Episode #287: Schulz May Receive An Eisner as UFC May Receive A Promising Top 15

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Broadcasting Live good evening, Blockhead Nation, thank you for stopping by once again.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead, the only podcast and the podcast

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

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

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host. My name is Brian Little. I know they've belated Happy Mother's Day

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to anybody who tuned in. I
hope all you fellas that are part of

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the block end Nation, I hope
you took care of your mamas. If

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you didn't, we got a problem
either way. I also wanted to mention

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that I'm starting to notice that the
downloads are doing pretty good. As of

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the last couple of weeks. It's
starting to make its way up there again

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because I looked at what's called Charitable
dot Com. Those of you that are

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podcasters, you can type in your
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doing in society and culture. This
one's starting to come on the rise again,

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so I appreciate it. It's hard
to know if you don't like review,

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subscribe or things like that that are
specific, but those of you that

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have just been listening and downloading.
It is truly appreciated. Whether you're a

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first time listener or you have been
a part of the Blockhead nation for a

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while, It's being noticed on my
end, and I really truly appreciate all

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of you for tune into this podcast. It's a lot of hard work behind

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the scenes asking any podcaster to find
the days to sit down and actually do

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it. And I might even rant
about that in just a minute, but

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to get the first most important thing
out of the way, as I always

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say on the show, number one, God is King and number two Peanuts

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is the single most successful comic strip
in American history, and this is going

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to solidify it even more. Now. To preface this, this is not

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the anniversary of Charles Schultz's one hundredth
birthday. His birthday is in November.

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So there is a celebration that's going
on at the Charles Schultz Museum that to

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celebrate his one hundredth birthday. They're
recognizing in the museum that there were cartoonists,

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many of them, that paid tribute
in their own comic strip in newspapers

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and online last year in twenty twenty
two. This isn't something a few years

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back. These are modern day cartoonists
that are paying their respects to sparky guys.

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That has never happened for any other
cartoonist ever, that they would go

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to this much effort to do this. So I'm just making sure you realize

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that Schultz is the only cartoonist ever
to receive this honor. This is a

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big deal. Okay. So there
is a selection of these tribute comic strips.

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If you do want to go check
out the Charles Schultz Museum. It's

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easy to find. You can google
Charles Schultz Museum Schultz Museum dot org and

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you can look at these modern cartoonists
that are carrying on Charles Schultz's enduring influence.

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Okay, they're all there, so
I had to make sure I mentioned

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that. Okay. Another exciting piece
of news that I just got the other

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day, this is kind of breaking
on my end, is that there was

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also a book that was put out
last year. The lower Red Haired Girl

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did very well for me for Christmas
this year. Open one of my packages

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and inside of it was a copy
of Charles M. Schultz, The Art

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and Life of the Peanuts Creator in
a Hundred Objects. It's a fairly new

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book written by Benjamin Clark, also
co authored by Nat Gertler, and you

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do have the Charles Schultz Museum that
provided a lot of the material that's in

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it. It is a very very
good coffee book. I'll put it out

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there. It's on my coffee table, and I look at it quite often.

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I look for it in different references
I can use sometimes for the podcast.

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I do that with my other books. I do that with TV series.

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I do that quite often, just
to see if I can keep it

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fresh. But what's exciting about that
is this book, Charles Schultz's one hundred

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Objects art in Life of the Peanuts. This one is being recommended for a

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special award. It's called the Eisner
Award. In July of this year,

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when San Diego puts on the Comic
Con, we will know if this particular

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book wins for best comic related or
comic strip related Book. So not only

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did she pick a winner, and
I'm not talking about picking your nose,

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just getting that out of the way. Some of y'all try to be clever

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and cute like that. But she, the little Reddiered Girl, definitely picked

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out a befitting coffee book that is
a good reference for me. To use

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and it's up for a special award
come July, and I'm excited about that.

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So before I can get into my
other ram, this is what I

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wanted to share here is sometimes I
can share the parable of Peanuts. Those

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of you that do have a faith
walk that listen to this show, you

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know I've talked about the Parable of
Peanuts. It is a book by Robert

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L. Short and a reference is
how Charles Schultz very much used ministry many

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times in his comic strip if you
look for it, and I wanted to

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mention one that was a little bit
I guess you can call a dad joke.

