Episode #293: Guiding Peanuts Into the Next Generation, Just As MMA Takes Steps Forward and Backward

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Broadcasting Live Good Evening Blockhead Nation.
Sorry for the delay it took him out

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to put this episode out. Either
way, every Saturday. You know how

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this works. You are listening to
your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in

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the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate
the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then

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

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host. My name is Brian Little, And before I begin, just know

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in a couple of weeks we're gonna
see me take a back seat, and

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they're gonna be a couple of friends. They're supposed to come by the podcast.

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So it's gonna be an interesting changeup
to what you can expect on this

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show. But what you can always
expect is number one, God is King.

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Number two Peanuts is the single most
successful comic strip in American history,

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and number three Mixed Martial Arts is
the greyest sport under God's hot sun.

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So just a little bit of appreciation
for the San Diego Comic Con. The

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Peanuts did have a display out there. If you have been listening in you're

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in the San Diego area, make
sure you go buy the Peanuts stand where

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they're showing off the Beagle Scouts celebrating
over fifty years of running the comic con.

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I believe something like that, And
there is a display there where you

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can get a picture with Snoopy and
have a couple of root beers with him.

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So making sure I mentioned that on
the first part, since Peanuts is

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very well appreciated on this show,
and also I figured this out looking through

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a couple of the comic strips from
this time period. One of them showed

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that woodstock is not as a common
in too Snoopy as you'd think, as

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in, when Snoopy would go and
visit for the weekend, it was common

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that Snoopy would be in the attic. Now, when I say that,

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I say that with asterisk, I
say that with quotation marks, meaning the

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attic is a higher branch on the
tree that wood snock woodstock is sleeping in,

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and there's a nest there prepared for
Snoopy. The best analogy I can

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give you is if do you remember
a Disney show called The Sword in the

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Stone. I believe there's a scene
where Merlin is shown the guest room.

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You got the highest tower, but
it's this old crumbling guest tower that really

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is on its last leg, and
when the rain would come, he would

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have to use umbrellas up into the
shingles of the roof to try to get

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rid of the water that kept seeping
in. That's the closest I can think

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of when it comes to this.
Snoopy is put up for in the guest

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room for the night, but it's
really a nest made by Woodstock at a

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higher elevation above Woodstock's nest, and
Snoopy is having to rough it for the

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night in the attic in the quote
attic of Woodstock's tree right above Woodstock's nest.

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Not exactly the adventure sleeping I would
want if I was going to be

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staying with a friend. Just just
kind of putting that out there. But

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now that I've mentioned that, I
mentioned the comic con that happened this weekend,

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we mentioned Snoopy in the attic at
Woodstock's nesting area. I can tell

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you the Schiltz Museum reminded me of
something I believe in the past, I've

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been doing some of my storytelling incorrectly. Now, a common way of doing

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storytelling would be what you learn when
you're in school. You have the exposition,

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you have the rising action. You
have the big climax, then the

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falling action. That's quite often followed
here, whether we're talking Peanuts or Mixed

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Martial Arts. But there's one element
I've been leaving out of it. Let's

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think for a second, when you
tell a story that really enthralls the listener

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or enthralls an audience. Netflix and
other TV shows are very good about doing

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this. You have the main character, you have a problem that is to

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be solved. But then there's a
guide who comes in that helps the hero

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or the hero in or whatever the
situation is. As they get a plan

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of action together and they initiate it, and you either have success or failure.

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So the guide I've left out many
times. What do I mean?

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Let's think for a second. Luke
Skywalker seeks to find Yoda. Yoda would

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be the guide. Karate Kid Mister
Meagie is a perfect example of this for

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Daniel. So in many ways when
it comes to the Peanuts, since Charles

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Schultz passed away in two thousand,
the way for the continuing legacy to happen.

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Since we no longer have comic strips
delivered to your front door on a

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Sunday, you have to find them
online is people like myself. In many

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ways, I'm more of the guide
to the character. This show is a

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hat tip to Charlie Brown, Charles
Schultz and the Peanuts Gang, and one

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of the problems they're facing is if
they're not continuing to circulate, then that

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means that myself and other Peanuts fans
have to be the guide as we put

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together a plan of action and we
carry out the call to action, which

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is to check out the Peanuts,
which is still the most successful comic strip

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of all time. And one way
the Schultz Museum did that was showing how

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many people have tattoos of Peanuts characters. It was this long collage of so

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many people that have said, here's
my tattoo, here's mine, and if

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you know anything about me, I
don't have tattoos. Am I against them?

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No, it's just a personal choice. You would think, why Blockhead,

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you were in the Navy, most
people whould go in the Navy.

