July 19, 2025

Show Up Messy And Shine Bright Like A Diamond

Show Up Messy And Shine Bright Like A Diamond

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Broadcasting Live Good Afternoon, Blockhead Nation. I apologize for the delay,

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but thank you for coming by this Saturday to listen

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with this little podcaster has to say, you are listening

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to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in the podcasting

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world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one

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minute and then be talking about MMA and Warriors inside

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the Octagon the next. I am your host. My name

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is Brian Little, and the reason for my tardiness is

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simply because there is a fan of mine. I won't

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go into the full details. I won't disclose who it is,

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but one of my youngest fans recently lost his fur

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baby and the family reached out to me, and I

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was honored to make them a video on what it

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means when if pets go to heaven or not. That

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is a very difficult topic to discuss from a biblical standpoint,

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but anybody that's listening that knows what it's like to

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lose a fur baby, it's not easy, especially in the

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first twenty four hours. So I apologize for that, but

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that time was spent specifically for one of the youngest members,

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if not the youngest member of the Blockhead Nation. So

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that young man is precious to me, and so is

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his family, and so is anybody else who comes into

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this show. So that's just me giving the reason. Whether

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you'll accept that or not that that falls more on you.

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But if I can, really when it comes to Peanuts,

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let me remind you again what this show is all about.

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Number One, God is King. Number two, Peanuts is the

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single most successful comic strip in American history. And number three,

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mixed martial arts is the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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And last week when I discussed the Peanuts, I brought

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up one of the appreciated characters of the Peanuts, but

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it wasn't exactly one of the core group. I talked

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mostly about pig Pen. Well, what's befitting of that is

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another member of the Blockhead Nation sent me a message

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on how we had just celebrated what was called Pigpen Day.

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This is absolutely true because a few days ago on

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the Charles Schultz Museum, who does a fabulous job on

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social media keeping the memory of Charles Schultz and the

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Peanuts alive, made it very clear that it was Pigpen Day.

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In July of nineteen fifty four, the first time we

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ever saw pigpen. Now if I can, I'm not gonna

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go chronologically. I'm going to actually go a few years

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forward and go back to twenty twelve when the TV

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special Happiness Is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown came out.

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One of my favorite moments from that entire episode is

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when at the end Linus is pretty much letting it

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rip on everybody. They keep judging him for kneeing his blanket,

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his security blanket, and he finally goes, if that's not

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the pot calling the kettle black, look at all of

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you that have your own different types of security blankets.

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Let's start with you Schroeder with your obsession with Betove.

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And let's look at you Lucy with your obsession with Schroeder,

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who wants nothing to do with you. Let's look at

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Sally with your infatuation with me. When I don't give

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you any hints that I want to be your boyfriend.

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I am not your sweet baboo. You know hearts breaking

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in every direction, and even how Snoopy has a security

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blanket of his own. He's obsessed with summer supper time.

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So finally, after he has asked them, why all of

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you insist on casting the first stone when you're just

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as guilty. Are any of you secure? Who rolls up

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on the scene? You guessed it pig Pin. Pig Pen

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doesn't care what you think. He is perfectly content with

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who he is. As he said earlier in that episode,

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I have a fix to me, the dirt of many ages.

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So who am I to disturb history? It goes back

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to when you first saw him in a TV special

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with the Christmas episode. Maybe we should think of it

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in as dust, but as the dirt trampled upon my

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Solomon or King Nebek and Ezer, and you look through

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a different lens at pig Pin. So if we go

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to Pigpen Day, what I didn't realize until I went

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back and looked at something that Charles Schulton mentioned about

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the comic strips that pig Pin's been in. Now this

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is impressive. So pig Bin makes his impression on everyone

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he meets, and that means literally the dust that he

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kicks up, the trails of dust he leaves behind. He

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embraces his messiness. He exudes confidence despite what others might think.

