Hecklers Lacking Power As Promotion Is Lacking Delivery Power

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Broadcasting Live Good afternoon, Blockhead Nation, Thank you for stopping by once again.

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You are listening to your favorite blockhead
the only podcast in the podcasting world

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

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MMA and warriors inside the Octagonia next. I am your host. My name

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is Brian Little. We've got a
loaded episode. I'll get to all the

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MMA stuff in a minute. Just
to clarify three things that are always talked

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about on this show. Number one, God is King. Number two,

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Peanuts is the single most successful comic
strip in American history. And number three,

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mixed martial arts is the greatest sport
under God's hot sun. I'll get

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to all of that in the min
but I'll just kind of get into something

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a little bit fun here because a
lot of you that don't follow the comic

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strip but do happen to follow stand
up comics. I want to share with

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you that there is a crossover between
the two. You know, stand up

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comic you're gonna get in the midst
of having great shows, You're gonna have

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Heckler's and you can deal with that
in a variety of ways. One you

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can steer right into it. I've
seen many who have lost their cool and

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blown their stack. I won't get
into all those For comics who have done

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this in the past, there are
some that look at them and kind of

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give them the time of day,
but usually are three steps ahead of them,

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like playing a game of chess.
They just kind of crack their armor

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very quickly. And that's a masterful
thing to see if you're in the audience

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and you say, oh, a
heckler is being made a fool, and

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then sometimes they get straight up ignored
or there's just a quick move. For

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instance. It's not even just in
the comic world. It's even happened with

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a president. You might remember a
guy named Ronald Reagan back in the eighties

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had a heckler as he was speaking, and all he did was turn and

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go, ah, shut up,
and then that got everybody behind Reagan during

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that time period of the eighties.
So I'm just I'm throwing you out there

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that this has happened in the Peanuts
comic strip. You would think there wouldn't

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be much of a crossover between stand
up comics and comic strips. There is,

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because there are hecklers. Not so
much against Charles Schultz in person,

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not so much in like interviews of
some kind. No, I mean in

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the actual comic strip. Literally.
One particular incident was Peppermint Patty I believe

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this is who I believe showed up
with this showed a presentation of toast on

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a stick. Now this sounds bad. I'm not sure if it was Peppermint

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Patty or if it was Sally,
but either way, the demonstration literally was

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a piece of toast on a stick, which is not gonna go over well

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with your teacher who's given you a
proper evaluation. Not gonna go over well

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with your peers either. But this
literally happened in a comic strip, which

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led to a heckler in the classroom
front row. What's so great about a

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toast on a stick? Why would
you even embarrass yourself like this and bring

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this to the classroom? I kid
you not, this was a real comic

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strip, But said Peanuts character had
a way of dealing with the heckler.

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You want to know how, I'll
tell you how, she says, ma'am

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turned to the teacher, ma'am,
if you'll excuse me, I'm going to

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go attend to this for just a
second. In the next scene of the

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comic, you see the toast on
a stick completely shoved into the Heckler's mouth

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and he standing there aloof just completely
baffled by the fact that I have been

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silenced by having the toast on a
stick shoved into my mouth. No comment,

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what can you say? The class
is now laughing at the heckler.

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That even happened in one of the
episodes in Charlie Brown, the same one

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that I've told you before where Charlie
Brown actually kicked the field goal. The

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same one where you have Snoopy learning
a new trick, which is learning how

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to do magic. He has to
deal with a heckler, and one in

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particular was this heckler sitting in the
front run. I'm laughing as I think

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about it. Snoopy puts on this
magic show and one of the tricks he

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does is he takes two rings,
rubs them together, and magically they come

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together and they're attached. That's when
the heckler really goes to work and says,

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now, let's see you take them
apart. Uh oh, big problem

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here. A lot of exposure for
an amateur magician because he doesn't have a

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way to dislodge said rings. He
tries to pull him apart, and then

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he starts pulling in desperation to break
him apart, and the crowd's laughing,

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and then you have the Heckler that's
screaming out fake fake yeah, yeah,

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yeah, fake fake fake. How
to Snoopy handle said heckler the exact same

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way as the toast on a stick. He walks up very rapidly to the

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front of the stage and shoves the
rings over the Heckler's face as he stands

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there in dispol and just kind of
sniffles to himself. This is what happened.

