Dec. 29, 2024

Happy 2025, Blockhead Nation! Plus, A Few Potential UFC Scraps

Happy 2025, Blockhead Nation! Plus, A Few Potential UFC Scraps

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Broadcasting Live. Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation. I'm glad you're back.

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Been on a two week hiatus over here at the

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Blockhead Mansion. Been enjoying the holidays, been enjoying Christmas, just

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having a chance to enjoy some time off, and I'm

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back on the microphone with you. I've missed you, Blockhead Nation.

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If in case you don't know this, you are listening

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to your favorite blockhead. This is the only podcast in

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the podcasting the world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts

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comic strip one minute and then be talking about MMA

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and Warriors inside the Octagon the next. I'm your host.

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My name is Brian Little. I'm gonna shake off the cobwebs.

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I'm gonna get back into the groove a little bit.

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It's been two weeks as I spoke to you on

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the podcast. For those of you that went over and

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checked out the Christmas special on the YouTube page, thank

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you so much for the love and support. I can't

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thank you enough for that. That was such a fun episode.

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So I thank Steve Overt Podcast Manfield for having the

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opportunity to do that. I can't assure you yet that

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there will be a twenty twenty five Christmas special. I

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just don't know. It's too early to determine that one,

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So we'll see eleven months from now if that's going

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to become a reality or not. Either way, we're back

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on the show with you, and I'm here to talk

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to you about the Peanuts if you don't know, if

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you haven't been following the show. Three things are always

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talked about on this podcast. Number one, God is King.

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Number two, Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. And number three, Mixed Martial Arts is

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the greatest sport under God's hot suns. If you tune

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into part one, you're mostly gonna hear Peanuts information on

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this segment. Segment two, if you're an MMA fan, stick around,

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we'll cover some things going on in the world of

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UFC and thus fourth, so beginning with now the holidays

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are coming to an end, at least with Christmas, I

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can talk about my favorite episode of all time, which

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would be Happy New Year, Charlie Brown. It was released,

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I believe in nineteen eighty three, and sometimes this one

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gets a lot of criticism for not being a I

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wouldn't Some wouldn't call this one a masterpiece, but they

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call it a classic. I tell you it's my favorite.

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To begin with, did you ever wonder if Lucy Lucy

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van Pelt, if she was proficient in any other sport

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than just football? Because as we know, she likes to

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hold the football and pull it away from Charlie Brown,

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especially in crucial moments, to betray his trust. But also

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even in the big game, she's done it. So you

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have to ask the question, she's not great in baseball.

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She's maybe proficient in football. Possibly she's even got a

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reputation of being really good at arm wrestling, among many

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other sports when it comes to summertime. But is there

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anything else she's proficient at? I'd like to tell you,

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thanks to this episode, that we can agree that Lucy

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is fairly accomplished in bowling. How do we know that?

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Because Lias tries to throw a snowball ats his sister

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and misses by a mile, So she decides to get

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retribution by rolling a huge snowball, holding it the same

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form you would in the bowling alley. But you know

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she actually takes her time to set this up perfectly.

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And who are the two pins Charlie Brown and Lias

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and she hits the mark with exquisite detail. So I'd

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like to say that she's pretty strong in the world

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of bowling. To throw that out there, and if you can,

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with a parallel on Happy New York, let me kind

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of walk you through something with this episode, Charlie Brown's

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entire Christmas vacation is ruined because the teacher decides last

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minute to give him and the rest of the class

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the book war in Peace by Leo Tolstoy to read

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over the holiday break. Now, granted that book is at

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least one and thirty six pages long, probably more than

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that if we were to actually do a page countdown

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with the notes and all, you know, prefaces and acknowledgments,

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I'm sure it's more than that. But to give a

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child that over the holiday break, it's pretty rough. But then,

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just as soon as you think that this is torturous,

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Linus comes back over the rebuttal. She says, when Leo

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Tolstoi wrote this book about the French Revolution, about Warren Peace,

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his wife Sonya copied it for him seven times with

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a dip. Now this is a fair argument. She'd have

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to use a magnifying glass weight till the servants had

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gone away and it was quiet in the house and

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kids have been put to bed. She copies the book

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seven times for him with a dip pen. Then last responds,

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and you're telling me that you can't even read it once.

