Sept. 26, 2026

The Blockhead Project: Making Up For Lost Time

The Blockhead Project: Making Up For Lost Time

Welcome back, Blockhead Nation! YFB is finally back with a new episode where he discusses: - updates on his dog, Gabriel - the Charles Schulz graphic novel he is currently reading - some insight over the Biblical Chapter of Daniel - and, the...

Welcome back, Blockhead Nation!

YFB is finally back with a new episode where he discusses:

  • updates on his dog, Gabriel
  • the Charles Schulz graphic novel he is currently reading
  • some insight over the Biblical Chapter of Daniel
  • and, the short-term fall of Gable Stevenson in the UFC
All links for the show can be accessed via the blog page below:

https://yourfavoriteblockhead.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/the-blockhead-project-making-up-for-lost-time/
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Well, Blockhead Nation, good grief, good afternoon, good evening. Once again,

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you are listening to your favorite Blockhead. I come with

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you not only with a new episode, but I come

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to you with an apology to the third power. And

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I know most of you that are still listeners of

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the show, who are friends of the show, will understand

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why it's taken me three weeks to finally sit down

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on the microphone and share with you updates on my

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life and why the podcast has been at a temporary pause. Well,

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the intention was last Saturday I was going to sit

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down and do an episode. But to begin with an update...

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I happen to have three dogs. I'm sitting here in

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the Blockhead Mansion, a.k.a. my living room at my house

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south of Dallas, Texas. And I'm sitting here with three

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other dogs in the house. One of them is Oliver.

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The other one is Ellie Mae. And then the third

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one is my adopted dog, a German Shepherd mix by

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the name of Gabriel. Well, it was a very... gut-wrenching,

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semi-heartbreaking Saturday last week. Mostly just because Gabriel had stopped eating,

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he'd become increasingly weak, and we knew that he wasn't

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his normal self. We knew something was wrong. So just

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to update the Blockhead Nation on why it took so

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long is because when I took Gabriel in that morning

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to the vet, They did a scan and everything looked

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okay except for his liver, which that could indicate one

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of three things. That could indicate early stages of cancer,

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which the veterinarian did not think that was the case

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because of his age and his size. Second possibility was failure,

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kidney failure. We weren't ready to rule that out yet,

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but we just thought there must have been some kind

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of an infection of some kind. So she sent me

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home with a bunch of antibiotics and medications for his liver.

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And they had run a test that would take a

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week to come back. And as of Friday, the results

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have come back negative. So I'm not going to get

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into all the lingo just because it's just worth mentioning

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that Gabriel is feeling a million times better than he

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was last Saturday. So in a week, With an update

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on Gabriel, we have definitely turned a corner. He is

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back to his normal self. He is resting next to

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me as I record this as we speak. So that

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just kind of segues into my love of the Peanuts

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comic strip. So for those that have been following this

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show for years, you know if you see your favorite blockhead,

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it is a hat tip to the greatest blockhead of

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all time, a.k.a. Charlie Brown. who was created by a

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man by the name of Charles Schultz, who passed away

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in February 2000. And he's still to this day considered

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the greatest cartoonist of all time, even though we have

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moved away from Sunday Papers and now everything is online.

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So I attribute everything that this show is about in

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some way back to either the comic strips or the

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TV show or the Peanuts animated movie And where we

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will be going this summer, which will be the Charles

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Schultz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. That trip is in

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the works. That will be Blockhead's summer vacation with the

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little red-haired girl. Very excited about that. That's not to

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just get us off task here. But I just want

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you to know that I've also started adding things to

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the blog. And I'm also going to start doing a

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better job of putting out show notes. Just because a

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great friend of mine who is from Pod Houston, shout

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out to Ozeal, who took a look at my podcast

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and I thought I'd actually fix this. I thought I

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had fixed the description of my show, but it still

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popped up on Apple Podcast and Spotify as a show

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that combines peanuts and mixed martial arts. For the longest time,

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that is what I did. I would have part one

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be about the comic and part two be about the sport.

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And I thought that I had fixed that. Well, now

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the description has been updated, so I went back and

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checked what I had actually done. I had described it

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on my hosting platform, but not the information and details

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through Apple and Spotify. So those of you that might

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still be seeing the old description of the show, I apologize,

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but that's been updated now, and it should, I would hope,

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flawlessly go across your computer screen or your phone, depending

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on what you're listening on. Where this is a show

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that goes also into Bible and complexity of biblical topics.

