Violated Codes In Peanuts With Volatile Chaos In The UFC War Room

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Broadcasting Live Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by once again.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead
the only podcast in the podcast in

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the world that can somehow incorporate the
Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the
Octagon the next. I am your host.

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My name is Brian Little. I
thank you so much for coming by

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a weekly every Saturday, or whenever
you are finding the time when you conveniently

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can tune in and listen to the
show. You can pause, you can

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reflect if you're around the house doing
chores, if you're at the gym.

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I'm here in the car. I
do thank you blockad Nation as you come

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by every week and listen into my
thoughts about three things that truly matter in

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this podcast. Number one, God
is King. If you stick around long

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enough, you were going to see
parable working with this podcast. The Prince

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of Peace, our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ would do that. He would

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tell stories, but then he would
also throw in a parable for his followers.

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And what I do is I throw
in a scripture of the day midway

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through this show. So I hope
you'll stick around and hear the truth as

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we get midway through the show.
Second of all, Peanuts is the single

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most successful comic strip in American history. We just had D Day. We

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just had a remembrance of, arguably, and quite honestly, in my humble

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opinion as a historian, the most
important day in world history. There's a

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few days that are absolutely critical.
D Day is one of them, and

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Charles Schultz did in remembrance of that
day beautifully with his comic strip. So

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when it comes to that, Peanuts
set the stage for so many others.

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He influenced Bill Watterson, who did
Calvin Hobbes. He influenced Jim Davis,

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who did Garfield. He influenced so
many others after that. There are so

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many people that have just loved Sparky, and I continue my best on this

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podcast to keep his memory alive.
Who was a World War Two veteran,

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a hero, was there in the
midst of it all in the European theater.

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So I always talking about Peanuts as
much as I can. Charlie brown

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Snoopy Linus in the Gang. You
see Sparky Charles Schultz portrayed, portrayed,

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excuse me, in so many ways
throughout the comic strip, as you read

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them, as you watch the movies, you see the old TV shows,

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and finally, this is the one
that kind of can be a little bit

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of a stretch. Mixed martial arts
is the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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If you stick around for part two, that's where you're gonna get my

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emphasis on my sports. So I
love my comic, I love my sport,

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but overall, I love my King, I love my Lord and my

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Savior, and all three of those
are a trifect of what you can expect

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in this podcast. And what I
want to do is bring up possibly what

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many would say is a discrepancy.
Is there an unwritten rule or an unwritten

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code when it comes to the Peanuts. If you're not sure, I'm gonna

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help you out. There's two of
them in particular. One that Charles Schultz

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made very clear in the beginning of
the comic strip was that adults are not

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really welcome in this world. They
are absent. They might play a role

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in the background, but they are
not in front of the camera. They

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are not part of the lives of
the Peanuts. If you hear an adult,

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you're gonna hear the trombone sound effect. Whether it's the parents, whether

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it's the teacher, miss Othmar,
adults just aren't present in this world.

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And the second one is Snoopy doesn't
talk. The world tends to know who

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Snoopy is. If you don't know
who the Peanuts are? Who Charlie Brown

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and Lioness and Lucy and Schroeder and
Woodstock. If you don't know this array

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of characters, most people could tell
you who Snoopy is. He's world renowned

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and he should be. But does
he talk? Does he actually speak the

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English language? Well, let me
tell you. Through the entire decade of

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the eighties, this rule fell flat
on his face. Charles Schultz violated his

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own code. Now does that mean
that he didn't have a reason behind it?

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There are a few extenuating circumstances behind
the scenes. In one particular episode

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called She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown, where the adults do speak, whether

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it's the teacher or whether it is
the retail salesman or saleslady. You do

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hear adults speak in that one That
could really throw you for a loop and

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go, wait a minute, how
come I'm hearing them speak? And a

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lot of that just kind of fell
with what happened behind the scenes. But

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let me say that opened the door
for more adults to speak with a television

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series called This Is America Charlie Brown. So if you were to go back,

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any of you that have any interest
in American history, mind you,

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this is gonna be a skimming of
the surface. This is gonna be a

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heartfelt, feel good type of TV
show. Whether you're watching the Mayflower Voyage

