Jan. 12, 2025

Citizen Blockhead Address Dana White's Bold Move

Citizen Blockhead Address Dana White's Bold Move

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Broadcasting Live good Evening, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping

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by once again. You are listening to your favorite blockhead,

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the only podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow

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incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little.

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First and foremost, I am sincerely praying for everybody that

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is a neighbor in the West Coast, for everybody that

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is facing the wildfires out there. I just pray that

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you are safe and there's as little damage to you

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as possible. If there has been catastrophically speaking, I just

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pray for you, and I pray for your journey, and

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I just hope that things are as well as possible.

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I asked that you cry out to the Great Comforter

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himself and the Great Healer, but also for those who

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have been facing the cold weather that's been the majority

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of my listeners on here. I was tempted to ask

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you if you would want to sit down and watch

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a particular movie during the unexpected break that a lot

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of us got. Now, not everybody was fortunate, but at

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least for my listeners in North Texas weather kept us

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all home.

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It was pretty sporadic.

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It was here and miss But again, I just pray

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for everybody that's out there, and I necessrely hope a

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locke a nation, that you are well, that you are safe.

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I pray for your friends, your family, anybody that's been

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affected by the wildfires, anybody who's been affected by the

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cold weather. I pray you've been as safe as possible.

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But I wanted to bring up this movie mostly because

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the Charles Sheltz Museum put a highlight on it this week.

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So what I'll begin with is simply what's considered the

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greatest movie of all time? You think I automatically start

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talking about Peanuts, quite frankly, I am because Charles Schultz

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the creator of Peanuts, among many others, including things like oh,

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I don't know, Rotten Tomatoes. Again, that can be a

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very biased platform, but if you look at it, one

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of the most respected and considered to be one of

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the greatest movies of all time, and clearly Charles Schultz's

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favorite movie of all time was from nineteen forty one

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Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. Then actual quote from Charles schultzaid,

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I used to go to the movies all the time.

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I used to go a lot by myself. I can

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still think of the feeling I had when I walked

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out of the theater after seeing Citizen Kane. I knew

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that I had seen something great. There have been several

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depictions of Citizen Kane all through the Peanuts comic strip,

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from Sally Brown in her sleep with a glass globe

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next to her, to where Snoopy is riding a sled

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and a reference to Rosebud to Linus having the whole

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movie spoiled for him by Lucy, to where the younger

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brother Rerun is watching the show and he doesn't want

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Lucy to ruin the movie experience for him, to where

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most of the gang is standing in line at the

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movie is getting the movie ticket, where Violet is paying

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for her ticket, Franklin is talking to Marcy about this

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movie is something about hockey players, where it's reiterated by

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Peppermint Patty, to where Linus mentions about high sticking being

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illegal and Charlie Brown mentioning the world being saved, where

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Woodstock turns to Snoopy with his bird etiquette and his rhetoric,

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and Snoopy responds no Rosebud was his sled. Okay, I'm

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not gonna tell you what to think about this classic movie.

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You've never seen Citizen Kane, you should sit.

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Down and watch it. If you have, you might know.

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That the biggest takeaway is not just a lost love,

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but it's really, in its most basic form, a loss

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of self, how empty our idols can be, and a

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search for childhood innocence. All that can be intertwined into

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the understanding of Citizen Kane. And for those that were home,

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if you haven't had a chance to see this movie,

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as much as I'd like to tell you go out

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and watch Glady or two, and go out and watch

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some of these new releases that are coming out, I

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tell you sit down and watch Citizen Kane if you've

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never seen it. And in the same year I was born,

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in nineteen eighty four, seventeen Peanuts comic strips had referenced

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that film. That was just a few that I spouted

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out sporadically right there on this episode, And by the

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time nineteen eighty four came around in September, you had

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the reference to something called rose Beagel. Literally you had

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Snoopy holding up a sled with the name Rose Bagel

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attached to it. Quite a fun little comic where it's

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even got the pawpet theater and it's about a man

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who got everything he wanted and then he lost it again.

