The Great Pumpkin Skipped Town As Brazil Gives Lewis A Speeding Ticket

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Broadcasting live, good afternoon or good
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I am your host. My name is

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Brian Little, And if you happen
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And also, once again, I'm
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room amongst four dogs, and so
maybe the content it will be somewhat able

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to digest. There might be some
issues with audio quality. I apologize up

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front, but it's the best that
we can do. But I'm gonna ask

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you to start off with this episode, how was your Halloween? I say

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that with some sarcasm and some sour
grapes, just because I know some of

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you are looking at me, going, yeah, another year has gone by.

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A Blockhead Nation. You didn't see
the Great Pumpkin, did you?

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No? I could not confirm that
I spotted him. I did look at

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my Great Pumpkin tracker on my phone, just like they have the Santa tracker

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that follows radar, and I'm not
having any luck whatsoever the Great Pumpkin.

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I want to believe he took flight, but I'm certainly not sure where and

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what geolocation we're talking about. But
either way, we'll stick around for next

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year and see how that plays out, because we are great Pumpkin believers over

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here at the Blockhead Mansion, and
I would hope you would be too,

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as you know, being number two, he's got to try harder. But

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that's just where we stand. And
in the past, we had some times

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that we would do trunk or treat. I know some of you have heard

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the story before, but in case
you're new to the show, there were

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times that the Little Red Hair Girl
and myself would be doing trunk or treat

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for our church and we would have
games. I would play Charlie Brown,

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she would be Snoopy. That's normally
the costumes that we wear. This year,

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we weren't ill to because my mother
lobbying and rehabit, you know,

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just to kind of catch all up, keep the prayers coming. We'd appreciate

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that. But I've shared this story
before that there was a little boy that

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came over and did the games for
our trunk retreat, and we were handing

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him candy, and I made the
comment, hoping that he would know what

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I was discussing. He gets his
bag and I say, there you going.

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It looks like you got a nice
little load. There. You did

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a lot better than I did this
year. For Halloween, I went trigger

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treating. All I got was a
bag full of rock ucks and Blockhead Nation.

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I kid you not. This kid
looked up at me with the most

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hang dog look on his face like
I've never seen before. He thought I

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was serious. He was not familiar
with the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Parents,

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you have dropped the ball. If
your kid doesn't know about the Great

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Pumpkin Charlie Brown, you gotta do
better. But he thought I was sincerely

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telling him that I had gone to
all these houses and everyone I got was

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a bag full of rocks. I
think that is a meme or an emoji

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or something going on through the world
of social media, and these kids don't

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even know that that's a reference to
the Peanuts. You've got to do better.

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If you take that criticism as too
harsh, Well, I don't know

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what to tell you, but this
kid didn't know what I meant. He

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tried to give me candy out of
his bag and try to make me feel

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better. He literally thought that I
I always got a bag full of rocks,

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which isn't true. But that's going
back to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts

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and the Great Pumpkin at the brick
Wall. Charlie Brown is saying he got

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a bag full of rocks, and
he assumed last spindle night in the pumpkin

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patch, and certainly the Great Pumpkin
didn't show up. Well, here we

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are, it's twenty twenty three.
We haven't got a spy of him yet.

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Just like we're waking non NeSSI the
Lochness Monster to finally reveal herself.

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The Great Pumpkin at some point will
emerge, and by Golly, Blockhead will

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be there somehow, some way.
But on a lighter note, even though

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I normally talk about the peanuts in
the section, I have to bring up

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something sports related. Since I live
south of Dallas, outside of the Arlington

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area, we can honestly say that
for the first time in sixty three years

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of the franchise, that the Texas
Rangers are the World Series champs. I

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have to tip my hat to that
one. As a baseball manager, they've

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certainly done better than Charlie Brown ever
did. So I can just say we've

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had our celebration. We had our
big moment. I had some people tell

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me it would be nice if we
can bring it to Game six and win

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it in Arlington, and I'm going, no, don't jinx that. Let

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them finish it on the road.
We do better on away games. Let

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them finish it. We'll have the
celebration when they come back. And sure

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enough, that's what happened. So
I'm definitely acknowledging and shouting out my Texas

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Rangers for an awesome season, for
a season that certainly didn't portray that we

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belonged there. But certainly Rocky Balboa
has knocked out Ivan Drago or you want

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to talk about club or languagever one
you would consider the Diamondbacks to be,

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or even the Houston Astros. This
is just a big deal. So since

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this is a society and culture podcast, might as well acknowledge that. Correct.

