Are We Truly Losing Six Seconds Of Flavor?

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Broadcasting Live good Evening, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by. Once

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again. You are listening to your
favorite blockhead, the only podcast in the

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

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

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My name is Brian Little. To
clarify if you are new to this

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show, there are three things that
are discussed. Number one, God is

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King. Number two, Peanuts is
the single most successful comic strip in American

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history, And number three, mixed
martial arts is the greatest sport under God's

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hot sun. Some of y'all are
watching the playoffs right now. Look like

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the Ravens are doing pretty well against
the Texans last I checked. But if

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that's not your world, if you're
not an MMA fan, stick around and

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there might be something here that you
might appreciate. To begin with, for

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all of my Peanuts fans out there, there's been a question that was thrown

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out. As much as I'd like
to go straight into the upcoming holiday,

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I'm gonna wait a little while.
Valentine's Day is not upon us yet,

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but as soon as February comes around, I'll get more into the TV episodes,

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the coming strips that dealt with being
a Valentine, Charlie Brown never receiving

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a Valentine, sometimes getting used retroactive
ones. But we'll get to all of

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that in due time. But the
question has been asked so many times why

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is there not adults in the Peanuts? And the truth is that's not an

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accurate depiction. It's really not,
but people ask it all the time.

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And to take it all the way
back to the nineteen fifties, let's start

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back with Charles Schultz's career when he
was just doing the comic strip. From

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an artistic standpoint, there just isn't
room for them. If you're going to

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make sure in an abstract view that
these kids like Charlie Brown and Snoopy and

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Linus in the Gang are depicted,
you would have basically as Sparky described it,

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you would have adults that are just
bent over to somehow make them fit

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into the panels, or all you
would see would be a leg you'd see

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all the way up to the Torso. So if you're down among the kids,

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it's just a complexity that's just really
not needed. So I remember Charles

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Schultz has said this. He talked
about if you add adults, you'd have

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to back off and it would change
the whole perspective. So this is a

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kid world that Charles Schultz was working
with. So therefore, in the first

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decades this was talked about very well
on the Charles Schultz Museum. If you

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don't know where to find some of
these old comic strips that are in circulation,

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since we don't have this thing called
the Sunday Comics the Sunday Funnies anymore,

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if you don't get the newspaper,
then online is a good place to

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go. And the Charles Schultz Museum
does a fantastic job of putting out on

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social media plenty of the originals and
plenty of the masterpieces that Charles Schultz put

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out. So in the first decade
they had an implied presence there were adults.

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But you're not gonna listen for a
trombone sound inside of a comic strip

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going wanh wah, you're gonna have
some responses. So when Charlie Brown is

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actually right into his pen pal and
telling him what happened during Christmas and what

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gifts he got, there is a
part where he says Mom, how many

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g's go into goggles? And there's
a response of two dear, and then

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when he spells it, it's double
g O g l E. Is poor,

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Charlie Brown. You got to work
on your spelling, kiddo. Somebody

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who goes all the way to the
National Elimination Spelling b that's a little bit

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embarrassing. But you know they would
be there. There would be ways you

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could portray adult intervention, but this
comic just doesn't embrace them. So if

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you go from the comic strips to
the TV special, there are a few

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that can throw you off because you're
expecting to hear the trombone effect when in

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reality, eventually you would hear in
episodes like She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown,

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you'd hear the adults talking. Or
if you do the This is America

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Charlie Brown series, those historical figures
are going to speak. Whether it is

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Thomas Edison, whether it's the Right
Brothers, they will be talking to it,

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whether it's Benjamin Franklin or George Washington
himself. These are adults that do

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get to speak as the Peanuts evolves. And I say that because there is

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a new exhibition at the Charles Schultz
Museum that I would love to see in

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person, but I can't. So
if you're around the Santa Rosa area or

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just the California area and you happen
to stumble across this podcast, do me

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a favor. Go visit The Peanuts
Evolution in the nineteen fifties that's on view

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right now through May, about where
the parents would start with just an implied

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presence to an all out presence in
the TVC. I'm sure they've done a

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fantastic job with this, just looking
through the bio some of the original Peanuts

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art and just discover more about the
shaping of the Peanuts comic strip with some

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limited adult involvement. I throw that
out because you should. And again,

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if you never wondered where to find
anything that is Charlie Brown related, again,

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Charles Shultz Museum does a fantastic job. One day, the Little Red

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Haired Girl and myself will be going
out in person to go see these exhibits

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in person, to be able to
have a root beer with Snoopy himself,

