"Never Sniff Someone's Root Beer!"

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Broadcasting Live, Good afternoon or Good
evening, blockad Nation, or whatever time

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you tune in for this particular episode. I'm glad you are here. You

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are listening to your favorite blockhead,
the only podcast in the podcasting world that

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can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip
one minute and then be talking about MMA

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

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is Brian Little. We have started
a new year. Happy twenty twenty four

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to all of you that are listening
blockad Nation. I hope you're well.

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I hope you're safe. I will
say that in the spirit of New Year's

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quickly our society moves on into Valentine's
Day, so I could, in this

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part of the episode go straight from
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown and goes

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straight into being my Valentine Charlie Brown. But I'm really not going to.

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I'm musa save that for another day. Just know, if you've never tuned

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into this show before, three things
are discussed. Number One, God is

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

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history. And number three, mixed
martial arts is the greatest sport under God's

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hot Sun. But since I'm going
to pump the breaks and start with New

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Year's, my particular favorite episode from
any of the TV shows will always be

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Happy New Year, Charlie Brown.
And mostly just because that particular episode,

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like many that Charles Schultz did,
was just a continuation of the comic strips.

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He would draw the comics, he
would use those in the TV series

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in any of the specials, and
that's what he did mostly with Happy New

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Year. You can find them if
you know the comic strips, but you

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don't do that, you come to
me, and that's where I need to

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be brushed up in all of my
knowledge of the comic strips. So I

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have to do this simply because I'll
save Valentine's Day when it's closer to February.

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But Happy new You're Charlie Brown.
There's a particular scene that has evolved

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into a shirt sale. Yes,
there will be a pre sale for your

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favorite blockhead. There is a new
T shirt that's going to be coming out

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that some of you have already seen
the design for some of you have not.

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You will see that it has a
mission statement on the front of it.

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Yes, the term I used was
mission statement. If you look at

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the design. It's gonna stay on
the front. Never sniff someone's root beer.

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That is a tie into the episode
Happy New Year, Charlie. Lucy

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is gonna pour Charlie Brown a root
beer where they can toast and bring in

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the new Year. But, of
course, being his psychologist, even outside

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of her practice, she tells him
that he's never gonna be worth anything.

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He will always and I quote,
be wishy washy. But as she starts

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to berate him slightly, Snoopy of
all people, breaks the cardinal rule that

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you don't break in our society.
If we've forgotten about this, I'm gonna

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wake you up a little bit,
America. You don't play around with this

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particular man law. And it's something
I have to agree with Lucy on entirely.

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If you're listening and you know that
this is tongue in cheek, I'm

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speaking with a grand salt. Keep
listening, because I'm gonna tell the story

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here. She realizes that he has
been sniffing her root beer, and she

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absolutely throws a temper tantrum and says, now my root beer is full of

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dog dog germs. Now, for
some reason, instead of grabbing a microscope,

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she asks for binoculars. I guess
this is the generic version of that.

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I guess this would be the cheaper
of the two. I don't know

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why you would grab binoculars to look
at something instead of look under a microscope

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to look for germs, but this
is what Lucy does. And she says,

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aha, I thought so, and
comes back grinning her teeth, saying,

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look at this. It's filled with
dog germs. And of course Charlie

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Brown has to, instead of being
proactive in a reactionary way, says to

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Snoopy, there's one thing that you
should never do, and this is on

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the front of the T shirt that
I am launching as of January of this

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month. Of all the things to
get behind in twenty twenty four, this

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is one we have to brush the
dust off of and we have to stick

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to this moving forward. It's one
thing you never do. You never sniff

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someone's root beer. And this is
a blanket statement collectively to any brand.

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I'm not talking about ANW. My
friends who listened to this podcast, you

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know I'm an A and W fan. Some of you were barks. I

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forgive you for your sins, your
pardoned I understand some of y'all are into

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mug or you're into the other old
fashions or maybe some other brands that you

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tried in your love. That's fine, but this is a blanket statement for

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every one of them. You don't
do this, and it's my mission statement

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on the shirt. You do not
sniff someone's root beer. Do we need

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to make sure that in a way, couldn't that have been mosaic law all

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the way back to the Commandments,
thou shalt not sniff someone's root beer?

