Wilderness Survival Paired With Media Viability

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Broadcasting Live, Good Afternoon, blockad
Nation, or Good Evening, whatever time

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you happen to tune into this podcast. I'm thankful that you're here. You

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are listening to once again your favorite
Blockhead, the only podcast in the podcast

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

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

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host. My name is Brian Little. In case you happen to be tuning

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into this show for the first time, three things are always discussed on this

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show. Number one, God is
King. Number two, Peanuts is the

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

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arts is the greatest sport under God's
hot sun. They're gonna be in the

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today. We've
got Whitaker versus Aliskov, but I'll get

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to that on part two. Part
one is always dedicated to the Peanuts comic

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strip. And what I'm gonna do
right away is mention a passing of a

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beloved baseball favorite. Some of you
might have already heard. Some of you

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are not familiar with Willie Mays.
He has rounded third my friends. He

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has headed for home after I want
to say, over ninety plus years of

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a good life and just has been
one of the biggest figures in baseball.

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Wanted to make sure that I gave
my respects and my regards to the family

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for Willie Mays on this particular episode. So thank you for the memories,

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Willie. And I'll tell you this. I guarantee you that Charles Schultz was

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a Willie Mays fan. How do
I know that he really strip where Charlie

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Brown was admiring Willie Mays's accomplishments,
admiring Willie Mays for the phenomenal player that

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he was. Now granted, he's
doing that while weighing his fate in the

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principal's office, and it's just kind
of waiting until the final countdown before the

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man comes in. But he's sitting
there contemplating all the great plays by Willie

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Mays. So I want to make
sure that I mentioned that here and just

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give my respects and my love for
a phenomenal man and a phenomenal baseball player.

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And since we are in the time
period of baseball, in a time

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period of summertime, in case I
didn't let you know, there has been

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an announcement. A fairly decent Apple
TV special has come out. So if

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you're looking for something to watch this
summer that has a summer theme to it

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and you are a Charles Schultz,
Charlie Brown, snoopying the gang fan of

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any kind, Apple TV has released
something called Camp Snoopy. You can check

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it out on Apple TV. Now. Granted, is heavily based in something

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called the Beagle Scouts. All right, I mention that ahead time, giving

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my disclaimer just because when Charles Schultz
would make comic strips about Snoopy leading a

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troop of yellow birds, including Woodstock, normally it would be Snoopy that would

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be leading, and it would be
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It was still very militant, but
it was still very much the Bird

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Scouts and the Beagle Scouts, you
know, admiring their outdoor adventures, hiking,

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traveling, camping out, sleeping under
the stars, earning badges. All

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of that is there. So mostly
it comes down to that Snoopy is gonna

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be denied a chance to go to
summer camp with the kids on the bus.

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So while Charlie Brown is wondering how
he's doing. He's ended up at

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the same camp via taxi cab,
and he's already got the Beagle Scouts out

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and their outdoorsmanship and their showmanship and
all their adventures that are going to be

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outstores every kind of endeavor you can
think of. So if you need something

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to check out, Camp Snoopy's fairly
good. I've always told y'all it won't

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have the same flair to it as
it with the original illustrations and artistry that

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was Charles Schultz, but it's worth
watching, so I want to mention that,

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and also that hits home too,
just because you are listening to a

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two thousand and one appointed Eagle Scout. I got a lot of my camping

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out of my system from the time
I was in middle school through high school.

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If there wasn't a weekend that I
was spending time with my family or

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with my grandparents, it was probably
out on some camping endeavor with the boy

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Scouts of my troop, and a
lot of that that goes on in Camp

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Snoopy resonated a lot of times when
we hear about if you watch Charles Schulzer,

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you read the comic strip or watch
the TV show if there's any reference

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of going to summer camp of any
kind. It was very similar in my

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own encounters. I can tell you
one in particular that was completely my fault.

