Episode #296: A Triple Dose Of Snoopy With A Double Dose of MMA Letdowns

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So there are some incentives for being
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show. And second of all,
just to begin with, I really want

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to elaborate on how this is going
to be very snoopy heavy and part of

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that is simply because we owe a
bilated happy birthday to one and only Snoopy.

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He did have an anniverse for his
birthday last week. However, it

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wasn't the first time he appeared in
the comic strip. It was actually one

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of those birthday scavenger hunts. If
you watch the comic strips, they show

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this a lot online, whether it's
the Charles Schultz Museum, Facebook, Instagram,

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there's always somebody that's posting these Peanuts
comic strips that have recirculated over many

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decades. But this one was Snoopy
following Lucy into a dimly lit house,

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and I think Snoopy was thinking to
himself, oh man, I can't stand

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these birthday scavenger hunts. They get
a little bit spooky sometimes and as they

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stumble around in the dark, I
believe it's something like says something to the

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degree of here, let me turn
on the light, and all of a

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sudden, it's all of the gang
there. Happy birthday, Snoopy, And

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of course Snoopy's overwhelmed with emotions,
saying, well, I'll be a brown

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eyed beagle. It's a really sweet
moment. But to be fair, since

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I only put out this show every
Saturday. We've got to go ahead and

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do a belated Happy Birthday too.
Snoopy. Now, when I mention him,

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I always it's not that I get
frustrated, but I have to accept

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that I'm on a ride with the
rest of society and culture. Most of

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society and culture will say that Snoopy
is cute. I have other terms to

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use for Snoopy. I have always
said on this show, how interchangeable that

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Snoopy is. He can be a
World War One flying ace one minute.

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He can be a blogger slash typewriter
slash secretary assistant the next on top of

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his doghouse. He could be the
masked Marvel. He could be many other

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personas that you need him to be. He can eat an everyday working man.

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He can be a circus at.
He can do it all. He's

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very ch I guess you can say
chameleon esque. But why am I bringing

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that up. Even in movies there
have been references to Snoopy to say that

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he's cute. You want proof of
that, Let's go back a few years.

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Jackie Chan Chris Tucker. They do
an infamous movie called Rush Hour.

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The sequel comes out Rush Hour two
not taking as seriously. It's very slapstick.

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But there is a scene in Rush
Hour two where they're having an all

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night steak out and they are watching
this police agent, who suffice to say,

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is getting a little bit comfortable in
her apartment, and they are being

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what do you want to call it, They're being men, They're being very

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barbaric, and some are in there
when they are looking at everything that God

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created for her, they have been
a zoom in on a tattoo, okay,

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and it's made very clear that the
tattoo that is on this police agent,

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who is definitely easy on the eyes, was Snoopy. And sure enough,

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when Chris Tucker says this, that
tattoo looks like Snoopy, Jackie Chan's

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responses, Snoopy, I love Snoopy. Wait a minute, I love Snoopy

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too. So you got a little
push and pull between both of these guys

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happening. But as the scene carries
on, they're still kind of going back

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and forth over this agent. Chris
Tucker is saying, the girl shows me,

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and then somewhere in there there's the
talk of I'm tall, dark and

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handsome and you are quote third world
ugly, and of course Jackie Chan has

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to come to his own defense and
say, no, I'm not ugly.

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Women like me. They think I'm
cute like Snoopy. Chris Tucker, without

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missing a beat, looks at me
and goes, Lee, Snoopy is six

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inches taller than you. So there's
a lot of personal insults and personal attacks

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going back and forth between these two. But I'm mentioning to you. As

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much as I say that Snoopy is
interchangeable, I say that he is chameleon

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esque, that he evolves with society
and is what America needs him to be

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at that time. He always gets
referred to as cute, and that's the

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ride I have to be in on. Okay, But either way, it's

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just part of it. At least
he's being acknowledged and he's recognized worldwide,

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so I guess I gotta give him
my hat tip to him on that one.

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But making sure that he gets his
belated birthday on this episode, making

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sure we mentioned in other movies it's
made very clear that people think Snoopy's cute.