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maybe even meet Jean Schultz. It'd
be a wonderful dream come true. And

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that's a plan down the road to
get there. But until that time comes,

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I have something to throw out that
would seem so ridiculous that maybe somebody

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who was not intelligent enough to get
off of jury duty could actually buy into

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this concept. Let me help you
out. Me and the little red hair

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girl are having a not a confrontation, but we have a we have an

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argument going on right now. We've
had a little spiff. Let's just say

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that she disagrees with me, and
I don't fully agree with her. I'm

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not all in on this one.
If you don't know, there was a

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certain for those that are nostalgic that
appreciate the eighties and the nineties, there

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is a particular chewing gum that is
being discontinued. I hope that are those

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that are listening what I'm talking about. It happens to be fruit stripe gum.

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This is where it applies to society
and culture, doesn't it. Anybody

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who's ever had the fruit striped gum
or the bubble gum, you know you're

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lucky to get five to six seconds
of flavor if you put that particular gum

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into your mouth. The sad news
about it is this gum is being discontinued.

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Whatever surplus is left out there is
being sold by things like Amazon and

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eBay, and the Little Redhead Girl's
stance is that gum was never good,

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which is true, that gum was
never important, which can be debated,

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and that nobody is gonna be going
looking for this gum now I am throwing

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out YFB actually has a different stance
on this. If you've been watching,

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there are some companies that have done
marketing right. One of them I have

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to tip my humble hat to is
the Stanley Cups. I'm not saying that

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I will ever purchase one of those, but I have to give a hat

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tip to finding a way to leverage
off of the market. That would be

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the Women's Chapter and for Starbucks and
for TikTok to buy in wholeheartedly into the

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product that you have to where people
are waiting in the line outside in the

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bitter cold so they can get these
Stanley cups. Somebody did something right when

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it comes to marketing. Whoever decided
to put chocolate at the end of a

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ice cream cone because they found out
people were buying up the bottom of the

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cone and sipping out the ice cream. Whoever decided to dip chocolate in there.

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That man is smarter than elon musk. We're putting this out, So

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let's just take a look at a
article. This was put up by the

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Washington Post to bring this back to
fruit striped gum. They called it a

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brief ode to the brief taste of
this gum that no longer exists. They

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figured out that the parent company,
which would be the FERA Company, they've

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made the heartbreaking decision to stop producing
fruit striped gum based on simply research,

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based on what the market tells us. People don't want this. It sits

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there on a shelf forever, never
gets bought, and when it does,

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it's nothing more than those of us
who have memories of it, nothing more

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than nostalgia, nothing more than a
kid who wants to embrace zebra striped gum

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for six to seven seconds. But
what they put is and a quote consumer

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preferences and purchasing patterns. The pattern
is nobody's buying this gum. But as

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we look further into the Washington Post, there are some that are trying to

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capitalize on this because now that it
is no longer colorful and fruitful and no

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longer something that you can just purchase
at a moment's notice whatever's left. When

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it flies off the shelves, it's
just gone. But what I'm talking about

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is you look further down, there
are some who have taken down the brand

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and they're trying to flip it.
So the difficult decision to allow the sun

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to set on Fruit Strip Gum means
there are people that are not just sentimental,

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but believe they've found a hidden treasure
here. They think they can sell

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and they can buy this gum for
cheap and flip it on something like Amazon

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and eBay for a profit, thinking
that this pack of gum could sell for

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thirty dollars. You know that thing
called greater fool theory, blockhead nation.

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I'm throwing it out there now.
It took a long time, almost too

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little, too late, but Fruit
Strike Gum has finally done something right to

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take it away from you, to
say that this is no longer a available

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A part of your childhood is going
away, which makes you want to have

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this gum. It's almost a suspended
disbelief, isn't it. I want it

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now now that I can't have it, I want it. I want to

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experience that five to six seconds of
flavor one last time, since all I'm

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gonna have is the remnant that remains. I believe this might have been the

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most brilliant marketing ploy that Fruit Striped
Gum, the parent company for our company,

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ever did. I'm not sold on
the fact that they are going to

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discontinue this entirely. I remember one
time when we said goodbye to Toys r

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Us until we saw a rebrand.
I believe we are waving goodbye to Fruit

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Striped Gum with a tear in our
eye, just to see it re emerge

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a few years later. I don't
believe this gum is going away. It's

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going away momentarily. It's going to
sit in the penalty box for a little

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while. But keep watching Blockhead Nation. This gum could come back, and

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imagine the upside when it does.
If you're not following me, I might

