Go West, Old Yeller

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He's in the mix and definitely won't
leave it in the hands of the judges.

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It's your favorite Blockhead broadcasting, Live, good evening, Blockhead Nation.

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Thank you for stopping by. Once
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podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts

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

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

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And I have to begin with just
once again another shout out that the Empty

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Slade just had on a great friend
from the YFB network. They had ray

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A JG on the show, had
a great YouTube video, had a podcast

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episode where they sat down aka on
the back porch, and mostly they went

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in out through many different discussions,
but they certainly talked a lot about music.

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And I believe it might have been
me that asked the question to Justin

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and I just said, hey,
JG, if you had a chance to

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play a instrument of any kind,
and what would it be that you would

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want to get maybe proficient or even
outstanding man? And he I can't remember

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if he said keyboard or drums,
but he mentioned something about not the ones

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who have the front the front l
you know, guitar players gonna be a

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dime a dozen because I asked him
about the dough bro, which is what

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Oliver Anthony plays, and he mentioned
that and I started going, well,

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if there was one that I would
want to learn how to play proficient in

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some way? Would I want to
learn to play the keyboards or the drums

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or the bass guitar? Besides just
because I know how to play acoustic guitar,

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not as proficiently as guys like Preston
and Josh and Alex and all the

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guys in Della Pearl. That's a
shout out to the guys that have made

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music for this podcast, by the
way, and I thought about one of

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them that brought me back a few
years. Do you remember a group called

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ben Folds five If you haven't,
back in the mid nineties, they had

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a live sessions I think it was
called West fifty fourth Sessions. They are

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on YouTube. It wouldn't hurt to
go back and watch and see what I'm

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talking about. I thought one of
the most brilliant things I ever saw was

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Ben Folds stepping up to the microphone
and playing an instrument I didn't recognize.

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Where you do have a keyboard,
but it's not connected to any power outlets

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of any It's not an actual keyboard. It's one where you blow into it

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like you would a would wind instrument, and you get music out of it.

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That would be called a melodica.
And one of the best ways of

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showing you what a melodica would look
like live in concert being played proficiently would

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be on those West fifty fourth sessions
with Ben Folds five, especially a song

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called Smoke. And I always thought
it was so brilliant that ben Folds had

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set the melodica on top of the
piano, so on his left hand he's

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playing the piano, the other one
he's playing the melodica, and he's got

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he's got the wind pipe of the
melodica duct taped to the microphone to where

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he can sing and then he can
go and he could blow air into the

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keys as he continued on with his
music. So if you've never seen it,

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you should go look at it.
Ben Folds five Smoke West fifty fourth

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sessions. But there were some other
songs where he used the melodica as well.

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I just if I had to pick
one that I would try that was

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a little bit off the beaten path, that'd probably be it just to kind

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of piggyback on those guys doing their
show. So I had to get that

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out of the way first. Also, a very belated wedding anniversary to one

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Jeane Schultz. Since you know this
show is about peanuts, I'm making sure

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I'm talking about it now. Don't
think I'm just rambling for no reason.

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I always give my shout outs to
my guys in the network. But if

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Charles Schultz had not graduated and gone
on to the greater beyond, he would

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be fifty years married to Jean and
that was shown on the Charles Schultz Museum

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page for Facebook, Instagram and on
the website. So I want to give

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my best wishes in belated way at
anniversary to missus Schultz. And they were

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married in Santa Rosa, which again
i'll put out there that we've got about

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three years to go. The big
goal for the Little Red haired girl and

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myself is we want to in three
years be able to make our way to

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the Charles Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa. That's another way I can say if

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you want to get involved in any
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the donation tip jar that is Kofi. It's always helpful and all of it's

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appreciated. That helps us get to
the Charles Schultz Museum. We got three

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years to get there, so it's
a big goal. And I pulled up

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a comic strip from a few days
back that was recirculating. Snoopy does have

