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Super News #28-LA Riots-New Evidence on Dead Sea Scrolls-Anxiety Study & Tips-Economic Update-Sports Talk · Prestons Super Show

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Welcome to Preston's Super Show. Thank you for joining me.
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We are here talking about sports, politics and the economy
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today. Let's start with the Money in
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the Bank recap. I'm going to give you a rundown
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of the results from Money in the Bank this past Saturday.
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Cody Rhodes and Jay USO were up against Johnson and Logan Paul.
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Good match. I'm glad to see John Cena didn't
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just get the belt and run, didn't just get what he wanted
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and take off that he's actually going full stop with his heel
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run. But ultimately, I do see the
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path or a way for John Cena to get back to babyface status.
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I believe that's in his future. Couldn't tell you how far down
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the road, but Cody Rhodes and Jay USO do win the match.
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Then you had the men's Money in the Bank match.
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This is what we're here for, besides the women's Money in the
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Bank match and the two Intercontinental Championship
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matches, which I will get to shortly.
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But for the men's Money in the Bank match, you had Seth Rollins
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coming out on top over LA Knight, Pinta solo, El Grande
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Americano, and on trade. Seth Rollins needed this win.
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He needed this match. So much has been put on his
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shoulders right now in the WWE, and he's been keeping it live
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and poppin every time he gets in the ring.
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Here's Ala Knight knows how to cut a promo, for heaven's sakes.
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Then there's Penta, and I will say Penta's been a workhorse.
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El Grande Americano, he's a crowd favorite already and then
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Andrade, he's been around. He knows how to compete with the
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bigger names. It's a great match.
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I thought that Seth Rollins winning, you know, just boost
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his stock even more. You know, if WWE wrestlers had a
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a stock, his would be at an all time high.
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Now you have the Women's Intercontinental Championship
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match between Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch up against Lira
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Valkira, who's been on a tear, who's been terrorizing the
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women's division in WWE. But her rise to the championship
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spot and winning that belt shows how good Triple H and Shawn
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Michaels and the rest of the executives at WWE are to the
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talent. I remember when WWE and XTUK was
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shut down. Then she showed up in WWE and
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XT. She was well received by the
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crowd and from there on out she rose to the top of WWE and XT.
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Then she came onto the main circuit, the big brands, the Raw
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and Smack Down and she has wowed the fans ever since.
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But Becky Lynch, who is married to Seth Rollins by the way, has
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been putting in that work for a long time.
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And not only was she destined to retain the belt in my opinion,
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as she did in this match, she did defeat Lura Valkira.
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But the way she did it was with the old fashioned be down Becky
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Lynch style, no gimmicks and overall it was a great match.
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I love the Intercontinental Championship, love what it
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stands for and represents. That is what diversity looks
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like in the WWE. You put up that Intercontinental
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Championship. I give that a a minus for that
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match. And then Next up was Dominic
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Mysterio versus Octagon, a junior.
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And look, Junior is a high flyer.
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He's got the moves, he's got the the style that just kind of goes
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along with the WWE right now. But more importantly, he's kind
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of taking the crowd by storm. He's a high flyer and he can do
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all of the aerial moves that you want someone to do in the kind
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of cruiserweight division, especially against Dominic
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Mysterio, who for a while was in a league of his own wrestling
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every chance he got non-stop without taking any time off.
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But the main thing about Dominic is he's got some new competition
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on the scene as well as a lot of the cruiserweights and high
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Flyers do. Finn Baylor has new competition
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on the scene. There's a lot of different names
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showing up, popping up that you're going to be excited to
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hear. And I can't wait to talk about
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him. But in this match, Octagon
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junior, what it looked like everything was going his way.
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Liv Morgan has to jump in the middle.
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She had to jump in the middle of it and screw him out of a chance
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to pull off history. Dominic Mysterio wins, and now
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we'll see what the reconciliation looks like.
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We'll see what that process looks like.
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Then we had the women's Money in the Bank match, Naomi up against
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Ria Ripley, Stephanie Baker, Alexa Bliss, Roxanne Perez and
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Julia. But Naomi has a wonderful match.
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Ria Ripley has a good performance, Roxanne Perez
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showing signs of brilliance once again.
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Look at Alexa Bliss, she's stunning.
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And then Stephanie Baker is doing a great job of making
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herself known in a very competitive field.
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Then Julia, she was in the mix and that's good to see.
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But Naomi coming out on top with the Money in the Bank briefcase
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takes us out of WWE. I'll bring us into the Raw
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preview. But that's going to be
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interesting to see how that kind of turns because we got some
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more interesting news from the WWE here and don't mind the
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order. I do think Sen Jay USO will
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defend his World Heavyweight Title against Gunther tonight on
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Raw Netflix. If you could check that out.
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7:00 PM Central time on Netflix, you can see Jay USO defend his
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World Heavyweight title against Gunther.
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Now we have John Cena who's returning to Raw and let's see
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what John Cena has to say. And let's not forget John Cena
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is the WWE Champion. Then we have Nikki Bella is
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going to return with a special message.
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What does she have to say? I guarantee she's looking to
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shake up the WWE Universe. Then a really cool kind of
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feature, something that the WWE is doing.
