AI Is Beneficial…But Not A Substitute

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Broadcasting Live good evening, Blockhead Nation. I apologize for getting this episode out

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a little bit later than I would
have expected. We have a few things

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to take care of over here at
the Blockhead Mansion, and I'm back here

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in my living room here at the
Blockhead Mansion, just talking with you tonight.

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So thank you for your time.
You are listening to your favorite Blockhead

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the only podcast in the podcast in
the world. But can somehow incorporate the

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Peanuts comic strip one minute and then
be talking about MMA and warriors inside the

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

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and there are three things that are
always brought up at the forefront at the

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beginning as we start these episodes.
Number One, God is King. I

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come you tonight with a little bit
of a somber mood just because in the

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last twenty four hours Blockheads father in
law gained his victory. That just means

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that there will be some adjustments,
some changes. So if you would please

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continue to keep the mother in law, the little Redhead girl, and myself

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in your prayers and your thoughts and
anything that you are willing to contribute in

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any way from a spiritual standpoint,
that would certainly be appreciated. There is

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no worries about him at this point. His suffering has come to an end.

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It just comes down to now there
will be a new chapter for the

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mother in law as we continue to
face this world that has less and less

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that is appealing to me in this
world. And that's not meant to sound

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cryptic. That's just the more I
spend time in His word, the more

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I spend time in worship, the
more I spend time in prayer, the

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more I go closer to our Lord
and Savior, the Prince of Peace Christ

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Jesus, the less that this world
has to offer to me. And that's

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just the honest reality. So that's
not anything to be on red alert about.

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It's just you know, I'm coming
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those that are listening, So I
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blunt with you and be honest with
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lot easier if you go through.
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in circulation at this point. So
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are showing their love and support to
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helpful. But either way, I
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that because I've always coming in hot
and fast. I've always wanted to bring

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you the most latest off the press
is Peanuts Information because number two is the

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single most successful comic strip in American
history. And I asked a few of

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my listeners. I reached out to
the blockad Nation and I just said,

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is there something in particular you would
like wife be to cover this week?

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And I got a few of them
and I sipped through. There was a

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really good one, and I want
to bring this up. Are you familiar

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blockad Nation with something called AI?
Do you know that that is really kind

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of exploded onto the scene the last
ten plus years, especially the last few

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years in particular. You know,
AI really has skyrocketed into the stratosphere and

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it's just in another level at this
point, and millennials like myself are trying

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to even keep up with it at
this point. But there was a suggestion

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from a listener, and I thank
you for this. I will leave the

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name anonymous, but I was suggested
to do something on AI in the world

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of Peanuts, And when I looked
into it, I can already tell that

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I've been beaten to the punch.
But let me just kind of go into

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detail on AI for a second.
If you have a particular favorite comic character,

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or a favorite superhero, or a
different TV show that you watch other

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than the Peanuts, I get it. That's fine. There are plenty of

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them out there that are a very
realistic portrayal of probably your favorite TV shows.

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One in particular that impressed me as
I was just kind of combing through

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it a little bit was the representation
of the Flintstones. I mean, Wilma

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and Betty and Fred and Barney Rubble
and all those guys are pretty realistic in

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the world of AI. Even Scooby
Doo has a few of them that stand

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out. That one's quite impressive.
If you look at those, I'm sure

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you can find one of this particular
to your tastes in that world. And

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when it comes to the Peanuts characters, there were some of them that were

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intriguing. One in particular showed what
they called an advanced realism of the Peanuts

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characters. Very impressive, but also
very one dimensional in the world of AI.

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To be honest with you, there
was even a guy that is a

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Microsoft designer that showed how to make
modern day Peanuts looks, and one of

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them in particularly had a full beard
and mustache, one had the goateee,

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one had the mohawk hair style.
So all of those that are current day

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are being portrayed in the world of
artificial intelligence. And I admit it,

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I'm just mostly playing catch up on
the front end on that one. So

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is there something to be praised in
the world of AI. Yes, there

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are a bunch of pros that I
can give you for that. That being

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said, there always has to be
the cons if you're gonna weigh out your

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argument correct. And I'm not here
to tell you that things like chat GPT

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are not a reliable source. I'm
not actually here to tell you that.

