Aug. 3, 2024

The Peanuts Hit The Gym As UFC Invades Yas Island

The Peanuts Hit The Gym As UFC Invades Yas Island

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then be talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon

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

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I'll go ahead and begin with just to personalize for

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a second, I have joined something known as DDP yoga.

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Now some are familiar with this, some or not. DDP

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Yoga has been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience. One

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of the greatest stories ever told was Arthur who ends

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up a man who was told by the VA you

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would never walk again. In ten months, he's running It

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had Joe Rogan in tears. It's been on Shark Tank

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before as well and was rejected. But either way, there's

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a lot to this. Some of y'all that are not

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professional wrestling fans, you may not know who Diamond Dallas

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Page is, but I can tell you when he injured

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his back, he ended up doing a style of yoga

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that he modified and he changed for the betterment of himself.

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So I just wanted to put that out there since

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I'm feeling better, haven't had touched a soda in over

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two weeks and am down about fifteen pounds. So that's

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not for me to brag. It's just maybe some of

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you that are wanting to get into the gym and

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want self betterment, this is a way to go. But

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you have to ask the question when it comes to Peanuts,

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if you're a Charlie Brown Snoopy fan, are you gonna

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see that in the comic strip? Not especially, but maybe

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around your old school gymnasium you might have seen pictures

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of Snoopy when he is lifting weights. That one's possible,

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and if you're gonna go with maybe a few things

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online and there are a few new Peanuts clips that

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are coming out, but the big one you're gonna find

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if you're looking for being in the Gym is gonna

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be the Peanuts Classics. Now again, I'm referencing Apple TV.

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If you want to know the specific TV episode, well,

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that means you're gonna have to go and find two episodes.

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One's called It's Flash Beagle Charlie Brown. That one it's

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very centered on Snoopy's involvement in the dance floor, disco

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fever and things like that, and also house parties. But

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there is a scene where the kids go to the gym,

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and ultimately this is where Peppermint Patty is gonna shine,

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not just as a tomboy, but as an athletic girl.

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She even begins her workout by saying the line, you know, Chuck,

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referring to Charlie Brown. I may not be as pretty

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as that little red hair girl, and I may not

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have naturally carely hair like Freida, and I may not

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be as smart as Lucy, but there's one thing I

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have that they don't. I am in shape. Now we

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could kind of pull that from her record of being

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a baseball manager and usually being better at Charlie Brown

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than anything that they do. From a competitive nature, we

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can agree that Peppermint Patty is in shape and that

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she's very athletic, but again that Tom poy bersona is

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really what stands out most of the time with that

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one and her friendship with Marcy, who for some reason

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calls or sir. That's always just kind of been in

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the background of people's mind. But in this episode of

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its Flash Beagle, she goes through her regiment and she

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says the same thing that Diamond Dallas Page would say

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if you were getting on this program, whether you are

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doing the dep yoga, whether you are doing the Adkins diet,

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whether you are doing Cato whatever it is, or you're

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just hitting your local gym, if you're going to follow,

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in this case, Peppermint Patty's pe program, you're going to

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have to put the work in period in a discussion. Now, ultimately,

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what's funny about that scene for me is not so

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much them working out and the kids getting involved in

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the gym, But take a wild guess who is struggling

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with the fitness equipment the most good old Charlie Brown,

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and who's getting the worst treatment from Peppermint Patty, who's

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leading all of the drills inside the gym. Of course,

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Peppermint Patty is working him harder than probably anybody else,

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and he's the one sweating buckets and he's the one

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gasman for breath and y'alln oh good grief. So if

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you want to watch It's Flashbil Charlie Brown, you'll see

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a small snippet of that of a gym perspective. Those

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that are wanting self better man, you'll see that in

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that episode. If we move to a particular episode called

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You're the Greatest Charlie Brown, that one's devoted entirely to

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a track meet. That one is Charlie Brown signs up

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since he's not going on vacation for possibly arguably the

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most difficult position to have if you're gonna be on

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the track team, and that would be the decathlon, meaning

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you don't have to be good at anything in particular,

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as Lucy tries to sell it to him, but in reality,

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it is a lot of of work to do all

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of these events. In this case, Charlie Brown did five

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events on Saturday and five events on Sunday, Well, we

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found out what his weak points were. One of them,

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for sure were the hurdles, because he knocked over every

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single one of them on the track that he'd come

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and last in all of the running events. But where

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did Charlie Brown do particularly well? Anything that involved strength?

