May 31, 2025

Unrealistic Baseball Drives Vs. Realistic Dark Clouds In MMA

Unrealistic Baseball Drives Vs. Realistic Dark Clouds In MMA

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Broadcasting Live good evening. Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by.

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Once again. You are listening to your favorite blockhead the

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only podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate

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the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be talking

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about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next. I

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am your host. My name is Brian Little, and I

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thank you so much blockhead Nation for stopping by listening

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to this episode. I want to be upfront with you

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that for the next two weeks there will not be

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an episode. I will be on vacation. I will be

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in Tennessee with the little red haired girl and the mother.

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So I just say all that just because I didn't

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go away. If you're waiting on a new episode, you're

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not gonna see one at least until the end of June.

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So anticipation for that one to make you aware. But also,

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if you are new to this particular podcast, let me

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remind you that three things are always talked about. Number one,

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God is king. Number two, Peanuts is the single most

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successful comic strip in American history. And number three, mixed

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martial arts is the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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It's kind of hard to praise my sport these days,

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I save that for part two. I'll get to that

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after I do my scripture of the day. So I

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let you know, even though this first part I talk

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about the Peanuts and what's going on over there, usually

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something that's an update from the Charles Schultz Museum or

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the movie, or it might be about TV shows or

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comic strips that came out. Either way, it will be

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centralized upon that. But every once in a while I

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throw in a few things just to get some things

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off my chest, and that's going to happen with this episode,

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but to make sure I get the content in his

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first and foremost. If you ever thought that you've seen

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hangtime in other movies or other sports of any kind,

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there is an unrealistic hangtime like moment of flight. If

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you watch Charlie Brown, or if you look at the

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comic strips and you see Charlie Brown trying to catch

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a baseball. Okay, now to go all the way back

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to nineteen fifty eight. The Pants comic strip that was

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published on May eleventh shows Charlie Brown getting a huge hit,

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which means Linus has to be in pursuit of said

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baseball he's gonna come across his sister Lucy, who is

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making a sand castle. He actually has time to stop

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and help her finish the said sand castle and then

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go over and get in his position to catch the ball. Okay,

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there's a level of non gravitational pull that just doesn't

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make any sense if you go by both the comic

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strip and you go by the TV series. I think

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I just hit the wrong button. You might as well

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laugh at me for that one. I think that was

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an attempt to throwing some humor in there. So my apologies.

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I'm not even gonna edit that. I'm not gonna do it.

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Gotta love the transparency with the blockad nation, right, Gotta

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love that. But in that particular comic strip, it takes

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forever for the ball to finally drop and for last

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to catch it. That's not the only time you see

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that in the Peanuts comic strip. You see that also

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in Charlie Brown All Stars. So going to the TV series,

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the very first scene has Charlie Brown taking a call

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from the mound and he makes the pitch. You don't

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see the ball, you just hear the the hit and

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the ball is in mid air. So he runs up

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the bleachers and back down, cuts through different neighborhoods, actually

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runs up and downstairs in his house, busting through several

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different doors, and finally comes out the back of his

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house just to get in position for the ball to

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fall and completely bounce out of his hands. So it's

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a home run, and everybody's frustrated with him. So there

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is an unbelievably slow drop time in the Peanuts for

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the sake of humor, but also just for the sake

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of how can you mess up something so easily? And

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that's the reality for Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is not

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a feel good comic strip. If you can watch it

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close enough. It deals with depression. It deals with anxiety,

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mental illnesses of any kind, psychiatric help. I mean, it's there.

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So why would a baseball interact any different than just

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something that's completely out of the norm. So you see

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that in the Peanuts comic strip and the TV show

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an unrealistic hangtime when a baseball is drilled into the

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air and eventually you can get on it. There's a

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second one where it's a high fly ball. If you

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watch it, it's easily about thirty seconds of different dialogue

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between the kids on what if he drops it? If

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he drops it, what do we do? And they're rejoicing,

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saying it's coming down. The fly ball is coming down,

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and Charlie Broun has a conversation with himself. If I

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catch it, I'll be the here. If I miss it,

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I'll be the goat. He still misses it. It's about

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thirty seconds for that ball to finally fall, So there's

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something very enigmatic to that. But to continue on with

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most recently what came up on the Charles Sheltz Museum.

