Aug. 17, 2024

Spike In The Desert With Middleweights In The Outback

Spike In The Desert With Middleweights In The Outback

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Broadcasting Live. Good afternoon, 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'm

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so thankful you come back this week. I'll just go

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ahead and begin with this. If you are tuning in

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for part one, this is where I talk about the Peanuts,

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I talk about the comic strip, I talk about the

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TV shows, I talk about the movie, and I also

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talked about last week about the Charles Schultz Museum. How

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that social media outlet has been very helpful to me

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when I get content prepared for you guys, because that's

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the thing, if you know anything about podcasting or no podcasters,

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it's not always easy to get content ready and pumping

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out to you. That's listening to the podcasting world. It's

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just difficult. But in this case, one helpful and very

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viable source for me has been the Charles Schultz Museum.

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And how befitting that as of last week we have

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the twenty two year anniversary of the first time they

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opened the doors to the Charles Schultz Museum and the

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Research Center out in Santa Rosa, California. So their page

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was honored by taking a journey back to where it

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all began. You can see clips of where Jeane Schultz

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is speaking at the pulpit and talking about an hour

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of her husband talking about Sparky. You had board presidents

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that were there, and also one of the board presidents

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makes me so happy. One of them happens to be

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Snoopy himself, So the groundbreaking ceremony is really cool to

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see that they have of the beloved Peanuts fans who

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get to come and see this. You can swipe through

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a lot of the photos that are there from two

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thousand and two on when this became a reality, and

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it just really is a feel good moment in so

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many ways. So I'm really happy that I mentioned last

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week the Charles Schultz Museum. It just kind of works

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out very well for this week. So I don't solely

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depend on them for content. I've known most of this

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my entire life, but it's always helpl just to keep

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me on track to mention earlier in the week. Sometimes

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what I have to do is I can't bring every

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single event to you right away, week by week, on

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a weekly basis. I can use a few events as

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of a couple of days ago that marked the anniversary

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of nineteen seventy five, there was a debut of Snoopy's

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older and very skinny brother. Now, this one's gonna be key.

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Snoopy is very much the most interchangeable and most world renowned,

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most recognizable character from the Peanuts. When people don't know

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what the Peanuts are, they might know a few of

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the characters. They know who Snoopy is, But really, Snoopy

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isn't the original dog that belonged to Charles Schultz as

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a kid. Charles Schultz actually had a childhood dog by

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the name of Spike. So a few days ago the

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Charles Schultz Museum did a great job of sharing a

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very happy Spike Day. Where the debut came out in

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nineteen seventy five of Snoopy's brother out in the desert,

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where the setting would be the desert of Needles, California.

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Now that whole setting is very much in luenced by

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Schultz's upbringing, his experiences where he lived as a kid.

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He did travel a few times most and there's even

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scenes from It's the Girl in the Red Truck Charlie

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Brown where you meet Spike in the first TV series

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as a whole, he appears a few other kinds too,

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and Snoopy's getting married, he actually catches a train and

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makes his way to be the best man for the wedding.

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So Spike, being Snoopy's older brother, is very much involved

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in the comics in the TV series, and it's really

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a great example of just images that are evoked by

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a location, just because if you look at the facial

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features of Spike, he's got a long mustache. He doesn't

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have the same vibrant eyes that Snoopy has. He has

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those soulful eyes. He has those tired eyes, which would

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certainly cause you to have some discomfort living out in

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the desert, living inside of a cactus. But as he says,

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you always have a place to hang your hat. He

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just take your hat and you throw it up and

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it sticks to the cactus. That's true. So the imagination

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takes over over all of that. There's a lot of

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mystery and intrigue to who Snoopy is, but the origin

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can all be traced back to Spike, the original inspiration

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for who became Snoopy, and then you finally honored him

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with Spike. So Schultz very much paid homage to him

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by naming Snoopy's brother after him, so that all worked

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out really well. I've always been a huge fan of Spike.

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But also there are a few great comic strips, like

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in nineteen eighty six, or for some reason, Spike decides

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that he's gonna go hug a cactus. I guess it

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is because of an advertisement. Have you hugged a cactus?

