July 18, 2026

The Blockhead Project: Conor in the Valley

The Blockhead Project: Conor in the Valley

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Well, Blockhead Nation, good grief, good afternoon, good evening. Whatever

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time you tune into this little podcast, I thank you

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for your time. I thank you for your listening. Ear

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you are currently listening to your favorite blockhead. Come on in,

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take a seat, relax with me in the studio aka

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and my living room here at the Blockhead Mansion with

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my three dogs as I catch up with you guys

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about what's going on in the life of this particular blockhead.

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I'll start off with if you hear something in the

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background that sounds familiar, Yes, I am watching Home Loan

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in July in the background. Maybe that's not the best

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podcast etiquette, but maybe it's one of those moments of

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just coloring outside of the lines that people appreciate about

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this little podcast, that we don't always follow the traditional path,

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that we trailblaze a little bit. So I'm celebrating Christmas

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in July in a small way as I touch base

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with all my blockhead listeners. So thank you so much

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for tune in and enjoy it. Get comfortable. I'll start

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off with my recommendations this week, because a lot of

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you that reach back out really like it when I

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tell you what I'm listening to on audible or what

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book recommendations I have and the song of the week.

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So I'm gonna start there. To begin with, the book

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I'm currently reading that is really fascinating is a book

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called The Jesus Discoveries. It's ten historic finds that bring

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us face to face with Jesus by doctor Jeremiah Johnston.

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So currently reading that book as we speak. As far

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as the audible that I will share with you that

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you should download and take a listen to is a

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book by the man named Charles Coulson. This book is

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called The Sky Is Not Falling. I know every direction

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you're turning in your news media, your social media, we

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keep hearing horrible things going on around the world. And

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that does not always mean that it's one hundred percent accurate.

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That it is very much targeted towards a certain audience

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to get as to where we're scared and hide under

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the covers. Well, Charles Coulson comes of this from a

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different perspective in his book The Sky Is Not Falling.

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If that name sounds familiar to you, Charles Coulson happens

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to be one of the gentlemen that was on the

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inside during Richard Nixon's administration during this thing called the

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Watergate scandal. And yes, Chuck Coulson did spend some time

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behind bars and came out as a reformed believer in

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Christ Jesus and has spent most of his life with

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his ministry, with his books, with his testimony, and with

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many different lessons he's given from the Bible from that

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point forward. So he very much had a Pall in

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prison or a Paul along the Roads of Damascus, whichever

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one you want to prefer. That Charles Coulson became a

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different person. And I will tell you one of the

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phrases he is most own for is that when Jesus comes,

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something to this effect, when the Lord comes, he is

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not arriving on air Force one. In other words, whatever

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political faction you decide to side with, that's not going

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to be your savior. Somebody who has been on the

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inside is telling you this. So I always spend some

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time taking a look at that book The Sky Is

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Not Falling by Charles Coulson. And as far as my

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song of the week, I chose a song that I

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shared with a particular friend of mine a few days ago.

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I don't think she'll mind. She used to be a

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student of mine and she is currently graduating this year,

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so super proud of her. Won't disclose who it is,

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but she kind of asked me what some of my

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old songs that I used to listen to when I

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was in school. So I'd shared a lot of my

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playlist when I was in high school around two thousand

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and three graduating, and one of the songs I sent

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her was this song God Shaped Hole by Plum. Now,

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granted that song had come out in the early nineties.

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What made it resurface the movie Bruce Almighty. So you

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can go back and hear in that movie where they're

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singing there is a God shaped hole in all of

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us that needs to be filled, and that is worth

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your time. So if you go to the notes today,

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you will see the audible, you will see the book recommendation,

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and you will see a YouTube link to the song

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god Shaped Hole. Now, that album as a whole has

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many more songs that are just incredible. One that's well

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known is a song called Stranded that actually had the

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same hook, and a kJ five to two song called

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so Far Apart. If you listen those two songs, you'll

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hear the comparison, you'll hear what I'm talking about. The

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hook and the lyrics that are very similar. There's even

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a darker song called Damaged. If you're gonna listen to

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that song, basically, be ready to cuddle up into a ball.

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It's all about a young girl who was abused, whether

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it was a father or stepfather, some type of superior

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being in her life. It's heartbreaking lyrics. But this is

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something that Plumb was not afraid to expose. But you

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have to kind of dig into the album to find

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those gems. So I would highly recommend those, and you

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know it's not something I'm gonna steer away from this point.