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Then that kind of stereotypical that Navy
sailors would have some type of a tattoo.

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I'd say so, but kind of
like Shawshank Redemption, my wings were

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just too bright. I didn't want
to stay in the military for longer than

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my call to service. But tattoos
just really aren't a thing that I worry

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about on my body. But that
doesn't mean that I'm going to sit here

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and judge you on that. Sometimes
tatt who can be a great testimony for

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somebody else. It just depends on
how you're using it. If we use

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it from a spiritual standpoint, has
that tattoo become part of your testimony or

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has it become your God? Has
it become a counterfeit God, as Tim

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the Killer would put it. But
really, there are so many that have

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put out their Peanuts tattoos and have
said that this is a part of their

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journey, and this is a part
of their childhood. This is nostalgia that

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they just don't want to lose.
So I will tell you, if you

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have a Peanuts tattoo and you ended
up on the Charles Schultz Museum web page,

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well done. I tip my humble
hat to you. And the only

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other thing I can think of that
I really wanted to cover on this was

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sometimes when we feel sorry for Charlie
Brown, it's well founded because Charles Schultz

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would dump on him as often as
he could. But there are other times

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that you really can't feel sorry for
him. One of them happens to be

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another comic strip that I recently him
across and looked back at. On the

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penpal incident, now I've mentioned that
before, Charlie Brown would mention how I

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had fourteen penpals at one time in
my life. Quote, but I did

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all the writing as a nobody ever
returned to anything, and I thought that

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was where it stopped. He began
and ended. Not the case. The

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problem is Charlie Brown did not develop
good penmanship. I will go one further

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to say that his penmanship was poor. How do I know that? There

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is a special comic strip that circulated
as of last week that showed Charlie Brown

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telling his penpal or her, whoever
this is, but he hasn't written in

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a while, and his fountain pen
makes a huge mess over all of the

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paper, and he writes in the
third screen and the third thought box.

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You can see why. So part
of the problem falls on Charlie Brown his

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own penmanship. I can't feel sorry
for him on that one. You couldn't

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have borrowed Snoopy's typewriter and found a
way to send that to your penpal.

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You had to succumb to admitting your
faults but not trying to perfect your craft

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at all. I can't get behind
that. So why do I do all

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this? I do this because sometimes
the TV show, sometimes the movie,

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the Charles Schultz Museum, the comic
strips, They're very nostalgic in my life.

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I'm sure there's somebody that I can
meet up with who I could have

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one on one debate when it comes
to the Peanuts, and they're just hard

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to find. They're planning, they
are willing to talk about it on a

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Facebook page or an Instagram page,
but as far as to come on the

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podcast, different story, and just
know that as time goes on, the

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big goal for myself and the Little
Red Haired Girl is to really embrace these

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comic strips, to really embrace them, and to have memories that can never

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be erased. When we visit the
Charles Schultz Museum. We plan to visit

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there in the next three years.
We've been married for seven year ten we

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plan on going to Santa Rosa and
visiting the Charles Schultz Museum in person.

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If you, the listener ever want
to help us with that journey, there

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are ways to do that. If
you go to the blog, there's a

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coffee page. You can donate three
dollars. You can add a tip,

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you can purchase merchandise, you can
keep downloading the episodes. That's very helpful

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as far as the algorithm getting the
word out there. You can share,

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rate reviews, subscribe, all of
these things are very helpful. Three years

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from now, that's the big goal. And as much as I cover these

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comic strips, as much as I
cover the TV show, the movie and

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really appreciate what the Schultz Museum is
done, to see it in person,

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all you're on that journey with me
as well, it doesn't hurt to just

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put it out there. And that's
the plan. So if you feel like

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that's a worthwhile thing for you,
the listener, to decide, because remember

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this is a listener supported podcast.
You should never have to pay for my

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content. Ever, does that mean
on the back end you can't decide in

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a free society that you want to
support the content creation that comes out of

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here. That's that's up to you
entirely. Believe me when I say,

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just you listening is a big deal. But if I don't put my big

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goals out there, they may never
be attained. So now the clock is

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ticking. Three years from now,
the Little Red Heron Girl and I plan

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to attend the Charles Schultz Museum and
have memories that we will never forget.

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I'll probably do a podcast from the
hotel room. We'll take pictures, we'll

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do videos. My hope is to
raise a root beer glass and to enjoy

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that with Snoopy himself. When that
time comes, it will be a day

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that we'll go down and infamy.
But you've been with me for almost three

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hundred episodes. From the bottom of
my heart, I thank you. I'm

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glad you're here, and I also
want to find ways to shout out the

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Blockhead Nation. The more you engage, the more you leave comments, the

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more and I can do that.
So I look forward to hearing from you.