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just be chanting, yanking your chain
a little bit. It's kind of like

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that group in the gold Rush,
you know, the Clampers. They had

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a phrase, the Clampers, this
secret society during the gold Rush. They

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had this phrase that said in Latin. I believe because it's absurd, consider

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this your first lesson in blockheadism and
the human response. If you don't know,

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you have to go back and watch
Billy Madison when he's putting the dog

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feces on people's doors and setting it
on fire. And later on it's in

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the Jeopardy game that he's playing and
there's a response in that says burning dog

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poo and the human response, and
he wants to answer because he knows everything

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about that topic. He knows that
concept. I can convince maybe one of

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the twelve on the jury duty to
say this gum will return. I am

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on that side of the fence.
I ask you, block d Nation,

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leaving you in suspense until we get
to Scripture of the day and mixed martial

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arts. Which side of the fence
are you on? Our scripture reading for

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this podcast comes from Isaiah, chapter
thirty, verse eighteen. And therefore will

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the Lord wait that he may be
gracious unto you, And therefore will he

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be exalted that he may have mercy
upon you. For the Lord is a

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host of judgment. Blessed are all
that wait for him. Charles Stanley talked

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about this in one of his daily
devotionals that I listened to, and basically,

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blockad Nation, what he tells you
as much fun as I just had

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with you in part one of this
episode. Here's some truth. There comes

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a point you have to stop trying
to earn God's grace. Stop trying to

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earn God's love. If you have
at any point blockad Nation, and this

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is me included, have looked up
to the heavens and said, God,

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what do you want from me?
You are leaning too much on your own

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strength. There's going to come a
time where you have to simply trust Him

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to give to you this free gift
of grace and stop wrestling with him.

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Blockad Nation, your strength can never
match his. So I challenge you,

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those that are listening, this is
where I tell the truth. Set your

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heart on trusting him and in his
presence, to trust him always. That

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is my challenge to you, blockhead
Nation, as I continue to encourage you,

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if you are not an MMA fan, to please come on board this

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train at least give it a try. I can say with looking at April,

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looking forward to UFC three hundred,
that Daniel White is continuing to reward

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MMA fans. Now. I say
that as in, if you've been following

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the last few years, at least
from twenty twenty in the midst of COVID

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until about the last couple of weeks. If you've been doing that at all,

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then you will figure out that you
are in for a serious treat when

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it comes to UFC three hundred.
So for the longest time, as I

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was watching social media, too many
people were trying to dissect it right away

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and show how there's nothing worthwhile on
this card. And I'm here to tell

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you what has transpired at this point
has me chomping at the bid waiting for

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UFC three hundred to come around in
April, knowing that we have the BMF

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title on the line, the current
BMF title, which would be around justin

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Gatgee's waste, going up against possibly
the most beloved fighter. That is easily

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to debate. But most people will
tell you you if you go looking for

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reasons to not like Max Holloway,
you're gonna be in a world of hurt.

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It is very hard to dislike Max
Holloway, one of the most beloved

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fighters probably of all time, getting
a shot at the BMF title. Gaichie

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versus Holloway can't wait. You easily
have a number one contender bout Charles OLIVERA

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versus Armanso Rukion again. Can't wait. Uri pro hosco versus the number four

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ranked light heavyweight, which would be
Alexander Rachik. I absolutely believe that Yuri

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is gonna give Rachik the hardest night
of his life. But that should be

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a phenomenal fight. Calvin Cater versus
al Jamaine Sterling, former champion, facing

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a guy who continues to have everybody
in the top five shaken in their boots.

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Calvin Cater, this is just incredible. Bo Nickel, one of the

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most promising prospects in all of the
UFC. Who is opening the bout.

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You got Davison Figeredo, who has
now come up to bantam weight facing no

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Love Cody Garbrandt. You've already got
Jim Miller, who's been on one hundred

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and two hundred now facing Bobby Green
at UFC three hundred. Again, this

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is just a phenomenal card. It
continues to deliver. And again, this

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is any of these names that I
threw out. If you followed in the

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last few years, if you are
a die hard UFC fan, there's somebody

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that's high on your radar right now
and you're going, oh, I can't

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wait for this fight. For whatever
the reason, we don't have to go

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to what's the build up. We
don't have to worry about the press conference.

