April 26, 2025

Forgotten Holidays Along With False-Hearted MMA Scoops

Forgotten Holidays Along With False-Hearted MMA Scoops

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the show, there are three things you can always count on.

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So if you're an MMA fan, stick around for part two.

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If you're a Peanuts fan, you've come to the right place.

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And there are some things I want to clarify right away,

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as in, we've missed two holidays. We just had a

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visit from the Easter Beagle. Blockhead told you that he

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would come through. He does every year, but there's two

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of them that we missed as of this week, so

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we've got to make up for some lost time.

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Now.

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Before I even get to that, this is a reminder

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to you, gentlemen, most of you that listen in are males.

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Not all of you, but most of you, that Mother's

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Day will be here before you know it. Don't let

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May eleventh sneak up on you. And what makes me

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so happy is the Charles Schultz Museum does it right.

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So if you're in the Santa Rosa area, mothers are

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gonna get free and mission and celebration of Mother's Day

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to the Charles Schultz Museum. So I want to just

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make that away anybody that's in that area to know

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that you will be taken well care of if you

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are a mom, so make your way out that way.

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But for the rest of you, we missed two holidays.

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How do I know because there was a Peanuts comic

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strip that was released in nineteen seventy five to remind

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us that there's something.

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Called Earth Day.

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We are constantly reminded to reduce, to reuse, to recycle.

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Blockhead is not Captain Planet, but as much as possible,

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we recycle a lot over here at the Blockhead Mansion.

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That's true.

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Earth Day was April twenty second, So if you never

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celebrated that, maybe you can go back and look at

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the Charles Schiltz Museum Facebook page or Instagram page and

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take a look at the publication that came out in

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nineteen seventy five where Snoopy is typing up. It seems

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another editorial and anytime he throws away paper woodstock.

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Uses it for his nest.

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I mean it's convenient, it's ethical, and that's beneficial. What

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else is beneficial planting trees like blackhead?

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What are you talking about?

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Yesterday was arbor Day. Now, not all of you celebrate

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this that are listening in.

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Some of you have no idea.

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What a celebration of arbor Day is all about. If

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it makes you feel better, most of the Peanuts Gang

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didn't understand what arbor Day was about. And let's just

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say they take it to extremes. Arbor Day is a

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celebration of trees. So if you think back to the

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dust Bowl, not trying to go into a full history lesson,

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but one of the jobs that came out of that

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time period when you had the Great Depression and.

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The dust Bowl was something called this.

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, where they would plant trees any

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of those that were destroyed when everybody is building oil

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derricks in the middle of the oil boom, Well, this

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is a way to replace those trees. It's preservation of

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mother nature. Now that went to the wayside when we

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got involved in World War two. So nobody is planting

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trees anymore. Everybody is in the factory making bullets, or

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they're overseas fighting. But there's a preservation that happens, especially

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if you happen to live in Indiana in a place

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called Lafayette. That name would be familiar if you know

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your US history. But Lafayette, Indiana still has tree planting

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events and celebrations every year that are held outside, and

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there's community volunteers that plant approximately sixty trees all the

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way through that area. So real beneficial for the neighborhood,

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for the community, for the environment, a little more fresh air,

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you know, and that's a chance for the kid's gotta

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get some fun, get some exercise. But there's a whole

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episode code dedicated to this holiday where you mitigate climate

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change and you provide the benefits to the community by

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planting trees.

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So I'm not getting into the politics of that. I'm

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just saying.

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In nineteen seventy six, there was a twenty minute short

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made by Charles Schultz called It's Arbor Day.

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Charlie Brown. This is one of those small little diamonds

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in the rough.

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If you've never seen it, you probably should. Now what

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I mean by the Gang getting a little bit out

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of hand, it's because Sally Brown doesn't understand what arbor

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Day is and she's expected to do a report on it,

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and instead of doing a full on written report, it

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becomes a hands on activity.

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They start planting.