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Today?

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I think a lot of that's very commercial, probably of

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that time. But yeah, I really thought that was really fun,

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and I'm always enjoyed talking about Spike. He is absolutely

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one of my favorite characters. So I'm always thankful to

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talking of the Charles Schultz Museum. Twenty two years in

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the making, there will be a day that myself and

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my little red haired girl will be attending the Charles

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Schultz Museum for our ten year wedding anniversary. That will

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be coming two years down the line. But there's something

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else to mention about Sally, Yes, Charlie Brown's sister. She

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has always had an infatuation for the Linus the blanket

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carrying Linus. She's always been one who wants nothing to

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do with going to school. You can see everything from

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her struggling with her alarm clocks to the only reason

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she goes to schools because Mom made a lunch for

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her and she doesn't want to waste it to where

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she can't even get her locker open. Why she wouldn't

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even want to go back to school. So why would

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Sally still have a strange relationship with the wall of

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the school. You might be lost right now. Let me

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help you out. Sally has been known many times to

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speak to the wall of her school, mostly out of frustration.

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But it's kind of like how you know Linus and

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Charlie Brown will meet at the brick wall and they'll

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discuss their fears, their frustrations. Sally will actually go up

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to her school's building and look at the wall and go, hey, school,

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did you have a nice summer? Expecting a response. Now,

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this isn't meant to arouse sympathy for Sally in any way.

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I can just kind of verify for you that if

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you think that she doesn't have any relationship at all

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with her school, she does. It's just a very I

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almost want to call it a morbid one. But believe

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it or not, you do get a response, you think, okay,

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So she talks to it and there's no response back. No,

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there's a comic strip from nineteen eighty three that she asks,

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how have you been? Did you enjoy your summer? And

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the school responds back what they thought bubble and says

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very nice. But it's going by too fast. I can

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already feel my tan fading. Okay. Gotta love the dad humor.

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Gotta love the cheap jokes that are still throwing there

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by Charles Schultz, because he can still be a bit

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on the cheesy side, even though most of the time

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the comics do have a subtle message that they'll leave

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for you if you just look for it. Believe it

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or not, there's even parable there is, and that's how

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this podcast is structured. As much as I enjoy talking

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about peanuts with you, what matters most is for you

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to know the truth, which I will share for you

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in our scripture.

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Of the day.

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes from Isaiah chapter

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fifty seven, verses seventeen through eighteen. For the iniquity of

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his covetousness. Was I wroth and smote him. I hid

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him and was wroth, And he went on forward into

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the way of his heart. I have seen his ways

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and will heal him. I will lead him also and

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restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. If we're

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looking at Isaiah Blockhead nation, as far as the prophet

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who very much foretold of a suffering servant who would

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come to be the salvation for all mankind. We see

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this in reflection from Blue Leader. Bible says, though the

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whole of mankind stands corrupted before the majesty of the Lord,

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even so he promises to choose out for himself a

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special people. That is so true throughout the Old Testament,

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because no many, how many times Israel would fail and

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neglect and completely rebel against God, they were still God's

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chosen people. From a new Covenant perspective, no matter how

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many times you fail, how many times you reject, and

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you rebel against the Lord Almighty, he still loves you.

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Ever will he heal his children in spite of their hearts,

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of their malice, and hearts of stone. The Lord will

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be faithful to renew them. And as it says here

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in blues Let, but our Bible caused them to become

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the bearers of life eternal. Praise be to God that

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we would believe him and have received such mercy as this.

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There's always three things I talk about on this podcast

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with you, Blockhead Nation. Number one, God is King. Number two,

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Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip in American history.

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And number three, mixed martial arts is the greatest sport

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under God's hot sun. And that's what I'm getting off

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on part two here. So if you joined me for

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this second part one, I'm thankful you're still here. Second,

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it tells me you care to know what Blockhead's thoughts

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are about the world of UFC Milatory, MMA PFL one

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Championship and a lot of time I spend in the UFC.