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And when it comes to now that
Halloween's over, it's Christmas. Some

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of you are already annoyed. Some
of y'all understand the reference I'm given now,

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November is a time for Christmas music. No, it's a time for

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commercialization. The commercialization of Christmas has
already begun. It's already been happening in

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Walmart, It's been happening in all
your stores. The merchandise for Texas Rangers

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is flying off the shelves in places
like Academy and Dick's Sporting Goods. But

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this is where it all begins.
We talk about that in the Christmas episode

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with Charlie Brown. This is one
pageant that's not gonna be commercial. Well,

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as you know, Christmas is a
big commercial racket. It's already begun

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in the month of November. It's
not just the music, it's the consumerism.

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It's already there. And some of
you are guilty of this, just

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as I am. But I wanted
to make sure I acknowledge this that it's

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already begun, that we are expecting
more Christmas lights to go up, more

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music on the radio, and a
lot more of the most wonderful time of

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the year to empty your pockets,
to go and get those feel good moments

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that will last fifteen seconds on Christmas
Day two months from now. Certainly harvest

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time for the businesses that you're going
to be contributing to. I hope you

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hear it in my voice. It's
not that I don't enjoy the holidays.

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I happen to love them. But
we all know that this is a big

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bite of the sandwich that we have
to take together. And Charlie Brown knew

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that back in the sixties. Charles
Schultz knew that intuitively for so long.

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He wouldn't have put it in the
comic strip if it wasn't true. And

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as I make sure I wrap up
this part on part one, I know

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normally I say of mixed martial arts
for this. So I've talked about getting

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a bag full of rocks. That
happens every year. Great Pumpkin didn't spot

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him. This year. We got
the Rangers in the World Series, Champions

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of the World Series, and we
got the commercialization that Christmas has already begun

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in the month of Novae. But
I have to bring something up. You

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guys know of that guy named Mark
Zuckerberg. You know that guy. Apparently

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he was gonna start training for an
MMA about with one and only Elon Musk.

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It was supposed to be Facebook or
Metaverse versus Twitter. Inside of the

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cage well, I don't know if
you saw the update, but he happens

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to be dealing with an ACL injury. So we can definitely agree that the

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postponement of these two gladiators, I
use that term very loosely, these keyboard

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warriors who are gonna be delaying this
even longer, this three ring circus,

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including whatever referee gets locked into the
cage with these two buffoons. Did you

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even remember that? Did you even
know that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were

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supposed to fight? I totally forgot
about that until I saw the update on

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his injury. I don't not wish
him a recovery. I just enjoy the

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fact that we have pumped the brakes
on this nonsense early in the year.

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So I guess you can say that
Blockhead got an early Christmas gift that this

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is not going to be a reality
in the world of MMA, at least

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in twenty twenty three or maybe late
twenty twenty four. But we have some

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major diamonds in the rough coming up
with the world of mixed martial arts we

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can speak of on the second half
of this show. Our scripture reading for

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this podcast comes from John Chapter fourteen, verses two through three. In my

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father's house are many mansions. If
it were not so, I would have

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told you I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go

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and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and to receive you

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unto myself, that where I am
there you may be. Also, reflection

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from Blue Lair Bible shows that this
is an amazing promise right now that Christ

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is preparing a heavenly place for us. The graciousness of our God for not

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allowing and less into heaven but giving
us our own place, one that Jesus

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himself is creating that when our time
on earth is done, He's going to

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come and take us home. So
I always want to make sure on part

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two that I'm sharing the truth of
you blockad Nation. God is King,

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the Prince of Peace, our Lord
and Savior is pairing an eternal home for

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you. One day you'll inherit those
keys to the kingdom when we graduate.

