Episode #283: A Cheshire Cat Takes His Gloves Off…Or Did He?

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Broadcasting Live good evening. Blockhead Nation
hate better late than too late, right.

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I always say I'm gonna put these
out on a Saturday, and that's

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why I intend to do. You
are listening to your favorite blockhead the only

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podcast in the podcasting world that can
somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute

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

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am your host. My name is
Brian Lille. For those who've been waiting

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on the episode to come out,
I apologize. It's been a long day.

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Been trying to get some things done
and get some places and finally got

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behind the microphone can finally talk to
you. And I'll just say this,

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Blockhead Nation. We've always believed,
We've always known, really that Charlie Brown

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struggles with something called kite flying.
Now, you would think after years and

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years of failures and you know,
standing on a pile of garbage after a

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long time, but he would have
the skills and you have the ability to

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correct them, and you know,
somehow fate just doesn't work in his favor.

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He's always gonna be known for the
guy that can't get a kite in

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the air. Well, we found
out there's another character that's in the comic

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strip that is having the same problem
that happens to be Snoopy's sidekick, Woodstock.

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That's right, Woodstock cannot fly a
kite. We found this out in

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nineteen eighty eight. There was a
comic strip showing once again Charlie Brown perfecting

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or not perfecting his craft. And
you happen to see Woodstock with a kite

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eating tree, laughing at his expense, and he walks in the house and

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he's asked how his day went,
and he says, I saw something that

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just made me feel a little bit
better. So, for from the once,

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he's not the one catching all of
the negatives, he's not the one

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catching all of the shaft and it
kind of levels the playing field in many

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ways for him. So, yes, Woodstock can't fly a kite either.

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Charlie Brown can't keep a kite in
the air, but neither can Woodstock.

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And it seemed to again level the
playing field that he's not. You know

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how they always say when you fail, then you're in great company. Well,

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I think that applies also for America's
favorite Blockhead two. I'm always trying

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to make sure that I've got comic
strips that I'm looking at, and there

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was one I came across for this
episode, and I had to do some

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research. Now, a lot of
y'all in here that listened to the show,

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you will probably admit that, even
though you listen in, Peanuts may

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not be your favorite. I stand
by Peanuts being the single most successful comic

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strip of all time. But you
will sit here and probably tell me that

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black that's not my favorite comic,
that's not my favorite character. It's probably

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something Disney or something Looney Tunes related. And that's fine. I actually can

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agree with you many times. On
the top tens, usually Charlie brown Snoopy

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fall into number eight majority of the
time, just above SpongeBob SquarePants. That's

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one little accolade I on mine holding
on too. But there is something to

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the fact that there are other cartoons, and there are other favorites of yours,

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whether they are Disney, whether they
are Looney Tunes, whether they are

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some other TV show that you watch. And that's perfectly all right. This

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one's focused on the single most successful
comic strip of all time. And when

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I say that there was a episode, there was a comic strip that came

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out with Lucy and Elias's little brother. This took place in nineteen ninety seven,

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and their little brother Rerun who has
the mindset of a kid, which

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is like watching somebody surfing the television
channels. Where he's got his hand raised

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and he's next to one of his
peers and he says, man read to

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us about the clumsy kid who fell
down the rabbit hole. He is being

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corrected by this peer. She seems
to be unknown, but she corrects him

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and says, this is Alice.
Okay, so we're talking about Alice in

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Wonderland. I'm not sure if you
are what they call old school and haven't

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watched the original Disney classic of Alice
in Wonderland, or if you are of

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the more modern era and you have
watched the other releases of Alice in Wonderland

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that are more technology based and animation
and you know, wow for your buck.

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But there's something to be said about
this and it's comment. So she's

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crres. His peer corrects him and
says, it's Alice. Okay, we're

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talking about Alice in Wonderland. And
he makes this comment about the Chesapeake cat.