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Why you can't even keep your shoelaces tied, Well, you

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want me to be inconsistent. Those are his words, not mine,

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just throwing that out there. But seventeen thousand, eight hundred

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and ninety seven comic strips, and how many do we

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see pig Pin appearing? Over one hundred? So is he

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the most included of all of them? Not necessarily, but

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is he kind of one of these hidden gems that

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you can't overlook? Certainly? And as Charles Shultz says, he

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created a challenge for Charles Schultz from a creative standpoint,

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these are his words, and I quote, usually I just

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run out of ideas, so somehow I keep on putting

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him in there. So think about what I'm telling you.

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When Charles Schultz can't think of anything else to do

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with his comic strips, he will just include Pigpen all

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the way from nineteen fifty four to nineteen eighty one.

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If he's having rider's block, he can call upon this guy.

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So from nineteen fifty four all the way from nineteen

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eighty one to the final comic strip that he was

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in in nineteen ninety nine, his name is synonymous with Peanuts,

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and the one that they chose for his page was

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how it's only seven o'clock and you're already a muddy mess.

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What's his response? Huh, it looks like this is going

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to be a good day. This is a guy who

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can embody the idea of don't worry about ruining my day,

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don't going a good day by thinking about a bad yesterday.

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That's something that Pigpin clearly is a guy that will

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hold on to. But mentioning him, I had to make

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sure that we reiterated what we talked about last week

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with Pigpen, just because the narrative with him doesn't stop there. Now,

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where are we at recently over the last couple of days.

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Far back is July seventeenth. You had a publication from

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nineteen ninety three that I wanted to share with you

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on here where Charlie Brown has gone off to camp.

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Why does that befitting well, because the host of this

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little podcast will be gone for a trip to camp

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to be a supervisor over the next week, and when

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I come back, it's almost the same response here with

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the three dogs I have here in the house is

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that let's go to the strip for a second. It

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has Charlie Brown calling home on a pay phone. He

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tells his sister, I'm coming home this afternoon, and he

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asked the all important question, has my dog missed me?

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What's her response? Yes, he has been waiting for you. Well,

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how is he waiting? Is the key question here? Snoopy

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is standing out in front of his house with his

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supper dish in hand, with a banner that doesn't say

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welcome home, Charlie Brown. You know what it says, welcome home,

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round headed kid. So even his own dog can't figure

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out his specific name. He doesn't think of him as

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Charlie Brown. He thinks to him as the round headed kid.

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How demeaning, wouldn't you say? How demeaning for poor Charlie

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Brown pig Pen, who is perfectly content with who he

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is versus Charlie Brown who struggles with this continuously. And

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his dog is waiting there and going, I'm glad you're back.

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Here's my supper dish, get after it. That's the role

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that he fills. He even said that once in an

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episode before I roamed the world as a lost soul,

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I guess I should probably feed my dog first. So

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are there depressive moments with Charlie Brown? Yes? But are

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they memorable? Of course they are. They wouldn't have been

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as preserved as well over seventy five years. If they weren't,

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you wouldn't have the cartoonist Charles Schultz, who portrayed his

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life through each one of these characters. But the role

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that Peanuts has filled, the role that pig Pen filled.

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When he couldn't think of anything else, he would pull

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pig Pin out of the closet. And if Charlie Brown

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is coming home, how is he going to be received?

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Not with open arms the same way he always is

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seen as you are the provider of my supper dish.

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Now'll get back to it. Now get back out on

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the baseball diamond and lose us another game. Now come

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over here and trust Lucy once again and try again

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for the football. He'll be fitting. It's almost insulting, but

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that is the nature of this strip. The nature of

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Charles Schultz was not to exclude reality, not to put

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on an appearance world. It's not who Charles Schultz was.

