July 12, 2025

Will 2026 Guide The UFC Back On Track?

Will 2026 Guide The UFC Back On Track?

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Broadcasting Live coming to you between the rain drops of

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North Texas. You are listening to your favorite Blockhead, the

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only podcast in the podcasting world, but can somehow incorporate

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the Peanuts comic strip in one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and the Warriors inside the Octagon the

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

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and I'm gonna go ahead and say up front, if

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you are new to this show, then you are not

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gonna realize that I'm coming to you tonight, just bare bones,

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that I'm coming to you in many ways, messy and

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not really I mean, it's just gonna be vulnerable. It

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has been a long day and the weather has been

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so sporadic, Like I can hear the rain drops behind

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me on the windows of the Blockhead mansion right now,

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and it's kind of one of those do I get

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recorded and then the lightning comes and it shuts off

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our power, or do I just say this for another day.

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I'm coming at you raw and authentic tonight, uncut and

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in a very different format. So those and it's not

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really to shock anybody. It's just after such a long

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day and being involved in many other things, my life

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gets consumed with just like you Blockhead Nation, I get

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busy too, and I'm coming to you tired, and I'm

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thinking instead of trying to follow a normal format, which

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you're still going to have peanuts, you're still gonna have

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mixed martial arts, you're gonna have your scripture of the day,

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it's just not going to be in the same order.

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And I'm starting off from the Book of Truth. I'm

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starting from Every Sunday since January, since I've been going

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to church, we have been learning the Book of Jeremiah.

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And a lot of you think, why would you want

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to read such a downtrodden chapter. Well, first of all,

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if you can understand the prophets and all the prophecies

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of old that were fulfilled through the Prince of Peace,

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through the Carpenter from the plains of Galilee, you'll have

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a greater understanding of what's being revealed to you in

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the good Book. Because the Book of Jeremiah, just like

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this episode, is not going to be arranged chronologically. It's

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going to be a substantial jump from one to the other.

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Because if you read into Jeremiah chapter twenty one, where

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we've currently been studying chapter twenty Chapter twenty one, there's

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a fifteen to twenty year jump, and that throws US

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Americans off that are so used to a chronological timeline,

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and you're not going to get that. Near Eastern culture

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didn't care about things that they cared about the anthology.

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They cared about the compiling of the stories. So I

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just say that because in Jeremiah chapter twenty one, you've

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had the last kings of the Southern Kingdom of Judah,

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and you're down to the last one. There have been

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two invasions by the Babylonians so far, King Nebekinezer has

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taken away the best of the best, and now it's

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just a matter of everybody's in panic. So the king

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of that time and Jeremiah chapter twenty one is King Zedekiah,

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and he sends a messenger to Jeremiah and says, can

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you send up a prayer to God on our behalf.

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So I'm going to read to you the message to

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Zedekiah from Jeremiah about Jerusalem's coming conquest. Normally I read

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you Scriptures of Hope. I'm not gonna do that tonight.

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I'm gonna read you Jeremiah twenty one, verse three through six.

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Then Jeremiah said to them. Thus you shall say to Zedekiah,

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thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Behold, I will

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turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,

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with which you fight against the King of Babylon and

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the Chaldeans who besiee you outside the walls, and I

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will simple them in the midst of this city. I

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myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and

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with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and

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great wrath, I will strike the inhabitants of this city,

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both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.

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You tell King Zadekiah, this is God speaking through Jeremiah's mouth.

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You tell the king that when the Babylonians show up,

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you got one option, not to grind your heels into

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the dirt and fight, but to surrender. So I want

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you to realize how important that is. If you look

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at what happens to the southern Kingdom of Judah when

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King Nebekonezer takes over and they take the captives into

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Babylon and make slaves of them. Technically, if you go

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by the physical lineage, that means that the Messiah can't

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come has been prophesied since the beginning of the Old Testament,

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not physically, but God takes care of that. All you

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gotta do is read in Matthew chapter one and read

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the genealogy about the fall of the Southern Kingdom of

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Judah overtaken by Babylon, to know that even though that happened,

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God was still working out a royal and illegal lineage

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all along through Joseph and Mary, through a virgin birth

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through an adoptive father. So it doesn't disqualify anything. That's

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just exciting when you can understand how the Old Testament

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foreshadows who is to come, who will be the one

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who sits on the eternal throne. Even when you think

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that this is the end for the remnant, there's always

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hope for the remnant, and there will be a messianic

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king that will rise. And John the Baptist knew that

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even in the womb. So I'm getting into I feel

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like I'm preaching here, but at the same time, normally

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I do my scripture the day. Midway you'll hear me

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talk about the peanuts, you'll hear me use the scripture

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of the day, and then I'll go into mixed martial

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arts somewhere in there. I have a mid role that's

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thrown in by Spreaker, my hosting platform, and that's normally

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how this works. But this time you're getting a non

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chronological episode that is almost jumbled together in an opposite order.

