Episode #299: YFB Answers Fan Questions

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Broadcasting, Live good evening, Blockhead
Nation, thank you for being here for

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this raw and uncut episode of your
favorite blockhead the only podcast in the podcasting

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

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

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My name is Brian Little, and
I'm bringing you a swerve tonight, a

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little bit of a pivot in the
past. What you would expect is part

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one. I would do updates about
the Peanuts comics, trip, the movie,

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the TV shows, the Charles Schultz
Museum. I would midway, I

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would do my mid role, I
would do my scripture of the day,

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and then I would talk about updates
in the world of mixed Martial Arts,

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particularly the UFC. That's not going
to happen tonight. Since we are knocking

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on the door of episode three hundred, I reached out to a few friends

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of the show, a few devoted
listeners, and I just said, hey,

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let's make this night about you.
Let's make this episode about what you

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would like me to discuss. You. Blockhead Nation have taken the wheel tonight,

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and even though there are only four
of you that did send in responses.

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I thank you from the bottom of
my heart, and I'm sitting here

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at the Blockhead Mansion with the four
dogs in audience. In other words,

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we have Oliver, we have Elima, we have Gabriel, and we have

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Marty. To this day, it's
not a mystery why we have four dogs

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here at the Blockhead Mansion, but
it's kind of feels like it. How

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that happened is still kind of surreal. But here we are, regardless,

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and I'm just going to go through
these questions that were sent and I'm going

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to roll with him. I don't
have much of the format here except what

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you have sent me, and I'll
end on a few quick thoughts and that's

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gonna be it for the night.
To begin with the first question that I

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received from those of you that answered
me back. The first one was ed

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from Casually Kicking It, and he
asked me about he sent me a picture

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of the crazy Art original Snoopy New
and Improved snow Cone Machine. There really

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is such a thing. It has
Snoopy's doghouse and out of the inside will

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come crushed ice and it will go
into your cup and you can use different

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syrups and you can make different kinds
of snow combs, and he wanted to

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know if I ever owned one and
if I liked it. And I think,

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I know what you're getting that head
that you've never had one, you

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wanted one, and you want to
try this out with your kids. First

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of all, I'd say, try
anything with your kids at least once.

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My answer is, I didn't have
one of these until later in life.

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I didn't even know there was such
a thing. And you would think I

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would know that from a kid that
grew up in the eighties, but I

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really started to understand commercials that were
out in the nineties more so than the

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eighties. Okay, So to answer
that, I was given one as a

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gift and I've been too much of
a coward to take it out of the

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package. It's been for paraphernalia purposes. Has been for a nostalgia more than

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anything, and I don't have a
good reason why. And I think in

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the future, the little red haired
girl and I, in your honor,

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ed from casually kicking it, we
should open up the box and we should

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try out the snoopy song snow cone
machine. But do I have one?

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Yes? Have I taken out of
the package. I've been fearful too,

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or it's just kind of one of
those it's so nice to have this.

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I don't want it to break,
and I'm an adult and I probably wouldn't

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break it in the first place.
But anyway, you said you always wanted

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one, and I was thrilled to
get one as a gift, probably a

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Christmas gift, and it's just been
really kind of an addition to the collection

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that is in the study of all
the other Peanuts paraphernalia. I haven't taken

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a swig of water in a long
time. That's actually give me sipping from

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water Burger cup. I'm drinking a
doctor Peppers. I'm doing this. That's

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again off the That's another breaching etiquette
that I normally don't do on these podcasts.

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I tease the guys like Russ and
Chris from Empty Slate on some of

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the etiquette that goes on there,
but I'm just as guilty. I'm just

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better at editing it out and making
it have more of a flow than anything.

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So that's my answer. Ed And
I think you should definitely enjoy the

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Snoopy snow com machine with your kids. But it's one of those you should

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keep your expectations low. What I
had as a kid was actually the doctor

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Dreadful said, you remember those the
food lab and the drink lab, that

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said, makes lots of gross things, it tastes great. I actually was

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surprised that they weren't that terrible,
but they weren't that great either. It's

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just one of those things that you
should do it. You should experiment with

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it, and you should keep your
expectations low, not thinking this would be

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the best thing in the world.
If it's really that bad, go to

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your local snow cone machine or snow
cone stand and just, you know,

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have a good time with your kids
and make up for that if it becomes

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a nuclear disaster. I should put
it that way. To answer the next

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question, one of the amazing members
of the Empty Slate and the host of

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Loud and Opinionated that's on a hiatus
right now, but he's doing a lot

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more with the Empty Slate anyway,
so he's not off the radar when it

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comes to podcasting. This was sent
from my buddy mister Russell Brown, and

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he wants to know about would I
watch the Tyson Fury versus Francis Nagano boxing

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match if the financial setbacks were not
there. In other words, if monetary

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issues were not an issue, would
I watch this fight? Am? My

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answer to that would be, of
course, do I care? Am I

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interested? Yes? I am.
I'm not going to try to badmouth boxing

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here, but here's what has been
irritating. It's even been said on the

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Joe Rogan Experience that boxing is an
industry where your ranking really does matter.

