May Your Rebuttal Be Mighty

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Broadcasting Live, good afternoon, Blockhead
Nation, and thank you for stopping by.

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Once again. A very happy holiday
and happy Thanksgiving to everybody. If

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you don't tune into this before or
after, or whatever time that you celebrate

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this upcoming Friday, just wanted to
send my love out to everybody that's part

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of the Blockhead Nation and you are
listening to your favorite Blockhead the only podcast

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in the podcasting world that can somehow
incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and

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then be talking about MMA and Warriors
inside the Octagon the next. I am

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your host. My name is Brian
Littland. To begin with, just like

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always, we are into the Thanksgiving
holidays, and every time there's a holiday

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that comes around, it's really easy
to know what content I'm probably gonna bring

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up. If it's Halloween, I'm
probably talking about the Great Pumpkin. If

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it's Thanksgiving, we're talking about the
Thanksgiving episode. It's a very much tradition

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over here at the Blockhead Mansion.
And again I'm gonna do my best with

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these three dogs here in the living
room, oh the Blockhead Mansion. But

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thank you for coming through and just
taking a seat, relaxing and sitting down

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with me as I record this podcast. You are always welcome blockhead Nation.

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I thank you so much for the
downloads, the love support. All of

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you have gone to the blog,
You've looked at the links that are there.

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You've been a tremendous help and it's
nice to know that even though it's

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up. Kind of with podcasting,
that's kind of a catch twenty two.

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You have a blind audience unless you
have interactions. You're not sure where you

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stand when you put your content out
of there. But you got to be

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brave enough to put it out.
You gotta be consistent enough. And every

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Saturday, that's going to happen,
no matter what the audio quality is,

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no matter what sounds you hear in
the background when the dogs go crazy.

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We make this thing work because I
show up for you, You show up

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for me. I'm showing up for
you, blockhead Nation. But it's coming

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around the corner. Thanksgiving's almost here. As Linus said, it seems Thanksgiving

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Day is upon us, Well it
will be upon us. I think we

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finished off all our Halloween candy over
here at the blockhead Mans, and I'm

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not sure what the deal is over
in your house and your residence. But

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I can just kind of mention that
if you are not a history fan of

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any kind, or you're not an
enthusiast or a buff whatever, you can

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get your taste of that when the
Thanksgiving episode comes up. If you're watching

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Apple TV, that's the setback.
You gotta go through Apple TV. But

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on YouTube also, there have been
some really cool cats that have put that

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out for the world to watch without
any commercial interruption. If you just follow

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the eight videos that are upload they're
there. I promise you can find it.

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I think Daily too, Vimeo might
have done it, but you can

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find Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. They're not
without their flaws, but if you want

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them uninterrupted, Apple TV is the
way to go. That's just the world

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we live in now. And if
I may, if you're looking for a

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history lesson in Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,
you don't have to watch the episode of

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the Mayflower. You can just hear
Linus when he gives his speech when they're

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going to say grace as Peppermint Patty
alluded to that we're about to have Thanksgiving

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dinner, so we should have a
prayer. Well, first, he talked

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about sixteen twenty one, the Pilgrims
having their first annual feast, and so

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therefore you had speaking of John Alden
and Priscilla Mullins, the romantic three away

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story that happened there, Captain Miles
Standish, you had William Bradford, the

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Elder, William Brewster. All these
guys are talked about in the one time

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period in history where there is peace
among the Native Americans and the European settlers,

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the Pilgrims and the I want to
say it's the Powhattan. I'm probably

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gonna get my history mixed up a
little bit here. Sounds bad that I'm

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not looking at any notes. But
either way, the Native Americans, especially

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Squanto and Somerset and Chief Massasoit.
If it wasn't for Squanto showing our Pilgrims

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on how to plant crops by using
fish because the soil is so bad,

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then their harvests never would have come
through, and so we have not the

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traditional Thanksgiving feace. We don't even
know if they serve turkey. It's very

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possible that they had squashed they had
corn, They probably had venison. Probably

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a deer was killed and some of
that. Maybe pumpkins were grown. It's

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hard to know, but either way, in one period of time in history,

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Native Americans and the settlers have a
moment a piece, but there's a

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stipulation they want to attack the neighboring
Native American tribe and so this doesn't last

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long. But either way, you
have Linus who makes that very clear about

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the national holiday to get of thanks
because these early pilgrims survived. They're harsh

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winters, they survived the starving time, and you have their annual Thanksgiving feast

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with the Native Americans, and that
is talked about in the episode. Now

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I can remember back. I don't
remember what podcast I was listening to,

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or if it was just a live
YouTube, but I left a comment sometime

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maybe last year or the year before, and I said something about Charlie Brown

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and the Peanuts, And the first
thing they said was, isn't the Thanksgiving

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episode the one where Franklin was being
ostracized on the other side of the table?