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And I'm sorry if this becomes confusing, but I'm coming

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to you rawn vulnerable tonight, Blockhead Nation. I'm not making

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any changes. I'm not editing anything. I'm just gonna put

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some music in the beginning and the end and call today.

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But do I have something about Peanuts to talk about? Sure?

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Because Peanuts is still the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. And there's somebody that has a tie

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into Nebecinezer. It's pig Pin. Okay. I've always loved pig

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Pin from the comic strip to the TV shows because

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this is a guy that, even though he's dirty, even

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though he's messy, what is he content? This is a

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guy that is okay with who he is. What you

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see is what you get. I may kick up some dust,

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I might leave trails behind me. I can't keep my

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shoelaces tied, but I'm not inconsistent. That's pig Pin, And

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many times there will be vacuum cleaners that we use

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here in their commercial as part of their sales pitch.

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I always thought that was great. But if you remember

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the Christmas episode where she says she can't go on,

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there's too much dust getting into my naturally curly hair,

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and Charlie Brown actually gives some footing to Pigpen and says,

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don't think of it that way. Think of it as

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the dirt from some ancient civilization, maybe the dirt trampled

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upon him by Solomon or even Nebucenezzar, the king who

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took the Final King and others into exile or killed

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them in battle, or invaded the southern Kingdom of Judah,

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just as Jeremiah the Weeping Prophet foretold that was going

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to happen. Then you're gonna have Babylon overtaken by an

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inferior kingship known as King Cyrus. That's talked about Is

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and Isaiah in the Thundering Prophet. All through that, I

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get into all that, but I'm telling you, Charles Schultz

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would have been an amazing pastor. If he wasn't a

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comment trip part, he would have been an amazing American

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history teacher as well. He could have done both. You know,

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Paul was a tent maker while he was on his

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missionary journeys. Jesus was known as the carpenter from Galilee.

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So it's okay if you were a podcaster and you've

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got your side hustles or you got your daily grind,

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that gives you leverage to continue to do what we're

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doing here as a podcaster. So respect to everybody out

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there that's doing that. But Pigpen is a guy who's

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perfect content with who he is, and you can see

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him through a new light with a new found respect.

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Give him by Charlie Brown, even it's just for a

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few seconds. So that right there wraps up my scripture

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of the day and wraps up my thoughts on peanuts.

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I'm not bringing anymore tonight just because I have a

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few things that I have been I guess dwelling on.

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For those of you that I have tuned into the

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show that may not be an MMA fan, I hope

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I can share with you why what I'm about to

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say matters. For those of you that are die hard

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MMA fans, you may roll your eyes and you may

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move on to the next podcast. If you stick it

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out with me. The whole way. I appreciate it. You're

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truly part of the Blockhead nation. You are a fan

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just like I am. But we've had it announced that

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next year, two hundred and fifty years into our existence,

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Mean America, since a bunch of men in Philadelphia signed

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a breakup letter with Great Britain saying we didn't w

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anything to do with you. It was the thirteen year

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old tell them the parent that I'm moving out and

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doing things my way, and the parent definitely says, well,

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when you get into financial trouble, don't come looking to us.

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But two hundred and fifty years later, we are that

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defiant child, and we're celebrating two hundred and fifty years.

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But what Donald Trump said, as exciting as that can be,

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you got to automatically draw down the middle and the

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way the pros and cons of a UFC fight being

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held on the White House lawn. Okay, first of all,

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on the positive side, that's great for somebody like me

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who has been following the sport and knows that this

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sport is in a valley. We have great fighters, we

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have talent, but respect is not selling tickets. We need

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a rivalry that people can understand. Like Connor McGregor versus

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Nate Diaz and having real heat with each other, and

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we want to see these guys throw down. We need

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something like Daniel Cormier versus John Jones. We need something

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that the people can get behind that will put more

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eyes on the product. What we have are great fighters

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that are just discouraged that it's more about the profit,

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it's more about margin. It's more about where we can

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make the most. Meanwhile, worrying about this something called power slap.

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So I'm getting into the weeds here, but this sport

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needs an injection of quarterbacks to come to the front

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and say, let's bring this sport back to what it

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used to be, even more exciting for the casual fan

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us diehard MMA fans, We're still gonna be around. So

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there's pros to that. For putting more eyes on the product,

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for being in the White House. Two, the UFC cage

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is always gonna be a great leveler. At the end

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of the day, we're gonna know who the best is.