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Because Sparky sure was no exception to that as the

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creator of Charlie Brown. And a person who, after losing

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both parents and grieving and going through almost a year

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without my mother, there's been changes. We've turned the page.

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We've started a new chapter. thus the name, The Blockhead Project,

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where I can serve you to the best of my abilities,

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and I haven't been able to do that for the

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last three weeks. So I finally can. I happened to

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be at the library today and found a treasure that

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I had never seen before. Did you know, Blockhead Nation,

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that there is actually a Charles Schultz autobiography that is

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in the format of a graphic novel? Neither did I.

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And I checked out the book, and I have paged

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through a few items before I started this recording. And

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I'm amazed how, even though it's simplistic, it really does

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detail a few things I've never talked about on this

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show that I think I need to. Is when Charles

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Schultz was creating his cartoon... It really happened after his

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service in World War II. So to even back up

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even further, many of these characters were based off childhood

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friends of his or co-workers or a person he would

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have an actual crush on, a.k.a. the little red-haired girl.

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But the original dog that Charles Schultz owned was not

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named Snoopy. He was named Spike. And this dog also

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had a bad habit. Of eating things he shouldn't have.

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Most dogs do that. That's what I think is the

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segue for Gabriel. He got a hold of something that

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he shouldn't have. And we really don't know what it was. But.

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For Spike. Charles Schultz had to witness his dog eating

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things like. Razor blades. Thumb tacks. And somehow. He would

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not end up getting sick. So quite the immune system there.

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And I guess you can say. A cast iron stomach

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on that dog. But. Spike was the original Snoopy in

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many ways. Fast forward to when Charles Schultz is drafted

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into World War II as a foot soldier. His mother's

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health was not that good. In fact, it continued to deteriorate,

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so he took weekend leave to come back and see

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his mom, who still was bedridden and not doing well.

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And she mentioned to him, I think I have a

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name for your next dog. He said, sure mom, what

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would you like that to be? She looked at him

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and smiled weakly and said, Snoopy. So Charles Schultz honored

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Snoopy by naming the most infamous character in his comic

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strip after the name that his mom suggested. It's a

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very sweet moment. It's a very sweet piece of history

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from Charles Schultz's life that I think is relevant, because

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when most people say the word peanuts, they don't always

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know what you're talking about. But you could say Snoopy,

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and he is world-renowned. We do know that at the

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Macy's Parade this year, Snoopy will be back, but he'll

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be in the metamorphosized version of Joe Cool this year.

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So when you watch the Macy's Parade, you heard it

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here first, or you heard it from the news, that

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That's the form of Snoopy we're going to see this year.

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So looking into the story, this is something else that

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I found that I didn't think about, was when Charles

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Schultz was finished with his job serving in World War II,

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he came back and needed to find another job. He

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continued to work towards being a cartoonist, but he actually

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got a job as a TV... at the art instruction

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school that he formerly had been a student at and

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that was called the Federal School of Applied Cartooning and

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he had two co-workers one co-worker by the name of

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Linus and another co-worker by the name of Charlie Brown

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and So these are small details that I should have

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included a long time ago in this podcast. But I

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love the fact that I've stumbled across this graphic novel

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about Charles Schultz, the creator of Snoopy and Peanuts that

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was released in 2024, published by Manga Biographies. So that

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means it's Japanese animation, which Japan has always been a

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huge advocate for. For the story of Charlie Brown Snoopy. Linus,

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Lucy and the gang. So I just wanted to kind

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of share that. With the group that are listening here.

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That there is an autobiography. That I'm currently reading. And

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I think is worth your time. So that book will

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be available. In the blog. If you want to go

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take a look for yourself. And also the song of

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the day. Now I normally just pull something. That is

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probably Christian based. When I do my song of the week.

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For this particular show, I know I say Song of

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the Day, but Song of the Week, it's on a Saturday.

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For whatever time you tune in, the song happens to

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be by a group called Embodiment. Now, Embodiment is one

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of those Christian alternative bands that really fluctuated a lot.

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They would go extremely hardcore, and then they would kind

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of pump the brakes, and they would actually use their

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singing abilities and their guitar riffs that were not as intense.

