May 24, 2025

Memorial Day Weekend Plus Separating The Lock From The Key

Memorial Day Weekend Plus Separating The Lock From The Key

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Broadcasting live, good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, and thank you for

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stopping by. Once again. You are listening to your favorite blockhead,

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the only podcasting podcasting world that can somehow incorporate the

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Peanuts comic strip one year and then be talking about

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MMA and Warriors inside of the octagon the next I

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am your host. My name is Brian Little Am talking

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to you from the Blockhead Mansion, also known as my

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house with my dogs in the living room. If you

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hear some movement in the background, they don't understand the

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idea of audio quality. So I hope that you will

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be patient with me as I look for this, but

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I also want to come with a sincere apology block

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At Nation. Those of you that were expecting an episode

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last week, part of the problem was there was a

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lot of unpredictable weather forecasting. Was it gonna rain, was

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it not gonna rain? It came in spurts, and you know,

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there was just not a whole lot to talk about.

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I was just not confident with what I could bring

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to the table. So if I can't give you a

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really good show, then I don't want to feel like

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I am confined to be giving you just what I

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have in the tank or be scraping the bottom of

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the pan. I feel like blockad Nation. You deserved better

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from me than that, So thank you for understanding that

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I postponed a week and took a week to myself

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so that I can get back on here and get

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fired up on the mic again. And what makes it

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hard is that this week is getting into a day

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that is not an exciting day for any veteran that

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on Veterans Day we have to embrace what Veterans Day is.

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Memorial Day is a very different thing. And I will

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talk about that on the back end because I've got

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to cover what I was intending to get into last week,

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and that was more about adult appearances in the comic

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strip in the Peanuts. Because three things are always talked

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about on this show. Number one, God is King. Number two,

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Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip in American history.

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And number three, mixed martial arts is the greatest sport

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under God's hot sun. There's a whole lot that I

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can't talk about in depth over in that world, but

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we can always celebrate the cartoonist Charles Schultz, the creator

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of Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang anytime that we talk

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about this show, that's easy to do. So if we

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talk about adult appearances, did they belong or did they

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not belong? Well, there have been instances where an adult

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is usually accompanied by a sound of a trombone, as

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in the Teacher, Miss Othmar or the Adults. You would

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hear the infamous boom and a response from Charlie Brown

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or the kids, yes, ma'am. But there were times when

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Charles Schultz actually would attempt to experiment with incorporating adults,

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and the first time he did that was in nineteen

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fifty four. So if we look at the comic strips

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that came out of the Charles Schultz Museum, this was

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published a few weeks ago that Charles Schultz did try it.

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It was rare to use a Sunday format for a

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continued storyline, but he tried it, and he reflected on

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it years down the road. So in nineteen ninety two,

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this is what Charles Schultz had to say about including

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adults into a child's world like the Peanuts. This is

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what he said, quote, I drew a whole bunch of

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adults in a gallery where Lucy was playing in a

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golf tournament, which is something I never should have done,

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but it was an experiment. Now the strip has become

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so abstract that the introduction of an adult would destroy it,

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because you can't have an adult in a strip where

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a dog is sitting on a doghouse pretending he's chasing

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the Red Baron. It just doesn't work. So he continued

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it for a few of the series back in the

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nineteen fifties, but it just didn't click. Now I'm so

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thankful that he mentioned the Red Baron because I'll mention

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him for the rest of part one of this podcast.

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Because this is Memorial Day weekend where we take time

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to remember those who courageously served and gave their lives,

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and the World War One flyon Ace is always used.

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I mean the holiday hours for the Charles Schultz Museum,

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you have the portrayal of Snoopy as the World War

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One fly and Ace in pursuit of the Red Baron,

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and that is befitted. But for Memorial Day, it's more

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of that. As a lot of US veterans who don't

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know how to respond on Veterans Day when we're thanked

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for our service. It's not that we don't want the credit,

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it's that we didn't do it for that reason. We served.

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We have many of there are still out there. We

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have our fellow brothers and sisters that are still standing

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in a post or standing in the watch, and we

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don't feel like we deserve more credit than what they

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are currently doing. That's just the truth for the inside

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of a veteran. This is speaking from the heart blockhead Nation.

