May 10, 2025

Long-Tailed Cats In A Room Of Rocking Chairs

Long-Tailed Cats In A Room Of Rocking Chairs

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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 that 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. Thank

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you so much for coming buy. If you are a

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new listener, come on in sit down. We are in

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the Blockhead Mansion aka the living room of my house.

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Just know there's probably gonna be some commotion in the

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background because I have three dogs who don't understand how

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how audio quality works. But while I got that out

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of the way, let me just say there are three

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things you can always count on to hear in this podcast.

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Number one, God is King. Number two, Peanuts is the

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single most successful comic strip in American history. And number three,

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As hard as it is to justify this these days,

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mixed martial arts is still the greatest sport under God's

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hot sun. If some of you are coming to me

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on the back end of the ww pay per view

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backlash and you are irritated with the results, just sit

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back for a second and breathe, because we will talk

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about things other than that. So to begin with, it's

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been seventy five years, seventy five glorious years of the Peanuts.

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How do I know that because the Charles Schultz Museum

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has this on view now. This is a display at

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the museum called Memorable Moments. I believe anybody should take

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a look at the Charles Schultz Museum, whether in person

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or online, and take a look at them celebrating seventy

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five years of Peanuts, which is on view. So the

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Charles Schultz Museum is reflecting on the most beloved storylines

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and motifs in Peanuts. We talked about one last week

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where I think mister Sack was actually one of the

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lesser known favorite Charles Schultz storylines in the comic strip.

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I really do believe that he didn't show it much.

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He would show snippets of Charlie Brown popping a paper

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bag over his head out of embarrassment, but he didn't

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go into detail about mister Sack at Summer Camp. He

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did that in the comic strips in the nineteen seventies.

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But there are original strips of classics right now of

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Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. All of

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you are familiar with that one Snoopy sleeping atop his doghouse.

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I'm sure you're familiar with that lioness begging for the

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populace to have an open mind about the Great Pumpkin.

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So it's all there. Everything that's on display is really

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fun to take the time to look at, including Peppermint,

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Patty and Franklin in the classroom. This one caused controversy

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in the sixties when this finally happened and Charles Schultz

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stood his ground and said, you either print these the

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way that I draw them, or I quit. All the

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way back to October second, nineteen fifty, where Charlie Brown

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doesn't have the chevrons across his chest yet, he just

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has a yellow shirt. And you have Shermi and you

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have Violet. Maybe it was Patty. Look it's one of

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the two, and they're sitting on the curb saying, there

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goes good old Charlie Brown, and somewhere in there, Shermy

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says to himself and I quote how I hate him. Yeah.

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This was the first original Peanuts comic strip. They even

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showed that one in the twenty twelve happiness is a

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warm blanket, Charlie Brown. It's all there. It's all on display.

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So I'll tell you I'm impressed. I'm impressed block Ad Nation.

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If you need a snapshot, not relying on anything I say,

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I always tell you go check out the Charles Schultz Museum.

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They do a great job. On any social media, whether

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it's TikTok, Instagram, Facebook x which used to be Twitter,

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any of those. You should go check it out. It's

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all there. So I really enjoyed looking into that. And

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guess what. There's even one of the World War One

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flying as showing his sophisticated manner in knowing his root

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beer like he's sitting next to Marcy and says, man,

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I see the list for root beer, please the different

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brands of root beer. Have I not talked about that

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on this show? That real men drink the hard stuff

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that real men drink the aged vanilla an w rootbeer.

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There are other kinds that you can succumb too. Some

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of you are gonna get triggered by that. Those are

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fellow fans of the show. Some of you who are

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in my own networks will come back to me with backlash.

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And I'm gonna point you to the snapshot from Charles

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Schultz Museum, so I'm gonna say I can validate it.

