April 5, 2025

Schroeder's Classical Music Along With Confirmed And Non-Confirmed Bouts In MMA

Schroeder's Classical Music Along With Confirmed And Non-Confirmed Bouts In MMA

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Bunny will come through for you. Now. The biggest focus

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I have for this part of the show is really

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on the piano playe Schroeder. Okay, I'm gonna show you

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many ways on how you can expound your knowledge of

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music just by being slightly familiar with Schroeder. Why because

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he understands classical music. When he calls himself a musician,

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he is an old school musician. The first time I

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really sought out the song that he was playing was

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in the episode It's a Boy named Charlie Brown. I

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wanted to know the song that he was playing and

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the rendition he was doing. It was showing Beethoven, it

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was showing scenes of London, it was showing many different

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depictions of European culture. I was like, I gotta know

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what this is. And it's called Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata. If

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you've never just YouTube that or googled it, the Pathetic

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Sona by Beethoven is a truly beautiful work of art,

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and Charles Schultz captured that beautifully in the episode A

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Boy named Charlie Brown. And it doesn't just stop there.

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If we go further into what other songs that Schroeder

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would do, A common one would be Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

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If you never heard that one, you should now that

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was used in older contemporary cartoons, it was used in

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Looney Tunes, if he was used in Tom and Jerry,

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still used today. You'll recognize the Moonlight Sonata if you

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just google that one. You may not have known what

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it was. But if you google those, the Pathetic Sonata

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and Moonlight Sonata for Beethoven are works of art. Now,

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how do I know where all of those came from?

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You gotta understand. I grew up with this thing called

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audio cassettes. It's one of the reasons I became a

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podcaster because it used to be when you have these

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audio cassettes, you'd put into a taper, you would play

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it and you could rewind, you could pause, and on

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side too, you could record your own story. I remember

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having a audio cassette growing up called Sparky's Magic Piano. Now,

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this is a classical nineteen forties kid's story about basically

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a young kid who's learning to play the piano and

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he's not very good at it, but then he drifts

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off into this dream. The next thing you know, he's

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become the greatest pianist in the world. Okay, And they

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list off in the episode what songs he plays at

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places like Carnegie Hall at the Mall in Washington, DC,

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in places like Boston or Chicago, they name off the

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names of these particular pieces, and a common one was chopin.

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So there would be the waltz and e minor there'd

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be the revolutionary atudes. There would be in different playing

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styles throughout the whole episode of Sparky's Magic Piano. But

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there was also another one, one called rock Monanoff. You're

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going blockhead, What in the world does that mean? Did

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any of you grow up watching Willy Wonka on the

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Chocolate Factory, the original one. If you didn't, here's a

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little piece of key information you may never use again,

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but you should know if you watch that scene when

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he opens up the Chocolate Factory and he plays on

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the keyboard his password and he hits this small piano lick.

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She goes, oh, rock Mananoff, give you another one. Earlier

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on in that particular recording, his teacher wanted to test

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him out and say, do you really know how to

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play a Let's try this one. Let's play Flight of

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the Bumblebee. Okay, famous classical work of art, famous clas music.

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You're going block in? Why does that one matter? You

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have ever seen the movie drum Line from two thousand

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and two. Yeah, the drum line. They one where the

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guy goes to college and he's part of this group

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that's very traditional. Next thing, you know, they combine old

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school and new school and they put on one heck

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of a halftime performance that one drum line. There is

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a scene in the movie drum Line where the conductor says,

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let's hit him with some real music and he has

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them play you guessed it, Flight of the bumblebeat. Okay,

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if I've never if you've never seen the movie drum Line,

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I should set the scene for you on this one.

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They start to play this classical music, a Flight of

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the Bumblebee. And is it exquisite and detailed? And is

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it a challenging piece of music? Yes, it is very

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difficult to master this one. Here's the problem. You are

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playing Flight of the Bumblebee at a football game. The

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crowd is not entertained. So what does the opposing band do?

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They play modern day music where the rest of the crowd,

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opposing sides, everyone in between are getting behind That not

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a good look. If you watch that movie, you should

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go back and see this. Two thousand and two drum line.

