Rafting Through The Peaks And Valleys

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Broadcasting Live Good Evening, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by once again.

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There's a whole lot that I'm gonna
get into in this episode, so

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sit back, relax, and enjoy
yourself. I've looked forward all week to

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be talking with you now, and
you are listening to your favorite blockhead the

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only podcast in the podcasting world that
can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one

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

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I am your host. My name
is Brian Little. I'm gonna jump right

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into it. There's a lot of
content that's coming at you from this episode,

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but I'll begin with three things.
In case you are new to this

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podcast. I thank you for being
here. I thank you for tuning in.

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Three things are always talked about.
Number One, God is King.

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If you stick around long enough,
you're gonna hear a scripture of the day

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that is meant to be not only
encouraging, but practical application for you throughout

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your week. Second of all,
Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history and number three mixed
martial arts, even though it's hit many

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peaks and valleys. The last couple
of days, it is still the greatest

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sport under God's hot sun. If
you want to stick around for part two,

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the MMA segment may go a little
bit longer than usual. There's a

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lot for me to get into,
but to begin here, those that are

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peanuts fans that are wanting to stick
around for this part, let me ask

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you this. Since summer is now
upon us, who in here happens to

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enjoy water sports now? The only
way for me to know that is for

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you to comment and to engage.
So if you want to follow me on

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any of my page is on Facebook, on x on Instagram, on TikTok,

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you go in the comments. You
can tell me a little about what

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you are interested in. When it
comes to the world of water sports.

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I can tell you from my personal
experience. I've done it all. I've

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done paarasale, and I've done jet
skiing, I've done motorbility. But really

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what it comes down to the most
peaceful has always been whitewater rafting. I

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like being out in a canoe,
I like going out fishing. I like

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being in a kayak. If I
get the opportunity do so. But there's

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something about whitewater rafting where it's not
just me on the endeavor. And usually

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I don't go for the rapids that
are extreme, but I go for the

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more peaceful ones. But some of
you might really enjoy the competitive side of

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that. You might enjoy the challenge
that Mother Nature might provide for you.

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But I say that simply because I
wondered, what in the world, with

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all that's transpiring in the world of
Mma, what was I going to talk

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about for peanuts? And sometimes I'm
just giving gems. Sometimes just the pages

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that I like the Charles Schultz Museum
will make my job so easy on this

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side. So there was a comic
strip that I should probably put up in

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the blog today that shows Snoopy and
Woodstock and the gang going out rafting.

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It was published on June eighth,
nineteen eighty, So this is one of

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those fun Sunday comic strips. But
what it shows you is something else.

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Those that are familiar with Woodstock,
the right hand man to Snoopy, the

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beloved upside down flying bird, yes, the yellow bird. Those that might

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not know a whole lot about the
world of peanuts. I'm not sure where

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a lot of you stand on how
far your Arsenal goes. But I can

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say when it comes to Woodstock,
he has two worlds that he ultimately lives

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in. Most of the time,
it's usually either his bird's nest or his

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bird bath. And I can tell
you that Woodstock, when it comes to

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the penmanship from Charles Schultz, that
Woodstock had quite the wild imagination. And

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I can say the same thing about
Snoopy, because if he goes in his

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bird bath, if it starts to
rain, he might as well be out

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in the Pacific Ocean, helpless as
a booie. But that's not really the

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case. It just comes down to
his size. It comes down to the

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bird bath can be so many things. We've seen that with Snoopy. When

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the summer comes around, he's grabbing
his surfboard and he's head for the kiddie

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pool, but he might as well
be catching wakes out on Hawaii. So

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their imagination really does stretch beyond what
you might think, and this comic can

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signify that. So if we watch
in this particular comic strip, Snoopy has

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got in Woodstock to the water and
his friends and they're about to go whitewater

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rafting. They got their life jackets
on he's doing the safety checks and everything

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in between, and he's given the
coaching about this as another life endeavor.

