Dec. 14, 2024

How To Celebrate Christmas In The Desert, Plus Who Runs The Yard Anyway?

How To Celebrate Christmas In The Desert, Plus Who Runs The Yard Anyway?

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Broadcasting Live Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by.

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Once again. You are listening to your favorite blockhead, the

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thank you so much for coming by today. We were

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anticipating that we would have the Christmas Special be available now,

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I'll just let you know that midweek throughout your week

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start off with, is simply that before it happened with

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a Christmas Story, before it happened in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation,

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there was somebody else who decided that they love tall trees.

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It will never fit inside of their house, but they

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don't listen to the critics. They do it anyway. So

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if you thought that it was just a few of

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the dads in your holiday specials that you love so much,

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that were too not so much gullible, but too proud

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and too ambitious to make sure that this tree will

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go in our house, even though logically you know from

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a practical standboard there's no room for that tree at all.

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It's true with Clark, it's true with Ralphie's Old Man

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and a Christmas Story. But somebody else did it first. Well,

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maybe not did it first, but certainly Sandwich between that.

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In nineteen eighty five, there was a comic strip that

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came out where Snoopy was too ambitious to not try

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to decorate a Christmas tree in his doghouse. He's dragging

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a fairly heavy sized and quite bulkish, maybe a balsam

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of some kind. He's dragging this tree, and of course

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Charlie Brown shouts out, you're crazy. It's never gonna fit

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inside your doghouse. What's Snoopy's response? Just like Clark Griswold,

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Just like the old man in a Christmas story, who cares?

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I happen to love tall trees decorated in my house?

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Snoopy is no exception to this. And if I can shift,

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it'd be so easy for this little podcaster or just

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to talk about the Christmas episode. And I'm really I'll

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allude to that when I get the Christmas special out

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for those that are waiting in anticipation for that. But

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you know that's just it becomes a broken record if

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that's all I do. So instead, I will take a

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minute to praise the one who actually inspired Snoopy. Before

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there was ever Snoopy, there was Charles Schultz's real life dog.

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And we're gonna give a round of applause to Spike,

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which is portrayed in the comic strips as the brother

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Spike that lives in the desert. Snoopy is overweight and

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Spike is as thin as a needle. Snoopy has no

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facial hair. Spike has mustache that almost touches the ground.

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Snoopy is wide eyed, Spike has those relaxed, maybe tiresome eyes.

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He wears a brim hat, and he knows how to

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accommodate himself well during the holiday season. How do I

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know this? It's not just how many times he was

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talked about in the comic strip or the TV specials

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which he was. He was shown in the Animen movie

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having a root beer float with all of the other

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brothers and sisters along with Snoopy as he cursed the

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Red Barn. He's there, but there was even a later

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release of a Peanut special of Snoopy going to see

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his brother Spike from The Snoopy Show. I want to

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say that might have actually been early this year, trying

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to spread some holiday cheer. So it's Snoopy and Woodstock

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wearing Santa hats, bringing a bag full of goodies, and

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Spike just kind of watches and goes, okay, where is

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this going? And Snoopy tries to replace Spike's Christmas wreath

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that is hanging on a cactus with no needles on

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it and replaces hit with a fresh new one, where

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the needles unfortunately fall immediately off. In the heat of

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the sun. But of course move on to Plan B.

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If that doesn't work, we'll try something else. And he

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looks into his bag again and decide to have a

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snowball fight with Spike. Little does he know as he

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throws these snowballs, they're going to evaporate for the even

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hit his feet, and Spike's just looking at him, going,

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all right, what else she got? And Snoopy pulls out

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a humongous Christmas tree, just like the one in the

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nineteen eighty five comics Trip and sets it up and

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decorates it for Spike. What happens with all the heat

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waves of Needles California. The needles fall off immediately, So

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Plan D. Snoopy is gonna decorate a cactus, but has

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no electric outlet to look into, so he decides to

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have a little bit of a temper tantrum. But you know,

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Spike is actually very consoling. He realizes, Hey, I know

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what you're trying to do. Now, I appreciate it. You're

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trying to bring the holiday cheer and spirit to my

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little world. I appreciate you. And in fairness, he is

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wearing Holly and Ivy on his hat, but Spike has

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to teach Snoopy that things are different around here. So

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what does he do? He creates a snowman out of

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boulders right there in the middle of the desert in Kneels, California,

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and shows Snoopy this is how we do it, a

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dry erase marker with a smiley face on it and

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a matching hat as Snoopy is wearing, you know, demonstration

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a tadda, and Snoopy's feeling better, and Spike, guys, hey,

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I got more. I got more. Without even saying a word,

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you can see that he's got a winter slash summer

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wonderland of all these bolder snowmen. But then you know,

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Spike is gonna actually teach him how to make dirt angels,

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the equivalent of snow angels, right there in the middle

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of Neils, California. And now this one was interesting as well.

