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

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast in the podcasting

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world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts
comic strip one minute and then be talking

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about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon
the next. I am your host.

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My name is Brian Little. Thank
you so much for tuning in to this

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little podcast. I hope you'll stick
around a little while because I have a

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few special shout outs, especially a
little mid roll later on the episode,

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that I think you should stick around
for. To begin with, I have

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to start off by giving a shout
out to Brazil. I'm not kidding you,

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the country of Brazil you have been
tuning into this little show. I

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tuned into Charterable dot com the other
day and I noticed that my podcast was

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number two hundred and seventy in Society
and Culture. It totally floored me to

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see that. So, you know
what, I gotta give you guys some

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applause on this one. This is
just a groundbreaking moment. So whether you

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are in Brazil and you are a
Peanuts fan, or if you are a

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mixed martial arts fan, or both, you showed up for this little show,

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and I truly appreciate that. If
you are new to this podcast.

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Three things are always talked about on
here. Number one, God is King.

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

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And number three mixed martial arts.
In my mind, in my opinion,

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humbly is the greatest sport under God's
hot sun. I'll save the MMA talk

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for part two to begin with.
Let's get into Peanuts a little bit,

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shall we. You got tax season
coming up pretty soon. Yay, A

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wonderful date to put on your calendar, April fifteenth. We all do not

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look forward to that day. Some
do when you get your refund, when

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you get your money back that you
gave to the government. But what I

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think is so hilarious is Charles Schultz
did not have anything fond to say about

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the Irs. How do I know
because using the comic strip I'm talking about

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today, you had Snoopy specifically writing
a letter to the IRS. That's how

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he starts the letter, dear Irs, and he pauses and says, I

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would like to end my subscription,
thank you very much, And can I

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say, tax office, can you
end the subscription? For a wyf B

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as well. I'd appreciate it.
I never look forward to April fifteenth,

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but you know that if you're in
that boat. Charles Schultz was as well.

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So that comic strip is always fun
to read. Every single year comes

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across my internet stream. I see
it on my social media pages, so

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I love to share that one.
Now we are in post Super Bowl.

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If you're tuning in and you happen
to be a SWIFTYE, a Taylor Swift

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fan, please know I am not
trying to diminish that. Okay, this

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is America. You can be a
fan of anything you want to be a

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fan of. But I keep telling
everybody when you tune into the Super Bowl

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most of the time, it's not
about the game anymore. It's about the

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marketing. It's about how many times
are we gonna show Taylor Swift. We're

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gonna have Travis Kelcey instead of Pat
Mahomes having a relapse and having a moment

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of childishness. I mean, that
did happen, and it's been blown up

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all over every media stream there is
out there. But when it comes to

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the Super Bowl, was that ever
talked about out in the Peanuts comic strip,

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not so much in the comic strip. But there was a TV special.

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There was one. It was about
the Super Bowl. Certainly, Now,

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how this is relevant, how I'm
trying to tie this in is because

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you have Taylor Swift and you have
Travis Kelcey in the spotlight at the game.

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And again we know how this works. The die hard football fans are

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irritated because people watching it's more about
the commercials, It's more about the halftime

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show. I'm sick of looking at
her. I want to know what's going

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on in the grid iron. I
get it. That just comes with the

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territory, doesn't it. But Charles
Schultz did make a Super Bowl special in

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the early nineties. This was back
when the Dallas Cowboys were doing exceptionally well.

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And if you watch it, there's
a kick and punt pass competition.

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All of the characters get involved.
Lucy gets involved, Marcy gets involved,

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Schroeder gets involved. Maybe he didn't, but Franklin certainly did. And prior

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to this event, there was this
girl that came along that caught the attention

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of both Charlie Brown and Linus.
Now while they are infatuated with her and

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how they want to both impress her. What happens she steps in last minute

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and wins the whole competition. She
wins the free bicycle and a free trip

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to the super Bowl. Just completely
caught Charlie Brown and Linus without their armor

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on. Their guard wasn't up,
and they're like, what just happened here?