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It was another comic strip from nineteen eighty three of

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Snoopy and Woodstock and his friends exploring the Pacific Ocean,

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and all I can think about is one of my

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favorite scenes and one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption.

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This is a line that will bring grown men to tears.

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I hope I can make it across the border. I

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hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I

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hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been

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in my dreams. If you watch the entire movie The

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Shawshank Redemption, you'll know how relevant that line is before

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Andy's escape. But either way, don't want to get off

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too far on that. But this is showing Snoopy demonstrating

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and sweeping his arm and showing the Pacific Ocean. He says,

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I want to take lots of pictures. You guys take

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pictures as well. That's what we're here for. At some point,

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Woodstock actually makes some dialogue and he says, no, I

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can't make the Pacific Ocean smile. I can't do that

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for you, which was I'm out of place. But you know,

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nothing I would have thought of about taking pictures of

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the Pacific Ocean. Only something to Woodstock or even Charles

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Schultz could think up something like this. So making sure

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that I get that out of the way first. That's

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the dialogue that I've had over the last couple of

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weeks to share from past comic strip up at Charles

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Schultz Museum, who does a great job. I've always put

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enough content, but I got to bring up something else

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that this whole week I've had a hard time with

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just realizing who can you trust, okay, and what can

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bring this on? Well? Plenty of you can look to

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the Diddy Trials and see all the names that have emerged.

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It looks almost like the McCarthy era during the Cold War.

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Just about every celebrity you can think of has their

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name attached to all of this stuff. I mean, you

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can't trust your government, you can't trust your present to

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deliver you from your troubles, because these things are gonna

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show up in your mailbox called bills that just aren't

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gonna go away. So I just throw all that out there,

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because even something else brought the wind out of my sales,

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and it was a fairly quick thing. Came off of

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Yahoo Sports and I just pulled this up about an

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Olympic wrestler, one of easily the greatest in this entire sport.

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I know I'm not shifting to MMA yet, but I

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have to address the arrest of Kyle Snyder. I mean,

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I remember this guy coming out in twenty sixteen, and

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he was already breaking records across the entire heavyweight scene

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all through the sport of wrestling. Wins the Olympics in

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twenty sixteen when Jordan Burrows falls, and this guy just

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becomes the epitome of what it means to sacrifice to win,

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to be the very best at what you do. And

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this month he was arrested in some type of prostitution

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sting now. Granted it's kind of transpired now, and he

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mentioned something about this when he was asked about but

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it's not a conclusion to my journey. If I can,

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I can just kind of go through the overall news

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of it that he did plead guilty to a lesser

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charge of disorderly conduct, but you know, you have the

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initial arrest that happened in Columbus, Ohio. The charge is

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brought against him being involved in this prostitution reign because

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they were waiting for him at this hotel room he

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went to, and he pleaded guilty. He's publicly stated right

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now he's focusing on his family and his faith after

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all these legal proceedings. But despite all that, you know,

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he's still considered one of the most successful wrestlers in

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US history, with multiple championships and Olympic gold medal. So

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it just kind of goes back to what I was

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telling you, who can you trust if I can look

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at somebody who was as squeaky clean as Kyle Snyder

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and somebody who lived and breathed faith first, family, second,

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wrestling third, And this is just talking about the other

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sport that I've always been passionate about especially when the

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Olympics come around. Who can you trust well? Blockhead Nation,

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I'm gonna go ahead and say two things to you

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and just kind of leave it at this for something

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for Ross to chew on. There was a line in

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the movie Now and Then when he said, you can

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believe in yourself if you're lucky, But I challenge you,

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Blockhead Nation, where man will let you down? Where that

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old saying of don't meet your heroes is absolutely true.

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May we know that the one thing that we can

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truly put our faith and our trust in is that

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the Prince of Peace interceee it on your behalf. Where

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this podcast or fails you, where your heroes have let

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you down, where your family or friends just are not

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able to live up to your standards, Blockhead Nation, trust

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in Christ. Stick around with me as I share you

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a scripture of the day to show you the real truth.