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You should watch it. Watch the scene where they play

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Flight of the Bumblebee and the crowd just looks and goes,

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what are you doing? It's almost like you took an

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electric guitar and started playing blues right in the middle

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of a kinsinetra. No offense. But is that a fitting

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place to get your guitar and play a blues lick?

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Probably not? Okay? Is it time to pull out the

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drums in the middle of a Southern Church of Christ's

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Sunday morning Saturn? Probably not so. For him to use

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Flight of the Bumblebee at a football game on a

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Saturday afternoon to entertain the fans was foolish, and the

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other side capitalized on that by playing modern day music

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that entertained the people in the stands. Now, that's a

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pretty big rabbit trail. Just to bring it back to that,

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all of these pieces flight of the Bumblebee rock Mono

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from Willie Walker on the Chocolate Factory Beethoven are all

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used in that original recording from the nineteen forties Sparky's

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Magic Piano and who was a master at playing Beethoven Schroeder,

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who wrote and illustrated The Peanuts comics Charles Schultz, also

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known as Sparky. You have to give the man credit

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for knowing classical music the way that he did, because

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there is some truth to say that all of these

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forms of music, whether it's blues, jazz or even classical,

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have had an effect in some way in the music

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that all of you that are tuning in Blockad Nation

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that you listen to. It's okay to not be an

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expert in the original music, but wouldn't it be fit

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all of us to just have a small little appreciation

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for things like the Pathetique Sonata, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata And

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where can you gain that education from the beloved world

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of the peanuts? From this podcaster who just gave you

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the cliff notes, you don't have to go any further,

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just help you.

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Along the way.

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Our scripture in for this podcast comes from Isaiah.

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Chapter sixty one, verse three.

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To grant to those who mourn and Zion to give

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them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of

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gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of

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a faint spirit, that they may be called oaks of righteousness,

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the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified,

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block a nation, because sin brings grief, God brings, as

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A says here in scripture, comfort for all who mourn.

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The extent of the comfort and restoration is beautifully described here.

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Instead of ashes, he gives his people beauty, beauty for ashes,

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instead of mourning, he gives his people the oil of joy.

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The spirit of heaviness is replaced by the garment of praise. So,

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block of nation, why do you sit in the ashes?

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Why do you mourn? Why do you indulge in this

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spirit of heaviness when Jesus has given us something so

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much better. I bring that up as that's a nice

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little segue into it's fight week. You got the UFC

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Apex with MTT versus Murphy as the main event, and

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hardly anyone is paying attention. So the question becomes, what

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is what's waiting on the horizon? And that's so much

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better as of right now. I have to accept the

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fact that there are gonna be cards that don't really

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draw me in. So we have to ask the question, now,

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if you're gonna be watching the UFC or MMA period,

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then what are the biggest draws in the fight world?

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Now as we speak well, that means there's gonna be

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two categories. There's confirmed and then there's non confirmed. If

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I had to pick what's confirmed. That is the biggest

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fight as of right now that most will be tuning into.

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It's gonna be next weekend. It's gonna be Michael Chandler

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versus Patty the Batty pimplet. What we could have had

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was Connor McGregor versus Michael Chandler, the UFC versus Bellator.

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You had that in the Ultimate Fighter, And somehow Connor

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has decided that he is it's beneath him to fight.

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Michael Chandler has not been active for years at this point.

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So it worries me that if Michael Chandler does win

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against Patty next weekend and he gets in the microphone

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and says, Connor McGregor, let's run this back just like

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he did at one time to get a cheap pop

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in the WWE, I'm just gonna soon say it. If

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Michael Chandler says he wants Connor McGregor after this fight,

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if he wins, I'm done with Michael Chandler. There's nothing

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to talk about anymore. Okay, So for Patty, you have

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to think in this way that Michael Chandler is an

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awesome fighter, but he's wild, he's reckless. He's really really strong.