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So they've been a roller coaster for years. But the

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song that I feel like since we are back on

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the microphone and trying to maintain a bi-weekly schedule, I

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think it's fair to say that this is a show

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that will continue to move on and as it says

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in the lyrics, to make up for lost time. I

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wanted my chance to do that today. As we transition

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into the second part, as we get to scripture of

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the day and a few other small nuggets that I'll

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end this podcast with. So thank you for sticking with me.

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Hope you'll stick around for part two. Our scripture reading

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for this podcast comes from Psalms 145, verse 14. The

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Lord upholdeth all that fall, and riseth up all those

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that be bowed down. A very befitting reflection here from

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Blue Letter Bible that says, Ever is the Lord faithful

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to strengthen those of his who are wounded and bolster

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his children who are weighed down. His might has become

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our might. His sovereignty lifts our heads in troubling times.

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Look to him for your rest, Blockhead Nation, and for

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your comfort. And ever shall you find it. I want

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to remind you also that when you hear the mid-roll

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that comes into play, you're hearing Preston Scott music. I'm

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forever thankful to Preston for his musical talent and ability.

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and using it to move along this little podcast. So

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I appreciate his snippets that we use from his amazing

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musical ability. And I just can't shake what I'm thinking

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when it comes to biblical depth here. Because every Sunday

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morning for the last two months, we have been digging

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deep into the book of Daniel. Now, I have read

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so many books in the Bible and have been blessed

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by all of them, but this one is next level.

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Most of you probably just think, okay, I've heard about

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Daniel in the lion's den. You may have heard of Shadrach, Meshach,

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and Abednego in the fiery furnace. Guys, there's so much

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more to it than that. And I know there's a

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movie that's come out, Daniel in the fiery furnace, but

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even that can't even come near your own one-on-one Bible study.

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It doesn't even come close to the complexities that are

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in the pages of the book of Daniel, who should

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be seen as a major prophet. And the one that

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I've been thinking about the most really has been the

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eighth chapter. So in Daniel chapter 7, it talks about

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these four beasts that will rise up from the Mediterranean Sea.

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It'll focus on the four, just like in Daniel chapter 2,

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where it talks about a statue. And it's based on

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four different sections, one of gold, one of silver, one

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of bronze, and one of iron. The same thing happens

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with the beast in Daniel chapter 7. There's four of them.

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And all of those represent different kingdoms that fell throughout

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the Old and New Testament. But there's one that gets

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overlooked if you don't go through it in detail. And

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I think everyone listening here should take the time to

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do your own study of the book of Daniel. If

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you ever want to reach out and want to dive

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deeper into what it's talking about, Daniel chapter 8, when

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Daniel is standing next to the Tigris River and has

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this vision that goes into more of the, it's not

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all the kingdoms, but it's really two of them in particular.

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He sees this vision of a goat. And he's got

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a horn between its eyes that's charging from the west.

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And it's coming towards a ram that has two long horns.

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So the ram looks like it can't be overtaken. No

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one can stand against it except for this one coming

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from the west to where the goat doesn't even touch ground.

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at the height of its power. And he destroys this ram,

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and then the goat's horn breaks, and four new horns

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grow towards the four winds. And another new horn comes

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from the others. It's even more powerful. And this great

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and powerful horn is going to capture the south, the east,

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and what's called the beautiful land. I'm using this from

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a reference from stepbible.org, where you can get summaries of

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each of the chapters, and this is just fascinating to me.

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Where the daily sacrifices are defiled, and the sanctuary where

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the saints would congregate is brought down. Truth is thrown

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to the ground. And Daniel is watching this, and he's

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completely in awe, but he doesn't understand what he's seeing.

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So he has to have help from an angel by

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the name of Gabriel. Who will help him interpret that?

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I'm not going to say there's any tie-in to my

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dog Gabriel, because Gabriel happens to be the least intellectual

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dog that I have ever owned in my life. So

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there's no comparing and contrasting with what I have here

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at the Blockhead Mansion. to this text, but if you've

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never taken the time to look through it to see

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how this ram, which represents the Persian Empire, because more

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than likely during the time that this vision was shown

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to Daniel, that's who was in power. You're going to

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have all these Gentile kingdoms that have to fall before

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we get to the end times when another power will rise.

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If you read the book of Revelation, you know what

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I'm talking about. I'm talking about the rise of the Antichrist.

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The one that will deceive everybody until Jesus actually comes

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back and establishes his millennial kingdom. The book of Daniel

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in the Old Testament is just as important as the

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book of Revelation is to the New Testament. And going

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through this and seeing how Persia will fall to ancient Greece...

