Valentine's Woes And Whoa's

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Broadcasting Live, Good afternoon, good
evening. Thank you for whatever time you

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tune in to listen to this podcast
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your favorite blockhead, the only podcast
in the podcasting world that can somehow incorporate

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the Peanuts comic strip one minute and
then be talking about MMA and Warriors inside

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

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and to begin with, I want
to start this show with a few

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very special shout outs. I get
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hosts. Then two, there are
people that have been a part of my

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journey that deserve to be in the
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has done music for this particular podcast. If you keep listening, in

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case you're new to the show,
if you listen to the mid roll,

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you listen to the middle of the
show, you're gonna hear this music created

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by one and only Preston Scott Williamson. Okay, Preston is a phenomenal musician,

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guitar player, artist. His music
is phenomenal and he took the time

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to make that music from my podcast, and I'm always gonna be super appreciative

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to him. But I gotta tell
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If you look today on the blog
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you'll see a link to Preston's newest
song, Vengeance, just released this week,

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and I'm taking a minute to put
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you can, after you've heard all
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stick around for the podcast long enough
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But it is worth your time to
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to the newest song, the newest
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gonna be up on my social media. You'll see it on my Facebook post,

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you'll see them when I talk about
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up on there. Trying to use
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days. But you'll see it for
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com slash blog. Go to the
link for Preston's song Vengeance. You gotta

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hear this and to go ahead and
put it out there. Sometimes the guys

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don't promote themselves everywhere. Well that's
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You got the rated JG podcast that's
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get a chance, go to the
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to some of these episodes of Friends
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Rated JG always puts out great content, and recently Empty Slate's been putting

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out a lot of video content.
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give them a few views, rate, review, and subscribe for those

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guys, they keep putting out episodes
and I always have a lot of fun

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with those. I just appreciate it
when Russ actually completes a sentence. And

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that's not me blasting anybody on the
show. It's just one of those Let

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me put it this way. If
I'm doing a podcast and I want to

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finish my thought, I'm gonna do
it. Russ, on the other hand,

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tends to be sharing something that I
want to get to the end of,

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but then he'll interrupt his thought completely
because he's watching something on the television.

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It could be a football game,
it could be a wrestling match,

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it could be a UFC fight,
it could be a hockey game, and

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I just want him to complete a
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to the end of his thought,
because his thoughts are good. They're sporadic

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at times, and the same thing
with Chris. But these two right here

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compliment each other very well. I
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in many ways of the wife b
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check out their YouTube channel and keep
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JG Podcast, Empty Slate, both
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go here Preston Scott's newest release,
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of the way, I guess I'll
bark into my own content. Hopefully all

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will stick around for this part and
not just leave. But that's the great

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part about a podcast, right You
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can listen at your earliest and latest
convenience. You could be around the house

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doing dishes, you can be mowing
the lawn. You know, you could

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be out getting your night jog in
or something like that, and you've tuned

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in. So I appreciate you blockad
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Now that you're probably walking through Walmart
and you've been noticing for a while that

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Valentine's Day apparel and different types of
merchandise and different types of candies are on

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the shelf for Valentine's Day. Some
of your coffee shops that you go to

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are putting out there Valentine's Day treats
and drinks that are other. So we

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finally got a chance in February to
be talking about being my Valentine. Charlie

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Brown, I don't think extensively that
Charles Schultz really ever talked about Groundhog Day.

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I really don't. I'm sure there's
a few comic strips that I'm overlooking

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that are there that are kind of
hidden in the footnotes of history in the

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Peanuts comic strip, but there wasn't
a whole lot of reference to him in

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the TV show, the movie.
I don't think they've done an exhibition on

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the Charles Schultz Museum yet. I
don't think that's happened. But there's plenty

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that he's talked about on Valentine's Day. And if I have to do a

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recap from last week, I talked
to you about how Linus is kind of

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a heartbreaker, whether he wants to
admit it or not. He's a little

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bit of a bounder in different situations. But he's only been drawn to a

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few girls at one point and being
my Valentine Charlie Brown, Linus was drawn

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to his teacher, Miss Othmar.
You know the trombone sound of the background.

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Yeah, he was infatuated with her. So normally Linus is a voice

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for he's in for Charlie Brown.
He's always the one at the brick wall,

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either talking some sense him to him
or now that Charles Schultz or Charlie

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Brown has made a fool of himself
and Linas is there to console him,

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allow him to lean on him a
little bit. He doesn't really do it

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that much in this episode. He's
too caught up on his feelings with Mss

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Athmar and he makes a fool of
himself too. So if I have to

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look at Linus in this one,
he doesn't use a lot of common sense.