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All of a reference to the characters Insists and Kine,

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but also something about Citizen Kane is. There's been a

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lot of controversy behind it on the screenwriting from Orson Wells,

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who played the main role, but also Simlenteous had worked

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with the guy who worked with him in radio after

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he had done the recording of War of the Worlds

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and freaked out everybody on the radio broadcast. So he

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makes his debut in the movie Theater in nineteen forty one.

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But again, it's got so many layers to it that

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if you've never seen it, says and Kane is worth

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your time. Another one that's worth your time. If I

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can transition just a little bit into a TV special,

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I got some friends listening who will appreciate this that

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I know you've been paying attention. I'm talking about You're

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a good man, Charlie Brown. If you've never seen the

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online presence of that, through television or through Broadway, you

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should immerse in it a little bit anything from the

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book report that's more in depth than you think it

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might be, to Charlie Brown not be able to get

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a kite in the air, to something as simple as

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Schroeder marveling at the consistency of Charlie Brown, who's never

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won a game of checkers, never won a baseball game.

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown has some depth to

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it that I'm sure diving into a movie and Kane

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that Charles Schultz saw many times in his life, to

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where that movie has even been depicted on shows like

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Family Guy and even Drunk History did a full episode

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about Citizen Kane and the backstory and the controversy that

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happened behind it. But if you look at You're a

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Good Man Charlie Brown, there are layers upon this one

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as well. There are many that I know that have

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played parts in that show, whether you were Charlie Brown

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orhether you were Lucy Lionis Sally. If you ever played

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the part of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, maybe

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you forgot or maybe you remember and recall very well

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the depth to that show with again a shocker to

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the crowd or Snoopy would have a speaking part referencing summertime,

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referencing the night sky, even Charlie Brown's infatuation with a

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little red hair girl and realizing they have something in

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common because they both nibble their It seems so trivial

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and so and even with the way Citizen Kane has

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continuous layers to it that can still be broken down

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to this day in twenty twenty five, all the way

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from nineteen forty one. Please don't overlook the complexity to

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Charles Schultz, and I've given you just one example from

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the stage from the musical, from where he would continuously

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give you chunks throughout the episode that may have seemed sporadic,

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but I believe they were more parable esque than you

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may realize. Now, for those that might be new that

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are tuning in, in case you haven't figured this out,

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this show is for your convenience. In other words, if

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you are a Peanuts fan, I'm glad you stuck it

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out this long. If you are an Mma fan, that's

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what Part two is all about. Three things are always

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talked about in this show. Number one, God is King.

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Number two Peanuts is the single most success comic strip

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in American history that expounded upon movies like Citizen Kane.

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It wasn't just being biblical, it was also satirical. It

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was also bringing to light things from society and culture

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that needed to be addressed. Which leaves a wide field

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open to what Charles Schultz, if he had lived to

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see things of our generation September eleventh, the housing crisis,

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the pandemic, how would he have addressed that? Because he

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certainly did not shy away from anything complex or anything

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that was It might have seemed obscure, but he would

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bring it to the surface. I'm sure a lot of

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you are going on now. My life is complete, something

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Charles Schultz said in another special. But if you have

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made it this far, you are clearly a devout blockhad

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Nation member. And what I would like to do is

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do something I haven't done in the entire time that

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I've been doing. This episode of these episodes of this

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podcast has been eight years, and I regret saving it

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for this long because it was finally suggested to me

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that you do something called the Blockhead of the week.

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Well we're gonna do that. Drum roll please? Who gets it?

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This week?

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The very first one, Mister and missus Roberts yeah you.

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I'm quite aware of who's been listening to the show.

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If we of you have let the cat out of

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the bag, but have not done this at all in

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this show. But this is the first time I do it.

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Blockhead of the Week goes to you too, So who

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knows you continue to stick around to twenty twenty five,

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you might very well hear your name on this little

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podcast representing you. Now we move on to the scripture

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of the day and we will get into mma.

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But to mister and missus Roberts, congratulations.

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I'm sure I'll think of another way to reward you

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according over the next couple of weeks.

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Just bear with me, TBD.

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Our scripture in for this podcast comes from Hebrews three,

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verse fourteen. For we are made partakers of Christ if

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we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the

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end reflection for bluet or Bible dot Org says, here

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we have an encouragement to keep on walking the walk.