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I ask you that are listening,
blockand Nation. Is there a tie

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into this to Taylor Swift? Maybe? But can I take a mint to

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maybe shift this another direction? I
want to take a mint to compliment women

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on this episode. Some of all
the are tuned in. Why are you

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getting so intertwined in ladies in society? And I'll tell you why. Charles

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Schultz was quite the historian. If
you didn't know that, you go back

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and watch some of the comic strips
he put out the TV series. There

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was one called This is America Charlie
Brown, where he put the spotlight on

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inventors like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham, Bell, the NASA Space Station,

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the Birth of the Constitution. I
mean it's all there, so the Transcontinental

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Railroad. But I say that just
because Charles Schultz, if he was around

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in twenty twenty four, how would
he respond to the entertainment aspect of the

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Super Bowl. He was a guy
that knew how to honor famous people in

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history. And I want to tell
you that women are crucial to our story.

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How quickly you forget that ladies are
the backbone to America. You want

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proof, I'm gonna take you back
to the eighteen fifties just for a second,

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and you're probably thinking, Oh,
he's given me a history lesson.

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This is kind of crucial. When
you had a certain law that affected the

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North called the Fugitive Slave Law.
Here's how that worked. If you were

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a slave or a runaway, you
are no longer safe if you lived in

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Boston, Massachusetts, your whole life, even if you had Freeman papers.

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All it took was an accusation and
you are being sent back to the South.

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Federal magistrates were paid ten dollars to
send that slave back to the South.

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They're paid five dollars to let them
go free. The North is now

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under a very strict fugitive law that
has tied their hands when it comes to

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the institution of slavery. How do
I know that Because there's a special book

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that came out that sold almost as
many copies as the Bible did in the

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eighteen fifties. I'm talking about Uncle
Tom's cabin. I'm talking about an unknown

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Connecticut housewife named Harriet Beecher Stowe.
How quickly these ladies are forgotten, those

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of you that loved to get caught
up in the entertainment aspect of Taylor Swift.

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That's all fun and good, but
fundamentally, don't forget about ladies like

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this. Don't forget that. When
Abraham Lincoln addressed her, he said,

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oh, you're the little lady that
wrote the book that caused this great war.

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What was her response? I didn't
write it. God wrote it.

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She specifically set the standard for realistic
fiction. That book talks about the fugitive

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slave law. That literally, and
if you watch it, if you read

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the story, if you look at
what history is telling us, the North

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is being paid to keep their mouths
shut. They're being paid to look the

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other way. Guess who doesn't look
the other way. It's the women.

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Yes, it is the abolitionists like
Frederick Douglas who escaped to the North and

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told his story. Yes, it's
people like William Lloyd Garrison. Sure,

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all these are important, but our
women have always been the backbone. When

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we go to war, Guests,
who's working in the factories. Guess who

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is working in the textile mills.
Guests who are the ones who are politicizing

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and saying this institution of slavery is
wrong. Sure, there are other factors

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that lead to the war between the
States, the Civil War, something that

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Charles Schultz very much used several times
in his comic strips and his TV shows.

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It's their blockhead Nation. So I'm
sorry if you saw this as a

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history lesson. But what I'm saying
is when you have Taylor Swift, who

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steals the spotlight from Kelsey and from
the Chiefs and from any diehard football fan

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kinda liked the girl in the Super
Bowl episode stole the Super Bowl tickets and

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the free bicycle right underneath the nose
of Linus and Charlie Brown. Sure we

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can get caught up in entertainment.
Let's not forget to educate ourselves. Let's

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not forget about these unspoken heroes like
Harriet Bachristowe. Let's not forget about the

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women who learned how to protest,
who taught themselves how to read and write,

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who took less pay than men who
worked in Lowell, Massachusetts. Let's

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not forget about people like Susan B. Anthony, because Charles Schultz certainly didn't.

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In fact, he put them out
there in his American series for Americans

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to know and not forget about.
So am I taken away from Taylor Swift?

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No, she's an entertainer, She's
an amazing lady. But how groundbreaking

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is she compared to people like Harriet
Beecher Stowe, who wrote a book that

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divided us even more but challenged the
evils of the institution of slavery. I'll

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Now, all that being said, let's

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get back to the episode, shall
we. Our scripture reading for this podcast

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is a request from the little red
haired girl herself Proverbs chapter three, verse

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five through six. Trust in the
Lord with all your heart, and lean

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not on your own understanding in all
your ways. Submit to him and he

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will make your paths straight. It's
like a song I knew growing up.

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Who can grasp your infinite wisdom?
Who can fathom the depth of your love?

