Feb. 16, 2025

If Alex Wore Old Glory..

If Alex Wore Old Glory..

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Hello, Blockhead Nation.

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This is Brian, the host of your favorite Blockhead podcast,

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at your favorite blockhead dot com slash blog. Now, all

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that being said, the little Redhead girls giving me the

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go ahead.

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So we see we go ahead and start the show?

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Shall we broadcasting live? You know it's weird.

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I take a week off and somehow the downloads keep

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on coming. It seems like you want Blockhead to say less,

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you know, like the older Dodge, less is more. But

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either way, I'm glad to be back with you. I've

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still got a little bit of a cough, but I'm

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over how much it was keeping me down last week.

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So thank you for those who were stopping by. You

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are listening to your favorite Blockhead, the only podcast in

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the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic

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strip one Man and then be talking about MMA and

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Warriors inside the Octagon the next I am your hostman

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name is Brian Little.

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I thought, how would just throw the elephant in.

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The room right out there, because I go and look

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at my analytics, because you know, the Internet is a

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direct audit.

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I'll let you know how your show is doing.

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And I've still got downloads going on the week that

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I say that I'm sick, I can't be here. I

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don't know if that's just the Blockhead Nation going through

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the roll of deex, I don't know if that's you

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going in getting caught up on episodes.

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Either way, I do appreciate.

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It, but I thought i'd start off with that just

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to be on the fun and the lighthearted side as

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I try to get my rhythm back into doing this.

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So it's great to be back on the microphone. It's

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great to be talking to you again. Blockad Nation, and

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I guess what I'll do is it's not that this

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is recycled. It's just this is the type of content

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I would have gone into if I was feeling up

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to it last week, I would have gone into this.

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About Snoopy, there was a comic strip that was released

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about two weeks ago on social media, and it was

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a familiar comic strip that I had grown up with.

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But it got me to thinking, when you think about Snoopy,

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I've always said that not only is he Charles Schultz's

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favorite character, it's not only that he is the most

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interchangeable character in the entire Peanuts comic strip. This guy

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literally can be anything you need him to be at

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any time. What do I mean when we talk about

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from a personality standpoint, there's multiple He got Snoopy, you

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got the World War One flying ace, you got Joe Coole,

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you got the masked Marvel, you got the leader of

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the Beagle Scouts, and you have many other personas that

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he would portray all through the comic strip. You'd see

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it through the TV shows as well. You saw a

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little bit of that with the movie. But I just

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kind of thought to myself when I saw this comic strip,

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when I revisited this, that it's not only that Snoopy

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can be any personality he needs. If the question ever

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came up was can Snoopy be an inanimate object? The

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answer is absolutely. He has actually been a helicopter.

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In different circumstances.

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You go, how does he do that? Well, if you

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look where his ears are located, if they start spinning

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in a circular motion, and he gravitates off the ground,

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whether it's alone or with Woodstock or another character of

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the Peanuts.

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He has been a helicopter.

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I believe one of the episodes he did that for

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was It's Your First Kiss Charlie Brown, where he was

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giving live coverage from the floats and the homecoming parade

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from downtown. I believe that was where he started doing that.

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But again, he's portrayed literally as a helicopter, not spinning

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his arms around the backyard and going insane. He's literally

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gravitated off the ground, and he is able to look

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from an aerial view down on the Peanuts community.

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But when you look at this.

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Comic strip, the question has to be asked, did he

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ever do a disservice to anyone as a helicopter, or

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as an enamate object or as a person? Yes, because

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in this comic strip, Linus has hitched a ride on

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the back of the helicopter. You got woodstock in the cockpit,

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and Snoopy's ears are spinning in a circular motion. And

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you can see it in the comic strip where it's saying,

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chop chop, chop chop.

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I think it was released on.

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February third, back in either the seventies or the eighties,

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not entirely sure which one this one's released on, but

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you can see Linus has hitched a ride and he's exclaiming,

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good grief, we're going down.

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We're going down.

