Episode #298: Charlie Brown Needs To Quit…Just Like Ian Garry Needs To Change It Up!

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may as convenient for you as I
possibly can. But as we begin,

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you know that those that have been
with me for a while, I'm a

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teacher by day and a podcaster by
weekend. Throughout the week, I was

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actually found by one of my students
and they brought me their parents' books from

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the seventies. They had this collection
of all these different comic strips and said,

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we don't use these, would you
like to have them? And I

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started looking. I said absolutely,
these are like vintage seventies comic strip spine

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books. So I was happy to
get my hands on. And one of

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them is titled You've Come a Long
Way Charlie Brown, and I'll admit I

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spent time looking through this book and
looking at all the comic strips that followed

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the thematic story that it's telling,
and I went, yes, I remember

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every single one of these, and
a lot of it is very much heavily

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saturated in the episode a boy named
Charlie Brown, like the first baseball season

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of the Game of the Year and
how they always lose. There's a lot

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of that that's in there, and
that kind of gives me a small segue

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into what I wanted to talk about. Here's the thing. Which one would

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you buy into more if I said
it, if I told you at all

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costs to follow your dreams, or
if I threw at you an infamous line

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from The Princess Bride where he said
life is paining your highness. Anyone that

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sells different, tells you're different,
is selling something. I don't mean to

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sound as a debbut downer. I
don't mean to sound like a pragmatist.

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But as some of you know that
listen to this show, you can't go

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around and just say follow your dreams. And now I'm not telling you to

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go into the monologue of the School
of Rock, because you remember he talked

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to those kids, said give up, just quit in this life. You

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can't win. You can try,
but the world is run by the man.

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I'm not bringing you a defeatist story
here. What I am saying is

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if you continue to fail at something
over and over again, then maybe,

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just maybe this isn't the plan that
God has for you, and He will

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open up doors and avenues and roots
to the direction he wants you to go.

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Other places. It might be punishing
until you get out of your own

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way, until He leads you in
the path you should go. Whether it's

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teaching, whether it's vocational, whether
it's being on a podcast, whether it's

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being on a YouTube page, whatever
that might be. I'm saying that because

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Charlie Brown is a perfect example.
He does everything he can to be a

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good baseball manager, and yet his
team is always horrendous. They always seem

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to lose the first game the season, and the last game the season,

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dot dot dot and all those stupid
games in between. There comes a point

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where you go, buddy, you
need to hang it up. Okay.

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Even the infamous baseball legend Willie May
was interviewed about the Peanuts comics trip and

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do you know what he said,
Charlie Brown should give it up when it

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comes to baseball. If a professional
lets you down in a tough love yet

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pragmatic, practical way from someone that's
as gray as Willie Mays. Then there's

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some truth to this. In other
words, what are your true skills?

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That's what I would tell you Blockhead
Nation, if you were facing something that

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just makes you be like, man, why am I pursuing this? Maybe

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you're not meant to go that route. Maybe you're not willing to put in

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the hard work that comes with it. But also do you have the passion

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in the drive for it. A
dream without an actual written down goal and

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a plan in place is all that
is nothing more than a dream. And

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I think people like Dave Ramsey and
people like Dan Miller who wrote books like

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forty eight Days to the Work You
Love and Normal Mondays would tell you that's

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all. It is nothing more than
a dream. You've put no legs on

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it, you've put nothing in place. Maybe you can work towards your dream,

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but don't do a knee jerk reaction
where you leave your day job until

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that other job balances out and gives
you the leverage you need. These are

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things that the experts will tell you
that are correct. Even John Aycoff had

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a book called Quitter. It doesn't
mean quit what you're doing. It means

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I'm doing this job, but I
want to be this, Well, it's

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not a dream that's going to get
you there. Chasing the dream is not

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going to get you there. Even
the Bible talks about running the race,

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and running the race, well,
you might need to start looking to what's

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been written from a practical standpoint throughout
history, from the Bible, from leaders

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like Marcus Aurelius, from people that
are well known leaders in their industry.

