Facts? Myths? Heroism? Insanity?

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Broadcasting live good evening. Blockhead Nation
coming to you once again through the rain

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drops of Fort Worth, Dallas,
Texas. You are listening to your favorite

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blockhead the only podcast in the podcast
in the world. But can somehow incorporate

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the Peanuts comic strip one minute and
then be talking about MMA and Warriors inside

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the Octagon the next I am your
host. My name is Brian Little.

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I thank you for stopping by and
listening to this little podcast. Three things

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are always talked about over here.
Number one, God is King. Number

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two is the single most successful comic
strip in American history. And number three,

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mixed martial arts is the greatest sport
under God's hot sun. So if

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you're tuning in just for the Peanuts, stick around for part one. If

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you are an MMA fan, you
can fast forward past the mid roll and

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you can tune in to part two. So it depends on what you're looking

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for. And if I can,
I'll personalize the beginning of this podcast,

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just because sometimes you need to let
your listeners know what you've been up to,

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what you're about, and I'm gonna
do that. Since we've had spring

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break, the Little Red Haired Girl
and myself us being teachers, by day

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and podcaster by weekend. We decide
to take a couple of days for a

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getaway not far away from where we
live, and we went to visit Granbury,

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Texas. Now, if you've never
been, you could pretty much hit

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all the high points in one day. If you are a fisherman type,

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if you like to be out on
the lake then and Granbury, Texas is

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perfect for you. So if you're
into fishing, that's the way to go.

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The lake view is just gorgeous.
And if you go to the strip

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inside of the square, there's a
lot of places to shop, but there's

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also a place where my history itch
was scratched. Now let me help you.

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Why am I gonna talk about history? Partly because I believe Charles Schultz,

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if he had not been a comic
strip artist, he may very well

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have been a historian. He has
a whole series called This is America Charlie

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Brown where he goes into detail about
history, and one of them he does

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give Lincoln doing the Gaysburg Address,
the greatest speech and American president ever gave.

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Period. I would love to have
somebody debate that one with me that

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has withstood the test of history.
So when we talk about that Grantonbury,

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Texas has a legend behind it,
and here's the legend. So most of

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you believe what you want to believe. You can trust to your history books.

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You can trust the hard evidence.
But if you remember back then,

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it's pretty easy to get an alias
and start anew, especially for a criminal

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who is on the run. If
you want to come to Texas and get

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you some cheap land, then just
kind of stick it out. You can.

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There's ways to do that. So
what your history books will tell you

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is that Lincoln goes to see Forge
Theater and he is killed by a Southern

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sympathizer and an actor inside a Forgs
theater by the name of John Wilkes Booth,

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which I absolutely happen to believe to
be true. There's too much evidence

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to support that. And he pulls
off almost the perfect assassination to where about

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twelve days later, he's tracked down
to an abandoned barn where Union soldiers are

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going to surround it. Their orders
are to smoke him out. Soldier who

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crept to the back saw that he
had a clean open shot on Booth and

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shoots him in the neck, not
thinking that would kill him. That's one

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interpretation of the story, and that's
how we got our hands on John Mokes

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Booth the assassination of President Lincoln.
So we have the culprit what twenty twenty

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and unsolved mysteries from back in the
nineties had to say was a little bit

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different, and that ties into Granbury, Texas. So the legend is that

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Booth actually escaped, that the guy
that was inside of the barn that was

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killed by Union soldiers fire was a
decoy to where Booth was able to escape

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over a bridge using the proper code
on why he was leaving for the evening

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and so on. So a little
bit of a stretch, but it's possible

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to where he escaped to Granbury,
Texas and took a job as a bartender

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inside of a saloon in Granbury,
Texas under the alias of the name John

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Saint Helen. Now that's where it's
important. That's where it's interesting because where

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we stayed when the little red hair
girl myself went out into the downtown square

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and we had our breakfast, we
believed that we were inside of the restaurant,

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where in the upstairs area is possibly
where Booth might have lived while he

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would retire to his quarters and then
the next day he would go back down

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the saloon and work as a bartender. Because on the other side of the

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downtown square you have the Saint Helen's
Saloon that today would be a boutique.

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I'm just kind of walking you through
what it looks like now today it's a

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boutique. It's called Saint Helen's.
But eventually Booth goes to his deathbed the

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pastor who has given his last rites. My name is not John Saint Helen's.

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My name is John Wilkes Booth.
I assassinated Abraham Lincoln. And the

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reason why people started to believe this
is because he went into exquisite detail on

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where you can find the pistol,
because the pistol was never revealed up until

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that time in the eighteen seventies to
eighteen eighties as he worked out of Granbury.