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And of all people snoopyed, did
it broke the cardinal rule? And when

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you were talking about man law,
this surpasses all of that. It does

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man law. We know you don't
drink the last beer that's in a refrigerator

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without saying something and offering to go
by the next one, or at least

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make it clear that we're out on
the last beer. You don't do that.

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That's man law. Fellas, you
don't walk to somebody's house or going

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to you're invited over and you become
the guy at the grill or the guy

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who's at the smoker. You don't
just take over, say here, let

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me show you how to do it. That's man law. It's his grill.

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You don't do that. You can
help, You can bring utensils or

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bring spices. You can bring him
a beer if you want to. You

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can keep them company and talk to
them. But if somebody is at the

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grill, they're the ones making the
food. Period. This is so far

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past man law and why we would
even consider breaking this cardinal rule in twenty

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twenty four. The madness has to
stop America. So that's what the T

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shirt's about. It's more about the
mission statement that must be applied and carried

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forward. Okay, now you follow
me down that rabbit hole. Let me

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take you on another one. If
you are a new listener, I hope

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you know that was a grain of
salt. But that is the front of

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the T shirt and I'm doing a
pre sale, so if you want one

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that says, never sniff someone's root
beer pertaining to your favorite blockhead the podcast,

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I love that quote. If you
want one of those, by all

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means, reach out. For the
next couple of months, I'm gonna slow

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roll those out. But do you
see how I possibly pulled you in with

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that story. This is the kind
of storyteller that I actually want to be

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and I've always strived to be as
a podcaster as a teacher. It's always

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been in me that I wanted to
do that. But you know, I've

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realized growing older that there are other
great storytellers out there that I missed and

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need to be acknowledged, because growing
up in school, I always believe that

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there was five major parts to telling
a story. You got the expedit position,

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you got the rising action. You
got the big climax that's always the

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big moment. Then you have the
falling action. Then you have your conclusion.

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If you're gonna just do it in
the most basic traditional way, then

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yeah, that's the way you do
it. But some of the best story

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tellers are the ones who leave those
small key concepts that you miss. You

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either catch it later on after hearing
it a second or a third time,

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reading it, listening to it,
whatever it might be, watching the episode,

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whatever it is, and you miss
something. That's even better storytelling when

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you can peel the onion back.
That's the kind of storyteller I'm striving to

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be. And I'll tell you who
was very good at doing that. Country

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music artists, and I'm not talking
about today. I'm talking about let's go

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back a few years. I believe
an article came out by BuzzFeed that actually

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broke down the top ten best storytelling
country songs of all time, and I

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believe they missed one. So,
for instance, one of the songs on

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that list, I think maybe number
nine was The thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks.

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I think number eight might have been
Three Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis.

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Now, if you're listening now,
you're hearing this is good storytelling. It

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may not always be your favorite song
or your cup of tea, but you

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can can cur that these are good
songs and good storytelling. Number one was

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Fancy by Reba McIntyre. I can't
really debate that one. The storytelling on

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that it just gets better. Every
time you go back, you catch something

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you never caught because you're older and
you're more mature, and you miss this

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because all you heard was the beat, or you didn't really dive into the

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lyrics. Let me give you one
that I believe could really floor you on

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beautiful storytelling. The man's name was
Mark Chestnut. He had an album called

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Long Necks and Short Stories. The
particular song I'm talking about is Bubba Shot

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the jukebox. Now some of you
already hear it and it's already playing in

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your mind. I'm we're gonna take
it a little deeper. You might have

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missed something, and I'm gonna share
it here on your favorite blockhead. Why

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because this is my podcast and I
can share it with you. I want

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to be a storyteller like what you've
just heard. I want to be that

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kind of a story teller with these
podcasts, and just as the future goes

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on, it's just a pleasure to
be a storyteller. But Mark Chestnut had

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something hidden in the lyrics that I
missed for years, and it's brilliant.

