Episode #292: YFB Returns With Some Peanuts Praise And Some MMA Criticisms

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Well, can I just take a
man to say how great this feels to

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be back on the microphone, to
be back on the podcast talking with you

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once again, Blockhead Nation. It
has been too long. I'm thankful for

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all the prayers everyone that's reached out. Senora Blockhead is doing very well with

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the knee replacement surgery. I'm back
home in the Blockhead mansion and all as

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well. So I guess I either
give myself a round of applause or I

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give everybody listening a round of applause. As you kicking this thing back off

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again. We're dusting off the top
of the laptop and we are up and

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rolling again. You're listening to your
favorite Blockhead and we're getting close to three

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hundred episodes. So in the future
there will be a three hundredth episode with

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some guests on, some very special
guests who have agreed to come by and

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help me out with that that all
the slots are booked for that one.

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Thank you everybody that reached out.
It filled up a lot faster than I

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expected. But either way, here
we are again, and I'm going to

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figure out my best way to get
back into the rhythm and you know,

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get back into doing this on a
consistent basis. I do it every Saturday.

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And as you probably heard, there's
a little bit different music I just

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shared. That's from the American Pie
soundtrack from nineteen ninety nine, the original

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movie. It was from a band
called Dishwallah. The song is called find

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Your Way Back Home. It just
seemed befitting and I only used about thirty

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seconds. I think that's there's no
problem with infringement on that end. So

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all the credit back to Dishwallah.
And they also had a famous song that's

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befitting to this podcast as one of
their songs was called Charlie Brown's Parents.

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So I'd recommend you ever want to
go look it up Dishwallah, Charlie Brown's

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Parents. It's worth a listen.
Quite an intriguing song. Shows the depth

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of their creativity. They're very unique
as a band from back in the day,

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from the mid nineties to the two
thousands. And just to see if

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I can catch up, I made
notes along the way until I can get

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back on the microphone, just so
I can have a few bullet points for

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you, the listener. And since
we're gonna get back on this wagon and

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we're gonna keep on going. I
know. One of them was about Charlie

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Brown going to summer camp. Now, that's befitting since we're still in the

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midst of summer and the comic strip
was Charlie Brown waiting at the bus stop

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ready to go to camp and he
starts thinking about who he will meet there.

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Now, that's kind of funny when
you think about summer camp, whether

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we're talking church camp, band camp, or whether we're talking that's kind of

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fits back to the American pie scenario
there. If you know, you know,

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not doing the whole acronym thing,
but if you know it, then

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you do. And when people go
and take these summer camps for whatever the

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reason, if you really ask a
guy or a girl, especially a guy,

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what you really want to accomplish while
you're there, if they're being totally

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honest and vulnerable with you, what
they truly want is to meet a girl.

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They want to have that summer fling. Blockhead is just as guilty of

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that throughout my life. That is
a real thing because we see that with

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Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown did not
ever shy away in the comic strip of

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what was going on in society and
culture, and he thinks either I'm gonna

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meet a girl, will become friends, will become pen pals, and some

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are there. He kind of stoops
back into reality and says, I'm probably

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gonna get poisoned oak instead of meeting
the girl in my dreams out. That

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was honestly what Charlie Brown thought about
for this And since this episode is a

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little bit belated, I wanted to
mention two things. One that since it's

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still July, we missed the Fourth
of July celebration. Being on the microphone,

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I hope everybody enjoyed their Fourth of
July. You were safe, had

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a great time. Considered those around
you that don't handle fireworks as well as

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you might. I'm talking about our
furry loved ones, such as our dogs.

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But there is a particular scene in
a boy named Charlie Brown that encompasses

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patriotism. And right before a baseball
game, Snoopie brings out these two humongous

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amplifiers and a record player, and
next thing you know, the star Spangled

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banner is playing over the intercom.
Well as the song plays, what you

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see is this euphoric plethora of American
flags, fireworks exploding, statues of liberty

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going by all of the Peanuts characters, either with their hand over their heart

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and their eyes closed, or in
some cases even given a salute. I

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think Salar was one of them.
And you just get to see patriotism at

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its best, just like you would
if you went to a baseball game and

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you had the national anthem, or
if you went to a NASCAR event you

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had the national anthem that was still
done, it was still done well,

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or even the hockey games. There
is a level of patriotism that truly comes

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out of that scene. But then
as soon as it's done, Snoopy is

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breaking down the set, he's putting
away the amplifiers. He's getting all of

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that put back into his doghouse.
Now he comes ray to play shortstop.

