Aug. 31, 2024

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He's in the mix and definitely won't leave it in

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the hands of the judges. It's your Favorite Blockhead broadcasting live.

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Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation. Happy Labor Day weekend to you.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast

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in the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts

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comic strip one minute and then be talking about MMA

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and Warriors inside the Octagon the next. I am your host.

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My name is Brian Little, and because it is Labor

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Day weekend, your favorite blockhead is going to take a

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breather as well, not so much from being on the microphone.

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I'm more than happy to talk to you every week.

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Come on in the Blockhead Mansion with me while I

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baby sit these three for here in the house. Sit

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down and relax and enjoy us. You're always welcome here

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Blockhead Nation. But as far as content goes, this isn't

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meant to sound that I'm being complacent or that I

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am just being straight up lazy. It's that I've had

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a lot of input from a lot of you that

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are listeners of the show, and because of that, it's

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only fair that I take this entire episode to answer

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the questions that come straight from you, the blockhead Nation.

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So dim the lights, let the show begin. This is

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entire episode that is entirely devoted to you, the listener.

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You've sent in the questions and I will read them.

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I will answer them as best as I can and

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keep a bit of a flow going. So normally i'd

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set up this section we're talking about the peanuts, and

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the other section I talk about MMA. That's how I

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would break up the podcast. We don't have any questions

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about peanuts this time. This one has coming straight from you, listeners.

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And I will begin with my very dear friend and

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one half of the empty slate. I will start with

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my friend Chris. He sent in, since I am starting

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on a better betterment journey for my health and I'm

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engaging in DDP yoga, that maybe I should start looking

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into other people's struggles or maybe there are other challenges

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or maybe even just their achievements that come with it,

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because it's very easy to not be motivated, as Chris says,

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when you get on the scale and you're not seeing

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the results you want. Now, that's even something that DDP

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is addressed in DDP yoga, that you do have to

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figure out what you want. There is going to be

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patience you get to, as he says, make the DP

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Yoga program your own. You can modify as you see fit.

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And I will tell you that Chris has been very

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diligent in sending me suggestions along the way. There's even

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a YouTuber by the name of Remington James. I'll give

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a free shout on that. I don't mind because he

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has got some amazing recipes for those who like to

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hit the gym, want to get their protein in, and

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just if you don't have a lot of time in

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the day, then he's got meals and he does the

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same thing we do. We use the my Fitness app

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and we my Fitness Pal and we type all that

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in and we keep ourselves accountable. So it can be

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frustrating to continue to show discipline when you're doing the work,

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when you're staying motivated, and you're learning new ways to cook,

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you're finding healthier alternatives. Even in the midst of all

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of the inflation that we've faced in the last four

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years that just seems to come as with no mercy

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and we're ready to pull the plug on it all.

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It's hard to do that in the midst of you know,

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our spending habits, and ultimately just comes down to, as

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DDP says, what do you want? My goals and Chris's

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goals are not going to be the same, but he

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has been so amazing by sending me things like, don't

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forget about your day off, so you can actually adjust

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them and modify them to where they're work. And that's true.

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If one day isn't working, then maybe consider other days

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that are your cheat days. I can always call Saturday

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as my cheat day simply because that's when I'm gonna

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get on and do the podcast. I'll spend time and

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content creation. We've had the launch of why f b

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tv some of you that have watched that that I've

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upload on Facebook and on x and many other outlets.

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So I just want to make sure that I have

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mentioned that is that he's making changes where he needs to,

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and you don't want to become stagnant. And certainly there

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are struggles that come with when you get on the

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scale and you go, my gosh, what do I have

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to do to lose weight? Cut off my foot? I mean,

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are you you know I'm trying to learn how to

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eat right on a budget. All of this associated with

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eating healthier, which you know, eating produce does take more work.

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out of the problem. It took a while to put

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the weight on, it's gonna take a while to take

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it off. And I'll tell you this from my own

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personal experience. I lost forty five pounds in two thousand

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and six. Why because I needed to get into the Navy.

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I needed to get into the military and I had

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to meet a certain weight criteria. So I started cutting

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out the sodas. I started running, which I hate running

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with a passion, but I did it out of necessity

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because there's a certain time on your physical requirements for

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push ups, for sit ups, for your run time. And

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I was doing all of that, and the recruiters noticed

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that and said, man, we need to get you in

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the military. You're losing weight, You're doing the right thing.