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He's not very philosophical in this one. He's just got stars in the

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eyes for his teacher. So if
you watch it when Charlie Brown has his

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moments when he's feeling sorry for himself, there's a part where he goes,

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I think I can spend my whole
life here and still never get a Valentine.

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He's standing in front of the mailbox
feeling sorry for himself. Usually Linus

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has a zinger in that moment or
has some insight that he shares, not

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this time. This time he thinks, oh, that's a good idea.

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I can get a Valentine from miss
Aufmar. Spends a whole lot of money

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just to throw it away later because
miss Aufmar leaves the Valentine's Day presentations in

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banquet and all the get togethers in
class and leaves with her boyfriend. So

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Linus is standing there with his finger
in his ear. But when we get

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to the brick wall, it's the
same thing. It's really just Linus kind

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of feeling sorry for himself. He
ends the episode when Charlie Brown has a

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spout of inspiration, thinking maybe next
year will be different. He just looks

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at Charlie Bron's as happy in Valentine's
Day Charlie Brown. So not a lot

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of help in that compartment. And
if you watch further, yes you have

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Lucy who is infatuated with Schroeder,
who continues to try to get his attention,

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but he's always playing Beethoven and his
piano. That's still true, But

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she actually gives some harsh insights to
losing someone you love. Now, this

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is not talking about losing the loved
one. This is literally the drama that

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can go on on Valentine's Day,
and she mentions, have you ever thought

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that maybe you could lose me?
While he's still pounding away on the piano

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and not paying her any mind,
she says, have you ever experienced what

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it's like to lose someone you love? And she goes through this whole spill

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of how awful it is. She
pounds her fist on the piano, sending

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Schroeder spiral ring outside of the comic
strip, and she starts to beat on

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the piano as she pours her feelings
out. It will haunt you night and

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day. You'll wake up at night
screaming. You can't eat, you can't

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sleep. You just want to smash
things. You'll hate yourself in the world

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and everyone in it. And abruptly, after she's poured out her heart,

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she looks right at him and goes, are you sure you want to risk

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losing me? Well, we've lost
another piano in the midst of this meltdown.

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But it just comes down to the
one that has the most voice of

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reason in this episode is Schroeder.
He accosts everybody for giving Charlie Brown a

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already used Valentine's. He gets on
their case about being retroactive. Now that

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does happen. So is this an
important episode in the TV show? Sure

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are the important comic strips for the
sake of the longevity of the strip of

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the Pance comic strip. Certainly it
is. But again, this one gets

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overlooked always because we're so into the
Great Pumpkin, the Christmas episode, the

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Thanksgiving episode, Be My Valentine and
Charlie Brown should get more credit than it

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does. Even though it has a
moment where Snoopy gets into one of his

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hobbies and he's horrible at putting on
puppets theater. I'll admit that this one

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is not one of his strong points. But either way, it's a fun

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episode to watch if you get a
chance, if you want to google it,

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you want to go to YouTube and
watch a few snippets of Being My

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Valentine Charlie Brown, or go to
the Charles Schultz Museum on their social media

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page. I guarantee you Valentine's throughout
February will be spread all through that page.

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Guarantee you that. But what I
certainly hope for is for your Valentine's

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Day to be an enjoyable one.
I know the Little Red Hair Girl and

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I have several dates lined up specifically
for this month, most of use it's

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their birthday, and because we have
some other events going on in our church

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which you're gonna be wonderful for the
sake of Valentine's Day. But if you

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haven't thought about this, if you
happen to notice them going through Walmut or

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going through Target or some of your
other local stores, see if you can

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find peanuts gummies. If you've never
had those, those are incredibly delicious.

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I'll say it again, it's a
free plug. Doesn't really do much for

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my podcast, just kind of validates
my opinion. Peanuts gummies. Go try

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them sometime. Look for them in
your local store, give them a try.

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Tell me what you think you will
not regret getting a hold to one

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of those bags of gummies. I
promise you. Our scripturean for this podcast

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comes from Job chapter twenty four,
verses two through six. I know that

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you can do all things, and
that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

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Who is this that hides counsel without
knowledge? Therefore, I have uttered

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what I did not understand, things
too wonderful for me which I did not

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know here, and I will speak, I will question you, and you

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make it known to me. I've
heard of you by the hearing of the

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ear, but now my eyes see
you. Therefore I despise myself and repent

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in dust and ashes. If you've
never read the Book of Job, there's

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many reasons for this man to complain
and bellyache against God. Ultimately, he

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loses everything. His friends say he
must have made God mad. He goes

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into a lot of feeling sorry for
himself than a young guy named Elai,

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who comes forward and says, Okay, you guys are wrong. We're putting

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Job on trial. Job, you're
wrong for putting God on trial. Not

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long after that, the Lord shows
up and shows what he's doing. So

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Job's confession and his repentance has finally
taken place. In this one, Job

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is finally understanding being rebuked by the
Lord. But this is a divine rebuke.

