Nov. 23, 2024

Back To The Beginning, Upsetting Negligence, And Updates For UFC Bouts In December

Back To The Beginning, Upsetting Negligence, And Updates For UFC Bouts In December

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Broadcasting Live. Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, and thank you for

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stopping by. Once again. You are listening to your favorite

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blockhead the only podcast in the podcasting world that can

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somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then

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be talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little, and

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I thank you so much friends, just for coming by

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for a few minutes to listen to this little podcast.

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the links for today's show, from the merchandise to the

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donation page to everything else in between for networks are

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all available. I will say this downloads are the most helpful,

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and thank you for everybody who's been tuning in. It

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has been so fun to get on this show and

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just be able to talk with you guys about the

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three things that matter the most to me in my life.

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Number One, God is King. Number two Peanuts is the

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single most successful comic strip in American history and number three,

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Mixed Martial Arts is the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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So last week when I spoke to you, it was

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straight from the gullet, it was straight into the MMA community.

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Now we can back to normal format, and there are

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some things that are on my heart that I really

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want to discuss with this episode. But first and foremost,

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since we have Thanksgiving coming up, of course, I want

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to take you to the infamous scene in the beginning

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of the Thanksgiving episode. Lucy is flipping the ball. She

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is taunting Charlie Brown and saying I won't pull away

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the ball because of the tradition of Thanksgiving with the

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the Thanksgiving football game, which of course she does not

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fall through with that. But I'll tell you this that

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gives me a chance, really to go back to the

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beginning seventy three years ago, the first time that Charlie

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Brown ever fell for the football gag, and believe it

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or not, it was not Lucy. So I've had this

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ongoing discussion with anybody that will listen that Charlie Brown

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has kicked the football. And I'm not talking about parodies

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like South Park or Robot Chicken or anything else that's

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come out on Comedy Central or Family Guy. I'm not

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talking about those. I'm talking about legitimately in the comic

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strip and in the TV shows where Charlie Brown kicked

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the football five times. That's hope for the remnant because

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the majority of the time he does miss it. For

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seventy three years, Charlie Brown has fallen for this gag,

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and it originated not with Lucy but with Violet in

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a Peanuts comic strip that dates back to nineteen fifty one.

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If you want to look at it, it's on the

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Charles Schultz Museum website, their Facebook page, their Instagram, it's

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all there. It shows the comic strip where the following year,

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Lucy will take over. But if you look at this

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comic strip, you can see that Violet is sweating bullets,

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waiting on Charlie Brown to engage. He's saying, he'll kick

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my hand. I just know he's gonna kick my can.

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I can't go through with this. I can't do it.

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And she pulls away, not out of falling for the gag,

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but just simply she can't stand it. She has an

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anxiety attack, and Charlie Brown misses the ball it's not

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an exclamation point of any kind. It's a question mark,

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like what did you just do? And then while he's

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laying there in a daze, she looks at him in

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dismay and goes, you didn't kick the football, Charlie Brown,

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why didn't you kick it? Which, in total, Charlie Brown

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will attempt at least thirty six times. So just to

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clarify for any listener, in nineteen fifty one, Violet's the

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first one to do it. Did he kick the ball

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in the common strip? Yes? He did, but it wasn't

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Violet or Lucy holding the ball, it was Schroeder. So

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by nineteen fifty two, there's this ongoing lowering of Charlie

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Brown to kick the football and it becomes that false staple,

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and each one becomes more devious than the other one,

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and Charlie Brown, Charles Schultz's creator, is trying to be

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more cunning with it every single time, and we know

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what the result is going to be. This was his

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exact quote from his childhood. This is from Sparky, he says,

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and I quote. It all started with a childhood memory

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of being unable to resist the temptation to pull the

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football away at the kickoff. You know, it's just kids

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being kids. We all did it, we all fell for it.

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So if you know anything about Charles Schultz, it's a

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continuation of his childhood. It's subtly letting America know what's

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going on under the surface. If you look for it.

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It's got so much parable in it that shows he

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could have been a minister or an American history teacher.

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It's so true about Charles Shultz's tendencies. So that gets

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consumed by the readers and it gets appreciated by those

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who keep the memory alive like yours truly. Now, So

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now that I've covered what I wanted to mention about

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the Peanuts, those that follow my show know that I'm

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gonna blend this in with parable just like Linus did

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in the Christmas episode where he'll step forward, there'll be

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one spotlight I'm and he'll quote the Gospel of Luke.

