March 22, 2025

Snoopy, March Madness, Tom Aspinall, And A Yellow Duck

Snoopy, March Madness, Tom Aspinall, And A Yellow Duck

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Broadcasting Live good evening, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping

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by once again. You are listening to your favorite Blockhead,

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the only podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow

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incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little. I

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apologize once again for my tardiness, but to be fair,

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I live in Dallas, Texas in the Blockhead Mansion. The

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O two Arena is in London, so I was checking

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out the MMA fights going on. Since we have different

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time zones, that kind of just allows me to have

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Part two taken care of. So if you tune into

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part one, you're gonna hear about Peanuts, and you're gonna

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hear the scripture of the day following that. So there's

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always three things I will always cover on this podcast.

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Number one, guys King.

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Number two Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. And number three mixed martial arts is

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the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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So starting off right.

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Away, it's a shift because the main focus for a

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sports fan now is March Madness, So there's a challenge here, Blockhead.

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Did the Peanuts comic strip ever address March madness?

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Sort of?

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When I go back and look at some of the

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comic strips where Snoopy would play basketball, I remember two

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instances where he did that. If you're looking at your bracket,

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A Snoopy in September of nineteen seventy three treated Woodstock's

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nest as the hoop. So he goes in for a

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layup and poor little Woodstocks the receiving end of it.

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That's one incident and I can think of. There was

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also the episode about This Is America Charlie Brown discussing

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the great inventors and the great inventions. Sally is doing

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a report about the great inventions that came out of

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the United States in the eighteen hundreds, and she started

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talking about doctor je Naysmith, where he was looking for

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an indoor sport. So he sept two peach baskets and

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the balcony of his school gymnasium and started the game

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of basketball. That's another story in itself, but that was

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where I think basketball was addressed. As far as doing

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a whole tournament bracket, I don't think that was Sparky's focus.

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He was much more into hockey. He would pay attention

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to other sports. He would pay attention to baseball, but

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I wouldn't make him out to be an especially enthusiastic

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basketball fan unless there's just a player that he was

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really enthralled with. But that would be one example that

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I can think of, at least for the comic strip

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and one for the TV series. That would be the

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most I can contribute to March Madness. But if I

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can also contribute something about Snoopy, I keep forgetting to

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mention this that not only Snoopy is the favorite character

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by Charles Schultz, I can prove to you that was

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his favorite, he is also the most interchangeable character that

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there is. But I keep forgetting to mention on the

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back end that Snoopy is very therapeutic for anyone, especially

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for Charlie Brown. Sort of.

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You'll know I threw that on the back end there.

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Because if we go back to a comic strip from

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March nineteen seventy eight, you can see Charlie Brown sitting

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down and talking about his day to Snoopy, and he says,

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and I quote, it's nice to have your own dogs

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to talk to. That's very true. There's three of them

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here at the Blockhead Mansion. They make noise in the

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background because they don't understand audio quality, and Tibrown contends

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to go on and say, a dog doesn't try to

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give you a lot of advice.

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He just listens.

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If you have watched the Anime movie of twenty fifteen,

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you'll recognize this dialogue. It's the same one, mind you,

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most of the time, that's what a person just wants,

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someone who will listen and not try to give you advice. Now,

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Blockhead will give advice when expected to, not just when

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it's questioned. But since you've come to a podcast, the

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most of you that are part of the Blockhead Massion,

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part of my tribe, do kind of care about what

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my opinions are because you keep coming back. And I

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appreciate that tremendously. But it's like Charlie Brown says, when

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it comes to the dogs, most of the time, you

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just want to talk, which is why a dog is

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perfect for that. Which in the movie and in this

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same comic strip, you see how Snoopy has zoned out

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at that point in the comic strip, it's an eye roll.

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And on the other hand, but you do get a

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sigh out of Charlie Brown in both the movie and

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the comic strip when Snoopy is clearly not paying attention

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to anything he's got to say. So, now that I've

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addressed march madness, which is rarely talked about in the

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world of Peanuts, and I've talked about dogs being therapeutic,

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especially Snoopy for a mass audience, I'm going to come

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back and go to the content creators. A lot of

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you have come my way because you found me on TikTok,

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which is fine. I usually use that as a way

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to channel listeners over to the show. I'll tell you

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to go check out Spotify or Apple because that's where

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you're gonna hear what I have to say. You'll see

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the prompting most of the time on TikTok, on Instagram

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and all the other social media is It's just but

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I've been doing this for eight plus years now, content creators.

