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as I bring you into updates about
m M A. Starting with a very

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important scripture of the day. For
all of us are our scripture. This

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podcast comes from Ephesians two, verse
ten. For we are His workmanship,

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created in Christ Jesus, unto good
works which God hath before ordained that we

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should walk in them. Reflection from
Little Lara. Bible talks about how God

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knows his children and knows their ways. By the sacrifice of Christ Jesus,

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his children are recreated and renewed in
the promises of the Father. So I

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ask you, even though you are
His workmanship, not to lean on your

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own mighty works. God's mighty works
are sufficient blockhead nation. As we get

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into some few things I want to
talk about. When it comes to mixed

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martial arts. We just had the
UFC at the Apex off to do a

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little bit of a post recap and
all that. That was the early night.

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But I can tell you now when
it comes to Barbosa being defeated,

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I promise I'll get into that more
detail him being a England native. But

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I have to start with some loving
prayer requests for Francis Nagano and his family.

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So this little podcast is sending prayers
condolences for the loss of his son.

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So Francis and Nagana's son come up
a little bit short in this lifetime,

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but gains his victory. I'm just
praying for Francis as he figures out

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how to face life and eventually maybe
possibly re enter the cage in honor of

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his son and his memory and his
legacy. So I send my love from

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this little podcast that way. When
it comes to recapping UFC three hundred,

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there's so much I can get into, but I'll just start with simply the

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return of the King of Rio Jose
Aldo. He's back, and he says

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he's not retiring as I understand it, current Lee, He's going to negotiate

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with the UFC for a new contract. He has won four of his last

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five fights. What he also did
was snap the six fight win streak of

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Jonathan Martinez, which is what had
me a little bit anxious in the first

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place, because you don't want to
count this new era of MMA fighters Jonathan

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Martinez being six fights deep, and
now he's going up against Jose Aldo who's

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been out of the mix for a
while, and he comes back this strong,

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looking, this good. Jose Aldo
would be one of the greatest ever

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in history. So I'll save that
for a little bit of the goat status

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as I bring this a little bit
forward into the main event, which was

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Pantosia versus Ersag. Now there's been
some debate on this one too, and

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again it goes back to the judging. Here's a difficult thing to do for

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a judge. It's hard enough when
you have a native who wins over the

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crowd. This happened with Patty the
battye versus Jared Garden. The crowd swayed

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the judges by when they would hear
the crowd get into it with Patty,

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they would start putting down. There
was significant strikes and significant damage, which

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helped him on the scorecards. In
this case, you have that with the

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flyweight champion, Alexander Pantosia. So
if you look at both corners, both

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corners seem to agree that the first
three rounds went to the champion. Round

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four clearly seemed to go to Erseg, where you even have the champion cut

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and you have a lot of damage
being done to the body and to the

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heads. So it really goes down
to for sure, we could have had

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a split decision on first three rounds
go to Pantosia. Round four, round

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five, Erseg comes back hard,
but both corners kind of agreed you have

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to go and win these next two
rounds or you gotta go knock him out.

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So either way, Ersek putting a
really good performance on the number ten

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ranked flyaway versus the champ. You
talk about a serious jump in the rankings,

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and I still never figured out how
that got booked and what was the

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real story behind that. But I
have to give cred to Ersek. You

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could easily run that back. But
when you have a Brazilian crowd, what

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judge would dare to go against that
rowty group. That's a death wish.

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So I can't really disparage the judges
on this one. I'm just not really

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that surprised. It sounds like I'm
being dismissive, and I kind of am

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because I've seen this happen many times. If you're gonna have better judging,

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you're not gonna get that when you
have the crowd sway in their opinions as

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they start to watch from cage side. If you're watching from the couch like

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I am on my big screen,
there are things that I'm gonna catch that

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the judges are gonna miss. So
we've talked about this a different type of

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judging. But either way, Pantosian
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second go around. Either way,
good fight, maybe not a UNA's decision,

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leaning more towards the split decision,
by the way Pintosia gets his hand

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raised. So I had to bring
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Three h two will be coming up
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But three toho three is something I
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it confirmed. The return of the
Golden Goose, the return of the quote

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King of Mma, the notorious Connor
McGregor. What I really want to focus

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more on on this is towards his
nemesis. I'm wanna look into what we

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have with Michael Chandler, the former
flagship of Bellator, who now has his

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chance to face the biggest name in
the history of the sport, the god

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that's drawn more people to this sport
than anybody else. To Connor McGregor,

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and my answer is simply this.
This is gonna sound ridiculous, but hear

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me out. Even ever watch a
show called Famine Matters. There happened to

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be an episode that I truly liked
where the guy Steve, who was a

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scientist, had this transformation chamber and
he could become anything he needed to.