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But Charles Schultz portrayed this a few times, even in

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a special TV episode he did called Bon Voyage Charlie

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Brown where they were foreign exchange students in Europe. This

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is where you got to see another side of the

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World War One flying ace because at one point, Snoopy

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and Woodstock make their way to a sports bar, well

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really more of a sports cafe where he goes inside

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and he's listening to a jukebox. It's really an empty

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restaurant with checkered coverings for the tables, and he's listening

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to the jukebox and he continues to have root beer

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float after root beer float after root beer float, basically

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drowning his sorrows in it. That's part of where the

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idea for the root beer and Snoopy accompaniment on this

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podcast that I use quite often. There's even a part

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where Woodstock pulls out a violin and immediately the mood

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shifts to where Snoopy is no longer enjoying the music

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from the jew box, that he is in a depressive state.

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He starts to shed a few tears until finally the

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music changes back to the juke box, he gets a

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refill of root beer, and he's back to his normal,

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enjoyable self. But every time that Woodstock would do it,

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it's almost a imitation and a complete portrayal of what

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happened in Charlie Brown's Halloween episode about the Great Pumpkin.

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You saw how Schroeder would play the militant music that

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would get him inspired, but as soon as he would

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shift into sadder music, then he would break down into tears.

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There's truth that for so many of us that are

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post military or even current military. And since it is

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Memorial Day, and by the time that I speak to

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you next, we're gonna be getting closer and closer to

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D Day. So what more befitting way of sharing with

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you the same thing that Charles Schultz shared on his

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episode of What Have We Learned? Charlie Brown, you have

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Dwight Eisenhower's speech post the attack of the invasion of

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Normandy and Omaha Beach and all that. But you have

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the message that Eisenhower sent out, which is the order

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of the day for D Day. I don't believe that

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there's anything more befitting to show you what this weekend

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is all about. So, without any further ado, may I

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share with you, Blockhead Nation, the words that Dwight Eisenhower

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used for the heroes of D Day. Soldiers, sailors, and

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airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are about to

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embark upon the great crusade towards which we have striven

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these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

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The hope and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march

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with you. In company with our brave allies and brothers

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in arms and other fronts. You will bring about the

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destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi

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tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for

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ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be

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an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped,

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and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is

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the year nineteen forty four. Much has happened since the

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Nazi triumphs of nineteen forty through nineteen forty one. The

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United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats and

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open battle man to man. Our air offensive has seriously

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reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to

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wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given

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us an overwhelmingly superiority in weapons and munitions of war,

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and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.

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The tide has turned. The free men of the world

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are marching together to victory. I have full confidence in

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your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We

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will accept nothing less than full victory good luck unless

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beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and

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noble undertaking. Our scripture reading for this podcast comes from

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Revelation chapter twenty one, verse seven. He that overcometh shall

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inherit all things, and I will be his God, and

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he shall be my son. Reflection from Bluelair Bible says,

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echoing the testimony of his promise to the nation of Israel,

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God speaks thus to the overcoming Church, I will be

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your God, and you will evermore be my people. The

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Father's love is great, is a beauty to behold. Ever

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and beyond the end of days. Will God's majesty remain

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blockhead nation, and we his people shall endure and praise

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his name forever. As I can tell you in the

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next upcoming weeks, Saturday in May thirty first, we do

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have an APEX showdown that does have a really good

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main event. Women's flyway about ranked number four Aaron Blanchfield,

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who has the slight advantage in the betting averages right

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now versus the gritty number five ranked Macy Barber, somebody

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who does not back down from a fight. So in

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the Apex, We've got a really good main event coming

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up out of Las Vegas along with the next pay

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per view UFC three to sixteen that's gonna be in

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the Prudential Center in Newark, which is the rematch from

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Arab versus Sean O'Malley. I mean, this is really looking good.

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So if I can just kind of briefly look at this,

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we got our rematch for the main event, Julian Opinion

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will finally get her hands on number two ranked Kayla Harrison,

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who can't wait to get her hands on the champion,

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Julian Opania, this is what I'm paying close attention to.

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You have the anomaly of Joe Pifer in the middleweights

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going up against Kelvin Gatslom So it's a veteran versus

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the Dana White Contender series anomaly. That is Joe Pifer

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going to look like what happened recently to Bo Nickel

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or is he still going to plow through everybody that's

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put in front of him in the middleweights He's given

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the advantage of right now, the odd are in his favor.

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We got a Bellator champion, Patchie Mix, who fell through

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with his contract in the PFL, that's coming over and

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making his debut in the bantamweights against number ten ranked

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Mario Batista. So I admitted, I'm excited about Patchi Mix

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coming over, just like I've been excited about Aaron Pico

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coming over. I was happy when Michael Chandler came over.