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So a baseball being the American game, and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts knew

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how to show appreciation for Independence Day. It really wasn't Independence Day setting,

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but it's if you ever needed to
feel patriarch on the fourth of July,

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go watch a boy named Charlie Brown
and watch the scene when they're playing baseball,

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even though they are completely trounced,
where Charlie Brown says to himself,

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well, we lost the first game
the season. Again, I shouldn't let

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this bother me, but it does. We always lose the first game of

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the season, we lose the last
game the season, and all those stupid

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games in between. So there's still
very much a pity party going on.

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But at least we can say that
the Fourth of July and America were very

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much appreciated. And a boy named
Charlie Brown just watch the stars better,

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just watch the Star Spangled anthem.
So I wanted to make sure I clear

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that up. There's one more thing
I ask if you come this far Blockhead

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Nation, if you're listening, from
the bottom of my heart, thank you.

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You've been a big part of this
journey, just for listening, in

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for engaging. And there are some
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can get. It's called good Pods. Good Pods is doing very well at

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introducing indie podcasters like myself. If
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go into hiatus, I didn't go
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sure Senora Blockhead was doing well their
near replacement surgery. And now that I'm

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home, we can pick this up
every single week. We're not too far

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away from episode three hundred. I
appreciate you all being along the journey,

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and we're gonna go ahead and jump
into the scripture of the day and see

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if I can get some of the
bullet points going on in the crazy,

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wacky world of mixed martial arts.
Take a breath. Here we go,

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blog the notes for today's show. Let's

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get back to the episode. Our
scripture reading for this podcast comes from Isaiah,

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chapter forty nine, verse seven.
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer

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of Israel and his Holy One to
one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,

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the servant of rulers kings shall see
and a rise princes, and they

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shall prostrate themselves because of the Lord
who is faithful, the Holy One of

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Israel, who has chosen you.
I come back on this podcast, just

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as the words in the famous hymn. Here I am to worship, Here

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I am to bow down, and
here I am to say that you are

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my God. Pull this from Blue
Layer to Bible. This is commentary from

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David Guzie that talks about kings shall
see and arise, princes also shall worship

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to where this Messiah would simply not
bring salvation, he would be the salvation

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to the ends of the earth.
And the Lord speaks to his Messiah and

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reveals that he is the one.
Even though there will be rejection of the

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prophecies, rejection of the Messiah by
mankind and in general, in the end,

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the Messiah will not be despised or
report. He will receive the worship

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he honors. He received the honored
worship that he deserves because he is the

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chosen of the Lord. My podcast
may never make it into the top one

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hundred, and I want you to
know Blockhead Nation, why I'm okay with

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that, because I will never ever
decease, cease and desist whatever I'm trying

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to say here. I will never
stop proclaiming that the Lord is my savior.

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If that sends people away from this
podcast, so be it. My

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prayer is that you will come here
and you will know the truth. Number

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one first and foremost on this show
is God is King, period. Jesus

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is my Lord and Savior. I
am an unworthy sinner just like you,

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and I know that he rescued me. My prayer is that you will accept

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him as your Lord and savior.
And the second thing I talk about here

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as Peanuts being the single most successful
comic strip in American history. And then

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on the third part, that's what
Part two is all about, is to

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try to wrap my brain around the
greyest sport under God's hot sun, which

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is mixed martial arts. And there's
just so much in a three week period.

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I am so behind, not that
I haven't been paying attention, but

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how to bring it all forward here
there's so many unveiling stories and mixed martial

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arts, but let's start with the
very first one that I have here.

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We have a unique crossroads we're at, and quite frankly, it's embarrassing.