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Do you hear the pause in my
voice? Blockhead Nation? And quickly

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I wanted to come to Charles Schultz's
defense. It's not that Charles Schultz needs

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my defense, but I clear this
up every year because it truly bothers me.

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When people think that Charles Schultz was
not an advocate for race quality.

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If you knew why in the origins
of Franklin came into place in the first

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place, you wouldn't even say that. These are people on the internet that

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probably don't have a job, that
live in mama's basement, that have nothing

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better to do than take a stab
at Charles Schultz, who specifically made Franklin.

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When the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the
assassination of Martin Luther King happened in

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nineteen sixty eight, a teacher reached
out to him and said, could you

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make an African American character? And
he did it with grace, He did

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it with dignity. He introduced Franklin
into the world, into the world of

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comic strips, into the world of
entertainment, into the world of Charlie Brown

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TV shows. And you have the
debut of him on the Thanksgiving episode.

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And so I love walking people through
that because they say that, oh,

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he's on the other side of the
table, he's being left out of everything.

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Let me bouck you back to the
beginning. And again, some of

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y'all are laughing right now, because
you know how I feel about this,

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and you know that this is a
tender subject with me. It's something I

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shouldn't have to talk about my podcast, but I'm going to because if anybody

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wants to try to give me a
rebuttal, be ready for the rebuttal that

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I give. The dress down I
give to you. Charles Schultz specifically put

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Franklin into the comic strip because of
this teacher, because of this request for

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racial equality. And he did it, and then the Southern State started to

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get all out of shape about it. And then his producer said, you

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need to get rid of this character. And Charles Schultz stood up for himself,

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stood up for the African American race, stood up for Franklin, and

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said, you either keep him in
the comic strip or I quit. How

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about that. Sparky absolutely had some
backbone. I guarantee he served with blacks

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when he was in World War Two
as a foot soldier, because you don't

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see color in the military unless it's
your unless it's your specific branch. You

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see green, you see blue,
you see camouflage, you see a team

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who's willing to die for each other
for the sake of the mission. I

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guarantee you that was part of it. So don't tell me anything about Charles

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Schultz being a racist. Be ready
for me to tear you down piece back.

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I will shrink you down to size
quick. So these guys said that,

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and it triggered me, and I
had to go in and say,

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no, that's not true. It
is an absolute fabrication of Franklin. If

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you watch the scene, Snoopy had
had a fight with the chair earlier,

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which is one of the most hilarious
fights in the history of cinema between the

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chair and Snoop. It was beautiful, maybe a draw, maybe Snoopy got

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the worst of it, whatever the
case might be. But for comedic relief,

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Peppermint, Pat and Marcy are seated, because that's being a gentleman.

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Franklin seats himself and falls into the
broken chair that had been beaten up earlier

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by Snoopy. That's called comedic relief. It's called funny, it's called humor.

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And if you watch the rest of
the scene, please answer me this.

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If Charles Schultz was such a racist. Then later on in the episode,

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when Charlie Brown's grandma says, hey, y'all have to suffer over there

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with toast pretzel sticks, popcorn,
unfashed Halloween candy. You can come over

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here, bring your friends over,
and let's have Thanksgiving dinner together. If

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Charles Schultz is such a racist,
how come Franklin's allowed to sit in the

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back of the station wagon with the
rest of his friends on the way to

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grandmother's house. Riddle me that one. If I need more examples, I

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will certainly show them. But this
is what I do. That's why I

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make this podcast. This is what
I do. I follow the three E'SE,

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I entertain, I educate especially,
and I edify because number one God

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is King. Number two Peanuts is
the single most successful comic strip in American

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history. Number three Mma is the
greatest sport under God's hot sun. And

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it's just like if you're wondering what
all this is supposed to mean, well,

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it's like Pee Wee Herman once said, and Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

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The questions spring up and you have
to address them. That's what this podcast

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is. It's like Weezer once said, if you want to destroy my sweater,

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hold this thread as I walk away, watch me unravel. But instead

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of being naked, it's like someone
keeps un knitting and knitting and knitting and

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knitting, and our scripture reading for
this podcast comes from Psalm one hundred and

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twenty six, verse six. He
that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious

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seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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Reflection from bluel our Bible says,
our Father is so faithful to lift us