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I mentioned this last week that I
happened to be a huge fan of

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watersports. I mentioned something about canoeing. Well, I can tell you that

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I have literally capsized a canoe with
a fellow scout while we were out exploring

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the Lake of Camp Cherokee. Now
this is somewhere in the woods in the

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sticks of Athens, Texas. Those
of you that are outside of the Dallas

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Fort Worth area probably have no idea
what I'm talking about. But you can

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imagine a camp out somewhere in the
middle of nowhere, and you can imagine

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a lake that has a lot of
water sports. So that's that's easy for

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you to visualize. But basically,
we get out there and I act like

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I know what I'm doing. I'm
the stern man, I'm not at the

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bow, and I'm not really clear
on what I'm doing, And ultimately what

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happens is I capsized the canoe.
It isn't my scout mate's fault. It

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was all completely on me. I
did not have the proper technique for being

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in the canoe. I definitely threw
off the buoyancy in every way, and

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ultimately we had to take our canoe
back to the from the middle of the

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lake back to the shore while swimming
holding the canoe and holding our paddles,

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and to go back and explain ultimately
what happened while every pointing finger is at

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us and every adult we were being
supervised with. It was relentless that day.

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Let's just put it that way.
But there are a lot of them

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that are very similar. If I
see them around the campfire in a Charles

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Schultz story of any kind or a
comic strip, I'm reminded many times of

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being nights around the campfire where we
made our own meals, where we would

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sleep in our tents, where the
morning fire would wake us up. And

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that was pretty common theme throughout Camp
Snoopy, throughout Race for Your Life Charlie

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Brown, that was a common theme
through It was a short summer Charlie Brown,

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and a lot of these comic strips
that showed the Beagle scouts, So

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I wanted to make sure that I
mentioned that that it resonates with me.

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Also, there was something I left
out of last week. If you need

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a movie to get your interest in
outdoorsmanship out of the way, I'm willing

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to throw one at you. I
believe if those you have streaming devices,

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if you check out two B I'm
pretty sure it's on there. But if

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the ANBA ever watched a less known
movie known as Whitewater Summer, Yeah,

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nineteen eighty seven, one of those
lost Kevin Bacon gems. So if you're

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not a Kevin Bacon fan, I
don't tell you he's gonna be the same

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kind of psychopath that you would expect
in this one. However, this time

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he's got four boys with him,
leading him through the wilderness, taking them

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on incredibly dangerous rock climbing adventures.
And there is a major power struggle between

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the black sheep of the group and
him being the leader of the group.

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And there is a phrase that's said
at the very end that I kind of

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have to resonate with. And he
says something to him to the extent of,

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how did your father ever talk you
into coming to camp this summer?

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And he's looking up at the sky
and the kid goes, I was young,

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it won't happen again, And so
if you never had a chance to

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see this. If you're interested in
any type of camp in movies, why

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not. Now it's very, very
eighties heavy, so if you are not

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into eighties movies and a lot of
the thematic songs there. There's even one

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song living in a Dangerous Time,
so those of all that happened to like

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those old eighties songs. It's got
a few of those little gems in there

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that you might enjoy. But I
haven't really. I didn't bring that up

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in the midst of all of those
that I wanted to cover with you.

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But that's just kind of a showing
that you are listening to a podcast where

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I am one of those millennials on
the edge of the nineteen eighty four being

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a Reagan baby, and there's something
about if you are listening into a millennial

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but also somebody who is on the
cusp of being chen X. I believe

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that in many ways I appreciate not
only that era, but a lot of

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these going back further of something that
our culture has lost, not just being

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in touch with nature or not just
having a chance to say, Hey,

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I've been out and I've done all
of these outwoods adventures and outdoorsmanship of any

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kind. It's not that, it's
if you can, which is a hard

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thing to do. Consider getting away
from your phone and your iPad and have

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someone on one time with nature,
and maybe, just maybe that will lead

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you. After you breathe in the
fresh air and after you have appreciated what

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that has to offer, maybe just
maybe you would consider engaging in it even

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more so, this is a podcast
telling you to put the earphones down and

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go outside and embrace it. Because
whether you are a city kid, whether

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you are a country kid, whether
you are a millennial, whether you're a

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gen X, whether you are a
gen Z gen Alpha, and I really

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pray for you and the world that
you're walking into. It's time to get

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back to seeing what that traditional outdoorsmanship
has in store for you, which is

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usually a clear head and appreciation for
what you have, which barely happened with

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that Black Sheep kid in the movie
Whitewater Summer. They say that he's coming

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back to every year if you watch
the very end where he's contemplating his place

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in the world, even though he
didn't enjoy a single second of being out

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there in the woods. But yeah, it's got everything you can been looking

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for. It's not any way as
a masterpiece. It's just an eighties classic,

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one of those that gets lost in
the shuffle with Kevin Bacon. But

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you haven't seen it. Check out
Whitewater Summer. Stick around a little bit

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longer. I'll get into the scripture
of the day and a lot of things

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that have unfolded in the world of
mixed martial arts, So stick around.