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So is there a crossover between comic
strips and stand up comedy. Sure,

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not just when they will address their
favorite comic or a favorite superhero,

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but how they deal with a heckler. Now, the way the Peanuts handle

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it is very one dimensional. But
what I've always been impressed with is when

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a comic can methodically handle a Heckler
and put them in their place. That's

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a work of art block a nation. But this is far superior. You

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know this because we're talking about the
Peanuts. Just the way that they handle

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it with a toast on a stick
to rings that are inseparable. Again,

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you'd have to see it. Snoopy
handles that Heckler several times he pulls a

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rabbit out of a hab It's actually
woodstock in disguise, But that's the carryover.

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Just wanted to kind of clarify that
on how Peanuts dealt with this is

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very similar to how the comics are
dealt with on stage. So I say

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that because I wanted to bring partly
Peanuts here, but I want to really

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get into something else that's been on
my mind all week. Because Blockhead is

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on said summer vacation next two months, I get a reprieve in some ways,

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not completely, but in some ways. I can passively go to my

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classroom if I want to and work
in it. I can go to a

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few trains if I want to either
way. But I will tell you this

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when it comes to my listeners,
I want to acknowledge you just for a

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second, because the downloads only tell
me so much, but the data also

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points to something else. I am
talking most of the time on this podcast

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to hard working men. Most of
the time it's males that tune into this

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show. Usually you're an MMA fan. I'm not excluding anybody here, but

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I want you to know that I
don't want to ever distance myself from the

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listeners that I've got and all of
you that I've talked to that have reached

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out to me, that we've connected
with are hard working men, just as

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the famous country song Brooks and Done
hard working Man. You know, there's

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some kind of interesting parallel that's happened
over the last couple of years. This

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is what I want to talk about. If you want to compare Brooks and

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Dune's hard working Man, which is
upbeat, which really gets you into being

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proud of being that hard working man. You'll spend your whole week's pay on

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Friday night, become Monday morning,
you're the first one on the job and

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it's nothing but business from nine to
five. You know, that's really easy

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to get behind. And then you
it's the song is upbeat. All of

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the guitars and the fiddles are going
full blast, and you hear them saying,

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I can't wait to get up in
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again. There's a lot of pride
in being a hard working man. What

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everything you've earned is by the sweat
of your brow. And I admire so

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many of you because I've been a
hardworking man until the day I got to

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actually do my career, which is
being a teacher by day at a podcaster

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by weekend. I never want to
forget my blue collar roots that are still

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there, that are instilled in me
now. I don't want to distance myself

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from the working class that tunes into
this show. I appreciate you to my

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very soul. But the last few
years there's been a changeover. There's been

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a shifting, a pivot to songs
that come out that speak to America and

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speak to the rest of the world, known as rich Men North of Richmond

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by Oliver Anthony. Here's what I
kind of want to say when it comes

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to that, from hard working man
Brooks and Dunn to Oliver Anthony's rich Men

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North of Richmond. What America should
always do is honor those who are hard

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working men always who come home from
a long day and tune into a podcast

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like this. But the rest of
the world shouldn't be hear me when I

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say that this is not detrimental anyway. This has actually shown my admiration.

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America shouldn't feel the pain that every
class feels. There's something about the hard

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working man striving for something else,
or you are bound, determined to be

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this for the rest of your life. That's fine if it's by your choice.

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Knowing that external stimuli have forced the
white collar, the blue collar,

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the middle collar, the no collar
at all to feel the same pain.

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It shouldn't be this way. And
I'm talking about those rich men north of

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Richmond. I'm talking about Washington,
DC who don't appreciate you. Now.