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I'm gonna do something similar to that. I'm gonna take

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a look at something that I found out not long

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ago that was really disturbing. As a podcaster, I can

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bring these things to light. There was a Wells Fargo

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employee a few days ago that was found dead at

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their desk. Okay, first of all, hearing that is so

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hard to swallow that so many in America are consumed

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with their jobs where it's so robotic to check in,

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check out, and just drone on through the day. This

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is also proof of how much these companies do not

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care about you, that you are just data, you're just analytics.

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And I was reading something that is absolutely heartbreaking here

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and it was in one of the comments. So when

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I heard about this, it was on the Ken Coleman

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Show where he's addressing this Wells Fargo employee who has

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found dead a few years a few days later, had

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apparently gone in during the weekend and passed away, and

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not everybody found out about right away. It took a

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few days until the smell started to bother the employees

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and they sought it out to find what had happened.

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Even more heartbreaking that the family doesn't reach out what

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family she does or does not have. And there was

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a comment put on there about a guy being a

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security guard for over twenty years and he worked in

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a six story, two hundred and ten thousand square foot

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building loaded with offices and cubicles, and he mentioned and

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that every day when he would go through the office,

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he would actually check every single office and every cubicle

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on his rounds for this very reason. And the boss

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has hated this because, you know, you're supposed to be

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standing guard in front of the building. What else can

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you expect from a lazy, corrupt cop for somebody to

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be wandering around. And the term they used in the

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military for us was skating. You know, if you're skating off,

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you're supposed to be doing a job and you're not

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to be found. That was the term used. This security

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guard warned about these kind of things happening. They don't

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argue with him, but he gets a lot of eye

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rolls for it. This security guard actually found an employee

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passed out on the floor in a conference room on

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a Saturday during a four day weekend. So it's heroes

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like him that are under the surface. But just this

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horrible thought, why the death of a Wells Fargo employee

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who's found days later is so heartbreaking. As a teacher

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and a podcaster, this is the sentimental part of my

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show where I can just reach out and say, you

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know what, if you don't have something that you're passionate about,

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if you just want to pick Blockhead's brain for somebody

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who's on this journey and just wants to know that you,

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the Blockhead Nation matter not just as downloads and analytics.

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You are people who take the time and listen in that.

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We got to do better. We got to do better

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in proximity. We gotta do better about opening up so

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many of us men most of you listen to this

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are men who are who don't want to talk, or

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don't feel like they need to talk, or are taught

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they shouldn't talk. For whatever stigma is out there, I

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reach out and say during the holiday season, let's all

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do a better job of reminding people that you are

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not meant to get up and go to a job

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and come home and watch TV and go to bed

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and drone on for twenty plus years hoping for a

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better retirement. No, we gotta do better in the journey itself.

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We got to know how to find contentment and stop

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thinking that we have to say yes all the time

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and work overtime for a company that doesn't even care

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about you. When you know somebody like Wells Fargo will

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go for days and not know this person's dead, and

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that position will be refilled by the end of the week.

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Isolation is a real thing. The holidays are not always

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the most exciting and the most appreciated and the most

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uplifting for everybody. So blockad Nation, reach out, reach out

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to whoever it is your group of people, and they'll

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reach out to somebody, and we can avoid things like

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this for somebody who deserved better in their last breathing

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days than being stuck in a cubicle in a meaningless job,

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and we can seek to do better. You want to

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talk about it, you can reach out in the comments,

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you can reach out to me through social media. However,

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it is I enjoy the passion I get behind being

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on the microphone and talking with you. This is a

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fate I wouldn't wish on anyone for any reason. And

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it's inexcusable by the company. It's inexcusable that America would

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just move on, say oh, that's terrible, and just move

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on to the next thing. It's time to break the stigma,

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blockad Nation. It's time that things like this don't have

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ever again. How befitting that the scripture reading for today's

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podcast is a well known verse Philippians, Chapter four, Verse thirteen.

