Wrapping Up 2023 with YFB

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Broadcasting Live good Evening, Blockhead Nations. Sorry it took a little long to

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put this episode out, but I'll
put it this way. Just like the

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rest of you that are coming off
of the holidays and getting ready for New

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Year's I kind of get back in
the rhythm too. So here we are

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back on the microphone for the last
episode of twenty twenty three. You are

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tuning in to and you are listening
to your favorite Blockhead, the only podcast

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

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

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My name is Brian Little, and
once again, I thank you so

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much for everybody that's tuned in,
that's listened, that's shared the episodes that

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have been a part of the Blockhead
Nation, some of you since its inception,

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some of you are brand new and
just coming along for the ride.

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I'm thankful, and just make sure
if you get a chance. All the

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links for today are in the description
of this podcast. Whether you're listening on

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Apple Spotify, you'll find where it
says your favorite Blockhead dot com slash blog.

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All the links are in the blog
page if you want to check out

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any of those. I've got a
big goal set up for twenty twenty four

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that I'll sha save for you towards
the very end. But I stumbled across

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something I wanted to save for the
end of the year. Because the honest

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truth is I am a true fan
of not just the Peanuts, but my

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favorite TV episode of all time is
one that has mixed emotions. It's one

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that's not everybody's cup of tea,
and that would be the nineteen eighties Happy

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New Year, Charlie Brown. For
some reason, I just enjoyed maybe part

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of that as nostalgia. It was
recorded on either ABC or CBS when I

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was a kid on an old VHS, and I watched it many, many

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times, and I guess I appreciate
it enough. I guess if you watch

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it through one time in modern day
contexts, then you would be probably rolling

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your eyes during most of it.
Maybe that's true. And I say that

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because I stumbled across a reaction video
that had me rolling. Because I'm not

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just a Peanuts fan. I'll stand
by Peanuts is the single most successful comic

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strip in American history. Because you
know, there are three things talked about

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on this show. Number one guy
is King. Number two Peanuts being the

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greatest comic strip in the history of
America, and three mixed martial Arts being

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the greatest sport under God's hot sun. But back to the Peanuts, there's

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somebody on YouTube that did respond to
Happy New Year, did a full watch

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along and responded to it. And
it is the true Prince of Darkness.

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I'm not talking about Old Scratch,
not talking about the great Deceiver. I'm

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not talking about Satan himself. I'm
talking about the most wicked man in all

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of the universe. I'm talking about
the Lord of Destruction. I am talking

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about the most sarcastic villain of all
time. I'm talking about Skeletor from Snake

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Mountain. Skeletor reacted a couple of
years back to Happy New Year, Charlie

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Brown. Yes it was cynical.
Yes it was hilarious for me to watch,

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and I had to watch the whole
thing. Just embrace it. But

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I think the two that stood out
to me the most was his non reactive

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side to run blowing square balloons.
Now, I told you, I believe

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that would be right off immediately beyond
Ripley's believe it or not, he watches

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this and he's so enthralled with the
name Rerun. But I had to stop

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for a second. Thing. Yeah, if you remember what reruns are,

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if you're talking about your kid,
you're gonna name him rerun. So Linus

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or Lucy weren't exactly are They were
a bit of a letdown for you,

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So I guess we have to rewind
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child. Which was pretty well clever
on his part, I will admit,

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but he was not that reactive to
the square balloons going they're all blowing regular

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bones. He's blowing square ones and
he's getting accosted for it, which is

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true because Linus looks at him and
goes, you must be doing something wrong.

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Balloons are supposed to be round,
not squared, and that's in the

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episode. But I'm just sitting here
going, how can you not stop the

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presses, get on the phone and
start calling every radio station, every television

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network that's out there and saying,
my kid brother can blow square balloons.

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I can prove it for you,
you know, make the Guinness Book of

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World Records and everything else, and
get publicity and eventually Lucy can gain all

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this royalty to become a queen,
you know, and the starter queen them.