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I can tell you that that can
simplify your life in many ways, but

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it can also easily be abused.
And most of you, I'm preaching to

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the choir, you already know this. But when we look at the cons

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in the sense of the Peanuts characters, well, growing up as a fan

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of Snoopy, knowing he's eventually going
to get on top of his doghouse and

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he is going to type out either
his memoirs or some type of a romance

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novel on top of his doghouse using
the iconic typewriter. It seems a little

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bit apathetic and lazy if you think
about it now, where you watch Snoopy

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get on top of his doghouse,
set up his typewriter, crack his knuckles

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and say, hey, chat GPT, type me out my memoirs for my

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life and just let the computer go
to work. I hope you see the

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train of thought that I'm on here
block at Nation, Because as you know,

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if you follow the comic at all, Snoopy would always have somebody who

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would either be a critic or who
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had to say. Usually the revising
would be Woodstock's job. Usually the one

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who would read and critique it and
give all kinds of negative feedback that would

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always be Lucy van Pelt. So
that part is iconic. That part's a

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little bit integral when you're tying in
the comic strip. So for him to

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use chat GPT instead of as typewriter, it's not something that is just going

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to make me throw up my hands
go okay, I'm down with the peanuts

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now. It's just something that I
personally hope doesn't go in that direction that

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maybe already has. But it's something
for you to visualize how that comes across

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as a little more apathetic than it
would be when he was doing this in

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the seventies and the eighties, and
the comic strips from that time forward,

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and the TV shows when you would
see him on the type, even in

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the movie when he's getting irritated with
woodstock trying to master the art and the

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craft of the typewriter. So I
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con. But the other con I
have is really not so much geared towards

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the comic. What I'm gonna do
is give a little bit of a call

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to action in a public service announcement. If you are listening to this podcast,

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if you made it this far,
and you do any kind of content

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creation, and you believe that the
way to success in podcasting, or in

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blogging, or in youtubing or any
others of these is the way to go.

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I understand the allure. I get
that there's SEO and O their acronyms

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that are gonna help build your agora
and rhythm and put you on a bigger

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presence and drive traffic to your website. I understand all of those have some

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pros, but listen to me when
I say this. If you are planning

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on using chat GPT primarily as your
vehicle as a content creator, hear these

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two words from me, now from
YFB. I've been doing this for eight

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years. It's coming from me.
Here's my answer, two words for you

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to hear and for you to absorb. Stop it. That's it. Stop

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it. Can you use it as
one of your sources? Certainly I understand

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that, but let me in let
you in on a little bit of a

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secret here in the industry. People
do not come to a podcast to be

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read to. That is insulting to
your listeners. And if you are a

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YouTuber or if you're into TikTok,
that is an insult to your viewers.

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Is it's okay to use a couple
of bullet points, It's okay to use

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it as a reference, just like
you've used USAA or the Wall Street Journal

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or ESPN dot com if you're want
to use some in my case, I

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do something like the Athletic for MMA. That would be something I'm not against.

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But you're not gonna bring people in
and keep them if you are reading

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to them, you are insulting their
intelligence. So the pro would be use

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things like chat, GBT or AI
to your benefit to bring people into your

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podcast, but do not lean on
it. Do not depend solely on that

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to be your vehicle. What brings
people back to your show are moments like

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this, moments where you appreciate the
content that's being put out. The hard

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work and the sacrifice is what will
make the listeners return to you, and

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you will build your tribe. And
I'm not speaking from a self help book

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or a marketing book. I'm speaking
from content creation. Clearly, to anyone

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that's listening to this, chat GPT
is not your crutch. It can be

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a source that is helpful in your
journey. But what will bring you back

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is talking to them on the microphone, talking into the screen, to them

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on YouTube, inviting them into your
culture, having a relationship with them that

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is tangible that they appreciate that they
know that they are part of your group.