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And William Mays is telling Charlie Brown, you need to give up baseball.

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I'm gonna pull it back to the
episode A Boy named Charlie Brown. This

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is a perfect example. Charlie Brown
comes a long way of it. For

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some reason, he goes back to
his comfort zone and he always seems to

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fail. Charlie Brown could have been
a legitimate Great Spelling Bee champion. So

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if you watch the episode A Boy
named Charlie Brown, he's not doing great

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as a baseball manager. He hasn't
found anything he's successful at. He goes

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for the spelling Bee. He wins
his school competition, which means he's going

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to the National Elimination Spelling Bee at
the Capitol. Now does he win the

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whole thing? No, he gets
second place. He makes a foolish hiccup

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when he can't spell his own dog's
breed of animal. He couldn't spell the

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word beagle. But quickly the tide
turns on him. He comes home and

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he goes into his feel sorry for
myself mode. He shuts out the lights

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and just shuts himself away from the
world, and Linus has to come in

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and go, I understand how you
feel. You worked hard studying for that.

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Maybe you feel like you let everyone
down, you made a fool out

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of yourself and everything harsh words swallow. But before he leaves, Linus looks

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at him and says, but did
you notice something, Charlie Brown? What's

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that? Charlie Brown replies, and
Lynas holds his blanket close to him and

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says, the world didn't come to
an end. You would think in that

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moment that Charlie Brown would dust himself
off and get the dictionary out and practice

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his stills to be a great spelling
Bee champion next year when he technically was

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a runner up. But what does
he do? He goes back to his

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comfortable ways. He goes back to
the baseball mount. He sees Lucy holding

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a football even though it's a there's
still a feel good moment because the song

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is played in the end called a
boy Name Charlie Brown. It's a really

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good sixties depictions. Not the best
artwork you'll ever see, but it's a

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feel good episode. It ends with
him missing the football again and being told

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by Lucy, welcome home, Charlie
Brown. Yeah, I got my thumb

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back on top of you again,
idiot. He's gone back to his comfort

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zone when he could be working hard
next year to be a champion in the

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making. He was clearly a good
Spelling Bee participant, but here we are

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back to square one and nothing has
ever heard about his skills. Again.

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It can be mixed signals if you
watch Charlie Brown, because really, Charlie

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Schultz was creating him to be the
dump lawn of everybody in the town,

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all of the kids in that community. Had an easy segue into destroying Charlie

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Brown's morale. That's just the reality
of how it worked out, harsh reality.

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You've come a long way, Charlie
Brown, but it's time for you

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to figure out what your skills are. There's even a comic strip that Dan

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Miller talked about in his book No
More Mondays, where Charlie Brown complains about

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his lunch every morning and Lys ask
him the infamous question what is your lunch

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and who makes it? And he
just drops his head and says, I

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do. Maybe it's time to make
a different lunch. Charlie Brown, Blockhead

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Nation, I don't know where you
are in life, but maybe it's time

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to make a different lunch. Stop
trying to chase your dreams. Put a

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plan of action into place, and
then you and I can talk on the

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You'll find that in the blog the
notes for today's show. Let's get

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

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chapter twenty, verse six and showing
mercy unto thousands of them that love me

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and keep my commandments. Reflection from
Blue Lair Bible says God promises mercy to

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those who keep his holy commands.
Yet what man could ever see this promised

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mercy. There is only one Christ, Jesus, and by his love for

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us, we two see God's mercy. Christ's infinite valuable obedience bought mercy for

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all those who seek it. Praise
me to our Lord and Savior for that

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as we acknowledge him and as we
move to the incredible world it makes Martial

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arts fresh off the presses from UNFC
Singapore. Time changes a little bit different

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when it comes to sports like this, But when we have events like we

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just had, let me just say
there is a man who absolutely deserves a

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shot at the championship gold and his
name is Max Holloway. What an incredible

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display of championship material, as Max
Holloway in Singapore makes easy work in the

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second round of the Korean zombie who
pushed forward too fast, too quickly and