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Okay, we have to make another
correction, this is actually the Cheshire

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Cat. So you see it says
as you pronounce it cheshire or you might

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read it as Cheshire cat. And
if you just take a look at this

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particular character, if you've never seen
Alice in Wonderland or the new One,

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new or old, let me help
you out if you ever needed to see

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somebody in a short period of time, that was the epitome of a psycho.

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But there's something else to be said
about it. It's like it's almost

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like an enigma. I can't put
my finger on because I had to go

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research this. I had to go
watch an episode of Alice in Wonderland to

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know who the Cheshire Cat is.
So when I did, I just realized

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that this guy is almost like your
appetizer before you meet the Mad Hatter.

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And it was almost like the mad
Hatter is kind of a cleanser to this

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guy, because I just it's a
very brief moment in time in Alice in

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Wonderland, but this cat has these
piano teeth for when he smiles, his

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head completely turns around all the way
on, almost like a exorcism. And

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you haven't with this rhetoric that is
so erratic and incoherent that it's just hard

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to follow him. So reruns talking
about the Chesapeake cat, but he's pritting.

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He is corrected as the Chesshire cat. And if you don't know,

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Cheshire is probably talking about the country
in England, okay, And what they

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boast about after I did a little
research, was they boast about how many

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dairy farms that they have. Hence
the reason why this cat is grinning all

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the time is because there is in
a wide assortment and abundance of milk and

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cream. So now I'm looking at
this Cheshire cat and realizing this is like

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a kid that has ADHD, that
is sitting in school having having too many

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twigs and too many power raids and
maybe even a mountain dew thrown into there.

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This You know, this is a
kid that's that's high on high fructose

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corn, sir. And as the
mindset back and forth where you can't follow

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their train of thought or they don't
stay there very long, and rerun does

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the same thing. I'm bringing you
back to the comic strip. So Alice

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and the Chesapeake no, not chesspeak
the Chestire cat. He wants to hear

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that story. But then Rerun does
this complete one eighty and says, talk

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about how this cat met Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods, you remember him.

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I'm pretty sure that means that Sparky
paid attention to golf. So he gets

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corrected again for a third time by
this appear and says she never met Tiger

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Woods. Res anything you want,
ma'am. So, Rerun is as erratic

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in this comic strip as the Chessire
Cat is and Alice in Wonderland, kind

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of like your your precursor to the
Mad Hatter. I just thought that it

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was totally fascinating. But if I've
lost you on story time with Blockhead,

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just like Rerun gives his teacher and
talents anything you want to ma'am. So,

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Mom's just what I have to do
when when I look at these comic

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strips and I say, all right, he must have been familiar with this

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story, spark you must have been
familiar with this sport. So in nineteen

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ninety seven, he's familiar with Tiger
Woods's journey that's just really getting started.

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So it's just to make this in
some nation, have a little story time

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with Blockhead. So the story goes
that a rabbit falls into the Chesapeake Bay

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and he apparently plays on a par
four with Tiger Woods, and then you

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Let's get back to the episode.
Our scripture reading for this podcast comes from

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Zechariah, chapter four, verse six, and he answered and spoke unto me,

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saying this is the word of the
Lord, not by might, nor

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by power, but by my spirit
saith the Lord of Hosts. Reflection from

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Blue Lay Bible says, trust not
in the power of your own strength,

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nor in the might of your own
will to accomplish good. Your sanctification is

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not a matter of dominating yourself through
discipline your nobility on your own to affect

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righteous works in your life. Trust
rather in God. Place your faith in

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the Spirit to work in you for
his righteousness. So as I shift from

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story time with Peanuts and the comic
strip into story time with Mixed Martial Arts

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again, I'm gonna miss so many
things that are going on current day.

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I won't get to everything. At
this point, the fight night's already over.

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Pavlovitch has finished off blades early into
round one. There's no denying that

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this point that his name is definitely
in the talks for the championship. Yes,

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after John Jones and Steepe finally meet, whenever that's going to be.