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So this is all legend, This
is all speculation, but it's a

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fun story to tell. And you
know, again it comes down to your

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mental stability, because if he didn't
die in Granbury and later since he spilled

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the beans, now he has to
leave and he actually goes and bites the

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dust in Enid, Oklahoma, where
he again on his deathbed that he believed

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told the story again. So he
was on his deathbed, recovered, went

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to Oklahoma, actually died and said
the same story, but went into the

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same detail on where to find the
pistol that he had used to assassinate Lincoln

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that was never recovered. So if
you want to go back and find the

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old twenty twenty episode, or especially
the Unsolved Mysteries of the nineteen nineties,

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you will find a special episode about
that. It comes down to how much

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you're going to trust these sources,
and that's where it's fun for me.

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But I don't digest all of it. I can't do that as a history

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teacher. But that was fun to
get into that story. So if you

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ever want to get into it,
Granbury, Texas does have that in their

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down Square. Great place to go
shop. Everywhere we went restaurants were fantastic,

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Oh incredible food. So restaurants I
give a ten, I'll scale one

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ten. I give it a ten. The whole town itself, I give

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about a nine. So we'll just
go with that. But I want to

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kind of get that out of the
way, just because when you talk about

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Booth and Lincoln and I mentioned to
you that I could carry my whole podcast

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just covering history. But again,
that's not how it works over here.

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That's not how my creativity works.
And that being said, we gotta tie

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this back to the Peanuts, don't
we. And the one I want to

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talk about is Linus. There was
a quote that came from Charles Schultz that

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said that LIUs is strong enough to
carry a strip by himself. He said,

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if I want to quote the Bible
or say something profound, it comes

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best when I speak that through Linus. I like to work with this character.

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So I'm just letting you know if
if Charles Schultz would do that through

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Linus, if he had something to
say that was either about America or about

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society and culture, or something biblical
that he wanted to get out there,

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he would do it through the philosophical
one that is is Linus van Pelt.

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There's one problem. His biggest weakness. What is Linus's bigness weakness? Well,

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well, if you think where the
term security blanket came from, yeah,

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I'm talking about his blanket. His
biggest weakness, Charles Schultz said,

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and I quote is of course his
blanket. But he's very bright he's a

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neat character. So really, if
you go back to nineteen fifty two,

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Lucy's younger brother, Linus, was
added to the Peanuts, but not as

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what we are accustomed to. It
was just debated that he became this infant,

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which he was. He's propped up
by boards because he wouldn't sit up.

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That was kind of a funny catch. But how did we introduce the

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security blanket? The comic strip shows
Linus walking past Lucy with his blanket and

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she looks down and puts her foot
on his blanket. Instead of him arguing

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with her, he yells out loud
ouch, and Lucy has this look of

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confusion. So that's where it originated. So Lias's blanket did become essential to

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his character and all through pop culture. And really the term security blanket was

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added to the Oxford English Dictionary by
use of this strip. So Schultz's use

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of the term in the strip undoubtedly
popularized it. And if you want to

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the Charles Schultz Museum has this evolution
of the Peanuts from the nineteen fifties that

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if you wanted to go see the
exhibition you could do that. There's some

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that are tours in persons some that
are online, but I want to make

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sure that that's how that shaped the
nineteen fifties. History in many ways,

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will always shape what I do in
this podcast. I will always have a

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scripture of the day that is relevant
to the time, which depicts world history,

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which Christ would be the central figure
of all of biblical history in every

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way. But sometimes you just kind
of bring up what my interests are and

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tie you in a little bit.
And that's what I'm doing with the story

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of John Wilkes Booth. If you
want to look into the story, go

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check out Granbury, Texas yourself,
and just know that was a big part

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of my life, but also it's
a big part of how I shape what

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direction I'm going with this podcast.
So again I apologize if the dogs in

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the background have made any noise.
I'm coming to you from the Blockhead mansion

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known as the living room of my
house. So what I'll do is I

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will shift into some important events that
have happened in mixed martial arts. We'll

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start with the scripture of the day, and I'm glad you've stuck it out

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with me this far. Our scripturian
for this podcast comes from Romans chapter eight,

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Verse thirty eight through thirty nine,
For I am persuaded that neither death

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nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present

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nor things to come, nor height
nor depth, nor any other creature shall

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be able to separate us from the
Lord, our God, which is in

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Christ Jesus our Lord. The reflection
from Blue Lairah Bible is pretty much the

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prayer of my own heart. I'm
just thankful to our Father that his abundant

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love and his grace just overflows.
And I pray blockadonation that you know the

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promise that you cannot be separated from
His love, neither spiritual nor physical.