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As we get into the world mix
of martial arts, we have a main

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event tonight in Brazil Almeta versus Lewis
Well. I guess it's one of those

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he had to go clear up some
things first, because as I read this

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correctly. I think this was the
athletic that sent me the update that Derek

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Lewis had to go pay a fine
at the Brazilian municipal court for speeding over

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one hundred and twenty one hundred and
thirty miles per hour. So before he

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ever stopped the cage, he's got
to go deal with a speeding digt.

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I'm sure that might be in his
post fight interview. It'd be something to

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think about. I guess that's kind
of small potatoes, as he has got

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an uphill battle against a guy that's
only been touched in the last five fights

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twice, which ultimately that's all Derek
Lewis needs is to be able to touch

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you once on the chin, and
you can even confirm that with his last

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fight with Rogerio Dilema, because if
you remember, Derek Lewis had a moment

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that we just weren't expecting. This
guy is. You have to expect the

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unexpected with Derek Lewis, But when
it comes to him doing a flying knee

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and finishing the job against a heavyweight
in about thirteen or so seconds. Deleima

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even made the comment about the flying
knee from UFC two ninety one where he

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said my teeth are all loose.
That's kind of a rough spot to be

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in. He's saying that I can't
eat properly. It's been a hard moment

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for him moving forward from this fight. So lewis as explosive as he is

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as the most decorated finisher in UFC
history, the most knockouts of all time,

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this is still an accolade. Well, we will see what he's going

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to dish out tonight. Since he's
clearly able to surpass an over one hundred

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mile an hour speeding ticket and the
Brazilian municipal court's gonna just let him pay

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it and look the other way.
We're gonna have to see where he goes

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if he even acknowledges that with his
post interview. Granted, if he wins

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the fight. So I'm still expecting
Lewis to pull this one out unless it

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ends up in a bad position for
him as far as the Brazilian jiu jitsu

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working against him and against a hostile
Brazilian crowd, which I believe he's probably

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already won over at this point.
But is there anything else about the arena

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in Brazil tonight? Yes, there
is Sometimes you've got to know your history

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to be updated on why these buildings
matter so much. And I was reminded

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of this by none other than Dan
Thomas, who is sharing his favorite moments

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from Brazil. And if we just
go back a few years, somebody's career

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really took off. In one of
the Cole main event fights in twenty seventeen.

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This man won in desirable fashion and
then began to berayed and belittle the

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Brazilians on the microphone. And you
guess who I'm talking about if you are

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a devout MMA fan. If you
are not, I can give you a

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cheat sheet until you you can look
at December's main event in Las Vegas.

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Main event is gonna be Leon Edwards
Versus Chaos Colby Covington. I'm talking about

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Colby. Colby really started to take
off as playing a heel and really playing

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it exceptionally well. Even though he
would use snippets and footnotes from other fighters

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from in the past. If you
watch him, he's just not that original.

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Maybe that's what it is. You
love to hate him or you hate

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to love him, But either way, you can go back to twenty seventeen

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in Brazil and you can see where
it all began to where we have a

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chance for Colby to be wearing the
strap this December to make sure we're there.

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Now, while that's all been announced, you've also got a main event

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in a comine event in UFC Austin. I've already mentioned this on one of

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my lives I did for an MMA
takedown on TikTok, But I'll tell you

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this, I didn't expect that the
colemane between Dan Hooker and Bobby Green was

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going to go five rounds, which
certainly begs to bring up the argument,

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could you have done that with the
last fight with homsaught Chamaiev? Could you

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have done that with Uzman and Chamaiev
to be able to have a five round

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bout? And my answer is should
you have done that on such late notice?