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But I've got a recap Arnold Allen
and Max Holloway. I went back and

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watched this again, and I still
give it the same ranking that I give

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it, the same judging that I
gave on the first one. If I

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was to judge this. I only
give round one to Allen. Every other

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round that I watched from Max Holloway
was beautiful boxing counter attacks and just smooth

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and patient, just as Dustin Pourier. Dustin Pourier put out a tweet that

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beautifully said that he was calculated,
he was smooth, he was patient.

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Everything that Arnold Allen answered with,
he just didn't do enough to be able

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to stop the impact coming from arguably
and quite frankly, the greyst boxer in

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all of MMA today, which is
Max hall Away. So as we look

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at where this falls, Holloway is
back. Arnold Allen gets a learning experience.

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But when we try to talk about
is he back into the win column

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and back into the talks with the
championship. We've already seen him a going

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against Alexander Volkanovski how many times.
This is where we as fans, including

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myself, just gets spoiled that you
have an amazing fighter who holds his contendership.

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But then even though you've got a
chance to see him against Volkanovski,

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don't forget the silent clap of thunder
that is Yayer Rodriguez. He's the champion.

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We got an interim champion in Yare, and we got the championship that

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falls on Volkanovski's shoulders, which means
that we will be having an undisputed bout

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pretty soon over those two. But
once again, if we have Volkanovski standing

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tall over Yayre, then we have
the same story again of Max Holloway coming

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back and trying to get another W
against a guy who has been his cryptonite.

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It's just a tough spot to be
in. Max is in a unique

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territory now almost in a class against
himself. How many few of his era

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are still doing this? How many
can say that they've taken a guy who

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had no defeats in the UFC,
a beautiful record like Arnold Allen and he

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just couldn't get it done. And
his coaches, in many ways Dana whitefelt

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it just didn't do enough to get
him motivated just to go and swing for

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the fences in the final five.
But even if he did, Max had

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an answer for every one of those. So I still give it to only

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round one. I gave it to
Arnold Allen. I gave him a ten

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nine. Everything else it just goes. It falls into Max's territory every time

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but I don't want to forget about
things that were beautifu that cannot be overshadowed.

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Okay, I have to talk about
a guy from season three of The

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Ultimate Fighter that called it a career
last Saturday, given the nickname by Chris

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Leeven short Fuse ed Herman. Okay, ed Herman fell a little bit short

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in season three of The Ultimate Fighter
against Kendall Grove. But if you look

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at before that Ed Herman, who
trained with Team Quest, who was under

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Randy Katour, Randy Katour is the
one who set the standards for how you

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are to retire from the sport.
Now, granted, he did come back

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and went to heavyweight, but what
Randy did was after he lost to Chuck

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Ladell. It's now two for three, Chuck is standing tall, and Randy

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says, this is the last time
you'll see these gloves inside of this cage.

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It's the last time we saw him
at light heavyweight. He did come

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back and he fought Brock Lesner,
and then he came back and he lost

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to Lyota Macheetah, which I had
a lot more peace with that one than

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I did with Brock. But again, I don't want to rabbit trail too

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much. I don't want to do
the cheshire cat thing. But ed Herman

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called it a career. I say
that because there's another guy, Zach Cummings,

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that he did a double retirement with. Both of these guys have a

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beautiful send off. But then we
have another pound for pound stud who's been

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in this for a while, Clay
Guida, and we start to watch at

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the end of this fight, Clay
Gueda is taking his gloves off. Okay,

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so once again, every time you
look at the greats who have left

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the sport, they leave their gloves
in the cage when they're taking them off.

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All the attention is now on these
guys. It's almost like it's a

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it's a prompter. Hey, he's
taking his gloves off. This is it?

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Well, apparently not for Clay Guida. I'm sitting back and watching this

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and they're asking this was the last
time that Claig Guida was gonna fight.