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We're gonna help you with this. So they needed to

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see that I was putting forth the effort. So, Chris,

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I'll say this by I applaud your efforts. If you

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think about how far you've come to where you are now,

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certainly you're gonna have new goals that you set and

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as DDP says, don't just think it inc. It's one

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thing to type it into our phones, which is very accommodating,

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but also at the same time, it's so easy to

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get complacent using technology. Maybe need to go back to

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using this thing called paper and pencil. If you're gonna

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write down your foods, then put down in lowercase letters

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the good stuff you ate. When you cheat on your diet,

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put in in exclamation points and put it in capitalized letters.

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You are holding yourself accountable. You know what your goal is.

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So ultimately I can just say this, it just comes

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down to owning it. But there are things that are

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going to be out of our control, which is the fluctuations.

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But what we can control is how much we consume.

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If we're hungry at home, getting a drink of water,

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going out for a walk, getting our steps in. I

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know some of you that are doing that, that are

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watching your steps while you've taken on a second job.

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I mean, that's whatever you're doing that holds you accountable.

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Life be is proud of you. Blockhead is cheering you

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on too. I may have found twenty five pounds that

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are gone, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to

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reach my goal overnight. It just means sometimes you have

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to take a one step at a time. I think

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there's a buddy of mine ride with dan Usas has

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one pedal at a time, one check off at a time,

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one little check off of the list as we continue

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to tackle this beast. So I may not have gotten

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to everything that Chris wanted on that one, but there's

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very much through staying motivated, seeing results, looking for your

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new ways of cooking. And that's the great thing about

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it is there's many that you can choose from, and

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you can narrow it down to what works the best

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for you. I figured out the workout that works best

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for me is DDP yoga. One of the better meal

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plans is Reymington James on YouTube and as far as

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my Fitness Pal, it's been a big help to me.

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But there's also something to the old school way of

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just writing it down and being honest with yourself and

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being proud of the fact you can get a shirt

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on that you couldn't wear a year ago. Said that

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that's happened. So that's addressing Chris's question briefly. But I'm

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thankful that he came by and he wanted to have

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a few things he shared on the podcast with me

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most of what I'm getting from a couple of you,

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I'm gonna do a little bit of a compilation year.

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I'm gonna start with my very best friend. I'm starting

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with the Minister of Sound, mister Jeremy Shack. He's asked

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me to look into the disability history since the time

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of the Paralympics. Well, I can admit that's one where

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I'm probably gonna drop the ball. But where it does

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matter is that this particular Paris Paralympics games that's happening

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from August twenty eighth, a few days ago into September eighth,

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We've got a heck of a record that's been set

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in Paris. So you've got what twenty two million that

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have shown up. You got about what two one five

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million tickets that were sold as soon as it was

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announced of the opening, So you've got a full stadium

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that is cheering on these athletes that are engaging in

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some awesome events. So as far as the records, I'm

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gonna get them wrong. But there's so much discipline that

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these Paralympic wrestlers and athletes and others are getting into

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I know I said wrestlers because my mind and Olympics

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will always go to wrestling. But here you've got pair

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of swimming, you got pair of rowing, you got powerlifting,

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the cycling track, the canoeing, the archery. I mean that

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these are phenomenal records. So since the opening ceremony to

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a sellout stadium, these athletes get to have so much

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pride in this iconic event. And you know, as far

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as getting the names right, I can guarantee you that's

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where I'm gonna drop the ball. But you know, it

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is is so amazing that the crowd has come, the

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stadium is full. But obviously your hometown French athletes are

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giving the ones that get the most thunderous appla law.

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But you know, as many of them said that, the

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victory ceremony becomes amazing for so many of them. Everybody's

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standing for these athletes. So there's there's a beauty in

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the inclusivity that comes with the Paralympic Games. So as

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far as the history behind it, I'm gonna have to

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chop and screw that one right away. But it's exciting

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to see how the athletes are so you know, engage

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and they are so fired up as this huge crowd

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that's here at the France Stadium for Paris twenty twenty four.

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I admit, the Paralympics are in full and on full

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spin right now and it is an exciting time. So

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I give it up for these athletes. I know that

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I'm gonna butcher quite a bit of this, but they're

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all going for one thing. They're going for the gold.

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They've worked hard, and this is the Games every four years.