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It was talking about the snoopile,
as in, here's the church,

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here's the steeple, open the doors
and see all the people. If any

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of you on here probably know someone, including myself, including that, I

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can that the hand gesture that you
use for that you put your hands together.

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You can probably visualize this now.
Then you make your two pointer fingers

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straight up. That's the steeple.
You open your thumbs, open the doors,

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and then you just flip your hands
and you have the people on the

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inside. So here's the church,
here's the steeple. But there was a

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reference to something called a snoople and
I guess that can be my ending of

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part one. I will share my
little small rhyme and sequence at the very

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end of this I'll save that for
the very end of this episode. But

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when I talk about podcasts, and
there's a few of you on here that

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come back that are podcasters and listen
to this show, there is something that

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I've discovered from pod Houston that really
this is not a reflection on pod Houston.

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They do a very good job of
putting out references and putting out resources

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for us to look at business articles
that are good for us to dissect and

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look at for our own podcasting journey. And there's something about it that I

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saw that really bothered me. There
is this upsurging of other podcasters that are

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using this thing called chat GPT.
Now, if some of y'all sit back

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and take a breath and go he
doesn't like chat, I happen to really

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like chat GPT. I believe it
is similar to if you google something and

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you cut and paste, you don't
have any right to reference that as your

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own work. I believe it's the
same thing with chat GPT that if you

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just ask it to make something for
you, and it writes it out for

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you, and you use that and
don't give any reference back to this came

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from AI. Artificial intelligence wrote a
better dissertation or a better thesis, or

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a better Bible lesson or a y
because I tried that once and I didn't

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really care for the way that happened
in our Bible study. I felt like

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it was too generic. It was
very mundane. There was no real feel

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to it. But I'm realizing that
so many of these new podcasters that are

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out that are getting good numbers are
using AI to print out their formats.

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They're using chat GPT to just cut, copy and paste what they're gonna say

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on their podcast. Nobody, I'm
gonna put it out here now. This

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is just me ranting a bit.
Nobody listens to a podcast expecting to be

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read too. I've said that to
people before. If you have bullet points,

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like I do from time to time, just so I can make sure

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there's certain key points I want to
discuss though, that's fine. I got

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no problem with that. If you
are as unoriginal as type this in hey,

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chat GPT, tell me what I
should say on my podcast? How

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can I possibly care about your show, knowing that that's what you do.

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Where's the passion, where's the intrigue, where's the storytelling? Where is the

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heart and the meat and potatoes behind
that particular podcast? And it's annoying to

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know that here I am with some
of the guys in the wifeb network rubbing

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two sticks together and trying to build
some type of fan following or listenership,

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which I appreciate all of you,
but just no blockheat doesn't go to chat

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GPT and cut and paste anything.
I might use something I found from the

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Charles Schultz Museum website or maybe a
TV special a quote from it that that's

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true, just to bring home a
point, but it is. It is

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belittling to all of us out here
in the podcasting world that are working in

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the trenches, getting our hands dirty
and trying to put out really good content

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for you, knowing there's others that
are taking these shortcuts. So am I

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against chat GPT, No, I'm
not. I guess I'm speaking to the

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content creators. Could you please put
out more quality than just depending on an

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easy shortcut that you get from AI. Can I throw that out there to

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be fair so to end this on
my rhyme and sequence. Here's the Church,

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here's the snoopil WYFB doesn't do dad
jokes, so shut your poop hole.

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blog the notes for today's show. Let's

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get back to the episode. Our
scripture reading for this podcast comes from Luke

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chapter five, verse four through five, when he had stopped speaking. He

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said to Simon, launch out into
the deep and let down your nets for

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a catch. But Simon answered and
said to him, master, we have

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toiled all night and caught nothing.
Nevertheless, at your word, I will

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let the nets down. This is
coming from commentary from a trusted source by

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a guy named David Gouzig that I
wanted to bring up. When you say

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that he's told all night, this
is somebody who happens to go fishing will

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appreciate this. He's saying, I
worked all night and I'm tired. Okay,

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I know a lot more about fishing
than a carpenter from the planes of

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Gallante those that's kind of a hard
play to be a place to be in

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two when you know your skills and
he's telling you to go do this,

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it's insulting. The best fishing is
not done in the daytime and the heat

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of the day like that. It's
at nighttime, especially during this time period

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in history, so this has got
to be irritated. And not to mention,

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he's got a crowd there and he's
teaching to these crowds, and there's

