Oct. 27, 2024

YFB Waits For The Great Pumpkin With Tears In His Root Beer

YFB Waits For The Great Pumpkin With Tears In His Root Beer

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Broadcasting Live Good Evening Blockhead Nation. I apologize for the

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delay one to make sure I got my episode in

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this week took a minute, but I can tell you

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now I'm so happy to be back on the microphone

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with you talking tonight. You are listening to your favorite blockhead,

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the only podcast in the podcasting world that can somehow

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incorporate the Peanuts comic strip one minute and then be

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talking about MMA and Warriors inside the Octagon the next.

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I am your host. My name is Brian Little. As

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you can tell, I'm flying solo tonight. If you are

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a new listener and you tuned in last week, I

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can honestly tell you that there is no way that

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I could even begin to rival the wonderful interview that

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I had with the Peppermint Patty. To have the privilege

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to speak with Miss Patricia Pats is just something I'm

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still trying to chew on, and just the fact that

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I was able to have her on the podcast is

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a phenomenal moment for this show. So those that tuned in,

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I'm sorry that this one will not in any way

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come close to what we experienced last week. But since

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I want to always be consistent and I'll tell you

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this since on the second part i'll talk about mixed

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martial arts because we've already had UFC threeh eight that

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happened in n Abu Dhabi. There's different time zones. I'll

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give you a recap on the back end instead of

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in anticipation of it's gonna be a little bit unorthodox.

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You will. But as far as coming back to you,

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Blockhead is flying solo again and again, I'm just thankful

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for this opportunity. This, I guess you can say in

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many ways, this luxury I have to be able to

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talk with all of you Blockhead Nation, because it really

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does matter that much to me. And if you remember

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we talked briefly about not only Patricia's career, but I

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had mentioned something about the Great Pumpkin. Well, there are

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events that do precede the Great Pumpkin. As early as

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nineteen sixty six, there was mention of the comic strip

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from October thirtieth that Charles Schultz showed us several kids

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going through the neighborhood trick or treating, which Snoopy picks

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up on quickly and utilizes this chance to look like

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a cute dog waiting on a handout, and you happen

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to see in this comic strip that the family can't

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determine who that was. They just seemed like some kid

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and a dog costume. So he capitalizes upon being able

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to participate in tricks or treats. So that was definitely

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in plural form back in the day instead of seeing you.

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But still, I just want you to realize that I'm

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still It's very easy for me this time of year,

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from a seasonal standpoint, to always have something to talk

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with you about when it comes to Halloween and the

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Great Pumpkin. Well, also, the Charles Schultz Museum has done

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a phenomenal job of getting prepared for this time of year.

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But there's only one small I guess you can say,

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let down. It continues to show me that I will

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be that loner out in left field with a catcher's

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met on saying that the genocide of pumpkins should diminish

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when you realize the way of your sin. But even

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the Charles Schultz Museum is not is just as guilty

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of this one. I say that because if you look

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at the display they have of the Charles Schultz Museum,

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it's a wonderful display of the pumpkin patch. It's very seasonal.

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They've got welcome signs all around, anticipating the arrival of

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the Great Pumpkin, just like yours truly does. But guess what.

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They're also given out at the coffee shops and at

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the gift shops inside the museum. Yeah, they're giving out

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not only hot chocolate, but they're given out pumpkin spiced

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desserts and pumpkin spice coffee. So if you think that

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that means I'll come down off of my high horse

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and I won't continue to bring awareness to something that

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needs to change in our society and culture, You're mistaken.

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I will continue to say that, and we should continue

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to bring awareness to the genocide of innocent pumpkins. But ultimately,

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if you look at the most recent comic strip that

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came out on Charles Schultz Museum, it's the one that

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most of you would be familiar with from the TV special.

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So Linus did first mention the Great Pumpkin as far

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back as the nineteen sixties, maybe nineteen fifty nine, it

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goes back that far, but you know it's from Charles Schultz,

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and explain it this way. Here's what he said. I

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was drawing some Halloween strips about Linus, who's bright but

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very innocent, and he's confusing Halloween with Christmas. Do you

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see where this tie in happens? Because he was one

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holiday ahead of himself, the whole thing has become a

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parody of Christmas, and Lyons gives the Great Pumpkin those

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qualities that Santa Claus is supposed to have. Do you

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see how in many ways I'm chasing my own tail,

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wanting to start a tracker app to find the Great Pumpkin.