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The King and Queen of the Ring tournaments begin tonight.
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To make sure to check that action out, we have the General
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managers, Nick Aldous and Adam Pierce come together and they
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have designated that the tournament begins with a fatal
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four way with four matches in both the men's and women's
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divisions. 1 winner from each match will advance to singles
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competition in the semi finals and then on to the finals in
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Ridhya, Saudi Arabia at the WWE Night of Champions.
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Now the victorious male and female superstar will ultimately
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earn World title matches at SummerSlam.
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There's going to be 4 matches in both the men's and women's
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divisions. These are all fatal Four ways to
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the best of my knowledge. So that is going to be very
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exciting. Then we have the fallout from
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Seth Rollins winning Naomi winning R truth back in the mix.
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This is going to be really good raw tonight, so make sure to
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check that out. 7:00 PM Central time and now we'll talk about
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UFC. Also happened on Saturday, UFC
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316, thirteen matches and they all actually happened.
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What a great card. A lot of fun.
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I went 11:00 and 2:00, but both of the best bets I gave out
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cashed. They were winners.
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If you took what I was dishing out, if you were picking that
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up, you made some, you made some good money.
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And then in the main event, I picked it perfectly.
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Third round submission for Devil Shilly.
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He had to put a stamp on it. He didn't want a trilogy,
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something decided by the judges, which most of the time they have
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no clue what's going on. I'm in favor of one of the
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judges being AI. Give us 2 judges, 2 die hard
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UFC, avid lovers of combat sports, and then give me one
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robot and let's go. Let's let's try it out.
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That's what I say. Or if you want to keep the three
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judges and you say well, well, let's add a robot judge.
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I'm for that too. Even though I did well, I'm
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still going to advocate for the robot judge.
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All right, we had the first best bet came in the first fight,
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which was Markel Madero's money line.
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I picked him to win by decision. I thought he would be a little
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show off ish and he was against Mark Joinsky.
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He knew he was better, he knew he was faster, he knew that he
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had a little more time to prepare mentally.
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And I think when it comes down to it, a guy making his debut is
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just too much to ask. So, you know, that was an easy
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pick in my opinion. But he had an opportunity.
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Medeiros had an opportunity to win early on and Schoinsky put
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himself in some positions that, you know, if a guy was, you
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know, real monster in the Octagon would be able to finish
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the guy in some of the positions.
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Joinsky was was pushing medeiros into a one point Edom in full
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mile and Medeiros got out of it like it was nothing.
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So just something to keep an eye on moving forward.
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Markel medeiros defeats Mark Joinsky.
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Then we had Kwai LON S keyed up against yell now Ashimouth and
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Ashimous lost that one. He was strong.
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He had his moments cracked Quiline with some big shots.
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But but Quiline was ultimately quicker on his feet, more
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elusive, able to out wrestle. And you know, you know, I was
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just so he's just size wise, it's not a very good, you know,
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weight class for him at 1:55. But you know, I picked right
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there. Quiline wins the third fight of
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the night. This was a great fight.
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Was over before you could blink. Literally it.
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This took no time. I mean literally 28 seconds.
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I believe Juicing You defeats Jeka Sarah guy by a knockout in
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the first round. I mean he went down like he took
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a sniper bullet. He went face down on the canvas.
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You know, you couldn't have acted a better scene.
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He got hit with a left hand from hell and it just toasted him
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like a deep fryer and he just fell face first in the Octagon.
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They had to roll them over. I mean, pull the mouthpiece out,
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do the whole thing with the legs and the flipper.
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I mean, he was cooked and he came in there and the punch he
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threw was so slow and everybody could see it from outside of the
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building through the walls. That's how slow the punch Jacka
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Sarah guy threw at the beginning of that fight.
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And then just to be countered that quickly, I mean, I I just
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don't see how you belong in the UFC.
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You know, it was an easy pick. I thought at least get out of
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the first round. You know, you got to go back to
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the gym and that's what you that's what you have to show.
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That's terrible. You have Kong Lang, who was
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dominant against Ariana Lipsky, who's just out of her league in
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the UFC. She's just, she's past her prom.
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She's out of her league. And I, I don't mean pastor prom
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like she's aged out. I mean skill wise.
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She doesn't have the skill like these other women do.
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And Kong Wang was throwing punches like freaking King Kong.
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I'm surprised she didn't get a knockout.
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She was definitely doing damage. She she wins by decision.
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I picked that perfectly. There was another the next fight
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come up at welterweight, 170 lbs.
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Andreas Gustafsson. This is a different Gustafsson
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up against Chaos Williams. And to think about Chaos
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Williams as he is a he is a monster, but it seems like, you
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know, he might be a little bit low in the in the fighting
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spirit because he was just a guy you didn't want to face.
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And Gustafson was taking him head on.
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It went to decision. I thought maybe Gustafson would
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try to get a submission, would try to get out of there early
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because Chaos could do damage, you know, and could end the
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fight on a whim. But ultimately the wave I've
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looked at this fight was pretty much right.
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I mean, Gustafson wins. I knew that then.
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I knew that Chaos Williams would put up a good fight, which he
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did. But I I definitely thought
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somewhere in that fight there would be a finish and ultimately
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was a great fight. Gustafson wins.