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But you know what's really great? Since I mentioned God

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is King, one of my favorite books about the Peanuts

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is actually by a man named Robert L. Short. Short

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wrote this book called The Parable of Peanuts. Okay, that

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is partly why I have varied and pivoted the way

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that I do my episode's blockhead Nation, because if you

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listen when I tell you in the beginning, God is King,

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there's a reason I wait to make sure that the

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scripture of the day is midway through this podcast. That's

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not an accident. Jesus used parable after he had built

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a relationship with either his disciples or his followers. He

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would use storytelling, he would use parable and Robert Short

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discusses all of that in this book, The Parable of Peanuts.

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So there's an online synopsis about that where Schultz was interviewed.

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I'm sorry, not Schultz, but Short was interviewed about this

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and he said this, and I quote. Schultz has gone

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on record as saying that he always attempts to put

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his faith in his work. Now hear this block in Nation. Otherwise,

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he knows his work wouldn't really be worth doing or

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at all satisfying. He knows this has to be done

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in a very subtle way. So it's not that Charles

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Schultz was looking to offend anybody. It's that he's reaching

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a great multitude of people with his comics strip. And

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there's a scripture in the Bible about losing your saltiness.

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It doesn't mean the same thing that we talk about

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in twenty twenty five, or if you want to pardon

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the punt that's no one is talking about. It's your

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usefulness and how you can take something that it like this,

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that's a hobby, something that matters to you, and use

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it to fulfill the will of our Lord and our Savior.

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So there have been many books called the Gospel according

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to the Gospel according to Sesame Street I think was

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one of them, the Gospel according to the New York Times,

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the Gospel according to PBS, the Gospel according to Nickelodeon.

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You know, there have been so many of those from

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the eighties, nineties, and two thousands. But there's this parable

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of Peanuts where it's simply, as Short says, to simply

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point out some of the things that he has woven

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in a very subtle way into the fabric of the

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strip and where the Peanuts comic strip is part of

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the fabric of our culture and our society. And Schultz

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did that beautifully with the comic strip. He did it

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even better with the television programs. He did even better

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with the twenty fifteen movie, even though he had passed on.

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His family made sure that the movie followed Charles Schultz's

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way of portraying the Peanuts characters. That's intentional. None of

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that was accident. So if the author of the parable

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of Peanuts can understand that, then Blockhead Nation, I hope

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you know that those who've stuck around for this show

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as long as you have, and I truly appreciate you're

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coming by. If you hear nothing else in this show,

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that's fact. Hear the truth that one episode. I love

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the fact that you're here. But Blockhead does not play

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around with your salvation. Neither did Charles Schultz. We're on

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the same team. So I hope that resonates a little

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bit tonight as I finish up with the scripture of

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the day and try to find some positivity and what's

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been going on in the world of mixed martial arms

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as we currently speak. Our scripture in for this podcast

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comes from Psalm chapter seventy one, verse twenty. That which

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has showed me great and sore troubles shall quicken me again,

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and shall bring me up again from the depths of

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the earth. Reflection from Blue Layer Bible says, though we

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are faint with the troubles of this present age, though

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we are as dead men by the futility of our works.

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Though we are perishing by the minute, captive to the

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ravishing effects of Adam's guilt. In other words, living under

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the curse of Adam, though we deserve it. Not Still

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the Lord stands forever by his people, faithful to revive

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their souls. Hear the truth in that Blockhead Nation. He

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is ever worthy of our endless adoration, now believe it

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or not. When I started this part two, I took

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a deep breath and have been trying really hard not

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to sound like such a Debbie Downer on part two

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of this episode. But I've got to tell you, Blockhead Nation,

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I feel almost like a long tailed cat in a

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room full of rocking chairs. I feel like I'm not

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gonna hit a home run at all with what's going

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on in the world of the UFC, because the truth

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is very little of it right now is encouraging very little.

