Oct. 5, 2024

We Celebrate The Anniversary As We Strive To Not Lose In The Trenches

We Celebrate The Anniversary As We Strive To Not Lose In The Trenches

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Broadcasting live Good Afternoon Blockhead Nation. I missed you guys

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last week. I apologize for the delay. But here we

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are back on the microphone once again. You are listening

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to your favorite Blockhead, the only podcast in the podcasting

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world that can somehow incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one

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minute and then me talking about MMA and Warriors inside

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the Octagon the next. I am your host. My name

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is Brian Little. I apologized that I couldn't get on

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the microphone last week. I will say this for those

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that are listening that don't live nearby Ellis County town

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that's south of Dallas known as Ellis County. That being said,

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a nearby neighboring city known as Glenn Heights has an

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animal rescue that I had volunteered to be a part of.

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And it was basically a twelve hour shift. That's not

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to gain any one's sympathy. It's just working from five

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o'clock in the morning until five pm, being outdoors and

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making sure the garage sale was a success, going live

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on Facebook as many times as I had to, and

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again that was just all giving it back to the

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fur babies that need a forever home. So if you

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are a person looking for a pet, I'll always tell you,

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don't buy, adopt. You've got so many that need a

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forever home, that deserve a chance on what's given to

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our dogs here at the Blockhead Mansion. So I knew

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that that was something I can contribute to. I could

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use my skills, I can use my gift of gab

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quote unquote to really help out the animal shelter. And

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we had a very successful garage cell as a whole.

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It just took the majority of the wind out of

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my sales that day. So I just said, Okay, block

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Ad Nation, I'll get with you all next week. I

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don't feel like I will perform as good of a

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level as I do on these audio podcasts if I'm

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completely exhausted and I'm just drained of all my energy

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from being out in the sun all day. So I

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appreciate you understanding that and being willing to give me

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a chance to revamp, to recharge my batteries and come

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back ready to go on this episode. And it's so

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befitting that on this particular episode of the podcast that

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we can celebrate the seventy four year anniversary of the

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releasing of the greatest comic strip of all time. I

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always say that Peanuts is the single most successful comic

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strip in American history, even on a world stage. If

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you don't know who the Peanuts are, you know who

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Snoopy is, Okay. So that being said, it is so accepted,

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world known and renowned through every household all through the world,

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and has at some point in history. So we had

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seventy four years ago where on October second, nineteen fifty

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you had the first Peanuts comic strip come out that

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made its debut, and if you don't know this, it

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was the showing of yes, good old Charlie Brown. But

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that was also the debut of two other people, the

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original Patty, not Peppermint Patty, not the tomboy that some

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are familiar with, but the original Patty, and a guy

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named Shermy if it helps you. In the Christmas episode,

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shear Me is the one that complains about always being

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a shepherd in the Christmas play. He also has a

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complaint in the very first comic strip. So you have

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Charlie Brown walk by, he doesn't have the chevrons yet

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on his shirt, but you do have Shermy and Patty

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sitting on a bench on the sidewalk, and there comes

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Charlie Brown, and as soon as he walks by, Sherman exclaims,

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how I hate him. Well, to follow up on that,

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Charles Schultz had a quote that I want to use

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here and says, I like to think of Charlie Brown

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as being a bit of every man. There is a

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famous play and known as every Man. If you've never

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heard of it, you should maybe go take a look

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at that playscript sometime just to kind of give some

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clarification on what every man is. When I say every man,

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it has a capital E on it. Continuing with Charles

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Shultz quote, he tries to assume a perfect social image,

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but everything seems to go wrong. How identifiable is that?

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Let's continue, Even after his worst days, in a way,

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he still triumphs over adversity. He realizes, like the rest

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of us, that it is amazing how rapidly things can

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turn around, going from bad to good. So I've always

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appreciated that from Charles Schultz from the very first comic

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strip that came out about Charlie Brown, that he has

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to face these adversities and as always a guy who

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keeps on plugging away. Well, a few days follow that

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and October fourth, you have a debut of the most

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recognizable character, the most interchangeable character in the history of

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the Peanuts, known as Snoopy. So October second of this week,

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this is me playing ketchup for you and doing a recap.

