Episode #297: Sending Love To Maui As We Speculate In Boston

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Broadcasting Live, good evening, Blockhead
Nation, thank you for stopping by.

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Once again. You are listening to
your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in

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the podcasting world against somehow incorporate the
Peanuts comic script one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the
Octagon the next. I am here host.

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My name is Brian Little. To
begin with with this episode, I

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like to give shout outs and words
of encouragement to friends of the show.

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And what I'm excited to announce is
we have the return of the dose leper

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Coons. Football season is almost underway. College football season is right around the

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corner, and they are already making
predictions for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and

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my friends Jason and Nate are back
at it. You can catch their episodes

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on YouTube. You can catch them
on Facebook Live. They also do have

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a podcast. It's a little easier
to catch them on those two channels,

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but either way, I'm happy to
see that they're back and they're doing such

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great work. Now, normally I'll
start with three things. First of all,

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Number one, God is king.
That's key, That's crucial. Number

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Two, I talk about Peanuts on
this particular podcast. Peanuts is the single

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most successful comic strip in American history. It's been a true delight from beginning

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of in since the beginning of Charles
Schultz's career until his death in two thousand

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and all the comics are just recirculated
through the Internet, especially through places like

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the Charles Schultz Museum, and also
on part two of this show, if

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you want to stick around and hear
about the greyest Sport under God's Hot Son.

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If you are a mixed martial arts
fan, then Part two of this

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podcast is definitely for you. So
if you want to stick around, I

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will cover all three of these,
but I have to begin with a heartfelt

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response. One of our neighbors in
the United States is in disarray. It's

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hard to find hope right now.
On the island of Maui. If you've

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been following the news, we had
a massive wildfire that in many ways was

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elevated by the hurricane right outside of
their door, and just with the dry

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weather conditions and very little precipitation,
and just in many ways, sometimes these

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things just happen, but this is
really heartbreaking to see. It's been the

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worst wildfire in the last hundred years
and since the Islands of Hawaii are very

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much part of the United States of
America. I send my prayers, I

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send a heartfelt response, I send
my love, and I continue to watch

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the efforts as the locals have really
had to lock arms as even something as

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you would think would be as reliable
as the Red Cross have been little to

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no effect out there. That's not
me criticizing the Red Cross. It's just

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they've had to take care of their
own and some of it is depressing,

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some of it is downright and raging, and it's just not good. Now

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are we finally able to see the
back end of this. It looks like

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it as once again we have any
rescue efforts that are happening. We have

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the fires that are being put out
finally, mostly by the locals. But

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I wanted to make sure that my
heart goes out on this episode to the

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islanders of Maui and so many historical
treasures have been lost on this island,

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and it got me to thinking,
I could sit here and talk about comic

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strips all day, I could talk
about my personal favorites, I could talk

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about the TV show on my favorite
episode, something that's relevant to the season

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that we're in. I really want
to make sure my focus for this podcast

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is to the island of Hawaii.
I've been to hawaihu three times, and

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I've seen Pearl Harbor and have embraced
it as a US Navy sailor. I

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didn't spend really any time in Maui. I saw it from afar didn't really

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get to enjoy it often. Maui
was or to as the party island in

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many ways. Then there's Kawaiet,
then there's Big Island. But I just

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wanted to make sure that in this
episode I could spend time talking about things

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relevant to the Peanuts, But it
seems like this will be more befitting instead.

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Since I don't have the words,
I don't know how to bring comfort.

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I could send donations, I could
send love. I can say all

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these things hoping they will be spoken
into existence. But as I wondered about

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this many times, I thought about, how would Charles Schultz respond to all

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the tragedies post two thousand. What
would Charles Schultz have done watching the towers

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fall? How would he have responded
to the COVID pandemic, How would he

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have responded to even the housing crisis
of two thousand and eight? What would

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what would it look like if he
were to illustrate what America is either thinking

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or is on the cusp of thinking. So, since this is a podcast,

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there is a hat tipped Charlie Brown
and the Peanuts and to Charles Schultz

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the Numero uno blockhead. It was
put very well in the book The Parables

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of Peanuts by a man named Robert
L. Short. I want to make

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sure I give all credit back to
this This is actually the very last page.