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We gotta make holiday cookies, don't we. Well, sure there's

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a way to do that out in the desert. You

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pour your cookie batter, you take your cactus cutters, and

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they're gonna make Christmas cactus cookies. He sets the cookie

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sheet the sheet and on a hot boulder and proceeds

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to set a timer and thus voila, you have Christmas

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cactus cookies, which the scene is gonna conclude with them

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sledding across the plains. And then Spy has to teach

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Snoopy that there is a way to light up this cactus.

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What you don't realize is you can plug this outlet

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into a smaller cactus. I know, science guy, but it

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has retained the light and sun energy from out there

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in the desert, and that is how you light up

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your cactus for the holiday season. So Snoopy has a

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good heart here, but he learns about adaptation very quickly

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from Spike, who I'm sure who's had to come at

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this the hard way. It's a heartfelt moment between two

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brothers and a beautiful portrayal of what the Peanuts are

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wrong about. Our scripture in for this podcast comes from

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Psalm chapter eighteen, verse twenty eight, for thou wilt lighten

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my candle, the Lord, my God, will enlighten my darkness,

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a very befitting reflection from Blueletterbible dot org that says this,

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the earth is a haven for darkness and the things

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that lurk and creep. Foul is the world and thick

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is its shadow. The dim murk of this fallen land

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threatens all that is living and fair. We would be

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swallowed and bound in slavery to that dark rolling. But

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we are becoming children of light. The father gods our

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paths and so our ways become clear. His sun is

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the lay of the world, and the darkness flees from

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beyond his glory. Abide in him, blockad nation, and rejoice

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that you can see who he truly is. Now, in

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a last minute effort, since we have a UFC Fight

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Night going on today in Tampa Bay main event, you

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got a banger of the welterweightabouts. You got number nine

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ranked Joaquin Buckley, who is crawling to make his way

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into the top five. And you've got a man who's

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come close to tasting gold but not quite there, but

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again a mouthpiece of this division, number six ranked Colby Covington. Now,

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it seems like every facet of this fight has been

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studied by the MMA experts, by the fans, those that

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are already drinking the kool aid of Joaquin Buckley. Now

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that doesn't mean I'm trying to downgrade who he is.

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Joaquin Buckley has one of the best highlight reels in

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all the UFC one of the most fabulous knockouts in

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the history of the apex where he does the spinning

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back heel again. It's phenomenal. You have to go back

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and watch that highlight reel to where we now know

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he's got serious power in his hands. So if he

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touches you, then it's spelling the end. And it seems

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like for both of these guys, for Coloby Coventon and

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for Woking Buckley, shot cut Rochmanoff is getting the shot

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at Beleel Muhammad for the title pretty soon, which means

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the next guy to go after is the one with

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the second best record, that would be Ian Gary. Both

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of them are fighting for that opportunity to face him next.

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It seems like that's all been covered now. What's been

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unique about this build up is Colobe Coventon is known

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for his mouth, known for using rhetoric that's gotten him

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despised by countries, by droves and throngs of fans, and

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for the first time maybe he has been fairly quiet.

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Joaquin Buckley has made this very clear at the press

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conference at the way ends up the stair down at

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the interview before these guys stepping the cage, that we're

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gonna see how things turn out, because he hasn't said

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much to me. And again, we don't know if this

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is attacked or this is just if you go to

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the stairdown, it's not Colbe Covington cutting the promo. It's

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icon and Hall of Fame or Chail Sonning, who knows

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very well the wrestling abilities of one Colby Covington. So

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you have a powerful striker versus a well known chain wrestler.

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And so again, MMA experts has spoken out on this.

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Joaquin Buckley has said that he really has been more

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vocal than coleb he has this time. There's been a

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few words exchange, just not that many, a lot less

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than normal. But if I can blockhead Nation, if I

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can illustrate something for you just to consider, you know,

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when this is all said and done, when they step

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in the cage and they shut the doors and the

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ref says fight, my opinion doesn't matter anymore. But I'm

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just wondering, just you know, for the sake of maybe

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playing Devil's advocate here, Let's see if we can visualize

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something just for a second, and maybe an approach that

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Colby has Let's think about this. You have been playing baseball,

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you have aced one to the beast something I'll know

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what I mean from the sandlot reference here. It has

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gone into the yard of no return. Or maybe you

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just walked past a fence that has a sign that

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says beware of the dog. And instead of eating this warning,

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for whatever reason, because you need that ball, because your

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stepdad's gonna kill you, or you just want to be

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bold and test your boundaries, you put on your PF flyers,

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or you put on your air Jordan's or your lebrons,

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whatever you do, and you hop the fence. Now you

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take a few steps in and out of the corner

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of your eye you see this big dog who is

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defending the yard, and to your surprise, he doesn't move.