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It's a chance to prove themselves. You've got so many

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countries that are waving their flags proudly, and I think

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it's just great seeing from the opening ceremony to the

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is in the even the mascot that symbolizes liberty and

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freedom with the mascot that has the running blade, and

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the athletes that have disabilities, so upholding the values of

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the Paralympic Games is really a feel good moment. So

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I hope that that's a little bit of laying the

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groundwork in the foundation for what my best friend Jeremy

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the Ministry of Sound, is talking about here. That's what

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I can give him momentarily, and I'm sure there's gonna

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be some big moments coming soon. So We'll keep a

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close eye on Paris and the Paralympic Games. But a

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combination that came up of two of you, one of

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them is ed from casually kicking it. We're gonna move

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to his Well, he gives me a pretty broad question.

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He wants to know I get. I guess he wants

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to know what I think is the greatest tag team

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of the nineties. Now I can tell that that's kind

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of prompting what he would think. I would say, if

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I'm going to be fair, if I was gonna look

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at three major organizations, I would assume that if we're

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going to three or you got the WWF, you've got WCW,

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and you've also got Extreme Championship Wrestling. So if I

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was gonna go to ECW, I would assume that would

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be the Dudley Boys. That would be the one that

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had not only had the most impact, but had the

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most carryover to the grandest stage to have eventual the tables,

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layers and carrot and chairs, with the Hardy Boys and

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Edge and Christian I would assume that would probably be

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the one I would choose. But I'm sure somebody that

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has more a skin in the game with ECW would

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come in and just really educate me on that one.

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As far as WCW goes, I have to go with

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the Steiner brothers. And some would probably say, well, what

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about the nWo. Well, when you look at the nWo,

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that's more of a takeover, that's really more of a

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mob mentality. That's not really you know, ownership of tag

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team Champion. It's just two guys from the group that

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might be able to take the championships or steal them

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or whatever. But if you look over the time span

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from the late eighties to the early nineties, especially, the

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team that stood out the best, that had the best

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chemistry would be Rick and Scott Steiner, and you know,

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major impact from those two, even a short stint over

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in the WWF, but really stood out very well in

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that organization. So I would have to choose the Steiner brothers.

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I'm sure there's plenty of you that would probably go, well,

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how about this one, how about this one? Yeah? Sure,

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But again in my mind, it has to go with

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what's the most nostalgic, which is the one that had

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the most stick for the longest time period, And I

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have to go with those two. As far as the

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World Wrestling Federation. It seems like it'd be so easy

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for me to just automatically pop off and go, oh,

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it's the Heart Foundation. That's the route I want to go.

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If you look at that card, the iconic moment would

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be Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant. But if you

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asked anybody what would be the most quality out of

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that night for a singles match, there's no doubt. In

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the top five greatest matches of all time would be

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the Macho Man, Randy Savage and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat

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Intercontinental Championship. So that one clearly stands out, But there's

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another one people forget about that was pure quality. It

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was the Heart Foundation and the British Bulldogs. If we

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keep going back, guess what tag team is beating on

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Hulk Hogan and Macho Man until they finally join together

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and what's called the Megapowers. You're right, it's the Heart Foundation,

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along with help of a guy called the Honky talk Man.

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So you have that melee, but ultimately you have Hogan

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and Savage who clean houses coming back to back, and

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that's the beginning of the Mega Powers. If you keep

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watching forward, eventually you have the Heart Foundation who continues

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to dominate. But when they finally do break off and

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go into singles, well that's the start of Brett's career,

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launching him into the Intercontinental Championship bouts with Mister Perfect

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with the British Bulldog, which was a match that Brett

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said himself he tried to rival the match with Randy

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Savage and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat because at the time

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that was the standard. Nobody was able to outdo what

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they did that night, and that's what Brett set out

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to do in nineteen ninety two at SummerSlam in Wimbley

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Stadium with the British Bulldog. So I just share that

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with you just because there's so much impact that the

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Heart Foundation had. They even brought it back in nineteen

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ninety seven, but again it was five guys and a

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little bit more of a mob mentality to overpower Stone Cold.

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So there's a lot of storyline behind that, a lot

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of narrative that was really fun for those of that

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were wrestling fans. There's a lot of nostalgia behind that,

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and nostalgia's real, and that's why it hurts so much

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when I go by what my buddy, the other half

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of the empty slate, which would be my friend Russell,

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who mentioned that we really are getting up there in

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years and some of our most beloved wrestlers are passing away.