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They're calling him Bane like like Batman's nemesis.
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So I thought that was funny as well.
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And there were a few times in that fight where he had Chaos
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Williams in a lot of trouble. So you definitely have to give
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it to Gustafson. Prove me right, but prove the
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doubters are wrong. And that's exactly what we'd
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like to see. Now, Waldo Cortez Acosta was in
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a fight against Sergey Spivak. And this was a fight that the
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judges gave to Acosta. But I just don't see it.
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His body language told me he needed the clock because Spivak
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I thought would have been a little bit smarter, higher
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fighter IQ got accosted down and war on him and just keep wearing
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on him more and more until you get him to quit.
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But he did do a great job on the feet with the with kickboxing.
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Spivec was looking very sharp, you know, and I was very
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impressed with him. So I thought that Spivec won
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again. The judges here they are, they
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look up and say, yeah, Acosta, he wins, you know.
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But not to take anything away from the fight because the fight
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itself was a good fight cause Acosta did a good job staying on
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his feet and making Spyvak pursue him.
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But I don't really see a time, except maybe in the second round
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where Acosta was winning the fight outright.
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Now we look at Asimat, Merza Konov, who defeated Brinson,
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Ribeiro. And Ribeiro is a lot like Jacka
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Saragai is a lot like Chaos Williams.
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And where it seems like they had it and they got to kind of find
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that momentum again. You know, President Trump said
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the best as he showed up at UFC 316.
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Two got a huge standing ovation that the news wants to suppress.
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But it was huge. I mean, it was a large pop for
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the president. It was great.
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The crowd absolutely loved the president showing up.
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But to the point, Ribiero just seems like he lost his momentum.
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Just seems like he had it, you know, and I'm a big fan of his
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still. But I think that you see guys
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like Asimov, Mirza, Konov, nicknamed the Professional.
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Well, he looked like the Professional in that fight in
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the first round. Just like Jackassera guy.
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He knocks out Brinson Ribiero, puts him down and it's over.
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You know, get the ref in there, get the ME wagon in there.
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It's bad. Then we had Joshua Van and he
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says don't worry Preston, I'm going to make sure you get
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back-to-back wins after they screwed you on that spy back win
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and Joshua Van defeats Bruno Silva in the third round after
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for a while I felt like you don't want to allow Bruno Silva
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back into this fight and Joshua Van has just had one too many
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decisions lately. It was time for things to
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change. So I was very happy to see
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Joshua Van get the finish. I predicted he would get a
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finish. I thought he'd come in the
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second round, came in the third round.
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That's OK. I get a lot of points either
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way. I mean, I got the the right pick
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that I gave out for people. So then you had Kevin Holland up
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against Vincente Luke, and at one point it looked like Luke
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was gaining some ground and then he did kind of a bonehead move
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and grabbed Kevin Holland's leg and did that thing where he held
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on to it while Kevin Holland is full of blast, you know, and to
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be honest with you, I don't think he ever recovered from
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that even until the second round.
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I think in the second round, I think he was still not really
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with it. And Kevin Holland does the smart
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thing, sees an opportunity to grab the neck, locks in the
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choke, and that's it. That's all she wrote.
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I thought Vincent De Luca would fight better than that.
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I was a little bit surprised, so you know, that won't call me a
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little off guard. But then the next fight I
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predicted 100% correctly, Mario Batista up against patchy mix.
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And this is the problem with Bellator guys.
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Or any other promotion that's competing with the USC not a
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part of the UFC's umbrella. I think that anybody that comes
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over to compete, they have just a hard time.
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Only it's been like Michael Venom page recently.
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He's been the one guy to come over from a competing brand PFL
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belt or and have success now there.
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There can be guys in the future, but I feel like Patchy Mix is a
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guy that you're fighting 135 in the UFC, but you might be better
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off at 1:25 in the UFC, but that might be a lot to ask of him.
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But another way to do it is say if you want Patchy Mix to have
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success, which I do, at least have exciting fights like that
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was and he was competing towards the end, but he was busted up
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pretty good. He had lost the fight and no
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point in the fight that I think he won.
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I think he landed a couple good punches, but that was it.
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And I don't think there was anything else behind that fight
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with Patchy Mix except he got his footing in UFCI.
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Think his next fight will look different but go to maybe catch
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weight maybe to 1:30 instead of 135 because I feel like he 135
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is just too big for Patchy mix. He's got to come down and wait a
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little bit and have a little bit of advantage over his opponents,
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or at least even the score. But then we had Joe Pfeiffer
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against Kevin Gastelman. And I think the one big take
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away here is that every opponent Joe Pfeiffer has is going to
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know. He's got the, you know, a good
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wrestling background. He's he's very technical, but
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when it comes to the feet, he's got one big punch.
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He's just trying to hit you with one big haymaker.
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Now when he starts to put his combos together, which I hope he
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goes to the bag, starts learning the combos like everybody should
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and then apply that a little bit more because he could have
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really done a number on Gastelman and put himself in a
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position for a championship fighter talking about a
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championship fight. But right now it just looks like
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Pfeiffer needs more work and Gastelman, I don't know what the
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agenda is for him, but he's going to look to probably
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rebound with a very tough fight. I think he's going to take on
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somebody and and and look to have a banger.