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But no, we have to just
get so infatuated that the kid is

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called Rerun and he's not that blown
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But it's still a funny scene.
And actually he brought up something about

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the New Year's party that they have, so in other words, to catch

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you up, Happy New Year,
Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is at home

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doing his homework assignment for school,
which unfortunately is the longest fiction novel probably

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in history, known as Warren Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, which again is a

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far fetched and absolute absurd idea about
any teacher who would do that. And

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that's why Skeletor laughs so much in
the reaction of her that it's evil.

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So but yeah, he eventually breaks
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party where girls are asking boys,
boys are asking girls. It kind of

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goes back and forth. They say
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not really true. It goes both
ways. But the tactful way would be

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for the guys to ask the girl, and as the night goes on.

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The band is playing, which would
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at some point they're dancing, and
all of a sudden, here comes Charlie

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Brown with his book and says,
maybe I can read some of it here,

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And of course he's really looking for
the little red haired girl who he

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invited to the party. But then
they have this round of musical chairs.

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And the fact is Skeletor made it
very interesting observation on this. He watches

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and he goes, here's what you
really just did you work this? He

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actually said he was very disappointed in
Lucy just to kind and I let the

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group down as competitive as she is. And he mentioned in the end where

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Peppermint Patty wins, she was more
looking for an opportunity to have Charlie Brown

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sitting in her lap. Let's jump
from PG to PG thirteen, quick shall

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we He made that comment on the
video and I couldn't stop laughing. I

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went, man, never would have
caught that, but he did so.

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Well done to the Lord of Destruction
Skeletor for his reaction video to Happy New

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Year Charlie Brown. If you want
to find it, it's on YouTube.

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Just put skeletor reacts Happy New Year, Charlie Brown. And so when I

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watched the Musical Chairs part I wanted
to ask for those of you that are

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going to your New Year's Eve parties, I'm curious, reach out to me,

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leave a comment, tell me wife. Be's curious. What are some

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of the games that you play on
New Year's Do you play the more innocent

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games or do you play a little
more risky. I'm just curious. Send

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them in. I can tell you
two of them that I do love to

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play every year and just has become
a bit of a tradition over here.

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Two of them in particular, Well, surprise anybody the first one? No,

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the first one is Peanuts Monopoly.
Yeah, anybody surprised, of course

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not. We do have two sets
of the board game of Peanuts Monopoly,

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and I will admit through the years, I got pretty good negotiating deals on

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that game. But eventually they started
to figure out my tricks and wouldn't fall

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for them, and so it's fine. But either way, that was one

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I'd usually play on New Year's Eve
or New Year's Day. As the last

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couple of years, I found a
board game that I truly enjoy, and

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I'm gonna recommend to anybody here this
is a free plug in a shout out.

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I don't care. The game is
called Splendor. It's basically a card

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game where you trade cards for different
types of precious jewels. You know it's

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in the medieval times, but if
you never had a chance to play it,

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Splendor is actually pretty fun. I
enjoy playing that every year, So

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just putting that out there, and
as we wrap up Part one, as

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I get into the crazy world that
is mixed martial arts, I'm gonna end

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on this those who have been with
me since the beginning, those who are

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with me now, I truly thank
you for all the downloads, all the

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support throughout the years. And I
finally was asked, what's your big goal

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for next year, and crickets,
I didn't have one because I've made so

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many great friends, and I've had
so many good interviews on this show and

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have some great memories now and it's
just it's this long arsenal of wonderful people

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that have been part of this show. And I'm not gonna sit here and

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tell you, Oh, I'm gonna
go try to interview this person or this

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person and act like someone is inferior
at this point because all of you or

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a big chapter in the success of
this podcast. And I really appreciate everyone

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that listens. It really does matter. I enjoy doing this, but there's

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a big goal out there. I
ended the year as a guest on the

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Empty Slate podcast and got to thinking, what if we had a twenty twenty

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four why f be Christmas Special?
And that means the way to do that