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And I will admit, going back to post COVID, we

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have had some heartbreaking deaths, going back to the loss

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of Scott Hall also known as Razor Ramon, who passed

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away in twenty twenty two. I mean, so far twenty

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twenty four has not been forgiven in any way. But

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if you want to look at twenty twenty three, I mean,

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let's just look at the list of what we have here,

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Superstar Billy Graham, the late Bray Wyatt, Jerry Jarrett bushwhack Er,

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Butch Terry Funk, Darren Drosdoff, the Iron Chic, Randy Savage's

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brother Lanny Poffo. Twenty twenty three was very unforgiving to

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these wrestlers. And now here we are in twenty twenty

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four and we hear about deaths like Kevin Sullivan or

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Virgil also known as Michael Jones, his death at age

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seventy two in February. You have one of the four Horsemen,

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Ole Anderson, and now here we are with Sid. Some

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knew him as Sid Vicious back in the days of

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w CW. That's the time I was watching as a kid.

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There would be Sid Justice, who Wrestledmania eight, got a

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chance to work with Hulk Hogan. And you want to

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talk about a guy who put the Ultimate Warrior over

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his return to the ring. You have that part where

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you got a teaming up on Hogan and then all

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of a sudden you hear the Warriors music and Sid

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hits him with a chair and it barely even phases him.

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Hogan takes the chair away and then you can see

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him on the outside. His eyes are as big as lollipops,

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and you can hear grillamn. Soon at commentary, look at Justice.

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You know, you really put him over his eyes. Tell

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the whole story. I mean, the commentary of that night

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was just so much fun. But you know, then you

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also have the phase of Psycho Sid, who actually held

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the championship in nineteen ninety seven, did have a run

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with Sean Michaels and did have a loss to the

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Undertaker at Wrestleman at thirteen. So I can't. It's really

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hard to stomach all of these, especially in the eyes

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of wrestling fans, who we just have to realize tomorrow's

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not promised. We got to take care of our health.

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We have no control over the day that the Good

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Lord takes us home, and that isn't something we should

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be fearful of. Appreciate the time that you have, but

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blockhand Nation know that this is your temporary home, and

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with these wrestlers, it's becoming a reality. And we appreciate

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the memories. We love the nostalgia that all these guys

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gave us, all these great memories, but they're temporary. What

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we enjoyed as entertainment is temporary. Maybe it's time for

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us to continue to realize that one day our Savior

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will establish his kingdom once again. So Block and Nation,

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if you ever want to just talk about that, you

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can always reach out. I'm glad I talked about what

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matters the most, which is your salvation before you become

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just a distinct reality. And we don't know. We can't

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pray anybody into heaven, and I would certainly hope that

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there was a time where the Good Lord looked down

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and said, Scott Hall, your work on earth is done.

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Come home, sid well done, Come home, Virgil, well done,

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good home. And again this is not something I'm not

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staying on the other end of judgment when it comes

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to this one. But either way, I know that's become

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a little bit of a spiritual discussion. But when you

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get older and you think about your own mortality and

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you think about what defined your childhood, it's just a

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vapor that's gonna be our lives one day. So older

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we get there's more for reflection, isn't there? Blockhead Nation.

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But if you need something to get excited about, this

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is coming from my buddy over there across the pond.

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This would be my friend JK from Against the Fence,

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the YouTube channel, the MMA Enthusiast. Before we get into anything, MMA,

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we had breaking news of a reunion. There's a group

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that we never would have thought. We thought Hell would

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have frozen over before there'd be a reunion of Oasis

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then nearly impossible, it's unthinkable. It's happening. It's been announced

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in the UK. You had a teaser over the last

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weekend and the band has announced a summer twenty twenty

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five tour starting in the UK and in Ireland. Are

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they going to come over here across the pond to

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the United States of America. I'm not sure yet, but

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certainly we're gonna see Oasis' career rising like a phoenix

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out of Arizona, which is exciting. So if you need

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a little bit of nostalgia that is a no longer

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something to be somber about, well you can take a

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look at this and the streaming and the two point

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eight million US on demand audio streams that have already

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gone out listening to Oasis who are doing their reunion

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tour beginning in the summer of July. I mean in

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the summer of twenty twenty five. I'm assuming around July,

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so what fifteen years they haven't been together and you

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got in your last performance that was in two thousand

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and nine. General tickets are already on sale as of

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this Saturday. There's something to be excited about the return

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of Oasis. And on that note, I have to go

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back to look at my buddy here, JK from Against

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the Fence Again, this has all been input from listeners

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of the show. Well, now we gotta shift to mixed

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martial arts because there's clearly something about Dana White that

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has to be addressed. Dana White's love for John Jones.

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Now we say that just because of how dismissive he

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is of the idea of Alex Pereira or especially Tom

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Aspinhall getting his hands on John Jones. After we have

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the return fight, assuming it would be at Madison Square

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Garden in November, against arguably the most distinguished heavyweight champion

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in UFC history, steep A Miocic. I'm gonna say right now,

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it's one time I don't mind eating crow and liking

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the taste of it. I would love to be proven

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wrong that steep A can come back and do the impossible.