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It may have been subtle sometimes and sometimes it was

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right there in your face. We all face this, and

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Charlie Brown certainly embraced it. So I thank you for

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following me through this part. It's gonna be pretty easy

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to get into what is unfolding on the second half,

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So you'll stick around. We've got the scripture of the

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day coming up, and we've also got an event that

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will not be forgotten anytimes. Our scripture in for this

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podcast comes from Mark five, verses thirty eight through forty three.

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When they came to the home of the synagogue leader,

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Jesus saw a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly.

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He went in and said to them, why all this

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commotion and wailing. The child is not dead but asleep,

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But they laughed at him. After he put them all out,

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he took the child's father and mother and the disciples

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who were with him, and went in where the child was.

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He took her by the hand and he said, little girl,

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I say to you, get up. Immediately, the girl stood

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up and began to walk around. At this, they were

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completely astonished. He gave strict orders not to let anyone

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know about this, and told them to give her something

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to eat. Now, I'm not going to go into all

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that details, but Jesus heals many. In this case, he

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heals the daughter, and since it's not his time, he says,

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tell no one of what's happened here. But that has

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a parallel, it's a comparison to what has actually happened

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in the MMA world. I'm not reading that into the Bible,

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but I'll letting you know. If you have followed the

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recovery of Ben Askrin, something happened while he had clearly

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a horrible lung disease and had to have a lung transplant,

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And according to all of the resources that have presented

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to me, it's that his insurance company dropped the claim.

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Who stepped in to help out with the expenses for

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his lung transplant Jake Paul. Now, when that broke, like

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so many, we all gained respect for Jacob and that

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is very rare to say that you have respect for

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Jake Paul, somebody who has went to war with Ben

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Astron and the boxing ring is there for him financially

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when he needs it the most, as Jake Paul is

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not afraid to steer away from when Dana White is

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not there to provide for his fighters slash former fighters,

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that the boxing community is there to help you. But

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I'm even more impressed if what information has been leaked

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to me also that he didn't want anyone to know

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that was the Coach of Jesus, until his time was

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come had come to be revealed for who he truly was.

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The time hadn't come when it was time for turn

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the water into wine. It was not yet time when

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he heals this girl to reveal who he is. It

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was time when he was handed over to the Roman Governor,

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when he was hand over to Ponscious Pilot, when he

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was handed over to the Sanhedrin. It was time then,

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but it wasn't quite time. So however it leaked out.

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Jake Paul had supposedly said, don't let anybody know what

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this is. Don't let anybody know that it was me.

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Somebody put the information out there. So Jake Paul, you

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have respect from the Blockhead and from the Blockhead Nation

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for the love you just showed to Ben Askron as

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he heals. Had to make sure that's out there. So

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that's been talked about on Mini Meeting MS. But I'm

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even more impressed if you didn't want to be known

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as the major donor. And that's I'm only as good

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as the information presented to me. Okay, I go off

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things like bloody Elbow, I go off of low kick MMA,

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I go off of things like Ariel Hawuane Brett a

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Kimona from ESPN MMA, anything that seems like it has

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a valid point. Luke Thomas is another one that I

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pull a lot of my ideas from. Yes, I pull

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them from jail as also, but out of all that,

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it sounds like that's where we are. So Prayers to Ben,

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Prayers for the recovery, A major thanks to Jake, Paul

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even more impressed if you didn't want anybody to know

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that it was you tonight in Louisiana. As far as

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we know, this is the last time that Dustin Poirier

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will make the walk. Grown men are going to have

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a hard time watching him make the final walk in

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his home town against a guy who he has already

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beaten twice. This is not a fight that Dustin needs.

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It's an a venue completely built around his retirement fight.