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or the Birth of the Constitution,
or or you were seeing the inventors like

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the Wright Brothers, or you're seeing
Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, or

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if you are seeing perhaps the blues
music from the eighteen hundreds into the nineteen

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hundreds. All of that is portrayed
in This Is America Charlie Brown. But

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the adults are very clear. So
these actual historical figures are adults who speak

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in that series. It could be
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and his associate mister Watson, Elvis
Presley, or at least his music is

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in the background. There's a lot
of it. You can follow through the

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entire series of This Is America Charlie
Brown. And the adults do speak,

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and it violates this code of Peanuts
society all through the eighties. Another example

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bon Voyage Charlie Brown. What have
we learned, Charlie Brown. These deal

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with D Day at Omaha Beach.
So in reference to D Day, you

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can see adults that speak. One
of them is a car dealership, one

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of them is just the owner of
the chateau. So you see adults present

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all through the eighties. You can
hear flight attendants talking about their descent.

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So I know, I'm kind of
getting into the weeds here, but that's

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several episodes throughout the eighties where the
adults do speak. Any other time,

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it's really hard to find adults that
do that. And my question is is

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that not only applicable, but is
that permittable well to withstand the test of

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time. I would say yes,
it is, not just because it's American

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history, but because another incident,
Snoopy is going to speak in the eighties,

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You're going to actually hear him have
real dialogue. Now that one isn't

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pertaining to issues behind the scenes,
like She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown,

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where you had to have adults where
you just couldn't get the sound effects you

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were looking for. That kind of
was just a last moment they had that

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little Maybe people won't notice this,
maybe they will either way, but got

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to get this on television. This
is a network issue. If it's the

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American historical figures, then these heroes
should have a chance to be speaking,

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to be seen for the sake of
the story of taking the narrative. But

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Snoopy speaking when all he ever does
is just bark And how do I know

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all of this? There is a
gentleman on YouTube that did do a critique

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of it. He did this full
on I guess you can say, cynical

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critique of the comment strip in the
eighties, and he had the same problem

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I did. Apparently he went to
school the next day and said something about

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did you hear that the adults were
speaking in the Peanuts episode that came out?

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It was culled. She's a good
skate charge out. Here's the problem.

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It fell on deaf ears. The
student bid didn't care. Just like

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a vibe up to my student body. They wouldn't care if I talked about

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that. But the good thing about
having a podcast is it's not that I'm

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gonna force you to care about this. What I am gonna do is you

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can't really you can't really put a
sock in it. You can't stop me

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from discussing it. And if you're
still with me nine minutes into this podcast,

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then I appreciate your tenacity. Then
I appreciate you being part of the

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blockad nation. But he did speak. And the reason why this one works

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is Broadway put out the musical You're
a Good Man Charlie Brown. You had

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at least two musical numbers on Broadway
where Snoopy did speak. He was given

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a musical number called Not Bad,
another musical number that was called Supper Time.

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So for that to be portrayed accurately, it means that Snoopy does have

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to have some speaking parts. He's
gonna have some music numbers. So I

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thank you to this cynical critique gentlemen
on YouTube that brought this to light.

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It's not just me the thought about
these things growing up, that the adults

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spoke, and they did that.
Snoopy had speaking parts in You're a Good

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Man Charlie Brown when they put the
illustrated version of that in the late eighties

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on national television. So this is
a discrepancy if you look all through the

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eighties, but it's one that's relevant
to the time, and it's relevant because

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you can't look at it and say
that that wasn't necessary. It was certainly

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necessary in the context of history,
in the context of the Broadway musical,

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in context of the show must go
on. So NBC and ABC producers and

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Sparky did the right thing. But
once we get to the early nineties,

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this isn't exactly swept under the rug. It just happens to be. We're

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gonna go back to our original ways. It's time for the adults to be

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a trombone sound effect again. It's
time for Snoopy to be heard only when

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he's growling and when he's mumbling and
garbling about something that he has a problem

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with, going back to the Snooper
that everybody knows very well. So if

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you can look through the eighties and
see a couple of these episodes, She's

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a good skate Charlie Brown, bon
voyage, Charlie Brown, This is America,

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Charlie Brown. You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Don't be surprised

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when these two discrepancies are in your
face. If you go back and do

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that, and a lot of you
won't because you rely on me to be

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accurate with my Peanuts information. And
that's what I do with this podcast.