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So your cooperation is important. Now
it's time to paddle, and really there's

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paddling, and there's paddling. There's
paddling, and they only get from one

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side of the bird bath to the
other. That's what I mean by the

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very last scene in this comic will
show you that Woodstock has quite the imagination,

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so to Snoopy. So I don't
know what your interests are when it

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comes to rafting, or if you've
ever experienced it, or have you got

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really good experiences from that. I
have many of them, and I can

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tell you this. There's even an
author that I followed that I don't mind

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doing a plug for that really gave
an awesome story on how his world of

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investing even started before he was an
investor. He worked as a river guide

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at the Grand Canyon and ultimately how
he came across a guy who would teach

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him how to invest. Was one
of these guys that was on these upward

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bound groups that would go out and
they would make them do all the work.

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This is the team building, and
so you'd have the guides, but

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they wouldn't do a whole lot except
maybe just kind of walk the guys through

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that the outward bound it's either the
upperbound outward bound one of the two,

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and so that team building user for
people that are wealthy. But there's a

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story about how if you go on
the Grand Canyon there is this endless spiraling

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vortex known as the hole. If
you get caught in the hole, you're

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going to die. So every time
you take your group around that, you

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would steer clear of the hole.
That didn't happen this day. The current

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was too strong, Maybe the guys
weren't strong enough to do the work.

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Maybe it just hit the water perfectly. So if you want to find out

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what happened, you can look up
Phil Town's rule one investing on audio books

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through audible dot com or something like
that, and hear about what happened when

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he took these hourbound trustees on this
trip on the Grand Canyon and almost hit

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the hole and killed every single one
of them. He didn't. They all

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made it out without even getting wet. But it's a pretty scary and exciting

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experience if you listen to the story. So I'm throwing that out there too.

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I have so many stories about times
where I would ride with my family

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and older that I got. My
mother would always be a little bit quote

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unquote extra. We had pictures of
her in the back of thet screaming as

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we were the men in the front
doing all the work. But you know,

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that made for good experiences and a
lot of me rolling my eyes.

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But there was even some that I
had when I was a kid where I

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was too small to do much except
just wearing my jacket and be on the

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side of the raft. And I
had a buddy that looked at that picture

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once and he said, you look
like you're crying. Well it really wasn't,

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but I can tell you I wasn't
exactly useful on that day because the

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adults were all working. But I've
always found a lot of peace when it

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comes to whitewater rafting. I love
everything about it. I love being on

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the water, I love being able
to paddle the raft. I love the

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team efforts some that actually fall out
into the water. That's so, if

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you have any of those rafting stories, then feel free to send them into

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me this week. You want to
send it through the blog, you want

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to send it through the comments on
any of my social media. If you've

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got stories, this is me engaging
you blocking the nation that deals with rafting

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or canoeing or kayaking. I'd love
to hear them. Send them in if

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you want to. This week,
and Charlie Brown is kind of in the

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same boat, but in a different
sense. Charlie Brown when he would go

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to summer camp and he would end
up in a canoe, here's the problem.

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He's trying to be competitive and be
able to defeat the girls and really

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prove his worth in many ways.
So there's an episode called It Was a

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Short Summer Charlie Brown where Snoopy and
Charlie Brown are in a canoe and they're

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paddling, and they're paddling, they're
paddling, and he gets to the end

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and he is just sucking wind and
sweat's pouring off of him and he goes,

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huh, I wonder how far we
made it, And the camera will

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zoom out and go, oh,
I think it might have been sureme who

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said this. You only made about
four inches off of the doc Charlie.

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So unfortunately, that's the story of
Charlie Brown always being crapped on when it

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came to anything competitive in the world
of Charlie Brown. But I'm just showing

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you from that full span from the
comic strip to the TV show, Woodstock

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would turn the bird bath into something
more than it actually is because he has

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a wild imagination. Snoopy does the
same thing. When he goes out and

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hits the rapids. He's really in
a kiddie pool, and the wipeout isn't

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as extreme as you would think.
That happened in Charlie Brown All Stars.