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paid for it. First round was
actually pretty good back and forth, probably

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good a bit abouts there, but
we see who's standing tall, and because

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of that, while we can sit
here and wait for the other shoe to

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drop, I have to kind of
talk about what this means. It just

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simply means that we would have to
go if we're going by the rankings,

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if we're going by the championship belts, we would have to go to a

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fourth bout. We would have to
go to Max versus volk four. I

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don't cringe when I say that,
but it is difficult for me to embrace

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a fourth bout. So here's what
I am crossing my fingers for and hoping

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will become. The reality is that
Volkanovski will leave the division. Sometimes when

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you are not being challenged, as
the saying goes, you're not being changed.

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I don't believe that Volka is being
challenged at the weight class he's at.

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If he went up to one fifty
five, that frees up the featherweight

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division for Max and Ilyatapuria to go
for the championship strap. This is all

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again just me waiting for the other
shoe to drop. This is literally me

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just kind of shifting around the cards
on the table seeing if we have an

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ace left in the hole. That's
simply what this is. But congratulations to

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Max and what an incredible early about
of fights that we had. So I'm

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falling along with the fights. I'm
falling on the guys that against the fence

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on their MMA channel, and it's
so cool just to see that Max is

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in dominant fashion. Giga Chagatzi is
back. We had an interesting decision for

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Anthony Smith which I think the split
decision could have easily gone to Ryan Span.

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It validates what I've said that some
of the scott and judging in the

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scorecards needs to change. And again
I'm sorry if my quality is not that

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great, as I have four dogs
in the background who are going to be

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moving about. But we had to
go ahead and address UFC Singapore an early

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morning. No fights for me this
evening now that they're solidified in the books,

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as we say, but we can
simply get back to a recap of

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two ninety two. Sugar Shawn O'Malley
is champion. Only Sugar Shawn O'Malley and

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Jamal Hill can claim that they are
legitimate alumni from Daniel White's Contender series to

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win a UFC title. Those are
the only two you have, lighthandweight champion

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Jamal Hill, who's out with an
injury, and Sugar Shan O'Malley to defeat

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al Jamaine Sterling. Sterling got the
YFB curse. I expected a wrestling clinic.

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I expected him to go for the
legs, but either way, he

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opened himself up for that perfect blow
to the face and that was all there

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was to it. There is some
discussion about was it an early stoppage or

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not. Either way, it opens
the door for more dialogue. It opens

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up for Murad da Wallace Veley as
a number one contender. It opens up

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for Cheeto Vera, who Shan O'Malley
has already punched down in the rankings and

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saying I want the rematch. I
really don't know how to feel about that

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one yet. But are those two
explosive bouts? Would be explosive for simply

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Cheetah and Marob to figure it out
to veer at the number one contendership,

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absolutely. There's a lot of dialogue
here we can work with now as I've

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kind of briefly wrapped up Sugar Shan
O'Malley's victory, and there's so many big

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things that came about UFC two ninety
two. We just had UFC Singapore.

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We're getting close to the bout between
Izzy and Sean Strickland. But I have

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to stop from and just vent my
own frustrations. And my frustration is this.

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I Gary has a goose egg in
the L column, so do two

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other men in the UFC. Now
we can talk about who his contenders are

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and should be who he fights next. But I have to say this because

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I'm frustrated. I get frustrated at
some things in MMA more than I should.

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But as a fan, I didn't
ask for Okay, I did ask

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for Carnor McGregor two point oh.
I've already said this with my friends over

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Yogi's podcast network that if there's a
guy within the next two years who will

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be a number one contender for the
Strap, it's going to be Ian Gary,

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as young as he is, undefeated
in incredible performance put on against Neil

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Magney. But I didn't ask for
a mirror reflection of Connor McGregor. I

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didn't ask for a copy and paste
of Connor McGregor. I didn't ask for

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Ian Gary to repeat word for word
everything that Connor McGregor has ever done.