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is instead of me trying to run
all the technology behind the scenes, I

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hand it off to somebody and go
to their studio. Well, that means

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I've got almost twelve more like eleven
months to prepare. If you are interested

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early on in next year's Wife Be
Christmas Special and I want to be a

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guest, I'm going to be reaching
out to a few of you. There's

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some of you in particular that I
do want to play some music. Zach

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Sanders, if you're listening, I
would truly love some Christmas tunes from you,

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buddy, use them. Preston Scott
Williamson, if you'd like to play

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some guitar for us for that evening, it could certainly be used. If

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you are a friend of the show. If you've been on at some point,

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or some of you that are friends
that are just tuning in every week.

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You want to throw your name in
the bucket and throw your name in

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the hat and we try to get
you on as a guest. You got

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about eleven months to prepare, so
in twenty twenty four, the big goal

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is to end the year with a
bang. There will be a your favorite

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Blockhead Christmas Special live on Facebook,
live on YouTube. That's the big goal.

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Therefore, that's where the mic drop
happens. We'll pick up on part

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two in just a minute with the
scripture of the day, and those that

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are interested feel free to reach out. You got plenty of time, but

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you don't have forever, so please
consider prod. Scripture reading for this podcast

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comes from John Chapter ten, verse
twenty seven through twenty eight. My sheep

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hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me, and

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I give unto them eternal life,
and they shall never perish, neither shall

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any man pluck them out of my
hand. There's your truth, Blockhead Nation.

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If you sit and think, oh
I'm not good enough, I'm too

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far away. Once we have been
saved, no one can take away our

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salvation. It's clear in John chapter
ten. If you struggle with that now,

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granted, if you're at a point
where you are good with your relationship

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with Jesus, then maybe it's time
to start discipling. There might be some

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truth that go into all the world
and preach the good news to all creation.

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There might be something to that.
But to think you can lose your

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salvation, it's clear. It's got
nothing to do with anything you've done.

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It's how good our Lord and Savior
is the same one that you celebrated his

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birth through the month of December.
He will be dying on a tree a

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few months from now, historically speaking, so that you can have your salvation.

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If you don't understand that, or
if you feel like there's something missing,

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reach out. You can talk with
me. I can put you in

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touch with my pastor I can put
you in touch with people that I trust.

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This might be you're expecting me to
talk to you about MMA. That's

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a great sport and I enjoy talking
about But that's more important. So if

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we're past all the peanuts and now
I've got you to the parable part of

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this podcast, and if you feel
something tugging at you, there's a stirring

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in. You reach out, we
will talk blockad nation. That's how much

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you matter to me. Now what
kind of makes me dwell and makes me

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go what's really going on? Here
are some of the events that transpired during

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the last pay per view. Okay, let me kind of walk you through.

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I'm not gonna get through every single
event, but UFC two ninety six

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did not disappoint except the main event. I can tell you. I was

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at the loud a pen a mansion, was fed so good and was so

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bored to tears that I was falling
asleep. Now, I was paying attention

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when Josh Emmett put Bryce Mitchell sleep
My goodness, easily knock out of the

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year right there. But you know
you can't deny Josh Emmitt at this point

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if we're gonna go through the list
again. Patty the Batty puts on a

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lackluster performance against Tony Ferguson, but
enough to keep him in the public's eye.

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So that's a matter of are you
gonna face Matt Provola? Now who

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we're gonna face? Now we've hat
Mason Drew Doverer. What's the plan moving

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forward for Patty the Batty? We
see wonder Boy put on a decent first

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round, but Sholf cut Rockmanoff just
made history. He's the first man to

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submit Steven WonderBoy Thompson. He solved
the puzzle Blockhead Nation, Rockmanov has done

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it. Coming event. As good
as it was, wasn't enough to be

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the Five the Night The Five the
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was incredible. Irene Aldanna put on
an amazing performance, just really true warrior

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gut instinct there. But for the
co main event, Pontosia Roval rovol finally

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woke up on the fifth round and
started really cracking. But at that point

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Pantosia just kind of showed that he
was gonna run the show by the first

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round. So we get to the
main event at some point in the evening.

