Sept. 7, 2024

Look To The Stars As We Look To An MMA Deck Of Cards

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Broadcasting Live, Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, and thank you for

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joining me once again on this little podcast. You are

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listening to your favorite Blockhead, the only podcast in the

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podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip

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one minute and then be talking about MMA and Warriors

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inside the Octagon the next. I am your host. My

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name is Brian Little. I'm flying solo again this week.

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Thank you for all the responses back for the questions

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that we answered on last episode. We've got a couple

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of people that are waiting in the wings. Eventually will

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be a guest on this show. But I'll start off this.

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If you happen to be new to this podcast, there's

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three things I want you to know. Number one, God

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

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

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

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may not heard to throwing a bonus and just say,

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I'm sitting here in the Blockhead Mansion aka my living room,

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here at my house with my three dogs who are

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sitting here who really don't understand what a podcast is.

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So if there's commotion in the background where we're accommodating,

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we're modifying, we're making it as well as we can

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to work with this particular show. It's like the song

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John Mayer once said in repair, I'm not together, but

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I'm getting there. Well, that's certainly not the truth when

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it comes to the Charles Schultz Museum. What do I

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mean by that? Right out front of the Charles Schultz

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Museum in Santa Rosa, California, there is a live version

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of Charlie Brown and this bad Boy has been paired

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and it's looking better than ever. There was a lot

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of people that all of a sudden had this backlash

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and said, are you removing the statue of Charlie Brown. No,

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they're just doing what was done in Toy Story too.

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They're gonna clean it up a little bit. You're gonna

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be the cleaner who will perfect it, polish it up, add

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some finishing touches to it, a little extra paint, and

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return it to its original location. So, in other words,

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I always take a look at what's going on at

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the Charles Schultz Museum, and when they have updates like that,

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there was a thought of, oh, no, they're taking away

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the statue of Charlie Brown. No, they're perfecting it. They're

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purifying what needs to be purified. After years of being

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in front of the museum and you gain a little

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bit of rust, so it's time for it to have

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a tune up. So I throw that out there early,

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because again, the Charles Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa. One day,

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your favorite blockhead and the Little Red Hair Girl will

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be making a trip out there. And until we do,

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I'm watching what goes on online. They have online exhibitions,

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they put up weekly comic strips, and they also throughout

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the year they have events that they put on. And

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I thought that that was really nice to see that

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they're doing a movie night. So when I say that,

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you know John Maryer mentioned being in repair, Well, Charlie

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Brown is repaired and back in its original spot and

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welcoming people to a weekend of watching a Jaws production.

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So if you go to the theater with your kids

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over the weekend, they are showing the original movie of

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Jaws from the nineteen seventies, it's movie night at the museum.

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And you know, as I look at that, one thing

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I can appreciate is Charles Schultz was definitely a guy

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who appreciated movies, but he appreciated the classics. One in particular,

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he really appreciated Citizen Kane. So I'm one who I

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brought up on one of my last episodes of Facing

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the Crowd. If you haven't gone back and watched some

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of these old original adaptations and these masterpieces from back

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in the day, these classic films, you should. You should

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go back and watch this and Kin, you should go

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back and watch a Face in the Crowd if you

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haven't watched Jaws in a long time. There's something about

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that final scene that I really appreciate is that when

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it comes to the original storyline, you have this shark

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who is causing havoc, and you have this guy who's

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kind of a pacivist, a wuss that eventually has to

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go out and face the shark with the captain, with

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his buddy who was also underwater scuba dive. And so

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there's a lot of variables inside of this movie that

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bring the final scene into its most important I wouldn't

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say that this is the climax at the end, but

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it's really just kind of the falling action. But I

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can tell you something about that scene from Jaws. What

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I really appreciate. Is that last standoff. He's got the

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tank in his mouth, remember that, and those that have

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seen the movie, and he's got the oxygen take in

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his mouth, and now all he has to do is

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blow it up with his with his rifle, which ultimately

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that isn't his rifle. So you can take that scene

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where he's loading up the chamber and he's staring right

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at the beast and saying, smile you, son of a bang.