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Blockhead Nation, you know that I
appreciate you, and I wouldn't dare

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insult your intelligence by strictly reading from
a script because you won't stick around very

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long. You are here to hear
what I've got to say for the good,

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for the bad, for the ugly, and I'm still coming back to

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you every week. And I don't
depend on something like chat GPT to do

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my work for me. I put
in the hours, I put in the

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work, I put in the sacrifice, and that's not me two in my

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own horn. I am using this
personalizing just for a second. For anyone

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that hears this and thinks chat GPT
is that edge slash shortcut that you can

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use towards success, I'm telling you
now stop it. If you didn't hear

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those words, I'm gonna sam again, stop it. Put in the mileage,

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put in the work, use it
to a extent, to a degree,

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and then we will talk. There's
your pros and cons. There's a

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little bit of AI in the world
of peanuts, but also in the world

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of content creation. You can tell
that this has rubbed me the wrong way

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just a little bit, just a
tens wins a little bit Purscripcherian where this

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podcast comes from Corinthians Chapter one,
verse seven or fourteen. For the unbelieving

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husband is sanctified by the wife,
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the

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husband. Elsewhere, your children unclean, but now they are holy. Now,

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before you start to think that this
section of First Corinthians chapter seven is

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talking about marriage, it's really more
pointing toward the old Covenant that God presented

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to Moses. So I say that
before I get into the reflection from blue

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latter Bible, just to show the
power of grace that's in the New Covenant

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with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. So under the Mosaic law, God's

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people had to cut themselves off from
anything that's unbelieving. Foreign wives would make

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the Israelite husband unclean. That can
be found in the Book of Ezra chapter

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ten, if you want to go
into detail on that one. Yet,

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now the grace of God works so
powerfully through the New Covenant, the Christian

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Covenant that the Lord ordains his grace
will actually work through the believing spouse to

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the sanctification of the unbelieving. So
it's really about if somebody is presenting the

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gospel in your home, that doesn't
mean it's inferior if it's coming from the

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wife. My prayer blockad Nation is
that your household would know the truth.

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And if you need help with that, you can always reach out in the

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comments are more important than me talking
about peanuts or mixed martial arts can always

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reach out if you have something that's
stirring in you and you want to dive

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deeper into the word. That's when
I'm also here for a blockaded nation always

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now when it comes to mixed martial
arts, I used to think really a

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week ago that there's no way that
a guy like the interim Heavyweight Champion of

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the UFC could at all become obsolete. But I started to piece something together

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when I listened to the podcast You're
Welcome with Chill SunNet. So again,

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if you need to know some of
my resources, I usually listen to Ariel

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Hawane. The MMA Hour is very
helpful to me. ESPN MMA with Breadalkamoto.

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I'm usually looking into that. I'm
only as good as the information presented

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to me as a content creator.
The Athletic used to be very helpful until

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they really swayed and moved more towards
NFL, NBA and soccer, which is

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okay, I understand, but there's
very little interaction in the MMA world on

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that one, so I had to
look elsewhere, and sometimes I just have

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to simply resort to Twitter from what
the fighters are going to say and do

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my best somewhere in there use some
of these other I guess you can call

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the dirt sheets like MMAFI in dot
com. I'm our low KICKMMA to say

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the least bloody elbows another one that's
very good on giving me up to date

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analysis by the minute, by the
second. Really, so I do my

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best, guys, But I just
didn't think now that Tom aspinall, the

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current heavyweight interim champion of the world
who does want to stay active. I

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didn't see any way where he could
become obsolete at this point. This is

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a guy that I have every confidence
if John Jones were to fight back,

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were to return and be cleared and
have no injuries, have no issues in

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the osadopool, this is the guy
I believe that as the tools to get

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it done. I do not believe
the Legacy fight really at this point proves

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anything unless step A Miocic has a
shelf life that I'm not understanding. Every

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fighter does have a shelf life,
and when you spend that much time away

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from the cage, there's something called
cage rust. So I just simply say

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that the most active one being John
Jones in his last fight. I think,

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okay, we want to have for
the sake of status. We want

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step A versus Jones, the guy
who arguably is the greatest MMA champion in

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the UFC of all times because of
how many times he held the belt and

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how often he defended it. Now
that's debatable and it's a strong argument.