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That's really what the vision's pointing to. You will have

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Alexander the Great, who will eventually die in his early 30s,

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and there will be northern and southern kingdoms that will rise,

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and there will be a horrible figure, an Antichrist-like archetype

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that will rise to power. And through my study, I'm

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realizing who this is. It's a man by the name

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of Antiochus Epiphanes, Antiochus IV, who comes to the throne

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through a lot of treachery and deceitfulness, and he is

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going to desecrate the temple, just like this chapter is

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talking about. about how the horn grows until it reaches

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the heaven and it tramples on some of the stars

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and it stops the daily sacrifices and it's allowed to

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defile the sanctuary because of the saints' rebellion. So because

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there have been times when Israel and Judah, meaning the

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Holy Land, have not honored their God, that God will

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allow times of despair, times of siege. Me and the

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Assyrians overtake the northern kingdom. The southern kingdom of Judah

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is overtaken by the Babylonians, who will fall to the Persians,

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who will fall to the Greeks, who the Greeks will

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be overtaken by the Roman Empire. Everything in biblical history

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lines up exactly this. and accurately and beautifully with what

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secular history tells us. I'm sorry, Blockhead Nation. It's so

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much harder to try to rebel against what this chapter

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is saying. It's so much harder to believe that this

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can't happen, that this must have been written after the fact. Okay.

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But what about the time when the high priest tells

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Alexander the Great, when he opens the scroll of Daniel,

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and he points to this part of the text and says, Alexander,

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this is you. And he's so in awe by it

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that he leaves Jerusalem alone. It's a lot to take in,

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Blockhead Nation, but just Daniel ate this vision of the

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ram and the goat. You would never find... unless they

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do what's called expository teaching, you wouldn't find many of

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them even dare to go into Daniel, much less the

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last couple of chapters, that speak of an Antichrist-like person

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who is to come, who will desecrate the temple, which

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is what Antiochus Epiphanes did. He even sacrificed a pig

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on the altar. He, in a very Hitler-like format, sent...

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Jews to their death, made sure the Torah was destroyed

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as many copies as he could, which meant original copies

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of the Torah had to be hidden from Antiochus IV.

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There will always be these types of people who will

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rise to power for a period of time. And then

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you will have a Savior who will come that... You

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have his death, and not long after that, you have

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the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, which not

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long after this leads to the fall of the Roman

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Empire that lasted over 700 years. Kingdoms are going to fall.

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There will be a revived Rome that will come. I

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don't think we're going to be here when that happens.

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I believe we'll be taken up in the clouds, just

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like 1 Thessalonians 2 and 4 talk about in detail.

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But if we are here, then we need to know

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these things, Blockhead Nation. We need to be prepared. Because

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every kingdom is going to fall. And there will be

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a time when Christ establishes his millennial kingdom. When this

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Antichrist figure brings peace to the Middle East, but then

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he'll break his treaty three and a half years into

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the time of the tribulation and say, you will bow

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to me. But then Jesus comes back on a white

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horse and says, no, you will bow to me. So

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much to unpackage. But if you ever read the book

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of Daniel, highly recommend it. Especially some of these hidden

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treasures like Daniel chapter 8. They can take you so

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deep into the Bible and truly bless your life the

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way it has mine. Thank you for letting me go

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off on that little rant there, Bloghead Nation. I mean,

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you're still here. And I know some of you have

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been waiting like, will you ever talk about MMA again?

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Every once in a while I will. There'll be reasons

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that come to the forefront. Let me take a drink

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of water here. I used to call it a swig

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of water. It's not the best podcast etiquette, but I'm

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doing it. So we have this situation in the heavyweight division.

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They're looking for a star. If I can very loosely

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explain piece all this together in chronological order. We'll start

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with Tom Aspinall was the current champion. Supposed to fight

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Jon Jones, never did. So he fights Cyril Gon and

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suffers a major eye poke. Which means the next fight

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that happens will be the interim title until Tom returns

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or relinquishes his title where Cyril Gon and Alex Pereira

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fight at the White House. And Pereira gets rocked, and

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Cyril Ghosn is clearly the new interim champion. Some would

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say by some very dirty means, if you watch the

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style of fighting that he has. Well, there's a new

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guy that is coming onto the scene, and there's no

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parallel here today on Chapter 8 about some rising of

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the Antichrist. There's really not. There's a rising of a

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possible new star who's young, who's an All-American wrestler, by

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the name of Gable Stevenson, makes his debut, has a

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phenomenal debut in MMA, and he's on the fight card

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as of last week. But he was supposed to be

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the last fight on the prelims, the preliminary main event. Well,

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as I understand it, we have a possible injury from

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Brian Ortega, so Renato Moicano versus Brian Ortega is out.

