Episode #289: A Short Summer And A Compelling TUF Season

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Broadcasting Live. Good afternoon, Blockhead
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then be talking about MMA and Warriors
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your host, my name is Brian
Little, to give you a little bit

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of a heads up of what you
can expect this upcoming month. One.

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I am going to have to take
a short break from this podcast at some

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point, just so you know.
I won't go into detail about what I

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have to go take care of,
but let's just say that with my Senora

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Blockhead and having to have surgery,
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for a little while. I'll make
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I'll make sure you know there won't
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certain date. But right now I
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but I want to give you a
heads up about it. Second of

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all, we're getting closer and closer
to episode three hundred. I mean,

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that is a milestone that I wasn't
sure if I would ever meet. And

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sometimes when you do podcasting, you
think, man, I'm doing good to

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get fifteen episodes in the next thirty
and fifty, and somehow we hit the

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milestone of one hundred, and then
two hundred was a big celebration with a

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lot of friends who came by the
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be a little bit different. What
will happen is if you've never seen The

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Late Show with David Letterman, he
always used to do a top ten,

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top ten things I've always wanted to
say to David Laerman. He would do

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a lot of top tens in between, but ever once in a while he

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the top ten. I've seen p
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seen Leonardo DiCaprio, I've seen Michael
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was one of them. I think
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Jerry Seinfeld was part of it.
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say to David and have friends come
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roast in a lot of ways.
You know, David was very immersed into

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the world of comedy. But what
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things I've always wanted to say to
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The number one slot will be filled
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Feel it. I got three or
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these other episodes always are. So
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of time that we're getting close.
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Top ten things I've always wanted to
say to YFB, and I'll put

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it out this way. Charles Schultz
had a TV special that came out called

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It was a Short Summer Charlie Brown. This is not me belly aching about

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as a teacher. Where we have
it's almost like we close up shop in

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the classroom. Next thing you know, we're going on summer camps. There's

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truth to that, but that's exactly
what happens in Charlie Brown. Now this

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one. Most of the time,
the little red haired girl and I are

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going for the sake of youth camp
to get them closer to Jesus, and

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it's always been a pleasure. But
this is a little different. This one's

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just an all out boys and girls
summer camp where there's competition between the boys

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and girls cabins, and Lucy signed
them up involuntarily. She pretty much volunt

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told everybody and said, your parents
have already agreed and we're headed out to

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camp. So they had rushed to
Freedom into summer and ran straight Indian and

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ray for summer camp. Well,
that sets off Linus believing that the woods

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are going to be full of what's
called queen snakes. That's a legitimate quote

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from him being afraid the whole time. But when they set up camp,

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you do have the militant authority approach
of Peppermint Patty and Lucy and all those

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girls on one side of the lake
on the other side. Somehow Charlie Brown

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becomes the leader of the cabin and
he tries to implement his knowledge of leadership

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through his train in baseball. Well, if you know Charlie Brown's track record

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as being a baseball manager, you
can kind of get the hint that camp

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is not going to be as smooth
as you would anticipate. So that is

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a fairly decent TV special. It's
a little hard to find, there are

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mostly snippets of it on YouTube.
Basically, when it all comes to a

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head, there is one last attempt
for the boys to save their morale,

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and that is in an arm wrestling
match. So they've lost every competition against

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the girls, whether it's been canoe
racing, swimming, or it's been basketball

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softball games. Finally, Charlie Brown
does figure out that Snoop B has a

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knack for arm wrestling, and so
they train him and they start giving him

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a lot of electrolyte drinks close enough
to Power Aids and Gatorades of that time

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to get him ready. And it's
Lucy versus Snoopy, or is it it's

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actually Snoopy versus Lucy under the guise
of one the Masked Marvel. It reminds

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you that Snoopy has many metamorphosis and
made different characters that he's going to play

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when necessary. If you need Snoopy
to be competitive, then the Masked Marvel

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is your guy. If you need
him to be smooth and be confident with

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the ladies, you need to talk
to Joe Cool. If you are looking

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at patriotism, you're talking about the
World War One flying as. So in

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this case for Camp, Charlie Brown
issues a challenge to Lucy and to the

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girls camp in an arm wrestling match, and Snoopy becomes the Masked Marvel and

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he wins the arm wrestling match by
questionable means. We'll leave it that way.