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There's something about that that those that will be watching

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it this weekend. It's something that how the clippy jacks

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from the rifle when Brody shoots after uttering the classic

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smile line, it's the last shot at killing him. But

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I believe that that was not his gun. I believe

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that this is not his ship. It's just him left

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alone with the Shark and they have their final shootout

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and he wins. So I know it's kind of going

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in and going deep into the weeds on that one.

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But that movie holds up. Even though people say, oh,

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the Shark was so fake, it's still that thought that

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this could happen. You know, Brody and Hooper floating back

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in the flock of seagulls. You know they're feeding on

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the bits and pieces of the remains of the shark.

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You have to admit that that's pretty satisfying. You know,

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a guy who was a woos who ends up being

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the one who finally slays the beast in the end

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and brings some piece to the shore. So I just

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appreciated that about Jaws. There's always looking deeper into the

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story that makes it better. So maybe somebody will catch

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that as they watch Jaws this weekend, going in and

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watching at the Charles Shields Museum. But also I'll throw

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in a couple more things. When it comes to the

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Charlie Brown comic strip, they always put one up and

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one in particular show's Linus looking up at the Stars.

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It was a nineteen fifty seven comic strip. They're very

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good at recirculating those, and so I took a look

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at this one and I just thought, okay, even the

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movie Charlie Brown often looks up to the stars. There's

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even debates that happen that are very subtle, and the

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TV shows about why the stars are aligned the way

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they do. You have the Christmas episode where Charlie Brown

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looks up at the North Star. So I will make

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sure that that comes full circle with this podcast when

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I bring up the scripture of the day. But there

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will always be the truth about no matter how the

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stars are aligned, you have a great creator that made

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sure that these were right where they needed to be.

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Earth is just far away enough from the sun not

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to freeze to death, and it's not too close to

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where it's going to burn up. And ultimately you've got

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to have that great creator that brings this full circle.

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So I look at that and I see the not

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only the sustainment, but also I see the lull that

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Linus has saying hello to the night sky. Charlie Brown

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finding hope in the night sky. Some of you that

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spend time looking at the stars and have your sense

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of calm and relaxation. Mine is more of a sense

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of I don't have to have it all together. I

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don't have to worry about control. You have the great

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artist who painted every star in the sky, that carved

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out the oceans. And I believe that Charles Schultz is

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given that subtle message every time he would put out

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a comic strip, when he would put out a TV show.

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So there's something that is hanging on to you and

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is holding you back is weight on your shoulders. May

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you know that there is some peace and there's some hope.

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Not only will you walk with the Prince of peace,

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but also when you look to the night sky, just

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as Linus and Charlie Brown do. There might be some questions,

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but may you find that calm, that realization that the

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great Creator has not lost sight of you. Hillary Duff

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once said in one of her songs, for a minute,

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all the world can wait. Let go of your yesterday.

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Thank you for sticking with me. We're going to roll

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into the scripture of the day, or take a look

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at what our good Lord and Savior has to say

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about all of this. Our scripture in for this podcast

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comes from Second Chronicles, chapter thirty, verse nine. For if

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ye turn again onto the Lord, your brethren and your

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children shall find compassion before them that leads them captive,

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so that they shall come again into this land. For

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the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will

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not turn away his face from you if ye return

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unto him. Reflection from Blue Ara Bible basically says that

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this verse simply just states the character of the God

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that we serve. He's abound in grace, he's compassionate, he

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is faithful, he never leaves his children. So could there

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be any greater promise than that blockhead nation? As I

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see if I can revamp the promising next couple of weeks,

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and I believe that there's a lull. I believe that

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there is kind of an undercurrent for those that are

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MMA fans. Again, that's what this section is about. Part one.