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There comes a point where I get
frustrated when a fighter is not who they

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are. Now, I'm going to
personalize something for you. Some of you

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that listen that are friends of mine, know this. Some of you don't.

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There was a struggle early on in
my life that I had to get

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past. There's that famous quote of
the real loser is the one that's too

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scared of failure, therefore he never
tries. I know him in a lot

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of quotes today, just to bring
home the message for you. But let

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me put it this way. When
I was twelve years old, I did

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one of the most foolish things I
ever could have done. I got up

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in front of my own student body
and I tried to imitate somebody that I

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was not. The nineteen ninety seven
movie Liar Liar had come out. It

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was a hit. I had seen
other students at talent shows go forward and

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imitate Jim Carrey. I decided,
oh, that might be a wonderful idea.

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To show my memorization skills, but
able to depict scenes. Usually they

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would work in a small setting.
It did not work for the entire student

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body. Not only that, the
end of the day bell rings and I'm

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not done with my material and everybody's
ready to go home, and nobody's laughing

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anyway. So guess what I got
boot off stage? I think eminem was

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bood off stage. There are many
people who have this little flaw in their

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bucket list and somewhere in their tool
bell where they have been boodoff stage.

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So I had to face that in
middle school. But I made up for

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it when I went to high school
and got to the big stage. I

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jumped right back on that horse.
Why am I saying this because you cannot

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be somebody or not. It's so
cliche, But there is only one Jim

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Carrey. I learned the hard way
not to try to emulate somebody that I'm

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not. You would think by now
that somebody like Henry Sahudo would figure out

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that he can't emulate somebody that he's
not, because all he is is the

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king of crnch Ian. Gary is
doing exactly what Connor McGregor has done in

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the past. He is requoting word
for word lines from Connor McGregor, and

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nobody's calling him out on it.
And somebody who's been through the fire on

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the other end of the side,
I think I have a right to say

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something. Ian Gary. I understand
that you are an Irish blood. I

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understand that you are coming from the
pride of the Irish. Do yourself a

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favor and stop being a copy and
paste edit of Connor McGregor. Continue to

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be the brash young men that you
are and the confidant guy you are,

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because that will draw in people.
That type of marketing works. But will

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you stop trying to be him?
Because what's gonna happen is you're either gonna

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go against one of three people,
and two of them have goose eggs in

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the l Colm just like you do. Ian Gary doesn't have any losses.

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Guess who else doesn't that's in the
same division higher in the rankings, Shock

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Rockmanoff, Could you bide enough more
than you chew trying to be a copy

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and paste of Connor McGregor against Rockmanoff? Absolutely you could. Could you make

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that mistake and go against in the
future, help such Chamaiev who also is

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the same Kenny. Does he already
have a fight schedule? Yes, he

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does. What's say, he dominates
and he goes on and continues to have

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what Only the three of you throughout
the entire UFC have no losses. One

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of you will come out with either
a loss or no contest. Can you

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please, Ian Gary, for a
guy who has gotten behind you and believes

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you are the next Connor McGregor two
point zero, I'm asking you to be

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a little more original from somebody who's
been through it and has learned the hard

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way and been through the fire.
You need to stop it. Be who

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you are and quit trying to be
Connor McGregor. Enough is enough. It's

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going to hurt you. If you
have a goose against Rockmanoff or against Chemaiah

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or even Jack Della, Jack Delamandela
the guy, the other guy that's possibly

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the third matchup for you, you
better be careful because then they're gonna go,

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well all this work? How this
work out for you? At the

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post conference? Can I say that
with all sincerity? Yes? Can I

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say that with all certainty? Of
course not. But we wait for the

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other shoe to fall. May that
not be the fall of your rise in

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the eyes of the UFC, who
we've been begging for. Something similar to

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the stardom of Connor McGregor, not
the exact same replica. I'm hoping I'm

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making some sense. Blockhead Nation,
thank you for staking me this far.

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We got a lot more of UFC
material coming up in the future, many

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more things to talk about. We
will see you guys again next Saturday,

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same blockhead time, same blockhead chap