Jan. 19, 2025

'It' Factor, Meet The Human Equation

'It' Factor, Meet The Human Equation

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Broadcasting Live good evening, Blockhead Nation. Thank you for stopping

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by once again. You are listening to your favorite Blockhead,

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the only podcast in the podcasting world. But can somehow

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incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little, coming

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know this is a very fan friendly podcast. This is

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a listener supported podcast for listeners just like you. And

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I'll tell you right now, I almost came into this

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episode almost told Cold Turkey. I mean, you got the

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playoffs going on, you got a crumbling tower of Englewood

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going on over there in UFC three eleven. So there's

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all kinds of fires to be put out over there.

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But if you are new to this show, let me

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tell you three things that are always talked about. Number one,

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God is King. Number two, Peanuts is the single most

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successful comic strip in American history. And number three, mixed

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martial arts is the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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So Part one of this show is very much focused

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upon the Peanuts comic strip, the TV series, the Charles

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Schultz Museum, the animated movie, anything that's related to Charlie

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Brown's Snoopy Lass in the Gang. You get that on

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this part. By time we get midway through the show,

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I share my scripture of the day with you. If

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you're still around, if you're an MMA fan, stick around

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for part two. That's where I'll cover what's going on

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in the wacky world of the UFC or any other

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MMA organization for that matter. So I just didn't have

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any notes for this episode. I just didn't throughout the week,

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I didn't get anything written down, didn't really think, Okay,

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maybe this could be a topic that I'll discuss, and

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I was kind of like, well, what am I gonna do?

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I can always count on taking a look at the

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Charles Schultz Museum anytime that I pull up their page.

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It's easy for me to move from this point forward.

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I have been a Peanuts fan my entire life. Wore

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the T shirts when I was back in high school

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with the chevron for Charlie Brown. Been the part of

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Charlie Brown and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. I've

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been that part many times before, you know, throughout college,

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went to many of those different showings of that, in

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particular musical Every Christmas. You know, you got the Christmas episode,

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you know, and Charlie Brown with a TV special is

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very seasonal. So as we get a little bit closer

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you have Valentine's Day, so be my Valentine. Charlie Brown's

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really easy, as several of the others that are based

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on the Little Red Hair Girl. It's easy to put

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do content creation on things like that. But when you

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have this kind of lull between Happy New Year and

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Valentine's Day, and you have the inauguration of our new

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president coming in in Monday, you know, I could spend

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some time in mlkday. That's easy to do when we

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talk about the character of Franklin. But I just didn't

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have anything this until I looked at the Charles Schultz Museum,

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I just had no content. It was a blank slate.

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And the first thing it says there's a new exhibition

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going on. It's the Strip Rotation Gallery and it's running

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from as of two days ago until July thirteenth. So

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we got a long stretch of something called nice Shades

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Beyond the Lines in Peanuts. So at first glance, I thought, okay,

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they must be talking about Joe Cool who that's one

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of the metamorphosis to Snoopy. He's always wearing the sunglasses,

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and that's not yet at all. It's actually talking about

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the techniques that Charles Schultz used through expression through detail

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with his drawings of the Peanuts comic strip. So if

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you want to see an online exhibition that, or if

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you happen to be out in Santa Rosa, you should

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go check out this exhibition at some point in the

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next six and a half months. So it's more of

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I didn't even understand. While I started to pull up

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the photos of this ongoing gallery. The first one it

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has is something that's called screen tone Renaissance. Now I'm

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familiar with the Renaissance movement from an artistic standpoint, but

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I'll admit I had to go research it. I had

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to go google what in the world it meant by

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screen tone art, and I was floored by how you

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can level up your artwork just by doing that, by

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turning anything you have into screen tone and using the

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shading techniques that would be on print and vinyl of that.

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And a couple of these comic strips that are up

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on this particular one or some of my absolute favorites.

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It's befitting those that are in the North Texas area

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or anywhere else for that matter, along the coast. You

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do know that we've got a cold front that's coming

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pretty quick. That's me talking about the weather. But you

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got Snoopy's comic strip of him and Woodstock in the

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canoe rowing as fast as they can, because as we know,

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we can't count on the weather man to always be right.