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But also we had an exhibit a
few days ago at the Charles Schultz

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Museum that was called Snoopy in orbit. Now, I thought this was pretty

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exciting because, as I look at
it, many times Charles Schultz has used

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Snoopy in outer space. There's a
specific one for the NASA space station in

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the TV series This is America Charlie
Brown, where Snoopy and Charlie Brown have

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to go do repairs on the outside
of the Space Shuttle. So Snoopy is

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very much in orbit many times in
different episodes and different comic strips. But

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to have the exhibit there at the
Charles Schultz Museum that is facilitated by none

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other than a former NASA astronaut by
the name of Mike Masamino, it makes

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it even more exciting, even more
relevant. It really solidifies that Snoopy has

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earned his wings not just as a
World War One flying ace, but being

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a pilot and outer space too.
So it was kind of cool just to

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see that NASA and mission control were
carried over for Snoopy on that. Now,

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as I wrap up part one,
here here's what I would like to

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do. I want to give a
head nod tip my hat, but also

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send you another direction. There happens
to be a good friend of mine in

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the podcasting space who does a great
job with his own show and a lot

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of his own coaching and mentoring of
other podcasters. This is a shout out

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to my friend Ozel. He was
a guest on I believe episode one two

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or one ninety four. It's been
a while back, but he's been on

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my show before. And Ozel from
pod Houston has a new show called Creator

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Factor. If you are a person
that has this yearning to be a content

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creator, or you already are,
you need to go listen to this podcast

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called Creator Factor. It's worth your
time. Some really good gold nuggets in

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there to put into your toolbox.
But I'll tell you he was really vulnerable

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and sometimes in life you get these
sucker punches to the gut. Now,

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Ozeal, unlike myself, is a
big boxing fan. It's not that I

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don't like boxing. We just had
Nate Diaz and Jake Paul the other week.

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But I say that just because I'm
more thoroughly into mixed martial arts,

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as most of you that follow this
show know that. But Ozel follows boxing

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a lot closer, and we kind
of talked about how some ms, yeah,

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life can be like James Butler with
that sucker punch hurt around the world,

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but there have also been some other
sucker punches that have been done on

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mental level in the world of mixed
martial arts. Now that's my cliffhanger.

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If you want to know who I'm
talking about, what MMA fighter got suckered

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into a world that he should never
have got involved in the first place,

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You're gonna have to listen to part
two. But on the back end of

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this, I always promote my friends
in the wifeb netwhere go listen to the

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guys that are part of the empty
slate putting out episodes casually kicking it or

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putting out episodes quite often. Ray
and JG still has a podcast that's still

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out that are music related. Just
know there's still plenty of things coming out

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of the WYFB network. But if
you have not heard Creator Factor, you

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are truly missing out. If you're
not tuning into this podcast. I know

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I've used that type of slang many
times. I've used that same vernacular quite

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often, but I mean it when
I say it. Oh Zeal can give

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you key instruction on how to make
your content better, and you should go

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check out his show. You should
hear other interviews that he's done with other

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content creators because we're all in this
together. We are not Joe Rogan,

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we are not Adam Carolla, we
are not Jordan Arvinger. We're not these

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guys who have a fan following Lray
that have built up their podcast. We're

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having to roll up our sleeves and
get our hands dirty and why not.

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On the end of this one,
shout out to Ozel Adam Carolla, you

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have said before that you would go
on any podcasters show. I'm still looking

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at my watch waiting for a response, just putting that out there. You

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didn't go on Yogi's podcast network for
the Nightly Rant, So I'm staring at

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my watch, tapping my foot and
going, what are you waiting on?