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As you know those who have been listening for a while,

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I used to do two things on this show. I

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would combine the Peanuts and mixed martial arts, and people go, well, why, well,

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one that's my comic and two that's my sport. So

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if you stick around in part one, you're getting mostly peanuts.

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If you listen to the second part, you're getting mixed

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martial arts. Well, ultimately that's what you're getting throughout this

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entire episode. But when it comes to the Peanuts, it

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wasn't like Charles Schultz was afraid in the TV shows

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to bring some not so much dark humor, but dark

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narrative or heartbreaking narrative to listeners or to viewers. He

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did that very much in the nineteen seventy two TV

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special Snoopy Come Home, the song that Charlie Brown sings

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as Snoopy walks away into the distance because he has

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chosen at that particular time to go return to his

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former owner Lilah, who's in the hospital and quote needs him.

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So it's a heartbreaking scene as he walks away because

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he's made his choice, and Charlie Brown has to watch

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his dog, watch his dog walk away into the distance,

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and you hear these lyrics just when you think you

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can get comfortable, that's when you're seen or rechanges all

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at once, you're all alone and scared. This is something

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that I actually thought. This is what went through my

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mind when my parents passed away, well one after the other,

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where Charles Schultz would use those lyrics where they'd say,

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someone that you truly cared about severs the tides, and

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then all once you're all alone and scared. These are

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very much thoughts that anybody who is grieving in their

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parents' faces, and how we hate goodbyes and wish we

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had more hellos, and you wish those things when it's

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too late. So this had to be something that I

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had to mull over and chew on for a while.

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But that song, in particular from Snoopy Come Home is

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very depressing. That's not something that Charles Shilt shied away from.

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Was depression. Sometimes what do we do if we face it?

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We live through it. We go through the storm, hopefully

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not alone, but alongside somebody you love and trust. And

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that does not mean that everybody always sympathized with Charlie

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Brown either. It's easy to sympathize them in that matter.

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But we will look at his baseball career. There is

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a famous baseball player that actually told him to quit.

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You know who that was? Will you think I'm making

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that up? There was a TV special celebrating fifty years

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of the Peanuts not long before Charles Schultz ultimately passed away.

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It was a family TV special using people like Faith Hill,

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BB King, a bunch of different stars. Oh maybe not

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Open Winfrey, but definitely Whoopi Goldberg was the narrator, the host.

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But after many, many games of losing and how many

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errors you would find in one particular game. Willie Mays

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looks at Charlie Brown tells him most important thing he

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needs to hear, Son, it is time for you to quit.

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I'm sorry, no other way around that. But in many

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ways some of you hear that and go, well, why

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would you want to tell somebody that? Why would you

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tell someone to quit? Guys, There's an entire book that

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I read in the past that any of you that

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are thinking about a career change should read. It's a

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book by John Acuff called Quitter. It doesn't tell you

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to quit your day job in a knee jerk reaction.

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It's kind of like the gentleman who wrote forty eight

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Days to the Work you Love and No More Money

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is Dan and Monday's Dan Miller. Same thing. It's you're this,

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but you want to become this, and you start making

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your moves to exit said job and be able to

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go for what you want and the people you need

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to know you already know. So quitter versus John Acuff

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is a very different approach, a very different mind shift

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to somebody who wants to take that route. So sometimes

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when you tell Charlie Brown's okay to hang up your

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gloves and go into something that you're good at, like, oh,

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I don't know spelling. He was very good at that.

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We know that from the spelling contest he was in.

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But you know, ultimately it's worth deciding if you're going

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to be a quitter. But John Acuff is a book

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that will guide you that direction. Dan Miller forty eight

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Days to the work you love, something worth reading. And

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just like we hear here for what this is worth,

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as I'm celebrating Christmas in July, I'll give you the

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same advice that good old Johnny gave snakes in the end,

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for what it's worth, keep the change a filthy animal.

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Stick around for part two and we'll get into a

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little bit of mixed martial arts and a little bit

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of scripture that this world desperately needs to hear. To

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get the full gist of today's scripture reading for this podcast,

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I would highly recommend you read the entire chapter, but

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I will just start with where I will bring the

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point home about Daniel interpreting King Nebucha Nezra's dream. So

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it's coming from Daniel Chapter four. I recommend reading the

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whole chapter, but We're gonna look specifically at verse twenty

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two through twenty three. It is you, o King, you

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who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown

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and reaches to heaven and your dominion to the ends

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of the earth. And because the King saw a watcher,

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a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, chop

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down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump

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of its roots in the earth, bound with the band

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of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field,

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and let him be wet with the dew of heaven,

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and let his portion be with the beasts of the field,

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till seven periods of time pass over him. Okay. Daniel

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four is loaded with an interpretation. King Nebukinezer has a

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second dream, and instead of doing what he did in

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the past, where you tell me the dream and you

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interpret it or I kill you, he actually defines what

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the dream was for everyone that would give ear to it.