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You see it day in and day out. You hear

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it often and simply from the NIV version, I can

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do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. But if

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we look at the reflection from Blue Layer Bible, this

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shines the light of truth on what the true intention

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in context of what this verse means the whole chapter

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of Philippians, chapter four, when the apostle Paul wrote that

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he can do all things through Christ, we have to

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understand that it's in the light of his circumstances. The

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apostle Paul declares that he could find contentment and even

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joy in every situation. Though we may not be in

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the most desirable place currently where we are, we should

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find our contentment and our joy in knowing that Christ

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is the one who gives us the strength to get

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through anything and ride through any storm, blockhead nation. That's

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the truth of that segment and of that entire chapter

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of Philippians. So as I get into the second part

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of my show where I talk about mixed martial arts,

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it's already done for the day. Because this fight took

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place at five am Central Standard time. It was located

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in the Galaxy Arena in China. So the main event's

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already done. Number three ranked pewter Yan versus the up

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and comer, the former flyweight champion number five. Davison figuredo

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it slightly favored pewter Yan as a former champion versus

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a guy who's held the goal but is now very

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comfortable in the bantamweight division, and ultimately pewter Yon gets

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his hand raised, which not long after that you have

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a tweet from none of then Cheeto Vera who wants

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to get back in there and face the current number

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three ranked former champion Pewter Yawn. So that's currently where

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we stand as of this morning. Woke up to that

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my dear friends over there at Against the Fence MMA

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channel who do a great job of covering the fights live,

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minute by minute, round by round. So shout out to

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the guys from Against the Fence to cy Ash and JK.

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But their job was already done by the time I

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got up this morning, So not much for me to

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repair you for and get you ready for the event.

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But what I can do is take a look at

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December seventh, that's coming around, so we've got the holidays

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coming up. There really won't be much for a wif

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B to discuss on the second end until that upcoming week,

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So we'll see what happens with the podcast during the

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holiday break. I'll probably do one, but I might just

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focus at very peanuts centered as I did at MMA

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take Down last week. But just know that if we

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look forward to December seventh, to the T Mobile Arena

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in Las Vegas, apparently we still have the fight with

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Vicente Luke and Nick Diaz. This is still on the

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on the cart. It's been dropped to the prelams where

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I feel like there is a fight that is jerking

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the curtain for Vicente Luke and Nick Diaz that should

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be addressed. That might be a better barn burner, and

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that would be a welterweight bout with Randy Brown and

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Ultimate Fighter winner Brian Battle. Brian Battle has been doing

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exceptionally well in the UFC. This is a guy that

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is very much on the rise from an athletic standpoint

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and could be just as beneficial to the UFC as

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somebody like I don't know, Joe Pifer or Bo Nickel.

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I think there's some star power behind this kid, which

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he is in the welter weight division, which is heavily

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stacked at this point, one point seventy is gonna be

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really rough to be able to make a name for

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yourself in the top ten. But is there a chance

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for Brian Battle. I would say, sure, give him a

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couple of years. We'll see how well Marinate he becomes.

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But to finish off the prelams, you got the light

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heavyweight bout between Anthony Smith and Dominic Reyes fighting for

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a number twelve position into the main card. I do

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feel like there's something that's a little bit off kilter,

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but it's still exciting for me. I'm always interested when

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Bryce Mitchell has a fight coming up. It just happens

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to be who he's facing. Which he's facing featherweight Crown Gracie. Okay,

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Gracy is not coming off of a win from the

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last time he was in the cage in twenty twenty five.

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Didn't look too great in that last fight. Not to

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mention he's fought Cup Swanson. He usually typically goes all

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three rounds. He's gotten a few submissions in the past.

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But I just don't see how you put in Bryce

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Mitchell against Kron Gracie. Not particularly fond of the matchup there,

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but I'm always interested when Bryce Mitchell tips into the cage.

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How can you not when it's thug nasty. You got

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the heavyweight bout between Cyril Gohn and Alexander Volkov, which

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number two versus number three. I understand not a lot

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of firepower behind that one, since the heavyweight division has

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been cleaned out by Tom aspinall that, I've talked about

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more than enough in the last couple of episodes. But

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where we really get interesting is this. The undefeated streaks

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are on the line the Cole main event for December seventh,

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and I can break this more down in detail as

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a gets closer. You got shove caught rockmanof undefeated versus

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Ian Gary undefeated number three versus number seven rankings in

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the welterweight bout. So there's been a lot of I

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guess hopefulness behind Ian Gary being the next Connor McGregor

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two point zero. Since he's from Ireland, he has a

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lot of the same tendencies. He'll walk the same Vince

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McMahon arm slinging style that Connor would do. But again,

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he's undefeated. He's clearly a dangerous fighter. The odds very

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much seem to be in favor of Shopcott Rockman off

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from Kazastan, but the betting averages don't seem to say that.

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Currently as we speak, Ian Gary is considered a heavier favorite,

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And my only question is why how do you justify

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that one? Because you have to consider when these two

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face each other, one of their undefeated streaks goes way,

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and now there's no way for that particular fighter, whoever

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wins this one, to not say this one doesn't deserve

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a shot at the title against Beleel Mohammad. And Bealel

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Mohammad is not a whole lot to get excited about.