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You had Charlie Brown Day, and then you had Snoopy

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Day yesterday on Friday, October fourth. So the world famous

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beagle that first appeared seventy four years ago, just two

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days after the very first Peanuts comic strip. This this

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is a phenomenal turnaround, even for that time for comic strips.

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So Snoopy joins the Peanuts game. But really at the time,

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he's just a little puppy wandering around the neighborhood. How

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befitting to pull that back to the animal rescue. So

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I wouldn't think of Glenn Heights as the Daisy Hill

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Puppy Farm, but in my life, in a way, it's

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kind of contributing back where I can't contribute to the

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real Daisy Hill Puppy Farm because it doesn't exist, But

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animal shelters like that do exist. So search your heart

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blockad Nation. If you can't give your time, you can

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certainly help out with their vaccines. You can help out

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with their neutery and their spain for helping with adoption needs,

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you know, helping out with vet bills. I'm just kind

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of giving a public service announcement here through that. But

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that's what how Snoopy starts off in the comic strip,

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and over time he becomes anything but ordinary. I'm gonna

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use another quote from Charles Schultz about Snoopy as he

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evolves from a sweet puppy to an older, worldlier pup

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that sleeps on the top of the doghouse. This is

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what we said about Snoopy. Snoopy's appearance and personality have changed,

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probably more than those of any of the other characters.

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As my drawing style loosened, Snoopy was able to do

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more things. And when I finally up the formula of

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using his imagination to dream of being many heroic figures,

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meaning he's talking about the World War One flyon ace

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or the athlete, the masked Marvel, or Joe Cool, the

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socially accepted, you know, cool guy who hangs out on

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the corner, you know, and talks to the ladies. You know.

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He evolved into all of these things quite a metamorphosis.

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So as he says that here, as he becomes more

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historic figures, the strip took on a completely new dimension.

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So yes, Snoopy is very much full of adventure, and

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the ultimate joy that he has lies in the simple

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taking a nap on his doghouse. That's contentment followed by

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a meal from what he calls throughout the comic strip,

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the Roundheaded Kid. So I may be your favorite blockhead,

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but there will always be a Numero, you know, roundheaded kid.

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There'll always be a number one blockhead known as Charlie Brown,

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and ultimately the signor the senor blockhead, which would be

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Charles M. Sultz himself. He has a museum named after

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all of his works. In one day, the Little Red

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Haired Girl and myself will actually attend such Charles Schultz Museum.

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That's our ten year anniversary. So that makes it easy

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for me to be able to dive into this. Not

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to mention the month of October again, that doesn't mean

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that I'm just gonna coast through this whole month when

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I bring in content for you, but it makes it

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easy because this is the season of the great Pumpkin,

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isn't it. So I support the ideology of the Great Pumpkin,

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but I don't support the genocide of innocent pumpkins that

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started with Lucy's Empire that still continues today. So if

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you're listening sipping on a pupkin spice coffee, I have

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beef with you. I don't know how much more I

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have to scream this from the rooftops that it has

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to stop. But you know that can be for another day.

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If I can end on something positive, I would like

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to use just as we end segment one here leading

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into the second part that talks about mixed martial arts,

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because I talk about three things on the show. 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 being the greatest sport under God's hot sun.

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But I'll end with an actual quote from a boy

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named Charlie Brown, one of my absolute favorite TV series

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of all time. I won't dive straight into the Great Pumpkin.

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I'll do that throughout the month methodically, but I'll end

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with this. As we had a closing of a season

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moving into the autumn season, this is kind of befitting.

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So these are the exact words from a boy named

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Charlie Brown from the musical accompaniment you would hear before

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and after that entire episode. Here it is now the

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shadows of the morning have gone beyond the August afternoon,

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and Charlie has had his day, his very special a day,

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his morning, his evening, his noon. Maybe it's a kind

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of magic that only little boys can do. But seeing

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Charlie smile can make you stop a while and get

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you feeling glad that you're you. He's only a boy

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named Charlie, a boy named Charlie Brown. He's just a

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kid next door, perhaps a little more. He's every kid

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in every town. The world is full of lots of

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people here and there and all around, but people, after all,

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start out as being small, and we're all a boy

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named Charlie Brown. Our scripture reading for this podcast comes

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from Romans eight, verses fifteen through sixteen in English Standard

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pers It says this, for you did not receive the

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spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you

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have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom

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we cry abba Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with

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our spirit that we are children of God. David Usig

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says this in his commentary about this It's easy for

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us to think of Jesus relating to the Father with

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this joyful confidence, but we may think that we are

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disqualified for it. Remember that we are in Christ. We

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have the privilege of relating to the Father, even as

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Jesus Christ does always want you to hear the truth.