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Take it easy, take it easy. But all of a sudden,

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he changes his demeanor. Don't drop me there, don't drop

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me there, don't please, don't don't. He starts to plead them,

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don't do it, don't, don't, don't, And the next thing

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you know, Snoopy has dropped off his excess baggage. He

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has dropped Linus right into the arms of Sally Van pelt,

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who with stars in her eyes and hearts flowing out

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of her head, is exclaiming, O, my sweet baboo. And

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you can see Linus yelling, you stupid pilot, and you

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stupid helicopter. So has he ever done a disservice? Certainly

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as a helicopter, Snoopy has. He's always usually three steps

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ahead of anybody in the Peanuts gang. Even though Linus

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is extremely intelligent, he's the intellectual.

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Of the few.

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As an name an object, he's two steps, three steps

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ahead of him. Snoopy has portrayed that many times. Now,

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if we're gonna go off the TV show, the intention

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last week was if you have not watched it's been

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fifty years since the TV special Be My Valentine Charlie

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Brown has been released. If you have yet to watch this,

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it is worth your time. There's one that dates back

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even further, called You're in Love Charlie Brown. Now, that

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one has always had a great opening for me blockad Nation,

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because you have that old belief of you pick up

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a flower and you pull its petals, and if you

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go in order of she loves me, she loves me,

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not when you get to the end of the flower

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you determine if said lover feels the same way about you. Well,

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the best part about this is Charlie Brown is doing

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this as he's thinking about the little red haired girl,

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and just as he gets to the end of the flower,

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Linus debunks everything about it. It's difficult for me to

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believe that this flower has a quote gift of prophecy.

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Quite an intro for this sixties special. So if we're

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going off of what you should have been looking at

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in the month of February, then those two are.

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A dead giveaway.

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If you're going to go off one of the classics,

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You're in love Charlie Brown. If you're going off the

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seventies into the eighties, be my Valentine. Hitting a fifty

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year anniversary is quite a feat in itself. As you know,

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we have spoken with one of the original Peppermint Patty,

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Miss Patricia on this show, and she has actually played

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a role in many of these. So if you needed

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something that was of the Valentine's spirit, then that's a

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great way to go.

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If you're needing to look at the comic.

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Strip that one is portrayed, I believe it's up on

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the Charles Schultz Museum of Snoopy as in an amate object,

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not just as different personalities. But that is what I

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would have been packaging for you and bringing to you

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last week block a nation. So as I get back

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into the swing of things, as I get back to

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my normal routine here, I hope you'll give a little

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bit of grace as we start into the second section.

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I share with you always the truth, which is the

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scripture of the day, and then we get into the

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wacky world of what's going on inside of the octagon

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with the ufc our scripture reading for this podcast comes

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from First John five.

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Verse one.

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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,

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and everyone that loves him that begat love in him,

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also that is begotten of him. Now this is quite

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a simplistic beginning to First John chapter five, but if

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you look at the reflection for blue Letterbible dot Org,

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it talks about how simple this is. Not only that,

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but how wonderful and how amazing that true belief should

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be all that stands between us and the unquenchable love

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of God himself. That it is God himself who grants

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us that very faith to believe is too sublime for words,

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So blockad Nasan, praise him, praise him with your whole

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and regenerated hearts. If I can just take you back

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to Australia the pay per view from last week, you.

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HAVEC three twelve.

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It's currently heating up in the octagon right now. But

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if I can just pause from it and look at this,

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you have your cone event, Zangwale with a pretty dominant

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performance over Taltiana Suarez. In other words, an undefeated streak

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has ended, and Zangwale is clearly the most dominant strawweight

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champion in the world and has been for quite some time.

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So moving forward, the question simply has if you can

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blockhead Nation, if you could raise your hand and comment

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and tell me who is next for Zanguele, at least

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in the strawweight division.

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Who is it? Now?

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I'm talking to some of you that tune into my show,

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and I appreciate some of you might be casual and

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some of you might be die hard fans. If you

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can name off people in the strawweights right away, who's

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next for Zangwale for the champion?

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Can you tell me.