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But I was not very impressed with the second and third round.
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I was very impressed with the first round from Joe Pfeiffer.
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I was a little bit impressed with the third round from
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Gastelman. Caught a second wind after being
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knocked down early and started to go on the offensive.
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And I thought that forced Joe Pfeiffer to open up a little bit
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more, put himself, you know, out there a little bit and just try
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to, you know, make it a little more entertaining.
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Fight for the fans. But ultimately try to win, try
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to get a finish. And that's what Joe Pfeiffer,
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you know, I believe needs to look for a little bit earlier
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when he has the gas. Then we had a easy Co main
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event. Easy, just easy.
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Oh God bless you. If you watch the Co main event,
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Kayla Harrison of against Juliana Pena, Kayla Harrison,
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she's a monster. She will not be stopped.
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And now she is the UFC bantamweight champion.
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She has come in the UFC and taking it by storm.
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She's the one that's someone who's done it.
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Come over from a different competing brand, not a, you
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know, funneled operation, but a a competing brand.
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They come over and have success and, and beat all the best
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people that they put in front of her.
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That's Kayla Harrison and she is a great champion too.
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She promotes a great social 'cause she cares about people.
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And how about her and Kevin Holland and even Red Evil
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shielded coming over. Show love to the president.
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Now that's what I like to see. And then in the main event, I
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picked this perfectly. Moab.
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Evil Shilly defeats Sean O'Malley in the third round by
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submission. And Evil Shilly is a humble
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champion. He's a real champion and he is
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on a path for the UFC Hall of Fame.
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Sean O'Malley will rebound. He will be better.
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I listened very carefully to what his coaches were saying and
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his main coach. Basically, he had the surgery he
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needed, but he didn't get to train certain things that Marab
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was doing with his takedowns that they really needed to do in
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order to have a chance. But there were points in the
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fight where Sean O'Malley did look like, you know, maybe
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there's a chance where if he can keep it standing, he can win on
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points or get a finish himself. But this was not the night I
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knew it. I think a lot of people knew it,
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but they were hoping that Charlotte would land a big
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punch. But Rabb is too strong, he's too
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smart, and he doesn't fall or bite on any of the faints or the
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fakes, you know, very few, very little.
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Is he worried about what's what's being thrown his way?
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So it's about it's a respect thing too.
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You know, Sean O'Malley had to earn the respect he was trying
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to. But in the end, Evil Shilly is
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the champion. He retains.
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And at 135 lbs it's very tough. You know, you're you're talking
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about a guy like Patchy Mix who's in this 135 LB division,
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Mario Batista, who's in this 135 LB division.
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So there's going to be a lot of good fights to be made.
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So we'll see what comes of it. Now at the end of the week, we
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have USC on ESPN 69. That is Kamara Uzman first
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Joaquin Buckley. Some other notable names on this
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card are Malcolm Wellmaker, Vanessa Dumapolis, Ricky Simone
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VS Charles Jordan. We got Alonzo Minefield taking
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on Umar Sai, Edmund Shabazian VS Andre Petroski.
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That's going to be a barn burner.
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You have Cody Garbrinken back in the mixed fighting Ronnie
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Barcellos, Paul Craig has a fight, Cody Brundage has a
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fight, Michael Kiesa's on this card against Court McGee Rosen.
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I'm a Eunice. Oh, it gets Random Maverick and
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the Co main event. But the main event itself, the
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Camaro Uzman versus Joaquin Buckley really is going to show
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two things. Can Camaro Uzman get Joaquin
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Buckley down, keep them there and win for five rounds, which
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in my opinion, that's just a difficult task for any human
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being or you're going to see Joaquin Buckley speed, size,
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strength, get the finish against Kamaru Uzman, put him in a a
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position for a championship fight, which I think is very
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likely moving into NASCAR. Let's talk about Danny Hamlin
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stunning victory at Michigan International Speedway when it
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seemed as if the race may be out of reach.
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Denny the Hammer. Hamlin pulled off the
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unthinkable at Michigan International Speedway.
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Denny Hamlin notched his third victory at Michigan in his
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career on Sunday. This is the third time Hamlin
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has won a race during his 2025 NASCAR Cup Series campaign.
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With four laps to go, Denny Hamlin passed William Byron and
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capped off a remarkable race for the number 11 Toyota alongside
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Joe Gibbs Racing. Denny Hamlin currently sits at
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third in the NASCAR Cup Series standings.
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What a day for the Joe Gibbs Racing team and how tough is
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that for William Byron, who dominated the track all day,
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just dominated the track just to come up short at the end,
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finished I believe 28th because he had to pull off for fuel.
29:51
Oh, it's heartbreaking. And that's exactly what racing
29:56
can be. What a tough day for William
30:00
Byron. After that happens, now we have
30:04
some UFL scores to get to. We have the UFL championship
30:08
set, so this is going to be really cool.
30:10
I'm very happy about that. It's time to put some respect on
30:14
the UFL. Not a lot of people want to talk
30:17
about it, but it's been past time.