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So I started off this podcast with mad respect for

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Jake for what he's done for Ben. Prayers for Ben

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as he continues to get stronger every day, and as

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he continues to fight this fight for Dustin Porier, the

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guy who's beaten Connor McGregor twice, the guy who's beaten

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my favorite fighter, Max Holloway twice and Max is willing

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to step back and they're not for a shot at redemption,

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just for the sake of saying it was me that

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he shared the cage with one last time, for a

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guy who has gone to war with guys like Justin Gagee,

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for a man who went to war with Michael Chandler,

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who possibly gave us one of the greatest rounds of

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all time Round two in the APEX during COVID with

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Dan Hooker, possibly the greatest second round at least in

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the lightweight division in the history of the sport. For

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him to have a sendoff like this is just phenomenal. Now,

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is there really anything else to get excited about on

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this card? My answer is sort of starting with the

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featherweight bout between Dany Egay and Patricio Pitbull. Patricio Pittbull's

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debut didn't exactly work out as he would have wanted.

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He had some explosive rounds and you're gonna need that

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against fifty K Dan Egay, a guy who I have

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been cheering for for quite some time. Now, you have

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Kevin Holland against Daniel Rodriguez, a very good matchup between

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these two as far as what happens when it goes

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to grappling, it's hard to know what direction we're gonna go.

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We know Kevin Holland can dominate either striking, striking or grappling.

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Daniel Rodriguez is a guy who typically does better with

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takedown defense and working you from the back, So we'll

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see how that goes. Paul A Costa versus Roman Kaupovov,

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I mean, overall a good middleweight about I'm leaning towards Roman.

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I guess you could say that's the wife be churse.

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At least that one what I will decisively go with.

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I will choose Roman over paul A Costa. But when

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we come to the main event, another thing to consider

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about this is this is for the BMF title. So

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even though Max Holloway was defeated by Eliot Toporia, the

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title was not up for grabs. This was just a

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contender ship to where we can put the actual title

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on the waste of somebody, and you have that with

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Eliot Taporia nowadays defeated Charles Olivera. But the BMF title

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is still around Max Holloway's waste. I'm telling you. For

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Dustin Poorier in his hometown to make one last walk

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and to once again defeat Max and to take the

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BMF strap. That was originally an idea out of the

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mind of Nate Diaz, all the way back to the

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Diaz versus Masvidal fight the resulted in a doctor stoppage.

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The BMF doesn't exactly have a definitive lineage at this point,

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but for Dustin to be able to do that, to

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leave in many ways, even though he doesn't hold a title,

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for him to go out as the uncrowned BMF of

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the lightweight division and to go out on top, he

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would be in a rare group of fighters. Kabiev is

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one of them that went out on top. Henry Sejudo

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is another one who went on or at least we

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thought he would be the one who left on top.

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When they say that they were going to retire. Most

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of the time, as I said in my video recently,

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is fighters don't go out or the celebration. They leave

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in a whimper. The jail curse is already in because

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Chail sun And has chosen Dustin Pourier to defeat Max

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once again. Haven't al a term what the Drake curse

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is yet. It's another thing that's problematic in this sport.

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So I'm just throwing out many of the pros and

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cons because Dustin Poorie are making the walk for the

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last time. Out of respect and love for Dustin, I'd

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like him to be able to show this is how

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this is done, whether he wins or he doesn't win,

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to where he can retire comfortably and be a dad

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and continue to be a part of charities that he's

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part of, to sell his hot sauce, to be able

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to build playground equipment for special needs kids. I'm loving

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the work he does with a good fight foundation, but

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ultimately there's not much more that I can say except this, Dustin,

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we are hoping that you get to shine bright like

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a diamond tonight, one that has been polished, one that

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has been etched out through hard work and sacrifice and

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pain to shine the way that you will tonight. We

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thank you for your career blockad Nation. There's not much

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more for me to go off of except Austin ask

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forgiveness when I come back. If I come back after camping,

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I'm a little bit off the beaten path. If I'm

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also doing a little bit of an unorthodox style the

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way I did last week. Hopefully I will be replenished

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enough to be able to sit down and here record

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after a week of being out at camp with the kids.

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But thank y'all for being here for this week's episode,

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and we will catch you next week, same blockhead time,

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same blockhead channel. Went to day Day today