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up from our grievous trials and temptations. He stretches his hand before us and

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makes all things new and beautiful in
his light. Though weeping may last for

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a night, there is always a
shout of joy in the morning for those

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who trust in the Lord Blockhead Nation
And as I hope you will trust my

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analysis of MMA as of late.
Again, if you're listening to part two,

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I'm hoping you're a fan of mixed
martial arts in the UFC, because

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that's what's gonna be talked about here. I will certainly do my best,

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because boy, it's a lot to
cover. We got a new interim heavyweight

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Champion of the World, Tom Aspinall. But just for fun, two things

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that I can't overlook. There is
somebody special in tom Aspinall's corner, which

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would be his father, a man
who literally quit his job to train his

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son full time for his career in
the UFC, and now he gets to

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watch his son hold the title and
say, my son is champ. Such

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a feel good moment for a guy
who I believe is going to redefine the

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heavyweights for this era coming forward in
the UFC. If we're gonna look at

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a guy who defines the heavyweight division
who hasn't even gone through three rounds because

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it hasn't been necessary. He's gotten
the job done in less than two to

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three minutes every time he's fought someone
in the octagon, and his name is

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Tom Aspinall. I'm gonna put it
out there. Nobody's convinced me yet that

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John Jones or Steve Amochich has what
it takes to defeat this guy. But

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of course Dana is waiting for the
feel good moment, waiting for the legacy

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fight. We're gonna wait eventually for
Steepe and for Jones to eventually face each

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other. Thus a further expiration date
to how relevant these guys are in this

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new era where Tom Aspinall is tearing
through the division, already has teared through

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the division and just putting it out
there. But it was so funny that

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even though there was a lot of
respect given in the staredown between Sergey Poplovich

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and Tom aspinall you got one one
of the funniest and most beloved guys ever

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reacting to this fight, and his
name is Max Holloway. Max Holloway is

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watching and before they fight, they
have this moment where they kind of have

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just like in wrestling, you have
the neck collar tie the tie up where

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they're kind of I don't know if
they're praying or they're just giving each other

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respect. And Max makes the obvious
interpretation that this is weird. It's a

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little bit strange. He proceeds to
quote the two thousand and seven movie Hot

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Rod. I don't know have you
ever seen this movie, but you know

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it's a fun comedy. Just to
watch if you want to lose brain cells,

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help yourself. But I'll give you
example. He's about to go fight

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a guy, and these two guys
have this moment of saying the words,

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Gods of war, may your hammer
be mighty. So Max Holloway did his

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impression. If you have seen the
movie, I can't explain it. You

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have to watch it. Yourself.
But it's like an awkward guy moment when

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the guy about to go into quote
unquote battle says, Gods of war,

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may your hammer be mighty? Color
tie necktie up. The jury's still out

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on if that's what the plan was. Was just respect or a prayer or

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just having a moment between two warriors. It's just it was still fun.

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But either way, Tom Aspinall is
standing tall and everybody is acknowledging now at

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this point that Tom Aspinall is the
man. So we do have a main

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event tonight. We have a submission
specialist, Brendan Allen versus the Scottish terror

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that is Bear Jew Paul Craig,
and I'm gonna go ahead and put it

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out there now. I mentioned him
a lot last episode. I talked a

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lot about the light heavyweight champ and
who's out with an injury, who will

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come back and probably face Alex Perea. Now, now that Alex Perea has

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defeated Yuri Pralhasca and everybody that wants
to say that it was an early stoppage,

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it's easy to see that if you
watch the fighter. I know I'm

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deviating, but when it comes to
the fighters that were cage side, Jamal

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Hill is there, Dustin Poier is
watching, Michael Bissbing is watching, Cheeto

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Vera is watching, and most of
them are looking around going that looked like

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an early stoppage. Yeri Pralhasca later
on in a post interview, stops that

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deadness tracks and says it was the
right call. I was out. Now

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the mindset of a warrior is let
them keep fighting, letting him have a

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chance to recover and defend himself.
But Yeri has put the brakes on that

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one quick. So we have Alex
Perea who's now champion light heavyweight champion,

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and you got Paul Craig who did
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Vegas, and I have to mention
some this is just a theory, and

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I'm not the only one saying it. If you go back and watch the

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tie up and you watch the dust
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who is in the main event tonight
with Brendan Allen, that it's possible that

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Paul Craig is the one that prematurely
gave Jamal Hill his first injury that must

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have gone undiagnosed because to win the
fight he has Jamal Hill in a very