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Trees, mainly because the Linus has explained to Sally in

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the public library what arbor Day is all about. And

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of course she with googly eye says, we can plant

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a tree and we can sit under it and we

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can stare into each other's eyes as poor little Linas

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runs in the opposite direction, screaming for the hills. That

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is true in the episode. So there's a lot of

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complicated issues between Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown.

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But ironically, it's almost.

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The beginning of baseball season in this episode, and Charlie

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Brown is thinking that the Gang is gonna spruce up

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his ball field, which is fair. Okay, you're gonna mow

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the grass a little bit, you're gonna fix the bases

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and get everything ready for the first game. Well that's

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what he was expecting them to do. Not quite what happens.

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Lucy and Sally and Linus reluctantly start planting trees and

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other crops and other.

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Farm life.

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All around Charlie Brown's baseball field, including planting a tree

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right in the middle of the pitcher's mound. Not exactly

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what Charlie Brown had in mind. So when he sees this,

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it's very much a response of he faints and he

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wakes up, and he gets back to screaming again, what

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have you done? Look at my picture's mound. You've planted

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a tree on it. How can I pitch from that?

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And of course Peppermint Patty, who is the opposing team,

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shows up and sees the same thing. But I will

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tell you there's a blessing in disguise. If you watch

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the episode for the first time, Charlie Brown's team actually

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starts doing really well at the behest of the yard decorations,

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the scarecrow, the different planting of trees and bushes and

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vines and everything in between.

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All the decorum.

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It comes to their aid and they almost win until

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a a single cloud in the sky becomes a sudden downpour.

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That's the story of Charlie Brown's life. Right there, He's saying,

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nobody's leaving. Everybody, get back to your places. We're gonna

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finish this game, and the game gets rained out, leaving

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poor Charlie Brown standing on a pitcher's mound with a

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tree planting in the middle of it, yelling.

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To the heavens but we were winning.

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Bless his heart, Charlie Brown just can't catch a break.

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It's good for the trees, well done for the Arbor

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Day celebration, Not so much for Charlie Brown's pride, not

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so much for his managing of a helpless baseball team.

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With the exception of Snoopy, all these if you watch

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the episode of Happy Arbor Day, play out.

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As you watch.

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Okay, so to sum it all up, don't forget about

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Mother's Day. If you're in the Santa Rosa area, go

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check the Charles Sheltz musical. They're gonna take good care

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of you. We missed Earth Day, we missed Arbor Day.

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Just not as celebrated as it used to be. But

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it doesn't hurt to reintroduce those ideas to you. Blockhead nation.

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Who knows you might watch the episode and really be

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entertained by it. Or you can take my cliff notes

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and trust them for what they're worth, which is what

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I will do on part two with the world of Mma.

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So stick around for scripture the day. Stick around what's

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going on in the UFC. We have plenty more to

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unpackage in the next part. Our scripture of the day

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in this podcast will come from Psalm chapter thirty, verse five.

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For his anger endureth, but a moment in his favor

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is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy

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cometh in the morning. Reflection from Lular to Bible says,

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you may weep, and you may mourn over the troubles

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of this life. But know this, believers, your weeping will

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only last a night for the smallest portion of your life.

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Once your joy is restored, those times of sadness and

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despair will seem only the briefest of moments. This life

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can be seen as a time of weeping Blockhead Nation,

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But when compared to the joy of eternity, our sufferings

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seem slight and they're insignificant.

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So praise his name and he iss soon come in

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Blockhead Nation. So we must love each other, equip each other,

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and be ready to go make disciples.

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As I share with you some of the upcoming events,

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at least three in particular. Tonight, we have UFC Fight

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Night at the tc T Mobile Arena in Kansas City.

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You do have the return of Giga Shagat say that's

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gonna be on this card against a very hard hitting

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featherweight from Uganda. Anthony Smith has a fight coming on

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tonight for the light heavyweight about but the biggest focus

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is going to be Ian Gary versus Carlos prot This

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one of the reasons is not so much just Carlos

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Protest on his own, It's because of what's in his corner.