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Blockhead Nation. As I pick up where I left off

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last week, I wanted to get into all of the

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post thoughts on UFC three h six, but there was

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something that was big, breaking news that I have to address.

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We have a legend who has hung up his gloves,

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and there's always been this debate about who would be

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on the Mount rushmore of the greatest MMA fighters of

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all time, as much as that might change hands and

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might be you know, wax On wax Off amongst a

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lot of the MMA fans, three of them are always

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up there. One would be gsp another would be Andres

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and Silva, and one would be John Jones. As much

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as I want to don't want to admit it, it

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will always be there. But there's a guy who deserves

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to be at least in the top five or a

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discussion and that man is Demetrius Johnson, Mighty mouse. He

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has given the news coming out of one Championship that

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he is retiring, and I can wish him nothing more

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than success and happiness and comfort in his retirement, or

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for him to switch and turn a new chapter and

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to seek and pursue true happiness. I have nothing more

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for my mouse than that, except that this is one

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of the guys who didn't become one of the greatest

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stars of this sport, but certainly in one of the

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most tremendous athletes. If you just go back and look

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at some of his highlight reels, Demetrius Johnson, my goodness,

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he deserves to be in that discussion. How he is

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transcendent amongst different organizations in the MMA world, UFC one

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Championship and is still a dominant force across the board.

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So I wish him nothing but the best happy trails

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to you, mighty mouse, Demetrius Johnson. And I'm gonna begin

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with something that's gonna be salt in a wound. I

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mentioned earlier about being south of Dallas, living in Ellis County,

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which means often if we're gonna shift into the world

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of professional football, my NFL team embarrassingly, so is still

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the Dallas Cowboys. And I kind of have to tie

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that over into something I'm seeing now. I have to

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ask an important question before I give my jabs to

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another sport, because some're gonna hear this and go focus

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on the sports that you know, Blockhead, But I have

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to ask a transcending question. It's a blanket statement across

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the board. Is it possible to lose in the trenches?

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What do I mean by that? If I can take

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you back to where trench warfare began, you could go

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through the whole story about World War One and how

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there was this Christmas truce and a soccer game that

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happened between the two opposing teams. And from a general standpoint,

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when the commanding officers find out about this on Christmas Day,

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even though this was good for morale, this can never happen.

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war in the trenches. If you give the enemy an inch,

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you are in danger of them taking a mile. I

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understand both sides of this story. How you don't want

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to go to war on Christmas Day. You want to

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have the truce, you want to have the feel good

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moment you want to sing Christmas songs, you have identity

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with your enemy. The very next day it's back to

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the trenches and back to war. This is one of

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those moments where if you allow them to have a foothold.

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I understand the commanding officers perspective, you can lose in

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the trenches. My beloved Dallas Cowboys have proven this time

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and time again. Even before this happened, I remember seeing

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this and Drew Bledsoe came over with a lot of

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the guys on the field and I'm gonna bring up

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one now from the sidelines. It's one I'm talking about

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about losing in the trenches. Because you have Ceedee Lamb

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and Dak Prescott, you have this moment where Ceedee Lamb

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is frustrated, and rightfully so, because Dak Prescott, being paid

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the millions of dollars that he is, has an outburst

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from the sidelines. And this is back to the game

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where they played Baltimore Ravens. And that's kind of the

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part that's frustrating too. People don't know that I spent

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one year, actually more than a year, a year and

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a half being an offensive line and defensive line coach

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for middle school kids. There's something you got to realize

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is that if you go to Friday night Lights, the

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high school coaches are expected to win the game. The

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middle school coaches are drug along to do the silly stuff.

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One in particular is to be what you call a

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get back coach. These high school students get too involved

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in the game, and when they crowd the sidelines, you

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got coaches yelling at them to get back. It's a

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minuscule task, but it is still an outside interference. It's

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external stimuli that a referee can call your team on.