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Am I getting political from it?
Yes? I am. I'm not telling

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you how to vote, but I'm
telling you the time has come in twenty

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twenty four that we all know it's
time to get to the polls and vote.

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Because America is making clear who they
want to be the next president,

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but Washington, d C. Is
making it very clear who they do not

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want to be the next president of
the United States. And it's time for

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us to take that back. If
you are a hard working man that strives

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to stay on the blue collar level, I honor you, admire you,

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go vote. There's something called a
white collar recession where people are leaving the

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corporate jobs in droves. The industrial
world can't fill jobs anywhere near as fast

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as they could. They are just
filling on left and right. We need

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more people, so the gaps are
there. But in the white collar world

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there's been a great resignation to now
where people don't want to go back to

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the corporate world. So there is
something that's a big disconnect that didn't happen

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when Brooks and Dunn wrote hard working
man with a lot of pride and a

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lost soul and a lot of intent
in the words to the depressive state that

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Richmond North of Richmond is, I'm
selling my soul, working all day because

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of you, and you could care
less about us. It's so different,

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and I'm telling you now, listeners, blockhead Nation, it's time for us

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to go put our money where our
mouth is. It's time to vote.

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It's time to not sit back and
accept this where every class feels the same

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pain, that there should be a
hierarchical way to accomplish things like we used

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to have in America. I honor
the hard working man that's meant to do

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this, that loves it, that
keeps the fire going by outrunning the wind,

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burning the candle at both ends.
I think it's a clever line.

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But to know that that has been
robbed from every level of Americans it's time

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for that to stop. Blockhead Nation. So what do you say, It's

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time to get back to hard working
men or to accept the rich men north

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of Richmond that have desensitized us to
where this is just the way it is

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and the way it's going to be. It's got to stop blockad Nation.

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It's time to vote and vote them
out. Our script reading for this podcast

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will come from the Hebrews Chapter thirteen, verse five. Let your conversation be

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without covetousness, and be content with
such things as ye have, For he

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hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee contentment blockad Nation,

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as it stated here in the reflection
on Blue Litterbible dot org, never

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are you alone. The Lord of
Heaven promises his presence in all times.

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I pray for you, blockad Nation, as you find contentment of that,

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and it says, no matter the
state of your heart, he's there.

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His love for his children is forever, and he will never forsake the child

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for whom he has given all given
his only Beyatton Sun, blockad Nation.

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He is long suffering and his love
is persistent. So embrace your loving father

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and go your way in righteousness as
I spend some time with you Blockaded Nation.

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On one quick thought before I get
into UFC three h two, we

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had to scare a few days ago, not maybe about a week or so,

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Macy Barber was on the Aarral Hawani
MMA Hour talking about her health conditions.

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I believe it's possible she had a
blood clot because what she intended to

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do was she was gonna go after
her fight, go fly home and get

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some rest. Well, it's not
a good idea to be on an airplane

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if you possibly have a blood clot, no matter if it's in your leg,

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whatever it is. So she's in
the hospital for nine days and she's

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out of her potential fight that was
coming up in the future. But I

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just want you to kind of realize
something here. Sometimes when we're watching MMA,

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it's really easy to see why some
matches are made. Okay, let's

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not kid ourselves. The Zone boxing
you just had recently, the champion L

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Brooks, who absolutely dismantled Page van
Zant. If you just look at the

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promoting and you look at the posters, you look at the build up Page

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van Zant versus L Brooks, that's
one thing. It's not skill, the

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champion will prevail. So it's not
about skill. Mostly it's about what thank

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you. It's about sex appeal.
And many times you can look at some

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of the matchups that are happening in
the UFC and look at these female fighters

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who have all the talent in the
world, but there's no You have to

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blow away the smoke sometimes and just
look at the fire and say what this

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is, And too often it is
really a sex appeal. But I'm gonna

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tell you now, with Macy Barber, who I continue to pray that she's

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gonna have a speedy recovery. She's
getting over these health issues, talk with

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Errol Hawannee about them. More than
likely a blood clot, but could have

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been many other complications that led to
her being in the hospital for nine days.