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So as I just share all that
continue to I pray that He continues to

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be pouring into us as we continue
to appreciate the overwhelming mercy that we receive

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from our founding Father. And I
say that with praise also just to know

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that as of right now we have
an act of heroism that cannot be overlooked.

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At this point, my details of
this are a little bit sketchy,

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just because I've been out of town, but I will tell you from what

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I understand. A former veteran of
the UFC, the Hammer Mark Coleman is

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a man's man in every way.
Unfortunately, he couldn't save a baby,

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but he's certainly saved his parents from
a flame that didntulf their home. I

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think he was trying to salvage as
many as he could, which led him

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to be in comatose in the hospital. As I understand it, he is

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awake. He is speaking about how
he's thankful that his kids are safe,

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his family is safe, and that
he's recovering daily. So all of our

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prayers Blockhead Nation are headed from Mark
Coleman as he continues to recover. As

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he continues to show what a man's
man is all about, whether in the

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UFC, the NBA, or you're
just an everyday guy. I don't care.

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That's a story that's easy to get
behind, and it was breaking news

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midweek, so we really haven't been
following it too closely. But let's continue

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to send our prayers and our love
to the Coleman family as Mark Coleman continues

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to recover and takes it day by
day, just one day at a time.

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Now, when we look at what
was last week, those of you

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that tuned in know that I did
a wife beat mma takedown over all of

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the fights that were going on for
UFC two ninety nine, and it did

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not fail to deliver. I certainly
got it wrong when it came to Pedro

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Munos and Kyler Phillips, but again
nothing wrong with that. That's I really

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think he's a young upcoming prospect for
the bantamweights. It's promising. He had

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already a who did go the full
three rounds with gam Rock. Can't get

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against go against that. The Polish
Gamrock pulled that one off, So all

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my praise be to him. Yeah, the main event of the prelams where

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Curtis Blades very much did get the
knockout of Almeida and that was to the

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side of the head with hammer fists, which took a while. As he

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took you would think it'd be the
other way around. Blades would take a

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shot and he would catch him and
he could finish him from that angle other

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way around. So Blades not only
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does power in his hands and it
sounds like the setup that we talked about.

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The two possibilities are him versus Yawn
or for him to run it back

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with a guy that he won against
who Tom Aspinall technically never lost to which

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would be the rematch to run it
back with Curtis Blades and Tom Aspinall for

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a chance at the interim title.
So we will see how that plays out.

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Pewter Yawn showed what a former champion
looks like against the number seven ranks

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song Get Dong, you do have
a surprise out of nowhere. Gilbert Burns

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was winning the fight against Jack Della
to where the Australian turns it around,

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throws a knee and finishes him in
the third round. Sometimes you just can't

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blink in this sport, and that's
a perfect example of that. So what

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that does is since Michael vinam Page
debuted against Kevin Holland and Kevin Holland could

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not solve the puzzle that is Michael
venom Page, what's being shouted from the

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rooftops, which could potentially be a
fun match, but I see it as

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two men looking at mirrors of themselves. Is it possible Michael vinam Page versus

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Steven WonderBoy Thompson, which there's no
bad blood there. They've actually actually done

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commentary together. I think they've done
some content creation on another podcast. But

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MVP versus Wonder Boy doesn't interest me. If we are talking Welter Waits,

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Jack Della versus MVP does have my
interest. So the Australian versus the former

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Bellator guy has my attention. We'll
see how the cards fall on that one.

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I asked this on one of my
episodes back in the day, and

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I'm gonna ask it again. If
you are an MMA fan, listen to

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this at all, Please tell me
why you are not a Dustin Poirier fan

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yet. Please tell me why after
this incredible performance against Benwa Saint Dennis,

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that he is not on your top
five possible fighters of all time, maybe

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in especially in the lightweights. How
can you overlook this guy when you talk

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about just levels and layers of respect
that should be put on the name of

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Dustin Poorier. Dustin Pourier has been
the thirteenth fighter to compete thirty times in

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the UFC at this point, highest
winning percentage amongst all of the fighters that

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are still active, and competed every
calendar year since his debut in two thousand

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and nine. And the talk is
now, do we face him against Islam

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for the title or do we wait
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at three hundred, and then we
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It ultimately depends on not just that
depends on how Gay Chiever does against

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Max Holloway. So it just comes
down to how can you neglect Dustin Poier