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Just like two many men on the field, you can

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have a sideline penalty that can happen, and it's extra

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headache that a coach doesn't need who's trying to focus

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on way in the game. This happened with the sidelines

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for the Cowboys, with Ceedee Lamb leading the charge against

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Dak Prescott. But I can understand both sides. Where Dak

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Prescott is supposed to set up a short route, it's

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an easy throw. He completely overshoots the shot. You got

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a basic primitive move that he can't capitalize upon. Ceedee

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Lamb is frustrated and they go back and forth. You

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got that bro moment with each other. And you've got

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Ceedee Lamb, who has to come back on Fox Sports

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later and say, don't let what's out there fool you.

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We're brothers to the end. YadA, YadA, YadA. We know

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that we all got it. I tipped my hat to

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the guy. I got the utmost respect for him. I

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look at him as a brother. So with that being said,

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everything's gonna come out. You got the energy, the passion,

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the love of the fight. You're going to make up

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in the end. Yes, Ceedee Lamb, You're gonna make up

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in the end. But what you've done is you've contributed

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to losing in the trenches. It's embarrassing for US Dallas

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Cowboys fans to see this, how it's been an ongoing

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trend for so long. I'm sorry if you don't want

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to hear the facts. You can lose in the trenches

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in war, you can lose in sports. That allows me

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the open door for what I'm seeing with Alex Pereira

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and Khalil Rountree. As a matter of fact, I can

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go back even further. You go to another organization, Belator MMA,

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shifting out of football. I'm going back into the cage.

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Going back into the octagon. Here you got a moment

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where Rampage Jackson is going to challenge a guy who's

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a well known wrestler and takedown artist known as Chail Son.

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And they have this fight and Rampage makes a bet

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and he says, every time that you finish a takedown,

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like you actually do a shot on me and you

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take me to the ground, I will pay you ten

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thousand dollars a pop every time you get me on

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my back ten grand. That night, Chail finished three takedowns

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on Rampage Jackson. Now, being the man that he was,

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he paid up. He sent the check to Chail and

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Chaill deposited such check. I'm bringing all that up to

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simply say, when you kind of give away one of

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your tools and you give an advantage on the other side,

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this may be fun to get more eyes on the

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product and say I'm gonna bet this. I'm gonna accept

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that bet. But could you if you look at Rampage

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Jackson's tactics, could you say that he just lost in

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the trenches. Could you argue that point? Why does all

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that matter? Because if you look at tonight, you got

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UFC three oh seven. You got Alex Pereira, one of

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the most well known fighters, a stone wall of a

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man with some of the most dangerous bricks inside of

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his knuckles, going up against Khalil Rowntree, who has a

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very good record. It's easy for the busts and booms

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to come back and haunt Khalil Rantrey for having to

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pull out because of a banned substance, or to pull

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out for any fight. It's easy to get caught in

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those short term moments. But Khalil Rowntree's rankings and Khalil

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Rowntree's record show that he does have a chance tonight,

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and I believed he did until I heard two things.

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The first problem I'm hearing from Khalil Rowntree's approach facing

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the champion Alex Pereira tonight, is that he prefers to

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fight in the apex. If you are saying you prefer

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to fight in the apex, you are saying not only

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you like the diameter, you like the tightness of being

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inside the cage, but you like that there's not a

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roar of a crowd that's outside blaring down on you.

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Khalil Rowntree likes the silence where he can just hear

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his coaches yelling instructions to him, teammates in his corner.

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It's an advantage you have when you're inside the APEX.

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You don't have a bunch of bloodthirsty, screaming fans that

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are gonna drown out what the coach is trying to say.

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And second of all, not only does he prefer the APEX,

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He's not gonna get that tonight with UFC three h seven,

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He's gonna have a packed house. He's also got a

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challenge that he accepted for charity. If you go back

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to Alex Perera knowing that he doesn't want to strike

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with Alex Perera, or at least it seems like to

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take away one of your tools that you can use

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to your advantage. He says in this challenge that any

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time that you land a take down on me, you

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are expected to give a portion of your purse to charity.

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So anytime you don't stand and strike with me some

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of the most dangerous hands in all of the UFC.