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He could be a lover, he
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Albert Einstein, or he could be
Elvis Presley, whatever suited the situation.

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He could transform into that particular person
with the transformation chamber. Well, in

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one instance, you got a bunch
of street tufts who have taken over a

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playground and are causing all kinds of
havoc, which means him and a couple

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of the neighborhood kids are gonna get
in the transformation chamber and come out as

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a Bruce Lee trio and they're gonna
lay the smacke it down on all of

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these hoodlums. But the first thing
you're gonna get to is something that Steve

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said before he issued the beatdown on
said gang. He says, all we

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want is a safe place for the
kids. So if you're smart, you'll

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leave right now. If you're stupid, all your friends and relatives will soon

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visit you in the trauma unit,
which means that they take the bait,

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and that means that the Bruce Lay
trio lays it down and completely annihilates all

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of the street tops. That being
said, for Michael Chandler's sake, I

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want him to hear this. If
he is smart, he will fight a

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technical fight. He can steer right
into being the heel of the night,

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because if you think about the last
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where was his wounded animal prowess happening
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Michael Chandler could steer right into that
and start chopping him down at the

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legs right away with leg kicks,
with half kick, with calfkicks. He

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could immediately start doing that. He
could utilize his wrestling, which is on

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par his grappling skills, which is
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If you look at Nate Diaz and
Kobib, it's been be a rear

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naked choke. So if Chandler is
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If he is stupid, then he
will fall into the trap of trying

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to put on a show like he
likes to do. He wants to be

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an exciting fighter. He wants to
charge forward with his arms out wide,

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looking like he's gonna throw a lobster
punch, and having a wide stance,

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which sets him up perfectly for that
left hand of Connor McGregor. And if

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he charges forward, even trying to
change elevation, he's gonna walk into that

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left hand, get touched on the
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So I hope that Chandler will consider
all of that and not steer into wanting

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to put on an exciting fight,
even if it means getting booed by the

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crowd. By gosh, you will
have a w to consider that. And

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when it comes to the goat status, there is one guy who alluded to

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that many times, and he did
that when he came back after a Hiatus

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when he faced Surreal Gone and cut
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I'm talking about John Jones. His
exact words were when he got on

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the mic, ba ba, which
means, if you piece it together,

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he's saying I am the goat.
But it is for you to figure out

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that he is saying he is the
goat by saying ba ba. Well,

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let's flip it from bab bab black
sheep to ba bah goat status because what

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I understand now that's not even confirmed, is John Jones is waiting until he

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can finally get Steep a Miochic at
Madison Square Garden in November. When what

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could derail your goat status right away
is to face somebody like Alex Perea who

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has won two championships in two different
divisions less than two years and can come

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and be the one to dethrone you. It sounds to me like he wants

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no part of Alex Perea, and
he certainly wants no part of the current

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interim heavyweight champion, which would be
Tom aspinall because we already have UFC three

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or four where he's gonna face Curtis
Blades at Manchester. I have no problem

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with that. It's a right that
needs it's a rung that needs to be

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made right. UFC three or four
in Manchester put in the UK Blades versus

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Aspinall run it back. You had
an injury that caused that to be a

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TKO for Blade's sake. Anyway,
Tom Aspinall, who is much more well

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rounded than the wrestler, and Curtis
Blades and the guy whom most people will

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agree that now John Jones is losing
out his goat status because he is ducking

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Tom Aspinall. You got two people
who could derail that train of goat status

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right away, and you certainly want
no piece of either one of them.

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You want the feel good moment,
the legacy at Madison Square Garden and say

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you want to right off into the
sunset, which us MMA fans are not

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getting behind. So, John Jones, if you're going to support the fact

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of being the goat, I don't
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at this point. If step It
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you, there goes your goat status
because that means there's three people who came

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back after years and years of not
being in the cage. One of them

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is GSP. One of them is
John Jones. The third one could be

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Steepe. If he were to defeat
John Jones, all these dream matches come

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to a screeching halt in a contrarian
world. So if Blades were to defeat

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Tom aspinall that derails all of these
other dream fights that us current day MMA

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fans are craving for and are frothing
at the mouth for. I gotta throw

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all those out for you to chew
on. Blockhead Nation, the goat status

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is very much at stake the end
of twenty twenty four, and all falls

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on John Jones. Your move,
chief, and I will catch you guys

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next week as we do update on
the APEX and UFC. We got three

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h two right around the corner.
We'll get a little more detail on that

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next week. Thank you so much
for coming back. If you haven't checked

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