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Adam Carolla? You're welcome to come
by this show, but are you gonna

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put your money where your mouth is? I'm waiting Blockhead Nation, thank you

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faithfulness is unto all generations. Thou
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Lord who is worthy. Don't depend
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spouts out his truths. Lean on
his now. As I get into mixed

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martial arts. A couple of things
like the usual we got at the APEX

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tonight in Las Vegas. We've got
Vicente Luke versus already a you know,

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Hafiel Dosagnios is just an experienced fighter
all the way around. I can't go

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against experience. But Vicente Luke knows
that he's got thirty two fights in,

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he's got a phenomenal m M A
i Q. So either way, this

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main event is gonna be great.
I'm excited about the co main event of

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Cub Swanson, so I'll be checking
that out once I get finished with this

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podcast, So I'll probably be editing
into this show and watching the co main

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event by that time. But what
I can say about last week's main event,

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Corey Sanhagen and Rob Thought, even
though this was quite a chess match

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to watch, even though in the
first round you can tell that Rob Thought

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had done his homework to get ready
for Corey Sanhagen to be able to stuff

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those takedowns, to be able to
scramble on the ground, to be able

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to really work in the guard to
where there's not a whole lot of damage

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happening as the fight goes on.
The crowds not behind it. They're begging

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the referee, Jason Herzog, who
is actually working tonight's main event, or

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at least work in the main card. They're shouting from the stands, stand

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them up. Now, that's us
being selfish, MMA fan, it's trying

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to get what we want. But
guys, it's not a good look when

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Dana White, the president owner of
the UFC, walks out of the main

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event in the fourth round. As
I understand it, Dana White and Michael

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Chandler, who were at cage side, walked out of the fight. Not

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good. Now has Dana White done
this before. Absolutely, he's done it

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with one of the greatest To be
fair, Corey Sandhagen and Rob von are

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in good company. Let's think way
back to UFC one hundred and twelve,

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Damian Maya takes on Anderson Silva.
We get one of the worst fights ever

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in the history of championship fights.
You've got a very arrogant and brash Anderson

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Silva to where Dana walks out and
tells his coach to put the title on

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whoever the winner is. And he
actually said this at the press conference.

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It's one of the most embarrassing things
that he had ever put on, in

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spite of how many great things that
come out of the fight, Frankie Edgar

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winning the championship. So there were
good things, but that's the way that

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the night ended. It was supposed
to be fireworks and a barn burner,

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and you had an insult to MMA
fans. I don't believe that was ever

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the intention with Corey Sanagan and Rob
Thought. It's just it's really hard to

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defend a contendership or defend a title
shot. If the entire crowd is snoozing.

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It's just not gonna help. So
I have all respect for both of

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these guys. I respect for Rob
font taking the fight on only a few

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months notice. It just doesn't help
if the owner of the UFC is not

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given any head and out of approval. I'm sure we can shift over to

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Pedro Munos versus Cheeto Vera and see
how that's going to play out. Then

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you'll have the main event coming up
of al Jamine Sterling and Sean O'Malley.

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But Sanegan doesn't have a lot of
a leg to stand on at this point.

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But either way, I appreciated the
fight. I appreciated the mixed martial

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arts behind it. I appreciate that
the commentator is doing their best to speak

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the truth about the fight, but
if Dana walks out, who can really

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say anything. And also, while
we're on the subject, Dana White,

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Dana White has clarified what's supposed to
happen. Apparently in me is an MMA

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fan. I've been worked. I
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who gets his name in the bucket
with Justin Gache all the while. It's

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kind of like when you have two
siblings that are fighting and when dad steps

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in, the law has been laid
down. Okay, here's what's gonna happen.

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Since y'all can't figure it out,
I'll figure it out. Dana has

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stepped between Connor and Michael Chandler said, here's the deal. These two are

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going to fight. So we can
speculate. Since there isn't a December main

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event that's solidified yet, we're still
waiting on the venue. I'm assuming that's

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going to be in Las Vegas.
They're probably gonna make that a huge epic

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spectacle, trying to put Patty the
Batty on the same card. We'll see

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how that plays out. But either
way, when Dana White says these two

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are going to fight, what Mordy
want me to tell you that Chandler and

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Connor at some point are going to
face each other, he clarifies it from

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the top up. This is the
way it's going to be now. Earlier

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I had mentioned that sometimes there are
sucker punches that are given in physical sense,

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there are other ones that are questionable. In the world of mma,

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there have been many times that I
believe it was Jake Shields. This isn't

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the guy I'm talking about, but
I think there are stories about him putting

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plants into other camps if he has
a fighter. Apparently he'd send somebody who

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wanted to train with his opponent,
and somewhere in there he would disappear,

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and he'd come back and he would
give a scouting report of some sort.