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I went looking for something to talk
about, and the very last page

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of the book is what I want
to share with you. And I can't

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say it any better. I can't
say it better than Charles Schultz's words.

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I can't say it better than mister
Short's words. So all credit back to

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the author of this book, to
mister Short of The Parables of Peanuts if

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you look for it. The story
of Jesus is very relevant and it can

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emerge off the page if you look
for it. Here are mister Schwartz's words

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and by quote until the end of
this book, and maybe it will intrigue

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you enough to want to put this
on your bookshelf. Here's what you had

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to say. The world of peanuts
is a world of size, size too

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deep for words, which is another
way of saying that peanuts is a world

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of prayer. In a college commencement
day address that Schultz delivered, he began

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by quoting the following New Testament text
from Paul's Letters to the Romans. Likewise,

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the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how

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to pray as we ought, but
the Spirit himself intercedes for us with size

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too deep for words, Romans,
Chapter eight, verse twenty six. And

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this is what Schultz had to say. Schultz concluded his remarks by saying,

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no matter what I consider to say, I come back to a passage in

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the New Testament that contains a truth
in which I firmly believe. In the

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last chapter of the Gospel of Paul, excuse me, the Gospel of John,

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we find Peter and Thomas Nathaniel,
the sons of Zebedee, and two

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others who are unnamed, turning back
to their old profession of fishing. So

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as we move over the shore of
the seas of Tiberius, we find Peter

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and his friends returning at dawn from
fishing. A figure is standing on shore

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by a small charcoal fire. I
have to interject a second. This is

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going to really show you jesus sense
of humor. This is after he's risen

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from the third day. They don't
know it's him. Instead of proclaiming I

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am the Lord and I am all
powerful, he's going to act like a

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tourist. Hey, y'all, catch
any fish. It's kind of how the

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first time they met, when he
met Peter on the shore. Anyway,

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to continue what it says, they
gather around this fire, none daring to

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speak, even though they know it
is Jesus who has been waiting for them.

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Jesus turns to Peter and asks Simon, son of John, do you

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love me more than these? Yes, Lord, you know that I love

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you, Jesus said to him,
Feed my lambs. Then a second time,

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Jesus asks Simon, do you love
me? Peter answers, yes,

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Lord, you know that I love
you, Jesus said, tend my sheep.

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Then a third time, if you
remember, Peter denied Jesus three times

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until the rooster crowed and it was
prophesied to him the night before. Jesus

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turns to Peter and asks Simon,
son of John, do you love me?

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Imagine the flood of words that could
have sprung from Peter's mouth at this

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time, the explanations, the apologies, the tears of anguish. But Peter

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has a better answer. It is
the answer of supreme faith. Lord,

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you know everything. You know that
I love you. When the excitement of

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these days passes away, and when
some of the visions begin to grow a

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little dim, when it becomes impossible
to put into words the prayers we want

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to speak, just like myself with
the prayers over Malli, then we must

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be able to lift our heads up
and say with all faith, as Peter

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did, Lord, you know that
I love you. End of quote.

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As Paul Harvey once said, good
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Let's get back to the episode.
Our scripture reading for this podcast comes from

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Matthew chapter twenty two, verse one, and Jesus answered and spoke to them

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again by parables, and said,
the kingdom of Heaven is like a certain

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king who arranged a marriage for his
son and sent out his servants to call

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those who were invited to the wedding, and they were not willing to come.