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He's very much somebody of the UFC fans don't enjoy

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saying that he's a current champion. His wrestling ability is

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off the charts. But if anybody seems to be more

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of a threat to Belel Mohammad at this point, I'd

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have to say, from a stylistic standpoint, it's shot Gott

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rockmanof So we'll see how that plays out. But that's

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where it gets interesting. Two undefeated streaks. Clearly the winner

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gets a direct shot at the title, and that's how

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it should be. But again, matchup against Bleel Mohammad, I

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don't see how I Gary really has a chance against him,

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but I certainly can see how Rockmanov could destroy and

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dismantle blow Mohammad and become the next champion by the

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way undefeated streaks on the line. Flyweight title bout will

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be the current flyweight champion Alexandre Pantosia against Japanese uprising

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star Kai Osakura, and I'm all for it. I'm all

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for this one being the main event. I love anytime

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that the flyweights get the recognition they deserve. So I

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can go in more detail on this from the MMA side,

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but I'll just end simply on whether you want to

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hear this or not that Wyfe b told you so.

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Anybody who watched the fight with Tyson and Paul, you

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fell for it. You drank the kool aid, You hoped

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there was a chance. And how can you tell me

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that you really didn't see that coming. Same thing with

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John Jones and Steve Amyojic. How did you not see

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that coming? Now it's a matter of negotiating on who

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has more power. Why do I say that it was

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made clear by Dana White that the winner should at

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and I quote absolutely fight Tom absolutely should fight Tom

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aspinall crowd pops, crowds behind it one hundred percent. John

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Jones says, the one thing you don't want to say,

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knock it off. Anything that would diminish your credibility. Not

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a smart move. John in his post conference is saying,

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and I see less of a risk factor with Alex Pereira. Uh,

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this just makes me want to bang my head against

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the wall right now. So when it comes to fighting

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a guy who's a light heavyweight that has not relinquished

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his title, but any fan would love to see him

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go up because there's still the hope that he could

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be the one to dismantle John Jones. But John Jones

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made it clear that there's no interest I have in Tom,

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but I'm certainly interested in Alex, who has more power here.

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If John Jones gets his way, then Daniel White has

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this false allure of being the final, say, the final

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enforcer in the world of the UFC. If Daniel finally

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pushes his force on John Jones and said you won,

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you say you want to take this route, but we've

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made a very clear that you should absolutely fight Tom

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aspinall who's the interim champion. Regardless of how you feel

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about interim champions, I understand their placeholders. I understand their

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brass rings. I understand that they are not the title.

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It just means that John Jones cannot claim himself to

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be an undisputed heavyweight title holder without facing Tom. It's

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still a major hang up. It's still the fans are

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not looking at the magician's left hand. They know that

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the trick is up. Kat's out of the back. You

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don't want to face Tom. You want to face Alex

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because there's a possibility that you could out wrestle him

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and you could submit him. You don't have to throw

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hands with him because you've got reach advantage over him.

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Who typically Alex Pereira has had the reach advantage over

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the last year, no matter how many times he's been

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asked to come into the cage. So I admire Alex

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Perera for all he's done and for the UFC gates

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that he has brought in in the last year plus.

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It absolutely wears me out. So it comes down to

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who has the most power at this point, like the

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phrase Masters of the Universe, I have the power. Is

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that going to be Dana White or if we have

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a confirmed fight with John Jones and Alex Perera, which

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you're not going to get Francis Nagano because he is

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part of a different organization, and that's where a lot

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of the Jinga tower started to fall when he left.

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That made everything start to unravel in the heavyweight division.

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And I can show you the pattern of I need

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to go back through that. You're not getting Nagano. Does

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and Dana's word hold supreme? Or does John Jones truly

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have that much power to once again duck tom Aspinall

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and to take a fight with Alex Pereira, which I

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love the idea of the fight. I love the idea

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of a super fight with Tom Aspinall and Alex Pereira.

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We still have this hang up with Unclive at the

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light heavyweight division. What do you do here? And we'll

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see how all that transpires. But I told you so.

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I told you so with Tyson and Paul, I told

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you so with Jones and Miochich. That's not me being arrogant.

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That's just sometimes I have prophetic words over here block

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ed Nation. Now my prophetic words are being put on

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the table again. One of these two is going to

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have power. It's either going to be Dana White or

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John Jones we'll see who it is, and I will

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join you for sure, neither next week or the week

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after that, same blockhead time, same blockhead check. M hmmm