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So we just had a beautiful sindoff
for ed Herman and Zach Cummings, who

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had an awesome fight. Zach gets
the w ed Herman follows in the footsteps

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of our beloved Captain America. Randy
Katore who did it years before he did

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which, of course on season three. Ed Herman after that was throwing items

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in the pool. He was kicking
over beach chairs, he was throwing up

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obscenities, just losing his mind about
this because that was his hero, that

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was his coach. But ed Herman
and Zach comings do this beautiful sind off

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and Clay Guida gets on the mic
and goes psych or something along the lines

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of let me hear you, and
it gets the crowd rolled up, and

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he said, yeah, that's just
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So me, as a fan,
I sit back and go, Thank

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goodness. I breathe a sigh of
relief, and then I had a little

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bit of laugh. I chuckle a
little bit because I'm going, Okay,

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Claig, we had just got me. He's got everybody. He fooled us

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all. Dana White's not happy about
this at all. Dana White is an

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owner, must be having that moment
of all these fighters who have left their

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gloves in the cage, and this
guy wants to play that off and laugh

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and make it, make it a
big joke. So Claig, we had

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to fix us all out, but
Dana White is not happy with it at

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this point, so I wanted to
make sure that I've done my recap of

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an amazing main event as I said
it would be of Arnold Allen versus Max

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Holloway. You had a double retirement
for ed short fuse Hermann fair wins to

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you and to Zach Cummins in Awesome
Careers. Claig we had to face us

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all out thinking he's taking his gloves
off. But it's almost to the extent

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of when Derek Lewis took his pants
off in the middle of the cage.

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I won't tell you what he said. This is a kid friendly environment and

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to this is an explicit content.
I won't tell you what he said.

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You can go to loud an Opinion
Aid to find out what Derek Lewis said

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when he was questioned by Joe Rogan
on why he's took his pants off inside

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of the cage. But Clay Guida
has now done that with his gloves.

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He took him off and just said, ah, gotcha, psych, I'm

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not going anywhere, and Dana White's
not impressed. Now to look at Leon

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Edwards and Kolby Covington, I have
to go into this just because I haven't

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mentioned it, went back and looked
at the MMA hour aerial whole wanning and

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he has Leon on, you're now
finally the champion. You've vet it out

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of three bouts, you defeated Kamara
Uzman twice. You are the rightful welterweight

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champion of the world. And the
talk is now that Kolby Covington, being

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ranked number one, is going to
get a shot at you. A lot

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of the sound bites and a lot
of the headlines coming out of On Edwards

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was that he believed that Kobe was
given in and I quote Dana White,

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privilege. But if you go back
and listen to everything that Leon Edwards is

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saying, it's not actually why would
a champion not be given a say?

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And here's why I mentioned this.
He had two other guys on his mind,

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which Dana White has in a way
kind of solved that. I say

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that simply because we now have a
confirmed fight between BELLEL. Mohammed and Gilbert

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Burns. Wow, you talk about
a work athlete and Gilbert Burns as a

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recent but that was who he had
on his mind at the time. He's

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sitting there going Kobe Covington has been
sitting out for over a year since he

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last fought Jorge Mosvidal. You got
guys that are more active, and he's

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talking about bellel Mohammed and Gilbert Burns, and now these two are gonna sift

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that one out and will know who
our actual contender is when these guys meet

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each other. But that's apparently who
he had on his mind. And saying

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that Kolbe Covington gets to sit out
as long as he doesn't even gets to

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make his shots, Well, if
you look to the world of Twitter,

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then Kolby Covington had an entertaining response
to all of that to entertain, as

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he said, I remember one time
when England wouldn't allow America to have what

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it wanted, so we just took
it. That's going Kolby's response how America

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responding to England, which it's more
detailed than that, Kobe. But when

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it comes to a practical standpoint,
Leon Edwards being the champion after three bouts

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with Kamara Uzman, the very best
welter Way we've had in a long time,

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the guy that Kobe Covington couldn't get
passed twice. So now he's looking

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for the new blood. He's looking
for Beleel Mohammed and Gilbert Burns. And

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so while that's getting sorted out,
you have Kolbe who is being entertaining in