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Snoopy makes a comment about when we left it was

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nice and clear. Now look we're running straight into what's

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called coastal fog. So that's actually one of my favorites

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from back in the day. But I didn't realize that

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this strategy that he used for screen tone, and what

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they talked about was screen tones are actually an extension

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of what's called cross hatching. Again, had to open up

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another tab and look at what cross hatching is for beginners,

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and this is very acute detail on the shading that

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you use, and there's even challenges when you make portraits.

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The fact that the shaky handed Charles Schultz was using

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this type of exquisite detail for the Peanuts is just

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once again, how much more can I tell you Blockhead

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Nation that when you peel back one layer of the onion,

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you're gonna find more and more layers. You're gonna find

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a depth and a complexity. To Charles Schultz and to

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the Peanuts comic strip that you would never have realized

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just for taking a little while. And that's what the

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Charles Schultz Meda. The museum does a fantastic job of

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from their online website to their social media post, I'm

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always promoting them. I can't wait to see it in

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person two years down the road. Now, this gives me

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a chance. As I was talking to a friend not

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long ago and I mentioned something about another TV show,

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this is me taking it out of Peanuts and just

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kind of giving you something that's based on society and culture.

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If I can, I'll shift over to one of my

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favorite TV shows of all time. One of my absolute

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favorites will always be The Wonder Years. If you did

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not grow up with that show, you missed out even

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historical context. You missed an adaptation of the Vietnam War

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on your TV screen that's still pretty accurate to this day.

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The dark side, the patriotic side, and even more than that.

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So I mentioned to her, as she was talking about

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some struggles she's had in her career, I said, you

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should go watch this episode. It's season one, episode three.

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Basically in a nutshell, I won't give up the whole episode.

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But Kevin decides that he's interested in what his dad's

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work is like. All he sees is on the back end.

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So you know, you've got the start of your day

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where he's having to go to work and beat the

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traffic and then having to put out fires all day

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long from the office. But then he comes home and

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has to just decompress from all of that. That's pretty

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common for us adults. What Kevin doesn't see is what

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he does on a day to day basis. He starts

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asking questions, I know where you work, but what do

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you actually do? Only the dad just says, you know what,

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Kevin to better if you see this in person, why

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don't you come with me to school. I'll write you

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and you come with me to the office. I'll write

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you a note for school, and you can come with

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me to work. Pretty good little deal. He even gets

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to sit in the swivel chair and just sit back

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and watch the day to day interactions that happen. Now,

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I wouldn't say it's the most highly stressful job. The

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theory is, but I will tell you in the midst

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of all that, Jack looks at Kevin and says, Kevin,

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you needed to know the most important part of the

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working day the coffee break. So think of this kind

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of like in the eye of the storm, that Kevin

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gets to see his dad in his most relaxed form

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of the day. They go to the break room, they

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enjoy a cup of coffee together, they start talking. Kevin

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simply asks how his dad ends up getting the job

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that he had, and it was more of like a

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I met your mom, and I went to work here

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on an entry level job, and the rest is history.

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I moved up into management and somewhere in there. And

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he just kind of said, did you want to do

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anything else? And you know, they go into all that,

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but finally, the main point of what Jack says to

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Kevin in the midst of all of this controlled chaos,

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he says this, and I quote, you know, Kevin, you

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can't do every little silly thing you want to in life.

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Got to make your choices and try to be happy

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with it. Now, for those of you that are listening

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that feel like I am taking the wind out of

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your sales, I never became a professional baseball player. You're

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in good company. Most don't. I never became a professional

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football player. Well, the numbers are stacked against you. If

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you made it, you're one of those few that in

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the midst of when everybody wants to sit back and

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criticize a professional football game, we don't realize that people

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like Tom Brady would throw a football in silence before

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dawn and sit in the film room when everybody else

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had gone to the bar, and he's sitting there with

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the coaches analyzing film on how he can be better

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for the next game. You don't see the behind the scenes.

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You see the highlight reels. You can criticize somebody like

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Brad Paisley all day long, but a guy who played

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guitar until his fingers bled and happened to be able

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to play in some smaller venues until somebody who had

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some poll comes along and here's him and wants to

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sign a record deal with him. Either way, that's going

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into the most extremes of those who are the small

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percentage who made it. Everybody else, the working class. I

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want to go back to what he said here. I'm

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a podcaster and I want to entertain you. I want

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to educate you and edify you. And there should be

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a lot of hope in what Jack says to his

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son in this moment. You can't do every little silly

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thing you want to. You make your choices, and he says,

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it's in the most calm demeanor you can imagine, it says,

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and you try to be happy with it. Then takes

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that moment and smiles his son. He says, I think

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we've done all right, don't you. It's a great feel

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good moment for those who need it now. And I

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give you the feel good moments from a siding culture.

