Easter Beagles Prevail Where MMA Confuses

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Broadcasting Live good evening block and Nation. Sorry for the delay, had a

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few things to take care of today, a lot of volunteer work. When

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I'm finally back on the microphone with
you again, you are listening to your

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favorite Blockhead, the only podcast in
the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the

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Peanuts comic strip one minute and then
be talking about MMA and Warriors inside the

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Octagon the next. I am your
host. My name is Brian Little.

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And since I mentioned already that it
was a kind of a long day for

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me, but it was a good
day. Got to spend some time so

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what's called the Running Free Ranch.
I'm enjoying volunteering for them, and that

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was just kind of a big day
where a lot of the friends of the

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local area got to go meet the
horses. So let me just kind of

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help you with this one. If
you don't know what equestrian therapy is,

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I'm not sure who's tuning in.
I'm not sure if you're local, I'm

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not sure if you are different parts
of the United States or different parts of

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the world. Eventually the data will
come through and I can actually figure out

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where most of my listeners are coming
from. They're most of the US.

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But if you never heard of what
equestrian therapy is, it literally means you

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are working with horses. That doesn't
mean you're riding them necessarily. It doesn't

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mean that it's a petting zoo.
It does mean that you work with a

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horse because that particular animal mirrors everything
that you do. Now, why am

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I bringing all that up. I
bring it up because a few years back

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we lost Charlie. It pains me
to say it, but I'm not talking

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about losing the character or the longevity
of the pea nuts in any way.

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That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the life of a man

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named Peter Robbins came to an end
tragically. Peter Robbins, in many ways,

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will be the voice of my childhood. So those that are listening in,

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I do my best to be as
not only math factually correct. I

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do my best to follow what the
statistics say. I try to be as

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contrarian when I need to be.
But I just want you to know this

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one's gonna be very personal because three
things are always talked about on this podcast.

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Number one Guy's King. Number two
Peanuts is the single most successful comic

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strip in American history, and I
can give you plenty of hard evidence to

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back that up. And the third
thing I talk about is mixed Marshall Lars

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is the greatest sport under God's hot
sun. So if you want to hear

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about MMA, you're gonna have to
fast forward a little bit, and that's

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gonna be on part two, after
I've done my scripture of the day.

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But going back to Peter Robbins,
his life comes to an end a few

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years back, and I still vividly
remember so many of the lines he would

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say from one of the classic TV
series known as Charlie Brown All Stars.

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This one is a special episode from
me, and I often use references to

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it quite often. It could be
about surfing. It could be about skateboarding

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because that happens in the episodes.
It could be about baseball. It could

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be just related to Charlie Brown and
having to make some difficult decisions. So

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Charlie Brown All Stars, if you've
never seen it, is actually a really

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good starting point outside of your seasonal
TV episodes like your Christmas, your Thanksgiving,

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your Halloween. Yes, I know
that Easter is coming up soon.

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We got to talk about the Easter
Beagle. But I want to honor and

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give respect to the life, the
legacy and to the family of Peter Robbins.

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So when it comes to that particular
episode, I mention now that I've

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spent most of the day volunteering.
It's something called the Running Free Ranch that's

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easy to find if you just google
it. I can put the links up

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in the blog if you wanted to, lot, y'all reach out to me

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through comments. But if you never
experienced anything like this, if you really

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are facing something, if you're facing
true weight on your shoulders, and most

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of you them I'm talking to are
men. There's a few females that come

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and go when they listen to this
podcast, But you men, hear me

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speak to anyone, preferably somebody who
does have the proper licensure, preferably some

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one who has a clinical practice of
some kind. In this case, the

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Running Free Ranch is free of cost. And it's my honor to watch at

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risk children, veterans who are facing
PTSD, to watch families that are on

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the brink of destruction come through and
work with the Ranch and be able to

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find things that show them true freedom. From a biblical aspect, in a

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spiritual sense and a mental but yes, they promote mental health. I don't

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talk about it enough on this podcast
about mental health because what I am attempting

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to do is to entertain you.
I'm attempting to show you things about the

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comic the Peanuts, or the TV
shows or the movie or the Charles Schultz

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Museum, whatever the case may be, and then talk to you about my

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favorite sport. But nothing's more important
than what I just said. Speak to

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someone. I will hope you find
the true freedom that you need, need