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Mma is a sport where if a
guy loses a fight, it's not like

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his career is automatically over. It
has to be more than that, maybe

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three to five in a row,
and they start talking about are we gonna

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cut this guy? It's almost like
boxing, you can't make a mistake,

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and if you do, then no
wonder. There are so many dives,

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there's so much dirty money and so
much manipulation of the sport that they are

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such princesses and prima donnas that they
wouldn't dare go against somebody who could legitimately

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beat them and put them at the
bottom of the pecking order. Again,

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so when it comes to Tyson Fury, it's a serious gamble and a risk

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for him to go against Francis Nagano, who can only use one tool in

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his tool belt, which is his
striking. So that's the one who takes

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more of a risk here. Francis
Nagano getting this opportunity, just for him

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to walk in there with the big
gloves on, just for him to dip

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inside of a boxing ring is such
a middle finger to Dana White and the

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entire UFC organization. And that's kind
of where I was in awe because I

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didn't believe that he could do it. I didn't believe he could pull off

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what others in the past have failed
to do, meaning people like Randy Gatour

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have gone up against Dana White in
the UFC, people like even Nate Corey

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tried going against them and taking them
in a lawsuit, and people like you

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know, Tito Ortiz, Randy Gator
and these guys right here that tried the

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Ali Act and other things in the
past, it's always been like they've been

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a mouse fighting the gorilla. It
seems like with this deal that Nacgonald got

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with the PFL, with the ability
in his contract to be able to leave

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and go take a boxing match against
the biggest name in the heavyweights. To

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this day, well maybe not to
this day, I'm still saying Mike Tyson

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would hold that title, But as
far as currently, who is the biggest

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name in the entire industry for him
to have that opportunity, It's just never

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been done before and been done successfully. So Propston Nagano for pulling this off.

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Propston Naghana for getting the chance to
do it. He doesn't have really

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anything to lose here. He goes
back to the PFL. He wins a

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couple of fights or loses a couple
of fights, He's still got a contract

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that solidifies line in his pockets.
So my answer to that is who has

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the most risk and most to lose. It's Tyson Tyson Fury who has the

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ability to say I did it,
and now the rest of you need to

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do this to take down the monopoly
that is more like a house of cards

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than is the UFC would be Francis
Nagano. And is he really going to

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be able to do that? I'm
not sure? But would I watch this?

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I'm very curious about the Fury versus
Nagano fight. Absolutely, And but

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is it one of those Am I
gonna pay the pay per view costs?

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You're funny? Do I care about
the results? Yes? I do,

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so I hope that answers your question. Russ. I received another question from

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a gentleman who's been a guest on
the show. There's been a lot of

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segways here, a lot of segways
from Tyson, Fury and Nagonal boxing to

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the gentleman who was on my show
that discussed boxing with me, who talked

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about Mike Tyson's career, The one
and only I call him GW. No,

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it's not George W. Bush,
It's Grant, my buddy, Grant

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Ward. I hope he doesn't mind
that I mentioned that he reached out to

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me. So we've had d from
casually kicking it. We had Russ from

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loudon to Pa and Ad and the
empty slate. Now we got GW A

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Grant Ward who has sent me a
question and he wanted me to do a

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segment on who he who he referred
to as the goat, and that would

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be Anderson Silva. Okay, to
start with, I know Grant is a

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little salty because whenever I went to
Dallas on Aaron I did my top ten

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list of the greatest MMA fighters in
the UFC, I did not put Anderson

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Silva at the top of the list. Take another swig at doctor Pepper here,

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I had him at number three,
and my reasoning still stands because now

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I promise I'll get back to Anderson
in a second here, grant, But

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for me, Anderson will always be
number three because number two and number one

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go to the two guys who have
left a division for a substantial amount of

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time have come back and one in
desirable fashion in another weight class, and