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When I hear somebody tell me that they've lost so

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much viewership, and then I ask, how long.

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Have you been doing this?

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For about a year? Okay, I've been recording for over

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eight plus years now. Granted it's still a teacher by

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data podcaster by weekend teaching does allow for Blockhead to

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have the leverage to continue to do this on a

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weekly basis because I love it, that's true. But there

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have been some things to build in the brand, cultivating

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the audience and working towards some monetization for this show.

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That is true. I follow that bam acronym taught to

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me by Pod Houston. So these are things that I've

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learned along the way way and I'm more so happy

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to share. If you're a content creator, and I will

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just say this, low and slow is still the way

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to go. Your best taste in food is with the

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best ingredients, with the most care and a low and

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slow approach. Who were you truly competing with except for

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other content creators out there that are waiting for that

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big surge. When in you're any type of creation of

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any kind, you're gonna have your hills and valleys. I

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even felt triggered today watching the State Farm commercial about

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Batman and Bateman. But Batman looking at him and going

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just go home and do a podcast or something. I mean,

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how much of a brushof can you get up in

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advertising and commercials to us podcasters?

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But you know that is just the truth.

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There's gonna be some high moments, there gonna be some

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low moments, but content creation is key. It matters what

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you have to say, whether I'm waysive or not, whether

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I'm a great storyteller or not. The tribe will come

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back in return. But people can see you sweat from

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a mile away. So lose the desperation find the passion again.

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I hope that helps. If you're listening now, while I'm

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referring to what I'm seeing on TikTok, I have to

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mention one now because I'm not seeing the antithesis to it.

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There's this thing where you have a spit test. Okay,

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you have somebody older than you. The younger kids have

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taken a bottle of water, fill their mouths up, usually

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put a towel down, because there's gonna be a spit

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test for every one of these words that come off

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of brain rot. Brain rot is very much the same

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thing as simply when you come home after having to

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be serious or having to learn something that is strenuous

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in the classroom or at work, whatever it might be,

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you come home and you dumb yourself down. You watch cartoons,

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you watch stupid stuff. As the little redhair girl loves

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to mention to me, you're watching cartoons and stupid stuff,

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aren't you.

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You know it.

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But the younger generation is using this thing called brain

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rot and using these terms that just make no sense.

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But when we read them from the script, they spit

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the water all over their tail. Some of you know

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what I'm talking about.

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But if they.

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Say the phrases skivity, toilet riz or even mispronounce it

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because they might have a language barrier, whatever it is,

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and the kids start laughing when we're saying their words

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that came through their channel, they come through their frequency,

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and it's very different, showing the different worlds between the two.

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It's kind of a bonding, if you will, between boomers

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or Gen X or millennials, the older millennials, if you will,

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to this new Gen Z and Alpha generation, you know,

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using phrases like you're doing too much, bro, you're so

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mid you know, And these are things that will be

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said in the spit test with these print offs. But

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I gotta tell you, it's willing to throw the challenge

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out there. Nobody has done the opposite, where the older

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generation or Gen X or millennials will sit down with

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their mouth full of water, and you'll have the young

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kids reading things from our generation. Let's just take the

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nineties for a second. Here. Can you imagine a young

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kid with a print off as we the older crowd,

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are sitting there with our mouths full of water, and

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they say cowwabunga.

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Dudes, I don't know if.

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I'd make it past that one.

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Leave your name and number after the beep, Please rewind

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before we turn into the slot. Here's one call one

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eight hundred CEO L L e CT, save a bucker

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two or three. We get it, but they're sitting here

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going It might be more than one word, it might

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be paraphrasing, but still you get it. Don't tell my

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heart my achy breaking. I wouldn't make it past that one,

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but could somebody give us the opposite. I would love

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to watch one of those. It's been thrown out there,

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the gauntlet's been thrown down by the blockhead Nation.

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Have at it. We'll see you on the other side.