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Fair argument here. But he also makes a really good

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comment in the beginning when he asked him how the

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book reading is going, and Charlie Brown admits to saying,

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I just finished reading the Dust Jacket, and he has

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this on the fly remark, Many is the book report

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that hath been written by just reading the dust Jacket?

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If I can blockhead nation. And this is me looking

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myself in the mirror as I say this. This is

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the time of year when you start making what Once

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you have your New year countdown, you have your midnight kiss,

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you have your party that you go to. What do

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you start making immediately after this? Yes, your resolutions in

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the spirit of what Linus van Pelt said on this episode,

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Many is the book report that hath been written by

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just reading the dust Jacket. Blocket's going to give a

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challenge to you, blockhead nation. You can do what you want.

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You can decide to follow this trend as you always do,

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no matter how old you are, and I'm talking to

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thirty five to forty four year old males. I've done

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my homework. Most of you that are listening, that's the

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analytics I'm giving back. So I'm talking to you now.

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Many is the new Year's resolution that hath been broken

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within three weeks? The three week period, Well, you have

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followed through on your New Year's resolution? You know the

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answer to that one answers no. Most of you as

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a percentage, will not follow through on this. So here's

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what I want to say. When it comes to the

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New Year's resolutions, why not block add nation? Just go

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back and evaluate how you've done in twenty twenty four.

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What are some adjustments you can make in twenty twenty five.

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You always hear me give a scripture of the day

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at the end of the in the middle of this episode,

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that is something to say that we don't own anything

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in this world. We manage it. So when we look

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at things like New Year's resolutions, the trend that comes

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with that, and how little follow through there is, could

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we just say that maybe we should just look to

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a lifestyle change if you can. From a physical standpoint,

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all of us need to do better with our choices

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in what we eat. We all need to make better

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choices on how much activity we get. I fell off

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the bandwagon was doing DDP yoga, and I'll be perfectly

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honest with you, it's time for me to fire that

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up again and start getting serious about it again. But

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did I fall off? Yes? There was a lot of

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accountability with that because a lot of you blockad Nation

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reached out and asked how my trek was going. And

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I appreciate that. So it's time for me to go

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back and make some adjustments reevaluate where we stand. Here's

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another one from a financial standpoint. We don't own anything

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in this world. We manage it. Would you fire you?

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I think Dave Ramsey's talked about that when it comes

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to you Incorporated. Would you fire you if you looked

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at your finances? So it's something that we can all

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go back and look at. I will tell you be

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careful with your new Year's resolution. I'll tell you instead,

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just as we do in this show, look to the

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scripture of the day. Look where our true daily bread

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is going to be. And I believe Charles Schultz said

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the same thing. If you watch all through his episodes

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from the Christmas episode to the New Year's episode, there's

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always enlightenment and usually followed by Linus recently had a

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comic strip that I looked at where he was talking

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about the Apostle Paul and using the Book of Philippians.

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I'm telling you, Charles Schultz would have made a really

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good minister. If he was not the greatest comic strip

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artist of all time, he probably would have been a

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good American history teacher as well. If you look how

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subtly he used that. He used these americanisms through the

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comic strip, but in a subtle way. He would use parable,

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but in a very subtle way, and you have to

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look for it. If you want to get these gems,

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you're gonna have to bob for apples a little bit.

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Have to get your face wet, reach down and bite

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that apple and pull up that gem that Schultz would

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give you. Then there's a little bit of When I

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share all of these thoughts and all these insights from

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the Peanuts, there's so much of them that are packed

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into Happy New Year, Charlie Brown, I encourage you to

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go to Apple TV and take a look for yourself.

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I challenge you to get off the beaten path and

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not make a New Year's resolution this year, just do

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some reevaluation, do a little analysis. What can we all

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brush up on and do better. Because we don't own anything,

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we just imagine we get to borrow things for a

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little while until the day we'll call on our scripture

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in for this podcast comes from Isaiah chapter forty three,

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Verse one through two. But now thus saith the Lord

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that createth THEE, oh Jacob, and he that formed THEE

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O Israel. Fear not, For I have redeemed THEE. I

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have called THEE by name. Thou art mine. When thou

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passest through the waters, I will be with THEE, and

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through the rivers they shall not overflow THEE. When thou

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walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither

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shall the flame kindle unto THEE. Now, before I get

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to the reflection Blue Lair of Bible, there's a lot

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about Isaiah chapter forty three. There's referring back to the