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I would love to believe that steep A being gone

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for so long and his age and the cage rust

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have no effect on him at all, and he can

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come in and steamroll arguably the goat of the UFC,

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which will be John Jones. But there's something about every

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time that Dana White speaks about John Jones. It's nothing

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but flattery, it's nothing but every confidence in him. But

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there's certainly no attention given to the current day interim champion,

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who would be Tom Aspinall who's from the UK that

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I guarantee, JK and Cy and Ash over there against

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the fence, Mma and the ATF family are praising and

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rightfully so. So I'm sure there is definitely some Dana

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White playing master and keeping John Jones on a leash,

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and pet Nham and Sam good Boy as long as

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he stays out of trouble being a pastor's son who

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has definitely falling off the edge of rebellion. So, I mean,

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there's so much to unpackage on John Jones, but I

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have no confidence in step A whatsoever. I'd love to

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eat crow and like the taste of it. And I

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don't see Tom Aspinall getting his hands on John Jones

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anytime soon because there will always be a barrier between them,

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and that barrier is Dana White. Now, as far as

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UFC three zero six the sphere, there have been a

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few that are apparently saying that this card could easily

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be a flop. One thing that is for sure about

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UFC events is that there's nothing you can be sure of.

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What you can say is this is a quest for redemption.

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If we're gonna talk about the main event, and even

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before that, you have an awesome APEX main event coming

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up next week with Gilbert Burns who was delivering a

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beating down to Jack Della, but Jack Della comes back

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and just out of nowhere, Clean Cox and Mo knocks

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him out and gets one of the best finishes of

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twenty twenty four. You've got Gilbert Burns and Sean Brady

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and have a beautiful match up there. But then you've

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got the Spear, which at the heart of the entire

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event is definitely gonna be the sugar show. You got

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the champion, Shawn Omalley versus the number one ranked morob

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the wadish Vili. But you've also got the ultimate fighter

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coaches who will be facing off in the comane Alexa

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Grosso the champion and Valtina the bulletship Chenko getting her

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shot again against the current champion and a chance to

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get her belt back. This is her question for redemption.

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So when I say there's a lot riding on these

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two fights, that's not even that doesn't even hold a

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candle to it. And we have the fight we should

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have had. That what we got and short notice was

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Diego Lopez against Dan Egay, where Danyga is fighting with

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house money at the time, we were supposed to get

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number three ranked Brian Ortega and Diego Lopez. Brian Ortega

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pulls out due to illness, and now we're righting that wrong.

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At the Sphere, you have three potential barn burners in

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the main event. But once again, there's nothing that you

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can be sure of. I could end up having to

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backpedal on anything that I've said about how excited I

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am to get us in the building. But once we

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get the cage, close the doors, get the fighters inside there,

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the referee says, let's go. It's all risk and low

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slash high reward all the way through. So am I

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excited about Ortega versus Lopez finally happening. Absolutely, it should

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happen at the Sphere. Grosso and Chef Shenko should be

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an excellent fight. Sugar Show, Sean O'Malley again finally to

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face the number one contender. Morob can't wait for that one.

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As far as this one being a flop, I'd like

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somebody to tell me why, how this one isn't going

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to deliver, How we don't have other possible stars that

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can open the card end up being the best moment

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of the night. I don't see it, but I sure

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would like to have somebody explain it to me. That's

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just me blockhead Nation. I'm excited about next week's fight.

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I'm excited about the fight that's happening at UFC three

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h six in the sphere. So thank you JK for

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your thoughts and your input for today's show. So for Chris,

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for Jeremy, for Us, for ed and for JK. Thank

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you for providing me content for the Labor Day weekend.

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I hope I've served you well on this medium, and

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I thank you for all of you that are listening.

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If you ever want to have more of your comments

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read on the show, you can always send them in.

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You can send them through the podcast. You can reach

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out to me via social media through my Facebook, my Instagram,

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my Twitter, which would be x now. You can go

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through my TikTok if you want to. There's other mediums

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that you can use that we can be engaging in

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this podcast, because there's three things I always want to do.

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The top three e's are always going to be to entertain, educate,

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and edifi. We'll definitely discuss some peanuts next week, and

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we'll definitely talk about the fights going down in the

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apex until next time. This is your favorite blockhead and

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we'll check in with you next week, same blockhead time,

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same blockhead. Cham