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May that be unfailed to you this evening. Our scripture

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reading for this podcast comes from Romans Chapter five, verses

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three through five. And not only so, but we glory

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and tribulations, also knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience,

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experience and experience, hope and hope maketh not ashamed, because

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the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts

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by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. Reflection

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from blue layer of Bible says, we are promised that

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our sufferings will bear a fruit greater than the power

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of suffering. We are promised genuine hope that does not

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disappoint what glorious fruit. So, then, is suffering counted by

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the apostle paul a reason Blockhead Nation that we would rejoice.

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And so while I am realizing that suffering comes along

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with appreciating sports like mixed martial arts, I gotta give

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some praise. I haven't done this in a while, even

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though my friend Jose Shorty Torres, I know your most

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recent fight didn't go your way. You went the whole

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way and at it was in the judges' scorecards. But

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I'll tell you this, he's a friend of the show.

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I am on team Shorty for life. So if I

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haven't showed it out in the while, Jose Shorty Torres,

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you are loved over here. Blockaded Nations supports you all

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the way, and I gotta tell you smile. And Sam Albi,

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since he went from the UFC to karate combat. He's

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coming off what at least a three fight knockout record,

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and he's got another one coming up soon, and he's

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got another have another heavyweight to point it that or

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some are worried about, but I'll tell you, he's really

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starting to come into his own with some insane matchmaking

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that's happening. So smiling, Sam Albie, if I haven't showed

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you out in a while, thank you for being a

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friend of the show. He was on episode three hundred.

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I think he was guest number five for that one.

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So Sam, we support you over here as well. But

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you know, it kind of carries over what I just

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talked about. I'm supposed to embrace suffering knowing that the

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main event for tonight Blanchefield versus Barber, that Macy Barber

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missed Waite, which means she's surrendering twenty percent of her

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purse regardless of what happens with this fight. So I

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guess it's one of those I don't want anything standing

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in the way of the veteran Aaron Blanchfield. For all

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that she's done everything she's done right, I don't really

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want to see Macy get her hand raised tonight. I

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can just admit that and it can still happen. There's

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such thing as a wife beat curse. Because I'm usually

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three for five on the main cards. UFC three sixteen

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still seems to be intact. We don't have any injuries yet,

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we don't have anybody problems with cutting weight. You know,

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it's still a ways out come June seventh, but you

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know that's on the horizon, so not too far away

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that that's gonna be coming up. So we still have

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our rematch with O'Malley versus Morob. We have Hal and

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Kayla Harrison versus Julian openya bantam white title belt. You know,

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we have the phenom Joe Pifer versus the veteran Kelvin Gadstallom,

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the debut of Patchie Mix coming over from Bellator against

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Mario Bautista, so Kevin Holland and Vicente Luke. Great card

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all the way around. And yet with all of these

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things that I praise, I just can't get something out

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of my mind that there's a video that I saw

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about the UFC losing its soul. It just doesn't have

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the same appeal since we've had a merging of two

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companies that came together in something called TKO. Yes, it's

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beneficial for the UFC and the WWE, but as far

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as the price gouging, as far as how much it

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costs to get a ticket to sit cage side, that's

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not really good for the MMA fans who are still around.

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All you gotta do is google it and look how

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much a ticket to UFC three sixteen is gonna be.

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In the nosebleed section, you'll see what I'm talking about.

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But the inability for the UFC to strike while the

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iron's hot at least get a confirmed date for the

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biggest fight on the planet. We're still waiting around on

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what's gonna happen with John Jones and Tom aspinall, and

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I had vented about that in my last episode. I'm

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not gonna say anything that hasn't already been discussed, but

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I do want to bring somebody else opinions to the

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forefront that I haven't brought up yet. A guy who

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I have said in one of my TikTok videos I

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did that belongs on the Mount rushmore of any MMA

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organization out there. And that man is Demetrius Johnson. So

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if I can walk you through what he said in

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a nutshell. He was hinting at that the one thing

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that we don't have from Tom aspinall, and it would

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be detrimental to him to take a fight with anybody

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else until he gets a fight with John Jones, as

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much as he is chomping at the bit for that

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and is willing to fight anybody and saying, I'm willing

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to just if you can't be John, me somebody else.