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All these guys that are bellatur names getting their chance

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to be with the Mothership as the UFC. Not to

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mention Vicente and Luke versus Kevin Holland. I'm thrilled with

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this one. But even though I could just lay out

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everything that is beneficial about these upcoming two weeks post

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Memorial Day, I gotta tell you a block at nation.

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I'm hung up on it too. Every time I talk

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with somebody about MMA, the same incident comes up, the

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same topic, and that is, are we ever going to

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see John Jones fight Tom aspinall and friends? I don't

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have the key that will open the lock for you.

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I really don't. Every time I answer that, it's tiresome

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for me. And I'm not the only one that feels

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this way. If you're going to trust any of the

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MMA journalists out there, most of the time, the one

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that is the most upfront and the quickest with breaking

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news that you can rely on is usually Ariel Howane.

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And Arielhwane is over it with John Jones, who not

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too long ago did an Instagram live somewhere in Europe

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where he's living his end I quote best life and

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he's getting called out by fans. It's the same thing

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that I could talk about here, that you're ducking Tom.

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You're not giving the interim champion a chance to fight,

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so he's waiting for surreal gone now. If you can't

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get me somebody else, then you know, let's get a

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scheduled fight in because he's gone three hundred days where

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he hasn't faced anybody, but he's plowed through everybody. So

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there have been fan tweets about Jones suggesting that he's

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enjoyed his last days as a champion before he gets stripped.

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So Ariel is not the one that's bringing you the

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key to unlock the tumblers and be able to show

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us what's happening here. Even another guy who does a

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very good job of discussing what the UFC is all

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about is a guy who John Jones has actually silenced

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in the past. I know of two guys that he

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has said when John Jones gets interviewed that he won't

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talk to. He doesn't want to talk to Chill's son,

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which is obvious because Chill is known for it being

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a troll to him. But another person he doesn't want

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to talk to that makes him look weak when he

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says this, he doesn't want to talk to Luke Thomas. So,

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in contrast, a guy who makes John look weak on

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the microphone because he won't take his questions being Luke Thomas,

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who's kind of a free agent out there. But now

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John Jones is actually this is something that Luke Thomas

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has said is making the UFC look weak because you

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gotta ask who's in charge here. You are under contract

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with the UFC, and you have so many fights here

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are supposed to do a year. You are a privileged

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fighter that has advantages that other fighters just don't have.

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You've been able to walk away from criminal charges and

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scandals and still can be holding the heavyweight championship and

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we all go, well, this will tarnish your legacy. I'll

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tell you what it won't tarnish. It won't tarnish John

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Jones's light heavyweight legacy. It's the heavyweights that he's gone

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over and he cuts through surreal gone like butter. He

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waits forever to fight an old, outdated and I'm sorry

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to say that Steve Bamochicic makes it to the third round.

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But there are guys that have shown cracks in his

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armor in the past, like Alexander Gustafson, like Thiago Santos

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or Dominic Reyes who just came back in desirable fashion.

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So I could get wound up on all of this,

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but you know, there's the discussion on the UFC's desire

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to feature John Jones, and if we look at what

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we got the rest of this year, Okay, we got May,

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what's the left of it? You got June July. There's

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not really a summer bout here that's already covered with

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three sixteen and three seventeen. You've got possibly September where

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that doesn't make a lot of sense. So again we've

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separated the lock from the key because it seems like

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the upcoming major card at Madison Square Garden would be

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the one that would service a fight like this that's

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so big. That's the speculation on the UFC's weaken position

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compared to the past when we would handle star fighters

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like George Saint Pierre. Connor McGregor has done the same

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thing to talk to Michael Chandler. What John Jones is

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appearing to be doing now with Tom aspinall making him wait,

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and it keeps looking like longer and longer we wait,

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that there's a shelf life and we're never gonna see

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this fight. So Luke Thomas is another one who tries

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to reveal things. If there's anybody that kind of has

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my attention, it might be something that Daniel Cormier discussed

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a while back with Henry Shudo and Cammodore Usman, where

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Michael Bisbing had been hyping Tom's performance and his potential

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to be the next Muhammad Ali, at least in the

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heavyweights for the UFC. Now, why would we say that?

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Will we go off of what happened with Sergey Povlovich

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surprising all of the critics with what he did so quickly,

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how he went up against Curtis Blade, who we had

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a knee blowout, came back and finished him in the

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first round with his speed. And so if we start

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comparing the age and experience, John Jones certainly has the experience,

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but the number is starting to creep up. One thing

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you can't do is slow down father time. And is

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that starting to appear with John Jones versus the younger

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Tom aspinall doubt and Dale Cormier was explained, I thought

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a younger John Jones and couldn't get the best of him.