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As we currently speak, you're telling Khalil Rowntree that he

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has to stand and strike. Khalil's response, if you look

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on x on Twitter, you will see where he says,

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I will give a portion of my purse to charity anyway,

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no matter what happens. Challenge accepted, meaning he is willing

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to take the challenge by Alex Perere the similar to

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chail Son and being challenged by Rashad I'm not a

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shot Evans, but by Rampage Jackson and say okay, I'll

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take you up on that bed, but this time it's

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going back to charity. He's gonna get a charity anyway.

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I love the idea of anything of my efforts going

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back to Glenn Height's animal rescue similar to a Daisy

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Hill puppy farm in any ways, pulling in the Peanuts

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perspective here. But to know that he is willing to

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accept this challenge, does that not sound to you like

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Khalil Rowntree might just have lost in the trenches, being

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a guy who's walking in with a record and a

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ranking which could be an advantage to make people go

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could this be the guy all the hype that's around

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Alex Perera Now he quickly has this turnaround once another

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fight in October, he gets it. He's defended the championship

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and it's against Khalil Rowntree, guy who has strength to

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his advantage, who has knockout power, and knowing that maybe

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his isn't substantial enough to face against Alex Perera, maybe

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he will turn to his wrestling, his shoots, his takedowns,

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even though you gotta build up your defenses on that one.

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You are saying, if you do that, then whatever your

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earnings are, if you didn't stand and strike with me,

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you got to give a portion back to charity. Maybe

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it's the whole trauma effect that's going on with Alex

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Pereira right now. If you don't know the whole trauma aspect,

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that's the language barrier that you're seeing with Alex. But

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if you go back and look at the challenges given,

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one you're out of the apex where you prefer to be,

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where you apparently seem to shine. And two, if you're

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taking this challenge excepting that a portion of my person

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will go to charity every time, I don't even that

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one small little hesitation, all your training, everything your coaches

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have taught you, it can all change the second you

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step inside of the cage and you have a different mindset.

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Could this have caused Khalil Rountree the guy who was

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a small, little dark horse hope and allure for other

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MMA fans to see if this is the guy. Could

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he have just lost in the trenches? We will certainly

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see come next week when I get on the microphone,

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I'm either gonna be eating crow Andi like in the

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taste of it, or I'm gonna tell you that these

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small little psychological nuances can be unfavorable to Khalil Rountree.

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He could just lost in the trenches. Just with that, Now,

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a little bit harder thing to determine will be the

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prelim fight that leads to the Kayla Harrison fight. You've

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actually got closing the pre limbs tonight. You've got WonderBoy,

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and you got a guy who has one of the

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greatest knockouts in the history of the sport, known as

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Joaquin Buckley. So you have the string thin, the tenacity,

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the ferociousness of Joaquem Buckley against the hardest jigsaw puzzle

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you may ever be able to figure out, which would

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be WonderBoy, a guy who even Rory McDonald, if you

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don't know who he is, go back and take a

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look at the impact he's had in the world of

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mixed martial arts. He couldn't figure out Stephen WonderBoy Thompson.

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Tyron Woodley could not figures out Steven wonder Boy Thompson.

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Is Joaquim Buckley, with his strength and his ferocious attacks,

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going to be the one who figures out this guy.

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A little bit of MVP thrown in there, with a

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little bit of an intrigue and mistique. It still hasn't

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been solved, So WonderBoy versus Buckley. It's a great way

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to open the curtain for the main card tonight, leading

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to Kayla Harrison, leading to Jose Aldo, who's gonna be

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mid card, leading up to the girls fighting with Julian

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Opena and Roquel Pennington, leading up to Khalil Entree, the

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dark horse and the strength components that he may have

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to rely on. Could be tit for Tat Now that

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you have this challenge thrown into the mix, did Khalil

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Rountree just lose in the trenches or could that be

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the opposite effect for Alex This should be intriguing for

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UFC three oh seven. We'll pick up on this next week.

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Thank you for sticking with me this long blockadd Nation.

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If you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, and you got your

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panties all up in a wad. At this point, we'll

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see if they can keep on sanctifying themselves every Sunday

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out there on the grid iron. We will see you

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next week. Blockadd Nation, same blockhead time, same blockhead Champ.