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a lot of noise and it's scaring
the fish away and the nets have already

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been washed. So after all that, Jesus this looks to him and goes

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cast out your nets. But as
you can tell, at your word,

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I will let down the net.
This is a great statement to Peter's faith

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and trust in Jesus's word. God's
people throughout all the ages have lived and

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gone forth with this confidence in the
word of Jesus. Heed the words of

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Peter, my friends. As I
mentioned, also a loving shout out to

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one of my favorite Christian authors of
all time, author Timothy Killer. He's

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gained his victory after a long battle
with pinkerotic cancer, so the family is

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definitely grieving, but Timothy Killer is
with Jesus. So either way, that's

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an important thing. I wanted to
bring up one of my favorite authors.

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If you ever need something to reference, somebody who can actually make you smarter

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in your faith walk, Oh yeah, anything from Timothy Killer. I recommend,

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counterfeit God's I recommend every good and
ever. I recommend the Book of

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Prayer and so ending Timothy Keller,
You're in good hands without and if you

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need a reference, if you're struggling
to make your way through the Bible,

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he is very very helpful. His
legacy has been left behind. Now he's

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gained his victory, so rest in
peace, Doctor Timothy Keller to continue on

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getting into the world of mixed martial
arts. You know, in the third

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segment, I always talk about mixed
martial arts being the greyest sport under God's

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hot son. Friends, I know
after pay per views and those that are

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following the MMA world here that these
fight nights in places like the Apex or

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these less known venues, you'll look
at them and go, what a dismal,

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barren field of nothing going on?
Last week's bouts show that that couldn't

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be further from the truth, just
because we had names like Ian Gary.

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Okay, if you need somebody to
get into your psyche now at this point

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it's eight letters, four syllables.
You can even pat your own chest and

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say it. It's a bold statement
by me. But Ian Gary is a

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guy from Dublin, Ireland who has
all the credentials to be even greater than

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the notorious Connor McGregor. That is
a bold statement for me to say that

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I don't believe that he will be
champion within a year. I believe within

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two years he will probably be number
one contender he's proven he belongs in the

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top fifteen. At this point,
he's got to go back to his training

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camps and get even better. But
that's one example. Ian Gary winning his

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fight against Daniel Rodriguez is a big
deal. Carlos Olberg who goes in for

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the kill and stops the fight himself. He knows that this guy is out

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on the canvas because once again Keith
Peterson can't do his job as a referee.

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So here we are again. He
stops his punch min air and looks

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back and he's telling him he's out. He's not gonna punch anymore. He

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stops the fight by himself. He
ended this bout. Carlos Ilberg is also

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a guy that showed integrity, but
he is dangerous. So many good fights

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come out of these fight nights.
Matt Brown a guy who's been in the

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game for a while, a veteran
in the sport. He gets a one

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punched knockout. How often can you
say that we get a one punch ko

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from somebody like Matt Brown. Usually
it's the new generation coming in that steamrolling

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the guys who've been around the world. The young Lion is at center stage

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right now, not the case with
Matt Brown. Now we've got even from

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Dana White's Contender series, a very
promising what's his nickname, poohber Brian Battle

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gets a fourteen second knockout. Guys, I just laid out four examples on

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why you can't sleep on these UFC
fight nights. These are good bouts.

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These are dangerous killers that we,
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fans, should be paying attention to. And I'm gonna go back to Ian

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Gary just for a second, just
because we have a response. There's a

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guy I've mentioned on this show that
I cashed all my chips in and I

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made a grave mistake by not mentioning
something in detail, Patty the Batty Pimphlet,

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who is a possible huge name in
the world of MMA if he continues

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to win. I needed to clarify
something I made a mistake. What I

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didn't say was he needs to win
decisively. His last battle with Jared Gordon,

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there was nothing decisive about that.
It's in the hands of the judges.

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It's controversial. That's not what Patty
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But Ian Gary back to him.
This was mentioned by somebody on social media,

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and sometimes I try to stay away
from the dirt sheets, but I

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gotta bring this one up. Ian
Gary is everything that Patty the Batty is

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pretending to be. Oh harsh words, those staying a little bit just because

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you've got Patty the Batty who wants
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between fights and then burn all these
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But then you have somebody like Ian
Gary who's twenty five years old, who

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is gay and a fan following.
But his fan following is simply, I'm

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not claiming to be the best.
I'm claiming to be I'm the best right

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now. I'm gonna gonna finish this
guy, and we'll talk later. I

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respect my opponent, but I think
I'm better. He times everything perfectly.