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Shot put did fairly good, won the discus, won the

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javelin throw, so anything pertaining to the strength. So that

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is kind of something I can personify, is the host

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of this podcast. I've never been great at running, never

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been great at doing anything that's cardio and conditioning, but

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I've always done well when it comes to strength. So

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it does make sense how that one relates more to me.

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But if you want to go back and watch the

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full episode where you get introduced to Freddy Fabulous, where

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you find out about the masked Marvel, which would be Snoopy,

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another persona of his, another metamorphosis of his, you would

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see that in this episode of You're the Greatest Charlie Brown.

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But it's really just for the betterment of the team.

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Charlie Brown needs a spot and the only one left

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is arguably the most difficult one, and he does his best,

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but ultimately he messes up the final event and fantasizes

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about running across the track, and he runs completely off

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the track with his eyes closed, thinking that it's great

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being a winner, so peaceful and quiet, it's almost a

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sad sight in many ways. So if you are looking

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for anything that's Jim related, then those two episodes would

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be there. If you probably think back to when you

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went to school, you probably saw it all through your

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elementary or secondary school that you went to, where you

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would see on the posters you'd see Snoopy maybe with

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a set of weights lifted above his head saying you

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can do it, that's possible. Those are pretty common and

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use it pretty popular from the eighties up until now,

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So that would probably be the best way for anything

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gym related. You're not gonna find that in the movie.

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You're not gonna find that really on display that often

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when it comes to the Charlis Schultz Museum, but ultimately

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I want to make sure I bring that up. So

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for the Peanuts, there are some moments that are related

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to being in the gym, and it's fun. But either way,

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thank y'all for tuning in for this episode. It's been

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a while since I've flown solo. And it's also been

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a while since I haven't done an MMA takedown, But

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this one just is a chance for me to kind

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of just be honest with you and say, if ddpo

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it doesn't sound like something you're interested in, may I

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suggest maybe look for a certain poison you can remove? Now,

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I use that in this context. If you ever saw

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the movie The Breakfast Club, it's something that people don't

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remember when they go in, they start selecting sodas for everybody.

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Emelio Estevez makes the comment, all right, what's your poison?

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In other words, what do you drink? Well, that leads

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to a very different story and a joking way. You

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hear the girl yellow vodka. Well, I'm asking you block

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a nation. Are there any poisons instead of picking them

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that you can either diminish it or you can remove

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it completely. Because the fact of the matter is, if

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you look at how much carbonation and high fructose corn

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seup or syrup runs through those sodas that you drink,

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and I'm just as guilty of the same thing, you

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will notice that it is loaded with high fructose corn syrup.

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It is loaded with a poison known as sugar. Maybe

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there's something else you'll consider only for the betterment of

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your own life. If we can cut out one vice

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at a time, imagine what we can give up, whether

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it's from a spiritual level, a physical, or emotional. It's

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my challenge to you. In two weeks, I feel so

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much better and not having drink a single soda. Also

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watching documentaries like Food, Ink, Fed Up, Genetic Rolette. It

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will change your perspective. Now, there's a whole lot of

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that outside of your control. But what you can control

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is what poisons you pick or what poisons you're willing

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to give up to prolong your life. Our scriptury this

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podcast comes from Deuteronomy, chapter thirty, verses nine to ten.

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And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in

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every work of Thine hand, and the fruit of thy body,

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and the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of

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thy land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice

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over Thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers.

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Thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God,

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to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written

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in this book of the Law. And thou turn unto

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the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with

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all thy soul. Reflection from Blue Lair Bible says, as

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we devote our lives to serve God, he blesses the

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fruit of our labors with great delight and pleasure. Now, friends,

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I say that just in the sense of we don't

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know God's timing, I challenge you to keep throwing the seed,

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keep farming the land, just as He rejoices to bless us.

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So also we as believers should desire to serve Him.