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God will help us to persevere. He would never give

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us something that we cannot do through him. That's a

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key thing blocking nation when people say he won't give

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me more than I can handle. Actually, there's nothing biblical

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about that. Yes, he will.

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Listen to this again.

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He would never give us something that we cannot do

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through him. I'm putting a lot of emphasis on that one.

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As partakers of Christ, as it says here in the

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third chapter of Hebrews, we have the privilege of having

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Christ's righteousness put on us. Then God sees Christ instead

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of our sin. We are allowed this privilege if we

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persevere in the practice and proclamation of who our Savior

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truly is. That's the truth blockad nation. I always put

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my opinions in when it comes to peanuts. I give

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my opinions on my sport, which would be mixed martial arts,

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which I'll get into in depth here, and I'm really

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going to spend more time speculating than anything else. But

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I always make sure the truth is brought to you

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with the scripture of the day. Now, I don't really

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know how everybody sees this move that has happened throughout

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the Internet, throughout social media. I don't know how much

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validity it has as of right now, but it seems

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like in the midst of all that's been going on

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as of Trump becoming president in twenty twenty five, some

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other things have taken place that I can't put my

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finger on, but I can certainly again speculate. You come

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to me as a content creator, as an m and

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a enthusiast, as a fan of the sport. Please don't

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take anything that I have here as more than an opinion.

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That's my disclaimer for this part. Because Dana White, owner

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of the UFC, it's been announced that he is now

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one of the board members I believe, the board of

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directors for the company Meta. Now I'm probably speaking to

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the choir here when I say this, but there is

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something in the world of investing, in the world of

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Wall Street known as the magnificence since seven. One would

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be Meta, which is a combination of Facebook Instagram, very

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much run by Zuckerberg. One would be Amazon, one would

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be Tesla, another would be Navidia, the other would be Microsoft.

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One would be Apple.

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You know, the Magnificent seven, mostly tech companies. And for

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Dana to do this, as much as I don't want

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to admit it, and it's not that I want to

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hold to tradition, it's just when I see this, I

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see red flags all over it. I see an exit strategy.

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Not so much that Dana White has not done well

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with the sport ever since he and the Forteda brothers

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came in and out of the ABYSS and brought us

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into the modern era of the UFC, which we just

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had maybe four or five of the most money ever

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made at the Gates in twenty twenty four, at least

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with the last few pay per views that we had

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from three six at the sphere to three three to

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three hundred to two ninety nine, So much money has

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been made at the gates for people who've been attending

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So all that to be considered regardless of the political.

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Ideologies and the battle back and forth between the two

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different colors. What I will tell you is when I

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see somebody who is as influential on the sport as

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Dana White is, and all of a sudden, he's made

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the same move that I saw a guy named Vince

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McMahon not long ago do when he sold his company

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and when it became absorbed, and eventually that became something

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called TKO, which is the ticker symbol if you're looking

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for that in the world of investing for stocks. And

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again not saying I know more than anybody else here,

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this is just me giving speculation when I realize that

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Dana White has his ship has come in and the

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captain would be none other than Zuckerberg himself. Dana White's

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given permission to come aboard, and the ship leaves the

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dock and starts to make its way out to sea,

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and Dana is waving back to us at the mainland.

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We all look around and go, well, now, what, so

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does that mean that he's officially stepped away from the

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UFC entirely, That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that

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if you follow big money and big platform people and

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they make bold moves like this, even from one industry

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to another, that usually to the most basic way I

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can put it is they've been in the movie theater

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with us, watching Citizen Kane, and then they smell smoke

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and they stand up and quietly start moving toward the

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exit before everybody else starts racing to the exits and

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seeing the panic that's going to ensue. So, if this

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is really going to be the case, and Dana has

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thrown up deuces to the UFC and is now part

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of the Meta Platform, and he's doing this as part

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of his exiting of the company, well that means, now

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what for the rest of us. Now, you would think

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an easy transition be somebody like Scott Kocher of Bellator,

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who does know the world of MMA, that can come

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in and just take over. At this point, and again,

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I'm not saying that I have a lot of great

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answers on why this is happening, except to say that

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the organization will move on even without Dana White. Now,

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are we going to hit some peaks in some valleys?