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But why do I say that they're
like man that wasn't in the movie.

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If you were a fan of the
Peanuts anime a twenty fifteen movie,

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now in that one Summer is at
the conclusion of the movie, you have

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seen other personas of Snoopy. You've
seen Joe Cool, you've seen the World

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War One flight as. You don't
see the Masked Marvel in the movie.

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But what you do see is one
last attempt by Charlie Brown to talk to

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the little red Haired girl before she
goes off to summer camp. So this

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time, if he's going to camp, it's not implied in any way,

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but she is on a bus headed
four camp. Well, when we get

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to that part, Charlie Brown asks
for some help, and somehow, by

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the help of an invisible hand of
some sort, he is able to fly

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a kite straight to the heels of
the little red Haired girl before she gets

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on board the bus to go to
summer camp. That's how that plays out.

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So there's not really any masked Marvel
or Joe Cool to bring them together.

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It just happens to be fate.
It happens to be. When he

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gets a kite in the air,
everything stops. It's kind of like if

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you were wanting to watch a Mike
Tyson fight, America stops and pays attention.

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If it's the Super Bowl, everybody
stops and pays attention. That's what's

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happening with this. Charlie Brown is
flying a kite in a neighborhood, in

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a community where there are no adults. This is major breaking news to watch

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him flying a kite somehow successfully to
be able to have a discussion with a

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little red haired girl. So there
is a hint enough summer and summer camp

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in the Peanuts movie, and there's
a carnival where the kids are participating.

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That's one of the obstacles that Charlie
Brown has to go through to get to

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the Little Red Haired Girl. So
that's an interesting play out of the story.

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But so they're not going to summer
camp as far as we know in

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the movie, but you do have
the lot Red hair girl. That is

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so summer camp is very true to
the lives over here of Blockhead and the

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Little Red Haired Girl. It's very
true in the Peanuts comic strips many times

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now when all of the kiddos have
been sent off to camp, sometimes another

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persona comes out of Snoopy. It
was a recent comic strip that came up

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on the Charles Schultz Museum. Would
you believe it if I told you that

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Snoopy knows how to gamble? Snoopy
can play a good at hand at blackjack?

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Why because there is a metamorphosis of
him known as black Jack Snoopy.

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He is what's known as a riverboat
gambler. This is true, and he

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has every stroke of good luck through
his time at the table. It's just

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like Kenney Roger says, no one
to hold him, no one to fold

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him, no one to walk away, and know when to run. And

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I think that black Jack Snoopy has
that down to a t. So I

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wanted to go ahead and just get
that out of the way, that it

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may be a short summer for YFB, but it will be worth it in

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the end to have been a part
of those kids' lives when we go to

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camp. It is a big part
of the story of these kids when they

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go to summer expecting freedom and they
are anticipating relaxation time, but they are

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quickly lassoed into summer camp. That's
a reality. The Peanuts moving ends the

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school year with the car and the
little red haired girl is headed for summer

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camp. We don't know the final
destination of these other characters as it ends

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on one last comic strip before the
credits roll. And then you do have

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a side of Snoopy you may not
know, known as Blackjack Snoopy. While

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the kiddos are off to camp,
he's out on the river playing it up,

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playing a hand and quite frankly,
getting lucky. So if you ever

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want to cash in your chips on
Peanuts being the single most successful comic strip

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in American history by this point,
leading up to three hundred episodes. I'm

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not sure what more I have to
do to convince you at charl Schultz and

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the Peanuts have made a lasting impression
on America, and as long as podcasts

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like mine are around, they will
continue to leave their imprints. Blockhead Nation

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes
from Psalm one forty four, verse

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one through two. Blessed be the
Lord, my Rock, who trains my

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hands for war and my fingers for
battle. He has my steadfast love,

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and my fortress, my stronghold,
and my deliverer, my shield. And

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he in whom I take refuge,
who subdues people under me. There's an

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interesting article on got questions dot org
that actually asked the question if extreme fighting

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is something that's biblical or non biblical, and I thought it was funny to

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just kind of look through that and
see how the approach would be to can

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to hand combat. And really you
can go back to the end of the

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Bible where God, God wrestles with
Jacob. That's Genesis thirty two. You're

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gonna see how as I just read
you, David praise God for helping him

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become a better warrior. And that's
not for entertainment or recreation. It had

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lethal intent for Samuel can cover that
in detail. So the sport of mixed

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martial arts it doesn't really have anything
that says it's non biblical. Let me

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put it this way. This is
put very well by GOT Questions dot Org.