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And then when you have Charlie Brown
who's trying to paddle a canoe, was

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with help of his friends or individually, he's not much to be counted on

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when it comes to getting the boat
off of the dock, much less compete

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with the girls on the other camp
on the other side. So that's just

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kind of some things to throw out
for you for this week. Really,

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that made it so easy to be
on Charlie Schultz Museum. So if you

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got any kind of whitewater rafting stories, or you got anything that you want

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to share, I'm kind of opening
it up to you. I'm not saying

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in broad stroke that there's a wild
imagination for all these characters, but they

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seem to have an interest in a
lot of water sports, and I really

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haven't done a good job. I'm
engaging a lot of you, So if

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you want to send that in block
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comments. You can go to any
of the social media's I've got through x

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through Facebook, through Instagram, through
TikTok. However you follow me and feel

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free to give some of your own
experiences from either this summer the summer prior

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to maybe some of your best experiences
being out on the water. I would

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certainly love to hear them. I
also have a history in sailboating from my

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time that I spent in the Navy, So if you were very much interested

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in those things, this is my
chance. Don't only engage you, I'm

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letting you know if you stick around
for part two, there is a whole

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lot for me to cover on this
next section. So we're gonna go ahead

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and get to our scripture of the
day and see what's been unveiled and what

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obstacles and what peaks and valleys we're
facing over the next couple of weeks.

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When it comes to the world of
mixed martial arts, especially in the ufc

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our scripture reading for this podcast comes
from Philippians four, verse nine. Those

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things which you have both learned and
received and heard and seen in me,

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do and the God of Peace shall
be with you. Reflection for Blue Lair.

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Bible says it perfectly, blockhead Nation. The believer is most satisfied when

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he is most glorifying God with his
life through his faith, God's grace works

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in his life to do good.
Hear me what I'm telling you. If

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you think that this is by works, you're missing it. It's by grace

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through faith alone in the True Savior. That's the sovereignty of our God who

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came in the form of his son
to be the one who died in your

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stead. Daily he is being conformed
to the image and quality of the God

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he serves. That's talking about us, blockad Nation. This is your practical

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application throughout the week to recognize whom
God has made you and do well according

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to this truth. So my prayer
is that peace will be yours throughout this

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week, and that you will turn
to the Word of God when things get

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confusing. Blockad Nation. When you
hit those tough times, may you realize

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that when you're suffering, you're probably
identifying with your Savior, Blockhead Nation,

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the True Suffering Servants. Isaiah fifty
three goes in detail about so to begin

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with a lot of us that are
MMA fans, it's almost like we're gonna

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form a circle and we're gonna have
a moment to heal and to process a

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lot of things. To begin with, I have to go back to last

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week. For every boom, there's
always gonna be a bust, and that

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was absolutely true with the KFC Center. You had quick knockouts, you had

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spinning elbow knockouts, you had fantastic
fights. And then for the main event,

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fourth round, Jason Herzog, Now
I'm again I'm not gonna broadstroke him

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as being one of these guys that's
just an easy target for UFC referees.

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Typically, Jason Herzog is pretty solid
at his job. This was definitely a

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tough night out at the office.
Jared cannoneer versus Imovov by the time that

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we got to the fourth round,
Yes, I'm Avov caught him. It's

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never a good thing when a fighter
is running away from his adversary. That

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means it's probably a matter of time
and certainly if the referee is in there

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he's thinking for three people. He's
thinking for the safety of himself and the

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other two fighters. If a guy
is being attacked, he has every right

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to step in if he believes it's
necessary. It's up to him. He's

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the one that has to be the
insurance for all these guys. But Herzog

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jumped the gun in so many ways. Why because kan Air was getting lit

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up, but he had his hands
up, he was defending, but kan

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Air handled it well. You got
other times that we have seen other particular

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referees like Steve Matsagati, Mario Yamasaki. These guys are infamous for horrible calls

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as refs, not protecting the fire
or jumping into early. You had an

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Uncleliath fight not too long ago against
Cute Tabala that was definitely a premature ending.