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that's John Jones and George Saint Pierre. Nobody else has done that. That's

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why those two will always hold the
top two slots. I'm debating back on

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forth on which one holds number one, but number three will always go to

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Anderson Silva. And every time I
look at lists of the best MMA fighters,

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Anderson Silva will always be in the
top five. And for the longest

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time in this sport he was considered
the greatest. Will he be known as

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the greatest middleweight of all time?
I think so absolutely. We can trace

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it back to If you haven't listened
to this particular audio book, they'll get

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it on audible. I get nothing
out of that, and except plugging it,

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you should go here. The Crippler
Chris Leban Chris's story is a roller

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coaster for MMA fans and non MMA
fans, and he talked about when he

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was offered the fight not against Rich
Franklin but against Anderson Silva, and even

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his own team was saying, do
not take this fight. This is a

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guy you have to train for,
not for three weeks, but at least

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six months to a year. He
is that good. It's his first time

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fighting in the US, and the
negotiations went back and forth. Dana got

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what he wanted that night. Dana
said to Chris that if he won,

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he could take the MIC and he
can call out Rich Franklin for the belt.

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The title was his for the taking. Well, that didn't happen because

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Chris absolutely got annihilated by Anderson Silva. Not long after that, he defeated

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Rich Franklin in very desirable fashion to
win the championship and went on to hold

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the title for what ten years something
like that, or at least the longest

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streak in the history of any division
goes to Anderson Silvo. Even with that,

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you get your ups and downs,
you get the worst and the best.

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You got one of the worst fights
ever against Damian Maya, where hardly

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anything ever happened. Damian Maya was
too defensive and Anderson Silva was way too

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cocky and too brash, and you
know, just made a mockery of the

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fight. And when you had a
car that was so good, it's really

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bad. When Dania White walks out
on the main on the main event.

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That happened recently with San Hagan versus
Faunt. But he didn't blow it up

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in the press or in the post
conference the way that he did with Anderson

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Silva and saying this was an embarrassment. I didn't even put the belt on.

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I gave it to the trainer and
to his team and said, y'all

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put the belt on the winner.
That's not good. So did you have

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your mismatches with Anderson? Absolutely?
Did you have one of the greyest rivals

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of all time with Anderson? Yes? To this day, I always look

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forward to an episode of the podcast
You're Welcome with Chail's sonnin Why does Chail

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have so much nariety? It's because
of his infamous bout with Anderson Silva.

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He goes four rounds totally dominating the
fight. What is it the last two

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minutes Anderson wraps him in a triangle
choke and submits him. It was in

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Chris's book, by the way,
that he was at a fan get together,

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an MMA watching party at one of
the bars, I want to say

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it might have been an organ and
they were watching it together, And when

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Chail submitted to Anderson Silva, apparently
Chris either took a barstool or a chair

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and threw it across the room,
almost like something in a WWE setting,

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and just blew his stack that night. So Anderson Silva's story absolutely matters.

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We had his cockiness finally caught up
to him when he dropped his hands against

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Chris Wideman. You get the rematch
and he snaps his leg and half and

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then later on Chris Widman snaps his. So Anderson's story runs within the trajectory

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of the history of the UFC,
it really does. Does he belong in

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the top five? Always will?
I can't put him in the top two

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in our top one because of John
Jones and GSP until he were to come

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back and do something of that caliber. But does he belong in the top

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five? Absolutely? Is he one
of the grayst of all time grayst middleweight

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in the history of the UFC And
Grant I agree with you you did mention

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something about Charles Schultz being a guy
that you admired more than his work.

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You can really find out more about
Charles Schultz by reading the comic strips to

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find out about who he was.
When it comes to and my dog doesn't

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understand that I'm doing a podcast,
come here, Gabriel. You're fine,

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buddy, if you look at it. There's times when it can be pedantic

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and bland, just like a person
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subtle and sometimes they are earth shattering, and you can find that in the

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comic trips. And I can show
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was and what his philosophies were,
and what you know, his life depicted

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in each one of these characters,
what he stood for, what battles he

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didn't fight, you know, just
the art and the life of the Peanuts

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is the creator is in not only
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have made throughout history and through these
TV shows, So that runs deep as

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well. And I want to make
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and I hope that was to your
liking. My last question I was given,

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and I promise I'll end this on
something you'll appreciate grants. Since you

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like the inspirational stuff, I've got
one ready for you guys to answer my

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best friend on here. Question number
four comes from none other than the Minister

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of Sound, my buddy and yours, mister Jeremy Shack, And he asked

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me about artists that have inspired me
to play music. So, if you

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don't know, I, do you
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Have I played electric? Yes?
I have. I've just always kind of

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found my comfort zone back in the
acoustic guitar. It's more of I've spent

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more time since I left the Navy
perfecting this craft that you're listening to now.