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But you know there's still the anticipation to it. So

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if you go back to the original argument before the

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one where Charlie Brown says, we are you gonna stop

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believing in something that isn't true, and Lionus is able

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to crack his armor by saying, when you stop believing

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that fellow of the red suit and a white beard

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that goes ho ho ho. That's where ultimately he wins

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the argument. And there's holes in Charlie Brown's game here.

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It's the other way around. With this comic strip, Linus

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is explaining they're Great Pumpkin, rising out of the pumpkin

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patch and bringing toys to all the good little children.

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All Charlie Brown says, with his defensive down and his

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defenses down is you're crazy, which triggers Linus and he

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responds with, all right, so you believe in Santa Claus

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and I believe in the Great Pumpkin. The way I

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see it, it doesn't matter what you believe in, just

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so yours sincere a. I have problems with that, with

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false teachers and false prophets all throughout history and all

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throughout a biblical sense. Why do I bring that up?

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Because Charles Schultz could have been a very good minister

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if he'd done that full time. If you look at

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the parable of Peanuts, it shouldn't surprise you that there's

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an undercurrent that eventually surfaces through the TV specials, through

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the comic strips that are very subtle. But there's definitely

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a strong belief in our Lord and Savior all the

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way through this. And Lias is the one that is

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not afraid to announce his beliefs. But he does mix

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up these two worlds that shouldn't coexist, which is the

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Great Pumpkin and Santa Claus. But I will draw a

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line on the sand and say I'm staying with Linus,

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I'm still waiting to figure out what pumpkin patch would

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be the most sincere that the Great Pumpkin would come

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out of. So just to recap, first of all, I'm

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so thankful that I got to talk to Miss Patricia,

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and if you are fans of her show, The Peanuts Gallery,

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I highly encourage you to go and listen to that podcast.

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She and her co hosts, Miss Sally Brown do a

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phenomenal job and are already reinvigorating the fire that should

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never have been going out in the first place when

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it comes to interest in the Peanuts and how Snoopy

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and Charlie Brown and Schroeder and Linus and the gang

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have all contributed to society in so many ways. It's

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nice to know I'm not the only one that's keeping

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that spirit alive. There's so many of us. But we

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need Miss Patricia's voice, So as she figures out the

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podcasting world, I'm bringing up comic strips like the one

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where Snoopy, you know, I guess you can say, offsets

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everything by pretending to be a kid in a trick

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or treat outfit when he's really personifying himself. He just

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wants to get candy. The Charlie Shultz Museum is a

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phenomenal job of putting their displays out, but they are

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still committing the ultimate sin of more pumpkin genocide. But

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then you've got this comic strip. There's a continuation of

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the storyline of the Great Pumpkin from comic strip to

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the TV specials to even the movie where Linus hopes

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that the new person moving in across the block has

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an open mind about the Great Pumpkin. So you see

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how there can be some false allure and maybe some

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ideas out there that are innocent but also can be

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detrimental that even LIUs is bringing up. As they say,

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be careful what you fall for. There might be a

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hook in it, But ultimately that's what I bring you tonight.

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As far as the Peanuts and continue through the holiday spirit,

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I will continue to be watching to see which pumpkin

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patch he'll emerge from. This year. We're gonna have a

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wonderful trunk retreat coming up soon where we get to

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love on the kids of our community, and that just

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means a little red hair girl myself. We'll be portraying

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Charlie Bryant Snoopy. As always, I wish all of you

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a very safe Halloween and enjoyable Halloween. And we'll see

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if one day radar will pick up where the great

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Pumpkin is overpassing somebody throughout the American night sky. But

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until that time comes, we're going to transcend into the

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scripture of the day and the world of mixed martial arts.

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That's got me with a hang dog look on my

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face that could even rival Snoopies sometars. Our scripture reading

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for this podcast comes from Revelation, chapter two, verse eleven.

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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the

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spirit saith unto the churches. He that overcometh shall not

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be hurt of the second death reflection for Blue Lair

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Baba says, follow Christ even unto your death, and your

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reward shall be great life and that eternal. Never more

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shall the sting of death be felt. Never more shall

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the wasting of the body be remembered. Life to worship

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the Sun forever, casting down glory upon glory at his feet.

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So is the beautiful destiny of all those who believe.