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I do my very best to display
the comic strips the TV series that was

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very heavy in this particular episode,
to address this to the movie, to

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the Charles Schultz Museum that in two
years, here's the Little Red Haired Girl

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and myself will be visiting in person. And I cannot wait for that day,

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and I look forward to taking all
of you block at Nation along for

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that particular journey. So that you've
stuck with me this far, let me

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point you to the truth that is
the scripture of the day, and let's

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transcend into the world of mixed martial
arts as a current stands card. Scripture

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reading for this podcast comes from a
Psalm ninety one, verse one. He

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that Dwelleth in the secret place of
the Most High shall abide under the shadow

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of the Almighty David. In this
Psalm is talking about safety, about refuge

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Blockad Nation, this one. If
you're looking for anything in the Bible that

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shows protection from your enemies, then
Psalm ninety one is the way to go.

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This is the reflection from Blue lay
a Bible that says, the Lord

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God Almighty is an impregnable fortress for
those who place their trust in him.

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He's a strong shelter to those who
depend on his name. Never shall he

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fail, never shall he weaken.
You'll never shall those who trust in him

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be dismayed. So trust in him, blockad nation, and take courage in

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his majesty. So, friends,
as I try to piece together how I

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want to address just this last week, I guess I can begin with a

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couple of things straight out of USC
three to zero two, because sometimes when

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I do a recap, I can
kind of rehash a few things that are

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important moving forward. First of all, I have to talk about the mic

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the Kevin Holland fight. Kevin Holland
has this guy in an armbar and the

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guy won't submit, So I haven't
gotten confirmation yet if his arm was either

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dislocated or broken, and ninety maybe
more of the fighting population of the fan

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base that's out there has said that
Herbdine did the right thing. He ends

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the fight. At first glance,
it looked like the guy was tapping,

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but if you go back and replay
it from a different angle, maybe not

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but either way, he's arguing with
Herbdane that he didn't tap. Let's remember

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whose job it is to actually,
actually sometime protect these fighters from themselves.

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It's not your opponent, it's not
you, it's not even your corner.

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It's up to the referee to not
cause any more damage. And even from

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a legal standpoint, you don't need
somebody Hunter Campbell, who is running Chief

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Business Operations for the UFC to have
to go deal with this from a legal

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standpoint. Okay, so irb Dean
made the right call. What are you

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gonna do as a wounded animal?
Anyway? This isn't the movie Warrior where

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he can go into the last round
with a broken arm and somehow just survive

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long enough to be submitted. What
more is he gonna do? This is

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Kevin Holland that you're facing. Okay, So, in all seriousness, Kevin

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Holland moves forward in the wind column
as we move into the main event.

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I mean, what more can I
tell you except that Sean Strickland and Paulo

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Costa. Paul A Costa stayed on
his bicycle the whole time. It was

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just counter defense the whole time to
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You got Sean Strickland putting on maybe
the worst performance he's put on in a

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while, and he admitted to that. And for a guy that you're afraid

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to give the microphone to when it
comes to public relations, he was somewhat

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muffled. I mean he responded to
Donald Trump, who was a cage side.

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That's true, but Sean Strickland really
didn't ruffle a whole lot of feathers

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on this night. Main event Islam
versus Dustin. We don't really know for

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sure if Dustin's gonna retire. This
wasn't his best performance, but he certainly

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gave Islam one of the hardest nights
out that I think he's had in a

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long time, except maybe a spar
In session that we fans are not privy

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to, where you really get beat
up, where things do happen. It's

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one of the reasons we didn't have
Charles olivera going to face Islam at another

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time was because of a head butt
when he's not wearing headgear, you know,

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hours before he's getting on a plane
and go into the fight. So

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when it comes to Dustin Poiet,
he survives, He gives on a good

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performance it's not enough to overpower Islam. We'll figure out what we're gonna do

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with the lightweight champion down the road. Because I know one thing that's happening

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is the war room over at UFC
headquarters is going crazy within the last week.