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Our scripturian for this podcast comes from Romans, chapter eleven,

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verse twenty two. Behold, therefore the goodness and severity of

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God on them which fell severity, but toward thee goodness.

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If thou continue in his goodness, Otherwise thou also shalt

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be cut off. Reflection from luelair. Bible says, those who

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abide in the love of Christ are assured of his kindness.

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He cares for his children. They are the sheep of

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his hand. Never shall those who He grants drink of

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the living water grow faint. So trust in the Lord

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blockad nation, lean on his abounding grace, abiding the life

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from his vine, and you're never gonna feel the severity

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of his hand, as Leon Edwards certainly felt the severity

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of Sean Brady's anaconda approach.

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Tonight.

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So we had UFC fight night in the O two

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Arena in London. Not exactly a good night for meatball

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Molly McCann. You have the debut of a young fighter

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who took her to task fairly quickly. And in the

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end Molly gives her speech. You see Patty the battie

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out in the attendants and you see her put her

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gloves down. But she didn't use the R word. She

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did not mention that she is going to retire. She

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just alluded to it. And now all the dirt sheets

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for MMA are already sending out the message that she's

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gone now. Does that not mean that even if she does,

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she'd be a recognizable name anytime a uk bout comes around,

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That's sure, but it's been confusing for a while when

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the gloves have been put down the cage because that

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hasn't been honored for so long. Most of us know

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what that means. In collegiate wrestling, when a wrestler takes

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his shoes off, that's his last match. The idea carried

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over in the mid two thousand's when fighters would do that,

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But for the last several years it's hinting that I

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want to retire, but if Danta comes back with a

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counter offer, I'm back either the next day or the

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next month, that next year. So there's almost a shelf

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life these days with the Gloves. But we'll see what

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Molly mc cann does for moving forward. Kevin Holland gets

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a win. It was interesting to see that that gunner

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Nelson still has a really strong chin, but the younger

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cat is going to prevail. He had a pretty good

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show by Carlos Olberg against Yan Blohovitch. But when we

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get to Sean Brady, just a dominant performance and this

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is what I would anyone that who would mentioned this

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was a textbook example of the striker versus the grappler,

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and Sean Brady got on the scale and just looked

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massive as a welterweight, but he weighed right in at

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one seventy. So this is a guy who just does

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all the right things. It's a man who just had

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a child. On the day that the Philadelphia Eagles became

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Super Bowl champions, he got the call he's going to

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face the former champion, number one ranked contender, and now

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it looks like Sean Brady will get an opportunity to

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face Belel Muhammad for the title, unless somehow Rochmanoff comes

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back from his injury and go straight to the front

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of the line, or there's a condendership between.

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Sean Brady and Rothmanov.

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quickly and in dominant fashion. So complete hat tip to

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the very dangerous on the ground Sean Brady from this podcaster.

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So nothing but respect on that one. There were a

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few other things that stood out in the middle of

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the event, but one in particular. Those who follow I

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already mentioned my TikTok, and I'm not trying to really

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drum up support in any way. But you'll notice that

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on the photo that I used is Tom aspinall is

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sitting Cage's side. The two biggest possible fights in the

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UFC right now, at least according to most of the

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experts and most of the fighters on the ground, the

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ones that are in the trenches have all agreed that

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it's two fights. Ever since Uncle Elia have defeated Alex

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Pereira is now holding the lightweight Night Heavyweight Championship, and

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it looks like the rematch clauses in place for that.

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The two biggest fights are either Islam Makachev facing Elia Toporia,

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who's leaving the featherweight division and going to the lightweights.

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Now that one seems to have a face palm because

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the coaches are saying, in no way have we agreed

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to this fight.

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The one that.

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Seems to make the most sense somebody who Islam hasn't

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fought is justin Gaegee. But it seems like the biggest

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talk was Elia Toporia come into fight Islam. The only

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other fight that even comes remotely close to the one

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that's on everybody's lips in the MMA community, when and

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where is John Jones going to finally fight Tom Aspinall,

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and Tom Aspinall has mentioned in several interviews that he

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is bored with all of this build up. A good

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move I mentioned earlier about content creation. Don't Landbay see

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his sweat? Tom has certainly not Landbay see him sweat.