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Both Bobby Green and Dan Hooker have
had ample time to prepare for five

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rounds. The only brass ring that
remissing in this fight is simply a BMF

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strap. Again me saying that's not
gonna make that become to fruition. But

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it just seems like now that we
have confirmed, both the main event and

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the co main event at UFC Austin
are now five rounds. Certainly you are

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dealing with two of the toughest men
in the UFC, one who is on

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an explosive rise to the top,
while another one you cannot overlook, which

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would be none of than hangman Dan
Hooker. Please do not discredit this man

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until we see what he does with
Bobby, maybe possibly for five rounds.

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So ultimately I want to make sure
that those were brought up about Colby's career

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really beginning in Brazil, if you
want to talk about it from a microphone

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standpoint, if you want to talk
about Derek Lewis certainly tuning in to Deny

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to see if he's gonna acknowledge the
speeding ticket or if he is going to

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ignore that altogether, and is he
gonna try another flying knee. I don't

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know. Maybe that's a once in
a lifetime thing, but we certainly have

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that accolade, and now when we
have to look at something else. I

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don't mean to step out of MMA
news and jump into the world of boxing,

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but as far as I can tell, as far as what the Internet

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will portray, you do have a
moment where Francis Nagano is able to put

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Tyson Fury on his two butt cheeks. You're able to put him on his

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two pack. That's a big deal. Somebody else did that in history too,

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there was a guy that inspired the
Rocky movie, Muhammad Ali versus Chuck

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Webner. Now, to be fair, Chuck, with his sloppy footwork,

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landed a punch simultaneously as he stepped
on Ali's foot, and he goes back

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to his corner, and as history
will tell you, he says, I

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knocked him down, and his cornerman
goes, yeah, I think he's pissed,

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quote unquote, and then we go
on to see Ali absolutely wipe the

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floor with Chuck Webner. But there
was still an opportunity that you can say

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that you can't take away from that. He knocked down the champ, but

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he did not defeat the champ.
You've got that with a former MMA fighter,

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a guy who we don't know if
we're gonna have anything going on with

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the PFL anytime soon with Francis and
Nagano. But as far as what it's

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showing, and I'm going off of
journalists, like, how far are you

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going to trust the source of a
guy who named David Meltzer, who's a

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pro wrestler, journalist, But just
looking at the numbers from in all the

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newsletters, the pay per view absolutely
bombed. The television pay per view for

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this fight was about eleven thousand something
like that, and it was figured by

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ESPN plus that you could expect the
least a fifty six thousand figure television pay

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per view buy. It just tells
you how much the viewers really want to

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see MMA fighters in the cage.
With boxers beneficial and quite the contribution to

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an MMA fighter's pockets, not so
much something that the market will bear a

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nice amount of revenue, and certainly
not a lot of pay per view buys.

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Intriguing. Maybe so, maybe there
comes a point when you need to

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get back to the simple idea of
boxers should be boxing and MMA fighters should

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be in the cage. I certainly
want the pay model to be better for

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these guys, but when you see
the crossover the boxing, the biggest benefit

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is from a financial standpoint, what's
it doing for the sport itself? So

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good for Nagano to get his big
moment for his third round, for Tyson

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to withstand that whole time period to
shake off the coblebs and still be able

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to win regardless if you feel like
he won or didn't. But what is

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this doing? This crossover to both
sports. Does it make you question the

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divide even more? Can that be
problematic? I certainly hope it won't be.

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I will continue to watch my sport. I will watch my guys put

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on gloves in the cage and I
will see the kicks. I will see

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the punches. I will see the
wrestling. I will see the submission attempts.

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I will see the stuffing of the
takedowns. I will see the Brazilian

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jiu jitsu. I will certainly pay
attention to Sombo and all these other different

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worlds a diverse fighter to see what
they really bring. And God bless them

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for not havingwhere near the paycheck you
would get from the dirty money that runs

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through the veins of Vegas. So
I'll give you that for the time being.

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We got Derek Lewis's fight tonight.
We got the pay per view coming

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up next week. You're at prol
hosco versus Alex Berea, and I'll certainly

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catch you up with that in due
time. Thank you so much, once

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again, block A Nation for tuning
into this episode. Continue to listen to

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