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Book of Genesis. Basically, if you read through the whole

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book of Isaiah, he's talking to the tribe of Judah

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that have lost their way, who have completely rejected who

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the coming Messiah is. Going to be So when they mentioned, oh, Jacob,

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you have to remember that Jacob took on a new

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name after he wrestled with God. He was called Israel,

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and he will have the twelve sons who become the

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twelve tribes of Israel. So if you look at from

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blue Lund, our Bible says, take heed, o, children of faith,

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to the voice of the Lord, for he has redeemed

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you and brought you under so great a salvation through fire,

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through famine, through flood. All that's talked about in the

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Book of Genesis. There's a famine where Joseph is the

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right hand man to the Pharaoh and his brothers come

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into Egypt to the flood. That's talking about Noah through

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all earthly perils. The Lord is with you, protecting and

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sustaining you know this blockad nation and be comforted. I'm

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sorry if I kind of gone the pulpit just for

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a second there, But there's so many parallels from Isaiah

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that it lead to Genesis, that lead to if you

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look into what we just had, the birth of our Savior.

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So I'm just excites me to really get into that.

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So we get into the world of mixed martial arts now,

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and just know that this podcast, it's usually what twenty

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to thirty minutes long, and it's pretty succaint. You know,

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it can be kind of briefing to the point, but

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just you know as a sport that the UFC and

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MMA itself is a very ambiguous sport. I'm all gonna

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have one interpretation of what we see. So when I

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spoke to you two weeks ago, I threw out a

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Devil's advocate way of looking at Colby Coventson versus Joaquin Buckley.

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I just said, if somehow Colby utilizes his wrestling, and

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I have to mention utilizes it, well, then that could

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be a long night for Joaquin Buckley. So I have

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to sit back and eat crow. Because Joaquin Buckley looked

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fantastic every time when I went back and looked at

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this again. Whenever Colby would try to capitalize them takedown,

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Joaquin Buckley was three steps ahead of him. The whole

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time he would sprawl, he would be back to his feet.

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I mean, he just wasn't able to finish anything. So

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his wrestling was really sloppy. The build up to the

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to the match was great. Yes, you had something that

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happened on the walkout, you had two men walking Colby

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coven into the cage, and one of them was not

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Donald Trump, one of them was Chaill Sonning, and the

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other was the immortal Hulk Hogan. Now this might be

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succinct as usual, or I might just go ahead and

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word vomit quite a bit on this one, because I'm

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I'm gonna go and say it. There has to be

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an acknowledgment now that WWE wrestlers need to stay out

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of this sport. They were not a problem when they

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sat in the stands. They've become a problem since they

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have started walking fighters to the cage. There already is

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such thing as a chail curse. That was especially true

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with Colby versus King Buckley. Hulk Hogan walking Colby Covington

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using his theme music has not worked out. So I'm

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not gonna say that the MMA gods are in opposition

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to this. I'm just gonna say this hasn't been a

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good pattern. Can we go back to the BMF title.

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We wanted to see Nate Diaz win this fight because

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it came from his mind. Jorge Mosviital wins. It will

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be of a doctor stoppage and who walked out to

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the cage holding this BMF title. Yeah the rock. Can

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we acknowledge that this is not working out for MMA

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fighters that want to have wd ERA and WB wrestlers.

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HA scorted them to the cage, even though that's part

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of the acquisition, even though that's part of the investors

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at TKO or probably trying to see a crossover. It's

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not working. I'm just throwing that out and I'm not

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ear take it over Kobe Coventon losing. I'm actually quite

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thrilled with how great Joaquin Buckley looked. So even though

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I played Devil's advocate, I expected that if he's gonna

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touch him on the face strength wise, he's gonna tear

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him apart. And sure enough, you have the doctor stoppage

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to cut over the eye, which was to actually check

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twice before anybody gets irritated that this fight got stopped.

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Doctor looked at twice as waking continued to open it up,

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and he's gonna lose that eyeld if you don't stop.

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I'm sorry. I agree with that. If you have fifty

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percent visibility with blood pouring into your eye, you cannot continue.

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It's the right call. But the trend is when you

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have these doctor stoppages. We got something where a WWE

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star is involved, it's got to stop. The crossover between

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these both of these sports is not working out well.