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Our scripture reading for this podcast comes
from John four verse fourteen. But whosoever

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drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst. But the

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water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing

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up into everlasting life. Reflection from
blue Lair. The Bible says, take

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heart in the evident promise of your
salvation, that always, in forever shall

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your soul be filled to overflowing with
overabundant and eternal life. Never blockhead nation.

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Shall you thirst, and you'll never
dry up. You will be parched.

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Whether you'll take joy into unto everlasting
shall your heart's thirst be quenched as

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rivers of God's living water pour down
from heaven, as you bask in the

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glory of God's own son, which
is the Prince of Peace, which is

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Christ Jesus. So starting up with
mixed martial arts before I even get into

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today, they are in the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia for the first time.

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You got Whittaker versus Aliskarov. Really
starting off pretty fast here. But I

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gotta go back to the Apex.
As of last week. I have to

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mention the main event fly white belt
number thirteen taught pseudo Taira my goodness,

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tying number five Alex Perez in a
pretzel and having him submit to an injury.

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This is a TKO about So when
it comes to Tajira, we have

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an undefeated guy who's probably gonna break
into the top ten and he's gonna be

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a threat. He's gonna be a
threat to the flyweight division if he can

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do that to the number five guide
that's breaking in with a statement in the

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flyweights. It's already exciting as it
is. Again, if you haven't been

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watching these guys where you wonder whether
the tank ends where they're gonna be able

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to not continue anymore. It's just
unheard of. So we have an undefeated

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and an unorthodox fighter that showed who
he was at the Apex. We have

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an injury to Alex Perez, praying
for a speedy recovery for him on that

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one. But I just want to
mention that and get out of the way,

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because sometimes blockad nation, if you've
tuned into this side of anything that's

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related to MMA, most of the
time, I'm not gonna go through and

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give you a full analysis of everything
that's going on. I kind of have

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to say that sometimes my content as
an MMA fan is really kind of a

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low hanging fruit for anybody. And
I just say that because there are plenty

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of other sources you can go to, and one that proved to be truthful

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in it was a guy who gets
a lot of flak, which is the

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most well known MMA journalist in the
entire UFC, known as Ariel Wanning.

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So when I talk to you about
my thoughts on the UFC or any MMA

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fighter in particular, I'm not trying
to talk over your head. What I'm

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trying to do is get more than
just the MMA diehard fan. I'm looking

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for those of you that are casual
that want to give this a try and

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see if I can talk you into
the building. And a lot of times

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I'm able to if you give it
a chance, but I just have to

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go to There has been a lot
of banter, a lot of I guess

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you can say, male drama that's
been going on, not so much in

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the cage, but in the world
of commentary. So I'm a content creator.

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But there are several out there that
are in the MMA community that have

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really got a stirred up beef with
each other, and it's hard to know

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where it actually came from. So
I'll just put it this way. So

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if I bring my analysis that I
have with my friends, or if I

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have it here at the Blockhead Mansion, and if I'm watching a fight,

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you're probably gonna see where I stand
on a lot of these fighters, whether

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it's somebody who's in full guard or
somebody that's up against the fence and it's

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octagon control, or if they are
striking or they're counter striking. You know,

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we can go into all the details
of that one if you want to,

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but you just have to spend some
time with me and see that,

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because if I bring my analysis to
any MMA fighter, well then they're gonna

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shoot my takes full of holes.
There's just no other way to put that.

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But also we have to consider the
counterpart, where is what's that old

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a dodge? If it bleeds,
it leads. So that's why there's a

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whole lot of questioning behind this quote
unquote beef with MMA journalist Ariel Jwane and

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a well known veteran fighter and a
guy who's commentating tonight in Saudi Arabia That

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would be Michael the Count Bisping.
Okay, so let me just kind of

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catch you up. At this point, Connor is out with some kind of

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an injury. We know that,
or at least there's definitely something that is

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aloof since he's canceling press conferences and
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and we're not hearing anything from Dana
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Ariel Hajuane, which makes us all
go, Okay, are these reliable?