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I said it last week, I'll say this week. This faction,

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these fighting nerds could very much prove to be a problem,

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especially if Carlos prot This is leading the charge. But

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we can't overlook a short noticed risk taker either. Why

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are we overlooking Ian Gary? A guy named Zach Paklem,

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who works for UFC dot Com and does post on Twitter,

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said this about the welterweight that's rising up, who's kind

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of been the second coming of the Irish takeover for

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the UFC. You first had Connor McGregor. The second one

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was supposed to be Ian Gary, who had an incredible

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record and even after he's won against Neil Magne, Jeff

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Neil and MVP on short notice. He's fighting Rockmanov, which

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again so much for his record, but at the same

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time for that to be overlooked. It's all laid out

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in this article that he writes out.

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It's a bold move.

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If you want to protect your undefeated streak, you don't

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go up against somebody like Rockmanov, And that's exactly what

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Ian Gary did. Wildly risky move for him. But Protest

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is now coming off of four consecutive knockout wins, not

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so much a rookie campaign because he's not new to

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the sport, just new ish to the UFC, quite a

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veteran in the sport actually, so he's freshly coming into

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the rankings. I means Gary could tumble outside of the

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top ten if he does lose to Protest tonight, and

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most people are counting him out at this point.

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So the main.

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Event Gary versus Protest has my attention, and I'll be

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paying attention mostly to the corner. Will Jean Silva be

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there cheering on Protest? Will rest of these fighting nerds

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who are selling their glasses on UFC online for merchandise?

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Those guys I'm paying attention too. So if it sounds

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like I've lost my voice.

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I think part of it's because I have because I

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feel like I'm being true by somebody that I could trust. Okay,

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I don't trust his predictions, but usually his narrative, just

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like mine, usually does come to fruition. I'm talking about

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Chaill's sunning. Chail has said recently on his page that

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he has breaking news. Now, when you see breaking news

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come across any media outlet, you can believe that there.

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Isn't any bias in this.

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The longer an article stays out there, the longer a

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piece of news is out there for the world to see,

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the more you can insert opinion into it. But breaking

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news is supposed to be that it's confirmed, it's actually

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happening as we say, we can witness it before our

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very eyes. And it looks like Chail is trolling MMA

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fans like myself by saying that Tom Aspinall is no

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longer fighting John Jones, that he's gonna be facing surreal gone,

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and that he's been sworn to secrecy to other things,

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And so I go, Okay.

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Even though I love to listen to his.

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Podcast, I've been a fan of it for years, listening

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to Your Welcome with Chill Sonnen, I'm going I need

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to get some.

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I've got to look at this and go who else

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would be saying the same thing before? I look to

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Ariel Hawane, who is usually the most trusted MMA journalist

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out there, usually catches breaking news before anybody else that

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is confirmed.

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So who do I look to?

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I look to Michael Bisping, And so when I look

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at his most recent YouTube page as of two days ago,

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it's Michael Bisping saying that Tom Aspinall is fighting surreal gone,

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where is John Jones and what is his source? The

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very first thing he says in this video via Chail Soning,

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lots of guys have taken to their content creation pages,

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whether it's YouTube, their podcasts, their Instagram, their tiktoks, and they're.

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All speaking on.

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We have a confirmation of John Jones versus Tom Aspinall

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or we don't. And every time they all say who

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is confirming this, every single one of them says, it's Chail.

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So either Chail really has been sworn to secrecy, as

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he says.

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But that is.

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Effective trolling when you say breaking news and you have

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breached etiquette for everybody else as well.

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Because John Jones is the only.

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Problem that one Ariel Hawane has con firmed, and every

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other fan that follows the sport knows this. It is

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not the UFC's fault that we don't have Tom Aspenall

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versus John Jones.

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It is not.

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Tom Aspinall's fault that we are still waiting for a

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date or a venue. Every bit of this is John

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Jones's fault. And that's why I'm losing my voice that

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a man who sits back and says thirty million dollars

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is not enough. They have negotiated and negotiated and negotiated

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and come back to the table over and over again.

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And as Errol Holwane has said, and how all these

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other YouTubers that are putting out updates about the current

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state of this fight, they all say the same thing.