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So it's all where Ilwa was re emphasize with the truth.

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Stick around for the scripture of the day, and I

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hope you'll stick around for part two. Is I enveloped

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some things going on inside of the octagon on the canvas.

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes from James Chapter one,

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verse seventeen. Every good gift and every perfect gift is

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from above and comes down from the Father of Lights,

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with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Now. Really,

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I could read some of the commentary that comes from

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Blueletter Bible or other different commentaries for this part, but

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I think really in a way, I like to give

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a secondary extra scripture just because Romans chapter twelve six

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through eight really expounds on all of it about how

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to use the gifts that God is granted to any individual,

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especially to members of the church. This is what it says.

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Heaven then gifts differing according to the grace that is

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given to us. Let us use them. If prophecy let

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us prophesy or ministry. Let us use it in ministering.

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who gives, he who leads with diligence, he who shows

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mercy with cheerfulness. This was well said by David Using.

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There's difference and distribution of these gifts. It's all do

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as it says the grace that is given to us.

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It's because God chooses to give them to you. It's

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at the discretion of the Holy Spirit, blockhead Nation. So

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I hope that's uplifting. If you have not been using

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your gifts to disciple, no matter the cost, feel free

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to reach out commentate if you need to talk. I'm

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just a comment away. I'll listen to what you have

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to say if I can point you in the right direction.

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I've also got a past drug and put you in

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touch with I've got a running free ranch. They can

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put you in touch with. This is just you know,

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anybody who needs it kind of shotgun in and out there.

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But to move back to the world of MMA. Those

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that are not MMA fans, if I can keep you

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just for a second, if I say one name, you

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probably know who I'm talking about. Connor McGregor. It's all

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related to the title that I've used for this episode.

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When I say the it factor. If there was anybody

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in this sport that has had the it factor since

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he first made his appearance in the UFC, it's Connor McGregor.

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If there's anybody who's been the golden child that has

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broken through more barriers than anybody else when it comes

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to pay per view buys and eyes on the product,

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it's Connor McGregor. If you say Ultimate Fighting Championship, even

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the people know nothing about it, they go, oh, that's

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the thing Connor McGregor does. And even though for US

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MMA fans that are not casuals, that's not the same

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and insulting manner, those who continue to come back and

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watch the sport. This is where I say Netflix has

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a pretty good documentary if you've never watched it. That

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helped me see the other side of Connor when the

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cameras aren't rolling or it's a specific singular camera that

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they've agreed to allow post fight. The show is called

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McGregor Forever. It's on Netflix. So this is where I

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say the it factor meets something known as the human equation.

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For the longest time, I have not been on the

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hype train of Connor McGregor. I don't deny his accomplishments.

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I have not enjoyed the brash use of the microphone.

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I have not enjoyed some of the antics, like attacking

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the bus that Kabebe was on and throwing the dolly

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through the window. I have not loved the fact that

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he continues to be in the news about accusations, true

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or untrue, that lead to civil lawsuits. I don't like

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all of the bureaucratic red tape that Connor McGregor has

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fallen into and is trying to tear away from his body.

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I'm not saying that I don't appreciate what he's done

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for this, I really do. It just seems like, even

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through his losses, there's only one thing that continues to

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not have a shelf life. And that's the third fight

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between him and Nate Diaz. Now, when people say that

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he's coming back, and they go, who's he gonna face snilely,

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people say addiction, or they say the civil courts, or

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you know, his own inner demons, things like this. But

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I'll tell you McGregor forever very much shines a light

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on what you don't notice. For Connor being a father,

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teaching his son what matters the most, Tell him goodbye,

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he loves him. He'll be home after going to work

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me and after he goes to the fight. He's coming

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home to see his buddy, who's dressed in a buzz light.

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Here nit outfits so and then you have his big wins,

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as big losses against to be against Dustin Porier with

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the leg injury that we saw the last time, and

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just him contemplating on is he done or is he

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not done? You should watch McGregor forever. It really amplifies

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the human equation of this guy, regardless if he comes back,

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regardless if the current day allegations against him are true

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or not true. It's easy to go after a celebrity.