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Just had to get that out there. But people ask me, now,

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is Joaquin Buckley one of the guys that I think

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that's had one of the best performances this year? Well, obviously,

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if we go by championships, the two that have stood

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out the most from twenty twenty four are gonna be

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Alex Pereira and Elia Taporia. So that one is pretty

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easy from a championship status, and it's easy to say

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at the end of December twenty twenty four that Joaquin

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Buckley is definitely in good standing. But if I had

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to pick one that stood out for me the most

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throughout this year Blockade Nation, I'm going with Diego Lopez.

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I'm going with the guy that faced Dan Egay and

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put on a phenomenal performance and finally got Brian Ortega

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and was able to perform very well at the Sphere,

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I'm going with him. I don't know what twenty twenty

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five holes in store for this young man, but for

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the featherweights, that's a promising contender, even though he's at

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number three. So Skott's Lenna in my mind for Diego

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Lopez only for more improvement, maybe even vast improvement with

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this young man. So I'm putting that out there now.

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As far as since we don't have any fights going

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on this weekend, next weekend until we get into January,

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we do have some discussion about a possible fight that

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could happen back to the lightweights Michael Chandler, since we

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can't get Connor McGregor to come into the to the cage,

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and it seems like now we're swaying with him possibly

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boxing one of the Paul brothers, which means somebody either

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over in Indy or Saudi Arabis, somebody who has deep

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pockets over there in the Middle East able to pull

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off this million dollar fighting experience that's gonna go on. Again,

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this is all speculation at the time, so is this.

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But the talk you have going on now is are

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we gonna have a chance to see Michael Chandler versus

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Patty the Batti Pimphlet, the guy who actually had somewhat

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of a uprise from when he was looking like what

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could be the next Connor McGregor two point oh, and

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then everybody turned on him very quickly with the Jered

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Gordon event. You have to remember also when he thought

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Jared Gordon, his foot was clearly broken. This is something

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that Mma Guro has talked about. So if I go

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to the lightweights sometimes, like I said, there's gonna be

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some room for different thinking here. Some look at this

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and think, Okay, you got Patty Bimblett versus Michael Chandler,

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one coming off of two losses, the other coming off

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two wins, and this makes the most sense. Sometimes when

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you don't have a rank contender, you have either one

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of two things, an anomaly or a novelty. What if

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we threw the novelty out there that nobody's talking about

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that came out on Twitter somebody who was looking for

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a fight. What if you had the opportunity of Drew

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Dober willing to come in and fight either Michael Chandler

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or to face Patty the Batty Because you're putting two

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wins against two losses, which again shows that the ranking

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system doesn't matter in this sport. So this is just

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another perspective to throw out before we automatically say, oh,

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they have verbally agreed to this. I can see that

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being a easy night from a submission standpoint for Patty

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the Batty. Just because Michael Chandler is reckless leaves himself

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wide open. We saw that with Dustin Poier. Imagine somebody

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who's very good at subs, like Patty the Batty, be

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able to pull this off. So what if we throw

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in Drew Dober into the mix, somebody who's not even

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ranked from the top fifteen to number one? What about

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that one? So I throw that out. When you don't

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have something that makes sense on paper, you go to

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an anomaly, which that would be the Drew Dover case,

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or you have a novelty. The other novelty I'm talking

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about is what do you do with Dan Hooker. Justin

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Gaichee is hanging out there at number three in the

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rankings that has nobody to fight, and the talk is

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now that Dan Hooker might be willing to face him.

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Another guy who's nowhere near up on the rankings right now.

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This would be the novelty, somebody who can be very

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problematic for somebody like Justin Gaichee so verbally agreed their

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speculation about Chandler versus Patty the batty. But a name

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that you throw into the hat would be Drew Dover.

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You got your anomaly. Your novelty would be what do

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you do with Justin Gaigchee without anybody to take a

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fight with him? To throw somebody like that who is

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a probably serious problem for Justin Gaechee, but to get

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him back into the limelight. And all of this is

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just what's swimming around in the world of the lightweights,

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while meanwhile you have a rematch for the title with

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Islam versus Armantserukion. That's right there on the horizon. So

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is it confirmed? No? Am I keeping a close eye

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on how this is going to play out in twenty

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twenty five, you bet? I am blockad Nation. And when

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I have a better analysis for you, when that comes closer,

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then certainly I will share that with you. But all

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of these things to consider my how ambiguous this sport is.

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