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So while I've got the thunderclap behind me and the

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rain drops falling on the windows, I'm just gonna keep

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on going. But there are so many right away that

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I started to notice that there were cons. One is,

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if you understand history, I just mentioned something about ancient

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Babylon and anger the Persians and the Greeks, and then

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you had a seven hundred year reign of something called

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the Roman Empire. And what was their form of entertainment

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the Roman colisseum the Gladiator games. Anybody has ever watched Gladiator?

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Are you not entertained? Are we not that far distant

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and far disconnected that two hundred and fifty years The

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entertainment we're putting on the White House lawn. As much

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as I love the sport is still hand to hand combat.

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It's still two combatants, not so much with swords and

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shields and wild animals. But wasn't that a form of

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entertainment seven hundred years into their reign until the actual

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fall of Rome? Are we gonna trade those waters? Second

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of all, another problem. Who are the two guys that

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have raised their hand and said we will be part

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of this event? The first one is Connor McGregor. Let's

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stop for a second. If you are watching Connor McGregor

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walk out on the White House lawn to a UFC cage,

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what more than likely is he going to be wearing.

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Is he wearing old Glory, which technically could go against

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flag code, but is he wearing the red, white and blue. No,

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he may be an immigrant, and immigration is what America

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is truly all about. But guess what country he's going

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to be sporting. I'm asking you, blockhead nation. Wouldn't he

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be wearing Ireland's colors? So what that means is to

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be contriaring here? Shouldn't we be cheering on his opponent,

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who very well could be Michael Chandler the flagship of

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belator mma that we're finally gonna get Because we didn't

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have the ultimate fighter, we didn't have the coaches actually

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go at it against each other. We never could get

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that solidified. But can the President of the United States

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pull off something like this? But if you're gonna actually

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solidify having a UFC bout between Connor and between Michael Chandler,

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which one should you actually be cheering on at our

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two hundred and fifty year anniversary. You tell me, let's

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throw out another one. Another guy who raised his hand

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on Twitter, John Jones, who just left the talent pool

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and says, oh wait, I'm back in the testing pool again.

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Test me make sure that I'm good to fight in

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twenty twenty six. This has been talked about. I'm giving

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you speculation now at this point nothing's confirmed, but can

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we speculate for a second. So John Jones gets pardoned

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by the Albuquerque Police Department and by the whole state

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of New Mexico so that he can go and fight

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in Washington, d C. On the lawn? Is that what

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we're talking about here? And who would he be facing?

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The beloved guy that we think that possibly could be

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the one to beat him, known as Tom Aspinall? Are

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we realizing what you're talking about? So if you're gonna

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have the UFC on the White House lawn, are you

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cheering for Tom Aspinall? Are you cheering for John Jones?

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Are you glorifying what this man has continuously gotten away with?

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A guy who's been in hit and runs and left

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on foot, the horrible things he said about Daniel Cormier,

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the woman that he hit that was pregnant with a

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hit and run, the assault allocations against him from his wife,

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We're gonna go along with that, not to mention how

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many failed drug tests. This is what you're gonna glorify

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in twenty twenty six. So I'm just throwing that out

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Blockhead Nation. It's it might be a little bit, it

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might sting if you think about that way. But if

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you're gonna have this callis see him Roman Gladiators showdown

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on the White House lawn. Does that look like old glory?

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Does that look like red white and blue to you?

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You tell me? So it's just a con maybe you

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can look at and go, yes it is. And I'm

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excited about well great, But again there's a contrarian side

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to every bit of this that I'm bringing up to you.

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We're gonna glorify John Jones just because Tom aspinall the

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one guy that everybody has said deserves a shot at

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the heavyweight championship. You're gonna overlook that for one day

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because John Jones is wearing red, white and blue and

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got a full figurative pardon all the way to the cage,

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excusing everything that he's done. This man will continue to

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walk through the raindrops? Is that what we want? So

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I throw that out there and I ask for your

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pushback on that one. Blockad Nation, tell me, are we

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really doing something that solidifies what America stands for? We

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know that Dana White is frothing at the mouth and

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rubbing his hands together. Because Donald Trump is a true

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MMA fan. He's been to so many UFC fights, but

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one guy I'm not here and raising his hand and going, hey,

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I'll do it for the sake of America. I'm not

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hearing Dustin Poorrier raise his hand and say, you know what,

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never mind. If I'm gonna face Max Holloway, that's supposed

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to be my retirement fight. Never mind, I'll come back

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in twenty twenty six so I can support this great

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country in pay part of Louisiana Lafayette's territory, and I

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can sell my hot sauce on Independence Day. I'm not

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seeing Dustin Poorrier backtrack anything. As far as I know.