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I don't really have a way to
verify all that. That might be just

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the mind of Chris Leeban, but
I'd heard that more than once, I

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think, from Jake Shield's camp before. So that's happened, or at least

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it has been. The finger has
been pointed at fighters like him, but

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one of them that was really strange
to watch. If you didn't watch the

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entire thing, you have to go
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And the fighter I'm talking about is
Diego Sanchez. He will always be a

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legendary icon and a true pioneer,
as being on the first season of The

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Ultimate Fighter. Diego Sanchez is one
of the most disciplined and one of the

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most believable and easy to get behind
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But something started to happen to him
when he started to isolate and ostracize

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coaches and family members and he got
behind this guy named Joshua Fabia. It

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almost looked like a cult mentality.
Some of you that might be listening in.

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I don't know how you feel about
the Church of Scientology, but one

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of the tactics is to cut you
off from family that disagree with the route

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you're taking. Diego started doing this
with Joshua Fabia, and it started to

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look like Stockholm syndrome in many ways. Joshua Fabia didn't have any experience,

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and all the MMA fans could smell
bs from a mile away watching this guy,

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but for some reason, Diego would
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career was taking a turn for the
worst. I believe it even led to

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either a divorce or separation from his
wife. And somewhere in there, Joshua

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Fabia has these training videos that were
leaked out to the world. This is

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the one that's one of the most
disturbing. Apparently, according to this YouTube

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video, one of the warmups he
would use for his fighters was he would

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chase him around the octagon with a
switchblade, coming at them with literally with

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a knife. I guess it's that
mindset of if you can dodge a wrench,

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you can dodge a ball, remember
that movie from what two thousand and

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four, And maybe it's that mentality. But apparently he really did chase these

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guys out with an open switchblade and
they would you have to be dodging and

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they'd be bicycling back. It was
really disturbing. Now, in hindsight,

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Joshua Fabia and Diego have parted ways, but not long after that, Joshua

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Faba tried to play the role of
oh, I didn't break up with her,

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she broke up with me, I
broke up with them, started to

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play that little card I broke up
with him because of this, But again

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the fans just aren't buying it.
So there are physical, physical sucker punches

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in mixed martial arts. There are
questionable things like a plant from another camp

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watching your adversary. I think even
John Jones was accused of that a couple

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of times. But to watch Diego
Sanchez just go down the drain and just

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circle and circle and circle and just
hit rock bottom thanks to a poor usage

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of a quote unquote coach who knew
nothing about mixed martial arts but knew how

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to manipulate and knew how to use
mind games to control Diego Sanchez. Because

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if you watch some of his latest
promos before he finally quote hung it up,

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we haven't seen much of Diego lately. They were very strange and very

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almost like outer space, very almost
like the circulation being cut off to his

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head. It was almost like listening
to The Ultimate Warrior giving a lot of

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his promos that were just scattered and
very sporadic and incoherent. You started to

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see that with Diego and it was
really like not only confusing, it was

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disturbing to watch, and it was
really sad to watch because so many MMA

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fans have expected Diego for so long. Do these things happen in my sport,

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Yes they do, people like Joshua
Fabia who are fakers, as Dana

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White actually called it, riding the
Southern area. That's the word I'm gonna

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use here, since I don't go
explicit on my show to Joe Rogan even

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saying the same thing and really badgering
the name of Joshua Fabia. These things

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happen. There are physical sucker punches, there are mental sucker punches, and

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I've seen all of them in the
world of combat sports. But on that

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note, it's time for me to
get back to Luke a versus already.

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I want to see if I can
catch the Cubs Watson fight. But I

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will tell you this, friends,
continue to check out the show. There's

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a gentleman I'm trying to get on
before episode three hundred, which is approaching

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very fast. So we hope to
have a guest interview not too long down

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the road. We'll see how that
plays out, depends on schedules either way.

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