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So I have to kind of remind
you of something. I gave a

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little bit of strong criticism to the
build up of UFC three oh two only

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because I wanted to see more of
a rivalry between Dustin and Islam. You

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had respect, which doesn't sell tickets. You have a very strong marketing team

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and a good You know when I
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felt like they dropped the ball,
but all these other times, if you

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go back and watch what's recently on
Roku TV, I tell all fans that

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are MMA fans, go watch this
UFC fight inc Roku TV, all three

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episodes that are out. I was
glued to my television. Blockhead gives a

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thumbs up all the way to every
single episode. It's showing Sean O'Malley's rise

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to the top. It's showing what
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And when you watch what happens in
that war room, it's an ongoing Nothing

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is new in that war room and
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It's just not and a lot of
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on the fly of removing fighters and
putting in guys who come in last second

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to save the day. This is
where I'm going with on UFC three oh

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three. Is all this build up
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oh three seems to have been on
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It has absolutely warned me out we're
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I can loosely timeline what I know
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press conference, all of the social
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lept to the fight has been taken
down. There's this cryptic message on Twitter

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apologizing in a broad sense, very
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are watching. Michael Chandler has said, if you're looking for me, I'm

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gonna be in Tennessee. So just
before he gets on the plane, he's

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still don't get on the plane in
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And now, according to sources like
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like it's holding on by a thread, but we may still very well have

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the Connor McGregor and Michael Chandler fight. So I have to give credit where

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it's due for somebody who lives and
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to not be afraid to face the
media and put them up against the

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wall the way that he does,
for somebody to have a team that could

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revamp everything in a moment's notice and
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Okay, we know who we can
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on. So if you're a MMA
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all, and you are either you're
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I am a Connor MacGregor fan.
Let me put something in perspective of what

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I'm seeing, and this is all
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not behind the scenes with these guys. I don't get to see what Sean

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Shelby sees, or what Hunter Campbell
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see. I get to see what
you as a fan get to see as

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well. I'm as good as the
information presented to me. But you can

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count on one of these two fighters. You can count on Michael Chandler.

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Who can you not count on.
It's almost like we have a house of

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cards that could fall at any time
with Connor McGregor, and that is really

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really hard to defend. I know
I was a little bit harsh on the

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marketing team and on the social media
teams and those that built up dustin Poee

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versus Islam. I know it was
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retract that a little bit in the
midst of this fiasco and say, you

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can't count on Connor McGregor to carry
this flagship forward anymore, now, can

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you? You can count on Michael
Chandler to show up. And that's what

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I want at this point. It
doesn't matter if it's a press conference,

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if it's a weight making, if
it's a staredown. I can't go any

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further than to say that we cannot
count on Connor McGregor, because now if

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he does fall through, just the
same way that John Jones getting injured,

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who's out for at least a year, you can't have John Jones versus Steepy

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Meochich anymore. So all of a
sudden, you have Aspinall versus Sergey Poplovitch

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for the interim Heavyweight Championship, because
the show must go on and the titles

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should be defended at least a contender
that has something to hold. As we

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move forward here, there are circumstances
beyond our control, and so it makes

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me wonder it's one of two things. Either we have an injury or we

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have a violation of USADA. Did
Connor McGregor Pop did something happen that's got

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him injured? It seems like cryptically
there's an injury that's not being disclosed to

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all of us. So in an
emergency situation like this, we've heard a

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couple of names thrown out there.
One of the names that you can count

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on, and it's continued to be
a guy when you're in a pinch,

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if you're called from the UFC war
room, next thing you know, it

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ends up in the cage. It's
happened a few times when they fought in

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Abu Dhabi. I'm just throwing that
out there for perspective. Blockad Nation that

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this has happened before with other fighters
who get injured and you need somebody to

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step up and quote unquote save the
card. And one guy that has continuously

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done that time and time again is
Alexander Volkanovski. Now does that have firepower?