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Mma isn't acceptable for all believers at
all times, but scripture does not

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entirely preclude the sport. So some
of the earliest sports were wrestling, some

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type of hand to hand combat also
wasn't known as pancreatian that once was in

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the Olympic Games. So to be
fair, you can find fault in really

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any sport that could be taken as
an idol that will pull you away from

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your relationship with God. So anything
can be a false idol. I'll say

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that anything that becomes ultimate in your
life become as Timothy Keller's called it,

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a counterfeit God. But there's nothing
that's It's mixed reaction by society and culture,

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but there's nothing that the Bible does
to denounce anything about my sport,

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which is why I stand by what
I tell you. Number one, God

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is King. Number two Peanuts is
the single most successful comic strip in American

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history, and mixed martial arts is
the greyest sport under God's hot son that

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took wrestling, striking, jiu jitsu, and put all of these muy tai

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and put all these together into one
collaborated, conglomerate type of sport and as

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they call it in the mix,
and what I really wanted to spend some

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time on this evening or anytime that
you tune into this podcast is the season

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of The Ultimate Fighter. I will
mention the upcoming fight night that will be

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put on display, which will be
Kay car or France versus Albazi. I'll

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mention that in just a man.
But there's a I in here. Before

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we ever got to watch the newest
season of The Ultimate Fighter. It's out

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now on ESPN if you want to
go back and watch it. The two

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coaches are Connor McGregor and Michael Chandler. But what I really appreciated was something

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they put on called before Tough.
So before we ever get into the athletes

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that are in the house, the
discussion is, now, if you were

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the coach, which one would you
take? You've been given one thirty five

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and one fifty five. You got
lightweights and you got bantam weights, and

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you have two groups of fighters inside
of this house. You got the veterans

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and you've also got the prospects,
the new blood that are coming in and

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the way it's gone down is mcconnor
McGregor won the first toss, which gave

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him all of the prospects. He'd
end up chosing one fifty five, all

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of the prospects the new guys,
which you'll Michael Chandler to have, the

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veterans of one fifty five, and
then they distributed out the bantam wats to

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where all the prospects are now with
Connor, and all the veterans who want

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a chance to get back into the
UFC are with Michael Chandler. So what

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they did on before tough. Before
I ever saw the coin toss, you

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had a few people discussing how the
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and the first one they talked to
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on the other side of the coaching
staff for Connor McGregor, which was your

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Riah Faber. Uriah Faber has not
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contenders to ever step in the cage, but he is easily one of the

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better coaches too. And I really
liked how not only you Riah Faber,

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but former adversary to Connor, Eddie
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you Riah Faber is just showing that
Connor is a guy who will try to

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get inside of your head. But
at the same time, the way he

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picks the veterans of the prospects is
going to be interesting. When he had

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Eddie Alvarez, who you do have
him being able to get a win at

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bare knuckle boxing, Eddie actually likes
the prospects. This is the one that

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kind of threw me off. I
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the veterans, not Eddie Alvarez.
He mentioned that sometimes the veterans can't get

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out of their own way, they're
not coachable, and now all the prospects

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are with Connor, so the new
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It seemed like while watching the newest
episode of The Ultimate Fighter that Chandler is

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clicking very well with the guys that
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right out of the gates. Because
right now we have one win for the

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Red team and have one win for
the Blue Team. I won't go into

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more detail about because you should go
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again. Your favor had really good
points to say that if Chandler, it's

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kind of very similar to I've told
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and has those wild wheeling punches that
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to Connor's left hand. So if
you're striking and you put on pressure that

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quickly, then Connor could easily be
in I'm sorry, Chandler could easily be

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in trouble against Connor. Eddie Alvarez
made a good point. Somebody who's been

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inside the cage with him at Bellator
has mentioned even if you do Chandler goes

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to his wrestling, if you wear
him out over time, he's not going

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to have as much strength in his
technique as it goes on. So it

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seems like most of these guys are
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the fight whenever that that's the problem. When the fight's going to be we