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I've spent more a lot more time
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in a while, I'll pull the
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of it, and I'll pick a
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got restring the guitar to begin with. But the time I really spent in

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it was after high school through my
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had to pick an acoustic artist that
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my style matches so much with his, Because I would play where I don't

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have a pick in my hands,
but I would just grab the strings and

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I would slap the top of the
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like this twang and this triplet style
of playing in I know I picked that

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up from John Mayer. I can
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came from that. So have I
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I have. When I was learning
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there was a website that came out
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was called I still remember this day, it was called roughstock dot com slash

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Kalpie, and that website had every
lyric and every guitar tablisher for any country

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song out there that you wanted to
learn from. So I practiced songs like

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Keeper of the Stars, some of
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and just you know, got my
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basics down before I could go into
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I learned how to play electric guitar, I gravitated more towards the blues.

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And I want to believe that in
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as the baby box. B B. King had a style of playing,

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and he had one little area in
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right down in the middle of all
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would play certain spots I think it
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something like that, where he would
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If you watch guitar players, and
they moved the strings up and down rapidly

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to give it that effect to it. He had something looked more like what's

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called a humming bird effect. If
you watch his hands. I think you

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can find it if you watch him
play of the thrillers Gone or Rock Me

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Baby, or some of his other
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Mother. If you watch BB King
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when he does the vibrato, he'll
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flapping its wings. It's so beautifully
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I picked up a lot from BB
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of their instructional videos that were available
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up CDs from Guitar Center or DVDs
from Guitar Center. I would go through

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San Diego and just go to different
guitar shops and just play until my fingers

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bled. And that's just because you
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I was on my off time,
and I wanted to get away from everybody,

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and I wanted to play. And
it's not like I regret not making

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more music. It's something I can
revert back to as easily as riding a

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bicycle anytime I want to pick up
a guitar and just kind of remember how

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it feels, I can do that. But really, i'd say the style

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that inspired me the most, that
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been John Mayer's style. But it's
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well, where I really triple the
notes and I really slapped the top string,

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and you know, you'd have to
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hope that helps Jeremy. That blues
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guitar, and John Mayer and other
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got me in the direction I've gone
with my guitar. But yeah, that's

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the thing about blues, it's such
a soulful type of music. It's more

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about the quality of the note more
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that note, saying and stuff,
trying to get sixteen beats into a four

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beat measure, and that was just
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Is something of that level, and
I hope that answers your question.

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So what I'll do, since those
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it at my time, I'm going, Man, I'm nearly halfway. Usually

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these run, these podcasts run from
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try to end on one part because
Grant asked me about this. He just

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said that he liked how I threw
in some inspirational need to hear stories.

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Well, the podcast has always allowed
me to be what I've always sought out

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to be a storyteller. It's what
I live for. Teaching us history allows

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me to be a storyteller. Podcasting
allows me to be a storyteller. Knowing

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the sport of Mma the way that
I do allows me to be a storyteller.

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Knowing the Peanuts the way that I
do allows me to be a storyteller

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and keep the memory of something alive
that has been a part of my childhood

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ever since up till now has defined
me as a person. But here's the

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story, taking my last little swig
of doctor Pepper. And it's kind of

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relevant too. The story I have
is it's not really mine to tell,

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but it's one that I want to
carry on. Not too long ago,

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and we had rest in peace to
Jimmy Buffett as we just got the news

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about that. But a few years
back, we had another gentleman who graduated

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to his home on High and he
was possibly the greatest motivational speaker of all

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time, possibly and his name was
Big Ziggler. He's certainly one of the

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best. You have motivational talks like
Paul Harvey would be one of them.

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Maybe the earliest would be Earl Nightingale
from the nineteen fifties. But zig Ziggler

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had such Southern style storytelling that resonated
with everybody. And here's the story I

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wanted to bring up in case you
never heard it before. And it talks

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about a water pump in the hills
of Alabama. So he's got these two

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friends, I believe they were Bernard
and Jimmy. They were riding their bicycle

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through the foothills of Alabama. It's
August, it's hot, and they're looking

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for a drink of water. And
they find this abandoned barn, and not

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far away is a well, and
it's one of those old fashioned pumps.