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And like a dear friend once said, when God stops being mysterious,

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he's not God anymore. So there
are some serious splendor to the depth of

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the sovereignty of our Lord and Savior. Blockhead Nation. Always want to make

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sure I present you with the truth
as I get into my opinions. And

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there are some harsh ones, and
there are some heartfelt and some I guess

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laid back responses to this week,
it looks like according to all of the

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MMA rumors that are out there,
I'll say it early MMA rumors are like

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peanut butter and jelly, they go
together. We have an interim champion right

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now in the heavyweight division, Tom
Aspinall, who's kind of just out there

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waiting to be offered a fight.
When you have John Jones and Steve Amochic,

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who both have refused, it seems
like to take the fight against him.

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It's they want to face each other. I'm assuming at Madison Square Garden,

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if they're talking about November, that
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So this is where we currently stand. We keep hearing that John Jones

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is no GO. Three hundred is
becoming more of a tease and even more

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of a letdown. Not so much
from myself, because I will enjoy most

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of the fights that are on the
card for UFC three hundred, But if

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you're going to bring in the casual
fan, bringing in John Jones versus Steve

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Amyochich would make sense. Bringing in
Connor McGregor versus Michael Chandler would make sense.

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But none of those are confirmed,
and they that can keeps on getting

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kicked down the road. So we
hear through the resource most of them are

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gain is from Twitter. Whether we're
talking bloody Elbow or low kick MMA,

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or whether we're talking the about the
Athletic or Bleacher Report, they're all basing

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of the same thing that John Jones
is a no go for UFC three hundred

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and the rumor is is that nine
weeks to prepare for Tom Aspinall is simply

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not enough time. That could be
the coaches looking out for you, But

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I certainly wonder why if you are
such a champion. You know how the

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saying goes, always stay ready so
you never have to get ready. I

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guess that doesn't apply to somebody the
stature of John Jones, does it,

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And certainly a let down for me
to hear that Steve Amyochich won't step in

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and take a fight against somebody like
Tom Aspinall. So again I ask you,

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what has Tom done wrong? And
now it's just waiting around. Maybe

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we're gonna have Curtis Blade versus Almeta, and the winner of that fight will

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face Tom for the interim championship.
But once again, I go none of

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these guys could probably beat Tom Aspinall. At this point, I'm really willing

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to say that if there's anybody who
could defeat the quote goat of the UFC,

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it's Tom Aspinall. He can defeat
John Jones. How do I know

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that because of how often he gets
rejected. There are many times that other

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MMA fires have looked at those on
the roster and say you're wasting my time,

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kid, and they get humiliated.
So I'm putting out there, John

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Jones, Steve Amyojic, it's time
for you to step away and let the

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heavyweight division continue without you because we
have an interim champ already now. To

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get into a current title holder,
I have to talk about tonight. You

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got a pay per view. UFC
two to ninety eight has some incredible fights

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on it. Marau duash Vile versus
Henry Sahudo excellent fight. Should be a

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groundbreaking fight between both of these.
For Henry Sahudo to return to face the

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number one slash number two guy,
which is Morob should be an excellent fight.

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Ian Gary put in his undefeated streak
up against a veteran like Jeff Neil,

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and if you watch the face off, it's nothing but being cordial there's

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no bad blood that I'm seeing between
these two. It's just Ian Gary trying

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to market himself and trying to be
a Connor McGregor two point zero. He

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doesn't need that. He's got the
record. He could easily go out there

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and destroy Jeff Neil, but he's
a veteran that I respect, so I

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wouldn't count him out right away.
Cole An event, you got paul A

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Costa who showed up on Wait.
He looks fantastic, he's getting good health.

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Strength will clearly go to Paula Costa, which I can never not pledge

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my allegiance to the Australian former champion
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Colemane. Event, I guess the
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but strength clearly goes to Costa.
Now we get to the main event,

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you have an undefeated Eliat versus the
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goat of the division, which is
Alexander Volkanovski. Okay, First off,

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excellent fight. I am loving the
new gimmick of Volganovsky. Hearing from

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the fans that he's too old to
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to the press conference an old man's
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conference. Paulo Costa has to wake
him. I love it, had me

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in stitches. But in reality,
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he's not ready for somebody that's undefeated, like Eliot Toporia, I'll give you

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that. Eliot Toporia is dangerous.
But guys Chail's son and has this thing

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called the Chail curse. He has
chosen Volkanovsky to win this fight. Wyf

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B is putting the wife be curse
on Volkanovsky. But you know what will

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be the common denominator that will diminish
all of that. It's a blessing from

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a certain fighter that spoke out on
Volkanovski's behalf. Who am I talking about?