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which means they decide to put Gable Stevenson's fight onto

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the main card against a former Marine who leaves the

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Marines so that he can focus full-time on being an

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MMA fighter. And in less than a minute, Gable Stevenson

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comes out and gets knocked out by this guy. And

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I guess you can say to make things worse... Gable

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Stevenson does not stick around to stand next to Sean Shiroff,

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who's now 5-2, to get his hand raised. Anybody who

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knows anything about collegiate-style wrestling, when you face somebody, even

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if you lose, you shake hands, and the referee raises

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your hand. Same thing in MMA. They usually have the

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hand raised first, and then they shake hands, or don't

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shake hands. Or they do a bro hug. You get

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the idea. Gable Stevenson leaves the cage before Sean has

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his hand raised. Which allowed for Daniel Cormier to open

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up a can of frustration on him. Saying that you

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should stay in the ring and take your licks. I

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got knocked out on national television by Jon Jones. Camera

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zoomed in and I had tears in my eyes. And

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I had to just take it. Why do you get

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to walk out of the cage? Valid point by Daniel Cormier.

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Not long after this, a tweet comes out. Now, I

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know it's been changed. The format's now X. Either way,

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an X feed comes out, and it is the cornerman

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and coach of Gable Stevenson, who is none other than

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John Jones, who said, I'm the one that made the

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decision to take him out of the cage. I'm the

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one that said, let's go. Well, I could be clever

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and say, well, I guess you could have tried to

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shove him under the UFC octagon ring like you did

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when you tried to duck your drug policy USADA check-in.

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I could do that. I kind of just did. But

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I'll try my best not to be snide. Because in

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the past, when I would cover things that are mixed

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martial arts, I would get very negative about it. I

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always looked at the contrarian side. And it really wouldn't

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do anything. What I can't say is, what I'm impressed

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by is Sean's response, where he said, you know what,

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he took his first beat. And they were all like,

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how do you feel about him walking out of the cage?

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And he just says, well, he'll come back. I don't

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think that he's done. You know, I felt defeat too,

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and I understand that. And whatever the circumstances were, he'll

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go train, he'll come back better. I don't think he's

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anywhere near finished with his career. Total class. Much dignity

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and poise out of Sean Sheriff. You want a fan

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over here at the Blockhead Mansion. Just for somebody who

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can show what it means to be a man. Especially

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for your service, sir. So I kind of have to

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go along with what Sean just mentioned. The guy who's

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actually been there with him and felt him out and

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touched him. That he'll be back. Meanwhile, it's like we're

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never going to end this ongoing trilogy or this ongoing

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conflict between John Jones and Daniel Cormier. It's a little

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bit tiring, but that's easy for them to light the

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sparks again, and I don't know what direction that will go,

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but I won't go into any of the weeds on

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that one. It just currently shows me that they're desperately

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looking for a star for the heavyweight division. They may

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get one pretty soon. There's a few that I have

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in mind. But I hope that that kind of pieced

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together what happened. Gale Stevenson still has the look, has

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the power, and could be a future star for the sport.

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But it's always nice to know when there are legitimate

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contenders and gentlemen and signs of respect that are shown

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in a very brutal sport. So that I do appreciate.

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Hope that's what some of you were looking for if

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you stuck around this long. Either way, we're going to

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button this one up and we're going to move on

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and make up for lost time with the next couple

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of weeks. When I come back, we'll see if any

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of y'all happen to read the autobiography of Charles Schultz,

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the graphic novel. See if any of you listened to

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the song. And if there are other things you want

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me to serve you with with this podcast, Feel free

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to reach out, Blockhead Mansion. Mansion. I'm stumbling on my

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words a lot more than I used to. I'm really

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out of practice. The mansion is where I'm sitting currently

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doing this particular episode and giving myself a few little perks.

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Blockhead Nation, you are always welcome to reach out. Thank

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you for the opportunity for me to serve you with

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this show. This has been your favorite Blockhead. We will

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catch you next time. In the next two weeks, same

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blockhead time, same blockhead chance.