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But the only one that can interpret it is Daniel.

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He's already interpreted the statue that was in Dale chapter two.

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So in Dal chapter four, there's this dream of a

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tree that reaches to the heavens, and somebody from heaven says,

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cut it down, but leave the stump. So without getting

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to all the details. If you ever need a summary

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of any chapter of the Book of the Bible, I

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recommend you use Stepbible dot org. That's where I'm getting

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this from. So I'm gonna specifically look at as Home

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alone continues to play in the background. I told you

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that I am watching that and celebrating of Christmas in July.

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This is what it says, and I quote Daniel interpreted

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that the tree represent the king and God was going

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to strip the king from the reign of his kingdom,

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and that the king would live like an animal in

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the wild, eating grass like cattle until the king finally

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admitted that God was in control, which would take a

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span of about seven years. And that's where Daniel is

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going to beg King Nebukanezzer to turn from his ways,

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to repent and come back to God. So I don't

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have any notes in front of me. I'm flying fully

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solo on this because I know a lot of you

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are waiting for me to give my interpretation of what

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happened at UFC three twenty nine. Some of you that

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have may have this far know that I'm an Mma fan,

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and you keep begging me to give insight, and you're like,

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come on, block it, you gotta talk about UFC three

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twenty nine. That's the Connor fight, Connor McGregor versus mac Holloway. Well,

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as I take a swig of water here and as

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Kevin McAllister is setting up his traps throughout the house,

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I'm just gonna fly from the hip and tell you

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what I truly think I can tell you about the

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fights from last Saturday. First of all, I hope that

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Connor McGregor's tweet after it was all said and done

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that he was going to go to church. I hope

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in my heart of hearts that that was truthful. If

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you ever needed to see a guy who could have

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a testimony that could reach more people than I could

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ever dream of reaching, it's Connor McGregor. And of all

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these people who are trying to kick a wounded animal

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while he's down, you're not getting that from me. I

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truly hope that, just like Daniel confronting King Nebekonezer and

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begging him to repent, that your favorite blockhead could say

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to Connor McGregor if he were to ever come across

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this podcast which I doubt you will, but if he were,

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I would just tell him continue going to church. Okay,

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So you blew out your knee, if that's really what happened.

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This isn't your wounded leg from when you fought Dustin

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Poirier five years ago. This is your right leg. This

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is apparently your ACL or your moniscus. More likely. The

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doctors and Dana White that watched from Kate's ide all

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thought it was an ACL being torn, which throwing that

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kick early trying to surpass the five second knee knockout

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from Hore and Mosvedal to Ben Asker and I can

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understand why you did it, and it was a total disaster.

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Did not work out well for you. I appreciate the

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class of Max Holloway, a guy who looked at the

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referee and said, this guy is hurt. What do you

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want me to do? Connor wants him to fight. He

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keeps fighting, but then Connor can't stand on his leg.

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He looks at Mike Beltrand, one of the very best

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in the game, and says, what are you gonna you

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want to keep fighting or what are you gonna call this?

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And ultimately Beltrand does call it because he can't even stand.

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We have a legit injury. So many many people are

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going to could kick the guy while he's down. I'm

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not going to. I'm hoping just like nevik Nezzer who

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gets humbled. I'm not wishing for Connor to crawl on

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his hands and knees and eat grass like a cow

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and have nails that grow out like a raven's claw,

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and for seven years be exiled out of the country

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that he used to rein over. I'm not wishing that

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on Connor. I'm just wishing that you could use your

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testimony somebody who had everything at his beck and call

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to go from everything to nothing, somebody who got to

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know God in the hills but really got to know

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him on the way down, knowing that he's the God

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of the valley as well. I hope that's what's gonna

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happen here with Connor. The testimony you have when it

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comes to people's faith and their salvation, and that's not

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something to take lightly. It's crucial. Your eternity matters. Connor

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McGregor's eternity matters to me. I hope it it's sincere.

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And if that's me being naive, then so be it.