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What about guys like I don't know, Bloody Elbow, What if guys like

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ESPN MMA, what about low kick
people that follow USA today? Are we

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getting anything else from any other sources? All we're getting are tweets, which

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the next thing you know, Aeroljanna
makes some time of comment and Michael Bisping,

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who has his his own podcast,
who does his own commentating. Who

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even let me just help you out
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cornerstone in many ways to this sport
errolh wanna being an MMA journalist. Let's

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flip over to Michael Bisping just for
a second. Winner of season three of

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The Ultimate Fighter, a guy who
had a phenomenal storyline between Dan Henderson and

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himself. Dan gets a win over
him. In the United States, you

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got Michael getting a win over Dan. In the UK you do have Michael

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Bisping on lat Noise, stepping into
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championship. So nowadays what you see
him doing is you see him commentating.

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This is a guy I even watched
crack the Armor of One Cooby Covington just

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by asking questions about why do you
have to come across so bitter? Why

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do you have to imitate others that
are out there? So Michael Bisping is

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a guy who when he's not being
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But sometimes you wonder if he's really
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And it seems like that's where the
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the cannon fodder between both Ariel Hajwane
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Connor incident. Aerol Hawaan is saying, I know my sources, I know

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what I'm talking about, and sure
enough I was right. And it's almost

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like he is stirring this whole thing
up, because as it bleeds, it

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leads, he's twisting the knife on
Michael Bisping and saying, you need to

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apologize to me for all of the
comments you made about me. How I

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don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm not truthful. But then you can

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see Bisping on his show say something
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it's not that serious, you know, and consider from that angle,

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and it really is a weird thing. But of course a lot of MMA

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fans have mentioned this too. When
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Bisping. One of the reasons why
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on Ariol Hawane and laugh off all
of his antics. One of the reasons

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why he can do that is because
he's sitting on the shoulder of one Dana

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White. Now, if we even
go back further in historical trajectory here of

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the UFC. There have been real
beefs that have been built up between Ariel

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Hawuane and the owner of the UFC, Dana White. That has been true

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in the past, that has been
heated because Daniel White is never a loss

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for words on how he feels about
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a guy who is just like me, a content creator who admits, all

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I've got for you is a microphone
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I love. Ariel Hajwane being an
investigative journalist, going back and forth and

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having this banter with Michael Bisping has
been entertaining. But what was so wed

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to me was as soon as Aril
Juana has the Mma Errour on, he

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welcomes on another veteran of the sport
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as soon as he introduces him,
it's almost like, hey, you're you're

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supporting me on this one, right, It's almost like he's drumming up his

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own support. Hey, Ramby,
you would know it never go against the

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man, right, And Ariel just
continues. It almost seems like he is

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really trying too hard, and Rampage
just kind of looks at him goes,

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yeah, I wouldn't do that to
you, and then, ironically enough,

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on this segment of the MMA Hour, he starts trying to use the gen

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alpha terminology. He starts using those
words like riz and ski, busy or

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however you pronounce it. I'm sure
there's a young generation that's laughing on how

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I pronounced these things. But he
pitches that to Rampage, a guy who's

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literally beaten the door off its hinges
on an episode of The Ultimate Fighter,

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and he's still there going, man, I don't even know what you're talking

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about. You lost me on that
last word. I don't know what that

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means to be rised up or anything
of that nature. So it's so funny

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to see a guy who is so
dangerous and is still involved in the community

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that's looking at Ariel with this new
lingo and going I don't understand a word

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of what you just said. So
I don't know if this will continue for

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a while. It just seems like
the moment was it was easy for the

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distrake while the iron's hot, while
Ariel is looking at Bisbing going don't diminish

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me for what I do. I
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But then Bisping will come back and
go, you need to just get off

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of it, man, This is
really annoying. So if you need somebody

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to be entertained by, Michael Bisping
is easy to get behind. Not only

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his commentator is fantastic. He's even
got a documentary, so he's got an

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audiobook if you want to go look
it up. So Michael Bisping has put

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some serious mind into the world of
the UFC. So I had to kind

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of mention that early and get that
out of the way because that banter has

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had my attention for a while.
But it all goes back to what's happening

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with Connor. It was on everybody's
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we have an injury. So now
we're gonna change the whole UFC three

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oh three main event, and we're
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oh my gosh, you switch up
carlosh Olberg being out against Anthony Smith,