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Now, let's walk through the story. In the song Bubba Shot the Jukebox,

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he's listening to the jukebox with some
friends around the bar having a drink,

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and he hears something that makes him
cry. He goes to his truck

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and gets a forty five Cult revolver
and shoots and stops the jukebox dead in

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the middle of the song. Well, if you read the rest of the

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lyrics, everybody that's there, their
nerves are on end until he puts the

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gun down on the table and waits
the sheriff's going to come in after the

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complaint has come through, and he
comes in with his bathrobe and says,

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Bubba, you would be the one
to do this, wouldn't ship Now hear

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me out. Let's hear the part
that you're missing. The charge in this

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song was reckless charge of a gun
and a public place. Okay, so

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we're going back through it. Bubba
shoots the juke box and he sets his

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gun down. Everybody breathes a sigh
of relief, wondering what he's gonna do

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next, and he just waits for
his punishment, and as the sheriff comes

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in, probably at home, coming
in with his bathrobe on and responding to

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all the commotion that's going on.
He comes in and goes, all right,

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here's the charge, and you know
what's gonna happen, reckless discharge of

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a gun in a public place.
If you missed this, read the lyrics.

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Mark Chesnutts mentions how Bubba stops and
goes reckless. Like you can see

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it. He stops when he hears
the charge and looks right at the sheriff

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and goes reckless. I hit exactly
what I was aiming for. This is

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a bugus charge, What do you
mean reckless? Did you never catch that?

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Go back and hear it. Bubba
shot the juke bi sad song made

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him cry. I went to his
truck, got a forty five. But

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then when he hears the charges,
he thinks they're absurd because he hit exactly

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what he was aiming for. And
as the song ends, beyond a shadow

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of doubt, it was justifiable on
the side. That's when you know you

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have good storytelling. You've done more
than just giving a rise in action and

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a climax. You got that hidden
message that it takes years for people to

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catch. Only a few people will
find it on the comments on YouTube,

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and some are catching this. Props
to you for knowing a good story when

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you hear one. And this is
the kind of storytelling that I strive for.

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As I bring you in on the
other end to the scripture of the

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day, which is absolute truth and
walk you through mixed martial arts, I

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hope Blockhead Nation that you'll stick around
long enough to hear it. Our scripture

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and from this podcast comes from Ephesians
chapter two, verses eight through nine.

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For by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves.

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It is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should

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boast. Now, I'm not going
to use any commentary on this one,

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just because this one has been justified
and has caused divisions, and there's been

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even reformation that throughout history that's been
against this particular belief. But I can

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tell you this, if you believe, if you spend time looking through the

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Word, that you can lose your
salvation, that you can work your way

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into the arms of Jesus. All
you have to do is open up your

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arms Jesus. I want a relationship
with you. I'm a sinner in need

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of a savior, and only one
was sufficient enough to take the punishment.

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We deserved that, and he did
not. He deserved the promise of Abraham

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that carried through to Noah, that
carried to David, that carried into the

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New Testament, that's carried throughout history. The central figure of biblical history is

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Christ Jesus, and he deserved those
promises, but he took it for you.

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By grace alone. You have been
saved through faith. I pray that

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you accept that today, friends,
as you will accept possibly the most contrarian

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possible response to the biggest news that's
come out as of late when it comes

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to mixed martial arts. So,
if you are listening to this podcast now,

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everybody's welcome, but I'm gonna give
my disclaimer now if you are a

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fan of Connor McGregor, if you're
not open minded to what I have to

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say, you might want to turn
this podcast off. Now. I can't

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know who does. It's a blind
audience. I can't know. If you

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want to stick around long enough and
see how far this rabbit hole has come

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to an end and it's time to
fill the hole, then stick around.

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So the rumor has come out as
of new years from Connor McGregor and nobody

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else, none other than, arguably
and quite possibly the biggest draw in the

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history of the UFC, the man
who who revolutionize this sport, possibly more

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than anybody else that came before him. You had those who laid the groundwork,

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and I guess you could call in
many ways Connor McGregor's contributions the icing

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on the cake in many ways.
But there comes a point to where everybody's

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got a shelf life. Which one
is actually bigger the entity of Connor McGregor,

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or the entity of the Ultimate Fighting
Championship and I'm gonna bring that back.