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Really, what Jesus is doing in
this, according to the commentary by

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David Musick, is showing how it's
so strange that you're invited, yet you

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refuse this invitation to a royal wedding. It illustrates the principle there is no

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real logical reason to deny God's good
gifts that are given to you through this

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free gift that was his son,
this free gift that is grace. It's

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even laid out in Luke fourteen fifteen
through twenty four between these parables, and

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it makes it even more evident.
You spend time reading this. So if

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you want to understand Jesus, better
understand a Galilean marriage. Understand how the

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very first miracle he did was at
a wedding where he turned the water into

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wine. Everybody tries to use that
and justify, Oh, look, Jesus

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drank. It was very specific in
the Galilean wedding that the bride have the

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opportunity to either refuse the cup or
to drink from the cup and accept the

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groom that was presented to her by
the father. That's the parallel, that's

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the parable. Guys, that when
he returns, have you accepted Jesus as

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your groom? When he returns for
the bride whenever, that's only the father

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knows the timing. Are you going
to be ready to accept him? We

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are called to be ready, just
as I have been ready all week long

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to get into this world of mixed
martial arts. And to begin with I

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have to start with a praise.
Shout out to my friend mister Jose Shorty

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Torres, who is now the bantamweight
champion of the world. Well done,

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Shorty. If you're listening to this
podcast, I'm so thankful for your friendship.

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I'm so happy for you to gain
the belt over there at bray FC.

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He is standing tall, had an
awesome performance with another great fighter,

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and just to say that you know
he is champion is a big deal.

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So I had to start with my
praise for Jose Shorty Torres. I pray

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for your championship reign. I pray
that you're healthy, I pray that you've

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healed, and I look forward to
seeing the next fight that comes out whenever

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that is accepted by whoever your opponent
is. So shout outs to Shorty.

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He's been on the show before a
couple of times. And also, we'll

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say this, I haven't really embraced
TikTok much, but for the first time,

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I started doing a few TikTok videos
just to see if it would be

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helpful to the content. TikTok's been
pretty nice to WYFB so far. The

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downloads are getting better. There's a
chance for you guys to go check it

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out since I'm uploading this to Apple
and Spotify and all the other platforms that

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you listen to, and I just
mentioned on there that Sterling and O'Malley have

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the main event tonight, But I
want to kind of bring something into perspective

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when it comes to the bantam waits. We are very much at a crossroads

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I've talked about before. Morob de
Wallis Vley is the number one contender.

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He will not face his training partner
and his friend who is the champion,

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Al Jamaine Sterling. And when we
had the face off with Sugar Show,

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O'Malley and al Jamaine Sterling, ma
Rob takes the red jacket and puts it

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on and he steals the show.
It's like the game once said with fifty

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cent Hated or Love It. The
underdog is on top and Marob is going

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to shine when what I believe is
going to happen happens. What I believe

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will happen is Sterling will win tonight. He's getting the wifeb curse, but

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he will step out of the picture. If you've been watching the interviews up

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to this fight, Sterling does not
want to stay in the bantamweight division anymore.

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Are you serious. Did he really
say that? Yes, he does

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not want any of the sharks swimming
in the water that are in the bantoweight

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division. He's got a different whale
in mind that he wants to inject his

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harpoon into. And I truly believe
that man is the king, not the

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king of the band waits the king
of the pound for pound itself. I

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believe he wants to go up to
one five and he wants to face Alexander

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Vulkanovski. This is what I believe
we're going to be is going to be

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delivered to us in the next coming
months. Now, if somehow Sugar Shan

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O'Malley with his hands down the way
he does and the way that he doesn't

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really deliver a chess match, but
he sets up traps to where he can

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somehow work this out to where he
can defeat Sterling. That's the thing about

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it. If you watch al Jamaine
Sterling, he's a chess player in real

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life and in the cage. He
very much referred to Henry Sahudo like the

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Queen when he faced him last.
He thinks more of Sugar Shan O'Malley as

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a bishop. That's effective when used
correctly. He went through all of that.