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triangle choke and he's throwing elbows relentlessly
at his head and finally the referee stops

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it. But if you watch there's
a part where Paul Craig has Jamal Hill

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in an armbar and it's bend in
his arm, then you have a role,

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You have a scramble and you just
look at and go. I can

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attest to how tough Jamal Hill is
to withstand all that, but is this

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where the injury began? Is this
on top of another injury, because Jamal

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Hill definitely is gonna have to have
time to recover just from that one incident

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before he actually became champion. So
I have to admit that Craig may have

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injured Jamal Hill and his arm may
have been undiagnosed. But Jamal Hill is

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gonna get a chance to come back
and answer for this when he faces Alex

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Perea. More than likely that's going
to be the matchup we're going to have.

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But Jamal Hill, even though I
can tell you that I appreciate his

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toughness, I appreciate his YouTube analysis, one thing I can say that's a

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crack in his armor. Is he
sure comes and defends himself really fast.

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Jamal seems to be letting the internet
see him sweat, because anytime somebody says

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that, oh, Alex Perea has
faster hands, or more powerful hands,

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or your apahasca doesn't think that Jamal
is as good as Alex, somebody can

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say something about Jamal Hill and he
quickly goes to social media. He's making

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a YouTube video, he's making a
TikTok, He's quickly responding and saying,

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here's my stats, here's what I'm
doing. He certainly defends himself fast,

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which means now you do have to
measure up when you do return. So

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I'm not gonna criticize him. I'm
gonna say that he's the worry that he

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is. But as he left that
fight, he says, and I quote,

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I don't give an f You guys
know where the real crown is right

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here, kabam. Well again,
it's gonna take some convincing now that Alex

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Perea could have a movie made out
for him over the last two years of

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winning a title in two different weight
classes in such a short period of time.

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The guy who is a towering behemoth
of a man with some of the

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biggest hands I've ever seen on a
middleweight to a light heavyweight, which everyone

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you want to classify him into.
And Jamal Hill is going to have to

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figure out how tough he is when
he gets touched by Alex Perea once he

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gets in range and he starts throwing
those bombs. How tough are you,

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Jamal Hill? Because you certainly come
to the internet and defend yourself quick.

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You don't let anybody see you sweat, and I feel like I'm seeing that

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in a way to segue to a
message from John Jones. John Jones usually

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has something snide or some kind of
subliminal messaging that will insult a potential opponent

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or former opponent, and as far
as his potential future opponent, that would

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be Tom Aspinall all you got from
him on Twitter or on x whatever it's

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called. Now you got praise,
congratulations, phenomenal performance. But this is

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a one eighty from everything that John
Jones has ever done on social media.

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When he has somebody he's talking to, he doesn't hand out praise like that.

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He has something that still indicates that
he is the goat in the eyes

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of the other MMA fans and in
the eyes of the MMA community and the

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fact that he is the champ,
has come back after a meaningful period of

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time and won the title in very
convincing fashion. But so did Tom Aspinall.

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So if you're gonna talk about performance
and talk about abilities to lay on

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the line, it's not between Jones
and steep Ay, it's between Aspinall,

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the interim title holder and the current
injured title holder that is John Jones.

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There is an expiration date when you
don't get Steve a versus John Jones for

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the Mount Rushmore moment at Masson Square
Garden. Everything else from that feels like

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a demotion, and Tom Aspinall got
it done as a comin event on one

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of the grandest stages of them all. When you're talking about combat sports other

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than Vegas, maybe Mandalay Bay or
maybe you're talking about t Mobile, Vegas

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is considered fight city. Where else
are you gonna have more memorable fights than

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Madison Square Garden. And you certainly
have had that with Connor, You've had

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that with Michael Chandler versus Justin Gaechee. You've had many memorable moments for MMA

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fights and boxing, to say the
least. Here's where we stand and John

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Jones is dishing out appreciation, gratitude
a slice of humble pie for the Thanksgiving

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holidays. It certainly looks like you're
sweating their champ. It certainly looks like

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you don't want to acknowledge that this
is the man who could dethrone you goat

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and putting it out there. This
is just from an MMA fans perspective.

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My opinion doesn't matter. It won't
sway anything in any direction when it comes

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to booking fights in the UFC.
But this is where I stand, and

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I hope I've persuaded you to an
extent to at least have an opinion on

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this one. Blockhead Nation, feel
free to reach out if you want to,

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Have a wonderful holiday and enjoyable Thanksgiving
with the family and whoever else that's part

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with, and we will catch you guys

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next week, same blockhead time,
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