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You name me another fighter in their workout regiment that

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will take a medicine ball that's as big as he is,

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slam it on the ground and then catch said medicine

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ball and flip backwards, and that would be one set

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as part of his workout. I don't know how many

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of those he can do in one setting, but still

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that's Michael Chandler. His workouts are crazy, but his fighting

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style is reckless. He's always got his hands wide out,

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looking like he's gonna give a lobster punch. This is

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something Patty the Bat he can can capitalize upon. But

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Paddy has been so known for blowing up in between fights,

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gaining forty fifty pounds and then coming back cutting weight

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to where he is, but he's never been knocked out.

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He's a dangerous, dangerous submission artist. So as far as

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if you can't get Connor McGregor, then you get Liverpool's

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Patty the Bat that steps in and we have a

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confirmed fight. This one for sure is happening, unless something

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happens a week from now. I knocking on any wood

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that I can find right now, just that they can

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get to the scales and they can get to the

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venue and there's no problems. There's nobody pulling out of

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the fight like we had Joe Pifer last week pull

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out of the fight as soon as I gave my

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predictions on what was gonna happen. That's a confirmed fight

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that I'd say probably the biggest draw as far as

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the main event goes for Volkanovsky versus Lopez will certainly

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Lopez is a guy that understands that in the UFC,

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it'd step up or step aside. Lopez is definitely stepping

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up to his biggest challenge yet, which is Alexander Volkanowski.

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Great main event, but that's for us die die hard

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MMA fans that pay attention. For the ordinary common casual viewer.

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It's Michael Chandler versus Patty the Battie. As of right

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now non confirmed. That would certainly be John Jones, who

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continues to duck Tom Aspinall, who says that he wants

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six months to prepare, which means at the most we

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might be lucky to get this fight as early as

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September and now he's holding out for at least a

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thirty million dollar payout. According to Ariel Halwane, who is

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one of the most accurate MMA journalists out there. You

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can like or dislike the guy, but usually the breaking

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news comes through him and we can confirm most of it.

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So confirm Chandler versus Patty, non confirmed Tom versus John.

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But do we have some great upcoming fights? While I've

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got your attention blockhead Nation, are there some that you

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should be tuning in too? And my answers yes, newly

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announced fights that I am anticipating at this point. One

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of them is Ian Gary, who's gonna be facing against

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Carlos Prottes. Ian Gary still is one of the biggest

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names coming out of the middleweight division. The biggest threat

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that I know of to him is definitely gonna be

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rockmanof but that still is kind of a hang up

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with Ballel Mohammed, who's gonna be fighting Jack Della. But

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either way Ian Gary and Carlos Protas awesome fight. Confirmed

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fight Cory Sanhagen versus Davison Figaredo. Now you would look

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at Cory Sandhagen and go who can that guy beat?

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More than you realize, I just don't like the idea

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that people look at Cory Sandhagen as some type of

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a gatekeeper for the division. I really don't. But Davison Figureo,

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who came up the division, has made his home amongst

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these guys, and san Haagen is the one standing in

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his way. Great fight, Renede the Reader versus Bo Nickel.

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That one's been confirmed as of right now. Bo Nickel

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is a guy coming out of the Dana White Contender

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series that is clearly a possible superstar in the making,

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probably to the level of Joe Piper, maybe even more.

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Anytime Bo Nichols fighting Blockhead is paying attention. Another confirmed

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fight would be Aaron Blanchfield versus Macy Barber. You got

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the veteran for the females, whose man a name for

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herself has done very well in the UFC. Who is

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the upcomer who is hungry and wants to show at

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the title, which is Macy Barber. This is a great

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matchup that's been mentioned too, and we now have a

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confirmed rematch between a guy who has put a lot

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of eyes on the product the Sugar Show. Is he

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ready to wrestle this time? That's probably what's going to

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have to happen because we got a rematch for Sean

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O'Malley and Marob the Wallace Feeley for the title. Okay,

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clearly striking is not gonna work this time. It's clear

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that Sean O'Malley has learned to wrestle, or seems like

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he is fairly more immersed in that than he certainly

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was last time. And you have to be against Morob, who,

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because of his wrestling, has become a snoozefest. But the

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rematch is intriguing the build up to. It's got my

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attention already. Another one Julian opinion. Former women's champion going

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up against the biggest threat in all of the women's divisions.