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So she doesn't have a signed fight
until she is ready to go.

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I put this out that Macy Barber
should not be looked at a sex appeal.

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That should spell trouble for anybody because
of the fact that she is on

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a six fight wind streak and it's
starting to plow through the division. Macy

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Barber is a problem for anyone that
they match her up with. So this

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is all praise back to her speedy
recovery to Macy Barber, just knowing if

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you see a confirmed fight in the
future with Macy, this is real trouble

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for her adversary. So I want
to go ahead and get that out of

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the way. As we get into
UFC three to two Newark, New Jersey,

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co main event is gonna be Paula
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Strickland. And really, in spite
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and what I'm seeing on UFC embedded, and I'm seeing the pre show for

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UFC three h two and showing how
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I have to ask one simple question. Only one of these two got the

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jump on the most recent best in
the middleweight division. Only one of these

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two is a former champion. Only
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Yeah, you can figure out quickly
why Mike pick for tonight The Wife be

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Cursed is going to Sean Strickland,
but John Sean Strickland also has this tenacity

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that you cannot define. Rinth clearly
is gonna go to Paula Costa. But

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as far as the training camp that
I'm seeing as far as the discipline for

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the weightcut, which, as Sean
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of fighting, which mini fighters will
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actually the weight cut. The cage
is the fun part. So my pick

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is I'm going with Sean Strickland.
We'll see how the wife be curse plays

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out. But some of you have
tuned into this episode wondering what my quote

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unquote beef is with UFC three h
two and is it just something I've concocted

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for the sake of this podcast.
No, it's not. Let me see

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if I can walk you through it
step by step. You have the pound

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for pound best in the UFC,
the current childholder of the most dangerous arguably

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the most dangerous division in all of
the UFC. You have the champion lightweight

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champion, Islam Makashev versus the number
two ranked very deserving the diamond, Dustin

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Poirier, who is coming off a
very impressive win over Benoa Saint Denis from

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UFC two ninety nine. This guy
deserves his shot, and there are factors

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that do work against Dustin, like
Kabee being in Islam's corner, the guy

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that did defeat Dustin back in the
day. That's been talked about. That

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isn't my issue. My issue is
not the staredown, it's not the weight

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cut, it's not the press conference. What my issue is is this,

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you got easily one of the best
pay per views that just happened a while

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back with UFC three hundred. UFC
is righting high on the stars that showed

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up that night, how the stars
aligned for the UFC on that evening.

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Sandwiched in between UFC three hundred and
the return of Connor McGregor at the end

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of this month threeh three and this
event, you've got the championship on the

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line, the lightweight championship, Dustin
Pourier versus Islam Makachev, and it's missing

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a huge key ingredient. I don't
care where you've looked, even in the

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press conference, even in the stair
doowns in all of the build up that's

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to this, There's been a problem
at least until this Wednesday when the press

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conference happened. Here's my issue.
What you don't have with Dustin versus Islam

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is a believable rivalry. There is
something that you have seen the promotion and

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marketing has missed the mark on completely
on this one and it's driving me crazy.

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And once Aga'm gonna say it.
Sandwich between three hundred and three oh

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three is arguably the most coveted title
on the line, the pound for pound

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best, and you don't have a
real rivalry that's been built up. This

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is something that the WWE did very
well back in the day. Let me

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give you an example of what I'm
talking about. There's something that talked us

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all into the building. It wasn't
just the fact that Stonecolt, Steve Austin

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and The Rock were facing each other
at WrestleMania seventeen. In the astronome,

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you had the who, the what, the when, and the where are

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all covered, which you also had
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For the main event for the WWF
Championship was a believable rivalry between The Rock

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and Stone Cold. They had a
promotion that came out the whole week before

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the showdown with a particular song by
a band called Limp Biscuit. You might

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have heard of them. The song
is called My Way You've already in the

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first thirty seconds of this promotion been
talked into the building because you have the

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Rock and stone Cold. Rock has
won the I mean sorry, stone Cold