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I'm telling you the truth, blockad Nation. I want to

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one day stand before my Lord and Savior knowing I've

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done nothing to be worthy of being there, but his

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son's blood covers me and covers the multitude, that his

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sacrifice is enough, and I can look and my Lord

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and my Savior can say to me, well done, good

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and faithful servant. That's what I want for myself. I

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want that from my family. I want that for you

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that's listening. I want that for Connor mc gregor, and

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I want for his testimony to bring so many people

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to come and kneel at the cross. That is what

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I truly want, block Adimation. That's what matters the most

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to me. That you can submit fully to the only

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one that's worth submitting to, the only one that's worthy

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to see a complete life turnaround for Connor is incredible

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to see what a good guy Max Holloway is willing

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to give up his purse and be able to pay

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or offer anyway to pay the hospital bill for Connor

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McGregor's visit and rehabilitation everything in between. That's an awesome guy, right.

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How can you not like Max Holloway. He's still my

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favorite fighter So my final answer to all of it

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is this, most of the people that were in attendance threefold. Here.

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You walked out distraught over the Connor loss. You walked

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out appreciating Max Holloway. But every one of you, probably

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ninety nine point one percent of people that went to

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that arena, walked out of there as a fan of

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Patty the battye Pimblet. And I'm not just talking about

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fans and attendance. I'm talking Mike Tyson, who was singing

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his praises and singing along with him on the walkout

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and watched him defeat Benoi Saint Denis in less than

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a minute. I'm talking about Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson

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who were there and singing his praises to and from

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the cage. Are we ushering in a new era? I

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believe we are. We got a few guys that stand

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above the pack. One of them is justin Gaegee. One

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is definitely Patty the Batty Pimblet. Another one would have

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to be Max. We're looking for some rising stars like

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Luke Riley and Gable Stevenson. You'd have to know the

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prelambs to know who I'm talking about. But I'd say

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we still have on a global basis, a guy named

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Elia Taporia is probably still up there even with his

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loss to Gaigee. We'll see how that plays out, because

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the grudge match is so easy to build up with

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for Elia and Patty, even since they had their confrontation

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all the way back to twenty twenty two. So I

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say that, as I laugh at mar falling off the stairs,

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that we have such a unique and weird combination of

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a submission for Patty. What happens ben Wi san Deny

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shoots he was expecting to. He catches him in the guillotine,

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then he takes guard and he's going to turn it

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into a darsh choke, and then somehow rolls it back

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over into Peruvian necktie. Where we have threefold here, such

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a unique but an unheard of submission. And what does

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Patty say at the press conference? Something I did on

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the fly? What nothing methodical about it at all? Just

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somebody threw together and it worked to where he had

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to tell the referee he's out, he's unconscious. So where

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do we go from him? For Patty? I mean so

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many options. You could have him go against Charles Olivera

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for the BMF title. You could build up to the

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grudge match with Elia Taporia. That's super easy. That's what

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most of us really want. You can build up a

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rematch for Justin Gaichie. That's what Patty wants. He's already said,

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I'm gonna beat BSD and the I'm gonna take on

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Gaichie for the rematch. That's an easy one. But we

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just heard that Geechee is saying, and I quote, he's

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gonna fight somebody that he's never fought before, which leads

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me to believe somebody who's left out of the equation,

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a guy by the name of Armants ruki On who's

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been off the radar for a while, but he's kind

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of the rightful number one contender. Or do you go

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ahead and take two guys that didn't even break a sweat,

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took literally no damage. Do you put Max against Patty?

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Which I think you can lots of options on the

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table for Patty. We'll see what direction we go with

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Justin Gagee. How long is Elia gonna sit out after

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taking this loss? But ultimately, what are we gonna do

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with Max two? So a lot of good problems to

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have if you look at the organization. But so that's

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my answer that everybody that left UFC three twenty nine

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disappointed by Connor in awe of what a good guy

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that Max Holloway is. But if you were not a

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fan of Patty the Batty yet, I don't know what

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you're waiting on. What more does he have to prove?

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He doesn't approve anything to anybody because he's got the

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options now showing how much of a marketable superstar he

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truly is now in the eyes of the UFC, in

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the eyes of fans like myself, the new era has

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begun with Patty, so planning to think about. As Kevin

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McCall's colleger said, I'm thirsty for more. Either way, we'll

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continue this discussion probably two weeks from now. I have

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to get ready to go to church camp. Got a

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couple of young men and young ladies that will be

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out there getting closer to Jesus and a place set apart,

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and I pray that we love on them and me

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and the little red haired girl. We do our best,

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use our talents and our skills, but we just ultimately

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love them and show them that Christ should be at

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the center of it all. So I thank you all

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for listening in. We'll catch up two weeks from now.

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Until that time, this is your favorite blockhead sign out.

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