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Broadcasting Live Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation. Thank you so much for coming by

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once again. Pull up a chair, rest here in the Blockhead mansion with

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me as I babysit these fur babies. We've gotten here. You are listening

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to your favorite Blockhead, the only
podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow

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

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

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Little. I'm so glad that you
joined me again for another Saturday or whatever

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day you tune in. Either way, you know my recordings come out every

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Saturday, every week. So pull
up a seat, sit down, relax,

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and just enjoy listening to me talk
about one God being king of our

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lives, number two Peanuts being the
single most successful comic strip in American history,

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and number three mixed martial arts being
the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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Just in case you happen to be
new to the show, I'm noticing

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a lot of TikTok followers are making
their way over here. The downloads are

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continuing to impress me, so it's
just if you are part of this journey

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with me what you can expect,
and hopefully I can keep you entertained the

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entire time that we're talking. So
I do my best to do three ease,

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entertain, educate, netifive. And
so we have a few days.

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Even though I hope you enjoyed your
Thanksgiving. I hope that you were sensible

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during Black Friday, that it doesn't
lead to darkness in your home because you

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didn't pay the light bill. I
hope that you were feasible. I hope

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that you were frugal and reasonable with
your traveling. Black Friday is just one

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of those catch twenty two's that you
can find those deals throughout the entire year,

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right there in front of your face. It's more of a temperamental quality.

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Anyway, here I am lecturing,
I need to quit that. So

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we've got a few days until Blockhead
celebrates his thirty ninth birthday. I could

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click the cheers and applause button here
on my Spreaker Studio app, but I

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ain't gonna do that. Now.
I'm talking like a Southerner because I am.

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But what I will do is,
I don't know if I've ever shared

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on these episodes of this podcast.
I don't know if I've ever shared my

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favorite comic strip of all time,
and the reason why is I've just never

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sat back to think about what is
my favorite. I mean again, I

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hope to continue to pursue this ongoing
goal of becoming your favorite blockhead. Even

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though the numeral UNO will always be
Sparky Charles Schultz, second will always be

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Charlie Brown. So maybe if I
fall into the top five somewhere amidst all

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that, then we can get somewhere. Even the new kids on the block,

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I have to compete with them every
once in a while, But I

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never sat down and just said,
what is my favorite comic strip of all

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time? And that's just because most
of the time, the comic strips become

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the TV specials. I mean,
Charles Schultz would make these very relevant and

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very sometimes socially acceptable, sometimes not, these very subtle messages to America,

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and they would just evolve into an
episode. And I can show that for

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you in so many different examples,
one of them in particular, even being

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the Christmas episode, the very first
one that aired. Most of those were

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comic strips that he did in the
fifties. If you look at the Great

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punkin Charlie Brown will every time Hallow
comes around. Those get resurfaced through the

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Internet, mostly through the Charles Schultz
Museum. They do a great job of

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recirculating Sparky's comic trips. But you
always see Linus in the pumpkin Patch,

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you always see Thanksgiving. So it's
very seasonal and sometimes very relevant if it

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would come out during Veterans Day or
Memorial Day, or you would see Snoopy

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as a World War One flyne all
these comic strips eventually would become segments in

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the TV series or in the animated
movie in twenty fifteen. So I've never

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sat down and said what is my
favorite. I've just always had something that

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that identifies with who we are as
Americans, who we are as Snoopy lovers

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and Charlie Brown lovers from around the
world. And I think I finally found

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one. If I'm gonna pick an
absolute favorite that I don't know ever became

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a TV series episode. If it
did, certainly it was one that falls

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through the cracks. There was an
appearance in nineteen eighty four of Snoopy with

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his supper dish, and I will
go ahead and put it out there now

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if any of you there listening,
are you? If you're fans of the

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Blue Collar Comedy Tour, you had
Jeff Fox or they had Bill Ingvile,

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he had Layer the Cable Guy had
Ron White. And I've known Bill Ingleles

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Here's Your Sign jokes most of my
life. This comic strip from nineteen eighty

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four, from the year that Blockhead
was born is it's one that didn't become

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a TV series or wasn't certainly found. But this was the first ever here's

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your Sign joke. If you ever
wanted to hear where Here's Your Sign might

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have actually came from, It may
have started with Snoopy and the comic strips.

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I know for a fact that Bill
Inglele was very much a fan of

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Looney Tune comic strips. He probably
read the Peanuts. He was a huge

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fan of the Indie Griffith Show.
So if you look hard enough, you

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can see where his jokes might have
originated from, or where he got an

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idea from. So if you listen
into this, this supper Dish cartoon from

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nineteen eighty four is June second,
nineteen eighty four, the year of my

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birth, and Sally is approaching Snoopy
with his supper dish and says, you're

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not waiting for your supper, are
you? And Snoopy looks back and gives

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a here's your sign response, It
says, no, I always sit around

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like this with a supper dish in
my mouth for no reason. I'm telling

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you. Bill Ingle may have ripped
this off of Sparky, or either way,

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he very much branded it and got
it patent under his name. But

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still I never saw this one emerge
in any of the other TV specials.