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You may not fully understand why you're
going through what you're going through,

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but Job is finding out here that
I have no reason anymore to complain.

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So that's my challenge to you.
Blockad enation, job, losing everything,

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finally seeing who God truly is,
and no longer complaining about who he is

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and what he's doing. I say, be still in trust his plan.

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You may have to go through some
things, blockad nation, you may have

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to weather the storm, but he's
never left to you. He's never abandoned

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you. He may be testing you, and it's all for his purpose.

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It's all for his plan. We're
the ones that rebel, it's not God

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that does. Just want to make
sure that I give the truth because on

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three things always happen on this podcast. Number one, God is king.

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Number two, as you've heard on
part one, Peanuts is the single most

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successful comic strip in American history.
Many TV shows, a wonderful animated movie,

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a museum that I planned to visit
one one day of the Little Red

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Hair Girl. And finally we get
to mixed martial arts being the greatest sport

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under God's hot sun. Tonight we're
at the Apex. We have the main

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fight that's gonna be Roman Does.
I'm gonna get his name wrong. I'm

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sorry for butchering this versus Amobov.
Now I'm gonna save that. Towards the

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end just because I really am excited
about the co Maine event. I'm excited

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for dober versus Mokano, But I've
been asked about the upcoming pay per view

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and what am I truly looking forward
to, and there's really so much to

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get excited about. First of all, your main event is gonna be Vulk

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putting his title on the line against
number three Eliot the Portia, the very

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dangerous Georgia in fighter. And if
you want to go for the down the

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the comane, you got Robert Whittaker
versus paul A Costa. I have been

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a Robert Whittaker fan for so long. Strength clearly goes to paul A Costa

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if we can get him healthy and
get him on the scale and get him

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making way. The odds still fall
in favor of the Australian as of right

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now, So Robert Whitaker is still
gonna be my pick. I can't go

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against my allegiance to him. I
still think Ian Gary is probably gonna come

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in and destroy Jeff Neil. I
mean, that's number ten versus number eight,

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certainly, but the undefeated guy,
and the odds certainly clearly favored Ian

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Gary. But that's not even the
fight I'm most looking forward to. I'm

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looking forward to Marob versus Sahudo triple
see Henry Sahudo number three ranked bantamweight versus

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number two bantamweight Morob. The wattis
Vili and that's just because it really continues

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the almost confusing narrative in the bantamweights. For the UFC, I mean Alja

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means Sterling and Morob will not fight. Sterling has lost his title to Sean

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O'Malley to the Sugar Show Cheato Vera
is getting a shot at a remap against

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him in two ninety nine in March. So what that leaves is a guy

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who returned three years later after fighting
Dominic Cruz and getting a split decision loss

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against al Jamaine. Sterling gets the
guy that is his in ring trainer,

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Marab Morav is the same one who
took the red jacket and put it on

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him Whiles Sterling and Sean O'Malley are
getting heated inside the gage. That guy

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stole the show right down there,
and it looked better on Marob anyway.

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But Marob versus Henry Sjuno is really
a fascinating fight, and this is arguably

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if you want to talk about the
two most dangerous divisions in the UFC.

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It's been debated for so long of
it's the bantam wait ser if it's the

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lightweights. The bantamwaights are not to
put on a show. The number two

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guy in the world versus number three
guy in the world who almost was able

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to overcome al Jamine Sterling. Not
quite, because al Jermaine Sterling has become

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more like a human blanket these days. He's already got a fight coming up

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in the future. So it's just
if I'm gonna pick one that really has

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my intrigue the most, it's the
chess game between these two. I certainly

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believe Ian Gary has the knockout power
to continue his waying streak. I'm not

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saying that against the veteran Jeff Neil. I just believe that Ian Gary is

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still showing us who he is.
Robert Whittaker is still a fantastic fighter,

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and I don't want to give Paulocausta
the I don't want to just give him

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the head nod because of his strength
right away. We got to get them

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in there and have the co main
event. Folk could probably still hold on

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to his title against Eliot Tapooria.
The odds fairly leaned towards him. But