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Does that have intrigue? Does that
draw the flies with honey to say

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now it's Vulk versus Chandler for him
to go up and wait and face him

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at one fifty five or even one
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All of this is speculation at this
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the guy that's coming to save the
day. I'm saying he's the one that

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has continuously, from two thousand and
two to two thousand and three been the

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guy that showed up to face Islam
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the cage, when you couldn't get
other fighters to step up. It's been

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Vulk that's answered the call to the
bat phone when you need it. Vulcan

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is on the other end answering the
call. Yes, Commissioner. So that

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name was thrown out a couple of
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Why not if you're gonna have true
fanfare. This isn't truly baseless in any

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way, but I will just throw
it out there. If we're gonna defend

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the BMF title, why not have
Max defend it against Michael Chandler. If

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you can't get Connor, why not
the BMF holder. This was talked about,

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But if I just go through the
rankings of what Chandler had at one

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fifty five, one seventy is so
booked if that was really gonna be the

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case of making that kind of weight. But if we're just gonna go back

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on where we have Chandler ranked in
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any sense because he's gonna wait until
he gets a shot against either Islam or

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our Monster Rookion Our Montsoukion wants nothing
more than a rematch against Islam and this

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sign for the title. There's one
guy who hasn't really been called on that

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could be the guy that can solve
this for you, and that man's name

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is Justin Gaichie. You got guys
coming off of two l's. Gaichie was

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able to overcome Poorier, Porier overcame
Chandler. They're both coming off els at

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this point, one guy that hasn't
been called on or we don't know anything.

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We don't know what happened in the
confines of the UFC war room in

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between those phone calls and those messages
and those coaches and the book, in

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between Sean Shelby and Hunter Campbell and
Dana White, we don't know. But

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was Geich he called upon? Because
I would take a five round rematch gaechie

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versus Chandler two at UFC three oh
three. I would take that in a

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heartbeat. And so I can disagree
with Dana White all day long, but

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when it comes to a Dana guy
who won't steer away from anything, you

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can even talk about the Colemane judging
at UFC three h two being insaying I

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have to go along with Dana on
that one. I can disagree with John

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Jones being number one pound for pound
because of Islam continuously defending his title,

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but we know that John Jones is
out with a year long injury and he's

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saying, nope, john Jones ends
up number one rank. Still at this

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point, you can have faith in
Dana White, who lives and breathe this

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business and the fight game day in
and day out and doesn't take a day

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off. You can ride or die
with him. But it's getting to a

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point where we can no longer ride
or die with Connor McGregor, but you

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can with Michael Chandler, who's shown
up many times ready to fight and maybe

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didn't showed up on waiting, didn't
even fight, ended up at a broadcast

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booth. This is a guy that
we have been kicking around waiting for something

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to happen with him, but you
can count on him for sure. Just

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to give you perspective on all of
this in this emergency situation that maybe we

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will still get Connor versus Getting versus
Chandler A few names that have been kicked

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around at this point to say the
day, but I've heard nothing about gaechie

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versus Chandler two and I take that
fight in a heartbeat. UC three oh

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three is so stacked anyway, I
can't wait to do a breakdown on that

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when I do a UFC takedown,
which I will. Why I be MMA

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takedown three oh three is going to
be a reality. So I just I

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bring all this to the forefront for
the sake of being an MMA fan and

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being left in lingo like this,
and it's irritating. This one's even harder

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to defend. It's not hard to
defend my chandler, it's very hard to

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defend Connor McGregor. These days.
It just is I slapped my forehead too

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often trying to keep up with breaking
news and trying to give you a decent

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podcast on my end. When I
will tell you this, if you're still

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with me and you are wanting to
check out tonight's main event, I'm telling

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you Cannon Air versus Imanov, this
is a wrecking ball of a main event.

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If I was just to give you
the hit list of both of these

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guys, Imanov has plowed through Ian
Hijik, He's plowed through Edmund Shabazian Joaquin

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Buckley. But if you look at
Cannon Ear's hit list, it gets even

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more grim. If you look at
guys like Kelvin Gatslam, Marvin Battori,

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former middleweight champion, Sean Strickland,
who's a loose can as itself, Cannoneer

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has been the guy's kryptonite a couple
of times. So I'm telling you,

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if you have not decided about UFC
tonight in the KFC Center, Cannon air

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versus I'm an off is worth your
time and I will be watching that fight

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blockad Nation. As I thank you
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