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I don't know if any of you
have ever used one of these. I

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never have, but I've known of
people who did. And it's no easy

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feat to go over and use one
of these water pumps to get water out

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of it. Okay, Bernard gets
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the pump and he starts to pump. Now, you gotta realize, if

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you only do that to a steady
flow, you will never get anything out

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of the wells. Because Alabama's wells
of water are deep, which is a

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good thing because that means the colder
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to be. But that means you
can't just sit there. Oh, I'll

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push it and just kind of keep
a slow, steady pace. No,

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you gotta put in some serious effort
to get it out. And it's hot

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and he wants that drink of water. But then they realize they're gonna have

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to prime the pump. So he
tells Jimmy, Hey, Jimmy, you

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see that bucket right over there.
Can you go grab one of those.

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There's a creek over there. We'll
get some water out of the creek so

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we can prime the pump. If
you don't know, that means you gotta

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put some water into one part of
the pump to get anything out of the

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other side. If you are a
weed eater, people build that own your

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own launch. When you weed eat
and you leaf blow, you have that

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primer on the side. You gotta
push before you can even start the engine.

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To me, and it's so pain
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get that to get the thing started. It's extra effort you gotta do to

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get to your final result. So
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it hasn't been used in a while. Same idea. Well, it's hot

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and he wants that drink of water, and Bernard and starts pumping away and

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eventually he goes, Jimmy, I
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He's starting to sweat even more,
his arms starting to hurt, and

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Jim's going, it's down there.
I promise it's down there. It's down

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there. Think about what I'm telling
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When you work that kind of effort, you're gonna reap a serious harvest

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and a serious reward. Okay,
no farmer can look at the land and

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go, well, lord, I
didn't plan a harvest. But I didn't

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plan anything this year, But you'll
give me a harvest this year. I

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promise I'll do better this year.
Who goes to their boss and says,

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hey, I know I've only been
here for a week, but I should

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probably be in charge. You're gonna
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So that's not how life works.
So, even though it's really hard

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on a Sunday morning for a pastor
to talk about the ministry of hard work,

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there's something that's been in America soil
that has made our crops grow better

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than any other country in the world. And I'm not talking about the nutrients.

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I'm not talking about the way that
you would use fish as a fertilizer

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if you're in the New England colonies. I'm not talking about that. I'm

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talking about the sweat that comes off
the brow and off the arms of the

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farmer that gets into the soil.
There's something about hard work that does pay

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off over time, and that's the
emphasis of SIG's story. Because Bernard starts

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pumping away and finally he throws his
hands up and goes, I give up.

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There's nothing down there, and Jimmy
runs or goes no, no,

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no, no, don't stop,
don't stop. You gotta keep working there,

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Bernard. If you let that go, all the water's gonna go back

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down to the bottom and you gotta
start all over again. The truth is,

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I've been doing this podcast for almost
three hundred episodes, and my definition

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of success is not going to be
the same as your definition of success.

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But if you do something long enough
and work hard at enough and enthusiastically enough,

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eventually you will reap a reward like
you've never seen before. You pump

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that water, pump long enough and
hard enough, in time, you will

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have more water than you could possibly
need. After that, all I gotta

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do is keep a good, steady
flow on it. This is zig Zigler

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story to tell. I'd recommend you
look it up you ever want to find

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it, Go to Google, go
to you tube and watch the video of

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zig Zigglar Prime the pump he'll tell
you the same story I'm telling you now.

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Last week I told you to make
a different launch blockhead Nation, I'm

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telling you, after almost three hundred
episodes, this journey has been amazing.

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My definition of success has already been
attained. I'm truly happy with where we've

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come, but the journey is far
from over. I'm still going to be

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pumping over here at the water well, and I hope those of you that

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are listening, whatever your endeavors are, whether that is your YouTube channel,

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whether that is taking up a side
hustle from your daily job, whether that

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is really taking a leap of faith
and becoming an entrepreneur, whatever that might

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be, my prayer is that you
will attain your goal. After your hard

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work pays off. I pray to
that reward will be more than you can

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ever need, and it is substantial. It is what you have dreamed of.

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So, like I said, I'm
not much of a motivational speaker,

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but you got it for free tonight. And on that note, I hope

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that all these answers were what you
were looking for. Blockhead Nation. Next

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week, episode three hundred will be
here, and I hope you will join

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same blockhead time same blockhead champ,