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No matter where you look, the scariest fighter to this

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day is clearly Kayla Harrison. Okay, a serious force to

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be reckoned with. Who if you can go through Jillian Opinia,

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then there's no other. There's no Chris Cyborg, there's apparently

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no man in Unis since her retirement wading through So

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where what's really gonna stand in her way to be

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holding a title? Julian opinion. One more that has not

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These are all confirmed as of UFC dot Com. There's

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one that's not confirmed that I will have to expound

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on a little bit because Sean Brady has come in

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to show that he has a serious problem for the

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middleweights and should eventually be getting a shot at the title.

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But sometimes if you throw your name in the bucket,

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you might have a more entertaining piece of theater here.

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If you throw in this name via Twitter, there's a

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guy who's congratulated Sean Brady and said, I would like

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to stay been and share the cage with you. Let's

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see if you're Brazilian jiu jitsu could stand up to

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my raw power? Who is this I'm talking about Joaquin Buckley.

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So Sean Brady versus Joaquen Buckley on paper blockhead Nation.

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I'm in already ready to see some sparks flying with

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that one inside of the cage. So this has been

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a lot of balancing between what's been confirmed and what's

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not been confirmed. What fighters have offered, But has the

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UFC offered it? Have we had Dana White, Have we

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had Sean Shelby, Hunter Campbell, all those guys put pen

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to paper? Do we have a venue? Do we have

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a date? That's the issue here. But the ones I've

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got for confirmed are great. The non confirmed Brady and Buckley,

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if possible, book that fight. When it comes to the heavyweights,

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Tom versus John Jones, what else are you going to do?

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What else can can you do? Alex Pereira is already

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gonna be facing Uncliath for a rematch. He's put in

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the rematch clause. There's no hint of moving up in

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that division to heavyweights? So what else can you do?

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And I'm gonna go and say it here. I don't

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care if John Jones wins. I don't care if John

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Jones loses. I don't care if Tom Aspinall loses or

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wins John Jones. You are privileged enough to fight for

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a living. You are privileged to be putting on a

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show for ordinary, hardworking people who pay money to get

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a ticket or get a pay per view to see

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you fight, And yet you want to wait six months

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and wait for the numbers to be right before you

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face the fastest finishing heavyweight in the history of this division.

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I don't care who wins. Do your job and get

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in the cage and fight. It's like my buddy who

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I used to watch with all of the pay per views.

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I go to and I would see loud and opinionated.

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We go to his house and we watch the fights,

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and he would yell, just freaking fight. Because sometimes these

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guys start to wrestle and you have the booing from

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the crowd, it's easy to think, oh man, this isn't entertaining,

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even though one of them is clearly winning the fight,

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no matter where they are in guard. But I'm going

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back to it. You're privileged to be a professional MMA

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fighter and have the career that you've got. Tom aspinall

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is hungry, and he has the interim title, and he

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has a right to fight for the undisputed title, because

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until you two face each other, it's no longer undisputed.

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Because everybody is asking the same question, is Tom the

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one to do it? And most think that he can,

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and think that you are waiting around until you give

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an answer, whether you were lean us along on a lure,

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whatever the case is, nobody's impressed. Go fight him. Whatever

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the results is, we'll get that after the fact. Just

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get in the cage and do your job that you

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are privileged to do, and fight this young guy. You're

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not that old. You're thirty seven years old. You're only

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I'm only a few years you're superior, and I know

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my opinion doesn't matter. But as an MMA fan who's

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followed this long enough, that's gonna harnish your legacy. If

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you ripe into the sunset, do it after you face

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tom Aspinall win, loss, it doesn't matter. Most of the

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time fighters don't win on a high point. They go

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out with a whisper. They have a loss. Either take

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your win or take your loss, it doesn't matter. Get

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in there and fight tom aspinall. That's all I got

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for this week. Thank you for sticking around the blockad

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nation here towards the end. Make sure you go check

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out the blow and make sure you go and do

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the downloads and the listens. Check out my buddies at

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Buckle Buddy, and we will catch you next week. Same

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blockhead time, same blockhead, Dan

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