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Who do we know that's raised their hand and says,

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insert me into this discussion. Now, for a diehard fan

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like me, I can look at this and go, Okay,

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maybe we can throw Mackenzie Dern or Amanda Limos or

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Jessica Androge into that equation, just for somebody who's been

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following the sport. But when you just look at the rankings,

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you look at the performance she just had with an

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undefeated fighter in Tatianas Lorez, what.

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Else do you have?

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All that's left is exactly what Zanguele asked for. It's

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for her to face the other champion for a super fight,

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I guess, for all of the gold, because you do

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have your strongweight champion, Zanguile, but you've also got your

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flyweight champion, the bullet Valin ta Chefchenko, and pound for pound,

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it's just those two.

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What else is there to do.

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Except to say it's Valentina versus zang coming up next.

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For both straps a possible super fight. But what's the problem.

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Are either one of these truly superstars that meet the

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equivalency of a super fight or these just the two

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very best athletes in the world in the women's division

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of the UFC, And there's nothing else to pencil in.

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There's nobody else that will step up and say I'm next?

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What do you got? Now? I'm kind of being.

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Facetious as I say this, because the sport will keep

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going and weigh on Zangwe and Valagie Chevchenko is an

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awesome fight on paper, But I simply ask that because

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is there anything else to do? And is America really

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paying attention? From a global perspective, there's plenty of countries

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that are paying attention to their fighter. China is certainly

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paying attention, but what about us over here in the

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Western hemisphere? Can you answer me that one? Moving on

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to the main event, Drecis Duplessi dominant performance against Sean Strickland,

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and now we have to ask the question.

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What's left now?

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A fair one to throw out there would be hamsat

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Chamaiev deserves his chance to go for the strap against DDP.

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That's fair.

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But what happened in the cage? DDP puts out who

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else is there? Who else wants to step up? He's

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got somebody very specific in mind, who's cage side? Who's

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he got quite frankly the most popular and should be

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the most recognizable fighter in the world right now? His

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name is Alex Pereira. And this is almost theoretical. This

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is almost a ridiculous claim to make, But block d Nation,

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just as an MMA fan, I'm going to make it.

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Why is it.

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The guys like DDP and Alex Perera, especially Alex, are

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not automatically looked at and seen as that's the number

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one guy in the world of MMA right now. That's

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the guy has taken every fight that's been put in

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front of him. He's destroyed the competition. He's won championships

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in two divisions already in a very short period of time,

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very quick turnaround, will not turn down a fight. Has

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already said that he will fight Drecis Dupless if he

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comes up to the division. He's already got a fight

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on the horizon. He's got UNCLIAV. So it's not like

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Alex Perera has nowhere to go. He's got one guy

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left in the lightweight division unless DDP crosses over. Now,

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what's the problem? This is an intellectual approach, This is

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also a nationalistic approach and a language barrier approach that

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I'm bringing you blockhead Nation. What could possibly make Alex

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Perera the biggest superstar in MMA right now? He's clearly

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the guy. He's the best. He is everything that an

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MMA fighter or an MMA fan would appreciate out of

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an MMA fighter. He's everything that the whole world should appreciate,

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and most couldn't even tell you who he is. They should.

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Here's the problem.

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Alex Pereira is not wearing old glory when he goes

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out to the cage and he draws back his invisible

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bow and arrow and does his signature and shouts his

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phrase chauma when he's on the microphone, and he mentions

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through his interpreter, through his coach that he will take

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the fight with DDP since the challenge has been thrown out.

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I'll take it, let's fight, let's go. Everything you would

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want out of.

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An MMA fighter.

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And he is not wearing the fifty stars and the

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thirteen stripes. This is not Rocky Balboa putting on a

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Apollo Creeds trunks and going to face Ivan Drago. This

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is a Brazilian former kickboxer and a nightmare for anybody

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in the UFC.

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And what he should be.

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Is the most recognizable fighter in the world. But America

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continues to set the standard. Every country will get behind

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their fighter. But why does America not care because he's

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not an Americanized fighter. This is a nationalism problem. This

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is a I can't get out of my own way

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because it's not an American guy up there.

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It's not John Jones.