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and now you got another change up
on the It is almost like a plague

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has hit UFC three oh three.
It's almost like how many more are we

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gonna see back out of this one. So I'm not saying that to be

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irritated. I'm saying to you that
this sport is so unforgiving, whether it's

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an injury, whether it's a NOSADA
violation, or if it's something to do

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with the weight cut. Until we
got these guys in the cab. You

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got Roman Dalisti, who has stepped
in from Georgia at the last minute for

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a light heavyweight about to pull this
one off. Tonight was supposed to be

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Robert Whittaker versus Homsat Chamayah. But
you have Aliskarov who has got one loss

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under his belt, which is against
Homsought Chamayah. But don't think for a

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second that Robert Whittaker is not still
the deservingly ranked number three guy in the

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middleweights. If you watch his training
when it comes to his his speed,

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his accuracy. No, this is
a guy who can definitely win on the

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scorecards tonight. I got a lot
of faith in Robert Wick. I'm not

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giving him the wife be curse.
I'm not discounting the new age because these

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new guys are coming in and making
a statement in this sport. That's why

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I keep telling y'all when it comes
to this new crew that is starting to

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come into the UFC, we all
want to be so dependent upon Connor McGregor's

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return. And here's where we stand. A lot of you are waiting to

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see where I stand this. We
have a broken pinky toe. As I

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understand it, it's still a little
bit of smoking mirrors and a little bit

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confusing when I look and I see, Okay in the sparring session he's falling

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on his right leg, but his
left foot is where we see this broken

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toe, and that is more than
enough cannon fodder for already a to open.

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I'm gonna say, oh, I
remember you used to say something about

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me eight years ago for backing out
with an injury. There is this discussion

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about how if you're gonna fight,
why would you fight with an injury if

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you don't have to. Alex Perez
stepping in with more than one broken toe

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or a broken foot, and he
couldn't care less. He's in their way

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to fight. This is why the
MMA community appreciates him so much. But

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if you're waiting for my stance on
Connor McGregor, here it is. If

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you got a broken pinky toe,
just as Kramer once said in the TV

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show Seinfeld, that's a valuable appendage. If you watch that episode of the

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bus where Kramer ends up driving the
button, you'd have to watch the episode

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either way. But the end,
it's all over a pinky toe. It's

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not something to be taken lightly.
This is an injury that I can understand.

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A man who's made millions upon millions
upon millions of dollars in lucrative businesses

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and inside of the cage, as
a figure outside of the UFC, I

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can understand why he doesn't have to
take the fight. I understand that Michael

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Chandler should take it because it takes
him ten fights to break even compared to

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that. But it's my answer,
why would you fight with a pinky toe

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that's broken? Why would you do
that? That's a valuable commodity that you

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don't want damage for life. Connor
McGregor, I understand, I've had time

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to think about this. I am
fully in a repentive stage. And you

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know, we can talk about Bruno. We'll talk about him on the show

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all day long. So Connor McGregor
is justified in back and out of this

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fight with a broken Pikitoe. Whether
it's the right side or the left side

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doesn't matter. He's justified. We
can talk about Bruno on here if you

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want to, and let me throw
it out there for all of you that

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have your head stuck so far up
your conspiracies that your brain quit functioning.

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Jeffrey Epstein did commit suicide. Are
you hearing me? How do I know

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this? I know this because wealthy
people are very efficient and they're very self

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sufficient. Why would he need any
help on putting a noose around his neck?

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So let me just go back and
over these last three points. One,

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Connor has every right to postpone this
fight. He's not gonna lose any

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fanfare, not the casual fans,
not the MMA fans. We have a

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very slow recolleation of me that goes
on in history. You're gonna be remembered,

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You're gonna be forgiven. If you
come back, everybody's gonna welcome you

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with open arms. Two, we
will talk about Bruno on this show.

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That's not something that is taboo and
is not allowed to be discussed on this

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platform. And Three, there is
nobody that's been out to kill Jeffrey Epstein.

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There are not these well known names
of people that are out to destroy

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this man. It's a clear suicide. What more do you need to know?

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Whyf B just told you three lies. It's up to you to decide

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which three are true. I will
catch you next week after our watch.

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Robert Whitaker versus Alaskarov will catch you
for UFC three or three for an m

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m A takedown, same blockhead time, same blockhead chin. M m hmmm