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Because you're either serving sin or the devil himself, or

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you are serving your savior. I ask you which one

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is your choice, because it says here in Blue Lair Bible,

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this unfathomable pleasure in serving is solely found on the

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word of God and living in accordance with it. When

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we follow His commands with all our heart's soul and mind,

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God prospers our way over in abundance. I'm not telling

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you the timing of that abundance. That's what you don't

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have control over. But there is a level of surrender

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here blocking nation that wanted to bring up. So always

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want to share the truth with you. You haven't been

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to this show for a while. Three things are all

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talked about it here. Number one, God is king. Number two,

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as you just heard on Part one, Peanuts is the

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single most successful comic strip in American history. And number three,

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which is what Part two is all about. From this

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point forward, mixed martial arts is the greatest sport under

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God's hot sun. So we're going back to UFC three

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h four in Manchester. Not a letdown, but I can

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begin with I'm over here eaton crow and liking the

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taste of it. And when I'm talking about happens to

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be the number six now number five ranked. Mohammed makayev

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I had mentioned on here that there was a mysterious

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way of his bout keeps dropping to the pre limbs,

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to the early prelams, then back up to the prelambs.

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So it yo yod all the way through with him

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against my Neil Kape from Portugal. And ultimately what we

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saw is a bunch of guys want to fight on stage.

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As soon as they get in the cage, they wanted

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to have a dust up. There's separations and as soon

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as they the referee tells him to go, they just

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kind of stand there and mirror each other. That was frustrating.

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That was embarrassing. And again, if he is already in

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hot water with Dana White, he's now in hot water

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with Blockhead because you can't exactly backpedal if you are

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screamed at by referee Mike Beltran. Nobody tells that man

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what to do, and it's always ultimately up to the

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referee whatever direction this fight is ultimately gonna go. It's

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thinking for three people. Some referees need to have some

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serious improvement, and some are phenomenal at their job, and

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Mike Beltran is one of them that's phenomenal at what

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he does. But he doesn't take any crap off anybody.

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And this immature, brash jerk of a kid can't even

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make eye contact them when he's telling him what the

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foul is that he separated the guys for. So it

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was an embarrassing fight. I'm not a bit surprised that

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the crowd swayed the judges to give Mohammed Makaya of

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the win for this one. There's been speculation that he

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didn't get a chance to resign his contract with the UFC,

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which I don't believe is true. But ultimately I'll tell

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you right now, I am off the Mohammed Makaiev bandwagon

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as of right now. Until this kid grows up, I'm

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not supporting it. I was hoping for a bit of

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that cocky attitude, that brash persona that would get people

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talking about the flyweight division, but I don't defend this,

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and so I'm not going to discuss Mohammed Makayev on

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this show anymore. Now. If he wants to stay with

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the UFC, or if he wants to go to one

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FC and join Demetrius Johnson, or if he wants to

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go with the PFS and PFL, it's more power to

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you whatever direction we go, but I'm not interested in

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going back through that. Quite an embarrassing fight from me

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and really hard for me to defend that one. But

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as far as the main card, you had a pretty

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good all around flight with Arnold Allen and Giga Chagatzi.

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Arnold Allen gets his hand raised, which again no problem

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there whatsoever. But boy, does anybody else feel like they

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got fooled by Patty the Battie? Anybody else feel like

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this was gonna be his hardest test to date? And

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then Bobby takes that shot and then we're straight into

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a triangle choke. And not only is Bobby submitted, he

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does he's completely out. He can't submit so technical submission.

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Patty the Batty Pemblet is back and he is in

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his full element, especially in his background of England. Now

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that was something that Dana White talked about, how you

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can count this guy out all day long, but that

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is how good this kid is and any given day

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and they go, well is it because of Manchester? Look,

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Manchester is one of those arenas where it doesn't matter

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who's fighting unless it's just seven decisions in a row.

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As Daniel White put it, they're gonna give it to you.

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You remember a while back on this podcast, I talked

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to a couple of guys from a certain band called

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Litt Remember those guys, you know, the ones who did

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my own worst enemy. Yeah, when I spoke to them,

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they gave the same analysis about how if they go

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to California, you have people there that are so spoiled

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that they cross their arms and go, okay, show me

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something good. Oh that's wonderful, that's not you barely get

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a reaction. They go to the UK and they're cheered

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like they're Wayne Gretzky in Canada. It's still very true.

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It's not really a separation of American culture and Briton culture.

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It's really not. But when you have your own hometown

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guy that comes from Leondar, Liverpool down the street, that

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was braided through cage warriors, who got to show every

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buddy truly what he's made of and that this is

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not some farce that he now has a ranking next

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to his name and he calls out number ten Rona

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Tolmai Kano. I'm absolutely in favor of this one. So

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King Green and Bobby Green, even Dana White was going well.

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I'm learning how to differentiate between those two as well.