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I have to give some credit to someone who tried

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to spark a flame, and that would be the guy

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who's in the main event tonight at Montreal, Canada at

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the Bell Center. I have to give some credit to

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Jack Dela Mandela, the Australian who's fighting for the welt

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Orweight title belt against current day champion Below Mohammed. Those

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that remember last week's episode, I've told you how little

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the viewership care about Beel Mohammed. Okay, the Palestinian fighter

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who is champion twenty four and three versus the Australia

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in seventeen and two record. And when I went and

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looked at the stairdowns, Jack Della looks like he's trying

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to stir up not really controversy, but to show that

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I'm gonna take that belt away from you, which the

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crowd slightly and I say that slightly got behind to

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an extent. So do we have Australian fans in Montreal

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It seems like it. Do we have a lot of

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Palestinians supporting bellel Muhammad, not really, And all of the

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highlight reels that have been showing Jack Della's performance as

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of late are overlooking something he did win against Kevin

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holland he did win against Gilbert Burns, But when they

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show the snapshots of the Gilbert Burns fight, Gilbert Burns

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had been destroying Jack Della for four rounds until he

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landed that vicious knee that gave him the advantage. And

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if we are going off of MMA wrestling, if Jack

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Della was struggling that much with Gilbert Burns, then imagine

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how much he's gonna struggle in the category of MMA

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wrestling with the champion below Mohammed who did a clinic

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on Leon Edwards. So am I saying there's much to

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anticipate with this fight. Jack Della seems like he's trying

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to and with his record, it's promising that we could

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have a serious contendership coming out of him. But this

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is not much to get exied of. And it's a

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shame that on the Komin event you have a championship

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Flyway title about with Valachi and Chevchenko, and how many

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really care? How many are really tuning in to watch

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the bullet fight how many are tuning in tonight to

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watch Jose Aldo? How many are tuned in to watch

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Alexa Grosso who is the former champion, and are watching

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Ben was Saint Dennis. How many are tuning into these

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guys who are talented fighters. And I'm not taking anything

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away from Jack Della either talented fighter. It's just this

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is not so much a dud of a pay per view.

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It's not many people care. And to piggyback on that,

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there's one guy that you don't want to get the

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worst out of these days, because if I ask you

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right now who is probably the current most respected fighter

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in the UFC, I'm gonna get a few of you

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that might throw out names like I don't know Sean O'Malley, Well,

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he's not champion anymore. He's facing Marad pretty soon again

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for a rematch. I might have somebody tell me John Jones, well,

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the guy's ducking Tom aspinall, which doesn't help the sport

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in any way. And it's waiting out until you can

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get a thirty million or fifty million dollar payout, if

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that's even the CA and stringing fans are on and

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insulting our intelligence. That doesn't help the sport, Well, you'd

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probably tell me Connor what. Connor's nowhere to be seen.

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I mean, Mike Michael Chandler had to take a fight

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against Patty the Batty and Patty steamrolled in by the

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third round. So there's not a whole lot to get excited.

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It if I told you the one that has been

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the most reliable superstar, the one the most of people

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have been paying attention to as a twenty twenty four

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and twenty twenty five, we would have to agree it's

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the guy who answers the call every time and usually

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comes through with the win. Usually. I'm talking about Alex Pereira.

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If there's one guy that this sport should not be

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causing friction with, it's him. And because of the loss

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to Unclelive, we had this tweet that came out. I

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know it's called x now, but I still have to

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refer to it as Twitter. It's really hard for me

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to get away from the traditional name it started off with.