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I want the belt. Okay, But there's one thing that

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you don't have a lot of on Tom, and this

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is something Demetrius Johnson said. You don't have data, you

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don't have a full on now on him because he

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doesn't go past the first round. John Jones has been

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the five round club many times and Tom Asminall finishes

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in fast. So would this be if they were to

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fight and Tom gets the jump on Jones fast? Okay,

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so be it. It's what a lot of us are anticipating.

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But there's also a play that look at that and

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go come on now, John Jones will annihilate this guy,

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and part of that has to go with who he's

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faced in the past as a light heavyweight. Heavyweight's a

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very different world. But just going off what we saw

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Surreal Gone and with Steve a Miochi this it's not

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a whole lot to see. It goes back to the

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whole UFC losing its soul. Go watch Steve A Miochis

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walking to the cage against John Jones. There's nothing there

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like that is the most downtrod and I've ever seen

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Stepe's face as he walked out to the cage. He

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didn't have much of facial features anyway. He didn't carry

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a poker face very well, but he didn't look like

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this ever when he would walk to the cage as champ.

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So just for those that are listening in, it's been

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frustrating to listen in about this whole thing with Tom

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Asminell and John Jones. But Demetris Johnson brings up something

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very well that we don't have an analysis. So if

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he takes a fight against anybody else Surreal Gone, Alexander Volkov,

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whoever it might be, And just to say I want

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to stay active, what John Jones will have now is

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more of a possible recipe to beat Tom with. Even

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if it's just one round and the saga continues, he'll

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have something to dissect. He'll have something to analyze with

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his team, the longer he may him wait. So Tom

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Aspinall is doing something that most of us that are

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watching from the outside. It looks smart to avoid the bait,

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to avoid the hook, but come crook or or hook,

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there's gonna have to be something where we go. Maybe

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John Jones really is playing this smart, Maybe he really

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is stretching this for all that he can. By the

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time that this thing is starting to get to the

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end of its shelf life, we get a confirmation. So

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Demitrius Johnson got me to thinking very differently about the

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incident with Tom at this point about does Aspinall beat Jones.

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He just says, well, if John is able to watch

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him have another fight, he may not be so lucky.

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He keeps making him wait and keeps making him pace

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like our line inside of a cage. That can be

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a mental strain on him at this too. So I'm

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just like, maybe, just maybe John Jones is more intelligent

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in the MMA IQ department than I want to give

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him credit for. Maybe I gotta give a hat tip

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for the first time on this show to John Jones,

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but I won't because, just like any other fan, I'm

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tired of the Tarnish legacy talk. I'm tired of Tom

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Aspinall holding the duck up on the television at this point,

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I just I'm tired of it, and I know Tom's

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tired of it. But ultimately, this is where we currently stand.

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And maybe by the time I come back within two

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weeks or when my surprise MMA Fighter number four. Yes

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there is one in the wings, there's one in the

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talks right now. I don't want to be that guy says, Oh,

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I can tell you who it is, and you're gonna

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know a lot more later. No, I'm just gonna go

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ahead and tease you a little bit. That's WHYFE be

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holding the carry it out for your block in Nation.

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We have had smiling Sam Alvey many times the show.

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We've had Jose Shorty Torres on many occasions. We've had

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Season two Ultimate Fighter Joe Stevenson come by. I'll tell

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you the fourth one is gonna be coming by by

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the end of June. Just something to dangle out there

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for you Blockhead Nation. I'm gonna enjoy my vacation and

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get replenished, and I'm sure by the time that's over,

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I'm gonna be itching to get back on the mic

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with you, so blockhead Nation, you take care of yourselves,

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enjoy your summer until the next time we speak. This

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is why f be over and out. We will catch

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you within at least two weeks, same blockhead time, same

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blockhead cham