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don't have a set venue yet,
we don't have any type of a booking,

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and every time that you have had
the Ultimate Fighter, it has been

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a guarantee that when the two weight
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co main events, the main event
will be the coaches. That's the way

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it's been ever since Chuck Ladell versus
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Shamrock and making our way into even
Chil's son and Vander Lay Silva, which

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came short in Brazil for unfortunate reasons
on Chill's part. But this has always

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been the plan that there would be
a date, there would be a venue,

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and you have the coaches that are
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We don't have it. Why,
I guarantee you. Part of the problem

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is the USADA testing Connor has to
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for six months and for some reason, according to most of the recent reportings

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I'm seeing, he has been,
in my quote, in and out of

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the testing pool. As a fan, I question that and go why,

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And that prolongs the chance to have
a fight even more. You know what,

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I have a serious problem with and
just watching the show. This might

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mean me being a mark for the
Ultimate Fighter. But when the first Way

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Ends happened, you got your first
two Blue Team versus Red Team. Guess

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who shows up to the Way Ends, Michael Chandler. Guess who's not there

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for the first Way Ends. That's
right, the notorious Connor McGregor, where

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is he? And you had Chandler
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I don't know where Connor is.
Sounds like that, and they want to

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just skip over that key detail.
I'm not seeing a lot of pushback from

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the house. If they were,
it was definitely cut to where we don't

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see that. It's almost like the
MMA world is playing a cover up for

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where Connor McGregor is when he's supposed
to be at the Way Ends as the

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coach. There's a time when you
take off your fighter's hat, you put

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on your coach's hat, and you
go and you support your guys, and

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you're not there, and nobody has
a legitimate reason why. Now, you

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did have a push and shove that
happened at some point in the season That's

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been portrayed a lot across The Ultimate
Fighter and across the whole MMA world that

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Connor and Chandler get in each other's
faces and Connor pushes Michael Chandler's face back,

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and Chandler's responses, I barely felt
it. Here's what I'm going to

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ask. We know Connor as a
performer, we know that he can use

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marketing better than anybody else in the
history of MMA. But when you push

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somebody like that in the ongoing rivalry
that you have, but you can't show

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up for the very first way in
Are we seeing Connor the performer that's trying

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to lure in the audience to stir
up drama, Or are we, for

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one of the first times ever in
history seeing Connor McGregor sweat? Are we

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seeing cracks in the foundation now for
the greyest star in the history of this

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sport. I'm not denying what he's
done in the past. I don't even

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deny what he has done lately.
But you can't show up for the way

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INDs. You can't compose yourself up
to where you put your hands on Chandler

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first in the stair? Doown you're
the one that's always gotten under somebody else's

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skin. Now it's the other way
around. Where do we stand right now?

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Are we in quicksand with Connor?
Are we going to get a venue

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between Chandler and Connor McGregor. I
certainly hope so, for the sake of

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the longevity of the Ultimate Fighter.
You've got guys that are tough alumni that

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are in main events that come up
tonight, Kaikr or France is a tough

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alumni versing Albozi. So if you
want to tune in to the UFC Apex

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and you want to take a look
at some of these fighting means that are

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coming up, don't sleep on them. I've told you that before. You

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might have fireworks to not with Kai
Carter Franz versus Albozzi, among a few

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other fights that will be entertaining for
you. If you are either a diehard

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MMA fan or a casual that's looking
to check in on this, it's worth

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your time to go experience. It's
worth your time to check out the Ultimate

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Fighter and see who these veterans and
prospects are. Veterans who have one last

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shot to get into the UFC for
whatever reason. For these prospects who are

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the young blood have an opportunity to
gain it all. It is a very

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intriguing, tough season. But the
intriguing question is when the dust is settled,

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where's Connor McGregor to be. Is
he gonna be in the cage facing

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Michael Chandler or is he gonna be
just like John Jones has been too many

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times for not the best reasons missing
an action. We will see that answer

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itself in due time. We got
to get ready to go take these kids

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to summer camp. We will see
you guys as we come back next Saturday.

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I will do my best to put
together a decent show. As far

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as I know, we're gonna hit
one ninety and get through ten episodes as

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soon as possible. Three hundred is
on the horizon. We'll see you guys

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next Saturday, same blockhead time saying
walk ahead, Chap