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All you need to do is get a lawyer on

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your side. But still con McGregor is not somebody that I,

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as an MMA enthusiast, have always gotten behind. I appreciate

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what he brings to the table, and when he puts

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all of his chips on there, everybody is applauding from

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a global standpoint. And this is also a sport where

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fighters bring their entire country with them, sometimes continents, and

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what seemed like it was just one country of Ireland

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became the entire globe itself to come in and watch Connor,

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especially after the Audo fight leading up to Nate one

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and two and eventually the match with Habib. So I

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just want you to realize that not everything is going

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to be scrutinized and criticized by wyf B when it

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comes to Connor McGregor, and this documentary is just one example. Now,

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if he does come back, then I would appreciate if

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a certain tradition, anybody that might be a revisionist might

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disagree with this, but a traditional person would say, you

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coached opposite of Michael Chandler. You sat right next to

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him at the press conference when you face Dustin Pourrier,

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and you can see this from the regregor documentary, and ultimately,

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if you come back, it would be just one of

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those fulfilling that because anybody else that you got, you're

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coming right into shark smelling blood, which is something that

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he's used to. But ultimately, I appreciate a guy who

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has the it factor that Dana has always really capitalized upon.

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that you can see from somebody who did come from

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a dirt poor community and did become a success. I

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will give you that one when it comes to Conor McGregor,

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and I will just give him a little bit more

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I'm an appreciation than maybe that I had before. And

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if you're like that documentary came out in twenty twenty three,

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yes I'm late to the party, okay, but at least

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I can tell you I'm not late to what is

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unfolding over here in Inglewood, California. With UC three eleven,

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this continues to show that the sport will go on

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no matter who is in place. You were supposed to

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have Islam versus Tharuki on two. Within twenty four hours,

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you have a back injury for Armantserukion, which means the

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number ten ranked run not to Moikano gets to come

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in for the opportunity of a lifetime but a twenty

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four hour period to prepare for the champion instead of

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preparing for Banil d'l ruche. You're still comparing apples to

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airheads with this. So when it comes to Banel del

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Ruche being told here's your paycheck, thank you for showing

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up on weight, on time, We'll see it the next

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fight from Moi Kano to be a guy that is

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a little more marketable as of late, which maybe the

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hope is if Moi Kano can pull the biggest upset

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in the history of the lightweights tonight, then that opens

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the door for another global sensation from Liverpool known as

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Patty the Batty. So, in other words, are we trying

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to eventually pencil in Moikano versus Patty or Patty versus

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Makachev because Paddy continues to be ready and willing to

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answer the call and continues to speak the language that

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Dana White appreciates the most of a guy who when

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everybody says that I'm getting to push, I just create

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better content than you do, and I continue to win

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my fights as a whole. Just some things to chew

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on post UFC three eleven as we also have Marob

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versus Umar and AMaGA Metof. I see that title and

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I see some serious issues even with both of these

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being strong wrestlers. I see issues with Marob overtaking Umar,

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especially going in there with injuries to his lower calf,

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knowing that Umar will be throwing low leg kicks that

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are going to be super detrimental to his game. Where

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you have Yuri pro Hoska and Jamal Hill, who everybody

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is so tired of and we all just want Eerie

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to once again shut this guy up and send him packing.

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And if you just look further down, you've got Kevin

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Holland versus the Ridder. So it's it's still a really

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good pay per view. You still pulled it off. The

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show must go on at the expense of Banil Daruche.

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But you do have one day's notice getting prepared for

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Islam makachef aka death sentence. But who's to say, maybe

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I'll be eating Crow come next week. I still think

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that UFC three eleven is holding its own. We do

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have some top lend of the cards, but ultimately we

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rebuild the Jinga puzzle and it's now setting back up

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and we have a continued UFC three hundred outside of

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California that's going on as we speak. So moving forward,

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we will see if any titles change hands, which I don't.

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I doubt that for the championship that's the main event,

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but I do see Morob being a disadvantage tonight. We

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could very well have Umar Namagametov, another one of the

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well known Namagametovs who have been a series its threat

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to the entire UFC as a whole from Russia. So

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we'll see how that plays out ultimately, and we'll see

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if we can do a dissection of that on the

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back end. So thank you for everybody that's stuck around

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so far. Not to hang it up too early tonight,

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but ultimately there's not much more for me to unpackage.

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Somehow this card moved forward, and you should go watch

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Connor McGregor not unforgiven, but forever. You should check out

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the documentary on Netflix and we will catch you next week.

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