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of impairment, or maybe I do have a chance to

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get my ball after or maybe I'm just again testing

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every boundary that there is. And so what do you do.

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You move a few inches closer, and again the dog

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doesn't move. This is a borrowed concept. I'm not making

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this up. This tends to be some of the tendencies

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of yard dogs. Especially junk yards. So you move just

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a little bit closer. He hasn't moved. Now you're getting

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a bit bolder than you were. Now you're squaring your

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shoulders up just a little bit, thinking I can just

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test this about just a light bit more. And you

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start to move forward, and all of a sudden, that

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dog picks up his head, and this wave of fear

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comes over you, because it's not just that you realize

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he sees you, he's known that you've been there. You

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take a look behind you and you realize how much

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space there is between you and the fence, and you

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look back at this dog, and as that dog raises up,

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it hits you like a storm in July. The realization

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becomes a disturbing and fateful reality. You realize that that

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is what that dog has wanted all along. You're too

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close now not to fight for your life, and it's

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too far to run now. I'm gonna leave that analogy

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right where it is, because I'm wondering, is this an

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approach that Colby Covington might be using on walking Buckley?

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Could he have fooled us all it's not commonplace for

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him to be quiet, not to use his marketing skills,

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and even though his trash talk might be as cringe

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as you can get and as over the line as

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it's been in the past, you haven't been seeing much

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of it. And we know how powerful an overhand right

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or even just a left hook from Joaquin Buckley will be.

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If Colbe finds an opening and gets the takedown and

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makes this a grappley nightmare for Joaquin Buckley and just

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chain wrestles him. As much as we may not like

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the outcome, that would solidify a win for Colby and

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a call out for Ian Gary. So all I'm mentioning

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to you now is could this be a tactic that

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nobody has considered? Why would Colby be so resistant to

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get on the boomstick and do what he normally does

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while Joaquin Buckley could be blindly walking into a trap? Now?

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Could we? Could I be just speculating too much and

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we see Joaquim Buckley go in with those powerful hands,

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and it's light out for Colby, comfort for chaos. Sure,

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Like I said, once the referee calls for the fight

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to begin, my opinions don't matter anymore. But maybe I'll

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build up some intrigue for you to check out Fight

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Night in Tampa Bay for the main event going on tonight,

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not to mention a featherweight with the veteran Cub Swanson,

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where the odds are slightly in favor of the featherweight

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Billy Quarantillo. A co main event that is not to

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be overlooked either. That could easily be a banger. I

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build all that up just because even if we move

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to next week, we've got a rematch between Mackenzie Dern

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and Amanda Hebas. Any male who looks at that poster

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or looks at that build up or that venue, anybody

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else that's on the card for the APEX for January eleventh,

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after we take in a nice little break, you're gonna

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realize quick why that fight has been made. I'm just

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gonna say both girls are remarketable, and I leave that

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alone because your kids are saved with me. But there

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might be a humdrum APEX build up here, but I

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can tell you that there has a lot to unpackage

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in the full metal jacket loaded card for UFC three

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to eleven Islam versus Sarouki on two, this time for

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the Strap in Inglewood. So we're already looking at matches

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in January that I am frothing at the mouth for

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from Marab versus Umar, for del Ruge versus Micano, for

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pro Hosco versus Jamala Hill, for Kevin Holland to return

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against the Riddler. Either way, this is a card that's

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worth tuning in two and I have to sit back

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and twiddle my thumbs for next week's event and then

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well for January's event and just have some downtime up

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and tell them to try to come up with some

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MMA content on the back end of this show. So

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Blockhead Nation, those who stuck it around this long, thank you.

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Thank you for turning into this little podcast. It's always appreciated.

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Downloads are the most helpful. I wish all of you

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a wonderful holiday season. I wish that you have a

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safe Christmas shopping spree, get all those discounts and bargains

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that you can possibly get. Dads, and as most of

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you I'm talking to are between thirty five and forty four,

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I've done my homework. I've read the analytics. It's pretty obvious.

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But I do thank you so much once again for

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sticking by. Be watching out for the YouTube video of

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the YFT Christmas Special. It's coming, it's on the horizon.

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We'll catch you guys next week, same blockhead time, same

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blockhead check