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It's not somebody close enough to my ethnicity. Who's an

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irishman who's foul mouth. It's not Connor McGregor. It's not

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somebody that came over from another organization that proudly wears

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an American flag, known as Michael Chandler, or a guy

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who is a fake wanna be bad guy known as

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Kolbe Covington who's wearing old glory. If Alex Perira we're wearing.

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This is a bold statement I'm making. If he were

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wearing Old Glory, he would be the most appreciated and

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most admired fighter in this world. But to us diehard

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MMA fans, this guy is exactly what we want. But

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because he doesn't speak English, he needs an interpreter, because

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he is wearing Brazil on his trunks, because he is

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not what we looked for. What we Americanized MMA fans

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who sit back with our arms crossed and go, okay, what.

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You got for me?

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This entitlement that we fans have that I'm willing to

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throw out out there. Alex Perira has done everything right

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and half of you, unless you follow the sport intently,

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don't even know who he is.

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Dragons due Places.

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Facing Alex Pereira in a super fight similar to Zanguele

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and Valentier chef Chenko. These should be two super fights

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that has the whole world dialed in to be watching

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the UFC.

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And do you even care?

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It's a fair question, It's a fair assessment by me.

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I think Alex Perera is fantastic. I think dep had

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a almost flawless clinic that he puts on.

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But do you care? And why is it that you don't?

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Would it be different, hypothetically, if alex Pereira was wearing red,

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white and blue. Would it be different? If Frecas Duplessis

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was wearing old stripes?

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Would it be different?

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If Zangwele and Valentier Chefchenko didn't have to have these

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language barriers and wore the American flag? Would you be

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more dialed in? Just like you are on opening day

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for baseball? Just like you are when the most ridiculous

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trade in the end, at least for the Dallas Mavericks

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ever happens and everybody is facing the shock value. Are

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you feeling the same way as you felt the last

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ten to twenty plus years of Jerry Jones taking away

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the very pride and soul of the great state of

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Texas known as the Dallas Cowboys. I'm just throwing all

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this out there. Why do we not care when Alex

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Peira is exactly what he should be, When Drecis Duplessis

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is exactly what he should be, and two titles could

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be on the line for a super fight, and these

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girls came up for a super fight and everybody goes, oh,

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that's nice, and we go about our day. Besides being

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a global phenomenon, America still sets the standard for the sport.

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I'm just throwing it out Their blockhead nation makes you

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wonder what all their hard work is for, isn't it

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except for pride in their nation. It's sad to be

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saying that, But I'm asking you, for those that are listening,

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most of you are you UA fans, what is it

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that's going to make you care about this sport? What

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do I do all this interpreting for and dissecting an

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analysis for you when you do have three guys that

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are wearing old glory tonight in the APEX.

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That's certainly true if you just go to the main event.

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I mean, you got Edmund Schabazian who is a United

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States representative. Youve got Calvin Cater who's a United States representative.

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You got Jared.

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Cannon here quite an athlete in the middleweight division. And

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yet why are you not tuned into the apex? So

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Alex is not wearing old glory, but Tonight's fighters are,

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and not one of these guys as a superstar, but.

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They should be.

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Now, when I say superstar, I'm talking about if we

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have to agree that Alex Pereira has done phenomenal records

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for the turnstiles, for the gates for people tune in

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to buy a ticket. But if I just go down

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the street and I mention all of this to anybody down,

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they go, Okay, that's great. But if I mentioned Connor McGregor,

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all of a sudden, your ears pop up.

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If I mentioned John Jones.

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There's a bigger percentage of people who tune in for

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an American bad boy. I'm just throwing that out there.

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Makes you wonder what's all worth it? What a limp

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biscuit do it all for? If you know that in

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reference that I just threw out, If you may at

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this far and throw me a comment on Facebook or

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Instagram or our snapchat or TikTok, because you'll know what

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fred Durst did it all for.

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You may at this far.

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You might as well engage a little bit as we

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prepare for next week. We will catch you guys next Saturday.

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You know how this works, same blockhead time, save blockhead chain.

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They did way to their day, then gave way to

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their day today