30:20
The Michigan Panthers defeat the Birmingham Stallions 44 to 29
30:28
just yesterday on Sunday and the DC Defenders defeated the Saint
30:34
Louis Battle Hogs 36 to 18 in the semi finals for the XFL
30:39
Conference Championship. That means the two teams who
30:43
will be in the UFL Championship are the Michigan Panthers
30:48
representing the USFL Conference and the BC Defenders
30:54
representing the XFL Conference. Michigan is the favorite to win
31:00
-3 the Over and under is set at 49 1/2 and we're looking at a
31:08
very good game. Both teams enter this game with
31:11
the same regular season record. The Edmonton Oilers face the
31:16
Florida Panthers tonight in the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
31:22
The Edmonton Oilers, they look really strong, but somehow the
31:28
Florida Panthers pulled off that last game.
31:31
And now I'm starting to think that the Panthers have the
31:34
momentum. They're back at home.
31:37
They feel good on that plane ride.
31:39
They're focused, really laser focused.
31:42
And I think that the Edmonton Oilers are going to take the
31:45
loss tonight. I believe the Florida Panthers
31:47
still are -150 on the sports books, the MVPS of both of these
31:54
teams are the goalies. Both goaltenders are the best
31:59
players on each of these teams. They're having to knock down the
32:03
most shots. I mean, that's tough work at the
32:06
end of the day because these teams are firing off.
32:09
Now I will bring our attention to the NBA Finals where the
32:14
Oklahoma City Thunder up against the Indiana Pacers are going to
32:19
be in a game three tomorrow night at 7:30 PM Central time on
32:24
ABCI. Am more impressed with the
32:29
Indiana Pacers then I am with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
32:34
The series is knotted up 1 to one, a game to a game.
32:39
What I believe is that the Oklahoma City Thunder will still
32:42
win the series. They'll they'll become the NBA
32:45
champions. The way it looks, I think it
32:47
might have to go seven games. I still think my pick is right.
32:51
But right now, the Indiana Pacers do look like when they
32:55
play their style, they're the better team all around and
33:00
they're deeper too. So we'll see what happens in
33:02
these next few games. Although early on in the series,
33:08
the Oklahoma City Thunder have a Gray window now to put the pedal
33:13
to the metal and finish the series off.
33:16
Win the next three games. However, the Indiana Pacers are
33:22
very tough to defend and they are very good at defending, so
33:29
it is going to create some unique situations and
33:32
opportunities for both teams. I think that in the end, if like
33:38
I picked Oklahoma City Thunder win the NBA Finals this year
33:43
against the Indiana Pacers, then Shay Giljus Alexander will be
33:49
the Finals MVP. If the Pacers pull it off, it's
33:52
going to be Tyrese Halliburton as the NBA Finals MVP, simply
33:57
because he is the premier utility player in the entire
34:03
NBA. But most importantly, he's a do
34:06
it all type of player. That Magic Johnson type of
34:09
player I will compare him to for the Indiana Pacers.
34:13
I think that's a great comparison for on the court
34:18
comparison to Magic. I think that's a great
34:22
comparison. You could even say, you know,
34:27
another Steve Nash when it comes to assisting.
34:30
That would be fair. You could say a utility player
34:33
like Chris Paul, that would be fair.
34:37
That's very fair. But I think ultimately, Tyrese
34:40
Halliburton wants to separate himself from other names and
34:44
other people. And, you know, the guy's
34:47
averaging almost 10 assists per game.
34:53
He's definitely a utility player like none other because he can
34:59
direct the offense and it's what he does without the ball as well
35:03
that makes him a great player. So this is a really good series,
35:07
so make sure you're tuning in. I have some Chicago Blackhawks
35:11
news for us. It looks like the Chicago
35:14
Blackhawks are not likely to sign Victor Soderstrom, and
35:21
unfortunately, Kyle Davidson has given up draft rights to several
35:27
players. So unfortunately, the Blackhawks
35:31
are not going to be retaining a few players.
35:34
This is coming from Yard Barker, and with a new coach, it's time
35:39
for a serious rebuild. Just like the White Sox have to
35:42
do. Just like the Bulls ultimately
35:44
have to do. With new ownership changes on
35:47
the horizon, it's time to rebuild these teams in Chicago.
35:53
Even the Bears have to reimagine themselves in so many different
35:59
ways to compete on a high level. Sadly, the Green Bay Packers are
36:06
going to have to retool their secondary.
36:09
They're trying to last ditch effort to make a trade for Gyra
36:13
Alexander, their cornerback, their star cornerback who's
36:16
barely played these last two seasons.
36:19
And ultimately it's because he's had a rift with the head coach.
36:23
And I've spoken about this before.
36:25
It's sad to see it go down like this.
36:28
It would be nice to see the Packers get something for all of
36:33
this wasted time. But ultimately it's it's better
36:38
to cut him loose, let him go play somewhere where he wants to
36:41
be. But at the end of the day, for
36:43
the Green Bay Packers, they've been playing without him for a
36:46
majority of the last two seasons.