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It's time for us to shift gears
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for today's show. Let's get back
to the episode. Our scripture re in

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for this podcast comes from Proverbs,
chapter ten, verse three. The Lord

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will not suffer the soul of the
righteous to famish, but he casts the

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way the substance of the wicked.
Reflection from Blue lay A Bible says,

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take confidence in the very suffering of
the righteous lies the mystery of gospel victory.

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So there will become a time when, a long last, we no

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longer have to hold to the promises
of unshakable victory by faith alone. Blockhead

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Nation, but Jesus will return and
establish his kingdom. So are we to

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be ready? Yes? Are we
to be on alert? Yes? And

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may we ask for hearts of servants
until that day comes. Now, as

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I shift into mixed martial arts,
the reason why it took me so long

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to get this episode out on this
Saturday is because I was watching UFC Fight

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Night in the UK, which is
on a different time zone. And let

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me just start with this. Oh
my goodness, Tom Aspinall is back,

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the one guy in the heavyweight division
that I have absolute confidence that can beat

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John Jones. He was asked by
Michael Bisping on the microphone, how do

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you intend to do it now?
And he gave the best answer that I

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think I've ever heard, because systematically
this makes it to where John Jones can't

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run and hide, He can't duck
and run on this one. Aspinall said,

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I'm going to go to Paris.
The main event is gonna be Surreal

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Gone versus Spivak. He's gonna sit
cage side. He's not just sitting there

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to be a fan. He's gonna
analyze and interpret everything that he's watching in

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there. He's gonna pretty much watch
film as these two go at it,

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and whoever wins that fight, he
says, I'm going to fight him,

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and then I'm going to fight John
Jones. There will be no denying that

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Aspinall will be the number one ranked
guy if he goes through these steps that

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he's placed for himself. Methodical wise, this is the best way. I

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absolutely love it. Molly McCann unfortunately
got Armbard in a vertical way across the

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fence, so good for Julia to
be able to pull that off. What

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I believed, honestly was fight of
the night Nathaniel Wood and Andre Feeley was

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just a magnificent fight. Nathaniel would
barely pulls this one out in my mind,

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but they gave him Unanism's decision.
I would have gone with split bared

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you. Paul Craig destroys Andrea Muniz. I mean, it just an awesome

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night of fights, So had to
get that out of the way first.

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But we do have a setback kind
of a conundrum when it comes to the

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light heavyweight division. Now that Paul
Craig has shown that he is here and

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he's ready to go to war,
he's going to be a problem for the

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light heavweight division. But We've already
got a problem. Jamal Hill, the

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champion, pulls out relinquishes his belt
because he has a ruptured achilles tendon,

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which no telling how long that's going
to take for him to recover. Not

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long after this is announced, Uri
pro Hoska, number one ranked light heavyweight,

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says, oh, man, I'm
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forward to our fight. You get
well and when you come back, I'll

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face you. So that's what should
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had to relinquish his belt just to
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Ury pro Haska and George Saint Pierre
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got a problem. I gotta stip
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don't want to hold up a division, and I respect all of these guys

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for doing that. So what should
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chance to get his belt back,
So the fight should be Uri pro Hoska,

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number one contender against Jamal Hill when
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the smoke that's being blown in the
faces of fans all through the MMA world

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is this upcoming pay per view co
main event for Dustin Poorier and Justin gaiche

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Is Blahovic versus Alex Perea. The
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we're not holding up the division,
is that going to become an interim title

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fight? Now? I'm not gonna
cash all my chips on on that and

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bank on that, but that was
simply my question. I'm not worried about

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Jamal Hill taking time off for his
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What do you do? Do you
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wins is holding an interim title or
what they are not known for. What

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Bellator's known for is to have some
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number one rank Erie Pro against number
two Uncle Aliav, and whoever wins that

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these two, whoever these winners are
for Pereah versus Plahovic versus Eury Prahoska and

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Uncle Aliev. Whoever wins out of
those, that becomes your intrim holder and

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Jamal Hill comes back. I honestly
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guys with all the class in the
world and getting them have rightfully earned their

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spot in the light heavyweight division.
To be able to have that chance to

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fight again. Is it going to
happen? If you don't know this?

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The UFC is all about what have
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narrative is we're better off having Putreya
as the lighthavya I said, because if

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he wins against Plahovic and some type
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have won two titles in two different
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So all speculation all simply asking the
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Because they take everything week by week. I believe sometime in midweek we're

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gonna find out what they're gonna do, but nothing's been announced as of yet.