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I bring up what's going on in the world of peanuts,

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and this is where I bring up my favorite sport,

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which is particularly the UFC. Sometimes I might take a

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look at things like PFL. I look at one championship.

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I might look into Bellator that's been soaked up by PFL,

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or some other local venues that might be going on.

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But most of the time, the big news is coming

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out of the UFC. So you have a fight night tonight.

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You have Sean Brady versus Gilbert Burns. So I won't

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spend a lot of time on the rest of the

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card except for this one. I want to see if

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I can do my best to give you a decent

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analysis of this, because if you follow the sport at all,

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it would seem like it would favor the wrestler me

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and it would favor Gilbert Burns, and that would be

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simply by looking at his hit list. If we go

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back through that, this is a pretty solid resume by

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Gilbert Burns right away. Take a look Tyron Woodley, wonder

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Boy Thompson, Neil Magni, Jorge Masvidal, which recently, Burns was

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put in a serious beatdown on Jack Della until Jack

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Della caught him perfectly right on the button and gets

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the surprise win that puts Jack Della up the rankings.

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So Burns was given a really good performance leading up

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to that. But now if I can, I can look

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at Sean Brady's hit list and bring two names up

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to you that are key for this one. Michael Kisa,

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Kelvin Gatstolan. Actually, Kelvin Gaslom's return was kind of ruined,

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I guess you can say by Sean Brady just because

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we had a submission in the third round. So if

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I'm going off of just that, we take a look

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at the qualifications between these two. What you've got ultimately

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is strength and MMA wrestling and takedowns would go to

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Kilbert Burns. But as far as being really a precisionist,

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when it comes to takedowns and takedown defenses and submissions

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on the ground, and also a better record. At this point,

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I'm giving it to Sean Brady. So you do have

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a chess match for the main event tonight that is

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going to be impactful. It's gonna be a really good event,

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or it should be okay. Again, if the fight ends

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up going the wrong way, if there's something that's out

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of my control, like a doctor stoppage, I have to

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go back and eat Crow and like the taste of it.

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But again, on the lead up and the narrative up

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to this point, you got a really interesting matchup between

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these two two very contrasting styles. It might come down

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to who is the better striker, which is not considered

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always their strongest point in this world, but you know

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that could very well be the determining factor between these two.

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So Sean Brady versus Gilbert Burns tonight in the main

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event has a lot that is worthy of the build

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up at this point. So now if I can, instead

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of spending more time on this entire venue, I've got

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to look forward to UFC three oh six because there's

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I got to revisit it. There's been a continuing discussion,

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mostly through social media that this is looking like a

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quote flop UFC three oh six, and it's been narrowed

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down to two particular things. Number one would simply be

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the pricing, so notche three oh six with the pricing

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of seeds to fill out and pack the arena. It's

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definitely more than something with a teacher salary or a

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common day working man, especially those that are being bogged

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down by inflation. This is just tough to pull off

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if you look at the price of tickets. Also, it

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doesn't help the fact that we're coming off of Labor

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Day weekend, and that means getting into three oh six,

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you have a conflict that same night with the Canelo fight. Yes,

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on the same night you have a boxing between Canelo

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and Beranga, So that doesn't help it at all. So

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when we revisit this, I kind of want to think

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of it in the format of Texas hold them. I

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haven't done this in a long time. So if we

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look at the flop, the first three cards that you

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have laid out on the table are all of the problems,

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all of the factors that could be detrimental to this

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particular fight. I just laid those out. Pricing of tickets

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the same night as the Canalo fight. Not good. If

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we go to the turn, that means, if you're playing Texas,

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hold them, you have the fourth card that's laid down

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and the turn I believe would be this. It's Dana

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White's perspective of it. Now. It's easy for Dana White

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to get irritated at his fighters. It was recently asked

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of him on Morob's cut. Okay, we had an incident

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where Morob did something on social media. Next thing you know,

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he's got a cut above his eye, which is not

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good if you have a cut going into a fight,

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because it's something that if you show that to the world,