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We already have on many occasions. But if I can

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continue to speculate, just for a second, since we're already

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talking about movies, if you consider the guy that does

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the movie premieres. If I can, I'll do some really

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cheesy sound effects and see if I can build this

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up a little bit.

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Hit the music sho.

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Brown Broom, Brown Browhm.

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Bren Burham.

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In the city You must fight to survive. He dyed

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his hair many vibrant colors. He won the very first

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Ultimate Fighting Championship. I'm gonna stop now. I don't have

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any special effects. If you're not seeing what I'm speculating,

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could make sense now that Dana White's exiting. If you

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put Scott Kocher on the Board of directors. What about

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the owners? The last one who recently held a championship,

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who could go from holding gold to holding all the

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cards is a man who's been doing it right. As

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much as I don't want to admit this, it's a

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combination of old school and new school. Who won the

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very first UFC in nineteen ninety three. Hoys Gracie, who

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currently holds the record for the most UFC gates as

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of twenty twenty four and yet doesn't have a title anymore,

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but could come alongside him and do an old school

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versus new school approach to the UFC moving fall. That's right,

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Sean O'Malley, a guy who understands Dana White's Contender series.

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Imagine if it became Sean O'Malley's Contender series co owners,

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old school and new school working alongside each other.

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Hoys Gracie, who's taught.

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So many inside the industry the importance of non jiu

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jitsu but knowing how to run gyms and manage gems.

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A man who understands marketing, especially in this dan age.

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Is this speculative? Yes?

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Is this kind of a pipe dream, certainly, But if

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you want to put somebody into a position where we

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can move into twenty twenty five. If Dana is exiting

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and there happens to be roadblocks or sometime of bureaucracy

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and red tape holding back Scott Cocher, then what if

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Sean Shelby or Hunter Campbell make a phone call to

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these two guys and go, hey, do you have the cash?

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You have the ability to buy it out when it

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starts to plummet. Be an opportunity of a lifetime for

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both these men. For Hoist Gracie, who can bring in

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the old traditional crowd like myself and keep us entertained.

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Like Sean O'Malley, who understands the new breed, they can

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keep them entertained. And here you are, your new two

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co owners. Just something to itch your itch for MMA fans.

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Now, what can you do?

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Not much until we get more of the details flowing

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in and who makes the offers. What can you do

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about Tonight's man event with Hebos versus Dern which is

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actually a man event shifting back into the Night's Man event.

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There's not much else to do. I mean, even Heboss

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said it herself. It's a good matchup because there's nobody

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else a continuous problem with the women in that division

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not willing to raise their hand and say I'm willing

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to be next. You had that with Dern and Hebas.

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Now if you look at the poster of these two,

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you know why they're fighting again. But you do have

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a rematch, You do have skill for skill, tat for

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tat here. But there's much else to do in this division. Now,

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all of this has been speculative. I'm not the only

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one that does it. There's other speculation out there that

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maybe in twenty twenty five we will see two men's

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zeros put on the line, just like you had with

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Gary versus Rockmanoff. Now you got a guy who's seven

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and oh, are we truly ready to throw him deep

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into the pit and see if he can rise up

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out of it? Or is this the guy who can

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dismantle the fourteen and oh? I'm talking about the talks

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of bo Nickel versus hamschat chamaiav As a UFC insider

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said at one point, somebody zero has got to go.

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Does this seem to be raining gold bricks or is

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this just as you what hurt you heard from the

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last few minutes of this podcast. Speculation We'll see what

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happens in twenty twenty five with Dana White, if this

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is an exit strategy or this is just a chance

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for him to dig into another cookie jar. We will

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see what happens with Hebus and Dern in this whole

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division with not much going on except for a rematch.

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We will see if Nicol, who believes he can out

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wrestle Homsatchemayav does become a reality. But until that time,

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I'm so thankful that you stuck with me this long.

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Blockhead Nation, and as always every week, tune in next Saturday,

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same blockhead time, same blockhead chain. Then they game with

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their day