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So just how to make sure we
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on in the light heavyweight division.
A face in the crowd right now has

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clearly bared you, Paul Craig.
But moving on to continue the ongoing unfortunate

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narrative with Israel Artisania and Drecis Duplessis. Duplessis looks at his fight with Israel

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Artisania and says, this is eight
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champion. I need more time than
that. He pulls out Israel does not

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hold anything back. He lets the
expletives fly, just the way he did

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inside of the cage. And now
we have Stricklin versus Izzy. We've blown

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the dust off an old altercation that
happened at a press conference a while back,

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whereas Strickland's was behind Izzie and making
all kinds of claims that didn't work

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out well in his favor. So
Strickland's back up there the very controversial American

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versus Israel Artisania, who I don't
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about these days. Nita did du
plessus. He was interviewed about how he

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felt about that, and he simply
said that it makes me not want to

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be involved in the discussion as and
I'm still going to fight the guy.

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I still want to fight him.
He quickly jumped the ranks to number one.

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He's a fresh coat of paint for
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and I quote, that race and
color should never be included in a

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fight at all, and it's sad
that we've gone down that route. It

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shouldn't be allowed in life, it
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Izzie made about that, and he
backed up what Dana White said. This

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is the fight business. Ezy can
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but either way, Duplessis steps aside
said he needs a fool, which

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would make sense in my mind,
give him at least a six month training

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camp to get ready for the champion
who has been recycling people in the top

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five for a long time. Now. I'm really on Duplessis's side here,

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not just because I don't want to
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Easy versus Strickland instead of Easy versus
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But the saga continues in that one. Stay tuned to wrap up things

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on this end of IM because remember, I'm having to come back and really

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recap a lot of things that have
already happened. My guest as of next

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week is really going to help me
expedite the process of what MMA fans can

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expect in the next month or so, because there's plenty of great storytelling that's

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coming out at this point, but
one of them is Nagano being able to

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solidify the tight the fight with Tyson
Fury, and if I'm understanding this,

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Tyson Fury's own camp have convinced him
that the fight to make is not with

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Alexander Former, he's a current day
WBC champion, that in a nutshell,

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the fight should not be for the
strap. It should be against an MMA

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guy that has power in his hands, that had Dana Wyatt standing there with

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his finger in his ear while pfl
was able to solidify a contract allowing him

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to have a boxing match outside of
his contract and to make more money in

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one night than his entire paycheck for
the UFC from the day he stepped in

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the cage. This is what his
campus told Tyson Fury. The fight to

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make is this, and really from
a athletic and professional standpoint, to go

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against somebody who's never done it and
carry them the way that I believe Tyson

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Fury will because Nagano has power in
his hands, but he's not a trained

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professional boxer, especially not against the
greatest in the world right now, which

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is Tyson Fury. So the title
holder is not the brass ring to attain

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right now. It is the major
payday for both of these guys. For

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Francis Nagana, regardless if he wins
or loses, to be able to look

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at Daniel White and say, how
do you like me now for Tyson Fury

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to have a huge payday versus a
chance to hold another strap. So I'm

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stepping outside of my world for boxing
here. But is this now something that's

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setting the standard? Are these voices
of the fighters now being heard through the

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actions of Francis Nagano. Is Nagano
able to finally do what people like Tito

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Ortiz and Randy Couture could not do
with things like the Olie Act. They

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can do it now by going to
the steamy side of the street, which

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is the boxing world, and make
a major payday. Congrats to Nagano for

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getting that check with two commas in
it. God bless you. But from

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a professional athletic standpoint, are we
really going to have a competitive bout here

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or just another spectacle? We've done
it with Floyd Mayweather, Now we do

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it with Francis Nagano in the heavyweight
division. I guess it'll be something else

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to tune into and something to either
cheer or applaud or back and roll our

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eyes and go, this is the
ride we're on, and this is the

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direction we're going. Is it a
circus side show or is it a legitimate

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bout where Nagano could possibly get the
upset of the decade. I mean,

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when it comes to the payout,
we can agree with that, but it

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all depends on when the bell rings
after how many rounds this mounch is going

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to be if it even comes to
fruition. Certainly sounds like it is because

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Tyson Fury's coach and his team are
definitely saying this is the match to make,

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and PFL has given them the blessing
and said go the fourth my son.

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We shall see, won't we,
blockhead Nation. In the meantime,

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I hope you enjoy the next upcoming
episodes We're gonna do. I will be

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sitting back and playing gracious host.
We will see you guys next Saturday,

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moving towards episode three hundred, getting
closer and closer all the time. I

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appreciate your input, your support,
and everything you do. Blockhead Nation.

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We'll see you next Saturday, Same
blockhead time, same blockhead chair