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So I sit here and laugh so
hard at this strip, and it continues

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because Sally Brown must know that Snoopy
has a snarky, sarcastic side to him,

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because she responds and I hope you're
not thinking about some biting sarcasm,

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which makes Snoopy do a complete one
eighty a full head turn, and he

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says, how about no sarcasm and
more biting. He's got an urge to

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bite the ankles of Sally Brown.
So if I had to pick a favorite

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one that I never saw become a
TV special, that would be the year

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of my birth. It would have
to be this one, Snoopy sewing sarcasm

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with a supper dish. I would
have to go with that being my favorite

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one, but there's so many that
are just identifiable throughout the year that it's

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hard for me to do that.
Now it's pretty easy for me to say

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my favorite TV special, and that's
why it got hard to pick the comic

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strip, because that's kind of a
double whammy to say that my favorite comic

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strip was in my favorite TV special. My favorite TV special of all time

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will be Happy New Year Charlie Brown. So when Happy New Year comes around,

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that's hard to find. It's easier
to see Christmas and Thanksgiving again.

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If you have Apple TV, or
if you're good at going on YouTube,

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there's a few other ones you can
try. Daily Motion is usually a good

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way to go on your Internet explore. You go to Google and just type

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it in. But Happy New Year
Charlie Brown is a special one to me,

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and most of that episode is talking
about Charlie Brown putting off his in

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procrastinating the book he has to read, which is War in Peace by Leo

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Tolstoy. Consider the greatest book of
all time. Again, that's debatable.

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It would certainly be one of them, if you put that up there with

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Don Quixote, or if you did
Warren Peace certainly would be one of them,

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you know, But if you went
down the line, it's withstood the

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test of history and it very much
is praised. But I doubt any of

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you in here that our listening block
in nation have ever read that book.

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If you're lucky, you've gotten snippets
along the way or something society has referenced

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that you never knew was pertaining to
war and peace. Well, the entire

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episode of Happy New Year Charlie Brown
is mostly Charlie Brown procrastinating this assignment which

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somehow he's the only one that has
to read the book. Apparently nobody else

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in the group has to read,
or they got a hold of the cliff

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notes somehow, and he never he
tried to do it the actual with integrity.

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He took that route, but either
way, so that would easily be

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mine. But there's so many comic
strips that emerge in that one. For

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instance, the one I would have
used is my favorite would be Charlie Brown

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giving the little red haired girl a
letter and putting it in the mail slot

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of her door, and he has
an anxiety attack. It says, one

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of my hand gets caught in the
mail slot, which seems impossible, but

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if it could happen to anybody,
it would certainly happen to Charlie Brown,

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wouldn't it. And of course Lions
is there for emotional support, But he

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says, all you gotta do is
put in the mail slot. He says,

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but what if I put my hand
in there and he gets caught?

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And while I'm hanging there, someone
opens the door. Lion's responds, is

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Charlie Brown, you worry about the
most ridiculous, impossible situations, which certainly

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what happens. He not only gets
his hand caught in the mail slot,

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but if you watched the TV episode, he opens the door, you know,

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borderline breaking and entering, and has
to make a fool of himself and

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says, Heather, are you home. I've come to invite you to a

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New Year party if you have nothing
else to do, you know. He

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stumbles and fumbles around and offers to
pick her up or meet her there.

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But of course it ends the same
way as the comic strip. I can't

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stand it. I would have chosen
that one. And maybe when we're talking

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about war and peace. Believe it
or not, there is a comic strip

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where Snoopy puts on a very long, drawn out puppet show on top of

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his doghouse, and Lucy is bored
to tears and she goes, this is

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a really long show, and Charlie
Brown's what we expect. He's doing Warren

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Peace as a puppet show. Well, that was again probably that one probably

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belongs in my top five. So
if I had to pick my top three,

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one of them is definitely snooping the
supper dish and his snide remark.

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Two would definitely be Charlie Brown getting
his hand caught in the mail slot,

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trying to give the little Red hair
girl an invitation to a New Year's party.

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And somewhere in neither three, four
or five I would put the one

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about the Warren piece and the puppet
show. Now, that one did emerge

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in a TV special called Be My
Valentine Charlie Brown, but it certainly wasn't

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Warren Peace. It was just a
love story. So if you ever want

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to see that one reenacted, you'd
have to go to the Valentine's episodes.