36:49
So now I would expect them to get the rookies they have
36:55
prepared to start and get the free agency market a good look
37:02
over. You know, give give it a good
37:04
look over and see who's out there that could come in and
37:08
help support the secondary. Because at the safety position,
37:14
the Green Bay Packers are set. It really comes down to the
37:18
cornerbacks and trying to get cornerbacks that are good in
37:23
coverage and also good in open field tackling.
37:27
However, I do believe that the Packers will be better off
37:31
without any drama at all. Completely football focused and
37:36
oriented up there in Green Bay is the way they should be after
37:39
they just had the draft. Now it's time to focus on the
37:42
team that we have and maybe bring in a cornerback like
37:47
Stephane Gilmore, who for the Vikings was a very good player.
37:53
And I think this could really bode well for the Green Bay
37:57
Packers moving forward. I think ultimately, at first
38:00
it's a little bit tough, but on the boomerang effect of that, it
38:06
frees up cap space, gives the Packers some room to negotiate a
38:12
couple more deals with some players who are very deserving
38:16
because they put the time in. Now, shifting our attention into
38:21
politics, I'll briefly speak about the LA riots that have
38:25
consumed the national media spotlight.
38:30
Governor Newsom and the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, should both be
38:36
in jail for how they've handled these riots, how they've dealt
38:42
with the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump,
38:47
and how they have completely resisted federal ICE agents from
38:55
doing their jobs and making it more difficult for them.
39:00
But for Governor Newsom of California, he has bigger
39:03
problems on his hands because telling the federal government
39:07
you're not going to send them federal tax dollars is a form of
39:12
tax evasion. So, again, both of them,
39:17
California Governor Newsom and the mayor of LA where these
39:20
riots are happening, should be in jail. 700 Marines have been
39:25
deployed, Beat Hagseth from the Pentagon is signed off on it.
39:31
And there's 300 National Guard troops protecting federal land.
39:37
There are 2000 National Guard troops that are ready to go.
39:44
What we know is that even the California sheriff doesn't have
39:48
this under control. What we know is that in
39:51
California right now, the protests are ramping up and the
39:57
disrespect is at an all time high.
40:01
It's absolutely important that the president stepped in.
40:06
This had to happen, and I'm glad it did.
40:10
I support ICE and all of their efforts and I support law
40:15
enforcement on this day and every day.
40:19
As the congressman from Texas said, this is the tip of the
40:22
iceberg here in LA, the five way MO electric cars they burned lid
40:29
off, so much toxic fumes and gas on top of the wildfires they're
40:32
recovering from. Shame on California's governor
40:37
and the LA mayor for not getting in front of this.
40:41
They've allowed these people to become domestic terrorist on our
40:47
sovereign soil. How dare they.
40:52
The 4th day in a row of these people galvanizing support from
41:00
terrorist. That's what this is, an
41:03
incursion against America. This is an insurrection and
41:08
these people are insurrectionists, all of them
41:12
that are out there in the street.
41:14
This is not peaceful and nothing about it looks peaceful.
41:18
These people are sick and demented in the head.
41:22
What Trump must do along with Tom Homan, the border Caesar, is
41:27
lay the hammer down and arrest Gavin Newsom and then that Los
41:33
Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and you can book Gavin Newsom for the
41:38
tax evasion, Al Capone style charges he just admitted to.
41:43
It's a long summer, folks. And when you have cities like
41:47
Glendale, AZ, who are backing out of helping ICE, you have
41:52
governors like JB Peg Pritzker in Illinois who's backing out of
41:57
helping ICE. And all of these sanctuary
42:00
cities like in Nashville, TN, that are defying the president,
42:05
defying federal law, and have been for a long time.
42:09
And it's time the hammer of justice comes down in law and
42:15
order be restored. And even President Trump
42:19
supports arresting Governor Gavin Newsom of California.
42:25
I truly believe that Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles should be
42:30
behind bars in jail. Now, I am a bit of a bill
42:35
tracker. So as a bill is floating around
42:40
in Wisconsin, little bit of state legislation, Senate Bill
42:45
219 is moving forward in Wisconsin.
42:49
This is the Wisconsin Farmland Protection Act.
42:53
This bill is very important. It's a bill similar to the one
42:58
Arizona Governor Hobbs vetoed about foreigners owning land and
43:05
not being citizens, just coming in, buying up land and then
43:08
trying to rent or sell it to someone else at the expense of
43:15
the American taxpayer. Now, what's happening here is
43:20
this bill's moving forward in the Senate to an executive
43:24
session in a Senate committee where they're going to iron out
43:27
some details on this bill, which will restrict foreign ownership
43:34
to 50 acres of land if passed. Now, Representative Clinton
43:41
Moses and Senator Rob Staffs Schultz support the bill.
43:47
They understand Wisconsin has a deep agricultural tradition and
43:54
this also promotes national security.
43:57
But more importantly, given the economic significance of
44:02
agriculture in Wisconsin, which generated $104.8 billion in 2017
44:11
alone, the potential loss of 515,200 acres of farmland by
44:20
2040 could result in a $377 million reduction in farm
44:30
revenue. That's across the board.
44:33
So that's not good if they don't get on top of protecting
44:37
farmland for the family farms. We have to do it for the
44:42
American farmers and we have to do it for the family farmers,
44:46
not just the corporate big farmers, not just those guys.