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So this has happened throughout this sport. It's just unfortunate. And most

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people will tell you that Amovov is
going to move up in the ranks.

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But what should happen to make this
right would be to get a different referee.

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And I talked about this when I
made my TikTok video about Mike Beltran

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who won't take any crap and I
believed the best move where you didn't see

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a lot of action going on was
probably going to be UFC three oh five.

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Nobody's talking about the rac Arena in
Australia. There's nothing that's been advertised

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plenty about three three and three oh
four in Manchester, but nothing about this

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one. So if you want to
fix it quick, would Cannoneer and Amovov

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agree to an opening fight on the
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Beltran being the referee. This is
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an idea that came out of the
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doesn't sound like that's what Cannoneer wants. It sounds like he wants to run

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it back, but for five rounds. He wants another main event. He

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wants to have a clean slate.
He wants to truly make this right.

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So we will see how all that
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before all of these big instances happened, there was a confirmation about another fight

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two of our girls. Now it's
too easy sometimes to look at fights and

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go why this is being made.
I know, from an MMA fan like

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myself, I can break down what's
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Cortez. But for a casual fan
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what do you see when you see
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Yeah, exactly. But when it
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easy for men to start wagging their
tails when they see Macy Barber going up

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against Thug Rose. But wait a
second. If there's anybody who's going to

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be a threat to the women's division
moving forward at this point, it is

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Macy Barber, her nickname being the
Future. I truly believe that at this

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point I put a lot of stock
into this fighter, even for somebody that's

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as beloved as Thug Rose, for
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sport and has faced the very toughest
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some of the best moments in any
of the women's divisions of all time.

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I truly worry about her going up
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So I was really excited about that. But now we roll over into

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what has transpired. You have UFC
Fight Night. Robert Whittaker was supposed to

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be facing Homsat Chamaiev. Unfortunately,
Homsot Jamaiev since COVID has become as they

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announced, violently ill many times,
something with his immune system that's not been

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the same ever since he got sick
with COVID. This is a guy who's

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continuously pulled out of fights, but
he has an undefeated record. So as

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much as this hurts, it may
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and say maybe you need to consider
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say maybe you should go into coaching. Whatever it is that whatever the preparations

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are, whether it's in the gym
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it is, it's causing him to
be so ill that he can't make it

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for these fights. I worry about
Jamaiv's health at this point. Now,

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when it comes to Robert Whittaker,
who he's facing, you have a guy

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that's been inserted Aliskarov, who has
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one loss is too Homsaught Chamaiev.
So when it comes to Robert Whittaker at

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the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia,
I've just got to say this. I

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believe that Robert Whittaker is ready.
Why do I say that, Because if

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you've been training for homsaught Chemaiev,
you can be prepared at minutes notice for

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anybody else on that roster. Whittaker
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dismiss him and say that he's a
gatekeeper just yet, unless this new cat

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with one loss under his belt to
homsaut Chemayav can be the one who says

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I'm going to overstep Whittaker and I'm
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rankings. So YOUFC fight night in
Saudi Arabia. It's still got my interest

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and I will be tuning in.
So when we take a look at that,

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that's our first pullout, Homsouche Mayav
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a new fight that's in for June
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Uh, it's really weird to go
into this one, but I have to

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the first one that we knew that
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There was a lot that was in
limbo, as Aria Hawuane talked about.

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But when it comes to Jamal Hill
pulling out against Carlos Olberg, hear

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me when I I wasn't thrilled about
him turning around after UFC three hundred and

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going straight back onto the main card
against a guy who was a wrecking machine

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known as Khalil Rountree. Khalil Roundtree
is out, he in comes carls Olberg,

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and now Jamal Hill is out again, which means we need to have

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a replacement there, and who do
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ranked light heavyweight Anthony Lionheart Smith.
I love everything about that, the number

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ten versus the number eleven, United
States versus New Zealand, Oldberg versus Smith,

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I love it, and can I
just kind of mention that even with