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a whole lot of brothers and sisters. Okay, if you never found that

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out, go back and look at
Snoopy's Reunion. That episode will tell you

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very clearly how many he's got.
And if you watch the movie, at

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the very end, they have a
root beer float toast and most of his

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brothers and sisters are there, including
two of them that were in this comic

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strip. One of them was Andy. Andy is the fuzzy one. Olaf

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is the one that's been eating one
too many bowls of ice cream. Oloff

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is pretty much a blueberry kind of
like if you watch will they walk on

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the chocolate factory. If you watch
that and watch her turn into a giant

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blueberry, that's kind of what all
Olaf looks like. But in this episode,

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they are very vaguely talking about where
their travels are and Andy mentioned something

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about going west, and Snoopy asked
him, how would you know which direction

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are you going west? These guys
aren't traveling with a compass, and in

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a naive way, they are following
the sun, which you know, like

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following sun dial is not going to
help you much in the evening, And

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that was the predicament that they ran
into. He said, how can you

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know you're going west if you're following
somebody had told us that the sun sets

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in the west. Well, when
nightfall came around, Olaf intervenes on that

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one and says, yeah, we
didn't think that part through, and all

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that made me think of There was
a movie called City's Liquors two. Okay,

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now most of y'all about her seasliquors. Sita'sliquers two has a scene that

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I have cracked up over for years
as a Social States teacher, and they're

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looking at the map and Billy Crystal
makes the comment which way is north?

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And Daniel Stern goes up, and
of course we got the party going.

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What do you mean up? He
said, Well, north on the map

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is always up, so I guess
we should keep on going up. He's

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like, okay, so if you're
going up, you're going north, down

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you're going south. And finally his
brother, who's along for the ride,

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takes a look at the map and
he says, okay, now the sun

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sets in the east, right,
And of course Billy Crystal just stares at

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him and goes, no, the
sun sets in the west. And then

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he thinks for a second and says
the most absurd thing I've ever heard in

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a movie. But it makes it
to where if you ever want to teach

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social studies, this proves you have
a job for life. He says,

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that's if you're in the east.
But we are out west now, so

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we are a past where the sun
sets. And of course Billy Crystal stares

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at him again, almost like a
dog listened to a high pitched sound,

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and he exclaims, you can't be
past where the sun sets. And if

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you think you can, then I
am directly south. I'm an idiot.

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Without missing a beat down Stern goes, which is down. I love that

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scene, and I love the fact
that Andy and Olaf in the comic strip

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are going west but with no clear
guidance, no map, no compass,

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just they've made it to Snoopies and
they're they're kind of reminiscing, and he

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just goes, how did you keep
going west? I guess it was a

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reset every morning, making sure the
sun was up, and we just follow

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the sun moving west and however long
the direction took. I mean, you

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know, kind of like oh,
Pat movement would say, one sunset at

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a time, right, And that's
the logic of Snoopies. Brothers. Our

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script are in for this podcast comes
from John chapter sixteen, verses five through

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seven. But now I go away
to him who sent me, And none

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of you asked me where are you
going? But because I have said these

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things to you, sorrow has filled
your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you

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the truth. It is to your
advantage that I go away. For if

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I do not go away, the
helper will not come to you. But

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if I depart, I will send
him to you. And I pulled some

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commentary on this one just because David
Gusick explains it very well about the disciples

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not understand what's about to happen.
It really makes them even more difficult for

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them to believe. At the time. It's to our advantage that you're going

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to be arrested, that Jesus's ministry
and if teaching and miracles is going to

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stop, that Jesus is gonna be
beaten, mocked, sentenced for execution,

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nailed to a cross, to our
advantage, he dies in the company of

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notorious criminals, and that his lifeless
body is laid in a cold grave.