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I'm just gonna be honest with you. But to recap

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from last week, we had a UFC fight Night at

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the Apex and we had a heavyweight bout Tiber versus

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Spivok two. Well, that was a quick submission, quite a

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scramble there on the bottom. Spivoc wins very quickly. Now

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that means we've got not much to go off of

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with Spivok, meaning you do have a very impressive victory

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over here over Tibira, but there's not a whole lot

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of interest now in those guys running it back. And

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if you were to look at what do we do

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with Spivak next, well, there aren't that many options because

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Cyril gon and Alexander Volkov already facing each other at

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UFC threeh eight, so that one's out of the picture.

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You've got Paulovitch coming off a loss, you got Blades

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coming off of a loss. So really the only option

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if we're going strictly by the rate of the rankings,

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But one that makes the most sense is Jayton Almeeda,

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and that itself, since they mirror each other so much,

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looks to be a snoozefest. But if we're going off

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of that trying to put a win with the win,

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then Almeida, who's beaten Derek Lewis, who's lost to Curis,

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Blades who recently beat Romanov, that would be the one

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that we probably might see in the future, or at

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least that's something that's probably sitting on the desk at

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the UFC war room. So all those things to be

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considered now as far as UFC three TOHO five tonight

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in Australia. I've already kind of mentioned there's somebody sitting

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at cage side, and I'll bring that or should be

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sitting there. I'll bring that full circle in just a second.

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The point I want to make here is this all

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of the build up for this fight with Drecis Duplessis

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and Israel Atisanya. It seems like everybody is trying to

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drum up more bad blood than is actually there. Now.

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Am I saying that there's bad blood? Yes? Am I

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saying that it's overwhelming? No? Do I believe that there

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are people that are specifically told to talk these fights

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up to get people into the building. I'm not one

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of them, but I can name two of them right away.

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One would be Chaill Sonning and another would be Daniel Cormier.

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How ironic for a diehard MMA fan to see Daniel

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Cormier talking about being the best spot in the house

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watching these two three and finally we're gonna squash this

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bad blood hearing Chill say the same thing as he's

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drumming up support for DDP Versus. Arguably one of the

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greatest middleweights of all time, He's easily in the top three.

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But I just want you to know it's not that

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there's manufactured bad blood. It's not that it's just do

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we really have that much of a short term memory

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If we're watching the UFC knowing that there was real

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bad blood between people like chail Son and Anderson Silva,

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knowing that probably the most evident bad blood bout of

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all time would go to Daniel Cormier and John Jones,

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where there was pure hatred. You can cut the tension

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with a knife just watching that one from afar. Imagine

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how it would be if you were in person. So

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these guys who have been in real bad blood bouts

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are told, hey, you qualify, Let's keep people into the building.

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Let's let you guys talk about direct his Duplessis and

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Israel de Sonya were there words exchanged between the two? Absolutely?

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But if he even watch the stare down, there's no

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pull apart, There's no teams going after each other and

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coaches having to interfere and a whole lot of profanity

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being shared back and forth between the guys. That's not

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happening as much as what most of the MMA community,

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especially those who have an MMA background, seem to be

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trying to persuade us to swallow it whole. So it's

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just something to consider. Do we have a really good

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bout on our hands tonight for Izzy versus DDP. Absolutely

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DP says he's ready Israel ASNYA wants redemption, he wants

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his belt back. There's somebody who's going to be sitting

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cage side, or should be since this is Australia, and

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I'll save that for the end. Those of you that

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are die hard MMA fans probably already know who I'm

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talking about, but I have to bring up something else

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as well because I got hit with I wouldn't want

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to say strange confirmations this week. It's an exciting bout,

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but there is a lot to unpackage right away with

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this announcement. The announcement is at UFC three oh seven.