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to lift that way off your shoulders, to take those burdens, because Jesus's

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yoke is easy. So if you're
not ready to dive into the Bible and

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look for scriptural truth, then I'm
asking you to look into something that is

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mental health. Unfortunately, we were
not able to get to Peter Robbins in

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time, so his voice as Charlie
Brown finally hitting a base hit and gain

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a triple. Unfortunately, he doesn't
steal home base. He gets a little

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bit too a little too obnoxious,
over anxious thinking he can be the winner

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of the game, and he makes
a bold move that was not a smart

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mood to begin with, but still
either way, this will be Peter Robbins

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that I will remember. I believe
he was also when Ye're in Love Charlie

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Brown. So these TV series that
I did grow up with Peter Robbins will

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always be tattooed in my mind and
on my heart. So if you are

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carrying something, you can reach out
to blockhead, you can reach out to

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me. You can send your prayers
up quick, throw up a Hail Mary

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and say father, I gotta get
some things right with you. Iron sharpens

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iron. If you need to surround
yourself with other good men that are willing

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to hear what you've got in a
time of crisis, then so be it.

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So if I haven't talked about that
enough, yes, I enjoy volunteering

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for the Run Free Ranch. I'm
not sure what services you have where you

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listen to, but this absolutely matters. It wasn't something that was during COVID

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and a little bit post COVID.
No, this is now and for the

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rest of our lives. If we
need to revisit it and re evaluate it,

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it's fine, so be it.
But all my love to the Peter

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Robbins family still miss you. And
so it comes to we've got the seasonal

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aspect of the Peanuts, which is, you got Easter on the horizon,

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and the Easter Beagle will not let
you down. Those of you that understand

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that Easter is on the third day, our Savior rose that morning, that

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will be an active beagle out there
with a basket full of eggs, probably

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stolen from Lucy van Pelt, but
it doesn't matter. He will fulfill his

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obligations. He does not let you
down. I have told you this.

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It's questionable with the Great Pumpkin.
I'm still working with the tracker. My

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app has been not doing much for
me when it comes to the Great Pumpkin.

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But I give you one hundred percent
assurance that the Easter Beagle will fulfill

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what he says he's going to do. He will show up. He takes

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care of it. He proved that
in the Easter episode. It's the Easter

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Beagle Charlie Brown. He showed up. He didn't have Granted, he didn't

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have enough eggs for Charlie Brown.
I mean that's the story of Charlie Brown's

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life, nonetheless, but still he
came through. You want proof that Peanuts

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is that great? Have you ever
noticed that Looney Tunes is often considered the

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greatest cartoon of all time. They
say Bugs Bunny, Yeah, there was

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an old fifties or forties episode about
Easter eggs and Easter bunnies. The Easter

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Bunny in that particular cartoon was definitely
a sloth who handed off his responsibilities to

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Bugs Bunny and the job still didn't
get done. If you wanna go find

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it, you can just google Looney
Tune's Easter Y Eggs. You wanna watch

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the episode. By all means,
children like that you find in the home.

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I mean, who would want to
be an Easter bunny. But when

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it comes to the Easter Beetle,
he will wherever you have let your children

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down. You didn't get those Reese's
Pieces eggs this year, It doesn't matter.

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He's coming. He will arrive.
It's been prophesied since the seventies,

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since the time that that episode came
out. I assure you the Easter Beagle

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will not let you down. Blockhead
Nation. I have no shakiness in my

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voice whatsoever. I have nothing but
blessed assurance. The Easter Beagle is here

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to stay, and he will come, He will deliver, and he will

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head off into the sunset go back
on his snoopy doghouse and rejuvenate for next

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year. You have my one guarantee
stamped on that sign, sealed delivered.