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You hardly see him break a sweat in the last

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five fights that he's had in the octagon, even since

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his debut. This is one of the fastest finishers in

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the heavyweight division that I've ever seen. Even Joe Rogan

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has said on his podcast, the guy is and I quote, scary, scary, fast,

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scary strong.

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And I'm not just trying to put this out because

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as an MM fan, this is what I want. It

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doesn't always matter what I want, it's how everything lines up.

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So Tom Aspinall is sitting in cage side and he

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doesn't say a word, he doesn't wave, He just sits

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there like a cordial young man in a great looking suit.

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And he holds up a rubber ducky and said, rubber.

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Ducky has a diamond on the bottom of it. That's

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nice and shiny. To quote my dear friend Cy from

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the Against the Fence MMA channel, shout out to the

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guys from the Against the Fence YouTube page and all

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the great content they've done, being able to be at

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fight night and be able to be at the press

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conference and ask legitimate questions of all the fighters. They're

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doing great work over there. SI said something tonight while

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they were live, and he has allowed me to share this.

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He said, he just said a million things, and yet

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he said nothing at all. When tom Osmot said he's

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bored with the discussion and the build up to John Jones,

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he means it. He let the rubber ducky do his

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talking for you, because you are ducking tom Asminall. Tom

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Aspinall's father was asked a few days ago how he

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felt about John Jones. Now, this one I need to clarify,

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just to be on the safe side. I'm sure Blockad

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Nation you're intelligent enough to know what tom Asmo's father

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is saying. But sometimes we need to look at what

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old English language is. You know, we have to be careful.

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Didn't realize with Cockney rhyming slang such a thing as

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bees and honey for money or you know, Dodgy Ruby

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could be talking about curry you ate the night before

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that made your stomach on edge. We just have to

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clarify that. And tom Asmino's father says, John Jones is

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another bum in the shower. Now, that doesn't mean, like

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Mickey would say to Rocky Balboa, don't waste my time anymore,

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you bum, because I'm too old to waste it on

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somebody like you calling him a bum. That's not it

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at all. It's not a derogatory shot in that way.

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It's another bum in the shower when you step into

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the shower, especially us men, when you wash your hair

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and you wash your body and you lather up the

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last place, the last crevice.

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That you're going to thoroughly clean. If you're doing.

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This in the best practices way that you can imagine,

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is you are cleaning that area three feet south of

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your head. It is tom Aspinall's father's very mannerally like

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way of saying that John Jones is just a butthole

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that needs to be cleaned by ivory, soap or whatever

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you use or duve for men. We can go down

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the list of what you use. Don't talk to me

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about axe or tag. That's perfume for men that have

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boh or little boys that have body odor.

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I'm not gonna get there.

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But still that's what he's actually saying, that this bubb

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in the shower just won't face my son. And that's

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where I stand on this show too, John Jones. It's

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nothing about you going in and proving anything. And we're

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all quite accepting the fact, including Daniel Cormier, his greatest nemesis,

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that John Jones is just leading us along, stringing out

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that carrot so that he can get the biggest payday

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possible by July or September or maybe even towards Madison

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Square gardener t Mobile Arena where he can get the

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most bang for his buck.

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So economically speaking, I'm not with John Jones.

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But you've insulted a lot of fans by playing this

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waiting game. Now you've got a rubber ducky putting you

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in your plate, and I want to take the tom

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Aspinall approach until we have a confirmation, until we know

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that an offer has been made, that we have the who, what, win,

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and the where. We all know why.

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At this point we need the date, we need the venue.

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Until then, I have every intention doing exactly what Tom

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Aspinal just did. Hell over here blockad Nation some of

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you that watch the show Seinfeld know what I'm talking about.

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There's an episode where Kramer says he refuses to talk

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starting now.

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Now.

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That derails later in the episode because they gave him

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to talk again. Then he exposes some things about Jerry.

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They're not good, and they end up on television, and

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of course Jerry looks at us, I thought you weren't

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gonna talk about this, to where Kramer goes, all right,

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starting now, we're gonna keep letting this yellow rubber ducky

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do the talking for us. I don't need to mention

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Tom aspinall or John Jones anymore, but I will say,

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come on back next week, same blockhead time, same blockhead channel.

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The silence begins now, all right now

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Like for real, well to me, they game by today