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Are we possibly saying that Tom is the one that

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can be it? I've been saying that since the beginning,

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But fight fans blockhead nation. I really don't have a

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great explanation for you here on Tom and John Jones.

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But that's what I'm asked about constantly, and it tires me.

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But I'm named several guys right now that are in

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the industry on the inside, and they are finding the

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whole thing tiresome too. That a guy who's hungry that's

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never made it past the first roun or at least

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with his explosive heavyweight debut, he doesn't go the whole

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five five rounds. John Jones has been in the five

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round club many times and gotten his hand raised against

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some of the very best, so his light heavyweight legacy

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is still intact. But we question the longer we wait

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on this. But if Aeriel Holwane can't give you a

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good answer block at Nation, neither can I as a fan.

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If Luke Thomas can't give you a great answer on

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who's the boss, Dana or John, then I can't answer

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it for you. I'm not the one separating the lock

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from the key. Makes you question who's doing it? Is it?

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The UFC itself is at the war room with Hunter

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Campbell and Sean Shelby and all these guys that could

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pull the trigger when they need to. Which would make

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the most sense in November at masstt Square Garden or

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to close out the year and the T Mobile Arena

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in Las Vegas. You wonder about the venues, So we

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don't have a date. We don't have a venue. We

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do have John who continues to say, well, the money's

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not quite where I want it to be. The last

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I heard of somewhe around thirty to fifty million dollars

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of a window of payout that he's waiting for, which

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is insulting to any fan that's ever bought a ticket

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that has allowed him to be And I know I'm

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not saying that his skills and experience have not made

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him a champion. That has made him a champion, but

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the opportunity was given by Dana and the John Jones

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fan base. Those that paid their hard earned money to

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watch you fight are being excluded, and they're the ones

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that are coming out the woodwork. You've kicked over the

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hornets next with your Instagram Live and now you don't

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have any answer for except to laugh in their face.

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Well done, John, for a guy who's so privileged to

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be one of the greatest of not the goat of

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the UFC, and you won't give the only guy that's

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left his chance. And that's what Aeriel hall want. He says,

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give this guy who's hungry a chance to be And

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even if you go in there and you beat him.

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This is what I've said in my other podcast. I

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don't care who wins. What I care about is do

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your job. If you have a contract you're supposed to

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fight three times a year, or even one time a year,

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then what are we waiting on? Get in the cage

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and do the job that you are privileged to do.

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And this all got unraveled as far back as a

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Nagano leaving where we couldn't get a negotiation contract happened.

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So I don't have a great answer for you on

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who's separating the lock from the key, but if we

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can bring those together, it would be a date and

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a venue, and it would be that we have been

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strung along as long as we have and our intelligence

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has been insulted this whole time Blockhead Nation. So should

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Tom and John's fight. I'm gonna go with what Dana

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said in the beginning, the winner of Steve Day versus

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John should have absolutely fought Tom or at least get

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something confirmed on paper, and we don't have it. And

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I'm only as good as was I have as an

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MMA fan if they're frustrated, and you're frustrated blockingation. Every

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friend I've talked to has asked the same thing. It's tiresome.

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I'm ready for this roller coaster ride to end, and

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I don't want it to end badly. For a guy

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who doesn't deserve this kind of backlash. Is Tom If

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it means that he has to go fight Sirrial gone,

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at least he's staying active. At least he still proves

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that he is the interim champion. Is he the one

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that could dismantle John Jones outside of his comfort zone,

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which is the heavyweight division? Could he be what Michael

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Bispitting has said, the Muhammad Ali of the heavyweights. He

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could be if we finally get Avenue and we finally

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get a fight scheduled and it finally becomes a reality

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instead of blowing smoke on the mirrors. That's all I

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really have for you currently at this point when it

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comes to Tom versus John, and I'm still watching it

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as close as any body else in the fight world,

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blockad nation. And we have something confirmed or we don't

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have something confirmed, We'll keep falling down this rabbit hole

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again and I'll catch you on the next side. Enjoy

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your long three day weekend. We will catch you next week.

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I will be taking a breather, taking a family vacation

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from June seventh through Father's Day, so there's gonna be

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about two weeks when you won't have a podcast. So

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I'll certainly give you my best effort on the next one.

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So thank you for understanding on that one that there's

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gonna be a light break that I will take for

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the sake of enjoying time with the loved ones and

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time with the little red hair girl. So until next time,

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we will catch you, same blockhead time, same blockheads.