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Be My Valentine Charlie Brown will show
you that episode. So I never really

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sat down and decided what would be
my favorite comic strip It's so easy for

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me throughout the year to find some
that are seasonal, some that are appropriate,

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some that are funny, some that
are relevant to American society, some

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of them that are for a good
chuckle. This one would have to be

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my favorite because of the sarcasm and
because I never saw it in any of

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the other TV specials. If I
did, I missed this one. And

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again it was written in the same
year I was born, which I'll tell

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you again blockad Nation. There are
only three dates in history you need to

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know. You need to know ten
sixty six the Battle of Hastings, Norman

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invasion of England, where we started
off the lords and vassal system. Then

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you have twelve fifteen the Magna Carta, where we first have democracy that was

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spoken by a king, where people
should have a say in their own voting

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process. And the other date would
be nineteen eighty four, which would be

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the birth year of none other than
wy F B. You know those dates,

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You're set for any history class that
you ever take. You're welcome for

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the free advice. Our scripture reading
for this podcast comes from Psalm forty,

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verse eleven. Let your loving kindness
and your truth continually preserve me. Charles

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Stanley said, many of our self
creer needs arise because of unwise decisions.

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The need will be met in part
by our making wise decisions and having the

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courage, skill and determination to follow
through on them. Consider the man who

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is neglectible of his wife was the
solution for the need. A big part

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is reprioritizing your plans and your schedule
so that the man can spend more time

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with his wife. Who is responsible
for me in the need the man?

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But what is God's role? I
believe God will give the man wisdom and

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will help heal the heart of the
wife. Some wise words from doctor Stanley

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there. Just wanted to share that
with you. Blockhead Nation, always want

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to share the truth, which is
the scripture of the day, and to

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give you some updates, some breaking
news that you might already be familiar with.

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Well, PFL certainly seems to have
deeper pockets than I realized, or

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they certainly know how to make a
deal because we have an acquiring of Belator

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MMA. Now I'm just gonna go
off script here and just say that there

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have been times that I've been intrigued
by other MMA organizations, like when UFC

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acquired Pride, mostly not because of
the acquiring the organization, but the names

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that came along with the acquisition.
This is when you got fighter contracts of

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guys like Rampage Jackson, guys like
Showgun Hua, probably Dan Anderson's somewhere there.

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We never got Fat or we never
got that contract, but that really

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kind of showed these guys are here
and they're here to play. So it

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was an exciting time for the UFC
when that came over. For Pride fans,

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it was a closing of a chapter
and you move along with it when

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we have the closing of the doors
of Belator MMA. But apparently, according

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to if we look deeper into the
con track signing, these fighters need to

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finish off their twenty twenty four year
whatever their obligations were, whatever their fights

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were scheduled, the venues that they
had. So I'm sure there's a clause

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in there that we're going to continue
to allow Scott Kocher or the other board

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of directors to have ownership of Belator
throughout a certain time period in twenty twenty

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four. I'm sure if we read
for the finalised in perpetuity throughout the MMA

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universe and organizations, So all of
that fine print just to say that even

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though it's acquired, Bellatore has a
few other events that will carry for But

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then you got these guys coming over, which what I'm paying attention to is

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who's gonna make the jump with Bellatoor
MMA to PFL. Who might become a

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free agent like Michael venam Page and
either go resign with PFL and maybe possibly

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get more money just like Francis and
Nagano did, or will he finally make

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his debut in the UFC, Or
are we gonna get some of these dream

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matches that we've talked about for years, like Kayla Harrison who just cleaned up

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Aspen Lad will she get a chance
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that will happen with the carrying over
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if you look at the differences in
all three of the big well known named

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MMA organizations UFC, they tend to
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best, and they give the fans
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makes sense in the sense of marketing, and they do what it's called interim

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champions when they have somebody who steps
out Beltzer always did the tournament style very

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much from a wrestling perspective, We're
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the best, and whoever wins the
tournament gets a million dollar payout and you

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have the belt. So this would
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heavyweight champion, or Fadim Nimkoff,
or people like Michael vinam Page or even

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veterans like Douglas Lima. You know, these are things that have happened with

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the tournament style. PFL very much
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certain championship series that might happen,
or an all elite fight between all the

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top names in the organization. So
this will be played out very interesting like

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and it's not the first time we've
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mean an MMA. Some of you
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with the way it's worked in professional
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was acquired by the WWF at the
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of Extreme Championship Wrestling and that became
a storyline where it didn't last longer than

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a year. Not exactly a great
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have bought this company, and now
we've merged these two, and now we're

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going into competition against the granddaddy.
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the WWE you know, kind of
the are you afraid of a little competition,

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you know? And then you had
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brands where he had a raw champion
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and you look at that and go, this just isn't going to work.