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He does these proper training camps,
and I believe the same thing. Can

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he said? Now that we have
a call out from Matt Frivola, Patty

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the Batty has been called out by
Matt, who very much takes care of

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business in his training camps. Is
a guy who Patty is saying, it's

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kind of weird that he's calling him
out. What's weird about it? You're

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coming off of a win. He's
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match makeup, a maid that will
work match making. I'm all for this.

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Anybody that's in the top ten.
Patty the Batty is not going to

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stand a chance in Matt Frovola is
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I have said myself that Drew Dover
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wants him. Matt Frivola finished off. True Dober, I was wrong about

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that one. But okay, so
I am saying now, whatever happens with

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Patty the Batty and Matt Frovola,
if this comes to pen to paper and

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we have a fight, don't take
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within two years this young man will
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where I stand at this point.
So could that all change? And I

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mentioned something else? I feel like
I'm tying so many things for MMA into

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this segment, just because two weeks
ago I mentioned that one championship walked away

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from Francis Nagano. Well, he
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and we now have easily the most
glistening, sparkling contract I have ever seen

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for an MMA fighter of all time. And what are some of the stipulations

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that he can now be an ambassador
for Africa for foreign countries, that if

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his opponent, whoever he fights,
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as a cash prize, that he
can go and box if he wants to,

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if somehow he can make the match
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There's a lot of freedom and a
lot of good numbers that are in this

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contract. But I'm gonna say here
what I should have said about Patty the

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batty pimplet. For Francis Nagano to
conterial over these few fights on this sparkling,

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beautiful contract that he's been offered,
he has to win decisively. Even

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Connor McGregor agrees with that. There
was an interview where they said, well,

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who's he gonna fight now? We
lost an opportunity for the one guy

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that can really put eyes on the
product for anybody, and that's John Jones

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versus Francis Nagano. We're sitting here
waiting on John Jones versus Steepe. Somehow

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within two episodes of me mentioning that
there are weird demands being made by Francis

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Nagano. I think he does want
what's best for the other fighter. He

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wants best for himself. He's guaranteed
to get a yearly salary that will equal

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to about a million dollars for signing
with PFL. But for this to continue.

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If he loses, then what foundation
are we standing on now? No

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matter who the opponent is, You're
going to tune into PFL when Francis Niggonald

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fights for two reasons, to either
watch him win and for him to carry

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on this legacy, or to see
him get knocked out in all this to

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be derailed. Props to him for
getting the pen to paper, for getting

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the contract. I'll again we got
to Thomas syndrome. And when he wins

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and he carries out this contract and
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long run, he can be an
ambassador to African fighters, which I'm all

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for. Everything on paper looks fantastic. This is a contract that's set the

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bar for anybody else out there in
the industry. He's going to have to

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win decisively, whoever that opponent is. And now we ask the question,

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who is going to step up now
to meet this hype in speculation where it's

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at. So, since we've got
a new to wrap this up, we've

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got a trend going on inside the
YFP network. I guess I better go

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ahead and address it. Since the
Empty Slate is using terms that if you've

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listened to the whole show you respond
back, I guess I'm gonna do the

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same thing. I'll conform, I
will obey and comply. And here's the

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first one for Russ from loud to
pin it and the Empty Slate your word

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of the day. I think that's
like I think pee we had. Today's

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secret word is well, Russ,
here's your secret word, yawn. If

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that doesn't make any sense, it's
been a lot less frequent on your show

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since you and Chris have been mixing
it up in the podcasting world. But

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Chris, your word is vassoline.
Now, why would I use that?

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For the same reason that Inwa found
out the hard way that you don't go

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after the guy that writes your lyrics. Ice Cube put out one of the

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greatest rap tracks in the history of
music in the nineties, known as No

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Vassoline. So if you want to
attack the wisdom skull cap that's on the

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back of my head. I can
come at you the same way that ice

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Cube did with NWA if you want
to go down that route with no vassoline.

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So if we want to answer back, let's keep them coming. We'll

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see you guys next Saturday. If
you weren't getting that reference you weren't supposed

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to get it. We'll see you
next Saturday, same blockhead time, same

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blockhead channel. Play us out,
Preston