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that's been my biggest excitement as at
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And what I will say also is
they have done some changing around and shuffling

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of the cards on you y nine. I think it was the right move

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they moved Pewter Yon and Songa Dong
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card for UFC two ninety nine.
I do think Peter Yon's trying to make

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a comeback. I think Songa Dong
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So the bandomweight division is so spread
out across these pay per views and

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they could easily be fight of the
night easily. So I don't want to

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overlook the bantam weights whatsoever. Don't
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I have to go with that one
into tonight's co main event. That's got

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me the most excited is Drew Dover
versus Nanto Micano. That's gonna be tonight

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at the Apex. Now, Dover
has the knockout power, He's got the

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best knockout record among the lightweights in
history. And you've got Moikano, who

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the numbers clearly show that he's the
submission artist. My answer comes down to

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this, who's gonna have the best
takedown defence and whoever has their guy either

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against the fence shout out to my
guys who are against the fence MMA or

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actually lures their fighter towards the fence. The APEX has those few measurements that

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are a little bit off versus the
other. It's a lot tighter fit inside

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of that cage, and it's a
quieter audience. So if all the variables

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considered, Drew Dober does his best
work either when he's standing against the fence

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or when he puts his opponents back
on the fence. That's when he really

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lays in his work, Moi Kano. When we get to the ground,

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how much is he gonna be able
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So if this ends up on the
ground, I'm seeing it lean towards

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Marcano. Do we still have the
firepower in Dover's hands? Absolutely? Drew

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Dover could absolutely show the world who
he is tonight. Truly excited about that

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comine event. We're talking about the
main event, guys, Roman versus Amanov

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now Roman Delosky again. I'm getting
his name wrong, and I apologize,

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But what I can look at is
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Roman has been training with the former
champion Sean Strickland. You want to

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talk about iron sharpens, Iron could
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But Imanov has those dangerous elbows,
So we're talking about getting against the

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fence. That seems to be Amanov's
sweet spot. If you gave himwards the

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fence, he starts throwing those short
elbows, you could have a classic fight

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ending cut. So I'm truly intrigued
by tonight's co main event and the main

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event at the Apex, but I
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That still hasn't changed on UFC dot
com. But I'm a little bit

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disappointed about this one. Apparently Sean
Brady is gonna be out in his fight

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against Vicente Luka. They're supposed to
be in UFC Atlantic City, that's supposed

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to be the main event. Sean
Brady apparently has an injury, has to

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pull out, and I was really
looking forward to that one, really looking

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forward to that chess match. Luke
a versus Brady absolutely was dripping with true

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MMA competition. And I was just
excited about that one. I think that

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would have been a five rounder.
Both these guys are very much part of

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the five round club. So and
if you even look back to two ninety

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nine, I was talking about Dustin
Poorier. I was confused all week long

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Blockhead Nation, Dustin Poorier's fight with
Ben Watt Saint Dennis apparently was off.

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Then there was a misunderstanding. It's
back off if you just follow the tweets.

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Dustin apparently couldn't get the guys to
come to terms on the numbers for

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his fight when his paycheck would be
somewhere in there. He tells the world

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within less than an hour. Sorry, guys, misunderstanding fights back on some

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some times, you've even got somebody
that's as dependable and trustworthy as Dustin Poirier

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talking about things when you shouldn't talk
about things. I'm not saying he has

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to come in and clean up his
mess. It's just we had John Anick

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coming back and apologizing for just expressing
how he feels, which I don't have

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an issue with. When we were
talking about a minority of MMA fans who

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do take care of your paycheck.
Sean Stricklan makes a point on that one,

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but overall, say what you need
to say. We appreciate what you

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do in the world of MMA.
With John Annick, by the time we

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get him to the next pay per
view, this will be of wash.

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But Dustin Poorier is just as guilty
of jumping the gun on social media,

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so now he's got everybody saying,
hey, fights back on, Well,

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did this really need to be discussed
out in public? You can save it

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for your memoirs someday, Poorier the
Diamond and the Rough, But or whoever

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you want to do that, You're
welcome if you end up using that tag,

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and I hope to get a royalty
out of that when you make your

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book. Either way, I'm gonna
get back to the fights. I'll be

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tuning in with you guys, probably
early next week, since we have Valentine's

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Day banquet coming up and me and
the little red haired girl will be enjoying

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our dates, so I'll probably come
to you super early next week. Either

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way, enjoy the fights. Those
will be tuning in. We've got some

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great pay per views coming up on
the horizon, and I'll check in you

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guys next Saturday, same blockhead time, same blockhead Champ