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the world of social media that has
everyone talking. Now. Another one that's

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being sorted out at this point is
between Robert Whittaker and Duplessis. Because if

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you remember, Israel Adisania is now
the champion again. He gets it back

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from Alex Pierra. He gets his
one win over the guy in and that's

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what matters, because you know,
Alex is probably looking for something else to

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do at this point. Alex Pierre
was not a guy who wanted to solidify

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that he was the longest reigning middleweight
of all tom It's kind of like one

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of those been there, done that
kind of thing. You know, Ed

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Sullivan telling the Doors that they'll never
perform in the Ed Sullivan Show again,

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and Jim Morrison, we just did
play the Ed Sullivan Show, So who

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cares is That's kind of seems the
way Alex Pierra is with the championship.

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He's not like, I demand to
have a rematch now. I think he's

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looking possibly to go up to two
oh five to light heavyweight, but we'll

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see how that pans out in the
future. But when it comes to Robert

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Whittaker, who we've seen how many
times at this point fight Israel Adisania,

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Israel Adisania has recycled and fought everybody
in the top five, so he's technically

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punching down in the rankings, but
he's doing it because he wants some new

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blood. He wants Duplessis. But
now it looks like it's been confirmed that

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Duplessis and Bobby Knuckles are gonna now
duke this out for a chance to level

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it out and say, who is
this going to be the guy who deserves

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a shot at the champion, the
long reigning Robert Whittaker, who's been that

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number one contender for a long time, or this new blood. Just like

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we allowed this new face named Alex
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could Duplessis be the next one.
So this is still not a bad

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move by Dana White, and I
think that the booking is really starting to

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get exciting at this point. So
before I wrap up here, I have

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mentioned that Pablovich has knocked out Blades
already and that's as of tonight, so

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I really have to do any recaps
much on UFC Fight Night. But I'll

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say this in my backyard of Dallas, Texas, Apparently Jake Paul will be

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facing Nate Diz sometime this summer,
and I'm telling you, Jake Paul has

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a puncher's chance. I know that
as such a cliche when we switch over

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to the world of boxing. For
somebody like Jake Paul, who has been

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working his boxing abilities for the longest
time. Now he does lose to Tommy

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Fury. Say what you want about
a ranked boxer defeating him, but now

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he's taking on Nate Diaz again,
I'll go, oh, we're going back

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that same rabbit trail. We're gonna
keep falling into the Chesapeake Bay over and

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over again for you, Jake Paul. But there's gonna be There's gonna be

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a puncher's chance here because Nate Diaz. Even though I whenever Nate Diaz speaks,

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I listen, blockhead will stop what
he's doing. Almost like in the

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Philippines when Paccia is fighting, crime
stops. In my world, if Nate

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Diaz is speaking, time stops whatever
I'm doing. I'll get to it because

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Nate Diaz is talking. I admit
that I am I am very much this

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way. I am a total mark
for Nate Diaz. It's almost like that.

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It's an unhealthy relationship in many ways. But he comes down to Nate

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Diaz only has two things. He
can use, his left and his right.

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He can't use his jiu jitsu,
which apparently he took somebody down in

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a street scuffle not too long ago, and it was a submission hole.

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He can't use submissions. He's a
guy that's got paper for skin. At

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this point, he's gonna be cut
open easily. So when I look at

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all of the variables stepping into a
boxing ring, Nate Diaz has the quote

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puncher's chance if this circus actually becomes
a reality in my backyard of Dallas,

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Texas. Until then, I'll cheer
him on, but I'm not gonna be

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too terribly dissatisfied knowing that he can't
use more. He can't use his kicks,

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he can't use his submission attempts,
he can't use his takedowns. Nate

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Diaz is walking in there with two
weapons, just like Jake Paul is walking

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in there with two weapons. And
I feel like it favors very much Jake

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Paul, but maybe the odds behavior
in your favorite Nate As. I'm cheering

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you on from over here, and
we will see you guys next Saturday.

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