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It really wasn't clear from where I
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But here's what apparently happened. I
know this happened, well, I

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say apparently is because we got some
tricky waters here. Sean Strickland, middleweight

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champion of the world. Two rows
back at least right behind him is the

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number one contender that he's gonna face
in January for the strap DDP. Drecis

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Duplessus is right behind him. So
I feel like, as I'm watching a

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lot more of the crossover between WWE
narrative and UFC narrative, it's starting to

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become it's making me question everything.
It's making me go, what is smoking

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mirrors here? And what's really happening? Is this a worker a shoot as

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they would say in wrestling terms.
So I'm watching this and the guy with

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the camera phone is right there.
He's filming Sean Strickland. Drecis Duplessis is

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pointing to him and taunting him to
turn around. Strickland does. Strickland's no

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pushover, Strickland's the champ. If
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was the year of the underdog,
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Even in the main event that Leon
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though it was kind of lackluster,
the most work he did was on Colby's

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legs. But either way, at
some point and Enian this happened, Duplessis

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is shouting at Strickland. He turns
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he asks Gilbert Burns and his either
girlfriend fiance wife. I'm not really sure

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exactly in the detail he told them, if you would kindly step aside,

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and they do it, and then
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starts throwing elbows. These men have
to be separated. Now. To put

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that into another perspective, something you
just don't do. I'm coming to you

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as a teacher by day and a
podcaster by weekend. If I know that

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there is true beef between two students, I would never put them in the

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same seating arrangement. I would not
put them at the same pod or on

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the same row of desks. I
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other as possible. If it happens
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hallway in the cafeteria, that's not
on me. Sometimes we just don't know

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these things. But sometimes it's clearly
evident that something is wrong. And a

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lot of times they'll let you know
too, I can't be near this person,

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or they've been given what's called a
stay away. This literally, if

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Danel White is the one who makes
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they get to attend these pay per
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all the time, the camera will
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sitting in the seats, and it's
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or it might be somebody who is
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fighter that's active on the roster,
or a former veteran, whatever it might

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be of the sport. But let's
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this is all speculation. But the
cameraman doesn't move. Strickland is watching

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the fight. Duplessis points his finger
in taunts. Strickland turns around and tells

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Gilbert Burns, if you kindly move
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he's flying across the chairs and he
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Who are They're gonna face each other
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be separated. That is some serious
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post conference he was asked about that, he said, that was not a

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good move. I shouldn't have put
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me question where did that third shot
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knoll? Was it actually from the
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does get my wheels turning and going. As I'm seeing a lot more ww

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narrative ever since you had the merger
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the Endeavor Group and now apparently supposed
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whatever that might be, as we've
moved towards that a lot more, and

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as Saudi Arabia has their hooks into
the MMA world, whether we're talking UFC

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or PFL, it just makes me
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compliance by Gilbert Burns and how well
it's mapped out, and makes me go,

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was this really a fight or is
this promotion for the January pay per

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view? That's the question on the
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of right now. But I guarantee
I'll be checking in on that fight.

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See what happens with Strickland versus Duplesses, and don't think for a second,

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since we have had a year in
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is dangerous to overlook and underestimate the
less than overlook the underdog. Don't think

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for one second that Duplessues can't get
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rock the world of Sean Strickland,
and if Izzy didn't want to take him

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seriously enough, I imagine what DDP
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we look forward now that I really
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and replaying in my mind what happened
at UFC two ninety six. Who's moving

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into the new world, into the
new year twenty twenty four. But I

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gotta look at Rockmanov now, once
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Rockmanov ranked number three below Muhammed is
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still holding the title, which means
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punch down. It's the other opponents
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So are we gonna get Leon Edwards
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get Ballel Mohammad versus Leon Edwards?
Are we gonna have number two versus number