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at this point being one of the
greats who never won a title, who

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maybe deserves another shot, whether he
wins it or not, to overlook the

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work ethic, to overlook the vulnerability
or lack thereof, to get past the

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guy who just wants to go in
there and bang. You've got a banger

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on your hands still to this day
with this guy to move on into the

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championship. What more can I tell
you? Sean O'Malley fought like a champion

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all five rounds. Cheeto Ver became
his punching bag many times out there,

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but withstood all of this punishment like
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So we do look forward and now
it seems like it's being processed and we

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got a pending action to where Sean
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known as Morob Even though O'Malley has
called out Eliott the Poria. There's more

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intrigue than that and more spectacle with
that. But I still think the right

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thing to do is for him to
face the number one contender. He wouldn't

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face Aljam and Sterling and Morob wouldn't
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So that means O'Malley versus Morob on
paper makes the most sense. And I

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still say that Morob stole the show
when he took his red jacket and took

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it him, so we got to
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a quick wrap up for two nine
to nine did not fail to deliver.

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And when you get to something else, I want to consider. This is

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something that a friend of mine of
the show shout out to loudn Ap and

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A and the Empty Slate shout out
to my friend Russ. He wants me

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to talk more about commentators, and
I think we will in the future.

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It simply comes down to this.
There are some people that over analyze.

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There's a such thing as paralysis by
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you have that on steroids. When
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will always respect as a fighter,
as a commentator, he doesn't do very

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well in the heat of battle.
His post analysis is usually pretty good,

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so he's not a guy that you
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it just doesn't fit. Sometimes you're
putting a square peg in a round hole

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and that feels like Daniel Cormier.
You don't feel that as much with John

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Annick. You don't feel that as
much with Michael Bissbing, who has any

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of experience, who you would think
would be more biased than Daniel Cormier,

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but he's really not if you listen
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how he handles interviews with fighters.
When you have a guy like Paul Felder

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who temperamental wise, you know,
really just kind of keeps a cool head

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on his shoulders and can analyze very
well, and you've got others that are

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coming up to even our females like
Lauras Sanko should be given more opportunities to

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speak in the sport. I apologize
for the thunder in the background. Maybe

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that's the Good Lord himself giving the
applause to blockhead. I don't know,

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but you know, we have to
look at that. There are commentators who

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drive us crazy, and two of
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is a commentator dominant cruz Vomit,
projectile vomit just because it's too much.

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It seemed like the one guy who
could pull him back in and analyze with

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him well because he just kind of
worked with him well. Was Kenny Fla.

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That's another guy I loved listening to
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So there are some new upcoming people
that are good at analyzing fights and

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great at broadcasting. I'd like to
see more opportunities for them as we move

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forward. But what I'll do now, before we get into the battles that

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are going on, that's ironic.
I say that because Brian battle is the

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Komaine Fen. Tonight at the Apex, you do have Tuybosa versus Tiberia.

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But before I do that, I
have to have fun with this. I

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mentioned Dale Carmier as a commentator.
When it comes to his achilles heel inside

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of the cage, that will always
be John Jones. But if there's somebody

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that could always just dance circles around
DC every time that he would do interviews

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and commentary, it's the Black Beast, Derek Lewis. If youet to find

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anybody, So for I guess you
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We're gonna go back a few years
and look at every time that d C

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has tried to corner Derek Lewis or
has had interviews with it. He just

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can't keep a straight face. So
at one point, Arieljwane throws the bomb

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out there, He throws the grenade
and says, what problems and Derek Lewis

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do you have with Daniel Cormier?
And DC says I want to know too,

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And finally Derek Lewis's response was he
disrespected Popeye's Chicken on that commercial that

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he did. I give you that, but if you're gonna go a little

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further, they had another interview.
If you know Derek Lewis is infatuated with

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infatuation with Ronda Ralci, he talked
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Derek immediately responds with did she ask
about me? He's supposed to start

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to laugh, and of course Derek
Lewis says no off record, off record

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as Derek as DC sweeps his arm
and points out the fact there's three cameras

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bruh, it's not off record.
She did not ask about you. His

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next response, that's cool. I'm
not heartbroke. I'm married anyway. So

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Derek Lewis has always three steps ahead
of Daniel Cormier. It will always be

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his achilles Achilles heel when it comes
to commentary. Okay, So we bring

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that up as we move our way
to the Apex tonight. I'm gonna go

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check out this co main event with
Brian battle ty Too vas is in the

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main event, So we are gonna
head that way. I will catch you

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guys next week. As we always
say, same blockhead time, same blockhead. Cham