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that's gonna fall into the hands onto the phone of

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one Sean O'Malley. It's kind of that insider information you

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don't want him to know. And this is what Dana

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has talked about. He went back and said, if there's

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one thing I can say about boxing, as many cheap

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shots and as I take as that industry, one thing

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I can tell you is about when they have injuries

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or cuts. Boxing camps don't leak out their information. The

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UFC guys can't wait to post it. They can't wait

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to put out their injuries and say look what happened

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to my eye on social media to get hits or

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for whatever reason it is. This is the turn. This

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is Dana White's perspective and knowing that morale, the wallas

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Villi is walking in there against the champion and against

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what you can consider a sharpshooter, a guy who has

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very good striking accuracy and very much hour in his

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hands ever since the Dana White Contender series. Isn't this

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something that you don't want sugar Sean O'Malley to see.

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So Marob with all of his tools, just like the

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movie Jaws I talked about in the start of this podcast,

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You've now got a shark smelling blood. So the turn

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is Dana saying how stupid Morob was to share his

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cut on social media. Really hard to bounce back. If

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we're looking at this in MMA Texas hold Him format,

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you got to flop three cards laid out that don't

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look very promising. You got the turn that makes it

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even harder for you to hold up your percentage. I'm

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talking about if you're playing in the game, you got

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one hope left. This is where I come in blockad Nation.

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This is where I come in with the river card. Okay,

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if there's anything I can tell you that would absolutely

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save the UFC three zero six card, it's this. It's

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the talent of the main event. It's the Grosso versus

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Bullet rematch. And I've only gone into two fights. Main event.

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Sean O'Malley Morobda Wallace Villi number one contender for a while,

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the guy that took the red jacket off of Sean

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O'Malley and looked better on him while he's having a

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shouting match with on Jermaine Sterling. Bringing back the historical

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trajectory here, You've got major talent in our main event.

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You've got Alexa Grosso who is defending her championship against

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the former champ, Valentina Cheffchenko. Two Ultimate Fighter coaches who

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are gonna go back at it. Let me give you

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a little bit more that you see in this river

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card that give it more validity. It's the match that

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should have happened. What am I talking about? I'm going

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back to UFC three Toho three. You got Ryan Ortega

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versus Diego Lopez. You got Lopez who has a lot

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of momentum coming off of this, including an article came

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out from Bloody Elbow that describes his involvement. He's involved

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in two fights. Now, how can you do that? I'm

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not saying he steps into the cage twice. I'm saying

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that his teammate Alexa Grosso is gonna be in the cage,

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So Lopez is gonna be involved in her match in

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some way as well as getting ready for his match

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with te City, because we had Dan Ege step in

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and save the day in three hours notice and go

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take the fight playing on house money, and now they

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go forward and say what we're gonna do about the sphere? Now,

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well you have Diego Lopez who gets to go to

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the sphere and have the fight he originally should have

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had against one of the very best bantam weights in

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the world to be facing, which is TA City Brian Ortega.

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So my river card is threefold. My river card here

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has a lot of firepower that all three of these

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events are worth tuning into the fight that should have

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happened at three zero threey he is now happening at

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three oh six. Brian Ortega versus Diego Lopez, a guy

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with so much potential to turn the entire division on

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its ear versus one of the veterans who can turn

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you into a pretzel in a moment's notice. You got

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the rematch for the comane for grossover versus the bullet.

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You got a very promising sugar Shan O'Malley who's current

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champion against a current number one rank contender in morob

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if he doesn't give him too much access to that

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eye and open up that cut even more, which I

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would assume that means we're gonna be seeing a lot

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more grappling like you might very well see tonight between

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Burns and Brady. But ultimately, your technique, your stamina, whatever

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playbook you're gonna bring it to this point, let's get

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this into Noch. Three oh six, And with that one,

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I appreciate your time. This has been your favorite Blockhead.

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We'll catch you next Saturday, same blockhead time, saying, Blockhead

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