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three face each other for a number
one contendership? And whoever wins this is

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for sure facing Leon Edwards. But
what do you do with Kamala Usman,

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who's been fairly quiet in the world
of social media. Not a whole lot

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going on him except a interview on
the Joe Rogan experience. So if you're

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going by rankings, I really don't
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Again. He's beating him twice,
So what do you do with these guys

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coming up? Leon Edwards certainly doesn't
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he doesn't have to show interest in
him if he's the one hole in the

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strap. Bleel Mohammad has to show
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while Rochmanov is saying, excuse me, I have the undefeated streak,

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I'm ranked number three in the world. I will gladly plow through you to

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get to the title. So we're
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the year goes on. But to
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his adversary Colby Coventon puts on easily
in one of the worst lackluster performances

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I've ever seen. I expected a
very dangerous Coby Covenon's show up. I

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saw a very passive, defensive Colby
coven until about the fifth round, not

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enough to get him to win against
Leon Edwards, but I can tell you

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this now. There are articles that
are coming out. These might be the

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dirt sheets of MMA that we're talking
about here, but a lot of them

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are saying that Coolbe is saying he
might have broke his foot by either the

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first or second round while they were
in the middle of the fight. Okay,

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you're not getting any sympathy over here
from the Blockhead mansion. You're just

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not the same guy who goes out
to Kurt Angle's theme music from WWE,

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Kurt Angle being the same guy who
won two gold medals with a broken neck

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supporting Team USA. And I don't
have the least bit of sympathy for you.

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Colby Covington. You blame a broken
foot for you not getting the job

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done against Leon Edwards. When you
have stolen somebody else's music as your walkout

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music and then you have you're certainly
able to stand just fine on that foot.

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When you have your post interview talking
about the election being rigged because Donald

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Trump is sitting cage side, So
I'm not sure if this is just him

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mentioning it, by the way,
on some podcast or some post interview,

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it may not be an hairline fracture. I'm not really sure at this point,

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but don't feed me in excuses.
Coby comingon didn't get the job done.

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It's coming now either Leel Mohammed or
Shoffcott Rotmanov that's gonna be facing Leon

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Edwards next. Now, if karlmara
Usman comes back for the third time,

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I'm tuning out. But what I
am tuning into is this new deal from

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Saudi Arabia getting their hooks into the
PFL. Why do I say that,

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because Bellatour has been bought by PFL
and they're gonna have to finish off their

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year in twenty twenty four moving forward
into the new year as well, finish

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off their venues, which means that
you're gonna have PFL versus Bellatour champion versus

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champion title for title. And I
just believe that whoever is holding the title

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next. This makes for an interesting
narrative. It's speculative, it's more of

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a hopeful because we're wondering now what's
gonna happen with Francis Nagano. Nagano is

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signed to the PFL. If the
champions going against each other, it's very

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possible that the man that will still
be holding the heavyweight championship will be none

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other than Ryan Batter. Could twenty
twenty four potentially result in a fight at

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PFL with Saudi Arabia investing heavily into
this company to promote Nagano versus Batter.

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If you're going to run on the
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means that Beater doesn't have a really
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But he certainly has the most well
known numbal name in PFL, who is

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a heavyweight who's coming back and looking
for an MMA bout that's part of his

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contract. Could we possibly have in
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this is on down the line,
maybe a summer blockbuster of some kind.

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Are you in for Nagano versus Vader? I certainly am Blockhead Nation, and

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only time will tell. That's the
hardest part. As I leave you with

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so many cliffhangers as we wrap up
this section of part two of the MMA

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World for your favorite Blockhead, I
really want you to know I hope you

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have a very safe and wonderful happy
New Year, and we will catch up

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again next Saturday as more news comes
out, and there's plenty more to talk

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about in the new year. Raise
those ruper and mugs high, and let's

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enjoy what's left to twenty twenty three
and come in strong to twenty twenty four.

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And I will talk to you next
week, same blockhead time, same blockhead cham