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The ultimate fighter we've had since the
time that I left from West Texas to

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come back to the Blockhead Nation,
we've had six fights when I was originally

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broken up. Michael Chandler got the
veterans of the sport and Connor McGregor got

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the prospects. Now that's intriguing,
but at the same time, if you

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put an expert in with somebody who
was a novice what do you expect is

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going to happen? This has not
only been a disaster for Connor McGregor,

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but he doesn't have a single win. He might have got one as of

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this week. Maybe it's hard to
know, but by the time that I

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left West Texas it was zero six
Chandler, which easily makes Connor McGregor,

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according to the numbers, according to
the statistics, the worst coach in the

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history of The Ultimate Fighter. Now, I've watched plenty of them. I

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know there have been other coaches like
Ken Shamrock, who allowed his guys to

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get hurt over and over again because
he knew how to be a fighter,

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he didn't know how to be a
coach. I've seen BJ Penn pull away

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all of the prospects that wanted to
be on team BJ Penn. They didn't

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want to be on Team Jen's pulver. I've seen other athletes say, I

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want to go fight for this coach
instead. I've seen that happen. But

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those that have ever followed The Ultimate
Fighter, have you ever heard of a

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total sweep? I've never seen one, and we've come close. Zero in

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six. That is an embarrassment for
any fighter, any coach any organization.

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That's where we stand. Chandler has
the veterans and he has the record now

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and what that indicates that hands down
that Chandler is the better coach. But

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now we have a hang up of
are we even going to have the fight?

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There is no venue, there's no
booking. We don't know if any

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promotion, we don't know if anything
of Chandler and Connor to face each other.

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That's what's supposed to happen. That's
the way it's always been. The

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Ultimate Fighter has your top guys go
against each other on the same night,

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and then the coaches fighting each other
is the main event. And we don't

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have that. We've had Ousada stepping
in and saying that Connor may not be

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fighting for months at a time,
maybe up to six months. We've got

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an embarrassing record here for Connor where
he's still getting promotion, he's still getting

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his name out there, but this
is not looking good right now. We

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have no indicated fight that's supposed to
happen but hasn't happened, hasn't been announced

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yet for Chandler versus Connor. We're
at a unique and an embarrassing crossroads with

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this situation, and I'll keep you
update as quickly as I find out info

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about it. But while I was
away, there are other fights that are

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always breaking news, that are always
fun to look and go, hey,

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that's gonna be a good fight.
I'll tell you the one that has me

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the most excited, and it's at
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have a booked fight for the undefeated
Shumcock Rockmanoff. It's really hard to say

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his name, but this guy has
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then we have a phoenix rising into
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who has given us some of the
grayst fights ever in the history of the

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sport. Kelvin Gatstelam September sixteenth,
Kelvin Gatstelam versus Rockmanoff. That is an

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exciting barn burner. Kelvin Gaslam gave
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time against Israel Adisania, and he
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Manson. But we've got a win
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And now we're looking at the expert, the experienced, the very dangerous

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Kelvin Gaslam against an undefeated Rockmanoff.
Guys, that's the one I'm most excited

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for in the future, Kelvin versus
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Now we had our main event last
week. We had a wonderful send off

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for Robbie Lawler. That's that's a
fairy tale in so many ways. For

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Robbie Lawler to end his career against
Nico Price, who was nobody to sleep

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on and get him gets the job
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Robbie does, and then you have
Bone Nickel who got it done in thirty

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eight seconds. What a what a
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absolutely delivered. So just to say
that Robbie got his send off, he

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got his moment in the spotlight,
he was given all the respect in the

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world. We all got to shed
some tears over a wonderful fight because you

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know, we look back to Matt
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able to walk to the cage for
the first time. He was wearing ruthless

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Robbie Lawler's shirt that night. Robbie
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this sport has done. His fight
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will go down the addles of time. So Robbie Lawer gets a beautiful send

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off, Bone Nickel gets thirty eight
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the guy stepped in after three days
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That bout was getting interesting, and
all of a sudden we had this

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hang up. We had this hiccup
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brand new guy who steps in who
had Chris Curtis and sorry for getting who

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it was, Chris Curtis in his
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comes in. But boy left himself
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he had in his hands. Bo
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long time. And that's exciting.
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car, which is fantastic. We
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I might have to go in detail
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Sania being distasteful the way he was, but Duplessis becoming the new number one

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contender over Robert Whittaker is a fresh
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love him to death, but how
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see Robert whitakers Israel out of Sania, to see Duplessis who got the call

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at who made a jump from number
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and for him to finish Robbie in
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on the ground and well rounded on
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This is a big moment. And
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We have the undisputed champ and Volk
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sky up there for him at this
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dismissing mister hand sanitizer in a bottle. That's a long story itself. Mister

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Eliot Taporia looks like he's stepping sidestepping
him. But we'll see how that transpires.