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We'll see you for part two.
Our scripture in for this podcast comes from

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Psalm one hundred and four, verse
fourteen. He causes the grass to grow

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for the cattle and herb for the
service of man, that he may bring

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forth food out of the earth.
Reflection Lula. Our Bible says the Lord

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is ever our provider. So if
you're wondering where this is going, let's

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get back to the description. Never
shall our souls stand in need of any

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necessity. This is what happens when
you're God's child. You don't lack strength

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in days of trouble because they are
provided by the Lord Almighty. May you

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know that truth? Blockhead Nation as
we go back and we observe a few

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things from last week that got under
my skin, one in particular. Okay,

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and it's more than just how the
fight ended. So we're gonna go

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back to UFC Fight Night CO main
event Brian Battle versus Lusa. Okay,

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Brian Battle is putting on a clinic. He is cleaning up Lusa as they

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say from pillar to post somewhere in
the second round as battle is really starting

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to heat up again, and Lusa, even though he's the stronger of the

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two, it just has no answer. Every time he throws a combo,

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battle will throw back two. We
have this eye grazing. Now, that's

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been a problem for so long with
the gloves in the UFC. We've had

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so many eyepokes that it is just
getting old at this point. So I

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look at this and Lusa is in
the corner, and I don't know really

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if there's some kind of a language
barrier, only because when the doctor is

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talking to him and asking him can
he fight? Can he see out of

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his eye? Mike Beltran is probably
more soft spoken in this moment, and

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I've seen him in a long time. Mike Beltran, hands down is my

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favorite referee. This guy doesn't take
any crap off anyone, but when he

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needs to be candid or when he
needs to be careful with his words,

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he can be. He's well trained
in that he's been a police officer,

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So with all of his training and
the way how soft spoken he approaches this,

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you still have a calling off of
the fight. Whether the doctor says

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he can't see out of his eye. He's fifty percent. This is an

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unfortunate end to what was clearly going
to be a battle victory. Now this

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is where it gets questionable, mind
you, because I responded to this in

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a very heated manner because I don't
like a lot of trash talk after a

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fight's over. I really don't mind
it as it leads up to a fight,

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knowing that's part of the promotion.
But something about this just didn't smell

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right. Let me walk you through. They call it a no contest.

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The referee steps out of the way. This isn't Mike Beltrand, but these

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two are left in the cage after
the decision is made, staring at each

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other. The camera seems to move
inward, expecting something to unfold. Okay,

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it's not like it zooms right into
the action. We just know these

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two are looking at each other with
nobody separating them, and all of a

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sudden, they're exchanging words and they're
both starting to flex a little bit as

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they move closer to each other.
Then the teams and the coaches step in

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and Brian Battle is saying, I
was kicking your a asterisk asterist and Lusa

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is shouting back and throwing his fingers, so all kinds of chaos is broken

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it. There's no separation for a
second here, and we have to listen.

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And this is what's strange to me
in a no contest. Why is

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Michael Bisping bringing a microphone up to
Brian battle even though he's winning the fight.

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Why is he going in for an
interview in the heat of battle and

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with all the tensions as hot as
they are. You know, you can

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cut the anticipation and the tension in
that cage with a knife, even though

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both participants have been separated. And
so we get this breakdown of how I

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was beating him up and using all
kinds of four letter words, and you

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know, we get subjected to that. There's plenty of people that don't mind

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that kind of trash talk. I
have a problem with it after the bell

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I have a problem with it at
after the fight happens, controversy or not,

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you run it back, we figure
this out. I don't mind it

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leading up to the event. I
have a problem with this one. But

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it makes me question everything. Why
do we have a strange eye grazing when

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we've seen worse in the past,
where we know that the fingers even penetrated

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into the eye. This is just
one grazing. He could have taken the

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time to end this fight. It
makes me question the motive of the organization.

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Did we really just see a possible
coup de'ta? This is a large

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stretch here, but it still makes
me go it's zooming in on the action.

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There's nobody between these two. You
know, the tensions are high.

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Is he just high tailing it out
because he doesn't want any part of what

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Battle and Loose are about to do. Or are we really trying to build

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up the drama to bring us forward
to the next fight, to the next

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five that leads to UFC three hundred. What are we doing here? I

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don't understand the business model from two
ninety nine to three hundred at this point.

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If that's what you're doing, it
certainly seems like a lot of the

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dirty workings of boxing and even professional
wrestling thrown in there, doesn't it.

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It makes you question is this a
work or is this a shoot? I

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don't have a great answer Blockhead Nation. It just it irritates me and they

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need to have that fight back.
But who knows. LUSA might be cut

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but It reminds me of something that
happened in season five of The Ultimate Fighter,

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because we didn't hear from Dane White, Daniel White when season five happened.