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Just knowing the accolades of every single
one of these warriors for UFC three

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hundred is making this a night to
remember. Now. To bring it into

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tonight, we got a main event
coming up in probably about an hour or

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so. Prelims have already started.
Eventually we got the main event coming in

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and I want to make sure I
get this vanished in time before Arnold Allen

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steps into the cage. I can
go into all these fighters, but I

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really have to just stop and take
a look at the main event. I

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have to look at Sean Strickland and
DDP drekis duplessis now It would be so

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easy blockad nation, for wy f
B to twist the narrative and bend it

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in any direction. I wanted to
to try to talk you into the building.

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Here's my honest truth. I do
not believe that I have to go

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elsewhere for the drama to show you
that these athletes who are going to be

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in the cage tonight already have everything
set up in place. I don't have

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a hard job with Sean Strickland and
Drekis Duplessis. Starting with Sean Strickland,

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who is a pr nightmare, who's
already got fans rushing the press conference and

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he's cheering it on while the security
guards are trying to do their job.

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That's just hilarious, it is.
But really, if you just take a

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look for a second at the contender, Duplessis and the fact that this guy

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is no stranger to the five round
category. He's five and two in his

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last seven fights. He hasn't had
to go past the third round. If

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you just look at those that have
been on his hit list and who he's

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demolished to get here today again,
I can spend so much time on Duplesses.

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We have to ask the question,
is this guy the chosen one to

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be the next middleweight champion? And
I hate to throw it out there,

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there is such thing as a Drake
curse, you know, Drake the musician.

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He's already put his bets in on
Sean Strickland. That usually does not

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work out in the fighter's favor.
Duplessis already has the blessing from a lot

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of us that are MMA fans,
those that have been praising the MMA godgs

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to fall into place. But Sean
Strickland once again is the guy who dethroned

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arguably the best middleweight in the last
decade. So if we're gonna go down

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the list, you'll always include Anderson
Silva as the greatest middleweight of all time.

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Anytime you look at a top three
that's legitimate, his name is there.

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His face would be on a mount
rushmore if we had MMA fighters that

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were carved out of stone. But
we have to consider Israel out of Sonya.

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Israel out of Sonya falls to the
underdog, to Sean Strickland, the

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guy we least expected to walk away
with the title. Meanwhile, before this

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ever happened, is he has already
been in Duplesses' face and calling him the

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most degrading words under God's hot sun. And this is the guy that if

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you look at the rankings, he
punched down and said that he wanted DDP

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fast forward to where we are tonight, and you got Sean Strickland versus Duplessis,

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and you got whoever wins. This
is this the next guy to carry

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forward the legacy of the middlemates in
twenty twenty four or is he just a

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placeholder until Israel Adasania returns. It's
a hard pill to swallow. And I

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can't even get into all of the
other intertwine of the spider web that is

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the middleweight division, just because we
need to see what happens when the cage

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shuts tonight. Duplessis has been given
the blessing by the MMA fans, Strickland's

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been given the Drake curse. Izzy
is watching every move that's gonna happen with

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this fight. This is how we
start off January. We haven't even touched

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the surface of what's happening with February
and March. And I just laid out

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for you what's waiting in April as
a special early Christmas present for anyone who

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happens to be an MMA fan.
While we have somebody else who is stringing

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us along on Twitter and supposedly we
will get the feel good moment in November.

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What do I mean? I mean? The self proclaimed possible goat of

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the MMA world known as John Jones
continues to pick more battles on Twitter than

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he has in his entire career in
the cage. The more we hear about

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Tom Aspinall, the more we hear
John Jones insist that he is not the

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next guy. Even though the MMA
machine needs to keep moving forward. The

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engine continues to rev up, and
we have a not confirmed but very possible

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venue in November for John Jones to
face either Steve Amochic, which would be

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the feel good moments for the heavyweights, or it would be the current interim

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champion, which would be Tom Aspinall. And I still believe we're waiting on

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Blades versus Almeeda to face each other
for the next shot against Tom Aspinall for

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him to remain active. But ultimately, when I say November, what venue

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am I talking about Blockhead Nation,
I'm talking about Madison Square Garden. I'm

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talking about the place that should be
the most coveted fight arena in the world.

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Vegas is known as fight city,
it's known as Sin City, but

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there's always something magical that happens in
Madison Square Garden, whether you're talking about

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kickboxing, boxing itself, professional wrestling, or the world of mixed martial arts.

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And it seems like the scoping out
of November for John Jones looks to

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be possible the MSG and it's a
toss up on who we're gonna get Is

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it gonna be Stepe, Is it
gonna be aspinall pick your poison Blockhead Nation.

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That's where I have to leave you
at this point, as I need

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to get in there and take a
look at what's going on inside of the

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octagon. So I appreciate all of
you that have been listening. I thank

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you for your support. Don't forget
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