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It's still a retirement fight. So I'm giving it to you. Wrong.

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I'm giving to you just so we can speculate. And

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I know you're like, Okay, give me more speculations, Blockhead,

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maybe there is something to that. Give me more speculation,

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blockead and tell me another Jackal story. Okay, let me

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do a history throwback on this one. I don't normally

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do this, but to make sure you understand what I

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just said, tell me another jackal story. A few years back,

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there were two fighters in bellator Mma that were having

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a rematch, Tito Wartez and Chall's son It Now, Tito

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is a true warrior in many ways, but the guy

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can't string two sentences together. Chale is one of the

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greatest trash talkers ever in the history of this sport.

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Most you know him for his call out for Anderson Silva.

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But these guys were able to get a rematch because

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they faced each other in college. Either way, it happens

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and Tito and Chale are going to face each other

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and there's a bunch of banter back and forth. Chaale

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is completely dancing circles around Tito the whole time because

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he doesn't have to resort to four letter words, and

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he can just get him tied up in all his

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his linguistics. And it's a linguistic battle back and forth.

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But what happens. There's a part where Tito says something

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about the story of the Lions. I think it was

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from Christopher Walking. He said, I heard the story about

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all these this lion, the king of the jungle, and

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there's these jackals that are bothering the king and they're bought,

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and somewhere there next thing you hear, it's Chail being

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awoken from his slumber and saying, oh my gosh, did

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anybody else fall asleep besides me? You got to realize

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the not only the humor, but the brilliance behind that move,

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because it got Tito even more and more upset, and

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they're throwing banterback, and later on in that same press conference,

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Chill just looks at him and goes, tell me another

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Jackal story. Tito, tell me about the Jackals and the Lion,

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and the Tito goes in the full meltdown mode and

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starts throwing all kinds of obscenities at him. So I

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just give you all that just to say, tell me

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another Jackal story. But designing give me more speculation, Blockhead,

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tell me why the White House UFC fight would be

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so bad. I'm not saying that it wouldn't. I'm not

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saying it won't be a tremendous success. Quite frankly, it

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very well can be. But I look at this from

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every side, and I'm completely objective. It's not far away

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from Roman gladiator entertainment, is it, Especially for those of

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you that are not MMA fans on here from a

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wider base that I can reach that maybe other MMA

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fans or MMA fighters cannot reach. I have the ability

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to do that. I can trailblaze. And that's not me bragging.

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It's I have reached other podcasters and other Peanuts fans

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and other MMA fans with my show. And I'm telling

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you why does this matter so much? And I'm sure

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politically you can get intertwined in that and tell us

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why this is a disgusting waste of time and a

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waste of finances. You can get into all that if

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you want to. But I'm just throwing out to you,

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if you've been a fan for the last three plus years,

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with a historical trajectory, how come, all of a sudden,

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for one day you're not cheering on Tom aspinall. How

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come for one day you're not cheering on Michael Chandler.

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All of a sudden, you're going with Connor and Jones

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who have raised their hands and said we want to

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be a part of this event, and they get a

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free pass by the community, by the MMA community, by Washington,

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d C, by the President of the United States, by

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the President of the UFC, Dana White, must be nice

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to have that kind of leverage. Wouldn't you say? It

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might come across as sour graves, So it's not really

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meant to be. It's just can we objectively say that

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there are some good things that we take with the

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bad if this does materialize. The greatest MMA journalist out there,

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Barah Hajuane says that this is going to happen when

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we mile Joan Rogan is saying that might come real

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and might not be. It was a nice gesture by

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our president, who is a guy who says he's going

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to do something. Now he's on the hook to make

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it happen. But it's interesting times. Could it become the

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best of times and the worst times for the UFC

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to have this much exposure? Do we need the quarterbacks

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to race to the front line? Do we need not

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just Connor or John Jones? Do we need Alex Perero

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who happens to be from Brazil. It's a global sport.

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This is not something that most look at and go, oh,

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that's an American sport. So how come we don't have

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a baseball diamond being created on the lawn either instead

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of a cage or simultaneously. How come we don't have

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that all things to chew on chew on this blockhead

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nation more than like. I'll come back with the normal

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format next week. You'll get your Peanuts on part one,

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You'll get your MMA on part two. But either way,

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three things are always true. Number One, God is king.

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Number two, Peanuts is the single most successful comic strip

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in American history. And mixed martial arts is still the

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greatest sport under God's hot sun. Even though we're in

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a valley, and even though you come by listening to

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this little podcaster, you are not underappreciated. You are a

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part of the blockhead Nation. It's not a hard application process.

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We will catch you guys next week, same blockhead time,

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same blockhead cham