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So this is what apparently Jones and
Stepe are waiting on. And it seems

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like the biggest venue would be Madison
Square Garden. So we do have a

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guy who was making sure the title
is not being held hostage in many ways

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that it's not idle, and that
person is Tom Aspinall. So I'm thinking

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we're probably gonna get him running back
with Curtis Blades, since that was an

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injury where Tom was just getting started
and then his knee gave out and he

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had to have surgery, So we
need to run that back. People forget

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that that's the case, and there's
talk about Sergey Poplovitch putting him in there

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some of the fastest hands in the
heavyweight division. But you know, I

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put it out here to this,
I didn't think there's a way for him

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to be obsolete. But after listening
to Jail's podcast. Listening to You're Welcome

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with Chaill Sonnen, he made a
point that really resonated with me. Tom

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Aspinall is now irrelevant if you put
him against Surreal Gone, the guy who

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John Jones cut through like a hot
knife into butter. And if Surreal Gone

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wins, then now there is no
longer an argument for tom Aspinall to go

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and fight John Jones. What you
have done is you allowed John Jones to

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get his last run with step A, whether he wants to get it or

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not, or you have opened the
door for John Jones to just retire because

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who else are you gonna get.
He's already beaten Cyrel Gone and beat him

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soundly. So my estimation is it
would be a big mistake for tom Aspinall

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to take a fight against Cyril Gone. It looks to me like the talk

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is UFC three oh four in Manchester
and we run back to fight with Curtis

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Blades. Now, if we have
a fight in the UK, that paper

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bew will be loaded with MMA stars
that are from the UK, So tom

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Asmenaal would headline it. Leon Edwards
would probably be the comane or at least

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high up on the main card against
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direction we're gonna go again. I'm
not sure about confirmation on that one just

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yet. I'm pretty sure that means
you're going to get Patty the Batty who

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Bobby Green has already called him out
and asked for him on his home turf.

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Why not give the fight fans what
they want, even though that is

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a dangerous matchup for Patty Pimphlet.
So I'm just gonna go back to this.

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I didn't think there was a way
for Tom Asmenaal to be irrelevant or

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for him to be obsolete, but
I believe it now. If the matchmakers,

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if the UFC Booking Committee puts Tom
against Cirril Gon, and Cyril Gon

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wins, whether it's in France or
if it's in Las Vegas, or if

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it's at Madison Square Garden wherever we
end up doing the next venue, orphans

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that fight island in Abu Dhabi.
Whatever the case is, that does stop

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that dead in its tracks. We
now no longer have any momentum moving forward

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with that. Dow We and Tom
and John Jones, thanks to Tom aspinall

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can just say hey, I'm retired
or he can just wait as long as

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he wants until he gets the feel
good moment with Stepe. That was a

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tough pill to swallow. So what
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It will be Blades versus Tom aspinall
UFC three h four of Manchester. You'll

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have those other three fights I mentioned, which I'm pretty sure they will throw

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in the flyaway Mohammed makayav into that
somewhere. That's more than likely what we

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can expect on that one. So
don't think I'm downplaying Tom here. It's

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just the fight that I want to
see is Tom versus Blades. I want

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to see Tom versus Jones. I
don't want to see Tom versus Real Gone

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because of the variable risk that we'd
be taking with that one. And again

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I'm sure he'd be happy to prove
me wrong and don't go in there,

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make easy work of Surreal Gone.
But this is kind of a speculative grenade

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that Chail actually threw out, and
now whyfe B is throwing it out just

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because it connected all the dots in
my brain blockhead nation and maybe go This

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can be a dangerous move on the
chessboard. So as we move into another

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event, I don't talk about it
enough. If you haven't looked into Legacy

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Fighting Alliance LFA. Some of the
best stars of today came out of that

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organization, and we just had a
phenomenal headkick from the girls that could easily

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be knock out of the year,
not for the UFC, not for MMA

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as a whole, but for that
organization. So when I get a little