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all of this, I'm really excited
about the fight with Cub Swanson and Andre

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Feey. I'm excited to see Joe
Pifer step back in there again against the

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Canadian that he's throwing hands with.
I have been looking forward to Ian Gary

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versus MVP, and I don't know
if that's gonna be on the prelims or

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that's gonna be on the main card
yet it's hard to tell. I'm absolutely

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looking forward to Smith and Olberg throwing
hands, and all of a sudden,

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we have a new comine event featherweight
bout Brian Ortega versus the number fourteenth rate

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Diego Lopez. My goodness, Blockhead
Nation, any chance I would get to

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see T City fight, I am
not complaining at all. So I have

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to bring this to you in the
most positive light that I can when it

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comes to Connor McGregor and Michael Chandler. All week long, there were a

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few people that were hinting at this
not being a good thing. One of

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them was right here in the Blockhead
mansion. My own wife, the little

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Red Haired Girl, has said many
times that Daniel White and the rest of

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the UFC fans need to quit trusting
in two people need to quit trusting in

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Connor McGregor and quit trusting in John
Jones. Whether we want to hear that

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or not, whether Daniel White wants
to hear that or not. If you

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look at both of those fighters when
they have been pulled off the card,

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guess who has stepped in on both
accounts Alex Perea and Yuriprohaska both times.

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Because this is going to be a
rematch that's gonna be the main event.

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So do I have any positive light
to shed on this for those of you

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that are Connor McGregor fans that invested
any money. I'm not the one that

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has to apologize. I'm not the
one that's gonna really have any sympathy for

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you, those of you that were
hoping that Michael Chandler could pull this out.

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When it comes to Michael Chandler,
this is a guy who's made a

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lot of money, but he's also
dismissed a lot of money that he could

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have been made over the last two
years waiting on Connor McGregor. So when

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it comes down to it, we
don't get the fight we always want.

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As Mick Jagger once said, you
don't always get what you want in this

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world, or however that lyric works. But let me just put it out

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here. Daniel Cormier was hinting at
it that it was looking problematic. A

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lot of people are having to eat
crow. As Ariel Howanias said on his

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ex page, to line up and
apologize to the man, because I kept

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telling you there were problems, that
we were hitting hills and valleys. The

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fights confirmed, No, it's not. The fight's confirmed. No, it's

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not. Now we have confirmation of
an injury from Daniel White, and we

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have got these two men. I'm
telling you now, Blocking Nation, those

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that are listening, these are just
my pre thoughts on UFC three or three,

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because I'm still going to be watching. The sport will move on.

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Whether we have Connor McGregor or Michael
Chandler or John Jones or Steve Amy ojis,

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it will move forward. But there
are two men that nobody has any

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right to boo as they walk into
the T Mobile Arena on June twenty ninth.

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And those two men are the champion, Alex Perea and the number one

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ranked year a pro Hosca. But
guess what's going to happen. I'm on

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your predicting Murphy's law. They're going
to be booed because us entitled MMA fans,

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we wanted Connor McGregor, all of
the build up was there and all

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of the promos were being done.
I'm sorry, this has happened before with

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other fights. We move on.
The UFC is quite a conglomerate that will

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continue to move forward with great competitors. So if you want to continue to

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put stock in Connor McGregor or Michael
Chandler waiting forever to do, what tradition

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would say is What needs to happen
is the two ultimate fighter coaches need to

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face each other. And now we're
talking about three oh six and three oh

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seven. I'm no longer putting stock
in it. If it happens, it

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happens. Connor McGregor, I am
done with you wasting my time and my

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energy. Michael Chan just like Daniel
Cormier and Michael Bisping have said, who's

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now in a dust up with Ariel
Juane over a lot of things, It's

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time for you to look into some
other fighters that are on the roster that

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you can face. It is time
for us to long longer put stock in

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this. If we get it,
fine, expect the unexpected, and keep

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your expectations all the way low and
a low level that you possibly can until

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it materializes inside of the cage.
So if you invested on DraftKings, or