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He went through describing Corey Sanhagen as
a night piece. So it's interesting

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the way he played that out.
But if somehow Sean O'Malley figures out the

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chess game that is al Jamaine Sterling
and becomes champion, what that does is

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that frees up the number one ranked
guy that devoted his jacket in the first

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place. We could easily have Marob
versus Sean O'Malley down the road because there

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is no other number one contender unless
somehow we have a banger between Pedro Munos

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and Cheeto Vera and Cheeto Vera,
or Pedro probably Cheeto, since he's such

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a fan favorite, says I'm the
actual number one ranked guy. He could

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speak it into existence if this were
to happen. So the hang up is

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Sterling won't fight Morob. He doesn't
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Is he willing to relinquish the title, go to one forty five and

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get what he asked for, which
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Meanwhile, freeing up the division where
we could have the rematch. That's where

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feat Cheeto Vera could trump m Rob's
card and say I'm actually number one contender

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because I beat the guy that's fighting
in the main event tonight. That could

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be the build up to the rematch
for the Strap. But Mal Rob would

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be standing there saying, hey,
guess who I am and guess what I

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can do to you? So could
we have Mo Rob versus cheeto vera beautiful

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fight all behind that? Could we
have cheeto vera versus Sean the rematch for

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the Strap? Yes we could.
It frees up a lot of the playing

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field and it frees up the terrain
if Sterling just steps out of the way.

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Now to look further down the card, we got the return of Chris

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Wideman tonight. We've got Limos versus
Zang. We've got Ian Gary versus Neil

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Magnie. I have to talk about
this one. You want to see showman

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Ship of Connor McGregor two point zero, you have it in Ian Gary.

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I don't think anybody was expecting this
pivot that happened, where all of a

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sudden that Ian Gary is lighting into
Neil Magney doesn't let him speak at all.

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Remember Neil Magney's taking this fight on
seven days notice. But when they

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did catch Ian Gary, and they
gave him rapid fire. They said names,

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and he would give one word.
He called Karn McGregor the goat.

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He said Kobe Covington was a B
word. I won't elaborate into that since

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I don't curse on this show,
he said. When they said Neil Magney's

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name, he said, experience.
Don't be fooled to think that Ian Gary,

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even though he is a huge favorite
in the betting favorites tonight and then

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the rankings, and just in the
ability to be ready to go, don't

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think that it's already said and done. Have we had veterans who have dethroned

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a fast moving train before? Yes, we have. If we can shift

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and look at Bellator for a second, Aaron Pico, a twenty two year

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old phenomenal athlete, stop short by
a veteran fighter. We had that a

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couple of nights ago. James Gallagher
is supposed to be the guy that carries

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the bantam waits for Bellator. He
doesn't respect his opponent at all. And

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what happens, Ricky Bendejas is able
to feed him in the first round within

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less than three minutes. Can the
veterans still overcome the prospect Absolutely he can.

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That's what the veterans have done with
the prospects in The Ultimate Fighter,

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as we have the prospects that are
fightings to night on that card on the

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pre Lamb starting at seven o'clock.
So there's so many moving parts for two

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ninety two that is exciting for anybody. For Cheeto Vera to be able to

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face Pedro Munos, for Munios to
be able to say, hey, I

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can dethrone and derail this hype train
right quick, because you don't hear a

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word out of Pedro Munios. And
if you watch the press conference, Ian

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Gary has plenty to say, and
he looks like Connor McGregor two pointzer in

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the language barriers, in the brash
tone that he uses, cutting off Neil

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Magney every chance he gets. But
don't just cashing your chips right away.

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This is still as al Jamaine Sterling
has shown many times to be a chess

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match. It doesn't always intrigue the
audience. It's not always that exciting,

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but it is well calculated. If
you're holding a title, Sterling is well

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calculated, Munios is well well calculated. Saying whale is well calculated. You

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have a lot of that coming out
of tonight, but it's so enthralling,

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and I should hope that you would
think that. If you haven't been tuned

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in to MMA yet, if you're
not able to follow my train of thought,

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because I have so much that I
throw at you very quickly hoping something

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will stick onto the wall, then
maybe you should go give it a chance.

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The prelimbs are starting at seven o'clock. Go check it out. Chris

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Why returns after a long injury and
a long postponement and returned to the cage.

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We've got him tonight. We've got
so many awesome fights for two ninety

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two, and then next week we
have the beloved Max Holloway Blessed Blest is

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his name, at least in the
cage, and you have the Korean Zombie.

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It's gonna continue, and just as
the summer heat is continuing, the

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heat that is inside of the cage
is not going out anytime soon. So

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