44:51
Do you have anxiety? I just read a really interesting
44:55
report here. I wanted to share it with you.
44:59
It's from the Washington Post and they are trying to do a
45:03
little bit better lately. Giving us some different news,
45:08
Teddy Aminabar says that sometimes it could feel like
45:14
whatever is stressing you out that deadline, a big meeting,
45:17
the news cycle is showing up first thing in the morning.
45:21
You may wake up with a pit already forming in your stomach
45:26
and your anxiety high before you even get out of bed.
45:30
Well, let me tell you folks, if you feel like that, this
45:37
article's going to go on to give you a couple tips.
45:42
One tip is that you need to recognize you're in an anxious
45:46
loop, says Professor Judson Brewer at Brown University's
45:52
School of Public Health and the author of the book Unwinding
45:56
Anxiety. He's offering three steps, and
46:00
in the article, he shares these three steps with us.
46:03
Here we have #1 recognizing you're in an anxious loop, then
46:08
you got to think about what might be causing you to feel
46:11
anxious #2 you got to ask the questions.
46:15
You got to ask the difficult questions.
46:18
What am I getting from this? Why am I in this mood?
46:21
Why am I in this mode? Why is my mind set in this fog
46:27
#3 Approach your anxiety with curiosity.
46:31
And I like that. I'd like all these examples.
46:35
Then they go on to even say something more important, which
46:39
is a exercise that consists of deep breaths and deep breathing.
46:49
Imagine you're turning down a dial or pulling down a lever to
46:52
relax the body. That's a good example they give.
46:56
There's a quote here that says, quote, there is also progressive
47:01
muscle relaxation work you could do to relax each of your
47:05
muscles. Menon says that can feel more
47:09
grounding and take people out of their minds.
47:13
Now, that's also very good advice, I think that, you know,
47:20
will come with time, too, and maturing.
47:23
But also, anxiety is a real emotion and it's not something
47:29
to be afraid about. I'll give you some advice.
47:33
You got to make it a little bit spicy for yourself.
47:35
You got to use that to your advantage.
47:39
Use that as a little bit of fuel, because like all fuel,
47:43
eventually you're going to burn it up.
47:46
You'll burn out that bad anxiety.
47:49
Now there's also another good example where they say you need
47:52
to wake up and get your mind on a task, get going when you wake
47:58
up. You got to occupy yourself right
48:01
in the morning with something when you wake up or whenever you
48:04
wake up or could be at night, because it's not only people
48:06
that wake up in the morning with anxiety.
48:09
It's also night owls. But you got to wake up, get out
48:12
of bed and occupy yourself with a task.
48:14
So you know what I say here is the best advice I can give you.
48:18
Stay prayed up in the morning. I hit my knees, I look up to the
48:23
sky and I say thank you, Lord, for waking me up today, blessing
48:28
me and my friends and family. And then I pick up my book, The
48:34
Lives of the Saints. I go to the Saint of the day.
48:38
Sometimes it's two, sometimes it's a happy story.
48:41
Sometimes it's a devastating death at the end.
48:45
And then I do the prayer that's in the book as well.
48:48
It's a great book. You can pick it up on Amazon.
48:50
Lives of the Saints love it. And I use that book year round,
48:55
year after year, and I try to adjust my life to be more like
49:01
the lives of the Saints, who even Jesus Christ himself was
49:06
the highest St. of all our Lord and Savior.
49:12
So what I'm getting at is walk a little bit of a more narrow and
49:17
straight path to remove a little bit of that extra anxiety around
49:22
you as well. And hopefully that's some good
49:25
mental health advice because I care about men's mental health.
49:29
I care about women's mental health, everybody's mental
49:32
health, even the pets, I care about theirs too.
49:36
I have some great economy news to bring to you.
49:41
We have Comcast Xfinity offering Chicago Sports Network in a new
49:47
tier pricing plan. After a lot of back and forth at
49:52
the negotiated table, a deal was finally reached.
49:55
Chicago Sports Network is available on a higher tier plan
49:59
for Comcast Xfinity. The White Sox, Chicago Bulls and
50:04
Chicago Blackhawks are all available to live stream.
50:08
The terms of the carriage deal were not disclosed to the
50:11
public. The ultimate tier is an extra
50:14
$20 on top of the $20.25 charge for Chicago area subscribers per
50:21
month for the regional Sports Network fee.
50:25
Comcast has issued a monthly $1.85 credit to offset the fee.
50:31
That credit is now permanent, which brings the regional sports
50:35
fee down to $11.40 per month. This is all in an effort to keep
50:42
up with the Marquee Sports Network, which launched back in
50:45
2020 and has been on Comcast ever since.
50:49
And remember, that's the Cubs, man, that's the Chicago Cubs.
50:54
So we need the White Sox to be on Comcast Xfinity with no
50:57
problems. Now there's more economic news
51:02
you need to know about Warner Discovery splits and there is a
51:09
new era for CNN and cable networks.
51:13
This is a huge story that I picked up on a Newsmax.
51:18
Warner Discovery is splitting into two different companies.