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But here we are still talking about
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the MMA organization is starting to go
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mix in boxing in the max because
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where Nagano may be facing Deontae Wilder. So boxing very much is thrown into

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the limelight here. Somebody wants a
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again, as an MMA fan,
I could sit back and say I'm annoyed

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by all of these. Maybe I
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see the best of the best fight. But if we're going to bring more

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eyes onto the product, you would
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and Zuckerberg who want to fight in
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event after we've seen all of the
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went that route, if we have
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for Connor McGregor to be the coleman
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who could come back and face Nick
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that goes straight to the front of
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the narrative is there, because the
intrigue of casual fans who will come by

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for the main event, but they
stick around for the other fights that are

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the best of the best. So
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we have to watch what direction we
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going season style. Are we gonna
get these matchups that are potential like Kayla

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versus Cyborg. Are we gonna get
guys like aj McKee who was becoming the

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flagship versus the very best PFL has
to offer. We've already got six champions

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that were just crowned the other day
with a million dollar payout to eat one

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of them. So are we gonna
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interesting chapter. But you've also got
a potential of a mixed rules fight that

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can be included in the contracts of
Deontay Wilder and Francis Nagano. So there's

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a wide realm of very diverse possibilities
that can either annoy you or you can

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say, we're going along for the
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are you afraid of a little competition? Dana? Are we seeing some sweat

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on your brow there? So it's
it's fun to speculate with that, and

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we'll see how that plays out in
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ahead and do a recap that we
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Brendan Allen, and Alan just put
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means now he's gonna be where does
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make sure? I mentioned that we
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So I'm thankful that you're here listening
to me rant about UFC and all

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the new acquiring of different companies in
what direction we're going certainly makes me want

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to go what's going to go on
with one Championship because internationally they're still standing

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on their own two feet. But
if we've got a huge main event coming

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up in Austin, I don't want
us to forget some things that can fall

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through the cracks. As a MMA
fan, I'm salivating on some of the

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great potential matchups we've got. We've
already got an awesome main event between Banil

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do Ruche and Arman Saroukion. We
do have a guy who stepped up breaking

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news, Jalen Turner has taken the
fight against Bobby Green, which I threw

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out there. It could have possibly
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was, well, they've already fought. Yeah, they fought in December twenty

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twenty two. Dover won this fight. It could have easily been a rematch

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on short day's notice. But now
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him because he can easily end up
in the double L column. He's coming

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off of a loss, but he
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so the pressure is not on Bobby
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Turner. But either way, good
for him for stepping up at the last

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minute. We got a fight that
can easily fall through the cracks you don't

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want to forget about, which is
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and he's going up against one of
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known as Rob Font. Font versus
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ingredients to be a possible performance of
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find his stagger? Will he get
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Will he get his comer? He
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We've seen him do knockouts. We
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that he can withstand hanging in there
with Corey Sanagan which was a submission clinic,

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but it was a boar fest.
We know that there's a well round

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in this to Rob Vaont that can
take off easily. But can Figuredo find

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his rhythm and can he make an
impressive debut against one of the very best

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de bantam whites have to offer?
Do not forget about these fights that are

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here in the midst of the main
card. UFC Austin is going to be

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fantastic and now the year has opened
up to even more great fights. I

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forgot to mention that Stranglin will be
facing Duplessis in the new year. But

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even with that, you got confirmed
fights that are even more exciting for me,

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which make me want to watch the
Apex. We're gonna have Uncleliath versus

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Johnny Walker two. They'll run that
back at the Apex. That should have

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been done. That'll happen starting off
the new year. You're gonna have a

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fight night at the Apex with Joe
Pifer, who is taking a match against

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once again, kind of like Figarreto
making his debut against font You have Pifer,

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who has proved to have a chance
at the top ten, and he's

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fa the joker. He's facing Jack
Hermanson. So a middleweight who has been

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turning heads is certainly beginning one of
his greatest challenges to date. Later on

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in the year twenty twenty four.
Twenty twenty four is the midst of many

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great fights, and we are on
the doorstep of UFC three hundred. As

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often as I try to be critical
of this sport and show you some of

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the things that are a headache,
I would say on this podcast, I'm

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giving you things that I'm certainly excited
about, the many different routes that we

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can go, and it makes it
harder for me to keep up with what's

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going on in real time, but
that's what I do. Every week is

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podcast week. Every week we talk
about peanuts. Every week is fight week.

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And if it's not going on in
the UFC, there's something going on

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in Bellator, something going on in
PFL, something in one Championship I should

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pay more attention to. And I
will bring that to you as often as

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I can every Saturday, and I'm
gonna go enjoy my early birthday celebration with

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the little red haired Girl, but
I will catch you next week on this

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podcast. You know what I'm about
to say, Same blockhead time, same

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blockhead channel,