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Yes, it is to our advantage. Just put very well here in the

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commentary, David Usick says it was
better because Jesus's work is better understood as

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he is enthroned in the heavens.
Before Jesus left, the disciples were confused,

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thick headed, afraid, selfish,
and self centered. But after Jesus

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left, and after the helper had
come, they were wise, surrendered,

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bold giving. So it truly was
to their advantage that Jesus left, and

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that jesus body is no longer bound
to this earth. It's enthroned in the

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heavens, and that truly is to
all of our advantage. Blockhead Nation.

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So as I shift into mixed martial
arts. If you tuned into this part,

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I'm assuming you're an MMA fan.
If you're not, welcome, and

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I'd love to bring you along for
the ride, because mixed martial arts has

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its ups and downs, and we
can say currently that the HR department for

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the UFC clearly seems to have their
hands full because we look at our champions

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now, it's really hard to put
a pacifier in the mouth of Sean Strickland,

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who's the current day middleweight champion of
the world. It's really hard to

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do that with Sugar Shawn O'Malley.
Okay, but there's also kind of a

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downside when it comes to the numbers
in the marketing and when it comes to

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the rest of this year. You
have no confirmed fight with Connor McGregor and

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Michael Chandler. So as far as
we know in twenty twenty three, we're

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not going to see Michael Chandler,
We're not gonna see Connor McGregor. As

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far as Sugar Shan O'Malley, he's
done for twenty twenty three. So what

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do we do. We have to
start find ways to build up what's left

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for the year, and I almost
want to look at. There's a famous

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scene from a movie called Glen Garry
Glenn Ross. It's a very harsh scene

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where Alec Baldwin is telling these guys
to get their sales together or they're all

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fired, and he uses the phrase
ABC always be closing. Then he goes

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into a little more detail with another
acronym AI da attention. Do I have

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your attention? Interest? Are you
interested? Decision? Have you made your

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decision? And then action? If
you've never gone back and seen that is

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an intense scene and it is just
rough. It's like, you know,

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most people nowadays would quit if they
had a guy walk in and give them

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that kind of a motivational speech like
Alec Baldwin did. But that's kind of

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the way I feel. When it
comes to Madison Square Garden. You would

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think that I would be on here
saying we're going to have the most important

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venue of the year, the most
honored and decorated venue for combat sports of

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all time, that is Madison Square
Garden. And the main event is John

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Jones and Steep Amojich. And you've
got people like Tom Aspinall who are not

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counting out Steep a All. I'm
saying is I'm not closed on this.

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They always say ABC always be closing, and step A is not convincing me

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that he has what it takes to
go in there and face John Jones.

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Would I love for the underdog to
once again have his day. Certainly that's

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been happening lately. That's the trend. But John Jones has been known for

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so many times in history to stop
a trend dead in its tracks. Okay,

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So the Glen Garry speech only does
so much for me when I look

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at step A versus Jones at Madison
Square Garden, and I would like to

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believe that it's gonna be more explosive
than I'm laying on. But there's so

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much more that just transpired this last
week. So here we go with ABC.

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As far as the end of the
year in Las Vegas, even though

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you don't have Sugar Shawn O'Malley and
you don't have Connor McGregor, you've got

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several announcements that's popped up for two
ninety six, and one of them has

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got me all in knots. Okay, you might remember the story of Old

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Yeller. If you don't, some
of you want to hear that our wrestling

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fans are going to understand the analogy
I'm about to give. I know I'm

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shifting gears here, but let's swift
over. If you ever watched professional wrestling,

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They're about to head to WrestleMania and
it's going to be Rick Flair versus

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Shawn Michaels and they put on one
of the greyest performances of all time.