51:23
They are separating their studios and streaming services
51:27
from cable television networks. This means CNN is joining a new
51:32
brand in the recent spin off. The old umbrella needed to be
51:38
changed. One could presume the new
51:41
publicly traded company Global Networks will host CNNTNTTBS and
51:51
dozens of Warner's channels such as the Discovery Channel and
51:56
Food Network. Comcast is making a similar play
52:01
by moving a majority of NBC Universal cable channels to a
52:05
new publicly traded company named Versant.
52:10
This undoes the merger of Warnermedia and Discover
52:16
Communications from 2022. Now, my opinion on the matter is
52:22
very sharp here. It's encouraging to see Warner,
52:25
Discovery and Comcast taking the footsteps of media outlets such
52:30
as Newsmax and The New York Times.
52:33
Both entities are publicly traded companies to further
52:36
increase the reach of professional journalism and
52:40
coverage of critical issues that matter to us all.
52:44
It is an easy to keep a news organization profitable and long
52:48
lasting if you just report news. News that is churned out has to
52:54
connect with the readers and viewers on a ground level.
52:58
Substantive material pertaining to the subject matter is more
53:04
important now than ever before. The headlines pull people in,
53:10
but the numbers prove more Americans are craving reality
53:15
over surrealism in the media's coverage.
53:20
You can read opinions like that and great reporting on
53:25
myonman.com. You could study the Torah with
53:29
Brandt and Joe will always be around to entertain you. the US
53:35
and China's trade talks are happening as we speak.
53:39
There's going to have to be some back and forth, maybe even some
53:44
time apart, before a deal's done.
53:47
It's going to be very hard to get a deal done without removing
53:52
trade barriers between the two countries.
53:56
Now, on the other hand, the good news is RFK Junior, the health
54:00
secretary, has fired the entire Advisory Board from the CDC
54:06
that's been trying to influence what's going on over at HHS.
54:12
This is a huge move. We got the GOP and the Democrats
54:15
fighting over the big, beautiful bill.
54:17
I'll bring you some updates about that.
54:19
Basically, right now we know that most of them don't want
54:24
cuts to public broadcasting. I don't know why there's a
54:28
billion dollars right there. It seems like if you can't get
54:31
that done, scrap it. I mean, come on.
54:34
At this point, you have to cut the public broadcasting funding.
54:38
Now, hopefully, they could turn it around because they did have
54:41
a representative in the House, Mark Green, who is resigning his
54:46
seat. So that's going to be a little
54:49
bit of a surprise when that starts to make the news waves.
54:54
But I do believe that the Senate needs to pass the big, beautiful
54:58
bill in the shape and form that it's in.
55:00
It is encouraging to see Governor Little from Idaho join
55:04
Trump's deportation agenda. That's been very encouraging to
55:09
see. And it's good to see more
55:11
governors start to get on board with that before their cities
55:15
end up like Los Angeles. Looking like a pigsty in this
55:19
entire mess could cost Los Angeles the Olympic Games, so
55:24
their elected officials better be very careful.
55:28
So my last report is maybe the best report and that is the Dead
55:34
Sea Scrolls may have been written by the authors of the
55:38
Bible. Reports by Jake Carter from
55:42
Anama Alien dot com Love the source.
55:46
Have always been a fan of this source.
55:48
Have used this source when researching for smoke after dark
55:53
and attributed it properly. Ancient manuscripts discovered
55:59
in the Judean Desert may be much older than scientists thought.
56:02
Researchers have re examined the age of several Dead Sea Scrolls
56:07
and found that some biblical texts may come from the same
56:10
period as their original authors, reports
56:13
theguardian.com. Now, how about that?
56:17
This study was led by Malden Popovic and his team at the
56:20
University of Bronagen. It's based on preliminary
56:25
results from radiocarbon dating of 30 scroll fragments found at
56:31
4 sites around Qumran. Remember, they were putting them
56:34
all in these pots and different container type things.
56:37
And before testing, the team carefully removed the Castor
56:40
oil, a substance used in the 1950s to preserve manuscripts
56:46
but known to interfere with radiocarbon dating results.
56:50
These results confirmed that while two of the samples were
56:54
newer than expected, most were older than previously dated and
56:58
some of them directly conceded with the biblical authors.
57:03
Outside of physical testing, there was a machine learning
57:08
model called Enoch trained on digital images of ink marks from
57:13
24 carbon dated texts. When Enoch was tested on
57:17
additional samples, the dating matched the radiocarbon results
57:21
85% of the time and often gave more accurate age estimates.
57:25
When applied to 135 previously on dated scrolls, it
57:30
successfully dated 79% in line with the expert estimates.
57:37
Very nice. You can read the full study as I
57:41
will link it on the website with the podcast.
57:45
The last piece of news I will leave you with is a Democrat
57:50
state representative named Kahuli Vang.
57:54
Her said she's an illegal immigrant and her family are
57:59
illegal immigrants. Folks, come on now, detain and
58:05
deport. This state representative must
58:09
go. If this is all true, absolutely
58:13
detain and deport. I mean, I can't believe someone
58:16
would get up there and be as stupid as to say something like
58:20
that. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
58:23
for listening. Just like the hands of time.
58:26
I'm turning it over to you. Good night and God bless.
58:29
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