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on prize picks, or actually bought
a ticket to this arena, I really

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don't feel that sorry for you.
This is confirming that this sport will move

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on without that. And what you
got are warriors who stepped in for the

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opportunity, a crazy samurai tactic,
mixed martial artists going up against the guy

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who has won in three different way
classes in less than three years. Alex

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Perea deserves the round applause that he
should get at the team and I know

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a lot of you fans are not
gonna give it to him, but you

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should. Eurypa Hosco should be cheered
to where the arena abrupts and it's not

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gonna happen, but it should.
And You've been given an incredible card at

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Timo Arena at UFC three h three. This is what I've got for you

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as we speak at this point.
If you get Connor down the road,

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that's fine, But let me just
say I have to shift over now to

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the world of boxing. I've been
wanting to talk about this for a while

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because you got two spectacles in the
world of boxing that show me that one

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Chail Sonon's intelligence genes run through his
own son Therroh, almost like diarrhea,

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because if you watch the build up
for Anderson Silva and Chail's son, and

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he brings his son up during the
time after a point where apparently he put

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Rocks into to one of the gloves
that he was gonna use and showed how

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much pound per square inch you can
punch with it. I mean, you

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might as well while you're at it, Chail take maybe make take a horse

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and put him inside of it,
and maybe put his four shoreshoes in there.

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You might as well add that to
the glove while you're adding rocks to

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it. Somehow people how to cheat, because Pharaoh was asked, can I

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beat Anderson Silva? His son said
probably? How am I gonna beat him?

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Uh? You could cheat? Those
were his exact words. But then

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he brings up Hoorgem Mosvidal, who
has a boxing match with Nate Diaz not

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far away from here, and he
says, what about Jorgem Mosvidal? How

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bad is he? Pharaoh tells the
camera that he, Pharaoh's son and chail

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son AND's son could beat Jorgem Mozvidal
with a flipflop. That was cinema genius

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that came out of all of this. You really do have a boxing match

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about happen with Chail's son and Anderson
Silva, an old rival that we pulled

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off the bookshelves and have dusted off. And even now you've got Nate Diaz

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and Hora Mosvidal who are gonna be
boxing each other, and those of you

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that have followed the show. Know
that Nate Diaz is like my kryptonite,

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just when he is a walking Murphy's
law. If you tell him something,

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you're gonna get a lot of incoherency. And I don't give a f And

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what made it even more intriguing was
when they had the press conference, he

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straight up told the guy talking to
the micro I'm done with this pre press

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conference and I'm tired of you.
And when he leaves off the stage,

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they say, hey, we need
to have a face off for you and

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Horray Mosvedal. He points back and
says he can meet me down here,

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which leads to a dust up between
Horay Mosvedal and Nate Diez's team. So

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Nate Diaz will be told to do
one thing and he will do the exact

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opposite, and even more people like
myself, here's tuned in. Not because

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I want to see who's the best
fighter. I just have to know how

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Nate Diaz responds to anything that happens
in the world of MMA or boxing or

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whatever Shenagan's happen in between. So
the boxing world is heating up. I

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eventually might need to talk about Jake
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We'll get into that when we get
to July. But for the fact that

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you stuck around me so long,
block hand Nation. You are true warriors

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in the Blockhead Nation. It means
so much that you're still here. Every

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week. You HAVEC three ZHO three
had its hills and valleys, but we're

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still in this thing and there's a
lot to look forward to. Tonight,

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I'm gonna be checking out the fights
with Alex Perez, so we're going back

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to the Apex, so we'll pick
up on that one. Sometimes these fights

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that seem like they are a wasteland, that they're just barren, don't do

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that to yourself. You might very
well see some of the best fights of

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the year come out of something like
this. I think we heard of a

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guy named Walking Buckley. Either way, we'll get to all that in due

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time. Thank you so much for
tuning in once again. Go check out

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I'm open to them all week long, and we will catch you next

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week. As I tune back in
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how this works. We'll see you, same blockhead time, same blockhead channel,