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This is John Jones and his refusal to defend his title.

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And again I am not saying I'm making a prediction here.

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One thing.

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I'm not good as making predictions. Once we get the

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fighters inside the cage, I'm three for five usually with that.

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And I don't care if John Jones makes easy work

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out of Tom Aspinall.

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Tom Aspenall is a fast finisher.

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It's just like in Rocky three when Mick says to Rocky,

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this guy is a wrecking machine and he's hungry. It's true,

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and John Jones continues to hold out for more money. Again,

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this is what we have out there by the area.

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I'm only as good as these sources that are presented

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to me as a content creator, as a podcaster, as

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an MMA fan. This is the best I can do

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blockhead Nation, and it's irritating for me because I go

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John Jones. You are so privileged. You have been given

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so many passes by Dana White and the UFC community,

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yet you won't.

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Face this guy.

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The one thing that can tarnish your legacy is refusing

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to fight Tom And while we wait around for that,

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we're hearing about a secondary fight that would be the

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guy who John Jones defeated a few years ago to

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gain the heavyweight challenge. I'm sorry, the heavyweight title, which

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was surreal gone. We have to settle for this. And

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this is not me trying to be a spoiled, rotten

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fan either. It's you are privileged to be the greatest

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possibly of all time in this sport, and you won't

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do the one job you have because you're such a

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huge entity, your contractual agreements don't matter. Guess what, all

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the other listeners of this show, and everyone that goes

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out and works for a living John has contractual agreements,

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whether it's with their job, whether it's their mortgage or

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their car payments. And something makes it to where we

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don't have the ability to sit back and do what

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you're doing. You are slapping the face of every single

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fan that has ever forked over any money to buy

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a pay per view or a ticket to watch you fight.

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And you still have a fan base that supports you

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through thick and thin, and you're losing them left and

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right because you won't do your job. I don't care

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if you go in and win. I don't care if

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Tom is the one who gets it done for the

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first time. I don't care if you are scared, you

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have a job to do, Get in the cage and fight,

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because it's not the UFC's fault. It's not Tom Aspinhall's fault,

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it's not Chill Sonnon's fault. That he's doing what he

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does best is luring us in and fishing for fans

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like myself. I can't blame him. I can't blame that.

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Michael Bisbing and other reliable sources are all saying the

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same thing about who's telling you this. It's Chail sworn

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to secrecy or not. I'm not aggrevating with him, and

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what I have to say doesn't matter Blockhead Nation because

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John Jones will not swerve because of what's coming out

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of this podcast. But if enough people, if enough MMA fans,

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enough of the Blockhead Nation will remind him that he

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is privileged to fight for a living and not have

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to go to get a secondary job like many of

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the other fighters who go out and sell insurance, go

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out and sell real estate, go out and work on

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the farm like Matt Hughes did, or like Alia Quinta

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had to do for years to make a living. Just think,

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come back. There's very few that are able to do

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just that one thing. Imagine if Lebron James had to

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work ten hours a week, just ten, make it worse,

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forty hours a week to make up enough money to

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go be a professional basketball player.

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Guess what.

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That's the reality of most of these MMA fighters, And

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you're slapping them in the face to John by simply

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not gaining the cage and doing your job. I don't

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care when who how confirm something, So I'm not having

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to rely on Chail anymore. I want to rely on

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Ariel Hawane or Brett Akamoto for ESPN MMA. I want

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to rely on these other guys, and I'm wound up

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about it because I'm disgusted on what you're doing to

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the MMA community who actually go out and work for

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a living. The people that listen to my show, the

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Blockhead Nation, this show will always be free to them

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because I'm real. I have my leverage for being a

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teacher by day and a podcaster by weekend.

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I do my job. How about you do yours? John?

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If you got a problem with that, come sniff my

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root beer. Thank you for those who get that. We'll

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see you next Saturday, same Blockhead time, same Blockhead channel.

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I'm gonna go have a root Dear float calmed down.

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I went to make the way to day day today.