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The rumor is that he will return
at the end of June to finally

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face the coach that he was in
opposition with on The Ultimate Fighter, none

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other than Michael Chandler. Michael Chandler, being the former flagship of beltor MMA,

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who got his chance to come over
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serious success and some setbacks. He's
an exciting fighter. It can be very

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problematic for him to charge forward into
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can be dangerous and reckless because he's
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has said he's coming back at the
end of June, and his justification for

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this is I want to come back
during International Fight Week. Anybody that's followed

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the sport, can you tell me
any fighting venue that all international realms were

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not represented. Every fighter that walks
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or is carrying his ethnicity and his
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What in the world makes International Fight
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in April. That's where my first
point's going to come in because many people

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have made the comment and I'd say
even have the cojones to get by Connor

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McGregor coming back no matter when he
comes back, because he's the quote king

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of MMA, the same guy who
left the cage a wounded animal, defeated

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twice by one of the top five
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known as Dustin Poorrier. He's coming
back on an l and he has

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said this is again the rumor going
back to Connor McGregor, that he's coming

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back at one hundred and eighty five
pounds. Fight fans, those of you

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that have stuck around that want to
hear the MMA part, thank you for

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being here, but do you hear
the frustration? And this is real frustration

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because normally Connor McGregor fights at one
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he's gone to lightweight. If we're
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fifty five plus fifteen that brings us
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division. Correct. Connor is saying
he wants to come back and face Michael

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Champ at one eighty five, and
we have to ask the question, is

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this just trolling because to this point
I've gotten no confirmation. I have to

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depend on confirmation from four different sources. Number one for me will always be

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breaking news from Ariel Hawane. Usually
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be ESPN MMA having breaking news usually
from Brett Akamoto, UFC dot com that

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is very slow in putting out venues
and telling us when the fights are going

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to be. If you got the
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you've got an opponent. The fourth
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the athletic. When I look at
these four and go okay, they all

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line up and tell the same story, then I can probably buy into the

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fact that this is real. But
ultimately as a contrarian, until I see

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both fighters, whatever they the problematic
issues are, whatever leads us up to

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it, you gotta get him on
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on the scale at one fifty five. There is no longer a United States

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Anti Doping Agency or whatever USADA means
that particular acronym. We have been chasing

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the tale of Connor McGregor for the
longest time, waiting on confirmation on when

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this is gonna happen, and I
want to ask why, all of a

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sudden, is UFC three hundred in
April not good enough for Connor McGregor.

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Every time we have one hundred and
two hundred, something special usually happens on

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these cards. UFC one hundred we
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If you want to have United States
versus Britain, there you go.

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You had it. You had big
moments brock Lesner being on the two hundred

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card against Mark Hunt, Anderson Silva
having to step in on late notice because

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John Jones owns popped which means he's
out, but Dan mccormie is still ready

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to fight, and on short notice, we have arguably the greatest middleweight of

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all time stepping in because he respects
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know why if this is actually true, which we still don't have confirmation yet.

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All we got is from the lips
of Connor McGregor that he's gonna come

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back in late June because it's International
fight Week. Why is UFC three hundred

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such a problem for him? Why
would that not be honored to build up

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the And here's why I say that
there are other fighters who are current who

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want to stay active. You have
current day champion Leon Edwards, who just

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fought against probably his hardest night out, which could have been Colby Covington.

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I sat there and started falling asleep
during this main event because nothing's really happening

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except that Leon Edwards is kicking Colby
Covington's leg most of the night and he

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gets the Leon Edwards has said he
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Why because as champion, he wants
to stay active, which either gives him

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one or two people that he could
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It's one of these two. So
I know I'm diverting a little bit,

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but I'm still filling the hole here
because Connor McGregor has told us this,

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and all of you take it as
gospel to Paul and say that he

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is coming back. How many more
times is he gonna say this? How

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many times he's gonna retire and then
return? How many more times is he

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gonna troll you? I think there
was a term I heard once called technical

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pizazz that special effects and big action
when you're talking in a comedic sense,

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doesn't necessarily mean funny the technical bazazz
I give to Connor is there's special effects,

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there's big news in big action.
That doesn't mean we have any substance

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to it. It doesn't mean anything
is confirmed. And you would rather get

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behind Connor McGregor than you would Leon
Edwards, who wants to stay active as

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champion and take the hardest night out
that he possibly can do. You see

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why I'm irritated Blockhead Nation, all
of you that want to follow on the

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hype train that is Connor McGregor,
Can I please get in your ear for

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a second and tell you if you're
gonna get behind anybody who has some kind

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of integrity, you would go with
some of these active fighters that have truly

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put their blood, sweat and tears
into the sport and have not diverted in