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So take heart, blockad nation in your faith, and taste

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the true and everlasting life. And that's uplifting for me

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as an MMA fan. I will tell you this evening,

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there is definitely a tear in my root beer because

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I am having a crying fest over the results of

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what happened at UFC threeh Eightly, my track record is

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three for five. We're talking one for five now. To

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be fair, Danygay did last three rounds and ended up

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getting knee Nam's decision to Leron Murphy. You have uncleliv

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who continues to dominate in the light heavyweight division. So

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he's doing very well and is enjoying his post fight

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conference after fighting Rachick, So got to give the guy

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credit on that one. It is really really hard for

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me to swallow the bitter pill that Robert Whittaker has

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been defeated by humsat Chemaiah. Now, I'm not taking the

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way from anything that the dangerous beast that chemiav is.

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It's just one of those when you have one of

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your fighters who I will never ever go against. To

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know that he not only submitted Bobby Knuckles, but to

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say that he dislocated his jaw with his rear naked

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choke is heartbreaking for me. Blockhead Nation, it just is

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now main event you have a solid third round knockout

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of the current BMF holder. I have made it absolutely

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clear that my favorite fighter in any realm of MMA

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today is Max Holloway. Nobody will ever take that title

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from him, not that it truly matters out there in

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the MMA world, but in the blockad nation, inside the

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pot casting world, I will shout it from the rooftops

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that nobody will dethrone him from this point on. Why

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because this is the same man who faced Justin Geichee

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in the BMF bout. They go to war for five rounds.

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You hear the last ten seconds, click click click click.

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Max points to the canvas and says, let's throw down.

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This is what every fan dreams up. Let's give him

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a show. If one of us is gonna get knocked out,

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let one of us get knocked out. But at least

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we went down swinging. Gay Chie complies and they swing

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and crack and connect, and everybody, not a person, was

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sitting down in that arena. And in the last second,

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Max knocks out Justin gae Chee lights out. You will

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never have a more spectacular a fight, probably in the

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history of ever that you had that evening. And I

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didn't think that Yai Ear's last second backfoot and backfist

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and elbow to Korean Zombie's chin at the last I

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didn't think that could be topped. I thought we would

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never see that again in the history of this sport.

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We saw it in more spectacular fashion with Max Holloway.

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And now he stands before the featherweight champion and gets

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defeated in the third round. All of the wind has

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come out of my sales. Most of the MMA community

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is either one in shock or two. They have quickly,

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in the name of recency bias, jumped on the bandwagon

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of the Spaniard to say that you are already the

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goat of the featherweight division. Well, if you're telling me

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that you've forgotten about a guy named Jose Aldo, who's

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even coming back in desirable fashion, you've forgotten about that.

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So if we're gonna solidify who the best featherweight of

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all time is, you do have Eliot the Poria now,

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who has defeated the BMF current holder of the title,

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has retained his title after one fight, is undefeated, and

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you could, if you're gonna make that a valid point,

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you could have him faced Jose Aldo as far as

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and that's still it's hard to know where jose Alda's

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prime ends. You could do that, but I'll tell you

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as far as we and we look at anybody else

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on the roster, who else do you have now for

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Eliot the Poria to go after? I can tell you

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from a marketing stafe point, the one that puts the

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most eyes on the UFC right now would beat a

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dust off the old rivalry between Elia Taporia and Patty

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the Batty Pimphlet now hear me out on that. That

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doesn't respect the rankings in any way. It just feeds

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the marketing monster that drives the industry. That's all that does.

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So I've given you two examples right here. What you

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could do with Ilia. You could have him face the

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former what most would say, the featherweight goat of that division,

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which would be jose Aldo. You could do that. You

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could put the most eyes on the product by getting

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Patty the Batty and Elia in the ring. But that

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comes down to are we going to override the ranking

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system that's driven mostly like by people like Ariel Hawane

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and Brett Akamoto and Luke Thomas and people like that

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that give their depictions and this gets peed up put

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on UFC dot com. You could do that. It's a

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discombobulation in many ways that needs to be revamped from

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time to time. You could do that. Or it seems

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like the only another one that would certainly bring some

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validity to it is a guy who could beat him.

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And who am I talking about? I'm talking about Islam,

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Islam Makachev, Elia Taporia. Whether it's title for title or

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relinquish any title and go up to lightweight, or if

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it's for Islam just to prove that he can cut

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weight and go down to featherweight, you could to Islam

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versus Elia. At this point, That's about all that makes

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sense now, And why does it also take the wind

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own of my sales? I say this simply because when

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you look at the championships being held, I do my

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very best to be passionate about this sport and maybe

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interest a few of you to come on board with me.