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has won the roller Rumble. The
Rock is now WWF champion. It's gonna

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go down in the Astrodome. And
then they flashed to the Rock and stone

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Cold and as Stonecold's walking out to
the ramp to meet Rock as a stadown

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for his average here you hear the
song in the background. You think you're

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special. I can see it in
your eyes. This was beautifully and methodically

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put together that talked us into the
building. Across the world for WrestleMania seventeen,

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it was the two biggest names.
It was the accumulation of the Attitude

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era, but it was also the
promotion work UFC. Everything I saw up

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until the press conference and the stairdown
was not gonna talk people into the building.

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It was just here's your who,
here's your what, here's your win

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and where. But for outside fans
that are not diehard fans, they don't

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have a solid why in that promotion. It was just highlight reels of what

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these guys can do. There was
no Islam versus dustin nose to nose,

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There was no I don't like this
guy. I don't believe in him.

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I don't think he's the guy to
do it. Or there's the challenger going

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his days are numbered. I don't
care for the guy, and the more

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I read his Twitter, the more
my blood starts the ball. There was

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nothing for outside MMA fans that are
partial, are not even fans at all.

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You're gonna easily get them in the
door for UFC three oh three because

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Connor's returning. You had three hundred
that delivered and sandwiched in between. This

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as a huge night for the lightweight
championship on the line for the pound for

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pound best and it took Dustin and
Islam to get things heated up. It

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wasn't the promotional teams. It wasn't
the marketing. So whoever you are that

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are making these promotions, these narratives
on UFC, for YouTube or ESPN,

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you need to go back and learn
from what they did with The Rock and

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Stone Cold. You have amber heard
of the bed in so many ways in

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promoting UFC three oh two. I'm
doing a better job than you did.

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I even looked to my friends worthy
against the Fence Channel. Most people that

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were given a rating for UFC three
oh two was about seven on a scale

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of one to ten, a seven
for the lightweight time on the line.

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UFC blew a chance to promote Islam
versus Dustin the way they did in Wrestle

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May of seventeen with the Rock and
Stone Cold and maybe, just maybe,

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if somebody tunes into this show one
day, UFC, as the song says

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by limping Biscuit, someday you'll see
things my way. Because if you're gonna

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get somebody from the outside sandwiched in
between three hundred and three h three,

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what you've done isn't enough. It
was up to the fighters to do it.

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And when I watched them saying things
are getting a little heated, I've

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seen a lot more heated than that
through my historical following of this sport,

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a lot more heated. And this
is the best you can do. You

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cover the who, what went in
the wear, and that's ample for getting

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people to show up at New Jersey
at the Prudential Center or to tune in

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for a pay per view for these
prices that are ridiculously high for us MMA

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fans. This is the best you
can do for three h two Dustin versus

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Islam, one fifty five light heyweight
Championship on the line. That's the best

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you can do. Maybe should go
back and learn any of what's sad is

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I looked on the pre show and
who came out and promoted the story better

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than anybody else. Cody Rhodes,
you know the guy from WWE. They

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had this whole thing of building up
Dustin's story. He did a better job

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then the promotional team for the UFC
leading up to this point. The fighters

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don't always have to be the ones
to get people in the building. Promotional

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team once again, you amber heard
of the bed and my podcast is doing

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more justice for these guys than you
have. Am I getting everyone's attention?

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Now? Are you not entertained?
Should you tune into three oh two?

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Absolutely? You got Nico Price,
you got Kevin you got Paulocausta's secret juice

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versus Sean Strickland, a pr nightmare
for the UFC and the co main event.

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You got Dustin versus Islam, and
we have missed the mark again from

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a promotional standpoint, not from an
athletic standpoint. All those ingredients are there

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and their solid blockad nation. We're
missing the narrative by the UFC promotional teams

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and that's my challenge to you if
you come across this show. So leaving

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you there, I'm getting ready to
go watch the fights. We will catch

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you guys next week. As always, if you haven't been checking out the

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