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Alex Perera is doing another turnaround and he's going to

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take another fight, this time to defend his championship. And

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the guy he's gonna face is Khalil Rountree. Now, hold

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on a minute. If we were to go back, there's

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a guy who lost his title to Alex Perera and

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now in many ways to seem to drum up his

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own support has come out and said how much he

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is despising this move to put into the main event

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with Alex Pereiro at three oh seven. I'm talking about

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the former champion. I'm talking about Jamal Hill. Now, since

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three hundred, there has not been a whole lot of

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validity in anything that Jamal Hill has said on his

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social media content, on podcasts, on interviews that he's done.

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It just doesn't hold any water with this guy. But

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for the first time in a long time, Jamal Hill

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does make a fair point. Now, if we can just

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go back there was supposed to be about at UFC

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threeh three with Khalil Rowntree and Jamal Hill. Are you

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piecing this together? Rowntree is out of that bout due

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to a banned substance. Now, if I'm understand this right,

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I've done a very broad stroke here in just a

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quick research of the Internet, and what he got banned for,

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as I'm understand, was dhia. Now, DHAA is just a

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hormone that's naturally produced in your body and your adrenal glands.

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And if you're not able to get that, there is

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a synthetic version of that that's tablet and if you

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were to use it either for not only rebuilding testosterone,

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it's got several others as in an anti aging agent,

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or there's fighting depression. Again, don't come to me if

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you think that I'm gonna know exactly what I'm discussing

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when it comes to any illegal or banned substances. But

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either way, what I can't tell you is that it

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was banned and it was in Khalil Roundtree system and

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he's pulled from the fight. So in steps Carlos Olberg,

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and then Jamal Hill is out of the fight. We

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get a totally different bout all together at UFC three

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h three, So Jamal Hill can't fight, Roundtree is out

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because of a banned substance, and now at three oh seven,

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here comes Roundtree in the main event without Pereira, and

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Jamal Hill is telling all of us that that makes

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the rankings completely pointless. Now again, on the surface, it

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seems like Jamal Hill might be trying to get support

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for his cause to say I'm the guy who should

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be fighting for the belt. But to give him some

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fairness here, if we're going by the rankings, he's got

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a fair and valid point that that does take away

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from somebody like Mohammed Uncliev who's rate number two. It

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does take away from Yuri pro Hosca having a chance

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to step back in against Perera. Now that's just going

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off the rankings and the numbers. So if Jamal Hill

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is having a pouting party and you know, wanting to

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drum up his own support, that'd be a different story.

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But again, if it comes down to the rankings, it

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does overstep on Caliev and he does make a valid point.

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So I just want to say for the first time

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that Jamal Hill is making me go, you make a

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fair point. It seems like all those cobwebs have been

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shaped off and we're starting to make some sense on

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anything that you address on social media. And most of

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the time you're going to get your updates through x

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anyway for what used to be Twitter, you're gonna get

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those updates. So this announcement at three oh seven Alex

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Perera means that he wants to get back in defend

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his championship. He wants to fight again. Very quick turnarounds

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for Rowntree to take the call. That's another thing for

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US MMA fans. We are not privy to what calls

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are made out of the war room, who accepts the fight,

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who declines the fight, who's injured, who's ill, who can't

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make the weight. We don't really hear all that until

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it materializes and we have the official bout, which can

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be frustrating. Just wanted to clarify that that is on

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the horizon. Mix the rest of the year even more

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interesting than it already is, with so many pay per

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views that are jam packed with not only athleticism star power,

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but there's a lot of intrigue that's coming up, starting

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with tonight. If you're watching Izzy versus DDP, if there's

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anybody who should be sitting cage side and will probably

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be in the camera lens at some point tonight, it

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is former champion Robert Whittaker. So we'll see if Bobby

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Knuckles is there. We'll see if he's shaking his fist

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at the cage at whoever is still holding the title,

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whether it's a chance for DP to face him once again,

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or it's for Eazy to wipe off that old rivalry

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and off the table and wipe the dust off. If

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that becomes our future for the middleweights, it's getting intriguing

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once again. Blockhead Nation, now I Thank you for your

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time as you tune into these episodes. Thank you for

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that's all I got for you. We're wrapping it up today.

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We'll catch you next week, same blockhead time, same blockhead

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cham

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Hmmm.