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bit more info on it, because
I'm trying to get some clarity on against,

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some some actual statistics on this one, then maybe I'll bring it forward

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a little bit more. But if
you haven't checked out LFA, it's always

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a breeding ground for very good fires
that go into the UFC. Yes there's

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Dana White Contender Series, Yes there's
an Ultimate Fighter, but this is one

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that is kind of hard to overlook. People like Holly Holme have come out

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of LFA. Recently, a prospect
named Haley Collen went into the Dalea White

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Contender Series and she fought in LFA
many times. I followed her career pretty

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closely out of Waco, So I
want to just kind of mention that and

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another one I don't bring a lot
of attention to, but maybe I should.

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It's got a part of the three
wing circus in many ways. I

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should bring up one FC a little
bit more, But I got to bring

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out bare knuckle fighting, not so
much for the fact that Mike Perry is

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on the main card against Thiago Alves. These guys are throwing hands with each

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other with no gloves on at all. There's a guy that has gotten his

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wish in the world of baron nuncle
fighting, and it's a guy that's known

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for a simple phrase. I'm gonna
throw out four words. If you've never

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looked it up, google it or
go to YouTube. I'm gonna say it.

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Block at Nation, let me bang
Brow. I'm serious, Go google

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that, go put it on YouTube. Let me bang bro. One of

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the prospects of the Ultimate Fighter,
Julian Lane, who was definitely off his

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kilter a little bit, didn't have
all exactly all of his marbles in place

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before he went to the UFC,
and I'm sure it's not any better now

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this point. There certainly seems to
be a lot of roid rage, speculative

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pointing fingers at Julian Lane, especially
with his stare downs and the most recent

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fight that he had. But Julian
Lane is on this card for tonight,

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for Baron Uncle Fighting. You wanted
an opportunity to banging, man, you

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get to bang with no protection for
your face, but no protection for your

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hands either in barre knuckle fighting,
because if you don't know, that's all

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that those UFC gloves do. That
doesn't protect the fighter. It protects the

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fighter's knuckles that's throwing the punch,
got nothing to do with protecting the other

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guy who's absorbing the blow. Baron
knuckle fighting, all you got protecting you

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is a little bit of tape.
And Julian Lane definitely gets to bang,

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so does Mike Perry, so does
Thiago Alvez. But Julian Lane being on

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that card, it looks like that
guy has found a home. It's more

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of a breeding ground for guys like
him these days. And so if you're

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wanting a little bit of the craziness
of post UFC careers, you can go

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check out Baron knuckle Fight and see
how Julian Lane does when he steps into

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that particular squared circle or octagon esque
look that they have over in Barnack Fight.

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And that's not a jab that organization
at all. It's just if you

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want violence, you go there,
you get enough. I get enough violence

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watching fights on the canvas when they
lock the cage in the UFC, I

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don't particularly need BKFC, but if
that gives them a chance to really shine

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and be able to polish their skills
a little bit, more than more power

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to them. So good luck to
Julian Lane and his adversary over in barre

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knuckle fighting. Good luck to Mike
Perry and Tiago Alvez over there in barre

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knuckle fighting. Well done to the
prospects that are coming out of Legacy Fighting

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Alliance that will probably turn Dana White's
head at some point in the future.

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So I thank you all for coming
by once again. As always, that's

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me kind of wrapping things up,
getting a little bit of closure for this

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episode, so I hope to kind
of talk you into the building. On

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UFC three oh one, the flyweights
are gonna get their moment in the spotlight

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when you have the flyweight champion going
against a number ten contender, going straight

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to the run of the line.
I mean, that's booking that I'm not

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gonna say is questionable. But is
ersag ready for Pantosia Because Brandon Moreno certainly

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found his kryptonite in this guy.
So we'll get to that when the time

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comes, getting closer to that pay
per view. We have a very eventful

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June coming up, and we will
count down the days until we see tom

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asmanall in Manchester. Until that time, I will see you guys, or

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I will have you tune in and
we'll talk again next Saturday. You know

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the routine, same blockhead time,
same blockhead cham