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But I have to stop and talk
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I'm trying not to rush these too
much. But I got two more

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bullet points to get through, and
I'll let you guys have the rest of

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your week ind to yourselves. A
boy. I remember being in West Texas.

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There is a newscast called the Second
Cup and they will go through what's

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going on on a local level,
and then they get into the weather and

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they get into sports. What did
they talk about. They had a segment

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about the two billionaires who are supposed
to fight in the cage. Do you

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know about this? Elon Musk and
Mark Zuckerberg, two billionaires who have decided

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that they're gonna face each other in
a cage. Two men who've never done

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it before, are gonna step into
a cage, and the winnings, I

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guess, go to a donation a
charity of their choosing. If ever you

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had a chance to amber heard the
bed when it comes to mixed martial arts,

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this is it. I'm going to
tune in for two billionaires not to

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go at it in an earning call
or the conference room, or not to

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go on it and social media.
We're gonna put them in a legitimate cage

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and get them half naked in front
of the world, and they're gonna go

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and face each other, and with
what training. Whoever steps in at last

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minute, I think Israel Otasagna threw
his name in the hat somewhere. I

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know Logan Paul did, saying he
would be a co main event against Patty

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pimplet Patty the batty would destroy Logan
Paul at this level. But let's make

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this into a spectacle, shall we. It'll be a spectacle. But Dana

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White, you're gonna allow Elon Musk
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Stand there with a smile on your
face because you know it's gonna line

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in your pockets. But way to
slap the face of the athleticism that is

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mixed martial arts to allow Elon Musk
and Mark Zuckerberg to stip into the cage

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and lock the cage and whatever happens
happens. But okay, another spectacle,

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another fumbling of the ball in the
world of mixed martial arts here, and

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another one just across all spectrums.
Apparently in doubling at Bellatour, we had

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a win for one of Connor McGregor's
teammates. Connor McGregor decides to jump the

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fence and celebrate with him. But
here's where it gets tricky. The referee

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tries to tell Connor to leave.
He tries to escort him out of the

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cage. Connor, of course,
has had quite a bit of proper twelve

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in his veins and he's got bloodshot
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My question now is this if he
has opened the floodgates for other UFC fighters

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to jump the cage. We know
that Cabebe jumped out of the cage and

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took a leaping attack towards Dylan Danis. We know that happened a while back,

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but this time he's storming the cage, causing all kinds of controversy,

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all h double hockey sticks is breaking
loose, and the referee knowing he could

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be dropped by that left hand by
Connor. Are we getting to a point

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where referees or maybe even staff should
be allowed to wear brass knuckles. It's

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a crazy thought, wouldn't it.
Not that I'm saying I want to see

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Connor get decked and be knocked up, But if you have an able bodied

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athlete like that who is in a
dangerous mindset, I think they used to

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do that in professional wrestling. Now, I'm right if if you had a

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fan who jumped the barricade and tried
to get inside of the ring, he

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is up for pickets. All three
of the athletes in the ring, and

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we're talking whether it's the referee,
the other two guys that are in the

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ring. Maybe if they had tag
teams, others would come in and they

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would start attacking this fan, because
that's danger to everybody. That's a part

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of the show. We know that
MMA is a real hand to hand combat

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sport, but if the referee can't
escort a drunken athlete out who does have

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proper MMA training, I don't have
a problem with them having brass knuckles in

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their back pocket if that's what it
takes to get them out of there,

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and to didn't put some de escalization
to the melee? Are we getting to

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that point? Makes it hard to
defend this sport sometimes, doesn't it?

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But it is the fight business.
But the fight should between these two guys.

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I don't mind Connor being cage side. I have a problem with him

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or any other athlete who decides to
jump the cage and apparently you're an exception

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to the rule. It's embarrassing.
I'd worry about that record over there at

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the ultimate fight, or wouldn't you
think wouldn't you agree with that? Connor?

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Maybe you've got some work to do. It's time to put your coaching

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hat on and accept that your time
might be over. And on that note,

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we're continuing on with this show.
Thank you for stipping out with me

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this long. We'll see you guys
next Saturday, same Blockhead time, same

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Blockhead channel. Preston, I've missed
you so much. Will you play us

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out, sir Sprea