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It's Rick Flair's last match, last
big headliner, especially on the grandest stage

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of them all, and Sean Michaels
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the build up to it, something
was said by Sean that really went over

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in this promo and really brought out
in anyways the best of Rick Flair because

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he looks so enraged by what Sean
Michaels was telling him. And he's talking

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about old Yeller, where they loved
that dog, but the time came to

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take him out back and put Old
Yeller out of his misery. And then

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you watch Ric Flair taking his jacket
off and throw it on the ground and

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stopping it and he gets in his
face and yells, old Yeller, are

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you out of your mind? And
starts slapping Sean and says I got your

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old yeller. It's how I feel
when I look at the lightweight bout for

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Patty the Batty versus Tony Ferguson.
Why do I say this because I happen

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to light Patty the Batty as a
fighter. I look at it and go,

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okay, when we're booking a fight. You could have easily had had

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a redemption match between him and Jared
Gordon. You did have Matt Frivola that

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did call him out. And what
do we have. You don't have a

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win versus a win. You now
have a win versus a six lost street

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in El KAKUI a guy that everybody
that's in the MMA community absolutely respects.

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So this is not something that is
ABC always be closing. This is something

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not something that helps the marketing of
the end of the year and putting a

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bow on it. Marry Christmas,
you're gonna feed Tony Ferguson to Patty the

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Batty. Pimplet No, it's very
much the old yellow treatment that I'm seeing

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with Shawn Michaels and Rick Flair,
and I can see how that would fire

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up Tony Ferguson. But this is
how we treat them. Is this a

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sacrifice to the MMA gods. Is
this where Tony Ferguson has his big turnaround

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from the last six guys that he's
fought. It doesn't look like this.

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It looks like they are more than
happy to hand him off the way Chris

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Levin was handed off to Anderson Silva. Your time's up, kiddo, and

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as much of a warrior and as
much grit that Tony Ferguson has, you're

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putting him against Patty Pimplett, and
I don't understand the matchup. I don't

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have a problem with either of these
guys. I have a problem with them

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being put together. But then you
have my undying respect for the guy that

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stepped up to face the undefeated kast
stand fighter Schufkov Rockmanoff and it's wonder Boy

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Mad. Props to Stephen WonderBoy Thompson
for taking this fight. Where our main

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events going to be Leon Edwards versus
Kolbe Covington. So all I'm saying is

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there is a ongoing I wouldn't say
problematic, but I would say anybody who's

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an MMA fan kind of turns their
head and cringes a little bit on some

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of these fights. There's plenty of
them that are getting behind it that might

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be casual or might see the glimm
that I'm missing, But I am not

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a fan of the matchup of Patti
Pemblin and Tony Ferguson. It actually irks

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me and it hurts. I don't
know what that's implying, but all I

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see is the old yellow treatment.
Now, I will admit you do have

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a main event going on tonight for
Fighting Night. Vaziah versus Camra is a

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good matchup, but the comin event
should talk you into the building. Guys,

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thug nasty Bryce Mitchell versus fifty K
dan Egay. I love both of

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these guys. I'm a huge Danny
Gay fan Bryce Mitchell. I can't look

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away. I can't so for me, is this kind of a chance for

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redemption against Bryce against a lovable,
very likable Dany Gay. Do their styles

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matchup? We're certainly about to find
out when we go to the co main

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event tonight, So I'll keep you
updated as we get further into October,

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which will lead us to Fight Right
Island. Then were head to Madison Square

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Garden for our man event, and
then you have the Las Vegas sendoff of

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twenty twenty three, with some great
fights and some questionable booking that feel like

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an old yellow treatment of one Tony
Ferguson, who does not deserve that kind

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of a sendoff. I'm hoping that
he can be a phoenix rising out of

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Arizona. I'm hoping that he can
give Patty the show of a lifetime.

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And I don't know how Patty is
gonna have how they're gonna respond to him

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in Las Vegas. Either way,
this is where we stand. There's some

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exclamation once and points, and there
are some question marks moving forward into MMA,

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and I appreciate you guys being here
for this next episode. We're gonna

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keep on rocking and rolling and we'll
see you guys next Saturday, same blockhead

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time, same blockhead chain, and
the day can't make the day. Day Today,