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I'm talking about Max Holloway. You
know that guy who's done what three

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four fights against vulk at this point, who has said he has heard you

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fans grumbling about him being too old. Let me tell you there's a lot

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of fight in that dog, and
do not count him out on Saturday.

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You will regret doing that. I'm
pretty sure a blessing from Max Holloway would

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take care of the chill Son and
curse and the wif B curse simultaneously.

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I'm standing with my allegiance with Vulk. Now do I think that he'll finish

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him? I don't know. They've
both been in the five round club,

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but especially Vulk has done this several
times and he's always ready to answer.

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And he did a video on YouTube
that was so hilarious about him wearing the

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old guy uniform. He thinks it's
Dana calling him. It's not Dana,

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it's the taxation office. He's about
to give away his credit card information and

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the guys in camera going, don't
it's a scam. It's a scam.

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Don't do that. He's playing the
VHS of the Poor his last fight,

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but it's taped over by something,
and by the time you look at volcan

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I think you messed up the tape. He's already falling asleep in the lounge

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chair. He's spraying kids that are
skateboarding down the sidewalk, talking about how

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kids have no respect these days.
I am loving the old man gimmick for

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Volkanovski, but when he steps inside
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loose. So I encourage all of
you to check those out UFC two ninety

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eight main card, Fantastic Tonight four
blockbuster fights that anybody that's an MMA fan

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should go check out. And now
I will end with this. The hang

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up is still UFC three hundred.
So we've got a few that are already

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on the docket. But we were
expecting are we gonna get Homsat Chamayav to

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show up? And here's the problem. He responds and says, I will

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fight anybody anytime, but I won't
fight during Ramadan. Ramadan is during UFC

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three hundred. So Chamayev, as
far as I can tell, according to

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all the resources I've seen, I'm
only as good as the information presented to

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you. As far as I can
tell, Chamayah is out of UFC three

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hundred. So we don't have a
confirmed return of Connor McGregor. We don't

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have a confirmed John Jones return.
We have some fights that for an MMA

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fan like myself appreciate, like Charles
Olivera versus armanster Ruki on Bo Nickel being

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on the card. You know,
these are great for somebody who's a current

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fan. But now we've got to
ask the question, is the UFC to

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blame for this possible luster UFC three
hundred. Are we left in the dirt

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here or is this something that chel
Syn talked about, how these fighters are

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to blame who won't just sign on
the line which is dotted and do what

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your profession is is fight? Are
you just not going to freaking fight if

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you are offered a UFC three hundred
fight. Are we getting to that point?

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Or am I, like everybody else, just an MMA mark that's gonna

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be caught off guard when Dana comes
in with this breaking news. I don't

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have a great answer for you.
At the moment, Blockad Nation April looks

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promising for a diehard fan like me, But for the fans you're trying to

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reach. Dating back to UFC one
hundred and UFC two hundred, you had

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superstars that headlined what have you got
now? It really is kind of painful.

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It's got some sting to it.
Blockad Nation three hundred should be a

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groundbreaking moment for the company, but
it kind of goes to is the UFC

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just dropping the ball at booking or
these fighters just refusing to fight? Who

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do we blame for this venue being
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When you have a great pay per
view like tonight, or you have UFC

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two ninety nine in March with Sean
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Where do we look to and as
a fan, it's not so much irritating,

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but it's if you are trying to
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this groundbreaking blockbuster event. I think
you're coming up a little bit short now,

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but I'll certainly be tuning in either
way no matter what happens. So

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we'll see how the wife be Curse
works out tonight with my picks for Vulk

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winning this one. If you want
to know my picks Blockhead Nation, most

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of you their friends that have made
it this far. You can send me

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a comment if you want. I'll
let you know. Maybe I'll do a

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recap on this as soon as I
can. But either way, we have

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a birthday dinner to go to me
and the Little Red Hair Girl. We

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have somewhere to be, so I'm
gonna wrap this up. We thank you

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