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It's not easy. What needed to happen is exactly what

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happened with Curtis Blades and Tom aspinall. You have an

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overwhelming knockout and now he's calling out the champ. The

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interim champ is calling out the heavyweight champ. There's nowhere

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else for you to go. The upset of the night

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was below Muhammad versus Leon Edwards. I smelled this one

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coming a mile away. I didn't say I was happy

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about it. It's easy to get behind Leon Edwards. It's

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easy behind his Rocky Balboa story, but to stay on

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top as long as he did, and for below Mohammed

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to systematically win the way he did with takedowns, with

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his wrestling, with his submission tempts, five rounds of a

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snooze fest, it just doesn't surprise me that much. But

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now it's a matter of what do you do. It'd

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be easy to hand him over to shop CoV rockman Off,

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who's undefeated. It'd be easy for Ian Gary to face

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Rockmanoff for the undefeated streak. Whoever wins that as a

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number one contender, it could be Leon Edwards gets to

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face one of these guys coming up in the future,

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just to see where we go, and Blow gets to

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watch from afar. There's a lot to do there in

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that division. So ultimately that division is not dead. I

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was worried about the heavyweights more than I was the

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welterweight division. So just to clear that up, you got

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fight night tonight. That's starting a little bit early, so

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I commit. I'm excited about this main card starting off

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with I could go into all of them, but I

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only have really time for three of them. I'll spend

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time in the veteran Tony Ferguson coming back to face

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probably one of the best calculated MMA minds IQ that

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carries over to commentary that's really easy to decipher and follow.

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I give all the credit back to AMA's submission artist

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in every stance, I give all that back to Michael Kissa.

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So Ferguson versus Kisa is a very interesting welterweight. But

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there's not a whole lot at stake here. It's just

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for the namesake. Neither one of them have a ranking,

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neither one of them are turning any heads as right now.

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Are they truly a threat to the welterweight division. But

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I always want to give my respects back to Tony Ferguson,

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and I give my respect, my undying respect for the

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knowledge that you can attain from Michael Kissa. So that

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should be interesting. Tonight is really all about the bantamweights,

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because you have number four ranked Cheato Vera going up

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against a guy who came from the flyweights, who was

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the dominant champion of the flyweights, Davison Figarito, who already

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looks very comfortable in the bantamweight division. He's gonna get

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his greatest test in this division tonight against number four

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ranked Schigolvera. But if he wins, does that mean we

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still have this fresh coat of paint in the bantam

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weight you've been looking for. And I say that simply

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because we are looking down the road to Sean O'Malley

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defending against Morob. Whether O'Malley or Morob wins, is Figurino

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still a threat to this entire division? Because if you

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even look at the next ranking, you have another dangerous

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man knocking on the door of the number two or

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number ranked contendership, which is Umar Normagametov. I hope that

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name sounds familiar to some of you because the name

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Normaga Metov is synonymous with dominance throughout the entire MMA community.

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If you're talking UFC, you have Kabeb twenty nine to

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zero retires with an undefeated streak. If you look at Bellator,

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MMA uzman Ner, Maga Metof absolutely smashing through the ranks

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over there in Bellator, and now you got Umar who's

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at number ten, who takes the fight against Cory Sanhagen.

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Sanhagen has a huge spot to fill tonight, but Umar's

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dominance cannot be overlooked. So I'm asking the question after tonight,

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could you see a potential fight, possible contendership between two

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guys that are new, not so much new to fighting,

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but new to the bantamweight division top five in Umar

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and fag Rato all to be determined. Who wouldn't want

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to see Chieovator come back and have his return into

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the top five. Who wouldn't want to see Cory Sandhagen

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get his shot fire only at the title as he says,

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I'm the greatest using the Ali effect on that one

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when he's on the scales. It would be nice to see.

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But you have a huge new chapter here just in

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these two guys. They could face each other, They could

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ultimately go in against Sean O'Malley or Mo Rob for

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the title. It all gets interesting from the rest of

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this year forward in the bantamweight division. We're stirring it

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up over here, aren't we, Blockhead Nation? And I'm gonna

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go ahead and cut out so that I can go

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catch the fight since it's an early night over in

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Abu Dhabi, so I'll be watching Yaw's Island. Thank you

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so much for being here with me. If you want

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moving forward. And with that, we'll catch you next week,

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same Blockhead time, same the Blockhead Champ. They way to day,

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then gave way to the day today