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But if you look across what's happened with the UFC

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star Alex Pereira, the talk is he might be done

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with fighting after some type of a disagreement. Now the

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talk is also that this was a cryptic message that

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it may not hold any water. I can understand that,

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but here's here's part of the problem. Here's what the

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actual tweet says. I'm going to read it to you

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just to hear this blockhead Nation and I quote I've

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always answered the UFC's calls, but if they want to

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play with me, we can do that. I've never spoken

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poorly of the UFC, but with what I've just heard,

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I'm disheartened. I've always had thoughts of not fighting anymore,

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already had thoughts how about not fighting anymore? And after

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what we just relayed to me, this may be the

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start again. I'm butchering the Twitter and Twitter page a

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little bit. And the ex quotation that now there's some

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backtracking and say that somebody had hacked into his account,

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and there's a lot of people that are in the world,

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one of them in particular down Cormier, that doesn't buy it. Okay,

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I don't want to spread false information. I'm only as

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good as the information presented to me. Blockhead Nation. But

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if there's one guy who doesn't need to be discouraged

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with the UFC right now, it's Alex Pereira, the guy

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that came over from kickboxing who became israel Atisania's kryptonite

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for the guy who answered every call, the one that

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was the main event for UFC three hundred and now

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here we are having something that was unagreeable if this

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is true, and again it's just on the back end

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of a floater of the UFC pay per view, and

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I was supposed to bring this up too. I mentioned

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all this to the Little Red Hair Girl and she

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made sure that I mentioned the part about, well, you

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know how those number twos are. I'd been telling her

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about how the number two ranked below Mohamed came in

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and did a wrestling clinic on the champion Leon Edwards,

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and now he's in as a Palestinian fighter, and she

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said the most beautiful line just by going, no, we

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know how those are. Thus, we have a floater of

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a pay per view coming out of Montreal. So props

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to the Little Red Hair Girl for giving me content

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to use on my podcast. I might even hit the

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little laugh button right here to make sure there's some

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enthusiasm behind that statement. But I'm telling you three point

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fifteen doesn't have a whole lot of promising fan interaction.

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The one guy you don't want to upset right now.

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Is the guy who will answer your call every time.

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Alex Pereira, and I don't know if it's a fallout

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with him having a rematch with Uncliath, or if it's

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a chance for him to go up to heavyweight since

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there's nothing going on with the heavyweight world. Tom aspinall

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is waiting for a fight with somebody. There's a talk

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with Surreal Gone. You could have put in Alex Peira

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to go up and wait and face Tom for an

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interim title. There's a lot of speculation on all of

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this Blockhead Nation, and it's not good. And I can't

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really get behind a lot of what I'm telling you

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because there's nothing exciting for me. I'm a fan, have

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been for years, and I'm putting my hands in the

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air and going, what do you want me to tell you?

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All we can do is look to future venues at

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this point, or maybe Jack Della can make a name

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for himself tonight and can win over the crowd. I

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don't have a Crystal Paul in front of me, but

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it's not much to go off of. And I was

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totally confused later this week when I saw that there's

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gonna be a grappling cat about in Moscow at the

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end of May with two current day UFC fighters. I

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remember that being a problem with Nagano not being on

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to get a fight outside with somebody outside the organization

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where the UFC doesn't fight PFL fighters or bellator fighters.

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And all of a sudden, there's this thing here that's

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called the ADXC ten in Moscow with armand Seroukion and

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a guy who just did his debut in the UFC,

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Patricio Pittbull. Now I understand it's a grappling event, but

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didn't that usually go through UFC fight Pass And there's

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been no build up to it at all? Where's the

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promotion blockand nation I could do a better job than this,

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Dana White, if you come across this podcast, maybe you

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should recruit this little teacher and give a small commission

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back to this guy who maybe can get more people

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to watch your product, because you guys are dropping the ball.

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So Dana, it's the same thing for you. Are you

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that cat with a long tail in a room full

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of rocking chairs afraid to rattle the cage with somebody?

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I started off that way, but going I could do

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better than you. My little red hair girl gave me

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some content to use. That's great promotion, storytelling. What are

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we doing with this sport right now? I guess we'll

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just have to ride out this valley until we can

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finally climb a hill in the future blockhead Nation. But

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I do thank you all for coming by this week

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hearing what I have to say, and I will catch

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you next Saturday, same blockhead time, same blockhead chat.