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You had two guys who got into
a scuffle in the house. That's

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one of the biggest no nos you
can do in the house. You don't

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fight there, you fight in the
cage. But apparently this is okay for

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the ratings gods because Marlon Simms and
Noah in up going at it for real

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in the house, and it's provoked
by the guys who've been sitting around the

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campfire having a little too many to
drink that night. So either way,

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you have a scuffle. The next
day, Dana White calls everybody into the

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liver room and says, what you
guys did last night is exactly what I've

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been working to reverse for years.
You showed America that y'all are not a

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bunch of athletes, but you're a
bunch of goons. So when I look

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at something like that, so in
some nation with season five The Ultimate Filre,

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Marlin's gone, Noah's gone, and
Lobster, the guy who instigated everything

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in many ways, are gone.
Really, Nate Diaz kind of threw the

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grenade out there, but he didn't
really get involved in But it just comes

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down to season five. There's a
lot of drama here and there's a fight

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and that's a violation of all the
rules, and Dana says, I've been

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working too hard for us to go
backwards. You're out of here. So

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why is he quiet between Battle and
LUSA at this point for showing the UFC

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to be not athletes but a bunch
of goons. He doesn't say the same

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thing. He doesn't even he almost
pleads the fifth in this situation. So

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I had to throw that out there. Then we get to the main event

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where we find out too of Asa
is too easy to figure out on the

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heavyweight division. All the cracks and
ends armor, all the holes in his

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game have been revealed, so that
jet's been cooled at this point. But

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I have to throw another out there. If we're going to talk about grenades,

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we can talk about a potential fight
that's being talked about in the world

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of X or Twitter, whatever it's
called. The days Ian Gary has called

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out Colby Covington. Guys. The
only thing I can say about that as

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we're speaking now is once you've thrown
that out there, is there really any

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turning back? I wouldn't think so. The fans are gonna want to see

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this fight. They're gonna want to
see the undefeated Ian Gary versus the bad

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boy that is Colby Covington. This
could easily be trash talking that brings,

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which can be really the honey that
draws the flies. Now that you put

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it out there, can you retract
it? Now? I'm interested in Ian

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chrisus Colby Ian gar visus Colby Covington. Can we make it happen? And

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at what weight class? Now?
But ultimately, another thing I have to

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say for the flyweight division, this
was kind of strange how we have a

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win for ersg not long ago.
Now it looks like the flyweight division,

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the championship will be on the line
with Pantosia versus Ersag number ten ranked versus

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number one ranked champion. Isn't that
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It makes me ask what's wrong with
some of the guys that are in

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the top five. If you're going
to bring ers Sag along, I'm all

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for it, But he's automatically the
fresh coat of paint over people like Kai

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Carter Frasa over guys like Ali Albasi. I'm sorry if I mispronounced his name.

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Kay, Carter Frantz number four,
Albasi number three. We're going straight

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to the top and having him face
Pantosia. So the flyways is starting to

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get a little interesting. But I
don't have a great why for you on

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that one as we speak. So
to move into tonight, we do have

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the main event, Amanda Hebas versus
Rose. Rose is returning. Great to

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see that, but I have to
give one more thing. I've been talking

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about this for a while when it
comes to the casual fan, do you

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really have enough firepower with UFC three
hundred When you ask anybody that's a casual

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fan, do you know who Jamal
is? What this is is a reward

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for us MMA fans who have followed
the last several years. And I'm not

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saying it isn't deserving. It's very
deserving, But where's your extra firepower?

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Where's the extra gravy on this one? And we're not able to solidify that.

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What we do have is a bold
statement made by Jamal Hill. This

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is probably why he should be known
from this point on Jamal Hill versus Alex

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Perea. Jamal Hill, who never
lost the title, steps away because of

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an injury, doesn't hold up the
division. Alex Perea comes in one of

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the biggest monsters ever in the history
of the light heavyweight division, with some

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of the biggest hands I've never seen
outside of brock Lesnar and he's holding the

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championship as the interim. And it
is the statement that Jamal made where he

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said April thirteenth main event, the
judges can just head home because trust they

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won't be needed. Jamal Hill's already
calling for either a knockout or a submission,

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and I would assume I've left to
assume that that means early. So

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all this build up to this monster
who's the champion holding what was rightfully his

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to begin with a phenomenal mma IQ
that Jamal Hill has. If you don't

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know who Jamal is, I'm pretty
sure when UFC three hundred is over,

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for better or for worse, you're
gonna know who Jamal Hill is. And

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