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But when you look at who is currently holding the titles,

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what do you have? You have the pound for pound

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top rank, you have Islam current day lightweight champion. You

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got Alexandre Pantosia. For the flyweights, you got Marob the

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Wailish VILLI who's dethroned Sean O'Malley who. I can tell

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you I'm not crazy with Seanna made but I understood

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what he did from a marketing standpoint. More people paid

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attention to this sport with him than they are with Marob.

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You know, I got Ilia who's dethrone Max. You got

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Belel Mohammed as welterweight champion, you got Directus Duplessis as

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middleweight champion. And I could keep going if i want

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to talk about Alex Pereira, And I'm telling you, if

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you start looking at just the names I'm naming on,

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that's how international that the UFC is right now, Unless

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you are a diehard fan. If I rattle off these names,

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casual listeners are, casual viewers of the sport are going

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to go, who the heck is that guy? That's relevant?

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People come in and droves when Connor McGregor fights. What

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do you do when Eliot to Portia is champion, the Spaniard,

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the mathador? What do you do? Do You see the

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conundrum I'm talking about here blocking Nation. I happen to

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love this sport, and I know we've got some tremendous

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athletes who get their talking done inside of the cage.

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But there's something important known as your microphone skills. At

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the press conference, Max Holloway was showing us how that

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was to be done by shooting holes and Eliot Deporia's

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argument when he would try to argue over him and go, man,

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I'm trying to talk here. Let me finish. And it

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comes back and Eli finishes his talk and then Max goes,

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you see what I did there as common courtesy, brother,

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you got more of a response from the guy from Hawaii.

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That's a laid back, lovable, blessed Max Holloway. Then you're

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getting from Eliot Toporia. You're getting the performance inside of

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the cage. But you are trying to attract flies with

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vinegar at this point. And I hate to say that

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you have made it so hard for me to attract

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new casual fans to come to the sport. It's difficult,

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and I've taken this on it. It's a burden that

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I get to carry as a podcaster who has a

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beloved sport that I believe is the greatest sport under

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God's hot sun. But are we missing a bunch of

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links here? We got some major missing links now that

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Eliotdaporia is still champion. Now that Rob is champion, that

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Blall is champion. It's hard to defend. I hate to

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say it that way. It's like so diminsion of a

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sport that I love, and can we trace it back

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to one thing. No, it's many, many factors, and one

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in particular, when you look outside of the UFC that's

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making Dana White sweat bullets is the guy that unraveled

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the sweater that is known as the heavyweight division in

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the first place. What am I talking about? I'm talking

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about Francis Nagano. You remember that guy, the one who

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dethroned Steve A. Miocic, that ended up leaving the UFC

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without a solidified contract, that got everything he wanted in

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the boxing world, and has now transitioned over to PFL

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and has demolished his opponent to become the champion. And

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now he's staying there and smiles with the dollar halo

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swinging around his head, and he can look at Dana

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and go, hey, you tell me who's holding the cards now?

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Because John Jones has been out for a while, Stevee's

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coming back and this isn't enough to even pack in

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masson Square Garden. Nobody wants to see this fight. I'd

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love to see Jones versus Nagano. You're not gonna get

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a crossover like that. Tom Aspinall has nobody to dance with.

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But what if he were to transition over and take

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a shot against Francis Nagano at the PFL. If the

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numbers are right and he got the phone call and

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they were offering him a contract, what do you do?

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You got a determining factor here that's a missing link.

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And his name is Francis Nagano that started the entire

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Jinga Tower to fall. So am I saying that my

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sport is in trouble. I'm saying from a marketing standpoint,

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there's more power into Gano's hands than there would be

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in Dana White's hands. With these as your champions, you

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got a lot more glistening diadems over there in PFL,

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and you got several that want to cast their crowns

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down and look for greener fields. That could be a problem.

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This is where I believe we currently stand, and I'm

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not trying to sound negative on it either. I just

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go how do you bounce back from this? It's an

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international sport. Certainly, the recency bias wants to get behind

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the Spaniard right away because of what they did with

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Max Holloway. But when the dust settles twenty four hours later,

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is anyone else sweating this blockhead nation? Is emails, wondering

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where else the rabbit hole is gonna take us? Now,

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something to think about, something to chew on. Okay, we

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will catch you next Saturday, same blockhead time, same blockhead channel,