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golf and made whiskey and punched an
old man at a bar. But then

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they want to come back and tease
you, acting like they're gonna come back

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and tease Michael Chandler's paycheck. Do
you see why? I say? Why

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is Leon wanting to fight at three
hundred so underappreciated? How come he doesn't

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get the opportunity to say he can
now say I'm probably the king of him

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now, or somebody is dangerous as
humsat Chamayav or somebody who can come back

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like Ian Gary, or somebody that's
undefeated like shop Catt rockmanof And if you're

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gonna fight at oneint eighty five pounds
because you're so blown up and by the

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time you get on the scale all
that stuff that's in your system can be

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pissed out into a can. You
can get that out of your system in

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time to fight Michael Chandler. But
then who you got? The guy's in

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the top five of one eighty five, the shark swimming in that dangerous mote.

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Are you hearing me? Block d
Nation. It is irritating with this

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rumored return by Connor McGregor, and
you can't justify him being the king of

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MMA. Oh he's gonna come back
and get the paycheck. Uncle Dana is

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certainly gonna open the gates wide for
this guy, allowing him to step over

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those who had truly earn their way
to the top at this point. But

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you're gonna put your faith in this. You're gonna put your faith in this

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technical position. You're not gonna even
take time to look at somebody like Leon

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who was literally the Rocky of twenty
twenty three. Or look at somebody like

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Sean Strickland who can come in and
win the championship and talk about his traumas

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but loves to stir the pot.
I mean, we can somewhat get behind

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those, but we certainly close the
chapter as soon as Connor McGregor sticks back

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onto the platform. Give me a
big league break, as I believe,

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is I divert into another option for
the next fight night we have you do

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have us going back to the Apex. You see I swerve there a little

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bit on you because I'm starting to
get sweat on my brow. I'm giving

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a little too much endto this trolling
that's happening until we've got a clear confirmation

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that Uncle Ljah versus Johnny Walker we
have a rematch as the main event comes

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January thirteenth. Now this is justifiable, Okay, if I can take you

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back the last time we had Uncle
Ljah versus Johnny Walker, you had a

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clear ground. Did knee to the
head, This did happen. You got

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a problem with a language barrier because
both the referee and the doctor try to

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talk to Johnny Walker and the last
question the doctor asked him is what country

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are you in? He legitimately doesn't
know because he can't pronounce it, or

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there's some type of language barrier.
Johnny Walker's main language happens to be Portuguese,

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so that the fight is called off, but Johnny Walker's ready to go.

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He's so wound up that he's pushing
the doctor, he's pushing the referees.

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Uncle Dana White has to step in
and go, hey, cool your

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jets, kiddo, and they call
it a draw. What Dana White has

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done has given Johnny Walker and Uncleliav
an upgrade. When I'm still irritated with

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Uncle Eliev who threw a knee on
a ground opponent, are we gonna ever

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clear the air on this is legal
or illegal? Can we get the refs

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to be on the same page.
I don't agree with give knee to a

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ground opponent, but it does happen
in places of like one FC. Can

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we get that clear with whatever athletic
commission we have to, with Nevada,

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New York, whoever we need to, Can we clarify that this grounded knee

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is either legal or illegal? You
not only have a language barrier you have

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two different camps on this particular move. I'll tell you this block at Nation,

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I don't like it, but I
do like the fact that the upgrade

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has been given to Johnny Walker and
on Caliab we do have a main event

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to make things right. So we'll
talk about that a little bit more when

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we get to the Apex coming up
next week. We'll have some more unknown

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fights that are going on. But
you don't sleep on these cards. Sometimes

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people you don't even realize could be
the best nights of twenty twenty four.

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You could have some performances that last
a lifetime. There was a time nobody

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knew who Jaquin Buckley was. Are
there some fighters on here that we could

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awaken some sleeping gi and have some
moments in twenty twenty four? Right away?

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We could blockhead Nation. That's why
you should stick around and join us

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on the MMA train. Whether you're
a Connor McGregor fan or not, I'll

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forgive you for that. Your sins
are pardoned, But I would hope I've

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challenged you just a little bit.
Even though I might seem a little wishy

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washy, I'll be wishy one day
and washy the next. As you join

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me Next Saturday, same blockhead time, same blockhead cham